How To Win Pokémon LeafGreen Nuzlocke Every Time

[@chynonm]

Video feels a bit off. I realized it's because the entire video has no BGM

[@chuckjollystar]

I thought the same its a bit weird to hear the buttons that loud xD

[@Gibstack]

"You can't guarantee Thick Club" You get Thief early in the game and can get any held item available. Most of the type held items are available at some point (some are only in Victory Road; can't get Poison Fang or Soft Sand depending on your game, and can't get Silk Scarf, Metal Coat, Dragon Fang (without randomly catching Dragonair with it in Safari Zone)). But things like Thick Club, TwistedSpoon, Sharp Beak, Magnet, Spell Tag, NeverMeltIce, and Hard Stone are all available with Thief, and could be potentially helpful. (Mystic Water/Miracle Seed/Charcoal are in the game corner, too, and could be potentially helpful as well)

[@shawngallagher8764]

But Cubone is already a rare encounter so think how obnoxious it is to even find a Cubone just to use Thief

[@Gibstack]

@shawngallagher8764 if you get cubone and actually want to use it then you're gonna go for it. Or just ignore it entirely, lol

[@lilyanon5538]

Thick Club is *obnoxiously* difficult to get in Tower, and the only other place to find wild Cubone and Marowak holding it is in Sevault Canyon-basically at the end of the postgame. Take Cubone’s encounter rate-already 9-10%-you’ll be almost-guaranteeing Gastly or Haunter in an average nuzlocke, even if you try to repel-manip to the top floors. Cubone’s level ranges overlap with Gastly’s. Then, *of* those Cubone encounters, there’s a 5% chance one has a Thick Club. If that isn’t enough-Compoundeyes only gets its field effect to boost item drops from wild mons in Emerald-which released months *after* FRLG. I learned that the hard way after hours of trying to farm CE Butterfree with Thief. Trying to get that 0.45% Cubone holding Thick Club is plain torture-cartridge or not.

[@Gibstack]

@lilyanon5538 Either cheat it in, grind it, or don't use it. But I was originally talking about when he said "thick club isn't guaranteed" which just doesn't make sense in the context of the project he's doing.

[@lilyanon5538]

@@GibstackI guess it depends on how seriously he takes the “average FRLG nuzlocke experience” metric. I know he allows candies to skip grinding and EVs, but he also acknowledges runs on cartridge or those that don’t hack in items. I know Jan has stated before that he’s not too inclined to weigh Pokémon encounter % into tiering, so I understand that item availability may not matter as much-it’s just that a very rare, stat-doubling item feels distinct enough to warrant a mention or additional scrutiny on “average” runs. Would be curious see TC Marowak for Erika thru E4.

[@volcyr8721]

That time of the mont..... wait it's the 3rd WTF

[@jcl2435]

That's for the main channel

[@BigYARK]

I'm telling you Butterfree with compound eyes, sleep powder, and dream eater is disgusting. It doesn't matter that it isn't stab and butterfree genuinely has pretty decent stats, it's not like everything has max stats like on showdown. Dream Eater is a 100 base power psychic move and it also learns psybeam/psychic. Psychic type in kanto is nuts and butterfree is the only consistent dream eater user because it will almost never miss it's sleep move

[@Gibstack]

I just realized you can set this up after getting Cut and that's kinda insane Would solo Erika, Koga, and Giovanni easily (as long as you don't miss); anything else seems risky but can still put in work

[@infinite1172]

Bro no backround music with the keyboard sounds is crazy 😂

[@unboundsoul3582]

The real VoD experience. He plays music on stream but on an audio channel that doesn't get picked up to save himself from copyright stuff. Just that normally the editor adds in... Anything.

[@klulessdood4327]

ASMR

[@beanwuzhear]

I'm just imagining some little Timmy looking up tips for their gen 3 nuzlocke, finding this video based on the title, and getting some random guy's stream highlights

[@robertdavis7464]

bite crit, 2 flinches, and then a burn on the rival fight. IDK man, that's some fiction that won't happen every time

[@MightBeMilla]

just yapping + keyboard sounds is actually so chill as background noise to get work done

[@Quartermistress]

Pchal daily happening...daily?!?!

[@D3DGAN]

I love sitting down to watch my pchal occasionally. Best part of my day

[@Gibstack]

19:53 Raichu with Secret Power (maybe a roll) or Strength (definitely kills) over Brick Break, those would work against Alakazam there after calm mind -- Strength also just usually does more damage anyway due to the Attack badge boost Kadabra also definitely dies to Strength/Secret Power (Thunderbolt can be a roll on Kadabra), and Mr. Mime is also favorable with Secret Power instead of Thunderbolt

[@serenity_ren_]

ah yes, the classic FRLG experience of silph rival being the hardest fight in the game for no reason

[@ferrisffalcis]

"Starved Nuzlocke" sounds like such a funny concept. Every pokemon rolling absolute worst possible stats and you can only use things you can mathematically prove it's impossible not to have by a certain point in the run.

[@snakexpert552]

Starved Nuzlocke: All pokemon have minimum IVs and bad nature No TMs, Level up movesets only No Badge boost in applicable games What else?

[@ferrisffalcis]

@snakexpert552 My idea was more along the lines of "assume worst possible encounter RNG whenever it applies, outside of in combat rolls", so I'm not sure I see the point in restricting items and such, since those are certainties.

[@SeveralGhost]

​@@ferrisffalcisthat's basically a smallant challenge, something like "Pokemon but if the worst can happen it does", all rng was set to the worst outcome. Every hit crits with max rolls, all of your moves miss if possible and deal minimum damage rolls. Same bad stats.

[@dotgone]

@@SeveralGhost Yeah, Smant has done it, but the always missing moves that aren't guaranteed like Swift makes it a very niche puzzle solution, vs a garbage green/total trashlocke type experience.

[@butteredsalmonella]

How to turn Starmie from a GOAT encounter to an Iron Bundle Simulator

[@jacobmcglue5996]

Just finished a fire red nuzlocke, Sunny Day/psychic/leech seed/Solar beam exeggutor sweeps Bruno and actually beat Gary's Gyrados. If you do the island side quest, you can get an almost guaranteed exeggcute since most of the other mons in berry forest are early game encounters. Exeggutor had 6 frags, hitmonlee had 5, pidgeot had 1, snorlax 1, Charizard 6, and Lapras 7. Literally only brought pidgeot in case of Gengar double team shenanigans, which is the only mon it killed. I would have brought Shockwave electrode instead, but he died while I was speeding through a rival battle.

[@jakelewis907]

Very easy to feed Vaporeon Water Pulse before Surf, rarely contested

[@ShinyNoctowl-k8y]

I actually think Butterfree is kinda cracked in this game and it definitely can solo Koga. Guaranteed Compound-Eyes Sleep Powder is almost a sure hit (97.5%) then you can get Dream Eater from Viridian Tutor as soon as you get Cut (before Koga.) Even if you miss a Sleep Powder you're likely to not die unless hit by a Rock type move then Dream Eater just fully heals you. Also you can get Grimer and Koffing in Celadon City by Surfing/Fishing.

[@nicolasmaltos6765]

To be honest I played with Bulbasaur and it was amazing, he is indeed very versatile.

[@nicolasmaltos6765]

now i know why he is S tier

[@Caaaarrrrlll]

My favorite series that I'm currently watching on youtube

[@johnsingletary7694]

I had a Poliwrath in my latest nuzlocke run in Leaf Green and it was the MVP against the Elite Four and champion.

[@georgelongcoal1117]

Snorlax shadowball can help with sabrina a lot if memory serve me right

[@albertbanyan4174]

Starmie with surf psychic ice beam and thunderbolt dog walks the E4 solo

[@lazarochavezbaizabal7989]

The gift that keeps on giving

[@acekingbones]

The way I’d test Pokémon is to test everyone against each (mandatory) enemy Pokémon individually

[@kayoh9364]

"You can't guarantee Thick Club" I mean, you cant guarantee Cubone or Pikachu either...

[@tsawy6]

Also thick club Marowak literally does nothing into the league, it's pathetic

[@acekingbones]

Thief TM is literally in Mt. Moon

[@Gibstack]

@@acekingbones wait yeah lol. all held items are "guaranteed" if you want them just for curiosity's sake: Sharp Beak from cycling road (Fearow), Soft Sand/Poison Barb from Victory Road/Route 23 (LG/FR respectively, Sandslash/Arbok), SilverPowder from Berry Forest (Venomoth), TwistedSpoon from Abra, Focus Band from Victory Road (Machoke), Hard Stone from Rock Tunnel (Onix/Graveler), Magnet from Power Plant (Magneton), NeverMeltIce from Seafoam Islands (Dewgong), Spell Tag from Pokemon Tower (Haunter), Thick Club from Pokemon Tower (Cubone) Can also get Black Belt from several trainers holding them with Thief. The only type-based items you can't get are Metal Coat (post-game), Silk Scarf (post-game), and Dragon Fang (without catching a Dragonair first try in Safari Zone). And then one of the Soft Sand/Poison Barb based on the game you're playing, lol Not sure if I missed any useful held items

[@jakekoehler1]

Woah is PCHAL DAILY returning to DAILY???

[@intergalactic92]

9:54 it used bite. I'm guessing exeggutor doesn’t have a great sp. Def

[@KestrelG]

65 base spdef iirc. Tbf it was a crit

[@tsawy6]

Lots of mons solo sabrina with thief and snatch, but maybe that's too much for folk. Also ditto apparently (tho you need a lil help for the kadabra)

[@samuelstangle133]

If the video ends up getting cut short, id love the long form one to get put up on members or something

[@xeononyay]

I still lost...im not him

[@Olibubb]

Just wanna point out the chatter saying someone shouldn’t complain for having “like 100 days off in a year” like bro that’s standard for two days off a week lmao people should have way more than 100 days off in a year

[@raphaelschostok9467]

wait , that's from yesterdays stream

[@ZworRoak]

Seaking more like Sea KING!

[@currentsgaming5887]

electrode solos sabrina w/ rollout then boom on the zam.

[@riowilliams9863]

Has he played Ironmon as yet?

[@rubenjerate5848]

I wouldnt wish that on anyone.

[@vinceanzalone3084]

First one to make a comment for a first time! Love you pchal! Pokemon lucid run coming soon??

[@feedweeb8856]

Slowbro can almost solo E4 with slackoff and tms

[@solaronion2984]

And how exactly do you learn slack off on Slowbro in gen 3?

[@serenity_ren_]

LMAO yeah it does not learn that in FRLG, still a great pokemon tho and pretty easy to guarantee iirc?

[@decidueye98]

Wouldn't it be better to set the stats of all pokemon you use to 15 IVs and no EVs? That way, we can see how the average mon can fair in any gym battle and when they fall off.

[@tylercosgrove5869]

Another video?!?!

[@patrickteichrib673]

do a no evo run

[@machete777-l9g]

Your controller is obnoxiously loud.

[@BeeDubs93]

It's a mechanical keyboard

[@elephantisland695]

its bc he is german

[@machete777-l9g]

@@BeeDubs93my point still stands.

[@Skapes11238]

I guess I can see it being distracting but odds are better that you fixate on stuff like that all the time lol. I didn't even notice it tbh..

[@machete777-l9g]

@@Skapes11238 I couldn't unhear it from the begining. But I powered trough. 😅

[@lucasn.m.755]

I'm happy you ditched the overly dramatic background music

[@ArcaeroOfUvirith]

You doubt blastoises power jan. It can carry vs sabrina easily and it can learn great ice moves. This mon is THE BEST kanto starter. It can counter venusaur for crying out loud if taught blizzard or icebeam. It handles the most trainers, gym leaders, evil team and elite four members. Dont sleep on toise kiddo.

[@je19921]

How are anyone interested in watching this ? We watch nuzlocks for the difficulty and achievement, how is watching regular leaf green fun lol

[@backpackerraden6268]

You find the content for the challenge. You watch for the person

[@parkerdoole7029]

I'd watch Jan play anything. Also I am fully behind a easy pallet cleaner series after run and bun. We are getting more content and he seems happy which is all that matters.

[@ChrisHernandez-r9x]

Definitely not the best nuzlocker anymore He’s sitting here, playing games, any random person can nuzlocke No one cares about this stuff play a hard game or stop calling yourself one of the best

[@EarlGreyMike]

Why are you on his channel then? 🤡

[@MrJcalvino]

Stupid take. What’s wrong with revisiting vanilla games and establishing a tierlist of encounters? He already proved himself with EK or R&B for example.

[@ruan0410]

he's cooking a garbage red rom hack buddy

[@galaxystudios370]

this is his break

[@woodenweeb4179]

Run and bun guides when? Free content? Maybe items? Or teams for splits?

[@YCCDaffy]

Squerk already made in-depth guides detailing every split until Winona

[@omarramirez743]

And you know 5 attempts isn’t a lot of experience to go in depth about it…

[@woodenweeb4179]

@@YCCDaffy thank you! I been struggling

[@woodenweeb4179]

@omarramirez743 he still beat it, so he's still knowledgeable about how to get through the game and win. I don't see how 5 attempts changes that

[@YCCDaffy]

@@woodenweeb4179 5 attempts mean you did not test a whole lot of stuff, strategies, etc... You do not get a lot of experience, especially of the early game which is where you reset probably 80% of your runs.