5th Gen Monotype Challenge Thread!

[Nyarlathotep]

So I finally started my second monotype challenge. I started with Tsutarja and boxed it after I caught a Choroneko at Route 2 and I used it to beat the first Gym Leader, Pod.
It was hard because Choroneko is a very weak Pokémon.

After I got the C-Gear, I traded some eggs, hatched and trained them a bit, here is my team thus far:

Moufflair Lvl. 14
Donkeurou Lvl. 11
Noctus Lvl. 10

Boxed:

Samehader Lvl. 1
Waruvial Lvl. 1
Manyula Lvl. 1

I don't plan to use them yet, mainly because the game would turn out to be too easy with six Pokémon in my team.
And I released the Choroneko, too weak for my taste.

[ilovedeino]

Okay, I already beat Drayden, next update will be the second league fight.

Starmie Lv.47
Surf, Gyro Ball, Thunderbolt, Recover
Poliwrath Lv.46
Surf, Blizzard, Focus Punch, Mind Reader
Swampert Lv.47
Sludge, Protect, Take Down, Surf
Sharpedo Lv.47
Surf, Ancientpower, Crunch, Blizzard
Swanna Lv.47
Steel Wing, Surf, Air Slash, Fly
Ludicolo Lv.47
Solarbeam, Sunny Day, Zen Headbutt, Surf

[cantab]

Well. This is it. The big one. I've been to the various areas I'd previously passed by, then climbed Victory Road, and finally I stood at the fourfold junction of the Pokemon League.

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My team, upon entering:

Hydrogen @ Black Sludge
Lv 53
Focus Blast / Clear Smog / Shadow Ball / Destiny Bond

Fluorine @ Eviolite
Lv 53
Shadow Ball / Thunderbolt / Nasty Plot / Pain Split

Neon @ Brightpowder
Lv 51
Shadow Sneak / Endure / X-Scissor / Dig

Helium @ No item
Lv 53
Acrobatics / Weather Ball / Rain Dance / Thunder

Radon @ Rocky Helmet
Lv 53
Iron Defense / Fly / Earthquake / Brick Break

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"Caitlin first", I thought. Wakey wakey, the ghosts are coming.

I made my opening move. "Fluorine, Nasty Plot!" Caitlin's Reuniclus hit for about 45%, before I took it down with the Shadow Ball. Her Musharna was bulkier, just about withstanding Fluorine's Shadow Ball and retaliating with its own, but it was weak on the offensive

Now I had to guess. Would Caitlin Full Restore, and so should I risk the Pain Split, or should I just attack? I decided for a third option, another Nasty Plot. Sure enough Caitlin did Full Restore, and I went for the Pain Split afterwards, topping up Fluorine's HP before taking another Shadow Ball.

Now at +4 SpA, and Fluorine being no Slowpoke, it was game set and match from there. The Elite Four are weaker than I expected, maybe I shouldn't have levelled so much.

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Next up? Oh what the heck, I needed a challenge, so I went for Grimsley. I wasn't the first person he's faced today? Intruiging...

I lead with Helium. No super-effective attacks against Dark, but he's a good all-rounder with some bulk. Grimsley lead with Scrafty. I could have gone straight for the Acrobatics, but I expected Grimsley had a Krookodile and I wanted to be ready for it, so, "Rain Dance!"

Scrafty's Crunch did just over 50%, then it narrowly survived the Acrobatics and Sand-Attacked me Grimsley Full Restored, but it was second time's the charm for my Acrobatics Helium.

Krookodile next, just as expected, and my Weather Ball missed! I knew I should have used the X Accuracy...well too late now. Helium was down, so it was time for Radon, and holy Magikarp! Foul Play did huge damage before I could Iron Defence. Still, nothing a Hyper Potion can't fix. Grimsley employed his second Full Restore to recover the damage from Radon's Brick Break, so I copied with another Hyper Potion, before finally eliminating Krookodile with another Brick Break.

Now for Liepard, and its Night Slash just wasn't good enough, Radon was left with just 14 HP but OHKOed it with guess what move.

Bisharp, Grimsley's last Pokemon, and Radon was finally downed. Time for some fun I though. "Go Neon! Use your Dig attack". Alas, that weak link in my team lived up to its record as it was just too slow.

I had an ace up my sleeve however, and a single Focus Blast from Hydrogen, the unreliable move thankfully not missing, wrapped up the battle.

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For the next member, I planned to Marshall all of my skills.

The Fighting member I knew had too many Rock attacks for Helium to be a safe option, so I went with Radon, who in Throh found something that he was faster than for once. Well, at least until Radon's Iron Defense was followed by Throh's Bulldoze slowing Radon down. From there I went for an Earthquake, and followed it up with a Fly.

Sawk was a bit more hassle. Stupid Sturdy, and stupid Full Restore spam, so I exploited the AI: Brick Break did only just under 50%, meaning Marshall didn't use a third Full Restore and I could finish Sawk with a Fly.

Aside from that minor hump, Radon just tanked his way through Marshall's team. Nothing after Throh could even hit me neutrally, never mind super-effective. Marshall said the other Elite Four members are more powerful than him: against a Golurk, that's true for sure.

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The final battle before the Champion, and the stage was set for a clash between two Ghost specialists. It wasn't going to be truly epic - I'd levelled my own team a bit too high for that - but I hoped for an interesting battle.

What I got was Hydrogen, taking his turn at leading, OHKOing Cofagrigus, Golurk, and Chandelure with Shadow Ball. At last Jellicent managed to hold on against the first Shadow Ball and hit back with its own, doing about equal percentage damage, but Shauntal's Full Restore was merely postponing the inevitable. Despite not being a critical hit, Hydrogen's second Shadow Ball took Jellicent right down. I can only assume it was a low roll followed by a high roll on the damage randomisation.

The reality of my playthrough had failed to comply with what Pratchett called narrative imperative. Perhaps the Champion can rectify matters?

[Nyarlathotep]

Well, after beating a lot of trainers close to Nacrene City, I decided to face Aloe, the second Gym Leader of Unova.
My team's level at the occasion:

Donkeurou Lvl. 18
Noctus Lvl. 17
Moufflair Lvl. 16

The battle was a pain, as usual. The defenses of my three dears aren't that good and STAB'd Take Down and Retaliate hurts a lot. But whit Sabonea's Leech Seed and Stunpoo's Poison Gas, I could beat her Herderrie. After that, she sent her damned Miruhog, which easily raped my Sabonea and Stunpoo with Retaliate. So I sent my Yamikarasu, who took down the Miruhog with two Pursuits, thanks to Miruhog's Hypnosis missing.

It is time to beat the crap of some Plasma Grunts and hopefully evolve my Sabonea to a creepy Noctus.

[cantab]

Let us end this charade. We all know what happens, the person who got to Alder before us and the building that came from nowhere. Now it was time to end things.

I was psyched for the challenge of capturing Reshiram, only to be deflated like a popped Drifblim when it went into the first Ultra Ball. Game Freak made it just a bit too easy.

N's Zekrom, however, would not be facing his Unovan opposite number. No, I had another, a sixth team member.

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VS

"Fusion Bolt!"

"Shadow Force!"

"Light Screen!"
"Zen Headbutt!"
"Zen Headbutt!"

"Bulldoze!"
"Dragon Claw!"

Zekrom fainted...

The King of Ghosts, Sinnoh's Renegade Pokemon, Giratina, had vanquished Unova's Deep Black Pokemon in a clash of dragons fit for the occasion. First blood was to myself, but now as N sent out Vanilluxe it was time for me to switch. Out came Neon, immune to the Blizzard, only for N to counterswitch to his Carracosta, leading me to replace Neon with Radon, resisting the Stone Edge.

I contemplated Iron Defense, but went for the Brick Break instead, denting Carracosta before Radon took a heavy Waterfall. I hoped to finish off the turtle, only to be met with an Aqua Jet. Fluorine came out, to revenge with the Thunderbolt.

Now I faced Archeops, a Pokemon demanding a swift response, so I went directly for another Thunderbolt, taking heavy damage from Stone Edge first but kicking the ancient bird into Defeatist range. Its Crunch was now weak, and Fluorine hung grimly on to take his foe down. As his reward, he learnt Power Gem, replacing the rarely used (though not useless) Pain Split, even though in this battle the old move would have been a boon.

N's Klinklang was met with Fluorine's last attack, to reveal itself to be no Gear Pokemon - it was a Zoroark, who at last downed Fluorine. The perfect target for a Focus Blast from Hydrogen, which with a critical hit terminated the fox with extreme prejudice.

N's last remaining Pokemon - his Vanilluxe and his real Klinklang - likewise fell to Hydrogen power.

N took the loss with grace, and his usual sense of theatrics. Certainly, I could hardly be accused of failing to join him in such, and of putting my own spin on events. In another Unova the region's two Fire legends had clashed, Victini against Reshiram, and now here it had been a battle across generations.

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Ghetsis, however, was less amused.

Giratina was forced to lead, but it would hardly be fair; against Cofagrigus, I promptly switched to Fluorine, who might have defeated Ghetsis' lead had it not been for an unfortunate special fall from the coffin's Shadow Ball. I followed up with Neon, hoping to take Cofagrigus down with Shadow Sneak, but it was just not powerful enough.

Ghetsis would be Full Restoring now, so I took the chance to set up, bringing in Helium for a Rain Dance. My Thunder was met, annoyingly, with a Toxic then Protect spam. It did the trick for Ghetsis too, Helium being worn down enough to fall to a Shadow Ball.

I was on the back foot now, sending out Hydrogen, who really should have come sooner. He finally got rid of the annoying mummy.

For Bouffalant I switched in Radon, freely as Ghetsis went for the Head Charge. I snagged my Iron Defense, before taking out the bison with Brick Breaks, Radon comfortably withstanding the Earthquakes his opponent fired back.

Seismitoad was next...not a good match for any of my team. I opted to stay in, fruitlessly as it took out Radon right away with a Muddy Water.

Only Hydrogen, whom I sent out, and Giratina left. I was cut a break now, as Muddy Water missed, letting Hydrogen 2HKO him easily. Eelektross was likewise 2HKOed, though not before heavily damaging and SpDef dropping Hydrogen.

Then Ghetsis sent out Bisharp, and now Focus Blast had to hit. It didn't.

It all came down to the Pokemon it had started with, Giratina.

And there, it ended. Bisharp somehow avoided the 3HKO from Bulldoze, and as I fled, Ghetsis now stood to rule Unova unopposed.

[ilovedeino]

Okay, I'm done as I beat Alder.

Starmie Lv.83
Surf, Gyro Ball, Thunderbolt, Recover
Poliwrath Lv.84
Surf, Blizzard, Focus Punch, Mind Reader
Swampert Lv.83
Sludge, Protect, Take Down, Surf
Sharpedo Lv.84
Surf, Ancientpower, Crunch, Blizzard
Swanna Lv.83
Steel Wing, Surf, Air Slash, Fly
Ludicolo Lv.85
Solarbeam, Sunny Day, Zen Headbutt, Surf

No movesets changed.

[Nyarlathotep]

lol, almost level 100 in less than two days.

[amittal12]

I defeated all trainers on Route 12.Reached Lacunosa Town.Then I defeated all trainers on Route 13 and reached Undella Town.There I saved the game.I have also caught a Shroomish on Route 11 by Swarm,Sunkern and Cherrim on Route 12 and a Tangela on Route 13.

Team:

Snaky
Leavy
Leafmon
Deerly
Fungy
Thorny

Boxed:

Box 8(For Reserves)
Cottony
Lillil
Cacti
Grassy
Tangling
Cherry
Mushroom
Sunny

Box 7(For HM Slaves/Others)

HM Only Drilbur
HM Only Ducklett
'The Forced to catch to advance storyline' Reshiram

[terrytorterra]

Just beat Lenora in Nacrene, obtaining the Basic Badge, but not without losing my Barboach to her Herdier's STAB Take Downs after a Leer. Even a +1 Earthquake wasn't enough to 2HKO... too bad. Trapinch came in and finished it off. I then switched to Gliscor to take on her Watchog, knowing that she of all members would be able to take that feared and eminent Retaliate. However, it was too much for her as well, and she on barely got the Watchog down to 30% before dying. Trapinch comes back in and avenges her with a powerful Sheer Force boosted Earth Power. Too bad its ability will revert back to Levitate the moment it evolves...

Anyways, team so far:
Barboach (17) - Hydration - Adamant - Dragon Dance/Earthquake/Rest/Water Gun
Trapinch (20) - Sheer Force - Timid - Earth Power/Signal Beam/Bite/Faint Attack
Gliscor - (18) - Poison Heal - Impish - Poison Sting/Sand Attack/Harden/Quick Attack

Will be adding:
Diglett
Phanpy
Sandile

[Nyarlathotep]

Update time! I have beat those Plasma Grunts I mentioned before, took the Kairyu's Skull back and followed my way towards Castela City. After arriving, I decided to face the bug master and guess what? I got owned by his Hahakomori's Razoar Leaf. First time I lost to a Unovian Gym Leader. Funny because none of my Pokémon are week against Grass attacks and two of them have resistances as well. My team was a Lv. 17 Zuruggu I recently caught, Lv. 25 Yamikarasu (which was KO'd by a grass move, wth) and a Lv. 23 Sabonea (which as also KO'd). Anyways, I took Skunpoo (it was in the box) back and challenged him again.

I must say that in the first time I was switching Zuruggu and Yamikarasu, because I wanted the first to receive more Exp. This time I put Yamikarasu in the front line and KO'd Arty's Wheega and Hahakomori, leaving only Ishizumai to be 2HKO'd after. I got the badge and some useless TM from him. Now I'm going to evolve my Sabonea at the desert.

Oh, I also beat the trainers at Battle Company before challenging Arty.

Team thus far:

Donkeurou Lvl. 26
Noctus Lvl. 23
Zuruzukin Lvl. 18
Moufflair Lvl. 17

[terrytorterra]

Another small update.
Haven't been playing much, but I'm now in Castelia City, and beginning training to challenge the gym. I'll be using Gliscor, mainly because it has Poison Sting which gets SE on Burgh's Leavanny, which is about the only threat.
Dwebble and Whirlipede will be handled easily by Trapinch.

Also I now have Diglett and Phanpy! ^^ finally got them over form my White version.

[Nyarlathotep]

So, I went to the desert and beat every single trainer, but my Sabonea refused to reach level 32 to evolve, so I went to Nimbasa, beat the trainers, N and Kamitsure, finally it evolved to a powerful Noctus!
Now I am going to the cave close to the next city, to pick a Dusk Stone to evolve my Yamikarasu.

Team thus far:

Noctus Lvl. 32
Donkeurou Lvl. 28
Zuruzukin Lvl. 20
Moufflair Lvl. 18

And I plan to add a Kibanha to my team:

[alakazam_1]

Just finished a White water monotype run by beating Alder. That was fun.

Finishing team:

L67 Carracosta @Brightpowder
Impish nature
Solid Rock
- Waterfall
- Rock Slide
- Earthquake
- Shell Smash

Not my best Pokémon... he was very useful in some situations during the run through but his attack isn't quite good enough to make up for his low speed. Definitely prefer Archeops.

L68 Starmie @Expert Belt
Timid nature (thank you synchronise)
Natural Cure
- Surf
- Psychic
- Thunderbolt
- Ice Beam

I got Starmie post-E4 and I'm very glad I did; it was an excellent revenge killer in the E4 rematch and in particular it swept most of Marshall's team without any stat boosts with its lovely Psychic.

L68 Seismitoad @Leftovers
Mild nature
Poison Touch
- Surf
- Earthquake
- Focus Blast
- Grass Knot

I surprised myself with how much I liked Seismitoad... I've used it before but this one in particular was very good. Good bulk (mostly) but very good attacking power in both attacking stats as well. Poison Touch was a bit annoying though sometimes, it made the Volcarona in the Relic Castle faint.

L68 Swanna @Scope Lens
Mild nature
Big Pecks
- Surf
- Fly
- Hurricane
- Ice Beam

Swanna was... alright. Hurricane was nice when it hit, and Air Slash flinch hax was nice earlier in the game. Coverage was awful until I got the Ice Beam TM though. Overall not bad, and worth having on a Water monotype purely because of Fly.

L69 Jellicent @Spell Tag (it was actually a female but whatever... :L)
Calm nature
Water Absorb
- Surf
- Shadow Ball
- Ice Beam
- Energy Ball

I liked Jellicent - it was nice to have something that could take a couple of special hits and deal damage back. All the Pokémon were at L67 going into the E4 Rematch and Jellicent came out of it with the second-highest level, so that's a good sign; it was very useful against Caitlin in particular (thank you Gothitelle for using Flatter twice, I do like +4 SpA...).

L70 Gyarados @Shell Bell
Jolly nature
Intimidate
- Waterfall
- Earthquake
- Stone Edge
- Dragon Dance

The big one. Gyarados was fantastic; my favourite Gyarados sweep was either the one where he set up 3DDs against Grimsley's Liepard who kept using Sucker Punch and then OHKOd everything, or the one where he set up on Alder's Escavalier and brought the monotype to a dramatic conclusion. Well worth the 500P for that little Magikarp on Marvellous Bridge.

I also had Blueeye the Basculin from the in-game trade and of course my Samurott, but they were boxed for Gyarados and Starmie respectively. The whole team was made without any trades or legendaries, and I really enjoyed it. Water types in Unova are better than you might think.

Next: grass! Might actually post more than once for it... :P

[alakazam_1]

Whoops... forgot about that updating frequently thing.

My grass monotype team of Serperior, Leavanny, Lilligant, Sawsbuck, Ferrothorn and Virizion beat the Elite 4 fairly easily. N was very difficult, due to his Reshiram being able to OHKO just about everything on the team. However, on my 2nd try against N, Fusion Flare ran out of PP and with a lot of Max Revives and teamwork I managed to deal with him. Ghetsis was almost easy after that ordeal... Serperior got 4 Coils against Cofagrigus and almost took out Hydreigon with a +4 Return, leaving Virizion to finish it off with Sacred Sword, and everything else was easy enough - Lilligant got a few Quiver Dances and swept with Petal Dance. I think the presence of Reshiram on N's team meant that was the first time I found N easier.

Thinking now of getting Rotom (grass form obviously) and Ludicolo to join the team, to help combat some weaknesses and provide a change, for the post-game stuff.

[ilovedeino]

I am wanting to do a Pan-Generational Grass Monotype(thank you for the idea, cantab) on White, I am also a huge PGL user. All these will be traded from my 2nd copy of Black(what I call my "PGL copy").

Planned Team:
Venusaur with Egg moves: Power Whip and Skull Bash.
Sunflora with Early Bird and the moves: Rest(once I get the TM in Castelia) and Earth Power.
Tropius with Harvest(took me forever to get in the PGL) with Silver Wind.
Leafeon with Chlorophyll(Will trade over as Leafeon with Sunny Day at Level 10, you normally can't get Sunny Day until Mistralton).
Serperior(of course, my starter)
Exeggutor with Harvest(also took a while, not as long as Tropius though).

Plus, I hit my 200th post mark

[ilovedeino]

Okay, time to update my Grass Monotype.

    Spoiler:- Badge 1:

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I got Snivy and beat Cheren and Bianca.
I did everything and just solo'd with Snivy until after I got my first Badge.
Snivy is seriously way overleveled. After I beat Chili, I traded over 4 DW Pokemon and 1 eggs. I also hatched the egg.

    Spoiler:- N Battle 1:

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• N sent out Purrloin, White sent out Snivy
• Snivy used Vine Whip, Purrloin used Scratch
• Snivy used Vine Whip, Purrloin fainted
• I WIN

 

    Spoiler:- Bianca Battle 1:

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• Bianca sent out Lillipup, White sent out Snivy
• Snivy used Leaf Tornado, Lillipup Fainted
• Bianca Sent out Oshawott
• Snivy used Leaf Tornado, Oshawott fainted
• I WIN

 

    Spoiler:- Cheren Battle 1:

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• Cheren sent out Tepig, White sent out Snivy
• Snivy used Leer, Tepig used Tackle
• Snivy used Tackle, Tepig used Ember
• Snivy used Leaf Tornado, Tepig fainted
• Cheren sent out Purrloin
• Snivy used Leaf Tornado, Purrloin fainted
• Snivy leveled up and I WIN. Snivy also evolved

 

    Spoiler:- Chili Battle:

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• Chili sent out Lillipup, White sent out Servine
• Servine used Leaf Tornado, Lillipup fainted
• Chili sent out Pansear
• Servine used Leer, Pansear used Incinerate
• Servine used Leer, Pansear used Incinerate
• Servine used Leer, Pansear used Incinerate
• White used Potion, Pansear used Incinerate
• Servine used Tackle, Pansear fainted
• I WIN and got the Trio Badge.

 

 

    Spoiler:- TEAM at this point:

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Servine Lv.17
Leaf Tornado, Vine Whip, Tackle, Leer

Bulbasaur Lv.1
Tackle, Growl, Power Whip, Skull Bash

Sunkern Lv.10
Absorb, Ingrain, Mega Drain, Earth Power

Tropius Lv.10
Leer, Gust, Growth, Silver Wind

Leafeon Lv.10
Tackle, Tail Whip, Sand-Attack, Sunny Day

Exeggcute Lv.10
Barrage, Uproar, Hypnosis, Giga Drain
 

[alakazam_1]

Grass monotype finished!

I did the usual post-E4 stuff - I replaced Sawsbuck and Leavanny with lawnmower Rotom and Ludicolo, got the Six Sages, explored all the new areas, beat Cynthia, Cheren at Victory Road and Morimoto, and trained a bit, before going to rematch the E4 and battle Alder. Before going in all my Pokémon were at L68. I got through the Elite 4 with minimal difficulty - Serperior Coil-swept Marshall, Lilligant Quiver Dance-swept Caitlin, Virizion took out most of Grimsley's team with a little assistance, and everyone worked together to overcome dreadful luck (Power Whip, accuracy 85, missing twice in a row against Jellicent while Hydro Pump never misses...) to beat Shauntal.

Then Volcarona destroyed me. Grrrr.

I went back through the E4, finding it even easier because my Pokémon were a little stronger and I knew each member's teams and strategies better. Against Alder, I opened with Ferrothorn, since it takes neutral damage from Bug and has solid Special Defense. Accelgor was no problem, for those reasons. Alder, predictably, switched in Volcarona, and I left Ferrothorn in, baiting it to use Overheat, which it obligingly did, leaving Ferrothorn rather dead. I knew from the previous battle that after an Overheat Volcarona likes to Quiver Dance. I sent in Virizion, and while Volcarona predictably Quiver Danced, I OHKOd it with Stone Edge. Yay.

The rest of Alder's team was alright, apart from Escavalier; to deal with it I resurrected Ferrothorn with a Max Revive, and Ferrothorn used Curse twice while Escavalier (who was already slightly damaged from a Light Screen-impaired Surf from Ludicolo) impaled itself on the combination of Iron Barbs and Ferrothorn's Rocky Helmet. Ferrothorn then basically swept Bouffalant and Druddigon (Vanilluxe had died earlier, to Virizion I think).

Final team:

L68 Ludicolo @Expert Belt
Modest nature
Swift Swim
- Surf
- Energy Ball
- Ice Beam
- Rain Dance

In the end Ludicolo wasn't hugely useful against the E4 rematch. It was wonderful against Shauntal's Chandelure, but that's all I can really think of. It was very useful to have on the general journeying about though, as it gave me something to use against fire-types.

L70 Lilligant @BrightPowder
Modest nature
Own Tempo
- Petal Dance
- Hyper Beam
- Sleep Powder
- Quiver Dance

Lilligant was awesome throughout the game. Quiver Dance + Petal Dance + Own Tempo is godly; if its non-Grass movepool was a little bit wider it would be by far the best grass-type in the game. I <3 you Lilligant.

L70 Ferrothorn @Rocky Helmet
Docile nature
Iron Barbs
- Power Whip
- Iron Head
- Toxic
- Curse

Like Seismitoad on the water monotype, this was one that I picked more to fill out the team than because I liked the look of it, but I really liked using it. It's a great, interesting Pokémon, and it was unequivocally the most important Pokémon in the Alder battle, taking out Accelgor, Escavalier, Druddigon and Bouffalant whilst playing the important role of baiting a SpA-lowering Outrage from Volcarona.

L71 Serperior @Razor Claw
Lonely nature
Overgrow
- Leaf Blade
- Return
- Leaf Storm
- Coil

Serperior was really, really excellent. I think Snivy is the Charmander of Gen V; it's by far the hardest starter to use in the gym battles, with weaknesses in Gyms 1 (obviously), 3, 4 (Emolga), 6 and 7, and Gym 8 resisting its STAB. However, it grows into an excellent Pokémon which is hard to defeat, with a great stat increasing move in Coil. A valued member of the team.

L71 Virizion @Shell Bell
Rash nature
Justified
- Leaf Blade
- Sacred Sword
- Stone Edge
- Swords Dance

I almost didn't use Virizion - I never usually use legendaries. Virizion isn't overpowered in the same way Zekrom or Reshiram are, though, so I can forgive myself. And it was a fun Pokémon to use, as well as being very useful. Not much else to say...

L72 Eeks (Rotom-C) @Leftovers
Gentle nature
Levitate
- Leaf Storm
- Thunderbolt
- Shadow Ball
- Charge Beam

I think Rotom's advanced level is to some extent a function of it being a traded Pokémon rather than it necessarily being the most useful. However, it was very good against the various members of the E4, especially Shauntal and Caitlin, and in general it was helpful to have a way of dealing with Flying-types, just as Ludicolo provided a way of dealing with Fire.

[terrytorterra]

In Iccirus City right now, with my ground type team.
Beat Clay with a some difficulty, as most of my Pokemon couldn't do much to that darn Excadrill. Whishcash ended up weakening it enough to let Dugtrio kill it with a lucky Mag 10.
Skyla was another challenge since I switched out Sandile for Stunfisk and I hadn't caught one yet. Donphan was able to take out most of the trainers and her Swoobat, while Gliscor took care of the rest.

My team now is
Vibrava (38) - Crunch / Earth Power / Signal Beam / Dragonbreath
.:. Poor little Vibrava really lost a lot of power... Sheer Force was really helpful when it was a Trapinch since pretty much all of its moves had 2ndary effects... But once it evolves into Flygon, it'll be back on its feet.

Whiscash (38) - Rest / Dragon Dance / Earthquake / Surf
.:. Still the same old same old. Honestly doesn't work as well in-game, but it still packs quite a punch and is my answer to most water types.

Gliscor (39) - Ice Fang / Night Slash / Swords Dance / Acrobatics
.:. Usually not poisoned since I have Acrobatics and I don't like having to move the items around so much... but it works well anyways. Recently got Ice Fang on it, so now I can answer to opponent ground types as well as flying types :P

Stunfisk (33) - Camouflage / Mud Bomb / Discharge / Endure
.:. Like, literally, just caught. So the moves leave a little to be desired, but that'll be fixed later.

Dugtrio (37) - Scratch / Sucker Punch / Dig / Magnitude
.:. So, so SOOO frail. And it really doesn't do much. It's fast and thats about it. Still waiting on Slash and Earthquake.

Donphan (35) - Rollout / Defense Curl / Flail / Slam
.:. Without a strong STAB attack he really can't do much either... just takes hits and before Gliscor got Ice Fang he was my answer to flying types, with the Defense Curl+Rollout combo.

Anyways, still looking for a way to beat Brycen, probably going to end up going back for Rock Slide and trying to get Flash cannon and teaching those to someone...

[alakazam_1]

Doing a Fire monotype; I'm in the messing-around-just-after-getting-Surf stage. Current team is Larvesta (ugh; bring on L59), Darmanitan, Lampent, Simisear (bring on post-nat-dex) and of course Emboar, with Heatmor (see Simisear) yet to be added. With the exception of Larvesta who's being trained, the others are very over-levelled (as in L40+ before setting foot in Twist Mountain) because there were only three of them for ages. It's been easy so far, but with the team populated by Pokémon like Larvesta, Simisear and Heatmor, I don't anticipate the Elite 4/N/Ghetsis being *too* easy... :/

Did I say I don't like Larvesta yet?

[Tehero]

I just started a Black Ice Monotype Challenge. I chose Ice because I figured it would be a little bit hard plus my game is in the Winter Season . I'm trading over 3 pokemon to start off with, since their is only three ice types in pokemon Black xD So my Planned team right now is:

Vanilluxe (Ice Cream)
Beartic (Husky)
Cryogonal (Circle)
Walrein (Fangs)
Abomasnow (Woody)
Mamoswine (Wooly)

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Just restarted my game, I went through the normal get your first pokemon/get pokedex thing. I decided to name my character Pryce in honor of my favorite ice pokemon trainer. I decided to go with Snivy as my stater because I wanted a little extra challenge later on while facing Cheren and Bianca, and I managed to get a female Snivy. I traveled through route 1, I didn't catch any pokemon, but I did lv up Snivy to lv 7 and she learned Vine Whip.I then proceeded to Accumula Town and battled N. During the battle Snivy gained another level (Lv 8). I then went through Route two and leveled Snivy up to level 10 (After defeating Bianca). After I healed up in Striaton city I went to the dream yard and battled through some trainers before finally getting Panpour (lv 10). I then healed up and went to go face Cheren. During my battle with Cheren, I leveled Snivy up to lv 12. After that I healed up again and went to finally face the Gym. After I beat the gym Panpour was level 11 and Snivy was lv 13. I then did the whole Dream Mist thing until (finally) I could trade over pokemon. I traded over Fangs, Woody, and Wooly (all lv 1) and boxed my Snivy and Panpour.
Current Team:
Woody the Snover
Fangs the Spheal
Wooly the Swinub


Next time my update will be a LOT shorter. xD