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"Static encounters are ones that are given to you without choice by the game itself, right? Basically a forced encounter?"

They aren't exactly forced outside the Reshiram/Zekrom encounter.  For example, the elemental monkey you get in the Dreamyard is a static encounter.  It's just given to you for free and doesn't count against you for your first encounter.  Black and White 1 doesn't really have too many static encounters.  The most you have are Cobalion, Verizion, Terrakion, the elemental monkey, and Reshiram/Zekrom (who you're forced to catch).

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Alright, it's time to get this show on the road with...

Episode 1 - So It Begins

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Welp, it's been quite some time since I last played a Gen 5 game, and since this is randomized, let's see how this goes.  After basic introduction stuff and things, it's starter picking time, and until this moment, I have no idea what I'm getting.  So let's see what our options are.

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A Meowth.  Ok, that's not...absolutely terrible.  What else is there?

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Ok, a Whismur too?  I swear, this is turning into a Normal Monotype.  What's the last one?

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Oh.  Well then.  That's...something.  At least it's not a Normal type.  Then again, I'm not going to be picking it.  Instead, I'm choosing to go for Whismur, even though it means Cheren will be getting Piloswine.  I'm just hoping that this Whismur gets good moves, otherwise I'll be relying very heavily on whatever my Route 1 encounter will be.  Anyway, after getting my starter and not being allowed to nickname it right away, we get dragged into a battle with Bianca and her Meowth.

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I may have made a bad decision by choosing Whismur.  Bianca's Meowth has Weather Ball and Wish while I got Flame Charge and Magnet Rise.  The Meowth also crit me turn 1 and could've killed me with a second Weather Ball, but luckily didn't.  That's a sigh of relief.  Now it's time for Cheren and his Piloswine, but since I have Flame Charge, I should (hopefully) be fine.

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So I learned that my Whismur has Download as an ability (she's illegally downloading music online) and Cheren's Piloswine got a burn with Ember on the first shot after spamming Echoed Voice a few times.  That Piloswine did give me a lot of experience, but sadly, no new moves yet.  I'm not looking forward to relying on Flame Charge.  For now, I won't need to worry about that because with that done, we'll get out of here to go and pay a visit to Professor Juniper to get our starter nicknamed and all that good stuff.

While Bianca has her family issues that has nothing to do with me, we make our way over to the lab, meet up with Professor Juniper, and get ourselves the chance to nickname Whismur.  I chose to name her Spotify...because why not.  We will learn that my nicknaming skills are pretty bad as we go along, but that's not important right now.  Once we have our chat with Juniper, it's time to get our Town Map and be on our merry way to Route 1, where the bells will toll and the nuzlocke will officially begin.  Gotta love how the tutorial battle is completely unchanged despite being randomized.  Whatever, though.  The first encounter of the run...it kinda makes me nervous.  I could get something amazing or something trash.  I'm hoping for something amazing.  So, our first encounter of the run is...

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.....I hate this game so much right now.  I get one of the worst mons ever as my first encounter.  Is this game trying to make me lose in the first hour of the game?  I'm not even sure if I can catch this stupid thing without killing it in one shot.  I managed to just catch it with the first ball, but I'm naming her Scrub, because Ledyba and Ledian suck.  As I thought, it's bad.  Timid nature with only one attack, and that one attack is X-Scissor.  Sure, it's STAB, but it's a physical move and this thing's Attack is straight trash.  I'm gonna have to spend a little time raising her up to a somewhat usable level...or box her.  Whatever comes first.  So, training time.

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So, after a little bit of grinding (and learning I could've had a Beldum, Meowth, or something that doesn't suck), I got Scrub caught up to Spotify.  The bad news is that she's only learned another Bug type move in the form of Silver Wind.  I think we all know who's probably going to die first.  As long as I caught something, it shouldn't matter that much for now since the next route will hopefully help me out.  Maybe I shouldn't be getting my hopes up, but we'll see.  Anyway, as we get our of Route 1 and to Accumula Town for more tutorials that I won't talk about, it's about time to fight...him.

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So it seems that Bianca, Cheren, and N have their trainer names changed to sailor.  So, are they trying to join the Sailor Scouts or something?  He also had a Cherubi, something that I could use anyone on my team to destroy, and I sure did.  It wasn't hard in the slightest.  Scrub couldn't kill the Cherubi in one hit, though, so I'm very dissapointed in her.

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So with N of the Sailor Scouts out of the way, it's time to head onto Route 2 for not just another encounter, but the almighty, all amazing, Running Shoes!  It'll help make getting around easier until I finally get the bike, but that's not for quite a bit.  Oh well, let's get to the real business, and that's our encounter.  Please, give me something good this time.

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Gulpin.  Ok, so this one could either be really good or really bad, but I'm not sure since I've never used Gulpin before.  We'll just have to see, because Slime Time the Gulpin is joining the team.  Well, let's see what we got with this one.  He has Inner Focus...with only Weather Ball as a move.  To be honest, this could be good since weather didn't get nerfed until Gen 6...but the problem is that Slime Time is only Level 4.  Looks like I'll have to raise him up while I blow up the trainers, so let's do it.

So after grinding up the team some more and destroying all the trainers in the general area, we make our way towards Striaton City...but of course, we can't go there that easily.  First, we have to deal with Bianca again, but she's not really a threat.  Let's be real here, she had a Bidoof.  If she had a Bidoof, that alone just tells me this wasn't going to be a hard battle, and it wasn't.  Bianca was no real threat to me.

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Striaton City itself has little for me at the moment, so I opted to go to the Dreamyard to get my free "totally not an elemental monkey because randomized."  After blowing up more trainers and finding a currently useless Dread Plate, let's see what I get...

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This was promising...until I saw it's moves.  It has Rough Skin, but at the same time, it's only offensive moves right now are Fake Out and Tail Slap.  It also has Trick and Block.  I guess we can get it some moves to improve it later, but for now, it's probably the best thing I've gotten this whole run.  Alright, back to town to fight Cheren and then it's gym time.

Well...Cheren had a Skorupi with Magma Storm and now...his Piloswine has Revenge.  A Revenge that instakilled Spotify.  You've got to be kidding me.  The stupid thing also has Roost to heal.  What is this, I can't even.

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Even with Roost and Revenge still hurting pretty badly, Slime Time managed to quell the threat that is Piloswine.  Kinda sucks that I have no encounters left until Dreamyard, and even after that, I have to fight Cheren again before I can get a Route 3 encounter.  Well, this has already gone off to a terrible start.  We still have the gym to do, too, and now it seems like Slime Time will need to be my carry.  Well, let's do it.

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So, the first trainer had a Wingull...with Draco Meteor.  First I run into Pinecos with Seed Flare on Route 2, then Cheren has a Magma Storm Skorupi, and now this?  When will it end?  The second battle was pretty unimpressive, to be honest.  It was easy.  And now, the moment of truth.  Since I picked the starter that was in Tepig's place, I have to face off with Cress.  Let's see what dish he's serving today.

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So, Director Max starts us off with a Croagunk.  I led with Aero, my Aerodactyl for the Fake Out damage and then proceeded to spam Tail Slap...but of course, it had Static and paralyzed Aero during the Tail Slaps.  He also crit me turn 1 with Seed Bomb, and then again with Vicegrip when I healed up.  Even so, with enough Tail Slaps and a crit of my own, I made him waste a Potion and killed the Croagunk.  All that remained was his ace, a Bagon.  Since he's become the new carry, I had Slime Time handle it.  At least until I found out it had Blizzard and generally hit like a truck.  I tried to set up Hail to take advantage of Weather Ball, but one hit didn't kill the Bagon while it spammed Blizzard and forced me to waste healing items.  Once all my healing items were gone, it froze Slime Time with it's final Blizzard and ruined everything.  With no other choice, I was hoping to use Scrub to finish the job, but she got outsped and killed by a Crunch after switching in on a Stomp.  It was left up to Aero to save this desperate mess of a battle.  He got fully paralyzed on the Fake Out, but thanks to Rough Skin, Bagon met it's end and we survived...this time.

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For my efforts, I got the Trio Badge...and a TM for Helping Hand.  This game really is trying to make me lose early, isn't it?  Anyway, after walking out, I get forcibly dragged along to Fennel's house against my will to get the Cut HM so I can go to the Dreamyard...but we'll be going there next time, so until then, I'm going to grind up Slime Time and Aero...then pray I don't lose because now I'm already losing this contest.

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Alright, it's time to get this show on the road with...

Episode 1 - So It Begins

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Welp, it's been quite some time since I last played a Gen 5 game, and since this is randomized, let's see how this goes.  After basic introduction stuff and things, it's starter picking time, and until this moment, I have no idea what I'm getting.  So let's see what our options are.

rgLhrzz.png

A Meowth.  Ok, that's not...absolutely terrible.  What else is there?

Cijcn4O.png

Ok, a Whismur too?  I swear, this is turning into a Normal Monotype.  What's the last one?

pVKyTx1.png

Oh.  Well then.  That's...something.  At least it's not a Normal type.  Then again, I'm not going to be picking it.  Instead, I'm choosing to go for Whismur, even though it means Cheren will be getting Piloswine.  I'm just hoping that this Whismur gets good moves, otherwise I'll be relying very heavily on whatever my Route 1 encounter will be.  Anyway, after getting my starter and not being allowed to nickname it right away, we get dragged into a battle with Bianca and her Meowth.

UAeyG5O.png

I may have made a bad decision by choosing Whismur.  Bianca's Meowth has Weather Ball and Wish while I got Flame Charge and Magnet Rise.  The Meowth also crit me turn 1 and could've killed me with a second Weather Ball, but luckily didn't.  That's a sigh of relief.  Now it's time for Cheren and his Piloswine, but since I have Flame Charge, I should (hopefully) be fine.

0t406n7.png

So I learned that my Whismur has Download as an ability (she's illegally downloading music online) and Cheren's Piloswine got a burn with Ember on the first shot after spamming Echoed Voice a few times.  That Piloswine did give me a lot of experience, but sadly, no new moves yet.  I'm not looking forward to relying on Flame Charge.  For now, I won't need to worry about that because with that done, we'll get out of here to go and pay a visit to Professor Juniper to get our starter nicknamed and all that good stuff.

While Bianca has her family issues that has nothing to do with me, we make our way over to the lab, meet up with Professor Juniper, and get ourselves the chance to nickname Whismur.  I chose to name her Spotify...because why not.  We will learn that my nicknaming skills are pretty bad as we go along, but that's not important right now.  Once we have our chat with Juniper, it's time to get our Town Map and be on our merry way to Route 1, where the bells will toll and the nuzlocke will officially begin.  Gotta love how the tutorial battle is completely unchanged despite being randomized.  Whatever, though.  The first encounter of the run...it kinda makes me nervous.  I could get something amazing or something trash.  I'm hoping for something amazing.  So, our first encounter of the run is...

FspU5Fn.png

.....I hate this game so much right now.  I get one of the worst mons ever as my first encounter.  Is this game trying to make me lose in the first hour of the game?  I'm not even sure if I can catch this stupid thing without killing it in one shot.  I managed to just catch it with the first ball, but I'm naming her Scrub, because Ledyba and Ledian suck.  As I thought, it's bad.  Timid nature with only one attack, and that one attack is X-Scissor.  Sure, it's STAB, but it's a physical move and this thing's Attack is straight trash.  I'm gonna have to spend a little time raising her up to a somewhat usable level...or box her.  Whatever comes first.  So, training time.

XNGlcJM.png

So, after a little bit of grinding (and learning I could've had a Beldum, Meowth, or something that doesn't suck), I got Scrub caught up to Spotify.  The bad news is that she's only learned another Bug type move in the form of Silver Wind.  I think we all know who's probably going to die first.  As long as I caught something, it shouldn't matter that much for now since the next route will hopefully help me out.  Maybe I shouldn't be getting my hopes up, but we'll see.  Anyway, as we get our of Route 1 and to Accumula Town for more tutorials that I won't talk about, it's about time to fight...him.

q3tDj9R.png

So it seems that Bianca, Cheren, and N have their trainer names changed to sailor.  So, are they trying to join the Sailor Scouts or something?  He also had a Cherubi, something that I could use anyone on my team to destroy, and I sure did.  It wasn't hard in the slightest.  Scrub couldn't kill the Cherubi in one hit, though, so I'm very dissapointed in her.

yFgvewz.png

So with N of the Sailor Scouts out of the way, it's time to head onto Route 2 for not just another encounter, but the almighty, all amazing, Running Shoes!  It'll help make getting around easier until I finally get the bike, but that's not for quite a bit.  Oh well, let's get to the real business, and that's our encounter.  Please, give me something good this time.

ytIyjk2.png

Gulpin.  Ok, so this one could either be really good or really bad, but I'm not sure since I've never used Gulpin before.  We'll just have to see, because Slime Time the Gulpin is joining the team.  Well, let's see what we got with this one.  He has Inner Focus...with only Weather Ball as a move.  To be honest, this could be good since weather didn't get nerfed until Gen 6...but the problem is that Slime Time is only Level 4.  Looks like I'll have to raise him up while I blow up the trainers, so let's do it.

So after grinding up the team some more and destroying all the trainers in the general area, we make our way towards Striaton City...but of course, we can't go there that easily.  First, we have to deal with Bianca again, but she's not really a threat.  Let's be real here, she had a Bidoof.  If she had a Bidoof, that alone just tells me this wasn't going to be a hard battle, and it wasn't.  Bianca was no real threat to me.

USiLrhD.png

Striaton City itself has little for me at the moment, so I opted to go to the Dreamyard to get my free "totally not an elemental monkey because randomized."  After blowing up more trainers and finding a currently useless Dread Plate, let's see what I get...

yfLSHr3.png

This was promising...until I saw it's moves.  It has Rough Skin, but at the same time, it's only offensive moves right now are Fake Out and Tail Slap.  It also has Trick and Block.  I guess we can get it some moves to improve it later, but for now, it's probably the best thing I've gotten this whole run.  Alright, back to town to fight Cheren and then it's gym time.

Well...Cheren had a Skorupi with Magma Storm and now...his Piloswine has Revenge.  A Revenge that instakilled Spotify.  You've got to be kidding me.  The stupid thing also has Roost to heal.  What is this, I can't even.

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Even with Roost and Revenge still hurting pretty badly, Slime Time managed to quell the threat that is Piloswine.  Kinda sucks that I have no encounters left until Dreamyard, and even after that, I have to fight Cheren again before I can get a Route 3 encounter.  Well, this has already gone off to a terrible start.  We still have the gym to do, too, and now it seems like Slime Time will need to be my carry.  Well, let's do it.

IW4kivT.pngrBr3Vgj.png

So, the first trainer had a Wingull...with Draco Meteor.  First I run into Pinecos with Seed Flare on Route 2, then Cheren has a Magma Storm Skorupi, and now this?  When will it end?  The second battle was pretty unimpressive, to be honest.  It was easy.  And now, the moment of truth.  Since I picked the starter that was in Tepig's place, I have to face off with Cress.  Let's see what dish he's serving today.

s5NZiXP.png

So, Director Max starts us off with a Croagunk.  I led with Aero, my Aerodactyl for the Fake Out damage and then proceeded to spam Tail Slap...but of course, it had Static and paralyzed Aero during the Tail Slaps.  He also crit me turn 1 with Seed Bomb, and then again with Vicegrip when I healed up.  Even so, with enough Tail Slaps and a crit of my own, I made him waste a Potion and killed the Croagunk.  All that remained was his ace, a Bagon.  Since he's become the new carry, I had Slime Time handle it.  At least until I found out it had Blizzard and generally hit like a truck.  I tried to set up Hail to take advantage of Weather Ball, but one hit didn't kill the Bagon while it spammed Blizzard and forced me to waste healing items.  Once all my healing items were gone, it froze Slime Time with it's final Blizzard and ruined everything.  With no other choice, I was hoping to use Scrub to finish the job, but she got outsped and killed by a Crunch after switching in on a Stomp.  It was left up to Aero to save this desperate mess of a battle.  He got fully paralyzed on the Fake Out, but thanks to Rough Skin, Bagon met it's end and we survived...this time.

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For my efforts, I got the Trio Badge...and a TM for Helping Hand.  This game really is trying to make me lose early, isn't it?  Anyway, after walking out, I get forcibly dragged along to Fennel's house against my will to get the Cut HM so I can go to the Dreamyard...but we'll be going there next time, so until then, I'm going to grind up Slime Time and Aero...then pray I don't lose because now I'm already losing this contest.

The Survivors

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You won! xD

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"Fuck, man... This is intense..."

Episode One - Heart Attacks Galore

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Episode 1:

Well, like V said, I'm digging my own grave XD Well, when I got to the starters, I was extremely surprised that luck had been thrown my way! The starters are as such:

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I could not believe my luck! Regice, one of the greatest tanks I have ever known, and one of the key essentials to summoning Regigigas. Of course, I'll be picking him, but let's see what other starters I have to choose from before making a final decision!

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Xatu, the psychic bird... I haven't ever really had my fair share of good experiences using either Natu or Xatu, considering every one that I've ever owned in a Nuzlocke has had its ass handed to it... Next!

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Aaand Quagsire. Not a bad PKMN for a random starter, but still not my cup of tea.

Of course, I went for Regice, and damn, did I make a good decision!

First, the fight with Bianca/Author Robin and time to see what our moveset is!

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Oh, yeah~ I'm going to have some fun with this baby!

So far, the foe's Quagsire knows Night Shade, but luckily for me, that move doesn't do much damage, bringing me from 24 HP to 19.

I finished off the Quagsire with only two hits, and now it's time for me to be faced by Cheren/Author Kristine.

I don't have a really good feeling about Cheren's Pokemon, as I'm really not willing to be fucked up at this point. Dying at the beginning of the Nuzlocke is absolutely not an option for me. Fuck you too, Power Whip and Solar Beam...

Barely managed to win against that Xatu with 1 HP, which is WAY too much of a close call for me... D: The amount of EXP (68) wasn't worth it, either...

Now, it's time to head to the Pokemon Research Lab ot meet up with Juniper and get our PokeDex! After dealing with Bianca's family bullshit, of course. I obtained the PokeDex and Town Map, and went through the catching tutorial. Now to see our first encounter with Berg!!

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You have got to be shitting me... Well, Staraptors are pretty cool, if I can even get it up that far... Oh well. Managed to save myself from losing it to a One-Hit KO, and it only took one ball to capture... Whew... It has Ancient Power and Round. Compassionately nicknamed the bitch Aero.

The other options were Budew, Wingull (Bird threw fucking coins at me +$80), and Wynaught

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Still can't get over how beautiful this looks <3:

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Did some grinding before I had to fight N, and almost lost Aero. Stopped both of them at level 10, and I think I'm good to go!

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We've got a book club starting (Doki Doki reference D:)

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N sent out a Remoraid, which I took out with one Roar of Time, so I didn't get to see any of its moves. And I'd forgotten to heal up at the Pokemon Center, so that could have ended fairly badly.

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I recieve the running shoes and pick up and Energy Powder. Before I can get out of the first patch of grass, I receive my second encounter of the game: A Skitty.

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It was fairly easy to catch, as it took only one Feint attack from Aero the Starly.

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I named it Momo after our very own @PinkKitten (albeit a male). He doesn't have the highest stats, but with a little bit of leveling, Momo the Skitty should be fairly good. He has the ability Pressure, which could come in handy against other mons with moves that contain high amounts of PP. I can already tell that Berg's going to be my carry in this game...

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Cleared all of the trainers on Route 2 pretty easily, so no problems there. Fighting Bianca would have served to be a BIT of an issue due to her having gained a Litwick, but it was still no match for Roar of Time. The only problem I had with Bianca was her and her Quagsire's fucking Detect... It was still no match for Aero's Feint and Momo's Cross Chop. Did get her to waste a potion, though.

Now onto the Dreamyard to claim my first static Pokemon (AFTER FUCKING OBLITERATING EVERYONE {and almost losing Momo...} XD). All that trouble for a Weezing...

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Not one of my favorites, but the stats are good, and the moves are fine as well. Named Mary Jane because you know... Pot.

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Now to fight Cheren and then the gym leader Chili. Cheren had caught himself a Cubone, but it was no match against Roar of Time. The only mon that put up a fight was his Xatu, yet again. I had nearly lost Aero, having him survive with three HP (FUCKING HELL)

After that, I went straight back to Route 2 to begin grinding my mons again, capping them for the time being at level 16. I had Mary Jane forget Defog and learn Zap Cannon. Now to challenge the gym...

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The first trainer had a Poliwag, and it almost scared me with Water Pulse (which made Berg confused), and the second had Starly and a Snorunt. To be safe, I did head back to the Pokemon Center between the second trainer and the Chili.

The Chili battle finally came, with Chili using Gothita and Slowpoke. Both of them were One-hit KO'd by Roar of Time (Kind of OP if you ask me...)

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For all of the trouble, no deaths and the Trio Badge, the TM83 Present, and got dragged off by Fennel to obtain the move Cut ^_^

The Survivors:

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The Deceased:

None.

So far, I've found that this Randomizer Nuzlocke is going to get its kicks off of giving me heart attacks by almost killing my Pokemon. Hopefully, I can either stop getting so scared about things, or I can actually witness a fucking death. So far, I'm winning! ^_^

 

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