SP's Omega Ruby nuzlocke

I started posting this shiz on Facebook but I figured it might be wise to chronicle it in other places for the hell of it.

Here are all the facebook posts in one area, separated:

Rules:

Update 1:

Update 2:

Update 3:

Update 4:

Update 5:

Update 6:

All future updates will be in other posts

I don't know about Omega Ruby, but in Ruby those are literally the best Pokemon you could get. Lucky SOB

Also why grind? Lvl 12 Zubat and lvl 16 Marshtomp easily solo Brawly and Wattson, respectively.

Oh, and did you skip the May battle after Roxanne, or does Omega not offer that?

Omega Ruby doesn't have a battle with May after Roxanne, akin to the original R/S

Kind of wish these games incorporated more things from Emerald, like the extra Rival battle you mentioned
Currently the only thing I know the game references from emerald that I know of is

Delta Episode spoiler:

and also referencing the Battle frontier is "coming soon" on the Battle resort

As for grinding, I'm just paranoid about losing Pokes, I suppose I should stop though considering its making things easy lol

Anyway update:

On the ash route, caught a Machop on the Fiery Path and have been raising him; he's a timid nature and yet he still hits like a truck against most things
And my Golbat actually evolved at level 25, I was really surprised; not sure if it had to do with me playing pokemon amie with it or the massage you can get in Mauville, but I know have a Crobat in my party now

Current team:
Machop (Bartish) Lv. 24
Volbeat (Owl City) Lv. 25
Crobat (Poison Ivy) Lv. 26
Linoone (Gixx) Lv. 25
Marshtomp (Muddy) Lv. 26

Just finished the event at Meteor Falls, about to head to Mt. Chimney.

Current team:
Machoke (Bartish) Lv. 28
Linoone (Gixx) Lv. 27
Volbeat (Owl City) Lv. 27
Crobat (Poison Ivy) Lv. 27
Marshtomp (Muddy) Lv. 28
in other news, if anyone wants to help evolve Machoke, I'd be pretty happy.

About to fight Norman, just finishing off some trainers in his gym.

Current team:
Linoone (Gixx) Lv. 29
Machoke (Bartish) Lv. 29
Volbeat (Owl City) Lv. 30
Crobat (Poison Ivy) Lv. 30
Marshtomp (Muddy) Lv. 30

Well mostly due to my own stupidity
I have lost
Machamp
Crobat
and
Linoone
back to training up some old pokes

Gonna add a Swablu I caught earlier and bring back Mightyena

rip bartish

Here Lies Bartish

"Timid in nature, bold in death."

Trained up a bit, now at the Weather Institute.

Mightyena (The Dentist) Lv. 28
Swablu (Aunt Phanny) Lv. 27
Volbeat (Owl City) Lv. 34
Marshtomp (Muddy) Lv. 35

What's the story with you losing those three?

Also can you get Ice Beam at the Abandoned Ship for Marshtomp now or is that not in Omega?

Machamp was the bulkiest pokemon I had but it died from Norman's Slaking's dead Vigoroth-boosted Retaliate in 1 shot, no matter what if Slaking used Retaliate I would've lost someone

For Linoone I wasn't paying attention and didn't realize it was killing itself in confusion from a Wailmer's water pulse until it was finished off by the Wailmer (was checking Facebook at the time I think)

for Crobat I was fighting a Bird Keeper's Pelipper and none of my Pokemon were doing enough damage to it, it just keep confusing pokemon, roosting back its HP, protecting itself, etc (this made me realize that Pelipper has a good base defense)
I finally got it badly poisoned with Crobat's Poison Fang, in hopes that it would eventually die to me stalling
Little did I know a crit was imminent and Crobat fell to the damn thing

as for Ice Beam I'm pretty sure you can still get it in the Abandoned Ship (its called Sea Mauville in Omega Ruby) but I think you need Dive to get it so I'll have to wait for a bit anyway

Oh damn, that's annoying. How much has the layout changed? In RSE you can get Ice Beam right after Surf, because it's locked in a room whose key can be found next to the scientist. The only things that are locked by Dive are Rain Dance and a Water Stone. Maybe they switched the TMs because of how OP Mudkip was thanks to Ice Beam?

Slaking thing must have been annoying. I'd personally have tried to whittle down Slaking by teaching Dig to Linoone; with Wattson's badge you'd probably outspeed Slaking even with a level disadvantage. But that would mean having Linoone already out when Slaking comes in, which would mean having to sweep every Pokemon before that, which wouldn't have been easy.

Confusion, ouch. I always get a Yellow Flute. It'll run you dry of Repels if you haven't been buying them, but it's so worth it.

Wailer was actually a trainer battle, was about to surf from Petalburg to Dewford for XP and money from trainers but I was sort of discouraged when Linoone bit the dust lol

Abandoned Ship's layout has changed dramatically, you can't even get the first key to open doors without dive

Only real reason to go there beforehand is to attempt to get a destiny knot from some lovers, there's a chance they'll give it to you after every rematch

Well, uh, haven't been updating because school.

BUT I'm in Mossdeep City at the moment.

I've caught a few different Pokes, like a Duskull on Mt. Pyre and a Pikachu in the Safari Zone (which promptly died a little later). Not sure if he was ever mentioned previously, but I caught a Gloom on the route after Fortree and since I love me some Bellossom I evolved him as soon as I got to Mossdeep (dude in space center gives you a sun stone).

Current team:
Volbeat (Owl City) Lv. 42
Bellossom (Pretty Boy) Lv. 43 @ Big Root
Mightyena (The Dentist) Lv. 43
Altaria (Aunt Phanny) Lv. 43 @ Metronome
Swampert (Muddy) Lv. 43 @ Swampertite

I'm debating what Pokemon I should add from my box to be the 6th mon. I've got a Wingull, Surskit, Duskull, Numel, Castform, and the cosplay pikachu. I could also probably pick up a Magnemite or Voltorb in New Mauville.

Beat Tate and Liza, got Dive.

Scuba'd around on Route 129, and caught a Chinchou. Think I'll use it so I can spread the three water HMs across 2 pokes, as well as having an electric-type. Had Dive on Latios, but I'm gonna box him again.

Current team:

Chinchou (Ishmael) Lv25
Bellossom (Pretty Boy) Lv45 @ Big Root
Altaria (Aunt Phanny) Lv45 @ Metronome
Mightyena (The Dentist) Lv45
Volbeat (Owl City) Lv45
Swampert (Muddy) Lv47 @ Swampertite

Owl City died, didn't think Maxie would be moronic enough to use Explosion from full HP

StayPuft wrote:

Owl City died, didn't think Maxie would be moronic enough to use Explosion from full HP

Maxie:

welp I blacked out at Pokemon League and I guess that means I'm dead IRL

gg no re

StayPuft wrote:

welp I blacked out at Pokemon League and I guess that means I'm dead IRL

gg no re

oh man

Who finished you off? Megagross?

I didn't really have anything for Drake so he slowly killed me

Oh haha fair enough. That Salamence.

Did you not end up getting Ice Beam for Swampert, then?

Taking another stab at a Nuzlocke run, though I'm gonna change the rules slightly

I can now attempt a second encounter if the first one is of a Pokemon I already have. To balance this, however, I can only grab Pokemon from the PC when one of mine perishes. Basically, if I have 6 pokes and I catch a 7th, it's staying in the box until one of my pokes faints.

I personally never liked Nuzlocke much. You have to either grind or be lucky enough to get good Pokemon. I liked how it forces you to use Pokemon you'd never use otherwise, but beyond that it didn't appeal to me.

Back in gen 3, though, I did have a couple of my own ideas for playthroughs, which I found more fun. There's the "Fire Emblem mode", which is basically no grinding whatsoever, so that you have to rely on catching and training the right Pokemon. There's also "Battle Frontier mode", which is basically Battle Frontier rules: no level advantage, no items during battle, etc. You should try them out some time.

StayPuft, add this for a rule; No Megas.

I don't use megas in-game anyways lol

anyways I got past petalburg my team is like

Treecko
Ralts
Zigzagoon
Wurmple

I don't recall specific levels though and Im too lazy to grab my 3DS