Can you beat Pokémon Fire Red with only Viridian Forest Pokémon?

[@ManuR-l4m]

You using Focus Energy with Beedrill was really refreshing to see. Underused move for sure and it payed out. And that Rain Dance Thunder combo on Blaine was just beautiful.

[@NuzlockeJoe]

Thanks! I don't like to rely on crits for a nuzlocke, but in a run like this is fun to use more variety of moves.

[@Mattthegodking]

@@NuzlockeJoewas it not cut?

[@NERVTHIS]

That Butterfree nickname. My heart... 😭

[@manarex]

Next a nuzlocke where you can only catch Pokémon whose colour matches the ball used to catch them (so basically what some of us already do but as a nuzlocke)

[@RussellThompson-pf7gp]

This!!!!

[@NuzlockeJoe]

Oh, that’s an interesting idea. I might do that, or some variation of it

[@manarex]

@@NuzlockeJoe let’s gooo

[@eepykate]

yesss i love doing this!! not related to a challenge but mewtwo is Perfect for the masterball, it even has an M on it!!!

[@manarex]

@ same I always try to get legendary Pokémon in the ball colour like that

[@josefrees]

I like these videos because it really showcases some Pokémon I don’t get to see used that much

[@NuzlockeJoe]

Yeah, me too. It helps my appreciate pokemon I typically wouldn't use.

[@AlexParkYT]

Fire Red moment when you only have a team of 3 and you're still under levelled 💀

[@NuzlockeJoe]

I know right? There just aren’t many high level trainers after silphco. The open nature of kanto isn’t always the best

[@midnightcas9995]

Did you seriously name your Butterfree ‘Bye Bye’ in reference to the episode?

[@NuzlockeJoe]

Of course I did! It’s one of the most memorable episodes from my childhood

[@midnightcas9995]

Love that.

[@ariajohnson8107]

​@@midnightcas9995 And unless I'm mistaken, he named the Beedrill Casey after the Beedrill Ash gave to Casey after the Bug Catching Contest.

[@Pokéric1986]

Did you have the Twisted Spoon on Butterfree when you were trying to steal a Magnet?

[@josephward1071]

Beat Pokémon Emerald with only Safari Zone Pokémon

[@StupidPieceofcrap]

Isn't the safari zone available in the mid game? He would have 5 badges if i remember, before getting to safari zone

[@jb3760]

That’s easy. Huge variety

[@MrMuschiato]

2:13 you're right, the Helix fossil is truly useless. Everyone knows Dome fossil is the good one of the pair.

[@jamesadkins7150]

Excuse you but heresy against our lord and savior?!

[@brettvogel8418]

Haha no, both are actually bad pokemon but omastar is waaaay better for a casual play through, especially considering gen 3 is before the special/physical split.

[@danielmonachino7165]

I don't get why people say kabutops is a bad Pokémon I almost always have him on my team in fire red and he honestly is really good against the elite 4.

[@brettvogel8418]

@@danielmonachino7165 any pokemon is good against the elite 4. For casual playthroughs you can use any pokemon you want as the games are really easy. Omastar is arguably the better pokemon though, especially competitively as it is actually ranked UU.

[@RenatoG1848]

You should have also allowed yourself pigeotto

[@Sweetluckk]

I was about to say , isn’t there pidgeotto in viridian forest ?

[@mysticalsquire]

A nuzlocke run in which you only get one Pokémon from each generation

[@brandonchristen2472]

I never played the new ones but I remember in the original Yellow, Red and Blue you could actually find a Pidgeotto in the forest.

[@NuzlockeJoe]

Yep, you can.

[@cecillewolters1995]

I’m surprised you didn’t also kept unevolved pokemon in the party for extra strats. That said this was a good run, GG! ^-^ I love seeing the bugs getting some action. Butterfree was a main on my childhood team, kid me thought it was a super good pokemon with all those powder moves + it was cute

[@NuzlockeJoe]

Yeah I could have done that, but I figured one of each was enough.

[@thenerdbeast7375]

Reminds me of how in the manga trainers from Viridian have great potential with Yellow and Giovanni having a power that boosts their Pokemon's levels, Giovanni still even has a Beedrill who was originally his first Pokemon.

[@mazharsiddiqi7288]

Cool video Kind if reminds me of Yellow manga arc with a child born with powers from Viridian Forest Also in Let's Go you can actually get a full team from Viridian Forest with Butterfree, Beedrill, Pidgeot, Victreebell/Vileplume, Raichu and Venasaur

[@NuzlockeJoe]

Haven’t played the lets go games yet, it’s crazy you can get a venasaur there though

[@mazharsiddiqi7288]

@NuzlockeJoe Bulbasaur but yeah you can have one of the best Kanto playthrough starters before the first gym battle as a wild capture

[@slewdry8233]

geodude only knows tackle and defense curl, so butterfree can setup harden on it fairly easy so it can sweep through onix

[@NuzlockeJoe]

That could work, but it depends on how many tackles Geodude does. Even with +6 defense, onixs rock tomb can still do about 1/3 hp, so that’s not an insignificant amount

[@probleEmatic]

I realized he named all his Pokemon after references. Butterfree is named after the episode "Bye, Bye Butterfree!" While Pika is named after the one from the Detective Pikachu movie lmao

[@Bavio]

What about Casey, the Beesdrill?

[@ariajohnson8107]

​@@BavioPretty sure he named it after the Beedrill Ash gave to the character Casey after the Bug Catching Contest.

[@KuomoriDragon]

Dream eater butterfree is really slept on.

[@ovidiuvergil]

I wandered around that forest so much hunting for pikachus in gen 1 that I ended up considering it a soothing place

[@rb4734]

Nice run again Joe, right down nostalgia lane! I spent hours in the forest because my pika luck was terrible.

[@PasOdMater]

I had an idea of only catching Pokemon whose max evolution has the lowest BST on a route. Should be a fun way to build up from a weaker team to a stronger one as you have dupes and keep getting better and better team members over time.

[@theruleroftheinternet8260]

My favorite move on butterfree is dream eater. With a 95% accurate sleep powder dream eater basically becomes a free psychic replacement so you don't have to use the TM. Just don't run into too many hypnos or primeapes and you're golden 😂

[@NuzlockeJoe]

Yeah I considered getting dream eater and replacing psychic with it, but chose to keep psychic for the possible defense drop.

[@Nick-mc2hy]

I beat this game with a single level 99 non-evolved Bulbasaur. So yes, even at 9 I was a baller.😅

[@NuzlockeJoe]

I never would have left a bulbasaur evolved so long as a kid. It was like blasphemous

[@jdgamboa5201]

Funny enough I sort of did this challenge myself a couple weeks ago. I decided to keep my "original six" for as long as I could, so I went half of the game with a Charmeleon, Raticate, Butterfree, Beedrill, Pidgeotto and Nidoking. We coincided because I gave Psychic to my Butterfree and Brick break to my Beedrill, and they are absolute beasts. They have paper thin defense and HP but since they are fast they can deal a lot of damage.

[@nicksorenson940]

If Ash never let Butterfree go, didn't give the Beedrill he caught in the Johto bug catching contest to Casey, and forced Pikachu to evolve into Raichu.

[@NuzlockeJoe]

Pretty much.

[@BreezyStreamy]

Compound eyes is so goated

[@jaysmooth4998]

Viridian Forest was hardly a maze lol Even as a kid I understood the layout pretty quickly

[@NuzlockeJoe]

Well hey, some kids, like myself, just didn't have very good spatial awareness. It was tough for me, but Mt moon was much harder

[@GaymerGod2000]

I saw those 986 Rare Candies lol

[@NuzlockeJoe]

Yeah I did have a ton of rare candies, but mostly I used them at the start to get my bugs to evolve. Training caterpie and weedle is not fun

[@greenspeedser]

He only used 14 then

[@noobinsnlife2375]

@@greenspeedser13 lol because you have 999 not 1000

[@GaymerGod2000]

@@NuzlockeJoe it’s all good man! Love the videos as always

[@woodpecker8116]

​@@NuzlockeJoeno harm in using them rly after all we know you can do the grinding if you rly had to. It just saves time wich is always good.

[@TheREALSimagination]

Ah, to rediscover these oldies again!

[@RevrendGreed]

I hadn't played fire red, but on my copy of red I could walk thru the elite 4 with just a lvl 100 Beedrill. I recall a lvl 80 Pigeot as well. Over leveling will get you there, eventually.

[@jovanniharmon7724]

Seems like youngster Joey has some competition.

[@briansherrod1916]

I really enjoyed this challenge but man gave me anxiety lol so I can’t imagine how you stayed so calm during a fight lol

[@NuzlockeJoe]

Oh man, didn’t mean for it be anxiety inducing. I didn’t do it as a nuzlocke so it would be chiller too!

[@briansherrod1916]

@ you did an amazing job! I was like he’s incredible and pulled this off I would have died!

[@cielopachirisu929]

Me, Who at 10 years old plowed through Fire Red by over leveling my Raichu:

[@ZandieBird]

People think bug pokemon are weak, but if you use them right, you can wipe a lot of teams with them.

[@red_dll]

This was pretty cool to see. I am a little surprised you didn't even have to overlevel.

[@brainboy5168]

Beedrill butterfree and pikachu have been on ever single of one of my play throughs all the way thru the elite four Bug Pokemon are literally the coolest

[@NuzlockeJoe]

In that case, you might appreciate the video coming out this weekend ;)

[@jasonsalvo4960]

Surprised you didn't use Light Ball Pikachu alongside your Raichu. LB makes Pikachu an actual threat with the right setup.

[@jmercs7]

I love all of the Viridian Forest Pokémon, this is such a cool and fun idea! :D

[@holschermarc]

Viridian Forrest has Butterfree ..... thats the only Pokemon u need. Sleep Powder = GG

[@maxinac]

A mouse and bugs. Everything I'm struggling to battle against too, now that it's cold outside & warm inside.

[@TheBouShea]

I'd like to suggest one I did and failed miserably at, I did it in Emerald. You can only use each ball once, you have to retrieve the ball and use it as soon as it's available. The Pokeball is automatically used for your starter sorry, but like you immediately have to buy a Premier Ball and use it to catch something

[@celticwind4122]

Crazy you can beat the game with the bare bone starters. Props well done

[@princexaine5340]

I've said this before. You can beat Pokemon Fire Red with a Magikarp. So basically every other Pokemon is a yes.

[@woodpecker8116]

People know this but KZbin loves video titles like this more.

[@princexaine5340]

@@woodpecker8116 I guess. I see these videos and don't ever click on them. Clicked on this one just to put in my two cents lol because honestly I'm bored of seeing these.

[@JustMagikarp]

❤️

[@gakeemjenkins]

i do not know how people do this you a full one legend

[@Wiktor-Lewy]

I got my KZbin gaming recap and I was a 0.5 viewer of Nuzlocke Joe ❤

[@NuzlockeJoe]

What does being a .5 viewer mean?

[@Wiktor-Lewy]

@NuzlockeJoe It means that I was one of the .5% of viewers this year

[@Brucedoos]

Awesome Idea man! Great Video

[@jeepwentsch6729]

Still haven’t seen anyone use dream eater with Butterfree on a vid!!

[@kipperkopper1529]

sleeppowder -> dreameater butterfree is smthg i did alot back in the day.

[@kevinniemann8218]

Cool idea for a playthrough so ima do it and don't watch the rest to not get spoiled (I am on 3rd rival battle rn) I'll give you a like though and hope I remember to return to watch the rest after beating the champion

[@xelthos2051]

Watched someone beat Red with only a Magikarp and then only a ditto. You can literally beat pokemon with anything.lol

[@demonsangells]

Pigeotto is also available in Viridian forest. Rare encounter.

[@NuzlockeJoe]

In yellow, but not in gen 3 kanto

[@chriswillis4960]

You got luckier then you realize with the Twisted Spoon. Compound Eyes only has a chance of increasing the hold item on a Pokemon in Emerald and later. It doesnt have that effect in Ruby, Sapphire, Fire Red or Leaf Green.

[@NuzlockeJoe]

Yeah I saw another comment related to this, and it blew my mind. I thought it applied to everything post gen 3, I didn;t realize it started in emerald. That's crazy, but I love learning new random things like that.

[@dench_gaming]

Cool video, makes me want to go back and play the older games

[@Byleth_Nora]

You forgot 1 encounter: the underleveled Pidgeotto.

[@NuzlockeJoe]

True, but that's only in yellow so I didn't get it.

[@Byleth_Nora]

@ Ah. That makes better sense. I thought that encounter stayed. My b. But still a great video.

[@DirkParker]

What a fun idea! :D

[@MitchellBourisk]

Very well edited

[@NuzlockeJoe]

Thanks!

[@Pokéric1986]

Fun video! Your movesets could have been modified to help you out a bit. Raichu should have Brick Break or Seismic Toss so you don’t get shut down by Rock Types. I did like your choice of Rain Dance and Thunder tho. Also Butterfree learns the TM for Dream Eater. Works amazing with Sleep Powder, hits slightly harder than Psychic, and heals you.

[@NuzlockeJoe]

Brick break would have been ok for rock types, but since most of them have high defense, I felt that giga drain, which you get just a bit later, was a better choice. But dream eater was one I considered having for the elite 4, but I also decided against that.

[@Pokéric1986]

@ Giga Drain is much better, but that’s for Butterfree. Raichu should have coverage too :) and I would have removed Thief for Dream Eater personally, but I respect your choice.

[@SonicMeters]

Neat idea I loved this run

[@NuzlockeJoe]

Thanks Sonic!

[@josealmanza8738]

Beedrill completely bodies misty if you use twinneedle, the 4 white outs were pretty wack

[@chadnorris8257]

I thought you could catch pidgeotto there too. Maybe that was Yellow only. It's been a long time since I played the first gen games.

[@NuzlockeJoe]

Yeah, that was only in yellow.

[@chadnorris8257]

@@NuzlockeJoe Fair enough.

[@misterme1134]

Honestly these mons aren't that shit for older games. Newer ones or modded ones are where these become bad

[@joedres5204]

Read the title. Yes. Yes you can. Because that’s what I did as a 5 year old

[@datguy3338]

Sick video so entertaining thank you bro

[@trevorkoi2460]

2:48 you should’ve just taken like 10 mins to teach pikachu thundershock and would’ve been easy gg

[@aaronwightley9752]

What about the pidgyotto, is it removed I no it was there in yellow can't remember but think it's there in red and blue.

[@NuzlockeJoe]

Yeah thats only in yellow.

[@kevinniemann8218]

Playing the same atm- (I allow hm workers though-) And I'm in lavender. So far it's a fun back and forth of who is the strongest (Pikachu pre evos, then butterfree till I got to secret power where it became beedril which is the best rock counter in the flash tunnel, due to brick break which then got replaced with butterfree again once I tracked back for dreameater, just to then be replaced by Pikachu once it got tbolt) Lt surge was for me the biggest hrudle so far cause my strat was dig Pikachu and the dig turn gave raichu the operturnity for double double teams which then got into a sweep of my team.

[@DaSniper406]

Yo i just realized did you name your Beedrill Casey because of Casey from the anime. If i remember correctly she got a Beedrill from Ash in bug catching competition.

[@NuzlockeJoe]

Yep, that's where the nickname came from.

[@ScottsTanks]

Great nuzlocke idea

[@vikteren8723]

I though you could get a pidgeotto as you can find one in viridian forest in leaf green.

[@NuzlockeJoe]

Nope, thats only in yellow

[@עומריזוהר-מ5מ]

The Abra with the twisted spoon appeared because of of the outside of battle effect of Compound Eyes.

[@who9900]

Abilities didn't have additional outside of battle effects until Emerald, so that was pure luck.

[@cecillewolters1995]

They do, but not all of them

[@who9900]

How do you mean? There was Pickup, Illuminate, and Stench, which explicitly have outside of battle effects, but other than those ones, abilities didn't have outside of battle effects until Emerald.

[@cecillewolters1995]

@@who9900 Yeah that was what I meant. Don’t know which ones work and not, but some work and others don’t. At least there is more than none, like the original comment suggested

[@who9900]

I said that they didn't have additional outside of battle effects. In all third generation games before Emerald, abilities only had their in-battle effects, other than the three I mentioned previously, which only had outside of battle effects.

[@xShadowLark]

Was by far the best pokemon game they made. They need to remaster for switch!

[@FireintheConsole]

I thought you could find a pidgey, and pidgiotto in viridian forest too.

[@NuzlockeJoe]

Only in yellow

[@bvr23]

Nice job dude

[@Acacius1992]

How about beating Pokemon Platinum with only Pokemon you can catch by (any) Rod?

[@Foaco]

I remember catching a Geodude once on Veridian Forest, isn't a thing still?

[@NuzlockeJoe]

Nope. As far as I'm aware, there is no generation where you can get geodude there.

[@Hellodude62627]

Is beedrills name a reference to that episode in the anime where ash gave a trainer named casey a beedrill?

[@NuzlockeJoe]

Yes it was! I'm always a fan of the bug catching contest

[@Hellodude62627]

@ oh cool!

[@Underfell_sandd]

bro's a mad man

[@BadDubII]

How could you grow up thinking Butterfree was not good??

[@NuzlockeJoe]

Idk, it’s a bug Pokémon 🤷 They’re weak to like everything!

[@jeroheroarctic]

Brick break can shatter reflect and light screen

[@CraigKalamayTV]

How did you surf and strength?

[@ABlair260]

My thoughts exactly. I believe Pikachu can learn strength, Butterfree and Beedrill cannot. But none of the three can learn surf.

[@cutter9562]

Of course you can. People have beat this game with a single ditto

[@NuzlockeJoe]

Pretty much, its more about how it looks and what strategies are used in each battle. But yeah, it can be beated with basically anything.

[@TheCosmicChariot]

all I can hear is ITS PIKACHU!!!

[@Giga-lemesh]

Love this idea

[@walterhernandez9037]

I got an idea for a nuzlock. Typical nuzlock rules but heres a twist. Hgss but pre E-4 to E'4 only johto pokemon. Post E-4/Kanto arc only Kanto mons. 2nd E-4 run only hoenn mons. After that to Red, only sinnoh mons. With this run, it would be ridiculous with all the grinding needed to win.

[@NuzlockeJoe]

You know, it's funny you mention that. I did something similarish in crystal. Not quite like that, but a nuzlocke similar to that idea. That video will come out next week if you're interested.

[@teebirderv8]

You have compound eyes and sleep powder... Why didn't you rely on that against Misty? That's literally all you need the whole game.

[@NuzlockeJoe]

I mean, yeah it is pretty great. But I couldn't only use one of my three pokemon, that would be unfair to the others!

[@Izanagi657]

Why didn’t you use pidgeot? Or does pidgetto not appear in the viridian forest on fire red?

[@brettreiselt5968]

How are you using surf?

[@MrSimonson]

How long does it take to get a pikachu?

[@Powderblues]

I've beaten the game with nothing but Beedrills.

[@NuzlockeJoe]

Like just a team of 6 of them? Alright

[@Powderblues]

@@NuzlockeJoe 6 of 'em, straight up. Beedrill can be taught Solar Beam, there in Cinnabar Island too, FYI. And no, I wasn't trying to flex by saying that. I'm just a bug guy... tried with Butterfree, but never finished, though I think it would've been possible. Love your videos.

[@veghesther3204]

Possible but I still recommend catching a Pikachu FOR Misty IF you CAN.

[@NuzlockeJoe]

During my normal playthroughs back in the day, I would always need a pikachu because I started with charmander each time. So I'd stay in the forest till I found one.

[@brc9664]

isnt pidgeoto is in viridian forrest?

[@NuzlockeJoe]

Only in yellow

[@OVERLORDCNOTE]

I would go to work with a beedrill raichu and butterfree

[@Dookiefrezh]

Great video

[@gorilaxd2023]

I recomend you nuzlock pokemon light platinum, its a hard rom hack but will be great to see you try

[@NuzlockeJoe]

I can put it on the list. I haven't actually don't any of the extreme rom hacks yet, because I'm not sure i can do it to be honest. I just finished another rom hack, the video will come out next month, and I felt like I messed it up a ton.

[@Tsunachan92]

Can you beat fire red with a team of trade evolutions gengar golem machamp and Alakazam

[@charlesbowker3562]

This is a hindsight being 2020 thing but why didn’t you go back to Viridian city and have that guy teach your Butterfree dream eater?

[@FactsB4Feelings]

No, because none of the V-forest pokemon can surf. Thats immediate disqualification. See, i saved you watching a whole video

[@thelivingend127]

I genuinely thought you could get pidgeotto in virdian forest

[@NuzlockeJoe]

You can, but only in yellow

[@thelivingend127]

@NuzlockeJoe ah glad I didn't make that up then lol

[@1david12]

One question... Where are the HM's?

[@NuzlockeJoe]

I do use other Pokémon for hms, but not in battle

[@1david12]

@NuzlockeJoe Oh I see... So you deposit them in the PC before recording for battles? Interesting action

[@arturobonilla2489]

In my play through a of PokeBlue or gen1 I use Pikachu to wipe out misty

[@robo361]

Hot take here but in my opinion beedrill has never been better than in gen 1, twinneedle at lv20 super effective against all poison and psychic types, very helpful

[@NuzlockeJoe]

I’ll agree that gen 1 bedroll was really good, with pin middle too. But I recently used mega beedrill, and I think it’s better than gen 1