You swept Blaine with a Delibird. I don't care how cheesy the setup for that is, you swept Blaine with a Delibird. I don't know what to make of that. Well played Sir.
@@mikesearle4728 With maxed speed EV's, Delibird just barely outspeeds a 0 speed EV Rapidash at equal levels. Based on my calcs its 148 vs 147 speed in this scenario. (Assuming 31 IVs on both sides. I have no idea what IV's that Rapidash has, but it must have equal or lower than the Delibird at any rate)
@@seantaylor8114if it makes you feel any better, as soon as he said Gabriella I guessed it, then confirmed with Ryan. This is the only Flygon name scheme I've ever gotten that fast.
FINALLY the return of lil fly!!! He finally makes it to the end, Im so proud of her I also love how “playing a johto game with only johto pokemon” makes for a difficult challenge run, gotta love gen 2 Really cool to see use of forsight, really unique strategies in this one
Tinted lense is definitely my favorite ability in the game, and Yanmega is its flagship pokemon in my book. (I believe venomoth gets it and a forget which others have it) Definitely feels good seeing Yanmega do so well, especially with the lucky omniboost to save it from getting saced in the red fight. I also recently played crystal for the first time and used only johto mons (not a nuzlock) and was surprised how often Jumpluff was my best mon, even being my default Alakazam counter with sleep powder + leach seed + megadrain
Hi Flygon, if you ever get stuck on Falkner again you can set your clock to Tuesday night with bug catcher Wade registered in the Pokégear. If you move the time around a bit while waiting on Route 30, so that Youngster Joey can't call you, he sometimes calls and could give you oran or sitrus berries
I love watching not just for the challenge and jokes and narrative, but the under rated aspect of learning. That foresight maneuver was so cool! I had no idea foresight affected the target and not the user. That makes it, not necessarily top tier, but better than I thought lol!
The pidgey (and onix) disrespect has got to stop… Edit: I *fully* feel like the fight against Whitney was a sign. Whitney’s Clefairy used metronome and pulled Sky Attack (the angered spirit of Pidgey) and then Power Gem (the angered spirit of Onix). Coincidence? Maybe. A children’s game containing spirits of angered fictional mons that come back to haunt you in game? Likely.
onix disrespect cant stop. i mean, DID YOU SEE THOSE STATS ON ONIX? Great Defense, nothing everything else. it. Just. SUCKS. yes, it makes a good first challenge against trainers because most early game moves are physical, EXEPT THE ONES YOU WANT TO USE ON AN ONIX, every Water or Grass type that has their typing's strength can play around the ONIX and defeat it. i mean, IT HAS 2 QUAD WEAKNESS TO WATER AND GRASS. and a friendly reminder that both of those types are primarily special attack types.
@@wrigthtalekenavi2066 okay but steelix? like it redeems itself tremendously. onix _does_ suck but so do many first stage pokemon. you can't rag on onix and then glorify steelix. like that's literally what it *comes from.*
@@frnzillaI agree, but I think Steelix should be slightly stronger. There's no reason it should have an attack stat barely higher than Geodude, especially with how slow and specially frail it is.
That ad Segway got me real good. Who knew that Raycons come in a square box? Totally didn't think it was something else that's a long time sponsor of this channel, like, no way.
Taylor now deserves to go into the Nuzlocke hall of clutch moments with that. A fully expected sack turning to an almost complete sweep? Based off a 10% Omni Boost? She deserves it.
My first challenge ever was a Johto-Locke of Crystal, I love gen 2 and always felt sorry for the little guys introduced there for being overshadowed. Thanks for continuing the tradition!
28:57 I've actually used Foresight in a similar fashion. Played Pokemon Platinum and kept Foresight on Lucario so he could deal with Candice's Froslass without any issue.
I did the same in Platinum, but with my Machoke (didn't have a way to evolve it to Machamp sadly). Kept that move all the way from Machop for three entire game, for the sole purpose of leading off against Cynthia and dealing super effective damage to Spiritomb.
Hall of Legends Entry: Single-Minded Sharpay The Ledyba responsible for escaping the struggles of the early game via her devotion to the ancient practice known as Swords Dance.
While only getting one attempt in the Safari Zone is definitely more in line with the Nuzlocke rules, i think you should be allowed to reattempt the Safari Zone encounter as many times as needed to catch it, since catching in the Safari Zone is stupidly difficult for these kinds of playthroughs. Plus, they tend to have Pokémon you can't get anywhere else, so missing out on the encounter basically guarantees you won't get to use what would have been a potentially interesting encounter. These runs are already linited enough as it is.
Gabriella: What about us? What about everything we've been through? And what about trust Flygon Hg: you know i never wanted to hurt you Gabriella: But what about me? What am I supposed to do? Flygon Hg: you have to leave but i'll miss you...
Hi @FlygonGH Just wanted to say I've just started a job teaching maths in a tough school in London and I've been incredibly stressed. This video is just what I needed to unwind a bit and I wanted to say I appreciate you and your work is important!
That Ledian Drain Punch strat NEVER occured to me, I never used ledyba at all in my runs. Fantastic video once again, been watching and lurking for years but I'm super glad to see you still pump out these great Nuzlockes! EDIT: Came for the Nuzlocke, stayed for the review of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. That was a random rant, and I dig that you just threw that in there, lmao
Nuzlocke idea: Platinum with no species clause, but you can only catch and use Bidoofs. Once you get to the League and cannot beat it with just Bidoofs, House Doof calls on House Gar to fulfill their oath to House Doof a la Aragorn summoning the ghost army. Then you add one Garchomp to the team and challenge the League.
The constant references from songs of High School Musical (that I recognized the naming scheme by just seeing Gabriella and Ryan all the way back from Attempt 1) made for a fun watch for me! But sweeping Blaine with a freaking Delibird of all Pokémon (with Skarmory and Xatu support) is just incredible.
Hey Flygon! Great video! Did a similar run where I used falkner’s mons only, I remember Whitney being a HUGE pain for me, being a run ender for multiple attempts haha
No joke. I'm also doing a Nuzlocke of Soul Silver and I just beat Clair. After several failed attempts, I'm going to the Elite Four for the very first time in a Nuzlocke! Very exciting. This was another awesome run. Thanks for posting!
I hope The businesses that sponsor you appreciate you correctly because you're one of the few people Who's ad breaks I actually listen to/watch because you actually care and try haha
I fucking love the sponsorship segues, I usually skip them on other videos, but on yours Ill usually listen for the beautiful banter Also Girlie Pop, Girlie Pop Rock and Girlie Pop Synth, the holy trinity
the face you pulled, the girlypop, the ad segway you need a phd in flygonism to fully understand, the HSM themse, I love it! a hard early game but a team that won nonetheless
As a 29 year old, heterosexual and slightly vain male, i can safely say my guilty pleasure is HSM 2. I saw it on release day on the Disney channel with my boy back in 2007. (Followed by the premiere of the brilliant Phineas and Ferb) I had the CD, sing along special edition DVD (inclusive of a holographic DVD case cover), I wrote down and memorised all of the lyrics and still to this day remember most of the words. Mix it with a little but of Pokemon? Brilliant.
I got the nicknaming theme IMMEDIATELY. I played Troy in my high school's production of HSM so when I saw Gabriella my first thought was "Oh, high school musical cause 'we're soarin, flyin'". Quickest I've ever gotten the theme for sure lol
Yanmega is my favorite gen 4 mon, and its ability is very nice, effectively removing 1 level of "not very effective" so you can hit basically anything for atleast neutral damage is really nice. Glad to see a Yanmega shining in this playthrough. Also that was a rough earlygame.
Thanks to Raycon for sponsoring this video! Head to buyraycon.com/flygon to get 15% off your Raycon purchase, plus free shipping!
I really hope you're not actually using them everyday 😰
Nuzlocke idea! What about BW2 with only single stage Pokemon? Gives you a chance to use Pokemon no one ever uses, like Maractus or Basculin
TEAM SKY EXPANDING!!!
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@@henkiestudios5117 Basculin did not evolve in Gen 5. I’m talking about Black and White 2
You swept Blaine with a Delibird. I don't care how cheesy the setup for that is, you swept Blaine with a Delibird.
I don't know what to make of that. Well played Sir.
That is Iron bundle bro
Organic Bundle (real)
I'm still confused how he outsped the Rapidash with a Delibird
@@mikesearle4728 With maxed speed EV's, Delibird just barely outspeeds a 0 speed EV Rapidash at equal levels. Based on my calcs its 148 vs 147 speed in this scenario. (Assuming 31 IVs on both sides. I have no idea what IV's that Rapidash has, but it must have equal or lower than the Delibird at any rate)
The HSM names baffled me until I remembered how we’re soarin’, flyin’. Theres not a star in heaven that they can’t reach
I don’t know what’s more upsetting: that this is the naming scheme he chose or that I, a 30 year old man, caught on by the first gym.
"You know the world can see us... In a way thats different than who we are"
The second he named the first Hoothoot Gabriella, I knew it was HSM 😂 but I didn’t make the connection as to why, so thanks for that
It's also the start of something new with just Johto Pokemon
@@seantaylor8114if it makes you feel any better, as soon as he said Gabriella I guessed it, then confirmed with Ryan. This is the only Flygon name scheme I've ever gotten that fast.
I was NOT ready for the musical number. Beautiful… I don’t know how Flygon keeps upgrading his content
Nah, the cut to highschool musical with his own owl noises was peak comedy. I folded like a lawn chair when I saw that 😂😂😂
I'll admit, sweeping a fire type gym leader with a Delibird was not what I expected.
We're soaring, flying
There's not a badge
In johto that we cant reach!
😂❤
If we're trying, yeah we're breaking free!!
FINALLY the return of lil fly!!! He finally makes it to the end, Im so proud of her
I also love how “playing a johto game with only johto pokemon” makes for a difficult challenge run, gotta love gen 2
Really cool to see use of forsight, really unique strategies in this one
Tinted lense is definitely my favorite ability in the game, and Yanmega is its flagship pokemon in my book. (I believe venomoth gets it and a forget which others have it)
Definitely feels good seeing Yanmega do so well, especially with the lucky omniboost to save it from getting saced in the red fight.
I also recently played crystal for the first time and used only johto mons (not a nuzlock) and was surprised how often Jumpluff was my best mon, even being my default Alakazam counter with sleep powder + leach seed + megadrain
Flygon is now officially a member of Team Sky *bird noise*
Mikey would be proud.
GO TEAM SKY!!!
So is Whitney’s Clefairy apparently
mandjtv mentioned ‼️🗣️💯🔥
Go team Sky!!!
🦅🦅🦅
Hi Flygon, if you ever get stuck on Falkner again you can set your clock to Tuesday night with bug catcher Wade registered in the Pokégear. If you move the time around a bit while waiting on Route 30, so that Youngster Joey can't call you, he sometimes calls and could give you oran or sitrus berries
Shoutsout Bug catcher Wade he a real one fr
@@1NTEN7ION Bugcatcher Wade is a real g
Your knowledge of high school musical lore and not being a theater kid is very impressive
Flygon did this Nuzlocke just to vent about the high school musical series and it’s glorious
not the high school music naming scheme 😭😭
The hoot hoot skit had me absolutely dying. Especially the closed captions
I cant believe FlygonHG had to watched the entire HSM series in order to make this 1 video, the dedication !
I love watching not just for the challenge and jokes and narrative, but the under rated aspect of learning. That foresight maneuver was so cool! I had no idea foresight affected the target and not the user. That makes it, not necessarily top tier, but better than I thought lol!
We’re soaring’, flyin‘. There’s not a star in heaven that we can’t reach!
I loved FJ's reaction to the sponsor segue.
This was so funny ngl
I have the same reaction as GrachompFJ 😂
Bro was flabberjasted.
The pidgey (and onix) disrespect has got to stop…
Edit: I *fully* feel like the fight against Whitney was a sign. Whitney’s Clefairy used metronome and pulled Sky Attack (the angered spirit of Pidgey) and then Power Gem (the angered spirit of Onix). Coincidence? Maybe. A children’s game containing spirits of angered fictional mons that come back to haunt you in game? Likely.
onix disrespect cant stop. i mean, DID YOU SEE THOSE STATS ON ONIX? Great Defense, nothing everything else. it. Just. SUCKS. yes, it makes a good first challenge against trainers because most early game moves are physical, EXEPT THE ONES YOU WANT TO USE ON AN ONIX, every Water or Grass type that has their typing's strength can play around the ONIX and defeat it. i mean, IT HAS 2 QUAD WEAKNESS TO WATER AND GRASS. and a friendly reminder that both of those types are primarily special attack types.
@@wrigthtalekenavi2066 okay but steelix? like it redeems itself tremendously. onix _does_ suck but so do many first stage pokemon. you can't rag on onix and then glorify steelix. like that's literally what it *comes from.*
@@frnzillaI agree, but I think Steelix should be slightly stronger. There's no reason it should have an attack stat barely higher than Geodude, especially with how slow and specially frail it is.
@ I guess that’s fair
25:49 yooo, that transition was smooooooth.
25:58 „Through Muk’s Minimizes, Venomoth‘s…nothings“ 😭😂
That ad Segway got me real good. Who knew that Raycons come in a square box? Totally didn't think it was something else that's a long time sponsor of this channel, like, no way.
Taylor now deserves to go into the Nuzlocke hall of clutch moments with that. A fully expected sack turning to an almost complete sweep? Based off a 10% Omni Boost? She deserves it.
My first challenge ever was a Johto-Locke of Crystal, I love gen 2 and always felt sorry for the little guys introduced there for being overshadowed. Thanks for continuing the tradition!
The rival being Nick L. Odeon is the cherry on top of the HSM naming theme
To think that ledian, yanmega, and delibird were the mvps of this run is insane
that High School Musical monologue was perfect.
Hoothoot is named Gabriella
Me: "Is this a HSM reference because of the 'Soaring, flying' part of 'Breaking Free'?
Ledyba is named Ryan
28:57 I've actually used Foresight in a similar fashion. Played Pokemon Platinum and kept Foresight on Lucario so he could deal with Candice's Froslass without any issue.
I did the same in Platinum, but with my Machoke (didn't have a way to evolve it to Machamp sadly). Kept that move all the way from Machop for three entire game, for the sole purpose of leading off against Cynthia and dealing super effective damage to Spiritomb.
Hall of Legends Entry:
Single-Minded Sharpay
The Ledyba responsible for escaping the struggles of the early game via her devotion to the ancient practice known as Swords Dance.
While only getting one attempt in the Safari Zone is definitely more in line with the Nuzlocke rules, i think you should be allowed to reattempt the Safari Zone encounter as many times as needed to catch it, since catching in the Safari Zone is stupidly difficult for these kinds of playthroughs. Plus, they tend to have Pokémon you can't get anywhere else, so missing out on the encounter basically guarantees you won't get to use what would have been a potentially interesting encounter. These runs are already linited enough as it is.
With the beautiful musical number, I think we all need FlygonHG and GarchompFJ singing a duet of "Time of My Life" now
Knowing you've (extensively) watched HSMTMTS just changed something in my brain chemistry
I sat through a marathon of the HSM movies just a few weeks ago. This brings things to a complete circle I’m not sure I needed.
Already very committed 4:58
Soul Silver is definitely one of the best Pokémon games; Excited to see how the challenge goes!!
Guess that pidgey on route 31 had some connections with the local gym leader huh
Gabriella: What about us? What about everything we've been through? And what about trust
Flygon Hg: you know i never wanted to hurt you
Gabriella: But what about me? What am I supposed to do?
Flygon Hg: you have to leave but i'll miss you...
Ryan is the best high school musical character and I will DIE on that hill
You are doing the Gen 2 remakes a lot lately! I love it
OMG! An HSM themed video, so damn cool!
Banger video. Great bits, great tension, great ad read. This might be my new favorite monotype challenge.
Hi @FlygonGH Just wanted to say I've just started a job teaching maths in a tough school in London and I've been incredibly stressed. This video is just what I needed to unwind a bit and I wanted to say I appreciate you and your work is important!
This video had me almost crying with laughter. You legitimately make these videos hilarious. Happy to watch through the ad segment lmao
insane foresight usage, that was really sick!!!
Nice to see Ledian getting a little well deserved love. With good training and the ability to learn various punch types its a solid performer.
2:37 not me finally realizing it's High School Musical themed.
That Ledian Drain Punch strat NEVER occured to me, I never used ledyba at all in my runs. Fantastic video once again, been watching and lurking for years but I'm super glad to see you still pump out these great Nuzlockes!
EDIT: Came for the Nuzlocke, stayed for the review of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. That was a random rant, and I dig that you just threw that in there, lmao
Early bird being Falkner's family business makes perfect sense to me
WOOHOOOO another great video, I love all Lil Flies and all the Big Flies they evolve into. They truly were souring AND flying
1:10 "POOgey"! Masterful wordplay mister HG! Kudos!
Nuzlocke idea: Platinum with no species clause, but you can only catch and use Bidoofs. Once you get to the League and cannot beat it with just Bidoofs, House Doof calls on House Gar to fulfill their oath to House Doof a la Aragorn summoning the ghost army. Then you add one Garchomp to the team and challenge the League.
Love your content Dr1ball. You and Drxx make the best nuzlocke content. I think you are two of the best nuzlockers out there!
Your commitment to the themes is admirable. Thanks Dr. HG.
Bro, you are the only one i don't just watch the Sponsored Ad but REWATCH it! 😂👍🏻
The constant references from songs of High School Musical (that I recognized the naming scheme by just seeing Gabriella and Ryan all the way back from Attempt 1) made for a fun watch for me! But sweeping Blaine with a freaking Delibird of all Pokémon (with Skarmory and Xatu support) is just incredible.
Yet another fantastic run with pokemon I don't usually see going to the elite four. Excellent work once again Dr HG
Definitely wasn't expecting this to be the Fly School Musical playthrough but I love it!
Hey Flygon! Great video! Did a similar run where I used falkner’s mons only, I remember Whitney being a HUGE pain for me, being a run ender for multiple attempts haha
Flagon is my favorite person ever. Naming themes and editing is immaculate
There was once a day when I would skip past Flygon's sponsorship's, but now I look forward to them almost as much as the challenge itself!!
High school musical scene had my laughing too hard
The look back from Gabreilla against Lance shook me...
having to look up the HSM songs and names just to understand what's going on is fabulous, i love you flygon
No joke. I'm also doing a Nuzlocke of Soul Silver and I just beat Clair. After several failed attempts, I'm going to the Elite Four for the very first time in a Nuzlocke! Very exciting. This was another awesome run. Thanks for posting!
Opportunity of a lifetime to say thanks for all the content!
You'd better use the Sky High naming scheme for fighting types then.
7:44 We dabbing in 2024 boys. Love to see it
I'm a huge Yanmega fan, so watching Taylor put in so much work was an unexpected pleasure
I hope The businesses that sponsor you appreciate you correctly because you're one of the few people Who's ad breaks I actually listen to/watch because you actually care and try haha
I fucking love the sponsorship segues, I usually skip them on other videos, but on yours Ill usually listen for the beautiful banter
Also Girlie Pop, Girlie Pop Rock and Girlie Pop Synth, the holy trinity
FlygonHG All you gotta do is, ask Michael to join Team Sky.
26:13 caught me off guard. A master of comedic timing lol
Five minutes in and I have to like and comment already, that Falkner fight was one for the books
the face you pulled, the girlypop, the ad segway you need a phd in flygonism to fully understand, the HSM themse, I love it! a hard early game but a team that won nonetheless
6:55 this was insanely funny 😂
Okay, you are the only youtuber thst can make me rewind to see the AD AGAIN!!!! I love how you handle sponsors😂
glad somebody did this run. I did this last year, but ended up scrapping the project because I just wasn't satisfied with it
As a 29 year old, heterosexual and slightly vain male, i can safely say my guilty pleasure is HSM 2. I saw it on release day on the Disney channel with my boy back in 2007. (Followed by the premiere of the brilliant Phineas and Ferb) I had the CD, sing along special edition DVD (inclusive of a holographic DVD case cover), I wrote down and memorised all of the lyrics and still to this day remember most of the words. Mix it with a little but of Pokemon? Brilliant.
7:05 same GarchompFJ
Personal opinion. If a safari zone Pokémon flees, you should be able to re-encounter since that is something outside of your control.
I got the nicknaming theme IMMEDIATELY. I played Troy in my high school's production of HSM so when I saw Gabriella my first thought was "Oh, high school musical cause 'we're soarin, flyin'". Quickest I've ever gotten the theme for sure lol
Seeing Ledian get the spotlight has brought me to tears, undoubtedly my favorite Bug-type.
I am a proud HSM lover and I couldnt be happier about your theme choice
Taylor is what I'm talking about when I say Yanmega always comes in clutch, I use one EVERY time I can because they're great
The way I knew the naming theme was High School Musical the *instant* I saw you name that first Hoothoot Gabriella
I didn't expect to get an analysis on the HSM spin off show in a nuzlocke video, but I'm here for it.
Your take on HSMTMTS was spot on. Also great nuzlocke as well.
Hype for the run and bun video! you're killing it Dr. HG
FlygonHG, the only youtuber who makes an ad-read sound fun.
Never in my life did I ever think a fucking Ledian would be this useful in a SOULSILVER NUZLOCKE
So naming the hoothoot gabriella was sus, getting ryan got me thinking, then chad, and troy finalized it, WE’RE SOAAAARIN, *FLYYYYIN*
Yanmega is my favorite gen 4 mon, and its ability is very nice, effectively removing 1 level of "not very effective" so you can hit basically anything for atleast neutral damage is really nice.
Glad to see a Yanmega shining in this playthrough.
Also that was a rough earlygame.
The fact that it's only Gen 2 flying types makes this way more interesting somehow
These Pokémon really did stand hand in hand - make their dreams come true
This was probably one of my fave runs of yours. HSM forever.
Love the naming theme of this episode
One of the most epic final battles
Thank you so much for your entertainment. Your videos are always a highlight in my weeks.
Love your ad though 😂
This video was incredibly entertaining!
that foresight play was so nice