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[Midoriya]

Update on my Pokemon Alpha Sapphire Nuzlocke!

I finished the conversation at the Devon Corporation and set sail for Dewford Town! There, I caught a first encounter Zubat in Granite Cave, which I nicknamed Cherry to continue the ice cream naming scheme. I battled some trainers on the route there and then went to take on Brawly. Thanks to Strawberry and Blue Moon, his gym was a breeze, and I was even able to take out his Makuhita using Strawberry (despite being two levels below it). Now I'll continue playing and will head towards Mauville City, site of the third Hoenn gym badge!

Trainer: Riley

Rivals: May; Wally

Gym badges: 2

Current team:

Blue Moon the Marshtomp (M), Lv. 18
Strawberry the Beautifly (M), Lv. 14
Dark Pretzel the Poochyena (F), Lv. 12
Candy Cap the Shroomish (M), Lv. 12
Rocky Road the Whismur (M), Lv. 12
Cherry the Zubat (M), Lv. 11

Boxes:

Vanilla the Zigzagoon (M), Lv. 12

Deaths: N/A

 

[Midoriya]

Update on my Pokemon Alpha Sapphire Nuzlocke!

I set sail again to near Slateport City, and continued to battle trainers. After reaching Slateport City, I immediately traveled north and grinded levels for my team. During this time, Dark Pretzel evolved into a Mightyena and Rocky Road evolved into a Loudred! I also caught a first encounter Electrike, which I added to my team and nicknamed it Banana to keep the ice cream naming scheme.

After being sufficiently leveled up enough, I continued north towards Mauville City, battling trainers and taking on my rivals in both May and Wally. I challenged Wattson to a gym battle and won! It was quite easy thanks to Blue Moon's Ground type moves.

When I next play I'll be heading towards Lavaridge Town, site of the fourth Hoenn gym badge!

Also wanted to use this opportunity to say that I finished the Pokemon Ultimate Journeys series and Pokemon Ultimate Journeys: To Be A Pokemon Master! Now I can finally start watching Pokemon Horizons, and based on the things I've heard, I'm super looking forward to it!

Trainer: Riley

Rivals: May; Wally

Gym badges: 3

Current team:

Blue Moon the Marshtomp (M), Lv. 28
Strawberry the Beautifly (M), Lv. 21
Dark Pretzel the Mightyena (F), Lv. 21
Rocky Road the Loudred (M), Lv. 21
Candy Cap the Shroomish (M), Lv. 21
Banana the Electrike (M), Lv. 21

Boxes:

Cosplay Pikachu (UNUSABLE)
Cherry the Zubat (M), Lv. 13
Vanilla the Zigzagoon (M), Lv. 12

Deaths:

N/A

 

[Midoriya]

Update on my Pokemon Alpha Sapphire Nuzlocke!

I finished exploring Mauville City and the surrounding routes, connected the cave next to Verdanturf Town, and then set off north towards Fallarbor Town in order to continue the story. Defeated Team Aqua and Archie at Mt. Chimney, and then went south and finally made it to Lavaridge Town. I went ahead and challenged the gym and swept through it easily thanks to my starter, Blue Moon. Flannery was a piece of cake to defeat. I also obtained a good amount of new catches during this time, which I'm happy about.

When I next play I'm going to be doing some special level grinding in order to prepare for my fifth gym battle with Norman in Petalburg City!

Trainer: Riley

Rivals: May; Wally

Gym badges: 4

Current team:

Blue Moon the Marshtomp (M), Lv. 33
Candy Cap the Breloom (M), Lv. 26
Strawberry the Beautifly (M), Lv. 27
Dark Pretzel the Mightyena (F), Lv. 26
Rocky Road the Loudred (M), Lv. 26
Banana the Manectric (M), Lv. 27

Boxes:

Supermoon the Lunatone (Genderless), Lv. 17
Blueberry the Lombre (F), Lv. 17
VanillaSwirl the Spinda (F), Lv. 16
Raspberry the Numel (F), Lv. 14
Mint Choc the Volbeat (M), Lv. 11
Cosplay Pikachu (UNUSABLE)
Cherry the Zubat (M), Lv. 13
Vanilla the Zigzagoon (M), Lv. 12

Deaths:

N/A

 

[Midoriya]

So ngl, I scrapped the above run because I just wasn't feeling it, and INSTEAD started a Pokemon Insurgence Soul Link Randomizer Nuzlocke with a friend of mine. What that basically means is that each Pokemon we catch in an area is linked to the other Pokemon caught from the same area in each of our games. And just like Nuzlocke rules go, if one of those Pokemon faints, the linked one in the other person's game is automatically dead. The randomizer part means that every encounter and battle has Pokemon randomized to pretty much anything, including the delta Pokemon in the game that have different designs and types (for reference Pokemon Insurgence is a fan-made game that came out years ago).

My friend and I's run is going well so far, though we have had some deaths. I lost a Reuniclus, Sandslash, and Croconaw, and my friend has lost some Pokemon as well. Here's my current team:

Consists of Scrafty, Delta Lucario (which is a Dark type), Spiritomb, Golbat, and Delta Girafarig (which is a Steel and Poison type). We just finished defeating the first gym leader in Suntouched City and are well on our way to the second city to face off against the second gym leader. Wish us luck!

 

[Midoriya]

Update on my friend and I's Pokemon Insurgence Soul Link Randomizer Nuzlocke!

As you can see from the image above, a LOT happened since last time and some of my Pokemon evolved and died. Cowboy's counterpart on my friend's side, Delta Aggron, ended up getting hit by an Earthquake and fainted, so Cowboy is automatically dead as well (I played "Should Have Been a Cowboy" by Toby Keith for his funeral song ). Thundervolt evolved into a Crobat, I caught an Eelektross, and Delta Axew hatched from an egg, which is now a Delta Haxorus. Also found the Delta Lucarionite for Anubis! Even though I still need the Mega Ring in order to be able to mega evolve him in battle.

We both defeated Xavier earlier and it was easy for my friend and somewhat difficult for me. Anubis had to face off against a Mega Garchomp thanks to randomization, but survived at 5 HP and came in clutch with using Copycat, which turned into Dragon Claw and finished off Mega Garchomp!

Now I'm continuing to get encounters and head towards the site of the third gym badge. There's apparently going to be more story on the way there, so I'm looking forward to experiencing it.

 

[Giddy]

Not a completely update on my Heartgold nuzlocke, more of a showing how much training I havta do before I get really get down to business XD
I left a lot of my pokemon at really low levels, and despite not always using the pokemon I've shown before, it would be really beneficial to get them to a higher level as I could get.

Quilava - LV 33, definitely need to level him up and evolve when I can.
Raticate - LV 25
Natu - LV 24, literally has no fighting moves omg
Gengar - LV 28, Tis a shame I haven't used him as much as I had used before but hopefully the more I level up, the more better he be.
Tarous - LV 24
Golem - LV 31
Togekiss - LV 25
Magnezone - LV 36, just need to get you into your level 40's and you'll be perfect. There's quite a few water pokemon in the last gym.
Nidorino - LV 27, definitely wanna focus more on this guy before I evolve him!
Crobat - LV 25, Another Pokemon I haven't used in a bit ;_:
Umbreon - LV 24, I was silly and didn't get Bite before evolving.
Gliscor - LV 28, slowly training him a bit as well! Never got to use one before!
Alakazam - LV 32, again another level 40's I need.
Gewgong - LV34, One I desperately hope I can level up a lot and espically to get that special ice beam at level 47. Ma Seal gonna be the top dog against the gym leader!
Beedrill - LV 23
Heracross - LV 27, kinda wish this guy had more cooler moves throughout his levels.
Rhyhorn - LV 30, another beast I want levelled up!
Bellossom - LV 35, I actually want her for the gym as well, as backup~
Quagsire - LV 40, just one more level buddy, and you'll be perfect!
Krabby - LV 24
Noctowl - LV 22, this birb is killing me here.
Koffing - LV 21, another one killing me as I try and level it up.

I also haven't used ANY of my TMs moves and I feel, I definitely will plan to at some point. I am currently levelling some of them up against wild stantler, its a pain, but what needs to be done.

 

[Midoriya]

Update on my friend and I's Pokemon Insurgence Soul Link Randomizer Nuzlocke!

A LOT happened since last time, so I'll just go over everything briefly. My friend and I made it to Helios City and challenged the third gym there. However, a Vigoroth's Counter took out Crafty in one hit, and my friend's Rayquaza got killed by a critical hit Outrage from a Kangahskan, so my Landorus I caught is automatically dead. After we finished the third gym, I made it to the next town. Challenged rival Nora to battle and that's when disaster struck.

The game randomized her mega to Mega Gyarados, and the thing walled my team and killed absolutely everyone. I ended up blacking out. However, my friend and I implemented a rule for the Nuzlocke. Given the higher difficulty of Insurgence compared to most Pokemon games, we each get three strikes of blacking out. That was my first strike. If I blackout two more times in the game then my challenge is over, and my friend's is as well. Thankfully I didn't save after that, so I was able to challenge Damian instead and took out his Mega Mewtwo X using Mega Spiritomb.

Made it to Sonata City and got some new encounters, and challenged the gym. Won easily thanks to my Eelektross and Virizion. Up next my friend and I will be heading towards Kepler City, site of the 5th Torren region gym badge!

(forgot to mention I also caught a Suicune with a Master Ball I found, lol)

 

[Midoriya]

Update on my friend and I's Pokemon Insurgence Soul Link Randomizer Nuzlocke!

Not too much happened since last time, but basically we went towards Kepler City. Made it there in one piece and then entered the Abyssal Cult's base and challenged Audrey to battle. Audrey sent out a Mega Blaziken, which could have been super bad for me, but my Suicune took care of it. Then we challenged the gym leader, Anastasia, to battle. I was able to win pretty easily against her for my fifth gym badge. After that we did the Taen battle, and I was able to defeat Taen and take out their Mega Meganium using my Crobat.

When we next play we'll be heading towards where the 6th gym badge is located. Until then!

 

[Midoriya]

Update on my friend and I's Pokemon Insurgence Soul Link Randomizer Nuzlocke!

Continued heading towards Selene City, site of the sixth Torren region gym badge. Before I made it there, however, a Delta Pokemon with Destiny Bond killed my Crobat, Thundervolt. However, I got a bunch of new encounters and was finally ready to take on the gym.

The gym was a cakewalk essentially, and the gym leader... was not smart. She ended up using Mega Kangaskhan against my Virizion and used SUCKER PUNCH of all moves, which not only wasn't very effective, but activated Virizion's ability, Justified, which raised its attack by not one, but TWO stages thanks to MEGA KANGASKHAN'S ABILITY.

Because of this I was able to easily sweep the rest of her team. I went a bit farther and got more encounters, and then... it happened. In mission 5 back at Suntouched City I encountered a SHINY MAGIKARP, which is now a Shiny Gyarados that can mega evolve upon command. I'm going to have some fun Rain Dance hijinks with it and Suicune for sure. > : ]

When we next play, my friend and I will be heading towards Amphitrite City, site of the seventh Torren region gym badge!