Pokémon HeartGold Hardcore Nuzlocke - Nocturnal Pokémon Only! (No items, No overleveling)

[Music] hi everyone my name is flag on hg and this is the video of my attempt at a hardcore nuzlocke of pokemon heart gold using only nocturnal pokemon 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 let's talk about nocturnal pokemon or pokemon that can only show up at night time the year is 1999. after the success of the first generation of pokemon games nintendo and game freak were tasked with creating a highly anticipated sequel and as one has come to expect from the radical envelope pushing risk-taking company that is game freak they weren't just gonna remake the same game all over again now they were going to introduce brand new revolutionary concepts into the games that raised novel questions about the world of pokemon like how do pokemon one of these concepts was the day and night cycle where just like in the real world the world of pokemon gold and silver would change throughout the day not only would the aesthetic presentation of the game change based on the time of the day but so would aspects of the gameplay two new eeveelutions brilliantly captured this phenomenon where eevee would evolve into espeon during the day and umbreon during the night it was actually pretty cool at the time and since its introduction the night and day cycle has been a staple in pokemon games going forward and by a staple i mean that game freak seemingly arbitrarily chooses how and when to incorporate this feature into each new game but even if the night and day cycle does have its place in other pokemon games it's most closely tied to the johto region and it was refreshing that the remakes heartgold and soulsilver brought it back in its entirety in heartgold and soulsilver there are quite a few pokemon that can only be found when playing the game at night specifically these nighttime pokemon can only be found in their respective routes from the hours of 8 p.m to 3 59 a.m i'm also lumping in pokemon that can be found at night and in the early morning here because it gives me like two more encounters and both of these pokemon are very clearly nocturnal pokemon and as a note some of these pokemon can technically be found in certain routes and certain areas during the daytime as well but in the areas that i'll be catching them they're exclusively found at night time and they are therefore in the bulbapedia article about nocturnal pokemon anyways this gives me 14 different evolutionary lines to choose from however beedrill is exclusive to soul silver which i actually didn't realize until after i started my playthrough in heart gold and hound doom weavile and haunt crow aren't actually available until post elite 4. also you can't get a dusk stone pre-elite 4 without doing a bug catching contest so mistervas won't be evolving into miss maggias but that's still 10 encounters including some really unique pokemon that i don't use very often so i'm really looking forward to this 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 it goes i start the game by using a random number generator to pick one of the three starters none of these losers are eligible encounters and there isn't one that will inherently give my rival a harder team to face since the encounters in this challenge have pretty very typing so the number generator decides that my starter is chikorita however as soon as i get pokeballs i head to route 29 to catch my true starter a hoot hoot i name him lancelot and the journey begins the first step though is to release chikorita into an unsuitable environment where there are no other members of its species so that it's forced to live out the rest of its life in a depressing isolation on route 30 i catch a rattata who is exclusively a night encounter on this route so i name him the bruce unfortunately the bruce has the ability to run away instead of guts which is a bit disappointing since guts raticate can actually be very powerful but that's okay the bruce is still able to eviscerate youngster joey and his rattata youngster joey must have been born without shame and without social skills because first he insults me by saying that i look weak then i crush him in a battle and immediately after that he asks for my phone number so i deny his request to exchange digits to which joey responds but i won't lose to you again which is technically true on route 31 i catch a spinner act and name her joan of arc i also go to bellsprout tower to catch a ghastly which i named mare and then after a bit of training it's time for our ragtag team of nocturnal animals to take on the first gym leader faulkner in my last nuzlocke video where i was nuzlocking heartgold i vented about how i'm not a huge fan of the johto games and people who are fans of them got a little defensive so i won't be blatantly bashing them in this video but i would like to reiterate how ridiculous it is that the first gym leader of a brand new region with 100 new pokemon has a pidgey and a pidgeotto on his team hoothoot and noctowell are right there anyways faulkner leads not hoothoot who goes down to two bites from the bruce as it just uses a single sand attack and then pgioto comes out thanks to the sand attack i miss a tail whip and pidgeotto goes for a tackle so on the next turn i switch in mare who is immune to pidgeot's tackle and then i set up a curse which will take out a fourth of pidgeotto's health each turn it opens me up to a crit from gust but i am unpunished from here i switch to lancelot put the pidgeotta to sleep and then a few turns later the pidgeotto goes down winning us the first gym badge after that i head south to azalea town on route 32 whooper is an eligible nighttime encounter but so is zubat so i can only get one of them from that route so the first thing i do is i go through union cave and get to route 33 where i am guaranteed to catch a zubat this way i can ensure a whopper from route 32 i name the zubat brienne and then i backtrack to route 32 and catch the whooper who i named king arthur with that i have a full team mare brienne and king arthur will all be pretty awesome members of the team once they fully evolve but that won't actually be for a few more gyms since our level cap is still pretty low even so the second gym leader bugsy doesn't pose much of a problem since most of my pokemon resist or are just simply immune to all of bugsy's attacks i lead brienne who hits a strong wing attack as scyther just sets up then i switch to mare who can only be hit by u-turn this causes the kokuna to come out which can only do damage with poison sting so after a few turns kokuna goes down and then scyther comes back out but again it can only use u-turn so after doing just a little bit of damage the metapod comes out which can't actually hit mare with its only attacking move tackle so a few turns later it goes down and scyther comes back out again it sets up with a focus energy but two nightshades from mare knock it out i was again risking a crit here which was extra dumb since focus energy raises the chances of critical hits but i remain unpunished that's batch number two next is our first official battle with our rival dayman but dayman isn't particularly difficult save for his quillava which usually just wastes time using smokescreen so after some switches to get around status conditions we're able to take him out without too much trouble i'm just gonna go ahead and skip all of the other rival fights in this run since i don't actually lose any pokemon in them and they're all fairly uninteresting after that i make my way to ilex forest where i can now catch an oddish i name him galahad and he replaces joan of arc on the team next up is whitney and since her level cap is level 19 i'm still not able to evolve any of my first stage pokemon so this could theoretically be pretty difficult whitney's miltank is very strong for this point in the game and it is notorious for sweeping through teams and being an utter brick wall but i have a trick up my sleeve and her name is mare thanks to mare's ghost typing miltay can't hit her with any of her normal type moves she also can't use a tract on mare the only thing she can do is use rollout which i can just keep in check by teaching mare the tm for protect which i purchased from the goldenrod department store i can also set up a curse which will kill the mill tank after a few turns if you're struggling with miltank ghastly is actually a great counter to it the one way that this could go poorly is if mare goes down to a random metronome move from the clefairy so i lead the bruce who takes it out with a few headbutts then the miltank comes out and i'm expecting a stump so i switch in mare since she's immune to normal type moves [Music] right miltank has the ability scrappy which makes normal and fighting type moves hit ghost that's uh not great unfortunately mayor goes down here to give me a free switch to galahad i hit a stun spore but the mill tank has a lumbery so i have to go for another one but then miltank uses attract and galahad is utterly mesmerized by miltank's beauty i don't blame you bro fortunately galahad connects with a second stun spore on the next turn which gives us a fighting chance i switch to lancelot and set up a reflect then i use a growl on the next turn now miltank really isn't doing much with its stomps so i switch to king arthur and start using tail whips after miltank hits an attract i switch to galahad and use a protect i figure you know why not try some light pb stalling on the next turn i switch to brienne and miltank breaks through those stat drops with a critical hit killing poor brienne in one shot a critical hit was inevitable but it still sucks i bring in the bruce who uses the classic paraflinch combo to finish off miltank winning us a hard fought and somewhat lucky third gym badge as a reward for abusing hacks the bruce evolves into raticate and subsequently literally every single one of my surviving team members evolves too first is king arthur who evolves into quagzire after beating this firebreather guy who then asks me for my phone number by saying mostly i breathe fire but want to exchange phone numbers which is just about the craziest way i've ever heard to ask someone for their phone number wait would would that work anyways next up is lancelot who evolves into a knock towel the unbenched joan of arc also evolves into ariados and lastly galahad evolves into gloom i also make the trek all the way to olivine city to do some night fishing where i have a one percent chance of fishing up a star you with a good rod surprisingly it doesn't take that long and i catch the staru and name it siegfried siegfried unfortunately has the ability illuminate which is a horrible ability compared to the pretty good ability natural cure but siegfried will still be an invaluable member of the team like not to ruin the suspense but starmie is a phenomenal pokemon and can beat large portions of the game all by itself but i'm getting ahead of myself next up is morty but since most of his pokemon only know ghost moves any remotely decent normal type pokemon can beat him pretty handily and i actually have two of those so i choose to use the bruce who uses crunch to sweep through morty's entire team his gengar is able to survive one crunch but it misses a hypnosis not that the miss actually really matters since the gengar's only damaging move that isn't ghost type is sucker punch which can just be stalled out by not using attacking moves anyways that's badge number four at this point i'm given the hm for surf and i realized that siegfried will no longer learn any useful moves by level up so it's time to evolve it into a starmie but to do that i need a water stone and to get a water stone i need to get 2500 points from the pokeatholon of all the side minigames in the main series of pokemon the pokeatholon is by far the best it's actually kind of fun and i do have fond memories of playing through all the different games when i was a kid but now that i'm in my twilight years and the um touch screen of my nintendo ds is a bit damaged this is a lot more difficult and a lot more tedious but eventually i get the points needed and siegfried evolves into starmie watch him dance my next stop is cliff cave where i can catch a mistervis i name her ingale and she replaces a lancelot i'm excited to get to use mistervis because it's a pokemon that i don't have much experience with up next is chuck so i lead my newest team member into his primate i wasn't expecting the primate to out speed but it does which means that it's able to set up a double team so i miss my side beam primapepe uses rockslide on the next turn as i connect with the cyber i decide to risk a crit here and although i'm not punished i do miss another sidebeam so next is a switch to king arthur primape uses leer as king arthur just takes it out with a surf chuck's second and final pokemon polywrath comes out next and immediately puts me to sleep with hypnosis so i switch to ingale to dodge a focus punch then i use pain split to gain some health back and polyrath hits another 60 accurate hypnosis so i switch to siegfried who gets hit by a surf i do damage with swift for a few turns as polyrath hits another hypnosis so i switch to ingale who just sleeps for a turn and then i switch to galahad i go for a stun spore with galahad which fortunately connects and then on the next turn i out speed the polygraph and hit it with a critical hit mega drain winning us the fifth gym badge the sixth gym leader is jasmine in olivine city but her level cap is actually higher than the seventh gym leader price in mahogany town so i go ahead and take him on first before that there is some team rocket stuff but other than dealing with the moral implications of witnessing lance murder a man with his dragonite there's nothing much to report here oh i also do catch a venonat on route43 i name him of cups and then put him in the box yet again he has the worst of the two possible abilities so he's born to be a bench warmer before challenging price i decide that it'll be a much easier battle if siegfried knows thunderbolt unfortunately the only way to get the tm for thunderbolt is at the goldenrod game corner but unlike the good old days where you could just buy your way to success by spending money on coins the only way to get coins in this game is to play the voltorb flip mini game which is a mini game that is 50 skill based logic 50 luck based random selection and about 100 existential self-loathing seriously nothing else in my life has made me reconsider my intelligence quite like voltorb flip level 3. after a very very long time i finally get the 10 000 coins necessary to purchase the tm for thunderbolt and i teach it to siegfried then i take on price and somehow this stupid seal survives a thunderbolt siegfried what are you doing you are definitely getting some special attack evs after this fight piloswine comes out second and at least that goes down to a single surf and then last is dugon which goes down to two thunderbolts without it doing much damage that's badge number six from here it's a backtrack to olivine city to take on jasmine she leads a magnamite and i lead king arthur king arthur knocks out the magnamite with a mud shot and then stelix comes out it does survive a surf but it retaliates with just about the saddest iron tail i've ever seen so surf takes it out on the next turn this also gives me another level so king arthur learns earthquake second magnamite actually outspeeds king arthur and manages to hit a supersonic but king arthur is having none of that crap and just knocks it out with an earthquake that's an easy victory for badge number seven next i have to head to goldenrod city to wrap up the whole team rocket storyline on the way i stopped by and say hi to my fire breather friend who tries to use the door in the face technique to get me to exchange phone numbers with him after i deny his request to breathe fire with him which seems like a very bizarre and very dangerous thing for a grown man to do with a random 10 year old anyways time to defeat a crime syndicate there's not much to report here it's all pretty easy because most of the rocket trainers are really under leveled the one final point out here is against executive petrol who has mixed his entire team from our previous fight and replaced it with five coughing and a wheezing all of which no self-destruct this is the one fight out of all pokemon games that feels like a deliberate middle finger to nuzlockers fortunately with a ghost pokemon this isn't an issue let's go ahead and just fast forward to the eighth and final gym claire and her dragon types claire can be really difficult fortunately after another intense bout of voltorb flip i'm able to get the tm for ice beam and teach it to sigrid so that we can at least easily take care of her dragonairs but the kingdra is still an issue and thanks to its ability sniper okay this is really embarrassing i'm not sure why i'm struggling so hard on this puzzle can we just fast forward through this great great okay thank you anyways as i was saying because of kingdra's ability sniper it's really difficult to play around critical hits since basically nothing will survive a times three sniper boosted critical hit from kingdra since i don't have any way to knock it out in one shot we kinda need to just get lucky and hope it never crits claire leads gyarados but a thunderbolt from siegfried takes it out in one shot her two dragon air go down to an ice beam a piece thanks to a boost from never melted and then last is the kingdra i hit an ice beam as kingdra retaliates with a dragon pulse another hit will definitely kill me so i have to make a switch here so i switch to king arthur [Music] and there's that critical hit rest while king arthur you are a god amongst men but with that sacrifice we get a safe switch into ingale who is able to set up a parish song this guarantees us the win but it remains to be seen how many other team members will fall on the next turn i switch to joan of arc who thankfully dodges a crit she then uses protect to stall another turn of paris song and on the last turn of parish song i switch to galahad who tanks the hydro pump and then the kingdra goes down victory is ours with only one death may he whoop in peace with that it's time for the elite four but before that i finally evolved galahad into vileplume with a leaf stone i've delayed it until now because gloom doesn't actually learn giga drain until level 47 so after another bout of pokey athloning i get a leaf stone and bioplume joins the team then we need to fight ho-oh on the top of bell tower it's kind of funny that in generation 2 the concepts of legendaries just used to be what if there was a big bird on the roof of that building and then by the time we get to generation four it's like what if the legendaries literally controlled all of space and time well this bird goes down to two surfs and then the kimono girl judges me for knocking it out if that is what you believe we will not try to convince you otherwise what does that even mean what kind of passive aggressive nonsense is that anyways now it's time for the elite four here's my final team leveled up to the level cap of 50 to match lance's dragonite last time i did a heart gold nuzlocke i wiped to the champion come to think of it i actually wiped to the champion a lot well let's see if we've got what it takes first up is will the psychic type trainer but will is a complete sweep with mistervis in heartgold and still silver you can get a choice specs from the lake of rage so any halfway decent special attacker can turn into a monstrous sweeper shadow balls clear through will's entire team gosh if only the johto games had introduced a psychic type pokemon that was immune to ghost types then surely it would be on will's team to prevent this instead of a second zatu anyways up next is koga but most of koga's pokemon are weak enough to be knocked out by a single choice specs boosted surf from siegfried his aerudos and 4 tree go down to a single surf muk is third and barely holds onto a surf but goes down a few turns later as it just wastes time setting up with minimize we are lucky that we don't miss any of our surfs but muk can't do much to siegfried anyways surf also one shots the crowbat and the venomoth and that's goku defeated third is bruno who is a little more tricky than usual since we don't have access to the tm for psychic i lead with ingale who is immune to all of hitmontop's attacks after an unsuccessful dig thanks to levitate and a waste of a full restore ingale takes it out with a few choice backs boosted psi beams next is hitmonlee so i hit a cybe and hitmonlee retaliates with a swagger so i switched to the bruce to take a blaze kick and then kill the hitmonlee with a headbutt third is my champ and i'm expecting a cross drop so i switch to ingale who dodges it then i hit a side beam as machamp retaliates with a rock slide i'm a little worried that a second cyber won't kill the machamp after the citrus berry recovery but a quick calc tells me that it will so i go for the safe kill fourth is hitman chan which will randomly go for one of the elemental punches here i switch to joan of arc who gets hit by a thunder punch then hitman chan uses fire punch but an aka berry halves the damage and i retaliate with a poison jab on the next turn a shadow sneak finishes it off before hitman chain can attack last is onyx for some reason so i switch to siegfried who gets tickled by a rock slide and then i kill the onix with the surf on the next turn that's bruno defeated fourth is karen who can be a little tricky since her umbreon likes to use double team and there's not a super fast way for me to kill it i decide to lead with joan of arc who has a choice scarf to out speed the umbreon i hit a nightshade and umbreon just opts for damage instead of double teams so two more nightshades take it out next is murkrow so i switched to siegfried a pluck eats my colbert berry which would have given me a safe switch into a dark type move later on the next turn thunderbolt knocks out the murkrom next is vileplume so i switch to lancelot who gets hit by a pedal dance an air slash followed by an extra sensory finish off the vileplume then hound doom comes out i can one shot it with siegfried but a critical hit dark pulse will kill me there's no reason for it to use dark pulse though since flamethrower will always do more damage to noctowl but sometimes the ai of these games is a little bit unpredictable i decide to risk it and it pays off as the hound doom just uses nasty plot then a surf cleanly knocks it out gengar is last but it has a terrible moveset of focus blast and lick so two serps take it out after it just misses a focus blast with that the elite four is defeated and it's time for lance siegfried is able to handle all of his pokemon but the problem is that i need to be able to outspeed his aerodactyl since a critical hit crunch will one shot siegfried as a result i need to use a choice scarf this means i'll have to switch siegfried in and out so that i can switch between the moves needed to one shot all of lance's pokemon i need to use thunderbolt for the gyarados ice beams for the dragonites and serfs for the aerodactyl and charizard and unfortunately in order to get clean switches back into siegfried i'll need to sack some pokemon lance leads gyarados so a single thunderbolt takes it out then dragonite comes out which knows thunder so in order to switch to ice beam i need to pivot through the bruce he is able to dodge a thunder and manages to do some solid damage to the dragonite but ultimately a few turns later he goes down in retrospect i could have switched back to siegfried on the turn that lance healed his dragonite but i didn't realize that at the time either way i think letting the bruce go down is the safer play good night my good knight siegfried comes out and knocks out the dragonite with an ice beam the second dragonite comes out and also goes down to an ice beam then it's the aerodactyl which actually won't go down to a single ice beam so i switch to lancelot he takes a crunch pretty well but he's not able to survive the rock slide on the next turn another soul lost but siegfried will avenge a surf kills the aerodactyl and then charizard comes out so obviously it too goes down to a surf and last is lance's level 50 dragonite so we need one more sacrifice i switch in joan of arc who gets just completely demolished by an outrage peace be with you joan siegfried comes back in but it's actually not quite over yet my ice beam damage on this dragonite is a range and there's exactly one damage roll that will leave dragonite with only 2 hp so i could definitely still lose here but the odds of this happening are 1 in 16 aka about the same chance as a critical hit so siegfried clicks ice beam and she gets the one shot that wins us the battle and the run that was a really fun challenge siegfried obviously carried most of the run but there were still some challenging spots and it was awesome to be able to use a handful of pokemon that i normally don't get to use like i don't think i've ever used a mischievous in any playthrough so that was pretty cool as always thank you so much for watching and for all your continued support 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 my streams of future challenges and you should also join the flag on hg community discord to make recommendations for future challenges i'm always looking for suggestions so stay tuned for more nuzlocke videos and until then remember to always always always play around the critical hit you

Channel: FlygonHG

Views: 509,965

Keywords: Pokemon, Nuzlocke, Pokemon Challenges, Pokemon HeartGold, Hardcore Nuzlocke

Id: NW29qlN9U6o

Length: 24min 35sec (1475 seconds)

Published: Sat May 08 2021