The Gnamer Nuzlocke Challenge

~Rules~

01 - All Pokemon that gain faint status are considered dead and placed in a box representing the afterlife with a name of the players choosing.

02 - Only one Pokemon may be caught per area and only the first encounter counts.  If that first encounter fails for any reason the encounter is considered lost and voided.

03 - No Legendaries excluding mandatory captures, any forced legendary catches must be fainted as soon as possible and boxed.

04 - No eviolite

05 - No exceeding an areas level cap beyond 3 levels, a player may have one ace Pokemon five levels beyond the areas average.  Any Pokemon that exceed this soft cap must be boxed until they no longer exceed the cap.

06 - All Pokemon must be nicknamed to create fonder bonds with them.

07 - All gift Pokemon are considered an encounter for that area, no legendary gifts are allowed unless forced.  Example: Dreamyards Monkey gift, you can either receive this or encounter a grass encounter, not both.

08 - No trading of any kind.

09 - TMs are limited to one use per TM in line with older standards, HMs are fine for repeated use.

10 - Only five Pokeballs a town, alternatively four great balls, or three ultra balls, or two special (Dusk, Timer, ect) balls.  

11 - Only five healing items per town, status healing and HP healing are considered the same thing and the player is only allowed five as a whole.  Items found on the ground do not count towards this total.

12 - Only ten HP healing items and ten status healing items are allowed in the item bag, any that exceed this that are found must be tossed, sold, or used immediately.  

13 - No reviving.  Ever.  This likely goes without saying, but this is a nuzlocke so I'm listing this as rule to make it crystal clear.  Doesn't matter how a Pokemon faints, whether its through actual progress or grinding, if it faints it's dead.  And we all know I keep to this rule by virtue of how my last locke ended (masquerain for ubers!)

14 - No Repels before an areas first encounter, no matter the situation.  Some may be aware that Pokemon are only repelled if there is a decent level gap between the wild Pokemon and Pokemon in the front of the party, combined with the fact some wild Pokemon can be higher leveled this can lead to selective catches.  

15 - And to make things a little tougher and add on to that last rule, the player is only allowed to use Repels if the lead Pokemon can comfortably defeat the wild Pokemon of that area, or they are backtracking.  

~Clauses~

01 - Dupes clause, in the event that the players first encounter is a Pokemon they already successfully caught in a previous area they are allowed to re-encounter for a new Pokemon if they choose to do so.  This is to prevent a player having a team entirely of the same two or three pokemon and in the spirit of a Nuzlocke's main ideal of making the player diversify their team.  

02 - In the event that an opposing trainer has a Legendary Pokemon the player, if they have been forced to capture a Legendary themselves, may use that legendary against the opposing legendary.  Note that as soon as the opposing legendary is defeated the player must faint their own as soon as possible.  They are not allowed to heal their Legendary.