Platinum Challenge II Update! Coal Badge Edition!
Challenges:
Notable things that happened:
Things I learned about this team:
The current team:
Challenges:
I restricted the Starter to one of Squirtle, Bulbasaur, Chikorita, Mudkip or Torchic because I was tired of Sinnoh starters. I also had a requirement that one Pokemon only be available after the Elite Four, as my challenge goes until post National-Dex Cynthia.
OK, you get Joe the torchic. The reason it's called Joe is Blaziken, in the 4th gen anyway, is just considered average compared to Infernape. This torchic, however, has a burning desire to see that changed. It wants to prove that it can be better than Infernape, so it must solo any and all pokemon that are weak to fire or fighting, and it must have one of both of these moves at all times. On top of that, it must solo any chimchar/evo that it sees. (start with a turtwig, so your rival will have chimchar) It must solo your rival's chimchar every time. To evolve it must prove to itself that it can beat chimchar, by defeating your rival's chimchar. Then to evolve to Blaziken it must prove itself against something that is usualy called a hard-counter to itself(i.e. a bulky water type at full evo.), as well as beating your rival's chimchar/evo. 3 more times. Re-nickname it "Master." Now that it has evolved, it steels itself for its final challenge, so it must learn and keep Bulk Up as well. The final challenge will be to solo your rival completely on the final match up before the E4, and solo the Fire Type E4.
HotDave, I'm giving you a bad ass, and useful, HM slave. It is the most bad ass of all HM slaves you will ever encounter!
It must learn only HM moves when it's possible to teach it HMs (pre-evolved it can learn Surf, Strength, Rock Smash, and Waterfall. After evolution it can learn Rock Climb). It must also be the highest level Pokemon in your party at all times. (edited to be a bit more fair)
*edit* Saw you had a nickname requirement. Nickname it Aspirin, because it's going to need a lot of it.
You get Will the Drifloon.
He must be male. To show off his vast masculinity, Will can only use physical moves (status moves are fine too). Once the Fly HM is obtained and once he has evolved into Drifblim, he must be taught the move. Once you get Blackglasses from Celestic Town, he must be equipped with them.
@HotDave: Take a Meditite named Broken. Your Meditite has mad skills when it comes to fighting, but it is mad that Medicham is NU. Your rival, named Eo, is one of the greatest OU battlers ever; for this, Broken hates him. Broken must KO three of his Pokemon every time you fight him after you get Broken (I don't know how many times this is). Broken must learn at least one HM move to show its superiority (it rocks with bad moves), and it must learn one STAB move of each type. It sympathizes with its NU brethren and may not even attack any Pokemon in the Elite Four that is in NU as of the most recent Gen IV tier list. However, it must KO every Pokemon in the Elite Four that is in the OU tier. It must also solo Cynthia's Garchomp.
@Hotdave: You get Boxer the (male) Duskull. This Duskull has seen Fighter so many times and has watched WWE for so many years that he HAS to be a fighter. It has to punch everything into the ground. Teach it Shadow Punch and any other elemental punch of your choice. Its nature determines it's next move
+Atk- Earthquake
+Def- Will-o-wisp
+SpAtk- Night Shade
+SpDef- Substitute
+Spd- Shadow Sneak
Neutral- Confuse Ray
To evolve into a Dusclops, it must solo Maylene. It has to evolve into Dusknoir after defeating Iron Island but before beating Byron.
You get Dancer the Cacturne. It must know the on-site Evasive Subseed moveset (You will need a Heart Scale for Leech Seed). Have it solo Bertha (2nd Round).
My official starter, a Turtwig that I named NotTorchic for the small amount of time I had him, defeated my Rival Eo's Chimchar by Tackling the crap out of him while Chimchar kept Leering at me. While my original plan called for someone to trade me a Torchic Egg, no one wanted to, so instead of waiting until after Roark to trade for the Egg, I got to do it upon reaching Sandgem Town. I caught a Starly in order to be able to trade, and did a bunch of laps around Twinleaf Town in order to hatch it. At some point before the battle with Eo, Joe learned his first Fire move, Ember. As he was the only Pokemon on my team, he soloed Eo, and his Chimchar by scratching it to faint. This allowed him the right to evolve into Combusken.
I had one wild Pokemon battle in the Oreburgh Gate, and it was with Aspirin, who was caught, and then taught as many HM moves as I could teach him. One. Rock Smash. While training Aspirin to be my highest level Pokemon, Joe evolved into Combusken and learned his first Fighting move, Double Kick. Once Aspirin was properly trained, Joe went into the Oreburgh Gym and fainted everything there with absolutely no problems whatsoever, and will likely do the same to Gardenia. Upon my return to Jubilife City, Joe took care of some local ruffians in ugly costumes.
I had one wild Pokemon battle in the Oreburgh Gate, and it was with Aspirin, who was caught, and then taught as many HM moves as I could teach him. One. Rock Smash. While training Aspirin to be my highest level Pokemon, Joe evolved into Combusken and learned his first Fighting move, Double Kick. Once Aspirin was properly trained, Joe went into the Oreburgh Gym and fainted everything there with absolutely no problems whatsoever, and will likely do the same to Gardenia. Upon my return to Jubilife City, Joe took care of some local ruffians in ugly costumes.
Things I learned about this team:
Joe must solo everything weak to Fire and Fighting. Aspirin must always be the highest level. These two challenges do not mix well. 7 out of 17 types are weak to Fire or Fighting, including roughly half of Team Galactic's Pokemon, 4 of 8 Gym leaders, and Aaron. I'm changing Aspirin's requirement from "Must always be the highest level" to "Must start a major battle (Rival, Galactic Commander, Gym Leader, The Elite Four as a whole) as the highest level Pokemon", otherwise this basically violates my rule against forced grinding. Also, soloing with starters from 1 to 5 sucks a lot.
The current team:
Joe the Level 18 Combusken
Lax (+Def, -SpD)
Blaze
-Double Kick
-Growl
-Peck
-Ember
Aspirin the Level 17 Psyduck
Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
Damp
-Water Gun
-Scratch
-Tail Whip
-Rock Smash
Lax (+Def, -SpD)
Blaze
-Double Kick
-Growl
-Peck
-Ember
Aspirin the Level 17 Psyduck
Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
Damp
-Water Gun
-Scratch
-Tail Whip
-Rock Smash