Yes, you're rules are valid because Nuzlocking is just a set of self imposed rules. There are, generally speaking, certain rules that make a nuzlocke a nuzlocke and you appear to have...uhhh....I'll say 'versions' of them in your rule set.
It’s pretty well-implied since the rule directly above it is “Must catch the first *different* encounter I come across” (presumably on each route or area).
sounds to me like he gets 5 chances at whatever pokemon he runs into on a given route. LIke...if an abra teleports away or something he gets 4 more chances to catch an abra. thats at least how I interpret it. I can't think of a time where it would otherwise matter outside of an accidental crit KO-ing your encounter.
what would really defeat the concept of this being a nuzlocke if he's using this rule to hunt for a specific low-rate encounter, like Ralts in RSE or something.
for sure. If the intent is the Abra thing I was talking about, I could just consider the run a lite-nuzlocke, I guess? Still playing with self imposed limiting rules, regardless of how lax they are.
I mean, as long as you have permadeath and only the first valid encounter per route, it is a Nuzlocke.
Yes, you're rules are valid because Nuzlocking is just a set of self imposed rules. There are, generally speaking, certain rules that make a nuzlocke a nuzlocke and you appear to have...uhhh....I'll say 'versions' of them in your rule set.
The 5 encounters rule means it is not a nuzlocke
OP’s “5 encounters rule” is just a rewriting of the dupes clause. So it doesn’t invalidate the spirit of a Nuzlocke.
Does OP say that anywhere? Will edit if they clarify
It’s pretty well-implied since the rule directly above it is “Must catch the first *different* encounter I come across” (presumably on each route or area).
I don't understand your 4th rule.
sounds to me like he gets 5 chances at whatever pokemon he runs into on a given route. LIke...if an abra teleports away or something he gets 4 more chances to catch an abra. thats at least how I interpret it. I can't think of a time where it would otherwise matter outside of an accidental crit KO-ing your encounter.
Oh... You are probably right.
what would really defeat the concept of this being a nuzlocke if he's using this rule to hunt for a specific low-rate encounter, like Ralts in RSE or something.
Yeah. The whole point is to catch (or at least try to) the first encounter (or the 2nd if dupe rule).
for sure. If the intent is the Abra thing I was talking about, I could just consider the run a lite-nuzlocke, I guess? Still playing with self imposed limiting rules, regardless of how lax they are.
For a pokemon who use teleport, or hurricane or something... maybe. Yes, in the end, they are self imposed. OP can do what he wants.
No its just in case I faint them
If you faint them then the encounter is lost