Hey there, I searched through the thread board and could not seem to find any threads like this so here I go.
Pokemon is a fun, hugely succesful game but once you have completely beaten it so many times you feel the need to look for more.

This thread is for posting and sharing pokemon challenges that you have either made, seen or played to add excitement to the awesome game pokemon already is.

Ill start:
Nuzloke challenge: If a pokemon faints it must be released, once entering a route or area you can only catch the first pokemon you see, you must nickname all your pokemon, a white out/black out means you lose the game.

Great thread idea! I do a lot of challenges. Most recently was a run using only unknowns (gen 2) and HM slaves. It's really difficult because they can only learn Hidden Power and have awful stats. What's fun about it is picking the best team to use and figuring out the types their hidden power can do.

I don't EV train but I have had friends get through this kind of run much easier than I did by avoiding attack EVs.

I guess you could try a solo run with unknowns, but that would be really difficult.

I got one:

Starter pokemon are banned,
you must release the starter pokemon once another pokemon is caught.
you have to use the first 6 wild pokemon you catch.
you must try to catch each pokemon encountered until you have that party of 6.
Once a gym is beaten, release and replace the current party for the next 6 pokemon caught. Do this for each gym.
Legendary pokemon are banned.

--Extreme mode--

You must catch the first 6 pokemon encountered.
If one of the first 6 wild pokemon faints you may NOT catch another one in its place.

Replacing an existing move is banned, each pokemon is to use the first 4 moves it learns.
TM's are banned.
HM's are allowed.

I find it pretty hard.

Elite four no healing items or moves, including revives.

Go.

>>5 I don't consider it a true win until this has been accomplished anyway!

I don't know if it counts, but a restraint I place on myself usually is to never have a pokemon above the level of the gym leaders' or elite fours' pokemon. If one of them accidentally levels beyond it, I try to use one that I haven't yet. It forces me to use a more diverse and interchangeable party, and also makes a good excuse to go back a few zones to take care of unfinished business :u
I tend to break the rule for the elite four in the earlier games though, since rather than all of them being within a certain range, they scale up as you go on. I remember in Gen II, the levels would range from 50 to 65 or something, so taking it on with all level 49's would be ridiculous, especially at Lance.

In terms of challenges though, I haven't done it myself, but a common one is the Type challenge. It's what it sounds like - you can only use pokemon that have a certain type. Dual-types are fine, as long as one of the types is the chosen one.

An even more restricted one is the single pokemon challenge, where you can only use a team of one type of pokemon (and their evolutionary line). Kind of forces you to be creative about dealing with things, like using unusual movesets.

>>6 do all the moves have to be of the same type as the pokemon? Like a fire type only using fire type move?

>>7 Nah - I think that would be impossible without overleveling lol

If anything I see it as encouraging a diverse moveset, given a restriction. For example, if you went with fire and had a ninetales, you'd be less inclined to just give it flamethrower and sunny day and more inclined to try extrasensory and solarbeam or something. The real challenge is covering your weaknesses.

>>5 I do this anyway. I usually play the games without items like that whenever possible because it forces me to train as I go without intentionally going out and training

>>8 Okay then, challenge accepted. I'm using pokemon Soul silver.

I'm thinking about using all normal types.

>>11 Ooh. In Soulsilver, right? Good luck on Bruno. And Jasmine, for that matter.

>>4 Failed extreme mode horribly.

bump

Anyone heard of the Youngster Joey Challenge?
Basically you can only use one Ratatta through an entire game.

Kinda hard with all normal types. Or i just suck at pokemon.

>>17 It naturally is hard with Normal types. Especially when dealing with Ghost types. :/ Fighting shouldn't be a problem since you can grab the nearest Normal/Flying type.

>>18 yeah i got my togekiss.

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