Can I Beat Pokemon Red with ONLY ZUBAT? 🔴 Pokemon Challenges ► NO ITEMS IN BATTLE 

Well, I botched those rules Next challenge is up everyone! Pokemon Gold with only Eevee!► ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gZufhXFsPpE.html

"zubat only" or "becoming the strongest team rocket member ever"

Arcanine : Can I use flamethrower? Blaine : Do the roar

Blaine: "Oh no! Not a Zubat, let's leave this wild encounter, Arcanine! Use Roar!" Blaine: "Why are we still here? Arcanine! Use Roar!" Blaine: "Have you not understood? Arcanine... USE...ROAR!"

MDB: Who would watch a gen one Scyther run? Me: *raises hand*

"Here's my stats" *Shows moves* Me: Well, that's cool, too

What about DISMANTLED METAGROSS challenge? Rules: You can use team of 4 Beldum. It would be hilarious if you named them by their position on Metagross, like RightFront, LeftRear (two Beldum make Metang, two Metang make Metagross). Beldum learns no other moves except Take Down, Struggle could help. Where Beldum shines is his typing, up to Gen 6 only fire and ground moves should be super effective against him. Maybe Emerald isn't the best game for this challenge as I can't see how you could beat Steven's Metagross :)

"My analytics tell me that like 5% of people watch the outro..." Crap, we've been made!

Social distancing challenge: only special or non contact attacks from the moment you get one. You could also sort of nuzlocke it by making it so that you lose a pokémon if it is hit by a physical attack

one of these days, Dome Fossil, one of these days.

In reply to your obviously rhetorical question, I would watch a Scyther-only Gen 1 challenge. My argument would be the goal would just be slightly different; your normal challenges are about "Can I do this?", a Scyther challenge would be about either "How quickly can I do this?" or "How low a level can I complete this at?". Perhaps, if you get bored of the regular challenges, you could do a "Smash Challenge" series to see how easily you can mop the floor with the game within certain less harsh constraints?

Zoobat's back sprite looks like a kid wearing a ghost costume.

"This is why I never use Psywave" Psywave only challenge in Gen 1 when?

Hey...how about putting the number of trys you did for bosses and rivals in one corner, just to see how many attempts it actually needed to beat them? Keep it up dude! :)

Here’s my stats: *Shows the moves instead*

I wait for the day when MDB takes the Dome fossil. That will be good for the algorithm

"If I had a Scyther, this run would be easy" K then, prove it. Let's see how low a level you can beat the game with Scyther

Ah yes, the Team Rocket exclusive starter pokemon.

I'm starting to wonder if that fossil joke is just an audio file that he inserts in every kanto video

I listen to these videos every night because MDB's voice is so calm and soothing on a Bob Ross-esque level I just quickly doze off, and sleep very soundly.

MDB: "But, seriously, who would watch a solo Scyther run?" Me: * *looks around nerviously* * ~ Adam

Idea for a challenge: Pokemon emerald with a team of only one castform

Challenge: Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal with the team of only one smeargle

I just realized how can zubat loose accuracy to smokescreen and sand attack? its doesnt even have eyes......

7:33 that vileplume sprite got me laughing

The spots the speedrunners are talking about are the grass patches that have a starlike shape in the bottom right corner

"Comments are good for the youtube algorithm" --Mah Dry Bread

You just locked yourself into it MDB: gen 1 psywave only run.

"No Items In Battle (Only Held Items)" I think he forgot this is gen 1.

“Right off the bat” 😂😂 getting in there early!

12:03 vs Rivals Alakazam: "Then we take him out with Psybeam before we finish him" xD

12:02 "And then we take him out with psybeam" Nice one buddy

13:20 wasn't a speed tie. Your speed got raised when you were sand attacked due to a glitch with the application of badge buffs.

I would love to see a Scyther run but that’s because it’s my favourite Pokémon

Caves *has endless amount of Zubat and annoys many people with them* MDB - *I'm about to end this man's whole career*

12:03 We take him out with Psybeam Didn't know Zubat could learn that ;)

Hey MDB, I really loved when you replaced the part at the start that you show the script with some other words. You used to do that a lot back in November-December and I'd love it if you could bring it back for some videos.

Here’s another idea you could possibly do, Pokémon Platinum with only one male combee. I’d also like to see another no pokecenter run for another game as those have been my favorite challenges to see you do

Here's a comment for the RU-vid algorithm.

I really like that you plug other youtubers that you personally like to watch or collab with. It gives me more channels to try without having to navigate the minefield of youtube. Some I like and some I don't, but I'm glad to try them.

I’ve been binging through this entire series for the past few days and I actually really appreciate how much you plug other people. It’s so nice to see someone genuinely appreciating other people! Especially as the world’s gone to absolute shit the little moments of genuine kindness and positivity stick out all the more.

In a few years: "I took the Helix fossil, I knew that if I didn't say, you'd all ask." "Now that I think about it, everyone go ask me if I still find this bit funny... the answer is yes" And it will still be funny

"Thats why i dont use Psywave" Why not making a Psywave only Run :)

18:18 The AI tried to confuse you while you were already confused and then the next turn used Haze which would have removed your confusion.

dang it. ive become absolutely hooked on your videos in this quarantine period. ive almost watched all of the Pokemon challenges whilst replaying my old games. keep it up dude :)

Well, you should beat emerald with a slakoth. That's a real challenge!

no one: gen 1 ai: *yeah, its big brain time*

Pokemon Stadium is the best part of your channel FOR ME right now. I'm having so much fun watching it, especially when you second guess one another. I click refresh when i hit RU-vid in the hopes of seeing a new upload.

Week 3 of suggesting: Pokemon Platinum with only 1 Pachirisu!

NPCs are gonna be like "Where are my repels?"

I really had my doubts but you did it! Great job man!

9:31 "heres his stats" procds to show moves

13:05 “rhydon is a easy one shot” *visible confusion*

I did this Zubat challange on pokemon gold/silver awhile back, surprisingly Zubat is much stronger than i gave it credit for!

Love these videos. Keep up the good work :)

This only minimally is related and I never comment but!! Hearing you also have aphantasia made me super excited because I almost never hear anyone talk about it and I have it too! It's super cool to learn that the person whos vids I always watch have the same thing as I do. And I get the flowers part! I never have figured out what they mean when they mention flowers in the grass, it all looks the same to me.

Him "who would watch a scyther run through I would mop the floor" Me loving Scyther..."i would...probably like two or three times"

Challenge: Every time you finish a gym battle or earn a gym badge, your team changes. You need to catch another team of Pokemons but you can't catch the one you already used. Rules: Your Pokemon should be the same or almost the same level of the Pokemon of the gym you're battling. Game: Pokemon platinum, HeartGold, Emerald. Any of those Pokemon games

I don't know but I love all your Pokemon Challenges. I'm watching them all over again while eating dinner. Hahaha.

Thank you so much for all videos you made. You are one of my absolutely best youtubers ever. :) Jsi borec.

I can see it now: Brock is the rock type gym leader which means I need to grind. Luckily, leech life is super effective against both grass AND poison so grinding isn’t difficult. I get to level 10 and learn supersonic. It’s a very low accuracy move so I won’t be using it much. A little later, I get bite a normal type move in gen 1 so it’s useless against Brock. I grind some more and get to level 21 and learn confuse ray which will be very useful down the road. I’m very over leveled at this point and I sweep his team with some confusion luck.

13:05 “Rhydon is an easy one shot” Game says otherwise.

Do an unevolved “dog” (growlithe, poochyena, lillipup and the likes) run in gen 4 or 5 to fill up your team as much as possible.

Love your content MDB, I always look forward to Saturdays thanks to these awesome challenges! As for challenge ideas, one of these days you should try your hand at a First Stage Bug-type Pokémon challenge! Or really, I honestly enjoy the team challenges simply because they arent done as often as solos, though I get its a time constraint for having to team grind. But that should really be more incentive to trying out gen 6/7 games due to Exp Share becoming full team sharing!

So predictions before it begins...this will be tough. As he mentioned in one his previous videos, Krillin is barely stronger than a Zubat and had better stats than a Zubat whose base stats are a jokingly low 245, it's highest being speed at 55. On the one hand, Zubat's Flying/Poison typing gives it very few weaknesses, but little in the way of defenses for common elements. Lt. Surge who is never normally that hard, is likely to be a serious problem due to the sheer speed of Electric types being so much faster and good special attackers to bully Zubat's meager special defense. Not to mention Sabrina, who already has hard hitting Psychic types but will be dealing super effective damage, they will be absolute walls in this run without lot's of grinding. While Zubat does have Bite and Leech life to hit Pyschics who have low physical defense, with how little power a Zubat has in it's Attacks to begin with it will need tons of confusion luck and grinding to stand a realistic chance, especially to the Elite Four. Red may not be a viable challenge to do. On the plus, while Zubat's gen one movepool is terrible it at least has access to confuse ray, a 100 accuracy move at level 21. It's only attacking moves by level up are Leech Life, Bite and Wing Attack. All relatively low damaging moves at the later levels, and Leech Life it's only recovery move at a base power of 20. I suspect he'll go the usual method of getting off double teams after it learns the tm and mixing it with confuse ray which will be effective at lowering the risk of getting hit, but anything that does is almost certainly going to flat out knock Zubat out cold.Though this got me thinking....since avoiding hits with things like Double Team is acceptable, why not things like Substitute to shield Zubat while it sets up? Yeah, you lose a move slot, but more often than not, these pokemon challenges run off of only one real attack and Substitute is a much more reliable shield from damage. It probably wouldn't last you through the size of entire teams at the later levels, but since Zubat won't be surviving any hits anyway, it might be more usable since the hp loss is barely going to make any difference. Zubat does have access to the toxic tm which is respectably powerful, but Zubat is far too fragile to play a stall game and the best it could hope for is using to soften opponents up a little, but then between confuse ray and double team, you have to lose Bite or Wing Attack which leaves Zubat with only one attack type and no coverage spread. It can learn Mega Drain by tm, but that's just a sort of more powerful leech life, which might have some use, but a Zubat's abysmal special stat means it's only going to heal somewhat better than Leech Life could. Verdict: This is going to be brutal.

Should’ve name it “WUbat” for obvious reasons

i always pick the dome fossil, kabuto always looked like a crab to me and an adorable one at that, i love the video, zubat is one of my favorite pokemon ever(my favorite pokemon is beedrill with sableye being a vary close second)

I really wasn't expecting you to beat this run :D

Challenge: Pokemon XD Gale of Darkness with only 1 Eevee, or with only never-shadow pokemon

Stadium is probably one of the most interesting series I've watched from your let's play stuff, and I think I'm going to start watching more of it, cuz... coronacation. Keep it up!

Ok, my first game was yellow, and I generally listen to you while I do other things. So after 40-some-odd videos, this was the first of them where I looked over and actually saw what some of the original pokemon designs in Red were. Let's just say I'm so glad we have the ones we have now, and yellow had some of the more updated sprites.

Cant help but think you have a soundboard button ready for the Helix Fossil joke and i fully respect that if you do!

I love that you made the rules way bigger so they CAN'T be unnoticed

interesting and forgotton but try to beat Platinum with a team of 1 Glameow

Always a pleasure to watch to these videos.

Haven't watched it yet: I reckon you'll be able to do it cos as far as I have seen you're a grinding and patience god

When are you doing a “not very effective moves” only run of emerald?

"Right off the bat" 😂

Nice job, Mah-Dry-Bread!

Ok I’m just now noticing how funny gen 1 charmeleon is 😂😂- he looks like a gym teacher. Come to think of it, gen 1 sprites are something special (looking at you golbat)

Would really like to see if you can do a Level 50 cap campaign. Full team, any non legendaries. Must release on hitting level 50. can breed starter if you think its worth? up to you there. Can't wait to see this weeks ep :)

Pokemon fire red with only a Ho-oh. It only has wirlwind at the begining and it gets its first attacking move at lvl 22. (Plus it is weak for the first 3 gyms)

Great vid, I actually didn’t think you’d do it haha. Another Eevee one please my brother

Please try to beat Gen 1 using only signature moves. The run starts when you catch a pidgey with gust. Seems easy? Remember, you can't use struggle

Please do “Can I beat Pokémon Platinum with only one Smeargle” please

Until this video i didn't even know a condition like Aphantasia existed. That's really interessting, thanks for that!

I just finished watching all your 7 Days to Die, Videos. yes, Watched them. it was pretty entertaining despite watching a dude look at the ground for long periods of time to get resources. thus you now know that you can be entertaining to watch even when you think you're only good for back ground noise. thanks for the entertainment and keep up the good work.

*clears throat* ok I’m gonna do it and yes I know what your thinking but I must do it Which fossil did you get?

If you like to suffer, do a 6 feebas in ruby. Start with one and must catch 5 more later on.

I really like seeing when the attempts go bad like at 17:12 . It is interesting to see what is holding you from going to the next part, that way we can see why you are doing what you are doing

every single time he does that helix fossil thing, i like the video

can you beat pokemon emerald whit only one castform ?

I kinda miss when MDB was small, because he would read almost every comment. I like that he's successful, but his comment sections are way too big to read even close to all if the comments.

One very requested run 🙏🙏🙏🙏 Pokemon heart gold run without a single hp damage.

I hope one day you'll learn the joys of Gen 1 Mimic. I casually do solo Pokemon challenges on my own in Red all the time and Mimic is a lifesaver for Pokemon with shallow move pools. Either Mimic a move that offers better coverage or Mimic a stat-boosting move to abuse the badge boost glitch.

Hey, just popped into my head and thought I’d ask. Can you beat pokemon Yellow or FireRed with only a Cubone?

Casually just throws out that he cant see with his brain..

This was great, I love Pokemon challenges! I want to be able to beat Gen 1 using every 1st form Pokemon and I am NOT looking forward to this one...

Yooo aphantasia gang, cool to hear one of my favorite you tubers also struggle with it!

Hi. I can’t wait to see ur suffering for brock once more. Also I’m surprised how u can do these without dying and could u maybe do Pokemon X or Y as a nuzlocke as ur first time to beat it (if u don’t lose).