Pokemon Colosseum Blind "Everylocke" Log

[Folly]

Hello! This is an archive of my blind Colosseum run. I've been doing nuzlockes for about ten years now, and one of my favourite runs was a modified co-op nuzlocke of XDGoD I did some years ago with my brother (a disasterous run that I am surprised we ever won, mostly because of him, wish I had that logged). Recently, I decided I'd do a similar run of the prequel to my favourite 3D Pokemon game. The catch? I've never played this, and I can say I've already had a lot of close calls due to making assumptions of how Shadow Pokemon mechanics work based off of how they do in XDGoD.

Due to how the game works, I have coined something I am calling the Everylocke. It is somewhat similar to an orderlocke. I have no idea if this is a challenge that's been done before, but ah well. The Everylocke was made with the gamecube games in mind due to how wild pokemon more or less do not exist, areas are extremely limited, etc., but it can be done in mainline games as well.

I'm mostly logging this so I can adapt it later into either a comic or written story.

The Core Rules To An Everylocke:

-If a Pokemon hits 0 HP, it is considered dead, and will be boxed away permanently (as it is impossible to release Shadow Pokemon; if playing on a mainline game you can release instead if you like).

-Instead of catching one Pokemon per area, EVERY Pokemon you encounter must be caught (duplicates clause allowed). Failing to catch a Pokemon will result in a random Pokemon in your party being killed off via dice roll (roll a 1, the first slot of your party is killed, roll a 5, your fifth slot, etc.). Running out of Pokeballs does not nix this rule; if you run out of Pokeballs and can't catch a Pokemon, that still means a pokemon has to die.

-Pokemon must be used in the order they are caught. Pokemon cannot be swapped out unless they die, and they may only be swapped out with the next Pokemon in PC. (Eg: If I caught a Pidgey, Nidoran♂, and Mankey in that order, and one of my Pokemon died, I HAVE to put Pidgey in my party to replace the dead member; I have to use Nidoran♂ and not Mankey when the next Pokemon dies).

My additional rules:

-A full party wipe is a game over

-Duplicates clause (although that doesn't matter since, well, Colosseum)

-Set Mode (Although that doesn't matter since, well, again, Colosseum)

-No items in battle other than balls for catching Pokemon and held items


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I've already started some of the nuzlocke already and I don't have screenshots of some events. Also none of my
Progress so far:

Caught in order (bolded are party members, strikethrough are dead, pokemon with a star are responsible for killing a party member.)

Umbreon (Uvite), Male, Careful nature

Espeon (Eudialyte), Male, Lax nature

Makuhita (Marcasite), Male, Jolly nature

Quilava (Quartz), Male, Relaxed nature

Quagsire (Quetzalcoatlite)

Flaffy (Fluorite), Female, ??? nature, deceased (killed by Misdreavus's Shadow Rush Crit, replaced by Skiploom)

Skiploom (Seraphinite), Female, Brave

Slugma (Serandite), Male, ??? nature

*Misdreavus (Morganite), Male, ??? nature

Noctowl (Nephrite), Male, ??? nature

 

[Folly]

Since then:


We've found out about Silva's plan to cut the power, got the gear back, found out about Mirror B's hideout, and make our way through it.

MIROR B'S HIDEOUT:

We catch a whole bunch of pokemon including this Remoraid that was DANGEROUSLY close to being killed in one shot...and it wasn't even a crit. Did not help that it was a level 20 Pokemon for some godforsaken reason at a point in which most your pokemon are level 30 or higher. Seriously, why the FUCK is it level 20??) I didn't even realize it was such a low level until AFTER I attacked, which was stupid on my part...but hey, it turned out okay.

Seraphinite the Skiploom was crit by Shadow Dunsparse. And it killed her. I did not think she was in crit-kill range at all, she was near full HP and the Dunsparse wasn't doing much damage. Which. Hurts. Because I loved her so much :C

She was easily my favourite party member and now she's gone before I could even properly purify and name her in game. Not to mention catching Pokemon is gonna be a lot more dangerous moving forward. This one sucks so much. With Fluorite she was kind of in crit range kill, that was me being careless. With this there was little I could do. It just sucks it was to my favourite member


Putting Seraphinite to rest, I brought Serandite the Slugma the to the party.

In that time, Serandite's nature is revealed - impish


VS MIROR B

With a party that half is weak to Ludicolo, and one member of the remaining half that's so fragile I don't trust him to be out in front + his best attacking move (Cross chop) is resisted...it's all up to Uvite and Eudialyte. But I figure we'd be fine, the game has been a breeze so far, other than the curve balls thrown at me.

Oh boy. It was gonna throw a curve ball at me.

Eudialyte gets leech seeded so I swap reluctantly to Quetzalcoatlite, as I've yet to see any damage dealing grass type moves from the Ludicolos I've gotten rid of, so she should be okay...Then Uvite gets leech seeded as well. I swap back to Eudialyte, who gets crit but stomaches through. The problem is that he's on very low HP, and reflect has just worn off. Uvite gets leech seeded AGAIN, and now I do the real risky play...I bring out Marcasite. No hits on him, I swap out to umbreon...the battle is a long series of swaps. Uvite is starting to get really low on HP, so now I'm going fuck it, Marcasite, sink or swim time.

FINALLY, We're at the last Ludicolo, and out he sends a shadow Sudowoodo. I risk keeping Marcasite out just a little while longer to get the last Ludicolo out so that catching the Sudowoodoo is a little less overwhelming. I run another Shadow Rush from both Marcasite and Quetzalcoatlite...

And Marcasite enters Hyper Mode. Which means he doesn't attack.

This...Isn't Great. My only Pokemon that can tank a hit from the Sudowoodoo WILL die because of how low on HP they are. I'm sort of, pardon the pun, in between a rock and a hard place. I have no idea what moves besides Shadow Rush this Sudowoodo has, and my only mons with remaining high HP are weak to rock. I take a gamble and go for it again...

And this Sudowoodoo knows Rock Slide. Because of fucking COURSE it does.

At this point, I decide my best choice of action is to swap Quetzalcoatlite out (Marcasite is really frail and until we can purify and evolve him he's sort of stuck backseating anyways, so if one member is gonna take the death, it should be him), and I swap for Serandite, since we've got 2 first types and Slugma has less EXP on him + Typhlosion doesn't have any quadruple weaknesses like Marcargo does. (Also, I'm just more attached to Quartz).

With Marcasite, I will throw one of my three ultraballs and pray to GOD that it catches.

One shake, two shake, three shakes...

And of course, he hits with the rock slide. The one thing that I absolutely COULDN'T handle. Serandite and Marcasite both go down, leaving me with four Shadow pokemon now who died with their hearts closed.

Tragic, isn't it?

What's worse, we're at a point in which any other Pokemon getting hit is a guranteed death.

So I have one Pokemon I am sending out to try and kill this Sudowoodo, and another that's out to catch it. I send out Uvite and Quartz, hoping that Uvite can maybe tank a rock slide in case it fails. My strategy now is to go for a confuse ray with Uvite, and dig with Quartz, hoping I can stall for a little more time.

That...Doesn't work out. But Uvite tanks a hit. But it's the last shot at tanking. I go for one more ultraball, knowing the dig will probably kill the Sudowoodo if it doesn't work.

The game doesn't even try to give me hope. And dig doesn't NEARLY do as much as I hoped.

Sudowoodo does hit itself in confusion this time though.

I've got one more ultraball left. If I switch to Eudialyte and he gets hit, he's done. None of my Pokemon currently out can out him in two turns. I can kill this Sudowoodo with Eudialyte, but only once one of the two have perished.

So I'm rolling the dice again. I go for one more dig, and one more ultraball.

Repeat. No dice. It hits itself again.

I go for a bite and dig finishes. It goes for low kick. No one gets killed.

This motherfucking Sudowoodo is going to haunt my dreams.

I'm officially out of ultraballs, but I still have plenty of greatballs. I figure hey, I have speed advantage here, I might as well go for one more just on the off chance.

And finally.

FINALLY.

I honestly thought we'd be losing four members to this fucker.

I'm abandoning my naming scheme for this thing. Everyone has been named after a mineral or gemstone that forms an alliteration with their name thus far.

I am cementing this Sudowoodo's legacy as the thing that nearly wiped over half my team by itself, and this battle as the near run killer.

Her name shall be Nightmare.

And so we make it out of Miror B. Quartz at 47 HP, Eudialyte at 12, Quetzalcoatlite at 9, and Uvite at 5. Two deaths.

We rescue Dukin's plusle, and...

Buddy. Are you sure you wanna do that.

Welp. We got a plusle now. Dunno if we can name it since it was Dukin's. I will mentally name her Pyrite in honor of the town (and because it fits the scheme.)

Now we have the Misdreavus who was responsible for our very first kill in the party, Morganite, and Nephrite the Noctowl up and running.

I'm excited to hear that we're going to Agate so I can finally purify what remains of my friends who haven't, and now some asshole is attacking Relic Stone. Big surprise, it's Cipher. We make our way through, battling some peons. Morganite's nature is revealed to be Impish, and Nephrite's as Mild. Eagun's Pikachu gets the shit kicked out of it despite being over 10 levels higher than this guy's Hitmontop.

And jesus, it's a scary ass Hitmontop. I swap out Uvite for Nephrite and set up reflect with Eudialyte, planning to switch him out for Morganite after, but of course.
The damn Wynaut has shadow tag.

I decide I'm gonna gamble a little. I set up confuse ray and reflect. Start biting and lobbing great balls. Then ultra balls. I get extremely lucky with the confusion, only getting one triple kick that would've killed me were it not for reflect.

And after four attempts, we catch it. I am dubbing him Hauyne the Hitmontop.

The rest of the battle goes by without issue.

Get REKT Skrub.

We find out about the relic stone, Mt Battle gets attacked, but I'm gonna call it quits here. I'm just gonna purify and officially name my party.

I start with Quartz, he's been here the longest.

Then Quetzalcoatli...

Yeah, that works.

Morganite, and then after some grinding in Pyrite, Nephrite.

Death toll today: 3

Total death toll: 4

Remaining boxed pokemon: 11

Spoiler: Current list of Pokemon

Strikethroughs are dead, bold is current party, italics are Pokemon that died during this post, underlined are Pokemon caught this post. Putting a star beside Pokemon that killed a party member.


Umbreon (Uvite), Male, Careful nature

Espeon (Eudialyte), Male, Lax nature

Makuhita (Marcasite), Male, Jolly nature

Quilava (Quartz), Male, Relaxed nature

Quagsire (Quetzalcoatlite), Male, Bold nature

Flaffy (Fluorite), Female, ??? nature, deceased (killed by Misdreavus's Shadow Rush Crit, replaced by Skiploom)

Skiploom (Seraphinite), Female, Brave nature

Slugma (Serandite), Male, Impish nature

*Misdreavus (Morganite), Male, Impish nature

Noctowl (Nephrite), Male, Mild nature

Furret (Fayaline), Female, ??? nature

Yanma (Yangite), Female, ??? nature

Remoraid (Rhyolite), Female, ???)

Mantine (Malachite), Female, ??? nature

Qwilish (Qusongite), Male, ??? nature

Meditite (Medaite), Male, ??? nature

Dunsparse (Diopside), Male, ??? nature

Swablu (Sapphirine), Female, ??? nature)

*Sudowoodo (Nightmare), Female, ??? nature

Plusle (Pyrite), Female, Lax nature

Hitmontop (Hauyne), Male, ??? nature

 

[Folly]

Since we last left off:

We make our way through Mt Battle and admire the best name for an NPC ever

Quartz evolves into a Typhlosion after the girl cipher peon battle.

When I'm about to fight what I can only assume is the 'boss' of this area, I...Hesitate. The last fight with Miror B was disasterous and it was a miracle we made it through with only two deaths, and while Skrub went by very pain free, that was mostly up to luck. I don't like the idea of going to the colosseum to grind since we have four battles back to back without being able to swap for potential deaths, and the only area I can grind is Pyrite Town's Battle Square...which are pretty underleveled.

I decide to get everyone to at least level 35. That's not overleveled given some of the shadow Pokemon I've been against have been more than that. It's too tedious to do more than that, even with speed up.

This is where we end up once Nephrite, who was our most underleveled party member (on account of just not being great stat wise and for a while not having any moves worth using beside reflect which Eudialyte has). I still feel like maybe it's not enough, but mama didn't raise no pussy. I've dashed headfirst into multiple battles in which I was woefully underleveled and I only got owned in one of them. This is way higher than where I was an hour ago. I spend about ten minutes deciding what would be the safest thing to lead with, and decent on Nephrite and Quartz. Both of them can sort of pivot hits with Fly and Dig, Nephrite can set up a quick reflect if switching is needed, Toxic (which I probably should've saved but I really needed to give Nephrite some more utility) is fine for stalling strats. Quartz is a heavy hitter and has my highest base stat total out of the crew.

And with that, we make it onto whoever this guy is, who I initially interpretted as doing a handstand and had a tail.

He wants the time flute and after doing a violence, after a threat that feels a little Heavy after recent events

I hope he is simply cocky and begin our next big battle

VS DAKIM

I have nothing that can take on the metang, and I figure with Nephrite setting up reflect, Quartz can tank a ground move hit...and he could. One flamewheel onto Metang, and it's close to death.

At this point, I choose to swap, not wanting to push my luck with a crit. I set toxic on camerupt, and I swap Quartz for Morganite, expecting another earthquake.

And it works perfectly. A shadow ball takes care of Metang, and I try a hypnosis on the new mon. It misses.

And Morganite...takes quite the hit from his flamethrower. I swap for Uvite, while I go for another Toxic. I accidentally use reflect instead of fly. Swap Uvite who gets another scary hit from Flamethrower after setting up a confuse ray, and swap to Quetzalcoatlite. Camerupt sucumbs to confusion and toxic.

He brings out Golem. I decent to keep in, thinking I can one shot with Quetzalcoatlite who should be faster. Misses all around. Finally, he Marshtomp succumbs to toxic...

...And then he throws THIS curveball at me.

Guys. I was not expecting a legendary this early in the game. I normally don't play with legendaries at all, and given that you don't get legendaries in XDGoD until the very end (making them basically unusable for the actual run), I never added in a no legendaries clause. Debating doing that here or not.

Now stuff is getting a little scary. I figure Entei can tank a surf and I need to keep Quetzalcoatlite out if I'm to take out Golem smoothly. And I gamble on a hypnosis for Entei

Nephrite tanks a fire blast, and finally when I need it to, hypnosis hits. Quetzalcoatlite tanks an earthquake after Golem survives with JUST a sliver of HP...As does Entei.

I take a massive gamble and go for a great ball now, while Entei is still asleep, knowing it could wake up, and I go for mudslap with Quetzalcoatlite goes for mudslap to dispatch of Golem

Apparently our speed is matched, because this time Golem hits first.

And there goes Quetzalcoatlite. This one hurts as well. I could've swapped with Morganite, I don't think any of its moves can hit him. But I thought I was safe. Too late now.

I take out Eudialyte. Dispatch with a confusion, set up reflect again. I swapped in Quartz for Nephrite and start spamming smokescreen to help my chances. And I start spamming greatballs.

It wakes up. It knows bite. Fireblast does a big chunk out of Eudialyte. At this rate nothing here is going to tank another hit here other than Quartz, and EVERYTHING has been hitting despite my smokescreen spams. I know if it doesn't get caught here, I NEED to kill it, or else risk multiple casualties rather than just Quetzalcoatlite.

I go for one more, setting up Eudialyte to confusion if this greatball doesn't work...

And holy shit, it does. I was so stunned that I couldn't even screenshot it on time. Y'all will just have to take my word on it.

I think I will determine if I go no legends as an additional rule later. As it is right now, I don't think I need to worry about it for a while.

We get the time flute from Vander and put Quetzalcoatlite to rest. We bring in Fayaline.

Knowing that we've got legendaries in the future, I stock up on even more greatballs. I only had about thirty greatballs, I had 11 pokeballs, and one premier ball. I got extremely lucky.

Ultraballs are available now. I buy as many as I can. I remember Willie is a trainer that exists and probably will be more effective for grinding. Turns out we can only battle him once for some reason, so we go back to Pyrite. Luckily, the trainers there now have much higher levels. Fayaline's nature is revealed to be Careful.

Two crits from surf from Divel's Seadra and Psyduck take out Fayaline, Eudialyte barely scraps by. We lay Fayaline to rest and take out Yangite. Our party now has a really scary weakness to rock with no counter. I debate intentionally killing offYangite, but I want to play this as if I were Wes; Wes wouldn't want to kill it off, so I'll try my best to actually make an effort here.

Yangite is also revealed to have a careful nature. I train with Nover for a bit and get everyone to level 40 (other than Yangite who I had yet to purify because I'm terrified of what move might replace shadow rush, so I've tried to get as much levels on it as I could before I do). Yangite ends up at level 38, and its new move is...Detect.

Not great, but what can I do. It's too late now. I won't get Wing Attack until level 43. I don't know if Yangite will live that long.

Death toll today: 2

Total death toll: 6

Remaining boxed Pokemon: 10

Spoiler: Current list of Pokemon

CURRENT LIST OF POKEMON:

Strikethroughs are dead, bold is current party, italics are Pokemon that died during this post, underlined are Pokemon caught this post. Putting a star beside Pokemon that killed a party member.


Umbreon (Uvite), Male, Careful nature

Espeon (Eudialyte), Male, Lax nature

Makuhita (Marcasite), Male, Jolly nature

Quilava (Quartz), Male, Relaxed nature

Quagsire (Quetzalcoatlite), Male, Bold nature

Flaffy (Fluorite), Female, ??? nature, deceased (killed by Misdreavus's Shadow Rush Crit, replaced by Skiploom)

Skiploom (Seraphinite), Female, Brave nature

Slugma (Serandite), Male, Impish nature

*Misdreavus (Morganite), Male, Impish nature

Noctowl (Nephrite), Male, Mild nature

Furret (Fayaline), Female, Careful nature

Yanma (Yangite), Female, Careful nature

Remoraid (Rhyolite), Female, ???)

Mantine (Malachite), Female, ??? nature

Qwilish (Qusongite), Male, ??? nature

Meditite (Medaite), Male, ??? nature

Dunsparse (Diopside), Male, ??? nature

Swablu (Sapphirine), Female, ??? nature)

*Sudowoodo (Nightmare), Female, ??? nature

Plusle (Pyrite), Female, Lax nature

Hitmontop (Hauyne), Male, ??? nature

Entei (Elbaite????), Genderless, ??? nature

 

[Folly]

We grab some keys from Miror B's Goons and end up in The Under. Couple of back and forth between the kids grid, try to help Silva, and then...

VS VENUS.

This fight is an absolute CAKEWALK. So much so I didn't even bother documenting it. Attract is annoying since most of my party (almost all of it, actually) but nothing swaps can't fix. For this reason, Yangite, despite her pitiful movepool, is extremely important.


Up until suicuine.

Yangite remains important in trying to chip away at suicune; sonicboom is good for something at least. Lightscreen passes and I swap out Quartz for Uvite, keeping Yangite in. Surf eventually kills Yangite after failed protects; I couldn't afford to swap anyone in as their special defenses weren't high enough, and Eudialyte is of too low HP to set up light screen (a tm we bought) for us to swap and set. She was already in and my best option to sacrifice, especially since she was also likely the only one to stall deaths until we caught. I quickly set up lightscreen again with my window, and immediately swap Nephrite in after. I put it to sleep and start lobbing.

Suicune is in the extremely low yellow and I'm lobbing ultra ball after ultra ball. It wakes up and starts shadow rush spamming. I set up reflect again (it ended) with Nephrite and then start trying to hit with hypnosis as I lob more ultra balls.

Suicune...self destructs with shadow rush after a series of THREE failed hypnosies from Nephrite. And with said Shadow rush...he brings Nephrite down with them. No crit. Just a high roll. I could've swapped to Quartz to prevent this, but I didn't wanna risk a surf as light screen was gone, and I figured going for the hypnosis would be the safest bet. What can ya do. I didn't think it'd kill Nephrite. I thought of swapping Eudialyte back in while suicune was asleep to set up reflect and lightscreen while asleep and bringing in Quartz for a little more time, but that evidently didn't happen.

And with that, we get our first failed capture. Which means we gotta roll the dice.

I'll be honest, I didn't think we'd get a dice roll with a third of our party missing. Or any of our party missing. After debating if I should roll until I get something other than a 3 or 5 or just swap my new party members in first, I decide to swap the new members in first. Yangite's place is taken by Rhyolite the Remoraid, and Nephrite by Malachite the Mantine. Honestly, I probably should've just gone for the kill, but I guess I got spoiled by how quick the Entei catch was + hoping for good RNG.

I take a roll.

Morbid and very sad considering Remoraid was one of my favourite starters ever in one of my wildest randomizers, but thank FUCK it was the Remoraid. I didn't wanna deal with grinding that damn thing in a game that apparently HAS NO MOVE RELEARNER, so I can't just bring it to the daycare. For those who don't remember in the past post, this thing is as level 20. All my Pokemon are in their 40s.

I lay Rhyolite to rest for Qusongite the Qwilish. Both are at level 33, which is a pain, but it could've been much worse. Not looking forward to the level 13 Plusle.

Fun fact. I've NEVER had a Qwilish in all my years of nuzlocking, nor have I raised one outside of Nuzlocking, so I am a little excited. I don't really know what to expect at all beyond poison point.

And with that, we have our new disasterous chapter. Suicune was never in danger of wiping my team, unlike Nightmare. But damn, that Suicune escaped with more kills than her.

We do some battles for purification purposes, first at Pyrite and then at Mt Battle. I figure it's safer than risking crits from those at Pyrite's Battle Square, like what happened to Fayaline. Yes, it's much slower this way, but my pool of available Pokemon is shrinking and I have no idea how many Pokemon are available. I really want to minimize numbers of deaths, especially after what just happened.

Malachite's nature is revealed to be quiet, and Qusongite's is serious. Neither are anywhere near level 40, but I will train them next session.

Spoiler: CURRENT LIST OF POKEMON:

Strikethroughs are dead, bold is current party, italics are Pokemon that died during this post, underlined are Pokemon caught this post. Putting a star beside Pokemon that killed a party member.

Death toll today: 3

Total death toll: 9

Remaining boxed Pokemon: 8

Umbreon (Uvite), Male, Careful nature

Espeon (Eudialyte), Male, Lax nature

Makuhita (Marcasite), Male, Jolly nature

Quilava (Quartz), Male, Relaxed nature

Quagsire (Quetzalcoatlite), Male, Bold nature

Flaffy (Fluorite), Female, ??? nature

Skiploom (Seraphinite), Female, Brave nature

Slugma (Serandite), Male, Impish nature

*Misdreavus (Morganite), Male, Impish nature

Noctowl (Nephrite), Male, Mild nature

Furret (Fayaline), Female, Careful nature

Yanma (Yangite), Female, Careful nature

Remoraid (Rhyolite), Female, ???)

Mantine (Malachite), Female, ??? nature

Qwilish (Qusongite), Male, ??? nature

Meditite (Medaite), Male, ??? nature

Dunsparse (Diopside), Male, ??? nature

Swablu (Sapphirine), Female, ??? nature)

*Sudowoodo (Nightmare), Female, ??? nature

Plusle (Pyrite), Female, Lax nature

Hitmontop (Hauyne), Male, ??? nature

Entei (Elbaite????), Genderless, ??? nature

Ledian (Lapis Stellatus), Female, ??? nature

 

[Folly]

Not much time for me to keep playing with finals month.

We almost lose Eudialyte and Malachite to crits from the trainer who has Shadow Sneasel, but are fine. We make our way chasing Venus, get on the subway, some goons blow up a door, whatever.

I'll edit this properly later, but we have four new additions:

Garnet the Gligar, ??? nature, male

Serpentine the Stantler, ??? nature, female

Phenakite the Piloswine, ??? nature, male

Spodumene the Sneasel, ??? nature, male

 

[Folly]

We don't need antidotes anymore.

Everyone in the party has been grinded up to at least level 41. We also nabbed some items from Mt Battle (used some cheat codes that gave unlimited coupons because oh my god I do not have enough time to go through mount battle enough times to get that amount with my busy college schedule + even if I did I think my party would become too overleveled; for fairness's sake I have emptied out all my money (treated the coupons like money) and am currently 44,409 pokedollars in debt. I will be carefully monitoring my money from this point on so that I do not make any purchases until my debt is cleared).

Listen man, there's no move relearner in colosseum, and I could REALLY use those TMs. plus a few of the held items aren't shabby either. I limit myself to one of each held item because that only seems fair. Especially when leftovers is so OP.

After a lot of fumbling around trying to figure out where to go, we end up at Justly's gym! We go through a bunch of woefully underleveled pokemon without any issue, and then onto Justly.

Man, am I VERY happy I trained my guys up, because his Pokemon are all at level 41. And this motherfucker is actually HEALING his Pokemon. Even I'M not doing that. That said, the battle is extremely uneventful. Just long. He actually switch pokemon more often than me. Turns out Justly will switch whenever a Pokemon is infatuated, so I had Qusongite out spamming attract on all his female Pokemon so that he couldn't stack up on quick attacks, and slowly chipped away with Eudialyte's swift for a good chunk, and Morganite and Malachite handled the rest.

We get Return out of it. I'm definitely saving that for a normal type. Perhaps Serpentine? Assuming we even get that far in the back up.

But I also have no fucking idea where to go now. A lot more fumbling around and I realize you CAN progress through the Pokemon shadow lab without a card key. OOPS.

This shadow aipom self destructs with a shadow rush before we can catch it.

So you know what that means.

It's dice roll time.

Another 3.

Realistically, this is not the worst outcome. Logically, it is by far one of the better ones.
But god, I am SO mad, because I've NEVER had a Qwilfish. And I was getting real attached to him too. He made a pretty bonkers duo with Eudialyte.

Now...Medaite the Meditite is on our team. And GOD is he underleveled. I slap the EXP share on him because tbh I do not have the patience to grind rn. Which is a nuzlocke faux pas, but screw it, it's one underleveled Pokemon, I've got a whole bunch of PC pokemon, I'll be fine for now. If someone else bites the dust I'll go grind. Its nature is revealed to be Timid.

Fastforward through some more peons. Shadow Ariados does a HUGE number on our team with a series of lucky poisons and crits (along with the fact that Uvite and Medaite are the only Pokemon that can really touch the thing without killing it), and almost kills Eudialyte with a crit that would've killed him had he also been poisoned, but we lose no one and catch it successfully. This wasn't a scary run killer scenario like the Sudowoodoo mind you, because I could easily kill it.

Not immediately, anyway.

The issue now is that I got three poisoned Pokemon, and only two antidotes. And no healing items. Sold them all for more timer balls.
Worse yet, I get lost trying to find my way out and end up in ANOTHER battle, where most of my pokemon absolutely aren't ready to fight. I haven't used any of my antidotes yet, so half of my party is still poisoned.

Medaite goes down.

Morganite is one of my poisoned Pokemon. I decide to go for a VERY ballsy move. Pain split, to try and get some healing in. And of course, I misclick and send out Malachite by mistake, who is also poisoned.

Down she goes as well for my stupid, stupid blunder.

I send out Morganite for realsies this time...and the poison kills her before she can ever use Pain Split

3/6 of our party is gone because I was an idiot who didn't carry potions, figuring that since we can't use them in battle, it'd be better to sell them all. And I only carried two antidotes, figuring I'd surely not have multiple Pokemon poisoned all in one fight. Not that I could buy more given my debt.

I have a choice here.

I can make the safe move. KO the Granbul and the Linoone now, which means for sure losing another Pokemon to a dice roll for a total of 4 casualties due to this fight + loss of another encounter, but also meaning an end to the battle...

...Or an INCREDIBLY risky move. Go for one, one fateful timer ball against this thing, focus on KOing the Linoone, and not only not lose anyone besides the initial three, but gain another Pokemon. Granbul's HP is still in the green, so in all likelihood what will actually happen is that I will have to KO Granbul and Linoone next turn anyways, as another failed timer ball will lead to a full party wipe. Meaning that we will have a total of 5 casualties.

I go for the riskier move. Because god, these three have been with me since day one. And I DON'T want Uvite and Eudialyte torn. It feels too cruel to do to them and to Wes. And god, not only that, but I caught a fucking entei on my like fourth greatball or some shit. Surely fate would smile upon us. I send out Uvite, who can take at least one hit from the Linoone...

And Granbul doesn't get caught.

Down he goes.

The dynamic duo is torn.

That's it. There is no way out of this fight alive without losing the shadow Pokemon. I'm scraping by this battle with two pokemon of my party left. One if I'm unlucky with the dice roll.

We don't need antidotes anymore.

Moreover, our dead box is now bigger than our back up box. I bring in Diopside, Sapphirine, Nightmare, and Pyrite.

I roll the dice.

That's Eudialyte. Gone to join his partner.

Quartz is my ONLY remaining pokemon.

15 Pokemon are dead. 15 are alive. Equilibrium. Perfect Parity.

Ariados needs a special name, evidently. Much like Nightmare the Sudowoodo. His name shall be Parity.

Our entire team nearly wiped to a grunt. And it was the fault of my stupidity and a fucking ARIADOS.

Entei is next in order. I need to decide how I'll handle legendaries in this. I'm thinking given how disasterous this has all been, that I'll allow Entei as my last resort. As in, it will be skipped until no one else but it remains in the box.

Y'all. Look at my party.

We are SUPER not in a good place rn. (Also yes, Plusle can't be renamed. I'm still calling her Pyrite in my heart.)

I'll update the whole list later. Right now I need to go back to work. And in all likelihood, I won't be playing again for a while. Both because I got hella work to do, and because I am a little devastated rn ngl.

Debt is now at 20,169.

Death toll today: 6

Total death toll: 15

Remaining boxed Pokemon: 9

Murkrow (Musgravite), ??? nature, male

Forretress (Forsterite), ??? nature, female

Ariados (Parity), ??? nature, male