Can I Beat Pokemon BRILLIANT DIAMOND with NO NEW MOVES? 🔴 Pokemon Challenges ► NO ITEMS IN BATTLE

[@MahDryBread]

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[@thevideogamenerd2268]

I HAVE DEFEATED THE GOD OF TIME now lets go to the electric gym.

[@fandom_jumper]

The friendship thing that happened in the electric gym has been a thing since X & Y.

[@owenchen4935]

I haven't given up. Pokemon Emerald with only one Snorunt.

[@lucychen9926]

Keep up the perseverance!

[@thejuic3b0i64]

Funny triangle ice man

[@crummydata928]

WE CAN DO IT!!!

[@edgyanole9705]

100th like

[@crummydata928]

@@edgyanole9705 how many challenges are we in?

[@onehuman4853]

“One day this machop will be a beastly machamp” - showing Psyduck 😂

[@alexanderbrandtner9446]

And he showed machamp while talking about psyduck

[@kingofsushi4822]

I refuse to believe that this wasn't entirely intentional lmao (EDIT: looked in the live chat for a bit and it actually was unintentional, still a good bit though)

[@ZorotheGallade]

Nintendo's online policy: "Imma stop you right there."

[@robertlupa8273]

Somewhat related, but why is the Fighting type color so yellow? I almost mistook it for Electric. Shouldn't it be brick-colored or something?

[@builderforce6096]

He also said Ponyta had Flame wheel while it showed Ember

[@SethTheSouthernWeirdo]

Cyrus: *uses Super Potion* Gen 1. Blaine: "We will be following your career with great interest."

[@leonardosephas4757]

10:44 Strange Psyduck 11:00 Strange Machop

[@DHC189]

7:09 Strange Flame Wheel

[@steampunkheart6530]

This will probably be the longest pokemon challenge video from MDB, and I'm absolutely hyped for it

[@gmk9321]

You predicted right, took me a while to have enough time to watch this in one sitting but I gotta say great video

[@thestylemage2092]

Funnily enough this could have also been the shortest if he used some sandwitches...

[@EnterMomentum]

@@gmk9321 I’m sorry ba I love Loved so ryy lowee were so much l I by , usttsysusrwrwt

[@robertlupa8273]

HOLY SHIT I JUST NOTICED 55 minutes?! I mean, I know that they beefed up the Gym Leaders and especially the League, but still! That's the new longest challenge he's ever done! The previous "winner" was No Pokecenters in Emerald [38:12] (unless you count the Christmas B2 special, but I wouldn't). Haven't watched it yet, so this is gonna be a looooong ride.

[@DarkEinherjar]

This feature, of surviving with 1 HP, was part of the affection system. Originally introduced in X and Y, affection (which you increased through Pokémon Amie, and later Refresh in the Alola games) was busted if you invested time and effort on it. With high enough affection, Pokémon gained 20% more experience in battle (cumulative with Lucky Egg and trade boosts), had up to 25% chance of surviving a lethal attack at 1 HP, had 10% chance of dodging an attack, had 20% chance of shaking off status ailments at the end of turn and double the chances of scoring critical hits. Since Pokémon Let's Go!, the affection mechanic was integrated with friendship, so you can get all the benefits of affection (minus the experience, I think) just by increasing friendship, which happens naturally as you play the game. You'd probably have seen even more of it if this run weren't forcing you to replace Pokémon for better moves.

[@doyouknowlife7179]

And it's mechanics like this that make pokemon a shadow of it's former self, and no, no, no, nowhere near as good as it used to be

[@SmileyGamer13]

@@doyouknowlife7179 it actually makes the series better because it makes friendship have a purpose while also making the series more reminiscent of the anime lol

[@doyouknowlife7179]

@@SmileyGamer13 friendship already has several purposes, and all it does is handhold players and make the game even easier. and seeing as the game is been made ridiculously easier with every gen, it just makes the game overall worse

[@gengarchan6986]

but now the friendship mechanics is honstly really op and game breaking, itd be fine if it was optional like in gens 6-7 but its not anymore it just makes an easy game even easier

[@agrithdragonflame3775]

@@doyouknowlife7179 Personally, I like the idea of it. Its supposed to make you more invested in the Pokemon you've caught and trained. But there really should be an option to turn off the bonuses if you want a more challenging playthrough.

[@ProphecyPhrase]

I'm surprised the Underground wasn't mentioned once due to all the variety of Pokemon down there. For example, he could have gotten a Houndoom for the Ghost Gym.

[@dogmaniac1238]

He did mention it once when grinding in victory road but seeming as he didn’t know about Cynthia’s team he probably didn’t research the underground too much

[@DumbChaoticPhoque]

Yeah he could have grinded easier in the underground

[@crimsonpresents]

Was getting ready to post the same comment

[@maxspecs]

The Underground gives you access to so many Pokemon and moves, including egg moves, plus the levels down there scale with gym badges. They’d make the challenge easier…as long as he can actually handle the pokemon down there.

[@eeemilu]

Sending love for the new game challenges. Completely understand why they'd be huge work, but they're my absolute favourite personally. Would love to see something with Wooloo!

[@C_Train74]

Really hoping they keep that item from Legends: Arceus that lets you evolve trade Pokémon with an item.

[@getthegoons]

Probably won't but they should

[@o7_AP]

Yes please. Trade evolutions don't have any purpose anymore, they just make you spend 5 minutes trading back and forth with a friend, or play up until the 1st gym in a different game to trade with yourself

[@ZorotheGallade]

@@o7_AP That or fork out 60 extra bucks for Nintendo Online so you can do it online.

[@TaffyMichele]

As long as they do paired games (which seems so with the announcement of Scarlet/violet) I doubt they will get rid of version exclusives or trade evolutions. At best they may have more areas like the wild areas in SwSh where you could have a chance to catch trade evolution pokemon

[@BobblesFlopolopogus]

@@ZorotheGallade Nintendo online is like 5 bucks...

[@wrecktangle6679]

Oh man, the staggering amount of research that no doubt went into figuring out which mons have the most viable moves at what levels and where to catch them is impressive and daunting. I'm excited for this more strategic run in a sparkly new remake no less. Don't get me wrong, I like weak, single Pokémon runs too, but many times it just comes down to brute force level grinding or double team strats and rng shenanigans to just barely eke out a win in the late stages. The multi Pokémon challenges with limitations are always a treat because we get to see MDB use a diverse team and puzzle his way around the games obstacles in unique and interesting ways. Looking forward to this one.

[@Soulryu11]

Agreed!! I actually enjoyed this one over his “return” videos that just became repetitive and boring.

[@crispyrice8258]

If he did a little more research he would’ve found how overpowered Pokémon from the underground caves could have been. Having Pokémon with earthquake and psychic and other moves of that caliber would’ve been amazing. I would think it’s not allowed but it wasn’t in the rules.

[@lila5963]

@@crispyrice8258 that’s why we didn’t use them actually! Wanted it to be hard :)

[@joemasso9473]

Man I know the elite 4 and Cynthia are going to be brutal. Editing this after I watch the video: I knew it would have been hard! It was fun to watch, I know he won’t be doing it for awhile so it’s a special one.

[@gmk9321]

Yep every pokemon in elite four are competitive perfect, IVs and all so yeah I assumed it would be brutal to complete

[@joemasso9473]

@@gmk9321 Oh yeah it’s hard even with a proper play through team

[@HCRelic]

No arguments to be made, you've been working hard at this for over a decade. You've motivated a lot of people to work hard at what they love. Keep it up mate

[@jackmahoney3783]

I suggest a Red/Blue run with only Magmar. If you look at its move list you’ll understand why. If you want throw in no Tms for added challenge I’m pretty sure magmar would have one of the highest base stat totals for a mon in a single run that you’ve done so far.

[@solar7427]

I mean it doesnt have that much type coverage but fire punch and flamethrower are solid moves, also confuse ray smokescreen definity allow for some solid strats

[@Contenterful]

*looks up RBY Magmar movepool* ...OH. YOU MONSTER.

[@juanrocollazo]

I just looked it up and DEAR LORD, this recommendation is absolutely evil!

[@lolozo214]

@@solar7427 yeah but you're stuck only with ember for like 30 levels

[@bivcbmtgstgtssscqcrddgtrsm2257]

NOT without TMs. That would be hellish.

[@Ruffy160]

The friendship mechanic is really op. In my first run in X I had a pure fire team. My Flareon held in 3 times in a row when fighting the water elite four guy. Thanks to that I didn't even lose a single Pokemon in that fight

[@velvetbutterfly]

That's less than a 1% chance

[@KaiiAyrenNevaehGames]

@@velvetbutterfly Still is within the first decimal of the percentage, that makes it not so low actually when you consider how many times the Pokemons would have fainted within a run and how many people are playing the game.

[@velvetbutterfly]

@@KaiiAyrenNevaehGames yes, 3 times in a playthrough or a battle is reasonable, but in a row specifically

[@KaiiAyrenNevaehGames]

@@velvetbutterfly Nonono, it's a little over 1.5% for three in a row, wasn't it about ~25% for surviving each finishing blow at max affection?

[@lelnel6242]

'Friendship', which increases naturally, didn't really have an effect in X, 'affinity', which you have to spend time on to increase, did. So, you are still rewarded for you effort, but now you just have to play the game and get the same benefits

[@digifreak90]

30:50 Yeah, in Gen 8 they combined Friendship and Affection, so when you get to high enough levels of friendship, you gain the benefits of high affection from gens 6 and 7. Affection has 5 levels (6 if you count zero, which is the default) Level one has no benefits, level two grants boosted EXP gain, level three grants a chance for the pokemon to survive attacks with one HP (starting at a 10% chance and increasing as you go, to a max of 25% and max affection), level 4 grants a chance for moves to miss (does not work against moves that can't miss, such as swift) and a 20% chance for the pokemon to auto heal from status conditions, and level 5 doubles the pokemon's chance of getting a critical hit.

[@Animeman284]

Your Bronzong surviving that hit during your fight with Volkner is yes one of the newer game mechanics, the Pokemon you've got a high friendship with, will not only cause an innate Endure but will also randomly crit from time to time too. Its pretty handy actually. Also they'll randomly dodge an attack via you shouting a warning to them similar to how Ash and other characters in the anime do it. This particular mechanic has been a part of the series since Sun and Moon.

[@bivcbmtgstgtssscqcrddgtrsm2257]

X and Y, actually.

[@Animeman284]

You're right, my bad.

[@jamesdinius7769]

@@Animeman284 Though gen 8 is where it became nearly unavoidable because it was rolled into friendship rather than being the separate affection, hence why MDB has never seen it in spite playing through X and ORAS, and at least starting Sun.

[@Animeman284]

@@jamesdinius7769 Was it? I never really noticed since the mechanic is really RNG based for when it wants to kick in for a crit, removing a status effect like poison, enduring an attack or dodging an attack.

[@thestylemage2092]

Since newer gens are happening now, is there any use hoping for Sun and Moon? Though honestly, with how versatile the wild area can be (by adjusting your system time, if that does not count as an exploit, and they made specific dates for certain weathers), a no new moves run could be very interesting in Sword/Shield.

[@ashclaw2306]

Still suggesting the thematic run of the Wormadam trio starring Mothim .

[@arininquotes8396]

"In two weeks, on Feb 19th" Uh... it's March 5th, right? I'll blame this one on Cynthia.

[@phoenixashlynn]

Hey MDB! In case you ever decide to do another BDSP challenge, there's a way to transfer Pokémon from every profile using only one Switch Internet account! If you open Home on your main file with Internet, you can change which profile's data you're looking at on the game select screen. Where it shows your name and profile icon, hover over it and hit A. Just change it to your Challenges profile, go into BDSP, move whatever Pokémon you want to your Home box, change back to your main Profile, and voila! I used this to get a Porygon from BDSP into Legends to evolve it into Porygon-Z, then into a playthrough of SwSh on a different profile. It's a bit complicated but once you do it once, it becomes like second nature. Plus, using this method, you don't even need to trade to evolve some Pokémon (using the Linking Cord in Legends negates the need to trade). I know I'm a bit late to the party but I figured I'd drop by and help out anyone reading the comments!

[@Dragonemperess]

Next time, you can use the vs seeker. Some trainers level up. And two near the trophy garden will make you incredibly rich. You just have to put up with spinning your stick for 100 steps (preferably on your bike). It's pretty automatic for me at this point. 8 or so spin by my character on the bike, use vs seeker, if no response, repeat. No need to exit the route or anything like that. Also, Snowpoint Underground, I think, has a lucky egg.

[@robertlupa8273]

7:08 "It's got Flame Wheel" Meanwhile Ponyta's moveset: *Tackle; Growl; Tail Whip; Ember*

[@FonVegen]

The fact that there are twenty minutes of video left by the time you reached the Elite Four tells me that this is going to go about the way as I expected. Which isn't to knock you at all! But they just went wild on that last challenge in this remake.

[@connor-3455]

19:14 drif-blim as in a drifting blimp

[@esupton783]

Isn't this the game that gave the elite four and Cynthia nearly perfect competitive teams? This is gonna be fun

[@jamesdinius7769]

Yep. Perfect IVs, very good EV spreads, good natures, and good items. It wouldn't stand up in real competitive tournaments but it's a nightmare for playthrough teams.

[@jaxsonbateman]

Yeah, I remember seeing something about how a lot of trainers - particularly gym leaders, the E4, and other notable fights - have much more competitive pokes than we're used to in the mainline series. I'm at the point in the vid where E4 Heracross has Earthquake, which is a TM move. It's not like pokes have never had TM moves before, but it's usually been a bit more niche than just straight up best ground coverage move (in the past it's usually been limited to either the gym leader's TM, or moves that are at least more appropriate on the poke that has it; I recall Agatha in gen 1 having Toxic on her Gengar for example, which is more fitting given that it's part poison, and isn't nearly as brutal as it having something like Psychic or TBolt). Basically, some of the 'harder' trainers in the game get given builds which are a bit closer (if not spot on) 'battle mansion' type builds. It's a good change IMO, but it can definitely catch you unaware - like Heracross coming out of nowhere to EQ your fire poke you're using to counter it.

[@Ender41948]

@@jaxsonbateman I don't know if Gym Leaders got gassed up any. Ice Gym still has a damn Snorunt, after all.

[@sridharsubramanian5595]

50:50 Wait so.....the next challenge is going to be coming out in the next year......he just said.....FEBRUARY 19th

[@fozzie_79]

The border around the thumbnail stands out so much compared to the other ones. The blue definitely pops more than yellow.

[@423adriana]

borderline forever. . .

[@ThatOneWeirdFlex]

They can't make a good game but they sure can make an aggravating one. Good job, ILCA.

[@hazama4478]

At the start, I was thinking "Well, the newer gens have felt so much easier, especially with some of the new mechanics and-" then I saw the length of the video. Wow.

[@pigeonfog]

The elite 4 is significantly harder than the rest of the game because every trainer pokemon in the game has 0 EVs and IVs, but all of the elite 4 has competitively perfect EVs and IVs. Edit: I wrote this before 47:00

[@PitchBlack33]

Actually gym leaders and boss fights have Pokémon with decent iv and ev, but they aren’t perfect like the elite 4

[@MrAlexjmercer]

Oh I don’t know this even after I beat them lol

[@hawkticus_history_corner]

Im glad to hear that, though I wish they had that spread out more so its not such a shock to people

[@idontwantahandlethough]

Is it like that in the previous games or is that a new[er] addition? All I remember is that gen 1 (and maybe get 2) didn't have IVs or EVs, right? I'm not even 100% on that though

[@conza1989]

I have a really good feeling about this one! Naturally I'm curious, which fossil did you pick? I can't tell because the video hasn't been released yet XD.

[@sobblegaming350]

Skull fossil, it's the only one he can get(in gen 4 it's by version)

[@RazorIvy470]

He can’t actually pick the fossil, the fossil isn’t even mandatory.

[@conza1989]

I love how people are taking this seriously XD I'm serious that I'll enjoy it, but you're gotta just have fun with the meme everyone

[@simon4952]

there have been rumors he might just be using the same helixfossil video footage in each video to safe time. going with this i guess it will be helix again

[@purpleheartneptune6267]

@@simon4952 he’s disapproved that on a few occasions

[@BNotInc]

11:01 Funny looking Machop.

[@DonYagamoth]

Thank you for all your content - seriously, it's neat

[@idontwantahandlethough]

That's pretty neat!

[@13JackStorm]

Currently playing through Diamond, only the second time since high school. Also playing battle revolution too. Using Poison types mainly. Good fun. Roserade is one of my favourites so nice to see it

[@Undrave]

How about some Emerald run with two Pokémon so you can do all the double battles properly? I suggest Nincada + Surskit because the stats are hilarious. I'm also suggesting you try out the Dragon Monster Quest series!

[@joeychandlee8139]

This but ninjask + shedninja-

[@andersonrusnell3102]

Good see you’re doing a Gen 8 game, comments are good for our lord and saviour the KZbin algorithm

[@PetyrC90]

I finished the video: He didn't need to grind so much to 70. He should have changed certain Pokemon, like Rapidash and Brozong or even Pachirusu for more valuable ones. Specially from underground. A lv 55-60 with good moves for certain would be better than that Rapidash with no coverages. The sad part is that now he has a bad impression about this game because he didn't play it smart. When actually this game is amazing for challenges due to great amount of good Pokemon it has. He even missed the lucky egg.

[@robertlupa8273]

This comment needs more likes so that he can see it.

[@MrMakoto2]

To add onto this, I'm always an advocate on cheating in rare candies just to cut out the no skill grinding in challenge runs. Saves a bunch of time.

[@PetyrC90]

@@MrMakoto2 No bro, we can't agree on this.. Also, grinding is not Always the answer. As it wasnt in this run.

[@MrMakoto2]

@@PetyrC90 Considering the game can be played an endless number of ways the "answer" can be whatever you want it to be. Also, I'd advocate for rare candy use even if he wasn't hard grinding, just to speed things up

[@PetyrC90]

@@MrMakoto2 If you want to cheat with rare candies to speed things,so just cheat to finish the game. You are completely missing the point of doing a challenge by using cheats. Challenges are fun because they are rewarding to beat. Learn about a thing for life: things feel good because they are hard and that is what makes them valuable. Also, if your answer is to use rare candies, you wont force yourself to think about smart solutions.

[@demonwithya9036]

Marked my Calendar for February 19th 2023. Can’t wait for that video!

[@RaichuGirl]

Dear MDB, I just want to let you know that you're one of the youtubers who inspired me to make my own pokemon challenges videos! Great vid, as always!

[@idontwantahandlethough]

Commenting on this for visibility, the world needs more pokemon challenges! How else am I supposed to distract myself from the always-looming existential dread, hiding in the silence? :)

[@ShadowRevenant]

For future reference you don't need multiple Nintendo accounts for Home. When you are on the game select screen you can actually go up to your profile, and switch between profiles from there. That said, Home doesn't yet work with BDSP so it was still not going to happen.

[@ApatheticHamster]

“I’m sure I’ll be able to win this” I thought so too in a mono ground run but I had to use like 20 different drugs

[@robertlupa8273]

I hope you meant in-game drugs (X Items, vitamins, etc.)

[@ApatheticHamster]

@@robertlupa8273 can i say no comment? lol. it was pretty easy to stack x items against spiritomb with a mamoswine starting with special defends

[@bobstaples1735]

No complaints about the sponsorship because you present it in such a genuine way. I appreciate how it isn't scripted and it is your real perspective on the product.

[@mytylp2589]

I love when MDB confidently says the first 3 elite four members will be a breeze lol.

[@robertlupa8273]

Meanwhile I said "I think Flint is gonna be tough... or Aaron." and then he gets wrecked by Aaron. :D

[@floatingf8783]

41:39 Roserade is Level 69. Nice.

[@TheFlashzap]

25:03 MDB please hear my story I was in the very same position as you, last year I was going to do a Shield Ground Monotype run with a Shiny GMax Silicobra as my starter but I quickly and painfully learned that I couldn’t trade on a extra account because of no online, I had to reach out to my very limited pool of friends, luckily we were able to do the trade and I had fun. I actually bought a Switch Lite for this very reason for future Pokémon games

[@robertlupa8273]

The good ending.

[@TheFlashzap]

@@robertlupa8273 The crazy thing is that there will be times where I will need two copies of one of the same games in order to do more of these special runs Like I’m currently doing a SP fighting type mono on my main switch and I needed a second copy of the game to trade over a Heracross egg from the main Diamond into a temporary switch lite to put it in my main switch pearl BECAUSE WE DO NOT HAVE HOME COMPATIBILITY NOR WONDERTRADE These are the struggles of the enthusiastic Pokémon professional

[@robertlupa8273]

@@TheFlashzap Q_Q

[@BlindandMad]

25:42 You can circumvent that pretty easily. Just open Pokemon Home on your main Switch account and go to pokemon. Then click on your account above connected games and change to the challenge account. After that you can transfer pokemon to pokemon home like normal.

[@tankedwarthog6424]

The friendship survival thing was introduced back in gen 6. It was so glitched early on that if you had maxed friendship your pokemon could have the ability trigger multiple times in a row. It happened to me back in gen 7 with one of the island challenge pokemon.

[@idosomethingiguess3680]

It wasn't as bad in gen 6,7 & 8.In BDSP,It's so broken that I had to use friendship-lowering items like energy root.

[@michaelraun4459]

Cynthia is a beast! Her Milotic shut down my team with its ability giving it a defense boost and it having a huge Sp.Def stat. Also, this game has such limiting options for Ice Types, but you did a great job and had a really creative team

[@tb3411]

Oh damn. You like skipped two whole generations. I wonder how a Gen 7 run would go

[@maxspecs]

He wouldn’t be able to get a single gym badge ;3

[@tb3411]

@@maxspecs There are no gyms in Alola. As for Let's Go, you are just required to bring in a certain Pokémon for each gym though you aren't being forced to use it

[@midnightlanterns]

@@tb3411 I think ya missed the joke Better luck next time

[@tb3411]

@@midnightlanterns I KNOW THAT DUDE. I'm still saying Let's Go has gyms

[@thatoneguy9057]

Newer Games are a lot more interesting imo, i think the grind is just from this challenge and not an issue with newer games

[@SuperGamefreak18]

the friendship mechanic that caused bronzong to survive is something that existed since 6th gen

[@danielcarrilho5217]

It was not passive before 8th gen

[@tTaseric]

@@danielcarrilho5217 What do you mean?

[@Tarja500]

@@tTaseric before you could basically choose whether to use it. These games its automatic

[@VLady315]

Oh yeah BDSP elite four and Cynthia are brutal. I had to use trick room, moonblast and a focus sash on a gengar and ice fang on my altaria. It was insanely difficult

[@claireandslash6480]

Many players had a really hard time with Cynthia without the extra challenges you applied to yourself. Going in blind like that it's no wonder you had such a hard time with that fight.

[@inc0mingr0flc0pter]

“Bronzong toughed it out so you wouldn’t feel sad!” Just for you, Bronzong. I’ll tough it out just for you.😔

[@kevinmark6389]

The Lucario run probably helped for this run... because this one is going to be an endeavor to complete

[@ThatguycalledJoe]

Don't forget the Focus Sash and Quick Attack.

[@robertlupa8273]

@@ThatguycalledJoe Ha, nice joke!

[@parzival-bo]

Now this is long one. I'm very happy with that. Requesting Pokemon B2W2 With Only One Chinchou.

[@marikevangroning1603]

I will still be asking for an Emerald Spheal only run. He's simply too adorable not to.

[@Sharperthany0u]

“One day this machop will be a beastly machamp!” “And I can’t trade” oh well. Good thought haha

[@OHA97]

I actually challenged myself by playing brilliant diamond by playing as a ground pokemon trainer and man that milotic can be so much harder than garchomp also Lucian setting up trick room is scary which surprised me since usually ground pokemon are usually slow

[@blazeboy1809]

I absolutely enjoy these Pokémon challenges by you compared to other KZbinrs. You have such a unique editing style, and you make the challenges sound like how they should be. I’ve been watching your videos ever since Pokémon gold with only Chansy, and I’ve never gotten bored. Keep up the good work. :)

[@SnakeyBoiii871]

Rule suggestion: remove the option that it tells you if you'd like to swap out your pokemon so if you want to swap you have to at least take one rough hit upon swapping.

[@robertlupa8273]

As if Cynthia wasn't tough enough.

[@zacharypowers2175]

Idea for a fun easy/brutal one: pokemon emerald with only the starter, with the starters randomized to 3 evolution lines

[@corenlavolpe6143]

I'm gonna tell you right now, that Budew moveset is literally identical to its original moveset in the D/P/Pt

[@krimsenp3841]

25:03 I know this video is a year old, but it still never ceases to send me to tears when my eyes flicker to the text "Machoke seems like it wants to be petted..." meanwhile there's a lopunny on the other end of the battlefield. Why do I feel like there's already distasteful art of this?

[@Dinojar4k]

Thrilled you are branching into the Gen 8 games! This was a fun change of pace! Keep it up!

[@jens7066]

I am very looking forward to this challenge especially the battle against cynthia

[@dannogsus2184]

Very well done doing this run not knowing about the super cynthia team, awesome vid as always. Been loving the 7 days to die stuff and all the challenges and cant wait for more ☺

[@rept7]

So apparently BDSP has levels balanced around the original exp system, except for the Elite Four, who are balanced for the exp share you can't turn off and have AI designed to do competitive strats (Some of which are banned!). In case you're still wondering why the end of the game was insane. I wouldn't touch BDSP challenge runs for this reason.

[@WinterPains]

The Elite Four is also built competitively with items, near perfect IVs, and almost full EVS. Cynthia actually does have a perfect competitive team.

[@robertlupa8273]

And Flint uses a competitively-illegal Drifblim. And Cynthia has a para-flinch Togekiss in her later teams.

[@pixel3042]

cynthia's garchomp set was actually banned for multiple generations

[@robertlupa8273]

@@pixel3042 Gen 4 Garchomp was banned solely because its only ability gave it evasion, which is banned no matter what. it wasn't until gen 5 gave it rough skin when it was unbanned (though it might've still been too strong, I don't remember)

[@maxspecs]

Evasion has been a go-to for challenge in the games ever since Gen 1. Notable jerks include Lt Serge in Pokemon Stadium’s gym tower, and the only gym leader in Pokemon Coliseum’s story mode.

[@randycase6699]

When ya said the grind is the reason you don’t play the new games for challenges I hope you reconsider, no other newer game has as hard as a endgame as BDSP, maybe Ultra Sun/Moon. Would love to see challenges in Sword/Shield (Exp. Candy help with grind), Sun/Moon, Ultra Sun/Moon, Let’s Go (Dual battling), X/Y.

[@Upload098765432]

Did anyone tell him that they reworked the grand underground in this game so you can get a lot of high level Pokemon very early

[@animesoul479]

Maybe he thought that would make things too easy? It's very simple to lvl grind there after all.

[@UnknownVir]

Nice, glad to catch a premier, excited to see how you deal with a challenge like this because it seems a little outside your comfort zone.

[@jamracoon55]

I have a challenge that is is most likely extremely hard: specifically shield with only phantump and pumpkaboo, 2 gen 6 grass ghost types that evolve via trade

[@PatchyConvert]

Seeing the electric squirrel in the video is enough to give I a like. Seeing it in the final team, showed earn you a Nobel peace prize! XD

[@robertlupa8273]

B-B-BRILLIANT Diamond?! Well, that's a new one. I wonder how the league will go. EDIT: Holy moly, this was a blast to watch!

[@GrimnirTheWhite]

Its crazy that these videos are still exactly the same 2 years later. I love these

[@alolandugtrios]

longer vid = more for me to enjoy while i shiny hunt as i watch. i love these types of challenges, it's really neat to see what you come up for by the end as well as the planning for the pokemon to catch. also nice to see you playing something newer! hope to see you revisit this game at some point!

[@robertlupa8273]

What are you hunting?

[@alolandugtrios]

@@robertlupa8273 eevee in leafgreen!

[@robertlupa8273]

@@alolandugtrios Good luck then! Especially since there's no way to boost the odds.

[@brucekelso2024]

I really have to admire your dedication to these videos. You are my favorite PokéTuber for a reason and these challenge runs make my week. THE POWER OF THE SCRIPT! Keep it up MDB!!

[@zacharycondon1098]

If the video does well you should consider letting yourself use rare candies if you beat the elite four for cynthia. It refreshing to have a more recent game to change up your challenges. Also, gen 6 is pretty infamously easy so give that a try for a challenge!

[@joeyveldink4902]

Loved the video man! I’m glad you have the opportunity to take more time for these challanges, they’re always something to look forward to for me! Have a nice week and as always: Which fossil did you take? Comments are good for the KZbin algorithm!

[@Cohac]

I love your stuff. I've been pretty exhausted for most of today so I havent been able to get anything done even in games. I've been fishing in wow and listening to this video and sharing laughs with you is awesome :D

[@a.delafrancesca1459]

Great video! I love your videos, I love your postscripts, I love your possitive and attitude and work ethic. I've watching this pokemon videos since I don't even know when. Happy everything is going well for you and that you keep posting these videos.

[@mandy8558]

Challenge idea: game of your choice, but you can only use each move the number of times the move has uses. So you can only use tackle 30 times total in the whole run, for example.

[@bivcbmtgstgtssscqcrddgtrsm2257]

Enter The Unown did a similar challenge.

[@lindsaymclaughlin8613]

Sounds like this one was a bit of a struggle, so I’m here with some positive feedback. I thoroughly love all of your content. New games or old, play the games/do the challenges that you enjoy! I’m here for it!

[@timerbunneh]

The fact that you got a Pachirisu reminds me of when a Pachirisu won the world championships.

[@lyoukeefen7199]

MDB have you seen triangle strategy. It’s a tactics rpg that plays similarly to final fantasy tactics

[@hyruleprotector6897]

At 31:13 Affection has been in the game since gen 6, using different methods. So that could have happened in any gen 6 though gen 8, excluding Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire

[@marikocure3862]

I just really like the picture of Sabu playing with the strings of the white jacket. The run was nice, but it's a seriously cute picture

[@jonathanmarks3112]

31:05 It's an Affection bonus. That was introduced in generation 6. You can get bonus experience, extra crits, and tank moves like you just saw. 35:58 Oh heck no. You won't beat Cynthia. 42:50 Friendship IS busted. 44:56 Garchomp is insane- I'm surprised the rest of her team was so easy.

[@mickgorro]

30:56: Aha! I was waiting for that! Friendship at last!

[@OctoAri]

Man… I’m actually impressed that you beat it at all lol. Cynthia is hard in this game! This is actually one of the few times I’ve watched your challenge vids thinking “He’d probably have more luck using an unevolved Pokemon” lol. Great job!!

[@Vampyria1836]

(Bit this comment is responding to starts about 25:04) About Pokemon Home and multiple profiles on the Switch, as long as you access Pokemon Home from the profile that has the Nintendo account attached to it, Pokemon Home can interact with all compatible Pokemon save files on all profiles on the console. BDSP isn't compatible with Pokemon Home yet, so it doesn't matter for this run, but it's knowledge to keep in mind for the future.

[@Akumu2200]

Not sure if anyone else caught this, but I think you meant to say MARCH 19th, not FEBRUARY 19th. Either way, amazing run as always and looking forward to your new run :)

[@SlowHandsMcGee]

I really enjoy watching this remake! The beautiful graphics of 8th gen mixed with the classic gen 4 Pokemon and region make it super visually pleasing to watch. I also like the game actually had a bit more of a challenge built into it with Cynthia. Maybe doing some "easier" challenges that you wouldn't do in an older game knowing that the challenge would get harder in the end game? Either way, thanks for the awesome content! Oh uhhhh also which fossil did you take?

[@critormiss6084]

MDB: "This thing has bonus defense and even less attack, so I'm not expecting to do any damage" BRONZOR: *sad confusion noises*

[@G0ATFAC3]

It's so validating to see that you also struggled against Flint's Drifblim. I had to have him struggle himself to death to win my run after like 15 tries. This game may not be super different from the originals, but BOY is the ending way harder

[@spicyitalian1448]

50:49 did you mean March 19th?

[@randycase6699]

Hope we keep seeing new games for these challenges, Gen 1-5 getting slightly old

[@SirAthiro]

Forgot to comment post view thoughts so doing so now. First, I *knew* that decision later on would come to haunt you. Man, you're like the Dark Souls player of Pokemon. Didn't think Cynthia was that stacked though; gotta remind my fiance since she's stuck on her. Might show her this video too as a confidence boost (she's not very good at the game; bless her heart for trying though). Also awesome your sponsorship was able to enable this. I get paid Thursday so I'll look into their merchandise; deep pajama pockets sounds nice. Also love how the outro was *WAY* over the requirement to break that 10k(?) word threshold. Lastly, not sure if you've done this before but a suggestion I'd like to see is how easy can you beat Pokemon Red/Blue... casually. I genuinely want to see how you'd just play through the game outright. That should be much easier than something like this and not bar you from juggling other content. Keep up the good work as always, MDB.

[@TheParadoxG]

Really enjoyed this one. Maybe try an underground only run? Since you can get the starters in the underground (post game), you can just keep the starter until the underground unlocks. It would probably be pretty easy, but make for an interesting twist.