Pokémon Sun with moves with a display power of at most 40
Part 0: An OverviewHello to all who will read this. I am TpOi2006, and since this is my first challenge run, I’ll give a brief summary of myself and my experience of Pokémon before starting the run. Massive props to Green_Typhlosion for inspiring me to do one of these; their Floette-Eternal run was in such amazing detail (do read it or any of theirs if you haven’t already), and I hope to honour it.
Back to my story.
I came into Pokémon through the anime, and I can still remember the first episode I ever watched; the one in Pokémon Advanced where May catches her Wurmple, which would eventually become the Beautifly which featured so extensively in her contest arc. I then got into the mainline games in late 2016, when I received Pokémon Sun for Christmas, and proceeded to pour over 300 hours into it before moving on to Ultra Moon. Following that, I neglected the old account, and proceeded to reset it for a few failed Nuzlocke attempts which fizzled out due to lack of enthusiasm on my part. My desire to play the game through again with no pressure led to this idea.
Part 0.5: The Run explained
Obviously the title explains some of the story, but not all of it. So I will attempt to clarify here. When entering the Pokémon summary interface, you can see the moves of each pokemon, with details regarding accuracy, category, potential side effects and, very importantly for this run, move power. Here it shown below for Growlithe’s Ember.
As you can see, the power displayed for Ember is 40, which makes it legal for this run. Any other move without a number greater than 40 next to the power statistic is legal for this run, which includes status moves. This means that Z-moves will only be able to used off of status moves, though I may change the rules regarding this if it becomes too easy. Other rules regarding other moves may also be implemented if I become over-reliant on them (Everyone reading this can probably think of a few potential culprits.
Now for the rules for the beginning of the run:
- I can only use moves with a base power not exceeding 40.
- Z-moves off of attacking moves are banned.
- The use of items from the bag in-battle is banned; Held items, Pokéballs and items outside of combat are allowed (you can guess another one of my influences from the wording of this!).
If there are any other rules that you think I should implement or that I haven’t clarified well enough, please respond. I’m new to this, so any help would be massively appreciated.
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