Pokemon Shield, but I'm a Genwunner

[Greninjaman]

Taken from Bulbapedia: Genwunner is a pejorative term used to describe fans who dislike elements of the Pokémon franchise released after Generation I (and, to a lesser extent, Generation II). A corruption of "Generation One". Originated from the Transformers fandom's term of "Geewun", where some fans have a similar stance on said franchise. However, fanon terms relating to other generations in the franchise (such as Generations III or IV) are less often used.
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Hello! Welcome to my next challenge. In this challenge, I will only use Gen 1 Pokémon. This will severely limit the number of Pokémon I can use down to 151. Here are the rules:
1) I can only use Gen 1 Pokémon. I can use Pokémon that evolve into Gen 1 Pokémon. Also, II can use any Regional Forms of Gen 1 Pokemon.
2) I cannot use the Starter
3) No items in battle
4) No TMs or TRs
5) I must use the same number of Pokémon as each Gym Leader:
Gym 1: 2 Pokémon
Gyms 2 & 3: 3 Pokémon
Gyms 4-8: 4 Pokémon

I will post after each Gym as well as after the League.
I will not be doing the DLC. The challenge ends once I defeat Leon.

Also, catching Eternatus does not count as breaking the rule. I argue that it would only count if I used it in battle, which I won't be.

 

[There Is No Arceus]

good luck. gen 1 is probs one of my least favourite gens of pokemon, but i'll admit there are some i like. Will you count alternate forms of gen 1 mons though, such as the galarian legendary birds?

 

[Greninjaman]

good luck. gen 1 is probs one of my least favourite gens of pokemon, but i'll admit there are some i like. Will you count alternate forms of gen 1 mons though, such as the galarian legendary birds?

Thanks! I think allowing Regional forms is fair game.

 

[Greninjaman]

Mini-Update: I have reached Motostoke and progressed past the events there, and now I am heading to the first Gym.

I named my character Red and made my jersey number 151 for obvious reasons. I did use the starter to train up Caterpie until it was a Butterfree. I didn't progress past the second Hop Battle until then. Once Caterpie became a Butterfree, I released the Starter.

 

[Unovia]

Mini-Update: I have reached Motostoke and progressed past the events there, and now I am heading to the first Gym.

I named my character Red and made my jersey number 151 for obvious reasons. I did use the starter to train up Caterpie until it was a Butterfree. I didn't progress past the second Hop Battle until then. Once Caterpie became a Butterfree, I released the Starter.

Could have boxed the Starter, not released. I hate releasing, but okay. Good luck here.

 

[Greninjaman]

Could have boxed the Starter, not released. I hate releasing, but okay. Good luck here.

I released it to avoid the temptation to use it.

 

[Greninjaman]

Update 1: Milo
The Strategy for Milo: Use Tyrouge to defeat Gossifleur (well, try anyway) and then use Oddish for Eldegoss.
Team: Tyrouge & Oddish
Result: I lost. I feel like I could win if I didn't miss click and hit Growth a fourth time, allowing Gossifleur to do as much damage as it did. Second times the charm.

Yeah, I could have used Growlithe or even Butterfree, but I wanted to try different Pokémon than the obvious choice.

The Team

Name	Species	Type	Ability	Nature	Level	Move 1	Move 2	Move 3	Move 4
Flutter	Butterfree	Bug/Flying	Compound Eyes	Gentle (+Sp. Def, -Defense)	18	Bug Bite	Gust	Psybeam	Poison Powder
Powson	Tyrogue	Fighting	Steadfast	Jolly (+Speed, -Sp. Atk)	18	Tackle	Fake Out	Helping Hand	Focus Energy
Fleur	Oddish	Grass/Poison	Chlorophyll	Timid (+Speed, -Atk)	19	Mega Drain	Acid	Growth	Stun Spore
Digdug	Diglett	Ground	Sand Veil	Naïve (+Speed, -Sp. Def)	18	Bulldoze	Scratch	Growl	Sand Attack
Clifford	Growlithe	Fire	Intimidate	Lax (+Def, -Sp. Def)	18	Flame Wheel	Bite	Leer	Howl
Shelldon	Shellder	Water	Skill Link	Impish (+Def, -Sp. Atk)	18	Water Gun	Ice Shard	Tackle	Withdraw

Can you guess which Hitmon I'm going for?

 

[Greninjaman]

Update 2: Nessa
The Strategy for Nessa: Use Hitmonchan for her first two, saving Vileplume for Drednaw.
Team: Hitmonchan, Vileplume, & Shellder
Result: Went the way I wanted, though Vileplume was slower and took a big hit.

Sure, I could have just used Vileplume, but I wanted to give Hitmonchan some redemption after losing in the first Gym battle.

The Team

Name	Species	Type	Ability	Nature	Level	Move 1	Move 2	Move 3	Move 4
Flutter	Butterfree	Bug/Flying	Compound Eyes	Gentle (+Sp. Def, -Defense)	21	Bug Bite	Gust	Psybeam	Poison Powder
Powson	Hitmonchan	Fighting	Iron Fist	Jolly (+Speed, -Sp. Atk)	23	Drain Punch	Bullet Punch	Tackle	Focus Energy
Fleur	Vileplume	Grass/Poison	Chlorophyll	Timid (+Speed, -Atk)	23	Giga Drain	Moonblast	Growth	Stun Spore
Digdug	Diglett	Ground	Sand Veil	Naïve (+Speed, -Sp. Def)	21	Bulldoze	Scratch	Sucker Punch	Sand Attack
Clifford	Growlithe	Fire	Intimidate	Lax (+Def, -Sp. Def)	21	Flame Wheel	Bite	Agility	Howl
Shelldon	Shellder	Water	Skill Link	Impish (+Def, -Sp. Atk)	22	Water Gun	Ice Shard	Tackle	Supersonic

Not sure who is staying and who will be replaced. I think Hitmonchan is staying the long run as well as Growlithe.

 

[Greninjaman]

Update 3: Kabu
The Strategy for Kabu: Use Arcanine in order to absorb Will-o-wisp and preserve Cloyster & Dugtrio.
Team: Arcanine, Cloyster, & Dugtrio
Result: Arcanine did take out Ninetails, but took a lot of damage in the process. Arcanine did widdle down Kabu's Arcanine enough that Dugtio could defeat it even though it got burned. I let Dugtrio go down so that I could get Cloyster in safely. After that, the win was mine!

The Team

Name	Species	Type	Ability	Nature	Level	Move 1	Move 2	Move 3	Move 4
Powson	Hitmonchan	Fighting	Iron Fist	Jolly (+Speed, -Sp. Atk)	27	Drain Punch	Bullet Punch	Thunder Punch	Focus Energy
Fleur	Vileplume	Grass/Poison	Chlorophyll	Timid (+Speed, -Atk)	27	Giga Drain	Moonblast	Growth	Stun Spore
Digdug	Dugrio	Ground	Sand Veil	Naïve (+Speed, -Sp. Def)	27	Bulldoze	Night Slash	Slash	Sand Attack
Clifford	Arcanine	Fire	Intimidate	Lax (+Def, -Sp. Def)	27	Fire Fang	Crunch	Play Rough	Howl
Shelldon	Cloyster	Water/Ice	Skill Link	Impish (+Def, -Sp. Atk)	27	Razor Shell	Icicle Spear	Protect	Toxic Spikes
James	Koffing	Poison	Levitate	Bashful (No Change)	27	Sludge	Assurance	Tackle	Smokescreen

I am thinking perhaps Hitmonchan & Arcanine are sticking around. Not sure about the others.

 

[Greninjaman]

Update 4: Allister
The Strategy for Allister: Try to sweep with Skill Link Cloyster
Team: Cloyster, Arcanine, Dugtrio, & Hitmonchan
Result: Got all the way to Gengar, who proceeded to one shot Cloyster. Dugtrio cleaned up, surviving a hit to do so.

The Team

Name	Species	Type	Ability	Nature	Level	Move 1	Move 2	Move 3	Move 4
Powson	Hitmonchan	Fighting	Iron Fist	Jolly (+Speed, -Sp. Atk)	34	Drain Punch	Bullet Punch	Thunder Punch	Ice Punch
Fleur	Vileplume	Grass/Poison	Chlorophyll	Timid (+Speed, -Atk)	33	Giga Drain	Moonblast	Growth	Stun Spore
Digdug	Dugrio	Ground	Sand Veil	Naïve (+Speed, -Sp. Def)	34	Bulldoze	Night Slash	Slash	Sand Attack
Clifford	Arcanine	Fire	Intimidate	Lax (+Def, -Sp. Def)	33	Fire Fang	Crunch	Play Rough	Howl
Shelldon	Cloyster	Water/Ice	Skill Link	Impish (+Def, -Sp. Atk)	33	Razor Shell	Icicle Spear	Protect	Toxic Spikes
James	Koffing	Poison	Levitate	Bashful (No Change)	33	Sludge Bomb	Assurance	Tackle	Smokescreen

 

[Greninjaman]

Update 5: Opal
The Strategy for Opal: Set up Toxic Spikes & preserve Weezing
Team: Cloyster, Hitmonchan, Arcanine, & Weezing
Result: Lost round 1 because I should have swapped to Hitmonchan when Alcremie came out. I might have forgotten that the only one of her Pokémon that is effected by Toxic Spikes is Alcremie. Round 2, I didn't bother with Toxic Spikes. Cloyster actually took out her first three Pokémon himself. Weezing wrapped things up.

The Team

Name	Species	Type	Ability	Nature	Level	Move 1	Move 2	Move 3	Move 4
Powson	Hitmonchan	Fighting	Iron Fist	Jolly (+Speed, -Sp. Atk)	38	Drain Punch	Bullet Punch	Thunder Punch	Ice Punch
Fleur	Vileplume	Grass/Poison	Chlorophyll	Timid (+Speed, -Atk)	37	Giga Drain	Moonblast	Growth	Stun Spore
Digdug	Dugrio	Ground	Sand Veil	Naïve (+Speed, -Sp. Def)	37	Dig	Night Slash	Slash	Sand Attack
Clifford	Arcanine	Fire	Intimidate	Lax (+Def, -Sp. Def)	37	Fire Fang	Crunch	Play Rough	Howl
Shelldon	Cloyster	Water/Ice	Skill Link	Impish (+Def, -Sp. Atk)	37	Razor Shell	Icicle Spear	Protect	Toxic Spikes
James	Weezing	Poison/Fairy	Levitate	Bashful (No Change)	38	Sludge Bomb	Strange Steam	Assurance	Heat Wave

Don't you just love it when one change in tactics wins you the battle?

 

[Greninjaman]

Update 6: Melony
The Strategy for Melony: Use Arcanine for Frosmoth, use Hitmonchan for everything else.
The Team: Hitmonchan, Arcanine, Weezing, & Cloyster
Result: Lost Round one because of Eiscue. Should have used Arcanine for it. For Round two, I used my other Pokemon to stall out the Aurora Veil and the Dynamax. Then Hitmonchan came in and finished it.

The Team

Name	Species	Type	Ability	Nature	Level	Move 1	Move 2	Move 3	Move 4
Powson	Hitmonchan	Fighting	Iron Fist	Jolly (+Speed, -Sp. Atk)	43	Drain Punch	Bullet Punch	Thunder Punch	Ice Punch
Fleur	Vileplume	Grass/Poison	Chlorophyll	Timid (+Speed, -Atk)	42	Giga Drain	Moonblast	Growth	Stun Spore
Clifford	Arcanine	Fire	Intimidate	Lax (+Def, -Sp. Def)	42	Fire Fang	Crunch	Play Rough	Howl
Shelldon	Cloyster	Water/Ice	Skill Link	Impish (+Def, -Sp. Atk)	42	Razor Shell	Icicle Spear	Protect	Toxic Spikes
James	Weezing	Poison/Fairy	Levitate	Bashful (No Change)	42	Sludge Bomb	Strange Steam	Assurance	Heat Wave
Rocky	Rhydon	Ground/Rock	Rock Head	Naïve (+Speed, -Sp. Def)	42	Smack Down	Drill Run	Hammer Arm	Take Down

 

[Greninjaman]

Update 7: Piers
The Strategy for Piers: Use Fairy & Fighting moves while saving Rhydon for Skuntank.
The Team: Weezing, Vileplume, Hitmonchan, & Rhydon
Result: Went smoothly. Compared to the previous two gyms, this was easy. The fact that I had multiple Pokémon with a Fairy Type Move (one being on a Fairy Type Pokémon) and a Fighting Type might have also helped.

The Team

Name	Species	Type	Ability	Nature	Level	Move 1	Move 2	Move 3	Move 4
Powson	Hitmonchan	Fighting	Iron Fist	Jolly (+Speed, -Sp. Atk)	47	Drain Punch	Bullet Punch	Thunder Punch	Ice Punch
Fleur	Vileplume	Grass/Poison	Chlorophyll	Timid (+Speed, -Atk)	47	Giga Drain	Moonblast	Growth	Stun Spore
Clifford	Arcanine	Fire	Intimidate	Lax (+Def, -Sp. Def)	45	Fire Fang	Crunch	Play Rough	Howl
Shelldon	Cloyster	Water/Ice	Skill Link	Impish (+Def, -Sp. Atk)	45	Razor Shell	Icicle Spear	Protect	Toxic Spikes
James	Weezing	Poison/Fairy	Levitate	Bashful (No Change)	46	Sludge Bomb	Strange Steam	Assurance	Heat Wave
Rocky	Rhydon	Ground/Rock	Rock Head	Naïve (+Speed, -Sp. Def)	45	Smack Down	Drill Run	Hammer Arm	Take Down

 

[Greninjaman]

Update 8: Raihan
The Strategy for Raihan: Preserve Rhydon for Duraladon
The Team: Cloyster, Hitmonchan, Rhydon, & Weezing
The Result: I did win, but it went better than I thought it would. Flygon and Gigalith were taken out on turn 1, which for Gigalith was a surprise since I'm pretty sure it has crazy high defense. The real fight was Druraladon and Sandaconda as a result.

The Team

Name	Species	Type	Ability	Nature	Level	Move 1	Move 2	Move 3	Move 4
Powson	Hitmonchan	Fighting	Iron Fist	Jolly (+Speed, -Sp. Atk)	49	Drain Punch	Bullet Punch	Thunder Punch	Ice Punch
Fleur	Vileplume	Grass/Poison	Chlorophyll	Timid (+Speed, -Atk)	48	Giga Drain	Moonblast	Growth	Stun Spore
Clifford	Arcanine	Fire	Intimidate	Lax (+Def, -Sp. Def)	48	Fire Fang	Crunch	Play Rough	Howl
Shelldon	Cloyster	Water/Ice	Skill Link	Impish (+Def, -Sp. Atk)	48	Razor Shell	Icicle Spear	Protect	Toxic Spikes
James	Weezing	Poison/Fairy	Levitate	Bashful (No Change)	49	Sludge Bomb	Strange Steam	Assurance	Heat Wave
Rocky	Rhydon	Ground/Rock	Rock Head	Naïve (+Speed, -Sp. Def)	48	Smack Down	Earthquake	Hammer Arm	Take Down

 

[Greninjaman]

Pre-League Update:
Now that I have reached Wyndon, I shall share the final team going into the league:

Name	Species	Type	Ability	Nature	Level	Move 1	Move 2	Move 3	Move 4
Powson	Hitmonchan	Fighting	Iron Fist	Jolly (+Speed, -Sp. Atk)	52	Drain Punch	Bullet Punch	Thunder Punch	Ice Punch
Fleur	Vileplume	Grass/Poison	Chlorophyll	Timid (+Speed, -Atk)	52	Giga Drain	Moonblast	Growth	Stun Spore
Clifford	Arcanine	Fire	Intimidate	Lax (+Def, -Sp. Def)	51	Fire Fang	Crunch	Play Rough	Howl
Shelldon	Cloyster	Water/Ice	Skill Link	Impish (+Def, -Sp. Atk)	51	Razor Shell	Icicle Spear	Protect	Toxic Spikes
James	Weezing	Poison/Fairy	Levitate	Bashful (No Change)	52	Sludge Bomb	Strange Steam	Assurance	Heat Wave
Rocky	Rhydon	Ground/Rock	Rock Head	Naïve (+Speed, -Sp. Def)	51	Smack Down	Earthquake	Hammer Arm	Take Down

I did consider dropping Cloyster for Lapras due to it having a higher Base HP and Special Defense as well as being able to hit hard with Ice Beam, before changing my mind and sticking with the team that got me this far. Also, adding a Pokémon this late just feels strange.

 

[Greninjaman]

At this point, I'm just done. It feels like Leon's team is too strong. I don't want to have to grind. I'm not really having fun anymore. I had fun up until now, but losing so many times to Leon while feeling like I'm not making any progress to winning is draining for me. I actually considered just catch new team members and ev training, but at that point, why bother? I would just be ditching the team that got me here. Its just better to stop and move on to something else.

The League
The Strategy: Exploit Weaknesses as much as possible
The Team: Hitmonchan, Vileplume, Arcanine, Cloyster, Weezing, & Rhydon

Marine
Went smoothly, though I brain farted on what Gtimmsnarl is weak to. Luckily I remembered that it's weak to Steel.

Hop
Hitmonchan swept his first three, Rhydon and Arcanine finished the last two.

Oleana
Went fine until Garbodor where I miss clicked and sent in Vileplume instead of Rhydon. Still won though. The sandstorm was still up so he got the Special Defense boost.

Bede
I am surprised with how well this went. Weezing outsped and landed a solid hit with Sludge Bomb allowing Hitmonchan to finish it. The others were not much problem either. Weezing outspeeding Rapidash was also a bit of a surprise as well as I picture it to be fast since it’s a horse.


Nessa
Vileplume swept her. I had Hitmonchan waiting in the back with Thunder Punch and Drain Punch. None of them were really hard, though Pelipper was annoying with Roost, so I switched from Moonblast to Giga Drain on the turn she used Roost, meaning that its Flying Type was gone so it was weak to Grass.

Allister
This kind of went downhill when Arcanine who had howled twice fainted, but I was able to keep things together enough to win.

Raihan
This was honestly the easiest time I have had beating Raihan that I can remember. The first like three or four were tag teamed by Rhydon & Shellder. Hitmonchan and Arcanine took on Duraladon.

Rose
Arcanine took out his first three Pokémon before fainting because of Iron Barbs on Ferrothorn. Hitmonchan & Rhydon cleaned up the rest.

Eternatus
Phase 1, Shellder handled it fine on his one. For Phase 2, He was one shot. It was not even close. Even though he mainly attacked me and Zacian. I accidently took out Zacian and Zamazenta with Rhydon's Earthquake at the end there. Woops.

Here is the team at this point:

Name	Species	Type	Ability	Nature	Level	Move 1	Move 2	Move 3	Move 4
Powson	Hitmonchan	Fighting	Iron Fist	Jolly (+Speed, -Sp. Atk)	64	Drain Punch	Fire Punch	Thunder Punch	Ice Punch
Fleur	Vileplume	Grass/Poison	Chlorophyll	Timid (+Speed, -Atk)	64	Giga Drain	Moonblast	Growth	Stun Spore
Clifford	Arcanine	Fire	Intimidate	Lax (+Def, -Sp. Def)	64	Fire Fang	Crunch	Play Rough	Howl
Shelldon	Cloyster	Water/Ice	Skill Link	Impish (+Def, -Sp. Atk)	64	Razor Shell	Icicle Spear	Protect	Toxic Spikes
James	Weezing	Poison/Fairy	Levitate	Bashful (No Change)	64	Sludge Bomb	Strange Steam	Assurance	Heat Wave
Rocky	Rhydon	Ground/Rock	Rock Head	Naïve (+Speed, -Sp. Def)	64	Smack Down	Earthquake	Hammer Arm	Take Down

I'll see you guys when I do the next challenge. I might not do shield again. Not for a while anyway.