Can I Beat Pokemon Gold with ONLY Normal Types? 🔴 Pokemon Challenges ► NO ITEMS IN BATTLE

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In this video I take you along my ridiculous Pokemon Gold Challenge Journey through the world of Johto in Generation 2 as I attempt to beat the entire game with only Normal Type Pokemon, and without using Items in Battle! Am I able to do it? Only one way to find out!
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[@Ghost26968]

Hey, I remember that normal run! "...12 years ago" *proceeds to turn to dust*

[@Zek3nator]

I still want Ruby with a team of Blastoise, Golem, and Octillery. Mystery Dungeon said it couldn’t be done.

[@ricardoj376]

Why would that be impossible? That's a crazy powerful team.

[@Zek3nator]

@@ricardoj376 It’s a campaign idea that was brought up in response to an story beat in Mystery Dungeon where a team of Octillery, Gollem and Blastoise all lose to Groudon. MDB jokingly said that he wanted to do that team as a challenge run.

[@ricardoj376]

@@Zek3nator I had no idea

[@SchradeNation]

Furret? Hold up, let him walk.

[@Pershath08]

Challenge Idea: Pokemon Red using only signature moves. Waterfall/twinneedle/crabhammer/spore/bonemerang/etc.

[@sunnyfennekk7335]

i second this

[@silverrey7379]

SPLASH

[@GelatinCoffee]

i feel like this could even be expanded on. "pokemon _____ with only that generation's signature moves". so even if a pokemon is the only one able to use the move. it isn't allowed outside of the generation it was introduced

[@J05TI]

Yes! But also, this challenge would be trivial. Isn't spore the signature move of Paras and parasect?

[@TheNoteblockLizard]

Qwilfish plz :3 Also, a "1% Encounter Only" challenge, where you only use Pokemon who have a 1% encounter rate, could be fun depending on the game.

[@ratspew932]

Having to catch at least 6 mons with a 1% encounter rate doesn't sound fun

[@AKLFratGuy]

Oh yeah. A Gen 2 swarm team would be a good challenge and he can cheat the encounter rate up.

[@GSamus14]

Fun fact: Gen 2 Sleep Talk can trigger Rest even when you are asleep, which is why Gen 2 Player battles have by far and away the average largest turn count.

[@151monka]

Yeah, gen2 has lots of stall tactics. Not gen5 level, but gen2 is still a lot

[@faerylnhiikira1053]

MDB: "The only Special Move Hoothoot/Noctowl can learn is dream eater." Me: "Ackchually, Hoothoot learns Confusion at level 34 in Gen 2. Noctowl at 41. That said, like other commenters have already pointed out, Girafarig would be really useful for your Normal-only run as a Normal/Psychic type.

[@wildstorm3486]

There are 2 reasons why your Snorlax out speed Red’s even though it was 15 Lvs lower. 1)in these early gens obtaining certain badges grants your Pokemon stat buffs. 2) A players Pokemon gets stat experience. For beating Pokemon in battle. It’s a lot like EV’s in later gens. These two combined allowed your under leveled Snorlax to out speed.

[@somegal3836]

Addittionally, at least in gen 1, all trainers had Mid DVs for all their stats (8 in everything except for attack which is 9). So if gen 2 is the same, MDB's snorlax could have had a higher speed DV than red's.

[@GelatinCoffee]

he probably forgot about #1, he says in more of the recent gen 1 challenges at some point in the video "and i completely forgot. no i techincally failed because i'm not restarting a match every time the enemy hits me with a status move, which activates the badge boost glitch"

[@plasmabeaver551]

"Most of his pokemon like using Strategies.. MY POKEMON, just hit really hard." This is one of the best quotes in a Pokémon run I've ever heard!

[@codenate02]

"The only stat that I am interested in changing is changing the opponent's health to 0"

[@qinaxin7107]

So as far as how you outsped red's snorlax with yours despite being much lower level, part of that is because you get boosts to stats from having certain badges. But npcs (even those who canonically have those badges) don't get those boosts. Anyways, going to keep asking for black/white with a ralts. Comments are good for the youtube algorithm.

[@OverChimera]

Ha nice and that would be a good run

[@inflationking01]

How about a ghost only in black for Halloween this year?

[@Detective_L]

Not sure if you should bother with requests because they mostly get ignored

[@piratebear3126]

When Heart Gold came out, I got a Kangaskahn before Whitney because Kanga can be caught on the first Poke Walker route if you go for a long walk irl. She ended up being a cornerstore of my team and my favorite Johto Normal type I've used. And while Kanga in HG is fun, I'll still recommend Stunky in Heart Gold for a 4th week in a row.

[@kabirdang1346]

Kanga is not a johto mon but that is a very fun memory!

[@domain2genus]

Ooh, having done a Stunky run for fun in Platinum years ago I would love to see MDB take on that challenge.

[@nimbus7727]

Great run, MDB! A little shocked you didn’t use Girafarig! It would likely have helped with some of the physical walls due to access to STAB Psychic (and I think it learns T-Bolt).

[@nunocarvalho6671]

Yeah, giraf probably would have made a huge difference

[@zorquil]

Also, if he had Girafarig instead of Tauros, it would have been a "Full Gen 2 Normal" team. :>

[@angterrastriker6535]

​@@zorquilsnorlax is a gen 1 mon

[@zorquil]

I made the comment before he added Snorlax to the team. :

[@jackdiddles4304]

there's no thunderbolt tm in gold/silver unfortunately. it still does learn thunder/crunch/shadow ball which really could've come in useful

[@TheSeannn9]

The fight Vs red really shows the importance of EVs and badge boosts in this game. Its such a handicap not having them

[@jenjenhocho3188]

11:02 MDB: It's always so weird when there's a gym that's noticeably easier than the ones that came before it. Also MDB: Dunks on Blaine every time. 😂

[@SomeGuy712x]

(13:24) Well, it helped that you got two flinches with your Stomps. Clair probably was indeed trying to spam Surf with her Kingdra, but only successfully got one of them off. (23:33) Outrage is a special attack in this game, so Reflect would not have softened it at all, though it would've halved the damage from Hyper Beam if he decided to use that. (28:30) And that's game! Snorlax was certainly the MVP after you caught it.

[@royplatt455]

Hey, MDB! Normal types are always fun to watch due to their sheer move type variety. On an unrelated note, that nostalgia trip going all the way back to the first ever Normal Run was kinda heartwarming. As a symbol of our appreciation for you, and because it's also a normal type, this would be the perfect time for a Platinum Lopunny Solo!

[@bivcbmtgstgtssscqcrddgtrsm2257]

I don’t come for the challenges themselves as much as how fun these videos are nowadays.

[@shadowjoker285]

Milk man Mike is on his way to your location

[@asham868]

I did a normal type run in Ultra Moon. It was one of my favorite runs, next to my ground type run. Dunsparce was a cornerstone of my team

[@chrisswanepoel7389]

This seemed like a surprisingly balanced team run. Even though there were stronger and weaker team members, it seemed like each of them was critical (or very useful at a minimum) for at least one battle somewhere

[@dahelmang]

I am guessing the reason Red's Pokemon are so weak for their level is so that players will see the high level and train to be that strong, then feel really good when they wipe him out.

[@JoeKell365]

i have a suggestion for a run: you can pick any game, but you can't purchase any items from any Marts or street vendors. handouts are fine, but otherwise you have to go full scavenger

[@sluggers33]

This might have been my favorite run so far. I love the mono/type runs. You're the bomb dude!

[@Milacat]

I wish Girafarig would have been on this team. I used one in Crystal back in the day and it was so good! I think it even learned crunch and psychic, so it was such a good pokemon on my team.

[@umfreakingmad5386]

Thank you so much for doing this challenge, it was the first Pokemon challenge i ever did, brings back some nice memories ❤

[@thomaswinwood]

If you want more runs which aren't solo challenges: paired version exclusives (e.g. beat Pokemon Black with only Reuniclus and Gothitelle, where you use the UPR to start with Solosis since you can't catch it in the wild) and pseudoexclusives (e.g. beat Pokemon Black with only Lilligant and Whimsicott, where you start with Cottonee and use the ingame trade to acquire Petilil; Throh and Sawk work similarly).

[@kovoksgaming]

So happy you’ll be using Relicanth in the next video as I’ve been requesting that one for the longest ❤️❤️

[@AlfieriV]

Loving these mono type runs!

[@greysonfitts5638]

I love how the run turned into (almost) a snorlax only run 😂 Loving the challenges man, keep it up!

[@stigmaoftherose]

Should have grinded for an aipom, I mean its so amazing in gen 2, with worse stats than furret and a worse learnset, is super hard to find, and cant get at the earliest till after your sentrent would evlove.

[@NicoUnken]

Mono-type runs are fun. Looking at mono-types is how I realized there are NO non-legendary pure flying-type pokemon. So a flying-type mono run is literally impossible in most generations, and would require a legendary in others.

[@christophergast6466]

Not quite! Rokidee/Corvisquire are pure flying, it's not until Corvinight they get steel

[@NicoUnken]

@@christophergast6466 Oh I had been thinking about a fully evolved pure flying type and forgot to mention! Thanks for reminding me that these challenges could just use unevolved pokemon, haha.

[@DiamondSpade95]

I love your videos, your resilience, and your perseverance as a KZbinr and as a person. I hope you’re doing well and enjoying your life. Keep it up mdb and have a splendid day!

[@zacharymcvicker5820]

Normal runs are my favorite monotype runs because they're always more fun than expected and often with odd strats

[@littlesabregirl8853]

I just wanted to comment to say how much I enjoy yopur challenge videos. They are as enteraning as when you did creepypasta readings back in the day when I discovered your channel. I wanted to do my own challenges but outside of Pokemon when I tried to do a Mario and Luigi run while only upgrading stache and a hard mode challenge I found online. I never finished the runs...But now I want to go back to them to complete them because I was thinking bout them when I was watching the video. Anyway, love yoru videos and keep up the hard work!

[@kazutokirigaya4208]

I hope you never stop doing the outtro MDB it’s one of the main reasons I watch your videos it allows us to kinda connect with you more. We get to see the person behind the videos. Hope you have a good rest of your week.

[@slateportraichu5416]

Yay, another great challenge video from MDB! Thank you!

[@tadasuko8935]

These runs are always so relaxing and fun to watch~ Still waiting on a vulpix run

[@wesleyoldham4222]

5:28 Rudolph the red-nosed stantler.

[@yassine6267]

Its april u silly goose

[@AJarOfYams]

I like seeing your videos in my in-app KZbin notification list. It's a treat

[@Justacasualplayer-oz4dn]

I love the enthusiasm, keep up the great work

[@Blueninjawilliam]

This guy has become my inspiration since the time i came out on one of his videos LOVE THE VIDS BRO

[@Medabee8]

I didn't know Will's second Xatu Steven had future site. I've literally never seen it use it before 😮

[@TheOneOrMore]

Only in case you haven't considered it already for a Pokémon let's play, I've been really impressed with Infinite Fusion. I never heard you say anything bout it, but I don't really do Twitter and such. Just an idea.

[@zacherytaylor]

Wild that you uploaded a vid of my fav gen on my birthday

[@Ospyro3em]

Hey, you need to give your old Gold run more credit- "Will this medicine cure Amphy?" is still one of my favourite moments from your channel 😂

[@chrisswanepoel7389]

Interesting to realize that you achieved massive success in a niche that you naturally gravitated towards all along - not surprising, honestly, but always nice to hear someone fully experience the ideal path of finding success in a line of work that they love (not to minimize the hard times and incredible work that paved the way there)!

[@kulrigalestout]

I adore the way you say Hoothoot, please never change it!

[@fluffdafire157]

MDB I fully understand the childhood challenge run memories as I also did them when I was little I loved fire types and only ever had them on my team and in kingdom hearts I did speed runs with my friends in elementary school ( my fastest time as a kid was KH2 at 7 hours and I was the second fastest at school)

[@aidanredding8058]

Been really enjoying these monotype runs. I think playing Heart Gold with only fire types would be interesting. I say Heart Gold specifically because you can get some fire type earlier than you can in Gen II.

[@per3947]

Finally a challenge with the absolute best bois Sentret and Furret

[@Flaretale52]

Funny enough, I use your KZbin Videos as a thing to work while watching / listening to. Including Outros. I even follow you on Twitter, but the Weekends are the best time for me to watch your videos, lol. How was the Eclipse?

[@fla5h83]

24:37 Normal types are actually immune to paralysis from Body Slam

[@MagusAgrippa8]

Loving these monotype brands. They are one of my favorite casual challenges.

[@Kai-jy9zm]

i be listening. Glad to hear things are goin well for u king

[@joaopedrooliveira590]

A few runs that I find it could be fun for you to do: - Any game with only attacks with a base power below 60. - X or Y with only Greninja with Ash's moveset (Cut, Aerial Ace, Water Shuriken and Double Team) - Sword/Shield with only TM moves

[@martinlozano6486]

Damn that Stanler was hard to catch

[@logandaley1544]

That was cool, I’m liking these team runs.

[@matthewhicks8203]

For the record, you can actually get Girafarig really really for the ghost and fighting gym. Once you can get access to Mt Mortar, you can pass right thought to the Lake of Rage to get him. One of my favorite early accesses in the game.

[@timfurry4396]

Aww I wish you had a Dunsparce or Giragarig on the team but great run as usual!

[@Struhsie]

Relecanth is one of my favorites! Looking forward to that one

[@Nick_Slavik]

This will be an interesting run to watch! I've done this in my copy of Silver but made it Normal type only (no dual typing, such as normal/flying, normal/psychic, etc). Miltank, Tauros, Granbull and Wigglytuff were my heavy hitters with Sentret and Raticate being solid anchors too

[@TomAmit42]

26:15 About 2 years ago I did a Crystal mono-Ground run, and I decided to try fighting Red when my team was Lv 60, and I won. My team was "the 6 Ground Type families of Gen 2" - Tyranitar, Steelix, Quagsire, Donphan, Piloswine, Gligar. My Starter was Larvitar (enabled by the Randomizer).

[@Sleepdeprivedkitty]

Givien that Snorlax is one of the best pokemon in the game both casually and competitively, uhhh, yeah.

[@Xyrusama]

Awesome run. I used to ask for version exclusive runs but you started doing those... What to request? How about Pokemon Red/Blue using only the gym leaders' ace pokemon?

[@StarshadowMelody]

"When have I ever made things easy on myself?" Whenever the grinding gets too much.

[@cgoldiz]

Please keep team runs going! Would love to see Platinum with only Eeveelutions!

[@GaryFromLiberty]

This video is great proof of how entertaining I find your content. It's a challenge run I find pretty boring in concept "Can I beat pokemon with a good team and very little limitations" (no offense intended) yet I still watched it and really enjoyed the video

[@waltterikoponen8426]

I have a idea for a challenge! Hidden grotto pokemon only (b2w2) You can get the first pokemon after the 3rd badge but you can use the randomizer to make one of the starters the ranch's grotto pokemon with hidden abilities! (Sap sipper marill, scrappy lillipup, rattled dusnparce) Grottos can take a long time but I know you'll grind it anyway

[@parzival-bo]

...so you've never caught a Regi? Huh. Requesting Pokemon B2W2 With Only One Chinchou.

[@Cwdoneright]

3:16 all i know is i still rewatch the ffta2 playthrough and that's got to be like 10-12 years old. Still holds up and still upsets me it never got finished lol

[@Smashomon8004]

I don't think you know how accurate your statement about snorlax is. In gen 2 competitive, it is literally the best pokemon in the entire game, even better than every legendary!

[@blue94rose]

You should do a challenge in gen 2 or HGSS where you only use Pokemon that you find in the night (gastly, spinarak, noctowl) or evolve during ( umbreon) that would be a fun run especially in gen 2 because it'll be much harder ! Btw love your videos, I've watched every one til now 😊

[@Karokzak]

Pokémon Challenge suggestion: You are free to go with the game of your choice, but the challenges is using only middle evolution stage pokémon. (For Exemple: If you pick Bulbasaur as your starter, you can only battle with Ivysaur.) You are not allowed to use pokémon who's has no evolution or only 1, it must be a pokémon with a 2 stage linear Evolution. So pokémon like Eevee or Tyrogue are not allowed, but pokémon like Oddish, Poliwag or Ralts are allowed. Try number: 3

[@marcroeffen4701]

Btw ghost is physical in that gen, i am not sure if u got access to shadow ball at the point of fighting the psychic elite 4 member. Though it is something to note as a lot of people do tend to forget ghost was physical weirdly enough.

[@ScottsTanks]

Really fun team challenge! Normal is a great type to choose because they great designs but don't get used often

[@black97_0]

#MDBA Challenge idea: Can you Beat Oblivion, Poison only run? The rules are pretty simple: - you can only use Poison as a means of dealing damage - when using alchemy, you can only make poison of course, you can add rules as you see fit As usually, I'm writing this before you ever did the challenge let me know in the comments if MDBA decides to do it at any point. Comments are good for the YT algorithm after all

[@DefinitelyNotAFerret]

Is that the right hashtag to use?

[@icephoenix174]

How do you deliver the poison without doing damage? But I like the challenge

[@black97_0]

@@DefinitelyNotAFerret i honestly wouldn't be surprised if the actual hashtag got distorted by this point. I copied this comment so many times, I can't remember if anything got altered 😅

[@black97_0]

@@icephoenix174 one would definetly need to adjust the rules to account for that, but I mostly mean poison has to be your main source of damage, in the event there is no way to do damage purely through poison.

[@blazechaos212]

A Pokémon Stadium run would be cool!

[@Birdmans93]

Enemy trainers don’t get effort values in Gen2, so basically that is a Lv75 Snorlax that has solely been leveled with rare candies and has never won a battle. 27:31

[@Grey_Warden_Invasion]

Until like gen 5 I also mostly played Pokemon with only my starter. But I wouldn't have called those challenge runs. They were rather "I am far too annoyed by boring endless level grinding so I won't be bothered to use more than one Pokemon" runs.

[@EssexAggiegrad2011]

"I'm surprised how bad Red's Pikachu is in this game. It's shocking." Ahh

[@furretthefuzzynoodle3896]

Yeah I loved my cameo, any time MDB :)

[@megananderson7454]

I remember mentioning the old gen 2 normal run on Twitter. I’ll probably watch it after this.

[@leosilbert237]

I remember when I was really young, maybe around 6 or 7 I was playing Silver with just a Raticate because Hyper Fang was just super strong in my mind but I ruined it when I deleted Hyper Fang for Super Fang because I thought it had to be stronger since it learned it so much later.

[@TheRelicStone]

I love Relincanth!!! Can’t wait for next week!!! Also I was busy making dinner and missed it, which fossil did he take?

[@nosysprat6170]

24:20 Snorlax isn't just the best normal type in GSC, it's THE best pokémon, period. Snorlax dominates smogon OU and is very good in ubers as well, it can easily compete with monsters like Lugia, Ho-Oh and Mewtu. So yeah, obviously a must have in any run you're allowed to use it.

[@nerd_fooddad2997]

Furret is actually my second favorite gen 2 pokemon and it can learn some awesome moves by TM/HM

[@anisb6980]

Not sure why you didn’t use strength on Ursaring but instead opted for scratch. It’s an HM, unlimited uses

[@benevans1667]

diamond with only electric types would be a cool run to see

[@gert_vC]

I remember I was about 10 when I started playing Pokemon blue💪 amazing that these games till today is still enjoyable

[@byakko2121]

Furret MAH BOI

[@jakk2631]

He can walk!

[@relicy]

you should try Mono type runs in the future. that way your options become way more limited in these type runs.

[@cmhoax6951]

IDK if things happened behind the scenes (I dont us Twitter) but would love to see some more collaborations with Whattageek and GooseIt

[@baddragonite]

Surprised at the lack of Blissey, albeit it would be broken strong

[@user-pt9tn5to5z]

Do HeartGold with Psychic types only! I been security wanting this since 2022.

[@jakobschiek9513]

That was a supercool team. I think I'll try that myself 😊 btw: Which fossil did you take? Also: Can you beat Pokemon X/Y with one Noibat?

[@mrtommo9996]

fun fact until gen 6 i leveled my starter to 100 before the 1st gyms in each game (and in Ruby i did mawile aswell as i fell in love with it.) the game allowed me why not

[@DarthShadow91]

Now that you said it, Stantler only run of Gen 2!

[@ColonelKoopa]

pokemon emerald with only dark types would be pretty cool considering how many you have access to even from the beginning!

[@zarx1253]

What about a run with only future sight? Would take incredible patience though 😂

[@Lord_Valteric]

I'm pretty sure Rudolf's red nose flashes, so it makes sense for Stantler, too.😊😊