CAN I BEAT A POKÉMON EMERALD HARDCORE NUZLOCKE WITH ONLY RANDOM POKÉMON!?

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We've done many challenges with specific types of Pokemon... but what about a run with fully random encounters!? What if we got access to the full spectrum of possible encounters in Pokemon Emerald... could our randomized team beat the game's hardest challenge - a hardcore nuzlocke?
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We've done some hard Pokemon challenges in the past, but usually they were a solo Pokemon challenge run. What if we still did a really difficult challenge... but with a full team using hardcore nuzlocke rules, and with only random Pokemon? Today we find out: can I beat a Pokemon Emerald Hardcore Nuzlocke with only Random Pokemon? No items and no overleveling!
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Monotype Hardcore Nuzlocke Ruleset:
(1) If a Pokémon faints, it must be permanently boxed or released.
(2) Only the first type-specific Pokémon encountered in each Route/Area can be caught.
(3) No Legendaries/Mythicals, duplicates, or same-evolution-line Pokémon can be caught or used. If a duplicate is encountered, the next unique type-specific Pokémon encounter can be caught.
(4) Additional Pokémon may be caught for the purpose of HM use, but these may not be used in battle at any time during the run.
(5) No Items can be used in battle (Held Items are allowed).
(6) Party Pokémon levels are limited to the highest level Pokémon of the next Gym Leader or Elite 4 Member. So long as your Pokémon are at or below the level cap when the Gym Leader/Elite 4 Member battle starts, they can level up mid-battle.
(7) "Set" Battle Mode must be used at all times.
(8) No connecting with other games for the purposes of importing Pokémon, Items, etc.
#HardcoreNuzlocke #PokemonNuzlocke #pokemonchallenge

[@SilphSpectre]

Want to get your own Bluebeard Dragon? Download Dragon Mania Legends for free and support me via this link: dml.page.link/SilphSpectre. If you are on Google Play or iOS, you will receive your cartoon dragon and a special welcome package after completing the tutorial. Thanks to Gameloft for sponsoring this video! Appreciate the support y'all - I've been travelling for Canadian Thanksgiving but wanted to get a vid up for you guys nonetheless. Hope you enjoy!

[@donoppp45]

please i m begging make more randomizer please

[@jacobwolf581]

Hey I know you probably won't even come back to this comment or reply, I love watching your videos for background noise while I play other games. But can I suggest Pokémon Radical Red, you could ether do a monotype nuzlock or a randomized nuzlock, radical red has the setting already built in and the reason why I think it would be interesting and entertaining is because it has Pokémon from gen 1 up to sword and shield, not sure if it got updated yet or not, the game is in fire red type graphics and has the same map but its own story and the gym leaders are seriously buffed

[@od1401]

Fair warning to you there are bad actors pretending to be you inviting people to download from links to win prizes. Just thouht you should know. I received one of these fake messages in your name.

[@jpw547]

I’ve watched a lot of Nuzlocke videos and I feel like the Whismur/Loudred ALWAYS dies before becoming an Exploud

[@standard-carrier-wo-chan]

It was never meant to be

[@-el8mm3zv5s]

@@standard-carrier-wo-chanliterally

[@ryanshuler2362]

You can set all the randomized Pokémon to “similar strength,” so that it’ll still be randomized but the difficulty escalates more steadily. You can also force fully evolved Pokémon at a certain level (like 40 or 50) so when you reach that point in the game you’re only facing fully evolved mon’s. Loved this video as always Silph!

[@delt19]

That would make these random runs so much better.

[@shadowrasengan1358]

@@delt19fr

[@bp3366]

But chaos go brrrrrrrr 😞

[@standard-carrier-wo-chan]

@@delt19 Maybe, but where's the fun in that?

[@AlexD3GAMING]

Just say pokemon

[@TooCoolforaName]

Gen 3 is easily my favorite region, and randomizer runs are so fun, can't wait to watch this.

[@Gobl_943]

Great run but a note for future Randomizer HC Nuzlocke runs. There's an option in the randomizer where you can force opposing trainers to have fully evolved Pokémon (as low as 30 and as high as 65) and an option to not have Legendaries and Mythicals as encounters. Take note of this if you plan on another Randomizer HC Nuzlocke run!

[@samwill7259]

My favorite thing about Randomizers is that it makes any character with dialogue refering to a singular pokemon or type sound like a crazy person

[@SwolbiWanKenobi]

Wouldn't Shedinja have had 1 HP and a randomized ability? 😂 Fantastic run!

[@000622477]

Typically Shedinja doesn't randomize from wonder guard

[@SwolbiWanKenobi]

@@000622477 I wonder how it's excluded from the randomization in the coding, but that's a cool fact to learn!

[@DrPotatoSkins]

What a great start to the day, I always love to see new Silph content. If Silph somehow sees this, I think it'd be great to not limit yourself to a type, but to a concept. Like, only using quadruped (stands on 4 legs) Pokemon, or Pokemon that only learn a certain move like Bite.

[@Joshfeatmario]

Loved the video and love randomziers and im very glad you mentioned deciding to force evolve for atleast the elite 4 for future ones, having first stage mons in the champion or steven battle makes it quite anticlimatic, for my own runs i usually force evolve from level 40 onwards which so far has been great. Pairing a randomizer with a collab to customize gym leader and e4 teams like antlerboy and flygon have recently done also seems like a fantastic idea to add depth to the otherwise level up movesets, but im sure you're already working on that.

[@c.m.9369]

41:16 I love how happy you were that you could hit Sheninja… Even though Abilities were randomized, meaning Shedinja probably could have been killed by any light breeze ;-)

[@mattprice302]

I’ll watch more Emerald randomizers for sure. Different Pokémon each time so it’s always different. Platinum and Heartgold/ soul silver be fun to watch more too randomized

[@cairoingram1329]

Hey man as a long time viewer I want you to know the mods you’ve been doing have really refreshed the content I have been enjoying it a lot. Please keep doing them even if you repeat them!

[@kurtrussell8877]

A mod where your team is rerolled randomly every battle would be an absolute trip

[@ClairvoyantLastrus]

For future runs, if you have to restart you should rerandomize it. You should set a level cap of some kind for having fully evolved pokemon. So any trainers that have pokemon at like lets say level 35 are fully evolved by default

[@Keydicken]

Happy Silph Sunday! I hope all my fellow Canadians (who celebrate) have a happy thanksgiving this weekend!

[@micahfordkendall]

I'm not sure if anyone else will share my opinion but personally I enjoy randomized Pokemon encounters and randomized trainer Pokemon. I'm not really as big a fan of things like randomizing moves or natures of Pokemon. Just thought I'd share some feedback, but of course, you should keep making the videos you like to make

[@Shadowjackal]

Hate to tell you, Natures are always random

[@RK-cj4oc]

​@@ShadowjackalHe meant abilities. I understand the confusion.

[@chicks5283]

Love to see old school games! Specially randomizers, keep up the good work ❤

[@bedermanben1595]

Just got to the point in the video where you catch my beloved Feraligatr and name it after me. You sweet man you silph. Totodile squad for life!

[@TheAquarius87]

You're such a madlad, Silph. Makes me want to give a shot at hardcore nuzlocking again 🍻

[@cesarflamenco9484]

These are always fun runs. You can never expect what happens next. At one moment, you are destroying Wallace who has a team of first stages, and on another, you're run almost comes to a heartbreaking end against Tate and Liza. Definitely look forward to another run where every Pokemon is at around a similar level in power as you advance.

[@torwel24]

The Rayquaza and Dan Moment had me rollin on the Floor laughin 😂

[@wonderfulrose477]

Glacia leading with a Caterpie only to have a Mewtwo in the back was the funnest thing I’ve seen in a while

[@Astro986]

I tried out a randomizer yesterday and man is it an amazing experience. Nothing like catching a Flygon right outside of Twinleaf Town.

[@tahahamoud5232]

Do you have the link for the download of the randomizer? I really want to do one

[@AlmightyKing143]

@@tahahamoud5232download the Pokemon Universal randomizer and you can do it yourself by just using a rom of any game you want to play/randomize.

[@jessefutrell1779]

Same I’d love to get something like this on my mac!

[@Justin-dp9tw]

29:20 Not quite. Submarines have an escape trunk that allows people to exit and enter while submerged. You swim into the trunk from the outside, the hatch is closed, and then water it pumped out

[@evie2670]

I love how Bambam the crawdaunt have battle armor as it’s ability since it has shell armor as a regular ability which is the same ability but a different name. You love to see it

[@grimtwin5581]

Three of my favorite normal types showing up as Gym Leader pokemon in early game. Nice

[@AliLiz91]

I'm looking forward to watching this madness 😂 Especially seeing Feraligatr in the thumbnail (:

[@ForestX77]

Silph: The perfect randomized Sheep! Arceus: ha ha ha. No. *throws a geodude* Now suffer mortal.

[@W1F1N1GHTM4R3]

future sight is treated as a typeless move in terms of what it hits in gen 3 which is how it hits crawdaunt! it didnt work as a psychic move until... i think gen 5? i know its still typeless in gen 4 because i helped a friend with a platinum randomizer where we kept running into mewtwos too and had to work around future sights pretty often

[@BlueCyanid]

Yup, since gen 5 future sight deals psychic type damage

[@DaanHeijnis]

Please do more of these randomizers Silph!! Preferably in gen 4 or below :) They're the best, so enjoyable

[@sixtales7681]

One thing you need to understand is that Future Sight does not calculate type when doing damage. So, even though they're dark type, they still took essentially typeless damage.

[@BlueCyanid]

That was only until gen 4. Since gen 5, future sight does take types advantages into account

[@sixtales7681]

@@BlueCyanid okay? And what gen is this? Clearly that's still a thing when you know.. he's playing Emerald? Which is gen 3.

[@BlueCyanid]

@@sixtales7681 Just read your first comment again and try to think (if it's not too difficult for you) why clarification was needed

[@sixtales7681]

@@BlueCyanid I mean if you know this is a thing in Emerald though, why brind it up? At all, even?

[@theleoita90]

Shedinja wasn't going to be a problem with a randomised ability xD Well played

[@creepydwarf8714]

My favorite part is that his league team looks almost like an actual possible Hoenn team. Sceptile, Torkoal, Crawdaunt, and Raichu are all available in Hoenn, just trade over the Porygon2 and Steelix and you’ve got yourself a really great team

[@dollarbill125]

Really good Locke and surprised but glad Dan made it through

[@mlujua4279]

2 tips: 1- There is an improved version of the universal randomizer out there, the ZX one. I recommend it 2- You can make any pokémon above a certain level to be fully evolve, not only the ones in the league. Maybe it's more enjoyable that way

[@rb4734]

Love these randomizers!

[@zeroskaterjjr98]

It's cool that dragon mania gives us a glimpse of the special farm. I remember my mom telling me about it when I was a kid. I'm gonna download it so I can see my dog againm

[@randytravis1167]

Really enjoyed this one! Emerald randomizers are the best

[@nickboon1235]

Silph, AntlerBoy and Dr.HG are the trifecta of nuzlockes and nobody can change my mind

[@bobbydrillboids7419]

so idk if you know this, but with the Pokémon randomizer you can make it 100% random and what I mean by that so the settings that you have it set to make to that every Pokémon that would normally be there just gets replaced by another, but it’ll always be the same replacement so for example your rivals and flaneries slugma both get replaced by vaporeon, and that’s why your dad has two glalies because slaking gets replaced by glalie, huge fan btw bro!!!

[@keezygoodchristenyoute4055]

Happy Thanksgiving to silph and my fellow Canadians

[@Gloominesss]

For me watching randomizers is best when the power of the Pokémon are around the same power level than the original ones

[@hay4664]

Shame you never ran into a Slaking.

[@juliogomez2534]

To this day I don't understand why Emerald has never been remade, same as why they never did for platinum o.O

[@batmander80]

I love your videos I got a Inspired Of your videos I see them all And I did my own Challenge run In pokemon scarlet and Violet Only Use one type I did every type I almost lost hope But I watch your videos They give me hope And they're funny

[@MadameTeqi]

Can we talk about the chances of a sound based pokemon being named Mike? That's incredible

[@chrisk5512]

LOVE THIS VIDEO! I love gen three, and randomizers! Are you thinking of doing any gen six again??

[@MFAniki6390]

So I learned something new today, I had absolutely no idea that Chimecho was a Gen 3 Pokemon. I've always assumed it was a Sinnoh native.

[@hisokaxd1710]

finally a randomizer.. i love to watch it

[@resdraon]

Imagine being one of the 5 strongest trainers in the country only to send out a caterpie to lead your team. Then your boss is a mewtwo.

[@digitaltailsmon4096]

As a gen 3 fan and a anime fan I am so happy he basically ended with 4 mons that Ash used in gen 3s anime besides evolving Pikachu and Corphis.

[@dexterwillmon]

That “Wynaut” joke got me harder than it should have.

[@Wildboyfanz97]

That 7th gym battle had me stressed who knew Lugia would be that powerful💀

[@3two1zero76]

I also suggest for the next randomize to have fuller teams!

[@jieksun]

The nicknames this video where hilarious 😂 Just the fastness of this is Ben the Fergilator

[@tylerbartlett28]

I would like to see a gen 1 playthrough with all the bugs and glitches in it. Maybe a bug team to match

[@raveneffectnevermore1995]

YES, NEW SILPH NUZLOCKE VIDEO!

[@jacobhoff7960]

Nothing better to start the day than being early for a Silph video

[@jirubyraiden9934]

I can just feel your pain the whole time you were battling Tate and Liza

[@jaysmooth4998]

LMFAO! Feraligator was double cheeked up!

[@raptorneon4919]

Quick question: how come you reset the run before it had begun with mareep? Doesn’t the run start once you get poke balls

[@Sai_92]

It would've been easier to reset the run rather than trying to beat a Geodude with just tackle

[@raptorneon4919]

@@Sai_92 but he doesn’t have to beta geodude, nuzlockes start once you get poke balls so it hadn’t started yet

[@kalesmart1]

Gen 3 games actually factor in statistical favouritism for gym leaders and specific battles, it's to make the game significantly harder for those iconic fights. For example you have a reduced rate of critical hits and they have an increased rate, also you'll often get low damage attacks because it is skewing the odds against you. I don't know which other generations did this but I know it was gen 3

[@louismatos5565]

Keep the nuzlockes coming

[@gamingrobloxsimsandfortnit6010]

Great Job! Idea: Pokemon (any game) but WE the fans decide what encounter you can get in an area For example, in Firered, the fans choose if we want you to get a Pidgey as your encounter, all Rattatas or any other pokemon in that route will NOT count, only the pokemon that we desire.

[@mikeb4828]

🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤Nice!!!... Most definitely a great start to the day

[@MegoPlays]

Crawdaunt is my favorite pokemon. Its my 2 favorite types, and its design is so freaking cool!

[@jonwoods4590]

in my emerald nuzlocke i caught a fully evolved blaziken on route 101 and he died to a crit from wallace’s geodude, gen 3 randomizers are so chaotic and i love them😌

[@sadast1778]

I love emerald and i love randomizers please do more of these!

[@rufio.5961]

“Dragon Simulator” is wild fr

[@neehime6]

Love this rub! Could you try a bw2 random run with national dex? That has to be awful and funny at the same time... greetings!

[@gabethyrubenstein7984]

Love your videos! You really missed out on an opportunity with Sand Stream Golem

[@greytrainingrounds9344]

Idk hear me out dratini as a starter is actually solid has thunder wave and twister for para flinch gets dragon rage later and you can always catch more Pokémon to supplement the early game plus thunder wave helps secure future catches

[@VALDiesel01]

38:21 immense overkill 🤣🤣🤣 think magcargo would've died at least 256 times with all those boosts

[@nickricca4273]

Hey Silph! I was wondering if you’ve ever considering doing a run of radical red, I think it would definitely take more than one run so it could become a really cool series!

[@SquidSatan]

You remembered the meteorite on the emerald water type only run I watched immediately before this lol.

[@YadonIsrael]

18:41 what is that old man doing up on the shelf? 😂

[@Ha-zh1sp]

Oh my god finally a new sponsor than raid shadow legends

[@SuperSleepwalker13]

Emerald is my favorite game to watch any challenge like this

[@Bizzoizzo]

Silph, you should definitely have a collab with FlygonHG or AntlerBoy! That would be really fun, you three are my top 3 nuzlocke tubers!

[@bigslappy823]

I know too well how painful it is to fight Lugia in a randomizer. I did a regular nuzlocke in Leaf Green and Blue's ace randomized into one. That bastard almost team wiped me and kept spamming Recover whenever I made any progress. It was hell.

[@MarkofWisdom]

that wally fight was just...that win was pure luck, and him losing would have been absolutely warranted because of the dumb decision to leave the meme as his *only* option in the fight, instead of leading with the meme team while having actual regular party members in the back in case things went sideways, like they did.

[@Konstantin-91]

I am a simple person. I see my first ever pokemon to your thumbnail, i see the video!

[@nightmare348]

Awh yeah LET'S GET RANDOM!

[@philipspigelmeyer959]

This was a good vid. The only thing was that you should have made the e4 have all there mons fully evolved. And then Wallace and steven have at least 1 legends. I've seen other people do it like this also. It just kinda dropped off skill wise alittle after you got thru the 2nd or 3rd gyms. Other than tate and liza(they were pretty tough). But other than not being on edge that much after the 3rd ish gym it was a good video. ❤

[@explicitboyo6157]

Man I wasn’t sure if you were gonna beat that Charmander in the rain with Surf. I’m surprised it didn’t cause you to wipe

[@Icarus-001]

Silph is easily my favorite poketuber his content quality is just above the rest imo.

[@joemedina244]

Love these videos of this Gen.

[@ethanhess8230]

10:40 I’m pretty sure a safari ball is mechanically an exact copy of an ultra ball since it apparently has the same catch rate modifier at full hp

[@anthonyanglemyer]

Another randomizer? Oh dear lord...At least you survived to the end. 😆

[@threadscore]

Subs have escape trunks that can be filled and opened under water, then drained and opened into the sub itself. Think underwater air lock.

[@delt19]

Randomizer runs are so damn good!

[@nickdangelo43]

Been waiting for this one

[@RedDragonForce2]

If Ampharos could learn Solarbeam, its lights out Ground types!

[@seldomsane5278]

These randomizer runs can be quite funny.

[@richigervacio3889]

More of these please!🙏🏽

[@Arnav20475]

his voice and gameplay is soo soothing man

[@TheBigTexan]

Trying to gas up Spinda by calling it fully evolved with its base 360 stats

[@Electroghoul]

I wouldnt want to deal with the Sky Pillar puzzle all the time.

[@RedDragonForce2]

I love the fact that Maxie had a Water Pokémon and Archie had a Fire Pokémon! You can’t make this up!

[@dylanlabon9667]

I know the submarine thing with Archie was just a joke. However, I did want to throw out that most modern submarines can be boarded underwater because they have an airlock.