Just about the "Why does this guy learn Watergun" question: In real life, most of these type of fossils we find on earth come from aquatic animals. Which is why the first-Gen fossils were mostly water type pokemon. Probably to avoid too much redundancy, they started using new type combinations ("Bug" makes sense as well, because all of these fossil creatures are also part of the arthropode phylum), but they still wanted to keep with its original theme of being inspired by these real-life animals. So, to me it makes sense. But then again... I'm a biology nerd and love taxonomy X-D
He is also modeled off of an ancient sea creature called anomalocaris so it kinda makes sense the ancient shrimp boi would get water gun. (Former dino nerd kid lol)
I was thinking something similar. Also, to add on your comment, the "rock type" that the fossil pokemon have is there because they're revived fossils, they weren't rock types back when they weren't extinct (if I remember correctly). So Anorith learning Water Gun could be because back in the day, it actually was Water/Bug
@@LiquidPear131 That's a theory that had never been official ^^' Another theory is that only rock types can survive fossilization enough to be revived.
Cradily is so much more effective running a stall set. Toxic, Sandstorm, Ingrain, Confuse Ray. Your battles may be slow with him but he become extremely difficult if not impossible to take down. Especially if he is holding either leftovers or bright powder
It's an awesome strategy, but I can't really pull it off in one of these runs. Stalling strategies almost never work out in favour of the person with less Pokemon in these runs
I've done this exact challenge before (except I think I allowed myself to use items), and I used Ingrain a lot, and also Leech Seed maybe? Yeah he's stuck in until he faints, but cradily can do a lot of damage this way still.
(Ricky) Morton and (Robert) Gibson of The Rock 'n' Roll Express - impressed they are still going strong as a tag team in their 60's and irony since Morton made it to the Elite 4 at level 60 with Gibson younger than Morton as well. 👏👏👏 Love the references you did here, MDB. Keep up the great work.
When it comes to grinding, if you want to do it and have the time to do it, more power to you. If you just want to play through the game or don't have a lot of time I think rare candies are fine as long as you aren't overlevelling unnecessarily (so try the gyms at the level cap, then if you lose give the mons a rare candy each and try again until you win). Grinding can get tedious and the only real advantage to it is EV training and potential random shiny. Even worse in nuzlockes because people tend to not pay attention while grinding and can lose a mon.
i agree especially with something like anorith at the start where it is very obvious that you have 0 chance before water gun and only from that point are you going to have a chance so why waste many hours grinding there (especially in emerald where it is ungodly slow) when its not like theres going to be much variation like some other runs where 1 or 2 more levels might make the difference
I think the grinding is especially impactful in early game because of the EV aspect. Even if I were to have unlimited rare candy from the start, not getting as many EV's would probably impact the run
@@MahDryBread You could also bring in vitamins to help with that and use them very sparingly along the way to replace the EVs you would have gotten from grinding, and you would only be allowed to give EVs you can get at that point in the game (So on the first route you could use a Carbos or two if there are wild mons that give Speed EVs, but if there are no pokemon that give Special Attack EVs then you can't give them a Calcium). Maybe have a limit of 1 vitamin per artificial grinding session in the early game and 2-3 in the late game.
@@VictiniTheGreat Ehh, I'd rather not. There's no way I'd be able to use just the right amount of vitamins to make it just right. I'd rather just grind
On our way through, I took the root fossil. I knew if I didn’t say what I took you’d all ask. Actually now that I think about it everyone ask anyway. Comments are good for the RUclips algorithm.
Technically you could get up to 5 Fossil Pokemon in Emerald. You could trade Aerodactyl, Kabuto, and Omanyte to Emerald from LeafGreen/FireRed. Also Armaldo is based off an ancient Sea Creature so makes sense can learn/use Water Moves(Technically).
@@syndere6755 True about the trades rule, but I still mentioned that technicality since he didn't in the video. Just in case someone else was actually interested in doing a more in depth playthrough using just Fossil Pokemon a d could trade. As for movesets they make sense to me what can be learned naturally. Though some TM/HM moves they can learn may be a little weird.
Ah, Armaldo. It's one of my favorite Hoenn Pokemon, ever since a few years back when in my first successful Emerald Nuzlocke, I lost my whole team in Victory Road except Armaldo so I gave him all my Rare Candies, and he actually swept the Elite Four and Champion, partly thanks to some incredible Ancientpower luck. Seriously, against Wallace I got the all-stats up three times.
honestly, I think it's fine to use rare candy cheats once you hit the elite four. in gen 2/ gen 3 it absolutely sucks to grind at that point, and you've already maxed out EVs/Stat experience by that point. I think adopting rare candy for faster incremental leveling would, if nothing else, be a serious quality of life improvement.
Armando and Cradily are incredibly underrated Pokemon. I think you'll definitely win. As for why Anorith learns water gun, Anorith is based on anomalocaris aka a prehistoric ancestor of modern arthropods that were apex predators in the oceans. Cradily not learning any grass moves by level up is probably because it's not really a plant. It's based on the sea lily which is actually a type of marine animal that acts kind of like a plant but unlike plants that feed through photosynthesis, these animals feed on plankton.
21:36 The AI in Emerald remembers Ancient Power as the last attacking Move you used against Skarmory and right after using this very same Ancient Power, the AI will also consider the possibility to switch into a different pokemon, that resists it(i.e.Claydol/Aggron/Metagross) as their next action. The repeated use of Ancient Power also helped the AI to commit to this suprise.
Damn! Your fossil gag killed me this time 😂 However, i have an idea for a future run for you. How about a Vulpix run in a gen of your choice? I know it can learn some interesting moves, so i'm interested how you handle my favourite pokemon
Tenta-fossil run apparently 😁. These come around mid-night for me and I always wait up to check them out right away. Great content is great, what can I say.
To be honest, I was really hoping Cradily would play a larger role as a stalling wall. But I guess the circumstances really just didn’t allow for it. If it wasn’t being smashed by super effective attacks, it was either under leveled or threatened by things like poison. How unfortunate. Regardless, fun run.
Pokemon type chart: Throw a giant lump of ice at a frozen pond- won't break through Try to hammer a sheet of metal- won't bend Throw a rock at another rock- goes straight through it
2:10 It might be a reference to Anorith's inspiration: the Anomalocaris. It was a sea creature and an absolute apex predator in the Cambrian sea at that.
Fun fact: Whilst a lot of people have been suggesting Armaldo is a shrimp, it is actually based on the much older (and now extinct) group of animals called the Radiodonta (or anomalocarididae). The name Radiodonta is actually a description of the animals' distinctive mouth shape, which they kept on the design of Anorith.
Only a SINGLE team Aqua member has a Water move in Emerald! One Aqua member has a Wailmer, the rest have Carvana/Sharpedo, which don't learn any water moves through level-up! In Pokémon sapphire, there's 0 aqua members do.
Armaldo can learn a few good water-type moves. As a kid, I theorized that maybe in ancient times it was water/bug, but fossilization caused the water typing to drop and be replaced by rock. 7th gen introducing Wimpod and Golisopod (water/bug types that look suspiciously like Anorith and Armaldo if given thousands of years of natural evolution) only cemented my idea further.
Things i have learned watching the outros to MDB's pokemon challenges; a series. Vol.1: MDB constantly is in need of either breakfast or lunch while doing voice recordings.
I can’t wait for the Gen5 run. Caracosta, archiops ( it’s really good at 50% or higher health, and usually you won’t be at low health with it, you mainly just Die).
Relicanth, being a living fossil, having survived whatever extinction event caused the death of the ancient Pokémon, would have been a great addition to the team and would have made sense for the challenge
I would honestly love to see a Tauros-only run in either basic RBY or Fire Red/Leaf Green - ever since I found out it can learn Blizzard, Thunder, and Surf, it's become such an interesting pokemon to me. I imagine it wouldn't be too difficult given its type coverage and all, but it could make for a fun run nevertheless!
Don't think he's done a Tauros run yet, so I think I can throw this in... Thunder/Blizzard/Surf is amazing in RBY, when its Special stat is actually pretty good (70, which isn't a powerhouse, but definitely enough to incorporate coverage). After the Special Split, Tauros's SpAtk becomes 40, so he probably can't rely on those in Fire Red or Leaf Green... but he's still a powerhouse, so the run would still be fun. (Except for Ghost-types, he'll have to rely on Rock Tomb or Iron Tail for those)
damn, haven't watched you since like i think almost 10k-ish subs a few days before your channel blew up ... kinda hope you stay in my recommended for a while!
I'm convinced the "tentacool" thing was secretly intentional to make sure people actually read/listened through the rules. Which, makes complete sense IMHO.
Ah, I wish this was gen 5, because Cradily with Storm Drain is the perfect response to any Water types. Still, the fact that Giga Drain from Cradily was the move that beat the champion means I can't be too upset.
Considering I have probably watched/listened to all of these challenges multiple times, I can’t believe I hadn’t liked this video. Love your content MDB!
I was more surprised to learn that Anorith wasn’t a water type, since it’s based on anomalacaris, an aquatic predator, but makes some sense, since it was an arthropod with some of the earliest compound eyes
Ive always loved Cradily but its main problem is that it struggles with dealing damage. Thats why i was so happy when the SwSh DLC added Meteor Beam to give Cradily an actual STAB attack while making it stronger offensively
I've been playing a rom hack called Pokemon Bidoof Version. It's Fire Red (with a few extra mons) but all the pokemon are bidoofs. Like Charizard is an orange Bidoof with Charizards wings. I think this would be good fun, especially seeing all the bidoof'd mons and your reactions to them as you play through. I think a vanilla playthrough would be best as you'll probably encounter more mons that way but a hard-core nuzlocke would be brilliant too :) thank you for all the work you do :)
I find it interesting that, in your Kanto and Johto runs, you’ll do the gyms in whatever order your able to do, come back to the harder ones at high levels, but i feel like I’ve never seen you skip over dewford.
It's interesting how they can both beat Roxanne fairly easy (bullet seed for lileep is probably easier), but then Anorith has an easier time vs Brawly while Lileep would have an easier time vs Watson. After that you'd each has the same resistances vs the rest of the gym leaders until the last one anyway.
Cradily is amazing. I used him in Emerald and Alpha Sapphire, what a fun and interesting pokemon. This sounds biased because it is one of my favorite pokemon. With some moves, he can be tough to defeat. I think both Armaldo and Cradily compliment each other nicely.
I didn't know you were in Southern Ontario as well! So many YT channels that I follow i am finding gare Canadian, glad your one of them! Your vids kept me sane when I was recovering from a skiing accident last year!
omg i cant believe he chose the claw fossil. IM frankly shocked, ashamed and completly confuseed. I'm lost and my life will never be the same AGAIN. Algorythm.
The Mid South Gym leader "Cornette" has an Eaton, Condry, and Lane... plus he can throw powder which has a 50% chance to blind you... also I appreciate Morton "selling" in order for Gibson to level up...
i know you typically do these for the challenge, but i feel you should also runs like this with all available Pokémon of the challenge type, in this case, emeralds 2 fossils AND shark in Omanyte, Kabutops and Aerodactyl. this would be a great way to just chill, not as hard at all but still fun to watch and less painful for YOU.
I've been watching for probably 2 years now. Great stuff and very enjoyable. One of my favorite pokemon is swinub. Pokemon gold/platinum with only swinub sounds hard but interesting
I rarely pick up on any mistakes but I do I seem them as 'fun easter eggs" now. I also appreciate that you are doing it all on your own, so you have more deep respect for the work you do.
The mistakes aren't that bad considering how many videos you manage. I tried making one of these myself and oh my god it took a lot longer than I thought it would. There's a lot of work that goes into one of these. I can't imagine how you made one a week for so long while also doing other daily uploads.
I think there is a theory that Rock type replaces one of the types of fossil Pokemon that they would have when they were originally around. So Anorith could have been a bug/water type and that's why it can learn water gun. I don't know if that theory holds up for all fossil pokemon.
The reason anorith learns water gun is due to it being based off of an extinct shrimp known as anomalocaris, which died out way before the dinosaurs and was one of the first apex predators
Been dying for this. Honestly I reaaaaaally want a fossil or ancient region for the next game. Imagine prehistoric pokemon and legend's you literally have to reanimate to save the world. Then they can have primal forms too.
Hey MDB I think I I have a really intresting idea for a new challenge,how about you try to beat a pokemon game only using a very strong pokemon like a mewtwo,but only by using one weak move like tackle or confusion?
I thought of a dumb challenge. Try something like "Can I Beat Pokemon [INSERT GAME HERE] with no TM moves?" What do I mean by No TM moves? If a Pokemon can learn a TM, then that move is unusable (HMs are allowed but only outside of battle). Additional rules can be set by you. I would love to see this idea as a video.
Honestly it would be really funny for next April fools for you to do a voice over for one of these challenges, but completely show the wrong footage the whole time and just not bring it up the whole time until the end.
hey, big fan of your challenges! I was wondering, do you ever consider using resto chesto sets on your runs where your Pokemon gets statused at the beginning of the battle? for example, Steven's lead Skarmory with Toxic or even the Koga battle? could be a nice one time thing to do in that battle if you have the move/item slot for it. just an idea to open up the possibilities for more strategic sets at lower levels instead of just brute forcing at high levels. could be interesting!
Look, is it even an MDB challenge video if I didn't make an editing mistake?
Nope
@CrackWither what tentacool?
Hey; Comments Correcting it are good for the RUclips algorithm.
The rules seem legit to me
I'm sorry if this sounds meann, but you could;ve gotten fury cutter for Armoldo from one of the peple in the pokemon center at Verdandurf town
Tentacool is now a serious contender for the nickname in your next Fossil Pokémon run 😄
yes!
Or Testacool
But it's a family show
Tentakool lol
@@owenbibbey9023is it though. I’d say its more pg-13 at-least in the older challenges.
“Only Tentacool in battle” reminds me of my lessons; I copy previous lessons and make changes, but occasionally forget to change things
Hahaha i just read this too hahahah well
Yup, that's exactly how it happens
Usually I remember to double check it, but sometimes I just don't
@@MahDryBread ha ha I see it accidentally showing people the behind the scenes of our work
@@MahDryBread easter eggs for the ones that pay attention
@@MahDryBread That is your fault for depending on a script to much need to just talk as you play.
Fun fact: this is the first time MDB beats Steven Stone since the Torkoal-only challenge, almost exactly one year ago.
Just about the "Why does this guy learn Watergun" question:
In real life, most of these type of fossils we find on earth come from aquatic animals. Which is why the first-Gen fossils were mostly water type pokemon. Probably to avoid too much redundancy, they started using new type combinations ("Bug" makes sense as well, because all of these fossil creatures are also part of the arthropode phylum), but they still wanted to keep with its original theme of being inspired by these real-life animals.
So, to me it makes sense. But then again... I'm a biology nerd and love taxonomy X-D
Very insightful, thanks!
He is also modeled off of an ancient sea creature called anomalocaris so it kinda makes sense the ancient shrimp boi would get water gun. (Former dino nerd kid lol)
I was thinking something similar. Also, to add on your comment, the "rock type" that the fossil pokemon have is there because they're revived fossils, they weren't rock types back when they weren't extinct (if I remember correctly). So Anorith learning Water Gun could be because back in the day, it actually was Water/Bug
@@LiquidPear131 That's a theory that had never been official ^^'
Another theory is that only rock types can survive fossilization enough to be revived.
Ok gnoggin
So ready for this run also I wonder what fossil MDB took
Nobody else is allowed to like this comment I just left the 69th! Anyone who wishes to like it after just comment the word like
he obviously took Tentacool, it says so right in the rules >_>
yes he did
I just started watching I hope he takes one of the fossils added in gen 5 like Tortuga because defeatist is bad
Cradily is so much more effective running a stall set. Toxic, Sandstorm, Ingrain, Confuse Ray. Your battles may be slow with him but he become extremely difficult if not impossible to take down. Especially if he is holding either leftovers or bright powder
leftovers is effectively a postgame item in RSE, unobtainable for story runs unless you trade.
Brightpowder not till post-game either
Also offensive cradily is better because 1 ap boost n u sweep fights
That being said lileep is awful to use
It's an awesome strategy, but I can't really pull it off in one of these runs. Stalling strategies almost never work out in favour of the person with less Pokemon in these runs
I've done this exact challenge before (except I think I allowed myself to use items), and I used Ingrain a lot, and also Leech Seed maybe? Yeah he's stuck in until he faints, but cradily can do a lot of damage this way still.
That might have worked perhaps on Wallace. But against a full Steel team, not so much.
(Ricky) Morton and (Robert) Gibson of The Rock 'n' Roll Express - impressed they are still going strong as a tag team in their 60's and irony since Morton made it to the Elite 4 at level 60 with Gibson younger than Morton as well. 👏👏👏 Love the references you did here, MDB. Keep up the great work.
Took me like half the episode to piece that together. What a throwback.
If there was a third fossil he could have named it Cornette
I’m upset their on there farewell tour 🥺
I got the name reference. The Rock & Roll Express. Who are still doing Indy shows
When it comes to grinding, if you want to do it and have the time to do it, more power to you. If you just want to play through the game or don't have a lot of time I think rare candies are fine as long as you aren't overlevelling unnecessarily (so try the gyms at the level cap, then if you lose give the mons a rare candy each and try again until you win). Grinding can get tedious and the only real advantage to it is EV training and potential random shiny. Even worse in nuzlockes because people tend to not pay attention while grinding and can lose a mon.
i agree especially with something like anorith at the start where it is very obvious that you have 0 chance before water gun and only from that point are you going to have a chance so why waste many hours grinding there (especially in emerald where it is ungodly slow) when its not like theres going to be much variation like some other runs where 1 or 2 more levels might make the difference
I think the grinding is especially impactful in early game because of the EV aspect. Even if I were to have unlimited rare candy from the start, not getting as many EV's would probably impact the run
@@MahDryBread You could also bring in vitamins to help with that and use them very sparingly along the way to replace the EVs you would have gotten from grinding, and you would only be allowed to give EVs you can get at that point in the game (So on the first route you could use a Carbos or two if there are wild mons that give Speed EVs, but if there are no pokemon that give Special Attack EVs then you can't give them a Calcium). Maybe have a limit of 1 vitamin per artificial grinding session in the early game and 2-3 in the late game.
@@VictiniTheGreat Ehh, I'd rather not. There's no way I'd be able to use just the right amount of vitamins to make it just right. I'd rather just grind
@@MahDryBread Fair enough, to each their own!
On our way through, I took the root fossil. I knew if I didn’t say what I took you’d all ask. Actually now that I think about it everyone ask anyway. Comments are good for the RUclips algorithm.
So right off the bat I used the Universal Pokémon Randomizer
@@brandonsoto7225 As always I'm writing this as I go and...
What fossil did he pick?
Technically you could get up to 5 Fossil Pokemon in Emerald. You could trade Aerodactyl, Kabuto, and Omanyte to Emerald from LeafGreen/FireRed.
Also Armaldo is based off an ancient Sea Creature so makes sense can learn/use Water Moves(Technically).
That involves trades though, which isn't allowed. Honestly, both movesets are just weird.
@@syndere6755 True about the trades rule, but I still mentioned that technicality since he didn't in the video. Just in case someone else was actually interested in doing a more in depth playthrough using just Fossil Pokemon a d could trade.
As for movesets they make sense to me what can be learned naturally. Though some TM/HM moves they can learn may be a little weird.
I like how often Steven Stone becomes "This is too hard/impossible cause I don't have status removal". PokeChallengeTube really is another world.
Ah, Armaldo. It's one of my favorite Hoenn Pokemon, ever since a few years back when in my first successful Emerald Nuzlocke, I lost my whole team in Victory Road except Armaldo so I gave him all my Rare Candies, and he actually swept the Elite Four and Champion, partly thanks to some incredible Ancientpower luck. Seriously, against Wallace I got the all-stats up three times.
honestly, I think it's fine to use rare candy cheats once you hit the elite four. in gen 2/ gen 3 it absolutely sucks to grind at that point, and you've already maxed out EVs/Stat experience by that point. I think adopting rare candy for faster incremental leveling would, if nothing else, be a serious quality of life improvement.
“Only tentacool in battle”
Yes, I do always read your rules.
I have been watching for four years now and you are still one of my favorite youtubers
I can relate
Armando and Cradily are incredibly underrated Pokemon. I think you'll definitely win.
As for why Anorith learns water gun, Anorith is based on anomalocaris aka a prehistoric ancestor of modern arthropods that were apex predators in the oceans.
Cradily not learning any grass moves by level up is probably because it's not really a plant. It's based on the sea lily which is actually a type of marine animal that acts kind of like a plant but unlike plants that feed through photosynthesis, these animals feed on plankton.
Ah, I see you are a Dino nerd as well
21:36 The AI in Emerald remembers Ancient Power as the last attacking Move you used against Skarmory and right after using this very same Ancient Power, the AI will also consider the possibility to switch into a different pokemon, that resists it(i.e.Claydol/Aggron/Metagross) as their next action. The repeated use of Ancient Power also helped the AI to commit to this suprise.
Damn! Your fossil gag killed me this time 😂
However, i have an idea for a future run for you. How about a Vulpix run in a gen of your choice? I know it can learn some interesting moves, so i'm interested how you handle my favourite pokemon
I gotta feeling Cradily is gonna be the MVP of the run.
Cradily is a great wall!
you only had to watch jaiden's 2 player nuzlocke
I know it sounds like an easy run, but I’d love to see you solo whichever game Hawlucha premiered in with one. I love those little dudes ❤️💪😤
I believe that it was X/Y. Don’t blame you for forgetting because a lot of people seem to love gen 6 Pokémon, but have no strong opinions on the games
Tenta-fossil run apparently 😁. These come around mid-night for me and I always wait up to check them out right away. Great content is great, what can I say.
To be honest, I was really hoping Cradily would play a larger role as a stalling wall. But I guess the circumstances really just didn’t allow for it. If it wasn’t being smashed by super effective attacks, it was either under leveled or threatened by things like poison. How unfortunate. Regardless, fun run.
I love the fact that it says tentacool is the only Pokemon allowed
Pokemon type chart:
Throw a giant lump of ice at a frozen pond- won't break through
Try to hammer a sheet of metal- won't bend
Throw a rock at another rock- goes straight through it
7:51 You've GOT TO GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT! **pans in to Armaldo and Cradily hugging**
Happy Easter!
Talking about resurrection, this video about the fossils fits perfectly with this day.
2:10 It might be a reference to Anorith's inspiration: the Anomalocaris. It was a sea creature and an absolute apex predator in the Cambrian sea at that.
I absolutely love the constant wrestling references. This Rock n Roll express naming was awesome
Tag, Rock, and Morton. Ah yes, Throckmorton, my skateboarding cousin.
Man... Armaldo is such a great pokemon, I love him
I love these fossil runs that your doing! An interesting gimmick that doesn't make the challenges take for ever
Fun fact: Whilst a lot of people have been suggesting Armaldo is a shrimp, it is actually based on the much older (and now extinct) group of animals called the Radiodonta (or anomalocarididae). The name Radiodonta is actually a description of the animals' distinctive mouth shape, which they kept on the design of Anorith.
7:48 what the people want is a comeback of the youngstar joey gag
Only a SINGLE team Aqua member has a Water move in Emerald!
One Aqua member has a Wailmer, the rest have Carvana/Sharpedo, which don't learn any water moves through level-up!
In Pokémon sapphire, there's 0 aqua members do.
1:03 ah yes tentacool the best fossil pokemin
Genuinely love how you can still inovate on the fossil joke. Got me smiling
As silly as it is, I actually do enjoy the fossil gag
Especially after a particularly rough day
Armaldo can learn a few good water-type moves. As a kid, I theorized that maybe in ancient times it was water/bug, but fossilization caused the water typing to drop and be replaced by rock. 7th gen introducing Wimpod and Golisopod (water/bug types that look suspiciously like Anorith and Armaldo if given thousands of years of natural evolution) only cemented my idea further.
Well Anorith is in the Water egg group and its an aquatic pokemon. Its a pretty viable theory.
@manuelromero8837 it's based off an ancient prehistoric predator that lived in the water
Things i have learned watching the outros to MDB's pokemon challenges; a series. Vol.1: MDB constantly is in need of either breakfast or lunch while doing voice recordings.
I can’t wait for the Gen5 run. Caracosta, archiops ( it’s really good at 50% or higher health, and usually you won’t be at low health with it, you mainly just Die).
Only HM moves in Emerald sounds super interesting, can't wait!
Relicanth, being a living fossil, having survived whatever extinction event caused the death of the ancient Pokémon, would have been a great addition to the team and would have made sense for the challenge
I would honestly love to see a Tauros-only run in either basic RBY or Fire Red/Leaf Green - ever since I found out it can learn Blizzard, Thunder, and Surf, it's become such an interesting pokemon to me. I imagine it wouldn't be too difficult given its type coverage and all, but it could make for a fun run nevertheless!
Don't think he's done a Tauros run yet, so I think I can throw this in...
Thunder/Blizzard/Surf is amazing in RBY, when its Special stat is actually pretty good (70, which isn't a powerhouse, but definitely enough to incorporate coverage).
After the Special Split, Tauros's SpAtk becomes 40, so he probably can't rely on those in Fire Red or Leaf Green... but he's still a powerhouse, so the run would still be fun. (Except for Ghost-types, he'll have to rely on Rock Tomb or Iron Tail for those)
damn, haven't watched you since like i think almost 10k-ish subs a few days before your channel blew up ... kinda hope you stay in my recommended for a while!
I'm convinced the "tentacool" thing was secretly intentional to make sure people actually read/listened through the rules. Which, makes complete sense IMHO.
If there was no fossil gag, I would have cried. Great video!
Ah, I wish this was gen 5, because Cradily with Storm Drain is the perfect response to any Water types. Still, the fact that Giga Drain from Cradily was the move that beat the champion means I can't be too upset.
I once went to a NJPW show in Atlanta and saw The Rock and Roll Express team up with Hiroshi Tanahashi in a 6 man tag and it was really fun!
That sounds awesome!
Rock and Roll Express reference... love it and all the wrestling references you always make
Considering I have probably watched/listened to all of these challenges multiple times, I can’t believe I hadn’t liked this video.
Love your content MDB!
The Rock and Roll Express’s farewell tour is going to be like Elton John’s Farewell Yellowbrick Road, it’ll never end
Armaldo is probably my favorite fossil Pokemon it just looks awesome
Soooo happy you’re sticking with the wrestling references, keeps me hopeful that our business can boom again!!!
I was more surprised to learn that Anorith wasn’t a water type, since it’s based on anomalacaris, an aquatic predator, but makes some sense, since it was an arthropod with some of the earliest compound eyes
Ive always loved Cradily but its main problem is that it struggles with dealing damage. Thats why i was so happy when the SwSh DLC added Meteor Beam to give Cradily an actual STAB attack while making it stronger offensively
Ricky Morton & Robert Gibson. The Rock N' Roll Express. Absolute legendary team.
I've been playing a rom hack called Pokemon Bidoof Version. It's Fire Red (with a few extra mons) but all the pokemon are bidoofs. Like Charizard is an orange Bidoof with Charizards wings. I think this would be good fun, especially seeing all the bidoof'd mons and your reactions to them as you play through. I think a vanilla playthrough would be best as you'll probably encounter more mons that way but a hard-core nuzlocke would be brilliant too :) thank you for all the work you do :)
I find it interesting that, in your Kanto and Johto runs, you’ll do the gyms in whatever order your able to do, come back to the harder ones at high levels, but i feel like I’ve never seen you skip over dewford.
He skipped it before, but only once, I think
You can also skip Fortree
It's interesting how they can both beat Roxanne fairly easy (bullet seed for lileep is probably easier), but then Anorith has an easier time vs Brawly while Lileep would have an easier time vs Watson.
After that you'd each has the same resistances vs the rest of the gym leaders until the last one anyway.
Yeah you're right. The weather does suck in southern ON. I just drove from Windsor to Mississauga in a blizzard....
Cradily is amazing. I used him in Emerald and Alpha Sapphire, what a fun and interesting pokemon. This sounds biased because it is one of my favorite pokemon. With some moves, he can be tough to defeat. I think both Armaldo and Cradily compliment each other nicely.
I didn't know you were in Southern Ontario as well! So many YT channels that I follow i am finding gare Canadian, glad your one of them! Your vids kept me sane when I was recovering from a skiing accident last year!
omg i cant believe he chose the claw fossil. IM frankly shocked, ashamed and completly confuseed. I'm lost and my life will never be the same AGAIN.
Algorythm.
The Mid South Gym leader "Cornette" has an Eaton, Condry, and Lane... plus he can throw powder which has a 50% chance to blind you... also I appreciate Morton "selling" in order for Gibson to level up...
Fun run! You seem to be in a really good space right now and it's nice to see, really reenvigorated your videos in the last months :)
i know you typically do these for the challenge, but i feel you should also runs like this with all available Pokémon of the challenge type, in this case, emeralds 2 fossils AND shark in Omanyte, Kabutops and Aerodactyl.
this would be a great way to just chill, not as hard at all but still fun to watch and less painful for YOU.
I've been watching for probably 2 years now. Great stuff and very enjoyable. One of my favorite pokemon is swinub. Pokemon gold/platinum with only swinub sounds hard but interesting
I rarely pick up on any mistakes but I do I seem them as 'fun easter eggs" now. I also appreciate that you are doing it all on your own, so you have more deep respect for the work you do.
Morton didnt get the proper beating before Gibson got the hot tag...lol great video
After watching this now I want to see Armaldo and Cradily dressed as the Rock 'N' Roll express. Thanks for that MDB
Ah, yes, Tentacool: the annoying fossil Pokémon
I got paralyzed all the time when fighting Watson - what normal person does - uses Berry - MDB - it's time to grind xD
Anorith is based on a sea creature(the first predator if I recall), which is why it learns water moves
awaiting a soul silver / heart gold challenge! also love fossil pokemons so this gonna be a good evening tonight
The Rock and roll express was my first favorite tag team and still one of my all time faves
AHHH The Rock n Roll Express! Very nice!
Whats great About grinding in the beginning is that you get all of those speed EVs from Taillow
Super appropriate to post the fossil run on Easter weekend.
You know . . . cause the ressurection.
MDB, if you ever have issues, (like Steven), with Toxic, you can go into the fight regular poisoned, but items to be full hp before the fight starts.
Fun Fact Archie's Sharpedo doesn't know water moves
The mistakes aren't that bad considering how many videos you manage. I tried making one of these myself and oh my god it took a lot longer than I thought it would. There's a lot of work that goes into one of these. I can't imagine how you made one a week for so long while also doing other daily uploads.
Rock n Roll Express wooooo! Excellent reference as always!
Nice, I’ve been waiting for the fossil challenges for a long time. I’ll have to watch the gen 1 video too.
Love the rock and role express reference with the names!
The fossil gag is iconic at this point
Pokemon Move sets are just weird. Like Arcanine being able to learn Arial Ace, or Pikachu being able to learn Seismic Toss.
I appreciate the absolute confidence MDB has in his naming references.
I think there is a theory that Rock type replaces one of the types of fossil Pokemon that they would have when they were originally around. So Anorith could have been a bug/water type and that's why it can learn water gun. I don't know if that theory holds up for all fossil pokemon.
I've just checked on Bulbapedia and can confirm that in Gen 3 Sharpedo doesn't learn any water type moves by level up.
The reason anorith learns water gun is due to it being based off of an extinct shrimp known as anomalocaris, which died out way before the dinosaurs and was one of the first apex predators
Been dying for this. Honestly I reaaaaaally want a fossil or ancient region for the next game. Imagine prehistoric pokemon and legend's you literally have to reanimate to save the world. Then they can have primal forms too.
Always great to hear references to Rock N' Roll Express ^^
Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson(Rock n Roll express) One of the goats of tag team wrestling. For those wondering
Hey MDB I think I I have a really intresting idea for a new challenge,how about you try to beat a pokemon game only using a very strong pokemon like a mewtwo,but only by using one weak move like tackle or confusion?
I thought of a dumb challenge. Try something like "Can I Beat Pokemon [INSERT GAME HERE] with no TM moves?" What do I mean by No TM moves? If a Pokemon can learn a TM, then that move is unusable (HMs are allowed but only outside of battle). Additional rules can be set by you. I would love to see this idea as a video.
Are you against Toxic on Cradily? It's the perfect mon for a Toxic/Confuse Ray/Protect/Giga Drain stall. Maybe could have saved some levels.
I thought Cradily was gonna be the MVP tbh
@@izzachaug1798 I know right? I've used a Cradily in a run before and it's really good if you use it the right way.
Honestly it would be really funny for next April fools for you to do a voice over for one of these challenges, but completely show the wrong footage the whole time and just not bring it up the whole time until the end.
hey, big fan of your challenges!
I was wondering, do you ever consider using resto chesto sets on your runs where your Pokemon gets statused at the beginning of the battle? for example, Steven's lead Skarmory with Toxic or even the Koga battle? could be a nice one time thing to do in that battle if you have the move/item slot for it.
just an idea to open up the possibilities for more strategic sets at lower levels instead of just brute forcing at high levels. could be interesting!
The rockers! Love the deep NWA and old wrestling Easter eggs!