Can you beat Pokemon Emerald using ONLY items?

No Pokecenters, No PCs, No Free Heals. Easier than you'd think!

This was streamed live on Twitch:

[Smallant]

Shoutouts to Mah-Dry-Bread for basically doing this first.

Go watch his video too to see how he did it:

Mah-Dry-Bread did a No Healing run at a Pokecenters and really only used the PC to deposit Pokemon, so we did slightly different challenges that are both pretty cool and have their own problems to solve (his is edited much better than mine too). Go check it out!

[MeNowDealWIthIt]

Quick note: Rare candies can be used as revives. The pokemon wakes up with the amount of HP they gained from leveling up.

[francis]

Outrage is such a weird move, like imagine being absolutely livid and punching other pokémon, but then you get confused who you're angry at so you decide to punch yourself

[FallingSloths]

He turns down that Zigzagoon suggestion early, but I can't help but think how good that could have been. For one thing, Linoone is a great HM slave (strength, cut, rock smash, and surf) so you can drain its pp and then replace it with an HM move, most of which are themselves high-pp and STAB. You can also learn Covet to get heart scales that can bring back old moves that ran out of PP.

And the big thing is that after level 30, the Pickup ability starts to grab hyper potions, full heals, rare candies, and even a 1% chance at an ether (a free 10 pp back).

I haven't finished the video yet and I'm sure Ant manages just fine without it, but I certainly think I would have grabbed a Zigzagoon with pickup early!

[sothisisbasicallyhow]

The title implies that you are beating this game without pokemon, which brings to mind the image of hurling a max revive at your opponent’s pokemon until those little spikes that it has impale their jugular.





So thanks for that.

[waverider]

It’s so funny to look at the chat and see random conversations, like whether the Pokémon world would have Torchic McNuggets

[kpbillie]

Watching this in 2021 is pretty funny. Hearing SmallAnt talk about how "beating the game without taking damage would be possible but super grindy" and knowing that he would later go on to do it and it was in fact SUPER Grindy. Or watching this man laugh at the thought of soft resetting to get a shiny Rayquaza, only to eventually wind up doing a shiny run full of soft resets.

[AjRobinsonUg]

"I peaked as a ten year old"

A true Pokémon Master

[jacobshoup]

I thought we were gonna see a ton of Hoen region pokemon, but it's clearly a Lo Lan run

[waldowaggins]

When you’re a Pokémon trainer and have to much social anxiety to talk to nurse joy

[BurgerFred]

"If we ever encounter a grass type we scream."
*Encounters a Shroomish*
*Doesn't scream*
Disliked, unsubbed, and reported for misleading content

[ElFreyre_]

I love how Langamer really became Rayquaza and write in chat like he was responding as a Rayquaza to SmallAnt, what a legend

[ShycoWar]

The end of this run takes me back to my childhood days.

Destroying everything in sight with just Rayquaza and an overleveled Swampert. Yup, that was me alright.

[skylarlee]

"Remember kids, if it's not 100% accurate, it's 50% accurate."

_This playthrough in a nutshell_

[pimzaeVT]

"even if youre super good at something, you can always get better"
very wise words of advice!

[asapmidday]

Ant: "If I had to pick a favorite pokemon it would be aron"
*sad wooper noises*

[EDoyl]

"Hi, I'm known as the MOVE DELETER"
"Yeah cool; look, I'm gonna need you to do exactly the opposite of that"

[lietz]

"Wow this will be really hard."
remembers PP
"oh god no"

[HuntingMasterz]

I still remember my first shiny pokemon was a magikarp, literally the 2nd encounter after catching red gyarados...

[HECKproductions]

when i first played red way back in the day i didnt realize you need to talkd THROUGH the counter
so everytime i wanted to heal i went all the way to pallet town
and every time i died i also respawned there
fun times
i also didnt realise i can change pokemon during battle or flee
i was doing challenges way before they existed lol