Self Damaging Moves Only | Pokémon Trading Card Game Challenge (GBC)
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Yeah, this challenge is a rough one. I attempt to beat the Pokémon Trading Card Game on the Game Boy Color using ONLY moves that may or may not cause self damage. I must use one of every Pokémon that can do so. One trainer took TWENTY ONE attempts to complete, so...enjoy.
Challenge begins at 12:44 if you choose to skip the beginning. But why would you, you know?
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Love to see these challenges! I have a brutal idea for a challenge - 30 HP Pokémon only
I dunno, rattata and diglett are both really good. I bet it would be pretty straight forward
I thought of 30hp only. I might do it. Also only Pokémon under level 10
@@Paraspectre which is an absurd trial...good luck
The 21 attempts was fitting. It was your own self damaging move
I really almost rage quit there
This looks like a challenge that would actually work pretty well for Pokemon TCG 2... Seeing as how you have options for all the "only [blah] type pokemon/energy" challenges, and all.
I think Water still lacks recoil options in TCG2 (unless that one Kingler that takes double damage after attacking counts), but I'm not completely sure off the top of my head. I guess you could technically count Articuno because of the possible bench damage it causes with Blizzard?
I don’t think I’d be able to use every mon there. I haven’t looked though
I knew you were masochistic, but this is taking it to the next level
Being against Courtney was true masochism
I think it's becoming inevitable for you to do a "win by deck out only" challenge at this point. Though I think that Fossil Moltres and Imposter Professor Oak are the only cards you can use that actually directly contribute to that strategy.
I’ve definitely been asked to do this a lot. I guess it should happen sometime
Feels a little too easy, it would just be damage swap team which is basically meta at that point
@@Christian-rn1ur That might help Paraspectre accept just how good Chansey is, at least.
Jokes aside, framing it as a "no inflicting damage" run might still make it a challenge, at least against some opponents.
Your videos have improved so much over time! Awesome stuff.
Why thanks!
I skipped the beginning and just stared at the player name, like
"'OPEN'... 'HAMMER'?"
So we had the Oppenheimer run, what's the Barbie run like?
Haha I should. Pink mons only
Man, I feel like out of all of the challenges you've done for this game, this one really showcases some of the AI quirks, especially the one where the AI will constantly draw cards until they eventually deck themselves out. Some of those battles and victories were ridiculous lol. I'm not surprised you struggled so much with Courtney though. I feel like out of all of the Grand Masters, she probably has the best deck.
Makes it easier when they win the match for me 😎
The reason all of the fossil versions of the pokemon do enough damage to KO your pokemon even with a defender is because that was one of these strongest things to do with base set
Makes sense
Best challenge in the world hahah
Love you Paras 🍄🍄
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dude please make this challenges:
1.beating the game with any starting deck
2. use only moves that cause self confusion.
Love your videos bro.
Thanks! I have certainly thought of self confusion too, or even confusion only moves as a sister video to my poison one
I have seen this man wandering the streets of Cincinnati and he does always have an Into the AM shirt
😎
I think the issue with Courtney is, because of the stacked deck High-Level NPCs have, and because of that, her usually having several energies from Moltres, she ends up preying on decks that need set up. Combine that with Fire's high damage and nothing resisting it, and she ends up being able to stamp out slower decks.
I think in the future, if there's more than a handfull of mons, I would allow multiples of good ones, or maybe make yourself play a deck focused on one or two at a time, and rotate between them.
I never look forward to fighting Courtney. She’s just the worst
"She gets a Moltres, two Magmar, a Ninetails, and an Arcanine, how do think it went?!"
I think I hate Courtney even more than Matthew
I remember playing the TCG on the gameboy as a kid, and finding out my Magnemite could survive its own explosion with a defender. Felt amazing to learn. I loved making my Magnemite blow itself up twice in a row.
If I didn’t have so many Pokémon in the deck, I would’ve added more Defenders. Me and my rules though 🙄
28:13 made me double take because for a second I thought you meant the opponent literally surrendered the match. (Then I saw in the results he decked out)
Everquest music? In a Pokemon TCG Video? Interesting Choice Paraspectre. I had to go back and double check when I heard the PoK Music lol.
Whaaaaaaaaaat!?!?! I CANNOT WAIT TO WATCH THIS! Your vids are amazing to watch after I get home from work (I work night shift) because your voice has a soothing, Bob Ross like cadence to it 🙂👍 I also rewatch after I wake up to see what I missed 🤘😎🤘
Haha thank you ☺️ I’ll take the two views each time, even if I help you fall asleep the first time
@@Paraspectre haha it took about 6 total lol this seemed so brutal! Damaging only moves was a cool challenge idea
I love watching these challenges.
Nice challenge. Well done! Your vids are getting better. Could have used some light BGM in the background. If it's within your capabilities, looking at the AI in this game could be really interesting. A lot of the opponent decisions are questionable but would be interesting to see the code in action.
I do have background music but I felt like it was too quiet. I used headphones this time while editing and I don’t normally do that
This is gonna be fun. I can only imagine how some of the later fights will go, given that those Pokémon can actually deal adequate damage
Some of these kinda surprised me here. I think I underestimated Zapdos
@@Paraspectre I wasn’t around when Base-Fossil was competitive, but from doing a playthrough of TCG1, it’s a very good card.
Next challenge: Damaging moves that may "miss" (coin flip tails, no damage). Edit: 1 coin only
Yeah this sounds terrible. So I might do it
To make the deck more consistent you should probably allow multiple copies of Pokémon in the deck and if that makes the challenge too easy you could make it so that you only defeat a trainer through one proper win (all prizes taken) or 2-3 cheese wins (self-deckout or no active Pokémon left). This grants more insight if the victory was due to the deck strategy working or the AI just being stupid again
Loving the exploding sound effects and visuals
I tried thinking of memorable video game explosions haha
I’m gonna throw a hat into the ring again, promo Pokémon only! Make those Pokémon you never use, find a use!
I feel like I’d need to have a file where I start with all of them. Could be fun though
Heck yeah, I was hoping for this run! :3
When I recently replayed the game with the rule of beating every opponent exactly once from a fresh file (so no farming of packs), Courtney was my only loss in the whole playthrough. I got a pretty nice budget haymaker deck going with full playsets of Hitmonchan and Scyther, but I never opened any Super Energy Removals or Item Finders and then also made the mistake to bring a build that can't do much about Moltres full of energy flipping for attacks that 1-shot all my mons.
Your channel is a nice comfort to watch. Very fun content
Thank you 😊
What an ironic way for a self damaging run to end
Haha right?? How Ronald became the champion is pretty embarrassing
The challenge videos are still fun. Yeah it boils down to some opening draw luck, ai manipulation, bad luck at time, but your commentary helps bring it all together.
The name being OPNHMR is so good 😂
This challenge seems so brutal but you pulled it off! Happy to see this game come to the switch so I can play again
Idea: Coin flip only moves. Anything with "x damage times the number of heads" (like Stone Barrage) or "if tails this attack does nothing" (like Fly). Essentially any moves that rely on heads flips to do damage. To add a bit of strategy, coin flip status moves are allowed, but _only_ if they're non-damaging.
That sounds awful… and I may just do it
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god i love the line "I'm like the Shaq of the Pokemon Trading Card Game" so much
I had just watched Scott Cramer’s video on Shaq’s sponsorships before writing that ☺️
I'm imagining every single battle ending with that little plastic card table just exploding and leaving you and the club masters covered in cartoon soot as cards rain like confetti.
Whether the confetti is celebratory or ironic depends on if you win.
Then comes the 52 card pickup.
Here is a challenge for you, randomly generated deck recipes. Have a chatbot randomly select 6 basic pokemon cards, and then add evolutions where applicable. Add the appropriate energies, then generate your trainer cards.
If you lose to the club leader 3 times in a row, you can generate a new deck.
For added challenge, you have to generate a new deck between clubs, and when you go to the endgame boss rush.
If you play these on an emulator, I would recommend just starting with a cheat that gives you all the cards.
Ahh interesting… relying on AI to do the challenge for me. That could be something
Random challenge ideas.
A) Ditto challenge: not the card so probably a different name is needed. Start with a deck the game gives you and you can only use that deck, no changing it until you beat a gym leader. Then when you defeat one, any Pokemon you knock out must be added to your deck replacing any Pokemon you choose. Idea is that your deck is constantly changing and causing you to really modify.
B) Nuzlocke challenge: start with a deck from the game. You have access to all the cards in the game. When you lose to a gym leader only, the Pokemon they knock out in a duel you must remove from your deck and replace with any that you wish. The idea is to see if you can make it through with any Pokemon left.
It's really the Moltres being pretty much multiple energy search at once that carries Courtney's deck.
This was a great idea for a challenge and it was a blast to watch.
Thanks!
Babe drop everything there's a new Paraspectre video
Love to see a challenge video as always! I've recently started playing the pokemon tcg rom hack, neo recently and it's been really cool to play the same game with newer cards. Would you ever play a romhack?
I would absolutely check out a romhack if the time is right
I feel like Scoop up could have helped, as a healing option. Getting Chansey, Zapdos or Electabuzz refreshed means more hits. Also you could deny some KOs to opponents with that.
12:44 Predictions.
The hardest part of this challenge is actually the multiple types. Too many, in fact. Getting Energy screwed is what will gnaw away at your sanity. Having your moves restricted, or even the fact that they damage you won't be the hard part.
It really wasn’t THAT bad. I feel like I only struggled a few times to get lightning energies
Hey Paraspectre! I just wanted to tell you that I've been a fan of your channel for a little while but I really enjoy your TCG challenges! I think I've watched them all more than like a few times to be honest. Also did you know that Pokemon TCG is on the Switch now? I'm curious as to if you are going to utilize that for your challenges in any shape or form? I'm assuming no but it would be cool if you did a challenge on the Switch version.
Thank you! I actually don’t have NSO for the time being, but I’d love to maybe collaborate with someone for some online games sometime.
@@ParaspectreI can understand that but it would be pretty cool to see indeed and I'm sure that you could come up with some interesting challenges using the Switch version if you ever do get access to it.
Okay this was a very interesting challenge and you did great man, good job :)
Why thanks! ☺️
LETS GOO, LOVE THIS GAME
I wonder if a Nuzlocke kinda challenge would be possible where if your fully defeated in a battle you have to kill all of the cards you were using (so they could no longer be used)
I did attempt a nuzlocke idea once and it went horribly so I gave up. I think it can be done though
At first I scoffed at the one of each mon rule, but then I realized a deck with only 4 electabuzz could sweep the whole game pretty easy.
I really gotta stop watching this at bed time lol there's been at least 4 full watches from me so far. It's been an awesome viewing though! This looks like it's been a nightmare to attempt 🤣
I feel like Arcanine is gonna crush this challenge 100 HP 30 Dmg to self is WAY too good. + u can combo with Defender to only take 10 plus a reduced 20 dmg on w/e attack u take next turn. I can't tell u how many times I've swept with just his 80 DMG Take Down attack.
Let's see how paraspectre decides to play it. This should be interesting........... thx :)
Arcanine is pretty beastly
Congratulations on having the patience to defeat Courtney with that terrible team. She's the hardest trainer in the game IMHO.
This video features Oppenheimer vs. Ken. That is all.
(It's not actually all. Given how the Legendary Cards never really get to see play, it might be interesting to do a challenge around them specifically, though I guess you would have to cheat them in)
It is kinda funny that in the context of the game, your ultimate goal is to get the legendary cards. And then they end up being useless for my challenges because it’s over by that point.
To me it sounds like Courtney's deck is super powerful, sounds like you need to play it.
Something about that just feels… gross
I saw the title and thought "I did that a bunch of times! It's actually kinda fun!" until I remembered the deckbuilding rules for challenges on this channel - I'm not hardcore enough for that RNG fest😅 Personally, I prefer building functional decks around the premise of my challenges, so I really approve of Slowbro! It's the perfect fit for a regular build of a self-damage deck (say, an Arcanine Chansey deck like Fire Clubmaster one, but with Slowbro thrown in to heal them)
I just wanted to use one of each to keep things fresh with variety and make it more difficult
@@Paraspectre Oh yeah, for that, it makes total sense! I'm just the kinda guy who does his challenge runs in a way where regular party building still is possible, within the challenge rules. Like, I'd definitely spend the time to make a recoil only deck for every possible type just to pick apart the concept. But that's what made me like challenges at some point - the idea that you can tailor them to your own likes and still have, well, a challenge.
Really love these challenges, they seem like they give room for a lot of creativity compared to the "only using this one pokemon" runs. Which are still good themselves, don't get me wrong.
Thank you. As I said, pretty much any deck CAN win over time with trial and error, so I like coming up with themes rather than one Pokémon who will eventually win over time
@@Paraspectre You're welcome!
How about beating the Pokemon TCG by only decking out the opponent? Including Ronald!
I get asked this a lot. I guess I’ll have to do it sometime ☺️
Hah, love the Weezing explosion effect
I like this challenge pal
Here’s an idea, not sure if there’s enough Pokémon to make a deck with but - only use Pokémon attacks that make you discard your own energies.
I like it. I haven’t checked, but I feel like it would be mostly fire types. And Zapdos.
Hopefully you'll see this comment but I think for certain challenges that use certain cards you may as well just cheat in all the cards. Would save you a lot of time grinding for cards and you're only going to be using certain cards in the challenge anyway. So I wouldn't consider it cheating that gives you an unfair advantage in the challenge itself other than saving time.
Yeah I’ll probably eventually use a file that already has every card. Some ideas can only happen this way. I kinda like going through the process of obtaining them though, like with promo Jigglypuff here
39:40 Rod doesn't have Fire Energy in his deck. He's relying on Charmander's Scratch, Charmeleon's Slash, and Charizard's Energy Burn.
I… did not realize this. You’re absolutely correct. Explains why he never found any. But what it doesn’t explain is why the final grandmaster doesn’t even put fire energies in his deck. I know the idea is to use Charizard’s power but still… throw a few in there, my guy.
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My favorite deck in this game is the energy steal deck using like golduck and dragonair every attack drops their energy from their active pokemon so they never can attack
If you know when to click, you can hit heads almost every coin flip
These are without a doubt my favorite of your videos. What a treat for me to see them! Excellent video and thank you for the upload :D Do you think it would be worth doing an "Alphabetical cards" challenge?
Thank you! And what is the alphabetical challenge?
This game is available on the Nintendo Switch Gameboy app and all the Multiplayer features work online.
Yeah I haven’t even checked it out yet. I don’t have NSO at the moment
I wonder if some sort of nuzlocke challenge could work. Like one expansion pack per area and you just kind of have to build a deck from there, and if the card is defeated, it dies.
I did try a nuzlocke idea once and it was awful. The idea is there though
The "recoil moves only" stipulation seemed difficult enough already, but forcing yourself to use EXACTLY one copy if each Pokémon with a recoil move is borderline masochistic
Dog that's crazy I haven't heard of Into the AM since I was like 14. I think I bought a space hoodie and joggers from them and they looked good, ran a little amall though
Into the AM is awesome. I’d say that even if I wasn’t partnered with them. I’m glad they reached out to ME.
@@Paraspectre that's even cooler!
aka "SM Pokemon TCG run and I'm not talking about sun and moon"
Metallica - S&M (Sun and Moon)
I think if there's two different magnetons it would be fair to have two of the same magnemite in the deck
I don’t know why I didn’t consider this at the time, but yeah, you’re right. I was just set on only using one card each
@@Paraspectre haha just looking to punish yourself as much as possible no?
Ironic how this run also did self-damage to Paraspectre
I’ve never wanted to give up on a challenge before but Courtney almost made it happen
Nice
Perfect game nickname :D
Still haven’t seen the movie
Did I mention this once to you on Twitter? Side note: I didn’t get this recommended. I had to look you up :( hope you’ve been good!
I’ve noticed you never seem to press the select button to sort your hand or deck when searching the deck. It makes it so much easier to find and select the cards you need!
Yeah, I know this is a feature, it’s just never been anything I think about. My hand is rarely THAT full where I feel like it’s necessary.
@@Paraspectre glad you knew about it! I find the most use when using a card that searches my deck, seeing the deck in random order always short circuits my brain.
Hey my comment about chansey got featured! Love to see it ^__^
What decks y’all using to beat the 4 masters?
There is a ..... altered version of tcg2 out the called pokemon trading card Neo.... it uses the neo genisis series of cards
"Raichu has 80 HP"
Me mishearing it: "me too"
Haha I love this because I didn’t realize what you were saying until I said it out loud. And I was like ohhhh
I absolutely love these videos, but the "I win because they played kangaskan and I took advantage of the GB ai" gets old quick, you might want to consider adding a clause in these challenges to prevent that in the long run.
At the VERY least you need a single run through with a "I lose if they deck out" clause.
Still, just food for thought, I enjoyed this challenge a lot! 🎉
I mean… I’d rather not start over a match just because they play a Kangaskhan. I get what you’re saying though, because more often than not, it means an auto victory for me. But it’s not my fault that they don’t know how to use it 🤷🏻♂️
@@Paraspectre But you wouldn't have to reset if they play Kangaskan? Just knock it out!
But, hey it's your channel and your videos, so it's ultimately your choice. Just as someone who binged your challenges recently, wanted to give you my honest opinion. It's just well known you can sit on the AI being stupid, it's honestly so bad it feels like they went out of their way to coded it to think as if decking out isn't a factor or something.
Do you think you could beat all of the club masters with the only move you use being self-destruct without winning by deck out?
How about an all deck out run? You can use whoever you want but you can only win via decking out your opponent
This is actually my most requested challenge 😅 maybe some day
I was rewatching 3 challenges of you yesterday and just now see your new video... stupid yt
Haha well I’m glad you’re enjoying them at least. I wish they would be shown to people more often ☺️
Do a challenge where you win by making all your opponents deck out
Maybe!
I wonder where you came up with such a cool trainer name 🤔
2023 was a special year
Fossil evolution challenge
I asked your mom about the shirt and she said "Who are you?! What are you doing in my house?!" So I highly doubt you wear them that often
Hey, easy. People might read this and call me out…
Actually game codes states that the grand masters cheat they keep restarting their draw 7 cards until they get the hand they want and no they ignore the mulligan rule they shuffle and redraw NO MATTER WHAT so courtney isnt that good
In case misunderstood the mulligan is shown if they have no basic pokemon if they have a basic pokemon and don't like their hand they can shuffle the deck without the player knowing and redraw a new hand this includes moltres being only basic pokemon in hand only the grand masters get to do this
Para-shaq? Or Shaq-spectre?
you kinda look like Mike Shinoda
How about a run of Pkmn TCG2 using only Team Rocket "Dark" Pkmn and their basic forms(preferably ONLY the Team Rocket version of the basics), and only Team Rocket Trainer cards. Think about it... "Admin Paraspectre"
There are a ton of Dark Pokémon, so I’d have to pick and choose. Could be done though
You will probably need your full choice of pkmn seeing as the team rocket trainer cards are mostly so bad/inconsistent.
You shouldn't have put _every_ mon (Highlander style) with recoil. Should have limited it to a more viable set with multiples.
I thought this would make it more of a challenge with variety. I think using four Electabuzz and Zapdos and Raichu would’ve been too easy
Character name?
🧐
OPPENHEIMER
🤣
Can you beat the game with having every opponent deck themselves
I get asked this a lot. I feel like it would be boring, but maybe I’m wrong
The individual battles might get samey, but if you focus more on the strategy and what works and what don't I think you'll make it interesting. I'd watch it at least
How about a run where you can only use Coin flip "or this attack does nohing" attacks?
Sounds awful. But maybe…
An extension of this idea could be that you can use pkmn that puts that same limitation on your opponent like sandshrew's sand attack and Magmar/horsea's smokescreen. To go along with fossil moltres's divebomb, etc. Since we know you love your sandy boys, and your favorite legendary moltres
Nidoran male, Fossil Moltres, fossil Magmar, horsea, sandshrew, and I'll list more as I find them going through the cards right now
Cloyster (Clamp)
Farfetch'd (Leek slap)
Tey usin g the legendary cards only? Sounds easy? It really isnt
Wait... was the character named... OPPENHEIMER?
Haven’t even seen the movie
Please do a solo Dark primeape run/j, that sounds awful
I cant be first...right?
Also...this seems like its gonna be rough. Selfdestruct and Double Edge.
Do you pronounce it Arcanine or Arcanine?
Arc-a-nine. Or is it viz-zees 😵💫