Right! Let's do this!
I decided doing Nuzlocke on my Japanese HeartGold might be a bit much, so I'm retracting and doing Fire Red. I'm just inside Mount Moon at the moment, so here's my team. See if you can pick out my name theme:
Bulbasaur (JUNGLEHUNT)
Mankey (DONKEYKONG)
Rattata (ET)
Butterfree (AIR WORLD)
Jigglypuff (PACMAN)
Geodude (MTN KING)
Defeated:
Pidgey (PITFALL)
I liked that Pidgey, but I can catch another one later. I'm thinking of calling it JOUST.
EDIT:
Second day update. I lost AIR WORLD in Mt. Moon, unfortunately, but took my time after getting a Helix Fossil. I unfortunately lost MTN KING to ****s (rival, heh), caught a few new Pokemon and grinded just enough to take on Misty, who ended up going down easily even though I was underleveled. PACMAN annihilated Staryu with Mega Punch, and I brought in JUNGLEHUNT against Starmie. No problem. I moved on south to Vermilion, caught a few new Pokemon, including ones to replace the ones I'd lost. I switched out a few to Pokemon I decided I'd rather use for the time being, and am currently leveling up a bit before I board the St. Anne.
TEAM:
Pidgey (PITFALL) Level 16 (replaces original)
Meowth (DOLPHIN) Level 14
Ivysaur (JUNGLEHUNT) Level 19
Jigglypuff (PACMAN) Level 18
Butterfree (AIR WORLD) Level 15 (replaces original)
Mankey (DONKEYKONG) Level 17
PC:
Oddish (MISSILECMD) Level 14
Spearow (QBERT) Level 16
Rattata (ET) Level 16
DEFEATED:
Pidgey (PITFALL) Level 10
Butterfree (AIR WORLD) Level 12
Geodude (MTN KING) Level 16
And now, I ought to post my personal rules:
- Only catch the first Pokemon in every new location.
- I am allowed to catch the same species of a Pokemon that was defeated earlier in the challenge, if it's the first I see in a route, but not required if I want to train something else.
- I am allowed to use and buy any items except revives freely.
My own house rule:
- I can only use revives that I find, as if they were rare items.
- I cannot use a revive retroactively to bring back into play a Pokemon that I previously boxed when I didn't have a revive. It must be in my party when I have the revive.
I know this breaks a major rule of Nuzlocke, but in my previous attempt I got so frustrated that I gave up. This way I'm allowing myself just a bit of slack, and adding the strategy of deciding when to use that rare Revive. Yeah, you can decide that if I get through this challenge, it doesn't count because of this, if you want. It's all for fun anyway.
Pokemon that have had found revives used on them:
PACMAN (1)