Recent content by SwampySwampert

Battle Tower Doubles in Sword, up against Schoolgirl Holly's Bronzong with the Rain rental team trying to unlock the IV judge and get some BP to start the postgame training. Bronzong uses Sunny Day -> Sandstorm -> Rain Dance -> Sandstorm, freeing me to focus down the rest of her team on the...

Roark: "This is embarrassing...I went and lost to a Trainer who didn't have a single Gym badge." ...Who's gonna tell him?

Facing off against Gentleman Glenn on my Nuzlocke run of Sword, which is the second-last battle of Victory Road before going up against the Champion Cup. He leads off with Darmanitan, which nearly wiped me the last time I had a run get this far. This time I'm prepared and send in Gyarados as...

The theme that plays when you storm Rose Tower with Hop doesn't remotely fit the vibe of the scene, but it's so catchy that it's completely forgivable.

Sword/Shield's leveling is really weird for me doing Hardcore Nuzlocke runs. 20/24/27 for the first three Gyms is fine, then a big jump to 36 just two cities later (I think they expected you to stop and do a lot of grinding in the Wild Area on the way), then 38/42/46/48. Victory Road is tough in...

The first two shinies that I had ever obtained in a Gen VII game (after having played them for years) were encountered on consecutive days in the same save file of Ultra Moon.

I also like that they made the Move Relearner freely available. It makes stone evolutions more viable because you don’t need to hold off forever to make sure you have the moves you want, and if you catch something really late-game you can still get that early move that’s good on it.

Shoutout to Bea, who uses a lead Hitmontop that is literally unable to touch Ghost-types and is located immediately after a route that happens to be frequented by a Ghost-type that is capable of learning the debilitating TM you just got from the previous Gym. They apparently did not learn from...

It’s technically Rival3 and he has a Level 11 Wooloo, Level 12 Rookidee, and a Level 14 starter.

Doing Nuzlockes of Sword, and I'm not sure if this counts as a boss, but Hop's fight in Motostoke has to be the worst one in the game for the simple reason that he appears to have been, on this specific fight, programmed to intentionally throw the battle. If your Pokemon gets too low on health...

The Grand (Alolan) Tour We pick up where we left off at Mina’s house, where we start the last Trial off by battling her. Her lead Mawile and second Granbull both have Intimidate, which, uh, you really shouldn’t have done that, Mina. Her team, like the other captain battles, is max offense and...

Welcome back! Real life struck once again, but I’m energized and ready to finish the fight. Taking the Fight to Team Skull When we left off, I was just about to go after Team Skull, and had just added a great team member in Mimikyu. Grimsley gives us Sharpedo Jet and we can make it to Route...

Kieran’s Furret at the Paradise Barrens against my underleveled Kommo-o: Tidy Up -> Tidy Up -> Super Fang

Adding on to this, I just started Teal Mask and playing it semi-blind. I’m doing somewhat of an “Ash Ketchum” challenge where I boxed my entire main game team and am going to try and beat the DLC with only Pokemon I catch in Kitakami, and I like that vitamins/EV items are plentiful enough when...

Probably about 50% of the times I’ve tried Nuzlocking B2W2 have died to Cheren alone.