I'm gonna be completing the entire Pokemon franchise in chronological order both in a hardcore Nuzlocke setting and without using a single repeat Pokemon between games so if I use Chikorita and gold I can't use it in silver Crystal the remakes anywhere at all rules are in the description including some frequently asked questions about some previous videos speaking of which if you haven't checked those out yet I'd highly suggest watching those first to see what Pokemon I've used so far make sure you subscribe so you don't miss out on any parts of this huge series as we lead into the release of Pokemon scarlet and violet especially since 64 percent of viewers are unsubscribed and we're making a push for 200 000 subscribers by the end of 2022 let's Jump Right In all right the Johto remakes I'm sure if you're a recurring viewer of this channel you already know my feelings about jodo and how I think they're structurally one of the worst games of the franchise though that's still a very high bar these games are still fun I'd just rather go back to something like Gen 5 or gen 3 titles first but we have to get through these two games to get to my favorite in the franchise so let's go for it we've got a whopping 32 important fights in each game for a total of 64 today those being Faulkner Bugsy silver too since silver one is just a starter bashing Whitney silver three Morty Chuck price Jasmine silver four Archer Claire silver five the Elite Four and Lance the champion in Johto then of course the 8 Gym Leaders the Elite Four and champion rematches and red in Kanto also to answer the question as to why I didn't do the Elite 4 rematches in the post games of fire and LeafGreen or dominant Pearl or to get to Steven and emerald it's purely because there's Gym badges in the second region of gen 2. red just makes for a perfect cap up point but hcss does introduce summary matches with the elite four members after all 16 badges but before the fight with red so that's why we'll be taking them on here anyway if you want to avoid spoilers on what Pokemon have been used you have three seconds before the chart is shown on screen [Music] so we're just under 200 Pokemon used out of the 493 available in Gen 4 with around half of the missing ones not being available in hcss due to being remakes of the Gen 2 titles however there are a few Pokemon that were introduced in Gen 4 namely 5 of them that they add to the regional decks like yanmega ambipom riperior Magmortar and electivire so those might help us a little bit more with the pool before we get started with our team members and battles though I want to let you guys know another PSA in regards to telegram these Bots are still running wild here on YouTube and in case you don't know I have a verified check mark next to my username to tell you that if I reply to your comment it's from the real authentic chaotic meatball not some scammer who's trying to ask for money for shipping of an item you're not gonna get if there's any giveaways involved with this channel they'll be over at my Twitter at twitter.com forward slash chaotic meatball Link in the description speaking of which definitely go follow me over there as I'm giving away a 300 Yu-Gi-Oh card a collector's rare blackluster Soldier Envoy of the beginning and I'll be giving away four copies of Pokemon scarlet and violet straight after that one ends anyway after grabbing Totodile seeing as we've already used all three starters and this one gets the most HMS we're able to head out onto Route 29 during the night and capture hoot hoot as our real starter hoot hoot is a surprisingly versatile special attacker especially because it gains access to moves like air slash and extra sensory via level up and Shadow Ball and Roost by TM so I'm aiming to get that move set ASAP while Evie training it in of course special attack and speed our second encounter lies within dark cave housing Zubat about time that crowbot finally has a good moveset cross poison is a fantastic physical move and fly is a rather strong move despite being a two turn with 95 accuracy but still rather good coverage like bite leech life in astonish also help us throughout the early game so we'll be EV training this in attack and speed thirdly moving into Violet City we've got this convenient NPC here in the Pokemon Center this guy's name is primo and by plugging your train trainer ID into a Nifty little calculator online you can get codes that yield certain eggs the one we're grabbing here though just so happens to be Slugma normally not available early in any Pokemon game having access to Slugma here in hcss finally makes it worthwhile even if it ends up being brittle for quite a while until it evolves into magcargo at level 38. slugma's also going to be getting a bit of a weird EV distribution as I'm aiming to max out special attack at 252 points but then split defense and special defense at around 160 and 96 respectively I was initially going to split these two down the middle with 128 in each but once I realized Slugma had a perfect 31 IV in special defense I figured that I'd have some extra investment into defense to make up for the lower IV fourth and final encounter before we get to Faulkner is on Route 32. the patch of grass here houses Mareep now I know what you're thinking wait a second meatball didn't you already use flaffy and Ampharos in Coliseum and the answer is yes but the fact is is that we don't have to evolve Mareep I've used my fair share of unevolved Pokemon in my challenge runs what's one more to add while on a team of eventually fully evolved and powerful Pokemon plus this thing kind of poops on Faulkner pretty easily he feeds off with Pidgey as I go with Zubat using bite to do half damage before swapping into hoot hoot using growl then swapping in a Mareep to finish it off with thundershock though that sand attack might do a little bit of trouble so here I kind of changed my strategy going into hoot hoot when he brings in Pidgeotto so that I can use hypnosis putting it to sleep while resetting mareep's accuracy then swapping back in as Pidgeotto wakes up a turn after my thirst thundershock lands using tackle and paralyzing himself thanks to mareep's static ability from there it's one more thundershock to KO and win the fight simple and easy as to be expected with the first gym leader of any game so moving on down to Route 32 after the gym I can head into the Pokemon Center before the Union Cave to find myself the Old Rod now while this does open up a new encounter I do make a wee bit of a mistake capturing Tentacool on Route 32 as I've already used this area for Mareep however new bark Town's Old Rod encounters are the exact same tentacle and Magikarp both at level 10 so we'll just consider that area used up and Those About to complain in the comments I'm pretty sure someone needs to tell you this and it may as well be me go touch grass anyway tentacles getting trained in special attack and speed after helping Kurt storm the Slowpoke well we can move into Bugsy's gym a piece of cake in terms of difficulty if you ask me I'm starting with Marie Pierre as it's the most Expendable member of my team so I go for thundershock hoping to hit his lead Scyther though he does out speed and land U-turn despite doing massive damage it also paralyzes him thanks to the static ability and that's probably the best thing I could have ever asked for as Metapod comes in and gets hit with thundershock paralyzing her as well from here I can just bring in all my Pokemon in so that they get a wee bit of experience ending on Slugma so that everybody levels up except for her then absolutely annihilating Scyther with rock throw and two Embers taking a few quick attacks before koing and leaving just Kakuna I don't have much HP left here though so I swap into Zubat take a poison sting and KO with wing attack to win the fight two down a bajillion to go Silver's first real fight is right before ilex Forest here in Azalea town with him starting ghastly as we go Zubat pretty obvious we're just going for bite here and that critical chaos and in one shot as does a critical wing attack to Ko's incoming bay leaf last out is his own Zubat whom I use wing attack on to get into red HP then he misses Supersonic and uh well so much for doing damage against me there [ __ ] clearly you don't know what you're doing moving on through Alex Force gives me access to the NBC who teaches headbutt as this is the key to my next encounter however I'm gonna wait until we get through Goldenrod City first as that is the home of the Johto Region's game corner and department store so we're able to load up on some TMS here while also getting the radio card sending Whitney back to her gym in the process now we can't take on that Mill tank just yet we do need that one more team member over in Azalea town I can grab Aipom off of the trees here a very strong and fast physical attacker that yields return as a stab move move while also getting coverage like shadowclaw U-turn dig so many different moves this thing is going to be a house once it evolves into ambipom lastly one NPC I want to highlight in the Goldenrod department store is on the sixth floor as they have a lottery that costs 300 bucks to enter with prizes like TMS special Pokeballs and most importantly berries we'll be getting the berry pots shortly in order to get more of these things but for now we can get a few for that slight Edge against Whitney she leads with a Clefairy as I go with Aipom and Bam return one shot easy and miltank return half damage return Miss the range because of course I do that's what we do here best at house meatball in the meantime though I just trade milk drink with return over and over again hoping that I can hit enough High Rolls to eventually KO but you can tell that my luck with ranges is somehow abysmal every single time I attack eventually sheep runs out and uses stomp letting her get into to the red HP for a super potion heal locking yourself and allowing two more returns to finally finish this fight at least it was not as painful as it could have been because without Aipom I was looking at a very messy situation moving ahead with the squirt bottle I'm able to grab myself Sudowoodo on route 36. of course this is a one-time encounter and I'm not sure if I'm gonna use it yet so if I do I may as well just grab it and leave it in the Box in case the need arises just beyond his ecritique City housing the burned Tower which is the home of our next rival flight however we can do some major improvements to the team beforehand firstly getting confusion on hoot hoot and evolving it into Noctowl getting the TM for surf from the ecritique dance theater for tentacle and evolving Zubat fully into Crobat now that is what I like to see that is progression anywho bums here and leading off with his ghastly again but with Crobat this is even more of a joke as bite one shots then Magnemite tries to come in to snipe me down though I just swap in the Mareep Dodge both of his status moves in Ko with two Thunderbolts thank you Goldenrod City for that one bay leaves out third and thunder waves able to paralyze him instantly allowing for Crobat to enter and clean house with wing attack nearly koing in one shot as Bayleef sets up reflect kaoing with the second as his own Zubat goes down to two Wing attacks thanks to said reflect protecting him winning me the fight downstairs we go and to never see you again you Rascals I have no interest in using legendaries for any other games in this series as Coliseum and XD were exceptions because bosses used legendaries but even with the case of the latter's final boss having four of them I still didn't need one bragging aside though Morty's just south of tilted Towers inside the gym and Crobat go Burr wins the fight single-handedly including a critical bite on his Gengar to ensure it goes down in one shot as do his ghastly and to Haunter you cannot physically ask for a better fight other than the one shots that out speed so I am a very happy camper half the Johto region down as we make it to Olivine with the lighthouse and saving the Ampharos in there then succeeded by the dumb stupid dumb idiot Team Rocket hideout in Mahogany town that no one cares about squashing both petrol and Ariana respectively before challenging the triple header of Chuck price and Jasmine in that order well after running into Entei with surfing somehow I don't know how that happened anyway Chuck has two Pokemon first being primeape who dies to aipom's return then polyrath who doesn't only taking half but since its only fighting type move is focus punch I don't care a citrus Berry heals a quarter of his HP back as body slam does around 30 damage to me so I use U-turn to avoid getting hit with a critical body slam and to avoid getting hit with Focus punch on a swap and sure enough the latter happens as I go into Crobat using one wing attack before Chuck heel locks himself with a hyper potion using two more 2ko and win the match and would you look at that they're zombipom now price is three levels higher but not much more intensive in terms of difficulty as Mareep handles his seal and dugong quite nicely with Thunderbolt one shotting the former as his other Pokemon in pileless wine comes out second here I can swap into Crobat to blank the ground type mud bomb then use protect to ensure he's going for blizzard then go into my newly evolved tentric roll so we can both resist blizzard and hit for super effective damage with surf though of course we missed a ranged KO whoever decided a move wasn't always a set amount of damage and instead had other variables that I can't influence just know that it would be great to have your head as a prize on my wall violence aside he's able to land a mud bomb following setting up hail not doing too much due to tenacral's special defense and allowing her to KO with a second serve leaving just dugong thankfully I can just stay in here and land two sludge bombs poisoning with the first to ensure the second KO is to win the match these ranges are really raw dog in me today more than usual last gym leader to take care of in the trifecta is Jasmine so I lead ambipom against her Magnemite koing it and the second one with one dig each then you turning to get out of Dodge as Steelix comes in so popping into Technical and absorbing Screech with the clear body ability to KO next turn with surf to win the fight that is bro best execution that could have been done nothing else to say other than maybe higher probably like two more Ampharos so that they can take eight hour shifts over there no wonder the one in the lighthouse almost died well then it's time for the rocket Tower Heist the only cool part about this is that they throw you in a Team Rocket outfit to sneak inside though that's instantly foiled by silver speaking of him though after the second and final battle against petrol we can take him on and now he's using Golbat as his lead instead and using confused Ray to try to confuse my lead Mareep but a person Berry and a thunderbolt later and that one's gone second out is Meganium and the only attacking move he has is pedal dance so I swap into crowbat then use fly while he's locked into KO without the risk of reflect leading to Magnemite now I would love to swap out into something relevant but I'm going to go into Mareep since I don't want anybody else on the team being paralyzed eventually koing threw a few Sonic booms with two Thunderbolts as Haunter comes in fourth by this point mareep's out of gas for the rest of the fight so I swap in a knock towel to absorb a ghost type attack with normal immunity blasting out Shadow Ball to KO as sneasel's the last Pokemon standing I risk staying in on an ice punch but for some reason it goes for faint attack instead taking half from my air slash beforehand but I don't want to risk it again with two-thirds HP so I swap in a Tentacruel take another faint attack and KO with surf next turn after out speeding to win the fight honestly I didn't expect Tentacruel to out speed but I will absolutely take it upon further review his base stats is actually base 100 speed which I thought it was somewhere around the neighborhood of like 70 but that's pretty good after getting a card key from the radio towers director we can smash our way through proton and Ariana finally getting to Archer the current head of Team Rocket alright [ __ ] you had your fun now it's time to drown he leads houndour as I go with Tentacruel and surf goes here as it does on Hound Doom koing both after out speeding and even rubbing salt into the wound found Doom with an unnecessary critical hit last out is coughing and we're going for three for three on out speeding in one shotting and we get it taking him out to win who decided that the ultimate final boss of Team Rocket needed two unevolved Pokemon and one slightly threatening Pokemon I'm not mad just disappointed anyway one ice path later and we're ready for Claire though the move to leader and move tutor being here in Blackthorne City means I can finally have optimal moves on stuff like Pro bat with cross poison so we're getting closer to our final move sets which is great to see anyway getting up to Claire she leads off with Gyarados as I go with Mareep makes sense as bite does less than half and Thunderbolt is a quad effective KO mechanism moving on Dragonair is out second and unfortunately it doesn't go down to a single Ice Beam once I swap into Tentacruel rather it takes two and taking two means that held Cherry Berry isn't gonna be enough to hold me through until Kingdra or maybe not her second Dragonair instead goes for Dragon pulse rather than Thunder Wave so I can KO with two more ice beams leaving just Kendra I do take the risk of staying on half HP due to my massive special defense using protect followed by sludge bomb for just under half but from here tenac rules too weak I gotta swap into a fast friend Bronto and Ambi pumps the perfect candidate coming in and tanking a dragon pulse in order to dish out a return for the knockdown winning us the rising badge in the last of the Johto set sweet in one Dragon stand visit later and we're ready for the Elite Four or would be if the legendary box art chicken wasn't required unlike gold and silver we have to go take out all five of the kimono girls in a row without healing which is quite difficult I might add all five of the Eeveelutions are pretty difficult especially when you can't change your lead before going to war with our respective Box chicken in this case Ho-Oh luckily for us Professor Elm hands us the master ball by this point so I just Chuck it here to avoid having to do anything I won't use it but it'll be in the Box he's just standing there menacingly I don't know how I've managed to get this much mileage out of SpongeBob jokes in this series they just keep coming up after all the dumb Canto stuff were able to hit the end of Victory Road housing our last required Rival Battle of the game he's once again not hard he's got Sneasel in the lead this time around going down to Amber Palm's return after being outsped as does his Golbat out second third out as Meganium so I go U-turn hitting for a critical hit and a one shot that's probably the first time I've ever seen U-turn one shot but I go into crowbat and sure enough that baits Kadabra something I can easily out speed in Ko with a one shot of bite leading to Magneton I don't have a good ground type to take care of this but after using knock towel to absorb the paralysis from Thunder Wave I can swap into ambipom and fire off dig the KO leaving just Haunter I haven't yet taught ambipom the TM for shadowclaw since I've needed strength so I've got to use U-turn to get out of Dodge going back into Chrome robot so that bite can finish this fight off alright no more hm users in the party I can bring Marie back into the fold and begin this league after some small preparations will is first in line going with zatsu first as I go with knock towel immediately rubbing some salt into some wounds with an unnecessary critical Shadow Ball to zato is jinx and we're two for two in terms of salt as Shadow Ball crits to KO as well though that might have been needed because jinx's special defense is rather High third out is Executor and no crit necessary here just an air slash fourth is slow bro and Shadow Ball does wonders though I'm expecting him to use Amnesia here to put a stop to it however he is dumb and goes for curse so I'm able to get a free two shot with Shadow Ball leaving just zatsu number two who manages to survive a Shadow Ball using its held Citrus Berry to get back to half HP and fire off a confused Ray but since I'm still at full HP I figured why not let's see if we can beat the fight damage list and sure enough we bust through confusion for the turn to out speed and KO with a second Shadow Ball sorry Willy boy you're just gonna have to wait for the rematch to see if you do any better second in the lineup is Koga leading off with ariados as we go with Meg cargo the perfect counter for this fight in fact ariados kicks off with a light Giga drain doing literally a dozen damage as flamethrower gets a one shot as it does on Fortress while he lays a layers of toxic spikes down not even a problem is once I bring in Tentacruel these will go away instantly third out is venomoth missing with supersonic as flamethrower burns the bug to a crisp leading to muck now's where we swap an attentic rule absorbing those toxic spikes and laying down the law was surf because minimize will add up quick along with black sludge his attack gun shot as well as a very strong 120 base power poison move so having something that resists in the active spot should keep us safe we finally get on a second Serve by the time black sludge heals him at a full restore range hitting a third and final one to KO and leaves just Crobat while I have the perfect move to Adam Ice Beam this move is unfortunately just shy of a one shot but the Citrus fairy pulls him out once again from 4 restore range wasting a double team and going down to Ice Beam next turn to win me the fight I just want to reiterate a tentacral outsped a crowbat base 100 vs base 130 ladies and gentlemen dumb founded this aside third up on the docket is Bruno and having a special attacking flying type and knock towel is pretty perfect here air slash manages to get one shots on Hitman top after hitting quick attack and Hitmonchan before Onyx comes out third using rock slide but connecting on Tentacruel instead too bad you're not fast enough to earthquake as surf hits that quad weakness to KO and lead into Machamp I keep Tentacruel in here to dish out of surf for just shy of half damage taking a Revenge that does some good decent damage but since I'm expecting another one I swap so I don't take that double damage and he somehow predicts my swapping a Noctowl and goes for rock slide unfortunately bringing him down to 5 HP he is not dead but he's hanging on by a threat making it safe to go for air slash next turn to KO fourth out is hitmonly and I know this thing has god-awful defenses but I don't want to risk that speed so I swapping to crowbat take a blaze kick then go for fly as he goes for Swagger missing and going down the following turn oh we're rubbing salt into the wound on Bruno too well then I guess the bag of salt from Sinnoh didn't get spilled overboard on our trip back to Johto one more member before the champion in Karen and despite her name she's not really a [ __ ] she's actually a good level of difficulty not too heavy-handed with degenerate stall tactics but not just ignoring the best attributes of her team speaking of that team she leads with Umbreon as I go with my biggest hitter ambipom in the hopes that I can get this thing down before double teams and Confused Ray becomes too much to handle I use return out speeding and doing exactly half as confused Ray lands being negated thanks to a person Berry but you know how this goes by now miss the range with the second see a double team full restore afterwards then after a third return lands she opts to swap into Gengar after seeing my patterns so I use U-turn to get the heck out of Dodge going into Noctowl though on second thought I should have gone crowbat to purely resist Focus blast unfortunately I don't get the KO with the Shadow Ball following a spite so I'm stuck here trying to outplay her Destiny Bond Shenanigans finally doing so after swapping back into ambipom on his Spike to hit with shadowclaw for the KO thorn out as Hound doom and dig is perfect for this super effective damage but it barely misses the KO allowing for the Citrus Berry to trigger as she uses nasty plot well that's probably the best thing that could have happened right now is I can just click return and whether or not she uses a full restorer in this case she doesn't Iko in either one or two shots fourth out is vileplume and after delivering a return stunsport comes down and basically means Ambi Palms out but I haven't taken much damage yet so I used U-turn to finish it off going into Mareep as murkrow comes in last thankfully faint attack manages to paralyze him with the static ability though I don't think it really matters as Thunderbolt gets the one shot leaving just the half HP Umbreon I don't have many options to swap into but technical being at full HP still sounds pretty good surf doesn't quite KO from this range though so I'm forced into taking a few more faint attacks than I wanted to as a full restore comes down from here it's just two sludge bombs and a surf through a payback to KO finally winning the fight and to think we're getting usage out of Mareep in the league it's actually comical I could have replaced this thing long ago with something like corsola or chinchu something useful but nope just little old Marie Trucking along like a champ speaking of being a champ she's taking one for the team as I'm leading her against the champion and is Gyarados makes sense of course but we narrowly avoid the one shot with waterfall not flinching either and delivering that sweet Thunderbolt one shot alright you've done all you've needed to this run Mareep as much as I want to go deathless I'm gonna sack you off to have a clean Swap and a Tentacruel on this Dragonite to hit with quite effective damage but of course it's another God damn range outrage lands and leaves Tentacruel on 6 hp no no this is [ __ ] how many times can this happen no [ __ ] you I'm going back to Yu-Gi-Oh so we're building up a match against our favorite deck blue eyes white dragon everybody remembers that card from the anime right while we're going in with a bunch of small birds how are we supposed to do anything well going first is a good start so we'll kick off our turn with a pot of extravagance banishing six cards from our extra deck to draw two cards Pottery needed some form of restriction or else it'd be too good next we'll activate pot of Duality looking at the top three cards of the deck in fun fine dang a little bird yeah we were about to lose if we did not find Rubina well normal summer rabina and activate its effect to search for a level 4 lower winged Beast monster in this case iglin then immediately after that effect resolves we normal summon again this time with the eaglin we just added adding a level 7 or higher Wing Beast monster from our deck to our hand and we'll take the second copy of mpen hey you know what I nicknamed Empoleon after in the last video now well tribute our two little birds for Big Bird and Pen here to add the spell card flow wanderies and the unexplored winds which lets us tribute our opponents cards when we want to Tribute summon very powerful removal for a deck that Tribute Summons once twice or even three times in a turn if you're high rolling we're also able to chain block it with robina's effect in the banish pile to add it back to hand so that mpen can't be negated by something like an ash Blossom and Joy of Spring from there we'll set the Trap flow wanderies in the dreaming town which will let us normal summon during our opponent's main phase and do that whole combo again simple right yu-yo hasn't gone too far off the beaten path our opponent will kick off with a trade-in discarding blue eyes white dragon to draw two cards before activating Rage with eyes of blue which banishes all cards from their hand field and graveyard face down to special summon as many blue eyes white dragons from the deck as they want up to three since they've already pitched one and banished it face down for the effect of Rage they can only special summon too will J Maxi here which will let us draw a card every time our opponent special summons this one being counted as one but it's very powerful still and honestly should be banned two blue lines come down and it's time to go dreaming baby we'll activate the trap in normal summon Robina to do the same thing we did last turn at a level 4 lower wing Beast while adding England back to hand from the banish pile then use unexplored wins to Tribute off rabina in one of the blue eyes for a second and pen in order to search for the deck's main field spell card and upon seeing that I can add another tribute monster with eaglin to remove his other blue eyes they will disconnect and rage quit just like how I rage quit this damn Lance battle huh well I guess I've lost enough viewers by this point let's get back to that shall we the second Ice Beam manages to get the KO as the lower level Dragonite start rolling in and yeah these are easily one shots especially once we hit Level 49 off the second one and the third and final Dragonite goes down to Ice Beam that is Aerodactyl and as much as I'd love to stay in and hit it with surf I know Aerodactyl out speeds us at this point so I swap into mad cargo forgetting that rock does not in fact resist Rock but he in fact goes for thunderfang so that's fine but rock slide manages to nearly KO us so whoopsie let's not make that stupid mistake again we'll swap over into ambipom taking less than half from aerialist as we use return despite not being very effective it's able to KO from half leaving just Charizard I'm gonna go ahead and u-turn at a Dodge for some minimal damage swapping into Crobat and taking less than half from Air slash though I won't be sticking around for long I'll hit confused Ray getting Charizard to hit it south then swap into my final full HP Pokemon in Noctowl taking an air slash for about a third now it is just air slash Wars it is just air slash Wars and he opts to not continue that fight instead go for firefang doing about a third again well then I guess we need to use Roost to outpace this damage and outpace we shall he goes for several fire fangs in a row and as I continue to roost the fully HP basically with me hoping he'll miss a fire Fang since it's 95 accurate and I'll be able to sneak in an air slash the KO but once I do it is a range dude what the hell I am going to go crazy I mean you guys see me playing into every single critical hit imaginable because I am very salty especially when I was actually playing it why don't those ever happen but those ranges are like my worst enemy I just want it to stop anyway we continue to go back and forth eventually resulting in my Roost War winning getting me just enough HP to outlast and KO with air slash with 23 HP remaining when you meet the fight and getting through Johto huh better keep on it since kanto's not getting any closer to being done it was particularly difficult though the fact that they upgraded the levels massively from the original gold and silver for the gym leaders makes this a much more enjoyable experience rather than sweeping through every gym not named Viridian after clearing out all the side quest stuff we can just start taking out the gym leaders in order Brock's the first victim with a wrath with Tentacruel basically crushing him and one shot in Graveler Rhyhorn and Onyx with one surf each leaving just the fossils Kabutops takes a surf into red HP doing rock slide for less than half but then getting heel locked with two full restores and an endure which I saw coming used sludge bomb and somehow got the poison to ensure it went down last out is amistar and I'm basically trading protect here before we start actually doing stuff with me hitting surf for a near KO and him hitting ancient power to bring Tentacruel down to Red HP but like Kabutops or any heel lock State allowing for me to pick up the win in a few turns of surf second up is Misty pretty simple with ambipom returns of nearly able to one shot Golduck so I forced a full restore after taking a water pulse for a third hitting a shadow claw in return in sequence to KO as Lapras comes in second this gals got sing and I gotta get the hell out of Dodge with U-turn going into Tentacruel and basically absorbing attacks while trying to wake up from Sing eventually giving up and having to go into Noctowl to barely survive body slam and Ice Beam but managing to hit two air slashes to KO as Starmie comes in third while I would love to just hit Shadow Ball I can't I've got a swap into ambipom take water pulse then use U-turn to get out of Dodge again I was hoping this would be enough damage to combo with crobat's bite but bite only does half immediately being recovered with well recover but I can eventually Flinch it out with bite leading to a full restore that he locks Misty assuming I had a range and I miss it the first time but the second time I don't miss the range I I did get it I'm considering this a massive win after everything we've been through today fourth out is Quagsire and Confused Ray plus bite is still a pretty pretty deadly combo doing half damage in total before she lands water pulse and confuses me forcing me to swap out into a whole team of damaged mods thankfully tentacles got just enough HP to survive one of them letting me swap back in take another water pulse and hit a fly to do around half damage to KO and win the battle third up Lieutenant surge is not a hard one either thanks to ambipom's dig ripping and tearing like a doom Slayer through Raichu Electabuzz electrode number two electrode number one yeah they're in different order what are you gonna do about it and Magneton four of which managed to set up a single double team during Diggs underground turn but none managed to say them as they all get obliterated fourth is Erica and one should be surprised by this noctow is able to one shot literally everything here with air slash koing jumpluff who out speeds and sets up sunny day Tangela after it uses ring out and victory bell after taking leaf storm which is a lot of damage leading into Blossom I have a feeling it'll out speed again so I'm unafraid of taking solar Beam with Crobat instead so I swap and hit two cross poisons to her two solar beams to KO and win not quite all Noctowl because it kept getting outs bad but close enough fifth up Janine has the replacement for Koga has probably the lowest level team in Kanto starting with Crobat and going down to three returns from ambipom after a confused Rey is negated by a person Barry and we work our way through a full restore second is wheezing hitting a sludge bomb and poisoning after return brings her into the red so I use another return to KO then you turn to get at a Dodge from venomoth going into Crobat and taking sludge bomb for a third before firing off fly to get a knockout fourth the Zaria dose another bug type gets splat by a flying bat as does the secondary dose slicing right through the fifth and final Pokemon to win me the fight five down three to go is Sabrina's up Sixth and her team is brittle so Brill that amipom is able to come in and just one shot everything with return taking out Espeon Mr mime and Alakazam to win s up next and is another leader with only three Pokemon but a little higher level as Tentacruel comes in here and wrecks shop with surf koing Meg cargo Magmar and magmadash you know just trying to keep with the naming convention now that actually sounds like it could be a sick Pokemon design blue is the last gym leader over in Viridian City and he leads off with executor as I go with knock towel trying to repeat the same magic as I did with Will and doing so with air slash koing in one shot as ride on enter second of course I gotta swap away from the rock type seeing Stone Edge on Tentacruel which does massive damage but of course we outspeed and hit surf to KO so no problem we got the job done but Champs out third so I go for protect to see what he's inclined to go for this being Stone Edge which is a little rough I was hoping he would go for earthquake I swapped for ambipom and now he goes for earthquake I guess I should have risk it on Crobat here at least I can go for U-turn as he'll likely go for a fighting type move now going back into Tentacruel so it can survive Dynamic punch now I'm at way too low of HP though so even though I'm swapping into knock towel it could be anything thankfully it's just Thunder Punch doing around 75 percent damage as air slash can connect next turn to KL boy only having five members on this team is rough especially when Gyarados comes in fourth really should have just sucked it up and added the pseudo wudo to the team or maybe searched for lantern thankfully I can bring in Crobat and take waterfall for less than half though Dragon Dance might eliminate Crobat here especially with ice Fang but we survive on one HP holy guacamole cross Poison's able to get a two-shot hero while we survive on one HP after a full restore leading to Arcanine now he's got extreme speeds so he can't stay in so we'll swap for my cargo and our last full HP Pokemon is out on the board thankfully she's got yawn in recover so we can basically Outlast Arcanine even through Critical Hits after he's put to sleep I start to work on him with ancient power doing half with the first then Kaling with the second as he stays asleep Perfect all that's left is Pidgeot a perfect Pokemon from a cargo to slam in with ancient power it does over half though a citrus Berry prevents us from being able to take a two-hit KO though actually it's more the Whirlwind that takes us out of the battle bringing in Noctowl though I suppose this is a free chance to go for Roost and see if he does less than half unfortunately that is a no-go return does over half but not enough to KO so I bring back in that cargo and start going for recover again through return and air slash to get back to full before hitting another ancient power but this this manages to get both a critical and a completely useless Omni boost winning me the 16th and final gym badge in Pokemon Heartgold half a dozen fights remain between me and Pokemon Soul Silver so let's get it done after visiting Professor Oak to get the HM for rock climb we're able to train our team to the level cap of 64 for the league now this is a little wonky seeing as Karen's Aces at level 64 but Lance's is at level 75. so I asked Jan's Discord AKA Pokemon challenges if you're familiar with him his Discord to see if I could just use rare candies to bring the team to 75 for Lance and people said that that would probably be the most sensible way to do it so I went ahead and went with that also before we head in I added the Sudowoodo we caught all the way back on Route 36 to the party training it and attacking defense and giving it moves woodhammer Hammer arm Sucker Punch and rock slide pretty powerful if I do say so myself probably should have done this when we entered Kanto heading back to will his team starts off with a bronze on as I go with ambipom and since this guy has heat proof rather than levitate I'm going with dig in order to do as much much damage as possible early though reflect is used on turn one and makes it much harder to do so I'm able to hit three digs as the reflect wears out only taking a single psychic as on the second dig he sets up gravity and then starts to try to attack leading to Gardevoir I know U-turn can nearly one shot so I can swap into crowbat with it take the focus blast that was set to KO ambipom and he'll lock Gardevoir with that full restore as Iko with two bites yeah this is a much better team this go around that Gardevoir also add call mind and charge beam so that was scary as all hell third out is jinx so we're swapping once again this time in two meant cargo resisting blizzard but unfortunately being put to sleep by lovely kiss can't really stay in here otherwise tree meter will likely KO magcargo so I swap into Sudowoodo and I'm correct going for Hammer arm but I get outsped in lovely kiss lands again I'll shoot I gotta swap again or else Sudowoodo goes down so I go into Tentacruel but she goes for blizzard huh well at least I'm able to hit a sludge bomb for nearly half as she goes for the super effective dream eater but once again I swap after getting put to sleep circling back into ambipom as shadowclaw gets the KO before a lovely kiss can ruin my day for this Grump Pig a one shot with return leading to Slowbro whom I know I can't one shot so U-turn gets used for nearly half damage as I've got a few options here three of them being asleep I choose noctower to take psychic for a third and try koen with Shadow Ball and sure enough we actually do get that KO as his last Pokemon zatsu takes the field psychic takes another third of noctow's HP as shadowball nearly Kos bringing her down into the red as a citrus Berry takes her back to a little under half though the Pokemon that I have standing that's not sleeping is Crobat so I need to just start swapping around my gargo comes in eats a psychic nearly dies so I go into Sudowoodo a shadow ball and a psychic managed to connect and kinda screw it out of living it's very close I'm just gonna go for Sucker Punch to see if I can get it and yes yes hell yes we wake up get that KO letting Sudowoodo survive another day if it went down we could have at least gone into Crobat without having to worry about switching into a psychic and guiding the Revenge KO but having Sudowoodo around for these later fights is going to help him immensely Koga is second leading with skuntank as I go with ambipom again using return as I'm expecting him to go with dig and I'm sure enough correct I dodge his dig button he gets a full ReStore in before I hit dig makes sense but hey heels huge locked so I don't care and it goes down to return afterwards it does end up doing a fourth of damage to ambipond because of the aftermath ability though but that's not too much not a big deal as Toxicroak comes in seconds so I go for dig again to get the super effective damage here but that's not quite enough to get the KO taking a Gunk shot that leaves me on Just 4 HP before koing with return and leading into swallot well getting a two for one in terms of Kos is pretty nice from here we just swap an attentic rule for swalla to take sludge bomb and seeing him use leftovers to heal a little as surf does a bit over half I am a little bit jealous I do want leftovers but no matter I see another sludge bomb from swalla before he falls to a second serf fourth is venomoth so I go for protect to see what he's going for and he's just going for double team instead of psychic well shoot I gotta try killing this thing ASAP then but two double teams and having psychic has me scared so I swap in a knock towel as he uses Baton Pass bringing in Crobat with increased evasiveness well Frick fly lands for over half though psychic from Noctowl does manage to land as well for over half though that fly is too dangerous to have anything in besides my cargo hilariously despite him being the one with two double teams he misses with 95 accurate fly and Iko with magcargo's ancient power leading back to venomoth who uses double team again but gets put down by flamethrower all right all that we've got to deal with left is mock though minimized plus toxic stall Shenanigans are not something I want to deal with so I instantly go for yawn putting him to sleep and hitting flamethrower through two minimizes hitting a second in a row as black sludge keeps healing him steadily somehow I'm able to hit the hat trick of three flamethrowers in a row while he stays asleep koing and winning the fight alright well that was a lot easier than will even if ambipom nearly went down third up is Bruno this time with an easier team to sweep with noctowl's air slash hitmontom instantly Falls to it as Machamp comes in second and never mind we're just gonna try to play it safe here I swap an attentric Roll On A Stone Edge seeing it do just under half as surf does a little bit less than stoneage does with a second bringing Tentacruel to just 15 HP from here since I know he has bullet punch on the move set for priority I know I can safely swap into ambipom and KO with return without taking much damage leading to Hitmonlee third also going down to return fourth is Hitmonchan and he's a lot more defensive so I use U-turn to get the hell out of Dodge going into crowbat as close combat actually misses I would have rather it hit for the lower defenses but I'll take just bullet punch hitting as fly Ko's to turn after two more to go Lucario's fifth so I go for confused Ray doing a little pretty strategy that I actually came up with on the spot after contemplating a bit I know he has counter I know as soon as I show a physical attack he'll want to use counter which is exactly what happens I go for bite and do some of the most minuscule damage you can imagine while relying on confusion damage to pick up a little bit of the slack which it does help as Lucario manages to hit itself twice before I commit to a fly at half HP seeing Lucario hit itself for a third and final time as fly Kos big brain strats let me tell you followed by incredibly small brain strats as I go for confused Ray on hariyama following up I know he doesn't have a rock type move so I go for confuse Ray immediately followed by him damaging himself but as I go up for fly he gets out of it turn two worrying as I come down for fly but I didn't realize as I would just KO from that high of HP I figured hariyama would have been a lucky bastard and survived on minuscule red HP but I will surely take it all right last of the elitist Karen starting weevile as I go with Sudowoodo and oddly enough pseudo Widow is not very heavy so despite low kick being super effective it barely does anything as Hammer arm gets the quad effect of ko sticking out is Absol Landing night slash to bring her down to just over half as Hammer arm don'ts again chaos leading to Houndoom now I know pseudo Widow can not take special attacks for the crap so I swap an attentic rule to take around a quarter from Dark Pulse koing with surf as haunch Crow enters fourth of course Ice Beam does hella damage here to the Flying type as she uses Thunder Wave but after that I just swap into mag cargo to take Drill Pack for next to nothing though a critical does make sure to put me in my place next turn as ancient power gets the KO fifth out is spiritomb and immediately she fires off curse though recover is pretty good at ensuring this doesn't do anything also spiritum's stupidity of firing off pain split while she has more HP than that cargo putting her below half and at a perfect HP decayo with flamethrower while asleep last out is Umbreon and this thing is a house and a half now curse is a strong move payback is nuts once only even one or two of those curses is set up so I'm going for yawn and Ron swapping into Noctowl on the first payback and taking over half as Umbreon falls asleep staying asleep long enough for me to use Roost and two air slashes triggering the Citrus Berry as he remains asleep sadly though the third air slash misses as payback finally can hit for massive damage bringing knock towel down into the red all good though we can just swap into ambipom to fire off a return finally rubbing salt into the wound again with a totally unnecessary crit to end the fight four rematches and we're still somehow without a loss during the league and after getting everybody to level 75 with some candies we're ready for Lance his team is insanely cool starting Salamence as I go with Tentacruel out speeding and koing in one shot with Ice Beam as he replaces it with Garchomp yeah these are some houses of Pokemon though Garchomp still slower than Tentacruel so he falls to Ice Beam just as well Gyarados is out third and I'm once again wishing that we had Mareep especially since Ice Beam only does a little over a third as Thunder Wave lands hmm well I think I can bring an ambipom take a waterfall and kale in the crackpack with return and yeah that does prove to be the case taking waterfall for just a hair under half and doing so fourth out is alteria and I know this thing is a Defender not an attacker from experience of using it so I can safely go for return and see Parish song as the second return lands to KO next turn well sure I'll take a free KO fifth out is Dragonite and we can just U-turn out of here bringing back in Tentacruel to hopefully fire off that Ice Beam again taking both fire blast and Draco meteor before we do so and honestly I'm surprised that Draco meteor only did half I figured even with this High a special defense it would have at least brought Tentacruel into the red too bad we don't have enough HP on Tentacruel to take out Charizard though instead I just swapping that cargo on a few Air slashes One shotting with ancient power to finish the fight despite Lance having my favorite team of the league he really had the weakest of them at least in terms of matchups that I could handle if my team was going against a rock type Champion I probably would have been toast with all 31 fights cleared it's time for one final showdown level 80 level cap and play It's time for red sadly though we need to leave Sudowoodo behind as the only way to get up this mountain is with rock climb and guess what the only Pokemon we have that can get Rock Climb is a feraligator I actually had to use the Exp share to evolve this stupid thing to get the move anyway the level cap is for his lowest level Pokemon as His Highest Pikachu is level 88 being outsped by my ambipom who fires off dig to KO as he misses Thunderball at least we're on five on five equal footing now second out is Blastoise so I go for U-turn and do around 20 damage and bring in Tentacruel on the expected Focus blast somehow these things keep hitting my Pokemon yet I can never seem to land this move though the second misses as I land sludge bomb next turn I'm able to out speed in Ko with the second sludge bomb putting me ahead 5 pokemon to four third out out as Lapras probably the most threatening of his team since he has psychic for coverage which hits tentric roll and Crobat for super effective damage while also having blizzard under hail for Noctowl and Brian for magcargo basically we are weak to this thing all the way around thankfully we can Plunge in with Noctowl though and use Roost to dodge the flying type weakness of Blizzard to see if it does over half and sadly combined with hail it does I'm gonna continue to go for Roost to wear out these power points though Critical Hits be damned the second hits no crit the third hits after another Roost and damn it there's the critical hit finally biting me in the ass nkoing knock towel well at least I can bring in Crobat though that might have been dumb as I swap back into Tentacruel to outlast another blizzard he's down to one more blizzard so I use protect to block another psychic then using sludge bomb since I know I'm losing Tentacruel and I need a clean swap three to four and it's looking tough though ambipom can put in some hella work here return does massive damage putting him into the low yellow as the last blizzard lands and brings Amber Palm in range of being ko'd by another turn of hail but thankfully we don't see a full restore from Red allowing for return to KO as hail takes out ambipom two to three as I bring in magcargo against his Snorlax whom doesn't have earthquake or anything to hit super effective damage with so I'm pretty safe although once crunch starts getting defense drops it certainly puts me at risk recovery is able to outpace that plus hail at -1 getting him put to sleep with yawn and starting to lay into him with flamethrower you want to know how long this process took it's a bunch of just healing and putting to sleep and barely doing any damage with flamethrower and using ancient power only a select few times so that I can conserve enough for Charizard swapping out into Crobat whenever I get too many defense drops it is just so agonizingly slow to the point that I run out of recover power points this move has 20 power points and it takes this long to KO this stupid sleepy boy huh eventually he wakes up hits one final crunch so I go for recover and let the hail damage Kom finally putting us back on an equal playing field of Two on Two Venusaur is the choice here and I've gotta swap there's nothing I can really do that would be safer Venusaur hits giga's Reign for next to nothing as I use fly dodging sleep powder and ensuring a little more hail damage can accumulate hitting it and nearly koing as he goes for sludge bomb Hale takes away the rest of venusaur's HP though leaving just Charizard I figured my best course of action is to go with confused Ray and give magcargo the best chance of hitting ancient power possible though seeing Charizard Miss with Flare Blitz gives me a little bit of hope I'm able to hit cross poison for a bit more damage next turn resigning my fate to going down but with Charizard hitting himself I think Throwbacks is living to see the end of this battle as fly is used and Charizard hits himself once more red doesn't have another full restore allowing for fly to pick up the KO and the win finally clearing Pokemon Heart Gold holy [ __ ] that was a long game and scary too I probably should have gone for a much more balanced team I this thing was full of holes and weaknesses that were very hard to play around that I still managed to pull out of my ass but I think we're still in the same headspace of literally red blue yellow of sneading to save Pokemon but we're getting to the point where this is still enough Pokemon left in the pool where every game could basically have two complete teams and still turn out all right as a little behind the scenes when it comes to planning this entire project I have a nearly 20 Page Google doc showing exactly what Pokemon I'd like to use in a game with a list of backups to grab in case something goes down I've gone ahead and had my editor blur out the Pokemon themselves so I don't spoil future episodes but you can see with soul silver and the entirety of Gen 5 each game has about six to seven main Pokemon that I'd like to snag with six to seven backups but I'm still working under the assumption that I need serve and use as few Pokemon as possible but then you look at the amount reserved for Sword version and there's 23 in a Pokemon game where everything's Made Easy by accessible powerhouses and Tiaras in the wild area so we're gonna need to make it a point with soul silver and Beyond to be a little bit more willing to use more Pokemon and swap out when the need of a balanced team arises with that out of the way let's get right into the encounters and fights of Soul Silver as just the Gen 2 remakes alone have reached nearly an hour in length and were only through one game so with soul silver we've of course picked Totodile again for our hm wielding useless starter this time going with Centric on Route 29. we'll be going with attack and speed EVS on this one just because they lend well to for its base stats no other reason needed our second encounter will be Beyond Violet City down on Route 32 where I can get Ekans and intimidate a great ability is always not to mention we can get some fantastic coverage moves like crunch the three Elemental fangs and support moves like glare lastly I'm grabbing ghastly from the Sprout Tower during the night despite doubling up on poison types this early I feel that this is the most effective time we can use Gengar as Gen 5 doesn't really have a spot for it Kalos already has Del Fox Greninja the guaranteed Lapras and a few others those great special attackers the Hoenn remakes get to run encounters throughout like beautifly goribus mainectric Gardevoir and so on and so forth with three Encounters in hand though it's Faulkner time I'm leading centered against Pidgey since I can easily KO this with two quick attacks leading into Pidgeotto using intimidate from a swap in to Atkins to lowers astronomical attack at this point in the game while also paralyzing with glare though we do take quite a bit of damage from tackle and Gust in the meantime we finally end on ghastly for a curse that'll eventually KO with the help of Sentret once we swap back in igu is kind of hoping for a tackle on that attack going into Gastly but instead we got gust but it didn't really matter in the grand scheme of things after taking out proton it's straight to Bugsy with Scyther being the lead against Ekans whom stays in and uses Focus energy as I use bite and Flinch her over and over again including some paralysis from glare getting to the point where she doesn't hit a single move and goes down to just a bunch of bites leaving Metapod to do the same after some flinching as does Kakuna after a single Flinch to win me the fight damageless my goodness thank you bike that was absolutely Bonkers and had me audibly laughing while playing our rival straight after is rather easy taking out the mirrored ghastly with two licks before Zubat comes in and tries using confused Ray but once we pivot out and defer it it's a rather easy tear down just two quick attacks after a Miss supersonic KO Zubat leaving just bay leaf this is a Pokemon that of course ghastly just hard walls and disregards thanks to Nightshade koing in three shots though Razer Leaf did a lot more damage than I thought it would I guess resistance doesn't do enough when you have paper-thin defenses with head button hand over in the ilex forest though we can travel back to Cherry Grove City and go to town on this tree next to the Pokemon to eventually find execute now this gal is perfect for both stalling with reflect and leech seed while also dealing out immense damage with solar beam and psychic eventually so why not add her to the team the type's unique after all with the radio card in hand though we can challenge Whitney and ghastly with Thunderbolt is just a house in this fight being immune to everything that Clefairy and miltank can throw at me or so you'd think now Clefairy not a threat I can Thunderbolt and KO no problem but miltank has the scrappy ability meaning normal type moves can connect with a ghost type no problem so I get out of there and go into Ekans for intimidate and do that a few more times swapping between Furret taking a critical stomp but getting enough intimidates into where I can get in to execute eventually Landing a leech seed after three flinches from Stomp and from here I just gotta hit stunsport twice to get through her lump Berry then just set up reflect as many times as needed before hitting the Finishing Touch of a solar beam of course I managed to get through a super potion before all of that happens but I guess milk drink keeps her alive past our first solar beam we do manage to hit the second one though to KO ending the fight at full HP execute is already putting in great work as trying to get through Whitney without a fighting type like Machop to one shot everything tends to be rather difficult moving up into Route 35 ends up yielding yanma and encounter that thankfully can evolve in the base games as the regional Dex has been expanded to 256 Pokemon rather than 251 in The Originals yonmega should eventually be a great ad especially since we can give her silverwind from the Goldenrod department store as well as Shadow Ball once we beat Morty as Gastly will get it by level up but after Chuck's level cap so there's no need to waste it just a few levels early but it will be rather useless before it evolves because Yama is just not good our last encounter for now is a little bit of a process of course we meet Bill in ecritique city but by traveling down to Goldenrod we can talk to him again grab his Eevee then get a fire stone from the Poke Athlon to evolve it into Flareon sheesh I'm surprised how versatile and available all of these Evolutions are after all the only ones we haven't used are glacion and Sylveon which the latter isn't even available till gen 6. oh and I grab a leaf stone for executor as well as we don't need a new move until we get to the move relearner anyway Rival Battle in the burn Tower and since Ekans evolved into Arbok this is just a solo Affair crunch for gasly takes it out in one shot bay leaf is hardwalled by Arbok hitting glare and eventually koing with a myriad of poison stinks and headbutts through all five of his used synthesis third is Zoo Battle one shot with headbutt with Magnemite being the last out we both paralyze each other so instead of making it a purely solo Affair I swap out and do Flareon and get hit with super sonic well that kind of sucks but I guess I'll risk it since it's not like I have a bunch of other options in the party thankfully breaking through and koing with flamethrower to win the fight almost halfway through Johto at this point with Morty standing on her way but not for very long as Arbok tears through the team with crunch one shutting all but Gengar but just barely as he wastes his one and only turn with mean luck eventually going down and doing zero damage to my team sweet now for the Triple header of Gym Battles before we do that though we gotta grab the good rod from Olivine City as we're replacing for it yeah I know replacing team members Insanity in fact but chinchu is a pretty good reason to Ice Beam Thunderbolt and surf all on a special attacker I cannot ask for more anyway triple header time and with the amount of times I've typed Chunk in the script I'm just gonna start calling him that with that said chunk starts out with primeape a Pokemon that I could two shot with surf if it weren't for a hyper potion so I do a three shot instead missing one because a double team and taking a quarter damage from a rock slide before polyrath's able to come in last of course body slam is able to paralyze me as Thunderbolt hits so instead of risking it and getting clobbered next turn with Focus punch I swap into Gengar to take it or body slam whatever he does then blast out a thunderbolt next turn for the KO and the win two Pokemon on the 5th gym leader still throws me off price is up next and he's rather easy with no not flurry on you dumb thick fat is an ability ah yes Lantern Thunderbolt for seal surf for Pilots wine and Thunderbolt for dugong easy as pie Jasmine is just as easy with Lantern as well as three surfs for the two magnemites and the one stelix managed to pull her down to the depths of water hell as well oh the radio tower is under attack yeah I don't give a sh clears our next Target and of course Lantern as Ice Beam however we'd need some moves from the movie learner before we fight her firstly Arbok getting ice Fang from the dragonairs and firefang for beating the grass types that I should be beating with a poison type move but won't have because poison stink sucks though I guess icefang already does that job and I really didn't need it so I guess steel types and confusion for executor to finally give it an attack to hit the secondary stab alright now it's clear time ThunderBolt from Lantern chaos Gyarados but Ice Beam doesn't KO Dragonair that's quite frustrating but at least the first one is free due to it using thunderwave against my volt absorb Lantern third out is Kingdra and I get rather lucky with paralysis from Thunderbolt on my first turn against it keeping it held hostage for the turn then koing with two more following a dragon pulse doing a little over a third by the way now that I'm noticing this in post I could have totally died to a critical there because Kingdra has the ability sniper which makes critical hits do three times as much damage instead of just double anyway the last Dragonair does go down in three ice beams like the first did though it does land a dragon pulse for some light damage but not enough for a critical hit to fko'd Sweet eight badges down let's get to the Elite Four of course with this dip standing in the way very comical that you could name old rivals dumb names like this anyway I'm starting Arbok against this team and he's rather trivial to take down with him firefang for Sneasel I guess I found the reasoning behind this move choice icefang for cadabra because I forgot where crunch was on my move set firefang 4 Meganium whiffing the Flinch and unfortunately needing three to KO through reflect as magnaton comes out fourth we do get the Flinch on this one with firefang but due to reflect after the second one we get paralyzed though I do manage to pull through that and get the three shot KO leading to Haunter now with confused Ray coming down I'm not staying in with parafusion I'm swapping I finally take a chance on yon Mega blasting out Shadow Ball to clean house on Haunter leaving just go Golbat who goes down to two ancient Powers with yonmega surviving an air cutter on more than half so we played around the critical not that it matters since we know that Rangers are the devil not criticals nothing much more needs to be said other than I'm kicking the League's ass Wills first and wouldn't you know the Pokemon with high special attack speed and a super effective stat move is able to one shot every single one of them and before you ask I checked the calc on slow bro it would have one shot ko'd even without the critical hit oh and I guess sludge bomb for executor for PowerPoint prefervation I keep wanting to say PowerPoint presentation Jesus Christ anyway second up Koga and Flareon clean's house here rather as well as firefang chaos ariados and dig nearly one shots muck though minimize does start getting in the way after a full restore return it's for over half but Gunk shot nearly Ko's Flareon so I swap into Gengar and even here we're taking about a fourth from a move that's resisted doesn't help that he hits three in a row with it being 70 accuracy it's like hitting three Focus blasts in a row and I don't know a single goddamn human that's done that but I'm able to KO it with Shadow Ball as venomoth comes out third I swap out out in the lantern to take it out with two surfs leading to Fortress which I'm expecting explosion here so I swap into Gengar to blanket but he doesn't go for that instead he just attacks with something else with him swapping into Crobat next turn as I go for Thunderbolt one shotting upon switching and forcing him into having no win condition with Fortress koing with two more Thunderbolts to win the fight Bruno is well Bruno and with fighting types it's no wonder Gengar comes in again Shadow Ball and Thunderbolt chaos hit him on top after he whiffs a dig thanks to levitate you're a dumbass by the way then back-to-back criticals with sludge bomb and Thunderbolt Manu shakeo Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan respectively leading to Onyx who's outsped and destroyed by a Shadow Ball thanks to his lack of special defense last out is Machamp who cannot KO with a critical hit from rock slide so I can just sludge bomb him getting the poison to basically mitigate the recovery off the Citrus Berry then KO with a follow-up Shadow Ball to win the battle now Karen is where things start getting a little more strategy oriented and not Unga Bunga she leads with Umbreon as I go with yon Mega two shotting with silverwind through double team easy enough but her second Pokemon in murkrow I gotta be a little bit prepared for though I didn't expect her to go for Sucker Punch I should have thought that though because of speed boost but ancient power does get the one shot as Houndoom comes in third now I'm not worried at all though I was expecting flamethrower for the super effective damage rather than nasty plot since I just go into Flareon to try to blanket with flash fire however I just stay in and go for dig out speeding as she uses it again getting to plus four but Iko next turn and avoid that triple power Dark Pulse with Gengar coming out fourth I was half expecting a destiny Bond here so I used bite to ensure I didn't KO but got it rather low then swapped into Arbok as she healed with a full restore using crunch next turn in the attempt to outspeed in Ko but I miss it just barely didn't expect crunch to do less damage than bite all good though is the move she instead uses is focus blast missing and allowing for me to KO with the second crunch leading to vileplume now I guess Focus blast is the only move that misses all the time apparently gunshot doesn't alright anyway we're able to use a firefang here and get some pretty good usage out of it as a critical hit takes her down in one shot to nail me the win Lance is all that we have to worry about before Kanto now so let's kick his ass too Gengar starts off against his Gyarados koing with Thunderbolt in one shot as Aerodactyl comes out second also going down to Thunderbolt as Charizard comes in third now Thunderbolt doesn't KO though shadowclaw could have easily plowed through my Gengar with a critical hit thankfully it does not allowing for a full restore to be used followed by two Thunderbolts to KO Charizard and leaves just his three Dragonites now the reason I did this was because I wanted to take out all of his other Pokemon besides Dragonite so that I can set up for the lantern late game sweep I pivot Arbok to intimidate then to executor to set up reflect since I needed to remain alive with Lantern and KO with Ice Beam since it's not a one shot on the level 50. however it is on both level 49 Dragonites after koing the level 50 I nail both in sequence to KO and win the fight oh that could have gone really poorly though I've got about seven other choices of Pokemon to replace Gengar if I really needed to Steelix kendras on Flora Granville Tyranitar you name a Johto Pokemon chances are I would have been able to use it however we got rather lucky and we're going to Kanto with zero deaths so let's try to keep it that way no reason to dawdle on side questing let's just talk about the Kanto gym leaders in sequence Brock's up first and the lantern just hard counters this entire team serve for the rocking ground type Graveler Rhyhorn and Onyx and Thunderbolt for Kabutops and omastar misties basically countered the same way though Quagsire we've got a secret weapon for golduck's a one shot with Thunderbolt but then Quagsire comes in which we conveniently have hidden power grass for Lapras is out third so we Thunderbolt it Dodge and attack then do three more through two full restores to KO last out is Starmie and one more Thunderbolt out speeding and delivering it to KO wins US the match Lieutenant surge is a little more difficult without a ground type to be immune to his attacks but with arbok's speed combined with earthquake being a movie can learn we can easily take out Raichu electrode after a Thunder Wave and a Cherry Berry negating it but that second Electro is gonna outspeed and probably paralyze us luckily he sends an Electabuzz third instead going down to earthquake as does magnets on Fourth leaving just that second electrode I figured because this is his last Pokemon we can stay in and just go for earthquake anyway and we go unpunished as he just goes for double team and we're able to hit through it nko Erica's just as easy with Arbok as we resist all of her attacks and icefang is pretty broken though that 95 accuracy is a little bit of a pain when jumpluff is able to dodge it and deliver a leech seed before going down second out is Victory Bell so I swap into Gengar to see a sunny day and of course get out of leech seed before taking leaf storm a massively powerful move that I resist but still take almost half damage from could have survived a critical hit but we're probably fine after the special attack drop so I go in with Shadow Ball Galore knocking one of those full restores out of her inventory before taking a second leaf storm following up with Shadow Ball to KO third out is Blossom and I've got this in the bag sludge bombs and easy KO here as is on Tangela to win the fight no thought needed simply click the button Janine's Fifth and once again outed by Arbok resisting her attacks while also being able to icefang her lead Crobat once a person Berry gets rid of confusion off of a confused right wing attack does a little bit of damage but not enough for me to be deterred as auridos comes in second two earthquakes does the trick through a scary face but with venomoth coming out third I take the chance to swap into Flareon taking a double team and well firefang's 95 accuracy but we're actually able to hit and with the critical nonetheless so it's out of here fourth is wheezing to returns is All She Wrote leaving just Oreo dose number two to fall to a fire Fang to win the fight finally about time Flareon does something well sixth up Sabrina surely you know how this goes in Gengar Shadow Ball times 3 Ko's Espeon Mr mime and Alakazam to win moving on actually I guess Sabrina got so mad that we won so quickly that she made us all disappear I love emulation anyway seventh is Blaine and no super potions to curse us here as we're able to one shot all of his team with surf on Lantern taking out Meg cargo Magmar and Rapidash in sequence to win leaving just the only difficult gym leader in Kanto blue himself first out is Executor so of course I go Yan Mega to bug Buzz this man out of existence speed boost activates as Arcanine comes in but I am not staying in for that instead I'll swap into Lantern take a flare Blitz for a little under half and start film out of existence as well third is right on and you thought you were out speeding how cute here's a surf to drown you in your troubles fourth out is Machamp so I swap into Gengar to blank a fighting type move then use two Shadow balls to KO surviving a Stone Edge because no guard allows him to hit these stupid moves ah at least it's not Scrappy for fighting type moves fifth is Gyarados Thunderbolt by by with Pidgeot Outlast now this is his Ace so I don't think a non-stab thunderbolt can KO but a stab Thunderbolt can someone swap into Arbok to get an intimidate off then swap into Flareon to blank mirror move and then back into Arbok to get a second intimidate return still does a lot of damage but at least he misses an air slash as I swap Lantern and finally delivering that stabbed Thunderbolt needed to KO from Full HP to win the match and with rock climb in hand let's go take care of those Elite 4 rematches of course these teams are a lot more competent compared to what we just fought so I'm gonna have to be on my toes first out is Will's bronzong and boy howdy do Flareon and bronzong have a bit of a war firefang hits Turn 1 and despite heat proof being a thing I wanted to see if it would go for gravity or reflect first a little awkwardly though look at the Flinch and nothing happens so I go for dig hoping for Gravity first that reflect goes off and I hit dig next turn to get him into the red from here it's a bit of a back and forth with psychic not doing much once it hits and then fire fangs able 2 KO on the crack back with reflect ending on the same turn as Grump Pig comes in second I swap into Gengar here but take a confused right unfortunate since I was hoping to just blast it with Shadow Ball and call it a day but I swap into executor to take that in stride then swap back into Gengar as signal beam is baited because it's quite effective on the executor doing next to no damage as Shadow Ball is finally able to land in Ko ordivor's third another Shadow Ball Target can't go wrong with that as is jinx which honestly I expected to survive and hit a lovely kiss so that I could wake up with the held chesto Berry but it can just die that works too fifth out is slow bro another psychic user that's resisted by executor so I go ahead and swap into it take said psychic and unfortunately see a special defense frop but I'm able to use leech seed as she goes for amnesia I mean I had a feeling that I wasn't gonna KO this thing with solar beam may as well just use the thing that always does set damage while she uses stat boosting moves eventually she just goes for curse which does absolutely nothing here as she has no physical attack to boost nor any physical attack to defend against allowing for a solar beam to KO as executor gets out at full HP zatu's All That Remains so I swap in a lantern take a Shadow Ball and blast that sucker with a thunderbolt KO and get the win I'm really digging these League rematches by the way all of them being rather in similar and level I don't really have any advantage other than sheer strategy and a tinge of luck second up is Koga starting skuntank as I start Arbok intimidating and earthquaking this rancid Rascal as he goes for dig and guess what dumb idea loser earthquake hits those using dig second out is Venom often since it doesn't have levitate we can hit earthquake for just a hair over half seeing a double team but hitting through it next turn to KO two down four to go as swalla enters The Fray then immediately leaves said Frey after two earthquakes puts him down only hitting a light sludge bomb in response Arbok is just single-handedly taking out this team though Crobat might be our first actual obstacle thankfully we have icefang for that dodging fly next turn as icefang manages to connect for over half surely we take that second attempt at fly and yeah we do surviving on 27 HP and dishing out that second ice Fang to KO well I did a lot more damage than I expected so I gotta swap as much as I'd love to go for earthquake on this Toxicroak that comes in we cannot survive a damn thing so I go into Gengar plank the close combat with ghost immunity then shadowball it to nearly KO close but no cigar as Swagger is used and I cannot stay in on that since that attack boost is deadly if I hit myself and it's safe to go out seeing as a full restore will be used here so why not I choose Lantern dealing out two Thunderbolts to KO all-wall dodging Swagger blast out is mocking while this guy has nothing he can do against Gengar I'd rather just get this done quickly so I go for a surf and Thunderbolt combo unfortunately missing the KO and barely missing even the full restore range as he sets up a minimize and a Swagger forcing me to swap into a toxic that can't do anything to Gengar because of the poison typing would that minimize up though it's a bit of a luck of the draw but Shadow Ball does connect to KO and win me the fight good because I was not about to deal with accuracy and evasiveness shenanigans not today Bruno's third and Bruno's Bruno as we say around here yamega's a pretty effective out to these fighting types though as air slash is able to rip through Hitman top Hitmonlee and Machamp all with one shots as Lucario finally comes in fourth and due to that steel typing is neutral to air slash I decided to stay in though since I can potentially get that Flinch psych it has inner Focus so I'm able to take an iron tail that brings me down to 59 HP all good though with this much speed I can get hit by extreme speed um well uh well we do survive on one HP because I will never be punished ever not in a million years two roosts later and we're back to full HP and now it's kind of just a war of waiting for Iron Tail to miss so that I don't have to risk anything sure I die to a crit but I'm already in this deep and sure enough we get the Miss before the critical nailing that ear slash decayo as the rest of his team Falls hitmonch and air slash after taking a light bullet punch and hariyama to air slash because dear Lord that special defense is [ __ ] mid base 60 ain't doing anything around here last member of the Elite Four is Karen and this one's probably the wonkiest fight yet Weavile has ice punch I've got a Yan Mega that's weak to ice punch but also super effectively against dark but is unfortunately just slightly slower but by waiting one turn and using Roost I can now out speed the Weavile going for bug buzz and getting the KO with minimal damage total sure I could have taken an ice Shard but I would have survived second out is haunch Crow and I can't survive a Drill Pack so I swap in a lantern take a third then KO with Thunderbolt as Spirit tomb is out third I've gotta say this thing is so freaking annoying every single time I fight it except this time as serf manages to take her below half HP and curse damage is able to KO it from there good stuff fourth out is Umbreon and I've got a single turn that I can use to hit it with surf before curse starts stacking up and the other curse starts stacking up both the damage and Umbreon stats are going to be going here and I don't have enough FHP to survive another turn so I swap an eon Mega to use bug Buzz fortunately koing after taking a payback houndooms out Fifth and is immediately stunned by the swap into Flareon blanking the flamethrower and boosting the power of firefang then using Dark Pulse as they gopher dig fortunately not flinching beforehand I'm able to KO next turn after a nasty plot is used so no need to worry about that boosted attack all that's left is Absol and I suppose it would be only sensible to swap into Arbok to get that intimidate drop then into executor expecting psycho cut sure enough that happens and we're able to set up reflect and leech seed as she goes for detect twice the First on reflect which does activate but the second doesn't as leech seed connects comical really I wasn't even expecting to be able to pull that off but I suppose I may as well just sit here in Ko apps all with solar beams since it's not like night slash does Jackal with intimidate and reflect holding her down sure enough after a pair of song solar beam Rains Down nkos Absol winning me the final match before our second bout with Lance or fourth if we count heart gold or seventh if we include the fights from the original Gen 2 games and jeez I guess we could include the two from the fire and leaf green games and then the three from The Originals and holy [ __ ] we fought Lance 11 times before this this is 12. that is just too much and we're gonna have to do it two more times once we get to let's go anyway as you'd expect Arbok and lantern with icefang and Ice Beam respectively help make this fight a lot easier with Gengar and Lantern's Thunderbolt being able to cover Gyarados and Charizard though it's not as simple as click the buttons and watch the HP bars go down instead it's starting with Arbok against the intimidate Salamence to get our own intimidate in then swap into executor as Dragon claw does minimal damage flamethrowers of course coming out here but this is the only shot I have to get reflect set up giving me enough wiggle room in terms of damage to bring in Lantern and just start going to town flamethrower hits land turn for minimal damage upon switch in allowing for Ice Beam to hit next turn for the one shot KO sagging out his guard chomp and this is exactly why we need to reflect as we outspeed and hit Ice Beam to KO in one shot all right who decided to let this guy go for roar I could have sworn Garchomp would have outsped here but I guess he was prioritizing roar oh well I'll take my free win third out is Dragonite and he like last time barely survives ice beam and lands Draco meteor for massive damage though not enough as two more ice beams managed to fail him through a full restore half the team down have to go in three turns no less as Charizard goes down to Thunderbolt altario goes down to ice beam and Gyarados Falls to a thunderbolt to win the fight leaving just about with red now just like we had to do with heart gold we need rock climb in order to get to Red and none of our Pokemon happen to learn it now I could go and use the trade in Violet City for Onyx then use the metal coat we got on the SS Aqua to get Steelix therefore not using Onyx in battle because it learns rock climbing our hard walls a few of Red's team members but nah I'm just gonna go in for five team members cause I'm crazy and because I have a little bit of a strategy that I think is going to work firstly we're feeding Flareon to Pikachu why is that it's because we have a focus ash from our mom using it to set up sunny day and eliminate the threat of hail and 100 accurate Blizzard from the rest of the fight since Pikachu has quick attack though we swap into Gengar to blanket KO it with Shadow Ball to put us equal on five on five action second out is Lapras and I'm expecting psychic because the poison typing so I swap into Lantern take the psychic but unfortunately see a special defense drop all good though as two Thunderbolts should still clear him out though blizzard 70 accuracy does pull through doing about half of Lantern's remaining HP before a full restore locks him in place allowing for two more Thunderbolts to KO four to five still sitting pretty though with two heavily damaged Pokemon we might be in it for the long haul third out is Venusaur and honestly I'm not sure which is the better option Arbok or Gengar we resist everything but I think Gengar because I want to keep it completely healthy so I go for Arbok instead using icefang and getting a critical to bring Venusaur into the red as sludge bomb brings us to just over half HP one more ice fangs able to follow up past that second sludge bomb koing and leading to Snorlax which I'm just gonna snack Arbok here because the goal for me is to poison with poison jab and just fall but even two poison Jabs doesn't get the job done is crunch lands twice to take him down all good though this should still be enough HP for me to bring in Flareon and capitalize on the surprisingly low physical defensive Snorlax nko with return fifth out is Blastoise and Flareon is just not going to be useful for the rest of this fight so I may as well see if I can land something or force a recovery turn with Hydra Pro Cannon but now we just see a flash Cannon it connects nkos instantly all good though is we get a free swap at a lantern hitting Thunderbolt to nearly KO and paralyze Blastoise as he misses with Focus blast well then I will certainly take that a few more Thunderbolts through two more full restores finally is enough to put the big boy down leaving just Charizard now all I have to do is use surf and if that doesn't KO just bring in Gengar to KO with Thunderbolt though oddly enough we have a balance of both happening as lantern hit surf doesn't KO but then Charizard Ko's both itself and lantern with Flare Blitz winning me the fight without a Pokemon on the field well that's a weird way to end Gen 4 but I will take it we have successfully taken down the Johto remakes and onward to gen 5. now of course let's take a look at the Pokemon we've used so far in Gen 4 and we really haven't used as many as I had expected in fact 223 is a lot less than I had anticipated I thought that we were going to get up to around 240. in fact I actually had an entire list of Pokemon that I was expecting myself to use for backups those being Onyx snubble Sun Kern miltank corsola Larvitar and Kingdra as we were saving horsey and Sidra for probably let's go Pikachu or Eevee and then just going to use Kingdra in battle instead but we didn't even need it heck I'm happy we've saved a lot of these because Sun Kern's usable in Black to White 2 on Route 20. Sun Kerns available in X and Y Onyx both is able to split off into Steelix and X and Y with the trade with love disc as well as in let's go Pikachu and Eevee in either Mount moon or Rock Tunnel Mill tanks available on Route 12 in X and Y so the version that doesn't get the guaranteed Lapras can get miltank Larvitar is going to be saved for scarlet and violet because you know if you know and then Kingdra of course it really doesn't help that I have to eventually grab horsey or Sidra in order to evolve it but I just won't use it in battle I'll use the Exp share or something with all that being said though I hope you guys enjoyed the last part of Gen 4 and I hope that you are looking forward to Gen 5 because those are my favorite games in the series and I'm really looking forward to playing through them again because it's been a little while anyway with that being said thank you guys for watching Once Again stay safe stay healthy and I'll see you next time