Pokémon Emerald Hardcore Nuzlocke - STEEL TYPES ONLY! (No items, No overleveling)

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Rules of the challenge:
Normal Nuzlocke Ruleset:
1. Fainting = Death
2. Can only catch the Type 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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[@fernandoguillen5996]

Great bideo Chaotic, i'm gonna try this nuzlocke myself, but my starter is going to be Mawile

[@truemasterex5482]

Hey Chaotic, you can also find Mawile in granite cave. but it's a rare encounter

[@ChaoticMeatballTV]

That's only in Ruby, Mawile is only in Victory Road in Emerald.

[@truemasterex5482]

@@ChaoticMeatballTV Really, Huh I'm sure there was one in the Granite cave or maybe not

[@BlackMegas]

How a fatal four nuzlocke

[@kayleighlehrman9566]

I don't think anyone would've complained if you set your starter to Beldum, given its moveset in gen3

[@Poopsickle12]

It just wants to take you down

[@Monkeyman12534]

Imagine using beldum in the first gym where you take recoil damage and all your attack is not very effective plus defense curl

[@Kronos327]

Magnemite, my favorite kind of Aron 😉😂

[@Rurix48]

yeah.. i didn't remember aron looking so magnetic 😅

[@J-OlayPlays]

😂😂

[@michaelkowal3230]

Since when does aron have one eye?

[@Rurix48]

@@michaelkowal3230 you just remembered wrong. Like the rest of us. Allways looked like that.

[@loganquasar5124]

I really thought he would Magnemite all the pokemon

[@fernandoguillen5996]

Only 5 encounters. Almost not STAB super effective hits. Water types really walls steel types and Wallace is water type trainer Limited to mostly normal, steel and rock moves Yeah i can see why is hard

[@JonJon-pj9ly]

They wall steel types but thats why Magneton is there

[@AnthonyCarbonaro]

You should try with a level 5 Jirachi in Ruby or Sapphire. It was viable with the Colosseum Bonus Disk, and I bet it would give you enough of a leg up to make some of these battles more reliable. Or just make it too easy. Worth a shot either way I suppose.

[@quacctastic]

I used the Aron line in an Emerald playthrough, and the results surprised me! I love Aggron!

[@TheWizardtits]

im playing ruby right now Aron is on my sqaud he's a beast

[@flamewarrior8172]

Had me in the first half with the steel/fire nuzlocke!

[@Garulon_Remir]

"Bro i can't believe you painted the tunnel on the wall. Every F*cking time beo" Love me my Yu-Gi-Oh Progression memes in my Pokemon Video XD

[@TheSphero]

For additional content ideas, I highly recommend Pokemon Unbound, it is absolutely the best fan game I've played. Unique starters, multiple difficulty settings including a sandbox mode, a daily sidequest system, the means to make a fully competitive team in a way that feels like a solid mid-point between vanilla tedium and cheaty pokemon editors, gyms and elite 4 with their own unique quirks, all in a very well done custom region. It has Dexnav, it has daily raids, IT HAS A CUSTOM SOUNDTRACK. Its just about everything you could want from a romhack. Even if you played it before, there was recently a 2.0 update that changed things massively; multiple route reworks, a full story rewrite, and much more.

[@cultreader9751]

Farbeit for me to shill, but I'm working on a Romhack that has a unique soundtrack.

[@l.j.9031]

Another CMB vid is always exciting! 🥰

[@dr.sunbear4255]

Me wondering why no one did steel on emerald. While taking a couple months for Aron line only

[@peeko_luxx2873]

Been on a hiatus for all things Pokémon for months. Haven’t even been recommended many videos in a while until legends Arceus came out! Glad the first vid I came back to was Hoenn. Fantastic video bud 👌

[@supremeoverlordfallen5]

I can't believe the best type in Gen 8 OU was trash in Emerald.

[@fernandoguillen5996]

Fairy types and more STAB moves are truly a blessing

[@Kanbei11]

To be honest it was refreshing to see a nuzlocke that wasn't possible. The only other thing you could have done was change your starter but that's not in the spirit of the challenge either. For challenges maybe a monotype run across a few of the mainline games where you rotate game for each major fight or gym leader. So you'd pick say grass types and choose your starter (you'd get to pick the first game) then do gym 1 before switching game to do that gym 2 and so on. You'd be free to pick the order however you see fit. Or you could try a monochrome run such as crystal with blue Pokémon

[@jacobdodrill8815]

Been watching this over and over again for the past 8 days lol I’m so ready to see what you have in store for us for legends arceus be safe and thank you!

[@kingcaz1990]

Wow that mid video twist was great

[@ja-melvinson7994]

Those sorts of videos would be so cool and I’d love to see more of those!

[@Nightfire_RJFLA]

Got some laughs from this video ChaoticMeatball , thank you :)

[@SoulmongerV2]

I can't believe you beat Brawly 1st try.

[@dewey8015]

Glad to see the prog series memes spreading

[@KingNacos]

fun fact: in 3rd generation there is a glitch than forces the AI to use a ground move if it sees an effectiveness on the first type of your pokemon, even if it’s secondary type is flying.

[@asierrv]

Tip for emerald nuzlockers: there are tutors of useful moves like rollout, swagger, mimic, double edge and tms like attract and torment available early on that nobody uses and can be good, just made the electric gym with a minum using rollout and shedinja stalling supersonic, theres even more gimmicks not used to expoit in this game!

[@DeciduousArcher]

theres also the sludge bomb tm in dewford when you beat norman

[@fernandoguillen5996]

If you grind enough you can buy the TM of the casino

[@DeciduousArcher]

@@fernandoguillen5996 it takes a long time, like a very long time if you dont buy extra coins

[@ulisesvilasanchez1996]

Excellent video! I know it would probably be like cheating, but the only way I see this run possible and logical is using beldum as a starter

[@leekyb3837]

Beldum unfortunately only has access to take down until it evolves into metang. Best bet is probably Magnemite or Skarmory

[@wargreymon25]

Only issue is that beldum only knows take down

[@fernandoguillen5996]

@@leekyb3837 I would say mawile/aron is the best choice for early game (the challenge would be easier in ruby because you could catch the other early) And in Omega Ruby Mawile is part fairy and has a better physical movepool and alongside aggron can mega evolve

[@ulisesvilasanchez1996]

It would be challenging by itself, that's true, but the idea with this is that you keep the aron encounter at granite cave... obviously you're going to have a mora difficult Roxanne, but I think with one extra mon is barely doable

[@lokigamer9236]

Bruh you did not just do the tunnel on the wall joke. That cracked me up.

[@thomasterhaar1461]

Need to try this with Beldum as the starter!!

[@ChaoticKide]

I wanna hear about all of the rng based nuzlockes. All of them. I absolutely love hearing about Pokemon rng

[@mathieuouellette7901]

Starting with another pokemon would give you an Aron encounter at Granite Cave giving you at least 2 pokemons for watson and 3 for Flannery giving you a way better chance.

[@TeamChaosYugi]

Lmfao, shout out to that Progression meme reference. Goated Meatball hahaha

[@juanpablobarrazacaballero6187]

0:37 that's a really cool aron, I would love to see those videos that you had been thinking about!

[@skibot9974]

I’d love to see a Hardcore Nuzlocke on one of the Orre games as that’s entirely double battles

[@Rurix48]

that would be really cool. even harder would be a mono type..

[@skibot9974]

@@Rurix48 I’ve looked into it and I’d say Normal, Flying, Water, and Dark are optimal types at least for XD

[@Rurix48]

@@skibot9974 i will decide to believe you then :) would be cool to see.

[@skibot9974]

@@Rurix48 I have no intention of doing them just saying that they have the most Pokemon

[@Rurix48]

@@skibot9974 Neither do i. But would be cool to se someone do it. Not putting it on you.

[@berentlabrecque4641]

I like the idea of analyzing some nuzlocke types/games that wouldn't work

[@ds1661]

Great video! I wish you had started with Beldum so you would have caught Aaron in the beginning and had 2 good Pokemons

[@DoubleDog]

Meatball man. You gotta cover the yugioh video games at some point. Some sort of BS "professor oak's card challenge" or something in The Eternal Duelist Soul. Could hit that Cimo crowd + the other yugi-boomers who are coming back for the 20th.

[@Kcolon23]

That would be super cool!! Could also be a fun related idea to try and come up with what the hardest, theoretically possible Nuzlocke challenge is

[@adadgamer1]

I really enjoyed that fake out, well played sir, well played

[@djsaberraptor2672]

this is actually possible I'd know because I did it I changed my starter to belldum and played the rest of the game pretty normally it wasn't a nuslock but it was still really really hard! I'd suggest giving it a try your self!😊

[@mickgorro]

Some of these fights make you think of Gen 1 Good AI™ :).

[@brianarnold8666]

5:50 kids wont know what keel hauling means.... thats probably a good thing. Honestly, i never really payed attention to what this grunt says so I'm surprised he mentions torture lol

[@layachaz7318]

Nice challenge man. You've earned my subscription

[@jamesthomas6984]

he's here to hoenn his skills

[@alexanderblack5626]

Hey meatball, I’d love to see another insurgence run, they are very entertaining, and it’s a fun game to play

[@cornyfirstkill]

You mentioned doing rom hacks this year, I would recommend Prism. That said steel only? Not leaving yourself a lot of options for a team huh?

[@brianarnold8666]

Its strange hearing him talk about skarmory being fast

[@blackwing3629]

Beldum would have been the best starter pick since you can't catch it in game

[@krullachief669]

8:48 I mean, you ain't wrong. Her one impact in the game is her second/third fight if you take her fight in Rustboro. And after that she fades into irrelevancy. Appearing only to remind you that she's in the game.

[@kieranenglish76]

Amazing videos! You’ve gained another subscriber! 💪🏻

[@grantwhitham8604]

Love the videos! Keep it up!

[@salt-emoji]

Ahh, I understand the Magnemite error Im the intro after watching the whole video, ya done good. Hope you got some good sleep, a good beat, and water after this. Woof.

[@Mrpovea]

0:36 what a beautiful aron

[@Nocturne989]

Been really enjoying your content recently, both here and with MBT on the Master Duel front. Maybe some meme challenges on that could be a thing? Can you rank up with a deck with *only* hand traps? Psy-frame Driver beats? Psy-frame Driver beats.

[@thebrokenolive5213]

we gonna talk abt how he just plays fire red mid way through XD

[@Campaign2024]

I have the humor of a 4th grader and I regret nothing with that FireRed bit.

[@ethanhess8230]

Sonicboom has 90 base accuracy

[@jacobdodrill8815]

Heard ya couldn’t nuzlocke legends doing all noble and static alpha encounters to clear a location maybe even a Professor Oak challenge if you can stand the heat of nizlockin lol

[@jennytalia6724]

wow holy shit this has to be the first nuzlock on youtube i've seen that fails

[@joeymartinez7508]

Emerald is my favorite Pokémon game

[@jordanpatience9249]

My favorite type aggron scizor and steelix are awesome

[@brianarnold8666]

Thats a strange looking Aron 😂

[@urek9808]

Lmaooooo the fire Red part

[@Olliemaxx1]

My favorite steel type pokemon is Skarmory, dont judge me. it looks cool, but appearance isnt the main factor. it has landed crit steel wings in sapphire for me 3 times in a row several times, and has clutched on 1 hp multiple times (even tho its ability was keen eye) overall, it has carried many battles and i love it lol

[@charlottesfunandfreechannel]

I don't know why you don't change starter to the type your doing more often

[@chupa4554]

Ofc a crit into 2 flinches in a row on ur first attempt like wtf

[@braydensonaslaughtmbve545]

This was a funny video. Keep up the awesome work!

[@KOSMOS1701A]

i have been bamboozled!

[@charlottesfunandfreechannel]

You should do steel in pokemon game which you have better chance with

[@bitzibaerlie]

You talk about the required gym trainers in Flannery's gym giving you no problem but are there even any required gym trainers?

[@ComfyCatNya]

I’m sure you named her Lizagon because that’s a silly name, which makes it even funnier that charizard’s Japanese name is Lizardon XD the creators had literally the same train of thought in naming that

[@Pyrplefire]

Been watching for a while, took until now to realize I hadn't subscribed. Took care of that oversight immediately! Aggron has been my #1 favorite pokemon since I first saw it, so I am always excited for a steel-type run

[@pedro-e-o-lobo]

Algorithmic

[@skeletingking]

BRROOO THE TUNNEL

[@joel2628]

This is just me, but I would have excused you coding Beldum into the game at some point, but that's just because Metagross is one of my favorite Pokémon.

[@patakdaca4411]

Love the overlay!

[@pepopesek5742]

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[@trillionbones89]

Starting with Metagross line as a starter would've made more sense to me You can find Mawhile in the Makuhita cave tho

[@fernandoguillen5996]

Beldum only has take down until he evolves, so he would kill himself before ever defeating roxanne because the level cap. And mawile in emerald can only be found in origin cave (granite cave encounter occurs only in ruby)

[@awesomeaggron5236]

The only other thing you can try to increase your odds against Flannery is using attract. Even if you get past her by some stroke of a miracle. The run likely just dies to juan.

[@BlackFeathers9790]

I'm working on an Emerald Nuzlocke right now, it's been pretty rough but I'm getting through it :) What's your favorite pokemon?

[@lucashinderliter3662]

What kind of Pokemon is your mom?

[@alkean467]

aggron my first steel type pokemon

[@MsLoveandjustice]

You missed an opportunity, should have done Ruby and ran Mawile

[@blain3ford]

yo chaotic meatball remember kerina from highschool?

[@pedro-e-o-lobo]

Algorithmically

[@brandonmiotke]

Hey ChaoticMeatball, how do you feel about the new Yugioh banlist? I thought it was pretty good, but was just really confused why they left the DPE engine along with Verte Anaconda still in the format.

[@ciaranhiggins7950]

Wonder if doing this in Ruby would be equally difficult with the addition of Mawile?

[@naraiceylob]

3 mon watson to make it easier too.

[@Fowa2003]

Just for Fun imma try Pokémon Leaf Green with fire types only I know most ppl don’t allow legendary honest neither do I but it would give me a full team so imma try out the challenge I have no clue how to record it but I’ll tell ya if I go insane or beat it

[@boldbounty4102]

Aggron my favorite mon

[@urek9808]

LET'S GOOOOOOO

[@lenafischer404]

I think my Aron evolved into Magnemite

[@Terins917]

I've watched all your mainstream Pokemon playthroughs and I am going to continue to. If I could subscribe and Patreon you, I so would.

[@brandontownsend2756]

Would be cool to see this nuzlocke completed or how much further it can go

[@fernandoguillen5996]

If only aron could evolved earlier(Lv 28 instead of 32)

[@jjsmithy13]

One attempt. God mode

[@jjsmithy13]

I was wrong

[@javierhuertanavarro531]

Awesome

[@platinum7681]

That’s an awesome name for skarmory 😂

[@mayabaker5208]

Can you try Electric types only

[@matthewwyman7089]

Question can you not get mawlwile in the cave at second gym?

[@glenchilders9278]

Mawile is only there in Ruby.

[@charlottesfunandfreechannel]

You do uranium only run in fan game pokemon uranium As its fun game and you can change your starter to be uranium one as well I thought this be fun idea Since you had hell during this challenge

[@charlottesfunandfreechannel]

Name your starter lanphin if you choose do this run 🏃‍♀️

[@StaciaHime]

you Should change your Starter to Beldum because why not?

[@Dragonmaster0118]

I'm doing my fist Nuzlocke in emerald but mines not a mono type.

[@wima13]

This Aron is drunk

[@berryhayden9837]

Do more trying to get the nerve to do my first nuzlocke on yellow using only Pokémon Ash had in kanto

[@mazharsiddiqi7288]

It was a slid attempt For too much Water there's also too much fire it seems in Hoenn

[@Sir_Dwarf]

I was so puzzeld that there was a part of fire red in there...how about a ground type leaf green run? Misty, Erica, the rival, and Lorelei are really difficult with the kanto Ground raster

[@Autumn-qk4qy]

5:46 #AgeOfGage