Since there seems to be a lack of playthroughs of the hardcore mod on youtube (that I could find). I decided to make my own.
Im focusing on showing the hardcore fights, so the trainers and random pokemon encounters are being cut out. Its kind of a blind run since its my first time on the hardcore mod. Ive only played the normal one so far.
Also my first youtube series, so any critique is appreciated.
Episode 1:
link: https://youtu.be/zsGjGbv90Vg
our first harder fight is the dude right outside the pokemon center. A level 70 mega rayquaza oO, geez I didnt expect this kind of difficulty spike.
but still.
I kick that mega-rayquaza ass right off the bat. The only banned pokemon from uber tiers gets killed by level 10s, go figure.
#jigglypuffOP
luckily that seems to be the only guy with an overpowered pokemon.
then kricketune solo Ferns team. He is just as bad as your partner unfortunately.
The rest seems pretty much unchanged from the vanilla, and nothing really interesting happened.
Episode 2:
At the factory now. Plowing through team metor till I reach my first roadblock which is the level 20 magmar and electabuzz.
I tried several team compositions, but the two seemed to focus on my pokemons instead of fern, and none of them could survive the double teaming. I even tried capturing 5 trubbish with aftermath but it seems aftermath doesnt work when killed with special moves. shame...
my level 10 ekans with intimidate was the key to their demise. Alongside kricketune struggle bug, magmar and electabuzz couldnt do much damage anymore.
Its gym time, and my team gets wrecked by Julia. I leveled up my zigzagoon for mud sport to remove that cheap electric field but it seems that it doesnt. which kind of sucks, oh well, at least I got a Hm slave.
In the end, blitzle did most of the work since Julia's pokemons couldnt really harm him.
I'll be continuing the episodes on my youtube channel.