I challenged Minecraft's Best Speedrunner to a test of skill 

both my idols

Smant's strategies are always insane

the rematch should happen soon :)

yes

Ikr

el hombre que pissó en una botella para el medicino

The GOAT is here

Llegue re tarde pero llegue xd

Pero compañero que haces aqui tu?

i know that was amazing

There actually have been a few that he's lost! The videos of them are just usually on other people's channels.

He’s just really unlucky to be honest this video lol

Damm can’t believe I saw this comment before I knew the outcome :((((

@@sloppyphart7879 he doesn’t take losing badly, he does have a bit of an “ego” but he does that more for a act then actually being annoying

@@sloppyphart7879 he ends videos just as quick when he wins as well

That random "'s" killed me

So heartbreaking );

Squad stream 2.0

Well smallant speedruns as well but still

@@dyw__ he does but he’s still playing the best one

@@dyw__ yeah but smallant has doodoo luck. im glad that whenever smallant gets stupid unskillful rng, its in matches where it literally doesn't matter. like his game vs linkus where he just got stupid nonstop luck and at that point it didnt really matter since the game as uneven and doomed from the start. not something where its back and forth and both sides have actual skill but then all of a sudden someone gets fucking braindead luck and gets like 4 goals handed to them in what otherwise would be a very good actual SKILL BASED match. obviously there's nothing you can do and this shit is gonna happen every now and then but fuck if it isn't so uninteresting and boring to watch something and being super into it only for it all to crumble and go to shit within 5 minutes of stupid braindead luck (no matter who's side its on ofc, im not dickriding ant for this specific case) 90% skill attained goals and then 10 maybe 20% MAX luck attained goals FOR BOTH PARTIES is what makes the absolute sweet spot for these kinds of games. because 1 or 2 dumb luck goals by party X isn't the end of the world, and just makes it taste sooo much sweeter when party Y gets those 1-2 dumb luck goals in the future. but yeah obviously it's not something you can control, but im just glad the way it turned out that ant's games (ive watched about 90% of the lockout streams/twitch vods) end up being overwhelmingly skill based victories, and the way that the times he DOES win because of luck, it just goes so fucking stupidly overboard that the other person cant even get/be salty bc the game was doomed from the start and at that point its just funny to see just how far the luck can go, just like linkus just laughing it off bc he didnt get assfucked by rng after essentially wasting 40 mins playing a skillful match only to lose in the stupidest way possible. sidenote is also why i really enjoyed watching the pokemon randomisers, because its 1:1 so even tho 1 side can get 'lucky' and find the first 3 gyms back to back, player 2 is eventually gonna reach that point and then catch right back up, which makes the excitement at an all time peak and is so fucking nice to watch. everybody loves gambling, its literally just human nature, so having these kinds of 'controlled luck' games are so fucking great because its just guaranteed 'rush' from getting some sick luck, except it doesn't actually hurt anyone, bc the other person can get just as lucky/the same situation luck all at once as well (which in turn makes THEIR viewers start pagging so hard oh fuck stepbro im gonna pog im pagging so hard, fuck sake pointcrow poisoned my mind)

@@dyw__ why did i write an essay about being triggered by rng and then finished it off by quoting pointcrow pagging so hard. im bouta pag. that's some real gaymer shit 😎👍

and illuminas godluck

absolutely

No it's because Illumina is the MC he has thicker plot armour than Dream has all hail Illumina!

@@Unknown-eo9vq oh no

My question is why wasn’t there a tunnel from his first trip to the end?

@@MarcusTalks123 u could see cobble up in a corner,he just built a pillar the first time

my favorite moment of the video for sure

@@Smallant bet you really enjoyed that one

Destroyed? He was up against a legend and the outcome was literally as close as possible. That's simply not what getting destroyed means lol. That was freaking amazing. I really hope they do rematch! I just realized the timestamp was about the specific burn clip lmao. Ok fair 😁

@@briantroy7376 there was a timestamp

@@888ian2 I know lol, I edited when I realized that

Gigabrain play

First time i've seen hoppers used in any sort of speedrunning/competitive scenario lol

I think it wasn't smart to try crafting a ender chest because that doesn't set them anywhere. They should have probably not try to get that achievement at all at that point. But somehow, SmallAnt literally pulled a Dream on Illumina. (Unless there was another specific way, they couldn't have grabbed one from the End cities because you need Silk Touch to collect one, otherwise they would only get obsidian from it.)

​@@qgdm6426 Honestly I disagree, I think Illumina making the ender chest was the best play with the knowledge he had. Because of the Eye Spy advancement, Illumina knew Smallant was in the stronghold and would probably be looking for the portal to work on the end goals (which if it were true, Illumina would've theoretically lost the end goals race). Since there's no chests with obsidian there, especially not as close together as Illumina's were, why would Illumina think Smant could've been able to get 8 obsidian after him *and* craft the chest before him? It was just unfortunate that Smallant made a play that great.

@@eddiemate I should have been more specific, because of the "don't obtain obsidian goal", Illumina was wasting time trying to craft a ender chest because he was required to collect obsidian to craft it. So what he was doing at that time was giving SmallAnt a point in order give himself a point.

And the woodland mansion which was just insane

@BunsGlazing in short, Smallant's skill was enough to almost surpass Illumina's sheer luck... What a beast!!

and the free zombie villager

@@Skillfullfilms89 I mean you guys forget how much experience he has in lockouts and bingo, which definitely was a huge factor in smant staying so close

@@svennerdesven Ah well, I'm dumb anyway. I just think that blatant spoilers that reveal the outcome are a bit unkind to people who read comments while watching the video, but that's not too many people. I'm probably wrong tho.

Yeah! Like in another universe, ant would of won! It was so close

He only lost because he got unlucky.

Illumina might get wise to such plays in the future however. That and it will likely be different objectives that Illumina is better at. Either way, we will see in the rematch! (I dont know if it has been uploaded or not)

I mean the score was 7 - 11 because illumina got dream luck he got diamonds super easily, found bastian super easily, the piglins didn't trade him obsidian, the lava lake didn't set him on fire he found a woodland mansion 1 of the rarest structures and it happened to have 1 of the rarest rooms and finally he got end city before smant though smant had been looking for much longer. Imo smant played much better than illumina the only noteworthy skill based thing he did was not catching fire in the nether

or the astronomical luck they posses

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also his chat helped him

@@infiltrate6807 yeah smant kept his chat on emote only, but searched on his mobile for info.

@@PACAD318 he was talking about illuminas chat, eg, illumina would never have checked the mansion if not for chat. but cant be mad , smant allowed it

@@pandora6498 yeah i know that's what I said it. illumina's chat helped him .

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Yeah he was blessed with that content creator rng

Illumina has a curse where when he gets a minecraft speedrun wr someone will take it from him very fast

@@Biatama That is actually the norm with speedrunning. Pretty rare to get one that actually sticks for a long time in such an active speedrunning community.

@@Yaered Yeah and illumina gets his wr when new strats are being found here and there, so, yeah

@@Yaered When he said very fast, he meant _very fast_. One example is when Illumina got a world record run at the SAME time another runner was on a faster world record run, so he only held that record for a few minutes.

I like how the title is test of "skill" So much skill smh

I mean, that’s how Minecraft is. If you can’t accept losing due to luck then you can’t accept a win from it either.

@@andrew_h6 never said anything about accepting, but it’s still frustrating as fuck

It wasn't dictated by luck at all wtf, this is just incorrect. You can't ignore multiple misplays that you did completely on your own, and then say the other player got "lucky" when they capitalize on them. It's not how testing your skills works.

Orange 🟠

For real, I was wondering why it had been so long

@@evergreen3337 he’s been streaming a whole lot of hours on twitch

@@VanessaDMusic I know, I don't really use Twitch though

@@evergreen3337 He has a bunch of long series on twitch, he edits the videos himself, not all of the hide and seek videos are compatible for videos and scriptwriting is hard and long. if you want extra content the skyblock series is very entertaining

it's called "plot armor"

its called the heart of the cards

FYI, leather armor, dripstone and tropical fish were entirely luck-based too.

even sadder, with the time he'd lost not bringing a pickaxe into the end after he died, he would have made it to the end city first too

Tbh, the fact that the end was decided by RNG is also sort of perfect, in a way. The story didn't get a happy ending but a realistic one. I respect it.

@@DrSwazz it’s not really realistic though, Smant way outplayed Ilumina, cause he waited for the ender chest and then it all came down to him not being able to find a structure when he should have by then. Plus he was a pretty good sport about it cause Illumina offered to forfeit a few times, but Smant wanted to go through with it, and lost because of bad luck

@@capnmudkip2001 You seem to forget that Smallant forgot to bring a pickaxe at the end. It's not like his loss was all RNG, he would have won if he played perfectly.

@@JJ_436 That's the thing, there were mess ups on both sides but it all worked out to a roll of the dice at the end. Which I think is a fitting/funny ending regardless of who wins.

This is true. His chat also gave him the idea to burn Smant. Smant had emote only on so it was unfair yeah.

Legit this was INTENSE af

For real!

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I literally just noticed this too idk if it was because smant had lockout experience or something but yeah still a great video edit: also he got 3 goals, breed hoglin, light smant on fire, and kill silverfish

Pleasant surprise is an understatement

Same!

Unlike Dream he actually uploads losses (Dream only uploaded one loss but other than that only uploads his wins)

Right! Me too!

What rematch

Shakespearian tragedy in three parts

Probably not.

Ant also had a lot of people watching illumiina for him

@Garvanii 💞 yes

it's way more painful than could have been imagined

@@ValentineC137 wow i see that lmao, poor ant

Anthony hasn't been robbed since the 7th grade. I know his entire life history very well so unless it was something he didn't report i would have heard about it.

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Hey Adrian

I believe you'll find comfort in the age old adage, the ancient proverb: Get gud