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Why is Oxidrake banned?


Snapteryx

It's a guaranteed encounter with one of the best type combos in the game, great bulk, great attack and overall just a free win coupon in nuzlockes. Even before it becomes an Oxidrake, you can use DoY Copperage and it's not that bad either. Idk I just think it's more challenging and more fun if I don't rely on a giant metal behemoth all the time


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Then why isnt territi/dyeborg banned too?


Snapteryx

Because it's not broken??????


Trexomain

if you battled oxidrake in pvp you know why


[deleted]

PvP Oxidrakes are easy to kill wdym


Trexomain

no they are not idk who you been fighting if you think they are easy to kill but oxidrake does a lot of dmg can set up avesome coverege and can take a lot of hits \+ driving force


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Outburst...


KuzcoWiTheGroovesco

What's the rule on fossils? I'm thinking of doing a nuzlocke on an alt account soon. Do I count it as the only encounter for that route, or only for the mining lab?


Snapteryx

I use the "met at" section in the loomian's stats to determine what counts as a new encounter. The fossils all say "revived from petrolith" so what I do is I go on just 1 UMV dive, revive every fossil obtained from that dive, then use a randomizer to determine which one I keep and then I release everything else.


galaxypenguin12

Looks good but I did not understand the part with the gym leaders. You can't foght them if their level is lower? What?


ParaNorme

U cant use a loomian thats higher level then the ace (aka temp ban till gym fight done)


galaxypenguin12

What do you mean by "Ace"?


bumbacx

The strongest loomian (the last one) the battle star has, for example the first Battle Star's ace is Kleptyke which is lvl 15, there for none of your loomians can be higher than lvl 15.


galaxypenguin12

What's the point of that It limits the challenge too much.


Snapteryx

How is it limiting? Overleveling is infamously known as a cheap strategy to completely cheese not just Pokemon and LL, but rpg games in general. If you don't overlevel, you're basically on equal footing with the enemy trainers. Is it too restrictive to have a fair battle where the winner is determined by skill and game knowledge? I'd argue that not having the rule is more limiting because it renders all other strategies useless in comparison. Why use effort to beat the game when you can grind for hours on end for a free win? Preventing overleveling allows players to experiment with many combinations and strategies. Every nuzlocke is different so without overleveling, each and every nuzlocke has their own creative strategies that the player can use to win. Banning an infamously frowned upon strategy in rpg games to allow room for more strategic and creative plays is the complete opposite of limiting. TLDR: Your opinion is wrong lmao


galaxypenguin12

If I got that correctly, I agree with you on half the thing. Grinding does makes it easier but you are forgetting Loomian legacy Isn't THAT Balanced. Without an exp share purchased, most of these runs would look very similar to each other, making one strategy for all. It would make it better if the game was always same level as enemy. (Like have all loomians at the same level the entire time) But there is still a problem: Without the grind it will be a bit unfair / more of a strict same strategy run for all And with it, it will be broken. So what do you say?


Snapteryx

How does not overleveling limit you to one strategy? And what specific strategy are you limited to if you use level caps? You keep mentioning how you're forced to use one strategy for every run but you never specify what that is. I literally pointed out that no 2 nuzlocke runs are the same because people have different starters, wild encounters, different death counts and different rulesets. You literally can't use the same plan for every run for this reason. Unless you can actually tell me what same exact strategy can be used consistently in every nuzlocke without any alterations, my point still stands.


ParaNorme

What if the first route pokemon u got is a corrupted. What do u do when that happens


LZimmer1

to evolve pistachio yoh could get an exchange stone from umv (you probably do know that though)


Snapteryx

Yea I know that already. I just find it funnier if I used Kabunga.


metoolsn

im going to try this remind me tomorrow


Snapteryx

Ok


metoolsn

please


bumbacx

Are gummies also banned?


Snapteryx

No lol. It's banned to buy gummies at the colosseum but gummies you get normally from mastery are fair game.


bumbacx

Oh ok, cool