I couldn’t use items in battle after the first route, I couldn’t farm wild Pokemon for experience and I wasn’t allowed to retreat to Pokemon Centres from new routes, meaning I had to heal my Pokemon using items until I reached the next city. As well as only catching the first encounter in each area and adhering to the rule that a fainted Pokemon should be considered dead, I added in a couple of additional conditions to make the Nuzlocke a bit tougher. The only issue was the need to keep them all alive and kicking.Įxcept it wasn’t really an issue at all.
By the time I did the Route 203 rival battle - which takes place before you even earn your first gym badge - I had five out of six endgame Pokemon. Using my aforementioned knowledge of Nuzlocking Gen 4, I immediately went west of Jubilife to get an Old Rod and fish up a Magikarp before heading north to add a Budew from Route 204 to my team. Provided I could keep these three alive, I already had the first forms of three of Sinnoh’s most powerful native Pokemon. After leaving Lake Verity, I caught a Starly on route 201 and my first encounter on Route 202 was a Shinx. The group and corresponding starter I chose were decided by the last number in my Trainer ID. My random starter was Chimchar - to ensure it was actually random, I assigned all three starters to number groups of 0-3, 4-6, and 7-9. Related: Pokemon: Why Is Everyone Except You Filthy Rich?Īdmittedly, I got pretty lucky early on. I would soon learn that my dog could probably Nuzlocke BDSP with his teeth, in an hour, while sleepwalking. I didn’t imagine it was going to be child’s play - despite the fact these games are designed for children to play - but surely it would be at least relatively manageable. In fact, Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum are among the games I have most down to a T, so it’s safe to say I was pretty confident going into Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl. I’ve done enough Nuzlockes in my day to have become quite good at them. During the review period, I decided to Nuzlocke my way through Sinnoh to spice up my playthrough, which had about as much of an impact as Salt Bae doing his weird sorcery fingers to unhygienically and unevenly season the steak that went cold while you were waiting for him. While that last one usually gives me a headache, the unfortunate truth is that the recently launched Pokemon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl are, well… too easy. If you don't think any of the above situations apply, you can use this feedback form to request a review of this block.There are only three certainties in life: death, taxes, and 30-year-olds complaining about Pokemon being too easy. Contact your IT department and let them know that they've gotten banned, and to have them let us know when they've addressed the issue.Īre you browsing GameFAQs from an area that filters all traffic through a single proxy server (like Singapore or Malaysia), or are you on a mobile connection that seems to be randomly blocked every few pages? Then we'll definitely want to look into it - please let us know about it here. You'll need to disable that add-on in order to use GameFAQs.Īre you browsing GameFAQs from work, school, a library, or another shared IP? Unfortunately, if this school or place of business doesn't stop people from abusing our resources, we don't have any other way to put an end to it. When we get more abuse from a single IP address than we do legitimate traffic, we really have no choice but to block it. If you don't think you did anything wrong and don't understand why your IP was banned.Īre you using a proxy server or running a browser add-on for "privacy", "being anonymous", or "changing your region" or to view country-specific content, such as Tor or Zenmate? Unfortunately, so do spammers and hackers. IP bans will be reconsidered on a case-by-case basis if you were running a bot and did not understand the consequences, but typically not for spamming, hacking, or other abuse. If you are responsible for one of the above issues. Having an excessive number of banned accounts in a very short timeframe.Running a web bot/spider that downloaded a very large number of pages - more than could possibly justified as "personal use".Automated spam (advertising) or intrustion attempts (hacking).Your current IP address has been blocked due to bad behavior, which generally means one of the following: