Pokémon Platinum Hardcore Nuzlocke - Flying Types Only! (No items, No overleveling)

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Can I beat Pokémon Platinum with only Flying Type Pokémon using Hardcore Nuzlocke Rules?
Normal Nuzlocke Ruleset:
1. Fainting = Death
2. Can only catch the first Flying Type Pokémon on each route.
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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[@KimikoSey]

I love that this Bibarel has little wings in his sprite on the bottom. He really is part of the team!

[@B1gCh33sy]

Wow, just like my favorite Smashing Pumpkins song, Bibarel with Flygon Wings.

[@richskov5040]

By all known laws of aviation... bibarels should not be able to fly

[@jackryderproductions1030]

@@richskov5040 me who managed to skillswap levitate to my bibarel. "Oh I don't think so"

[@veryblocky]

We don’t call British Airways just “British”, it’s either the full name or “B.A.”

[@San-lh8us]

@@jackryderproductions1030fly and levitate are two different things my dude, a plane does not levitate

[@KindaKaon]

I swear I’ve rewatched all of your videos at least twice now. You have such a unique sense of humour and genuinely great commentary, and it’s genuinely so nice to see you upload!

[@paulelderson934]

Remember that interaction between the two infatuated pokemon that had to take each other out very very very slowly? Absolutely hilarious

[@KindaKaon]

@@paulelderson934 ah yes, the flannery love story

[@aleo3230]

Me too, even 3, 4 times

[@adam6445]

Im still in awe of the Christmas/winter holiday rhyming vid

[@manyhands9240]

Its literally like the British standard of humor, we literally talk to eachother like this daily

[@linhardtvonhevring7262]

I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone say “That’s two Gym battles solo’d with just a Beautifly” ever in my life.

[@self4797]

sounds like you never used one before

[@somebodyyoudontknow3980]

@@self4797 yeah it's honestly pretty good lol

[@boianko]

The statement that I really didn't expect to hear from this video was "Whatever. We then take out our existential angst on Crasher Wake."

[@westhorizon2472]

I somehow took out a competitive garchomp with one😭 I wish I still had the video

[@cadenj.8032]

The intimidating staravia bit was hands down one of my favorite bits. Had me laughing out loud.

[@buckleupteddy]

Same that's actually why I'm rewatching it rn lmao that part lives in my head rent free till this day

[@sandyr5407]

4:13

[@melodyspringlow3813]

As an Australian my first thought as soon as I figured out the nickname theme was "I really hope something cool is named Qantas" and honestly, Vespiquen is one of my favourite designed pokemon. I really hope nothing bad happens to her

[@catapultato1733]

f

[@sodakuwun0707]

im sorry for the loss you suffered six months ago:(

[@elliotw.888]

wanna clarify that hustle doesn't affect special moves, so technically it's not that much of a hindrance if you avoid physical moves

[@jasonreed7522]

Interesting, it's still an infuriating ability thats makes you miss 100% accurate moves.

[@av2279]

Hustle is a hindrance because it's not Serene Grace, sadly.

[@SmolPotato8]

@@av2279 yeah, but I didn't know that hustle doesn't affect physical moves, essentially it's like having no ability

[@stellarknight04]

@@SmolPotato8 it doesn't affect Special moves not Physical, and For Remoraid and the Togepi line it's like having no ability lol

[@SmolPotato8]

@@stellarknight04 yeah that's what I meant

[@joshuasims5421]

One cool detail of HG’s strategy is precise berry use, which I just don’t see in a lot of other nuzlocke series.

[@honk284]

14:34 Never trigger the "fight or flight" response of a flightless bird, Matti!

[@skip8770]

Hustle accuracy only affects physical moves, so hustle togekiss isn't that bad since you'll be using special moves anyways. You just don't get the benefits of serene grace, so it's like not having an ability

[@ryanmurphy9068]

Yeah. It sucks to miss on Serene Grace, but Hustle doesn’t negatively impact Togekiss at all, so to speak.

[@mattn0414]

Aight imma use drain punch just because

[@intergalactic92]

I think that’s the point. You don’t get an ability in the late game, and get hampered by the ability in the early game.

[@QuinnTheGM]

I never realized how much I like the flying type until now. So many super solid designs, I feel like I always overlook them a bit and define them by their secondary typing. Great run, you really went above and beyond! Sky's the limit for future challenges!

[@FireFog44]

Fun fact: flying is the most co-dependent of all the types. Of all the flying type Pokémon that exist there are only 3 mono-flying types (tornadus, rookidee, and corvisquire) and of all the dual typed fliers, only 4 have flying as their primary type (noibat, noivern, corviknight, and cramorant). Every other flying type is dual typed with flying listed as their secondary type.

[@jasonreed7522]

@@FireFog44 its pretty wild it took until gen 5 to get a pure flying type, and then it was a legendary. I think part of it is that they always make a regional bird with normal/flying and then they mighy make a secondary bird with an extra type (pelliper, talonflame, ect) usually by the type they get done making the 2 birds and 2 bugs plus making some rando a flying type (gyrados, mantine, ect) they are out of space for pure flying.

[@waterierStone]

@@jasonreed7522 I mean being pure flying would basically have to be just a gust of wind or a tornado. Getting a wind genie makes sense, but rookidee doesn't make any sense to not be normal, like all other birds.

[@anyaforger844]

You're a part of Team Sky? lol

[@Metaknighttheloneswordsman]

Go Team Sky!!

[@texeoghea]

i forgot that gligar's normal and shiny sprites are very close in gen 4, and was really baffled that he didnt say anything about catching a shiny until he evolved it XD

[@Jimjamatic]

As someone from England, your dedication to calling your Crobat "Bri'ish" was commendable :p

[@xernv2630]

Hey you're in England too.. so am i

[@fluxgoodra9034]

Here here chaps. Let’s give it up for the old boy

[@MrMonkey2150]

There is an easy way to tell what kind of Brit you are, you either have tea or WKD Blue with your crumpets

[@fluxgoodra9034]

@@MrMonkey2150 I have neither, I’m cornish

[@catapultato1733]

@@fluxgoodra9034 there's a corny joke to be made about that somewhere

[@UltaBlueRev]

Catching remoraid to evolve mantyke should be fair game. Imo you're already suspending the monotype rule to catch pre-evolved forms of pokemon outside of your challenge type

[@stellan8419]

Yeah, same with HM mons, the monotype applies to stuff used in battle, not to everything owned

[@fanyilipe198]

Flygonhg has said before that he overthinks sometimes. In his mind that made sense.

[@gaspardbonnehon8758]

I mean, wurmple is not a flying type. He caught it anyway

[@Brivalia]

Easy solution, just coincidentally catch a remoraid for HMs before later switching off to a different mon for more coverage

[@JoetadXD]

he probaly used switch training to evolve

[@gjones9356]

Love all the visual gags you do and don’t even draw attention to. The “directed by Robert Eggers” bit is a banger!

[@spindash64]

I’ve loved Pelipper since before the Drizzle days, honestly. Even if Shockwave is objectively speaking not a great move late game, the principle of a water bird being able to 1v1 Gyarados is just hilarious to me. All it really needed to shine was a more consistently helpful ability Also, for the record, Hustle doesn’t affect Special Moves, only physical moves

[@okaythisisepic4990]

I am still mad that they gave the togepi line hustle

[@KKeevee]

I appreciate the Beautifly (aka Air France) love in this video! As someone who loves that pokemon and has to hear people trash talk it all the time, I love that it gets the love it deserves in this run ❤ Sad it didn't get to shine in the Elite 4 (I was able to win the Elite 4 while using one on my team), but love that it was treated as a valuable team member nonetheless 🙂

[@erenspace9628]

I just binged all your videos and was just wondering when a new one would come out :D so glad I found this channel! Have a gr8 day.

[@thefoodyscarecrow7391]

you binged 54 30 minute+ videos?

[@erenspace9628]

@@thefoodyscarecrow7391 yes, over the last several days-I never claimed to be good at time management LOL

[@UrFavoriteArsonist]

Cool

[@thefoodyscarecrow7391]

@@erenspace9628 i respect that

[@thatoneweirdbish6364]

The same happened to me when I first discovered this channel. FlygonHG is seriously addicting.

[@yashaoftheflames8475]

26:55 Hustle: You could not live with Your own failure. Where did that bring you? ... Back to me.

[@rubin4306]

19:29 "The newly evolved American" cracked me up for some reason

[@hawkeyeCFB]

Mad respect for Jet Blue, the nonstarter starter, surviving the whole way through.

[@user-gq9we2ru6o]

Matti, I love your nuzlockes so so so much and I absolutely love whenever you do a flying type one, since that's my favorite type!! (And also with a Pelipper in your team! It's my favorite pokemon ever! ❤️) I feel like your videos are alway fun, refreshing and so easy to understand, even for people like me, who only play pokemon casually!! It even made me go back to playing pokemon in my free time sometimes! 🥰 I'll be always supporting you and thanks for always brightening my week with a new video ❤️

[@danielhale1]

The game always gives you Hustle because it knows you can handle it. It needs to reserve Serene Togekiss for for the nuzlockers who require training wheels. :D

[@creepydwarf8714]

So I’m attempting this run right now and can I just say we had drastically different Crasher Wake fights. I got crit 4x in the battle, causing me to lose 3 team members including my Pelipper and my Scyther, and since I also banned Gyarados I have no answers into Candice. I’m scared of that Froslass. Edit: Made it past Candice, unfortunately my Togekiss missed a Flamethrower due to Snow Cloak and I had to sack my Staraptor for a clean switch. That was the beginning of the end as I was unable to defeat Cyrus in the distortion world. It was a fun run, but a couple of things just didn’t swing my way

[@jwinforever]

I just gotta say Matti, I have never enjoyed watching a streamer so much in my life. Something about your videos just really works for me. Your sense of humor is always on point, you’re humble (something streamers so often lack), and you just seem like a chill guy. I have always been a closet nerd, but you’re helping me realize I can be normal and still love playing Pokémon. You def brought me back into it, and I’ve had an absolute blast trying out Nuzlockes. Thanks for that :)

[@norran42]

My first thought was "poison heal Gliscor wins the run on its own," I completely forgot that was a RenPlat ability for Gliscor

[@aaajeear8654]

it's actually not only from RenPlat, Poison Heal is just a hidden ability given to Gliscor on gen 5.

[@norran42]

@@aaajeear8654 That makes sense too

[@justjoannak]

@@aaajeear8654 I was about to say that

[@aaajeear8654]

@@heinzdoofenshmirtz8643 bruh, just because it wasn't useful on the 12v12 doesn't mean it wasn't useful at all, Poison Heal Gliscor literally swept a number of important battles on Matti's 1st attempt easily, it was absolutely amazing, you can't just disconsider all the times it was good just because it somewhat led to a wipe on a battle with very different settings lol.

[@TheKoreanGamemaster]

You know when the sad piano hits on a FlygonHG video like at 19:05, PhilosopherHG is going to come out and drop some cold hard truth.

[@ryokiritani4187]

The piano comes on and PhilosopherHG comes out to crush my soul with some shit like "your destiny is plain. Soon you will die alone"

[@jacobgoossen8963]

"Going in to battle with Air France and not having to instantly surrender" Dude this had me in tears 😂😂😂 Great video man, very well done!

[@jacobgoossen8963]

Thinking about it afterwards, it's probably good Air France and Luftansa weren't on the team together for very long. Things might have gotten a little tense...

[@gaspardbonnehon8758]

The most overused, tired joke of the century had you in tears?

[@lullabycyanure9029]

I still don’t get the “France always surrender” joke. Literally was in the winners in both WWI and WWII. Only half in France surrendered in WWII too, it’s just weird to me that there is this idea that French people surrender to all attacks. Also, France is totally cool with Germany so I think AirFrance having to team up with British is way more insulting for both of them…

[@spidaaahs]

@@lullabycyanure9029 also France statistically has the best military record in europe

[@gaspardbonnehon8758]

@@lullabycyanure9029 it's a way for the Anglosphere to humiliate a rival culture that never kowtowed to them. True or not, if you repeat it enough times...

[@masonlepard5700]

10:13 the roast on France was elite

[@georgiosvavliaras1066]

You're pumping out quality content like crazy man! Keep up the great work! 💯

[@bloodwxter]

your script writing is so underrated. seriously one of the most entertaining youtubers i know, well done :)

[@dakyroo3413]

Literally so hyped whenever a new video comes out!! This one was super entertaining!

[@CIoudStriker]

I just wanted to let you know that I play my Nuzlockes mostly by your ruleset, except I allow myself a single healing item per Gym Leader/Rival/Elite 4/Champion fight, just to even the scales a little bit against those.

[@garchompgamer1874]

Any challenge with Gyarados is a sweep

[@sven3316]

@@heinzdoofenshmirtz8643 it's what I like about his videos, he really tries to make the challenges as challenging as possible

[@ShinoLia]

Yessss, another FlygonHG Nuzlocke video that I can rewatch again and again! Also I was so pleased to see you using Gliscor, I grew to love that Pokemon when I played Brilliant Diamond.

[@ComputerFreak1144]

I'm glad you ended up using Togekiss, it's one of my favorite Pokemon - it's bulky, hits hard, and has amazing type coverage. And Hustle isn't ultimately that big of an issue considering it only affects physical moves, and Togekiss is a special attacker.

[@milkywilky123]

Been watching your videos since the first Fire Red nuzlocke and I genuinely enjoy every single one. you're amazing and you've made my tough times so much easier. Please never stop ❤️

[@aceblaziken6393]

Great video man! I've been so busy but I'm glad I chose to watch one of your vids during the little downtime I have.

[@6z509]

Been catching up with all your vids for a while and this new upload was such a nice surprise! As always, love the pacing of the playthroughs and your commentary :) Keep it up!

[@pilotdeslauriers9068]

Love these videos for background noise as I work, sleep, play games, etc. Keep it up! You make me want to try my own nuzlock this summer

[@KarinaSantos-cn6jy]

It took me so long to realize that you named all your Pokémon after airlines 😂😂😂 I love it!! Thank you so much for your amazing content :)

[@arcturus4853]

Always love these videos, and it's especially fun to see you play regular platinum while watching your renegade run. Must feel like a big change of pace

[@sado2692]

Im pretty sure that sinnoh* is the most nuzlocked by Dr. HG, and im up for more

[@tommetje2073]

May Lil Fly always be remembered "flygon4SALUTE emote here"

[@lucascolantoni8012]

I love Yanmega and think he’s one of the coolest gen 4 evos (a lot of which I really like) and am super stoked for you to use one in your videos in the future. Keep faith in Lil fly, I know you’ll be reunited

[@adbenrobur1619]

Amazing! Would love to see a grass type hardcore nuzlocke in heartgold or soul silver :)

[@billuminati3867]

Could you use the universal randomizer to give you a random starter of the typing you want, just to mix things up and use a mon that might not be available during the playthrough. I think it would keep things fresh!

[@user-uv2cp1qd1j]

Or at the very least being able to catch mons like Murkrow that are unavailable but totally shouldn’t be.

[@moonsblossom]

and change the trade evolutions

[@skibot9974]

28:15 actually Hustle's accuracy drop only effects Physical moves

[@Gunnys_]

True

[@kibaoso4012]

"strenght of a room temperature stick of butter" man I havent laughed that Hard in weeks, thanks for another great video

[@nikushimi.]

The pure emotion when Lil Fly fled really caught me off guard

[@gustavocastillo9902]

Such a high quality script man, always a pleasure to watch these videos. Great job 👌🏻

[@nightkeiferSE]

Pretty much the first ever YTer that got me interested in Nuzlockes. Thanks for showing me another side of Pokemon I never saw before. Also, do a Bug type Nuzlocke, pls. Any version will do. °w°

[@corruptsoul3]

Perfect naming theme. Love it a lot because I've been consuming a lot of content about airplanes recently.

[@MauricioSaIas]

Thanks man I TRULY needed this.

[@catwithnoname7041]

Yet again, Le Beutifly shows how to be absolute badass

[@fletcherthenerd]

The rant upon Lil Fly fleeing had me in tears of laughter. Your videos are amazing.

[@loganthomas5736]

The second he said he wasn't using Gyarados, my mind went to Looney Tunes at the scene where one of the off-screen characters was saying, "You'll be sorry!"

[@Mar_Marine]

As a person who loves flying types - Flying Pokemon are overall quite versatile. Where there's a trend for other types - such as Steel being typically defensive and Fire typically being offensive, Flying can be anything a team needs. In part, it's because it is almost exclusively a secondary typing. However, you could make an entire team of Flying Pokemon that are stall-based, hyper offensive, or anything inbetween. It's truly magical what you can do with a bunch of birds in Pokemon.

[@WZDRIP]

“First up is A-aron.” Only legends get the reference

[@rohateanonis4657]

Preesent

[@Amber-cx3yy]

I love the use of that airplane humor that probably flew over a few people's heads

[@Gaterdesignstudio]

When I did my own Nuzzlock of platinum using only flying types I can’t tell you the amount of times I wiped before realizing beautifly had absorb

[@frkcybtw]

Flygon, I look forward to every video you upload. I hope you always keep nuzlocking :)

[@andersonantunesdeleu8591]

Incredible monotype run! Very fun and entertaining watching! Thanks, Flygon HG!

[@nightmare348]

Not sure if you were already told this, but Hustle only affects physical moves like Tackle and Rock Slide. Status moves like Toxic and special moves like Air Slash are completely unaffected by Hustle and don't get the power boost or accuracy cut. So the Togepi line is only fucked by Hustle if you're doing an all-Physical Togekiss, or are completely neutered by its' bad movepool until you get some good moves on it.

[@piku2able]

You called Bronzong by they/them pronouns... Based. Honestly, you're the goat. One of your best details in a video

[@dallinoldham3259]

Yo! I discovered your channel quite a bit ago, and have been enjoying your content ever since. Keep up the good work Dr. Flygon HG! Also if you're looking for suggestions (and potential suffering) I recommend a HGSS Grass-type nuzlocke. The first two gyms are flying and bug, the fourth one has a few poison types, one of the later ones ice, and eighth dragon, with ice coverage on some of the elite 4 and Koga's crobat creating quite a conundrum to some of those grass types. GSC generation doesn't have many too many strong grass-type Pokemon, so it may prove quite a challenge if you're wanting to test it out.

[@CTBStudio3]

These videos are always so entertaining, they're my comfort videos now 😂

[@thefilapano9547]

15:16 the revenge of the flightless bird

[@kamid9750]

Oooh, just noticed the upload :D def gonna have to binge this later Just came to put a suggestion forward, doubt you'll see it but it sounded fun! Pokémon X/Y, only using the main Pokémon found in Super Training. Including the bags, and the balloon bots! Just to give a little more variety and encounters. The Pokémon available: Azumarill, Relicanth, Wailord - HP Haxorus, Machamp - Attack Aggron, Golem - Defense Magnezone, Chandelure - Special Attack Tentacruel, Dragalge, Florges - Special Defense Crobat, Noivern, Aerodactyl - Speed Had the idea while doing some myself, just sounded like fun and it doesn't seem to have been done, so! :)

[@elliotlograsso995]

Used to work for Allegiant back in college, didn’t think it was that well known of an airline. But I thought it was cool my old airline was able to help you in your journey! Love watching your videos man

[@tilerh17]

For the record, at 3:16, for your jolly old chap Bri'ish joke, I would have been 900% okay with you rerolling natures on your Zubat till you got a Jolly one for the bit

[@Ravishous]

Awesome video! Had me laughing constantly 😂😂

[@makaylamiller4888]

It makes me happy to see bibarel with wings it makes my day thanks for doing that FlygonHG

[@makaylamiller4888]

:)

[@Gemini_Blessed_Boy]

Great Video Dr. Flygon I tried a normal run with only flying types in Platinum a while back and it was so much fun!! The first gym was super tricky because I only had zubat and Staravia I end up using double team + Max friendship Return with Staravia to Win xD Gliscor was such a good Pokemon in my team since it covered the weaknesses to Rock and Electric, loved the little scorpion

[@wolfbane9316]

Ok that one, genuinely made me smile. Really good video, as always!

[@maszamap3888]

Your videos have had me addicted these last months

[@psnory898]

HOW DID YOU NOT NAME YOUR DRIFTLOON “Spirit” FOR SPIRIT AIRLINES!! CMON HG!!

[@SturmtrupplerNr595]

Had a bold gliscor myself when i did this. Still a hard carry in addition to max phys def pelipper with shock wave. Great vid as always!

[@zawh.4749]

I binge watched this Playlist and it's really good ❤

[@vbph2011]

Feel like a broken record but you play so well and have such a great sense of humor omg best poketuber nuzlocker by far

[@sleepysukii]

one of my favourite types, with lots of my favourite pokemon, many of them in the sinnoh dex too. excited to watch the vid :D

[@MoxieInfernape]

Love that you called Crobat "Bri-ish" every time. Kept cracking me up when you would say it 3-4 times in a battle

[@thetrashtrain3774]

I did a platinum mono flying run a while back too, it was one of my fav monotype runs ive done

[@drifloonsupremacyassociation]

Haven't even started the video and we are cheering for our beautiful boi

[@ilovegarradors]

A nuzlock I'd love to see you do is a team I often like using (though not as a nuzlock) is bug types that lose a typing with evolution. This team involces scyther (Flying for steel), Nincada (ground for flying), Surskit (water for Flying) and finally Skorupi (bug for dark). None of them are allowed to evilve as well so they keep those typings. I'd love to see how you handle a nuzlock of that in platinum. :)

[@finn9707]

Glad to see the objectively best nuzlocke player return

[@angelinaschmiedel861]

Hey Flygon thank you for another great video have a nice day🤟😊

[@richardhuang7158]

28:15 FlygonHG even in gen 4 hustle does not affect the accuracy of special moves and status moves.

[@UrFavoriteArsonist]

Wow the bee puns are BEEautiful

[@UrFavoriteArsonist]

Thank you for the heart

[@zttaylorfitness6637]

Thank you for entertaining me while I get my steps in at work! You rule!

[@princeoftheazuresky]

Platinum is one of my favorite games in the series, so happy to see this! I just wish I'd seen the notification earlier. Still, it's something nice to watch before I go to bed! Thanks, Dr Flygon! Edit: YOU'RE NAMING THEM AFTER AIRLINES this is the best night ever! I love this naming scheme so much, passenger jets are my special interest!!

[@atsukana1704]

I find it so poetic that united has hustle. Which decreases its accuracy and improves damage. Like how could you not describe united as being crap better than that.

[@willchapple9836]

You’ve made me chuckle and smile before, but 4:14 was a full cackle 😂😂

[@TheRedGauntlet]

Peliper is memed alot but it does alot of work in these nuzlock runs

[@anomie1608]

can’t wait to finish this :)))

[@JuperLuperBruh]

'everyone knows that ads are just the worst' also flygon: is doing an ad

[@fossilfusionz8891]

YES my Saturday evening sorted 😊 👍 thanks man. Would love to have a proper chat with you sometime 🤞👍

[@thefoodyscarecrow7391]

omg he finally did it, what ive been wanting for 7 months!!

[@braidonsaelens5174]

That Staravia Intimidate but was funny af (the rest of the video is great too but that’s one of the best Pokémon jokes I’ve seen in a hot minute)

[@emiliosnic]

I found your channel through your last random portal challenge with SmallAnt. You didn't seem very confident to me during that game, but after checking your channel, I realized that your content is great!! You should be more confident!!

[@13JackStorm]

Got a cuppa, a box of Ritz crackers and a new flygon vid. Yep I'm all set for the evening.