Sims 4 PokéTypes Legacy Challenge!
Below are some flexible rules. Honestly do whatever makes it fun for you.
Try to limit money cheats! Freerealestate for first house only!
Short or Normal lifespan recommended. Long lifespan allowed, but also thereâs 18 gens, you might not want thatâŠ
Mods and CC are allowed/encouraged!
Extra Hard Mode: You can only control the parent sims of every generation. NOTE: Great for challenge, shitty for storytelling.
Optional: Name generations after a pokemon in that type, and color their clothes and such accordingly!
Optional: Feel free to add more or tweak life events and plot points!
Most importantly, have fun!
Gen 1:Â Normal
âThe Normal type is the most basic type of PokĂ©mon. They are very common and appear from the very first route you visit.â - pokemon database
All you want is a Normal life. Job, house, maybe a pet, white picket fence, and 2.5 kids. Simple is where itâs at.
Create a binary gendered Sim as your head of household, young adult.
Traits: have the Practice Makes Perfect trait, and/or all relatively boring base game traits.
Aspiration: either Super Parent or Big Happy Family.
Goal: 1-2 biological kids, an adopted kid, possibly a pet, and a spouse.
Career: any ânormalâ job like freelance, business, retail, or even two part-time jobs. Nothing fancy.
Next Heir: any child, your choice
Hard mode (optional): no high quality appliances or electronics
You got gifted a decent inheritance from your grandma passing, and decided to use it to get a place of your own! Time to become the adult you always dreamed of. Use your phone to get a job (or two) and start the daily grind.
After a while you meet someone you like, then like-like, then fall in love with. They propose and you start planning your life.
You decide to test the waters of parenting. Adopt, donât shop! This is where you get your adopted kid (and possible pet)!
You be the best parent you can be, while working. Help with homework, volunteer sometimes, just help your kiddo grow up right.
Eventually they become a teenager. Theyâve wanted a little sibling since you adopted them, but you wanted to make sure they got all your limited attention growing up. Now theyâre saying theyâd help out if you had a baby. Maybe itâs a good timeâŠ
Try for baby or science baby.
You did it. The perfect life.
Gen 2: Grass
âGrass is one of the three basic elemental types along with Fire and Water, which constitute the three starter PokĂ©mon.â - pokemon database
You grew up in the most boring house imaginable. Your parents loved you, doted on you, and gave you a good moral compass. Now you want to pass that forward. You may be just one person, but even a little difference helps!
Traits: They cannot be evil, and they must be vegetarian or freegan.
Aspiration: When theyâre a young adult, give them an aspiration of greenery - either Freelance Botanist, Eco Innovator, or Outdoor Enthusiast.
Goal: Master the Gardening skill and get one of every plant, eventually making a death flower. Maybe donât actually grow the cow plant seed, thoughâŠ
Career: anything to do with plants, even if that means no formal career and just being unemployed and selling food from your little backyard farm. Formal jobs like Gardener or Conservationist work too.
Next Heir: AFAB, can be adopted or cheated to ensure gender.
Hard Mode: Get, maintain, and maybe even feed non-family sims to a cow plant. See if you can get an emotion drink from it.
Do everything you can to make your world greener! Literally and figuratively.
Get a tiny house (or Tiny House) and start a backyard garden. Do whatever little side jobs you need until you can focus on your true passion for nature!
Once you master the Gardening skill, realize that plants, while great listeners, still donât feel like a full family. Find a partner to marry and have an heir with, bonus points if theyâre wearing green or have green hair when you meet.
Teach your child the importance of nature! Plenty of trips to parks, hunt for frogs together, etc.
Hopefully theyâll keep this world from burning to the ground. Right?
Gen 3: Fire
âFire types are notoriously rare in the early stages of the games so choosing the Fire variation starter is often a plus.â - pokemon database
Hell Ablaze, was your parent weird! They talked to their plants more than you sometimes. Donât get me wrong, they loved you, and catching frogs was cool⊠but sometimes you just wanted to get their attention, you know?
Traits: Dye your hair bright red, just to spite your parents. Have the trait Hot Headed.
Aspiration: You want love, every kind of love. Serial Romantic or Paragon Partner!
Goal: Woohoo and date sims of each (or every) gender, and have 5 or more partners before having a kid.
Career: Style Influencer, Romance Consultant, Simfluencer, or Video Game Steamer.
Next Heir: Oldest Child
Hard Mode: youâre not sure who your kid is from, so you decide to live and coparent with ALL your partners! How heated could things get?
You didnât really feel the warmth of affection, growing up. You never really doubted you were loved, but the focus was always on the big picture. Now you want that warmth you never had.
Date around. Have flings. Try to get simstagram famous. Post on social bunny all the time. Fall in love with spicy foods, bright colors, romantic notions, and generally just try to have it all!
Eventually you sleep with one too many people and whoops, youâre eating for two.
Pick a partner, or three, or more. Youâre going to pour your heart and soul, blood sweat and tears, and all your love into this kid.
And maybe buy a fireplace. Or hot tub. Or both.
Gen 4: Water
âWater is the most common type with over 150 PokĂ©mon, which are based on a wide variety of fish and other sea-dwelling creatures.â - pokemon database
Your mom sure was a firecracker, huh? People were always coming and going, you donât even know who your dad is⊠Eventually you just kinda learned to go with the flow, yknow?
Traits: Child of the Ocean if you have it! Otherwise Lazy and Cheerful.
Aspiration: Angling Ace
Goal: max your swimming and fishing skills, go skinny dipping, and have your heir via shower or hot tub Woohoo, if possible.
Career: Freelance or Unemployed. Do a little bit of everything to subsist.
Next Heir: Youngest Child
Hard Mode: donât max any skills other than fishing and swimming, while subsisting off those skills without a real job.
Your house was chaos growing up and your mom was crazy passionate about everything⊠So you kinda just try everything, I guess? You donât really have any passions, and donât have the willpower to daily grind, so you just kinda do everything, but not very well.
The house is always a little messy, but you donât really care. Life just kinda flows and you go where it takes you. You follow your whims, donât really dislike anything, and just kinda⊠scoot by.
Eventually life pairs you up with someone long enough to have a kid. Maybe youâre not meant to be together forever, but maybe you are? You hold hands like otters for as long as life allows, but nothingâs set in stone.
You try to teach your kid to just roll with it. But they got your momâs passion. So you wind up rolling with it instead.
Gen 5: Rock
âRock is a solid type as one might expect.â - pokemon database
Money was always tight growing up. Your parent seemed to just kinda do⊠whatever? But they didnât really pursue any dreams. You have dreams, though. And youâre gonna grind to get them!
Traits: Ambitious &/or Overachiever
Aspiration: Renaissance Sim, Neighborhood Confidant, or Leader of the Pack
Goal: Reach max level in at least two careers
Career(s): Astronaut, Secret Agent, Law, Military, Politician, &/or Doctor
Next Heir: Youngest Child
Hard Mode: max EVERY SKILL
You could never understand why your parent never really went for anything. They were good enough at everything, sure. But you wanna really show youâre reliable. You want to show the world what youâre made of. That youâve got rock solid will power and with that you can do anything!
So you do. You pick your goal and you throw yourself against the wall until you break or break through. And you never break. You just pick yourself up and keep trying.
You make friends over time, being so straightforward and reliable. Eventually one confides in you that theyâve found your resilience attractive since they met you. You Woohoo right then and there. And probably many more times after that.
Your partner mostly takes care of the kids, though. Youâve got goals to achieve and a mark to leave on history.
Gen 6: Bug
âMost Bug PokĂ©mon grow quickly and evolve sooner than other types. As a result, they are often very weak.â - pokemon database
Your parent was a high achiever, and as a kid you were always pushing yourself for their approval. You were always praised for what a bright kid you were⊠Then you hit burnout. Time to find out who loves you for you.
Traits: pick two from Childish, Socially Awkward, Erratic, and Jealous
Aspiration: Renaissance Sim or Academic
Goal: Get to college/adulthood with all As and maxed childhood skills, then burn out. Go chronically online.
Career: You can only make money by computer interactions. Become a writer or a programmer or a troll, whatever.
Next Heir: Only Child
Hard Mode: If it gives you a fear or the gloomy trait from a life event, you have to take and canât get rid of it.
You spend your entire childhood grinding like the parent you idolize. You always take for granted everything your other parent does, and often push away their help. You have to prove you are the perfect kid.
Then youâre not a kid anymore. Youâre a mediocre adult and your idol looks down on you.
Pick fights with your parent until youâre on bad terms. Rely entirely on your other parent until you age up and find someone to marry, then move into your spouseâs house.
You peaked early. Now youâre clingy and incessantly needy, constantly bugging your spouse for attention when youâre not in your shell, on the computer.
But hey, at least the computer helps you get some cash flow.
Eventually have a kid, probably late into adulthood. You donât know how to be there for them. Youâre not even there for yourself. But shower them in affection and hope you can charm them into liking you.
Gen 7: Psychic
âThe Psychic type has few outright strengths, however, it also has few weaknesses. In the first generation it ended up being massively overpowered, mainly due to a complete lack of powerful Bug moves, its only weakness.â - pokemon database
Your one parent was constantly up your butt and sensitive to the weirdest things, and your other parent enabled them. You were always expected to reassure them or leave them alone. So now you walk on eggshells and try to predict everyoneâs needs.
Traits: Loyal and Perfectionist, possibly Paranoid
Aspiration: Neighborhood Confidant or Friend of the World, then optionally swap to Inner Peace or Zen Guru
Goal: Befriend people and juggle friendships to keep everyone happy. Have a few incompatible partners before finding The One.
Career: Comedian, Journalist, or Actor.
Next Heir: Adopt
Hard Mode: Complete all your whims, goals, and/or bucket list items, while still maxing your relationship with everyone special to you.
After having to predict emotions most of your life, youâve gotten really, really good at Empathy. Youâre in tune to everyoneâs feelings, all the time. And you just want to make everyone happy, okay?
You take losing people really hard, so you do everything not to lose them.
That doesnât always work out for you, though.
After plenty of heartbreaks, you find someone who cares as much as you do⊠but about you!
Fall madly in love, learn about healthy relationships, and best of all? Learn to love yourself.
Weâre breaking generational trauma and breaking bloodlines. Who needs blood family anyway? Found family is where itâs at! You and your partner adopt your kids, deciding not to have any yourselves. (Feel free to use CAS full edit to make them sterile.)
Pass along the good vibes. Weâre making the world better, starting at home.
Gen 8: Fairy
â[Fairyâs] main intention was to balance the type chartâŠâ - pokemon database
Your life is a fairy tale. You never knew your birth parents and, after years of group homes and foster parents, you get adopted by the nicest parents ever! You are constantly reassured how loved you are, reminded how chosen family matters most, and are taught how to be a good person without overextending yourself.
Traits: Good, optionally Generous or Family Oriented
Aspiration: anything from Family, Animal, or Love categories
Goal: Live a good life
Career: Style Influencer, Astronaut (ranger branch), Secret Agent (diamond branch), Doctor, or Vet. Maybe swap eventually to freelance.
Next Heir: Firstborn
Hard Mode: Donate to charity and volunteer with family as often as possible. Bonus points if you also breed and release axolotls.
You may never know who brought you into this world, but you know who taught you to love it. Your supportive, adoptive parents! You donât take anything for granted.
You learn from them, grow with them, and take all their lessons to heart.
Eventually you meet someone just as kind and good and generous, and you fall madly in love, and you get together.
Time to pass along the love and kindness your parents showed you!
Gen 9: Steel
â[Steel] is the strongest type defensively, with 10 types being not very effective against it and the Poison type having no effect.â - pokemon database
You were raised by the most loving, kind, generous, sincere, and perfect parent. You were taught resilience from an early age. You were taught kindness and respect for all things. But why donât you feel any connection to anything? It feels like youâre a robot going through the motions.
Traits: Loner, Gloomy, and either Noncommittal or Practice Makes Perfect
Aspiration: Computer Whiz or Master Maker
Goal: Find meaning in what feels meaningless â have a life event that swaps out your gloomy traits! Bonus if you wind up Self Assured.
Career: Any, hop around a few times even
Next Heir: Your favorite child
Hard Mode: Have several kids, be distant to all of them, but have one you secretly like best that is the only one you keep in your household. The rest move out with their other parents, who you inevitably break up with and leave with their kids.
You love your parent, you think? And you try to find love, but it never feels⊠right.
Then you eventually have a kid that you see differently. They make you want to be the best parent you can be.
But you have no idea how to do that. Youâre clumsy and awkward in your attempts to be a good parent, but you do your best, you hope.
Gen 10: Fighting
âFighting PokĂ©mon are strong and muscle-bound, often based on martial artists. Fighting moves are super-effective against five other types (as is Ground), making them very good offensively.â - pokemon database
Your parent tried. You have a dozen half siblings that you donât really talk to. You were clearly the favorite, but you still basically had to fend for yourself. Your parent didnât, well, know how to be a parent. So you toughed it out and mostly took care of yourself. With no one to talk to about things, you focused on working out your emotions in physical ways. Healthily, hopefully, but you donât really know. You were never modeled healthy emotions.
Traits: Hotheaded and Active, choose between Mean, Bro, or Self Absorbed
Aspirations: Bodybuilder or Extreme Sport Enthusiast
Goal: Max all your physical skills out, then enroll in therapy (have a self-discovery moment or attend meditation and yoga classes)
Career: Athlete or Manual Laborer
Next Heir: Oldest Boy
Hard Mode: Max out the physical career tracks, then swap to something more healthily expressive (art, writing, music, wellness, etc)
You constantly butt heads with everyone.
You think itâs cause you take no bullshit, and need to look out for yourself first.
Actually, you just suck at social stuff.
You only figure that out when you meet someone you fall for who takes none of your bullshit either. They teach you how to communicate, how to work out emotions more healthily⊠And eventually, you get married and have some kids.
You want a boy, they want one of each. Whatever, the boy is your favorite. Theyâll take on the family line.
Gen 11: Electric
âThere are relatively few Electric PokĂ©monâ - pokemon database
Your parent was a little combative, but not at you. They were your staunchest defender and greatest ally. Anyone mess with you? Theyâll chew out the bastard and go up the chain of command until itâs fixed. It kinda gives you a heady mix of severe anxiety and the feeling you can do anything.
Traits: Outgoing, either Idealist or Perfectionist, and optionally Cringe or Socially Awkward
Aspirations: Renaissance Sim to start. Change aspirations at least 3 times, only completing your favorite one
Goal: Build a robosim (or reach handiness level 10 and max relationship with a cc ârobo simâ) and have like 4+ kids via adoption or science.
Career: Swap around a few times, then settle on Tech Guru at the end.
Next Heir: Youngest Girl
Hard Mode: Move houses/towns at least 3 times as well, each home decorated wildly differently.
You are unique and quirky and prooooobably have ADHD.
You bounce off the walls as a child, swap interests constantly, and canât finish anything to save your life. You try dozens of jobs, try dozens of aspirations, never really retaining friends.
No one can really keep up with your perpetual zoomies. So you MAKE a friend who can!
You donât really know if you even have romantic or sexual attractions, so your robo bestie is your co-parent of some adopted and science babies!
You have split attention enough to keep up with a full household, but your baby girl stole your heart. You never show your favoritism though â if you make a little electric toy for one kid, you make one for every kid!
Gen 12: Ground
âGround is one of the strongest types offensively: it is super-effective against five other types [âŠ] and Earthquake is one of the strongest moves in the gameâ - pokemon database
You were raised by a hyperactive person and a robot. The robot was the sane one. You learned to handle chaos in stride, but also learned you kind of needed to make a big stink to get your human parentâs attention. So youâre very, very chill⊠until youâre not.
Traits: Proper or Bro, Loyal, and Hot Headed
Aspirations: The Curator or Crystal Crafter
Goal: Build a mountain of wealth â both liquid and in assets â to leave to the next generation.
Career: Salaryperson, Business, Engineer, or Self-Employed
Next Heir: Only Child
Hard Mode: Become a hoarder of all things expensive, just scraping by because you put all your earnings into valuable objects, then leave them all to your kid to deal with.
You grew up preferring the company of your more grounded âparentâ. Even though you had no blood relation, your bioparent was too flighty for you. You grew up enjoying the simple things in life, with occasional very nice treats and experiences.
You find a grounded, adult job. And you steadily rise through the ranks.
Eventually you meet someone just as frugal and simple, and you settle down.
You want to give that simple life to your child, now. So you make mac n cheese or taco casserole every night, pancakes or eggs every morning, send them off with lunches of ham and cheese or pb&j, and go to work to bring home the bacon. And boy, do you make that dough. You could use it to spoil your kid, but then they wouldnât be set for life. And you want to build a firm foundation for them to live off of once youâre gone.
So instead you pack the attic with statues, fine art, and more. The more wealth you can pass down, the better. Money may be no object by a certain point, but a penny saved is a penny earned!
Gen 13: Ice
âIce type PokĂ©mon are now the rarest of all typesâ - pokemon database
Your parent hoarded wealth. You always were made fun of a bit in school for having all thrifted and hand-me-down clothes. You always wanted something more than just mac n cheese or pb&j. You never got to have fancy birthday parties. But the attic was your hideaway â you loved being surrounded by gemstones and art. Your rich friend once let you try their caviar and wagyu steak lunch and you were hooked. You want ice â you want gems and cold, hard cash. Time to live the good life you could have had. Even if you have to freeze your heart to get it.
Traits: Snob and Materialistic, and either Kleptomaniac, Self Absorbed, or Shady.
Aspirations: Sticky Fingers or Fabulously Wealthy
Goal: Live the life of luxury you always wanted! Have a maid or butler, a home chef, whatever. And keep that money flowing!
Career: Criminal
Next Heir: A child from the partner you actually find love with
Hard Mode: You must buy only the most expensive items for your house. Youâd rather do without than have something less than the best.
You always wanted more than you had. It was always just out of reach, even though your parents had the means. Sure, it COULD pay for your house and education, but whereâs the fun in that?
You were never spoiled, so itâs time to spoil yourself.
You fall in with a bad crowd, taking anything you can from whatever chances youâre given.
Your first marriage (or two) is for money.
Itâs only after you have the life of luxury you wanted that you realize⊠thereâs more to life than things.
Once you complete your aspiration and/or career, you eventually go looking for love for your next marriage. If you had any kids before, you decide if they come with you or not, but you canât help but see your past in them. You have a baby (or several) with your second, third, whatever â your FINAL partner. From that love, you find your heir.
Gen 14: Poison
âThe Poison type is regarded as one of the weakest offensively [âŠ] It fares a little better defensively but its best advantage is through status moves like Toxic.â - pokemon database
You grew up rich, snooty, and spoiled. You never lacked anything, and you make your displeasure known when you donât get what you wantâŠ
Traits: Mean, and any traits you find especially hard to work with; like maybe Slob, Lazy, Erratic, or High Maintenance.
Aspirations: Seeker of Secrets, Fabulously Filthy, or your least favorite aspiration
Goal: Get at least one good or generous sim to marry you, and try not to push them away.
Career: Playerâs choice, but âbad guyâ career paths encouraged
Next Heir: Firstborn or Only Child
Hard Mode: Try to find a Good, Generous, and/or Idealist sim that you keep a FULLY POSITIVE RELATIONSHIP with until the next generation, bonus points if your kid also has a good relationship with you!
Squeaky wheel gets the oil, right?
Well it did in your house. No meant âpush harderâ and ânot nowâ meant throw a tantrum or beg.
That didnât set you up great for the real world. Youâre pushy, mean, and snooty, and it pushes people away and makes you plenty of enemies.
Eventually some poor, kindhearted soul thinks they can fix you. Maybe they can⊠Or maybe youâll just use them for all theyâre worthâŠ
Either way, you have a kid â and have no idea how to prepare them for the world, since your parents apparently didnât teach you how to handle it.
Gen 15: Dark
âThe Dark type was introduced in the second generation of PokĂ©mon games as a measure to balance the types. In particular, its immunity to Psychic cut down that typeâs advantage by a long way.â - pokemon database
You grew up with mixed signals and mind games. Your other parent tried to assure you the first one loved you, but they were⊠Disastrously ineffective at showing it.
You find solace in monsters. If monsters can love, perhaps your parent did love you. Or maybe youâre the monster, and other monsters deserve love tooâŠ
Traits: Gloomy or Macabre and either Socially Awkward or Loner
Aspirations: If you have any monster packs â vampire or werewolves, for even spellcasters â any of the âgoodâ aspirations from them. Otherwise, a Creativity aspiration or Big Happy Family.
Goal: Learn to love yourself â either by leaning into the darkness or by having a trait change â and then have a kid you can raise better than you were.
Career: Any, play this as goth as youâd like!
Next Heir: Science Baby with Self
Hard Mode: Live off your parentâs dwindled estate, and let a lover be the breadwinner. Spend your days moping around your house and writing bad poetry.
You had half of a good childhood. One parent was lovely, the other⊠not so much. Eventually you two came to some kind of stability, but the damage was done. Youâre never sure whatâs around the next dark corner of life â or if youâre the thing that goes bump in the night.
But you go to therapy. You go to skill building classes. You pour out your feelings into your hobbies.
Maybe you will be visibly a monster, but youâre gonna try not to act like one to any kids.
So, when you think youâre ready, you have a science baby.
And you hope any genetic trauma you got doesnât wind up in them, tooâŠ
Gen 16: Ghost
âGhosts are rare PokĂ©mon, and the only type to have two immunities.[âŠ] When paired with the Dark type it was the only type combination to have no weaknessesâŠâ - pokemon database
You are the spitting image of your parent.
You see how theyâre haunted by their past.
Maybe you can step forward, to a new life, together?
Traits: Gloomy or Chased by Death, but also Loyal.
Aspirations: Ghost Historian or Chief of Mischief â but end up with Neighborhood Confidant or Friend of the World.
Goal: Have a multigenerational household. Your sole parent lives with you, or you with them, while you raise your child.
Career: Writer
Next Heir: Your Choice
Hard Mode: Donât get rid of any of the gloomy or darker traits, and keep the ghost of any parents around as long as possible.
Your parent may be a little eccentric, but they mean well. Theyâve been through some stuff. As you got older, you learned more and more of it.
Maybe, together, you can help them face the world again.
Go through the motions of childhood. Get câs in everything if you need. If you pass, thatâs good enough. Youâre not here for school. You donât know what youâre here for yet, but for now, just leave everything on read.
Eventually you decide your goal is to give people hope of a better ending. A hope of closure and healing and moving on to a better life.
So you write. Worlds about ghosts, both literal and figurative. Metaphors for healing weave through every story, and every protagonist practices some coping skills people can use in real life.
You rely on your parent as much as they rely on you. You just live together indefinitely. Maybe adding on to the house as needed, but still. Stronger together, right?
Find someone not weirded out by multigenerational living, and marry them.
Maybe itâs time to write your own story.
Gen 17: Flying
âMost Flying type PokĂ©mon are based on birds or insects, along with some mythical creatures like dragons. On average they are faster than any other type.â - pokemon database
You were raised communally, and having three or more people to come to with problems was amazing. You never felt left out or ignored. Everyone wanted whatâs best for you. And you get to follow all your neat, niche interests with abandon. Your family is the wind beneath your wings, and youâre ready to soar!
Traits: Creative, optionally Idealist, Noncommittal, or Overachiever
Aspirations: As many as you can, hop around as needed!
Goal: Build up a nest egg and then leave the nest! But eventually come back home to roost.
Career: Your choice, but Astronaut would be hilarious
Next Heir: Only Child or Eldest Child
Hard Mode: Realize youâre better flying solo â never get a partner
You leave the nest, have a place of your own, have some adventures. Maybe you have some flings, maybe you find someone, maybe you feel better flying solo.
Eventually it just feels wrong in a place by your lonesome.
So you move back home, have a kid (possibly not in that order) and get to be a big happy flock again!
Your parents help raise your child the way you were raised.
Gen 18: Dragon
âDragons are among the most elusive and powerful of all PokĂ©mon. Nineteen legendary PokĂ©mon are part Dragon type and eight have legendary-like stats.â - pokemon database
You were given the best possible start on life. You stand on the shoulders of giants.
Do you hoard all the love youâve been given? Or do you gift its magic to the masses?
You are powerful, and the future is yours to decide.
Literally do whatever you want.
Hard Mode: this gen becomes a supersim challenge
The joke is that YOU are the dragon gen for getting through all of this. Itâs a long, grueling challenge, and you made it through.
This sim is YOUR IDEAL SIM! Itâs your self-insert, your wildest fantasies are to be lived out vicariously through them.
legit though, this is The Fun Gen â have fun!
What does being a dragon mean to you?
Do that.
And thank you so, so much for playing. <3
