Pokemon Do Die

Gonna real talk about Pokémon here.  Most people play Pokémon like you normally would.  I don’t. I play the Nuzlocke rules, which means I need to be careful with my Pokémon, or else they’ll die, and there are few things more demoralizing than watching your beloved Pokémon die before your eyes because you got reckless and came unprepared for the fight.  I’ve been there in Sinnoh, but by that time, I had already lost my best to the Gym Trainers in Hearthome City, so I stopped caring.  Unova also saw this tragedy, but I got ahead of myself, so I had it coming to me.  Kanto and Johto have been spared that I can…Oh wait, Johto had a run too. Dammit. Hoenn hasn’t yet, so I have two untainted regions.  Anyway, all attempts to do get a team of Pokémon to survive to the Elite Four has ended in failure so far, but Kalos is looking promising, I’ve got 6 badges and only two deaths, so that’s a real good sign.

I’d like to highlight/relive some of my really devastating losses, beginning in Sinnoh with the loss of Marcus, my Machop and love interest to Zelda, my Golbat.  To this day, I still don’t understand how the Geodude was faster than he was, but it grabbed Marcus before he could attack, which I thought was odd, then it started to glow, then I realized that the problem at hand was much worse than I could have imagined.  The Geodude self-destructed, fragmenting itself and Marcus.  Zelda declared all Rock-type Pokémon her mortal enemies, which meant that she went out of her way to fight them, which meant that she was a t a disadvantage as they could just knock her out of the sky with rocks, but she felt the need to avenge Marcus’ death by destroying all Rock type Pokémon.  Speaking of Zelda, she was one of the Pokémon lost in the Hearthome Gym, which specializes in Ghost types, a type Zelda was prepared for, except that Ace Trainer Allen’s Haunter had other ideas, One Hit Killing her with Shadow Ball, un critical, with a level gap being three levels up on Zelda. That was a blow to the gut. Shae was an equally devastating loss as she more or less committed confusion suicide to a Misdreavus.  Actually, that one just pissed me off, but with her death, I was no longer really prepared to face Fantina, the gym leader, so I just sent my Pokémon to die.

Unova was doomed to failure, I had early success and got overconfident, to which Clay, Driftveil City’s Gym Leader, quickly put me in my place.  And that’s all I really got to say about that.  Johto was a blur, so I don’t really remember that one.

Kalos region deaths really hurt because both deaths were needless and stupid.  Arnold, my Amaura, was groomed as the star of the team next to my Starter, but the Reflection Cave put an end to Arnold’s happy times as I faced a Battle Girls Throh with him, which anyone who knows their typing chart sees where I went wrong, pitting a doubly weak Pokémon against Throh. Arnold went for the Take Down, hurting himself pretty bad, but not knocking out the Throh, which repaid our arrogance by grabbing Arnold by the neck, spun him around by his neck and slammed Arnold down so hard it left a crater in the ground.  After Copperfield picked up the pieces of the Throh, I buried Arnold and spent the rest of my time in Reflection Cave reflecting on my stupidity. Lucas, my Lucario was a case not unlike Shae back in Sinnoh, and I was getting flashbacks to that day as well, but that’s what I get for pitting a fighting type against a flying type.  Another senseless death, and to a Team Flare Grunt even, almost as bad as what happened to Arnold.

I think that’s all for now, I hope you enjoyed reading this and I hope you come back again to read what other bit of randomness comes out of my head.  My contact info is at the bottom as always in case you have any questions or comments.  Until next time, Toodles ^^

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