Wowie

dont drink the drink its got pubes in it

I ooooooooooooo

Your editor did a nice job.

Hey Jan I need a list of the best team of 6 for each pokemon game being the newest versions like frlg and hgss Edit: Adding movesets and held items would also be appreciated

easiest battle of my life

Might be too overpowered

Make it happen

They would have to do an actually hard rom hack tho, which probably rules out randomizers.

@@fdthqwerty maybe a Drayano hack, not too challenging but still pretty difficult.

@@fdthqwerty Radical Red or Pokémon Unbound Insane mode.

>early game >soullink randomizer >using Rare Candies I usually am fine with this but in this case it just removes the fun

Smant has been using candies for a while now. This is an old stream

@@abarette_ Then set a level cap for it. You can still have the thrill of the randomizer experience if you don't overlevel. Besides, what's the most entertaining thing that could happen without rare candies? You can't catch half of the pokemon you find in the early game and trainer battles are already enough to scare you shitless with an unexpected move, pokemon, crit, etc. At the end of the day, an hour of grinding on low-level pokemon is an hour of grinding on low-level pokemon and it's not something worth looking forward to for both the streamer and the viewer. That's why pokemon challenges uses rare candies along with literally any other pokemon content creator

@Donut Apostle [7th of the Twelve] Level caps. There's hardly anything fun nor strategic about grinding 6 teammates, since the optimal play is fighting low level Pokemon to avoid crit deaths. Rare candies let you skip to the actual challenge of the game (gyms/E4), but you can optionally require fighting all trainers.

@@marshie5434 He edits them out? I thought I heard him talking about using rare candies as well at some point. Did he stop?

cause people like drxx exist and they are probably better nuzlockers, but Jan is still an amazing nuzlocker and a really entertaining content creator who keeps it real

5000+ hours is quantifiable. More objective and less subjective

@@grzmit5904 who that

I'm glad he changed that, I like this dude and his vids but I would physically cringe whenever he said that

Character growth

You realize that grinding safety isnt actually a skill when you can grind on level 2s infinitely Even in full randomizers, only thing that can kill you at level 2 is sturdy + endevor + extremespeed cheese which you can avoid by fleeing from sturdy mons

@@SuccimusPrime mans is the General Grinder

@@SuccimusPrime And I don't even want to calculate the odds of all those stars lining up, you should go buy a lottery ticket if that happens to you.

Lmao right

Personally I'm fine with just hacking in rare candies, but I also like seeing people know how to EV grind safely, so 50/50 for me. Also some people just don't know, don't want to, or can't hack in rare candies in which case grinding is a skill once again.

*laughs in nincada*

Not to be rude, but it looked like Cyja really held Smant down a lot with his constant deaths

Favorite Pokemon is Zangoose but he laughs like a Seviper

@@silentkhaos1176 Ah who cares, it's funnier that way

He sounds like a Flukewarm from Hollow Knight

imagine doing it on an official cartridge. not me haha (sweats nervously)

Big masochists for sure

I did a Soul Silver nuzlocke before I started using rare candies, and there were moments I considered throwing just so I’d stop wanting to die when grinding

I play Pokemon normally and on emulator without Rare Candies, though in my defense, I didn't know what PKHEX was until I started watching this channel. And I still don't. Guess I must be locked up in a mental hospital by this logic.

Regardless of how other people feel, if you're using outside resources to affect your game, it's considered cheating. And I personally refuse to do that. If people can't handle the fact you need to grind in rpg games, they shouldn't be playing them in the first place. #ThisGuy #KeepingItReal #TheTRUTHHurts

thats whats been used for years, at least in romhacks since you get additional encounters that way :)

@@robinsimon4176 ´llotesgsgs

Yeah but not a lot of people know about it

@@elmerijaakkola5489 haha true.

@@elmerijaakkola5489 HE SPITTIN

So how’s heaven?

Rest in rip

nice top comment spoiler

@@gogogo123454321 yup. sad times

I'm talented I guess?

Alpharad groudon..

@@valerieyggdrasil7984 Every single battle will end with a Groudon spamming earthquake, and this one is no different...

*J O M E D O M E*

Probably ate a chicken sandwich, but that's just my diagnosis

Love the time of comments LOL, 4 months / 2 = 2months 2 months / 2 = 1 month 1 month/ 2 = 2 weeks Lool

I only knew it because I built a cheesy Gen 1 team in Platinum era and Corsola was in the same egg group as Blastoise so I needed one to get it for breeding. 😅

it was stab surf under rain too lmao.

Imagine an emerald kaizo soul link

@@auoie_YT as much as I love the concept, it's such a precise game to nuzlocke(at least the beginning you need perfect encounters) that I don't feel like that's possible, at least not to complete the series haha

@@AltrTheEgo They'd have to choose encounters I think. Even then it would be super difficult.

@@AltrTheEgo im thinking not a hardcore nuzlocke tho where you can use items since hardcore soul link nuzlocke seems to be impossible

@@auoie_YT emerald kaizo actually forces no items in battle haha

Me and my friends usually just force fully evolved at level 36 in order to try to maintain difficult as game goes on

I wonder which game and ruleset would be the right difficulty. It would have to be challenging but only to a degree where it doesn’t get frustrating.

@@El_Kanto imo, from how I’ve seen Jan react, I don’t think he’d keep the unique type ruling if he ever did a soul link. As for the game that they’d play, I think that they would do a drayano game, so that they could actually progress. I think a Kaizo(not notably) game would be too much since the early game is really repetitive.

@@neophyta ah yes, because when someone does a randomizer, gets to the pokemon league and all the trainers have are pre-evolutions, that's the most fun in a randomizer.

I've actually used the setting that forces fully evolved pokemon in the few randomizers I've done and it's just so much more fun, I don't understand why people don't. Maybe they don't bother looking at all the settings and don't know that it exists or something. Going against pre evolutions in late game just removes any possibility of challenge, it's so boring.

@@Akai93 agreed. Nothing feels lamer than sweeping a champion who’s sending out aipoms and shit

This is what I do in my hardcore randomizer lockes, have done for years. Also no legendaries, though sometimes I enable them for both trainers and encounters when I'm feeling in the mood.

I use it whenever i do a randomizer. Its much more fun to come up against good pokemon in late game, i just force fully evolved at 36.

He did one on the Jaiden/Alpharad one

@@traingirl3234 He wants Jan to do a soul link with someone. Not review their soul link

@@beastminer147 oh i'm stupid thanks

Alpha would be amazing but now I’ve commented on a KZfaq vid it turns out I’m one of those dumb fucks the Jan describes

Alpharad has shown that he's capable of doing runs with optimal plays but *chooses* not to for content (ie the Onyx vs Jynx play)

patrick spotted

vouch hes the reason i got into competitive pokemon and nuzlockes at all

Big fan pat been watching since top 5’s and now I watch niftysmiths videos too

W

did not expect to see you here but its neat to see

CJ knew too.

Am I wrong?

James? Do you mean Jacob?

I think we shouldn't

@@adv78 Thats very fair honestly.

as long as you have level caps, rare candies are great. make nuzlockes so much less of a pain.

I hadnt thought about that 🤔

Just depends on how good the co op is I guess

Also, I think a bigger question is how will encounters work in an open world game? Will nuzlocking even be possible in Scarlet and Violet?

Well its probably gonna be incredibly easy and boring for anyone who has played a pokemon game before.

Oooh that’s an excellent point!

He's not wrong

My condolences buddy, I lost my mom in 2020 and losing a parent changes u. Do your best to grieve in a healthy way because it’s very easy to slip into the bad kind of grieving in my experience. Good luck 👍

@@HarveyMeadowlark thank you, I just kinda did this as an out of seasons joke for me, but I appreciate it none the less

thats a decent idea. so potions and status restores are a rare find then. how would that work with pokeballs? are pokeballs still shop items?

@@dogma32 yes since there's already the luck factor of random encounters anyway and it make people save the rarer ball for example luxury ball can be saved for a high friendship evolution I feel it'd be impossible with a bad randomizer as well just imagine never getting any balls

@@harryh4h720 ahhh okay. unique setup for a run either way, i like it. gl with your runs.

As far as I know, Pchal and MandJTV have never made content together. Not once. Also, MandJTV is a child friendly poketuber. Pchal viewers are older, as he discusses more mature themes. He's said himself he doesn't want any children watching him.

@@neophyta Well that's exactly the reason. They are debatably the two most opposite poketubers out there, and pchal has specifically shown distaste towards Mikey in his reaction vids. I think pchal's jatedness towards nuzlocking combined with Mikey's hatred and inexperience would create an immensely entertaining dynamic.

@@icemntnwater No, that way of thinking is entirely flawed. If they are opposites, they have nothing in common. They wouldn't be able to interact besides the bare bones narrative of the gameplay. The only reason Mandjtv works in videos with other Poketubers is because he knows them and they are friends. Imagine being forced to play a game with a pretty much total stranger, it wouldn't be entertaining it would be awkward. Not to mention their content and video styles are so different, their personalities are different. It just wouldn't work.

@@neophyta You ever heard of the saying, "opposites attract"? People say that for a reason. From what I can tell after watching both of them a lot, they have juuuust enough in common for all of their differences to be entertaining.

@@icemntnwater How? What would be entertaining. They have nothing in common besides being poketubers. Pchal makes more mature content, nuzlockes primarily. Mandjtv makes content that is more towards kids. Mandjtv would not upload a video that has Pchal swearing in. Pchal wouldn't upload a video where Mandjtv was just being there, child friendly. Mandjtv has high energy, lots of edits and tries to make the viewer laugh more. Pchal is more laid back, trying to provide smooth entertainment for older audiences with less blatant editing. If the video was on Pchal's channel, it probably wouldn't appeal to as many Mandjtv fans due to the more subtle editing. Vice versa for Mandjtv's channel. I also forgot to mention, pchal viewers don't all watch mandjtv due to his appeal to younger audiences and Pchal's to older. It literally just does not work. How is it hard to understand? Purplecliffe and Pchal work better, as they have communicated before. Im pretty sure both Mandjtv and Pchal are unwilling to do a collab with eachother due to: lack of communication, not having good synergy, and different attitudes. Its been stated, it will never happen because it would not work.