Pokémon Emerald Hardcore Nuzlocke - Terrible Pokémon Only! [Trashlocke] (No items, No overleveling)

hi everyone my name is flygon hg and this is the video of my attempt at a hardcore nuzlocke of the pokemon emerald trash lock rom hack to see what i define as hardcore nuzlocke rules check out the description below but in short no items in battle no over leveling past the gym leader's ace and we're playing on set mode so for those of you who don't know what the pokemon emerald trash lock rom hack is it's a rom hack made by the pokemon content creator yan aka pokemon challenges the premise of the romhack is to remove all the good pokemon from the game leaving only trash pokemon for you to catch meanwhile the rest of the game is left more or less on altar so all the other trainers keep their same pokemon while i'm stuck using pokemon like sun kern goldeen and slugma which are the three starters in this rom hack i've been wanting to play this romhack for quite a while because unlike a lot of other rom hacks it doesn't drastically alter the game or have overly complicated additions i still get to use my knowledge of the baseline emerald game but i get a completely different set of pokemon at my disposal so i have to come up with brand new solutions to the challenges that i know very well the result was a really fun challenge that required me to think on my feet since i went in with next to zero prior knowledge about which pokemon i could encounter i did watch pokemon challenge's playthrough of this romhack at some point during the decade that was the year 2020 but because i have the memory of a goldfish i don't remember anything other than which starter he used but definitely be sure to check out pokemon challenge's video and subscribe to his channel the link to the video and his channel are in the description before we dive into this rom hack though let me ask you something have you ever thought about diving into content creation but you had no idea where to start well then this video's sponsor might be able to help you out this video is sponsored by wondershare filmora 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recreate the same video in different aspect ratios so bulby isn't just a youtube star i can show them off to my friends on instagram my crazy aunts and uncles on facebook and even on that one tic tac app that all the kids are talking about thanks so much to wondershare filmora 10 for sponsoring this video and be sure to try it out for free using the link in the description 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 let's see how this goes i start the game the same way that you start any pokemon game by choosing my starter but instead of the three lovable starters that i normally get to choose from in pokemon emerald professor birch scrapes the bottom of the barrel and offers me three grade a stinkers i go with sun kern since it starts with absorb and therefore gives me a super effective move into the first gym leader i named my new son kern weeds and before we even fight may i make sure to over level this thing quite a bit because sunkern is literally the worst pokemon in existence at least from a base stat total i get weeds to level 13 so that it learns mega drain and then i suck made torturing dry perhaps 13 was a little bit of an overkill but you can never be too sure with a sun kern once i get pokeballs i start catching my first few encounters on route 103 i catch a puchiana and i name him mutt on route 102 i catch a zigzagoon that right there is the elite four taken care of i name her trash panda and then on route 104 i catch a sand shrew and i name him dirt in petalburg woods i catch a spinner rack and name him cobwebs spinner acts actually a really great encounter as we'll see in a bit on route 116 i catch a ditto and i name it clone and in rust turf tunnel i catch a togepi i name him eggshell and with that we've got all the possible encounters before the first gym so i level up my team of six which includes everyone but trash panda the zig zagoon and then i go fight roxanne she leads geodude and i lead weeds who knocks out the geodude with a mega drain same thing goes for her second geodude weeds is unstoppable third is nosepass who blocks weeds from switching out so now it's either victory or death for our little corn kernel after setting up a growth i go for a mega drain as nosepass makes the brilliant play to use hardin next i set up growth since another mega drain isn't enough for the kill nosepass just uses a few tackles as one more mega drain takes it out winning us the first gym patch nice work weeds whoever said you were a bad pokemon is clearly a next it's time for some more encounters in granite cave i catch a paris this is yet another pretty solid encounter since parasect has access to spore at a pretty low level i name her detritus in due for town i use the old rod to fish up a love disc but i accidentally kill it with a critical hit tackle that's okay though based on pokemon challenges post about the game i'm pretty sure that all the fishing encounters have been replaced by love discs so i just go to route 106 and fish up another leftist i decide not to kill this one though so instead i catch it and name him heartache next up i do some training to prepare for brawley mutt evolves into mighty anna and i replace clone the ditto with detritus the paris eggshell also evolves into toga tick eggshell has the ability hustle which is easily one of the worst abilities in the game for nuzlocking but togetic is pretty bulky and it gets access to wish and encore so it might be good for some utility now it's braley time since all of his pokemon no bulk up he can actually be pretty tough fortunately this is where cobwebs the spinner act comes in clutch he has a four times resistance to braley's fighting type moves and he knows nightshade which will do a set amount of damage equal to cobweb's level so bradley's mod shop goes down to a few nightshades as it just does a tiny amount of damage with low kick i'm not really sure why it didn't use seismic toss which also does damage equal to the user's level but i'm not complaining meditate comes out next and since it doesn't have any attacking moves other than focus punch as long as i hit it it can't do damage i use weaker moves to try and get it into the range that brawley will waste a super potion here but a poison with poison sting takes it out before that can happen last is makuhita and since makuhita knows his way around a dinner plate he can actually tank quite a few nightshades especially with the citrus berry that he has cobwebs gets him into the red but then i switch to eggshell when brawley uses a super potion i use charm as brawly uses bulk up then i use yawn as vital throw does a decent chunk of damage then i switch to cobwebs and three more nightshades is enough to finish off the makuhita before it can do much damage that's badge number two from here i have to fight mei before that though i catch a c-dot on route 110 and name her mulch into the box you go then cobwebs evolves into ariados and dirt evolves into sand slash and with that our team is actually looking kinda decent all things considered of course these pokemon aren't all stars by any means but i could be doing a lot worse so may isn't too tough she leads wind goal and i lead mutt who takes out the wind goal with two bites combustion is second so i switched to cobwebs anticipating a double kick but it just uses focus energy so i switch back to mutt to lower combustion's attack with intimidate then i switch to eggshell i go for a charm but it misses thanks to hustle and then a critical hit ember followed by a burn leave eggshell with just 10 health thanks for nothing eggshell so next i switch to heartache who tanks an ember heartache then hits a critical hit water gun which leaves combustion with one hp a final water gun finishes off combustion after it just does some damage with double kick last is lambre so i switched to detritus and suck it dry with a few leech lifes even with my garbage mons may never stood a chance past mawville city on route 117 i find a volbeat it's a pain to catch and not nearly as useful as illumi's but with tail glow it'll be a pretty great addition to the roster i name him grub then detritus evolves into parasect and then grub dies during some training that i wasn't actually recording i kind of forgot that beautify would have gust here and a crit took out grub from almost full health so much for tailglow rest well soldier with our first death out of the way it's time for watson dirt will be pretty useful here but since he doesn't actually know a ground type move this will actually still be kind of tricky watson leads voltorb and i lead mutt mutt uses a few bites to take out full torb and manages to get watts into waste of super potion along the way electric comes out and mutt hits another bite which not only flinches but also doesn't activate static pretty incredible stuff a second byte takes out the electric and still no static crazy magneton is next so i hit it with a sand attack before it uses thunder wave but a cherry berry cures my paralysis so i go for another sand attack as magneton hits a second thunder wave then i switch to dirt who's immune to shock wave and then i just start going for rock smashes rock smash is a very weak 20 base power move in this game but between the 50 chance to drop its defense and magneton missing most of its attacks things work out fine i do have to switch to eggshell to shake off a confusion but eventually magneton goes down last is monetric but it can only use quick attack so i hit it with a slash then i hit it with a rock smash which finally triggers static now here come the full paras fortunately quick attack does very little damage after being fully paralyzed three times i switched to detritus who gets hit with a critical hit quick attack then she misses a poison powder as she gets hit with a shock wave come on detritus i know you're literally named after decaying crap but help me out here just a little on the next turn she manages to hit the poison powder so i switch back to dirt watson uses his final super potion and then i get fully paralyzed again sure dirt is finally able to take down monettrik but that was way too close for comfort gotta love the watson fight it's always a fun time next up we get a whole slew of new encounters from route 112 i get a spoink and i name him slop he joins the team in place of eggshell why don't you just go hustle your way into the box buddy in fiery path i catch a ponytail and name her runt on route 113 i catch a spinda and name him junk and on route 114 i catch a voltorb and name him litter i do have big plans for litter later but for now he's going into the box but when it's time for him to shine it's going to be a blast in meteor falls i catch a maw while ma wile's not a particularly good pokemon but it's still a steel type pokemon and it has intimidate so in the grand scheme of things it's definitely not terrible i name him rust and he joins the rotation which at this point is about eight pokemon that cycle in and out based on the challenge by the way our starter weeds the sun kern is definitely out of the rotation it's better to be kicked off the team than to die in over your head right anyways looking over my footage as i write this script i guess i just sort of forgot to catch something on ravage path that or i just didn't record it so i guess it's time for flannery she leads numel and i lead heartache a water gun knocks it out in one shot and then slugma comes out and i don't actually one shot it with water gun because love disc is really truly garbage so it gets a sunny day up but another water gun does finish it off and then camerup comes out i decide to hit it with an attract to stall out the sun then camerup retaliates with an attract of her own and suddenly i find myself amidst a battlefield of love the classic tale of romeo and juliet unfolds in front of my eyes star-crossed lovers pit against one another struggling to fight through their undying love heartache is able to fire off some water guns and camrupt will occasionally retaliate with a tackle or set up a sunny day but on other turns their love burns too deep an infatuation stops them from attacking these two lovers seemed fated to be locked in combat for all of eternity until the unthinkable happens heartache lives up to his name and fires a devastating final blow to his lover camerupt eyes wide falls to the ground gasping for life heartache realizes too late what he has done he stares mortified at the scene unfolding camerupt choking on blood reaches her hoof out for heartache he runs to her side his vision blurring from the tears streaming down his face he knows it's his fault kamrupt weakly gestures for him to come closer partick leans in so close that his ear is about an inch from camerup's beautiful lips now white as a ghost kamrap musters every last ounce of energy she has to whisper four final words into the ear of her lover the same man who will be charged as her murderer do not blame yourself and with that she's gone flannery brings in torquel so heartache hits it with a water gun then torko lands a body slam which apparently has a 100 chance to paralyze torquel then sets up a sunny day and heartache gets fully paralyzed perhaps still not over the loss of camerupt so i switch to eggshell who gets hit by an overheat which in the sun is able to knock it out from full health oh no who's going to miss 100 accurate attacks now don't let the door hit you on the way out eggshell i bring in slop next since he has the ability thick fat he hits a side beam which confuses torquel who then hits herself in confusion very lucky two more side beams finish off the torque winning us the fourth gym badge from here i get two more encounters in the desert in mirage tower i catch a kabuto and i name him silt silt has the ability battle armor which prevents critical heads it's an amazing ability for hardcore nuzlockes he replaces heartache who goes to grieve in the box on route 111 i catch a cacnia and name him dust while leveling up my team i actually find a shiny ditto since i already have a ditto as a legal encounter i go ahead and catch this one and release the previous ditto there i didn't kill the shiny are you happy now it's time for some father-son bonding norman leads spinda and i lead dirt dirt takes out the spindo with two returns as it just does a bit of damage with scything vigoroth comes out next and it's able to out speed so it does a good chunk of damage before going down third is lanoon who uses headbutt which flinches but on the next turn it uses belly drum so a return takes it out last is sleeking so i switch to rust for an intimidate and also to tank a facade then i use fake tears on slaking's loafing turn then i switch to mutt who gets hit with the yawn i do a bit of damage with bite before falling asleep then it's back to rust who gets hit with another yawn so i switch to detritus slaking hits a yawn on detritus who then retaliates with the spore then it's back to rust slaking wakes up on his next non-loafing turn so the spore was a waste of time but i managed to get two fake tears off then i hit it with a faint attack as slayking goes for another yawn to avoid falling asleep i switched to silt and then i hit it with a rock tomb to lower its speed finally i switch to slop who is able to outspeed and finish off the slay king with a side beam it's pretty cool to see everyone on the team contribute to that fight and work together it's almost like we're a family and honestly nothing is more important than family you norman you suck as a reward for landing the final blow slop evolves into grump pig now that i can use surf i can get a bunch more trash and counters but for the sake of time from here on out i'm going to be skipping encounters unless they meaningfully contribute to the run don't worry though i'll show you my box before the elite four so that you can still yell at me for not using certain pokemon the only notable captures here are a masqueraine from the pond in petalburg city i name her pesticide and on route 120 i catch a minion and i name her discharge discharge is actually going to be a great addition to the roster she knows encore and she'll have a really strong stab into winona's flying types never mind another training death i wasn't recording just for context i don't always record everything because it makes editing the final video a lot easier but sometimes it really sucks when i miss stuff like this i'm actually surprised that it doesn't happen more often in this case i was grinding levels on a bunch of merrell and i wasn't paying attention to what level this one was and it got a critical hit double edge for the kill whoops all right well it's winona time anyways she leads swablu and i lead mutt i start setting up howls as swablu just uses safeguard and mirror move i get greedy and go for a third howl but then swablu uses parish song so mutts on a timer now a strength kills swablu and then tropius comes out strength isn't enough for the one shot and now that mutt's paris counter is down to one i have to switch out to rust then winona uses a hyper potion so i use fake tears as tropius does negligible damage with aerial ace and also sets up a sunny day after three fake tiers i switch to slop and take out the tropius with a side beam third is pelipper but after it wastes a turn protecting classic pelipper slop hits it with a shock wave for the one shot that one's for venom fourth is skarmory so i switch to rust who gets hit with a sand attack i go for a fake tears but i miss the first one thanks to sand attack accuracy drops after i land two i switch to mutt who gets hit with a critical hit steel wing so then i switch back to rust and use another fake tears then a few faint attacks take out the skarmory as rust tanks some steel wings last is alteria who will always drag and dance on the first turn so i go for fake tears then i switch to pesticide and then i switch back to rust and then it's back to pesticide and i repeat this over and over and over again intimidates from pesticide and rust lower alteria's attack forcing it to keep using dragon dance but after six dragon dances alteria maxes out at speed so the ai won't go for it anymore then alteria starts using earthquake on rust which pesticide is immune to and aerial lace on pesticide which rust resists this allows me to cycle through intimidates to lower alteria's attack until it starts using dragon breath then i switch to silt who can't get crit thanks to battle armor so it's guaranteed to survive two dragon breaths this allows me to hit a hard rock tomb which lowers alteria's speed this makes alteria go for another dragon dance as a citrus berry means that i can take another dragon breath so i hit it with a lir then alteria hits a dragon breath and silt finishes it off with a final rock tomb it wasn't the cleanest victory since rock tomb could have missed or dragon breath could have paralyzed but it worked that's badge number six next i catch about 14 new pokemon from around the map as i do various team aqua and team magma fights that continue the story the only notable encounter in the batch is a mantine that i catch on route 131 i name him airhead he'll be useful later but for now he goes into the box and now it's time for titan liza even in a regular playthrough this battle can be pretty tough but i brought a ringer to this fight dirt the sand slash sits this one out to open up space for litter who has evolved from voltorb into electrode and litter is our secret weapon litter has been preparing for this moment for his entire life tate and liza lead kledal and zatu and i lead mutt and litter mutt goes for a protect and then litter does what he was born to do he dies and in his fiery self-sacrifice he knocks out claydol and zatu in one shot rest well litter thank you for your sacrifice tate and liza bring out soul rock and lunatone and i bring out silt to replace his fallen brethren a shadow ball and a surf is enough to finish off the soul rock and then the lunatone uses calm mind but then another shadow ball and surf knock it out winning us an easy 7th gym badge next up it's more story stuff that i'll just skip but in the seafloor cavern i find in onyx as my encounter i'm not really sure how she got there but i catch her and i name her crap now it's time for juan i have a bunch of pokemon in the box that would definitely make this fight easier but i'm way too lazy to level them up so i'm just gonna go for it with my current team juan leads love disc and i lead detritus love this goes for a sweet kiss which is cured with a person berry and then to try to sit to spore then i switch to slop i set up substitute as lovedis wakes up then i start setting up combines which is my favorite strategy for the emerald late game and a track from love disc actually connects through substitute which i didn't know it could do i guess nothing stops true love well except a calm mind boosted psychic crawdant comes out next so i calm mind again as the crawdon hits a crab hammer which finally breaks my sub but then i set up another one and krabhammer misses so i set up another con mind then taunt connects through substitute which is also news to me so i kill the crawdad with a shockwave then wishcash comes out and it goes down to a psychic fourth is celio who goes down to a psychic as well last is the kingdra who immediately starts setting up with double team which is why i use shockwave it uses rest to try to heal but since shockwave is a two-hit kill a few turns later it goes down and that's the eighth and final badge now it's time for the elite four as promised here's my boxed pokemon there's a lot of decent pokemon in here that are probably better than the ones i've picked zig zagoon for example could pretty much sweep the entire elite four on its own if i bothered to evolve it into a lanoon i've shown that before but i wanted to have some fun with some other pokemon and i was too lazy to train up a bunch of new pokemon anyways so here's the final team the one change i've made is that i've replaced dirt the sand slash with airhead the mantine so that i have a semi-decent icebeam user for drake's dragon types oh also one of the few other changes that pc made to this rom hack is that he made the game corner inaccessible so the only icebeam tm i have access to is the one that i can get from the abandoned ship anyways let's see if this band of misfits has what it takes first is sydney and as usual this is pretty easy i spore the mighty ana with detritus and then i switch to silt and then silt one shots with brick print oh this might be the first time i've ever not knocked out sydney's pokemon in one shot that doesn't bode well for the rest of the elite four well cacturn comes out next so i switch to detritus who gets hit with a cotton spore then i hit a leech life which leaves cacturn with a sliver another one takes it out though absolutely third and sets up a sword's dance as i put it to sleep then i switch to silt and brick break leaves absol with a sliver this is kind of ridiculous fortunately absolute stays asleep so another brick break finishes it off fourth is shiftery which doesn't know a grass move so i hit a brick break which leaves shiftry with a sliver a swagger confuses silt so i switch to detritus as shiftery heals then he goes for a double team as i hit a leech life shift reuses swagger and then detritus hits himself in confusion for a huge chunk of damage so i switch to slop and hit a shockwave which does basically nothing whoops after that i switch to mutt and a return finally finishes off the very annoying shift tree last is crawdad i switch to silt as crawdad uses a sword stance and then you'll never guess what happens when i use brick brake but fortunately crawdad just goes for another sword stance so one more brick break wins us the battle second is phoebe but unlike sydney who decided to be difficult for some reason phoebe is actually pretty easy as she always is i lead mutt who howls when phoebe's duskalops uses protect as she always does after that shadow balls tear through her whole team sablai gets a little cheeky and tries to set up double teams but mutt just says no her second dust claps also holds on but it only hits a very weak earthquake before going down on the following turn easy victory third is glacia so it's time for a classic substitute call mine sweep slop sets up a substitute as glacia uses hail then we start setting up combines i set up another substitute after celio breaks it and then i knock it out with a psychic glaily comes out next so i set up a few more combines since this glaily doesn't actually have any physical attacks after resetting my sub i hit a psychic but glaily survives thanks to the light screen that it set up earlier i anticipate a heal here so i take the opportunity to set up one final calm mind light screen wears off and then a single psychic finishes the glaily and now with all those calm mind boosts the second glaily the second celio and the walrain all go down to a single psychic apiece that's glacia defeated fourth is drake and now it's airhead the mantine's time to shine drake leads shelgon which goes for protect as it always does so i set up a rain dance then shelgon actually takes an ice beam so drake uses a full restore two more ice beams finish it off and then the salamance comes out if i couldn't kill the shell gun in one shot i'm not actually sure that an ice beam will one shot the salamance i decide to just risk it and find out but i guess we'll never know because airhead gets a critical hit nice job buddy alteria is third and tank's an ice beam so it's able to get off two pretty big double edges before going down fourth is kingdra and now things start to get a little dicey i switch to detritus as it goes for a dragon dance kingdra goes for another dragon dance as i go for a spore fortunately kingdra's only physical move is body slam so i switch to silt then i hit it with a rock tomb this causes drake to switch out to flygon for some reason so i switch to airhead who dodges an earthquake and then knocks out flagon with an icebeam kingdra comes back in so i switch back to silt as kinder wakes up and hits a pretty weak body slam then i just start hitting rock tombs which causes kingdra to keep using dragon dance to offset the speed drops i hit 6 rock tombs and not a single one misses so maybe i should go buy a lottery ticket or something anyways kingdra goes down and that's drake defeated last up is champion wallace as always he leads with whale lord i lead mighty anna for an intimidate drop and then immediately switch to airhead who tanks a blizzard i hit a soft surf and then wailord sets up a rain dance then i hit another surf from here i start pp stalling whalelord i switch around to divvy up the damage and get attack drops from intimidates this goes on for a while but the end goal here is to get slop in and set up some combines when whalelord is at least out of blizzard and waterspouts detritus attempts a spore but whalelord hits a critical hit double edge which bypasses all the stat drops and knocks them out not cool whalelord from here i bring in slop and set up a substitute then i start setting up comm lines wallace eventually uses a full restore so waylord is back to full health but it doesn't matter i'm able to set up six call mines get a final substitute up and then psychic takes out the whale lord and the tentacruel and the ludicolo and the wiscash i mix it up here when the gyarados comes out and use shockwave and then last is mylodic and i accidentally click shockwave again so milotichang's on but it doesn't even matter mylodic's not even able to break my sub with a surf and then it goes down the next turn that wins us the battle and the run i say this about pretty much all of my runs but that was a really fun one as i said before i think this is a really cool rom hack it's definitely harder than a regular emerald nuzlocke but it's also not so hard that you can only beat it with one specific set of encounters it seems like a rom hack that i could hardcore nuzlocke over and over again and have completely new teams each time in my opinion it's a pretty ideal rom hack since it makes the game harder by changing what you can use instead of changing what your opponent uses i find that to be a bit more creative and a bit more exciting since you're not really changing the challenge so much as you're changing the materials that you can use to solve the challenge i'm really looking forward to pokemon challenges next romhack which i believe is going to be a similar rom hack of pokemon leaf green called garbage green so stay tuned for that i'll definitely be trying it out in the meantime be sure to check out pc's channel if you haven't already and if you enjoyed watching please like the video and subscribe or don't i don't know but i do know that you should follow me on twitter and twitch to keep up with streams of my future challenges and you should also join the flag on hg community discord where you can discuss nuzlocking and make recommendations for future challenges the link is in the description stay tuned for more nuzlocke videos and until then remember to always always always play around the critical hit

Channel: FlygonHG

Views: 162,654

Rating: 4.9587669 out of 5

Keywords: Pokemon, Pokemon Challenges, Hardcore Nuzlocke, Emerald Trashlocke, Nuzlocke, Pokemon Emerald, #filmora, #filmoraX, #filmoravideoeditor, #videography, #videoedit, #edit, #videoedits, #edits, #videoediting, #editing

Id: FsFDHWoOSlQ

Length: 27min 4sec (1624 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 24 2021