Monotype Guide for V12

[Cadmium48]

 

I couldn't find a version of this guide for Rejuv that was up-to-date and still worked, so I made my own!

Formatting mostly credit to @BIGJRA for making the Reborn version of this guide, as well as making the Rejuvenation 100% guide which was massively helpful.

The guide is split up by chapter, with each Pokemon by type. 

 

Italics means the Pokemon evolves into that type or you must change the Pokemon’s Form for it to become that type
Underline means the Pokemon loses that type
Bold indicates Legendaries
Strikethrough means you must breed the Pokemon for it to become that type

*Asterisks* means that the Pokemon has a Mega Evolution of the type, whether or not these are legal are up to you

 

Starters:

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Dark: Froakie/Litten

Dragon: *Charmander*/*Treecko*
Fairy: Popplio
Fighting: Chespin/Torchic/Chimchar/Tepig
Fire: Charmander/Cyndaquil/Torchic/Chimchar/Tepig/Fennekin/Litten
Flying: Charmander/Rowlet
Ghost: Rowlet
Grass: Bulbasaur/Chikorita/Treecko/Turtwig/Snivy/Chespin/Rowlet
Ground: Turtwig/Mudkip
Poison: Bulbasaur
Psychic: Fennekin
Steel: Piplup
Water: Squirtle/Totodile/Mudkip/Piplup/Oshawott/Froakie/Popplio
None: Bug, Electric, Ice, Normal, Rock

Chapter 1:

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Bug: Wurmple, Paras, Caterpie, Scatterbug, Weedle, Sewaddle
Dark: Rattata-A, Purrloin, Poochyena, Cacnea, Grimer-A
Dragon: Noibat
Electric: Pachirisu, Voltorb, Helioptile, Pichu

Fighting: *Buneary*
Fire: Fletchling, Pansear, Litleo
Flying: Pidgey, Pidove, Wurmple, Fletchling, Spearow, Caterpie, Woobat, Noibat, Scatterbug
Ghost: Shuppet
Grass: Bellsprout, Sunkern, Oddish, Paras, Pansage, Fomantis, Cherubi, Maractus, Deerling, Sewaddle, Cacnea
Ground: Nidoran F, Nidoran M, Geodude-K
Ice: Seel
Normal: Rattata-A, Patrat, Pidgey, Pidove, Bidoof, Fletchling, Spearow, Skitty, Buneary, Helioptile, Sentret, Deerling, Whismur, Meowth-K, Lillipup, Minccino, Litleo
Poison: Bellsprout, Wurmple, Oddish, Nidoran F, Nidoran M, Trubbish, Gulpin, Ekans, Koffing, Grimer-K, Qwilfish, Weedle, Grimer-A, Seviper
Psychic: Chingling, Woobat, Spoink, Munna, Pichu
Rock: Rockruff, Geodude-K
Water: Bidoof, Buizel, Panpour, Qwilfish, Seel, Finneon
None: Fairy, Steel

Chapter 2:

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Bug: Combee, Volbeat, Illumise, Spinarak, Dwebble, Shuckle, Pineco, Burmy, Grubbin, Kricketot, Ledyba
Dark: Seedot, Pancham, Houndour
Dragon: Swablu, Skrelp
Electric: Blitzle, Dedenne, Shinx, Grubbin, Eevee
Fairy: Dedenne, Spritzee, Swirlix, Igglybuff, Carbink, Cleffa, Eevee, Mime Jr., *Swablu*
Fighting: Crabrawler, Meditite, Makuhita, Pancham
Fire: Eevee, Houndour, Numel, Slugma, Ponyta
Flying: Combee, Hoothoot, Burmy, Natu, Ledyba, Swablu
Grass: Seedot, Burmy, Eevee
Ground: Burmy, Sandshrew-K, Diglett-K, Barboach, Numel, Onix, Quagsire
Ice: Crabrawler, Eevee, Vanillite
Normal: Hoothoot, Igglybuff, Aipom, Swablu, Dunsparce, Girafarig, Eevee, Zigzagoon
Poison: Spinarak, Skrelp
Psychic: Drowzee, Meditite, Natu, Lunatone, Solrock, Girafarig, Unown, Elgyem, Eevee, Mime Jr.
Rock: Dwebble, Shuckle, Carbink, Lunatone, Solrock, Slugma, Onix, Roggenrola, Nosepass, Bonsly
Steel: Pineco, Burmy, Klink, Onix, Nosepass
Water: Goldeen, Barboach, Skrelp, Eevee, Quagsire
None: Ghost

Chapter 3:

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Bug: Cutiefly, Venipede
Dark: Meowth-A
Electric: Oricorio
Fairy: Cutiefly
Fire: Oricorio
Flying: Oricorio, Doduo, Zubat
Ghost: Oricorio
Grass: Budew
Ground: Diglett-A
Normal: Yungoos, Doduo, Zangoose, Kecleon
Poison: Budew, Venipede, Zubat
Psychic: Oricorio, Gothita
Steel: Diglett-A
None: Dragon, Fighting, Ice, Rock, Water

Chapter 4:

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Electric: Graveler-A
Fighting: Throh, Sawk
Fire: Cubone
Flying: Drifloon
Ghost: Cubone, Pumpkaboo, Drifloon, Golett, Yamask, Duskull
Grass: Pumpkaboo
Ground: Bunnelby, Cubone, Phanpy, Golett, Baltoy
Normal: Bunnelby
Psychic: Baltoy, Espurr
Rock: Graveler-A
Water: Basculin
None: Bug, Dark, Dragon, Fairy, Ice, Poison, Steel

Chapter 5:

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Bug: Venonat
Dark: Carvanha
Dragon: Exeggcute
Electric: Emolga, Togedemaru, Plusle, Minun
Fairy: Snubbull, Mawile, Morelull, *Audino*
Flying: Emolga, Ducklett, Trumbeak, Hoppip
Ghost: Misdreavus, Phantump
Grass: Phantump, Bounsweet, Lombre, Tangela, Abomasnow, Foongus, Exeggcute, Morelull, Hoppip
Ground: Swinub
Ice: Abomasnow, Swinub
Normal: Lickitung, Audino, Ditto, Teddiursa, Trumbeak
Poison: Foongus, Venonat
Psychic: Exeggcute
Rock: Corsola, Binacle
Steel: Togedemaru, Mawile
Water: Lombre, Ducklett, Luvdisc, Alomomola, Corsola, Binacle, Pyukumuku, Carvanha
None: Fighting, Fire

Mystery Egg:

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Bug: Joltik, Larvesta
Dark: Absol, Sneasel, Pawniard, Larvitar
Dragon: Axew, Trapinch
Electric: Joltik
Fairy: Azurill, Togepi, Cottonee
Fighting: Mienfoo, Stufful
Fire: Darumaka, Larvesta
Flying: Togepi, Starly
Ghost: Dhelmise
Grass: Dhelmise, Cottonee
Ground: Trapinch, Drilbur, Larvitar
Ice: Sneasel
Normal: Azurill, Starly, Stufful
Poison: Mareanie
Psychic: Solosis
Rock: Aron, Larvitar
Steel: Aron, Pawniard, Drilbur
Water: Azurill, Mareanie, Wishiwashi

Chapter 6:

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Bug: Heracross, Skorupi, Karrablast, Masquerain, Shedinja, Shelmet, Pinsir, Yanma
Dark: Corphish, Skorupi, Litten
Electric: Chinchou, Magnemite, Stunfisk, Electrike
Fairy: Comfey
Fighting: Heracross, Machop, Mankey, Croagunk, Shroomish
Fire: Growlithe, Torkoal, Salandit, Litten
Flying: Mantyke, Tropius, Rowlet, Masquerain, Shedinja, Farfetch’d, Yanma, *Pinsir*
Ghost: Rowlet, Shedinja, Snorunt
Grass: Tropius, Bulbasaur, Rowlet, Carnivine, Chikorita, Shroomish
Ground: Tympole, Shellos, Stunfisk, Shedinja
Ice: Jynx, Bergmite, Lapras, Cubchoo, Snorunt
Normal: Castform, Oranguru, Spinda, Kangaskhan, Chansey, Farfetch’d, Furfrou, Slakoth, Stantler
Poison: Salandit, Bulbasaur, Skorupi, Croagunk, Tentacool
Psychic: Oranguru, Wobbuffet, Bruxish, Jynx
Steel: Magnemite, Karrablast, Piplup
Water: Mantyke, Krabby, Golduck, Phione, Corphish, Remoraid, Chinchou, Tympole, Shellos, Masquerain, Totodile, Bruxish, Tentacool, Wailmer, Lapras, Piplup
None: Dragon, Rock

Chapter 7:

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Fighting: Passimian
Flying: Delibird
Ice: Spheal, Delibird
Normal: Type: Null
Water: Spheal, Squirtle
None: Bug, Dark, Dragon, Electric, Fairy, Fire, Ghost, Grass, Ground, Poison, Psychic, Rock, Steel

Chapter 8:

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Bug: Wimpod, Anorith
Dark: Inkay, Scraggy, Sandile, Skuntank, Zorua
Dragon: Druddigon, Turtonator, Drampa, Tyrunt, *Mareep*
Electric: Mareep, Elekid
Fairy: Vulpix-A, Ralts
Fighting: Tyrogue, Poliwag, Scraggy, Tepig, Ralts
Fire: Magby, Litwick, Turtonator, Tepig, Vulpix-K, Heatmor, Cyndaquil
Flying: Minior
Ghost: Litwick, Frillish
Grass: Lileep
Ground: Mudkip, Sandile, Rhyhorn
Ice: Sandslash-A, Cryogonal, Shellder, Amaura, Vulpix-A
Normal: Porygon, Drampa
Poison: Skuntank
Psychic: Staryu, Slowpoke, Inkay, Abra, Ralts
Rock: Minior, Rhyhorn, Omanyte, Kabuto, Anorith, Lileep, Shieldon, Cranidos, Amaura, Tyrunt
Steel: Sandslash-A, Shieldon
Water: Staryu, Clamperl, Slowpoke, Wimpod, Mudkip, Poliwag, Frillish, Shellder, Omanyte, Kabuto

Chapter 9:

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Flying: Aerodactyl, Archen
Grass: Turtwig
Ground: Turtwig
Normal: Glameow
Rock: Aerodactyl, Archen, Tirtouga
Water: Tirtouga
None: Bug, Dark, Dragon, Electric, Fairy, Fighting, Fire, Ghost, Ice, Poison, Psychic, Steel

Chapter 10:

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Dark: Murkrow, Vullaby, Spiritomb
Fairy: Marill
Flying: Murkrow, Vullaby
Ghost: Spiritomb
Grass: Skiddo
Normal: Tauros, Bouffalant, Marill, Miltank, Snorlax
Psychic: Bronzor
Steel: Bronzor
Water: Marill, Oshawott
None: Bug, Dragon, Electric, Fighting, Fire, Ground, Ice, Poison, Rock

Chapter 11:

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Electric: Tynamo

Fighting: Riolu
Flying: Taillow
Grass: Petilil
Normal: Taillow, Smeargle

Steel: Riolu
Water: Clauncher
None: Bug, Dark, Dragon, Fairy, Fire, Ghost, Ground, Ice, Poison, Psychic, Rock

Chapter 12:

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Bug: Dewpider
Dark: Sableye
Fighting: Stufful
Fire: Darumaka
Flying: Chatot
Ghost: Sandygast, Sableye
Ground: Sandygast
Normal: Komala, Chatot, Stufful
Water: Dewpider, Wishiwashi
None: Dragon, Electric, Fairy, Grass, Ice, Poison, Psychic, Rock, Steel

Chapter 13:

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Bug: Durant, Joltik, Scyther
Dark: Absol, Sneasel
Dragon: Axew, Trapinch, *Charmander*
Electric: Joltik
Fairy: Flabebe, Cottonee
Fighting: Mienfoo
Fire: Charmander
Flying: Gligar, Sigilyph, Starly, Charmander, Scyther
Ghost: Gastly
Grass: Cottonee
Ground: Gligar, Hippopotas, Trapinch
Ice: Sneasel
Normal: Starly
Poison: Gastly
Psychic: Sigilyph, Beldum
Rock: Aron
Steel: Aron, Durant, Beldum, Scyther
Water: Feebas

Chapter 14:

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Bug: Larvesta
Dark: Pawniard
Dragon: Horsea, Goomy, Gible, Zygarde 10%
Fairy: Popplio
Fire: Larvesta, Fennekin
Flying: Skarmory, Wingull
Ghost: Dhelmise
Grass: Dhelmise
Ground: Gible, Zygarde 10%
Poison: Mareanie
Psychic: Solosis, Fennekin
Rock: Relicanth
Steel: Skarmory, Pawniard
Water: Relicanth, Popplio, Horsea, Mareanie, Wingull

None: Electric, Fighting, Ice, Normal

Chapter 15 (or, at least what's there so far):

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Dark: Deino
Dragon: Deino
Electric: Rotom
Fire: Rotom
Flying: Rotom
Ghost: Rotom
Grass: Rotom
Ice: Rotom
Water: Rotom
None, yet: Bug, Fairy, Fighting, Ground, Normal, Poison, Psychic, Rock, Steel

 

There are probably mistakes, so please let me know if you spot any!

[Cadmium48]

Thank you, forums, for breaking all my spoilers.

All traces of Advanced Errors should be gone now, aside from the weird margins thing that I'll (hopefully) be able to figure out.

EDIT: after fifteen minutes manually having to redo all the formatting for half the chapters, it's all fixed now! 

[fellowry]

Thanks for doing this, This was a very good guide wish i had waited this guide before i started my monorun. 

 

Some Question though:  isn't Pokemon that gain another typing with mega evolution is considered fair game in monorun? Example if you want to run a Dragon mono having Charizard or Sceptile is fine right?
 

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fair warning for those chad out there, DO NOT start a Steel mono. The ptsd of soloing all of venam's team with only Prinplup in Intense still haunts me

 

[Cadmium48]

10 hours ago, fellowry said:

Some Question though:  isn't Pokemon that gain another typing with mega evolution is considered fair game in monorun? Example if you want to run a Dragon mono having Charizard or Sceptile is fine right?

I added those! It's really up to you whether they're legal or not, but keep in mind that Megas are currently unavailable.

[Just A Cool Fella]

Did someone actually succeed in beating the game while doing the monotype run challenge (in hard mode of course). I'm genuinely curious, as that seems like a near-impossible task to achieve

[fellowry]

15 minutes ago, Just A Cool Fella said:

Did someone actually succeed in beating the game while doing the monotype run challenge (in hard mode of course). I'm genuinely curious, as that seems like a near-impossible task to achieve

Its really fun mainly its because it restrict your option so you are forced to strategize and use pokemon that you generally avoid but yes i admit that they are several battle wherei almost threw my laptop cuz of frustration, the hardest part of monotype run is actually the first few gyms, if you run a type that is rare in early game like fairy, steel or dragon you are forced to battle their whole team with only 1 or 2 pkmn and let me tell you it is very frustrating

[Generic Gamer]

On 4/22/2020 at 5:09 PM, Just A Cool Fella said:

Did someone actually succeed in beating the game while doing the monotype run challenge (in hard mode of course). I'm genuinely curious, as that seems like a near-impossible task to achieve

there's a number of people who have, at this point. hell, i've already beaten two intense mode Monotype runs (Ice and Ghost), and am currently working on two more (Grass and Steel.)

[FriarTruck]

I think you should put in a shadow typing too, if anyone wants to try that out. Does each chapter correlate to the same badge i.e. chapter 4 = up to badge 4?

[heart]

idk if this counts, but gardevoir is available before you reach valour summit (idr which chapter) as the items needed, cell batteries and metal powder can be found on wild pokemon. charjabug and ditto.

[Cadmium48]

18 hours ago, FriarTruck said:

I think you should put in a shadow typing too, if anyone wants to try that out. Does each chapter correlate to the same badge i.e. chapter 4 = up to badge 4?

A shadow typing is impossible, you cannot fight Gyms with Shadow Pokémon. And, yes, each chapter largely correlates to a single badge, but there is some leeway, such as Chapter 14 finishing with

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the battle against Isha.

 

[FriarTruck]

I meant restored shadow pokemon, but now I realize a monotype guide isn't really the place for it.

I'm really glad you made this up, it is super handy to have on hand. Thanks!

[Cadmium48]

20 hours ago, heart said:

idk if this counts, but gardevoir is available before you reach valour summit (idr which chapter) as the items needed, cell batteries and metal powder can be found on wild pokemon. charjabug and ditto.

From what I've heard, it actually isn't possible, the Ditto is static and cannot have the Metal Powder.

However, I did fix the fact that Ralts was missing from the Fighting section.

[Just A Cool Fella]

I just noticed that there aren't a lot of pokemon in chapter 7. Is it the Blacksteeple part ? Can't remember, didn't play the game in months

Edited April 28, 2020 by Just A Cool Fella
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[Lucky98]

5 hours ago, Cadmium48 said:

From what I've heard, it actually isn't possible, the Ditto is static and cannot have the Metal Powder.

However, I did fix the fact that Ralts was missing from the Fighting section.

I can actually confirm that the static ditto does indeed have a chance to hold metal powder, at least in V12. Combined with Cell Batteries from wild charjabug makes it possible to get ralts as soon as you beat kyogre in valor mountain. That's when I got mine in V12. 

 

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I just noticed that there aren't a lot of pokemon in chapter 7. Is it the Blacksteeple part ? Can't remember, didn't play the game in months

Chapter 7 is from Crawli to Angie

[Cadmium48]

1 hour ago, Lucky98 said:

I can actually confirm that the static ditto does indeed have a chance to hold metal powder, at least in V12. Combined with Cell Batteries from wild charjabug makes it possible to get ralts as soon as you beat kyogre in valor mountain. That's when I got mine in V12.

Oops! Fixed now.

1 hour ago, Just A Cool Fella said:

I just noticed that there aren't a lot of pokemon in chapter 7. Is it the Blacksteeple part ? Can't remember, didn't play the game in months

There aren't a lot of new Pokemon because the only newly accessible areas are

 

 

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Aquamarine Cave, Teila Resort, Kristiline Town, and Angie's Rift.

Only two of these have Pokemon, and most of their Pokemon have already appeared. Teila has an NPC trade for Passimian, the Type: Null quest only opens up at this point, and Delibird, Spheal, and Squirtle are the only new Pokemon in the new areas.

[Nexen57]

You get Fly before Chapter 14 so the pokemon accesible after getting Fly should be placed in the Chapter 13 spoiler and in the Chapter 14's.Only the pokemon accesible with Dive and with the new locations of Chapter 14 should be in the Chapter 14's spoiler.

[Just A Cool Fella]

Imagine trying to get through chapter 1 with only a Popplio or a Piplup on Hard Mode

[fellowry]

On 5/1/2020 at 2:28 AM, Just A Cool Fella said:

Imagine trying to get through chapter 1 with only a Popplio or a Piplup on Hard Mode

Well you are looking that guy lol

[Cadmium48]

On 4/30/2020 at 3:28 PM, Just A Cool Fella said:

Imagine trying to get through chapter 1 with only a Popplio or a Piplup on Hard Mode

I did Popplio on Normal mode! Venam actually wasn't too bad there.

On 4/30/2020 at 6:16 AM, Nexen57 said:

You get Fly before Chapter 14 so the pokemon accesible after getting Fly should be placed in the Chapter 13 spoiler and in the Chapter 14's.Only the pokemon accesible with Dive and with the new locations of Chapter 14 should be in the Chapter 14's spoiler.

As for this, you can only fly after beating the Leader for the chapter, and straight up leaving the stadium with Fly bugs the game as far as I know. I don't quite know the last scene of the chapter, so if you do, please let me know.

[Lucky98]

40 minutes ago, Cadmium48 said:

I did Popplio on Normal mode! Venam actually wasn't too bad there.

As for this, you can only fly after beating the Leader for the chapter, and straight up leaving the stadium with Fly bugs the game as far as I know. I don't quite know the last scene of the chapter, so if you do, please let me know.

Souta’s badge is what unlocks the ability to Fly, not Adam’s. His unlocks Dive. You also need the HM in order to use it, so you can actually fly back to Gearen as soon as Damien brings you back to Route 9, before going to the stadium. 

[Don't Contact Me, I Left]

Small error updates:

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Post Souta, not Post Adam:

Flabebe, Starly, Sneasel, Joltik, Charmander, Cottonee, Beldum, Scyther, Feebas and Gastly.

 

Idk when but I think getting Snorlax might be post Erick and not post Souta. (someone double check that pls)

If I missed anymore tell me and note that while the 100% guide is accurate, it doesn't always give the earliest obtainability points.

[Cadmium48]

6 hours ago, Grace Fair said:

Post Souta, not Post Adam:

Flabebe, Starly, Sneasel, Joltik, Charmander, Cottonee, Beldum, Scyther, Feebas and Gastly.

Fixed these!

As for Snorlax, I don't believe you can wake it up until the sidequest with Ben and Jenkel if I'm remembering correctly.

[Don't Contact Me, I Left]

31 minutes ago, Cadmium48 said:

Fixed these!

As for Snorlax, I don't believe you can wake it up until the sidequest with Ben and Jenkel if I'm remembering correctly.

Yeah if you mean the Inkay sidequest Yui Ranch, I can confirm it is post Erick (maybe Flora/Florin depending on when the guy returns). Both by memory and 100% guide.

[Nexen57]

Also Chapter 11 ends at the Rose theater so Komala,Sandygast and Dewpider can be caught in chapter 10.

[Cadmium48]

2 hours ago, Nexen57 said:

Also Chapter 11 ends at the Rose theater so Komala,Sandygast and Dewpider can be caught in chapter 10

I fixed Snorlax, but why would the end of Chapter 11 affect Chapter 10?