I like how a lot of this run went: "I am super worried about the next part." followed by "That wasn't nearly as bad as I expected." And thats why you don't Fuckle with Shuckle.

If you want to make the most use of Shuckle, don't bother getting speed evs. Instead, fight Bidoofs for HP, to add even more tankiness and help win the chip war

For Shuckle, and other pokemon with really lopsided defenses (very low hp, very high def/spdef), putting your EV points into HP actually is super useful. The math can be a little complicated, but think of it like this. If you're taking 1 damage per hit, gaining 5 hp means you can take 5 more hits. So Shuckle actually gets a LOT bulkier with HP EVs.

Shuckle-only is basically the experience of doing a Pokemon run with a pet rock

On our way through, I took the skull fossil. I knew if I didn’t say what I took, you’d all ask. Actually, now that I think about it, everyone asks anyway. Comments are good for the KZfaq algorithm.

"Spam rest and hope for the best" What a line

Absolutely no issues with you using rare candies, no matter the run imo. All it does is save time (and sanity) for you, and we get more content and quicker to watch so it’s a win-win! Use whatever means necessary to do these runs MDB, your already going through enough just doing the challenges! Great video as always, keep up the great work sir ❤

"only shuckle Pokemon in combat" lol I love it

14:55 When fighting Floatzel you should have opened with Bug Bite. You would eat his berry and heal up while also denying him the free heal.

17:13 Ah yes, my favorite pokemon, Obamasnow

I don’t have any problem with sped up ep and health bars I actually think it’s a great quality of life improvement And it can only mean we get more mdb content ❤

21:44, that guy is adorable and needs a run. Week 1 of requesting a Mantyke only run, dealer's choice of game.

dont fuckle with the shuckle!

1:40 Ah yes, only Shuckle Pokemon

11:09 Juvi got the juice, rival got the pulp. Algorithm! Engagement!

"Shuckle has zero attack, you will lose" Nah dry bread: "Nah I'd win"

8:58 yeah tthe rocket hide out of platinum , clasical XDD

I’m surprised Power Trick was never utilized or even brought up

Let's explain the rules: Don't fuckle with shuckle.

Hehe yeahh.... Shhhhuckle....

If only Shuckle could get an evolution that boosted its HP.

The easy way to cheese a Shuckle run feels like it should involve Toxic stalling. Curious to see where this goes.

9:00 Rocket hideout 😂

I'm so glad u are using rare candies now!!! I remember when the poison challenge was released and it was basically hell on you. Besides the award if saying "i did it without rare candies" is cool and all, but I'd much rather u be able to play cooler more exotic challenges! Its not like we see any of the backend anyway besides some slightly spedup footage Keep up the great work man!!!

too bad you couldn't breed for Accupressure, as Accupressure shuckle is absolutely bonkers.

Funny enough, it'd likely be even easier in Gen 4 since Shuckle can use Power Trick which swaps the Defenses with the Attacks.

Rare candies are the standard for pokemon challenge runs of any kind now. Never hesitate to use them!

'this is really meant to be a support Pokémon, not your party lead" Funny you say that, since Shuckle's main role in competitive IS as a lead! Its main niche is setting up sticky web + stealth rocks before either fainting or using final gambit!

Power Trick was a high risk/high reward type move that actually can come in handy but ya gotta know the meta to get around with it. Found out in Heart Gold and it was fun. Best Bug Pokémon I have with 600 defense and special defense.

I was expecting rest, wrap, toxic, and sandstorm

I want to give a HUGE thanks to you MDB! Your content is amazing and helps me throughout the day. I listen to you while searching around the internet. Thanks for helping keeping my mind at peace :)

"water onix" meme kills me everytime lmao

I dont know how many different ways I can beg but PLEASE do the surskit run PLEASE

Over shell bell, I believe gluttony can be used to get attack boosts by Leichi Berry in situations.

im so happy that you finally use rare candies. Especially in challenges like this

Having used Shuckle in competitive fairly successfully in the past, it's super satisfying when it works, you just have to rethink how you play pokemon to play it effectively

I feel like Bide could have worked against the first gym

mdb upload right when i need something to watch while i do chores!

Ah yes my favourite place in Shinoh, the Rocket hideout

Rule suggestion, turn on set mode for full team runs.

Honch doesn't even have Night Shade in that final fight. Just fyi.

Ah yes, "The Rocket Hideout" where Team Galactic works. Love your stuff MDB!

Too bad you didn’t go for power trick. It would have been fun to see, even though it wouldn’t have worked well against physical attackers. Good news about gen 5 though! You’ll finally have Shell Smash! An over leveled shuckle with shell smash actually has a decent shot at out-speeding, and can even one shot things on occasion

Fun fact: the pokemon with the record for highest amount of damage done in a single attack is (or was last I checked) a shuckle. Max def swapped to attack on a fifth turn rollout boosted by defense curl. Pretty sweet

Actually laughed. I'm doing other stuff with this playing in the background and it's "Okay so I got to the ice gym and she sent out Obama snow early" I was like da faq?......OHHH LOL xD

My team for Platinum was Turtwig as starter, a Zubat in the cave on the way to the rock gem, a female Combee, a Gible, and 2 HM Slaves. Now there's a problem with this lineup, it gets destroyed by Ice. Thankfully Garchomp learns fire moves. But the highlight was soloing the steel gym with Vespiquen, which crit every single attack; only 2 shot was the Bastiodon.

I feel like Power Trick (swap your defense stat with your attack stat) would've made a fun if risky strategy in the late game. Shuckle learns it at level 48, dunno why you passed it up.

im surprised you didnt use power trick, wouldve made some of those fights very trivial, it switches ur atk with ur def

I thought of a fun run that you might like. There’s two trainers in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire called Ty and Gabby you should go through the entire game playing with their two Pokémon

MDB: but she didn't use it! [...] her Male rival's male Roserade: I beg your pardon, sir?

Man I love breaking through the Unlisted section and chilling a couple days earlier

I’m honestly surprised you didn’t use toxic or power swap strats (I think it’s power swap). Although seeing a shuckle brute force it’s way through Platinum is pretty funny.

9:00 ah yes my favorite gen 4 evil team team rocket

So glad the algorithm brought me back to your channel, great run and I'll be watching the new ones!!

It would be cool to see a Zorua only run one day. You could even try adding other party members just to activate Illusion and fool the enemy AI, so that you can beat those fights at a super low level.

I’m surprised there weren’t any toxic stall strategies in this run.

So glad you did this, Fire Red with only Shuckle was the first video of yours I ever saw!

Shuckle is awesome if you have the right moves (like Rest, Rollout, Acupressure[egg move only] and another attacking move). It's in this generation that Shuckle really gained momentum since the egg move Acupressure allowed it to stall the enemy till it maxed out all of its stats (sharply boosting one of its stats every turn without the ability to fail a boost cause once a stat is maxed it's not rolled for again) or at least the stats you need turn it into a complete beast, combined with the insane power that Rollout provides after hitting a bunch (luckily, accuracy is also boosted by Acupressure so it will never miss once you get an accuracy boost once). That said, you could've made your life easier by teaching Shuckle Sandstorm, which provides a special defence boost to rock types while it's up, since it removes rain/sun/hail and also chips away at the enemy (unless it's a ground/rock/steel type).

Tried this one with Shuckle but then in Gold. Was also difficult, but not as difficult as in Platinum I think

Funny to hear you talk about playing Bannerlord in the outro as I actively am playing Bannerlord watching your video. Great work as always :)

Pokemon Platinum, with only priority or multi-shots moves, nothing else, with 3 pokemon of your choice, but less than 450 base stats each.

#MDBA Challenge idea: Can you Beat Oblivion, Poison only run? The rules are pretty simple: - you can only use Poison as a means of dealing damage - when using alchemy, you can only make poison of course, you can add rules as you see fit As usually, I'm writing this before you ever did the challenge let me know in the comments if MDBA decides to do it at any point. Comments are good for the YT algorithm after all

For future referenced Bug is good against dark We could've bug bit weavile

I'm super excited for this. I tried it ages ago but hacked in leftovers and there was a trainer just after the first gym that was shockingly difficult (I had to level up to get rest and still only won due to either me or them using stuggle). I can't wait to see whether MDB also struggles or whether I had missed something obvious. Edit: So I think me using leftovers is what made that fight difficult. I beat the first gym at a lower level, so then had to level for that fight while MDB had to be a high enough level for the gym and so didn't have difficulties with the trainer.

Always love a shuckle run. Certainly hope you can figure out the auto-fire at some point.

Rim world! Finally! I've missed that series so much you have no idea

I love how you said rocket hideout. Too many gen 1 and 2 challenges lately 😂

I would like to see a dual typing, no STAB moves run in gen 3. An added diffucilty could be only allowing yourself to use only level up moves so you would have very limited options, and choosing the right party members would be essential.

Auto rapid fire A button: All other games: Welcome! Pokemon Gen 4: (Russian accent) No. That is for poo c. You press A like man comrade.

He may be Shuckle, but he doesn't chuckle.

Suggestion: Cute pokemon only as dictated by amity square. So, has to be DPP. Also, you can't use pokemon that aren't cute, like Chansey, just the cute Happiny. Should be easy since you get a starter and en eeveelution, but it might be fun. Especially if you ban the starters.

Suggestions for challenge runs: Pokemon Black with Snivy (Grass has bit of a tough matchup in the Gen5 games, so it should provide some rock blocks, but it does get some useful status moves like Leech Seed, Growth & Coil) & Pokemon Blue with Scyther (it learns no STAB move in Gen1 outside of the weak Wing Attack at lvl 50 only in Yellow).

I REALLY think that those attack EVs you farmed early on helped out here. Awesome run. I may have to try this one out!

1:36 "only shuckle pokemon in combat" my favorite pokemon type, shuckle!

Just started watching, but looking at the moveset. I would end up running a stall set with rest, sub, toxic, and dig. That is for everything not immune.

Slaking only challenge please! I think that would be super entertaining

Interesting as ever. So three possible runs, you might have fun wirh: Vulpix only in gen 4 platinum or heartgold/soulsilver (in that case a team of vulpix, otherwise it will most likely be impossible). An Eeveelution run - gen 4 platinum. Use randomizer for first, second is in the city of the ghost gym i think (?) numbers three through seven by breeding. This will be some kind of holiday for you compared to the other hard runs you had! Thir run idea: can you beat pokemon crystal as elite 4 bruno? I suppose he will be able to brute force his way up to the elite 4. I am not sure about kanto and Red. On top, could you imagine a kind of sub type challenge run? Rather than as Elite 4 Whoever or Champ Who-cares you try going the route until hit a brick wall and then reworking your moves (as good as possible!). Some of the teams are great, but literally crippled by bad move choices. I could imagine rechoosing 1 or 2 moves, but keeping the team as it is? (No Pokemon changes, rest of moves need to be the same!) Maybe you can only rework one move per gym? So eight moves in total?

Shuckle always makes for interesting moments

I have a video series suggestion. It's a pokemon series, you take a game. I would suggest fire red for the first one. But you take an evolutionary line and play through the game with just that pokemon. Then you rank it in a tier list. You go through the game with the rest of the Evo lines and pokemon and continue ranking them to determine which pokemon are the best to do solo runs in the game is. It'd give you a ton of content and a new pokemon series. You could do it for every game. That's hundreds of videos that would likely perform well in the algorithm.

Always looking forward to your awesome chalelnges!

surprised he didnt see rollout and power trick and think that would be a great combo that will make the make the run a breeze

Pokemon Platinum with only Beedrill

Here's a suggested challenge:Beating pokemon red with only first form pokemon. In this case, you use only pokemon that can evolve and use them in their first form i.e. pokemon like Tauros and Snorlax can't be used since they don't evolve.

I think Bide would have been better for dealing with Roark.

I'm about to watch, if there isn't a "You don't fuckle with shuckle" line I'll be slightly disappointed, ngl. Oh and uhh, yeah fossil?

Do the Emulator thing. Don't stress. But don't forget to get the helix fossil in your way out, buddy.

Because he has the juice!! That’s awesome!!!

Dang. I don't think I commented on the last video... which is odd for me. I watched/enjoyed it as always. Ah well; I'm sure you know I do. That said, definitely looking forward to next week's run.

I'm genuinely surprised that you won

platinum with a honchkrow with super luck is something I'd like to see.

Ngl it bugged me that you didn’t think to use bide against the rock gym probably would have increased your dmg output and finished the fight before rest possibly

1:53

All aboard the Shuckle Shuttle!

Yknow, MDB, I’ve only ever done one of these solo Pokémon challenges and I did it with a combo I’m sure was never done. Bunnelby only, alpha sapphire. It is possible! The biggest hurdle is definitely phoebe but it’s 100% doable and I did it myself. Would love to see you touch the later gens with solo runs, especially one so dear to me

Keep the great work mdb ❤ u should get 500k soon ❤❤❤❤

Lol he almost said the f word when he learned Rock Slide required Rock Climb.

You never gave him his best move organ harvest 😂😂😂

here me out for another challenge idea: Can I Beat Pokemon Emerald with only 6 Ponyta (specifically make it a team run, that's funnier to me)

Dorkly should animate this 😂😂

Big effort make worm turtle win, yay :)