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Challenge The Scramble Challange

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Ariados. No restrictions. Bonus points if it knows Toxic Spikes.
Female dunsparce named Sarah. Teach it 2 HMs.
Nincada, can only evolve once it learns the move Dig, and it can never forget Dig after evolving. Cannot use both Shedinja and Ninjask
Seel, It must know Encore and Disable, and no attacking moves (Hail is permissible, Sheer Cold is not). It may evolve into Dewgong after causing any gym leader's pokemon to faint due solely to Struggle recoil. Nickname it Pacific.
Wooper. It must always know Surf. It may only evolve after solo-ing Jasmine's team

Acritter, take a swinub, name it umiru.
It can only evolve if it solo's Clairs team.

So now I'm confused, should I use nincada or not.
mabby I show have seperate teams befor and after the E4
 
@superpoketroid
Female dunsparce named Sarah. Teach it 2 HMs. (A hint, using rock smash is way faster and better than walking around in dark cave.)
 
FINAL TEAM:

1. Danger (Feraligatr) with Cut and Whirlpool. Well, that's one less HM slave to worry about.
2. Pablo (Smeargle). I'm taking its name into my own hands. This should be interesting.
3. Unknown (not Unown) taken from the wild after badge 1. Please oh please be Mareep or Hoppip!
4. Gonzales (Girafarig) that must use Agility the first time it can every battle. Can you say Baton Pass? Now I want a low-speed bruiser to complement it...
5. TossUp (Mareep/Hoppip), a Mareep if I don't get one from #3, a Hoppip if I do. Name will be TossUp regardless.
6. Umiru (Swinub) that may only evolve after soloing Clair's team. I predict some problems with Kingdra...

Thanks to everyone who contributed, this looks to be a very interesting run!
 
superpoketroid, catch a Nincada, and it can only evolve once it learns the move Dig, and it can never forget Dig after evolving. And you cannot use both Shedinja and Ninjask, only one or the other.
 
superpoketroid: Breed Disable onto a Seel (using Slowpoke). It must know Encore and Disable, and no attacking moves (Hail is permissible, Sheer Cold is not). It may evolve into Dewgong after causing any gym leader's pokemon to faint due solely to Struggle recoil. Nickname it Pacific.
 
NMcCoy said:
superpoketroid: Breed Disable onto a Seel (using Slowpoke). It must know Encore and Disable, and no attacking moves (Hail is permissible, Sheer Cold is not). It may evolve into Dewgong after causing any gym leader's pokemon to faint due solely to Struggle recoil. Nickname it Pacific.
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It's in the rules that if you wouldn't do it, you shouldn't recommend it. You willing to join him on his Disagong run?
 
Acritter said:
It's in the rules that if you wouldn't do it, you shouldn't recommend it. You willing to join him on his Disagong run?
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The fact that I've been attempting to use it is the reason that I thought "this is bizarre and amusing; I should propose it on the Scramble Challenge thread". (My moveset's filled out with Rain Dance and Rest w/ Hydration, FWIW.)

I don't currently have a spare game to do a challenge run on, but if I did, that's the sort of thing I'd want to try out. On my SoulSilver playthrough, Dunsparce was a core member of my team - and it kicked a surprising amount of ass.
 
Along the lines of McCoy:
I'm beginning to wrap up my Sapphire Scramble (evolving Pecky, the Wingull, has been the only truly difficult challenge) where I was assigned a Spinda.

Pooky, my Spinda, melts faces. I decided to use the first one I caught and was dismayed when it turned out to be of Modest Nature. In spite of this, it has the second highest attack AND the second highest special attack on my team. He eats Aqua members for breakfast. Honestly, I was disappointed when tasked with Pooky. I thought he would suck as bad as Hairball (my Delcatty who DOES suck). I was given a new appreciation for an otherwise overlooked Pokemon.


On an unrelated note: who else is immensely bothered by the misspelling of "Challenge" in the title of this thread?
 
Vratix said:
Along the lines of McCoy:
I'm beginning to wrap up my Sapphire Scramble (evolving Pecky, the Wingull, has been the only truly difficult challenge) where I was assigned a Spinda.

Pooky, my Spinda, melts faces. I decided to use the first one I caught and was dismayed when it turned out to be of Modest Nature. In spite of this, it has the second highest attack AND the second highest special attack on my team. He eats Aqua members for breakfast. Honestly, I was disappointed when tasked with Pooky. I thought he would suck as bad as Hairball (my Delcatty who DOES suck). I was given a new appreciation for an otherwise overlooked Pokemon.


On an unrelated note: who else is immensely bothered by the misspelling of "Challenge" in the title of this thread?
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ha ha as the assigner of that Spinda, I am glad to hear it. I was hoping that Spinda's ridonkulous movepool would mitigate the lackluster BST. Glad to see it's working well for you.

And as for the "challenge" thing, even the OP is annoyed. He asked a mod to change it somewhere on the first couple of pages.
 
Underused Pokemon aren't what I'm questioning here. You can make any Pokemon good with enough levels (yes, even Magikarp, although that's just torture). The problem with this is that it's forcing extremely hard stall, which is often simply not fun. For example, I could require someone run an Acupressure Shuckle, but it simply wouldn't be fun. Making use of an underused 'mon is fun, as Nuzlocke and this proves. Taking a 'mon and making it frustratingly hard to use is not. There is a very distinct line between challenge and frustration, and although it didn't cross the line for this user, it certainly would for me.
 
I concede, if the Seel was mine I would be somewhat ticked.

However, you could just refuse that Pokemon if you think is against the spirit of the challenge. Superpoketroid is a trooper doesn't seem to mind all that much. I still don't know why someone assigned a Nincada for HG but maybe the last 3 members of his team will make up for it.

Obviously, he still has to wait and see but, who knows?
 
I was.
Also, isn't it only available AFTER the national Dex? I mean, if you don't mind waiting it's all good; but I always assumed teams were supposed to be completed pre-E4.



Plus, counting is HARD!
 
@Max
Masquerain, named WAGNOT (wurmpl ain't got nothin' on this). It must retain at least 1 water move.



Also, I was thinking a of doing a Platinum run but I can't decide if I would rather this or Nuzlocke. I'm leaning towards this but how many of you have done either (or both) for gen4 already and which do you think would be more FUN?
 
superpoketroid, take a Wooper. It must always know Surf. It may only evolve after solo-ing Jasmine's team.

Maxnight, take a Budew. It must evolve by level 15. It must always know Absorb, then replace it with Mega Drain, then with Giga Drain. It must then stay as Roselia until it learn Synthesis, and cannot evolve to Roserade until then. Oh, and it must keep Synthesis too.
 
@Maxknight: Garchomp named Kricketune. It must learn Fury Cutter from the Route 212 Move Tutor ASAP, and use it as its primary physical attack (use it when you have no SE moves).
 
Maxknight: take a Mudkip. It can never learn an attacking (i.e. physical or special) move that has 100% accuracy, and you can't evolve it until it finishes off a Pokémon belonging to a gym leader with a critical hit (same condition for the re-evolve).
 
@Zoro: Ambipom with Technician. All its damaging moves must be Technician-boosted.

@callforjudgment: You can't get Mudkip in Platinum without trades, so that challenge is invalid.

@Vratix: Whichever you haven't done yet, I'd say. Nuzlocke if you've done both.
 
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