Can you beat Pokemon Emerald using ONLY items?

No Pokecenters, No PCs, No Free Heals. Easier than you'd think!
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[@Smallant]

Shoutouts to Mah-Dry-Bread for basically doing this first. Go watch his video too to see how he did it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZfLinV5ZqiMeq8 Mah-Dry-Bread did a No Healing run at a Pokecenters and really only used the PC to deposit Pokemon, so we did slightly different challenges that are both pretty cool and have their own problems to solve (his is edited much better than mine too). Go check it out!

[@mr.dembiscuits3029]

you did do the nuzzlock challenge

[@uwilglo2172]

I'm second for reply

[@Smallant]

He's still cool. I like watchin his stuff 😎

[@MahDryBread]

Just to clarify, I only used the PC to withdraw Pokemon to actually add them to the team and despot ones that I'll literally never withdraw ever again. So I think I used the PC twice, both times just to withdraw something that I just caught. I also didn't use legendaries, so it's actually a pretty different run. Great job on the run!

[@Smallant]

@@MahDryBread I really enjoy your content and since I was doing a similar challenge I figured I should mention your run right at the start! Good stuff my man!

[@Smallant]

aka US healthcare system simulator

[@theawesometaco8299]

Smallant1 😂🤣🤣

[@false4943]

i felt that

[@ComfyChameleon]

smallant1 with the shade

[@jjwkoester]

Just cause it’s true, doesn’t mean that it’s right

[@RetroRemedies]

damn

[@MeNowDealWIthIt]

Quick note: Rare candies can be used as revives. The pokemon wakes up with the amount of HP they gained from leveling up.

[@Zalied]

also since it only finishes xp needed to level the longer you wait to use it the more XP it gives so can always be nice to wait

[@DarkIceKrabby]

You can also do this with HP Ups

[@Yental]

Thats what I did when I wad little and didnt had revives xD

[@AdrianGK47]

Whoa I had no idea this was a thing!

[@redacted4909]

Yeah but you cant use them in battles

[@francis7336]

Outrage is such a weird move, like imagine being absolutely livid and punching other pokémon, but then you get confused who you're angry at so you decide to punch yourself

[@Username-1939t9]

why are you hitting yourself moment

[@francineaxisa8497]

Levi heicho

[@alancjmgmorales6420]

How about hi jump kick, if you miss, tou keep going up and then get hurt from going too high

[@gogeta_lp]

@@alancjmgmorales6420 When you miss High Jump Kick, you fall unto the ground, thus damaging yourself. It makes perfekt sense if you see it as fall damage

[@vqqiu2179]

I think it's more of the way when you punch so hard your knuckles can get skinned, you attack with no regard for your own health because of how outraged you are

[@FallingSloths]

He turns down that Zigzagoon suggestion early, but I can't help but think how good that could have been. For one thing, Linoone is a great HM slave (strength, cut, rock smash, and surf) so you can drain its pp and then replace it with an HM move, most of which are themselves high-pp and STAB. You can also learn Covet to get heart scales that can bring back old moves that ran out of PP. And the big thing is that after level 30, the Pickup ability starts to grab hyper potions, full heals, rare candies, and even a 1% chance at an ether (a free 10 pp back). I haven't finished the video yet and I'm sure Ant manages just fine without it, but I certainly think I would have grabbed a Zigzagoon with pickup early!

[@TheDyingFox]

this^ and Linoone at lv 20 keeps pickup ability, he even had 1 free space for it in the end.

[@danielyeap5952]

He also adds that he can avoid early double battles. But I too would go for Zigzagoon, so run is definitely possible, might just take more time

[@TheDyingFox]

@@danielyeap5952 Good point, forgot that. Wonder if it would have been possible to go back for the Zigzagoon at a somewhat later time and still avoid the double battles.

[@danielyeap5952]

Actually, I should correct myself. I maybe wrong but I think the limiting factor of the challenge is move PP, and not HP. Zigzagoon takes several battles to pick up an item (I think pick up ability = 10% chance for item after each battle?). This means more wild battles needed. Mostofthe time, it will pick up a potion or antidote. The chance of low level Zigzagoon picking up a PP restoring item, the ether, is so low it may not work most of the time. So to conserve PP, I will agree with SmallAnt. Interesting topic though. But as you mentioned, PP might not be an issue if used as a HM slave, where it can keep forgetting and relearning the HM move.

[@rubethystgem3461]

Please don't drain the zigzagoon's pp

[@sothisisbasicallyhow4696]

The title implies that you are beating this game without pokemon, which brings to mind the image of hurling a max revive at your opponent’s pokemon until those little spikes that it has impale their jugular. So thanks for that.

[@colossaldonut5190]

THE JUGULAR, GO FOR THE JUGULAR

[@SpikeTheBear]

Oof

[@duwang3195]

Next challenge: Can you beat Pokemon Emerald using ONLY a gun?

[@_tykow]

Nice

[@aepstein824]

I clicked to find out how he did this

[@waverider6302]

It’s so funny to look at the chat and see random conversations, like whether the Pokémon world would have Torchic McNuggets

[@lsieman65]

would there be like charizard meat which is like prime wagyu

[@snowleopard064]

Timestamp?

[@lsieman65]

@Idont Know lol i’m saying would the meat be luxury

[@TheAbysmalBrute]

I bet they would be 🔥 fire 🔥

[@kjl3080]

Wait but they’re sentient

[@AjRobinsonUg]

"I peaked as a ten year old" A true Pokémon Master

[@MadameTeqi]

And I peaked here, getting to be like number 69

[@BurgerFred1]

"If we ever encounter a grass type we scream." *Encounters a Shroomish* *Doesn't scream* Disliked, unsubbed, and reported for misleading content

[@dhichicpop2531]

He was screaming on the inside. Legend has it, that he's still screaming to this day .....just on the inside

[@sistanofseljuks]

I don't know how, but 109,190 likes and 0 dislikes.

[@lix1806]

@@sistanofseljuks youtube removed the dislike count

[@maverickk8251]

@@sistanofseljuks the removed dilike count u fucking moron

[@gloomsdoom649]

You have an interesting trainer style!

[@waldowaggins1330]

When you’re a Pokémon trainer and have to much social anxiety to talk to nurse joy

[@jayreddy1323]

This is me

[@alexgenel4932]

brock with restraining order playthough

[@shxhebx2039]

@@alexgenel4932 beatmetoit

[@DaBestNub]

@@shxhebx2039 r/beatmetoit

[@Ghost-vl2zw]

@@shxhebx2039 beatmymeattoit

[@jacobshoup3737]

I thought we were gonna see a ton of Hoen region pokemon, but it's clearly a Lo Lan run

[@Smallant]

You genius

[@Binky1000]

Jacob Shoup best comment I’ve ever seen

[@jenssuperkalifragelistisch4488]

Okay, now this comment is a 200 IQ move.

[@kart2542]

Top 10 puns

[@tecwynwilliams1323]

With a bit of Lag too!

[@jeremycapuder6684]

Fan theory: Archie and Maxie are severely colorblind

[@ezbakeovenofficial]

this is like 4 months later but i understand why you would think that. the orbs are actually supposed to go the opposite color scheme, as it matches the orbs in the pokemon's heads

[@Skullhawk13]

@@ezbakeovenofficial nope, Red orb to groundon, Blue to Kyogre. The correct colored Orb enables Primal Reversion and ultimate power. The incorrect Orb just pissed them off and nothing else. Check out Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. They are either colorblind or just stupid.

[@quadq3285]

I mean even if they are colorblind the orbs are still gonna be different colored than the primals

[@hasebrudihasebrudi9285]

@@Skullhawk13 they need to be stupid cuz the orbs have their respective color as their name

[@dawnseeker176]

@@Skullhawk13 well according to omega ruby and alpha sapphire those two games takes place in a alternate universe so you can't apply logic from those games to pokemon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald. there is no primal reversion, no mega evolutions, and no pokemon past gen 3. red orb awakens and controls groudon. blue orb awakens and controls kyogre. the opposite orb pisses them off, that part is correct, the rest is not applicable to pokemon R/S/E.

[@kpbillie9356]

Watching this in 2021 is pretty funny. Hearing SmallAnt talk about how "beating the game without taking damage would be possible but super grindy" and knowing that he would later go on to do it and it was in fact SUPER Grindy. Or watching this man laugh at the thought of soft resetting to get a shiny Rayquaza, only to eventually wind up doing a shiny run full of soft resets.

[@skylarlee9691]

"Remember kids, if it's not 100% accurate, it's 50% accurate." _This playthrough in a nutshell_

[@skylarlee9691]

@familie v/d Heijden MandJTV

[@ThinkOutsideTheBlocks]

@familie v/d Heijden all three are great

[@Vassilinia]

If it's not 100% accurate it's 10% accurate -competitive battlers

[@IndellableHatesHandles]

If a move isn't 100% accurate, then it's 0% dependable. This is why Rock types suck.

[@pixelatedpixel657]

Hail yeah it is

[@lietz13]

"Wow this will be really hard." remembers PP "oh god no"

[@dad6765]

lietz13 I see what u did there

[@HI-pm3fm]

dad I miss you (jk it’s a joke)

[@JTheMelon]

It should be easier if you make your PP bigger ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@TheAbysmalBrute]

Exactlyyyy

[@ElFreyre_]

I love how Langamer really became Rayquaza and write in chat like he was responding as a Rayquaza to SmallAnt, what a legend

[@hisnotsolonely2961]

Timestamp pls

[@mochi3455]

Was kinda cringed lol.

[@noellecruz9619]

@@mochi3455 do you have a timestamp?

[@mochi3455]

@@noellecruz9619 u should just watch after ant got rayquaza

[@Crobat7269]

@@mochi3455 and the time stamp of ant catching a raquaza is?

[@HuntingMasterz]

I still remember my first shiny pokemon was a magikarp, literally the 2nd encounter after catching red gyarados...

[@skimaskedabi]

I caught my (first ever) shiny magikarp surfing on the lake of rage within sight of the red gyrados lol i feel u dude

[@NinjaPickle]

That's Red Gyarados's little brother, Yellow Magikarp

[@bryanlariviere5702]

my first shiny was Eevee, the one you get from bill before red gyarados...

[@rahulsbhatt]

Same

[@Rubywing4]

My first shiny Pokémon was a Riolu in Y, in Route 22, after I got the Master Ball. I believe I was on my way to the League after getting the last badge, flew to Santalune City as a shortcut, accidentally roller-skated into the first patch of grass on the Route, and a Shiny Riolu popped out, and I just freaked out. I panicked and threw the Master Ball, and I named him Sirius. Still got him, even after I started a new run, just traded him over to Alpha Sapphire. Riolu was my first legit shiny, but before then, I used the Action Replay a LOT of times as a kid on Diamond/Pearl to cheat in a lot of shinies, as well as always OHKO'ing everything, having infinite HP, getting max EXP from a level 2 to get to level 100 instantly, and many other boring silly codes. Also had some legendaries appear in the wild just because I couldn't get them otherwise, which I think is fair, for the Pokédex. Although I did also tend to use the code that gave me an instant complete Pokédex, mostly so I could see all the Pokémon in existence coz I didn't know of Serebii back then, and it was also to hear all of their cries, slowed down, which I loved to do. At some point though I ended up finding the AR making gameplay too easy and boring, as I also used it in PMD and Ranger to make me win quickly. I don't know when, but at some point I decided to just stop ever using the AR again and I haven't used it since. Maybe when I was, like, 14 or 15 or something, I dunno. Now, whenever I DO find a LEGIT Shiny, I get much more excited than just hacking it into the game with the AR. :) I did use the AR once within the last year though to get a Nuzleaf in Diamond, because I wanted to do a run where I only use Cynthia's Platinum team, and I needed to breed Extrasensory onto a Budew, and the only close match I could find was Nuzleaf, the other way I believe was a long chain of several many Pokémon which I was too impatient with. And I don't have Ruby, so I couldn't get a Nuzleaf legitimately in the game. So I just spent SEVERAL minutes trying to get the AR to work on my very old DS lite, type in a code to make Nuzleaf appear in the wild, find one, catch it, save, put the game in my good DSi, and then grind it up to level 48-49-whatever to get Extrasensory and then breed it with a Roselia. I dunno if the other method without AR would have gone faster, but I was stubborn lol I also had to catch a Wobbuffet, breed Mirror Coat onto a Shellos and THEN breed THAT onto a Feebas. I wanted my Cynthia team to have the EXACT same move sets as hers, but natures were not as important. Although, my Feebas does not have a nature that likes dry food, so I might not be able to evolve it into a Milotic... so I may have to breed a new one in the same game lol

[@ShycoWar]

The end of this run takes me back to my childhood days. Destroying everything in sight with just Rayquaza and an overleveled Swampert. Yup, that was me alright.

[@f.ckyalife]

Bro my literal playthrough though

[@DieAlteistwiederda]

Honestly me in Crystal with the fire starter whose English name I always forget and Lugia. Worked wonderfully and later I reduced it to just the water starter.

[@airbornefilip9139]

@@DieAlteistwiederda Cyndaquil? Wild guess because other two's names I could spell more than a decade ago (god damn I got old) and this one is bound to be forgoted due to this. Even though it's best one of three.

[@QuantumLeap215]

The three Johto starters are Cyndaquil, Chikorita, and Totodile

[@DieAlteistwiederda]

@@airbornefilip9139 yes that one. I know all the names in my native language but only about 1/3 of those I actually know also in English and mostly from KZbin videos.

[@EDoyl]

"Hi, I'm known as the MOVE DELETER" "Yeah cool; look, I'm gonna need you to do exactly the opposite of that"

[@ketchup5159]

Eoin Doyle 😛😛😛😛😛

[@loafingcoffin1030]

Big PP strats

[@bjarnhedur]

Eoin Doyle im not sure thats how you use a semicolon

[@cumulonimbusderie]

@Frostleaf Vlogs I know this reply is late but I’m pretty sure it is. “Yeah cool” is an interjection. Yeah cool(.) Look, I’m gonna... Yeah cool(;) look, I’m gonna... Just my two cents.

[@xannyphantom8864]

@@cumulonimbusderie another late reply but comma would've sufficed

[@pimzaeVT]

"even if youre super good at something, you can always get better" very wise words of advice!

[@HECKproductions]

when i first played red way back in the day i didnt realize you need to talkd THROUGH the counter so everytime i wanted to heal i went all the way to pallet town and every time i died i also respawned there fun times i also didnt realise i can change pokemon during battle or flee i was doing challenges way before they existed lol

[@ThyFloorestFloor]

Not knowing what you're doing is the greatest challenge ever. In my case my first Pokemon yellow cartridge was damaged and erased my savefiles every time I turned off my GB so I had to beat the game in just one run without letting it to turn off.

[@ahshitherewegoagain8695]

@@ThyFloorestFloor forced gba speedrun lmao

[@ThyFloorestFloor]

@@ahshitherewegoagain8695 XD -I never went past the 7th gym-

[@Mevanouche]

SAME !!!

[@neaixphos6784]

23:45 "I wish I could shove a CD into my forehead and learn how to fly" Yes dont we all chat.

[@duwang3195]

That's actually the plot of Jojo part 6

[@SpinDash]

😁 I’m glad someone noticed that

[@literallydeadpool]

@@duwang3195 *Jumping Jack Flash intensifies*

[@bigghae9553]

@@duwang3195 part one:I can breathe intensely °^° Part two:i can breathe to read your mind ;3 cant fly a plane tho Part three:I will punch you with my ghost Part four:David Bowie murder mystery but hes got a thing for hands :,) Part five:I will stab myself with a arrow to become god,boss Part six:gay black priest becomes sonic and resets the universe

[@code_Rei]

@@duwang3195 yes.

[@conormurphy4328]

Imagine if you tried this past gen 5 or 6 and your Pokemon are being force healed by people every 5 seconds

[@totallyahuman5055]

Sounds easier but consider that you have to enter Pokémon centres to buy items in gen 7 and 8.

[@foxelyUwU]

@@totallyahuman5055 and gen 6 also

[@tomlucadolff9121]

@@pachirsiis calm down.

[@atharputra538]

@@pachirsiis calm down man, who shit in your cereal today?

[@pachirsiis]

@@tomlucadolff9121 make me

[@asapmidday1748]

Ant: "If I had to pick a favorite pokemon it would be aron" *sad wooper noises*

[@calebjohnson9740]

He means besides Wooper, that’s just a given

[@cdogthehedgehog6923]

Zangoose gang till the day i die.

[@iterativeimprovements1713]

15:37 gets me every time "2 hours in, catchin a swablu"

[@kohinoorbanerjee4009]

Just one thing I realized, if he lost one battle in the elite four and didn't reset, he would technically get teleported to his mom's house, where he was first supposed to heal

[@utkarsh3103]

Omg why didn’t i realise that

[@AzureGuardian051]

What’s so important about that?

[@vitormadisantanna8652]

It's not important. It's a fun fact.

[@AzureGuardian051]

@@vitormadisantanna8652 Ok..?

[@swedishkofta7451]

@@AzureGuardian051 its just interesting lol

[@MrPogtato]

Can you beat Pokemon emerald with only items. Answer no. items cant fight.

[@gamergoose8184]

Who are you that is so wise in the ways of science

[@gale4821]

Or is it?

[@MrPogtato]

@@gale4821 with a rom hack maybe

[@BakaYukki]

Yoo i hae the same thought, haha

[@kanjoganai3389]

@@MrPogtato I really first thought he is gonna fight pokemon with just items but he is just not allowed to use places like pokemon centre and etc... But still quite entertaining

[@legamerofstupidity9031]

For anyone to know watching this, if you use a rare candy, since they gain EXP from level up, they technically can be "revived."

[@CoopDiggityDawg]

Smallant: has “1500 hours of game knowledge” also Smallant: *forgets you can’t name the rival*

[@dontworry4945]

Best comment in chat: 29:30 "my brother used a master ball on a Pelipper" LMAO

[@lolbell6188]

Kurumi chan :3 I never used my master ball because I forgot I had it when I caught the legendaries

[@Eidenhoek]

Wingull is the rarest pokemon.

[@KuuraHelmi]

My sister used it on a lotad while I was saving it for latias 😭

[@CJ-be2cu]

My sister used it on stunfisk

[@joaogomes9405]

I got wonder traded a level 22 electrike in a master ball once

[@gonicm]

Fun fact: in both gen 4 and 3 your rival’s starter will ALWAYS give 69 exp in the first battle Edit: ik it’s been 2 years but holy crap why didn’t KZbin notify me of the 6.5k likes

[@jamjon6616]

Nice

[@HugoNeufgamer]

Nice fact

[@M3G4T3RR4]

Nice

[@dchev]

Funi number laugh

[@gManGabe]

n i c e

[@unlucky704]

Im surprised you didn't use a zigzagoon. Its ability pickup would've really helped and the fact that Linoone can learn covet which takes the opponents items would have been very beneficial to the run.

[@endslayer5133]

“How longs left in the run about 20 minutes” *two thousand years later*

[@lilpriceboyz]

When it said only items I thought it meant he potion stalled until the enemy struggled to death.

[@wthenioush4545]

Genius, I mean

[@overratedprogrammer]

Not possible

[@_username]

@@overratedprogrammer I think it's possible

[@San-lh8us]

holy hell, that would take forever ... TWICE!!!

[@frozenepsilon5295]

@@_username I dont think it's possible to earn enough money for all of the options it would require

[@jacobshoup3737]

Wasn't sure about this run at first, but Lo and behold, he did it.

[@lorenzocastilloveitia8649]

Stop 😂😂

[@JTheMelon]

@@lorenzocastilloveitia8649 Stop using emojis

[@why8308]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/p6SYn2eFdppjm8k And this guy did it!

[@gradypharr1300]

@@why8308 he did

[@FlamingZelda3]

you mean he lan-ded the run?

[@johnreed4786]

31:13 "this is probably one of my favorite songs in the game!" I used to jam to this with my GBA to my ear man. The nostalgia is strong with this one.

[@emneedsacoma849]

“No free heals” aH, American Pokémon

[@beachballssideaccount]

"There are free heals in the form of Mom" I really like this sentence, I'll use it more often.

[@christopherfleetwood5252]

BEHOLD!.... The power of Warm Hugs!!!

[@Kalem1996]

Man! I have to tell you!! Beating all those games with INSANELY self-imposed hard challenges doesn't only prove how much skill you have, it also is such a great entertainment I love have got used to!!

[@ArchbardWava]

I imagine Wallace's Gyarados was thinking something in the lines of: "That's Rayquaza! That's my idol! I can't screw this up, I'll make them proud. I'll set up and give it my best. Dragon Dance! YES! 🐉 SURF!!! 🌊"

[@Jhakri_]

How terrifying it would be to be a gym leader or Elite 4 member and a child walks in with A GIANT GREEN DRAGON, a creature of legend that people have told stories about for generations.

[@TheAbysmalBrute]

Imagine that child was one of those school shooter type kids. We would all be screwed. Lol ever play pokemmo?

[@kellyrants7673]

Only now do I realize that it's kind of weird that if you go to the Juan's gym's basement you'll just find a bunch of women trapped down there.

[@gManGabe]

How's that weird? What's your basement look like?

[@kellyrants7673]

@@gManGabe Well I've got both men and women in mine, so it's kind of strange how he's only targeting women. Like is there a disproportionate birthrate in Sootopolis or does he hold a grudge against female figures? Questions questions.

[@gManGabe]

@@kellyrants7673 Don't mind Juan, he's a little weird. Kids call him things like "Straight" and "Hetero", whatever that means...

[@bruv7521]

@@gManGabe mine only got kids. They kinda suck at working tho so women would probably be better

[@disgustedgordonramsay205]

@@bruv7521 Mine has the corpses of the dead pregnant people I kill and I steal their baby and sell it on the black market for a bunch of money

[@Jarrod0067]

Getting all the flutes seems like a priority for this kind of run. Saves a ton of money

[@FatedHandJonathon]

But costs a LOT of PP. I’m not sure it would be worth it.

[@samloyd9287]

Smallant: The white rock, what does it mean??? Me: Yo, Angelo.

[@orionsblayd2704]

*Becomes Koichi* Oh. Yo, Angelo.

[@rihornior432]

Pp

[@Yolorex420]

We need to hope we don't get a crit *gets a crit* It's over...unless he doesn't use earthquake- *Uses earthquake*

[@xlayer5]

The battle is over unless I miss this tackle *Misses tackle*

[@shadowchild1338]

If you will win if a move misses... The move will miss. If you will lose if a move crits, or a specific move is used... The move will be used, or crit. These are the laws of Pokémon, which can not be broken by mere KZbinr luck.

[@janb.3600]

Random crits are fair and balanced.

[@jacobbau8328]

Ritesh wow! A rare double whoooosh appeared! No way!

[@jacobbau8328]

Ritesh well, he is saying random crits are fair and balanced, being sarcastic. Then you said whoooosh, and you didn’t get the sarcasm, or the joke, missing it, and getting “whooooshed” it’s a double whoooosh

[@Revnir]

Since he only finished with 5 Pokemon, he could've nabbed that Zigzagoon in the beginning. Pickup would've been a great ability to have throughout a run like this

[@theb.a.r.strategy7254]

Not so much without wild battles, no?

[@MaseBoogie]

Dude jus found your channel and cannot get enough of these Pokémon challenges!! Keep them coming plz very entertaining!

[@thefanlair6638]

Keep in mind that MDB doesn't use items during battle, hence why he used more than six pokemon. He never used the PC to heal though, only to switch out pokemon when needed. I think you both did valid versions of the challenge, because both had their own trials and tribulations. Either way, I enjoyed the video! :D

[@Smallant]

Yeah we both did unique challenges. Both ways I'm sure is fun!

[@MahDryBread]

yeah, our runs ended up really different

[@toxictea753]

hey im the first non youtuber to reply

[@jun9796]

@@toxictea753 That's crazy but I don't remember asking

[@mrazarath3179]

@@jun9796 imagine waiting 3 months to throw shade

[@Otenz1235]

"Unless we miss the tackle"

[@geraldfisher8746]

“My favorite Pokémon might be aaron” Whopper looks on in shame

[@sionsmedia8249]

In Emerald this is an actually difficuly challenge, in the newer games, this is how you make it somewhat interesting.

[@WhiteFyreLeo]

It's impossible to do this is pretty much any game past gen 3 because you get free heals forced on you (my first run of shield I never HAD to heal because of this?

[@dylanb2990]

@@WhiteFyreLeoliterally just wrong, it doesn’t have any more forced heals than this game.

[@WhiteFyreLeo]

@@dylanb2990 have you played the recent games? I didn't go to a single pokecenter till like the 6th gym in let's go AND shield

[@JuanRamirez-zo5tb]

"I'm not using this old lady because that's...cheating" -Anticus

[@SkulShurtugalTCG]

Isn't it kind of impossible to soft reset for Shiny Rayquaza in Emerald due to the broken RNG?

[@danpewpewman9711]

What do you mean

[@cloutan2746]

?

[@Christmasmoose714]

Wait. I know you. You’re the ninjala guy.

[@Arroww]

@@dirtyconsole2247 *shameless advertising*

[@Mintomatt]

I think it's only possible if your file has an early slide so it's the same forever same frame shiny if you learn the frame it's on you can get infinite shines I did it as a kid soft reset 17500 times and got a early shiny frame

[@achingjack]

the amount of content possible to glean from a no-grind challenge that's also relatively difficult is pretty commendable

[@NickqtGaming]

Ant is such a knowledgeable guy in so many games. He does speedruns, lockouts, bingo boards, races, etc, of Pokémon, Minecraft, Super Mario Odyssey(amongst other Mario games as well), and LoZ: Breath of the Wild, and he does it so well and with a ton of humility. Much love and respect Tanner. Your content is something I watch at least once a day while I'm doing other tasks or on break from those tasks. You truly inspire myself and I'm sure a bunch of other people. P.s. This Man has held a pencil sharpening world record, is top 100 on the SMO ladder for co-op with his mother controlling Cappy, and also on the ladder for pencil sharpening with his mother. Peace! ✌💚

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

This challenge surprisingly seemed easier than I thought

[@gibberishyt8664]

Yooooooo

[@ijneb1248]

When you use move deleter yea it becomes a lot easier near the end

[@oscarlest9872]

rayquaza definitely helped alot at the end

[@golden_falcon9120]

Why do I see you on literally almost every video I click on? Lol

[@lan6523]

Dam bro the likes are getting lower

[@theuprising2216]

my favourite part out of all your streams is when you tell people you will beat it in 20mins makes me laugh every time

[@cooltv2776]

unfortunately, hes only going to do that for another 20 minutes

[@luke1118]

I also think “really but you still have so much left?” Then 2 seconds later I realize it’s one of the jokes

[@Richi0h]

Genuinely thought he was going to beat the game without attacking somehow before I watched.

[@iop4everdudesryu112]

Yeahh nahh sameeee bruv bruvvvvfam

[@dhichicpop2531]

Foreshadowing....

[@Headywon]

First shiny was a Raticate in Gold, had no idea what shinies were so I was very confused by the slightly different colors

[@Tichi20]

When I first saw the title I thought "No. Surely you need to use pokemon as well?"

[@TheAbysmalBrute]

My thoughts exactlyyy loool. Ever play pokemmo?

[@SmolPotato8]

Another way this title could be interpreted: Can only attack with fling

[@jameschapman2782]

I like how Marrisa and Smallant are close enough friends that she raids him on occasion without the stream suggesting she do it.

[@azirul9311]

Kinda like Shu.

[@Mr.walwus]

Azirul shu and small ant are dating

[@azirul9311]

@@Mr.walwus not anymore lol.That ended sometime ago.They're still friends though

[@wolfsvoice853]

Thanks for clearing this for me, I wanted to know how it went with Marissa for a while now. :D

[@xXTobias_Erin_RogersXx]

kanaya

[@iBombsquad]

Fun fact : In slateport city the aquarium has oceanmini fact written on the glass specimens one of which is completely wrong it says "Ocean are coloured blue because it retains blue color from spectrum of light, when light falls on it". Which is clearly wrong since objects absorb all the light and reflect what they can't absorb which gets reflected in our eyes.

[@dahelmang]

Love MDB and SmallAnt! Very different channels for different moods.

[@heroplayer9608]

“Is it possible to do a damageless Pokemon run?... Yeah, it is!” Well Gamechamp knows for sure.

[@giantheccinwyvern]

Pokemon Platinum yes.

[@jaysonburke799]

Anyone: how much longe- Smallant: 20 more minutes Anyone: But- Smallant: DID I STUTTER?

[@psachickennugget8617]

Pokémon, but you didn’t pay for insurance.

[@benedict0902]

"We are forced to get a Castform" Me: what the hail is wrong about that??! HAIL YEAH

[@pedritogavela27]

Thanks 4 ur videos I’ve never seen a YT channel like yours you do the most unbelievable challenges in PKMN tysm greetings from Spain 🇪🇸

[@Aizaia5]

I'm really surprised this run didnt involve him catching 5 zigzagoons for pickup ability

[@johnd6980]

Pickup sucked in emerald, it was way better in ruby/sapphire

[@fixedrng888]

@@johnd6980 how’d they nerf it

[@BubbyBoy]

@@fixedrng888 item rarity is based on levels

[@LunchBox092]

It's sad cause I got my first shiny in sapphire but I already planned my full team and ziggy boi ain't on it.

[@thallan]

God, gen 6 pickup is completely busted. I had my beloved zigzagoon pickup/hm slave with me the entire game in ORAS. I literally didn't buy anything until the elite 4.

[@adamorfield7840]

"Obviously we're picking Mudkip." It was then that I knew that Smallant1 was truly a great man.

[@vigorouspringle8962]

Well I mean there's not much the other 2 could do

[@r.brandt2246]

@@vigorouspringle8962 It was then that I knew that Vigorous Pringle was too young to know the true power of Mudkip.

[@Squavez.]

@@vigorouspringle8962 i herd u liek mudkipz

[@vigorouspringle8962]

@@r.brandt2246 Water Ground vs Fire Fighting and just Grass type, obviously Mudkip is better

[@vigorouspringle8962]

@@Squavez. Also I have absolutely no recollection of even watching this video

[@Mr_Spaghetti]

40:02 Lol it’s awesome this moment was caught on stream. Thanks, HashtagGO.

[@JohnDoe-wl5xm]

pokemon emerald had the best rematch sysem in the series and it should have been the standard from there on out imo

[@MrEpicPwnage1]

I was legally obligated to leave a like when you said: 4:30 "even if you're good at something you can always get better" Damn straight, testament to your humility. Keep it up!

[@gormlessCreator]

Damn you were really lucky with the shiny Rayquaza! Specifically Emerald's RNG is "broken" so that soft resetting doesn't work for shiny hunting. The "shiny frame" is fixed meaning the moment you start a new file, you have a small chance of even being able to get shinies from soft resetting.

[@gormlessCreator]

@au I should probably clarify that the shiny Rayquaza I'm talking about was from his childhood and not from this run lol. That would've been insane though.

[@colossaldonut5190]

Nah dude, just use Cute Charm

[@tannertadlock7741]

@@colossaldonut5190 isn't that only gen 4?

[@alis3656]

I only ever got one shiny legendary and it was moltres and I always save before I battle any of those just cuz I've had them kill themself several times cuz they run out of PP so it died and I reset and then I battled it and it was pink and I was like wow it turned shiny so just wasted my masterball on it cuz i was afraid I'd lose it but that was cool. I think most frustrating shiny I ever got was in x or y and a horde came out I forgot what pokemon it was but damn all 5 kept putting my pokemon to sleep so it took me forever to knock out the other 4 and catch the shiny but I was so stubborn and kept at it lol

[@Fernyharo]

Got this suggested after ur Pokemon colosseum playthrough, a lot of things have been learned that helped there xd

[@Kuroshiro_123]

Wow, 40:04 was the origin of the damageless Pokemon run, i guess o.o Thank you, HashtagGo

[@jjscuatch634]

Bro, I had done the opposite of this with no items because when I was a kid I bought emerald from a gamestop, but there was a problem with the game where whenever I tried to buy items it would crash the game, so no pokeballs or heal items unless I found them. It was a rough first playthrough.

[@lsieman65]

bruh take it back to the gamestop

[@jjscuatch634]

I was just a kid and thought my parents wouldn't want to go back to gamestop😔

[@lsieman65]

@@jjscuatch634 😔

[@seb16x2110]

"we can ONLY capture 6 pokemon total, so we gotta be very careful and plan out what to capture" >procedes to only capture and never evolve a single tentacool and Swablu

[@acemerceramv8561]

The lvl 70 Rayquaza:

[@charliegreen7988]

4:23 I had already subscribed not too long ago after binge watching several videos all at once, but hearing this just confirmed I made a good choice :)

[@happyfellowship4291]

The Aron line might also be my favorite. Ant has good taste.

[@MrGeorgeFlorcus]

To do this run without struggling once and without ever fighting a wild Pokemon, pretty impressive, and while it seems he only did the Move Deleter trick pretty sparingly, I'm naturally curious as to whether or not this run is viable without it. It probably is, I just wonder if it's still entertaining or if becomes grindy as a result. In any case, a very interesting and pretty well routed run. Pretty impressive given that this is essentially something you made up on the fly, it's not like there's a template to follow here, yet there definitely appears to have been a lot of thought and strategy put into this. Shows a wealth of game knowledge and general Pokemon speed-running tactics to have been able to complete this run in a single sitting. I'm sure an "optimized" run of this would be pretty intense, with an even closer shave on PP usage, even less grinding, and so on.

[@dukvalo]

40:03 this is called "foreshadowing"

[@jorgerivera244]

Yo! With that First Shiny Story, I remember when I was a kid at the time when Gold/Silver OG first released and internet being pretty much non-existent at the time I always thought the Red Gyarados was the only shiny Pokémon ever, as in different colored. I beat the game and a decided to start it all over again. Soon as I hit the first patch of grass, first encounter out of New Bark Town, a shiny Sentret appeared and my brain just melted

[@tehcyde]

The *only* shiny I've ever found was a shiny Zubat in Sun. I was totally cool with that because I won't hesitate to main Crobat as my flying type just for the change of pace.

[@Celintro]

Games: "You need healing" Smallant: "No"

[@90kalos1]

You can really tell the difference in their playstyles by how they did their versions of this challenge. MDB usually does grindy challenges with no items, which is very obvious with his plan to grind. Ant does fast runs so he plans around using x items to speed it up

[@deadpoolgames1]

ONE THING I LIKE WITH THIS MAN IS HE STAYING TRUE TO HIS WORDS AND RULES THERE IS NO EXCUSES

[@kaitogirldraws]

It's pretty easy to do this challenge if you CAN use shops. Catch a Zigzagoon with item picking ability, he'll give you all the pokéballs, X items, repels and miscellaneous items you would ever want. Use Treecko as a starter for healing attacks, you only need to take care of PP with items in the shop and advanced healing items and revives for lategame

[@KouvolaMies]

Forced heals in sun and moon: too many

[@ericlindesay1459]

Are you complaining? xD

[@haruhirogrimgar6047]

@@ericlindesay1459 Removes difficulty from the game. It is reasonable in some circumstances.

[@KouvolaMies]

@@ericlindesay1459 yes because this challenge is easy in sun & moon

[@alexstewart9592]

@@KouvolaMies Oh, so the challenge based around not being able to gain PP isn't as hard in the game which includes the ability to replace Pokemon in your party with anything you catch at the moment you catch it, and where you can use TMs infinitely to gain PP anywhere outside of battle? Also, they partly provide the free heals because most players would either go to the Pokemon centre immediatly anyway, would forget to do so and kick themself five minutes later, or would wish that they'd done so before advancing if the heal wasn't provided.

[@JohnnyYeTaecanUktena]

@HettGutt in Pokemon Sun and Moon you are forced to walk into a pokemon center by the tutorial at the beginning of the run about 30min in though the record holder goes in voluntarily around the 3 hour and 6min mark so about only two times in the run as the poke mart is in the pokemon center in those games

[@SERGEANTTOMATO]

Nobody: Smallant: I'm not using the old lady because that's cheating.

[@gregbaguio168]

He would be a Good Husband

[@TheBearOfSpades]

But then he uses the move remover guy.

[@crawfisf3089]

No berries is kinda hard unless you buy antidotes and paralysis heals and etc. i always use rawst berries as free burn heals and oran berries as free potions

[@youtubeguy7542]

“using only items” smallant1: *uses Pokémon* me: *confused pikachu face*

[@DragontamerBIll-vs6kt]

Smallant: I have a lot of Gen 3 game knowledge Also Smallant: I thot we had to name the rival

[@bagelpenguin6499]

"can you beat pokemon black/white without the pokecenter?" Nurse and Doctor trainers: "I'm about to save this man's whole career."

[@klop4228]

I believe all of them are optional?

[@bagelpenguin6499]

@@klop4228 oh, okay.

[@sunken_lilies]

When you don’t want to move during the holidays but you’re hungry “There are free heals in the form of Mom”

[@As1anotora]

Run failed, Wallace forced you to use a PC 😂 All jokes aside, amazing video, love seeing runs like this, great content man

[@Nishittmanaktala]

ant : we need a crit! game : aight you got it.

[@NicolasClark7732]

I find it funny how one of the best strats for speedrunners to avoid clicking B by accident when evolving a Pokemon is setting the game/controller down.

[@threes_leaves]

Dragon type moves were still all special in this gen so outrage wasn't boosted by the X-Attacks.

[@thefallenchaoskeeper]

*shiny hunting rayquaza in emerald while listening to the story about shiny hunting rayquaza in emerald*

[@vintagemisery3591]

Ant laughing at Gyarados using 3 Dragon Dances into Surf but then he uses Outrage with X Attacks lol