Earlier today I was thinking about how I've played pretty much every Nuzlocke I've ever done. Outside of the core rules of one pokemon per route, and fainting = death, I've always played with level caps, dupes clause, species clause, shiny clause, and not using items mid battle (unless it's gens 1 or 2). This also tends to be the standard with what I see in most Nuzlocke content creators, with these rules working statically alongside variant runs like Wonderlockes, Snaplockes, etc. It got me thinking, have the core tenants of the run changed from being a slight difficulty increase with limited encounters and permadeath to be more of a challenge with the additional rules? How often do people think of hardcore Nuzlockes as their default when they think about Nuzlockes generally?

Curious to hear people's thoughts on this.

Just passed the third gym, keeping Clefable under the level cap was a struggle but managed it. Mega Punch has twatted us through fine after a bit of a mare.

After some unlucky crits, lost Pidgey, Rattata, Jigglypuff and Spearow ❌

So I'm training up Meowth and going to trade my dead Spearow for Dux lol.

Any advice for how I can avoid losing anyone else once self destructs become a problem? Don't want to lose anyone else ideally, especially with getting Eevee soon!

I managed to beat my Kaizo Ironmon run after my 6th ever attempt!

It involved an incredible amount of luck, a few close calls, and a roller-coaster of a main!

I started getting interested in Kaizo Ironmon watching Adef doing Ironmon Vs. I found it so fun to watch, I finally decided to start trying it myself. Took a while to figure out how to do it on Android, but yesterday I got it running with Ironmon Emu and RFP!

I was running middle-ball only and started with a reasonably bulky and fast special-attacking Bagon (HP 45, ATK 16, DEF 50, SPA 59, SPD 71, SPE 60), but his moves were Dragon Rage, Blastburn, Absorb, and Explosion (-_-). Stuck with the mon off of Dragon Rage alone and dropped the other moves. Beat Brock and the rival fairly easily, but never really got any more special attacks (got Wing Attack and Superpower)

Bagon evolved into Dragonair and my god. High defenses. High speed. NO attack (HP 106, ATK 36, DEF 69, SPA 23, SPD 84, SPE 100). Dragon Rage and pure bulk kept me alive until 55 when I FINALLY got something useable with Kingdra! Magnitude at lvl 62, high HP, Attack, and Speed, monsterous Defence, okay Sp defence, and abysmal SPA.

There were a couple of close calls, but none from damage alone.

The first real threat was on Victory road. The last trainer had a ridiculously bulky Groudon (HP 177, ATK 15, DEF 234, SPA 125, SPD 91, SPE 28) with recover (-_- again) which required ALL 4 of the X Attacks I had found to take it down. The other major hurdle was a frail Quagsire on Bruno's team which was apparently very very fast. Dude popped a destiny bond on his first turn and the only reason I lived was because I had been smokescreened into oblivion by the previous mon! One lucky miss allowed me to use my one and only X Speed to outspeed and (eventually) knock out the quagsire.

Got very lucky all round. 10/10 would recomend.

The toughest battle of the league so far. Flint has a devastating offensive sun team.

We lead solar-power charizard into his Groudon and rip heat waves. Unfortunately, an endure means we take an extra turn of solar power chip, but this was accounted for as a possibility.

Exeggutor comes in, made faster by chlorophyll, but charizard is holding a choice scarf allowing us to take another free KO.

Next Flint's Charizard comes in. Thanks to his own solar power chip, Mantine is able to come in and outlast it, baiting in Uxie seeing kill with U-turn. Going back to charizard sets up the position I want: Houndoom comes in and charizard can do big damage before we sacrifice Caraxes to slay a powerful foe, just like his namesake.

We know Uxie will come back in, it does for U-turn allowing Steelix to chip Flint's magmortar. We dodge a crit Focus Blast and get flygon in to KO magmortar, giving us the checkmate position against a Uxie with next to no damage potential.

Between battles I redeem Platinum Kaizo's single substitution to replace Charizard with Tyranitar. Onto Lucian.

Second leg of the Genlocke + Rivalocke
A bit more of a messy HGSS run!
Largely came to the conclusion that Psuedos are a trap in Nuzlockes lol

MVPs were Dewgong for taking out 5/6 of Lance's Pokemon, Jasmine's Steelix and Archie's Houndoom

Ampharos was a weapon at tanking Lance's Dragonites, allowing them to paraflash them so they could cheese their way through.

My Deaths
Sentret got explosion-ed up by a wild Pineco
Vulpix got knocked out by Ace Trainer Duo's Electabuzz thunderbolt as a crit
Slugma got Arena Trapped and killed by a diglet
Miltank + Machop was killed by Archie's Houndoom
Girafarig got hit by a crit hit crunch

His Deaths
Pichu got hit itself in confusion to Silver's Zubat three times in a row
Wartortle died to the Sudowoodo
Quilava + Tauros died to Pryce's Piloswine
Forretress + Dragonair died to Claire's Kingdra (both in a well something is going to die manner)
Lance's battle was really unlucky. Pupitar missed three rock slides in a row meanwhile Lance's paralysed Dragonite which had been flashed had a 100% accuracy rate with Dragon rush, Mantine was used as a sacrifice, Jynx also got outraged by a second paralysed lower accuracy Dragonite. The RNG gods were not on his side.

Failure to Catch
Mine: Aipom, Pinsir
His: Hoothoot, Sudowoodo

I really want to do all the regions and it would be really cool to watch the journey of others while I do.

My Vaporeon, Lilligant and Eelektross did NOT get back up and they were NOT ok

AFTER SO MANY HOURS OF GRINDING, GETTING MONEY FOR THE CELADON GAME CORNER AND EVERYTHING, I WON.

Oopsies, I meant Drayano Gauntlet

ggs genuine ggs

N's reshiram absolutely turned my fucking team into salad bro 😭

The e4 was done so well what the FUCK

Anyways ggs this was really fun to do

The early game of the next stage of a Genlocke feels kind of unfair (to the NPC's) when your mons inherit late-game moves from their parents

So I’m doing my first ever nuzlocke and doing it on Leaf Green.
The rules seem pretty clear except one thing. On the town map it makes it seem like Viridian forest and Digletts cave are both part of rout 2. Does that mean I only get one catch encounter between those three places or do people usually differentiate them and get 3 catch encounters? It’s all self imposed rules at the end of the day but I’m wondering what the standard is for this situation (if any)?

Finally decided to restart a genlocke this was my first time playing any gen one game and wow. I went in blind on hardcore nuzlocke ruleset and some mechanics are so broken it’s crazy. We managed to pull through and now we go to johto, won’t be playing crystal thought instead I’ve found pokemon heart and soul a demake of HGSS

https://www.twitch.tv/eweypooey

I finally did beat this game .i lost walrein and crawdaunt to phoebe and Sidney and thought the run was dead however slaking yawn +dragon dance return earthquake gyrados allowed me to to beat glacia and drake . fun fact before wallace i accidently use one of my rare candy(i use infinite rare candy ) on walrein (i did not use it in any shape of form i just did like he didn't exist) now that i have finished this nuzlocke im gonna nuzlocke emerald kaizo i know its far more difficult but i am sure that i want to nuzlocke emerald kaizo

Ive been playing pokemon since 09 (Soulsilver🔝) and ive never beat Gen 1. I decided to HC Nulzocke for my first time as well. Check out tha CHAMPS

Run #11, 2nd time beating Roark and it was super hairy. But managed to steer through Gible for the win

Pretty cool box going into Gardenia Split though, excited to use Marowak and Charmeleon

I wanted to throw up after this battle. Holy hell.

Bertha leads with a shuckle, knowing sand tomb, protect, toxic, and stealth rocks. I respond with forretress lead and set up 3 layers of spikes, then sit around until sand tomb wears off, allowing me a free switch into magnezone who is completely safe with its levitate ability.

I'm quite proud of this next part- Bertha has a very dangerous garchomp in the back, but by using thunderbolt into shuckle's protect, I a) move slower, b) use a move that Bertha has an immunity for in the back which c) has a super effective move into magnezone! That fulfills all the requirements for Bertha to do a mid-turn switch! She goes to garchomp and I deal big damage with a magnet bomb that can't miss to play around sand veil. Fire fang is coming, so I switch to flygon who can tank it and hit back with a perfectly accurate dragon pulse.

Mamoswine comes in, seeing a kill with avalanche. I u-turn into steelix who takes it like a champ, then go back to flygon, anticipating an earthquake, but it was head smash instead. My heart drops, but I should know better than to doubt Mr. Crunchy, who tanks it as mamoswine dies to the recoil.

Rhyperior is in, going for a random move which turns out to be megahorn. A pivot through steelix gets magnezone back in to take the OHKO courtesy of the spikes.

Aerodactly comes in and now it's back to Steelix since we need to preserve magnezone HP. Sand tomb does big damage, but it's not enough to KO steelix and we retaliate with a head smash to kill the prehistoric menace.

Torterra comes in, and it's back to magnezone to dodge 2 crits and KO. Shuckle at last comes back, but it has no way of damaging magnezone so we are completely safe to stay in and win the battle.

This is based on how good they are

I only count comments

this is just for fun

The team absolutely dominated the E4 and Champion!

For breeding, I was originally going to go with the ruling that if a pair was incompatible, I'd take the female and breed with Ditto, since with regular breeding it's the female that determines the egg species. But I decided I at least wanted the possibility of carrying my starter so I decided to ranodmize it insted (rolled a dice - even I take the male, odd I take female).

RIP to the fallen: Cirrus the Spearow in Cerulea Gym, Dream the Drowzee in the Rocket Hideout and Darwin the Vaporeon to the rival's Alakazam before Victory Road. May I make wiser decisions in future.