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▲ 165 r/nuzlocke

Fraud Pokémon

Pokémon that seem like they would be good in a nuzlocke, but they aren’t up to par with other encounters. I mostly mean in vanilla games. I’ve seen rom hacks make terrible Pokémon very usable.

Nuzlocking Pokémon has made me hate the Pidgey line. It genuinely does nothing. Every other Normal/Flying type outshines it in FRLG, even Farfetch’d. Compare this to other generations where the early bird is worth a team slot, ex. Swellow, Staraptor, Corviknight.

Lombre is honestly terrible. Stones in Emerald aren’t until after Tate and Liza. You end up stuck with a weak middle stage until after level 42. This is personal, but I wiped to the Champion’s final Pokémon in Recharged Emerald and I honestly blame my Ludicolo. It was so weak. The only thing it did good was wall most Water types.

u/ShortandRatchet — 2 days ago

Scarlet Hardcore Monolocke - Normal Types Only Beaten

I actually finished this with zero deaths. This makes my second ever deathless nuzlocke. “Fun” fact, I started this nuzlocke on March 30th. I finished it on August 13th. I guess I was busy? During late May-June I was kind of physically ill. I had an ulcer forming in my eye and I started going blind. The pain hurt so much I could barely look at anything with any bit of light in it.

Sob story aside, I had fun with this run. I originally wanted to do Normal types in Scarlet because I’ve always wanted to use an Urslaluna in a play through. Unfortunately this would disqualify my run in nuzcord, so Ursaluna escapes me yet again. Getting to use Slaking and Zangoose was really fun. They were also on my list :D.

My Pokémon with the highest kill count (only counting bosses/rival fights with Nemona) are my Zangoose, Zeke and my Pyroar-F, Pyrrha. They each got 18 kills total. Zeke was really good at sweeping entire teams all on his own. It was insane to watch and do. Pyrrha, I think the Fire type just happens to be really good into the Paldea region.

I caught a lot of shinies in this run, 6 of which were actually usable in the run. I didn’t really use any of them because I caught them after I had already got a species encounter.

I’ll now be heading back to my Mono Ghostlocke of Violet as well as maybe starting up my Mono Sinnoh Travelerlocke of Scarlet. I really need to head to head though lol. Peace!

Pic 1 = AI Sada fight

Pic 2 = Geeta fight

Pic 3 = Shinies

Pic 4 = I made a Trainer Card for myself since Scarlet and Violet (and Sword and Shield) don’t have traditional Hall of Fames anymore. I hope they come back in WiWa.

Pic 5 = My Mono-Master sheet. Normal is the first of the eighteen types I’ve done. Ghost is started, and then I’ll be doing Grass types in Emerald.

u/ShortandRatchet — 6 days ago

Have you ever done a variant of a standard nuzlocke?

I wouldn’t count doing hardcore nuzlockes as a variant, but maybe others do.

I meant stuff like wonderlockes, wedlockes, monolockes, trashlockes, etc.

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u/ShortandRatchet — 26 days ago
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Has nuzlocking ever made you hate a Pokémon?

As in this Pokémon consistently lets you down in nuzlockes

Picture is very related for me

I don’t like the Nidoran lines in nuzlockes. My experience with them is they aren’t fast enough, they don’t hit hard enough, and they aren’t bulky enough either. Jack of all trades master of none. Nidoking is the by far the worst offender of the two in my experience. I hate these Pokémon now 😐.

u/ShortandRatchet — 1 month ago

Is this true?

Someone got me the game for my birthday. I just finished it yesterday I think. I was trying to complete my PokéDex and it seemed like I was missing most of the trade evolutions.

I did catch a few like Gengar because of the side quest, but not stuff like Aromatisse, Alakazam, etc. I ended up looking it up, and there are certain Pokémon you can’t get without trading with another player.

I don’t have a NSO subscription, but I know you can start a free trial on the Switch (I have a Switch Lite in case it matters). Is it true someone can start a free trial on one account more than once? I just want to be able to get the shiny charm and complete my Pokédex lol. I’ve never done the free trial before.

I don’t know where else to ask this question.

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u/ShortandRatchet — 1 month ago

I came up with names for the badges in Galar and Paldea.

It’s weird that they stopped naming badges in recent times, but I hope they come back in Winds and Waves. I haven’t played the DLC for SwSh or SV, so if there is something I forgot in there my bad.

Galarian Badges

Milo’s Badge - Hayseed Badge
 
Nessa’s Badge - Crystal Clear Badge
 
Kabu’s Badge - Eternal Flame Badge
 
Bea’s Badge - Kiai Badge
 
Allister’s Badge - Spooky Badge
 
Opal/Bede’s Badge - Pink Badge
 
Gordie’s Badge - Lava Badge
 
Melony’s Badge - Frigid Badge
 
Piers/Marnie’s Badge - Punk Badge
 
Raihan’s Badge - Weather Badge

Paldean Badges

Katy’s Badge - Cricket Badge

Klawf — Stony Cliff Badge

Brassius’s Badge - Whip Badge

Bombirdier - Open Sky Badge

Giacomo - Misfit or Segin Badge  

Iono’s Badge - Ionic Badge

Mela - Burning or Schedar Badge

Orthworm - Lurking Steel Badge

Kofu’s Badge - Shellfish Badge

Atticus - Doku or Navi Badge 

Larry’s Badge - Everyman Badge

Ryme’s Badge - RIP Badge

Great Tusk/Iron Treads - Quaking Earth Badge

Tulip’s Badge - Glamour Badge

Grusha’s Badge - Pow Badge

Ortega - Puck or Ruchbah Badge

Tatsugiri - False Dragon Badge

Eri - Powerhouse or Caph Badge    

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u/ShortandRatchet — 1 month ago

Is it possible for a Mii’s All-Time Favorite Food to be a custom food?

I’ve made so many custom foods, and my Miis could not care less for them 😭. It isn’t even bad stuff either.

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u/ShortandRatchet — 2 months ago

Favorite objectmons?

Inanimate object Pokémon tend to get a lot of hate, but I’ve personally always liked them lol. I love Magneton, Electrode, Bronzong, Revavroom, and Garganacl!

u/ShortandRatchet — 2 months ago
▲ 619 r/toastme

I don’t have any friends irl. It’s my b-day. All I’m asking for is for a few people to wish me happy birthday!

I’m 25 #cringe and #oldlady I know. I can’t go anywhere today because my eye has some sort of infection (I feel pain when I look at light). I’ve been having limited contact with the outdoors since the end of last month lol.

u/ShortandRatchet — 2 months ago

I know those boys are trash, but what are the chances RDC could learn to play Mario Kart like this?

Many of them (no comment on who) can barely turn corners on Baby Park rn, but maybe there is potential for them to play like this 🥹.

u/ShortandRatchet — 2 months ago

Unsure what is going on with my left eye right now.

I don’t have a stye to my knowledge. I don’t know everything about blepharitis. I have the chronic form, but I haven’t really had bad flare ups for a while.

I recently bought and started using a hypochlorous acid spray on eyes. I spray both 3 times twice when I first wake up and before I go to bed. I also have a face care routine I do every morning and night. I use the spray after doing my routine. Sometimes I do artificial tears and compresses, but I feel like they don’t do anything for me. And cool compresses hurt my eyes when I do them :(.

It keeps feeling like there is something in my eye. I have super long and curly eyelashes that fall into my eyeball a lot. I tried using flashlights and stuff to look into my eye, but I found nothing :|.

Anyone with blepharitis ever had something like this happen to them and can give advice?

u/ShortandRatchet — 3 months ago
▲ 12 r/PokemonScarletViolet+1 crossposts

I’m doing a hardcore nuzlocke, and I just want to make sure of something. Google (I know I know) keeps telling that the Starmobiles can’t be affected by moves that lower their stats like Charm or Bulldoze. I thought I was tripping, but I did use an Intimidate Stantler against the Segin Starmobile. I’m pretty sure its stats dropped against my Stantler. I just want to make sure before I head into the battle with my team 🙏.

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u/ShortandRatchet — 4 months ago