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Alpharad phrased the whole candies debacle the best: "Grinding is cringe and cheating is based"

There's a subtle, humorous foreshadowing with Jan saying that Cyclizar is a Pokemon that requires having good strategies to be effective

"Any of Salty's friend in the next Friendlocke that chooses not to evolve, $50 for you" Welp, it's been fun folks, but seems like this is now the end of Friendlockes for good lol

1:06:41 “The Onix clip is nothing compared to the damage this man has done” That’s it, Gerber’s dead, there’s no coming back from that

The irony of them not evolving to Annihilape and then getting KO’d by Counter, a move they would have been immune to if they had acquired the ghost typing , is wild

51:29 To anyone who wasn't there to read the manga (the VOD or livestream), I cannot underestimate how **PISSED** Salty got. The Greedent bs with Mikey wasn't Salty being angry, he was annoyed. You can tell because despite the tone, he was still talkative and witty. After Gerber and Jay's graveyard cook-off, Salty was almost dead silent for most of the stream after that. No more laughs, no more jokes, you can feel the tension. It's gotten past the point of loud anger and went straight into silent seething rage. The editors did an honestly swell job hiding how much anger Derek was radiating on that stream. You can *_TELL_* he wanted to end the stream right then and there, even Chat was kinda spooked. I highly recommend you check the VOD and the anime (highlights) when you have the chance. This shit is why Friendlocke is the gogoat of the YT Nuzlocke genre. It can be humourous and nonsensical, but also so raw and emotional in so many different ways. No other series compares.

this video just made me feel bad for the person piloting tinkaton. i wanted more of them, but they were a victim of cyclizar's drunk driving :( him getting fairy type was salt in the wound lmao

Something to note here is that Torch Song ignores substitutes. Thus, Shed Tail would not have been a good play in the Skeledirge encounters.

26:17|44:05 I hope everyone else found the irony in Jan predicting the major fuckup of the run being from one of Salty's friendmons fucking around during one of the fights which would then absolutely screw him and the rest of the gang over *WHILST* having paused directly on Jayweed. The hard read was already great in of itself, but the fact that (one of) the culprit is literally sitting right in front of Sherlocke as he's obliviously monologuing feels like some scripted bit from the actual friendlocke You just can't make this shit up💀

I watched the streams live and this was BY FAR the most stressful any friendlocke has ever been. That anger point was the moment everyone in chat was like "ohhh nooo this is gonna be a rough one"

the entire rant around 26:11 with jayyweed on screen is incredible foreshadowing

"Why is the Brambleghast holding a Carbos?" Jayweed needs his vitamins, dude.

Since Jan made the connection himself later in the video: Dan: "WHAT DID I SAY, GERBER?" Gerber: "I THOUGHT IT HAD WIND RIDER?" Also the Elite Four was nothing in the video because the Paldean E4 somehow surpassed the Kalos E4 as the most disappointing E4 experience

"How did I build my entire career on being the nerd emoji" is the most self-aware thing Jan has ever said. I mean, I'm watching the content so I'm not going to throw stones from my house of glass, but y'know.

So for what was happening around 31:27 is that Salty had several friends doing that union circle thing where they show up on the map, that's why the Finizen/Palafin and Bellibolt were there and why the Ultra Ball was floating in the air.

Alpharad becoming the fallen hero of the Pokémon nuzlock community while you become the redeemed villain is tbe greatest Oprah ive ever seen lol.

They should really invite you to be a part of a Friendlocke.

39:19 can't shed tail for 2 reasons 1. Shed Tail consumes 50% of the user's HP and Cyclizar is under 50% 2. Torch Song goes through Substitute since it's a sound move

Y’know. The friendless-locke made more sense than the friend-locke. All jokes aside, we all were waiting for this.

Jan doesn't play around the crit when flirting/making small talk and gets punished for it 🙏🏻

Came for shits and giggles, stayed for hardcore furry roleplay

Jan schafft es wieder völlig ohne Anstrengung einem visuell 100% Kiffer - Vibes zu geben - und er coseplayed das so überzeugend, dass man regelrecht schockiert darüber ist, wie schnell er redet.

You'd think they'd have learned to not fuck around on a set-up sweeper after the first fight with Skeledirge, AND YET

27:52 I love when Jan tries to be super analytical even though it really isn't necessary because for those who don't know, the other moves that Kofu's Crabominable knows is Rock smash and Slam for some reason so it would be more beneficial for the Crabominable to go for random move if anything.

Losing something to counter because you decided not to evolve your pokemon which would have become a ghost type on evolving is pretty unique as well lol

If Nemona gets Skeledirge the run turns into a horror game

Gerber is to Salty what Brayden was to Alpha

Watch everyone skip straight to the Rhyme gym battle to see what he says

57:44 Mr. Jan(itor) Shed Tail only works if Cyclerdino is above half hp. However that tera into the Normal Type was crazy.

I could swear the ad read was going in another direction "But you know what's always been a constant in my life and in this channel? My shaved balls"

Friendlocke is truly never complete until you react to the season. Really ties everything together

In a post session Q&A, one of the friends playing the pokemon said they'd love to have you feature in a future series somehow!

I picked Fuecoco because I thought it was adorable and I liked the typing. I had no idea about Torch Song on day one, but yeah it 100% carries

28:31 it’s safe because all the crab has is Rock Smash, Slam, and Crabgammer, all of which Brambleghast is either resistant to or immune to

Whats funny is that you became a reacuring gag in this season

when i saw Gerber kill Jay my first thought was genuinely "oh Jan's gonna have a field day with this one" but yeah i knew the run was completely fucked the second Derek gave Nemona Skeledirge

Oh god the next friend-locke is gonna have so many un evolved Pokémon, I can feel it

there is a disturbing absence of how little of da cheff we get to see

The most annoying thing about Mikey dying is that if he had let him evolve into fighting/ghost that never would have happened 😅

Nothing says Christmas like watching the 2nd best Nuzlocker (next to Alpharad because KZfaq said so), reacting to my favorite white guy! Happy Holidays, everyone!

Don mind me, just putting the timestamp of Gerber’s trol- I mean plan that should have work… kek 44:20 But I agree with the style as well the difficulty

Jan is experiencing the magic of the holy Goon Box at 50:07

Gerber getting Cyclizar and proceeding to get 7 people killed is both a Gerber thing to do and a Cyclizar thing to do

The call back to the onix clip is incredible, and the fact that Gerber surpasses it is amazing.

Happy Holidays, Jan! Enjoy your winter time and can't wait to see your reaction to season 3 of Friendlocke. One of my favourites, but just as infuriating (in a good way).

I'm sure a lot of people have already talked about it, but since Pchal didn't know, at the Nemona fight around 39 minutes, shed tail wouldn't have worked because it requires half health. And even if it had, torch song is sound based and bypasses substitute

I have personally never lost a mon to grinding. Only to random ass trainers because I had to sack for a pivot. I'm at a point where I have too much going on to manually grind and these challenges are supposed to be fun for the nuzlocker like you have said in this video. I have never seen the problem of someone trying to save time with candies.

Book at 8:04 is “House of Leaves” by Mark Z. Danielewski

1:13:15 To be completely honest, Metronome could have picked Guilliotine and landed the hit.

YES. I have been waiting for this since it came out, it's like I'm getting to watch it again, but remixed. Thank yooooooou, Jan!

To be fair big time wasters and lengthy segments were always kind of present in Pokémon, it's mostly notable in SV for frontloading the exposition and buildup in the beginning rather than interjecting it throughout. Gen 1's best route theme is exclusive to a side path with next to nothing in it, tons of forgettable trainers and inexplicable pole mazes Gen 2 has the entire Radio Tower segment of Team Rocket be an incredibly time consuming affair Gen 3's "too much water" segment with so little happening and stuff to see between Lilycove and the Pokémon League Gen 4 has you constantly run into side NPCs trying to sell you their new gimmick. The Pokétch campaign, the underground kit... and some other drawn out Team Galactic sequences

Nuzwlocke of S/V but with only bad/weak mons would be fun with how OP mons are in the game

how to beat the skeliderge: 1. try not to kill lark 2. probably should have had grunpilo on the team before each nemona fight 3. use 4rest and tarastalise into ground type

LMAO. him paying them to not evolve is hilarious. hope it becomes a thing

Pchal seeing the smosh bit out of context is so funny.

hey jan, cooler jahresabschluss! danke für deine videos. immer wieder geil anzuschauen

32:15 "He's doing great, the only ones who can screw him over are his friends." Oh, the dramatic irony. It hurts.

Merry Christmas P Chals! love the content, keep it up!🎄🎁

Thank you Jan for the amazing videos this year, have a nice new year

the gerber slander is wild 😭

Everytime he talks up one of Salty’s pokemon and say how strong they are, I have this immediate response in my head that goes “Well, you’re gonna love how they lose that pokemon”

Hada good year with u. Even if i dont play pkmn and only played diamond on my old DS (The only one i ever played until the end) Its fun to watch your videos. I had so much fun with your videos. Frohe Weihnachten ^^

I find it funny how you didn't even once mention what, or rather who, the spidops was named after. It even seemed once like you intentionally dodged saying their name. Does he know?

I like at the start, it was blind as the day they started the nuzloke was when day the game was released, and I think the play though was mostly blind and it was enjoyable to watch (especially when the game crashed during the water gym and the accidental egg)

Good to see another Pokémon challenges video

The green screen background is actually so funny lmao

It was all pure chaos, which definitely made it the best Friendlocke season so far.

Thank you for the great content throughout the year.

ALSO! You can switch Pokemon from the boxes between fights during the E4.

41:20 I think the feature's cool, I just wish it had a way to turn off, doing the Blueberry League fights in post-dlc and randomly winning to a crit or survive is kinda bleh, but in regular battles it's usually fine xD

I remember watching the first stream, and then i never got any notifications for other streams so i just assumed they cancelled it. Nice to see its a full season again.

Watching this season live was something else between Mankey anger point and just the Ryme fight.

7:00 Wait, didn't Jan himself use Clodsire? I think it was in his "no deaths" gen 9 attempt, wasn't it?

Good to see you back at it man ❤

Yes I am glad you are doing this have. A great rest of your year

"I don't do shootouts go fuck yourself" classic Jan you're a real one for that

Oh, Iono. Violet was my first-ever nuzlocke, and at first, while I still used items, I tried to not overlevel for the battles, and that cost me for the Iono fight. Because of this, I didn't evolve the Sandile that I caught in the Asado Desert. So, due to Iono's Mismagius constantly getting the boost from Charge Beam, I lost my Spidops (my second 'Mon, since I switched up the encounter for Poco Path), my pre-mentioned Sandile, and my Lycanroc (don't know if it was a mistake going with Midnight Lycanroc, but whatever). On the plus side, it got me VERY attached to the shiny Hariyama who remained one of my best Pokemon in the run, since she managed to survive and beat that thing. After that, I didn't care as much about overleveling.

you know its the end of the month when jan uploads with a sponsor in the video

It feels weird to be this early. Thanks for your content and am always waiting for your next videos. Keep up the great work and Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays to everyone and hope you have a fun break

Based friendlock shot call. I see your bet jan and i'm declaring myself a believer in the scuff

The fact that vriska single-handedly changed your mind on spidops makes all us homestuck fans very happy ::::)

hell yeah another season of friendlocke reactions

The rant about the rare candies is so true. People like Verlis who use the "well the challenge is part of the grind" just reveal that they have no business talking about nuzlockes. The challenge comes from the fights and pokemon availability, it always has. To pretend that you need to make grinding inherently difficult or that you're not allowed to skip the mindless grinding for literal days for it to be a legit nuzlocke is just so delusional.

"How did I buily my hole career by beeing the nerd emoji?" That's the real question to be asked

3:50 The happy part when I decided to do reverse order nuzlocke for my first playthrough and my starter turned out to be the most broken Pokemon ever, that pretty much could have won all my fights in this game, if not for the fact that I actively decided to use more Pokemon as I progressed (and I did find Shiny Glimmet when going to Psychic gym and suprisingly have not let it Self-Destruct on me catching it in regular Ball, so I had to use it - after I actually learned how lucky I was). Kinda annoyed I didn't check which route is the hardest, because I probably wouldn't defeat Team Star or the Titans as easily as I did with Grusha. Winning with major level disadvantage. 4:20 To be fair they did also have a lot more time for this. From trailers, to game leaking week before release for the emus. Obviously there were some day 1 arts for the reveals. But for the actual premiere, we had enough time to get all those hundreds upon thousands art pieces. And to be fair Meowscarada had it easy. Both Professors though? That was rough. 25:10 The sad part is that they never learned you can bulk-buy drinks at the school cafeteria. 1:16:10 Ok but nuzlocking the DLCs is actually cute. At least that got some better touch. Steps by steps we are reaching potentially good Pokemon game 😂

I'm interested to see some nuzlockes on the 2nd part of the DLC, I feel like that's gonna be interesting.

Been waiting for this video. Also your hair looks nice, you're looking good

I do want to see you try this with some of the other nuzlockers, either all taking it seriously in a hard game or with people working against you/not caring in an easy game

Great vid as usual PC

As far as grinding in Nuzlockes go, for me I grind at the most recent route/area I have access to. Quicker than going back to a low-level area, even if it's higher risk.

Jan just gave me one of my favorite Christmas gifts this year.

Yes PLEASE! Thank you for this Christmas gift!

If he changed Espathras nature with a mint it would’ve live it had a spa lowering nature

21:42 That friendly rivalry at its finest towards Alpharad, Lol

The thing you said about normal types being able to switch into random moves made me wonder if that's why you see so many more normal types in competitive singles in gens 1-4, before team preview.

I agree with the candy using argument. To avoid the grind, I used dead pokemon in max raids and also didn't the raid deaths because I could always just train on random low-level pokemon for 10 hours to get one pokemon leveled up without risk, this just speeds it up, especially as when you exit the raid den, your pokemon is at 1 hp still, so it didnt die

I'd love to see him do the DLC and think it's still easy

Gonna need the full breakdown on Wugtrio Fellatio... 😂

I literally lost my primeape to the same greedent😭 the flashbacks and raaaaage🥴