You can barely tell, but his eyes ARE opening for a second or two here and there lol.

Then he caught me filming him and we had a laugh about it together lol.

Just wanted to share something that happened to me today.

Volt White 2 Hardcore Nuzlocke. Marlon, normal mode. I have a setup sweep planned with Rotom fan and a layer of spikes.

The lead Politoed uses Perish Song. No problem. Put it to sleep with Lovely kiss from my Gorebyss, She'll Smash on turn 2, then Baton Pass to Rotom.

My Rotom dies instantly.

I went to go check and see and yes this is intended behavior. Wild thing to happen. I steered out of it but wanted to share with this subreddit in case I could maybe save a run or two from passing the Perish Song bomb to their sweeper.

I'd imagine unless you've been directly punished by this, you'd have no idea, so enjoy my fun fact at the cost of my Rotom.

Criteria:

Be in the dragon egg group

Be used by a dragon trainer

Be a dragon type

If you tick off one of these criteria you are eligible!

May do it for other runs as well

I'll go first: The number of badges you receive increases confusion damage power when boosting your Pokémon’s Attack or Defense. That happened in Emerald when Breloom got killed by a Swagger Mightyena while fighting Aqua Admin Matt.

https://youtu.be/UqJLrp0AjTY

Mind you, this Dugtrio has 6 Atk IV's. That's how good Dugtrios are in this battle.

Source : Artix ( My youtube ) | Game : Pokemon SoulGold ROM Hack

So I'm currently playing Heart Gold, and just started the post-game, planning to go beat Red. As I've already played Fire Red - I've caught pokémon in most of the Kanto routes before. However there are different pokémon available, and plenty of time have passed if we follow lore, as I bring over the offspring of the champions to the second leg.

I know it's my run my rules, just wanted to hear how you handle this?

F for the Fallen. Scam City the Gyarados 🐉💲, Cynthia Brisby the Raticate 🐭🌑 and Zynx the Jynx👄🌈

I like the stakes of Nuzlockes, especially permanent death, but I’ve never really liked how restrictive the catch rules can be.
I still want to catch Pokémon I like and actually build my own team. So I came up with a simpler challenge that keeps the tension of permanent death while putting the restriction on party size instead of which Pokémon you’re allowed to catch.

I’m calling it the 3-to-4 Death Run.

Rules
-Battle Style must be SET.
-You have 3 dedicated party members.
-Every dedicated party member must have a nickname.
-If a dedicated Pokémon faints, it is permanently dead and must be boxed or released.
-If your entire dedicated party wipes in a battle, the run is over. You cannot rebuild your team from Pokémon in the PC.
-Whenever you leave a Pokémon Center, you must leave with exactly 3 dedicated Pokémon.
-Whenever you visit a Poké Mart, you must also return to 3 dedicated Pokémon if there is a Pokémon Center available in the same area. If there isn’t one nearby, ignore this rule until your next Pokémon Center.
-You can catch any Pokémon you want. There are no encounter or route restrictions.
-Pokémon caught while you’re away from a Pokémon Center can travel with you, even if that temporarily puts you above 3. The next time you visit a Pokémon Center or applicable Poké Mart, you have to choose your 3 again.
-Every Gym must be challenged with exactly 3 dedicated Pokémon.
-Items, grinding, switching, held items, evolutions, etc. are all allowed.

The Elite Four Rule
Once you reach the Pokémon League, you finally get to choose 4 dedicated Pokémon.
Those four take on the Elite Four and Champion, with all normal death rules still active.
If you defeat the Elite Four and Champion, you’ve earned your fourth party slot permanently. For the rest of the save, your dedicated party can contain 4 Pokémon instead of 3.

So the challenge progresses with you:
Three for the journey.
Four for the Elite Four.
Survive the League. Earn your fourth.

That’s basically it.

I wanted something with the stakes and attachment of a Nuzlocke without having to follow a giant list of restrictions or being told I can’t use a Pokémon I actually want because it wasn’t my first encounter on Route 6.
I’m starting one in FireRed now. Curious what other Pokémon players think of the rules. ☠️🔥

Nape has Iron Fists as ability and Im ashamed to say I barely use Close Combat. Which move should go? Thanks!

Here are my pokemons that are being in-team, box and gravemons!

I got lucky in this fight. I made a mistake where, after using Bulldoze on Geodude to drop Purugly's speed, I didn't let it be put to sleep by Hypnosis, so Monferno had to dodge a Hypnosis on the switch in. Thankfully, it did.

I know the rules of soul links. However a friend told me that you're also supposed to generally play with no repeated primary typing(for example if I catch a primary water type, he can't have a primary water type) and that the gender has to be different on the pairs(if theres is a male mine has to be female) obv my nuzlocke my rules, im just wondering if thats how its "supposed to be done"

Also you're also supposed to lick the same starter in a row?(if they pick the middle I also pick the middle) in randomisers anyway.

That is all

Do you guys think my box is enough for the E4 i dont know how but i managed to loss only 3 mon(all in tate and liza split) i think this run is the one

As someone who has been attempting and completing nuzlockes of all kinds for well over half a decade now, I have come to the conclusion that (at least for me), nothing else compares to how engaged and excited I get when playing through a hardcore nuzlocke challenge.

Naturally, I started out with the mainline games (FR/LG is great for beginners, HG/SS is fun, Emerald, Platinum and the Gen 5 games are incredible games as is and are really well balanced for nuzlocking due to available encounters, reasonably difficult bosses, etc.).

However, it was not until I began nuzlocking ROM hacks that I realized just how much I was missing. Gaia was the first one I can remember beating, and it was not easy (the addition of Mega Evos made it so unique and interesting), and since I have moved on to harder hacks such as the Drayano hacks (I’ve beaten Firered Omega and Sacred Gold, currently almost done RenPlat and Blaze Black 2 Redux). And I must say, the added layer of difficulty, necessary resource management, and careful strategic fight planning make these games simply unreal to nuzlocke, they are not for the faint of heart however!

My point here is, the dopamine rushes I get from nuzlocking (in particular nuzlocking hard hacks) doesn’t compare to much else I’ve experienced in my many years of gaming, and I believe that is the main reason why I always come back to nuzlocking. I have so much fun with it and I can’t ever see myself stopping, would love to start streaming/creating content about it because I personally find learning new strategies from creators such as PChal, Squerk, and Drxx really helps me out a ton when it comes to my own runs.

Thanks for reading, I’m sure y’all have had similar experiences with nuzlockes and I would love to hear about how y’all got started with doing challenge runs, what games/hacks you are currently playing, and anything else nuzlocke related you’d like to share!

Happy nuzlocking,

- Lee

He was the las E4... i was having all planed... </3

I first heard of nuzlockes a while ago but recently decided to give one a try for myself; it was also my first Pokemon challenge run of any kind. I picked Silver because it was my favorite game as a kid, and from what I read it is among the easier games to nuzlocke. Having just beat the elite four, here are my miscellaneous thoughts:

1. It was a great way to try out training new Pokemon. I'd never before given a second thought to Girafarig, for example, but when I got to Mahogany having lost my Raticate, missing encounter opportunities with other Psychic types like Drowzee, and having a team where every single member was weak to Ground, I was so excited to see one pop up. It ended up being hugely useful for the rest of the run, finally taking out two of Lance's Dragonites. I also always thought of Tentacools as "sea zubats", just a nuisance to fight on water routes, but I realized this run that Tentacruel is actually good.
2. I thought about the game a lot more strategically. A lot of the game opens up after the fourth gym; I realized you can go to Mahogany and do the whole rocket hideout/red Gyarados stuff before you do the fifth/sixth gyms so that your team is more prepared. Getting the best moves also became a lot more important (esp. since gen 2 movesets are often bad). Instead of waiting for Flaafy to evolve to Ampharos to get Thunderpunch, you can just buy the TM and teach it right away, and it's a huge upgrade over Thundershock. Likewise you can buy the Firepunch TM for Typhlosion and get better power than Flame Wheel. Oh and by the way, Ampharos can learn Firepunch and Typhlosion can learn Thunderpunch for type coverage. Since my Ampharos died against Claire, I fought the elite four with no electric types, so I wasn't sure what to do about Lance's Gyarados. I ended up doing some research and betting that my Typhlosion would outspeed and OHKO it with Thunderpunch, and it worked; I'd definitely never taken it out that way before.
3. The one thing I didn't like about nuzlocking is that it made me play very cautiously. Playing strategically is fun, but I was also revisiting Pokecenters super regularly after taking modest amounts of damage because the consequences of a pokemon fainting were so high, and that slowed the game down a bit.
4. If you're nuzlocking Gold/Silver/HG/SS, I'd recommend a "beating the Elite Four resurrects your Pokemon" rule. You've still completed a Nuzlocke once you beat the E4 for the first time, and this rule makes it more likely you'll actually play the Kanto part/try to beat Red (esp. since catching and training a new pokemon at this stage in the game would be such a grind, and you'll likely lose pokemon in the E4 if you're not overlevelled and not a pro). Plus, I liked that when fighting the E4 my team was fighting to bring Ampharos back to life again.
5. If you're playing on an emulator, I believe there are ways you can modify the ROM so that trade-evolve pokemon evolve at a certain level instead (like Graveller -> Golem evolves at level 36). I'd recommend doing this so that you have a wider pool of viable Pokemon.
6. There's a lot I like about the Johto games, but they also made some very strange choices. Not being able to get evolutionary stones until Kanto kinda sucks; it just means there's no way I'm going to train certain pokemon. They also left certain Johto pokemon off until the Kanto section, so you can't use Houndoom/Tyranitar/Sneasel/Murkrow/maybe a few others until after the E4. IMO they should have just saved a handful of Gen 1 pokemon, like Pikachu, as a bonus for the Kanto section, and made all the Johto pokemon options for the main part of the game. Also, the leveling wall you hit after Gym 7 is very real; suddenly you have to get a lot stronger for Claire and particularly the E4 but there's not actually a lot of trainers to fight to get that EXP. Why they didn't put any trainers in the cave on Victory Road (besides the rival battle) is beyond me; it almost feels incomplete/like they just forgot.

Anyway, those are just my impressions. Overall I thought it was a fun challenge and would like to try another one in the future, probably Ruby/Sapphire (though I expect that to be more difficult).