I was doing one in Pearl. I still am really, but I haven't done anything in awhile. I had a good team headed by Monferno, and I had at least 2 badges. I was using a slightly different set of rules, but it was a nuzlocke nonetheless. I should get back into it.

News coming soon...


...not that anyone cares.

Looking forward to whatever is presented today!
Oh hey, did you know that all the types resistant to Fairy are vulnerable to Ground? New, interesting combo!

i'm happy about the changes to Steel, i never understood why steel resisted ghost and dark, but this balances nicely with the buff against fairy, it's a shame these changes can't be implemented retroactively to the previous gen games.

I'm also happy that poison finally received a buff, being that it was super effective againt two, then one, now two again.

Fire's defensive capability is now even better than before, and still second-best to steel, so Heatran might get to see more use (even with the double-weakness to ground)

The only thing that bothers me is how the 'legendary' mythical Dragon type has been completely punished, with still no offensive capabilities to really compliment the ferocious wild nature of its basis. Here we are with more dragons than ever, (mega-Amphy, Tyrunt etc) and Game Freak makes them redundant. Y U NO like Dragons, Game Freak?

My main gripe with the change is they did it for both types, when removing the resistance for one would've made a more significant difference. As it stands, the only Pokemon that resist Ghost attacks are Dark, with Normal being immune. It kind of puts Ghost on par with Dragon because it is resisted by so few types now. Perhaps we'll see some more defensive Normal and Dark types to balance this out.

What's even better about the change is that there are almost no Dragons in the current metagame that learn either Poison or Steel moves to deal with Fairies effectively. It forces Dragons to rely on those types in the rest of the team.

lol, it's kind of funny to say that Fire is now one of the most defensive types in the series considering how it started out in gen 1.

Considering the last 3 generations have featured at least 3 Legendary Dragons each game, along with the abundance of lesser Dragons to every single tier, and giving players only Steel to defend against them until recently, I think it's safe to say Dragon types have received enough love. It's the same as the Psychic types in the first generation having so much power, but then being brought down by the inclusion of Steel and Dark, and a more effective offensive Ghost attacks.

I shall nickname my Pyroar... Charlemane...



Ka-Tra

Goddamn the Nuzlocke Challenge is brutal. I almost chucked my 3ds when Pryce's Dewgong landed a critical and killed my Poliwhirl. B

Actually, a handful of Dragon types get Iron Tail from Gen 4 TMs. Can always trade one of those in.

What is a Nuzlocke challenge, anyways?
I've seen it mentioned on GFAQs Diamond boards years ago.

Anything to do with Nuzleaf?

What if there was a Carbuncle Eeveelution?



Ka-Tra

Actually, I forgot about the Tutors in B2W2, basically all the Dragons learn Iron Tail so they have to face the fear that Psychics have with Focus Blast.
Only Dragonite, Kingdra, Rayquaza, Garchomp-line, Dialga (STAB), Giratina, Druddigon (Sheer Force-boosted), and Kyurem learn the better Iron Head. Druddigon, Garchomp, and Haxorus seem to be the best for learning Poison attacks too, like Gunk Shot and Poison Jab.

It's going to be quite an event to see how the grand battle between Dragons and Fairies turn out.

I've got 10 on the Fairies.

Its a self-imposed challenge to make a playthrough of Pokemon more interesting. Here are the basic rules:



There are tons of other subrules and whatnot but these two are the most important. You should also nickname your Pokemon.

In other news my Meganium took a critical against Claire's last Pokemon and died. That one really stung considering my Broleaf has been with me since the beginning

The fossil evolutions have been revealed and are on serebii.net.

I love both if them. Definitley the most interesting of the fossil pokemon so far id say. I like both but really want to raise a Amaura/Auroras.

I wish they'd let us know exactly how many new pokes to expect.

Tyrantrum looks awesome. Aurorus looks disgusting. Absolutely horrendous.

Oh well. That's usually how fossil pokemon go. One good one bad.

I think Aurorus is a very refreshing change from the usual stereotypical fossil pokemon.

I've always felt that not every pokemon that existed millions of years ago looked like a giant ferocious dinosaur. Plus, it's an Ice type!

I have to agree on both fronts, there. Got fed up of seeing such random prehistoric Pokemon that aren't even close to being dinosaurs (with half being exceptions, but come on, we got trilobites, ancient sea turtles, ancient snails, and a Pokemon that looks like it ran face first into a brick wall and kept on running with it), and that aren't part Water or Flying. The type combos may not be the very best, but they are pretty darn cool. I'm considering raising the Ice one just because I always wanted an Ice/Rock type in the game, and it would work spectacularly if it got some really powerful Normal-moves. lol, if it got Explosion, that would be cool.

The new fossils are interesting, definitely not the worst thing in the world.

Lol, if you look at Tyrantrum's dex entry, it says that it was the king of the prehistoric era, while also saying that it's 8ft tall... That is pretty small for what should be the scariest of dinosaurs, right?
Speaking of striking fear into Pokemon, I've been thinking about it, and I'm wondering how much use Fairy attacks will have outside of actually Fairy Pokemon. Think about it, all the Dragons with a few notable exceptions have other weaknesses, like Rock for the Flyers, or Fighting for Hydreigon. With how many Pokémon already learning Ice moves, maybe Fairy moves won't make a huge difference without Fairies themselves giving the STAB boost.

Atack of the Double Post! lol

Anyhoo, that's a pretty good point, there. There are quite a few pokemon that are already capable of using Ice-type attacks. However, given the high ATK Dragon pokemon often have, and the STAB boost received from Dragon-type moves, the Ice-type attacks can very well be taken care of.

Having an additional super-effective for pokemon that can't learn Dragon-type moves helps to stregnthen the battle field. Truly, very few pokemon can learn Dragon-type attacks.

That is also a very good point. It's ironic that in this metagame, it is advised against using Dragon moves in a set simply because the attacks have no utility except when used by Dragons, because even using them to deal with Dragons is silly... Which is where Ice and Fairy both shine for having so many other types they deal with too.

When judging the fossils based on their unevolved forms I hated both of them. Those are two hideously generic designs. The fully evolved, however, are great. Also, Frogadier soooo wins the title of best looking mid-stage starter.

Dragon type attacks on dragon Pokemon are very effective. Up until now, only steel resisted dragon. The neutrality of dragon moves meant very few Pokemon in the meta game could stand up against them.

So for instance, if I have a Dragon Danced Dragonite using Outrage and you don't have a steel type, you're gonna get stomped. Of course with Fairy types now being immune to dragon, I'm sure we'll be seeing less Outrage usage.

Btw, if anyone is interested in competitive battling, there are tons of battle simulators online that you can use. I've never played Gen V competitively, but I thought Gen IV's competitive scene on Smogon was pretty fun.

Why isn't it just called a Hardcore challenge like any other game?


So anyone notice Male Pyroar's mane is shield shaped?
Also Fire/Normal compliments Honedge's Steel/Ghost typing.

There's your Sword/Shield combo.



Ka-Tra

I found this out the other day, actually.

The Nuzlocke challenge is so called because of the origin of 'hard mode'. It centres around a cartoon strip where the player has a Nuzleaf but with the head of the character Locke from Lost.

Useless information imparted.

No, you misunderstand what I'm saying. Unless you are teaching it to a Dragon, there is no value for teaching Dragon moves to most Pokemon because their coverage is lame. Getting super effective damage on Dragon is fine, but Ice does it better most of the time, and does that and more to several other types.
The only time you'll see Dragon attacks in use in the present metagame is when it's being used by an actual Dragon, or when the user's move pool is that barren.