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

[@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".

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@kinglawson1749]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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!*

[@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.

[@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

[@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._*

[@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! ❤

[@wildtofurkey1013]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@luukvankrugten7253]

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

[@knate44]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@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 🫡

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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?

[@heyitsgabe1093]

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

[@Caleb_XIII]

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

[@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

[@MistaShadowman]

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

[@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?

[@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!)

[@JokkiTheYash]

Maybe pokemon platinum with a single remoraid? Anyways love your content man, hope you keep going for a long time

[@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

[@fanboyash]

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

[@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

[@hadore152]

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

[@floatingf8783]

I made the world's saddest peanut butter sandwich while watching this. I have no bread or jam, it's just a bunch of peanut butter between two tortilla shells.

[@sfish6]

Go out and get some bread bro

[@floatingf8783]

​@sfish6 meh, it would have taken too long and I was hungry as fuck at the time.

[@thomaswawrzyniak118]

I wanted to make a turkey and swiss, but I ran out of turkey. I just had swiss cheese and bread After typing that out, cheese and bread can be quite fancy, guess I should be grateful

[@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

[@jonathanhead9009]

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

[@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.

[@masterofchaos7282]

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

[@Crasheschick]

I find it ironic that 2 of the poketubers I watch actually released this same video. Flygonhg recently just did a ground type platinum nuzlocke and now MDB is doin g a normal ground type only one. I love this

[@heinzdoofenshmirtz8643]

Same.

[@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)

[@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...

[@anisb6980]

Hippodown going beast mode in this run

[@Almighty_S]

10:09 that’s the BEST nature lmaoo

[@kohganightbane9430]

Cynthis reminded me of the legendary Snowbama from way back when.

[@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.

[@Zarren_Redacted]

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

[@kuyaboben5300]

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

[@zidarose]

I love the thought of Explosion being clutch

[@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

[@nicolasespinosaruiz8216]

I really hope you caught that gible with a netball!!!

[@skrumpydane]

As I remember from the tv-series, it sounds like HIPPO-PO-TAS where the TAS sounds like TARS and HIP-POW-DON with a focus on POW.

[@rage6247]

Hip-pow-don there is a w in the name

[@DeadFanDeadFan]

Jolly is probably the second best Garchomp nature. What a find!

[@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.

[@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)

[@indiamcdermott5028]

Hello MDB - here's my suggestion for a challenge: Platinum with only first form fire types. As usual, love watching your videos, always makes me smile when I see a new one drop!

[@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.

[@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.

[@AJUniverse]

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

[@SakatoHanaturo]

aaah It's Hippo-Poe-Tahs XD Love your videos, but hearing one of my fave pokemon said wrong was nagging at my 'um actually' brain cells XD

[@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.

[@darkyt8413]

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

[@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.

[@mr_dnd]

In diamond that exact fight with perugly is a fight with a skuntank, so absolutely makes sense

[@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.

[@peachymiku6432]

You had a few hiccups but it could have been a lot worse! I think my doctors are just as grateful because I am like, yeah let's do this! I really want to know what is going on with me. I got someone in the comments of another video trying to diagnose me. Some video about the worst pain I have ever felt. I mentioned my fibromyalgia and said I was diagnosed with that... And was told it wasn't a disease. Even if that is the case, my doctors say that's what I have right now so I am sticking to that. And why try and diagnose a stranger that you literally know nothing about aside from symptoms? So yeah, been feeling your pain on others diagnosing you. Glad you figured out what the problem was with your throat and stuff! I would do as you picked also.

[@bakuiel1901]

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

[@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

[@TheSandFoxx]

Your nature luck on this run was absolutely insane!

[@jerbear8884]

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

[@sebbyeh]

my answer for why pokemon can learn moves they seemingly shouldn't is, well, why not?

[@C_Train74]

Surprised you didn’t grab a Steelix from Iron Island

[@noahmurtha4036]

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

[@someguywithacoconut9895]

Ryhorn learns Thunderbolt, Ice Beam and Flamethrower because Godzilla.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@TrueBlueThew]

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

[@weaverj2010]

Both x and dungeon I have been rewatching all them series this past month

[@pkmntrainermark8881]

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

[@nintendoswitchbrit4201]

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

[@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.

[@sapphiredraggytheflygon8521]

FlygonHG recently did this as a nuzlocke, so I am aware that you missed Onix before Roark, and FlygonHG did Gardenia with Sandy Cloak Wormadam, which is a Ground type, and has Bug Bite