So I started my Pokemon Sapphire game over to do my first ever only run. For those of you who don't know, that's when you play through an entire game with only one Pokemon. The only time you're allow to use other Pokemon is for HM moves like Cut and Surf outside of battle. Normally you don't let the Pokemon evolve either but since I have to bring it over as a Pokemon egg I'm gonna make an exception.
So let's begin. But first I got to get to a point of the game I can trade the egg over before it really begins. I start the game, chose the girl...hey I never used her before so I wanted to try it out.
I move in and first thing I noticed is that the Brendan's theme (the boy in the game if you chose the female character) is different from May's theme (the girl in the game if you chose the male character) It's not different by much, but enough to notice.
So after talking to him. I head out and see professor Birch is in trouble and I need to choose a Pokemon to help him. I decide to go with Torchic because your rival, May if your a boy Brendan if your a girl, always has the opposite starter to you.
So since I chose the fire starter he'll have the water starter. Which is going to make this only run easier until that starter evolves then it's gonna be hardest I can make it on me. After all this only run is basically a test to see if I can pull it off in a recorded project. Worst thing I could imagine is starting an only run playthrough on my Youtube and have to cancel it because it's too hard.
So I'm going to use a Pokemon the same type as the one I'd want to use in the only run. And have my rival have type that completely resists my Pokemon. If I can beat the game with that set up. I should have no problem beating an only run for real.
After I save him from a weak Poochyena, (fail), we go back to the lab and he lets me keep the Pokemon. I give it the name Nanny since it's only purpose is to be there until my egg hatches once I trade it over.
Birch then tells me to go meet up with Bret. (I'm just gonna call him that from now on since I can actually spell it without looking it up every time. So I head over there and take care of that since I have to beat him before I can get the Pokedex and Pokeballs that will allow me to trade over the Pokemon I'm actually using in this Only Run.
After a little grinding to assure an easy victory it's battle time... and I beat him in 3-4 Scratches. I'm only at level 7 and he's at 5 I'm not that over-leveled. :p I get 69 experience and level up. :3 Now we both have to head back to the lab, to get the Poke'dex I assume. I head back, and I was right. I also got 5 Pokeballs and the running shoes.
I know just what I'm doing with these Poke'balls too. First catching a Pokemon to trade over for the egg I'm actually using in the only run, then catching a Zigzagoon. They actually make great HM slaves because they learn a huge diversity of HMs, including surf. Got to thank darkfool99's Ruby LP for that pointer.
And speaking of which, as I tried to do that my second wild encounter just happens to be with a Ralts, the rarest Pokemon on the route. I catch it but I don't know if I want to trade it away since it's so rare and I caught it so soon.
Not using it of course, it's still a only run, but teleport might come in handy till I get Fly. I go back to the first route because I wasn't having luck finding the HM slave I wanted and then I find and catch it. HM slave sounds too mean so I decide to actually call it HM "Helper'. :p
So I finally caught what I needed so now I can go trade the egg with the Pokemon I'm actually using in my only run, hatch it and finally begin this only run.
Just what is this Pokemon I'm doing my only run with? You'll have to find out in the next blog when it hatches.
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