Can I beat Yo-Kai Watch 2 using the worst team possible? (Part 1)

03 Aug, 2025

As you might know from my other Blog, I really like Yokai Watch. It's kind of like pokemon but instead of making regular animals do dogfights for money, it's ghosts. As you also might know, there has not been a new Yokai Watch Game in years.

So naturally, in order to fix this there is only one possible Solution: Beating exactly Yokai Watch 2 using only E-Rank yokai, which are the weakest yokai in the entire game.

How does this solve the problem, you ask?

So anways, I started off by making a new character. Meet our new Heroine: E Ranked!

Look at that innocent smile, she has no idea about the horrors that await her...

In case you haven't played Yokai Watch, let me give you a quick recap of what we're actually doing. In Yokai Watch, Yokai have Ranks from E to S, in addition to their Levels. They tell you how good a Yokai is. You cannot change the Rank of a Yokai.

In practice, this means that we'll be relegated to only using the absolute worst Yokai in the game. Think of it like beating Pokemon exclusively using Wurmple. Except much harder, because Yokai Watch is very much balanced around you having at least B to S Rank Yokai near the end of the game.

So, uh... good luck trying to get anything done with E Ranks. Explanation over! - Let's actually get into the real challenge.

We start our day off by getting all our Memories of the last game stolen by two ghosts. Honestly, this is probably going to be the most pleasant thing we will experience for the next 40 or so hours. Ignorance is bliss, they say...

Time to do the tutorial! This part is literally identical to just playing Yokai Watch casually, as we don't even have access to a Yokai Watch yet, let alone one higher than E-Rank. So... I'm just going to speed through it.

We go and talk to mom, do some shopping, have our Parents almost divorce over which Donuts to buy, catch some bugs with Nate by playing the worst minigame ever and then finally get our Yokai Watch. Riveting Gameplay, i know. In case you were wondering, i got my donuts from Soul Donuts, which is the objectively correct choice.

Now, time for the first hurdle of the run: Jibanyan! As you might know, Jibanyan is not actually an E Rank Yokai. He's D Rank. Welp, challenge over, we had a good run.

Just kidding. Just because we have him doesn't mean we need to use him. As long as Jibanyan doesnt actually defeat anyone, its fair game. We continue our quest by being forced by whisper to rummage through trash.
Because of this, we get attacked by brushido, who accusses us of littering.
First up: Rude!

Second up: uh... we have a problem now.
As mentioned before: Jibanyan is a D-Rank yokai.
We're forced to use him in this battle.
Welp, thats it guys, cya later.
Not actually. Yes, we are forced to use jibanyan in this battle, buuuut...

The game forces us, so i say it doesnt count. Theres nothing we can really do to get out of this situation and we cant obtain any E-Rank Yokai before this. Having one here wouldnt have made a big difference anyways, as you literally cannot die in this fight. Yes, i tried.

So yeeeeah, lets just ignore this... Moving on!
We level up Jibanyan to level 2 and then immediately abandon him for the rest of the run as we get our first actual E-Rank: Brushido. Hes a pretty alright early game healer, nothing special to see here. But hey, ill take anything at this point.

We now gets some more exposition dumped on us as whisper tells us about the crank-a-kai. In case you havent played yokai watch: its a gacha machine where you can get random yokai. Unlike most gacha games, you wont need to spend your life savings on it, so thats a bonus.

Ah... remember when you only had to pay for games once to play all the content? Good times.

Anyways, the crank-a-kai will be mostly useless for us, as im pretty sure it doesnt even have any e-rank yokai. Most of them arent very hard to get anyways, so theres not much of a point in pulling for them. Still, more options are nice i guess?

On our way to the crank-a-kai we get stopped by our first really yokai battle: Blowkade! We're still forced to have Jibanyan in our Party, buuut... We can just put him at the back of our party so he can never actually do or take any damage.

They disabled rotating the watch to change positions while in battle, but i guess the forgot about that. Take that, Level 5! Time to kick some blowkade ass!

...
So, Uh...
Slight problem.

As it turns out... There's no way to beat this guy with only brushido. Hes way too weak.

...Right now, at least!
Yup, this time there's a solution.
There is actually one way to level up brushido at this point.
Usually you get XP by beating up other yokai - just like in Pokemon.
However, unlike Pokemon this game actually has a decent amount of side content.

Among them is the minigame "jungle hunter", which, at this point in the game is suprisingly already accessible!
Whats jungle hunter, you ask?

Essentially, you can catch bugs or fish and then give them to this random guy in order to get various rewards.. Including XP Orbs!
Downside is, im going to need to play that bug catching minigame again.
Don't say i dont suffer for my art, folks.

Luckily it only took like two bugs to get us up to level 5, at which point barely managed to defeat blowkade after two or so attempts.
Not a great omen for the rest of this challenge, ill be honest.
Though to be fair, that's kind of what i signed up for.

Anyways, we do the Crank-A-Kai tutorial and we actually get to choose a free yokai! Because im very not intelligent i accidentally chose the only Yokai that wasnt E ranked. Lets just say i did that on purpose to make the run harder.

Hi! Kami from a few months later here. As you might tell, basically locking myself out of a free E Rank was what you might call "a really bad idea". Because of this, i quit the run for... well, a few months. BUT! I'm not a quitter! (just ignore the fact that i did actually quit for a bit). We're finishing this babyyy!

Anyways, you know all the stuff up until now, only thing thats different this time is that i picked Roughraff. Yknow, an actual E-Rank? I dont think i need to explain why i didnt pick manjimutt instead...

Seriously, just look at him. Do i need to say more?

Yeah, we dont need that creep in our party. Sorry, manjimutt fans.
Im sure there are at least two of you out there somewhere.
Actually, im not sorry. You should feel bad for liking manjimutt.
Aaaanyways, Roughraff it is!

Look at our boy. This is what peak male performance looks like, and you cannot convince me otherwise.
Alriiight! One more thing before we can actually get started doing something interesting!
We need to catch more bugs!
Yaaaaaaay.
Everyones favorite minigame, im sure.
This time, its for story reasons!
The first required side-quest that introduces the concept of... well, side-quests, requires us to catch a brown cicada for some guy we just met.

As i have been to japan before i can confirm that this is a totally normal every day occurence there. I honestly got kind of sick of having to catch brown cicadas for complete strangers, but that weird white ghost wouldnt let me go otherwise.

Bring your bug net if you ever visit, folks!

Anyways, now being masters at bug catching we get that man his cicada quite easily and can finally move on to more interesting challenges.

We can now also now finally follow famous twitch streamers alinitys footsteps and kick that damn cat! (from our team). Ah, how liberating. Dont worry, no cats were harmed in the making of this blogpost. Anyways, now we do a bunch more sidequests. Ill be honest, most of em are boring now that we have something somewhat resembling a team of yokai, and theyre not all that story relevant, so ill just skip 'em. Dont worry, youre not missing out on much here.

So, after doing a bunch of unrelated stuff, we come across a 7-Eleven currently getting pretty terrible sales. So, obviously, we have to force people to buy their food via yokai-possession! Hey, there's no law saying that's illegal :3

So yeah, we go back to our house and conveniently find the yokai hungramps, whose superpower is, predictably, making people hungry. Who would have guessed. We befriend him by giving him a one dollar riceball, which is the cheapest food item in the game. Wow, we kinda suck. Anyways, hungramps is actually quite useful because he's is both a healer and a rank E yokai. So, we finally have a healer on our team!

Yaaay. And hey, his ability isn't awful either. Getting more healing from food items will probably be pretty good in a run where all our yokai are completely terrible.

So yeah, anyways. We get back to the 7-Eleven and make hungramps do his thing by possessing random passersby and forcing them to buy stuff. Aren't we nice for helping out a local business?

Now, after a hard days work of utilizing questionable sales tactics, it's back to bed - and also time to start the next chapter of the story. Progress!

We start off chapter two with something terrible. Something truly terrible. So terrible only a yokai could have done it: Birds stealing food from people.

As this is obviously completely unprecedented and has never occured naturally ever before, we have to stop the evil yokai that is undoubtedly behind this.

Wait... a peanut butter and pickle sandwich? Nevermind actually, that lady had it coming for her. Seriously, who does that?

Seriously though, why exactly is this newsworthy? Is there nothing going on in springdale?

Anyways, our estemeed protagonist decides to completely ignore this issue. My headcanon is it's because that lady's sandwich was terrible and she kind of deserved it. Instead, we go to gourd pond to play with our friends! Like a reasonable, non crow obsessed person with a social life!

I'm sure this won't end in a series of incredibly unlikely coincidences that forces us to solve that crow issue anyways.

So anways, we meet our friend Eddie, and he immediately starts flexing his super cool, super expensive watch by telling us that we're two minutes and 32 seconds late.

Apparently we've never seen a digital watch ever before, so our main character is really impressed by this.

Wait, why the heck did Eddie buy two watches? This kid has too much money, seriously.

Aaaand... One of the watches prompty gets stolen by a crow. Well, I can't say I didn't see it coming. I suppose it's time we dealt with these crows.

Thanks to the other watch Eddie conveniently has he can use the GPS function to track the watch the crow just stole. We manage to sneak up one the crow, but it gets scared and drops the watch into the driver. Luckily it's water proof. And can float.

We quickly use our watch to figure out that the reason for the watches unexpected buoyancy is that it fell on an unsuspecting yokai that was drifting downshore! Said yokai is called Walkappa. I'm honestly not sure why, as it's just called Kappa in the japanese release. I guess the localizers thought that didn't sound cool enough.

Great, and it got stolen by some random yokai. How the people in springdale get anything done under these conditions will forever be a mystery to me.

Apparently the mystery yokai is called yoink. Which, once again: real subtle.

So, yeah we end up chasing him for a while before finally confronting him again once we catch up. He then posseses a cat and proceeds to fuck right off while we stand there and do nothing.

Eddie is of course completely baffled by the fact some random cat seemingly just stole his watch, but continues playing along anyways. Poor guy, he just wanted to flex his overpriced watch to us.

We chase into a random shady alley before finally getting to fight the guy to get our watch back. On the way we also fight and befriend pandle in a random encounter, which is pretty cool.

He's rank E, which means we actually get to use him. Fun. Only problem is that his ability is god awful as all it does is make him more vulnerable to critical hits.

To balance out that incredible 10 attack base stat i suppose. No seriously, why does he have that? His stats suck. Oh well, we got him for free so i can't complain.

But yeah, we fight the guy and win with next to no effort. At this point, the game still expects us to have D or E ranked yokai, so it isn't all that hard.

So, we get the watch and promptly drop it in the sewer. Because nothing is ever easy. We go into the sewer and get strangely sweaty. Obviously that's the fault of a yokai, because everything is always the fault of a yokai. He's called Swelton.

Also, he looks like this.
Yeah, I don't like him.
Sorry Swelton.

Unsuprisingly he's kind of an idiot and forces us to fight him for control over the now quite frankly disgusting watch. Why are we still trying to get this thing back, exactly?

We finally get the watch back for real after defeating Swelton. We also befriend Swelton. I'm not sure how to feel about that.

Oh, apparently he's C rank.
Oh nooo, we can't use Swelton.
This is tragic.
But oh well, i guess I'll have to kick the guy off the team.
No other choice. Sorry Swelton, nothing personal.

So yeah, that's the end of the first three chapters!
It's also the end of part one of whatever the heck this is, because we're at 2.500 words now and I would very much like to finish this post sometime this decade.

So, look forward to next chapter were we'll have an actual bossfight!
We'll see how that goes. Probably poorly.

Tune in next time, where our Heroine E Ranked will fight the abstract concept of gambling!