Okay, so we start out, naturally, with the naming of the trainer, Tsunami. Next up is the naming of the rival, and since very few people have signed up so far, I'm not wasting a slot on him, so he'll be "Loser".
Wow. It's been so long I forgot what it was like to start out one of these things and not have Mom stop you before you exit the house to give you some sort of tutorial. Wait, house... I go back and withdraw the Potion, just in case. Time to get things started...Oak captures a Pikachu. We head to the lab, and Oak tries to give me a Pokémon, but Loser snatches it, and I get Pikachu instead. I name it Dante, and I battle against Loser and his Eevee. This being a "first battle", I go all-out with Thundershock. Mercifully, Eevee Tail Whips twice and only succeeds at one of them, as the first Tackle (before any Tail Whips) took out a third of Dante's HP and the second (after both the successful and the failed one) took him down to 1 HP. Has anyone ever lost a Nuzlocke in the very first battle? Well, we survived; I'd hate to lose the use of Pikachu right away. (As for what I'd do if I had lost: I'd keep it around (but not use it) just long enough to get another Pokémon by way of throwing Poké Balls at Pokémon that were at full health, and then release it as per Nuzlocke rules.)
I was kind of hoping that I could avoid Pokémon completely until I had Poké Balls just to get the ambiguity out of it, but I run into a single Rattata on the way to Viridian City. It's a good thing that Pokémon encountered before getting your first Poké Balls don't count, too, because Thundershock crits for a OHKO. I then try to get back without running into Pokémon--far be it for me to exploit technicalities--and run into another Rattata as soon as I set foot in the one patch of grass that is unavoidable even when heading from Viridian to Pallet. Again Dante crits it for a OHKO. Please let him calm down when it comes time for us to actually try to catch one. Pokédex get!
...Oh, right, that was GSC where the aide gave us Poké Balls. So I get to make another trip to Viridian still unable to catch Pokémon. Wild Pidgey, level 4, actually becomes the first thing to survive the first hit. (The OHKO-ed Rattatas were level 2.) A Level 3 Rattata also manages to survive, but does no damage as it uses Tail Whip. Now in Viridian City, time to get Poké Balls and start expanding the team! I buy ten Poké Balls, 5 antidotes, and two Potions, almost exhausting my funds. Route 1...it's another level 2 Rattata. Given what Dante's been doing to them so far, I try one Poké Ball at full health, then Thundershock when that fails...no crit! Even though he didn't officially say "sign up for naming", Bosh gets this one. Time to go to Route 2. I move Bosh to the top of the lineup.
...Awesome. Nidoran male, level 4. Bosh Tackles three times, one of them a crit, and the Nidoran is successfully caught and named "Hydras". Time to heal up and ever-so-carefully venture onto Route 22. (Carefully, because if I trigger the second battle with Loser, I'll probably get my whole team routed.) It takes an unusually long time for anything to appear, but when it does...it's a Mankey! Bosh leads off with a Tackle, but is already getting beaten pretty badly so I switch to Hydras; luckily Mankey Leers on the switching turn. Two Scratches have Hydras in poor health, but Mankey's low enough to be caught...no, it escapes from the first Poké Ball thrown! And that's all for Hydras. I send Dante out, and...again Mankey escapes. I Thundershock it...another m*********ing critical hit. So now I've got no Nidoran and no Mankey. My only hope for getting past Pewter without losing completely is to get a Caterpie in Viridian Forest and evolve it to Butterfree.
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Ulti (in one of his Post-Contest Analyses): God of War turned a 5 hour deadlock into a total laugher
Anagram: Oh God, Tidus and Yuna were involved?