Q&A for How to Do a Nuzlocke Challenge in Pokémon

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You may if you'd like, but most people don't let this happen. If they faint the first encounter, it's gone.

It honestly depends. You could consider the Pokemon your first encounter, and catch another after the mandatory knockout or ignore it and catch something else when you can get some Pokeballs. It's your choice, more than anything else.

The Nuzlocke Challenge is a challenge taken on by the player. The game you play will function as normal, but you yourself will have to play by the rules of the challenge. If a Pokémon faints, release it. Only catch the first Pokémon you see on a given route. If you decide partway through the challenge that you don't want to keep playing that way, you can just start playing the game as normal.

You could definitely do that, but it would make it very easy to cheat on the challenge if you did. If you want to go that route, you might consider organizing your PC boxes so that the first one or two are dedicated to usable Pokémon according to the rules of the challenge.

Unless you have a special clause for that, you can store Pokemon and use them later if one of your team members faints.

It depends on the Nuzlocke Challenge rules you have set for yourself. However, most Nuzlocke Challenge players have a rule against using gift Pokemon.

A Nuzlocke officially starts as soon as you get Poké Balls. Note that you can not buy them in the challenge, so it’s usually after a professor give you them or something like that, you have the first Poké Balls, and you try to catch your first encounter on Route 1.

No, there is no reviving a fainted Pokemon in the traditional Nuzlocke challenge because once fainted, the Pokemon is considered dead.

To do a Nuzlocke, you have to familiarize yourself with the rules, then do it. The challenge is a self-imposed challenge, meaning that there is no feature at the beginning of a game to guide you through the Nuzlocke.

Go to the Poke Mart and buy some poke balls. The purchase of pokeballs is not banned in Nuzlocke rules.

Nuzlockes are challenges within the games, meaning that there is no extra game cartridge for Nuzlockes. While not by the Pokemon company, you can still just do a Nuzlocke in the game of your choice, just start a new game, and do the challenge, no setup needed. (Unless you count the rules as a setup.)

The legendary is a "static encounter" so if, for example, you get a ghost type in Sky Pillar, then find Rayquaza at the top. You may catch both, but usually you would avoid using legendaries altogether.

Yes, because it's not dead. If it still has a bit of health, it's not considered dead.

You would lose in a Nuzlocke if all your Pokemon "died". If all your Pokemon fainted, you would "lose".