Current Events > Just beat the cycling road rival in ORAS nuzlocke without losing a mon* AMA

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*I had an HM slave on me who was also still alive as far as the run was concerned but I needed to sacrifice it to switch safely into my combusken counter

What is your party?

Is it that difficult to do a deathless run? I know a lot about Pokemon solo runs from Scott's Thoughts and JRose11 but beyond knowing the rules not much about Nuzlockes. I would think the ability to switch makes it more a test of patience than anything. Though I've heard some people just artificially raise their Pokemon to the level of the next gym leader, making it both easier by saving time and harder because Rare Candies don't give stat experience.

How many different traffic circles(roundabouts) have you personally driven through.

Cheater87 posted...

What is your party?

At the time it was something like Grovyle, Kadabra, whismur/loudred, dustox, gulpin, and whatever the sacrificed mon I killed was. Kadabra was such a lucky catch in the dewford cave, not only because of the lower encounter rate, but obviously also because Abra flees after one turn. So I had an ultra ball that my zigzagoon had picked up and used. Obviously I knew the rival had combusken but wouldn't start with it, so I deliberately brought a sacrifice mon knowing I'd need to switch safely into kadabra to kill combusken.

Now it's swalot, kadabra (need to charge my gfs 3ds so I can evolve it), dustox, lileep, swablu, and azumarill. Plus a sandslash in the PC as backup while I level lileep.

Grovyle died to a freaking critical hit Revenge (not boosted from taking damage) crit from a random trainer machoke, it actually survived but died from fucking sandstorm damage (route 111). I wasn't too pissed because my catch for that route was an Adamant Cacnea, but that died like two trainers later to a sandslash trainer because of fucking sand veil. So I'm shy on grass power until lileep gets stronger. Lucky it just got giga drain though.

Had a lv 30 numel die at Norman gym last night. It has Simple so I was able to set up Curse three times without taking any damage between the slaking's truant along with it spamming yawn and encore. I eventually was able to get over to earth power and kill it in a few hits (took like 10 damage from unboosted Retaliate). Vigoroth came out and did maybe 15-20 with the retaliate boost and then it died. Then his third slaking, I'm like alright even if it has earthquake I could probably eat a hit. Weeellllll it started with Chip Away, so anyone who knows what that move does will know why it rekt the rest of my numel

Runs still going ok all things considered but I have very little power aside from kadabra, which is super frail of course and could die at a moments notice. On my way to fortree city.

AceAttorneyist posted...

Is it that difficult to do a deathless run? I know a lot about Pokemon solo runs from Scott's Thoughts and JRose11 but beyond knowing the rules not much about Nuzlockes. I would think the ability to switch makes it more a test of patience than anything. Though I've heard some people just artificially raise their Pokemon to the level of the next gym leader, making it both easier by saving time and harder because Rare Candies don't give stat experience.

Deathless sounds harder IMO because in nuzlockes, there are times where you have to deliberately switch over to a dummy pokemon (e.g. level 5 wurmple from early on) for it to die so you can switch safely into a better counter.

Nuzlocke tldr rules are, you catch one pokemon per route/area (first encounter), if a pokemon dies it's dead forever, and you can't overlevel past the next gym's ace pokemon. Some people make more modifications to make things harder/easier (e.g. the rare candy thing like you mention). Definitely takes patience because I don't have any dupe glitches or anything on 3ds, so I'm training everything normally, which takes a while. Trainer rebattles are helpful but also horrifying because after a bit, their teams will get stronger, so for example I wasn't ready for a trainer's makuhita to become a hariyama and it almost murdered me.

IfGodCouldDie posted...

How many different traffic circles(roundabouts) have you personally driven through.

Probably 50 unique ones would be my guess.