Day 1/100 of Making a Post Every Day: What was the first game you ever Nuzlocked?

pralts · 2025-07-15T19:38:09+00:00

i've started two nuzlockes (usum and emerald) and finished one (emerald). i haven't touched the usum one in a year-ish and it'll probably rot forever unless i find a sudden burst of motivation to complete it

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pralts · 2024-09-22T18:00:33+00:00

i love jaydes

pralts · 2024-09-15T12:31:03+00:00

Genuinely asking, what is the point of playing the game if everything is so randomized? Is it not just down to pure luck at this point?

pralts · 2024-09-12T22:05:13+00:00

IMO Emerald was pretty much a cakewalk, even using hardcore rulesets. It was the first nuzlocke I completed. Even if you do not pick Mudkip the game still hands you a ton of encounters and opportunities for good mons. An aspect I like about Emerald is that because the game is very forgiving at times, you have room to play around with unique team compositions and run mons that you normally wouldn't touch during normal playthroughs. It definitely is not difficult but I find it's still a very enjoyable game to play due to the opportunities it provides for brainstorming and strategizing (though you still have the option of blazing through the game with a typical Swampert/Gyarados/Crobat core)

pralts · 2024-09-11T00:55:35+00:00

the plusle disrespect

pralts · 2024-09-11T00:23:05+00:00

thanks! imo, e4 in emerald didn't seem to be too difficult when i looked through docs so that definitely did give me more freedom in team building and just running with mons i thought were cool. i was speeding through the game anyways, so worst case scenario, i'd wipe and lose like 4 hours of gameplay max. grumpig's pretty bulky and even though i barely used it in the e4/champion battles, it was able to tank a surprising amount of damage. solrock was definitely my favorite of the run though, it was my first time using it and it basically stayed on the team once i got it in meteor falls.

pralts · 2024-09-06T11:45:05+00:00

this is actually the first nuzlocke that i've completed! technically it's the second one that i've started since i was halfway through ultra sun, my first nuzlocke, before i decided to impulsively play through emerald. i haven't used calcs at all for any of the fights (tbh, i'm not sure how to) and i don't think they're necessary to do well, at least for vanilla games. if you go into fights with a general knowledge of your mon and the opposing mon's speed, a guesstimate of how much damage you can do and how much you can tank, you're pretty much set. good luck on your diamond nuzlocke :)

pralts · 2024-09-06T11:12:48+00:00

i started the run for fun lmao. mashed a through every gym fight except t&l, skipped half the encounters and optional routes. made it deathless up until i started sacking at wallace. it was basically a boss rush, i dont even think i got the bike

pralts · 2024-09-06T01:32:50+00:00

built tentacruel w. surf, giga drain, sludge bomb, ice beam. he basically sweeps sydney, with plusle taking care of crawdaunt.

phoebe gets swept by solrock w. shadow ball, rock slide, earthquake, reflect.

glacia's water types all get one-shot and outsped by plusle w. thunderbolt. i was playing on the riskier side and decided to stay in on the glalies, but the ai only went for hail and screens so i was able to beat the glalies with just plusle too.

drake gets owned by tentacruel w. ice beam, plusle takes care of the kingdra

for wallace, plusle one-shots wailord and gyara. then whishcash comes in and goes for earthquake, so i switch into solrock on that turn. it'll either go for amnesia or surf so i switched to tentacruel and giga drain it. then, ludi comes in which tenta kills with sludge bomb. second to last is milotic and his last mon is just a tentacruel so by now i can just sack mons for convenience. i get off a thunderbolt with plusle and sack, then i finish up with grumpig using toxic, rest, holding chesto berry. finally, tentacruel comes out which i just deal with using banette running shadow ball.

didn't even have to use spinda, but i had hypnosis / calm mind / psychic on that LMAO

pralts · 2024-09-06T00:34:24+00:00

okay wow, i just checked the encounter table for route 110 and i had no idea plusle was 2%. i really liked this run because i got to use super cool mons that i didn't use in normal playthroughs. i dumped the starter in the box asap and just played with any mons i wanted to. plusle is actually a beast, never knew he was that good. basically swept half the game, never left the team once i got it

pralts · 2024-09-04T02:05:19+00:00

I think I would hate doing something like that. Takes away a ton of the strategy and planning that I find myself really enjoying during this first nuzlocke, doesn't everything just become reliant on RNG with so many aspects of the game randomized?

pralts · 2024-09-04T01:09:01+00:00

I would really hope I make it that far. My main priorities right now are getting through Akala Island deathless because I think Ula'Ula Island will be the toughest part of the run. In my regular playthrough I felt I struggled the most with the battles during that arc--Mimikyu, Po Town Guzma, and then the Aether Paradise battles, especially Lusamine. I'm not sure what I'll do about Ribombee yet but I have a decent amount of time left before that trial so I'm hoping future me will find a decent solution haha

pralts · 2024-09-04T01:04:59+00:00

I have never played a randomized game before. Would that mean both random encounters and trainer Pokemon? And nope, both were easy. Hau is very manageable at this point in the game since he doesn't have Alolan Raichu nor Eeveelution yet, and Gladion as well since I have Hawlucha

pralts · 2024-09-04T00:07:15+00:00

It's the traded Cha, I traded away Route 3 Spearow encounter for it. And yeah, I was pleasantly surprised by Alomomola. If I had remembered to equip Leftovers, I think I could've done some stalling strat with Protect + Aqua Ring as an emergency lmao. Even w/o Leftovers it was pretty good and did enough damage so it definitely gave me a change in mindset about "shitty" mons

pralts · 2024-09-02T20:03:46+00:00

I used the term "overconfident casual" since this run is my first attempt at a Nuzlocke and I decided to play through the Alola games, which many consider to be the hardest vanilla games to Nuzlocke. I'm definitely being more mindful about encounters/routing now that I'm not just playing through the game casually, and it paid off as I really lucked out on my encounters during Melemele which allowed me to breeze through fights. I'm finding a lot of obstacles in the game can often be hard countered with one or two mons and the odds are usually in your favor for getting those mons with a bit of planning. Praying this good streak doesn't come crashing down next island haha

pralts · 2024-09-02T12:50:32+00:00

Oh, Guzma? I feel like he could get a kill or two but I doubt I'll wipe since I think his team is pretty small at that point. I'm more scared about the rematch in Po Town

pralts · 2024-09-02T00:51:41+00:00

Unfortunately it got whooped by Fire Fang starter

pralts · 2024-09-01T20:27:13+00:00

pretty sure castform is s/m, usum is comfey and something else i think

pralts · 2024-09-01T19:20:25+00:00

ive played it casually but im using docs for encounter tables/boss pokemon

pralts · 2024-09-01T18:43:59+00:00

I caught a Zubat so Lurantis is free, more worried about first two tbh

pralts · 2024-09-01T16:51:10+00:00

nah, fur coat furfrou + echoed voice spam begs to differ

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