[pkmn] I have a moral quandary for you, plurk

you are playing a nuzlocke, with rules that you can only use mons in catch order. so no swapping out mons unless they die

in team swaps are fine just nothing comes out of the box without dearh

death^

you have an early game mon on the team, it has done good work for you till now but is lagging due to limited stats or bad typing. you are nearing the difficulty spike of the third or fourth gym

do you purposely kill your mon to pull in something better

and I don't mean use it as a hit sponge in a hard fight for a turn to heal, but going out to a fight just to kill it

it'll probably die in the natural course of things shortly vOv

but it might be in a fight where you coulda really used that other mon, causing a wipe...

In nuzlockes I generally think "Would a REAL trainer do this?"

the answer to all these questsion is yes

cause that poor rataticate

I mean at that point you might as well just allow voluntary release, because you could just sit there and let something slowly kill anything but the only effective cost is time, its not like you are in real danger when you do it

You could. But are you willing to live with the guilt.