CAN I BEAT A POKÉMON RUBY HARDCORE NUZLOCKE WITH ONLY PSYCHIC TYPES!? (Pokémon Challenge)
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- Опубликовано: 8 май 2021
- Our last Pokemon Hardcore Nuzlocke was a ton of fun, so this time I wanted to figure out if we could beat a monotype version with only Psychic types! The Monotype Hardcore Nuzlocke sounded like a really fun and challenging idea, so here's my first attempt at one!
We've done some hard Pokemon challenges in the past, but usually they were a solo Pokemon challenge run. What if we still did a really difficult challenge... but with a full team using hardcore nuzlocke rules, and with only one type? Today we find out: can I beat a Pokemon Ruby Hardcore Nuzlocke with only Psychic types?
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Monotype Hardcore Nuzlocke Ruleset:
(1) If a Pokémon faints, it must be permanently boxed or released.
(2) Only the first type-specific Pokémon encountered in each Route/Area can be caught. Viable encounters only include Pokémon that already have that type, regardless of if they later evolve to have it.
(3) Additional Pokémon may be caught for the purpose of HM use, but these may not be used in battle at any time during the run.
(4) No Legendaries/Mythicals, duplicates, or same-evolution-line Pokémon can be caught or used. If a duplicate is encountered, the next unique type-specific Pokémon encounter can be caught.
(5) No Items can be used in battle (Held Items are allowed).
(6) Party Pokémon levels are limited to the highest level Pokémon of the next Gym Leader or Elite 4 Member. So long as your Pokémon are at or below the level cap when the Gym Leader/Elite 4 Member battle starts, they can level up mid-battle.
(7) "Set" Battle Mode must be used at all times.
(8) No connecting with other games for the purposes of trading/importing Pokémon, Items, etc.
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CORRECTION: Meditite/Medicham are available in *both* Ruby/Sapphire, but not Emerald.
NOTE: Chimecho is also available, but Meditite was of course a much better option for our Mt. Pyre encounter (just forgot to include it in the intro!)
Why you Don't use Chimecho in Challenge?
And Starmie.
What happened to the true power series???
@@mrormrs.something3897 True Power is on hiatus until the Gen 4 remakes! Wouldn't make sense to do the true power episodes & tournament for Sinnoh when their trainers might get new Pokemon/upgrades when they come out 😄
@@emeraldbeedrill Chimecho was also located in Mt. Pyre, and Meditite was definitely the better choice. Starmie can't be caught in Ruby, only Staryu, which isn't Psychic type (and would therefore be against the rules).
@@SilphSpectre ahhh i feel you waiting for the remakes.. Um. Maybe you could jump to gen 5 and circle back around to 4 after the fact. The tourny became some of my favorite youtube content idk why just loved it. Hope all is well brotha
If you thought that Ralts training at the beginning was tough, imagine what it was like for Wally, who had to deal with asthma on top of that.
Imagine How hard it was to grind running around in grass
However, Wally moved to Vedanturf Town, which is right next to route 117 and the breeding house, I mean Pokemon Daycare. He could easily leave Ralt in the daycare until she got some moves.
@@davisdawson5047 Wait the minute. Wally's Ralts is female?
@@fishbakeditself1213 No. It's canonically male. Otherwise, he wouldn't have Mega Gallade in the remake.
Little kid comment
When he named the Wynaut "Because" I absolutely lost it
I mean, had you never thought about it?
@@diegoromeo7237 No, I never made the connection 'till he said it. I'm a very analytical person, so I usually try to get direct answers whenever I ask questions, and most people know that about me, so they don't really use hypotheticals or sarcasm around me-
Why is why not why not? Because
When u answer with because it means you should know the answer even if it's obvious you don't.
Or there is a reason I just won't tell you.
And then he dies shortly after. Because Wynaut!
@@marthabolanos5930 Bruh. Do you have main character syndrome?
“Lucky the Kadabra, goes down”-top 10 saddest anime deaths
I cried
He wasn't that lucky obviously
@@eskerr3383 sad thing, Kadabra has always been one of my favorite pokemon
Wasn't there a guy who sued pokemon over Kadabra who this could've been quoted from?
God I get so emotionally attached in like two minutes that when one dies I am devastated lol
Shadow Ball on Medicham would've been insane for Tate&Liza because of that PURE POWER.
Shadow ball is a special attacking move, doesnt pure power boost attack?
@@Msthanhlocfan Shadow Ball was physical in gen 3. It became special in Gen 4.
@@dromusblack375 oh ok
Is pure power available in gen 3?
@@plainseed Yeah, it is
Staryu can be caught in lilycove city and evolved into starmie with a water stone obtainable in the route right after lilycove, you could have also caught chimecho at the peak in mt pyre and meditite/medicham in victory road instead
It is a Nuzlock, so he does not get to choose the Pokémon he catches. See Rule number 1.
@@moerkx1304 He was saying that those were viable pokemon for this challenge that could have been obtained that were not mentioned in the opening of the video when it mentioned "viable pokemon". So, he could have had 2 more pokemon for the challenge unless he caught another viable pokemon in those two locations.
Actually, he explained this to another commenter, only the first *Psychic* type encounter can be caught on each route and Staryu is not one so he couldn't catch it
@@amaterasumaster8781 Alright, i understand with the Staryu. Now i’m imagining the timeline where he got a chimecho at mt. Pyre peak.
@@Karrato chimeco is like a 4% encounter
38:05 the SpDef increase from Sandstorm for Rock types only became a thing in gen 4 actually.
Great vid!
He was talking about the cosmic powers from the battle with altaria
Psyhic intensifies
I am a big fan of yours
Pschic
V r CB. Rn
Psychic
Crys in sauce
A few things I noticed that would’ve helped this run...
-could’ve used thief on wild abra’s to get multiple twisted spoons.
-idk if you could have enough money for this without over leveling but you maybe could’ve got the psychic TM in the game corner for kadabra to make the wattson fight smoother.
-There are other game corner TMs that could’ve helped the mid-early game including flamethrower for solrock and an extra thunderbolt for ralts or kadabra.
-Shadow ball would be good for Tate and Liza
-Holding Leppa Berry on baltoy in the norman fight would’ve meant you wouldn’t have ran out of pp on dig.
Overall you did have some great strategies though and this was a fun idea for a challenge.
Ik I'm below late to the party but if he'd picked treecko instead of torchic the rival would have blaziken, that would've made the fights easier in my opinion
@@hotdogwater2915 Silph usually picks the starter that makes his challenge as hard as possible. He purposely picked torchic so his rival wouldn't have a weakness to psychic
Also he could’ve gotten Chimecho at Mt Pyre
@Isac D. oh yeah
Picking up the exp share would have avoided that Wynaut death tho
I really appreciated how you put emphasis on how difficult it was to remain below the lvl cap. Most "Hardcore Nuzlocke" vids I've seen only make it seem like the actually capped gym battle
will be harder.
I mean, it's technically violating nuzlocke rules due to virtua of not catching only the first pokemon he encunters in a route.
@@TheShadoek But he does do that. In his other runs, he states numerous times that depending on his luck with encounters if he gets certain pokemon first he won't be able to get another pokemon because it can ONLY be found in that specific route with other possible encounters.
The only exception he makes is the safari zone, which is a rule many nuzlockers actually make, to allow more varying encounters. It's self-imposed ruleset, and Silph followed all of the rules he gave himself.
@@volacticmilk9614 It's not a nuzlocke ruleset then. There's basically no aspect of randomness left if he's allowed to cherrypick the encounters on certain routes.
Ralts I could understand as he required a psychic type to start things off, but the only failable encounter really was Abra.
It's less of a challenge, especially with probably the easiest games in the whole franchise. Not to mention... Psychic is kinda bustef in gen 3 because all ghost types are special attackers or tanks and ghost is a physical typing so stab goes out the window, most dark types actually suck and have the same problem as dark moves are special, bug is not good and won't be until gen 5 and the only thing that actually can stand up to them with their colossal coverage is either steel... unless you taught them flamethrower which gardevoir can learn! Ot another psychic, which only Willy has.
@@TheShadoek Colossal coverage? It isn’t until the second or third gym that he gets a move that allows him to do non-Psychic damage. Sure he only has one truly failable encounter (well, two if you include Baltoy’s Self Destruct), but the number of Pokémon he can encounter is severely limited. Sure Psychics are good, but he’s stuck to only Psychic, with the inherited weaknesses and bad match ups that implies. As you can see in this video he had to reset six times for the first gym battle alone, and every gym battle after he rides the edge of defeat. I disagree entirely that him mono-typing makes it somehow easier.
@@clickpause8732 I didn't say that mono typing makes it easier, I said that him guaranteeing an encounter every route does not make it a nuzlocke.
Also yeah, this is the easiest generation of pokemon. The fact that he had to reset so many times is not by virtue of psychic types being weak but due to the level cap.
Teletubby was just watching as the chaos insue in stevens battle
I felt so attached to your team.
Lucky and Violet pushed so hard at the start and Grumpig pitched in so much in the Elite 4. It hurt to see them go down but its amazing u won!
People: "We enjoy other people's suffering"
why do i see you everywhere
@@iamfrisk3606 well I comment a lot on beytubers and poke tubers and I usually try to be early so I think that's why.
P. S you are the second person to say that "I see you everywhere" and I love that
@@AhmedHussain-ju6xd May I be the 3rd?
I respect the grind that went into training the Ralts and Abra. I would have no patience.
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Comments are good for the RUclips algorithm
I mean wynaut il comment
Yes
@Bryson Herman Helix fossil
@Bryson Herman helix, duh
Oh YeS dEfInInTeLy😂
Damn I honestly thought you’ll lose this run but those plays at the end were top strategy tier
He lost on the first gym, said he reset 5x lol
@@dspink3734 I meant at the end when he was battling the elite four and champion
25:52
Other Nuzlokers: "fear the cloud birb"
This guy: "sun is a deadly lazor"
Laser not Lazor
yeah I would usually get pissed for nitpicking like that but the only correct word is laser as its an acronym
@@triangltriangl I would usually get pissed for nitpicking but OP is referencing Bill Wurtz' history of the entire world video in which he pronounces the catchphrase like that. At least nitpick correctly when you decide to do it 🤭
@@dagmare940 I was trying to reply to @findlucy plus I have watched the ,,history of the world I guess'' video by Bill multiple times. humble yourself
@@dagmare940 oh yeah and you're also replying to a 7 month old comment trying to start arguments
For those who want to attempt this incredibly difficult challenge, you can make a couple of battles a lot easier by teaching Shadow Ball to Medicham. Shadow Ball and all other Ghost-type moves are physical in Gen 1 to 3. You can find it inside the Mount Pyre dungeon. With that and thanks to Medicham’s Huge Power ability, you can breeze through Tate & Liza, Sidney, Glacia, and even Phoebe!
If you train it in Attack EVs by killing 252 Poochyenas (or 128 Mightyenas) you’ll have an even more reliable Pokémon in your hands.
Edit: Solrock also learns Flamethrower and Fire Blast for coverage. Careful against those Steel-types!
The levelcap seems to have been the biggest stone in your way
Top props for the true MVP, DoMyChores the Zigzagoon. Lol!
😂 His efforts went so unnoticed!
Your truly a hero, DoMyChores!
Against Liza and Tate Gardevoir should have been using thunderbolt. Also an alternate strategy could have been multiple calm minds with gardevoir while using defensive typing of Solrock while inflicting some small chip damage, then switch Solrock for Grumpig and use Psych up to Gardevoir to gain same buffs and use Thunderbolt and Psychic with Gardevoir and Grumpig respectively to sweep.
19:31 At least they can learn Dig via TM. Phanpy cannot. I learned that baffling design decision in Crystal and was dumbfounded for a literal minute.
Love these challenge/summary videos. I'm seldom able to watch Twitch streams, so I appreciate the ability to see a run broken down like this
I laughed so hard when he said "leave me alone steven"
Would absolutely love to keep seeing more challenges from you, your format is one of the most enjoyable for challenges like these
I thought this was going to be a super easy run, but wow i was mistaken! It was a challenge from start to finish with a crazy E4! GJ!!!
Thanks so much! I knew it would be challenging, but it was more difficult than even I was anticipating! xD
38:05 The Special Defense boost for Rock types in sandstorm wasn't introduced until Gen IV ;).
“I need the sun down now” -every creature vulnerable to the sun
I’m confused I’ve caught medicham/meditite in almost every sapphire play through I’ve done
I believe there’s a trade for him in emerald iirc
it was a fever dream
Isnt Gardevoir/Kadabra better?
Saying he is a ruby exclusive dont make sense, its only emerald he doesnt appear in
@@mikhailfischercapablanca9650 if you like medicham more than both, i guess not
This was REALLY enjoyable! definitely want to see more of these. I can't believe how far these pokemon made it
Love these ideas so much. I want to try one of these. I imagine it would take a lot of research before the run finding out all the encounters and all that but it would pay off in the end
Yes!! Great video Silph, always been a fan of mono type challenges done a few myself over the years and currently doing a bug only run on Heartgold. Keep up the great work 💪
Thanks Brendan! That sounds like a fun run actually; let me know how it goes!
Yeah Brendan how did it go? 😅
Super excited to see this video! Looks like a brutal run!
When I saw how you beat the Altaria with your Solrock, my trauma from my first Nuzlocke attempt came back up: I lost to Winona because of crit dragon breath into rockslide miss (Altaria vs Solrock)
Anyone else also freaked out for Solrock not being used against Norman? lol
Also, Gardevoir could've used Thunderbolt against Tate and Liza instead of Psychic, you know
He also could use dig for slaking
Wait he does that latter
i dont get why he did not use shadowball against dusclops
@@ryanspencer3106 gardevior is a special attacker and he had calm minds up, so psychic would have been stronger than shadow ball which is physical in this gen, He probably should have learnt it to medicham tho cos pure power but yeah
the first part with only the raltz must have been basically how wallies adventure with his raltz also started. man, wallie really is a champ for enduring that and getting that far.
*RALTS DOES NOT END WITH A Z, IT ENDS WITH AN S!*
@@Amelia4111 dude calm down, i dont know the exact spelling of most pokemon probably (theres a test about it and i know i would fail most of it)
This run was awesome. First vid of yours I've watched, one suggestion is to include the reset counter in the hud thingy. Some of the strats you had to come up with were really creative and fun to watch. nice work
Can't say how happy I am to see you upload Pokemon challenge videos again ;-;. Thank you for keeping me sane during these times ♡
So glad to hear it Enki! I've missed doing them as well; feels good to be back :D Thanks for supporting the channel!
Silph: yay I caught a wynaut!!!!!
Trapinch: troll
Dude your fights had me on the edge of my seat! Still great run! gonna watch the other nuzlockes cause youtube doesnt notify me anymore :(
This was really good, man. Hope to see more nuzlockes like this.
Oh boy, this looks brutal. Super excited!
Awesome video! Great strategizing at the end! I really enjoyed watching this haha
medicham really lived up to her nickname
Medicham is obtainable in RS, but not Emerald. I used one on my first playthrough of Sapphire.
Edit: Just evolve a Meditite
You forgot about Starmie Is also a psychic type you could have used. Also chimeco is a bit rarer but still usable.
Unfortunately Starmie can't be found in the wild; only Staryu can, which isn't a Psychic type and would therefore be against the rules to catch. Chimecho is indeed available too, however it's on Mt. Pyre, where Meditite was, and the latter was a much better option. I just forgot to include it in the intro xD
@@SilphSpectre I think people would forgive you if you didn't use it until you evolved it into Starmie.
@@SilphSpectre then why do you have a zigzagoon
@@ALLMETAL1970 It was our HM Pokémon of course.
@@SilphSpectre what about torchic
really close win! and between this and the platinum fighting challenge, that's two teams where medicham was a huge team player
Wait wha? I’ve seen plenty of Medicham in the sapphire victory road
This was pure insanity
Sabrina: finally a worthy oppone-
*Kadabra dies*
sabrina: HOW DARE YOU KID KILLER!!!!
Crazy how good Pure Power Medicham is! Also Grumpig is one of my favorite underrated Pokémon. Glad to see it do so well for you ❤
Great job man! Would really like to see a team aqua/team magma run! Or, maybe an gym leader ace run. You use all the ace pokemon of each gym leader? May throw in elite four members too.
This was a very interesting challenge. Would love to see an Emerald version
Saddest death in this run was Violet the Gardevoir, IMO.
The fact he has a Zigzagoon
Damn you are determined 💪 that struggle strat is so repetitive but effective
Good lord that was insane! Bravo 👏
This video is Chimecho erasure XD Good job with the run!
Came to say the same xD
Also, isn't Starmie available in this game?
Thought of Starmie en Chimecco as well XD
@@CxAx2you can only get it as staryu and that isn’t psychic
@@tristandejonge1968 can’t get it because he got meditite
So exciting! That was near, special thanks to Medichan and Grumpig! Silph, really enjoy your videos, they're really surreal cool! Your challenges are super cool!
Absolutely brilliant my man. Loved this!
Ayy thanks a ton! More will be on its way soon :D
You seem a little unfamiliar with the changes that have happened throughout the generations.
Knock Off in Gen 3 was a very low power move and did not gain power if the opponent had an item like it does now. It was changed to its current form in Gen 6.
Sandstorm does not boost the Special Defense of Rock types in Gen 3. That change was implemented in Gen 4.
38:05 No it doesn't, Sandstorm doesn't raise Sp.Def of Rock types till gen 4
*gen 7
@@_yuvi_0w0 no, Gen 4.
@@Missiletainn i know my stupid lil brother comment that
yo this was hard to watch! almost every major battle was a close call! I don't know how you did it, but honestly good on you! Incredible!
Great vid, really enjoyable! Not to nitpick or anything but you totally could have swapped Solrock to save Claydol but either way you won
PC should react to this, he'll have a blast critiquing every decision :p
I respect you choosing the psychic nuzlocke that was brave love your content
Definitely subscribing
Thanks so much Makayah; hope you continue to enjoy the challenges! :D
saw you using a zigzagoon (I assume for HM/pickup) if you're allowing other pokemon for that you could always use an exp share to dump xp and avoid over leveling :) on another thought.. might have to catch extra pokemon to unlock it! anyways, love the vids :)
Silph: With only the ones in screen being available.
Chimecho and Starmie: And we took that personally.
Only 4 minutes in, but damn this is very interesting and fun. Didn't think there would be so match planning needed so early.
Glad you're enjoying it my friend! This run in particular required some extra planning at the start for sure; starting off with nothing but Growl and a type that another type has an immunity too is quite difficult! Not to mention there are few Psychic encounters early on. Was definitely an interesting start to try and tackle
@@SilphSpectre Yeah, actually haven't finished the video since I was watchibg it in bed and had to sleep, but now I have time to watch the rest
The Meditite line Is Availble in Sapphire
Where’s your proof
@@ronswanson7371 in MT Pyre And Victory Road*
* There Is Also Medicham
Must’ve misspoke
@@ronswanson7371 go Try bulbapedia jerk
@@pepopesek5742 rude
You can catch Abra north of the first gym.
I’m 32 years old and just stumbled upon you! Watching all of your videos! Please don’t stop uploading the people need more silph
Fun fact: If Wally had returned that Zigzagoon, both of you started with a struggling ralts 😂
You're more badass tho
When I was younger I almost always did a mono water run.
Yeah water gun basically works for everything and swampert is the most op starter across all generations
I'd rate that a 7.8 out of 10
Mono water is a great way to start getting into nuzlockes too, tons of fantastic pokemon.
@@wheelskelton2761 mudkip mudkip mudkip mudkip 😂
@@mikhailfischercapablanca9650
Mudkip and gyara really. The two synergize so ridiculously well. You have tentacruel and starmie to carry runs as well
how have I not noticed this channel before you're literally so underrated
I’m simply in love with these challenge videos.
I'm in love with your content!
I think you forgot about starmie, unless you didn't want to use it since you can only find it in the wild as Staryu and Staryu isn't psychic until it evolves
Damn that looked damn near impossible at the beginning but you found a way. Another amazing video as always. Another cool challenge would be mono fire type in platinum since there is only five species of fire Pokémon in platinum.
Look at FlygonHG's video for Diamond with only fire types. He nuzlocked the whole thing using only one infernape and one rapidash, as well as the extra hardcore rules (level caps, held items only, set battle mode)
As someone who's been doing mono runs I have a rule that you can use other Pokémon to switch train your main type for use torchic* to switch train ralts in wild battles, random trainer fights, and rematches...
Amazing work, u have big o'l balls sir. New to discover this channel but it's excellent.love what you do!
Thanks so much Josh; more to come soon!
If meditite and Medicham are unobtainable in Sapphire, then what were the psychic/fighting type encounters in Victory Road?
This was a stressful run, especially when a couple Psychic-type Pokémon were left out! Well, Starmie being the big one. That Water-type would have come in handy, especially for basic Surf amenities.
Haha nice. I thought this was that other channel at first. I love monotype challenges
Would you say Psychic is the hardest type for this run? (outside of fairy or dragon obviously, good luck with that, one doesn’t even exist lol )
*raises hand* Teacher, what about a D/P/P NON-STARTER fire run?
Platinum is okay I guess Pearl and diamond are not good
More like a Rapidash solo
The special defense gain for Rock types under Sandstorm is Gen 4 onwards. It's not a thing in Ruby.
31:05 that holy fk was exactly what I was thinking lolol sometimes cursing is so funny
BEYBLADE LET IT RIPP!!!!
i always name my GARDEVOIR Friendzoned because i love her but as a trainer
I always name her Guacamole because her hair looks like it
I always name my gardevoir was rem...
you know why.
@@jillwasalone8823 yeah butif you're Subaru it's ok if you're not then i hate you, you know why
DO NOT CALL GARDEVOIR A SHE! ALL POKEMON ARE TO BE CALLED IT EVEN IF THEY HAVE GENDERS OR NICKNAMES!
@@Amelia4111 chill bruh
He didn't teach Medicham Shadow Ball, he could've easily face rolled Tate and Liza with just that one pokemon since ghost is physical in gen 3.
I always love your videos and look forward to watching them live and then the RUclips video later
To be honest, Medicham is actually pretty great
A shame that it looks so dumb
It's been forever since I saw a silph video.
Ive also named a pokemon Lucky. It was a Zorua in Pokemon Brick Bronze, and its encounter rate was low so i was lucky to find it. I also think Zoroark is pretty cool.
Holy shit that was incredibly tense great vid!
Glad you took the right fossil, the algorithm will be pleased!
And damn what a video, that elite 4 was brutal but damn that was epic none the less!
This was awesome and i'm surprised you didn't get Chimecho.
Same location as Meditite.
Medicham has suddenly become one of my all time favourite pokemon
nice to see other people doing these challenges again but with challenging rules