Nuzlocke Ruleset General How do you incorporate the capture and death rules into your challenge story?

[redninjapuffle]

For any story I have, Nuzlocke causes death from Pokémon if they faint, however, this doesn't affect the catching of one pokémon per route, this is mostly because of wildlife conservation and that most Pokémon avoid trainers all together, so trainers may only find a few Pokémon they can catch.
How the Nuzlocke disease works is because the overexposure to energy or nuclear attacks the hit the Pokémon's "fainting system"
The fainting system is a fail-safe, if the Pokémon loses a lot of energy, they will make themselves go unconscious to save energy for vital systems, the nuzlocke disease destroys this system, meaning a Pokémon will likely die from too much loss of energy, blood, yada yada.

 

[SnackyTheSylph]

I just didn't incorporate the catch rule into my run's world at all. Trainers just don't tend to catch Pokemon they aren't going to use/care for. The exceptions would be Pokedex holders and collectors, of course...but in my protag's (Amelia's) case, she hasn't caught multiple things on the same route by coincidence. She hasn't caught anything beyond her initial five, because she doesn't need to. I don't find integrating the catch rule to be all that important to a Nuzlocke story, unless it's relevant to your world-building.

Speaking of which, it's not relevant to my worldbuilding because Pokemon dying in battle is actually very uncommon. Pokemon battles are more like laser tag than paintball or an actual gunfight, to use an analogy. It's only a point of concern for Amelia because of her specific circumstances. Basically due to Legendary shenanigans, it's a lot easier for her Pokemon to exhaust themselves or get real injuries during battles.

 

[Dschubba]

Yeah, I'm pretty much chiming in with the whole "not really at all" side of things here.

When it comes to the capture rule, I find that attempts toa explain it in detail and in the story proper just have a high risk of falling face-first into that dreaded AS YOU KNOW...type exposition. If the protagonist of the comic is someone who's grown up in that world, is aware of the workings of the region and doesn't need to be tutorialised as the games insist on doing, that's when it's easy to kind of snap that immersion rubber band and have it feel like it's exposition for the sake of the audience and the audience alone.

I just, without going into it at all, go with the fact that, well, pokémon are surely some high-maintenance companions, so it'd make little sense for any trainer to just go and catch a miniature zoo on each route, it's just not viable. As for why it's the first? Handwave and just have mon one make a strong impression.

As for why pokémon die, I mean, as much as the games don't treat even the most brutal sounding and looking moves (throat chop, OW) as potentially lethal, mons are still powerful, basically magic animals. So , to me it just follows that accidents and thus deaths can and will happen if something goes awry or a mon simply doesn't know its own strength. Of course, these comics by their nature will often show the protagonist having to deal with more deaths, but...well, that's just a matter of POV focus. And rotten, rotten luck sometimes.