I would also like to add to this with the fact that when you get a fossil Pokémon it is basically the same thing, you created the Pokémon from an item, and formally put it into a Pokémon for you to own it, so technically Zekrom is just a legendary fossil Pokémon you get to chose what ball it goes into

Agreed. Catching a pokemon does not mean it was necessarily a wild battle. In the gamecube games you could catch pokemon in trainer battles. 'Wild Pokemon' just means 'random encounters', and this encounter was not random.

I say it's unsuccesfull, because he clearly wrote in the tittle "not SEEING a wild pokemon". He clearly saw the wild pokemon the professor was catching, because it appeared on the screen ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) (But if we don't include that, Zecrom is not wild, so you won)

Why no plume fossil?

Just fyi, they started making this distinction starting in G5 for certain special encounters.

Perfect comment

Yes

gen 5 and its pokemon are too trash to be put in a thumbnail, it's a disgrace and a mistake of the franchise.

@@ejokurirulezz bro you’re literally talking about the best generation rn

@@ejokurirulezzyou’re thinking of bdsp

Keep in mind that canonically Zekrom is TRAINED, both Zekrom and Reshiram had previous trainers.

@@autistic_potato1037 Yep, very good point. All the more reason this challenge was a success!

He beat it without *catching* a wild Pokémon, but failed to beat it without *seeing* a wild Pokémon, his actual goal. He saw the wild Pokémon the professor caught at the beginning.

​@@palladianaltruist8047that doesn't count tho, since that's mandatory

​@@locksquid749so..so is zekrom???

This is the comment i was looking for

Same I just left a comment mentioning that lmao

Ko-fagrigus, Zebstreeka

Yeah I was like “oof, sorry buddy gotta dislike your video now”

Tojepi

or a sign of mockery from the professor herself saying, why do you torture yourself like this

No

​@@coyolord8031Probably

same

THANK YOU I wanted to go there so badly when this popped up in my recs xD

Well there's a reason he takes such high risks, it's because he has a fool proof plan.

Nah it's kinda dumb. Just reset

I literally did a double take. Wild.

Ayo?💀

Child labor legal in Unova

POKETUBERS NEED TO STOP BREAKING STORY ASPECTS.

@@phyllojoe5346 and if you think about it, unova is based off of new york. so wouldnt that mean child labor is legal in new york?

@@CryoticMienshao Everything is legal til the cops show up my dude

It's a fossil

​@@djt08031996 That's more accurate. I think it's basically a fossil that doesn't need a machine to be restored.

probably hard due to the large amount of HMs, but totally doable! you could cover everything with a torterra or infernape and a vaporeon, though! cut/rock smash/rock climb on the starter and surf/waterfall/strength on the vee. you could even remove rock smash and cut via the move deleter when you get to him in canalave since they're optional past the early game, or just delete rock smash and move it to the vaporeon if you want to keep all the required HMs to access more items and trainers for money and xp. you could even evolve a togepi into togetic for fly and defog with almost no xp required - just raise its friendship by running first. the only hurdle i anticipate is gardenia's gym and the galactic base in eterna being hard with a solo grotle or roark's gym being hard for a solo monferno, respectively - even if the latter can evolve it needs a fairly significant level advantage to sweep on its own

​@@TigeriPlaysGames don't you get lots of free pokemon in platinum too?

@@Malam_NightYoru you can get an infinite amount of fossil Pokémon when you reach eterna city

Gen 1, FRLG/LGPE, Gen 2 and Emerald are all possible because there's no forced Legendary encounters. I don't remember if BW2 forced you to fight the Swords or Justice.

@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 Kanto is not possible in gen 1 or the gen 3 remake due to Snorlax and Marowak. RSE is not possible as you are forced to battle a wild pokemon when you select your starter. I am unsure about GSC or HGSS.

I also feel bad for that mayan-shao

Z-Crumb

95 base power X 1.5x stab /2 = ~142/2 = 71 base power slash: 70 base power super close if not counting the mystic water

​​@@kinglyzebra6417​ +8 more base spatk + timid nature + torrent if its up

Higher sp. atk​@@kinglyzebra6417

Just class it as a fossil

@@djt08031996 Even then, Zekrom and Reshiram had trainers before, similar to the dogs of sword and shield, it is just that their trainers died long ago.

Or bad luck since you can't catch it

@@Speederzzz Oh, I didn’t specify good luck XD

@@masmurdermonkey9233 XD

Alola has the Totems. While the encounter text don't says "wild xxx appeared", I'm pretty sure that other NPCs say they are wild Mons. (Also they call regular Mons for help)

The first patch of grass in sun and moon forces a wild encounter, and getting your starter in ultra sun and ultra moon has you fighting a wild pokemon as well.

But you could throw Archen in the daycare and level it up until it would evolve.

Why is no one talking about gen 1 it doesn't have any mandatory legendaries and the catching tutorial is optional

@@NaveenKumar_M Gen 1 has Snorlax as a mandatory wild Pokémon. Similar in Gen 2 with a mandatory Sudowoodo.

Zekrom, Zebstrika, and most of the city names.

@@Mr-Trox i actually get pronouncing it that way with zebstrika, since it's a portmanteau of "zebra" and "strike", and most U.S. dialects pronounces zebra with a hard E.

HUH?

@@Attmoz-Phere If you don't have a PC slot for the gen 5 box legendary to go to, you get a second chance to catch it.

could also revive archen instead of tirtouga and evolve it into archeops, which requires far less grinding (obtained at level 25 and evolves at level 37)

​@@Alphabet576But you can only grind on trainers that would mean Sammurott would be at a lower level like level 55-65 i think cause the experience would go to archen not samurott

@@Damarpw7 imo insofar as this is an issue with using archeops it's a much bigger problem with using volcarona

Larvesta evolves at level 59 No shot

@@Damarpw7I think there’s enough wiggle room since bw uses level scaled exp, so what would be 50 exp for a level 60 Samurott would be like 2000 exp for a level 25 archen Also with 3 Pokémon as early as nimbasa you can just grind the battle subway for infinite rare candies lol

Do we count catch learning battle in platinum? If we do platinum is not can be completed without wild encounter

To trick children into using the Master Ball on a catch rate 25 mon instead of an actually difficult legendary

@@M3G4T3RR4 *45 catch rate

So there's another Pokemon battle.

For theatrical purposes.

1/8 isn't that crazy. You have a lower chance to paralyze with with Thunderbolt

You still have to encounter and kill Zekrom

All monkeys and starters are in the Field egg group. They are compatible provided you get a male and female

Damn I can't believe I never thought of this. Time to redo the run with this rule applied! ...joking but I also wouldn't mind it

breeding is mentioned? oh no... please dont mention the vaporeon copypasta. please dont....

This guy pokémons

My faith in humanity tells me he didn’t. I think he did for the section to Accumula Town, but I think he saved and just continued re-attempting the grass section to Striaton. Hence why he waited till that town with the repels to show us Oshawott. Had he had shown the stats upon receiving his starter like basically any normal run, it would’ve outted him. He’d argue the reason he didn’t was because there was no point because if he had to restart he’d be showing us numerous Oshawotts…but still. I don’t buy that he restarted from scratch every time.

Yea that was insanely stupid

What would be the point? He'd have to risk a lot of encounters going back to the daycare to retrieve the Pokemon, and he didn't actually need a second Pokemon to fight. The others all served support roles.

@@jedimasterpickle3 You don't have to go in the tall grass to gain XP from the daycare. It only counts steps. In fact, since this is Unova, you could just beeline straight from the daycare to the bridge to Castelia without touching a single patch of tall grass.

@@kinglyzebra6417 The bridge is a risky spot because of the shadows. Any step could have a Pokemon encounter. And for what? A Simisear? A Carracosta? This challenge heavily featured minimizing potential encounter spots, hence blacking out on Route 17 to warp back to Icarus City. What's the point of having to make more trips through risky areas that aren't needed?

@@jedimasterpickle3 leveling up his other Pokemon. And my point about the bridge is that there's plenty of encounter-free space available by the Day Care.

@@kinglyzebra6417 Why does he need to level his other Pokemon when his starter swept the game? The other Pokemon he got did their job just fine without being at a level to actually fight. And the bridge is not encounter free. Each step could have a shadow spawn, and each shadow could contain a Pokemon

Z-CRUMB

I mean... Other legendaries in this game are listed as Wild, so...

Yeah but you also encounter a wild Pokémon when you get your starter, and later Wild Kecleon with the Silph Scope. And in FRLG you have to encounter Snorlax.

​@@jjcelever never meant to do this challenge in these games, but if you Could cut the grass in 5th gen he could have saved money (more of a funfact than a serious advice)

I am not 100% on this, but iirc cutting tall grass was removed in gen4 and onward

@@qgame4941 It was. Especially funny because Emerald added a mechanic where Pokemon with Hyper Cutter would cut away bigger patches of grass than normal. They made a brand new mechanic for one game then removed it permanently from the series next game.

@@DisplayThisOkay actually cutting grass was in gen 1 and 2but i didnt know about hyper cutter and that just made me chuckle! Sad tgey removed the use for cut tho

Has to evolve to learn Fly

You can refight the sports Trainers in Nimbasa if you keep changing the date.

​@@Neo_Bones that's literally what he said