Randomized Pokémon Platinum 2 Hour Challenge

This page explains how Patterrz's run went during his Randomized Pokémon Platinum 2 Hour Challenge run.

For more Pokémon Randomized 2 Hour Challenge runs like this, please see Pokémon Randomized 2 Hour Challenge Runs for a list of all of his runs, or the category page.

### The Beginning - The start of the run

Upon starting the game, Patterrz had to skip through quite a bit of story, & revealed that he had named his rival Barry as RAT.

Pat looked inside Professor Rowan's briefcase & had three randomized starters to choose from: Bibarel, Sealeo & Pichu.

Pat picked the Bibarel, which ended up being female & had Iron Fist as her ability.

Against rival RAT, Pat's Bibarel kept getting trolled by RAT's male Sealeo, which kept spamming Growl.

Then, the Sealeo used Encore & locked the Bibarel into Tackle.

In the end, the Bibarel prevailed, since the Sealeo either had no attacking moves, or it never actually attacked her at all.

When she was being named, two of the biggest Donators gave her two MALE names (Henry & Timmy). Flappers was the third suggested name from Brady Power, a member, so her name ended up being a combination of them all (excluding the s), **Hemmpper**.

Rowan then gave Pat a free TM, which, if not randomized would be Return. But, by sheer luck, the TM for Return had randomized into Payback, a Dark Type move, a perfect counter to Ghost Types. This move was quickly taught to **Hemmpper** in order to avoid getting stalled out by Ghost Types.

The catching tutorial, as usual did not randomize, causing the Pokémon to stay as Dawn's Chimchar & a Wild Bidoof.

Pat ran into a mandatory trainer with a level 5 male Swampert. Luckily, even after an accuracy drop from a Mud Slap, **Hemmpper** did NOT miss her attacks. Another mandatory trainer had a scary Pokémon, an Articuno which could've easily froze **Hemmpper**, but luckily, she did not get frozen & beat it.

Then, she nearly got killed by a Wild Roserade with Absorb when she couldn't beat. She almost got killed when a trainer confused **Hemmpper** when their Mantine landed Supersonic. However, Pat's potions healed up any damaged that she took during all of that.

### Jublife City

Rival RAT later returned in Jublife City, this time with a Milotic, which is usually a very stally Pokémon, but **Hemmpper** was able to get through with not too much effort.

Then RAT brought out his Sealeo, which luckily still had its stupid AI & kept using Encore & Growl.

**Hemmpper** missed two Tackles in a row, but still managed to beat up RAT's team in the end.

Later on, in a previous route, a non-mandatory trainer gave Pat some trouble; by burning **Hemmpper** with his Flame Body Shinx right at the end of the battle, this caused Pat to black out against *ANOTHER* non-mandatory trainer's Larvitar, sending him back to Jubilife City & losing him some time.

Upon backtracking to the same route, Pat dodged the Lavitar trainer & went straight to Oreburgh City, & actually found a Lucky Egg near the coal mound, which made leveling up **Hemmpper** much easier.

### The 1st Gym (vs Roark)

Unluckily, the 1st trainer Pat encountered inside the gym had a very annoying Pokémon; that trainer sent out a male Finneon...with Attract! And **Hemmpper** was *female!*

**Hemmpper** got immobilized by Infatuation 8 times out of the 15 turns, making the battle a stally one, lasting 15 turns, & this forced Pat to return to the Pokémon Center to heal her up.

Things were much easier against the 2nd trainer though, as both Payback, & the newly learned Rollout helped Pat to annihilate their entire team. If Pat had not taught Payback to **Hemmpper**, he would have had trouble, however.

Against Roark, **Hemmpper** sweeped his entire team using Rollout, & learned Water Gun. Roark handed Pat his 1st Gym Badge, & a TM for Spore.

### Saving Floroma Town

Pat taught **Hemmpper** Spore over her Tackle...only to bump into a trainer who had a Breloom, which used Stun Spore. Luckily, the Breloom had Truant, & **Hemmpper** didn't miss a Rollout.

Trying to go back to the Pokémon Center, Pat accidently bumped into some trainers, including the same one that made him blackout with his Lavitar, allowing Pat to get some sweet revenge on him.

In the team up battle with Dawn, **Hemmpper** & the Pichu starter took out a Uxie & Turtwig. Pat replaced Rollout with Headbutt. But then Pat realized that he had no HM Slaves, & he didn't want to use his Bibarel as one.

So, he at first tried to catch a wild Sealeo, but it got OH-KO'd by a crit. Then, he caught a female Bunneary, which was named **Fazt**, after the current biggest Donator. Then, Pat taught **Fazt** Rock Smash.

Pat was able to pick up the TM Meteor Mash, but sadly, only **Fazt** could learn it. Then, Pat had some trouble with a Galactic Grunt guard's Nosepass, which had Dry Skin.

After destroying the two Galactic Grunts harassing the Honey Man in two single battles & getting the Windworks Key, he stormed into the Windworks Building, hoping to quickly beat Mars.

He had no trouble battling the grunt & his Spiritomb, then began to fight Commander Mars. He managed to flinch his Parasect & two-shot it, & did the exact same thing to his Wartortle.

After beating Mars, Pat refused to teach **Hemmpper** Hyper Fang.

### On the way to the 2nd Gym

Two trainer battles later, & Patterrz reached Eterna Forest, where he teamed up with a girl & had a male level 20 Machop on **Hemmpper**'s side.

The double battle against two Ace Trainers gave Pat a bit of trouble, as a Togekiss had Aura Sphere, nearly taking **Hemmpper** down to half health.

### The 2nd Gym (vs Gardenia)

Pat reached Eterna City & had to beat all the trainers inside the Gym to progress. He had no trouble against the 1st trainer & 2nd trainer.

Against Gardenia, Pat easily defeated her Ariados, but had a little trouble against her Machoke, which nearly took out **Hemmpper** with Karate Chop, & she kept healing it with potions.

Then, **Hemmpper** ran out of PP on Headbutt, forcing Pat to change his strategy, using Spore & Payback against Gardenia's Altaria, defeating the 2nd Gym & netting himself the 2nd Gym Badge.

### Getting a Bike

After Cynthia gives Pat the HM Cut, he teaches the cruddy HM move to **Fazt**, & was able to enter Eterna's Galactic building.

Pat dodged a bullet by managing to OH-KO a Grunt's Whynaut to avoid Counter.

Against Jupiter, Pat & **Hemmpper** had to go against a level 21 Torterra with Drought. Luckily, it never did anything, & Pat easily beat his Rattata. Pat then gets an Egg from Cynthia, & then gets the bike from the bike shop owner as a thank you for saving him from Jupiter.

On Route 206, Pat dodged the 1st two trainers, but had to fight the 3rd & 4th trainers, & luckily had no trouble against them.

### The 3rd Gym (vs Fantina)

Against Fantina, her Delcatty trolled **Hemmpper** by using Fake Out, surviving on 1HP & getting healed.

Then, she sent out her Mankey, which then get's OH-KO'd by a Headbutt.

Then she has a Gengar, which lived Payback, but then, Fantina surrendered herself by having her Gengar use Curse to kill itself, winning Pat the 3rd Gym badge.

### On the way to the 4th Gym

Pat got ambushed by rival RAT in the exit of Hearthome City.

**Hemmpper**'s Payback OH-KO'd RAT's Xatu. Then RAT sent out his Skiploom, which got OH-KO'd by a Headbutt.

Unfortunately, RAT had gotten himself a Giratina, which then paralyzed **Hemmpper** with Dragon Breath, & she kept getting Paralyzed.

She was only able to beat the Giratina on red health. RAT fianlly sent his Sealeo, & eventually, after bad RNG with a para, managed to take out the Sealeo, beating RAT.

Pat then got into a dangerous double battle against a Garchomp & a Ledyba. Poor **Fazt** got OH-KO'd by the Ledyba's Mach Punch, leaving **Hemmpper** to take out both the Garchomp & Ledyba.

After skipping past Solaceon Town, Pat got into yet ANOTHER double battle, causing **Fazt** to go from level 4 to level 8, & attempted to learn Encore, which Pat refused. The battle ended with **Fazt** being at level 9.

Pat then encountered a trainer with both a Garchomp & a Deoxys. Luckily, it only had Wrap, & then two Paybacks took out the Deoxys.

Pat ended up fighting many trainers on the route to Celestic Town, since there were too many on that route, including a trainer with *TWO* *Celebi.*

Upon reaching Veilstone City, Pat healed both **Hemmpper** & **Fazt** at the Pokémon Center, & then went inside of Maylene's Gym.

### The 4th Gym (vs Maylene)

Inside the gym, Pat got into trouble with a mandatory trainer who had a Heracross, which, after having Spore used on it, woke up 1st turn & used Counter, nearly taking out **Hemmpper**.

Then, a Togekiss got sent out & tried to use Sky Attack, which got disabled thanks to **Hemmpper**'s Spore.

It was lucky that Pat didn't black out during that fight.

Pat struggled against the gym's puzzle, but eventually made it to Maylene. She sent out a Bulbasaur & a Maril, which **Hemmpper** easily took out, but the Bagon was a bit tougher as it lived **Hemmpper**'s attacks & kept getting healed.

Pat & his team eventually beat it & got the 4th Gym Badge. Pat quickly ran out of the gym in hopes of getting the 5th Gym badge.

### The Last 5 Minutes

Unfortunately, the story wanted Pat to help Dawn out with some troublesome Galactic Grunts.

So, Pat ended up in another team up battle with Dawn & her Vigoroth. He beat their Cascoon, Krabby, Jigglypuff & Polywag easily.

With only 5 minutes left, Pat was forced inside of the Galactic Warehouse by Looker & got the HM Fly, which he couldn't use, due to having no HM Slaves that can fly (He had a Bibarel, a Bunneary & an Egg).

The final two minutes were spent with Patterrz trying to get through the next route to get to Pastoria City. Pat was able to get to Pastoria City & get into a battle with RAT, but he wasn't able to take out his 1st Pokémon, a male level 34 Vaporeon, as it lived with half HP.

## Close Calls

* A mandatory trainer on Route 202, Lass Natalie had an Articuno, which could've easily frozen **Hemmpper** with Powder Snow. **See the Clip**
* Pat decides to try & grind against a dangerous Wild Roserade, which almost takes out **Hemmpper** with a single Absorb. **See the Clip**
* **Hemmpper** nearly loses to a Mantine because of Supersonic causing confusion, & it kept getting high rolls. **See the Clip**
* Pat gets trolled when the 1st trainer in Roark's gym has his male Finneon using Attract on **Hemmpper**, a female Bibarel. She ends up getting immobilized 8 turns out of all 15 turns, & could've been taken out. **See the Clip**
* Pat gets rid of **Hemmpper**'s Tackle for Spore, giving her a moveset which couldn't counter the next trainer's Pokemon, a Breloom, the mortal enemy of Bibarel's typing. Luckily, the Breloom had Truant, giving Pat an easy win with Rollout. **See the Clip**
* Pat nearly teaches **Hemmpper** Yawn by accident over Water Gun when she already had Spore. **See the Clip**
* Pat gets into a double battle against a Garchomp & a Ledyba. Since the Ledyba had Mach Punch, this would've been very bad for **Hemmpper**, & she had to face BOTH of them alone, since **Fazt** was taken out in one Mach Punch from the Ledyba. **See the Clip**
* Pat got into yet ANOTHER Dangerous Double Battle, this time against TWO GRASS TYPES, Roselia & Ludicolo! Luckily, **Fazt** was there to help that time, & **Hemmpper** survived the super effective Absorb from the Roselia. **See the Clip**
* A female trainer, Pokémon Breeder Amber had both a Garchomp & a Deoxys. **See the Clip**
* **Hemmpper** is nearly killed by a Heracross in Maylene's gym; it woke up 1st turn after having Spore & Headbutt used on it, & the Heracross used Counter. She lived at 12 HP. The trainer then sent out a Togekiss & went for Sky Attack. Luckily, **Hemmpper** used Spore. **See the Clip**

## Fails

* Pat gets screwed over by a Flame Body Shinx, which caused **Hemmpper** to black out against a trainer's Larvitar. **See the Clip**
* Pat finds a Wild Sealeo, which he decides to catch as an HM Slave. Unfortunately, **Hemmpper** faints the Sealeo with a Crit Water Gun. **See the Clip**

## Trivia

* Hilariously, the url for the YouTube stream of the Randomized Platinum 2 Hour Speedrun contains an O\_O face (watch?v=4**O\_O**MP988ic)
* The rival was likely named as RAT, because it is one letter off of PAT.
* The Platinum 2 Hour Speedrun, which had more story to stall it out, actually had more progress than Pat's previous Pearl 2 Hour Speedrun, because **Hemmpper** (his Bibarel) was acutally *stronger* than **Sub2Pat** (his Latias)
* Even though **Hemmpper** already had Spore, she still tried to learn Yawn, an inferior move. Cue Pat nearly teaching Yawn over Water Gun by accident as he jokes about Yawn's inferiority...
* Coincidently, the randomizer gave the 2nd Trainer in the Grass Gym both a Manaphy *AND* a Phione
* A trainer on the route to Celestic Town had TWO Celebi, like some kind of Time Paradox
* The Egg never actually hatched on time, & remained unhatched, even at the end of the run when time ran out...