Trapinch's highest speed at level 100 is 130 points. An abysmal 35 of that comes from Trapinch's base stats. The other 95 points come from EV training (64) and a perfect speed IV (31). Having a positive nature only gives Trapinch 5 to 10 points of speed at level 100 (depending on how it interacts with the EV and IV for speed). It's pretty crazy that over 70% of the max speed comes from EVs, IVs, and nature.
No EVs, minimum speed IV, neutral nature = 25 speed (a naive nature only raises it to 27) Max speed EV, max speed IV, neutral nature = 119 speed (a naive nature raises it to 130) So, it's actually 25, not 35 speed. But MDB hearted my comment, so I didn't want to edit it 😅 Psypokes IV calculator is great, my math is not.
If we're continuing the concept of solo runs with mons that weren't introduced in the region of the game, I'd like to see Pokemon HeartGold with a team of only one Pachirisu
I know it doesn't matter now that the challenge is complete but In FireRed, LeafGreen and Emerald they have Move Tutors that teach a few moves that were formally TMs in Gen 1 and 2 Trapinch can be taught Rock Slide in Rock Tunnel from an NPC. I just want to bring it to your attention for future challenges in those games.
You know I was confused why he didn’t do that and guessed older gen’s were just being older gen’s so it couldn’t learn it or something. Glad I was wrong though sad he didn’t know. That move tutor is my favorite since so many mons I use love having a good rock move
I love the Trapinch line. Sure Garchomp is a better Dragon/Ground Pokémon in just about every way but there is just something about Flygon that I really like.
It's a pretty cool line. The antlion theme is unique for a dragon type (real antlions do metamorphize into dragonfly-like insects), each form has a unique color scheme, it's got a really memorable design, even if it's not as strong as Garchomp it's still a pretty good fighter... there's a lot to like here. One of my favorite Pokemon is Vibrava, so I share the love of the Trapinch line.
In stead of recommending what challenge to do, I'll recommend what not to do. Don't do a recoil move only run, at least not in gen 4, because it's boring. It was fun to research which Pokemon have the right moves and where to find them, but once I caught them all and leveled them until they learned their recoil moves, all that was left was to buy a lot of moomoo milk, grow leppa berries, and fight a bunch of monotonous battles switching into whichever Pokemon deals super effective damage to the opponent's Pokemon.
In rock tunnel is a move teacher for rock slide Power 75 Accuracy 90 Can flinch Hits multiple pokemon Just a little extra since trapinch can learn that
Here is an idea “Can I beat Pokemon Red with only ‘Blast Boom Destruct and Bomb’ like Moves! If you start with Voltorb you get Sonic Boom at level 17 making it possible from the start of the game. Plus in Gen 1 it hits Ghosts for some reason. It would be funny and stupid and interesting! Would love to see a video of it. Moves you could use: Explosion, Self Destruct, Fire Blast, Egg Bomb, Sonic Boom, Spike Cannon, Pin Missile, and Smoke Screen. Every Gen 1 move related to explosions!
I'm... impressed. I genuinely thought you weren't going to win this one, but you actually did it. Bravo, Mah Dry Bread, very well done. Definitely a well earned win. Hopefully your talk with your accountant went smoothly.
Fun fact there was a poll on someone’s channel for the two fossil Pokémon and lord helix loss which I was surprised people were saying lord dome was better apparently lol
id love to see a run with only remoraid. i had it as a starter in a platinum randomizer and was so surprised at how versatile the liddle fish is. you wouldnt think it by its stats, but when you see the move pool, its interesting.
Did you know in FR/LG you can do that pre victory road rival fight at any point? You can go straight there at the beginning of the game and only have to deal with a lvl 9 starter
I would really love to see you play some of the more modern games with a normal team. You could pretty easily still emulate the 3DS era games at least I would love to see you try the ultra games.
MDB, I've had this editing observation for a while, it may be too tedious to do and/or you just don't want to, and that's cool but wanted to suggest it anyway. 19:57 to 20:13 essentially the audio commentary is ahead of the battle, and I'm wondering if having multiple cuts and changing the speed of the video to match the audio, for segments (I'm aware you do this overall), would make the story telling more interesting? Because as soon as I know the outcome, what happens on screen isn't 'as' interesting any more. I've seen how you get the video to fit to the time of the audio, it might be as simple as cutting at the 'I'm going to try this now' part, I'm not sure you may have a better idea. Again just a suggestion, may be too tedious etc, totally cool.
It’s really funny to me that Trapinch grows up (my personal term to describe an evolution line advancing) into a bit of a sweeper. I have ruined so many teams with Flygon. Love that thing.
MDBAMA: IN THE RUNS WHERE YOU'VE HAD TO USE A SINGLE FORM POKEMON OR A FIRST FORM POKEMON RATHER I SHOULD SAY HAVE YOU EVER ACCIDENTALLY FORGOT TO NOT EVOLVE IT WHERE IS THERE ANY FUNNY MOMENTS ABOUT THAT
"MDBAMA" have you ever played Dragon quest 9? I know you said dont put a challenge request in AMA, but I just had to, because this game is awesome to do challenge run on.
MDBAMA: Why is that you don't use move tutors a lot? Is it due to forgetting they exist? For example, the Rock Slide move tutor in Rock Tunnel exists, but you still went with Rock Tomb.
Have been watching a lot of the older content and loving it! Saw the Wobbuffet only run today and wanna say congrats for persevering! Quick question which you might have already answered but curious if you will ever do runs on games such as Sun/Moon or Sword/Shield?
That horrible abomination of mankind that can't even Pokémon? You what mate? Ace Trainer Heinz would like to battle! Ace Trainer Heinz sent out Walking Wake and Iron Leaves!
I was genuinely thinking you wouldn't made it at level 100 on this challenge. I'm happy you manage to make it. It was a good run to watch :) 👍 Pokémon Challenge suggestion: You are free to go with the game of your choice, but the challenges is using only middle evolution stage pokémon. (For Exemple: If you pick Bulbasaur as your starter, you can only battle with Ivysaur.) You are not allowed to use pokémon who's has no evolution or only 1, it must be a pokémon with a 2 stage linear Evolution. So pokémon like Eevee or Tyrogue are not allowed, but pokémon like Oddish, Poliwag or Ralts are allowed. Try number: 10
MDBAMA This is a question about you writing the script as you do the challenge, Do you have set points where you write down everything you can remember or do you write the script after every single thing that happens in a run?
Man, it's always hilarious watching runs of Pokémon with strange BSTs. With that said, Lopunny is one such pokémon, and it'd be awesome to see it take on Platinum!
One thing you kinda briefly glossed over while overviewing Trapinch is that its evolutionary line is, as you mentioned, a case where a stat gets lower on evolving (albiet going back up on final evolution). That happening at all is fairly rare.
Awesome Video! The Trapinch line are one of my favourite Dragon types! As a request I think playing through Radical Red or Emerald Kaizo would be fun! With a challenge or not, They're super challenging ROM hacks!
MDBAMA! 1) What is your favorite PokeBall? 2) Have you considered using cheat codes to give you unlimited TMs in these older generations? Might be nice to not be restricted by that
MDBAMA Love your content; been a viewer for years now. Hows your health doing? I know you were dragged through hell last year and I wish to know your progress! Love from British Columbia ❤️
MDBAMA: Okay, 2 questions, 1: Do you have a favorite Pokemon type, if so, what is it? and 2: Out of all of the Pokemon challenges you've done, which was your favorite, and which one, if any, did you hate doing, as you were doing them?
I can answer this. His favorite type is Poison. Not sure about his favorite but his least favorite was a full team but ONLY METRONOME and Wobbafett only.
I want someone to mod the "I took the helix fossil; I knew if I didn't say what I took you'd all ask" bit into the voice lines for a random Oblivion NPC so that when MDB does an Oblivion run there is a chance someone just blurts that out as he walks through a city
On the topic of HMs, I want to bring something up for if you ever do challenge runs in X/Y. In my own solo runs, I exclusively use Farfetch'd and Lapras for HMs. All of them (plus Rock Smash) are covered between the two, and they're extremely easy to get. Farfetch'd is a trade for a Bunnelby in the first Gym town, and you get given a Lapras immediately before you need Surf. On a different note, if you ever do challenge runs in the Alola games, just make sure Type: Null or Silvally are done in conjunction with a Khymera sponsorship.
Hey, great run! Very interesting with that Pokémon. I'm looking forward to your Krabby run, i actually like it very much as well! If you read this, i have three ideas for runs, which might be fun for you. 1. "Can you beat Pokémon Platinum with one Vulpix?" or "Can you beat Pokémon Soulsilver with a team of Vulpix?" Gen 4 should be better than gen 3, it got some decent coverage in that gen onwards. 2. "Can you beat Pokémon Platinum with a team of all Eeveelutions?" - yeah, i know, should be decently easy. But i think you should have an easy run from time to time. 3. "Can you beat Pokémon Crystal as Elite 4 Bruno?". I have no clue how this turns out. If i remember right, you should be able to get Onix very early, giving you the edge for about 4 gyms right of the bat. Onwards fighting should work out fine, but the Elite 4 could change that? If not, it would be interesting, if Elite 4 Bruno should be the secret endboss! MDBAMA: Could you imagine going for new games for Challenge runs? Like the Dragon Quest Games or Borderlands. Both are great games in my opinion, but it's your choice in the end!
MDBAMA: you have convinced me, how do I check out Professional wrestling as someone who knows very little about it, aside from seeing a few super eye patch wolf videos, and listening to the song "The Legend of Chavo Guerrero" by the mountain goats?
Speaking of shinies- since you've been doing team runs lately, would you consider a team of the shinies you have encountered on camera? You could probably use the randomizer to have them all available to catch in the first route and automatically appear shiny, so you can play the whole run with them. After all, the theme would be that they are YOUR shinies!
I would really like to see these challenges where you use the entire evolution tree. It would be more interesting than just "I had to overlevel this pokemon again."
MDBAMA- just want to know how the health situation is going? Watch your challenge videos every week, but never watch the end monologue! 😂 so not sure if I ever miss any updates? Hope your doing well dude?
This might be a bit of a weird challenge suggestion but I think it could be pretty interesting to see a Nature Power + Terrain Move only challenge in either X/Y, OR/AS, or S/M/US/UM, their are infinite use TM's in both of those games so you can give pretty large team variety as well as give a lot of strategy options with leveraging the different terrain moves to alter Nature Power's attack. Sadly no pokemon can start with it at lvl 1 without usage of egg moves but Lotad learns it at lvl 7 (in XY), Seedot get's it at 15 in both OR/AS and all of Gen 7. It might be a bit of an awkward challenge but I think it would be really cool to see how you tackle it.
I've never really thought about it, but the Trapinch evolutionary line is really weird... It's an ant lion that turns into a dragonfly that turns into a ... fly dragon? And none of them are bug type.
why does it MDBAMA remind me of Medical doctor Bama - aka an alternate timeline Obama who became a doctor? Oh and since this might get counted as an MDBAMA for that: If you could do a challenge in any game (pokemon or otherwise) that you haven't done one in yet, which game would it be?
Trapinch's highest speed at level 100 is 130 points. An abysmal 35 of that comes from Trapinch's base stats. The other 95 points come from EV training (64) and a perfect speed IV (31). Having a positive nature only gives Trapinch 5 to 10 points of speed at level 100 (depending on how it interacts with the EV and IV for speed).
It's pretty crazy that over 70% of the max speed comes from EVs, IVs, and nature.
No EVs, minimum speed IV, neutral nature = 25 speed (a naive nature only raises it to 27)
Max speed EV, max speed IV, neutral nature = 119 speed (a naive nature raises it to 130)
So, it's actually 25, not 35 speed. But MDB hearted my comment, so I didn't want to edit it 😅 Psypokes IV calculator is great, my math is not.
Trapinch is so slow.
@@wesleyoldham4222 Interesting that you guys use Psypoke since most people use Pokémon Showdown.
Respect for the mathematical hood lifestyle
@@heinzdoofenshmirtz8643 facts
If we're continuing the concept of solo runs with mons that weren't introduced in the region of the game, I'd like to see Pokemon HeartGold with a team of only one Pachirisu
Can nickname it Se-Jun
Was Pachirisu the gen 4 pika-clone? I thought it was gen 5's.
@@jasonkeith2832gen 5's pikaclone was Emolga. Dawn in the anime had a Pachirisu herself, also.
That was Emolga
@@jasonkeith2832 Yes. Generation 5's electric rodent is Emolga.
Take the dome fossil one day and never acknowledge it as being unusual. Just to keep everyone on their toes.
Nah, he'd make a heartfelt apology re-dedicating himself to his craft. Great idea, but MDB could never 😅
I love it when you talk dirty
@@josephchacra2840 Facts
MBDAMA:
Not actually a typo-ed AMA question. Loved the run MDB, also that Trapinch had 0 IV's in SpDef to go along with it's minus SpDef nature.
Well that explains a lot
That's a good point
@@MahDryBread Gotta love the community
I know it doesn't matter now that the challenge is complete but In FireRed, LeafGreen and Emerald they have Move Tutors that teach a few moves that were formally TMs in Gen 1 and 2 Trapinch can be taught Rock Slide in Rock Tunnel from an NPC. I just want to bring it to your attention for future challenges in those games.
You know I was confused why he didn’t do that and guessed older gen’s were just being older gen’s so it couldn’t learn it or something. Glad I was wrong though sad he didn’t know. That move tutor is my favorite since so many mons I use love having a good rock move
That is fantastic information, let's make this the most liked comment!
I love the Trapinch line. Sure Garchomp is a better Dragon/Ground Pokémon in just about every way but there is just something about Flygon that I really like.
Maybe for FlygonHG? That guy is pretty awesome
It's a pretty cool line. The antlion theme is unique for a dragon type (real antlions do metamorphize into dragonfly-like insects), each form has a unique color scheme, it's got a really memorable design, even if it's not as strong as Garchomp it's still a pretty good fighter... there's a lot to like here.
One of my favorite Pokemon is Vibrava, so I share the love of the Trapinch line.
Jet knees + goggles go brrr ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Flygon is amazing!!
@@AquibMohammedAyman Flygon in the Kanto late game would wipe the floor
One of these days, MBD is going to take the dome fossil and most of us will hear helix.
Fun fact lord Dom was voted as most popular lately on someone’s channel lord helix lost so badly which I was surprised
@@Stevenuniversefan-n4f no way
maybe its already happened?
@@PokemonPOTUS It’s actually true I couldn’t believe it myself
MBDAMA - long time fan, first time caller. Any chance of you doing a collaboration video with Jrose? Maybe pokemon stadium?
In stead of recommending what challenge to do, I'll recommend what not to do. Don't do a recoil move only run, at least not in gen 4, because it's boring. It was fun to research which Pokemon have the right moves and where to find them, but once I caught them all and leveled them until they learned their recoil moves, all that was left was to buy a lot of moomoo milk, grow leppa berries, and fight a bunch of monotonous battles switching into whichever Pokemon deals super effective damage to the opponent's Pokemon.
recoil sux tho
In rock tunnel is a move teacher for rock slide
Power 75
Accuracy 90
Can flinch
Hits multiple pokemon
Just a little extra since trapinch can learn that
Would have done a lot of work, super effective vs ice and flying.
its one of my go to moves
Sad that 2 of the good traits doesnt matter for trapinch on firered, but its still one of the best rock moves at the third gen
I feel like in these runs he rarely uses tms or move tutors and I don't get why
@@Venemofthe888 maybe self imposed challenge?
00:56 What about Move Tutors? Trapinch can get Rock Slide, that's pretty great.
*It's a trap!* _-inch!_
Requesting Pokemon B2W2 With Only One Chinchou.
Thank you for making this joke.
10:30 “Prove it!” is the best response to that answer
I love that you took the dome fossil for once.
@@TheOnlyLupin*whoosh*
Yeah, couldn’t believe it. After what, 5 years, of tradition he finally chose the dome fossil
No...?
Troll comment
King Dome
Here is an idea “Can I beat Pokemon Red with only ‘Blast Boom Destruct and Bomb’ like Moves!
If you start with Voltorb you get Sonic Boom at level 17 making it possible from the start of the game. Plus in Gen 1 it hits Ghosts for some reason.
It would be funny and stupid and interesting! Would love to see a video of it.
Moves you could use: Explosion, Self Destruct, Fire Blast, Egg Bomb, Sonic Boom, Spike Cannon, Pin Missile, and Smoke Screen.
Every Gen 1 move related to explosions!
I think if he made that challenge video it would………… “blow up”.
I love that extra long battle with the Meowth!
MEOWTH, THAT’S RIGHT!!!
Meowth is actually an evil genius!
@@PokemonPOTUSMEOWTH, THAT’S RIGHT
A first evo that gains wings as it evolves we gotta be close to that surskit run
I'm... impressed. I genuinely thought you weren't going to win this one, but you actually did it. Bravo, Mah Dry Bread, very well done. Definitely a well earned win.
Hopefully your talk with your accountant went smoothly.
The Fossil Joke never gets old. I think you'll win
Fun fact there was a poll on someone’s channel for the two fossil Pokémon and lord helix loss which I was surprised people were saying lord dome was better apparently lol
Nah, I’d win.
@@Stevenuniversefan-n4f No way?
FACTS!
@@PokemonPOTUS true
Flygon is one of my favorite Pokémon. It also had an amazing shiny
Yes, our talk went very smoothly.
I am very impressed with my client
I love this little guy, he's very much a friend.
id love to see a run with only remoraid. i had it as a starter in a platinum randomizer and was so surprised at how versatile the liddle fish is. you wouldnt think it by its stats, but when you see the move pool, its interesting.
That was rougher than I expected, but congratulations on pushing that over the line for that last bit!
Can't wait for the next Platinum run where you go to the Underdround, and say "well this time the underground gave us [Mission]"
Legend has it he's still waiting, earbuds in, for that phone call :)
Did you know in FR/LG you can do that pre victory road rival fight at any point? You can go straight there at the beginning of the game and only have to deal with a lvl 9 starter
Fun fact for the intro: ALL offensive Dark moves of the first 3 generations ended up being physical moves after the split introduced in Gen4.
I can’t wait for some more of the pokemon wrestling. My favorite part was listening to the play by play of the gastly fight. Top tier comedy
Hey MDB, thanks for still doing these man. Hope you’re doing well bud
I would really love to see you play some of the more modern games with a normal team. You could pretty easily still emulate the 3DS era games at least I would love to see you try the ultra games.
MDB, I've had this editing observation for a while, it may be too tedious to do and/or you just don't want to, and that's cool but wanted to suggest it anyway. 19:57 to 20:13 essentially the audio commentary is ahead of the battle, and I'm wondering if having multiple cuts and changing the speed of the video to match the audio, for segments (I'm aware you do this overall), would make the story telling more interesting? Because as soon as I know the outcome, what happens on screen isn't 'as' interesting any more. I've seen how you get the video to fit to the time of the audio, it might be as simple as cutting at the 'I'm going to try this now' part, I'm not sure you may have a better idea. Again just a suggestion, may be too tedious etc, totally cool.
I know the name is too long but Leonardo DaPinchi would have been an amazing name
It’s really funny to me that Trapinch grows up (my personal term to describe an evolution line advancing) into a bit of a sweeper. I have ruined so many teams with Flygon. Love that thing.
Another perfect nickname!
Always looking forward, in each episode, to that short, but suuuper funny moment! 😂
Challenge suggestion: since I don't see one how about a Slakoth run? Could even be an evolution run if need be, like a Norman run.
Oh yes!! I was asking for this one so much last year, happy to see my boy now!
MDBAMA: IN THE RUNS WHERE YOU'VE HAD TO USE A SINGLE FORM POKEMON OR A FIRST FORM POKEMON RATHER I SHOULD SAY HAVE YOU EVER ACCIDENTALLY FORGOT TO NOT EVOLVE IT WHERE IS THERE ANY FUNNY MOMENTS ABOUT THAT
Well I guess that rules out naming a heracross pinsir but you should still do a heracross only run
"MDBAMA" have you ever played Dragon quest 9? I know you said dont put a challenge request in AMA, but I just had to, because this game is awesome to do challenge run on.
MDBAMA: Why is that you don't use move tutors a lot? Is it due to forgetting they exist? For example, the Rock Slide move tutor in Rock Tunnel exists, but you still went with Rock Tomb.
Have been watching a lot of the older content and loving it! Saw the Wobbuffet only run today and wanna say congrats for persevering! Quick question which you might have already answered but curious if you will ever do runs on games such as Sun/Moon or Sword/Shield?
Any chance we can get a run where you use a team from the show? Like team rocket in advance battle or Brock in diamond and pearl?
I happened to run into a shadow shiny Trapinch in Pokemon Go earlier today, also could you try a Stunky only run in HeartGold/SoulSilver?
That horrible abomination of mankind that can't even Pokémon? You what mate?
Ace Trainer Heinz would like to battle!
Ace Trainer Heinz sent out Walking Wake and Iron Leaves!
MBDAMA how would you feel about doing a nuzlock run or something like that
28:50 a FOUR-HOUR call window? That is awful.
Trapinch my boy!!
Awesome video ♥️
Just your daily reminder that we would love Pokémon stadium 2
13:40 are we not going to talk about Blastoise pulling off double Protects like an absolute mad lad!?!
Please do Platinum with only one Farfetch’d!
MDBAMA - Are you going to make more oblivion challenges?
Was waiting for your video ♥️
Pokémon Diamond with only a team of Magikarp and Feebas
I was genuinely thinking you wouldn't made it at level 100 on this challenge. I'm happy you manage to make it. It was a good run to watch :) 👍
Pokémon Challenge suggestion: You are free to go with the game of your choice, but the challenges is using only middle evolution stage pokémon. (For Exemple: If you pick Bulbasaur as your starter, you can only battle with Ivysaur.) You are not allowed to use pokémon who's has no evolution or only 1, it must be a pokémon with a 2 stage linear Evolution. So pokémon like Eevee or Tyrogue are not allowed, but pokémon like Oddish, Poliwag or Ralts are allowed.
Try number: 10
MDBAMA:
Are you gonna do Sword/Shield or Scarlet/Violet challenges someday? Would love to see some challenges from the newer PKMN games.
MDBAMA This is a question about you writing the script as you do the challenge, Do you have set points where you write down everything you can remember or do you write the script after every single thing that happens in a run?
MDBAMA - Do you typically go for the same HM mons? Or do you just grab whatever you happen to run into first?
Man, it's always hilarious watching runs of Pokémon with strange BSTs.
With that said, Lopunny is one such pokémon, and it'd be awesome to see it take on Platinum!
One thing you kinda briefly glossed over while overviewing Trapinch is that its evolutionary line is, as you mentioned, a case where a stat gets lower on evolving (albiet going back up on final evolution). That happening at all is fairly rare.
Week 14 of asking for a flareon solo run
Awesome Video! The Trapinch line are one of my favourite Dragon types! As a request I think playing through Radical Red or Emerald Kaizo would be fun! With a challenge or not, They're super challenging ROM hacks!
MDBAMA! 1) What is your favorite PokeBall?
2) Have you considered using cheat codes to give you unlimited TMs in these older generations? Might be nice to not be restricted by that
7:38 "we one-shot his entire team" he says over footage of taking two attacks to take out Onix.
MDBAMA have you even considered doing by a challenge run in the newer generations? I would love to see a Mimikyu only run, it’s my favorite Pokémon
Great video as always! I’ve never offered a suggestion, but I think Pokémon emerald with 1 drilbur could be very interesting
MDBAMA
Love your content; been a viewer for years now.
Hows your health doing? I know you were dragged through hell last year and I wish to know your progress!
Love from British Columbia ❤️
Man, so happy to see the Dome fossil finally get some love
MDBAMA: Okay, 2 questions, 1: Do you have a favorite Pokemon type, if so, what is it? and 2: Out of all of the Pokemon challenges you've done, which was your favorite, and which one, if any, did you hate doing, as you were doing them?
I can answer this. His favorite type is Poison.
Not sure about his favorite but his least favorite was a full team but ONLY METRONOME and Wobbafett only.
Mah-Bry-Dread
MDBAMA: Have you ever considered calling this section MD-BAMA? Similar to the Snowbama typo/nickname?
I want someone to mod the "I took the helix fossil; I knew if I didn't say what I took you'd all ask" bit into the voice lines for a random Oblivion NPC so that when MDB does an Oblivion run there is a chance someone just blurts that out as he walks through a city
On the topic of HMs, I want to bring something up for if you ever do challenge runs in X/Y. In my own solo runs, I exclusively use Farfetch'd and Lapras for HMs. All of them (plus Rock Smash) are covered between the two, and they're extremely easy to get. Farfetch'd is a trade for a Bunnelby in the first Gym town, and you get given a Lapras immediately before you need Surf.
On a different note, if you ever do challenge runs in the Alola games, just make sure Type: Null or Silvally are done in conjunction with a Khymera sponsorship.
Hear is a challenge. Tynamo in B2W2
Can we get an Emerald run with just Swablu??????
Hey, great run! Very interesting with that Pokémon. I'm looking forward to your Krabby run, i actually like it very much as well!
If you read this, i have three ideas for runs, which might be fun for you.
1. "Can you beat Pokémon Platinum with one Vulpix?" or "Can you beat Pokémon Soulsilver with a team of Vulpix?"
Gen 4 should be better than gen 3, it got some decent coverage in that gen onwards.
2. "Can you beat Pokémon Platinum with a team of all Eeveelutions?" - yeah, i know, should be decently easy. But i think you should have an easy run from time to time.
3. "Can you beat Pokémon Crystal as Elite 4 Bruno?". I have no clue how this turns out. If i remember right, you should be able to get Onix very early, giving you the edge for about 4 gyms right of the bat. Onwards fighting should work out fine, but the Elite 4 could change that? If not, it would be interesting, if Elite 4 Bruno should be the secret endboss!
MDBAMA:
Could you imagine going for new games for Challenge runs? Like the Dragon Quest Games or Borderlands. Both are great games in my opinion, but it's your choice in the end!
Trapinch was an instant addition to my team first playthrough. I wasn't as big on the evolutions though. They're fine but the big bug thing was cool
MDBAMA: Why do you never show the third Maxie fight in Emerald runs?
Can't remember if I did this last week, but polemon platinum with only a Beedrill
MDBAMA: you have convinced me, how do I check out Professional wrestling as someone who knows very little about it, aside from seeing a few super eye patch wolf videos, and listening to the song "The Legend of Chavo Guerrero" by the mountain goats?
Speaking of shinies- since you've been doing team runs lately, would you consider a team of the shinies you have encountered on camera?
You could probably use the randomizer to have them all available to catch in the first route and automatically appear shiny, so you can play the whole run with them. After all, the theme would be that they are YOUR shinies!
Can you beat Black version with an Aron?
Requesting Azurill only run yet again
I would really like to see these challenges where you use the entire evolution tree. It would be more interesting than just "I had to overlevel this pokemon again."
MDBAMA - Are there any challenges you wish you could go back and re-do? Also, what's your favourite Khimyra shirt?
Hey MDB, what fossil did you take? I wasn't paying attention.
Mdbama when will you do bethsheda runs again
WE DREAMED OF THE DAY FOR MY BOY TO GET HIS DAY AND HE HAS HIS DAY, THAT'S MY TRAPINCH.
MDBAMA Will you do a Morrowind Run?
*MDBAMA*
What was your favorite challenge run that you did?
Trapinch's abysmal speed stat makes sense given its anatomy. I mean, look at the size of its head compared to its body and nub legs 😂
Week 12 of requesting a Mantyke only run, dealer's choice of game.
MDBAMA- just want to know how the health situation is going? Watch your challenge videos every week, but never watch the end monologue! 😂 so not sure if I ever miss any updates? Hope your doing well dude?
The agony that was having to beat Lorelei one additional Pokemon per every other battle.
MDBAMA When can you continue your fallout New Vegas Evil karma survival run I was really enjoying it.
MDBAMA: do you like Mudkipz
MDBAMA is back! 🥳
Speak of, what's your favourite wrestling entrance music?
This might be a bit of a weird challenge suggestion but I think it could be pretty interesting to see a Nature Power + Terrain Move only challenge in either X/Y, OR/AS, or S/M/US/UM, their are infinite use TM's in both of those games so you can give pretty large team variety as well as give a lot of strategy options with leveraging the different terrain moves to alter Nature Power's attack. Sadly no pokemon can start with it at lvl 1 without usage of egg moves but Lotad learns it at lvl 7 (in XY), Seedot get's it at 15 in both OR/AS and all of Gen 7. It might be a bit of an awkward challenge but I think it would be really cool to see how you tackle it.
well now I had to go look up the wrestling pokemon video! Good stuff!
I've never really thought about it, but the Trapinch evolutionary line is really weird... It's an ant lion that turns into a dragonfly that turns into a ... fly dragon? And none of them are bug type.
Spaghetti and meatballs run, Tangela for the spaghetti, exeggcute for the meatballs? Not sure about sauce lol.
why does it MDBAMA remind me of Medical doctor Bama - aka an alternate timeline Obama who became a doctor?
Oh and since this might get counted as an MDBAMA for that: If you could do a challenge in any game (pokemon or otherwise) that you haven't done one in yet, which game would it be?