Pokémon Platinum Hardcore Nuzlocke - Baby Pokémon Only! (No items, No overleveling)

hi everyone i'm flag on hg and this is the video of my attempt at a hardcore nuzlocke of pokemon platinum using only baby 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 leaders ace and we're playing on set mode babies despite 385 000 babies being born each day and babies making up a non-insignificant portion of the world population babies don't have jobs and they don't contribute to the advancement of society 100 of all babies are illiterate and routinely fail common intelligence tests babies are also incredibly physically weak and terrible at hand-to-hand combat every time i've been in a fight with a baby the baby always loses and it is not even close by all accounts babies are useless stupid and weak so you can only imagine how difficult a hardcore nuzlocke using only baby pokemon might be however despite the incontrovertible proof that babies serve no purpose in modern society a recent study published in nature revealed something shocking 99.5 of all people or at some point in their life a baby it begs the question why if babies are so pathetic why do so many people choose to be babies in addition to that these chubby little pants poopers are consistently the center of pop culture clearly babies have an untapped potential and that is what this challenge is all about let's start by defining what is meant by a baby pokemon a baby pokemon is a special classification of pokemon that is defined as a first stage pokemon that is obtainable by breeding but that cannot breed itself these pokemon are usually pre-evolutions to pokemon previously introduced in an earlier generation but there are a few exceptions the main takeaway though is that not all first stage pokemon are considered baby pokemon in total there are 19 baby pokemon across all eight generations though of course toxil cannot be obtained in platinum since it doesn't exist yet so that leaves 18 bouncing baby pokemon at my disposal in a normal playthrough of platinum though many of these babies are unavailable until the post game so i decided to do something a little different for this challenge with the help of my uncle jim tendo i was able to get my hands on a special version of a platinum ds cartridge that was coded to have 18 eggs in the pc each of these 18 eggs corresponded to one of the 18 baby pokemon in this game so every time i came across a new area where i would get an encounter via a grass patch in a regular nuzlocke i would instead just randomly choose one of the eggs in the pc to hatch this way i was able to use all of the baby pokemon but there was still a little bit of randomness in what my encounters were and it also meant i wouldn't have to spend literal days looking for a munchlax and a honey tree this setup also made it so that this challenge was still potentially possible even with one final rule i am not allowed to evolve my baby pokemon so i'll be stuck with 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able to randomly hatch three eggs each corresponding to the encounters from route 201 route 202 in lake verity i've decided to only hatch eggs corresponding to routes that have grass patches otherwise i'd also be able to get encounters from twin leaf town ravaged path orber mine and a few other places resulting in like 10 encounters before the first gym i decided that it would be more fun to spread out the encounters a little bit anyways our first egg corresponding to the lake verity encounter hatches into a mime junior i named him gerber and as far as babies go he is not a bad one to start off with mime junior has relatively solid special attack and a pretty decent move pool the route 201 encounter hatches into a baru which is a really lucky baby to hatch before the first gym i name him groot then on route 202 i hatch a happening although chancey and blissey are both pretty spectacular in nuzlockes happening is not mainly because she doesn't learn soft boiled i name her spice but she's probably not going to get much action with my three new teammates hatched mom cargo goes in the box and then we make our way to jubilaf city but after completing the fever dream that is running through the city and hunting down clowns we get access to two new routes which means i can hatch two new babies first on route 204 i hatch an ella kid which is easily one of our better available babies he's actually very fast with 95 base speed and he has decent attack and special attack for a baby welcome to the team jack jack on route 203 i catch a chingling when he hatches i say this is literally the most useless one i wish i could go back and slap myself for disrespecting chingling like that boss the chingling will save this run on many occasions after this video like me you too will become enlightened by chingling's might before continuing we need to fight old mcd but he's no match for our babies he leads starly and i lead gerber gerber hits a confusion for over half health and then starly goes for a growl which gerber avoids thanks to his soundproof ability on the next turn starly hits a quick attack which crits for a huge chunk of damage since gerber has atrocious defense this will be a recurring weakness for many of my babies but for now it's not a huge issue another confusion finishes off starly and then piplup comes out so i switched to groot who also takes a decent amount of damage from a physical attack pound but a few absorbs are enough to finish off the piplup winning us our first official rival battle from here i can get one last encounter before the first gym on route 207 i hatch a tie rogue which is loki one of the worst pokemon ever i'm not even being hyperbolic this thing learns nothing by level up and he has abysmal stats so he's not going to be that useful but at least he does no fake out welcome to the team wipes now it's time to take on the first gym leader rourke but with groot his rock type shouldn't be too difficult he leads geodude and i lead groot who's holding a quick claw i start by setting up a growth as geodude uses stealth rocks so on the next turn i go for another growth as geodude hits a critical hit rock throw so now i gotta go for a mega drain which knocks it out in one shot as i gain back most of my health we lost from jude's drockthrow onyx comes out next but our quick claw activates letting us out speed onyx and knock it out with a single mega drain this brings group back to full health as cranados comes out last this could still be bad if granitos gets a few flinches with head butt but he just goes for leer so groot retaliates with the mega drain knocking out granite house and easily winning us our first gym badge after the battle groot evolves into rosalia just kidding he will remain a baby forever next we make our way to eterna city i get a few more encounters on the way first at valley windworks i hatch a why not and name her nut she might have some niche uses with counter and mirror coat but it's gonna be pretty tough to get her into a position where she's not at risk to getting killed by a critical hit before getting any other encounters we've got the always challenging mars fight per ugly is really scary especially since most of our babies have atrocious physical defense stats fortunately there are very few fights between mars and gardenia so we can get pretty close to the current level cap giving us a bit of a level advantage here mars leads zubat and i lead jack jack he immediately just takes out the zubat with a shockwave and then perugli comes out but jack jack has a low kick which will do big damage to the big fat cat but per ugly crits with a fake out so now jack jack will die to another attack if he stays in so i switch to wipes who resists a faint attack on the switch then i hit prougly with my own fake out though it does noticeably less damage than hers on the next turn per ugly goes for a scratch and then wipes hits a pretty hard rocks match but per ugly recovers some health with an oranberry from here i switch to groot who gets hit by a scratch and then perugli hits group with a critical hit scratch as he retaliates with a weak mega drain this is starting to look a little sweaty i foolishly didn't fully level up nut or spice before this battle i decide the best course of action is to risk a critical hit here and stay in with group fortunately per ugly doesn't crit the next scratch so we're able to get off another mega drain then i switch to gerber who takes a scratch gerber now baits feign attack which gives me a fairly safe switch to wipes then i can fire off another fake out for a small chunk of damage on the next turn i switch to nut who even at level 12 tanks a scratch pretty well and since nut now also baits a faint attack i'm free to switch back into wipes letting me get off one more fake out on the next turn which is just enough to knock out the perogly word of advice always take the time to train up a full team of six before starting a major fight that was a lot closer than it needed to be from here we get a few more encounters on our way to eterna city on route 205 i hatch a ryolu and name him boomer boomer has a few tricks up his sleeve that will make him pretty useful later in the run in eterna forest i hatch a man tike who is probably my personal favorite of the baby pokemon look at how cute she is she's also going to be our resident surf and ice beam spammer which will be very useful later on and then on route 211 for the final encounter before gardenia i hatch a magbeat for the record twitch chat is just randomly deciding which egg i hatch so this is completely random but very lucky since back ribs will help us torch gardenia's grass types who are otherwise pretty difficult especially her rosary gardenia leads tertwig so i lead with the newly trained up back ribs a single ember is enough to one-shot the church wave before it can move cherum comes out second so i just go for another ember for about half health cherum does set up a leech seat though and gains enough health back that another amber probably won't kill so i switched to groot who very handily brushes off a magical leaf then i switch back to back ribs on the next turn an ember leaves cherum with a sliver as she just does some damage with magical leaf that ends up being okay though because gardenia wastes a super potion here two more embers finish off cherum roserate is last and because her special defense is so much better than her defense stat it's actually better to just go for return here back ribs takes a chunk of health from a magical leaf and then hits a huge return but a citrus berry heals back a good bit of health on the next turn i switch to groot who shrugs off a magical leaf from his big sister rosary goes for a poison sting and then groot hits a stun spore from here i switched to gerber to go for the kill with siving forgetting that roserade would be likely to go for a stun spore of her own that was done since now rosariate out speeds and can hit a critical hit magical leaf to kill gerber so i've just thrown away an easy guaranteed victory but one brave baby will rise to the occasion and save me from my own stupidity first i switch back to groot on a magical leaf then i just start chugging away with mega drain as rosarite first uses stun spore and then poison sting roserade of course gets two critical hit poison stings in a row so even after an oranberry recovery it isn't long until i'm in range of a critical hit so i switch to boss the hero i need but certainly not the one i deserve rosary gets fully paralyzed on the switch so on the next turn boss hits a confusion that leaves roserade with a sliver but then rosary just paralyzes with a stun spore which gets healed by bosses held cherry berry so with one more confusion boss lives up to his name and knocks out roserade winning us the second gym badge after this it's time for the second of the two early game galactic commander fights jupiter leads zubat and i lead gerber i set up a reflect and then tank a bite that wouldn't have killed me even if it crit then i knock out the zubat with a confusion skunk tank comes out next again since our babies are very defensively frail this thing is pretty terrifying i switch to wipes who gets poisoned by a poison gas it would have been nice to have guts as an ability on wipes but unfortunately he has steadfast instead so i go for the smallest bit of damage with fake out then i tank a night slash as i fish for a defense drop with rock smash but unfortunately i don't get it wipes is probably dead to a critical hit plus poison damage here but since he's not a very good pokemon anyways i make the executive decision that his life is worth risking for some chip damage scunt tank hits a night slash which doesn't crit and then wipes it's a rock smash which drops gun tank's defense so from here i switch to boomer who gets hit by a knight slash and then on the next turn we outspeed this gun tank and kill it with a critical hit force palm nice on the way to heart home city and the next gym leader i get two more encounters on route 206 i hatch a cleffa and name him daddy no magic guard makes daddy significantly less useful but at least daddy's cute please don't use that sound bit out of context then on rap 208 i head chabonsley and name her yoda she's easily the most physically defensive baby we'll get so our team of babies is starting to look relatively versatile the difficult thing about this challenge is that it gets exponentially harder as we go on in most nuzlockes the mid game tends to be easier than the beginning of the game because even though your opponents become stronger your own pokemons start to evolve and become significantly stronger themselves since my pokemon are stuck in the state of arrested development each badge just gets harder and harder and harder which makes this challenge a ton of fun this is already one of the most challenging runs to theorycraft even if i haven't actually had any deaths yet for that reason though i decided to do the same thing that i did in my diamond fire type only run namely once i get the explorer kit which grants me access to the cino underground i give myself infinite money since you can theoretically farm items in the underground and sell them to get as much money as you want this will be important for picking up items and tms from the game corner and the department store in valeston city i also give myself all the items that you can get from the sinnoh underground which includes all the type boosting plates and finally i give myself all the berries that you can farm from the berrymaster on route 208 since this can be done pretty easily by just repeatedly changing the date on my handy dandy nintendo ds once i get to pastoria city i will also do this for the super effective attack berries that you can get in a similar manner for me this just cuts down on the boring skill as parts of the run that i would need to do to play the game optimally hopefully that makes sense i know that this explanation is probably more trouble than it's worth but i strive to be as transparent as possible to my viewers about what happens during my challenges honesty is something that's really important to me especially in a space where it is very easy to be dishonest without any real consequences my personal philosophy is that as long as you're honest about what you do during your challenge runs it doesn't really matter anyways back to the gameplay next up is the fight against fantina and her ghost types as with many of the platinum gym leaders she's pretty easy other than her ace in this case it's her miss maggias but fantina leads with dust goal and i lead with back ribs with a dread plate a single faint attack almost knocks out the dustle in one shot but it survives and uses future sight fantina uses a super potion on the next turn but then we high roll with faint attack and knock out the duskull haunter is second but since its only attacking moves are shadowclaw and sucker punch it's completely safe to switch to spice then i just start switching between yoda and spice the reason for this is because i want to be able to set up a substitute with yoda before the miss maggias comes out in order to do that safely i need to make sure haunter is completely out of pp and just going for struggles this ends up being relatively efficient because spice has natural cure as an ability so every time haunter puts her to sleep we can just switch out and heal her status condition forcing haunter to use another hypnosis once haunter is completely out of pp and forced to struggle i bring in yoda and set up a substitute then i just spam substitute until haunter recoils from struggles bringing her into the red this makes fantino waste her final super potion so then finally i kill the hunter with a fan attack last is miss magnus which is still pretty dangerous because fain attack won't kill in one shot but the ai is pretty bad at dealing with substitute and just tries to go for a confused ray so we get off a free feign attack then on the next turn magical leaf breaks our sub but a final faint attack kills miss maggias winning us our third gym badge on our way to vale stone city we can get all but one of our remaining encounters on route 209 i had to smooch him and name her ice ice like magby and ella kid smoochum is fairly strong and speedy for a baby and stab ice ice attacks will be nice nice on route 210 i hatch a pichu which is across the board just a worse version of ella kid i name her carrots and eat her into the box on route 215 i hatch a munchlax definitely the best of the baby pokemon that i can get i mean with the exception of her speed munchlax's stats are better than a lot of fully evolved pokemon so this is a pretty great encounter i named her fat fat also happens to have perfect attack ivs and a brave nature so she's going to be our powerhouse going forward on route 214 i hatch in azurill and i name her blue she does have huge power but she's still in a zoo rail so into the box and then at valor lakefront i hatch an iggly buff easily the most useless of our babies except maybe a zero maybe i name her aspirin and she also gets dumped in the box now it's time for maylene and here i get to use a fun strategy with boomer the riolu ryolu can learn the move reversal which is a fighting type move that becomes more powerful the lower your hp is so by entering this fight with ryolu pre-damaged at 1 hp ryolu now has a 200 base power fighting type move with stab that gets to 300 base power so when holding a fist plate that's enough to one shot all three of maylene's pokemon even her meta type that resists fighting moves unfortunately even with max speed evs boomer doesn't out speed meleen's lucario so we'll have to use a different strategy for him but hopefully meditate and macho come out first meline leads meditait and i first use protect to avoid being just straight-up killed on the first turn by fake out then i go for a reversal which does indeed knock out metatype unfortunately meleen sends out lucario second for some reason instead of macho so now we need to switch out i start by switching to boss who is immune to lucario's bone rush thanks to levitate then i protect to scout out lucario's move it's metal claw so that gives me a fairly safe switch into baby back ribs then on the next turn i'm able to out speed and one shot the lucario with a flame plate boosted fire punch third is machoke which is a bit of an issue since i obviously can't switch back into boomer but yet again a hero is here to save us from the brink of disaster i switched a boss who gets hit with a rock tomb then macho goes for a focus energy as we hit a hard confusion then boss tanks a strength and finishes off the machoke with a second confusion winning us another fairly straightforward gym badge i promise that these gym battles will eventually get harder but the only reason that they're going this well is because i'm putting a tremendous amount of thought into planning them out and i'm also getting fairly fortunate with not being nailed by bad rng anyways with badge number four i can make my way to pastoria city and hatch the final baby of the run on route 213 i hatch togepi the quintessential baby pokemon i name him rosemary's compared to my other babies rosemary's is actually fairly defensively bulky especially if we give him hp and defense evs so he'll actually be pretty good at providing yawn and wish support if we need it before fighting crasher wake we have another rival fight but his pokemon aren't fully evolved yet so they still aren't super difficult to deal with let's just jump to the fight against crash awake you'd think this wouldn't be too difficult since we have jack jack to hit strong electric type attacks but his defense is so bad that he will actually die to a critical hit priority aquajet from floatzel plus there's a quagsire so unless i want to risk some crits jack jack isn't the play here i need to come up with another plan however i do start with jack jack to easily knock out crasher wakes gyarados with a single thunderbolt then quagsire comes out i'm anticipating a mud shot so the plan is to switch to boss with levitate but i accidentally switched to groot that turns out to be okay because quagsire goes for rock tomb instead of mud shot for some reason i really don't know why i know the ai does love speed control but rock tomb and mudshot both lower speed and mudshot would have done much more damage to jack jack so i guess the ai is just stupid i switched to boss and for some reason quagsire uses rock tomb again this is bad because now quagsire out speeds and can hit a water pulse which has a chance to confuse fortunately it doesn't confuse boss so he's able to retaliate with a grass knot knocking out the quagsire in one shot floatzel is last so i start with a protect to ensure that he's going for crunch then i switch to ryolu who tanks the crunch pretty handily then i use another protect to verify it's using an aquajet so from here i switch to fat for her debut battle she tanks an aquajet on the switch and then also a crunch on the next turn which allows her to retaliate with a thunder punch which manages to high roll and knock out the floatzel in one shot winning us yet another deathless gym badge from here platinum starts to pick up in difficulty relatively quickly most of our opponents now have fully evolved pokemon so especially against enemies with pokemon that have strong physical attacks most of our babies are susceptible to being one shot by critical hits for example the cantalave city fight with our rival is the next major obstacle fortunately now that we have access to celestic town and the hm for surf we get a few immensely useful items the first is the choice specs which i can get from the glasses man in celestic town this increases damage from special attacking moves by 50 at the expense of locking us into a single move very useful for surf spams from shark for example the second item we get access to is the focus sash which is an item that when equipped lets your pokemon survive a move that would otherwise knock it out from full health one time after that the focus dash is used up and it's lost meaning that you can only use it once however in sinnoh focus sash are actually a farmable item which i didn't know until this challenge once a day a man on route 221 will ask to see a pokemon of a random level if you show him a pokemon with that specific level he will give you a black belt then on the next day he will give you an expert belt and then on the third day he will give you a focus sash and then this cycle repeats indefinitely meaning that if i consistently change the date on my ds the man will eventually ask to see a pokemon at a level that is equal to the level of one of my pokemon or near enough where i can level it up pretty quickly and if i do this for long enough i can get as many focus sashes as i want this will be incredibly useful later in the challenge because it means that i can safely switch in my babies without worrying about them getting one shot by a critical hit it does however come at the expense of no other item and only works if my pokemon is at full health so it's not exactly a game breaking strategy but for now let's get back to the fight with old mcd he's got some speedy pokemon including a fairly bulky heracross fortunately ice ice from the box is fast enough and strong enough to be able to knock out a lot of barry's team with stab ice beam and stab psychic including hair cross i just gotta train her up for her debut battle now if you've ever seen any of my other videos you'll know that me cutting to twitch footage is never a good thing but nothing that i can write in a script will be better than my live commentary so let's just roll the clip what does this guy have he doesn't have anything right he just gives me something right no i don't know if i've ever made that sound before it certainly wasn't voluntary but it does sum it all up pretty well let's watch it again in slow-mo since it's a bit hard to see what happens when i speed up my ds [Music] sucker punch is a very aptly named move isn't it well with that i've lost my ringer for the old mcd fight so now i need to rely on shark and air cutter to finish off heracross which would be fine if it wasn't for the fact that air cutter has a pesky accuracy of 95 percent i can't afford to use a wide lens because i need the extra power from an icicle plate to kill this raptor with ice beam so there's a 5 chance to potentially lose the run here all i can do is pray that sweet baby r jesus is looking down on us kindly old macd leads star raptor so i lead shark who has been leveled up all the way to the level cap so that she can just barely out speed this to raptor and knock it out with an ice beam for some reason rapidash comes out next he does outspeed us but only uses tail whip so a surf knocks it out in one shot then hair cross comes out so now is the moment of truth do we hit the 95 accurate air cutter we do thank you baby r jesus fourth is empoleon so i switch to fat who tanks and aerial ace then i go for a body slam this does just enough chip damage to empoleon to ensure that a thunder punch on the next turn knocks it out had i gone for thunder punch first this would have put empoleon in torrent range which would have powered up his water type moves and put us in range of a critical hit bubble beam so this order is safer last is roserade but even a critical hit won't kill us from this range so we stay in and knock it out with a body slam winning us the battle after that it's time to take on byron but byron is always pretty easy and this challenge is no exception fist plate boosted reversals from ryolu at one hp are enough to one-shot all three of byron's pokemon i was pretty surprised that this always guarantees the kill on even steelix but i'm definitely not complaining about an easy gym badge especially because the next few fights coming up are really difficult fortunately with 6 badges already obtained there aren't that many mandatory fights left and we still have a lot of spare babies sitting in the box doing nothing and begging to contribute to the team knowing that i'm only able to bring six babies to the elite four i can start to consider sacking some of our more expendable infants during the harder fights i mean ideally we don't sack any teammates but you know the saying you can't make an omelet without breaking a few babies the team galactic commander fights are scary but manageable we also have some very close calls with random trainers on the way to snowpoint city but we do ultimately make it there with everybody in one piece if you're interested in seeing how it all went down though you should check out the vods on my twitch channel actually as a side note would people be interested in a separate vod channel where i upload my full twitch streams if so let me know in the comments and it's something that i can work on let's get to our fight with the 7th gym leader who i don't remember the name of her pokemon are really tough and hit hard so we generally need to out speed and one shot them she leads sneasel and i lead jack jack who is just fast enough to out speed and knock it out with a fist plate boosted low kick pilot swine comes out next so i switch to shark on the earthquake then a single surf is enough to one shot the pilot swine third is obama snow who sets up hail which means that any focus strats are out the window the obvious candidate to take out obama's note is back ribs but a critical hit woodhammer is enough to kill him on the switch so in order to get a safe switch i need to make the tough call it's time for blue to come out of the box and take one for the team i switch her in and she actually does tank a wood hammer thanks to some hp and defense evs but it doesn't really matter on the next turn another woodhammer finishes her off rest well blue this lets me safely bring in back ribs and avenge her death with a fire punch last is candace's scary frost lass but fat with her thick fat ability walls her relatively well so i switch her in as frostlast uses a double team then frost last sets up another double team as i set up sunny day to get rid of the hail then frost last goes for another double team as i use stockpile and then frost last goes for a fourth double team as i set up another stockpile then and you're never gonna believe this frost last uses a fifth double team but fat still manages to connect her stubby little fist into frost lass's face knocking her out in one shot this is a great psa about how unreliable double team strats are by the way but anyways that's seven badges and it only cost us in a zero not too bad next up is the final confrontation with team galactic and cyrus i've skipped all the cyrus fights so far not because they've been easy but because the last one is significantly harder than all the others but first is the sometimes easy sometimes painstakingly difficult double battle against mars and jupiter the difficulty tends to be determined by whether my rivals ai decides to cooperate or not mars and jupiter lead their bronzers and i lead baby back ribs and old mcd leads munchlax which may be my best pokemon but is easily old mcd's worst i start by taking out mars's bronzer with a fire punch and then jupiter's bronzer sets up a reflect munchlax hits a soft body slam and then mars brings out per ugly i go for a protect to see if perugli will kill old mcd's useless munchlax which she does with a critical hit slash better old mcds than mine right then old mcd brings out heracross so i switch to yoda who handily takes a slash and then heracross uses brick break which not only breaks the reflect but also crits and one shots the per ugly an eye for an eye as the old adage goes bronzor does a bit of damage with extra sensory then mars brings out her goal bat on the next turn golbat hits a very strong air cutter before hair cross brings bronzor into the red with a close combat then bronzer sets up another reflect and i set up a substitute another air cutter from golbat knocks out heracross an extra sensory from bronzor breaks my sub and i get off a recoil free double edge into golbat thanks to yoda's rockhead ability old mcd brings in rapidash next so i go for a protect to let rapidash do some damage golvat bites into my protect and then rapidash finishes off the bronzer with a fire blast now we're dealing with two goldbats one of which has giga drain so i gotta switch to fat rabbit ash gets hit by a critical hit poison fang and then uses willow wisp on the golbat that has a completely special move set so a sludge bomb just knocks out the rapidash but then straptor comes out siraptor hits a takedown into jupiter's golbat on the next turn which then retaliates with an air cutter that crits into fat then golbat hits a hard sludge bomb into saraptor and i finish off mars golbat with a return making this a two on one then i go for a protect and staraptor hits an aerial ace which leaves golbat in the red letting it retaliate with a sludge bomb knocking out staraptor but then the burn damage finishes off the goal bat so all that's left is skunk tank as barry brings out empoleon skunk tank uses smoke screen on empoleon who misses a swagger which would have been pretty risky to give to scuntink so i'm glad it missed then i hit return for a huge chunk of skuntank's health citrus berry recovers a little bit but she's definitely dead to another one on the next turn skuntank hits him pulling on with a flamethrower and then old mcd does the single most badass thing i have ever seen any pokemon ai do he sideswaggers fat giving her an attack boost but also confusing her however the confusion gets healed by the lumbery that pat is holding so empoleon essentially just gave me a free sword stance from here fat decimates gun tank with a return when this happened i was totally stunned i have never seen an ai do that and it was awesome i'm also pretty confident that the swagger that empoleon missed on his first turn was also going into fat if it didn't miss which would have been even cooler because we would have just killed this gun tank in one shot now i don't know if the ai somehow knew that fat was holding a lumbery or if it would have risked that even if i wasn't holding a lumbery but either way this has certainly cemented old mcd as the best rival in the franchise next up is the final confrontation with cyrus it took a while to plan this one because a lot of his pokemon are very fast and hit very hard but i was ready for this one even if it meant sacking one of our sweet little angels cyrus leads hound doom and i lead boomer at level 50 boomer is just fast enough to out speed hound doom and knock him out with a reversal though his held quick claw does end up activating anyways second is crobat which is super unideal because i was expecting haunch crow to come in second which also would have gone down to a reversal krobot obviously will not nor will we outspeed it so i switched to yoda who tanks across poison then krobat goes for an air slash which causes yoda to flinch and it's not great on the next turn though krobeck goes for a toxic but a lumbery heals us and i fortunately connect with a rockslide which puts crobat in the red this causes cyrus to use a full restore as i go for a double edge unfortunately another double edge isn't enough for the kill so i gotta risk another rock slide miss crobat hits an air slash and then thankfully we connect with rockslide that was probably cyrus's second most problematic pokemon next is gyarados but here we can finally fully take advantage of the farmed focus sashes i switch to jack jack whose focus sass lets him survive an earthquake then a thunderbolt knocks out the gyarados fourth is weavile easily cyrus's scariest pokemon since it's so fast and so strong i need a safe switch into nut who is equipped with a focus sash and can kill the weavile with counter if you notice the sprites in the bottom of the layout you may have already guessed who we're gonna sacrifice here i switch carrots in on a fake out and then i just start using endure endure makes it so that carrots will hold on to weville's attacks with 1 hp like protect it will fail after progressive uses the purpose for using endure is to hopefully trigger carrots static ability which has a 30 chance to activate every time a pokemon makes contact with her the odds of it happening once out of the three turns are actually pretty in my favor but it doesn't happen until the fourth turn when we vial finally puts carrots in her tiny coffin rest in peace carrots thanks to static activating it is now completely safe to bring in boomer who out speeds and kills the weavil with a reversal this is ever so slightly better than using nut since if we vile goes for ice punch and it freezes we'd be in a lot of trouble so thank you for your sacrifice baby carrots all that's left is hans crow who gets out sped and goes down to a reversal winning us one of the hardest fights of the challenge after this i have to confront giratina although there is a very fair argument to be made that giratina is just a big old baby and therefore should be caught i decide that it's just better to run putting an end to cyrus's ambiguous plans of world domination or whatever from here we have just a few more fights until the end of the game first up is the final gym leader volkner but before that something pretty unfortunate happens against one of his gym trainers let me try and break it down as quickly as possible in our fight against ace trainer destiny she leads electabuzz and i lead fat on the very first turn electabuzz gets a critical hit thunderbolt and then fat retaliates with an earthquake that kills electabuzz but then her raichu comes out and thanks to the critical hit from electabuzz fat is dead to a critical hit thunderbolt from raichu so i can't afford to risk it and stay in here because fat is my only win condition against vulchner so anticipating a thunderbolt i switched to jack jack but then the raichu goes for dig meaning that had i just stayed in and clicked earthquake this would have been over but now i can't stand with jack jack so i switch to nut and tank a dig then i go for a mirror coat but raichu uses light screen so i go for another mirror coat but then right 2 uses thunder wave both of those turns would have been great times to use encore so now i need to hit through paralysis for some reason raichu goes for dig again so mirror coat yet again does nothing so i go for reflect get hit by dig and then get fully paralyzed then i go for mirror coat but of course it just goes for dig again so i switch to reflect but again get fully paralyzed if you can't tell from my video camera here this raichu is making me very angry but that's not even the unfortunate thing the unfortunate thing is that at this point i realized that i'm not recording this footage in my separate recording layout for youtube videos normally when i stream i stream through streamlabs and record video for the youtube video separately in obs studios so you don't have to look at my dumb ugly face the whole time however ever since i lost footage of the championship fight in my run of pokemon x with fairy types i've also used nvidia shadowplay as a backup so that if i miss something important i can capture the last five minutes of raw gameplay footage i decide that this battle is pretty important since i might not make it out of it without losing a pokemon so i hit my hotkey to save the shadowplay footage which unbeknownst to me is also the default hotkey for reloading my rom so i just accidentally reset the rom right in the middle of a battle that was very clearly not going my way and easily could have ended in the death of a team member remember what i said about transparency this is me trying to be transparent i don't know if this reset means that this run is technically invalid or that i should restart the run or something that's up for you to decide it's an unfortunate situation that was completely an accident and i think everybody will have their own interpretation on what i should do when something like this happens but after discussing it with twitch chat here's what we decided to do first i retrace my steps and get back to ace trainer destiny i lead fat and then on the first turn i throw a pokeball at the electabuzz and get hit by a thunderbolt on the next turn i go for an earthquake this more or less simulates a critical hit from electabuzz then i do my best to retrace my actions i switch to jack jack as raichu goes for dig again for some reason then i switch to nut as the dig connects for some damage then i start clicking mirror co this time raichu goes for thunder wave first and then she sets up a light screen and then she just goes for a thunderbolt so mirror coat just kills the raichu why it went for thunderbolt this time instead of dig i'll never know but both twitchchat and i felt that this was a good faith effort to replicate the events that unfolded so hopefully this satisfies most viewers but i know some people will still be irritated for what it's worth i'm probably the person that is most upset because i really hate when stuff like this happens but i guess it's just a byproduct of human nature so let's move on oh but before we put this to rest just in case it makes anyone feel better against the very next trainer and electabuzz crits fat with a thunderbolt again only this time it's a magneton that comes out so this time i just have to risk the crit on fat which is essentially risking the entire run fortunately magneton does not get a critical hit and fat finishes it off with an earthquake this has not been a particularly fun set of games for me if i'm being honest but now it's finally time for volkner and i have a solid plan i'm going to lead groot into volkner's jolteon and stun spore it this will force jolteon to want to use thunder wave to gain back the speed advantage so i'll switch to gerber and encore it into thunder wave i'm also going to pre-poison kerbers so that he can't get fully paralyzed then i'll set up a trick room which lets slow pokemon move before fast pokemon and then i'll switch to fat who under trick room will be able to out speed and one shot volkner's strongest pokemon with earthquake i won't be able to beat all of his pokemon before trickroom runs out but i'll be able to take out the ones that can do the most damage to fat now when i explain my strategy in a video before the start of a battle it's usually because the strategy ends up not working out at all and this is of course what happens here so where does it all go wrong well i lead badoo into vulchner's jolteon jolteon uses thunderwave which paralyzes groot but a lumbery cures the paralysis and then i miss a stun spore so jolteon hits an iron tail and i miss another stun spore i'm now starting to see that my plan had quite a few holes in it jolteon hits another iron tail as group finally connects with the stun spore i go for a protect to scout out jolteon's move but unfortunately he's just going for an iron tail since he now sees the kill so it's not safe to switch to gerber instead i switch to rosemary's who gets lucky and dodges an iron tail then i use wish as jolteon goes for a charge beam which of course boosts its special attack i switched to fat and then thankfully jolteon misses a charge beam so the wish was kind of a waste on the next turn despite already out speeding fat jolteon goes for a thunder wave so our lumbery heals the paralysis and then an earthquake takes out jolteon second is raichu and this thing has focus blast but i don't really have a safe switch and munchlax is bulky enough to tank one focus blast so i just stay in and hope that raichu doesn't crit but then raichu misses with focus blast letting fat get off an earthquake for the one shot the rng of this fight is insane and it's only halfway over third is electivire i stay in and take almost half of my health from a thunder punch before retaliating with an earthquake that just barely misses out on the ko then a citrus berry brings the electavire out of healing range so i switch to yoda who gets hit hard with a thunder punch time to risk a crit electivire uses thunder punch but it doesn't crit so we are able to take it out with a double edge last is luxray but things are still looking pretty bad it looks like we need to make a sacrifice here and since crew really dropped the ball at the beginning of this battle it's pretty clear that he's going to be the one making the sacrifice he survives to switch in because luxury goes for thunder fang but it doesn't matter we really need a safe switch into nut rest well group you are an invaluable member of the team until you weren't from here i bring in nut luxury uses crunch and then i retaliate with counter only problem is that it is not enough to kill luxray this is actually really bad because now luxray will heal and there's not much i can do about it so i just click encore as he heals on the next turn luxray goes for crunch which nut survives and crunch brings him back into the red from here i anticipate that he heals so i switch to fat but lux ray just goes for another crunch which of course gets the defense drop so now i'm dead to even a non-critical hit crunch so i switch to rosemary's [Music] well that sucks looks like i've got to make another sacrifice here based on my rough plan for the elite four nut is the most expendable here so he's the one that i switch in rest in peace nut thank you for all your help unfortunately since gerber doesn't have any attacking moves i have to bring in fat and prey luxury doesn't get a critical hit so lux ray hits a thunder fang and fat survives knocking out lux ray and winning us by far the hardest gym batch of the run honestly if raichu had connected with focusness i'm pretty sure that would have been a wipe after the battle i just let groot evolve into roselia rest in peace baby groot you're free now with that all that's left between our babies and becoming champions is victory road the elite four and the dreaded battle against cynthia victory road isn't too much of a problem but there is one final battle against our rival fortunately since it's literally the last fight before the elite four we can afford to be very close to the level cap which is quite a bit higher than old mcd's team still his team is nothing to sneeze at old mcd leads to raptor and i lead shark shark is able to knock out the straptor with a single ice beam heracross comes out second but this time i can give shark a wide lens which gives air cutter perfect accuracy meaning we now knock out the hair cross in one shot third is rapid ash but shark is an absolute monster with the level advantage she's able to out speed and one shot the rapidash with a surf fourth is snorlax and now we've got a problem fortunately this problem has an ugly buff-shaped solution we switch an aspirin who just barely doesn't survive a body slam rest well little one thank you for your sacrifice this lets me bring in boomer who has been pre-damaged to one hp so reversal easily takes out the snorlax in one shot fifth is empoleon but boomer out speeds so a reversal kills it too and last is roserade but even though he resists fighting type moves boomer is just too powerful and roserade goes down winning us the battle with that out of the way all that's left is to prepare our final team of six babies and level them up to the level cap of 59 to match lucian's gallade here's who made the cut i also make sure to edge them until they're close to level 60 since according to my rule set the level cap ends when the first battle against the elite four begins so ideally some of our pokemon gain a level during the first few fights i don't do this for easier challenges but i'm literally using babies here i'm gonna take any help i can get let's see if these six infants have what it takes to become champions of the sinnoh league first up is a aeron unsurprisingly we'll be using back ribs to light little fires everywhere with a flame plate attached back ribs is able to outspeed and knock out every single one of aaron's pokemon well except for drapion since drapion isn't actually a bug type fortunately though drapion comes out last so back ribs has already slaughtered all four of erin's other pokemon from here i switch to rosemary's who tanks across poison then drapion uses another cross poison i gain some hp back with a citrus berry and i hit a yawn on the next turn i tank one more cross poison and then use baton pass to get a completely safe switch into fat as drapion falls asleep then draping snoozes for two turns as i hit it with two earthquakes winning us the fight but if you thought that was easy wait until you see what we do to bertha she leads wiscash and i lead rosemaries which cass uses sandstorm and then we hit her with a yawn then rosemary's gets hit with an earth power as he uses another slovaton pass to get a free switch to shark although earth power wouldn't have actually done damage anyways with whiskash fast asleep shark sets up an agility which is needed to outspeed bertha's glyssaur then shark takes out wishcash with two serps as she just snoozes for a few more turns from here it's what you'd expect all of bertha's pokemon have terrible special defense and are weak to water type moves so they go down to a surfer piece it's really funny to watch shark with that huge smile on its back just devastating bertha's massive fully evolved pokemon with that we're halfway through the elite four and we haven't even broken a sweat third is flint and his fire types so it's time for another shark sweep sort of she's not exactly the fastest or the strongest pokemon so she will need a little bit of setup here fortunately she also has decent special defense so flynn's hound doom isn't too threatening i start with an agility so that i can out speed all of flint's pokemon waiting in the back and then how doom goes for a sunny day waste of a turn buddy because on the next turn i set up a rain dance and then get hit by a fairly hard dark pulse but from here rain boosted surfs knock out most of flint's pokemon we only have rain for four turns so there will be one pokemon that we have to take care of without rain fortunately his most intimidating pokemon come out first since infernape knows thunderpunch and magmordar knows thunderbolt flareon comes out fourth which is also fortunate because he's the only one of flint's remaining pokemon that we wouldn't be able to one-shot with a surf if rain wasn't up rapidash comes out as the rain stops but a surf is still enough to knock it out netting us another easy victory but last is lucian and our plan is a little shakier here since it relies on his mr mime trying to set up screens if he doesn't and instead goes for an attack things could get a little scary i lead gerber into lucian's mr mine and then mr mom sets up a reflect perfect because gerber locks mr in to reflect with encore this means that we're completely free to set up two meditates which boost our attack then i use trick room to make slow pokemon out speed fast pokemon for five turns then i use baton pass to transfer the attack boost from meta tight to fat conveniently this is timed perfectly for mr mime's reflect to wear off so i kill mr mime with a return since we spent a turn baton passing we only have two more turns of trick room to play with but fortunately lucian brings out his most problematic pokemon first a gallade with drain punch that goes down to a return and an alakazam with focus miss that also goes down to a return after that trick room expires and espeon comes out but he's not very threatening to fat who has a really solid special defense stat especially for a baby after tanking a psychic another return knocks out espeon last is bronzong but it's got very little to hit fat with it just goes for calm mind so a fire punch knocks out the bronzong in one shot and with that we've won the battle and defeated the elite four but the elite four are nothing compared to cynthia i mean how are a bunch of silly little babies going to take down her freaking garchomp i'll tell you how with teamwork and insanely broken baton pass threats but mainly teamwork after making our final preparations we enter cynthia's chamber the iconic music starts and our final battle begins cynthia leads spirit tomb and i lead back ribs who's holding a focus sash this focus sash ensures that i'll be able to get off two hits on this spirit tomb even if the thing crits but i mean come on the spirit tomb never quits right so i start using captivate which harshly drops her special attack thanks to the drop spiritum doesn't do much damage with her attacks so i'm able to get off two more captivates dropping her special attack all the way down to minus six but after the third captivate spiritum does land a crit knocking out sweet baby back ribs but that was always the plan we need a safe switch to rosemary's so baby back was always going to go down there rest well you beautiful weird duck thing rosemary's comes out and first gets hit with a dark pulse which thankfully doesn't crit or flinch so we're able to safely set up a substitute then rosemary's goes for a yawn as the substitute absorbs the damage from the dark pulse after taking another dark pulse from spirit tomb rose mary's uses a slow baton pass to transfer her sub over to gerber and then spiritom falls asleep she continues to stay asleep as gerber sets up two meditates then i use baton pass to transfer the attack boost from gerber to jack jack as spear tube just stays asleep we go for a thunder punch which does just over half health as spirit tomb just continues to snooze through her slow demise the substitute means that we probably didn't need this good of sleep luck but hey i'll take it consider it karma for the absolute nonsense that was the final battle in my diamond fire type only run anyways another thunder punch takes out spirit tomb then cynthia's mighty guard chomp comes out but guess who's able to out speed and knock it out with an ice punch that's right car chomp feel the pain of our icy toddler-sized fist next is lucario but we out speed and kill it with a low kick fourth is togekiss but we punch that thing right in the face with the thunder punch and it too goes down fifth is milotic meet check jack's fist and then suddenly we've gotten to cynthia's last pokemon her rosary but it too falls to the icy power of jack jack's tiny baby fist and with that we've beaten pokemon platinum with nothing but a team of babies it took a lot of planning and definitely plenty of sacrifice but other than volkner i was actually surprised by how smoothly everything went despite being babies i still had access to a few fairly solid pokemon and the diversity of all of our babies made it so that i had a lot of different tools at my disposal honestly this was by far my favorite challenge run so far i've said this before but as fun as it is to do mono type challenges it's so much more fun to have access to different types of pokemon that can be used to develop more complex strategies it was so satisfying to brainstorm and come up with how to tackle each major battle with nothing but a bunch of weak babies so hopefully you enjoyed watching the video at least half as much as i enjoyed making it either way thanks so much for watching and for all your continued support if you enjoyed watching it'd be great if you could like the video and subscribe or not i 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: 670,717

Keywords: Pokemon, Nuzlocke, Hardcore Nuzlocke, Gaming, Baby Pokemon

Id: 17aj9_btXMg

Length: 52min 32sec (3152 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 06 2021