Can You Beat Pokémon Brilliant Diamond with ONLY Piplup? 

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piplup being hype as fuck is just what i needed to see today

Can we take a moment to talk about Aaron's strategy? This guy's whole gimmick is to gamble it all on crits and not only does he risk it for the crits, lore wise he got to be one of the members of the Elite Four so he made it to the big leagues using crits. Guy's a baller.

4:45 " Rome wasn't built in a day and neither was an Olympian athlete and like an athlete we turn to performance enhancing drugs" Wise words

"I'm gonna beat Starly with hammers" Who knew that would be the basis of the design of Tinkaton a year later.

There are two types of people who play Pokemon Smallant: Spends hours grinding, analysing and making the best strategies to complete the challenge And then there's Alpharad "It can't happen a 2nd time right?"

Mudkip Only: "Don't do drugs, kids." Piplup Only: d r u g s

Found out that the Abra battle doesn't have to be a doubles battle, you can talk to them individually and fight them separately

alpha: “ok so this garchomp can do anything, they can do swords dance and eat a berry that reduces my damage, and i can deal damage that turn and be safe but i probably won’t live the next turn, so..” Piplup: “I got a crit dad are you proud of me?”

Piplup vs literally anyone: "He's never fought me." Everyone: "Yeah he has." Piplup: "He's never fought me twice!"

Piplup is the 2nd strongest penguin in the Multiverse (just below Pingu)

“ I trekked on and did the exact same battle again, in the exact same way with the exact same expectations but just hoping something would change.” literal definition of insanity

I am so glad that him and Jaden became friends it is honestly hilarious to see their interactions together and they honestly just vibe with each other so well

Fun fact, in the diamond and pearl manga, the main character had a piplup that he didn’t know had an everstone. So he crushed all the gyms and the piplup gained so many levels it became sick and almost died because it couldn’t evolve.

And now Piplup must take on an entirely new challenge, one in which he would've never expected to face. Rehab.

I barely beat crasher wake with only a staravia at 10 HP. This is a good life lesson: if Alpharad beat the elite four with a solo piplup, I’m sure I could beat the elite four as well at this point. So In other words, never give up. This right here is a beautiful life lesson. Congratulations, @Alpharad. You’ve earned that sweet victory. Edit: also it was the toughest thing I ever seen when you beat Cynthia with just a small penguin. If you beat BDSP with only piplup, what’s next? Scarlet and violet with a solo Quaxly perhaps?

My favourite moment in this video is when Alpha pops off with Lyn from rivals of Aether

I love how every few minutes, we get a, “What?” Just to accurately sum up this run.

I just realized that in the last like 9 months there hasn’t been a single vid that I’ve been somewhat disinterested in, even on games I don’t play. That’s what truly makes a content creator good. Thank you!

“Like an athlete, we turned to performance enhancing drugs!” God tier quote

I did a solo piplup run as well. My move set was grass knot, surf, ice beam, and pluck. The move set had tons of coverage! Made the elite 4 easier as well lol. Grass knot comes in clutch so much for the run! Especially Cynthia’s Milotic and the water gym lol

Jacob: “it hasn’t even felt too different then a normal run” *Stands next to the couple that gives you Jirachi and Mew for free*

Now do it while feeding it herbs throughout your playthrough.

5:43-5:53 This whole portion is comedy gold. I actually laughed till tears came out.

19:32 Don't forget the Periscope So 50% chance of dealing x2.25 damage and ignoring Defense boosts That's insane

This video can be summed up in 4 words. "Pop pills, get kills."

The fact you finished this right when he was level 69 is just comedy gold

so basically, you decided to have TCNick3 beat the game for you

I remember when my sister basically did this on Platinum years ago. Her Piplup was over Lv. 50 and she never beat the game, as she was stuck on the second gym. Note that this was her first actual Pokemon game, and the reason she didn't catch any other Pokemon was because, in roughly her own words, "They weren't cute enough for her to catch." Also sever case of Starter Carry Syndrome.

2:20 Who's gonna tell him that if you talk to one of the NPCs, it turns into two single battles instead?

Alpharad can make a 12 hour video of watching paint dry and he'll STILL manage to make it entertaining as hell.

i like to imagine the second piplup he got was just the first one’s afterimage

I love how Jaiden is just chilling in the background the whole time

Just to clarify about the friendship thing: They took the previous Affection mechanic from Gen 6 and 7 and tied it with friendship.

can we just appreciate jaiden’s one liners “wow, congrats on beating the first elite four” “As long as we deprive them all of right’s we’ll be good” “yeah, that’s how a lot of things are done”

Ah yes, Ronald McDonalds dream, as the great clips channel foretold.

I'm really glad that Jaiden entered this friend group she's a delight to see

“No one beats piplup twice”- alpharad 10 minutes after having his piplup be destroyed by Abra’s at least 8 times

“I, Ronald McDonald, have a dream”

Friendship made this possible. Love that little man

Yes! Piplup was my first ever Pokémon and my favorite!

19:54 I find it ironic that after Aaron's critical hit mayhem, the killing blow on his Drapion was none other than a critical hit. Poetic justice in its purest form.

After rewatching this I realized that, despite it not mattering in the slightest, Piplup landing those 3 friendship crits in a row is INSANE rng. To sum it up quickly, that has a less than 1% chance of occurring. Props to Alpharad, I suppose. Never punish.

When he called X items drugs I swear that made this 5x funnier

"A couple of years ago, I decided to beat Pokémon Emerald with only Mudkip" I... I feel old.

You can avoid the double abra fight in Eterna Forest by just going up to one of the trainers and talking to them from above. This does make it a single battle so you dont get Cheryl's help, but you could just inject lethal amounts of potions into your poor pikachu until the Abra ran out of Energy Balls.

We all know the world stromgest piplup is named TCNick3

Knew this was gonna be a tough one in the Elite Four, especially Cynthia if luck was against him, since most of the game is a cake walk until the battle-trained well oiled machine that is the Elite Four and Cynthia.

Fun fact; in the Pokémon d/p manga, this run is canonical bc the main character (hareta) literally goes all the way to post 7 gym leader with just a piplup he doesn’t evolve

Jacob made his audio quality drop on the ad read on purpose but still couldn't stop himself from editing in "Dating Start" like it's actually playing in the bathroom, the audio quality obsession grind never stops.

we have confirmation alpharad is insane when he said i did the same thing again expecting different results

I find it amazing that my 2 favorite RU-vidrs become friends

Is really funny once you realize that the new champion, a person who ranks higher than the Elite Four, has their level 69 Piplup and nothing else. Edit: and a truckload of performance enhancing drugs

It’s kind of crazy that Pikachu was one-shotting way stronger Pokémon than itself, even at about the same level. Drugs are amazing

"Unfortunately he knew how to curse, which is fucking bs" *I love irony.*

Piplup has been my favourite pokemon since the original gen 4 games had come out and I'm so happy to see this video being done. Thanks Alpharad!

I'm disappointed Cynthia's Spiritomb didn't have Embargo in these remakes. Realize just how fortunate you are on that count, Alpha

"It was available in the Department Store the whole time!" That's what happens when athletes prioritize performance enhancing drugs over developing their natural skills through study and training.

Best intro to a game I’ve ever seen, even in a whole year after

This isn't the Ronald McDonald video

Loved Jaiden's peanut gallery commentary. Especially during the elite four.

GUYS ITS TCNICK3!

Fun fact: with the math gym, if you fail one of the questions one of the trainers will tell you off, asking if you forgot the fact that you own a calculator or if you just did it on purpose

This was wild. Great narration. The best of all Piplups. Had a lot of fun watching this video.

Isn't it nice that Team Galactic is like "no, we are too noble to fight us two against your one"

Fun fact: every other double battle with Cheryl (other than the first one) can be forced into solos by talking to the trainer

I played Shining Pearl and chose Piplup. I never evolved him (He is currently level 78) so it’s cool to see someone did the same!

Piplup is such a precious little boy. My empoleon was the first pokemon i fully raised to level 100 on my own, and is one of my all time favorites. Such a precious boy

Watching this at the end of 2023 and man that Casetify sponsorship did not age well. Oh well

0:04 “And got a twisted sense of fun out of it” I think Alpha is becoming more and more of a masochist and he doesn’t even realize it. I’m scared

Alpharad: _"'Can You Beat Pokémon Emerald with ONLY Mudkip'_ was a couple years ago." Me: "That feels illegal."

25:15 for those of you watching in timed mode, hello! Make sure to drink water and rest your eyes before binging more funny internet man Alpharad

Drapion has the Sniper ability which makes critical hits hit even harder than they normally would.

Jaidens every 5 minute appearance was the cherry on top of this amazing video

The “affection” mechanic and its side effects have been around since XY, but since nobody cared about PokeMonAmie and it’s equivalents, it seems new since BDSP tied it in with the normal friendship mechanics, which is has been around since very early in the series. Friendship usually only affects Return’s damage and the evolution of certain Pokemon, and is raised by just having the pokemon in your party or, when the option is available, walking with them. Affection was usually only raised by PokeMonAmie.

15:06 is there a reason why he didn't just battle each of them separately

Thank you. I needed this. I’m playing it on loop

Alpharad: *cancels Piplup's evolution* Jaiden: "You're not gonna use an everstone?" Me: *thinking* Were you not there when he did this challenge the first time???

No matter how many times ive seen people do it, throwing a Master Ball at a Magikarp will always make me laugh.

at 22:54 you can literally see the milotic use mirror coat followed by alpha wondering if it has mirror coat

Alpharad: beats chyntia with ONE piplup me and my whole team: 20 tries later

As soon as I heard you where using X-items to boost stats I was waiting for this run to come crashing down from Cynthia's spiritomb knowing embargo. Honestly dodged a bullet with them removing it

He tortured a fish for 2019, He suffered evolving a sentient rock at 2020, and now in 2021, watch him torture a bird. This is why we watch you Jacob.

Man, this puploop run was amazing. The peeplip was so strong the world crumbled when it took a step. Favorite part was when papluop beat everything with hammers. Yes the joke of this comment is various ways to misspell poiplawp.

2:25 as someone who did a no catching nuzlocke with a piplup, this was a very scary part of the game

Fun fact, you can turn double trainer battles like that double abra fight into 1v1 matches by talking to the individual trainers instead of walking into their line of sight.

“Pick a god and pray” Thank you for that reference, milord.

Its TCNick3

Had to watch some vids and now, while rewatching this, I can say: Alpha is the definition of 'mood'. Take my sub

I love how Cynthia, the champion known to be the most difficult champion of all Pokémon, was defeated by a level 69 drugged up baby penguin

Fun fact: When the Pokémon anime first aired in the 90’s, it was only planned as a one-off series to promote the game. However, it proved surprisingly popular, and there have been over 20 series and 23 films! It’s also currently one of the longest running anime series ever!

9:00 I have been playing through Pokemon Ultra Sun recently, and I have created the ultimate critical hit Drapion. Similar to Aaron's own, he has Cross Poison and Night Slash, which, when sided alongside the items Scope Lens (which Aaron has) or Razor Claw, has a 50% critical chance (Also they both have STAB). My Drapion also has maxed attack and speed EV's, and also Swords Dance to increase physical attack even more (last move is Ice Fang for annoying type matchups). Working on levelling him up to 100 in order to hyper-train the beast. Also he is shiny. P.S. Also, apparently with a max affection, it doubles crit chance. I will test that out once my own Drapion is level 100. If it is true, then he will have a 100% crit ratio. Will keep this comment updated.

I just love how he went around this nonproblem with the two grunts before dialga. He could have just spoke to them one at a time.

Before watching this, I asked myself “what completely unnecessary but hilarious risks will Alpharad make this time” and this run did not disappoint.

If I had a nickel for everytime I’ve seen a RU-vidr beat a Gen 4 game using the first evolution of a water type, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice

The edits. The comedy. I enjoyed this video SO much!

I respect you for making this video.

I love that it shows him getting an everstone in the underground and yet still chooses to hit no after every time piplup levels up

Imagine being a trainer ready to fight the final trainer and you get destroyed by 1 piplup

About the Double Abra battle, what I always do in a Nuzlocke is I interact with one of them, so it turns into 1 Abra, in a single battle, then I go interact with the other, same thing, then I can just walk past them