Can I Beat Pokemon Platinum with ONLY Munchlax? 🔴 Pokemon Challenges ► NO ITEMS IN BATTLE

hey everyone madrid brett here pokemon ruby with only in-game trades had a rough start but this one will probably start even worse today's the day that we figure out would i be able to beat pokemon platinum with a team of only one munchlax munchlax is an incredibly lopsided pokemon think of it like a weaker version of hiroyama who's at least a little bit worse in every single stat very high health passable attack but terrible defense special attack and the lowest base speed in the entire game that means that chances are we will always attack second in any battle that matters that alone is going to make this brutal at least our special defense is fine for moves we don't have much variety by level up and we'll probably be stuck using return the whole run since it'll have the same type attack bonus by tm we can learn a ton of moves of all different kinds but for many of these types we can only learn special moves not physical ones like always i'm writing the script as i go through with the challenge solve this part is being written before i've started everyone comment down below and guess if i can win or not i think that i stand a chance but i'll need to be level 100 and have a solid held item our horrendous speed is gonna be a massive disadvantage let's explain the rules in combat i can only use munchlax i'll need other pokemon to use hms but i won't be allowed to use any of those pokemon in battle no glitches or exploits no items in battle only pokeballs held items and items outside of combat are allowed also if you enjoy the video be sure to like subscribe and ring the bell for more let's do this so right off the bat i use the universal pokemon randomizer to replace turtwig with munchlax so that i can do the whole run with it i picked to replace tertwig so that our rival would have a fighting type starter probably the hardest for us to fight i name him orange he might be lazy but he's got a hidden power in him our nature is quirky so neutral stat gains that's probably fine although less speed and more attack would have been nice our ability is thick fat making us take less damage from fire and ice moves i'm really happy i have that ability because that's actually a pretty solid one pretty much right away we're given the tm for return and i go ahead and replace metronome munchlax probably doesn't have enough friendship yet to make this stronger than tackle but it really shouldn't take that long before he does and this will be a lifesaver after fighting a few trainers we get to the first real rival fight but i'm starting to think that they don't let you lose this fight at least not very easily with how much they were using lear and growl i think that they just didn't want to make us faint i try for the rock gym but even after fighting every trainer and getting to level 14 we didn't even come close this is six attempts in by the way and this is the only one where we took down geodude we don't have any good moves coming up but i'm gonna have to grind mostly just to build up some friendship so that return can get stronger and then we can brute force the fight i tried again a couple times every two levels but we're still lucky if we make it past geodude the only way to stand a chance is with six defense curls and that's giving them a lot of chances to critically hit us this grind is pretty slow i'd love to grind in the mine itself so that we can get some defense effort values but is just too slow to fight them there's really no fantastic area here for evs that i care about so i just try to avoid getting too many speed ones even with loads of speed evs our speed will still be horrendous so i may as well focus on health and attack whenever i can well i grind if i can give you a viewing recommendation my friend brandon and i did a flash trash episode on pokemon go mystery it's as terrible as it looks and sounds you might know brandon as goose it nowadays since his own channel has really started to take off but we've been doing videos together on this channel for 10 years now if you guys want to see us play some hilariously bad flash games then check out the flash trash series in the description just click a random episode and have fun at level 20 we learn screech so i try a few more times and we do much much better not only can we easily take out geodude but we also take out onyx on almost every attempt the problem is that last is cranny a dose and it hits so hard with headbutt that we can't hang on at that point and we don't have a good chance to build up defense curls earlier so we need to get stronger finally at level 22 we had just enough friendship and attack to completely muscle our way through the gym it still took us about five tries because craniodos often makes us flinch or onyx reduces our defense too much but at least we're finally able to pass the first real hurdle of the run after that we have a pretty easy battle with commander mars but we still did take half of our health and damage in the process i'm starting to worry that we're going to have a rougher grass jam fight than i was expecting thankfully once i actually get to the grass gym we end up totally crushing them i suspect my friendship might be maxed out now especially since i got the soothe bell on the way commander jupiter was way more of a pushover than usual in this run normally she can be a real brick wall but having a solid tanky attacker really helps when i got to the grass gym i thought that we'd have at least a few rough attempts but it actually goes really well in fact hunter must have no direct attacking moves to actually hit me with because he just confused me and then put me to sleep and missed a bunch of sucker punches over and over because that move only works when you're attacking and i can't attack i was asleep i'm guessing that his last move was like lick or nightshade some kind of ghost move that wouldn't work on a normal type thanks to me keeping odor sleuth though we can just one shot each ghost with return right after that is a rival fight and although i actually lost this fight a couple times to endeavor it only took three tries before i was able to sweep my way through pretty easily i just have to use screech to make sure that staravia never landed in low health next is the fighting gym though and i'm sure you predicted us getting crushed here where slows molasses have low defense and they can heal off of us with drain punch even with my fancy new shell bell healing us on the attacks they hit too hard and too fast thankfully this isn't the only place that we can go right now so i head south to fight more trainers we're at the point in the game where return is strong enough to one shot most trainers pokemon that we run into but because of our terrible base speed we're still slower than some of the faster pokemon in spite of the level gap if that happens too much you can really get worn down and we'll have to spend some time going back to the pokemon center often after that i try the fighting gym again and get this hilarious run where i crit on both pokemon that i didn't need to crit then failed to crit twice on the pokemon that i did need to crit i can't even be mad that was just funny okay if i need something to take care of lucario then getting the tm for earthquake should do the job first try back in the gym and it goes great we one shot our way to lucario an earthquake was enough to take him down into one hit we were probably gonna get earthquake eventually so this is a fine enough solution before we can get to the water gym we have another rival fight but in spite of the low level gap we crushed his whole team with return we've hit this weird tipping point where if a trainer can't deal some serious damage to us quickly across multiple pokemon they're doomed in the water gym we instantly crit gyarados for a one shot and we probably needed that floatzel took quite a few hits before he went down so we're in red health as quakesire came out i thought i was doomed but his mudshot did almost nothing then he used yawn twice in a row pretty much handing me the victory man it's not often that the ai in gen 4 does something that stupid after that is our first cyrus fight but his team is pretty frail this early so we just brute force it with return like usual i really didn't think that munchlax would be such a beast in mid game i thought that the larger trainer teams would be too much of an issue by this point in the game now i know that it feels like it's been two seconds since we had a rival fight but we have another rifle fight it starts great with us taking down star raptor but hair cross does over half our health in damage in one hit and we're slower than him so we go down maybe stockpile can fix this i try again but this time using stockpile at the start we got two in before taking down star raptor and it actually saved us against haircross getting us a close victory problem is right after that is infernape and he's another fighting type so we go down okay new solution i gathered money together by fighting the rich people near the pokemon mansion place to buy coins so i can get the tm for rest this makes us sleep for two turns but it also fully heals us this along with stockpile for defense and special defense should be really strong finally with this strategy we managed to get a very slow victory we can only stockpile three times but that's enough for us to get our defense and special defense up to three stages critical fighting moves will probably still one-shot us but regular old special moves will be borderline useless for the steel gem we earthquake down magneton right away and build up our stockpiles on steelex because byron's pokemon are so slow we're actually out speeding steelx this fight drags on forever because we have to keep using rest to stay healthy but he just keeps critically hitting us it doesn't help that we can only get three stockpiles as well you're not actually allowed to go beyond that it took almost three straight minutes before we took him down at least against bastiodon we hit a critical earthquake to finish the fight on our way through freezy peak i made sure to fight every last trainer we're getting to that point in platinum where everything gets very slow and very difficult i predict that this is the tipping point where our terrible speed is gonna brick wall us so i need to keep my level lead as high as i possibly can right now ice gym time sneezels first so i tried to build up our stockpiles and there's a low flying airplane are you kidding me come on not today ice cream times nasals first so i just build up stockpiles and take it down with one return with how far health left snow bomb is next so it'll be hailing for the rest of the fight two returns took it down but our health is starting to get a bit low pillow swine is third so i decide to use rest while he uses stone edge and earthquake a bunch thankfully when we wake up we crit with return for a one shot last is frost last so we get hit by blizzard get frozen thaw the same turn hit earthquake and she eats a berry to hang on then our earthquake misses thanks to her evasion the following one brought her to red health but she used a full restore so i couldn't end it there i had to rest again because our health was getting so bad that i didn't want to risk missing earthquakes so much that i'd faint just as our health hit red rest kicked in and we managed to pull through and finish it with one last earthquake with that done we have the second cyrus fight but we pretty much mop the floor with him we were lucky that sneezel missed with screech but we still won first try this is where we have to grind though like usual in these platinum runs we have to deal with the final cyrus fight next and not only is his team very strong but he's also all the way at the end of the distortion world so if i get to him and i can't beat him then i have to lose go back to grinding and then take a 15 minute walk to get back to him it's literally the longest gap to getting to train and then getting to try the boss again in any pokemon game that i've played 15 minutes might not sound long but it's agonizing when you have to do it even once let alone multiple times plus i totally get lost because the place is amazed and i suck at those i'm not taking that risk this video has to come out on time i'm just gonna grind early after hitting level 63 i decide it's finally time to at least attempt cyrus so wish me luck hound doom is first so naturally i start with stockpile we get burned by willowisp in the process though so i keep trying to use rest but almost faint thanks to all the flinches eventually though we managed to finally heal up once we wake up we take it down in one earthquake second is water onyx so our attack is down from intimidate but we were able to take him down safely in a few hits hunchcrow did a bit of damage but only took two hits to go down so fourth is vile we ended up taking enough damage from it that i needed to rest for safety i never want to be within range to go down from a critical hit it took tons of hits to take down because cyrus was using healing items but we did pull through just fine and last was crowbam we instantly got badly poisoned but it only took two shots to take him down and win us the fight with that stunning victory we have one badge left to grab at the electric gym as you'd expect though earthquake makes pretty short work of his team we got stuck on jolteon for ages while we tried to build up our stockpile and take it down with reasonable health to spare but eventually we pulled it off and the rest of his team went down fast after that though is a complete and total brick wall that i didn't see coming the final rifle fight starts with star raptor with close combat so we lose half of our health in one shot and only hang on thanks to stockpile and once we take that down next is heracross who also has close combat considering we're way way slower than star raptor and aircross even critting both of them in a row wouldn't save us they'd take us down before that's even possible it's either hold a quick claw and hope that we attack first twice in a row and crit twice in a row which is nearly impossible by the way or i could just level up and tank the hits and then overpower them but that might take a long time grinding at this point is a bit rough versus secret grinding can be pretty nice because you'll consistently know what you're fighting and you actually get paid for it but at the same time it can be pretty slow and sometimes there's a lot of movement between fights it's a bit harder to just zone out and watch youtube videos on the side while grinding if you actually have to ride up and talk to people still though this is one of the fastest places to level up at this point in the game five levels later and i try again star raptor went pretty well with us taking less than half of our health and damage this time and still getting a one shot but heracross can still one shot us right after man usually the brick walls the elite four not the rival before it at level 77 i try again and this time star after u-turns to switch to heracross we hang on from close combat because of having higher health going into the fight we take him down and then his third pokemon with fighting moves infernape comes out and we go down to focus blast this battle is ridiculous finally at a whopping level 80 we try again and star raptor goes down easily haircross comes out and he just uses night slash for almost no damage for no reason we hit return he almost goes down then he takes us from 191 health to nine with one close combat okay this is insane maybe if i can one shot heracross i can win at level 83 we're able to get in our three stockpiles because star raptor just wasn't strong enough to beat us without a crit anymore honestly i still would lose easily if he was just smart and you turned to hair across early oh and his float soul has a brick break man i had no idea so much of his team used fighting moves well after all that let's take a peek at our stats yeah unless they come at me with some ridiculously strong fighting moves that i'm not prepared for we should at least be able to get to the pokemon champion just fine make your final guesses on if we can win or not let's do this first is bug trainer aaron we just speared through his whole team with return second is ground trainer bertha this one was a lot harder thanks to earthquake hitting us so hard mixed with the nearly non-stop sandstorms i had to use three stockpiles rest quite a bit and lots of uses of return an earthquake before i could take them down i'm worried that i might not actually have enough ethers for between battles third is fire trainer flint not much to say about this one he could hardly hurt us and our earthquakes absolutely wrecked his team fourth is psychotrainer lucian once again not much to say the only reason we took any serious damage is because of a lucky critical hit we were never in any real danger finally pokemon champion cynthia spear tomb is first and it's not very dangerous at all so i take the chance to get my three stockpiles and take it down with two earthquakes second is lucario and we instantly go from almost full health to only 35 health from a critical aurosphere as we one shot him with earthquake and get a bit of health back it's a good thing that i did because next is togekiss and his oresphere left us with only 18 health before we had to sleep to heal that was way too close by the time we wake up we still lose a third of our health but at least we take it down and two returns next is the pseudo legendary guard chomp and thanks to her barry it ended up landing in red health from our second return so she used a full restore that means she had even more chances to hit us with earthquakes so we are in rough shape by the time she went down fifth is melodic so i play it safe and use rest right away knowing that it can't hit us very hard it took tons of returns to take her down because of the full restores but we were never in danger last is rose raid but we took it down in one hit getting us into the hall of fame well i never would have guessed that the rival would be harder than the pokemon champion i really hope you guys like that run for next week's saturday pokemon challenge i'm going to finally do the much requested eevee only run of pokemon emerald i'm always looking forward to your suggestions in the comments in the pokemon challenge section of my discord channel and on twitter subscribe ring the bell stay tuned if you want to see me do more pokemon challenges like this please let me know in the comments or on twitter i can always use more ideas from you guys on what i should do next also check out the playlist in the description if you want to watch all the pokemon challenges that i've already uploaded if you guys want to see some more pokemon stuff from me my friend whatageek and i have done a randomizer playthrough of heartgold and soulsilver black and white red and blue and now we're doing omega ruby and alpha sapphire over on his channel linked in the description you can also watch myself what a geek and goose at playing pokemon stadium and pokemon x here on my channel also come to the twitch tv streams and tell me that this video sent you it's always cool to hear how you found the channel thank you everybody so much for watching and until next time have a nice day

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Length: 18min 6sec (1086 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 05 2020