Can I Beat Pokemon Red with ONLY Rhyhorn? 🔴 Pokemon Challenges ► NO ITEMS IN BATTLE

[@banditrests]

It’s dumb but there is a situation where focus energy is useful in gen 1, if you’re using a fast Pokémon with/with a high crit rate move that wants to set up with swords dance or badge boost, you can use focus energy to NOT crit since they ignore your positive stat changes too.

[@lozangekitten-gamer7626]

JRose11 actually did use that on purpose with one of his MANY solo runs (at the time I write this, he ACTUALLY succeeded a solo DITTO run)

[@williamfalls]

Not really worth it, because you're using a whole turn to do it when chances are two critical hits would probably do as much damage as setting it up.

[@romanphilson9275]

@@williamfallsyeah but if you’re facing more than one pokemon it becomes worth it

[@rooislangwtf]

@@williamfalls If you're +6 from swords dance and you one shot without a crit, but you do like a quarter with one it becomes worth it

[@boogliejooglie3700]

Using focus energy is a legit strategy, it's not dumb but you're absolutely right

[@dripsoup6639]

What an incomprehensible back sprite that Rhyno has.

[@govyazhiydoshirak4629]

Look like Cloyster or Lapras shell

[@lordhellstrande2763]

I keep thinking it looks a bit like a weird Reznor

[@asterie_stythia]

The entire strategy of the run was just "keep reseting the fights vs Gyarados until Hydro Pump misses" :D

[@felix_irgendwas]

In my head canon, Sabrina gives you the TM for Psywave because she gets tired of the move costing her the win and she doesn't want to use it anymore. Change my mind xD

[@velvetbutterfly]

Canonically very few trainers beat her or any gym leader. By the end of the game, only Red and Blue have their names carved onto the statues of every gym. While she is portrayed as somewhat childish, less so than the likes of Whitney, I don't see her giving up on a move after 2 losses even if they were close together.

[@Deadflower019]

@@velvetbutterfly Counterpoint: it's fucking Psywave.

[@velvetbutterfly]

@@Deadflower019 like Brock using Bide is any better?

[@Deadflower019]

@@velvetbutterfly Brock is the first gym and doesn't use Psychic types, let him live.

[@riemaennchen]

Rhyhorn and Rhydon are Pokémon I thought were SUPER good back in the day. I mean its a rock rhinoceros and you get it pretty late into the game so it gotta be good, right? Yeah that was before I learned how important speed and how aweful very common x4 weaknesses are.

[@adamstadick2044]

Actually rhydon is fairly good in competitive gen 1 singles. The meta game is dominated by normal types and being able to switch in on hyper beam is pretty good. He’s not like an S tier Pokémon or anything but rhydon and golem are both decent Pokémon in gen 1 competitive.

[@circularnectarine1439]

as well, Zapdos, a pretty good Gen 1 OU staple, doesn’t do jack shit to it

[@briankim1098]

Gen 1 Meta teams feature either Rhydon or Golem, both with their own advantages over the other.

[@alphabet_god1175]

@@briankim1098not anymore sadly. Golem is agreed to just be worse in almost every way. Explosion is the only thing it really has over Rhydon and that isn’t game changing enough to be better than Rhydon. It’s still not bad or anything but it’s just outclassed

[@riemaennchen]

@@adamstadick2044 Competitive play wasn't really a thing 7 year old me thought about. I just thought "Oh cool a rock rhino! Aaaand it died to some leaves..."^^

[@Kris2005isMine]

This is hilarious because in addition to this video, Scott's Thoughts Just released a Rhydon line solo challenge in Fire Red today. So twice the rhino themed Pokemon today!

[@adventureoflinkmk2]

I mentioned that in the live chat earlier lol

[@LiShuBen]

They've done this a few times. Probably a coincidence but still always a treat

[@Chaosking5445]

Coincidence is what I’m thinking it is

[@adventureoflinkmk2]

@@Chaosking5445 as solid snake would say... I don't believe in coincidences...

[@swordofidiotic]

"Lets get brock over with. At level 15 I lost all the time but as soon as I hit level 15 I won with a bit of health left." -Mah-Dry-Bread

[@GabrielLopez-zr7gz]

Right as you said "what an ending" my brain autofilled it with "THAT'S HIS OTHER NAME" 😂

[@MichaelFawcett-91]

I think Blastoise would've been harder than Venusaur. Venusaur being part Poison has reasons to fear STAB moves such as Dig and Earthquake. Blastoise MIGHT fear Thunderbolt but that is non-stab and Rhyhorn's special is...less than stellar.

[@AnimeNut101]

Blastoise would've been a decent fight for Rhyhorn. Great defense, water moves the whole game (so Hydro Pump at the end), plus gen 1 Blizzard (yikes 🥶). But if he made the rival pick Squirtle, his grass type would've been Exeggutor, who is less scary than Venasaur. So, starters in both scenarios are hard fights, but one of his (rival) picks other picks is much less threatening. I get why he chose Bulbasaur.

[@MichaelFawcett-91]

Ah but it also results in his Rival's water type being Gyaraods who is also flying and thus weak to STAB Rock Slide too. So Picking Venusaur made the rival have a lot more weaknesses for him to exploit than he otherwise would have had.@@AnimeNut101

[@chrisdaignault9845]

Nah, blastoise + exeggutor much easier than venusaur + gyarados

[@MichaelFawcett-91]

Normally yes but considering type coverage in this specific run having Verusaur (Poison so fearing EQ) Gyarads (Flying so fearing Rock Slide) and Arcanine (Fire so fearing both) is NOT exactly setting up for a hard fight for a Rhyhorn.@@chrisdaignault9845

[@lolidemon3163]

Yeah gen 1 champion exeggutor, only attking move is barrage and stomp last move is hypnosis, yeah 3 moves on a champion fight is not good

[@davidrichards4826]

13:18 best part of the video

[@xtrmrage0144]

I'd love to see more meme runs. Something like "Can I beat pokemon (insert) using only The First Pokemon?" and you use Arceus, Mew, Bulbasaur and Rhydon.

[@Dragonemperess]

Arceus: First Pokemon in existence that created the rest of existence. Mew: Originally the ancestor of all Pokemon. My headcanon to get around that conflict is that Mew is the ancestor of all non-Legendary Pokemon (and Mewtwo). Bulbasaur: First in the National Pokedex. Rhydon: The first Pokemon created in real life.

[@SomeGuy712x]

(5:44) Which fossil did you take? I hear bananas are good for the monkey algorithm. :P (11:41) Gotta love it when Blaine decides to heal while at full health. (13:17) Whoa, that ambush! Good thing you were able to put that Meowth to sleep! :P (21:24) Wow, Rhyno tanked that Mega Drain like a boss, and then that clutch PAR from Body Slam won it for you!

[@jand1993]

Three ideas, short and simple: How about a Vulpix run in gen 4 or 5? Might be some fun. It has some decent moves and/or can learn. Second idea is an Eeveelution run. All Eeveelutions allowed - best would be gen 4 in Platinum, breeding will be needed, but i guess you will have some fun. On top, you need some time to relax - this should do the trick. Last but not least, i think a Bruno Team run in gen 2 can be really weird. I just have a feeling it will be weird, but this might be interesting.

[@austinnewton4817]

Great run. Just to note that for Gen 1, miss chance -1 stage is 2/3 chance to hit. Gen 2+ changed this to 3/4 hit chance with -1 stage. Sand-attacking Pidgeys against slow mons are no joke.

[@MahDryBread]

That's even worse than I thought!

[@Bradnauseam119]

An early and very well deserved merry Christmas MDB! Thank you for making every Saturday something I can look forward to!

[@bringanotebook28]

A brilliant Super Comment

[@xavier7615]

​@@bringanotebook28you mean "Super thanks"

[@Andrewthedragontamer]

​@xavier7615 We will no longer call it super thanks, super comment is better

[@Aprill264]

Here's a Super Comment! I burst out laughing at your superthanks rant. It's insane that youtube just does that, and Happy Holidays MDB!

[@Afoulger13]

5:08 even if the rival were to use good AI it still wouldn’t go solely for Sand Attack as in gen 1 it is listed as a normal type. (That can still hit ghost types)

[@wanderlustwarrior]

I was just thinking about your Super Thanks rant, so this video was especially hilarious for me. And that that KZbin employee!!

[@conza1989]

Great run, just wanted to mention that Rhyhorn can learn Earthquake too, the TM is on the 10th floor at Silph Co. Hope the helps in the future

[@velvetbutterfly]

In solo runs Dig's higher PP count makes it more appealing too use, plus the invulnerability turn sometimes helps like when Blaine used a Super Potion and then Fire Spin when Rhyhorn was underground.

[@hyrumkohler]

Super Thanks lore was the best part of the video 😂 10:16

[@uomospazzaturatube]

Fun challenge vid as always! The part about super coments was hilarious!

[@allyb6082]

I wish I could write comments from the xbox but I've had to pause your video on the xbox to jump on my phone to write this comment but I honestly couldn't resist. I hugely respect what you done with the video at 13:18 to 13:30 which is why I stopped to write this comment. I laughed so hard because it matches your personality so much, I don't want to spoil what happens for those that haven't watched that far into the video so just know that you my good sir are a clever man.

[@nbproductions194]

Super commenting my super thanks Also Gorgons alliance is a brilliant game, dungeon crawling and kingdom management with chunky ass 90s graphics. Based on one of my favorite DND settings as well

[@MahDryBread]

I haven't been able to get it working yet but I want to!

[@ZorotheGallade]

I remember the first time I caught a Rhyhorn in Pokémon Yellow. It looked like a really cool and strong Pokémon and I spent hours trying to catch one in the Safari Zone. Then I saw that its moves were crappy and it struggled to even stay alive to gain EXP in battles and promptly boxed it. Poor guy. At least it got some redemption when in gen 4 I traded a Rhydon with my brother to evolve into Rhyperior and became a part of my big team together with Gallade, Lucario and Empoleon

[@TheMerryMagpie]

That sounds so fun! I love discovering old or obscure games to enjoy. And yeah, videos or tutorials that explain your exact problem clearly and solves it are the best things. Which channel was it by the way? I hope you enjoy playing and figuring out your 1997 game!

[@braydenmbve545]

I’ve been requesting this for years but I still want my Pokémon Black with only Sawk and Throh run

[@floatingf8783]

It's finally happening this week.

[@feline_luv]

13:17 That cat is adorable! 💞

[@TheRedAzuki]

Against the rival 5, learning mimic to take agility to outspeed would probably make you win a lot lower lvls

[@SkullHeartXPop]

Can rhydon learn mimic?

[@joemasso9473]

Man I could only imagine how a FireRed run would go.

[@carlitosfrancisco7342]

Scoot thoughs did it today too! In fire red

[@AnimeNut101]

Another great vid as always! 👍 I know you do all your Kanto challenge runs in Red and Blue, but I would love to see you do this particular run again, but in Yellow. I think your worries about Lorelei's Slowbro (as well as Bruno even) would've been more valid, due to better movesets for the Elite 4 teams. Also, I'm curious how the rival's team would be doing against you throughout the run, considering how different the rival is in Yellow.

[@TheNoteblockLizard]

Yay! My boy, Rhyhorn!

[@MrGatmanAndRobin]

Finally my boi gets the chance to shine!!! My favorite Pokemon(besides his immediate Evo)

[@Kiaxiou]

I love it how you and Scott used the same pokemon today

[@EternalAnkh]

Sand-Attack is a normal type move in gen 1

[@risel56]

The best part about a Rhyhorn-only run is that you don't have to worry about pressing B for 37 whole levels. :P

[@discgolfwes]

In gen 1 the first sand attack knocks your accuracy down to 66%. Absolutely brutal.

[@tynirio_1]

Basically demolishing any hopes of hitting anything.

[@Unotuchable]

It's actually pretty funny timing that this dropped same day as Scott's Thoughts put his Fire Red with the Rhydon line video out. Either way the poor critter gets brick walled hard by Misty.

[@piotrbijak3545]

You know what's my problem with those videos? I watch em when I'm in bed and falling asleep, seemingly there is no problem until you realize that I wake up and always forget to comment how much I actually enjoy them. It's great content, you have a great voice man. Also which fossil did you pick

[@shreddytodie1605]

Millions of channels on KZbin, but right now you get to enjoy a nice mah dry bread video. :) I hope each and every one of you is having a wonderful night, life is beautiful and grand. What an incredible common ground we all have here, it's truly amazing how pokemon brings so many people together.

[@HaydnG266]

That's crazy that Rhyhorn doesn't learn EQ naturally. Or any Rock Ground moves 😂

[@thedancingguy828]

Not really gen1 movesets are mostly garbage

[@HaydnG266]

@@thedancingguy828 you'll be garbage if you carry on

[@Kanbei11]

Or any self buffing moves. Rip badge boost glitch

[@icebergerplays9639]

I just found a shiny Rhyhorn in the teal mask dlc when this vid popped up. He's one of my favorite pokemon and I can't wait to see how he does!

[@MrDeeds_117]

You would be so proud! I’m not super in wrestling but watched several hell in the cell matches last night. So COOL

[@timelink3315]

Its also the most KZbin thing in the world for them to have more interaction with their content creators on Twitter than on their own site!

[@joeyveldink4902]

I’m looking forward to the Christmas episode! I’m sure you have a fun idea for a Christmas themed run! Also, which fossil did you take? Comments are good for the KZbin algorithm!

[@stuckinthemitchell2224]

Psywave only only. Don’t have a specific game in mind. But that would be hilarious to watch much like the Night Shade / Seismic Toss run

[@somuchnope2]

Well it has to be gen 1 or gen 3 or there would be dark types. No struggling in a psywave run because struggle is way better than psywave usually. I would watch

[@TheShy1000]

I still believe after you managed to beat this game with a Zubat, there anren't many other Gen 1 Pokémonthat could not beat this game alone. It's only a question of "How hard is it to".

[@kevinhart3084]

Ha, take that Meowth! That's what you get for causing trouble in so many other runs

[@D3vil_Mir0ku]

The lore of rhyno... I appreciate that alot

[@dubel22]

Don't worry about missing so much. Went to play Red for the first time in 11 years and got the 1 in 256 glitch 3 times in 1 fight😭

[@ArtWEarld]

"Gore! Gore! Gore!" -Paul Heyman :)))

[@chrisdaignault9845]

21:44 hey that’s Whattageeks other name.

[@RiverwalkerWolf]

Super Thanks to you! (Super Comment when the KZbin Community Manager isn't looking at me)

[@ShadeDergon97]

It's funny; I got two dittos from catching Rhyhorns and got a shiny Rhyhorn in Go, and now you're putting up a Rhyhorn challenge. I don't think I've ever used the Rhyhorn line in a playthrough before, though I do remember my brother having a great Rhyperior when he played Battle Revolution. Lightning Rod was a pretty good ability in that game since it was all double battles. Also 100% approve of the cat pics, along with you talking about something unrelated to the video like how dumb the name "Super Thanks" is and... basically everything you ramble on about in the outros. Also two more ideas I had for challenge runs: Pokemon Black with only one Litwick (probably my favorite ghost-type pokemon that I had a level 80-ish one of in White for some reason), and Pokemon Platinum with only one Phione (pure water-type, has 80s across the board for base stats).

[@Oruk-Orup]

If I had a nickle for every rihorn solo challenge that came out today I'd have 2 nickles, its not a lot but its strange it happened twice

[@garrett7261]

loving these challenges keep up the great content thank you for all your hard work

[@antman151]

Fun fact, I caught a shiny rhyhorn yesterday in pokemon scarlet lol. The timing on this is kinda funny.

[@Frog_Dogger]

Rhyhorn is honestly one of the coolest first stage Pokemon. I'd even go as far as saying that he's cooler than many fully-evolved Pokemon. It would've been sick if he got a Paradox form in Scarlet and Violet.

[@thet2o]

Ironically with the badge boost glitch being so strong dividing your crit chance and having your attack stat sky rocket with less odds of crits doing less damage cause it ignores buffs seems pretty good, completely unintended, but pretty good!

[@xander.357]

I've been waiting for this 1!!!!!

[@logandaley1544]

I’m impressed you won at the level you did. That was a big surprise but I like Ryhorn so I’m happy.

[@AquaRainfell]

Betting on success but Level 80+ minimum because if you can't Outspeed and 1shot Lance's Gyarados it'll be either impossible or require a miss and Rhyhorn's base Speed is kinda bad if i recall.

[@barryszymanski8022]

Lance's gyardos was exactly what I was thinking as well he's gotta out speed

[@harmonia4399]

Rhyhorns line is fun to use. Def one of my favourite pokemon. Difficult to use. But an absolute beast against anything physical

[@SkullHeartXPop]

Yea fr, I wanna use one in Pokemon emerald and I looked at the upcoming gym and I'm like well fuck

[@___________0Z0X]

A “ harder” run? I get it! It’s a pun!

[@BioniclesaurKing4t2]

MDB goes into a crazy explanation of Gen 1 AI on super-effective status moves…in the one generation that Sand-Attack is a Normal move, not Ground.

[@SargeWolf010]

Tbh I don't think I could do a 1 mon only challenge as I like my 6s teams 😂😅

[@hyrumkohler]

If you have time to sift through and edit, I think a montage (or several) of you roasting specific gym leaders for being surprisingly bad would be hilarious and entertaining 🤔

[@Stammovic]

„we Hit a big dig“ …… man I am too childish to ignore that 😂

[@racejones5939]

Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen with Roxanne’s team from Pokémon Emerald? That will rock the Kanto region for sure.

[@tristanwellisch2637]

Oh boy! I wonder if he's gonna pick the Dome Fossil this time!

[@Ryan2K900]

Wouldn’t “speeding into a brick wall” take a while?😂

[@jo3d1rt391]

6:23 I think one sand attack is actually worse than 75, I think it’s around like 67%. It’s crazy how gen 1 works. And I think the first smart AI is misty, as far as big fights go. I’m know theres some other trainer classes that have it but don’t know if any of them appear in early game

[@badysonkids2664]

You winning the water gym with a crit, and starmie doing nothing was insane! I chose bulbasaur as my starter and by using razor leaf, I hit 24 crits, I would have hit 25 but my first razor leaf didn’t hit.

[@chiccaraki]

Good show! It's awesome to see a genuine person get success.

[@royplatt455]

Once again asking for a Platinum Lopunny Solo.

[@SpeedMasterAlex7]

my best nickname for the rhyhorn line is rhydonald LOL

[@brickerboom]

I forgot how....lumpy Rhyhorn's backsprite is

[@northdakotagamer]

I think Mimic to steal Agility in rival fights in gen 1 could help a lot with slow mons like this

[@mentalmike]

Yeah I just assumed that you'd cut all the rock slide misses 😄

[@racejones5939]

Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver with only one Pachirisu. We have some love for Sinnoh’s electric rodent, right?

[@amilavxilmen5632]

The ending is perfect

[@DanielRamirez-om5pe]

Still waiting on that pokemon stadium 2 that you said you were going to do

[@rooislangwtf]

It feels weird to tie these to the concept of "Thanks" since sometimes I just want to send something dumb like and YT is all like "Buy a Super Thanks" and I'm like YT pls I just wanted to and now you've made it weird. So even something like Super Comment would've been better. Also early Merry Christmas I guess.

[@MahDryBread]

Thank you very much, Merry Christmas to you too!

[@manfredkemper1936]

5:05 sandattack in gen 1 is a normal type move, so he should not use it unless all his attacks are ineffective

[@plasmabeaver551]

Random words of the "Day"™: day 682, 683, 684, and 685: Amalgamation, Mum, Nanotechnology, Poland It's Ok Rhyhorn, at least you weren't it an Emerald run

[@DefinitelyNotAFerret]

Leaving a comment for the KZbin algorithm. And I’m definitely 100% not watching this on the drive home

[@zeusoi2854]

MDB could have had EQ since before Koga by going to the 10th floor with the card key and beat that one rocket

[@AnimeNut101]

Your right. Maybe he was counting on Dig's invulnerability turn to survive quad weak attacks due to bad speed and special? 🤔 Or he might've forgot, who knows.

[@velvetbutterfly]

@@AnimeNut101it's because he already had Dig which had higher PP and it didn't make sense to have double Ground moves.

[@leivaslt666]

Just watched Scott’s Thought on FireRed! You guys called each other to schedule the month? Lol

[@mickgorro]

Actually IIRC Scott's Thoughts' overlay reveals one sand attack in gen 1 lowers 100 to 66. Still, that's 2/3, so 1/3 to miss, and 5 times in a row is 1/243.

[@MahDryBread]

I guess it's a bit less impressive when you figure that it's got slightly better odds than the 256 glitch and I see that happen just about every Red run, either to me or my opponent. Still funny though!

[@davalious5107]

Poor Rhydon really needs some love from game freak. And speaking of love, I'd love to see you do a pokemon gold/silver run with just a Murkrow (how's that for a suggestion segway)

[@matthewcenteno5515]

His super tweet got super ghosted for his super comment, that's super funny😂

[@Handington]

What fossil did you take?

[@ThatguycalledJoe]

I still think it'd be a great bit to do the Helix Fossil bit, but the footage shows taking the Dome Fossil instead.

[@velvetbutterfly]

I heard he took the Dome fossil in the footage during an old run now. As in, I heard it like a year ago and they said it was an older video then

[@joaopedrooliveira590]

Suggestions for future runs: X or Y with only a Greninja with Ash's moveset (Cut, Water Shuriken, Aerial Ace and Double Team) Any game with only moves up to 60 base power Sword or Shield with only TM Moves (no TR) Any game with randomized moveset and abilities.

[@HaydnG266]

Funny as Scott's Thoughts did Rhydon today

[@GroundBack]

I came from Twitter to ask which fossil did you take?

[@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

[@Lies_and_Slander]

Faster than a speeding Rhyhorn

[@ThatMadBrenriolutho]

Next you should do Heartgold with only first form grass types

[@NatsumeAyanami]

Dire hit in original pokemon does have one legitimate use. Ensuring that you never crit when you'd boosted your attack/special, which completely ignores stat boosting and penalties on both sides. So if you are going for a single high power boosted move build it will keep you from critting, but... For the times that matter you can soft reset, so honestly why would you outside of some wierd speed run shenanigans.

[@dirtycasual3094]

That is absolutely amazing..! 🤣