Pokemon Silver - 0 Exp Challenge Part 6: Morty

The next gym battle isn't too hard seeing how Sudowoodo has high enough defence to not fret over Shadow Balls coming from the unreasonable base attack of the Gengar evolution line, and with some switching to avoid the effects of Curse and a lot of Awakenings, Sudowoodo might as well handle this on his own.

However, when I play Pokemon, even when it's an extreme challenge like this, I tend to rush impatiently into the next battle without even bothering with the shopping (I'm really OCD about picking up the berries on a daily basis though) so I had barely any Awakenings ready for the sleep assault that was to come.

Funny how the same kind of tactics that we used in the first three gym battles is now used against our party here.

Anyway, there are Pokemon who can do better than Sudowoodo in this gym. If we go east or west from Ecruteak, we can catch some cool stuff that's not exactly overpowered (Sudowoodo is still the highest-levelled Pokemon available), but quite useful.

Girafarig, for example. Very unique typing in Normal/Psychic grants him immunity to Shadow Ball and boosts his Confusion he comes with, with the same type attack bonus. However, if Curse is used, it's a good idea to switch him out to somebody like Sudowoodo.

It's worth noting that Night Shade, which is ghost-type and does damage equal to the user's level, doesn't affect Normal-types in this game (unlike in the first generation). This means Girafarig has only Hypnosis to fear from the unevolved ghosts here. Curse just allows him to beat his opponents quicker. Sudowoodo receives significant damage from Night Shade and his Rock Throw counters are unimpressive. He has Quick Claw equipped in this battle, which gives him a decent chance of going first. If you watch the video, you'll see that it saves his life at one point.

Gengar is quite different. Not only does he spam Hypnosis, but he also knows Dream Eater which will deal heavy Psychic damage and heal the boss Pokemon substantially. Since we don't have many Awakenings at all to just wait out until Hypnosis misses (it's only 60% accurate), I use some different tactics.

That is, I counter with Hypnosis of my own. Noctowl is caught in the same area south of the Lake of Rage where Girafarig is also found, and he is another Normal type that resists ghost attacks, not to mention that he starts with Peck, Foresight and Hypnosis, all of which are great for this fight.

Foresight removed the ghosts' immunity to normal and fighting type attacks, making it a perfect idea to switch to a great normal-type attacker like Tauros, Miltank or Raticate, and then use their STAB moves for great damage. I used a Steelix trying to bring Gengar's defence down beforehand, but he didn't withstand Gengar's cunning tactics for too long.

The Dig TM could be put to good use here; however, later on in the game there's a shortage of good ground-type attacks, so I'd rather conserve it for when the level gap between the wild Pokemon and the enemies is more apparent. Somebody like Graveler/Golem would really appreciate it, and I have a feeling I'll be giving the Earthquake TM to somebody else.

Anyway, if this can be done without Dig, there's no need to waste it since it's one-time use.

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[josephtan1818]

ps: noctowl can be doubled as psychic/flying pokemon, u can even use tm42 to make it learn dream eater or lv it to lv57 to learn it

[MoogleBoss]

@josephtan1818

He gets no same type attack bonus for it though, plus his sleeping move is inaccurate. Your best way of dealing damage to things in-game with Noctowl is Return, I'm afraid (with that terrible phys attack stat).

[josephtan1818]

@MoogleBoss actually I use hypnosis then use nightmare and then peck on the gengar, my piggeotto was no match to to gengar and it was my noctowl which knock it out.

[MoogleBoss]

@josephtan1818

Slow but reliable. If you're using a Normal-type against Morty, you can't lose period. I'd use Geodude/Graveler instead though, Magnitude destroys those ghost/poison types.

[MAZZ0Murder]

@NickyNick227 I thought that one was the same effect as foresight so I didn't see the point of it! D:

[MoogleBoss]

@mapler90210

Brock is nothing hard, really. I did a test attempt on Yellow with no exp codes and he was easy. The difficulty of the last parts of the game depends on whether you use the legendary birds or not, I think.

[NickyNick227]

@MAZZ0Murder I think that Odor Sleuth.

[mapler90210]

@MoogleBoss And I just noticed two things:

a) I probably shouldn't be calling it possible just because i beat Brock.

b) I'm not quite sure why I thought i needed to report that to you. I don't think it's strange that I did, since you're in the middle of a similar challenge (which obviously is the source of my own challenge), but it's odd that I felt like I NEEDED to. Interesting...

[mapler90210]

@mapler90210 So far it seems possible. I was able to get past the mandatory trainer in Viridian Forest without losing a pokemon by splitting the EXP between two Lv5 Rattatas, and Brock went down to those two Rattatas, two Lv5 Pidgeys (must be Lv5 for Sand Attack), and Bulbasaur (I chose it so I could use rock/ground types against Rival's starter). Unfortunately I lost Bulbasaur and a Rattata, when I could most likely have gotten away with only losing the Rattata. I'm just glad I beat him at all.

[mapler90210]

@MoogleBoss Yeah. I figured the lack of money for pokeballs (at least early on) would offset the access to level up moves that I would have if I worked things out carefully enough. Though i intend to try without abusing that first.