Shoutouts to Mah-Dry-Bread for basically doing this first. Go watch his video too to see how he did it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_fhYBC1CYDM.html Mah-Dry-Bread did a No Healing run at a Pokecenters and really only used the PC to deposit Pokemon, so we did slightly different challenges that are both pretty cool and have their own problems to solve (his is edited much better than mine too). Go check it out!
Just to clarify, I only used the PC to withdraw Pokemon to actually add them to the team and despot ones that I'll literally never withdraw ever again. So I think I used the PC twice, both times just to withdraw something that I just caught. I also didn't use legendaries, so it's actually a pretty different run. Great job on the run!
@@MahDryBread I really enjoy your content and since I was doing a similar challenge I figured I should mention your run right at the start! Good stuff my man!
Outrage is such a weird move, like imagine being absolutely livid and punching other pokémon, but then you get confused who you're angry at so you decide to punch yourself
@@alancjmgmorales6420 When you miss High Jump Kick, you fall unto the ground, thus damaging yourself. It makes perfekt sense if you see it as fall damage
I think it's more of the way when you punch so hard your knuckles can get skinned, you attack with no regard for your own health because of how outraged you are
The title implies that you are beating this game without pokemon, which brings to mind the image of hurling a max revive at your opponent’s pokemon until those little spikes that it has impale their jugular. So thanks for that.
He turns down that Zigzagoon suggestion early, but I can't help but think how good that could have been. For one thing, Linoone is a great HM slave (strength, cut, rock smash, and surf) so you can drain its pp and then replace it with an HM move, most of which are themselves high-pp and STAB. You can also learn Covet to get heart scales that can bring back old moves that ran out of PP. And the big thing is that after level 30, the Pickup ability starts to grab hyper potions, full heals, rare candies, and even a 1% chance at an ether (a free 10 pp back). I haven't finished the video yet and I'm sure Ant manages just fine without it, but I certainly think I would have grabbed a Zigzagoon with pickup early!
@@danielyeap5952 Good point, forgot that. Wonder if it would have been possible to go back for the Zigzagoon at a somewhat later time and still avoid the double battles.
Actually, I should correct myself. I maybe wrong but I think the limiting factor of the challenge is move PP, and not HP. Zigzagoon takes several battles to pick up an item (I think pick up ability = 10% chance for item after each battle?). This means more wild battles needed. Mostofthe time, it will pick up a potion or antidote. The chance of low level Zigzagoon picking up a PP restoring item, the ether, is so low it may not work most of the time. So to conserve PP, I will agree with SmallAnt. Interesting topic though. But as you mentioned, PP might not be an issue if used as a HM slave, where it can keep forgetting and relearning the HM move.
this is like 4 months later but i understand why you would think that. the orbs are actually supposed to go the opposite color scheme, as it matches the orbs in the pokemon's heads
@@ezbakeovenofficial nope, Red orb to groundon, Blue to Kyogre. The correct colored Orb enables Primal Reversion and ultimate power. The incorrect Orb just pissed them off and nothing else. Check out Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. They are either colorblind or just stupid.
@@Skullhawk13 well according to omega ruby and alpha sapphire those two games takes place in a alternate universe so you can't apply logic from those games to pokemon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald. there is no primal reversion, no mega evolutions, and no pokemon past gen 3. red orb awakens and controls groudon. blue orb awakens and controls kyogre. the opposite orb pisses them off, that part is correct, the rest is not applicable to pokemon R/S/E.
Watching this in 2021 is pretty funny. Hearing SmallAnt talk about how "beating the game without taking damage would be possible but super grindy" and knowing that he would later go on to do it and it was in fact SUPER Grindy. Or watching this man laugh at the thought of soft resetting to get a shiny Rayquaza, only to eventually wind up doing a shiny run full of soft resets.
@Frostleaf Vlogs I know this reply is late but I’m pretty sure it is. “Yeah cool” is an interjection. Yeah cool(.) Look, I’m gonna... Yeah cool(;) look, I’m gonna... Just my two cents.
My first shiny Pokémon was a Riolu in Y, in Route 22, after I got the Master Ball. I believe I was on my way to the League after getting the last badge, flew to Santalune City as a shortcut, accidentally roller-skated into the first patch of grass on the Route, and a Shiny Riolu popped out, and I just freaked out. I panicked and threw the Master Ball, and I named him Sirius. Still got him, even after I started a new run, just traded him over to Alpha Sapphire. Riolu was my first legit shiny, but before then, I used the Action Replay a LOT of times as a kid on Diamond/Pearl to cheat in a lot of shinies, as well as always OHKO'ing everything, having infinite HP, getting max EXP from a level 2 to get to level 100 instantly, and many other boring silly codes. Also had some legendaries appear in the wild just because I couldn't get them otherwise, which I think is fair, for the Pokédex. Although I did also tend to use the code that gave me an instant complete Pokédex, mostly so I could see all the Pokémon in existence coz I didn't know of Serebii back then, and it was also to hear all of their cries, slowed down, which I loved to do. At some point though I ended up finding the AR making gameplay too easy and boring, as I also used it in PMD and Ranger to make me win quickly. I don't know when, but at some point I decided to just stop ever using the AR again and I haven't used it since. Maybe when I was, like, 14 or 15 or something, I dunno. Now, whenever I DO find a LEGIT Shiny, I get much more excited than just hacking it into the game with the AR. :) I did use the AR once within the last year though to get a Nuzleaf in Diamond, because I wanted to do a run where I only use Cynthia's Platinum team, and I needed to breed Extrasensory onto a Budew, and the only close match I could find was Nuzleaf, the other way I believe was a long chain of several many Pokémon which I was too impatient with. And I don't have Ruby, so I couldn't get a Nuzleaf legitimately in the game. So I just spent SEVERAL minutes trying to get the AR to work on my very old DS lite, type in a code to make Nuzleaf appear in the wild, find one, catch it, save, put the game in my good DSi, and then grind it up to level 48-49-whatever to get Extrasensory and then breed it with a Roselia. I dunno if the other method without AR would have gone faster, but I was stubborn lol I also had to catch a Wobbuffet, breed Mirror Coat onto a Shellos and THEN breed THAT onto a Feebas. I wanted my Cynthia team to have the EXACT same move sets as hers, but natures were not as important. Although, my Feebas does not have a nature that likes dry food, so I might not be able to evolve it into a Milotic... so I may have to breed a new one in the same game lol
The end of this run takes me back to my childhood days. Destroying everything in sight with just Rayquaza and an overleveled Swampert. Yup, that was me alright.
Honestly me in Crystal with the fire starter whose English name I always forget and Lugia. Worked wonderfully and later I reduced it to just the water starter.
@@DieAlteistwiederda Cyndaquil? Wild guess because other two's names I could spell more than a decade ago (god damn I got old) and this one is bound to be forgoted due to this. Even though it's best one of three.
@@airbornefilip9139 yes that one. I know all the names in my native language but only about 1/3 of those I actually know also in English and mostly from RU-vid videos.
@@MrPogtato I really first thought he is gonna fight pokemon with just items but he is just not allowed to use places like pokemon centre and etc... But still quite entertaining
Fun fact: in both gen 4 and 3 your rival’s starter will ALWAYS give 69 exp in the first battle Edit: ik it’s been 2 years but holy crap why didn’t RU-vid notify me of the 6.5k likes
when i first played red way back in the day i didnt realize you need to talkd THROUGH the counter so everytime i wanted to heal i went all the way to pallet town and every time i died i also respawned there fun times i also didnt realise i can change pokemon during battle or flee i was doing challenges way before they existed lol
Not knowing what you're doing is the greatest challenge ever. In my case my first Pokemon yellow cartridge was damaged and erased my savefiles every time I turned off my GB so I had to beat the game in just one run without letting it to turn off.
Just one thing I realized, if he lost one battle in the elite four and didn't reset, he would technically get teleported to his mom's house, where he was first supposed to heal
@@duwang3195 part one:I can breathe intensely °^° Part two:i can breathe to read your mind ;3 cant fly a plane tho Part three:I will punch you with my ghost Part four:David Bowie murder mystery but hes got a thing for hands :,) Part five:I will stab myself with a arrow to become god,boss Part six:gay black priest becomes sonic and resets the universe
@@gManGabe Well I've got both men and women in mine, so it's kind of strange how he's only targeting women. Like is there a disproportionate birthrate in Sootopolis or does he hold a grudge against female figures? Questions questions.
I imagine Wallace's Gyarados was thinking something in the lines of: "That's Rayquaza! That's my idol! I can't screw this up, I'll make them proud. I'll set up and give it my best. Dragon Dance! YES! 🐉 SURF!!! 🌊"
Im surprised you didn't use a zigzagoon. Its ability pickup would've really helped and the fact that Linoone can learn covet which takes the opponents items would have been very beneficial to the run.
How terrifying it would be to be a gym leader or Elite 4 member and a child walks in with A GIANT GREEN DRAGON, a creature of legend that people have told stories about for generations.
Man! I have to tell you!! Beating all those games with INSANELY self-imposed hard challenges doesn't only prove how much skill you have, it also is such a great entertainment I love have got used to!!
Keep in mind that MDB doesn't use items during battle, hence why he used more than six pokemon. He never used the PC to heal though, only to switch out pokemon when needed. I think you both did valid versions of the challenge, because both had their own trials and tribulations. Either way, I enjoyed the video! :D
It's impossible to do this is pretty much any game past gen 3 because you get free heals forced on you (my first run of shield I never HAD to heal because of this?
Since he only finished with 5 Pokemon, he could've nabbed that Zigzagoon in the beginning. Pickup would've been a great ability to have throughout a run like this
If you will win if a move misses... The move will miss. If you will lose if a move crits, or a specific move is used... The move will be used, or crit. These are the laws of Pokémon, which can not be broken by mere RU-vidr luck.
Ritesh well, he is saying random crits are fair and balanced, being sarcastic. Then you said whoooosh, and you didn’t get the sarcasm, or the joke, missing it, and getting “whooooshed” it’s a double whoooosh
Fun fact : In slateport city the aquarium has oceanmini fact written on the glass specimens one of which is completely wrong it says "Ocean are coloured blue because it retains blue color from spectrum of light, when light falls on it". Which is clearly wrong since objects absorb all the light and reflect what they can't absorb which gets reflected in our eyes.
I was legally obligated to leave a like when you said: 4:30 "even if you're good at something you can always get better" Damn straight, testament to your humility. Keep it up!
Ant is such a knowledgeable guy in so many games. He does speedruns, lockouts, bingo boards, races, etc, of Pokémon, Minecraft, Super Mario Odyssey(amongst other Mario games as well), and LoZ: Breath of the Wild, and he does it so well and with a ton of humility. Much love and respect Tanner. Your content is something I watch at least once a day while I'm doing other tasks or on break from those tasks. You truly inspire myself and I'm sure a bunch of other people. P.s. This Man has held a pencil sharpening world record, is top 100 on the SMO ladder for co-op with his mother controlling Cappy, and also on the ladder for pencil sharpening with his mother. Peace! ✌💚
I think it's only possible if your file has an early slide so it's the same forever same frame shiny if you learn the frame it's on you can get infinite shines I did it as a kid soft reset 17500 times and got a early shiny frame
God, gen 6 pickup is completely busted. I had my beloved zigzagoon pickup/hm slave with me the entire game in ORAS. I literally didn't buy anything until the elite 4.
"we can ONLY capture 6 pokemon total, so we gotta be very careful and plan out what to capture" >procedes to only capture and never evolve a single tentacool and Swablu
“Beating Pokémon emerald but I don’t actually play the game and it’s actually just a blank screen for 8 hours” should be one of your titles for a video
Damn you were really lucky with the shiny Rayquaza! Specifically Emerald's RNG is "broken" so that soft resetting doesn't work for shiny hunting. The "shiny frame" is fixed meaning the moment you start a new file, you have a small chance of even being able to get shinies from soft resetting.
@au I should probably clarify that the shiny Rayquaza I'm talking about was from his childhood and not from this run lol. That would've been insane though.
I only ever got one shiny legendary and it was moltres and I always save before I battle any of those just cuz I've had them kill themself several times cuz they run out of PP so it died and I reset and then I battled it and it was pink and I was like wow it turned shiny so just wasted my masterball on it cuz i was afraid I'd lose it but that was cool. I think most frustrating shiny I ever got was in x or y and a horde came out I forgot what pokemon it was but damn all 5 kept putting my pokemon to sleep so it took me forever to knock out the other 4 and catch the shiny but I was so stubborn and kept at it lol
Bro, I had done the opposite of this with no items because when I was a kid I bought emerald from a gamestop, but there was a problem with the game where whenever I tried to buy items it would crash the game, so no pokeballs or heal items unless I found them. It was a rough first playthrough.
To do this run without struggling once and without ever fighting a wild Pokemon, pretty impressive, and while it seems he only did the Move Deleter trick pretty sparingly, I'm naturally curious as to whether or not this run is viable without it. It probably is, I just wonder if it's still entertaining or if becomes grindy as a result. In any case, a very interesting and pretty well routed run. Pretty impressive given that this is essentially something you made up on the fly, it's not like there's a template to follow here, yet there definitely appears to have been a lot of thought and strategy put into this. Shows a wealth of game knowledge and general Pokemon speed-running tactics to have been able to complete this run in a single sitting. I'm sure an "optimized" run of this would be pretty intense, with an even closer shave on PP usage, even less grinding, and so on.
You can really tell the difference in their playstyles by how they did their versions of this challenge. MDB usually does grindy challenges with no items, which is very obvious with his plan to grind. Ant does fast runs so he plans around using x items to speed it up
I fully thought the title meant that you found a way to win Pokemon without attacking with a pokemon and just using healing items + items that deal damage
The white rock is made of limestone, the character takes notice of it because it's obviously not part of the local stratigraphy and therefore can be surmised to be a glacial erratic
I find it funny how one of the best strats for speedrunners to avoid clicking B by accident when evolving a Pokemon is setting the game/controller down.
Yo! With that First Shiny Story, I remember when I was a kid at the time when Gold/Silver OG first released and internet being pretty much non-existent at the time I always thought the Red Gyarados was the only shiny Pokémon ever, as in different colored. I beat the game and a decided to start it all over again. Soon as I hit the first patch of grass, first encounter out of New Bark Town, a shiny Sentret appeared and my brain just melted
It's pretty easy to do this challenge if you CAN use shops. Catch a Zigzagoon with item picking ability, he'll give you all the pokéballs, X items, repels and miscellaneous items you would ever want. Use Treecko as a starter for healing attacks, you only need to take care of PP with items in the shop and advanced healing items and revives for lategame
I was thinking about this the other day but I saw someone mention in chat, "apparently sitrus berries only heal 30 flat hp in this gen" and I went the longest time not realizing they had ever changed it from that
I noticed around the beginning someone in the chat asking if he could at least buy things in the poké center and it made become older in an instant... It means that guy didn't play gen 1 to gen 5... It reminded of one time I was playing emerald and one of my cousin asked me why I wasn't using mega evolution
Gen 5 is the gen that started to have Poke Marts in Poke Centers. Besides, just because they said that doesn't mean they haven't played those gens. Quite a bold assumption. I often forget Fairy types and other mechanics weren't a thing prior to gen 6 and I've played Pokemon games before gen 6. Not to mention that ORAS and Let's Go had Poke Marts as they were remakes of older games.
Midas Magnezone still though, even though I forget sometimes as well. It’s funny how we don’t even consider the possibility that people never played the first 4 gens
Gen 5 was my first gen and when I bought Soulsilver I was so confused and frustrated by the differences lol You can only use TMs once? You don’t get to fight the other game’s legendary using yours? Madness!
Seeing people in chat saying that they haven't played emerald literally takes years off of my life. How can people NOT have played the best pokemon game ever made?
Fun personal fact, I skipped this gen as a kid. I didn't even know they existed until years later when I saw YTers talk about them. I started with RBY, did S/G, ended up skipping gen 3 somehow, played D/P, then didn't play another Pokemon game for a looooong time, until Sun/Moon and now I'm back to playing the games again. So uh, I've got a bit of a backlog of games to fill out. 😅
I did something similar but different gens. Obv did Gen 1 and 2 (it was very surprising for me to hear that a lot of streamers don't like gen 2 when crystal is my favorite game) Then I skipped all the generations until x and y when I bought my own DS. Then skipped generations after that until sword and shield. That was my last modern game...tried arceus (was good but lost interest) and lost interest in the entire series once I found out exp share is always on and we could catch fully evolved pokemon in the wild. Coming from the old gens, made the game fat too easy. Recently (like last few weeks) went back and played emerald for the first time and wished I had that game when I was kid, I definitely would have changed my mind and said Emerald was the best game the story is pretty legit. And the post game is ridiculous content, if they added in previous Gen maps it would have been perfect
I did something similar but different gens. Obv did Gen 1 and 2 (it was very surprising for me to hear that a lot of streamers don't like gen 2 when crystal is my favorite game) Then I skipped all the generations until x and y when I bought my own DS. Then skipped generations after that until sword and shield. That was my last modern game...tried arceus (was good but lost interest) and lost interest in the entire series once I found out exp share is always on and we could catch fully evolved pokemon in the wild. Coming from the old gens, made the game fat too easy. Recently (like last few weeks) went back and played emerald for the first time and wished I had that game when I was kid, I definitely would have changed my mind and said Emerald was the best game the story is pretty legit. And the post game is ridiculous content, if they added in previous Gen maps it would have been perfect
I did something similar but different gens. Obv did Gen 1 and 2 (it was very surprising for me to hear that a lot of streamers don't like gen 2 when crystal is my favorite game) Then I skipped all the generations until x and y when I bought my own DS. Then skipped generations after that until sword and shield. That was my last modern game...tried arceus (was good but lost interest) and lost interest in the entire series once I found out exp share is always on and we could catch fully evolved pokemon in the wild. Coming from the old gens, made the game fat too easy. Recently (like last few weeks) went back and played emerald for the first time and wished I had that game when I was kid, I definitely would have changed my mind and said Emerald was the best game the story is pretty legit. And the post game is ridiculous content, if they added in previous Gen maps it would have been perfect
