Between complimenting Smoochum, Delibird, and Crabominable, as well as commending Lusamine for her frozen Pokémon “collection”, I can tell Michael really had to bite his tongue for the role of this playthrough lmao.
@@jorvach9874 A lot of people hate Crabominable because of its design. That's pretty much it. To be fair, it doesn't look very good, but I've seen worse.
@@r4nd0mguy99 Yeah that seems to be the primary reason, I don’t even think it’s that bad (there are worse Pokémon out there, both design and battle wise), but I don’t know many people who actually like it at all.
As a dragon type trainer, I should be furious about this. But I cannot deny that Ice is such an underrated type that I think it deserves such a playtrough. (Plus Kyurem exists, proving that Dragon and Ice can coexist)
Agreed and I'm a Fire and Ghost duel type Gym leader! Sure Ice is underrated but there are so many Good ice Types out there Including Zen Mode Galarian Darmanitan! ^~^
Man, now I wanna see one of these done with only Normal-Types and it’s either the most mind-numbingly boring character playing, or somebody who’s absolutely insane but convinced that they’re completely normal.
Between having multiple consecutive losses, regularly changing the team composition, and not getting to use Z-moves until the literal endgame, I think it's safe to say that the Unova Bug Catcher playthrough is no longer Mikey's least favorite team. Shame, since the Ice-type gets enough flak as it is, but what can you do?
I think from the team recap video that's not the case. I kinda get it I think, since at least the ice one started hitting it's stride in the second half of the playthrough whereas bug struggled throughout.
@@dwyanesiwa7018 same dude and I got more appreciation for him after using him in platinum and my dumb mistake trying to evolve him in distortion world
1:33 technically you don’t become the kahuna of poni island, you do something even cooler (pun intended). You become the first ever champion of the region and climb the one ICE location in the game, Mount Lanakila. This is where you find most of the regional ice types, including in tapu village at the foot, the Icium Z crystal, get the TM for Ice Beam AND you literally get a throne on the top of the huge ice mountain overlooking your domain of Alola. The game literally tells you you are meant to be the ice type specialist, the best trainer in alola. Plus, if you wanted to become Kahuna of Ula Ula, Nanu seems like he wants to retire. And you could make friends with mimikyu down the mountain at the ghost trial. Thank you for coming to my Ice Type Alola Ted Talk. FYI did this run in Pokémon moon where there’s like 15 available Pokémon and it was a blast. I including island scans cuz is more fun that way.
@@JustinBingman Clodsire, Grafaiai, Iron Moth (Violet only), Glimmora, and Revavroom are literally the only new additions to the Poison-Type line up. But Clodsire eats the E4 for breakfast.
Grunty boi needs his own channel where he just does random everyday things in character lol. Also you may resist Araquanids bubble but it's ability water bubble doubles the damage of it's water moves so it's technically doing full damage to you.
I’d love to see a monotype run where you’re dressed up as Mr. Crocker from fairly odd parents and obsessed with catching all the “faiRy GoD pAReNts” (fairy types) in like X and Y or Alola again
When Michael in-character complimented Smoochum and Delibird, it gets the genuine chuckle out of me. But when he complimented Crabominable, I was diying from laughter
Me early in the video: Oh, cool, he's using a Seel, he'll actually have a Dewgong on his team for the entire playthrough! Maybe he'll gain some newfound respect for Dewgong as a species from this! Me after Mikey catches Vulpix, Swinub, and Snorunt: We're never seeing Blubba again, are we.
As someone who specializes in ice types themselves I'm glad to have seen this. Though have to say my Ice type team I ran through Alola was a bit similar to yours my only difference was instead of Lapras I had a Glaceon
This is also why my Alolan champion uses ice types. Glace the Sandslash, Aurora the Ninetales, Chill the Lapras, Blizz the Froslass, Winter the Weavile, and Frost the Abomasnow.
Omg same! Back in the days, I went back to go through the elite four just so I could use an alona Sandslash as a key part of my team: I was so sad when I found out, in the first playthrough, that you couldn't get Sandshrew until the late game
I actually really like Ice types (I once swept 2 elite 4 members with my Glaceon, and thought ice types were pretty powerful) and since pokemon challenges keeps putting them down, I really wanted to see a mono ice type run. So it was really nice to watch this 😃😃😃
The Ice type is my favorite, and I always thought it was weird that Alola had a Type specialist for every type EXCPT ICE! Makes sense, Tropical island, blah blah blah... But STILL! I would absolutely be the ICE specialist! I don't like hot weather anyway, i'd live on Mount Lanakia, Snow is awesome!
As a BIG lover of the Ice type, I was actually considering doing this myself. But I never had the time to do it, so thanks Mikey. Thank you for doing what I have wanted for a long time
I used a Crabrawler on my first ever playthrough team in alola, and did not know that it even evolved. I only found out that it evolved into its next form when I was about the fight the Pokémon league
It still evolves at Mount Lanakila in USUM, but you can access part of it on your first visit to Ulaula Island now. No more waiting until right before the league challenge.
I really love Crabominable, I got a Shiny Crabrawler on Ultra Sun at the beginning of the game and I really enjoyed using a giant red fluffy crab Also, i love the fe3h soundtrack in the background
YES! Fellow Crabominable enjoyer! I love my dopey deep-sea yeti oaf! I had a Shiny Crabominable in my now lost OG Moon file named Bloodslugger. She was Impish with Iron Fist, and kicked (or punched) serious keister. Hoping to revive her in Ultra Moon!
Alola finally getting some representation from Michael, thank you for blessing us with Unova's narrative runner-up and the most underrated and fun main series game 🙏👏
Crabominable is super underrated IMO. It has good Attack and a pretty great movepool to work with its abilities. No chance of competitive use, but in the story you can just use your boosted Hammer moves to nuke everything you see.
Agility or even Speed Boost would not help Crabominable: only a Trick Room that lasts while Crabominable is alive would maximize what it could do, and even then not by much.
I'm really enjoying your typelocke videos. For additional challenge I usually limit myself to only one of a species. An example would be catching a Vanillite and being unable to catch Vanillish.
@@owenaspinall2046 Maybe my version of typelockes are different, but typelocke to me simply means swapping the perma death of nuzzlocke with the limitation of using only 1 type.
They should really buff the ice type at least add a couple more resistances other than other ice types and maybe one other type it is super effective against otherwise give some it some neutral damage to other types
Im so happy that he evolved Snorunt into Froslass. I can tell you this, from my Pokemon Shield playthroughs, Froslass is an absolute beast. Got a Level 20, max Dynamax level Froslass (With Snow Cloak) before even going to Motostoke. I loved destroying every single trainer, and Milo's face when I sent out Froslass with a move set of hail, double team, shadow ball, and ice fang. A beautiful, scary, and powerful Pokemon, wish I used Froslass before Sword and Shield, we need more love to it
I used Froslass on my Sword playthrough. Bea's first Pokémon can't hit ghost types, so I stacked up double teams until I maxed out evasion and swept everything
Froslass has had a pretty interesting Gen 8 too. Her attacking stats are equal which means you can definitely go physical with some help from the Isle of Armor's move tutor. Triple Axel and Poltergeist are nice new Froslass options.
I’m really glad Mikey did this playthrough. Ice is my favorite type (such a cool type, pun intended🤣🥶) and ultra sun and moon is one of my favorite game in the entire series. Although it’s not good defensively, it can deal super effective to many types. So I really understand his struggle in the beginning😂 but he successfully got through it. Thank you again for witnessing my favorite type. Hail yeah!!!🌨❄️☃️
This brings back memories for me, Pokémon Sun was the first Pokémon game I’ve ever played and I loved Crabrawler, little kid me didn’t know it could evolve and had a really janky team overall, so I accidentally evolved it really late game right before the elite 4 and it went destroying the Elite 4, so that was really fun.
Alola, finally! The Ice type is pretty cool (no pun intended) and Alolan Ninetales is my favorite Ice type. I'm very happy that you're playing Ultra Sun. Edit: Ngl, Ultra Sun and Moon looks fire in HD. Edit 2.0: Let me guess, Spheal's nickname is a reference to Mikey's XD Gale of Darkness playthrough, isn't?
If it was team sky, it would have been pretty easy, as one of the starters is flying, and you get the flyinium-z pretty early, so you could have just swept any difficult challenge with supersonic skystike so ice is a nice change
in jinx’s defense…i recently used it in my crystal nuzlocke from the egg, got a shiny, and its really amazing. ice/psychic is fantastic for those games and you can buy ice punch immediately
4:03 Sina? An ice specialist in Alola? Yeah right. Let me give you a few reasons why people who said that are dead wrong: 1. Sina can only be fought in Moon. 2. She's not important to the Alolan journey. 3. She only has 2 Ice types. And 4. She's not even from Alola, she from Kalos!
She _is_ an Ice specialist, that much is clear, but her being from Kalos still means the Alola region doesn't have a native Ice specialist so this video still works.
@@gengarzilla1685 that's arguable. In the Battle Tree, she only has 3 possible ice-types, the other types include grass, psychic, dark/flying, dragon/normal, and ground.
I was literally crying in my closet while watching this and I just want to let you know that your videos being me so much joy even when I am not feeling much of it.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate Grunty Boi’ hard work and dedication at promoting sponsors despite Mikey (god, I hope I spelled his name right 😅) going into his deep method acting phases, which are also awesome btw.
9:00 now im curious what about TEAM SKY try conquering the skies of alola? kina they can make a second base in poni island since there no kahunas (except the ice kahuna if gonna mix universes and the little girl)
Thank you for finally giving the ice type (the best type) the recognition it deserves. I hope in the new gen there are some other cool ones that I can have on my team. Keep up the great content 👍
Anyone who seriously says Ice is the worst should try using an Ice type that isn't slow. You're openly misusing and misunderstanding this powerful type, don't go passing your incomplete decision as fact.
Glaceon would just hold him back. This Pokémon slips too far into a key failing of many Ice types, it's slow. It's just an Ice type recreation of the underperforming Flareon and commits all the same mistakes as Crabominable. A powerful type with almost zero defensive utility like Ice is, needs to be fast like Weavile. It's the same reason why I criticise the average Rock type because they have this same problem. They need to be more like Aerodactyl and less like Golem. And don't get me started on Hisui Avalugg, that thing legit represents everything wrong with both the Ice and Rock types.
To be honest, it's also the Z-Crystal that made him livid because during his Moon Wonderlocke, Velursi died after failing to KO Hau's Decidueye with Subzero Slammer and then got OHKO'd by Decidueye's Bloom Doom
Those kind of videos of yours are just fantastic. Hilarious and interesting from the first second to the last. Can’t wait for the next team sky video (we got your teaser 😜) Also the watchmojo joke killed me 😂😂
13:47 It's been so long since I've played SM or USUM that before he said that was the sea after 4 p.m., I momentarily was severely confused as to were he found a lava pool in Alola, let alone one with a wooden dock. Also, I am genuinely amazed Mikey pulled off mimicking one of those Z-move dances. Those things ain't easy to get down.
3:40, I love the opening for the sponsor bit, also, I agree with Grunty Boi... When you get into character for a challenge video, you get into character... I wouldn't go the 'unhinged' route... But, making the room freezing? Really?
0:29 I can’t be the only one who recognised that proof of a hero building up in the background right? Where my fellow hunters at? Also yet another entertaining video from mikey, amazing work man.
i did one in ultra sun and it was awesome. my final team was Primarima, Shiny Lapras, Shiny Clawitzer, Suicune, Ludicolo and Carracosta. It was pretty difficult- to the point that I had to cheat to beat Ultra Necrozma- but it was totally worth it!
3:57 •Wow Michael how COLD of you... •It gave me the SHIVERS. •Am glad grunt boy is show n-ICE to do the sponsorship for you... •that very COOL of him.
Now, whenever or if ever he does a water type run, he must refer to ice as hardened water as a reference to referring to water as melted ice. (right now I cant member if he's done one already)
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Isn’t sina the ice type?
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Can you play Monster Hunter Stories 2?
i only got here early because i turned on full notifications.
the Delibird reaction was everything 😭
RUclips!
Holy shi-
Here before this comment blows up because it is literally RUclips themselves
Omfg it’s RUclips
What!???!?????
It’s you RUclips
"Add it to your collection, Lusamine!"
That was unexpectedly savage.
It was...cold of him to say that
@@tylerbartlett28 when he said it... I got chills up my spine
Mikey: *Worries about getting all sweaty in the volcano area*
Also Mikey: *Is literally in Hawaii*
Rly I thought he was in Texas
He means the region as a whole is basically Hawaii, but Mikey does live in texas
@@beautifulworld0109 Ohhhh
@@nagitokomaeda4316 r/wooosh
ok
The slight pain in Mikey's voice when he called Crabominable beautiful says it all about this run.
It’s beautiful in a “It’s about my mentality” kind of way
it was probably a joke
Let's be honest here:
The ONLY reason Mikey did this challenge was for that cool scarf flip in the intro 😂
And to say hail yeah
@@Eeuu1133 True! 😆
Did you just make an snow pun?
Cuz you said 'cool' scarf flip. Yeah no my humor is bad
@@danooby8960 I didn't even peep that at first. 🥇
@@Victinifan13 to what?
Grunty Boy’s confusion turning to “Ah, I see you’re doing one of these” and immediate understanding of how to get Mikey’s attention is pretty funny.
They know each others quirks
Between complimenting Smoochum, Delibird, and Crabominable, as well as commending Lusamine for her frozen Pokémon “collection”, I can tell Michael really had to bite his tongue for the role of this playthrough lmao.
Is Crabominable that bad? I've never used one, but for some reason I thought it was a lot better than Smoochum and *shudder* Delibird.
I mean, that Smoochum did have her moments where she came in clutch.
@@jorvach9874 A lot of people hate Crabominable because of its design. That's pretty much it. To be fair, it doesn't look very good, but I've seen worse.
@@r4nd0mguy99
Yeah that seems to be the primary reason, I don’t even think it’s that bad (there are worse Pokémon out there, both design and battle wise), but I don’t know many people who actually like it at all.
@@jorvach9874 I like Crambomianle, its literally a Yeti crab, bit goofy yes but not that bad.
"Add it to your collection, Lusamine!"
That's cold, dude.
As a dragon type trainer, I should be furious about this. But I cannot deny that Ice is such an underrated type that I think it deserves such a playtrough. (Plus Kyurem exists, proving that Dragon and Ice can coexist)
@@maley2552 agreed
I scared as a grass trainer
Aww
Agreed and I'm a Fire and Ghost duel type Gym leader! Sure Ice is underrated but there are so many Good ice Types out there Including Zen Mode Galarian Darmanitan! ^~^
As a grass type trainer is video was very "chilling" experience
Man, now I wanna see one of these done with only Normal-Types and it’s either the most mind-numbingly boring character playing, or somebody who’s absolutely insane but convinced that they’re completely normal.
That's...an great idea
He uses psychopath method where he seems like some normal dude, but as it goes on, he becomes steadily more unhinged.
Honestly, I want to see mikey acting crazy while convincing himself that hes normal
@@phantomnite so basically every character playthrough he does
@@magellan6439 yeah, but it would be whole joke. Hes Insane but hes using normal pokemon while saying hes just a normal guy
"Add it to your collection, Lusamine!" That cracked me up.
Between having multiple consecutive losses, regularly changing the team composition, and not getting to use Z-moves until the literal endgame, I think it's safe to say that the Unova Bug Catcher playthrough is no longer Mikey's least favorite team. Shame, since the Ice-type gets enough flak as it is, but what can you do?
Tbh I think Mikey likes the challenge
Yeah the ice run was terrible, he lost so many battles
@@magicalhikari5859
No he doesn't he has stated many times he does not like tough battles
I think from the team recap video that's not the case. I kinda get it I think, since at least the ice one started hitting it's stride in the second half of the playthrough whereas bug struggled throughout.
Hitting its stride in the second half? So, you could say it started to snowball later?
Genuinely surprised you didn’t buy the Aurora Veil TM for your Ninetales. It had snow warning so it would’ve been free double defense at all times.
That would've been too easy 😂
@@mr.sandman7339 fr
God i love these videos from Michael so, so much. They really are a treat from beginning to end.
Crimas
Couldnt have said it better💪🔥
This may be the worst run he's ever had, Man Ice isn't a good type
Yes dude
@@RodimusMinor1987 ice is a good type it’s just that every game is different.
Ice types are my favorite
Same, after Dragons
Mine is weavile
@@dwyanesiwa7018 mine is forslass :>
@@dwyanesiwa7018 same dude and I got more appreciation for him after using him in platinum and my dumb mistake trying to evolve him in distortion world
ice types are *cool* and all but my favourite type is steel >:D
Nobody:
Literally Nobody:
Ice Mikey: After 4:00 pm the ocean turns into *F A N T A*
Finally. Good to see the ice type getting some love.
The love it doesn't deserve?
@@gerbentime4175 Everybody's a unique indevidual,
everyone's beautiful in their own way
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Some people are just really Fettin' wrong
@@gerbentime4175 you have gained my disrespect
@@SphealthatMunches WHYYYYY????
@@rells2311 he's an ice type, the worst type for nuzlockes and playthroughs, the only thing ice type is good for, fairy type does better
1:33 technically you don’t become the kahuna of poni island, you do something even cooler (pun intended). You become the first ever champion of the region and climb the one ICE location in the game, Mount Lanakila. This is where you find most of the regional ice types, including in tapu village at the foot, the Icium Z crystal, get the TM for Ice Beam AND you literally get a throne on the top of the huge ice mountain overlooking your domain of Alola. The game literally tells you you are meant to be the ice type specialist, the best trainer in alola.
Plus, if you wanted to become Kahuna of Ula Ula, Nanu seems like he wants to retire. And you could make friends with mimikyu down the mountain at the ghost trial.
Thank you for coming to my Ice Type Alola Ted Talk.
FYI did this run in Pokémon moon where there’s like 15 available Pokémon and it was a blast. I including island scans cuz is more fun that way.
What an epic observation. This just makes me appreciate this challenge even more.
What about an only Poison Types run? That could provide for an interesting personality.
He’d just get very toxic
He should do it in gen 9 poison run so he can use the best poison type: Clodsire!
@@JustinBingman Clodsire, Grafaiai, Iron Moth (Violet only), Glimmora, and Revavroom are literally the only new additions to the Poison-Type line up. But Clodsire eats the E4 for breakfast.
@@matthewgallaway3675He's just male Klara.
The rise of Ninja Mikey.
I love how Michael stays in character all the time. Makes these videos so entertaining to watch.
And he completely ignores Grunty Boi
He even stays in character when complimenting Crabominable's appearance, that's called dedication
Grunty boi needs his own channel where he just does random everyday things in character lol. Also you may resist Araquanids bubble but it's ability water bubble doubles the damage of it's water moves so it's technically doing full damage to you.
And it was also raining which also further boosted Totem Araquanid's water moves!
Team sky should have it's own channel
Who wants him to do a Sword/Shield run with Electric types as the Electric gym leader?
Edit: Damn, thanks for the likes, and my comment aged well lol
that would be really good
Yes!
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@@R.MaxumOff shut up bot
It would be cool
15:33 the epic training montage was great. Definitely one of the best parts.
Gotta love how Mikey's first "ice type" is actually one that is super effective against ice
Man, even for a tropical region, Alola really mistreated the ice type
Ninetales and sandslash?
@@therealevilmudbug Those are two pokemon, and they don't make up for the sh*t ice types went through in Alola
@@aventurasdemais8261 ok fair enough but they are still very good
@@therealevilmudbug Now that is something I can agree with
They made two amazing Ice-Types, and *didn't utilize them?!*
*WHY?!*
I’d love to see a monotype run where you’re dressed up as Mr. Crocker from fairly odd parents and obsessed with catching all the “faiRy GoD pAReNts” (fairy types) in like X and Y or Alola again
Problem, there’s already a Fairy Specialist in X, Y and the Alola Games…
@@NightcoreBrawler that’s why he’s a fairy hunter lol. Stealing all the fairies
he could be a fairy specialist in lets go?
FAIRY TYPE POKEMON!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then, as a final twist, he can turn over all those fairy Pokemon to become Team Pixie Dust! So awesome 😎 and evil 😈 and cute 🥰.
Appreciation comment for Katie the editor. The editing on these videos are actually incredibly and so enjoyable, thank you for being so great.
@6:34 the Watchmojo gag had me dying 😂
Omg the best
Me too
Yeah that's to funny XD 🤣
I could feel the nostalgia from when I watched that a lot
Me too!
When Michael in-character complimented Smoochum and Delibird, it gets the genuine chuckle out of me. But when he complimented Crabominable, I was diying from laughter
Me early in the video: Oh, cool, he's using a Seel, he'll actually have a Dewgong on his team for the entire playthrough! Maybe he'll gain some newfound respect for Dewgong as a species from this!
Me after Mikey catches Vulpix, Swinub, and Snorunt: We're never seeing Blubba again, are we.
As someone who specializes in ice types themselves I'm glad to have seen this. Though have to say my Ice type team I ran through Alola was a bit similar to yours my only difference was instead of Lapras I had a Glaceon
This is also why my Alolan champion uses ice types. Glace the Sandslash, Aurora the Ninetales, Chill the Lapras, Blizz the Froslass, Winter the Weavile, and Frost the Abomasnow.
Great names I always forget
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@@thepokefoo5239 gayman18
Omg same! Back in the days, I went back to go through the elite four just so I could use an alona Sandslash as a key part of my team: I was so sad when I found out, in the first playthrough, that you couldn't get Sandshrew until the late game
Cool namens my guy
Can't wait for Team Sky in Sinnoh, Unova, Kalos, Alola, and Galar
Imagine when he will see Skyla and Tornadus, a gym leader and a literally GOD of the sky
I want to see team sky in Hisui, that would be really cool
@@iambabyyoda5522 just for the flying Gyarados alone would be worth it.
And then what every the gen 9 region is called
Staraptor would be INSANE
I actually really like Ice types (I once swept 2 elite 4 members with my Glaceon, and thought ice types were pretty powerful) and since pokemon challenges keeps putting them down, I really wanted to see a mono ice type run. So it was really nice to watch this 😃😃😃
Was it Aaron and Bertha of Sinnoh’s Elite Four though
The Ice type is my favorite, and I always thought it was weird that Alola had a Type specialist for every type EXCPT ICE!
Makes sense, Tropical island, blah blah blah...
But STILL! I would absolutely be the ICE specialist! I don't like hot weather anyway, i'd live on Mount Lanakia, Snow is awesome!
The thing is, you _do_ face off with Sina in Moon/Ultra Moon, and she _is_ an Ice-type specialist.
She’s a Tourist, doesn’t count.
28:31 this is no ordinary laugh, this is the laugh of ultimate joy, after going through insanity and back.
As a BIG lover of the Ice type, I was actually considering doing this myself. But I never had the time to do it, so thanks Mikey. Thank you for doing what I have wanted for a long time
@wnnalis cioov Hail yeah!!! indeed
I ran only ice types in Shield and it was a ton of fun. All future playthroughs will be spent as a "specialist". I'm thinking grass for Scarlet
@@calebhayes7691 I support it. Keep it up!
I love the ice type, steel type, and poison. I always love using ice types in playthroughs. It’s great offensively!
@@waybisplayz7301 It's great offensively but sadly not that good defensively. It only resists itself
My heart is just warming up with Alola as it’s my second favorite Gen. Plus Mikey is on of my favorite poke tubers!
Same here
If alola is your second fav, whats your favourite?
Hoenn. It started my love for Pokémon but my third place is Unova. It’s also really cool.
i love alola
@@rubysmasherwaitwhat6456 Same my favorite is hoenn and second alola
The fact that he knows the Z move dance so well is terrifying and glorious at the same time Hail Yeah to ice
I used a Crabrawler on my first ever playthrough team in alola, and did not know that it even evolved. I only found out that it evolved into its next form when I was about the fight the Pokémon league
In Sun and Moon it only evolves in Mount Lanakila I'm pretty sure, they changed it in USUM
It still evolves at Mount Lanakila in USUM, but you can access part of it on your first visit to Ulaula Island now. No more waiting until right before the league challenge.
In Sun and Moon you cant enter mount Lanakila at all until clearing all the trials and catching Solgaleo/Lunala
I really love Crabominable, I got a Shiny Crabrawler on Ultra Sun at the beginning of the game and I really enjoyed using a giant red fluffy crab
Also, i love the fe3h soundtrack in the background
Wow congrats
YES! Fellow Crabominable enjoyer! I love my dopey deep-sea yeti oaf!
I had a Shiny Crabominable in my now lost OG Moon file named Bloodslugger. She was Impish with Iron Fist, and kicked (or punched) serious keister. Hoping to revive her in Ultra Moon!
ice types are criminaly underrated, glad to see a fellow ice type enthusiest.
nah they are just bad
Sadly ice is just a bad type, it has some awesome designs tho
@@renatoalmeyda8273 *cough cough* crabominable *cough cough*
@@TornadoGames1 i said some
@@TornadoGames1 still underrated. defensivly is why it sucks. but people just move on forgetting offensively
Michael:I’ve never seen a Pokémon this beautiful
Lockstin:Are you sure about that
Yes! Ice types are my favorite! I even did an Ice run as well in Ultra Sun, though I sent over an Alolan Vulpix I had bred to use as my starter.
I'm surprised Mikey didn't use the gift Araurus and an Alolan Sandslash
@@RodimusMinor1987these are Ultra Moon version exclusives, and this is played on Ultra Sun
@fadhilmulyono9230
Wow, a really late reply to a comment I'd forgotten I made
Alola finally getting some representation from Michael, thank you for blessing us with Unova's narrative runner-up and the most underrated and fun main series game 🙏👏
What about Ultra Moon no catching?
@@unitds27-delta In fairness that was quite a while ago. As in 14 months ago.
Alola games were good, the cutscenes are too much though
I love the aloha games to
@@JustSumIdiot and as a reward you get a banger story in the originals and an amazing heap of hundreds of hours of post game content
This video taught me an important lesson about a Pokémon of my third favorite type, and that is to never let Dewgong use a physical move.
I love doing these mono type runs in games. makes some battles that much harder, but always worth it when you overcome the challenge.
Crabominable is super underrated IMO. It has good Attack and a pretty great movepool to work with its abilities. No chance of competitive use, but in the story you can just use your boosted Hammer moves to nuke everything you see.
Yeah if the thing had agility it might me a bit _____
Agility or even Speed Boost would not help Crabominable: only a Trick Room that lasts while Crabominable is alive would maximize what it could do, and even then not by much.
also it gets iron fist which is extremely good because it learns mostly punch moves
@@DPJDoesThings and Ice Hammer and Hammer Arm are counted as punches. 100 BP moves + STAB + Iron Fist with minimal drawbacks.
The Ice/Fighting combo is offensively fantastic. It's just that Crabominable itself sucks.
His reactions to catching Smoochum and Delibird were priceless lol!
I'm really enjoying your typelocke videos. For additional challenge I usually limit myself to only one of a species. An example would be catching a Vanillite and being unable to catch Vanillish.
This isn't a typelocke. It isn't a nuzlocke.
@@owenaspinall2046 Maybe my version of typelockes are different, but typelocke to me simply means swapping the perma death of nuzzlocke with the limitation of using only 1 type.
He gets into deep character with these kinds of videos. It makes it a lot more entertaining to watch.
I am still trying to figure out this character what is he cold hearted Ice user
They should really buff the ice type at least add a couple more resistances other than other ice types and maybe one other type it is super effective against otherwise give some it some neutral damage to other types
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@@Jay7707 I could care less as long as it is not one of those ±18 bots
@@Kotiri pretty sure it was.
@@rileyackison4495 welp why the hell does one of those things even need other comments they can just go to the abyss for I care
They use other peoples comments to look real, not that that helps at all
I love ice types! They are my favourite type so I am really happy. Thanks dude!
Same here I love ice types as well
Mike’s do be looking kinda COLD
Same!! Ice is my favorite type along with Fairy!!
@@minefish same!!!
Fellow ice type lover here❄
Im so happy that he evolved Snorunt into Froslass. I can tell you this, from my Pokemon Shield playthroughs, Froslass is an absolute beast. Got a Level 20, max Dynamax level Froslass (With Snow Cloak) before even going to Motostoke. I loved destroying every single trainer, and Milo's face when I sent out Froslass with a move set of hail, double team, shadow ball, and ice fang. A beautiful, scary, and powerful Pokemon, wish I used Froslass before Sword and Shield, we need more love to it
I used Froslass on my Sword playthrough. Bea's first Pokémon can't hit ghost types, so I stacked up double teams until I maxed out evasion and swept everything
Froslass also has the special distinction of being 1 of the fastest Ice-Types in Pokemon too (Top 5 among non-Legendaries actually)!
Froslass has had a pretty interesting Gen 8 too. Her attacking stats are equal which means you can definitely go physical with some help from the Isle of Armor's move tutor. Triple Axel and Poltergeist are nice new Froslass options.
I used her on my monotype ghost run of legends Arkoos
Started off slow and got more powerful quickly near the end. I guess you could say, this team snowballed pretty hard
I love the continuation of Grunty boy becoming weirded out by Michaels immersion in his characters, it hilarious and ironic.
I haven't seen the Alolan region is so long
The nostalgia has come back like a brick
I love that we've gotten to the point where Grunty Boy is calling Mikey weird. The tables have turned.
15:01 Michael is letting his inner Paul out.
I’m really glad Mikey did this playthrough. Ice is my favorite type (such a cool type, pun intended🤣🥶) and ultra sun and moon is one of my favorite game in the entire series. Although it’s not good defensively, it can deal super effective to many types. So I really understand his struggle in the beginning😂 but he successfully got through it. Thank you again for witnessing my favorite type. Hail yeah!!!🌨❄️☃️
Fun Fact, I actually tried this challenge myself and won
It was a bit janky but it was fun
me too
This brings back memories for me, Pokémon Sun was the first Pokémon game I’ve ever played and I loved Crabrawler, little kid me didn’t know it could evolve and had a really janky team overall, so I accidentally evolved it really late game right before the elite 4 and it went destroying the Elite 4, so that was really fun.
That training montage deserves a "hail yeah!"
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Alola, finally! The Ice type is pretty cool (no pun intended) and Alolan Ninetales is my favorite Ice type. I'm very happy that you're playing Ultra Sun.
Edit: Ngl, Ultra Sun and Moon looks fire in HD.
Edit 2.0: Let me guess, Spheal's nickname is a reference to Mikey's XD Gale of Darkness playthrough, isn't?
after I named it that I had this feeling like I had done it before but could not remember when. I'm impressed you remembered!
@@MandJTVPlays I was just obsessed with your XD playthrough, that's why i remember, such a underrated game tho.
The faces Mikey makes while being in character crack me up everytime 🤣
He has to practice them in a mirror lol
If it was team sky, it would have been pretty easy, as one of the starters is flying, and you get the flyinium-z pretty early, so you could have just swept any difficult challenge with supersonic skystike
so ice is a nice change
tbf rowlet turns into a ghost type after it fully evolves so idk if its allowed in the challenge.
@@staarfall5317 you can use it until it evolves, then you surely have options to replace it at that point
@@staarfall5317 , i mean, mikey did it so he could use flying types that cant fly, so he could use pokemon that can fly that arent flying type
It would also be pretty funny to see him react to Decidueye not being Grass/Flying. There's great material for a Team Sky playthrough in that bit.
@@wyvernknight Pokémon who can fly and Mightyennas
As an ice-type lover, this video was much appreciated.
in jinx’s defense…i recently used it in my crystal nuzlocke from the egg, got a shiny, and its really amazing. ice/psychic is fantastic for those games and you can buy ice punch immediately
Yeah, but it hasn't aged well. Gen 2 was a very different time with a much more limited selection of Pokémon.
4:03 Sina? An ice specialist in Alola? Yeah right. Let me give you a few reasons why people who said that are dead wrong:
1. Sina can only be fought in Moon.
2. She's not important to the Alolan journey.
3. She only has 2 Ice types.
And 4. She's not even from Alola, she from Kalos!
Eh, number 2 isn't really valid. The Dragon-type specialist for the region only shows up as a challenger on League rematches.
@@RabblesTheBinx but he can be fought in both versions which is the point
She _is_ an Ice specialist, that much is clear, but her being from Kalos still means the Alola region doesn't have a native Ice specialist so this video still works.
@@phantomnite meh, we've had version-exclusive specialists, before.
@@gengarzilla1685 that's arguable. In the Battle Tree, she only has 3 possible ice-types, the other types include grass, psychic, dark/flying, dragon/normal, and ground.
I was literally crying in my closet while watching this and I just want to let you know that your videos being me so much joy even when I am not feeling much of it.
Are you okay?
So I guess the SpongeBob time card made sense there.
Hope things get better for you stranger.
4:36 is one of my favorite parts now and I haven’t even finished the video. I Love your content
Can we just take a moment to appreciate Grunty Boi’ hard work and dedication at promoting sponsors despite Mikey (god, I hope I spelled his name right 😅) going into his deep method acting phases, which are also awesome btw.
“Ice Mikey”:Names his vulpix “storm”
Meanwhile me and Team Sky Mikey: MORE WETNESS
I appreciate that you jumped right into it, instead of spending 5 minutes explaining what this run would entail.
There's not really much to explain anyway. Just Ice types and the Ice Z-move.
9:00 now im curious what about TEAM SKY try conquering the skies of alola? kina they can make a second base in poni island since there no kahunas (except the ice kahuna if gonna mix universes and the little girl)
"Ohh Chrimmas, you and your complete lack of stats."
*WolfeyVGC:* YOU UNDERESTIMATE ITS POWER!!!!
You have done many challenges like bug catcher in unova and now ice type in alola .you are awesome. Keep it up and make good video's
Thank you for finally giving the ice type (the best type) the recognition it deserves. I hope in the new gen there are some other cool ones that I can have on my team. Keep up the great content 👍
Hail yeah
Ice is one of the worst
Anyone who seriously says Ice is the worst should try using an Ice type that isn't slow. You're openly misusing and misunderstanding this powerful type, don't go passing your incomplete decision as fact.
“LOOK AT MY SCARF! MY…women’s scarf” -Mickey
Long have I waited for this, and I am so glad you decided to do it!
As the trainer of a type that is thoroughly unappreciated, this is a great video!
Although I must say I am sad that you did not get Glaceon
Glaceon would just hold him back. This Pokémon slips too far into a key failing of many Ice types, it's slow. It's just an Ice type recreation of the underperforming Flareon and commits all the same mistakes as Crabominable. A powerful type with almost zero defensive utility like Ice is, needs to be fast like Weavile. It's the same reason why I criticise the average Rock type because they have this same problem. They need to be more like Aerodactyl and less like Golem.
And don't get me started on Hisui Avalugg, that thing legit represents everything wrong with both the Ice and Rock types.
28:18: now this is absolutely epic, and hilarious at the same time.
To be honest, it's also the Z-Crystal that made him livid because during his Moon Wonderlocke, Velursi died after failing to KO Hau's Decidueye with Subzero Slammer and then got OHKO'd by Decidueye's Bloom Doom
Those kind of videos of yours are just fantastic. Hilarious and interesting from the first second to the last. Can’t wait for the next team sky video (we got your teaser 😜)
Also the watchmojo joke killed me 😂😂
13:47 It's been so long since I've played SM or USUM that before he said that was the sea after 4 p.m., I momentarily was severely confused as to were he found a lava pool in Alola, let alone one with a wooden dock.
Also, I am genuinely amazed Mikey pulled off mimicking one of those Z-move dances. Those things ain't easy to get down.
Love this type based runs please continue
10:20 "well this is humbling" (Humble starts playing)
15:31 that was the best training ark I’ve ever seen 🤣💙💛
one of the funniest pokémon videos i’ve ever watched PLEASE MAKE MORE OF THESE
22:53 “Added to your collection Lusamine?” 💀
3:40, I love the opening for the sponsor bit, also, I agree with Grunty Boi... When you get into character for a challenge video, you get into character... I wouldn't go the 'unhinged' route... But, making the room freezing? Really?
Yes grunty boi also yes he's not wrong
0:29 I can’t be the only one who recognised that proof of a hero building up in the background right? Where my fellow hunters at? Also yet another entertaining video from mikey, amazing work man.
I noticed it too!
Didn’t know that Mikey was a man of culture!
You aren’t the only one!!
Absolutely love monster hunter, glad to see proof of a hero used here
HAIL YEA
@@RagingBrachyHELLO
6:35 I've seen this meme written out before, but never the full audio line. It absolutely sent me.
"Now it's just a boxing match!"
Now I really need an art of two Crabrawler trading blows in the style of Hajime no Ippo.
As an Ice type specialist this makes me so happy ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️
I'd like to see you do a Water Type only run, as I find myself an expert at Water Pokemon, beating Blue, Lance, Wallace, Cynthia, and Alder with them!
i did one in ultra sun and it was awesome. my final team was Primarima, Shiny Lapras, Shiny Clawitzer, Suicune, Ludicolo and Carracosta. It was pretty difficult- to the point that I had to cheat to beat Ultra Necrozma- but it was totally worth it!
this is literally one of my favorite videos ever. love you mikey!
3:57
•Wow Michael how COLD of you...
•It gave me the SHIVERS.
•Am glad grunt boy is show n-ICE to do the sponsorship for you...
•that very COOL of him.
It’s SNOW N-ICE
Mikey: "fire and ice are enemies"
Todoroki: *doubt*
Now, whenever or if ever he does a water type run, he must refer to ice as hardened water as a reference to referring to water as melted ice. (right now I cant member if he's done one already)
the subsitute doll is the most superior ice type specialist tbh