I Attempted my First Pokemon Nuzlocke

***I Attempted my First Pokemon Nuzlocke*** is an animation created by Jaiden Animations, uploaded on November 10th, 2019.

## Synopsis

In this video, Jaiden recalls her experiences playing her first Pokemon Nuzlocke.

## Plot

### Introduction

Jaiden explains what a Pokémon Nuzlocke is, and explains why she had never done one before. A Nuzlocke is a sort of self-imposed "hard mode" for Pokémon games. The three main rules are: You can only catch the first Pokémon per route, if a Pokémon faints, it "dies" and you can't use it anymore, and you have to nickname all of your Pokémon. Jaiden had always been too busy to start a Nuzlocke of her own, but one day she finally decided to do a Nuzlocke of Pokémon: Ruby Version.

### The Nuzlocke Begins

Jaiden has just moved to a new town in the Hoenn region, Littleroot Town, where the Pokemon Professor, Professor Birch, lives. After introducing herself to her neighbor and Birch's son, Brendan, a little kid tells Jaiden that he heard screaming up ahead. It turns out that Professor Birch is getting mauled by a Level 2 Poochyena, so Jaiden lets out his Torchic and she "scratches the crap out of it". He gives Jaiden Torchic as a gift for rescuing him, and Jaiden names her Teriyaki, her starter and first Pokemon. After walking up the route a bit more, she runs into Brendan again, who challenges Jaiden to a battle with his starter, a Mudkip. Jaiden wins the battle easily, and Professor Birch gives her five Poke Balls. The Nuzlocke officially begins.

### The First Gym

Jaiden encounters her first Pokemon, a Zigzagoon, however Teriyaki accidentally kills it, which means she can't catch another Pokemon until she reaches the next route. On Route 103, Jaiden encounters a Seedot and catches it, naming it Corn, her first catch. After she watches a weird kid named Wally struggle to catch a Ralts, she continues on to Route 104 and finds a little Taillow, which she catches and names Ari after her real life pet bird. She continues on to Petalburg forest where a Team Magma grunt has jumped some professor. Jaiden beats him in a fight with Teriyaki and Ari. She also encounters a Shroomish that she catches and names Onion, and Jaiden finds another Zigzagoon. However, Teriyaki also kills it and evolves into Combusken. Jaiden finally arrives in Rustboro City to take on Roxanne's Gym. She easily beats Roxanne with Onion and earns her first Gym Badge.

### The Second Gym

After exiting the Gym, Team Magma is still up to no good and is running around, screaming about the scorching earth or something. An old man tells Jaiden that they stole his Wingull. Jaiden uses Ari to beat the grunt that stole it and also catches a Whismur that she names Hush Child. The mayor thanks Jaiden and tells her to give a letter to Steven Stone, the Champion of Hoenn. She arrives in Dewford and catches a Mawile in Granite Cave that she names Chomps, although unhappily. After giving Steven the letter it's time to take on the next Gym Leader, Brawly. Ari easily earns MVP of the fight and is "a stone-cold killer". Two Badges down, and six more to go.

### The Third Gym

On Jaiden's way to the next city, she fishes up a Tentacool on the beach, which she catches and names Squidward. In Slateport City, Jaiden defeats Team Magma and Brendan again, and starts to prepare for her third Gym Battle with Watson. Unfortunately, while fighting in a trainer battle, Chomps got electrocuted a bit too hard and was killed, making her the first death in the Nuzlocke. Wally asks to battle Jaiden again right before the third Gym Battle, but she beats him pretty badly. While fighting the Gym Trainers Onion evolved into Breloom, and he and Teriyaki were able to beat Watson and earn another victory.

### The Fourth Gym

After defeating Watson, Jaiden and the team decide to take on the Winstrate Family's challenge of beating their whole family. However, Grandma and her Meditate were about to go for a High Jump Kick, and Jaiden was currently battling with Squidward, who would probably die if the attack landed, so she switched him out for Hush Child. Hush Child was killed in the process, as Jaiden knew. After fighting some trainers, Ari evolved into Swellow. Jaiden encounters a Spinda that she catches and names Barf, and puts in the Box. She also stumbles upon Team Magma arguing with Team Aqua about water and rocks, and Jaiden also catches a Zubat. They kept complaining, so Jaiden goes up the volcano to fight Maxie, the leader of Team Magma. Teriyaki and Onion took out his Camerupt and Mightyena, but his Golbat was the real problem. Jaiden managed to beat him by using Double Team on Ari, which she admits wasn't the most honorable of strategies, but it worked. Leaving the volcano, Jaiden encounters a Machop that she catches and names Chad, then realizes is female. Oh well. Jaiden arrives in Lavaridge Town and starts to make it through Flannery's Gym. During that, Squidward was almost killed by Fury Swipes from a Kecleon. He lived, thankfully, and learned Bubble Beam and swept through Flannery's fire-types. Badge four, under her belt.

### The Fifth Gym

Before Jaiden battles Norman, Brendan cames and gives her Go-Goggles for the Desert route. She also finds a Claw Fossil, which she got it in the Desert Tower. Jaiden wants to fight Norman in Petalburg Gym. Norman sent out his first Slaking and Jaiden sends out Ari. Ari uses Double Team multiple times, but it works and the first Slaking faints. But, the second one who was stronger then the first one appears. She sends out Onion to use Leech Seed to Slaking, but Onion got defeated by Slaking's Facade. She was really sad, because this was her first real emotional pokemon death, so the rest of Norman's pokemon got defeated by Chad, and Jaiden cries because Slaking chops Onion. But, Corn, the Seedot, evolved into Nuzleaf and takes his spot.

### The Sixth gym:

After that gym battle, Wattson needs help for the generator in New Mauville, which Jaiden got a Magnemite, that she named ZipZapZop, and TM for Thunderbolt. She also caught an Electrike on a route, which she named Sparky. She also goes to Rustboro City to revive Anorith, and because she can't decide a name, so she asks her friends to make a name to the Anorith, and they named it Gary, She quickly beats Team Magma in the Weather Constitute and Brendan before she goes to Fortree City. Jaiden was in Fortree City and she also get Silph Scope. But, when she trains her Pokemon, Corn almost dies from a Zigzagoon because he accidentally uses Fake Out instead of Nature Power. But, then, Corn dies because a wild Zigzagoon's Pin Missile. This possibly was the reason why Teriyaki likes to kill Zigzagoons. Now, she stucks in Winona's fight because her Altaria can use Earthquake and destroys her entire team. So, she needs to train ZipZapZop, and uses Thunderbolt 33 times and goes to the Pokemon Center 6 times. So, she starts the fight with Winona. Winona sents out Swellow, which ZipZapZop OHKO'd it. But, she sent out Altaria next. She wants to sacrifice ZipZapZop in this battle, but it survives with 3 HP left. She thanks Corn for the photosynthesis. She sents out Ari who succesfully beats Altaria with Double Team and Wing Attacks. The rest of her Pokemon was defeated by ZipZapZop itself. This was her toughest battle on her Nuzlocke.

### The Seventh battle:

On the way to Lilycove City, she caught a Duskull which she named Sin. She also beats Team Magma in their hideout and reached Mossdeep City. She wants to battle Tate and Liza, but Jaiden thinks that they only have 2 pokemon and she was normal about this, until she realized that their pokemon was Level 42, while her Pokemon was near Level 36. She sends out ZipZapZop and Sin. Solrock uses Sunny Day, and beats ZipZapZop with a single Flamethrower. After this, she sends out Squidward, and he and Sin finally beats Solrock and Lunatone. After this, she switches out ZipZapZop to Sparky, which she realized the it's level 26. So, she trains it before reaches Seafloor Cavern.

### The crisis and the Eighth gym:

She also get Spheal in the Shoal Cave, which she named it Blubbly. She successfully gets HM Dive and reaches Maxie in the end of the Cavern. So, she battles him. Maxie sends out his Mightyena, which she didn't studied her lesson about her pokemon was underleveled. But, Chad takes his Mightyena down. Then, his Golbat comes. She sends out Squidward, which got defeated by some Wing Attacks. So, the rest of Maxie's pokemon got defeated by Ari and her other pokemon. After this, she trains every of her pokemon so she didn't need to be underleveled. She evolved most of her pokemon and catches Groudon with a Master Ball. She shouted and put Groudon to the box. Her team also successfully beats Wallace's team and she got her final badge before the league.

### The Elite Four and Champion:

She reaches to Ever Grande City and beats Wally in a process, she also reaches the pokemon League and she was ready for this, Firstly, Sidney. She sends out her Teriyaki and Chad to beat every of Sidney's pokemon. Phoebe also got defeated by Sin. Then, Glacia comes. Jaiden was terrified of her pokemon. Firstly, Chad beats her Sealeo, but then Walrein comes. So, Jaiden sends out Sin, but Walrein beats Sin with a Blizzard, then Chad comes and it got defeated by a Sheer Cold. Jaiden explains that Sheer Cold has 30% accuracy and can only be used when your pokemon was higher then the opponent. So, Teriyaki comes and beats the rest of her team. Drake's team also got defeated by Fluffy's Ice Beam. Now, it's her final battle against Steven. Firstly, Skarmory got defeated by Sparky, and Aggron and Claydol got defeated by Fluffly. But, then Metagross comes. She sends out Sparky to paralyze it, but Sparky got defeated easily. Fluffly finally beats Metagross with multiple Surfs. Then, he sents out Cradily, which easily got defeated by Fluffly. Steven sends out his last pokemon, Armaldo and beats Fluffly easily. So, Teriyaki beats Armaldo with his last final strike and Jaiden finishes the nuzlocke, with only Teriyaki and Ari left.

## Pokemon

* Teriyaki the Blaziken (alive)
* Corn the Nuzleaf (dead)
* Ari the Swellow (alive)
* Onion the Breloom (dead)
* Hush Child the Whismur (dead)
* Chomps the Mawile (dead)
* Squidward the Tentacruel (dead)
* Barf the Spinda (in PC)
* Zubat (nickname unknown) (in PC)
* Chad the Machoke (dead)
* Gary the Anorith (in PC)
* ZipZapZop the Magneton (dead)
* Sparky the Manectric (dead)
* Sin the Dusclops (dead)
* Blubbly the Walrein (dead),
* Groudon (nickname unknown) (in PC)

## Possible Pokemon (seen in PC)

* Skitty
* Gulpin
* Wurmple
* Illumise
* Numel

## Trivia

* It is Jaiden's most viewed video, possibly because of its popularity amongst both Pokémon fans and Jaiden fans.
* She made a sequel playing Pokémon Platinum in 2020, and another sequel playing a SoulLink Nuzlocke in 2021, featuring Alpharad.
* During this video, she wore May's bandana, and she's gonna continue the trend with Dawn in Pokémon Platinum, Ethan in her SoulLink Nuzlocke, Mario in Kaizo Mario, and Kirby and a Powerpuff Girl in „Strange Video Games I played as a Kid“.
* She named her Taillow „Ari“ because it reminds her of her pet Ari.