My first Nuzlocke - An Hardcore Kanto Experience

[EzraMason]

Rules for this challenge:
- If a Pokemon faints, it's boxed permanently yada yada yada;
- Only one Pokemon catch per zone/route;
- Pokemon must be named;
- Level Limit to Gyms and E4 - cap is the highest leveled pokemon on their team; (Gym Level Indicator)
- No Healing Items during battle;
- Held Items are allowed;
- No repeated species of Pokemon;
- No switching pokemon after defeating one - PokeMMO Default Battle Rules.
- No running from wild encounters - applied only on first time on routes;

 

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Hello guys! Recently I've decided to take on this challenge as I felt bored with Competitive Battles. And so I decided to since I'm not a streamer or a anything like it to register my experience here. Bellow, here's what I've done so far. I'll be sure to keep you updated!

 

My first Nuzlocke - An Hardcore Kanto Experience

Choose Charmander as my starting Pókemon as I never had a Charizard before... yhea I know, I usually avoid mainstreams. Named him FakieDrakie.

Got a scare on my fight with Gary since his Squirtle got a critical tackle in but managed to survive with just 5hp.

Passed route 1 just fine only with 2 encounters. FakieDrakie did great and I reached Viridian with him more than half hp.

Toke the parcel from the Pokemarket and went back into Pallet Town. I hate this part of FireRed as it's always the same slow paced trip.
Anyways, parcel delivered and got the 5 Pokeballs as reward.

Went back into Veridian and got myself a lvl.4 Bold Natured Pidgey with Keen Eye on the way back on Route 1... really back luck since Pidgey is a physical attacker but life has to go on.
Named him Sadrone because obviously birds aren't real and Pidgey is a another Surveillance and Recognition Drone. That's why he has a defensive nature: he's made of steel.
Bought a classic cap in Viridian's PokeMarket just for the sake of aesthetics.

 

After getting my new drip I decided that it was time to move on and went for route 2 where I proceded to grind my pidgey a little bit. I know I'm going to struggle in the first gym since both Charmander and Pidgey can't deal with rock types very well.
Despite wild pidgeys keep using sand attack on my keen eye Sadrone I still lost a bunch of hp and had to return to Pokecenter.
Also defeating pidgeys grants me speed ev's which will be crucial to succeed in this run.
Time to go into Viridian forest where I plan to catch a new mon, which was a lvl4 Careful natured Oddish with 0 Special Attack IV's... yhea... i'm really struggling here... this will be hard to get over with.
Named him Weedboy.

 

Then I ran into a wild pikachu that kept growling and charming me to the point I couldn't damage him... Annoying rat. This fight made me go back to heal at the Center cuz Sadrone can't deal with those Thunderbolts and FakieDrakie is now paralyzed.
Depite my Weedboy still being ridiculously weak I have to grind him a bit since he's my only mon who can deal with rock types.
After going back to Viridian Forest I realized that my Charmander is already level 9 which worries me because if I'm not carefull I'll pass the lvl 12 cap and still have some trainer battles to do before the gym.
Looks like this Bug catchers are toughter than they look and by that I mean that their such an easy farm that my Charmander is almost lvl 12. Made me run back into the Center. My Odish is severly underlevel (4) and Sadrone aswell.
This time I decided to head left and catch something at rt.22 which was harder than it tought. I found a Mankey that almost fainted my Odish but I managed to switch to Pidgey leaving Odish at 3 HP.

 

 

 

This rt was pretty much battle followed by pokecenter before I finally find and catch a lvl.3 male Nidoran. In that battle Sadrone leveled up and learnt Gust!
I decided to call my Nidoran "Discord". Hey!... at least the colors combine.

 

Edited December 6, 2022 by EzraMason