The concept is simple for this, basically you take a game and play through it using pokemon of only one type. Depending on the game and on what type you pick, it can either be just as easy as a normal play through or it can be hell on earth, possibly even worse then a nuzlocke challenge.
My first mono-type challenge was a pure poison team in firered. It turned out to be pretty fun, but fairly easy with the availability of poison types.
Here are some basic rules:
You must only use Pokemon of the chosen type.
Wildcards are not allowed
If a pokemon evolves into a certain type, they are allowed but must evolve right away (such as charmander in a mono-flying)
Must use a team of Pokemon, using just your starter doesn`t count. Try to keep them at equal power before the elite four too.
I also made a rule for my own run that I could only use HM slaves of my chosen type (no fly FTL)
I picked Bulbasaur as my starter and he was a pretty good choice for the grass/poison pokemon on my team. He worked out pretty well with the moveset Razor leaf/Growth/Sleep powder/Strength. He was able to setup easily on Bruno and sweep his whole team.
Tentacruel was the powerhouse of my team. His movepool was quite amazing for challenging the elite four and was the only reason we were able to defeat the horror that is alakazam. For the elite four his movepool was Surf/Giga Drain/Blizzard/Barrier. His special defence and Barrier allowed him to sponge hits from just about everything (even psychic from alakazam) I augmented his movepool for the battle with blue with Surf/Toxic/Barrier/Double Team I simply forced pidgeot to switch using nidoking and then setup on the likely gyarados switch in. I then spammed double team and barrier and toxic stalled the hell out of gyarados. Alakazam then switched in and I lived with exactly 2 hp and got off a toxic. I then spammed hyperpotions on Tentacruel and toxiced when he used a full restore on Alakazam, sealing his fate.
Nidoking was a real nice addition to the team. His bulk along with his nice attack and humongous move pool allowed him to so well in the elite four. His final moves were Megahorn/DoubleKick/Surf/Earthquake.
Golbat was pretty good, but it didn't do anything really fantastic It would use confuseray and bite to do a bit of haxing along with air cutter and astonish. Astonish went off his better attack.
Beedril was nice in the early game but by the 7th badge was was useless. Nidoking learned Megahorn and Tentacruel was much better specially defensively. He did nothing during the elite four but was a nice base during the early game when all my other pokemon were horridly weak.
I caught a Arbok on victory road mainly for Intimidate. Glare was pretty nice too. Im actually pretty happy with how well arbok did as a fresh catch, he did alot better than Beedril >.>
Some recommended Mono-type team challenges:
Water in Sapphire - There are many great water-types you can use in Sapphire most of them having types that offset their weaknesses. pretty easy but good for an introduction. Pokemon you should look out for is Azumaril, Ludicolo, Swampert, Gyarados, Tentacruel, among others.
Bug in Heartgold/Soulsilver - There are many cool and effective Bug types in HG/SS Including Ariados, Forretress, Scyther, Scizor, Yanmega,Venomoth and Heracross. The lack of any Fire gym or Champion really makes it very managable to beat. Unfortunately the first gym will be a giant roadblock that might have you stumped, but keep on trying.
Flying in Firered/Leafgreen- Flying is a pretty cool type to use. Unfortunatley there are no pokemon that cover their electric or rock weaknesses but fortunately the gyms are found early in game and charmeleon can beat them before he evolves while the Elite four rarely use Electric and Rock moves. Pokemon like Charizard, Pidgeot, Golbat, Gyarados, Aerodactyl, and Fearow can fill out a nice team.
Ghost in Diamond/Pearl/Platinum- Trading is strongly advised but this region is filled with diverse ghost typed pokemon like Mismagius, Driftblim, Gengar,Spiritomb and Rotom. A very interesting option that you should try out.
Pokedexes sorted by type:
R/S/E:
http://www.smogon.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2878624&postcount=112
HG/SS:
http://www.smogon.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2876676&postcount=101
My first mono-type challenge was a pure poison team in firered. It turned out to be pretty fun, but fairly easy with the availability of poison types.
Here are some basic rules:
You must only use Pokemon of the chosen type.
Wildcards are not allowed
If a pokemon evolves into a certain type, they are allowed but must evolve right away (such as charmander in a mono-flying)
Must use a team of Pokemon, using just your starter doesn`t count. Try to keep them at equal power before the elite four too.
I also made a rule for my own run that I could only use HM slaves of my chosen type (no fly FTL)
I picked Bulbasaur as my starter and he was a pretty good choice for the grass/poison pokemon on my team. He worked out pretty well with the moveset Razor leaf/Growth/Sleep powder/Strength. He was able to setup easily on Bruno and sweep his whole team.
Tentacruel was the powerhouse of my team. His movepool was quite amazing for challenging the elite four and was the only reason we were able to defeat the horror that is alakazam. For the elite four his movepool was Surf/Giga Drain/Blizzard/Barrier. His special defence and Barrier allowed him to sponge hits from just about everything (even psychic from alakazam) I augmented his movepool for the battle with blue with Surf/Toxic/Barrier/Double Team I simply forced pidgeot to switch using nidoking and then setup on the likely gyarados switch in. I then spammed double team and barrier and toxic stalled the hell out of gyarados. Alakazam then switched in and I lived with exactly 2 hp and got off a toxic. I then spammed hyperpotions on Tentacruel and toxiced when he used a full restore on Alakazam, sealing his fate.
Nidoking was a real nice addition to the team. His bulk along with his nice attack and humongous move pool allowed him to so well in the elite four. His final moves were Megahorn/DoubleKick/Surf/Earthquake.
Golbat was pretty good, but it didn't do anything really fantastic It would use confuseray and bite to do a bit of haxing along with air cutter and astonish. Astonish went off his better attack.
Beedril was nice in the early game but by the 7th badge was was useless. Nidoking learned Megahorn and Tentacruel was much better specially defensively. He did nothing during the elite four but was a nice base during the early game when all my other pokemon were horridly weak.
I caught a Arbok on victory road mainly for Intimidate. Glare was pretty nice too. Im actually pretty happy with how well arbok did as a fresh catch, he did alot better than Beedril >.>
Some recommended Mono-type team challenges:
Water in Sapphire - There are many great water-types you can use in Sapphire most of them having types that offset their weaknesses. pretty easy but good for an introduction. Pokemon you should look out for is Azumaril, Ludicolo, Swampert, Gyarados, Tentacruel, among others.
Bug in Heartgold/Soulsilver - There are many cool and effective Bug types in HG/SS Including Ariados, Forretress, Scyther, Scizor, Yanmega,Venomoth and Heracross. The lack of any Fire gym or Champion really makes it very managable to beat. Unfortunately the first gym will be a giant roadblock that might have you stumped, but keep on trying.
Flying in Firered/Leafgreen- Flying is a pretty cool type to use. Unfortunatley there are no pokemon that cover their electric or rock weaknesses but fortunately the gyms are found early in game and charmeleon can beat them before he evolves while the Elite four rarely use Electric and Rock moves. Pokemon like Charizard, Pidgeot, Golbat, Gyarados, Aerodactyl, and Fearow can fill out a nice team.
Ghost in Diamond/Pearl/Platinum- Trading is strongly advised but this region is filled with diverse ghost typed pokemon like Mismagius, Driftblim, Gengar,Spiritomb and Rotom. A very interesting option that you should try out.
Pokedexes sorted by type:
R/S/E:
http://www.smogon.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2878624&postcount=112
HG/SS:
http://www.smogon.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2876676&postcount=101