So recently I began a Nuzlocke challenge on Ruby, my first attempt at one. I originally wasn't going to post here but meh, changed my mind, a lot has happened though, so I'll spare you guys from the majority of the smaller details.
Randomised my starter, of course I ended up with Torchic, which I nicknamed Charmander, a theme for my nicknames. Before the first gym caught two Zigzagoon, a Poochyena, a Wurmple, a Cascoon, a Nincada and a Whismur. Mostly used Charmander, now a Combusken, for the gym, but I also briefly trained up one of my Zigzagoon named Sentret, who is in fact still on my team, and my Wurmple called Caterpie, which became a Beautifly. I also raised Kakuna the Cascoon into a Dustox, but then...
In the Dewford gym, I got too cocky. I thought Dustox could take down a gym trainer's Meditite, not knowing it had Confusion...RIP. But lessons were learned, and I soon improved in team maintenance and management. Caterpie the Beautifly dominated the rest of the gym with Gust. I also caught a Makuhita who I named Mankey, and a Magikarp named Remoraid.
I feared Wattson, but he was not much problem thanks to Combusken. Neither was Maxie and Flannery. Along the way I picked up a Minun named Electabuzz, and also a fossil that I later revived into a Lileep called Omanyte, and a Spoink called Drowzee.
Going into the fifth gym with only one death so far, I was feeling confident, not knowing that it would claim two of my team members. Heartbreakingly my Combusken fell to a gym trainer's Linoone, thanks to a critical hit Headbutt. Ugh. Remoraid, now a Gyarados, was my best hope against Norman with Intimidate, and everything was going well, but unfortunately Slaking broke through with a critical hit Facade which downed Gyarados, revenge was sweet from Mankey my Hariyama.
I decided to put Lileep on my team realising its potential, unfortunately it came up against a Rollout-ing Wailmer, and each of my three Bullet Seeds only hit two times. If just one had hit more, Lileep would still be alive, but alas, it had to be sacrificed to Wailmer for the greater good, despite my best attempts.
So with three quick fire losses, I needed to regroup. Thankfully I nabbed a Tentacool named Shellder which I quickly evolved, and trainer all my team members without many problems. I thought Winona would be rough, but Electabuzz (Minun) dominated most of the gym, with Shellder (Tentacruel) and Ice Beam taking down Altaria.
So now I go forward to pastures new. All things considered my challenge is going well enough. One annoying thing so far is that, including my team member, I have bumped into SIX Zigzagoon/Linoone as my Nuzlocke encounters.