Can You Beat Pokémon Shield WITHOUT TAKING DAMAGE?

what's going on youtube i'm arcade hawk and for the majority of my streaming career i've been a shiny hunter i've gotten tons of amazing shiny pokemon on my streams but recently i decided i wanted to do a challenge run in pokemon shield since i'm still a small streamer at the moment i wanted to do something a bit more challenging than a plain old nuzlocke so i could stand out in the category i'm a huge fan of small ant and he inspired me to attempt this challenge i decided to try to beat pokemon shield without my pokemon taking any damage before i start i want to cover some terminology that people a little more unfamiliar with pokemon battles may not know if you are familiar with these terms feel free to skip ahead to the time stamp and go right to the challenge first i want to go over pokemon stats every pokemon has a base stat for hp attack defense special attack special defense and speed because i'm not going to be getting hit for this challenge i'm going to focus on pokemon with high speed and either attack or special attack speed is important so i can move before my opponents and the attacks are important so i'm strong enough to ko opponents in one hit and that way they don't get the chance to attack me along with base stats come individual values or ivs every stat a pokemon has will have a value from 0 to 31 with 31 being perfect the higher ivs a pokemon has the better its stats are on top of that are something called natures every pokemon has a random nature that boosts one stat and lowers another by 10 percent these are important because if i have a speed attack or special attack boosting nature that means it's 10 stronger in that stat next i want to talk about effort values or evs eevees are a sort of behind-the-scenes stat boost that raises pokemon stats even more by defeating other pokemon in battle this means that by training against the right wild pokemon i can focus my pokemon's stats into speed attack and special attack in order to save time on leveling up finally there are three concepts that you need to know the first is move priority typically the order in which pokemon attack is based on speed stats however some moves have increased priority meaning that a slower pokemon can attack first with one of these moves quick attack is one you will see a lot aquajet and sucker punch are examples as well in order to out-speed pokemon with these moves i have to use priority moves on my own pokemon and still be strong enough to ko in one hit this concept makes things very challenging at times the next concept is abilities every pokemon has an ability that affects the battle in some way some pokemon have extremely useful abilities some have extremely bad abilities and some in the case of a few of my opponents this run have extremely annoying abilities you'll see what i mean soon the last thing i need to cover is held items pokemon can hold one item that has an effect in battle for example a charcoal can be held by a pokemon to boost damage of their fire type moves by 20 percent there are a lot of held items that are very useful in this run which is why it's important to know what they are alright now that you're all experts in pokemon let's get into the challenge here are my rules following in small ants footsteps i'm allowed to save after i earn each gym badge but because of the extensive story in pokemon sword and shield we also decided to add save points after making it through the wild area for the first time and before the battle with the legendary pokemon eternitus i am not allowed to take any damage at all on my pokemon including recoil damage damage from status or weather damage from abilities and obviously damage from opposing pokemon's attacks i am not allowed to use any online features this includes doing max raid battles online with other people as well as trading even if it's just for a trade evolution i can however complete max right battles with npcs as long as i don't take damage with my pokemon if i take any damage during battle i close the game and start where my last save left off after nearly 10 minutes of opening cutscenes and dialogue i chose my starter after doing research it was clear that score bunny was the starter that i needed its final evolution cinderace has phenomenal speed and attack plus score bunny is going to be very useful early on then i had my first battle with my rival hop this first battle answers the question can you beat pokemon shield without taking damage to which the answer is not really hop has two pokemon the first of which is a level 3 wulu this wulu is coded in the game to always use tackle every single time there's no way to kill it in one hit i even got a critical hit once and it still wasn't even close to enough damage so for the purposes of this run damage from wulu in this battle only is acceptable because it's unavoidable my chat and i did however think of a way to avoid damage from hops grookie which always uses scratch like all seven fire starters before it score burning has the ability blaze which boosts fire moves when it falls below one third of its hp so because i'm allowed to be hit by the wulu i let it tackle me until my ability was active and then i just needed a critical hit with ember on hops grookie to win the battle lucky for me on my second attempt with this strat i got a crit and it was done the next thing i wanted to do was catch a nicket to help with bd battles in the future so i found one and threw a pokeball at it and it broke out but it used a non-damaging move so i threw another pokeball at it and this time it did stay in the ball by the way at level five nikkit has three moves and two of them do damage that was a two in three chance i restart there but thankfully i got lucky now began the exp grinding against the bug types on route 1. after over an hour of this my score bunny reached level 12 and learn the fighting type move double kick which i could use to ko the normal types around me as well eventually i got my score bunny to evolve into raboot and then reached level 20 meaning i was ready to battle the very first trainers the first two were no problem but youngster benjamin was he had a level 7 nicket that knew quick attack after damage calcs i figured my reboot would ko the nikkit using its own quick attack at level 20 which it did now that i gotten through that i had my next battle with hop but because i was so over leveled it was a breeze then i caught a magikarp before heading to wedgehurst before getting on the train though i changed out of the basic outfit because that's important then i carefully made my way through the wild area and got to moto stoke where i was able to save my progress since risk was low i went to catch a bounce suite but it broke free luckily it used a status move so i threw another ball at it and this time i got hit by rapid spin so i reset and tried again and this time i caught it first ball next i went through moto stoke and leon gave me a charcoal which i knew would come in handy later at the hotel i was forced to battle some team yellow grunts the zig zagoon was easy then i needed to quick attack the nikkit that also knew quick attack here's where things got iffy though i had to do a multi-battle with hop against both of the previous pokemon i couldn't guarantee no damage by quick attacking the nikkit because the zigzagoon knows snarl which hits both targets i just had to hope that the nikket attacked hop once again i got lucky and i did just that meaning i was able to win this first try hop wanted to battle on the bridge to route 3 but that was not an issue on route 3 i wasn't fully paying attention and i accidentally ran into this last yet again i got lucky and her vulpix didn't use quick attack then i did some more grinding and evolved my magikarp into gyarados before beating up the school kids on route 3. i had to go through galler mines next where there was only one required trainer my first battle with bd was at the end of the mines but because i got that naked early on i had evolved it by now and it was an easy sweep i finally got to turf field for the grass gym challenge there was only one required trainer who reboot destroyed gym leader milo had only a gossip floor and an elder goss which he dynamax's because dynamaxx lasts three turns i decided to do it turn one and max flare the gossip fleur it was overkill but it set up the sun and because sun boosts fire moves i was able to ko milo's dynamaxx elbagos and take the gym badge my first gym badge 12 real life hours in after that i needed to do some training so i ko'd wild meowth and pumpkaboo on route 4 but i didn't know pumpkaboo had shadow sneak so after resetting i decided to get the pikachu kid out of the way and i forgot pikachu had a quick attack so i ditched drop four for route three where i decided to catch a grout with to start training after some training i went to the wild area to check out the max ray dens i found a mincino which i was able to occur but the important part is the exp candy giving exp candy to your pokemon will increase its exp depending on the size of the candy so i went looking for some more raids i beat this muna and then found a bounce wheat this is actually very useful because the one that i caught earlier would have leafguard as its ability as serena whereas this one would have serena's signature ability queenly majesty this ability blocks all priority attacks from my opponents which as you can imagine for this run will come in very handy i fed my reboot exp candy and evolved it into cinderace now that i'd done that i was ready for the first battle on route 5 which was a double battle against the news crew they had a helium tile and a clink the heliptile knew quick attack so i had to quick attack it with my cinderace and then waterfall from gyarados was enough to take out the clink on route 5 there's a 5 chance to encounter ninkata in the grass i was able to find one after a few minutes and catch it first ball ninkata evolves into ninjask but if you have an open slot in your party when it evolves you will also get a shidinja shadinja is an extremely unique pokemon because of its signature ability wonderguard with this ability it can only take damage from super effective attacks as a bug and ghost type pokemon that means it can only be hit by fire flying rock ghost and dark type attacks i can take advantage of this if i know opposing pokemon don't have any moves with those typings after training against zig zagoon in the wild area i was able to evolve my serena and make my way to the water gym in my way though were some team yell grunts all their pokemon had priority moves but with serena it wasn't an issue hop also wanted to battle but he was a non-issue as well my chat pointed out that i should grab the expert belt from turffield so i did that and then headed back to hullberry for the gym serena and i just wrecked all the trainers in the gym challenge and then we headed to face nessa serena easily beat her goldeen her arakuda with aqua chat and her dynomax dreadnought the second badge was mine as well as another save point next i went to catch a cutie fly for battling team yellow and an arrakuda for the next gym after some training i headed to galar mines 2 where beatty was waiting for another battle again evil made it easy for me i stomped an unavoidable trainer and then encountered more teen yell grunts my cutie fly had evolved by this time and i taught it dazzling gleam which hits both opponents even still i had to take a chance and hope their feeble didn't quick attack me it didn't so the expert belt boosted dazzling gleams killed all four of their pokemon after that i did some more raids for exp candy and then taught my serena power whip a 120 base power grass move with 85 accuracy i needed power with because i had to battle marnie at the hotel she has three pokemon and two of them have priority moves i had to either level up my syndras to about level 56 to ko with quick attack or just rely on power with hitting twice i did manage to hit her crow gunk and then verbombi took out scraggy finally serena was able to hit power whip again on more pico no resets required while doing more raids i defeated and caught a shelter and on top of knowing ice star a priority move it happened to have the ability skill link with this ability it can always hit multi-strike moves the maximum amount sheldor's evolution cloister has access to icicle spear and with skill link it will always hit 5 times effectively making it a 125 base power move that never misses i knew this could be super strong later in the game after more training and candy feeding i got my arrow cuda evolved and leveled up to 43 and i taught it waterfall so now i was ready to take on the fire gym for this gym challenge i just needed a ko5 pokemon in the grass and then i battled kabu his first pokemon is a nine tails which for some reason knows quick attack so at level 43 with expert belt baroscuda was able to oco with aquajet next was arcanine and because it lowered my attack with intimidate i had to max and set up rain with max geyser with rain up i was able to kehoe his giganta max scented scorch taking the third gym batch and my fourth save as per usual after a save i went to catch some pokemon i got a ghastly first ball and then i tried catching an exca drill it did not stay in first ball and attacked with a two-turn move so i used a pokedoll and got the heck out of there i decided to test my luck on another one though and this time it did stay in now here is where annoying opponent's abilities start coming into play these team yell grunts are blocking the way to route six and one of them has a stunky which has the ability aftermath this means if i ko it with a move that makes contact my pokemon takes damage on top of that their stunky also knows faint a normal type move with plus two priority i went around the wild area to check what tr's the watt traders had and i found dazzling clean which does not make contact i taught it to my gastly which was now a haunter and as a ghost type hauntzer couldn't be hit by faint and while holding the wise glasses it was able to occur the stunky then it was an easy dazzling gleam span for the other pokemon i realized i needed some more pokemon soon so i caught a zigzagoon and a brilliant tie rogue that conveniently knew the priority move mock punch i got them both evolved and then did some ev training for attack against wild tyrogue i was also fortunate to find a sludge bomb tr from a wat traitor and because of that i was able to continue in my way was a beauty with a clefairy and a clefable sludge bomb from haunter was able to one-shot them both now that i could get past her i was able to catch one last pokemon for the next gym a helium tile i was able to catch it first try and i evolved it with the sunstone after some more eevee and exp training i had my next tricky battle artist duncan is unavoidable on the way to stowonside for the ghost gym his coughing is easy but his second pokemon is a surobudo pseudo wudo has the ability sturdy which means it will live a move that would one hit ko it on top of that it also no sucker punch so i needed to ko it in two hits and avoid a priority move my solution for this was hitmonthly on turn one i used fakeout which is a priority move that causes the opponent to flinch then on turn two i took it out with an expert belt boosted mock punch hop wanted to battle again at stowan side with a revamped team but it was still no problem for me now for the ghost gym which is exclusive to shield version the first trainer has two pumpkaboo so i had to use lining to avoid shadow sneaks the rest of the trainers were taken out by haunter's shadow ball then it was time for alistar his yamask and cursola were easy but his third pokemon is mimikyu which was the trickiest pokemon so far in the entire run with mimikyu's signature ability rather than taking full damage from the first attack it takes its disguise is busted and it loses an eighth of its hp so it can't be ko'd in one hit additionally alistar's mimikyu knows shadow sneak taking its other moves into account i came up with the plan to guarantee no damage as long as the game's ai was in a forehead as a normal type heliolisk can't be hit by shadow sneak and as a ghost type haunter can't be hit by slash so turn one against the mimikyu i broke his disguise with volt switch and switched into haunter doing this ensures i can't be hit by shadow sneak or slash next turn i manually switch back to heliolisk in case it tries to shadow sneak then i repeated the process because i didn't think i would take it out with thunderbolt and finally when i was sure it was in range i used thunderbolt to take it out i was relieved but there was still his gmax gengar to deal with however with max phantasm from haunter i took it out and i defeated alistair and earned the gym badge as well as the most satisfying save yet now that i've beaten the fourth gym i started to see three star raids one star and two star raids can be one shot but three four and five star raids put up barriers after they lose a certain amount of hp meaning they can't be beaten with one hit this means they're generally unsafe to battle for this run however here's where shitenja comes in clutch if the pokemon in the max raid den has no super effective moves against shidenja it won't be able to damage me for example this dollar only knows bug and psychic moves so i was able to beat it safely with ninja and get some much better exp candy after finding an iron head tr and teaching it to excadrill i started eb training against wild dreadnough for attack stats i knew the next gym was pretty risk-free if i was careful so i felt comfortable about doing lots of training after doing it for a while i decided to check the eb progress on my growl with so i went to check and noticed something strange yeah i contracted pokeris while training if you don't know what that is pokeris is a pokemon virus that increases the speed at which your pokemon gain evs it's super useful for ev training so even though it's a virus it's actually a really good thing to get here's the catch though it's extremely rare to put it into perspective the odds for me to randomly find a shiny pokemon during this run is one in four thousand ninety six very unlikely however the odds for me to contract pocaris is one in twenty one thousand eight forty more than five times rarer than a shiny pokemon and way more helpful as if i wasn't already getting lucky enough during this run then i managed to do that so yeah i finished up maxing attack stats pretty quick and then started training against gloom for special attack and then against doug trio for speed occasionally clowning them with serena i found the evolution items needed for arcanine and for cloister and then started making my way through glenwood tangle i knew which pokemon had priority moves and made it through no problem i picked up the acrobatics tm and then headed for the fairy gym the gym challenge was a sweep with sludge bomb then i had to be opal for her i used iron head on her wheezing flamethrower on her maw while sludge bomb on her togekiss and max steel spike on her g-max alchemy easiest gym so far i picked up the focus sash in case i needed to do some shading just shenanigans and then had another hop battle as usual no issues here there was an unavoidable trainer on route 7 but heliolisk was not afraid of his flying types on route 8 i battled this doctor i used a non-contact move to avoid getting poisoned by her rosalia and then her hatred was an easy shadow ball next there was a musician with together maru which has the ability iron barbs if i use a move that makes contact i take damage so i used earthquake to avoid that then i picked up the tm for brick break before heading to steam driftway to catch a sneasel apparently my luck had run out so i had to do everything since the last save over again and when i went to try to catch it again this time it did stay in the ball after that i did some eevee training and leveling up against berserker and then went to do more raids after i was leveled enough i took on the ice gym in the challenge stom easily went down to a flamethrower and cloister went down to a magical leaf i was prepared for the next trainer but i forgot to swap my lead pokemon i did have high jump kick on serena so i could ko the bear tick but high jump kick is a 90 accuracy move with guaranteed recoil damage if i miss so there is a 10 chance i reset here no matter what lucky for me it hit i remember to switch my pokemon for the next battle and was able to occur the ice table then i made it to melanie i flamethrowed her first three pokemon including the ice cube because of its ice face ability and then i decided to troll her g-max lapras with shadinja because i knew it couldn't hit me before winning the gym badge and saving the game right after the gym i had another hot battle usually i just humiliate the poor guy but he wanted to have this battle while it was hailing this made things a bit sticky ice type pokemon are immune to hail damage so i had to use cloister and sneasel brick break took out double three hits with icicle spear which was guaranteed to hit five times took out willowboom dig took out pinkerton even after it used curse brick break with the expert belt was enough to take out the snorlax and then because hail wouldn't damage me on the last turn i used flamethrower with arcanine to take out the corvette i headed directly for the next gym but first i had to beat up some more team yell grunts in the hail brick break from sneasel took out li noon and while avoiding a priority move wide lens high jump kick from serena kayode pangoro then i got the water bike and followed a route that skips all the trainers on route 9. before i could do the gym i had to fight marnie lightbird and toxicroak had priority moves so i used serena for both eagling with haunter took out scrafty and then hijab kicked with serena took out more pico the dark gym challenge was just a bunch of team yell grunts who were all easy but i had to be sure to mock punch a wee vile that knew ice shard then i went for protect plus earthquake to win a double battle piers was up next and he was not a certain victory i had four times super effective moves for his first three pokemon so those weren't a concern but his skunk tank was a huge problem like the stunky earlier it also has aftermath as its ability plus it has sucker punch looking at its full moveset my best solution was to use serena to avoid sucker punch give it a lump berry so it wouldn't get poisoned from toxic and just hoped that skunting wouldn't go for snarl then i needed to hit a 90 accuracy high jump kick not ko it and then use dazzlingly the next turn to avoid aftermath damage on my first attempt that's exactly what happened it went for sucker punch and it lived high jump kick with literally one hp then i was able to deal take it out to snag the gym badge and save the game i picked up some items from around the region that would help me and then did some raids with shidinja after some leveling i started the eighth and final gym the dragon gym the entire gym was double battles so i had to prepare for that the challenge is three trainers and i can switch my pokemon around for each one so with the right moves i was able to easily beat all three of them including the last one in hail finally i had the rion battle his gigalith set up sandstorm so i needed to use excadrill and safety goggles cloister flygon outsped me so i needed to ko it with ice shard and then iron had the gigalift then i max quake his gmax duraladon and icicle spear his sandaconda taking the final gym badge and saving the game route 10 was filled with trainers plus it was hailing the first dude just had a gardevoir so excadrill took care of that i avoided two guys and then beat one i couldn't avoid with volt switch and ice shard i needed to evolve my sneasel before proceeding so i needed to wait and do it off stream well i tried to but as you can see i have an extra reset i went to level up the sneasel by koiing at kubchew but i forgot about snow cloak i missed an iron head and got hit i could have just acted like nothing happened but i wouldn't have been able to live with it so i just redid everything i got my sneasel evolved into weevile and taught it icicle spear then there were three battles before i made it to winden the hiker was easily beaten by excadrill for the gentleman i had to brick break with weevil protect with safety goggles haunter to avoid a first impression and then back to back dazzling gleam sealed the deal then the news crew was a double battle they had no priority moves so weville and safety goggles arcanine took care of them next i had my final battles against marnie and hop marnie was up first she opened with light burn so i used serena and high jump kicked it next was toxic group which with acrobatics was able to take um whoops an hour later after some training acrobatics was able to take it out then the rest of her team was cinch including her g-max grim snarl hop was ready for me after marnie close combat took out double flamethrower took out corbinite close combat with choice band took out snorlax earthquake took out pig kirchen and even though it used the wrong max flare it was still enough to take house dynamax relevant after that i had to chase around this annoying macro cosmos dude but literally all i had to do was use flamethrower with arcanine a bunch including on his pharaoh seed with iron barbs to get up the tower i had to beat one durant and then do three multi battles with hop i put the choice ban on excadrill and taught him brutal swing before getting out of the elevator the first battle i had to brutal swing since i couldn't earthquake the bronzong because of levitate then earthquake won the other two battles i swapped around my pokemon and held items before battling oleana i went for flamethrower on frost class dropkick on melodic earthquake on salazzle which would have ko'd it seven times flamethrower on serena and then when she g-maxed her garbodor i took it out with a max quake then i had what was essentially gen 8's elite 4. bd returned as the fairy gym leader and wanted a rematch i went for flamethrower on mawile iron head on gardevoir and then my brain turned off and decided to stay in to iron head the gallerian rapidash but i forgot something pretty important i just had to hope that it didn't use quick attack and very fortunately for me it did not finally max steel spike was enough to take down his gmax hattering i had a foolproof plan for beating nessa again looking at her team she starts with galicipod and ends with g-max dreadnough and the other three are centered around rain and swift swim my plan was to protect to avoid first impression then max rockfall to ko it and then when she sent out pelipper to set up rain for her swift swim pokemon i would max rockfall again and change the weather i did not want her to be able to out speed me and then volt switches on bear scooter and seeking and choice band earthquake on dreadnaught would have been enough to win the battle things started as planned and i maxed early and took out the glissapon but to my surprise she actually did not send out pelipper next this threw off my entire plan i ended my dynamaxx early and went into heliolisk i had to vote switch back into excadrol to avoid sand damage she sent out seeking next i guess just to troll me so i repeated the process then she finally sent out pelipper which i could safely thunderbolt when she gmaxed her dreadnought i remembered i was calcium based on sand force boost and there was a 19 chance this wouldn't ko but it did somehow i safely got through that one alistar was next up but this battle was much easier he didn't have mimikyu this time so it was just a choice specs shadow ball from haunter all the way through until a choice been earthquake from exit drill ryan was last but this time it was a singles battle like usual expert belt boosted earthquake took out his torkle and tertinator choice banned ice punch took out his flygon and gucci and max quake took out his gmax duraladon it was time to battle champion leon but of course there's more story to go chairman rose turned out to be a maniac so i had to battle with him at the power plant i flamethrowed all his pokemon including ironbarbs ferrothorn and then max quaked his gmax copper raja with my excajo now that i was about to battle eternitus i had hit a checkpoint and i saved my game before that though i taught dig to excadrill and shidinja and gave should enter the focus i did not intend on needing it but i put it there in case of worst case scenario the regular turn of this battle was an easy choice band earthquake but a tournament's form was where i was expecting things to get sticky zashin and samozenta joined hop in me and it turned into a max raid battle i had to find a way through this without my pokemon taking damage i went for dig but zashian was faster and gave me a boost from howl first next turn the dogs did a lot of damage with their signature moves and then i did even more damage with dig eternitis didn't target me so i went for another dig after the dogs both attacked again eternitis did target me this time but i avoided it because of dig then while i was underground musashin finished it off and i was through it on my first attempt before battling leon i needed a bit more leveling on my pokemon so after i did that i gave my pokemon held items they needed and went to face the champion this was it he sent out aegislash first which went down to earthquake haxorus was next which i took out with choice band ice punch dragopolt came out next which with choice scarf on haunter i was able to out speed and ko was shadowball mr rhyme was next and it was an easy iron head italian was scary because if it had a speed boosting nature i would be slower but i moved first with heliolisk and kayode it all that was left was his gmax charizard so i went for max rockfall taking it out and finishing the challenge aside from that one stupid wulu i had beaten pokemon shield without taking any damage in just under 53 hours this was an extremely difficult run especially for my first challenge one but i had a blast completing it i hope you enjoyed the video if you did leave a like and if you're feeling generous share it around if you'd like to see me live i stream regularly on my twitch channel so the link is in the description if you want to give me a follow i would super appreciate it thanks for watching hope to see you soon

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Published: Sun May 02 2021