- Greetings Pokefans,
Michael here and a big thing in the Pokemon
YouTube world right now are play through
challenge videos. Can you beat a
certain Pokemon game with a certain
challenging condition. One of the most
popular formats is can you beat this game
with only this particular, usually weak, Pokemon, but there are other
challenge variances as well. I thought it would
be fun to do one of these play through
challenges myself, and the one that
I came up with was is it possible to
beat a Pokemon game without catching any Pokemon? For the purposes of this I
define catching a Pokemon as obtaining a Pokemon by
throwing a Pokeball at it. Therefore the only
ways to obtain Pokemon are via gift Pokemon
and hatching any eggs, so the available Pokemon
are very limited. Here are the rules for
my no catch play through. The first is that I
cannot throw a Pokeball at any Pokemon, therefore
I can't catch any Pokemon. And number two is that
trading with another game is only allowed for the purposes of evolving a
Pokemon if necessary. And if you do this it has
to be an immediate trade and trade back. In game trades are allowed but, spoiler alert, all of the
in game trades in the game that I'm going to be
playing require a Pokemon that you have to
catch in the wild, so I won't be doing any. So in short, no catching and no trading Pokemon
from other games. All other methods of obtaining
Pokemon are fair game. I selected Pokemon
Platinum to be the game that I do this challenge
in for two reasons. The first is that I haven't
played through Sinnoh in several years so
I wanted to again. And the second is that
the available Pokemon in this style of play through will make my final team
pretty interesting. Also you probably
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I can beat Pokemon Platinum without catching any Pokemon. The game starts out like any
other Pokemon play through and it's not long before I
get to choose my starter. The first gift
Pokemon in the game. When I originally thought
up this play through, I had first thought that I
would have to choose Piplup because Empoleon can learn
every HM in the game except Fly. Since Surf and Waterfall are
necessary to beat the game and the other two starters
cannot learn those, I thought I had
to pick Empoleon. However, during my research
I discovered that Eevee is a gift Pokemon in Platinum which you can
evolve into Vaporeon long before you need Surf
to progress in the game. The only HM's you need
prior to getting the Eevee are Cut and Rock Smash, and all three starters can
learn both of those moves. Therefore, I can actually
choose any starter that I want with the
only caveat being that if I choose
Turtwig or Chimchar, I have to evolve my
Eevee into Vaporeon because no other obtainable
Pokemon can learn Waterfall. I decided to go with Chimchar because it would
be my only Pokemon for a good chunk
of the early game and it handles the first
two gyms very well. Plus it gets STAB
from Rock Smash. A move that it'll be
stuck with for a while. I defeat Barry pretty easily before making my
way to Sandgem Town where professor Rowan
let's me name the Chimchar. I named him Ludachrist. I know that name sounds weird, but it's actually a call back to the first play
through I ever did here on my YouTube channel, My First Nuzlocke
Pokemon Platinum. I started with Chimchar
in that game too and named him Ludacris. He survived all the way
until tragically falling to my rival's final
Pokemon in the last battle right before the Pokemon League. So therefore, this
Chimchar is Ludachrist because it's Ludacris who
has risen from the dead. After back tracking to
say goodbye to my mom, Dawn has us go through
the catching tutorial, something completely unnecessary
for this play through. She gives me some Pokeballs and immediately
sold all of them. No use for them so,
might as well make money. Ludachrist swept through all of the Pokemon I
met pretty easily before evolving into Monferno right before the Oreburgh Gate. The hiker inside gave me
the HM for Rock Smash, but I decided to wait to teach it to Monferno
until it's necessary. I arrive in Oreburgh
and in the process of grabbing items
outside the mine, I accidentally found
a hidden heart scale. This will come in handy later. I find Roark and tell
him to get his dumb butt back to his more important
job, then head to the gym. I make quick work
of the trainers then take on Roark. Since Ludachrist
is the only Pokemon getting any experience, he is very over
leveled for this fight. Mach Punch makes quick work of his Geodude,
Onix, and Cranidos, and I have my first badge. Now that it's useful, I go ahead and teach Monferno Rock Smash. On my way back through
the Oreburgh Gate, I head to the basement and pick up the TM for
Flash which I'll use later. Back in Jubilife
Dawn and I take out the Galactic grunts
with little issue. I then find my way
to Floaroma Town, take out some more
Galactic grunts on the way to fighting Mars. Her Zubat is dealt with easily and while a Crit Scratch from
Purugly did a decent chunk, a Rock Smash followed
by a Mach Punch were enough to take it out. I head out and battle my
way up to Eterna Forest where Cheryl tags
along for a little bit. This trip was uneventful since Flame Wheel decimated
everything in the forest. I arrive in Eterna City, the site of finally gaining
some new team members. My first step was to speak
to the underground man to get the explorer kit because we're
digging for fossils. Duh, duh, duh, duhn. Since the process
of reviving a fossil does not require me
to throw a Pokeball, fossil Pokemon are fair
game for this play through. However, in Platinum
it's more interesting than in other games because
I didn't get a choice as to which fossil
Pokemon I got to use. If you didn't know in Diamond, you will only find Skull fossils which become Cranidos,
and in Pearl, you can only find Armor
fossils which be Shieldon. In Platinum you
can still only find one type of fossil
in the underground before beating the
League, however, which one you can find
is determined randomly when you start the game. If your trainer ID number
ends in an odd number, you'll find Skull fossils, and if it ends in
an even number, you'll find Armor fossils. While I could have known which fossil Pokemon
I would get on my team at the start of
the play through, I decided not to
look at my number. I thought it would be
more fun to discover which fossil I would find
by simply digging it up. You know makes me feel more
like a real paleontologist. I head underground and after about 10 minutes
of digging I find my fossil and it's a Skull fossil. Cranidos will be
my new team member, but not quite yet. While I could back track
all the way to Oreburgh City to revive the
fossil immediately, that's a pretty long trip. If I wait to do the revival
until I get my bicycle, it's just a straight shot
down the cycling road to get back to Oreburgh. Since a rock type Pokemon
isn't gonna help me very much with the grass type gym, I decided I would just wait. I head back up and straight
into Gardenia's gym. Ludachrist's Flame
Wheel sears though all of the gym trainers
and it does the same to Gardenia's team
OHKOing all three of them. That wasn't really
surprising though, after all Monferno
was five levels higher than her ace Roserade. After some conversations
Cynthia gives me the HM for Cut. I debated then making the
long trek back to Oreburgh to teach Cranidos Cut
instead of Monferno, but then I realized that
Cranidos cannot learn Cut, only Rampardos can, so I begrudgingly
taught Monferno Cut. I bust in to the
Galactic Eterna building and fight my way to the top. Once there I pick up the
upgrade then fight Jupiter. Her Zubat was a joke, but Skuntank was a bit tougher. Its bulk meant I had to hit
it with multiple Flame Wheels, but I wore it down
without too much issue. Resisting its Night
Slashes definitely helped. After clearing out the building, I was careful to
save the game a lot. The reason for this
is that Cynthia is about to give
me a Togepi egg, which will be my next
member of the team. The scary thing
though is that Togepi can either hatch with
the ability Serene Grace, which is amazing, or
Hustle, which is awful. Hustle boosts the
Pokemon's physical attack while lowering its accuracy, but since Togekiss is
a special attacker, all this ability would do
to it is lower its accuracy. I was not about to deal with an inaccurate Togekiss
the entire play through, so I saved before
receiving the egg because if you didn't know, the attributes of a
Pokemon are determined when the egg is generated,
not when it hatches. Thankfully the first one
hatched with Serene Grace so all was well. I named it Gabriel after
the angel from the Bible since Togekiss is very angelic. I already had a Christ Pokemon, so I figured another
biblical name would fit well. As soon as Gabriel hatched
I swung by the cycle shop to grab a bike, which would
have helped with hatching a bit. I actually don't know why I
didn't do this beforehand. I biked down to Oreburgh,
revived my Skull fossil and named my new
Cranidos Solomon. I decided to stick with
the biblical names theme and Solomon fits Cranidos well. Solomon was wise and
Cranidos has a big head. So its got a big brain maybe. I taught Solomon
Rock Tomb immediately because very stupidly
this rock type Pokemon does not learn a rock type move, until head smash level 52. I was not about to deal with not having a STAB move
this entire play through so burn the TM. My next order of business
was getting Togepi evolved as soon as possible because, it is completely
useless as a Togepi. Thankfully I was
given the Soothe Bell upon entering Eterna City so after a little while
of switch training, leveling up, and
journeying all the way through Wayward Cave, Gabriel
evolved into a Togetic. By the way I had
taught Flash to Togepi to get through Wayward Cave because it's the only
one that can learn it. After Gabriel evolved
I taught it Grass Knot. I needed some way to counter
water types in the mean time because my other two
Pokemon are weak to water, and also Togetic doesn't
learn an actual attack until level 33 and
I was not about to only have Metronome
that entire time. I battled my way
to Hearthome City where I obtained the gift Eevee. I considered saving
before receiving the Eevee so that I could
reset for a female, so if I wanted to I could
breed Monferno and Eevee to get a lot more Eevees and
all the other Eeveelutions, but I decided that having
a team of just Eeveelutions would be kind of boring. So I just took the
first one that I got. It ended up being a male
Eevee and I named it Levi. The Leviathan is a sea monster from the bible,
staying on theme, but I thought it would
be funny if the Leviathan is actually just
a small sea cat, so I named my future
Vaporeon just little Levi. I decided to go ahead
and challenge Fantina without grinding. After all Solomon has sky
high attack and pursuit so I figured I'd be fine. Learning assurance
during the course of battling the gym
trainers was extra great since assurance
doubles it's power if Cranidos takes a hit first which was likely
since its a bit slow. I took out her Duskull
without much issue. I was hit with a future
sight after it fainted but that was fine. Then she sent out Mismagius
and things got bad. Mismagius immediately goes for a super effective
Magical Leaf. A move that I did not
remember that it had. I thought Solomon
might survive it, but nope it Crit. And my only Pokemon with super
effective damage goes down. I bring in Ludachrist
who is five levels higher than Mismagius. However, that wasn't enough. Mismagius out sped us
and confused Monferno who then hurt
itself immediately. Then Psybeam did
most of my health and while I hit the
second Flame Wheel, it wasn't enough to KO. I was a bit salty because if Monferno had not
hurt itself in its confusion, I would have taken out
Mismagius right away. I switched in Togetic
to take some hits while I healed up Monferno. However, since I only had
super potions at this point, it took two turns to
fully heal Monferno up. Mismagius finished off Togetic, but I brought in
Monferno back in to finish it off
with a Flame Wheel, and it lives. The Mismagius lives. It did this much the first time, then doesn't KO it
from half health. What the heck dude. At this point I was screwed. While I could have brought
in Eevee to sack it off while I healed Monferno,
thanks to her super potion, Mismagius definitely needed
two Flame Wheels now. I used one more Flame
Wheel hoping for a Crit, but didn't get it. So I gave up and let
Mismagius finish both Monferno and Eevee off. My first loss of the
play through was done. Licking my wounds I grinded
Cranidos up to level 27 and got Monferno a
level in the process. In the second attempt I tried to OHKO Duskull with assurance, but barely could not. Duskull used future sight and this time I wanted Cranidos
to stay totally healthy to make sure I could
tank a Magical Leaf. I brought in Togetic and
messed around with Metronome and Yawn for a little bit before eventually
getting impatient and bringing in Monferno
to finish off Duskull. In came Haunter, which I was confident I
could OHKO with assurance. I could, but not before
taking some damage from Sucker Punch. It was fine though because
Cranidos still has 62 HP, more than what it had
in the last battle. Mismagius comes in,
goes for Magical Leaf, and critical hits again. For the second time in a row. I hate this Pokemon now. Cranidos goes down, but I
quickly formulate a plan. Since I don't have to
use Togetic's turns
to heal Monferno, I can put Mismagius to sleep to allow Monferno
to KO it safely. I get off the Yawn and then
randomly click Metronome on turn I expected
Togetic to go down. However, Togetic survives,
then the Metronome happens and it becomes transform. What? I now have a powerful
Mismagius with Shadow Ball, up against a sleeping Mismagius. This is amazing. I go for Shadow Ball and
it does more than half. The enemy Mismagius heals
with it's citrus berry, but it doesn't matter because I got the
special defense drop. The second Shadow
Ball finishes it off and I beat Fantina using her
own Mismagius against her. This was probably the
wildest gym battle that I have ever had. It was awesome. I start making my
way to Solaceon Town, but not before my rival attacks. This battle was pretty
uneventful though, and I beat him easily. My top priority is now
getting to the Solaceon Ruins because that's where the Water
Stone to evolve Eevee is. I skip as many trainers
as possible on the way, enter the ruins and
find the Water Stone. I evolve Levi immediately
and now I have my Vaporeon. Unfortunately what I
didn't realize is that I already missed a water
type move on Vaporeon. It learns Water Gun by
level up at level 15, but I got the Eevee at level 20. Vaporeon doesn't learn
another level up STAB move until Hydro Pump at the wildly
inappropriate level of 71. 71, are you kidding. This means that unfortunately I can't teach Vaporeon
a water type move until I get the
Brine TM from Wake, so for the time being
Levi is still useless. I grab Defog from the ruins
and teach it to Gabriel. After a quick depressing
detour to the lost tower, I begin my trek to Veilstone. This was arduous. The long trip with no healing, and the last battle is one of those cursed Ace
Trainer double battles. I beat their last Pokemon with only a poisoned hurt
Monferno left standing. I genuinely hate that battle. It gives me a hard time no
matter the play through. But, I still make it to
Veilstone without loosing, so I'm finally able to
grab my 15 member Porygon. I gamed it Galaxian, like the book of
the Bible Galatians, but more sciency sounding. If you recall I
already got the upgrade from the Galactic
Eterna building, so I was able to evolve it
into Porygon2 immediately. My next step was to take on
Maylene's fighting type gym, but I didn't want
to do that yet. My only attack that
was super effective on fighting type Pokemon
was Galaxian's Psybeam which isn't super
effective on meta type or Lucario and is also
on normal type Pokemon. But I had a plan. Since this is Platinum
and not Diamond and Pearl, just west of Pastoria
is a shard move tutor where I can teach
Togetic Air Cutter. A special STAB flying type move. I make the trek south,
all the way there, only to discover that I
don't have enough shards. Ughhhh. After digging in the
underground for half an hour and only finding one red shard, back trekking to Wayward Cave
and several other places, and evolving Solomon
into a Rampardos, I finally had the
shards I needed. I taught Togetic Air Cutter and now I was ready
for the Veilstone gym. Side note while I was
digging for shards, I found a couple
more Skull fossils so if I want more
Rampardos, I can get them. I'm just not going to do that. That would be dumb. First she sends out Meditite, but sadly Air Cutter is
just shy of OHKOing it. It hits Togetic
with a Rock Tomb, which lowers its speed. Something that I neglected
to pay attention to. I go for Grass Knot
to finish it off to save some Air Cutter PP, but that ended up being foolish. Meditite now out speeds and
hits us with Drain Punch doing some damage and healing
itself in the process. Now Grass Knot doesn't KO, and I'm forced to take another
hit before finishing it off. Machoke comes in and
I switch to Porygon2, hoping to either live
a hit or out speed. I live a Karate Chop and again, barely don't KO it with Psybeam. Why is this barely not KOing
thing happening so much to me? I decide to risk it and try
to live a second Karate Chop which I do, so Porygon2
finishes Machoke off. She brings in her Lucario
which Monferno easily handles, actually scoring a burn with
Flame Wheel in the process. Maylene was done. I head to the Galactic
warehouse and get fly, which I promptly
teach to Togetic. I fly back to Pastoria
for Wake's gym. A battle which I am actually
really concerned for. My only Pokemon
that resists water, and is actually immune
to it is Vaporeon, but Vaporeon can't really
do any damage back. My only super effective
attack is Grass Knot which is not STAB and
is also on a Pokemon that is weak to the ice
and rock type moves, several of his Pokemon have. I bought the TM for Thunder from the Veilstone
department store and taught it to
Galaxian to help out. I did some grinding which evolved Ludachrist
into Infernape, but I was still worried. I beat my rival before the gym, beat all gym trainers, then started my
battle with Wake. I lead with Gabriel expecting
him to lead with Quagsire, but he leads with
Gyarados instead. I'm forced to
switch to Rampardos, who I thought had
a chance to survive and hit back with a Rock Tomb, but nope, it was
OHKOed by a waterfall. However, at least now I can
bring in Porygon2 safely. I click thunder but Gyarados'
waterfall flinches me. He doesn't flinch me with
the second waterfall, but Thunder misses. Have I ever talked about how I genuinely hate
the move Thunder? It misses at just
the worst times. After healing up
thunder finally lands, but Porygon2 is weakened badly. Wake brings in Floatzel and I bring in a healthy
Togetic to use Grass Knot, but then Wake hits
with an Ice Fang which Togetic lives but
gets frozen as a result. You've gotta be
freezing kidding me. (crickets chirping) I decide to sack off
Togetic to heal up Porygon2, but that was a mistake. While Porygon2 landed
its first Thunder and OHKOed Floatzel, I realized that I should
have preserved Togetic because I needed Grass
Knot to beat Quagsire. During the process
of using Psybeam to whittle down
Quagsire, it uses Yawn. I switch into Infernape
expecting it to take a Mud Shot, but Quagsire used
Water Pulse instead. While Infernape did
survive the hit, it got confused in the process, then hurt itself in
confusion on the turn that would have
ended the battle. It goes down to Water Pulse, but Porygon2 is then able to
come in and finish things off. Remember how I said that my
second battle with Fantina was one of the wildest
gym battles I've ever had. Well this battle with
Wake is probably one of the most hacks filled
battles that I've ever had. Flinching, Thunder
missing, Ice Fang freezing, Water Pulse confusing
then hurting myself, ugh. It was awful. I'm glad it's over. Wake gives us the TM for Brine, so finally Levi isn't useless. I taught it to him immediately. I then chased the Galactic
grunt to Lake Valor, get the secret
potion from Cynthia, and start the trek
to Celestic Town. This trip is mostly fine, except for another awful
Ace Trainer double battle. God, my team just really does
not do well against Gyarados. I fight Cyrus in
the Celestic Ruins and the battle was a cake walk. I almost swept him
with Solomon alone, but a missed Rock Tomb forced me to switch to Porygon2
to beat his Murkrow, but I ended up crushing him, then Cynthia's
grandma gives me Surf. I immediately taught it to Levi and then I headed
to various places to get all sorts of goodies. Most notably the Flame Thrower
TM from Fuego Ironworks which I taught to Ludachrist. After battling the trainers
on route 219, 220, and 221, I headed to Canalave. This town is a big deal because it houses the
home of the Move Deleter. I can finally
delete any unwanted and unneeded HM
moves from my team. So I promptly deleted
Cut on Infernape and Defog on Togetic. I beat my rival on the bridge, then rushed over to Iron Island for two very important things. Well actually three since
Riley gives me Strength, but two team related things. The first is the Riolu egg, my final team member
for this play through. Then immediately after that,
I snagged the shiny stone, finally being able to evolve
Gabriel into a Togekiss. I quickly fly to Pastoria
and use the heart scale that I accidentally
found back in Oreburgh to teach Togekiss Air
Slash, its best move. Let the Serene Grace
flinching commence. I then head back to Solaceon and bike back and
forth for a while until I hatch the Riolu
which I named Luke. A book of the Bible and
also short for Lucario. I finally have my
final squad of six, but then at this point I notice that every member of my team, except the genderless
Galaxian is male. I expected that from
my starter and my Eevee since I knew they both had 87.5
percent male gender ratios, but I was surprised that all of the other
three ended up being male. Even Togepi. I thought Togepi
was mostly female. Nope, turns out it
is 87.5 percent male. As is Riolu, as is Cranidos. Every member of my team that can have a gender
is 87.5 percent male. It's wild. The only reason
I can think of is that they wanna make it
harder to breed gift Pokemon. I don't know. After some switch training
with the Soothe Bell, Luke became a Lucario. He was still several levels
below the rest of the team, but I felt safe tossing
on the experience share and heading to the Canalave gym. The gym trainers were
swept through easily as was Byron's team. Ludachrist OHKOed all
three of his Pokemon without taking a hit. I do all the stuff
at the library, hear the Lake Valor explosion, then head there to fight Saturn. I make quick work of him, then head to Lake
Verity where I beat Mars in a similarly easy fashion. It was now time for me to make
the frigid trek to Snowpoint. I taught Lucario strength to spread the HM burden
around a little bit, and then I headed
to Mount Coronet. I was afraid of
the fog for a bit because recall that
I deleted Defog, but thankfully there are
no trainers in this room. A Max Repel let me run
through it without a hitch. The rest of the trip
was arduous but doable. I was cautious and back tracked to the rest lodge
multiple times, but before long I
made it to Snowpoint. I immediately headed to the gym and beat virtually
every gym trainer with Lucario in an attempt
to help catch it up to the rest of the team. Then it was time for Candice, and most of the
battle went smoothly. Lucario OHKOed Sneasel,
Vaporeon OHKOed Piloswine, and Infernape OHKOed Abomasnow. Things only got sticky
when Froslass came in as it got up two double teams that made me miss two
Flame Throwers in a row. It struck with a
powerful psychic that almost KOed Ludachrist, but thankfully he survived and landed a Flame Thrower
OHKOing the Froslass. Now that Candice was done, I could use Rock Climb
outside of battle, I just didn't have it. I had to go back to
the Frozen Wasteland and pick it up behind
this guys house. I never remember it's
there on the first trip. I taught it to Infernape because it still had an open
move slot from deleting Cut and I didn't really
care about the next move which was Fire Spit. I climb up to Lake Acuity,
see Jupiter taunt Barry, then fly to Veilstone. I begin progressing through
the Galactic Headquarters, finding the dubious
disc in the process. This finally allows me to
evolve Galaxian into Porygon-Z, finally getting my entire team
to its fully evolved state. I reach Cyrus and
take him on in battle. Despite taking some hits, Rampardos KO's both is
Sneasel and his Crobat. I heal up against his Honchkrow and hit a Rock Tomb which
barely doesn't OHKO. Why does this keep
happening to me? My next Rock Tomb misses
because of course it does, and then Solomon goes down. But no worries, I
bring in Galaxian to finish off the Honchkrow. Cyrus gives me the Master
Balls as a reward for winning and I meant to sell
this, or toss it, but I forgot. My next fight is Saturn and I didn't revive
Rampardos before this fight because I didn't think
it would be necessary. Porygon-Z handles
Golbat no problem but then was rudely
KOed by Toxicroak. Togekiss then beats
Toxicroak easily, and then Infernape cleans
up with the Flame Thrower on the Bronzor. I free the lake trio before
beginning the climb up to Mount Coronet, a
famously grueling journey. It turns out not to
be too bad though, thanks to Max Repels, and
I arrive at the summit. The multi-battle
with Barry vs Mars and Jupiter was my next fight and Barry sends out Munchlax. I was disappointed, but also, wrong. Barry's Munchlax was weirdly
really good in this fight. Imagine my shock
when I see a Munchlax OHKO a Skuntank six
levels higher than it. To be fair it had been
screeched earlier, but by Munchlax, so it gets
credit for those strats. The Golbats prove to
be pretty annoying with dodging attacks
and out speeding us, and again barely surviving hits, but despite
Porygon-Z going down, I still finished off the
battle without too much issue. Also, very important side note, there was a good
chunk of the battle where it looked like Skuntank was constantly smelling
Purugly's butt. Barry heals his squad, then
Cyrus does his evil time and space mumbo jumbo. I follow him into
the Distortion World then meet back up at the end. The infamous battle with Cyrus from my first Nuzlocke begins. Infernape OHKO's the
Houndoom with no issue. Porygon-Z lives a Waterfall
from Gyarados without flinching and fires back with a Discharge which Gyarados barely survives. What is it with
this play through? Cyrus heals Gyarados back up while my second
Discharge gets it down to red health, but
Porygon-Z's health is now too low to
live a Waterfall. I decide to sack off Porygon-Z and bring in my fastest
Pokemon Ludachrist in order to out speed
and finish it off. I knock out a Gyarados
with a Flame Thrower, something that I don't actually
think I've ever done before. Rampardos handled
a Crobat with ease and while the battle against
Honchkrow needed some healing, after barely surviving a Night
Slash Rampardos OHKOed it. Weavile then tried to make
Lucario flinch with a fake out, but Lucario's inner
focus prevented that. The first time I've
actually seen this happen. Lucario easily defeats
Weavile with an Aura Sphere. My next battle is Giratina, which I must defeat because
obviously I can't catch it. I tried with Rampardos
for a short bit, but then Giratina when
for a Shadow Force. I switched to Gabriel
to absorb the hit and then several
Air Slashes later, Giratina goes down. I beat the devil with an angel. It was now time for
the Sunyshore gym which I was deeply
concerned for, since the only ground move I had was Earthquake on Rampardos, no one on my team
resisted electric, and they were all
pretty under leveled. I decided to go in with the strategy of
keeping Rampardos alive as long as possible and see if I could pull
something out of my butt. If I don't, I'll try
again after some grinding. He leads with Jolteon
and I with Infernape. Jolteon paralyzes
Infernape with Thunderwave, but I'm able to land
my Close Combat. Unfortunately it's
not enough to KO. On the next turn when he heals, I get fully paralyzed. The following turn I
try for Flame Thrower as to not make myself too frail, but it's far less
damage than what I need. Charge Beam does
a good chunk too, so I have to heal with
my only full restore. Jolteon's next Charge Beam
almost OHKO's Infernape, but that's fine because
now I can simply out speed in Close Combat
on the next turn. Unfortunately Jolteon
had Quick Attack and Infernape goes down. I bring in Lucario and
barely live a Charge Beam, allowing me to KO it
with Close Combat. He brings in Raichu and I decide to stay in to get off one more Close
Combat before fainting. However, Raichu is
faster than I realize, and out speeds Lucario KOing it. Yeah, I probably should have
done a bit more research, 'cause a lot of his team
is surprisingly speedy. I bring in Porygon-Z
hoping for Focus Blast to be Focus Blast
and miss a lot. The first one doesn't miss, but I thankfully survive and
hit back with a Signal Beam. The next Focus Blast
misses, so more damage. Next one misses again and
I think I've beaten Raichu, but, no, barely survives. This game genuinely hates me. Okay that's an exaggeration. I did after all just dodge
two Focus Blats in a row, but come on I was salty. It was now my three Pokemon
against his three Pokemon, but two of my standing
three are weak to electric. Things were not looking good. I bring in my fastest
conscious Pokemon to finish off Raichu,
that being Togekiss. Unfortunately it's
still not fast enough and I take some Charge Beam
damage before finishing it off. His next Pokemon is Luxray, and I decide the
best course of action is to pray to the flinch Gods. They give me one but that's it. Gabriel goes down
to a Thunder Fang, after I land two Air Slashes. I decided it was time to
bring in my ace Solomon because Levi had no hope
of doing anything here. Luxray hits with a Thunder Fang, and it does a disappointingly
large amount of damage, but my Earthquake, KO's it. Electivire is the last one left, so I bring in Vaporeon to take
a hit while I heal Rampardos. A Thunder Punch and
a Quick Attack later, and Vaporeon is done. It's now Rampardos
verses Electivire, winner take all. Thunder Punch does about
half but doesn't paralyze, and thank Helix,
Earthquake OHKO's. The battle is over and I
get my final gym badge, despite being under level, so pat myself on
the back for that. Okay yes, I used six Pokemon
compared to his four, and also did a lot of healing, but hey, come on. I already can't
catch any Pokemon, don't want to make
this too hard. Jasmine gives me
the HM for Waterfall which I teach to Levi. I then head off to
the Victory Road and get through it
with little incident. I had some Pokemon
faint along the way, but reviving them
wasn't an issue. I make it through and arrive
at the Pokemon League. I have one final
battle with Barry before entering the League. And may I just say
how much BS it is that his flying type has a super
powerful fighting type move that is super effective
against my two Pokemon, who have super effective
damage against it. It was ridiculous. I ended up having to beat the freaking
Staraptor with Togekiss. The rest of the battle
wasn't bad though. He did some cheeky switches, but I handled them just fine. Barry was done, but I wasn't ready for
the League just yet. My team was levels 48 to 51, which is definitely not
high enough for the League, since Cynthia's Garchomp is 62. It was time to grind. I got the entire
squad up to level 55 then gave them a
rare candy each. Once the grinding was done
I flew to the Move to Leader to get rid of every
HM except Surf and Fly because those moves
are pretty good and replace them with
much better move sets. This was the final move set for each member
of the entire team before I headed into the league. Aaron was first up and
this battle was a joke. Rampardos, Togekiss, and Infernape handled
every Pokemon easily. Next was Bertha,
another easy battle. Togekiss' Grass Knot
plus Vaporeon's Surf and Ice Beam OHKOed
her entire team. Next up was Flint. This battle was a bit tougher than the first two
due to the prevalence of electric and grass
moves on his team. While Houndoom was
easily dispatched, my attempts at using
Rain as a strategy, didn't go as smoothly
as I'd hoped. There electric
attacks still hit hard and at one point Sun got set up, but after some weather wars, a bit of healing, and
an Eeveelution face off, I won with Vaporeon being
the only one to faint. The next battle was Lucian, and oh my God, this was
probably the most intense battle of the entire play through. Mr. Mime was easily
KO'd with Payback, but not before
setting up Reflect. Lucian brings in Bronzong, which I attempted to KO, using a mold breaker
Earthquake to bypass Levitate. However, Reflect
prevents it from OHKOing and of course the
second one leaves it with just a sliver of health. He heals back up, and my next Earthquake
does way less damage. Meaning I had to reconsider
how to handle this. I bring in Vaporeon to tank
his calm mind boosted attacks, which works well enough
and then I finish it off. Next was Alakazam which
was really strong. I bring in Solomon for a
Payback that I knew would OHKO, but Alakazam out speeds and
OHKO's with Focus Blast. I bring in Porygon-Z hoping
for a Focus Blast miss, but nope, another Pokemon down. I now have no idea what to do because Alakazam out
speeds my entire team. The only Pokemon I have left that could survive a hit from it is Togekiss so I
bring in Gabriel. And then I realize, Gabriel
knows a physical move. Fly, a move that I
never used in battle because Togekiss is
a special attacker, proved to be my saving grace. With Alakazam's poor
physical defense, I'm able to take it
out with two Flys, but not before taking a ton
of damage in the process. Out comes Gallade, which I am confident
I'll body with Air Slash so I don't heal up Togekiss. Unfortunately I was wrong
and it only does half. Gallade's Barry heals it,
then it KO's Togekiss. I bring in Infernape
to use Shadow Claw, hoping for a Crit,
but I don't get it. However, Infernape miraculously
survives a Psycho Cut, and since I out
speed, a Gallade heal and two Shadow Claws
later Gallade is down. His final Pokemon is Espeon, and I hit it with a Shadow Claw before letting Infernape fall. I bring in Lucario
expecting to out speed and finish it off
with Close Combat. However, I do not out speed, but thankfully Lucario
lives with only 24 health. Espeon goes down
to the Close Combat and I win the battle. God, that was intense. I had two Pokemon in red HP
left standing when I won that. It was close. I heal up though
and now it's time for the final
battle with Cynthia. Gabriel beats Spiritomb with
a few Air Slashes no problem. Solomon spectacularly survives
an Aura Sphere from Togekiss, but Rock Slide is
barely not enough to KO. She heals and I Rock Slide
again doing less this time. I decide it's best
to let Solomon faint so I can bring in
someone else safely. I do just that and bring in Luke to clean up with Extreme Speed. Ludachrist easily
dispatches her Lucario with Close Combat. Next was Milotic, a tricky
Pokemon to deal with because of its bulk. But Galaxian's Thunder
Bolt does half, Milotic is faster and
does more than half. I bring in Levi to absorb
Milotic's water attacks and heal Galaxian. Switching Galaxian back
in was risky though, so I go for a Brine that
does too little to work. I switch in Luke to
resist a Dragon Pulse then finish Milotic
off with Close Combat. Next is the big bad Garchomp. I taught Ice Beam to Vaporeon
for this exact purpose. Garchomp out speeds and
goes for Dragon Rush, as expected, and
Vaporeon survives. Ice Beam lands and
thankfully OHKO's. If it didn't, I would
have been in trouble. Her last Pokemon is Roserade, which Gabriel easily defeats
with a pair of Air Slashes. The battle is over. Cynthia is defeated and I
have beaten the main story of Pokemon Platinum without throwing a Pokeball
at a single Pokemon. Proving it is possible to
beat at least one Pokemon game without catching any Pokemon. Thank you guys so much
for watching this video, and if you want to see some more play through
challenge videos from me, let me know down in
the comments below. Also if you wan to see some more of my fun Pokemon
content in the mean time, I recommend this video here. All right that's
all I have for now, so until next time Pokefans. Gotta catch them allll.
