History Headscratchers / Marriland

* This might feel more like a rant that shouldn't be here, or on the [[UnpleasableFanbase "no deaths = boring, death = "ZOMG Y U TAKE RISKS"]] side, but does anyone else feel like he was pretty reckless in the time that he had Kohlrabi on his team? For one thing, the entire second half of Episode 49 "Looking for Latias!" has him battling lots of bikers on Cycling Road. I do get that he was trying to train up Kohlrabi, but after seeing Poison and Fire-types every five seconds, don't you think he would eventually be thrown a wake-up call and stop using him and Tangerine? For one thing, he wasted over five minutes and a bunch of healing items on one Weezing that i'm sure could have taken him one minute had he just used Spinach or Banana instead. And for the icing on the cake, in Part 54 "Cerulean Capers", I just knew that disaster was going to strike when he decided to use those two against a trainer class that specializes in Poison and Electric-types.

* Not that he isn't entitled to use whoever he wants, but in Part 30 (where he battles Clair's gym), was it really necessary for him to sweep all the trainers with Plum's Sludge Bomb instead of giving others like Turnip, Carrot and Peach some action in the midst of it? Given that it didn't have distinct type advantages, I feel that kinda goes against how he feels that this challenge is about having a team.

* Why does he think Net Balls are so terrible? They have a higher catch rate than Ultra Balls against two of the more common-types in the game. There were two times in White 2 where he ran into very rare Water-types that he failed to catch with Ultra Balls, where he didn't use, or even ''address'' the Net Balls. One was a Seismitoad in Outer Pinwheel Forest, and the other was a Corsola in Route 18's Hidden Grotto. You can bet I wanted to throw something at my computer both those times. And in Episode 17 of Heartgold, he tells the shopkeeper at Olivine "to get rid of that garbage" (them and Heal Balls). Uh, you do know you're right near an area full of Water-types, right? Situational =/= garbage.

* Minor, but in the sendoff for [[spoiler:Carrot and Peach]] at the end of the HG Wedlocke, one of the submitted fanart drawings had Ninjarisu in it. Why would he include fanart that shows a spoiler for the series before it even releases on YouTube?

! Note: Do NOT discuss the Champion battle in Emerald here. He has already gotten enough flack for it, given that he had to disable (which now also deletes) comments on that video, and we don't want it getting any worse by mentioning crazy and possibly untrue theories. We don't know why he did what he did and probably never will. For that matter, please try to avoid making any topic into senseless ranting or complaining. Also, there may be unmarked spoilers ahead, so beware.

* In Episode 56 "New Moon!", after [[spoiler:Banana and Spinach]] died to Arms' Alakazam, why didn't he send in Squash? With that Reflect up, and Disable sealing Crunch from being used, things got dicey with Carrot. Had it not been for the Defense drop from the first usage of Crunch, another massacre would have been sure to ensue, considering Peach wouldn't have been able to do anything against Golbat or Gengar except Swagger. It was this close to becoming the Kimono Girls all over again thanks to that Special Defense drop from Psychic. Squash would have been able to take hits from that Alakazam with no problems, and the only thing he really would have had to worry about was that Magneton resisting all Squash's attacks and Pomelo being weak to it. So why didn't he use those two instead of Carrot and Peach?

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! Note: Do NOT discuss the Champion battle in Emerald here. He has already gotten enough flack for it, given that he had to disable (which now also deletes) comments on that video, and we don't want it getting any worse by mentioning crazy and possibly untrue theories. We don't know why he did what he did and probably never will. For that matter, please try to avoid making any topic into senseless ranting or complaining.

* While I certainly understand why he would want to impose a rule that prevents overleveling, why is he making it so he has to ''permanently release'' them? Not being able to use them in the Gym battle I understand, but saying goodbye to them for good? Why not just temporarily put them in the box until after the Gym battle?

! Note: Do NOT discuss the Champion battle in Emerald here. He has already gotten enough flack for it, given that he had to disable comments on that video, and we don't want it getting any worse by mentioning crazy and possibly untrue theories. For that matter, please try to avoid making any topic into senseless ranting or complaining.

* In the Black 2 Adventure Let's Play Thingy, he gives Dragon Pulse to his Lucario over Close Combat. While he did know there were Dragons coming up, Lucario had more Attack than Special Attack, and STAB Close Combat = super-effective Dragon Pulse. The only Dragon-type that Dragon Pulse would really have been more effective than either Ice Punch or Close Combat was Iris' Haxorus, due to it having lower Special Defense than Defense (and had Earthquake, which says screw you to Lucario), so what good did Dragon Pulse really do?

** The Rapidash was Level 59. Pomelo (Politoed) was only Level 57. Because of that, he wasn't certain that he could take it out in one hit or two. He figured that if it was asleep and therefore unable to attack him, he'd be able to buy more time in order to hit the Rapidash with Waterfall. That way, regardless of whether it took one hit or two, he would win after the second turn. This makes sense, as he'd have to take a hit from the Rapidash anyways, since it was faster than Pomelo. And he knew that the Rapidash would have to stay asleep for that one turn at the very least, due to how the sleep status condition works. However, Rapidash used Bounce, thereby causing Hypnosis to miss, which left him vulnerable to the Rapidash's Bounce attack, paralyzing him ([[RunningGag because he ALWAYS gets paralyzed]]), and making it all the more difficult.

* In Episode 60 of the Wedlocke "Blame Blaine's Brains!", he did beat Blaine without losing any of his Pokémon, but there was one thing he did against the Rapidash that I don't quite get. After the Rapidash used Bounce and was in the air, why didn't he just use Waterfall with Pomelo instead of trying to put it to sleep with Hypnosis? He still had the rain, so he would have been very likely to kill the Rapidash in one hit with Waterfall.

*** Because people on the internet are an UnpleasableFanbase

** To add to this, this troper has found from experience with Nuzlockes that it's actually harder to play the game with the restriction of "no items outside of battle" than "no items during a battle", because then you have to take a hit every time you want to heal. This makes the complaints even worse.

* Why is it such a big deal to the viewers that he abuses items in many important battles in his Nuzlockes? I mean, if they're gonna say that then I would like to see ''them'' try one, let alone one without in-battle healing. For one thing, I read in the comments of Episode 48 in Emerald (where he battles Juan) and someone said that it was boring of him to just stall that Kingdra out of PP, and that the Kingdra could have wrecked his entire team with just one Hyper Potion. What did that guy expect him to do, just let that happen?