When you combine a with a Nuzlocke , you strip away all game knowledge. You cannot prepare for the next gym because you don’t know what type the leader will use. You cannot hunt for a specific counter because the encounters are chaos.

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If a Pokémon faints, it is considered "dead" and must be released or boxed forever.

Suggested milestones to track and celebrate:

For those unfamiliar, a Randomizer Nuzlocke is a type of ROM hack that applies two popular modifications to the original game:

Named after the comic "Nuzlocke" (inspired by Lost ), this is a set of self-imposed permadeath rules: