I Made Pokémon Chess 

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This man really did the chess equivalent of turning items on

“Lopunny was my pawn” may be the best line ever said on this channel.

You took chess and added the ability to choose characters,type effectiveness and RNG. Congratulations Little Z you have reinvented Fire Emblem.

Having the background of each player's camera being the same color as their chess pieces is a really nice touch. Very well done!

Certainly you make this into a website too right? If monopoly gets a website this has to!

2:36 "second chess game not going so bad" he said calmly while blundering his rook and pinning his bishop to his king

As a game designer, I can only say I am amazed at how you are able to blend different games together to create something so chaotic and yet so fun. Bravo indeed, Zack, top notch idea and video!

"I've recently started playing chess" me: *suddenly realizes how much character development this must have taken from how much he made fun of Poppt1 chess videos on underdogs a year ago*

i love “lopunny was my pawn” cuz he was obviously playing into his accent there

This production on this video is insane. Worth the wait for sure

When Jackson rolled that 1 and missed his attack and yelled "what is this game?!" I laughed out loud. Genius idea. You need to trademark this game asap! 😆

Honestly, this made me miss our actual Pokémon chess, Pokémon TFG/Duel. For those who don't remember, you basically had these spinning Pokémon figures that moved across a board to reach a goal on the other side. A game could totally turn around due to RNG so this Pokémon Chess was spot on!

Man it's so inspiring to see how after all these years in RU-vid Zack still tries making new creative stuff instead of sticking to money grab videos truly a legend mate so glad to have you i am really proud of your work and i will keep supporting you now and forever keep it up buddy

0:47 “I’m going to make it easier for ME to win by making it even more complicated”

@Little Z, You absolutely need to send in your games to GothamChess to get them analyzed, that would be absolutely hilarious, I would watch the hell out of that video. Excellent video by the way, super entertaining and really high effort. I loved it!

this ... was surprisingly fun to follow along ... this could actually be some fun gimmick game that'll hold some peoples attention for a month or two and then the next thing might come along, but i'd love to give this a shot

Honestly how does he still come up with new and amazing video ideas? It’s honestly incredible

Innovative Content ✅ Australian as heck ✅ Horrible at Chess ✅ Must be Little Z 🥰

With all the talk we've heard about Jordan and Chess, Jackson winding up as the actual 'Chess Master' was a surprising, yet understandable twist in The Underdogs' lore.

The production values on this video are insane. SO crisp. The graphics for the Pokemon piece assignments looked absolutely phenomenal

0:56 Now I get how you got to say "Lopunny" that quickly in the Family Feud video lol

Actually really cool to hear that Jackson is so good at chess. I thought we weren't gonna get any good chess content but cogger pulled it out of the bag.

Heard about this on the podcast, and I’ve been hyped ever since. I don’t know how nobody has come up with this idea before, because the strategy of both games work super well together!

This is a really amazing idea. I would love to see more of your "game-modding" ideas like this! As a lover of game design myself, this was especially interesting. I think the "Critical Hit" mechanic could work, but it would be better with an 8-sided or 10-sided die. The ~16% (or 1-in-6) chance of either critical hitting or missing is probably a bit too often. I wonder what the optimal (or one of the optimal) 'teams'/loadouts would be for this game.

Honestly, seeing Little Z get played in chess, mainly by bad moves, was more entertaining than I thought.

I love how Zack cut out the parts where bro was definitely both callin his ass out and lightin his ass up about bein right about that type advantage. I feel like they have these moments a lot irl cuz hopcat just had this “you think you’re always right but I got yo ass for sure” look on his face

"And Lopunny was my pawn" AYO?!

This is probably one of his best videos, excellent work Zack!

Cogger being a chess master is both surprising and also completely in character for him.

As a Pokémon fan, I’d love to play a version of this where both sides either have both their primary and secondary typing, or are chosen as Pokémon that only had one typing to begin with to keep things simple.

The thing is with the die is that there’s an actual mechanic in Pokémon called Damage Rolls. And these rolls are ironically called High and Low Rolls, which makes the whole die rolling thing even more fitting

This is actually something I would do too for funs, or at least something similar, glad to see this. Awesome idea.

"and lopunny was my pawn" I GENUINELY JUST FUCKING DIED THAT WAS UNCALLED FOR IN A POKEMON CHESS VIDEO MY GUY CHILLLLLLLLLLLL

I've been watching his videos since he's been uploading smash 4 content and I honestly think this is one of little z's best videos, and it is very apparent. You can see the time and effort in the production, and it honestly shows how much he has grown as a youtuber. I honestly watch more of his smash content and I have also never played a Pokémon game but this is still one of my favorite videos of his. I just want to say thank you to you Little Z for making something I have never seen or even experienced in to something I can enjoy whenever I want. (Lets get Little Z to 2 million by the end of this year).

Love Jackson at the end! Zach: Try it at home! It's really fu- Jackson: It's f***ing shit is what it is!!!

The 3 things I love in life are Pokémon, Chess and Little Z videos so this is a good sign that I'm gonna have a great time!

I love the classical music in the background. It adds another level to the ridiculousness of the video because it feels like such a serious backdrop for highly modded chess.

after being rejected by super smash bros, i'm more than happy to join pokemon chess, thanks for "inviting" me! :D

“Lopping was my pawn” This definitely has a double meaning to it

the thumbnail and title alone make this QUALITY content. Let's go, man

The perfectly cut THE ROOOOK at 0:29 is just beautiful. I watched it like 10 times and I love it

this actually looks pretty fun without the critical hits and misses. You would probably add the rule that you can never directly take the king, even with an extra move from super effective, and that the king doesn't sacrifice itself on a not very effective capture.

This is nicely done and produced, kudos. Really entertaining

He countered Cogger's skill with Cogger's awful luck. Genius

You should make an online version of this like you did with smash monopoly.

Zack, I so respect the hustle. You're always inventing new games or finding weird spins to put on things to make more content out of them.

Jordon was such a good addition to this game, so funny

They should definetely make another website for this

This guy really can even make advertising entertaining. Little Z's sponsored segments alone are better than some people's entire RU-vid careers. Also, very neat twist on chess, maybe needs a bit of playtesting and some additional modeling to truly complete the idea, but as a proof of concept I like it.

0:57 “Loppuny was my pawn” People in Boston: 👀

The type matchups was kinda odd, but I gotta say, having a chance to miss your attack or to move again does sound interesting

whos gonna tell him nidorina isnt a ground type

You should go full checkers and have type effectiveness still count when you take a piece with your second move after being super effective. You could chain combo, or you could still lose your piece while taking a piece after the first for being ineffective in that matchup. Also, have second types matter, so the type combinations are just as complicated as Pokemon. ...You could make it as insane as 5D Chess if each Pokemon/piece had a different typed attack for each direction you could move it in, each piece have a stats card you have to reference when making a move, so the Pokemon's type is only defensive (you'd have to base their moves on actual in-game move pools).

This is really cool. I feel like the dice rolling could be a defensive option instead. Where the person losing the piece, if they roll a six it's considered a dodge.

I find myself rooting for cogger no matter who's video he's in lmfao

Ah yes RNG chess perfect

I hope this becomes an actual thing, this is so cool and even though I know nothing about pokemon and a bit about chess, i would love to play this

Subtitles: "He said 'PAWN'." My brain: "No he didn't."

only little z could make chess this fun and this interesting to watch

if u introduce abilities and items, u could give kingdra the sniper ability and/or the scope lens to increase its chances of critical hits

For dual types, I feel like the attacker should choose which type is being used. For example, a graveler can use rock type to supereffective the flying zubat, or use the ground type to hit the poison type (because zubat is only 1 at a time). However, zubat can use either poison or flying against any pokemon it attacks. For example, it deals neutral damage to graveler with flying vs ground. This makes dual types much stronger, but also more vulnerable.

I think a really fun rule would be a choice to roll the die - would be mega clutch for a neutral matchup going for a big play or a disadvantage type trying to neutralize the self-destruct(with a 6). If disadvantage gets a 1, they just die and the attacked piece would remain.

this was actually very well thought out as well as having amazing production quality, if this doesn't blow up i dont know what will

Grass doesn’t take ice at 9:26. Ice will take grass, and ice resists grass. Great video and awesome concept!

I love this video, such a great concept. I don’t understand anything about chess or pokemon but still one of your best videos

ice type is both the best and worst type advantage wise, since it hits alot for super effective and neutral for many other types, but gets hit just as hard back

7:13 "hm, Water and Water" got me laughing WAY MORE than I should. Love it!

Does anyone else just love chaotic poppt. Whenever he starts screaming and going nuts thats when you know the video is good.

Dude, should make it that it starts all baby Pokemon, they have to reach the other side to evolve, and so Charmander needs to move from one end to evolve, and then once more to be a Charizard. So it be just a fire but if they want the be something like a flying time they can switch of that is the second type but only if they reach the other side too. Also should be that a pawn doesn't become any piece when reaching the other side making it more meaningful to lose a piece

9:29 Zack should have lost his gogoat because it's not super effective against ice... but he does remember the rule when Poppit does it the next turn hahaha

I feel up pretty up to date on all little z and underdog videos in the past few months and I had no idea little z liked chess haha

Glad to be a member mate. You always make my day better Zach

You absolute mad lad, you made Chess 2! Most people’s joke about it, but you literally made Chess2 possible!

I missed your content dude, glad to see you're back with another banger!

7:14 Anyone else talking about how Seel isn’t actually an ice type and is pure water? It only gains ice when it evolves. And can we also talk about how that “Charmander” is a “Charmeleon”? I’m a Pokémon fan I am contractually obligated to point these out

The extreme contrast of playing against HopCat and Poppt1 was absolutely hilarious. The idea of this is honestly super cool too! It's not too complex and still a challenge with lots of strategy.

Playing against HopCat and Poppt was perfect for seeing if Pokémon or chess experience is more important for this game

5:50 if you look at the eyes, you can tell that's a shiny Jigglypuff. Jigglypuff's eyes are normally blue, where as its shiny's are green.

Personal picks for pieces if they weren't limited by the little figures you had would be: Kings: nidoking, slowking Queens: nidoqueen, tsareena Bishops: (humanoid/servant) bisharp, lucario, machamp, gardevoir Knights: (horses/lapras) rapidash, lapras, glastrier, spectrier Rooks: (bulky/defensive) forretress, cloyster, stackatacka, ferrothorn Pawns: any first evos These seem to have a pretty good spread of types, you could pretty easily expand the general categories and have more team building options, but because of the categories I feel like it's harder to mistake Pokémon whereas your picks some are quite hard to tell what they should be. I also do really like the rng rules and I might just play chess with a dice now, even scrapping the type matchups and stuff because you need the figures. Perhaps it would be more balanced though if you can't take a king after a crit, or even saying you can't take at all after a crit, you can just move to an empty space. Similarly the king shouldn't die to a miss, it should just not take.

What genius must you be to combine two of games with the most developed metagames in the history of competitive boardgames and competitive videogames into one single complex table. This is gorgeus.

"I don't wanna pick an ice type, they suck against everything!" Legendary Flying & Dragon: Am I a joke to you?

Dude love your smash content and I’m getting into chess will definitely watch chess uploads keep them coming 👍

you can tell this game is just like pokemon because jackson got absolutely haxxed there. great content

Great idea, I was glued to the screen without knowing anything that was going on.

5:00 "Am I A Joke To You" -Corviknight

actually this is already there. there used to be a game called pokemon duel the only different in it was that it didnt have only some characters there were many. and there was also many other features and rules which different to normal chess it was like mostly pokemon based. some ogs will know what im talking about

congrats on a mil, big milestone homie 💯

I really appreciate the production quality on this one. 10/10 content.

I feel like this would be an interesting underdogs video. Maybe bring in 4 more people and do a tournament. That could be really interesting.

2:07 love the roads factory music

That actually looks so fun. Someone should make an app with all the pokemon and missing should just make you lose your turn (undoing the move you tried to do). Although I'd think maybe smaller chance to miss and crit than 1/6. Maybe like 1/24 for each. To really simulate how bullshit crits are, they need to not happen that often.

I came back to this video after seeing Z's RU-vidr tournament and Alpharad's video on his perspective, and I only just now noticed that Z said Charmander while holding a Charmeleon and nobody is talking about it lol

This video has been a long time coming, glad it’s finally here

I love how you make infrequent adult jokes with no context and don't censor them. The funniest thing is they aren't ironic

King/Queen: Nidoking/queen Bishops: Bisharp Knights: Rapidash Rooks: Honchkrow Pawns: Pawniard

This would be an awesome website game, and I really hope this video does well because it was a great watch and I know it's been in the making for a while

He is truly expanding into all the growing youtube trends

Okay you know what would make this even better though: Do it fps chess style, any time someone tries to take a piece, they do a 1v1 with the two pokemon, winner stays on the board.

This video was a banger and I also actually want to play that with my friends that sounds so fun You need to make a digital version like how you have for smash monopoly