This has been a Spotlighted Challenge. Here's how it works.
Spotlight period: September 1st to November 30th, 2023
Spotlight period: September 1st to November 30th, 2023
Time to bring back the 2020 Halloween Event as a regular challenge~
What's this all about? Well, it's a challenge that will make you shuffle your team and catch Pokémon for the entire duration of your run, for their life force will be continuously drained by Lampent, Chandelure and whatever else is coming after it. You'll get to box your starter without even reaching its final stage, you'll get to catch that one Pokémon at the end of the game and make it work, you'll get to work with underleveled companions and still make your way through the hardest battles. That's the goal, at least.
I organized this event after about one month of being promoted Challenges mod, and I'm quite proud of how it turned out and how much people (me included) seemed to enjoy it. Now though, it's about time I revisit the ruleset and create a regular challenge thread for it, so that anyone can play along at their own pace and without random rules ruining their day...
Rules:
🕯️ Every Pokémon you catch can only gain a certain number of levels while in your possession. That's called Level Limit, and it is 10 levels (Normal Mode) or 15 levels (Easy mode).
🕯️ End points? That would be beating the Elite 4 and Champion of each game (for Johto games, it's ok to just beat Lance for the first time). If you want, though, you can keep playing and see how it goes~
Why Easy and Normal Mode, you may ask? Because each game is different, and some can be harder to work with than others! In some games it can be hard to find Pokémon at a specific level, in others the variety of available Pokémon is not enough. Plus, there may be people who feel heart-broken about not being able to evolve their Starter, or who want a more forgiving first approach, so... here we are! I'll just say this: if you try Easy Mode and enjoy it, please consider trying Normal Mode too!
How to sign up:
I'll need to know...
🕯️ Forum name:
🕯️ Game of choice:
🕯️ Easy Mode or Normal mode:
🕯️ Optional Rules, if any:
And that's about it, really.
Champions:
🕯️ Kostucha - Sapphire
🕯️ Janp - Sapphire
🕯️ Devalue - Scarlet
The Lampent Challenge
What's this all about? Well, it's a challenge that will make you shuffle your team and catch Pokémon for the entire duration of your run, for their life force will be continuously drained by Lampent, Chandelure and whatever else is coming after it. You'll get to box your starter without even reaching its final stage, you'll get to catch that one Pokémon at the end of the game and make it work, you'll get to work with underleveled companions and still make your way through the hardest battles. That's the goal, at least.
I organized this event after about one month of being promoted Challenges mod, and I'm quite proud of how it turned out and how much people (me included) seemed to enjoy it. Now though, it's about time I revisit the ruleset and create a regular challenge thread for it, so that anyone can play along at their own pace and without random rules ruining their day...
Rules:
🕯️ Every Pokémon you catch can only gain a certain number of levels while in your possession. That's called Level Limit, and it is 10 levels (Normal Mode) or 15 levels (Easy mode).
For example: if you get your level 5 starter, and its level limit is 10, it means you can only use that Pokémon until it reaches level 15. Once it's level 15, you'll have to box it as soon as possible.
🕯️ Dupes Clause is a thing! You can only catch 1 Pokémon from each evolution family during your run, unlike in the event. This is raised to 3 in Easy Mode.This makes for more planning, for sure (careful not to catch that Gible in Platinum's Wayward Cave, you may want a Gabite from Victory Road...) and is an incentive to be more creative with your Pokémon teams!
🕯️ Some technical stuff: no hacking or trading new Pokémon in the game, use that Regional Pokédex to the best of your abilities! Trades are fine if you only use them to evolve your own Pokémon though... like Graveler into Golem and so on. Oh, and please don't exploit glitches to get new Pokémon either, thanks~🕯️ End points? That would be beating the Elite 4 and Champion of each game (for Johto games, it's ok to just beat Lance for the first time). If you want, though, you can keep playing and see how it goes~
Why Easy and Normal Mode, you may ask? Because each game is different, and some can be harder to work with than others! In some games it can be hard to find Pokémon at a specific level, in others the variety of available Pokémon is not enough. Plus, there may be people who feel heart-broken about not being able to evolve their Starter, or who want a more forgiving first approach, so... here we are! I'll just say this: if you try Easy Mode and enjoy it, please consider trying Normal Mode too!
How to sign up:
I'll need to know...
🕯️ Forum name:
🕯️ Game of choice:
🕯️ Easy Mode or Normal mode:
🕯️ Optional Rules, if any:
And that's about it, really.
Champions:
🕯️ Kostucha - Sapphire
🕯️ Janp - Sapphire
🕯️ Devalue - Scarlet
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