D/P monotype challenge v2.0

[Jojo-]

Okay, I will post what I have done so far.. (Not a lot. x3)

-Sent over my eggs
-Hatched them
-Trained
-Achieved Jubililife City
-Delivered Parcel to Rival Chris
-Got Pokétch
-Defeated Rival

And that's it. Tonight I will focus on getting to Oreburgh. Also, I made slight adjustments to my team.

-Exeggutor is now replaced with a future Jynx
-Chimecho is now replaced with a future Starmie

[Bambo]

Started my monotype challenge yesturday:
Caught a Female Bidoof named it Newton
EV Training it in HP and Attack and almost finished in HP then will move on to a attack
Newton-14

[Moonlight_Murkrow96]

I will do a Steel Monotype in Pearl, with these pokes:

Empoleon
Bastiodon
Lucario
Bronzong
Magneton/Magnezone
Scizor/Skarmory.

Wish me luck! I'll try to update regularly.

[GolemGuy]

I now feel like doing a ground mono-type on Pearl to complement my Ruby challenge.

Going to use Torterra, Swampert, Camerupt, Golem, and two out of Garchomp, Mamoswine, Steelix, Gliscor, and Hippowodon.

[Moonlight_Murkrow96]

Update: I went through all the beginning stuff, named my character Moon, obviously after my Screen Name, and chose a Piplup that I named Mimi to kick off my challenge. I beat the Starly, went through Sandgem Town, met Prof, Rown and his oh-so-annyoing assisstant, Lucas, a.k.a the Fedora Wearing Freak. Hehe...Anyway, I made it all the way to Floroma Town, along the way beating my rival, getting the Coal Badge, having Mimi evolve into a Prinplup, and trading over a Skarmory from my other Pearl version, named Kohai, which means an underclassman in Japanese honorifics. He's Level 10, so...he's probably gonna disobey me until I get my Forest Badge from the Eterna City Gym.

Lv. 18 (Mimi)

Moves:
Pound
Bubble
Peck
Metal Claw

(Kohai)

Moves:
Leer
Peck
Sand-Attack

[HoagiethePokeBreeder]

Weell, I'm back with another update, I'm almost done with my challenge! (Mono-Bug type)
I've managed to get 7 Badges and Catch Giratina.
Here's my team...

Equator - Level 47 - Item: None
Nature: Quirky
Moveset: Rock Tomb, Bug Bite, Psychic, Earthquake

Zaptress - Level 47 - Item: Magnet
Nature: Jolly
Moveset: Bug Buzz, Thunderbolt, Solarbeam, Wish

Maestrik - Level 48 - Item: SilverPowder
Nature: Naive
Moveset: Rock Smash, Return, Night Slash, X-Scissor

Swiffer - Level 47 - Item: None
Nature: Naughty
Moveset: Signal Beam, Psybeam, Sleep Powder, Sludge Bomb

Goibija - Level 47 - Item: Sky Plate
Nature: Modest
Moveset: Giga Drain, Gust, Shadow Ball, Bug Buzz

Arkaire - Level 50 - Item: Iron Plate
Nature: Adamant
Moveset: Metal Claw, Rock Slide, Cut, Aerial Ace

I'll update once I finish my challenge! After this one is done, it's on to my Monotype Flying Challenge! Wo0T!

[foxyman1167]

I've been planning a mono Fighting type team I may try out, but I cannot decide on the last member.

Infernape
Machamp
Poliwrath
Gallade
Lucario
Toxicroak/Breloom

Any ideas?

[Champion Shirona]

Breloom would be good since its attack is high but it will be a pain to train from Shroomish,Toxicroak can be alright.

[Moonlight_Murkrow96]

Toxicroak seems like a pain to catch, with Croagunk being in the dreaded Safari Zone/Great Marsh. Though, I'm not sure if you can catch Shroomish right off the bat, before the National Pokedex/Elite 4. I'd say Breloom.

[HoagiethePokeBreeder]

Hello All! I managed to finally complete my Monotype Bug Challenge! I must say, this was harder than any Scramble or Monotype Challenge I've ever taken! It took probably ten or eleven tries before I was able to beat the Elite Four!
Haha, and you'll see who my star team member was when I give the team layout...

- Maestrik - Level 55 - Item: SilverPowder
Nature: Naive
Moveset: Rock Smash, Return, Night Slash, X-Scissor

- Zaptress - Level 55 - Item: Magnet
Nature: Jolly
Moveset: Bug Buzz, Thunderbolt, SolarBeam, Wish

- Goibija - Level 57 - Item: Big Root
Nature: Modest
Moveset: Giga Drain, Gust, Shadow Ball, Bug Buzz

- Equator - Level 57 - Item: Razor Claw
Nature: Quirky
Moveset: Rock Tomb, Bug Bite, Psychic, Earthquake

- Swiffer - Level 58 - Item: Razor Fang
Nature: Naughty
Moveset: Signal Beam, Psychic, Sleep Powder, Sludge Bomb

- Arkaire - Level 68 - Item: Iron Plate
Nature: Adamant
Moveset: Metal Claw, Rock Slide, Cut, Aerial Ace

So yeah, Armaldo was about 10 levels higher than everybody else after the E4 and Victory Road was all said and done, lol! Just goes to show who's useful (or who isn't).
Anyway, here's a bit of a team analysis for anyone interested.

Most Useful Team Member - Armaldo
Second Most Useful Team Member - Venemoth
Least Useful Team Member - Kricketune
Most Versatile Team Member - Illumise
Most Underrated Team Member - Beautifly
Either Incredibly Useful, or Incredibly Useless - Wormadam (Sand Cloak)

And this marks the beginning of my Monotype Flying Challenge! I will post once I decide to start. Happy New Year!

[renoum]

I think i'll do a dark type challenge on Diamond.
My future team will be:
-Drapion
-Weavile
-Tyranitar
-Cacturne
-Umbreon
-Honchkrow

[surfer treecko]

ah wus bored, and Pearl is starting to become a dead weight, so I'm starting a Poison monotype challenge.

Anyways, standard procedure, listen to old man ramble, name Rival embarassing name, blah blah blah. I picked a Turtwig, since that seemed like the best choice for beating the first route.

Skipping ahead, I caught a few Budews and Zubats, and picked the ones with the best natures (both neutral). I beat the crap out of the wildife for a bit, before trying to beat some trainers and losing to a Starly somehow, getting their levels to 10 and 8.

Beating my rival was suprisingly easy. All I did was confuse them with Zubat, paralyze them with Budew, and then Hidden Power them to death. And that was it.


Team so far:

(Purple) Lvl 8
Leech Life
Supersonic

(Murphy) Lvl 10
Absorb
Growth
Hidden Power
Stun Spore

EDIT: Great, I think this thread is dead... Anyway, here's an update.

The route before Orebrough City was tough, mostly due to Zubat being a failure, so I switched to Budew. From then on it was easy. I swept through the mine, and most of the gym, but I did have a little trouble with Cranidos, who didn't go down in one hit from Mega Drain.

I caught a Geodude, and taught Rock Smash to it, then beat the crap out of Team Galactic in a tag battle, and Zubat finally learnt Bite, which actually made it quite good. I beat more crap out of more Galactics, and Stun Spore made quick work of Purugly.

In Eterna Forest I picked up a Cascoon, who to be honest was a bit useless. Even when I evolved him he still couldn't do much, but the other team members made up for that. After hours of switching out Dustox, I made it to the other side, where Zubat tore Gardenia to pieces with Wing Attack. Unluckily, I wasn't so lucky with Jupiter, I had to battle twice because of some bad luck.

Finally I traded over Geodude for a Stunky, making the 4th member of my team. And that is that.

(Purple) Lvl 21
Leech Life
Confuse Ray
Wing Attack
Bite
Usefulness: 8.1/10
Poisony-ness: 15%

(Murphy) Lvl 20
Mega Drain
Growth
Hidden Power
Stun Spore
Usefullness: 5.9/10
Poisony-ness: 15%

(Zmobie) Lvl 19
Gust
Harden
Protect
Usefulness: 2.5/10
Poisony-ness: 20%

(Oscus) Lvl 16
Focus Energy
Posion Gas
Screech
Fury Swipes
Usefulness: 2/10
Poisony-ness: 40%

[HHKgirl2007]

I have almost completed a Ground- monotype challenge but forgot to post it here so there's no point starting now. But, I will soon start a Psychic type challenge with Pokemon pre-chosen with a Random Number Generator.

So my future team:

Alakazam
Slowbro
Starmie
Gardevoir
Grumpig
Bronzong


First post of Team Psychic will come after I finish my Ground challenge and make significant progress on the new Psychic team.

[surfer treecko]

Wow, turns out I've done quite a lot since last time...

I tried training up Zmobie and Ocsus on the route west of Eterna City, but soon gave up. I got the bike from the bike guy, and beat the cycling road with a bit of difficulty (my team has no way to beat electric types). Also, I managed to evolve Purple somewhere along the way.

Skipping ahead, I beat my rival in Hearthome City (who hasn't evolved his Starly, for some reason) pretty much entirely with Golbat, who was starting to get over-leveled. So I tried using Zmobie on the route to Solaceon, and finally got him to learn a decent move! (Psybeam). From then on it was beating the Lost Tower while switching between my weakest team members.

For the route that lead to Veillstone, I pretty much used Golbat all the way, since none of my other pokemon could beat the things there. The gym was much easier then I expected, because none of teh fighting types could do more then 5 damage at a time to Dustox, and moonlight meant they could never KO me. The only thing that caused any trouble was Lucario.

The Pastoria Gym was also suprisingly easy, only one of my pokemon fainted and that was Golbat. Afterwards I tried looking for a Croagunk, but gave up and traded one over. And finally, I managed to evolve Murphy! But he still has a pretty bad movepool.

Anyway, my team:


(Purple) Lvl 31
Leech Life
Confuse Ray
Wing Attack
Bite
Usefulness: 9/10
Poisony-ness: 15%

(Murphy) Lvl 31
Mega Drain
Growth
Hidden Power
Stun Spore
Usefullness: 7/10
Poisony-ness: 15%

(Zmobie) Lvl 28
Gust
Psybeam
Protect
Moonlight
Usefulness: 4/10
Poisony-ness: 20%

(Oscus) Lvl 29
Focus Energy
Toxic
Screech
Slash
Usefulness: 5/10
Poisony-ness: 43%

(Gunther) Lvl 24
Pursuit
Faint Attack
Revenge
Swagger
Usefulness: ?/10
Poisony-ness: 20%

[Sy123456789]

I will start a Dragon monotype team,
Its obvious I need to trade
Ending Team

Dragonite-Flamethrower, Thunderbolt, Ice Beam, Draco Meteor

Salamence- Fire Blast, Dragon Claw, Aerial Ace, Crunch

Flygon- Earthquake, Dragon Claw, Faint Attack, Fire Punch

Kingdra- Hydro Pump, Dragon Pulse, Agility, Icy Wind

Altaria- Safeguard, Dragon Pulse, Perish Song, Sky Attack

Garchomp- Dragon Claw, Dig, Fire Fang, Crunch

Notes: I have to use Garchomp as there arent any other Dragon pokemon
I have to have Dig on Garchomp as 1. It makes it tad bit harder 2. I use my Earthquake TM on Flygon
I will interchange a pokemon with a HM Slave between routes that need HMs, I will replace Interchange between Garchomp, then I would VS Seeker the missed exp. with it.

Challenges: The pre evos are remarkably weak so until I can I have to do with them
The fact I might get bored of this, it is rare because I like challenges.

[HHKgirl2007]

Well, it's been nearly a week, but I've finally made some progress on my Pearl Psychic type team. Most of the time was spent training my Pokemon, which was a real pain since Ralts and Spoink only knew Growl and Splash respectavely.

So I started the new game, gave my Rival a generic name and started off on my Pokemon journey! I chose Turtwig as my starter because, though I won't be using it, it'll make my life easier vis-a-vis my rival. After transferring the eggs, I trained on Route 201 until all my Pokemon were on level 5, which was not easy with an entire team of level 1 Pokemon (Abra and Bronzor were majorly helpful here). Eventually I made it to Jubilife City, where I got the Town Map and the Pokétch. I proceeded to Oreburgh City, beating my rival in the process. Currently, I am in the Oreburgh Mine, about to talk to Roark so he'll return to the gym. Obviously with my Pokemon's levels, I'll train them up some more before challenging the Gym (Cosmic's time to shine (pun unintended)).

Team Psychic as of now:

Einstein /Abra
Level 8
-Teleport
-Psychic
-Hidden Power Bug (yeah, I know > )
-Calm Mind
(Note Bred with a male Alakazam with latter 3 moves)

Daphne /Slowpoke
Level 7
-Curse
-Yawn
-Tackle
-Growl

Cosmic /Staryu
Level 7
-Tackle
-Harden
-Gyro Ball (Parent had this move)
-Water Gun

Charity /Ralts
Level 7
-Growl
-Confusion

Miss Piggy /Spoink
Level 8
-Splash
-Psywave

Clink /Bronzor
Level 7
-Tackle
-Confusion
-Hypnosis


I will edit this post as soon as I defeat Roark!

[HoagiethePokeBreeder]

Well, today I'll be starting my Platinum Monotype Flying Challenge!

Soooo, I'll be using...

Charizard

Mantine

Ninjask

Jumpluff

Gliscor

Noctowl

Woot! I'll be updating soon, once I make some progress...

[.Veaux]

I tried on of these on Sapphire a long time ago. Never finished it though...
I think I'm going to try a flying monotype challenge :P .

[7 tyranitars]

I'm going for a steel monotype

empoleon
steelix
bronzong
magnezone
lucario
hm slave

well I chose piplup as starter
and I'm on my way to enterna right now

prinplup lv 22

[dancing_totodile]

Awesome I finally found this, well, after I trade over all my current Diamond pokemon and get back to having a pokedex after restarting the game, I think I'm going to do a Mono-Steel Type Challange as Jirachi is currently being given out by Gamestop in USA. Since Jirachi isn't on the Uber list, I think this is gonna be fun!

I just don't know what other Steel Types I'm gonna have, any suggestions? I kinda want Mawile, but I've been raising one of those in Ruby, so I dunno, maybe I'll do it just to play with it in PBR too!

Edit-Update:
Okay, so I've started my challange and have gotten this far.
Amelia (Piplup) - Relaxed (Starter)
Lvl: 14
Moves: Pound, Growl, Bubble, Water Spourt
Ability: Torrent
Yes, I know, not Steel, but it becomes one, so why not use it.

Jirachi - Mild
Lvl: 5
Moves: Wish, Confusion, Rest, Draco Meteor
Ability: Serene Grace
The newest (and US Gamestop Event) this is what started me wanting to do the Steel Challange

Bridget (Mawile) - Quirky
Lvl: 14
Moves: Astonish, Fake Tears, Rock Smash, Bite
Ability: Hyper Cutter
It knows dark moves... (Ghost Gym Leaders are my weakness) and it is just fun.

Hermia (Skarmory) - Hardy
Lvl: 10
Moves: Leer, Peck, Sand-Attack
Ability: Keen Eye
Still working to get good moves on this one.

Laramie (Burmy) - Relaxed
Lvl: 9
Moves: Protect
Ability: Shed Skin
Yeah... This one is going to Wormadam (Trash)... slowly getting there.

I'm also working on getting Aron (Adamant/Naughty) and Onix-Steelix (Adamant/Naughty). I know this team has a ways to go, but I've beaten Roark and just trying to get an Onix before I move on. Any suggestions for moves or things I should try and get TMs for or just Teach them ingeneral? I'm open to suggestions.

Oh! I'm also looking for item suggestions as I think I'm giving the Quick Claw to Aggron. My only request is I want the items to be get able in the game as I go (I'm playing Diamond) and don't really want to use the "Choice" items I don't know why, but after looking at tiers and such, I just don't like how "Choice" items are always used.