I just love that throughout this video, the chat is almost completely disconnected from the actual video. I'm loving the Ledian E4 strats, can't wait until you encore that earthquake on ttar and switch between ledian and salamence to get the intims down, then switch to swampert and mimic the dragon dance and sweep Drake... oh how far the ek community has gone lol.
I think a big take away people don't get is that just because Jan made mistakes through the run doesn't mean he is bad. He simply came in at a time where the popularity of nuzlockeing this game wasn't anywhere near where it is at today and developed alot of the strats and shared alot of his knowledge eith people that then went on to bust open the game even more after his time
Its crazy to realise that he is the reason EK is one of the most explored rom hacks. Everyone knows what you mean with a zam or doom counter, and i dont think there are that many games where strategies for boss fights are so openly discussed and known as with EK. I dont know how much of the strats he used are original, but its insane how much he helped building an EK community
The fact that people beat this while Nuzlocking is wild to me. I played with similar rules but just had a “no wiping rule” and I was proud of that. At least the NVC isn’t watching me with my run though 🤣🤣
1:56 counting smogon as a baseline: yeah people used bright powder to great effect. The combination of sandveil and bright powder works wonders when permanent sand is up. Quick claw? Top players unironically use it on cm kyogre. The only item there is no precedent for that I know of is focus band.
Yo imagine if someday they make an ability that completely breaks these items that only work very rarely like focus band/quick claw etc considering these items can work multiple times in a single match unlike something like a focus sash 😀
@@13nguyeninhthienkhoi87 Nah, if you're running galar slowbro, you're running quick claw. If you wan a regen mon, any of the other 3 bro mons is way better.
I mean to be fair if you consider this is a gen 3 game. In gen 3 competitive, bright powder, quick claw, focus band, choice band, lum, and leftovers were kinda the only held item options, so I’d say for Emerald those are competitive items.
I notice how some of the stuff you mention (like for example the Solar Beam strange AI and the unfair items) was actually covered in his earlier video, on how he lost 150 runs to this game. That's, of course, another hour lol
For a nuzlocke, I feel like some of the less competitive items might be more dangerous. You can account for a sash, but a focus band on a couple dozen pokemon is going to put extra pressure
I really liked how an entire community kinda formed around this one hack. It's made me a much better player when it comes to easier games but imo having the patience that ek has taught me has made nuzlocking so much better for me
i found the jokes funny tbh, something about him going into a rant on not being able to bring "bratwurst broth" into the cars 3 movie makes me laugh alot.
@@grzmit5904 i find him and his fanbase consists of 14 year olds at best. echochamber vibes + the only 2 words you will read there are "cringe" and "based"
@@cibinomin6540 he literally calls out anyone under 18 and tells them to fuck off dozens of times. Bro does not at all have 14 year olds as a target audience
Love your commentary on Jans video, bringing more context and different perspective! Wanna point out how crazy it was for Jan since his reaction to Jaidens nuzocke (helping him getting a lot of new viewers including me) to literally having her in a vid. Rly gald that after all of this (and not only this) pokemon content on yt changed from this family friendly bullshit to this new form
yeap. Jan went there blind, very reasonable that he reached 150 attempts. And after a certain point, im pretty sure he was burned out, thus making him less ''productive'' and losing some runs cause he didnt played optimely, which is understandable. Most of the other people had already cooked food on their plate.
so did jan? he literally admitted to using strats invented by other people in this very video ☠️ not to mention, very few strats in EK are guaranteed, a lot of them rely on luck you still need incredible game knowledge and intuition in order to still win when things go astray both pokemonchallenges and drxx, as well as everyone else who nuzlocked this game, are incredible (also ppl have nuzlocked this game and beat it before jan did)
@@gotdamn4989 Tbf Jan was like the 3rd person to start running EK and was easily one of the top contenders for beating it first. Him Luapmail Deca and Runanbun really dominated early EK, and Jan Runan and Gian were the early EK endgame strats people. Then Dekzeh udaii Buhrito etc etc etc came along and the 2nd gen of EK runners really busted parts of the endgame open, and now the 3rd gen like DrXX have a TON of strats available now
I freaking love Jan’s video and am just now discovering @Drxx. I love Pokémon but it seemed too easy and childish before I started watching pchal and others like flygonhg do challenge runs. Really would love some help getting more into the community and improving my game until I can play games like vintage white and even ek one day!
Besides the discords, here's a route you could do to get to the hard games Vanilla games -> easy romhack (think like renplat or sacred gold) -> kinda hard romhack (blaze black is a nice one and my first hard run) -> VinW -> EK You can sub in other games for these, but these are the tiers kinda Also always play with infinite candies and level caps, fuck grinding
There are some things you questionend like the solarbeam thing that he didnt explain, he explained this in his vipe compilation if you want to watch this aswell.
Wow this guy is almost like a more extreme version of Pokémon challenges calling him cringe. It’s pretty awesome. Pokémon challenges has for sure gotten softer over time
He has. He's gotten funnier too. He is much funnier being himself on stream than his scripted stuff. The marathon he did though really took a toll. There are a number of videos where he is just dead inside and barely talks. And then you see a video where he's streaming after just waking up and his personality is back. I think he pushed himself a little too much. But it was up to him I guess.
Found out about you from the best nuzlocker clips of 2021. The screams got me interested in who this schizo is and here I am watching enjoyable content.
Bright powder is banned in competitive singles because of accuracy/evasion clause. In doubles it's seen use since it's a meta game run by rock slide. It's not common, but it has been run
Watching this after ek deathless has been achieved gives such a different perspective. - 4:20 manipulating all early game encounters so you could actually play the game - 4:48 the chicken having higher chance at a win than treeko - 7:14 zangoose being brought to the elite4 - 17:23 menceless elite4 in deathless ek
Lol, drxx thinking he was the first to do clamperal-less. That strat was being done a year ago by me with pb grass on chicken runs and I didn’t start it.
I am just a casual pokemon player but I always realized that when Jan says he is "the best nuzlocker" - he is exaggerating a little for the clout purposes, all the other contenders for the title are just not big content creators.
I mean, even if he wasn’t doing it for clout, he’d still probably be at least a top 5 contender, but probably higher. People like Drxx, DocZ, and a few others are also candidates for best nuzlocker, but there really isn’t a metric we can use for rating the nuzlockers.
@@claudiolentini5067 Yeah, and at that point, it would be so tedious to do, it’d hardly be worth it. I guess Jan gets the right to say stuff like that when he’s been streaming this stiff for longer than many and also has been doing videos for considerably longer, too.
This dude talks JUST like the TikTok of that guy who keeps awkwardly saying he didn’t catch what you said. Idk if anyone knows which one I’m talking about but it’s spot on.
@@tkodemolisher when he found the mon, it had an atk boosting nature, a high attack, and a low def. Look at how much it hurts itself in confusion. People have calculated the DMG and it's impossible with the def strong Mon he used in the run.
If anything Drxx freaks out much more than Jan. Have you seen his Prism (i think it was) hardcore nuzlocke attempt where he wiped in the league? He’s just yelling and whining the whole time.
Ugh! Bagon is so hard to catch! I went there to catch a Bagon, and I managed to do it before running out of balls, and before Bagon got to use struggle and knock itself out. It wasn't a hardcore nuzlocke, it was a casual playthrough.
I probably spent 4 times as much time in total planning... I also had a lot of people to help me get started opposed to PC even playing blind for his first few attempts. I don't like the word skill diff because I beat it a while after him when a lot of starts were developed
@@Drxxyt Thanks for the answer lol. I know skill diff sounds a bit mean but I really didn't want to come off as getting defensive for PC because I was genuinely curious why the run count was so different. :P
Why would you just want to have something tell you what’s going to switch in? I think he just wanted to understand the AI’s switching because it’s much more fun and interesting lol
As someone who doesn't really understand how to emulate and so plays on official hardware, Switch mode infinitely increases my chances of actually completely a nuzlocke and thus finding some enjoyment out of it. The only exception I have is for X and Y, I have both and as they are both easy games and Pokémon Challenges recommends them as a good first Nuzlocke game, I play on Set Mode.
@@justinalicea1590 i think this was a reference to the point in the video where he talked about how theres a thing that lets you put in what trainer your on and it will tell you what pokemon they will switch it. so your still playing on set mode but can better prep for what pokemon will be sent out if you have X or Y pokemon out since especially in these double battles where your trying to manipulate specific pokemon into certain slots. And i assume the top comment is saying having a program do all the work for you sounds less fun. the thing about switch mode unrelated to that part of this video is just that it eliminates a huge part of the difficulty even in non nuzlocks its the only thing we really have as a difficulty choice. Since with switch you can always guarantee your best pokemon gets out for free which is extra important if your pokemon is going to be faster. For example with set mode if you swap a pokemon in its going to take 1 hit. then if its slower its going to take another hit before it can even act. so 2 hits for a slower pokemon or 1 with a faster. this means any glass cannon pokemon is effectively screwed in set mode without a sacrifice or pivoting through different pokemon to guarantee certain moves. but in switch mode if you have a slow pokemon it only takes 1 hit and a fast pokemon can act first so no hits before action. this all allows better sweeps and more effective and dangerous strats that you cant always get away with in a set mode battle. It doesnt mean a nuzlock will be free and easy but its a much larger change than just seeing what pokemon is next for counter attack its also huge for which pokemon can even be used effectively since you need less security to get to your counters.
Btw I'm pretty sure the music is from a VERY underrated game call ikenfell I never ended up completing it but I love it's music and the gameplay was awesome
I love watching Jan but some of his jokes made me cringe in this. Nice to hear there's more than one right answer to beating Emerald Kaizo! What else do you do on your channel?
I could never with this game right now, I'm having trouble with Sigma Emerald. Attempt 9 right now, I have lost my runs to 1. Roxanne. 2. Brawly. 3. 110 May. 4. Watson. 5. Maxie 6. Flannery. 7. Norman. 8. Tate and Liza. ... This isn't even a difficulty hack...
Drxx (or 'drew' however you pronounce it ) you are one of the best if the THE best nuzlocke players. If you have some change to spare, just spend some chin chin on a good editor, and you'll be the RUclips pkm king, my dude.
6:52 When he opens the bag in the pokemon game it shows that he used cheats to get 4 rows of 99 Rare Candy and 99 Full Restores. Ive Checked the comments and no one has mentioned it. 😂
its not exactly like shift mode and while i think its funner without the sheet. its really just doing the preplanning for you. jan still knows what pokemon will switch in from studying the AI and learning what will switch in the sheet just does all that for you now. Where it differs from switch is you still dont get a free switch in. Everyone can in any nuzlock know whose going to be sent in next the information was always there. thats not why switch is easier than set.
I just love that throughout this video, the chat is almost completely disconnected from the actual video. I'm loving the Ledian E4 strats, can't wait until you encore that earthquake on ttar and switch between ledian and salamence to get the intims down, then switch to swampert and mimic the dragon dance and sweep Drake...
oh how far the ek community has gone lol.
ledian can kill maxies entei, mence cannot
ledian > entei
@@irentyew4746 salamence can kill maxie 2's entei
I love to smoke some crack then run up the ledian sandslash pog fearow e4
Ledian fans finally eating good
@@irentyew4746 Umm, Sala can kill Entei.
I think a big take away people don't get is that just because Jan made mistakes through the run doesn't mean he is bad. He simply came in at a time where the popularity of nuzlockeing this game wasn't anywhere near where it is at today and developed alot of the strats and shared alot of his knowledge eith people that then went on to bust open the game even more after his time
This
ok but he is not worlds best like he claims. thats what annoys me. if he was humble maybe id like him.
@@mynameskris he says everytime "probably" so yes he is at least a little humble
@@mynameskris He’s admitted that he isn’t the best before.
@@mynameskris it's a joke
Hearing someone say "You could play around it" to Jan really hits different. 💀
Drxx is a known fraudulent nuzlocker
True!!!!!!
Finally he gets a taste of his own medicine lol
Watching someone analyze Jan's nuzlocke feels so weird and backwards
Ye madness of multiverse
Right
It feels so right
Cant wait for Jan to react to this reaction
Exactly
I love how the EK nuzlocke community has a library of terms that almost seems as deep as the biggest sports
I didn’t even realize that until now but yea we all have certain vocabulary we use. Kinda wild
pokemon challenges > bill belichick
@@Drxxyt 'fishing simulator' was my favourite one.
Somehow just realized this was a thing.
i love jargon
Damn, now Jan's stuff is being reacted too. He's officially made it
the cycle has been complete
Its crazy to realise that he is the reason EK is one of the most explored rom hacks. Everyone knows what you mean with a zam or doom counter, and i dont think there are that many games where strategies for boss fights are so openly discussed and known as with EK. I dont know how much of the strats he used are original, but its insane how much he helped building an EK community
The fact that people beat this while Nuzlocking is wild to me. I played with similar rules but just had a “no wiping rule” and I was proud of that. At least the NVC isn’t watching me with my run though 🤣🤣
I'm doing the same right now. Flannery took me about 30 tries. Haha
@@xretcyvbnimo That’s awesome, good luck. The NVC is watching your run
1:56
counting smogon as a baseline:
yeah people used bright powder to great effect.
The combination of sandveil and bright powder works wonders when permanent sand is up.
Quick claw?
Top players unironically use it on cm kyogre.
The only item there is no precedent for that I know of is focus band.
don't people use quick claw on quick draw galar slowbro?
@@ilavain That's pretty much just a fun gimmick set and people usually prefer regenerator for longevity .
Yo imagine if someday they make an ability that completely breaks these items that only work very rarely like focus band/quick claw etc considering these items can work multiple times in a single match unlike something like a focus sash 😀
@@13nguyeninhthienkhoi87 Nah, if you're running galar slowbro, you're running quick claw. If you wan a regen mon, any of the other 3 bro mons is way better.
I mean to be fair if you consider this is a gen 3 game. In gen 3 competitive, bright powder, quick claw, focus band, choice band, lum, and leftovers were kinda the only held item options, so I’d say for Emerald those are competitive items.
I notice how some of the stuff you mention (like for example the Solar Beam strange AI and the unfair items) was actually covered in his earlier video, on how he lost 150 runs to this game. That's, of course, another hour lol
For a nuzlocke, I feel like some of the less competitive items might be more dangerous. You can account for a sash, but a focus band on a couple dozen pokemon is going to put extra pressure
it was really interesting hearing different approaches to the game that were possible, also some info on your own run. good video!
Thanks!!
Yeah good call. I often feel that Jan plays too conservatively when he could have an easier time if he played more aggressively
It really seems like that Slaking is built to punish anyone trying to cheese the Loaf and no one noticed o.o
TRUE
I can't remember if it has EQ or not, but if it does it absolutely is designed for that
It has surf, eq thunder and d edge
It's just great game design when a community of Nuzlocke pros don't even realise until punished
can you still cheese with protect
I really liked how an entire community kinda formed around this one hack. It's made me a much better player when it comes to easier games but imo having the patience that ek has taught me has made nuzlocking so much better for me
there is something charming about Jan's awful attempts at humour. although they do physically cause me pain
i found the jokes funny tbh, something about him going into a rant on not being able to bring "bratwurst broth" into the cars 3 movie makes me laugh alot.
@@grzmit5904 i find him and his fanbase consists of 14 year olds at best. echochamber vibes + the only 2 words you will read there are "cringe" and "based"
Were they supposed to be horrible? Because I didn't get them at all. The joke was basically always "lul, weird."
Germans have a different sense of humor, it's all in the eye of the beholder
@@cibinomin6540 he literally calls out anyone under 18 and tells them to fuck off dozens of times.
Bro does not at all have 14 year olds as a target audience
Love your commentary on Jans video, bringing more context and different perspective! Wanna point out how crazy it was for Jan since his reaction to Jaidens nuzocke (helping him getting a lot of new viewers including me) to literally having her in a vid. Rly gald that after all of this (and not only this) pokemon content on yt changed from this family friendly bullshit to this new form
Seems like the meta for this game advanced a lot from when Jan played it which is really cool, are there videos about the newer strats for this game?
You know I gotta plug my man JTPilfered. He started posting EK videos in the last while about interesting strats.
@@SwampedBrine thanks for the recommendation but unfortunately that's the one I was actually aware of got recommended his illumise vid lol
y'all did your runs after all the knowledge and strats were made by the community
yeap. Jan went there blind, very reasonable that he reached 150 attempts. And after a certain point, im pretty sure he was burned out, thus making him less ''productive'' and losing some runs cause he didnt played optimely, which is understandable.
Most of the other people had already cooked food on their plate.
so did jan? he literally admitted to using strats invented by other people in this very video ☠️
not to mention, very few strats in EK are guaranteed, a lot of them rely on luck
you still need incredible game knowledge and intuition in order to still win when things go astray
both pokemonchallenges and drxx, as well as everyone else who nuzlocked this game, are incredible
(also ppl have nuzlocked this game and beat it before jan did)
@@gotdamn4989 Tbf Jan was like the 3rd person to start running EK and was easily one of the top contenders for beating it first. Him Luapmail Deca and Runanbun really dominated early EK, and Jan Runan and Gian were the early EK endgame strats people. Then Dekzeh udaii Buhrito etc etc etc came along and the 2nd gen of EK runners really busted parts of the endgame open, and now the 3rd gen like DrXX have a TON of strats available now
I freaking love Jan’s video and am just now discovering @Drxx. I love Pokémon but it seemed too easy and childish before I started watching pchal and others like flygonhg do challenge runs. Really would love some help getting more into the community and improving my game until I can play games like vintage white and even ek one day!
glad to hear this!
How do you guys get the exact enemy Pokémon information to put into the showdown calculator? and are you putting it in manually?
@@thatgrantchulakid9750 there’s a link to a calc with all imported sets in Pokémon challenges and my discords
Besides the discords, here's a route you could do to get to the hard games
Vanilla games -> easy romhack (think like renplat or sacred gold) -> kinda hard romhack (blaze black is a nice one and my first hard run) -> VinW -> EK
You can sub in other games for these, but these are the tiers kinda
Also always play with infinite candies and level caps, fuck grinding
There are some things you questionend like the solarbeam thing that he didnt explain, he explained this in his vipe compilation if you want to watch this aswell.
Ahhhhh thanks
45:32 I can confirm that my E4 run (Tnobes99) was one of the 20 that Drxx watched where Latios didn't clit/crit x)
What's the worst team you've used to beat kaizo?
31:24. That's why he's the bro 😎
I can’t believe we haven’t yet a video of those two guys challenging each other
Wow this guy is almost like a more extreme version of Pokémon challenges calling him cringe. It’s pretty awesome. Pokémon challenges has for sure gotten softer over time
He has. He's gotten funnier too. He is much funnier being himself on stream than his scripted stuff. The marathon he did though really took a toll. There are a number of videos where he is just dead inside and barely talks. And then you see a video where he's streaming after just waking up and his personality is back. I think he pushed himself a little too much. But it was up to him I guess.
@@bongchoof You talking about pokemon challenges?
Bruh what do you mean gotten softer? These dudes are playing a children's game with harder difficulty not participating in gang warfare.
@@atmmachine11 Of course, because the only way you can go softer is if you have participated in conflict ranking from gang warfare to above.
@@atmmachine11he was just saying Jan doesn't try to be a reddit edge lord any more 🤣 relax
goated video dude, its stuff like this that constantly makes me want to try wilder nuzlocke challenges, good shit doc
Thanks soulzz!
Drxx is a known fraudulent nuzlocker and scholez has been exposed for cheating in the PC showdown tourney
Found out about you from the best nuzlocker clips of 2021. The screams got me interested in who this schizo is and here I am watching enjoyable content.
Ya can’t lie I was a bit cringe in those clips lmao
mudkip is the ultimate starter for people that only use their starter.
Bright powder is banned in competitive singles because of accuracy/evasion clause. In doubles it's seen use since it's a meta game run by rock slide. It's not common, but it has been run
A nuzlocke versus between these two would be legendary content.
Soullocke?
@georgelongcoal1117 No, soullocke is a coop, while versus is pvp
@@kuronekogamer2065 oh, I see, thanks for clearing that up!
I love this game but no way I could run it I’d get way too frustrated
Ya definitely requires a lot of patience. I do think everyone is capable of beating it though if they want to try
Watching this after ek deathless has been achieved gives such a different perspective.
- 4:20 manipulating all early game encounters so you could actually play the game
- 4:48 the chicken having higher chance at a win than treeko
- 7:14 zangoose being brought to the elite4
- 17:23 menceless elite4 in deathless ek
Lol, drxx thinking he was the first to do clamperal-less. That strat was being done a year ago by me with pb grass on chicken runs and I didn’t start it.
I am just a casual pokemon player but I always realized that when Jan says he is "the best nuzlocker" - he is exaggerating a little for the clout purposes, all the other contenders for the title are just not big content creators.
I mean, even if he wasn’t doing it for clout, he’d still probably be at least a top 5 contender, but probably higher. People like Drxx, DocZ, and a few others are also candidates for best nuzlocker, but there really isn’t a metric we can use for rating the nuzlockers.
@@K0DA._. The only metric to judge it would be running the same game, with the same encounters and rngs back to back
@@claudiolentini5067 Yeah, and at that point, it would be so tedious to do, it’d hardly be worth it. I guess Jan gets the right to say stuff like that when he’s been streaming this stiff for longer than many and also has been doing videos for considerably longer, too.
If every Elite 4 Battle would have been double battles, the challenge surely would be impossible
Absolutely
Run and Bun (half the time) moment
I like how you paused at @4:53 so you're talking while the word "shit?" is just in the background.
This dude talks JUST like the TikTok of that guy who keeps awkwardly saying he didn’t catch what you said. Idk if anyone knows which one I’m talking about but it’s spot on.
Pchal is so sassy, glad there’s finally someone who can be on the other end of the reaction to humble him.
"humbled him", yeah sure, humbling the man who beat EK when the strats didn't exist yet.
@@pleasedont7439 you mean that cheated to win? Yeah, so impressed
@@CalebJohnstonhow did he cheat?
@@tkodemolisher when he found the mon, it had an atk boosting nature, a high attack, and a low def. Look at how much it hurts itself in confusion.
People have calculated the DMG and it's impossible with the def strong Mon he used in the run.
@@tkodemolisher I'm talking about pkmchallenge cheating.
I'm glad my boi sceptile got some love cause of Kaizo, easily my fav starter.
can't wait for the cycle of reactions to start
Nice vid, it was good to see this from another perspective
You'd cringe every now and then when Jan would freak out but y though? You all do it my guy
If anything Drxx freaks out much more than Jan. Have you seen his Prism (i think it was) hardcore nuzlocke attempt where he wiped in the league? He’s just yelling and whining the whole time.
"It's definitely Dark Rising" is normal Dark Rising harder than Dark Rising Kaizo?
not even close
@@ashvinmohan9205 I’m pretty sure all SHF did was help fix the level curve but that still couldn’t really fix the terrible mess
Dark rising is harder than the kaizo varient
Rising is easy af compared to Emerald Kaizo. Rising the hardest LMAO
Ugh! Bagon is so hard to catch! I went there to catch a Bagon, and I managed to do it before running out of balls, and before Bagon got to use struggle and knock itself out. It wasn't a hardcore nuzlocke, it was a casual playthrough.
Drxx cringing on Jan after his brawly victory made me laugh so hard cause of the irony for Jan is always cringing on everyone else
Lol I learned about the surf/dive dig/eq fly/thunder sky uppercut, etc cuz as a kid I always got cheesed in the battle tower of platinum lol
If that one slaking who killed pilot has eq where are these diggers
Mario
ok aside from that thanks for making this a youtube video, I missed ur stream on reacting to it!
Thanks so much!
Yan's jokes were not meant to make you laugh histericaly. They were meant to cringe you on purpose. That's what makes him funny.
Mudkip is terrible, me AF: cries myself to sleep
:(
As someone new to anything EK and your channel in particular, how did you manage to beat the game in just 4 runs when it took PC over 150? Skill diff?
I probably spent 4 times as much time in total planning... I also had a lot of people to help me get started opposed to PC even playing blind for his first few attempts. I don't like the word skill diff because I beat it a while after him when a lot of starts were developed
@@Drxxyt Thanks for the answer lol. I know skill diff sounds a bit mean but I really didn't want to come off as getting defensive for PC because I was genuinely curious why the run count was so different. :P
PC walked so Drxx could run
PC used his hardcore nutzlocke rules, thats a big diff at the end to not use items, overlevel etc.
@@zephyrlink7726 everyone here is talking about hardcore nuzlockes too, besides you cannot even use items in battle in the first place in this game
15:57 - I just love that his go-to insult here is "inbred".
Why would you just want to have something tell you what’s going to switch in? I think he just wanted to understand the AI’s switching because it’s much more fun and interesting lol
As someone who doesn't really understand how to emulate and so plays on official hardware, Switch mode infinitely increases my chances of actually completely a nuzlocke and thus finding some enjoyment out of it. The only exception I have is for X and Y, I have both and as they are both easy games and Pokémon Challenges recommends them as a good first Nuzlocke game, I play on Set Mode.
@@justinalicea1590 i think this was a reference to the point in the video where he talked about how theres a thing that lets you put in what trainer your on and it will tell you what pokemon they will switch it.
so your still playing on set mode but can better prep for what pokemon will be sent out if you have X or Y pokemon out since especially in these double battles where your trying to manipulate specific pokemon into certain slots.
And i assume the top comment is saying having a program do all the work for you sounds less fun.
the thing about switch mode unrelated to that part of this video is just that it eliminates a huge part of the difficulty even in non nuzlocks its the only thing we really have as a difficulty choice. Since with switch you can always guarantee your best pokemon gets out for free which is extra important if your pokemon is going to be faster. For example with set mode if you swap a pokemon in its going to take 1 hit. then if its slower its going to take another hit before it can even act. so 2 hits for a slower pokemon or 1 with a faster. this means any glass cannon pokemon is effectively screwed in set mode without a sacrifice or pivoting through different pokemon to guarantee certain moves. but in switch mode if you have a slow pokemon it only takes 1 hit and a fast pokemon can act first so no hits before action.
this all allows better sweeps and more effective and dangerous strats that you cant always get away with in a set mode battle. It doesnt mean a nuzlock will be free and easy but its a much larger change than just seeing what pokemon is next for counter attack its also huge for which pokemon can even be used effectively since you need less security to get to your counters.
The only game that doesn't have set mode is violet and scarlet..it's in every setting of every game..
@@tyler38rage it is annoying that SV doesn’t have set mode but I don’t think that’s what I was talking about
Btw I'm pretty sure the music is from a VERY underrated game call ikenfell I never ended up completing it but I love it's music and the gameplay was awesome
Can't wait for a reaction of this reaction
I find it funny how Jan did this by progressing blind
Until a point. He stopped playing blind pretty early on
he stopped around attempt 20-30
I love watching Jan but some of his jokes made me cringe in this. Nice to hear there's more than one right answer to beating Emerald Kaizo! What else do you do on your channel?
Man I’m really glad this was recommended to me! I’ve been watching all your videos and your channel is based
Thanks!!!! It means a lot
Bro is meaner than Jan 💀
Fantastic thumbnail and video buddy
Thanks homie
Quick claw drought torkoal eruption goes hard in early sword and shield vgc
the title of this video should be watch me flex instead of it being an objective commentary. flop
I could never with this game right now, I'm having trouble with Sigma Emerald. Attempt 9 right now, I have lost my runs to
1. Roxanne.
2. Brawly.
3. 110 May.
4. Watson.
5. Maxie
6. Flannery.
7. Norman.
8. Tate and Liza.
... This isn't even a difficulty hack...
would you ever consider nuzlocking pokemon reborn?
Yea
@@Drxxyt hell yeah
Mudkip slander disliked
Mudkip = Stupid
how the turns have tabled mr pchal
Drxx (or 'drew' however you pronounce it ) you are one of the best if the THE best nuzlocke players. If you have some change to spare, just spend some chin chin on a good editor, and you'll be the RUclips pkm king, my dude.
please.... please just show your other shoulder.... its killing me
the music in intro is from celeste
It's hard to take you or your chat serious if all that you guys critized mostly was him being "cringe", please, you all do the exact same shit.
When’s the soul link nuzlocke of EK with you and Jan
Great reaction and review drew
Thanks!
Using a bait sheet is king of BS not gonna lie
Holy friking she- how'd i forget dark rising that games a friking nightmare
How the turns have tabled
Jan actually played dark raising
is this the reverse uno card?
You got cut off at 37:25, what were you going to say?
Or am I missing a joke?
nvm I watched for 3 more seconds
Just saying he don't do the whole fish for certain species unless needed
The more you mention your own EK IVs the more sus they sound.
What is the ruler tool he uses at 48:40 ? I need it for my elite four lmao
It’s pinned in my discord
You guys should do an EK soul link
If you see this or anyone sees this how did he get a level 16 macargo at 9:39 and the level 17 Gloom? I’m so confused
The evolutions were changed
@@monkeyjosh339 okay I was like these numbers don’t add up lol
bro are u gonna do radical red hardcore mode
Good commentary from a different perspective 👍🏼
thanks!
Drxx is a known fraudulent nuzoocker and i wouldn't be surprised if his discord call wrote the script for him
at 14:00 you mentiond some form of sheet? where could we find this sheet?
It’s pinned in Pokémon challenges discord
hey guys, i'm probably the hardest (non-boss) trainer in emerald kaizo
LMAO
Oh how the turn tables
Dang this is the first time I've ever seen a person sh*t on mudkip like this
Love to see it
Look at the mario emote
It’s weird watching a video with Jan and seeing someone else cringe on him
6:52 When he opens the bag in the pokemon game it shows that he used cheats to get 4 rows of 99 Rare Candy and 99 Full Restores. Ive Checked the comments and no one has mentioned it. 😂
You can’t be serious
Oh man, I hope you don't find the video about him having the slogan "grinding is cringe"
ho ho look how the turn tables
There’s always a bigger fish
whats the decapod drama?
I want to know too
Drxx is such a fkin nerd sjw will say anything to be popular
Right wonder what happened
The table finally turns xd
Foot's on the other shoe now!
I loved the insight you gave!
Nice Baby Hands Emerald Kaizo Pro
To be fair using the bait sheet is like playing on shift mode. What's the point?
its not exactly like shift mode and while i think its funner without the sheet. its really just doing the preplanning for you. jan still knows what pokemon will switch in from studying the AI and learning what will switch in the sheet just does all that for you now.
Where it differs from switch is you still dont get a free switch in. Everyone can in any nuzlock know whose going to be sent in next the information was always there. thats not why switch is easier than set.