Pokémon White 2 Hardcore Nuzlocke - Normal Types Only! (Challenge Mode, No items, No overleveling)

hi everyone my name is nick and before the video starts i just want to say thank you for this past week i recently hit 1 000 subscribers and that's all thanks to you guys everyone always dreams of becoming a youtuber so having that become a reality for me is just blowing with that said this is my attempt at a hardcore nuzlocke using only normal pokemon if you go around asking people what they think of every type they'll generally have the same answer steel types are often seen as super defensive electric types are fast but frail and bug types are often seen as weak oh wait i disproved that in one of my videos but when it comes to the normal type people have mixed opinion some people will say that they're bad because they have no type coverages while others will say that they're good because they have no type weaknesses personally i think of them as the vanilla flavor of ice cream by itself it's nothing special but a good vanilla ice cream can never go wrong additionally vanilla pairs up nicely with almost any topping normal types are just like vanilla ice cream they might not seem special on paper but the average normal type is actually really good normal types often have really wide move pools that can cover your team's weaknesses but since i'm restricted to only using normal types i can't really show that to you in pokemon white 2 there are 18 normal type pokemon lines so our options aren't as restricted as other pokemon challenges to make up for this i decided it was appropriate to play on challenge mode if you don't know what a hardcore nuzlocke is here's the rules if a pokemon faints in battle it's considered dead and must be boxed permanently i can only catch the first normal type pokemon on each round bag items may not be used and i cannot level my pokemon past the next gym leader's highest level pokemon also i must play the game on set mode with the intro out of the way let's see how i beat pokemon white 2 on challenge mode using only normal types real quick if you like this video please like and subscribe everything was streamed on twitch so if you want to see the behind the scenes come check me out thanks the journey doesn't start until after i leave aspersion city but i make sure to pick snivy so that our rival has the fighting type starter emboar this will just make it harder for us later on in the game the real starter is found right here on route 1 where i catch a pat rat if you've played gen 5 then you know he has hm slave written all over him on route 20 i catch a pit of probably the most forgotten early route bird pokemon but when you have to compare with the likes of star raptor and corvonite then i completely understand the last encounter is lillipup from flockasee ranch nothing too special about him but he does have an amazing nature that raises his speed i level everyone up to the cap and i challenge charon sharon also uses normal types and has the exact same team as me so this is a battle to see who is a better trainer me or charon he gets to use potions but we have a level advantage so our team seem pretty even right now but one thing we have that he doesn't is frustration frustration is given to us by the team plasma grunt and floccus ranch it's a move that increases in power the lower the friendship is by keeping my pokemon stored in the pc i can train up my team members without increasing their friendship too much this makes frustration a decently powerful move available for all my pokemon luckily lillipup gets takedown at level 15 so takedown does the rest of the work we do almost take ourselves out with critical recoil but we're all fine nothing much happens between charon and roxy so we get our next encounter i go to riverbank complex and i catch myself in autumn i get everyone leveled up and i head towards rocks so one thing to keep in mind when using normal types is that they'll always have a base 100 power move available to them return is a move that increases in power with higher friendship at max friendship return is a base 102 power move that's available to every pokemon combined with the same attack type bonus from normal types that's basically a giga impact on any other pokemon so you can probably imagine what happened to roxy when you're using giga impact on a level 19 worlipede granted we did have to use two workups but i was more than confident that this would be a deathless victory the next part of the game is what i like to call a mistake who in their right mind thought that this would be a good idea anyway i head towards castelia city where i can catch some of my next encounter i catch a rattata in the sewers and a skitty in the hidden forest of castelia city after all the team plasma story stuff i head to berg to get my badge now that i've completed my bug only challenge in platinum i've come to love bug pokemon even more and seeing berg being a bug specialist there's only one thing that i have to say is that he's not doing it right he's not bringing out the best of his pokemon both his carol blast and shellmet could be evolved by now so as a bug specialist myself he does have room for improvement hertier takes out the double and i bring out tranquil on the carol blast i set up two workups and air cutter takes out the kerablast next in is levanny and air cutter one shots it as well last is shellmet and he goes down two earning us the third badge if i had to pick between bugsy and berg i'd say my favorite bug specialist would be aaron now with the third batch out of the way we've officially made it to the mid game there are quite a few encounters coming up so i decided to go in blind and let chance decide what i get this was a big mistake here on route 4 there are actually two possible encounters menchino or braviary obviously i got the menchino here this usually isn't a problem menchino can be found in a lot of places and bravery can also be found in one other place so what i can do to guarantee the bravery encounter is to catch all the other normal types on that route at a different route so that bravery is the only encounter i can catch on that one route however that route is at the end of the game and it has several unique encounters that i can't find anywhere else so there's no guarantee that i'll be getting a braviary this could be a run-ending play since my only weakness is fighting types of course i do have on pheasant but braviary has a much better ability and has a much wider move pool but i'll worry about this later right now i gotta fight elisa her gym really isn't too hard since i got the dig tm on route 4. all of my team are physical attackers so they can actually all learn dig of course emolga is immune to dig so i hit her with a super fang as she goes for a volt switch flappy comes in and i hit her with another super fang as she tries to go for a thunder wave the ai is trying to paralyze me here to lower my speed but a cherry berry cures my paralysis and a strength takes out the flaffy she then sends a joltik trying to get the paralysis on me a strength brings her down to red health but he gets off the thunder wave and she heals him back up to full i click strength trying to go for the kill but she both switches out of here into your molga luckily emolga is only at half health so strength takes her out joel tick comes back in and i switch into stoutland because i know i'm dead to a critical vote switch here stelton swaps in and joltik indeed goes for the volt switch jolte gets a critical but a berry keeps me at three fourths of my health in comes that striker i go for dick as he hits a stomp dick doesn't do enough and keeps him in the red health even with the berry he's still in the range to be healed i thought that elisa would go for a hyper potion so i used work up so that my next dick could take him out now that i'm dead to a critical stomp i switch into raticate to kill the sub striker raticate is faster and elisa doesn't heal her zeb striker so dig takes her out last is the joltik she's slower than radicate so return one shots to joltik earning us the fourth badge you know these gym battles aren't really a threat to us we're usually able to deal big damage to them because all of our moves are either stab or super effective against them this is something that i always keep in mind when i'm doing my challenge runs sometimes i don't need to look for a super effective move and rather a stab move will do its job perfectly fine also i could have gotten a cast from on this route but he wouldn't have been too useful since cast form does change typing in the weather so i could only keep him in the normal form anyway time for clay clay has an aggressive team of physical attackers so this should be fun i'll need to find a way to get around the croc rock though croc rock has intimidate which lowers the attack of my physical team he also builds his team around the sandstorm so the plan i come up with involves on pheasant using taunt by taunting the croco rock he can no longer use sandstorm and he's forced to use crunch on pheasant i then switch into manchino to charm him down and lock him into using crunch as i switch into stoutland i set up a workup so that return can take him out with one shot the next pokemon in was onix now onyx is not a good pokemon but this onyx has sturdy and has the move explosion which can do big damage considering i'm only a half health after chipping it down for a bit i go for dig and on the term that i'm underground onix goes for the explosion knocking himself out sand slash comes out next but he goes down to a return last is excadrill who goes down to a dig this finishes clay earning us the fifth badge if there's one thing you could take away from everything up till now it's that return is a really good move return is often given to you at the start of the game and is a free 100 base power move that's available to all pokemon all you really need to do is run around in circles to increase your pokemon's friendship now that i've made it to miss dalton city i can catch myself a deerling who is one of the few dual type normal types deerling is a normal grass type which is super effective against marlin it's also the only coverage we have against rock types one of the typings that resist normal types and is super effective against aren't pheasant as i make my way through miss dralton gym i plan for skyla skyla uses flying types a typing that we normally don't have any coverage for but stoutland can learn thunderfang from the movie learner and some of my other team members can learn thunder punch as well this makes skyla really easy she starts with swooban a psychic flying type so i lead with stoutland stalin has crunch a dark type move that one shot swoobat she then sends in her ace swanna who takes a four times thunderfang and dies to one shot she then sends out sigileth another psychic flying type crunch leaves her in the red health so she's actually able to get off a hypnosis but i wake up next turn as she goes for a psychic another crunch takes out the sigilift and she sends out skarmory next skarmory is actually a three shot because a berry keeps her healthy enough seeing that i'm only at half health i switch into watchog to cut skarmory's health in half with superfang steelwing does too much damage so i switch out into audino who has surf to target the skarmory's low special defense the first surf brings garmin down to red but she doesn't go for a heal i thought she would so i went for a workup to boost my special attack they hit the next surf and take out discard me winning me the sixth badge right now the trend that seems to be popping up is that if return doesn't do enough damage then i could just teach another move that does enough damage there's nothing in between the 6th and 7th gym so i fly to lenomas town and i head over to andela town i can catch a swall blue here but i won't be able to evolve it since altaria loses a normal type so i won't be using sua blue the next important fight is a rival battle against hugh in this battle his tepig is fully evolved so ambor is actually a problematic fighting type he starts with his unpheasant who goes down to two ice fangs this baits out the emboar who probably has a fighting move i switched to unpheasant knowing that he's the only one who can take out this emboar instead of going for a fighting move emboy goes for a takedown i use feather dance to lower its attack so he can't do as much damage to me i roost up to heal some hp hoping it doesn't go for a fighting type move and then a fly takes it out next in his semicore who has brick break i switch into manchino trying to get off a seed bomb but skull does way too much damage i switch into sawsbuck knowing that i was dead to a random move and luckily simi for went for the skald horn leach takes out the semiport getting us the victory over hugh the next task is to get to oppalucid city and get the 7th gym badge we do have to cross a couple of routes but we managed to get to oppalucid unscathed drayden uses dragon types a very beastly typing thankfully most of our team can learn ice type moves like ice punch and icefang i lead with stoutland against his dreddagon so that intimidate can lower his attack and icefang does most of his health while a berry keeps him out of potion range his crunches don't do too much damage so another icepang takes him out altaria comes in who's four times weak to ice type moves so a single ice fang takes it out next in his flygon another four times weakness to ice icepang also takes him out last is haxorus icefang does most of his health but a berry keeps him above half he uses dragon tail and drags out menchino since i'm faster return takes out the hacksters winning us the seventh batch everything's going pretty smoothly so far what happens next is a bunch of team plasma story stuff none of it's too interesting since they only use ice and dark types so i do pretty well against them before i can finish up the main plot of the story i gotta head to humalao city i fly to andela town and walk through the marine tube to get to humalao city marlin is a water type specialist so i teach a bunch of grass and electric moves to my pokemon he leads with whale lord a pokemon with big hp i start with sawsbuck and a horn leech takes out the whale lord with one shot the next pokemon to come in is mantine that knows air slash i don't want air slash going into sauzbuck so i switch into audino he uses confused ray instead so i switch back into saucebook to take the weak scald i switch into stoutland as mantine goes for another skald and thunderfang takes him out he then sends in kara costa a very dangerous pokemon caracosta has shell smash which doubles his attack and speed i switch into sawsbuck trying to get off a horn leech but a critical rockslide knocks out saucebook looking back at this saucebox definitely didn't have to die stoutland was more than likely to be faster and a thunderfang would have definitely killed since caracasa has -1 defense this was definitely a mistake on my part but stoutland is a much more useful pokemon than saucebox so this is not too bad of a loss anyway with the loss of saucebook we win the eighth badge at least he didn't die for nothing now with all our badges we can finish up the rest of the story there's a bunch of battles on the plasma frigate but once we beat zinzalin it grants us access to the giant chasm here we can finally catch another encounter at the entrance of the giant chasm we can get a clefairy right now they're the only special attackers that we can get our hands on i walk into the giant chasm and i confront team plasma arguing with team plasma again on the plasma frigate there's a bunch of team plasma grunts that fight us as we solve through the puzzle but there's two notable battles that i want to highlight the first is this one against zinzalin he's supposed to be a boss battle but i just don't see it fire punch from watchock takes out both of his triagonals and then he sends out weavile firepunch just barely doesn't do enough as he goes for a night slash it does big damage but seeing as i'm faster i just go for another fire punch to take out the wii vial the second battle i want to highlight is against coleris an actually hard boss battle chorus specializes in technology looking pokemon so he starts off with a magneton fire punch does about half as he goes for a thunder wave luckily a cherry berry cures our paralysis as we go for the dick to take out the magneton he then sends in magna zone for some reason i didn't go for dig which looking at how much damage fire punch did would have definitely killed him he gets a critical discharge and leaves watchhawk with two hp left i switch into autonote as he goes for another discharge and gets the paralysis on me thankfully the next drain punch takes him out the next pokemon he sends in is clint clang he likes to set up shift gear with clean clank so i tried to go for a drain punch but we get fully paralyzed letting him get off a free shift gear i switch into stoutland to use dig as he goes for another shift gear i forgot that i didn't pop the air balloon yet so the first dig actually does nothing i had to hit him with a crunch first to break the air balloon then i could go for a dig to take him out matan comes in and i use a crunch as he goes for an agility crunch does about half so i know dig is guaranteed to kill he misses his meteor match and when i come up i knock out the metang his last pokemon is a behemoth who dies to a crunch chorus can be surprisingly hard because he mainly uses steel types which resist normal type attacks to wrap up the story we go to the other room to check out who's really the mastermind behind all this and of course it's gets this i make my way deep into giant chasm and i get saved by anne and reshiram once reshiram gets consumed it's up to us to save him my leading pokemon is stoutland that i need forgets this i switch into chinchino as kirum goes for a slash a return from chinchino does more than half as a fusion flair brings me to low health since i'm faster i stay in and a return takes out the kirum this brings us to our fight against getsys his first pokemon is the coffeegregis since most of my pokemon learn crunch a dark gem boosted crunch from stoutland takes out the coffee grigas with a single hit his next pokemon is a seismitoad with drain punch i switch into unpheasant to take the fighting type move then into manchino on a weaker muddy water grass gem boosted seed bomb takes out the seismatode toxicroak comes in i use dig to avoid the brick break and knock out the toxic croak drapion is next and i know that a dig won't kill him but i also don't want him to be in potion range so i use a return to bring him down to low health he still heals the drapeon though so the next return takes him out he sends in his ace high dragon i switch into stoutland to get off and intimidate and return nearly takes him out dragon rush gets me to low health but since i'm faster return knocks up the high dragon ghett says his last pokemon is electros stellan's low on health so i switch into audino to do some damage return does more than half so i know the next return will kill elektras go for an acrobatics which i completely forgot he had and brings me down to red health luckily my guest was right and the next return does take him out and with that the only thing between us and the end of the game is the pokemon league i make my way towards route 23 where there are three possible encounters one of them is the bravery that i mentioned before obviously a good encounter but not the one i'll be getting today the other two encounters are buffalon and a xangoose in the hidden grottos the pokemon i decided to go for was the zangus even though zangus can be found in many different places like route 15 and village bridge the xangos i'm getting here is special because it has the ability toxic boost toxic boost is basically guts but only for poison it increases the power of physical moves when the user is poisoned this is an amazing ability zangus also learns facade which also increases in power when the user is poisoned so when you combine the 70 base power of facade with toxic boost the effective facade and the staff bonus you get an extremely powerful move this does mean that we won't be able to get another flying type but zengus is just that much better than a braviary this however does not mean that we can relax for the elite four you're probably all wondering how am i gonna get past marshall and chantal normal type moves won't be able to hit chantal's pokemon and marshall's fighting type are all super effective against you so how will we get past them well most of chantal's pokemon are dual type pokemon this means that i can look for moves that are super effective against their second typing and not have to worry about the ghost type marshall however will not be that easy none of his pokemon are dual type pokemon so i'll have to brute force past him and it's going to be a challenge just take a look at how this throw is dealing with my team since fly is not a 100 accurate move this throw was able to set up a bull cup and is now demolishing my team a single rock slide does most of my health which means that a super effective fighting type is gonna be able to kill me it just knocked out my raticate and it's probably gonna knock out some more return doesn't do nearly enough damage so a circle throw knocks out autonomous as well but now the throw is damaged enough fly from pheasant takes it out the trainer's last pokemon is a golurk a bulky ghost type megapunch gets me to low health so i use a crunch to damage him some more and i let watchock die i roost up to get some health back and eventually a flight takes out the golurk that battle went horribly i just lost half my team if i want to make it through the elite for a lie i'm gonna need my team to be the best as i can gun sparse is too slow of a pokemon and del caddy is just weak there is one more encounter that i can get but there's only a one percent chance that i get it so this is gonna take a while in the hidden grotto on route 9 there is a one percent chance that i can find a bouffalont while buffalon is definitely not a good pokemon it's better than anything else we have in the box eventually though we do manage to find it this is going to be the best our team will get the very last obstacle between us and the league is another rival battle normal gem boosted return takes out the unpheasant and seed bomb takes out the semipore expecting a brick break from emboar i switch into unpheasant to tank the hit but he goes for a rock slide i guess he saw that rockslide was also a kill at the health i was at i switch into stoutland to get off and intimidate and a normal jump boosted return takes out the bouffalont this defeats hugh which means that we finally made it to the pokemon league after a long planning session i challenged the elite four first is chantal the biggest problem on our team is the chandelure it's choice scarf so it's faster than all of my pokemon and it has three very damaging moves psychic energy ball and fire blast i first set up a sword stance with zangoose this way a shadow clock and one shot the coffee gregis unfortunately due to mummy we lose our toxic boost ability which means that we won't be dealing as much damage but a sword stance shadow claw is just enough to take out the goler out comes the chandelor at the health imat it has a 1-3 chance to use either fire blast energy ball or sidekick and we got lucky since it went for the energy ball i stalled out the chandeleur by setting up light screen and using work up to plus four shadow ball is now strong enough to take out her entire team chandelure goes down to a shadow ball and next she sends out dripblim driftboom also goes down to a shadow ball and last is bayonet shadowball takes out the bayonet beating the first elite four everything is going according to plan the second elite four is grimsley grimsley uses dark types by typing that facade can actually hit so he was no problem life part who's faster gets off a fake out and a night slash but a single facade takes him out scrafty goes down to a facade and out comes crookedile crocodile does get intimidated on us but a close combat is enough to take him out facade also takes out the absol and a close combat knocks out the bisharp winning us over the second elite four caitlyn was also an easy elite four taunt the mushroom so i can't use reflect and i set up sword stance this puts me in the position to sweep caitlyn assad takes out the mushroom facade also takes out the reuniclus close combat knocks out metagross sergio left goes down to a facade and gotha tell also goes down to a facade this concludes the third elite four caitlyn time for marshall probably the hardest trainer i'll ever face i start with unpheasant to take out the throat on pheasant goes up as he misses a rock tomb flying gem powered fly then takes him out concolder comes in and i use feather dance to lower its attack but he makes up for it by using a bulk up his flamewar burns him so i get off a sky attack it leaves him with one hp left as he hits me with a stone edge thankfully the burn damage takes him out sucks in next and in order to break sturdy i got a sacrifice on pheasant on pheasant goes up and hits sock with a fly as he goes down to a rock slide see you buddy you won't die for nothing zangus comes in and finishes off the rest of marshall's team minsha goes down to a facade and lucario goes down to a close combat this concludes the elite four and we're on to the champion the way you do champion fights is simple once a pokemon serves their purpose you sacrifice them this way your next pokemon comes in safely so i plan to do exactly that fight starts against a high dragon close combat knocks him out with one hit dradogon goes down to a facade agron dies to close combat lapras also goes down to close combat finally xango's goes down breaking the sash on haxorus well done you were definitely the mvp of this run bouffalon comes in i go for a sword stance as she heals her hacksaws next turn as she sets up a dragon dance a normal gem boosted giga impact takes out the hacksaws her last pokemon is archeops i love buffalo faint to bring in stoutland stetling gets off the intimidate and thunderfang brings archeops down to defetus mode a final thunderfang takes out archeops winning us the challenge this challenge was fun definitely not the hardest since there's a lot of pokemon available to you but i guess playing on challenge mode makes up for it i love playing through black and white and black and white too because gen 5 is my favorite generation to play in once again i want to say thank you to all of you for 1 000 subscribers on youtube the journey has been amazing and i hope i can continue this in the future as always if you enjoyed this video please like and subscribe and leave a comment on what you would have done differently i also received a bunch of comments on what i should do for my next video but until then thank you for watching

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Length: 26min 36sec (1596 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 07 2021