[Text Only] Let’s Play: Pokémon Platinum [Nuzlocke Challenge] – Part 10

Alright, it’s a new day and I’m ready to try some more Pokémon Platinum. After all the tragedies that happened in yesterday’s part of this, I think it’s best to level up my 3 team members on Route 206 and in Wayward Cave. First off, the Route 206 trainers! *sees there is only 1 trainer to fight on Route 206 who I fought last time* To Wayward Cave!

Inside the cave it is pitch black and I do not have flash with me so this will prove interesting. During the process of getting lost in the cave and fighting all the trainers, something bad happens yet again. I get near where I am supposed to go in this cave when I encounter 2 trainers and one having a Shinx. I was using Staravia and Luxio at the time when the Shinx lives Staravia’s Quick Attack and hits Nimbus the Staravia with a critical hit Spark. So now only two remain. I plan on training up Skye the Drifloon now but I’m worried about how it will fair in future battles. Again on the way there I get another close call. I send Prinplup out to fight a Wild Geodude for some exp. During the battle the Geodude lives my Metal Claw (would have used Bubblebeam but I’m out of PP for that) and uses Self Destruct! Thankfully, Karen the Prinplup lives with 9 HP.

Finally I find what I came for, the lost girl in the cave, Mira and her Pokémon Kadabra. Similar too Cheryl, Mira will be with you until you exit the cave and will heal your Pokémon after each battle. After getting lost some more I escort Mira out of the cave and get out of there as fast as I can. Then I go to release Nimbus the Staravia and begin training up Skye the Drifloon. However, my bad luck strikes again because while training her up, a Ponyta gets off a Critical hit Flame Wheel bringing her from full health to no health in a matter of seconds. That makes 2 Pokémon yet again until I find something new or decide to train up the Lv. Zubat or the Lv. 6 Togepi

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After releasing Skye I decide it is best to just move on with the 2 Pokémon I have now and pray for better higher level Pokémon to come in the future. I head on to the upper part of Route 207 to fight some trainers. I can’t catch anything here since I got a Machop back when I could access the lower part of the route when I was in Oreburgh for the first time. After defeating all the trainers I run into Lucas who is nice and gives me both the VS. Seeker and the Dowsing Machine app for my Poketch. He then leaves and I head into Mt. Coronet. I use a Repel inside (that is legal) because we come back to this place later and I know for a fact there are so many greater Pokémon on the higher areas of the mountain than there are here on the very bottom. Inside I run into that creepy blue hair dude that we saw back at Lake Verity and Eterna city again. He says something about hating the direction the world is heading and wishes to gain power to change it…. again not suspicious. I get through easily to the other side and enter Route 208. I defeat the trainers here (picking up a Great Ball and Ether along the way) and decide to try and get a new Pokémon off of this route. I was really hoping for Roselia or a Ralts but at this point I knew I’d have to go with whatever the game decided to grace me with. And there it is, a male Lv. 20 Roselia. I would have preferred female but I really won’t complain. I manage to catch it without taking too much damage and decide to name it “Bud” after a rosebud (so original….).  Bud has a Gentle nature much like “Chop-Ma” did before him and is “strong willed”. I hope he is because I need him to stay with me for awhile. I then pick up the “Odd Keystone” and head to Hearthome City to heal.

On the way to heal up I run into a Buneary upon entering the city (I don’t mean wild either). It belongs to a lady named Keira who is a Pokemon Contest Judge. She tells me to drop by the Contest Hall if I want to participate in any contests (which I can say for sure will NOT happen) and walks back to the Contest Hall. After healing I decide to pick up the only Pokemon I can get here in Hearthome, so I pay the creator of the Sinnoh PC a visit. Her name is Bebe and she is nice enough to give me an Eevee she received from a friend of hers in Johto *cough BILL *cough*. I take the Eevee and name it “Eon” since all of its evolutions end with “eon”. “Eon” is a Bold natured Eevee (higher defense and lower attack) and is “capable of taking hits”. That again I hope holds up to be true. For now, I need to train these guys up to at least Lv. 30 for the 3^rd gym because if I do not I WILL get destroyed! So until then, I have some training to do. 


In honor of Nimbus the Staravia... one of our best team members...