Pokémon Black Hardcore Nuzlocke - Banning Half the Pokédex! (No items, no overleveling) 

marvel found crying in a corner

I was choking

I did an ORAS Snaplocke once. I found a shiny Machop and a Roselia, and they survived throughout the run until the very end.

@@leafshavingtool9185 coolstorybro

@@leafshavingtool9185 great story bestie

Uncle Ben what happened? Octillery Games

idk about you, I was fuckin HORRIFIED -and amused, but-- DX- when I saw that--

It’s his jokes I think

Flygon HG just hits different

@@skinneybob4984 his jokes are super funny.

I like this kind of content 😆

Silph and flygon are the only two I watch

I agree but, you know S M A L L A N T

@@capper5559 I’d say he does kinda different content tbf

@@FlygonHG these videos are pretty fun to watch. I typically don't watch long videos, but yours are some of a few that I will. As a suggestion for future snaplocks, I would automatically disqualify legendary Pokemon, and then do the vote based on the non-legendary population. If you're looking for a flavor reason for this, the legendaries are only single individuals in the population, while the several families of Pokemon represent the actual bulk of the Pokemon population.

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I was thinking about this when watching one of his other videos. I think it's because others do it in a "come see how I did it" style, whereas Flygon makes you feel like it's a "come join us on our journey". He mixes the tenses really well, turning it into a story you journey along with and it's fantastic!

Uncle Ben: How many times must i die!!!!!

That evolution line is pretty good tbh, one of my favorite electric types. And steel types for that matter.

Squid Games!

@@rraychubi2119 that line isn't electric lol, it's pure steel

Thanos the Liepard ruining the run

I understood THAT reference!

Ofc, he made everything perfectly balanced, as it should be

Omg it’s lightsen fanboy moment

No sleep only FlygonHG

Damn this would be so cool fr

Hmm... yeah... they got whooped by the shadow triad... right...

That’s exactly what they would say so they wouldn’t be seen as suspects

I thought the canon explanation was the bianca was getting the gym leaders and since they are rhe farthest away she didn't get to them in time. But i think Flygon's fan theories are hilarious, just look at his letters from Devon Corp President to Steven Stone about poor Nosey.

@@jasonreed7522 that’s 100% what it says in b/w. I have played White so many times I have it memorized but I have never played b2/w2 so if there is further explanation there I’m oblivious

@@ThemightyTho in canon they are not the shadow triad. We get to see them battle the shadow triad in the BW manga which is canon enough to prove that there is no connection between the 2 groups

Wtf does dokidoki mean

@@stevedomique9278 they get flustered by it still

@@stevedomique9278 its a japanese onomatopoeia for a heart beating. so they're saying their heart beats fast at the ferris wheel scene.

Fucking cringiest comment I’ve ever read

😂😂😂😂

That is generally the whole point. Some of my favourite mons I 'discovered' through nuzlockes E.g. Scolipede, Ambipom

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Gen 5's dex is full of hidden gems.

A Heracross Yeah, I was very surprised at what Flygon was allowed to keep, both Cofagrius and Gothitelle were big surprises.

especially Beheeyem tbh

Im honestly surprised to see that mandibuzz wasnt baned cause GOD that mon can do wonders and trust me im speaking from experience

I was very surprised at how Lilligant wasn't banned in spite of how ludicrously good it is, but I guess it did not matter that much since the run was done on Black instead of White.

Me too, in the last nuzlocke of bw2 i did he outspeeded (by 1 point) hydreigon thanks to shell smash

@@anabol_bob damn, that’s clutch

He Already Said In the let's go only using ash Ketchum's pokemon, That He's Never Gonna Play The let's go games Again

Swift stole that from hg

they might have thought he banned trade evos

He rarely uses trade pokemon so most people who voted probably didn't think he would (or could) use one. Personally I'm all for him using them in his nuzlockes and would have made a point to select it and the others

I think Audino counts too, stall is one of the safest strats (boring but safe), and its regenerator ability plus its technical moves like attract and a functional attack stat were really showcased as invaluable earlygame. It just gets slept on because its very reminiscent of Jigglypuff and Chansey lines. Its also possible to guarantee an encouter for it because it appears in rustling grass on basically all routes. Is krookodile objectively better, yes, but you gotta make sure to account for technical pokemon that can get up to some shenanigans. (Anybody that can heal itself counts)

No wonder why gen 5 & 8 are within my bottom three fav gens haha

didn't realize that having lots of rival fights was controversial (been a Pokémon fan forever, but I've basically avoided the online fandom up til now). personally, I generally prefer having fights with trainers who are developed at all, and think that suits B/W's focus on narrative more. not only that, it sets up the arcs that continue into B2/W2 in a way that Pokémon could do more with in sequel games, imo. watching Cheren & Bianca progress--especially with Cheren becoming a gym leader--is something you don't see much outside of Koga becoming an E4 member in Johto. not to mention, it adds a more interesting post-game when you can grind against characters you actually have a cachet with instead of just running around with an unreliable Vs. Seeker or doing a Battle Tower run. the most obvious benefit, however, is that it gives more excuses to see the other starters; one of my least favorite things about Pokémon games. starters are THE most important Pokémon in the Dex when it comes to building a rapport between players and their teams, but you only ever get to so much as see the other starters in most games if you trade for them or when you're battling a rival. in gens without two rivals, the third starter just may as well not exist, because you can't get them without trading or hacking, barely any of the games spare the starters to any trainers (except in early gens like Johto), and they never even become a lab assistant when you return to the lab later on in the story (which is such an easy, cute addition I am surprised hasn't been done before--I wish HG/SS had a Chikorita in a lab coat, but I digress). while I am always partial to my first starter in a given region (ex. Tepig for Unova), you can't grow a fondness for a mon you literally never see (which is also the biggest argument against regional exclusive mons aside from the other box legendary usually). as for Hop and such in S/S, I think that's one of the things those games don't get anywhere near enough credit for. I think the series has always been too focused on building enemy trainer teams around types to the exclusion of the trainer's personality. Pokémon is supposed to be about the bonds between trainers and their mons, which can obviously manifest as a monotype trainer, but I prefer when you have stuff like Bruno running Onix (look at that guy and tell me he _wouldn't_ have an Onix). the fact that Hop's team is switched out to emphasize his arc revolving around his lack of self-confidence is not only narratively interesting, it also brings into focus how rivals in previous gens really ought to have more than 6 Pokémon they use against you, as it hints at them having journeys beyond battling you. what if we had a game where a rival does something like trading one of their mons for some exotic mon, only to regret it as Ash did in the anime? rivals are a great way of expressing mechanics of the games in the narrative, and I think in a lot of the earlier gens, they're an extreme missed opportunity--especially in Hoenn and Sinnoh, where the rivals don't have very interesting arcs or teams.

@@MelMelodyWerner The problem is, there’s very little growth between some of the fights, especially with Cheren and Bianca. It doesn’t feel like progression it just feels like pointless roadblocks. And this is coming from someone that loves Gen 5. Gen 8 is even more atrocious on this front. Hop fights you SO OFTEN without any improvement. Even when he goes through that really nice development moment where he changes his whole team he doesn’t feel any stronger.

Ok but that only goes if you count N as a rival, and I feel like storywise he only kind of fits that

@@Calmasis_1025 He is literally officially referred to as a rival

You’ve uploaded a total of 3 Pokémon videos and your last upload was 7 months ago. Fanbases don’t just happen upon your channel, they show up when you actually upload good content.

Maybe you could do a similar thing by using a randomizer to ban half of the evolutionary lines in the Pokédex. The alternative is ofc to copy Flygon's list, though that can only be donde in BDSP and now in BW too

use the pokemon he banned!! thats what imma try

@@tateanderson213 he’s saying he wish he had one, not that he deserved one lol

In his last Snaplocke, War Machine was his Cherrim.

That aidino is a goddamn monster

Agreed!

Marvelous

Pokemon Challenges has done 1 i believe but i dont think it was doable

There's OTHER ones?! I didn't catch them🤧

Good luck! Gen 5's first gym is brutal, I agree.

Except that pokemon aren't people and should be called "it", especially machine pokemon.

@@Flamevortex-ky6xh I'm guessing you call your pets it

@@skelly4197 Well most real life animals aren't gender neutral.

@@Flamevortex-ky6xh Pokémon may have been people at some point or people may have been Pokémon? Pokémon lore is weird Either way nothing matters we all live till we die

@@Flamevortex-ky6xh i do think this is a valid point to consider, but also do consider that these machines are sentient i suppose its a case of whether or not you’d call your typewriter an “it” if said typewriter started talking to you

yes please

I worry that the bi polar difficulty spikes in s/m would make that a little bit od

Congratulations on the deathless Snaplocke! I love all of your videos (and your Highlights channel), and I especially love these Snaplockes for getting to see you use such different and awesome strategies.