On the way out of Sunyshore I run into Barry. He is surprised that I got all eight badges and to be honest I am too. He says that he isn’t going to challenge me just yet and actually acknowledges that I’m tougher than him at the moment. But he says that he’ll be ready to challenge me soon and that his Pokémon won’t fail him. He runs off to continue his training. As I’m about to leave, a lady walks up to me saying she heard out conversation and was moved by our friendship. Turns out she is Jasmine, the steel type gym leader from the Johto region (I love how many hints this game gave to HG/SS =P). Out of compassion, she gives me the final TM that I’m missing; HM07 Waterfall. She leaves and allows me to head up to Route 223. I actually run into a wild Lv. 43 Tentacruel as my first encounter. I catch it and name him “Kraken”. I don’t think I’ll use him but if worse comes to worse; a Pokémon like him will be handy since he’s almost Lv. 50 already. After a bit of training, I make my way up a Waterfall using my new HM and enter Victory Road; the final test for trainers before the Elite Four at the Pokémon League. I decide to leave Giratina behind for a bit and take my HM slave to help me get through the cave. I enter and begin to fight the trainers.
I run into a Steelix as my first encounter here in Victory Road. However, I’m forced to run in order to safe members of my team from dying. It kept using the move Curse over and over again to max out its attack and defense. It got to the point where my Pokémon almost went down in one shot. So I fleed keeping the members I have.
On my way, I meet a trainer with a Torterra. This Torterra nearly wipes out my entire team leaving almost everyone in low to red health. Unfortunately, Lucario went down trying to stop it…. at this point I’m shocked and frustrated. I release Lucario sadly and send in Tentacruel to take its place. During Tentacruel’s training I decide to evolve Porygon2 and with the help of my friend SolarPrimal, I get a Porygon-Z to help out with the final fights. Frustratingly enough, I got Tentacruel to Lv. 51 but he went down after missing an attack and losing to a Graveler’s Explosion attack. I release him and move on with the game. I guess I’m doing this with 5 Pokémon now…
After about 3 hours of pure heck, I finally make it through Victory Road with my 5 remaining Pokémon. I enter the Pokemon League and heal the team up. However, one more challenge stands in the way… Barry! He has all the badges and challenges me to one final fight.
He begins the fight with his Lv. 48 Staraptor and I take it out with Porygon-Z’s Discharge. Next up he sends in his Heracross and I send in Giratina. His Close Combat does nothing to me and I use AncientPower. He gets a super effective hit on me with Night Slash and I fight back with Dragon Claw. Giratina takes another Night Slash and finishes this with one final AncientPower. He then sends in his Torterra; now Lv. 51. I send in Porygon-Z again to fight him off. I use Magnet Rise to evade his Earthquake. I try Psybeam to defeat him but he uses Leaf Storm which nearly defeats me. I switch into Umbreon who can take some hits. He heals with Synthesis after my Assurance. I decide to use Bite to see if I can get lucky with “flinch” status. We both heal this turn and then he goes for another Earthquake. Eventually, I switch to Mespirit to evade Earthquake and set up a Lucky Chant and Future Sight. After a lot of turns and many close calls, a critical hit from Mespirit’s Extrasensory takes out Torterra. Out comes his Floatzel. I send in Empoleon to take some hits while I heal up the team. Then I see that his Floatzel has Brick Break… of all things… why that!? I go for Giratina to take some hits. Giratina’s Shadow Force destroys it. Now here comes his fully evolved Snorlax at Lv. 49. I use Dragon Claw a few times but he uses Rest to heal up. Fearing a critical hit Cruch from this thing I need to finish this fast… Lucky for me, he stays asleep long enough for me to take it out. His final Pokemon is Rapidash at Lv. 47. I send in Empoleon to finish this. It uses Sunny Day to weaken my Water moves and raise his firy moves. He uses Fire Blast and almost takes Empoleon out. I manage to defeat the Rapidash with Surf dispite the Sunny day and I win the battle with no losses. I’ll admit, that had to be the worst battle yet….. besides the Victory Road Trainer and his Torterra which almost wiped everyone out. Barry leaves to train his team which allows me to take on the Elite Four whenever I wish. So next time in the finale of this project, we hopefully beat the Elite Four and win the game and this Pokémon Platinum Nuzlocke Challenge!
In honor of Tifa the Lucario and Kraken the Tentacruel… hopefully we will beat the Elite Four in your memories.
Wow, that sucks and ironically enough I've remember reading a nuzlock comic where the trainer lost Luario in almost the same exact spot... (well technically in the fight against Barry but still close enough to be a bit erry...)
ReplyDeleteWoah, you've been updating this a lot this weekend. Not that I'm complaining. :P
ReplyDeleteSo, you're right near the end. Congratulations on getting this far, no matter how the next update goes. Good luck with the Elite Four fights. It stinks that you had to lose those Pokemon so close to the final battles, but hopefully you make the most out of what you have. :)