 Oh no! Zengu's the type of me too! No! Survive, Spinda! Woo! Woo! Oh my god! Both of them is a series that is so well known that I probably don't have to explain the basics of it to you if you're watching this video. We all know that it's a game about catching monsters, putting together a team, and taking down the Elite Four. And we all know that when it's all put together, it's a pretty easy game to get through, as it's something most of us were able to accomplish in our childhood. This video is not that. This video you're about to watch now isn't just a harder way to play Pokemon, it's a brutal way to play it, especially when it's being played by two idiots, which would just so happen to be me and Siriax in this case. So with that said, let me go ahead and give you a brief rundown of the rules in this Pokemon Challenge that the community has come to call the Soling. So for one you should realize that everything in this game has been completely randomized from the starters you choose, the Pokemon you encounter in the grass, to the trainers you face, including even the gym battles themselves. The second rule effectively limits the amount of Pokemon we can actually catch in a run because we are only allowed one encounter per route and if we fail, there are no second chances, we just don't get a Pokemon for that route. And the third and most brutal rule of any Soling is that even if me and Dian are somehow able to catch a Pokemon on a route, the fate of those two Pokemon are then intertwined, meaning if his Pokemon dies, the one that I caught on that route with him is also gone. No revives, no running back to the Pokemon Center, it's just gone. And with that, that is pretty much everything you need to know in order to understand what we're trying to accomplish here. Of course, it isn't my first time playing the game like this, but it is Siriax's first. But if you do enjoy it, make sure to leave a like and subscribe. I know this is a really different kind of video and we probably won't continue with it if you guys aren't enjoying it, but I just have a lot of fun playing the game like this. So with that said, let's go ahead and start the run. We are here, Dian. Look at us on our very first Pokemon Soling journey. I gotta say, man, ever since I first laid eyes on a Dragon Ball Fighter's video from you, I knew we'd go on a Pokemon journey together. I knew it, bro. And who knows, maybe this journey will last one video. It kind of depends on how much people like and or hate this. My name is Dotto. That's gonna be a yes for me, dude. I forgot your name. I forgot the X in your name. I'm talking to this man's grandson, which, you know, it's not a three idiot series because we couldn't fit that all in. But in the spirit of it, we already know this guy. Hold on. Are you just going to call him rhyme? Yeah, what do you want to name? I was going to think what is cool? Oh, yeah. Yes. So whenever this guy walks up, he's about to fold our ass. We know what's what is cool? Er, what's it cool? Yes, it was. What is cool? When is my father's name? I am what is cool? Please don't refer to me by my father's name. What is cool? Let me think. Let me think. This is what goes on in rhymes head. Oh, man, we get to have. All right, Dion, you know, in the spirit of in the spirit of the fact that I've done a few soul links myself, I think you should be the one to go through the selection here and make your choice first. I already know what I'm going to take. No, you don't want a little spin to do that. No, I got to keep my other options. All right, true, true, true. See all my options. Looking like a Dion character. Hold on. What's that third option? Oh, yep. I'm going to take this guy. Okay, you're taking it okay. Come with me. Needle King. Now, I feel like most people would assume that I would take Zangus right here. But if I pick Zangus, then what is going is going to pick Needle King. So I actually odds are I have to take little spin this dumbass. Not known for his power. He's just a normal speaking of speaking not known for it's what I just looked over. Well, welcome to new king aka bowl. My starter Pokemon. I'll take this one then. I took Zangus. Okay, okay. Now be careful. I'm going to go on my mission, bro. No way. He's going to battle us the odd. Okay. But just for so people know the rules explicitly. The deaths don't start until we get our pokeballs. Not that I'm saying we're going to lose because I'm going to win. I'm literally going to fold this guy. Yeah, nothing to worry about. I'm going to say I'm going to say this is a literal Needle King. Bower is a Needle King. If he lose to Spinda, we're going to have some issues, bro. All right. We already know how we're going to start. Let's go. I'm going to watch your battle. See if you win before I guess I'm going to give the DPS frame one. Go ahead. Poison Fang. Poison Fang. Is that going to be an insta kill on little Spinda? No, not going to take some damage every single time. Oh, you know, try attack. That means does my spin try attack? He does try attack. Oh my god. He's going to cringe. Wait, did you not get frozen? I thought it said you got frozen. That's what it said. It said I'm frozen solid. You might want to dig get away from harm's way. You're faster, right? Are you frozen? No, you're still frozen. No, I'm going to be dead. What is this thing? Okay. Well, the run doesn't start until we get Pokeballs. So apparently Spinda kind of busted. Oh my god. He also has Hyper Beam. Hold on. Just because you lost the end doesn't mean the master is going to lose. Spinda. Hyper Beam. Oh no. Zengu throws Hyper Beam too. No. Survive, Spinda. Oh my god. Bro, what the fuck? Damn. What is going? What is going? What is going? Got hands, bro. Who the fuck is this? Who is this idiot? Is this a trainer? Nah, he's just a little dumbass in the grass. He probably he probably lost. Bro, what are you at the mart for? Are you getting some Pokeballs? No, bro. He's going to give us a parcel and then we'll go get some Pokeballs and that's when the run will really get started. It's the custom Pokeball. Yep. This is where the run really starts, dude. Now that we have Pokeballs. What is going back? Oh, bro. I bet you won't run it back. I know Dig now. Oh, and five Pokeballs. I'm ready to take on the world. All right. And with that, the run has officially started. I'm skipping whatever else you have to say to me. Yeah, I don't really care. Unless what is going to run it back? I don't want to hear anything from anyone. All right, Gramps. See you later. Would have worn every. Yeah, you better run. What is going to look? I'm wishing you luck on your journey, but I am going body even though we're soul length and that would just be body myself, but best of luck, bro. Best of luck to you too, man. And you know, just careful with this first encounter because yeah, I'm about to get we need to lock this down. All right, route one. Oh, it's this one. Oh, give me my run back. You gotta catch him. It's route one. That's our only encounter for route one. Oh, wait, for real? Yeah, we only get one try at this. So he it's either him or nothing. Wait, but hold on. Hold on. Maybe I misunderstood the severity of the situation that I put myself in. Okay. Uh, RNG gods, I wish he would have given me a different option other than done some Mars. All right. All right. All right. So I want to catch him. I don't want to defeat him, right? All right. So let's go with something that won't defeat him, but it'll it'll soften him up a little bit. Poison thing. Oh my god. Okay. Okay. He's in range. He's in range. I don't even want this Pokemon, but we gotta take what you get. Come on. We do. We do have to take what we can get. What do you get a nickname? Is he going to stay? Oh, you did it. Let's go. Cut the first Pokemon. Oh, no. I also have to catch a dumbass little duds first without killing it somehow. All right. You know what? I don't think I can hit him. I don't think I can. I think I You're just going to go straight for Pokemon. I have to. I just have to rely on my luck stat here. God, why do we both have to get done sparse? That's so unlucky. Wait. Okay. So, so to be clear about the series, if my done sparse gets killed or yours does, the other person's loses. He's dead. Oh, you caught it. Yeah. I took it. I took a chance and now we both have done sparses. I don't want this idiot, but sure. Yeah, I neither do I, dude. All right. So route one, we've both caught a little done sparse. Oh, I got a battle. Wait, so I can't take this? No, I would much rather have this. Unfortunately, you can't take that. I guess I'll just body it. Yeah, because our starters are linked too. Ah, okay. Yeah, don't worry. Don't you dare. Wait. Oh, Dork Spars died. What? He was poisoned still. Oh, no. Oh, God. Oh, my you just showed him out. He fainted. Do we want to count? Okay, but now we got to decide. Do we want to count deaths that happen to poison like that, like where you're walking? I think we should. Okay, we should. We should. Oh, poor Dork Spars. How do I get rid of them? All right, so that brings up another part of the series is get up to the Pokemon Center. Oh, God, because we don't want to just release them. We want to enshrine what we what we had and what he's doing. I gave him what we had for like two minutes. I think it just hurts. I think it hurts fucking nothing. Oh, this is different running into him now. He's like, yo, you got my brother in your bag. So if my main box is the gang where everybody's going to hang out and have a good time, I guess the one for the dead Pokemon should be a I don't know. Maybe I'll like toss him in a river. I'm just going to call it the river. Toss him in a river. Oh, my God. Well, I don't know. I'm going to go for an aesthetic here. Nope. It's been it's been real little guy. He just placed him into fucking wasteland. He's in dead, bro. Well, I just threw mine in the river. Yeah, the gang hangs out on the beach, but the dead go to the river. All right, it makes sense. I'm ready for the next one. I'm going to let you go first on this next one. Okay, good, good, good. All right, this is route two. This is a new place for us, Dion. All right, a new beginning. Here I go. But you're not running to anything. It took me a little while. It is. Please, please, please. No. How am I supposed to catch this? Hold on. I want to just watch your battle, but I'm also curious about how I'm going to get shafted compared to what you got. Oh, God, dude. I don't think it's possible to catch the fucking velocity or violence. All right, let's try it. I'm just going for it. Vioploom, I wish I ran into something else. Oh, no. I keep the poke ball though, right? No, you don't keep the poke ball. Every poke ball we throw is money out of our pocket. I should have saved this earlier, but the abilities of our poke ball are randomized too. So a little spin over here has pure power, which just raises my attack. All right, so I don't think I have a chance at hitting it because I'm too strong. So I'm just going to have to use my luck stat again. All right, wait, hold on, hold on, let me just try to try and attack this thing. He might die. If he dies, then it's my fault. He's dead, bro. No, you don't know that. He's a tough guy. Yeah, he's dead. Okay, Rout's over, Rout's over. I failed, I failed. I'm going to just finish my idiot off too. One more chase to the beginning area and then we have to try the force. Yeah, this is Route 22. Well, we can't go too far because what is going will jump us. And if he jumps us now, we are dead. He has a team waiting for us. I would fold him, but anyway, let me go ahead and find this Mewtwo really quick. Oh my fucking God. Please don't let that happen to me. I guess. God damn it. Why do we? Why does this keep happening? I don't want this Pokemon. All right, well, he's just a little fucking Bellsprout, dude. I can throw a ball and catch this guy. I weaken mine a little to make sure. Yeah, I can't do the Bellsprout, please. Bro, my mind about to get caught. You're a walking stick. I can't believe you. There we go. OK. I caught mine. God. They're just trying to RNG it. Yes, bro, because he's a little Bellsprout. I can't hit him. I'm not good. There you go. All right. I'm going to call mine Hubert. That's a horrible name. Why, dude? It's like that one Hubert out there is going to be really sad that I said that. Your name is great. All right. Specifically you, but as for a Pokemon name, bro. All right. Oh, my God. Why could I've rented to this earlier? Is that your Viridian City? Oh, no, that's that's just an encounter. Yeah. Bro, what's we don't do it out? Dude, you can't fight the. Can't escape. Why did you try to run? Can't escape. You got to switch. He's too slow. Wild Charizard is slowing. OK, OK, let's do it. He's too slow. He's too slow. Bro, he was going to hit you with sky attack. That was a white little Weedle on the face of the man. Actually, let me interact with the locals. But that may be small, but don't underestimate his wicked fight. I'm not caught a Rattata. I just wanted to at least one of us to get a good Pokemon, bro. No, well, this Viridian Forest is home to many Pokemon at the end. This is probably where it'll happen. It's my turn to go first, right? Yes. Yes, it is. Then I'm going to get me a good one here. Dion, I'm actually feeling my lucky blade of grass right here. This is it. Oh, I knew it. Lucky blade of grass. Come on. No, I know. I just heard legends of the Rattata. I didn't want one. I got a rat. Dion, pick a different piece of grass to me, bro. It's not worth it. All right, bro. I got you. I got you. This is the correct piece of grass on the opposite side of you. This one. No. Okay. Oh, over here. And I got me a. I'm so sick of this shit. And I guess Hubert won't kill him either. But I don't really think I need to. But this is a rat. This rat better get in the ball and just appreciate what I'm doing for him, dude. Nice. I caught my rat. Or I could just go for the pokeball, but I don't want to waste them. No, I don't waste it, bro. You'll probably get him in this one. Yeah. See, that did nothing, bro. Should I just try that? Or should I just? He's an audition. You could just do another sludge bomb or maybe even throw a ball. It's up to you because I'm confident you're going to catch him, dude. Yeah. Yep. If I don't, I'm just going to. Oh my God. I'm not to end this man's whole career. What? No, I didn't kill the Weedle and Gielberg. Dion! What? They were so young. You better catch that fucking audition, bro. We can't go into... We can't fight Brock with one Pokemon. You better catch that little motherfucker, dude. Oh my God. Why did you risk Weedle's young life? I didn't try to, bro. He just didn't get caught. And then he folded me. Oh my God. Just get caught. You fucking... I don't even watch you that bad. Don't hit him. Don't hit him. You can't take another one. Just catch him. I want to hit him so bad, bro. Just catch him, man. You can't fucking be doing this. Oh my God. You can't fucking be doing this, dude. Please get caught. What is that? RNG, this fucking odd-ish guy. Hands, bro. Goddamn it. I got to go bury fucking Hubert. What do I name this guy for folding my team? I'm going to name him the holder. No. Name him Weedle, too, dude. He's... He's always on it. Bro, that's... It's too soon, bro. Let's be honest. Neither of us wanted a fucking bell sprout, bro. Bro, he could have turned into something so much more, dude. With... No, he just gets uglier. I know what that thing evolves into. Okay, I was hiding it because I wanted to keep it a secret, but evolutions are randomized in this one. Wait, what? Yeah, they can evolve into anything. Like any Pokemon, period? Any type, yeah. Any Pokemon of the same type. I did not know that. I was keeping it hidden, but... I guess little Hubert will never evolve now. Ah, damn. Damn indeed, dude. Bro, just dig every time. There's literally, like, this move a little bit broken and I love it, bro. That's what Bauer is. You just can't... You just can't fight back, bro. You can't contain it. You better learn dig, too. Yeah, get bodied. Oh, hello, bug boy. I'm gonna go behind you, buddy. He's got eyes in the back of his head, dude. I passed him. Ooh. So, route two. This is a new route, right? Um, route two. Technically, this is the same as the old route, but out... We should count this. We've earned it. I think we've earned it, too. Oh, let's see what we get. Let's see what we get. Ooh, I'll take a Geodude. Megadrain won't kill him. That's grass. Aren't they strong to grass? Bro, why are you lucky? I don't know, but I'm never gonna catch this thing. It's legendary, dude. It has legendary rays. Bro, this Geodude is a failure. Don't worry. Once I take you under my tutelage, you're gonna be great. If you get to take him under your tutelage, I might not be able to... This is going perfectly. God, if only I was smarter with Pokemon. I'm gonna do one more of Steel Resist Grass. If I can catch a Jarachi... I don't think you would have stabbed me on. I was always sad about my fucking Geodude and you get Jarachi. Well, I caught mine. Actually, you know what? What if I throw a quick Pokeball? How many of them do I have? Eleven? Let me just try. Let me just try. Let me give it a whirl. That's enough. Maybe Jarachi wants to be a member of the team. I guarantee you got him, bro. You got him. No way. Do I actually? That's a Jarachi. Three shakes. Come on, Jarachi. You know you want to be a member of the team. We could fight Brock. We could win together. Okay, if he crits me, that's the only way I die here, maybe. You're not gonna die, bro. Leaf blade, you're fine. Well, I was not as confident as you. Bro, you're so cautious. I am so cautious. Brother, we've seen too much of war. Don't get another attack with Jarachi, or I'll be forced to. Oh, okay. So first things first. I'm going to use a potion. All right. Come on, Jarachi. You want to be a member of this team. I can see it in your little eyes, dude. You're looking at me like, man, this guy could do. Jarachi, stay in the ball, man. Stay in the ball. I'm begging you, dude. Throw another Pokeball. You got it, bro. Please. I believe in us, Jarachi. I believe in us. Oh, my God. Jarachi, please. Don't crit. If you crit, a little woo's dead. Oh, my God. Don't just get out of there. No. Just run away. Please. Please. You son of a bitch. Get in the ball. You're going to lose all your Pokeballs. Like, now you have to catch it, because you wasted so many Pokeballs. The investments I've made. Don't crit. Oh, my God. He's a beast. He's a fucking beast. Hold on. Dotto, Dotto, Dotto, Dotto. You keep fucking. I'm telling you, hit him one more time. Okay. I will, but give me a second. Jarachi. You're wasting Pokeballs. Maybe he wants the netball. This is going to be a short scene. Maybe he wants the netball, Deon. He could just want a cool design ball. Maybe? Nope. Yeah, that worked. Wasn't it? Dotto, you got to just try to hit him one more time. No, there's no way. There's no way. You're going to lose all your Pokeballs. No, you have to. There's other fights to fight. Please. Jarachi, please. Please, Jarachi, please. Good Lord. What a bad. Oh, my God. How many of them chef? Because he cooked the fuck out of me. I'm looking you, bro. With this, I've assembled the team that could take down Brock. I'm just going to heal because my teeth got kicked in a little bit. But after this, we should be able to take down Brock with a team of this Magnificent. I think I'm ready to. I already healed. It's been a while, bro. I was just watching you get folded. Yeah, sure. I did slow us down there. But we could end episode one with our heads held high after we beat Brock's dumbass. All right, Deon. I just got my teeth put back in my mouth. Are you waiting at Brock's? I'm waiting at Brock's. I've been ready for a while. You know what? First things first, I'm going to go sell some of my earthly possessions and strike it a potion. I used bro. I used all my but I'm so I'm too poor. I got to sell something. I pawn that off for 500 bucks. Bro. Well, is this a good attack? Who can I give this? You could use it if you want. I'm not as down bad for money as you are. I'm in a bad space financially, bro. That's all I am at. Sold his granny's necklace to get like a couple bucks, bro. Bro, I'm down tremendous right now, bro. What can I say? You can do this, bro. You've been down bad for too long and there's only, you already hit rock bottom, bro. Hey, yeah. It's only up from here. Hey, speaking of rock bottom, I hear your geodude's pretty strong. So I think you got this too, man. We call him pebble because if he evolves into like a crazy rock monster one day, he'll still be pebble and that's what's bad. That make that. You know what? I don't think that far ahead with my nicknames. I'm going in. Let's go. All right. We only have one little. Oh, you're already going to go straight in, bro. You know, you're just fighting this little devil. I have no fear, bro. He said we're 10,000 light years away from Brock. I don't think that's true. Why is short shorts 10,000 light years away from his ankle? Let's go with mega drain. Get some help. Bro, you get another attack? Oh my God. What happened? I'm just getting cooked. All right. But maybe mega drain. Okay. And I healed myself. He's just too good. Yeah, this folder, his name folder for a reason, bro. I don't even know what's coming out here, but I believe in pebble. It's a sealio. It's a water type. It's a water type. It's a water type. Run. Run. Holder get back in there. All right. I got one. You can take a hit. Now he is a water ice. So if he uses an ice move, folder might die. I won. But yeah, make sure that guy doesn't hit you. He has all of your. Don't worry. Don't worry, bro. I'm done. He is your full team countered. We got to go back. No, Derral was just about to evolve. Oh, maybe he was going to evolve. Oh, God, he's dead. Now we have to beat Broclin two more. I ain't going to lie. All the Pokemon are getting killed by me, bro. I threw him back in the river with the rest. You were a dunder, bro. I ain't going to lie. You linked to the wrong soul, bro. Editor, bring it in on us. Bring it in on us talking. All right, Dion. The lackey kind of fucked us up. I'm not going to lie. He caught a slip and butt. We've trained for Brock. So we're not. Bro, we're not a hyperbolic time chamber. We're good. And you know what? Just in case you go super smooth. In case he's got hands like his his lackey do, I'm going to just make sure that Bowers. Yeah, Bowers first. OK, OK, OK. OK, I'll also lead with my starter though. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, because I'm not trying to. I'm not trying to mess around. I ain't trying to get cook out here. You know what I mean? Bro, I don't. I don't care about your little introduction, bro. I'm broke. He talking and talk, bro. Shut up. Don't trio little dumbass. Well, how about I just poison his little stupid ass? This is a good way to start magnitude eight. Oh, God, that's going to be super fun thing. Oh, God, they got me trained. Oh, no, no, I'm going to frame one, bro. Magnitude six. I could take I eat a six, bro. Six ain't no problem, bro. What should I do? And I can't dig. No, you can't. You can't think. What should I do? I don't know. What do you do? The honor, I don't know. Switch, maybe your other guy has a better chance. All right, one more heal, bro. This is my last potion. Bro, you're using potion on Bowers. I got to just throw hands or something. Do I switch? I don't know. I don't think I can win that. He's too. He's too countered. God, if only Boulder was here. Oh, Boulder would know what to do. Boulder would body this guy. Good Lord. But we love him. I don't have any good attacks. I got to go in for hits, bro. I don't know what I have to do. Yeah, you do. What other choice do I have, Brottle? You don't have another choice. I mean, I think it's my strongest move. I should have just went for dig and tank the hit and then hit him. Should I RNG it, bro? This is the only thing that I think can take this guy out, bro. I should go for it, then. Maybe he'll hit another magnitude six. Oh, comment section. Just be a magnitude two or some shit, bro. It's five. No, that's as low as it goes. That's as low as it goes. No, but he can still hit me when I'm underground. Oh, you missed. Oh, you missed. You missed. Let's go, guys. Oh, my God, he missed. Okay, who you got next? Oh, yeah. The next one's an electrotype. I'm about to beat this guy's ass. What do you mean, rock blast? Present? Yeah, that's cute. Ain't gonna do nothing to me, though. Yeah, cute. Three, cute. Rock blast. Uh, throw another one. Throw another one. Yep, it can do up to four. Oh, oh, oh, three. You're going all the way. Oh, give me another one. Oh, give me one more. Oh, three. Okay, that's fine. Yeah, you should have stuck with the, uh, you should have stuck with the rock type Pokemon, bro. Oh, we got a crit. Crit. Yeah. Bro, he hasn't given me it, bro. This plussel dumb as hell. I'm just giving out presents and shit. Nah, bro, he's an idiot, bro. Get plussel out of here. All right, that's all I need. You won? Yeah, I did it. I got plussel out of the way, bro. That, I ain't gonna lie. I was getting hooked by that Dugtrio, bro. That Dugtrio was putting the moves on you, dude. But now we have the official Pokemon League Boulder badge. Look, now that I understand the series a little more, I ain't gonna let no more of our Pokemon get killed, bro. I didn't realize how heavy this soul link was, bro. Oh, he gave us a... Oh, he gave us money. Oh, we were not poor, dude. I desperately needed money. He also gave us TM39, which I could sell for money. God, I'm poor. Oh, what a day. What a day. Hopefully you guys enjoyed this first episode of this soul link. Maybe only episode, depending on if you guys want to see another one. Let us know, you know, this series could go on for a while or we could die at any second. I think that's the one thing that's very evident from this is that we lost a lot of mods. So, you know, RIP to the fall, let us know in the comments which Pokemon so far has been your favorite. And if we should do another episode of that, check out the series channel, link below, and I'm going to go cry it.