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What I think is admirable is how close the human run is to the TAS run. Being within 10 minutes is crazy good.

Jan remembering his channel called is called PokemonChallenges and not Nuzlockes: Hmmm I think I have an idea

HM-ployees is so much friendlier than that other term we use sometimes 😅

Really like Jan expanding his content a bit, good shit

Yo, didn’t realize that Charlie had a speed run record!

I think Smallant did a video where he played diamond or something with the worst possible luck. So every enemy crits, all non-100% accurate moves for you will always miss while every move will hit with the enemy. Always hit yourself in confusion, freeze and sleep lasts for the longest possible, etc. It would be super interesting to see you try and nuzlocke any game like this.

All of this theorycrafting makes me want to see a TAS of emerald kaizo. Although it would probably take a million years to theorycraft perfectly so it’s impossible and never going to happen.

Huge fan of these informational type videos! Would love to see something detailed about how enemy AI works and how to manipulate it

8:00 minor correction: Lorelei's Cloyster could also be killed by any of the four guaranteed OHKO moves (Horn Drill, Fissure, Sheer Cold, Guillotine). They don't work on her Slowbro or Lapras because Clefable is underleveled

Hahahaha, Julien in your Sponsor bit got me good 😂😂 Great Video!

4:07 THE AD TRANSITION 🤣🤣🤣

That Megaman Battle Network 3 music, paired with the TAS run explanation. Chef's kiss👌

Really Respecting the Megaman Battle Network OST in the background. Classy.

Wie Jan für seine Werbung einfach Julien vom JBB genommen hat. xD

Given the sheer advantage of the TAS strat, I'm incredibly impressed in the speedrunner for coming as close as he did.

5:49 Nice one 😂 although he was already knocked out

Julien Boss catching strays in this one.

The RNG manipulation can be extremely fascinating to watch! I remember watching Dobbs' commentary on a glitchless Gen1 Red speedrun World Record (not TAS) two years ago. It was super interesting. You can sometimes manipulate random encounters in the grass and caves by just walking a certain way and pressing buttons, guaranteeing for example a perfect IV lv4 Nidoran outside Viridian, or not having any encounters _at all_ in Mt Moon until you get a Paras from a certain tile. It's crazy.

“Just like how I’ll keep my fat pink blob safe…with Manscape” lmao dude you’re perfecting these segways

that was the best sponsorship segue i've literally ever heard

I'm not sure a TAS+Nuzlocke makes all that much sense, since a key part of Nuzlocke is the permanent consequences of decisions, whereas the defining feature of TAS is rewinds. The closest analogue would probably be challenge runs, e.g. going with the absolute lowest total level possible.

Love the Zinnia theme at the end. Such a banger. And that TAS run was wild too lol

"Julien Sewering" 5:48 - You legend

no matter how much content i watch about crazy pokemon runs there's always a new one i havent heard about. kind of amazing.

Ever since Summoningsalt hit the scene with his absolute game-changer videos, I've seen a ton of copycats (which is fine, more power to you), but these last few from Pokemon Challenges have really felt like original content with their own form and flavor and design. Huge props to you for taking a big inspiration like that and completely changing the mold to make your own version. Maybe you have different inspirations, but these still feel like a completely new format for the "speerun history/breakdown" type of videos and I'm loving them!

Guys, I think this is probably the fastest way to beat FireRed

Awesome video! Love seeing you branch out from your usual content and share your incredible poke knowledge with us.

5:47 That JuliensBlog front is the last thing I would've expected in this video 😂😂

This new style is hype as hell. I really hope you do a ton more.

If you wanted to combine TAS and nuzlockes, the first idea that comes to my mind is making a romhack with the intention of it being near impossible to beat normally, but with the intention of seeing how creative players can get using TAS tools.

Wie er einfach JuliensBlog in die werbung knallt 😂😂 Big W

Jan I absolutely love your videos. They're so well made and perfect in every way: story, music, graphic It's crazy how good you've become at videography if I think just a few years back. In my opinion, considering your own niche you're in a similar ballpark as Abroad in Japan. Please keep it going! Also, that transition to the ad was hilarious!

thank you editor for making the subtitles actually match exactly what he’s saying and not slightly off or just a summary; that’s one of my biggest pet peeves

5:50 good old Julien sewering

5:50 I love the Julien Severing easter egg

Ah, so the secret to beating the game is always getting the correct move with Metronome and always getting critical hits. I should have thought of th at.

Neat analysis video! I enjoy learning about TAS runs! Thanks for uploading!

Sure everyone in the comments has probably already pointed this out but this may be the best segue into an ad I've ever seen (4:04 ish)

RNG manips are super cool, glad to see more content around pokemon speedruns!

that ad transition was absolutely wild

I could watch videos like this all day. They are well explained and rlly entertaining!

I don't know if this counts as a TAS run, but SmallAnt played a Pokémon Mod where you always have the worst possible RNG. Every enemy will crit. PARA will always trigger. This could be an interesting Nuzloc

I would like to see more of these types of videos for sure.

bro that segue into the ad was next level

holy cow battlenetwork music and a pokemon video?! we're reaching crossover levels that I never thought to be possible!

4:17 there is now way Jan just used JuliensBlog as the random Guy :D 5:48 aswell :D

Love the Megaman battle Network music you used.

Bruuuh he just pulled out Julians Blog Battle as a meme for his underwear ad Ich sterbe vor lachen

Dude these videos are so good. Thanks for the awesome content!

love the mmbn music in the background at the start, legacy collection hype!

Love the megaman music in the backgrounnd

Glad to see the speedrunni g community get some love, great video and If you need any info for any more vids like this feel free to join the speedrunning servers we have and ask away

Haven't finished the video yet, but props for the lovely use of Death's Door OST, finished that game last month and the soundtrack was the smash hit of the title next to the overall aesthetic

A tool-assisted nuzlocke lets you - possibly - control encounters (which pokemon, nature, IVs), enemy behaviour (which attacks, accuracy, side effects, crits) and your own attacks (damage ranges, crits, side effects). So basically, everything that makes a nuzlocke challenging :D Of course, the real effort and challenge is in crafting the run, but with strats like guts facade Swellow in Emerald, it seems like early game manipulations could really cheese the run. Really hard rom hacks sort of counterbalance that, but they've been beaten so we know what encounters and strategies carry us a long way, and tool assist can make them 100 % reliable. So I would limit the amount of tool assist. For instance : - perfectly control enemy attacks but never your own - have completely uncontrolled encounters but perfectly controlled fights - control anything you want, except gym leader, rival, team leader and elite 4 fights - whenever the RNG controls multiple outcomes at once, only influence one (so for each attack, control either if it hits or if it crits or if its side effect activates or its damage roll) Another idea is to pick a more complex nuzlocke variant, like a soullink or chesslocke or what have you, to restrain the utility of perfectly controlling what happens.

That ad transition was top-tier. Jesus.

Maybe start out experimenting with RNG manips by doing a nuzlocke where you manip encounters. Gens 3,4,5 are really easy to rng manip. Big shoutout to blisy I’ve been watching him for a while

I had a similar idea for Gen 1, where you "brock through walls" and do metronome training in cerulean cave, possibly fighting ditto so that you can use one hit KO moves, or just make the battle easier to quickly reach the level you'd need to beat the elite four.

I'm loving the speedrunning videos it'd be really cool if you start doing some runs in the future

great short video, love to see it

I really enjoy the speedrun content, I had never heard of this method before!

I didnt know MKDasher had the WR for TAS Pokémon FireRed, I just knew him for Mario Kart DS

3:42 Its Sp. Def and Speed are higher too

I'm certain that SUPERPOWER, another 120 BP move, would have done the trick as well, but since it has a drawback it was slightly suboptimal which is too much for a TAS.

Any Pokemon Nuzlocke with the worst possible rng: This means: Always getting Crit - Can be avoided by battle/shell armour/luckychant Lowest damage rolls possible All moves miss if opponents evasion is boosted except never miss moves - (Aerial Ace, Shock Wave) Any moves under 100% accuracy never hit on your side Max sleep turns Ice beam always freezes, moves with flinch have guaranteed flinch chance, max chance to get sp.def drops from psychic, etc. Because this challenge is so brutal, it would make slightly more sense to do a mainline pokemon game, but challenge yourself if you want.

TAS + Nuzlocke + Trashmon-Mod for Emerald Kaizo

Jan using battle network music is so cool

dude that sponsor transition was fire!

Clefable has always been my ace since the early days. And then with the addition of magic bounce. The minimize metronome strats have always been in the DNA of my teams. What a lovely Pokemon

MKdasher is a monster, I’m sure the his dad made the TAS, but all the Mario Kart DS records are from his like ten year old son

editing be crazy on this one frfr

The battle network music for background is 👌😤

I love this type of content. Please do more :)

Cool vid. There are a LOT of absolutely insane Pokémon speedrun wrs if you're about to go on a summoningsalt arc.

most fun concept for a move

3:40 I’ve been sitting here for like 5 minutes trying to figure out how 105 and 78 aren’t bigger than 90 and 60

The quality of pchal videos lately has been amazing, there's no higher praise for a content creator than the fact that i will click any video just because i see his name under it Keep it up Jan, absoluter Ehrenmann

I'm seeing some people move away from the term HM slave but they can't find another unified term for it. One term I saw tossed around is "beast of burden" which I like because then you can turn it into HM B.O.B.

Appreciate the Death's Door Music. Amazing game with an awesome soundtrack

i really like the way you've been scripting these, it's easy to follow as someone who doesn't know anything about the TAS world but not condescending or anything. i think a tool-assisted nuzlocke would be sick, especially if you can use RNG manipulation to *avoid* crits and statuses

that sponser intro transition had me rollin!

You did not just say “fat pink blob” as a transition to a manscaped ad about balls… comic genius

Speedrunning a nuzlocke would actually be nutty

This video was fascinating to watch!

I love how Guildmaster Wigglytuff's theme plays all over the Manscaped ad 😂

Yooooo. MegaMan Battle Network music. Some of my favorite games.

“Fat pink blob”

I hear that battle network music.

You should Nuzlocke the battle network series haha. Loved the music. Hyped for the legacy collection

DUDEE that sponsor transition had me rolling

That ad read transition was vile.

I'd love a video regarding the pokemon ruby TAS. It was my first introduction into the concept of speedrunning and uses a paralyzed swellow to blast through the entire game

loving all the Deaths Door music :))

For a TAS nuzlocke, I think it'd be neat to try for the lowest possible level cap for gym leaders and such. Increasing the challenge above what you can do as a human dealing with RNG feels more nuzlocke-y than going for speed, imo.

0:45 Ah yes, HM-ployees

Currently doing a leafgreen playthrough,so this is kinda dope!

Liked the video! Didn’t have to see Jan pick his nose every thirty seconds 😂

The craziest part of this video was watching him hit mega kick after raichu used double team

I'm not sure if nuzlocking just brings out a certain misery in you but you sound earnestly excited/happy in your last two videos about TASs and I think that's nice.

I would love to see a TAS Emerald Kaizo speedrun lmao