Pokémon Black 2 Hardcore Nuzlocke - Electric Types Only! (No items, No overleveling)

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the earlier generations but still electric types do often have a few neat tricks at their disposal to better handle some potential scary threats so without any further ado here is the electrifying tale of how six little pokemon shocked the world and became champions of the universe league or maybe we wipe who's to say but just as a quick reminder before we start i play with species claws so i'll be able to reroll encounters until i get a unique encounter but i can only use one of each unique evolution line okay now let's see how this goes our story begins on a beautiful overlook in aspersia city i meet up with bianca who is here to offer me one of three pokemon but shockingly none of them are electric types so my choice doesn't really matter here i pick oshawot so that my rival will have snivy which i guess could sort of be the hardest one since grass resists electric type attacks but who knows after the usual early game tutorials i head to the ranch that i don't want to look up how to pronounce and i catch a sweet adorable little mareep this fluffy piglet will be the starter of the run i name him edison after the famous canadian actor matthew edison edison has an adamant nature which isn't what i'd call optimal but he's got a feisty spirit and he's ready to kick some tail plus he's so darn fluffy how can you not love the little guy with some leveling up it's time for edison to face his first trial a solo sweep of the first gym sharon is unironically a pretty difficult first gym leader to face since his level cap is so low and stab buff tackle hits pretty hard especially since he likes to use workup this can be pretty hard for a single pokemon to handle fortunately edison doesn't mess around and is ready to abuse one of the most frustrating status conditions in the game paralysis charon starts with patrat so i immediately get off a thunder wave as he uses workup to boost his attack and special attack then i go for a growl to lower his attack as patrat hits a fairly hard tackle then i start clicking growl as patrat tries to get back to plus one with more workups it isn't long until patrak gets fully paralyzed which means that patrat is now at -1 attack this lets me get off a thundershock for free which takes just shy of half of patrat's hp and then patrick just uses work up to get back to neutral on the next turn i shoot my shot and try to get a high roll to knock out the patch rat but he hangs on in the red and sets up another workup so charon then heals but i make sure to growl to bring patrat back down to neutral since sharon's potion didn't fully heal patrat edison is now safe to fire off two more thundershots to kill the patrat as he just uses another workup and with that edison grows to level 14 which is fine since the level cap ends at the start of the battle according to my personal rules lillipup comes in next i go for another thunder wave but lillapup out speeds and hits edison with a tackle which actually procs static and paralyzes lillipup rendering edison's follow-up thunder wave completely redundant and useless and of no value and oranberry also keeps edison happy and healthy from here it's time for the growl plus paralysis strat which works instantly as a little pup gets fully paralyzed so i hit a thundershock for some damage and then lillipup sets up a workup so i go for another thundershock and then lillipup gets fully paralyzed for a second time it looks like it might actually be a roll for another thundershock to kill lillipup here but we'll never find out because bde edison nails lillipup with a critical hit thundershock to win the battle for all the times that i've been cheesed by paralysis against electric type gym leaders that felt pretty good call me watson hg with the new level cap edison evolves into a flaffy which has one of my favorite spellings of any pokemon name so clever and so unnecessary the weight of the world is also no longer solely on edison's shoulders as i get my second recruit a magnemity from verbati complex in white 2 you can also find allokit here but i chose black 2 so that i was guaranteed a magnemity i name our new friend tesla tesla has a bashful nature so while they aren't quite as headstrong as edison that won't stop them from ravaging large portions of this game starting first with the second gym leader who specializes in poison types roxy's pokemon can barely touch tesla as they plow through them with a combination of thundershock and sonic boom before the nerf to steel types they had an unbelievable amount of resistances and both magneton and magnazone are incredible pokemon defensively and offensively i honestly think this challenge would be impossible without this little magnet of mass destruction anyways with that that's roxy defeated and the second gym badge acquired that gets us to castellia city where after crawling through the sewers to find team plasma like some sort of ninja mutant teenage turtle it's time to challenge berg berg is a bit of an issue here since two of his pokemon resist electric type attacks and one of them levanny hits pretty hard but it's nothing a bit of paralysis hacks can't handle berg leads with swadlund and i lead with tesla who is holding an evil light i instantly paralyzed the swadloon with thunderwave as he retaliates with a super weak struggle booge so then i switch out to edison on the next turn and get hit with a string shot but since thunder wave quarters swaddling speed it's gonna take quite a few string shots before he out speeds so edison starts firing off returns as swadlund desperately shoots his strings berg wastes his hyper potion here so edison just continues to adamantly hit the swat loon with return for a decent amount of damage when swadlun is in the red i switch to tesla who takes another string shot then a magnet bomb finishes off the swadloon which gets tesla to level 25 where they learn mirror shot which is vital to handling levanny edison also grows to level 25 and learns electro ball though that's not really important here berg brings in dwell second he hits a soft smackdown and then tesla claps back with his newly learned mirror shot which brings double down to his sturdy then i switch to edison who shrugs off the smackdown and heals back a bit of damage with his leftovers then an electro ball finishes off the dwebble levanny is last so it's time to get a little cheeky he fires off a hard razor leaf and edison gets off a thunder wave edison is now at risk to a crit so i switch back to tesla and leave annie instantly gets fully paralyzed then tesla hits a mirror shot which instantly crits the levanny and knocks it out in one shot with our evo light and the speed drop from paralysis i think that this was always going to be a win since berg likely would have just tried to use string shot a bunch to lower tesla's speed but the critical hit mirror shot saves me some time and berg some string which i guess can instead be used to weave some new flashy 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serious guy as you can tell from his face all business for faraday now obviously evie is not an electric type pokemon yet so i didn't want to use him for the third gym but now that we have access to nimbasa city we can get a hidden thunderstone if you know where to look and since i've played this game a countless number of times i know that the thunderstone is right here i mean here i mean here first try and so faraday evolves into jolteon an amazingly fast and powerful special attacker the last time i tried to use a jolteon in one of my challenges he died in literally his first battle so my plan is to play much more safely with jolteon this time but nah i'm just kidding faraday is safe for now i also get another encounter on route 5 an emuljah it takes a while to find her because she can only be found in rustling grass but when i do find her she's an easy catch with a quick ball welcome to the team franklin she will be immensely helpful for our team's ground type weakness after that tesla evolves into a magneton which is an absolutely phenomenal pokemon especially with evo light edison also evolves into ampharos who is a bit less phenomenal if i'm being honest but i still love him next up is gym leader number four against elisa who also uses electric type pokemon so it's time to utilize one of the best strategies in the game physical jolteon baby just look at that raw physical power elisa leads with her own imulja who can barely touch faraday thanks to his volt absorb ability this lets him safely set up two workups as he tanks some light damage from pursuit and quick attack then faraday knocks out the sky squirrel with a thunderfang alisa's flaffy is second so faraday goes for a dig this is a little scary since both emulja and flaffy have static and electric types can still be paralyzed in this generation but faraday is holding a cherry berry so static would have had to activate both times for this to be an issue after flaffy goes down zeb strika comes out but she too gets out's bad and one shot by a single dig netting us a dominant victory against elisa that's badge number four after the battle alisa generously turns my self-confidence dial up to 11 by walking down the catwalk with me as a crowd of adoring fans chant my name and give me compliments video games truly are a much needed break from reality anywho it's time for the biggest challenge of the run but before that i can head into chartstone cave and get another encounter unfortunately there's actually two electric types in charge stone cave but since this is still a nuzlocke i can only catch the first one that i find which is a joltik so no electros for this attempt though the odds were pretty slim of getting one anyways joltik is a pretty cool pokemon though and it at least takes neutral damage from ground type attacks i name the quirky little cutie pie watt and he joins the team his ability is unnerved instead of compound eyes which is a bit disappointing but there's not much that can be done about that i also decide to level up tesla inside charge stone cave so that he evolves into magneson some of you might be preparing to write a comment right now about how eviolite magneton is better than magnazone and although in some ways that's true since magneton is faster than magnazone and has marginally better bulk because of eviolite i would argue that magna zone is better almost exclusively because without holding evil light they are able to hold another item whether that be leftovers for passive recovery or most notably gems gems are a held item from generation 5 that give a one time fifty percent power increase to a move of a specific type with magna zone's already monster a special attack discharge with an electric gem or flash cannon with a steel gem does just a stupid amount of damage and since gems can be farmed from dust clouds within chartstone cave they're effectively limitless with the right amount of patience yeah yeah patience and dedication anyways these gems are going to be incredibly important going forward starting first with the fight against clay and his ground types you can see how this might be quite the problem for our electric type pokemon fortunately franklin is immune to ground type attacks and i have access to one air balloon which gives one of my pokemon a ground type immunity until they're hit by another move plus tesla has sturdy so he can't be one shot so there's a little bit of wiggle room here but it's still pretty terrifying clay leads with a croco rock though and i lead tesla who is able to out speed and instantly kill him with a signal beam that we learned from the move tutor clay brings out sand slash and x so i use a steel gem boosted mirror shot to take out the sand slash in one shot i think that was a roll and mirror shot could have missed so that was lucky though i did have some contingency plans if we missed last for clay is exadrill easily his scariest pokemon but i've got a plan i start by switching to edison who's flying high with an air balloon meaning that he's immune to exodrill's nasty bulldoze this then forces exaggerate to go for rock slide which causes edison to flinch meaning that edison's air balloon pops and he does not get off the fire punch that's bad really bad faraday has dig with a ground gem but it only does about 75 without any boosts meaning that we needed that damage from edison's fire punch to guarantee the kill when planning this i just didn't think about the potential for rockslide to flinch which was dumb since there was a 30 chance which is not that low though i'm not sure if there was even a better option so now i've got two plays both of which will require a sack with edison's air balloon popped extra drill will go for a bulldoze if i let edison go down i can get a safe switch into tesla tank a bulldoze thanks to sturdy and then hit a mirror shot which might do enough damage to put exadrill in range to a dig if it hits i can then switch through franklin to get a semi-safe switch into faraday on a rock slide though a critical hit rock slide could still potentially kill since his defense is so low plus with tesla at 1 hp on the switch exedra will likely just go for a random move instead of guaranteeing bulldoze which means i could be switching franklin in on a rock slide which will most likely kill resulting in two deaths that's option 1. option two is immediately switching to franklin on a bulldoze and hitting the extra drill with a flying gem boosted acrobatics which definitely does enough to kill exidro but then of course a rock slide will kill franklin in return sadly option two seems like the much better play franklin is more useful than edison thanks to her flying type but i can't risk 2 deaths here plus this way we at least get a completely safe switch into faraday so unfortunately my adorable sweet perfect little angel comes in on a bulldoze she fires off a flying gem boosted acrobatics into exit drill dealing the damage we need and then a rock slide connects and she meets the same fate as an incestual lannister faraday comes in for the revenge kill and with a ground gem boosted dig exerdrill falls winning us the fifth gym match but it's hard to celebrate this victory with it coming at the expense of one of our teammates lives franklin was only on the team for a short time but she's certainly made an impact and what's perhaps most frustrating is that she had so much life left to live and so much value in future fights to come to the point where i thought about resetting now to save me the pain of dealing with every random ground type that comes my way but that's not what franklin would have wanted when benjamin franklin her namesake got electrocuted by a flying kite in a thunderstorm or whatever did he give up no he went on to invent things like the bifocals and daylight savings one of which isn't completely outdated and stupid benjamin franklin taught us that if we persevere then we too can become important enough that obscure facts about our life will be vital to the plot of national treasure and franklin the sky squirrel lived a life worthy of that notion so for her and for her memory we soldier on every time we face a ground type or a pokemon with a ground type move we'll remember her and her sacrifice so long franklin the next gym is against skyla and her flying types so at the very least we shouldn't have too much trouble against her before that though i get my sixth or fifth team member a zeb striker from route 7. i name him volta the man is quite serious as is most of our team now after the death of their friend volta will be our strongest physical attacker though his move pool leaves a lot to be desired anyways now it's time for skyla it's almost not worth mentioning though faraday kills the swoobat with a single discharge for whatever reason poor man's quacksley comes out second so she too gets one shot by a discharge last is skarmory and since she has sturdy she survives a discharge and goes for an agility this is a little annoying since skyla now heals with a hyper potion as we proc sturdy with another discharge but this one paralyzes so then on the next turn we still outspeed skarmory and knock her out winning us a damageless 6 gym badge after that we head to lentimos town in lentimos town there's a move tutor that can teach my pokemon magnet rise which is a move that makes the user immune to ground type attacks this will be absolutely essential for the rest of the playthrough we then have to make our way through reversal mountain which has an absolutely terrifying unavoidable double battle that i have to do with bianca the reason it's so scary is because these two trainers have a darmanitan and an exodrill most of my pokemon are defensively weak making darmanitan a huge threat and as you just saw from the fight against clay exodrill is a pain since he resists most of our attacks and has earthquake i try to prep for this fight as best as i can but i end up screwing it up a bit by forgetting to teach my pokemon a few key moves so after taking down the backpacker's golbat with a volt switch from tesla i find myself staring down a darmanitan with watt at very low hp also i totally risked wat to a critical hit rock slide from bolt or there this darmanitan knows flare blitz which will absolutely kill anything on my team if it crits other than tesla technically thanks to sturdy so i'm feeling dreadfully certain that something will go down here as i bring in my least important teammate volta no offense volta but then darmanitan just goes for a hammer arm into musharna for some reason no idea why bianca's busharna then kills the bulldoor with an energy ball so now we're facing darmanitan and axidro i go for a magnet rise hoping that extra drill will just use earthquake and kill his partner but he just goes for a slash on musharna and then dharmanitan goes for a flare blitz on musharna who hangs on with one hp and fires off an energy ball into exodrum so on the next turn an electric gem boosted spark kills the dharmanitan and then extra drill goes for a rock slide which volta dodges though it does kill musharna so bianca's mienfu comes out but it doesn't really matter because somehow a flame charge from volta is enough to kill the exit drill winning us a battle that i absolutely did not deserve to win deathless i'm shocked that darmanitan went for hammer arm there but thankfully it did because it very likely saved volta's life with that we can fast forward to the fight against drayton for badge number seven he has dragon types which resist electric types and one of his dragons flygon knows earth power which is obviously bad so the plan is to get faraday into a position where he can set up with workups and sweep his team with hypervoice so i lead with addison into draden's drutagon i immediately use a growl to lower his attack as dradogon goes for a crunch thanks to the growl and the leftovers it doesn't do much then i hit dratagon with a thunder wave which instantly triggers a full paralysis so then it's another growl and dreddagon hits a crunch obviously i'm at risk to crits here but i didn't think i had any other plays after another growl and shrugging off another crunch i go for a confuse ray which causes dratagon to hit himself in confusion then it's another growl and the dragon hits himself in confusion again so now it's a fifth growl and dreddagon hits himself in confusion for a third time given that dratagon is clearly constructed out of duplos it's no surprise that he's easily confused after a sixth growl trottagon finally breaks through confusion and hits a revenge which now does about as much damage as lightly lobbing a duplo at someone would do they're incredibly safe toys for young children duplo sponsor me at this point i go for a cotton guard cause why not and then drudagon snaps out of confusion and gets fully paralyzed loser so i confuse him with another confused ray on the next turn and then he hits himself in confusion again this has got to be so frustrating for draydon i decide that now is a safe time to switch to faraday and start setting up some workups we will need to dodge a few critical hits as we set up the workups but with confusion and paralysis the odds are okay well that's not great i mean admittedly that was never really a great plan and it was super stupid to set up cotton guard with edison because that's likely what baited drotagon to use dragontail it was also dumb to switch straight to jolteon instead of waiting for drutagon to hopefully dragon tail him in for free so i guess i'm lucky that i didn't get as punished as i could have at least faraday survived the dragon tail crit so he does live to fight another day ok well now it's time to improvise i start by hitting dragon with an electro ball which does good damage since dragon is paralyzed making him about as slow as the development of a child who hasn't gotten daily intellectual stimulation from the unlimited creativity of playing with duplo building blocks dradagon then hits a crunch through parafusion in return then i switch back to edison as dragon then hits himself in confusion again maybe it's edison that's causing dragon to be confused i mean i too am pretty confused by ampharos as a pokemon is is it hairless why why does it have flippers is that one big toenail on each foot why does this sprite of ampheros have eyes that are more haunting and soulless than anything someone could intentionally create well i have no idea why i switched to edison here because i then immediately switched to tesla on the next turn and what do you know dratagon snaps out of confusion and hits a crunch then i use magnet rise so that flygon can't hit tesla with earth power and tesla tanks a soft revenge then a signal beam finishes off the dragon so next is the flag on but since it can't hit us with earth power now it just goes for rock slide which this time doesn't flinch so a steel gem boosted flash cannon knocks out flygon in one shot last is haxarious but he too can't do much to tesla a flash cannon hits haxer is hard which activates a citrus berry and then a dragon tail switches in watt so with a bug gem boosted signal beam hacksaurus falls winning us the 7th gym badge in hindsight the faraday setup plan was a pretty terrible idea so now is when the story of black 2 and white 2 starts to pick up and you have to do about 50 different team plasma fights most of them are completely superfluous so let's just jump to the eighth and final gym badge against marlin who has water types now you'd think that this would be an absolute walk in the park right i mean i did they're water types marlin leads with a caracosta and i lead faraday holding an expert belt who brings caracosta down to sturdy he gets off a shell smash which is a great move but even at plus two speed kara costa isn't fast enough to outspeed jolteon who is one of the fastest pokemon in the game so after some healing from marlin we take care costa down with a few more discharges then it's whalelord but the big fish also goes down to a single discharge last is mr pringles so i hit a discharge which does leave jolison in the red then jealousyn's cursed body activates which disables faraday's discharge which at the moment is his only electric type attacking move jealousin also hits a hard skald which causes a burn since i can't kill this thing now i need to switch i bring in edison since he has the best special defense on our team and then jealousy goes for recover jealousen then outspeeds edison and hits a skald which also burns addison fires back with a discharge but now i'm at risk to another critical hit here so i have to switch to tesla jealousen then gets a critical hit scald so thankfully i did switch now fortunately tesla is able to out speed and kill the jellison with a discharge but man did mr pringles put in work thirty percent cursed body activation two thirty percent burns and a six point two five percent critical hit even so that's the eighth and final gym badge all right let's hop to the final fight against getsys everything before that is pretty easy kieran black wasn't an issue either since he goes down to two flash cannons from tesla and can't do much in return gatsas though has a few scary pokemon that we need to play around including a seismitoad and a drapion with earthquake he leads with cophagrigas though so in comes tesla i start with a magnet rise as cofedrigus goes for a soft shadow ball we also recover some hp back with leftovers then we hit cofedrygas with a discharge for over half health as we tank another shadow ball we both have leftovers here but the recovery isn't enough to save cofo griegas from going down to another discharge this now brings in seismitoad since we have magnet rise set up seismitoad is likely to go for drain punch this gives me what i think is a safe switch into watt unfortunately seismitoad goes for muddy water instead which does connect and lowers my accuracy this is where compound eyes would be amazing if i had it fortunately we still connect with a giga drain which one shot seismitoad and gains wattpak a huge chunk of hp i think if we had missed that giga drain though it would have been game over overall this has been a very lucky playthrough or rather it's been a very not unlucky playthrough elektros comes out next as watt stares down what he could have been in another life since this has flamethrower i switch to edison but getz continues to choose bizarre moves and hits edison with an acrobatics instead i then hit electros with a thunder wave to paralyze him as he retaliates with a pretty strong crunch so time to risk some crits i start with a growl to lower electros's attack as we survive another crunch then i switch to volta as the electros gets fully paralyzed then i do just a bit of damage with flame charge as volta tanks a flamethrower then i switch to faraday who gets hit by another flamethrower so now it's time to risk some more creds i do need to set up workups here two of them after the first electros hits a crunch no crit so i go for a second work up and no crit again i think if we get crit here and faraday goes down it's also game over but now thanks to the chip from flame charge a hyper voice kills electros then drapion comes out threatening with earthquake which is why i didn't just kill the electros willy-nilly with the workup boosts a discharge is now enough to one-shot the drapion before it gets off an earthquake and so next is hydragon but for whatever reason getzes hydraegon is physical and therefore completely walled by tesla so i switch him in on a crunch then hydraegon hits a fairly hard dragon rush as tesla retaliates with a flash cannon leftover's recovery means that we'll likely survive even a critical hit dragonrishier but hydraegon just misses so another flash cannon finishes him off so last is toxic croak i switched to watt who gets hit by a brick break then i go for a volt switch to do a chunk of damage to toxic croak and bring tesla back in who's immune to the poison jab so since we have a bit of speed on tesla he's now able to out speed and finish off the toxic rope with a flash cannon winning us the battle there were some close calls there but in the end we made it through in one piece that now gets me to victory road where the final rival fight awaits this one's scary since his buffalon has earthquake and all his other pokemon hit really hard as well fortunately there's only four of them he leads with his unpheasant so i lead with wat a volt switch from watt is enough for the one shot this also lets me bring in faraday which baits in the buffalo with earthquake so i use an electric gem boosted volt switch to bring bouffalon down to half health and bring in tesla who will survive any attack from buffalo thanks to sturdy but buffalon just goes for head smash so on the next turn we outspeed and hit an electric gem boosted volt switch to knock out buffalon and also bring in edison for free simesir comes out next for our rival he hits a hard flamethrower and then edison sets up a rain dance which is ultimately not all that useful since on the next turn simus here goes for a crunch which would have killed a fake cret fortunately it didn't so i'm able to hit a volt switch and bring in faraday so on the next turn another volt switch finishes off simiser and allows me to bring in watt as our rival brings in superior and so with a bug gem boosted signal beam what one shots the oh never mind okay i thought it would well superior just sets up a coil so after a max potion two more signal beams finish off the superior winning us the final rival fight if you couldn't tell here volt switch is a phenomenal move after the fight our rival also gives us the tm for thunderbolt so i can now finally start using that instead of discharge for a bit more power and with that we're at the elite four here's our final team leveled up to the level cap of 58 to match the aces of each of the elite four members let's see if these five have what it takes to avenge franklin and become champions first up is chantel who is almost always one of the two easiest elite four members in every single black two nuzlocke that i do and it's no different here after faraday sets up a single workup against her cofedrigus expert belt shadowballs cleanly one-shot all four of her pokemon we do have to deal with burn damage but that's more annoying than anything else what's also nice is that by the time all four of her pokemon go down faraday has leveled up to level 59 which again is fine since the level cap ends at the start of the elite four okay next up is grimsley his crooked aisle is kinda scary as is his scrafty but it's nothing a bit of clever volt switches can't handle first up is grimsley's lyapard so i lead with watt thanos i mean lie apart it's a critical hit fake out which is pretty annoying but then on the next turn a signal beam cleanly knocks her out then scrafty comes out i assume it's going for a rock tomb so i go for a volt switch which gets a critical hit and then i bring in tesla even with the speed drop from rock tomb tesla outspeeds but unfortunately grimsley heals here so our electric gem boosted volt switch doesn't kill the scrafty i bring in watt though and then a thunderbolt finishes her off that brings in crocodile third but watt now hits another expert belt signal beam to cleanly knock her out before she can get off a rock slide so last is by sharp who is completely walled by tesla so i volt switch for some damage and then bring tesla in on a night slash then we just outspeed and kill the bisharp with another thunderbolt netting us an easy victory third is caitlyn ideally i want to get two workups off with faraday so that he can shadowball sweep caitlyn's entire team but her musharna wants to put faraday to sleep so that she can just hit him with dream eater so i need to stall her out of yawns by switching between faraday and volta fortunately this is completely safe to do so because musharna only knows dream eater and charge beam for attacking moves the latter of which faraday and volta are completely immune to so it just takes forever it also ends up taking way longer than it should because at one point i decided to hit musharna with a thunderbolt for some damage so that faraday cleanly knocks her out after just two workups instead of needing three this causes musharna to get paralyzed and her synchronizability causes volta to get paralyzed as well meaning that musharna now gets fully paralyzed a lot and will no longer go for yawn when volta is out so that was dumb and made this stall take more than twice as long as it should have but eventually musharna runs out of yan pp faraday gets off his workups and then we sweep all the way through caitlyn's special defensively bulky pokemon that was fun okay so last up is easily the hardest of the elite four members marshall our main physically defensive pokemon is weak to fighting type moves so this is definitely scary marshall leads with throw and i lead with watt watt bait's a rock tomb so we use an electric gem boosted volt switch which crits for the second time in this elite four challenge what goes hard i bring in faraday who shrugs off the rock tomb marshall heals here so i do have to waste an electric gem as i hit throw with a thunderbolt then a volt switch outspeeds and finishes off the throw on the next turn and i safely bring in watt this causes kunkelder to come out so i hit a volt switch for a good chunk of damage and then i bring in tesla who shrugs off the baited stone edge seriously this volt switch combo of watt and tesla is insane an electric gem boosted volt switch finishes off konk kelder and lets me safely bring watt back in again this now baits sock who's going to use rock slide so i volt switch for a great amount of damage and then bring in edison i can't actually go back to tesla here because sock out speeds sock then hits a really hard brick brake which would have killed if it crit so that wasn't great i also go for a rain dance here which is just a misplay i thought for a second that i had taught faraday thunder but i didn't fortunately a static paralysis from brick break means i go unpunished because i can now out speed sock and use volt switch to bring in watt who takes a brick break then i just kill sock on the next turn with a thunderbolt so last is myenschau unfortunately a critical hit from high jump kick will still kill watt here since he has pretty lousy defense so i have no choice but to volt switch for some damage and bring in volta volta gets hit by a high jump kick but mercifully survives in the red this then lets him finish off the miencha with a volt switch on the next turn winning us the fourth and final elite four fight okay the ending of that last one was a little sloppy but with that we've made it to the final fight against champion iris this is the last stand the shocking conclusion just six pokemons stand between us and glory one way or another our electrifying journey ends here iris leads with her high dragon so i lead faraday and the plan is simple set up a workup as high draygon goes for a dragon pulse which will never kill even if it crits then a bug gem boosted signal beam knocks out the mighty dragon faraday's pure electric typing baits out all of iris's pokemon with earthquake so first is agron whose paper-thin special defense means that she falls to a single plus one thunderbolt and then it's iris's ace her mighty focus sash haxerus and so as all good things must it's time for my journey with faraday to come to an end she fires off a thunder wave to paralyze haxorus and then it instantly gets fully paralyzed okay but now faraday fires off a signal beam for a chunk of damage and then haxuris fires back with a devastating earthquake say hi to franklin for me our victory will be in honor of both of you with our good puppers valiant sacrifice tesla is able to come in safely and cleanly finish off the haxarus with a steel gem boosted flash cannon after that dratagon comes in so i use volt switch for a bit of damage and bring in edison who takes a very hard focus blast that shockingly doesn't miss though continuous stimulation from duplo building blocks has been shown to improve numerous key metrics of childhood development including hand-eye coordination so i guess i shouldn't be too surprised that she doesn't miss edison has been put in positions where he has to dodge critical hits all playthrough and it's time for him to dodge another one here i set up a raindance as dragon goes for a rock slide which puts edison in the red as he does indeed dodge a critical hit it might actually be best to let edison go down here but there's been enough death today so i volt switch for some chip damage as dragon misses a rock slide kinda ruins my whole duplos thing from five seconds ago but whatever we hit dredagon with another volt switch from tesla the rain means that drudogon should now always go for focus blast instead of flamethrower so wad is safe on the switch and so a bug gem boosted signal beam is enough to finish off the drotagon fifth for iris is archaeops but watt is a speedy little bugger and instantly knocks him out with a 100 accurate thunder so last for iris is her le pro the rain stopped so i can't go for thunder anymore so it's just a volt switch for a good chunk of damage as i bring in volta so that he can also contribute to the champion fight okay well volta falls asleep so i switched to tesla on an ice beam and then with one final thunderbolt tesla knocks out iris's last pokemon winning us the battle and the run that was a fun one it's a small miracle that i managed to do that in one attempt especially after losing franklin so early but it does feel nice to have some good luck for a change electric types are so interesting because they hit so hard but tend to be pretty frail i think if i also had access to electros and electavire that would have made things a little bit easier since both of those pokemon are a little more bulky but it's always a blast to play black 2 and white 2 and i think these were probably the best games for an electric type monologue except for maybe sword and shield the wild area and dlc make those games so much easier to do monolocks in but anyways with this video that's now 12 types down 6 more to go i'm hoping to get a monolock of every type out by the end of the year but i'm still trying to figure out which games i want to do for the remaining types plus i want to mix in some other monolocks using types that i've previously done before as well as continuing to do more unique challenges as always if you have any suggestions let me know in the comments down below until then thanks for watching if you enjoyed watching please like the video and subscribe or don't i don't know but i do know that you should 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Channel: FlygonHG

Views: 335,392

Keywords: Pokemon, Nuzlocke, Hardcore Nuzlocke, Gaming

Id: _tKtFEmXlf4

Length: 38min 9sec (2289 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 05 2022