Can You Beat Pokémon Ultra Moon Without Catching Pokémon?

The story of the no-catching playthrough challenge I did on MandJTV Plays!
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[@josephbiddle1637]

That Shiny Sigilyph encounter is a perfect example of why, in challenge playthroughs, I keep a rule that I can still keep Pokéballs on hand for legendaries and shinies. I just have to then box it like the Lunala in your Moon wonderlocke.

[@Emolgabrine]

Depending on the shiny, I can choose to use it for my playthroughs, especially if it's an early game shiny that's a pokemon I like. Would’ve boxed that sigilyph though, that was late in the game.

[@josephbiddle1637]

@Unown Unless I'm doing a Shiny Locke, (which I'm preparing to do on Alpha Sapphire) I allow myself to catch them, but not use them. In a Shiny Locke, I can obviously use them.

[@FatalHog]

thats generally why the shiny clause is a thing.

[@Willowwhisp90]

Shiny chances are really high in wormholes

[@KBgamer2010]

I remember one time playing Pokemon out of the box, can't remember which game it was, but I somehow got a shiny starter

[@ph0w0enix]

Sigilyph could have been saved with a shiny clause in your ruleset and nobody would have blamed you for catching it. Also, Mimikyu with Shadow Sneak would have meant hitting the Z-Move, leaving Necrozma on a sliver, and hitting it with a priority Shadow Sneak to take it out. Would have been much easier.

[@yizao9289]

He probably didn’t have any poke balls

[@mightguy3578]

He could have just used toxic turn one and win that way

[@PikaSmasha]

The sigilyph had a super high shiny rate

[@dungfungus56]

He could have caught it and did a wonder trade or sum

[@sajidahmad4961]

@@dungfungus56 god damn I got shiny altaria in that space but till that time I didnt know anything about shiny and stuff and I ran away from that battle

[@JustinWPruett]

Searmgle having Leafage means that Ilima fought and defeated the same teacher as you did, since in your game the teacher had a Rowlet. That’s such a good attention to detail.

[@leechlover049]

searmgle

[@unknowndab9524]

Legends has it that Fabio continues to save people’s days.

[@thewisthersgames]

And that Indominous continues to lost battle against opponent with favorable type matchups

[@yellowthing5874]

And that Demon is planning its return

[@LordRemiem]

Confirm, I'm still working hard for that

[@thewisthersgames]

@@LordRemiem How have been going your relationships with the other members of the team?

[@LordRemiem]

@@thewisthersgames awesome creatures, they're all great ❤

[@maffoo9775]

Necrozma: Please... help me. I need ligh- Mikey: shut up nerd im out

[@shirley2322]

also Mikey: let's igonge him

[@livingfastdyingyoung]

@@shirley2322 I love to “igonge” people

[@sakura_7472]

Thats sad

[@berrysewsu]

@luis villalobos hi daddy

[@summmmp555]

this is me but with plants

[@thediamondyanma]

The Masquiraine, the shiny Sigilyph, that teacher with that damn Rowlet, it's coming back to me now.

[@tahminamushtaq9098]

Damn that masquerain

[@isseiddraig2132]

Damn that Masquerain

[@bluepepperman]

and hau's tauros

[@chloegibbs7204]

and hau’s tauros

[@floogullgaming1764]

@araion hatokawa in my first playthrough of sun, it took me like 30 TRIES to kill that mimikyu. Luckily, my wonderful habit of overleveling my pokemon before big challenges.

[@wildheartrazorfang6]

I remember watching Part 3 as I was playing Pixelmon and right after you couldn't catch a shiny Sigilyph, i actually managed to catch one. I named it Mikey in honor of your struggle

[@Le_Stabeth]

respect

[@SlimJibby]

respect

[@mohammadmurie]

respect

[@csekat]

We salute you

[@k1k1s404page]

o7

[@yummydragon8533]

"Hey look, is that a Necrozma and a Shiny Sigilyph that I could have caught and transferred and not used on my team?" "Eh, let's keep flying..."

[@Zenith-SMK]

I was perfectly thinking: "Mikey, just cheat and catch the darn shiny, nobody is going to care."

[@yummydragon8533]

@@Zenith-SMK yeah, I said, don't use it on your team, and it won't be cheating... I BARELY get shinies, so I felt a personal attack...

[@Zenith-SMK]

@@yummydragon8533 I agree, I have no non event shinies myself

[@cullenhutchison6528]

It's a lot easier to get shinies via Ultra Warp Ride. The odds are much higher; it was not unexpected that the Sigilyph would be shiny.

[@Zenith-SMK]

@@cullenhutchison6528 ok and? Nobody really cares, a shiny is a shiny, just catch the darn thing

[@jabarithegoldenlucario8841]

Meanwhile in the Afterlife… Deafcon the Staravia: What are you in here for? Shiny Sigilyph: Your trainer had to kill me in order to complete his no catch run. Waifu the Gardevoir: *sigh* The Quacken the Golduck: That’s rough buddy.

[@kirbstars]

o7

[@dr.crayon247]

For those who don’t understand These are some of the pokemon that died in mikeys first nuzlocke

[@jacobchildress7921]

Ludacris the Infernape: You think that sucks? I survived until the very last Pokémon before the Elite Four. Beat that!

[@jabarithegoldenlucario8841]

@@jacobchildress7921 Metal the Gliscor, who died during the Cynthia fight: Bruh.

[@charmesean]

@@jabarithegoldenlucario8841 JAIDEN ANIMATIONS WHO LITERALLY FAILED HER PLATNIUM RUN AND GOT A RE-TRY: Really guys? Really?

[@justinmorrell3446]

“Named Date Tech” I see Haikyuu has made it to this part of the internet as well

[@nightart9345]

I'm not done watching the video, but that Shieldon better be a true *Iron Wall* Edit: Well, that was upsetting.

[@peytonallen5983]

I love he named it date tech

[@quixotiic7452]

Same

[@josiecasados8298]

Ikr

[@mikayladavis5300]

It took me way to long to realize where i had heard it from when I watched this before

[@urdeadnotbigsuprise7439]

17:15 Mikey: "What were they doing with Togedemaru's moveset?" Me : *Looking at Salazzle's moveset* Oh... you have seen nothing.

[@kaspervletter290]

I killed him like this! Proceeds to shoot sniper in the chest

[@insertclevernamehere1186]

You think that's bad? Feraligatr doesn't learn any water type moves after Water Gun till level 63!!!

[@hzakiyyamuhammad1847]

@Sofia Stumme-Hanson well, in pokemon platinum you can teach gyarados bounce in post game tutor moves, if Im remember correctly

[@tronzero]

What's so terrible about Salazzle's moveset? It learns a descent amount of Fire type moves, and although it doesn't learn many damage-dealing Poison moves, it learns Venoshock by level up which is arguably the only one it needs, plus it learns Sludge Bomb, Sludge Wave, and Poison Jab by TM. (Also that's just in Gen 7; in Gen 8 Salandit learns Poison Fang at level 15.) That's a lot better than Togedemaru not learning any Steel type moves except Gyro Ball by TM.

[@urdeadnotbigsuprise7439]

@@tronzero more than of it's moves are PHYSICAL moves, the only non STAB special attacking move it learns by leveling up is Dragon Pulse, and it ONLY learn Mud-Slap as an egg move, so yeah, either swap it's attack special attack stats or change most of it's movepool drastically.

[@BlueWolfZero]

I like how the thumbnail foreshadowed the “Best Worst Shiny Luck”.

[@rashanmcrae9166]

I feel like if you find a shiny in any of these challenges then you can catch it but just can't use it

[@Raven1Nevermore]

@@rashanmcrae9166 agreed

[@morrigankasa570]

@@rashanmcrae9166 I agree somewhat. I say all these challenges be they randomizer or nuzlocke or no catching and so on have the exception rule for Shinies that they can be caught and used but with a sort of Asterisk acknowledgement.

[@rashanmcrae9166]

@@morrigankasa570 well they can be used like for hm's for a solo Pokemon runs or it fits the requirements for an basic or hardcore nuzlock such as an all flying type run perfect for the sigilyph he found or some how found a shiny in the poke pelago

[@drawingfan9024]

I mean those shinies are much more common but still it is sad

[@atomicq3603]

I literally had the thought "Is this a Re-Upload?" right before he explained that this wasn't MandJTVPlays, at this point I've kinda lumped the 2 channels together

[@martinj8500]

Right same here

[@necrozma4029]

Can we all just be grateful for a second that Necrozma doesn't have any healing moves when you fight it as Ultra Necrozma?

[@eljordinio7647]

Yeah, otherwise it would b almost impossible to beat it

[@necrozma4029]

@@eljordinio7647 i enjoy referring to myself in third person. this gives necrozma power

[@eljordinio7647]

@@necrozma4029 don't really see how that helps necrozma

[@necrozma4029]

@@eljordinio7647 ...excuse you.

[@gengarzilla1685]

I'm grateful that all its moves are resisted by a pure Steel type. Smart Strike is a really dumb pick when it could have something like Brick Break or Heat Wave.

[@thehuskysnowball9210]

When Sun and Moon was planned, people gave so much hate to Popplio for being a Water/Fairy and I was like: Im choosing Popplio cause its cute.... And my Primarina was hands down the one pokemon on my time that was beasting through most of the game

[@thenoisybunny]

a fellow popplio enjoyer! popplio was and is still in my top 3 favorite starters for that reason. plus its just plain adorable.

[@legobuilder7636]

I did the same thing

[@snivygirl]

I hated litten. Because it stands on 2 legs 😂 i always pick Rowlet so hau had popplio. cause i found him best for hau.

[@melvondrewhite2674]

@@thenoisybunnyPrimarina Is Literally The #1 Fairy Type !

[@gengarzilla1685]

They didn't give hate for the typing, they gave hate for design. Those are the sort of vapid, prissy folks who think Pokémon is a beauty pagent instead of a video game.

[@skylarlee9691]

"Chompers" "Chompers" "Chompers" "Chompers" RIP Chipmunk

[@AznYunHou]

RIP Chompers

[@floogullgaming1764]

@@AznYunHou yes

[@zuperzoniko6365]

@Enderpro BUTT ers!!

[@silverthehedgehog5187]

Poggers

[@bingus5802]

He realizes it in the UN battle

[@linhardtvonhevring9752]

So the takeaways from this challenge are: 1) Cradily, once evolved, is very good; 2) Hawlucha and Primarina are incredible and staples on any USUM team; and 3) The gift Eevee is Queen/King Watevra Wa’nabe.

[@amiamagi]

4) Archeops and Defeatist are garbage most of the time Edit: 4*

[@markharbath31X9]

@@amiamagi I was just about to say that lol

[@NormalGuy985]

5) you can have bad luck with shinies

[@cerobathetalllady]

That same Eevee was the one to defeat Ultra Necrozma as a Jolteon in my Ultra Sun after everyone died. Jupithunder the Jolteon dodged the Photon Geyser and crit with Shadow Ball, OHKOing Necrozma. I mean, I did got some damage from my Golisopod's First Impression and Decidueye's Sucker Punch, which brought Necrozma's health to exactly half, but then the others didn't have any priority moves and Necrozma had a super effective move for 4 members of my team except Decidueye, who already died from a Photon Geyser and Jolteon and I didn't want to use revives and potions, i just thought i would go back, grind and come back but nope, Jupithunder wanted to take revenge right then and i appreciate him for that, i actually cried.

[@somuchnope2]

In archeops's defense, Indominus had a negative attack nature and was often a lower level since he had a full team so early and it would have avoided a lot of Defeatist-ing if it wasn't so unlucky

[@rex3588]

Yes I agree 👏

[@lalaskittle7614]

Also, I feel like the power increase of all the newer pokemon makes it worse and worse

[@CrimsonPriestessofMiracles]

Shiny Sigilyph: What’s up, shiny Reshiram? 😄

[@Hessonite_Dragon_Helen]

Also shiny sigilyph: yeah I’m just gonna take your spot in the intro for ASPITPIAY now.

[@WillowTheLacera]

The first time I ever played the ultra games, I didn't use my starter. I used the event Own Tempo Rockruff/ Dusk Lycanrock in it's place. So I never saw the emotional moment with my starter at the League's front door until my second playthrough. Haven't regretted it though. That was my favorite team of all time.

[@hashiramanamikaze9866]

This series was so awesome. Now it makes the challenge even more awesome! Expecting a Pokemon White ultimate randomizer video soon?

[@averytubestudios]

An Extreme Randomizer video would be pretty interesting.

[@hashiramanamikaze9866]

@oop oop Noice

[@hashiramanamikaze9866]

@@averytubestudios Yup, he is doing it already in his gaming channel, so there is a good chance he will make it.

[@MrJJLand]

Everyone always wonders why I like Lileep. Crazily is actually EXTREMELY solid as a Pokemon thanks to Defense and Special Defense being quite bulky. Ya it's attacks are lower and its time as a Lileep is utter suffering, but have a Lileep for stuff like Battle Frontiers or Challenges, and build it for stall? The thing just won't quit

[@poketuberyj1386]

Crazily lol 😂

[@moodkipdevin6287]

*Cradily

[@invaderzin1858]

I regret choosing the claw fossil now

[@therealevilmudbug]

Crazily is my favorite pokemom man

[@rohankirar5718]

I has one in my emerald playthrough and that thing was un killable

[@DragoCyan]

"It had been 3 years since I had played this game." *Why must you make me feel old?*

[@sid2269]

X and y is almost 8 years old

[@hazzabomb707]

@@sid2269 *softly* dont

[@ravenlet]

pokemon is 25 years old

[@gengarzilla1685]

I'm pretty sure Hau's final team before the credits has some EV training done and good IVs on top. His Pokémon were also outspeeding mine in cases when they really shouldn't and I know for a fact that we didn't have low EVs or a low IV on Speed. Also, I'm 99% sure Photon Geyser ignores the target's ability. Mimikyu's very lucky that Necrozma's AI priorities a super effective Smart Strike instead.

[@jeremiegaming3034]

If it's not a 100 percent accurate it's 50 percent accurate!

[@usermcskull4713]

Ooh that explains how I lost my first time haha

[@youtube-kit9450]

In USUM, people have EV-trained pokés in general. A Masquerain wouldn't be that fucking brutal to fight if it wasn't obviously EV-trained.

[@feen_x]

Cradily is such an underrated mon, it's surprisingly useful, you just gotta play around the weaknesses

[@theboi5584]

I remember watching this series over on Mandjtv Plays, that Masquerain was a nightmare for him lol

[@nicoo1784]

I agree, LOL

[@vanguardbreaker8826]

Mikey: *mentions a trial* Also Mikey: "This was one I was concerned about." Also Masque-reign-of-terror lol

[@marmus5422]

Are u a pokken master

[@joaquinnovoa2386]

Does he know what happened to Marie Antoinette 5 billion points of you get that joke

[@senortacos1491]

25:29. This was one of the easiest battles having a decidueye that some how does not faint 5 times due to friendship and spirit shackle

[@danielburgess5864]

Same here

[@WyvernRex2099]

I first time I beat it I used a hippowdon and a carracosta. Hippowdon had sand stream and Carracosta had Sturdy. I just kept reviving them because I had 100 revival herbs on me. It died from the sandstorm and aqua jet eventually.

[@firionrose4277]

i killed mine with a level 88 umbreon using dark pulse and got a crit

[@fadhilmulyono9230]

Laughs at Mikey beating Ultra Necrozma with Perish Song Lapras during his Ice Types Only playthrough

[@oogabooga7780]

the primarina probably survived against ultra necrozma due to the hp and defense EV's you got from only using your starter for a while

[@arandomguy5729]

U mean EVs

[@zelotunite]

I love how every poketuber is making rumor content and Michael over here is releasing bangers. I'm loving the content keep it up 😁

[@SpikeGamer06]

Alternate title: Mandjtv rages at a pokemon game again

[@lunagarcia3747]

I enjoy

[@aagamgolecha2226]

Noice

[@vrodlrvm]

"aGaIn"

[@muhammadsadiq2570]

As usaually in that alternative universe

[@truedragoroyale7061]

Yeah that’s a good one

[@insertclevernamehere1186]

I'm doing a similar run on Ultra Sun. Primarina was my obvious starter, which synergized nicely with Totem Marowak and Totem Lurantis. Soon after, I added Tyrunt (now Tyrantrum) and eventually Totem Vikavolt. The last Pokémon added to my team was Totem Mimikyu, even though both its types overlapped on my team, but... I didn't really have many other options at that point (plus you can get Mimikyu's Z-move before the Komo-oo trial, so...). I am now stuck at the Ultra Necrozma fight, so I'll need to train my team up a bit.

[@Vania1669]

I love how no one knows they buffed Masquerain in Sun/Moon, making it pretty dangerous if used right, and so everyone underestimates it.

[@zzeroara9511]

it looks good on paper but there's so many strong Pokemon in USUM that its mediocre defenses, bad HP and mid speed just makes it so unworthy of using

[@eddiemate]

31:41 The reason Libre was outsped by both Taurus and Leafeon is likely due to both having 252 speed EVs in this battle (as well as 252 attack EVs, to explain why Taurus was so strong). The AI actually has really good stats for almost every fight, which is kinda scary.

[@saltedpeppers6825]

I still remember this channel from when I was like 10..... It's been 6 years and you're still going strong, mad props to you my man

[@JimBeamFiend53]

"This rag covered monstrosity is ruining my day" Been there during my rejuvenation and reborn runs

[@AhmedHussain-ju6xd]

Ahhh yes mikey's nemesis, *THAT GODDAMN MASQUIRAIN*

[@popcorn3230]

Yes!!!!!!

[@Cherie_nby]

*IT'S THE STRONGEST POKÉMON IN GUZMAN'S TEAM*

[@toonirl6675]

Guzma was right, *never* underestimate the Bug Type

[@virtualcolt]

I really hate that stupid Masquerain, why the hell does it have Intimidate, it makes no sense

[@WyvernRex2099]

@@virtualcolt If you see a bug in your room, you might be intimidated by it. Especially if it was as big as Masquirain

[@Chanceogal]

“I’m sorry Indominus, deafeatist is just SO BA-“ At Aspen Dental, take back your smile!

[@voodooisillegal]

for me, it was a Galaxy S21 5G ad. XD

[@theselfishorca6340]

It was a Facebook ad for me

[@ODogg4511]

Omg I got the same exact ad

[@PikaSmasha]

The Shiny sigilyph has an extremely high catch rate compared to even fish chaining in gen 6, SOS chaining and Masuda method

[@anime2019master]

I chose umbreon for my playthrough as well, a great decision, he got me out of some tight spots, tanked some hard hits that allowed me to heal my hitters many a occasion. I kept him in my team for that reason. Not many fights could one hit him, so I could get at least two heals off him b4 he went down.

[@theboi4069]

I want you to do “Beating Pokémon sun and Moon without SO MANY DAMN CUTSCENES”

[@shadowninjagamer1018]

That's your mom.

[@ThomasOwOD]

@@shadowninjagamer1018 Amazing insult!

[@susantadhikari6573]

@@shadowninjagamer1018 wDyM

[@chococookie9815]

Before I played through Sun and finished it. It took like 69 hours bruh

[@shadowninjagamer1018]

@@susantadhikari6573 That's your mom.

[@charliecoke7396]

This is easily the best play through video you've done man. The variety of the newer games definitely lends itself to these kinds of series. Keep it up!

[@Purplex08]

Micheal 2030: can you beat pokemon without pokemon?

[@Zyrexia]

nope, in 2030, he will say - can you beat pokemon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and post it in youtube

[@Gibberish97]

@@Zyrexia kinda did that already

[@JustinWPruett]

SmallAnt did that. “Can I Beat Pokémon Using Only Items?”

[@cullenhutchison6528]

You can wrong warp past the champion battle in Red/Blue/Green, so yes, you can beat Pokémon without Pokémon.

[@Purplex08]

@@cullenhutchison6528 well i guess thats true

[@pokemonfreak6669]

That is why I always use Primarina when playing through these games. It is SO good.

[@joetheturtle7768]

Ultra moon is by far, my most played Pokémon game. I legit have 628 hours and 38 minutes...

[@LordRemiem]

Oh yeah, the natures. My first Shiny ever was a Shiny Abra in Ultrasun (in the grass) and it had a Sp.Atk. lowering nature.

[@fazecyvix1962]

worst case scenario

[@Blade.5786]

My first shiny, a misdreavus, had a modest nature

[@zelotunite]

Don't get me started every good pokemon I catch just has a terrible nature. I don't know why but I was cursed with terrible natures.

[@youtube-kit9450]

Hence why I love that you can just outright buy mints and silver bottle caps and all that jazz in S/V. See a poké you like? Cool, catch it, and the only thing you have to look out for a bit is EV-training, which again is very alleviated by 252 being the max and the power items.

[@legospaceguyok7100]

Archeops: Ohkos golisopod and damaged pinser twice Mikey: I don’t like him

[@TIGOfficialYT]

To be fair, Archeops also caused him other really bad loses or near losses so... 😂

[@lyncario5515]

@@TIGOfficialYT Wouldn't have done so if he knew how to use Archeops.

[@TIGOfficialYT]

@@lyncario5515 That's true too, but tbf Archeops sort of sucked to begin with.

[@lyncario5515]

@@TIGOfficialYT Being honest, the Alola games don't favor Archeops. Totem pokemons from the point he's usable all have a speed boost making so that ouspeeding them isn't a reliable strategy most of the time (the only exception is Togedemaru, who instead resist Archeops's stabs, and has a +2 defense boost). And since Archeops isn't bulky, totems easily put him in defeatist. Then for trainer bosses, the pokemons they have are often very bulky or incredibly speedy since in gen 7, the bosses all have teams with perfect ivs and are ev trained from at least the begining of the 3rd island (which is also part of why gen 7 is very hard to nuzlocke). Archeops's gameplan is to one-shot things left and rights with acrobatics before u-turning, so of course the one generation where they make every bosses way stronger than usual is it's worse region, which also applies to most pokemons.

[@noahkivits2004]

Me: sees that Micheal posted a new video My finger: *I am speed*

[@hackercow211]

Me too!

[@kingwilliamlobo]

I was notified 8 mins later （╯°□°）╯︵(\ .o.)\ T_T

[@Red-xs7yz]

Yup

[@itaiayalon3385]

But what about the road roller?

[@glaceon2744]

No one: Mikey: if it’s not 100% accurate it’s 50% accurate

[@RhythmGrizz]

"Gotta catch literally none of 'em!"

[@joshblackwell2418]

I was just rewatching this series when this was uploaded

[@flaming_bananas3626]

HE KNOWS

[@cafecs3888]

Ok

[@atrta5648]

Same

[@airafernando4910]

Same here!

[@isaaclim8645]

I just love how tough gen 7 was.. totally underrated

[@marinegator1833]

Sun and moon alone were a pain in the ass to do.

[@marinegator1833]

@Noah Cafaro it was a hassle for me and I've been playing since red and blue. It's like hey let's put pokemon that are annoying to battle against in the game

[@isaaclim8645]

@@marinegator1833 yeah man those totem battles were really tough!

[@uraveragepokemonshipper1855]

Except for the millions of cutscenes in the early game these games were great and deserve more support

[@isaaclim8645]

@@uraveragepokemonshipper1855 i think they reduced them in USUM so i was fine with that

[@fdrngm266]

MandJ: doing ultra moon Challenges after 3 years. Me: I started playing sun for the first time, I started yesterday

[@shadowninjagamer1018]

That's your mom.

[@victoriamilk2865]

Who ya pick?

[@fdrngm266]

@@victoriamilk2865 Litten ofc, such a cute cat

[@Velociraptor2000]

Good luck with cutscenes, they are tedious and unskippable.

[@arandomguy4409]

@@Velociraptor2000 i love the cutcenes and i really enjoyed sm

[@chocoroons]

seeing how they made the ultras better, I'm really happy that it was my very first pokemon game

[@wanderingwildlife6639]

I haven’t beaten ultra moon yet, but what I do love about that the game is that I think my maybe 2nd encounter not sure if I had any other Pokémon yet, I encountered a full odds shiny buneary. I named him Curly and he loves me and is incredibly good at using Return.

[@ultimate9056]

The mimikyu trial was always the hardest for me. I remember coming up with an elaborate strategy using ditto and a graveler with steelium z to beat it

[@stormaurora189]

Seeing you struggle with Guzma's Masquerain brought back unfortunate memories of my mono-Ghost run of Sun, where I came back to the challenge after forgetting about it for a year right before the Guzma fight at Aether Paradise only to have my whole team swept by his Masquerain. Not a great comeback.

[@youtube-kit9450]

That fucking Masquerain is complete bullshit. It feels like it has choice scarf, choice specs, wide glasses so its air slash never misses, assault vest and king's rock at the same time since it outsped even plus speed natured pokés of mine, did a stupid amount of damage, was bulky as all hell and flinched like 9/10 times. It definitely has EVs and great IVs, cuz it's like the one pokémon I struggled hard against (well... aside from Lusamine's Milotic and the totem Araquanid when doing a mono-fire type run but that was very expected). But a fucking *Masquerain???*

[@gengarzilla1685]

It did get base stat increases to Special Attack and Speed in this generation, just to add. +20 on both.

[@Gachadon97]

I rewatched this entire run 3 times and remember the demon bug masquirane, killing the shiny, the crit happy Taurus, and primarina being an absolute God! #bestalolastarter

[@KevinLoveFan739]

I do to

[@soulhoney1908]

Thanks to special defense nature

[@Gachadon97]

@Apple Head XD OMG Isee it too

[@inu4771]

i like how i commented "Can't wait for all the random shinies he's magically gonna encounter now, and won't be able to catch them." on the first video of this USUM series and I was right XDDDD

[@uraveragepokemonshipper1855]

No way XD

[@dyoesSlj]

Nah the reference of shieldon being like a wall and date tech having a hell of a wall in haikyu is genius

[@sinner9611]

I love that he named sheildon after datech and theur iron wall

[@Robin280497]

I respect you from keeping using Archeops when obtaining that Aerodactyl after talking about the struggles it went through. And then it gets replaced with Hawlucha soon afterwards. rip

[@suchomimustenerensis]

I remember this That god damn Masquiraine

[@shadowninjagamer1018]

That's your mom.

[@Amethyst_Espeon]

Yep

[@normalidiot4507]

Saaame

[@shenzhong3078]

The monster

[@amandaloujones2536]

i didint have a problem with masquirain

[@DanixMRs]

The reshiram flashbacks are coming in

[@syedayanali6208]

Micheal: *rages at a pokemon game again* Me: * enjoys it*

[@genesis4322]

Makes me real happy to see you using Cradily because it's a really underrated fossil.

[@nikagogritchiani1408]

I was just rewatching the series and as u said "I will put one vid on main channel" notification pop up! 🤣🤣

[@KyleGuyYT]

That series on the second channel was interesting.

[@allanchitla5442]

that special defense nature of fabio saved mikey

[@justinterry2926]

The potions saved him

[@A-YouTuber7]

Omg watching that stupid araquinid brought me the worst memories of fighting it over like 6 times on my first playthrough 😭

[@venomgaming7014]

Do a Pokémon shield mono-flying challenge. You’ll have to wait for a while until you both have Pokéballs and reach route 1 but for 3 early game flying types that evolve well before the first gym (caterpie evolves likely before reaching the wild area, provided you grind and hoothoot likely evolves just before Milo or during Milo) and corviknight is amazing later. Even corvisquire is pretty good against Milo and quite a few other people so it ends up being a bit easy at the start. Although Pokémon like hop’s pincurchin, Leon’s dragapult and mr rime (if you pick a Scorbunny) and other Pokémon could be troublesome, but if you strategise how to get past those problem areas, you can do it fairly easily.

[@necrozma4029]

Why did I think that you meant that Mikey could only use pure-flying types I was wrong

[@venomgaming7014]

@@necrozma4029 mono-flying means you can only use flying types. Pure flying means uhh…corvisquire only and tornadus?

[@zzeroara9511]

oooooh, mono flying in SW/SH sounds really fun. You get Pidove pretty early and Corviknight is a really good tank.

[@thedragonwarrior5861]

So you're saying... TEEAM SKYYYYYYY GALAR BRANCH!

[@Crxsseyed1]

I’m currently in the middle of my first sword play through, I decided to not use my starter most of the run, getting rid of it a bit before milo, and so my team is actually really unique, some of the Pokémon on it are not usually used, and for a long while corviknight was my ace, until I got a sand spitting sandaconda, which is now easily my ace, and if I ever run into a grass/water type, I have my arctozolt

[@cloud6313]

I get it! I get the shieldon iron wall of date tech reference!

[@Earthquaker20]

Smallant has entered the chat. Smallant does challenge “can you beat pokemon sun and moon without using a single pokemon”

[@potatogamerrrrr]

Wait did he?

[@SomeoneCool-t7y]

I think he should do a nuzlocke run but, he can’t evolve any Pokémon, he can only use the Pokémon in the area it’s caught, no x items, and he resets if his one Pokémon faints

[@guts60]

Whenever I do these play throughs, I always let myself catch shiny Pokémon, but I have to immediately put them in the Pokebank or Pokémon Home

[@Gr4ceful4life]

Michael: “I think libre had a speed lowering nature or garbage effort values” Also Michael: *Shows a footage early that clearly show that libre had a docile nature* Great job remembering things mikey Oh and I forgot, he said that Fabio had a ‘great’ nature which was timid… Mikey really?

[@LeafeonTheCat]

What does docile nature do? (Sorry I’m not very competitive in Pokémon)

[@aidanredding8058]

@@LeafeonTheCat Neutral stats

[@Gr4ceful4life]

@@LeafeonTheCat it’s just does nothing like quirky and serious

[@soulhoney1227]

@@Gr4ceful4life yeah

[@darkfiredragon3410]

Kinda late, but Fabio's nature was Calm not Timid.

[@bloodwar5005]

Hail yeah, good to see Cradily getting some recognition and helping Mikey out a lot!

[@mr.ketchup88]

“This rag covered monstrosity was RUINING MY DAY.” How do you think I feel when I had to do this with no knowledge of any Pokémon, as it was my first Pokémon game. I was stuck on this for like 6 months, it sucked

[@juanca2567]

Remember your play through videos like “Can you beat Pokémon FireRed with only normal type moves” and “Can you beat Pokémon Platinum”? Do it again with “Can you beat Let’s go Pikachu with a team of field move users without them ever forgetting their field moves”, with Pikachu knowing Floaty Fall before Sky Dash and Splishy Splash before Sea Skim, a traded Farfetch’d with Cut before Chop Down, a traded Alakazam with Flash before Light Up and Teleport, a Machamp with Strength before Strong Push, a Pokémon that knows Dig like a Diglett, and a Chansey that knows Soft-Boiled, and when the field move counterpart is used, the corresponding Pokémon that knows it has to be following the player (Farfetch’d for Chop Down, Alakazam for Light Up and Pokémon center entry, Machamp for Strong Push, Diglett/Dugtrio for Escape Rope usage, and Chansey for potion and recovery usage).

[@lordjs9726]

The funniest parts of this video are when Michael refer to his Alolan Jumbo-Raticate as Chompers instead of Chipmunk.

[@arcanonn]

Ok, you all know by now that “might I say I’m not a fan” will become a meme.

[@notvex3987]

Another "no catching" challange...i feel a disturbance in the shiny hunting side of the force

[@netherillager5959]

You called it, don't do that anymore

[@Pailers]

'Rag covered monstrosity' is so accurate and so mean.

[@Raph___A]

The legend is back.

[@richardestabrook4550]

Ikr

[@GiggyTV]

U were first

[@ozzie6447]

🎉

[@ani3168]

Dude he uploaded like a week ago so idk what you're talking about

[@aidenwilliams8529]

@@ani3168 ik right

[@adityaranjan6557]

TBH even my Primarina surviving photon geyser hyped me

[@creeperEXplode42069]

When I played Pokémon sun, the mimikyu ai was bad. It used mimic but outsped me so I used icy wind. Then after the mimikyu learned and used icy wind I waterinium Z’d it and KO’d.

[@yous3457]

I clicked faster than grunty boi could say "It is I! Grunty Boy!"

[@Noobman69420]

But you are 15 minutes late

[@crabdabo1825]

You're late though

[@shadowninjagamer1018]

Grunti*

[@emmacornelson925]

Lol

[@swiftly_produced2694]

I Hate Grunty boi, so anoying. It's Nice that you know when an ad is happening. But you also have the 10! 10!!! Midrol ads plus the sponsor! It seem like a scam. But ill give the benefit of the doubt and say that hé needs to pay his editors a lot. And maybe for the merchandise hé needs to buy? I guess? And maybe his video got claimed. But still if hé got better advertising of his merch and better quality and quantity hé could be making more dough than the dough in Ben n Jerry's.

[@devad768]

Last time I was this early, Charizard didn’t have 4 different forms.

[@peppermint_8]

Welcome to the “my favorite fossil Pokémon is awful in battle” club. Mine a arorus.

[@ActualTrash8]

Arctovish arctozolt

[@ActualTrash8]

Also an arorus not a (sorry for being that guy)

[@gengarzilla1685]

My favourite is Cradily so I guess I can't join. I guess that's the price I pay for choosing functionality over appearance.

[@pokemonpawl8523]

I've started trying to complete these games only using story related healing, I've made it past mallows trial and so far so good.

[@Baggy-48]

Bro that calm nature on fabio saved his life

[@nshanthi6990]

2:27 wait...ultra soon and moon came out 3 years ago !?!? thanks for making me feel old even though i’m only 12

[@terralocke714]

Yeah when I found out about that last totem sticker I raged

[@dannydanggang1675]

This series was a neat one with the team I like to call "The Big Boys" since... well totem pokemon are huge so there ya go

[@UnwantedGhost1-anz25]

Archeop's ability Defeatist, is the second worst ability in the entire Pokémon franchise. The number #1 worst is Slaking's Truant ability. Hence why I often pair mine with Cofagrigus.

[@ephramnelson5567]

That tauros is evil i didn't know you had to fight hau after the elite four so i only had half my team 2 of which were at half health that tauros swept the floor with me

[@BNotInc]

30:01 when he said Hau, it looked *very much* like his playthrough webcam said Hau.

[@mayokichi2339]

Mikey: This team might help to beat the toughest boss in Pokémon, ultra necrozma. Me: that’s a interesting way of saying whitney

[@hmmmm_ttt]

These adjectives and the writing will make my english teacher proud ("devilish bull")

[@nathaniabehailu3656]

man i would have caught the Sigilyph any way. cudos for staying strong with the run rules.

[@jairusbonbonvids3149]

How did indominus get intimidated by a bug😱