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levelzeo · 10 months

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Level Zeo's Brilliant Diamond Nuzlocke - Part 3

Oh hi. I didn’t see you there. As long as you’re here, why don’t I tell you more about my Nuzlocke, as well as my head canons about the personalities of my Pokemon. In fact, if you would like you can go read PART 1 or PART 2 for more context, or to just read them again because it’s your new favorite thing to do. Whatever works for you. If you’re all caught up, prepare yourself. We’re going over not one, but TWO important fights in this update.

Current Team

Simmer the Chimchar

Boof the Bidoof

Doc the Zubat

Orion the Shinx

Snek the Onix

Agro the Machop

Boxed Pokemon: 1

Deaths: 1

Badges: 0

I promised last time that we would jump right into the Gym in this update, but a couple of things happened while grinding to level 13-14 that I want to briefly mention. The first, and less important, thing is that Snek learned Dragon Breath. I had no idea that Onix learned that move this early, and I find it to be a very funny mental image. This giant rock snake slithering around and chasing down wild Zubats, only for her to blast one out of the air with a beam attack and then look at me with a big happy smile on her face. I love it. And I imagine that Doc begins referring to her as a “death ray”.

The second, and more relevant, thing is that Simmer evolved! I’m so used to my starter evolving in the 16-17 range, I had no idea they evolved at 14 in gen 4. You learn something new every day I suppose.

On the topic of learning, I imagine that Simmer’s newfound evolution was spurned by some learning and reflection he has had to do. His training with Agro has borne fruit, and Orion has pushed him to stand up and fight instead of trying to fade into the background. He’s still scared of course, still cautious and careful of every little thing, but he’s willing willing to push down that fear (at least a little bit) to be the fighter the team needs

Okay, enough grinding. With the team at acceptable levels, we head for the Gym. I’ve already taken care of the Gym trainers during grinding, so there’s nothing left to stand between me and Roark. First Gym battle, start!

Round 1 is against a Geodude, and I lead with Boof. Agro is my best fighter for this gym, being pure fighting, but I want to save his health for the final round. The Geodude sets up Stealth Rock to start, but this doesn’t have much relevance to the rest of the battle. Boof uses Rock Smash into the Geodude over and over again. The Geodude uses Defense Curls and gets given all of Roark’s potions, but Boof’s onslaught of attacks is endless, and the Geodude is reduced to rubble.

Round 2. I switch to Simmer against the incoming Onix. The two Pokémon trade blows, a Power-Up Punch and a Rock Throw respectively. Despite its imposing size, the Onix’s attack is barely effective. Summer is able to calm his nerves and throw out a second Power-Up Punch, getting a Critical Hit and easily winning the round.

Final Round. Agro vs Cranidos. Cranidos hits hard with a Headbutt, probably hoping to get a flinch. But Agro has been training for this, to prove his strength against a worthy foe. He snaps back with a Revenge, and the Cranidos is utterly annihilated in a single blow! The fact that this is the same move that killed Chips makes the victory bittersweet. But even so, it is a victory nonetheless.

Coal Badge Obtained!

One badge down, seven to go. The team celebrates their victory, and the sheer joy of having overcome this first major obstacle causes another evolution! Boof evolves into a Bibarel! One of our toughest and bravest fighters has obtained a new form, ready to tackle the obstacles that our journey has yet to throw at us. Seeing this evolution, and also seeing how hard Simmer is trying, inspires yet a third evolution! Orion evolves into a Luxio!

Okay, so technically these two evolutions happened while fighting random wild Pokemon shortly after the gym, but where’s the fun in that? My Pokemon have evolved, and we’re moving on.

With the Coal Badge in our hands and new evolutions on our team, we are riding high. I like to think Chips would be proud of us. We can also now go back into Oreburgh Gate and use Rock Smash to access a new encounter! So I do just that, breaking through the rubble to descend into the basement of the cavern, where I fight off a seemingly endless swarm of Zubat (I already have one cackling maniac of a Zubat, I don’t need any more). After what feels like forever, I encounter a Psyduck.

Puddle the Psyduck has a Docile nature and is Strong Willed. I imagine that she has been meditating in this cave to hone her psychic abilities. She may not be a psychic type, but she wishes to prove that she doesn’t need to be one to access the true power of her mind. My team of misfits bumbling into her meditation is something she sees as a sign from the universe, and she happily joins the party.

Since I want to have Puddle’s water and psychic moves on the team, I make the executive decision to sadly put Agro in the box. With the first gym defeated, Simmer should be able to take over as the team’s fighting type for now. Agro gives a bow to his fighting student, and makes the others promise they will continue training hard in his absence. They all agree, though Orion’s is more of a “sure, whatever”.

I also decide to swap Snek out and put Petard back on the team. As much fun as we all have watching her blast things with Dragon Breath, we all know that in terms of both stats and personality, she is not made for the world of battling. The team will miss her joyful presence, and Doc will miss his death ray.

With our reorganized team, I head back to Jubilife, where I run into Professor Rowan, who forces me to battle some Galactic grunts. Puddle is easily able to break the psyche of their Zubat, and also able to throw water at their Wurmple until it faints.

Moving swiftly along, we travel up Route 204, using Rock Smash to make it through the Ravaged Path. Before I know it, we’re in Floaroma town. It’s a very pleasant place, and I’m sure it’s a place many of my Pokémon would enjoy relaxing in, but not all is well. Some girl’s father has been kidnapped! Oh no!

Heading over the Valley Windworks, we beat up the Galactic grunt outside, then run all the way back to Floaroma to go to their Meadow and beat up even more grunts. These guys really suck, and most of the team greatly enjoys beating them up. Though Puddle warns that we should not become complacent, something that probably doesn’t help Simmer’s nerves.

In the Meadow we pick up the key to the Windworks, and also slather some honey on a nearby tree. We run all the way back to the Valley Windworks, and while we are there I decide to find a new encounter outside. I encounter a Buizel who is both Calm and Likes to Fight. I name her Bonny, after a famous pirate. She’s a seafaring scallywag who enjoys both a good book and a good brawl. But for now, the only sea she will be menacing will be the one in the box.

Entering the Windworks, Petard begins throwing rocks around to take out Team Galactic’s flying and bug types. I’m sure he is using a lot of rock puns as he does so. (You’re gonna have to be boulder than that if you want to beat us! Looks like our victory is only a stone's throw away!)

It seems as though the grunts of this evil organization have no idea why they are here or what their group is doing. I’m serious, they all talk about how they have no idea what the plan is. Doc takes great offense at an evil organization being planned so poorly, and Poison Fangs all of the enemies that Petard couldn’t one-shot with rocks.

Eventually we find the one in charge of this particular operation, Mars. I’m not oblivious. I know that Mars is a dangerous opponent (at least in the originals, I don’t know if she has the same run-ending potential here in the remake). So I’m cautious going into this fight, but I’m confident in my team’s abilities.

As Mars leads with her Zubat, Orion steps up to protect his friends from this winged foe. The Luxio unleashes a Thunder Shock, and the Zubat is almost defeated. But it isn’t enough, and the enemy is able to get in a counter-attack; U-Turn. After hitting Orion for not-insignificant damage, the Purugly comes out to play.

I switch to Petard, who shrugs off a Fake Out before the two combatants begin trading blows. Petard is practically juggling loose stones with the number of Rock Throws he uses, while Purugly hits over and over again with Thief. Petard’s blows are able to wear down the cat enough that it is forced to use its berry, but Petard is too weak to continue.

Frightened by the possibility of anyone dying to this fearsome opponent, Simmer steps into the fray, taking an attack that would have probably killed Petard if it had been a crit. Purugly slashes hard into the Monferno, but Simmer hits back with a Power-Up Punch, knocking the cat out of the fight.

Mars sends her Zubat back out, but we all know who the victor is already. Puddle unleashes a single Confusion, and the Galactic Commander is finally defeated. Despite losing, she seems to have enjoyed the battle, and happily packs up her minions and leaves. The Windworks is saved, the little girl’s dad is freed, and the Grunts who were blocking the way forward are gone. Our journey can continue.

Well. That was a long update, huh? A Gym Leader fight, three evolutions, AND the first Galactic Commander battle? I think I deserve a break. Next time we will be checking in on the honey we slathered in Floaroma Meadow (and also some honey I did on the tree on Route 205), and making our way to the next gym. For now though, I hope you enjoyed reading as much as I enjoyed playing and writing. See you next time!

#yes i know i could have gotten a drifloon from valley windworks #its just that ive used it in a couple different nuzlockes before and i wanted to change things up #level zeo nuzlocke #nuzlocke #pokemon nuzlocke #nuzlocke story #pokemon #pokemon bdsp #brilliant diamond #pokemon brilliant diamond #brilliant diamond nuzlocke #nuzlocke art #monferno #luxio #bibarel #psyduck #buizel

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goldensunset · 9 months

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*points* arezu descendant sighted

#i like the music in here it’s fun #like in the valley windworks or w/e it’s called #peach plays pokémon platinum

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perenlop · 1 year

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ok was gonna bitch abt bdsp but this is an issue in the originals too apparently? so just talking abt sinnoh overall ig but why are the obedience level caps so weird in sinnoh. all traded pokemon will disobey you after level ten until eterna city which is like 1 or 2 hours into the game and your pokemon are literally expected to get to level 20 at that point, and even then its only up to level 30? and you have to grab two more badges even though there’s a HUGE amount of time between gardenia and maylene/crasher wake. and then in the remakes you have the exp share that you cant turn off, which means that if you want to use your traded pokemon, you have to box it most of the time to make sure it stays below the cap

i thought the point of the level cap was to keep people from just trading in a level 100 mewtwo and sweeping everything from the get go, not throw a fit that i bothered to trade at all.

#its weird bc every other game does in fact raise the cap when you get the first badge and i naturally assumed itd be the same here #my mutual traded me a mawile to use and i was excited bc i havent used it very oftenand i love that pokemon #but its literally level 13 and i cant use it in the valley windworks even tho everythin gislevel 16 at that point #so like in my case i literally just want to use a gift and the game is like ''um... fuck youlol''#but naturally i can get a jirachi and mew in the exact same area. phenomenal game design here guys.#echoed voice

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dawnedon · 1 year

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Dawn still has her original Rickshaw bike from when she was younger. It was something she rode around Sinnoh all of the time, and it's held up very well over the years, through rain, sun, and snow.

After the Distortion World, however, she couldn't and still can't ride it as well as she used to. Dawn experiences random bouts of dizziness, to the point where she doesn't know what direction is up and how she should be situated. Dizziness that spins the entire world around her, and makes her feel like she's falling backwards infinitely. It makes it hard to ride a bike when those spells hit, and she winds up taking hard spills onto the ground if she doesn't stop her bike in time before it gets bad.

Despite the scuffs on the paint and the spills, the bike is still solid. Beyond that, it's actually kind of important to her too. It followed her first real interaction with Galactic on their home turf - in one of their bases - and while Dawn had dealt with them in Valley Windworks, the situation in Eterna felt different. It was testament that one good deed deserves another, and was when she really started feeling like she could genuinely help others - regardless of whether or not they could help themselves.

#👻 headcanon.#ok im a lil emo. just a lil #i think the eterna galactic building incident shook her a bit more than valley windworks #just bc she was on galactic's turf and she's like. i could die right here. but if i DO die then i wont get the clefairy back so-

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bluebayard · 2 years

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HAPPY DRIFLOON FRIDAY!

#pokemon #fanart #pokemon fanart #digital art #art #my art tag #ITS HER DAY.. REMEMBER TO GO SAY HI TO A BELOVED FRIEND AT VALLEY WINDWORKS TODAY <3

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constarlations · 6 months

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Perrin in Valley Windworks 💎📸🌻

Painted Adaman and Irida’s great great great great (goes on) granddaughter a while back home in sinnoh hehehehe I hope you enjoy (I still haven’t met her cause I don’t have the Kitakami Pokédex finished ughhhhhh)

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#pokemon #Perrin #pokemon perrin #pokemon sv #art #Pokémon art #im not tagging this get fucking fucked lmfao #I miss tumblr cause I used to talk in the tags hi y’all my grandma died while I drew this :)#this painting took like 100 hours I feel and it isn’t even good I GOTTA get better #gotta learn how league artists draw like their fastness grrrrrrrr #Pokémon #Pokémon fanart #sazare #サザレ #ally draws stuff

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cad48 · 1 year

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I made a little chart for fun! This organizes Pokémon that are Water-type, at least semi-aquatic, or both into freshwater/saltwater/neither habitats! Evolutions are included with their pre-evolved forms.

Making this was fun and I hope all my reasoning makes sense!

Some additional explanation below the Read More

There are a few instances of some Pokémon being clearly intended to be one or the other, but in one spot in one game once they were in the other habitat. I included these with the habitat they’re in the overwhelming majority of the time. These cases include Squirtle, Wooper, Totodile, Barboach, Lapras, Wingull, Wailmer, the blue Shellos, Remoraid, and Alomomola.

In addition, the river flowing from the Valley Windworks through Route 205 and out through the Fuego Ironworks in Sinnoh has saltwater encounters for some reason? Tentacool, Wingull, Shellder, Shellos, and Finneon are all there. Similarly, Unova Route 1 has freshwater encounters despite being the ocean. I wrote both of these instances off as mistakes (although perhaps the Sinnoh one is simply an inlet and not a river?)

Froakie’s and Popplio’s canon habitats are unconfirmed. I looked and could not find a source for either- I just guessed based on their irl counterparts.

There’s also the case of the Wild Area and Grand Underground. I disregarded both of these (except in the case of Dreepy and G-Corsola, exclusive to the Wild Area), as they seemingly do not care about logical habitats. Lastly, I also ignored the Crown Tundra for the fossils (particularly Lake Ballimere and Giant’s Foot), as it is not only not their original habitat but the waters seemingly do not match the modern ocean, but are possibly salty nevertheless.

#pokemon #water type pokemon #pokemon ecology

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pokeprint · 1 year

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Valley Windworks

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pkmnrangerkaita · 4 months

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……y’all aren’t gonna BELIEVE what Team Galactic was hiding in the valley windworks.

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lunarcurrents · 2 months

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Valley Windworks

#my art #illustration #illust #イラスト #pokemon #pokemon art #pokemon fanart #pkmn #ポケモン #pokemon games #sinnoh #pkmn dppt #pokemon dppt #pokemon diamond and pearl #dawn pokemon #trainer dawn #ヒカリ #artists on tumblr

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cubic-watermelon · 9 months

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My Shining Pearl Artlocke Nuzlocke challenge

I did this when the games came out. I was trying to make the game hard because I already knew it was going to be too easy.

Here are my rules:

-Catch only the first Pokémon in each area; -Name them; (naming theme - villagers from animal crossing) -draw them; -fainting = death; -draw how they died; -no items in battle; -no legendaries; -level cap = to next leader’s ace; -game mode = set; -no in-game trades; -dupes clause, for the sake of variety.

Starter: Turtwig Name: Flora Nature: Rash Ability: Overgrow

Route 201: Starly Name: Apollo Nature: Naughty Ability: Keen eye

Route 202: nothing... a kricketot fainted to a crit by Apollo.

Route 204: Bidoof Name: Chip Nature: Gentle Ability: Simple

Route 218: Magikarp Name: Hopkins Nature: Gentle Ability: Swift swim

Route 203: Kricketot Name: Piper Nature: Hasty Ability: Shed skin

First Death: Chip I was grinding near Oreburgh Gate. Chip as already in the red and I wanted to go back to heal. ran into a starly and it didn't let me run. I was looking forward to using Chip more. His abiliti was good NGL. RIP

Oreburgh gate: Zubat Name: Celeste Nature: Sassy Ability: Inner focus

Route 207: Geodude Name: Renée Nature: Sassy Ability: Rock head

Oreburgh mine: Onix Name: Spike Nature: Quiet Ability: Sturdy

Piper evolved into DELELELEWOOOOOOOOP. Her ability is now Swarm.

going into the first Gym, this is my team. I have a flawless strategy, don't worry. (spam the "do grass damage" button)

I ended up just using Piper. She’s holding a metronome so I just spammed rock smash for an easy win.

Apollo Evolved and gained the ability intimidate.

Valley Windworks: Buizel Name: Marina Nature: Bold Ability: Swift Swim

Flora evolved.

Route 205: Pachirisu Name: Tasha Nature: Lax Ability: Pickup

This is my team for the grass Gym. I didn't catch anything on route 211 because Celeste decided to kill a meditite encounter, so, no new mon and no fire type...

Celeste and Piper had a little trouble with Roserade but we did it with my BIG BRAIN tactics! who needs fire types? then Celeste evolved... and a level later she evolved again! Now that I have a Crobat I can safely say this run is in the bag!

Hopkins evolved and now I have a killing machine with intimidate!

btw, I didn't catch anything on route 211 and 206 because Celeste likes crits.

Wayward cave: Bronzor (Gible spawns here btw...) Name: Clay Nature: Naughty Ability: Levitate

Renée evolved and I'm very surprised, I never used geodude before, she's quite good.

then, I remembered the old Chateau and went back to get me a mon.

Old Chateau: Gastly Name: Lucky Nature: Adamant Ability: Levitate

Mount Coronet: Meditite Name: Poncho Nature: Serious Ability: Pure power

route 208 - Psyduck died to a crit. route 209 - didn't find a new mon yes. Dupes Clause.

Route 210: Ponyta Name: Victoria Nature: Careful Ability: Flash fire

I went into the 3rd gym with this team but a bit weaker. Beat it with Apollo, Hopkins and Celeste but it wasn’t easy.

death 2 - Lucky. He died to a Mime Jr. of all things... I was leveling him up and I thought he could take on a shitty Mime Jr. RIP

A guy gave an egg to me in hearthome, it hatched:

Hearthome city: Happiny Name: Merengue Nature: Quirky Ability: Serene grace

Route 209: Bonsly Name: Coco Nature: Careful Ability: Rock head

Finally found a fossil undergrownd: Oreburg City: Shieldon Name: Rhonda Nature: Timid Ability: Sturdy

Happiny shoved a rock into her cooch and evolved.

And that's the end of part one! To be continued!

Part 2: https://www.tumblr.com/cubic-watermelon/724830775856513024/my-trash-dump

#pokemon #shining #pearl #nuzlocke #artlocke #I don't feel like naming all the pokemon I posted here sorry #art

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ectoplaasm · 8 months

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📓 muahahahaha >:D

FOLLOW THE CHAMPION OF UNOVA AS SHE (not Iris) EXPERIENCES THE WONDERS OF SINN--huh? You mean to tell me that the Champion of Unova keeps sleeping in the patch of grass outside of the Valley Windworks? Because she thinks Sinnoh is boring?

This is, like, a retelling of the Team Galactic arc in DPPT but instead of Dawn/Lucas meddling it's the Unovan Champion (again--not Iris--just an OC of sorts). Here, Team Galactic is less obviously evil and doing things far more lowkey than in the actual game. Champ keeps napping outside of the Valley Windworks because no one goes there and she's drained from celebrity status in Sinnoh. Cyrus (who owns the place in this AU [I guess is what we'll call it]) starts walking by bc he's doing work for power there; he notices that a random woman is constantly passed out outside of his "establishment" and they talk. After an eventual heated battle (that Champ wins) he asks if she wants to be his bodyguard because his Galactic operation is starting to get dicey and he requires intimidation at business meetings. Champ is unaware that Team Galactic is evil-evil at this point, so she agrees because Cyrus' weird personality interests her and also she is bored. After a few days of working and collecting information, she relays the info to Cynthia during their weekly check-in and Cynthia is like "Sounds suspicious. Keep spying since you're a foreigner" and Champ is like yes MA'AM and so keeps spying. As the Champ continues to learn about Cyrus' twisted view on the world, she starts to connect some of the dots between the research she is privy to and Cyrus' mindset, and decides she's going to "befriend" him to prevent him from going through with the Brand New World thing. She thinks it'll work because he has a Crobat (which she noted was treated far more kindly in their battle than the rest of his Pokemon).

#“befriend” can mean many things :D #fun stuff #plaasks #mutual brigade #hopes this answers some of your ~questions~ about this particular scenario HAHAHA

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