CAN I BEAT A POKÉMON HEARTGOLD HARDCORE NUZLOCKE WITH ONLY BUG TYPES!? (Pokémon Challenge)

welcome everyone my name is self and this is my attempt to beat a hardcore nuzlocke of pokemon heart gold with only bug type pokemon the full rule set for this run is in the description but basically only the first bug type encounter in each route or area can be caught if a pokemon faints it must be permanently boxed no items except held items in battle party pokemon levels are limited to the next gym leader or elite four's ace and finally the battle mode must be put on set at all times our gold and souls over situation in terms of bug types is quite interesting with 15 total fully evolved bug types in the johto region however for the purposes of our playthrough we have some limitations first letyan is a soulsover exclusive so we can't catch it sizzor is also only available through trade evolution and our rules don't allow us to connect to other games so the best we can get there is scyther three of these pokemon surskit volbeat and illumise are only available in the jodo's safari zone not only does the safari zone open up to us late game but we can only get one encounter from it as per the rules and to get the earliest available one cersket it takes six real time days and we get these videos up weekly so likely no safari zone encounter for us like the safari zone there are other areas in the game that have multiple of these bug types but we can only catch one of course in total we're left with 12 possibilities but a maximum of 9 that we can actually catch as per our rules bug types are also quite weak overall having the lowest average base stat totals out of any type in the game so this could get really crazy really quickly let's do this for our starter i decided to pick one that i don't often choose cyndaquil this will give our rival a totodile which i feel is a nice middle ground for bug types we're not weak to it like we would be against cyndaquil but we're also not super effective against it like chikorita it's a fair choice oh and by give our rival a totodile i mean he's gonna punch us in the mouth steal totodile and kill three lab assistants in the process smack us around in a vicious battle and have us framed for the crime and pursued by the police great off to a nice start here in the pleasant johto region on route 29 we have our first act of kindness or just basic human decency as lyra gives us some pokeballs meaning the run has officially begun our first encounter comes in the form of route 31 which gives us access to caterpie we catch one and name it flutter flutter ends up having a bold nature plus defense and minus attack which isn't bad at all at this point we're forced to deposit cyndaquil see you in legends arceus my dude flutter it's just you and me now since flutter is so weak at the moment we're forced to grind up against level 2 pidgeys which isn't a bad thing as they give speedy vs which are actually going to be very necessary for what we have upcoming after a ton of grinding we get to level 7 and flutter evolves into a solid looking metapod and with the higher defense i'm now willing to take on some of the trainers the route goes smoothly and we make it to violet city where we can take on the sprout tower during our battles metapod hits level 10 where he evolves into butterfree thank god for bug types having early evolutions against the elder flutter hits level 12 where he learns stun spore and sleep powder two crucial developments for sure since the current level cap is 13 it's time to hit up the violet city gym having confusion on flutter makes the gym trainers possible as bug or flying moves likely wouldn't do the trick the second trainer makes the case that becoming a flying trainer isn't easy and there are people who deserve the title more than me since they train night and day i was wondering what he was going on about but then i realized technically we do have a flying type alright fine talk about me all you want with the trainers taken care of it's time for something scary faulkner the flying type gym leader we can only get butterfree up to this point which is frightening since he's weak to everything faulkner starts with a pidgey and i immediately hit it with sleep powder normally sleep powder is not great as it has 75 accuracy however flutter has the compound eyes ability which increases its accuracy by 1.3 times meaning it gets bumped up to 97.5 percent unfortunately pidgey wakes up on the second turn and hits us with tackle but it's an easy ko with a second confusion now this is what i was worried about all along pidgeotto pidgeotto's base speed is 71 while butterfreeze is 70. however if you'll remember i grinded up against pidgeys like crazy for those speedyvs and also made sure that we level up mid battle too as this allowed in hardcore nuzlocke so you just have to be at or below the level cap when the battle starts which should hopefully do the trick and it does we put the pidgeotto to sleep immediately and start hitting it with confusion on the third turn while in the red it wakes up and hits us with gusts to a bit above half but then we take it out compound eyes sleep powder and those speedy v's definitely made that battle possible our next gym is in azalea town and because of the long stretch combined with the gym trainers butterfree would definitely go past the level 17 cap thankfully we have a saving grace in the form of being able to go ahead to the ilex forest before the gym where we can find a new encounter paris we catch one and name it critter and it turns out it has a modest nature son of a plus special attack and minus attack arguably the very worst we could have gotten and that's especially not good because parasect actually offers us the secondary grass typing which could be vital realizing our predicament i decided to grind paris up against bellsprout on route 31 for some attacky v's until level 13. one cool thing is that we can get both the bullet ctm and the miracle seed to boost grass type moves which might be useful later since paris is very limited for physical grass moves the azalea gym is also a scary one as bug types resist our moves and are super effective against paris too we have one scary encounter with a b drill but the rest of the trainers go pretty smoothly and butterfree learns gust at level 16 which is very fortunate it gets it before the level cap with that it's time for another scary gym leader bugsy bugsy actually leads with his ace a level 17 scyther which thankfully doesn't have any stab flying moves but with technician quick attack lear u-turn and focus energy along with a citrus berry it's a scary threat regardless i lead with flutter and go for sleep powder immediately he hits us with a quick attack though and it crits but we survive on 18 hp before putting it to sleep my god stab super effective gus does about third damage and i'm really terrified this thing needs to stay asleep after the next hit it's citrus berry activates but we're getting a bit of recovery from our shell belt bugsy then uses a super potion after the next hit which is not good but scyther stays asleep now here i knew this was the 5th turn and that he'd wake up we could probably survive a quick attack but gust wouldn't ko from this range and then we'd get out sped and taken out on the next turn so i had to risk it and go for the pre-emptive sleep powder while it was technically already asleep it looks ridiculous on the surface but it wakes up and just goes for focus energy here and the sleep powder does connect with a higher critical hit ratio another quick attack could have very well taken us out but he stays asleep for the next turn and we can ko it man that was so dangerous with the scyther gone bugsy just has a metapod and cocuna left and a combination of critter and flutter are able to take them down although flutter did get taken down to 15 hp due to poison second gym badge is in the books after the second badge the game really starts to open up for us but before that we have a rival battle against silver he leads with gastly as i go for butterfree flutter is a great lead choice here as it's able to one hit ko the ghastly with confusion we also get massive damage on a zubat but then it confuses us with super sonic we break through to take it out with confusion though crocodile comes in next and since butterfree is confused it's quite risky to keep him out there so i switch into paris who not only resist water moves and has the super effective bullet seed and miracle seed combo but would also benefit from the attack ev's anyway crocodile just uses scary face on the switch then we hit him hard with bullet c to about a third after one of the hits gets a crit guess critter's living up to his name after all crocodile just spams scaryface again and our next bullet seed only hits twice to bring him super low in the red he then goes for bite which also flinches us but it only does a third so i go for bullet seed again for the easy ko he hits us with bite and critical hit and it does enough to ko us i reviewed the calcs after this and it turns out he does just enough i mean down to the singular hp point to ko with a crit from there a consecutive flinch then crit for the precise ko i thought we had that easily but nope how ironic is it that critter gets a crit and then gets crit thankfully flutter is able to finish off the job that was an unfortunate loss but in some good news after this fight the game starts really opening up for us and it's for one reason in particular headbutt this dude in the ilex forest well first of all holy sh he rocks the entire forest by smashing his head off of a tree he's about as hard-headed as my ex-girlfriend but more importantly he's able to teach pokemon headbutt which opens up a world of encounters for us all we have to do is use headbutt on a tree and bam a pokemon pops out okay or not our first headbutt encounter is on route 29 a spinorack which we catch a nickname jeffrey jeffrey ends up having a quirky nature which is neutral our next encounter is a pokemon that i think might be the key to being able to complete the next gym at all heracross heracross can only be found on route 33 and it's a 30 chance to be found but only on certain random trees why must terracross always be so difficult to find after 122 headbutts we finally find one and successfully catch it and name it atlas atlas has a relaxed nature plus defense and minus speed which is not great heracross relies pretty strongly on his speed but hey at least we got it our final headbutt encounter is ahead on route 34 and it's a pineco which took 37 headbutts to find we nickname it walnut and find out that it has a lax nature the plus defense is great but the minus special defense is risky as fortress's special defense is already so low so we'll have to be careful at least it gives us a strong defensive presence with that we arrive in goldenrod city and i make a quick stop to the department store to pick up a few tms like reflect and light screen which could be useful later on there's also a draw center in here which offers some great different prizes every day such as tms and berries too which are hard to come by in heart golden soul silver since it's monday i was able to get the shadow claw tm which can be found a bit later on route 42 as well but could be useful early on too on the main floor whitney is trying to get a radio card by completing the quiz and she's complaining that she just can't do it whitney they're literally yes or no questions if you get one wrong just redo it and answer the other option all my anger at the years of torture she's put me through is coming out i apologize but she's also stupidest it's time for the goldenrod city gym now i don't need to elaborate much on this one do i miltank just miltank i know we can't take this gym lightly so i train up all of our pokemon to the max level cap and go for it thankfully heracross learns brick break right at the level cap level 19 which i'm thinking is a great answer usually the level cap is really unfortunate in terms of blocking evolutions and good moves or whatnot but this is a golden opportunity she leads with a clefairy which can be quite a nuisance with cute charm and metronome but heracross is an absolute beast and one he ko's it with super effective stab brick break in comes miltank which goes for stomp right away and flinches us goodness gracious she hits us again to about half and we flinch again dear lord she then goes for a tract but we break through to hit it with brick break but it survives with a quarter health left she then hits us with stomp to 18 hp and we flinch yet again how actually how at this point we could definitely switch into pineco but the problem is it could use milk drink at which point we'd be completely toast as we can't do much damage with anything but heracross i have to go for it stomp hits us we survive on just 3 hp don't flinch this time don't get attracted either and can take it out unbelievable how this battle consistently manages to be difficult no matter even if you have a brick break heracross i have no idea but we barely make it through with no deaths after this we're able to head to route 35 for yet another encounter this time yanma but it just so happens to have a one percent encounter rate so this takes a while there sure are a lot of bug encounters early on in this game yes but they sure don't make them easy after 15 minutes we find one and i noticed during the battle that it has speed boost oh my god i use a fastball which is fantastic since it operates better the faster the pokemon is and it doesn't catch oh come on you're fastest once we catch it we name it flighty get it since it wouldn't be caught and it has a gentle nature plus special defense and minus defense not great but with speed boost it's a great addition to our team moving north we hit the national park but unfortunately we can't catch anything here yet because all the new encounters that would be here are only here during the bug catching contest which only takes place on tuesdays thursdays and saturdays since i'm playing on a monday we'll have to come back tomorrow ever since i first saw sudo wudo i've had this faint sense that is really really familiar somehow but i just couldn't place it the goofy dancing the crazy demeanor the scrawny bumbling full presence that's just stuck there in the way of everything it wasn't until this play through decades later that i finally figured out who it was my grandmother speaking of my grandmother spinrack ends up evolving into ariados while grinding on route 38. this is gonna be key for our ghost type gym challenge coming up soon man totally random but look how cool janma looks while following us that's my boy speaking of which emma is absolutely terrible right now it learns like nothing at all besides quick attack and it's supposed to be a special attacker while attempting to enter the ecrutique gym this man just shoves me out i'm sorry you called me a what now feeling rejected i also try to enter this building and this dude says you'll have to leave i'm really not feeling welcome in this city in the burn tower we have another rival battle against silver and boy am i ever looking forward to paying him back after what he did to critter his ghastly survives butterfree's confusion on like negative hp and confuses us with super sonic but we take it out on the next turn magnemite comes in and i switch into atlas who gets hit by thundershock and paralyzed and then the magnemite uses supersonic to confuse us despite all of that atlas breaks through and ko's it with brick break zubat comes in next so i'm forced to switch back into flutter wing attack does just under half we bring him into the red with confusion then survive another wing attack on 14 hp to take it out crocodile is silver's last pokemon and with two pokemon really weak i go into walnut who's able to whittle it down with bug bite for the ko due to his great defenses a tough battle for sure but we managed it quite well with that it's time for the ghost type equity city gym ghost types resist bug moves but with a combination of double team foresight to hit ghost types with normal moves and quick attack flighty can actually do quite reasonably well here which is great for getting him special attacky bees it's time for gym leader morty who is always a tough battle and honestly rivals whitney an annoyance in my opinion we do have a secret weapon though before the battle he says i have secretly trained here all my life my dude you're literally the famous gym leader of the town morty leaves with gastly as we send out flutter now that flutter has super effective psy beam he's able to easily one hikeo ghastly gengar comes in next and goes for hypnosis but it misses good old 60 accuracy and we fire back with a 97.5 accuracy sleep powder to put it to sleep how do you like that morty side beam does over half but it's citrus berry activates another one brings it into the yellow it wakes up and hits us with a sucker punch but then we can take it down morty sends out his haunter next and it actually hits hypnosis which isn't great however we do have arya dose now which has the insomnia ability meaning he can't get put to sleep now morty's level 21 hunter pretty much has no attacking moves except ones that affect pokemon during sleep so i switch in jeffrey and he did indeed go for dream eater which can't do anything jeffrey also has priority shadow sneak which does huge damage and his haunter then uses curse to take itself out but does about 17 hp damage on us morty's second haunter comes in and we hit it to about a third with shadow sneak and it goes for nice shade for 40 hp damage then curse brings us down to just 14 hp but then priority shadow sneak is able to take it out amazing aeriados is such a fantastic counter for morty's battle which is otherwise a living nightmare mvp for sure while surfing on our way to sienwood city i ran into a trainer who has two gyarados which is absolutely terrifying and i thought we'd definitely lose someone to them but incredibly pineco saves us with bide against the first one off of seven hp and ariados gets a crit shadow sneak to take the second one out that could have been bad we arrive in cnwood city which is actually the location of our next encounter weirdly enough in one of the houses this dude is scared of someone kidnapping his shuckle so he gives it to us seems logical now shuckle is interesting as his main form of attacking usually toxic isn't learned by level up and can't be acquired in heartgold until the post game so not quite sure what we're gonna do with him at the moment the cianwood city gym is one that i was definitely feeling okay about our team either resists or quad resists the fighting type and we have two flying types along with heracross with aerial ace we clear out the gym trainers with ease and i grind up a bit to get our party to about level 28. the level cap is level 31 but we can't go up too high as this part of the game is kind of strange two gyms after this one all the way in mahogany town the level cap is still 34 so we have to be cautious about that it's time for gym leader chuck himself who starts off with a prime ape and only has two pokemon as much as it might seem like a good idea to lead with butterfree his primate has 4 times effective rock slide so i opt for heracross instead who i put an oren berry on to help us out his primate uses double team another reason why aerial lace is a perfect option here as it isn't affected by evasion increases we do over half he hits us with rockslide we don't flinch and can take him out with another aerial ace solid in comes polywrath next and we out speed with aerial ace to do about a third after which he goes for body slam to bring us a bit below half but our oranberry brings us back up aerial ace then brings him to about a quarter but it's citrusberry activates bringing it to about half and surf does big damage on us to just 21 hp i can't ko from this range so i'm forced to switch into butterfree who gets hit to just above half with surf polyrath outspeeds and hits us with another serve to just 10 hp and sai beam is thankfully able to take it out with a crit on the next turn if sai beam didn't quite ko we still had options like priority from ariados but man oh man that was way more challenging than i thought it might be and we could have had worse luck too like body slam paralysis nonetheless fifth gym badge down while trying to save the damn ampharos in the olivine city lighthouse i'm literally locked out let me in i'm trying to help you what the let me in before battling jasmine's steel type gym i decided to grind to level 31. jasmine's level cap is 35 but then again the gym leader after her is 34 so i'm being careful this is how this game gets you while grinding pineco evolves into fortress whose newly attained steel typing is fantastic for this gym now i remembered in gold and silver that jasmine's gym didn't have trainers so i was kind of surprised when these people approached us but on both occasions they just kind of talk to you and let you pass we got completely bamboozled man jasmine herself has an interesting team and she leaves with magnemite so i lead with heracross who's able to one hit koa with brick break her second magnemite then comes out which suffers the same fate next comes the big boy stelix as much as a special move would help brick break is still a good option so i hit it for about a third as it uses sandstorm our next brick break brings it to about a quarter health but then its citrus berry activates thankfully it misses its iron tail and we can hit it again but it survives in the red and uses iron tail which actually does bigger damage than i thought and gets the defense drop uh oh knowing jasmine will go for a high proportion to restore it back to full i go for brick break again with about a quarter health remaining i'm forced to switch so i go into walnut i decide bide is actually a workable option here so we tank an iron tail but then it goes for screech to lower our defense bide brings it to below half but i'm worried we won't survive two more iron tails but i don't really have another option on our team so i go for bite again and cross my fingers thankfully steelex resets the sandstorm on its first turn and then it uses iron tail to bring us to 28 hp and our next bide thankfully does the job as it turns out the defense drop actually helped us in a sense since we took more damage so we could return more damage that sandstorm turn was crucial though i took a break after this gym and came back to the game the next day meaning it's now tuesday and the bug catching contest is on so it's time for our second last encounter now since we've already caught caterpie and we play with species claws we have four possible encounters something in the bedroom line venonat pincer or scyther honestly all four of these options are good additions to the team i'm just hoping we don't get venonat since we can get it later on but the others are only available here without even encountering anything we already have our first encounter ends up being a pincer nice i'm happy about that it's not too often you get to use pincer it doesn't have a secondary type and kind of fulfills the same role as heracross but it's still a great addition to the team we catch pincer and name it ruth short for ruthless ruth has a careful nature plus special defense and minus special attack which isn't bad i replace shuckle for now as he's not doing too much at the moment let's be honest after dealing with the red gyros and unfortunately not being allowed to catch it as cool and as shiny as it may be we encounter lance for the first time who's busy showing off how cool he is and whatnot one interesting thing that some people might not know is that the red scale item you get from gyarados can actually be traded to mr pokemon for an experienced share which is helpful for leveling up our new encounters after watching lance have his dragonite literally hyper beam a man i'll never get over that we make our way through team rocket's mahogany base oh and i also get punched in the mouth by silver again what is with all the violence in this game they need to make this thing rated m i swear with the help of lance's dragonite the rocket executives are pretty easy and it's time to head for our seventh badge after defeating the gym trainers i went back to the lake of rage to grind up near the level cap using magikarp and gyarados as they give speed and attacky vs which are great for our pokemon while there i actually found the choice specs item which i forgot was here that should definitely come in handy yanma also ends up learning ancient power which means he officially evolves into a yen mega which is pretty awesome remember how cool yanma looked while following well look at this boys and girls badass with our full team at level 33 i'm thinking that should be sufficient for the gym and i can't take grinding anymore anyway price is an ice type gym leader of course which i'm thinking shouldn't be too much of a challenge for us but we do have two flying types after all so we should be a bit careful he leads with seal and i leave with pincer who gets great damage off with x scissor but then gets hit by icy wind which lowers our speed after price heal seal we hit it two more times to take it out hila swine comes out which is the perfect opportunity to try out brick break on pincer who recently learned it it does over half and then piloswine citrus berry activates to restore it to about three quarters then it hits us really hard with blizzard to bring us to 31 hp since the citrus berry restored its health we can't ko from this range so i'm forced to switch i decide fortress is our best bet since steel type resists ice and we get hit for about a quarter but then he out speeds us and hits us with mud bomb to 39 hp bug bite does decent damage to below half and now that he's using mud bomb i can switch into heracross he instead decides to use hail in fact which is fine with us herakos is then able to outspeed and take him out with brick break fortress was a great pivot there dugong comes out next and brick break turns out to actually be a one hit ko which i wasn't quite expecting a solid battle overall and that is our seventh badge it's time to hit up the goldenrod radio tower all sneakily in a rocket outfit but silver gets so frustrated that we're wearing one that he blows our cover wow daddy issues much the radio tower ends up being a huge challenge we had so many close encounters i wasn't expecting between self-destructing coughings minimizing mucks and goal bats which counter our team really well eventually we reached the director's office and it wasn't actually until i talked to him that i remembered oh god this isn't the director turns out it's petrol in disguise and i was not ready for his team which consists of a bunch of self-destructing coughings and wheezings thankfully i can switch into walnut who has protect and so long as i time them correctly i'm able to dodge the self-destructs which is very useful to say the least wheezing does hit us though and we get brought to 21 hp on fortress a combination of heracross and pincer's bulk and ariados's priority moves saves us in the end as four of our pokemon end up with below a quarter health and two of them are poisoned that was terrifying thank god for protect and our bulky pokemon that battle could have near ended us while going underground we run into silver who i forgot appears here he leaves with golbat and i led with walnut who's actually not a terrible option goldbach goes for confuse ray on the first turn though and we hit ourselves in confusion immediately he then uses air cutter and another hidden confusion brings us below half oh i have nothing i can switch into an air cutter especially not a crit and need to get some damage off if the ariados sucker punch switch in is to work he uses air cutter again to bring us just 2 hp but then we hit ourselves in confusion for the third turn in a row not only did we not snap out in 3 turns but we also failed to get a single hit off in those three turns too that is a devastating loss as fortress formed the defensive base of our entire team two deaths on the board i go into flighty next and go for ancient power which does three quarters then he hits us with air cutter no crit thankfully and then we can take him out on the next turn we also got a full stat boost from ancient power 2 so flighty is able to take out magnemite although he does get paralyzed and taken below half sneasel is able to be taken down with ease by heracross and for alligator is a two hit ko with brick break hunter is then an easy ko with our jeffrey strategy what an unfortunate loss could have been worse though i suppose shuckle welcome back to the team the final team rocket executive is archer whose team is quite scary for us he starts off with houndour and i decide to lead with heracross who's able to out speed in one hit kom with brick break he sends out his houndoom next which outspeeds us and hits us with firefang bringing us to just 29 hp and gets the burn since that lowers our attack as well our brick brake then isn't able to take him out not good at all i'm forced to switch into yanmega here who takes a firefang with just 32 hp left and also gets burned ancient power thankfully does the job though as we're left with just 9 hp after the burn coughing is then able to be taken down by butterfree's psy beams after being poisoned and brought below half man oh man that was an unlucky battle but after two very close calls we've defeated team rocket for good now for our next encounter i was thinking it was only available in the morning and at night and i had been waiting for the night time but realized that apparently it's also available at the lake of rage using the headbutt trees we eventually find it a venonat catch it and name it floofy floofy has a careful nature plus special defense and minus special attack that is brutal i decide to deposit shuckle for now and add fluffy to the team after some crazy ice cave shenanigans we arrive in blackthorne city the location of the 8th gym this gym i know is going to be difficult as dragons are super powerful while grinding for the gym i actually encountered entei who scared the hell out of me i put him to sleep for the hell of it and then he ran while sleeping since he was sleep running he proceeded to run into a wall and die and ho-oh was very mad the end during the grind heracross learns close combat pincer learns swords dance and venonat learns stunsport and sci-beam along with signal beam at level 35 since i held off on evolving it speaking of which venonat also evolves into venomoth it's time for the final gym leader claire and one of the ones that i'm most scared about i studied her team for a long time and i just couldn't come up with a surefire strategy it all came down to her kingdra as one might expect but i have a bit of a plan claire starts off with gyarados with intimidate so i lead with butterfree i honestly thought that at three levels higher and with as much speed investment as we have we'd out speed but gyarados outspeeds us and hits us with dragon rage before we hit it with sleep powder i decided to take the opportunity to switch into yanmega and use super effective ancient powers secretly hoping we might get the full stat boost on everything unfortunately our second ancient power just barely doesn't ko which would have been okay if butterfree outsped since we could have reset the sleep but i have an opportunity to switch into pincer here to try and set up since i know she'll use the hyper potion we get the free switch off claire heals it up and it stays asleep so we can go for swords dance my calcs tell me that thrash won't one hit ko with swords dance so i have to go with another one and gyarados wakes up and hits us with dragon rage after which we can take it out this sweep is set up now i know she's gonna send in dragon air next since it has fire blast although i do wish it was kingdra in a sense dragonair also gets out sped and taken out and i need thrash to continue for the third turn but it doesn't and we get confused that ruins everything given our circumstances i had to bank on either the stat boost on yanmega or the three-turn thrash but neither happened pincer now can't stay in so i switch into venomoth in the hope that she'll miss the hydro pump so we can put it to sleep on the next turn but she doesn't the luck is not with us today i switch in the end mega hoping for the miss again but instead she goes for dragon pulse which is slightly under half i use detect to get the speed boost and scout out whether or not she goes for a hydro pump as that would be a ko for sure and it turns out she's still using dragon ball so i figure we can at least get some damage off and recover a bit with the shell belt to survive another dragon pulse that way she's a ko with heracross because heracross is just out of range to ko from full health with close combat but her dragon pulse gets a critical hit and takes out yanmega no way that was brutal i was really banking on yanmega for the league i send in heracross next and kandra just goes for smokescreen after which a close combat is indeed able to take her out even without the crit it would have dragon air is her last pokemon and close combat is able to do the job damn without that crit we had a good chance of going through deathless but that kindred really had me dancing around i'll say that much all eight badges obtained three deaths on the board and shuckles back on the team to form our final party of six with that i tried to head to victory road but lyra doesn't allow me and she says hi self where do you think you're going sylph to the pokemon league lyra if you'd please after a massive hour-long quest and ceremony to summon ho-oh i run from it since it's angry at us for killing entei and the kimono girls are not happy all that work for nothing sorry ladies victory road is quite short in this game and our rival battle went off without a hitch since he doesn't have crowbar yet with that we've reached the pokemon league i do thorough preparation getting all of our pokemon into the high 47s to max out the level cap max out our eevees where possible make sure to get a whole bunch of items like the muscle band and focus sash from our mom's savings we didn't get the choice scarf though unfortunately the life orb from the ruins of alf the poison barb from frida and the black belt from the lake of rage dude unfortunately as is often the case with bug types a lot of their best moves are saved for later levels which we can't access such as heracross's megahorn at level 55 but hey we're as well set up as we can be it's time let's do this the first elite four member is will the psychic type trainer now one would imagine he'd be pretty easy with a bug type team but his zatus kind of throw a wrench in our plan i decide our best course of action is to lead with butterfree and hit the first saw to with sleep powder that way we can next switch into pincer and set up with swords dance who i put a muscle band on to increase the power of her physical moves however the zatu wakes up immediately and hits us with confuse rey ruth makes it through with swords dance though then zatu hits us with psychic for a bit less than half thankfully ruth snaps out of confusion on the next turn though and takes it out with x scissor since we outspeed the rest of will's team it's a clean sweep with swords dance boosted stab and mostly super effective x scissor that early wake up and confusion was dangerous though that could have gone south real quick next up is koga the poison bug type elite 4 member who i'm pretty scared of since his whole team basically resists ours and has some big threats like crobat i spent a lot of time thinking about this battle and came up with a strategy i thought might be viable coca leaves with ariados so i send out butterfree to hit it with stab super effective sharp beak boosted gus to the yellow and then he uses spiderweb followed by a forest door after which two more gusts take him out now although i knew crobat would come out next which seems like a run killer on the face of it don't forget we now have shuckle who i put a pecha berry on in case he gets poisoned shuckle can absorb krobet's moves quite well and although crobat starts using double team as of gen 4 shuckle's bide actually bypasses accuracy checks so it can't miss this is a devious way to handle crowbat and it takes a long time the good thing is although crobat does way more damage to us than we do to it we have rest thankfully we time them right being brought to just 14 hp at our lowest and the stall works as the crowback goes down to a final bide after four minutes of craziness fortress comes out next which is a huge wall for our team but besides explosion all i can really do is use swift for damage it goes for toxic spikes and i use rest to heal us up after a couple of turns out of impatience i actually sent out hair across here forgetting that he actually has swarm not guts like another one of our hair crosses we've had so the poison actually doesn't help us and brick break does just below half unfortunately fortress uses protect when i try to close combat to finish it off and the poison is doing exactly 32 hp damage when we're left with 31 hp on the last turn damn so close i switch in butterfree here and a couple of gusts are able to do the job venomoth comes out next and because it has supersonic i go for sleep powder to be safe and it hits us with psychic before we can get it off after which a couple of gusts handle it muck is his last pokemon and i put it to sleep right away knowing how dangerous it can be with minimize i switch into fluffy so we can't get poisoned either and go for a choice specs boosted side beam for about two-thirds damage he doesn't wake up on the final turn and we can take him out to defeat koga that was a lengthy process but worth it as we had no deaths thanks to chuckle definitely the mvp there as the shuckle saying goes don't try to hurt shuckle or or he'll bide you to death with a club that has nails in it that's how it goes right bruno is up next and he is a scary threat with fire punch blaze kick and rock slide i spent 16 minutes studying his team and formulating a strategy but nothing was clicking heracross with aerial ace would be great but his lead hitmontop has counter and it was just out of range for the ko choice spec's venomoth with sludge bomb was also just out of range for hitmontop and hitmonlee and would get hurt bad by those fire moves eventually it occurred to me pincer can't get hurt that badly by hitmontop overall so i suppose we'll have to opt for swords dance and teach pincer return i'm just hoping he has high friendship by now as i have no idea but we also have to get two off to ensure kos we just have to hope he doesn't get a crit since he'll likely hit us six times with technician boosted triple kick and could also go for priority quick attack afterward we also have to hope that hitmonlee doesn't outspeed us since it does have a higher base speed but we are a higher level thankfully though it turns out him on top just goes for quick attack so we get our two swords dances off and can one hit ko everything as it turns out we do also outspeed hitmonlee and one hit ko onyx with brook break and machamp with return as well wow lots of things had to fall into place there and all our strategies were very close calls but it paid off for sure the last elite 4 member karen has a dark type team which is of course weak to us she leads with umbreon which is too big of a threat with confused ray to try and set up against and gengar would outspeed pincer and pincer's only move that can affect it is x scissor which even at plus two would do nothing since it's four times resisted so i decide to lead with heracross who has shadowclaw after all with the black belt to increase the power of his super effective fighting moves heracross is able to one hit ko umbreon with brick break mark row is outspent thankfully due to our higher level and evs and also gets taken out with brick break and thankfully the same goes for hound doom as well gengar comes out which makes me very nervous but it just goes for spite so it goes down to shadow claw vile plume is her final pokemon and i go for aerial ice which brings it to a quarter but it hits the stun spore to paralyze us and outspeeds us with a petal dance on the next turn but we break through and ko it on the next turn solid it's time for the champion lance's team is straight up terrifying for us i strategized for a long time for this battle but sort of like claire except 10 times worse there was no way around what we're facing especially with no ice moves and a charizard and aerodactyl both of which are super effective against us and outspeed everything on our team with the best strategy i have in mind it's time to go for it lance leads with gyarados and i go with butterfree immediately gyarados outspeeds us and hits us with an ice fang to 35 hp but we get the sleep powder off dear lord terrifying already we make the switch into pincer who gets off two swords dances and the gyarados stays asleep so we can take it out with return now as per the order of his team i was assuming lance would send out aerodactyl next and he does indeed my calcs tell me we can survive a rock slide i was hoping it would miss actually but it hits us and brings us down to 33 hp and we don't flinch and can take it down with a neutral brick break but the inevitable moment is here the charizard switch as fast as pincer is ev trained and 85 base speed i know he likely can out speed a 100 base speed charizard i decide to switch into shuckle and go for our bide strategy our buy takes him below half and at 49 hp i know he's doing 22 hp with air slash so i know we can survive two more and take him out so long as we don't get crit but he misses his first one this is actually terrible for us as bide then doesn't ko him and brings him into full restore range in addition to another hit since i know the four restore is coming i can rest though and we eventually wake up at 70 hp two more air slashes bring us to 25 hp our shell bell brings us to 36 hp and here i know we're doomed he hits us with air slash and now we're in easy ko range but he switches it up and goes for fire fang which lets us survive on literally one singular hp what the hell was that unbelievable i mean we couldn't sucker punch charizard anyway but wow dragonite comes in and inevitably we have to use shuckle for one of the outrage turns goodbye shuckle what a legend he was it was a very difficult decision as to who to bring out next but i know i need to stall out the outrage to confuse him so i send in ruth and just try to get as much damage off as i can with return before getting taken out by outrage ruth goes down but crucially dragonite does not get confused oh no a three-turn outrage is the worst thing in the world for us right now i'm forced to switch into heracross who is likely the only one on our team who can survive one right now and i hit him with shadow claws since i cannot put him into full restore range it goes below half but then its citrus berry activates and outrage brings us to just 35 hp dragonite is now finally confused so i'm desperately hoping he'll hurt himself in confusion but he doesn't and takes us out without rage how unlucky a three-turn outrage then a confusion breakthrough to take out atlas at this point our best bet is fluffy who i know can out-speed and he's indeed able to take the dragonite out with choi spec's boosted sludge bomb lance has two dragonites left and i go for sludge bomb on the first one to below half then it uses thunder wave not good but i suppose not the worst either now here i completely forgot lance's other dragonites don't have outrage just dragon rush and he actually misses and we can take him down with sludge bomb i was thinking it was completely over since in my head they would just outrage our three remaining pokemon we would have survived to be hit anyway it was all about breaking through paralysis there his final dragonite comes out and hits us with dragon rush to just 23 hp we hit him hard with sludge bomb which also poisons not that it matters at this point and then his next dragon rush misses so the god himself fluffy can take him down wow even if venomoth got taken down we did have a life orb aeriados with priority sucker punch waiting but my lord fluffy wanted them all to feast on himself what a beast we've done it hard gold hardcore nuzlocke with only bug types complete with three remaining pokemon and six total deaths what an adventure i hope you guys enjoyed and if you did don't forget to hit that subscribe button it really helps out a lot and grows our community a huge thanks to my youtube members and patrons who make these videos possible if you'd like to support for some cool perks and to get your name up here the links are also down below if you enjoyed drop a like to help the video out and leave a comment letting me know what kind of run we should do next and i'll see you guys for our next challenge video you

Channel: SilphSpectre

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Rating: 4.9000659 out of 5

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Id: OvtHpz-AsNo

Length: 40min 58sec (2458 seconds)

Published: Sun May 30 2021