My First Pokemon Only Run: Part 11 Birdy Gym Leader but no Safari Zone.

So in that next route I meet up with that Steven guy again.  He shows me off a device that makes invisible Pokemon visible.  Convenient anyone?  Well we get that.  Before I head off to the gym I decide to continue exploring the route and taking out as many of the trainers I can while I'm on it to save myself time later.

So after using as much energy as I can out of 1 Standchu, my Ralts teleports us back to the Poke'Center.  After healing Standchu up,  feel ready to take on the gym.  As you can guess, the gym is a flying type so there isn't really anything I was worry about in the gym.  Like I thought, none of the gym trainers gave me any trouble.  The gym leader, on the otherhand, didn't go as planed.

It would of been smooth sailing if it wasn't for her Alteria.  I hit with a thunderbolt.  I realize that its Dragon/Flying type makes electric attacks deal only neutral damage.  Well I think, "meh no big deal, I can still take it out".  And then the dang thing does Earthquake.... O__O  As you  may have guess, that Earthquake whited me out.

I restarted of course and on this second attempt against the leader I didn't mess around.  From the first Pokemon I set up Standchu for the challenge to come.  I used 3 X-defends on him.  But her Swellow kept double-teaming so I basically said "screw it!" and used a fourth X-defend.

After taking the Swellow out the Alteria hit the field.  Gave it the good old Sweet Kiss treatment and then used Strength instead of Thunderbolt.  I think it's actually stronger considering Standchu's item is currently a Silk Scarf and I wasn't getting the Super Effective hit.  Strangely enough it did not use Earthquake the second time around at all.  I think she knew my defenses were too high to do anything plus the confusion helps.

So after that the gym was a joke.  A Pepplier... X4 weakness to electric.... Goodbye!  And with that I get a new gym badge.  Time to move on to a new town.  In the process, I decide to try out that Hidden Power TM on a local Kelcon.  I find out the Hidden Power is Psychic.  Personally I was hoping for Ice but Psychic could come in handy for Grass/Poison types so I held on to it.

Clearing the rest of the trainers in the route I come acrosss Team Aqua who seem to have plans for Mt. Pyre.  I'll check that out later but first Safari Zone yeah!!!  Wait... I need that stupid Pokeblock case just to get in?  Awwwh... it's an only run but I thought it might of helped to at least catch a find a Lightball to give 1 Standchu...until I find a Pokemon that can learn fly that can't be help...on to Lillycove City.

So when I finally get to town first thing I do is scavenge the place for all the items I can find.  Sadly I can't go to the Pokemart where I'll probably need to get a Thunderstone 'cause dang Bret is blocking the entrance and I don't feel like fighting him yet.  After that I surf the water to the right of town.  Team Aqua is blocking my progression but I'm hoping I can at least get my hands on a Wingull to teach Fly to.  Lucky enough I find just that.

So getting my new Fly "helper" Soarin (Unoriginal?  Who really cares? It's an HM slave)  I fly to Slaport to finally give my Ralts a real nickname and that not a stupid one that doesn't make sense to me anymore.  I figure I should give him at least the honor of having something less stupid before going into the PC than RLight for a nickname so I name him TelePort. :p  With Soarin I'm afraid we won't be needing TelePort anymore.  Unless we come across some Flash puzzles.

So I fly back to Lillycove city and that's pretty much were the story ends for now.  Probably should look into what Team Aqua is up to either at their base in Lillycove or with that mob that went to Mt. Pyre.  Oh and Bret gotta take care of him to.  He's probably gonna be the fight of my life with his two ground types being stronger than they ever were before but 1 Standchu is at Lv. 53 and with Soarin to Fly me, I can restock on X-items whenever I need them.  So I should be fine, but we'll see how this works out the next time I play this solo run.

My First Pokemon Only Run: Part 10 Bret and the Invisible Wall

So today I went on to beating Bret, who's full name I can't spell today.  I didn't have to restart but it certainly was a nice battle for one hit-KOing so many Pokemon lately.  Shroomish wasn't too hard until I realized it Leeched Seeded 1 Standchu.  I was a little worried about Marstomp but between Sweet Kiss and healing I was able to finish it off.  He also had a Numel that had me on my toes.  But I pulled it through and won.  Bret gave me TM fly.  Nice, now I don't need my Ralts to teleport me...oh yeah the next gym's badge is required to use it... plus I never caught a Pokemon that could learn the move before hand.

So with after clearing any of the trainers that may be blocking my way, I make it to the next town... or more like a village with how they all live in tree houses.  Checking out the houses one of  the ladies wanted to see if I have discovered my hidden power and I did so in exchange I got the TM for hidden power depending on what type 1 Standchu's hidden power is, this could be very useful.  Either way it's probably the only way for 1 Standchu to have certain move types.  But take a look at that later.

Well the gym is blocked by an invisible wall so I guess I can't go there now.  I mean invisible walls?  Really Nintendo?  Not really, we'll find out what that really is soon enough. :p  But either way all we can do is go to the next route.

My First Pokemon Only Run: Part 9 Weather Insitute

So I continue along my Pokemon Adventure.  You know, doing this Only Run it seems like the more I play the easier the game gets and hence things become less memorable.  It's really weird considering all the times you're told that raising a bunch of Pokemon is better than raising just one.  But then again the first few gyms were a real pain with just one Pokemon.

I collected berries, items, and trainers along the really tall grass and making a stop by the Berry Master's place to take all of his berries.  Remember time doesn't work on my game so it's not like I could grow any new ones or get new berries from him the next day.  1 Standchu didn't struggle against any of the trainers either.  So after all of that I make it to the Weather Institute I beat all the Team Aqua Members including the boss.  No problems with any of them as 1 Standchu took them all out in one attack, maybe two attacks for the admin's Pokemon.  After all that I got a Castform.  Yippee!  Well it's an Only Run so I can't use it, maybe some other day in some other game...

I guess with all that now I can at least take on Bret who I know isn't too far ahead from the Weather Institute... will 1 Standchu have any problems taking him down?  Find out next time.

My First Pokemon Only Run: Part 8 Pwning Daddy

Been a while since I've blogged about this.  Ever since starting school I haven't been able to play GBA games because I haven't brought my DS with me but this time I did so hurray for actually being able to do this Only Run!

Anyways. since the last part I got major hints that we should go back to the gym our trainer's dad owned but first a trip to the desert with our newly obtained GoGo Googles to beat some trainers and pick-up some items.  Including a fossil, which I won't actually be using since this is an only run but I might revive it later to transfer over to my 4th gen game and then over to Pkm Black.

After all that, I headed over to the Petlburg gym 'cause that's clearly were we need to go.  The gym trainers were a joke being in the 20s wile 1 Standchu is around Lv. 45.  I swear, I haven't done any extra training beyond battling trainers since the second gym. >_<  It didn't help that they wasted their first turn using X-items so I could take them out before they even got to attack.

So after beating all the gym trainers and healing I stocked up on X-items for the gym fight.  Not that I even needed them.  I don't think Nomrman stood a chance against Standchu with his around Lv. 25 Pokemon.  I was a bit concern about his first Slanking so I Sweet Kissed it.  Between hurting itself in that same turn and loafing, it didn't even get the chance to attack me before I finished it off.

While he did get to his with his Vigorth and got me down to half health.  There was no worry.  I just healed myself back up and finished it off.  I was a bit worried about his final Slanking when I went for the Sweet Kiss just to see it had Focus Punch.  Lucky for me it hit itself in confusion and didn't get the chance to attack me between loafing and me constantly hitting it so it couldn't use Focus Punch.  So overall it was an easy win and I didn't have to even restart once.  With that victory I got the next badge and the TM Facade.  I'm considering replacing Strength for it.  Strength has 10 more base power, but Facade power gets double if I'm burned, parlayed, or potion so there is the slight chance it could come in handy.  But I can't get rid of Strength right now so I'm stuck with it anyways.

After that Wally's parents gave me surf which is just what I needed to progress through the game.  Thank you plot!  Between the new shortcuts from surf and the bike trail I quickly make my way over to Mauville City where I can now surf across that water to the right of the city.  Except I forgot I never fought the trainers on there.  Well took care of them and healed since I need to get back the PP I used up at the gym before I progress anyways.  After words I surfed over that water and that is where I am now.  So after I beat these trainers on the other side of the water I think I'm going to be done for now and continue this Only Run another day.  Chao!

PS: Right before I really stopped I ran into Steven who blabbled on about stuff about raising more than one type of Pokemon... I'm doing an Only Run does he really think I care?  Oh and there's news reporters I could battle but it's an Only Run and I don't really need the experience so skipping them for now.

My First Pokemon Only Run: Part 7 Aqua and Flanery

So I give the chase to Team Aqua on the top of Mt. Chimney.  They apparently want to use the meteorite to stop the volcano to make a pool or something.  How a meteorite does that?  I don't know, I don't care.  I just beat all of Team Aqua till they surrendered.  Even got to face off against their leader, who's still a joke with a water AND a flying type.  Needless to say, 1 Standchu took on the job quite nicely.

Speaking of easy jobs, I finally had a gym leader fight I didn't have to reset the battle on.  Though looking back the way I did finish the job did look kind-of cheap.

Basically I set up on her first Slugma.  While it was attacking me I got 3-4 X-Specials up and an X-defend though I don't think I even needed the X-defend.  After that, I proceeded to sweep the rest of her team with Thunderbolt.  After that I got the badge.

By the way, 1 Standchu tried to learn Thunder, but I decided to stick with Thunderbolt.  I rather have the better accuracy than hope to get lucky with a stronger attack.

After that Bret, as I said I could call the male rival if I couldn't spell his name, basically told me my character's dad was stronger than me and tried to rub it it... geess do all girls think we guys are as rude as Bret? 

Anyways next time, I'll show him by taking out daddy and his gym. Though that may be a while since I go back to school today and video game-wise, I'm only bringing my DSi which unfortunately can't play GBA games.  Sad, 'cause I'm almost half-way there.

Meh, maybe I'll bring my regular DS as well so I can continue this solo run... maybe not.  We'll see.

My First Pokemon Only Run: Part 6 Stupid Soot

Well not really an eventful part but I've made my way all the way over to Fallarbor Town and battle all the trainers that were in between.

Along the way I wanted to get one of the flutes since I have a feeling they'll come in handy.  So I got the soot bag that you need to collect enough soot to get them and went along my merry way collecting soot from the grass.

Problem is I didn't use a repel because I'm a cheapstake and only had one repel while collecting the grass and ran into a ton of Pokemon.

It at least made a good grinding moment for 1 Standchu, not that he really needed it but less grinding to do later I guess.

After being just a few steps short several times, I finally get enough to get the Yellow Flute.  Never have to worry about running out of Prism Berries again, yay!

Oh, I should probably mention the clock battery or something is dead on my Pokemon Sapphire game so I can't grow berries.  I found this out the hard way went I planted a Leppa Berry way back when 1 Standchu was a Pichu and it never sprouted.  Way to waste a valuable berry. :(

After that, I went into the cave after that town... I was just there and I already forgot what it was called.  Ran into Team Aqua with Cozomo, some scientist that's all, and they got into an fight with Team Magma.

Team Magma are good guys in this game... I guess and bad guys in Ruby while Team Aqua is vice versa.

So even after all that my character didn't even try to stop them so I guess I got to backtrack and go to Mt. Cornet... I hope that's what the place is called, to stop them.

But first, the trainers that are outside the cave.  More unnecessary experience and necessary money, hurray!

After all this Ralts finally learn teleport, which is going to make things much more convenient from now on.  1 Standchu is all the way at Lv.40... I think I may be overleveled... even for an Only Run.  Nothing I can do about it though.

My First Pokemon Only Run: Part 5 Wally and Wallace

After healing up at the Pokemon Center, I ran across Wally, who I help catch his first Pokemon, in front of the 3rd gym.

He wanted to battle me so we battled.  1 Standchu handle him without any problem.  Then I went into the gym and beat all the trainers.  I went to heal then head back to face gym leader Wallace.

Wallace has got to be the easiest gym leader I faced so far.  But that didn't mean he went down without a fight.  The only thing that made me take multiple tries to beat him was dang Voltorb with the stupid self-destruct! >_<

Every battle, the Magamite (sorry for misspellings, I just don't feel like looking up the right way to spell it) would weaken Standchu to the point where self-destruct would finish the job.

The battle I won, I got real lucky.  I got a critical hit on his Magamite with Thunderbolt, taking it out it one shot before it could paralyze Standchu or get any damage on him.  Then I pulled off a sweet kiss and the Voltorb kept hitting itself until Slam could finish the job.

Finally was Magaton.  At this point I won the battle, but I just had to make sure Standchu's health didn't get too low.  Thunderwave made things annoying too but I got the job done.

So now I have 3 badges and now can use Rock Smash outside of battle.  Off to Peddleburg.  I use Rock Smash in the area blocked off by the rocks and got Strength. 

I go to teach it to HM Helper and... uh-oh!  He can't learn the move!  But wait, 1 Standchu can, and it's just as powerful as Slam but with 100% accuracy!  HM moves on my main Pokemon in an Only Run might not be a good idea but I'm pretty sure by the time I need to get rid of Strength, I'll be able to with the help of the Move Deleter.

With that, I go back to Rustbro using my new short-cut and restock up on X-Atacks, X-Defends, and X-Speeds and head back to Mawhile.  (By the way I forgot to mention it before, but you can get X-Specials in Peddleburg Mart, I know that will be handy for the future so of course I picked some up.)

Along the way I picked up my Ralts who I left in the Day-care during this time to get some level-ups. It only gain 2 levels and still is a bit away from learning telport.  So I'll stick an exp share on it for now until it learns the move.  I think 1 Standchu has enough experience at this point of the game to share a little with Ralts just till it learns teleport.