4th Gen Monotype Challenge Thread!

[Storm Surge]

^Nice! Get out that Surf slave!

[OceanicLanturn]

I'm going to start my first ever monotype challenge on Platinum, and the magical typing is...
Normal!

I have chosen all 6 of my pokemon. I'm starting in a day or two, but suggestions are welcome!

Staraptor: Flyer, and is my answer to fighting types.
Lickylicky: Surprisingly, it gets Surf. So yeah, my surfer and rock climber.
Lopunny: Lopunny's Jump Kick is my answer to steel types that could probably wall me to oblivion. Also Strength on this rabbit.
Ambipom: Sweeper. I also will be giving it Rock Smash since 60 B.P at least is still usable.. unlike 40 >>. Thanks Technician!
Clefable: Special Attacker.
Girafarig: Special Attacker.

Right now, I'm only using Bibarel for Waterfall and Waterfall only. If you have nay suggestions for this team, like pokemon to replace, please tell me!

[Zexiontwo]

I'm starting a Ground Monotype run on Pokemon Platinum to run parallel to my Best friend's grass monotype run and I figured I'd start recording it here.

Building from the Ground up


So up to date, here is what I've done.

-Started the game, named myself Hiro and my rival Roy.
-I chose Turtwig (Got a female one. Huh, go figure). Named her Talia.
-Met Cyrus
-Got the Pokedex
-Got the Parcel and ever annoying journal.
-Got the Pokeballs from Dawn
-Grinded Talia
-Defeated my Rival (after losing twice prior to Grinding, Growl is really annoying when used in rapid succesion with only a one Pokemon party)
-Caught a Geodude and named him Geo (real original, right?)
-Went Ponyta hunting and trained Geodude
-Went through the mine

Current Team

Talia
Level 16
-Tackle
-Withdraw
-Absorb
-Razor Leaf

Geo
Level 12
-Tackle
-Defense Curl
-Rock Throw
-Rock Polish

If anyone has suggestions for future teamates or ideas, I'm all ears.

[edonub]

Being a full ground team, permanent Sandstorm might not be a bad idea at all. Consider Hippopotas in your team.

also, you'll need something that's neutral to Ice. Wooper or Shellos for a Water type, both are good depending on your preference (physical or special). Mamoswine also works, but its best Ice move being Ice Fang doesn't make it very reliable.

[OceanicLanturn]

Here's my update:

Monotype Type: Normal
Badges: 1
Save Place: Route 217 (West of Hearthome City)
- So I got a Combee instead. Due to tight schedules (school), I decided to forego Aipom in search for another normal type.
- Made my way to Eterna City via Eterna Forest. Caught Athena the Aphrodite and mass grinded her. Partnered up with Cheryl, swiftly went through the forest.
- Eterna Gym. Mass overkill thanks to Hermes.
- Beat Galactic boons in Eterna HQ too, it was an easy fight (another one lol). Got a bicycle and made my way down. Aphrodite learned Jump Kick around then, so I was like ZOMG <33333
- Went through Mount Coronet. Came out of the place to reach Route 217 East. Almost there!

Team (3/5 of the planned team)

Hermes the Staravia M
Lv. 26


Aphrodite the Buneary F
Lv. 27


Athena the Clefairy F
Lv. 17


Bibarel the Bibarel M
Lv. 19

Alright, so I need another normal pokemon. Currently, my contestants include a fully physical Togekiss, HM Slave Bibarel, Blissey, Snorlax or Porygon (can't get Z or 2 due to restriction on trading )

[Zexiontwo]

Building from the Ground up: Part 2

Didn't go as far as I liked yesterday, but here's what I did.

-defeated Roark
-Talia evolved into Grotle
-defeated Plasma for the first time
-Defeated Mars and her Plasma goons
-Caught me a Shellos, named her Shelly XD
-Traversed the forest
-defeated Gardenia's gym and majorly leveled up Talia (I will never doubt Curse again)
-defeated Jupiter and got the bike

Team

Talia Lv. 24
-Razor Leaf
-Tackle
-Bite
-Curse

Shelly Lv 22
-Mud Bomb
-Water Pulse
-Hidden Power
-Rain Dance

Geo Lv 22
-Rock Throw
-Magnitude
-Self-Destruct
-Rock Smash

Thinking aboout getting a Gligar and a Gible. Thoughts?

[Zexiontwo]

Building from the Ground up: Day 3

Got quite a bit done last night XD

-Rolled down the Bike Path
-Explored the hidden Cave after catching Gligar (Fang)
-Caught a Gible (Draco)
-Grinded Gible and Gligar
-Decided Gligar wasn't worth it and boxed her
-Kersplunked the mountain
-Defeated Fantina
-Evolved Draco
-Explored the Ruins
-Evolved Geo
-Forced my way to Veilstone
-Defeated Maylene
-Beat Galactic senseless
-Evolved Talia
-Made it to the Resort
-Trained some more
End

Talia Lv 33
-Earthquake
-Mega Drain
-Curse
-Reflect
Geo Lv 30
-Self-Destruct
-Rock Smash
-Rock Blast
-Magnitude
Shelly Lv 29
-Slam
-Water Pulse
-Mud Bomb
-Rain Dance
Draco Lv 30
-Dragon Rage
-Sand Tomb
-Slash
-Sandstorm

~~~

Boxed

Fang Lv 19

[Z-nogyroP]

Zexiontwo, are you aware you get the TM for Earthquake in Wayward Cave(the hidden cave)? It would help for, say, Draco or Geo.

[Zexiontwo]

I have it. Just haven't decided who to use it on. I got all the way to Candice, dropped my DS, and I forgot to save since my last update @>@ *sobs*

[Storm Surge]

'Daww.*Pats head*

A Petty Water Monotype; Part 3(ish)

I finally gave it a name.Go figure.
I put Sketch back in action after I figured I needed her for the Kimono Girls.Forgot to say I DEFEATED ALL THE GYM LEADERS, YEAH!I had tried to defeat the Kimono Girls with my four-girl team several times, but without sucsess.Darn.So I nabbed the King's Rock from the Slowpoke Well, grabbed my sibling's DSi, and traded Sketch back and forth.Yay.Now I have a Slowking, <3 I also got a Quagsire(From the Union Cave) to cover my annoying weakness to Electric.I ALSO RENAMED WAVE TO AVE.

I completely pwned the Kimono Girls.A Perish Song from Lyre(Who desperately needs a new name; anybody have an idea for a Lapras?) perished the Umbreon(After Ave died without doing pretty much any damage at all to it) and Espeon, with poor Sketch sent in so Lyre wouldn't die.Flareon was taken care of with a few Surfs from Erin, who got burnt.
Then came Jolteon.I sent in William(the Male Quagsire), who was a BOSS.Level 25 Quagsire against a Level 38 Jolteon...Jolteon spammed Double Team while I spammed Mud Bomb(Hitting him a few times), he uses last Resort and fails about 2 times....Then Thunderbolt."It didn't affect William..." OH YEAH. As Mud Bomb ran out of PP, I Mud Shot-ed my way to victory against Jolteon. Well, Vaporeon was a big joke compared to Jolteon. It could barely TOUCH Lyre as a Perish Song pounded it to the ground.

After that, I went and caught the freaking Lugia.I DIDN'T WANT TO USE THE MASTER BALL.AGH.But Lugia refused to be caught otherwise, :P
Well, My team is severely underleveled(William at 25 and Sketch at 24, others at 34-36), and I shall be the Water Type master of Jhoto!Kanto not included currently.

I like the way Zexiontwo does the format, so I'll do it like that...

TEAM(In order of game capture)

Ave Lv 35
-Ice Fang
-Crunch
-Surf
-Hydro Cannon

Sketch Lv 24
-Curse
-Headbutt
-Confusion
-Surf

Erin Lv 35
-Ice Fang
-Strength
-Surf
-Dragon Pulse

Cali Lv 34
-Thunder
-Surf
-Confuse Ray
-Blizzard

Lyre Lv 36
-Perish Song
-Ice Beam
-Water Pulse
-Body Slam(BEST. MOVE. EVER.)

William Lv 25
-Slam
-Mud Bomb
-Whirlpool
-Waterfall

Tell me if I can have a better team in terms of Pokemon...and why.

[Zexiontwo]

Gastrodon is better than Quagsire Xp It's a walking (er.....sliding) Special Tank. I never would have thought to try it until my montype run XD

[Storm Surge]

I decided to take Quagsire because Quagsires look like such charming chaps...And I'm too lazy to trade over a Shellos because I'm almost at the E4.
Besides, Water Absorb and a dual Ground type on my team makes for two immunities.

[OceanicLanturn]

Unfortuantely, I accidentally editted in. So here's my update just to bump it a bit.

Here's my update:

Monotype Type: Normal
Badges: 1
Save Place: Route 217 (West of Hearthome City)
- So I got a Combee instead. Due to tight schedules (school), I decided to forego Aipom in search for another normal type.
- Made my way to Eterna City via Eterna Forest. Caught Athena the Aphrodite and mass grinded her. Partnered up with Cheryl, swiftly went through the forest.
- Eterna Gym. Mass overkill thanks to Hermes.
- Beat Galactic boons in Eterna HQ too, it was an easy fight (another one lol). Got a bicycle and made my way down. Aphrodite learned Jump Kick around then, so I was like ZOMG <33333
- Went through Mount Coronet. Came out of the place to reach Route 217 East. Almost there!

Team (3/5 of the planned team)

Hermes the Staravia M
Lv. 26


Aphrodite the Buneary F
Lv. 27


Athena the Clefairy F
Lv. 17


Bibarel the Bibarel M
Lv. 19

Alright, so I need another normal pokemon. Currently, my contestants include a fully physical Togekiss, HM Slave Bibarel, Blissey, Snorlax or Porygon (can't get Z or 2 due to restriction on trading )

[Storm Surge]

It's not really a restriction on trading.I have a Slowking.

Why a physical Togekiss?Have a mix.
Blissey and Snorlax are great choices, but only if you want defensive, Special or Physical.I like Snorlax because of its awesomeness, but Blissey is all around great.
I'm not too keen on Porygon, though.

EDIT; I've decided that has been the end of the run for my Water monotype.I've started another one- a Bug monotype!
I just defeated Falkner with one Pokemon, Sabre, my Beedrill.(This is on SS.)It started out simple.Level 14 Sabre against a Lv 9 Pidgey.One Fury Attack and it was down.
Pidgeotto was not that simple. Roost spam etc.Poisoned him with Poison Sting(Oh, Sabre levelled up to Lv 15 after Pidgey.) and Fury Attacked him repeatedly.ONE HP LEFT.He tackled me when I had ten HP left, and I had no Potions because I was stubborn.The poison killed it.

I have my first badge, and I am assembling my team in my head.Not changing it.

Current Team

Sabre - Lv 16
Rash Female
---------
Poison Sting
Twineedle
Fury Attack
Focus Energy
---------
Achivements; Having an epic back sprite, killing Falkner's Pidgeotto with ONE HP LEFT.

Team Wanted




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/w Egg Move Encore

[ShuckleArmy]

So I decided to start a Poison Type monotype on Pokémon Diamond! I have just beaten the first gym and this is what I got!

-Started Adventure
-Chose Turtwig (for a challenge, you will understand later)
-Got to Jubilife City
-Received Hidden Power
-Caught a Budew (Flora)
-Grinded Flora
-Battled rival, this was a challenge as all i had was a budew, in order to do it I taught Flora Hidden Power (Dark) I then used stun spore and spammed Hidden Power
-Continued to Oreburgh Gate
-Received Rock Smash
-Got to Oreburgh City
-Went to Oreburgh Gate
-Caught Zubat (Cromwell)
-Found Roark
-Went to Oreburgh Gym
-Fought Roark, I started with Cromwell who had just learned Astonish, I used Supersonic and spammed Astonish I almost KO'd the Geodude but Roark used his potion and then OHKO'd Cromwell, this was my plan though and I went on to OHKO both Geodude and Onyx, I was afraid of Cranidos but I was able to knock him out in two hits thus earning the Coal Badge!

My next step is to go to Eterna Forest where I will catch a Dustox!

CURRENT TEAM

Flora (Budew ♂) Lv.16
-Mega Drain
-Stun Spore
-Water Sport
-Hidden Power (Dark)

Cromwell (Zubat ♂) Lv.9
-Leech Life
-Supersonic
-Astonish
-

[TotodileAgent]

Doing a monotype run on HG with bug types! This should be interesting...

[~EternalDarkness~]

I'm about to start a poison monotype playthrough on Pearl while I wait for more responses for my HG Scramble.

My team will consist of: Roserade, Crobat, Gengar, Tentacruel, Toxicroak and Drapion. Looking forward to this as it's my first mono run and I'll try to post updates on my progress.

[redpanda15]

Going to start a Flying type team on Platinum since I just finished a bug team on White. Always go for the difficult one! Here's what the team will be:

Tropius

Crobat

Staraptor

Noctowl

Altaria

Pelipper

Let's do this.

[redpanda15]

Here's what I've got

-Choose Chimchar(Best for HM Slave)
-Catch Starly (Hawkeye) (Real tease for me, perfect nature and IV's)
-Grinded Hawkeye
-Got to Jubilife
-Caught Zubat (Black Widow)
-Sort of grinded Black Widow
-Faced Rival
-At Oreburgh
-Found Roark

CURRENT TEAM:

Level 12 Starly (Hawkeye)
-Double Team
-Wing Attack
-Quick Attack
-Return

Level 7 Zubat (Black Widow)
-SuperSonic
-Leech Life

[redpanda15]

More...

-Lost to first trainer in gym
-Grinded
-More Grinding
-Took down both trainers
-Beat Roark using SuperSonic+Bite, then spamming Double Team and Wing Attack
-Got back to Jubilife
-Took down the Galactic Noobs
-Got to Floaroma
-Took down guy at WindWorks
-Took down Galactic chumps at the meadow
-Waiting until night for HootHoot

Team:

Level 16 Zubat (Black Widow)
-Bite
-SuperSonic
-Astonish
-Leech Life

Level 16 Staravia (Hawkeye)
-Wing Attack
-Return
-Quick Attack
-Double Team