Can you beat Pokemon X without using a single move?

[@oMuStiiA]

It's not your lucario, so it's not you using the move, it's her lucario using the move.

[@Airid]

GOOD POINT

[@kookeekwisp]

Imagine if you technically didn't own your starter during the battle either...

[@theccarbiter]

But it’s still a move being used ?

[@oMuStiiA]

@theccarbiter the opponent pokemon use moves too but that's not the player character's problem, because those aren't their pokemon.

[@theccarbiter]

@@oMuStiiA right so youre not using a move when the opponent does, but in the lucario fight you have to use a move. I'm not sure what your point exactly is, you dont use moves when the opponent picks one but you do even when its not your pokemon. Its a cool video and itd be fun to see others like it but no because of a stupid required battle you cant beat it without using moves

[@neodech176]

Gardevoir just casually tracing wonderguard on the run where it never matters is peak

[@Airid]

gardevoir getting owned without even knowing it

[@Zorothegallade-rpg]

When it megas it changes to Pixilate anyway.

[@appointmenteer]

fun fact lucario actually just does that by himself. he goes raaaaugh and mega evolves by himself all the time. doesnt affect the challenge at all

[@Airid]

TRUE

[@noskillrequired9532]

"This game has been out for over a decade" hit me like a truck, dear god

[@Airid]

Yea I had quite the existential crisis when I looked it up when I was writing my post commentary

[@radchum]

This is insanity. Major props to whoever edited this aswell. Must have been a whole lot of fun scrubbing through 100+ hours of swapping LOL

[@Airid]

I edited it as well and it was about as fun going through it as you think it would be LMAO

[@Poppy_AndFriends]

30:03 "So after doing a bunch of Intimidate switches, I was okay with tanking 4x super effective attacks on Clinton to take it out with contact damage early and save some time." This is a wild statement how that's a time save in a run like this lmao

[@stormRed]

Tierno finally had a chance to be a threat and squandered it anyway... Never change Tierno.

[@Airid]

Tierno SHOULD be one of the hardest rivals in pokemon, which would be cool considering you don’t fight him much so it’s like a mini boss battle, but no. He just dances and is ass at battling

[@timboblongjohn]

I do NOT have the patience for this 😭

[@Airid]

if there's one thing I got it's persistence LMAO

[@aravbharadia]

@timboblongjohn Sucks to be you

[@FoolsGold52]

I barely have the patience to watch this, but that may just be because I’m tired (disclaimer: this is one of my favorite videos I’ve watched in a while)

[@already-taken]

Yea, the video is pretty long.

[@teathesilkwing7616]

Agreed, writing comments can really drain your patie

[@oMuStiiA]

Bro, that fire blast dodge. Chop the MVP lmao.

[@Airid]

we love Chop in this household

[@MrMoasn]

I was like "wait how is he gonna do this" and then when I realized the possibility of struggle I burst out laughing, this is a novel idea and video!

[@TheMoogleKing93]

If you switch too many turns in a row the AI starts randomising it's moves, as you saw a few times!

[@michael927]

Editing and Voiceover felt like I was watching a huge 1m+ viewed hidden gem video, seems I actually made it to one of these videos BEFORE the blow up. This one is gonna be big, I can feel it! insta sub and like

[@Airid]

🙏 thank you hoping it makes it to the top

[@JoeSmith-db4rq]

Dang, great video! For Sky Drop (although it depends how you define “using a move”) you will NOT use a move if you’re in the air and faster than the Pokémon that used Sky Drop. So, with your high levels, you just needed to find a Pokémon that outsped Aero and you were golden! Of course… you’d still be clicking a move though and the solution you ended up going with is definitely a cleaner one overall :)

[@OldDistantHermit]

The word "just" is pulling a lot of weight there

[@JoeSmith-db4rq]

@ true, I’m aware of Aero’s speed stat, but they already showed that they were grinding to be extremely overleveled. You don’t need something with a faster base speed stat - just faster than that 1 aerodactyl :)

[@OldDistantHermit]

@@JoeSmith-db4rq Oh yeah, I'm not used to that being such a factor. I was just making a joke either way hahaha

[@kindagamer525]

"and Burmy even gives 1 Sp. Def -IV- EV to help for the future" *scoffs in super training*

[@Airid]

But think about how much super training time it saved me! (Literally none)

[@GraceMellody]

I usually clock out of these type of videos halfway through and zone back in at the end but wow you kept me entertained the whole time. Great job dude

[@Double_Jae]

Dang this quality is something I’d expect from a channel with like 200k subs, hopefully this video blows up!

[@Airid]

thank you! I am also hoping LMAO

[@DOOMVXGA]

This is genuinely so impressive!!! The playing style, the editing!!! All of this is so well done. Best of luck to you, hope to see you live on Twitch soon!

[@Airid]

will be live tomorrow and (most) days o7

[@bigfudge2031]

This video just shows how handicapped physical attackers are compared to special attackers. They are affected by intimidate, all contact debuffs, burns and recoil damage. Yet special attackers don't have any downsides or counterparts to the debuffs.

[@Airid]

I think about this a lot, but somehow the physical type still prevails. I've caught myself a lot of times going "it's so dumb there isn't a special intimidate?" or "why doesn't poison work the same as fire for special?" but i've started to realize they at least somewhat bake the balance into the moves and pokemon stat distributions. Like you would think that with intimidate, burn, abilities that punish physical attackers like static, and special attack getting all equal counterparts to stat boosting moves, special attackers would just be king. But when I start to think about moves so many special ones are weaker, or barely distributed, or have a big drawback. Not many special earthquake type moves, and maybe that's why? idk really I just think about it more than I should but im happy you brought it up

[@DuskoftheTwilight]

@@Airid Yea it really does come down to move quality and distribution. If you look at the list of moves for each type and sort by power, most types have a Physical move as the strongest competitive-relevant move available, and at that most of the types where Special wins out there have physical options that are at least viable. I think Psychic is the only type where special attacks truly run away with it, and there's multiple phyiscal-heavy types that run away just as much as it does for special. So absent the various weaknesses that physical attackers have, they'd in general be better than special attackers, hence those factors to help balance things out.

[@forbidi8020]

Incredible dedication! That was fun to watch! The final moment, hats off to you for owning that mistake and showing that torkoal who was boss

[@Oshawat]

LOOK MA! I MADE IT TO THE HALL OF FAME! 42:15 Actual magnum opus of a video, CRAZY

[@Airid]

HE'S IN THE FUCKING HALL OF FAME RAHHHHHHH

[@FrostFoxChick]

that was unbelievable. great editing and pacing, too! i hope this blows up for you

[@Airid]

thank you!!

[@juliamavroidi8601]

This video is really well edited, not go mention realky entertaining! You deserve more subscribers.

[@Airid]

thank you!

[@pinkducklett1051]

I actually didn't think this was possible going in but that was a lot of fun to watch and go through, and the interesting team building and strategies that no one would consider for any other challenge was really cool

[@Airid]

Thank you! That was my favorite part too some of the Pokémon or teams I used I would NEVER use in a normal pokemon run

[@blu3m0nkey]

With the lucario fight, you can hope to miss a move

[@_FallenTurtle_]

Wow someone is crazy like me, I did something very similar to this in Scarlet. Good job on actually editing this into a good video

[@Airid]

pokemon players 🤝 making life way too difficult

[@kursatsaimtuna7163]

Bro your channel is gonna grow so much this vid feels like SmallAnt's ones. Well done!

[@MinecraftJosh626]

this is such a well edited and put together video i am surprised at how little views and subscribers there are

[@gravajaumbros]

So I was sure that I had seen someone else do this same challenge. Turns out I wasn't entire correct. There are two other people who I know of that have beat a Pokemon game without using moves. They did allow for in battle healing though. One, however, in addition to no moves, also didn't allow switching pokemon (or running, but it was in Pokemon Violet, so you can always just avoid running into wild pokemon). King The Luck did Pokemon Scarlet without using any moves, while TeeGee did Pokemon Violet while only being allowed to select bag (and the items in it) in battle (so that's the no switching or running). Still, great video, and the run is different due to the no in battle healing rule as well as just being done in a different gen.

[@Airid]

that sounds insane! I didn't come across everybody that's done some variation of this because I was looking for exactly this thing, but i'll definitely have to check those out!

[@gravajaumbros]

@@Airid You really should, they're good videos (TeeGee's run is in two parts) and they're both more overlooked creators who could use the views.

[@lizarrrrrd795]

I thought attempting a normal type move only run of BW was hard (which is what I’m doing rn) but NO MOVES?? I gotta watch that vid rn

[@DarkenedAuras7653]

Just found this video but upvoting and commenting to support the algorithm because you deserve more subs

[@ImplodingChicken]

I looked into it to see if it was possible to underspeed the other Lucario, mega-evolve, and then get KOed before you get to use your move. Unfortunately the IVs and natures of the two Lucarios are fixed so that you always outspeed. Her Lucario has no way to boost its speed and no priority, and no item I'm aware of can be used to increase the opponent's speed or lower yours. So you can't lose the battle while mega-evolving without at least one of your moves going off. The best you can do is miss Metal Sound.

[@Airid]

I’m happy there wasn’t some super obscure way to skip the battle or not click a move that I missed LMAO that would have been sad

[@Verolzy]

Honestly I hope you get viewers you deserve. Though im kind of surprised you didn't go for a double -regenerator stall as a last-ditch effort.

[@sunflorence-59]

great video! i can't believe you don't have more subscribers yet i was thinking I might try a similar challenge, but maybe just a "no damaging moves" run to help preserve my sanity haha what made you choose X in the end? was it primarily available pokémon, trainers, or something else? i was thinking that SwSh might be a good choice given all the pokémon available in the wild area (ferroseed, hippopotas, snover, etc) but i'd love to know if you ruled that out for any particular reason

[@Airid]

I think sword and shield would be a good choice! I started in gen 5 but that was actual hell (and I picked the wrong starter but didn’t come back to bite me until 70 hours in LMAO) so I just kind of worked my way up and gen 6 looked too good to pass up. Catching xp makes this challenge infinitely easier, and it had fletchling on route one so it seemed like the perfect recipe! Early game is usually the hardest for this (once you get daycare it becomes more manageable) and it was the first game I looked at where getting to there seemed not awful!

[@sunflorence-59]

yeah, gen 5 is my favourite but it's not friendly to challenge runs it seems ;--; gen 6 makes a lot of sense! especially XY given how notoriously easy a lot of the required battles are, especially for a run like this, considering so many of their pokémon have fewer than 4 moves while gen 8 has a lot of good QoL additions like early leftovers and exp candy, the lack of daycare levelling is definitely a slight concern. and if i actually do this challenge i'm not sure how i'd treat raid dens - either clause them or just pray for good NPC luck haha

[@Airid]

Raid dens could definitely make it interesting, I feel like that would be the only way forward you would just need the CPUs to be insane LMAO, who knows maybe one day one of us will try it!

[@JDRuse]

2:20 nice Enron hat lmaoo

[@Airid]

thank you!

[@Catmomila]

Holy shit XY actually looks great, I forgot Pokemon games used to look good

[@reddeatharena9218]

Iirc you don’t actually need to win the sycamore battle. It just lets you move on anyway afterwards. So you could have saved some time there.

[@Airid]

That sucks LMAO he was beating my ass 😭

[@Viperio_19]

Hey, that was a great video! I especially liked the start, although after the first gym to me it felt like the game got a bit too easy because of the level advantage, so it didn't feel like much of a challenge anymore despite not using healing items. I personally completed this challenge in Ultra Sun while trying not to overlevel too much, and I also made a video on it a while ago, so you're not the first person to do it ;). Totally fair that you missed a video with 150 though lol. A friend of mine, Barely Alec, also did it in HeartGold (although I think he did overlevel as well), and I recently beat the challenge in Platinum while using level caps as well. This was still a great video and I'm not trying to take away from that, just saying that you're not the first. Anyways, good luck on your future videos!

[@Airid]

That’s crazy good on you! I searched and searched across KZbin they didn’t want to show you love apparently, but yours sounds INSANELY hard might have to check it out!

[@nstar6412]

Really well made. Super underrated channel

[@Airid]

Thank you! 🙂‍↔️

[@eternal1780]

Wow, I'm super impressed by this video. Highly underrated and underviewed, excellent work

[@Airid]

Thank you! Took a ton of time LMAO

[@leaffinite2001]

Ill be honest when i clicked on the video i forgot about struggle and thought maybe you could get sticky barbs from zigzagoons or something

[@parkergreen3458]

Big subscriber energy, great vid

[@Airid]

Thank you!! glad you liked it!

[@MaidenOfAir]

Glimmora would have been real nice for this

[@enric0392]

He must yearn for Glimora

[@rylibes6455]

This video is amazing , love the amount of work that went into it

[@Tinkatube]

It might have been worthwhile to put the Rocky Helmet on someone else. That way you could chip with two different targets with different types. Might've been a time save overall.

[@Airid]

I went back and forth with this idea in my head for a bit during the actual streams, but I think I made the right choice time save wise. Specifically because it's on ferrothorn. Only 2 weaknesses, with its 4x being a predominantly special type so it wouldn't be used anyways, and being so bulky it usually wouldn't get 3 turn KO'd by a 2x physical attack anyways, it was made for this challenge

[@Tinkatube]

@@Airid It was definitely a good "default" option, but you can technically swap items around after a fight. There were definitely circumstances in the run where I think a temporary swap MIGHT have made things a little easier, prevented one more stallout. But hey, I didn't spend nearly 100 hours in front of a livestream doing this game ALONE, let alone ALSO trying to do Black/White versions. This is still a phenomenal achievement that I WOULD not have the patience to do, so I'm just the heckler in the audience, lmao. I dig it! Well done.

[@Romidamn]

Awesome run, mate! This was a fantastic challenge, with some great solutions. You've earned a new subscriber, and I'd wager I'm not going to be the only one!

[@Airid]

THANK YOU

[@le__birb]

Diantha switch stalling you is diabolical

[@Airid]

RIGHT WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS

[@Bonnie-87-Spring]

Amazing vid man, your ur patience must have been brought to the extremes😅.

[@BlueZangoose_]

“No one has dared attempt this challenge”. Davey Gunface having done this exact challenge in Platinum and Black.

[@Airid]

He used healing items in battle! Super hard but a diff challenge but still big shoutout to Dave he’s sick

[@Arcaeze]

Underrated KZbinr!

[@Airid]

Thank you!

[@carlee5962]

this vid is HEAT, so proud of you

[@PokeShadow77]

9:20 lmaoo subversion Mad underrated youtuber

[@Awkweat]

7:43 "Use a move" "Sweet Scent" I know you didn't use or even catch the scraggy, but you did use a move techically

[@sabby6090]

The Lucario fight is possible, depending on how you define "using a move". If the opposing Lucario goes first, it can kill you before the move you selected actually goes off. However, this would likely take a lot of resets, as Power-Up Punch only kills you if it crits and gets a high enough roll.

[@hairytony1284]

Dude she asks you to battle you can literally click no for the lucario mega evolution fight

[@zinniaferguson461]

Well, that's a new one. Congrats on a job well done, Mr. Airid! Looking forward to seeing what you do next.

[@Airid]

thank you! We move forward!

[@jasminey1589]

Feels like it should have a level cap tbh

[@literaldoorknob]

Literal definition of underrated

[@BBromine]

This is so fucking cool??!?! What!!!!!

[@dogbark5005]

This vid straight gas

[@Airid]

Thanks goat

[@OverworkedPostalEmployee]

"HOW MUCH PP DO YOU HAVE?!?" Um... enough.

[@Airid]

HOW MUCH

[@saraiknowsit]

This was so impressive!!

[@tetrisinventor7256]

I Imagine being a trainer in the pokemon world and you lose to some trainer who does nothing but switch

[@Airid]

Getting stalled out in real life would be fucking hilarious

[@luckpup2766]

Awesome video. This is my favorite genre of Pokemon challenge, but I know how.tedious it is.

[@MikeHawk-wl7rl]

Fantastic work, can I have your autograph before you blow up?

[@Airid]

no - Airid

[@Airid]

wait did I just-

[@evinred4993]

Imagine how much this challenge would change if glimora and its ability existed in the game.

[@superzenmodeman]

Worth noting that BarelyAlec did this sort of challenge in HGSS, without healing items in battle.

[@OwerfordAmazington]

fun fact about the Mega Lucario fight; you can complete the game without doing the fight! so you could have just walked away!

[@Airid]

People have been saying this and I have realized I’m an idiot LMAO I thought you could only say no to keeping lucario not the actual fight 😭

[@xdTimmyYT]

i thought you had 982k subs not js 982. amazing high quality video man!

[@Airid]

hopefully one day. thank you!!!

[@rabatjoie6708]

Wasn't the item "Sticky barb" available through the game before the end ?

[@Airid]

yea there's some strats I didn't think of (sticky barb, recycle) would be interesting to do this with no regenerator!

[@Poppy_AndFriends]

17:14 Can you beat Pokemon X without using a single move? . . . . No (but, you can do it in like 5 moves) I'm happy with that tbh but i still haven't seen the rest of the vid lol

[@Airid]

i think the official count was 4 (i forget how many i used in the first battle but im pretty sure it was 3)

[@A113N]

budew really the shaun livingston of this team but yall not ready for that conversation

[@Airid]

THE HARRISON BARNES

[@Xaaaach]

Wait… Burmy was in Pokemon X?!

[@nbryu]

I think king the luck did this in SV? He might’ve used healing items idk

[@charlietonner5648]

I think kind the luck did a challenge like this a while ago

[@jaxonhopkins2691]

10:08 please do shiny clause for every challenge after this

[@blunt4cye]

ngl this is crazy 🤯

[@dougstrother5184]

I would not have been mad if you made a shiny clause rule (you can break your rules to catch a shiny if you find one)

[@kiletara]

remember me when ur famous

[@Airid]

okay let's pump the brakes A LITTLE

[@gudboi_ofthestars]

4:00 you could have caught riolu and evolved it to have a steel type

[@PokeShadow77]

But of course Professor knows ur moves

[@GeorgeDCowley]

0:25 Actually, I'd be curious how you got them, here.

[@Zeendefinetuder]

Isn't the sycamore fight not required....

[@werdiesennamenbiszumendeli8010]

I am proud of you

[@Airid]

thank you!

[@ulrichbrodowsky5016]

0:08 Not true. I've beaten Emerald without using moves. (Though my ruleset was slightly different, it's basically the same challenge, I think)

[@DanyGonzalezzzz]

Ma homie Oshawat sent me here 👀

[@Airid]

holy poggers

[@stu8095]

A little constructive criticism. Could you explain more about the tactics you were using? I had to go back a few times before i realised you were stalling out PP on the first battle. Then i realised the level cap of each mon doesnt matter because you are not battling with them so they can be over levelled. Other than that it was a good video and you must have the patience of a saint. 😅

[@Airid]

yea i realized after I explained so many things in this video but somehow didnt explain struggle like the most important thing LMFAO

[@maladunknown1453]

0:11 Didn't someone else already do this in other gens? Same thing with wasting moves in battle using status cure too. Edit: okay yeah people already pointed it out in other comments too. I guess you can say no one has done it using this exact rule (no battle items), but imo that is a bit misleading.

[@rabatjoie6708]

I am only at the beginning of the video, and maybe you had thought about doing so, but it's a shame you couldn't use trevenant or Exeggutor with Harvest 😅

[@Airid]

Wait that would’ve been such a good Strat you’re a genius

[@TDAdvocate]

Technically it isn't actually under 100 hours since there was a ton of speed up while playing the game. It probably would have been closer to a few hundred hours legitimately.

[@Airid]

It was like 374 in game hours! (I show it at the very end) but yea the amount of time of my life this would’ve taken up with no speed up would be ABSURD

[@TDAdvocate]

@@Airid Ngl I paused literally the frame before and decided to sit with my failure. 🤣 But regardless, the hours are absurd. I could never (I say as I've put like 200-300 into each generation working on living dexes. Lmfao)

[@C00L_DUD31]

How did you get enough money to spam antidotes and get a lot of pokeballs early game? I haven't played x/y in a bit but I don't think they give you too much things to sell or trainer cash , did the pokemon you caught in mass give you much money in held items? I know zizagoon have pickup but that only activates after winning a battle so that just more or less slows the loss of money. Perhaps all of it combined was just enough or perhaps there are some nuggets or something that I'm forgetting about but either way I would love to hear how you balanced the spending of money and purchasing of items.

[@Airid]

The antidote actually doesn’t get consumed so I only need one! I sold some pick up items for a few extra balls (the game also gives you 10 instead of 5 to start) but the big thing is the shared xp from the start. All of my party just getting to like level 7 is enough to beat youngster Austin. After that I have Kakuna’s to train on in the forest, and burmy after that (both who can’t hurt me so free xp). Not to mention the only other required fight is a pikachu and I picked a grass starter. When you pick chespin for this challenge on x/y A LOT goes your way it’s like it was made for this lol

[@C00L_DUD31]

@@Airid Oh I thought it was consumed, that makes a lot more sense. thank you for filling me in!

[@Idarak1]

Pokey-mon

[@GoldenPiggy56]

As soon as you used the daycare you lost me. It’s pretty easy when you have a level 70 pokemon against level 20s

[@Airid]

I mean yea it makes specifically the mid game easier, but it’s that or pp stall on wild pokemon I have no chance of dying to and the concept takes 5 times as long to complete. Doing it with a level cap is an interesting idea I might try in the future, but using daycare vs not with no level cap doesn’t take away any skill expression

[@samfisher6668]

I don't think struggle can hurt shedinja, so IDK why you switched him out from Hawlucha at the end. Please correct me if I'm wrong

[@Airid]

I had it hurt me in the run and KO me just didn’t put it in the video! My guess is bc it’s typeless and they never coded wonder guard to protect from typless moves it hurts

[@twsarper]

So a rule is no healing items, but spamming “status” healing like antidote to stall turns is ok? :(

[@DragonKing-mj2rk]

You know you can Lose the sycamore fight in lumiose right?

[@Airid]

Yeaaaa unfortunately I learned that a little late Lmao

[@Beefcream]

Enron hat? Big A viewer?

[@Airid]

Big A editor 😎

[@carlee5962]

he edits for him! :)

[@RedHeart-gt9xr]

Isn’t the Sycamore fight optional? Like you don’t have to win? So why were you resetting?

[@Airid]

actual?? I think you have to win but if you don't that SUCKS LMAO

[@bidoof367]

cant the lucario battle just be skipped if you say no

[@Airid]

You can say no to taking the lucario but not battling her unfortunately she makes you do that shit

[@bidoof367]

@@Airid oh i guess i misremembered i just remembered it being useful on challenge runs with limited team options

[@HORSECONSUMER]

oh yeah someone already did that way before you did