Can You Beat Pokemon Fire Red With Only Charmander?

Everyone's favourite gasoline covered salamander!
Rules:
-I can only use Charmander, I can however catch other Pokémon as I will need them for HM’s that Charmander cannot learn
-I cannot evolve Charmander, this is a Charmander run not a Charmander line Run so Chameleon & Charizard are not allowed
-I’m not allowing myself to use items in battle other than held items so stuff such as berries or items like the quick claw
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[@CanidRose]

Came for the fallout, stayed for the... Everything, lol. Love your channel!

[@napoleonbsj]

Same lol. Congrats, Nerbit!! Good job, my bro!

[@jerrypiper3936]

Love the channel too. But has any of the “can you beat?!” Pokémon videos. Ever ended with. “No you can’t!”

[@jonathanclarkson7379]

"What happened in the Grass Gym?" War crimes.

[@gunteru]

Going to binge your channel keep with the good work

[@Nerbit13098]

Thanks man, I really appreciate it

[@DrakeKnight99]

MDB has proved you can win with just about anything in any game. I've seen guy been one of the Gen 3 games with just a mudkip because he can learn all the HMs needed. Heck I watched a guy beat Yellow with a Koffing and won

[@7ylerD]

Ah yes, the main and their HM slaves. That’s usually how I played pokemon, lol.

[@toxenzz]

Wow, I’m honored to have found this channel before it’s inevitable explosion of subscribers. Every video you put out is quality, I mean I went from watching your Halo video, to Arkham, and now this... You have both an amazing taste of game selection, and an awesome talent at being a Content Provider. Please, keep doing what you do!

[@uchiharza8060]

How did you get here? Mitten Squad?

[@redthehero3387]

How many subs did you find him at

[@theabsoluteford7918]

I'll be honest about this video this isn't just a challenge run, this is single handley a walk through for me it's straight to the point on the story and how you progress, something I've never figured out with gen 1 compared to other pokemon games played in the past, great video seriously i feel like an expert at gen 1 now

[@hamcakes1990]

Super glad I found this channel.

[@Nerbit13098]

Glad you enjoy the content man, I'm hoping to be able to get stuff sorted and have more stuff by April :)

[@NovaPrimo119]

Would’ve named Krabby “Boogie” bc you’d def be holding onto her as a boogie board while surfing

[@kotyrollins]

I would love to see more pokemon content on your channel, but your other runs are cool too!

[@lukeweston2653]

Charmander always been my favourite/ go to Pokémon lol.. Recently found your channel but watched a lot of the videos already lol love your content keep up the good work dude

[@Aaron74622]

Love these type of channels. Looking forward to it

[@Nerbit13098]

Hey thanks man I hope you enjoy whatever video comes next :)

[@thomasquwack9503]

Nerbit I hope you know I adore you for this. Charmander is the best and has been my favorite for over two decades now.

[@trillcosby4399]

This was the biggest myth of Pokemon. "You can't just level up charizard" x1000. You could totally just level up charizard.

[@thesteampunkhorror388]

Anyone who reads Winter Moon will find it fitting you call a fire pokemon florence

[@CrownedRex]

Yep

[@backwoodsskeptic8343]

I always used beat the first two gyms with my Charmander as a matter of principal 😅 nice vid

[@Beetlejuice699]

same, Dig made Misty a breeze

[@dillonthevillon3719]

This was just my normal run as a child, I would spend all my money on potions and just burn my way thru the game with charmander (ofc I’d actually evolve charmander tho) 💀

[@bloodlustshiva1]

Yeah I did the same thing as him aside from evolving him to Charizard.

[@HerHollyness]

Same. I saw the title of this and was like, “Yes? Any other Pokemon are just there as fodder!” This is literally what I did as a child. I never even used items because I didn’t understand them. Never realised I was apparently playing hard mode. 🤷‍♀️

[@nonyabusiness2032]

I did that with syndaquil ( idk how to spell that Pokémon name) . Perhaps ny favorite Pokémon apart from blastoise & my boy snorlax

[@stevengull6703]

I did this with blastoise he was always my main for 2 reasons in the show there was a squirtle with sunglasses, he was the coolest and giant turtle with cannons on his back.

[@BrokenGodEnt]

For FireRed I would get Abra as soon as possible and use him the whole game. I'd switch off on occasion, but for any significant battle I'd just level Alakazam (or Kadabra if I couldn't trade) up as much as possible and just one shot most of the gyms/rival fights/Elite Four/etc.

[@Show_My_Name_Not_My_Handle]

Yes, yes you definitely can. Every concern about stats or typing are defeated by leveling. I'm tempted enough to say, without seeing the video yet, that as long as you hit every trainer along the way, even if you ran from the majority (or all) of the wild battles, you'd be so overleveled at basically every point that your only concern, at all, would be moveset selection in terms of PP, because if you stack up on powerful moves, you run a chance of exhausting it all on the Elite 4/Champion, and the only exception to this would be Brock, since IIRC you need to grind just a little bit to be able to get Ember. But it's been a while since I played Fire Red like my mid-teenage self, and in fairness, I evolved Charmander, which helps with stats, so it's possible at _some_ select points you'd need to grind for level just a little bit.

[@Buglin_Burger7878]

A lot of kids have actually done this, it is decently common for the popular starters.

[@Starblifast]

Fun fact: the thumbnail of the video has a posterior view of one arm, which is just mirrored and attached to the shoulders of Charmander. It's quite unnerving, once you see it.

[@nzephier]

I really didn't ask this question...but I LOVE the answer lol

[@thehuckleberry8349]

Damn is it time for my millionth playthrough of Leaf Green? I think so

[@UnbotheredAhmad]

Releasing hitmonlee was hilarious 😅

[@rsk5288]

Love this

[@shalymatonge]

I am new subbed to your channel

[@ReinBelmont]

You named your charmander FIREnze, nice. 😎

[@SKXgloomy]

Damn I wonder how long in total hours this challenge took , but gg man

[@THATGuy5654]

Recently found your channel, and I probably seen at least half of your videos already. I say I prefer your open world stuff, but it's all good. Have you considered using console commands in any of the games to make the environment more challenging or just strange?

[@adamparker1732]

Can be done, he can't learn surf.

[@tomg5187]

AWESOME!

[@ulch11]

I don't understand this challenge. Is there another way to play this game?

[@robertharris6092]

Evolving your pokemon.

[@vincenthannon7646]

Laughs in kaizo.

[@DrZedd169]

Charmander can learn thunderpunch. Check mate boi

[@hotcreamyfart]

Wait, when does Charmander learn Amber? Oh... oh ember!

[@jasonvanhorn4883]

Well done

[@ussdaedalus5058]

my brother would love this

[@thepenguin2859]

The good old hm slave

[@thisisyou6450]

Lmao that’s what I basically did on my first time playing as a kid

[@daxter8792]

I was legitimately stupid as a kid and did this with Pokémon red and without being able to read. Edit: just saw he won't let Charmander evolve. Guess least my reading handicap leveled the playing field.

[@bradleykoperski7198]

Fool, double team is my bread and butter, all it takes is one to completely change a battle

[@alterego9618]

I’d watch a squirrel and bulbasaur playthrough

[@WertySensei]

Hail Charmander. Truly the finest pokemon.

[@chaossnowkitsune6377]

As someone who has done this run I can only say ouch... so much ouch

[@sethnaugle984]

On the thumbnail charmanders arms are backwards and they are too long. You created a monster that will haunt my dreams.

[@FuryousD]

god damn ive never seen so much luck with Fire Blasts not missing, i never use those kinds of moves because i am always unlucky with them missing more than they really should.

[@ShaddySoldier]

Can you beat pokemon using only pokemone weak to the gym leaders and rival, thats the real question.

[@sorrenblitz805]

Bellsprout can learn Flash and Cut just in case you ever do any challenges like this again

[@bradleykoperski7198]

Should've raised that special defense fool

[@GoingHamAllTheWay]

Saw the video thought no way

[@flipair1737]

if the game is like original red, yes you can, did it 20-ish years ago as a child when i was 11-12yo but at this point stuff like that wasn't called a challenge xD

[@syngates6]

Now you should show the contrast of letting it evolve go through with charmeleon then charizard

[@jamesinniss3119]

Love it do emerald and treeko

[@shawnthompson2303]

Love the accent man

[@nUck_DragonBall]

Nice

[@Sobetoolcobain]

Props 👌

[@achingcascade563]

How do you not let a Pokémon evolve curious question ?

[@dylan9013]

What's the best emulator to play the pokemon games on pc?

[@tamagukimicrowave1333]

Wait can oddish not learn flash in this version?

[@MJ-fw7xm]

great video man! what is the accent that you have? austrailian? (sorry in advance for my ignorance, i mean no disrespect)

[@sorrenblitz805]

Northern Ireland

[@MJ-fw7xm]

@@sorrenblitz805 thanks!!

[@operator8014]

I would have tried to call hime cutterfly.

[@GoingHamAllTheWay]

What if I get a dido to make another one or enough for a full party

[@umbraku_ukenta]

This didn't talk about fallout 76 at all 🤙🤘

[@ChocolateUrsa]

More Pokémon!

[@ryanlane680]

One way ticket to the Pokémon tower

[@FatManThor953]

What fossil did you take

[@idoitturtle4348]

You just love pain, dont you?

[@Nerbit13098]

It's certainly starting to look that way isn't it? In all seriousness I've been watching/rewatching alot of Mah-Dry-Bread's Pokémon challenges and wanted to have a go at a few

[@marcushayes4718]

The lower your health the higher fire damage you do

[@anarchistangel2314]

Not quite, you get a boost (i think it's 50 percent more damage) to fire moves when under a certain percentage of HP, either 30 percent or one third, can't remember exactly. If you've played dark souls, it's basically red tearstone

[@icedteagaming7892]

Bonsai charmander

[@omninex6040]

I challaneged myself to grind till i could one shot every elite 4 members pokemon with flame thrower or fire blast that took days of grinding

[@richardgesegnet5481]

Not only can you but it's a fun playthrough I did this back in the 90's when I was 10 or so. Didnt know how to play or knew anything about Pokemon in general. I tried to beat it as fast as possible. Wish I didnt evolve my charmander so fast but I was a child with a gameboy. 65 hours and I was 1 mon sweeping all my classmates Defeated only once by a 12 year old genius. He had over 1000 hours on the game

[@morrigankasa570]

THE REASON TO CHOOSE CHARMANDER IS BECAUSE THAT IS THE BEST STARTER LINEAGE!!! Also you could have caught other Pokemon and just put them in the PC to get the numbers necessary for the Flash HM and the other items requiring Pokedex numbers.

[@marro1916]

SO... MANY... ERRORS!!

[@canadian__ninja]

11:40 it would have killed but didn't _because_ it caused a burn. There was no good luck there, aside from the fact the marowak used focus energy and not an attacking move.

[@iagofredd]

fresh

[@Pokeman79797]

Yeoooo upa waaa

[@AJZ0626]

Can you Beat "Pokemon Crystal" without catching any Pokemon?

[@AJZ0626]

Trades with NPCs are allowed and so are eggs

[@bradleybrewer9576]

if your not going to evolve a pokemon in a challenge a everstone seems like a fair move and the way to go

[@theagetraveler]

Are you from londonderry?

[@treyvonmartin7989]

How many hours

[@mcmalave2789]

I love pokemon (First and second generations, not what came later). I still have my gameboy (all variants except the very first one. Wasn't a collector at the time and gave it away.) with Red, Blue and Yellow. Now I want to play again. This was fun to watch.

[@onedepressedgamerm6525]

Yes yes you can

[@pkgenner6869]

The answer is yes because I have done it. Rock slide earthquake, slash, flamethrower and a speed boosting nature like hasty or naive Also I leveled up on one island where 5 fighting type trainers were and used the vs seeker for an easy grind

[@emykumbalek2330]

Yes

[@flamin1111]

Fallout👌👌👌

[@nickellis1812]

I attempted this level capped (not a nuzloke) It took me forever to beat Misty at lv 21 but I did it, although I couldnt get level capped or under for Surge and Erika even with minimal battles, I got up to the elite 4, and I think my best effort was I got to Lance and failed horribly.

[@nickellis1812]

Also, I had the same moveset, expect I had Iron Tail instead of Fire Blast

[@Over-9k]

Lorilei is hella underrated and hella op she should be the battle before lance

[@FuryousD]

wait i thought Charmander didn't learn Flamethrower until level 40?

[@hansolo8573]

As a kid I literally only beat this game with Charmander. Nothing else, if he failed I was screwed, lol

[@eat00002]

hello clone

[@eat00002]

fuck just realised your name is han solo that a stor war character

[@MarkoDash]

beat yellow with only Pikachu

[@rusty9508]

Charrr

[@Andrew-Ryan]

You can literally beat this game with ANY Pokémon solo. Yes I mean it lol LITERALLY ANY of them. I guess not without items and stuff but still 95% of them.

[@sagarmastergaming2497]

i have a challeng for you playing finish pokemon matel red with only one charmender plz

[@wmcarter6096]

A lvl 14 charmander can beat sweep brock with metal claw. Why were you using ember on him?

[@Da_Shark]

This was awesome Thou I don't get why this is a challenge An entire generation of kids did this for something to do

[@torbballs]

You can already did this I just used other Pokemon to switch to so that u can heal Charmander

[@connorrussell3330]

Image what would happen with a Charizard

[@davidbelanger9952]

You forgot that bulbasaur resists electric type attacks so the first 3 gyms are actually easier. Squirtle's neutral to water so the first 2 gyms are easier

[@AnonYmous-spyonmepls]

If you don’t speed run bulbasaur sleep powder combined with stat moves or x special is also op. Also poison does percentage damage so you can kill pokemon that are way higher level

[@dirtyrandy2592]

I don’t need the answer, but I’m just curious enough to click

[@Unhinged29]

not sure about fire red but I will tell you from personal experience you can beat the original blue version with a charmander

[@theansweris4299]

Like that such a big deal I only ever use my starter Pokemon I'm too lazy to train the other ones

[@jasonvanhorn4883]

You could have done it better by utilizing your blaze ability making it lower health