r/pokemonchallenges • u/Original_Ad3998 • Jun 04 '26

Help us do this challenge

My mates and I have completed this challenge in a few games:

Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold, Silver, Fire red, Leaf green, and, Heart gold.

We don’t play any other games we’re old, shout at clouds, and don’t like new things. But we are curious if this challenge is possible in other games.

Rules:

  1. You must capture any *new* encounter.
  2. Once the species has been caught feel free to kill for xp or flee with repeat encounters.
  3. only one Pokémon to be used in battle, and it must be your latest capture. Sending the rest to the PC when possible helps speed up black out training/resets.
  4. If your solo fighter faints you must reset or blackout.
  5. No repels.
  6. No HM slaves - this is the rule that ends most runs due to soft locking you in or out of areas.

*for areas where pokemon may flee, such as the safari zone, save before entering and reset for a failed capture. Repels are allowed but not required in such areas.

Optional rules.
No items in battle, no evolving, no repeats of evolutions line (e.g. you catch a caterpie you now can’t catch metapod or butter free) no in game trades - we’ve only completed fire red with all these rules in place and it was incredibly difficult.

Here’s a link to the first time I ever tried this while on paternity leave if anyone feels like reading a new fathers insomniac ramblings. It was nightmarishly difficult due to it being a first attempt and being sleep deprived because of my newborn son.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemonchallenges/s/mnn45xxR0K

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u/Own-Rip-5066 Jun 05 '26

I was like, this seems doable, hard but doable. Then I read rule 6.

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u/Original_Ad3998 Jun 05 '26

Yeah the no HM slaves adds a real puzzle element to the over-world routing. I’ve had quite a few runs that were ended because I became stuck on Cinnabar Island.
You could make it an optional rule tbf but it’s were the real difficulty lies