I have a recommendation for a future Pokémon challenge. Can you beat the game using only one Hitmonchan and only using the elemental punches in battle? P.S. which fossil did you end up taking?
Training Special Defense feels like it would have made more sense. Being able to tank water moves more easily would have helped more than trying to outspeed them.
Right, he mostly understands EVs, but has zero competitive sense, so he can't properly rationalize where he needs to compensate. Which is also why he said torkoals physical defense is "excessive"(made me cringe). Theres no such thing as excessive defense... its not like Torkoal is some God tier physical wall.
@@GallantBlade475 The nature makes it a coin toss for if he should go special defense or hp. HP is easy to train (Whismer), it makes it bulkier on both sides and he heavily invested in special attack too. If running Curse Id suggest health and special defense, but with heavy special investment it might be better to just do HP. It does make you marginally less bulky specially, reguardless of nature, but is a huge boon to both defenses with Torkoal. Something like Drifblim or Jigglypuff would rather the straight defense, but when its less obvious like Torkoal sometimes you need to run calcs to decide whats smarter. Copperajah, as an example, is in that sweet spot some think to run full hp, but splitting 252 in its defenses makes it marginally bulkier. Sadly its case by case, and doing it so early in the run health would have been wiser as its going to help regardless if physical or specials the issue with marginal differences specially, when considering gen 3 theres no EVs on trainers. Bulks the clear better idea, especially as he was nearly always outsped anyway, but if special defense or hitpoints an argument can be made both ways here. Surprised how few commented "high defenses and low speed means you shouldnt waste time with speed"
0:57 MDB fumbling the intro, clearly a reference to the popular gaming related challenges channel "Mah Dry Bread", whose main youtuber has a quirk of often getting something from his script wrong. Guys, this is so epic, MDB gave a secret shoutout to Mah Dry Bread!
For future reference, hail doesn't boost Ice moves like rain does to water moves or sun does to fire moves. The only offensive boost hail gives is a perfect accuracy blizzard.
There was also a chance that torkoal could start with drought which would be made his flamethrower even stronger and his defense against water moves even better for the first 5 turns but I'm guessing he got sturdy instead
At this point, when he makes an error in the “Like always I’m writing this script....” part (Like this time saying the same line twice back to back in different ways) I never know if it’s on purpose or not.
@@MovieSimpClips people like you should have the last comment thread they were apart of appear in a floating speech bubble above them. Maybe the public humiliation would keep you from being a PoS keyboard warrior or the fact that no one would ever associate with you if they knew the crappy person you truly are
Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal with only a Psyduck I started playing it recently and found a psyduck and I’ve always wanted to use one on my team. I was shocked to find out it’s level up move set...
I've been watching these challenges from the beginning, and I'm just as invested as I was back then. I love this content, it's something I truly look forward to every week
I'd rather see pokemon bw2 or maybe possibly gen 6 with gligar or another weak pokemon. I think it would be a nice change of pace instead of the same exact thing over and over
@@robertlupa8273 The whole point of these videos is using bad Pokémon. It's not the Pokémon, it's the gen V experience mechanics turning gen V grinds into a nightmare.
Well, best thing you can do is youtube, ice cream (if you are not allergic to it) and relax. We all have days we think we can't keep going, and dark thoughts start forming (or rise again in some cases). But If we give up, those that put us down there will win, even if they do not notice. So keep fighting. Because we can win. Even if it only happens one in a blue moon, we can win. And those moments. Where everything is perfect. Those are worth all the strife we go trough.
I wish it did. Or maybe it should increase the Defense of Ice types, since Sandstorm increases the Sp.Def of Rock types. Hail servicing a single move's accuracy and like, two or three abilities does not make it worth using.
@@Frog_Dogger I mean Slush Rush is pretty damn good on the pokemon it's on (at least nowadays, since we have Alolan Sandslash with it) and Aurora Veil is really nice. Plus, it does ignore damage on Ice-types, so it's pretty specific, unlike Sandstorm which doesn't do damage to three types, and Ground and Rock aren't exactly uncommon. Steels are rarer (pokemon with the typing wise) but they're so good defensively that a lot of people use them. But yeah, maybe let Hail power up the power of Ice Moves by 10% or something.
I honestly sometimes forget that it isn't. I've made the sort of mistake he has with Venomoth a number of times, where I've assumed a water move will be 4x effective or that a grass move will deal neutral damage 😔
The real fantastic part about the Pokemon Challenges is the fact that they are the perfect length to a have a sizeable meal while you watch. I finish eating right at the end like 9 times out of 10.
Tip: Download a text editor where you can number lines automatically. Notepad++ is my preferred text editor for pure text. Atom is pretty decent as well, although that one's more for coding than just regular text.
@@KB-ee8xf I mean i'm saying this for a reason lol, he fumbled on the "i write this script as i go along with the challenge" part and it's not the first time he does that.
@A Cool YoTooBist Yeah, but it isn't as good. You can use Notepad for coding as well. Is the rom hack written in C? Pretty sure that's what I used when I made my own GameBoy game.
oh, funny story about the fossil gag! i was talking to one of my friends about... something, i don't remember what, but i remember your channel came up in conversation and both of us recited your fossil bit word for word. our other friend thought we'd gone insane.
MDB explaining what the Shell Bell does to us gives me a stark reminder of 4Kids dub of YuGiOh, where they explained what Pot of Greed does every time they used. All in favor of starting a joke where we just ask every episode "But MDB, what does the Shell Bell do?", say aye.
Slower Pokémon always seem to make a harder challenge, so i propose, go through each gen and get the 6 slowest Pokémon in a team and see if you can win. No evolution, unless in the early gens you need a team of slowpoke and slowbro to make the 6 slowest.
I am so so so so happy that this one isn;t just 12 minutes! It's so cool to see longer pokemon challenge video. It really puts smile at my face. Thanks man!
I have a challenge idea! I’m going to call it mysticism. You can only use Pokémon that would later become fairy type. Ie, gardevoir, wigglytuff, and clefable.
Been a while since I made a prediction but let’s have a go at another one. This whole thing seems like it’ll be pretty easy until the champion which will just wall ya for a bit. I’m guessing you’ll win at like high 80s low 90s
Mah-Dry-Bread: I will max out Speed EV's Also Mah-Dry-Bread: Uses Curse to drop Speed the whole game instead of using Iron Defence or Amnesia Mah-Dry-Bread: Experiences the Power of Sunny Day and instantly wipes the floor with the psychic gym Again Mah-Dry-Bread: Rather keeps Smokescreen then using TM 11 for Sunny Day You can do better, bro!
Curse doesn’t drop speed due to Torkoal’s ability. It can also be more worth to take less hits rather than hit harder especially if you’re mostly slower than the opponents
@@thomasbeardmore8825 As per Bulbapedia (and just, watching the footage): "White Smoke does not prevent self-inflicted stat reductions such as from moves like Superpower or Shell Smash."
hey man! I love your videos! a couple weeks ago I actually did the platinum no new moves challenge and had a blast doing it. When the video is up next week I'll comment my team and im very excited to see whether or not our teams are similar :). best of luck, its an awesome challenge. And good luck with Cyrus... that's all I'll say XD
Fun fact the only moves powered up by weather are Water and Fire. Sand and Hail don't power up their respective types. In later gens, rock gets a SpDef boost from sand, but hail just does damage.
I love your videos! they're always so fun to watch, and inspired me to do a Caterpie only run (or at least get as far as I can) in pokemon Blue. After beating Brock using speed up on my emulator (don't judge, I was born way after the Gameboy came out, so I don't have one), which took more than 5 in-game hours, I have a lot of respect for you. As an avid pokemon fan from the day I started my first play-through of Pokemon Diamond, I'd like to say you are my hero. Not the hero we deserved, but the one we needed. Thank you.
Round two of "You know the challenge runs you do with only in-game trades? Why not do the opposite? Like, you can only use the Pokemon required to MAKE those in-game trades instead."
How would no one notice? Unless you only watch like two videos I guess...but like obviously everyone who would care has watched all of mdb’s challenges. Think buddy
Great run as always - I’ve tried recreating a couple of your challenges and failed hilariously every time. You truly have the patience of a saint! Really think you should do Trapinch in Emerald - I think that would be an amazing challenge for you! Dark type moves for the most part (using special attack) and super slow. Failing that, maybe Gold with Smeargle? I always forget it exists, and especially that it made its debut so early! Keep smashing it dude - you’re an absolute hero!
Woah, a Torkoal run! I expect it to be very hard because NONE of the main characters (except for like glacia) have pokemon that is weak to fire. I think glacia, wattson, and sidney are going to be easy, but everything else will be hard. Also, can you do a Kink run in Gen 5? Klink would be a hard challenge run pokemon. Edit: Take the Claw Fossil.
One of these times when you do a red and blue challenge, you should turn on the walk through walls glitch. "and on this playthrough, I took th-... Oh. Nevermind, I'll just walk around them"
Could you try pokemon black or white 2 since you haven’t made a challenge on the second ones yet and with only status afflictions to deal damage like poison/burn.
Hello! I've been a big fan of the channel for a while now and when you said this was going to be a challenge, i decided "why not try this myself for once?" I named my Torkoal Squirtle since I think that is also hilarious. Overall, the challenge wasn't bad until the Elite 4, Wallace and Steven. I got bricked walled real hard. I was 72 when I got the league but needed to be 93 to beat Wallace and 100 to beat Steven. I used Amnesia, Iron Defense, Flamethrower and Body Slam through the grand majority of the run and made sure to beat all of the trainers possible so i never actually invested in EVs or had to worry about speed until the end. This was a ton of fun to do! Hope you're doing well and keep up the great work!
On our way through, I took the root fossil. I knew if I didn’t say what I took you’d all ask. Actually now that I think about it everyone ask anyway. Comments are good for the RUclips algorithm.
You know I just realized that this run is hard to grind since white smoke actually makes wild Pokémon half as likely to appear if they are first in the party
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Next challenge is up, Pokemon Platinum with No New Moves! 🔷 ruclips.net/video/GJAu7ZFlPS4/видео.html
Still can't believe they haven't verified you yet
Can you please try a challenge on Pokemon Radical Red
Pokemon Team Training run with only a Chiaotsu
I have a recommendation for a future Pokémon challenge. Can you beat the game using only one Hitmonchan and only using the elemental punches in battle?
P.S. which fossil did you end up taking?
@@deafeninglysilent1480 I'm hoping Dome Fossil. People will FLIP OUT! But, probably still the Helix Fossil 😞
MDB flubbing something in the intro is a coin flip at this point.
😂😂😂
I was listening to this on my phone and swore I must have accidentally rewound when that happened.
lol
He gets a 10 years video-a-day pass this time
@@SnakeyBoiii871 I never said I had a problem with it. All his videos feel genuine, and its part of the charm.
MDB: Finally EV trains for Speed.
Also MDB: Uses Curse strats for 85% the game.
Best strategy.
_b i g b r a i n_
Training Special Defense feels like it would have made more sense. Being able to tank water moves more easily would have helped more than trying to outspeed them.
Right, he mostly understands EVs, but has zero competitive sense, so he can't properly rationalize where he needs to compensate. Which is also why he said torkoals physical defense is "excessive"(made me cringe). Theres no such thing as excessive defense... its not like Torkoal is some God tier physical wall.
@@GallantBlade475 The nature makes it a coin toss for if he should go special defense or hp. HP is easy to train (Whismer), it makes it bulkier on both sides and he heavily invested in special attack too. If running Curse Id suggest health and special defense, but with heavy special investment it might be better to just do HP. It does make you marginally less bulky specially, reguardless of nature, but is a huge boon to both defenses with Torkoal.
Something like Drifblim or Jigglypuff would rather the straight defense, but when its less obvious like Torkoal sometimes you need to run calcs to decide whats smarter. Copperajah, as an example, is in that sweet spot some think to run full hp, but splitting 252 in its defenses makes it marginally bulkier. Sadly its case by case, and doing it so early in the run health would have been wiser as its going to help regardless if physical or specials the issue with marginal differences specially, when considering gen 3 theres no EVs on trainers.
Bulks the clear better idea, especially as he was nearly always outsped anyway, but if special defense or hitpoints an argument can be made both ways here. Surprised how few commented "high defenses and low speed means you shouldnt waste time with speed"
The master ball on a level 5 magikarp is a rare piece of art 😄
God, that was heartbreaking!
That hurt to watch
Art for art's sake
He felt it was the only way to catch it
My soul burns!
0:57 MDB fumbling the intro, clearly a reference to the popular gaming related challenges channel "Mah Dry Bread", whose main youtuber has a quirk of often getting something from his script wrong. Guys, this is so epic, MDB gave a secret shoutout to Mah Dry Bread!
MDB and Mah Dry Bread both kinda suck to be honest. I only watch BigLeague MDB.
Collab between all 3 when?
I was so confused when I first read this
Im waiting for someone to not get the joke
I think they should collab!
Ah yes, Fire Squirtle, Flanery's signature Pokémon.
Haha.dude you are my comedy God
Torkoal is a fire squirtle so you get a point for comedy and facts
fire squirtle! use steam gun!
what does torkoal have to do with fire squirtle
@@ghostly5723 squirtle is a water turtle. torkoal is a fire turtle. he is comparing torkoal to squirtle because they are both turtles
Hail doesn’t boost the power of ice type moves, just makes blizzard 100% accurate
It doesn't even upgrade Blizzard in Gen 3.
More than 100% it makes it impossible to miss (100% would be reduced by evasion or accuracy drops, while impossible to miss bypasses that)
@@AmberMuffin umm...no? You mean gen4 and before? Bc for gen 7 you can't hit through protect
@@ballsofsalsa01 nah it's only a bug in diamond and pearl, hgss/plat and onwards have protect stop blizzard no matter what as usual
For future reference, hail doesn't boost Ice moves like rain does to water moves or sun does to fire moves. The only offensive boost hail gives is a perfect accuracy blizzard.
And even that wasn't a thing until Gen 4.
you knwo i was kinda wonderwing why he didn't use sunny day in this run, would have made a lot of it easier.
There was also a chance that torkoal could start with drought which would be made his flamethrower even stronger and his defense against water moves even better for the first 5 turns but I'm guessing he got sturdy instead
@@the87thharrowmain21 Torkoal didn't get drought until Gen 7, only Groudon had drought in Gen 3
@@the87thharrowmain21 Torkoal and pelipper got their weather abilities later on
Mah Dry:You can tell this gag is recorded fresh every time because the text box is different every run
Me who never noticed: *Surprised pikachu face*
Its noticeable in gen 3 but in gen 1 I can never tell.
At this point, when he makes an error in the “Like always I’m writing this script....” part (Like this time saying the same line twice back to back in different ways) I never know if it’s on purpose or not.
It always gets me off guard when something like that happends xD
SO HE DID SAY IT TWICE! i thought i was going insane from sleep depravation!
@@skyhero752 Me to bro
@@skyhero752 I had to go back and check
maybe its good for the youtube algorithm
Torkoal’s gen 3 sprite is so much scarier than it is now 😂
yeah now its: *tortle, with s m o k e*
51st Pokémon challenge requesting a Dunsparce run
Indeed
Yes, I'd love to see this.
Yes.
Oh thats Nice
WE NEED DUNSPARCE.
When you repeated yourself at the beginning I thought I was going crazy
Dude same, I thought I accidentally rewinded when watching on my phone lmao
Magikarp appeared!
GO MASTERBALL!
The perfect opportunity to call it Masterkarp...wasted
He should have caught that shiney Shuckle instead.
Yeah ...we get it. 😒
@@MovieSimpClips people like you should have the last comment thread they were apart of appear in a floating speech bubble above them. Maybe the public humiliation would keep you from being a PoS keyboard warrior or the fact that no one would ever associate with you if they knew the crappy person you truly are
“Torterrable” is literally the best Pokémon nickname I’ve ever heard.
I once named a Ribombee Barry, which was short for Barry Ribombee Benson
@@justineberlein5916 you absolute legend
What about eeveE
Torterrabl
"People skip the rules A LOT...." The tone of your voice kills me XD
The fact that you actually get the mach bike every time was unexpected, but was quite funny to hear!
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.
I'm a simple man. I see Torkoal, I contribute to the RUclips algorithm.
Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal with only a Psyduck
I started playing it recently and found a psyduck and I’ve always wanted to use one on my team. I was shocked to find out it’s level up move set...
Yes
Psyduck isn't psychic, mind blown
What do you mean Waves (My Golduck) is the best Pokèmon
The dedication you have for the RUclips Algorithm Fossils is astounding. And it worked, here I am, commenting about it
A note on Glacia: Hail does not increase the damage of ice type moves
Yeah he just said that so we'd all comment (comments are good for the youtube algorithm)
Also, Flamethrower is better than Body Slam.
Not against Walrein, since it has Thicc Fat
@@shadowtitanx3962 I realized that later. My bad.
MDB: *uses a masterball on a magikarp*
Me: wait that’s illegal...
Been almost a year and a half since I started asking for this, but could you do a Pokemon G/S/C with a hoppip?
Nice one
I approve this idea. Hoppip is very cute.
Nobody cares that you've been asking for a year
@@pappy2690 Sorry, I don't recall asking for your opinion.
He did one in fire red recently
I've been watching these challenges from the beginning, and I'm just as invested as I was back then. I love this content, it's something I truly look forward to every week
Here's an idea Gold with Glygar
It has great stats but a terrible moveset to use them with.
I'd rather see pokemon bw2 or maybe possibly gen 6 with gligar or another weak pokemon. I think it would be a nice change of pace instead of the same exact thing over and over
@@krimorant he doesn't do Gen 5 runs because the grinding sucks.
Not great if the moveset is bad
@@parker0216 That's why he should use decent Pokemon instead of bad ones.
@@robertlupa8273 The whole point of these videos is using bad Pokémon. It's not the Pokémon, it's the gen V experience mechanics turning gen V grinds into a nightmare.
I just got finished crying over some stress in my life and turned to RUclips for distraction. Thanks for uploading a video to lift my spirits.
Hope you're doing okay. Remember, if you're low the only way you can go is up.
Well, best thing you can do is youtube, ice cream (if you are not allergic to it) and relax. We all have days we think we can't keep going, and dark thoughts start forming (or rise again in some cases). But If we give up, those that put us down there will win, even if they do not notice. So keep fighting. Because we can win. Even if it only happens one in a blue moon, we can win. And those moments. Where everything is perfect. Those are worth all the strife we go trough.
You take that stress , herd it and 2 of every animal on earth into a boat and beat the crap out of all of them.
Whatever's up, I hope you can easily overcome it!
Aw, feel better ok? I know that feeling.
Are we just going to ignore the fact that hail doesn’t power up ice moves??
I wish it did. Or maybe it should increase the Defense of Ice types, since Sandstorm increases the Sp.Def of Rock types. Hail servicing a single move's accuracy and like, two or three abilities does not make it worth using.
Obviusly we ignore it
@@Frog_Dogger hey, at least it breaks focus sashes
I wish it did.
@@Frog_Dogger I mean Slush Rush is pretty damn good on the pokemon it's on (at least nowadays, since we have Alolan Sandslash with it) and Aurora Veil is really nice.
Plus, it does ignore damage on Ice-types, so it's pretty specific, unlike Sandstorm which doesn't do damage to three types, and Ground and Rock aren't exactly uncommon. Steels are rarer (pokemon with the typing wise) but they're so good defensively that a lot of people use them.
But yeah, maybe let Hail power up the power of Ice Moves by 10% or something.
This has been one of my favorite of these in a while. Nice to see Emerald, and the fights were just nail-biters. Great video!
That ending was probably the most insane single Pokémon Steven fight I’ve seen in a while, GG
HOW HAVE I NOT NOTICED THAT THE TEXT BOX CHANGES EVERY TIME?!
I noticed like 2 runs ago lol
Just be thankful it isn't a Fire-Rock type, because look at it. It easily could've been.
Requesting Pokemon B2W2 with Only One Chinchou.
I honestly sometimes forget that it isn't. I've made the sort of mistake he has with Venomoth a number of times, where I've assumed a water move will be 4x effective or that a grass move will deal neutral damage 😔
@@jakerockznoodles Yeah. Doesn't help that it's pretty rare in most of the games.
Yes! I wanna see any game with Chinchou. It's so cute, so useful (if it has Volt Absorb) and it's so underrated.
@@ProphecyPhrase Lanturn's my favorite Pokemon for a reason. It's extremely underrated. And adorable.
@@parzival-bo Exactly! It's cute and it has awesome uses. Excellent typing, great ability and a diverse movepool. What's not to love?
The real fantastic part about the Pokemon Challenges is the fact that they are the perfect length to a have a sizeable meal while you watch. I finish eating right at the end like 9 times out of 10.
Underrated comment, glad to know someone out there is doing the same thing I am
Tip: Add numbers to your lines in your script so you don't accidentally record yourself rereading the same phrases again.
Tip: Download a text editor where you can number lines automatically. Notepad++ is my preferred text editor for pure text. Atom is pretty decent as well, although that one's more for coding than just regular text.
Dude has 10 years of daily uploads. I think he knows what's up
@@KB-ee8xf I mean i'm saying this for a reason lol, he fumbled on the "i write this script as i go along with the challenge" part and it's not the first time he does that.
@@MrPuffer69 just shows how in life, people will mainly focus on your mistakes
@A Cool YoTooBist Yeah, but it isn't as good. You can use Notepad for coding as well.
Is the rom hack written in C? Pretty sure that's what I used when I made my own GameBoy game.
The fact that he didn't use sunny day is a challenge in itself
I hope he names his Torkoal Turtwig Because thats Hilarious
Haha, that's a good one.
Yes
You were even pretty close.
@@robertlupa8273 IKR lmao
You throwing the Master Ball to catch the Magikarp made my heart sink...
its on an emulator
@@CyniSchism96 Still, Master Ball... On a Magikarp... That is heresy, an offense against the God Arceus of Pokemon kind.
Y waste it on something worthless
@@eljordinio7647 Because its on an emulator where he's only allowed to use 1 pokemon.
@@CyniSchism96 he still could have just used a regular ball on it
oh, funny story about the fossil gag! i was talking to one of my friends about... something, i don't remember what, but i remember your channel came up in conversation and both of us recited your fossil bit word for word. our other friend thought we'd gone insane.
That's funny lol
I really appreciate your re-recording the fossil gag. Well done!
MDB explaining what the Shell Bell does to us gives me a stark reminder of 4Kids dub of YuGiOh, where they explained what Pot of Greed does every time they used. All in favor of starting a joke where we just ask every episode "But MDB, what does the Shell Bell do?", say aye.
Aye
Aye
Aye
Aye
*I PLAY GOT OF PREED*
*IT ALLOWS ME TO CRAW 3 DARDS*
@@robertlupa8273 Aye play Peed of Grot. It allows me to draw 3 cards and add a "fossil" card to my hand.
Great video, the funniest part was when you threw a masterball at the magikarp. Keep up the good work, Mah-Dry-Bread!
Bro, Torterrable might be the best nickname I’ve seen in a long time
Been watching all these Pokémon play throughs today. Gotta catch up on my favorite show. Love your RUclips channel. Thank you for everything you do!
Fun fact: Torkoal has the second highest base stat total out of any single or duo Pokemon challenge, next to Shuckle.
Torkoal's stats are a bit more balanced (maybe fairer) than shuckle's though :P*
Fun fact nonetheless, thanks for keeping count
Toarcoal’s drought makes it good in competitive so this is going to be an easy challenge
Shuckle has a higher bst that FREAKING SCIZOR!!1!!1!1
@@legitjustaarav so
Slower Pokémon always seem to make a harder challenge, so i propose, go through each gen and get the 6 slowest Pokémon in a team and see if you can win. No evolution, unless in the early gens you need a team of slowpoke and slowbro to make the 6 slowest.
I am so so so so happy that this one isn;t just 12 minutes! It's so cool to see longer pokemon challenge video. It really puts smile at my face. Thanks man!
Wow MDB! That was a real challenge! I'm astonished! Thanks for the fun!
Any Pokémon game with 2 ditto. That way we see more transform and less struggle.
Algorithm..... Fossil.... Twitter?
༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つditto?
I have a challenge idea! I’m going to call it mysticism.
You can only use Pokémon that would later become fairy type. Ie, gardevoir, wigglytuff, and clefable.
I request again a challenge for Red using a single Porygon, because I never got a chance to use one when I played and I think it would be nice.
Thank! You so much for doing this you make my day better
Been a while since I made a prediction but let’s have a go at another one. This whole thing seems like it’ll be pretty easy until the champion which will just wall ya for a bit. I’m guessing you’ll win at like high 80s low 90s
Hell yeah! 2/2 between this and the Teddiursa run
I like the ones with EV focus. Really helps the challenge along.
Mah-Dry-Bread: I think it is time for you to do a Emerald Kaizo run.
0:57 A sentence so nice he said it twice!
He propably just forgot to cut it. It's common to say things multiple times and delete everything but the best take
Mah-Dry-Bread: I will max out Speed EV's
Also Mah-Dry-Bread: Uses Curse to drop Speed the whole game instead of using Iron Defence or Amnesia
Mah-Dry-Bread: Experiences the Power of Sunny Day and instantly wipes the floor with the psychic gym
Again Mah-Dry-Bread: Rather keeps Smokescreen then using TM 11 for Sunny Day
You can do better, bro!
After this many runs, you'd think
Curse doesn’t drop speed due to Torkoal’s ability. It can also be more worth to take less hits rather than hit harder especially if you’re mostly slower than the opponents
@@thomasbeardmore8825 As per Bulbapedia (and just, watching the footage):
"White Smoke does not prevent self-inflicted stat reductions such as from moves like Superpower or Shell Smash."
Torkoal is NOT worse then Ekans. Torkoal is amazing. Also starting the game with Ember is incredible in gen 3.
Hey mdb, would you try doing an emerald corsola challenge? I think it's a really underappreciated pokemon who deserves a bit of love
He already had one in his Ruby in game Trades Only run
@@RazorIvy470 but is it a corsola ONLY run? no he fucking HAD it.
Fantastic challenge, I don't have any specific reasons, but this was one of my favorites you've ever done, great job!
MDB *gets in fight with lvl 5 magikarp*: M A S T E R B A L L
hey man! I love your videos! a couple weeks ago I actually did the platinum no new moves challenge and had a blast doing it. When the video is up next week I'll comment my team and im very excited to see whether or not our teams are similar :). best of luck, its an awesome challenge. And good luck with Cyrus... that's all I'll say XD
I'm glad you're excited. I'm sure MahDry is glad, too.
Fun fact the only moves powered up by weather are Water and Fire. Sand and Hail don't power up their respective types. In later gens, rock gets a SpDef boost from sand, but hail just does damage.
The only buffs Hail ever did was Blizzard being perfect Acc since Gen 4, Aurora Veil, and other gimmicks, like Slush Rush and Ice Face.
I love your videos! they're always so fun to watch, and inspired me to do a Caterpie only run (or at least get as far as I can) in pokemon Blue. After beating Brock using speed up on my emulator (don't judge, I was born way after the Gameboy came out, so I don't have one), which took more than 5 in-game hours, I have a lot of respect for you. As an avid pokemon fan from the day I started my first play-through of Pokemon Diamond, I'd like to say you are my hero. Not the hero we deserved, but the one we needed. Thank you.
Before I hear the nickname, I hope it’s called shuckle. “Because that’s hilarious.”
Dang
It's Torterrabl that he didn't go with that. 😢
Round two of "You know the challenge runs you do with only in-game trades? Why not do the opposite? Like, you can only use the Pokemon required to MAKE those in-game trades instead."
Hail doesn’t increase the damage of ice type moves.
this is my favorite pokemon, thanks, man. good job, waiting for the next one, bud
Something tells me Wallace is Gonna be like Lorelei in the onix challenge
We got a new hit in the making folks
_flashbacks to Slowblow_
I'm very pleased with this one, pretty good run and OMG the clutch! Keep it up!
God, Wallace is probably gonna be a nightmare to go through.
And drake with the kingdra
And Juan.
Hey MDB i just like the way you make these challenges! Always watchign your challenges!
Pokémon Black with one emolga?
I’m not sure why, but I love every Pokémon video you put out. Keep up the good work man!
I am not giving up on asking for a Vulpix run
LOL Well i gotta say the strategy of grinding for Speed increase then using Curse... i love it
The fact u do the fossil gag each challenge run is hilarious!
Such a small detail that not many would have noticed
How would no one notice? Unless you only watch like two videos I guess...but like obviously everyone who would care has watched all of mdb’s challenges. Think buddy
@@MovieSimpClips I listen to him in the background, so I wasng aware he physically chose different fossils and didnt re use footage
ThInK bUdDy
# 14:21
Fire has actually a decent chance against Stephen Steve, lol
Anyway love your vids
wait, wait, which fossil did MDB got? can seem to find that part
Great run as always - I’ve tried recreating a couple of your challenges and failed hilariously every time. You truly have the patience of a saint! Really think you should do Trapinch in Emerald - I think that would be an amazing challenge for you! Dark type moves for the most part (using special attack) and super slow. Failing that, maybe Gold with Smeargle? I always forget it exists, and especially that it made its debut so early! Keep smashing it dude - you’re an absolute hero!
Woah, a Torkoal run! I expect it to be very hard because NONE of the main characters (except for like glacia) have pokemon that is weak to fire. I think glacia, wattson, and sidney are going to be easy, but everything else will be hard. Also, can you do a Kink run in Gen 5? Klink would be a hard challenge run pokemon.
Edit: Take the Claw Fossil.
If he does do a Klink run in gen 5, if he plays white version he would have an extra difficult time because N will have Reshiram
@@Sazzyjo3 and also the fact that... KLINK ONLY HAS ELECTRIC, NORMAL, STEEL, AND FIGHTING ATTACKING MOVES.
What about a kink run?
@@LeafBush_ so what? that's good type diversity for gen 5.
@@douglasarchibald1427 eh
Gratz on the win! Look forward to next week
One of these times when you do a red and blue challenge, you should turn on the walk through walls glitch. "and on this playthrough, I took th-... Oh. Nevermind, I'll just walk around them"
I always assumed you just replayed the same clip of getting the fossil... Mad respect!
Could you try pokemon black or white 2 since you haven’t made a challenge on the second ones yet and with only status afflictions to deal damage like poison/burn.
Hello! I've been a big fan of the channel for a while now and when you said this was going to be a challenge, i decided "why not try this myself for once?" I named my Torkoal Squirtle since I think that is also hilarious. Overall, the challenge wasn't bad until the Elite 4, Wallace and Steven. I got bricked walled real hard. I was 72 when I got the league but needed to be 93 to beat Wallace and 100 to beat Steven. I used Amnesia, Iron Defense, Flamethrower and Body Slam through the grand majority of the run and made sure to beat all of the trainers possible so i never actually invested in EVs or had to worry about speed until the end. This was a ton of fun to do! Hope you're doing well and keep up the great work!
I used to think marcargo evloves into torkoal😂
The effort put in for the fossil joke is appreciated man the videos wouldn’t be the same without it
He will name it vulpix, because that is hilarious. Also, day 2: Pokémon gold with only sneasel, back when ice and dark were both special
Edit : whoops
One of your better challenge runs in awhile
On our way through, I took the root fossil. I knew if I didn’t say what I took you’d all ask. Actually now that I think about it everyone ask anyway. Comments are good for the RUclips algorithm.
@Delta_Duck why not the helix fossil-whoops wrong game
you said you might be able to power through wallace twice btw, i liked it.
Still waiting for that Numel run in Emerald huehuehuehue
You thought Torkoal was bad? Try a slow pokemon with a FOUR times weakness to water lol
You know I just realized that this run is hard to grind since white smoke actually makes wild Pokémon half as likely to appear if they are first in the party
Hmm Pokémon red with a MissingNo.
“Hanging on with only 3 health.” That’s my BOY Torkoal!
Another fire pokemon? You do this fire type a lot mannn, try some other types please. (Sarcasm)
Loved the video man!
That's the first time the name was really hilarious to me. I give a very sincere haha haha. Tnx man, I was in need.
wow so many close battles. very very good run :D
Dude you are my hero 😂 loving what you do so well! Please huge your cats for me 🤩🤩
I actually like Torkoal quite a bit, so seeing this smoky turtle boy do so well makes me very happy.
I actually love torkoal sm
It's so adorable, and recently it's been used quite a lot in competitive thanks to it getting drought
Yeah and I love that, it should have had it at the start though. But yes fire tortoise in trick room do brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr