Pokemon FireRed Gauntlet ROM

Gauntlet Traits

Dumb question, but what is a Gauntlet? Is it a number of multiple trainers you must defeat with the same team? Is it a number of multiple trainers you must defeat in a row without rest? Without healing? With healing? Without changing team? Without leaving?

Well, my definition of Gauntlet might be different from yours. So, here I will list all the traits of Pokemon FireRed: Gauntlet’s Gauntlets:

• Once you enter a Gauntlet, you cannot leave.
  • Some Gauntlets initiate later than others. For example, Route 22’s Gauntlet only triggers if you have 8 Badges… So that you can fight the optional rival fight in Route 22
• Once you enter a Gauntlet, you cannot change your team.
• Healing is limited. A Nurse Joy NPC will be present in each Route, but you will only be able to heal a limited amount of times (1-3).
  • You cannot buy Potions in shops, which allows me to balance the Gauntlets around how many Potions you have or may have available.
• HP is the most obvious Gauntlet resource, but PP also is.
  • Some trainers exist to deplete your PP and even stall you
  • Some trainers exist to reduce your HP, and might not be too dangerous
  • Some trainers just exist to take at least one pokemon with them (Focus Sash Rattata)
  • Some trainers just want to sweep your whole team, man 
• Nuzlocking is expected (but not forced), so the game is balanced around that. The main difficulty of a Gauntlet focused game is slowly eroding your resources until you’re left barebones.
  • One pokemon left means you need to face the rest of the Gauntlet with a gap in your plans. But in a non-nuzlocke, you can just revive them after you’re done.
  • If you wipe, you’d lose if you were in a Nuzlocke. But if you play the game normally, you can just go back to the Route and keep fighting the trainers until all of them are gone.
• Planning, like any difficulty hack, is expected. I have a google sheets with all the information regarding every trainer. It is expected that you know what you’re walking into.
  • This is why I plan to add an NPC that lets you freely manage your EVs, Nature and IVs (somewhat, for trick room). It’ll be like the Nurse Joy NPC. (Not yet implemented, I need to make a post later to ask how to do it cuz I’m not good enough to figure it out on my own)
  • You will also be able to freely change your non-Hidden Abilities and Moves (that you can learn, from level-up and Breeding). (Not yet implemented, I need to make a post later to ask how to do it cuz I’m not good enough to figure it out on my own)
  • TMs are permanent.
• Trainers are not skippable, that would break the purpose of a Gauntlet… However, there are exceptions
  • Some Routes have optional trainers that you can fight ONLY when the Gauntlet is active. These trainers mostly give Pokemon as rewards, that for Nuzlocke purposes don’t count as the Route Encounter. (I did figure out how to do this, on my own)

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