Pokémon nuzlocke ideas
Feb. 26th, 2022 09:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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So my sister and I were discussing Pokémon teams and nuzlocke runs today and we came up with the idea of doing a Gen 1 run (Red/Blue) using only Pokémon that you get through events of some kind or other.
This first came out of a run using just Eeveeloutions (she's tried that with an action replay and it worked surprisingly well), and then a run using just legendaries (sounds awesome... but you'd have to do most of the game with just your starter) and then playing around with other ideas until we got something workable. And we think we've got something here:
- Your starter (we reckon Bulbasaur would be best)
- A Magikarp you can buy, which is rubbish at first (because Magikarp) but will become awesome later when it evolves into Gyrados (alternatively there's a Lapras you can get, but that be after the point at which you need Surf)
- A Snorlax that you wake up
- Eevee! (we reckon this would be evolved to Jolteon so it could learn the Flash HM)
- An Aerodactyl from a fossil
- And either Kabuto or Omanyte, from another fossil
That gives a full teams of six, and between them they should be able to learn the necessary HM moves (Cut, Strength, Surf, Flash - strictly speaking Flash isn't necessary but the cave sections would be very hard without it). It should give fairly decent type coverage as well - while it's missing Fire from the traditional rock/paper/scissors, that's mostly covered off by Aerodactyl's Flying type. The lack of Psychic isn't a problem either when it comes to Team Rocket's Poison-type Pokémon as Bulbasaur is dual-type Grass/Poison.
I'm very tempted to see if I can dig out Pokémon Red and give this a try!
So my sister and I were discussing Pokémon teams and nuzlocke runs today and we came up with the idea of doing a Gen 1 run (Red/Blue) using only Pokémon that you get through events of some kind or other.
This first came out of a run using just Eeveeloutions (she's tried that with an action replay and it worked surprisingly well), and then a run using just legendaries (sounds awesome... but you'd have to do most of the game with just your starter) and then playing around with other ideas until we got something workable. And we think we've got something here:
- Your starter (we reckon Bulbasaur would be best)
- A Magikarp you can buy, which is rubbish at first (because Magikarp) but will become awesome later when it evolves into Gyrados (alternatively there's a Lapras you can get, but that be after the point at which you need Surf)
- A Snorlax that you wake up
- Eevee! (we reckon this would be evolved to Jolteon so it could learn the Flash HM)
- An Aerodactyl from a fossil
- And either Kabuto or Omanyte, from another fossil
That gives a full teams of six, and between them they should be able to learn the necessary HM moves (Cut, Strength, Surf, Flash - strictly speaking Flash isn't necessary but the cave sections would be very hard without it). It should give fairly decent type coverage as well - while it's missing Fire from the traditional rock/paper/scissors, that's mostly covered off by Aerodactyl's Flying type. The lack of Psychic isn't a problem either when it comes to Team Rocket's Poison-type Pokémon as Bulbasaur is dual-type Grass/Poison.
I'm very tempted to see if I can dig out Pokémon Red and give this a try!
