Pokémon X/Y Hardcore Nuzlocke - FIRE Type Pokémon Only! (No Items, No Overleveling)

Time to jump on yet another trend! Monotype Hardcore Nuzlockes have become all the rage thanks to amazing players like FlygonHG and SilphSpectre running through various games, and it's time to do it again! X and Y are considered some of the easiest games in the series, from incomplete move sets on boss trainers and the EXP Share giving you an uneven advantage, but what happens when you strip that second advantage away and restrict yourself to a single type? Can I take the game down, how many attempts does it take me? Find out now!
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[@Galvantula2015]

First

[@Ketto25]

Is it full odds?

[@ChaoticMeatballTV]

@@Ketto25 Well, I can chain in that game to increase the odds but since it's a vanilla Pokemon game, it would be full odds yes.

[@thedragonninja2579]

Live the vids keep it up

[@cityhunter5412]

Soory man got no money plus there is the trouble of covid so we can't even move out so there is no jobs

[@xgarcia5586]

On Route 10, you got Eevee instead of Houndour because Houndour is exclusive to Pokémon X

[@eduardodiaz5583]

I was thinking about that too

[@jaykay9647]

Houndour is exclusive to X while electrike is it's counterpart to Y. Eevee is in both games

[@ItsFireTiger]

But Houndour/Houndoom can get Thunder Fang so it can help against Siebold when it makes it that far

[@karlbaca9871]

A gen 6 challenge, I don’t think I’ve ever seen one before. I’m so much more the excited for this

[@ChaoticMeatballTV]

I've done a few before, namely a Prof. Oak's Challenge and a No EXP challenge in X version before, so if you're bored waiting for this to premiere, I'd suggest checking those out!

[@louies3xton]

@@ChaoticMeatballTV I had meatballs for dinner not long ago and they were good

[@seansean3659]

@@ChaoticMeatballTV g

[@hogarthhh]

Probably my favourite generation, just because I like mega evolution and alpha sapphire was the game I had the most hours on so I too am very excited for this :))))

[@dinofluorescent]

I’ve never seen a gen 2 challenge, aka never one in actual gold and silver, not a remake

[@celestial_illusions]

As someone who used slugma in a hg/ss gift only run. I'm not surprised it died randomly during grinding at all

[@kohinoorbanerjee4009]

lolol

[@Unotuchable]

It evolves so late and it's so frail, I've never actually gotten to use Magcargo.

[@MrWereWolfGirl]

I am still salty that I got a random shiny magcargo whenI was playing black 2 randomizer years ago and it died almost right away 🙃

[@honeybunnyhanni1931]

I love Fire types. I remember when X and Y came out you could get a gift speedboost torchik. I ended up having 3 fire types cause I chose fennekin, charmander and the gift torchik

[@CharizardFan_og]

When or where do you get the Gift Torchic?

[@honeybunnyhanni1931]

@@CharizardFan_og it was a timed event. For a few weeks or months after the release you could get a gift torchik from the internet that had the speedboost ability. Kinda like the gift manaphy egg you can get in bdsp

[@CharizardFan_og]

@@honeybunnyhanni1931 Thank you ;)

[@masonbewley9666]

So you are unoriginal and like starters

[@khezz1857]

Finally found a video where they pick Fennekin as their starter. Give my baby a chance. It broke the Fire/Fighter starter curse

[@HistoryandReviews]

Charmander did that

[@heinzdoofenshmirtz8643]

@@HistoryandReviews No it didn't, because the Fire/Fighting curse didn't exist back then. It started in Hoenn.

[@angelwhispers2060]

And cursed us with literally the worst possible visuals for that combination... Fennekin is adorable and deserved better than that.

[@xtrix_feed6562]

Litten was fire/dark lol

[@krullachief669]

@@angelwhispers2060 "Worst" lmao, just take your horny fox like a champ like the rest of us.

[@eeveewonder6277]

Houndour is an X exclusive Pokemon sorry to say, Electrike is the Y exclusive on route 10

[@ismellupdog]

Love these types of runs, but I do personally really like seeing failed attempts! Its cool to know how your strategy evolves as you learn and try again

[@TheSphero]

I keep forgetting that Flareon being dollar-store brand Arcanine still leaves it pretty solid as a mon, especially since it has a full 20 more base attack then Arcanine...

[@howlinghellgar2214]

“Dollar Store brand Arcanine” is probably the best description for Flareon I’ve ever heard

[@jumpyjumpjumpjumps2369]

Ah yes I bought my flareon from my local dollar tree it’s died 47 times and killed 1 lvl 6 rat

[@SongbirdOfficial]

It even has a worse Extreme Speed in Quick Attack lol

[@HistoryandReviews]

$1.25 store

[@SilvarusLupus]

Btw Clemont's Heliolisk has Dry Skin so a Mystical Fire might have 1HKO'd it

[@johnt.6514]

Great job! I just think that turning on battling animation at least for some important fights would make your run even more interesting! :)

[@alphacore6616]

15:16 "Winning without any losses" ya dont say lol

[@liomo7194]

The voice crack at 29:00 had me rolling

[@HistoryandReviews]

Bully

[@m.ajmal.n]

Yesssss. I really like the Delphox line.

[@shadychandelure2602]

I wonder what it would look like in as a full Sprite. like what if the transfer to 3d was 7 instead of 6

[@professionalidiot1156]

Me too. Delphox is so underrated.

[@TripleGia]

Okay, but would Chaotic be able to win in a fight against a sentient oven?

[@dwanedibly8129]

I was expecting it would be "Baked". A bit disappointing.

[@royensiferum]

the voice crack at the beginning is just funny man, awesome video!

[@ChefMonke07]

Doing this on X is so much easier since you get Houndoom, but you lose the incredibly powerful Mega Charizard Y.

[@HistoryandReviews]

Gayzard sucks

[@ItsFireTiger]

Yeah that Thunder Fang but Rotom covers electric against Siebold

[@joaovictoraraujo3792]

Great run bud!!! Suggestion: Put in the layout sprites of the pokemon that you current using

[@HistoryandReviews]

No

[@Meatmarbles]

The funny thing is, that I did a fire type run on Y as well, that not being a nuzlocke though. Simisear helped me a lot, but the thing is, that I don't dislike the Pokemon, he's actually my favorite of the elemental monkeys :)

[@heinzdoofenshmirtz8643]

Mine too!

[@loganjohnson4209]

Good, fun run to watch. I always knew x and y were easier (atleast it always felt that way to me) but wow. I never knew so many opponents movesets were as limited as there are. Thats bonkers to me

[@TheOriginalJphyper]

I've only ever done one challenge, which was Pokémon X with only unevolved Pokémon. Disappointingly, I noticed no difference in difficulty whatsoever. If you're curious, here are the rules I came up with: -I could only use Pokémon at the lowest stage. -I could not use single-stage Pokémon or those that used to be single-stage in a previous generation. -Invalid Pokémon may still be obtained, but could not be used until after the League and postgame storyline. -If someone did this in an older generation, the use of Pokémon that gained a prior evolution in a later generation would be up to the individual on whether they are valid or not. -Exceptions exist for when use of certain Pokémon is mandated by the story, such as Korrina's Lucario battle.

[@zirc_]

bro that seems hard af

[@TheOriginalJphyper]

@@zirc_ Perhaps in other generations, but in Gen 6, it's incredibly easy. I didn't even use a full team. Well, technically, I did, but one of my Pokémon's IVs were so terrible that it was nothing more than dead weight.

[@zirc_]

@@TheOriginalJphyper maybe evolution doesn't raise stats as high as I think but even if xy is a bit easier that with those rules seems really difficult

[@TheOriginalJphyper]

@@zirc_ The trick is to choose the team wisely. I picked team members with at least two base stats over 50. Specifically, I chose Axew, Riolu, Mantyke, Fennekin, Zorua, and Bulbasaur. This challenge would be loads more difficult in Sword/Shield, as the available base-stage Pokémon are far weaker there. When I saw Eternamax Eternatus's stats, that sealed the deal against doing it there.

[@jumpyjumpjumpjumps2369]

@@TheOriginalJphyper yea that’s wat happens when you have the highest base stat total ever ya scare away the nuzlockers and other ppl who do other challenges

[@rboss5919]

I had just assumed that Slugma saw a water or ground attack somewhere on the horizon and died of pure fear.

[@Objectorbit]

Can you turn on captions? it'd help those of us with not great hearing.

[@aaronrcastle123]

Don’t know if you have done this, hardcore nuzlocke. Duel types, whichever duel type you get, your next mon must have one of the previous captures typings, no duplicate pokemon. Use the fully evolved duel typing for each Pokemon.

[@HistoryandReviews]

Dual

[@cvfd7212]

The 30:40 segment is absolute gold, your inflection is hilarious

[@bartholomew.williamson]

Remember children, Delphox is perfectly balanced.

[@Abyssal_Renegade]

Perfectly balanced as everything should be.

[@whocares8683]

Yep super balanced

[@davinlee3412]

I agree, but Greninja is still better.

[@cjdziesiuta1995]

Imagine if Delphox was in gen 1...... fucking massacre probably

[@jackmist]

@@cjdziesiuta1995 it's a psychic type, of course it would be busted in gen 1.

[@Byaeger41]

Found your channel yesterday, love the videos man

[@gustavofrisk]

1:50 i though that was a reference to Maxie from hoenn lol

[@ItsFireTiger]

This is the first time in a X/Y Nuzlocke that someone has included the AZ fight after beating Diantha

[@shadychandelure2602]

In my humble opinion fletchinder is better designed then talonflame.

[@henrymars6626]

I'm just annoyed that they named it Talonflame. The Pokemon is based off a peregrine falcon, so why not call it Pyregrine/Pyrogrine/Pyragrine? "Talonflame" sounds like someone reversed how Warrior cats are named to avoid copyright.

[@joeb5772]

Those names kinda sound stupid, and talon flame sounds good because the Pokémon has sharp talons that are clearly visible on its body.

[@testerwulf3357]

@@henrymars6626 Those suggestions are probably worse than talonflame..pokemon don’t always include their animal in the name, more often just a nod to it via body parts or rough hints. Talon as falcons and other predatory birds are known for their long sharp talons as well as flame for fire typing. It’s also a route one bird..don’t expect too complicated of a name.

[@ekonthungcyrusngullie4391]

@@henrymars6626 man you got booted

[@henrymars6626]

@@ekonthungcyrusngullie4391 no im still sure I'm right and everyone else is just scared of my Galaxy-Brained take on Talonflame's name

[@jackielovesgaming6047]

1:48 maxie is the leader of team magma which uses fire types

[@reapersoul9993]

So a hardcore grass run in (ultra) Sun/moon

[@vikavoltisepic3507]

Probably impossible, usum is incredibly difficult and grass is a terrible type

[@idk-cl3rt]

totem marowak would demolish the grass types

[@mazharsiddiqi7288]

Awesome video Was cool that beat Diantha with full team intact despite death to AZ The Lucario death count confused me at first

[@chequesaurus]

I did this challenge too, but I added an extra rule that my pokemon had to be the color red, simisears yawn definitely comes in clutch a lot

[@cadepeterson5243]

That feeling when the box art legendary is your HM grunt, lol

[@harmonicmelody1710]

That Pinky and the Brain joke had me in stitches

[@andreaschintu5024]

We can't even call this a challenge, since there was none, he literally stomped the entire game with charizard y and the starter like a normal playthrough of X and Y

[@Neo_Bones]

A Simisear getting KOed in the Clemont fight? Sounds familiar…

[@mochiyeosang1908]

Ayo Im legit doing a firetype monorun right now. Not a nuzlocke bc I dont have the mental willpower to hold myself accountable, but yeah

[@wima13]

That last mistake was a heartbreaker

[@maggimaster]

I liked the starter aspect of this gen All are double types and both types are strong against the other

[@ItsFireTiger]

It got the aspect from Gen 4

[@ItsFireTiger]

Like when Bulbasaur was the first dual type until Rowlett in Gen 7

[@mr.cheese8097]

rip simisear :( you were hated, but you were loved

[@joshiii]

What’s the best way to support you and help you get to 100k? I consume your content almost daily!

[@adrianwelch5915]

I subbed, you put in some much graft, thank you

[@cloudyxcloud]

this is a rewatch comment to support chaos and track my rewatches xD

[@mrmelonbegoofy]

This is poggers my guy

[@Galvantula2015]

You didny watch the whole thing

[@LorettaLGBTQWriter]

I’m pretty sure this is all over the common section, but Houndour is only in X version

[@yamiryushi]

44:14 Five drunk stoners waiting on their pizza.

[@smicklou3297]

Pokemon games look so chill with battle animations turned off. Like they just vibe for a bit then take a nap.

[@somestixofbred]

which emulator do you use? and also where did you install the rom? (if you do use emulator)

[@maganhassan2627]

I like to see more pokemon challenges in gen 7 & 8 games Definitely looking forward for let's go shiny only challenge 😂

[@KYNG_GEEDORAH]

The Lass named Elin sent out a Corphish but instead the text send Goldeen

[@8Charisma]

39:30 heals your pokemon before battle... should be called Goku

[@joshiii]

So close to 100k!!!!!!

[@emilysmith2965]

Good job avoiding that one Trainer with a Crustle 😬 would’ve been bad news bears for at least one of this team

[@someonebored0100]

Accidentally had a mostly fire-type team in Y

[@ummheyzukohere7259]

I’m doing this exact challenge in X and I’ve only gotten past the first gym

[@zirc_]

only 5 deaths that damn impressive. but to be fair you do have 2 starters

[@jaykay9647]

How did you get to the stone emporium before the electric gym?

[@brcraft2170]

Isn't fletchling flying/normal? It's fire type only after evolving

[@moblinmajorgeneral]

16:40 Get nae nae'd

[@derrickscott1630]

😂😂 I've never been critted in the mega Lucario battle

[@_Teej_264]

Woulda been sweet to have the speedboost Torchic that was distributed when XY came out

[@He_who_rides_many_winds]

I did this except it wasn’t a nuzlocke then maxed all the fire type Pokemon out wore clothes to match to feel immersive and now gonna do the same with all the other types.

[@Galvis76]

Hey man, can you add team display?

[@whocares8683]

This will be amazing

[@Soul_merchant]

I really want to join your patreon so i can see you suffer will me over here have all the shinies in the game

[@ReVist]

I know I'm a year late but that hate for the elemental monkeys is strong

[@dakotafurret4134]

That was LIT

[@elijahdomingo1764]

Theres an eevee on the route where u get the poke flute

[@drcool3988]

It's kinda hard challenge but I thought I Say. Can you do professor oak's challenge with shines only on any Pokemon Game

[@ChaoticMeatballTV]

I actually have that as a stretch goal to do that as a part of my Patreon, since I know it will be hell and I've gotta recoup some of the time spent on a project that long lol

[@sajones015]

im upset. not at choatic though.about 3-4 months I finished my own Fire type only run (not a nuzlocke) in x&y after several failed attempts against Seibold and it mostly becuase i didn't think to get rotom for the run. so much time would have been saved had i known i could of gotten Rotom.

[@Cruzer108]

I'd like to see some of the parts of the failed attempts sometime

[@Amateur2CombaT]

I think it's fun to see failed attempts , it adds some suspens.

[@andrewkhiangte5426]

Hardcore Nuzlock😲

[@roniquegrandoit884]

fennekin is my favorite starter its underrated

[@pauloing1pauloing167]

01:39 click here to start the video

[@Umbramus]

Just a little point, you didn't find a houndour because it's exclusive to x while electrike is exclusive to y!

[@razgamer2381]

Pokemon Unbound how U Can Quickly Profssor Log Challenge

[@angelwhispers2060]

Fire psychic has an awesome type I can't wait to get an aesthetically pleasing Pokemon with this awesome type.

[@Starwarsontop1]

I tried doing this before i saw this video but i lost at malva

[@Biggest2]

Bruh this meatballs is very chaotic Comment if you got the joke

[@petercross1879]

Best game in the series

[@justanotherweirdo11]

I basically played a mono fire type run my first time playing pokemon y.

[@jhs99990]

Would Dragon Rage have worked on Tyrunt? Is that not a 2 hit KO?

[@115UndeadAnarchy115]

You could have saved Talonflame so easily... Pchal would be disappointed

[@Crowtenzz]

I'm seriously considering doing one of these lol

[@gabr.7878]

I like challenges

[@abosamraa98]

Make a scene where u lost the run is good enough

[@greninjafw]

Houndour is exclusive to X lol

[@mrmelonbegoofy]

Love your content

[@Cruzer108]

Here's a suggestion if the pokemon isn't the type yet, such as fletchling, you cant use it until it's a fire type it makes stuff harder and more fun, also charmander is an extremely op mon and personally skip it, also I'd love if you had a way to show all your pokemon in a way so that you can always tell what you have

[@ChaoticMeatballTV]

Not a big fan of banning Pokemon, if it's there and in the game, you should be able to use it, though I have been seeing a good number of comments due to my lack of explaining that I could use Pokemon that evolved into Fire types. I explained that situation a lot better in my B2W2 Water-Only video but I didn't do as good of a job at explaining in this video, but because of how many people have been pointing that out and weren't pleased with it will probably make me change that in the future.

[@testerwulf3357]

@@ChaoticMeatballTV I’d say just explain each video, if you explain it people don’t tend to mention it as much! If you have more fun using a mon before it’s the right type you should be able to, can’t have you going insane too quickly lol

[@robertbarrows6687]

You should have a little feature to show off your current team.

[@johncorry617]

Hey Chaotic did you play pokemon y on a computer or DS. cause if it was a computer I would like to know what you use to play it so I could get it I have been looking for a way to play pokemon x and y on my computer. if anyone else knows it would be much appreciated. Thank you

[@ChaoticMeatballTV]

I used the Citra emulator. It has a few visual bugs but is much cheaper than trying to capture footage off of a 3DS, since those capture cards go for $1000+ nowadays.

[@johncorry617]

@@ChaoticMeatballTV thank you

[@johncorry617]

@@ChaoticMeatballTV what rom did you get for the pokemon Y version

[@ChaoticMeatballTV]

@@johncorry617 That you're gonna have to do on your own. Best thing I can tell you is to get a modded 3DS and a physical copy of the game and backup the ROM file to your computer like I do.

[@miroslavbaranja4918]

what was your team

[@staydetermined6717]

I hope x and y are remade someday And are fixed and made harder And full move sets…

[@filipustegar4209]

can you show the nature of captured pokemon i wnat to know

[@raythehomie123]

The only possible hard types are Bug and......... uh........

[@howlinghellgar2214]

You could make an argument for ice being a difficult type because it’s just a horrendous defensive type, although it is a pretty good offensive type. That’s not as helpful in Nuzlockes though, because it doesn’t really matter how hard your Pokémon can hit if it’s dead. Also if I recall correctly, depending on the game there aren’t very many ice type mons/mons that evolve into ice types, and the ones that are there are pretty late into the game. Probably why you don’t see many mono ice hardcore nuzlockes, or at least I haven’t.

[@raythehomie123]

@@howlinghellgar2214 fair point,also now that I think about it Grass types aren't gonna do all too well in this ruleset

[@iantaakalla8180]

You could only really do an Ice Nuzlocke in Sword/Shield since it’s only there you get a wide enough array of Ice types spread everywhere to make a run feasible barring a randomizer run and that’s still not good enough because there are only around 40 Ice type Pokémon available.

[@testerwulf3357]

@@iantaakalla8180 ONLY 40? That’s a huge amount lol. Besides you’ll only get like roughly 10 encounters (depending on how you do them) anyways so how many choices you get is kinda irrelevant.

[@maganhassan2627]

I saw you used delphox at level 43 against valerie... I am a bit confused on your level cap rule

[@ChaoticMeatballTV]

I have to go into the fight at the level cap, but when I start the fight, the Pokemon are allowed to level up during that fight and can still be used, hence why I "edge" them up to RIGHT before they go over the level cap so that I can take advantage of those slight stat boosts.

[@ProfessionalNon]

Fennekin line sweep 1 hour