Can we get applause for Scott?! Because he’s the best poketuber out there. The amount of time and effort he puts in his videos to entertain us. Thank you Scott keep it up 👏👏

40:23 The AI in gen 1 picks its action/move AFTER the player makes their move. So, in this case, it saw that you switched out to Haunter BEFORE it chose which move to use - causing it to choose Hydro Pump instead of Quick Attack.

Oh my god! I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw my name on your poliwag! That made me so happy! 😍 Thank you so much, Scott, for giving us weekly content to watch. My work days are so much better because of you 😊 P.S: I think this nuzlocke series is a great idea. It's cool to see you making decisions in a different context that solo challenges, and it gives us a fresh experience as well. Keep it up, you're doing great!

Nidoqueen, stay DETERMINED!

Your dedication to Yellow is admirable, it must truly be your favorite game of all time.

Scott and a Nuzlocke this is happiness.

Also this overlay is incredible, I can't get enough of your runs

If scott had a sub for every time Poliwhirl crit when it shouldn't, he would have a diamond play button.

Scott, I have a bunch of feedback for you and hope it helps with future nuzlockes: 1. NEVER get cocky in a nuzlocke. Thinking you can take risks will cost lifes. Always go to at least near the level cap. 2. Never rely on inaccurate moves. In solo challenges you can reset until your strategy works, but in a nuzlocke it means death and unnecessary risks. Hypnosis, Sing and the likes are to be avoided. The lowest accuracy you should use is the 75% of sleep powder. Throw everything below that into the trash. 3. Play around the crit. Even your own. Lets face it: in this challenge you knew it was coming. I do like myself an interesting nuzlocke, but not at the cost of the mons. Losses caused by cockyness or poor preparation only stirr exasperation directed at the trainer in me. You can do better and - even more important - you can treat your pokemon better, since they are the reason why nuzlockes exist. Its not about "oh, these IVs are soo bad", its about "yeah, he is weak. But together, we WILL win this!" Love your team, scott. These specific mons only live once.

I 100 % understand your choose with the rare candies, but for me the training is probably the part where I'm losing the most Pokemons. Either because I get critted and OHKd by a stay Rattata or simply that I level up to few times because the training is a pain so I'm underleveled.

Scott's doing a pokemon yellow playthrough and 4 out of 6 of his pokemon have moves that make the opponent go to sleep? I never would have guessed.

The most nerve-wracking finale to a Scott video I've seen. Well done!

8:25, I'm going to say with confidence that the Nidos are the definitive nuzlocke winners. You're sure to do great with Nidoqueen moving forward straight to the end game, and I am confident I wont have to come back here and edit this comment about how I'm going to have to eat these words. Edit: 31:23 - ok so that's all I need to see. Nidoqueen still around clearly she's going to sweep the rest of the league... no need to finish the video... nope, nosiree...

Overlay is so good. It’s what puts you on top. Love it. I think it would be more fun if you had no repeat moves - and you could extend that further for sleep moves saying only one could have either sleep powder or hypnosis at a time.

I generally don't enjoy nuzlocks, but of course my favorite poketuber manages to make it fun to watch. Thank you for all the work you put into these videos! I love seeing all the extra information your overlay provides. Keep up the amazing work!

Best explanation to the rare candy thing. I’ve always said it’s a bit of a disadvantage but the recording time is clutch to drop. More nuzlockes please :)

It’s very cool seeing a hardcore Nuzlocke from you! The layout was especially cool, the way it adapted to show off your team members.

Although excited, yellow is extremely simple for hc nuzlockes.

I really like that you don't calc every battle and didn't always go to the level cap. It feels like a lot of nuzlocke videos these days are more showing off solved puzzles than adventures. My favorite play throughs of Pokemon games are Marriland's Diamon playthrough from when that was new and he made it feel like an anime, slowly building an interesting team of six, and ProJared's FireRed nuzlocke where he hardly knew anything about the game, made goofy names and then made personalities based on those names.

I have thoughts for Scott! 1. You're right about the rules. There are a lot of differences between a true Nuzlocke and the "hardcore nuzlocke": a true nuzlocke starts at Power On and doesn't allow glitch candies, and you can't manipulate encounters because there's no duplicates clause. I think hardcore nuzlocke runs make better content. 2. You killed me when you taught nido body slam two levels before it learns it naturally 😂 I absolutely LOVE the raw Scott! Your recent stuff is so polished on the final playthrough, which I do love, but it's nice to get the mistakes that we all fell in love with. 3. Your proposed rules are fun! I can't wait. 4.Idea on rare candies: How about you can use them only four times all playthrough (but as many as you want at that time). So, prior to Brock, prior to Misty, after Erika, and before the penultimate rival battle, for instance. That eliminates most grinding but allows for some drama. 3.

One way I found to make HC nuzlockes more fun is no training on wild Pokémon. Makes you have to decide which Pokémon are worth leveling in battle, growth rate, and when to battle trainers / save for leveling on later. Also when you get to the e4, you definitely won’t be able to have 6 Pokémon who are leveled enough. Fun option

Not playing to the level cap really costs lives in nuzlockes, especially if you plan on doing later generations. Never get complacent because that nearly ended your run by not adhering to the level cap. While it might be more challenging, I think folks would rather you succeed than needlessly throw the run.

Dude, you are the YELLOW MASTER! You can put rules like no sleep, no TMs and level cap 30% lower than gym leader. That’s a CHALLENGE! Great video as always!

Standard logic for rare candies is that you can use them after you unlock the daycare. Reason being that it’s no different from depositing a Pokémon and cycling round, it just saves loads of time for everyone involved

Instead of a Dragon type monolocke, you can choose to go for a Dragon egg group instead? It'd give you a bit more variety to choose from and you could form a team out of it (Charizard, Arbok, Gyarados, Seadra and Dragonite... No Aerodactyl since it belongs to the Flying egg group).

Personal preference, but I've always thought level capping to the gym leader's ace is too easy. Afterall, as players we get to have both a full team and type advantage. When I'm trying to challenge myself, I instead prefer to set a soft level cap based on the gym leader's lowest level Pokémon. I say soft cap because my rule is only that I'm limited to that level when entering the gym. Any levels I gain while fight in the gym are fair game.

Hey Scott, nice to see your version of a hardcore nuzlocke, even if this is still the very beginning. What I enjoy most about this kind of challenge is the player creating a tactic around what pokemon they have available any executing that efficiently. So to be honest seeing you getting punished for not leveling up to the cap and then having to rely on inconsistent sleep tactics to brute force through felt like you deserved it. x) I'm looking forward to your mono-type hardcore nuzlocke runs. Mono-type runs are my favorite way to casually play through older games, so it would be nice to see content like that!

32:20 - We have a non-slacking Bruno in the house today too. This is amazing!

24:24 I’m still waiting for that juicy Poliwhirl solo challenge to completely obliterate Poliwrath 🤓

Now, the most important attacks in this challenge will obviously be self-destruct and explosion

I remember the first nuzlocke, i been excited for a second one ever since. TODAYS THE DAY!

Yay, more nuzlocke! And such a snazzy overlay! Love it! Great job, Scott!

I think when it comes to the rules section, you should include the additional rules you’re using as well like Species Clause and Unlimited Rare Candies. I do like even with unlimited Rare Candies, you still wanted to make it a challenge at certain points by not being at the level cap. If you’re going to try to be at the level caps at future runs, I recommend checking learnsets of mons particularly level-up sets since that can help you with giving mons their best sets or making sure to keep a mon unevolved to get a powerful move faster. Speaking of moves, I think it’s also important for to try and save your best moves until it’s Elite 4 or at an important battle since you don’t want to risk losing it to a death. I see that you didn’t use gift mons or in-game trade mons, but I think they’re fine as long as they’re counted as an encounter in the area. All in all, I can’t wait to see what this Nuzlocke series is going to be like in future videos.

I think you're overthinking the backend stuff too much. The stats and stuff is nice and really helpful with the solo runs since they are supposed to show the best possible outcomes. I dont think it's nearly as important for nuzlockes however and they might even be more interesting in a more raw format. I think maybe you should try a later generation nuzlocke without all the bells and whistles and see how people receive it.

"Overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer." RIP Trio and unLucky.

I’m very happy this video exists. Thanks for being a kind human being :)

Should be interesting! (The rules for a solo challenge are still posted in the description)

Nooooo, drop it NOOOOOOWWW 😭😭

Love when my favourite poketuber does a nuzlocke! To answer your question, yes banning sleep in gen 1 makes nuzlockes more fun! Please do it if you like the challenge

Wow I gotta say this is THE best overlay I have ever seen for any pokemon video, the stats and moves of not only your pokemon but your opponents is really cool to see

So glad to have Scott on the Nuzlockes! Gen 1 content for Nuzlockes is not at a premium but Scott has nailed this! Also big props to using the rare candies, some KZfaqrs like to pretend it’s this big deal but it’s simple - do your viewers want to watch you grind for 45minutes to get all your team to level 12 for brock? no we don’t, so why should you have to do it 😂 keep up the amazing content Scott!

Always fun to see Scott battle his own hubris (the true final boss of any challenge runner) in these but squeak out the win.

As far as banning certain moves go, most Nuzlockers I watch don't normally ban the sleep moves, but the Set Up moves, as they can potentially trivialize otherwise potentially challenging battles. But anyways! Loved this vid

Love, love that expression on Nidoqueen. "I didn't hear no bell!"

Here's an idea for future nuzlocks: When I play pokemon i generally do what I call "no-grind" runs, basically I don't allow myself to gain any exp () from limiteless sources (so no rebatteling trainers or knocking out wild encounters, also no daycare or limitless rare candy). [I also play on set mode without items and have an unwritten rule to use a "sensible number of pokemon" for the part of the game I'm in, so no concentrating all the exp into 2-3 mons] I did do a no-grind nuzlock in pokemon x/y and in oras. It plays quite differently form a hardcore nuzlock: 1st loosing a pokemon is even more devestating because you also loos all the exp you invested in that pokemon 2nd you basically never train more than 6 pokemon unless you loose one and have to replace it 3rd It might sometimes be necessary to use a pokemon in battles even if its not optimal because you need it to gain exp for a later challenge 4rd the optimal strat is to battle every trainer, so it ends up being more time consuming than if you use rare candy but less timeconsuming than a hardcore nuzlock without rare candy. disclaimer: I never played the original gen 1 games so I have no idea how hard or eazy that would be.

Would absolutely love to see an Emerald nuzlocke! I love your content, keep it up, Scott!

About that Koga battle: the reason Venomoth used Leech Life the moment Lucky came in is because, in Gen 1, the AI waits to choose its action after you. The computer knew you were sending out a Psychic-type, and knew to use the super-effective move there. Still, you probably would've lived a non-critical. Just bad luck,

So excited to watch this when I have an hour free! After all these solo runs, a nuzlocke will be a treat.

Only difference i would make with your Weepingbell/Victreebell is waiting to evolve until lv 42 when it learns Razor leaf. Stone evolutions unfortunately do not have level up moves any longer and Razor leaf is one of the best grass moves in gen 1. Another reason i say this is because you could give Mega drain to a different pokemon to improve your type coverage overall. Also id have switch trained abra and let it learn psychic naturally, then give the psychic tm to maybe Butterfree. But to each his/her own lol. Great video and good luck in future nuzlockes.

After watching, I love the video, and I must say I love the changes you put up in the "post mortem"

Favorite solo run poketuber with my favorite pokemon gamemode? Hell yeah

I love that the thumbnail has the Pokémon all beat up except for haunter because he’s a ghost already.

Its fascinating watching a solo run specialist take on a nuzlocke ! Its two totally different skill sets and both dont really lend well to the other. Good job though and I can't wait to see you improve

Against Koga Scott could have used the advice of The Ancestor: "Over confidence is a slow and insidious killer."

One of the first comments I made on your channel was to say I liked your nuzzlocke but continue your normal content. But I actually love to see you doing other stuff now tbh

Today I finish my Pokémon Red Nuzlocke while watching your video Scott, thanks for teaching me all the in and outs of the first Gen, I beated the League without anyone fainting.

I usually listen to Scott’s thoughts videos, while I’m working, and when I heard : O It made me think of colonoscopy and I was like why is that a good Bellsprout name..? Then I looked at my phone and had to forcepalm myself in the face🤦🏽‍♂️🤣

New sub here. I really like your thorough commentary and the overlays you add. Adds a good amount of detail to what you are doing

we've come full circle back to maining sleep strats and i love it more than ever

thank you for putting so much effort into these videos, it’s crazy how much time I spend listening to your voice haha

21:18 the Nuzlockers greatest enemy: Hubris! Not too surprised Scott never got Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle and Eevee since their evolutions are very good in Gen 1.

So interesting fact about Pokemon Generation 1 games. The Opponent does not select their move at the same time as you do as in all later generations. Instead, they choose their move, when its their turn to act in the speed order. This means if you Swap out, they will act. This is also interesting in the case of pokemon who's only psychich type move is Hypnosis. The AI knows not to use Hypnosis vs a sleeping pokemon. However it will prioritize using hypnosis for super effective pokemon. As such, if you had a poison type out, and used the Pokeflute every turn while being faster than the hypnosis user, you wake your pokemon up, it now decides since your awake, and hypnosis is super effective, to spam hypnosis. As such, when you were versing Vaporeon in the champion battle, when you swapped your Poliwhirl out, it acted before the rival, so when Haunter hit the field, it then chose its move based on haunter being on the field. TL;DR, the AI cheats.

Just a few tips: 1) repel strategies can be used to help select specific pokemon in conjunction with dupe clause. 2) game corner Pokemon 3) Kanto starters? You could have added them. Fishing spots in towns can give you a Magikarp (old rod) or Krabby/Poliwag/Goldeen (good/super rod). 4) having your pokemon at level cap will allow them to level up during a gym battle giving you a slight edge. 5) sacrificial pokemon can help keep you in the battle. Especially if you have pokemon that share the same function. 6) tbh I would ban set up moves and status effects. Especially in gen one. 7) for the E4, your level cap can be Lorelei's highest level Pokemon. Once you start the E4, you can go past that level. 8) substitute and mimic are great additions. 9) Hitmonlee baby. Let's go. 10) you can restrict stone evolutions until certain checkpoints. Say - Nidoqueen can't stone evolve until > 4th gym. 11) if gen 1 is still too easy, do it deathless. A single death = reset.

I can't believe how underleveled you made it Scott! That was unbelievable! Another big challenge completed! Can't wait to see you proceeding to the next gens! Thanks for the fun challenge!

banning sleep in gen 1 would probably be a good idea. fun video man :) dewgong is actually lowkey pretty good in gen 1

Thank you so much scott! I havent been able to watch a nuzlocke like this in a long time...where pidgeys are flying normal type...or where electric is super effective vs flying types. Or where pikachu has its normal base stats. Im not evem kidding. Poketubers nowadays mess with so much of the game its barely a pokemon game anymore with extreme randomizers.

That was an intense nuzlocke! I actually enjoyed the nostalgia of yellow version. I think it would be fun to have a run dedicated to avoiding sleep/status/setup moves. I actually likes the hypnosis

"I am not allowing myself trade evolutions" Kadabra stays a Kadabra -> Jrose approves :D Love your vids scott :)

Awesome video! I have never done a nuzzlock challenge before, but you have inspired me. Thanks for keeping Gen 1 games alive.

POLIWHIRL SOLO CHALLENGE WHEN!? My boy showed he’s the greatest Pokémon!

Great to see a new scottlocke. These games might be getting too easy for you! Game knowledge is the best nuzlocke skill you can have and you got it down to a science. Wish people would do more gen 1 nuzlockes, these games are just so charming and nostalgic.

One thing I enjoy doing in nuzlockes is bringing the same amount of pokemon as the gym leader

Can't wait for the next 5 years when we get a Scott Emerald Kaizo nuzlocke

Wow.. I'm so used to watching chaotic nuzlocls from less analytical players and this was surprisingly refreshing!

I literally yelled with excitement seeing this posted!

20/10 chefs kiss. I see you’re preparing for your Vs nuzlocke against SilphSpectre 😜 Edit: can we talk about Scott’s software honesty being a game changer for these games period? Like the detail to seeing the enemies Pokémon and their moves and stats, to seeing his Pokémon’s moves and stats. This is all beautiful information and seeing it for a nuzlocke is beyond helpful I’m sure.

Love all your solo runs! They helped reignite my love of these games, and it's really awesome to see you tackle other styles too!!

Seeing you having to play differently from your challenges and having to deal with different problems and overcome them and finish was a lot of fun to watch

I really like nuzlockes, they got me into pokétube. It was very entertaining! And brutal in the league :') I haven't been watching regularly due to personal circumstances but I will catch up eventually! Keep it up Scott!

an important part of the nuzlocke format, that is often forgotten, is an engaging and investing story created by the higher stakes, and by allowing yourself and us to get attached to each pokemon, since they are carefully nicknamed and could be permanently 'gone'. so just chucking in your pokes underlevelled for a bit more 'challenge' and losing them because of this, sort of tells a bad story and arguably misses the point of what can potentially make nuzlocking more interesting than just another challenge run. i think what we want to see is you giving it the best shot possible to get all your little guys through this very challenging way of playing pokemon. and while ultimately it may not challenging to defeat each game under hardcore nuzlocke rules (heavily depending on what game you are playing and what pokes you get of course), but certainly challenging in the sense of getting into the mindset of not wanting to lose any of your team at all (unless you *absolutely* have to).

Really like the Nuzlocke. The addition of the DVs in the overlay is great. It's also pretty interesting to see how you learn new things that aren't important in solo challenges. Like the AI chooses a move after yours including a switch (which obv. don't happen in a solo challenge). So Koga's good AI would've always gone for the Bug-Move against Kadabra after your switch.^^ I agree that you should ban sleep for the Nuzlockes because it's too strong. On the other hand it nerves grass type a lot. Also it would be possible to ban all boosting moves, because... yeah they are even stronger. But I don't know, if I would do it. They are just so much fun in Gen 1.^^

I see you dark lord 4:38, excellent touch.

Woohooo more Nuzlockes! That last part was tense! With your layout it looks amazing and I like the rival with the level cap

I like solo challenges, but I actually like nuzlockes better so I’m quite happy to see this! Same with when Jrose did some nuzlockes. Every nuzlocke video on KZfaq seems to be a monotype run, never just a regular one! I like the regular ones like this.

I respect that you didn't level after Lance. Mad respect.

This overlay is crazy well made

Your game knowledge is insane from all these solo runs

Scott: "I might ban sleep moves..." Audience: BASED Scott: "No rare candies before elite 4 and champion even though I've lost most of my team..." Audience: Also... BASED Also I don't know if you know this about the gen 1 AI, but the AI makes its move choices retroactively to the player. Thats why Blue's Vaporeon chose Hydro Pump instead of Quick Attack against Haunter. The AI saw that quick attack didn't effect the ghost type and went for its highest damaging move instead.

That was a disastrous Lorelei battle ☠️

Poliwhirl and Haunter: this is for Nidoqueen and our fallen friends!

Here is a rule suggestion for rare candy use: only use them to get to 1 level under the cap (or set cap to opponent's 2nd highest level) and only right before the battling leader/rival. Newly caught pokemon can be immediately leveled to the previous cap. This might make the trainers between gyms at least a little more interesting. Also what ive seen other nuzlocks do for elite 4 is set cap to lance's ace (before battling Lorelei) and level naturally before champ.

i love the amount of effort and detail you put in your layout

Love the content Scott Nuz locks are rough and we appreciate all the work you do. Keep up the good work

Babe wake up there's a new Scott's Thoughts video

My guy is rivaling the Jedi Council for most arrogant in this vid 😂

Well done Scott. Fantastic video as always and very informative. Not everyone will know, how in depth and broken Gen 1 can be tbf.

That was exhilarating! Great job Scott!

Amazing start, I think mono types make hardcore nuzlocke much more challenging and fun

Hi SCOTT. I'm watching your content from some time ago and im really gratefull for you work. I'm a little bit older than you but for me my 1st adventure with pokemon was also with yellow. Its awesome how easy this game became because of your experience. Keep up with awesome creations for the best poketuber in my opinion. Please do more nuzlocks cause they are amazing with your peeformance. YT support from my side for you cause i always forget to like of comment your new videos :)

Perfect just keep evolving this isn't your final form man