(First of all thanks to all who participated in this poll)
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Anywho, now to actually explain the stuff.
You've probably seen this quote everywhere, especially when competitive comes to mind.
However, that got me thinking: can my fav mons in the Galar Pokedex get me all the way to Leon?
Rules:
-If a Mon faints, it's dead and unusable.
-1 encounter per route. However instead of what appear first, it's what my favorite of the bunch that appears is. Fishing is considered separate.
-"Favorite" definition: I must like at least one stage of a line to be able to catch it. Sure it would be funny to take NFEs to Leon but I'd trust actual challenge ytbers like pchal to do this insanity as opposed to myself.
-5 item limit: I'm only allowed to use 5 items in battle. Revives don't count.
-nicknames must be applied to all mons. They'll be a mix of transformers names, names of Olympic mascots or Yokai watch characters becuz those are what I'm into ATM, the first one would have to do a lot of heavy lifting for the names. If there's any name I need to explain, feel free to ask in the replies.
-For every gym badge I get, I'm granted 1 pass to the wild area and 1 raid to do.
Now that that's our of the way,let's get started.
Also, long and windy post warning: these posts are all going to be stream of consciousness formatted and can get very long. If that's not ok with you, click away now.
Still with me? Good.
(As for why I chose Gloria this time, it's for variety since I'm trying to use the female character option more often. Also I'm back in English for this run)
After using Chinese for so long, I think I'll need time to readjust to seeing this text type again.
Interestingly, I dunno if the dialog is meant to be such, but because I picked Gloria, apparently the bag belongs to the characters mother now. Weird.
I also didn't know fishing rod was built in either.
I mentioned in the finale of my last playthrough series I'd use sobble, so I'm delivering on my word. Sobble is my favorite of the Galarian starters, and while cinderace and rillaboom are more appealing when fully evolved, I've used them on my 1st and 2nd play throughs of the game, so I'm gonna use sobble for this one.
Initially I tried inputting the name iguanus, after the Decepticon pretender with a lizard like appearance.
(I'll start putting pics of namesakes below sections like this when I'm deciding names), but the censor blocked me, so I had to settle with iguanas.
Anywho, from name origins to rivalry origins, time to fight Hop.
Wooloo surprisingly isn't a pushover and takes 2 pounds to take out. Scorbunny, meanwhile, is extinguished in 2 water guns.
Yeah...sure...
(I've never completed a dex in any game)
Now to go through the slumbering weald section.
Iguanas fights off 2 skwovets and a rookidee (who I tried and failed to sneak past)
Smogon and vgc players when they saw zacians attack stat and ability be like:
Anywho, I'm not gonna bother with what happens here, but I headcanon this is what would cause iguanas to learn snipe shot... assuming he gets to evolve all the way.
Phew, that sheeps' safe.
Ok, now I can start clocking encounters.
Unfortunately for me, I end up expending my route 1 encounter by koing a rookidee. Oops. I was tempted to put up a facade and catch a different rookidee, but decided I wouldn't lie like that.
Likely because of this the catching tutorial ended up unskippable.
Luckily route 2 finally provides me with my first team member. Blipbug. This line is my favorite of the early game bugs, mostly orbeetle.
Anywho as for a name...I decided to go deep cut and named it papil, after beet-papil, not a a Transformer but kinda close to one anyway, also because it transforms into a ladybug. Go look it up if you're curious.
That said he currently only knows struggle bug so that could prove a problem. He also unfortunately only helped beat a single Nickit, so he's gonna have to evolve to do more.
Now for hop battle 2: which I'm at a disadvantage at because he has a rookidee and I have it's next meal. Iguanas had reached level 10 at this point, and had to sweep hops team on his own.
Well that was easy but I need more mons besides Iguanas to beat the game... especially since he can't dent Milo.
I confess here I was still thinking about how fishing would work, and decided they'd also count towards seperate encounters. Like most I don't like chewtle. However drednaw is cool to me still.
I catch the chewtle and name him snaptrap, after yet another Transformer (I promise I'll not name the next one after a robot in disguise). He transforms into a turtle with Blastoise style cannons.
Hopefully the wild area can give me something I can name after a non transformer...
My wish was granted thanks to my wild area encounter being an Oddish-wait I accidentally ran into in all honesty, so it doesn't count.
Meanwhile for this max raid encounter I get a Togepi. I think Togekiss is definitely high up on my fav mons so I catch it.
As for this lil bundle of joy...I chose the name Izzy after this mascot, becuz like Togepi it looks unlike anything. That is all.
As for my actual encounter...I went with tyrouge. The hitmons are pretty cool IMO and are among my favorite fighting types due to their cool gimmick.
As for what I name my kung fu kid, well I went with roughraff, because like tyrouge he likes to fight.
As for fishing well...I caught a Magikarp and I think I can safely say I won't be fishing for a while. (Also I evolved Papil into dottler so he can do something).
I'll probably name her fishpicable, after another ykw character. Fishpicables evolution is violent like Gyarados so I guess it works?
Anywho after all that I finally arrive in motostoke.
...I need to replace one of my water types. Not via loss though, this is a nuzlocke after all!
Huh, I never thought of spikemuth that way.
Anywho, now to the first Team Yell battle. Roughraff and Papil should be able to handle their teams...right?
Nope, apparently Izzy was able to beat all of the grunts with ease. She's also packing life dew from the raid she was in and is a bit overelevelled but at least she did something as a togepi. That said she has hustle, meaning her pounds hit hard but have a chance to miss which luckily didn't stop her too much this time.
I chose the number 60 because I memorized poliwags nat Dex number...I think I was just messing around and came up with this.
(Why does he use steel types again?)
Now as for hop battle number 3...
I attempt to pound ko with Izzy but swap to roughraff to actually defeat this sheep.
Uh...he still beat the silly sheep anyway.
For rookidee Izzy just learnt ancient power, so I can try and get a boost.
Iguanas then takes care of scorbunny and that's the end of it.
Oh yes. Obstagoon single handedly made me care for this line. I'd gladly take one.
I named her Roni after another Olympics mascot.
She replaces snaptrap on the team.
That's 1 powerful Togepi, almost brocks happiny levels of OP.
Oops
And...a RIP already near the end by a random trainers sizzilipede. Apparently the curry didn't restore my ancient power pp so I lost a mon becuz of skill issue. I was admitedly rushing to wrap this up so I guess Izzy paid the price for it...
She was doing so well too...
Iguanas definitely didn't take the loss well. Don't worry buddy, let's just try and get to the top on her behalf.
That ends today's play session. Let's see if we can go an ep deathless in the future.
