Tarountula

Or I should box it and replace it with Psyduck

Im still pretty early

No explanation. (It’s the mushroom cloud that appeared on top of Hiroshima)

And Tarountula decided to join the dark side.

One more day until the spooky day!

After the devastating defeat that was my recent Sword nuzlocke, I decided I probably need to switch gears a bit. By chance, I managed to get to permission to use one of my brothers alt accounts because he doesn't really play switch anymore, and thus I'm able to return to paldea in 2024 with this new series.

Since I just, umm, lost a nuzlocke, I'm probably not gonna use nuzlocke rules for this playthrough.

As for the theming, well, I was thinking, it doesn't matter what game I play, my teams are almost always never 100% new mons, there's always been some old mons first introduced elsewhere that have been on my team. So,what if I try to only use Paldean mons? During my initial playthrough I'm pretty sure only skeledirge, gargancl and clodsire saw play, and I think I've never really used a lot of gen 9s massive dex otherwise, aside from maybe a few in some other playthroughs I've done. So...why not start afresh and try to only use them instead?

The name Joyce comes from an alternate name I've come up with one of my Transformers OCs, if you're curious. I also nearly considered trying character customization but decided against it at the end since I've probably got poor taste in style.

Anywho while I toil through the long intro off screen, my only goal is to find dia- umm I mean, beat Ai Sada of course. What was I gonna say again?

Rules:

-Gen 9 mons only. Only exceptions will be made for mons who have new gen 9 evos like primeape to annihilape (though I'd actually have to evolve them eventually), as well as Paldean Tauros, wooper and clodsire.

-No Mon left unused: I think I'll force myself to rotate between members between each team star base, gym, and titan. One Mon has to go for each as soon as I catch my 7th one.

-Every Mon should have a nickname. Since I'm kinda into Olympic mascots right now, that would probably be what I'll go with theme wise. It doesn't matter how much it fits, I have to pick a name.

As a side challenge I should maybe try to use the pokemon picnic function as much as possible between gyms/team star bases/titans to take breaks.

I wonder what this is based on?

I mentioned in my horizons premiere "vlog" that I kinda want to use sprig as my starter becuz of likos and complained I didn't have a save file ready.

Well, welcome aboard, Magique!

Magique may be a weird name choice, but meowscarada has a magic fantasy vibe with it use of sleight of hand, and so does this lil one. (Anywho my car beast nemonas duck, how surprising)

Hopefully I can learn to use many of paldeas many mons throughout this playthrough.

This was a hard one....

Since no Olympics used pigs as their mascot, I had to make do with a beaver. Bidoof isn't in the game anyway and lechonk fills the same role as Bidoof anyway.

Now speaking of early route...

This is gonna be a bit of a stretch. Tarountula evolves into spidops. Pimpnite used a spidops named Australia once. Hence I looked for the Olympics mascots from the land down under, since the spider was a girl, I chose the female ones name.

I then catch a Pawmi.

I named him after Miga (3rd from left). Sure Migas supposed to be a sea-bear or whatever, but they looks similar enough to me.

(Unfortunately the koraidon cave has no new catchable wild mons...so I'm gonna blast through that real quick and skip to the first arven battle)

Weirdly enough pawmis apparently unable to break through skwovet and goes down despite being level tied. Magique does defeat skwovet though.

Miga later defeats the first trainer with his Static ability activating.

This is a bit of a tricky one to explain.

Shuss design is very, very simple. It's a single line with a ball head. It's kinda like wiglett in a way. Plus I'm not sure where else I'd be able to use the name.

This name was much easier to pick.

Reason: fidough evolve into that dog breed.

Remember the group of 4 mascots from earlier? I used another if their names here.

Another one that's hard to name.

Why did I choose Phryge? Honestly I think it's because shroodle looks like it.

Anywho neither Mukmuk nor phryge will see action right now.

How did Magique tank Tera T shock? It's all in his name. I guess maybe sprig isn't a bad starter for this part and it can be retired after beating klawf... except I won't do that.

Uhh...what's koraidon doing here? I haven't unlock it's riding mode yet.

I chose... poorly.

Oh tera...how much I missed you.

Umm...I'm still unsure of Penny's relationship to peony and rose.

I'm gonna end this here.

I'll wrap up the tutorial next week...and maybe go defeat klawf first?

Not much to add other than I go by either Ari or Mylo and I sometimes do art

Also I like ghosts and dragons

In the mean time, enjoy this goober tarountula i drew

So I’m playing Pokémon Violet without any spoilers, I’ve only seen the trailers for the game so I didn’t think much of it when I found a red Tarountula on the route just before the school, is this rare?