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

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Steel types are very physically bulky and powerful, but they suffer from low speed and HP. But what if we got access to the full spectrum of Steel encounters in Pokémon SoulSilver... could they beat the game's hardest challenge?
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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 one type? Today we find out: can I beat a Pokemon SoulSilver Hardcore Nuzlocke with only Steel types? 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.
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[@SilphSpectre]

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[@s4pphi]

I would actually play hyper fever over raid, no joke

[@Mad_Hatter117]

22:00 Scisor looks great with the rocket outfit!

[@emblemwarrior11]

That joke ad read had me rolling, lol.

[@MostDopeGlizzy]

You You

[@Dahaka-rd6tw]

3:04 wait till you meet Colress

[@lukejenkins1258]

I love these steel type runs. They’re rare but they’re fun to use in nuzlockes due to their durability.

[@Noobly533]

Dunno. Seems easier than a regular nuzlocke.

[@imamagg0t]

@@Noobly533how? You could use the same Pokémon in a normal nuzlock

[@ParasaurolophusZ]

When I saw Beldum, I was worried you'd have to slog through with only Take Down. I guess the special encounter one has real moves!

[@njivwathomassilavwe2056]

That second silver battle was one of the most stressful things I've ever experienced

[@deancombs4075]

Bro trade me lives if yours is that easy lmao

[@abrarkadabrar7829]

​@@deancombs4075 doesn't have to be a contest lol the battle was genuinely panic inducing

[@dylanlabon9667]

I've never used a Steelix, so I was unaware of how much beefiness it had. What a surprising carry.

[@cosmic5789]

It’s defense stat is just insane. Spdef, not so much. An ember would destroy it but it could probably take a flair blitz

[@Dizzybumz]

I like that you do a lot of gen 2 remakes, as they are my favorite games from the series. Favorite Pokémon KZbinr by far.

[@VenomousWolverine]

Platinum, Diamond, Pearl and these Heartgold/Soulsilver nuzlocks are an immediate must watch for me as I still consider them the best gen and games.

[@deester7914]

They’re the perfect balance between difficulty and giving you moveset and item flexibility. The only real downside is the Pokédex lmao

[@4Tom4lepus4]

@@VenomousWolverine Same, I love gen 4, especially HGSS. But then, the only games i skip with challenges are Gen 8 and Gen 9 just because the open world thing kinda ruins nuzlockes for me, idk why.

[@tipiilegends5482]

@@4Tom4lepus4 I think it’s just really tough to tell with encounters and stuff. And it honestly makes it much easier. I think black and white are also really fun to nuzlocke

[@pikminman13]

@@VenomousWolverinehgss still has a lot of gen 2’s problems. A blend of it and oras would be better. Why houndour is still postgame is beyond me.

[@flameshock1013]

Silph: I don't think steel types care too much about love and friendship to be honest. Lucario: *sad steel type noises*

[@rannes2949]

You should try the flying only hardcore nuzlocke challenge for black 2 and white 2. This is very hard with all the colress battles since it uses a lot of electric Pokémon and steel, flying not being very effective on steel types and Elisa the 4th gym leader. Choose tepig for making it even harder. It also is hard bc of the many ice Pokémon from zinzolin.

[@ryanstork851]

The levels in this game are so awful. You have 5 badges and a BOSS BATTLE starts with a LVL18 DROWZEE

[@longfork5284]

I agree but this game Soul silver specifically has a special place in my heart

[@kanak9305]

@@longfork5284 or rather, in your soul

[@jealousyxanderblood7894]

Even if you spread the exp around, battle every single trainer and equally level all your mons, youre only gonna hit 35-40 which is insanely low and i always hated that. not to mention the E4 starts out at lvl 40 and eventually Lance has dragonites that are level 47 and a level 48 aerodactyl😅

[@ryandiaz9634]

@@jealousyxanderblood7894That’s because you get to go to Kanto and do their gyms so they keep the levels lower

[@jealousyxanderblood7894]

@@ryandiaz9634 i get that, but they couldve easily made the kanto gyms a lot higher in level. Gen 3 you’ll be around 44-47 for the E4, Gen 4 is around the same, and BW& BW2 are some of the highest with near lvl 60 at the E4. Johto is by far the lowest

[@markurial154]

Love the steel type, but more importantly the bug type. Seeing Forretress in the intro has me instantly hyped. 🤞

[@martinpiekarski1512]

Agreed. It's one of better 2nd gen Pokemon design-wise. Which 2nd gen has quite a lot of, to be honest.

[@acriolu]

Am I working? Yes, am I still gonna watch a Silph Nuzlocke while I kinda work, definitely. Y nadie me diga nada!

[@SilphSpectre]

Apologies to Lui's boss!

[@troyb5362]

One of my favourite runs I’ve done was also a steel only Soul Silver playthrough! Was my first time using Scizor after admiring it for years, did not disappoint. Awesome vid Silph!

[@fufucuddlypoops20]

While I do like Sizzor and Metang more then Steelix Steeling was looking super intimidating next to the rocket grunt outfit

[@siragtoranian3285]

My favorite thing about this is the metal band names for the mons🤘❤️

[@nickbeilschmidt411]

amazing job as always! I always look forward to your new videos and once I'm all caught up, I binge the older ones lol also, a BIG thank you for mentioning the beautiful location previews because I've been searching for them to make custom 3DS themes with and couldn't figure out what they were officially called :P now I can make them!

[@brandongardener5120]

Loved the naming theme for this run. Great run as usual

[@zach6458]

As a metal head I love that you chose to name all the pokemon after some of the gods of metal

[@jacobgannon9674]

The reason magneton goes down is because charizard was in Blaze and it looked like that was a plus attack nature charizard unless it hit a high roll against your magneton. Neutral nature Blaze boosted fire fang charizard against naive magneton has a chance to ko anything below 30 iv (depending on how many defense EVs are on it)

[@schwartiful5578]

I'm so glad youtube somehow showed me one of your videos due to Pokemon algorithm. Really enjoy your Nuzlocks, watched all of them a few times and it makes me wanna play all the games again. Can't wait for the next one !

[@CapteenCracker]

Never thought I’d see you name your Pokémon after metal bands🎸

[@errorcrx6453]

3:46 I just realized that Beldum is shaped like the arm of a metagross

[@anthonyanglemyer]

This run was fun to watch. Well done! 🙂

[@joshuamora1093]

Love theses videos 😂they find me all the time and you actually know about what your talking about when it comes to items , strategy etc keep the videos up I’m for sure watch em lol

[@L337N1NJ4L1NK]

The reason the AI for Bugsy wouldn't use U-Turn to switch to Kakuna is because Kakuna couldn't possible hit Juda since it only knows Poison Sting to attack with. The AI will never switch to a Pokemon that can't hit your Pokemon unless it has no choice.

[@incognitoinhell8742]

Steel type runs are so rare, given how rare Steel Pokémon tend to be. Nice to see them get some love. Have you thought of doing a Bug Type run of Gen 4/BDSP? I'd imagine the use of the Honey Trees would make it a different kind of challenge

[@giocaughtzzz]

We need to get Pokémon Challenges to react to one of your nuzlockes 🙏🏻

[@pogotick]

Gosh darn yes, i love soul silver play throughs!! Can’t wait to watch this after work 😊

[@jaimebernardovg]

This metal - steel theme is amazing. It Made me headbang through the run!! 🎸🤘

[@ondrejklimes6605]

I told myself i will scroll down the comment section till i find comment related to the name theme. I really enjoyed it too it made the run evenmore fun

[@abrarkadabrar7829]

Hell yeah! Gotta love old school Metal! 🤘

[@PlasticFlamingoo]

Oooh finally I get every nickname this time Metagross- Judas Priest Forretress- Motley Crue Magneton- Manowar Steelix- Iron Maiden Skarmory- Linkin park Scizor- Alice Cooper Lucario- Rammstein (my personal favorite, I got to see them live last year) Bronzong- Megadeth

[@TheHeatblaze]

brothers in metal! love to see manowar getting some love and acknowledgment lol

[@neehime6]

The heart gold soul silver nuzlockes are the best. Great work as always!

[@blakeschwab7518]

damn fortress is one hell of a tank surving that 4x dmg fire fang reliably. fun run man

[@ryanshuler2362]

Happy to see you getting better luck with natures this run! :)

[@dontub7078]

I was down but it made me smile to see that you did another run c:

[@TheGBZard]

I would way Scizor is the coolest mon to have with the rocket outfit. Also I agree, this run was really cool, metagross, scizor and lucario are 3 of my favorite steel types

[@austintome]

Agreed!

[@freebird1621]

Bullet punching that Gengar was such a smart play

[@derekisaza5605]

Great video as always Silph! I think Dyeelix looked the best with the Rocket outfit!

[@sebastiancastillo2882]

HGSS nuzlockes are damn great, could you do a water one? That would be great

[@rb4734]

I just watched an older run exactly like this from antler boy. It was about a year old, steel and soul silver. Curious how different Silph plays it!

[@dmejia51]

All I got to say it took me second to realize why you choose those nicknames until chucks gym and then it hit me so hard. All I have to say is extremely clever and also big big fans 😂.

[@BigHeadDeadass]

My fave type from my fave nuzlocker! Good to see ya again

[@wolflover699]

Loving the references to metal bands via the nicknames 🤘🏼

[@0gsn0x8]

I love that every single encounter here was a top tier ou mon at one point or another

[@nightmare348]

Awh yeah, this is gonna be good. Back when the Steel type was resisted to Dark and Ghost as well, but before the dirge of Fairies coming to feast on Dragon souls.

[@starblitzz7283]

Great job again mate! Almost 250k, we're on our way! The steel type is a personal favorite of mine, it seems so cool, and my favorite right now has to be the steel-type Steelix.

[@Gwynbleidd1724]

Silph with the S tier content

[@SilphSpectre]

Steel tier? Steelix tier? Silph tier? So many possibilities!

[@adamwallaesa9574]

I love the nickname theme. Classic metal bands for a steel type team!

[@Nejifangal1]

Always love your runs, Silph! Keep up the awesomeness!! ^-^

[@abrarkadabrar7829]

Two encounter in and I can already tell the naming scheme. I LOVE old school OG metal bands. Looking forward to this challenge! 😁

[@zacheason3813]

I always love watching your content it always makes me wanna play these games again. Your content always makes my day better thank you!

[@sixtales7681]

Never once have I seen Red's Pikachu take down a Pokémon of yours. But also, it had a Light Ball? No wonder.. still! This was a great video! Totally not biased since.. Steel is my second favorite type.

[@Gobl_943]

As a side note for future HG/SS HC Nuzlockes, the randomizer has an option to "Change Impossible Evolutions". Which allows trade evos like Scyther, Onix and others to evolve without needing to trade them. And it allows Pokemon like Magneton and Nosepass to evolve without needing a specific area to trigger the evolution. And an option to "Make Evolutions Easier" and "Remove Time-Based Evolutions" Those mainly allows normally high level Pokemon to evolve at lower levels and not only makes friendship evos much easier to get, but split evos requiring it to be day or night gets removed and they become stone evos instead.

[@DeviantLightDragon]

What a great run!! That was a ton of fun to watch, Juda was definitely the mvp, but Maiden was my favorite.

[@UndeadJohnGaming]

"WHAT IN THE CINNAMON TOAST F--K" XD I cackled!!

[@raymondfrisbie8084]

Great video, Ive been watching your vids the last 2 years and your editing, comedy and overall quality of your vids has grown exponentially, keep it up!

[@forrestpatterson6053]

That was a really kind comment. I’m going to watch more of the old videos now.

[@cullenhutchison6528]

At least some steel types care about friendship. Lucario is a friendship evolution, after all. (Technically Silvally-steel too since you can evolve Type: Null while it is holding a Steel Memory, if you count that.)

[@LAZERAK47V2]

"Chikorita looks weird on the overworld." MUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRSTAKE!

[@Chris-yb8bg]

Damn, was really excited for hyper fever too

[@benwarped7272]

I was like "IS IT SUNDAY❓" thanks for this Tasty Tuesday Treat, Silphy. Much love❕❕ Great type for a SS run❕

[@deuce2252]

Scizor! Looks so good next to you in a rocket uniform. Steel too!

[@eastonharger8948]

Watching these always makes me wanna play Pokemon Ive never tried even a normal nuzzlock and I'm kinda old school so I don't know all that small details anymore but Silph teaches me lol

[@twixthehyena]

My man really put the metal pipe into the first 10 seconds! Classic Silph!

[@Warlord_Megatron]

Man of culture

[@craigbolton2231]

I remember spending hours in silver using thief on magnamite to get a steel coat. Luck wasn't on my side

[@YuriHelps]

Love the naming theme, Iron Maiden, Manowar, motley crue, and Judas priest! Couldn't remember the other 2 tho.

[@RebelShardCaster]

I really wish the Pokemon series kept the whole 'fight the last game's Protag' thing. it would of made each game feel more connected and added a nice extra layer of challenge. Bonus points if it checked for the previous games save data and used the team you brought to beat the Elite 4.

[@RelaxinSam]

I like seeing Scissor next to you as a rocket grunt, matching colors

[@aniekwegter703]

absolutely love the names on this one. very clever!!

[@cubber2139]

Great video silph did not no a lot of new stuff about pokemon silver never played it im going to get it one day still what a awesome nuzlocke

[@Csalahydn]

Steelix looked so badass next to you in the rocket outfit 🔥🔥 her eyes actually match the color scheme 😮

[@Tony-112]

"STAB super effective specs boosted 95 powered thunderbolt .⚡" Damn that sounds good

[@RiderOfTheNight3]

I love the naming theme for this run

[@BlakeAnswers]

Random comment, but the other day I was rewatching your True Power/TP Tournament series and got such nostalgia. Do you think those will ever come back? I swear, I've never seen any other Pokétuber do that kind of research AND PUT IT TO USE in such a creative way as a tournament. It sort of mixed my fave things when it comes to Pokémon (teams/lore analysis and actual wi-fi battles). I can't be the only one that wants to see that series make a comeback! :)

[@evident5961]

You had some sweet natures this run

[@deathmerchant4565]

Best SoulSilver run I've seen.

[@gavinyouthought5024]

Silph, I have watched every single one of these at least 3 times I need more

[@user-nu3fq6bi7c]

I'm proud of Juda! Juda made a lot of hard work alone.

[@GwapRs]

The 2nd silver fight, bro dodged a flinch,confusion,accuracy check and laugh-cried all the way to the pokecenter

[@latenightgaming5057]

A full steel type team is my 2nd favorite. Just great defense and power.

[@ipablo760]

I like the theme to your nicknames on this run💪🏾

[@ethanhess8230]

I think the lady that mentioned you going to Kanto is coded to say that if you have any national dex mons registered, which you did because of Juda. One of those interesting quirks about the earlier Pokémon games where you expose some of the underlying scripts by doing something you technically aren’t supposed to.

[@SilphSpectre]

Yeah it's super interesting actually. I thought the event flag for this would have actually been stepping in Kanto, not merely having a Pokémon from outside Johto. Very cool!

[@CodeRed0108]

Great vid ! Try doing some Roms !! Love to see you nuzlocke eternal x or renegade platinum

[@Itachiduden]

Love the theme for the names 🤘 just hope you dont forget tenac and ious D

[@mazharsiddiqi7288]

Awesome video Before Lance I was certain would go deathless until Red at least

[@HDGamerofficial]

I’m only 3 mins in and I’ve already heard one of the best lines ever 3:05 😂😂😂 “What in the cinnamon toast f**k…” 🤣🤣🤣

[@runeplay2]

And you even beat Vaporeon on some nice hp... very nice xD

[@kisslevente4109]

I recently got into gen 3 OU and seeing Skarmory using Roost made ,my heart skip a beat :DD

[@darius8542]

literally right before you acquired riolu, I thought to myself, "he should name a mon after Rammstein", and then you did and I lost my mind

[@abrarkadabrar7829]

S A M E ! The naming scheme is insane and it's endearing. I love my old school Metal 🤘

[@zetto8678]

Love the fact the naming scheme for the steel type run was metal bands 🤟

[@Nintendogamer757]

Scizor + the Rocket uniform 🔥

[@martinwright9158]

Did this run a long time ago changed the starters to Sinnoh starters but I didn’t kno about the guy that gives beldum back then 😅 what a fun run

[@ClashinCrow4239]

I just realized you named the pokemon after heavy metal bands "steel" type, lol love the vids keep it up

[@cheshire5830]

Scizor that red to go with the red and black rocket scheme is perfection 💋

[@Fotbollshugo]

New silph video, this day just became fantastic

[@DFPWeaponX]

Awesomely ironic, a few days ago I forced my crew to listen to manowar none of whom had ever heard of them before.

[@matthewbaker1938]

This man had me on edge for the whole first part of the game… 1 hp survivals? Random crits busting past iron defense… 😅

[@fashie4968]

This is my fave naming theme of yours. Metal bands \m/

[@visioapparel4302]

Ok not gonna lie that hyper fever thing had me GOING for a while lol

[@Jarvachu]

SAY IT WITH ME NOW! SILPH...O'CLOCK... BABAAAAAY!!!! 🙌🔥

[@evie2670]

Love how you said Mario kart wii when showing super mario galaxy. Jokes aside the wii brings such nostalgia to me as it was my first ever console, with mario kart and super mario galaxy being some of my favorite games.

[@MrTiggeroo22]

siiiiiilph i love your videos they're so good and the comedy is perfectly timed. in my pokemon white 2 file, i caught a kingdra and named it Silph. Also, Siczor looks the coolest

[@SilphSpectre]

Glad you're enjoying them Branden, and haha no way! I'm honored. Take good care of him!

[@MrTiggeroo22]

@@SilphSpectre i most definitely will