I really love your content lately. As a dad, watching these once the kids are in bed is something I look forward to. Now you’re considering Nuzlocke, I’d love to watch you to a randomised Nuzlocke. This why you have to play on your feet all the time. It’ll be fun, anyway, thanks a lot for content bro!
As a lay out for nuzlocke rules, there are 3 1. One encounter per route/area 2. Faint = death 3. Nickname everything Dupes clause and whiteout=reset are general rules which most players play with (although the reset rule is cruel to beginners) Hardcore rules 1. No bag items except pokeballs in battle 2. No overlevelling 3. Play on set mode
for gen 1 im pretty sure it also includes no intentional use of the badge boost glitch as well, its ok if you gain its effect due to something the opponent does, but you arent really allowed to do it yourself. of course, you can use stats boost for the intended stat, but not for something like using amnesia for speed boost.
And in Gen 2 and later, another commonly used clause is Shiny clause, i.e. if you encounter a random shiny (the red Gyarados does not count), you are allowed to attempt to catch it even if you have already gotten your encounter for that route. Also I guess a kinda implicit exception to the rules would be that if you get so unlucky as to not have any encounter that can learn a HM you need to progress further, you are allowed to catch a HM friend solely for the purpose of using HMs.
@@marcosdheleno That's dumb though, considering, if you're using amnesia for the special boost, you're still getting the speed boost. So what's the actual in-game difference? "Oh, yeah, totally wanted a special boost, yup"...
I think one of the things that makes you a "Great Poketuber" is your in depth yet still casual style. You provide a lot of dense information in a easy and entertaining way. You could possibly do other games if you get passionate about them because the thing that keeps me watching is your presentation.
I want to see nuzlockes where whiting out isn't a loss. You keep going and until you dont have any pokemon left. This way you have to use your B and C teams. I think it would really open up a lot of new pokemon and strats because usually a persons first team to white out is their best pokemon.
Keep up the awesome work Jrose, this has truly been a special month. Like I said before each day has gotten better and better! It’s going to be hard to top this month for sure! This video gets the OG Bug Catcher official stamp of approval! 👍
3:11 To clarify the duplicate clause is optional to give you more team variety and doesn't say you can't catch duplicates, just that you have the option to re-encounter that's why it's called a clause. A lot of people either misunderstand / misinterpret the it as a rule where you can't have any dupes when it was initially just made so that people wouldn't end up with a team full of pidgeys thanks to bad encounter luck for example.
Ok I'm not a big Nuzlocke guy but this may have been the best way to present this run. Analysing how the game is to Nuzlocke and weaving your results in really worked well :)
As someone who only does nuzlockes, a 'casual hardcore nuzlocker' is a perfect description for what I do as well. Bringing in calcs and EV training is not fun to me, but hardcore rules are good haha
Earliest I've ever been! It's insane how you're doing a video a day for a month, I can't even imagine how much prep time that's taken. Glad you're here!
You are really the best Pokemon content creator on TH-cam to me. I was wondering what kind of content would come after the solo runs, really happy with the nuzlock decision and the way you approached it.
More of these, Jrose? Also.. you’re putting out videos so incredibly quick! I haven’t been around in a while and am surprised to see you’re putting out tons of videos :) got a lot to catch up on
Amazing you really upload a video every. Single. DAY! Love you JRose! Keep on going ❤️ Edit: also please play the Crystal clear romhack and make bunch of crazy videos about it ❤️❤️❤️
@@priestesslucy3299 you told me first about this romhack and I studied some videos. So what does it make worth playing in your opinion and what are your personal highlights if it's not too much to ask! Best greetings 🙌
@@errorfilenotfound It's basically: What if Crystal was made in Gen 6/7 with lots of love and unrushed development. Clear has its Open World gimmick which is cool, but Polished Crystal is a better game as a whole. it's far more.... _polished_ 🥁
I really love that you just play the game how you want it’s what Pokémon is really about everyone using Pokémon to help them enjoy their time with them it just makes me happy
Thank you jrose11 for doing this challenge. I've never done a nuzlocke before and it was interesting seeing a person with no experience doing this run. Also day three asking if physical chansey is possible. Thank you for another amazing video.
Woo, exiting that we are exploring new topics! I have done a few nuzlocke runs (in gen1) and managed to win, but my problem is that I normally let my pokemon get close to 0 hp before healing, and it is hard to get used to healing more often. Also, my personal house rule is to release the starter before battling Brock, I feel like they are too powerful to make it feel real. Adding to that, no new pokemon can be caught if I have a full team. Other than that, during battle, only status altering items are allowed.
Those are some weird rules... Choosing a team of 6 pokemon best suited for the next important fight requires a lot of skill. Only having 6 pokemon at a time delets that skill part of the game and makes the quality of your team way more random.
@@tewu8257 I do it for my own enjoyment, and I personally don't think it is fair to have a huge team of pokemon to chose among. The point of a Nuzlocke to me is to be forced to play with pokemon you normally wouldn't pick. It also helps in making the game more difficult, you cannot cherrypick the best pokemons. Plus, it makes it more exciting once a team member goes down, what will be the replacement? But to each their own!
@@staffan- sure i undestand that. Although i think there are better ways of nerfing/making your team more interesting, like only using unevolved pokemon or pokemon of a certain type.
For anyone who wants to nuzlocke gen 1 (hardcore or normal), a good thing to keep in mind is that crit chance is based off your Pokemon's base speed. So faster Pokemon crit more often. Also Venusaur is a great option as razor leaf legitimately almost always crits (regardless of speed from my experience). Pokemon like Raticate are extremely valuable early game for this purpose. Same with Pokemon like Jolteon, for another example.
Honestly, due to your solo run series, where you have broken down how to consistently win every fight, you could easily take the information from those, to be the healla best gen 1 nuzlocker.
It is getting more common for nuzlockers to use rare candies and the disable ev's because thats only grinding and not having skill in pokemon nuzlocking so if you continue to play nuzlock give it a try:D Love your vids and thank you for uploading everyday. It helps me
I am a huge fan of doing randomized nuzlockes (or wonder trade nuzlockes in new games). Also, I inadvertently add an additional rule, which is no using Boxes. Once I have 6 in my team, that's it until a space opens~
I'm loving the variety, firstly because they're great ideas, secondly because it means there's more videos before we're finishing Gen 1, which that'll be sad when Gen 1 is finished, as strange as that is to say about videos for a 25 y/o video game that I had done playing 23 or 24 years ago, but I'll miss the Gen 1 runs, it's a special Gen.
@@tewu8257 It is centered around permadeath. When your whole team dies, they're all dead. You lost some good friends, but it's time to pull yourself up by your bootstraps, grab that abandoned pidgey out of the PC and try to make it work
@@priestesslucy3299 well the way i see it is when the character "whites out" its like dying in a normal video game. Nevertheless i can see the appeal in saving the run with pokemon you normally wouldnt use, so your ruleset also makes sense
@@tewu8257 I can't remember a time it's actually happened, but I do accept Gameover in a Whiteout vs a wild Pokemon. No Pokemon to protect you means you done got eaten lol
A randomizer nuzlocke in Gen 1 shakes things up quite a lot. I did one in Yellow, and the amount of times I ran into a Mewtwo that wiped most of my team (either wild or via trainer) was horrifying.
It would be really cool if you do a nuzlocke for every gen game from red and blue till sword and shield and then rate them like in terms of difficulty, fun, time, amount of deaths lol.(maybe only do it until sun and moon since they have speed up)
It must've taken forever to set up a whole months worth of content. It's working out well though, thanks for the fun times Jrose! I wonder how much you'll change when you hit 10 million subs lol
I don't know if the night and day joke was on purpose or not, but I got a big chuckle when you said it considering Gen. 2 is the one where the day/night mechanic was implemented lol
I've enjoyed for the past few Pokémon games doing a Nuzlocke as my first run of the game, before I look up anything about a Pokémon's stats, evolution path, or typing. It's genuinely been a lot of fun to try Pokémon I'd normally pass up, or to find hidden gems on strange routes. I don't do the whiteout rule, though, since that'd be way too brutal for me.
To make it a bit more interesting, I usually do "no grinding" and "no AI abuse" as additional rules. Being underleveled is more challenge but in R/B there's not much challenge to begin with.
@@scoobiusmaximus9508 hahaha that's what I was thinking. The "good AI" essentially makes some battles unlosable unless you go out of your way to screw yourself over
I know from my own personal challenge runs, if you play Red/Blue/Yellow with a team of 6 and you can never beat wild Pokemon, you normally have a team of around L.45 by the end. So it's not too bad, but definitely not easy if you use weak Pokemon.
"My perspective will be different than that of the other NUTZLOCKERS you watch" honestly i've heard the term but this is the first time someone took the time to explain to me what the heck a Nutzlock *is* so first of all thanks for that :3 unfortunately (or fortunately?) it always makes me think of an ASMR video where a lady was going "nuzzle nuzzle nuzzle" while wearing a doggy outfit, which was very cute. So that's gonna be forever stuck in my head forever.
Personally I think the "challenge" part of Hardcore Nuzlockes is often overstated regardless of generation. It's why so many people throw in additional rules like mono-typings, Or they run Kaizo games where rather than playing a Pokemon game they're basically just rolling a needlessly complicated and tedious slot machine to get the encounters needed to even make the run possible.
Jrose you should totally take on the Emerald Kaiso challenge! I've been doing runs myself, it is a very hard but very fun and fair game, you would enjoy it a lot i think as would your fans ☺
The first (and so far only) Nuzlocke I ever did was of Yellow, and even keeping the Pikachu for the whole game, using no items, and playing on Set, I only ever lost a single pokemon (a Drowzee early on), and that's with Yellow's boss trainers actually having some semblance of thought put into their movesets. You're right that Gen 1 is just too easy without even farther restrictions, and you're going to end up with mostly the same pokemon every time because there's so little variety in what appears on each route. A randomizer to shake up the wild encounters is probably necessary at the least to make a Gen 1 nuzlocke remotely interesting.
The thing about Hardcore Nuzlocke challenges with type exclusivities, is that it really forces the player to go with really outstanding strategies to get over at least one Gym/Elite 4 battle, requiring very precise foretelling of events, and sometimes incredible adaptability and luck. I started watching Hardcore Nuzlockes after finding your channel, and it was night and day, as like you said, you're a very reckless player that tends to use very straightforward strategies, whereas the Nuzlocke player I watch is super meticulous in order to successfully win his runs.
I really love your content lately. As a dad, watching these once the kids are in bed is something I look forward to. Now you’re considering Nuzlocke, I’d love to watch you to a randomised Nuzlocke. This why you have to play on your feet all the time. It’ll be fun, anyway, thanks a lot for content bro!
I think this would be really fun.
Ha, I just show my 9 month old son. He thinks this is the dankest shit ever.
Ahaha literally me every night the last week
@@calvin8857 ill take things that never happened for 1000
Preach it brother! As a fellow dad I can testify one of my favourite things to do when my son is in bed is to chill out and watch Jrose on TH-cam
This month is the best month
December is great and right after the worst one too
Been a nice watch every day
I really appreciate these videos. Been having a rough time and Jrose is making this period so much better.
Lots of episodes to sleep to!
As a lay out for nuzlocke rules, there are 3
1. One encounter per route/area
2. Faint = death
3. Nickname everything
Dupes clause and whiteout=reset are general rules which most players play with (although the reset rule is cruel to beginners)
Hardcore rules
1. No bag items except pokeballs in battle
2. No overlevelling
3. Play on set mode
for gen 1 im pretty sure it also includes no intentional use of the badge boost glitch as well, its ok if you gain its effect due to something the opponent does, but you arent really allowed to do it yourself. of course, you can use stats boost for the intended stat, but not for something like using amnesia for speed boost.
@@marcosdheleno Amnesia is pretty busted in Gen 1 to be fair. It's a double Calm Mind essentially even without accounting for the badge boost glitch.
And in Gen 2 and later, another commonly used clause is Shiny clause, i.e. if you encounter a random shiny (the red Gyarados does not count), you are allowed to attempt to catch it even if you have already gotten your encounter for that route.
Also I guess a kinda implicit exception to the rules would be that if you get so unlucky as to not have any encounter that can learn a HM you need to progress further, you are allowed to catch a HM friend solely for the purpose of using HMs.
@@marcosdheleno That's dumb though, considering, if you're using amnesia for the special boost, you're still getting the speed boost. So what's the actual in-game difference? "Oh, yeah, totally wanted a special boost, yup"...
I’ll always see “nickname everything” as optional as it has zero impact on gameplay.
I think one of the things that makes you a "Great Poketuber" is your in depth yet still casual style. You provide a lot of dense information in a easy and entertaining way. You could possibly do other games if you get passionate about them because the thing that keeps me watching is your presentation.
I want to see nuzlockes where whiting out isn't a loss. You keep going and until you dont have any pokemon left. This way you have to use your B and C teams. I think it would really open up a lot of new pokemon and strats because usually a persons first team to white out is their best pokemon.
Keep up the awesome work Jrose, this has truly been a special month. Like I said before each day has gotten better and better! It’s going to be hard to top this month for sure!
This video gets the OG Bug Catcher official stamp of approval! 👍
Keep up the good work, Jrose! Much love to you, and your editors too!
3:11 To clarify the duplicate clause is optional to give you more team variety and doesn't say you can't catch duplicates, just that you have the option to re-encounter that's why it's called a clause. A lot of people either misunderstand / misinterpret the it as a rule where you can't have any dupes when it was initially just made so that people wouldn't end up with a team full of pidgeys thanks to bad encounter luck for example.
Loving all the content from recent videos, is something I eager want to watch after work and before going to bed
Thank you for all of this content Jrose! Don't burn yourself out!
Ok I'm not a big Nuzlocke guy but this may have been the best way to present this run. Analysing how the game is to Nuzlocke and weaving your results in really worked well :)
Love the video! Always fun to watch Nuzlocke challenges. I'm not the best at them, but I do enjoy them now and again
Just wanted to thank you for getting me into Nuzlocking, love this vid & the Gen 2 one!
Really liking all your new content. Appreciate your work!
As someone who only does nuzlockes, a 'casual hardcore nuzlocker' is a perfect description for what I do as well. Bringing in calcs and EV training is not fun to me, but hardcore rules are good haha
Ooh, now this is an interesting new idea for a video! I’m really curious to see what tips and tricks you’ll have for us!
Loving the variety of your videos lately
Yoooo jrose!! thank you for this month of banger content, you’re killing the game lately!
Keep up the content grind man I love it gets me through exam season
Just for your consistency you deserve 1 mil subs. Also thanks for your work
So exciting to see you doing this kind of challenge!
Earliest I've ever been! It's insane how you're doing a video a day for a month, I can't even imagine how much prep time that's taken. Glad you're here!
Cant wait to see gen 2!!! (My favorite gen)! Keep up the great work, loving jrose month!!
Really happy to see you pumping out the content Jrose
ANOTHER NEW SERIES?!?! Jrose you absolute legend. Favorite TH-camr by far
Your content is so consistent, but I love that you're still willing to try stuff out
You are really the best Pokemon content creator on TH-cam to me. I was wondering what kind of content would come after the solo runs, really happy with the nuzlock decision and the way you approached it.
Dude, I have been waiting for this for sooooo long.
Your breezy style keeps each video novel, it's quite the peaceful vibe.
It's nice to have a video to look forward to watch every day.
I'd LOVE to see a hardcore randomizer run
I don't know how you are doing all this content lately my dude but good stuff!!
Finally!!! I’ve been hoping for this 🎉🎉
Loving all the various content!
More of these, Jrose? Also.. you’re putting out videos so incredibly quick! I haven’t been around in a while and am surprised to see you’re putting out tons of videos :) got a lot to catch up on
he’s doing a month of daily uploads (somehow)
JohnstoneYT's randomized nuzlockes were so fun to follow. I'm hyped for this series from you, JRose!
I've been watching how people do nuzlockes, but to see the run from the inside is different. Thank you for the interesting video=)
Amazing you really upload a video every. Single. DAY!
Love you JRose! Keep on going ❤️
Edit: also please play the Crystal clear romhack and make bunch of crazy videos about it ❤️❤️❤️
Polished Crystal > Crystal Clear 😋
@@priestesslucy3299 you told me first about this romhack and I studied some videos. So what does it make worth playing in your opinion and what are your personal highlights if it's not too much to ask!
Best greetings 🙌
@@errorfilenotfound It's basically: What if Crystal was made in Gen 6/7 with lots of love and unrushed development.
Clear has its Open World gimmick which is cool, but Polished Crystal is a better game as a whole. it's far more.... _polished_ 🥁
Bro you are pumping out like a video a day. What a fucking champ. Thank you!
I look forward to more of this series!
I don't even know how you do it, man. This month of uploads is insane!!
I really love that you just play the game how you want it’s what Pokémon is really about everyone using Pokémon to help them enjoy their time with them it just makes me happy
So happy to see this Jrose. Hope you had a lot of fun 😘
Thank you jrose11 for doing this challenge. I've never done a nuzlocke before and it was interesting seeing a person with no experience doing this run. Also day three asking if physical chansey is possible. Thank you for another amazing video.
Absolutely smashing content here bro
Even if it wasn't very challenging, it was still fun to watch. Can't wait for the gen 2 one!
Woo, exiting that we are exploring new topics!
I have done a few nuzlocke runs (in gen1) and managed to win, but my problem is that I normally let my pokemon get close to 0 hp before healing, and it is hard to get used to healing more often.
Also, my personal house rule is to release the starter before battling Brock, I feel like they are too powerful to make it feel real. Adding to that, no new pokemon can be caught if I have a full team. Other than that, during battle, only status altering items are allowed.
Those are some weird rules... Choosing a team of 6 pokemon best suited for the next important fight requires a lot of skill. Only having 6 pokemon at a time delets that skill part of the game and makes the quality of your team way more random.
@@tewu8257 I do it for my own enjoyment, and I personally don't think it is fair to have a huge team of pokemon to chose among. The point of a Nuzlocke to me is to be forced to play with pokemon you normally wouldn't pick. It also helps in making the game more difficult, you cannot cherrypick the best pokemons. Plus, it makes it more exciting once a team member goes down, what will be the replacement? But to each their own!
@@staffan- sure i undestand that. Although i think there are better ways of nerfing/making your team more interesting, like only using unevolved pokemon or pokemon of a certain type.
Keep up the great content Jrose!
Please do these more, I would love to see more of this in your signature jrose style
I'm looking forward to Pokemon Challenges breaking down your video! :D
For anyone who wants to nuzlocke gen 1 (hardcore or normal), a good thing to keep in mind is that crit chance is based off your Pokemon's base speed. So faster Pokemon crit more often. Also Venusaur is a great option as razor leaf legitimately almost always crits (regardless of speed from my experience). Pokemon like Raticate are extremely valuable early game for this purpose. Same with Pokemon like Jolteon, for another example.
Love this video, I had no idea what nuzlock was until now.
I was about to sleep but Jrose posted so obviously I have to watch it
Keep being you JRose. That's why we love you 👍
Refreshing take on nuzlocke content. Dope.
JRose11 doing nuzlockes is the smile I didn’t know I needed today
no matter what you decide to do we are here to watch you =)
Honestly, due to your solo run series, where you have broken down how to consistently win every fight, you could easily take the information from those, to be the healla best gen 1 nuzlocker.
It is getting more common for nuzlockers to use rare candies and the disable ev's because thats only grinding and not having skill in pokemon nuzlocking so if you continue to play nuzlock give it a try:D
Love your vids and thank you for uploading everyday. It helps me
Oooh nice, a nuzlocke! This is going to be fun for sure.
I am a huge fan of doing randomized nuzlockes (or wonder trade nuzlockes in new games). Also, I inadvertently add an additional rule, which is no using Boxes. Once I have 6 in my team, that's it until a space opens~
Love how after 25+ years, gen 1 games still get love (although a lot of hate too). Keep it up Jrose!
Fuck the haters
Why did it take me so long to notice all your thumbnails are reminiscent of the original gameboy game packaging? That is so awesome!
I'm loving the variety, firstly because they're great ideas, secondly because it means there's more videos before we're finishing Gen 1, which that'll be sad when Gen 1 is finished, as strange as that is to say about videos for a 25 y/o video game that I had done playing 23 or 24 years ago, but I'll miss the Gen 1 runs, it's a special Gen.
Thank you for acknowledging that by default, nuzlocks aren't defeat=gameover.
So many people just assume it because most content creators use it
Because that rule makes sense? The Nuzlocke Challenge is supposed to be centered around permadeath after all.
@@tewu8257 It is centered around permadeath.
When your whole team dies, they're all dead. You lost some good friends, but it's time to pull yourself up by your bootstraps, grab that abandoned pidgey out of the PC and try to make it work
@@priestesslucy3299 well the way i see it is when the character "whites out" its like dying in a normal video game. Nevertheless i can see the appeal in saving the run with pokemon you normally wouldnt use, so your ruleset also makes sense
@@tewu8257 I can't remember a time it's actually happened, but I do accept Gameover in a Whiteout vs a wild Pokemon.
No Pokemon to protect you means you done got eaten lol
"I dont even want to talk about Bruno" yeah because WE DONT TALK ABOUT BRUNO NO NO
I am here wondering if i will ever find love and jrose is here to cheer me up, thanks man, it means a lot.
Love the new thumbnail. Classic Jrose.
Nuzrose forgot the most important nuzlocking rule: You have to give a nickname to all your mons!
Thats the least important rule lol
This is only the second Nuzloc I've seen but enjoyed it thanks
I LOVE your content!
This was really enjoyable.
Awesome.
These are going to be Awesome.
😄👍
Hell yes!!! Long live Jrose and his 30 straight days of pokemon challenges!!! Day 16
A randomizer nuzlocke in Gen 1 shakes things up quite a lot. I did one in Yellow, and the amount of times I ran into a Mewtwo that wiped most of my team (either wild or via trainer) was horrifying.
It would be really cool if you do a nuzlocke for every gen game from red and blue till sword and shield and then rate them like in terms of difficulty, fun, time, amount of deaths lol.(maybe only do it until sun and moon since they have speed up)
"I'm not speedrunning but I do want to beat it as fast as possible."
Yeah that's called speedrunning.
Loving evolutions actually, with all the gen 1 shenanigans!
It must've taken forever to set up a whole months worth of content. It's working out well though, thanks for the fun times Jrose!
I wonder how much you'll change when you hit 10 million subs lol
Hadn’t commented yet, respect your effort this month so here’s one for the algorithm. Just keep in mind you do this for fun
Nice this is cool. Gonna try a nuzlock with pokemon red
I would absolutely love to see you nuzlocke all of the gens WITHOUT items !
I never had any interest in doing any sort of nuzlocke until I heard jrose talking about a nuzlocke.
This is why jrose is the goat!
I don't know if the night and day joke was on purpose or not, but I got a big chuckle when you said it considering Gen. 2 is the one where the day/night mechanic was implemented lol
Literally just thinking about today's upload when "bam", wild JRose appears
I've enjoyed for the past few Pokémon games doing a Nuzlocke as my first run of the game, before I look up anything about a Pokémon's stats, evolution path, or typing. It's genuinely been a lot of fun to try Pokémon I'd normally pass up, or to find hidden gems on strange routes. I don't do the whiteout rule, though, since that'd be way too brutal for me.
Yo what are we gonna do when the month of Jrose is over?
Im getting so spoiled lol. Thanks for making our month bro!
I love your content! I’ve been itching to replay these games again. Which emulator should I use to play on PC?
Oh man that pikachu wild encounter 😂😂 it was almost GG for squirtle right off the bat. 3:20
To make it a bit more interesting, I usually do "no grinding" and "no AI abuse" as additional rules. Being underleveled is more challenge but in R/B there's not much challenge to begin with.
How would you even not abuse the AI in gen 1? It's so bad it abuses itself.
To be fair a hardcore nuzlocke does restrict grinding by inputting a level cap for every gym leader.
@@scoobiusmaximus9508 hahaha that's what I was thinking. The "good AI" essentially makes some battles unlosable unless you go out of your way to screw yourself over
I know from my own personal challenge runs, if you play Red/Blue/Yellow with a team of 6 and you can never beat wild Pokemon, you normally have a team of around L.45 by the end. So it's not too bad, but definitely not easy if you use weak Pokemon.
@@fluffybug229 It does to a point. If you go in underlevelled, if your Pokemon is super good, it'll come out the other side.
"My perspective will be different than that of the other NUTZLOCKERS you watch" honestly i've heard the term but this is the first time someone took the time to explain to me what the heck a Nutzlock *is* so first of all thanks for that :3 unfortunately (or fortunately?) it always makes me think of an ASMR video where a lady was going "nuzzle nuzzle nuzzle" while wearing a doggy outfit, which was very cute. So that's gonna be forever stuck in my head forever.
In HC, it's also standard that using items during a battle besides Pokéballs and held Items (though it doesn't matter in Gen 1 anyway) is not allowed.
Personally I think the "challenge" part of Hardcore Nuzlockes is often overstated regardless of generation.
It's why so many people throw in additional rules like mono-typings,
Or they run Kaizo games where rather than playing a Pokemon game they're basically just rolling a needlessly complicated and tedious slot machine to get the encounters needed to even make the run possible.
Jrose you should totally take on the Emerald Kaiso challenge! I've been doing runs myself, it is a very hard but very fun and fair game, you would enjoy it a lot i think as would your fans ☺
I think that's a fair description. Emerald Kaizo is hard but fair, whereas Radical Red is intentionally unfair.
Nice video J Dawg
I'm interested to see what this Experience will bring. I do hope that for the gen2 vid you keep your narration a bit more chronological.
The cliffhanger to the gen 2 nuzlocke has me hooked.
The first (and so far only) Nuzlocke I ever did was of Yellow, and even keeping the Pikachu for the whole game, using no items, and playing on Set, I only ever lost a single pokemon (a Drowzee early on), and that's with Yellow's boss trainers actually having some semblance of thought put into their movesets. You're right that Gen 1 is just too easy without even farther restrictions, and you're going to end up with mostly the same pokemon every time because there's so little variety in what appears on each route. A randomizer to shake up the wild encounters is probably necessary at the least to make a Gen 1 nuzlocke remotely interesting.
The thing about Hardcore Nuzlocke challenges with type exclusivities, is that it really forces the player to go with really outstanding strategies to get over at least one Gym/Elite 4 battle, requiring very precise foretelling of events, and sometimes incredible adaptability and luck.
I started watching Hardcore Nuzlockes after finding your channel, and it was night and day, as like you said, you're a very reckless player that tends to use very straightforward strategies, whereas the Nuzlocke player I watch is super meticulous in order to successfully win his runs.
In earlier Gens, types are pretty unbalanced and some are so much better than others.
You should definitely try some kind of Playthrough of Pokémon green, just to see the old sprites and the differences between red and blue (US)
I've been inspired to make a video like this, but with a strat where you're 100% guarenteed to win no matter how bad ur luck is