Love to see these challenges! I have a brutal idea for a challenge - 30 HP Pokémon only

The 21 attempts was fitting. It was your own self damaging move

This looks like a challenge that would actually work pretty well for Pokemon TCG 2... Seeing as how you have options for all the "only [blah] type pokemon/energy" challenges, and all.

So we had the Oppenheimer run, what's the Barbie run like?

I think it's becoming inevitable for you to do a "win by deck out only" challenge at this point. Though I think that Fossil Moltres and Imposter Professor Oak are the only cards you can use that actually directly contribute to that strategy.

I knew you were masochistic, but this is taking it to the next level

Man, I feel like out of all of the challenges you've done for this game, this one really showcases some of the AI quirks, especially the one where the AI will constantly draw cards until they eventually deck themselves out. Some of those battles and victories were ridiculous lol. I'm not surprised you struggled so much with Courtney though. I feel like out of all of the Grand Masters, she probably has the best deck.

Your videos have improved so much over time! Awesome stuff.

I skipped the beginning and just stared at the player name, like "'OPEN'... 'HAMMER'?"

The reason all of the fossil versions of the pokemon do enough damage to KO your pokemon even with a defender is because that was one of these strongest things to do with base set

I think the issue with Courtney is, because of the stacked deck High-Level NPCs have, and because of that, her usually having several energies from Moltres, she ends up preying on decks that need set up. Combine that with Fire's high damage and nothing resisting it, and she ends up being able to stamp out slower decks. I think in the future, if there's more than a handfull of mons, I would allow multiples of good ones, or maybe make yourself play a deck focused on one or two at a time, and rotate between them.

I remember playing the TCG on the gameboy as a kid, and finding out my Magnemite could survive its own explosion with a defender. Felt amazing to learn. I loved making my Magnemite blow itself up twice in a row.

"She gets a Moltres, two Magmar, a Ninetails, and an Arcanine, how do think it went?!"

dude please make this challenges: 1.beating the game with any starting deck 2. use only moves that cause self confusion. Love your videos bro.

Best challenge in the world hahah Love you Paras 🍄🍄

28:13 made me double take because for a second I thought you meant the opponent literally surrendered the match. (Then I saw in the results he decked out)

Nice challenge. Well done! Your vids are getting better. Could have used some light BGM in the background. If it's within your capabilities, looking at the AI in this game could be really interesting. A lot of the opponent decisions are questionable but would be interesting to see the code in action.

I have seen this man wandering the streets of Cincinnati and he does always have an Into the AM shirt

Whaaaaaaaaaat!?!?! I CANNOT WAIT TO WATCH THIS! Your vids are amazing to watch after I get home from work (I work night shift) because your voice has a soothing, Bob Ross like cadence to it 🙂👍 I also rewatch after I wake up to see what I missed 🤘😎🤘

Everquest music? In a Pokemon TCG Video? Interesting Choice Paraspectre. I had to go back and double check when I heard the PoK Music lol.

I’m gonna throw a hat into the ring again, promo Pokémon only! Make those Pokémon you never use, find a use!

12:44 Predictions. The hardest part of this challenge is actually the multiple types. Too many, in fact. Getting Energy screwed is what will gnaw away at your sanity. Having your moves restricted, or even the fact that they damage you won't be the hard part.

The name being OPNHMR is so good 😂

Next challenge: Damaging moves that may "miss" (coin flip tails, no damage). Edit: 1 coin only

Random challenge ideas. A) Ditto challenge: not the card so probably a different name is needed. Start with a deck the game gives you and you can only use that deck, no changing it until you beat a gym leader. Then when you defeat one, any Pokemon you knock out must be added to your deck replacing any Pokemon you choose. Idea is that your deck is constantly changing and causing you to really modify. B) Nuzlocke challenge: start with a deck from the game. You have access to all the cards in the game. When you lose to a gym leader only, the Pokemon they knock out in a duel you must remove from your deck and replace with any that you wish. The idea is to see if you can make it through with any Pokemon left.

When I recently replayed the game with the rule of beating every opponent exactly once from a fresh file (so no farming of packs), Courtney was my only loss in the whole playthrough. I got a pretty nice budget haymaker deck going with full playsets of Hitmonchan and Scyther, but I never opened any Super Energy Removals or Item Finders and then also made the mistake to bring a build that can't do much about Moltres full of energy flipping for attacks that 1-shot all my mons.

This challenge seems so brutal but you pulled it off! Happy to see this game come to the switch so I can play again

I'm imagining every single battle ending with that little plastic card table just exploding and leaving you and the club masters covered in cartoon soot as cards rain like confetti. Whether the confetti is celebratory or ironic depends on if you win. Then comes the 52 card pickup. Here is a challenge for you, randomly generated deck recipes. Have a chatbot randomly select 6 basic pokemon cards, and then add evolutions where applicable. Add the appropriate energies, then generate your trainer cards. If you lose to the club leader 3 times in a row, you can generate a new deck. For added challenge, you have to generate a new deck between clubs, and when you go to the endgame boss rush. If you play these on an emulator, I would recommend just starting with a cheat that gives you all the cards.

The challenge videos are still fun. Yeah it boils down to some opening draw luck, ai manipulation, bad luck at time, but your commentary helps bring it all together.

It's really the Moltres being pretty much multiple energy search at once that carries Courtney's deck.

Heck yeah, I was hoping for this run! :3

Loving the exploding sound effects and visuals

Love to see a challenge video as always! I've recently started playing the pokemon tcg rom hack, neo recently and it's been really cool to play the same game with newer cards. Would you ever play a romhack?

Hey Paraspectre! I just wanted to tell you that I've been a fan of your channel for a little while but I really enjoy your TCG challenges! I think I've watched them all more than like a few times to be honest. Also did you know that Pokemon TCG is on the Switch now? I'm curious as to if you are going to utilize that for your challenges in any shape or form? I'm assuming no but it would be cool if you did a challenge on the Switch version.

This is gonna be fun. I can only imagine how some of the later fights will go, given that those Pokémon can actually deal adequate damage

What an ironic way for a self damaging run to end

Your channel is a nice comfort to watch. Very fun content

Congratulations on having the patience to defeat Courtney with that terrible team. She's the hardest trainer in the game IMHO.

I love watching these challenges.

Babe drop everything there's a new Paraspectre video

Idea: Coin flip only moves. Anything with "x damage times the number of heads" (like Stone Barrage) or "if tails this attack does nothing" (like Fly). Essentially any moves that rely on heads flips to do damage. To add a bit of strategy, coin flip status moves are allowed, but _only_ if they're non-damaging.

god i love the line "I'm like the Shaq of the Pokemon Trading Card Game" so much

At first I scoffed at the one of each mon rule, but then I realized a deck with only 4 electabuzz could sweep the whole game pretty easy.

I feel like Scoop up could have helped, as a healing option. Getting Chansey, Zapdos or Electabuzz refreshed means more hits. Also you could deny some KOs to opponents with that.

This video features Oppenheimer vs. Ken. That is all. (It's not actually all. Given how the Legendary Cards never really get to see play, it might be interesting to do a challenge around them specifically, though I guess you would have to cheat them in)

I saw the title and thought "I did that a bunch of times! It's actually kinda fun!" until I remembered the deckbuilding rules for challenges on this channel - I'm not hardcore enough for that RNG fest😅 Personally, I prefer building functional decks around the premise of my challenges, so I really approve of Slowbro! It's the perfect fit for a regular build of a self-damage deck (say, an Arcanine Chansey deck like Fire Clubmaster one, but with Slowbro thrown in to heal them)

I really gotta stop watching this at bed time lol there's been at least 4 full watches from me so far. It's been an awesome viewing though! This looks like it's been a nightmare to attempt 🤣

To me it sounds like Courtney's deck is super powerful, sounds like you need to play it.

Okay this was a very interesting challenge and you did great man, good job :)

I feel like Arcanine is gonna crush this challenge 100 HP 30 Dmg to self is WAY too good. + u can combo with Defender to only take 10 plus a reduced 20 dmg on w/e attack u take next turn. I can't tell u how many times I've swept with just his 80 DMG Take Down attack. Let's see how paraspectre decides to play it. This should be interesting........... thx :)

How about beating the Pokemon TCG by only decking out the opponent? Including Ronald!

Hopefully you'll see this comment but I think for certain challenges that use certain cards you may as well just cheat in all the cards. Would save you a lot of time grinding for cards and you're only going to be using certain cards in the challenge anyway. So I wouldn't consider it cheating that gives you an unfair advantage in the challenge itself other than saving time.

I wonder if a Nuzlocke kinda challenge would be possible where if your fully defeated in a battle you have to kill all of the cards you were using (so they could no longer be used)

39:40 Rod doesn't have Fire Energy in his deck. He's relying on Charmander's Scratch, Charmeleon's Slash, and Charizard's Energy Burn.

This was a great idea for a challenge and it was a blast to watch.

The "recoil moves only" stipulation seemed difficult enough already, but forcing yourself to use EXACTLY one copy if each Pokémon with a recoil move is borderline masochistic

Here’s an idea, not sure if there’s enough Pokémon to make a deck with but - only use Pokémon attacks that make you discard your own energies.

Really love these challenges, they seem like they give room for a lot of creativity compared to the "only using this one pokemon" runs. Which are still good themselves, don't get me wrong.

Hah, love the Weezing explosion effect

LETS GOO, LOVE THIS GAME

I like this challenge pal

If you know when to click, you can hit heads almost every coin flip

My favorite deck in this game is the energy steal deck using like golduck and dragonair every attack drops their energy from their active pokemon so they never can attack

aka "SM Pokemon TCG run and I'm not talking about sun and moon"

This game is available on the Nintendo Switch Gameboy app and all the Multiplayer features work online.

These are without a doubt my favorite of your videos. What a treat for me to see them! Excellent video and thank you for the upload :D Do you think it would be worth doing an "Alphabetical cards" challenge?

Conheci teu canal agora, gostei muito do vídeo parabéns

I wonder if some sort of nuzlocke challenge could work. Like one expansion pack per area and you just kind of have to build a deck from there, and if the card is defeated, it dies.

Did I mention this once to you on Twitter? Side note: I didn’t get this recommended. I had to look you up :( hope you’ve been good!

Ironic how this run also did self-damage to Paraspectre

Hey my comment about chansey got featured! Love to see it ^__^

Dog that's crazy I haven't heard of Into the AM since I was like 14. I think I bought a space hoodie and joggers from them and they looked good, ran a little amall though

I think if there's two different magnetons it would be fair to have two of the same magnemite in the deck

"Raichu has 80 HP" Me mishearing it: "me too"

I absolutely love these videos, but the "I win because they played kangaskan and I took advantage of the GB ai" gets old quick, you might want to consider adding a clause in these challenges to prevent that in the long run. At the VERY least you need a single run through with a "I lose if they deck out" clause. Still, just food for thought, I enjoyed this challenge a lot! 🎉

There is a ..... altered version of tcg2 out the called pokemon trading card Neo.... it uses the neo genisis series of cards

I’ve noticed you never seem to press the select button to sort your hand or deck when searching the deck. It makes it so much easier to find and select the cards you need!

Do you think you could beat all of the club masters with the only move you use being self-destruct without winning by deck out?

Nice

Perfect game nickname :D

I was rewatching 3 challenges of you yesterday and just now see your new video... stupid yt

How about an all deck out run? You can use whoever you want but you can only win via decking out your opponent

I asked your mom about the shirt and she said "Who are you?! What are you doing in my house?!" So I highly doubt you wear them that often

I wonder where you came up with such a cool trainer name 🤔

What decks y’all using to beat the 4 masters?

Do a challenge where you win by making all your opponents deck out

I hurt myself today

Actually game codes states that the grand masters cheat they keep restarting their draw 7 cards until they get the hand they want and no they ignore the mulligan rule they shuffle and redraw NO MATTER WHAT so courtney isnt that good

How about a run of Pkmn TCG2 using only Team Rocket "Dark" Pkmn and their basic forms(preferably ONLY the Team Rocket version of the basics), and only Team Rocket Trainer cards. Think about it... "Admin Paraspectre"

Fossil evolution challenge

You shouldn't have put _every_ mon (Highlander style) with recoil. Should have limited it to a more viable set with multiples.

Character name? 🧐 OPPENHEIMER 🤣

you kinda look like Mike Shinoda

Para-shaq? Or Shaq-spectre?

Wait... was the character named... OPPENHEIMER?

Please do a solo Dark primeape run/j, that sounds awful

How about a run where you can only use Coin flip "or this attack does nohing" attacks?

Can you beat the game with having every opponent deck themselves

Tey usin g the legendary cards only? Sounds easy? It really isnt

I cant be first...right? Also...this seems like its gonna be rough. Selfdestruct and Double Edge.