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a suggestion to make your gen 5 runs more tougher is challenge mode. I think it's a really good idea since it also increases the level cap by quite a bit.
Yea I can see that. I like it personally (it's a good challenge) but for people just trying to play the game normally and possibly quickly I can see how it can get irritating.
While a Pokemon is registered into the Hall of Fame, custom backgrounds appear depending on it's typing. That is so neat, another reason to love the Gen 5 games
PokeWalker, GBA Insertions, Dream Radar and DreamWorld should all be accesible Bc it doesn't involve trading with another game and it's a fun experience using new and different Pokémon
I totally agree, I saw a gen 5 steel-type run recently using a Bronzor from dream radar. It’s awesome to see runs using Pokémon that you don’t normally get access to and if it makes the run possible, that’s all the more reason to do it!
@@bongchoof Uh, a joke? The dude almost lost a mon on almost every gym battle. It might seem like a 'joke' because he's just actually REALLY good at nuzlocking. It wouldn't even have been possible without a yache berry, and as 'proficient' as I am playing since RBY knowing competitive mechanics doing a bunch of hardcore nuzlockes of my own I DEFINITELY would've lost at least five attempts. Actually scratch that, I would've NEVER gotten the Yache berry so I wouldn't have ever beat this probably. Dragon types are strong, he had some strong options, he also had to play really well to make sure he saved them until the end.
To add to that Zweilous sweep's amazingness; because it got Mummy from Cofagrigus, its ability Hustle was also cancelled out. The attack boost was already set up, so the loss of the Hustle boost was manageable, but the accuracy drop was also lost! So if you didn't get Mummy'd, you may have had to deal with Crunch missing at some point and losing Zweilous. But Mummy was used to your advantage! TWICE! Accidental brilliance is best brilliance
@@azzydreamurr5677 Well, considering Marshall specializes in Fighting types and Iris' Pokémon would each one-hit Zweilous, AND there's no way to get rid of Hustle the way he could with Mummy, it's no surprise Zweilous wouldn't see much use lol
Yea. Personally I am a completionist and a very slow player cuz I like to do everything. But for players who just want to play the game it can get irritating. Though It does give you free items!
This video reminded me how much I think Serperior should be a dual grass/dragon type. Not just because it's my favourite starter line of all time, it genuinely fits.
@@nerddwarf I don't think it makes a huge difference if it's just Serperior that's a dragon type, and not the previous evolutions, and either way the grass type is horrible in gen 5, so it would balance it more.
@@luitjenapol2815 Dragons were always late game until the apple in Sword&Shit Dragons were always meant to directly counter the starters (and Pikachu) This got less serious with time, but this is the SOLE reason Charizard and Gyarados are not dragons. In Generation 5 there was 5 families with Dragon-typing that were not legendaries or Pseudo-legendaries (I'm in the belief that all mythicals are legandary, but not all legendaries are mythical) There were 11* in Gen 7 Kingdra Flygon Altaria Druddigon Haxorus Dragalge Tyrantrum Noivern Turtonator Drampa *Naganadel And 4 more in Sword&Shit Apple Vish Zolt Duraludon
@@nerddwarf I'm not sure what you're trying to say, but the dragon/grass typing isn't even very good. It has 6 weaknesses, including a quad weakness to ice, and fire still hits it for normal damage. It does have 3 quad resistances, in water, grass and electric, but grass already resisted those types before, so it doesn't make a huge difference. It's still not good against fire types, just not as bad, and most pokemon could have a move that hits it for super effective. It's not like you have to use serperior against fire types, you could just catch some other water type.
@Lazy Marine ( B O O 🎃) not only that, but they are very rare in most games, and they tend to need a lot of XP to level up, which can make runs without grinding very problematic
33:15- the funny thing is, u can go for dig b/c of levitate. That'll allow u to go for dig , and even on earthquake, flygon won't be affected by earthquake
Sawk: You cannot oneshot me for I have Sturdy! Haxorus: huh? Y'all hear sumthin? Something about a Strong Day? Luckily You've mistaken me for someone who Cares!
That's what I thought too, though it's kinda strange that a Pokemon can still remain airborne while underground, possibly a mechanical oversight from the developers?
When I got Black 2, I played the game normally until I reach the pokestar studio. After that, all I did was play the various pokestar movies. The game became "pokestar: the game" for me. After I finished those, I stopped playing the game altogether. I don't even remember if I enjoyed them.
I liked pokestar studios a lot in terms of how much post game content it provided. Like many other features of B2W2, it was a great part of the experience for me. That being said, being forced to save and participate was what I didn't like about it. I know that it's a part of roxie's story and I appreciate them going in depth with her dad, but at the same time we could have also just watched the production instead of making one ourselves. Very minor criticism, but overall I liked it outside of not being able to do nuzlockes or challenge runs without a dedicated save file to it, which was much more inconvenient back when other resources were not as accessible. My vote is that it's good though. Great vid!
This was one of the more unique nuzlocke challenges I've watched. Skyla's fight was insane, and the utilization of Join Avenue was genius - I never paid it any mind.
I love Pokéstar Studios. It has so many unique gimmicks, and some nice cameos in Gym Leaders (AKA mainly Sabrina) and the nice art for the movies were amazing. I remember playing that all the time, I even got all endings on all movies so that is a fun, yet useless achievement.
Was just wondering, can anyone post where you can find these 'fan made dreamworld servers' he mentioned in the video are, never got the chance to use it back in the day and I'm curious
If you're comfortable with being able to extract your save to the PC, there's a tool called BW_tool that can inject the mons to the save file. As far as I can tell there's no fan made servers.
Yeah, also wish he linked to it in the video description or something, would love to try these fan made servers out! if anyone else has recommendations (besides frago-roc, thank you!) that'd be great!
As someone who's made films and has worked in the industry, I was pleasantly surprised at how good Pokestar Studios was of a translation of the filmmaking process using Pokemon mechanics. Especially how bad RNG simulates all the bad takes during a scene. For a normal/completionist playthrough, I think it's fun. For a nuzlocke, it's a little annoying but the fact that making at least 1 movie gives you free lemonades makes it not too bad in my opinion.
I believe if a Pokemon has the Flying Type or Levitate and uses Dig, Earthquake will still not harm it. Unless the opponent has Mold Breaker (for Levitate) which Krookidile does not.
PokeStar Studios was just silly fun that I was all for. Though I have to imagine that missed attacks due to inaccuracy was... reminiscent of screw-ups in actual recordings in real life. Also testing what lines work right. It was fun and I genuinely did every part of it with my own team to get the fancy entrance for them.
From my memory, honestly I absolutely fell in love with Pokéstar Studios For someone who didn't and still barely knows about things like Hollywood and celebrities, it genuinely felt like my own story/adventure rather than the main one we all participate in 💕 The same feeling is with the contests in DPP and ORAS, especially ORAS 👀 Granted, I haven't played Pokémon BW2 in about a decade, with my thoughts being very foggy 😆
I loved pokestar studios. I did so many of the movies as a kid, and really enjoyed it as a side game. I don’t think it should be mandatory to continue the game, but it’s inclusion is something else that made Unova/Gen 5 special for me, like the contests did in previous games. I’ve always been a fan of side quests and minigames, and the studio made the world seem more lived in. It was so funny that you could ruin a movie with a terrible one liner (I never did bc I felt bad about it, but it’s still funny). But yeah, definitely should not have been required to progress.
I remember spending hours completing every movie. Some of them where harder than the game itself. I remember one movie requires you to get a freeze. Meaning nine out of ten times you auto fail
@@kylesmith9573 I don’t remember that one specifically but yes, I remember doing two or three of the movies to the third sequel, then again with my own Pokémon
These challenges are fun to watch. Definitely makes me want to consider trying one. Maybe I'll poke around with it when those remakes launch. Dragons made for an interesting challenge. All the more so just lasting until you could assemble an actual team.
I think pokéstar studios is kinda fun, I've definitely spent a lot of time on it. The intro isn't even that long, like I highly doubt people really are genuinely THAT bothered about having to use one force palm for a side quest.
Honestly, I feel like myself and most everyone else dislikes the forced tutorial of Pokéstar Studios with the studio itself being either neutral or fun for people (it's the latter for me, having my Emboar flex it's star status while wrecking everyone is such a power trip :D)
Dragon hc nuzlockes are always so interesting to watch because it's so difficult to protect these weak early stage dragons until they can evolve and absolutely demolish everything
Frustration is such a wierd move since it's only viable during the first few levels after a pokemon is caught. It honestly falls into the constrict level of uselessness
You can use bitter healing items to reduce friendship to 0 and make it more effective, but it's legit easier to maintain friendship then deal with the hassle of keeping it low. So yeah Return just invalidates it.
Love that Flygon is in your top 3 fav...and that it made the thumbnail. Its my #1 fav all-time, which is why its Shiny version is inked the length of my left forearm
The first time I played W2 I wasn't a fan of PokeStar Studios, but going back to it and really exploring how much you can do with it I found it really fun.
At 25:55 it reminded me that when you beat the game and return there, the couple has split up. I read somewhere that the first letter of the names of the NPC's of the mission the guy gives you make an acronym which spells out JILT which means to break up, sad.
PokerStar Studios is one of the best mini games in a mainline Pokémon game (Imo). You're literally a movie star! Your character speaks, shows emotions, the first true instance of character customization since they wear a variety of different and unique outfits, it's not a braindead or strictly luck based feature, MULTIPLE EDDINGS FOR EACH MOVE INCLUDING SECRET ENDINGS, you can use any Pokémon and after they become movie stars they get special animations that have a similar feel as a shiny sparkle which makes the time put in feel tangible, the backgrounds are insanely detailed (Idk why they didn't give us backgrounds like this for the standard gameplay but im not complaining), the stories are fun and interesting, and it's just charming overall. I could go on but I think I made my point haha Also dope video as always Silph👌🏽
Should take a look at Kalos for a Dragon run. Trading in a lvl 5 Dragon from another game as your starter would be fine imo. Just like with other games you can always box it once the first mon of the run is caught which will be before the 2nd gym. Kalos also has a good variety of Dragons spread throughout it and 2 gyms that are counters to the type.
Fun fact! The blackglasses dude in the desert telling you you're the second person to talk to him out there is referencing the first games, where the same guy is in the same spot and does exactly the same thing, blackglasses and all, telling Hilda/Hilbert that they're the first person to talk to him. The more you know!
Honestly, Frustration is a really terrible move. All you need to do to make a Pokemon like you is walk a lot in the lower friendship levels. And it's actively really difficult to make it lose friendship. (The best way I know off the top of my head is constantly lose battles to pokemon that are way stronger then you, but that's not a lot of friendship being taken off AND is not possible in a Nuzlocke)
In Gen 3 Flygon Is immune to earthquake while underground during dig because of the levitate ability, idk if it works that way in other generations but worth checking out!
Pokestar studios can actually be super helpful early game if you have the patience for it, bc you get mid-late game healing items from your 'fans'. If you complete all of the available movies successfully once before moving on, you'll have usually about 80 moomoo milks and 150 lemonades.
Frustration is kinda weird in my opinion because pokemon all start at 70 friendship so at base it has 74 base power, which isnt bad but it means the only way to use it to it's full potential is to use buneary who has a base 0 friendship or to feed it bitter herbs till it hates you
PokeStar Studios is actually a really neat idea which I do not hate. But on the other hand, I never went through with it beyond the initial battle that is mandatory, so... yeah I don't love it that much either. Great video as always Silph! Makes me want to play BW2 again, haha.
OH MY GOD YOU GOT TO USE ZWEILOUS!!! Zweilous is one of my favourite pokemon, but Heidreigon is one of my least favourite. SO COOL to see someone end up using a middle evolution!
33:15 you could have used Dig with Flygon, because earthquake wouldn't hit it, because its ability is levitate. And if a flying type or Levitate Pokemon is underground, earthquake will not affect it, unless: - Earthquake user has Moldbreaker or similar ability - the effect of the Move Gravity is still in active - the levitate ability / flying type was negated - your dig Pokemon is holding the Item Iron Ball
I legitimately thought you were teasing before the Skyla gym and were going to pull a "Just Kidding, you get Dragon dance Fraxure before this fight making this fight much easier." I'm just used to having an electric type special attacker making that gym easier.
Im watching your True Power series that you uploaded and they are sooo good!!! I can't believe how underrated they are man we really appreciate all the hard work you've put into your channel. Hope you're well, Silph! :)
Pokestar studios was one of my favourite parts of white 2. It was easier for kid me to get into than the pokemon world tournament and I am nostalgic for it and plan on playing it all when I get a new white 2 after my cart bit the dust from playing over 400 hours.
I’ll be honest, I never hated Pokestar studios and had a bit of fun every time it showed up even if I inevitably forgot I could come back and do it more.
I've been watching your videos since a few days and I LOVE IT. I always put them while I'm cooking or cleaning the house (your videos are my new "cleaning the house" music, perhaps?) lot of support from Argentina!
IT'S TIME! The most highly requested type of all time, but the hardest to do a viable hardcore nuzlocke for logistically... but I found a way. Hope you guys enjoy this one! Don't forget to hit that Subscribe button - we're on the journey to 150k!
a suggestion to make your gen 5 runs more tougher is challenge mode. I think it's a really good idea since it also increases the level cap by quite a bit.
So glad you're including Legends this time!
a suggestion please do a fire type only run of pokemon pearl it would be pretty difficult
You should try and do a Fairy type hardcore nuzlocke
I don't hate it , i play on emulator and can't get past it
I feel I'd like the PokerStars studios more if I wasn't forced to do it
Me too
I think it's cringe no matter what.
Yea I can see that. I like it personally (it's a good challenge) but for people just trying to play the game normally and possibly quickly I can see how it can get irritating.
This!
Frankly i loved it, once i unlocked it i completed every movie before proceding with the main story.
While a Pokemon is registered into the Hall of Fame, custom backgrounds appear depending on it's typing. That is so neat, another reason to love the Gen 5 games
Yeah, i really like it!
PokeWalker, GBA Insertions, Dream Radar and DreamWorld should all be accesible Bc it doesn't involve trading with another game and it's a fun experience using new and different Pokémon
I think that if it allows a run to be done, yeah. But all the add ons can be tricky to aquire.
I totally agree, I saw a gen 5 steel-type run recently using a Bronzor from dream radar. It’s awesome to see runs using Pokémon that you don’t normally get access to and if it makes the run possible, that’s all the more reason to do it!
It can also end up making runs very easy which isn't particularly exciting to watch. I knew this run was going to be a joke and it was.
lmao robert its a youtube video, take a chill pill
@@bongchoof Uh, a joke? The dude almost lost a mon on almost every gym battle. It might seem like a 'joke' because he's just actually REALLY good at nuzlocking. It wouldn't even have been possible without a yache berry, and as 'proficient' as I am playing since RBY knowing competitive mechanics doing a bunch of hardcore nuzlockes of my own I DEFINITELY would've lost at least five attempts. Actually scratch that, I would've NEVER gotten the Yache berry so I wouldn't have ever beat this probably. Dragon types are strong, he had some strong options, he also had to play really well to make sure he saved them until the end.
To add to that Zweilous sweep's amazingness; because it got Mummy from Cofagrigus, its ability Hustle was also cancelled out. The attack boost was already set up, so the loss of the Hustle boost was manageable, but the accuracy drop was also lost! So if you didn't get Mummy'd, you may have had to deal with Crunch missing at some point and losing Zweilous. But Mummy was used to your advantage! TWICE! Accidental brilliance is best brilliance
Tbf zweilous was kind of useless during the champion battle and the final fighting elite 4 member.
@@azzydreamurr5677 Well, considering Marshall specializes in Fighting types and Iris' Pokémon would each one-hit Zweilous, AND there's no way to get rid of Hustle the way he could with Mummy, it's no surprise Zweilous wouldn't see much use lol
@@potitishogun2961997 yeah
the only way he could have use it is as a sack.
"Named my snivy "Mayweather" because hes gonna be boxed."
I paused the video just to take time and stop my laughter from the unexpected pun.
33:14 "I can't go for dig because it has earthquake." Actually you can, Flygon's levitate makes it immune to earthquake even while underground lol.
Thats so crazy, thats the kinda stuff you'd see in that one pokemon online game thatd make noobs salty
I’d like Pokestar Studios a lot more if there wasn’t a mandatory detour. That hurts replay value a bit.
Yea. Personally I am a completionist and a very slow player cuz I like to do everything. But for players who just want to play the game it can get irritating. Though It does give you free items!
This video reminded me how much I think Serperior should be a dual grass/dragon type. Not just because it's my favourite starter line of all time, it genuinely fits.
Well, it is a Grass/Dragon in some hack roms, such as Volt White and Blaze Black, which r kinda cool actually.
Dragons resist all 3 starter types (and electric)
It messes with the casual balance
@@nerddwarf I don't think it makes a huge difference if it's just Serperior that's a dragon type, and not the previous evolutions, and either way the grass type is horrible in gen 5, so it would balance it more.
@@luitjenapol2815
Dragons were always late game until the apple in Sword&Shit
Dragons were always meant to directly counter the starters (and Pikachu)
This got less serious with time, but this is the SOLE reason Charizard and Gyarados are not dragons.
In Generation 5 there was 5 families with Dragon-typing that were not legendaries or Pseudo-legendaries (I'm in the belief that all mythicals are legandary, but not all legendaries are mythical)
There were 11* in Gen 7
Kingdra
Flygon
Altaria
Druddigon
Haxorus
Dragalge
Tyrantrum
Noivern
Turtonator
Drampa
*Naganadel
And 4 more in Sword&Shit
Apple
Vish
Zolt
Duraludon
@@nerddwarf I'm not sure what you're trying to say, but the dragon/grass typing isn't even very good. It has 6 weaknesses, including a quad weakness to ice, and fire still hits it for normal damage. It does have 3 quad resistances, in water, grass and electric, but grass already resisted those types before, so it doesn't make a huge difference. It's still not good against fire types, just not as bad, and most pokemon could have a move that hits it for super effective. It's not like you have to use serperior against fire types, you could just catch some other water type.
I didn't think Dragon was a possible run within the rules except for maybe SWSH and USUM, can't wait to see how you did this
I tried in ultra sun it was a massive slog and I had to restart with a bunch of time but somehow I just barley won
@Lazy Marine ( B O O 🎃) no the bad thing is that at the beginning of the game there are literally no dragon types outside of 3 of the games.
@Lazy Marine ( B O O 🎃) not only that, but they are very rare in most games, and they tend to need a lot of XP to level up, which can make runs without grinding very problematic
Kalos is definetely possible
Pokemon x and y it is possible u just have a to beat the first gym first and then u get 3 seperate encounters
33:15- the funny thing is, u can go for dig b/c of levitate. That'll allow u to go for dig , and even on earthquake, flygon won't be affected by earthquake
Haxorus one shotting Sawk because Mold breaker doesn't care about Sturdy was SICK!
Was gonna ask how that was possible. Good catch!
"Pathetic" he said with a look of superiority
I’ll add Teravolt ability from Black Kyurem.. same ability with mold breaker 😉👍
Sawk: You cannot oneshot me for I have Sturdy!
Haxorus: huh? Y'all hear sumthin? Something about a Strong Day? Luckily You've mistaken me for someone who Cares!
Lanayru had the Levitate ability, so even underground Earthquake wouldn't have hit.
That's what I thought too, though it's kinda strange that a Pokemon can still remain airborne while underground, possibly a mechanical oversight from the developers?
Another great vid Silph. Lakitutu avoiding the Weezing explosion was clutch.
What a funny game design choice that there's pokemon that evolve at a higher level than that region's champion's team.
That's one of the problems with Gen 5, a lot of Pokémon have high evolutionary LVs xD
When I got Black 2, I played the game normally until I reach the pokestar studio. After that, all I did was play the various pokestar movies. The game became "pokestar: the game" for me. After I finished those, I stopped playing the game altogether. I don't even remember if I enjoyed them.
Missed a fantastic game
Same! I only took it back up when I found out that you unlock new movies after beating the league lol
i've played this game from 5 weeks ago and i've only reached the desert because i was too busy doing pokestar movies, so my bias is obvious
33:15 you can go for dig because Flygon has levitate. even if you're digging, earthquake can't hit because you have levitate
I liked pokestar studios a lot in terms of how much post game content it provided. Like many other features of B2W2, it was a great part of the experience for me. That being said, being forced to save and participate was what I didn't like about it. I know that it's a part of roxie's story and I appreciate them going in depth with her dad, but at the same time we could have also just watched the production instead of making one ourselves. Very minor criticism, but overall I liked it outside of not being able to do nuzlockes or challenge runs without a dedicated save file to it, which was much more inconvenient back when other resources were not as accessible. My vote is that it's good though. Great vid!
This was one of the more unique nuzlocke challenges I've watched. Skyla's fight was insane, and the utilization of Join Avenue was genius - I never paid it any mind.
I actually really like PokeStar studios. I felt like it was an interesting side gimmick, and a nice take on this gen's version of contests.
“Since I just caught it I’m assuming it just kinda hates us which is perfect!”
I love Pokéstar Studios. It has so many unique gimmicks, and some nice cameos in Gym Leaders (AKA mainly Sabrina) and the nice art for the movies were amazing.
I remember playing that all the time, I even got all endings on all movies so that is a fun, yet useless achievement.
Was just wondering, can anyone post where you can find these 'fan made dreamworld servers' he mentioned in the video are, never got the chance to use it back in the day and I'm curious
Seriously where the HELL did he find this???
I'd also love to know. Huge gen 5 fan
If you're comfortable with being able to extract your save to the PC, there's a tool called BW_tool that can inject the mons to the save file. As far as I can tell there's no fan made servers.
@@fragoRoc6 then where did this guy say he got it from???
Yeah, also wish he linked to it in the video description or something, would love to try these fan made servers out!
if anyone else has recommendations (besides frago-roc, thank you!) that'd be great!
The strategy for beating all the ice trainers was genius! And just shows how much you know and love the games. Great video!!
As someone who's made films and has worked in the industry, I was pleasantly surprised at how good Pokestar Studios was of a translation of the filmmaking process using Pokemon mechanics. Especially how bad RNG simulates all the bad takes during a scene. For a normal/completionist playthrough, I think it's fun. For a nuzlocke, it's a little annoying but the fact that making at least 1 movie gives you free lemonades makes it not too bad in my opinion.
I believe if a Pokemon has the Flying Type or Levitate and uses Dig, Earthquake will still not harm it. Unless the opponent has Mold Breaker (for Levitate) which Krookidile does not.
Pokestar was a fun thing to do when I felt like it, I think it being forced at first is what turned a lot of people sour on it
PokeStar Studios was just silly fun that I was all for. Though I have to imagine that missed attacks due to inaccuracy was... reminiscent of screw-ups in actual recordings in real life. Also testing what lines work right. It was fun and I genuinely did every part of it with my own team to get the fancy entrance for them.
Silph must love rock music, first pink Floyd nickname last week, and now a guns and roses nickname for axew 😆
From my memory, honestly I absolutely fell in love with Pokéstar Studios
For someone who didn't and still barely knows about things like Hollywood and celebrities, it genuinely felt like my own story/adventure rather than the main one we all participate in 💕
The same feeling is with the contests in DPP and ORAS, especially ORAS 👀
Granted, I haven't played Pokémon BW2 in about a decade, with my thoughts being very foggy 😆
you should have done the chad move and transferred in a lv5 giratina from dream radar.
The chad move would be having the giratina egg from the hgss event.
i think the actual fair chad move would be somehow managing to have a kingdra, since horsea is available in BW2 but kingdra is a trade only pokemon.
I like the addition of pokestar studios. At least you’re only forced into doing it once. which makes sense since it’s a new feature.
I’d rather not be forced into anything new. It makes the side content more likable.
I loved pokestar studios. I did so many of the movies as a kid, and really enjoyed it as a side game. I don’t think it should be mandatory to continue the game, but it’s inclusion is something else that made Unova/Gen 5 special for me, like the contests did in previous games. I’ve always been a fan of side quests and minigames, and the studio made the world seem more lived in. It was so funny that you could ruin a movie with a terrible one liner (I never did bc I felt bad about it, but it’s still funny). But yeah, definitely should not have been required to progress.
I remember spending hours completing every movie. Some of them where harder than the game itself. I remember one movie requires you to get a freeze. Meaning nine out of ten times you auto fail
@@kylesmith9573 I don’t remember that one specifically but yes, I remember doing two or three of the movies to the third sequel, then again with my own Pokémon
33:13 Wait, but you CAN Dig, because your Flygon has Levitate. Weird, if you think about it, but it works!
Once again, deathless until the champion, and more close calls throughout. Good work. 14/4, my man. Just unbelievable.
33:14 You can go for Dig, you have levitate
Always here for the nuzlocke challenges, they are so exciting and entertaining
These challenges are fun to watch. Definitely makes me want to consider trying one. Maybe I'll poke around with it when those remakes launch.
Dragons made for an interesting challenge. All the more so just lasting until you could assemble an actual team.
I think pokéstar studios is kinda fun, I've definitely spent a lot of time on it. The intro isn't even that long, like I highly doubt people really are genuinely THAT bothered about having to use one force palm for a side quest.
For some reason, I’m extremely bothered😂
Honestly, I feel like myself and most everyone else dislikes the forced tutorial of Pokéstar Studios with the studio itself being either neutral or fun for people (it's the latter for me, having my Emboar flex it's star status while wrecking everyone is such a power trip :D)
PokerStars studios was ok but the part where you're required to go and walk through all of it is my least favorite part of the whole game
Using Mummy to cancel out Drifblim's Aftermath after triggering it from Shauntal's Cofagrigus was big brain
I found your channel a couple of weeks ago and I binged it. Today is the second Sunday I'm pleasantly surprised that you post regularly.
Dragon hc nuzlockes are always so interesting to watch because it's so difficult to protect these weak early stage dragons until they can evolve and absolutely demolish everything
Some of the baby Dragons are OP AF though, Dragon Rage is a broken move early game.
@@devilrider39000000dragon rage is huge until 3rd or 4th gym, from 3rd to 7th gym could be hard I think
Frustration is such a wierd move since it's only viable during the first few levels after a pokemon is caught. It honestly falls into the constrict level of uselessness
You can use bitter healing items to reduce friendship to 0 and make it more effective, but it's legit easier to maintain friendship then deal with the hassle of keeping it low. So yeah Return just invalidates it.
Love that Flygon is in your top 3 fav...and that it made the thumbnail. Its my #1 fav all-time, which is why its Shiny version is inked the length of my left forearm
Great run! Flygon is one of my favourites as well.
33:20 you could use dig because levitate still works
pokestar studios is fun i wish they didn't force you to do it the same with tournament
The first time I played W2 I wasn't a fan of PokeStar Studios, but going back to it and really exploring how much you can do with it I found it really fun.
Pokestar studios is the one reason why this game isn't as well liked as emerald or platinum, it makes repeated plays of the game much slower.
Exactly. Such a drag
Does this game have the same exp system as black 1 and white 1?
@@aaronbold8715 yes
@@bradenhenderson8817 That’s the real reason these games aren’t as replayed as others.
@@aaronbold8715I agree, without the lucky egg, grinding is a major pain
I ... uh love that swablu since emerald 😂😂
Ever thought about running through this game on challenge mode? That would be insane.
The "COME HERE YOU LIL S**T" always gets me lmao
Funny thing : Lakitu's name looks like Lack-Two which is the name of the manga counterpart of Nate
I was thinking that too and I don't even like pokespecial haha, plus he's *playing* Black 2 to make it even better
At 25:55 it reminded me that when you beat the game and return there, the couple has split up. I read somewhere that the first letter of the names of the NPC's of the mission the guy gives you make an acronym which spells out JILT which means to break up, sad.
PokerStar Studios is one of the best mini games in a mainline Pokémon game (Imo). You're literally a movie star! Your character speaks, shows emotions, the first true instance of character customization since they wear a variety of different and unique outfits, it's not a braindead or strictly luck based feature, MULTIPLE EDDINGS FOR EACH MOVE INCLUDING SECRET ENDINGS, you can use any Pokémon and after they become movie stars they get special animations that have a similar feel as a shiny sparkle which makes the time put in feel tangible, the backgrounds are insanely detailed (Idk why they didn't give us backgrounds like this for the standard gameplay but im not complaining), the stories are fun and interesting, and it's just charming overall. I could go on but I think I made my point haha
Also dope video as always Silph👌🏽
“Awesome job kid” somehow made me feel happy
I love poke star studio. It's got interesting story lines and fun prop mons. I hope it wins
Should take a look at Kalos for a Dragon run. Trading in a lvl 5 Dragon from another game as your starter would be fine imo. Just like with other games you can always box it once the first mon of the run is caught which will be before the 2nd gym. Kalos also has a good variety of Dragons spread throughout it and 2 gyms that are counters to the type.
fun fact, eq doesnt hurt flygon when he digs since flygon has levitate
I love the pokestar studios, lol. Always do the first few movies at least.
“CMERE YOU LIL SH**!” I love it
Fun fact! The blackglasses dude in the desert telling you you're the second person to talk to him out there is referencing the first games, where the same guy is in the same spot and does exactly the same thing, blackglasses and all, telling Hilda/Hilbert that they're the first person to talk to him. The more you know!
Girl on drugs in nimbasa: “ROLLING AROUND AT THE SPEED OF SOUND… GOT PLACES TO GO.. GOTTA FOLLOW MY RAINBOW!!!!”
Honestly, Frustration is a really terrible move. All you need to do to make a Pokemon like you is walk a lot in the lower friendship levels. And it's actively really difficult to make it lose friendship. (The best way I know off the top of my head is constantly lose battles to pokemon that are way stronger then you, but that's not a lot of friendship being taken off AND is not possible in a Nuzlocke)
33:50 they always use yawn twice IN EVERY GAME and EVERY BATTLE, cause it only brings you to sleep in teh next round.
Pokestar studios can burn in the eternal flames.
Hearing Silph give some respect to my favorite Pokemon Vibrava gives me a little extra joy for today
In Gen 3 Flygon Is immune to earthquake while underground during dig because of the levitate ability, idk if it works that way in other generations but worth checking out!
OMG WHEN EXCADRILL MISSES THE ROCK SLIDE!
Pokestar studios can actually be super helpful early game if you have the patience for it, bc you get mid-late game healing items from your 'fans'. If you complete all of the available movies successfully once before moving on, you'll have usually about 80 moomoo milks and 150 lemonades.
I never had much of an issue with PokeStar, but it immediately forces you to go through it LOL
I'll always resent it! XD
Frustration is kinda weird in my opinion because pokemon all start at 70 friendship so at base it has 74 base power, which isnt bad but it means the only way to use it to it's full potential is to use buneary who has a base 0 friendship or to feed it bitter herbs till it hates you
17:20 metal claw can also miss lol
33:20
You have levitate so you won’t take damage
PokeStar Studios is actually a really neat idea which I do not hate.
But on the other hand, I never went through with it beyond the initial battle that is mandatory, so... yeah I don't love it that much either.
Great video as always Silph! Makes me want to play BW2 again, haha.
It's so cool how you used all the different mechanics Black2 had to offer. Man, I need to play this game for real. It looks really good
The PokeStar Studios are actually really fun when you unlock more and more movies, sequels etc. I used to spend hours there haha
“Mayweather cuz he’s gonna get boxed” fully anticipated him to dodge it
OH MY GOD YOU GOT TO USE ZWEILOUS!!! Zweilous is one of my favourite pokemon, but Heidreigon is one of my least favourite. SO COOL to see someone end up using a middle evolution!
I actually like the polestar theater as it's rather interesting And fun too
33:15 you could have used Dig with Flygon, because earthquake wouldn't hit it, because its ability is levitate. And if a flying type or Levitate Pokemon is underground, earthquake will not affect it, unless:
- Earthquake user has Moldbreaker or similar ability
- the effect of the Move Gravity is still in active
- the levitate ability / flying type was negated
- your dig Pokemon is holding the Item Iron Ball
Can you do ice types? I'm interested in seeing what the earliest ice type pokemon you can get is!
PokeStar studios is probably one of the two major reasons I replay this game, along with the World Tournament!
There are two opinions about PokeStar Studios.
1- Those who hate it
2- Those who are wrong
I'm really glad that you used my favorite Pokemon, Druddigon! I'm so glad it got some love
I legitimately thought you were teasing before the Skyla gym and were going to pull a "Just Kidding, you get Dragon dance Fraxure before this fight making this fight much easier." I'm just used to having an electric type special attacker making that gym easier.
0:07 you know the rules, And so do I
"Uh, dude... I think I may have kissed your grandmother."
Killed me.
That was way too close with the Skyla battle, but everyone survived.
I didnt like PokerStars studio when the games first released but upon returning to the games later u really enjoyed the extra content.
Does Levitate on Flygon get negated when underground with Dig to let you get hit by Earthquake?
I really appreciate the dream radar usage. Really clever and I respect it
Im watching your True Power series that you uploaded and they are sooo good!!! I can't believe how underrated they are man we really appreciate all the hard work you've put into your channel. Hope you're well, Silph! :)
Pokestar studios was one of my favourite parts of white 2. It was easier for kid me to get into than the pokemon world tournament and I am nostalgic for it and plan on playing it all when I get a new white 2 after my cart bit the dust from playing over 400 hours.
Dude should do a diamond/pearl hardcore nuzlock with only fire type pokemon
I’ll be honest, I never hated Pokestar studios and had a bit of fun every time it showed up even if I inevitably forgot I could come back and do it more.
I've been watching your videos since a few days and I LOVE IT. I always put them while I'm cooking or cleaning the house (your videos are my new "cleaning the house" music, perhaps?) lot of support from Argentina!
Pokestar studios can literally stretch me