A Tale Of Three Nuzlocke Encounters 

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the arc of pokemon idealists alpharad becoming the standard cold, heartless, and logical nuzzlocker vs jaded nuzzlocker jan becoming attached to pokemon in his hardest challenge yet is poetic

That 0.00029% RNG was so hard to watch live, it was just: *"Thats unlucky, but he can still make it out of this"* _Followed by:_ *"Thats pretty bad, but he has a few outs if he gets lucky"* _Followed by:_ *"how could this possibly get any worse"* _Followed by:_ *"oh... Thats how"*

That Mt Pyre fight was so heartbreaking to watch... Even worse when he ran it back on speed up after wiping and we got to see how free the fight was if everything didn't go wrong.

Honestly pchals videos have improved massively in quality since he went back to streaming, genuinely good storytelling here

The renaissance of "Pokemon are tools to win nuzlockes" from 2020 all the way back to here is hilarious

Hawlucha tried to stop Ledian : “I thought we weren’t allowed to die when there’s no point to it !” Ledian calmly answered : “There is a point to it. Significance, too. Even a great cause.” “You know that’s impossible !” “You could do it, couldn't you, Phoenix ?” Ledian slowly turned back : “Are you the strongest because you're Pchal’s favorite ? Or are you Pchal’s favorite because you're the strongest?” Hawlucha stopped for a second “I’ve decided how I'll live my life. Now it’s just a matter of doing the best I can to achieve that.” Said Ledian while walking to the battlefield against Blaziken.

one does not "win with their favorites" one makes new favorites along the way

I mean, isn't that what Nuzlockes were about in the first place? They were always meant to be a fun adventure with unlikely friends who you came to know and like before they inevitably leave you forever. Nuzlockes were always meant to be driven by emotion, and it's honestly great to those emotions surface even when you're trying to min-max everything. o7 to the fallen.

"environmental storytelling" and showing the pdp bridge is crazy 😭

What I love about watching Jan is that he doesn't reset when he RNG shits on him and he doesn't catch meta mons. He plays the whole run through with what he has, which not only embodies the soul of the nuzlocke challenge, but he also ends up finding some really good strats with mons that other people don't look twice at (eg. fast Ledian able to execute Encore).

"Focus blast hits 30%" Yeah it does feel like that sometimes

You know it’s bad when the first “ boss fight” is not the gym leader but the aqua grunt 💀

just so some of you guys know the footage for the plan he demonstrated for the double battle near the end was him using speed up after the fail to see if his plan woulda worked without bad rng and he made the fight look easy in 30 seconds 😭😭

Jokes about the end of the month aside, these videos on in-progress runs are honestly some of my favorites. It gives an opportunity to shed some light on unpopular encounters and smaller fights that might get cut from full-run recap videos. It's cool to see the in-between moments that, despite not being pivotal boss fights, still define how the run will ultimately play out.

Shout out to Middlefart being an unsung hero of the runs that it was in.

Ledian was born to switch into ground types, just like nord vpn was born to give you safer browsing options

Ah, end of the month is here!

A phrase I thought you would say in the end is “to win with your favorite pokemon does not mean to win with them dealing the final blow” Most of the pets and companions we have through our life won’t be there when we finish ‘our run’. But we enjoyed every moment we had with them

I have a friend whose favorite mon is Wooper. His nuzlockes (which he does as randomizers) always include what he calls the "Wooper clause": if he runs into a wild Wooper, he *must* catch it, even if it's not the first encounter of the route. But, once he catches it, it *stays* on his team permanently, and if it dies, the run is over, even if the rest of his team survives. He has embraced his favorite, and has woven it into his runs. (This friend also has a similar clause for shinies. The first shiny he runs into during a run gets a specific nickname calling back to one of his OCs, and if that mon dies than the run is over. The difference being that the shiny in question *is* allowed to be boxed.)

Pchal- enjoying his run, about to take on the double battle 0.00029% RNG- Good morrow

I love the scrolldown of people who've beaten Run&Bun hardcore and all but one of them has some form of Urshifu on their team.

No shame in admitting emotional attachment to your Pokemon, it's part of the appeal of nuzlockes in the first place. A beautifully done video, good luck avenging this run on attempt 5!

The fact that he ran back that Mt Pyre immediately afterwards and it went exactly as he planned is sad af

After seeing a bidoof sweep an entire team of legendary Pokémon, I can confirm that quote

The thumbnail is so fire

was about to start a walk. couldn't find a video to listen to while i walked. this drops immediately. walk begins.

This run really was full of unexpected GOAT encounters with their own narratives and niches, it was beautiful to witness

Pchal daily viewers be like: ahhhh yes he's condensed the tragic attempt 2 into a video. I'm here for it lol

How I like to see the quote from a competitive perspective is not to use your favourite Pokémon in terms of looks, but in terms of how they play. Most people will like what works best, but if you enjoy playing against the odds, or enjoy gimmicky strategies, then that’s what you should play.

The percentage in the last part really drove home how unlucky that was

I've been watching the Run & Bun streams highlights everyday religiously for months now. They drop exactly when I finish my shift at work so I get to watch them on the way back home on the bus, this has become my way to decompress after a hard day and I've grown way more attached to it then I ever thought I would. When the Mt. Pyre fight dropped I remember I very loudly gasped in shock at the Delcatty survival and the old lady sitting next to me looked at me, looked at my phone and looked back at me in disgust. Truly unforgettable stuff

Seeing the one chatter say "f**k you ledian" while Jan is saluting it absolutely sent me😂

Script on this one was fantastic. Love the curveball of the Archie fight being solved only to be lost, even if I already knew it from streams/highlights. RIP Run 2, the team clutched it out to go so much longer than it should have on paper.

What an ending to the video! your script writing has gotten way better, really enjoyed the story and the video. Keep going strong on attempt 5!

46:27 "Focus Blast hits - 30%" so real

I think what Karen's trying to get across is less "your favorites can be viable if you try hard enough" and more "this game's a lot more interesting when people bring themselves to the table."

Forgot it was the end of the month already. Gotta keep those advertisers happy

This may be the best ‘I need to get a video out at the end of the month to fulfil a sponsor requirement’ ever. Such good story telling, such a cool thumbnail, just such a great concept

philosophical pchal is a different breed

“People should win with their favorites” My favorites are Incineroar and Landorus-T

"Ah yes, let this be a reminder that your parents do have favorites, and if you had to ask, it Probably isnt you" -Jacob Alpharad

God attempt 2 was special

this is genuinely one of the best-written, paced, and emotional videos you've ever posted. It's really. REALLY well made. I love how all the seemingly disconnected part tie together so cleanly and meaningfuly into that final message. awesome work by you and your team!!

Jan's storytelling has gotten so much better. The end of this video was genuinely good

jan unleashing full story mode mode

Thank you for the vid! This was a nice little story you put together. It's astonishing how random chance encounters can snowball into actual bits of personal narrative.

great video. extremelly well navigated last fight showing the rerun attempt at the last fight (that went fucking smoothly) as an example for the plan that you were going for and slightly foreshadowing the upcoming failure, then enumerating the things that went wrong and putting up a number for the people to understand how unlucky that was yet not crying over it and making that a lesson to keep improving in your gameplay and way of seeing things for further attempts. currently following attempt 5 btw. revenge is god damn close.

27:40 Was not expecting the pewdiepie on the bridge lol I almost spit out my ass

Having only watched the pchal daily video of this fight I had no idea that there was another route to winning that fight, I thought you just got extremely unlucky and there was nothing you could have done, but hearing you admit to the world that your run would still be alive if you sacked Hawlucha for this fight instead was such a big plot twist

This was so good! I love the storytelling, the quality, and the game play. Thank you for the hard work PChal and Team.

What an incredible video. Loved how you weaved a narrative around your arc playing RnB. Will be putting it on my "favourite videos of all time" playlist. GG Jan.

Another Jan banger. The Run & Bun victory video is going to be insane

The ends reminds me of my first s/v nuzlock that made it to Grusha. My skelidurge swept him to his altaria, and would have one-shot. But then… Altaria hits hurricane (70%), confuses skeli (30%), who proceeded to hit himself (30%). I then switch to my cyclizar to get rid of confusion and then switch back in with shed tail, but gets frozen (10%) Switched to clodsire, who also got frozen (again 10%) I don’t remember exactly what happened after that, but I failed to paralyse with several body slams (30% each), multiple key hurricanes hit, ie. Killing my breloom and they got the range to finish of my skelidurge. In the end, ‘‘twas my clodsire, who eventually unthawed, vs. the altaria, now chipped down into the red. Clod couldn’t out speed, but could survive one more hit, and finish altaria. It crit. Clod died. (1/24 in modern games)

As funny as the “end of the month” joke may be, this is a genuine very well put together video and I can tell you out a lot of time into it. You’re doing a great job with the new content direction. I love watching how your channel has grown over the years. Keep up the great work!

Dude. Your script writing and storytelling has gotten so much better over the years. I remember the whole "ahh im not good at intros heres what we doing today" and now I get a full cinematic experience along with the great nuzlocke content. *Chefs kiss* Great work

you cooked this vid to perfection well done jan

Always love a pChal update

INSANE production value here. Love to see this kind of content!

You're my favourite Nuzlocker on YT. I'm always happy when your videos come out. I love your no-nonsense narration style and approach. Looking forward to the next part (which I hope still drops despite your emotional attachment to Hawlucha...)

I like that, coincidentally, this vid is coming up just as we're approaching the Run 2 PB.

Damn. It'd be cool to have a run where you name your pokemon the names that they had when they got the furthest in your previous run. Maybe it'd be somewhat of a sequel to hawluchas story.

probably the best add incorporation ive ever seen, well done pchal, your hard work hasn't gone unnoticed!

Lots of creators try to implement words from their sponsors in a way that feels unforced and natural, but I genuinely think you are setting the standard in that regard. I always appreciate your different creative approaches to this discipline. In general, the production value is really superb in your videos. So thank you!

Hell yeah new Pchal upload

The thing about Claire's quote is that the world it's said in is NOT pokemon Run and Bun. It's pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal. In the universe it's said in it makes perfect sense and is entirely valid. You've just left that world.

I absolutely love this format. Just gotta say. The narration and the way of telling the story. SO GOOD :O

One of my favourite vids in awhile. I really enjoy the added layer of story to this run. Definitely felt the attachment to these characters.

This feels like it’s going to be a banger

Absolute banger

Great content! I love a good nuzlocke narrative, kinda feels like reading the Nuzlocke comic. Keep it up Jan, you're the best!

What a fantastic conclusion. Congratulations on such a great video, man

That freeze was such a kick in the nuts tho

really like the new direction your videos are going 👍💙

Lovely video man, glad we got a piece on this attempt.

I used to like your videos a lot but your new content goes beyond that. I’m genuine when I say that it inspires me to see such fantastic work put together. Thank you and all of the people involved for making this, it’s really cool art.

Sponsors: "Pchall! Did you remember to get started on your homework?" Pchall: "...Cant I just have 29 more days? Then I'll get started!"

A friend and I do pretty casual nuzlocke stuff, really just playing for fun. When we did a randomzied soul link of black 2 and white 2, we got very attached to a pair we got in castelia sewers, my Meinshao and his Seismitoad (both lovingly named Meintoad) to the point where when we finally lost that duo on the Ghetsis fight, we basically ended the run. We could keep going, but the loss of our favorite pair in that run was so strong it kind of killed the mood permanently. tldr, when you lose your favorites, it really hurts

Daaaamn, that was such a great video. That script was f***ing amazing too, I genuinely got attached to this run and it hurts so much to see that fight on Mt Pyre. Especially after you showed what could of happened. Keep up the great work

I love how Jan has really honed his craft with these scripts, and has really improved on the story telling aspect of these nuzlocke recaps. Looking forward to watching him get better and better!

Detroit the Togedemaru was also absolutely a Guy, btw. Pour one out for him. The Archie fight was so fucking brutal.

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These videos are so good man, the mix of voice over and stream is great.

The storytelling is crazy good, love these videos man, please keep it up!

No, I can assure you that Karen was talking out of her ass with that one. They even put a guy in ORAS's Battle Resort to tell the player that she was wrong

certain music choices makes me wonder if pokerogue may get a video soon..

Awesome video, emotions, lessons, calculations and growth. All with immaculate storytelling.

As a pChal Daily frog I was waiting for a video on attempt 2. Seeing all the build-up to the Archie battle was devastating, that battle was truly heartbreaking. Banger video as always Jan!

Ah, the video of Run 2 wiping to Pyre Tag right on time for when Run 5 probably wipes to the same battle this week also 2:07 dafaq is that E4 team with Gorebyss Exeggutor and Walrein?

Damn the video is immediately out of date because Moxi became number 20 on Saturday April 27th FeelsBadMan

Well God damn. I clicked this video curious about the thumbnail cause I saw Hawlucha and Toxicroak. I left this video hearing the story of three heroes and getting a glimps into how intense Nuzlockes can be and the inner workings of Nuzlockes. This was an amazing video

Best video you've ever made. You've come a long way with your scripts, editing, and execution. I know it prolly doesn't mean much from a rando but I'm proud of ya

pChal scripts 📈

no views in 22 seconds pchal really fell off

Your videos are the only ones I can immediately think of where I'm actually inclined to watch the full ad read

This video and the one about tragedies have been really good. I enjoy the more story oriented videos a lot.

Really good script for this video. Definitely enjoying seeing some of your adventures through this lens.

Probably one of my favorite pchal videos in a while, keep up the work!

Fabulous video. Jan has evolved as a challenge runner & a YTer. When he beats R&B i hope the channel explodes again. A happy Patreon subscriber for the Nuzlocke 🐐

Ngl I watched all of this on pchal daily, but have forgotten the events, so it's still dramatic as hell and I love it.