HOW EASILY CAN YOU BEAT POKEMON PLATINUM WITHOUT EXP?

What's going on guys? My name is Jon and welcome back to another video experience. It's probably the most important aspect of Pokémon. Use it to make your Pokémon stronger, more defensive, learn moves by leveling up, and most importantly, evolve them so you can catch them all. What would happen if you couldn't gain experience throughout the game? Today we will discover how easy you can be Pokémon Platinum without gaining experience. You're probably very confused as to how exactly something like this can be done. first of all and I'm actually using a modified version of Pokémon Platinum so this works essentially every time we eliminate a Pokémon either in a trainer or in a wild battle the game will replace any experience we get with the result of the number zero .

In the battle complete without giving any experience this means that the

pokemon

we catch in the wild will always be at the same level and the only way they can get a stronger team is if we replace it with a completely different

pokemon

besides this one. concept, there are additional rules that I incorporated to really make the challenge as experience-less as possible, although you can't gain experience through daycares, we're going to completely ignore their use, I mean we could just ride the bike until we're level . 100, so it's pretty obvious that doing this would make the challenge incredibly easy, so that area is completely off-limits.

Also, rare sweets will not be allowed either because you need experience to go from one level to the next, technically this gives you experience. I thought I should include this too just to make sure there is literally no way we can get even one experience point during the entire challenge. The big final rule is that you cannot use items in battle. This is pretty much the standard for challenges now, but it's still important to know regardless of this whole challenge being live streamed on my Twitch channel and if you're interested in seeing me do more stuff like that, I stream about five to six days a week. week, so I would really appreciate it.

You reviewed it before participating in the challenge. Be sure to leave a like and subscribe so you never miss an upload. These videos take a lot of effort to put together and this is the best way you can show support and you can always unsubscribe if you change your mind in the future with all that out of the way let's jump right into it so the game starts as it does does normally, talking to our mom and barry and from the beginning we have to make a decision that may not seem too important at the moment, but it can have a big impact on our experience throughout the challenge, as usual, I let my chat chose the starter and they decided on piplup, which may seem like a solid choice because our first challenge will be facing roark, but since none of our beginners know any stab moves at level 5, they are all equally useless.

Our first battle against Barry was very poor because he spammed retreating until we were only dealing about 1 hp of damage per turn, so I ended up losing the first battle, luckily this doesn't matter too much because we don't need the experience anyway, but this definitely It was a foreshadowing of how the rest of the challenge would probably play out if you've never seen my streams, my luck. with rng and pokemon it's probably the worst thing ever since I'm a small brain with a lot of decisions I make, but you'll see later some of the ridiculous things I find after going through some of the initial events of the story I went to route 202 to catch some of the first members to be sacrificed in the Sinnoh region.

The first member will be Shanks, who is basically the strongest piplup, however, he has the ability to intimidate, which can make a big difference, especially at this point. the game to get an idea of ​​how much we will have to build our team. I decided to confront the first trainer for some reason. I gained experience in this battle even though I literally showed my chat two minutes earlier. I didn't get any experience in wild battles so I had to restart to fix it. Luckily, I saved right after the rival fight, but on the second try it worked perfectly fine, so I'm not exactly sure what happened here, but it was the only time that, to my surprise, we ever ran into that problem.

The first few battles were significantly easier than I thought. I ended up grabbing Shanks again and Starley, who took the lead in most of the battles leading up to Jupiter City, as you already know. The next big task is our second rival battle east of the city and while I think I could probably get by with the team of six, I decided to look for a couple more higher level Pokémon that will last longer than just a couple of battles. The 204 encounters are generally the same level as our current team, but the devastated path contains Pokémon up to level 6.

Big difference, I know, after a couple of minutes I was able to have Zubat on the team, who was hopefully a great wall for Turtwig. but I also took two more Starlead to have a full team advantage. The second battle against Barry wasn't that difficult because he only has two Pokémon, but considering Turtwig is almost twice our level, it made this a little daunting. Fortunately, Zubat worked exactly like I did. We wanted to, so we were able to achieve it without any major setbacks after bypassing all the trainers in our way, we somehow managed to reach the orbit city and are free to progress to obtain our first gym badge, as you can guess with our current equipment Bird and Bat Rock-type Pokémon are literally the worst weakness you can ever have, so after just one battle, we're ready to create a whole new team if you've played this game before.

The obvious first thought is to go north of the city and catch Machop. because he has access to low kicks, so I grabbed one of those before heading south towards the mine on our way to meet Roark. I managed to catch a geodude before returning to take our first attempt at the gym in all honesty with the mix. from having a rock smash and a low kick on the chop, I thought this gym wouldn't really be that difficult, but after discovering the krantos 1 shots machop, I realized that this probably won't be so easy during this very fast battle, I noticed. that geodude and onyx didn't really have anything to counter my own geodude with rocksmash and considering that crando's main moves are headbutts in the chase, there's a small chance he could actually pull through and win after running through the orbital mine for about 15 minutes I managed to form a team of powerful guys ready for any type of rock that came their way because this entire team did not have any rock or ground type moves.

My team actually walled off literally everything except the Krandos chase, although almost my entire team was knocked out. In the end I was able to defeat Roark in my second attempt to claim our first batch upon returning to Jupiter Life City. We have our first real encounter with the galactic team through the double battle on the edge of the city. Our rivals Chimchar basically took it. that battle, so it wasn't that bad, but the next Pokémon they had to face is our toughest opponent, but a Pokémon so strong that all the trainers in the region cringe at its sheer power.

Badoo now, although the friends team was very helpful, but do it. Almost one shot, each geodude and machop deals basically no damage because the fighting moves are resisted, while the obvious play is to replace our team with another group of Pokémon. The problem here is that there is really nothing available. Ponyta is available near Orberg, but the problem. It's just that it doesn't know any fire-type moves, so we're going to have to work with what we have. I ended up bringing back the zubat we caught earlier because it forms walls or equipment, but even that does more damage to us than it does to us.

Do it as much as I hate to admit it, this Pokémon is harder than the whole fight with Rorke, but after a few tries I managed to hide confused until I died, so luckily we can, you've got to be kidding me, luckily. This bunch of cherries only uses growth and tackle instead of leech seeds, so after 20 painful minutes we can finally move on to our next stop at flo aromatown and overall the events here went pretty smoothly dealing with the grunts in the meadow to make a way. We go to Valley Windworks to investigate the building, although the grunts here also do not represent any difficulty, we have our first battle against Commander Mars, who is already known for being quite annoying in a normal game, in this battle he only has two Pokémon and Zubat.

Obviously, he's very easy to defeat, plus you have to worry about toxics, but his ace because of how ugly he is is the stuff of nightmares. Not only is this fat cat more than twice our level, but it's also fully evolved, so it was very obvious that we were going to need to plan ahead to get the best Pokémon available in this new area. After running around in the grass I managed to catch the weasel shanks and shoals to help and it's important to note that the shanks have access to intimidate which is possibly the biggest problem we have with Very Ugly with our new equipment, he was definitely a lot easier to work with, but this is a prime example of how bad my luck is during all the attempts, I probably got a minimum of two critical hits per fight, which obviously one hits anything on my team with the Pokémon you can collect at this point, the only true way to defeat Progly is to lead with handles to activate Intimidate to reduce the attack and then use Rocksmash on Geodude and hope you lower its defense enough to deal a ton of damage on this battle.

It took me an hour to win and I honestly don't think we had a choice. I ended up getting four defense drops in one battle to secure the victory and this wrapped up the first day of streaming overall, we made a ton of progress, but there's still a lot more to do now that all the events are fixed in this area. The only real obstacle we have to tackle is the eternal forest, as most of you know this area really doesn't have much. Mandatory battles, however, are double battles that could make it very easy or an absolute nightmare.

Before doing so, the day before I smeared honey on the tree and we thought maybe something like heracross would come and take over a little later in the game, but obviously we ended up with a worm, so let's move on inside the eternal forest, we meet Cheryl and we have to take it to the end and with our current team I decided to give the first trainer battle a chance, no surprise. It was completely destroyed by Apache Risu and a beautiful fly, so I took some time to run around the grass to gather a few more team members out of all the options.

Gastly was a great choice because she has access to the curse and we can conveniently trap her. our own beauty fly, which is the highest level encounter we can have right now, these two Pokémon basically carried my team through the two double battles here and luckily, once we reached the forest exit , we can catch a couple more Pokémon that we'll definitely need to take care of the next Gym Leader once we get to the Eternal City. We have a few more story events before we can head east to find some higher level encounters on Route 211.

There are actually quite a few strong options, but I. I chose to catch Meditait Machop and Bronzor before heading into the cave to catch a higher level zubat. This rig combined with the frightfully flying beauty seemed to be the best option and the only thing that would probably make it easier would be to catch more sighting beauty flies. Gardenia's gym looks like it's going to be one of the toughest fights we're going to face solely due to our lack of strong moves, but fortunately, because Beautyfly has access to bursts, all of the trainer battles in this section were quite easy, but Gardeini's equipment is obviously much more difficult to handle.

His first Pokémon is Turtwig, who isn't too difficult to defeat. However, it is used to prepare for your next Pokémon. Cherum. This Pokémon basically locks out my entire team, so when I take it down. The gardenia can sweep away Rose Raid, who was the real problem in this battle? After a few tries, I found it was best to go with the pretty fly and hope it doesn't do too much damage before Cherum sends out leech seeds and magic. The blade is probably our biggest weakness here, but it's almost always used to safeguard turn 1, meaning we're pretty much free to take at least onemovement before it starts to give us problems, although it seems that he had originally planned it for Rosaria's help.

Ghastly was the best choice because I was able to set up a curse to combat leech seeds and poison heals and after some trial and error we were able to obtain the rosary without problems. The problem with this is that this Pokémon is very powerful compared to our team, so by the time Cherym is out of the picture, we are too weak to finish it off after a lucky showdown against the church wig. I used a curse on Gastly and immediately knocked him out to preserve the rest of his health. I sent Beauty Fly again. and I took it out with gus, which gives us five Pokémon we can work with to take this thing down because Gastly has more speed.

I chose to wear suntan lotion to sleep and hope he doesn't wake up on the second shift to ruin my team. switching she of course did exactly that, so I assumed I had lost at this point, sent out Beautyfly and with a stroke of luck managed to get a crit on the last hit to win the battle, although I got really lucky here. I honestly think the above strategy would have worked perfectly fine, but hey, a win is a win before we leave Eterna. We have one last big fight we have to take care of at the top of the galactic building.

We have to face Commander Jupiter. Now you. You're probably thinking this is going to be as much of a nightmare as Mars, but luckily this one only took a few tries after losing to his scry tank on the first try. I realized we can. Catch Geodude east of here and everyone knows the magnitude. After catching one, I brought it back into the fight, as well as some mangoes for intimidation. I ended up getting decent magnitude rolls to knock him out, but the poison also missed. gas twice so this battle definitely could have been a lot more annoying after picking up the bike, the next gym we needed to head to is in Hardhome City and not only can we get some stronger Pokémon along the way, but there is a Pokémon specific that will do This challenge is much easier, gibbel, if we head under the bridge and enter the secret section of the rebel cave, we can find kibbles from level 17 to level 20 and each one we find will have access to the Dragon move Rage, this move.

It always deals 40 hp of damage, which is more than 50 percent of the health of any Pokémon we're going to encounter at this point in the game. Naturally, I spent 30 minutes here catching five of them, as well as another tanner I found along the way. . You can expect this to make all the city battles incredibly easy to do. Side damage moves are a blessing this early in the game and I thought this would make getting Fantina's bundle a piece of cake once we get to our hometown. able to immediately challenge the gym and fortunately we can avoid all the trainers and take his head on his team consisting of Duskol Hauser and Miss Maggias, who are big threats for their own reasons.

Gibbel can almost take doskol, which is really good because of the The fact that I wasted a subsequent heal from Miss Maggie is that Hunter was quite annoying due to the shadow claw taking care of about 75 of my health. After a few tries I was able to fight Miss Magnus and found that she completely destroys all the Pokémon on my team. One hit, there's no doubt that Gibble is the best Pokémon you can hit at this gym, so it seemed like this was the end of the challenge. Sure there are probably some Pokémon we could grab that have access to biting, but there really aren't. anything that can survive a shadow ball from Miss Magus at this level.

After thinking it through with my chat, we discovered that Beybe's gift Eevee would be a better addition than the Bronzor due to the fact that it completely blocks Haunter, the only moves it can. land are confused with king and hypnosis, so the worst that can happen is that we get hit in confusion, also, all my gimbal have the Sandville ability, which gives us more of an evasion while we are in a sandstorm, conveniently, all my Pokémon know it. Move now, so if we said that before defeating Haunter, there is a good chance that it will work in our favor, as you can see, this means that the entire battle will be determined if Miss Magus misses the shadow ball on all of our Pokémon, which which It may not seem like a big deal, but I would like to mention once again that my luck is not the best in the world.

There was one time I took a hunter down to -6 evasion with sand attack and switched to Gibbel and I still got a confused beam hypnosis and then a critical shadow claw all in succession. I have no idea what the chances are of that happening, but after over an hour of trying, I ended the night with no idea how we're going to get through this. Without having to rely entirely on luck, on the third day we came back with only one idea that would really benefit us: being the fast claw, this gives us 20 chances each turn to move first, which was really the biggest problem we were having.

This Shadowball battle was still the killer of all attempts, but if we can have one more gibble to attempt Dragon Rage after the hunter is down, I'm willing to try it on the first attempt of the day. I completely forgot to set up Sandstorm against Haunter and realize I completely threw out what seemed like a decent attempt. I changed it to the quick claw gibble and believe it or not it worked on the first try with Sandstorm, it missed the next shadow ball however it landed the next three in a row, now this can ring. Bad but this is actually the best chance I had of winning during each turn, he was taking sandstorm damage and if he didn't his health would have been low enough to heal and luckily he missed Shadowball on the turn perfect for Dragon Rage to take him down.

Outside without a sandstorm, all of this is by far our most difficult gem, but I find it funny that the only thing that saved this battle was the item that we tried our best to get to the ground, now that we have collected three badges, we can head east of the heart. Home and we are immediately thrown into another battle. I was so excited to have defeated Fantina that I completely forgot to heal myself, but on the second try the Gable squad returned to its true form and completely passed through my rival's team, advancing a little.

Honestly, the routes leading to Veal Stone City were pretty easy considering you can avoid basically all the trainer battles in three routes, but the double battle right at the gate obviously gave us the biggest problem. I still won the first try, but the fact that we had to do it. Dealing with toxic spikes for almost the entire battle led to me winning with only one HP left. Now that we're in Veal Stone City, it's time to face the fourth Gym Leader. Malin's gym focuses on fighting type Pokémon and although we don't. We have direct counterattacks with our current team.

The dragon's fury is still very strong, so our only real concern is whether our Pokémon can really survive a hit. Surprisingly, the team was able to defeat all the trainers without problems, but when it came time to face each other. Maylene, it was a completely different story, her perk is strict meta and she fires a single hit on every gimble on my team, so while they can still be useful in this battle, it's probably best to rebuild my team to get some higher level encounters , fortunately if we head south. From the city we can access an area that has some fantastic counters for our team.

The encounters on Route 214 are weak to fight, however, we head south, to the shore of Lake Valor, we can meet Star Ravia and Giraffery to confront our team. Both Pokémon range from Level 26 to 28, so not only will our team be at a much higher level, but they will both be stabbed. Super effective movements. Giraffe Rig will always have cybeem and Star Ravio will have wing attack, but level 28s also have aerial lace. It's really a big deal because they both have a base power of 60, but if we're in a situation with reduced accuracy, we can use that to our advantage.

After we catch a full team of them, we head back to the gym and engage in close combat. body as you can. I imagine this made it a lot easier, but I guess luck was also on my side in the battle, for some reason when Lucario went red he didn't heal so I was able to outrun him and run for the rest of his team in this battle only used one heal when I had access to two so there was good potential this would have been quite difficult this didn't happen now let's go to the next gym after our rivals cofery explodes on our team we can time the hm to fly and head south again until we reach Pastoria City from a mile away.

I realized that facing Crasher Wake was going to be a nightmare due to the level difference and the fact that he leads with the Gyarados, although our team worked very well for the last gym, it's time to once again build a completely new equipment. Fortunately, Pastoria has great running, so there are a couple of Pokémon that could be really useful after a bit of running. I managed to catch one. tanglea and tropius while i was grabbing them i realized that floatsoul also has icefang which makes them both pretty useless so we're definitely going to need something else to have at least a small chance at this point i really thought that The Challenge ended because there was literally nothing in the vicinity of this area that had a counterattack for his team, but my conversation suggested that maybe a Pokémon could help.

Pikachu. Pikachu can be found in the Trophy Garden on Route 212 and this is the only electric type. Pokémon that is close to Crasher Wake's team and even that's kind of within range after catching a team of them, I wasn't too sure considering a Gyarados could

easily

knock out any Pikachu in one hit, so the only option What we had was to evolve. one of them with a thunder stone and I hope Raichu can handle at least one Pokémon. A big problem with these pikachu is the fact that no matter what level you catch them at, they don't know any electrotype damaging moves, the closest you can get is a lightning bolt. at level 26, but the maximum level they can be found at is level 24, so the only option was to go to the Vealstone department store and teach everyone thunder, although this is a great move, this means that Every time we attack there is a 30 chance. which won't even land after turning pikachu into raichu, in fact I ran into battle against barry in front of the gym despite not being fully prepared, I still managed to

beat

him on the first try, which gave me a little hope that this gym wouldn't do it.

It was a shame when it came time to face the coaches in the gym. In fact, I was surprised at how well Raichu handled all the battles. He almost did it all, so I knew he definitely had the strength to

beat

the leader. He just needed to have hope. That I nailed all the moves when I needed to for Crasher Wake. Wake's team consisting of Gyarados Quagsire and Floatzel Gyarados was by far the biggest problem because the fact that he speeds up and deals an absurd amount of damage to the entire team after a few failed attempts.

I decided to give Raichu the quick claw and only try it if I'm able to cast thunder first. This wasn't a big deal considering it's a guaranteed knockout and it's also the first turn of the match, so I won't do it. Spending a lot of time resetting after feeding Gyarados it became clear that floza was much more of a problem than that, not only does the ice fang deal a lot of damage but the aquajet one priority shoots all the pikachu on my team , which means raichu is literally the only pokemon that can knock it down, thunder, it doesn't do enough damage to knock it out and crunch reduces raichu to 1 hp with this in mind the only thing i thought i could try to do is become static and intimidate to my team.

I switch to Star Ravia and then immediately switch to Pikachu to have 30 static chances once that Pokémon is eliminated. I'll repeat the process until only Raichu and Star Ravi are left here. You just pray for critical thunder or landing. before it knocks you out as you can see every attempt is basically a full shot in the dark as the entirety of this match is rng based while i was doing the switch technique i managed to disable the static on the first pikachu he had His speed after dealing some damage from Tropius Raichu connected the first thunder to secure the overall victory.

This battle took around 45 minutes to overcome, but up to this point, this challenge was by far the most creative method we were given.it happened later. Confronting the grunt in Valor Lakefront, Cynthia gives us the secret potion to use on Psyduck blocking Route 210. Once we take them out, we can move north to Scholastic Town to take care of some more story-related events. The trainers on these routes are significantly higher level than my current team, so I spend a little time grabbing a scythe for some light backup before taking the routes leading into the city with this springy city.

There isn't much that needs to be done other than having a battle with Cyrus. in the cave, so I took a little more time to get some new members and make it a little easier. If you go to route 211, we can catch machoke and graveler, which are much more useful than you think that all the gravelers here have access to. self-destruct which can be extremely useful when defeating any of those tanky Pokémon that have been giving us so much trouble that, by the way, even without these Pokémon, the battle against Cyrus would probably have been very easy.

The only real problem here is the sneezing because we. We're blowing up cover, but Macho completely destroys it with a vengeance, so I did this on my first try. If we follow the story, Byron's team is the next big wall and considering that basically only Macho can help here, it's pretty obvious that we're going to need a whole new team again, after seeing a preview of Byron's team we realized Note that the best player would catch Gastrodon in the water on Route 205 and basically rip through his entire team with a stab of water and land, making it by far the smartest option we have after sailing.

For a moment we took our first one at level 31, but then I managed to find one at level 39. The highest level you can find them at is level 40, so this is almost the highest level Pokémon we can find at this point in the world. game after ensuring that in the team we headed to fire wireworks to catch 2 magmar and I bought the tm for fireblast for each of them. We also have the ability to get the tm for flamethrower, but I decided to try to save it. For more important sections later in the challenge, once we reach the city of Cantalave, we will have another battle with our rival on the bridge, although it seemed like a battle against Barry would be a nightmare since Gastrodon made such a huge difference because was the only Pokémon on the same level as the rest of its team, Magmar took out Torterra without any problem and even Graveler managed to beat Star Raptor without even having to use self-destruct.

Overall, this took three tries to win, which is a bit shocking considering we're getting to the point where, apart from Gaston, we're extremely underperforming in every match we start from here, I made a quick stop on Iron Island to grab the hm for strength and catch the new Graveler to replace the current ones on our team. They don't have a much higher level, but it's always a benefit to have a higher level Pokémon on the team for short. The trainers at Barbara's gym were literally destroyed by everything on my team. Byron's team didn't really pose any threat or counterattack.

I managed to pass on my first try, although it may seem like my crutch has magmar gastrodon, it actually did most of the work, so even being 10 levels down doesn't give us any difficulty after meeting the cantileve library gang, We all detoured to our respective lakes to take on the galactic commanders in general, the first two battles were pretty easy because they only have three Pokémon that you have to deal with and you can also avoid basically all the terrain along the way to make things a lot easier. simpler. There's really not much to say because it was so easy, but now is the time where we start facing some real threats in the story because the last lake is at the top of the map we go to.

Venture through Mount Coronette to get there after exiting at the top, we hit Route 216 and headed up to Snowpoint City. This is when the levels start to get worryingly high for trainer battles, but somehow my team managed to pull it off. Through all the mandatory battles I literally almost lost to the last trainer, but I got dumped on the last turn and left with only 4 hp in my graveler. I also made sure to grab the rock climbing hm on the way up, but overall I was very surprised at how well my team was able to handle the battles after reaching Snow Point City.

I immediately went to challenge Candace. The trainers at the gym were a little harsh, but it actually helped me plan a little because I was able to sneeze in one fell swoop. Self-destruct, which is a big deal because she leads with the same Pokémon when we take her to the Kansas team and it consists of a bunch of pigs, Obama, Snow, and Frost. Of all the Pokémon, the only real problem we have to deal with is Frostlast Obama. Acquaintance's ability sets a snow warning for the rest of the battle, meaning Frost will be able to take advantage of the layer of snow to evade and can also double-team to make it nearly impossible to hit.

This battle required a lot of testing. and bug when testing if using randance would be effective but it ended up damaging the team because the magmar fire blast was weakened and the piloswine pilots outspeed gastron anyway so he would still set up hail right before being eliminated to do things much more frustrating. After a while, the meta became just praying and waiting for the fire blast to land through evasion, resulting in quite a few restarts. Magmar couldn't take him out in one hit, so between the two Magmars I had, I had to make sure they both performed their moves. to win after many tries, Frostlast ended up getting a critical shadow ball and a critical blizzard on Magmar and Gastrodon, so I ended up having a 1v1 against her Frostlast with my other Magmar.

It was slightly damaged when I used a weak attack with Magmar and luckily I succeeded. able to deliver a final blow to secure the seventh badge Now that we have taken care of all this, it is time to reach the climax of the story once we head to Lake Acuity and meet up with our rival and commander Juniper, we will be able to head to vielstone city to cross the galactic building after quickly climbing the floors we arrived at cyrus this battle is almost the same battle that we did in celestial city so I applied more or less the same strategy and I took care of him in my On the first try After this battle, we obviously get the master ball, which will be very useful later, no matter what we decide to use it on.

The only other battle we have to face is against Commander Saturn. The real threat here is toxicity. Crow due to the poison jab, but luckily Graveler was able to take a hit and use self-destruct to finish this section of the challenge. From here, everyone heads to the spear pillar, but since the battles we will face will be extremely high level compared to us, I think it's time to take another group of encounters from all the currently available locations, no surprise, Mt. Coronette is the best place to find high level encounters, basically all the Pokémon they could find near the summit are really good, so I basically caught everything to make sure I had cover for every battle.

Here I caught meta cham obama snow golbat graveler bronzong and absol of all the Pokémon on my team before this, obviously I kept gastron due to its coverage and the fact that it is still at the same level as the rest of my recent catches, we are done leaving Metachan behind and spent some time at Veal Stone department store buying tms to make sure we're prepared for literally any grunt that comes our way, as you can tell our team. It's not exactly the most diverse team out there, but these are literally the best encounters we're going to have right now, so we're going to work with what we have as we make our way to the top of Mount Coronad.

There are a few battles to contend with, but overall they weren't too difficult, aside from a couple of Pokémon specific to all sections of the game. I'm afraid this would be the second most difficult section, so let's move on to the more important battles. In the galactic story, the first battle, the spear pillar is a double battle with two grunts standing guard and this one isn't even the slightest bit difficult, all of his Pokémon aren't even evolved so we can quickly move on to the battle that I wasn't really too much. I'm sure how it would go just before we face Cyrus, we have another double battle against the two commanders, but luckily our rival will help us overcome it, although Barry's team is very strong, the fact that he always goes with Munchlax means that We're basically in a 1v2 with the rare chance of a body slam, I ended up leading with Gastron and was able to take out half of his team before they knocked me out.

For some reason, they were prioritizing Barry's team, so luckily I was able to clean up. this battle with the rest of my team to finish this part after this battle cyrus summons the seaweed and palkia and geratina seem to suck him into the warp world, we naturally follow him and make our way through the puzzles and vertical waterfalls with cynthia before Putting you catch up with him at the end Now, if you watch this live, you're probably already having horrible flashbacks, so I apologize in advance at this point. I was pretty sure our team could beat Cyrus, but I also knew this was going to be the case.

Easily one of the hardest battles in the game. Cyrus' team consists of Hound Doom Haunch Crow Crobat Gyarados and Weavile. I went into this battle without a plan which, to be transparent, was the majority of this challenge, but nothing could have prepared me for how absurdly difficult it really is to start this battle. Hound Doom deals massive damage to literally everything on my team. It can take out Graveler Bronzong Obama Snow and Golbat in one shot, meaning I have an extremely limited option to start the battle I chose to lead with Gastrodon. who was relatively okay, but in 95 of these scenarios, gastrodon is completely useless in the end, either from being burned or reduced to 20 hp, the next Pokémon it sends out is Gyarados now, if we look back at our account with crash.

Awake you know thunder deals a ton of damage and luckily Absol has it ready for him the problem is the fact that it deals about half the damage and cascade is a ranged knockout most of the time he will live with less than 10 hp, but there are many. There are more factors that go into this matchup not only does the thunder have only 70 accuracy but the waterfall also has a chance to shake and if you watch this live you will understand how incredibly terrible my luck was. Most of my initial restarts for this battle were solely just the apps all missing thunder and if I missed it it was because it was shuddering or critical.

I honestly don't think I've ever had a worse crash in the history of playing Pokémon than with this stream, but after about 20 restarts I managed to beat Gyarados with a crit from here, he sends out Weville at that point, I knew we were going to be the biggest problem, but after spending so much time with Gyarados I realized I needed a new strategy. or the challenge was simply impossible with our current team, Weville obviously outclasses everyone on our team and as he also knows Night Slash Ice Punch Fake Out and x Scissor, he covers literally every Pokémon on my team apart from Gastrodon which we have to use. in hound doom to even get to this point during the stream when we first challenged him, I streamed for over 4 hours trying to beat him. 4 hours now keep in mind that I am well aware that I could come back and replace my Pokémon, but I knew deep down that this team had the ability to win.

I ended up so close to winning once, but I made a bad move and throughout the entire battle, knowing that this team could actually win made me even more stubborn because I wanted to try the game. bad but the amount of luck needed was so ridiculously high going back to talking about having bad luck I swear I saw literally everything in the book when I played this I froze twice in a row I got a total of three crits on houndoom all night and he also had a gyarados, came out of the confusion, fell out of love and then received a cascade of critics in my absol.

I felt like I was slowly becoming the eighth wonder of the world with the terrible luck I had all night. After trying every method under the sun, I ended up giving up at night because I had been streaming for almost seven hours, so I ended the day with a plan to beat him, but I still felt in the back of my head that this might be the end. . That said, it was probably one of theFunniest streams I ever made because we spent the whole time laughing about how bad my luck was, but I still decided to wait until tomorrow to try it with a fresh mind.

At the beginning of the stream I decided to give in and leave the warp world to trade a member of our team. It was pretty obvious that Obama Snow offered literally nothing to the team, as she was weak to almost everyone, so I caught a new machoke to help combat Weavile and make things maybe a little easier in the first battle against Cyrus. The battle proceeded normally with Gastrodon taking down Hound Doom before Absolve entered battle with Gyarados the day before. We figured that using a hint on turn 1 gives us a much higher chance of casting two thunders because it overspeeds and almost knocks us out anyway, so we stuck to that plan and ended up pinned.

I landed the thunder with paralysis so I could accelerate into the next turn, naturally I failed, but fortunately Gyarados was paralyzed. turn so I could freely throw another thunder to take him down, I chose to send him a choke next to face weavile and since we didn't really prepare for this, I wasn't sure if Machoke would actually live a move from that, but if we could throw a cross slash and knock him out because he has the ability to have no guard. I completely forgot. It was a fake on the first turn and it did a ton of damage, so I thought this was going to be a reset, but it was.

On the first try, so I kept going, it took a good hit and it must have been the worst low roll in Pokémon history because I lived with four hp and then sent it to breach the warp world with a single cross hit from here, he sends crowbat and then switch to hodge crow so bronzong's extra sensor doesn't land, so I sacrificed gastrodon for a free switch to graveler. I tried to perform a quick claw burst but it didn't go first but somehow I lived with 2 hp and I was able to knock him out in one hit and my surprise crowbar knocked out Bronzong after landing two flinches and healing so it's up to two Pokémon almost dead and my target bat to take care of the last Pokémon.

I landed with a confused ray and went for flying and ended up breaking down and made the risky move of going for Confuse Ray again. He got out of the confusion and went for an aerial slash, but ended up missing, allowing me to land and defeat his entire team, so long story short. I really should have taken machoke and this would have taken about four hours less, but like I said, I'm a little stubborn and I wanted to see if it was possible with the original team without the way we ended the galactic story. everything careful, the only thing left for us to do here is catch the legendary Pokémon Giratina, not only is it the highest level encounter we can get at the moment, but it is also such a good guy with a great moveset that obviously will be added.

For the team now you're probably assuming that I'm going to use my master ball on this Pokémon, but there's one more Pokémon that we can probably use better and use it on, so I spent about 30 minutes just throwing pokeballs. Until I finally caught it after leaving the spiritual pillar, we are free to go to the eighth gym, but I think it's time to work on gathering the final members of our team. If we return to San Gem Town, we can have a very close conversation. with Professor Rowan before we can head to Like Verity and enter the cavern after locating Mesparit, he will wander around the region and we have the ability to hunt him down through the marking map in our pokich after running between routes for a couple of minutes.

Find him and with the master ball we can add him to the team. Now you're probably thinking that it's a strange choice that I chose this Pokémon over the others and caught it because I plan to have all the lake spirits on our team. When we get to the elite four, although they are all the same type and will have multiple weaknesses, they are the highest level encounters we can have, aside from water surfing, and can learn an absurd amount of moves to cover any type. which I faced after grabbing a ton of dust balls, I went to Lake Acuity to catch Uxie and Lake Valor to catch Azelf, which gives us an extremely broke team to face the final gym, moving forward a bit, we reach Sunny Shore City and we talked to Volkner at the lighthouse before going to the gym because our levels are so much higher than before, every battle here was so absurd.

Easy, I knew Vulcan probably wasn't even going to be a problem. I admit I was a little cocky because I tried to get an omnidirectional boost from an ancient power and a sinister victory like seven times in a row, so I ended up losing because I rolled with possibly the best Pokémon on my team on the second try. I actually took Jolteon seriously and the only Pokemon that was really difficult was Electavire, but overall this section was effortless and I bulldozed through their team to claim. the final badge in the cinema region now that you are done with the story elements its time to take on the final challenge the elite four after talking it over with my chat we decided that most of the pokemon on the victory path will be quite useless against the Pokémon League, so we decided to choose a Pokémon that is now available to accompany our team of legends.

If we navigate to the north of the city, we can encounter Tentacruel. Not only is this Pokémon a good combination of being strong and a tank, but it is one of the few Pokémon you can find at level 50 at this point in the game. I used a knockback trick to get the encounter and surprisingly it only took a minute before I could add it to the team. From here I navigated the route and used the waterfall to reach the entrance to Victory Road, although you're probably expecting me to have a lot to say here because this is the hardest group of trainers in the region, this was much easier to what I expected.

Really, just one battle or so, a Pokémon being the trainer with a torterra on the second floor next to the strength puzzle, which was the only one that required a couple of tries to beat, but other than that, my team was able to get through it without problem after about 30 minutes I reached the end of the victory path and entry to the pokemon league now that we only have six miles left in the game I thought now it's better than ever to completely build my team for the rest of the challenge yes you've been Paying attention, you may have noticed that I only mentioned 5 Pokémon in our final team and I plan for the final member to be Graveler because explosions helped in so many situations so far in the game after grabbing that I spent quite a bit of time going over.

What would be the best movesets with my chat and collecting items in big tms? Luckily, during this whole challenge I saved almost all the good tms I found, so I was able to give my entire team a pretty crazy list of moves along with some tms I bought back from the Vealstone department store on the last day of the challenge. I ended up adding the finishing touches to my equipment before I was really ready to take on the biggest challenge we've ever had to face in the first battle we have to take care of. It's against our rival at the entrance, although his team is actually very strong, our elf antenna completely cooled down through all his team now even though this battle took me two attempts, but not for the reason you Do you think, for some reason this torterra gave me a single experience point and on the second reset it did the exact same thing for some reason, higher level Pokémon give one experience so technically the race is invalid because I literally win one experience point at the end of the day, it's a glitch and doesn't really change my Pokémon stats until I fight 20,000 of them, but this happens a couple more times during the run, just so you know that after one fairly easy battle we are ready to face the Elite Four, the first member is obviously Aaron and although his insect type team is relatively easy to defeat, it is important to remember that I really need to conserve as many power points as possible so that our move against Cynthia is as diverse as possible.

Of all the battles, this is the one that used the most Pokémon on my team, but that was mainly due to what I just mentioned, since I did most of the work, but the tentacle helped finish the ending because giratina was my only one. counterattack and He was knocked out midway through the match. This one still took me two tries, but it was my choice to try again using different moves. Bertha was by far the easiest member of the elite four. I hit Messberg Grass Knot, which nearly shot every Pokémon. our team and for the Pokémon I couldn't cover Tentacool and even Graveler were able to make this breeze battle.

There's really not much to say here except that Glasgow gave me a little trouble at the end, but this battle took a total of Five minutes to do Next is Flynn, his fire team is probably the least diverse team in the building, but there is a bunch of heavy hitters like Magmortar and Infernape that can give you a lot of trouble. Tentacruel and Giratina took up most of the battle. with hydroponic, an earthquake and azolf were used to take on infernape which is pretty funny the only real problem I had was dealing with the solar ray and the sun wasn't even up so it wasn't much of a threat at all Anyway, I'm not really.

Surprised, this is also an easy battle because almost all fire types in this game are pure fire, but with him out of the way, we are only left with one member of the elite four. Lucy is our final challenge before the champion and she is by far the best built. team in the pokemon league always lead lord mime and set up a light and reflect screen to help the rest of their team and because pokemon like espeon and alakazam are really fragile they get a big advantage in addition to dealing a ton of damage in On the first try I lost due to strategy, so I tried the old classic strategy of leading with Graveler and performing a quick claw burst.

I ended up landing on the first try, which left most of his team defenseless despite the screens his team continues to absurdly put up. strong, but Azov's U-turn into Giratina's shadow force is too powerful, the team doesn't stand a chance, I admit, although I got a little lucky with a couple of turns, but overall, the game Graveler was definitely the best to do this. a much smoother fight now all we have to do is take on the final challenge as you probably expected throughout the entire video cynthia is the champion of the central region and is

easily

the toughest opponent in the entire game, not only is she almost more than 10 levels over my team across the board, but aside from Rose Rage, he has some of the best Pokémon available in the game.

The biggest problem on your team, aside from Garchomp, is his spirit tomb leadership and that's mainly because we don't have a counter. Because it doesn't have any in this gen, I decided to set up a light screen to tank the shadow ball and then yawned myself to sleep so I could set up reflection as well after being knocked out, turned off the ads while I was sleeping and searched a nasty plot to make him as strong as he could with the limited time he had. My chat told me to look for a double, which was super risky even though the screens were on, but luckily he slept for another turn and I was on plus four with full health, as you can probably expect, not only did I take down the spirit tomb, but with the combination of fire and lightning psychic blast, I literally wiped out his entire team basically using only Azov, I was literally laughing throughout the entire battle.

As for how anticlimactic the end of this match was, but at the same time I was very grateful that we were able to put an end to this game and with that we have successfully defeated Pokémon Platinum by only gaining like 17 experience, but how did we do it? I did? So let's review, while many parts of this challenge were pretty easy, this challenge really forced me to think about the game in a completely different way and I'd be lying if this wasn't one of the most fun challenges I've ever streamed. Uploaded to this channel, the concept is very simple but it proves that you will find the most creative and unique ways to face even some of the simplest battles within the region if not in general.

I really love trying this for other games so if you liked it. this video and you want to save it, take other regions if we can reach 10,000 likes on this video, I will stream it and work on the video as soon as we reach the goal, speaking of streaming, if you want to see some of my live challenges are done like this. I'll start another nuzlocke there the day I upload this video. I usually stream around 4:30 ET and I promise it's worth your time, as always, please subscribe if you're new to the channel. and let me know what other challenges you would like me to tackle.continuation besides that that's all there is to say about beating Pokémon Platinum without gaining battle experience and that will be enough for today's video, if you liked the video please leave a like and consider subscribing as we will create More content like this coming soon.

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