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

welcome everyone my name is solf and this is my attempt to beat a hardcore nuzlocke of pokemon platinum with only ice type pokemon the full rule set for this run is listed down below but put simply only the first ice 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 the final league member's ace and finally the battle mode must be put on set at all times the ice type quite an elusive one in the hardcore nuts locking world as in most games ice types come much later in the game since that's where the snowy areas are typically located when it comes to pokemon platinum this is the only type that hasn't been done before on youtube and there's a good reason for this platinum does have a decent number of encounters available however they're all way later in the game making the start of it impossible however i really wanted to pursue this run as i thought it'd be really fun and challenging so with a few slight modifications and a special bonus encounter we're gonna tackle it now on the face of it there's nothing really remarkable about the ice type in fact i thought the overall base stat average would be higher in speed but i guess not it does have some very common weaknesses though so we'll have to be careful and strategize well and when it comes to strategizing well in games recently i've been leveling up my skills big time with today's sponsor bloodline heroes of lithus a free-to-play mobile game for both android and ios bloodline is a strategic card based rpg with western fantasy elements and quite stunning graphics that kind of surprised me with how realistic they are while progressing through the story there are some incredible things you get to do like collect and upgrade your champions but also with light sim gameplay you're able to build up your own kingdom and choose your own path within it which is such an enjoyable 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them all sometime between then and now i have some unfinished business with you this feel line is one of my favorites of all time being part water types phil makes the battle with barry quite easy although i'm sure that will change as chimchar evolves to get the fighting type no idea how we're gonna deal with that with an ice team later on back at the lab we get the nickname spheel and i was gonna name it hugh if it was male but it's not i guess we'll go with okay nevermind he wet it is the wet ends up having a bashful neutral nature not bad at all before leaving rowan gives us the return tm quite a great tm as our pokemon become more friendly and on route 202 after the catching tutorial don gives us some pokeballs officially starting our run in no time we arrive in jupiter city and after exposing an undercover international police member i head west now this was a very painful reminder of our pearl normal run when i planned an entire run around getting a glam yao early on because it's available on route 218 but it turned out to only be accessible on the other side of the water uh harsh times to the east barry challenges us to battle again this time leading with a starly i don't think he really knew what to do about hewett because he merely spammed growl until he got ko'd and then his chimchar proceeded to just spam lear until it suffered the same fate if he actually attacked us that could have been dangerous but a freebie i guess arriving at the arbor gate this hiker says that sparkling new poke your awkwardness as a traveler hey hey hey i'm not awkward the hell man but in all seriousness have you got any bread man and any bread i'm starving no bread oh okay bye with that out of the way we arrive at our first gym destination oreberg city after rescuing rourke from the mines and also ev training hewett's defense like crazy against wild geodudes it's time for the first gym leader a rock specialist which is kind of scary for us we're both super effective against each other so we have to be careful he leaves with a geodude and we immediately outspeed for the four times super effective same type attack bonus or stab water gun in comes onyx next and unfortunately it does outspeed us but onix has quite low attack so it only does about a quarter before we can slam him for the one hit ko as well in comes his final pokemon granitos now thankfully with his base 125 attack he doesn't actually have a rock move we just have to make sure we don't get flinched or crit by headbutt and he hits us below half and gets the flinch oh no not good he then hits us again to just three hp and we flinch again are you kidding me it's all over now as he out speeds and kos with pursuit ouch that was incredibly unlucky as per nuzlocke rules a full reset of the game is required and this time we ended up getting a male's feel so hew it is u has a hearty nature which is also neutral so i'll take it after trying to be even more precise with our evs and coming up with a bit of an alternate plan it's time to run it back geodude is of course an instant one hit ko again and in comes onyx now because onyx has way lower attack than geodude i try to take this opportunity to set up defense curls i would rather risk a crit here than a flinch against kranidos and onyx has all low accuracy moves too so i'm hoping for a miss at the very least even if he uses screech to lower our defense by two stages we can kind of even it out each turn and hope for a miss on his part in the end we're brought just below half worse than i thought before taking him down and we level up which is allowed in hardcore nuzlocke's only mid-battle in comes kranados and i'm feeling nervous but he goes for pursuit and gets a crit how does this keep happening water gun then hits and does about three quarters and well i've accepted my fate however rorke uses a potion from this range and i was like certainly we can't wait a minute and yup water gun kos from that range unbelievable first badge acquired and by the slimmest of margins that was nuts north of jubalife galactic grunts are harassing don and rowan saying now now now you must comply hand over everything for free naturally failure to comply will result in a painful time must you be so difficult we are speaking to you on business because this is work for us all right this sounds exactly like a phone scammer speaking of which does anyone else get like two scam calls a day it's been ridiculous lately oh well at least these grunts make me realize how great the powder snow move is and doubles hitting both targets at the same time now because ice types aren't technically available until like the seventh badge this is the only other modification that we've done of the ice types in the game they've been randomly placed in areas after badges 1 3 and 5 which is about where you'd get encounters in most other runs that means here on route 204 we can get our next encounter and it ends up being a snover which i catch a nickname henry henry has a bold nature which gives him plus defense and minus attack which isn't bad a short trip brings us to floroma town where we can finally get some orenberries which would have been a lifesaver during our gym battle man oh man with nothing else to do here we move on to the valley windworks where we have a big challenge in commander mars but i think i have a plan she leaves with a zubat and i decide to try out henry being able to set up permanent hail due to snow warning is amazing and she hits us for bite for not much damage before icy wind is an instant ko let's go in comes the big threat though per ugly now for ugly is not only a fast and powerful monster especially this early in game but she also has the thick fat ability which lowers the power of ice moves great she hits us with priority fake out followed by a scratch on the next turn to bring us to just 12 hp before our berry and then i use icy wind why not razor leaf well i want to lower her speed on the next turn we do the same being brought to just 10 hp and chipping her down with hail damage here i have to switch so i send out hugh however even after two speed drops she still out speeds us oof scratch does a quarter or so but here's the cool part hugh has the ice body ability meaning we get recovery on each turn in the hail we activate her citrus berry on the next turn but between hail damaging her and healing us we're able to bring her to just a sliver with us in the red but the hail finishes her off a close one but a pretty cool strat our journey through eterna forest with cheryl went surprisingly smoothly as normally we have some trouble here but powder snow with the double hits was crucial for us as we made it through unscathed eterna city is upon us quite a peaceful town and at the legendary statue we run into icicle head man what he's just trying to fit in with the theme here barry then tells us that slamming his head into us helped him formulate a great idea yeah sure barry poor kids got brain damage oh and one cool note here if you ever find yourself doing a dragon run or something with the vast expanse of dragon types available there's a hidden draco plate here you're welcome up next the eterna city gym now with justice feel this would have been quite scary but henry helped out with the trainers hugely mowing them down with icy wind and not being able to be hurt by much with grass resistance although stunsport being able to hit grass types in this gen is a pain a brief trip later and we arrive at the second gym leader gardenia now you might think this would be easy with snofer but there are a few things we have to look out for she leaves with a turtle wig and i send out hugh looks scary i know but she has sunny day so i need to have henry in the back to cancel it with hail if necessary we hit her herd below half with powder snow then she uses reflect perfect here i can execute my plan by now using encore to lock her into using reflect this gives me a free switch into henry to start the hail and ko turtwig with icy wind in comes the big threat though her ace roserade she goes for stun spore immediately but misses so icy wind hits her not quite to half but hale tips the scale i had attached to cherry berry anyway so paralysis would have been cancelled out she then goes for grass knot for a third before another icy wind does the job her final pokemon is cherum and with only grass moves we're able to take it down in two icy winds the only way we could have really lost that is if she used and hit two stun spores in a row and then we had terrible paralysis locks so i think we strategized pretty well there after picking up the thief tm so we can get some type boosting items off wild pokemon we enter the galactic building where looker proceeds to take off his disguise right in front of four grunts how this man ever got hired i will never know at the top of the building we have another challenging looking battle against commander jupiter this time with a scun tank with high critical hit ratio stab night slash on her roster i'm quite terrified but let's try it out she leaves with a zubat and this time i lead with hugh because wing attack wouldn't be good for henry she unfortunately does have giga drain too but hugh tanks it relatively well before powder snow hits her to a quarter another giga drain hits but doesn't quite give her enough recovery so another attack takes her down and here it comes this gun tank we just need to hope we don't get crit and she goes for poison gas instead i'll take it as i know we have our orenberry to help here i go for the long shot and hit her with body slam and we get the paralysis yes i can't believe that actually worked with her paralyzed we now outspeed and hit icy wind and get a crit but her citrusberry activates anyway another icy wind then hits and brings her to the red as another takes her down if we didn't get paralysis i was gonna put her to sleep with grass whistle anyway but that worked too on the next route we can find the wayward cave secret entrance and a long trip through the bike puzzles and we make it to the final room where the earthquake tm is always blows my mind how you can find this so early in game before mount coronet don approaches us and says me i'm somewhere between fantastic and uh hopeless suddenly dawn appears to be a lot more relatable alright you know what time it is it's time for our obligatory existential cyrus dance party oh yeah my favorite [Music] kill me now you know without context this guy sounds like he's absolutely out of his mind our home city is upon us where the next gym is but we have something really cool we can get beforehand going to bb bay bay okay the creator of the pc's house she's so happy that we pronounced her name correctly that she gives us a pokemon an eevee which will technically be a viable pokemon once we evolve it into a glacion but that will have to wait until later i name him bridger and bridger ends up having an adamant nature plus attack and minus special attack pretty much the worst possible one oh well did you know they find eggs in the far off jodo region too uh my dude that's like saying did you know they eat food in austria too before anything i head all the way back to the eternity to grab the xp share from this guy as it helps a lot with being able to sneak in extra evs without going past the level cap by attaching it to an hm mod i'll never get over this oh my hero and then your mom's just like oh hi self what i love about this is the game doesn't force you to do the damn fashion show but it's available as an option if you want to that's how it should be done i'm looking at new pokestar studios alright it's gym time this time the heart home gym which is the third one in platinum only this is an interesting one for sure as ghost is a neutral type against us and we're neutral against it too but henry does pretty well especially with the icy wind lowering their speed so we can out speed otherwise quick ghost types on the second turn when they don't use sucker punch that is in the process hugh learns aurora beam a great power upgrade the third gym leader is fantina the ghost specialist and well her battle is looking near impossible on the face of it i spent forever theorycrafting and eventually stumbled on a strat that i thought might just get us through this but could go wrong at any moment she leaves with a dust all and i send out henry i did this just to get the hail up and to also have both pokemon out so they can both level up after she goes down as i immediately switch into hugh and as planned the bait worked as she tried to burn us but missed anyway i can now use encore to lock her into it as she hits it this time but i had attached a rost berry anyway which heals us now i hit it with aurora beam to about half and she gets another burn off but ice body heals us a bit each turn too another attack barely doesn't ko and the hail brings her to just a sliver so she uses a super potion encore does last four to eight turns in this gen though so in the end we take her down with three quarters remaining in comes her ace next miss maggias knowing she'll use magical leaf i stay in we survive on just 13 hp and i encored right away to lock her into it we end up with just 8 hp after ice body and burn and here i now switch into henry as magical leaf does hardly anything a few turns of icy wind and we bring her below half at which point her citrus berry activates and knowing encore could run out at any moment i use grass whistle and we hit it to put her to sleep ice shard then hail brings her to potion range again but she stays asleep until we hit her to just a sliver barely not getting the ko then she wakes up and lands a confuserae but the hail takes her down thank god in comes her final pokemon haunter and we hurt ourselves in confusion but our orenberry helps shadowclaw then doesn't get a crit and here i'm like okay she might sucker punch at any moment so i use grass whistle and she does so she can't hit us without us using a damaging move and we put her to sleep from there with the hail helping we take her down in three more attacks making sure to use priority ice shard at the end in case she did wake up three badges and a hard earned one at that the route 209 gate has us run into barry again who challenges us to battle and now he has a part fighting type monferno so this is scary he leaves with a star avia though and i lead with hugh i know he likes to double team so i just landed an aurora beam for the instant ko solid it comes rosalia next and here we have a great counter as i switch into henry who tanks megatrain then ishard brings him to the red before poison sting hits us then another ice shard does the job in comes the huge threat though monferno knowing he'll go for four times super effective flame wheel by switching the hue against whom it's neutral he then goes for leer on the next turn to lower our defense and then water gun does three quarters after hail now my calcs told me we'd survive a mock punch which i was hyper focused on but i forgot that because he's low health his blaze ability activates making flame wheel an even stronger move technically but we survive on just 9 hp before our berry and finish him off with the final attack sheesh his final pokemon is boiso which is an easy switch back into henry for the razor leaf ko a scary one but we made it through with three badges in hand that means we get another encounter on route 209 this time a sneasel ah i was really hoping for a snow run here we catch him successfully and nickname him hawk and hawk has a naive nature plus speed and minus special defense not bad this thing does not have a good tight matchup against the next gym though the long journey to the next city nets us a ton of items including another return tm from the lost tower a quick pickup of the defog hm from the seleccion ruins and also the fist plate to boost fighting type moves on route 215. just before we arrive we encounter these two trainers and thankfully they don't have their diamond and pearl gyros so henry's typing was fantastic against them platinum's glygar sprite will never cease tricking me into thinking it's shiny upon first glance i mean what the hell is that with that veilstone city is upon us where one of the scariest possible gems lies ahead at the department store here i make sure to buy some great tms including protect but also blizzard which keep in mind cannot misinhale making it incredible for henry especially as a 120 power stab move i also make sure to buy as many game corner coins as possible as we're gonna need them now this right here might be our saving grace so the veil stone route 214 is thankfully open to us which has a set of miracles available the first i guess being that hawk is amazing with his dark typing helping us out against types that we'd normally struggle against notably we can grab our first citrus berries here but we can also go to the root maniac cave to grab the dig tm not only that but another crucial tm can be acquired shortly before pastoria aerial ace bringing together my whole plan i finally got enough coins to grab a tm i know we'll need swords dance it's time for the veilstone gym a fighting gym absolutely terrifying for an ice type team thankfully with a 100 accuracy blizzard henry is able to handle all of the trainers quite well but not without some scary moments during the process we have our very first evolution 2 as hugh evolves into a celio adding some actual bulk to our team for the first time ever before the gym leader i activate my plan by teaching all three of the tms we just got to hawk yup we're going there but there's one last element to the plan a girl in pastoria who gives you a random berry once per day out of 17. thankfully by saving right before her we can reset repeatedly for like 45 minutes until she gives us the berry that we want the chapel berry since it's just a random six percent chance daily thing i don't feel bad about savory setting for that otherwise we just have to wait for days and days the third gym leader is meline the fighting specialist and just look at her team she leaves with a pure power meta type with drain punch of all things either super effective or four times super effective against our entire team not to mention a damn machoke and lucario with the steel type 2 after that impossible right well let's see if my hours long preparation pays off pure power meta type comes out and i leave with four times a week sneasel yup i go for swords dance right away then pure power stab four times damage drain punch hits but our chapel berry weakens its power and we survive on just 9 hp i almost thought that might not work from there we can then out speed and take her down with aerial ace also prompting the level up now this level up here was absolutely crucial for a particular reason but in comes lucario next now we can out speed and go for a super effective dig for the instant one hit ko incredible her final pokemon is mischoke and this is why that level up was needed it puts her just in range of a plus two aerial lace which indeed works and gets us our fourth badge i cannot believe that worked the amount of planning and preparation for that was insane let's go near the warehouse looker calls the stealing of children's pokemon a rather minuscule crime this man does not give a about them kids arriving back in pastoria city i'm feeling much better after that gym this guy says here where i'm standing i'm smack dab in the middle of town hey what you're right beside the lake well i guess what i told you was true from a certain point of view ah come on the struggle through the mud isn't for nothing as we can get to a crucial house the move tudor after getting some shards in the underground we can pay to have him teach hawk ice punch a wicked stab move just ahead of the gym barry challenges us to battle again and i think we're in a bit of a better position than last time against the staravia i lead with hugh and he just double teams again so aurora beam kos instantly it comes for azalea and again henry is a great switch being immune to leech seed and destroying him with blizzard now monferno then comes out and now with hugh having evolved he handles it with much more grace than last time i'll say that much weasel is then an easy switch into henry again for the win much better the pastoria gym is next a water type gym and henry is a great answer to the trainers even being able to take out flying and water types like winkle and pelipper with blizzard the fifth gym leader is wake and his team is always a frightening one but i think i have a good plan he leaves with a gyarados with intimidate so i send out hugh his best move against us is bite so i hit him with aurora beam and then use encore to lock him in that way i can switch in hawk who resists it and without having been intimidated icepunch does some good damage although he did get a crit on his next attack unfortunately in comes are next and my calcs tell me razer leap won't quite ko so i hit him with one ice punch before rock tomb his hawk to a quarter i switch into henry here and he just went for mud bomb since hawk was in ko range but got a crit and the accuracy drop although from there a razor leaf kos in comes his final pokemon and quite a threat still lossl here i switch into hugh who tanks crunch reasonably well and gets citrus berry and hail recovery another hit brings us below half and then i go for body slam and he does it again the paralysis q is a legend now i switch in henry again and crunches his heart to a third before our berry thanks to paralysis we can land eraserly first but it doesn't ko and his barry activates but he stays paralyzed so another hit on the next turn does him in man oh man i really should have gone for woodhammer but i wasn't quite sure that weed out speed close one does my new outfit look good krogan's where it's at meh squirrel piece better after looker tells the hotel management that he doesn't give a solitary crap about the champion of the hoenn region staying there we run into none other than cynthia and barry huh is this your older sister no she's mommy poisoning a bunch of psyduck opens up the northern part of route 210 where we can not only grab the shadow wall tm which might be useful later but also a new encounter now that we have badge number five this time a swine up which i catch a nickname marlow marlow has a rash nature plus special attack and minus special defense pretty bad but hey it's a swine up in celestic town we can grab a great item in the shop to the northwest as this dude gives us the black glasses item to boost dark moves great for hawk before our next battle i head all the way back to the orber gate now that we have rock smash and get a tm that i think might very well be 100 necessary if would have any chance with this run brick break which i teach to hawk in the celestic ruins we're challenged to battle by team galactic leader cyrus and he leaves with his own sneezel which would have been a huge problem otherwise but now we're able to outspeed and take him down with four times damage brick break from there his murkrow is then an easy ko with ice punch and in comes his goal bad surprisingly he actually survived one on just a sliver and then landed a confused ray but we made it through on the next turn after he healed and got a better range this time for the one hit ko this win nessus the surf hm from cynthia's grandma and thankfu we finally finally get an upgrade for hugh replacing 40 power water gun with a 95 power move i make sure to pair this with the cn sense which we can now pick up using surf north of jubalife after leveling marlow up to level 37 so she learns earthquake and we might be able to use the tm on henry if we want she evolves into a piloswine what's cool about this is we can now head back to pastoria to the movie learner who can teach her the ancient power move this is exactly how piloswine evolves as if you level it up with ancient power it evolves into a beastly mammoth wine an incredible addition to our team a short trip brings us to cantalave city where the next gym is but first we have a battle with barry and i am absolutely kicking myself for deleting aerial ace on hawk this is not good at all as i forgot entirely about heracross a huge threat to our entire team before the battle we have another evolution as henry finally evolves into a monstrous obama snow at level 40. a bunch of theorycrafting later and it's time for barry's battle he leaves with a now fully evolved star raptor and i honestly threw my plan out the window as i realized i could encore him into double team and then switch into hawk who didn't get the intimidate of course and i think this might have been the best option as now i could freely swords dance twice as long as we make it through double team afterwards and we do for the ice punch ko with plus four attack we then smash his hair across two perhaps one of two ways we could have dealt with it deathless however it comes in fur nape which has priority mock punch which would end us so i'm forced to switch thankfully marlo was tanky enough to survive a consecutive mock punch and brick break combo before our berry then stabbed super effective earthquake eviscerates him his now fully evolved float soul is then handled by a switch into henry with a single wood hammer for the win the cantileve gym is up next and with the sea incense and surf hue does an amazing job tearing through the trainers with ease the sixth gym leader is byron the steel type gym leader and well marlo tears through his entire team with earthquake just straight up magneton is four times weak to it stelix survives one but uses sandstorm which doesn't even affect us then bastiodon is four times weak to it as well and sturdy only works on actual one-hit ko moves like fischer in this gen finally an easy gym battle after picking up the strength hm from riley on iron island we have a couple battles with the galactic commanders saturn was first in the lake valor cave and marlow handled his gold bath through confusion then a switching to hue with surf handled bronzor which has tough typing for us but thankfully he was the only thing not weak to steal on our team then toxic croak was handled by a switchback into marlow with earthquake not bad at all mars at lake verity then has a similar team and for her i used hawk against colbat for the speed one hit ko then hugh for the bronzor again and then i kept you in for per ugly and we got a crit with serve to take her out so we didn't have to worry about slash crits nice traveling through mount cornett we can grab some incredible items like the soft sand to boost marlo's ground moves and also the never melt ice to boost ice moves an amazing haul a long journey through the winter wonderland okay hellscape of route 216 and oh god maylene leave me alone you've tormented me enough this run we also get the icicle plate so we can boost another pokemon's ice moves by waiting until night time to pick up the game again we can finally get our first ever organic natural encounter of this game and the last one we can get overall a snow run which ends up being female too just like i was hoping which i catch a nickname geraldine geraldine has a hasty nature plus speed and minus defense i'll take it we then arrive in snowpoint city and we have something incredible we can do here i withdraw evie from the pc and we can take him to the icy rock nearby to level him up at which point he evolves into a beautiful glacion a pokemon i've never really used before heading back to route 212 we can pick up the dawn stone in the mud that i forgot about and this allows us to also evolve geraldine into a frost lass giving us some great ghost coverage with the shadow ball tm as she doesn't learn a good ghost move otherwise surfing on route 209 we get our last team upgrade before the next gym as the giga drain tm is located here perfect for henry for recovery and special damage this snow point gym is our next challenge and with the fist plate attached hawk makes quick work of the trainers during the process we get a great evolution as hugh evolves into a wall reign one of my favorite pokemon of all time and quite underrated i feel this 7th junior leader is our ice type arch nemesis candace before the battle i made sure to re-teach hawk faint attack as we're going to need it she leaves with her own sneezel as i send out hawk and here we can use swords dance as slashes for a third then brick break slams her for the one hit ko pylus wine then suffered the same fate and in comes a ball of snow which starts the hail brick break was a really close range here but we get the job done in one hit as well and in comes her final pokemon frost lass now frostlash has the snow cloak ability which raises its evasiveness in the hail so this is why faint attack was a vital not only is it super effective but it cannot miss so it swiftly ends the battle for us amazing picking up a free ice beam tm now that we can use a rock climb we can then head to the galactic hq where cyrus is busy confessing his love for puffins to his minions cyrus loves his puffins after we insult his precious birds cyrus gets mad and battles us he leaves with a sneasel and i send out henry to start hail he uses screech then giga drain does a third but then he preemptively switches into haunchcrow out of nowhere okay then that ruins my plan here i switch into geraldine knowing he'd go for drill pack and we survive it on less than half then out speed and one hit kohm with ice beam now i leveled up geraldine big time just so she'd be able to out speed crobat which she does but ice beam just barely doesn't ko and he lands a bite but we survive on just four hp oh man it doesn't even go down to hail either so he full restores but ice shard followed by ice beam do the job sheesh his sneezel is then handled by switching to our newly evolved hue who absolutely eats an ice punch and a slash to ko with surf after the battle we can walk over a bit to a hidden item on the ground the razor claw fantastic because it's still night time we can now level up hawk with it and evolve them into a beastly weavile it's time baby at the mount cornet peak we have a double battle with barry against the commanders and the cool thing is that henry and the hail can get residual damage and blizzard damage on both opponents each turn so we make it through their bronzers and gold bats quite handily then in comes skuntank and perugli they're both dangerous for us but a switching to hue to tank flamethrower then a pivoted to marlow allowed us to obliterate everything on the damn field with soft sander earthquake sorry barry all right in my notes for this run i literally wrote crazy legendary happenings so uh yeah here are the crazy legendary happenings what is wrong with me a crazy long trip through the distortion world brings us to our final battle against cyrus whose team is looking quite scary at this point after a bit of theory crafting i think i've come up with a good plan so let's put it into action he leaves it with a hound doom so i leave with marlowe for the outspeed and ko with earthquake in comes to gyrodo's next with intimidate so i switch into henry to tank waterfall ice fang then hisses to about half then blizzard does surprisingly little he's just able to bring us to a quarter but we flinch not wanting to risk it i switch into hugh as he goes for giga impact but hugh eats it up and is able to take him down with ice beam from there anchor then landed the drill pack to bring us to below half before ice beam took it out as well and in comes his weavil knowing he'll use fake out i get a free switch into hawk here and brick break decimates him in comes his final pokemon crowbat and my calc's tell me the speeds here is close and he does have speed but we survived cross poison below half and land an icicle play boosted ice punch for the ko following the battle the almighty giratina is up next and as scary as it is we've got an even scarier beast henry who eats up ominous wind and lands a blizzard which brings him to a sliver and the hail finishes him essentially making it one hit ko on a legendary since we only actually used one move too good alright i'm gonna be honest with her supreme power marlo was able to devastate the sunny shore gym trainers and the 8th gym leader volkner only had his jolty on out speed up surprisingly and hit us hard with iron tail actually but marlowe outsped and one hit ko'd every other thing on his team with soft sand boosted stabbed super effective 100 power earthquake unreal power saying goodbye to our dear love from the jodo region jasmine we set off towards our final destination no no not not that kind i hope after fulfilling the rest of our evs and also using the move tutor to teach marlo icefang we arrive at victory road a long and perilous journey later and we arrive at the final test the pokemon league at this point with zero deaths this run those thoughts come to my mind again about a potential deathless run but the hardest part is yet to come right before the league we have our final battle with barry and his team is looking terrifying even with us being able to level up quite a lot over him with our new level cap we can't even use weevil to start since the star opter has intimidate and close combat now a literal hour of theory crafting later and i have a crazy idea star raptor comes out first and i lead with henry it's scary but i needed hail so i switch into hugh to tank close combat which just nearly half ice body helps a bit as he goes for close combat again we just have to hope for no crit and he doesn't get one so we survive on just 27 hp before our barry and nail him with ice beam in comes the big threat now heracross we have no way to deal with it on the face of it but i switch into geraldine knowing that close combat's coming who's immune knowing he won't use close combat now i switch into bridger and rockslide does a quarter now i leveled up bridger to max here and i used protect so hale heard some more and this should put him just in range of a blizzard and hail and it gets the ko yes in comes another huge threat though infernape i go for protect to scout what he'll use and his flamethrower oh no i thought it would be focus blast so we could send out frostlast again i know bridger can survive one though so i stay in and we just barely survive on four hp before our berry and i landed toxic i then protect for poison and hail damage and scout the focus blast now i can switch into geraldine and it works i can use protect on geraldine now bringing him in range of an ice beam outspeed and ko oh man wild from there flossil was handled by henry since i knew he wouldn't use brick break while geraldine was still out and rosary went down to a blizzard after hitting a poison jab to half his final pokemon is a snorlax and a gargantuan battle went down with marlow against it who emerged victorious with a third left that was crazy before the elite four i taught hawk night slash with the move reminder and picked up swords dance teams just in case we wanted to switch the moves around as we need the coverage that we have now the first elite four member is aaron the bug trainer and his team is actually quite tricky for us with steel type scissor and a heracross too i lead with henry for hale and beat the bug buzz but he went for double team instead as i swapped in hugh interesting thankfully we hit the ice beam for the ko though and then in comes heracross baiting the close combat i switch in geraldine which works i then protect for hail damage and to scout and he uses stone edge instead of night slash unfortunately regardless i know bridger can survive one and has snow cloak to increase evasiveness and hail and it works as he misses stone edge yes funny thing is even a plus evasiveness 80 accuracy hit and critical hit had a seven percent chance of kaoing us so there was no hope for him as blizzard then takes him down it comes scizor next with iron head of all things but hugh isn't weak to it so he can be sent in to survive it and take him down with cerf from there vespiquen was a bit annoying with defend order and had power gem too but ultimately got taken down in a few ice beams after healing his final pokemon is drapey on and baiting the cross poison we switch into marlow who resists it and can slam him with super effective earthquake for the ko and the win a wild first battle but we pulled through next up is bertha the ground type elite 4 member she has some tricks up her sleeve but i think i have a way around them she leads with a whisk cash so the obvious choice is henry for the hail start and the immediate 4 times damage giga drain ko in comes glyscor next which has 4 times damage firefang of all things so i switch it to hue to tank it now i thought that afterwards he'd go for thunderfang here but he doesn't so i accidentally encored him into earthquake instead which isn't great for sending henry back out for the gigatrain recovery against her later mods but then i realized what am i doing you also has four times super effectiveness against three of her team members and could still handle hepaudon too which would get rid of hail with sandstorm meaning henry's blizzard might miss anyways so i decide to press on taking down her gliscor golem and ryperia with ice beam or surf then her powdon also goes down to a surf hue you monster up next is flint the fire type elite 4 member whose team is yes actually fire type and platinum now i've rare candied marlow to 58 which tells me we should outspeed his entire team and we do so with super effective soft sand boosted earthquake we can devastate every single one of his pokemon i think it might have been a speed tie with inferneh but only a crit would have chaotis anyway so it was a pretty safe play how ironic that the fire type trainer was the easiest for an ice team the last elite four member is lucian the psychic trainer whose team is quite powerful after some theory crafting i had a realization though i think it's time to unleash the beast i re-teach weevil swords dance as we no longer have a need for dig and attach a cherry berry this is because his only way of preventing my strategy is thunderbolt paralysis on mr mime i get two swords dances off necessary for his bronzong later then i use a brick break which takes down the reflect that he had set up our only obstacle which then allows us to night slash sweep his entire team even out speeding things like alakazam and having enough power for bronzong which isn't weak to it unbelievable i love you hawk it's time the final battle the ultimate challenge the champion cynthia the bane of thousands of fans existence in more ways than one a ton of theory crafting later and not wanting to lose our deathless streak it's time a deathless cynthia seems bonkers as her team is insane but i'm gonna try my best here we go she leaves with a spirit tomb a brutal lead with no weaknesses and coverage against even weavile preventing a setup along with extreme speed lucaria so i lead with henry instead for hail i then bait silverwind and switch into bridger but she goes for a dark pulse ouch i don't want to put her in heel range so i protect for hail damage then ice shard and then take her down with blizzard on the next turn after shadowball brought us to a third and lowered a special defense too in comes another brutal mon for our team lucario i switch into geraldine anticipating aurosphere but she goes for stone edge out of nowhere what why and hits it through snow cloak too but i had attached a focus sash from route 221 on so we survive on just one hp oh man here i switch in marlow and with snow cloak she actually misses this one so earthquake devastates her it comes a bulky thread milotic so i send out henry we outspeed with giga drain but it doesn't even do half oops then she slams us with mirror coat to 43 hp before our berry i go for wood hammer to guarantee the ko but it turns out it might have been a speed tie as she out speeds with ice beam then we land woodhammer for the ko but the recoil just barely doesn't end us at just 3 hp that was ridiculous and comes togekiss next so i switch in marlow but she went for water pulse and gets the confusion are you kidding me i have to switch so i send in hugh and she hits another and gets confusion again why is this happening i have no choice now and orosphere then hits us below half but our berry helps and hugh pulls through with an ice beam but no ko she then forest doors after hail damage but we pull through confusion again she then lands another aorosphere we tank it on 72 hp and then snap through confusion for the ko in comes roserade next and here we can execute order 66. just look at our team though unbelievable i swap in hawk and no crits so we survive energy ball with below half and slammer with the ice bunch for the ko in comes her final pokemon her ace garchomp which is not only four times weak to ice but also gets out sped not often that that happens and we obliterate her with a super powered ice punch for the victory we did it we beat a hardcore nuzlocke of pokemon platinum with only ice types and got our second ever deathless run that was honestly one of the coolest and most fun runs we've ever done for me such a great variety of pokemon and incredible team synergy too i hope you also had fun with the run and if you did don't forget to hit that subscribe button as it really does help 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 and get your name up here the links are also down below if you enjoy drop a like down below to help the video out and leave a comment letting me know 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Channel: SilphSpectre

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Id: rvsQ8M36LWg

Length: 44min 18sec (2658 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 14 2022