6 Streamers DRAFT Pokémon for a Nuzlocke Race

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Streamed on January 20th, 2023

[@simonboeskov6343]

You should have Jan join with all the rejected mons

[@gabrielzavala4009]

Fr tho let him cook

[@beerypollens]

Absolutely

[@BB_92006]

That's just evil and I love it 😈

[@SethPlayz72]

Let him cook

[@yomigg72]

brilliant, someone send him his

[@theforgettableartist2541]

1:09:17 the idea of failboat mid race grinding for a shiny caterpie is currently living in my head rent free and jobless rn

[@MonochroMelon]

Failboat moment

[@aggapuffin]

I'm surprised Sneasel took so long to get picked despite the Physical/Special split existing. His stats are better than a lot of the Johto picks before him.

[@Zwow007]

Yeah but also sneasel is built like paper defensively gets bodied by the 1st gym,2nd gym, 4th gym, 5th gym and 7th gym and probably isn't strong enough to 1 hit kill anything

[@talanking9]

Fake out icicle crash or triple crash

[@footur3179]

@@talanking9 1: Triple Axel. 2: I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure this was based off gen 7 which that move doesn't exist in

[@mangosteak]

your best attacks are shadow ball and return. Both of which you need to spend tms on

[@mangosteak]

@@talanking9 Icicle crash and trippe axel do not exist yet. Icicle Crash is a gen 5 egg move and Tripple Axel a gen 8 tutor move. Fake out is an egg move for sneasel. Last but not least the two ice movea would be special and therefore usless even if they existed

[@hiddenpowerbug]

Dodrio not being chosen is crazy when it’s such a fast attacker

[@Kyro4Productions]

jaiden took it last pick

[@hiddenpowerbug]

@@Kyro4Productions FACT

[@Zwow007]

Doduos fast but gets outclassed in many of the gyms except the 2nd one so it's better to choose stuff that will either hit like a truck or be bulky enough to take a hit or 2

[@jaspernemo1825]

Yes, it's really good and even gets swords dance with gen 7 move learn set.

[@Vincrand]

@Jack Walker Chansey does no damage. It's great for nuzlocke, because it doesn't die and you just win the war of attrition. However in this case they race against the clock. So Chansey suddenly becomes one of the worst pokémon.

[@theufua]

Actually hella surprised that Exploud got overlooked. Not that I'd pick him early, but he is a relatively solid Normal-type to have, just in case. Better than some meme picks.

[@footur3179]

Imo Exploud is kinda dog. It doesn't outspeed a lot and basically whatever Exploud does, most normal types do it better. Rattata, Tailow, Linoone, Tauros

[@azeria1]

I want to like exploud it has the move pool but the stats just bring it down

[@fightingfitz214]

Exploud is good but Whismur and Loudred are soo bad

[@footur3179]

@@fightingfitz214 In a race when you want to go fast and hit hard, no not really

[@mjm3091]

Swellow technically is worse unless they are going for revised stats as well. As if got better over the years. I wouldn't call Exploud a dog though. It's range is extreme, especially as it is a mixed attacker with broad move poll and strong STAB moves. Not to mention the bulk. And it is immune to some of the more annoying moves like Sing, Supersonic, Perish Song and a lot of stat lowering moves. It gets all elemental beams, Hyper Beam and Overheat.

[@xenophacilus5895]

Bulba, Poli, Lax... CJYA's using Pokemon Adventures Red strats here

[@WearingGoldluck]

Grimer, Goldeen, Kabuto (Battle Armor), Poocheyena (Intimidate), and Exploud all going undrafted is kinda wild to me, those are 5 really good budget mons.

[@y2jacob1]

Technician Persian

[@WearingGoldluck]

@@y2jacob1 I did not know that Persian could get technician, it probably falls in the same tier as Exploud, Muk, and Mightyena as pokemon that would’ve been great picks in the last round or two of their regions. Its low Atk is the only thing that keeps it down and its poor matchups with the first few gyms would reduce its effectiveness, but it’d be great for the first few rival battles.

[@_stealth_313]

Don’t forget about Masquerain, another intimidate user

[@PersonOfRandomnesss]

Tinted Lens Venomoth too

[@qq4094]

1:40:15 imma be real, i was listening to this in the background and had to do a quick double take on that

[@Sarah04527]

This was such a good stream to watch live. Anyone watching this is in for a treat!

[@irbest6148]

I'm amazed that Sneasel was the last row for Johto, huge sleeper pick, and actually really good stats for a single evo in Johto

[@exi_m7074]

It gets bodied by half the gyms though. Ice has like 5 weaknesses. Plus since it’s Ice/Dark Brawly absolutely destroys it.

[@MrSpenfo]

Yeah, and its way better than it normally is because of physical/special split. It can actually take advantage of both its typing and its better attacking stat.

[@CaptainKiddYT]

Sneasel sucks

[@mjm3091]

Not if it gets gen 3 moveset. It has nothing aside being the fastest Taunter. Edit: They fully used gen 7 data, but Sneasel's moveset isn't the greatest without some major Egg and Tutor moves. It's worthless aside Taunting Winona's Altaria. You would do better by picking Swinub, Smochum or even Delibird.

[@hiddenpowerbug]

not great for the half of the gyms and gets outclassed in stats by the e4

[@alton6895]

im surprised slowpoke was such a late pick, it's ridiculously strong especially with regenerator

[@notgrumm]

No regenerator in Gen 3 sadly, but it’s still pretty good. Especially cuz slowbro prob learns slack off by level up

[@efrengonzalez5638]

@@notgrumm correct me if I'm wrong but they have gen 7 abilities

[@notgrumm]

Yeah you right. In that case they just kinda fumbled the bag

[@despawnme9154]

They took so long to take tangela too, feel like theyve just never played pokemon fr

[@phoenixwright784]

Slowbro/king are pretty great 'mons, but if I recall slowpoke evolves pretty late into bro who I'd imagine is the evolution that they'd go for since Bro is usually better than king. Couple that with it being, well, slow when they're trying to race and I think it's a bit more understandable why they held off on him. Gardevoir is my favorite pokemon and is pretty fantastic but I'd probably have held off on her since Ralts is pretty trash and you're stuck with Ralts until lv 20 which seems kinda no bueno for a Nuzlock. She also level ups slowly which would make her even more of a pain in a nuzlock. A pick that I think they shouldn't have overlooked despite kinda going against the fact that they are in a race is Chansey. She isn't a mon that they'd want to actually fight with, but she'd be a good panic button special attack sponge to switch into and maybe save some other more important pokemon. Also once they got to the bottom of the barrel picks Seviper may have been an okay pick since it does have decent mixed offensive stats

[@joshmcdonald1141]

Love how the Pokémon nuzlocke community is growing. So much fun content these days from great streamers/tubers

[@hax_m76]

Chat having insanely dumb ideas and Alpha immediately calling them out for it is always hilarious lol

[@MrCruelest]

Of the mons left over, there's some value picks for sure. Whismer isn't horrid. Grimer is tanky. Early Dustox can be good. Seviper hits pretty hard. Solrock and Lunatone have some value.

[@kyleravensbergen385]

You forgot quiver dance venomoth

[@oskarbremer5406]

Solrock and lunatone have levitate and quite good stats early game

[@Hyperneosonic97]

Exploud can use Scrappy Boomburst. Extremely damaging neutral hit on everything, since the only gym leader/e4 who resists is Roxanne, who you face LONG before the Whismur line acquires Boomburst.

[@owenaspinall2046]

@@kyleravensbergen385 Doesn´t it also get Compound Eyes sleep powder?

[@PersonOfRandomnesss]

@@owenaspinall2046 No, but it does get Tinted Lens

[@amindformadness]

Draft Nuzlocke race is a really cool format. Been doing them for over a year with some friends on my channel. There are a lot of variations and twists you can do.

[@TeamAquaLeaderArchy]

How do u do this? My friends and i habe drafted our mons but idk how to input them into the game

[@amindformadness]

@@TeamAquaLeaderArchy We do it a bit different than this video. We draft in multiple rounds throughout the run, by route or groups of routes. We either use the mons that are in the unmodified game, or randomize the game if we want to mix it up. I wrote a Python tool to parse the universal randomizer logs so we can keep the randomized draft pools secret. Sometimes we set specific starters, but we don't set every encounter that would take a lot of time to set up. There are romhacking tools you can use to manually edit encounter tables, but those are usually specific to particular games.

[@kyleravensbergen385]

Venonat is an insane sleeper pick that I'm surprised wasn't pick, quiver dance is the ultimate hail Mary if shit goes sour in the endgame

[@MinMin4theWinWin]

I'm surprised captain kidd didn't choose SQUIRTLE!

[@Smashfan258]

Guess Treecko is just too good

[@geniusx4473]

If you guys do this again you should assign every pokemon a point value and have there be a max point value. E.g Snorlax is 18 points Corsola is 3 points. And your draft can only go to max 250 points. Theres a popular pokemon format that called draft that is played like this.

[@mr.beatsmachine]

I’m happy to report that I remained thoroughly engaged with this video despite not exactly knowing what to expect This was a cool idea and I’d 100% watch more of just funny cool KZbinrs sitting down to pick teams from a tier list

[@TungstenArm]

It boggles my mind that Growlithe stayed on the board that long

[@caseyleirer9677]

I love this idea so fucking much that I’m not even waiting for the edit.

[@rainblue4789]

Yaki sticks out so much compared to everyone else who's just super chill, it's so funny

[@yourmother4385]

I'd like to see all the major PokeTubers pick a Custom pokemon to do a IronMan Kaizo run and race to see who wins

[@emocamo]

This video got a TON of engagement, are you working on doing something similar to this in the near future? I think the draft idea is ingenious and I would love to see how strategy evolves for future races, even different formats or generations. Maybe add bans? Who knows?

[@abryn6864]

I'd love to see a gen 4 or 5 take.

[@DJSpocktimus]

Re: the chat getting mad about Murkrow still being on the board: "You guys watch WAY too much Wolfey Glick" 🤣

[@fellowkrieger457]

Loved the draft, it is a really cool concept for a challenge based run.

[@owenaspinall2046]

Ninjask with substitute speed boost swords dance baton pass is insane for Juan and e4 by making any physical attacker very strong and VERY fast

[@DarkIceKrabby]

Jacob and Jaiden "I don't have flying types" Also Jacob and Jaiden: has Dragonite and Salamence respectively

[@jamesgray658]

tbf those aren't flying types until they hit their final evo at levels 55 and 50, that's not until almost the end of the game

[@fellowkrieger457]

They are very late game flying types.

[@anthonykeown416]

Well Jaiden also picked zubat, hoothoot, and natu

[@619Slipk]

Biggest draft steal was that Ninjask going so late. You guys probably don't know the manace of Focus sash > Swords dance > Speed boost > Baton Pass Pass that to a Moxie Salamence and it's basically an auto sweep button

[@owenaspinall2046]

I'd say substitute instead of sash

[@Sith-bb6tq]

I am struggling to believe that nobody sook meowth or paras in gen 1. Meowth has stab, technician boosted fakeout with a fairly high speed stat and paras has spore and effect sport along with decent bulk

[@owenaspinall2046]

Spore as early as Wattson split

[@goignaar]

So if yall do this again based on who wins and in what order people finish it would be a cool idea to seed everyone and then next draft 6th seed gets to pick a gen and that gen they get to pick first then give 5th seed an option of whats left and do that for the 3rd through 6th seeds with Starter, Gen 1, Gen 2, Gen 3 as options

[@owenaspinall2046]

So seed 6 would presumably be CJ, taking Gen 3 (objectively best pick), then Yaki (Gen 1), Failboat (Gen 2), Jaiden (Starter), Jacob (Extras), Brayden (Nothing)

[@anthonykeown416]

„I don’t have any flying types so I’ll take Doduo“ Zubat, Hoothoot, Natu, and [eventually] Salamence: are we jokes to you?

[@ETLettuce]

The way they slept on girafarig and sneasel shocks me goddamn

[@Mikhail-Kuhn]

Cyndaquil not being first overall is a tragedy

[@washyourhands]

I guess I'm cheering for failboat, man's got 4 of my top 5 pokemon

[@MrDegan2]

Real talk. My entier strat for this would have been crit. And thus I would take super luck absol pick one and smile while doing it

[@BoneTea]

Mmm super luck night slash STAB

[@beaksters]

The fact shedinja wasn’t picked round 1 surprises me… retrospect they’re going for speed and don’t have time to look at every opponents teams before battles so I guess it makes sense now.

[@Nearo92]

Mind blown that intimidate Growlithe was one of the last picks.

[@owenaspinall2046]

Honestly, I think flash fire Growlithe could be a genuine consideration. Fire types have at best niche value in Hoenn, super effective on 7 total boss fight pokemon, but having Flash Fire makes a fire type amazing for Flannery, arguably one of the hardest fights because even a resisted +1 sun stab fire move does big damage and Torkoal can't really touch you outside of neutral non-stab body slam.

[@JJroks543]

Anyone have the link to this tier list? I wanna try and do this with my friends.

[@colton8171]

Cant believe no one was going for iron fist hitmonchan. With the elemental punches, its great coverage

[@alonsovenegas4444]

I love how everyone is pooping on Gen 2 when I see Aipom there. I felt like Aipom would have been good.

[@emilysmith2965]

Aipom is a sweet little guy with Technician Fake Out and access to a fast U-Turn. Yes it would’ve been good

[@Zwow007]

@@emilysmith2965 can't learn U-turn naturally needs a tm which means it would be kinda useless since they are playing gen 3 with gen 3 tms

[@owenaspinall2046]

It is one of only 2 to get skill link, but nothing it gets is 100% accurate

[@lawrencemarquez5007]

Still shocked that no one actually picked Chansey, Blissy is such an amazing pokemon and can give you the bulk you need in a nuzlock

[@Tysadowoodo]

They were doing a race though. They’re good for nuzlockes in general but if you’re prioritizing speed it’s probably not ideal

[@melindamuller4466]

I'm surprised Jaiden didn't pick Lileep early, she still needed a grass type

[@chaseross8900]

Bagon falling to the second round is insane

[@user-gr9kh2jv2f]

Banger stream

[@darthrighty]

Guy like me would've given Seviper some love

[@agent00puffball]

Surprised Whismur and Grimer went unpicked. Absolute value sleepers, especially late in the draft.

[@trijim9485]

Poocheyena and Carvanha we’re definitely slept on

[@SJMan2022]

This video is HYPE

[@roxxel4312]

ok so whimsicott is my all-time favorite pokemon and that opening made my week

[@insomniacnerd5592]

Pokémon Challenges next video is going to be an Emerald Playthrough with all of the stinkers.

[@dylanwinters8257]

Literally a travesty that Krabby wasn't drafted at all. Kingler has speed and has a decent move pool lol

[@joshmccan]

at 10 mins that song bloody hits

[@jordandavenport5784]

It’s funny, my cousin, brother and I did a basic race once with this concept. Except we traded eggs to the new saves.

[@kaneprice4801]

i dead ass sat here for an hour to which the product of the draft just to find out its gonna be in a seperate video

[@Kotenekrazy]

This is such a cool idea

[@DarkIceKrabby]

Also y'all slept on Shell Armor Kingler

[@Average2228]

“Wait guys let me cook” “their cookin, let them cook” not one person in this call actually uses their kitchen

[@jameskelly-smith1279]

It's always sunny in Failidelphia.

[@frankhoey2454]

Adaptability crawdaunt is cracked and very slept on

[@genuineangusbeef8697]

Nobody took Spoink :( Assuming exp groups are around its super good as a value pick, only really rivaled by Azu among fast EXP mons.

[@Zwow007]

they rare candy pilled exp dont matter

[@Kento300]

I mean they have rare candies they said so fast exp gain isn't really needed.

[@eaglest0554]

Can't believe Jacob stole Jaiden's dillydoo right at the end.

[@AJTower_]

This stream slapped

[@corbincorp9053]

I'm amazed for the 1st few picks no one did imposter ditto

[@yungmercury]

very cool concept

[@LoudWaffle]

Cjay picking Unown and having no idea why he's being asked what hidden power type he wants it to have... lmao

[@jacobpullen6949]

Protean Kecleon would go crazy

[@Dj360Judgement]

I'd watched fire emblem draft races before, so I know we're in for a good time

[@Quinnsula5]

Something is wrong on the video the listed game for this video in the info is fire emblem three house lol

[@mothmyszalgo]

surprised boat didn't take Solrock or Lunatone not only for the sun team but to be 2 out of the 3 times in his intros "goodnight and good morning"

[@SiO2yballs]

I’m depressed about Grimer. It was neutered cause of the split. And it doesn’t get a stab physical till gunk shot hurts. Love Grimer in Gen 3

[@midnamagic2678]

Chancey could have been used as a meat shield to heal your other teammates. Just stick it in the back of your team in case you need to switch and heal your good attackers.

[@LrhAstern]

The reason no one chose Chansey is because this was a Nuzlocke race. Chansey wastes so much time in these races because of its defences. Also this is a hardcore Nuzlocke, so no healing items allowed in battle

[@midnamagic2678]

@@LrhAstern ah, nvm then

[@miyazonoma]

surprised masquerain with intimidate and quiver dance wasn't mentioned ngl

[@dilemmawhatson]

I hopped out of the stream to Instagram scrolled to a Master Oogway meme “what’s Pokédex No56? Monkey” then hopped back into the stream as CJ said Mankey. That coincidence messed me up

[@gaelreceiver]

Will the actual series be on KZbin?

[@ElperDIDO26]

Honestly in shock neither Jacob not CJ took swift swim Armaldo, that thing has really good attack stat and ancient power...

[@shrapt3528]

kabutops is a good swift swim mon too.

[@Hazy_Fforest]

Is your ruleset for this public anywhere if I wanted to do this with my friends?

[@chloeligma3883]

delibird isnt actually that bad in hoenn because it gets hustle plus stab aerial ace

[@Zwow007]

gets bodied by half the gyms still whats delibird gonna do against the first 5 gyms lol maybe do well against the 2nd gym but thats only if its O-KO's everything

[@owenaspinall2046]

At absolute best it's an ice beamer for Winona and a sack

[@ryderryan3685]

Don’t know how this whole thing works ability wise (if there are abilities from later gens), but I was expecting a Sheer Force Krabby/Kingler and it was just never picked. I’m genuinely surprised it wasn’t picked, even as a last pick. It might be a glass canon with poor SpD and HP in both krabby and it’s evo, but with a 105 and 130 Atk stat respectively with a 30% boost to most of it’s lvl up moves, it can be a power house. Only downside is very little physical STAB, but with HM for dive late game and Crabhammer) at 41 for krabby and 56 for kingler (neither affected by sheer force though).

[@owenaspinall2046]

Too slow and frail

[@TheFirstFoxx]

Lightning rod Seaking got slept on hard and didn't get picked.

[@mystich3340]

Love how jaidens vtuber is infront of the gates of heaven

[@robfowler3823]

Is there a way to access the ROM?

[@The_Davester]

So happy to see my favorite pokemon tangela be the final pick! Poggers

[@willasplin8347]

No one brought up Poochyena or Masquerain with Intimidate which can make some fights pretty trivial

[@TheHeheonil]

8:30 music starts and i'm thinking - who we will sac this time?!

[@kemosabe409]

was saying tangela the entire time then last pick of the draft lets gooooooooooo

[@EchoCasseopia]

I didn't realize Mawile gets Sheer Force. Play Rough, Iron Head & Crunch from it would be insane. Like, I know it only has base 85 attack, but still

[@someguyonline321]

Not going to lie i am currently in the middle of trying to complete a hardcore no grind emerald nuzlock and my answer for both of the second gym and Norman's slaking wasnt picked. As soon as dustox learns protect in the late teens, he smokes slaking with poison sting and confusion

[@TheSgtSoap]

What tier list did you use for this?

[@RagutosWorld]

How a kangaskhan with so much bulk and speed wasn't picked faster.

[@Manks2]

Chansey not getting drafted is wild to me

[@albevanhanoy]

Okay so up to the end of the Gen 1 Draft. Many good picks are left, like both Hitmons (Lee in particular is really good), Kangaskhan, and Kabuto. Rhyhorn and Ponyta are also good picks. Heck, even Venonat with Quiver Dance could end up a wincon. Gen 2 Draft Pick... Not many surprises here tbh. I guess there's an argument to be made about Aipom not being *that* trash, but they were down to meme picks at this point, even freaking Unown got picked, which is hysterical. Edit: Gen 3 done, I guess the only reql "Surprises" here are Carvanha being picked literally last (Come on Sharpedo isn't that bad!) and Ninjask being completely absent despite Speed Boost + Swords Dance. I will say Solrock and Lunatone are underrated though. Not amazing, but definitely underrated. Also, don't sleep on early game Linoone and Mightyena, though they get outclassed pretty quickly, they offer an early power spike with low level evos, and that's pretty valuable in nuzlockes. Edit: Oh they're actually going back to the picks that got left out, it will be interesting to see if they go for the ones I mentioned. They'll probably rush for Gen 1 leftouts I'd say. Edit: Yep, unsurprisingly, Lee, Chan, Ponyta and Rhyhorn all went quickly. Also, I didn't mention it in Gen 3, but the Battle Armor Armaldo? Legit pick. Edit: So neither Venonat nor Kabuto got picked even after the final drafts. I think either of them are individually better than something like, say, Tangela, but I get that they also have to think in terms of coverage, and types like poison and water are very common, so, it's legit.

[@rainblue4789]

comments like this are funny bc you judge choices without finishing all the picks

[@albevanhanoy]

@@rainblue4789 Yeah it's because I don't really wanna lose my train of thought, but I'll edit as I get through the video.

[@albevanhanoy]

@@rainblue4789 Fully edited now

[@owenaspinall2046]

Tangela has a niche as a great early game Mon due to having great stats and advantage against Roxanne

[@Chris-if1di]

This looks like fun. How can I do this with my friends?

[@bewill5121]

I believe they're using a tiermaker all pokemon tier list with each person having their own tier that their mons go on

[@Jepegish]

Does anyone know how to set this up? Seems pretty daunting but I'm willing to put in the work.

[@young_raymond47]

Absolutely criminal that no one considered the potential of a Scrappy Boomburst Exploud

[@young_raymond47]

Nosepass is also a decent late pick. Intimidate Mightyena not bad. Seviper decent

[@rustedsapphire3333]

kangaskhan going undrafted is crazy

[@blaisekessler3073]

Pissed that failboat made a sun team and didn't pick Solrock. It's literally the fucking sun

[@owenqueen1019]

It’s also not really good on a sun team

[@owenaspinall2046]

​​​@@owenqueen1019 It does get solarbeam by level up, which I think makes it the only non grass type with Solarbeam

[@kokohaha3604]

Surprised nobody just went for fully evolved Pokémon like Snorlax and Lapras. At the start of the game their stats will be much better than all the other first stages, meaning the battles will be much faster

[@owenaspinall2046]

Snorlax isn't the best example, as he's weak to Brawly and resisted by Roxanne. Lapras is also weak to all of the first 3 gyms, though with rain dance it is quite good for Flannery.

[@cameronclark7170]

Cloyster skill link is being underrated

[@meisterschwert]

We do this in FE too, it's just not an Ironman.