CAN I BEAT A POKÉMON RUBY HARDCORE NUZLOCKE WITH ONLY PSYCHIC TYPES!? (Pokémon Challenge)
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- Our last Pokemon Hardcore Nuzlocke was a ton of fun, so this time I wanted to figure out if we could beat a monotype version with only Psychic types! The Monotype Hardcore Nuzlocke sounded like a really fun and challenging idea, so here's my first attempt at one!
We've done some hard Pokemon challenges in the past, but usually they were a solo Pokemon challenge run. What if we still did a really difficult challenge... but with a full team using hardcore nuzlocke rules, and with only one type? Today we find out: can I beat a Pokemon Ruby Hardcore Nuzlocke with only Psychic types?
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Monotype Hardcore Nuzlocke Ruleset:
(1) If a Pokémon faints, it must be permanently boxed or released.
(2) Only the first type-specific Pokémon encountered in each Route/Area can be caught. Viable encounters only include Pokémon that already have that type, regardless of if they later evolve to have it.
(3) Additional Pokémon may be caught for the purpose of HM use, but these may not be used in battle at any time during the run.
(4) No Legendaries/Mythicals, duplicates, or same-evolution-line Pokémon can be caught or used. If a duplicate is encountered, the next unique type-specific Pokémon encounter can be caught.
(5) No Items can be used in battle (Held Items are allowed).
(6) Party Pokémon levels are limited to the highest level Pokémon of the next Gym Leader or Elite 4 Member. So long as your Pokémon are at or below the level cap when the Gym Leader/Elite 4 Member battle starts, they can level up mid-battle.
(7) "Set" Battle Mode must be used at all times.
(8) No connecting with other games for the purposes of trading/importing Pokémon, Items, etc.
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CORRECTION: Meditite/Medicham are available in *both* Ruby/Sapphire, but not Emerald.
NOTE: Chimecho is also available, but Meditite was of course a much better option for our Mt. Pyre encounter (just forgot to include it in the intro!)
Why you Don't use Chimecho in Challenge?
And Starmie.
What happened to the true power series???
@@mrormrs.something3897 True Power is on hiatus until the Gen 4 remakes! Wouldn't make sense to do the true power episodes & tournament for Sinnoh when their trainers might get new Pokemon/upgrades when they come out 😄
@@emeraldbeedrill Chimecho was also located in Mt. Pyre, and Meditite was definitely the better choice. Starmie can't be caught in Ruby, only Staryu, which isn't Psychic type (and would therefore be against the rules).
@@SilphSpectre ahhh i feel you waiting for the remakes.. Um. Maybe you could jump to gen 5 and circle back around to 4 after the fact. The tourny became some of my favorite youtube content idk why just loved it. Hope all is well brotha
If you thought that Ralts training at the beginning was tough, imagine what it was like for Wally, who had to deal with asthma on top of that.
Imagine How hard it was to grind running around in grass
However, Wally moved to Vedanturf Town, which is right next to route 117 and the breeding house, I mean Pokemon Daycare. He could easily leave Ralt in the daycare until she got some moves.
@@davisdawson5047 Wait the minute. Wally's Ralts is female?
@@fishbakeditself1213 No. It's canonically male. Otherwise, he wouldn't have Mega Gallade in the remake.
Little kid comment
When he named the Wynaut "Because" I absolutely lost it
I mean, had you never thought about it?
@@diegoromeo7237 No, I never made the connection 'till he said it. I'm a very analytical person, so I usually try to get direct answers whenever I ask questions, and most people know that about me, so they don't really use hypotheticals or sarcasm around me-
Why is why not why not? Because
When u answer with because it means you should know the answer even if it's obvious you don't.
Or there is a reason I just won't tell you.
And then he dies shortly after. Because Wynaut!
@@marthabolanos5930 Bruh. Do you have main character syndrome?
Staryu can be caught in lilycove city and evolved into starmie with a water stone obtainable in the route right after lilycove, you could have also caught chimecho at the peak in mt pyre and meditite/medicham in victory road instead
It is a Nuzlock, so he does not get to choose the Pokémon he catches. See Rule number 1.
@@moerkx1304 He was saying that those were viable pokemon for this challenge that could have been obtained that were not mentioned in the opening of the video when it mentioned "viable pokemon". So, he could have had 2 more pokemon for the challenge unless he caught another viable pokemon in those two locations.
Actually, he explained this to another commenter, only the first *Psychic* type encounter can be caught on each route and Staryu is not one so he couldn't catch it
@@amaterasumaster8781 Alright, i understand with the Staryu. Now i’m imagining the timeline where he got a chimecho at mt. Pyre peak.
@@Karrato chimeco is like a 4% encounter
Psyhic intensifies
I am a big fan of yours
Pschic
V r CB. Rn
Psychic
Crys in sauce
Shadow Ball on Medicham would've been insane for Tate&Liza because of that PURE POWER.
Shadow ball is a special attacking move, doesnt pure power boost attack?
@@Msthanhlocfan Shadow Ball was physical in gen 3. It became special in Gen 4.
@@dromusblack375 oh ok
Is pure power available in gen 3?
@@plainseed Yeah, it is
38:05 the SpDef increase from Sandstorm for Rock types only became a thing in gen 4 actually.
Great vid!
He was talking about the cosmic powers from the battle with altaria
“Lucky the Kadabra, goes down”-top 10 saddest anime deaths
I cried
He wasn't that lucky obviously
@@eskerr3383 sad thing, Kadabra has always been one of my favorite pokemon
Wasn't there a guy who sued pokemon over Kadabra who this could've been quoted from?
God I get so emotionally attached in like two minutes that when one dies I am devastated lol
I really appreciated how you put emphasis on how difficult it was to remain below the lvl cap. Most "Hardcore Nuzlocke" vids I've seen only make it seem like the actually capped gym battle
will be harder.
I mean, it's technically violating nuzlocke rules due to virtua of not catching only the first pokemon he encunters in a route.
@@TheShadoek But he does do that. In his other runs, he states numerous times that depending on his luck with encounters if he gets certain pokemon first he won't be able to get another pokemon because it can ONLY be found in that specific route with other possible encounters.
The only exception he makes is the safari zone, which is a rule many nuzlockers actually make, to allow more varying encounters. It's self-imposed ruleset, and Silph followed all of the rules he gave himself.
@@volacticmilk9614 It's not a nuzlocke ruleset then. There's basically no aspect of randomness left if he's allowed to cherrypick the encounters on certain routes.
Ralts I could understand as he required a psychic type to start things off, but the only failable encounter really was Abra.
It's less of a challenge, especially with probably the easiest games in the whole franchise. Not to mention... Psychic is kinda bustef in gen 3 because all ghost types are special attackers or tanks and ghost is a physical typing so stab goes out the window, most dark types actually suck and have the same problem as dark moves are special, bug is not good and won't be until gen 5 and the only thing that actually can stand up to them with their colossal coverage is either steel... unless you taught them flamethrower which gardevoir can learn! Ot another psychic, which only Willy has.
@@TheShadoek Colossal coverage? It isn’t until the second or third gym that he gets a move that allows him to do non-Psychic damage. Sure he only has one truly failable encounter (well, two if you include Baltoy’s Self Destruct), but the number of Pokémon he can encounter is severely limited. Sure Psychics are good, but he’s stuck to only Psychic, with the inherited weaknesses and bad match ups that implies. As you can see in this video he had to reset six times for the first gym battle alone, and every gym battle after he rides the edge of defeat. I disagree entirely that him mono-typing makes it somehow easier.
@@clickpause8732 I didn't say that mono typing makes it easier, I said that him guaranteeing an encounter every route does not make it a nuzlocke.
Also yeah, this is the easiest generation of pokemon. The fact that he had to reset so many times is not by virtue of psychic types being weak but due to the level cap.
Teletubby was just watching as the chaos insue in stevens battle
For those who want to attempt this incredibly difficult challenge, you can make a couple of battles a lot easier by teaching Shadow Ball to Medicham. Shadow Ball and all other Ghost-type moves are physical in Gen 1 to 3. You can find it inside the Mount Pyre dungeon. With that and thanks to Medicham’s Huge Power ability, you can breeze through Tate & Liza, Sidney, Glacia, and even Phoebe!
If you train it in Attack EVs by killing 252 Poochyenas (or 128 Mightyenas) you’ll have an even more reliable Pokémon in your hands.
Edit: Solrock also learns Flamethrower and Fire Blast for coverage. Careful against those Steel-types!
25:52
Other Nuzlokers: "fear the cloud birb"
This guy: "sun is a deadly lazor"
Laser not Lazor
yeah I would usually get pissed for nitpicking like that but the only correct word is laser as its an acronym
@@triangltriangl I would usually get pissed for nitpicking but OP is referencing Bill Wurtz' history of the entire world video in which he pronounces the catchphrase like that. At least nitpick correctly when you decide to do it 🤭
@@dagmare940 I was trying to reply to @findlucy plus I have watched the ,,history of the world I guess'' video by Bill multiple times. humble yourself
@@dagmare940 oh yeah and you're also replying to a 7 month old comment trying to start arguments
The levelcap seems to have been the biggest stone in your way
Top props for the true MVP, DoMyChores the Zigzagoon. Lol!
😂 His efforts went so unnoticed!
Your truly a hero, DoMyChores!
the first part with only the raltz must have been basically how wallies adventure with his raltz also started. man, wallie really is a champ for enduring that and getting that far.
*RALTS DOES NOT END WITH A Z, IT ENDS WITH AN S!*
@@Amelia4111 dude calm down, i dont know the exact spelling of most pokemon probably (theres a test about it and i know i would fail most of it)
Against Liza and Tate Gardevoir should have been using thunderbolt. Also an alternate strategy could have been multiple calm minds with gardevoir while using defensive typing of Solrock while inflicting some small chip damage, then switch Solrock for Grumpig and use Psych up to Gardevoir to gain same buffs and use Thunderbolt and Psychic with Gardevoir and Grumpig respectively to sweep.
Oh boy, this looks brutal. Super excited!
I’m confused I’ve caught medicham/meditite in almost every sapphire play through I’ve done
I believe there’s a trade for him in emerald iirc
it was a fever dream
Isnt Gardevoir/Kadabra better?
Saying he is a ruby exclusive dont make sense, its only emerald he doesnt appear in
@@mikhailfischercapablanca9650 if you like medicham more than both, i guess not
Can't say how happy I am to see you upload Pokemon challenge videos again ;-;. Thank you for keeping me sane during these times ♡
So glad to hear it Enki! I've missed doing them as well; feels good to be back :D Thanks for supporting the channel!
I’m 32 years old and just stumbled upon you! Watching all of your videos! Please don’t stop uploading the people need more silph
This was REALLY enjoyable! definitely want to see more of these. I can't believe how far these pokemon made it
Silph: With only the ones in screen being available.
Chimecho and Starmie: And we took that personally.
Anyone else also freaked out for Solrock not being used against Norman? lol
Also, Gardevoir could've used Thunderbolt against Tate and Liza instead of Psychic, you know
He also could use dig for slaking
Wait he does that latter
i dont get why he did not use shadowball against dusclops
@@ryanspencer3106 gardevior is a special attacker and he had calm minds up, so psychic would have been stronger than shadow ball which is physical in this gen, He probably should have learnt it to medicham tho cos pure power but yeah
"What kind of father traumatizes his kid like this??" brillant commentary
38:05 The Special Defense boost for Rock types in sandstorm wasn't introduced until Gen IV ;).
The fact he has a Zigzagoon
Yes!! Great video Silph, always been a fan of mono type challenges done a few myself over the years and currently doing a bug only run on Heartgold. Keep up the great work 💪
Thanks Brendan! That sounds like a fun run actually; let me know how it goes!
Yeah Brendan how did it go? 😅
You can catch Abra north of the first gym.
“I need the sun down now” -every creature vulnerable to the sun
As someone who's been doing mono runs I have a rule that you can use other Pokémon to switch train your main type for use torchic* to switch train ralts in wild battles, random trainer fights, and rematches...
I laughed so hard when he said "leave me alone steven"
Crazy how good Pure Power Medicham is! Also Grumpig is one of my favorite underrated Pokémon. Glad to see it do so well for you ❤
Sabrina: finally a worthy oppone-
*Kadabra dies*
sabrina: HOW DARE YOU KID KILLER!!!!
Silph: yay I caught a wynaut!!!!!
Trapinch: troll
38:05 No it doesn't, Sandstorm doesn't raise Sp.Def of Rock types till gen 4
*gen 7
@@_yuvi_0w0 no, Gen 4.
@@Missiletainn i know my stupid lil brother comment that
When I saw how you beat the Altaria with your Solrock, my trauma from my first Nuzlocke attempt came back up: I lost to Winona because of crit dragon breath into rockslide miss (Altaria vs Solrock)
you can definitely get meditite in sapphire
You forgot about Starmie Is also a psychic type you could have used. Also chimeco is a bit rarer but still usable.
Unfortunately Starmie can't be found in the wild; only Staryu can, which isn't a Psychic type and would therefore be against the rules to catch. Chimecho is indeed available too, however it's on Mt. Pyre, where Meditite was, and the latter was a much better option. I just forgot to include it in the intro xD
@@SilphSpectre I think people would forgive you if you didn't use it until you evolved it into Starmie.
@@SilphSpectre then why do you have a zigzagoon
@@ALLMETAL1970 It was our HM Pokémon of course.
@@SilphSpectre what about torchic
The Meditite line Is Availble in Sapphire
Where’s your proof
@@ronswanson7371 in MT Pyre And Victory Road*
* There Is Also Medicham
Must’ve misspoke
@@ronswanson7371 go Try bulbapedia jerk
@@pepopesek5742 rude
Saddest death in this run was Violet the Gardevoir, IMO.
medicham really lived up to her nickname
This was a very interesting challenge. Would love to see an Emerald version
Medicham has suddenly become one of my all time favourite pokemon
When I was younger I almost always did a mono water run.
Yeah water gun basically works for everything and swampert is the most op starter across all generations
I'd rate that a 7.8 out of 10
Mono water is a great way to start getting into nuzlockes too, tons of fantastic pokemon.
@@wheelskelton2761 mudkip mudkip mudkip mudkip 😂
@@mikhailfischercapablanca9650
Mudkip and gyara really. The two synergize so ridiculously well. You have tentacruel and starmie to carry runs as well
really close win! and between this and the platinum fighting challenge, that's two teams where medicham was a huge team player
Fun fact: If Wally had returned that Zigzagoon, both of you started with a struggling ralts 😂
You're more badass tho
Damn Lucky the Kadabra dies in like the unluckiest way
PC should react to this, he'll have a blast critiquing every decision :p
I really enjoy that he tells us if he had failures during these runs. It makes me feel like it's all that much more legit, and I can trust him. A nuzlocke is no less of a nuzlocke if you had to go through trial and error to complete it. In fact, it's even better.
Indeed
"Why did you name your Wynaut Because?"
Because, wYnAuT?
This video is Chimecho erasure XD Good job with the run!
Came to say the same xD
Also, isn't Starmie available in this game?
Thought of Starmie en Chimecco as well XD
@@CxAx2you can only get it as staryu and that isn’t psychic
@@tristandejonge1968 can’t get it because he got meditite
I know a lot of hardcore nuzlockers say the level cap for the E4 is just before you start fighting them, as soon as you start fighting the first one you don't need to worry about their cap anymore. Same logic as if you start a fight when a gym leader and level above their ace during the fight.
I like how you're the only Nuzlocker I know who actually sticks to the hardcore rule. Most other guys would still use their starter and switch-train, or let's say you're doing a Platinum run with steel-types, they'll still use Piplup and Prinplup for Empoleon. You, however, are different, and I like that.
He did catch Corphish (only water type before it evolves) for the dark type challenge though, right?
And then he used piplup and prinplup in his steel only shining pearl challenge lol
I respect you choosing the psychic nuzlocke that was brave love your content
Definitely subscribing
Thanks so much Makayah; hope you continue to enjoy the challenges! :D
Fun fact: depending on your ralts, you can defeat level 3 wurmples if you leave 1 growl pp left!
To be honest, Medicham is actually pretty great
A shame that it looks so dumb
Wallace's Milotic, I call hax. Survives multiple Thunderbolts, breaks through confusion, and gets a crit Ice Beam on the ONE member of the team weak to Ice? I call CPU hax.
Most of these battles were so close Jesus Christ!!! As a psychic type fan I really loved the video and commentary too, your voice is surprisingly calming, keep it up! :)
Hey thanks so much Afonso! So glad to hear you enjoyed the run; more to come soon :D
You should do commentary on some type of competitive event. eSports, traditional sports, anything. Your voice is perfect for it.
That moment you realise that he could've gotten a Starmie for the 7th gym.
But starmie isn't psychic type
@@Idkwhattoputlmaoejjdjsdn Starmie is water/psychic.
@@reaperyveltal8281 Wait crap I forgot sry
But staryu isn't it will be against the rules to catch it
@@noushadkm8912 i know, i just thought that he also counted pokemon that become psychic types.
Psychic is so strong bcause i was playing emerald and all my team was half health/dead, only almost full health was gardevoir, and the rival battle near the weather institute, BUT I DID NO REMEMBER THAT BATTLE WAS THERE, so he leads with slugma and i settuped 6 calm minds and sweeped him and winona lol
This was pure insanity
I think its more manageable if you enter the elite 4 with all your pokes at the level of the last members ace and then not worry about it anymore
The special defense gain for Rock types under Sandstorm is Gen 4 onwards. It's not a thing in Ruby.
If meditite and Medicham are unobtainable in Sapphire, then what were the psychic/fighting type encounters in Victory Road?
Ive also named a pokemon Lucky. It was a Zorua in Pokemon Brick Bronze, and its encounter rate was low so i was lucky to find it. I also think Zoroark is pretty cool.
BEYBLADE LET IT RIPP!!!!
Good lord that was insane! Bravo 👏
I’m sure someone said it already, but meditite can also be found on sapphire.
Could've had metagross if you played emerald. Dunno if that is a fair trade for not having medicham but still. That thing is a monster.
Metagross is not till postgame
Solrock survived....Martin would be proud
Did Silph predict Pokemon Violet with his starter named the same?! Lol, love coming back to your older videos!
This run proves there are too many rules equip to this run, considering it was BARELY possible to get the run going. Still entertaining, but a Pokémon run should be at least fun and not a logistical nightmare.
This run was more of a test of planning and patience than if you could beat the game with the restrictions.
Regardless, love your great content
try this, but only using fairy type pokemon
Silph: "Tyson is jealous"
Kids who've never seen the OG Plastic Gen: Say who now?
Dragon was a physical type, not a special type before the split, I'm pretty certain.
No, it was Special.
You really should have spammed Cosmic Power with Solrock against Phoebe, since it's the only thing that could actually boost it's physical defense and stall her stally pokemon out.
If you were restricted to Psychic type MOVES the answer would be no...but just psychic types in general...almost seems too easy. Admittedly the level cap makes it a lot more difficult.
I'm in love with your content!
I just realized after Stevens quote about raising Pokémon that you kind of come off as an aspiring psychic type gym leader hahah
This video made me wanna do another run through if hoen
I'd say go for it! Hoenn/Gen 3 is probably my second-favorite in the series 😄
@@SilphSpectre gen 3 is my favorite gen i just love the charm of the area and alot of my favorite pokemon are gen 3
I find Psychic one of the easists types to nuzlocke Ruby, mainly because of the sheer power of the encounters. Kadabra (Alakazam in some cases), Gardevoir, Starmie and Medicham are some of the very best mons of the game. Pretty OP in my opinion. Solrock and Claydol are good too if trained right. There are 9 or 10 total encounters if you catch the two safari zone ones and the baltoy doesnt explode.
A few things Silph didnt mention or forgot:
You can teach abra Thief tm, which can help him level up to Kadabra all the while farming for Twisted Spoons on wild Abras.
The game corner tms (psychic, thunderbolt and flamethrower) can be of great help early on, specially against watson.
A twistedspoon Kadabra with psychic can solo Watson, kill the first two slugmas, then you can switch to spoink to tank the first overheat from torkoal (can even take a crit), then safely switxh into solrock to kill torkoal.
He forgot about staryu/starmie. One of the best mons ever.
Medicham is a powerhouse and can apmost solo the e4 alone. Teach it shadow ball.
This was awesome and i'm surprised you didn't get Chimecho.
Same location as Meditite.
Poor Wynaut….I was hoping for him.
Glad you took the right fossil, the algorithm will be pleased!
And damn what a video, that elite 4 was brutal but damn that was epic none the less!
Should have been using Thunderbolt instead of Psychic during the Tate & Liza fight lol. Great job on that last battle!
The beyblade reference was just awesome 👏, and Tyson being jealous “I don’t know, he has Dragoon after all” lol 😂
This run was awesome. First vid of yours I've watched, one suggestion is to include the reset counter in the hud thingy. Some of the strats you had to come up with were really creative and fun to watch. nice work
Would absolutely love to keep seeing more challenges from you, your format is one of the most enjoyable for challenges like these
Unfortunately the Sp Def boost from rock types in sandstorm was introduced in gen 5 I believe
Gen 4
I'm always terrified fighting them. The solrock is a tank and lunatone calm minds in the background
Commenting for the TH-cam algorithm
Thanks Riokei, much appreciated!
Why didnt you Thunderbolt Lunatone and Solrock?
Ummm, i wouldve picked treecko since may would have had a blaziken...
we're making it a tiny bit harder
Plus May doesn't use her starter in its final evolutionary form until ORAS.
@@crazychristopher1989 really? Thats kinda weird. Im pretty sure combusken is still fighting type tho
@@yes5560
Yes. It is. He didn't choose Treecko for his starter because Combusken is weak to Psychic and he's trying to at least make the challenge somewhat difficult. Now if you said Mudkip instead, then it'd be understandable as Grovyle learns two moves that are super effective against Psychic Pokémon and has the type advantage against Claydol and Solrock.
Wait. But what about chimecho on mt.pyre? I thought its a psychic type?
It is but because Meditite can be encountered in Mt. Pyre as well, you have to pick one of two Pokémon to encounter because Nuzlocke rules only guarantees the first Pokémon encounter in each location. Plus Chimecho has a 1% encounter rate in Mt. Pyre Summit.
0:32 Meditite and medicham are obtainable in Pokemon Sapphire actually too. It also offers lunatone as a counter to solrock, but I have no experience with solrock to determine if lunatone or solrock is more effective in gen 3 rules.
Wynaut was a hard loss he could've destroyed
LOL at the Zigzagoon being named "Domychores"
Damn i cant believe u beat flannery at the same level as her. I lost like 2 pokemon during my nuzlocke to that DAMN TORKOAL
R.I.P. lucky, xylo, violet , beyblade, and slinky😔