What's your favorite Bug type? Mine's gotta be Scizor. I mean, c'mon! Also, screw it, if this video gets 15k likes I'll release the full version of "No Joy"
Yep. I believe Shuckle has a total of 505 while both Scizor and Scyther have 500 each. Shuckle used up the majority of it's stat points into defense and special defense though.
@@connaeris8230 yup that's what I exactly thought, Crustle's high Defense (plus having a Defense boosting Nature) means that even with the Teravolt negating Sturdy, he'll still survive. But, the Quick Claw definitely mattered because Crustle gets to keep Sturdy intact.
In terms of the famous musicians in the Pokemon world, I can't believe that you'd forget the Go-Rock Quads from the Ranger series. Truly an iconic quartet
Don't remember what video it is but he already used the name before. He doesn't seem to recycle pokemon names probably why he didn't name it after mothra
Just as a tip for anyone who wants to do this run in the future, you can get the psychic tm using surf right after undella town and the fire blast tm from the pokemon center in lacunosa town, so you can at least get volcarona some good moves before Drayden since it's level up learnset is pretty dookie
For whatever reason volcarona can't learn energy ball im black, was disappointed about that since I was using one and it would've been a great fill in for giga drain before I can get to Humilau City
I've been waiting so long for something in particular to happen in these mono-type Nuzlockes and it finally happened. During the Hall of Fame animation, the Pokémon that flash on the screen have a background to reflect their type. We finally got one with all 6 backgrounds to be the same! Great vid
19:07 Funnily enough, Kyurem-B's Ability is Terravolt, which acts the same way as Mold Breaker. That means Ant Bully would have been at risk of being KO'd if you were really unlucky. Thankfully the crit saved the day, although I don't know if the crit mattered lol
Clay's badge is supposed to be a cross section of the ground, it shows the different layers of the ground like soil and bedrock with a gem below that because he's the Mining King
RE Shuckle according to ye olde Bulbapedia: Shuckle seems to be based on an endolith, an organism that lives inside porous rocks or animal shells. Given its category, the Mold Pokémon, Shuckle may be based on a fungus or mold variety of endolith. Its category could also allude to fungi such as cedar-apple rust, which bears a strong resemblance to Shuckle, or fungi-like slime molds. Given its Bug typing, Shuckle may also draw inspiration from scale insects-small, shelled parasites that produce a sweet fluid called honeydew that attracts other insects. In particular, it may be based on the barnacle scale, with characteristics of actual barnacles. This species is part of the Coccidae family, also known as "tortoise scales", which may explain Shuckle's resemblance to a turtle or a tortoise. It could also be seen as a reference to the food fermentation process, with its Rock type alluding to the pottery used to store and ferment aliments in some cultures, and its Pokémon category referring to some fungi used in cultured foods. Shuckle may also have been based on certain varieties of mollusk, as it shares some characteristics with them, including the shell, the muscular but limp-seeming feet, the use of acids to receive food or to break down obstacles, the liking for fermented foods, and living close to the water. Its worm-like aspect may also take inspiration from a nematode.
I keep telling people that trade evolutions are lame and you should totally be able to cheat to get them evolved without that silly restriction. but hey, it's your rules. good run, some close calls and overall real good performance until the unfortunate deaths at the end.
That Crustle Stealth Rock strategy against Iris is great, I used it too in my HC nuzlocke. Given that Crustle is a guaranteed encounter, you just have to hope it has Sturdy. I'm a bit bummed Heracross didn't have Guts, but oh well. Great video as always!
Thank you for keeping up the monotype runs. Rom hacks and shiny runs seem to be more popular with content creators now so I’m very grateful you’re still pumping out these great monotype vids.
Id love to see a Pokemon BDSP with only Poison types if you haven't done one already. I can see it being a major challenge, given the fact that there's a lot of big battles that resist Poison type moves, or are super effective against Poison. Plus, there's a gym leader immune to it.
My favorite bug type is vikavolt.I just love electric types so vikavolt is pretty fitting for the spot and vikavolt has a really good design too Edit:Galvantula is also one of my favorites too
Omg, bug type is my favourite type and for this reason watching this video was the most relaxing thing ever. I really like this type of video, good luck for your work
Best nuzlocke youtuber. But now I want to see you do some more challenging ones like renegade platinum. Like other rom hacks with more pokemons and challenges
Always love seeing new videos pop up! Thanks for making them, they are amazing and inspire me to do my own nuzlockes. Definitely Kleavor or Yanmega. You should try a HeartGold or SoulSilver water only one!!
Gotta love how in most generations most big types are terrible, and in unova they decided to make not only , that every new bug type is amazing (one way or another), also they gave us the first mythical bug type
This was a very fun nuzlocke to watch lmao. Anyways u can give volcarona fire blast before u get flamethrower and u can even teach it signal beam through a move tutot
My favorite bug type has to be galvantula. I just think spiders are very neat! In video games, in real life they are the bane of my existence. Scolipede and Golisopod and a close second.
My favorite bug type interestingly enough is Volcarona. Timid with Heavy Duty Boots is insane. Btw did you keep silver wind for potential boosts? Cause the tutor in driftveil teaches Signal Beam
I think it's like a slice of earth, with different layers of minerals or dirt to illustrate different kinds of soil. there's a blue gem buried at the very bottom.
It's still amazing to be able to go all the way to Iris without losing any pokemon considering the typing--but Gen 5 does have some pretty good bug types like Crustle and Volcarona. My favorite bugs are also in here too! It's Volcarona and Galvantula. Bug types definitely need more love. Good run!
10:50 This is the basis for the Quake Badge (Clay's badge), according to Bulbapedia: It is shaped like a vertical piece of earth, the top half of which has cracked and slid out of place, resembling the result of an earthquake, or as two tectonic plates interacting.
I wish game freak would change the formula a bit with how the games introduce the different Pokémon types, especially the starters. Give us fighting, dark, psychic or steel, ground, ice primary type starters and let the starting routes have more unique types than normal, flying, bug.
I have an interesting suggestion Fairy type run for either ORAS or BDSP. In each case you’d only have about 4 or 5 encounters (depending on how you rule Grand Underground) but I think it’d be very cool to rerun a region in a new/super unintended way!
@@ItsFireTiger oh true, that would also give 4 encounters. I forgot about that one because it’s a very unconventional game and not as popular to run but that works
7:45 the AI is using pursuit because it thinks you’ll switch out, this is because both Emolga and Zebstrika have super effective moves. Emolga has arial ace and zebstrika has wild charge. I may be wrong, but that’s what I think.
Psychic from Volcarona was stronger there, it had a chance to take out Archeops after Stealth Rock depending on investment as opposed to Flamethrower which never had a shot. But you still played magnificently and I'm so happy to see a Nuzlocke with a type that never gets the love it deserves
Great video as always, always make my day when I see them. I’m curious to see if a monotype water run on Black 2 would be possible, I tried it myself but got pretty soundly destroyed by Burgh’s Leavanny.
Loved this challenge!!! You did so well! I think a cool challenge would be UsUm with only Ice types. The encounters early game are a little limited, but I think that would add to the challenge!
Fantastic video. Incredible entertainment and fantastic expression of skill. I have only one complaint: Female combee evolves at 21 not 24 like you said :)
i just love that bug type is considered the weakest but has absolute units in Volcarona, Scolipede, Heracross, and Golisopod. and thats just four that are stupidly strong without considering status moves
You could do something like a Colourlocke, in which you can only use Pokémon of one colour (I think Pokémon has a set colour for each mon). This might be quite hard since there are surely some game-colour-combinations that are pretty challenging!
Hey, Antlerboy. Great video as always and to answer your question, my favorite bug type is Ariados, because I'm a huge Spider-Man and Japanese Yo-kai fan boy, while my least favorite is Ledian, mainly because I forgot that it exists.
I always enjoy watching people use the bug type in nuzlockes. They're super under appreciated because of their reputation as the weakest type Gotta say, my favorite bug type Pokémon is Durant. Durant has saved my bacon many a time in nuzlockes, and in battles against my friends
Im just started again to play pokemon ever since highschool.. and bug type line in gen 5 just started to diversify the overall bug types.. leavanny and escavalier are my fave bug types since i started to play gen 5 nuzlocked.. ur videos are the reason that i started playing pokemon again..
I'd like to see a psychic-type run is White 2 (I like Reuniclus more than Gothitelle) just so Marshall isn't the hardest E4 member. Ghost types would be cool too
What's your favorite Bug type? Mine's gotta be Scizor. I mean, c'mon!
Also, screw it, if this video gets 15k likes I'll release the full version of "No Joy"
My favorite is volcarona
Yes definitely scizor
Scizor too, looks too cool
Scizor and scolipede!
It's gotta be vikavolt for me
The weird thing about shuckle isn't that it's a bug type, It's that it's got a higher base stat total than scizor.
The WHAT
Yeah until gen 5 it had the highest BST of any bug type
Cause of Defense probly
W h a t
Yep. I believe Shuckle has a total of 505 while both Scizor and Scyther have 500 each. Shuckle used up the majority of it's stat points into defense and special defense though.
Kyurem black had terravolt, which nullifies sturdy, so that quick claw was extremely lucky lol. Love your content
True but without a crit I think he’d survive anything??
@@mjja4783 yeah
It didn't have any supereffective moves, and I don't think it even had any strong enough moves to kill Crustle without a crit.
@@connaeris8230 yup that's what I exactly thought, Crustle's high Defense (plus having a Defense boosting Nature) means that even with the Teravolt negating Sturdy, he'll still survive. But, the Quick Claw definitely mattered because Crustle gets to keep Sturdy intact.
@@genv.b521 It doesnt matter bc you get healed after that battle regardless
2:56 petition to Antlerboy release the single "No Joy" with his incredible voice
Fr fr
yes
YES
Fuck yeah
100% that was fire
In terms of the famous musicians in the Pokemon world, I can't believe that you'd forget the Go-Rock Quads from the Ranger series. Truly an iconic quartet
Don't forget about Piers too!
The Venipede line is so underrated so I’m glad you featured one on your team!
Hey brandon
I cannot *believe* the opportunity to name the Volcarona "Mothra" was skipped over...it's literally the movie *about* flying kaiju haha
Don't remember what video it is but he already used the name before. He doesn't seem to recycle pokemon names probably why he didn't name it after mothra
@@gonnacry3278he does for favorites sometimes
But usually he doesn’t recycle names for recent teams
Just as a tip for anyone who wants to do this run in the future, you can get the psychic tm using surf right after undella town and the fire blast tm from the pokemon center in lacunosa town, so you can at least get volcarona some good moves before Drayden since it's level up learnset is pretty dookie
Also you get can Heat Wave and Giga Drain for Water types via Move Tutor Both in Humilau City. And Signal Beam for decent Bug Type damage in Driftveil
You can get Energy Ball from the lake right next to your house in the starting town which is a super random place XD
For whatever reason volcarona can't learn energy ball im black, was disappointed about that since I was using one and it would've been a great fill in for giga drain before I can get to Humilau City
@@GamerGrovyle Not weirder than having the freaking Mind Plate burried in your yard in Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon.
@@boianko Really?
I've been waiting so long for something in particular to happen in these mono-type Nuzlockes and it finally happened. During the Hall of Fame animation, the Pokémon that flash on the screen have a background to reflect their type. We finally got one with all 6 backgrounds to be the same! Great vid
For me best bug type are Scizor and Scolipede.This video will be fantastic for sure
Vikavolt and Centiscorch for me
SCOLIPEDE BASED
Oh, I really appreciate the fact that you did a run with this fun, but frequently overlooked type. Hoping to see more content soon 😉
19:07
Funnily enough, Kyurem-B's Ability is Terravolt, which acts the same way as Mold Breaker.
That means Ant Bully would have been at risk of being KO'd if you were really unlucky. Thankfully the crit saved the day, although I don't know if the crit mattered lol
Clay's badge is supposed to be a cross section of the ground, it shows the different layers of the ground like soil and bedrock with a gem below that because he's the Mining King
No it’s supposed to be a cut off body part
Hate to be that guy but as a surveyor, that's a profile, not a cross-section. Although idk if it may be called that in different professions instead
RE Shuckle according to ye olde Bulbapedia:
Shuckle seems to be based on an endolith, an organism that lives inside porous rocks or animal shells. Given its category, the Mold Pokémon, Shuckle may be based on a fungus or mold variety of endolith. Its category could also allude to fungi such as cedar-apple rust, which bears a strong resemblance to Shuckle, or fungi-like slime molds.
Given its Bug typing, Shuckle may also draw inspiration from scale insects-small, shelled parasites that produce a sweet fluid called honeydew that attracts other insects. In particular, it may be based on the barnacle scale, with characteristics of actual barnacles. This species is part of the Coccidae family, also known as "tortoise scales", which may explain Shuckle's resemblance to a turtle or a tortoise. It could also be seen as a reference to the food fermentation process, with its Rock type alluding to the pottery used to store and ferment aliments in some cultures, and its Pokémon category referring to some fungi used in cultured foods.
Shuckle may also have been based on certain varieties of mollusk, as it shares some characteristics with them, including the shell, the muscular but limp-seeming feet, the use of acids to receive food or to break down obstacles, the liking for fermented foods, and living close to the water. Its worm-like aspect may also take inspiration from a nematode.
I keep telling people that trade evolutions are lame and you should totally be able to cheat to get them evolved without that silly restriction. but hey, it's your rules. good run, some close calls and overall real good performance until the unfortunate deaths at the end.
Really wish B-Rock would finally release the full extended version of this banger
lol, I should produce it!
That Crustle Stealth Rock strategy against Iris is great, I used it too in my HC nuzlocke. Given that Crustle is a guaranteed encounter, you just have to hope it has Sturdy. I'm a bit bummed Heracross didn't have Guts, but oh well. Great video as always!
Yes perfect for the end of the weekend - you gotta do a full play through I could watch you videos for hours
Thank you for keeping up the monotype runs. Rom hacks and shiny runs seem to be more popular with content creators now so I’m very grateful you’re still pumping out these great monotype vids.
This was the first monotype nuzlocke I ever attempted and it was AMAZING. My favourites were Volcarona and Leavanny
I know it isnt in this game but I love golisopod. Definitely one of the best powerful bug types out there.
My boy be singing!!! My favorite bug is Surskit. He just goes "ah!"
Bug is one my top favorite types, and in Gen 5, bug lovers ate good! Scoliopede and Galvantula and great.
Id love to see a Pokemon BDSP with only Poison types if you haven't done one already. I can see it being a major challenge, given the fact that there's a lot of big battles that resist Poison type moves, or are super effective against Poison. Plus, there's a gym leader immune to it.
I did one and the first two hours were rough because budew and zubat
My favorite bug type is vikavolt.I just love electric types so vikavolt is pretty fitting for the spot and vikavolt has a really good design too
Edit:Galvantula is also one of my favorites too
One of my favorite types in my favorite gen. Thank you for doing this run ❤️
Omg, bug type is my favourite type and for this reason watching this video was the most relaxing thing ever. I really like this type of video, good luck for your work
I really like Heracross. It’s just so cool, and I used one in Emerald and it absolutely kicked butt!
Best nuzlocke youtuber.
But now I want to see you do some more challenging ones like renegade platinum.
Like other rom hacks with more pokemons and challenges
Just for those curious. His badge is tectonic plates shifting, which causes earth quakes. He is on brand 👍
It's probably less tectonic plates and just a fault line given how the badge is shaped
Dude you hit those notes!!! Nice singing!
Best part of the week is Miss Unova and her G.O.A.T nuzlocke content
The perfect video for a Sunday Evening. I just love your Nulockes their just so entertaining to watch.
2:38 nope, there is also a Pierce, whose music star status was used in pokemon SW/SH story
Thank you! I wanted to see a black 2/white 2 bug run for so long xD
antlerboy: roxy is the only famous musician in pokemon.
piers: am I a joke to you?
awesome video! sucks Volcarona fell to Haxorus.. at least she helped cancel the apocalypse.
also my favorite bug type is Galvantula :)
The singing was chef’s kiss
Took me way too long to realize that Scolipede's nickname was a reference to " The Human Centipede".
Oh no
Oh heck nah!!
Always love seeing new videos pop up! Thanks for making them, they are amazing and inspire me to do my own nuzlockes. Definitely Kleavor or Yanmega. You should try a HeartGold or SoulSilver water only one!!
Gotta love how in most generations most big types are terrible, and in unova they decided to make not only , that every new bug type is amazing (one way or another), also they gave us the first mythical bug type
That No Joy EP sure is 🔥🔥🔥
considering that piers is a gym leader he's probably famous, so i say we include piers in the famous pokemon musicians list
It's always inspirational to see the David being the bugs take down Goliath the dragons. Bugs rule and thank you for the journey.
felt like i’ve been waiting FOREVER for another vid!!! amazing content, humour, and talent:)
Leaf blade looks strange 🤣🤣🤣
This was a very fun nuzlocke to watch lmao. Anyways u can give volcarona fire blast before u get flamethrower and u can even teach it signal beam through a move tutot
Never clicked a video so fast in my life!!
My favorite bug type has to be galvantula. I just think spiders are very neat! In video games, in real life they are the bane of my existence. Scolipede and Golisopod and a close second.
And he's a singer, does this man have have a weakness.
I'd love to see a run in a rom hack where the ai is actually smart like Emerald Kaizo.
My favorite type and one of my favorite nuzlockers. This is gonna be a great video!
My favorite bug type interestingly enough is Volcarona. Timid with Heavy Duty Boots is insane.
Btw did you keep silver wind for potential boosts? Cause the tutor in driftveil teaches Signal Beam
I always thought Clay's badge was meant to be a bullet, with his cowboy ascetic it would make sense
I think it's like a slice of earth, with different layers of minerals or dirt to illustrate different kinds of soil. there's a blue gem buried at the very bottom.
I agree with the earth, but I’m assuming it’s earth but with plates shifting beneath the ground and all that jazz
It’s rock layers and a fault
I was thinking it was like a sediment chart but broken to represent an earthquake
My favorite Bug types are Scizor and Pinsir! Great video!
Fun fact Shuckels is a type of a moving allege... I think
11:30 ... proceeds to never use Thunder in the entire playthrough
Amazing how both Pokemon who survived on 1hp tanking a crit, were the ones to fall im the end. That feels so poetic to me LOL
It's still amazing to be able to go all the way to Iris without losing any pokemon considering the typing--but Gen 5 does have some pretty good bug types like Crustle and Volcarona. My favorite bugs are also in here too! It's Volcarona and Galvantula. Bug types definitely need more love. Good run!
10:50 This is the basis for the Quake Badge (Clay's badge), according to Bulbapedia:
It is shaped like a vertical piece of earth, the top half of which has cracked and slid out of place, resembling the result of an earthquake, or as two tectonic plates interacting.
Love Yanmega with Speed Boost and Volcarona 🙌🔥
2:33
You can’t forget Piers like that.
I love bug types in general. My favorite pokemon of all time is a bug type, which is venonat.
Grubbin, Joltik, Surskit, etc. All very cute pokemon
Not ant 🐜 bully carrying the whole team for most of the run
For me, Galvantula, Vespiquen, and Escavalier have special places in my heart
Mine has to be Araquanid, but Scizor and Scolipede are up there. Great video as always!
I wish game freak would change the formula a bit with how the games introduce the different Pokémon types, especially the starters. Give us fighting, dark, psychic or steel, ground, ice primary type starters and let the starting routes have more unique types than normal, flying, bug.
Scolipede choice scarf and speed boost : be fast
Also have a great day man I'm surprised you did it on challenge mode must have been hard
I love how much production quality goes into these. Love U Antlerboy!
I have an interesting suggestion Fairy type run for either ORAS or BDSP. In each case you’d only have about 4 or 5 encounters (depending on how you rule Grand Underground) but I think it’d be very cool to rerun a region in a new/super unintended way!
Don't forget the renewed Kanto with fairies too
@@ItsFireTiger oh true, that would also give 4 encounters. I forgot about that one because it’s a very unconventional game and not as popular to run but that works
@@tuskoub Yeah there's not many Let's go Nuzlockes or even gen 2 like Crystal
Your videos are great sometimes you uploading a new video makes my day
Clays badge is shifting tectonic plates.
7:45 the AI is using pursuit because it thinks you’ll switch out, this is because both Emolga and Zebstrika have super effective moves. Emolga has arial ace and zebstrika has wild charge. I may be wrong, but that’s what I think.
Flame charge but yeah.
Psychic from Volcarona was stronger there, it had a chance to take out Archeops after Stealth Rock depending on investment as opposed to Flamethrower which never had a shot. But you still played magnificently and I'm so happy to see a Nuzlocke with a type that never gets the love it deserves
I’m sorry, Human! Don’t remind me. Your joke take me back
Ok.. .I have to admit... No Joy was pretty good... nice voice even singing 😜
My favorite Bug types are Leavanny and Breloom. S tier bug types, change my mind.
breloom isnt bug(grass-fighting)
Great video as always, always make my day when I see them. I’m curious to see if a monotype water run on Black 2 would be possible, I tried it myself but got pretty soundly destroyed by Burgh’s Leavanny.
that sounds really tough... hmm gotta look into it!
I’m pretty sure the RUclipsr ChaoticMeatball did a water monotype nuzlocke in Pokémon: Black 2.
Loved this challenge!!! You did so well! I think a cool challenge would be UsUm with only Ice types. The encounters early game are a little limited, but I think that would add to the challenge!
"The only famous musician we know of"
Piers and his silent mouth open scream singing: "guess I'll die"
Fantastic video. Incredible entertainment and fantastic expression of skill. I have only one complaint: Female combee evolves at 21 not 24 like you said :)
i just love that bug type is considered the weakest but has absolute units in Volcarona, Scolipede, Heracross, and Golisopod. and thats just four that are stupidly strong without considering status moves
You could do something like a Colourlocke, in which you can only use Pokémon of one colour (I think Pokémon has a set colour for each mon). This might be quite hard since there are surely some game-colour-combinations that are pretty challenging!
Hey, Antlerboy. Great video as always and to answer your question, my favorite bug type is Ariados, because I'm a huge Spider-Man and Japanese Yo-kai fan boy, while my least favorite is Ledian, mainly because I forgot that it exists.
Human the Centipede caught me off guard 😂😂😂 so classy
Thank you for another great vid!
I'm a huge Scolipede and Golisopod fan
It’s a good thing that quick claw came in clutch at 19:02 because Kyurem’s Teravolt ignores Sturdy, potentially risking Ant Bully to a crit one shot.
“Wailord is less dense than air and should be flying”
He is the float whale Pokémon and sometimes floats lol 😂
I always enjoy watching people use the bug type in nuzlockes. They're super under appreciated because of their reputation as the weakest type
Gotta say, my favorite bug type Pokémon is Durant. Durant has saved my bacon many a time in nuzlockes, and in battles against my friends
Im just started again to play pokemon ever since highschool.. and bug type line in gen 5 just started to diversify the overall bug types.. leavanny and escavalier are my fave bug types since i started to play gen 5 nuzlocked.. ur videos are the reason that i started playing pokemon again..
I'd like to see a psychic-type run is White 2 (I like Reuniclus more than Gothitelle) just so Marshall isn't the hardest E4 member. Ghost types would be cool too
I really Love Antlerboy's Mono type Nuzlocked also being Miss Unova
We got a deep dive into the bands of the pokemon world AND bugs? Best vid. 👌 Best vid.
You Should Do a Pokemon Y Hardcore Nuzlocke With only Shiny Pokemon
That music section was amazing, subbed :)
I lowkey thought I was the only one who even knew Ant bully existed. That was a wild movie…
The her across reference is obscure and I love it
Omggg yes, i love mono bug runs 😁
Best gen for bug types, love gen 5 ❤️
Um.... isn't piers a rockstar?
Emo punk star
He kinda gives me like a Black Parade My Chemical Romance
"Roxie is the only famous musician in the pokemon world"
I will not stand for this Mirror B erasure.