#swsh only drizziles challenge

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BEATING LEON WITH A TEAM OF DRIZZILES: PART THREE

I actually fucking did it. i can't believe it.

"Strong pokemon. Weak pokemon.

That is only the selfish perception of people.

Truly skilled trainers should try to win with their favorites."

-some person from johto

Edit: This post seems to be gaining traction again for some reason, despite it being from november of 2023.

If this reaches 200 notes (no time limit), I will attempt the dlc for swsh.

If it reaches 250, I will attempt sv using only drizziles

And finally, 300 notes and I will attempt the sv dlc with only drizziles.

[prof-arjun]

Pokemon Sword by Tumblr decides my fate

Journey to the first badge: Masterpost

The text never ended, and while that was understandable with SwSh being the start of Gen 8. That makes repeat playthroughs a little difficult in the hand-holdy feel of the endless blocks of text and seemingly cookie-cutter 2-D characters. Like, Hop, hunny, c'mon. Can you not mention pages in your legend for five seconds?

But with our little Sobble named Xion, I tried to race through the opening establishing plot. Catching a Wooloo and naming him Meep to avoid the catching tutorial and telling Hop that no, this isn't my first time in a Pokemon Center. Cause, honestly, thank Arceus they added that... if only they'd keep it in every single game moving forward...

With Leon giving me plenty of Pokeballs, I instantly looked for a Nickit and Yamper, naming them Gigi and Lola respectively. After that, I caught one of every Pokemon I could find across Route 1 and 2. At least, I think I did. I wasn't looking at a guide.

Having done that before challenging Hop at Professor Magnolia's place meant I didn't have anything new to catch during his little "challenge". And the purple-haired twerp had the AUDACITY to be sassy about it as if I wasn't completing my Dex faster than his little butt ever could.

But I digress, it was time to get into the Wilds of Galar. Because you know the train just has to run into the one flock of Wooloo for no other reason than plot. And that was really the best thing ever as I poked my head into every Raid Den I could.

Well, sort of. I only caught the first 12 non-repeating Pokemon I found before moving over to the Isle of Armor. Klara gave me a little trouble since my Pokemon were barely over level 10, but I was able to win out in one attempt. And trying to run around to the various Dens on my way to the Dojo.

Honey was an absolute doll and Mustard was his usual partially shady self. But the Slowpoke he trained caused Xion to evolve into Drizzile. I still got the little G-Max Bulbasaur and named him Hashi. Since I didn't need to get Kubfu just yet, I stopped at the second trial. But when we get to the first gym town, we will finish that off.

But after repeating the 12 Raid Den scourge, I went on to the Crowned Tundra. Peony tromped me soundly and called me a softie. Like, sir, I could have been so much worse for you if I wanted to be. You're just lucky I need to get into the Tundra right now...

Ignoring the Dynamax Adventures for now, I ran screaming through the Tundra. Kinda loving and hating the new caves that can be spelunked to your heart's content, but the frickin' Dens hidden in the cave systems... Please, make those easy to find and leave the spelunkable caves to hold something more interesting, please? Rare spawns would be nice.

Though, speaking of Raid Dens, adding a Mienfoo named Mulan to the squad just to help round out weaknesses and give a nice, hard-hitting baby girl to make things interesting.

While setting up for future events, I went ahead and started grinding out that Pokedex and getting Madara the Kubfu to level 30 so we could climb the Tower of Darkness. Very simple projects in theory... but man was that a task and a half. Though I can't express how good it felt to whoop Bede instantly with Gigi. So many memories of my original disdain justified and rectified with one team member.

First of all, Klara and her Poison Types were a trial in and of themselves twice over since I had no real counters, other than Hashi clearing away the spikes. But I eventually got everything sorted out and then came training...

In the Crowned Tundra, I proceeded to complete a Dynamax Adventure and keep an Obstagoon. Suicune knocked out three Pokemon after the Hatterene before it had knocked out one but thankfully you don't need to beat it to progress the story. Instead, I used the Obstagoon to battle around the Tundra, running errands for a creepy Harvest King. (No, I don't like Calyrex... you see what it does to Peony? Bruh better keep his little noggin' to himself.)

But with all that cleared away, I flew back to Turrfield and the Gym Challenge... with a team in its early twenties and more than over-leveled. Add in the fact that herding Wooloo is rather simple and you have a recipe for a quick Gym badge right out of the gate.

Went in with Meep being paralyzed, but he fought through and took down the Gossifleur with a series of Headbutt. Then I swapped for Gigi knowing that I would be Dynamaxing along with Milo and his Eldegoss. Though side note; why didn't they give Milo an Applin for the first battle? It isn't a very strong Pokemon and would add a smidge of diversity to his team. Heck, add a Grookey so he has something other than just the same two Pokemon in his first battle.

Either way, we got the first badge, now to poke into some Raid Dens and hold a couple more polls...

Team:

Xion- Drizzile

Meep- Wooloo

Hashi- Bulbasaur

Lola- Yamper

Gigi- Nickit

Mulan- Mienfoo

[marshmalleaux-queen]

we're doing a shield nuzlocke and we lost a real one today

BamesNonds (4/28/2022-5/1/2022) - Rash, brash, and loved to thrash

[weatherman667]

Quick Pokemon SwSh Summary so far

Inteleon is my new favourite Pokemon, finally unseating Wartortle after all these many years.

Corviknight is as great as we thought it would be.  As much of a trump card as Sobble/Drizzile/Inteleon is.

Nessa and Sonia are even better than we thought.  Just remember, you’re playing a 10 year old and this is Pokemon, so it’s entirely G-rated.

Hop is a little bitch, and pretty much the worst part of the game.  I’m playing Pokemon to make friends with Pokemon, not people.  He can’t even level up his Pokemon properly, and always challenges me to a battle when he’s knows my Pokemon are exhausted, (still loses like the bitch he is.  The only time he was a challenge was when I was caught with my pants down without Drizzile and Corvisquire.  (I was leveling my lower-level Pokemon)).

Pokemon battles are the major sporting event in Galar, which pretty much explains why there is so much infrastructure for it.  Seriously, everything in the earlier games seemed to be Pokemon related, and this justifies it.  The Gym battles are basically the qualifiers for the regions largest sports league.   The stadiums are filled with cheering fans, and the gyms themselves are colossal, (not like the piddly little gyms in Kanto).

It expands on the rest of the world, to the point you, yes, they actually seem to have a thriving, non-Pokemon-related economy in the background.  There’s even farmland, and kids running around in Pokemon costumes.

Finally got myself a female Salandit, which means when she’s levelled up I’ll finally have a Salazzle.

In the Earlier generations, multi-type Pokemon were kind of rare, (or you get stuff like Rock, which were almost always also Ground type, to the point I thought Rock had immunity to Lighting), but this one has a huge variety of Pokemon with a huge variety of types and skillsets, making the world feel full.  There’s not one cat Pokemon and one dog Pokemon, but great varieties of everything.

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a story

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many of them

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(i don't know if it posted or not so if it did then please ignore this repost)

BEATING LEON WITH ONLY DRIZZILES: PART TWO

spoiler: I failed again

this does not mean this is the end. I will return.

tommorow. 6 pm est.

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mfw I post a big giant important thing happening in the swsh only drizziles challenge and then I forget to use the swsh only drizziles tag

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IT IS TIME TO REMATCH LEON

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liveblogging leon's match using only drizziles

oh god his dragapult has thunderbolt and is faster than my entire team

luckily I have sucker punch (a super effective priority move) on 3 of my drizziles

...

they all fainted.

luckily I have attract on a female drizzile

...

she is also fainted.

WELL GUESS IM LOSING

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progress on the swsh challenge

I beat bea and opal

forgot to record

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why I love swsh

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starting postgame now

i think I'd also want to try getting a swsh living dex (probably not including dlc mons but we'll see)

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I will attempt postgame and dlc on saturday

I still can't believe I beat swsh using only drizziles

paldea is not safe either

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bonus video

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today's strategy for taking down leon:

give rocky helmet to one of my drizziles with u turn

rain dance first turn and use muddy water to quickly take out aegislash

switch to a drizzile with sucker punch and attempt to ko dragapult

switch to a drizzile with u turn and attack rillaboom

switch to the u turn drizzile with the rocky helmet to deal more damage

u turn again into the other u turn drizzile

repeat until rillaboom is down

and make up the rest as I go along