Can I Stop This Youtubers Nuzlocke? 

What do you mean "actually" saw, every failed nuzlocke shows the snowball effect. Every successful nuzlocke that sacked the right mons also shows how to prevent the snowball effect

But in this one it is more obvious than in most cases. Tanner loses his Breloom, a fighting type, right before the normal gym. It is just a good showcase.

@@johannesneumayer6041 For real, for real. This one's just so on the nose. Poor Smant.

Yeah I was thinking about it while I was watching :)

@@johannesneumayer6041 thats cuz of how it was edited. there is a lot happening in these streams but the editing helps in showcasing the snowball effect

Normans team is ridiculous normally

@@dravendarkplays9607 Normanlly

@ hahaha nice pun there

@@maianimalhive8730 You could say it was a *dad* joke

@ ye i get that to ahhaha

S m a n t

@@Gr4ceful4life smat

I think it's a great idea

cmon make it rlly hard and do it in emerald kaizo XD

I would like that I also would like him to be the AI against alpharad

they said they wanted that, but it would be some time after SVs release

I love that idea

The slakoth lineup don’t fuck around

I mean slaking literally has 670 bst it may as well be a legendary or pseudo-leg the only negative is truant where you can cheese via healing

Yea, I wouldn't underestimate how nerve racking it feels to know how much harder the run will get if you lose even a single pivotal mon. It's a type-based game so it's hard to not feel like you're falling behind after fainting, or risk of fainting, pretty much anything.

Smallant can't handle the unhinged energy and that shit is hilarious

Wait...in-game, was Norman quietly throwing to help his kid?!?

Lol 😂 when I first play it I was such a nub I had to over level to beat Norman

​@@ritasonka330that's how the Gen 3 AI works, they always want you to win

Every other turn, Slaking is just casually a physical Mewtwo

I mean slaking literally has 670 bst its not too hard too understand just how scary that can be

And never have I pondered what the outcome of that specific scenario would be, but after that exact thing happened I can say for certain I know what happens and it wasn't what I expected

@@KaiTheMemeKing I haven't ran into it either but i bet it is the same in gen 2 as well

Does earthquake hit someone underground if they have levitate? I know the answer to that one because I watch Pikasprey. The answer is no, no it does not.

@@MistaOppritunitythat’s actually a really fascinating and crazy niche thing to know. What a cool thing that I had previously never considered

Ive had the same though in the first video. backline healing is a massive increase in power for the AI trainers.

I mean that defeats the purpose of their challenge though.

@@PersonaPrime the purpose is to have a human control the enemies as a challenge. That to me means that the human would only be able to do things the AI is theoretically capable off. The AI cant do backline healing.

@@Apfeljunge666 The purpose is of making it more difficult by having a human pilot the resources the AI has. Saying Jan shouldn't use healing items the way that he did is like saying he shouldn't use strategies that increase his chance of winning. It just doesn't make sense.

@@Apfeljunge666 This is a dumb response, because the AI can't do anything that PokeChall does anyways. AI is programmed only to switch in very specific scenarios (ie no moves that damage). AI would never use Truant swapping, or swapping out of intimidate. Now is Jan suddenly not allowed to swap because of that? Either he can do everything a human can or only what the AI can, there can't be an in-between.

nuzlockerer

@@chavaspada he is the ekclozuner

@@chavaspada No because that means that he is nuzlockering, he is being nuzlocked in this particular video which makes him the nuzlockee

I prefer nuzlord.

@@gameworldjt he's nuzlockering the nuzlocked (smallant) who is the nuzlocker.

You can tell he got surprised by his own misspelled script 😂

@@pasturple5662 The nuzlocked isn't a typo, he is referencing that he isn't doing a nuzlock but "is the nuzlock"

it should be nuzlockee as another comment mentioned

He should have preserved breloom, and considered torchic more seriously, combuskin clowns on norman, is 2nd best versus flanery/watson as well. A very good choice.

@@janehrahan5116 maybe if they ever run it back, we'll see how he recomposes his team, but the surprise of Norman being a real threat really only works the first time. When you know it's coming you can take more time to plan around Slaking switches. I dunno if they'll run this version back.

@@Beem0b0t i hope they call emerald a win for Jan and move on to another gen it would be cool to go through all different games and keep score- good storyline

@@janehrahan5116 in case of combusken winona becomes scary unless you get someone to use icebeam on the altaria and then wallace becomes difficult too...

@@speeddemon2901 tbf winona will be scarry no matter what cuz of ddance. jan would beat our asses real good with that one. especially since he can switch out on the ice beam users to pelipper or skarmory. winona is one of the more scarry fights in the ai nuzzlocke

Just the thing is: Protect and Aron destroys this fight because AI doesn't play around Truant. You could go in with literally any pokemon above level 20, teach it protect and have that just for Slaking. But when the AI plays like a human and knows to play around Truant, that is deadly

@@pix985v you cant get the tm for protect until after gym 6 though, so you have to use a pokemon who learns it naturally

@@arlo4707 hence why i generally prefer getting a pelipper

also if smant used protect and pchal switched into linoone, linoone gets a free turn, which could easily become a belly drum sweep

@@pix985v What can Slaking say except You're welcome

It's something you learn by playing ek for sure lol

He's not the only one. His rival didn't know how to use Protect

@@javitelee9562 Anorith protect against switch in Linoone > Belly Drum = EZ lose Protect is an extremally high risk low reward and only works against AI

@@krsun5052 the fact that he had access to toxic is what bums me. Tanner could have perfectly toxic stalled Jan's Slaking, using Aron to wall Linoone

What’s truant again?

Unfortunately this is SmallAnt's idea, so it's best to suggest this to him lol

Against wolfey, it would have to be romhack, cause the vanila games would be too easy for wolfey to beat. World champ difference.

Smant already did this vs wolfeyvgc in gen 1. It was awesome and hilarious 😂

@@KironLunaEden yeah, but it wasn't a nuzlocke

@@johnsonbaroncaveler6634 He doesn't own it just for that lol....

I almost got swept by the vigoroth

@@Illegal0Insanity it’s absurd how deadly slash and facade are

When I replayed Norman in AS too, it learned Revenge and one tapped my starter Edit: It was retaliate, not revenge

As a huge fan of both Smant and PChal, I couldn't help but want both of them to win. I wanted Ant to succeed so that the challenge would go on longer but I was also hoping Jan would wipe him on almost every major battle

It is for sure! ... with an actual Sableye hahaha

Shedinja does nicely against Norman, but Slaking can hit it with Fain Attack

@@rcube33 if only it wasn't the hardest pokemon to get in that cave 🥲

Protect isn’t available as a tm prior to fighting Norman. Very few Pokémon learn protect before Norman’s level cap, like the Anorith that tanner had. Imo Pelipper is the key to winning this fight.

Jan can just play around Protect easily. E.g. switching out and setting up Belly Drum. He can also just get rid of leech seed by swaping out (what he did all the time anyways).

Yeah I went back to check the VOD, Smant was saying that the damage should only be 1.5x more than the original damage roll because Slaking didn't have the Intimidate drop anymore.

How about Kaizo with Jan as AI?

That would be such an amazing video!

"You don't win, you just do a little better each time"

Just overlevel and gg

@@BioTheHuman Hardcore nuzlockes don't allow for overleveling. It WOULD be a good idea if that restriction wasn't there, but... that's losing the point of the challenge part..

Its not just a monster. Slaking has BST of 670 which is *literally* the BST of some best legendaries such as Groudon and Kyogre. The only thing that separates it from being a legendary was its truant ability so in this battle, Pchal basically had a legendary in his roster since he could basically cheat truant's ability by switching 🤣

@@Raymart6543 switching is to his disadvantage though, norman is still very difficult but saying that switching makes up for truant is not true, pokemon like slaking or regigigas are never used competitively for that reason

*Or have they?*

Foolish mortal AAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA *drags bar to end*

Jan:...........

Time travel

No need to finish it when I watched it all live.

Nah this is fun cause ant sucks lol wouldn’t be fun with sweats

flygonhg might be able to do it if he didn't die tragically in this video. F

Can you imagine how evil it would be if it had any ability other than truant?

@@kiritotheabridgedgod4178 it’d be psuedo-legendary status at that point.

@@Pimpgamer101 not just psudeo, lol

Man I feel the same, it's so janky

I mean... probably not, depending on how many you take into account? Among the top 100.000 or something, sure, that's possible, but I'm not sure that qualifies as "one of the greatest ever". Apart from very niche world records, the guy is "just" a popular streamer, which doesn't necessarily mean he's particularly skilled, just that he's entertaining. Don't get me wrong: he IS a very good gamer, and I DO love his videos. He's just probably not (yet?) among the legends who are either very dominant in one game or have mastered multiple ones. He's playing too diverse a lineup to be actually amazing (or THE best) at a given game, I'd argue. Again, not saying he's bad, but he's not one of the folks playing one single game 12 hours per day every day. He's an entertainer, and he's great at that, just as he's great at video games. But among the greatest? Nope. I can only recommend you watch some of Summoningsalt's history videos on speedrunning. Those folks, I'd argue, are actually legends. Maybe not entertaining, sure, but they're fantastic gamers for sure.

@@Romidamn i agree to an extent His dedication to any game he plays is insane. Pokemon platinum without damage top mincreaft rsg 1.16 speed runner and botw speedruns are all insane i also do watch summoning salt i loved kosmics mario speedruns