CAN I BEAT A POKÉMON SAPPHIRE HARDCORE NUZLOCKE WITH ONLY POISON TYPES!? (Pokémon Challenge)

It's time for another Pokemon challenge! Sapphire with only Poison types is a hardcore nuzlocke I've wanted to do for a while, as Poison types are quite tricky in Gen 3 since they don't have the added bonus of being super effective against Fairy types. Let's do this!
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 one type? Today we find out: can I beat a Pokemon Sapphire Hardcore Nuzlocke with only Poison types?
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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.
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[@abhinavp.d6538]

luv ur content dude

[@pelisa3893]

What if you can only use pokemon who are under retwmated like poochyheana wurple and pokemon like that nuzlock no need for hard core rules

[@Zenpaii_YT]

Silph I have a video idea for you: Beating Pokemon FRLG or Emerald but you can only learn one move. (I found a rom hack that does this so that you can only have one move.)

[@genesis_animates9926]

Question: if you were a dragon type gym leader / champion act would that be your team

[@pelisa3893]

@@genesis_animates9926 well nega garchomp goodra dragalge haxorus my fan made pokemon withs i hope can be real 1 day and has the same origin as mewtwo but was supposed to be a sort of fusion of groudon eternatus and the latis a shin godzilla based poison dragon mon called shinagon orfinaly noyvern as my ace and kingdra for coverege agians ice types

[@mr.satire6867]

Silph: “This might be our first deathless run” Some random suicidal Koffing: *N O*

[@bideos45]

😂😂

[@jamesthegamingengine630]

SIKE!

[@AyoBodee]

Who else did the koffing voice in there head😂

[@angelicaph483]

Cool trainer Jennifer: "Surprise motherf**ker

[@tylerbartlett28]

Koffing's revenge for not being a part of the team

[@b0il3ra90]

Fun fact: Steven's Metagross used Psychic instead of Earthquake, because both attacks secured the kill on Tentacruel, so the AI randomly chose between attacks, since they both have 100% accuracy (if he had a less accurate move, he would have used Earthquake)

[@qorv4973]

I thought it would pick Psychic cuz stab. The more u know I guess...

[@b0il3ra90]

@@qorv4973 STAB doesn't matter there, since if Tentacruel was on full HP, Metagross would still go for Earthquake, because Tentacruel has much lower Defense than Special defense, and Metagross's attack is higher than it's special attack, so Earthquake would do more, despite both earthquake and psychic being super effective, and psychic having STAB.

[@qorv4973]

@@b0il3ra90 I really havent studied the AI of the games, just know a few of the gen 1 quirks like status moves used randomly if they are the right type. Like withdraw against a fire type. So I think its cool to learn that AI chooses randomly if it sees a kill on both rather than showing a preference for STAB or output. The more you learn

[@atefhassan3588]

@@puppieslovies my mom disowned me

[@noayazenin6686]

@@atefhassan3588 bro...

[@SagaciousSilence]

Jennifer is notorious as one of the toughest trainers in the game for the time you face her, including gym leaders. Having a random Milotic is insane.

[@jumpyjumpjumpjumps2369]

I almost had to reset during my sapphire nuzlocke but I lost my sableye and my seviper and I thought my torkoal would survive a hit so I could chip but it died :

[@bluemacaroni2928]

I almost lost to her lol. 5 out of my team died. And the worst part is I didn't challenge Winona yet

[@frezomereseraphim9164]

There is also a guy on route 119 with a Breloom who regularly gives me issues. Ive already learned my lessons and know to avoid the Breloom, Milotic, and all Explosion encounters

[@chip_revvington]

i recently replayed sapphire and accidentally ran into her and regret it. that milotic was brutal, and it doesnt help that it was raining in that route

[@skeetermania3202]

Good thing she doesn’t have it in Emerald.

[@clarafindley6689]

Poison has some of the coolest designs in my opinion

[@newergamer7974]

I can relate

[@MSSenpai03]

Except koffing line

[@Name-qo6gz]

@@MSSenpai03 nah I love them it’s super unique

[@newergamer7974]

@@MSSenpai03 yeah they're ugly

[@simp4konon431]

Along with electric

[@kennovafastforward8460]

2:31 Silph: cascoon only knows harden Everyone: *sigh* it's that time of the day again. Struggle strategy...

[@genesis_animates9926]

Yesir

[@slevinchannel7589]

@@genesis_animates9926 Question: Seen my comment?

[@genesis_animates9926]

@@slevinchannel7589 no I haven’t what did you rite?

[@slevinchannel7589]

@@genesis_animates9926 I said: Random (and overly long) Question: Is there no such thing as a Calculator or Program or Witchraft-Tool; Science or Magic; that allows for QUICK and EASY research on-the-go about EV-Training? I mean, do i have to memorize Masses and Masses of Data about how Everything reacts to Everything?! There must be an easier way, yes? Just something that asks of me the work to memorize what Stat my Pokemon 'need' to grow in, and then i enter this simple Stuff into something. I mean, i dont wanna look up all the Pokemon And create a Custom-List for any Route i enter: Someone must have made something like this for his own re-usability, or not?? Like: "I have 3 Magikarps. I want them to become the Fastest Magikarp and have them break the Sound-Barrier. But i also have 3 Charmander. And I'm on Route-4. So what Pokemon should i defeat here and with who??" Get what i mean? Sorry for the long comment. ...I'm no speech-maker, after all...

[@ThomazSDA]

Ah yes, this reminds of the time that I did a Mono Wally team in Sapphire. Beating up Team Aqua's Poochyena with my Struggling Ralts. \o/

[@oreocrunch7731]

“Babe wake up, Silph uploaded again”

[@BG-qc4ur]

Fun fact: if this was Emerald, Tate and Liza would be impossible to beat

[@sylveon_109]

Yup

[@pop4843]

How? I'm serious I don't know my Pokemon games very well

[@loganchilds9750]

@@pop4843 It adds a Psychic/Flying Xatu, and a Psychic/Ground Claydol, IIRC.

[@pop4843]

@@loganchilds9750 ahhh I see. thank you

[@torquemada2]

Maybe for you. I’m just built different.

[@snehajk5688]

Metagross:- Ruining people's journeys since 2003 😂😂

[@Ando1428]

Seviper can learn flamethrower since mawevile.

[@eclipse9727]

@@Ando1428 And it still would've taken 2 hits, which metagross could've taken. Also had the full restore around, too.

[@HarveyMeadowlark]

“He wipes nagini off the map” I just pictured metagross photoshopped over Neville longbottoms face killing a nagini with seviper’s face lol

[@javierquinterosurzua2767]

Question: Why not try a nuzlocke where every pokemon is weak to a certain type? For example, have a run where every pokemon has to be at least x2 times weak to rock, so all pokemon have to be either Fire, Flying, Bug or Ice, and you cannot use double-typings with Steel, Fight or Ground

[@claytongallaugher5171]

That’s a good idea but I think I’m some cases (or maybe all) by removing the double typing it may restrict the pool of eligible Pokémon too much

[@laurainc]

@@claytongallaugher5171 i doubt it, say theoretically you wanted to do one where every pokemon was weak to rock in pokemon sapphire you would have access to torchic (before evolution) both wurmple line, swellow, pelipper, masquerain, shedinja/ninjask, gyarados, crobat, altaria, tropius, ninetales, xatu, glalie, and walrein, salamence too if you aren't banning it

[@rajkanishu]

@@laurainc that's just a strictly easier version than this challenge tho, as almost all these pokémon have the same weakness anyway, also once you beat that specific type's gym the challenge is basically over

[@laurainc]

@@rajkanishu i disagree, as plenty of pokemon have rock type moves, and since all your pokemon are weak to that you have no proper pivots or ways to play around it, plus, going into wattson with a party of mostly flying types will be super difficult,, though i do feel like rock is a fairly easy version of this challenge and you could instead do something where everything is weak to water or grass or flying, which are much more common types. and, even if it is easier, its a different kind of challenge where your pivots are rare and your team diversity is totally crippled, despite having a larger amount of viable picks, which also makes team building important again unlike in monotypes where you are, for the most part, just stuck with what you get

[@corby789]

​@@rajkanishu I wouldn't say it's neccessarily easier, as if you do a monotype, then you usually have a dual type line available which covers at least one weakness, allowing you to play around that to beat potential counters. Whereas if you take strict weakness to a specific type, then you will never have a neutral switch. It will be hard to compare to monotypes, as the available pool for pokemon and strategies vary wildly based on type and game.

[@saltmines5761]

Our among us pattern recognition is slowing destroying our species.

[@PtylerBeats]

To be fair, I have no idea what the tile is supposed to be showing. I assume it’s a painting or a photo, but of what? It doesn’t even look like anything lol

[@_V.Va_]

@@PtylerBeats Pretty sus.

[@macabweu7682]

@@PtylerBeats I think it's meant to be a cherry tree and another type of tree with clouds around it. Or maybe a tree and a mountain? The white line makes this really weird to figure out.

[@WhyDoesHandleExist]

It's okay, because the little space man is funny.

[@R0cky505]

Should’ve taught Seviper Flamethrower via TM. A Charcoal boosted Flamethrower likely would’ve taken Metagross out, especially since you were Timid, making Eathquake weaker, and Metagross’ Sp Def is lower than its Defense.

[@jennytalia6724]

or you know... actually using confuse ray or setting up light screen or something

[@tahz9742]

i... did not know that

[@socialistrepublicofvietnam1500]

Timid... makes Earthquake weaker?

[@hansenhorst3117]

@@jennytalia6724 light screen doesn’t help against earthquake and meteor mash, just a turn wasted

[@hansenhorst3117]

@@socialistrepublicofvietnam1500 timid nature, +Speed and -Attack

[@drewbigdoopa3464]

17:16 I think you forgot that crunch is special in this game and that makes the defense on your Pokémon not mattter with crunch. Rosalia had better spdef

[@slevinchannel7589]

Random (and overly long) Question: Is there no such thing as a Calculator or Program or Witchraft-Tool; Science or Magic; that allows for QUICK and EASY research on-the-go about EV-Training? I mean, do i have to memorize Masses and Masses of Data about how Everything reacts to Everything?! There must be an easier way, yes? Just something that asks of me the work to memorize what Stat my Pokemon 'need' to grow in, and then i enter this simple Stuff into something. I mean, i dont wanna look up all the Pokemon And create a Custom-List for any Route i enter: Someone must have made something like this for his own re-usability, or not??

[@amimm7776]

Having played Emerald, Sapphire looks weird, like something I know but tilted slightly to the side

[@emilysmith2965]

That’s how I feel about Diamond and Pearl too

[@redx3009]

Using only Poison makes the old games a fun challenge imo.

[@joeychopra7839]

Koga confirmed greatest trainer?

[@redx3009]

@@joeychopra7839 I would say so when he doesn't have to use dragon pseudo-legendaries to get promoted.

[@christianhuye9018]

They’re really fun in battle definitely but they get busted by Psychic types and Ground types wreck them.

[@asquaredtheking]

"Let me win and if I cannot may I be brave in the attempt" awesome Silph.. all avenues explored and an awesome set of attempts. Keep these up my friend.

[@derrickscott1630]

I remember that milotic trainer 😂 I always tried to avoid her and come back later for the exp.

[@luiseduardo8806]

1:20 Hoenn predicted *amogus*

[@josephmoore5422]

"I assert my dominance over a machoke thats 4x my size" I died 😅

[@slevinchannel7589]

Random (and overly long) Question: Is there no such thing as a Calculator or Program or Witchraft-Tool; Science or Magic; that allows for QUICK and EASY research on-the-go about EV-Training? I mean, do i have to memorize Masses and Masses of Data about how Everything reacts to Everything?! There must be an easier way, yes? Just something that asks of me the work to memorize what Stat my Pokemon 'need' to grow in, and then i enter this simple Stuff into something. I mean, i dont wanna look up all the Pokemon And create a Custom-List for any Route i enter: Someone must have made something like this for his own re-usability, or not?? Like: "I have 3 Magikarps. I want them to become the Fastest Magikarp and have them break the Sound-Barrier. But i also have 3 Charmander. And I'm on Route-4. So what Pokemon should i defeat here and with who??" Get what i mean? Sorry for the long comment. ...I'm no speech-maker, after all...

[@armaggedon390]

Honestly, I find that 'struggle' early on with Cascoon pointless. Just get a Wrumple and evolve it on wild encounters. If it's not a Cascoon, ditch it an catch another. But instead you waste a lot of time (especially on multiple attempts) with a Cascoon that can't attack. There is frankly no reason for this at all. One could say that Wrumple isn't a poison type, but neither is Casoon. The rules are arbitrary anyway, so something that lets the challenge actually start instead of taking weeks for no reason is welcomed. This doesn't make the challenge any harder, just more time consuming. After all, the challenge only really starts with Dustox.

[@ryn7782]

I hard agree, especially due to the fact he struggle grinded to ev train. However, dustox would've had another attacking move when it evolved that wasn't confusion, but tbh that's negligible too. I don't quite understand why he went through it 7 times when after the first it was pointless and a waste of time.

[@bucketjeff5282]

He can only catch the first eligible pokemon on each route.

[@Crimsonnavyking]

Wurmple evolves randomly since you can’t see or influence it. If it turned into Silcoon, he’d have restart again until he got the right one.

[@armaggedon390]

@@Crimsonnavyking So? Cascoon isn't poison type either. The challenge only starts when he gets Dustox. It would take much less time.

[@Crimsonnavyking]

@@armaggedon390 meaning he’d have to start over again since it’s a fail if it turns into silcoon. It’s a toss up between rolling NRG by catching a wurmple or grinding after getting a cascoon. You don’t just “catch another” in nuzlockes. You start over from the beginning since he technically caught a Pokémon that broke the rules. You also can’t catch multiples of the same line or Pokémon from the same area.

[@EOwens-uq4zd]

Im so glad they made poison good against fairy. It needed some love.

[@ghirahimjohnson]

The nerdy excitement that filled me when I saw this on my feed can’t be properly described.

[@tylerpitzer9553]

I don’t mean for this to sound narcissistic, but it’s very cool to see one of these videos end in defeat, yet hopeful. The idea that this Pokémon trainer mastered the Hoenn Region with a specialization in poison types and has to admit defeat to Steven is really cool world building. Awesome work, Silph!

[@ThomazSDA]

I'm probably a bit late, but if you had kept Protect on Dustox for Norman, his Slakings would've been so easy lol. I'm really loving these videos though! I should probably do a mono type nuzlocke soon too...

[@TheHistorySoldier]

17:15 Crunch is special this gen.

[@Zitos77]

Saw the title and knew this was going to be a difficult challenge just from the first gym. The fact you made it all the way to Steven is impressive enough.

[@fire2790]

29:48 Okay that was mad sus silph lol

[@ryanriebel7711]

Crunch is special in generation 3.

[@tinytim1060]

I wish beedrill was stronger tbh, one of my all time favorites its so cool

[@ActualTrash8]

*Mega evo intensifies*

[@UV8800]

Silph: This might be our first deathless run. Koffing: hold my will

[@ashclaw2306]

This can be the most *poisonous* run I have seen.... At least I was able to Swalot in action

[@clarafindley6689]

That was bad you could have used toxic and it would work better

[@wizardousact9117]

I actually used Dustox, which I named Felicia, in my first ever nuzlocke - Pokemon Emerald - and it was surprisingly very clutch! It even saved me the Elite 4 and Champion!

[@nonyabizznu5087]

Love seeing the early bugs in the endgame

[@ElTwOJaY]

Darth Bane always said that the dark side was like venom.

[@ponyboy9765]

Your dedication to the craft is admirable, this was a brutal challenge. When can we expect another true power tournament? Those were amazing!

[@socaltrojan286]

Solid run mate, a fun watch. Tough loss, but if there is a Pokémon to lose to, there is no shame to go down to Metacross..

[@calijoca]

If the AI sees that the pokémon is at a low HP, it choses a random move to attack, that's why it used psychic. Bad luck i suppose.

[@khianidude]

It's not because it has low HP, it's because it sees a kill with multiple moves, so it picks randomly between those multiple moves. If you have a pokemon that has low HP but 4x resists a move to the point where it doesn't kill, you can still predict it will choose a move that will.

[@smo_phoenix]

You son of a gun, I’m litteraly doing my first nuzlocke and it’s a poison only run. I’ve been recording it and hope to upload it soon, good thing it’s on Soul Silver

[@matthewphillips4984]

Another great run Silph 🙌🙌 the struggle bus tactic in the beginning when necessary is always so f’n respectable my dude ! Your still goat’d per usual !

[@VALDiesel01]

I think if you had yawned the metagross and then swapped into roselia and used leech seed, the battle had a higher chance of being won i think!!

[@mbclove1]

Big Homey Silph back wit another banger o a nuzlocke

[@clover7359]

14:43 It can be done with a Gloom/Gulpin/Golbat, but you need insane luck and you'll probably have one death at least. The strat is to lead with Gloom, land the sleep powder on magnemite, then switch to Golbat. Supersonic then spam bite and hope for flinches. You'll want a cheri berry on everything of course. Voltorb is pretty easy, just switch back to gloom and land the sleep powder, finish it with acid and absorb. If you play things just right, you can get Wattson to waste a super potion before Magneton which is the run killer. Switch back to Gloom, put it to sleep then switch to golbat, get off confusion then switch to gulpin. Get off one amnesia then start spamming yawn. Once magneton is awake and drowsy, you start setting up rollout. You'll need all 5 to hit for the KO, if you miss even one, you'll need all 5 to hit again because Wattson will use a super potion. Gulpin will also need a lot of ATK and HP EVs.

[@beebobber546]

An idea I had was a normal Pokémon run but you can’t evolve whatever you catch?

[@t.j.helming5534]

I felt so sure he would turn an undesirable natured Seviper into a special attacker since his Seviper happened to be timid nature. Also, surprised he didn't mention that naturally Seviper has a 100 base stat in both attack and special attack so that should've eventually worked in his favor. (Don't forget, Roselia learns giga drain by level up & dark is special in this generation). With all his prior Nuzlocke experience I presumed making a timid Seviper as good as possible was a no-brainer on an all poison team & silently might be a blessing in disguise. Personally my ideal 4 moves would've been> 1. Sunny day [obtained TM]; 2. Giga drain [obtained TM]; 3. Flamethrower [bought TM]; and 4. Crunch [level up] Metagross would've been toast with that move lineup! In my honestly opinion, putting earthquake on a minus attack nature probably costed him more in the long run unfortunately!

[@thephantomire]

I always love your sense of humour through these. Well done as always! I swear these coming out is the best part of that day now.

[@heisenfu]

Man I love these videos! The format you have is consistent but every video feels like a unique journey. KEEP IT UP!

[@lost.in.melancholy2509]

Another amazing video! Entertaining all the way through 💜 it might be a bit tough to set up, (maybe gen 4 for piplup?) but I’d love to see a Steel-Type run!

[@MrMakoislost]

I'm definitely going to enjoy your channel more now since I'm aware that not every upload is a guarantee success. Well done!

[@TheOriginalItsCake]

"7.8 too much tears." -Silph

[@michaelf719]

Best part of waking up on Sundays. I like before the video even starts because I know imma love the video. Thanks silph!

[@LaySuperMarioLover]

Oh, maaaan, SO many close moments during this run! I was watching from the edge of my seat with this one!

[@certifiedwumbologist7925]

I decided to look up someone doing this challenge because I had personally just finished it, but your rules are tighter and your attention to detail is absolutely stellar. You've earned my sub.

[@chefc8371]

My man! Back with another awesome video! 👏🏻 commentary is great and new and fresh compared to others, smooth editing. Congrats on your rise to a major content creator brother

[@ghost2172]

Maxie's pooch is definitely high af in the Mr. Chimney battle, no rarer candy than cocaine!

[@brendancosgrave2490]

Great run Silph, gotta admire the dedication with that gym 1 grind and very unlucky with some battles. That 1st sharpeado battle had me nervous 😰, but a great run overall and good to see posion types get some love. Keep up the great work and hope to catch a stream this weekend.

[@SilphSpectre]

Hey Brendan, thanks so much! It was definitely a crazy run; I thought it was impossible after trying with Roxanne but I think we at least proved that this run *could* be done if Metagross can be managed more effectively. Unfortunately I'm traveling to visit family this week so no streams until next weekend. Can't wait to continue our Normal-only run though, I'm remaining hopeful haha

[@BoomerBlups3ds]

What an awesome run! I really thought you had it when you got to Steven but he’s the ultimate challenge in that game against poison types unfortunately.

[@jaybirdflyin]

Pro tip for standard nuzlocke runs. There are actually three locations for catches in Dewford. If you go all the way to the right of dewford town you can fish in a different route. Route 107 I think.

[@0031694]

In generation three, if an opponent sees a kill if you are at a low enough HP, it will likely do a random attacking move. Since your tentacruel was at 30 HP, I believe it was low enough for a random move. Loved the video!!!

[@jaynajuly2140]

Bug and Grass both resist Ground so Earthquake was only supereffective against 3 of your team :)

[@loveandhate]

I missed the tournament series, but this series is just as good to watch.

[@vivalaglavii6736]

I think it's cute that the zigzagoon is named Locksmith

[@genesis_animates9926]

Video idea: only use grass types in a hardcore heart gold run

[@Blackmage456]

Please keep these vids coming. I love your hardcore nuzlockes and your commentary is fantastic.

[@ShakespeareChan]

Ayoooo. That's a digimon!

[@MikhaelHld]

One my of my fav digimon! Pog

[@mister.j3913]

The among us picture, “I am… inevitable”😂

[@slevinchannel7589]

Random (and overly long) Question: Is there no such thing as a Calculator or Program or Witchraft-Tool; Science or Magic; that allows for QUICK and EASY research on-the-go about EV-Training? I mean, do i have to memorize Masses and Masses of Data about how Everything reacts to Everything?! There must be an easier way, yes?

[@reviewbooth8686]

Always enjoy the content. In general, that crobat switch seemed unnecessarily risky… tentacruel had served its purpose in the run. In any event, hindsight is 20/20 and I’m sure I would have made many mistakes before that moment haha. I’m sure you’ve seen the comments about Emerald AI and it’s a heartbreaking loss. Excited for the next one

[@PrincessTripsy]

"She has a name. It's Jennifer." Of course it is.

[@natecarr4484]

Awesome work Silph, love your videos, it's a good day when a Silph video is uploaded. Maybe try X or Y with fairy types only, might be a cool idea since it was the introductory geberation for that typing!

[@Gwynbleidd1724]

Always a great way to end a week with a Silph Nuzlocke

[@blazingsceptile9403]

Great run! I've been wanting to record a Poison only run on Emerald and beating 2 geodudes and a nosepass seems nearly impossible! Seeing how the rest of the run plays out in your game, though, I might get back to it!

[@robertfaer4522]

Mad props. Did a mono poison HV Nuzlocke of gen 1 myself to test how OP yhose psychic types were lol

[@matheusbarbalho5760]

The struggle at the start made me like the video. Great content my man.

[@chicks5283]

Love your videos man, keep up the good work I hope you bring back true power tournament someday

[@ThatLiamGuy305]

34:46 the reason the Metagross used psychic is because it saw that psychic (and its other moves) all killed Tentacruel, so it randomly chose between them. Fantastic video, by the way! Super fun to watch!

[@tgifruby2sday]

It would be cool to see a mix dual type only. Like normal and flying type.

[@1TieDye1]

That’d be brutal. Might not be possible in most games.. like, there just wouldn’t be enough pokemon

[@stevensurnear8938]

I've been waiting for the poison type mono run! Poison is my favorite type and Venomoth my favorite Pokemon

[@MikhaelHld]

This was an amazing nuzlocke run, great job!! My butt clenched so much with all those 1hp close calls xD

[@dr.coachwes5572]

Hey this videos are actually super awesome and inspired me to do an all Eeveelution run of SWSH, adding one more Eevee after each gym and using RNG to determine what I evolve it too 😁

[@joandomenech3037]

The Star Wars references are strong in this one

[@patrickforest1108]

Your videos are always amazing - keep up the good work Silph ✨

[@cyrithesamurai]

Poison types are my personal favorite. They have an insane amount of potential and are pretty bulky in some instances. Great video Silph

[@DracoMetorHD]

I just wanted to say I LOVE your commentary, always has me at the edge of my seat x3

[@JoseRuiz-xo9kt]

Nice job! I could never try using poison types. Tentacool against the shroomish was risky because Acid only lowers the defense, it can't poison the target

[@swaggyscrim576]

Great video! Sad to see it go down like that! I, personally, think a switch up in the formula and just a straight up randomizer would be a dope idea on the fly! If you do it, name a Pokémon swaggy 👀

[@nitroxiii]

Fun fact: At 32:42 when Glacia sends out all of her water types against Roselia it makes sense based on how the logic of this game works. The AI prefers to send out Pokemon that have a super effective move against you, but that are also weak to your type. Since Water is weak to Grass, and Ice isn't, even though Glalie is the technically better matchup, the AI logic prefers Sealeo and Walrein for some reason.

[@kohinoorbanerjee4009]

I am predicting, tentacruel/crobat will be the MVP

[@pastaking2906]

Dude i love your Pokémon monotype nuzlock runs they are so fun to watch!!😀

[@SixJayy]

Dude I just started the vid and the Star Wars among us joke had me f*cking crying my eyes out.... Love it

[@invividcolor]

17:44 crunch is special in this Gen, which is why Roselia took it pretty well! Great run!

[@garryv.2.093]

Yooo vivid. Love your vids

[@crosswarren6761]

I’ve loved poison Pokémon since I first caught a muk and ekans. Now I haven’t had a single playthrough without one of the two. Muk is usually always my tank/status effect mon. Sometimes I go real funky and 100% EV train speed or attack though lol.

[@saahilsabi5152]

Random Machoke trying to do it's job: exists Silph: So anyways, I started asserting dominance

[@erikphillips7106]

I am pretty sure seviper has access to flamethrower which could have helped you beat Metagross

[@JoePlinkelton]

Ooooh I was hoping for Mothra to survive the run :( Still a great Run!

[@bobbanter5744]

Wow great video I love it here’s an idea Pokémon ultra sun using only grass type Pokémon

[@bobbanter5744]

And it is a hardcore nuzlocke

[@greendishatibaia9899]

Emerald has the added difficilty of Tate and Liza but Ruby\Sapphire has Steven. IMHO the key to beating him is either Weezing or Muk with flamethrower. Problem is that Metagross is a mixed attacker but remember Muk has the excellent acid armor move. Guess you need to beat Skarmory first with Tentacruel, then bring Muk in and start to set up. Give him the Shell Bell to recover.

[@gacha_cherry160]

You should have gave may marshtomp. Not that it matters that much tho

[@ShadowDemon-vf9ko]

Sooo close man. It was a very good attempt at that. I was thinking that crunch might have done more than earthquake against the Metagross since it's special defense is the weaker defense.

[@JCross413]

12:12, He does!? Dang, Silph! You got the man with legs of steel! 😉

[@taylornielsen1048]

That Metagross was always tough for me when I was little running through Sapphire.

[@samuraiyeeet]

The amount of work you put into your videos is insane!! Keep up the good work!

[@SilphSpectre]

Ay thanks so much Samurai, I do my best!