The fact he lost hp and died by levling down is terrifying

"It's evolving, just backwards."

"Sorry May, can't battle, all my Pokémon have Benjamin Button disease" "Understandable have a good day"

I don't think I could take playing a game where every level 9 Poochyena is a raid boss

Yo, explosion might e a legit strat for this challenge since you wouldn't lose XP while fainted.

Imagine dying BECAUSE you won the battle LMAO

I expected this to be level 100 start and deleveling, which would make planning and lategame a bitch. But This is painful to watch

This challenge is like the "trade a paperclip for a house" thing, but every second your valuable object turns gradually back into a paperclip.

May: "So like... is your Torchic ok? It looks like it's even weaker than before." Ant: "Sshhh... he's having a phase. It'll be over in like two or three videos, give or take."

Imagine being a LVL. 6 wild Shroomish, happy to be caught and ecstatic to evolve into something after a few fights. Just like in the fairy tales it mother told it as a child. And then after it finally was caught, fought for his life, he was a LVL. 5 Shroomish.

14:53 - May and Brendan are the ONLY rivals that respect your request to not battle. Respect.

this whole video sounds like the punchline to a roast "you're such an awful trainer, your pokemon lose experience"

I love the fact that there's just a level 100 poochyena chilling somewhere in Rustboro now

Oh so this is how pikachu tied with latias and died to a level 5 snivy.

Watching this is painful. Imagine beating a Chansey and basically dropping from level 30 to 2 AHHHH

When you reach level 0, it should have turned into an egg. That would be so funny.

"Miss Roxanne?..It's that Shroomish trainer again..."

Wattson playing rock-paper-scissors while Ant is playing five-dimensional chess.

"It's impossible to get Shedinja" I like that he responded so quickly he must have considered it beforehand

Alternate title: Pokemon, but my Pokemon are radioactive isotopes and decay over time

Alternate title: Bullying Wattson with a geodude and a sableeye

IRL- Practice makes perfect Smallant- well, yes but actually no

The dont unevolve they just lose level Me:so thats how lance got his hacked dragonite

Chat: "I can make you look like a lesbian" SmallAnt: "I mean I like girls so"

Wallace: "Okay everyone, we're going to have a new challenger soon. Be prepared, as he is something special. This boy is the son of one of Hoenn's most dedicated and powerful gym leaders, fought alongside Steven and summoned the mighty Rayquaza in order to send Groudon and Kyogre back into their slumber. I've even heard rumours that he caught Rayquaza before heading to Victory Road. I hope you're as excited as I am. Elite Four: Bring it on! Later: Sidney: So, you must be the trainer that Wallace told us about. Show me your best! *Brendan sends out a level 5 Rayquaza* Sidney:.............

You just give the exp share to someone “crappy” Pokémon *Gives it to* Marrow Marrow proceeds to be MVP

You use your pokemon until they are injured and weak and then discard them when they're no longer any use. A true dogfighter.

Imagine this in Sword and shield with auto exp share, that'd be hell...

Next: Pokemon but they level randomly, without recycling numbers. So after level 10 they will never be level 10 again.

I’m not ignoring that first message in chat saying they saw him on tinder lmao

My legit first question was ‘what if you level down at like 1 hp? Do you lose?” Then it immediately happened

Remember how in Mystery Dungeon there was those dungeons where you would start at level 1 and then level up as you go and the Dungeons would have endless floors? I can't remember if there was one where it leveled you down lol. But those were so fun tbh. I don't think I ever completed one.

"Torchic lost 17 EXP points!" *Happy tune* "Torchic decreased to level 4!" "You now suck!" *Ant is now internally depressed*

If both of his guys die from leveling down the same turn in a Doubles Battle, he's going to softlock...

"We're gonna need a bunch of Shroomish" *catches 2* "Well we just lost" What did you expect?

Take a minute to appreciate that this isn't the gen where you still get xp even when you catch a wild pokemon

At first I thought the title was "Pokemon but they let me down". I have no idea why.

“Gym leaders hate this man with this one easy trick.” I laughed way harder than I should have at that😂

I love how when they level down it still makes the sound like something good has happened, like “Good job! Your Pokémon leveled down

This is the complete opposite to "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger"

Imagine doing this in Gen 5, where experience is increased based on level gap? As you get weaker the speed you get weaker gets faster

I cant explain, but when I saw torchic level down and itd stats decreased, I felt REALLY uncomfortable for some reason. Its just, for the 7 years I've been playing, I've never seen that. My brain just said that aint right

This is absolutely amazing. The idea of just changing ONE mechanic creates so many new different and creative challenges!! Well done mann!!

It took a whole 40 minutes to beat Watson. I can only imagine what the elite four will be like

Chansey: *YOU FELL FOR IT FOOL! EXP CROSS SPLIT ATTACK!*

Imagine defeating your rival and your Pokemon dies from losing health after leveling down.

"Can't battle more trainers but we need money for pokeballs." just get a zigzagoon. It gives pretty decent pokeballs

older generations say newer generations of humans were getting dumber, but then there's Ant outplaying Watson with level 2s

"You look like a lesbian" "i mean i do like girls" lmaoo

This challenge is sadistic. Imagine it in Gen 8 with the mandatory EXP Share 😧

“Oh my god they’re level 12?” Well yes, normally you’d be gaining levels as you fight instead of losing them.

I expected it to be the same as the "can't gain exp" challenge, with the exception that you can't just catch a Legendary and abuse it for the rest of the game. Turns out, leveling down within the battle is much more brutal than I thought. Also, if you need money in late game, you could catch a higher level Pokemon and go defeat the weak trainers. You won't level down as fast, so you should be able to get back significantly more money than you've spent for capturing the Pokemon.

Imagine playing with that same ruleset, but when they hit level 0, they are deleted from the party. Aka: foetus deletus

You know what would be almost impossible? Doing a Nuzlocke run of this.

Imagine how awful it would be if halfway through you catch a Pokémon with pokerus and it spreads through your whole box

"she's using another potion. The greed from this woman"

This Pokemon hack is like a direct representation of humanity It's evolving, just backwards

That tag-team duo of ghost type, ground type feels like just the kind of convoluted strategy to make it into a pokemon anime.

That sabley poison protect strategy might be the move. Most degenerate strategy in the game but it could work .give your poisoners a quick claw or something so that they always strike first

Someone should make “Pokémon but every time you leave a building you teleport”

yes, everytime i hear scotland forever, i lose brain cells and then die

The way you understands the AI in this game is amazing to see really impressive

An even more torturous version would be if they forgot moves by level-down

So what about "pokemon but all negative stat changes are permanent" that seems kinda interesting

As weird as it sounds, this seems like it actually, like, makes pokemon fun? In regular pokemon, you're encouraged to just level up to beat any challenge. You don't have to be good, and you don't have to catch more than 6 pokemon. Here, you're constantly catching new pokemon as you run the old ones down, and you're always underleveled so you have to use strategy. It's perfect.

When I read the title I thought that his Pokemon would start at level 100 and level down from there. What a complete madman.

This is so stupid, yet so interesting to watch.

the face when he leveled down and died

That Watson battle was honestly amazing. Fair play. 10 out of 10.

That Watson battle was the single biggest brain Pokémon strat I’ve ever seen by a country mile.

No one: Chat: ANT I SAW U ON TINDER

Is everything okay, Ant? You seem to resort in selfharm a lot lately with these challenges. Maybe look for some help.

I’m so happy he used the Sableye strat for brawly. That’s how I got myself past him on my first pokemon playthrough ever back when I was a kid. I just couldnt beat him with my underleveled mudkip, and I couldnt use flash so I couldn’t navigate the cave, so I couldnt leave dewford. Of course I didn’t consider grinding in the cave because that would have taken forever. I was little, so I was dumb, but I felt SO SMART when I figured out Brawly would be POWERLESS against a ghost-type.

the lore explanation for this is that the Pokémon are being consumed with regret for beating up the other Pokémon

"Haunted child with pet rock beats up grandfather." -Gym 3

This challenge seems like a video game adaptation of my life. The more I try the worse it gets.

I’ve always wondered why Pokémon trainers often have the same Pokémon of different levels or otherwise suboptimal teams in game. Small ant made me realize that they’re all doing the best they can because their teams are all de-leveling.

14:46 "'I'd make you look like a lesbian'? ...I mean I do like girls." Bruh XD

orochimaru wished he could learn this kind of technique

For some reason, the Pokémon becoming weaker as you go reminded me of Breath of the Wild’s weapon durability. The Legend of Hoenn: Breath of the Water

This must be how Ash’s pikachu lost to a snivy that never had experience in a fight.

imagine doing this in a later gen where exp share affects the whole party AND you get exp from catching pokemon

My first thought when I saw the title: God damn it Smallant. I don't know why that was my first thought....but it rings true.

That rival battle is actually scary. You not only lost some stats, you also lost 75% damage from being level 4 instead of level 5

this sounds like legitimately the toughest challenge. I guess it means going against the E4 with freshly caught pokemon, and teaching them the best moves available.

Imagine this in one of the more recent games where you gain exp from catching pokemon.

So thats why my friend's grandma looks 20 when shes about 60. Never knew anti aging products works that great.

Idea: Get pokemon with pickup to sell items

Haven't finished yet but when you mentioned Regis I thought that wouldn't explosion be a really good tactic for them?? They could explode and die, therefore not getting exp, and staying at level 60

18:27 That museum employee looking the other way is the MVP

Feck. That moment when you find a nice video and know there must be a part 2....and you see uploaded 1 hour ago...and thus you have to wait.

"I still wear all the clothes I wore in high school" Yo same, and I just finished college.

The Wattson fight was the most intense battle I’ve seen in a while.

I have discovered you 2 weeks ago and I just wanna say it's supper cool what u're doing, love the content and the attitude !

Whenever he gets Fly, he could get petty cash by fighting the trainers on early routes...

This might be the only Pokémon battle that went down to struggle that was actually fun to watch

this is one of the first video titles to just straight up make me laugh in a long time

Someone is going to find and adopt that pup, boy will they have a fun time.

GET SOME FRIGGIN SLEEP TANNER

Alolan Marowak that learns it's best ghost type move 1 level before Cubone evolves into it: I see this as an absolute win!