The Nuzlocke Challenge
 

What is the Nuzlocke challenge?

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Simple, really. Dig up your old copy of pokemon, and boot it up. Play like normal, but...

1)if a pokemon faints you release it. It is DEAD and not coming back

2)you can only catch the first pokemon you see in each route/city/cave etc. If it sucks/you don't like it/you fail to catch it, TOO BAD

Those are the two main rules, but also generally followed:

3)cannot catch legendaries, must kill them all

4)no using masterball

5)no pokemon breeding

6)no trading

7)nickname ALL pokemon(increase your attachment/sadness when they die)

Also, following:

8)rule #2 may be excused if the first pokemon you run into you currently own a form of, but the first pokemon you run into that you don't own in an area is the one you can catch

Is ok in my book, increases pokemon diversity


Good luck.

Also check out www.nuzlocke.com

Can you use an emulator to play? I don't have any of my old pokemon games anymore. :'(

Sounds familiar. I think I heard it on a different forum. Nonetheless, it sounds interesting.

Sure you can emulate it, just don't cheat. Of course, you can if you really want to, but you won't get that sense of achievement. Also, the comics on the site I posted are hilarious. Don't worry, the art style improves

Edited OP for rules 7) and 8)

I might do this on pokemmo with some friends and record it. :p

hmm that one sounds interesting O: i found this one
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Sounds interesting :o

I started it on pokemmo, beat brock so far with no fatalities. Rollin' deep with 6 living party members. However, most of the endgame of pokemmo isn't implemented yet, plus no legendary battles. I found my old Ruby cartridge and my battered SP, gonna do it on there and maybe Leaf Green as well... then maybe make a net comic out of it for fun, seems to be a trend

I still have my gba and sapphire, I wish I had fr or lg though. ><

Just go to gamestop, not that pricey. Or eBay/craiglist/amazon. Or if you're a cheapass who hates pokemon, get an emulator

No stores sell gba games where I live, there is the monthly market but the games there are expensive.

I'll probably end up playing on an emulator anyway. :'(

If you want a nicer feel for the emulator, jailbreak your iPod and get gpsphone

I currently don't have an idevice, I'll probably just buy a snes controller for pc.

And what if your starter faints? Can you actually release those? :0

1. You lose your starter
2. Yes

Damn... I'm going to do this!

Even more fun with randomizer.

If your starter faints, well, sucks to be you. RIP Charley the taillow, died to gym leader #1 Roxanne's geodude's rock tomb. Critical hit... We will ne'er forget you

You don't need to release your pokemon, just store them in your PC.

This.

And contrary to popular belief, you can do a Nuzlocke run without creating a webcomic to go along with it.

Quiet, you.


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And Dragonrider, yes, if you can't take the emotional strain, you can pretend to have "extra lives" and such Disney garbage.

Real men accept death

I dont release my 'mans, I leave them in a PC Box labeled "Dead", kind of like a tombstone to those who were lost :(

Rule #1 is excused if you supremely fail and your starter faints when facing your rival if he challenges you right after getting the starter.

I did this challenge a while ago, i finished with a level 90 beedrill and nothing else left living.

It's dead, gotta restart. Anywho, beat E4 on ruby nuzlocke, only mark the blaziken survived - 6 hp left. Gardevoir took a hyper beam crit to the face :s

They live in 2spookytower now, not on some hospital's hard drive. Ever wonder what a gastly is? It's that pokemon of yours that 'fainted' 6 years ago

how f*cking brutal
i get emotionally attached to my pokemon

except for the fact that you dug them into a virtual pokemon atm inside a virtual death

thats pretty heartless

Forgot to mention here i did the challenge via FireRed version

fixed

Nuuuuuuuuuu firered aint fireded

Isn't One of the rules was that you can only use items you find/ given and that the only times you can recover from the pokemon center is when you enter the town first time?

That's Hard Mode.

I dare someone to do this challenge Hardcore...

Tried it with all the rules on in Pokemon silver, died on jasmine (steel gym). yea, fail, but the electric got my water starter... may try again sometime

i did a fire red nuzlocke back in march. my pc stopped working recently, i finished it at the elite 4 the game just got boring. my team: charizard,jolteon, ratticate,golduck, vileplume, and a shiny pidgeot

I call bull****. There's no way you could catch a shiny following Nuzlocke rules, that lowers your chance to almost zero.

Depends on which rules you follow. A widely accepted one is you are allowed to catch extra pokemon in a region if they are shiny

never said i fully followed the rules, same thing in my nuzlocke before this one, shiny arcanine

Don't use action replays, please. also, unrelated pic because i can:
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i didn't , and wow your a great artist

Thanks I just emailed the Louvre I'd like to put it on display

your art is extremely smooth 11/10

Bump, do this if you haven't