Pro Nuzlocker Reacts To Friendlocke Season 2 

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Jan: "Its hard to make me laugh, I have a very specific kind of humour" 10 Seconds before: "My dick hurts" *Jan dying*

“When do you think someone is going to die? Probably at Clay.” Oh he couldn’t be more right.

God I love the limited 3D they use for this game. It's so charming.

He said "I did love Saurkraut, that's really sad." in a bored voice! He actually almost got attached to a pokemon sorta!

"I want you to highlight Blaze Kick real quick, cause this kick, it *burns* with a royal purple flame! This one's for you, tag-team combo! INFERNO PHANTOM LIMB, INCO-" [flinched by fake out]

That Cradily serving in the Cold War and the Hitmonlee missing the blaze kick after his speech then getting punished are definitely the best characters in this run 😂😂😂😂

I have never seen Jan laugh this hard at a nuzlocke video, glad to see he likes Salty’s humor

The fact Al Pacino and Adam Sandler claimed two kills over Salty's team is never not funny to me

Jan struggling when Lopunny is mentioned ever: "I know what I have to do but I dont know if I have the strength to do it."

Hitmolee's anime moment getting literally clapped by Fake Out has me dead at work! 🤣🤣🤣

You missed the part where Salty accidentally cancelled Dream

I think it's hilarious that he said they were getting clowned on by the game when they encounter Altaria/Tracey, and Tracey made her character a literal clown

47:04 Jan having to say “fowwest” is too funny to me

Skunktank is a good encounter because it has solid coverage with flamethrower, only 1 weakness in ground, and decent bulk.

PC at the beginning of the video: I understand that the point is to not sack the friends. PC a third of the way into the video: you should be sacking your friends

You know. If I had a nickel for everytime cradilliy was thought of as death trash, then turned out to be the absolute unit needed to win a run, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's strange that it happened twice.

the line about the bloodshed of the Cold War solidified Pete Ness as my favorite member of this run LMAO

Him: death fodder? Salty:we dont trade lives here captain

I wanna see Jan in the next season that would be SO funny

You should never skip Pete's speech after the first Ghetsis fight.

The "Infernal Phantom limb" bit gives me chills every time

i love every time the party gets excited about a new encounter and jan's like "eeeeeeh that sucks"

This friendlocke and jaiden and jacob's soullink has really made me love cradilly so much, how is it that this mon always ends up being so iconic

As a swiss dude, the "Grüezi" caught me so off guard. Im still laughing and probably skipped back 20 times at this point.

I know there’s only been two, but it really feels like a Friendlocke season isn’t complete without Jan reacting.

Oh my god I cannot wait for what he thinks about the clay fight

Skuntank is a decent Pokemon that is given a bad rep for being both only in Diamond, and being overshadowed by Drapion.

one thing i learned with pokemon white is you dont F with darumaka, you either kill or you run from it

the giratina guy's scratch impression is literally spot on i was dying of laughter

I think he wants to bring in all pokemon even if they were not good because they are represented by their friends and wants to give all of them some screen time

You should definitely check out season 3 of the friendlocke. It's honestly so exciting and amazing and awesome and other adjectives

sauerkraut and Pete Ness are the best characters imo. I love them so much.

So, story time (there's a "skip wall of text" point later down if you don't wanna read all of this, and a summary of the plan is in a reply to this comment). [SPOILERS] 44:21 After that Ghetsis loss happened live and the stream ended (with the announcement that a rematch stream would occur later), I did some research. I figured that if I could come up with a surefire plan to get Salty through the Ghetsis fight with the remaining team members he had, that'd take some stress off of his shoulders (he looked VERY stressed about the pressure of the Friendlocke), ensure a happy ending, and perhaps inflate my own ego a bit. I didn't want to be like the other backseat gamers, though- I wanted to distinguish myself by creating a plan that was SURE to work, that didn't assume that anything was "probably" the case. So after the stream, I pumped Salty's stream bot for information. Even though chat was on 1 minute slowmode, I used the bot's commands to collect information about all of the exact IVs, EVs, natures, levels, and movesets of the remaining six team members, compiling that information into an image that contained all of their stat blocks. I then dug up the enemy trainer data that speedrunners of Pokemon Black had compiled for their runs, giving me the exact IVs, EVs, levels, and, most importantly, natures, for Ghetsis's team. Using these and Pokemon Showdown's gen 5 damage calculator, I was able to determine exactly how much damage any move from either side would do, and use that to simulate possible fight plans. And from there, I began planning. As I was running these calculations, however, I realized something extraordinary. By complete coincidence, each of Ghetsis's 'mons could be consistently dealt with with ease by a different member of Salty's remaining team. And because Salty was playing on switch mode instead of set mode (he can switch 'mons for free after each kill), this gave rise to an opportunity. What if, instead of merely ensuring that the fight was won, I instead ensured that EACH member of Salty's team of ""rejects"" could 1v1 and defeat a member of Ghetsis's team? No longer would Hannah or Pastey feel useless! Everyone could contribute! The poetry, it rhymes! And so, over the next ~9 hours, I compiled a ~15 page long Google document: "How to Have Each Member of the Black Friendlocke’s Final Party 1v1 a Member of Ghetsis’s Team and Win at Just Level 56: A Guide". Everything had worked out perfectly. No unusual overleveling or x-item usage was necessary, there were some strats that were only possible due to unique quirks of Salty's party (natures and the like) and journey so far (like his item randomizer breaking halfway through the game), and all of the strats were either 100% consistent or had backup strats that would still win Salty the fight with near-100% consistency. I had screenshots of damage calcs for each section, haha funny jokes and images, explanations as to why X works but Y wouldn't, the works. I want to link it so badly, but I think RU-vid will bury my comment if I do, so I'll just summarize it in a reply. I had assembled the document, but it would be useless if it wasn't able to be seen. Since Salty was taking a break from Twitter, I instead sent the plan to one of the other members on the team (I forget who). After receiving no response, I tried submitting it to the art account as a "work of literature". Still no response. In hindsight, I was probably treated as a bot by Twitter due to dm'ing links to people with a Twitter account with like two posts on it, but at the time, I thought I had been ignored. I didn't want to press much further though, since I feared that that'd be pretty stalker-ish. **[skip wall of text]** And so, the day of the final stream came around. The moment I saw the team, I knew that Salty was not going to follow my guide, which disappointed me immensely. After he issued his callout about backseating near the start of the rematch stream, though, I realized something: I had had fun making my step by step plan, and I don't regret making it at all, but it was probably for the best that Salty never saw it (or that if he did see it, that he wouldn't follow it). I think that following someone else's guide would've taken away from that victory and made it less exciting behind the scenes. At the end of the day, the Friendlocke was about the Pokemon (er, Salty's friends) making the most of the decisions, not Salty or some randos from chat, and having everyone follow a coordinated guide was kind of the antithesis of that. Salty and co. didn't NEED my backseating to make a good conclusion to this story, and I'm glad that they were able to win this fight without it (although I'm sure they'd have found a good way to spin the ending even if they had lost/gotten a downer ending).

I think there may have also been a hidden challenge to this type of nuzlocke that I just thought about.. his team comp couldn't just be whoever he wanted at whenever he wanted because if certain people had things to do, like as some people have lives and all that... he couldn't exactly have them on the team right? so that may have been the reason his team comp was so wonky? I could be wrong of course but it's still something to think about

9:45 the only exception to this is USUM because there’s like four separate areas that are counted as route one but have vastly different encounter tables. It’s up to you whether or not you play it like that though.

*Pauses the video: I'd argue Skuntank's a solid encounter. While I prefer Drapion or Alolan Muk, it's still got a solid defensive typing and can hit most things for at least neutral damage with STAB. Stench is actually pretty good for the flinch chance, Aftermath could be decent if you're forced to sack it and it has a nice range of coverage from the moves it can learn.

This one definitely has more that he can comment on than the first season

The reveal of the starters is my fav part. The absolute worst starters with no attacking moves 🤣

New encounter: „Hi, I‘m Brayden, I am a former good friend of Jacob and I am highly suicidal.“

I can’t wait for season 3 to come out so Jan can watch Gerber cook

One thing I always liked about these videos is it's not just Nuzlocke advice, but also general game advice that you give. Thank you for these, they're real entertaining!

I LITERALLY WAS JUST THINKING YESTERDAY WHEN YOU WERE GOING TO REACT TO THIS! YOU JUST MADE MY DAY LOL

So happy to see you review season 2. I watched through most of the vods and then watched the edited ones through with my friend. One of the best series on RU-vid. Thanks for introducing me to saltys content in the first review.

the thing i love so much about the friendlocke is how its not played ike a serious nuzlocke. the way salty describes it as a mix of pokemon and d&d is so on point, and in particular its like a d&d campaign with a focus on rp rather than powergaming which imo makes it even more entertaining. the juxtaposition between that and your genuinely educational advice makes these reaction vids so great and so much fun! i cant wait for you to do another when season 3 eventually happens! also god i love the limited 3d they used for this game. its so charming

here's my work for if skuntank is a good encounter: based on the evidence seen in the video at 11:53 streamer man says that skuntank is a good encounter so therefore it is a good encounter

Him talking about skuntank: Just one weakness wich is not comon Earthquake: *HOLD MY BEER*

Probably one of the best and funniest nuzlocke vids had a blast watching this reaction and I loved the little skits Salty did he really puts a lot of effort in his vids

Watched this a few weeks ago, and my sides have still not recovered from laughing so hard

I’d put skunktank as a good encounter. Poison dark only has one 2x weakness to ground, which you can easily pivot flying types in on.

I love that Jan had to be told by Salty that he isn't going to sacrifice his friends for the optimal play lol. When I watched the season 1 reaction I thought he was doing a bit by treating it as a regular nuzlocke but I guess that was not the case, he really only saw the hard cold numbers.

Him at 5:00 It's actually kinda hard to make me laugh" also him at 4:44

OMG this was the only friendlocke i watched! good thing this is the one you're watching 😅

Fun fact: if Salty's Giratina had the minimum IV's for 217 HP (14 HP IV's), 0 SpDef IV's, a -SpDef nature, and at 193 HP; and if Hydreigon had a +SpAtk nature; there was exactly *one* non-crit Dragon Pulse roll that would kill Giratina, and it got it, lmfao Edit: looks like I'm wrong and it was most likely just a crit (with Hydreigon actually having a +Speed nature). Whoopsie doodle!

Another benefit of the "sac another 'mon to heal Lopunny" play would've been that the speed drop would be cleared- even if you didn't get a healing item off, Lopunny would still be able to move before 'drill and KO it.

"MIKEY DEEZ BABY!" best part

There is something fitting that the two people who survived in both seasons (Monsters and Sara) got a pokemon that isn’t too terrible (Hannah, Oni, Gabi) or strong pokemon with exploitable weakness (Gerber, Kringo Fuk, Luke strwr) and also the MVP of the Ghetsis fight

Jan would probably have a field day with doto doyas and seereax’s soulocke

That Clay reaction was gold.

I love in this how Jan is just enjoying the story and not giving a shit about the bad plays

The fact he guessed clay would cause deaths…

14:16 “oooooo, balls, salty”

I think it's a bit understated how RIDICULOUS Kringo was in this run. He had Sheer Force after evolving, and the item randomization (that broke and reverted to vanilla item locations partway through the run) let Salty get an early Life Orb and early Earthquake. Life Orb's recoil damage, but not its power boost, is negated if Sheer Force's effect is applied to a move (but does not on its own qualify a move for the Sheer Force boost). Fire Punch and Flare Blitz both have a % chance to burn the 'mons you use them on, so Sheer Force applies to them. Fire Punch's effective base power was 75 (base) * 1.5 (STAB) * 1.3 (Life Orb) * 1.3 (Sheer Force) = approx. 190, and Flare Blitz's effective base power was approximately **304**. I forget whether or not Kringo ended up using Flare Blitz, but still, Fire Punch alone was enough to one-shot basically everything he encountered.

We can always count on Sauerkraut to touch the coldest of hearts.

I love how much fun Jan is having

These might be the best thing just for how much they make Jan giggle. So pure. xD

It's great seeing PC watch a Nuzlocke that actually hits his sense of humour frequently.

Skunktank's typing, bulk and move pool are pretty amazing. I'd say it's a great encounter

I love MikeyDeez so much but his death cracks me up every time

That reaction to lopunny was hillarious He was more nervous then pirple cliffe Cliffe just comits to the bit xD

You should check out Season 3!! It’s really intense the entire way through the run

How did you fuck this up so bad? MIKEYDEEZ, BABYYY

Skuntank seems like a good encounter, poison/dark is a good typing plus it learns Flamethrower

Skunktank is a great encounter due to a single type weakness, solid move coverage and enough bulk to survive in the right scenarios. Obviously gets wrecked against ground types or mons with good ground coverage but if it's coming down to that play you're already in a world of trouble.

I liked the party wipe not full wipe thing cuz that made me genuinely surprised. I was looking at tje playlist and the videos, going, "they cant die here thered no way", and then they died. The surprise made the grief real, enjoable experience.

That Hitmonlee vs Liepard bit was DRAMATIC

Jan hitting me with the "grüezi" was really unexpected. It made me really happy as a swiss man

13:16 money well spent 😂

*Inferno Phantom Limb* is by far one of the best lines I’ve ever heard 😂

Bruh you got Pokemon Mystery Dungeon music in the background? Good on ya mate, love the games and the music is usually pretty banger.

With gift or static encounters. I tend to change the rule based on the game. If there are only a couple here and there I'll typically allow it. But something like renegade platinum where they are thrown at you left right and centre I use PCs rules.

I still need to sit down and watch this - it's 5 hours long! Was good to get a condensed format with insight :D

I can't wait for you to react to the entire over 5 hour video of the Pokemon Violet friendlocke

That Hitmonlee's High Jump Kick is truly hype.

The "grützi" actually caught me offguard . Thank your for that one

Skuntank's a good encounter. Bulky, and its only weakness is Ground. The only thing that gives me pause is I remember Stunky not getting good moves for the longest time? I'm not sure how that carries over to a low-level Skuntank. Regardless, it'll get moves eventually, and take hits until then.

I mean, Skuntank is notorious for being an early run ender in platinum, so I can only assume it'll be great here too

The delibird part got me, I won't even lie

Jan’s nuzlocke reaction vids are like director’s cut version of those videos.

Never been huge on reaction videos in general but Jan is the exception

Pete Ness is a national treasure lol

that intro was amazing 😂

You got me with the "Grüezi". Du heschs gschafft :D

Cradily was always my favourite fossil mon as it was my first ever one in Emerald but my god, that thing does what Ferrothorn does but waaaay before Ferrothorn even existed its crazy tbh. Ingrain, suction cups toxic stall was astonishing with giga drain for even more recovery felt unstoppable against everything pretty much.

Why isn't anyone talking about Dana Snyder as giratina? Master shake as giratina is not something I knew I needed

36:20 😂 best sponsorship of all time, change my mind

35:21 - 35:36 might just be my favourite Nuzlocke moment outright. 😂👌

I go static encounters as one and done seperate from the route so you can still fish or headbutt in the starting town and get an encounter for it

Never heard Jan laugh like this 😂💀 I love it hahahah

26:39 😂 officially love Pete