Can I Beat Pokemon Crystal with Our RIVAL'S TEAM & MOVES? 🔴 Pokemon Challenges ► NO ITEMS IN BATTLE

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In this video I take you along my ridiculous Pokemon Crystal Challenge Journey through the world of Johto in Generation 2 as I attempt to beat the entire game with only our rival's Pokemon and move set, and without using Items in Battle! Am I able to do it? Only one way to find out!
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[@MahDryBread]

Thunder Blast should be a move

[@fletch2772]

Big agree

[@You69420]

Thunderblast Deez Nuts

[@MahDryBread]

and flame point

[@fletch2772]

@@MahDryBread Can't wait for poisonbolt to be a move

[@Sapphire-qo2ij]

A handful of times you said hyper potion instead of hyper beam. Thats… comedic.

[@stuckinthemitchell2224]

So I have a suggestion. The Universal Pokémon Randomizer has an option in it to make impossible evolutions such as trade evolutions available to you. When doing a challenge like this in the future. If you activate that setting Pokémon like Kadabra should evolve around Lv37

[@garettturbettmusic]

Yu beat me to it

[@jffrancisco_]

I was about to ask if there wasn't an option to do that. So great! He should totally do it :)

[@NihlusKryik]

I think for GBA games you can use mGBA’s “multiplayer window” option to actually trade.

[@bongzilla9683]

been using this option to get the mons i could never normally get as a child, feels good

[@geojesse9230]

Agreed

[@zuloph]

Just remember to use retroactive super potions at full HP when you're playing with Blaine's team, otherwise you won't be a real Blaine

[@silverrey7379]

And also don't forget to spam Agility against fighting and poison types because it's "super effective"

[@venomous_mario]

"Thou shalt spam Rest with a Dewgong against a Fighting-type because the move is 'super effective'".

[@kirachi2754]

Two improvements that could have been made: 1. Use the Randomizer to turn Chikorita into Cyndaquil so you both have a Typhlosion at the end. 2. Mark the setting to make impossible evo’s possible by level up so Alakazam and Gengar could have been used

[@azurebunny6175]

It's also easy to set up project64 to read the save and trade with yourself on stadium 2 to evolve them

[@JonathanFaleri]

I feel like if you ever did another one of these in the future, you should use the pokemon randomizer to turn on "Change impossible evos". I usually just play with it on because its kinda annoying not being able to get some of the coolest pokemon in the game.

[@jraff2735]

yeah, I hate trade evolutions especially when they carry over into fangames (like pokemon tower defence), mainly because I don't have friends to trade with.

[@braydensonaslaughtmbve545]

Blaine: “You better have burn heal!” Also Blaine: *infinitely spams super potions on full health Pokémon*

[@Snowy_Yukitori]

*spams burn heals on my fire type*

[@sobblegaming350]

Its weird he has a random chance to use super potion

[@XeroStorm]

Dude's clearly in Big Pharma's pocket.

[@ThatOneWeirdFlex]

Why does he have super potions but Sabrina has hyper potions?

[@brianforsyth2225]

and almost never uses them to actually heal, funnily enough.

[@jiffbombastic3694]

Just to bring more attention to it, I agree with most everyone else that using the Universal Randomizer to gain the trade evolutions and other impossible ones is totally fine by us. I don’t see it as a huge deal, since the point of the challenge is to have certain Pokémon. Not having the final form is would be sad.

[@nessle420]

Hey, unsure if this was mentioned already but, even though you don’t need the randomizer for runs like this, you can still put your rom into it and enable the setting that allows you to evolve trade evo pokémon by levelling - it’d make you able to get pokemon like alakazam and gengar for this run. i’ve not tried with crystal though so i’m not certain, or if it really matters that you get the team exactly copied. anyways, really enjoyable video as always!

[@averytubestudios]

Was just about to write a comment about this. Glad someone else did it for me!

[@kingbeerz7978]

this is a good point. I was about to say as much. I think for authenticity of run, most people would be okay with him doing it.

[@AlexM-fv8lp]

Also made this comment but to his post. Thanks for posting this first tho!

[@Raziel1984]

and i realy dont think the rival tradet his kadabra and let the guy evolve it and then got it traded back... so the rival must be using the randomizer too

[@TomAmit42]

I use this particular setting on every playthrough I do, and most of my playthroughs are in Crystal.

[@robertlupa8273]

Hey, Crystal's back! That means animated sprites! Speaking if which, has anyone noticed that they're synched to Pokemon's cries? It's a really cool detail that the 3D model animations are sadly lacking.

[@jaredhaden1989]

I noticed that, that's the reason why CRYSTAL is my favorite, and just the music as well

[@lmaolol7702]

call me a gentwoer all you want but honestly, crystal might just be my favourite game in the series

[@getthegoons]

3D models were a mistake.

[@Grey_Warden_Invasion]

@@lmaolol7702 Unlike gen 1 the gen 2 games also aged really well.

[@robertlupa8273]

@@Grey_Warden_Invasion Um... arguable. Very arguable.

[@masterpollo32]

For this type of challenge you could set the Universal Pokémon randomiser to make evolution normally obtained by trading possible by level up, so you can have the exact same team by the end. It's both more correct with the definition and more usable to win the run.

[@aetherinfuse]

Silver is the best rival so far, fight me. Character development, cool backstory, best jerk rival....he's got it all.

[@gaminggoddess85]

And now all the rivals are friendly and supportive and barf. I wonder if parents complained to Nintendo about Silver's insults and bad attitude hurting their kids' feelings or something. He's toned down a lot in HGSS too.

[@aetherinfuse]

@@gaminggoddess85 Well, some religious parents acussed Pokémon of being a satanic worshiping game, so those levels of stupidity aren't a new thing. In my opinion, mean rivals give the lesson that not everyone is happy go lucky, and some people just aren't good. Keeping your cool and defeating them gives a moral boost to those children and teach that rudeness doesn't lead anywhere. Jerk rivals only become powerful trainers when their characters become more friendly. See Silver, who embraces Lance's philosophy and Bede, becoming a Gym Leader through talent alone.

[@grundgutigertv6170]

Some tipps to keep your recording room at a decent temperature: 1. Close the shutters. If you dont have those, buy them or get thick curtains. Let as little light in during the day as possible. Sunlight seriously heats up the room. 2. Only ventilate during the night or right before dawn, because thats when the air is coolest outside 3. Fill a big bucket or other tub like movable object with cool water and bathe yout feet in there. It helps. 4. Avoid using closed headphones if you dont need them. Your body also ventilates via the ears. Use ear plugs or speakers instead. Aside from that thanks for the Video again. Have a nice day.

[@IsaacComelli]

I recently saw a video on which a voice actor said many voice actors record in the buff and/or with ice packs around their neck.

[@SlvrStryker]

If I may add in a cute little comment for the next time you do this type of challenge, I would actually suggest *using* the Universal Pokemon Randomizer to replace the starter weak to your rival into your rival's starter. Why? Well, wouldn't it be more fun if you could literally go head-to-head to prove who uses the exact same team the best? =P

[@andreasCH22]

Exactly. Not sure why how he didn‘t think of that lol

[@aidanredding8058]

I think it'd be cool to do this in Platinum with Barry's team, problem is it requires the two rarest Honey Tree Pokemon.

[@gaminggoddess85]

Just cheat. I spent a week trying to get a Munchlax in Platinum before giving up. There's ways to tell which honey trees even have a chance of spawning Munchlax but it requires knowing the invisible PID that your save file gets assigned on creation that you can't see without using like Pokegen or PKHex and at that point you could just use it generate a Munchlax in one of your PC boxes without all the waiting bullcrap.

[@aidanredding8058]

@@gaminggoddess85 But that would be cheating

[@loganmacneill8874]

@@gaminggoddess85 that is cheating

[@gaminggoddess85]

@@loganmacneill8874 He already cheats to get his starters and infinite rare candies. Who would honestly care if he didn't delay a challenge video for possibly weeks just to get one absurdly rare pokemon?

[@davidciszewski7497]

We know you can do this. Failure isn't your middle name. You got this because your entertainment never fails. Fun fact I discovered you on a Pokémon Stadium Let's Play not a Pokémon Challange spite watching JROSE11 first.

[@CortezVontero2]

The universal Randomizer has a feature that makes Trade evolutions evolve by level up and its around the 30s so you can use that for playthroughs that require trade evolutions.

[@lavitzdies624]

Would love to see a Wally's team run in Hoenn! Love the channel!

[@sashasscribbles]

Oooooh hyped for the Blaine run! That sounds awesome. Also this was a really cool video which I really enjoyed, thank you MDB

[@YASH-_-Wanted]

00:30 Thunderblast sounds like a badass move though

[@nejinoniwa4804]

Here's a slightly silly idea. Level-up moves only, but no STAB moves (including status moves). Gen 2, 3 or 4? I'm still trying to come up with more ideas for runs where you could use legendaries.

[@lmaolol7702]

>level up only >no stab >gen 2 are you evil?

[@nejinoniwa4804]

@@lmaolol7702 Yes.

[@aarontenner6362]

I loved this episode! I can tell you really enjoyed making this challenge, and getting to see the level 30-ish haunter destroy the Snorlax was hilarious

[@mistermatt9143]

Seen a few other suggestions, so here's mine. I play a rom hack version called Perfect Crystal, makes all 251 pokemon available in the game, with trade pokemon evolving with stones instead. Makes the post game a lot harder too (red has all lvl 100s). might be worth a look at, could make for an interesting run one day

[@saltybot5449]

Loved the first rival team run, and I’m assuming that this one will be just as great

[@lukebooker5885]

Yes, a Blaine run. Can't wait for you to show him how to battle.

[@mitchcoleman1238]

This video was really fun to watch!! Maybe you should make it into a mini series where you can only use the teams of gym leaders for the challenges!!! Great vid!

[@dakotashroom5401]

This is very exciting and entertaining. I didn't expect it to go so well. But, next week's challenge sounds very entertaining, too.

[@clams1224]

Hey MDB, since you already use the Universal Pokemonrandomizer here is a tip for the next time. If u wanna use a Pokemon that would normally require a trade or a trade with an item to evolve you can activate the CHANGE IMPOSSIBLE EVOS on the randomizer. It makes most of the Tradeevos evolve at lvl.45 to my knowledge.

[@ColdEmperor]

That's a bit high for some of them. Alakazam and Gengar I understand but Poliwrath and Scizor? 40 and 30 (respectively) makes more sense.

[@Robin93k]

@@ColdEmperor I remember it being Level 37... But maybe it changed during updates...

[@TomAmit42]

00:40 The Universal Pokemon Randomizer (which you use all the time) has a setting that changes Trade Evolutions into Level-up Evolutions (level 30 or 37, depending on the Pokemon). I'm shocked you're not familiar with that.

[@bombademar4711]

You should have used the randomizer to replace chikorita with cyndaquil so that you and the rival both had the exact same team :D

[@clreyawesome3527]

I swear that gengar profile pic is perfect. "I need to go back to playing the sims again" with that annoyed face is amazing.

[@powerman923]

Loving the crystal runs!

[@dk2853]

Cool challenge. I love how the whole team worked together on the Red fight.

[@AceOfSerberit]

I love how much a level 31 Haunter did in the fight against Red

[@christianwhite7294]

9:01 NOT THE IMAGINARY GEN 2 FIRE TYPE MOVE “FLAME POINT”😂 Jkjk keep up the good work✌🏾❤️

[@IsabellaP4ndora]

that final battle was amazing!!!

[@Riftrulz]

Holy heck! I did this challenge with Silver's team in Sword and Shield like eight months ago! XD It was super fun! Really interesting to watch Johto! Thanks for the quality content~

[@sagacious03]

Saying this before I watch: Almost certainly yes. You have a full team of decent Pokemon; People can beat these with 1 Pokemon, so any more than 2 should be a cakewalk by comparison. But using NPC's Pokemon does it spice up a lot. Anyway, excited for this run video! Thanks for uploading! Will probably comment more later!

[@diamonddeity4607]

He’s just casually beating an entire Pokémon game for each video

[@bamsuchanan]

Haven't been getting suggested any of your videos the past like 3 months+. Not sure why because I'm subbed w notifications on. I thought you stopped uploading.

[@dragan0012]

That red fight was amazing

[@LTDextel]

Well done with that red fight. You are truly an amazing Pokémon trainer!

[@Elfman126]

This was a cool challenge. Silver is my favourite Pokémon character and the first person I faced in a video game since Pokémon Silver was my first video game I ever played at the age of 2 in 2004.

[@TomAmit42]

01:54 🦇💚 Whenever I want a Crobat in a Gen 2 game, I wait untill I can get a Friend Ball (right after the 4th gym). Any Pokemon caught in a Friend Ball can achieve Friendship Evolution within just 10 levels. So if you use a Friend Ball on a Zubat Lv 13 or lower, then it will become Crobat at Lv 23 (just one Level after becoming Golbat at Lv 22).

[@SwiftWill]

Really interesting run and ending! Looking forward to Blaine’s team run!

[@patrickm-l3679]

the entei is a pretty cool feature of this episode, thanks for the content

[@rpgfan007]

great strategy with curse that was awesome!

[@tb3411]

I'm so glad the phys/spec split gave Sneasel a buff. Always loved Sneasel even back when it was overlooked prior to Gen 4.

[@zidarose]

Always enjoy the challenges

[@leothewhiteranger]

That last fight was AMAZING

[@Aegisoftheshine]

You should do a run with only priority moves it seems very interesting as speed doesn’t matter as much and the low base power is a cool challenge technician could be very helpful, As for the generation probably go with the newest one you want to, gen six could be interesting since you get access to water shuriken(one of only two special priority moves alongside vacuum wave)

[@fisher7865]

Love these team challenges

[@QueenElzaim]

Good ol' Thunder Blast. Classic move, but I get why you don't wanna rely on it.

[@wrvolkmann]

I'm 100% here for a sims lets-play. Nice run!!

[@SirBroadsword]

That Red battle was _exceptionally_ well-fought The combination of PP-stalling, curse cheese _and_ smokescreen cheese is just absolutely -chef's kiss-. Bloody good show, sir.

[@AndresLionheart]

That poor Charizard at the end xD. Took 6 Smokescreens, Curse and palarylisis. Just needed a little bit of confusion on top of that to be the most status afflicted pokemon I have seen.

[@gaminggoddess85]

Add a sandstorm or hail for one final middle finger.

[@Kagnis1]

Yeah, use that thunderblast and Thunder. Just teasing you MDB, Glad for the rival runs.

[@Project129]

An idea to try for later using the universal Pokémon Randomizer: There is a choice to make impossible evolutions (Trade) possible for games, at least in the ones I have used. It would instead be tied to a level evolution which, at least in the future, would allow you to have trade evolutions for rival teams. Love your content, loved the video, and I hope you're having a blessed day MDB.

[@mr.mimikyu2342]

Omg that ending tho was insane

[@chrisswanepoel7389]

That last fight was a real giantkiller battle - usually you have the crazy high level singular big bad against a team.

[@llOathkeeperll]

Wow. Good strats against Red. Respect.

[@TrixWithStrix]

I would have nicknamed the Kadabra and Haunter Alakazam and Gengar, respectively. Great content as always, MDB.

[@slippy318]

Not surprised at all you beat Red that early, honestly. The rival's team is very good in Gen 2 except for Sneasel. When the challenge started I immediately thought Crobat would wall out Red's Venusaur, and Haunter would wall the Snorlax.

[@The_Viridian]

Great video, that Red fight was very impressive, but for Red’s Snorlax, you used Mean Look and then swapped out. However, Mean Look only works if the Pokémon that used it stays in battle. This didn’t end up mattering, but just a tip for future reference.

[@FrostyFyre]

0:34 ahh yes *Thunder Blast* my favourite electric-type move!

[@NatsumeAyanami]

Just to Add vision to it, Jourdan Plante has a suggestion I think is great, using a either the UPR or a cheat device to allow illegal evolutions like this, especially for challenges like this one. Love your stuff and keep it up!

[@SomeGuy712x]

Wow, pretty awesome beating Red at such a low level. For your next Blaine's team run, remember to attempt to use Super Potions on your full-health Pokémon occasionally.

[@twosidedwolf3923]

Ohhh the Blane one Gona be fun rember to use the full restores randomly

[@jdawg2798]

Thunder blast? Flame point? You okay MDB? ;) haha!!

[@Zorgdub]

I'm impressed by how well this team did.

[@SiegmundXD7]

one trick I picked up, from *rimworld* of all places, is that if you're in a room that's stupid hot and can't fix it you can leave a bowl of ice water in the room and the temperature exchange will make a 1-2 foot pocket of air that's just barely less awful humidity can become a thing after a while but if you're still too hot there's now a large supply of ice-cold water that's within arm's reach

[@tokidensetsu]

Just a tip on the gameshark code: It "deleted" your items because you probably only used the "Change Slot 1 item into rare candy", so it "used up" the number on slot 1 and proceeded to turn whatever was on 2 into Rare candy. Next time, you should "combo" it with a code to set the item ammount on slot 1 (say, to 99). Hope this helps and great video as always!

[@garettturbettmusic]

Sounds like you need to get one of those portable air conditioners for that room!

[@tanner6260]

Love seeing you use other people's teams for challenges! Blaine should be interesting... I would love to see one using Whitney's team in gen 2!

[@Rob_Thorsman]

Blaine's team but you have to behave like Blaine's AI.

[@tanner6260]

Blaine's team but you have to use at least one super potion in every major battle.

[@Region13man]

That was the most impressive Red fight I’ve ever seen.

[@Kagnis1]

Rival team the anti red team?! Outstanding run MDB!

[@WolfieLuchis]

Hey man, I love your videos, one question: if you use the universal Pokémon randomizer for starters why not use it for imposible evolutions?

[@conza1989]

Very very nice! Btw which fossils uhh?

[@Robochuck]

I love this type of challenge where it is not about the difficulty, it is about using the restriction creatively. Multi-pokemon, but sorta balanced and a decent moveset breeds creativity. The curse manoeuvre was great. And yeah… Kadabra is just a beast! Alakazam is better, but Kadabra on its own can very much hold the fort. It is a frail, but very fast (105) and with impressive spatk (120)

[@Rebelsk8s]

Awesome that Khymera even ships to the EU now :) I always thought some of those shirt looked fantastic^^ -no this is not an ad-

[@djkates1916]

20:12 Correct. In Gens 1 and 2, no enemy Pokémon have Stat Experience. (Also, fun fact, their DV's are set in the case of Trainers' Pokémon. It's a single set of values for Gen 1, whereas for Gen 2, each different Trainer class has a specific set of DV's that all of its Pokémon will have.)

[@eagless7778]

Well that ending was a great plot twist for a full team run

[@davidhughesherrera313]

Just watched the Dorkly's literal Pokedex entry that was uploaded the same day as this video and.. you both talk about the same Rhyhorn pokedex entry, what a coincidence!!

[@samperez1727]

Awesome challenge. By the way, you don't have to wait several real-life hours to change the time of day in Gen 2. All you need to do is go to your mom's house and change the time. That should automatically allow you to switch between day and night, change the spawning Pokemon, and even reset daily events if you change the day. Really good strategy for farming the Tm for Return and potentially Bug Catching Contest items. It wasn't until later generations until they tried to prevent clock manipulation and reduce day/night events, which made the games slightly less interesting and slightly more grindy, benefitting no one.

[@MaverickZ3r0]

Couple of options for the Rare Candy cheat. You can either buy a ton of cheap items like Antidotes and put them at the top, or you can also use a cheat that locks in how many you have at 99, since there's item quantity modifying cheats too. It doesn't have to eat your inventory.

[@crh1985]

When you use a “item cheat” aka rare candy use a “number of items” cheat so you don’t burn through your items

[@ChipRed87]

If you are worried about game shark codes ruining your save file, you could always make a copy of your "Battery" for that cartridge. That way you have a backup if you do break something.

[@naraiceylob]

Getting curse off twice with a haunter in the 30s in terms of levels is amazing.

[@NBKGaming-pe3up]

I love seeing you use My favorite starter

[@foxbird123]

Lmao nice. My phone lagged a little bit, so the premier ended before the video ended for me. At the time the video actually ended for me, KZbin said it ended 69 seconds ago.

[@HeyRyanLetsPlay]

@ 0:30 Ah yes the most well known move in the game. Thunderblast

[@TheVenasaur101]

For trade evolutions, I believe in the randomiser you can tick a box to allow impossible evolutions. I believe this changes trade evolutions into evolving at a certain level. I thought this might be useful so you can be even more accurate with full team challenges in future :)

[@jonathanmarks3112]

A few requests: Gen 3 with Maxie and Archie’s teams and moves (either one run with six or two runs with three) Gens 3-5 with the Rival’s teams and moves (with 2 separate runs for Cheren and Bianca)

[@066kshitizvsingh4]

I believe one run with 4(Mighyena and Crobat are same for both of them so to prevent dupes).

[@jonathanmarks3112]

@@066kshitizvsingh4 That could also work!

[@randycase6699]

Would love to see a challenge run in a game from Gen 6-8 for some new variety

[@perfectspare3009]

0:31 relying on *THUNDER BLAST* and Thunder…come on, MDB I thought you were better than that xD

[@kasumi5772]

Sneasel, high Attack, Dark/Ice type, which are special in gen 2 Gastly, high Sp.Atk, Ghost/Poison type, which are physical in gen 2 10/10 game design

[@dylanflores97]

Helpful Suggestion/Video Idea: you can change a setting in the randomizer to make impossible trade evos possible. Because of this you can do a trade evo video (Alakazam, Golem, Gengar, etc.) in the game of your choice. It could be a great way for you to get to use some strong Pokémon you haven’t had access to before.

[@derekoden9337]

GG. That was an amazing run. Isn't there a way to set up "cable transfer" with emulators? If so you should have a trade only file, that would open up more opportunities for different runs.

[@pkmntrainermark8881]

Incredible Red fight.

[@TheOneOrMore]

That was an awesome Red fight. A Blaine challenge is only complete if you Super Potion on a full health Pokémon. Though I'd love to see another Oblivion run. Maybe with only stolen equipment? Just a suggestion

[@halo3pownage]

0:31 yes thunder blast, my favorite move