The BEST (And Worst) Encounters For Your Pokémon Platinum Nuzlocke 

1:12 "Just a reminder before we get started.." I was so ready for him to say that he plays with species clause

I'd like to see a Platinum run using only his chosen rank C and F tier mons

Its just sad that Honchkrow and Mismagius aren't available in Platinum...

"Cherrim is not F tier" YES! YES! YES! GO CHERRIM GO!

My best Pokémon in a Platinum nuzlocke was my Kricketune "Beugh". She literally wouldn't die no matter what battle I put her in. She lived on 1-5 HP from random crits like 7 times. She beat Roark's Cranidos with Bide living on 3 HP, She swept Gardenia's entire team with Fury Cutter, survived a Shadow Ball from Fantina's Mismagius (which brought her to 9 HP), and crit OHKO'd with X-Scissor. She also took 2 Metal Claws from Maylene's Lucario (the 2nd of which raised its Attack). I decided after Maylene to box her so as to preserve her life since I knew even with all her luck she'd most likely perish around Wake or Byron's gym. I even made a special box for her called "BestBug". Beugh will always have a spot as the best lucky mon I've ever had.

“Nobody’s going to be upset about Dustox in C tier.” Me, a die hard Dustox fan: >:(

Fun fact, steelix is guaranteed even without trading. Just repel manip with a level 35 in iron island and it’s guarenteed

Sounds like we need to see a FlygonHG grass type platinum run!

“Hardcore nuzlockes for a living” is so insane to say I be doing them instead of studying

27:38 metal coat is held by wild bronzor which you can find outside the eterna city entrance to mt coronet in platinum and you get thief by cutting down a tree outside galactic hq so you can actually get a steelix after gardenia and before jupiter

Houndoom is by far the best counter to Candice's Froslass. Fire/Dark walls her entire moveset and it gets Odor Sleuth to completely negate Snow Cloak and Double Team

21:33 “No-one’s gonna be offended by me putting Ambipom in C tier, right?” I am offended. It should be much lower. I got this thing in a run and I hate it. But I made it my cut user so I kept having to look at it’s stupid face. You mentioned it having Baton Pass as a move and yeah it does, but it also learns literally no setup moves. Literally nothing that boosts it’s own stats. So Baton Pass is a dead move on it. I also think double-hit is it’s best move in this Gen? Which is absolutely pathetic. So yeah the pits of F tier for me. I’d rather have anything else. Including male Combee because at least he’s cute. Side note: I wanna mention how my Ambipom died because it’s hilarious. He missed double hit 4 times in a row but was one hit away from the fight being over. Either way if I hit Ambipom lives if he hit Ambipom dies. (Side note I didn’t switch out because this was the 2nd time this situation had happened.) I was out of patience and just said outloud “if you miss you deserve it.” Ambipom missed and died, and I slept like a baby. *ahem* so yeah Ambipom imbedded in the floor of this building

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I almost feel like Staraptor got done a little dirty here IMO it’s S tier. Or at the very least top of A tier. Intimidate is awesome and you get it early. It also gets wing attack at lv9 which is really strong stab for that early in the game. Also later on Return is really strong stab on a Pokemon with very high attack. Staraptor is very good basically throughout the game. It’s physical bulk isn’t that bad since it has intimidate but yea it’s special def is pretty dog ass. Close Combat is nice coverage as weird as it is to think of a bird just beating the brakes off someone. It’s just a really awesome pokemon

I'd also like to point out that Gallade can also learn Elemental Punches. Sure you have to find some shards but it's really cool that he's such a versatile pokemon. (You can also teach him brick break from the tm you can find at Oreburgh Gate 2nd floor).

Dude this is so incredible, I just started a Platinum nuzlocke on Thursday so it’s so helpful to see this! I’m grinding for Gardenia right now, and I’ve only lost a Bidoof to a crit on a Youngster and my Geodude got hit with a crit from Mars’ Purugly, but everyone else has been going good so far!

Would be cool to have a Nuzlocke based on point totals on each tier. F can be 1 point each and S tier can be 5. You give yourself a certain amount of points and pick the encounters based on that. Not sure what a good point total would be but possibly 20-30. Would make interesting team building!

"psychic types just aren't that good in this game" me halfway into my psychic monotype run of platinum like 👁👄👁

This has made me want to play Platinum again. Always a good game. I do have one argument for treating Porygon2 separately from Porygon-Z though; they are actually quite different. Porygon2 is much bulkier and even though Eviolite doesn't exist here, it does still get Recover. It also has Trace as an ability instead of Adaptability, which is pretty nice on a defensive Pokemon. Downside is it's pretty slow.

Porygon2 has a different purpose than Porygon-Z so I disagree with not placing it in the list. It is more bulky than Porygon-Z is and has Trace to help out with certain threats. Like if you Trace Motor Drive from the Electivire on Volkner's team you can nullify its electric attack for one time. I'd say that's pretty helpful.

10:35 Alakazam/Kadabra makes Lucian completely free because you can setup on M.Mime (his first pokemon in platinum) with Calm Mind + Recover (level up moves), especially because it will waste time setting up screens. Once light screen goes down, you can one shot everything with Shadow Ball (and if you don't, that doesn't even matter because you're at +6 in spe def)

You‘re definitely on the right track encouraging people to nuzlocke! You inspired me to do a hardcore Nuzlocke of Pokémon X and right now I do my first Playthrough of Pokémon Sun as a hardcore Nuzlocke

I love these insightful ranking videos from WisegonHG. Keep them coming!

Thanks to your videos i started nuzlocking, and these videos ranking encounters help alot! Thank you for doing amazing videos

I remember in my first Platinum Nuzlocke, I make it to the Champion Cynthia with just three pokemon remaining. And Gallade and Froslass helped me win the battle. Gallade defeated Cynthia's Spiritomb (I know crazy right?), Lucario and Milotic. And Froslass defeated her Togekiss, Garchomp and Roserade. I'm really glad that I won the final battle without using the Giratina sitting in the back (yes it was my third pokemon).

I started a Platinum nuzlocke just a few days ago so the timing of this is just *chef’s kiss*

This is perfect timing, I just started my second attempt of Platinum after losing my last one to Cynthia’s last two Pokémon. Thanks for the tips!

finally i can do a platinum nuzlocke!!!! thank you for doing this video!!! your emerald one really was so helpful for my nuzlocke of that one! I’d love to see your rankings for other regions too!!!

Cool vid! Tier lists are always fun. Having run platinum a couple of times myself, I figured I'd throw a couple things out there. For what it's worth, if you sandbag Wingull's evolution until 47, it does learn air slash. That could be useful if for whatever reason you don't pick it up until Sunnyshore or something. It lets Pelipper do some more stuff against Aaron which is cool. Also, something that's cool about Raichu is that if you pick it up as a Pichu in trophy garden, you can get nasty plot with it. That alone makes it unique among electric types in that it can set up without having to wait until and rely on charge beam.

Great video! Hope to see a bw2 tier list in the future!

You know what would be a great series to follow these up? Ranking types for mono-types on any given region/game.

You've improved greatly at making tier lists, and this one is by far your best.

It is worth mentioning that thanks to vs seeker, game corner tms are pretty accessible right off of the bat

So I did Nuzlockes of Ruby and Leaf Green using Pokémon from the C and F tiers of your tier list videos about these games. I was a bit scared that there would be no way to do this with your Platinum video, but with Beautifly in F tier, maybe Roark will be possible. So I think once I'll be done with my Ultra Sun Banlocke, I'll give this challenge a go. The selection will be pretty interesting to play with, and I'll once again prove that Lickitung/Lickilicky aren't utterly terrible! Keep up the good content!

I'm happy to see some jolteon and scyther and tentacruel praise. I used them once in fire red and can't stop using them in other games

Thank you for all the conteng Flygon! I enjoy every video and they make my day better, keep up the great work

Love these Nuzlocke tier list videos, and this is the best one yet!

Friendly and informative as always. Thank you

your vids did actually kick off a nuzlocking spree for me, so thank you!

Bro nice, I’ve been waiting for this one ☝️

Floatzel is 115 base speed whereas Mismagius is 105 base speed. You didn't need an investment in speed to outspeed it unless you have a lowering speed nature. Also he evolves just for the level cap

As psychic types are not really super useful in BDSP, Roserade with extrasensory was an amazing substitute for a psychic type. Also great for setting up toxic spikes and leech seed as well. Pretty versatile and it was a Pokemon I really liked using

I’d also like to say that Umbreon is the BEST counter to Mismagius in Fantinas gym. You have access to STAB Bite from Eevee, and it’s so specially bulky that’s there’s nothing mismagius can do to it

Very helpful. Thanks for making this!

I'm so happy to hear that Candice is the hardest Sinnoh Gym Leader. My first ever battle with her was one of the most fun battles I've ever had.

Oh wow I just started a nuzelocke of this!! Thanks for the info:)

Good list! Do another Tier list with the Unova games! :)

Thank you I needed his I was planning on doing a platinum nuzlocke after my emerald one

Hey flygon, before this vid came out, I’ve struggled with doing a platinum nuzlocke for TWO years, that’s two whole years of constant failures at fantina and endless Cyrus sweeps and making stupid mistakes because I refused to use stat boosting moves. But since this video came out, i finally beat my first nuzlocke ever and it was on the very first Pokémon game I’ve ever owned! It was a pretty lucky run honestly, came across a female combee, heracross and a burmy on my honey tree encounters, not to mention starting with an adamant infernape which was also a female, which are some crazy ass chances😂 Thanks flygon, you’re a super cool and knowledgeable guy! Keep doing awesome nuzlockes man! 🙂 If anyone wants to know my team: Arson the infernape- Machpunch, fire punch, close combat, U-turn Sheila the Gyarados: dragon dance, waterfall, payback, avalanche Pecks the staraptor: brave bird, U-turn, fly, roost Anion the jolteon: thunderbolt, thunder wave, charge bean, shadow ball Chocula the gliscor: earthquake, U-turn, swords dance, ice fang, Salad Ass the gardevoir: protect, leech seed, giga drain, and sludge bomb Thanks flygon❤

Togekiss deserves S tier in my opinion. High special attack and very bulky, especially with good EV investment. Also has a lot of useful utility moves and gets absurdly good type coverage in its TM moveset, which makes it extremely versatile and lets it cover a lot of roles in your team. Will almost never pass up the chance to have one on my team, especially in later gens when it gets fairy typing

Thank you for the videos FlygonHG! 🥰😇😁

Good stuff I like the mix up In content, maybe you could do a video like this but with types for monolockes

Awesome video dude. Really helped show me what’s valuable and what’s not… I had been going after some Pokémon in platinum nuzlockes that I shouldn’t be lol. Would you ever consider doing a video like this for Black and White 2? Love those games. You rock!

Great video, definitely made me consider some Pokemon I previously didn't bother with in Platinum nuzlockes. The only thing I would outright disagree with is Quagsire not being in at least A tier since it learns Yawn (given how good sleep strats are in Gen 4), it only having one weakness (even if it is a 4x weakness), an immunity and access to STAB Earthquake via level up. With that in mind, a tip for anyone nuzlocking Platinum, if you wait until after you get surf you can guarantee Wooper as your Great Marsh encounter. This removes the risk of getting something like Carnivine as your encounter. Also worth mentioning that Houndoom learns Faint Attack via level up, which, since it can't miss, makes it an even better answer to Candice's Froslass. Also I don't think Mean Look prevents Roar from ending the battle when you encounter Houndour. Taunt is a safer way of blocking it imo (but I'm open to correction here) Also curious where you would rank Gabite since some people ban Garchomps from their runs?

Great vid! I’d love to see this with the other gens!

Love these tier list vids!

I’m a child and you said my favorite Pokémon, Gallade, is good so I like this list Also, it would probably be a good idea to hide your webcam at the end (1:00:01) so they aren’t blocking any of the Pokémon when you do your final sweep. Great video!

0:30 you have absolutely encouraged me to start nuzlockes. I’ve never finished though

I don't really like availability affecting rankings in these tier lists, I'd mainly use them for when I have to replace a team member or do a rethink before a major battle, and at that point I think it's more useful to have a comparison of the usefulness of what encounters I did get, instead of it factoring in if I even got them.

To think this came a few days after I finished my Platinum Nuzlocke... It is great to see that most of my picks I used for E4/Champion are really good, and they really are. My team was Infernape - Crobat - Garchomp - Weavile - Tentacruel - Dusknoir (Although I used a bunch other mons in my run like Scizor, Staraptor and such, even some perished but I mostly used high tier mons in the list because I also enjoyed using them a lot) But I felt a little bit sad when you put Espeon and Glaceon into low tier because those two are my most favourite Eeveelutions. (But not gonna lie, their movesets are so mid in Gen 4, but in later gens they're done better so I hope they'll be in higher tiers in future tier lists)

Don't sleep on Glaceon, it is a really good pokemon in the very late game, which isn't too much of a delay considering you get it after the 7th gym. It has really good SPA, DEF, & SDEF with a high base stat total in general, so its ice moves hit like a truck and its pretty tanky. It's super effective against a lot of the pokemon you will encounter on Victory Road, training against Gravelers & Golbats will give you DEF & SPEED EVs. It completely bodies the first half of the elite four. Cynthia's Garchomp can't one shot it while an ice beam easily kills it being 4x super effective. It can also take out her Roserade & Togekiss.

one thing i love about weavile is that even as sneasel it mops candice's froslass bc of its decent enough spdef, high attack, and faint attack

I actually disagree with Piplup being a good mon for Roark in specific to Platinum (in BDSP it got buffed so that doesn't apply as well), only because Piplups movepool early on is absolute garbage (your best water move is 20BP Bubble, not even water gun), and Prinplup is a very so-so pokemon for the mid game (at least until you get bubblebeam), Empoleon on the other hand is an excellent pokemon, as it makes a lot of Team Galactic Fights much more manageable, especially with all the Normal/Dark/Poison moves being thrown around, not to mention it being a decent E4 pick to deal with Aaron's Drapion and Cynthia's Milotic/Spiritomb. At least you're more or less guaranteed to get either Geodude/Onyx (if not both if you got the Zubat Dupe before Oreburgh Gate) which makes Roark almost free with Rock Smash (by nature of them having high defence and resisting every move roark uses)

Here's a small trick for Platinum Nuzlockes I don't think anyone else realizes (or, at least, nobody I watch does this): You can fish up your Magikarp in Twinleaf Town. You get your starter on Lake Verity or Route 201 in the Sinnoh games, guys, and Twinleaf has a pool just outside your house.

This is perfect I just started a platinum nuzlocke and was scrolling thru yt to listen to something and I saw this. 👀

I really like the zoomed in sprites that you used.

Very useful video. Thanks lad.

Not Platinum, but in BD I had a Kricketune into a hardcore nuzlocke. He died before gym 4, but combined with silver powder, fury cutter was an absolute beast. His name was Phone, and he would sweep teams. My roomate and I had an in joke that his catchphrase "Ring ring ring, who's calling? Its death"

This is a nice-looking tier. Very useful

You definitely make me keen to try nuzlocking!

A couple things I’d like to point out: the fact that you get a free Choice Specs in Celestic Town I think automatically makes all the fast special attackers better like Alakazam, Gengar, Jolteon, Houndoom, and Porygon-Z. Second, when I did my nuzlocke, I went through the effort and got Spiritomb for my route 209 encounter and it was actually incredible. It’s very bulky especially around the point you get it, it’s good into Maylene, has sucker punch, is great into Lucian, and had a lot of overall nice utility as a pivot.

Just started an ordinary run of Brilliant Diamond, so its useful for knowing whats good, cheers!

Keep in mind half a Cynthia's team is weak to ice.

The sprites you used for the Mons were cute as heck dude.

The Spiritomb explanation was so witty it somehow doesn't cut anywhere near as much as it should. I laughed so much I was only left with a graze

loving the pk shuffle assets.

All the grass type slander makes me want to see a monotype grass nuzlocke of Platinum. Especially because imo grass types usually have really fun utility moves to work with and fun secondary typings.

Also as a tip catch Magikarp in twinleaf town not the route where you get the old rod that way you can catch a Pokémon on the other side where canalava is, gives you an extra Encounter

keep up the good work, just did a nuzelock of platinum and it went well until Cynthia... wiped to her, she's tough. my rhydon was able to tank a stab super effective earthquake from garchomp and ohko with avalanche, idk if my rhydon was just good or if that's a legit strategy but hope it helps someone.

I love the Dustox icon so so much

Love the vid. I have to ask one question though, there's no way Luxray is better than Gengar or Alakazam right? Its movepool is so ass and it's not fast enough. I would much rather a Gengar around, just to give an example

YES, I want to start nuzlocking platinum soon

I really wish Heracross was easier to get. It's my favourite pokemon and it's so hard to find in like every game.

Would you consider doing one of these for Black and White 1? I'm starting a nuzlocke in those games, and I'd be interested in hearing your opinion of the encounters.

Great video! I still feel like you need a D tier, to give some tiers room to breathe. I get not wanting to condemn useful pokemon to F tier, but Kriketune and Onix being only a single tier below Kadabra seems weird. I agree with your ordering, but B and C feel very wide.

I'm normally no one that comments on people's looks, but, man, that beard. Yo look like Richard Wagner with it... But that aside, I'm really looking forward to the video. I only nuzlocked Platinum and Briliant Diamond (on my first playthrough in both games) and I for dome reason only fondly remember Don Abraxasm the Honchcrow in BD and Yttrium, my HM mule Giratina in Platinum. And it was really only use out of battle. Wonder if some memorie will come back while watching.

Quick question, what does the HG in FlygonHG stand for?

plz make one on the best nuzlocke abilities!

In my first nuzlocke witch was in platinum I lost my Luxray to Candice's Frosslas so I decided to replaced it with an ice type for garchomp, so I took glaceon and it was an MVP, he survive an atack from garchomp and then one shot it, even manage to do some damage to the milotic. And let me add that he didnt have evs bc i didnt know about evs back then. So proud of my glaceon, since that day I change my mind about thinking is the worst eeveelution.

Confession: I had a perfectly good Crobat and still took an Ambipom to the Elite Four for emotional reasons. He was an HM mule, Pickup mon and general mascot turned into “real” encounter. He had a Jolly nature and I just really enjoyed using him. But at the time, I wasn’t using hardcore rules and was able to heal in battle. It was my first Nuzlocke and I was more concerned with “is three too many Flying types?” than I was with “oh right, Crobat is significantly better than Ambipom in every conceivable way.” But regardless, I had a lot of fun using Loki as a U-Turn pivot and fast lead. He had Return, U-Turn, Shadow Claw and Dig. I guess he was better into Lucian than Crobat would’ve been - but he still wasn’t really that good. Oh well. Hats off to you, Loki the Ambipom. You were a lot of fun.

gonna have to call out your placement of raichu. If you get it as a pichu, nasty plot and charm will allow for crazy set ups. Swept Cyrus with it. Maybe not S tier but definitely A tier.

If you can get kriketune to gardenia, it will sweep her - I’ve done it both in platinum and BDSP. Fury cutters a way better move than you give it credit for specifically in that fight because turtwig is literally meant for set up, and it can usually outspeed anything else on her team.

I love Cherrim. One of my proudest accomplishments is sweeping Bertha (minus Gliscor) with a Cherrim in platinum :)

I recently completed my first nuzlocke in platinum, I made a couple of early mistakes that ended up really hurting in the long run. I chose Piplup as my starter because it was my favorite, although Chimchar is the better choice. It didn't really matter either way since I lost my starter to the first gym to a critical Pursuit when I tried to switch them out. The second mistake was losing my Luxio to commander Mars after a critical Scratch from her Purugly. I didn't find another electric type until victory road. Ended up losing that nuzlock to a critical Dragon Rage from Cynthia's Garchomp. It was a one hit to my Gastrodon who was my only real answer to it. All in all though it was a ton of fun.

Platinum hardcore nuzlocke with the C and F tier Pokémon when?

LOVE these videos. We need some more platinum runs, Cynthia is a great champion.

Yes Dr. Flygon content

38:52 "I've never been so ofended with something I 100% agree with"

Great list!

I would love to see a Johto one, especially considering most people hate on the roster aside from a handful of stand-outs