It’s really funny how the early game is the hardest part of his challenge runs. Remember the Combee? Ant’s PTSD sure does.

It really does feel that the hardest part in a Pokémon romhack challenge is establishing yourself, but when you do things go far smoother just because the player knows how to play Pokémon well.

@@iantaakalla8180 well, this challange is especially "bad" in that department, because the rare candy price is static. If it increased with your badges and maybe not start at 2k this would be a far smoother difficultie curve.

@@iantaakalla8180 Plus there's a lot more choices open to you in late-game, such as movepool, held items, party pokemon, compared to everything being rather limited at the start

@@nedcurfman3486 what happened with the combee again

It’s a cool name tho dont lie

@@arvin3613 👀🤣

crowbat's just that good

He’s a gym leader 😭

@@jorgelazaro6833 Gym leader Smant want's to fight

Litterly a wall against physical attacks

That's why rthe rhyhorn I named turnt2, the first one he caught he named turnt but it had a negative defense nature so he ditched it to catch a new one with defense up nature and named it turnt2

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​@@sheppy2146 bep

Amen

Unless you play a variant of Nuzlocke that never allows switching a Pokémon on your team when you capture it.

I haven't switched my brilliant diamond up until the elite 4

Yeah

Immediately spoiled

Yea that aint anything for tanner, pro pokemon players will know… even if a attack did small damage, sometimes we will say that did a lot of damage. It depends on what type of attack it is and how much it should do, there are a lot of things that factor in. Hope this makes sense

Man’s put this comment up and could’ve only watched 19 minutes. You’re on it in the comments lol

@@Saucetin. lol

He used return on a lucario with almost full happiness and high friendship.... ofc it did nothing

that's normal for Pokemon

soup man

Real SupraStrats level play

I usually just do burgh immediately because funny roggenrola

I just use Lillipup or Patrat with Work Up.

I'm stuck in Lugia's stomach alone

leveldude69gaming

temp6t yo

Yooo, what's good my guy? Love the content, keep up the great work man!

Ayyy temp wuddup wuddup

Sweeping tournaments with caterpie next?

The only way to really fix that is raise the price based on your badges

@@zoxfalcon2510 you could make it so that you got a set amount of xp for an amount of money ig

@@nedalsoned9940 That would probably make it unbalanced in the opposite direction. Maybe something like it increases with the in-game timer, or you buy levelups directly rather than buying them as rare candies so you can make the price based on the actual level.

@@MisterBones2910 Not that exp candies existed in gen 5 but they would work significantly better than the rare candies.

Easy fix I think to make things more interesting is that Rare Candies start at 100P, then go up 100P every time you buy one (a triangular system). That way it becomes harder to level the more you do it, just like real leveling. If the average caught/received Pokemon starts at lv30, and you wanted to get six of them to, say, 70, you'd need 240 candies. At 2000P each, that'd cost 480,000P. With the triangular system, it'd be (((240+1) * 240) / 2) * 100 = 2,892,000P. If you only earned the 480k you'd normally spend on candies, that'd get you 97, enough to level each Pokemon to around 46-47. This would force the player to either a) come up with better strategies, b) battle more trainers for more money, or c) level up less Pokemon. I think that'd make a far more interesting challenge.

+ratio

and *NO SHOWERS* (pls someone get this reference)

and if you die in the game, you also die in real life

@@d3adxb0yxwalk1ng No AFKs either.

Can’t stop moving in game and in real life

The Dragonite was probably going to outspeed anyway so any attack would have had effectively the same outcome.

All pain felt by Pokemon hurts him to

ayy it’s arcade hawk I love your videos

So funny right? Our buddy smant 😂😂🫡 talking like he knows u

Timestamp? I can't find it lmao

@@Tofu_Kiki 1:06:28

I wondered why he didn’t use it before that. 🤣 amazing finish

The disrespect.

And Steel/Fighting

Lucario my favourite ground type

@@MaxiemumKarnage lol

Shall we say it was a sandstorm immunity team? (bar crobat)

@@tomfrost2600 and Mareep

As a avid fan of b2w2, I can confirm that this is definitely easier than having to repeatedly murder Pokémon Breeders over and over again just to see the exp bar gain one pixel.

But Gen 5 gives you more xp than other games when your level is lower than the opponent’s, and it’s basically impossible to lose in any Pokemon game if your levels match or are higher than your opponent’s

@@ShuckleShellAnemia yeah but then you spend 10000 years trying to grind for the elite 4

@@tylerbreckenridge3850 …so don’t grind for the elite four? Just buy some items before fighting them.

@@ShuckleShellAnemia fun fact on black and white 2 challenge mode is actually easier than easy mode long term because you will level up faster cos of relative exp.

I'll say the same to Chris Rock

Masochist

You werent even able to watch the entire vid though?

@@JoranGetal watch the streams you get to see the playthroughs

@@nafereuskortex9055 ah yeah fair. Are there specific streaming schedules, cuz Ill check m out sometime

Yeah, gen 5 gave its major fights solid coverage

Can't believe it actually landed focus miss tho, which have a 0% accuracy rate.

@@demarkus4566 its 0% accurate for the players but 100% for the opponent

Definitely

Weakest Eviolite user

Cheren must have transferred in a Buneary from Gen 4 lol

The best part is , this was bb2 which is one of his easier hacks. BB 1 on the other hand ...

@@vedaryan334 or fire red omega or storm silver. God both of those were pain!

*laughs in Kaizo where everything has bonkers coverage* Seriously, I saw that and was like "Yeah, that's pretty normal."

Drayano is crazy with his Rom Hacks, Blaze Black 1 and 2 are fantastic

Gen 5 sprites were done so perfectly

it's so c h a r m i.n g

Would you say the the 3D is limited?

I love the limited 3D they used in this game. It's so charming!

some of my fav sprites by far

Also not dissing Smallant I think he did an incredible job and handicapping himself with level 69s was a really cool move. I'm referring more towards regular players

I think using the modern exp candies instead would be better, but obviously that's not an option in this game. Some scaling into late game is for sure needed though.

Ive been waiting for a rom like this for ages

The main difference being that the levels always cost the same.

this truly is the dark souls of Pokémon mods

Can we play this Rom somehow?

@@TheUzumakirendan yeah just look it up and u can download, u will need an emulator tho. If your on android try drastic ds.

Imagine no items in battle. That would be like doing a no damage Dark Souls run

My first pokemon game was volt white 2 and i went in knowing pretty much nothing about pokemon games

@@quandaledingle5888 why exactly is a ROM hack your first pokemon game

@@maskofboom1067 someone gave me a r4 cart of pokemon volt white 2 and blaze black 2 and i didn’t know that it wasn’t a legit cartridge and I wasn’t paying attention during the intro so i just played through thinking “wow pokemon games are really hard”

coincidence? I think not

Had me so confused, but I got it: if you *read* the number of blackouts as hexadecimal then in decimal it's 69. Feels a bit too numerology since you're changing the number but still... nice

@@emdivine Nah I don‘t think so. Hexadecimal is one of the most often used bases.

​@@Zwiebelgian Well yeah it is and it's a nice coincidence, I was just commenting on like... it's 45, you made it a different number from 45 that's all. Just kinda reminded me slightly of how numerologists can turn anything into any number they want to "prove" that idk, lions are actually angels or something.

Nice.

I wonder why

You learn a lot by what move someone gets surprised by. Ice Beam has been a standard move for Nidoking its entire existence, even before Sheer Force + Life Orb was a thing.

Nidoking learns like 3/4ths of all moves in Pokémon lmao

@@benjamintorres4732 gotta love that "gen 1 pokemon gets too much coverage" thing nidoking gots down

5th and 6th generations were the best to me. For a ds, 5th generation was awesome and damn were those cities beautiful. 6th was the new gen. The switch to 3D made it even better. Some Pokemons got their animations and looks a bit changed but the overall looks were insane. Sword and shield and scarlet and violet look kind of weird to me. Like clay figures. Everything looks last gen because the switch isn't particularly powerful

Tell that they emerald kaizo.

@@Isabelle-mp8rk to be fair emerald kaizo dosnt have ev and you have bb glitch which makes its kinda possible

@@dragullongblackfang8073 evs can arguably make the game easier depending on if the ai has good ev spreads or not

Plot twist: Lati@s has Soul Dew but only uses physical attacks.

@@Isabelle-mp8rk depends the shs has said the he would not make it it is litterly you cannot change the evs of bosse for some reason in gen 1-2-3 for some reason no idea if you can do it in gen 4 do

Omg same

ye, will smith memes were flooding me

@@arctic215 řonks

Amen

Same dude

What about a hardcore nuzlocke?

Lul my 9 year older brother told me he did the same thing when he played

Kid icarus uprising

@@jaylemann7050 Idk what that means

@@namansharma332 :( if you like Nintendo then plz check it out

@@jaylemann7050 oh its a game??

@@namansharma332 yup :)

It looks like the letter Y.

It's always been like that in the game. But yes. The shape is.... Sus.

On god

Want to like, but you’ve got 69

@@spiderfrog5764 I mean kinda, i just don have time to sit around for 4 hours everyday. I recommend watching his pokemon challenges streams. Its actually really fun to watch or to have it playing in the backgroung while playing games.

What anti-piracy stuff does Pokemon have?

@@velvetbutterfly If you emulate BW or B2W2 without an anti piracy patch the game will prevent you from gaining exp

sleep or will smith will come to smack you

@@arctic215 keep WILL SMITH’S NAME OUT OF YOUR F’IN MOUTH

@@arctic215 the germans started this trend the last week :D Look for Oliver Pocher and enjoy ^^

Yeah then realize the shirt changes like 6 times

U do know its more than one stream right?

How far are you?

@@thepokemon0822 just beat cheren, barely- if u mean the shiny run. But its on normal mode tho haha

@@SkyridgxPokemon did you get any further?

@@ac1d.dr3ams yes , got to nimbasa today

@@SkyridgxPokemon nice

Doesn't farming money make the challenge pointless

@@wereowl9369 depends on your view on it. It does for some, but for others it’s a way of optimizing the challenge.

@@Moxtrots but if you optimize the challenge to the point where it is as easy if you hadn't of done the challenge then why do the challenge in the first place, novelty?

@@wereowl9369 fair point. Perhaps some may want to do the challenge, then use this optimization (by their definition) to make themselves feel smart or good at it.

What

Who

Why

When

Where

Isn’t Pokémon already capitalism? The trainers get to reap all the benefits while the ‘mons do all the work

ok

Money

I guess his editors work on multiple videos simultaneously

yoo shady!!

How is it possible that a verified comment not have many replies, and many likes?

God I love The Limited 3D in this game, it's so Charming

“Content that makes me relax” might be a better way to phrase that lol

same

I watched it all the way through already

I would be surprised if you had