Nuzlocke 5: Tour de Goldenrod

As I wrote yesterday, I had decided to evolve my Eevee to Espeon, due to it being my favourite and fitting quite well into the team. I spent the evening grinding up its friendship, which was less of a hassle than I remembered, and went to bed as soon as the heart emoji popped up…

Nuzlocke 4: Talent borrows…

Yesterday I spent most of my post gushing over Whitney’s Miltank. What I failed to say is that I generally like Miltank as a pokémon. She has pretty neat well-rounded stats, though somewhat lacking in offensive prowess, she has a great typing and two good abilities, and she is surprisingly fast – she is technically…

Nuzlocke 3: A grinding noise

The third gym in Johto is the infamous one, even more-so than the last one and Clair’s Kingdra which gave lots of trainers trouble back during GSC. The real nemesis of many young trainers is Whitney and her Miltank. For those of you who might have repressed the memory, or the few of you who…

Nuzlocke 2: Death in the family

After an hour or so of grinding, I managed to get Onix to a satisfactory level, and I managed to evolve my Mareep to Flaaffy, and was thus feeling confident to face down Bugsy. However, I accidentally stepped to close to the exit to Ilex Forest in Azalea Town, and Gecko jumps me. The douche.…

My First Nuzlocke, Part 1: In the beginning…

Since becoming a parent, I think I’ve turned on my Xbox once, and my daughter is almost nine months old now, so all of my gaming these days is done on handhelds. I recently finished Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, and I was looking for a new game to play on my 3DS. After not…