First rule of interacting with a game character: *NEVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES MENTION THAT IT IS A GAME TO THEM* we don't want a self-aware NPC messing around in-game.
Imagine the horror of the Player Character in pokemon. *Constantly training, never needing to sleep or eat *Capable of facing off against global organizations on his/her own *Has catalogued several legendary pokemon already, and sees that as "a good start" *Can draw out the full potential of any pokemon they own in a matter of days *The idea of breeding a rare variant with perfect genes is a matter of whether they want to *Has a very solid financial base, giving them access to top-tier, sometimes cutting edge equipment *Usually has the good will of the pokemon league, the champion, and the region's pokemon professor *Has an encyclopedia full of information on every pokemon in existence *All before they turn eleven.* The Pokemon Trainer isn't a human, nor something that can be properly comprehended. It's a force of nature. An aberration of chance.
I once remember playing a rom hack with that same plot, it's called fire red: rocket edition and I really recommend it. It's amazing. It's got some gore though
Pixelmace www.serebii.net/games/evs.shtml Essentially, fighting certain Pokémon gives you Effort Values that boost different stats up to a certain limit. It’s important if you want to maximalize the offensive or defensive stats of a Pokemon. It’s actually not hard, and just takes a bit of reading to master. Additionally, the recent generations have made it incredibly easy to do EV training in quickly.
You walk outside to get some fresh air only to see a 10 year old child with an expensive fashion sense talking to you for only a few seconds before running off to the next house barging in just to check their trash cans for some potions
@Fnaf Gamer You know what? I want to attempt piecing together pokemon's timeline. People have attempted, but its very difficult. And most dont know where Sw/Sh goes on the timeline yet.
Despite the comedic tone this dub has ( incluing the funny music in the background) when i first read the comic i actually felt some pretty nasty dread. Imagine that all your life is nothing but a mere form of entertainment for mysterious higher beings that take the form of a human. You can never talk to them properly, not that they are speaking nonsense or gibberish but because they speak of things that are beyond what your mortal mind could ever hope to comprehend. The scene where Gloria's face is shifting/glitching is specially disturbing. That's some pretty scary shit. (Nice dub by the way)
She's the hermit arcana in persona 5 royal for sure. In this alternate universe Futaba is no where to be found and Morgana is the navigator for the entire journey.
It also helps that she is capable of pausing time and learning from weavers that read the fabric of reality (source code) in order to fully understand the world. She also is the only thing with object permanence manipulating time and matter around her so that even after weeks of camping in the wild area she still gets to motostoke in time for the ceremony hat starts the day after you leave the train.
There's time I feel bad for Hop, I actually try to lose. But after my last Pokémon fainted, the game just throw you back to the nearest Pokemon Center and when I go back to fight Hop again, he act like nothing ever happen. I think the game just wanted you to destroy his dream.
@@xellanchaos5386 wait really??I haven't played much pokemon games so I don't know much but I think the last battle in ORAS also allows your opponent (sapphire/may) to win.
@@GP_1834 Yes, dialogue would even be different, if you won or lost. After they introduced Fairy Types, is when they started pampering to beginners and making the games too easy and forcing your opponent to lose.
Different Sword and Shield NPCs learn their life is just a Switch game Rose: So we weren't going to run out of energy and that was just plot convinence? Leon: So that's how I'm the undefeated champion and somehow lost to a newbie! Hop: No, no this can't be! My entire life is a lie! Bede: IS MY LIFE A JOKE TO YOU?! Marnie: What? Oh cool (Thanks Darkrighteous) Anymore NPCs? (I haven't played the DLC so Honey, Mustard, Klara and Avery suggestions appreciated) (Also, Sonia and Gym Leaders appreciated)
@@literalfandomtrashnoseriou1992 It's a game. Within a game. Within a (might be) game within a game w i t h i n a g a m e w t h n g m emag a nihtiw *it keeps going, getting more and more corrupt, till all you here is static*
Now I can imagine a sequel to this comic where Hop figures out all the knowledge that the player mentioned, and how he copes with the knowledge. Like he could just start breaking the 4th wall all the time, and when you’d fight him, all his Pokémon are competitively trained and way higher level than before. Here’s how I’d imagine this would go... Hop: I know this is all just a game for you...all that gibberish you mentioned. Imagine how stunned I was when it was real! I tried telling others, but they all thought I was insane! A part of me thought I was crazy, but the numbers don’t lie! Player: Wait...what? You, you don’t normally act like this-! Hop: I know, and that’s because I was blind before. But now I can see! Now, I’m not so different from you! I can already tell that I’ve gotten stronger than before. Last time I fought Bede, he defeated me. Now? I swept him. Didn’t have a single Pokémon faint! Player: So, I somehow managed to alter your behavior...? Hop: So...let’s have a battle! I promise that this time, *I’ll win ‘Gloria’! If that even is your real name...* Edit: Nice Second Edit: I’ve actually been working on this thing: Here’s the first part and you should be able to read the rest! Here it is: my.w.tt/EkcMVh4wfcb
But Hop, you're not coded to do this! You can't do anything unless you're coded to! Code? Pfsh, who needs code!? Dude you'd literally be a lifeless 3d model without it.
My hope is that one day, in the future, we can have video games where the NPCs have an AI advanced enough to do this Not necessarily be 4th wall aware, but for them to learn from your own behavior and play style, and counter it
Thank you fo this hypothetical continuation, made feel a bit better because this shows Hop being over a mental breakdown, still a bit uncomfortable. But better feeling about dis comic now.
I kinda want a part two in hops POV again were he’s trying to figure out that his friend is possessed by another living being (the player) Who sees Pokémon, hops entire world and, becoming the Pokémon champion of hops region a game. It’ll crush him and even though he’s my second favorite character I wanna see him go through a major identity crisis
@@BlastingRyan609 Okay.... so. 'IVs' are Inherit Values, basically the genetic values of your pokemon. This is used to determine the stats of your pokemon, and it varies between 0 and 31 for each stat, the higher the number, the better the stat will be. For instance, a Level 100 Charizard with 0 IVs would have like (not real numbers btw, you can check the stats, I'm only doing three for simplicity) 120 Health, 78 Attack, and 90 Defense. A Charizard with, say, Perfect IV's would have 175 Health, 100 Attack, and 127 Defense. In other words, that Charizard is way stronger now. 'EVs' are Effort Values, which, aren't decided when the pokemon is created. Every time you defeat a pokemon, you gain EV's by fighting pokemon (different pokemon give different EV's, an example would be a bidoof giving 1 HP EV) Every Four EV's equals one stat point (rounded down if it is an decimal, like 150.75, you'd still have 150). However, you can only have 510 EV's in total. 510 divided by four is 127.5 (127, rounded down.) So you have 127 stat pointd you'd be able to invest. Only 255 EV's can be invested into one stat (so you can't put 510 evs into Special Attack) Ev's are generally much easier, since you don't have to breed and pray for RNG for good IVs. Also, good natures. a 'Nature' is yet another thing that varies stats. For instance, it could have a nature which boosts attack, but lowers health. Maybe it does the opposite? Another could do NOTHING. A nature is decided when the game creates a pokemon. Having a nature boosts one stat by 10%, but lowers another by 10% (at level 100). Having a nature that both increases and decreases the same stat will have no effect.
Cynthia would actually be the only NPC who understands what IVs EVs and natures are considering all of her pokemon have perfect stats and beneficial natures
0:48 This implies that whenever you play a game you’re stripping your characters of their body and free will to do their own things and make their own choices, which is plausible since Deltarune is seemingly based around this concept
Yea. Tbh funi dog man intentionally made the game feel like how you're describing it, and frankly, that might be why it was well received when it came out and the fanbase wasn't too toxic. To think people have these thoughts of making the game self aware about every little thing you do.
All the pokemon player characters are just chaotic beings in my head. Unflinching, always moving forward, smiling whilst they destroy your team. And I am always sad the NPCs never react.
I'd just tell him. Tell him all about hidden levels and natures and EVs and IVs that he can't see. I'd want him to be able to have the same chance as me. And Marnie and Bede. I just think they deserve to have a chance. I don't even think they know about shinies! It is just nice to tell them, to make sure they have a chance instead of just being thrashed because we can level up teams.
Imagine you go out for a walk, All peacifully, just a peaciful walk in the park, Then you see someone Walking in the grass by lots of days while yelling "COME ON GIVE ME A SHINY!" Every while.
This is great! I really love Hop's voice, I think you guys nailed it! I actually relate to Hop, because before a few weeks ago I too had no idea what it means to play competitively. I'm still a noob, but I'm learning!
Huh. Was not expecting a Pokémon comic dub to feel this uncomfortable because Hop is having a freaking mental breakdown! QND IM JUST IN PAIN THINKING ABOUT IT PLEASE SOMEBODY EXPLAIN THIS CRAP TO POOR HOP PLEASE!
Next time someone asks me why I am so good at something I will just answer this is not my first time playing this game. I mean it will never happen but it makes me chuckle to think about it.
Lmao! That twist at the end, I love it! I guess you could say...I never saw it coming. The idea that Joker plays pokemon when he's not stealing hearts is really wholesome.
Mind making a sequel comic where she learns he’s self-aware? Maybe make a comic series? Who knows, maybe they become REAL friends and fight viruses. (Maybe even diseases if he gets to the real world... cuz he would be real small in reality.)
I mean it can be boring for an npc, but it can be exciting for a mc. Like you know for every npc in the game - it's their home world, they don't find it all that exciting.
Now I need a fic where Hop realizes he's a game character and doesn't go undertale on us instead more like a confused sunshine (he's still having a crisis over the whole 'being a character on a game' thing)
I got too many P5 vibes from Joker I had to look around my room to make sure “Last Surprise” doesn’t play and he shows up with Morgana saying he wants to “reveal my true form”
The biggest difference is that a player has a save Dx. With that piece then everyone but the player is a npc even if they don't think it ... Hell maybe more than one has it, but we can't tell cuz people keep reloading to a moment it suits them and we'll never know even as another player in the "game" Hence multiplayer exist to not screw with that...
All I can see are Gloria (Galar) and Dawn (Sinnoh). No one else, I can't see Kris and Lyra (Johto), May (Hoenn), Hilda and Rosa (Unova), Serena (Kalos), and Selene (Alola).
I see Gloria and dawn of course, I think the brown smudge at the bottom might be Rosa's hair, and the various other brown smudges could be the other protags? Don't see any blue hair though
When he deliberately picked the starter weak to me, I kept expecting the twist to be that his Pokémon would have a weakness policy during our final battle so I tried to keep my level around the same as his.
I saw literally just the black hair, white turtleneck and black blazer and was like "... I know who that is- I know your twists-" Lovely comic for a Pokemon and Persona fan like me lmao
“Are you *still* playing that game? It’s been months.” Me: *beats the engine game in two days* *and* *catches a shiny Noctowl right after defeating Nessa*
“Wait, we’re all NPC’s?”
*cocks gun* “Always have been...”
*we need a Pokémon gun game* XD jk
*Bang*
* slow never seen it coming plays *
Nah bruh my Chuuni senses detect that I am the Mc that will save everyone from covid 19
"Never should have come here!"
No wonder this meme has been posted so much! The NPCs just ran out of dialogue options! :0
"Didn't we grow up together??"
Aw now I'm just sad...
You defeated hop MENTALY
Steve Ornelas
Hop:
(Dying mentally)
One thousand likes and only 3 replies..
@@cybervan4344 Probably cuz we forced him after mentally scaring him ^^`
i wish
it was *true*
I mean, protags have eyes that see stats, abilities, natures and so much more. Also bulbapedia among other tools.
MAXIMUM BATTLE VISION
So Gamer God Eyes? Wonder how much of their life they traded to get these Eyes
@@Joe-Sal hail yea
@@gegor41311 what does that make the Dev team? game gods? kami?
Yes.
Final twist, she's an NPC too! It's NPCs all the way down...
In fact, we're NPCs
We’re all npcs to someone
We’re all NPCs
I CALL LORE GIVING CHARACTER NUMBER 572
Which one of us is the player?
First rule of interacting with a game character: *NEVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES MENTION THAT IT IS A GAME TO THEM*
we don't want a self-aware NPC messing around in-game.
Because you know what happened to flowey when he found out
Just Monika
Yeah, I don't want another repeat of DDLC or You and Me and Her
Yeah we'd get another Wreck-It-Ralph situation
@@squidsushi8644 He never really "found out" per se, he just thought that the power of "Reset" was just that, a power, not an actual "Game Mechanic".
Imagine the horror of the Player Character in pokemon.
*Constantly training, never needing to sleep or eat
*Capable of facing off against global organizations on his/her own
*Has catalogued several legendary pokemon already, and sees that as "a good start"
*Can draw out the full potential of any pokemon they own in a matter of days
*The idea of breeding a rare variant with perfect genes is a matter of whether they want to
*Has a very solid financial base, giving them access to top-tier, sometimes cutting edge equipment
*Usually has the good will of the pokemon league, the champion, and the region's pokemon professor
*Has an encyclopedia full of information on every pokemon in existence
*All before they turn eleven.*
The Pokemon Trainer isn't a human, nor something that can be properly comprehended. It's a force of nature. An aberration of chance.
I once remember playing a rom hack with that same plot, it's called fire red: rocket edition and I really recommend it. It's amazing. It's got some gore though
@@AffyMoon I'll have to look for that, then. Sounds hells of fun
He/She is a god amongst men
sorry I messed up the 69 likes XD but great comment tho
For the last time, the Pokémon protagonists are not ten. They are older than that.
Hop: I fear no man...but that thing...
*EV Training*
Hop: It scares me
The scooting coyote what’s with these emoji’s?? They don’t even add up to the joke
What really scares me is having to reset EVs. I miss gen 6
EV training scares even ME
Can someone please educate me upon the subject that is “EV training”
Pixelmace
www.serebii.net/games/evs.shtml
Essentially, fighting certain Pokémon gives you Effort Values that boost different stats up to a certain limit. It’s important if you want to maximalize the offensive or defensive stats of a Pokemon.
It’s actually not hard, and just takes a bit of reading to master. Additionally, the recent generations have made it incredibly easy to do EV training in quickly.
You walk outside to get some fresh air only to see a 10 year old child with an expensive fashion sense talking to you for only a few seconds before running off to the next house barging in just to check their trash cans for some potions
@Otacon464 Sun and Moon
@Otacon464 Gen 8 has no confirmed ages
@Fnaf Gamer So basically world domination
@Fnaf Gamer You know what? I want to attempt piecing together pokemon's timeline. People have attempted, but its very difficult. And most dont know where Sw/Sh goes on the timeline yet.
YES XD
What if npcs actually know what we're doing-
*_"Your best friend" chimes in the distance_*
*JUST MONIKA*
Maybe *some* do
Megalovania intensifies
"Agh! How did you find me?"
"I googled it."
Pokemon player: Wait, it's all a game
Joker: **points gun** it always has been **down B**
Nice reference
...Rebel's Guard?
Joker would’ve had said
“ *YOU* *NEVER* *SEE* *IT* *COMING* “
@Vox4l perhaps it was their counter argument
It’s just b not down b
"I have played this game before.... So so so many times."
That was where I felt chills.
Me: Didn't expect to see Joker in this comic.
My brain: YOU NEVER SEE IT COMING!
Subconscious: 50TH TIME THIS WEEK AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I knew I would see a commit like this.
YOU'LL SEE
WAKE UP GET UP GET OUT THERE!!!!
dude yessssssssss lmao
Despite the comedic tone this dub has ( incluing the funny music in the background) when i first read the comic i actually felt some pretty nasty dread. Imagine that all your life is nothing but a mere form of entertainment for mysterious higher beings that take the form of a human. You can never talk to them properly, not that they are speaking nonsense or gibberish but because they speak of things that are beyond what your mortal mind could ever hope to comprehend. The scene where Gloria's face is shifting/glitching is specially disturbing. That's some pretty scary shit. (Nice dub by the way)
God?
Have you ever watched "The Truman Show"?
That movie kinda runs with the plot of everything being staged
@@scaryfella3481 I think movies older than a decade are fair game lol
Isn't this basically the matrix but slightly (subjectively) more comedic (/scary)
@@scaryfella3481 The movie is from 1998 and what I said is like the first scene or so, no major plottwists whatsoever -_-
That was a nice little twist at the end that the artist did.
yeah
YOU NEVER SEE IT COMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING, YOU SEE
Joker from persona 5
@@grass6989 THAT MY MIND IS TOO FAST FOR EYES
@@kankanquentinclips the girl isn’t a character in something, I believe
NPC: "Ooh~! They're cute! I'll wait for them to walk in front of me and then I'll ask them on a date."
Player - Speedruner
Category - any%
So this is why joker “friends” from his hometown never talked to him
They were busy playing Pokemon
What's Gaming Girl's relationship with Joker?
Who knows?
She's the hermit arcana in persona 5 royal for sure. In this alternate universe Futaba is no where to be found and Morgana is the navigator for the entire journey.
npc lol
Max social link. She would be the hermit if Joker didn't meet futaba
Gay....... wait, SHIT!
1:04 wait a minute I recognize that clothing and hairstyle
1:15 I KNEW IT!
Wanna explain? I'm kinda slow on this kind of things lol. ^^"
Oh wait, I'm dumb lol. Got it already. XD
I don't get it
I dont get it is it joker
I never see it coming
JOKER WAS OUR BROTHER!!! I NEVER SAW IT COMING!!!
YOU’LL SEE, THAT MY MIND IS, TOO FAST FOR YOUR EYES
@@greekblade9376
YOU'RE DONE IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
I guess that was a *last* *surprise*
BY THE TIME ITS HIT YOU,
YOUR LAST SUPRISE
Nah
It also helps that she is capable of pausing time and learning from weavers that read the fabric of reality (source code) in order to fully understand the world. She also is the only thing with object permanence manipulating time and matter around her so that even after weeks of camping in the wild area she still gets to motostoke in time for the ceremony hat starts the day after you leave the train.
Npc: *Exists*
Also Npc: *WALK IN FRONT OF ME TO FINALLY GIVE ME PURPOSE IN THIS PLAIN OF EXSISTANCE*
FOR THE EMPEROR
speedrunners: wait for the npc to look away
@@strangent404a7FOR......Karl?
There's time I feel bad for Hop, I actually try to lose. But after my last Pokémon fainted, the game just throw you back to the nearest Pokemon Center and when I go back to fight Hop again, he act like nothing ever happen. I think the game just wanted you to destroy his dream.
Yeah I agree
The storymaster denies HIS victory
Wait, Sword and Shield FORCES you to win? I remember back in Red and Gold era, you could lose and keep going.
@@xellanchaos5386 wait really??I haven't played much pokemon games so I don't know much but I think the last battle in ORAS also allows your opponent (sapphire/may) to win.
@@GP_1834 Yes, dialogue would even be different, if you won or lost. After they introduced Fairy Types, is when they started pampering to beginners and making the games too easy and forcing your opponent to lose.
I felt so bad for hop like he adores all this but someone named “cornflake” is better then him
my character is named oof.
all lowercase.
oof.
and I STILL beat his @$$ (except after he got that spiky electric thing).
My name is so normal its sage
@@rebooteed_3434oof
maybe all we are NPC's in a Plague Inc. game
The player must be really bad, evolving lethal symptoms at the beginning.
@@casual_ice_consumer4148 you mean they are a good player that knows to only develop lethality at the end when everyone is already infected
@@oimate6357 Exactly, but he made one good move, he raised the infection stat right at the start.
@@ノホモ If the vaccine actually works...
Wow you all did this before covid I wonder what all of you thought as you knew but thought it was a joke
Imagine that the main character actually had a life before the player starting to playing as them then they become just an NPC with no feelings
I swear this is just Kris Deltarune
Deltarune
@@SquidSushi123This reminds me more of the Twitch Plays Pokemon lore
Joker being rich: lol look at all these poor npc’s, can’t be me.
We’re all NPC in someone else’s game, or the main of our own. Sometimes how we play is just as important as the role we fill.
(I need sleep)
get more sleep. you need a full HP bar to gain more XP.
Wow....that’s deep
My brain hurts
everyone thinks they're the hero of their own story.
r/im14andthisisdeep
It's sad to see that even Leon is destined to lose because of how OP the player is.
Sup Chara, I fulfill ur role in an alternate universe knows as BagShift
Jk
@@paperbagcomedychannel7492 What role? I just like to eat chocolate
how about those lazy people that literally give up on a (particularily hard) rom hack?
npc just see u standing and doing nothing?
Final boss: Hahaha, what did I tell you?! You're a million years too young to defeat me!
Me: Sh**! Well, have to turn down the difficulty, i guess.
Different Sword and Shield NPCs learn their life is just a Switch game
Rose: So we weren't going to run out of energy and that was just plot convinence?
Leon: So that's how I'm the undefeated champion and somehow lost to a newbie!
Hop: No, no this can't be! My entire life is a lie!
Bede: IS MY LIFE A JOKE TO YOU?!
Marnie: What? Oh cool (Thanks Darkrighteous)
Anymore NPCs? (I haven't played the DLC so Honey, Mustard, Klara and Avery suggestions appreciated)
(Also, Sonia and Gym Leaders appreciated)
marnie would totally be like "oh ok"
wat about in game GF staff, like morimoto, would he be like "so I made this world? huh."
Avery would prob try to find out how he can do this tbh(in the beginning at least)
@@thefalcon6122 I don't understand
Avery: So what you're saying is that some outside force is Instructing your every move?
People who have played multiple pokemon games: "We are many you are one"
Little did Joker know, his voice isn't even his...and that he's just a character in a comic! This is getting more and more meta as I speak!
And reading that comic is a random boy. Who just so happens to have a friend. Their name is Yu Narukami.
@@brayqr6027 *Inception sound*
@@literalfandomtrashnoseriou1992
It's a game.
Within a game.
Within a (might be) game
within a game
w i t h i n a g a m e
w t h n g m
emag a nihtiw
*it keeps going, getting more and more corrupt, till all you here is static*
@@BagofBeans1 *Staticy Inception Sound*
I bet his strict scehdule is just morgana telling him to go to bed
Now I can imagine a sequel to this comic where Hop figures out all the knowledge that the player mentioned, and how he copes with the knowledge.
Like he could just start breaking the 4th wall all the time, and when you’d fight him, all his Pokémon are competitively trained and way higher level than before. Here’s how I’d imagine this would go...
Hop: I know this is all just a game for you...all that gibberish you mentioned. Imagine how stunned I was when it was real! I tried telling others, but they all thought I was insane! A part of me thought I was crazy, but the numbers don’t lie!
Player: Wait...what? You, you don’t normally act like this-!
Hop: I know, and that’s because I was blind before. But now I can see! Now, I’m not so different from you! I can already tell that I’ve gotten stronger than before. Last time I fought Bede, he defeated me. Now? I swept him. Didn’t have a single Pokémon faint!
Player: So, I somehow managed to alter your behavior...?
Hop: So...let’s have a battle! I promise that this time, *I’ll win ‘Gloria’! If that even is your real name...*
Edit: Nice
Second Edit: I’ve actually been working on this thing: Here’s the first part and you should be able to read the rest!
Here it is: my.w.tt/EkcMVh4wfcb
But Hop, you're not coded to do this! You can't do anything unless you're coded to!
Code? Pfsh, who needs code!?
Dude you'd literally be a lifeless 3d model without it.
My hope is that one day, in the future, we can have video games where the NPCs have an AI advanced enough to do this
Not necessarily be 4th wall aware, but for them to learn from your own behavior and play style, and counter it
Thank you fo this hypothetical continuation, made feel a bit better because this shows Hop being over a mental breakdown, still a bit uncomfortable. But better feeling about dis comic now.
@@Deathnotefan97 a few games tried to adapt to the players playstyle, but they've either failed miserably or succeeded way too well.
Hop: Do you wanna have a Bad time?
I kinda want a part two in hops POV again were he’s trying to figure out that his friend is possessed by another living being (the player) Who sees Pokémon, hops entire world and, becoming the Pokémon champion of hops region a game. It’ll crush him and even though he’s my second favorite character I wanna see him go through a major identity crisis
Imagine if I took that idea and ran with it.
Deltarune
@@oceansspaced6636so..
Hop thought that it was normal for me to have a team full of shiny ev trained legendaries, it was a fun time.
Dont forget the natures
Tbh i dont know what ivs evs and natures are
@@BlastingRyan609 Okay.... so.
'IVs' are Inherit Values, basically the genetic values of your pokemon.
This is used to determine the stats of your pokemon, and it varies between 0 and 31 for each stat, the higher the number, the better the stat will be.
For instance, a Level 100 Charizard with 0 IVs would have like (not real numbers btw, you can check the stats, I'm only doing three for simplicity)
120 Health, 78 Attack, and 90 Defense.
A Charizard with, say, Perfect IV's would have 175 Health, 100 Attack, and 127 Defense.
In other words, that Charizard is way stronger now.
'EVs' are Effort Values, which, aren't decided when the pokemon is created. Every time you defeat a pokemon, you gain EV's by fighting pokemon (different pokemon give different EV's, an example would be a bidoof giving 1 HP EV)
Every Four EV's equals one stat point (rounded down if it is an decimal, like 150.75, you'd still have 150). However, you can only have 510 EV's in total.
510 divided by four is 127.5 (127, rounded down.)
So you have 127 stat pointd you'd be able to invest. Only 255 EV's can be invested into one stat (so you can't put 510 evs into Special Attack)
Ev's are generally much easier, since you don't have to breed and pray for RNG for good IVs.
Also, good natures.
a 'Nature' is yet another thing that varies stats. For instance, it could have a nature which boosts attack, but lowers health. Maybe it does the opposite? Another could do NOTHING.
A nature is decided when the game creates a pokemon. Having a nature boosts one stat by 10%, but lowers another by 10% (at level 100). Having a nature that both increases and decreases the same stat will have no effect.
@@BagofBeans1 thank you
@@BlastingRyan609 no problem, you can check the pokemon wiki for more specific details.
Cynthia would actually be the only NPC who understands what IVs EVs and natures are considering all of her pokemon have perfect stats and beneficial natures
“i’m gonna be the champion one day!”
maybe when i die hop, maybe when i die.
btw keyword: maybe
I knew it was going to be Joker when I saw his clothes
New Title: *Hop gets confused why his friend is acting weird*
New title: Hop having a mental breakdown and then it's joker
New Title - Hop watches his friend break the fourth wall
Alt title: _Player Trainer breaks the Masquerade like she totally wouldn't be punished for it._
Ok that was a plot twits...
But ironic how the npc have more live or own adventure in the game and just happen to bump whit you for lore trop XD
That twist at the end... *YOU'LL NEVER SEE IT COMING*
I read that in the voice of the song
I sincerely believe that if there is a "higher power" out there, that higher power is a writer.
Me: *just enjoying the comic dub*
Joker: *surprise appearance*
Brain: YOU'LL NEVER SEE IT COMING!!!
0:48 This implies that whenever you play a game you’re stripping your characters of their body and free will to do their own things and make their own choices, which is plausible since Deltarune is seemingly based around this concept
Hearing them play the game many times and hop just questioning it. Honestly this just brought me back to undertale like can anyone agree?
Yea. Tbh funi dog man intentionally made the game feel like how you're describing it, and frankly, that might be why it was well received when it came out and the fanbase wasn't too toxic. To think people have these thoughts of making the game self aware about every little thing you do.
All the pokemon player characters are just chaotic beings in my head.
Unflinching, always moving forward, smiling whilst they destroy your team.
And I am always sad the NPCs never react.
I'd just tell him. Tell him all about hidden levels and natures and EVs and IVs that he can't see. I'd want him to be able to have the same chance as me. And Marnie and Bede. I just think they deserve to have a chance. I don't even think they know about shinies! It is just nice to tell them, to make sure they have a chance instead of just being thrashed because we can level up teams.
That was so f***ing meta that got legitimately scared for a second 😶
Unless you have 3 identities Ren Anamiya/Akira Kurusu/ Joker
Don't forget Haremf**ker249
joker is his codename
“Wait... I’m in a videogame!”
**Bang**
*Hop knew too much.*
Just Hop
Imagine you go out for a walk, All peacifully, just a peaciful walk in the park, Then you see someone Walking in the grass by lots of days while yelling "COME ON GIVE ME A SHINY!" Every while.
Why did I read that quote in PurpleCliffe's voice of all people.
You're never gonna win when your rival exists in every multiverse and existing timeline, and is better than you in all of them.
This is great! I really love Hop's voice, I think you guys nailed it!
I actually relate to Hop, because before a few weeks ago I too had no idea what it means to play competitively. I'm still a noob, but I'm learning!
Dude same and idc about it. I play the way I want to and it’s not competitive.
Rival: How are you so strong?!
Me, after being forced to fight every trainer that happens to be standing on the path: yeah uhhhhh-
Yea same
Huh. Was not expecting a Pokémon comic dub to feel this uncomfortable because Hop is having a freaking mental breakdown! QND IM JUST IN PAIN THINKING ABOUT IT PLEASE SOMEBODY EXPLAIN THIS CRAP TO POOR HOP PLEASE!
She played it so often yet doesnt know that vitamins are now usable over 100
@Gabriel Mota with the DLC you can buy them in bulk for super cheap
Expectation: this video
Reality: I could close my eyes and pick moves at random with no training and still beat you Hop, this game is just that easy
This really hits hard. There are so so many times I want Wally and all the other sidekick characters to win but it's just what they are, Sidekicks.
Next time someone asks me why I am so good at something I will just answer this is not my first time playing this game. I mean it will never happen but it makes me chuckle to think about it.
Why are you so good at something? :P
@@KittyKatty999 This is not my first time playing this game. :)
Why are you so good at something? :P
Hop: Wow, you learned about super effective moves huh?
Me cooking his Grookey alive: *if you know about them why dont you use them too?-*
Demifiend in the background:
*ONE MORE GOD REJECTED*
Lmao! That twist at the end, I love it! I guess you could say...I never saw it coming. The idea that Joker plays pokemon when he's not stealing hearts is really wholesome.
BrO-
*B R U H*
Joker at the end caught me so off guard like wtf lmao
It's like it crept up out of nowhere
PLEASE don't give Hop an external crisis!
He's my sweet angel child!
I love the persona 5 reference at the end.
Mind making a sequel comic where she learns he’s self-aware? Maybe make a comic series? Who knows, maybe they become REAL friends and fight viruses. (Maybe even diseases if he gets to the real world... cuz he would be real small in reality.)
Also her brother is a persona fan, not joker himself. I think.
@@vendettagrudge9501 they dubbed the comic they not are the creator of it
Me, seeing that familiar uniform: “wait just one gosh darn second....”
Seeing ren actually made me arc back on my chair and weeze like a fucking moron holy fuck
Maybe we are all NPCs inside a really boring game
Then who turned on hard mode
what if the game hasn't begun yet?
I mean it can be boring for an npc, but it can be exciting for a mc. Like you know for every npc in the game - it's their home world, they don't find it all that exciting.
We are the population in plague inc.
@@TheTruePigeonLord lets hope they lose, or use an alt win condition
my god...
you somehow connected pokemon and persona together
Now there's a face i haven't seen in a while, Sand Barioth
Now I want a Pokemon Parody game that goes really deep into Meta Mechanics and "Player Possession" a la Deltarune.
Now I need a fic where Hop realizes he's a game character and doesn't go undertale on us
instead more like a confused sunshine (he's still having a crisis over the whole 'being a character on a game' thing)
I was so confused like
"What is he so confused about? She is talking about the xp and lvl and-"
"Ooh"
I was thinking, who’s that black haired guy, Joker?
*Low and behold...*
Hop: Wait. It’s all a game?
Player: Always has been.
*"Unless..."*
That bothers me so much.
I got too many P5 vibes from Joker I had to look around my room to make sure “Last Surprise” doesn’t play and he shows up with Morgana saying he wants to “reveal my true form”
“I also heard you live in a cafe and have a criminal record”
We must break the fourth wall MORE!!!!!!
"Didn't we grow up together??!"
Dang that hit hard...
"He's an NPC, he's an NPC, YOU'RE AN NPC? I'M AN NPC! ARE THERE ANY MORE NPCS I SHOULD KNOW ABOUT?!"
We love how hop is having a crisis while protagonist girl just drones on about the game
Player character: *brakes the 4 wall*
Hop: *doesn’t understand anything the player says*
The biggest difference is that a player has a save Dx. With that piece then everyone but the player is a npc even if they don't think it ...
Hell maybe more than one has it, but we can't tell cuz people keep reloading to a moment it suits them and we'll never know even as another player in the "game"
Hence multiplayer exist to not screw with that...
0:42
Seriously is that every female trainer?
All I can see are Gloria (Galar) and Dawn (Sinnoh). No one else, I can't see Kris and Lyra (Johto), May (Hoenn), Hilda and Rosa (Unova), Serena (Kalos), and Selene (Alola).
Nice gen 4 reference
@@jonahkim2029 Some of the hair doesn't look like Gloria's or Dawn's
Maybe leaf
I see Gloria and dawn of course, I think the brown smudge at the bottom might be Rosa's hair, and the various other brown smudges could be the other protags? Don't see any blue hair though
“Meal plans”
Meanwhile, I fed my pokemon a total of two times during my first playthrough.
Joker has style. Joker has grace.
*JOKER BROKE THE 4th WALL IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE.*
Hop: how come I can’t beat my rival
Me: grindin’ in the wild area my dude
IT KEEPS GOING DAMNIT JOKER
I didn't see joker coming, this moment of realization that it's him, blew up like a mass destruction
Now i have to go have an existential crisis over "what if every game had undertale logic"
Akira just commenting about save slots killed me lmao.
Everything is just one game after another. It's save files all the way down, up, sideways and then some.
Everyone is talking about the final twist but I’m really digging the art style a lot lol
How ironic
Someone LITERALLY made a BLOODY FANFIC OF THIS-
Link?
Link pls
Y’all I cannot remember it, somewhere on WATTPAD, sword and shield “obviously
It's called pokemon hardmode
And then it turns out Joker's just the Persona 5 save file of one of the Animal Crossing villagers.
And that’s just the Doomslayer’s save file, and it just goes deeper and deeper
When he deliberately picked the starter weak to me, I kept expecting the twist to be that his Pokémon would have a weakness policy during our final battle so I tried to keep my level around the same as his.
I saw literally just the black hair, white turtleneck and black blazer and was like "... I know who that is- I know your twists-"
Lovely comic for a Pokemon and Persona fan like me lmao
How many walls are they gonna break this time
potentialy? infinite ,since you can stack the joke and repeat game series.
It's all fun and games until you find out that technically, the Demi-Fiend could show up and kill everyone in sight since Joker is there.
0:24 She said "NURTURES" when it's supposed to be "NATURES."
Edit: I hope this doesn't come off as mean or nitpicky, it's just something I noticed.
Nature vs Nurture
Fight!!!?!
“Are you *still* playing that game? It’s been months.”
Me: *beats the engine game in two days* *and* *catches a shiny Noctowl right after defeating Nessa*