Pokemon Ruby Monotype Challenge: Normal

[Zetsubou-Sama]

Inspired by the great deal of fun I've been having following the Bug Type challenge and the Ice type challenge, I have decided to follow up by doing my own challenge by only using Normal type pokemon.

Somethings I'd like to state first:

I have no knwoledge of Pokemons/stats/evolutions even their types or how they work outside of the 2nd gen so this is all a new experience to me.

Second, I'll also be playing Ruby for the first time and it's been a while since I've played pokemon so I might ask for some help

And third I won't be only using pure type Normal. Give me a break It'd be impossible

So for chapter 1:

After beginning in a close place, all of my hopes of having a kick-ass prison break were soon put to end when I found out I was a ***** enclosed with all the furniture.

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Watching a Machoke jack off to my tv is not making me feel confident about my family's dignity.

After running all of my paper boy errands, meeting the whole town I finally have to save a nerd from the pokemon bully. Finally time to shine, when I go for my case I find nerdboy doesn't have a cool fire type baby dragon or a water shooting crocodile, but a rat, a pidgeon and a freaking egg freak.

Since I'm going to have to save this guy from a hairy weasel (zigzagoon) might as well using something that can fly.

After saving his ass, I kept thinking I'd get some kind of reward, he takes me to his lab where I'm given, the freakin pidgeon. Guess he didn't have anything else to offer, huh?

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Next time I'm letting the hairy dog/weasel/whatever eat you. Anyway he's name will be Polly

After being this guy's ***** for a while I find out he gave his daughter a fucking Fire chicken! Seriously?! You had one of those and all I get is the lousy bird?

After awesomely kick the chicken's ass (spam tackle) I get back to the lab and get sent on a quest to catch them all. (Minus the few obvious pokemons that are kept in another game so that I have to spend all my money on).

I then go to my mom and ask her for permission, the hippie crackhead easily sends me off to the world, with her mouthless empty gaze.

Finally rid of the overempowering shackles of motherhood I go walk in a tall grass in hopes of finding some teammates.

I find the zigzagoon *****. I keep him for traumatizing the doctor purposes (and because how many normals can I really get right?) and I advance. After training POLLY the pidgey to level 13 i finally decide is time to kick my dad's ass as a proof of my recently-acquired adulthood...

He then promptly sends me to be some dude's ***** yet again. Seems like I am not an adult in my dad's eyes.

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After being falsely promissed butt sex, a wild battle ensues.

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And that's where I meet the spawn of satan.

After helping the douchebag with his Alien buddy I get sent back to my dad who tells me to go see the world. Seriously, my parents just wish i fall off a ravine and die somewhere that's how much they care, being in the back of a truck was actually them being nice. I then procceed to the next GYM.

During the way i come across a poochyena that seems like a safebet, just to find the pooch is a dark type and so by challenge purposes unusable.

While walking around trying to get my zigzagoon in a nice level i come across party member nº3 a Taillow, after catching it I finally decide on the best name for him:

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I then walk back to restore my pokemons to fighting conditions when I come across this *****:


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What Treecko?? Why are you making fun of me?! I AM NOT BEING TAKEN SERIOUSLY ON MY QUEST TO AVERAGE STARDOM.

Well that it's for the first update.

I'll be working on evolving Polly and Ziggy for my first Bage (a rock type, so lucky). Any tips or advice on pokemon, strategies?

 

[adderseal]

Rock type gym, and you have normal and flying types...
best stock up on potions.
Or you could just wreck them with Treecko, but would that defeat the point of your challenge?
Speaking of normal types, get a Blissey as soon as humanly possible. Quick to raise and a lv100 Blissey can have about 700hp

 

[Zetsubou-Sama]

Rock type gym, and you have normal and flying types...
best stock up on potions.
Or you could just wreck them with Treecko, but would that defeat the point of your challenge?
Speaking of normal types, get a Blissey as soon as humanly possible. Quick to raise and a lv100 Blissey can have about 700hp

I dont own a treecko, it was just a glitch because i hacked a pidgey to be a starter. But thanks anywya

 

[tomtom94]

I decided to try a Dark one, on Sapphire.
I then remembered that the way attacks were assigned Physical and Special bits in Ruby sucked hard, and that I would be relying on Poochyena and Sableye for much of the game.

I have decided though to do a Poison one on Diamond if I get the time. That could be fun.


I wish you good luck with your quest; normal-types are perenially underrated, TMs will be your friend I suspect.

 

[Amarok]

Remember Pure Normal types can actually learn quite a lot of different movetypes from TMs. You could end up more diverse than you thought.

 

[Zetsubou-Sama]

Update (I wasn't expecting one so early but due to some circumstances I have to do so):

After finally being everyone's ***** for a while I get to cross a *gasp* forest, wonder if the Rock type GYM leader also has a Geodude.

After wrecking some weedle/caterpie lovechilds with Ziggy and Polly I get ordered around by some guy being followed by a weird cosplayer from "team magma". I face his poochyena with Ziggy and win handily, in return I receive a pokeball, Gee great, that's what I get for putting my ass on the line?!

Time to train against that Rock fucker and by that I mean overpowering the shit out of Ziggy Polly and Dogmeat. After grinding my way until level 20 Ziggy finally evolves into Lineone or whatever it is. So far apart from headbutt and an above average speed he's pretty much useless as my party.

Polly also gets to level 18 but woe me, stupid bird is the definition of average and got owned along side Dogmeat by two level 8 Geodude's (Gosh I cant wait til I reach a cave). After exploring the apparent town and finding out that my adulthood means shit and all exploration paths are fucking blocked. I'm left with going back and grind some more hoping for some quirky attacks that I can use to beat the crap out of Roxanne.

Back into my bug killing I get Dogmeat to level 15 and as such a decent Focus Energy- Wing Attack combo. Too bad it doesn't mean shit against that fucking GYM leader. On my ventures I get a hold of a slothblabla which I named Snacks, a sluttish cat (skitty) named Pliskin and a whismur i named Tim Burton.

After becoming a flower girl's (I still do not seem to be as respected as I should, should've gotten the fuckin chicken) ***** I decide the only way to train the shit out of that lazy can't attack twice pig-monkey is with higher tier opponents.

After kicking the living hell out of the two trainers that tried to face me (read: clutch after clutch) I reach Roxanne.

My original plan:

Having a Level 15 Skitty charm Geodude switch with Dogmeat and Focus Energy-Wing Attack as long as I could (One rocktomb and he'd die), after switching with a level 15 Sloth boy that performed encore after a tackle, and try to chip down HP as well with a level 15 Tim Burton Astonish.

After Geodude, switch back to Slothboy or Skitty and try to delay them, after fainting throw Polly for a quick attack and Ziggy would duke it out with all it could.

Slothboy had quick claw, everyone was supposed to have a oran berry held.


How it went down:

Level 7 Sloth Boy gets a lucky quick claw Yawn, gets killed, level 7 Tim Burton (Wishmur) comes and nicks some HP from sleeping Geodude, I try to use Uproar after the guy wakes up, not effective, gets killed. Switch to Skitty level 7 forget that it's the same sex as the Geodude, try to tackle, nick some HP gets killed. At this point I'm all for nothing I just wanted some XP for sloth boy but he got killed too easily. I switch to Ziggy and spam Headbutt and manage to finish him off before too much damage.

Nosepass comes, I switch to Dogmeat (taillow), at this point I'm not even thinking about healing, I just want to go grind since my team is still piss poor. Dogmeat gets killed after the first Wing Attack, gets Rock tombed, I switch to Polly I quick attack, get Rock tombed. I finally send Ziggy, I spam my last Headbutts the last one a critical hit that took half of Nosepass's HP and threw him into the red while enduring Rock tomb and Rock throw that only take about 6-10 HP per hit. I throw a tackle I win.

A Champion's willpower.

Now for opinions:

Which pokemons should I keep with me?

Polly (Level 18 Pidgeotto average sweeper)
Pliskin (Level 7 Skitty annoyer)
Snacks (Level 9 Slakoth annoyer/staller I read he gets better but he's such a pain to train)
Tim Burton (Level 7 Wishbur potential sweeper I actually think this guy has the most varied movepool so early in the game)
Dogmeat (Level 15 Taillow fast physical sweeper)
Ziggy (Level 20 Linoone fast but that's it, serves as current overleveled tank)

Any other tips would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Zetsubou-Sama]

This thing is postponned until I cure my laptop from Win32.Virut.

 

[Zetsubou-Sama]

So, I ended up being really addicted to this and not post and update but here goes some info and some questions:

First the second GYM was pretty easy, since fighting type has a weakness against Flying, my Taillow crushed it handily.

After some roaming around I get to the Electric type GYM, now... this is where you find out how much the game is actually unbalanced, team was:

Polly, the Pidgey level 22 with:

Quick Attack
Tackle
Gust
Sand-Attack

Tim Burton, level 23 Loudred with:

Pound
Uproar
Howl
Rock Smash (i know lol)

Snacks, level 22 Vigoroth with:

Fury Swipes
Scratch
Encore
Yawn

Pliskin, level 22 Skitty with:

Doubleslap
Attract
Assist
Helping Hand
Dogmeat, level 26 Swellow with:

Quick Attack
Wing Attack
Double Team
Steel Wing

Bowie, level 26 Linoone with:

Tackle
Headbutt
Sand-Atack
Mud Sport

I got my ass handed over, well over 15 times. Even with all the parlyz heals, super-potions, the fact Magnemite and Megnaton had a Steel subtype was just freaking impossible to break through, that's why i gave Rock Smash to Loudred. The lack of special attacks in TM's and ven movepools made this a hard match. Only with everyone circa level 30 I stood a chance:

Linoone mud sport, head butt magnemite, got paralyzed, managed to get lucky kill. Swellow quick attack Voltorb, endured spark, quick attack again, on Magneton he killed Skitty (such a shitty pokemon, couldn't even use attract and assist didn't work either). I switched to Linone and mudsport, and then I just rock smashed with Loudred for the defense effect on Magneton and tried my best with Fury Swipes and the newly-acquired Stomp after the raging super-potion on magneton I used Swellow's endeavour and quick attack (mind you swellow was EV trained on speed).

Gah, after that, I'm finally moving on, I skipped two Magma team members that were in front of the mountain ferry, and I think I need to get back there soon to get to the 4th badge.

tl, dr:

NOW ESCAPIST THIS IS WHERE I NEED YOU:

I need some pokemons to better my party.

What should I keep? What should go away?

Right now I need a special oriented pokemon. I caught a Swablu and he doesn't have a really good Sp. Attack, and I can't use his evolution, I caught a Zangoose which I'm keeping instead of Skitty, and I caught a Spinta which is completely average.

Should I keep either Swablu or Spinta? Who to switch for? Which normal type pokemons are there to catch that are worth it?

And...I'm thinking of keeping Vigoroth unevolved, I can't really stand his trait. And I realized that my last opponent in E4 is a steel user, how can i get past that without getting royally fucked?