My theory about the Blastoise damage range was his ability. The first time, your EQ dropped him to almost red health, triggering his ability. The second time, you only did about 50% health before he hit you with water gun.

@naraiceylob

5 ай бұрын

This. Blastoise has torrent which boosts water moves at low health.

@Otonio_Bruno

5 ай бұрын

Most definitely it was due to torrent. That's why it is wise to use weaker move first if you know if you're gonna need 2 hits anyway against mons that have blaze/overgrow/torrent, so you don't actually trigger their abilities. Also good for avoid Hyper Potions and other recovery items since AI like to use only when in low (red) health.

@IsaacComelli

5 ай бұрын

Torrent! That's right. I was gonna say that, but I just kept thinking of Torrid and knew that wasn't it lol

@Nalucha

5 ай бұрын

Oh yeah, it was absolutely because of torrent. I came into the comments just to make sure other people had the same thought 😂

@_RedRightHand_

4 ай бұрын

_Why is a Blastoise using Water Gun?_

12:30 that's because Blastoise was in Torrent so got a boost with water moves in your first try.

4:24 bulbapedia not knowing this is crazy

@femcelfootjob

2 ай бұрын

it got fixed on bulbapedia. it says withdraw instead of bubble in the third moveslot now

For future Gutsmon runs, you can preemptively status your Pokemon before battles to up your power. Just find something that poison or burns, Guts negates the attack drop from burn, and you'll hit a lot harder. Obviously this is more used in Hardcore/Deathless challenge runs, but if you get stuck on a fight, give it a go before grinding.

@MasterofInterspace

5 ай бұрын

Isn't the burn attack drop still active until gen 5?

@DiabloTommaso

5 ай бұрын

Sure but boreing af.

@realperson69

5 ай бұрын

@@MasterofInterspaceYou might be thinking of Facade. Burn reduces the attack power of Facade until Gen 6, but Guts has always ignored Burn’s damage/attack reduction.

@robstuart8474

5 ай бұрын

Preemptive poisoning in particular is also a strategy to use against Koga. It means he can't hit you with the far scarier Toxic.

@insulttothehumanrace3807

5 ай бұрын

Depends on the Pokemon you're trying to do it with. For a solo run like this durability matters a lot, even more so if you're planning on going in inflicted with something dropping your health every turn. That or the ability to hit fast and hard enough to KO everything in sight. Probably not a good strategy with Larvitar, who is slow, relatively frail, and has lots of weaknesses; or Makuhita, who is slow and very frail... but other Guts users, it can work.

You were right, naming it Larvesta was hilarious. Very tense there at the end, great run!

10:05 "Koffing always seems to open with Sand Attack to lower our attack." *Koffing uses Smokescreen to lower Accuracy

@MahDryBread

5 ай бұрын

It happens

Use of Substitute in this run was really cool! That’s a move you usually don’t see on these runs.

Ngl I kinda figured you’d pre-poison larvitar before trying your attempts at the E4. I think that’s completely fine to do if after the first try it’s abundantly clear or something. But also idve just done it right away lol

@patathatapon

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, he’s kinda bad about taking advantage of guts.

@noahmurtha4036

5 ай бұрын

@@patathatapon eh it’s fine. Makes it more challenging tbh. Guts is kinda broken as an ability 😂

@homelabsmart7635

5 ай бұрын

Well, he is not Jan (PokemonChallenges). He is not really that deep into Pokemon or specifically talented at it. I mean, none of the challenges are really hard. Either they are possible or they are not. It's not like a Nutzlock with advanced strategies

@noahmurtha4036

5 ай бұрын

@@homelabsmart7635 I’m familiar with Jan actually haha. I watch his content a lot. MBD addressed guts multiple times throughout the video so he definitely knew the ins and outs. I think he just didn’t want it on easy mode is all which is fair. Jan and MBD also focus on very different content outside it being just pokemon tbh. 🤷🏻‍♂️ I love it all the same though

@tesladrew2608

5 ай бұрын

To be fair it doesn't work as well when you're slower

1:40 charmander? Thats a weird fish

Maybe you should usw Guts more often. Try to get a Burn anywhere. Guts ignores the Attack-Debuff of a Burn, still boosting the Attack by 50%

@Otonio_Bruno

5 ай бұрын

It's easier to get poisoned though, way more mons with poison effects, and both burn and poison do 1/8th your max HP each turn, so there is virtually no difference outside how much easier is to be poisoned. Para is also an option but a much worse one: You'll be at the mercy of RNG and definitely will be slower than any mon you'll be facing.

@zacharyschweibinz1285

5 ай бұрын

@@Otonio_Bruno Burn's 1/16th each turn.

@Otonio_Bruno

5 ай бұрын

@@zacharyschweibinz1285 only in generation 7 and onwards, up to gen 6 always been 1/8th for burn damage.

@insulttothehumanrace3807

5 ай бұрын

I don't think it would have helped here. Looking at all the attempts where he couldn't two-shot his opponent or he just barely won, Guts wouldn't have really helped speed up this run at all. Heck, it would have been working against him during the times he was trying to use Substitute.

Can we get an ORAS run with just a Swablu??!!

@lipika2841

5 ай бұрын

Or a Duskull

Next time you get a guts mon, you should pre-burn it prior to tough fights where you need more damage. If the game has leftovers access, you get the benefit of guts without being on a timer. 100% sure that would've made dragonite and alakazam fights so much easier.

@dwanedibly8129

5 ай бұрын

Pre-burning with Guts is a good idea, but in this game Leftovers doesn't offset burn damage - here it does 1/8 to Leftovers' 1/16.

@TheTruePk2

5 ай бұрын

@@dwanedibly8129 ah, thought leftovers were also 1/8

@TheTruePk2

5 ай бұрын

@@dwanedibly8129 if only para wasn't such a bad status to have

@6:14 I reckon that seeing a pseudo-legendary rock up to the fight resulted in Squirtle just turtling up reflexively, so the ref/Pokedex just goes "I guess it knows Withdraw now?"

@tynirio_1

5 ай бұрын

"Is.. is that a damned *LARVITAR* ?!?, yeah I'm just Dipping.... Wait.. what do you mean i physically don't know how to enter my own shell for protection, my brother in Christ, *_I'M A FUCKING TURTLE_* "

@zackpedersen2666

5 ай бұрын

Squirtle does learn Withdraw at level 10. The problem would be what move it replaces. Normally wild Pokémon would have the last 4 moves they have learned via leveling. This is a scripted trainer Pokémon. Somebody would have to take a look at the code to see what his 4 moves actually are.

It's not an MDB outro without mentioning food, love it, hope you're doing well!

I like how that poison status aiding a win mentioned at the start played out with the Koga victory.

Who needs a premiere when this content is absolutely fantastic as always. Hope you are doing well MDB

I have a counter point for Venusaur being harder than Blastoise: any physical attacker has to take two Intimidates from Water Onix and Arcanine. Probably roughly equal because Blastoise has more immediate power, but something to consider for physical attacker runs. Also requesting Pokemon Black with Victini. Probably not a super hard run, but Victini was a cornerstone of my original Black team since they released the event with the game and it was fun running a Mythical on a normal run.

i love the angry baby so i'm super stoked about the run. shame you couldn't get much out of sandstorm but it makes sense with how often these single-pokemon challenges boil down to fights resolving in only a couple hits per pokemon

@mistahl5350

5 ай бұрын

That and the only use Sandstorm has here is just chip damage (maybe interfering with water move damage and Solarbeam charge time), it's kind of a dead weight move.

Honestly your the best pokemon play through KZreadr. I know you do many other games and are great there as well but when I see your video come up. I know I’ll have great content for 30 mins or so.

Have you done a Chinchou run in gen 3? You mentioning the ground gym being really easy other than if you used an electric Pokémon made me think of that! (Even though it’s part water it only gets water/electric moves outside of ice beam and blizzard so that might be a fun one!)

I'm glad u explained the ability cuz suffering doesn't mean shit to me lol

Let's go, just what I was looking for!

I have been asking two things that have not happened so I will ask again. 1- How is Mrs. MDB doing in France? 2- a Champion Team run BUT the team is first stage? So you would have a champions team but you can't evolve them? It sounds fun to me.

Happy Saturday! I'm watching your challenge videos while doing the Blaziken raid!

So to further echo the point, yes the blastoise was in torrent when he hit you with the water gun and heres a fun fact about that. Torrent/Blaze/Overgrow apply as a completely seperate modifier to stab/buffs. Meaning that a move such as Flamethrower from Typhlosion is stronger in blaze than it would be from adaptability.

I think that a platinum run with buizle could be really cool

4:27 Serebii is a good alternative when we're talking accurate information, but I can't say why Squirtle Knows withdraw, since it doesn't say it, but my theory is that since It's level 18, it's moves may be swapped with moves It knows at that level (which According to Serrebi, it's Level 10) or maybe it's the Universal Pokemon Randomizer bugging a little bit?

Can you beat pokemon Emerald with only one Luvdisc? Emerald will probably be harder than Ruby & Sapphire, since you will be fighting 2 water specialists instead of just 1 in R/S.

Another fun run to watch here!

I think it is a shame you don't focus on EV training. You could get Atk and Spd EV even before the entering Viridian Forest, so you could have focused more about those two and ending up in Elite Four with more Atack and Speed. Probably could have saved you a few levels in the end.

@liamaldrich2476

5 ай бұрын

He's said in previous videos that a few levels in the late game is far preferable to unnecessary grinding on route one.

@jamesdinius7769

5 ай бұрын

EVs really aren't going to matter unless you're trying to go for a minimum level run. They're small statistical advantages. He's tried some EV training before and I'm pretty sure it's worse from a time to finish the run perspective, even before he started using rare candies at brick walls.

Since larvitar has primarily physical moves on his set, i think the venusaur team mightve been a bigger challenge. Between arcanine and gyarados, youve got two intimidate Pokémon to work around and consider what to do from there

Would love to see you play Pokemon Conquest with only first Gen Pokemon. Except the last battle of course since you have to use Arceus.

Thank you for another great video=3

He baby! Requesting Pokemon B2W2 with Only One Chinchou.

Get some good food, man! Been watching raft as well, super fun. I don't know why but I always get excited to see the quick flash of the "evolution" screen before its canceled. One day we will let something evolve

@___________0Z0X

5 ай бұрын

Snobama

@NotTheDragon837

5 ай бұрын

He was able to evolve pokemon in the last run he did. Emerald with only gift pokemon

We always call Agatha the ghost elute 4 member, but she only has 3 ghosts and runs a team of 5 poison mons. Maybe she should be considered the poison e4 member since Koga takes over as an E4 member in gen 2 games.

Very good, I very like your challenge. But I heard you a lot saying the puzzle electric gym is very a bore. Find the first trash, save state, try a trashcan, not the good one ?, load state, try the second, etc...

I love your content!

Haven't seen the vid ye t but knows it's GONNA BE GOOD!!

I’ve actually been really enjoying your team runs. So I’d like to ask MDB, can you beat Pokémon Yellow with a team of only electric types?

This is very similar to a challenge i did, i did larvitar only heart gold. I never finished it because i got a new pc as the one i was using broke so its kinda nice to see a complete larvitar challenge

the reason blastoise did more damage was because of Blastoise's Torrent which makes it so that below half health water moves do more damage (12:30)

@heyitsgabe1093

5 ай бұрын

You're right, but the damage increases at 1/3 not 1/2

I love this Pokémon run

I loved the run! would have been a blast, if you tried to use the guts ability more (by going into a fight deliberately burned) to try to beat it all at an even lower level. Maybe it is an interesting idea for the future though to do a run, where you play a guts pokemon and always keep them burned for the major fights

@insulttothehumanrace3807

5 ай бұрын

For a future run, perhaps... depends on the Pokemon you're using. Larvitar is probably the worst Guts user. Slow, many weaknesses, not all that tough, not even that hard an attacker... I don't think there were any particular battles where it would have helped him, especially if he was trying to implement Substitute.

Random words of the "Day"™: day 690, 691, 692, and 693: Palindrome, Landscape, Malleable, Nightmarish

I love fire red. Hell yeah good run

MDB I have a good idea for a future challenge you could do: Pokémon red with only missingno that could be fun to see you do

@Shangori

5 ай бұрын

I like the idea of him trying to work around possible silly stuff. But eh.. one question: Which missingno?

@MagileineTopDeckToFullField

5 ай бұрын

I dont think that would be possible. With a HP Stat of 33 and defences of actual 0 and 6, it won't survive anything past Veridian Forest. And a speed of 29 means grinding to go first won't work either

@jacobmeebling822

5 ай бұрын

@@Shangori oh you know the classic one that’s like the shape of a rectangle

@jacobmeebling822

5 ай бұрын

@@MagileineTopDeckToFullFieldthat’s not true other Pokemon youtubers have done it before specially Jrose11 and PokeTips and both have beaten the game with it

Oh my god! Can’t believe you took the dome fossil.

Makes me wonder if Venusaur as the starter would have been harder. Venusaur resists earthquake, is still 4x super effective against you, and the champion would have 2 intimidate pokemon being Gyarados and Arcanine. Still a good challenge nonetheless though 👍

@___________0Z0X

5 ай бұрын

It wouldn’t resist earthquake because it’s poison.

@jrbehr4643

5 ай бұрын

Venusaur doesn't resist Earthquake, it takes neutral damage

@artzyamaris5893

5 ай бұрын

@@jrbehr4643 I completely forgot about poison, I'm dumb 🤣

@Kanbei11

5 ай бұрын

I agree. Even if you hit venusaur for super effective damage that double intimidate really hurts physical attackers

Have you thought about a Machamp only FR/LG run MDB? Doing one rn and it's quite fun. Ideally you want a Careful nature to boost Machamp's survivability against the likes of Alakazam(at least that's the thought I went with lol), and to hang onto Foresight so you can "Punch ghosts". As always I enjoy your videos, have fun listening and watching you, and hope 2024 treats you and your family well.

@insulttothehumanrace3807

5 ай бұрын

Getting Rock Slide from the Rock Tunnel move tutor is also a good option for ghost busting. Hope you are having fun with that run!

@RamblinDude135

5 ай бұрын

@insulttothehumanrace3807 Indeed Rock-slide. That was planned to be on the pool, for now he has Rock Tomb since I am still early in the run and he had just learned Foresight. Just gotta, remember to keep it lol.

02:09 If you play on LeafGreen (instead of FireRed) you can intentionally get burned by Will-o-wisp by wild Vulpix.

2:03 wahahhaha wtf is that description of the guts ability??? "Ups attack if SUFFERING" Lmaaaooo

@MahDryBread

5 ай бұрын

It's brutally vague to the point of being almost useless. I have no idea why they described it that way. I'm sure they could have fit "Attack raises during status conditions". It's not perfect but it's short and it's in the writing style of the game.

@bennyk384

5 ай бұрын

@MahDryBread not only is it unhelpful & vague, but it makes it sound so sadistic. Inflict suffering on your Pokémon to raise its attack? Geez, no thanks. Did give me a chuckle tho lol. Have a great day MDB :)

Awesome!!!!

It’s apple!! Keep up the great work!!

Id love to see a run where you can only use moves that have a base power lower then 50

Nice challenge :D

I actually had to rewind to make sure I heard "Koffing opens with SAND ATTACK." Then I rewind again to see if the was "*Smokescreen" put on the screen! It got a really good chuckle out of me!

11:19 If you know, you know.. I cant get it out of my head. I feel like a sleeper agent or something every time someone says this

Watching mah dry bread while my phone is at 69%? Nice.

GG Exeggutor!!!

I’m surprised you didn’t go with Bulbasaur for the rival since the double intimidate would easily be the hardest of the 3 starters this time. Plus Venusaur still has a 4 times advantage

Guts on Solo challenges is not easy to use. Especially with poison. It might've helped with some fights or doomed them.

16:15 Arceus, Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina have names, you know.

You say you chose Blastoise cause Water Onix would be easier to KO but considering it also has Intimidate it could have made the early game harder since he'd have it by 4th rival fight. But it also does depend on the AI choices Water Onix is sent out early enough to have Intimidate matter more unlike Arcanine in the champion fight that was sent out last. I could see them being about equal difficulty overall depending on the choices made. Not that it matters regardless the video was fun to watch.

yeah? Do a solo run with only Beldum! :P

Bulbapedia needs to hurry and fix that moveset

Idea for challenge run; generation 1 run where you are defeated by each gym leader with a main Pokemon in your party. Also, a run on an Island of Sodor mod in the style of the first mod video.

How about “can I beat Pokémon black with only weak moves?” So specifically moves with power 50 or less, so you’d have to use a lot of strategic moves. Possibly moves that get buffed, like a defense curl/rollout combo? Also, even STAB cannot make the move over 50 power, perhaps?

Squirtle went Gen 1 on ya. 😂

(3:55) Which fossil did you take? I hear The Black Gate is good for the Nine-Fingers Keene algorithm. :P (4:23) Wow, Bulbapedia got Rival 2's Squirtle's moveset wrong here? Someone needs to go and fix that then. (7:26) I think our area in Connecticut had about 8 inches of snow last weekend, where I did have to do some shoveling, but it was only the first measurable amount of snow we'd gotten so far this winter. (12:07) You dropped Blastoise below 1/3 HP on that attempt, triggering its Torrent ability, so it dealt 50% more damage than usual with its Water Gun. (21:07) And that's game!

"What I thought would be the hardest e4 member" mdb I love ya but you're giving Bruno to much credit

Has he done Pokémon red with only paras It would be a very interesting video I he hasn’t Also love the content

If I had a nickel for every time some one asked why I prefer hoodies over regular sweaters I'd have enough money to buy several Khimyra hoodies. Seriously, why do people ask that? It's in the freaking name.

Commenting to say Bulbapedia is still wrong about Gary’s Squirtle not knowing withdraw. If check and see it’s still wrong be sure to comment, and comment if it gets changed in fact, comments are good for the KZread algorithm!

5:06 just what is nugget bridge a bridge over? It's not nearby water and there doesn't seem to be a land route underneath it either Also if you're going to ev train please use an external tool like pkhex. It's painfully slow to do legit on cart for the same result

Hey mdb ever thought of a 'multi-hit moves only 'run?

Hey MDB how are you dude? Great challenge! I'd like to ask your opinion, do you think setting the type of hidden power in these solo runs is legit? I mean, it's luck based, it's supposed to be depending on luck. Anyway, actually you don't really use it in your runs. To be honest, I can't find setting HP type is legit. But you always do great runs! Love your content! Thank you!

@MahDryBread

5 ай бұрын

I don't think I know enough about the process to figure that out. I haven't got a clue how you can set what type of hidden power you'll get. I would imagine there's a setting for it on one of the randomizers or Pokemon editing programs, but I don't have most of that stuff. Just the randomizer and some roms.

My dark beard is using one of the favorite pokemon to use in pokemon 🎉🎉 (shh, couldn't think of anything better to replace "dry" with 🤷🏻‍♂️)

10:10 "Sand attack to lower our attack" wow

@MahDryBread

5 ай бұрын

Sometimes I just can't talk

Suggestion time, and like always I'm going with pokemon gold/silver with a single Murkrow

Why always helix 😂 please, take my boy kabuto in the dome fossil.

pokemon platinum with a bronzor a steel and psychic type will be fun

My favorite Pseudo Legendary and second favorite Pokémon overall.

I have an idea for a challenge run Pokemon gold with only gen 1 erikas team and moves since it's gen 2 grass type will be hard to use

Charmander‽ That's a weird fish!

I'd like to see a gen2 Chinchou run.

Ngl, venusaur mightve been harder. Eggy is a great pokemon but your rival usually gives him shit moves, while Water Onix usually at least has hydro pump.

Wooow....first/Early? This...could be brutal. Misty and Erica will be rough.

Btw sandstorm increase’s special defense of rock types just an fyi

*~raised hand~* I like Raft. Played it since way back in its proto days.

Sandstorm increases Sp. Def of Rock types. It could be useful.. also the damage over each turn to your opponent

@blazechaos212

5 ай бұрын

This is Gen 3 my guy. Sandstorm doesn't do this until Gen 4.

@mistahl5350

5 ай бұрын

Even if the Sp Def buff got applied here, the x4 weakneses with halfway decent moves would render that buff moot as he'd just be taken out anyway. This isn't even counting the turn needed to set it up that the AI gets to hit him for free.

The only other time the eighth Kanto gym is particularly hard is in Solo Ditto RB runs, which has Giovanni there as probably being the hardest fight due to you having to luck your way through it with his awful opening Rhyhorn. His Rhydon, which is normally almost no threat due to having Stomp and two instant kill moves in a gen where you have to be at least as fast as your target to hit with those, is an absolute monster because it has an infinte amount of Fissure uses (because AI Pokemon have no PP in Gen 1) against a Rhyhorn who only has Stomp and Fury Attack as damaging moves. You do get Tail Whip, but his normally useless Guard Specs block those. You also get Horn Drill, which is almost useless because Rhyhorn is the slowest Pokemon, but at least it beats the opposing Rhyhorn.

@mah-Dry-Bread Hey, have you ever thought of doing a Pokemon Red Run with only unevolved Fire-types? I'd love to see that!

could you try pokemon black with one Deino? early game will probably get dragon raged to oblivion but low speed+ being dark dragon could make the late game a real challenge

Pokemon Silver with one Sentret/Furret? Pokemon Red with one Geodude, call it "Brock#1"

MDB, no base form dragon run or are you saving it for the Lunar New Year?

MDB has fought so many Pidgey's on this channel that his brain auto corrected Koffing's smokescreen as sand attack!

My favorite gen 2 pokemon always hated that you couldn't get him till endgame.

Part of damage calculation is lv over/under your opponent.

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