Can I Beat Pokemon Platinum with ONLY Ground Types? 🔴 Pokemon Challenges ► NO ITEMS IN BATTLE

[@mimiquoi7380]

Hello I'm here for my suggestion : Pokemon Black2 or White2 with only one Maractus 🌵 😊 I hope everyone as a good day !

[@Bac0n143.]

Bless this man please

[@myflyoutdooradventures8414]

This is brilliance. Love Maractus, but it's just so dang frail and slow. In a similar boat to Rampardos.

[@Jpisop4real]

i wanna see this

[@kovoksgaming]

I really wanna see this run, keep up the persistence man I’m sure he’ll do it eventually! 😇🙏

[@freak0429]

While I agree, gen5 runs are very rare as exp gain is super nerfed in those games

[@TheDeadGunslinger]

Rydon learns those moves because it's a dragon, an earth dragon. Just like Gyarados, Charizard, Aerodactyl, etc. it's a dragon without having the dragon typing, which one of the designers of pokemon made a tweet confirming that not all dragons have the dragon type.

[@Kordinauz]

If he was dragon/ground in gen 1, it would be totaly busted

[@andrewjoseph2749]

aka Kaiju

[@owenblount7334]

And aggron also learns a bunch of coverage for the same reason

[@Flaming_Rok]

​@@Kordinauzah yes, instead of insta-dying to grass and water, you insta-die to ice, which is one of the best types, and you lose out on the normal resistance! not to mention you lose out on rock STAB which isn't amazing in gen 1 but it's great to smack birds around, and oh right, you also are now vulnerable to flying moves too, so you can't wall them as effectively! dragon/ground would be probably be worse in gen 1

[@valhalla8140]

thats true, Nidoking too. that poison bunny rabbit kaiju, has a massive move ocean

[@saikomonvexo4864]

MDBAMA: In black and white play throughs, why don’t you take on Cynthia or Alder? You take on Red in silver and gold play throughs and Steven in Emerald.

[@freak0429]

Gen 5 are rare runs as exp gain is super nerfed. He should use rare candies if needed tho, he's been using them for curtain runs

[@DanielPereira-ey9nt]

That is a good question I believe the answer is most likely a time issue. Gen 5 takes much longer than other gens because of how exp works in those games, so he might just not have the time to commit to those post-game bosses

[@jamesdinius7769]

Take my thrumb's up. Now that he's using rare candies, the high level shouldn't be a barrier anymore. Hopefully he sees this one.

[@Detective_L]

There's also a few rom hacks that patch the old xp system into gen 5

[@Raziel_HHL]

he answered this in a live chat once, the runs already take ages so he usually doesn't have any more time for those fights

[@freak0429]

Gligar being drastically different colors between games will never not be weird

[@Takermania70]

I legitimately thought he caught a shiny without realizing

[@Dayrell-sr9tj]

Same

[@BrettKolb-o9n]

One thing I would help with recommend for challenges like this, where a Starter isn’t eligible but the evolution is (like this challenge with Turtwig and Grotle not being ground but Torterra being ground), is something some Nuzlockers do where you allow use of the starter until the next eligible encounter, than disabling the use of the starter until it evolves into the eligible pokemon, while Gardenia might become way harder with this example, it would be interesting to be able to see a starter in the runs

[@WhoIsSirChasm]

No, no, it's 'cause Rhyhorn has the Lightningrod Ability! So it uses that latent electrical power to charge its Thunder attacks! And it, uh... can harness it to become fire and ice with the power of imagination 'cause Rhydon was the first Pokémon ever designed! It all adds up!

[@jasonkeith2832]

Is that factoring in the 1/1024+ chance for an electric-type move to OHKO a Lightning Rod pokemon like in the anime?

[@shikarixox1195]

The reason pokemon like Rhydon, Nidoking, Tyranitar and the like learn so many elemental attacks is because their designs are Kaiju motifs. Kaiju being godzilla-esque monsters that typically have a variety of energy/elemental blasts they use.

[@morrigankasa570]

Why didn't he mention the weirdness of Rhydon being able to learn Surf? That one strikes me as the weirdest. Thunderbolt makes some sense in a strange roundabout way, if you consider them as a "Living Mountain". Mountains can handle Lightning Strikes & can affect the weather around them, what's more quartz crystals can transmit/conduct energy & are often found within rocks/mountains, therefore in a weird way them learning Thunder/Thunderbolt works. As for Ice Beam it goes back to weather effects & how some mountains are always Cold/Icy/Snowy at the top. With Flamethrower if you consider that Rocks often either form from or erupt from Volcanic eruptions/Lava, then the various Rock Types being able to learn various Fire Moves makes sense in a way by "Tapping into that Volcanic Origins".

[@stovetopism]

I assume why Rhyhorn, Rhydon, Nidoking, Tyranitar etc can learn moves like thunder, ice beam, flamethrower are cuz of their kaiju based origins which those can do a lot of things like that. Yeah its not an in universe reason but thats just what I always took it as. Seriously though go look at Baragon and then look at Nidoking, they are almost identical even morso after Baragon got more purple in the early 2000's.

[@BaeBunni]

to bad that argument falls apart real fast besides the ones mentioned, grimer, slowpoke, kangastkhan, chansey, jigglepuff, clefairy, snorlax also can learn them all. I think it has way more to do with age of the pokemon from conception to release. A lot of the earliest pokemon seem to learn everything like rhydon, clefairy and lapras are some of the oldest design wise and have massive movepools. The newer ones conceptualized have far more scarce of a movepool.

[@costby1105]

@@BaeBunni Normal Types in Gen seem to learn a wide variety of moves in exchange for not having super effective stab. Grimer sludge can be very combustable at least. Slowpoke line seems to be based on the sazae oni though i didn't read anything about them being able to control or use fire.

[@MasterofInterspace]

Don't say that, baragon is one of the worst kaijus and the nidos are some of the best Pokemon.

[@Shaggy9271]

Ryhorn has lightning rod

[@floatingf8783]

14:48 I think this is the first time Damp has ever been useful in a serious battle in the history of Pokemon.

[@owenblount7334]

Man just forgetting that going boom was an actual move used in comp before it got nerfed boom used to -2 their defense then explode

[@Flaming_Rok]

@@owenblount7334 In fairness, in most circumstances Pokemon with the Damp ability have better abilities to use, but yeah it wasn't worthless in Gen 4!

[@markhenderson9507]

I did a Platinum ground-only run about a year ago. I'll never forget fighting Cynthia's Garchomp; it was like an "Okay, you gotta watch this" moment. My Whiscash froze it with Blizzard after taking out just less than half of its health. I tried to not get it into red health, but unfortunately it did and she used a full restore... Only for Whiscash to freeze it a second time! I took it out while it was still frozen. I'm so glad that happened because I would have lost otherwise. Oh, and my whole team was in the low level 50s.

[@jinn8465]

Whiscash was like "I didn't say you could thaw." Lmao.

[@___________0Z0X]

Looks like your “Whis” came true.

[@Zoroark73]

As silly as Wormadam is, you could have used it for Gardenia. It’s neutral to Grass and learns Confusion at level 23 to have something for Roserade.

[@sapphiredraggytheflygon8521]

However, as FlygonHG noted, Bug Bite is still the better move in that fight

[@Zoroark73]

@@sapphiredraggytheflygon8521 True, STAB is better. I didn't know he did a similar run. I'll have to check it out.

[@dripsoup6639]

I don't have an actual reason for Rhydon learning Flamethrower, Thunderbolt, and Ice Beam outside of Gen 1 gonna Gen 1, but the closest justification I can think of is because it's a Kaiju.

[@thewerdna]

16:37 known trait of gen 4 AI. They are obsessed with getting a speed drops, so unless they see a KO with another move, they will go for the speed drop instead

[@heinzdoofenshmirtz8643]

Yep. The CPU opponents, if they have moves that lower speed (such as Rock Tomb), they'll prioritize that.

[@GusterTails]

On our way through, I took the Skull Fossil. I knew if I didn’t say what I took, you’d all ask. Actually, now that I think about it, everyone asks anyway. Comments are good for the KZbin algorithm.

[@kinglawson1749]

I'm pretty sure its hippo-po-tas and Hip-Pow-don Correct me if im wrong

[@austinbyrn5661]

Not sure if it is possible but a run with only multistrike moves would be sweet! Later gens would likely be easier with a larger move pool! Moves like double kick, twin needle, bonemerang, double hit, gear grind, arm thrust, barrage, bone rush, bullet seed, comet punch, double slap, fury attack, fury swipes, icicle spear, pin missle, rock blast, scale shot, and water shuriken to name a few would be neat if its possible to pull off.

[@JohnaMan327]

Onix is in Oreburgh Mine. Steelix is in Iron Island. I'm not sure why you caught neither.

[@megabladechronicles962]

He also could've used Torterra, obviously, Turtwig and Grotle aren't ground types but other KZbinrs just don't use the pokemon in major battles until they evolve into whatever type they are using for the monotype challenge

[@hannahdavis4256]

I love these videos so much. Can't wait to see the water gym. I had a fairly fine team in my platinum run, but I remember absolutely struggling with the water gym. Crasher Wake is my least favorite gym leader because of it. Had flashbacks just hearing about the water gym lol. But I love fun challenges like these. Hippopotas is so cute too.

[@sandart8508]

In the future if you have a similar dilemma as if you could use turtwig, I propose that you can take the unmodified starter so long as you don’t make use of stab until you have the necessary type. It doesn’t account for the difference in weaknesses but I think that’s fine, weakness aren’t usually that pressing early game.

[@Religion0]

I think it's weirder that Rhydon can learn Surf.

[@parzival-bo]

What a surprisingly _grounded_ run. No? Okay... Requesting Pokemon B2W2 With Only One Chinchou.

[@peachymiku6432]

Ba dum, tissh! Hehe, I love a good pun! It's really.... Groundbreaking, isn't it! Hehe, I will see myself out now!

[@parzival-bo]

@@peachymiku6432 Yeah, after those terrible jokes we should probably _go to _*_ground._*

[@peachymiku6432]

@@parzival-bo Hehe, some might say we are *digging* our own grave!

[@parzival-bo]

@@peachymiku6432 ...something about this feels wrong...I feel kinda _dirty_ about it.

[@peachymiku6432]

@@parzival-bo 😸 Maybe we should take things *underground!*

[@YamiChase]

6:59 Don't forget surf!

[@nintendoswitchbrit4201]

I think people asking when this or that will be coming is a good thing in a way because it shows that people still want and are excited for you to play those games but I can understand if getting annoying if the comment section is just flooded with them

[@Glyx]

*sad Quagsire noises* Not that there's anything wrong with Whiscash, of course! But Quagsire does offer more utility by having Water Absorb, which would've helped a lot with the battle against Crasher Wake and Cynthia's Milotic.

[@luukvankrugten7253]

Rhydon learns thunderbolt because his horn spins so quickly like a dynamo. 😅

[@odinslosti2135]

Challenge Suggestion: Oblivion with only Bow and Arrows. They will drive a hole in your pocket early game, and not deal enough damage late game. A perfectly brutal challenge.

[@잘못된번호]

On our way to a town, I mined the skull fossil. I knew if I didn't say what I took, you'd all ask. Actually now that I think about it, everyone would just ask anyway. Comments are good for the algorithm

[@adambouaddaine9064]

@mahdrybread dude this is the best team I’ve ever seen you assemble since I started watching you 5 years ago!! Viva la Ground Types! ❤

[@SlvrStryker]

...I find it very amusing that you opted to focus on Rhyhorn learning Thunderbolt, Ice Beam, and Flamethrower... ...while completely ignoring the fact that its evolution, Rhydon, can learn *_Surf._*

[@benfrancis7745]

You should've taken turtwig, used it until you caught a ground type, then brought it back when it evolves to torterra.

[@heinzdoofenshmirtz8643]

Yeah, he should have picked Turtwig and used it until he caught Geodude.

[@spearghost225]

1:20 I think it'd be fine to use starters that evolve to gain a second type you're planning to use in a run personally, but since you're unsure, you could maybe try waiting until a reasonable time to evolve it fully and start holding it in a PC until then after you get other options. I think other KZbinrs who do challenge runs like mono runs did this, so it's not particularly unprecedented

[@TheSeleneSeipher]

31:18 Rhyperior can have either Solid Rock or Lightningrod. As a bit of a mercy to the player Bertha's has Lightningrod for its ability. My sources are Bulbapedia's page on Bertha and Chuggaaconroy's let's play of Pokémon Platinum

[@arjun64461]

MDBAMA: I have one suggestion for you. I really love all your videos so in team runs for example this one you could make it more harder by keeping level caps of gyms like other nuzlockers especially in team runs and not in solo runs. Can you add this also as it will make the challenges and videos interesting?

[@dmcmahondm]

I'm thinking it would be cool to do starter only runs, like Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle in red/blue. Chikorita, Cyndaquil, and Totodile in gold/silver. no evolving, just the juniors 🫡

[@GSamus14]

I just did a Ground type monolocke in Platinum, so I know how annoying the early game can be (unless you grab a Wormadam)

[@darththeo]

There are a lot of things you could have done to make your run easier. If you got a Wormadam Ground Clock, the Gardenia fight would have been easier. Hippowdon gets the Elemental Fangs moves via Move relearner which includes Thunder Fang. Which would have made dealing with Gyarados easier.

[@heyitsgabe1093]

I've always thought about doing an all dog pokemon or all cat pokemon run. Might be a fun challenge run.

[@Elfman126]

This was an awesome run Mah-Dry-Bread! Ground is my favourite type so watching a team run in gen 4 was, cool to see and interesting to see how they, would do in Platinum overall.

[@alexfloyd6766]

Rhyhorn, the Rhyhorn line, as well as other lines such as the Nidoran line, learn moves such as thunderbolt and ice beam due to them learning those moves in Generation 1. If you look through the movesets of various pokemon introduced in Generation 1, particularly normal types, you will find other such cases where there is little explanation of why they learn those moves, such as tauros learning thunder, blizzard, and fire blast.

[@ShinjiIkari1]

Pokémon Yellow with first form versions of Ash Ketchums team Pokémon any Gen with the first 6 Pokémon you find in any route, but you can’t evolve them. You can swap out after gym leaders. Pokémon Any Gen but only using RNG moves (Psywave, Magnitude, etc) Pokémon Any Gen but you can only use standard poke balls Pokémon BW2 with only Ns Pokémon Pokémon HGSS with only headbutt tree and sweet scent Pokémon Or moves with random # of attacks like Double Kick, Double Slap, Fury Cutter, etc Fallout NV with thrown melee weapons only Fallout NV with only Nuka Cola (Nuka breaker and Nuka grenades) Fallout 4 with only Thirst Zapper Fallout 4 with only Power Armror and Cryolator Fallout NV with only the dart gun Fallout 4 with only Zeta Wave Gamma Gun Fallout 4 with only Shem Drowne Sword Fallout NV with only a nailed board/baseball bat Fallout NV with only Bladed Gauntlets

[@wildtofurkey1013]

Damn, MahDry got some really good natures in this run, Adamant Geodude and Rhyhorn, Jolly Gible, Naughty Hippopotas

[@realperson69]

I was confused for a second because I saw a ground type run of Platinum just a few days ago. Turns out it was a FlygonHG hardcore nuzlocke, and he used Sandy Cloak Wormadam against Gardenia.

[@heinzdoofenshmirtz8643]

Yeah, that was FlygonHG. His naming theme was characters in The Office, by the way.

[@qinaxin7107]

As far as why certain pokemon can learn specific moves, because wynaut? Comments are good for the KZbin algorithm. All top for the gamble that isn't in this game (if you get this reference, YAY!)

[@SeanORaigh]

These type team runs are always great. I've had the idea of doing a B2W2 run with a dark only team, due to the sheer number of diverse dark types in the second unova dex

[@sokumotanaka9271]

I WAS TODAY YEARS OLD WHEN I LEARNED RYHORN CAN LEARN THUNDERBOLT< FLAMETHROWER AND ICE BEAM!!!??? What in the world!?

[@jo3d1rt391]

Wait until you learn it can learn surf in every generation. The only game it can’t learn surf is legends arceus. Legit serious about that

[@TheOrderEnforcer]

That’s Generation 1 for you.

[@deathclawplum]

​@@jo3d1rt391 i mean... it can swim, yeah? so no reason it can't learn surf.

[@MasterofInterspace]

It's funny, i just saw a ground nuzlocke of platinum. What the guy did was keep turtwig until he could reach the cave and catch a geodude, then box the turtwig until he could evolve it outside of any major battles. That would have been an okay way to do it.

[@066kshitizvsingh4]

FlygonHG's video right? A nice coincidence that both did a challenge based on the same type. It's fun seeing 2 completely different playstyles of the game

[@heinzdoofenshmirtz8643]

Was it FlygonHG?

[@Craigstorm97]

I remember Purugly is normal type but since I was a kid I’ve always thought that Zubat was dark/flying. Crobat reads as poison to me but Zubat and sometimes Golbat I always mix up.

[@masterofchaos7282]

Oh hey, I did a challenge like this years ago. Can’t to see how much better you probably did.

[@AJUniverse]

6:44 The sound of a charging rhino is like the sound of thunder.

[@Nestmind]

i am SO HAPPY that the dentist is not a nightmare for you. When i was...like 7, i had a bad teeth, a milk one, and the dentist insisted to devitalize it...and she was doing it WITHOUT ANESTESIA. I was screaming like a pig, and she was calling me names for it! my mom STORMED IN like a fury, told her off, and took me to another dentist, that simply removed the teeth, that would have fallen off anyway. From that moment i have a...not phobia, but i rerally dislike dentists, so much that when a couple yeras back i needed another teeth devitalized, i had a small panic attack. you can't understand how lucky you are...

[@t.j.helming5534]

Mah-Dry-Bread says that a Gible with a Jolly nature isn't gonna matter too much, then Cynthis's champion ace pokemon Garchomp comes out... you should have left it in. You outspeed because of jolly even with the -7 level gap! (I did the ruff calculations before "running my mouth", so I know what I'm talking about.)

[@066kshitizvsingh4]

MDB, plays "like a casual" for most of the part so I don't think he actually looks up speed stats/damage calcs

[@Caleb_XIII]

man, I waited at 12:00 for something like "wait. does that mean that Rhyperior is superior?"

[@myounakami]

Lol, you got a perfect HP IV Jolly Gible through pure happenstance. Crunching the numbers, it's special attack and speed are pretty good too; its attack and defense are kind of meh, though, and the special defense is atrocious (not accounting for possible EVs).

[@amirmahadeo56]

Pretty sure u should have gotten a female burmy from honey trees before gardenia so that u can evolve it in its sand cloak form to have the ground wormadam. That should have been enough to beat gardenia since its pretty defensive with 79 base attack and bug bite as a level up move.

[@MistaShadowman]

Nicely done as per usual. I'd like to see a Pokemon Sword/Shield run with only Zigzagoon (preferably one of each variant)

[@jonathanhead9009]

Tons of dark types on team Plasma, PLUS I remember it using Faint Attack often. Thought it was dark at first, too.

[@nintendoswitchbrit4201]

IMO if the Pokemon evolves into the type and its evo is not available in the wild then its fine

[@omniunown]

Ground/Rock makes some sense with thunderbolt, ice beam and flame thrower from a physics perspective, but certainly not from a lore one. Thunderbolt: Electricity wants to hit the ground by the most efficient path possible. If a ground type could create a really good looking spot of ground to hit, it could be used to set up targets for electrical potential. Initiating the thunderbolt itself doesn't necessarily make sense though, unless you also buy into the flamethrower explanation below. Short version: differences in temperature between atmosphere and ground increase electrical potential. Flamethrower: Tectonic movement could generate enough heat within the body to ignite something. It could also just contain traces of flint and metal to generate a spark. Finely powdered sand could have similar ignition potential to coffee creamer in the pokemon universe, so it could be igniting really finely ground sand to act as a flame medium. Best I've got without researching and seems pretty flimsy. Ice beam: Same tectonic forces as for Flamethrower, but used differently. Have you ever visited a permanent ice cave near a volcano? They're pretty cool (Hahaha). You're welcome, I accepted your engagement bait in good faith.

[@D-Havoc]

The simplest explanation is because Rhyhorn is related to Rhydon, the first Pokémon created. So it can learn the broadest of TMs. Something shared by other "monster" group Pokémon who are reptilian-mammalian-dinosaur hybrid creatures.

[@lozangekitten-gamer7626]

you know what could be an interesting challenge? Pokemon X/Y with a team of flying types (I would love seeing you battle Sky trainers)

[@kevinkpurnomo]

7:37 Sandstorm give 50% Sp. Def boost to Rock type starting from Gen VII, isn't it ?

[@faerylnhiikira1053]

No, no, he had it right. This feature of sandstorm began in gen IV.

[@Brunoxid0]

I respect mdb choice of not doing nuzlockes, as someone who also finds it really tedious. But for team runs I think there should be at least SOME level cap. Otherwise it's just over levelling instead of outsmarting the game.

[@UstraMage]

Rhyhorn can learn thunderbolt because he has a horn and lighting can be shot out of it.

[@Almighty_S]

10:09 that’s the BEST nature lmaoo

[@Karokzak]

I don't know why but I will like to see the nickname of the wingull French Fry XD 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: 17

[@bakuiel1901]

I wish more Pokemon learned the odd moves like Gen 1, like Rattata with Bubblebeam

[@noahmurtha4036]

I’d love to see a black or white run with only normal types OR only one woobat.

[@JLawrenceKenny]

Ryhorn can learn Thunderbolt because he's a lightning rod. My theory.

[@DarthShadow91]

When the BDSP remakes came out, I actually did my own Ground-type only run! I chose to use Turtwig, because in my opinion if a Pokemon can become a certain type via evolution it’s allowed in mono-type runs

[@michaelnobbs9147]

First time I've seen the ability and description for "oblivious" Examples of things like this show the devs have some sense of humour, always love seeing how it leaks out

[@knate44]

"Fun type run" should be a channel meme that's so good

[@TrueBlueThew]

Man, I just watched a Nuzlocke of Platinum with only Ground types last week, so I know that this is possible

[@shikarixox1195]

The reason pokemon like Rhydon, Nidoking, Tyranitar and the like learn so many elemental attacks is because their designs are Kaiju motifs. Kaiju being godzilla-esque monsters that typically have a variety of energy/elemental blasts they use.

[@crimsonbloodmoon8826]

The only reason that makes sense to me as to why Rhydon can learn Thunderbolt is because of its ability Lightning Rod. But I’m pretty sure that itself has a few problems. Anyway, my suggestion: Pokemon Platinum with Fantina’s team and moves.

[@zidarose]

I love the thought of Explosion being clutch

[@bloodalchemy]

@Mah-Dry-Bread you mentioned buying vitamins while grinding for the E4 and that reminded me of a suggestion i wanted to make. You go through the game maxing out effort values naturally, which means they end up very scattered. I say that once they are maxed and you are using spawned in rare candles to power through a wall, go ahead and spawn in vitamins to clean up the effort values to what is actually useful to that pokemon.

[@TheSeleneSeipher]

I'd personally give Earthquake to the gible line and Dig to the gligar line. Gible is more of a sweeper and Gligar's flying type gives it a niche with Dig that makes it good at fighting other earthquake users.

[@danielheadhunter9594]

Suggestion for new title: Can I beat Pokemon Platinum using Bertha's team. I saw that every single pokemon was the same so I went hey look at that LMAO

[@asham868]

I did a ground type-only run for Sword/Shield. It was probably the most fun ive had in a run.

[@mathewbrewington2679]

Who did u use I been wanting to do one

[@asham868]

@@mathewbrewington2679 I don't remember all of them, but I know I used Rhyperior, Gastrodon, Hippowdon, and Krookodile

[@danielbutler8103]

I have an idea for a fun challenge, One that means you could even use Drowzee. Can you beat Pokemon Black (Or any game from gen's 5 ,6 or 7) with only the move Assist? Purrloin learns Assist at level 6 so it'd be the starter, Then if you get a male Purrloin you can breed it with other's to get more Pokemon. I think this would be a great wacky challenge since the more Pokemon on your team the more random the move is. For any that don't know Assist uses a random move known by any of the user's party Pokémon, With some exceptions. So even Pokemon that can't use Assist would still be useful if they have good moves that Assist can use. Drowzee is in the Human-Like Egg Group so If you want one with Assist you'd need a Spinda since they're in the Field and Human-Like Egg Groups so can breed with Purrloin and Drowzee. You could also use a Chimchar as a starter if you give it Assist as an Egg Move, They're also in the Field and Human-Like Egg Groups so a male one can breed the move into any Pokemon with Assist.

[@TheFlashzap]

31:04 As a Ground type master who has raised well over 16 Rhyperior in his career I can’t stress enough how much of a monster they are without a grass or water move Base 115 hp is pretty high Base 130 def is incredibly high bolstered by Solid Rock And a whopping base 140 attack is ridiculous easily in the top ten highest attack stat in Gen 4 as the only things that were higher were legends and Rampardos Don’t think just because he has quad weaknesses to water and grass doesn’t mean you always have access to them

[@sethwells8643]

I think it would be cool to see you do a run with scizor, herocross, and pincer. Mostly in something like gold/ silver/ crystal. But any that you could get them in would be awesome. But I am an odd lover in bug pokemon

[@bivcbmtgstgtssscqcrddgtrsm2257]

My best guess for Rhyhorn learning Thunderbolt is absorbing static electricity from running or whatever and concentrating and firing it.

[@bivcbmtgstgtssscqcrddgtrsm2257]

I could see Flamethrower in a similar vein, just with heat instead, but Ice beam is nonsense. The outside explanation? It has a horn, so it shoots stuff out of it.

[@someguywithacoconut9895]

Ryhorn learns Thunderbolt, Ice Beam and Flamethrower because Godzilla.

[@spud13y]

I would have went with Turtwig. If you do another type challenge you should’ve included Pokemon that would end up with that type.

[@heinzdoofenshmirtz8643]

Agree.

[@kuyaboben5300]

I do appreciate the full team videos more than single mon runs

[@Zarren_Redacted]

Rhyhorn can learn those moves because he's a cool guy that doesn't afraid of anything. Except drops of water.

[@jerbear8884]

3:15 you doubt the might of THE BOULDER????

[@dariusdrake7515]

Two challenge suggestions: 1. Gen 2 with only grass types 2. Any Red/Blue with only Dratini

[@anisb6980]

Hippodown going beast mode in this run

[@sinnohan2225]

Huh, Purugly is not Normal/Steel. Just pure normal. I could have sworn it and Glameow were part steel type. LOL. I blame the spring tail.

[@fanboyash]

I missed your awesome Pokemon play through because I was watching your awesome DEVOUR play through.

[@seanwilliams823]

Ground type is my favorite type! Platinum was my first mono type run and it was the ground mono type run.! I made it to Bertha and her Gliscor swept me with Ice Fang.

[@danielsiemers5704]

Hippowdon is one of my fav pokemon. Love sand stream

[@pkmntrainermark8881]

I mean, if a Pokémon can randomly learn Thunderbolt, randomly learning Ice Beam and Flamethrower too just makes sense.

[@TallDarknGruesome]

6:00 y know, speaking of odd type coverage.. lets talk about a mon that doesn't technically exist anymore. Can you beat pokemon crystal as a puncha-kazam? (abra leveled to alakazam, tm trained to have fire punch, ice punch and thunder punch which were special attacks in G2 and could be learned by kadabra/alakazam in that gen only.

[@The_Silliest_Lilly]

You asked about why the gen one pokemon learn such odd moves, and while unfortunately there's never been any official explanation, if you ask me, its likely that many of the popular explanations were at least partially involved. Pokemon Red and Green were developed over the course of about 6 years by about 9 people with extremely limited space and tools (for the first two gens, they were making their music on spreadsheets because they didn't have a compatible music program, for example.), and as you can probably guess, massive fundamental portions of the design philosophy and basically every part of the game changed multiple times in major ways. I bring that up to explain that there likely wasn't one singular design reason, but instead, a mix. A lot of the pokemon in gen 1 that have these wide expansive movepools are some of the oldest designs to make it into the final game, with mons like nidoking, slowbro, and rhydon predating mechanics like evolution and dual types. Rhydon even predates concepts like having types at all, AND predates pokemon having large movesets, instead having been designed when each pokemon worked more like a traditional rpg, with a small set of basic techniques and a "special" technique unique to that pokemon. So it's likely those kaiju mons got these wide movepools because they were there when the idea of having varied movepools first came up, and because the whole franchise at that point was intended to much more closely resemble traditional rpgs and kaiju movies, which do tend to have big monsters with strange attacks. While that's the only theory I can provide concrete evidence for, you can see a bunch of normal types with wide movepools, and I suspect that that's intentional. I also suspect that certain pokemon were intended to come off as more powerful and imposing, and so were given these wider harder hitting moves to do that. I unfortunately don't have any hard evidence for any of those. You might also notice that a lot of the ones with the weirder movepools that aren't normal or a kaiju are in some way mystical or otherwise highly divergant from things that existed irl. Ghosts, living rocks, the loch ness monster, all unusual and all possesing oddly wide movepools. No evidence for that one either unfortunately. I do think that a mix of all of that is the likely set of reasons for why some gen 1 pokemon got such extreme movepools, while others just didn't. It's also entirely possible they just assigned moves however they felt on that particular day.

[@CaptainJLinebeck]

02:26 yeah HGSS expanded the movepools of certain mons even more, like how it gave Ho-Oh Brave Bird

[@hadore152]

Awesome run mdb, have you done any solo runs with breloom ever?

[@darkyt8413]

I just want to see you do a caterpie run you pick the game

[@MinunRobotnik4]

Rhyhorn learning Thunderbolt could make some sense. It has Lightningrod as an ability, so maybe it can channel the lightning it redirects. Ice Beam and Flamethrower, though? That's totally a holdover from Gen 1. Which was based on RPG mechanics at the time. Ice, Elec and Fire made a trio because of games like Final Fantasy.