Heart Gold Kingslocke: Episode 16

Introduction/rules here.

okay, we’re gonna

we’re gonna do the thing, or we’re gonna try, anyway

Like I said last time, the test here is basically that I only have four Pokémon and I didn’t choose them, but I can play normally with those four. Parker, who doesn’t have Champion status, is mostly going to be a spectator, unfortunately – with the Death card in play, if he gets knocked out even once, he’s gone for the foreseeable future. Hell, if he even takes damage, I can’t heal him because of the High Priestess. My team is also heavily slanted towards Poison-types, which the first member of the Elite Four, Will, is set up very well to deal with, but hopefully our levels are now high enough that we can just kick the $#!t out of him and it won’t matter.

Well, no point in standing around; let’s give this a go.

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The Pokémaniacal New Year’s Speed-Nuzlocke-stravaganza IX

8:41

So… we meet again.

8:45

NOOOOOOO! NOT EVIL STEVE! HE- wait, he was a mob boss who smuggled illegal weaponry, bought and sold slaves, and has literally threatened to kill us a dozen times.

Nonetheless… true evil never dies, and his spirit shall have revenge…

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Anonymous asks:

Which E4 lineup is your favorite and why?

…is that a thing

do people have favourite Elite Four line-ups

who are these people, and why am I writing this blog instead of them

Anonymous asks:

If you were an elite four member what would your type speciality and team be?

Definitely Grass – we haven’t had one of those yet (putting Grass in the company of… Normal, Electric and Fairy, I think), because Grass Pokémon Don’t Get Nice Things. Elite Four members generally get five Pokémon, so probably Whimsicott as a lead (with nasty things like Stun Spore and U-Turn), followed up with Breloom, Torterra (I think I’m allowed a starter, since Flint uses Infernape in Diamond/Pearl) and Ludicolo, then Vileplume as my strongest Pokémon.

Pokémon Generations – Episode 3

This week’s Generations short focuses on a moment from the background of the original games, something we knew about but never saw: the rival character’s Elite Four challenge, which ends with him becoming the Champion for all of seventeen minutes before losing to the player.

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Anonymous asks:

Why do you think there haven’t been any Gym Leaders who specialize in the Dark-type, despite there being multiple Elite Four Dark-type specialists?

Difficult to say. In Gold and Silver it was likely because there were so few Dark Pokémon and all of them except for Umbreon were very late-game, but that excuse is really gone by the third generation. I suppose you could suggest that, because Dark is the ‘evil’ type and Dark techniques focus on, basically, fighting dirty, while Gym Leaders are supposed to be educators and pillars of the community, they just don’t want Gym Leaders who focus on Dark-types; they want trainers to have more experience before they start playing around with that stuff. But that’s just me making stuff up; I don’t have any particular support for that interpretation.