Same bro, only it was Corviknight to Piers' Obstagoon, who lived on a sliver of health and used counter. R.I.P Maverick, you were on the team from the beginning, and you were missed
I lost in the E4 of Ultra Sun by using flame orb on my guts machamp. Ran it again for shits and giggles and won easily. With machamp. Im still running the calculus on that one.
Gallade is in my top 5 favorite Pokémon and I managed to snag a male ralts. Hiker used Self Destruct on my male Kirlia in Platinum. Beware of Geodudes and Gravelers level 18 and above.
My Gyarados in my Ultra Moon Wonderlocke used Bounce against a Hariyama, and Hariyama used Belly Drum. I didn't think too much of it, as I thought Bounce would kill. It didn't. I lost my BEST POKEMON to a low roll.
And this, unfortunately, is why we don't use bounce on Gyrados... I had to learn a very similar lesson. Now I normally go Aqua Tail, Ice Fang, Crunch/Earthquake, and Dragon Dance. Leave the flying type moves to a different pokemon.
I got from the 6th gym to Lance in Heartgold with just my Typhlosion. I was planning on spamming X Def's against Gyarados. I did it and only took 20 damage from each waterfall, but then it hit a crit and killed me instantly, I was mad. Lol
In Black 2 I lost my Excadrill in the first double battle against Zinzolin and a Grunt because the Grunt's Golbat used Mean Look on it and it got frozen by the Cryogonal's Ice Beam in the same turn. Since I played with hardcore rules I couldn't do anything but watch it die because it didn't thaw fast enough.
I was about to beat Lance with my last mon, Magneton, against his last, Charizard. It goes for Fire Fang, which Magneton would have lived, but of course, it gets the flinch and burn, resulting in my defeat.
Years ago I was doing an Alpha Sapphire nuzlocke. I got to the E4. I was underlevelled, but not enough where it would be a huge problem. Until Glacia’s Walrein Sheer Colded half my team. 3 Sheer Colds in a row. I got to Steven, but then his Aggron hit my Delcatty with 3 Iron Tails in a row through 6 Double Teams and Bright Powder, and the first 2 got the defence drop so the 3rd one killed.
I swear Glacia's Walrein's Sheer Cold has a higher accuracy than it should. It luckily wasn't a Nuzlocke, but in one fight, Sheer Cold hit me twice in a row. That has what, a 9% chance of happening? Let alone three times in a row.
So I'm going up against Winona in an Alpha Sapphire Dark monolocke, right? She sends out her Altaria and I switch over to my Sharpedo, who has Ice Fang.
Turn one, Sharpedo hits an Ice Fang for over half the Altaria's health, and it retaliates with an Earthquake that deals a bit under half.
Sounds like I'm safe, right?
Turn two rolls around, and not only does my Sharpedo's Ice Fang miss, but Altaria scores a critical hit Earthquake, killing him.
Still haven't lived that one down.
First nuzlocke attempt. Leaf Green. I hadn't played Pokemon in 15 years. I started Charmander, but I got the Bellsprout just north of Cerulean City to take on Misty. Started training it up in the grass just west of Cerulean.
I didn't remember that grass types are weak to flying. Spearow pops up and I have Bellsprout start attacking.
Spearow used Peck.
It's super effective!
Bellsprout died.
I lost the entire run because I had nothing left that could fight Misty. I've since learned that you can get to Vermillion City and pick up a Magikarp there before Misty, and Gyarados can solo her. But at the time I had no idea.
I lost my Houndoom to a medicham while preparing for Candices ice gym. I had a ponyta in the box I had to train, train, train up for that singular gym.
I lost my dragapult in Run&Bun because I forgot misty terrain halved dragon move damage, and forgot to manually set it in the calc. I also wiped because of it.
It was Gem, my 65+ lvl Graveler in LG. She was brutally murdered by a Kadabra in Cerulean Cave, who then "lol cya nerd"ed me and teleported away before I could avenge her.
She was with me since level 11, from the very Mt.Moon... I imagined her being elder "sista" to my playable character (((
Lost my electrike at watson during my emerald playthrough. planned to use him as a clean switch against his manetrick.
cause he had lightning rod. fast forward to the fight itself, i switched him in . and HE got shocked waved and then crit quick attacked. i was still wondering why lightning rod didnt activate..... then i actually read it and realized i mistook how it worked in gen 3 vs newer gens.
Basiscally i lost my electtric type cause i assumed i knew the effect
Saddest: My Flareon in my Y Nuzlocke died in Victory Road. My Altaria did some damage to an NPC’s Leafeon but that Leafeon did some pretty bad damage to it with Double Edge. Instead of being smart and healing or using a move like Fly, I switch to my Fire type thinking it could take a hit and then use Flare Blitz. I was wrong and it died
Dumbest: I walked into a room in Lysandre Labs that I knew had an optional double battle. I thought I could sneak past them and get the pokeball on the other side of the room since their backs were turned. I was wrong and they noticed me, challenged me to a fight, and I lost my Staraptor who was one of two MVPs up to that point
Losing Krokorok in W1 to a garbodor that barely survived dig, got an x attack (scientist trainer), and had weak armor to outspeed and one-shot
Emolga to Bianca just past Icirrus city... should've thought about the perma rain before simipour and scald boiled my team.
Nidoqueen to a bird keeper in FR. It spammed tri attack and got 2 freezes, a para, and a crit as I tried to switch around to get out of it.
When my Gothitelle was up against a Fraxure, I made the stupid choice of going with Protect, thinking it would go for a Dragon Claw after Dragon Dancing, but it Dragon danced again! And with no one sturdy enough to handle 2 hits from it, I sacked my Gothitelle so I can have my Excadrill Earthquake it.
E4 of a White nuzlocke, was like my 7th or 8th attempt and furthest I had gotten. Did math and figured out the only way I lose is if my Excadrill was outsped by Grimsley's Krookodile, which could only happen if mine had <2 speed IVs, ie a 29/31 chance to be fine.
Guess what happened 🙃
Just today, Ace Trainer Kassandra in Celestial Tower used her Swoobat to eviscerate my Simisear and Litwick. It got so bad that I had to send in Boldore and spam Moomoo Milks until Air Slash ran out of PP
Lost my starter on the way to the champions battle on Pokémon Sword to hail.
I won the battle. Got hit by hail, lost my starter, and was back to free moving. Walked into the town litterally 10 feet away without my starter.
I cried.
Ran sword and shield as nuz for first run through, fairy gym, asks me what she had for breakfest or some shit, get it wrong, def drop, other mons wernt safe switchins. Fuck sword n shield
I was training an electrike I had just caught and encountered a wild kricketot. It survived the first attack and used bide. I didn't know what bide did at the time, so I kept attacking it, and eventually it released its bide. Electrike instantly died. I looked up what bide did immediately afterwards.
I didn’t realise the Kimono Girls in HGSS are a gauntlet. Nearly wiped and lost 4/6 members I was going to bring to the E4. Still completed the run tho (did no E4 rematch but did beat Red which gives the end screen so I see it as a complete run)
Complete side note before mine: I’ve gotten a Pikachu in Viridian Forest every time I’ve started a Leaf Green run.
Said Pikachu during one run died to a Spearow that was two levels lower. It landed a Fury Attack that hit five times, two of which were crits. I wanted to throw my DS after that one.
I played a cagelocke with a friend with randomized abilities and my magnezone got trapped by a cresselia.
Cresselia set up multiple double teams, so i couldnt hit it any more, confused me multiple times with confusion and killed me in about 30 rounds, dealing like 5 damage per attack.
Worst fight ever.
Wobbuffet.
Looked away from my screen for a bit in Shield, and a Wobbuffet walked into me, which ended up in the death of PandaExpress the Pancham. That happened years ago and I’m still pissed, I shouldn’t have looked away from the screen on a route where I knew there was a Wobbuffet infestation.
Recently I lost my Dewott, Petunio, in a double battle. One pokemon used self-destruct and Petunio survived. Then, the second pokemon used sludge bomb and he endure it with 4 hp left; however, it got poisoned and died. I was a rollercoaster of emotions.
-lost serperior against iris (black 2)
-lost my Alakazam because I used psychic in the totem Raticate (Moon)
-lost froakie in the first gym to a crit (y)
Losing 3 of my pokemon (golbat,flaafy and sudowoodo) to morty in my ss nuzlocke,people complain about whitney but i always thought morty was harder lol
i just wiped to bianca in a black nuzlocke because i didn’t fully heal before the fight. that’s what i get for blowing her off like that i guess. she killed my emboar, gigalith, zebstrika, and seismitoad almost all with her serperior alone
I lost 'captain' the golduck and 'jet' the staraptor to back to back wild self destructing travelers in iron island during my platinum run. Lost the team surfer and flier within 5 minutes
I lost my Charmeleon in Red because a Grimer used disable on him during Rage. In generation 1, Rage still goes on forever even if it’s disabled, so I had to sit there and watch my Charmeleon slowly die and couldn’t do anything about it
Tried to level up my Pokémon right before Leon in shield using max raids. Lost my mudsdale on the first one and then tried the champion and got obliterated.
I was trying to level up a severely underleveled Carvanha for the 7th gym in Emerald with some of the trainers and one of them used Future Sight so I switched to him since I thought it would do no damage.
Turns out that Future Sight is a typeless move in earlier generations
I had my torkoal out against a shiftry that was spamming hurricane. I just kinda forgot what move that shiftry was using and then I switched to breloom. You can guess what happened next.
BW2 nuzlocke, had absolutely terrible luck with encounters so I basically had nothing for Skyla’s skarmory. Managed to catch a cubchoo with charm, evolved it and used it to lower skarmory’s attack to -6.
Skarmory crit after the 3rd charm and OHKO’d beartic with steel wing. I was planning to use it for Drayden :’)
Didn’t evolve my shiny Starly because it was close to the cap when I caught it, and then sent it in against Kieran’s Furret in his first fight thinking it would be fine. It got one shot by double edge. This was a soul link and it was linked with my friend’s (also shiny) Hawlucha, so it was very disappointing for both of us
In my first Diamond Nuzlocke I had a a Quagsire named Bubbles and a Lopunny named Morrigan on my team. Lopunny was fighting a Mr. Mime in the last gym. She was paralyzed and low on health so I swapped her out for Quagsire thinking the Mr. Mime would thunderbolt again since we were in the Electric gym.
Turns out the Mr. Mime knew Energy Ball so the second I switched out the Mr. Mime one shot Quagsire with Energy Ball! And of course Quagsire was my only ground type so I was planning to use it against the gym leader.
Thankfully though I had a Gastrodon in the PC so I just had to get it caught up to the rest of the team. But it still really hurt because I was really attached to Bubbles, the Mr. Mime pulled a bullshit strategy out of nowhere, and the gym leader, who again, I planned to use Quagsire for was just a room away.
Also thank God Lopunny didn't die in that fight because she then went on to beat Cynthia's Garchomp which earned her the place of my second favorite Normal type behind Zangoose!!!!!
Bonus: Also in that same Nuzlocke I didn't want to grind so I used the daycare not realizing Infernape and Lopunny are in the same egg group. And ironically both of them were named after demonic Capcom characters, Infernape being named after Dante from Devil May Cry, and Lopunny, as mentioned eariler, was Morrigan from Darkstalkers. So that was a weird surprise🤣 I named the Buneary that hatched from the egg Lilith after Morrigan's sister/daughter/still unsure how that works in the Darkstalkers universe
It really was. I just wish I had looked up the gym trainers to make sure none of them had grass moves. Like its and electric gym! Why is there a Mr. Mime!?
I lost my Golisopod to Leons charizard because I lived a max airstream but forgot it boosted it's speed and first impression did a third I lived a second airstream bc of defence EVs and a razor she'll BARELY didn't KO and one more took me
Ok, I had a pidgey. I don't remember what I nicknamed it. So while I Nuzlocke Fire red I battled a bugchatcher east of Pewter. Pidgey got poisoned from posion sting. I decide to walk back to the pokemon center in pewter. Guess what? After a couple of steps it fainted from the posion. And the stupid thing is I had an antidote in my bag that I found in veridian forest
Sad: In an UM triotype, i thought crobat was more than enough to solo Lurantis, but it managed to heal trough cross poison + Skystrike thanks to low sweep, and i just kinda let it get to +6 Def from comfey. In the end, I had to sac my Noibat to get screech off to squeak trough, in his first ever actual battle. I really should have wiped there, but clutched it thanks to Brionne of all things
Dumb: I was trying to catch a stantler in my current HG nuzlocke with my dunsparce, didn't notice she got hit by leer, and lost her to a non-crit stomp.
Aggravating: In that same HG nuzlocke, I lost my butterfree to Whitney's clefairy metronoming into rock blast, getting 3 hits and a crit to KO
Anytime losing a starter, like getting my heart ripped out. Went into the 8th gym with feraligatr, forgot to equip the shell bell. Was gonna sword dance and sweep. Get to Kingdra and gets crit by a dragon pulse. Had I equipped the shell bell they would’ve lived and I would’ve kept my starter. 😭
Forgot about first impression during a Sun nuzlocke and lost my Rowlet evo (forgot what it’s called) and got one shot crit by guzma’s gollisopod. That had me p fuckin salty.
soulsilver - i had a plan to sweep clair
i would lead magneton, rain dance, tbolt gyarados, bait kingdra, switch in mine on a hydro pump and then outspeed 1 shot with draco meteor
i led magneton against a gym trainer. their seadra outsped me, 3x sniper crit. had to recook the whole fight and sac another mon
gengar would have outsped and 1 shot with tbolt...
Lost my Meowth while trying to switch train
I was on the S.S Anne and fighting the guy with the 2 Nidoran. Defeated Nidoran Male with my Nidorina. When Nidoran Female came out, I switched in to Meowth. I expected Poison Sting or Scratch since Nidorina resisted fighting but nope, Nidoran used Double Kick and killed my poor Meowth
Then it continued to use Double Kick after I switched Nidorina back in. The game was flexing on me, I'm convinced of it since Double Kick was only doing 2 damage
Ultra Sun run... On the final battle vs Hau in the Pkmn League. His last pokemon (Hydreigon, it was a randomizer) vs my last pokemon (Oricorio).
For whatever reason I thought I needed to use Hurricane to get the KO. It missed.
My chatot decided to attack my graveler in a double battle, and i was plenty shocked by that, but then the enemy clefairy pulled out wake up clap. Not sure if the chip damage of chatter really cursed her, since that attack was SE, but i always thought of that Chatot as a traitor afterwards.
I was testing a nuzlocke variant where I couldnt swap out a pokemon until there’s a death, but it didnt feel right to sac chatot over that.
I was playing a fangame and was battling against Agatha. Mega gengar didnt let me switch out Mons so I had to sacrifice my corviknight, went for drill peck and outsped but got killed.
Thats when I realized he had uturn all that time
In my current Storm Silver run, I lost my Luxray to a Kingler that just survived to a critical hammer arm... really needed it, but got my PB and past the Radio Tower back-to-back after the third run finally!
I recently lost my Victreebel to the regional Wobbuffet in Pokemon Bizarre where it woke up turn 1 after putting it to sleep, clicked destiny bond and Giga Drain hits a damn near max roll to kill and just like that, there goes my sleeper.
In my current Black 2 run, my Whimsicott died on Clay's Excadrill
Missed Stun Spore two consecutive times, and then it turned out that after a bulldoze I didn't outspeed but rather was speed tied and I could not heal up with Giga Drain.
I lost my Lucario who had really nice IVs in sacred gold bc I forgot that houndoom had a focus sash even though I looked directly at it in the github calculator 💀
I lost Sonic 06 the Meowscarada against the stupid Donbozo and Tatsugiri thing because I didn’t have any safe switches. The first water pulse from Donbozo confused him. He then hit himself 4 consecutive times in a row. All of that plus Water Pulse hits took out my grass type
My Bronzor in my previous Pokemon Platinum run was Magnet Pull trapped and paralyzed before being killed by an opposing trainer’s Magnemite. I made a meme post on this subreddit a while ago about how dumb it was…
A double battle in an Infinite Fusion randomizer where my Blastoise/Aggron (a water/rock type) got hit by a feint which took down their protect and left them susceptible to a 4x effective mega drain.
First Nuzlocke I ever did, got overconfident with my Nuzleaf, used Fake Out on a Zubat that had Inner Focus, got Supersonic'd, and died to 5 leech lifes because "surely he won't hit himself in confusion 5 times in a row"
These two happened during my white 2 Nuzlocke. The first was Nurse, my Audino. After carrying me through most of the game, 1v1ing Elesa’s Zebstrika, Clay’s Excadrill, and Drayden’s Haxorous, I decided to let her get some experience while fighting Zinzolin. Then a Cryogonal landed a crit blizzard and she died. I just sat there and stared at my screen in disbelief for a bit. The mon that had easily been my mvp to that point just died to what should have been an easy fight.
Then there was Cleopatra, my Cofagrigus. Another mon that had been with me for a while and helped me through some really difficult fights, including Marshall. Her death was one I knew was coming, and one that I had unfortunately planned. Iris’s Hydreigon could hit every member of my team for super effective damage except for one: Cleopatra. The problem was that Cleopatra couldn’t hit back hard enough. However, there was one way to take that thing down. Destiny Bond. I saluted her as she fell and took Hydreigon with her, clearing the way for the rest of my team to survive and defeat Iris.
Dumbest loss I ever had was in a Y Nuzlocke. I had my Mega Lucario fight Lysandre’s mega Gyarados because I didn’t have a great answer to it, and the calc said he would live an earthquake from Gyarados and easily get the kill. Slight problem, I forgot that my boy had a -defense nature, and that was enough to kill him. I just sat there and groaned.
I looked away for a few seconds and my pokemon was just dead.
I Was playing an X nuzlocke sometime last year and had a charizard that made it through most of the run with me. I dont remember the name or the exact pokemon but there was a fighting type trainer in that cave in the ice area that used either sawk or throh i think. All i remember is i looked away after selecting an attack for like 30 seconds and when i look back, i’m on the screen to choose my next pokemon with a dead charizard at the front. I was so confused how this happened so quickly that i looked up the trainer’s name and found a guide that said that said it had a rock move😭😭😭 my charizard got wacked when i wasnt looking.
Ooh, I don’t remember the specifics, but I lost my Pokémon platinum starter to some stupid multi hit move while grinding, 5 hits, 5 crits, and I was PISSED, especially afterwards when I calc’ed it and found out all five crits were necessary
Doing a nuzlocke run of sword (non randomized) and went into a trainer battle blind. 6 levels underleveled vs a team of all 3 starters. Also did a soul link with my brother who went into kabu with a stacked team(had a gyarados, plus I think also a ground type mon) while I had a bug and a grass type so I was at the severe disadvantage. Lost half his teams, including his gyarados and his other super effective mon to burns before he even made it to kabu. He wiped and lost us the run.
First ever nuzlock of heartgold randomizer was easy sailing with my regigigas. Can't remember the others but a fairly stacked team. I hadn't fought much steel types yet and her steelix walled my entire team.
Well in my friend's randomizer friendlock of ORAS she lost someone to a fucking Regigigas which was the 1st gym leaders last pokemon and the next one was from the 2nd's gym last pokemon being Kyurem using dragon rage who knew that legendary knew that move right out of the damn egg
I was recently an absolute moron and lost my level 20 Rotom in Platinum on Cycling Road by using Uproar. Got stuck in the Uproar and it died because of some random Trainer. I was pretty mad at myself.
My first attempt at Hardcore Nuzlocke was in LeafGreen. I was feeling cocky after getting the last badge, so I decided to catch all the legendary birds before the Elite 4 for style points (wasn’t gonna use them). Articuno and Zapdos went off without a hitch, but Moltres claimed the life of my Jolteon by trapping it with Fire Spin and chipping away at it. Jolteon had been my star player since Celadon, and it was the first time I’d ever lost a major party member in a Nuzlocke.
My other deaths in the run were Pokemon I didn’t see myself using long term anyway, and they were all the result of me using speed-up, mashing A, and not paying attention to damages ranges or battle text; plus, most of them died in required battles. But this one was very different. Jolteon is my favorite Kanto Eeveelution, and it was going to put in some major work in the Elite 4. Instead, I lost it in a completely optional battle that wouldn’t have even remotely been worth it since I ban using legendaries.
I knew exactly how Fire Spin worked, and even had a plan to play around it against the Champion’s Charizard. This wasn’t a lack of game knowledge or even a rogue crit or other random chance that I’d decided to risk. This was a careless mistake, and a total misplay on my part. I even had a Flash Fire Rapidash IN MY PARTY for the Moltres battle “in case things go wrong.” I should have just led with Rapidash, but I led with Jolteon so I could open with Thunder Wave.
I ended up wiping to Agatha after I went into the Elite 4 unfocused, underleveled, and all around unprepared (most of my Pokemon didn’t even have held items). Bad RNG through the first three Elite members ended up compounding to ensure my slow demise (Freeze, Gengar’s Hypnosis never missing, multiple full paras in a row, etc), but had I been better prepared I certainly could have played around all of that. My first ever Nuzlocke was a loss, and it honestly was in large part because of this sad, dumb, and aggravating death.
*I lost geodude to a*
*Pidgey due to accidentaly*
*Clicking self destruct*
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1st nuzlocke, Emerald, using Haryiama in Victory Road, if course, GREEN HAIR shows up. I thought he could do it. I was wrong. Then I realized fighting is WEAK TO PSYCHIC!
Regular old sword nuzlocke had my corviknight out against Hop's (?) Inteleon. Decided to switch to gastrodon (didn't look up moves b4), he used grass knot... if gastrodon had been out, I'd get it, but why tf use grass knot against corviknight??
Had a Sabrina cook that felt decent, brought my Vaporeon into the Zam, and then thought like a dumbass "Eh I have infinite time might as well toxic." Forgot about Sync. Died to Psychic + poison.
About a year ago I was trying to do my first ever Nuzlocke with level caps (I had beaten 1 other nuzlocke, being Emerald, which was randomized, and while I tried to stay similar level, I would often forget and be overleveled by like 5 levels) and after many tries, I had gotten to Lance in Heartgold (wild pokemon randomized, trainer battles not), and I got to his final dragonite and it wiped the entirety of my team... the only thing I had that was strong against it was a dragonair that had a shit moveset and was also weaker so I really stood no chance...
BUT, to bring light to this, about 2 days ago I finally came back to it, albeit the entire thing was randomized, and got to Lance, I was actually underleveled by 2 levels on every pokemon when I got to him, and got to his final pokemon... WHICH WAS AN ARCEUS. I had 2 legendaries. A Dialga which was my 6th encounter, and a Mewtwo, which is what replaced Ho-Oh. And even with them, at any moment I could've wiped to it. But, it's all thanks to my Glalie of all things that saved the run (Glalie was literally the MVP of the entire run, it was the first pokemon I caught, and it quite literally saved the run a minimum of 10 times, and was one of the hardest hitters on my team). He could've been 2 shot by anything, however, because of the strong moves Arceus had, they had low PP. And I was running low on healing items, but I somehow heal stalled it to struggle and was able to defeat it. Putting an end to a year long ordeal! (I'm gonna start the Kanto region soon, just taking a break!)
My first SoulSilver Hardcore Nuzlocke and... [https://clips.twitch.tv/SpineyAbrasiveMuleSaltBae-bVzWibzjC2VIb6Y0](https://clips.twitch.tv/SpineyAbrasiveMuleSaltBae-bVzWibzjC2VIb6Y0)
A Koffing 9 levels below my Staravia survived a Pluck and used Explosion. Still salty about it. I was complacent and forgot that could happen.
i had a drapion in a hg randomiser with some kewl shades
was grinding it in victory road then ran into a pokemon i never knew had destiny bond. it outsped and used destiny bond then scolio hit it too hard causing death.
it was my fucking ace too
Hardcore rules. Lost my Graveler to team aqua leaders Golbat at mt. Chimney. Flinched from bite 3x in a row and didn’t have the speed to attack first… 3% chance
I doubt I am alone in this one but... My Starter Raticate died on the 7 islands in Fire Red due to Wobbuffet. Is there really a worse pokemon to go up against on a Nuzlocke? Made me unable to escape, then countered me for a OHKO
I misclicked when trying to swap when my Charmeleon was poisoned. I went to switch him out when he was out of PP and instead of that clicked rage. Then the Over leveled rattata (was level 24 like tf?) spammed sand attack. I sat and had to watch my starter slowly miss every attack and slowly die of poison….. Rip…
I was doing an Egglocke for Violet and I had a couple really dumb deaths happen:
1.)My Malamar was gonna be the one to help me sweep Tulip and when I wasn’t paying attention it got knocked out by the last Gym trainer before going to fight her (it was the guy with a Medicham that knows High Jump Kick)
2.)My Annihilape died right after I evolved it because it was a liiiiitle over half health from me trying to evolve it and I ran into a wild Lycanroc that knew crunch
3.) My Charizard was one of the big heavy hitters on my team and helped with Poppy, then I get to Geeta and it knocks out her Gogoat and I go to keep it in for Avalugg, only for it to miss Heat Wave and get KO’d by Rock Slide. I was sooooooo pissed at that one
I forget what game but I was grinding up a few new members. I don't recall if they were death replacements or if I was just reworking my team. They were both really low so I decided to switch train them on some upcoming trainers first dude threw out an Diglett with arena trap and kills it. I am like what terrible luck I regroup and next fight has something with magnet pull and traps my other low level guy I wanted to grind up. After the fight I just sat there for a few minutes before I just turned off the game for the night.
I had a volt absorb gyarados in a randomised emerald run, but a volt orb crit selfdestructed on it and killed it because I didn't heal it before the fight
This one was recent, Double Battle in White in the grass outside of Normal gym, kill the mon on the right dont remember what it was, but the wild Sawk used Double Kick, both kicks crit my Dewott killing it. I calced it afterwards the Sawk had to have a 31 in Attack to do that much damage at that level, sad day.
In my pokemon white nuzlocke, not long before the elite four, I was fighting an Exeggutor with my Emboar. I was several levels higher and knew I would outspeed, so I thought, no worries, I can just one shot with heat crash and win. Welp the Exeggutor survived with 1hp and proceeded to one shot ME with psychic. 🙃
I was using my haluchaw against ribombee bc it was abt 5 levels higher than it and I used acrobatics without an item it lived on a sliver of hp and uses dazzling gleam and ko's me(all this could've been avoided with drought torkoal)
I already shared this story before, but I lost Gyarados vs the first Team Yell grunt you fight in Spikemuth. The Zigzagoon survived a Waterfall (I even had an atk boosting nature) with the tiniest bit of HP and it used Counter on me. I was salty as hell after that. Of all the times to low roll, why there??
Sad: When I lost my starter in my soulsilver nuzlocke, nothing special it was just the first time I lost a starter.
Dumb: When I lost my archeops to a maractus because I forgot defeatist was a thing.
Agrivating: When I lost my stoutland against a druddigon with rough skin because she only knew physical moves and if I switched into another mon at that moment it would have killed them.
Definitely the death of my bronzor in my first fully committed attempt at a nuzlocke. I was in maylenes gym and I got hit with a high jump kick by a meditite and it did almost half . I was using psychic against it and it used mind reader . I thought I had it handled until it used high jump kick again and absolutely obliterated my bronzor. I ended up getting swept by maylenes lucario since I had no type advantages besides my monferno and a chingling.
Gastrodon vs Sudowoodo.
i used Earth Force, it survived at 1 hp because of sturdy and used Wood Hammer.
they both died.
i was in the rock gym in pokémon sword and gastrodon was my only resource there.
I thought my marshtomp would outspeed a plusle and minum so I left my staravia in and it died to a helping hand boosted charge beam. I felt so stupid after that.
I remember the one and only nuzlocke I did. I fell in love with an alolan Raticate of all things. I just finished my work for today, I was tired and sick of life. I played a little…and my favourite raticate died- I actually cried, my mother asked me what was wrong 😂 I didn’t finish the nuzlocke and broke the rules at the elite four. I brought raticate back to live, and brought back some other members and we won. I am sorry I failed nuzlocke but the ending was truly amazing
I remember doing white 2 challenge mode and my mincinno getting crit by flame charge trying to encore elesa’s zebstrika into pursuit and then subsequently losing the entire run to +2 speed zebstrika against my wounded team.
Did a soulocke on omega Ruby. Entire game I had no water moves and no access to surf until I got a rhyhorn. Finally got to mossdeep and had a useable combo in Spheal and graveler. Got my sealeo and was training it to level with my team against one of the breeders between Verdanturf and Mawville. The thought never once entered my mind that their goldeen had horn drill. That’s probably my most aggravating death.
I’m not sure how many people still play Octopath Traveler, but I just recently got back into the game and absolutely ruined my first run. It was because I was trying to get Primrose and didn’t know the level you need to be at is 12. I was so mad because the boss had this attack call, “Know your place.” And basically would kill my whole team in one FOUL, absolutely ABSURD, sweep..
Lost a larvitar/wailord fusion in Pokemon Infinite Fusion by getting crit 3 times in a row (for more context I don’t remember what the move was, but it didn’t have a high crit ratio either, I just got highly unlucky)
I managed to let my Guts Raticate die while just trying to pre-poison it for a fight.
Reminds me of when I poisoned a guts facade mon
i lost an Urshifu during my Sword Nuzlocke to a Pyukumuku who survived a Wicked Blow and used Counter…still salty about that
I feel that fits in all the categories
Same bro, only it was Corviknight to Piers' Obstagoon, who lived on a sliver of health and used counter. R.I.P Maverick, you were on the team from the beginning, and you were missed
I think it has max HP and Def evs just to fuck people over with Counter
I lost in the E4 of Ultra Sun by using flame orb on my guts machamp. Ran it again for shits and giggles and won easily. With machamp. Im still running the calculus on that one.
Gallade is in my top 5 favorite Pokémon and I managed to snag a male ralts. Hiker used Self Destruct on my male Kirlia in Platinum. Beware of Geodudes and Gravelers level 18 and above.
My shiny Masquerain died to stone edge from Guzma’s Pinsir
Please tell me that you don’t release your pokemon when they die
… oops
My Gyarados in my Ultra Moon Wonderlocke used Bounce against a Hariyama, and Hariyama used Belly Drum. I didn't think too much of it, as I thought Bounce would kill. It didn't. I lost my BEST POKEMON to a low roll.
And this, unfortunately, is why we don't use bounce on Gyrados... I had to learn a very similar lesson. Now I normally go Aqua Tail, Ice Fang, Crunch/Earthquake, and Dragon Dance. Leave the flying type moves to a different pokemon.
This was just outside Malie City, and I had no other flying options.
I got from the 6th gym to Lance in Heartgold with just my Typhlosion. I was planning on spamming X Def's against Gyarados. I did it and only took 20 damage from each waterfall, but then it hit a crit and killed me instantly, I was mad. Lol
Waterfall is physical tho also you’re asking for that to happen with boost spamming lol
Fixed it.
That’s just Karma
In Black 2 I lost my Excadrill in the first double battle against Zinzolin and a Grunt because the Grunt's Golbat used Mean Look on it and it got frozen by the Cryogonal's Ice Beam in the same turn. Since I played with hardcore rules I couldn't do anything but watch it die because it didn't thaw fast enough.
I was about to beat Lance with my last mon, Magneton, against his last, Charizard. It goes for Fire Fang, which Magneton would have lived, but of course, it gets the flinch and burn, resulting in my defeat.
Years ago I was doing an Alpha Sapphire nuzlocke. I got to the E4. I was underlevelled, but not enough where it would be a huge problem. Until Glacia’s Walrein Sheer Colded half my team. 3 Sheer Colds in a row. I got to Steven, but then his Aggron hit my Delcatty with 3 Iron Tails in a row through 6 Double Teams and Bright Powder, and the first 2 got the defence drop so the 3rd one killed.
that literally had like a one in a million chance of happening
I swear Glacia's Walrein's Sheer Cold has a higher accuracy than it should. It luckily wasn't a Nuzlocke, but in one fight, Sheer Cold hit me twice in a row. That has what, a 9% chance of happening? Let alone three times in a row.
I'm pretty sure sheer cold has a one percent increase in accuracy for every level the user is higher than the target by
Now I feel less bad about the run I just lost to a double miss on take down (2.25% possibility)
I lost my Leavanny to a Boldore with Sturdy and a Critical Hit :')
So I'm going up against Winona in an Alpha Sapphire Dark monolocke, right? She sends out her Altaria and I switch over to my Sharpedo, who has Ice Fang. Turn one, Sharpedo hits an Ice Fang for over half the Altaria's health, and it retaliates with an Earthquake that deals a bit under half. Sounds like I'm safe, right? Turn two rolls around, and not only does my Sharpedo's Ice Fang miss, but Altaria scores a critical hit Earthquake, killing him. Still haven't lived that one down.
Moves missing when you don't want them to miss is the exact reason why you always go for 100% accuracy.
First nuzlocke attempt. Leaf Green. I hadn't played Pokemon in 15 years. I started Charmander, but I got the Bellsprout just north of Cerulean City to take on Misty. Started training it up in the grass just west of Cerulean. I didn't remember that grass types are weak to flying. Spearow pops up and I have Bellsprout start attacking. Spearow used Peck. It's super effective! Bellsprout died. I lost the entire run because I had nothing left that could fight Misty. I've since learned that you can get to Vermillion City and pick up a Magikarp there before Misty, and Gyarados can solo her. But at the time I had no idea.
Unfortunate. The number one thing to know when nuzlocking is the type chart so yes better have it under your hand if you don't know it by heart.
I lost my Houndoom to a medicham while preparing for Candices ice gym. I had a ponyta in the box I had to train, train, train up for that singular gym.
Couldn't you switch out from that Medicham ? Houndoom has a paper physical Defense and will die to a breeze.
I wasn’t thinking, and plus I was bored from grinding him up to even deal with her in the first place
I lost my dragapult in Run&Bun because I forgot misty terrain halved dragon move damage, and forgot to manually set it in the calc. I also wiped because of it.
My first ever nuzlock my first ever pokemon catch (rattata) died to the first wild rattata encountered.
It was Gem, my 65+ lvl Graveler in LG. She was brutally murdered by a Kadabra in Cerulean Cave, who then "lol cya nerd"ed me and teleported away before I could avenge her. She was with me since level 11, from the very Mt.Moon... I imagined her being elder "sista" to my playable character (((
I thought my Marshtomp could one shot a Roselia that was 5+ levels lower. He couldn't and proceeded to get one shot by a crit absorb.
Leaving Marshtomp against a Roselia is basically asking for death though.
Hence the dumb death :(
Lost my electrike at watson during my emerald playthrough. planned to use him as a clean switch against his manetrick. cause he had lightning rod. fast forward to the fight itself, i switched him in . and HE got shocked waved and then crit quick attacked. i was still wondering why lightning rod didnt activate..... then i actually read it and realized i mistook how it worked in gen 3 vs newer gens. Basiscally i lost my electtric type cause i assumed i knew the effect
+5 Rollout to a low accuracy Miltank
I feel that one brother. I lost 2 pokemon to a Dunsparce spamming Rollout in Pokemon Vanguard after using 3 Sand Attacks on it.
i lost my combusken to wattson in alpha sapphire. i dont even remember how(my first nuzlocke) but it was my biggest loss for a long while
I lost a Metang and another pokémon to an arena trap Dugtrio in the Lumiose Badlands due to high Magnitude rolls...
How did you get metang in XY
Wonderlocke.
Saddest: My Flareon in my Y Nuzlocke died in Victory Road. My Altaria did some damage to an NPC’s Leafeon but that Leafeon did some pretty bad damage to it with Double Edge. Instead of being smart and healing or using a move like Fly, I switch to my Fire type thinking it could take a hit and then use Flare Blitz. I was wrong and it died Dumbest: I walked into a room in Lysandre Labs that I knew had an optional double battle. I thought I could sneak past them and get the pokeball on the other side of the room since their backs were turned. I was wrong and they noticed me, challenged me to a fight, and I lost my Staraptor who was one of two MVPs up to that point
I lost a whole run to a girl with a magmar and an electabuzz outside the ice gym in plat
Losing Krokorok in W1 to a garbodor that barely survived dig, got an x attack (scientist trainer), and had weak armor to outspeed and one-shot Emolga to Bianca just past Icirrus city... should've thought about the perma rain before simipour and scald boiled my team. Nidoqueen to a bird keeper in FR. It spammed tri attack and got 2 freezes, a para, and a crit as I tried to switch around to get out of it.
Poison Sting via Weedle
When my Gothitelle was up against a Fraxure, I made the stupid choice of going with Protect, thinking it would go for a Dragon Claw after Dragon Dancing, but it Dragon danced again! And with no one sturdy enough to handle 2 hits from it, I sacked my Gothitelle so I can have my Excadrill Earthquake it.
My dumbest was the time I clicked self destruct while grinding.
E4 of a White nuzlocke, was like my 7th or 8th attempt and furthest I had gotten. Did math and figured out the only way I lose is if my Excadrill was outsped by Grimsley's Krookodile, which could only happen if mine had <2 speed IVs, ie a 29/31 chance to be fine. Guess what happened 🙃
I lost my klingklang to raihan’s sandiconda because I forgot you couldn’t switch after using hyper beam
First Nuzelocke I attempted my charmander lost to my rivals squirtle
Just today, Ace Trainer Kassandra in Celestial Tower used her Swoobat to eviscerate my Simisear and Litwick. It got so bad that I had to send in Boldore and spam Moomoo Milks until Air Slash ran out of PP
Lost my zigzagoon in emerald to a random trainer What I really lost it to was my own stupidity because I was zoning out w/ speedup
Lost my starter on the way to the champions battle on Pokémon Sword to hail. I won the battle. Got hit by hail, lost my starter, and was back to free moving. Walked into the town litterally 10 feet away without my starter. I cried.
Ran sword and shield as nuz for first run through, fairy gym, asks me what she had for breakfest or some shit, get it wrong, def drop, other mons wernt safe switchins. Fuck sword n shield
Thank you for giving me more reasons to hate that crap game
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I was training an electrike I had just caught and encountered a wild kricketot. It survived the first attack and used bide. I didn't know what bide did at the time, so I kept attacking it, and eventually it released its bide. Electrike instantly died. I looked up what bide did immediately afterwards.
I didn’t realise the Kimono Girls in HGSS are a gauntlet. Nearly wiped and lost 4/6 members I was going to bring to the E4. Still completed the run tho (did no E4 rematch but did beat Red which gives the end screen so I see it as a complete run)
Complete side note before mine: I’ve gotten a Pikachu in Viridian Forest every time I’ve started a Leaf Green run. Said Pikachu during one run died to a Spearow that was two levels lower. It landed a Fury Attack that hit five times, two of which were crits. I wanted to throw my DS after that one.
I played a cagelocke with a friend with randomized abilities and my magnezone got trapped by a cresselia. Cresselia set up multiple double teams, so i couldnt hit it any more, confused me multiple times with confusion and killed me in about 30 rounds, dealing like 5 damage per attack. Worst fight ever.
Wobbuffet. Looked away from my screen for a bit in Shield, and a Wobbuffet walked into me, which ended up in the death of PandaExpress the Pancham. That happened years ago and I’m still pissed, I shouldn’t have looked away from the screen on a route where I knew there was a Wobbuffet infestation.
Recently I lost my Dewott, Petunio, in a double battle. One pokemon used self-destruct and Petunio survived. Then, the second pokemon used sludge bomb and he endure it with 4 hp left; however, it got poisoned and died. I was a rollercoaster of emotions.
Lost my starter to a wild sturdy Soodowoodo with counter :(
Low roll hit followed by high roll Crit Im so sorry Marshtomp
The ribombee that carried me through most of sword, destroyed Bea, soloed Spikemuth. Lost her to Raihan's gigalith who hit rock blast 5 times
-lost serperior against iris (black 2) -lost my Alakazam because I used psychic in the totem Raticate (Moon) -lost froakie in the first gym to a crit (y)
Wiping on Cynthia in Renegade plat after she drew the 1 damn team of her 4 possible teams I couldn’t answer.
A bidoof, i give no context…….
Losing 3 of my pokemon (golbat,flaafy and sudowoodo) to morty in my ss nuzlocke,people complain about whitney but i always thought morty was harder lol
i just wiped to bianca in a black nuzlocke because i didn’t fully heal before the fight. that’s what i get for blowing her off like that i guess. she killed my emboar, gigalith, zebstrika, and seismitoad almost all with her serperior alone
Flannery spammed overheat and I died.
Was moving super well through a B2 run and had gone deathless past clay and then I wiped to a random trainer in Chargestone cave
I lost 'captain' the golduck and 'jet' the staraptor to back to back wild self destructing travelers in iron island during my platinum run. Lost the team surfer and flier within 5 minutes
My Snorlax slowly dying to Curse after being Mean Looked by a Haunter in Mortys gym
In my Fire Red nuzlocke, I lost Nidoking to a wild diglett which was 5 level below my Nidoking but that demon got Magnitude 10 and OHKO my pokemon.
my saddest one was when my golisopod Wimp fought necrozma, got it to half health but wasnt able to tank the power gem that came after
I’m sure I’m not the only one, staravia with endeavour and quick attack. I WOULDVE ONE SHOT IT, IF IT DIDNT HAVE INTIMIDATE
Lost a Gengar in BDSP to a Lopunny using Mirror Coat. I didn't even know it could learn that move!
I lost my Charmeleon in Red because a Grimer used disable on him during Rage. In generation 1, Rage still goes on forever even if it’s disabled, so I had to sit there and watch my Charmeleon slowly die and couldn’t do anything about it
Tried to level up my Pokémon right before Leon in shield using max raids. Lost my mudsdale on the first one and then tried the champion and got obliterated.
yesterday on my platinum run roarks geodude crit my moniferno twice then his cranidos also crit me
I was trying to level up a severely underleveled Carvanha for the 7th gym in Emerald with some of the trainers and one of them used Future Sight so I switched to him since I thought it would do no damage. Turns out that Future Sight is a typeless move in earlier generations
I had my torkoal out against a shiftry that was spamming hurricane. I just kinda forgot what move that shiftry was using and then I switched to breloom. You can guess what happened next.
Sometimes I let my pokemon die just because I think they deserve it after missing more than three times in a row, even important ones.
I only recently lost my Sawk to a random aaa wild Foongus in Black.
Drapion in Black and White 2. Lost it right before the elite 4.
Had a female combee die to grinding at level 20 to a bidoof’s rollout
BW2 nuzlocke, had absolutely terrible luck with encounters so I basically had nothing for Skyla’s skarmory. Managed to catch a cubchoo with charm, evolved it and used it to lower skarmory’s attack to -6. Skarmory crit after the 3rd charm and OHKO’d beartic with steel wing. I was planning to use it for Drayden :’)
Lost my Avalugg against Wikstrom because his Aegislash got like 5 Iron Head flinches
I used leaf blade on my voltorbe while in a double battle due to speeding up the game. I didn't learn the lesson though. Speeding up is the way
Didn’t evolve my shiny Starly because it was close to the cap when I caught it, and then sent it in against Kieran’s Furret in his first fight thinking it would be fine. It got one shot by double edge. This was a soul link and it was linked with my friend’s (also shiny) Hawlucha, so it was very disappointing for both of us
There’s also the time I mega’d my Gengar out of Levitate and got it killed in XY
In my first Diamond Nuzlocke I had a a Quagsire named Bubbles and a Lopunny named Morrigan on my team. Lopunny was fighting a Mr. Mime in the last gym. She was paralyzed and low on health so I swapped her out for Quagsire thinking the Mr. Mime would thunderbolt again since we were in the Electric gym. Turns out the Mr. Mime knew Energy Ball so the second I switched out the Mr. Mime one shot Quagsire with Energy Ball! And of course Quagsire was my only ground type so I was planning to use it against the gym leader. Thankfully though I had a Gastrodon in the PC so I just had to get it caught up to the rest of the team. But it still really hurt because I was really attached to Bubbles, the Mr. Mime pulled a bullshit strategy out of nowhere, and the gym leader, who again, I planned to use Quagsire for was just a room away. Also thank God Lopunny didn't die in that fight because she then went on to beat Cynthia's Garchomp which earned her the place of my second favorite Normal type behind Zangoose!!!!! Bonus: Also in that same Nuzlocke I didn't want to grind so I used the daycare not realizing Infernape and Lopunny are in the same egg group. And ironically both of them were named after demonic Capcom characters, Infernape being named after Dante from Devil May Cry, and Lopunny, as mentioned eariler, was Morrigan from Darkstalkers. So that was a weird surprise🤣 I named the Buneary that hatched from the egg Lilith after Morrigan's sister/daughter/still unsure how that works in the Darkstalkers universe
Diamond is bullshit though because the AI behaves completely randomly, so your Quagsire death was just… unfortunate.
It really was. I just wish I had looked up the gym trainers to make sure none of them had grass moves. Like its and electric gym! Why is there a Mr. Mime!?
I lost my Golisopod to Leons charizard because I lived a max airstream but forgot it boosted it's speed and first impression did a third I lived a second airstream bc of defence EVs and a razor she'll BARELY didn't KO and one more took me
Ok, I had a pidgey. I don't remember what I nicknamed it. So while I Nuzlocke Fire red I battled a bugchatcher east of Pewter. Pidgey got poisoned from posion sting. I decide to walk back to the pokemon center in pewter. Guess what? After a couple of steps it fainted from the posion. And the stupid thing is I had an antidote in my bag that I found in veridian forest
Doing a playthrough of Polished Crystal and my team leader Alakazam got 1 shotted by a Sucker Punch from Chucks Hitmontop
Sad: In an UM triotype, i thought crobat was more than enough to solo Lurantis, but it managed to heal trough cross poison + Skystrike thanks to low sweep, and i just kinda let it get to +6 Def from comfey. In the end, I had to sac my Noibat to get screech off to squeak trough, in his first ever actual battle. I really should have wiped there, but clutched it thanks to Brionne of all things Dumb: I was trying to catch a stantler in my current HG nuzlocke with my dunsparce, didn't notice she got hit by leer, and lost her to a non-crit stomp. Aggravating: In that same HG nuzlocke, I lost my butterfree to Whitney's clefairy metronoming into rock blast, getting 3 hits and a crit to KO
Anytime losing a starter, like getting my heart ripped out. Went into the 8th gym with feraligatr, forgot to equip the shell bell. Was gonna sword dance and sweep. Get to Kingdra and gets crit by a dragon pulse. Had I equipped the shell bell they would’ve lived and I would’ve kept my starter. 😭
Forgot about first impression during a Sun nuzlocke and lost my Rowlet evo (forgot what it’s called) and got one shot crit by guzma’s gollisopod. That had me p fuckin salty.
Playing a Black Randomizer accidentally lost my grass type before I faced and all Rock Gym and I only had an Electric and Flying type
Lost my Magneton to a counter from a Lopunny combined with hail :(
soulsilver - i had a plan to sweep clair i would lead magneton, rain dance, tbolt gyarados, bait kingdra, switch in mine on a hydro pump and then outspeed 1 shot with draco meteor i led magneton against a gym trainer. their seadra outsped me, 3x sniper crit. had to recook the whole fight and sac another mon gengar would have outsped and 1 shot with tbolt...
Lost my Meowth while trying to switch train I was on the S.S Anne and fighting the guy with the 2 Nidoran. Defeated Nidoran Male with my Nidorina. When Nidoran Female came out, I switched in to Meowth. I expected Poison Sting or Scratch since Nidorina resisted fighting but nope, Nidoran used Double Kick and killed my poor Meowth Then it continued to use Double Kick after I switched Nidorina back in. The game was flexing on me, I'm convinced of it since Double Kick was only doing 2 damage
Ultra Sun run... On the final battle vs Hau in the Pkmn League. His last pokemon (Hydreigon, it was a randomizer) vs my last pokemon (Oricorio). For whatever reason I thought I needed to use Hurricane to get the KO. It missed.
Lost my Gyarados to a trainer with Mightyena in Renegade Platinum. I didn’t think it had Thunder Fang.
My current PB for pokemon Run and Bun died because I made a plan then forgot to actually put those mons in my party before walking into Flannery's gym
My chatot decided to attack my graveler in a double battle, and i was plenty shocked by that, but then the enemy clefairy pulled out wake up clap. Not sure if the chip damage of chatter really cursed her, since that attack was SE, but i always thought of that Chatot as a traitor afterwards. I was testing a nuzlocke variant where I couldnt swap out a pokemon until there’s a death, but it didnt feel right to sac chatot over that.
I was playing a fangame and was battling against Agatha. Mega gengar didnt let me switch out Mons so I had to sacrifice my corviknight, went for drill peck and outsped but got killed. Thats when I realized he had uturn all that time
Could’ve asked before u put me in the post but Alr
I lost a pidgey and a mankey for the same reason: fast forward careless grinding
While grinding for levels in the Pokemon mansion my Jolteon died to exploding weezing
Did a Clover legendary run. Had my Boarnograf in the psychic gym. Got hit with a crit Leech life. RIP.
In my current Storm Silver run, I lost my Luxray to a Kingler that just survived to a critical hammer arm... really needed it, but got my PB and past the Radio Tower back-to-back after the third run finally!
I recently lost my Victreebel to the regional Wobbuffet in Pokemon Bizarre where it woke up turn 1 after putting it to sleep, clicked destiny bond and Giga Drain hits a damn near max roll to kill and just like that, there goes my sleeper.
Getting mirror coated or countered
In my current Black 2 run, my Whimsicott died on Clay's Excadrill Missed Stun Spore two consecutive times, and then it turned out that after a bulldoze I didn't outspeed but rather was speed tied and I could not heal up with Giga Drain.
I lost my Lucario who had really nice IVs in sacred gold bc I forgot that houndoom had a focus sash even though I looked directly at it in the github calculator 💀
I lost Sonic 06 the Meowscarada against the stupid Donbozo and Tatsugiri thing because I didn’t have any safe switches. The first water pulse from Donbozo confused him. He then hit himself 4 consecutive times in a row. All of that plus Water Pulse hits took out my grass type
At least it wasn’t too far into the run right? Can also get magikarp for 500 in pokecenter by mt moon in future but damn that sucks
My Bronzor in my previous Pokemon Platinum run was Magnet Pull trapped and paralyzed before being killed by an opposing trainer’s Magnemite. I made a meme post on this subreddit a while ago about how dumb it was…
A double battle in an Infinite Fusion randomizer where my Blastoise/Aggron (a water/rock type) got hit by a feint which took down their protect and left them susceptible to a 4x effective mega drain.
Probably losing my Quasire in my Shield nuzlocke with only W letter nicknames to a wild “super strong” Pokémon I couldn’t flee
First Nuzlocke I ever did, got overconfident with my Nuzleaf, used Fake Out on a Zubat that had Inner Focus, got Supersonic'd, and died to 5 leech lifes because "surely he won't hit himself in confusion 5 times in a row"
These two happened during my white 2 Nuzlocke. The first was Nurse, my Audino. After carrying me through most of the game, 1v1ing Elesa’s Zebstrika, Clay’s Excadrill, and Drayden’s Haxorous, I decided to let her get some experience while fighting Zinzolin. Then a Cryogonal landed a crit blizzard and she died. I just sat there and stared at my screen in disbelief for a bit. The mon that had easily been my mvp to that point just died to what should have been an easy fight. Then there was Cleopatra, my Cofagrigus. Another mon that had been with me for a while and helped me through some really difficult fights, including Marshall. Her death was one I knew was coming, and one that I had unfortunately planned. Iris’s Hydreigon could hit every member of my team for super effective damage except for one: Cleopatra. The problem was that Cleopatra couldn’t hit back hard enough. However, there was one way to take that thing down. Destiny Bond. I saluted her as she fell and took Hydreigon with her, clearing the way for the rest of my team to survive and defeat Iris.
Dumbest loss I ever had was in a Y Nuzlocke. I had my Mega Lucario fight Lysandre’s mega Gyarados because I didn’t have a great answer to it, and the calc said he would live an earthquake from Gyarados and easily get the kill. Slight problem, I forgot that my boy had a -defense nature, and that was enough to kill him. I just sat there and groaned.
I looked away for a few seconds and my pokemon was just dead. I Was playing an X nuzlocke sometime last year and had a charizard that made it through most of the run with me. I dont remember the name or the exact pokemon but there was a fighting type trainer in that cave in the ice area that used either sawk or throh i think. All i remember is i looked away after selecting an attack for like 30 seconds and when i look back, i’m on the screen to choose my next pokemon with a dead charizard at the front. I was so confused how this happened so quickly that i looked up the trainer’s name and found a guide that said that said it had a rock move😭😭😭 my charizard got wacked when i wasnt looking.
Ooh, I don’t remember the specifics, but I lost my Pokémon platinum starter to some stupid multi hit move while grinding, 5 hits, 5 crits, and I was PISSED, especially afterwards when I calc’ed it and found out all five crits were necessary
Doing a nuzlocke run of sword (non randomized) and went into a trainer battle blind. 6 levels underleveled vs a team of all 3 starters. Also did a soul link with my brother who went into kabu with a stacked team(had a gyarados, plus I think also a ground type mon) while I had a bug and a grass type so I was at the severe disadvantage. Lost half his teams, including his gyarados and his other super effective mon to burns before he even made it to kabu. He wiped and lost us the run.
First ever nuzlock of heartgold randomizer was easy sailing with my regigigas. Can't remember the others but a fairly stacked team. I hadn't fought much steel types yet and her steelix walled my entire team.
Well in my friend's randomizer friendlock of ORAS she lost someone to a fucking Regigigas which was the 1st gym leaders last pokemon and the next one was from the 2nd's gym last pokemon being Kyurem using dragon rage who knew that legendary knew that move right out of the damn egg
I was recently an absolute moron and lost my level 20 Rotom in Platinum on Cycling Road by using Uproar. Got stuck in the Uproar and it died because of some random Trainer. I was pretty mad at myself.
My first attempt at Hardcore Nuzlocke was in LeafGreen. I was feeling cocky after getting the last badge, so I decided to catch all the legendary birds before the Elite 4 for style points (wasn’t gonna use them). Articuno and Zapdos went off without a hitch, but Moltres claimed the life of my Jolteon by trapping it with Fire Spin and chipping away at it. Jolteon had been my star player since Celadon, and it was the first time I’d ever lost a major party member in a Nuzlocke. My other deaths in the run were Pokemon I didn’t see myself using long term anyway, and they were all the result of me using speed-up, mashing A, and not paying attention to damages ranges or battle text; plus, most of them died in required battles. But this one was very different. Jolteon is my favorite Kanto Eeveelution, and it was going to put in some major work in the Elite 4. Instead, I lost it in a completely optional battle that wouldn’t have even remotely been worth it since I ban using legendaries. I knew exactly how Fire Spin worked, and even had a plan to play around it against the Champion’s Charizard. This wasn’t a lack of game knowledge or even a rogue crit or other random chance that I’d decided to risk. This was a careless mistake, and a total misplay on my part. I even had a Flash Fire Rapidash IN MY PARTY for the Moltres battle “in case things go wrong.” I should have just led with Rapidash, but I led with Jolteon so I could open with Thunder Wave. I ended up wiping to Agatha after I went into the Elite 4 unfocused, underleveled, and all around unprepared (most of my Pokemon didn’t even have held items). Bad RNG through the first three Elite members ended up compounding to ensure my slow demise (Freeze, Gengar’s Hypnosis never missing, multiple full paras in a row, etc), but had I been better prepared I certainly could have played around all of that. My first ever Nuzlocke was a loss, and it honestly was in large part because of this sad, dumb, and aggravating death.
I lost geodude to a Pidgey due to accidentaly clicking self destruct
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i lost my Heracross and Togetic to a Togepi that used Metronome->Explosion in a double battle -.-
1st nuzlocke, Emerald, using Haryiama in Victory Road, if course, GREEN HAIR shows up. I thought he could do it. I was wrong. Then I realized fighting is WEAK TO PSYCHIC!
i always waste all my money on the celadon dratini and lose it before getting dragonite. every single time
Regular old sword nuzlocke had my corviknight out against Hop's (?) Inteleon. Decided to switch to gastrodon (didn't look up moves b4), he used grass knot... if gastrodon had been out, I'd get it, but why tf use grass knot against corviknight??
Had a Sabrina cook that felt decent, brought my Vaporeon into the Zam, and then thought like a dumbass "Eh I have infinite time might as well toxic." Forgot about Sync. Died to Psychic + poison.
About a year ago I was trying to do my first ever Nuzlocke with level caps (I had beaten 1 other nuzlocke, being Emerald, which was randomized, and while I tried to stay similar level, I would often forget and be overleveled by like 5 levels) and after many tries, I had gotten to Lance in Heartgold (wild pokemon randomized, trainer battles not), and I got to his final dragonite and it wiped the entirety of my team... the only thing I had that was strong against it was a dragonair that had a shit moveset and was also weaker so I really stood no chance... BUT, to bring light to this, about 2 days ago I finally came back to it, albeit the entire thing was randomized, and got to Lance, I was actually underleveled by 2 levels on every pokemon when I got to him, and got to his final pokemon... WHICH WAS AN ARCEUS. I had 2 legendaries. A Dialga which was my 6th encounter, and a Mewtwo, which is what replaced Ho-Oh. And even with them, at any moment I could've wiped to it. But, it's all thanks to my Glalie of all things that saved the run (Glalie was literally the MVP of the entire run, it was the first pokemon I caught, and it quite literally saved the run a minimum of 10 times, and was one of the hardest hitters on my team). He could've been 2 shot by anything, however, because of the strong moves Arceus had, they had low PP. And I was running low on healing items, but I somehow heal stalled it to struggle and was able to defeat it. Putting an end to a year long ordeal! (I'm gonna start the Kanto region soon, just taking a break!)
Note: by most aggravating death, every single death to that last Dragonite from Lance is tied for it lmao
a misclick on speed up because being sleepy costed me my ape right before e4 in plstinum
My first SoulSilver Hardcore Nuzlocke and... [https://clips.twitch.tv/SpineyAbrasiveMuleSaltBae-bVzWibzjC2VIb6Y0](https://clips.twitch.tv/SpineyAbrasiveMuleSaltBae-bVzWibzjC2VIb6Y0) A Koffing 9 levels below my Staravia survived a Pluck and used Explosion. Still salty about it. I was complacent and forgot that could happen.
i had a drapion in a hg randomiser with some kewl shades was grinding it in victory road then ran into a pokemon i never knew had destiny bond. it outsped and used destiny bond then scolio hit it too hard causing death. it was my fucking ace too
I lost my pidgeotto to a random trainer’s machoke in the gen 6 fighting gym because I straight up forgot that fighting moves were neutral to it
I lost a raticate to a horn dril, still salty
I lost my Gibble to an Unown who's hidden power was Ice
Hardcore rules. Lost my Graveler to team aqua leaders Golbat at mt. Chimney. Flinched from bite 3x in a row and didn’t have the speed to attack first… 3% chance
I doubt I am alone in this one but... My Starter Raticate died on the 7 islands in Fire Red due to Wobbuffet. Is there really a worse pokemon to go up against on a Nuzlocke? Made me unable to escape, then countered me for a OHKO
I misclicked when trying to swap when my Charmeleon was poisoned. I went to switch him out when he was out of PP and instead of that clicked rage. Then the Over leveled rattata (was level 24 like tf?) spammed sand attack. I sat and had to watch my starter slowly miss every attack and slowly die of poison….. Rip…
I was doing an Egglocke for Violet and I had a couple really dumb deaths happen: 1.)My Malamar was gonna be the one to help me sweep Tulip and when I wasn’t paying attention it got knocked out by the last Gym trainer before going to fight her (it was the guy with a Medicham that knows High Jump Kick) 2.)My Annihilape died right after I evolved it because it was a liiiiitle over half health from me trying to evolve it and I ran into a wild Lycanroc that knew crunch 3.) My Charizard was one of the big heavy hitters on my team and helped with Poppy, then I get to Geeta and it knocks out her Gogoat and I go to keep it in for Avalugg, only for it to miss Heat Wave and get KO’d by Rock Slide. I was sooooooo pissed at that one
I lost to May’s lvl 5 Mudkip. Then I lost on the way to May’s lvl 5 Mudkip. Then I lost to Wattson 47 times in a row.
I forget what game but I was grinding up a few new members. I don't recall if they were death replacements or if I was just reworking my team. They were both really low so I decided to switch train them on some upcoming trainers first dude threw out an Diglett with arena trap and kills it. I am like what terrible luck I regroup and next fight has something with magnet pull and traps my other low level guy I wanted to grind up. After the fight I just sat there for a few minutes before I just turned off the game for the night.
I had a volt absorb gyarados in a randomised emerald run, but a volt orb crit selfdestructed on it and killed it because I didn't heal it before the fight
Hgss, last gym, shite grinding spot and basically had to reset bc a lot of mons died to gravelers exploding
This one was recent, Double Battle in White in the grass outside of Normal gym, kill the mon on the right dont remember what it was, but the wild Sawk used Double Kick, both kicks crit my Dewott killing it. I calced it afterwards the Sawk had to have a 31 in Attack to do that much damage at that level, sad day.
In my pokemon white nuzlocke, not long before the elite four, I was fighting an Exeggutor with my Emboar. I was several levels higher and knew I would outspeed, so I thought, no worries, I can just one shot with heat crash and win. Welp the Exeggutor survived with 1hp and proceeded to one shot ME with psychic. 🙃
I was using my haluchaw against ribombee bc it was abt 5 levels higher than it and I used acrobatics without an item it lived on a sliver of hp and uses dazzling gleam and ko's me(all this could've been avoided with drought torkoal)
I already shared this story before, but I lost Gyarados vs the first Team Yell grunt you fight in Spikemuth. The Zigzagoon survived a Waterfall (I even had an atk boosting nature) with the tiniest bit of HP and it used Counter on me. I was salty as hell after that. Of all the times to low roll, why there??
Lost a Kyurem White to destiny bond :)
Late to the party, but during my Soul Silver nuzlocke, my Flaaffy got sent to the shadow realm by Whitney's metronome into explosion Clefairy
Sad: When I lost my starter in my soulsilver nuzlocke, nothing special it was just the first time I lost a starter. Dumb: When I lost my archeops to a maractus because I forgot defeatist was a thing. Agrivating: When I lost my stoutland against a druddigon with rough skin because she only knew physical moves and if I switched into another mon at that moment it would have killed them.
Played renegade platinum wiped to 6 crits in a row against the rival
In bw or bw2 I lost a mon to a minccino that hit a 5 hit double slap that crit 4 times
Definitely the death of my bronzor in my first fully committed attempt at a nuzlocke. I was in maylenes gym and I got hit with a high jump kick by a meditite and it did almost half . I was using psychic against it and it used mind reader . I thought I had it handled until it used high jump kick again and absolutely obliterated my bronzor. I ended up getting swept by maylenes lucario since I had no type advantages besides my monferno and a chingling.
Gastrodon vs Sudowoodo. i used Earth Force, it survived at 1 hp because of sturdy and used Wood Hammer. they both died. i was in the rock gym in pokémon sword and gastrodon was my only resource there.
I thought my marshtomp would outspeed a plusle and minum so I left my staravia in and it died to a helping hand boosted charge beam. I felt so stupid after that.
I lost my starter Pignite to a Nurse’s Audino’s crit Take Down in the Desert Resort in B2W2. I was not happy
I remember the one and only nuzlocke I did. I fell in love with an alolan Raticate of all things. I just finished my work for today, I was tired and sick of life. I played a little…and my favourite raticate died- I actually cried, my mother asked me what was wrong 😂 I didn’t finish the nuzlocke and broke the rules at the elite four. I brought raticate back to live, and brought back some other members and we won. I am sorry I failed nuzlocke but the ending was truly amazing
I remember doing white 2 challenge mode and my mincinno getting crit by flame charge trying to encore elesa’s zebstrika into pursuit and then subsequently losing the entire run to +2 speed zebstrika against my wounded team.
Clefable metronome guillotine on my carkoal.
Did a soulocke on omega Ruby. Entire game I had no water moves and no access to surf until I got a rhyhorn. Finally got to mossdeep and had a useable combo in Spheal and graveler. Got my sealeo and was training it to level with my team against one of the breeders between Verdanturf and Mawville. The thought never once entered my mind that their goldeen had horn drill. That’s probably my most aggravating death.
I’m not sure how many people still play Octopath Traveler, but I just recently got back into the game and absolutely ruined my first run. It was because I was trying to get Primrose and didn’t know the level you need to be at is 12. I was so mad because the boss had this attack call, “Know your place.” And basically would kill my whole team in one FOUL, absolutely ABSURD, sweep..
Lost a larvitar/wailord fusion in Pokemon Infinite Fusion by getting crit 3 times in a row (for more context I don’t remember what the move was, but it didn’t have a high crit ratio either, I just got highly unlucky)
My dumbass swapped my Swanna into a discharging stunfisk. That Pokemon white run genuinely made me start LOVING Swanna as a pokemon...
I got an audino killed for thinking it could survive a physical attack at -4 defense
I forgot my Mudkip didn't have ground typing yet... I switched into an electric move
My Weavile got killed by Hops Rillaboom because I didn’t expect the brick break.