Done with Ruby
So I suck at Nuzlocke. I absolutely ate grinding, so I die quite often. This was my fifth Ruby Nuzlocke. Yeah, I lost four time before, twice to Flannery's Torkoal, once, to random Taillow crits before I even had three pokemon, and once to Whitney I think. This time, I was allowing myself to use any items, I just couldn't purchase any. This run, my fifth had been the most successful.
Then I hit Flannery, and the tradgedy began. I got her down to her Torkoal, and was fairly confident my Marshtomp would wreck her. Unfortunately, body slam paralyzed me, and another body slam critted, and killed me. Awesome. Next came my Gyarados, Brutus, to clean up. Unfortunately, I made an absolutely stupid decision, and figured that even though I could now 2HKO her, flail wouldn't be a problem. It was, and Brutus passed away. Fortunately, Torkoal was left with next to no health, and some other member of my party finished it. Obviously, there was some pretty bad playing by me, but losing my two best party members was still disheartening.
The problems subsided until I went to battle Norman. Turns out that you can't get back to any higher level areas after you return to Petalburg city. This meant that, in all practicality, I could no longer level up my pokemon. I figured I'd just face Norman and see what happened.
I began the norman battle with Zachariah the Golbat. Zach confused slaking, and proceeded to gradually wear him down with wing attack and confuse ray, using super potions along the way. Vigoroth came out, and killed zach with a critical. Susan the Linnone then came out, and somehow managed to sand attack and headbutt vigoroth to death. Unfortunately, the second slaking outsped linoone. Noone else in my party was at all powerful enough to make a dent, and they were all OHKOed. I have plenty of pokemon in my pc, but they all suck. RIP Quideck I-V.
So, that was unfortunate. I'm either going to do Gold or LeafGreen next. Any suggestion?