Can You Beat Pokémon Scarlet WITHOUT Koraidon?

For Grusha's gym challenge, I think it's safe enough to assume you'd have a Cyclizar if you didn't have Koraidon protagonist luck, or that one would be rented to you for the challenge. You have to assume all of the challenges are at least technically doable by randos.

While not possible in the base game, if the protagonist didn’t have Koraidon/Miraidon, Arven would have it. Plus, as shown in The Way Home, multiple people can fit on Koraidon/Miraidon. This would mean that, if not confined by the exact logic of the game, if the protagonist didn’t ever get Koraidon/Miraidon, Arven would still have it and therefore Arven and the protagonist could still reach the false dragon titan. I know it’s a cop out but this way Mabosstif survives.

Honestly, the fact that the only storyline that is impossible without Koraidon/Miraidon is the Path of Legends sort of makes sense because the main reward of defeating the titans is powering up the legendary.

You know, it makes sense that the only time you're forced to use the ride mons for overworld travel is on the path of the game dedicated to upgrading said ride mons. Also I wouldn't count the Glaseado gym challenge as a loss since we know Nemona's beaten it without the ride mons, she couldn't have taken the champion assessment if she didn't.

Glaceado’s gym challenge is certainly possible. You said that this challenge was to see if Pokémon SV was possible without protagonist’s luck. The gym would probably give you a pair of skis or something so that people other than the protagonist could beat the gym challenge.

I feel like this is a good place to say that when John does his Team Frog playthrough of Scarlet and Violet, he can’t use the legendary else he be called Team Bicycle Lizard, just like he called Team Sky Team Bearded Deer in the Legends playthrough.

Honestly, it makes sense the path of legends would require Koraidon/Miraidon, considering A, the path is for upgrading your ride, and B, it's Arven's path, and Arven is technically the one who gives you Koraidon and Miraidon.

I did an on-foot round trip of Paldea myself a while ago. Before I hit Zapapico I actually found a shiny Orthworm randomly. I circled it once because I wanted to find a good screenshot angle, and in the process incidentally added a round trip around the Orth to my Paldea trip.

I wonder if Bombirdier knows it just murdered a schoolchild

One challenge I want to see/try is a Bear Gril's nuzlock where, after doing the tutorial, you cannot use any stores or pokemon centers and gotta rely on the land for recovery items and pokeballs.

NPCs use Cyclizar for riding, and I would assume it can swim like Miraidon and Koraidon. The alternate path to Alfornada was how I got to that gym with only two ride upgrades.

Not technically on foot, but in a version of this game where you don't have the legends, I'd imagine you'd have a ridable Cyclizar, I'd imagine you'd use that for the Glacedia Mountain Gym

The ice gym counts, you can catch a cyclizar, which can be used for the challenge

Yes, yes you can. After finding out that there is a path to walk to where the psychic type gym is, I am convinced they designed the game in a way that you could get to anywhere you needed to before getting a single badge. Truly openworld.

I think for the ice gyms challenge, if you were a person in this world and not a protagonist you would be given a snowboard to complete it

It's so funny seeing Mikey get mind blown by Alfornada being reachable without the legendary bikes when I got there by accident just by following the coastal cliffs while exploring my first time

Love how Mikey is finding new fly points from doing this, I definitely don't have all of them either. It'd be pretty fun to do this I think.

Mikey went from uploading gameplay videos and challenge videos to these kind of videos and I love it

I think Glaseado Gym still counts as doable as a normal challenger would just use a Cyclizar. I think that's the way it's intended to be done. Not sure if normal Cyclizar would be able to swim or jump very high though Also: It's very funny seeing you discovering the roads as i used them to get from point A to B quite frequently :P I'm not the type to just go off-road because when the directest path to my destination is clearly the road

It's so cool that you can do EVERYTHING except for the final Titan fight on foot in this game! I also like that you didn't count the fact that you have to glide down into Area Zero on your ride Pokemon the first time as making the game unbeatable, because I feel like without protagonist luck, that'd just mean that Arven would have still had Koraidon or Miraidon himself, making that part possible too. (And I definitely agree that the Grusha gym would have to be beatable by trainers who don't have legenderies so there would have been some way for you to beat it without one.)