Kristell's Commonplace


PokeMMO Nuzlocke

Tags:
| Mmo | | One-Off |

Rules

Standard Nuzlocke rules:

  1. You may only catch the first pokemon you encounter on a route
  2. If your pokemon faints, it is considered dead

PokeMMO specific rules:

  1. No use of the global trade link
  2. No trading with other players (even for trade evos)
  3. No sending items over from other accounts/characters
  4. Pokemon are allowed to be used in any region, not only the one they’re caught in.
  5. Legendaries are allowed (I’m specifying this here because PokeMMO has some weirdness with legendaries), as well as all of their associated stat-changing items. I will, however, likely avoid using them.
  6. No gift shop. While it’s not an obscene advantage, it’s still an advantage.

Clauses:

  1. Shiny clause (may catch shinies, but not use them)
  2. Dupes clause (must skip a pokemon if you already have another of its species)

Allowances:

  1. Breeding will be allowed for fainted mons for story purposes (also PokeMMO already makes this harder, so I feel it’s fair)
  2. EV training is allowed.
  3. I will be farming berries for my own use.
  4. Gym rebattles can be used if I have access, however all previous rules still apply.
  5. Nicknames will be done, but may not be done immediately, as I do like to think about it or let a nickname come up naturally.

Forseeable Issues

I basically can’t relearn moves if I don’t get a pokemon that learns an item-stealing move.

Abra is gonna be a pain if I do run into it. I may well end up bending rules because of that.

Gym battles won’t be doable efficiently (the normal way to do them is with Typhlosions and a sacrificial Cottonee + Torkoal), but should still be doable.

Miscellaneous Information

This document will be updated with all of the actual information about the run itself, which pokemon I catch, what levels they are, etc. I’ll be doing a separate series on my blog which will go through the run in a more story-oriented format as a diary written in-character.

The git repo format is so that there will be a history of things done. I likely won’t update the repo itself for every single level, but major events such as new catches, faints, breeds, and badges will warrant a commit.

Route

As of right now the main planned part is that I’ll be starting in Hoenn, because of berry farming. You need the wailmer pail to be able to grow herbs, and that’s only available in Hoenn.

After that I’ll be going through the first four badges in Hoenn to get access to the other regions, and then I’ll be going through all regions simultaneously, going in the order of which region has the lowest current level cap. This is (hopefully) to avoid any issues with pokemon being over-levelled for the other regions, but I don’t remember if the exp is stored and given automatically, or on the next battle victory. We’ll see on that one. Also, if there’s a level tie I’ll do it by generation order.

As for starters, I’m not totally sure. The game doesn’t work like regular pokemon games, and ability patches make things different. I’m not sure how much of a difference that’ll make, given that I think you can only use it in the post-game because of the pokedex requirement. I could be wrong though.

The unofficial route is:

Hoenn (Badges 1-4)

The other four regions can be done at this point in any order

  1. Hoenn - Roxanne (Level 24)
  2. Hoenn - Brawly (Level 28)
  3. Hoenn - Wattson (Level 33)
  4. Hoenn - Flannery (Level 35)
  5. Kanto - Brock (Level 20)
  6. Johto - Falkner (Level 20)
  7. Unova - Cilan/Chili/Cress (Level 24)
  8. Kanto - Misty (Level 26)
  9. Sinnoh - Roark (Level 27)
  10. Unova - Lenora (Level 27)
  11. Johto - Bugsy (Level 29)
  12. Sinnoh - Gardenia (Level 29)
  13. Unova - Burgh (Level 31)
  14. Kanto - Lt. Surge (Level 32)
  15. Johto - Whitney (Level 32)
  16. Sinnoh - Fantina (Level 34)
  17. Unova - Elesa (Level 35)
  18. Kanto - Erika (Level 37)
  19. Johto - Morty (Level 37)
  20. Sinnoh - Maylene (Level 37)
  21. Hoenn - Norman (Level 38)
  22. Unova - Clay (Level 38)
  23. Johto - Chuck (Level 39)
  24. Johto - Jasmine (Level 41)
  25. Sinnoh - Crasher Wake (Level 43)
  26. Unova - Skyla (Level 43)
  27. Hoenn - Winona (Level 44)
  28. Kanto - Koga (Level 46)
  29. Johto - Pryce (Level 46)
  30. Sinnoh - Byron (Level 46)
  31. Unova - Brycen (Level 46)
  32. Kanto - Sabrina (Level 47)
  33. Johto - Clair (Level 48)
  34. Hoenn - Tate and Liza (Level 48)
  35. Kanto - Blaine (Level 50)
  36. Sinnoh - Candice (Level 52)
  37. Kanto - Giovanni (Level 55)
  38. Unova - Iris (Level 56)
  39. Hoenn - Juan (Level 58)
  40. Sinnoh - Volkner (Level 60)

Any inconsistencies in the order should be attributed to human error.