Pokemon Nuzlocke, but FIRE POKEMON ONLY (Sword)

you asked for it so here it is a pokemon sword hardcore nuzlocke with only fire type pokemon i'll leave a full list of rules in the description but the headlines are if a pokemon faints it is gone and can't be used ever again i only have one chance to catch a pokemon per area i can only use fire type pokemon in battle and i'll be making the game harder by enforcing level caps playing on set mode and not using any items from the bag in battle also i'll limit my wild area encounters to one initial encounter and one additional encounter for each gym batch that i obtain since i've got the sword dlc i'll be including any isle of armor encounters in this limit as well let's get started leon gives me a choice of three pokemon as my starter and naturally i pick the best starter grookie okay so in my grass only nuzlocke the comments were packed with people arguing about who the best starter is so i want to put it to vote and settle this madness once and for all if you're a member of the greeky gang like the video and then subscribe if you're a fan of score bunny subscribe and then like the video and if sobble is your favorite stop it get some help cast your vote now okay obviously i picked the fire type score bunny i gave it the nickname harry styles based on a suggestion from my discord if you'd like to join my discord check the description my score bunny has a calm nature which is really disappointing as this lowers its physical attack quick side note i love how scorebunny's tackle is just it running up to a pokemon and kicking it it looks so ineffective but hilarious once the tutorials are out of the way i have to take on hob i've only got score bunny as there aren't any fire type pokemon on the opening rounds i'm outnumbered but this isn't too much of a problem as hops team has very little offense back in wedgehurst i grab a fiery outfit to match my fiery team now dressed for the part how can i take the train but have to depart at the wild area because a herd of wulu are blocking the tracks really we can't do anything about that okay then in the wild area i harvest a ton of berries find the leftovers grab a firestone and find my first encounter vulpix i'm able to catch it and nickname it kudama my vulpix has a lonely nature boosting its attack but lowering its physical defense after exiting the wild area i've made it to motorstoke once here leon gives me a piece of charcoal which is a really nice tool to have once the opening ceremony is out of the way my gym challenge can finally begin pop wants another battle but spoilers he still sucks and scor bunny is able to solo his team once again after leveling my team a little i've now got access to the next few routes and can add some extra pokemon to my team on route 3 i'm able to find a sizzlerpeed it's a fire and bug type and i give it the nickname spicy noodle unfortunately it has a modest nature which is far from ideal after taking down the numerous trainers here my score bunny reaches level 16 and evolves into rabbit next is the gala mine where i'm able to catch a rolly-collie it's a pure rock type for now but it gains a secondary fire typing once it evolves at level 18. i bestow at the nickname rock bottom and continue moving through the mine just before the exit beed challenges me to a battle he uses psychic pokemon so i use my sizzlerpeed as it knows bite i easily remove solosis and deal decent damage to gothita my attack stat was lowered though so i decided to pivot into vulpix from here vulpix is able to finish gothita and hangs on just long enough to incinerate hatana after exiting the mine i make it to route 4. once the trainers are taken care of i'm able to find and catch an eevee i immediately use my firestone to evolve it into a flareon and granted the nickname hotdog i've now made it to turfield while preparing for my first gym i obtained an expert belt and trained my team to level 18. this allowed my rollycolli to evolve into kharkol who now has a fire typing the turffield gym puzzle requires me to round up some wulu by chasing them hang on a minute if wulu were this easy to move around why couldn't we just chase them away when they were blocking the train tracks earlier anyway the gym leader uses grass type pokemon so let's burn this gym down i lead with sizzlapede who has a four times resistance to grass moves milo's glossoflura falls with two flame wheels his last pokemon is elder gloss and we both dynamax transforming my sizzlerpeed into an extra large spicy noodle i tank a max strike and finish elder gloss with a second max flare on the next turn it's an easy fight and gives me my very first badge on route 5 hop still hasn't learnt his lesson and wants a rematch fortunately for me hops team has very little offense against carcol so i'm easily able to sweep with a mixture of flame charge and ancient power i've now made it to wholebury i can take on the second gym right away however i'm not quite ready yet this gym uses water type pokemon which is really threatening so i'll need to be prepared in search of my next encounter i decided to head to the isle of armor uh are you okay why are you standing like that the levels of the wild pokemon in the isle of armor scale with the player so i'm able to explore this area without taking too many risks in the warm-up tunnel i'm able to find and catch a torquel which i nicknamed ra it has the drought ability which sets up a harsh sunlight when it's sent into battle i'm also able to find a second firestone and use this on vulpix to evolve it into a nine tails i then spent a long time collecting items and improving the move sets of my team to prepare for the next gym nessa's team boasts three water pokemon and her ace dreadnor has a secondary rock type this gives it a four times resistance to my fire moves my plan is to leap with rabu and use electro ball to flush golden i managed to take it down immediately thanks to a critical hit however this wasn't overly needed next is aracuda i decided to switch into torcol which sets up the sun reducing the power of water moves considerably i then switch into 9 tails and use nasty plot twice to give me a huge special attack increase from here a single energy ball is enough to finish arakuda last is dreadnore and we both dynamax my boosted special attack and dreadnough's four times weakness to grass lets me finish it off with one max overgrowth i have no clue why nine tails can learn energy ball but boy am i glad that it can that's badge number two in the gala mine bead wants a rematch but i'm able to wipe that smug grin off his face with my sizzlerpeed who cleans up beads team with some expert belt boosted bug bites say that five times quickly this mine is horrifying i stepped in a bear trap forget the gym challenge get me out of here while my feet are still attached to the rest of my body after exiting that god forsaken mine i returned to motor stoke to take on the third gym this gym challenge gives you the opportunity to catch pokemon and as these are fire types i'm able to get an encounter the first new pokemon that i find is a litwick i'm fortunately able to catch it before the gym trainer has a chance to knock it out i give it the nickname bunsen and place it in my pc for now after clearing the challenge it's time to take on kabu a fellow user of fire type pokemon i lead with raboot as i'm trying to bait kabu into using a fire type attack as i switch into cargo unfortunately he doesn't fall for it and only wants to use quick attack 9 tails can't do anything against cargo so i use rapid spin several times to boost my speed from here an ancient power easily removes 9 tails next is arcanine but it too struggles to damage carcol and falls to a few smackdowns last is center scorch it's a great matchup for me as i'm able to out speed and hit with a four times effective max rockfall i crushed that bug in one turn three badges down with kabu embarrassed in front of a full stadium i'd asserted myself as the strongest fire type user to rub it in i literally stole kabu's clothes in an act of dominance my next stop is hammerlock but to get there i'll need to navigate through the northern portion of the wild area some of the pokemon here are much stronger than me so i'll need to be cautious and enforce some strict social distancing having made it through safely i can now enter hammerlock there are a few interesting items that i can grab here first i obtain a heat rock and give it to my talk off this will extend the duration of harsh sunlight and combos nicely with torquel's drought ability i then traveled to this house and pummeled this guy's level 2 cottony as a reward for the sheer brutalization i just committed i'm given a focus sash rose teaches us the shocking secrets of how electricity works but once that's taken care of i can travel west onto route 6. while battling sizzlerp reached level 28 and evolved into a center scorch i'm also able to find and catch a heatmore which i nicknamed slurp it has a neutral nature and decent offensive stats but i'll be leaving it to collect dust in the pc at the end of the route i had a really close call with this pseudowudo that was nearly the end of ninetales having just scraped by i stopped to pay my respects to our lord and saviour diglett i've now made it to stowenside and hoppy's looking for a rematch with his new team i lead with raboot and use a four times effective electro ball which surprisingly doesn't finish cramerin pop users dive so i pivot into talk all as my huge defense and harsh sunlight will let me tank the dive cramer uses dive and oh my god what on earth it's eating pikachu one lava plume finishes cramerin but it spits out the pikachu at me and paralyzes me i thought that crazy shenanigans like this only happened in the pokemon anime what's worse is that we're battling on dirt so did cremerant find a deceased pikachu that had been buried whether it's cannibalism or grave robbing this is messed up no matter how you spin it with my health blow i decide to switch into nine tails silicobra digs so i use this opportunity to set up nasty plot and manage to live the dig from here my boosted nine tails can easily sweep the rest of hops team next item on the agenda is the stowan side gym b uses four fighting type pokemon and i'm a little under leveled so i decided to take some time to prepare while leveling karkol evolved into colossal and rabbit evolved into cinderace i decided to keep my team composition the same while you might think that litwick would do well in this gym due to its ghost typing most of these pokemon have dark coverage so litwick's inclusion isn't as good as it might seem beast lead is a hitmontop with four physical moves so my plan revolves around using this to my advantage i lead with flareon and use willow wisp to burn him on top this will do chip damage but more importantly halves hitmontop's physical damage output i then use charm three times to nerf hitmontop's attack into the ground i then switch into torque hole for a single turn which sets up the sun next i pivot into nine tails and begin buffing my special attack with nasty plot hitmontop does such small damage at this point and my leftovers keeps me at full health once my special attack is maxed the rest of the fight is a clean sweep too easy that's the fourth badge soon after there's another battle with bead but you know the drill spicy noodle bug bites all over him for an easy sweep into the glimwood tangle there aren't any encounters for me here but i am able to find the u-turn tm which i teach to cinderace i then reached bologna and am given a choice scarf and an eevee alight there isn't much else to do here so it's time to take on the next gym uses fairy types so i decided to search for a new encounter to help me out over on the isle of armor i managed to catch a salandit which i nicknamed cylandezard it's a fire and poison type so it should be useful for the next gym unfortunately the one i found was a male so it won't be able to evolve but i can use this to my benefit and give it the evia light to increase its bulk for the upcoming gym i decided to sideline my cinderace to make room for salandit opal uses fairy types but the dual types of her first two pokemon make nine tails my best lead i use one nasty plot to buff my special attack i'm poisoned in the process but this isn't too much of a problem and i take wheezing down with extra sensory on the next turn opal then sends out togekiss so i switch into solando ancient power does much more damage than i expect though so i switch once more into my colossal it lives ancient power much more comfortably and with the help of my citrus berry i'm able to land three heavy slams to take togekiss down next is more wild i switch into torquehole setting up the sun my bulk lets me easily live a crunch and one sun boosted lava plume is enough to finish more while opel's last pokemon is alcremy i want to stall out the dynomax turns as much as possible so i also max my talk hole and use max guard on the next phone i use max flair which does a large chunk of damage i'm in crit range so i use one more max guard and both of our dynamax's end from here i switch into flareon and finish all creamy with a firefang it was a little messy but with that i've now got five badges even with the eevee light slander is just too frail so i decided to switch it back out for cinderace back in hammerlock i witnessed opal completely creeping on bead she drags bead back to her scary forest and we may never see him again the routes to the east are now open and the massacres top wants another beat down this fight doesn't pose much of a challenge and i easily take care of hops team routes 7 and 8 don't offer me any new encounters so i quickly moved through them with the occasional pause for pedestrians soon after i'd reached the winter wonderland of serchester city but don't let the weather fool you unlike in pokemon shield the gym leader uses rock pokemon a type that every member of my team is weak to gordy's lead has a rock and water typing so i lead with nine tails and quickly take it down with a four times effective energy ball next is shuckle who has about as much offense as a light breeze i'll be taking advantage of this and first switch into colossal i then use reflect and this will last for eight turns as i'm holding the light clay i then switch into torque hold i begin using iron defense to increase my bulb this combined with my reflect and leftovers means that shuckle can barely touch me once my defense is maxed out it's time to reintroduce an old favorite of mine body press if you've seen my monographs video then you'd know this move very well already but if you haven't the power of body press increases based on the user's defense with my defense maxed i can easily take gordy's physical moves and deal enormous damage with body press this allows my sun god turtle to sweep gordy's team in a few turns with that the sixth badge is mine after embarrassing hop once more i head south through route 9 before reaching spike myth once here i need to take on mani but it's a pretty underwhelming fight so let's move on the spike myth gym is wild people are jumping out of windows flipping and i ran into ash ketchum's dad which is a nice little easter egg the gym leader piers uses dark type pokemon and his team has some diverse secondary typings which prevent him from being too exploitable his lead is a physical scrafty so my plan is to use the same strategy that i did for the last gym i lead colossal and set up reflect i then pivot into torque all and begin boosting my physical bulk with iron defense scrafty's brick break removes my reflect however i'm still able to max my defense without taking too much damage from here one body press is enough to take it down the rest of pisa's team doesn't have enough offense to handle my talk hole and i sweep the rest of his team into the trash i've now got my seventh badge and the run has been very clean so far without a single death after the battle i made my way back towards hammerlock to challenge the final gym this gym terrifies me while reihan is labelled as a dragon user a closer look at his team reveals that it's really more of a sandstorm team his typing is primarily ground dragon and rock three types which fire does not do well against to make matters worse this is a double battle which increases the danger and uncertainty that i'll be facing it's no exaggeration to say that this is easily the hardest gym for my team i needed a plan to prepare i leveled my litwick which allowed it to evolve into a lampant one dusk stone later and it evolved again into a chandelure i've decided to bench center scorch for now as it has a four times weakness to rock which will really limit its use in this battle next i hunted more wild which has a five percent chance to be holding an iron ball on my 17th try i eventually found one and used thief to seize it finally i backtrack to turf field where i can use my upgraded bike to grab the solar beam tm raihan leads with gigolith and flygon gigalith is bad news it has an enormous physical attack and defense furthermore its ability sets up a sandstorm which boosts its special defense it also has powerful attacks that will hit me for super effective damage with this in mind my plan is centered on countering gigolith i'm leading with torcol and chandelure i've given talk of the ironball which halves at speed this means that my drought will override the sandstorm set up by gigolith not only does this reduce gigalith's special bulk it also lets me use chandelure's huge special attack to fire off a solar beam free of charge and take gigalith down immediately flygon can do decent damage but isn't too threatening i decided to use willow wisp to burn flygon lowering its damage output and allowing me to focus on the other slot next is sandaconda who i'm also able to remove with a solar beam its ability reinstates the sand but that's not too bad now that gigolith is no longer a problem with torquel i then use iron defense to help survive reihan's physical attacks his last pokemon is duralatin which is dynamaxed i don't want to risk losing chandelure so i switch into colossal and try to land a burn with torquehole onto duraladder this works in my favor and i easily tank reihan's attacks a dynamax colossal and go for a max rockfall onto flygon and a body press onto duralatin these do decent damage but not enough to pick up a ko i go for the same moves the next turn i'm out spared but my bulk allows me to take multiple hits and another body press finishes duralatin with only flygon left i switch out my weak torque hole and a final max rockfall allows me to finish the fight securing the win and my eighth badge a short train ride brought me to route 10. as has been the case with most of this run i was expecting to breeze through this route but then i met cabbie jeffrey his lead is a corvenite which isn't too much trouble but it's his second and final pokemon that needs to be addressed meet flygon unlike reijan's flygon this one actually has earthquake a move that cripples my whole team and i don't have much offense to answer with i struggled as my team was ripped to pieces i lost flareon nine tails and colossal in the process of taking it down just like that three staples of my team who had been with me since the very beginning had fallen in the event that would now be known as the slaughter on white hill hot dog kuduma and rock bottom rest easy friends fortunately i did have plenty of wild area encounters left to help me rebuild i was able to add a few new members to the team including a growlithe which i nicknamed sniffer a fletchinder named phoenix and a lava star named lida while bringing the new members of my team up to speed fletchinder revolved into a talonflame and i used a firestone to evolve growleth into arcanine with my new look team i then headed back up the mountain paying my respects along the way a short time later i'd made it to wynden this will be the stage for the final portion of the challenge the next two battles are against mani and hop if you've seen my mono grass shield does lock you'd know that their teams are almost entirely physical attackers and what do we do with physical attackers setting up on mani can be a little tricky as her life heart has nasty plot and snarl which can do big damage to talk all i make sure to not be greedy and use iron defense only once before taking it down with a four times effective body press next is scrafty who i use to bring my defense to plus five i've also got the leftovers and this helps me recover some of the health that i lost earlier with my defense sky high one body press finishes scrafty toxic rogue is a little difficult as it knows venashock and toxic as well as resists body press i can't take it out in one shot and take big damage from beneshock i'm able to finish the job with a second body press however torko's health is getting low more pekko has little offensive options against talkhol so i decide to stay in and finish it with a body press last is a dynamaxx grim style it's a physical attacker but has some strong moves there's a big build up as mani uses a move that she's been training really hard to use and it does a whopping 19 damage keep training manny you'll get there i'm paralyzed on the first turn and do some big damage on the second tork oil is really low now so i switch into arc 9 which lets him intimidate off and comfortably tanks it here with marnie's dynamaxx now ended arcanine finishes the fight with an extreme speed my next fight is with hop if you're a fan of hop look away now because it's not pretty [Music] too easy for plot reasons i now need to take on the vice president of macro cosmos oleana her team is quite diverse and this battle can't be taken lightly her lead is a frostless so i go with arc 9 and manage to land a flamethrower through double team taking it down in one shot next is my low tick which is a real threat given its bulk and water typing i switch it to torquel to set up the sun reducing the power of water moves i then switch once more into chandelure thanks to the sun i comfortably live a surf and can use solar beam without needing to charge solar beam is a two-hit kill but i'm eventually able to finish milotic after it stalls with recover against salazal i switch into arcanine who can tank special moves thanks to its assault vest on the next turn i use dig which hits for four times effective damage and this buries selazal serena doesn't pose too much of a threat so i switch into talk all and take it down with a sun boosted lava plume last is a dynamax garbador and it's really threatening due to it having both a rock and ground attack giving it coverage against my whole team my plan is to stall out the dynomax i stay in with torcol who barely lives a max rockfall and manages to land a willow wisp as gabador is a physical attacker this reduces its damage output i then pivot into arcanine which nerfs garbador even further thanks to intimidate on the next turn i switch into cinderella's to stall out the final turn of oleana's dynamax from here i use my dynamax to finish garbador on the next turn with oleana taken care of i can now return to the champion's cup or maybe not i'm interrupted by beed who's doing his best impression of a marshmallow swirl and wants to battle with his pretty pink pokemon while this battle wasn't easy i was able to get by by simply spamming some sun boosted fire moves with the marshmallow now roasted i can move on to the remainder of the champion's cup the next stage will see me rematch against three gym leaders nessa b and ryan ness's water focused team is obviously troubling for my fire types my strategy for the fight is to set up sun and sweep with chandelure with solar beam however this won't be easy as nessa has a drizzle pelipper in the back which will change the weather to rain against gar lis ipod i lead with talonflame i use acrobatics which i know won't be enough to kill however it does do more than fifty percent which forces go this up odd to switch out due to its ability this brings barracuda out who hits like a truck so i switch into torcol who can tank its hits by setting up the sun with the sun now up i'm confident in switching into cinderace i take big damage from a drill run and won't survive another but i decide to get around this by dynamaxing this gives me a health increase which allows me to just survive another drill run i then land a max lightning to finish by a scooter g ollie supod returns but i out speed and finish it off in one shot next is seeking but it doesn't have much bulk so it too falls to a max lightning peliper is sent out just as my dynomax ends i could take pelipper down with cinderace but need to override the rain so i switch into torquel with the sun restored i'm clear to switch into chandelure pelipper uses tailwind giving it a speed boost my solar beam can't finish pelipper in one turn and nessa recovers honestly this worked out great for me as tailwind expired just as i was able to finally finish pelipper furthermore since my torque was holding the heat rock i still have a few turns of sun left as nessa sends out her final pokemon dreadnor a dynamaxed but my chandelure can fire off a four times effective solar beam to defeat dreadnor before it even has a chance to move next is the fighting type user b but this battle isn't as close as the last one how lucha is her lead and is also the biggest threat to my team i lead with arcanine to let off and intimidate and my choice scarf allows me to out speed and land a flamethrower removing just over half of its health fortunately hal lucha missed its high jump kick which took the remainder of its health phalanx has access to rock tomb but it doesn't pose much of a threat two flamethrowers finishes it off next is grapple locked and this is where chandelure takes over grapaloft has no moves that can hit me due to my ghost typing this lets me switch in for free and take it down with a choice specs boosted psychic surf etched suffers the same fate on the next turn last is machamp but it too has no moves that can hit me due to my ghost type and flash fire ability bee's helpless as i mind crush home a champ in two turns to finish the fight too easy my final bracket match is against rihann honestly his team is less threatening than before as there's no real synergy despite that his fly gun and duralatin are huge threats due to their monster attack stats and good coverage for dealing with my team fortunately i've got a strategy to make this fight a little easier against talk all i lead with talonflame who is holding a lumbery torquel can't do too much damage so i use sword stance to boost my attack by four stages talk all puts me to sleep however my lumbery wakes me up as i'm no longer holding an item i use acrobatics which has its power doubled but talk i'll still live and use yawn again i don't want to take talk all out as i fall asleep so i use sword stance to max my attack and simply hope that i can wake up before talk of finishes me off on turn one i slept on turn two i slept on turn three i slept and on turn four i took the chance and woke up just in time i landed in acrobatics which removed talk all in one shot from here i outspeed raihan's team and my enormous attack lets me finish all of his pokemon in one shot i've gotta say ripping that flygon apart felt pretty good after having my team decimated by the flygon on route 10. continuing the trend of interruptions rose executes his doomsday plan just as i'm about to battle leon uninterested in the chaos around us hop and i go looking for some dogs in the forest but only managed to find some antiques i then returned to the scene of the crime and need to take on rose in a battle thing is his team is made up of steel types and i'm sure you know how this goes hit the music [Music] i took his steel pokemon melted them down with flamethrower and reshaped them into a nice big l for rows to hold you keep that as a souvenir pal anyway roses unleashed this dreadful looking creature it's our job to send it back from the fiery depths from which it came to help with this our antiques turned into dogs i let everyone else do the heavy lifting and cowardly use dig to keep my arcanine out of harm's way eventually we take it down and the day is saved there's only one thing left to do and that's to take on the champion leon while getting ready i caught a rotom and converted it into an oven this will help me heat up my food and maybe i can find some use for it on my team after taking some time to strategize and level my team i was ready for leon leon's team is scary due to its diverse typings and it's stacked full of powerful pokemon i doubt that my fire type can use brute force to run over his team so i've had to think carefully about my approach in this battle leon leads with aegislash a mixed attacker i send out rotom who i've taught eerie impulse which reduces the opponent's special attack by two stages i'd land this move twice nullifying its special moves aegislast uses its physical move sacred sword and lands a critical hit i can land a third eerie impulse but sadly due to the crit i can't survive another attack and rotom falls next i send in talkhol and use willow wisp this halves ageslash physical damage output meaning that i've now completely nerfed its offense i then switch into talonflame and begin boosting my attack with sword stance once maxed i use tailwind to boost my speed for the next few turns the timing works out well as on this turn asia slash does enough damage to trigger my citrus berry from here my setup is perfect and i remove ager slash on the next turn with flame charge dragapult falls to acrobatics mr rime is roasted by flame charge intellion is crushed by acrobatics as is haxorous leon's last pokemon is charizard a dynamax's and an aerobatics falls just short of taking it down charizard then uses max rockfall which crushes my talonflame i then send out cinderace my starter pokemon who's been with me from the very beginning leon heals and i dynamax i use max lightning but this removes about 40 percent of charizard's health on the next turn i use max guard which stalls out leon's last dynamax turn with charizard now much smaller and less bulky one final max lightning is enough to finish the fight with that my team of fire pokemon had conquered the gala region under hardcore nuzlocke rules this run had a lot of ups some downs and honestly a lot of close calls the fire type is one of my favorites and i think that i've been able to demonstrate some of the awesome fire types in this run i was also impressed by how good scorebunny was considering it had a bad nature maybe it's not so bad after all if you enjoyed this video be sure to subscribe as it's free and really helps me out in the comments let me know who your mvp of the run was and why until next time take care and i'll see you in the next video

Channel: Keegan J

Views: 926,211

Keywords: Pokemon, Hardcore, Nuzlocke, Challenge, Sword, Shield, Extreme, Hard Mode

Id: -6SzLL80EOc

Length: 32min 29sec (1949 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 08 2021