How The Hardest Pokemon Game Was Beaten Deathless 

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The crippling debt that nuzlockers would accumulate if they discover gambling is sickening to my stomach

God having to continually move the volume slider up and down to adjust for PChal's nice chill voice to the absolute constant pop offs was a thing lol

Deaths: 0 Crits dodged: 28 Times headphones taken off and put back on: 344

"Shell bell heals us out of Alakazam Thunder Punch crit range" IS SUCH a deranged statement.

This entire video was an exercise in anticipating having to turn my volume down when this guy started screaming and then turning it back up whenever pchal started commentating again.

I crunched the numbers. Bro played perfectly but still only had a 15% chance to dodge all 29 of those crits. Legend

Having pokemon challenges relinquish their title and call you the greatest nuzlocker in the world must be a huge honor. Also shows the respect pokemon challenges has for the sport of the game. Loved this video.

Super great accomplishment from Prouty! While I do like that the pop-offs were featured heavily in this video, the audio balance between yourself and him probably needs to be looked at. Had to lower the volume a lot because my ears were getting blasted, but then the commentary was way too quiet. 😅

Now beat it with just an Onix

Dang. He took 151 attempts 2 years ago, now we have Emerald Kaizo with 402 attempts deathless. What's next, only 5 members deathless after 1000 attempts or something?

Prouty is an absolute legend, he did all of that on a gag run, shotgunning beers and rolling along for the ride. Put his heart on his sleeve man, this video made me feel something Thanks Jan for a beautiful summary to contextualize it and thanks Prouty for being willing to try something so absurd.

Pchal's calming voice is half the reason I watch this channel and this video just made me bleed my ears out

You know Jan is hyped beyond belief seeing his dawg Zangoose make the E4 and win

Heads up to headphone users. Keep your volume button ready, jan's commentary is quiet and prouty screams a ton in this video. (Obviously because the clips are mostly him popping off).

I need like a counter on the screen counting down to the next jump-scare scream, my goodness. That aside, this was a really amazing video. I love all of the commentary on why the decisions were made the way they were, and why certain moves were so risky. Beautiful video all around

I get that Prouty was in the mood, but goddamn do I have to constantly lower my volume just so that my eardrum wont just fly into my skull.

I don't know why PC passing the greatest Nuzlocker in the world title to Prouty got me so emotional :')

I realize this must have been a nightmare to edit after combing through hundreds of hours of Prouty but could you please reupload this and better balance the audio of Jan vs Prouty? I'm at 5% volume for Prouty and he's still extremely loud and need to crank Jan to 50% to hear him reasonably.

"Watch Prouty work his magic and earn, unequivocally, the title of Greatest Nuzlocker In The World"- This single line gave me goosebumps. What a feat for Prouty to achieve for PC to relinquish his title to him.

the difference in volume between Jan and Prouty is astonishing

Prouty truly did an outstanding accomplishment with this challenge. He initially started it out as a joke just to see if it was feasible to get a least a few gym badges, let alone pushing all the way through. I don't think anybody in the community was ready for the dedication this man had, and it was truly amazing seeing everybody come together to make these strategies work in the end. Great work!

So is Jan going to intro all of his vids of 2024 with “I’m probably the second-best nuzlocker in the world”? 🤔

Can't wait for a certain Poketuber to say that Prouty cheated for using a savestate to keep 9/10 mons consistent in every playthrough despite the fact that the run is just as difficult with or without that stipulation lol

great video, I didn't know that the ending pop off clip came from a deathless run but the audio balance was off, I run loudness equalization on my speakers and even with that I had to turn Jan's commentary up each time

Now it’s time for Jan to erode away the last shreds of sanity trying to beat EK deathless

As I’ve said on the video about PChal’s own run, I like to imagine each attempted run as an embodiment of whatever Pokemon it matches on the national dex. Pokemon 402, the winning run in this case, is Kricketune. Enjoy that visual

Sorry about the audio issues folks, I didn't do a final audio pass on this draft and just published and went to a NYE party. Kinda too late to reupload now you guys are gonna have to do some active volume switching for this one, I apologize

I love this style of video where you cover others challenges and how they accomplished them!! I will say that the constant swings in volume level was a bit jarring, but everything else was super engaging and educational 🎉

Holy shit talk about impressive. This is a whole another level of insanity, skill and dedication to this game. Massive kudos to this guy

Okay featuring other greatest nuzlockers in the world on this channel is something I can stand behind. Hope to see more insane pokemon challenge creators featured

i think my favorite part of this whole thing is how the starter everyone wrote off as the one you generally don't want to pick kept coming up as THE answer to the problems

Not PChal managing to create a script that succinctly told the story enough to be invested in it, even if I knew where it was going, boy's grown a lot with his scripting and storytelling

The Goose is always loose. What a ride

Yo yo did Jan just freely pass the belt at 33:10? Props for respecting the next title holder.

Bro he needed to put in more headphone warnings bc I got jumpscared time after time by his pop-offs, including while writing this comment. But seriously dude, keep up the amazing videos 😁

Man I can’t finish this video with all the screaming volume so high, i’d recommend a reupload with the mixing fixed Jan.

I was enchanted watching Prouty get through this run. Your commentary adds so much - even if I wasn’t here for the hundreds of previous attempts, I could feel the intense weight of every decision. And seeing him pop off with each win made me grin so hard!! I sincerely hope Prouty knows how amazing and impressive what he has accomplished is.

Him missclicking the roar and still pulling through makes it soo, soo much better What a hype run 🖤

You know a video is well made when you know the ending... but still feel the anxiety. Great job. Happy New Year everybody. Best of luck in 2024.

I LOVE that a Chicken Run got to be the winning run. Shows the true level of skill on display here, you can know all the optimal starergies and teams and try to pull it off, but to make it work and figure out new inventive starts to work around not having the optimal team and winning it anyway, that's true Nuzlockeing right there. That's the whole point right, that we can't always pick what mons we end up with. Love that it wasn't just he got the perfect mons each time.

jan proclaiming prouty the greatest nuzlocker in the world truly hits different

Great video as always. but humble request to put limiters on the volume. Prouty's screaming made me had to frequently lower the volume, and then raise it again after in order to hear you speak. It was pretty difficult to watch since I normally have youtube on my second monitor

Genuine question: did you intentionally audio balance this vid so that his screams are more hype? Because when headphone users like me watch this video we have to constantly adjust the volume so that we can hear you talk without having our ears start bleeding every time you cut to his live reaction. I understand wanting to emphasis "hype" moments through volume balancing but this is way way way over the top. Like your base volume is significantly lower than the volume of him just regular speaking, which he usually isn't doing in this video. He is screaming most of the time you cut to him and even when he isn't, his volume feels like it is twice as high as yours. I feel like my ear drums are going to burst, so I turn it down to about 30% normal volume which is barely tolerable and then when you come back it seems like you are whispering to the point that I am not able to hear you without turning it back up to 100%, at which point he comes back on screaming and bursting ear drums. Even like a headphone users warning would have been super helpful, or just balancing the audio to where you speaking doesn't sound like a mouse skittering across the room vs him being a F16 fighter jet's engine blasting directly into our eardrums through a series of megaphone feeding into larger and larger megaphones. Like I exaggerate with this comment but not by much. My ears are ringing after watching this video, and I don't suffer from tinnitus. Like you are going to cause legit hearing loss in some people with this audio balancing.

To hear PChal call him the best Nuzlocker in the world is just friggin awesome.

Started watching on his 50th attempt and was there for almost every stream up to and including the finale, truly an honor to get to watch his progression live. If you’re reading this Prouty, I appreciate the endless hours of content you gave me every night for over a year :)

What an insane run holy crap, thanks for covering it PC

i really enjoy you doing these deep dive videos. glad to see how much your content has evolved over the years.

I was starting the video and going to bed. After 15 minutes I couldnt bear it anymore and dragged myself to the computer to pause the video. The screaming woke me up several times.

Congratulations Jan, you are now officially the second best Nuzlocke'r in the world at the most :P

this chad is a professional upstairs neighbour

Hey pChal, great video. I would suggest in the future to lower the volume of all the EPIC GAMER MOMENTS and raise your own voice because even at a low volume your mans was breaking my speakers.

I've never heard of this guy, but he is psychotic. Love him and I'm glad to see him claim the crown, he definitely earned it

I feel like when a difficulty hack is able to be run as a deathless nuzlocke, the time has come for a redux of that hack to make it *even harder*

Blaziken gonna have permenant back-pain with all this carrying

33:09 The moment where Jan hands his World’s Greatest Nuzlocker crown to someone else

Him looking down during those rng sections of the e4 reminds me of my childhood playing pokemon for the first time. The passion is both contagious and nostalgic for me. I love this community

This video's impossible to watch with Jan speaking quietly and then, "YEEEEEEEEES!!!!!!" blasting my ear

When hes in the elite 4 its such a rollercoster of emotion especially on glacia

That was an INSANE ride!! I'm truly proud of this dude!

I've seen a lot of people mention it please please please normalise the audio for videos like this. The differences in the volume range is enough that I was close multiple times to not watching the rest of the video. The fact that you put a warning for the first pop off and I had to turn the audio to basically nothing and couldn't tell when the voice over had started again is a big issue.

Don't ask what happened to prouty's misdreavus on Expert Macy and Hex Maniac Sylvia! 😳

A truly insane run, but ngl I cringed at these popoffs lol.

watching big prout as a chatter throughout his journey was a pretty wild and fun experience that made many a day for me this year

The greatest achievement of Pokemon history and it is not close. Simply a ridiculous run. The 402 attempts. The Wooper 50 50. The Mimic Kingdra. The batshit E4 - roar misclick, slowbro dodge. Truly the GOAT of nuzlockes

NO FUCKING WAY HE ALMOST THREW WITH THE ROAR 😂

Would be cool if you linked their VOD/channel in the description, comments, or anywhere. :)

This is my fifth time watching this video and it’s just as awesome as the first time. The storytelling combined with the raw emotion is just…perfection.

I love how every time he pops off he collects his blanky. Its actually really sweet. 😂

How does he always guarantee his mons wake up on the right turn? There were multiple times he went into battles with sleeping mons and they always woke up on exactly the turn he needed - and I didn't see sleep talk or chesto berries or anything like that. Does the sleep counter transfer between battles or something?

I think popoffs have become a little too exaggerated on account of people always trying to outdo one another with their "crazy popoffs" and love going viral. Congratulations to him, that last-second Glacia strat sure paid dividends. Big thanks to the user who forced the Chicken Run, too.

Awesome way to start the new year. Thanls for showing us this amazing run, and congratulations to xProuty_ for all the amazing effort to get to this point.

Idk why it’s so wholesome to see him saw “we did it” instead of “I did it”. Streaming really is something else man

Great video, sadly ruined by the volume difference between pchal and prouty which make it painful to watch.

This is truly an amazing achievement. Before it was said this game was impossible to nuzlocke. Now we have broken the game down bit by bit by AI knowledge, encounter routing, precise calculation planning, and other factors that gave us the edge. Prouty was committed and deserves the victory ✌️ 🎉

Incredible, love the strategy and percentage breakdowns too!

One of my fav parts of this video, is that Prouty shouting "WE ARE GOING TO STEVEN" is the EXACT same shout, same tone and word for word PKchallenges did himself on his final run

An amazing accomplishment and it's really neat to have a video walking through it! However, I will say watching through it was a bit of a trip with the constant swings of quiet commentary to extremely loud popoffs. In the future if the volume could be more consistent throughout or if there were more warnings for loud segments, that would be very appreciated. Great work as always aside from that!

so what im hearing is pchal finally has a fair matchup

The video had me on the edge of my seat! Loved the moment where he threw with roar and didn't get punished 💀

Love the videos! just for my own sake and knowledge of these kinda runs going forward, does 1 attempt mean 1 full game restart? or do u restart from a savepoint?

Man this guy’s luck and spontaneous plays are UNREAL

It would be nice if you could either make yourself louder or the VOD quieter as its annyoing to keep switching volume. Otherwise great video!

I can’t believe this has actually been done people are always adapting I’m beyond impressed

Can't wait for you to open up next video with "Hey i'm pokémonchallenges, and i'm probably the SECOND best nuzlocker in the world..."

I just felt like somebody should mention that he has a shiny slowbro for this run. thats pretty cool.

God damn, what a run. I’ve beaten EK on hardcore rules but some of the strats used by him are stuff I never considered despite how obvious some may be.

The sheer combination of luck and mathematical skill needed to pull this off never ceases to amaze me. What an absolute king.

Had the video at 5% volume the whole time and still had to mute when prouty's audio was on. So freaking loud, geez

This video was PHENONMENAL

A cool run and insightful review but please balance the audio volumes some next time!

What you guys are looking for is called "compressing audio" and allows to negate some audio peaks, especially screaming. Some microphones setups allow that but it can also be done in edits.

It always seems impossible until it's done. Being put into the situation meant he HAD to come up with a way to do beat it and he did. Big up to the guy what a fucking mad lad.

I feel like this whole video needs an audio warning lol

What’s crazy is drew and I went to high school together and finding out he is nuzlocking through you 🙌🏻 so sick!

Glad my fav starter came in clutch, being the only fire/fighting for ek was really good

god the audio in this video is ear grating

Enjoyed the video. I wish the audio between your voice and the vod was more equal.

i love this style of video and love hearing the pop offs but please, in the future could there be timestamp/chapters for them or can the audio be normalized so its at least a little more on par with pchal's narration? i dont mind the excited screaming when im ready for it or when i at least hadnt had to just turn up the volume to hear jan's commentary...

love the video, might be worth remixing the volume in the elite 4 if at all possible