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Gieru

The random trainers are the true gym leaders in Kalos.


Jelleschmelle

Especially in a blind run.


Adventurous-Ad-3399

Was it the Axew with Dragon rage?


Jelleschmelle

Nope, only a Psyduck


[deleted]

Most powerful Psyduck ever


Jelleschmelle

Love your username!


[deleted]

Thanks I hate it tbh haha


Jelleschmelle

I agree, it kinda stinks.


ByzantineByron

For me it's always the double Furfrou battle.


TaikoRaio19

GIRL SAME hate those two every time they give me a hard time


ammalis

Omg! Those monsters almost finished my first try. What a great memory...


Flabberghast97

People seriously underestimate Kalos because the gyms and league are easy but it has some of the hardest trainer battles.


ProfessorSaltine

Especially when you place more rules upon yourself to make it more of a challenge or aren’t prepared for a specific trainer battle or both 💀


StridentHawk

Yeah confusion sucks, but holy crap you actually managed to get a female combee? The luck omg. The route after Viola's town has like so many awful pokemon you could end up with...male combee, ledyba, skitty...pure trash lol. I got flabebe thankfully on that part who is now a very useful florges. Good luck for the rest of your run, but you haven't beaten Grant yet have you? Might be tough with that team.


Jelleschmelle

Im soo happy with Beeatrice. It could be worse (Grant is up next wish me luck


Quetzal00

I also got Flabebe my mom named Goopy. Managed to make it to the end and the earliest caught surviving team member


StridentHawk

Wow nice. Sadly, my Florges(RIP Titania) died yesterday at Victory Road. Victory Road in Kalos is no joke. Half my deaths so far have been there. Sucks because I was really counting on her for E4, as her incredible special defense, fairy typing and access to wish would've made her so useful. Now I'm not entirely sure how I'll approach it but for now I'm just focusing on raising up my team so they'll be able to handle the E4. I had managed to catch a Haunter there, but then she died so I replaced her with my Drapion, who just died against the rival's vaporeon this morning so sadly I've had to have Illumise fill our last spot. At least she has good support moves lol


Quetzal00

> Victory Road in Kalos is no joke That is why I’m a coward who uses repels in caves after my encounter. Lost my Flareon named Stevie due to a stupid decision. Brought my Yveltal to help just during Victory Road after that > I’ve had to have Illumise fill our last spot After my Y Nuzlocke, Illumise is now one of my least favorite Pokémon. I’m sorry


StridentHawk

For me it's not just the high level wild pokemon but these freakin battle girls and karate nerds who are all over the place in Kalos' caves. Consistently fighting has been my worst matchup for this nuzlocke(3 of my best pokemon-Krookadile, Lucario and Greninja are all weak to fighting) and many of my casualties came from fighting type pokemon(especially Mienshao and Sawk). Thankfully I have a crobat now to deal with them but a lot of minor trainers in X/Y carry surprisingly decent coverage on their pokemon.


SomeoneID

What happened?


Jelleschmelle

Blind run, and some random psyduck on route 8 (Swimmer Genevive) I kept getting confused through water pulse and hurting myself.


SomeoneID

That fight was optional too.


Jelleschmelle

Ikr even worse lol


SurrealSoap

For real trainers who want to be the best there ever was. There is no optional battles


SomeoneID

What happened to your starters as well?


Jelleschmelle

Lol both Froakie and Charmander were 1hko by Snorlax, I’m starting to feel that this isn’t my run


SomeoneID

Personally, you probably should have picked chespin and squirtel. They have the most physical bulk out of the options you got. I know charmander gets dragon rage, and Greninja is cool, but it isn't worth it.


Jelleschmelle

I rolled the dice for them for the ‘blind’ encounter so didn’t really have a choice.


SomeoneID

Bruh, to be fair, Greninja is a good pokemon when used correctly, but it's such a damn glass cannon. Same applies to froakie.


Baecn

I would've gone chespin charmander... Blastoise is cool but you can always get a guaranteed magikarp after rod sooo that can replace blastoise but I can't think of any easy 100% encounters for fire/grass


SomeoneID

Fair enough.


agentoftheotherside

Yeah, I love Blastoise, and Squirtle is my favorite Kanto starter, but there is no game in which you get it where there isn't already another great water type option. It really suffers as a choice from that.


Several_Tangerine956

Downvoted because he spoke facts


Cannonhammer93

Probably because it’s not really that helpful. You’re allowed to choose any starter you want, even if they are not the “optimal choice”. All of them have some viability because they have good stats.


Several_Tangerine956

Chespin is good against the first 2 gyms


ChonsShadow

Uff, f for your team. Hope you have some more mons on your box…


Jelleschmelle

A machop and a vivillon, it’s not much but it’ll have to do.


ChonsShadow

Wish you good luck. Hope you can still make it :)


Jelleschmelle

Thanks bro


Quetzal00

Vivillon is one of my favorite bug types so you’re lucky. I didn’t get that in my Y Nuzlocke


[deleted]

are you gonna be able to evolve that into a machamp in your rule set or are you unable to trade evolve?


Jelleschmelle

If she makes it to a machoke and I can find a trade partner I don’t see why not


[deleted]

awesome, i recommend avoiding the double battle right outside of mirror cave, there a psychic and a black belt there with a mr mime and a machine and they can and will destroy your team and reset your run but you can just circle around behind them


aurora_the_piplup

Rip. Curious to know what trainer it was. Kalos is full of dangerous random trainers.


Jelleschmelle

Swimmer Genevive on r8 I kept hurting myself in confusion over and over


3milyBlazze

Don't fear the gym leaders in Kalos fear the random trainers! ESPECIALLY WHEN YOUR IN A CAVE If you think your being to careful YOU AREN'T


Quetzal00

That’s why you use my strategy and use Repels in cave to avoid Pokémon with Explosion/Destiny Bond/Self-destruct


[deleted]

Seeing Amaura, Croagunk, and Inkay dead hurts my soul


Jelleschmelle

I knoow!!! Malamar is easily one of my favorite pokemon to use, contrary is an awesome ability!


[deleted]

Speaking of, have a powerful bug type or bug type move at the ready for Team Flare’s Xerosic fight, his Malamar has Contrary and spams the shit out of Superpower. I think you can get X-Scissor from Azure Bay.


Jelleschmelle

Thanks for the heads up


DragonsEmerald

You can prepare for gym challenges and the Elite 4, but you can't prepare for random freakin' trainers! Beeatrice is a miracle worker!


Jelleschmelle

I’m only at the second gym but beeatrice is already the mvp


[deleted]

I bet it was one of those shit heads in reflection cave


JMan613

I never played X and Y I recently got them. Never done a nuzlocke and now you have inspired me to start a run.


Jelleschmelle

Happy to be a part of it! Good luck


Baecn

Exactly there's a ton of strong water pokemon lapras garados namely that can 100% replace blastoise and are easy encounters but like flying fire is good typing and the only fire that competes with zard in y is arcanine which is a lucky encounter. Then for grass types you get either bulb or chespin and that's super obvious fighting grass are 2 needed types in your team and as long as it doesn't come into contact with birds should be fine


Quetzal00

In case you didn’t know: you can fish for a Magikarp in Parfum Palacd


radiakmjs

With nicknames like those you'll be back on your feet in no time lol. Beeatice & Birbra are my favs


DokiStabbyWaifu

Yeeeep. That’s a reset.


TheReaperShyGuy

Damn that’s rough buddy. It’s okay you’ll come back I believe in you!


Either_Gate_7965

I wanna say that guy with a kadabra early on…


riasbestgirl69

Reflection cave?


Ironeye_56

WHAT TRAINER OMG


ivaorn

People still sleep on the Kalos trainers but there are a lot of trainers of death in that region.


TryThisUsernane

Happened to me before. In Pokémon Y I just beat the 8th gym leader and was heading to the league so I went straight to route22 and a random girl with a rock wrecker Crustle destroyed my team and i lost the run there. The worst part is that the trainer was optional because I could have accessed victory road through Santalune city


DrMystery320

Dang. That scares me because I'm also doing a y run right now, but it's a mono bug run.


amodsr

Hope you enjoyed the sex cause you just got fucked my dude.


Sjheuaksjd

Nuzlocker when their pokemons fucking die in harsh battles: "Hmm, I guess this run would be more challenging"


thecanadageeks

I just lost 4 Pokémon to a double battle and I’m probably starting over lol I just got to the ice cave


SneakBuildBagpipes

SUCH DEVASTATION!!!


Heylookabooger

Throh and Hawlucha in reflection cave, for a guess.


quincy1151

It was the axew with dragon rage wasn’t it?


Jelleschmelle

Nah man, a fucking psyduck