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Silph I have a video idea for you: Beating Pokemon FRLG or Emerald but you can only learn one move. (I found a rom hack that does this so that you can only have one move.)
@@genesis_animates9926 well nega garchomp goodra dragalge haxorus my fan made pokemon withs i hope can be real 1 day and has the same origin as mewtwo but was supposed to be a sort of fusion of groudon eternatus and the latis a shin godzilla based poison dragon mon called shinagon orfinaly noyvern as my ace and kingdra for coverege agians ice types
Fun fact: Steven's Metagross used Psychic instead of Earthquake, because both attacks secured the kill on Tentacruel, so the AI randomly chose between attacks, since they both have 100% accuracy (if he had a less accurate move, he would have used Earthquake)
@@qorv4973 STAB doesn't matter there, since if Tentacruel was on full HP, Metagross would still go for Earthquake, because Tentacruel has much lower Defense than Special defense, and Metagross's attack is higher than it's special attack, so Earthquake would do more, despite both earthquake and psychic being super effective, and psychic having STAB.
@@b0il3ra90 I really havent studied the AI of the games, just know a few of the gen 1 quirks like status moves used randomly if they are the right type. Like withdraw against a fire type. So I think its cool to learn that AI chooses randomly if it sees a kill on both rather than showing a preference for STAB or output. The more you learn
@@genesis_animates9926 I said: Random (and overly long) Question: Is there no such thing as a Calculator or Program or Witchraft-Tool; Science or Magic; that allows for QUICK and EASY research on-the-go about EV-Training? I mean, do i have to memorize Masses and Masses of Data about how Everything reacts to Everything?! There must be an easier way, yes? Just something that asks of me the work to memorize what Stat my Pokemon 'need' to grow in, and then i enter this simple Stuff into something. I mean, i dont wanna look up all the Pokemon And create a Custom-List for any Route i enter: Someone must have made something like this for his own re-usability, or not?? Like: "I have 3 Magikarps. I want them to become the Fastest Magikarp and have them break the Sound-Barrier. But i also have 3 Charmander. And I'm on Route-4. So what Pokemon should i defeat here and with who??" Get what i mean? Sorry for the long comment. ...I'm no speech-maker, after all...
I almost had to reset during my sapphire nuzlocke but I lost my sableye and my seviper and I thought my torkoal would survive a hit so I could chip but it died :
There is also a guy on route 119 with a Breloom who regularly gives me issues. Ive already learned my lessons and know to avoid the Breloom, Milotic, and all Explosion encounters
i recently replayed sapphire and accidentally ran into her and regret it. that milotic was brutal, and it doesnt help that it was raining in that route
Should’ve taught Seviper Flamethrower via TM. A Charcoal boosted Flamethrower likely would’ve taken Metagross out, especially since you were Timid, making Eathquake weaker, and Metagross’ Sp Def is lower than its Defense.
"Let me win and if I cannot may I be brave in the attempt" awesome Silph.. all avenues explored and an awesome set of attempts. Keep these up my friend.
Question: Why not try a nuzlocke where every pokemon is weak to a certain type? For example, have a run where every pokemon has to be at least x2 times weak to rock, so all pokemon have to be either Fire, Flying, Bug or Ice, and you cannot use double-typings with Steel, Fight or Ground
@@claytongallaugher5171 i doubt it, say theoretically you wanted to do one where every pokemon was weak to rock in pokemon sapphire you would have access to torchic (before evolution) both wurmple line, swellow, pelipper, masquerain, shedinja/ninjask, gyarados, crobat, altaria, tropius, ninetales, xatu, glalie, and walrein, salamence too if you aren't banning it
@@laurainc that's just a strictly easier version than this challenge tho, as almost all these pokémon have the same weakness anyway, also once you beat that specific type's gym the challenge is basically over
@@rajkanishu i disagree, as plenty of pokemon have rock type moves, and since all your pokemon are weak to that you have no proper pivots or ways to play around it, plus, going into wattson with a party of mostly flying types will be super difficult,, though i do feel like rock is a fairly easy version of this challenge and you could instead do something where everything is weak to water or grass or flying, which are much more common types. and, even if it is easier, its a different kind of challenge where your pivots are rare and your team diversity is totally crippled, despite having a larger amount of viable picks, which also makes team building important again unlike in monotypes where you are, for the most part, just stuck with what you get
@@rajkanishu I wouldn't say it's neccessarily easier, as if you do a monotype, then you usually have a dual type line available which covers at least one weakness, allowing you to play around that to beat potential counters. Whereas if you take strict weakness to a specific type, then you will never have a neutral switch. It will be hard to compare to monotypes, as the available pool for pokemon and strategies vary wildly based on type and game.
To be fair, I have no idea what the tile is supposed to be showing. I assume it’s a painting or a photo, but of what? It doesn’t even look like anything lol
@@PtylerBeats I think it's meant to be a cherry tree and another type of tree with clouds around it. Or maybe a tree and a mountain? The white line makes this really weird to figure out.
I don’t mean for this to sound narcissistic, but it’s very cool to see one of these videos end in defeat, yet hopeful. The idea that this Pokémon trainer mastered the Hoenn Region with a specialization in poison types and has to admit defeat to Steven is really cool world building. Awesome work, Silph!
Saw the title and knew this was going to be a difficult challenge just from the first gym. The fact you made it all the way to Steven is impressive enough.
17:16 I think you forgot that crunch is special in this game and that makes the defense on your Pokémon not mattter with crunch. Rosalia had better spdef
Random (and overly long) Question: Is there no such thing as a Calculator or Program or Witchraft-Tool; Science or Magic; that allows for QUICK and EASY research on-the-go about EV-Training? I mean, do i have to memorize Masses and Masses of Data about how Everything reacts to Everything?! There must be an easier way, yes? Just something that asks of me the work to memorize what Stat my Pokemon 'need' to grow in, and then i enter this simple Stuff into something. I mean, i dont wanna look up all the Pokemon And create a Custom-List for any Route i enter: Someone must have made something like this for his own re-usability, or not??
Random (and overly long) Question: Is there no such thing as a Calculator or Program or Witchraft-Tool; Science or Magic; that allows for QUICK and EASY research on-the-go about EV-Training? I mean, do i have to memorize Masses and Masses of Data about how Everything reacts to Everything?! There must be an easier way, yes? Just something that asks of me the work to memorize what Stat my Pokemon 'need' to grow in, and then i enter this simple Stuff into something. I mean, i dont wanna look up all the Pokemon And create a Custom-List for any Route i enter: Someone must have made something like this for his own re-usability, or not?? Like: "I have 3 Magikarps. I want them to become the Fastest Magikarp and have them break the Sound-Barrier. But i also have 3 Charmander. And I'm on Route-4. So what Pokemon should i defeat here and with who??" Get what i mean? Sorry for the long comment. ...I'm no speech-maker, after all...
Honestly, I find that 'struggle' early on with Cascoon pointless. Just get a Wrumple and evolve it on wild encounters. If it's not a Cascoon, ditch it an catch another. But instead you waste a lot of time (especially on multiple attempts) with a Cascoon that can't attack. There is frankly no reason for this at all. One could say that Wrumple isn't a poison type, but neither is Casoon. The rules are arbitrary anyway, so something that lets the challenge actually start instead of taking weeks for no reason is welcomed. This doesn't make the challenge any harder, just more time consuming. After all, the challenge only really starts with Dustox.
I hard agree, especially due to the fact he struggle grinded to ev train. However, dustox would've had another attacking move when it evolved that wasn't confusion, but tbh that's negligible too. I don't quite understand why he went through it 7 times when after the first it was pointless and a waste of time.
@@armaggedon390 meaning he’d have to start over again since it’s a fail if it turns into silcoon. It’s a toss up between rolling NRG by catching a wurmple or grinding after getting a cascoon. You don’t just “catch another” in nuzlockes. You start over from the beginning since he technically caught a Pokémon that broke the rules. You also can’t catch multiples of the same line or Pokémon from the same area.
I'm probably a bit late, but if you had kept Protect on Dustox for Norman, his Slakings would've been so easy lol. I'm really loving these videos though! I should probably do a mono type nuzlocke soon too...
Great run Silph, gotta admire the dedication with that gym 1 grind and very unlucky with some battles. That 1st sharpeado battle had me nervous 😰, but a great run overall and good to see posion types get some love. Keep up the great work and hope to catch a stream this weekend.
Hey Brendan, thanks so much! It was definitely a crazy run; I thought it was impossible after trying with Roxanne but I think we at least proved that this run *could* be done if Metagross can be managed more effectively. Unfortunately I'm traveling to visit family this week so no streams until next weekend. Can't wait to continue our Normal-only run though, I'm remaining hopeful haha
You son of a gun, I’m litteraly doing my first nuzlocke and it’s a poison only run. I’ve been recording it and hope to upload it soon, good thing it’s on Soul Silver
In generation three, if an opponent sees a kill if you are at a low enough HP, it will likely do a random attacking move. Since your tentacruel was at 30 HP, I believe it was low enough for a random move. Loved the video!!!
Another great run Silph 🙌🙌 the struggle bus tactic in the beginning when necessary is always so f’n respectable my dude ! Your still goat’d per usual !
It's not because it has low HP, it's because it sees a kill with multiple moves, so it picks randomly between those multiple moves. If you have a pokemon that has low HP but 4x resists a move to the point where it doesn't kill, you can still predict it will choose a move that will.
I actually used Dustox, which I named Felicia, in my first ever nuzlocke - Pokemon Emerald - and it was surprisingly very clutch! It even saved me the Elite 4 and Champion!
I decided to look up someone doing this challenge because I had personally just finished it, but your rules are tighter and your attention to detail is absolutely stellar. You've earned my sub.
34:46 the reason the Metagross used psychic is because it saw that psychic (and its other moves) all killed Tentacruel, so it randomly chose between them. Fantastic video, by the way! Super fun to watch!
Another amazing video! Entertaining all the way through 💜 it might be a bit tough to set up, (maybe gen 4 for piplup?) but I’d love to see a Steel-Type run!
Awesome work Silph, love your videos, it's a good day when a Silph video is uploaded. Maybe try X or Y with fairy types only, might be a cool idea since it was the introductory geberation for that typing!
My man! Back with another awesome video! 👏🏻 commentary is great and new and fresh compared to others, smooth editing. Congrats on your rise to a major content creator brother
I felt so sure he would turn an undesirable natured Seviper into a special attacker since his Seviper happened to be timid nature. Also, surprised he didn't mention that naturally Seviper has a 100 base stat in both attack and special attack so that should've eventually worked in his favor. (Don't forget, Roselia learns giga drain by level up & dark is special in this generation). With all his prior Nuzlocke experience I presumed making a timid Seviper as good as possible was a no-brainer on an all poison team & silently might be a blessing in disguise. Personally my ideal 4 moves would've been> 1. Sunny day [obtained TM]; 2. Giga drain [obtained TM]; 3. Flamethrower [bought TM]; and 4. Crunch [level up] Metagross would've been toast with that move lineup! In my honestly opinion, putting earthquake on a minus attack nature probably costed him more in the long run unfortunately!
Fun fact: At 32:42 when Glacia sends out all of her water types against Roselia it makes sense based on how the logic of this game works. The AI prefers to send out Pokemon that have a super effective move against you, but that are also weak to your type. Since Water is weak to Grass, and Ice isn't, even though Glalie is the technically better matchup, the AI logic prefers Sealeo and Walrein for some reason.
Always enjoy the content. In general, that crobat switch seemed unnecessarily risky… tentacruel had served its purpose in the run. In any event, hindsight is 20/20 and I’m sure I would have made many mistakes before that moment haha. I’m sure you’ve seen the comments about Emerald AI and it’s a heartbreaking loss. Excited for the next one
What an awesome run! I really thought you had it when you got to Steven but he’s the ultimate challenge in that game against poison types unfortunately.
14:43 It can be done with a Gloom/Gulpin/Golbat, but you need insane luck and you'll probably have one death at least. The strat is to lead with Gloom, land the sleep powder on magnemite, then switch to Golbat. Supersonic then spam bite and hope for flinches. You'll want a cheri berry on everything of course. Voltorb is pretty easy, just switch back to gloom and land the sleep powder, finish it with acid and absorb. If you play things just right, you can get Wattson to waste a super potion before Magneton which is the run killer. Switch back to Gloom, put it to sleep then switch to golbat, get off confusion then switch to gulpin. Get off one amnesia then start spamming yawn. Once magneton is awake and drowsy, you start setting up rollout. You'll need all 5 to hit for the KO, if you miss even one, you'll need all 5 to hit again because Wattson will use a super potion. Gulpin will also need a lot of ATK and HP EVs.
Random (and overly long) Question: Is there no such thing as a Calculator or Program or Witchraft-Tool; Science or Magic; that allows for QUICK and EASY research on-the-go about EV-Training? I mean, do i have to memorize Masses and Masses of Data about how Everything reacts to Everything?! There must be an easier way, yes?
Hey Silph, an idea for another challenge could be a bottom evolution run. Not necessarily a nuzlocke because that may be near impossible in some games, but using only bottom evolutions limits you stat wise and not type wise. This uses more strategy instead of luck for your team. You could still have the rules of the level cap, one of each species, and if you black out you lose. I love that you are playing the older games, this is the kind of content I miss on youtube.
Pro tip for standard nuzlocke runs. There are actually three locations for catches in Dewford. If you go all the way to the right of dewford town you can fish in a different route. Route 107 I think.
Hah, now I understand why Sapphire instead of Emerald despite it having both likely Koffing and Seviper. Emerald's Tate&Liza would have absolutely wiped the floor with you lol Although I'm not sure if it was worth Champion Steven
Great run! I've been wanting to record a Poison only run on Emerald and beating 2 geodudes and a nosepass seems nearly impossible! Seeing how the rest of the run plays out in your game, though, I might get back to it!
Wow, 7 attempts with 6 restarts. I love people who put so much effort in making their vids unlike people who bend rules to make the challenge "less time consuming."
Nice job! I could never try using poison types. Tentacool against the shroomish was risky because Acid only lowers the defense, it can't poison the target
Sooo close man. It was a very good attempt at that. I was thinking that crunch might have done more than earthquake against the Metagross since it's special defense is the weaker defense.
There is an easy way to take down Norman's Slakings with only Dustox, the only thing you have to keep in mind is that for this to work you need to catch a Wurmple instead of a Cascoon because it's the only way to have access to both poison sting (Wurmple learns it) and protect (Dustox learns it at lvl 17) so that way you can defeat Norman without having that much trouble.
Random (and overly long) Question: Is there no such thing as a Calculator or Program or Witchraft-Tool; Science or Magic; that allows for QUICK and EASY research on-the-go about EV-Training? I mean, do i have to memorize Masses and Masses of Data about how Everything reacts to Everything?! There must be an easier way, yes? Just something that asks of me the work to memorize what Stat my Pokemon 'need' to grow in, and then i enter this simple Stuff into something. I mean, i dont wanna look up all the Pokemon And create a Custom-List for any Route i enter: Someone must have made something like this for his own re-usability, or not?? Like: "I have 3 Magikarps. I want them to become the Fastest Magikarp and have them break the Sound-Barrier. But i also have 3 Charmander. And I'm on Route-4. So what Pokemon should i defeat here and with who??" Get what i mean? Sorry for the long comment. ...I'm no speech-maker, after all...
Great video! Sad to see it go down like that! I, personally, think a switch up in the formula and just a straight up randomizer would be a dope idea on the fly! If you do it, name a Pokémon swaggy 👀
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luv ur content dude
What if you can only use pokemon who are under retwmated like poochyheana wurple and pokemon like that nuzlock no need for hard core rules
Silph I have a video idea for you: Beating Pokemon FRLG or Emerald but you can only learn one move. (I found a rom hack that does this so that you can only have one move.)
Question: if you were a dragon type gym leader / champion act would that be your team
@@genesis_animates9926 well nega garchomp goodra dragalge haxorus my fan made pokemon withs i hope can be real 1 day and has the same origin as mewtwo but was supposed to be a sort of fusion of groudon eternatus and the latis a shin godzilla based poison dragon mon called shinagon orfinaly noyvern as my ace and kingdra for coverege agians ice types
Fun fact: Steven's Metagross used Psychic instead of Earthquake, because both attacks secured the kill on Tentacruel, so the AI randomly chose between attacks, since they both have 100% accuracy (if he had a less accurate move, he would have used Earthquake)
I thought it would pick Psychic cuz stab. The more u know I guess...
@@qorv4973 STAB doesn't matter there, since if Tentacruel was on full HP, Metagross would still go for Earthquake, because Tentacruel has much lower Defense than Special defense, and Metagross's attack is higher than it's special attack, so Earthquake would do more, despite both earthquake and psychic being super effective, and psychic having STAB.
@@b0il3ra90 I really havent studied the AI of the games, just know a few of the gen 1 quirks like status moves used randomly if they are the right type. Like withdraw against a fire type. So I think its cool to learn that AI chooses randomly if it sees a kill on both rather than showing a preference for STAB or output.
The more you learn
@@puppieslovies my mom disowned me
@@atefhassan3588 bro...
Silph: “This might be our first deathless run”
Some random suicidal Koffing: *N O*
😂😂
SIKE!
Who else did the koffing voice in there head😂
Cool trainer Jennifer: "Surprise motherf**ker
Koffing's revenge for not being a part of the team
2:31
Silph: cascoon only knows harden
Everyone: *sigh* it's that time of the day again. Struggle strategy...
Yesir
@@genesis_animates9926 Question:
Seen my comment?
@@slevinchannel7589 no I haven’t what did you rite?
@@genesis_animates9926 I said:
Random (and overly long) Question:
Is there no such thing as a Calculator
or Program or Witchraft-Tool;
Science or Magic;
that allows for QUICK and EASY
research on-the-go about EV-Training?
I mean, do i have to memorize Masses and Masses
of Data about how Everything reacts to Everything?!
There must be an easier way, yes?
Just something that asks of me the work
to memorize what Stat my Pokemon 'need' to grow in,
and then i enter this simple Stuff into something.
I mean, i dont wanna look up all the Pokemon
And create a Custom-List for any Route i enter:
Someone must have made something like this
for his own re-usability, or not??
Like: "I have 3 Magikarps. I want them to become the
Fastest Magikarp and have them break the Sound-Barrier.
But i also have 3 Charmander.
And I'm on Route-4. So what Pokemon should i defeat here
and with who??"
Get what i mean? Sorry for the long comment.
...I'm no speech-maker, after all...
Ah yes, this reminds of the time that I did a Mono Wally team in Sapphire. Beating up Team Aqua's Poochyena with my Struggling Ralts. \o/
Jennifer is notorious as one of the toughest trainers in the game for the time you face her, including gym leaders. Having a random Milotic is insane.
I almost had to reset during my sapphire nuzlocke but I lost my sableye and my seviper and I thought my torkoal would survive a hit so I could chip but it died :
I almost lost to her lol. 5 out of my team died. And the worst part is I didn't challenge Winona yet
There is also a guy on route 119 with a Breloom who regularly gives me issues. Ive already learned my lessons and know to avoid the Breloom, Milotic, and all Explosion encounters
i recently replayed sapphire and accidentally ran into her and regret it. that milotic was brutal, and it doesnt help that it was raining in that route
Good thing she doesn’t have it in Emerald.
Poison has some of the coolest designs in my opinion
I can relate
Except koffing line
@@MSSenpai03 nah I love them it’s super unique
@@MSSenpai03 yeah they're ugly
Along with electric
“Babe wake up, Silph uploaded again”
Should’ve taught Seviper Flamethrower via TM. A Charcoal boosted Flamethrower likely would’ve taken Metagross out, especially since you were Timid, making Eathquake weaker, and Metagross’ Sp Def is lower than its Defense.
or you know... actually using confuse ray or setting up light screen or something
i... did not know that
Timid... makes Earthquake weaker?
@@jennytalia6724 light screen doesn’t help against earthquake and meteor mash, just a turn wasted
@@socialistrepublicofvietnam1500 timid nature, +Speed and -Attack
"Let me win and if I cannot may I be brave in the attempt" awesome Silph.. all avenues explored and an awesome set of attempts. Keep these up my friend.
Question: Why not try a nuzlocke where every pokemon is weak to a certain type? For example, have a run where every pokemon has to be at least x2 times weak to rock, so all pokemon have to be either Fire, Flying, Bug or Ice, and you cannot use double-typings with Steel, Fight or Ground
That’s a good idea but I think I’m some cases (or maybe all) by removing the double typing it may restrict the pool of eligible Pokémon too much
@@claytongallaugher5171 i doubt it, say theoretically you wanted to do one where every pokemon was weak to rock in pokemon sapphire you would have access to torchic (before evolution) both wurmple line, swellow, pelipper, masquerain, shedinja/ninjask, gyarados, crobat, altaria, tropius, ninetales, xatu, glalie, and walrein, salamence too if you aren't banning it
@@laurainc that's just a strictly easier version than this challenge tho, as almost all these pokémon have the same weakness anyway, also once you beat that specific type's gym the challenge is basically over
@@rajkanishu i disagree, as plenty of pokemon have rock type moves, and since all your pokemon are weak to that you have no proper pivots or ways to play around it, plus, going into wattson with a party of mostly flying types will be super difficult,, though i do feel like rock is a fairly easy version of this challenge and you could instead do something where everything is weak to water or grass or flying, which are much more common types. and, even if it is easier, its a different kind of challenge where your pivots are rare and your team diversity is totally crippled, despite having a larger amount of viable picks, which also makes team building important again unlike in monotypes where you are, for the most part, just stuck with what you get
@@rajkanishu I wouldn't say it's neccessarily easier, as if you do a monotype, then you usually have a dual type line available which covers at least one weakness, allowing you to play around that to beat potential counters. Whereas if you take strict weakness to a specific type, then you will never have a neutral switch. It will be hard to compare to monotypes, as the available pool for pokemon and strategies vary wildly based on type and game.
“He wipes nagini off the map” I just pictured metagross photoshopped over Neville longbottoms face killing a nagini with seviper’s face lol
Metagross:- Ruining people's journeys since 2003 😂😂
Seviper can learn flamethrower since mawevile.
@@Ando1428 And it still would've taken 2 hits, which metagross could've taken. Also had the full restore around, too.
Our among us pattern recognition is slowing destroying our species.
To be fair, I have no idea what the tile is supposed to be showing. I assume it’s a painting or a photo, but of what? It doesn’t even look like anything lol
@@PtylerBeats Pretty sus.
@@PtylerBeats I think it's meant to be a cherry tree and another type of tree with clouds around it. Or maybe a tree and a mountain? The white line makes this really weird to figure out.
It's okay, because the little space man is funny.
I don’t mean for this to sound narcissistic, but it’s very cool to see one of these videos end in defeat, yet hopeful. The idea that this Pokémon trainer mastered the Hoenn Region with a specialization in poison types and has to admit defeat to Steven is really cool world building. Awesome work, Silph!
Using only Poison makes the old games a fun challenge imo.
Koga confirmed greatest trainer?
@@joeychopra7839 I would say so when he doesn't have to use dragon pseudo-legendaries to get promoted.
They’re really fun in battle definitely but they get busted by Psychic types and Ground types wreck them.
Saw the title and knew this was going to be a difficult challenge just from the first gym. The fact you made it all the way to Steven is impressive enough.
The nerdy excitement that filled me when I saw this on my feed can’t be properly described.
17:16 I think you forgot that crunch is special in this game and that makes the defense on your Pokémon not mattter with crunch. Rosalia had better spdef
Random (and overly long) Question:
Is there no such thing as a Calculator
or Program or Witchraft-Tool;
Science or Magic;
that allows for QUICK and EASY
research on-the-go about EV-Training?
I mean, do i have to memorize Masses and Masses
of Data about how Everything reacts to Everything?!
There must be an easier way, yes?
Just something that asks of me the work
to memorize what Stat my Pokemon 'need' to grow in,
and then i enter this simple Stuff into something.
I mean, i dont wanna look up all the Pokemon
And create a Custom-List for any Route i enter:
Someone must have made something like this
for his own re-usability, or not??
Your dedication to the craft is admirable, this was a brutal challenge.
When can we expect another true power tournament? Those were amazing!
Having played Emerald, Sapphire looks weird, like something I know but tilted slightly to the side
That’s how I feel about Diamond and Pearl too
Im so glad they made poison good against fairy. It needed some love.
I remember that milotic trainer 😂 I always tried to avoid her and come back later for the exp.
"I assert my dominance over a machoke thats 4x my size" I died 😅
Random (and overly long) Question:
Is there no such thing as a Calculator
or Program or Witchraft-Tool;
Science or Magic;
that allows for QUICK and EASY
research on-the-go about EV-Training?
I mean, do i have to memorize Masses and Masses
of Data about how Everything reacts to Everything?!
There must be an easier way, yes?
Just something that asks of me the work
to memorize what Stat my Pokemon 'need' to grow in,
and then i enter this simple Stuff into something.
I mean, i dont wanna look up all the Pokemon
And create a Custom-List for any Route i enter:
Someone must have made something like this
for his own re-usability, or not??
Like: "I have 3 Magikarps. I want them to become the
Fastest Magikarp and have them break the Sound-Barrier.
But i also have 3 Charmander.
And I'm on Route-4. So what Pokemon should i defeat here
and with who??"
Get what i mean? Sorry for the long comment.
...I'm no speech-maker, after all...
Fun fact: if this was Emerald, Tate and Liza would be impossible to beat
Yup
How? I'm serious I don't know my Pokemon games very well
@@pop4843 It adds a Psychic/Flying Xatu, and a Psychic/Ground Claydol, IIRC.
@@loganchilds9750 ahhh I see. thank you
Maybe for you. I’m just built different.
Honestly, I find that 'struggle' early on with Cascoon pointless. Just get a Wrumple and evolve it on wild encounters. If it's not a Cascoon, ditch it an catch another. But instead you waste a lot of time (especially on multiple attempts) with a Cascoon that can't attack. There is frankly no reason for this at all.
One could say that Wrumple isn't a poison type, but neither is Casoon. The rules are arbitrary anyway, so something that lets the challenge actually start instead of taking weeks for no reason is welcomed.
This doesn't make the challenge any harder, just more time consuming. After all, the challenge only really starts with Dustox.
I hard agree, especially due to the fact he struggle grinded to ev train. However, dustox would've had another attacking move when it evolved that wasn't confusion, but tbh that's negligible too. I don't quite understand why he went through it 7 times when after the first it was pointless and a waste of time.
He can only catch the first eligible pokemon on each route.
Wurmple evolves randomly since you can’t see or influence it. If it turned into Silcoon, he’d have restart again until he got the right one.
@@Crimsonnavyking So? Cascoon isn't poison type either. The challenge only starts when he gets Dustox. It would take much less time.
@@armaggedon390 meaning he’d have to start over again since it’s a fail if it turns into silcoon. It’s a toss up between rolling NRG by catching a wurmple or grinding after getting a cascoon. You don’t just “catch another” in nuzlockes. You start over from the beginning since he technically caught a Pokémon that broke the rules. You also can’t catch multiples of the same line or Pokémon from the same area.
Please keep these vids coming. I love your hardcore nuzlockes and your commentary is fantastic.
Ayoooo. That's a digimon!
One my of my fav digimon! Pog
Big Homey Silph back wit another banger o a nuzlocke
I'm definitely going to enjoy your channel more now since I'm aware that not every upload is a guarantee success. Well done!
I'm probably a bit late, but if you had kept Protect on Dustox for Norman, his Slakings would've been so easy lol. I'm really loving these videos though! I should probably do a mono type nuzlocke soon too...
Silph: This might be our first deathless run. Koffing: hold my will
Great run Silph, gotta admire the dedication with that gym 1 grind and very unlucky with some battles. That 1st sharpeado battle had me nervous 😰, but a great run overall and good to see posion types get some love. Keep up the great work and hope to catch a stream this weekend.
Hey Brendan, thanks so much! It was definitely a crazy run; I thought it was impossible after trying with Roxanne but I think we at least proved that this run *could* be done if Metagross can be managed more effectively. Unfortunately I'm traveling to visit family this week so no streams until next weekend. Can't wait to continue our Normal-only run though, I'm remaining hopeful haha
Solid run mate, a fun watch. Tough loss, but if there is a Pokémon to lose to, there is no shame to go down to Metacross..
You son of a gun, I’m litteraly doing my first nuzlocke and it’s a poison only run. I’ve been recording it and hope to upload it soon, good thing it’s on Soul Silver
I wish beedrill was stronger tbh, one of my all time favorites its so cool
*Mega evo intensifies*
I think it's cute that the zigzagoon is named Locksmith
1:20 Hoenn predicted *amogus*
In generation three, if an opponent sees a kill if you are at a low enough HP, it will likely do a random attacking move. Since your tentacruel was at 30 HP, I believe it was low enough for a random move. Loved the video!!!
Another great run Silph 🙌🙌 the struggle bus tactic in the beginning when necessary is always so f’n respectable my dude ! Your still goat’d per usual !
Always a great way to end a week with a Silph Nuzlocke
If the AI sees that the pokémon is at a low HP, it choses a random move to attack, that's why it used psychic. Bad luck i suppose.
It's not because it has low HP, it's because it sees a kill with multiple moves, so it picks randomly between those multiple moves. If you have a pokemon that has low HP but 4x resists a move to the point where it doesn't kill, you can still predict it will choose a move that will.
Best part of waking up on Sundays. I like before the video even starts because I know imma love the video. Thanks silph!
This can be the most *poisonous* run I have seen....
At least I was able to Swalot in action
That was bad you could have used toxic and it would work better
The amount of work you put into your videos is insane!! Keep up the good work!
Ay thanks so much Samurai, I do my best!
Darth Bane always said that the dark side was like venom.
I always love your sense of humour through these. Well done as always! I swear these coming out is the best part of that day now.
An idea I had was a normal Pokémon run but you can’t evolve whatever you catch?
Love seeing the early bugs in the endgame
Maxie's pooch is definitely high af in the Mr. Chimney battle, no rarer candy than cocaine!
Bug and Grass both resist Ground so Earthquake was only supereffective against 3 of your team :)
I actually used Dustox, which I named Felicia, in my first ever nuzlocke - Pokemon Emerald - and it was surprisingly very clutch! It even saved me the Elite 4 and Champion!
I missed the tournament series, but this series is just as good to watch.
I decided to look up someone doing this challenge because I had personally just finished it, but your rules are tighter and your attention to detail is absolutely stellar. You've earned my sub.
Video idea: only use grass types in a hardcore heart gold run
Oh, maaaan, SO many close moments during this run! I was watching from the edge of my seat with this one!
34:46 the reason the Metagross used psychic is because it saw that psychic (and its other moves) all killed Tentacruel, so it randomly chose between them. Fantastic video, by the way! Super fun to watch!
Another amazing video! Entertaining all the way through 💜 it might be a bit tough to set up, (maybe gen 4 for piplup?) but I’d love to see a Steel-Type run!
Crunch is special in generation 3.
"She has a name. It's Jennifer."
Of course it is.
Awesome work Silph, love your videos, it's a good day when a Silph video is uploaded. Maybe try X or Y with fairy types only, might be a cool idea since it was the introductory geberation for that typing!
29:48
Okay that was mad sus silph lol
I am pretty sure seviper has access to flamethrower which could have helped you beat Metagross
My man! Back with another awesome video! 👏🏻 commentary is great and new and fresh compared to others, smooth editing.
Congrats on your rise to a major content creator brother
I've been waiting for the poison type mono run! Poison is my favorite type and Venomoth my favorite Pokemon
I felt so sure he would turn an undesirable natured Seviper into a special attacker since his Seviper happened to be timid nature. Also, surprised he didn't mention that naturally Seviper has a 100 base stat in both attack and special attack so that should've eventually worked in his favor. (Don't forget, Roselia learns giga drain by level up & dark is special in this generation). With all his prior Nuzlocke experience I presumed making a timid Seviper as good as possible was a no-brainer on an all poison team & silently might be a blessing in disguise. Personally my ideal 4 moves would've been> 1. Sunny day [obtained TM]; 2. Giga drain [obtained TM]; 3. Flamethrower [bought TM]; and 4. Crunch [level up]
Metagross would've been toast with that move lineup! In my honestly opinion, putting earthquake on a minus attack nature probably costed him more in the long run unfortunately!
Fun fact: At 32:42 when Glacia sends out all of her water types against Roselia it makes sense based on how the logic of this game works. The AI prefers to send out Pokemon that have a super effective move against you, but that are also weak to your type. Since Water is weak to Grass, and Ice isn't, even though Glalie is the technically better matchup, the AI logic prefers Sealeo and Walrein for some reason.
17:15 Crunch is special this gen.
Always enjoy the content. In general, that crobat switch seemed unnecessarily risky… tentacruel had served its purpose in the run. In any event, hindsight is 20/20 and I’m sure I would have made many mistakes before that moment haha. I’m sure you’ve seen the comments about Emerald AI and it’s a heartbreaking loss. Excited for the next one
What an awesome run! I really thought you had it when you got to Steven but he’s the ultimate challenge in that game against poison types unfortunately.
The struggle at the start made me like the video. Great content my man.
I am predicting, tentacruel/crobat will be the MVP
Wow the struggle leveling at the beginning must have been the worst. Way to stay dedicated as always though.
14:43 It can be done with a Gloom/Gulpin/Golbat, but you need insane luck and you'll probably have one death at least. The strat is to lead with Gloom, land the sleep powder on magnemite, then switch to Golbat. Supersonic then spam bite and hope for flinches. You'll want a cheri berry on everything of course. Voltorb is pretty easy, just switch back to gloom and land the sleep powder, finish it with acid and absorb. If you play things just right, you can get Wattson to waste a super potion before Magneton which is the run killer. Switch back to Gloom, put it to sleep then switch to golbat, get off confusion then switch to gulpin. Get off one amnesia then start spamming yawn. Once magneton is awake and drowsy, you start setting up rollout. You'll need all 5 to hit for the KO, if you miss even one, you'll need all 5 to hit again because Wattson will use a super potion. Gulpin will also need a lot of ATK and HP EVs.
"7.8 too much tears."
-Silph
The Star Wars references are strong in this one
Random Machoke trying to do it's job: exists
Silph: So anyways, I started asserting dominance
The among us picture, “I am… inevitable”😂
Random (and overly long) Question:
Is there no such thing as a Calculator
or Program or Witchraft-Tool;
Science or Magic;
that allows for QUICK and EASY
research on-the-go about EV-Training?
I mean, do i have to memorize Masses and Masses
of Data about how Everything reacts to Everything?!
There must be an easier way, yes?
Hey Silph, an idea for another challenge could be a bottom evolution run. Not necessarily a nuzlocke because that may be near impossible in some games, but using only bottom evolutions limits you stat wise and not type wise. This uses more strategy instead of luck for your team. You could still have the rules of the level cap, one of each species, and if you black out you lose. I love that you are playing the older games, this is the kind of content I miss on youtube.
Pro tip for standard nuzlocke runs. There are actually three locations for catches in Dewford. If you go all the way to the right of dewford town you can fish in a different route. Route 107 I think.
Wow great video I love it here’s an idea Pokémon ultra sun using only grass type Pokémon
And it is a hardcore nuzlocke
Ooooh I was hoping for Mothra to survive the run :( Still a great Run!
Mad props. Did a mono poison HV Nuzlocke of gen 1 myself to test how OP yhose psychic types were lol
17:44 crunch is special in this Gen, which is why Roselia took it pretty well! Great run!
Yooo vivid. Love your vids
Hah, now I understand why Sapphire instead of Emerald despite it having both likely Koffing and Seviper. Emerald's Tate&Liza would have absolutely wiped the floor with you lol
Although I'm not sure if it was worth Champion Steven
Man I love these videos! The format you have is consistent but every video feels like a unique journey. KEEP IT UP!
Great run! I've been wanting to record a Poison only run on Emerald and beating 2 geodudes and a nosepass seems nearly impossible! Seeing how the rest of the run plays out in your game, though, I might get back to it!
My goodness why didn't you just catch a wurmple for Mothra! The pain is real!
Because he can't guarantee an immediate Dustox...
Wow, 7 attempts with 6 restarts. I love people who put so much effort in making their vids unlike people who bend rules to make the challenge "less time consuming."
I think if you had yawned the metagross and then swapped into roselia and used leech seed, the battle had a higher chance of being won i think!!
Silph: Our first deathless run!?
Self-destruct: You naive fool.
I just wanted to say I LOVE your commentary, always has me at the edge of my seat x3
Dude I just started the vid and the Star Wars among us joke had me f*cking crying my eyes out.... Love it
Nice job! I could never try using poison types. Tentacool against the shroomish was risky because Acid only lowers the defense, it can't poison the target
Poison types are my personal favorite. They have an insane amount of potential and are pretty bulky in some instances. Great video Silph
Only Silph can put in so much work with the moth lol
Sooo close man. It was a very good attempt at that. I was thinking that crunch might have done more than earthquake against the Metagross since it's special defense is the weaker defense.
Man i was just about to do this challenge on Alpha Saphire, was literally planning out my game. lol
There is an easy way to take down Norman's Slakings with only Dustox, the only thing you have to keep in mind is that for this to work you need to catch a Wurmple instead of a Cascoon because it's the only way to have access to both poison sting (Wurmple learns it) and protect (Dustox learns it at lvl 17) so that way you can defeat Norman without having that much trouble.
That Archie fight made me feel actual fear and I’m not even playing hahah
Random (and overly long) Question:
Is there no such thing as a Calculator
or Program or Witchraft-Tool;
Science or Magic;
that allows for QUICK and EASY
research on-the-go about EV-Training?
I mean, do i have to memorize Masses and Masses
of Data about how Everything reacts to Everything?!
There must be an easier way, yes?
Just something that asks of me the work
to memorize what Stat my Pokemon 'need' to grow in,
and then i enter this simple Stuff into something.
I mean, i dont wanna look up all the Pokemon
And create a Custom-List for any Route i enter:
Someone must have made something like this
for his own re-usability, or not??
Like: "I have 3 Magikarps. I want them to become the
Fastest Magikarp and have them break the Sound-Barrier.
But i also have 3 Charmander.
And I'm on Route-4. So what Pokemon should i defeat here
and with who??"
Get what i mean? Sorry for the long comment.
...I'm no speech-maker, after all...
"Was the sea made from tears of Pokémon?"
"No, by the tears of Silph through 7 attempts on Roxanne."
Great video! Sad to see it go down like that! I, personally, think a switch up in the formula and just a straight up randomizer would be a dope idea on the fly!
If you do it, name a Pokémon swaggy 👀