I Made a Pokémon Paul Platinum ROM Hack, and Hardcore Nuzlocked it!

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Dawn: "paul your a jerk" Paul: "I know"

Of course he's a favorite. He's basically the anime version of Silver.

As someone who did not watch the anime in this period I’m just rolling with it. I’d believe anything you say about Paul

In the anime, Paul used Magmar against Maylene's Lucario. You could have recreated that as well.

Paul is one of my favorite characters and rivals in Pokémon. He’s phenomenal at battling so I love how you did this!

Really fun seeing you play as Paul, I liked how you made Ash your rival and give him his Sinnoh team. My favourite part had to be the final battle with Ash, I liked the recreation of their final battle from the anime. Looking forward to the Sinnoh Ash video.

Regarding Paul: His "competitive game" approach is counter to the Anime's take on the Pokémon world but is mostly limited to releasing captures that he doesn't intend to put time into which while strange isn't really "bad" in the case of, say, the Starlys but becomes traumatic in instances like Chimchar's where he was around for awhile forming a bond and already having been subjected to that kind of harsh training. His very harsh training methods are awful or even abusive... depending on the Pokémon. The Honchcrow, Weavile, Aggron, Magmortor, Electivire, and Drapion lines he trained are all "Thug" or "Monster" species the textbook examples of which would absolutely excel in such a training environment and cases could certainly be made for the rest of his known roster including a potential Staraptor or Infernape. The specific Chimchar that was eventually released and ended up with Ash is an excellent example of incorrect species-based Trainer assumptions since Infernape's line on paper should take well to Paul's methods but this was not one such example resulting in physical abuse and psychological trauma that was later worsened by abandonment when it became clear it couldn't keep up. He's definitely an arrogant jerk but I always thought that trait shone far more prominently than normal towards and around Ash, an individual who has nigh identical experience to himself, whose mentality and training methods are the opposite which immediately leads to animosity. "Nigh identical experience" as in Paul had by this point participated in the Kanto, Johto, and Hoenn Leagues like Ash (not necessarily in that order) but not the Orange League or Battle Frontier, although he's aspired since soon after receiving Turtwig to eventually be good enough for the latter, hence why Paul had fully evolved Pokémon like Weavile from the start of this series. Don't ask me why Paul of Sinnoh's Veilstone City who received his Turtwig starter from Prof. Rowan in Sandgem Town (hence the knowledge on how to evolve his presumably Johto Sneasel) waited to tackle his home region's Pokémon League until participating in three others from distant regions because if one was provided beyond the writers wanting to further deepen his narrative similarities to Ash then I'm unaware.

4:35 why did he call his chimchar primeape? 🤣

FINALLY! A DS Rom hack! Especially one where Paul is the rival instead of Barry

Paul is just your typical competitive player which is why he released many Mons in the anime

It’s funny cause a couple years back I bought a copy of platinum just to name my character Paul and use all the Pokémon he used

Who else had a crush in Dawn when he was 10? Lord knows i did

Paul's team probably the most stacked one

Ash’s hyper style does match his original series counterpart but not his DP counterpart

Awesome video dude! NightWing was an obvious favourite of mine, but NotaBug was a close second😂. I knew Paul's team was always stacked, but now I KNOW how stacked it really is ahaha. Once again, great video man, keep it up!

Paul was a great rival this looks really great

As someone who did Paul's team in Shining Pearl, I highly recommend doing this

My only complaint is that in Snowpoint, there should have been a battle with Brandon. Ideally, here’s his team. - Regirock - Registeel - Regice - Dusknoir - Ninjask - Solrock

This was such a good video dude!! loved the dedication to this video, i look forward to the video playing as Ash! also big up to Warthunder for supporting my guy !!