What Happens When You Lose in Unlosable Nintendo Boss Fights? 

6:37 Game: _"Dawn blacked out!"_ Dawn: Giggle... See? Isn't it *N E A T* ?

I like the idea that Dawn was so confident to catch the pokemon. Then passed out in the grass. Then when she regained consciousness she was like "I caught it, right? See... I am the best"

Lyn: **gets killed** Also Lyn: “Victory!”

The fact that the Thousand Year Door tutorial battle, which is supposed to be _unlosable,_ has a _loss condition,_ just shows the foresight of the developers.

Referee: Knockout! *proceeds to assert dominance*

Most of these either softlock the game, give a regular game over, or just continue as if everything is normal. What about fights that are nearly unlosable, but have actual programmed behaviors to handle losses? One example is the Apprentice from Super Mario RPG, who wants to join the Snifit Trio by beating you, but is pathetically weak and is practically impossible to lose to unless you are trying. If you lose to him though, the game does not end - he actually runs off and becomes Snifit 4! Not only this but it spawns a new Apprentice, and if you lose to him he becomes Snifit 5. There can be up to 8 Snifits before the last one fails since they aren't taking any new members. None of this changes the game in any way, but it's neat that they actually programmed in all this stuff that a normal player would never see, and they didn't even have to - they could have just given it a regular game over like with any other enemy.

In Mother 3, if you lose the rematch with the Mole Cricket in the Mole Cricket Hole, you actually get a bit of different text when you encounter him again and he says something along the lines of "You lost on purpose didn't you? Let's have a fair remach".

In other RPGs it's uncommon to lose tutorial fights _In Shin Megami Tensei it's uncommon to win tutorial fights_

I love how in the thumbnail there's text for most of them explaining why they're unbeatable, and then Negative Man is just "Negative Man"

2:36 that art is honestly really charming.

Kirby: *dies* Adelenie: now you are my canvas, hold still.

Lynn: Gets defeated Also Lynn: Starts roleplaying that she wasn't defeated in a semi-psychotic episode.

I love the fire emblem one. The game is like “you’re so bad ima just play the game for you”

You can actually lose the Starman fight in Earthbound WITHOUT CHEATS. If you grind yourself up to level 13(?), you’ll learn PSI Shield. If you use PSI Shield while fighting the Starman, it’ll overwrite Buzz Buzz’s shield, allowing the Starman to one shot you. You’ll black out as normal and get sent to the last location you saved at being your house, and you’ll actually be able to skip the fight altogether and progress completely normally EDIT: Thanks for the likes guys!

Even when Mario is downed, Luigi can still win by doing absolutely nothing 😎👍

Dawn is out of Pokemon... Dawn blacked out Also Dawn: „see isn’t it neat?“

I actually got stuck at the Yoshi's Story boss shown here when I was younger because I took the text box literally. Didn't even try licking.

1:12 the fact that Mario just says "No!" and gains back a health point lmao

I have had an Earthbound glitch where Starman JR just straight killed me lol.

Gotta love how Mario RPG’s unlosable boss fight immediately results in a game over

Poor bidoof, he looked so puzzled when he couldn't attack but then gets randomly scratched by a dead unknown assailant. Didn't deserve that scratch

With specific ivs, natures, and high rolls, it’s possible for the zigzagoon to faint the ralts but it’s extremely rare

On a Pokémon Emerald randomizer playthrough, Wally got a regirock. As you might know, Regirock only knows explode. Nevertheless, he still managed to catch the level 49 Primeape

Fun fact: In Pokemon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald (not shown in the video), the capture tutorial is between Wally using Norman's Zigzagoon and a Ralts. These Pokemon spawn with randomized IV's. Normally, Zigzagoon uses Tackle twice, Ralts uses Growl twice, and Wally throws a pokeball to catch Ralts. However, with a Max Attack Zigzagoon and mininum HP and defense Ralts, and also high-damage rolls on the Tackle, Ralts can faint with no external modification! The game just continues as normal, however.

This is how you catch a pokemon *blacks tf out* See, easy!

he's just standing there… MENACINGLY!!

if you manage to grind until ness learns shield, you can actually lose the fight after buzz buzz casts psi shield by casting the regular shield. this shield will cancel out buzz's shield which makes you vulnerable to starman jr's psi

Here’s to ones that we lost

4:48 The Starman wins without doing absolutely nothing

Lyra: enters battle and immediately loses Also Lyra: see just like that

In the gen 3 catching tutorial it's possible for Zigzagoon to OHKO the wild Ralts if the two Pokémon have a particular IV combination

It’s one thing to lose to Glass Joe. But it’s even MORE pathetic to lose to a HOLOGRAM of Glass Joe

2:31 mutually assured destruction.

i cant get over how much negative man looks like spongebob

2:06 - I had that happened to me actually on the actual game itself. Mainly cause i was feeling a bit showy. Never thought I'd lose so easily but also just be shown the curtain on my way out.

6:14 Damn, I didn't know blacking out was cool, thanks Dawn

0:42 *S T A R E*

Negative man is now non-depressed!

2:35 It’s a DRAW 😂

Boss: You’re supposed to win against me. Hacks: Allow me to introduce myself. Player: *loses* Boss: NOOO, YOU CAN’T JUST LOSE A TUTORIAL Player: haha funny hacks go brrrr

5:17 Oh no what happen to SpongeBob, Squidward tentacles must be in this again

I love how in the Kirby one he just becomes a canvas

The Kirby one was adorable

6:26 first time I've ever seen that text

Lyn: gets KOed Lyn: I see this as an absolute win!

Just gotta love how punch out wii is the only game that actually broke Holographic glass Joe just wanted to dance for the rest of eternity

2:00 *ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!*

I remember I once saw a hacked catching tutorial for Pokémon Emerald, the Ralts used Explotion, and the script was modified to make fun of that Still, as catching tutorials are unlosable, it all continued as intended

3:56, you’re still worrying me Lyn.

Lyn be like "I am bleeding! That means I am the victor."

Lyn is having a freaking aneurysm

So... ▪︎ Punch-Out Wii Practice/Hologram Fighters: Softlocks the game ▪︎Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga Bowser Tutorial Fight: Softlocks the game ▪︎ Paper Mario TTYD Lord Crump Tutorial Fight: Game Over Screen ▪︎ Kirby's Dreamland 3 Adeleline: Kirby gets painted on by Adeleline ▪︎ Fire Emblem Tutorial Fight: Lyn gets Thanos'd & the game eventually softlocks on a repeating "Enemy Phase" message. ▪︎ Earthbound/Mother 2 Starman: Game Over Screen ▪︎ Mother 3 Negative Man: Game Over Screen ▪︎ Pokémon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum Catching Tutorial: Nothing ▪︎ Pokémon Heart Gold/Soul Silver Catching Tutorial: Nothing ▪︎ Yoshis' Story Cloud N. Candy: Current Yoshi gets captured

Neat video! Thanks for uploading!

Ado: You've tried your best Kirby, now let's do that again

“Mrs. Puff. I don’t feel like I really did anything.”

The ref just watches as Little Mac slowly collapses to the floor

My friend told me if you lose your first fight against Hop in Pokemon Sword and Shield (when you first get your starter), it'll just repeat the battle again until you win (tbh you would have to deliberately try to lose since Hops starter is always at a disadvantage type wise to your starter)

3:33 average Lyn enjoyer when she at least does 1 damage

Ado in Kirby, heh, like, it's then like an anti-game, because you are the little creature and then she is the human that dies when she touches you.

1:06 I immediatly lost my Mind and freaked out dancing Catchiest Shit ever made!

Fun fact: if you tediously grind for a while in onett before the starman junior battle and learn shield alpha, you can use it during the starman jr fight to override buzz buzz’s shield and be vulnerable to starman junior’s PSI attacks.

2:17 when the paint brush kid hit Kirby . Kirby take damage but paint brush kid also dead by Kirby doing nothing

My favorite example of something like this is from Undertale, where if you lose the fight against Toriel, she displays a shocked face for one frame before your soul explodes.

The first Fight with The Gekko From Majora's mask is Actually Unloseable, It's first phase at least, so I Don't think that would count

The Kirby one is so cute! It's like a lite version of getting dunked on. I love the art!

4:24 broken event shenanigans like this are commonplace during the making of rom hacks I think…

Seeing how many times fire emblem for the GBA has popped up is making wish I could play it for the first time again normally that genre isn’t my type of game but this one drew me in and I got immersed into it and had to save all my allies that I could since I didn’t know they had permadeath in the game so I went and restarted my first playthrough

Hey, at least Cloud N. Candy is harder than Roger the hold right until you win Ghost

Now its the complete reverse of winning battles in one turn, where normally its imposible...😅

in pokémon games, almost always if they fail, the person will go on like the caught the pokémon anyway. it’s hilarious

Finally, a gaming video with my skill level

Wow, it's so funny see how many battles are so easy that devs didn't even consider that a player might want lose them in purpose and didn't give them a special lose screen, or even a simple "Game Over".

damn, never thought these fights were loseable

"The Pokemon catching tutorials are scripted to never fail" _Laughs in Yellow version._ Although that one fails because the Rattata escapes the ball and then flees. The Old Man doesn't actually use a Pokemon in that tutorial either, so you can't actually force him to lose by KO.

1:43 ye you’re awesome doing nothing

Dawn : "Let me show you how it's done !" *proceeds to black out in front of a Bidoof*

Nice

I really love the Madeline picture

You just included the Yoshi "death" sequence to bring back our childhood PTSD. The yoshi story fight wasn't un-loseable and as a kid playing the game it wasn't a hard boss battle but it wasn't like a tutorial "can't lose" situation. Now I'm stuck thinking of a horrifying childhood memory I had put out of my mind years ago.

3:25 "Victory!

Lyn: I am bleeding, making me the victor

4:31 If you have PSI Shield and use it in the battle, it also works. Sorry for the bad english...

Imagine losing a fight to a hologram Only to have the referee stand above you in a T pose to assert dominance.

lyn: *dies* also lyn: VICTORY!

Once your game begins in Paper Mario: TTYD, you can simply just fall into the water to lose 1 HP and also end your game once you’re out of HP before going into battle; so it’s no surprise to me that the game ends normally during your first battle/boss fight. There’s a save block provided for your convenience. Hehe…

I didn’t even know that practice fights existed

negative mans gonna be like " huh i actually won? looks like i have to be more confident with myslef"

The ref T posing on you for losing a tutorial fight takes it for me.

Dawn: (blacks out) Also Dawn: See, isn't it neat?

Pokemon diamond really was my childhood... when i was younger i got a nintendo DS and played it on there. I still own the DS and the save file

I imagined a monkey lightly scratching a beaver before dying.

Basically the things happening are Either you softlock Or you just die like you would in any other battle And the people of the catching tutorials just ignore they lost

Good stuff, though I don't know what you expected to happen when you purposely lost to Cloud N. Candy. =P

People normally watching the video and vibing to the music Me: *YA GOT CHEESEBURGERS IN THOSE GLOVES, HAVE YA MAC?*

I love when you mess with the Pokémon catching tutorials, but what if dawn doesn’t have any pokeballs?

“How’d I do, coach?” “You lost to a laser light show.”

for anyone wondering about adeleine in kirby 64, the game will knock you out like normal, so if you dont have enough lifes (like i did, when i died from her running into me) you have to restart the stage.

Lyn: *dead under a bridge* game: if you get enough exp, Lyn will level up!

Fainting to a wild pokemon in catching tutorial is actually a good outcome in randomizer speedruns. In RSE when either Wally's pokemon or whatever replaced Ralts faints the tutorial ends instantly. In gen 4 they still throw a ball if the wild's hp reaches 0.

"You got him on the ropes! Come on keep whailing on him!" Proceeds to whail on mario