Pokemon: Nuzlocke Challenge

[Catman25]

*Kobe*

 

 

 

I should run a Nuzlocke on my first run of Black, when it comes out. >=D

[usetheforcehan]

After reading the Nuzlocke comics, i started to play SoulSilver Nuzlocke challenge.

 

My Nuzlocke rules is:

1. Faint = Dead.

2. Poisoned ► 1 HP = Dead.

3. Healing items is forbidden inside or outside the battle.

4. Only use Pokemon Center as a healing method.

5. Must catch the 1st Pokemon you encounter in an area (one area = one Pokemon).

6. If the 1st encountered Pokemon is dead by your attack, you're allowed to catch again until succeeded.

7. Nicknamed all your Pokemon is a must.

8. Your are only allowed to have max 6 Pokemon.

9. No duplicate.

10. No legendary Pokemon (?).

 

For your information, i NEVER play Pokemon games before in my whole life. So i don't know what kind of Pokemon that were classified as a legendary. My guess is, legendary type is a super strong Pokemon like Mew, MewTwo or Lugia. Besides them, i don't know which ones is treated as a legendary type.

 

PS: Does anyone know the different between Shift and Set battle style?

[Legokun]

Both are when your Pokemon faintDie.

Shift: It lets you pick witch one get's sent in next.

Set: Sends the next Poke on the list, so:

Bulbasuar dies, it sends in Pidgey, that dies, sends in MissingNo., that dies, the game crashes, The End.

[Plaguespreader Zombie]

After reading the Nuzlocke comics, i started to play SoulSilver Nuzlocke challenge.

 

My Nuzlocke rules is:

1. Faint = Dead.

2. Poisoned ► 1 HP = Dead.

3. Healing items is forbidden inside or outside the battle.

4. Only use Pokemon Center as a healing method.

5. Must catch the 1st Pokemon you encounter in an area (one area = one Pokemon).

6. If the 1st encountered Pokemon is dead by your attack, you're allowed to catch again until succeeded.

7. Nicknamed all your Pokemon is a must.

8. Your are only allowed to have max 6 Pokemon.

9. No duplicate.

10. No legendary Pokemon (?).

 

For your information, i NEVER play Pokemon games before in my whole life. So i don't know what kind of Pokemon that were classified as a legendary. My guess is, legendary type is a super strong Pokemon like Mew, MewTwo or Lugia. Besides them, i don't know which ones is treated as a legendary type.

 

PS: Does anyone know the different between Shift and Set battle style?

 

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Legendary_Pok%C3%A9mon

 

Also, on your No. 6, that technically makes it not a Nuzlocke Challenge.

[Dark]

Rule number 8 is kind of bad, imo. I know that Nuzlocke is supposed to test your luck, but you should definitely allowed to have back-ups in case something goes wrong.

 

Gary pointed out rule number 6.

 

When I did my Ruby (or was it Sapphire? now I forget) Nuzlocke, these were my rules.

 

1.) Basic Nuzlocke rules (catch first Pokemon in area, no retries, if dead cannot try again, et cetera).

2.) Items can only be used if found in the overworld. You may not use PokeMarts.

3.) No legendaries.

4.) Battle style set to Set (this killed me, honestly).

5.) If you white/black out, even if you have backups in the PC, you lose.

 

I had some other quirks, but those were my main rules. It was really fun, and I'd love to do it again sometime. Maybe a LeafGreen one, but LG has baaad Pokemon.

[usetheforcehan]

Thanks Brick and Gary for the info. :)

 

Rule number 8 is kind of bad, imo. I know that Nuzlocke is supposed to test your luck, but you should definitely allowed to have back-ups in case something goes wrong.

 

I believe if all your 6 Pokemon is dead, then it's not game over. You can catch the new Pokemon in an area using rule no. 5.

 

1.) Basic Nuzlocke rules (catch first Pokemon in area, no retries, if dead cannot try again, et cetera).

 

I'm confused. For example, i try to catch the first Pokemon in Route 30 area. I accidentally killed the first Pokemon i encountered in that area. So that is mean that i cannot catch another first Pokemon in Route 30 area for the rest of the game? I believe one area = one Pokemon, because i never catch the Pokemon in Route 30 area so shouldn't that i can have another try in that area again?

 

Explain please.

 

5.) If you white/black out, even if you have backups in the PC, you lose.

 

White/black out? You mean a power failure in your local town? Or they were some sort of Pokemon game terms?

[Catman25]

^ @Second quote: Nuzlocke supposedly tests you in multiple ways, including luck as said. So if you accidentally kill the first pokemon you see in a route, you shouldn't be able to try again. So it's really like one area = one wild encounter.

 

@ 3rd quote: Whiteout/blackout means that all the pokemon in your party faint; basically it''s you loosing a battle.

 

 

 

And my rules for my Diamond run I think were the easiest possible ones. ._.

 

- Basic rules

- No legendaries

- Nicknames

[Dark]

It's kind of hypocrisy, on my part. General Nuzlocke rules say that if you have six Pokemon and they all faint at once (white/black out, depending on the generation), you can still get Pokemon from your PC. But when I played, I said that even if I had back-ups, I lost. Meaning, if all six of my Pokemon fainted AT THE SAME TIME, I lost. If five fainted, I went to my PC and got five back-ups, and then the sixth fainted, I was fine.

 

And yes, if you are in Route 40, and you fail to catch the first Pokemon you see, you cannot catch anything else for the rest of the game in Route 40.