User:Celadonkey/Playthroughs

I am doing playthroughs of every main series Pokémon game (that is, I'm choosing one out of the pairs or trios of games and playing that one) and recording what happens.

Yellow

Current Team

Joey Lavender Town Yellow Reward: 0

Type: Normal Unknown Butter Boy Lv.33 Pound Normal   --       Flash Normal   --       Sing Normal   --       BubbleBeam Water   --       Types: Poison Ground Elvis Lv.27 Poison Sting Poison   --       Tackle Normal   --       Horn Attack Normal   --       Double Kick Fighting   --       Type: Electric Unknown Jaune Lv.32 Thunderbolt Electric   --       Quick Attack Normal   --       Slam Normal   --       Thunder Wave Electric   --       Type: Ground Unknown Troika Lv.31 Scratch Normal   --       Growl Normal   --       Dig Ground   --       Sand-Attack Normal   --       Types: Grass Poison Buldge Lv.28 Tackle Normal   --       Growl Normal   --       Leech Seed Grass   --       Vine Whip Grass   --       Types: Fire Flying Chungy Lv.36 Fly Flying   --       Cut Normal   --       Ember Fire   --       Slash Normal   --

Log

So far I have 4 badges and have had 1 blackout/whiteout/game over.

Log
1/29/17: This game is pretty hard so far... I have to do a lot of grinding to keep up, because of the low level of wild/trainer Pokémon and the high level of gym Pokémon. My first blackout was while fighting Brock. After losing, I leveled up Elvis (Nidoran ♂) up one more level and of course then it learned a move supereffective against Rock-type. I defeated Brock's Geodude pretty quickly and was close to defeating Onix when suddenly Onix used Bide and OHKO'd Elvis. I had two other Pokémon: a Pikachu whose only attacking moves did no damage against Onix, and a Lv.4 Nidoran ♀, Mercury. I sent out Mercury and slowly got rid of the little HP Onix had left. It instantly shot up 4 levels.
2/3/17: Lt. Surge was ridiculous... ridiculously easy. I expected that I needed to grind a ton to defeat him, as most of my Pokémon were around level 21 and his Raichu was 28, but I decided to feel things out to see what level I'd need to be. I got through the puzzle and challenged Surge with my level 22 Nidoqueen, and his strategy was awful: keep spamming Growl, every so often using Thunderbolt, Mega Kick, or an X Speed. The Mega Kick was the one thing I needed to worry about, but I had 10 Super Potions and he only used it once. Slowly I whittled down Raichu's HP and got the Thunder Badge. Shortly after, I got a bike and went to Diglett Cave to get Flash, and ran into a level 29 Dugtrio! I tried to catch it, but I ended up running out of Pokéballs and it knocked out almost my whole team.
2/4/17: I tried again for a Dugtrio... and caught it first ball. It's seven levels higher than my second highest-leveled Pokémon...
2/17/17: I'm at the point where playing this game is a chore. It isn't fun at all. Really at this point there are only two reasons I keep playing: to say I completed every Pokémon game, and to move on to Crystal.
2/19/17: Four gym badges - that (hopefully) means I'm halfway! Hopefully the game either will start getting more enjoyable here, or will start speeding up.
2/20/17: Today was really productive! I fully evolved Elvis and Chungy, made it through the Rocket Hideout, defeated Giovanni, and got the Silph Scope. I'm starting to feel good about this game. Hopefully I should finish it within the next two weeks.

Moon

Final Team

Joey Pokémon League Moon Reward: 0

Types: Grass Ghost Ability: Overgrow Held item: Decidium Z Pearl Lv.64 Spirit Shackle Ghost Physical   --       Brave Bird Flying Physical   --       Leaf Blade Grass Physical   --       Pluck Flying Physical   --       Types: Normal Flying Ability: Keen Eye Held item: Fightinium Z Peckem Lv.58 Drill Peck Flying Physical   --       Beak Blast Flying Physical   --       Hyper Voice Normal Special   --       Brick Break Fighting Physical   --       Type: Ground Unknown Ability: Stamina Held item: None Shrek Lv.60 Earthquake Ground Physical   --       High Horsepower Ground Physical   --       Heavy Slam Steel Physical   --       Mega Kick Normal Physical   --       Type: Normal Unknown Ability: Thick Fat Held item: Snorlium Z Monounsat Lv.55 Body Slam Normal Physical   --       Crunch Dark Physical   --       Hold Back Normal Physical   --       Giga Impact Normal Physical   --       Type: Water Unknown Ability: Schooling Held item: Waterium Z Crybaby Lv.61 Endeavor Normal Physical   --       Feint Attack Dark Physical   --       Hydro Pump Water Special   --       Dive Water Physical   --       Types: Psychic Ghost Ability: Shadow Shield Held item: Ghostium Z Nebby Lv.62 Moongeist Beam Ghost Special   --       Cosmic Power Psychic Status   --       Night Daze Dark Special   --       Phantom Force Ghost Physical   --

Log

I don't exactly have a log or much data for Moon because I decided to do this little challenge after I beat Moon...

Review

• Final Time: about 50 hours (I didn't check the time)
• I had no blackouts/whiteouts/game overs.
• Difficulty: 8/10 Although I had no blackouts, there were a lot of tough times and close calls. Particularly the fight against Totem Lurantis (Screw you, Castform!), Hala and Kahili on the Elite Four, and my closest call: Kukui (It ended with both of our Snorlaxes being out only Pokémon left and I barely beat it without fainting myself.)
• My overall rating: 9.5/10
  • Region: 10/10 Alola is undoubtedly the most beautiful region I've seen. Really, the only thing that sets it from a 10 is some of the weird landscape on Ula'ula, particularly the desert next to a snowy mountain.
  • Plot: 10/10 Sun and Moon is unique for me because it had a bunch of likable, interesting characters, and an excellent plot that hooked me. I can't really point out any flaws in the plot.
  • New Pokémon Design: 9/10 Most of the Pokémon are really, really well designed. Really the only ones I didn't like were the monkeys and Bruxish.
  • Gameplay: 9/10 This game is so unbelievably polished: a ton of awesome new features and the removal of things that I didn't like (HMs and the PC menus, for example). The only thing that keeps the gameplay from a perfect 10 is the long tutorial lasting most of the first quarter of the game.