At least the later games will have less required HMs lol.

Why not just keep the egg in the pc so it doesn’t count ?

this video was so good, love your editing and narration! the custom HM icons were also really fun

Why not use the charmander and Magikarp combination to make the total of different numbers smaller 🤔

The intro is only accurate for the English speaking fan base I know a creature in a different language that did the least perfect save file meaning catching the least amount and also encounter the least amount

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if you do do min pokedex completion and correct your clickbait, then please also actually do every game in the franchise instead of every region in every gen

Nice vids

if you teach charizard fly, you don't need to worry about the softlock

Similar to this challenge is ChaoticMeatball’s Franchiselocke

Food for thought..couldn't you just not hatch the gift eggs? Since they cant be used in battle or registered in anything untill hatched, techically you arent using a Pokemon and you could just box the egg.

You can ignore the monkeys but it makes the first gym hard however that's one less Pokemon for BW

Bro is going to hate the mandatory Pokémon in gen 6

for the first 6 games ENOUGH to have enough HM moves so Gen 3 and 5 are really the only ones you can SOLO Starter the game with via starting with Mudkip and the Gold/Silver Remake with Solo Tododile/Feraligator.

Isn’t the smallest amount of Pokémon just your starter Pokémon + all mandatory gifted Pokémon + necessary hm slaves

How many pokemon are required to beat Colosseum and XD: Gale of Darkness? 2 for both?

I'm fairly certain if you played Sapphire you wouldn't need to take Casform... Oh nvm you immediately say that 😂

These videos are great! I'm so glad that you're making them!

Mudkip in these kind of runs is instead godkip with how good it is in any emeralds challenge run

really good content, good shit, keep up the great work :)

I immediately knew that atleast 2 pokemon were required without glitches because gen 4 requires 5 hm's in victory road.

Actually Chaotic Meatball did a thing where they cannot use repeats of pokemon to beat the games.

Fun fact, if it wasnt for that castform, you could beat the game with just mudkip registered in your pokedex by trading the Wynaut egg to a friend! It WOULD HAVE let you go through the entire ending cutscene with just one picture

yes!! part 2!

Ayyyyy he’s back

Overall great video. Ive been waiting since the moment I finished the first one. I can't wait for the next installment in the series. Keep up the great work

good video

Is it just me or is there an error in your editing where you show the glitchless pokemon count at times where you're trying to show the glitches included one? It's nothing big obviously but you can see it here 8:37 for example

Damn i didn't even consider the double battles in my comment on part 1. Great job skipping that too kek

Helping flesh out some theorycrafting for different challenges I've been working on...

Loving this series so far 💜

XY are going to add at least 4 pokemon being kalos starter, kanto starter, lucario, and box legendary

What about Pokemon Coloseum and XD? Legends Arceus?

What if you did mor than just the mainline games? What about spin-offs? There ard Three games that Game Freak & the Pokemon Company might have considered Mainline that you're Dismissing, Like Legends Arceus.

Yes I’ve been waiting for this!

Her: What's your body count? Him: Glitchless or not?

I really appreciate you addressing a lot of the good points in the comments of the last vid, and having solid reasoning as to why it won't work. I sure hope stuff like trading does come in handy, like trading a HM slave over for a forced trade or something. Good to know you've got it all on your mind

Haha, nice. Yeah, your Sinnoh route was more efficient than mine, I forgot you could tweak to ride under Mr "There's a power outage!!!" and skip Mt Cornet that way. I forgot just how many times the game forces you to get pokemon for double or triple battles.

Funfact: There is a way to not catch Reshiram in Pokémon black and it instead be waiting in the dragon spiral tower after you became champion. But to achieve this you party and all of your PC boxes have to be full...

Love this concept.

Another great video! Can't wait to see more of these!

For minimum dex entries in BW1, you could get the starter and fill the entire PC with Patrats, skipping catching the legendary

I don't think this would have helped with anything yet, but trading could help avoid needing more pokemon for HMs. If you only need Cut at the start of the game and Surf at the end, and no starter gets both, you could pick a starter that learns Cut and trade it for a pokemon that learns Surf later on (if the game lets you, I think some of them require you have more than one pokemon to trade).

Love this series! And love the high production value! Keep it up!

Starting to notice just how OP the water starters seem to be for these runs

Couldn’t you trade a gen one mon to gen two for togetic and cut gyarados?

Really odd Team Galactic is against a 2 on 1 Pokemon but that makes little sense in-game why would the villains be against it when they're trying to create a new world & destroy this one

Wait isnt the sinnoh victory road uses 5 hms if i not mistaken

you need to hack the games to truly do this for example give your self a craby in gen 1 and its your only pokemon that would be truly doing the challange

For future videos I think it would be good to have a separate count for with or without glitches. Also, BW and BW2 are more than different enough that they ought to both be included! Sinnoh games are notorious for requiring a lot of HMs, but Empoleon can use all except Fly... unfortunately, I'm pretty sure climbing Mt. Coronet for the final Team Galactic confrontation still requires at least 5 of them in one go. I think Togepi gets forced on you again in Platinum, and there's a Happiny egg in DP that might or might not be required, but both learn at least one required HM to pick up the slack for Empoleon. So DPPt are at a solid - and surprisingly low - 2 Pokemon required without glitches. (And probably only one with them, since the void glitch is so broken and all.) HGSS have some slight differences from Silver... While they do let Feraligatr learn all the required HMs, they give you both that same Togepi once again *and* a gift Dratini from the Dragon's Den, which I'm pretty sure is forced if you don't have a full party. So it evens out to three, same as Gold and Silver. (Though still better than Crystal, which with that same Dratini would have 4.) BW tries to persuade you to pick up a gift monkey before the first gym, but you can also just... not do that. And since Cut is the only HM that's actually necessary, it can be soloed with either Snivy or Oshawott... up until you're forced to catch the box legendary right at the very end. So the real total will be two. For BW2 I'm not sure what HMs are strictly necessary, but Samurott can learn all of them except for Fly, so... once again water-type-starter sweep? Unless you're forced to take Zorua, catch a legendary, or use all five HMs to get through a single area, it'll be one. Could be two or three depending on those other factors, but my lack of knowledge on this game has confounded me. For XY, Froakie can once again learn all the required HM moves, and there are even few enough to fit in one single moveset. But, a Kanto starter is given to you with no way around it, along with once again being forced to catch the box legend to progress. You can actually turn down the gift Lucario though, so three should be it! ORAS should be mostly the same as RSE, except that they give you two legendaries (Latias/Latios and Kyogre/Groudon depending on your version), so the total goes up to four. If you want to complete the post-game Delta Episode, it's five with Rayquaza. And then after that HMs become a non-issue, but there's still more forced gift Pokemon and legendary captures. Sun and Moon have the starters and box legend which adds up to two, but USUM add a Poipole for three. SWSH make you catch Eternatus, so that's two in total as well. I've never played SV and have absolutely no idea what's required, if there's any weird checks or if you get the box legend before or after beating the game, so can't weigh in on that. So at a glance, it looks like BW2 are the only games with a chance of doing a true glitchless solo run. I've likely missed a lot in this analysis, but here's hoping it pans out!