You know MDB, 9:55 is a great idea for an April fools run. A gen 3 "TACKLE" only run, where you use tackle, recoil tackle, the harder recoil tackle, tackle from above, and any other you want.
Honestly it's refreshing to see runs with legendaries allowed. Would be great to see more runs like this where you get to use them! Maybe a gen2 run with only Bite? That'd let you use the legendary beasts.
I love the idea of “only one move” runs. The thought of putting weak moves on super buff Pokémon like you’re rolling up in a tank then shooting them with a slingshot is hilarious!
Moltres Ball Count Totals: Articuno: 36 Fearow: 37 Farfetch'd: 2 Dodrio: 13 Lapras: 2 Total balls used: 90 Tried my best at 25% speed to count them all from the footage, some were a bit difficult with the transitions between the battle attempts but hopefully this is correct! Moral of the story? Gen 1 ball catch rates are perfectly implemented with no flaws at all!
Also, some of you might know that already, the great ball in Gen1 is mostly better than the ultra ball due to some oversight in the formula for catching Pokémon. There is a great video explaining this by Lyra made a website. It's really stupid, and thus typically Gen1
@@xeno_phobik I tried my best. And hey? You're the hero we need just as much, comments are good for the Yourube algorithm, so I took the 9 attempts route to make some of the graphics when poke swaps and battle changes occurred. Comment outside of this comment if you think MD'FNB finds this accurate. I think i can win this challenge with using the slow mode on TH-cam. I chose the SlowMoBro fossil, but comments are good for the algorithm. Guess if I'm right or not with the other brave soldier who calc'd it at 93? I think my ball count is accurate from my excel sheet, but who knows? One of the best parts of these estimates, but I think I can at-least tie with the 93 guesser. Comment your guesses down below, and also consider watching MDB's Let's Play of "Nancy Drew: Shadow of the Water's Edge"!
We will make an exception to the rules set. Only PECK but also Goldeen can use horn attack because it's the same horn it uses for peck. Meaning it's not really breaking the rules
Always annoyed me for about 20 years that, in that exact circumstance, Horn Attack wouldn't work on Ghosts but Peck does, despite it being the SAME HORN 😂
I think it would be neat to see you do a run where you can only use the move Assist. Would definitely make it an interesting task to try to balance out the moves on the rest of the team you have.
Oh by the way, you probably already started it, but there is an option in the Universal Pokemon Randomizer to have trade evolutions evolve by level up! You might want to ask the audience if you should turn that on or what level would be good, but I think it makes sense given the spirit of the run that you could allow the trade evolutions to evolve some different way!
@@brandonsmith2459 Depends on the evolution method. For the just trade to evolve like Machamp yeah, but if you want a Slowking on Crystal, you'll have to use a water stone
Yes, also thought of this. Might be considered cheating, since it alters the game, but personally I'd be fine with this, since it's mostly to compensate for not being able to actually trade. Even if he already started the run, it should still work. Afaik you can put a rom through the Randomizer mid-run without breaking anything. Would only "re-randomize" stuff depending on the settings (which we don't do here anyways).
Have you considered doing gen1 with only Blaine's team? You can use items in battle, but healing items only when your hp is full, status healing items(burn heal, ice heal) only when you're not statutes and X items only when you're at +6 of said status (and Dire Hit only after Focus Energy, Guard Spec only after Safeguard)
have you ever thought about a set damage move only run? moves like sonic boom, dragon rage, night shade, seismic toss, poison gas, will-o-wisp, leech seed, etc...
I think a Cranidos solo run in Platinum could be interesting. It has super high physical attack but bad stats over all, and a type matchup that isn't ideal for most of the leaders
Hey Mah-Dry-Bread, I know why it took so long to catch those Pokémon with ultra balls. I just watched the video I linked below which explains gen1 catch rates. As expected they don’t make any sense. TLDR, the great ball would have served you much better in this instance. Keep up the great content! Would you ever consider doing a whacky divinity original sin run? th-cam.com/video/BZ0YL9r0B3I/w-d-xo.html
Great balls can often be better than ultra balls, but for a low HP legendary like this situation, ultras should still be better. What does blow my mind is that there's no advantage to go below 33% HP.
Fun fact about Dux the Farfetch'd-he shows up in the Pokémon Journeys episode "Trade, Borrow, and Steal!" and in the dub his trainer pronounces "Dux" like "ducks" so that's the official pronunciation for the anime at least.
Great video, as always! :) Tick the box "Change impossible evos" in Universal Randomizer and you can evolve Haunter and Kadabra without trading (just by level up). It's a bit late now, I guess, since MDB already started the run. But for future reference, it works :)
So...Did you check Hidden Power? Awesome run, especially awesome to get to see both Dodrio and Articuno pull weight. There's something I've always loved about Gen 1 Dodrio, and Articuno is one of my favorite pokemon of all time despite how often it's gotten the short end of the stick as a Legendary. It genuinely got me smiling seeing you went out of your way to capture the Legendary Birds for this run, who knows when that'll ever happen again.
Fun fact, Articuno's kind of unique in that it can learn Mind Reader and Sheer Cold, making it the only pokemon (besides smeargle sketching those moves) that can learn a OHKO move and has a way to guarantee it'll hit every time.
Dodrio is the second best gen 1 flying type behind Zapdos, it's faster with better coverage than fearow and the other flying types are mostly pretty bad
A run where you can only use Gym TMs would be interesting. Play normally until you beat the first gym then only the tm moves. You could use any pokemon you wanted, and as many as you wanted, but since the tms are single use you have to choose wisely.
The closest you can get to a Gen 1 Rage only run is to use a Kangaskhan with Scrappy in Gen 4. You'd either have to grind early game so you can use only Rage the rest of the run or give it Rage at the beginning. Now that you know it's possible (albeit not in Gen 1), you legally have to do it, I don't make the rules.
Yeah but Rage is WAY better in Gen 4, like its actually viable to give Croconaw it especially if you're going against Whitney as Rollouts puny starting damage basically gives you 2 power boosts
Hey, so I have an idea for a run. How about a "Mimic Only" run? The idea would be that you can use whichever Pokemon you want, but they can only use "Mimic" and the mimicked move in battle. Any Gen would work, but Gen 1 might be the most fun for this.
Single move challenges are very type dependant, so it might be interesting to use moves with variable type, or would that make things too easy? Mimic, secret power, mirror move, OHKO moves? (We all know metronome was no fun) I take it all back, a psywave-only run is the only option
If he did a Psywave only pokémon playthrough than he should be allowed to use rare candies. The reason is for his audience's enjoyment and he can use his videos as a reference on what level his pokémon should be.
This is a thoroughly entertaining run. Here is an idea for a pokémon playthrough of pokémon red or yellow. What if you only used continuously attacking moves? This would mean any move where after using it your pokémon will only use that move until it misses or faints. These moves are like rollout. They prevent you from using items on your pokémon while it is using a move in battle. These moves are Wrap, Rage, Thrash, Clamp, and Petal Dance. I think that's all of them. Everyone knows you most likely won't use rage. But, Mankey learns rage and thrash. In red and yellow Mankey learns Thrash at level 39.
Now that we’ve done a damage move only run let’s do a non damaging move only run. Like toxic leech seed destiny bond etc. would be hilarious and painful too 😃
Every time I see you do a Gen 1 run it makes me REALLY want to see a collab video with you and JRose! You're two of my favourite youtubers, I just think it'd be great
difference between horn attack and peck on goldeen. when it uses horn attack it just charges u with its horn, hence its normal. when pokemon use peck, there beak/ horn glows making it able to hit ghosts
Cool video. Can’t imagine there’s been many where you’ve been allowed to use legendaries Yeah the physical/special split in gen 4 really benefited Sneasel
Blaine has a 1/4 chance of using a Super Potion, no matter what is going on. Compare that to Lance, who has a 1/2 chance of using a Hyper Potion *if* his Pokemon is below 20% health. on each turn, X is a random number between 0 and 255 Lance: If under 1/5 health, use a Hyper Potion if X < 128 Blaine: Use Super Potion if X < 64
Tried it months ago and it's brutal. Lance's Gyarados is *that* much of a brick wall that, using similar strats to Jrose, I had to get to lv 78 because you HAVE to two-shot it with Body Slam or he will either two-shot you back or leave you too weak to beat the other 4 pokemon. It was bad enough to make me forfeit my attempt at doing the same with Vulpix and Ninetales, because they're so much weaker physically than the fire dogs that Vulpix's more interesting movepool (Confuse Ray + Fire Spin specifically) sometimes isn't enough to make up for the lack of Agility, and Ninetales doesn't get ANY of those moves so it ends up being even worse than its pre-evolution.
I'm having an internal chuckle at the idea of someone asking a Goldeen what the difference between its Horn Attack and its Peck is, and the Goldeen doing exactly what you'd expect for Horn Attack, but then Peck is just an aggressive and unwanted fish kiss
I really enjoyed this one move challenge!! Can you some more like this?? Like maybe the same run but in Gold or silver!! Great great great video!!! Keep up the good work!!!
I don't know how you feel about changing out parts of the game, but some of the randomizers can tweak to allow level up evolution of trade-only pokemon. I think it still requires you to level them to 45 or so to get them to evolve. Just something that might make your runs a bit easier, maybe make a community poll to see if your viewers would be in favor of it? Regardless, I've not been a longtime viewer, but i enjoy watching your runs. You, Jrose, and Scott started me doing my own runs on emulators.
I really liked this one, it keeps in the style as the other videos but is a really nice change of form as instead of trying to get the best moves you can on a bad pokemon, you try to get the best pokemon you can with bad moves
You should do a run with…no rules. Just a regular play through. I’m dying to see what you playing normally would look like. I bet you would even take the dome fossil!
Hey MDB! i love to watch some of your stuff in the background while i shiny hunt and with the 7DTD videos i was wondering if it was possible if you could include just a little bit more footage- even if it’s mundane. i love that game and it’s really cool to listen to you play. even if some of it isn’t the most entertaining gameplay in the world.
About that idea for a Rage only run, it is theoretically possible, depending on the Gen you try to do it in. That's because Kangaskhan learns it and also gets Scrappy as an ability, allowing you to use the move against Ghost types.
Loved the run! The idea of single moves is quite intriguing and i suppose it saves time on strategy? Man, i totally forgot how HEINOUS dodrio’s backsprite was in gen1
Great work as always MDB! I know you mentioned that a Psywave run is one of the few you wouldn't be up to doing, and I can only speak for myself, but I think most of us would be totally okay with you using other moves for leveling up, or even using a rare candy instead to save some time. You've always been very conscious of making sure not to level past a reasonable point to progress when you grind, and I believe most everyone would be fine with you using them because of that. But, if you don't feel like it's a run you'd enjoy, don't do it! I'd rather see the MD F'in B whose excited for a run he wants to do rather than an MDB whose doing a run just for the fan requests. Thanks for all you do, your Let's Plays make my commute to giraffe school a relaxing time, and I can't wait for a new gen, 4K Nancy Drew remaster so we can experience that masterpiece all over again! Cheers man!
For the rival's team run, you can trade by opening a multiplayer window in mGBA. It's a godsend, but make sure you make a save state for both games you're using beforehand. It can be kind of screwy sometimes.
You should do a run without damaging moves in red/blue or fire red/leaf green, you get to start with bulbasaur so you have leech seed and train forcing enemy metapod/kakuna to struggle, you'll need to catch another pokemon to help stall the Metapod/Kakuna's harden! Hope you see and do it!
Idea for a challenge: Dual (or maybe multiple) challenges in one! For example: Only Onix with no new moves, or only rival's team and no free healing. I feel like you could get pretty creative with this!
can't wait for you to post a screenshot of someone not only missing the pinned comment, but the video title and thumbnail itself and being like 'you know there are other moves you can use right' lol... great run as always!! i found this one really interesting, i don't think i have ever seen or attempted a challenge based solely on one move. would love to see more of these kinds of runs in the future. saw someone suggest bite in gen 2, so i'm seconding that!
Random thought came to me when you caught the Goldeen. What is Peck on Goldeen is a nod to Parrot fish which have beaks for mouths used to eat coral? Just food for thought
I think there is a glitch in first gen Pokémon games where the ultra catch rate is broken and they aren’t very good, I think it’s actually better to use great balls for catching
Comments are good for the TH-cam Algorithim! I don't know what to say this time, but I want to show support, so here we go again! Also I think for the rival team one you should use something like pokegen to force them to evolve or something of that sort. It's more important to have the full accurate team.
This may have already been said, and MDB is already doing the next challenge, but in the future, if necessary, you can use the Universal Pokemon Randomizer to check "Impossible evolutions". This makes trade evolutions simply evolve at a certain level, around the late 30s to early-mid 40s. Good for next Saturday's challenge for example
Would like to see a run where you play as N. (Rules being for each area you have to only use pokemon from that area and 'release' them when you go to the next area) This isn't my idea originally, somebody else did suggest this a while ago and I forget who it was.
Fun fact: if you're just yeeting balls at a mon in gen 1, as soon as the ball pattern changes (E.g Moltres wasn't even shaking, but eventually did) you'll catch it. Because as the chance doesn't change, the animation played is always the default for how likely you are to catch it. As a way of the game to say "look, this one has so low of a chance they don't even shake. Do something else."
An idea for a challenge that would have a bit more variety than this and might be more fun yet might be slightly difficult Pokemon Emerald with only cutting/slashing moves Rules: - You can only use cutting/slashing moves in battles - You can catch Pokemon for all mandatory HMs except Cut - No glitches or exploits - No items in battle except held items What would count as cutting moves could be your decision but in my opinion, the moves ( at least for Gen 3 ) would be; Cut, Slash, Drill Peck, Razor Leaf, False Swipe, Fury Cutter, Metal Claw, Crush Claw, Dragon Claw, Poison Tail, Leaf Blade, Air Cutter, and Razor Wind.
You should do a run with only positive priority moves (whatever generation you get a mon with priority move with before the first gym) Other than extreme speed and technician they aren’t very powerful so it could be interesting also speed not mattering is cool I I think gen six could be interesting because of water shurikan being special which I think is the only one besides vacuum wave prankster for status moves is cool to, so many intricacies it would be very interesting to see A harder alternative is negative priority moves like revenge and avalanche
Yeah, here are a few dumb runs I did and would love to see someone else try. Metronome only run: every single Pokémon only knows the move Metronome, which makes for a hilarious run (mine was a Nuzlocke btw); No attacking run: you have to rely on things like Toxic, Confusion and weather; and a SL1 run, try to beat the game with only lv1 Pokémon
Maybe for "Other players' team" run you could set the Universal Pokémon randomiser to make trading evolution allowed by level up, just like your Alakazam in the Blue Randomised Serie.
The anime actually explains why moves like Horn Attack/Peck/Megahorn work on some types and not others. When the attack is used X-Type Energy is being channeled into the body part. Similar situation with Close Combat/Beat Up/Outrage/Comet Punch and similar Moves.
Fun fact- Seaking can learn peck, but Seel and Dewgong can't learn horn attack or horn drill! Despite this, many of thier pokedex entries talk about them using thier horns to break ice and such. They CAN get it as an egg move, but that just means if it's half Seaking of Lapras they can learn it from the non-seal half.
It's sad that Fearow has been outclassed in every generation by Dodrio (even after they nerfed Dodrio in bdsp with it not getting jump kick and removing return)
what if you do a one type only run? like fire red with only bug type or something like that, you could only use bug pokemon and bug moves or something like that, but with different types
Hey Mah-Dry Bread, not sure if you’ll see this, but I have an idea for rare candies in full party runs. I think using rare candies to catch up newly caught Pokémon up to your highest level Pokémon -10. For example, if you caught a new Pokémon and your ace was level 50, you could level it to 40. I think this would make the run feel more like a team.
For the Rival's Team in Crystal Run, to make trade evolutions work without trading, there is a checkbox function on the universal Pokemon Randomizer which lets you remove trade evolutions and make them work by Level up or something else. For Kadabra and Haunter, you just need to level them up to 37 or above.
I mean, if you really wanted to torture yourself with a rage only run, then you could say only use rage on non ghost type pokemon. After that you can either use struggle (I forget if that counts as normal in gen 1 or not) or just use whatever moves for ghost types. Great video as always though, I appreciate you making consistent videos for us to watch.
You know MDB, 9:55 is a great idea for an April fools run. A gen 3 "TACKLE" only run, where you use tackle, recoil tackle, the harder recoil tackle, tackle from above, and any other you want.
Every move is dig
@@velvetbutterfly I see you too are a connoisseur of small ants.
Yes please
@@LuckoftheKevin no that's just true it has no business about smallant
@@velvetbutterfly But dig is just a 2 turn underground tackle!
MDB's pure relief when they realized that a Rage only run would be truly impossible due to ghosts was incredible
Could just do a "rage" run. Rage, Dragon Rage, Outrage. None of them are good by any stretch, and we get around that pesky ghost excuse.
@@Teenlink alternatively rage only in a gen with scrappy
@@Aegisoftheshine think shiny doomed MDB here xD rip ghost excuses :)
@@CyberchaoX Thrash could work
@@CyberchaoX Could be done that way (Dragon Rage, Outrage, Rage) in FireRed or LeafGreen.
Honestly it's refreshing to see runs with legendaries allowed. Would be great to see more runs like this where you get to use them! Maybe a gen2 run with only Bite? That'd let you use the legendary beasts.
@@patrickormerod3472 Maybe watch your kid and not let technology babysit him?
@@patrickormerod3472 nvm youre a bot
@@SamiiSam128 no
Oh nice, maybe he will demonstrate the catdive technique once.
Earthquake only run? Easy? Tell that to surge lol
I love the idea of “only one move” runs. The thought of putting weak moves on super buff Pokémon like you’re rolling up in a tank then shooting them with a slingshot is hilarious!
Truly an impeckable run.
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You could say it was the pe(a)ck of runs.
It's about lunch time. I'm feeling a bit peckish.
Moltres Ball Count Totals:
Articuno: 36
Fearow: 37
Farfetch'd: 2
Dodrio: 13
Lapras: 2
Total balls used: 90
Tried my best at 25% speed to count them all from the footage, some were a bit difficult with the transitions between the battle attempts but hopefully this is correct! Moral of the story? Gen 1 ball catch rates are perfectly implemented with no flaws at all!
I've been scrolling the comments looking for this. You're the hero we need
You didn't include Moltres
Also, some of you might know that already, the great ball in Gen1 is mostly better than the ultra ball due to some oversight in the formula for catching Pokémon. There is a great video explaining this by Lyra made a website. It's really stupid, and thus typically Gen1
@@xeno_phobik I tried my best. And hey? You're the hero we need just as much, comments are good for the Yourube algorithm, so I took the 9 attempts route to make some of the graphics when poke swaps and battle changes occurred. Comment outside of this comment if you think MD'FNB finds this accurate. I think i can win this challenge with using the slow mode on TH-cam. I chose the SlowMoBro fossil, but comments are good for the algorithm. Guess if I'm right or not with the other brave soldier who calc'd it at 93? I think my ball count is accurate from my excel sheet, but who knows? One of the best parts of these estimates, but I think I can at-least tie with the 93 guesser. Comment your guesses down below, and also consider watching MDB's Let's Play of "Nancy Drew: Shadow of the Water's Edge"!
@@codangarrison1195 'apologies, I was counting "attempts", so the successful catch wasn't included
We will make an exception to the rules set. Only PECK but also Goldeen can use horn attack because it's the same horn it uses for peck. Meaning it's not really breaking the rules
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With one and the same knife you can cut someone, or stab them, dealing different type of damage.
Always annoyed me for about 20 years that, in that exact circumstance, Horn Attack wouldn't work on Ghosts but Peck does, despite it being the SAME HORN 😂
@@zanon__ I would argue the horn gets in the way and does the pecking.
Goldeens horn will always be a mystery
"He used Hyper Potion to deal a decent little bit of damage."
Lance: "Take this! Hyaaa!" *chucks a Hyper Potion at WingAttack*
Wait, that's cheating!
This is the best comment on any video I have ever seen.
And I've seen some funny ones on music videos.
Thank you for this-
Reminds me of how in some Final Fantasy games, healing spells can be used on certain enemies to hurt them
TH-cam ahh comment😭😭💀💀🔥🔥
I think it would be neat to see you do a run where you can only use the move Assist. Would definitely make it an interesting task to try to balance out the moves on the rest of the team you have.
The rules you are implying means he can have anything in the back of his party so yeah
I’ve said this a few times, the problem would be assist mons VS no assist mons. Also, before move deleted may be hard
I think that would end up being a Struggle run but like the other person says, just have a team with godly moves
@@HaydnG266 4 assist mons, and 2 mons with type variety. Luck based
My brain sees this as every pokemon has assist and any other moves. Maybe hacked that any mon can learn assist if that us possible
Oh by the way, you probably already started it, but there is an option in the Universal Pokemon Randomizer to have trade evolutions evolve by level up! You might want to ask the audience if you should turn that on or what level would be good, but I think it makes sense given the spirit of the run that you could allow the trade evolutions to evolve some different way!
You mean i get to see him use struggle on a machamp when he turns it on? Sign me the fyck up
I always evolve around the E4 since stone evolutions usually stop learning moves so I evolve them there too
Pretty sure if you click that they evolve at 37( on par with most three stage evolution lines)
@@brandonsmith2459 Depends on the evolution method. For the just trade to evolve like Machamp yeah, but if you want a Slowking on Crystal, you'll have to use a water stone
Yes, also thought of this.
Might be considered cheating, since it alters the game, but personally I'd be fine with this, since it's mostly to compensate for not being able to actually trade.
Even if he already started the run, it should still work.
Afaik you can put a rom through the Randomizer mid-run without breaking anything. Would only "re-randomize" stuff depending on the settings (which we don't do here anyways).
MDB is about to show the game the.. PECKING ORDER
Good heck I was not prepared to have my name be said so many times in this video 🤣🤣
Have you considered doing gen1 with only Blaine's team? You can use items in battle, but healing items only when your hp is full, status healing items(burn heal, ice heal) only when you're not statutes and X items only when you're at +6 of said status (and Dire Hit only after Focus Energy, Guard Spec only after Safeguard)
And use Roar at least once per trainer battle.
@@williamfalls maybe once per major trainer batlle ex rivals and gyms as that would suck during grinding
There definitely has to be a rule to use a certain amount of items per battle.
o cannot use healing items when HP is full. Only CPUs can.
have you ever thought about a set damage move only run?
moves like sonic boom, dragon rage, night shade, seismic toss, poison gas, will-o-wisp, leech seed, etc...
The PP on the first 3 is so low you would run out in a fight against just a few monsters.
@@jamesbernier493 That's why it would be a fun challenge to watch.
Leech seed doesn't do set damage it does damage depending on the health of the Pokémon it's used on
@@steampunkfox4932 Which is set per Pokémon. Night Shade can also change mid-battle if you level up
I see ur also a d&d player
After slowing down the footage. I can determine with my 3 combined brain cells that it took exactly 93 ultra balls to catch that moltres.
If anybody is interested it took 93 ultra balls to catch Moltres at 20:01
I think a Cranidos solo run in Platinum could be interesting. It has super high physical attack but bad stats over all, and a type matchup that isn't ideal for most of the leaders
Hey Mah-Dry-Bread, I know why it took so long to catch those Pokémon with ultra balls. I just watched the video I linked below which explains gen1 catch rates. As expected they don’t make any sense. TLDR, the great ball would have served you much better in this instance.
Keep up the great content! Would you ever consider doing a whacky divinity original sin run?
th-cam.com/video/BZ0YL9r0B3I/w-d-xo.html
Great balls can often be better than ultra balls, but for a low HP legendary like this situation, ultras should still be better. What does blow my mind is that there's no advantage to go below 33% HP.
Oh, I think I've been getting that one recommended to me.
imagine getting pecked 56 times cause some trainer gave their Spearow a PP Max and let it escape
I like the way you think lmao.
Fun fact about Dux the Farfetch'd-he shows up in the Pokémon Journeys episode "Trade, Borrow, and Steal!" and in the dub his trainer pronounces "Dux" like "ducks" so that's the official pronunciation for the anime at least.
Great video, as always! :)
Tick the box "Change impossible evos" in Universal Randomizer and you can evolve Haunter and Kadabra without trading (just by level up). It's a bit late now, I guess, since MDB already started the run. But for future reference, it works :)
So...Did you check Hidden Power?
Awesome run, especially awesome to get to see both Dodrio and Articuno pull weight. There's something I've always loved about Gen 1 Dodrio, and Articuno is one of my favorite pokemon of all time despite how often it's gotten the short end of the stick as a Legendary. It genuinely got me smiling seeing you went out of your way to capture the Legendary Birds for this run, who knows when that'll ever happen again.
Fun fact, Articuno's kind of unique in that it can learn Mind Reader and Sheer Cold, making it the only pokemon (besides smeargle sketching those moves) that can learn a OHKO move and has a way to guarantee it'll hit every time.
Dodrio is the second best gen 1 flying type behind Zapdos, it's faster with better coverage than fearow and the other flying types are mostly pretty bad
I think the only question is what fossil he took in Mt. Moon
You called Dodrio Dugtrio in the second to last rival fight. I guess this is the new Water Onix.
Dugdodo
What about going a run with only multi hitting moves? Like fury attack, bullet seed, arm thrust, double kick etc. probably would be best in gen 3
A run where you can only use Gym TMs would be interesting. Play normally until you beat the first gym then only the tm moves. You could use any pokemon you wanted, and as many as you wanted, but since the tms are single use you have to choose wisely.
The closest you can get to a Gen 1 Rage only run is to use a Kangaskhan with Scrappy in Gen 4. You'd either have to grind early game so you can use only Rage the rest of the run or give it Rage at the beginning.
Now that you know it's possible (albeit not in Gen 1), you legally have to do it, I don't make the rules.
Yeah but Rage is WAY better in Gen 4, like its actually viable to give Croconaw it especially if you're going against Whitney as Rollouts puny starting damage basically gives you 2 power boosts
MDB knows how to get my attention by slapping Fearow on the thumbnail. Can’t wait for this!
Hey, so I have an idea for a run. How about a "Mimic Only" run? The idea would be that you can use whichever Pokemon you want, but they can only use "Mimic" and the mimicked move in battle.
Any Gen would work, but Gen 1 might be the most fun for this.
3:51 You're not alone, MDB, I always get celadon and cerulean mixed up too, these names are similar and confusing.
Love these gimmick runs that long time watchers only get. What a great show!!
MDB: oh thank God, I won't have to do a Gen 1 Rage ONLY run because of ghosts
Everyone: Damn it!!!!! Mission failed boys, we'll get him next time
Single move challenges are very type dependant, so it might be interesting to use moves with variable type, or would that make things too easy? Mimic, secret power, mirror move, OHKO moves? (We all know metronome was no fun)
I take it all back, a psywave-only run is the only option
If he did a Psywave only pokémon playthrough than he should be allowed to use rare candies.
The reason is for his audience's enjoyment and he can use his videos as a reference on what level his pokémon should be.
Fearow has been my favorite pokemon since forever. It makes me so glad to see him in those challenge runs for once.
This is a thoroughly entertaining run.
Here is an idea for a pokémon playthrough of pokémon red or yellow.
What if you only used continuously attacking moves?
This would mean any move where after using it your pokémon will only use that move until it misses or faints.
These moves are like rollout.
They prevent you from using items on your pokémon while it is using a move in battle.
These moves are Wrap, Rage, Thrash, Clamp, and Petal Dance.
I think that's all of them.
Everyone knows you most likely won't use rage. But, Mankey learns rage and thrash. In red and yellow Mankey learns Thrash at level 39.
Pokémon challenge: Gen 1 only krabby, no HM Pokémon. Krabby can learn all three required hms
Now that we’ve done a damage move only run let’s do a non damaging move only run. Like toxic leech seed destiny bond etc. would be hilarious and painful too 😃
I feel that wing attack should also be allowed to be used because they literally the exact same move in generation one
But its only peck
But do they use their beak (or horn in Goldeen’s case)?
25:46: You are now picturing Lance chucking a hyper potion and hitting Fearow with it, dealing damage.
I suggest a Red/Blue run with only Magmar. If you look at its move list you’ll understand why.
If you want throw in no Tms for added challenge.
Keep trying, I believe in you
I just checked the movelist. Yikes, thats shit for such a cool looking pokemon.
Wow it’s so much worst then I thought yeesh
I actually just comment this to give support to the channel he won’t do this Magmar is to strong even with the handicap.
I mean, it makes a bit more sense when you consider what level you get magmar at
Every time I see you do a Gen 1 run it makes me REALLY want to see a collab video with you and JRose! You're two of my favourite youtubers, I just think it'd be great
That would be so cool.
41st Pokemon Challenge where I ask you to take the fossil opposite the one you say just to see who notices
I'd like to see this happen.
difference between horn attack and peck on goldeen. when it uses horn attack it just charges u with its horn, hence its normal. when pokemon use peck, there beak/ horn glows making it able to hit ghosts
Great run, got me really into birds and their beaks and stuff. But which fossils did you take? Also Gen 6 with Noibat pretty please.
Dude, I'm loving how creative these are getting. Keep it up !!
Cool video. Can’t imagine there’s been many where you’ve been allowed to use legendaries
Yeah the physical/special split in gen 4 really benefited Sneasel
Blaine has a 1/4 chance of using a Super Potion, no matter what is going on. Compare that to Lance, who has a 1/2 chance of using a Hyper Potion *if* his Pokemon is below 20% health.
on each turn, X is a random number between 0 and 255
Lance: If under 1/5 health, use a Hyper Potion if X < 128
Blaine: Use Super Potion if X < 64
Challenge: Pokémon Fire Red with only a single *Growlithe*
Decent stats, shallow movepool and in a region that is really harsh on fire-types.
Wasn't there one nicknamed something funny in the pokémon stadium playthrough? That would be hilarious.
Tried it months ago and it's brutal. Lance's Gyarados is *that* much of a brick wall that, using similar strats to Jrose, I had to get to lv 78 because you HAVE to two-shot it with Body Slam or he will either two-shot you back or leave you too weak to beat the other 4 pokemon.
It was bad enough to make me forfeit my attempt at doing the same with Vulpix and Ninetales, because they're so much weaker physically than the fire dogs that Vulpix's more interesting movepool (Confuse Ray + Fire Spin specifically) sometimes isn't enough to make up for the lack of Agility, and Ninetales doesn't get ANY of those moves so it ends up being even worse than its pre-evolution.
I'm having an internal chuckle at the idea of someone asking a Goldeen what the difference between its Horn Attack and its Peck is, and the Goldeen doing exactly what you'd expect for Horn Attack, but then Peck is just an aggressive and unwanted fish kiss
I really enjoyed this one move challenge!! Can you some more like this?? Like maybe the same run but in Gold or silver!! Great great great video!!! Keep up the good work!!!
What move is common in Johto that is learned by several pokémon and isn't normal type?
He can do a peck only run in Gold!
I don't know how you feel about changing out parts of the game, but some of the randomizers can tweak to allow level up evolution of trade-only pokemon. I think it still requires you to level them to 45 or so to get them to evolve. Just something that might make your runs a bit easier, maybe make a community poll to see if your viewers would be in favor of it? Regardless, I've not been a longtime viewer, but i enjoy watching your runs. You, Jrose, and Scott started me doing my own runs on emulators.
He should allow Wing Attack, too, because it's essentially the same thing in Gen 1.
God those games are wack.
I really liked this one, it keeps in the style as the other videos but is a really nice change of form as instead of trying to get the best moves you can on a bad pokemon, you try to get the best pokemon you can with bad moves
Hey MDB, I gotta ask, have you checked your Hidden Power types? I think that could’ve saved a lot of time
You should do a run with…no rules. Just a regular play through. I’m dying to see what you playing normally would look like. I bet you would even take the dome fossil!
Hey MDB! i love to watch some of your stuff in the background while i shiny hunt and with the 7DTD videos i was wondering if it was possible if you could include just a little bit more footage- even if it’s mundane. i love that game and it’s really cool to listen to you play. even if some of it isn’t the most entertaining gameplay in the world.
About that idea for a Rage only run, it is theoretically possible, depending on the Gen you try to do it in. That's because Kangaskhan learns it and also gets Scrappy as an ability, allowing you to use the move against Ghost types.
Some challenge ideas:
"Can I beat Red with Blue's team?"
Loved the run! The idea of single moves is quite intriguing and i suppose it saves time on strategy?
Man, i totally forgot how HEINOUS dodrio’s backsprite was in gen1
Levelling goldeen and evolving to seaking would have been good for Lorelei
Loved the single move run! Was a lot of fun seeing some of the legendary Pokémon
I’d love to see a run where only set damage moves are allowed-night shade, seismic toss, sonic boom, dragon rage, psywave.
Great work as always MDB! I know you mentioned that a Psywave run is one of the few you wouldn't be up to doing, and I can only speak for myself, but I think most of us would be totally okay with you using other moves for leveling up, or even using a rare candy instead to save some time. You've always been very conscious of making sure not to level past a reasonable point to progress when you grind, and I believe most everyone would be fine with you using them because of that. But, if you don't feel like it's a run you'd enjoy, don't do it! I'd rather see the MD F'in B whose excited for a run he wants to do rather than an MDB whose doing a run just for the fan requests. Thanks for all you do, your Let's Plays make my commute to giraffe school a relaxing time, and I can't wait for a new gen, 4K Nancy Drew remaster so we can experience that masterpiece all over again! Cheers man!
I have no idea how autocorrect turned "grad school" into "giraffe school", but I like it so much I'm not editing it out. Giraffe school sounds awesome
For the rival's team run, you can trade by opening a multiplayer window in mGBA. It's a godsend, but make sure you make a save state for both games you're using beforehand. It can be kind of screwy sometimes.
You should do a run without damaging moves in red/blue or fire red/leaf green, you get to start with bulbasaur so you have leech seed and train forcing enemy metapod/kakuna to struggle, you'll need to catch another pokemon to help stall the Metapod/Kakuna's harden! Hope you see and do it!
Misty’s Starmie definitely does not have Recover in Gen 1.
"Not looking forward to Celadon because of Misty"
Looks like MDB came from an alternate timeline where Pokemon was procedurally generated
Love the "one move" idea. Pretty fun spin on these runs. How about ember in emerald?
Idea for a challenge: Dual (or maybe multiple) challenges in one! For example: Only Onix with no new moves, or only rival's team and no free healing. I feel like you could get pretty creative with this!
Fun Fact: Articuno and Moltres can only learn Peck in Gen 1, while Zapdos can learn Peck from Gen 2 onward. That includes the Galarian Forms, BTW
can't wait for you to post a screenshot of someone not only missing the pinned comment, but the video title and thumbnail itself and being like 'you know there are other moves you can use right' lol... great run as always!! i found this one really interesting, i don't think i have ever seen or attempted a challenge based solely on one move. would love to see more of these kinds of runs in the future. saw someone suggest bite in gen 2, so i'm seconding that!
Random thought came to me when you caught the Goldeen. What is Peck on Goldeen is a nod to Parrot fish which have beaks for mouths used to eat coral? Just food for thought
I think there is a glitch in first gen Pokémon games where the ultra catch rate is broken and they aren’t very good, I think it’s actually better to use great balls for catching
Can’t wait for the next English lesson video! 😂 seriously, that part made me laugh
Comments are good for the TH-cam Algorithim! I don't know what to say this time, but I want to show support, so here we go again!
Also I think for the rival team one you should use something like pokegen to force them to evolve or something of that sort. It's more important to have the full accurate team.
This may have already been said, and MDB is already doing the next challenge, but in the future, if necessary, you can use the Universal Pokemon Randomizer to check "Impossible evolutions". This makes trade evolutions simply evolve at a certain level, around the late 30s to early-mid 40s. Good for next Saturday's challenge for example
Would like to see a run where you play as N. (Rules being for each area you have to only use pokemon from that area and 'release' them when you go to the next area) This isn't my idea originally, somebody else did suggest this a while ago and I forget who it was.
Main Character: Mom, I become Pokemon League Champion
Mom: How did you do it?!
Main Character: I used Peck!
Lol awesome run!
Fun fact: if you're just yeeting balls at a mon in gen 1, as soon as the ball pattern changes (E.g Moltres wasn't even shaking, but eventually did) you'll catch it. Because as the chance doesn't change, the animation played is always the default for how likely you are to catch it. As a way of the game to say "look, this one has so low of a chance they don't even shake. Do something else."
My favorite part of the video is when MDB used peck
This concept is super fun, I think it would be better in a game where the Pokemon had abilities. Then you'd have a bit more strategy involved.
I could see a psywave run if you used like a mew or something, just have really strong Pokémon using a move that does random damage cause that’s funny
An idea for a challenge that would have a bit more variety than this and might be more fun yet might be slightly difficult
Pokemon Emerald with only cutting/slashing moves
Rules:
- You can only use cutting/slashing moves in battles
- You can catch Pokemon for all mandatory HMs except Cut
- No glitches or exploits
- No items in battle except held items
What would count as cutting moves could be your decision but in my opinion, the moves ( at least for Gen 3 ) would be; Cut, Slash, Drill Peck, Razor Leaf, False Swipe, Fury Cutter, Metal Claw, Crush Claw, Dragon Claw, Poison Tail, Leaf Blade, Air Cutter, and Razor Wind.
Aww I was hoping Goldeen was going to have a bigger role.
You should do a run with only positive priority moves (whatever generation you get a mon with priority move with before the first gym)
Other than extreme speed and technician they aren’t very powerful so it could be interesting also speed not mattering is cool I I think gen six could be interesting because of water shurikan being special which I think is the only one besides vacuum wave prankster for status moves is cool to, so many intricacies it would be very interesting to see
A harder alternative is negative priority moves like revenge and avalanche
Your relief after realizing that you won't have to do a gen1 rage run is *chef's kiss*
Yeah, here are a few dumb runs I did and would love to see someone else try. Metronome only run: every single Pokémon only knows the move Metronome, which makes for a hilarious run (mine was a Nuzlocke btw); No attacking run: you have to rely on things like Toxic, Confusion and weather; and a SL1 run, try to beat the game with only lv1 Pokémon
11:31 classic move from blaine here
Maybe for "Other players' team" run you could set the Universal Pokémon randomiser to make trading evolution allowed by level up, just like your Alakazam in the Blue Randomised Serie.
The anime actually explains why moves like Horn Attack/Peck/Megahorn work on some types and not others. When the attack is used X-Type Energy is being channeled into the body part. Similar situation with Close Combat/Beat Up/Outrage/Comet Punch and similar Moves.
Fun fact- Seaking can learn peck, but Seel and Dewgong can't learn horn attack or horn drill! Despite this, many of thier pokedex entries talk about them using thier horns to break ice and such. They CAN get it as an egg move, but that just means if it's half Seaking of Lapras they can learn it from the non-seal half.
It's sad that Fearow has been outclassed in every generation by Dodrio (even after they nerfed Dodrio in bdsp with it not getting jump kick and removing return)
I love how you got the helix fossil I hope my children can serve you well in hour future endeavors :)
what if you do a one type only run? like fire red with only bug type or something like that, you could only use bug pokemon and bug moves or something like that, but with different types
Challenge idea: So you just did a Peck run, so how about a Psywave only run
Can't wait for the bubble only run in like 5 months once you recover from this video
The rival must be so confused when you use a Articuno with only peck. Or a Magikarp
Hey Mah-Dry Bread, not sure if you’ll see this, but I have an idea for rare candies in full party runs. I think using rare candies to catch up newly caught Pokémon up to your highest level Pokémon -10. For example, if you caught a new Pokémon and your ace was level 50, you could level it to 40. I think this would make the run feel more like a team.
i thought peck was normal type because i confused it with gust, so i thought it was impossible due to ghosts
For the Rival's Team in Crystal Run, to make trade evolutions work without trading, there is a checkbox function on the universal Pokemon Randomizer which lets you remove trade evolutions and make them work by Level up or something else.
For Kadabra and Haunter, you just need to level them up to 37 or above.
I mean, if you really wanted to torture yourself with a rage only run, then you could say only use rage on non ghost type pokemon. After that you can either use struggle (I forget if that counts as normal in gen 1 or not) or just use whatever moves for ghost types.
Great video as always though, I appreciate you making consistent videos for us to watch.