I Attempted a Pokemon Platinum Nuzlocke

## Nuzlocke

### Intro

Jaiden picks up saying that she did a Nuzlocke last year, and she's doing it again, this time with Pokémon Platinum. She reminds the viewers of the rules: you can only catch the first Pokémon you find per route, if a Pokémon loses all its HP in battle, you can't use it anymore, and you need to give your Pokémon a name. After the intro, she gets right into it.

### Starting Out

Barry, Jaiden's neighbor/friend brings Jaiden to Route 201 so they can get Pokemon from Professor Rowan. Just as they're about to go into the tall grass, Rowan stops them. He gives them starter Pokemon and Jaiden gets a Turtwig she names Turt. She uses her first Pokémon to beat up Barry's Chimchar. She makes her way and bumps into a Shinx she wants to catch. Unfortunately, Turt kills the Shinx, though Jaiden specifically said not to.

### First Battles

Though she was unable to get a Shinx, she moves on and sees a trainer. She battles the trainer's Starly, Turt almost dying in the process. Thankfully, they won and Jaiden went through the city. She eventually got a Zubat. She named the Zubat Kronk. Jaiden also catches Puppy, the Magikarp. Barry runs up again, wanting to battle, and Turt defeats Barry's Chimchar and Starly. Then, Jaiden nervously encounters the first Gym Leader Roark, but ended up one-shotting his Cranidos. Badge number 1.

### Team Galactic

Jaiden gets to Floaroma Town, hoping to find a Shellos, but finds a Shinx instead. Depressingly, she captures it and names it Failure. She then finds team Galactic's base where they're stealing electricity and kidnapped someone's dad. She battled the guard, battled the people inside (with Turt evolving) and finds Mars and his Purugly down the hallway. Jaiden had a strategy to defeat it. In the mines, Jaiden caught an Onix and named it Dwayne, and took him to the fight in case she needed to heal up her other Pokémon. Turt defeated Mars' Zubat, and Kronk stole Purugly's Oran Berry. Unfortunately, Purugly took a lot of out Kronk with a Scratch, and Turt still needed healing. Jaiden put Dwayne in the fight, but he had 1 HP left after Purugly's Faint Attack. After that, Jaiden switches out Dwayne for Turt and defeats Purugly. Jaiden still put Dwayne in the box.

### Things Go Bad

Jaiden catches Big Boy the Bronzor and adds it to the team. Before the next gym, Kronk evolves and destroys all the Grass-type Pokémon. Jaiden gets the 2nd Badge. She goes to the Galatic building and defeats Galatic Leader Jupiter, Turt and Kronk nealy dying in the process. Jaiden encounters Cynthia after, who gives her a Togepi egg. Jaiden, still nervous, decides to train Big Boy. Ironically, the Bronzor dies. Turns out Jaiden fought a Fire-type Ponyta, though, Big Boy has a fire weakness. Big Boy supposedly had the ability Heatproof, but the Fire-type Ponyta got a critical hit Ember, so... first death. After, Jaiden goes to a cave where she meets a Gible. She wants to catch it, but Turt kills it with a critical hit Razor Leaf. Jaiden, disappointed at this, moved on.

### Things Get Better

In Hearthome City, Jaiden's luck turns around. She catches Devito the Ralts, Kronk evolves along with Puppy, Jaiden wins a battle against Fantina, and a lady gives Jaiden Milk the Eevee. Devito levels up, but dies when fighting a couple's Buizel and Buneary, which in turn, Buizel used Pursuit. To replace Devito, Jaiden catches Shrimp the Scyther. She also catches a Shellos, one of her favorite Pokémon. The Shellos's name is Squoop. She evolves it into a Gastrodon and Turt evolves too. Jaiden battles in the 4th gym with Turt, Squoop, and Kronk and gets herself another badge.

### LOL and Oops

Jaiden catches LOL the Quagsire. She tries to get a Yanma in the Great Marsh, but catches a Wooper instead. She names it Oops and puts in it the box with LOL. She battles Crasher Wake with Milk (who has evolved into a Jolteon). As she walks out of the gym, an explosion happens in the distance.

### What's With Team Galactic and Bombs?

Team Galactic set off the bomb, and Jaiden beats up the exploder with Puppy. Cynthia gives Jaiden a mission and tells her to gives a necklace with a charm to Cynthia's grandma. Jaiden finds the lady with the leader of Team Galactic, Cyrus. He goes into his evil plan about blowing up the world and then forces Jaiden to fight him. Puppy fights the Sneasel, and Milk fights the Golbat. Unfortunately, Milk misses his attacks and gets confused AND poisoned at the same time, forcing Jaiden to switch him out for Kronk. Jaiden uses Milk again to kill the Murkrow. After the mission, Jaiden catches See the Magnemite and kills all the Pokémon in the gym with Squoop and Turt. Team Galactic, of course made another bomb explode (In the lakes, this time). Professor Oak's assistant (Professor Rowan), Barry and Jaiden decide to split up and check the lakes. Jaiden finds Galactic team member Saturn and defeats him with Shrimp. Jaiden meets up with Prof. Oak's assistant and defeats Mars with Turt. He almost died due to Mars' Purugly getting a Crit Slash, but managed to stay alive.

### Gym Type Disadvantage

Jaiden checks up on Barry, who's on a cliff. Jaiden has goes to her next gym before chasing after Barry. Unfortunately, the next Gym leader has Ice-type Pokémon, and most of Jaiden's Pokémon have an Ice-type disadvantage (except for Shrimp). Shrimp defeats the Gym leader's Sneasel and Squoop took out her Piloswine with only 20 HP left. The Abomasnow comes up and Jaiden uses Puppy's Fire Blast, but Abomasnow barely survives it. Eventually, Puppy defeated it and Froslass was the final Pokémon to defeat. Jaiden needed Squoop's Rain dance to cancel Froslass's cloak, but Squoop didn't have a lot of HP left. Thankfully, Jaiden swapped out Kronk for Failure the Shinx before entering the Gym and used Failure as a chance to heal up Squoop. Unfortunately, Failure was killed. Squoop sucessfully canceled Froslass's cloak, and won the battle.

### Veilstone HQ

Jaiden climbed the rocks of Lake Acuity to see that Team Galatic member Jupiter defeated Barry and walked right by him, going to Veilstone HQ. Jaiden decides to awkwardly follows her. In the base, Jaiden tries to find Cyrus, but Squoop gets killed in a battle between the scientist's Porygon2, which used Psychic and crit her Gastrodon. Jaiden used Turt to kill the Porygon2 to avenge Squoop. To replace Squoop, Jaiden takes LOL out of the box and puts LOL on the team. Jaiden barged into Cyrus's room and killed all his pokemon with Shrimp and Milk. Jaiden stole the Master Ball and hijacked the teleportation pad to teleport to the room where Saturn was keeping the Lake Guardians.

### Mount Coronet

After defeating Saturn and releasing the Lake Guardians, Jaiden went to the place where Cyrus wanted to destroy the world and got there, only for Mars and Jupiter to intervene. Apparently, Barry stepped in to assist Jaiden in the battle between Mars and Jupiter. LOL was doing good, until the enemy Golbat used Giga Drain and killed LOL. Jaiden was nervous because LOL was crucial to their chances of defeating Cyrus and Giratina in the Distortion World. After the battle ends, Cyrus goes into his evil plot again, only to be swallowed by Giratina in the Distortion World. A hole opens up leading to the Distortion World, and Cynthia asks Jaiden to hop in, but Jaiden needs to replace LOL before going in there. Oops was taken out of the box, got leveled up and Jaiden went into the hole leading to the Distortion World.

### Distortion World

The Lake Guardians tell Jaiden to push rocks into holes. She eventually finds where Cynthia and Cyrus are, and they argue for a while until Cyrus battles Jaiden. Oops killed the Houndoom, but when the Gyarados came out, Jaiden resorted to Milk. She was scared, because Gyarados would kill Milk with Earthquake, unless Milk could hit Gyarados with Thunder, though Milk often missed. Nevertheless, Milk hit Gyarados. Milk was also used to defeat Crobat and Honchkrow, and Shrimp fought the Weavile. Defeated, Cyrus moves to the side, leaving Jaiden with only one enemy left: Giratina.

### Giratina vs. Jaiden

Giratina latches onto Jaiden with its tentacles, and splits her apart. This makes 2 Jaidens. One Jaiden steps back, falls off the island and into the void. The other Jaiden opens her eyes to see a Master Ball in her hands. She looks up to Giratina, chucks the Master Ball, and sucessfully contains Giratina. She saved the world. Back to her badges!

### Last Gym

She goes to her last gym, and Gym Leader Volkner is depressed because no one could defeat him, but Oops was the MVP in the fight between the leader and Jaiden. Even though Oops almost died. Jaiden went into the caves of Victory Road, where she got Flakes the Gabite. Unfortunately, while battling the person inside the caves, both Puppy and the enemy Staraptor die. Jaiden realized she had to come up with the best team possible in order to stand a chance against the Elite Four. Jaiden added Flakes to the team, but had to put Kronk and Milk in the box in place of See (who evolved into a Magnezone) and Colgate (the Togepi Jaiden hatched from Cynthia's egg). The team Jaiden settled on consisted of: Turt (Torterra), See (Magnezone), Oops (Quagsire), Colgate (Togekiss), Flakes (Garchomp), and Shrimp (Scizor). Jaiden stepped toward the doors, but Barry wanted one last battle. She beat up Barry and kept walking toward the doors.

### Elite Four

Jaiden stepped onto the elevator, but had a vision of Giratina ripping her apart, Other Jaiden falling into the abyss, and Colgate dying. She snapped out of it walked through the doors of the Elite Four. See, Oops, and Colgate are able to defeat the enemy Pokemon and Jaiden moves on to Bertha. She immediately has a vision of her Rhyperior holding a dead Oops and Flakes. After snapping out of it, the battle begins. Bertha's team is chock full of ground types, giving Oops and Turt an easy time beating up her team. Bertha's Rhyperior sent shivers down Jaiden's spine... but Oops defeated it. Flint was next, but before opening the door, Jaiden had a vision of Turt, See, and Shrimp being eradicated in a firestorm. Jaiden snaps back into reality, but is still scared. Flint's team is only fire types, giving Flakes and Oops the advantage. Lastly, Lucian was the final Elite Four to defeat. Jaiden let Shrimp do all the fighting, and with that, the only enemy left was Cynthia.

### Cynthia

Jaiden takes a deep breath. She wasn't sure how to feel about her good luck. Nevertheless, she started the battle with Cynthia. Turt and Flakes had no problem taking out Cynthia's Spiritomb and Togekiss, but then the Garchomp comes out. Jaiden describes Garchomp as one of the most difficult boss Pokémon in the entire franchise, she immedieately sends out Oops to face the Garchomp. Jaiden's plan was for Oops to Yawn the Garchomp and kill it with Ice Beam, but then... Oops gets killed by Garchomp. Oops was Jaiden's only shot of winning and, since it's dead, the battle is seemingly unwinnable. Shrimp managed to get multiple damage with Bullet Punch, but was then scorched to death by Garchomp's Flamethrower. Colgate manages to damage Garchomp with Air Slash, but was also killed. At this point, Jaiden accepted defeat, since nothing on her team could stand up to the Garchomp, but Flakes, Her Garchomp decides to fight it, Flakes outspeeds Cynthia's Garchomp and kills it with Dragon Claw, much to Jaiden's shock. Jaiden then remembers that training it must have giving Speed EVs(Effort Values) which makes it even faster, thus, Jaiden realized that they can still win this. See obliterates Cynthia's Milotic with a Thunderbolt, Flakes takes care of Lucario with Dig, and Cynthia's final Pokémon, Roserade comes out. Flakes comes in with a Dragon Claw and then finishes the match.

Aftermath

After all throughout the nuzlocke, Jaiden has finally won against Cynthia. However, Just as she's about to shake her hand, she becomes engulfed in guilt and doubt before saying, "I-I don't think I deserve this", And after Jaiden sits on her League throne, she thanks all her Pokémon who helped her get here, but she still doesn't trust him to accept this victory, And I don't think it will ever strain.

## Trivia

* At the E4, Jaiden actually lost the nuzlocke due to unlucky critical hits. However, her chat allowed Jaiden to redo the battles because of how far she got in, it was Jaiden's birthday, and because of her bad luck. She made up the 2 Jaidens plot and the vision plot.
	+ Half of her team (Colgate, Oops, and Flakes) was killed by Bertha. The other half (Turt, See, and Shrimp) was killed by Flint, as they were weak to fire type moves.
	+ During the battle in the fifth gym, Milk, who is now a Jolteon, throws Thunder at the Wake leader's entire team, But also Wake's Quagsire (Despite being a Ground type that is immune to Electric type moves). This could most likely be an Animation error though.