Grimm's Fairly Normal Tales: A Pokemon Reborn Hardcore Normal-Type Monotype Run

[Lord Chespin]

Well, fire up the ol' forums, people, it's time for me to do a monotype that I likely won't finish since I have the attention span of a goldfish with ADHD. This time, the unlucky type is the Normal type, and so since none of the starters so far are normal types, I decided to use THE POWER OF RPGMAKER to hack myself in this guy:

Yep, a Lickitung! You do not want to know what I saw when I googled it I know people might be saying, "that seems a little overpowered", but hey, it only knows the really weak lick until Level 13, so it can't even touch normal-types until then, and every early-game trainer and his/her/xyr mom has a normal type. Goodie.

Anyhoo, here's the Pokemon our hapless vessel, Grimm, has this time:

Pumpkin Eater (Male) - Lv. 35

Finnist (Male) - Lv. 35

Tom Thumb (Male) - Lv. 35

Aladdin (Male) - Lv. 35

Goldilocks (Female) - Lv. 35

Cottontail (Male) - Lv. 35

Here's the Pokemon Grimm has in the PC:

Big Bad Wolf (Female) - Lv. 21

HumptyDumpty (Female) - Lv. 10

Sleeping Beauty (Female) - Lv. 23

Little Red Riding Hood (Female) - Lv. 25

Ali Baba (Male) - Lv. 27

Meteo (Female) - Lv. 31

Jack (Male) - Lv. 29

Nightingale (Male) - Lv. 35

Here's the bosses we have to beat:

Julia (Boom'd!)
Florina (Defeated!)
Corey (Dead.)

The Not-Corey (Defeated!)

Shelly (Undefeated)
Shade (Undefeated)
Kiki (Undefeated)
Solaris (Undefeated)
Aya (Undefeated)
Serra (Undefeated)
Noel (Undefeated)
El (Undefeated)
Radomus (Undefeated)
Luna (Undefeated)
Sampson (Undefeated)
Charlotte (Undefeated)
M3G4 T3RR4 (Undefeated)
Seel Ciel (Undefeated)

And finally, this run's theme song!

Wish me luck, and here's hoping I stay focused enough to beat this run this time.

Edited October 25, 2016 by Lord Chespin

[Lord Chespin]

Update #1: Once Upon a Time

Well, Cain and Victoria were harder than I expected, but that's probably because I was using a Pokemon that you're not supposed to get until the mid-game, and thus it was sorta underpowered. Anyway, for Cain, PumpkinEater the Lickitung did what he does best and licked Nidoran like a lollipop, getting the paralysis on the first turn and the KO on the sixth!

Victoria was more of the same, except PumpkinEater took some pretty serious damage from Victoria's Tepig. Seriously, Grimm had to heal him with a potion in order to win the fight. PumpkinEater managed to confuse Tepig with a supersonic and paralyze it with a lick, but then Tepig snapped out, PumpkinEater got slammed by a tackle while missing a supersonic, and had to be healed by the aforementioned potion in order to keep him alive. Luckily, (or should I say Lickily), he managed to confuse Tepig again with another supersonic and it injured itself twice, allowing him to end it with two licks! With Victoria defeated, it's time for Grimm to actually make a team that can hit other Normal-types!

The team so far:

PumpkinEater (Male) - Lv. 6

Edited October 11, 2016 by Lord Chespin

[AnimeFg]

It's good to see you're still active on the forums, I haven't been here in a while, but I remember your playthroughs being really good, and inspired me to do my ground mono run of hardcore

[Commander]

'Tis a sad day I can no longer troll you with the save file editing

Seeing this made me realize a certain someone is getting a certain normal type back mostly because I love the thing and have stopped caring if he's too easy. Because he needs it badly. Off topic discussion, but if you want to use the new mystery egg mons (this is E16's release) you probably could just give yourself a Deerling. There is one other option, but I'll leave that a mystery until the release. I ain't gonna reveal everything I do.

Good luck on this run...and hopefully you get further than Julia before stopping.

[Lord Chespin]

Update #2: The Grass is Always Meaner

Well, Fern was quitea hard, but Grimm got past him. Plus, xe had a full team this time, so xe had more options. On TEH URN, Grimm led with Nightingale the Hoothoot, and Fern led with his Lombre. Nightingale set up a hypnosis after tanking an absorb, and he then began spamming peck; unfortunately, the Lombre woke up pretty quickly, and Nightingale had to tank a bubble and a growl while spamming peck. Eventually, when Lombre got knocked down to the red, Fern healed it with a potion, but Nightingale just kept pecking away. Sshe got hit with another growl and Fern used a second potion, so I gave up and swapped out to Big Bad Wolf the Whismur, who did some serious damage with three echoed voices while tanking a bubble and two absorbs, ending the Lombre!

Up next came Fern's Servine, and Big Bad Wolf stayed on the field- a big mistake, since Servine KO'd her with a vine whip. PumpkinEater came out next, and he tanked a vine whip and a wrap to confuse Servine with a supersonic, then began spamming lick. After three turns (during two of which the Servine injured itself), Servine snapped out of confusion, and since PumpkinEater hadn't secured a KO yet, he just got healed by a super potion and spammed knock off, leaving the Servine with a sliver of health before fainting. Jack the Zigzagoon came out next, and amazingly he managed to KO the Servine with a tackle!

All that remained was Fern's ace, Roselia. Grimm swapped out to Ali Baba the Meowth, and he made it flinch with a fake out. Unfortunately, Roselia used growth, which massively buffed its stats due to the sunny weather, leading to it KOing Ali Baba the next turn with a mega drain and healing off the damage he did to it. Thus, I had Grimm sent out Sleeping Beauty the Jigglypuff, and she confused Roselia with a sweet kiss after tanking a poison sting. The Roselia injured itself in confusion, allowing Sleeping Beauty to set up a perish song. Grimm swapped out for Nightingale, and while he fainted to a mega drain, this stalled the Roselia long enough for Jack to come in and distract it, causing Roselia's perish counter to run out! With Fern down, it's time to make our way to the Mosswater Factory!

The team so far:

PumpkinEater (Male) - Lv. 13

Big Bad Wolf (Female) - Lv. 14

Jack (Male) - Lv. 14

Nightingale (Male) - Lv. 13

Ali Baba (Male) - Lv. 13

Sleeping Beauty (Female) - Lv. 13

[Lord Chespin]

Update #3: Wish Upon a Meteor

Well, Aster and Eclipse weren't nearly as bad as Fern. On TEH URN, Grimm led with Nightingale, Fern led with Roselia, and Aster and Eclipse led with their Magmar and Electabuzz. Poor Nightingale fainted instantly to a swift and a feint attack, but Fern was able to paralyze the Magmar with a stun spore. Grimm sent out Jack, and he lived through an ember and dented Electabuzz with a headbutt while Roselia barely scratched the Magmar with a mega drain. Since Jack onlu had a sliver of health left, Grimm swapped out to Big Bad Wolf, who acted as a sacrificial lamb and fainted to a swift and an ember, while Roselia actually did minor damage to Electabuzz with a mega drain. I decided to stop messing around and sent out Sleeping Beauty, who tanked a swift (which KO'd Roselia) and sang a perish song. Fern's Lombre came out next, and while it tanked a fire punch, it launched a bubble; unfortunately, poor Sleeping Beauty fainted to an ember; luckily, Ali Baba was able to come out and make Electabuzz flinch with a fake out, although Lombre fainted to a feint attack. Fern's Servine came out, and while Ali Baba tanked a fire punch, Servine and Ali Baba ganged up on Electabuzz; ultimately, though, the perish count ran out for both Electabuzz and Magmar, leading to them fainting and the battle ending! With the Mosswater Factory in ruins, it's time to take on Julia!

The team so far:

PumpkinEater (Male) - Lv. 16

Big Bad Wolf (Female) - Lv. 15

Jack (Male) - Lv. 17

Nightingale (Male) - Lv. 15

Ali Baba (Male) - Lv. 17

Sleeping Beauty (Female) - Lv. 16

Edited October 12, 2016 by Lord Chespin

[Lord Chespin]

Update #4: Knock it Off With the Explosions

Well, I think the hardest thing about Julia was her Magnemite; once Grimm got past it, xe actually had a fighting chance. On TEH URN, xe led with Pumpkin Eater, and Julia led with her Magnemite. Pumpkin Eater tanked a magnet bomb and a charge beam to do massive with two knock offs, and then both sides were healed by a super potion. Magnemite then managed to do massive damage with a charge beam, but it didn't get a special attack boost, so Pumpkin Eater was able to keep spamming knock off. Then, amazingly, Magnemite missed a charge beam, allowing Pumpkin Eater to do more damage with a knock off; rather than go for the KO with another charge beam, Julia decided to try a sonic boom, which Pumpkin Eater survived with 8 HP, allowing him to finally take it out with a knock off!

Up next came Julia's deceptively powerful powerhouse, Emolga, and Grimm swapped out for Jack, who got off two baby doll eyes before fainting. Luckily, this weakened the Emolga enough for Ali Baba to tank two acrobatics with just one HP and end it with a fake out and two fury swipes!

Julia's Voltorb came out next, and Grimm sent out Nightingale... who, predictably, fainted to a single charge beam. Ali Baba came out again and did some damage with a fake out, then healed Pumpkin Eater with a chocolate ice cream- and it was a good thing he did, because the Voltorb blew up, taking Ali Baba with it!

Up next was Julia's Chinchou, which normally would have had great bulk thanks to eviolite; however, after getting paralyzed, Pumpkin Eater was able to knock it off, crippling it! He then got cured of his paralysis, causing Chincou to deal less damage with an electro ball; however, another electro ball did some noticeable damage, so Pumpkin Eater got healed with a chocolate ice cream, allowing him to tank a water gun. Julia used her second super potion the next turn, but Pumpkin Eater kept swinging with knock offs, and even though he got paralyzed, he was still able to KO it with three knock offs!

Running out of options, Julia sent out her Heliolisk, and while it did significant damage with a parabolic charge and a hidden power, Pumpkin Eater hung in there and knocked off its damp rock. He then got healed by a chocolate ice cream, letting him tank a second round of a parabolic charge/hidden power combo. After landing a knock off, he got healed again, and Heliolisk injured him with a hidden power. Heliolisk then wasted two turns using eerie impulse on a physical attacker, but Pumpkin Eater was immobilized by paralysis those two turns, so Grimm wasn't able to capitalize on said turns. Luckily, after that the Heliolisk used rain dance, giving Pumpkin Eater a free turn to damage it with a knock off. It did more damage with two hidden powers, but Pumpkin Eater was able to KO it with two more knock offs!

All that remained was Julia's ace, Electrode. Sleeping Beauty came out, and while Electrode used charge, she sang the song that ends the world (AKA perish song). While she missed a sweet kiss the next turn, she was able to survive a sonic boom, and then swapped out to Big Bad Wolf, who promptly fainted to a charge beam. Pumpkin Eater also fell to a charge beam, but by then the perish count for Electrode hit zero, ending the fight! With Julia down, it's time to save the Obsidia Ward!

The team so far:

Pumpkin Eater (Male) - Lv. 18

Big Bad Wolf (Female) - Lv. 17

Jack (Male) - Lv. 17

Nightingale (Male) - Lv. 17

Ali Baba (Male) - Lv. 18

Sleeping Beauty (Female) - Lv. 18

Edited October 12, 2016 by Lord Chespin

[Lord Chespin]

Update #5: Street Brawl

Well, Victoria was harder than I expected, but I guess that's what you get for using only normal-types on a fighting-type specialist. On TEH URN, Victoria led with Scraggy, and Grimm led with Sleeping Beauty. While Scraggy did some damage with a headbutt, Sleeping Beauty was able to OHKO it with a mighty disarming voice (which did insane damage, since Competitive activated when Sleeping Beauty was exposed to Scraggy's intimidate)!

Up next came Victoria's most troublesome Pokemon: her Pignite. Nightingale came out, tanked a flame charge, and set up a reflect before fainting. Ali Baba came out afterwards, and after he flinched Pignite with a fake out, he did some more damage with a fury swipes while Pignite flubbed a sunny day thanks to the strong winds, followed by Ali Baba tanking an arm thrust and doing massive damage with a fury swipes. Victoria tried using a potion, but Ali Baba was able to land five hits in a row, ending the Pignite!

Victoria sent out her Makuhita next, and I have to admit, I got cocky. I sent out Pumpkin Eater, only for him to do pathetic damage with a knock off and get KO'd by two force palms. Sleeping Beauty came back out, and after being healed by a berry ice cream, she was able to eat two force palms and unleash two disarming voices, although she fainted on the third force palm. Luckily, the Makuhita was so weak that Ali Baba was able to end it with a fake out!

Victoria's Kirlia came out next, and Jack came out to attack it. He took massive damage from two confusions, but hung on with one HP and managed to KO it with three headbutts!

All that remained was Victoria's Poliwag. Big Bad Wolf came out, and while it flubbed a rain dance, she did some damage with two echoed voices; unfortunately, she fainted to two bubble beams, resulting in Ali Baba coming out and finishing the job with a fake out! Onward to the Slums!

The team so far:

Pumpkin Eater (Male) - Lv. 18

Big Bad Wolf (Female) - Lv. 18

Jack (Male) - Lv. 19

Nightingale (Male) - Lv. 18

Ali Baba (Male) - Lv. 20

Sleeping Beauty (Female) - Lv. 19

Edited October 12, 2016 by Lord Chespin

[Lord Chespin]

Update #6: Hoodlum Havoc

Well, the Scrafty gang was quite tricky, but Grimm was able to muscle past them. On TEH URN, Grimm led with Sleeping Beauty and Ali Baba, and the gang led with Stallord and Dragonborn. Sleeping Beauty tanked a feint attack from Dragonborn and did massive damage with a disarming voice (which, thanks to competitive, was at +2), seriously denting Stallord and KO'ing Dragonborn (Stallord didn't move that turn, as he had been hit by a fake out from Ali Baba)!

Up next came Tyson the Scraggy, and to my horror, it actually managed to KO Sleeping Beauty with a thunder punch, getting an attack boost thanks to moxie. Grimm swapped Ali Baba out for Big Bad Wolf, and Stallord set up an amnesia. Nightingale came out to avenge Sleeping Beauty, and he set up a reflect while Tyson and Stallord KO'd Big Bad Wolf with a fire punch and a drain punch, respectively. Ali Baba came back out, and although he took some considerable damage from an ice punch, he was able to make Stallord flinch with a fake out, and then KO'd Stallord with a fury swipes while Nightingale targeted Tyson with uproar! Sadly, Ali Baba fainted to a thunder punch, but hey, at least he went down swinging.

The leader of the Scraggy, Big Boss, came out next, just in time for Nightingale to KO Tyson with an uproar. Pumpkin Eater came out to replace Ali Baba, and he knocked off Big Boss' leftovers despite getting hit by a sand attack. Nightingale tanked a brick break and managed to land two uproars on Big Boss before fainting to a payback, leaving Big Boss with less than 50% of its health; Pumpkin Eater, meanwhile, missed a supersonic twice. Jack came out and managed to do some damage with a pin missile, and while Pumpkin Eater kept missing knock offs, he just barely tanked a payback and retaliated with two more pin missiles, ending the fight! With the Scraggy gang down, it's time to head to the Coral Ward!

The team so far:

Pumpkin Eater (Male) - Lv. 21

Big Bad Wolf (Female) - Lv. 19

Jack (Male) - Lv. 20

Nightingale (Male) - Lv. 18

Ali Baba (Male) - Lv. 20

Sleeping Beauty (Female) - Lv. 20

Edited October 13, 2016 by Lord Chespin

[Lord Chespin]

Update #7: A Regular Disney Princess

Well, Cain was tricky, but overall he could have been a lot worse. On TEH URN, Grimm led with Ali Baba, and Cain led with his Grimer. Grimer got flinched by a fake out, and took some damage from two fury swipes, but managed to do massive damage with two acid sprays; however, Ali Baba was able to hang on long enough to KO it with a third round of fury swipes!

Up next came Cain's Nidorino, and for some reason I sent out Sleeping Beauty. As to be expected, she fainted instantly from a poison tail, and so Pumpkin Eater came out to avenge her. He managed to knock off the Nidorino's poison barb and do some damage with a stomp, but fainted to two rounds of double kicks. Ali Baba came back out, and made Cain use up his two potions with a fake out and a critical-hit bite. While he missed a fury swipes after Nidorino got healed for the second time, he was able to land a second round of fury swipes, ending Nidorino!

Cain sent out his Dewott next, and Big Bad Wolf came out. Since she took massive damage from a razor shell, Grimm swapped her out for Jack, who was only able to land a headbutt before he fainted to two razor shells. Fortunately, Nightingale was able to KO it with an uproar!

Cain's Venonat came out next, and even though Nightingale got confused by a confusion, he was still able to KO it with two uproars! So... yeah, not much to say here.

Anyway, all that was left was Cain's Gastly. Ali Baba came back out, and even though he was confused by a confuse ray, he was able to land a bite and end it! With Cain defeated, it's time to save the Obsidia Ward!

The team so far:

Pumpkin Eater (Male) - Lv. 21

Big Bad Wolf (Female) - Lv. 21

Jack (Male) - Lv. 21

Nightingale (Male) - Lv. 21

Ali Baba (Male) - Lv. 22

Sleeping Beauty (Female) - Lv. 20

Edited October 14, 2016 by Lord Chespin

[Lord Chespin]

Update #8: A Fate Worse Than Death

Well, the fight against the PULSE Tangrowth was kind of anticlimactic thanks to perish song, but hey, it was either that or mind-numbingly hard due to the Tangrowth's great bulk. Anyway, on TEH URN, ZEL led with their Tangrowth, and Grimm led with Sleeping Beauty. She did what she does best and set up a perish song while the Tangrowth set up a growth, then swapped out to Ali Baba, who did some damage with a fake out while tanking an acid spray. He then did chip damage with a fury swipes before fainting to a mega drain, but his job was done: the Tangrowth's perish counter had been stalled out, and the Tangrowth fainted as a result! With the Tangrowth down and the Obisdia Wars saved, it's time to get some new team members!

The team so far:

Pumpkin Eater (Male) - Lv. 21

Big Bad Wolf (Female) - Lv. 21

Jack (Male) - Lv. 21

Nightingale (Male) - Lv. 21

Ali Baba (Male) - Lv. 22

Sleeping Beauty (Female) - Lv. 23

Edited October 14, 2016 by Lord Chespin

[Lord Chespin]

Update #9: What A Mechanightmare!

Well, the Pokemon Mechanightmare was, to put it bluntly, a nightmare, but Grimm was able to get past it. On TEH URN, xe led with Pumpkin Eater, and the Mechanightmare attacked with a Klingklang. Pumpkin Eater tried to paralyze it with two licks, but it just set up an autotomize and took him down with two discharges. Fortunately, the MVP of one-man battles, Sleeping Beauty, was able to come in and set up a perish song, barely surviving a discharge to do so! Klingklang took her out with a mirror shot immediately afterwards, so Aladdin the Lopunny (one of our newer team members) came out next, and he tanked a charge beam and retaliated with a jump kick. He then pivoted out to Big Bad Wolf, who fainted to a discharge; fortunately, the Klingklang's perish count finally ran out, ending the fight! With the Klingklang defeated, it's time to say hello to our newest team member, Little Red Riding Hood (or LRRH) the Litleo!

The team so far:

Pumpkin Eater (Male) - Lv. 21

Big Bad Wolf (Female) - Lv. 21

Meteo (Female) - Lv. 23

Aladdin (Male) - Lv. 26

Little Red Riding Hood (Female) - Lv. 18

Sleeping Beauty (Female) - Lv. 23

Edited October 15, 2016 by Lord Chespin

[Lord Chespin]

Update #10: Go Away, Fern

Well, Fern was kind of tricky. After all, Grimm couldn't just send out Sleeping Beauty have her use perish song, and call it a day. On TEH URN, Grimm led with Jack, and Fern led with his Ludicolo. The Ludicolo used a nature power (which turned into a tri attack), but it did pathetically little damage; Jack was just able to retaliate with a pin missile. While Fern did use his two super potions to heal Ludicolo, Jack was able to get a few lucky rolls on pin missile, and thus took out the Ludicolo before it could attack again!

Up next came Fern's Grovyle, and Grimm swapped out to LRRH, who laughed off a quick attack and a leaf blade, and then did serious damage with two embers! Admittedly, Grovyle would have lived through the embers, but the second one managed to burn it, causing it to faint from burn damage!

Fern's Roselia came out next, and Grimm sent out Pumpkin Eater. He tanked a poison jab and did some considerable damage with a knock off... only to get poisoned by Roselia's poison point. Roselia set up a growth while Pumpkin Eater kept spamming knock off, but Roselia was able to take him down the next turn from a combination of poison damage and a poison jab; however, he went down swinging, and knocked the Roselia down to the red with a knock off before fainting! This let Aladdin come in and end it with a quick attack!

Fern's Servine came out next, but it really wasn't that threatening; despite being overleveled, Aladdin was able to tank a mega drain and a leaf tornado to end the Servine with three returns!

All that remained was Fern's Ferroseed, and it was kind of a pushover. Grimm sent out Meteo the Castform (another new team member), and she was able to tank a seed bomb and KO it with two embers! With Fern defeated, it's time to finally challenge his big sister, Florina!

The team so far:

Pumpkin Eater (Male) - Lv. 25

Nightingale (Male) - Lv. 25

Meteo (Female) - Lv. 25

Aladdin (Male) - Lv. 25

Little Red Riding Hood (Female) - Lv. 25

Jack (Male) - Lv. 25

Edited October 22, 2016 by Lord Chespin

[Lord Chespin]

Update #11: Arabian Fights

Well, Florina was quite tricky (mostly because of her Breloom), but Grimm was able to take her down. On TEH URN, Grimm led with Jack, and Florina led with her Cacturne. Cacturne was a pushover; while Jack got hit pretty hard with a needle arm, he was able to KO it with a single field-boosted pin missile!

Up next came the bane of my existence, Florina's Breloom. Pumpkin Eater came out to replace Jack, and he tanked a seed bomb to knock off the Breloom's toxic orb before it activated! He then sacrificed himself to heal Jack, using a chocolate ice cream on him before fainting to a drain punch. Nightingale came out afterwards, and he tanked two retaliates to set up a reflect and fire off an uproar. While he was locked into uproar, Breloom did some serious damage with a drain punch, but to my surprise, rather than go for the KO Florina took a turn to heal Breloom with a super potion! This gave Grimm time to heal Nightingale with a berry ice cream, and let him set up a second reflect before he had to be healed with a second berry ice cream. After the second berry ice cream, he tanked drain punch and a seed bomb, the began spamming uproar, taking out the Breloom with 16 HP to spare!

Next up was Florina's Tropius, and Grimm sent out Meteo. Meteo set up a sunny day, then healed Nightingale while Tropius used fly. Fortunately, once the Tropius became vulnerable, it fainted instantly to a weather ball!

Florina's Grotle was up next, and Meteo stayed on the field. Sadly, she became overleveled from KO'ing Tropius, and flubbed a weather ball while Grotle did massive damage with a sand tomb. She was able to land one weather ball before fainting, and it did massive damage to the Grotle, but she fainted nonetheless to a second sand tomb. This led to LRRH to come out, and while Florina used up her last super potion LRRH was able to KO it with two embers!

After Florina's Grotle came her Gourgeist, which took serious damage from an ember from LRRH. She tanked a bullet seed, and was able to land one last ember before fainting to a second bullet seed. Jack came back out, and he disobeyed Grimm, refusing to use a pin missile; the Gourgeist flubbed a disable, though, so no biggie. Jack was able to obey Grimm long enough to KO Gourgeist with a pin missile the second turn, though, leaving only one Pokemon left on Florina's team!

Florina, with no other option, sent out her ace: Cradily! While the Cradily set up a curse, Jack was able to steal its leftovers, preventing it from passively recovering its health. Jack then unleashed a pin missile, and was able to do some damage while tanking a giga drain. He used pin missile again the next turn, and did even more damage thanks to a few critical hits; while the Cradily was able to restore some health using a giga drain, it was still only left with about 1/3 of its total HP. Jack then used one last pin missile, getting a lucky crit and ending the fight! With Florina defeated and the Canopy Badge in Grimm's possession, it's time to save the Jasper and Beryl Wards!

The team so far:

Pumpkin Eater (Male) - Lv. 25

Nightingale (Male) - Lv. 25

Meteo (Female) - Lv. 26

Aladdin (Male) - Lv. 25

Little Red Riding Hood (Female) - Lv. 25

Jack (Male) - Lv. 27

Edited October 22, 2016 by Lord Chespin

[nsbwinner2]

Well, fire up the ol' forums, people, it's time for me to do a monotype that I likely won't finish since I have the attention span of a goldfish with ADHD. This time, the unlucky type is the Normal type, and so since none of the starters so far are normal types, I decided to use THE POWER OF RPGMAKER to hack myself in this guy:

Yep, a Lickitung! You do not want to know what I saw when I googled it I know people might be saying, "that seems a little overpowered", but hey, it only knows the really weak lick until Level 13, so it can't even touch normal-types until then, and every early-game trainer and his/her/xyr mom has a normal type. Goodie.

Anyhoo, here's the Pokemon our hapless vessel, Grimm, has this time:

Pumpkin Eater (Male) - Lv. 25

Nightingale (Male) - Lv. 25

Meteo (Female) - Lv. 26

Aladdin (Male) - Lv. 25

Little Red Riding Hood (Female) - Lv. 25

Jack (Male) - Lv. 27

Here's the Pokemon Grimm has in the PC:

Big Bad Wolf (Female) - Lv. 21

Ali Baba (Male) - Lv. 22

HumptyDumpty (Female) - Lv. 10

Sleeping Beauty (Female) - Lv. 23

Here's the bosses we have to beat:

Julia (Boom'd!)

Florina (Defeated!)

Corey (Undefeated)

Shelly (Undefeated)

Shade (Undefeated)

Kiki (Undefeated)

Solaris (Undefeated)

Aya (Undefeated)

Serra (Undefeated)

Noel (Undefeated)

El (Undefeated)

Radomus (Undefeated)

Luna (Undefeated)

Sampson (Undefeated)

Charlotte (Undefeated)

M3G4 T3RR4 (Undefeated)

Seel Ciel (Undefeated)

And finally, this run's theme song!

Wish me luck, and here's hoping I stay focused enough to beat this run this time.

Would recommend getting Loudred up there... definitely worth running. Boomburst is boss if you level it all the way

[Lord Chespin]

Would recommend getting Loudred up there... definitely worth running. Boomburst is boss if you level it all the way

Thanks! I probably will use Loudred, but not until I get access to the Move Tutor; Exploud doesn't learn Buoomburst until Level 85, unless I use the move tutor.

Anyhoo...

Update #12: A Fate Worse Than a Fate Worse Than Death

Well, Taka took a couple tries (mainly due to that freaking Tangrowth), but Grimm managed to beat him. On TEH URN, Grimm led with with Aladdin, and Taka led with his Lileep. Lileep was kind of a joke; Aladdin was able to KO it with a critical-hit jump kick before it could even attack! Of course, I got the feeling that I wasted all my luck on the weakest Pokemon Taka had, but hey...

Up next came Taka's Gligar, and it too was pretty pathetic. Aladdin got swapped out for Meteo, and she set up a hail while tanking a quick attack and an acrobatics to KO the Gligar with a weather ball!

The PULSE Tangrowth came out next, and this is where the battle got tricky. Meteo stayed on the field, and got healed by a chocolate ice cream while tanking two sludge bombs. She was able to do some considerable damage with a weather ball, then survived two sludge bombs, set up a sunny day, and got healed again. Luckily, all these resources poured into Meteo paid off: the Tangrowth promptly got hit hard by a weather ball, and while it desperately tried using growth and got healed by two super potions, it was still knocked down to low health by Meteo! Unfortunately, the sunlight promptly faded, so all Meteo could do was desperately dent it with a non-STAB ember before fainting to a giga drain. Ali Baba came out next, and he was able to weaken the Tangrowth further by using fake out and fury swipes before he, too fainted to a sludge bomb. Luckily, Aladdin was able to save the day, and ended the Tangrowth with a return!

Taka sent out his Chatot next, and Aladdin stayed on the field. While the Chatot set up a nasty plot, Aladdin was able to do massive damage to it with two returns before it could even attack, ending it! Kinda anticlimactic, huh?

All that remained was Taka's most annoying Pokemon, Klefki, which was doubly annoying in that Grimm had lost Meteo, who was the only 'mon on xyr team at the time capable of hitting it super-effectively. Hemlock swapped out to Pumpkin Eater, and he was able to knock off the Klefki's light clay and paralyze it with a lick. He then began spamming stomp and tanking foul play; after a couple dozen turns, the Klefki was able to end him with a foul play. It was a Pyrrhic victory for the Klefki, though, as Nightingale was able to come out and defeat Klefki with an uproar! And so, with the Jasper Ward (sorta) saved, it's time to (sorta) save the Beryl Ward!

The team so far:

Pumpkin Eater (Male) - Lv. 28

Nightingale (Male) - Lv. 28

Meteo (Female) - Lv. 27

Aladdin (Male) - Lv. 29

Ali Baba (Male) - Lv. 27

Jack (Male) - Lv. 28

Edited October 22, 2016 by Lord Chespin

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Cool. Gotta give a lot of credit for a normal type run as it is quite difficult early.

Also, Taka had a Klefki? Then he was way more annoying than I remembered...

[Lord Chespin]

Update #13: A Fate Worse Than a Fate Worse Than A Fate Worse Than Death

Well, while the Taka/ZEL TAG TEAM BROTHERRRRR battle took a couple tries, it was still a lot easier than on most runs, as Grimm took good advantage of the natural sunny weather. On TEH URN, Grimm led with Meteo and Aladdin, Taka led with his Chatot, and ZEL led with their Glaceon. Poor Glaceon didn't stand a chance; while it was able to land a quick attack on Aladdin, it only did scratch damage, and it fainted to a jump kick/weather ball combo while Lileep could do nothing but do chip damage to Aladdin with an ancietpower!

Up next came ZEL's Jolteon, and while Jolteon damaged Aladdin with a charge beam and Lileep damaged Meteo with a mega drain, Aladdin and Meteo dented Jolteon quite severely with a quick attack and a weather ball, respectively. Aladdin then got healed by a chocolate ice cream and Jolteon got healed by a super potion before it took damage from a quick attack and Lileep used a mega drain on Meteo. Jolteon then tried using thunder fang on Aladdin, but he laughed it off and was able to KO it in return with a return! Lileep, meanwhile, took serious damage from a weather ball from Meteo, and did chip damage to Aladdin with a mega drain.

Up next came what was arguably ZEL's most threatening Pokemon: their Espeon. While Taka healed Lileep, Meteo tanked a psybeam and was able to KO it with Aladdin's help using a weather ball/return combo! ...Hey, I said "arguably most threatening", not "actually most threatening".

Anyway, all that was left on ZEL's team was their Umbreon. While Grimm spent Meteo's turn healing her, Meteo tanked a quick attack and promptly got confused by Lileep; Aladdin, meanwhile, was able to seriously damage Umbreon with a jump kick. Umbreon took even more damage the next turn from a jump kick, but got confused by Umbreon while Meteo injured herself and Lileep set up an ingrain. While Aladdin injured himself and got hit by a mega drain, Meteo was able to fight through the confusion and KO'd the Umbreon with an ember, leaving the battle a two-on-one fight!

Grimm swapped Aladdin out for Nightingale, and he tanked an ancientpower while Meteo did massive damage to Lileep with a weather ball before it finally went down to a confusion/weather ball combo! Unfortunately, that was the easy part.

Taka's Gligar came out next, and it was about as easy as last time. Nightingale began spamming echoed voice, and Meteo got swapped out for Goldilocks the Ursaring, one of our new team members! While the Gligar was able to land a quick attack and an acrobatics, it still fainted to two echoed voices and a slash!

The keystone of Team Meteor's mission, the PULSE Tangrowth, came out next, and it ended up taking pretty heavy damage from a slash and an echoed voice; despite this, it was still able to KO Nightingale with a sludge bomb. Fortunately, this gave Meteo a free switch in, and she... set up a sunny day, which failed because the weather was already sunny. Stupid clumsy fingers. Anyway, Goldilocks picked up the slack with a slash, and while she tanked a giga drain Meteo was able to finally get her stuff together and KO the Tangrowth with a weather ball!

Taka's ace, Chatot, came out next, and while it was able to confuse Meteo with a chatter, it still fell to a single weather ball. Goldilocks didn't even have to lift a finger.

All that remained was Taka's Klefki, which was a lot easier to deal with than last time; while it paralyzed Meteo and injured her with a foul play, Goldilocks was able to dent the keychain with two slashes, and Meteo was able to miraculously KO it with a weather ball! With Taka and ZEL defeated, we find out the identity of the person overseeing the PULSE Tangrowth Project: Corey, the next gym leader! Time to take him down!

The team so far:

Pumpkin Eater (Male) - Lv. 29

Nightingale (Male) - Lv. 29

Meteo (Female) - Lv. 31

Aladdin (Male) - Lv. 30

Goldilocks (Female) - Lv. 30

Jack (Male) - Lv. 29

Edited October 24, 2016 by Lord Chespin

[Lord Chespin]

Update # 14: The Fall of Corey ...Too Dark?

Well, Corey was pretty tough, as per usual; however, he was made kind of easier by some of the new team members that Grimm picked up. On TEH URN, Grimm led with Nightingale, and Corey led with his Quilfish. Quilfish fired off a signal beam and an icy wind, but Nightingale was able to laugh them off and seriously injured it with two confusions. Unfortunately, Corey then used a super potion, and while Nightingale was able to knock it down to half health with a confusion, it was able to KO Nightingale with a single venoshock thanks to the special attack boost it got from its petaya berry. Thus Goldilocks came out, and when the Quilfish used icy wind on her, it activate her red card, causing it to switch out for Scolipede and giving Goldilocks time to land a free critical-hit slash on it. It tried to use a bug bite on her, and while it did serious damage, Goldilocks lived and was able to KO it again with another slash!

Unfortunately, this left Goldilocks weakened, allowing Corey's Quilfish to come out and take her out with two venoshocks (even though Grimm spent a turn healing her with a berry ice cream). As a result, Aladdin came out, and he managed to do some damage with a return, leaving it with just a sliver of health. Fortunately, after tanking a signal beam, he was able to end the Quilfish with one more return!

Up next came Corey's Nidoqueen, so Grimm swapped out to Pumpkin Eater. He knocked off the Nidoqueen's assault vest, but only did scratch damage with a lick and fainted to two ice punches and a poison jab (although he was able to heal Aladdin with a chocolate ice cream before fainting). Luckily, one of the two new team members I mentioned earlier, Tom Thumb the Ambipom, came out next, and he did serious damage with a fake out, lowered the Nidoqueen's attack and defense with a tickle, tanked an ice punch, and ended the Nidoqueen with a double hit!

Corey's Skuntank came out next, and so Grimm swapped out to our other new team member, Cottontail the Diggersby. He set up a dig, and dodged a night slash to KO the Skuntank with a single dig! Sure, he took quite a bit of damage from Skuntank's aftermath, but eh, what're you going to do?

Running out of options, Corey sent out his Swalot, and Cottontail stayed on the field. He set up another dig, and thus was able to dodge an ice beam and KO'd the Swalot with a single hit once he resurfaced!

All that remained was Corey's ace, Crobat. Tom Thumb took the reins from Cottontail, and did some damage to Crobat with a fake out; unfortunately, the next turn he fainted to a venoshock. Aladdin came out next, and he was able to tank a hiden power fire and did some damage with a return, activating Crobat's sitrus berry. Aladdin then used his last turn to heal Cottontail before fainting to a venoshock; Cottontail was then able to tank two air slashes, and end Crobat with two take downs! With Corey defeated, he promptly releases all of his Pokemon... and jumps off a bridge to his death.

...I'd make a joke about not getting my badge, but I think now's a bad time.

The team so far:

Pumpkin Eater (Male) - Lv. 31

Nightingale (Male) - Lv. 31

Tom Thumb (Male) - Lv. 32

Aladdin (Male) - Lv. 31

Goldilocks (Female) - Lv. 31

Cottontail (Male) - Lv. 34

Edited October 25, 2016 by Lord Chespin

[nsbwinner2]

If you made a joke it would be pretty badge

[Lord Chespin]

If you made a joke it would be pretty badge

...I felt physical pain from that pun.

Update #15: Precious Gems

Well, the fight against Aster and Eclipse underneath the Grand Stairway was actually pretty tricky. I supposed it didn't help that most of my team couldn't touch rock-types, and Aster and Eclipse used a whopping three rock types. On TEH URN, Grimm led with Pumpkin Eater (now a Lickilicky!), Victoria led with Emboar, Aster led with Solrock, and Eclipse led with Lunatone. Solrock took some serious damage from a sucker punch from Emboar, and retaliated with a heat wave that Emboar dodged; Pumpkin Eater, however, got hit by it, and ended up taking some damage from a moonblast, although he was able to do massive damage with a knock off (which also removed the Lunatone's twistedspoon). The next turn, Emboar was able to KO the Lunatone with a fire punch, and dodged a rock slide from Solrock (which, again, did some considerable damage to poor Pumpkin Eater) while Pumpkin Eater ended the Solrock with a knock off!

Up next came Aster's Rhyhorn and Electabuzz, and Electabuzz was able to KO poor Pumpkin Eater with a low kick (clearly, his big girth didn't help him there). Emboar was able to avenge him by doing massive damage to Electabuzz with a fire punch, but got a chunk taken out of his HP by a dragon rush from Rhyhorn. Tom Thumb the Ambipom came out next, and although Aster healed Electabuzz with a super potion, Tom Thumb was able to work together with Emboar and KO Electabuzz with a fake out/fire punch combo! Rhyhorn then threw a hissy fit and destroyed the field with a bulldoze, but hey, watch'a gonna do.

Eclipse decided to start taking action again and sent out her Milotic, and it finished off the weakened Emboar with a water pulse while Rhyhorn fired off another bulldoze. Luckily, Tom Thumb was able to steal Milotic's leftovers with a covet, and the next turn Victoria's Scragyy (which came out next) was able to KO team up with Tom Thumb to KO Milotic with a high jump kick/double hit combo (despite Eclipse healing it with a super potion)!

With both Aster and Eclipse down to one Pokemon each, Eclipse sent out her last Pokemon: her Magmar. Tom Thumb was little help against it, as he fainted to a single feint attack; Scraggy, meanwhile, was able to take out roughly 50% of its health with a high jump kick, but promptly got burned, and Rhyhorn set up stealth rocks. Aladdin came out, and oddly, despite landing a super-effective jump kick, was barely able to damage Rhyhorn; Magmar then hit him with a feint attack, and Scraggy barely did anything to it in return with a poison jab while getting hit pretty hard by a dragon rush. Aladdin continued to do little damage with a jump kick, but at least this time things went a little better; Scraggy tanked a feint attack from Magmar and paralyzed it with a thunder punch, and Rhyhorn ended up KO'ing Magmar with a bulldoze! All that remained was the Rhyhorn, and Victoria's Hariyama was able to knock off Rhyhorn's eviolite, setting it up to be KO'd by two more jump kicks! With Rhyhorn down and Team Meteor expunged from the Grand Stairway, it's time to talk to Shelly again and see if we can fight her!

The team so far:

Pumpkin Eater (Male) - Lv. 34

Nightingale (Male) - Lv. 34

Tom Thumb (Male) - Lv. 35

Aladdin (Male) - Lv. 35

Goldilocks (Female) - Lv. 34

Cottontail (Male) - Lv. 35

[Lord Chespin]

Update #16: Let Them Not Suffer to the Poison in Vain

Well, the Not-Corey was actually pretty brutal, mainly because his ace, Haunter, was not only 10 levels higher than the level cap, but because it was outright immune to all of Grimm's Pokemon's STAB moves. On TEH URN, the Not-Corey led with Garbodor, and Grimm led with Goldilocks. Goldilocks was able to tank an acid spray and a giga drain and end the Garbodor with two slashes, but she ended up fainting to the aftermath damage. All in all, not a great start.

The Not-Corey's Scolipede came out next, and Grimm sent out our newest team member and mystery egg hatchee: Finnist the powerful Staraptor! While Scolipede was able to eat his pecha berry with a bug bite, he was able to retaliate with a mighty brave bird, KO'ing it in a single hit!

Up next came the Not-Corey's Swalot, and Cottontail came out to counter it. The battle against it was actually quite similar to the fight against Corey's Swalot; Cottontail dug under an ice beam, and then KO'd it with a single dig!

The Not-Corey sent out his Vileplume next, and Hemlock swapped out to Finnist again. Finnist annihilated the poor flower with a brave bird before it could even attack! ...Yeesh, in hindsight, I'm starting to feel bad for the Not-Corey...

Anyway, the Not-Corey's Beedrill came out next, and Tom Thumb the Ambipom came out to deal with it. He KO'd it with a single double hit before it could even attack, breaking right through the Beedrill's focus sash!

With no other choice, the Not-Corey revealed its true form: Corey's Haunter! Grimm swapped out to Pumpkin Eater, and he just barely tanked a venoshock (he survived with 12 HP out of 129) to disable the Haunter's Venoshock, then did insane damage to it with a knock off while it feebly set up a destiny bond! Unfortunately, Pumpkin Eater then fainted to poison damage, but Finnist was able to come out and take the Haunter out with him using a brave bird! With the Not-Corey vanquished, it's time to get out journey back on track!

The team so far:

Pumpkin Eater (Male) - Lv. 35

Finnist (Male) - Lv. 35

Tom Thumb (Male) - Lv. 35

Aladdin (Male) - Lv. 35

Goldilocks (Female) - Lv. 35

Cottontail (Male) - Lv. 35