AWKWARD ZOMBIE

[s]It's been a whilze, AZ[/s]

Anyways, seeing as the anti-piracy method for Pokemon BW involved your Pokemon gaining no experience I figured I'd make a challenge out of this run. I'm aware there is a patch that gets rid of the anti-piracy method but I decided to see how far I could get into the run if my Pokemon were unable to get any XP at all. So far I have gotten three badges and have uploaded videos of the last two gym battles. I did not record the first one because I didn't decide to start recording my battles until after the first gym, besides it is a very straightforward battle that the level 10 monkey you get is capable of soloing the battle with some ease(As long as the leader's first pokemon doesn't use Cheer Up more than once)

Anyways, here are the current list of videos:

Battle with Aloe(Second gym leader)

Notes:
-I had to play really defensively for this battle
-Dongoro(That stoned Poliwag) has an Impish nature which boosts defense which helps a lot in this battle.

Number of tries: 4

Battle with Atei(Third gym leader)

Number for attempts: 2(Although the first battle I couldn't even make it past his first pokemon which ended up in me having to replace 3 of my party members prior to the next attempt)

Notes:
[spoiler]-This battle was actually pretty easy in comparison to the one against Aloe

-Intimidate+Screech is pretty awesome for this fight

-I gave Troll the Futsude a Berry so that I didn't have to waste a turn using a potion

-Dageki for top tier, how he still manages to be useful against a Pokemon that's 9 levels higher than him is pretty awesome(Well, I guess a reason for his wtfbases is probably because he doesn't have any evolutions but still)

-By the end of the battle I noticed I only needed 2 screeches for Fire Fang to 1HKO the first and last pokemon that Atei used.

-This battle involved no turtling

-I accidentally wasted a Hyper Potion due to not paying attention >___>[/spoiler]

Anyways, I'll be definitely uploading all the major/gym leader battles. I'll try to upload some rival battles but try not to expect them all the time.

Since when did this game come out.

Like two days ago.

In Japan.

Why couldn't this go in the pokemon thread?

Japanese ROM.

Came out in Japan. Yes, I am playing on a ROM.




Well, this is a playthrough thread so I figured I'd make a thread specifically for my playthrough. Think of it as an LP thread, in a way. I may be doing commentary in the future.

Is this even possible at all

The point of this playthrough is to see how far I can get into the game without XP gains. I'm not expecting to beat the game either but because I am naturally a curious person I figured I'd see how far I can get into the game and figured I'd share it with a forum that consists of people who seem very interested in the series.

More updates, I know it took a while but that's because during the week I don't really have too much time to play due to school and stuff and also I've been playing LoL and HoN again which takes up quite a bit of time as well.

Anyways, here's two videos, one is the recent battle with N and the other is gym leader #4. I was going to upload the battle with Cheren and Belle as well but I decided not to at the last minute out of sheer laziness.

N battle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZrrEJ-yjes

Notes:

Nothing really spectacular here other than Bruce Lee still being useful and maybe accidentally selecting Doubleslap instead of Psybeam when Trap was out to fight the Darumakka which made me kinda facepalm.


Gym leader #4, Kamitsure AKA Vocaloid Bitch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wsni73b1jI

Notes:

[spoiler]-Quite a bit of strategical errors on my part in this battle along with some RNG screwage. I probably could've done this battle much more efficiently but I really don't want to re-do a battle just so it looks good for youtube and this thread, just glad I got it over with.

-Press Z the Chillarmy was alright I guess, had technician ability and joined with Sing so I figured I'd give her a shot and as you can see, Swift does 25% damage to the flying pikachus which was quite nice(Keep in mind she did have Technician to help with this, although no SpA beneficial nature). I actually think she might have been able to do very nice things in this battle if Sing didn't miss so early but I suppose she did beat one of them down pretty low. But I guess you can't always press Z and expect your dreams to come true.

-You can never have too much pussy for this battle. Fake out is awesome. Although it does blow that "Pimp" has a Sassy nature(+S-Def -speed >___>)

-Also, picked cotton with Mischievous Heart is win when it means prioritized Stunspores are involved

-This battle was actually pretty close

-Bye Bruce Lee ):. You will be missed[/spoiler]

Update: You would think this playthrough would generate interest on a forum that seems very interested in the series considering it's actually generated quite a bit of interest and have actually supported it instead of going "lol I'm not going to watch your playthroughs because you won't be able to beat the game"(well, no shit but like I said, worth a shot) on the other forum I frequent that I posted this on and they're less interested in the series in general. Oh well, fuck it I'm posting anyways:

I take down Yakon, the fifth gym leader with quite ease once the RNG decided to stop screwing me over on my third attempt at the battle.

Here's how the first attempt basically went with massive RNG screwage(IE my Pokemon hitting themselves due to confusion and stunspore missing this fucker twice in a row):



And then two tries later, after the RNG decides to cooperate I get these results which results in an easy victory and sweet payback as seen in this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAQ2Go_tGNg

[spoiler]Notes:

- Wooden Stick Gangsta gets a lucky crit on Warubiru which results in a 1HKO

- Dageki is STILL useful even as a level 12 thanks to sturdiness and dealing effective damage against Doryuuzu with possible defense lowering as well.

- If the RNG is cooperative, this battle is quite easy. Probably the easiest one yet.[/spoiler]

It might be because people don't want to watch the videos because of spoilers.

That's actually why I'm not watching them, even though it sounds really interesting.

Now that I think of it. It might be a viable explanation. Well, I spoiler tagged the notes. But I have had one person mention before that he wouldn't watch my videos because it won't be a completed playthrough and seeing previous comments in this thread I've been getting negative vibes.

The flying pickachus creeped me out.

Don't image LPs fit better with Pokemon?

Also more humour would be good I guess.

It's video so the battles can be seen in detail.

I think it's pretty awesome that you're doing this challenge, but I'm not really interested in Pokemon enough to spend my time watching those vids. Still, you got my respect.