Pokémon HeartGold Hardcore Nuzlocke - Nocturnal Pokémon Only! Part 2! (No items, No overleveling)

[Music] hi everyone my name is flag on hg and this is part two 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 if you're watching this video i'm gonna assume that you've seen part 1 of this challenge if you haven't check it out in the link at the top right of the screen part 1 of this challenge ended after we collected all eight badges in johto and defeated lance to become the new champion of the indigo league normally this would be the end of the game but in heart gold and soul silver after you defeat the champion you gain access to kanto where there are eight more gyms for you to challenge and after collecting these eight additional badges you get access to mount silver and on top of mount silver is the strongest trainer in all of pokemon the final boss of heartgold and soulsilver pokemon trainer red and that's where we're headed in this video but before we embark on our journey to kanto there's a few things that we need to do in johto just as a reminder in the final battle against lance our team was completely ravaged i had to sacrifice the bruce the radicate lancelot the knocktowel and joan of arc the ariados that leaves just galahad the vileplume siegfried the starmie and ingale the mischievous however while me and my team of nocturnal animals were busy waging war against lance and his dragon of cups the venonat was just sitting in the box probably sticking crayons up his nose or something i don't know what he does in there but with half the team being buried six feet under a few spots have opened up and it's time for of cups to join the team and this is actually pretty critical because one of the gym leaders in kanto janine has a level cap of 50. that means that siegfried and ingale are over the level cap now so i won't be able to use them until the level cap bumps up that means that it's up to galahad and of cups so i grind up of cups to a respectable level and he evolves into venomoth then i meet professor oak in olivine city he gives me the national decks and a ticket aboard the ss aqua my ride to kanto but before boarding the ss aqua i go back to the pokeatholon dome which is now finally selling dusk stones so i pick one up and evolve ingale into miss maggias again i can't use her right now but as soon as we get our level cap pumped up it'll be her time to shine next i board the ss aqua and after i fight a few trainers and do some random side missions i arrive in the beautiful sea port of vermillion city now before we start mowing down the washed-up gym leaders of kanto i'm actually able to get a few new encounters first i can make my way to saladon city head west and catch a murkrow from route 16. i name her club then i go to the east of celadon city and i catch a hound door i name him hotspur and just like that i've got a full team again these are the only additional encounters though technically i can catch a sneasel outside of mount silver but that can't actually be done until i get all 16 badges and i also can't get a razor claw meaning i wouldn't be able to evolve it into a wii vial so this is our final team after some training i go back to my favorite pokeatholondome purchase another dusk stone and evolve club into haunt crow then hotspur evolves into houndoom and now it's time to start cleaning through the kanto gyms very few of these gyms are particularly difficult and you can do most of them in pretty much any order so i start with janine the new fuchsia city gym leader since she has the lowest level cap of 50. she leads crovat and i lead club thanks to a choice scarf i out speed the crowbat and take it out with two night slashes wheezing is second and it does no explosion so this is a little bit sweaty i switch to galahad and we trade attacks back and forth for a few turns until wheezing switches to ariados for some reason so i switch to club but he gets hit by a scary face so then i switch two of cups who gets hit by another scary face on the next turn of cups takes out the ariados with a psychic janine brings out her venomoth but because of the scary face of cups won't be able to outspeed it so i switch to club janine uses double team because of course she does but on the next turn club connects with a wing attack and takes out the venomoth then another wing attack finishes off the wheezing and a third wing attack finishes off janine's second area dose that gets us our first kanto badge and our ninth badge overall with that the level cap bumps up to level 53 so siegfried and ingale are fair game now but for now i don't really need them lieutenant serge is the next gym leader in terms of level cap but he's actually one of the harder kanto gym leaders so i decided to fight a few of the other gym leaders before that first i go to erica's gym and it looks like in the remakes they've made this guy that's in front of her gym way less creepy has pc culture gone too far no no it hasn't that was a good change even though erica's level cap is 56 hotspur outspeeds and one shots her entire team the choice specs do help a lot but this was going to be a pretty clean sweep no matter what that gets us an easy badge number 10. next up is sabrina and for some reason she only has three pokemon so club is holding a choice scarf and night slashes kill all three of them before they can get any attacks off that's an even easier badge number 11. before continuing the gym campaign i'm told to go to talk to professor oak but when i get there he and i just have a nice little chat what do you think of the trainers out here pretty tough huh yup pretty challenging stuff samuel anyways brock is up next on my murder spree but every single one of this guy's pokemon is four times a week to grass so gala had one shots all of them the kabutops is able to out speed and hit a rock slide which i guess could have been an issue if it made me flinch but it didn't so brock goes down and i collect badge number 12. at this point it's time for lieutenant serge and the reason he's so problematic is because all of his pokemon have double team thunderwave or both which means we're in for a pretty cheesy fight well as soon as i'm finished digging through these trash cans that is eventually i get to lieutenant surge and he leads raichu i lead hotspur who hits a flamethrower but it's not enough for a one shot so raichu uses a double team on the next turn i miss a flamethrower here we go and then raichu uses thunder wave but a cherry bear heals me thankfully my flamethrower connects on the next turn so raichu goes down and electabuzz comes out the electabuzz has low kick so i switch to ingale as it just uses light screen instead i hit a reduced power shadow ball and then electabuzz hits a critical hit shock wave on the next turn i hit another shadow ball and then electabuzz hits another shock wave so i switch to galahad and start tanking shockwaves we trade attacks back and forth and i accidentally prolong it a bit by using giga drain instead of sludge bomb which puts electabuzz in the red and makes surge use a full restore electabuzz gets another light screen off but eventually it goes down next is surge's first electrode which immediately goes for a double team thankfully shockwave doesn't do much damage so even though i miss a few attacks i'm able to stay healthy enough with moonlight and eventually the electrode goes down surge's second electrode also goes for double team as i hit a solid sludge bomb thankfully on the next turn i just connect with a giga drain and finish it off and last is magneton who goes for you guessed it double team i hit gigadrain and then on the next turn i switch to hotspur who dodges a supersonic and then we connect with a flamethrower knocking out the magneton and getting badge number 13. i was expecting that to be a much more frustrating fight with a lot more misses all things considered i can't really complain next up misty in cerulean city with lieutenant surge defeated my level cap bumps up to level 54 which gives siegfried just enough speed to outspeed misty's own starmie i lead siegfried into misty's joel duck and take it out with a choice specs boosted thunderbolt next is her starmie but thunderbolt knocks that out in one shot too third is quagsire r.i.p king arthur so i switch in galahad who takes a pretty hard critical hit earthquake but then on the next turn retaliates with a giga drain for the one shot last is la pro who hits galahad with an ice beam but a yachty berry halves the damage and i hit a hard giga drain then i switch to siegfried and i get lucky as i dodge a sing a thunderbolt finishes off the lapras winning us badge number 14. next is blaine who has relocated his gym to the seafoam islands after a volcano decimated cinnabar island pretty dark way to show the passage of time you know misty gets a haircut lieutenant serge gets sunglasses koga gets a promotion and blaine gets a cataclysmic natural disaster that wipes his hometown out of existence but speaking of wiping things out of existence it should come as no surprise that siegfried uses surf to one shot all three of blaine's pokemon this may be a different game but blaine still can't handle water types that's an easy badge number 15. the final kanto gym leader is blue who is spending his free time visiting the charred remains of cinnabar island after getting him to go back to his gym in viridian city it's time for the first genuinely difficult kanto battle unlike every other gym leader blue has a diverse team of 6 pokemon and they're all pretty strong fortunately with our new level cap of 60 hotspur is able to learn nasty plot i set up a nasty plot on the first turn as exeggutor goes for trick room trick room is a move that reverses the speed order of pokemon on the field so slow pokemon will move before fast pokemon which is pretty unideal for our speedy hound doom but i came prepared for this trick room only lasts 5 turns including the turn that it's set up so on the second turn of trick room i use protect on the third turn exeggitor hits a hypnosis but a chesto berry cures the sleep and i set up a second nasty plot on the fourth turn i use another protect now on the fifth and final turn of trick room i need to gamble a little my play is to go for a second protect which is a bit risky since consecutive uses of protect are progressively less likely to be successful a second protect has a 50 chance of failing but fortunately we're lucky and hotspur does connect with the protect stalling out the trick room this is definitely lucky but exeggutor's only damaging move on hotspur is leaf storm so barring some terrible critical hits we would have been fine even if the protect failed and i got put to sleep anyways with the trick room over hotspur is able to sweep through blue's entire team at plus 4 special attack flamethrower takes out the exeggutor dark pulse takes out the ride on flamethrower takes out the machamp dark pulse takes out the gyarados and then the arcanine and lastly flamethrower knocks out the pidgeot winning us the 16th and final gym badge way with 16 little pieces of metal clinking around in my pocket there's only one thing left to do defeat red on top of mount silver red has the strongest team of all npcs in all of pokemon with the exception of battlefrontier trainers and the like he starts with a level 88 pikachu and also has five other beefy pokemon all at the levels of 80-84 while i'd normally set the level cap to match the level of his highest level pokemon in this case it's a pikachu so i decided to set the level cap to 84 to match his blastoise venusaur and charizard so after some excruciatingly long and definitely legitimate grinding on my heart gold nintendo ds cartridge i get my entire team up to level 84. however there is one problem in order to reach red at the top of mount silver i need to use hmo8 rock climb which professor oak does graciously give me after i've gotten all 16 badges the only problem is that none of my team members can learn rock climb in fact none of the pokemon in this challenge can learn rock climb surprisingly few pokemon can learn rock climb actually which makes it a very bizarre and kind of stupid game design decision to put the final boss of the game behind such a limiting barrier especially because mount silver is already completely closed off until after you get all 16 badges anyways so it's not like you need to prevent the trainers from getting to red before the end of the game i don't know seems stupid to limit the types of pokemon you can bring to the final boss battle but whatever bottom line this means that i need to bench one of my pokemon and replace it with a rock climbed vessel and so i head to victory road and for the first and definitely last time in any playthrough i catch an onix welcome to the team ugly loser now i need to decide who to bench to make room for this useless pile of rocks but the choice is pretty clear of cups is going to be returning to the comforts of the box that bench ain't going to warm itself kid thanks for all your hard work so finally after 16 badges and six deaths we've made it to the top of mount silver the wind howls as we approach the summit to confront the final boss red turns utters no words and the battle begins let's see if we've got what it takes red leads with his level 88 pikachu and i lead with club pikachu is carrying a light ball so it can hit surprisingly hard but it's still just a frail little pikachu so a priority sucker punch takes it out in one shot pikachu still manages to get the last laugh though because static activates and club gets paralyzed then red brings out his lebron i was expecting snorlax but that's fine it's not like my entire plan for this battle was banking on snorlax coming out next i'm definitely not rapidly trying to figure out a plan b right now that's for sure i switch to siegfried who gets hit hard with a blizzard i retaliate with a thunderbolt as lebron hits a body slam obviously i was at a risk to a crit or a paralysis here but there's not much i can do to avoid crits in this battle his pokemon are just that strong a second thunderbolt takes out the lebron and then venusaur comes in so i switched to hotspur who gets hit by a sludge bomb which poisons him a flamethrower takes out the venusaur but thanks to the poison and the hail damage hotspur isn't looking so good blastoise comes out next and with hotspur at death's door anyways it doesn't make sense to take damage on a switch so unfortunately i decide to sack hotspur i click dark pulse to get some damage on blast toys which actually causes blast toys to flinch and then the poison and hail damage leave hotspur with 1 hp meaning that i can get off another dark pulse and hotspur gets another flinch he does succumb to hail damage but the double flinches means that if he hadn't gotten poisoned from sludge bomb he actually would have been able to take out the blast toys all by himself i guess that's just the rng balancing out either way that was an incredible showing from hotspur rest well buddy you really deserve it siegfried comes out and i click surf to take out the last remaining bit of blastoise's health and then my heart drops as red uses a full restore i use surf here instead of thunderbolt because siegfried has a choice specs so i didn't want it to be locked into thunderbolt that mistake pretty much just lost me the match i didn't think that the best trainer in the game would be using full restores but evidently i was wrong i don't really know why i thought that in the first place but just as i've lost all hope siegfried hits a critical hit surf bringing blast toys back into the red that is a run saving critical hit because on the next turn i'm able to switch to galahad as red uses another full restore then blastoise hits a blizzard which galahad survives like a boss galahad retaliates with a giga drain which crits and takes out the blast toys in one shot that blast toys had the worst luck i've ever seen two flinches from dark pulses into a double critical hit that's what you get for using items red you're a cheater charizard is fifth and even though galahad did an amazing job taking out the blast toys it's time for him to take one for the team i really need a safe switch here so galahad makes the noble sacrifice and goes down to an air slash your legacy will prevail sir galahad rest in peace this gets me a free switch into ingale who is able to one shot the charizard with a power gem last is red snorlax but with siegfried at low health and club paralyzed i'm only a few unlucky turns away from wiping to this beefcake the first thing i do is use a pan split to do a tiny bit of damage to snorlax snorlax retaliates with a crunch which thankfully doesn't crit this allows me to use another paint split which heals me up but more importantly it takes another chunk of health from snorlax this also gives me enough health to survive the blizzard from snorlax which i guess it used instead of crunch because i was at low enough health before the pain split for a blizzard to knock me out that's sort of lucky but it doesn't really matter i don't want to do any more damage to snorlax because i don't want to put it in the range where red will use a full restore so instead of doing damage i just click parish song as snorlax knocks out ingale with a crunch you know doing so many of these hardcore nuzlocke challenges makes me pretty numb to losing pokemon when i first started doing nuzlockes i'd get really upset when i lost a team member but with these hard challenges especially at the end of the runs it's sort of a necessity to guarantee victory so i try not to get too emotional about it that being said seeing ingale go down is pretty sad it's the first miss maggious i've ever used and she did an amazing job enjoy your ghostly sleeping gail the last thing to do is bring in siegfried and hit a surf which is just enough to knock out the snorlax getting us a gruelling victory against red and finally winning the game that was an absolute roller coaster of a final battle and an awesome way to end an incredibly fun challenge as fun as it is to do monotype challenges it's also really cool to have access to a diverse team with a bunch of different typings my final team was pretty powerful in this challenge and it was cool that they were each able to contribute to the final battle every one of my team members knocked out at least one of red's final pokemon so it really was a team effort instead of just setting up and sweeping with one pokemon definitely one of my favorite final battles so far as always thank you so much for watching and for all your continued support i know i say it at the end of every video but i really do appreciate how supportive all my viewers have been if you enjoyed watching please like the video and subscribe or don't i don't know but be sure to 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 to make recommendations for future challenges stay tuned for more nuzlocke videos and until then remember to always always always play around the critical hit

Channel: FlygonHG

Views: 329,581

Keywords: Pokemon, Nuzlocke, Pokemon Challenge, Pokemon HeartGold, Challenge Run

Id: iXMb8A1srMU

Length: 17min 57sec (1077 seconds)

Published: Sat May 15 2021