The Most Brutal Tutorial Bosses in Nintendo History 

Who gave the already GOATed Johto Gym Leader access to a Legendary?!

I'd have probably chosen Brock in Yellow version but you've been smarter than me 😂

I'll explain Falkner's team in Round 2, All of his pokemon except Gligar have Mud-Slap, Also his Pidgeot, Skarmory and Zapdos have Sky Attack. Zapdos uses a combination of Mud-Slap + Bright Powder to mess up Rock Types trying to hit it with Rock Slide which it's accuracy is 90% Skarmory has a Quick Claw, meaning it can unexpectedly strike first and even mess up your pokemon with Mud-Slap. Charizard holds a Scope Lens, increasing its critical hit chance, a fun fact it has 2 Ground moves, Earthquake and Mud-Slap. The rest isn't as good, Pidgeot holds a PRZCureBerry, Dodrio holds a Miracle Berry and Gligar holds a Focus Band Haze can deal with the Accuracy drops, Aerodactyl seems a good choice against Falkner if it has Hidden Power Rock (Ancient Power PP's may be short but with 3 PP ups it has 8 PP, the 10% secondary effect chance helps in any situation), however it can't deal with Zapdos since it will take serious damage from a single Thunderbolt due to its flying type, you can use your own Zapdos that has Thunder Wave, Hidden Power Ice and Whirlwind to cripple it.

Now why i see why to use awift more often

Looks impossible on Switch especially when stuck with rental with awful movesets IV and EV

In fairness, Mud-Slap is a weak attack, so its only real purpose is to lower the target's accuracy.

There are enough moves that bypass accuracy checks at this point

@@dylancross1039 There’s actually a lot less than you’d think. If we aren’t counting signature moves like Flower Trick or moves that need specific conditions like Blizzard then there’s only around 13 attacking moves that can’t miss. A lot of these moves are on the weaker side too like Shock Wave so they’re not always worth using.

Me too. I always stuck in that boss level because i can't press the A button so fast so it true that piranha plant is the hard one in Mario party DS. I even ask my brother to help me to mask the A button

Me too but tbf I always sucked at mashing buttons minigames so I just assumed it was my skill issue

Nah, it requires better mashing than basically anything else in the game, ALL the other bosses are so much easier

I almost could not beat that boss until I used a technique that helped me beat it (btw I used the practice mode to my advantage) I set my DS on a flat surface and mashed the buttons as hard as I can. I succeeded!

Oh god that back memories so hard. I still have the game. I remember finally beating that thing it was the best moment for me as a child

In fairness, this is R2 Falkner.

Harder than modern Pokemon superbosses

​@@Gojira453 Except it's cheap, bullshit difficulty.

U will hate a lot Erika rematch, adn the 5th gym, both were so evil

I totally agree, man! They're even harder than the first boss! I wish Game Freak just give us a mainline pokemon game that is not too easy!

​@@insertmemehere0diamond and pearl remakes elite 4.

Your smart

Even if you do decide to allow it, there is a difference between "First time player decided to play on the hardest difficulty" and "In order to access this difficulty, you must beat the game first". Round 2 Falkner is not a Tutorial Boss.

And sometimes the first boss isn't always the easiest boss.

At least when it's a locked difficulty that you get access to by beating the game on Hard. That solodifies that it's not going to be your first boss encounter in that game.

Dont forget the game laughting at ur face. Fissure hitting still is something else

@@fandenovelas777 And what can feel even more infuriating is knowing that 1-hit KO attacks used to only work when the user's current speed is higher than the target's current speed. But as of the 2nd generation, they can hit, regardless of speed, but not if the target's level is higher than that of the user.

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Just from that gameplay I feel emotional, physical and mental pain

If you don't have Faint Attack or something that's immune to Mud-Slap, you're in for a long day. And sadly, Zapdos's presence makes the predicament even worse, since unless you have a Gligar, it'll send your Flying-types to their grave very quickly.

They really embody the annoyance of birds. That’s why Tsubame Gaeshi exists

Especially when you're using Funky Kong

Playing the original was the first time I had ever really raged at a game

Well, it's still a lot harder than your typical 3-hit Mario boss (which definitely shouldn't be the difficulty standard, but here we are) Plus, it seems to be ranked on how hard it gets on a higher difficulty, and because Tropical Freeze has a hard mode it makes it a lot more challenging.

You'd be amazed by how significant the difficulty becomes when playing in Hard Mode. Take damage even once, and you have to redo the entire boss battle from the very beginning, and those very bosses take 3x more hits to defeat than your typical Super Mario series boss.

​@@timothypitcher7996 thats just the first 3 dkc games

Aztec is ez bud

@@chris1229sonic if you grinded, that is.

@@alvaroperez2349 nah sorry but skill issue tbh

@@chris1229sonic I managed to beat him by hugging the wall, *and he has a counter for it.*

@@alvaroperez2349 okey cool

Hence why I have a few no miss moves on at least 2 pokemon in my team

Oh, the whole game is a nightmare. I stopped playing cause I couldn’t beat mirage mansion.

I remember in an update there was an option where if you lost several times, they'd allowed you to use your special attack at any time, with no refill. This was the ONLY way I was able to beat the story mode.

In Red and Blue you can just use Butterfree. Rock moves? Nope, Brock only has Tackle as a damaging move, Tackle... Anything with Growl is basically unlikable (like Charmander) Anything learns a STAB special move is gonna out damage his Pokémon (like Charmander) His Onix is an absolute joke btw, the only Pokémon I can think of that can't defeat his Onix, is a Magikarp.

@@TunaBear64 in red and blue, the only mon with neutral damage is indeed butterfree’s Confusion against brock, the only problem with caterpie, it’s a 5% encounter rate in red

In FR/LG Charmander learns Metal Claw early on, which is Super Effective against Onix. Even so, Onix has really high defense but its other stats are pathetic, so you can just as well spam STAB Ember and it will still do some damage and occasionally waste Brocks turn, healing off burn. Also Brocks moveset is just awful in Red and Blue. But in Pokémon Yellow it's a different story. Pikachu can legit do nothing to it, but lower its stats, since quick attack only deals like 1 damage and it learns it's next best move Slam at level 20. So you have to use another Pokémon for Brock. Mankey can be caught at Lv. 5 and learns Low kick at Lv. 9. Both Nidoran learn Double Kick at Lv. 12. Butterfree learns Confusion as soon as it evolved at Lv. 10. These 4 are basically your only consistent options, but a new player would still have to figure this out (you'd likely ditch Butterfree and Mankey at some point, since they have a tough time in the late game). Also Onix now knows Bind, which in Gen. 1 is just unfair. Plus you cannot purchase Potions before Brock.

yknow, if you're an idiot who willingly picks the worst starter in the series. (there i said it.)

What do you mean by that?

We love to see continuation 🔥🔥🔥🔥

@@crabbycakey fr bro 🔥🔥🔥🔥

This is round 2 tho

This is only the case in round 2, but even in round 1, Falkner uses the Mud-Slap strategy to irritate players.

There are wild Lv. 5 Mankey at the same route where Rival 1a is located. It learns Low Kick at Lv. 9

Isn't he way worse in red/blue?

@@JoelHernandez-tz3vk no because pokemon yellow you dont get a choice of starter, stuck with pikachu who can do literally nothing to geodude and onyx

@skygazer419 I was going to mention specifically how screwed you are if you pick Charmander. However, Charmander can at least DAMAGE Brock's Pokémon with ember and take advantage of their low sp Def that way. Pikachu has no such luxury. Thus likely forcing you into getting a Mankey for the purpose of defeating him.

@@JoelHernandez-tz3vk yup though personally i tihnk yellow has different spawns because i dont remember ever seeing a mankey anywhere early game

And one can probably understand why after the 2nd generation, move animations will only occur when they DO hit their target; it saves time.

Easy under normal circumstances, but Hard Mode does make it so that one mistake equals having to redo the fight from the very beginning.

I still have nightmares about FIRE ARRRRRM.

Cough dark nebula cough.

Ok, I got the reference finally. You confused me for a sec

Well technically is the tutorial for the hard battles 8and it does good job showing the next BS that will happen, specially Team Rocket minions and gym 3 to 5

Miltank being so early into the game really only gave you like 2 fighting types that you could use, but also… why does it have rollout

@@thedaedricdragon921 *sigh* To be honest, I don't know anymore. =__=;

@@dannyemory6261 what makes it worse is that I’m pretty sure in the remakes they give the miltank a lum berry as wel, so don’t even think about giving it an effect

@@thedaedricdragon921 Okay. Thanks for the heads-up. ^^;

It is lol I beat it in normal first try

How did I miss that while editing AND proofwatching the video

@@NintenUnitylol rip

Cancer?

@@JJLarge "Cheap" or "BS" if you prefer.