Challenges

Know any fun Challenges for the Pokemon games? These challenges aren't anything official you can flip on in your games, it requires you to monitor your own progress and make sure you don't cheat XD

NOTE: Most of these can only be done in the mainstream games. You could do them in spin-offs but it's be harder/the rules would need lots of changing XD

Nuzlocke

Basic: If your Pokemon faints it dies

Rules:
-If your Pokemon faints release it or put it in a PC box labeled "RIP" or something and do not use it again
-You can only catch the first Pokemon you see in a route no matter what
-All Pokemon must be nicknamed
-Trading is not allowed

Extras (preference based to increase or decrease difficulty):
-*easy* Legendaries/Shiny/Special Pokemon are excluded from "first" rule
-*hard* You must kill all Shinies and Legendaries you see
-*easy* Gifted Pokemon (in-game) do not count towards the "first" Pokemon
-*hard* Release your weakest Pokemon after beating a Gym
-*???* In-game trades are allowed (between you and a CPU, chances are you won't get what they need XD)
-*easy* DayCare is allowed
-*hard* DayCare is not allowed
-*easy* "Floors" (ie in a cave) count as a new area, so if a cave has 3 floors you can get 1 Pkmn from Floor 1, 1 from 2F, and one from 3F
-*hard* "Floors" do not matter. A cave/other location is a single location. So if you enter a cave with 5 floors it doesn't matter, you can only get 1 Pokemon

Monotype

Basic: You can only choose one type of Pokemon to use

Rules:
-At the beginning of your quest you pick the type of Pokemon you want to use (Fire, grass, ice, dragon, etc)
-You can ONLY catch Pokemon of your type
-Dual types are allowed (ie if you're going for Fire you can catch a Fire-Dark)
-You don't have to pick the type of a starter

Extra:
-*???* Since you might not be able to start with the type you picked (ie Dark, Normal, Ice, etc) it is assumed you can keep your starter for a period of time
-*easy* Remove starter from team when you get 2-6 Pokemon of your type
-*hard* Remove starter from team when you get 1 Pokemon of your type
-*hard* Dual types are not allowed (if you're doing Flying that's not gonna work XD)


Scramble

Basic: Bear with me as I know little about this one XD You are assigned a random team with set requirements by random people.

Rules:
-Then get various people to help form your team around this, state whether you want it to be easier or harder for you to get
-People suggesting give you POSSIBLE suggestions. Not something impossible or plain stupid please
-Get those Pokemon as you go about your game

Extra:
-You can pick a common theme (ie all blue, or all canines or something)
-I've seen usually stuff for these challenges like "have x Pokemon with no attacking moves of x type", "x Pokemon cannot evolve until they beat x's gym by them self", "x cannot evolve until they do x action", "get x Pokemon with x nature", "get x Pokemon from x location only", "get x Pokemon and have it gain only x type of moves", etc

Another fun thing is to be completely insane and combine these XD Like a Monotype Nuzlocke 8D (rules would need to be edited slightly for each :3) So have fun XD

Have anything to add? Any new challenges, edits I need to make, something that should be added somewhere? Go ahead and post 8D Discussing challenges you are going on and getting help for challenges (ie suggestions for Monotypes or Scrambles) is good too :3