What's the Longest Turn Possible in Pokemon? 

Forgot to mention it but my goal is to reach 25k subscribers before my birthday at the end of April, would greatly appreciate it if you'd consider subscribing 🫡💜 EDIT: I will be doing a follow up video with all of your suggestions for lengthening the turn! And for the record if you use the strategy to stall turns for time the turn is like 40 minutes

OHKOing a max HP IV level 100 Blissey in a gen 4 game takes longer

How it feels playing against a stall team:

I desperatly need to see someone perfom this video on cartridge just for it to take around three times longer than this.

"not one, not three, but two smeargle" is not the best line out there, but it tickles me in a weird funny way. I like this line.

2:11 "My last relationship all last exactly five turns" 7.8 billion years later after the longest goddamn turns of pokemon ever: "This isn't working and I want to break up"

I actually appreciate so much how to the point you make these videos. No wasted time, no padding, just "Here is the thought process, Here is how we are gonna do it, here it's how it happened, the end"

Fun video! I did a silly loop back in Gen 8 that similarly flooded the screen in addition to the 20-minute timer setup, but sadly the replay is gone due to the replay database goof. My focus was always turn 1 strategies, but it's fun to see the setup involved with this! Another fun fact - there technically are setups where you can generate *potentially infinite* messages in one turn. In certain OMs, you're allowed to have multiple Abilities at the same time. By combining Emergency Exit and Regenerator on a Pokemon with a low amount of HP, you can have Regenerator deal the exact amount of damage hazards dealt, which would trigger Emergency Exit and force the switchout with Regenerator back into the other Emergency Exit Regenerator Pokemon, allowing you to switch endlessly forever. An example of this is 16 HP Beldum with Stealth Rock up and 3 layers of Spikes; Beldum recovers 5 HP from Regenerator, and takes 1 damage from Stealth Rock and 4 damage from Spikes, resulting in a potentially infinite loop from switching between both Beldum forever.

The event is known only as turn nineteen. The lone survivor, a shiny smeargle, was called a liar and a fool when it first tried to share the story. Three days later, though, the first fragments of the battle log were unearthed.

We were exactly 0.10 seconds away from glory

Acid Rain Castform would be the longest turn possible. Because, well... it never ends

I'd love to see this setup replicated in-game so we can see how long it _really_ is.

Nobody would've been upset if you'd lied and added another 10th of a second to make the total 4:20.69

Now imagine this on cartridge with animations on

The real anwser is killing a Chansey in one hit in gen 4 and watching the HP bar drain.

i think that a further optimization could be using a -spdef nature and having the smeargles snap out of confusion at the start of the turn and then when they eat the aguav berry they would gain confusion again

While this might not help much, Light Screen and Reflect can be extended by the Light Clay held item, allowing for more set up before the turn the screen drops

So technically you did manage to upload 1 video in February. So take that haters that thought he could not do it😂.

Nice! You turned Pokemon into modern Yu-gi-oh!

6:15 Pokémon being switched in at the end of the current turn reminds me of XD: Gale of Darkness - there was a Battle CD (a series of discs, each posing a particular battle challenge, most of which had to be found around Orre) that tasked the player with KOing six Shedinja within a single turn. Granted, this was Gen 3, so KOed Pokémon were replaced immediately, but it still seemed impossible to KO more than two Shedinja. The answer? Spikes and Sandstorm, of course - the sand would KO the current two Shedinja, and Spikes would KO the rest. Really made you think, those Battle CDs. Granted, there were some stupid, luck-based CDs like the Metronome battle and trying to KO a stally Cradily with a Zangoose, and some others, but on the whole they were a decent addition and were indeed thought-provoking, highlighting lesser-known aspects of Gen 3 battle mechanics.

Luck's videos are perfect because I have never played a pokemon game and don't plan to, but he explains everything well enough that I don't really need to and the things he does aren't incredibly niche so I can still understand it all

Pokemon showdown: Can it run DOOM? At the rate you're evolving, it's definitely possible

Btw i love your pokemon themed videos, would like to see some more challenge/mod videos on s/v or sw/sh. But even if its a pokemon showdown video i still enjoy watching them so much.

hypothetically u could also add crits to add like ~40 messages onto it

You could have used smeargle low level enough so a berry juice or other similar item regen all of their life (or at least more than 25%).

Thank God this man does not put this kind of effort into playing poker because I have no doubt that would be terrifying for whoever the local dealer is. Uhm. This message is unrelated to anything, move along.

This was a very silly video. I love it.

I might be longer time wise if every pokemon is a shiny because of the little animation that plays.

Answering the questions I never knew I needed answering, wonderful work

Subbed! Loved this video. Really interesting concept that I've never thought of.

Can we see footage of this turn on cartridge

I have to let you know just how entertaining your content is. The editing is flawless, the ideas are always intriguing and your content is so well put together that I'm shocked you don't have more subs. Keep up the good work man :)

thank you for introducing me to the Pokemon equivalent of Mr Bones' Wild Ride

very cool (are you ok?)

Great concept, well edited, and funny too. Nice job

It might decrease the number of Hits, but Weak Armor gives twice as many messages (Def drop and Speed Up), so maybe that's worth looking into? You could maybe give Unaware to the attacker to negate that, but it's a lot of extra set-up to make work. Great video though!

Video: (is playing) Me: “I know I’m supposed to be paying attention to the video but I can’t ignore the music from Shrunk playing at 5:33.”

Your music selection is godlike and I hope you have a wonderful day.

Keep up the amazing work!

Pokemon Joel Haver is so back. As always, love the concept and execution. Wrote a whole novel with one turn.

You can beat SM64 in the exact time this turn takes lmao

One easy way to make Pokemon turns longer… Have a Pokemon game directed by Hideo Kojima, where every turn is interrupted by a Codec conversation.

"Not 1, not 3, but 2 whole Smeargles" got me so good I had to pause the video for a second to recoup 🤣

A cry for help in the form of a pokemon mechanics breakdown video.

Before clicking on this video I kept thinking "I could not care less about this topic, but I'll watch it because this guy's videos are always 10/10. Then I clicked on the video and you acknowledged that nobody is going to enjoy or care about this video, and I was instantly hooked. Great video! I'm always impressed by the amount of work you put into your stuff!

Been thinking about this for years so this video better be good

Nice vid! Definitely love exploring these "what if" scenarios! These remind me of that one RU-vidr who finds ways to overcome softlocking (Pikaspre or something like that). Never realistic but cool to learn nonetheless.

I don't know anything about Pokemon, but as someone who once made a deck to achieve the longest possible turn in Yu-Gi-Oh! (excluding loops), I respect you.

What a great video!

Great video!

someone send this to BKC

you actually missed a few things, because some of the pokmon got knocked out by the spikes, meaning the didn't take stealth rock damage...

when the wall has rest:

I'd say the longest turns are the arenas in Pokémon Unite. If you run along the outside path, it's just one big turn like NASCAR.

it... it's beautiful.

It's these seemingly random contributions to Pokemon lore that I find the most interesting

I'm kinda disappointed the so-called King of Luck didn't go for the 1% chance.

First time viewer - wild all the random places I see the influence of Joel Haver showing up in videos. Dig the MS Paint vaporwave aesthetic in the background! Joel Haver amimation plus niche Pokemon experiments is my jam.

4:16 I was just listening to this on bluetooth and had to walk back to my computer and rewind the video just to listen to that masterpiece again. XD

This is just the average match against a stall team

“… and my last relationship all last exactly five turns, and give some sort of notification when they wear off!”

Wouldnt it be better to use lower level Smeargle's so you can heal an exact amount of health with Berry Juice or Oran Berries so you can get an extra hit of Population Bomb per Smeargle while also getting them to faint

The hero we needed.

0:12 I like how the like button glowed up even when you used the word like in a completely different context

If you went for weak armor instead of gooey you'd get twice as many stat change messages

If only it had taken another .1 seconds, this would’ve been the greatest accomplishment known to man.

Bro you were so close to 420 69. You're an honest man to not have snuck a few extra frames here or there to get to it.

2:34 - so the Shared Power customer game mode was removed in triples/doubles, but why did you go for Doubles instead of Triples - if Triples are still an allowed format? Is it just Custom Triple battles aren't allowed?

Shortest turn in Diamond and Pearl

I'm not sure how feasible it would be with setup, but you could run Focus Energy + Scope Lens on at least one Smeargle to add the crit message to all 9/10 of its hits with Population Bomb. Or just get really lucky

2:46 oh i remember this one! i was there when it happened, the Regenerator + Emergency Exit setup

The eject button being acrivated by hazards is so funny

0.1 seconds away from greatness

Future sight would create more messages and even KO the last smeargle

you could also count them all waking up on that turn maybe, since i think you can be confused and asleep

4 minutes, 20 seconds, and only 10 ms away from greatness.

You can use protective pads on maushold to prevent rocky helmet damage and give an additional message per hit

Yo don't throw away your career just yet 😂 although I got to say, you did a damn good job on this video! Just wait, you've got the talent, you will get there in no time.

It would be interesting to see if the different animation times would affect the optimal moves used in the actual game, or if certain strategies could actually cause the game to lag and make the turn even longer.

This was beautiful

While it was just a long turn setup, I'm also impressed at the 10 Pokémon that get knocked out this turn

You can use light clay to extend the screens turns. Have mons hold light clay, set up screens, get hit with knockoff, get agav berries tricked on to them, then have the mon that lost its berry use recycle to get its berry back.

Waking up is a message

this was such a stupid and fun video, fantastic job

If only it took 0.1 seconds more, it would have been the Internet’s greatest achievement.

If Dyanamax was still around anywhere then you could add copperaja's special spikes from it's g-max move for an extra 20 messages or so.

Great vid ❤

You doig gods work

100% in the category of “shit you absolutely don’t have any reason to catalogue in your brain but is completely fascinating” 10/10 🔥

interesting video. i always wondered how long you could make turns by prolonging the text boxes

When you say we aren't going to like this video it does the thing where the like button lights up.

Good video!

"man i wish someone could make me a long turn" replay editing:

Could probably add more by having each Population Bomb hit be a crit. That would be 37 more lines.

When you use two Darkrai in a double battle, and the oposing pokemon are asleep, The Darkrai's ablitlys stack.

The future of pokemon matches

for the eject pack looping, make it so that each mon you loop is at 57-62%. That way, after 2 rounds of hazard damage, it is at 7%-12% hp, letting it take additional hp from poison damage and sandstorm before fainting ,adding more lines

So close to perfection

i think you could've added protective pads since it shows when there is an interaction with it

Great video, I may have some more ideas. Not sure all work (either requiring too much luck, walking into 4-move syndrome or just being plainly wrong), but maybe they help. You used 2 smeargle moves on the 5th turn before THE turn for sticky web. Couldn't those be 2 other 5-turn delay turns moves like safeguard and mist while sticky web is used by the setup mon from before the smeargles (timed such that no eject packs trigger early). 2 of the smeargle abilities were unused. I don't know the best option for those, but at least something like Soul Heart would trigger a few times giving more messages. I don't know if it is possible, but thawing out/waking up on THE turn would be an extra message. I have no idea how to apply the status in time under 4 move syndrome, so maybe not possible. Maybe also tailwind could be used on the 4th turn before THE turn, as it has a different number of turns. Also before the smeargles come in, a light clay/terrain extender Light Screen/Reflect/Aurora veil/Terrain could be used to time the 8 turn dissapation with the dissaption of the 5 turn gravity/mist/safeguard/etc. Though using up an eject pack for that may be too much a cost. You used switch in abilities like Pressure. I think there are switch in abilities which give more messages like Intimidate (activation + 1 for each opposing mon lowering attack). May walk into restrictiveness of the support mons though. In the same vein, using Weak Armor (2 stats) or Cotton Down (3 mons) would lead to more messages than gooey (as 2 stats changes instead of 1). Rigging the each hit of each Population bomb to be a crit would also add messages. For the option of fixed RNG or the clinically insane, you could replace the rocky helmet with a focus band where every population bomb hit KO's the smeargle but gets saved by focus band (allowing for 10 hits instead of 9). Then have the smeargles (except 1) faint from poison damage (for more messages). This would also free up items on the attacking smeargles for something (I don't know what, but something could be useful)