#I found my first (caught) shinies!!!!! I found a rattata when I first got heartgold and my brother tried to coach me through but I killed it

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Pokemon Heartgold Nuzlocke Masterpost

Hey everyone! So I decided that now that I'm consistently trying Pokemon nuzlocks, I may as well record my progress somewhere. So here we go!

The other day I began my Pokemon Heartgold Nuzlocke, and I chose a Cyndaquil as my starter. I named him Trident, probably referencing the gum for some reason. Then we were tasked to go to Mr. Pokemon's house to retrieve an egg. On our way home, however, we ran into a red haired bleephole. Apparently he had just stolen a starter from Professor Elm, and nobody knew who he was, but! After we battled he dropped his id. Who names their child One-Eye?

Pretty soon we were gifted pokeballs, and after an extremely long catching tutorial I was able to catch a Rattata named Mika, a Geodude named Wayward, a Spinerack named Hippo Doll, a Zubat named Fries, and a Bellsprout named Giddy on my way to Violet City.

With Trident, I would be safe for a good portion of the early game, being able to counter the Bellsprout Tower and Bugsy, the bug type gym leader. I was feeling pretty confident, and thought that it wouldn't hurt to go to the Ruins of Alph and catch an Unown. Who knows, maybe I'll get a type typical for the later game, am I right?

Almost immediately I found one, and it was the letter A. I named it Ayyyy. Unfortunately, on my way out I had really bad luck. A letter E appeared, and before I knew it, a super effective hidden power had killed Trident and Wayward, my Cyndaquil and my Geodude. On my way out of the cave, Mika the Rattata and Giddy the Bellsprout died because they weren't fast enough to run from the fights. They were level two and level four, while Unown spawn at the level five. That ten minute excursion had nearly wiped me out. All I have left is a Zubat with no flying type moves, a Spinerak I haven't even touched, and an Unown with a move that I didn't even know the typing of.

Luckily, Johto is really giving with how many routes you can access, so I was able to catch a Ghastly in Bellsprout Tower which I named Heat Gun and a Wooper in Route 32 named TUT (yeah, like the crying emote). I also grinded Fries and Hippo Doll until they could consistently beat the trainers in Bellsprout tower. I also learned that Ayyyy had hidden power flying, which was SUPER HELPFUL. Eventually we beat the old guy at the top and then we beat Falkner, the gym leader of Violet City.

When leaving the gym, we get a call from Professor Rowan saying that his assistant is here to drop off the mystery egg. Apparently there's a Pokemon inside, and I get to keep it! I didn't need to worry about replacing a Pokemon with the egg (since all of my other Pokemon died to the freaking letter E) and continued on my adventure.

Since I had already caught Wooper for Route 32, I didn't need to worry about an encounter, so I just went up and down grinding trainers and trying to get my zebra a freaking flying type move. Unfortunately, I had accidently one shot an Onix, my encounter for Union Cave. I haven't told this story on tumblr before, but I think I'm cursed when it comes to catching Onix. Onix was the first shiny I had ever seen, but since I was like 12 and I didn't know what a shiny was, I wasn't that upset when my Gardevoir one shot it with psychic. Whatever the case, I'm cursed.

The route after Union Cave us still Route 32, so I couldn't get an encounter there either. I did, however, pass right by the slowpoke well, Azalea towns gym, and even Kurt's house to catch a well invited Oddish named CruiseShip.

I switched out Ayyyy for CruiseShip and decided to backtrack to the beginning of the game. I sprinted around town until the Egg hatches into Togepi named Magic8Ball. I got the exposure from Elm and collected everything hidden behind rock smash rocks. I found a helix fossil in one! May lord Helix bless this playthrough. Our eyes are watching, God.

After defeating Team Rocket in the Slowpoke Well, I picked up a Slowpoke named AtomicHart (I should specify that when I choose nicknames I literally pick the most fun word out of a statement I had just heard) and let him sit in the box.

Time for Bugsy! He was a lot harder than I thought... I had trained up Fries up to level 17, when she learned wing attack, so I had assumed that she was going to be mvp during the battle. She would have been! But then Bugsy's Scyther leered four times, and a critical hit from a focus energy killed Fries in one hit. Scyther killed Magic8Ball soon afterwards...

I added Ayyyy and AtomicHart on my team, and then forgOT THAT I HAD TO BATTLE ONE-EYE RIGHT AFTERWARDS! so HERE I GO I GUESS. WISH ME LUCK.

That rival battle specifically had a personal history of being one of the toughest battles I've struggled with. I expected a death so much, but... it never came. I won.

It's ironic that I didn't lose a single Pokemon during a rival point but I did lose half of my total encounters so far to a Scyther and a few freaking Unown.

Anyway, that's as far as I am so far. I saved after the One-Eye fight and it's almost time to continue, where my worst opponent so far has yet to come...