Can You Beat Pokémon Sapphire With ONLY DARK TYPES? (Hardcore Nuzlocke, No Items/Overleveling)

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Rules of the challenge:
Normal Nuzlocke Ruleset:
1. Fainting = Death
2. Can only catch one Pokémon on each Route (Species Clause)
3. Nickname Pokémon
Hardcore Nuzlocke Ruleset:
4. No items in battle (held items okay)
5. No leveling past the next gym leader/E4 (at the START of the battle)
6. Play on "Set" battle mode
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[@ChaoticMeatballTV]

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[@HoratioMcAlge]

KKKhaotic Meatball dude you gotta be careful with those names lmaooooo

[@dittmar104]

May's page seems to have been edited on the 27th regarding that discrepancy.

[@epicfail9271]

You couldn't pay me to play it

[@BorisBierbauch]

If i click the link, it only opens the google play store page from Raid but i didnt get any reward ingame

[@Amateur2CombaT]

@@BorisBierbauch don't play that atrocious game , its only purpose is to milk your money not to entertain you

[@nathanblackburn1193]

So an idea I had for a nuzlocke challenge is a "Non-evolving pokemon" challenge where you can only use pokemon that do not have an evolution like Heracross, Audino, Dunsparce (outside of gen 9), Farfetch'd (outside of gen 8), Furfrou, etc, the regions where this challenge is possible are Johto with Dunsparce available before Falkner, Unova with Audino available before Chilli, Cylan and Cress and in B2/W2 there's both Audino and Dunsparce before Cheren, Kalos with Dunsparce and Farfetch'd before Viola, Galar (I think I don't know every wild area encounter but there's a lot before the first gym) and Paldea with Flamigo available before your second Nemona fight.

[@hhjan594]

I kinda have the memory that shaking grass in Gen5 doesn't unlock until you beat gym 1...... Are you sure it's possible to catch Audino before the first gym? If it is possible then in either version that's a strong pokemon to use that early in the game.

[@owenaspinall2046]

FlygonHG actually did this in Gen 6

[@nathanblackburn1193]

@@hhjan594 Hmm I'm pretty sure I remember fighting Audino in at least in BW1 after leaving the second town, the one where you first fight N. But according to Bulbapedia you need to get the first badge so I don't know

[@nathanblackburn1193]

@@owenaspinall2046 Yep that was my idea too or at least partially as I suggested it on his channel also

[@alexanderhall5467]

​@@hhjan594 that is correct. Not encountered until after earning first badge in both BW and BW2. Done enough grinding in both for nuzlocke to know it's not possible

[@cullenhutchison6528]

It's cool to see Absol, my favorite Pokémon, putting in so much work. It's unfortunate that before the physical/special split Absol could't really make use of its massive attack stat, but in the easier Pokémon games you can get by with a Calm Mind set as you did here. I do wish it was better though.

[@GDV_]

I would love to see a bug run of G/S, since the crystal one didn't take it to red I'd love to see it go all the way

[@nicholasricci8342]

not sure if its possible without getting very lucky. the level cap for falkner is 9, so you can’t even get beedrill or butterfree. i’d love to be proben wrong though

[@elikorn8777]

Also the bug run isn't very good. I vote its redone completely

[@JDLong006]

​​@@nicholasricci8342t's definitely doable, the pidgey has no flying moves and both of his other moves are physical, so you could set up harden to not lose to pidgeotto Also gust on pidgeotto is physical because it's gen 2

[@slashb7836]

Between G/S, it's gotta be Gold. Falkner is difficult but doable (I've done it in a level capped, though not Nuzlocked, run). But Rival 2 is suffering in Silver because of his Gastly. You only have Beedrill, Ledyba/Ledian, and Paras so you have almost no way to hit Gastly outside of Struggle (which is a death wish considering Quilava). Gold has Butterfree, makes it a lot easier. A shame, since Ledian and its BoltBeam punches are (while weak) very useful coverage and you have options like dual screens or Baton Pass with them later. Whereas Ariados, much as I love them, really suffers this gen specifically

[@obsidianchangeling5968]

When the franchiselocke is done, can we please have more Professor Oak Challenges?

[@danders1094]

Just did this exact run a couple weeks ago! I allowed myself to capture two Poochyena on two different routes before Roxanne to make it reasonably doable. Absol and Sharpedo truly the MVPs

[@michaelasmitty]

I would love to see Dark in Let’s Go Pikachu/Eevee. The sheet says the type doesn’t exist, but the Alolan forms are tradable and the first is Rattata in Cerulean!

[@CoffeeFlavoredMilk]

I think you only get access to Raticate, Muk, and Persian (Alolan forms of course). Even so, I think it could be neat. Maybe you could also try Steel and Fairy by that regard. Steel has Magneton, Alolan Dugtrio, and Alolan Sandslash. Fairy has a lot more since Jigglypuff, Clefairy, and Mr. Mime lines got retconned into being Fairy-types in addition to Alolan Ninetales. Shouldn't be too too bad since Let's Go is notoriously a joke in terms of difficulty but who knows for sure.

[@ChaoticMeatballTV]

I'll have to look into this, not sure where the trades are but if they're early enough I can try.

[@Boarbatrice]

@@CoffeeFlavoredMilk It still baffles me that they made gen 1 evolutions unavailable in Let’s Go, so not steelix or scizor

[@michaelasmitty]

@@ChaoticMeatballTV They would be very hard because it would be two encounters for the whole game (there are three for dark, but two are version exclusive), but for an otherwise easy game it might still be possible!

[@fritz1651]

Pokemon Red with only Bird types. Missingno and 'M as starters, lets go.

[@greendishatibaia9899]

I did this, but on emerald. First gym conpletely possivle with just poochyena, bite is special, so big chances of flinching and doing good damage on the rock mons.

[@MateheusdePalamecia]

This run must have been a lot of fun :) Happy that you are continueing the Franchiselock.

[@silverventhil8462]

God i love to see somebody acknowledge the power that Absol's special coverage has. feels like on the whole the 'modern perspective' on them is as a physical one trick mon. even though it's Special Attack is actually quite passable, and post phys/Special Split it gets to use it's titanic attack stat for it's stab, with good special coverage as back up. with admittedly most of my 'in depth' experience with pokemon being solo runs in platinum where realistically you can't setup in important battles, and Absol's physical moveset is pretty 'limited' in gen 4.

[@JoordyDreaming]

Great video ! Looking forward to the rest of the franchise lock. Also am i hearing things or did you say stafe at the end . Must be my mind playing tricks again hahah

[@mystikx2205]

Being afraid of Knock Off in Gen 3 when it's a 20 Power Special Attack on a 'mon with base 20 SpAtk....yup, it's a ChaoticMeatball vid alright.

[@Flareontoast]

As an Absol fan, I was scared Absol wouldn't make it through the elite 4. But son of a gun, you did it! Surprisingly good team, dark types

[@LadyLeomon]

Holy Shinx, I’ve never been this early for one of your videos (second!) but I am *psyched!* (Let’s go Mightyena!!!) Thanks for the new video ChaoticMeatball and go hug your furbabies all 💙🐱💙

[@danielhuelsman76]

I know it will likely be the most difficult part of this challenge, but I do want to see you do Dragon types in the early games, just to see how you'd do it.

[@talklein39]

Really glad to hear we're going back to the no reapets series

[@tayartistic3651]

1:38 Can you guess the sponsor? Me immediately: RAID ofc😂😂

[@liamaldrich2476]

Raid must've dropped a CHECK for the XL ad 😂 very excited for this run, Hoenn has amazing dark types.

[@EvilerOMEGA]

I think they did absol dirty with it's stats. High attack and high crit chance moves with super luck is good and all, but not with a base speed of 70. I wish they would have taken points from it's defenses and special attack and at least gave him a 100 base speed stat. Also, I'm hyped for the franchiselocke staring back up.

[@dansplam8217]

Hey man, I have a bit of an obscure challenge for you. Any pokemon game using only signature moves as a hard-core nuzlocke.

[@thes7984]

I saw thay the all inclusive mega man hasn't seen a new video on 3 years. I think you have good potential to make more retrospectives, hope you return to that from time to time

[@platinumraven118]

WOOT WOOT FRANCHISE NUZLOCKE COMING BACK!!!!!

[@jamesanderson1139]

I like how you explained your EV spreads and movesets for Sharpedo and Corphish

[@ThatGuyThai]

Missed opportunity to start with Treecko so your rival has a type advantage.

[@Aceeses]

Is there a clear playlist with every monotype run separated by game? I feel like I can’t find them and like them for the background

[@ChaoticMeatballTV]

There isn't necessarily a playlist but the spreadsheet in the description has all types for each game listed with videos linked to each one.

[@hhjan594]

I would like to see some different challenges.... Not saying they will be easier though. A minimum battle challenge in SV sounds interesting, but come to think of it, I think that will just be riding Koraidon/Miraidon around picking up exp candies and smacking the exp candies onto your starter along with another random Pokemon you catch to make your team 3 pokemon so you can fight team star. There's only one gift Pokemon other than your starter so you are forced to catch a Pokemon in a minimum battle run in this game. After the exp candies nonsense, you just straight up fight the 18 bosses with your overleveled pokemon. Heck, I'm not sure if you are allowed to run from the catching tutorial Lechonk, because if you cannot run then you are forced to catch it to keep it minimum battle. Another type of weird challenge I would like to see is a "Reverse Professor Oak" challenge. This is the opposite of Professor Oak's challenge, you have to avoid filling your dex as much as possible before every gym badge, so you can only catch and use pokemon that you are absolutely going to battle as opponents in the section, or else you will get more dex entries than necessary. This makes grinding levels very difficult because you will try your best to avoid most wild encounters as if they have a chance to unlock additional dex slots for you.

[@ananakos]

Thank you for the video, it was awesome, Ground Platinum sounds interesting if you want to give that a go :)

[@layachaz7318]

never expected that a mono dark team would be this good

[@fuuster]

Just want to see the franchiselocke completed....

[@datrandom134]

Same

[@dire095]

Me too I think it’s a cool concept and he does is super well

[@Squirtle_Squad_Supremacy]

Same, let me into SM

[@justin07820]

I don’t blame him for taking a break on it for a while 4 alola games sounds like hell 💀

[@ZustinGameZ]

Waaa!!! Waaa!!! This KZbinr should only do the one thing I care about! No making content other than what I like! Waaa!!! Waaa!!! Waaa!!!

[@caseymartin6885]

Not sure if this was addressed anywhere, and maybe I’m missing something, but I’m pretty sure Knock Off was being mistaken for a physical move during the Brawly fight when he switches out after the defense drops and commented on the Intimidate and Bulk Ups. No hate, I probably would have done the same 😂

[@williammcintosh5204]

you are the person i have chosen to fall asleep to, i hope you feel honoured

[@nesradub360]

Shoulda done this in Emerald since you can get all 7 dark encounters.

[@FortunAdlaich]

Looking at the spreadsheet, Diamond with Rock types only could be fun (pretty obvious why platinum has all runs completed and D/P doesn’t, though)

[@peterrealar2.067]

Way to go, dork! You actually did it!

[@bacchusofthemidwest]

ill predict none will fall to the elite four but if one does its mightyena

[@tjcddc]

Loved Krawlers. Always haply when insect support/archetypes come out but Krawler with flip abilities were awesome.

[@ChaoticMeatballTV]

Krawler Soma best card out of POTE, don't @ me.

[@cameron8087]

Id like to see more of the rom hacks at some point? Drayano ones for medium difficulty? Renplat had pretty solid views too

[@stevenhaefner7686]

I’d like to see an ice type nuzlocke in Platinum, because Glaceon is one of my favorite ice types, beaten only by Weavile

[@mr.m5979]

Only half way through but convinced I need to do this

[@natecgames4612]

I found that (at least in the remakes) if you go treeko instead of mudkip, then the battle with may under cycling road is nearly impossible, especially in ruby since your mightyana and shiftry have nothing against shroomish and combuskin.

[@artsyryder]

I *could* be wrong here, but if I remember correctly, I think the Pokemon your rival sends out for the rival battle on Route 110 can actually be altered depending on the rival gender or the starter's gender?? Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong but I think I remember RSE challenge runners mentioning something like that before

[@artsyryder]

I know something about that battle's RNG is affected by something's gender but I can't remember the exact details and google is giving me nothing

[@venlionheart5477]

I'd love to see a professor oak challenge on rising ruby or sinking sapphire the drayono versions of ORAS where all 721 are catchable but you have the party exp share

[@YourCasualPunk]

I'm calling it this is gonna be a deathless run

[@YourCasualPunk]

I was right deathless elite four and no deaths

[@Emsha]

hihi I was wondering when you'll or if you'll continue the poké walker video series, I absolutely loved that video

[@SCRhyperior]

I'm currently doing MonoGround Brilliant Diamond and I'm having so much fun. Allowing myself access to the Underground every other gym badge helps open up the roster just a little. I would love to see your take on it.

[@wrightcycleworks]

Trilocke: Any Pokémon with three heads. Your choice of game.

[@MorganTiller]

What about a special attack aggron kind of run? Like secondary attacking stat only

[@nawinalahyers3595]

I would like to see some of the older runs redone with the physical special split

[@MegaMew204]

Seeing Wally's team from Gen 3 makes me realize how much better it got in ORAS

[@PerfectFlyer4]

Love watching your videos. They're always fun and super well done. It was kind of strange hearing so many inconsistencies between the script and the video though. Like using Scratch on Sableye instead of Thief. It didn't feel up to your usual standard of script writing. Hope you aren't working yourself too hard!

[@vacantgalaxies]

League prediction: If anyone dies I think it’ll be a Mightyena sack perhaps against Steven since it’s only real use is intimidate. But I’m leaning on no desths

[@bethsilverpilchik9097]

are you still doing a harcore nuzlock one every pokemon game im waiting

[@frsueker]

I am so excited for the sun and moon Nuzlocke. It's been a while since omega ruby and alpha sapphire.

[@jthecaffeinatedcrow6456]

Isn't there a free Flamethrower on Fiery Path?

[@aidenhill9782]

Not the 5 minute raid ad

[@lol6261]

Can you do a POC on fireash? That would be awsome 😍 keep up The good work😊

[@CosenAngel]

I was thinking the Kardashians when you said "3 k names" 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[@BeefPatty876]

You coulda done this in emerald and had all the encounters. But im sure you had your reasons

[@ChaoticMeatballTV]

Yep, other people have already done Emerald, nobody else has done Sapphire yet.

[@MorganTiller]

I JUST THOUGHT OF ONE THATS NEVER BEEN DONE. Gen 1 - horrible backsprites only. Like nidoqueen and rhyhorn

[@dannogsus2184]

It always felt like there was ment to be another may fight but they remembered about Wally and changed the fight in victory road

[@David_the_Psalmist]

Well... in other languages, the dark type also translates to "evil type." I don't think anyone's going to take issue with a trio of Ks being evil.

[@nikolaus944]

Hey just because the opponents hp drop to red doesn‘t necessarily mean that you „missed the range“. It could‘ve been the highest roll possible and still leave 1 hp

[@masroorahmadbani1712]

I really love dark type Pokémon. Keep up the good work.

[@DARKxREAPER2686]

😂 at 14:07 he says thief but uses scratch

[@squashcrimson4228]

Krawler spine gives me sheer and utter trauma.

[@bordomsdeadly]

I’ve never seen so many ads in a video before. First time I’ve ever turned a video off part way through because I got tired of ads

[@gabr.7878]

Honestly Absol is pretty cool. Never get to use it much tho

[@a1ve_z847]

A white steel run would be a cool vid 👍

[@danielstonebraker656]

You should try professor oak's challenge with only pokeballs/base catch rate balls

[@CodMer44]

Can you or have you done this for oras?

[@stronger-realestate]

Why would you need to swap out disableye for a defense drop if Makuhita can only hit with Special?

[@GogglesInMiami]

Could you do a run where you can only use your 6 favourite pokemon throughout a game?

[@M3talB3ak]

PLA dark type or B/W poison runs would be cool

[@MostlyHappyGaming]

I think Mightyena will be the one lost in the elite 4, because it appears to be your least favorite

[@zapadap1328]

Glad to see you running R/S, even if it wasn't my comment that inspired it

[@fritz1651]

I tried this in Ruby and failed against the 2nd gym multiple times. I wanted and needed shiftry for Roxanne, but Brawlys Fighting types are just too strong for nuzleaf and mightyena.

[@amberapollyon]

bro really put the kkk on his dark type team 😭

[@nesradub360]

woulda been nice to actually see the moves being used instead of just the pokemon flashing a couple times

[@owenaspinall2046]

I think the Shelgon protect thing is mainly in Emerald

[@roberteospeedwagon8178]

I think the run will be deathless but if it isn't, it'll be Steven's doing.

[@searchroutine8163]

The sableye switch on self-destruct wasn’t luck just a good play on your part.

[@samuelcastillo5246]

Maan you look nice with your long hair, I wanted to let mine grow that much but it was a bit annoying so I end up cutting it hahaha

[@skylerhall2414]

Love your vids!! Keep up the good work!!

[@michaelback1429]

Mightiena is probably the one that goes down. Second most likely is Sableye. Third is Cacturn.

[@michaelback1429]

i was so wrong-

[@Legithiro]

9:47 you missed a range, is it really that surprising?

[@wanderernick8813]

Ayyeee we love a Krawler reference

[@Hydrocannon]

How about you instead get the full set of Gen3 e-reader trainer cards and do the basement thing in Ruby & Sapphire?

[@ashsquest1235]

a title belt made from a Metagross would be insane

[@krissysempaiart1742]

This was so fun!

[@antoinepolnareff8970]

Sharpido would have taken more damage from Rock Smash than from Dig from Gen 3. Dig+Soft Sand=66 Supereffective Rock Smash=80 With that you could had not letted to luck with ranges the KO.

[@ejokurirulezz]

in route 110 numel is never fist. it's always wailmer or shroomish depending on your starter. and if starter is treecko depends on if you picked brendan or may. but then again don't look at bulbapedia, they don't deserve support and they have way too many mistakes and misinformation.

[@matrixgachaverse1100]

Ahyes, my favorite dark type move *scratch*

[@HaPPy-nk4jn]

Anyone else remember the poke-walker video. I hope he makes more 😢

[@Feythful]

People need to stop asking when the franchiselok is going to finish. Fine, he said 2023, but people are allowed to change things. He has to do FOUR Alola games back to back. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. If you all can wait for games that have been delayed, y'all can wait for him to get back in the mood to play Alola. Leave him alone

[@michaeladrechsler6260]

Would love to see an ice only in red/blue/yellow

[@benjaminsurrette3034]

can you do another in game trade run? it was cool

[@halibutcannon5457]

How about next yellow with only bug types.😀👍

[@realgod1002]

to answer the question. No... cause the last time i faced Krawler my Tri-Brigades tore them a new hole. 2-0 both without a single LP lost xD

[@Rebateman]

Idea: Gen 1 but only with Pokémon that had changed types (e.g. Clefairy, Magnemite)

[@superlombax1561]

Man, imagine if he had thought to do that before Gen 6. I don't think it'd be possible.

[@Kanbei11]

Poor Wally, doesn't even have his ORAS battle theme. For challenges maybe gen 1 or 2 minimum battles?

[@ChaoticMeatballTV]

Trying my best to do only challenges that other people haven't done yet!