The In-Game Mono-Type Team Challenge - Page 12

Wrave · Feb 27th, 2011, 5:52:23 PM

I am doing a Ground type one and I am just waiting for my Gible to hatch.

I.care.0 · Mar 25th, 2011, 8:22:49 AM

I just found My old gameboy and my Blue cart, and I'm going to do a mono type run. I'm thinking about a Mono-poison run, but Sabrina scares me. Does Tentacruel learns Amnesia? If so, i might have a shot.

Any suggestions for other runs? Just don't suggest Mono-water, i clearly remember soloing the game with a Blastoise 13 years ago, when i was 8.

Longfellow · Mar 25th, 2011, 11:05:44 AM

Tentacruel doesn't learn Amnesia but you don't need it. Just find a Poison that's fast and can hit physically. Nidoking or Victreebel. Also a high-leveled Tentacruel can probably brute-force with Surf (or maybe Swords Dance / Wrap). You can also just win with luck because Sabrina's Pokémon are stupid and don't always use Psychic.

tomtom5858 · Mar 25th, 2011, 2:34:17 PM

I think that Flying would be fun, I.care.0.

EEVEE3 · Mar 26th, 2011, 12:35:08 AM

Bug-type would be cool in Black/White.
Possible mons:
Leavanny
Scolipede
Crustle
Escavalier
Galvantula
Accelgor
Durant.

I.care.0 · Mar 28th, 2011, 9:21:14 PM

Thanks guys, but sadly, the mono-type Blue will have to wait. I just caught a shiny, adamant geodude with a 31/28/20/03/31 spread. I HAVE to try a mono-earth on my HeartGold.

otz1233 · Apr 9th, 2011, 6:41:21 PM

Playing a mono-fire on a Crystal emulation, this is gonna be interesting.
All the pokemon will be named after arsonists, my starter is named John Orr...

KryptoKrunch · Apr 10th, 2011, 12:12:57 AM

This always looked like a fun idea but I never tried it. I'll try either a Flying, Poison or Water mono-type on LeafGreen. With some trading, I could do an Ice run on either HG or SS.

calthaer · Apr 19th, 2011, 2:24:49 PM

This is a fascinating and fun idea for playing the game. I'd thought to myself that a Dark run in Ruby / Sapphire / Emerald would be a great idea, and this thread proves it. Ghost one might be interesting, too, but you'd be limited to the only six guys available, really, and Sidney & Phoebe in the Elite 4 might be a bit of a challenge.

I'm more interested in doing it for fun, and not necessarily for the "challenge." It's fun to think of your character winning the Elite 4 and setting up a typed gym with your team. I'm not so opposed to trading in some guys to start out the game with - did this for my Platinum run-through and it was really a lot of fun to mix & match non-legendaries to come up with an interesting team of guys that I wouldn't normally use, just to see how the team would mesh together. You'd pretty much have to "trade-in" to get teams of certain types, just because there are so few guys - a dragon team for Ruby doesn't have too many options; an all-electric team on any of the Gen III games - or even Gen IV - is a little sparse in the options. One of the redeeming features of Gen V is that they're really rounding out the dual-type matchups for fun run-throughs like this. Stuff like Ghost-Fire, Dark-Dragon, Dark-Fight, Bug-Electric...they might not all be competitive, but they are certainly interesting.

The original RBY is more boring, IMO, just because the options are so limited for a themed team like this. Fire, Rock, Grass, Electric are just some that are BORING, and Steel and Dark are right out altogether. Fire is still boring in HGSS, Electric has more guys but no more variety (not until Gen IV that Rotom makes it interesting)...hmm.

I like the idea of a Dark-through of Hoenn; need to do a run-through of LeafGreen sometime (have a SpaceCenter Deoxys and a 10ANIV Celebi on the cart that you can't trade out until you have the nat'l dex)...maybe I'll do a themed set with that, but it's just SO limited. I really wish that the FR/LG remakes let you take through anybody, even from the national dex. It would completely break the balance, but it would be fun to go through the game like that - a Normal run-through, perhaps, with interesting guys like Kecleon and Castform, a Fight-through with Breloom or Blaziken, a Ground-through with Claydol and Flygon. Lots of possibilities for fun. You'd figure that, if they're "making" you go through the games again, the least they could do is make it wide open for fun like this instead of restricting you to that game's dex, or at least making it optional.

Puffins R Cool · May 2nd, 2011, 7:35:52 PM

Just restarted HG for a dual-type of Fire/Rock. I'll try to use both equally, but it will be slightly easier& harder than the original challange. Wish me luck.

**Arcticblast** · May 2nd, 2011, 9:40:53 PM

I picked up my Ice run of Platinum the other day. Damn... it's getting really hard. Electric gym almost raped me (even Mamoswine had trouble eventually). But I beat that.

Team:
Weavile
Cloyster
Mamoswine
Glaceon
Froslass
Abomasnow

Time to break out Prinplup for Waterfall.

Puffins R Cool · May 4th, 2011, 12:01:14 AM

Turns out this isn't too bad, I've recdntly Day Care'd my hatched Primo Slugma, here's the team post Whitney:

Slugma- Daycare
Onix- Day Care
Geodude:
Firestone@ zip
Female, Bashful, Lv.22
-Selfdestruct
-Rollout
-Magnitude
-Rock Polish

Quillava:
Stone Cold
Male, Lax, Lv.23
-Flame Wheel
-Quick Attack
-Smokescreen
-Cut

1 or 2 thoughts:

Whitney, Bugsy, and Falkner were easy, Rival at Ilex was tough. Seriously, it took Smokescreen hax.

Cossolotto · May 24th, 2011, 8:46:33 PM

I want to do this so bad, but I can't set my mind on what type to do on SS, any suggestions?

Mar 25th, 2011, 2:34:17 PM	#279
tomtom5858 Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 426 Berries that turn your mouth blue by the swiftly flowing river	I think that Flying would be fun, I.care.0. __________________ † I could give a damn what your religion is †

Mar 26th, 2011, 12:35:08 AM	#280
EEVEE3 Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 110 Camrose	Bug-type would be cool in Black/White. Possible mons: Leavanny Scolipede Crustle Escavalier Galvantula Accelgor Durant. __________________ Stuff I'm Doing: Pearl Scramble Challenge (Badges: 1) Eevee (and evolutions) are amazing. Don't deny it!

Apr 9th, 2011, 6:41:21 PM	#282
otz1233 Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 3	Playing a mono-fire on a Crystal emulation, this is gonna be interesting. All the pokemon will be named after arsonists, my starter is named John Orr... __________________ OW Holmes had the best mustache ever.

Apr 19th, 2011, 2:24:49 PM	#284
calthaer Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 18	This is a fascinating and fun idea for playing the game. I'd thought to myself that a Dark run in Ruby / Sapphire / Emerald would be a great idea, and this thread proves it. Ghost one might be interesting, too, but you'd be limited to the only six guys available, really, and Sidney & Phoebe in the Elite 4 might be a bit of a challenge. I'm more interested in doing it for fun, and not necessarily for the "challenge." It's fun to think of your character winning the Elite 4 and setting up a typed gym with your team. I'm not so opposed to trading in some guys to start out the game with - did this for my Platinum run-through and it was really a lot of fun to mix & match non-legendaries to come up with an interesting team of guys that I wouldn't normally use, just to see how the team would mesh together. You'd pretty much have to "trade-in" to get teams of certain types, just because there are so few guys - a dragon team for Ruby doesn't have too many options; an all-electric team on any of the Gen III games - or even Gen IV - is a little sparse in the options. One of the redeeming features of Gen V is that they're really rounding out the dual-type matchups for fun run-throughs like this. Stuff like Ghost-Fire, Dark-Dragon, Dark-Fight, Bug-Electric...they might not all be competitive, but they are certainly interesting. The original RBY is more boring, IMO, just because the options are so limited for a themed team like this. Fire, Rock, Grass, Electric are just some that are BORING, and Steel and Dark are right out altogether. Fire is still boring in HGSS, Electric has more guys but no more variety (not until Gen IV that Rotom makes it interesting)...hmm. I like the idea of a Dark-through of Hoenn; need to do a run-through of LeafGreen sometime (have a SpaceCenter Deoxys and a 10ANIV Celebi on the cart that you can't trade out until you have the nat'l dex)...maybe I'll do a themed set with that, but it's just SO limited. I really wish that the FR/LG remakes let you take through anybody, even from the national dex. It would completely break the balance, but it would be fun to go through the game like that - a Normal run-through, perhaps, with interesting guys like Kecleon and Castform, a Fight-through with Breloom or Blaziken, a Ground-through with Claydol and Flygon. Lots of possibilities for fun. You'd figure that, if they're "making" you go through the games again, the least they could do is make it wide open for fun like this instead of restricting you to that game's dex, or at least making it optional. __________________ --Calthaer "You are startled by a grim snarl. Before you, you see 1 Red Charizard. Will your stalwart band choose to (F)ight or (R)un?"

May 2nd, 2011, 7:35:52 PM	#285
Puffins R Cool Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 112	Just restarted HG for a dual-type of Fire/Rock. I'll try to use both equally, but it will be slightly easier& harder than the original challange. Wish me luck. __________________ Pikachu ROCKS!!!

Feb 27th, 2011, 5:52:23 PM	#276
Wrave Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 196	I am doing a Ground type one and I am just waiting for my Gible to hatch.

Mar 25th, 2011, 8:22:49 AM	#277
I.care.0 Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 15	I just found My old gameboy and my Blue cart, and I'm going to do a mono type run. I'm thinking about a Mono-poison run, but Sabrina scares me. Does Tentacruel learns Amnesia? If so, i might have a shot. Any suggestions for other runs? Just don't suggest Mono-water, i clearly remember soloing the game with a Blastoise 13 years ago, when i was 8.

Mar 25th, 2011, 11:05:44 AM	#278
Longfellow Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 156	Tentacruel doesn't learn Amnesia but you don't need it. Just find a Poison that's fast and can hit physically. Nidoking or Victreebel. Also a high-leveled Tentacruel can probably brute-force with Surf (or maybe Swords Dance / Wrap). You can also just win with luck because Sabrina's Pokémon are stupid and don't always use Psychic.

Mar 28th, 2011, 9:21:14 PM	#281
I.care.0 Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 15	Thanks guys, but sadly, the mono-type Blue will have to wait. I just caught a shiny, adamant geodude with a 31/28/20/03/31 spread. I HAVE to try a mono-earth on my HeartGold.

Apr 10th, 2011, 12:12:57 AM	#283
KryptoKrunch Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 22	This always looked like a fun idea but I never tried it. I'll try either a Flying, Poison or Water mono-type on LeafGreen. With some trading, I could do an Ice run on either HG or SS.

May 2nd, 2011, 9:40:53 PM	#286
Arcticblast ~ Moderator Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 3,004 #serperiors Mentor	I picked up my Ice run of Platinum the other day. Damn... it's getting really hard. Electric gym almost raped me (even Mamoswine had trouble eventually). But I beat that. Team: Weavile Cloyster Mamoswine Glaceon Froslass Abomasnow Time to break out Prinplup for Waterfall. __________________ New to Smogon? Afraid to jump into discussion? Introduce yourself! ------------------- Fail Cup \| Scramble! \| RMTs: Night Stall (OU) \| ARcTicblast \| Demon Spawn \| signature art by Zracknel additional credit to Pocket and AccidentalGreed

May 4th, 2011, 12:01:14 AM	#287
Puffins R Cool Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 112	Turns out this isn't too bad, I've recdntly Day Care'd my hatched Primo Slugma, here's the team post Whitney: Slugma- Daycare Onix- Day Care Geodude: Firestone@ zip Female, Bashful, Lv.22 -Selfdestruct -Rollout -Magnitude -Rock Polish Quillava: Stone Cold Male, Lax, Lv.23 -Flame Wheel -Quick Attack -Smokescreen -Cut 1 or 2 thoughts: Whitney, Bugsy, and Falkner were easy, Rival at Ilex was tough. Seriously, it took Smokescreen hax. __________________ Pikachu ROCKS!!!

May 24th, 2011, 8:46:33 PM	#288
Cossolotto Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 6 McKinleyville	I want to do this so bad, but I can't set my mind on what type to do on SS, any suggestions? __________________ I have successfully caught all 646 Pokemon. Legitimately. Now, I must EV all of them!