THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME IT WAS SO MUCH FUN

The hardest opponent they all faced was easily the rule book 😂

PLEASE get some chess youtubers to try this!!! this is actually such a creative idea it’d be wild to see experienced chess players try it out 😂

I swear Jacob's godlike normal RNG and Cybertron's usual hellish RNG came together for a split second and created some kind of singularity of fortune that wound up reversing their fates.

Alpharad: *doesn't play around crit* PokemonChallenges: I see you have learned nothing from me...

Alpharad writing "wtf is pokemon chess" is golden, the commentary and editing are on point

The "i made a severe lapse of my judgement" followed by "dude he is a genius" killed me

The fact that Cybertron, the guy known for having the _worst_ luck in Pokémon, won off a crit? Plain old date has better storytelling than most movies these days

Alpharad losing to rng is truly poetic

The Underdogs praising Vernias for being a genius to cutting to Vern having no idea what was going on is gold 😂

"My horse is it a rook" from SmallAnt absolutely killed me, because he first didn't even call it by the right name by calling it the horse(understandable), but then tried to correct himself by calling it the rook which made him even more wrong 🤣

Vernias being called a genius, while he himself has no idea what he's going is peak comedy xD

We have to applaud Vernias being in this tournament.

The editing to remove the more nuianced rules until they became crucial for specific games was top notch. Flowed so well as a result!

moral of the story: when asked, "do you know how to play chess" 9/10 pokemon youtubers respond, "what is a chess?"

Actually, Normal type is a really good type for pawns. In normal Pokemon, resistances are important to allow switch-in and resisting STAB attacks, which makes Normal a bad type defensively due to its only resistance being Ghost. But with these Chess rules, there's more importance in not having weaknesses since these are what opens up combos into potential instant-losses. So Normal type with its only weakness being Fighting is actually really good to prevent these combos from happening.

I have gravely failed the Vern Nation

Who knew that reading the rules was the greatest weapon!?

I love seeing Alpharad be one of the victims instead of the one roping people into the silly events.

That is one of the endings of all time. A man of pure luck battles a man of pure unluck, culminating in the unluckiest man winning by a stoke of pure luck. Perfect storytelling at its karmic finest. Awesome commentary by all on the couch as well! Definitely trying this out sometime

This is genuinely so sick! I can't imagine how much of a nightmare it was to edit all this footage 😅

As Nick would say: Take your time Vernias, don't worry

Honestly “we say everything you want to hear, and many things you don’t” is a hell of a catch phrase for the podcast

If you guys were to include all 18 types on the Chess board, my best suggestion is give only the Queen and King the option to be Dual Typed, providing the King better defense while exerting more offensive pressure from the Queens

THIS WAS SO FUN! The music was great, the narrative was perfect, I loved the intercuts of all the different streams (hell on earth to edit, I imagine), the Underdogs' commentary was great, and how perfect is it that Aaron "Cybertron" Zheng's bad luck chases him from competitive Pokemon straight into Pokemon Chess. It really do be like that! Anyways Pokemon Chess Tournament 2 featuring Wolfe Glick when??

SPOILERS . . . . . . . Without Will-O-Wisp misses there was nothing to stop Aaron from winning

I love how almost everyone was like “they are being so smart” only to jump cut to them saying something like “I don’t know what I’m doing.” Comedy gold.

hey! the site could use some patching. as you noticed during the tournament, the low health music and promotion overlay are broken but there's also a bug with moving a piece multiple times where if you choose not to, the game can start taking the other player's time while it's still your turn, softlocking the game. customizable time control would be a nice quality of life addition and imo a king taking another king with a not very effective matchup should result in a draw.

RNG aside, the amount of strategy possible simply from assigning different types to pieces is insane. Imagine trying to prepare actual chess openings but you also need to account for what type all of your opponent's pawns are.

22:28 just makes me think: "And this will be the crit that will pierce the heavens!!"

We stan our Ice Queen

Aaron never thought he'd win 1000$ for a Pokemon game after missing 5 Will O Wisps in a row

Loved seeing perspectives and games that we missed while watching the stream.

Idk why but I find it funny every time they said “Aron cybertron Zheng” it just reminds me of that one SpongeBob scene where they describe the Alaskan worm as “big scary and pink”

13:41 Absol willing in its super luck ability I see

The amout of times I said "STOP THROWING STOP THROWING STOP THROWING" in the first 5 minutes is a testament to how entertaining this is and has the potential to be. I can't wait to see more Pokemon Chess

One of your best videos Zach the commentary, the editing, the vernias to laugh at it doesn't get much better than this

been a fan of little z for a while now but omg this video was incredibly hype. incredible storyline and editing. Congrats to cybertron too!

Lets just take a second here to appreciate the godlike editing

This was a top tier video! So so entertaining, well edited, and such an awesome concept!!

The amount of fun i've been having playing this for the past 2 hours is unreasonable, This is outstanding

The soundtrack at 3:08 goes hard Also at 18:56 the callback to the first video with Winter is genius

22:40 HUGE Setback energy. Absolutely terrible luck the entire game, until the moment he REALLY needs it, and everything magically falls into place

Cybertron was't unlucky, he was just saving all his luck for this moment

gotta get Hikaru and Levy into this shit too, see actual masters at chess fumble their way down the pokemon type chart is platinum content

Ya know, Normal and Bug are actually not garbage. Normal has no super effective type matchups sure, but it also is only weak to Fighting. And Bug wins 3 type matchups with 3 type losses. Which is WAY better than Grass's 3 type wins and 5 type losses.

Seeing Alpharad in the cat saying "ZACK PLEASEEEEEEEEEE" and Zack ignoring him had me crying real tears

Im over here enjoying that when you set a peice to a certain type, it seems there are predetermined pokemon that fit it best. The rook pokemon I saw were spectreir, glastreir, galarian rapidash, mudsdale, terakion, zebstrika, kingdra, tauros, corviknight, ageslash, sirfetched, and absol. clearly choosing the knight/ horses of the type. Love it.

The meta of a Pokémon chess would be crazy

I loved this. I had a hard time following on stream but the editing made this super easy to understand and enjoy!

14:58 what a perfectly edited sequence that was, props to the editor

Chess pros vs pokemon pros would be an incredible video

Looking forward to adding z type moves

The full VOD was totally worth the watch, but I couldn’t wait for the multiple perspectives 😘👌🏼

we NEED to get pro chess players vs pro pokemon players playing this

14:48 THE WAY THE CAMERA SLOWLY PANNED UP, I CAN'T 😂

that ending was absolutely insane !!! What a perfect conclusion for the tournament

I hope that the official Pokémon company teams up with u to turn Pokémon chess into an official game where they have tournaments

You INVENTED Pokemon Chess? **Nintendo knocking at your door**

It'll be interesting if abilities could be given to the different types, *Normal* - Run Away: This piece can move 1~2 spaces backwards instead to it's normal movement. You cannot capture a piece with this movement. *Fire* - Flame Body: The piece that captures this piece has a 20% to become burned. A burned piece is captured at the end of the opponent's third turn after the piece was captured. *Water* - Drizzle: Adjacent enemy pieces do not get an extra move after capturing a piece that was super effective or a critical hit. *Grass* - Harvest: If this piece is captured and the square this piece started on is unoccupied, when a pawn is promoted you may regain this piece and put it in it's starting square. *Electric* - Static: The piece that captures this piece has a 20% to become paralyzed. A paralyzed piece can only move and capture pieces as if it were a pawn. *Bug* - Compound Eye: This piece cannot miss it's attacks. Has a 15% chance of getting a Critical Hit. *Fighting* - Defiant: This piece cannot be captured by a piece it resist. *Flying* - Aerilate: This piece may move through friendly pieces. It cannot capture pieces the turn it passes through a friendly piece. *Poison* - Poison Touch: The piece that captures this piece has a 20% to become poisoned. A poisoned piece has a 35% of being captured at the end of each of it's owner's turns. *Ground* - Lightning Rod: Adjacent pieces cannot be captured by Electric pieces. *Rock* - Sturdy: Once per game, if this piece would be captured it isn't. *Psychic* - Telepathy: When this piece captures a piece by a Super Effective or Critical Hit, you may move another piece for the additional move instead. *Ice* - Refrigerate: The piece that captures this piece has a 20% of becoming frozen. A frozen piece cannot move and cannot be captured. It unfreezes at the start of the opponent's fourth turn after being frozen. *Dragon* - Pressure: A critical hit will never occur when capturing this piece. *Ghost* - Cursed Body: If this piece is affected by a status condition, adjacent enemy pieces have a 20% of gaining the same status condition at the end of each turn. *Dark* - Intimidate: Adjacent enemy pieces cannot capture this pieces unless they are super effective against this piece. *Steel* - Heavy Metal: This piece is unaffected by status conditions. *Fairy* - Flower Veil: At the end of the turn remove status conditions from adjacent friendly pieces.

been looking forward to this, the stream was great

The editing was fire, good video!

5:28 “if anyone wins with a normal type, you have my respect” Alpha winning two games with bidoof:

Holy sht, you have absolutely out done yourself with this on Z. The RNG elements made this *chefs kiss* and cogger just perfect voice for commentating . The ending too though 😂"gtfo with your critiques"

I had so much faith in Vernias, I’m sure one day he can redeem himself in Pokémon chess…

Yay! More PC! I’ve been playing it a bunch, and I finally got some more content!

Comentators: Vernias is a tatical genius Vernias: *not understanding a thing and just being his normal wholesome oblivious self*

El Xando, the legend behind Smash Monopoly.

This was a masterpiece. You made Pokémon Chess look awesome.

This was a great video!

everybody: busting their asses trying to win Alpharad: *wins on 2nd turn each time*

It's my brain hearing Gotham Chess scream "the CRIT " instead of the "the ROOOOOK" at the end that i need in my life

Can you do this again, this is one of my favorite videos you have made; both this and the live video.

LMAO Alpharad is usually the one to make people suffer XD

This is the equivalent to fighting game tournament commentators saying “hmm yes outstanding move” and the player they’re complementing is just button mashing

Idea: Professional Pokemon Player who knows nothing about chess, vs Professional chess player who knows nothing about Pokemon to see which discipline is the most important in Pokemon chess

This was actually so crazy cool. I loved the editibg for zhang being the unluckiest player to winning with pure luck! Great vid Z

I really think that the whole super effective move again thing should be limited to just a max of one free per turn, as it just snowballs way too easily as current. It would also make the queens less busted and make you have to think more about how deep you want to go in with a piece.

Am was expecting every confrontation to become a Pokémon battle to see which piece lives

I lost my mind at 4:53. Moving from being in check by the knight to... being in check by the knight. You can't write this stuff.

HELL YES!! Very hyped! that looks so fun! I am god awful at chess, so this is right up my ally!

You should make your own app like this and put it out separately so Nintendo won't sue you I'm sure many will enjoy playing it:)

"It's like chess but bs" LMAO

This is a crossover i never expected

Of course alpharad would enjoy his absol instead of taking mate

13:31 vernias: before I pull a stupid ( proceeds to pull said stupid )

Now we wait for the 5d chess with mutliversal time travel variant aka "pokemon chess dialaga edition"

7:41 I love how he's singing the Driftveil theme-

Pokemon is the only majorly competitive game where praying is a viable strategy

13:00 dabbing is crazy 😂😂

You should add items for example quick claw has a 5% chance of you moving first to add more "fun"

This is one of the best videos ive ever seen. PLEASE more pokemon chess. This is amazing.

"Pokemon games have a fun little thing called RNG" Will o' wisp missed, Will o' wisp missed, Will o' wisp missed, Will o' wisp missed, Will o' wisp missed,

the luckiest vs the unluckiest lmao

I have so much respect for Pokémon "The Least Competitive Competitive Game" Chess and its players.

ok but what about making "5d Pokémon Chess With Multiverse Time Travel" for the ultimate overly complicated chess game

Even though I never played this game, putting Ice on your queen is the greatest misplay you could possibly do.

Finally, a metagame where Ice is a genuinely good type: one where every piece dies in one hit anyway

5:08 "We're actually trying to navigate Mt. Moon without flash here" There was an attempt

That final was so cruel pitting the luckiest bastard with the unluckiest pokemon pro