pokeymans update

So I got tired of catching a new pokemon on every route, since I had most of the common ones and the new ones becoming available weren't especially useful to me (Girafarig's Normal/Psychic typing basically removes Psychic's Fighting resistance at the cost of also giving it a Ghost immunity, for instance), which was the main reason I'd started writing things down here, so I fell off of doing that. But apparently people have been interested, so, uh.

Well, the nuzlocke fell apart at gym seven -- I lost two pokemon of level 50+ in the level 42 Ice gym, because I screwed up my type resistances and managed to send in two pokemon that were weak to Ice, partly because I didn't expect a Medicham to have an Ice move (it can learn Ice Punch, it turns out) and hadn't read my reference material closely enough to realize that it would.

I knew I was probably going to get upset and end the nuzlocke as soon as I lost one of my major players, but I didn't expect that to happen until the Elite Four, ( Read more... )

Anyway, so then I went to try to transfer my nuzlocke pokemon into Pokemon Home and found out that because my secondary profile doesn't have a separate Nintendo login account, I can't do that anyway, so it's good that I didn't get as far as catching any legendaries on there (which was going to be one of the next steps after gym seven). So I've started a different playthrough on my main profile where I have the Pokemon Home paid subscription.

I definitely established that I prefer having fewer pokemon so I don't have to worry about grinding them all to sufficiently high levels. The rest of the nuzlocke format is too stressful, though, and I definitely want to be able to catch a bunch of the same pokemon until I get one with good stats to raise.

I've just beaten the third gym in this new playthrough -- ( Read more... )