Pokémon Ultra Sun Hardcore Nuzlocke on my first ever playthrough! (No items, No overleveling)

Can I beat Pokémon Ultra Sun using Hardcore Nuzlocke Rules on my first time ever playing the game?

Normal Nuzlocke Ruleset:
1. Fainting = Death
2. Can only catch the first Pokémon on each Route (Species Clause);
3. Nickname Pokémon

Hardcore Nuzlocke Ruleset:
4. No items in battle (held items okay)
5. No leveling past the next gym leader/E4 (at the START of the battle)
6. Play on "Set" battle mode

Additional USUM Ruleset:
7. No Pokémon Refresh
8. Z-Moves are allowed
9. No Ultra Beasts, Island Scan, or S.O.S Chaining

#Pokemon #Gaming #Nuzlocke #PokemonUltraSun

[BlueYoshi]

I think the Flying-type E4 member’s deal is that Golf has a bunch of terms relating to birds, like “Birdy” or “Eagle”, so it’s supposed to be a pun

[Patterrz]

You're a brave man, I just did a normal Nuzlocke of my first run of the game and Necrozma absolutely mollywhopped me

[NinjaPickle]

Lusamine's entire battle strategy: My enemy can't know what I'm doing if even I don't know what I'm doing

[LAZERAKV]

"Seems like my character is a hardcore gen 1er."

Well yeah, your family moved to Alola from Kanto.

[nightmare]

Considering how Lusamine was being severely poisoned by Nihilego venom, that may explain why her AI was so wonky. Or at least that's how I'm going to justify it.

[meganleonard]

Knowing that you were finishing a PhD while preparing this huge video makes it even better. Thanks for the content, always a joy to watch.

[GlorySnowstar]

“Hardcore Nuzlocke” and “Ultra” in the same sentence has me hilariously terrified of the certain carnage ensured by the funny prism man.

[huckmart]

Despite the cut scenes, i still think this is one of the best pokemon games. You get so many options to build your team the way you want and there are tons of unique and interesting battles.

[ProphecyPhrase]

Wait the Trainers in Ultra Sun have IVs and EVs AND good natures!? I never knew that. My goodness.

[treecko]

I didnt play USUM (or SM for that matter) until last summer, wary of the hate I had seen for it. But when I played it, I felt they were severely underrated. Of all the games, these try the hardest to do something different, and I thought they were successful in that. They aren't my favorite games, but I do treasure them more than anything from the 3ds/Switch era

[bippythechippy]

This whole playthrough is just "Funny Flygon Man watches AI die of deadly diseases"

[PorcuDuckSlug]

I’m not even joking, a big reason these games are one of the hardest to nuzlocke is because one of the main things needed for nuzlockes is patience. This game has so many cutscenes it genuinely tests patience in vanilla playthroughs. So many people get impatient because of the cutscenes that they make mistakes

[ernestotorelli]

Does he know how to cheese Ultra Necrozma though?
"This raticate will be important later."
He knows! :D

[jinxtheunluckypony]

If USUM had a “skip cutscene” button it’d probably be the best game in the series. The fights are so much fun, there’s just so much dead space between them.

[HarveyMeadowlark]

Shotput had a naughty nature and “likes to thrash about” would imply it’s highest IV was attack, so considering it was max phys attack magnezone it really (shot)put in a lot of work

[elNatoo]

FlygonPhD: "I believe the scientific term for this is that I am f***'d"

This was too funny, someone help me get up from falling off my chair lmao

[SierraDawn]

The real 'hardcore' part of this challenge is making it through the cutscenes

[GrandDuchessTaco]

"Get an ability capsule, hide it in a peanut butter sandwich" had me rolling.

[backpackerraden]

I appreciate the consistency that horses aren't real animals and are just weird shaped cows.

Congrats on the run!

[Laprisu]

actually leaving a second reply here regarding Elite 4 Kahili:

I think they cut an entire part of more storyline as there's a full-blown golf course on the Alola Map and everything and Golf uses a few words like Birdie, Eagle, etc.

so yea.... she's just.... there