The fact that the world champ doesn’t know gen 1 shenanigans is both completely understandable and a major shock

more like World Chumpion amirite

For as amazing as gen 1 is. When you start getting into the technical side of things, you realize that the games are barely holding together with rubber bands as well as the hopes and dreams of the developers.

“I was grinding on you…” “Yeah I get that a lot” This interaction is so- 💀🔥

"Name it after my dad because he also teleported away" - some member in chat

Oh wow. I thought the title meant every trainer would have the same AI as the final boss. I didn't expect the actual world champion of Pokémon to show up.

17:34 Mad respect to the guy who was watching on Wii internet channel. It’s people like you that make me want to read the stream chat. God bless.

Growl is like a status reducing version of first turn of dig

One of the coolest concepts for a Pokemon Challenge I've seen so far

This is a game changer, imagine if Pokemon went dark souls style and the trainers could be online players in your level range. Join the rival covenant and ruin some kids day.

"Lt Surge may have been in a war but I don't think his tactics are very good" He's a Lieutenant for a reason....

The magic muffler was so funny. I do wish there was somewhere I could read more of those schoolyard rumours, they used to be all over the internet

The day Insects took revenge on Humans : Ant defeated Bug Catcher

“This is the best AI you could literally get.” “Aww, I’m blushing.”

A cool consequence of wolf knowing ant's moves ahead of time is that they can be really relaxed and honest in regards to strategy, they make it seem like they're almost cooperating at some points

I rewatch this video for a lot of reasons, the friendly banter, the genius concept, but what keeps pulling me back is Ant explaining Dig Theory to the Pokemon World Champion and having him go, "You're making a lot of sense to me right now." It makes my day every time.

This is one of the very few challenge runs I've ever watched because of how cool of a concept it is. Everybody should try this with a friend, somehow.

This idea is fucking brilliant. Big ups to everyone involved in this, you all did an awesome job.

I remember that Onyx-Bide thing. When I first got Pokemon Red, it came with this 'strategy' guide that recommended a Metapod amongst other things. Eventually won against onyx after the rest fainted by having it struggle to death as well.

They legitimately could make a Pokemon game or spin-off title based on this concept…Like, they could call it something like “Pokemon Rivals”, and the main gimmick would be that you could connect with another player to have them control the Trainer AI(Of course, if you have no friends and/or have bad Internet, you could also play it like a normal Pokemon game)

If the rival battles are this hype in just lavender town imagine what the elite 4 and champion battles are gonna look like. This a really fun and entertaining challenge and I can’t wait to see more of it

The moment wolfey realized he couldn't be youngster joey was so sad.

That random Raticate is soooooo strong for where it is in gen 1. I remember getting jumped by that dude in a nuzlocke and being sooooo sad.

the nidoking levelling up to gain just enough HP to survive was a cinematic masterpiece

who else laughed when wolfe said "I hope that's youngster joey"

That was such a brilliant crossover xD

31:40 No, bodyslam is a better version of the second turn of dig.

Ant: "Oh my god, it's lvl 16" Wolfey: "Oh hello."

At this point smallant has every world champion in his contacts

"Splash is just like not using dig." This line needs more attention. It got me good.

25:35 "PIDGEY HANG ON!" He yelled, but the Mega Punch smashed its cranium. Ant wasn't looking to make friends that day, he was looking to murder an innocent bird.

If this was BW then cynthia would be actually impossible. Someone took her exact team (different moves) and got to top 100 smogon with that team, before garchomp got banned of course.

Your mom after beating an Onix with Metapod after 5 minutes: why do kids like this game

this proves that if the AI was really trying each battle would be so much longer lol

I somehow have this strange idea for a 2 player game. Both player starts in a safari-like area, where they can freely train or catch new pokemon. In like every 15 minutes, they are forced to face each other in a match with what they have. This repeats in like several times up to how many matches they want.

Should do this on a gen which has double battles, so wolfey can show his VGC experience

Wide is an anime protagonist. Whenever he was somewhat close to loosing, he leveled up.

Never forget that today Wolfe asked for the Generation 1, Route 1 music to be played at his funeral.

We need this concept implemented in a future game! Basically you can play the game with one other person that controls all of the Trainers in the game. A better co-op than Let's Go's implementation lol. That has potential to get fun so fast haha. Especially if you do it with a friend you're super close with.

7:40 it’s like that old COD ray gun every time strat where you would hit the box in certain boxes, throw cymbal monkeys, etc.

God, I hope this mod becomes available to the public because this is the coolest thing I've seen in years.

that world champion dude is pretty humble it was surprising how much he seemed to be learning as he went, then again I doubt he plays RBY format much

"You'll never use Struggle because you don't have PP" -smallant

This is the greatest concept, I would love to just have my friends play the trainer AI as I progress. Talk about a new way to experience a co-op experience.

Wolf seems like such a nice guy and so much fun to play with. He actively helps Ant and just has fun with him instead of being overly competative and insistant to prove himself.

The crossover we never thought we needed.

This is so cool. I feel like the rival and gym battles are a lot more realistic bc lbr anyone with a basic understanding of the game can usually breeze right through most of the battles until the elite four. It was really cool to see how these would play out if you were playing against someone who knew what they were doing

8:00 This is pretty much what the Missigno. glitch sounded to me the first time I heard it from some kid at a highway restaurant.

"Splash. It's just like not using dig."

Wolfy should have the Pokémon center heal theme played at his funeral so that he comes back to life

Doing this in Pokémon Colosseum would be the most amazing type of hell.

Ant’s mom is a god at Pokémon, killing an onix with only a metapod, god tier 👌

When he said this is like the best AI at around 2:10, I immediately became fearful of Blaine's gym.

Mega Punch doesn’t miss because Nidoking’s swing is so WIDE

Back here almost 2 years later realizing Ant brings up the Magic Muffler, which ends up being the 2023 April Fools joke on his channel. A year in the making, unbelievable.

You know they are a competitive player if they dont know what string shot does. You know they are a professional of the main game if they know that string shot fails if it misses.

Props to Ants Mom for actually dedicating herself to using Metapod to point of struggling just so her kid could win

If Pokemon had difficulty levels - Easy, Normal, Hard, Literal World Champion is every battle get it in Gen 9 Game Freak, we just need to clone Wolfey

THAT ENDING WAS NERVE-RACKING! THAT LEVEL UP LITERALLY SAVED WIDE LOL like that was a zenkai boost moment for sure lol

I just realised that at 8:20 in a challenge two years ago, Ant called his April Fools Prank for this year lol

When I was young I was convinced the computer was actually controlled by one of the people who made the game. I couldn't even think that it was controlled by the computer.

As a programmer I’m completely baffled how atsign made this work

This is the most Interesting and original Pokemon challenge I have ever seen. Honestly.

"Two misses in a row is about a one in five thousand chance." Yeah, I'd say 65536 is approximately 5000, too.

Vgc speed running lets go

Imagine Wolfey pressing b during the evolutions and it actually working

This seems like so much fun, I hope you guys do this with other games

That was so cool! So many high-light moments, and the last battle was epic

One time I was playing through 2nd gen and I got up to Clair with a fairly underleveled team and my 6th was the Onix you can trade a Bellsprout for at the start (He was a HM slave for Strenght) battled my way through as normal and got her down to her Kingdra who promptly took out most of my team. All I had left was my level 6 Onix. Somehow, by the pure luck of the gods, that Beautiful Onix kept attacking while she used non attacking moves over and over until Onix took her out. He gained something like 20 levels and became one of my favourite pokemon of all time. I wish I still had the cartridge so I could have traded him up through the generations but sadly that wonderful pile of code has been lost to History. Rest in peace Rocky, you were the MVP.

Ant you must understand that you are now obliged to actually carry out the steps to obtain the magic muffler as your next challenge right?

The end was amazing. Ant had such an insane plot armour.

This was such a fun idea! Love the energy and the vibe here

Megapunch used against Wolfe: 100% accuracy Megapunch used in a normal Ant-Challenge: Watch how it misses 8 times in a row

“If I was a gym leader I would just run away from you and youd never progress” did you mean Whitney or Claire?

Ant learned from his time with The Professor with Dig Theory. "Every magic mechanic is just kicker"

The concept is dope ! It's always something you have in mind when you play a Pokemon game : what if every trainer was using his 100% potential ? How many battles would you have to restart if they were smart

14:09 for some reason in red/blue nidoran learns double kick at level 43, but in yellow it's level 12. Another example of Gen 1 being Gen 1

Honestly, that ending. The Pokémon gaining a level at the last moment and being able to live on one HP because of it? That's the most Pokémon Anime thing I've ever seen. Perfect finish.

Thankyou for this video, the concept is crazy and I love it what away for people to play together

"nothing works in this game properly" truer words have never been spoken

This isn't even AI anymore. It's just "I".

Imagine Emerald Kaizo with human-controlled AI...

27:00 the amazing dig theroy

"Your pokemon don't look dead" * Every Nuzlocke player falls down to tears *

When I was a kid playing Pokemon Blue i genuinely believed there was a person on the other side controlling the trainers. The concept of AI was super alien to me.

0:21 I never realized how sultry this Snorlax sprite looked

Loves the video. It always surprises me when people don't know things about Gen 1. Awesome video!

13:13 I had the same thing happen to me. I remember fighting Brock and getting down to a random Metapod I had captured and neglected. Thinking the fight was over, I just mashed A to get past the white-out. A few minutes later, Brock was handing me my badge...

16:20 SmallAnt: Do I lose? Wolfey: Nah you'll be fine. Also Wolfey: Proceeds to sweep SmallAnt's entire team with his Raticate.

This video reminded me of how ingenious Gen 1 was. I mean, they had so little to work with and THIS is what they created? The world, the game design, the art, just pure brilliance. Working on a maximum of 8MB storage and virtually no RAM, not to mention the display, absolutely unbelievable.

That story abt ants mom defeating brock with onixs own struggle is pretty wholesome.

It's cool that he can actually say he's a Pokemon Master.

We need part 2. We need to see Ant against Wolfe in the final battles of the game. This is epic!

2:50 As I understand it, it's based off a hard-coded list of type match-ups, with the earlier messages overriding later ones - or just no message at all. The game goes through that list, sees "Poison v Poison -> not very effective", and prints that instead of correctly taking note of it, going through the list again, seeing "Poison v Grass -> super effective", comparing the two, and printing nothing.

Yes and the magic muffler increases the level cap to 1000. The way it works is that whichever Pokémon that has it equipped and is level 100 will store all xp gained in battle in the muffler and that xp will also be added to the temporary level of the Pokémon using the muffler in battle. So if your Pokémon is level 100 with a muffler, it will actually gain xp, which will be stored in the muffler after the match. When the match ends, your Pokémon will still be level 100, but upon starting a new match, whichever Pokémon that equips the muffler will be brought up to the appropriate level based on their current xp added onto the xp stored in the muffler This is just the restriction of the magic muffler, but the ultra magic muffler deluxe does not make it temporary battle levels but actually allows any Pokémon to level up to 1000 when it is equipped

This is kind of unbalanced, since Wolfey knows the only move you have is Dig.

Ant: "You doesn't have pp." Chat: *Returns to 5th grade all at once*

I mean, how cool is to think that that guy is the World Champion, of a game where your final challange is to become the Regional champion. It's like that other guy who is the International Mortal Kombat Champion for like 5 years

2024 here, wolf and ant seem like such genuine people! Love em haha

This is Ash if he actually became a Pokemon Master.