I doubt anyone cared about this Nuzlocke, but, in every way, it is over.
On the last episode, I had three Kanto badges already, and I was ready to get more. And so I did. I did the entire Power Plant/Cerulean Gym puzzle, I defeated Snorlax to get him out of the way of Diglett Cave, and I went and beat most of the Gym Leaders. I caught a bunch of new mons for each new route I traveled. I had fourteen badges, and was about to face Misty at Cerulean.
But then I stopped.
What was I going into this battle with? My strongest mon, maybe ten levels above Misty's, was a Fire-type. I had Soldier and Bird Allah nearly on par with F. Princess too. I thought, why would I risk it? I could go train some more and use each Pokemon center once, just like originally planned.
But that would've been too easy. That's why in Chapter 10, I asked for suggestions to make the Kanto side of Crystal more difficult. The response was underwhelming, to say the least. I also thought about fighting Blue, and, eventually, Red. Misty's team is all within the 40s range for levels. Blue steps it up a notch and uses a team with levels in the high fifties. Red brings the pain with a team of LEVEL 70-SOMETHINGS AND A LEVEL 81 PIKACHU. So, training for Misty? Too easy. Training for Red? Too hard. I only had three viable mons at that time, and Bird Allah didn't even have full EVs. Plus, if I lost any members of my team, there goes my chances of winning even further.
That's not why I can't finish this run though; I would've found a way that wasn't too cheap, and that wouldn't get my remaining team destroyed.
I think I said this once, but I was doing the entire run on a phone emulator, called GBA4IOS. 'IOS' being the main problem here. The app stopped working when I tried to resume weeks later. I cannot physically reopen the game. Reinstalling the app would cause me to lose my save data. So, yeah, gg.
A Nuzlocke run gets you attached to your Pokemon. I'm gonna miss Flame Princess and Soldier especially. I wasn't fond of myself for losing 2/3rds of my team during the Elite Four, but I did beat the Elite Four, so... this run is overall a success, even though second-gen native Gym Leaders/E4 have the lowest leveled mons of them all.
Thank you.
On the last episode, I had three Kanto badges already, and I was ready to get more. And so I did. I did the entire Power Plant/Cerulean Gym puzzle, I defeated Snorlax to get him out of the way of Diglett Cave, and I went and beat most of the Gym Leaders. I caught a bunch of new mons for each new route I traveled. I had fourteen badges, and was about to face Misty at Cerulean.
But then I stopped.
What was I going into this battle with? My strongest mon, maybe ten levels above Misty's, was a Fire-type. I had Soldier and Bird Allah nearly on par with F. Princess too. I thought, why would I risk it? I could go train some more and use each Pokemon center once, just like originally planned.
But that would've been too easy. That's why in Chapter 10, I asked for suggestions to make the Kanto side of Crystal more difficult. The response was underwhelming, to say the least. I also thought about fighting Blue, and, eventually, Red. Misty's team is all within the 40s range for levels. Blue steps it up a notch and uses a team with levels in the high fifties. Red brings the pain with a team of LEVEL 70-SOMETHINGS AND A LEVEL 81 PIKACHU. So, training for Misty? Too easy. Training for Red? Too hard. I only had three viable mons at that time, and Bird Allah didn't even have full EVs. Plus, if I lost any members of my team, there goes my chances of winning even further.
That's not why I can't finish this run though; I would've found a way that wasn't too cheap, and that wouldn't get my remaining team destroyed.
I think I said this once, but I was doing the entire run on a phone emulator, called GBA4IOS. 'IOS' being the main problem here. The app stopped working when I tried to resume weeks later. I cannot physically reopen the game. Reinstalling the app would cause me to lose my save data. So, yeah, gg.
A Nuzlocke run gets you attached to your Pokemon. I'm gonna miss Flame Princess and Soldier especially. I wasn't fond of myself for losing 2/3rds of my team during the Elite Four, but I did beat the Elite Four, so... this run is overall a success, even though second-gen native Gym Leaders/E4 have the lowest leveled mons of them all.
Thank you.