Nuzlocke Challenge - Day Twenty-Two

The Game: Pokemon Fire Red
The Character: Vera
The Rival: Master
The Pokemon:

Frankie - 39

Ms.Feather - 40

Bri - 39

Knight - 39

Jordan - 39

Rogan - 39

Day 22

Today my team and I took on the rest of the Silph Co. Office Building. We fought a grand total of 11 Team Rocket Grunts, 5 Scientists, and 1 Juggler. Bri, Knight, Jordan, and Rogan finally caught up to Frankie and Ms.Feather's Level 35, which I was really excited about at the time.

Frankie evolved to Blastoise at Level 36. I went ahead and used by Leaf Stone and Moon Stones to evolved Bri, Knight, and Jordan to Vileplume, Nidoking, and Nidoqueen. Ms.Feather evolved to Pidgeot shortly after I'd already evolved the others.

We fought Master, slaughtering his team pretty easily, though his damned Venasaur almost killed us! After that I gained a Lapras from a grateful Silph Co. Scientist. I named her Claire after Claire Bennet from Heroes. It's what I was watching at the time. I also read what the guy said about Team Rocket's Boss completely wrong. I thought he said: "TEAM ROCKET's BOSS went to the bedroom!" What he actually said was "TEAM ROCKET's BOSS went to the boardroom!"

Anyway... my team and I headed into said boardroom and were challenged by Giovanni. We beat him handily enough. Gotta love Surf! And then Silph Co.'s President gave me the Master Ball. Funny story, my first time playing Pokemon, I used the Master Ball on Snorlax.

On to the Saffron City Gym! Yeah... that was amazingly easy. I only took one trip out to the Pokemon Center vs. my usual Gym battles in which I take a trip out after each individual battle. I do have to say though, I hate Sabrina's Alakazam. That thing nearly killed both Bri and Rogan!

After beating the crap out of Sabrina's team, I headed back to Fuchsia City to challenge Koga. The only problem I had there was that stupid, annoying, ridiculous, dumb move: Selfdestruct. I honestly want to strangle anyone who actually uses that move!

So anyway... on to Route 19 and 20 and the Seafoam Islands. I caught a level 5 Tentacool. Named her Gillyweed at the request of my sister. I later ran into a level 34 Tentacool and wanted to bang my head against a wall... and cheat. Which I didn't. Gillyweed was not replaced by a stronger Pokemon. Route 20 yielded a Gyarados! I named him Spike.

I'm essentially treating the outside of the Seafoam Islands as a different section than the caves, just FYI. I went fishing off the coast and ended up with a Horsea. I named her Sea Mist after a G1 Seapony. I thought it was appropriate. If you have no idea what that means, here's a link to the My Little Wiki so you can look it up.

I'm incredibly happy to be growing my batch of Pokemon in my Boxes rather than killing off a few Pokemon every day.

Love ya, Jessie

Nuzlocke Challenge - Day 12

The Game: Pokemon Fire Red
The Character: Vera
The Rival: Master
The Pokemon:

Frankie

Ms.Feather

Kors

Salazar

Ivy

Day 12

Instead of heading straight for Pokemon Tower, my team and I headed back up to the Rock Tunnel. The plan was to battle a couple trainers we avoided while running for the Pokemon Center and pick up a few items we skipped in the Rock Tunnel itself. Some of those trainers were Hikers. I hate Hikers. They exclusively have Geodudes, Gravellers, and/or Onix. Do these Hikers not know that I'm trying to train Pokemon other than Frankie?! Yes, I could totally defeat them with my other Pokemon, but it's just quicker to do with Frankie.

Of course once I actually got into the Rock Tunnel, I remembered I'd taught Flash to my deceased Voltorb, Tinman. I decided not to teach Flash to Rimmer, my Gloom, because he's much to useful to be saddled with Flash. So... there went the plan to collect a couple more items from the Rock Tunnel.

Ah, well. To Lavender Town and Pokemon Tower!

You would think, given the nature of the Nuzlocke Challenge and all the Pokemon tombstones I've been drawing, that Pokemon Tower would be more significant. Yeah... not so much. It's another building I can't get through quickly because Running Shoes don't work in there.

Master showed up as we reached the second floor of Pokemon Tower. He had a God Damned Gyarados! I'm incredibly jealous! A liberal application of Poison Powder and Gyarados' confusion thanks to Thrash too care of it quicker than I thought it would. Ms.Feather and Kors did most of the heavy lifting with the rest of Master's team. True to form, Master's Raticate was nowhere to be found and therefore assumed dead.

On the third level of Pokemon Tower, my team and I ran into Channeler Hope. He Ghastly went a murdered Rimmer! OOOOOOOHHHHH! I'm so mad about that! I went ahead and left Pokemon Tower and Lavender Town after that. I decided we'd try Route 8 instead. We need a Silph Scope to complete the Pokemon Tower thing anyway so... off to Celadon City we went.

R.I.P. Rimmer

On Route 8, we added a level 17 Ekans to the team. I named him Salazar. I was slightly disappointed because I'd been hoping to run into a Growlithe.

Kors has become increasingly annoying with his lack of Accuracy. Even when he doesn't have any hits to his Accuracy level, he misses. Make the damn hits already!

Salazar has so far survived to evolve into an Arbok, so that's heartening. Also, once we reached Route 7, we caught a Growlithe! Her name is Ivy and she's just the fluffiest little thing! I'm so excited!

Love ya, Jessie.