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  • Опубликовано: 24 дек 2024

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  • @Alpharad
    @Alpharad  Год назад +5500

    You can play it yourself at pokemonchess.com :D

  • @keerthiannadorai4412
    @keerthiannadorai4412 Год назад +4315

    There is something poetic about a stall tactic falling apart to a critical hit

  • @chess
    @chess Год назад +16938

    how chaotic, i love it

    • @jaylee6083
      @jaylee6083 Год назад +372

      Adds a lot of strats than regular chess

    • @nikodabos
      @nikodabos Год назад +55

      yeah

    • @DuckieChan.
      @DuckieChan. Год назад +94

      chess.

    • @typoplays
      @typoplays Год назад +320

      You need to add this to your website😊

    • @mini_hek
      @mini_hek Год назад +173

      make it official!

  • @anonymousturtle34
    @anonymousturtle34 Год назад +6283

    I respect the absolute blind faith in RNG at the end, RIP alpha

    • @Jack_Of_All_Trades768
      @Jack_Of_All_Trades768 Год назад +171

      Never underestimate your opponent. They could make a good move at any time. But this was just rng.

    • @miah8163
      @miah8163 Год назад +252

      If you watched Little Z's video he shows that a few moves earlier, Cyberton had a straight shot to Alpharad's king but the move missed, so I think it evens out in the end.

    • @Banan_Man_
      @Banan_Man_ Год назад +61

      @@miah8163 10% chance to miss, 6% chance to crit

    • @holdenwoofter5896
      @holdenwoofter5896 Год назад +46

      What key difference between a good tournament player and a great tournament player is not playing for the best value, but playing for the win. What he did may have been the worse play on paper, but it was his highest odds of winning. In a lot of games it's called "playing to your outs".

    • @jgotchabeezy
      @jgotchabeezy Год назад +39

      The ultimate “That Crit mattered”

  • @fonkeymonkey1048
    @fonkeymonkey1048 Год назад +4110

    Jan's words echoed in your head:
    "Always play around the crit"

  • @SimplyAnExistence
    @SimplyAnExistence Год назад +5115

    Alpharad losing to _someone else’s_ blind faith in luck is a truly ironic twist of fate.

    • @ingo1848
      @ingo1848 Год назад +113

      he cybertron did miss his first "win" that game so without the miss that luck would not have been needed

    • @Wade_in_your_water
      @Wade_in_your_water Год назад +34

      Alpha always takes up the villain role I love it

    • @Jason_Altea
      @Jason_Altea Год назад +24

      Lady Luck has been a cruel mistress to Alpha... she seems to be turning against him in recent years.

    • @gengarzilla1685
      @gengarzilla1685 Год назад +30

      Alpharad luck just directs one to the funniest outcome, not necessarily the successful outcome.

    • @Thisisthegreatestatofalltime
      @Thisisthegreatestatofalltime Год назад +3

      A true Icarus moment

  • @g.wilson536
    @g.wilson536 Год назад +1617

    Legit, the pure irony of Alpha, one of the infamously lucky gamers, losing to RNG against someone seemingly infamously unlucky in pokemon RNG, and losing to a crit sends joy through me.

    • @FectoElfilin
      @FectoElfilin Год назад +72

      Should've used en passant.

    • @emdivine
      @emdivine Год назад +29

      @@FectoElfilin Holy hell

    • @cuckoobrain7999
      @cuckoobrain7999 Год назад +1

      I don't think you're using infamously correctly but I'm not sure

    • @plutosupporter7758
      @plutosupporter7758 Год назад +56

      Context for anyone who doesn’t know why Cybertron is infamously unlucky with Pokémon RNG:
      In gen 5, he went to the finals of the world championship, where he missed 4 will-o-wisps over the course of the set, leading to his loss. Pokémon then buffed WoW’s accuracy from 75 to 85.

    • @SuperSayianWarrior
      @SuperSayianWarrior Год назад +7

      ​@@plutosupporter7758 a 0.09% event to occur as well. Then then 1/10th of 1% and it happened. Ohh you know Cybertron Popped Off

  • @erintempleton1342
    @erintempleton1342 Год назад +5554

    Bro’s biggest enemy was the rulebook

  • @SmileyNoteblock
    @SmileyNoteblock Год назад +4886

    In the wise words of Mr. Pokémon Challenges himself: "Should've played around the crit"

    • @thelastshadowpigz
      @thelastshadowpigz Год назад +102

      S tier comment.

    • @Ditto.007
      @Ditto.007 Год назад +66

      He never learns and thats what we love 😂

    • @farhanhusein4751
      @farhanhusein4751 Год назад +6

      looooool i can imagine janne voice

    • @lezestykiwi909
      @lezestykiwi909 Год назад +10

      I read “crit” as uh something different… damn I gotta clean my brain’s gutters

    • @heartofthefluft8541
      @heartofthefluft8541 Год назад +1

      HAHAHAHAHA 😂😂😂 Man, now we need a Pokémon Chess Nuzlocke run

  • @pikanachuster4032
    @pikanachuster4032 Год назад +309

    The story telling is so on point and the way Alpha drags us through the narrative for the conclusion is truly stunning. I laughed so hard at the end 10/10

  • @nicholaslowell2510
    @nicholaslowell2510 Год назад +332

    "Live long enough as the hero and see yourself become the villan"
    This is it guys
    The main character arc is over
    Alpha's rumbling arc begins

    • @iantaakalla8180
      @iantaakalla8180 Год назад +10

      When you never wanted to be the king (you swear) but you play Pokémon chess

    • @QueeenCrimson
      @QueeenCrimson Год назад +1

      I think Alpha villain arc began loooong ago

  • @codenameloser8488
    @codenameloser8488 Год назад +1630

    Alpharad defeating Kidd in 2 moves by chaining 3 super effective moves and taking the king just to lose the finals match because the man that missed 5 will-o-wisps in a row in a pokémon tournament got a crit on the pawn that was protecting the king is just an absolute Pokémon chess moment

    • @byzantine5761
      @byzantine5761 Год назад +47

      and part of the win was him killing Jynx, absolute irony

  • @thepopeofpineapples6275
    @thepopeofpineapples6275 Год назад +4432

    Chess is a complicated game. Pokémon is a complicated game. And now they’re merged. Truly beautiful.

    • @Dip7man
      @Dip7man Год назад +68

      And complicated

    • @beo9057
      @beo9057 Год назад +20

      @@ImanError404 no not yet :)

    • @kirakat5
      @kirakat5 Год назад +13

      Ngl pretty complicated

    • @datgremlin3478
      @datgremlin3478 Год назад +11

      It's also very complicated

    • @JP-TT
      @JP-TT Год назад +8

      And its also kinda complicated fr fr

  • @Insullar
    @Insullar Год назад +1935

    I love that the most unlucky person in the tournament actually got lucky for once in his pokemon career.

    • @Hack--rz1io
      @Hack--rz1io Год назад +247

      And against Alpha of all people

    • @clemente3966
      @clemente3966 Год назад +106

      And that the single shot at luckiness was the ending move to win the whole tournament.

    • @SamualN
      @SamualN Год назад +40

      it all balances out eventually

    • @AWanderingSwordsman
      @AWanderingSwordsman Год назад +54

      He actually had basically won earlier but the killing blow missed, which is what put him that situation at the end where he had to crit. He also missed like 5x more than anyone else. Dude was mad unlucky.

    • @MushokuShiro
      @MushokuShiro Год назад +8

      ​@@Hack--rz1io Comedy writes itself

  • @Blaybay123
    @Blaybay123 Год назад +87

    I think the last match illustrates Pokémon Chess really well
    You can get into the mind of your opponents and outplay them with a thought out strategy but that all means nothing in the eyes of a crit

  • @sdsanz92
    @sdsanz92 Год назад +122

    I audibly gasped when I saw the triple super effective move to win. Easily the best play out of the entire tournament.

  • @DeathDragon1730
    @DeathDragon1730 Год назад +979

    This is definitely a video by Alpha. Never gets punished until the last second where his podium collapses underneath him.

    • @kirby47897
      @kirby47897 Год назад +81

      flew too high

    • @bahumat9853
      @bahumat9853 Год назад +54

      Should have played around the crit.

    • @harrysteel864
      @harrysteel864 Год назад +41

      Something something icarus

    • @ironboy3245
      @ironboy3245 Год назад +15

      @@bahumat9853 Jan shaking his head

    • @randomname9291
      @randomname9291 Год назад

      @@bahumat9853 yeah if he would’ve just went to e5 instead of d5 it would’ve been game over

  • @AlexTheMultiFanStudios
    @AlexTheMultiFanStudios Год назад +1187

    Alpharad: *Is about to win via timer*
    Critical Hit: *Death whistle intensifies.*

  • @theronjohnson2640
    @theronjohnson2640 Год назад +1653

    As a PokeChess GM myself, Jacob is an up an coming star that is truly frightening for the scene

    • @peephobe
      @peephobe Год назад +4

      hes kinda bad 🎐

    • @KusaneHexaku
      @KusaneHexaku Год назад +69

      ​@@peephobei agree that red dress still lingers in my mind
      oh wait no not that kind of bad sorry

    • @peephobe
      @peephobe Год назад +5

      @@KusaneHexaku well both apply

  • @volty883
    @volty883 Год назад +46

    What spectacular storytelling. Truly Phenomanal. Cyber getting that crit last moment was beyond clutch and just goes to show how you should always play around the crit Jacob

  • @lordbidoof8790
    @lordbidoof8790 Год назад +68

    That ending is honestly the most Alpharad thing I've seen in a while

  • @squid_cookie570
    @squid_cookie570 Год назад +1052

    Alpha's insane RNG and Cybertron's 5 will-o-wisp RNG came together to create an absolute abomination that last game

  • @Vedant__Raj
    @Vedant__Raj Год назад +733

    A true nuzlocker always goes down to the crit

    • @orangesilver8
      @orangesilver8 Год назад +24

      Actually if you consider the situation he could have played around the crit by switching out his pokemon there.

    • @dylpickle_z
      @dylpickle_z Год назад +7

      truly the nuzlocke king

    • @oblongLogin
      @oblongLogin Год назад +5

      He should have played around the crit.

  • @King0fKyles
    @King0fKyles Год назад +1355

    No one ever expects the bidoof gambit, truly one of the most formidable plays that few can play around

  • @Saiavinn
    @Saiavinn Год назад +52

    That was nothing short of a full tale of hopes, intrigue, valor and tragedy.

  • @DragoSonicMile
    @DragoSonicMile Год назад +53

    Holy crap... that final move looked like a Platinum nuzlocke.

  • @SamWeltzin
    @SamWeltzin Год назад +767

    Watched the LittleZ video first, and coming to this really makes me appreciate Alpha's ability to weave a narrative.

    • @SuperIsaiah
      @SuperIsaiah Год назад +150

      Alpha wins through RNG, it's just part of the game.
      Alpha loses through RNG: A dramatic and tragic event of mass proportion

    • @SamWeltzin
      @SamWeltzin Год назад +41

      @@SuperIsaiah Yup, exactly. lol
      It's a pretty impressive talent, actually. He's a good entertainer. :D

    • @andrewt329
      @andrewt329 Год назад

      @@SamWeltzin
      But also a sore loser.

    • @BananaWasTaken
      @BananaWasTaken 3 месяца назад

      You also get to see that Alpharad made it to the finals without fully understanding the rules.
      He thought that if a piece attacked another piece it wasn’t effective against then either: nothing would happen, or the attacking piece would be destroyed. Instead both pieces get destroyed.
      You can see it at the start when he makes his king ghost to give it immunity to fighting and normal (which does nothing since the king would still be destroyed if attacked by a fighting or normal piece)
      You can see it at 8:01 when he doesn’t take the queen with his bishop.
      And at 8:08 when he thinks he can’t use his knight or bishop to take the queen.

  • @silverchord5790
    @silverchord5790 Год назад +663

    As someone who is obsessed with both Pokemon and Chess, I'm very glad that this monstrosity exists

    • @IdentifiantE.S
      @IdentifiantE.S Год назад +2

      I don't know much about chess but this video really made me want to get interested in it, that was probably also the goal of the video I guess

    • @GSamus14
      @GSamus14 Год назад +4

      RIP Pokemon Duel

    • @cameronweaver2013
      @cameronweaver2013 Год назад

      ​@@GSamus14 was a great game, I had such a good setup lol

  • @StrikeAxl
    @StrikeAxl Год назад +20

    Wow. Cybertron really got a lucky crit with 2 seconds left. Holy hell.
    Love to see Frank featured like this. His channel and editing are so underrated.

    • @Moleoflands
      @Moleoflands Год назад +1

      What you didn't see is the amount of easy wins he lost out on because opponents got crits or winning attacks missed

    • @jerronng5568
      @jerronng5568 Год назад +1

      Cybertron had immense bad luck the whole event even more than Alpharad during the last round
      But even though he missed like every win possible he still won
      That's the difference between someone who Plays around luck and uses it when necessary and someone who doesn't

  • @Fallensnowch
    @Fallensnowch Год назад +7

    You got to understand cybertron got unlucky throughout this tournament but still won from pure skills until the end where luck is really needed and he got it.

  • @shiningbind90
    @shiningbind90 Год назад +347

    Imagine getting out-lucked by the man who missed 5 will-o-wisps in a row?

    • @SunshineRey
      @SunshineRey Год назад +24

      Nah, that’s just his luck averaging out. If Aaron “Cybertron” Zheng can hit five 25% misses, he can hit one 6.25% chance crit. (Edit: thank you for the correction, Megarotom)

    • @megarotom1590
      @megarotom1590 Год назад +3

      @@SunshineRey no the miss is 10%, the crit is 1/16

    • @CasualPizza
      @CasualPizza Год назад +3

      @@megarotom1590 it's 25%, will o wisp was 75% acc in gen 5. it got buffed to 85% acc next gen

    • @SunshineRey
      @SunshineRey Год назад

      @@CasualPizza they are talking about the last pokemon chess game. They are right, I just mixed up the percents when typing.

    • @CasualPizza
      @CasualPizza Год назад

      @@SunshineRey oh alr

  • @MoaDib27
    @MoaDib27 Год назад +96

    The fact that Alpha lost because he didn't play around the crit it's beautiful

  • @blazedoesart7465
    @blazedoesart7465 Год назад +2

    The end of this video is so freaking good, the classical music paired with a moment that really comes full circle, it's hilarious

  • @darthsquidward3092
    @darthsquidward3092 Год назад +1

    I love your choice of putting classical materpiece music in the background.

  • @joethegreat7242
    @joethegreat7242 Год назад +94

    He really tried stalling indefinitely, this is the most pokemon moment of all time.

  • @haelstrom101
    @haelstrom101 Год назад +255

    Of all the times lady luck decided she wasn't gonna help you, it had to be for $1000

  • @Pacnakes
    @Pacnakes Год назад +281

    Sometimes it feels like Alpharad is the villain of the internet, and he is.

  • @waks2001
    @waks2001 Год назад +6

    the pain of loseing 2.2 seconds away from winning. my heart goes out to you

  • @ren_suzugamori1427
    @ren_suzugamori1427 Год назад +6

    Truly, Alpharad was on a winning streak. He was getting so close! And all it took was a lucky critical hit to have that dream come crumbling down like the tower of Babel.

  • @galagatorgames1317
    @galagatorgames1317 Год назад +154

    This video has proven that not even Alpharad's luck is infinite

    • @TigerBrows
      @TigerBrows Год назад

      If you think about it, a 6% chance is pretty lucky...

    • @TY-Ch
      @TY-Ch Год назад

      PChal: He should've played around the crit!

  • @bawpt1590
    @bawpt1590 Год назад +66

    A man known for his luck against a man known for his bad luck was truly fitting for the finals

  • @Vernias
    @Vernias Год назад +31

    I would ask for the runback but there's no chance I'm ever coming back from all those blunders 😭

  • @grizzlygaming801
    @grizzlygaming801 Год назад +3

    I love that in the clip at 2:38 where he says out of danger into danger that he shows a clip of danger into danger. XD

  • @joshbreekveldt3741
    @joshbreekveldt3741 Год назад

    I know nobody asked for or let alone cares about the names of the background music, but anyway, here goes:
    00:00 The Blue Danube Waltz, Johann Strauss II.
    00:16 Winter, Antonio Vivaldi.
    1:26 Trepak, The Nutcracker, Pyotr Tchaikovsky.
    2:02 don’t know.
    2:28 Moonlight Sonata, 3rd movement, Ludwig van Beethoven.
    3:06 Carmen (Overture), Georges Bizet.
    3:50 Ride of the valkyries, Wagner.
    4:34 Nocturne op.9 No.2, Frederich Chopin.
    5:55 La Marseillaise, French national anthem, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (I think)
    9:00 1812 overture, Pyotyr Tchaikovsky.
    Please feel free to correct me or add any other classical pieces I might have missed.

  • @RyRothwell
    @RyRothwell Год назад +255

    I love this game now I am actually obsessed playing this with friends

    • @RyeBread08
      @RyeBread08 Год назад +1

      Where can you play it?

    • @zack5162
      @zack5162 Год назад +5

      ​@@RyeBread08if you find little zs video on it, he has it in the video's link

    • @Lyra_dragonal
      @Lyra_dragonal Год назад

      ​@@RyeBread08 Google, you need to create a room and share the code tho

    • @RyeBread08
      @RyeBread08 Год назад

      @@zack5162 ok thank you 👍

  • @therandomguyonyoutube6415
    @therandomguyonyoutube6415 Год назад +278

    This was a real Alpharad moment

    • @infiniteworld3981
      @infiniteworld3981 Год назад +5

      This was a real Alpharad video.

    • @Sjors_
      @Sjors_ Год назад +3

      Truly the Alpharad moment of all time

  • @Cochu
    @Cochu Год назад +160

    Aaron winning with luck feels incredibly poetic

    • @justzanu9338
      @justzanu9338 Год назад +1

      After many misses on super effective take lol

    • @lohchong4862
      @lohchong4862 6 месяцев назад

      Stupid crit

  • @aroseinbloom1
    @aroseinbloom1 Год назад +11

    I do think Jacob's biggest weakness in this game is his cockiness. I feel like that's what keeps him being a relatively average competitive Pokemon chess player, every time he does alright he acts like he's invincible. He's like the real life Pit: mid tier with an Icarus complex.

    • @CyanPlushCaptain
      @CyanPlushCaptain Год назад +2

      I guess you could say that he, *flew too close to the sun.*

  • @ehx3419
    @ehx3419 Год назад

    Honestly, I feel like a proper Pokémon Chess has potential:
    - Every piece has a Pokémon attached to it, moves and stats and all.
    - When a piece moves onto an enemy piece's tile, instead of capturing that piece immediately, it "confronts" that piece.
    - When a piece confronts another piece, they initiate battle where the loser is captured.
    - The confronting piece gets some sort of buff, and/or the confronted piece gets a debuff.
    - Optional: 2 pieces of the same team can also move onto the same space to join up. Joined-up pieces change their movement pattern between the involved pieces every turn, and their Pokémon can switch out for each other in battle. Pieces can only join up into pairs or (extra optional subrule) into trios.
    - Optional (requires the rule above): Joined-up pieces get promoted differently. Once promoted, they can move as either of the involved pieces at all times, and can choose between fighting normally or in Double Battles. Trio pieces (if allowed) can be promoted twice. The first time, they can move as 2 of the 3 pieces each round and can do Double Battles. When promoted twice, they can move as any of the 3 pieces and also do Triple and Rotary Battles.

  • @antokaknee
    @antokaknee Год назад +77

    Alpharad losing due to luck is irony at it’s finest

    • @WiiMote070
      @WiiMote070 11 месяцев назад

      What's more ironic, that or the fact that it was Cybertron who benefited?

  • @howdy4504
    @howdy4504 Год назад +78

    This is actually a brilliant evolution (pun intended) of chess. It adds more strategy and an element of chaos to make it so interesting. 10/10

  • @joaofelipesiqueira21
    @joaofelipesiqueira21 Год назад +22

    I just imagined Magnus Carlsen losing the Chess World Championship Finals to a critical hit and bursted out laughing, truly a superior form of chess is being played here

  • @vincentthought6130
    @vincentthought6130 Год назад +3

    You can’t even be mad at that ending. Cyber deserves the win with that gamble.

  • @Infinity2-Gorpie
    @Infinity2-Gorpie Год назад +1

    I swear, this man is Icarus, but with infinitely regenerating wings, solely so he could burn them again

  • @Nexu5z0
    @Nexu5z0 Год назад +58

    Imagine pokemon chess becoming actually competitive and having other tournaments

  • @hudson9195
    @hudson9195 Год назад +99

    I understand the rage Alpha felt but, GOD DAMN, that was an AWESOME final move

    • @Auriel_1337
      @Auriel_1337 Год назад

      I don't understand what happened. Alpha's king was still alive. How else do you win in chess?

    • @TheKeeperofWisdom
      @TheKeeperofWisdom Год назад

      @@Auriel_1337 Cybertron won since he got that 6% chance of a crit, letting his rook move again. Since Alpharad's king was right next to the rook it was a victory.

  • @Dinoxdeath
    @Dinoxdeath Год назад +28

    Everyone in the comments already said how beautifully cursed this was, so I'd like to take a moment to ask the editors to perhaps turn down the music a bit since there is no subtitles. Although subtitles would be great anyway and that way more people can watch the video! Closed caption really really doesn't do the trick and I found it quite hard to follow with so much stuff going on, so who knows how many genius moves I missed!

  • @bananaman4948
    @bananaman4948 Год назад

    The fact that at 7:50 1812 overture was playing which is a song about a war that got turned on its head is a good touch

  • @Onyx-tn1pj
    @Onyx-tn1pj 2 месяца назад

    0:26 I listen to classic music while studying so thank you for Winter it’s the best of his season in my opinion

  • @Xidphel
    @Xidphel Год назад +20

    Alpharad: "Unfortunate" doesn't begin to describe my series, this game rewards blind luck and nothing else, I am beyond convinced at this point.

    • @iantaakalla8180
      @iantaakalla8180 Год назад +1

      Alpharad proceeds to become a chess player and also a fanfic writer of The Stormlight Archives (the person who wrote this monologue of a rage quit was a fan of The Stormlight Archives)

  • @MoonbeamPony
    @MoonbeamPony Год назад +14

    Okay, but knowing Alpharad, that ending was the best possible conclusion. That was peak content.

  • @jinjer420
    @jinjer420 Год назад +18

    I love how he uses classical music since chess is deemed a sophisticated and intelligent sport.

  • @pokylyte96
    @pokylyte96 Год назад +5

    The critical hit from cybertron of all people still gives me chills

  • @LTGnothing
    @LTGnothing 8 месяцев назад +1

    It wouldn’t be an alpharad video if something didn’t go horribly wrong

  • @treeninja8924
    @treeninja8924 Год назад +31

    Anytime anyone references cybertron, it’s so funny that it always ends with the clip of will-o-wisp missing 5 times (or a joke abt missing)

  • @kidvega0450
    @kidvega0450 Год назад +10

    This is a reminder that even the internet funny man is truly not the protagonist of every single one of his videos. I felt the pain at the end of the video.

  • @johnmartinez8580
    @johnmartinez8580 Год назад +25

    Wow, I wasn't expecting it to end like that. It hurts, man

  • @hallowed4570
    @hallowed4570 Год назад

    Alpharad is canonically the unluckiest main protagonist ever to exist

  • @lektornese
    @lektornese Год назад +5

    Im so glad to see Aaron get a good rng roll. I swear he would have won words that year if the whisp hit

  • @Terrabyte13
    @Terrabyte13 Год назад +12

    Can't wait for Pchall to react to this and tell him he should have played around the crit

  • @TKHedgeHog
    @TKHedgeHog Год назад +29

    That last play was the VERY DEFINITION of an icarus moment

  • @Retro_Acted
    @Retro_Acted Год назад +14

    If you told me Alpha would turn into the biggest PokeTuber 5 years ago I would have laughed. But here we are.

  • @kiro9291
    @kiro9291 Год назад

    the victini in the thumbnail looks like it is having the most prolonged edging session of its life

  • @sponge5
    @sponge5 Год назад +1

    The classic Pokémon blunder - you didn’t play around the crit

  • @Kryzx_.
    @Kryzx_. Год назад +15

    Pokemon chess is one of the most chaotic and amazing thing's ive ever seen

  • @KingDJ524
    @KingDJ524 Год назад +16

    Glad to see Chess finally get some DLC

  • @awes5893
    @awes5893 Год назад +7

    Alpha losing because of luck, and against Cybertron at that, is absolutely insane!
    Also, love the cheeky nod to Cybertron's bad luck knowing full well how this tale ends.

  • @exavend1149
    @exavend1149 Год назад

    Really great video! loved the music choice and the ending.

  • @soot.mp3
    @soot.mp3 Год назад +1

    Awesome video, Alpha! Can't wait to see your next video on Pokemon Chess Boxing!

  • @MrWeegee
    @MrWeegee Год назад +6

    The music choices in this video just make so much sense I love it

  • @CreativeUsername1997
    @CreativeUsername1997 Год назад +26

    I’ve already seen the Little Z video, so I’m excited to see your painful… painful 2nd place all over again.

  • @bwyndir
    @bwyndir Год назад +6

    always love Alpha's storytelling

  • @courtneyevie
    @courtneyevie 5 месяцев назад

    it's insulting to lose to luck, but it's even more insulting to lose to cybertron's luck.

  • @windee5714
    @windee5714 Год назад +1

    I love watching my favorite 7 creators and alpharad suffer by playing modded chess

  • @demo4914
    @demo4914 Год назад +10

    9:40 "Unfortunate" doesn't begin to describe my series, this game rewards blind luck and nothing else, I am beyond convinced at this point. After getting completely tooled by scheduling with my opponent changing times on me last minute and refusing to provide confirmation prior to the day of the match as to play times, losing this way somehow felt even worse than I had thought possible. My preparation was superior, my play was superior, and I lost, so I don't see a reason to continue engaging in an activity where what is within my control is overwhelmingly outweighed by what is not. I am done with competitive Pokemon, and you won't get a fond farewell. This community is infected to its roots with a degenerative disease that grows stronger over time but stops short of killing its host. Tournaments used to have a competitive spirit at their heart, this has been transplanted and replaced with an artificial organ that feeds on vitriol and mockery from insecure little boys that heckle by the sidelines and tear each other to shreds over scraps of attention. The environment we fostered has trapped us all like this in a vicious cycle, and escaping it requires acceptance of the harshest reality we all scramble to explain away, that none of the countless straining efforts we put ourselves through here will ever amount to one single shining glimmer of significance. I would make this the end, but World Cup is still ongoing, and I would never leave so many great friends out to dry, so I'll suffer through a few more games for them. One last thing before I leave you all to react with disdain, ridicule, and self-righteous fervor, before you do everything in your power to minimize my words and thoughts, box them up and shove them to some cobwebbed corner of your memory, and hope they disappear forever as a stain on your finite time ground to dust. From this moment on, nothing you say matters to me. The foulest insults you hurl with intent to wound will calmly settle at the earth before my feet, and the venom you spit will bring all the pain of a warm summer breeze. You are less than anything you can conceive, while I carry on, brimming with joy distilled from detachment.

  • @ninjaslicertheguardian6433
    @ninjaslicertheguardian6433 Год назад +8

    I was about to say I didn’t really get how he lost but now I do so for those who might not understand: Cybertron hit a Crit on the piece blocking Alpha’s king meaning he could go again for free, hence his loss.

    • @Derfalken
      @Derfalken Год назад

      I was confused too. I know the crit gives him an extra move, but theoretically, couldn't he move his rook away for some dumb reason? I figured the game would make cybertron capture the king instead of just calling it there.

    • @Karomix3
      @Karomix3 Год назад

      With which piece did he do that exactly? Explain which pokemon he moved please?

    • @michaelvalentinoyo1259
      @michaelvalentinoyo1259 Год назад +1

      ​@@Karomix3 he used his rook to take the piece guarding alpha's king and got a crit to take the king.

  • @ReikuYin
    @ReikuYin Год назад +7

    That ending was.. Was just so poetic.... I would be doing FLIPS. Good old crit RNG to the rescue again....

  • @pulsestar1053
    @pulsestar1053 Год назад +1

    the last one was like losing a nuzlocke to the final elite four member or champion

  • @adark1289
    @adark1289 Год назад

    It was on this day that Alpharad learned he was, in fact, not the main character.

  • @tonyblock721
    @tonyblock721 Год назад +17

    This version of chess has a ton of potential plays, as seemingly you get to pick the typing of every piece! Would love to be able to play this and experiment

  • @kabuto1584
    @kabuto1584 Год назад +7

    It is weird how luck is Jacob's biggest ally and enemy

  • @runic6668
    @runic6668 Год назад +6

    Damn, should've played around the crit
    Fr love the content, also damn that was such fitting music for the backing tracks

  • @floricel_112
    @floricel_112 Год назад +4

    0:30 honestly....that just sounds like someone added the gimmick of checkers to chess

  • @bluntizard4481
    @bluntizard4481 Год назад +1

    9:18 Alpharad trying to use stall to win. In chess. 😂

  • @covex908
    @covex908 Год назад +6

    Seeing Pokémon and chess combine is very interesting and not knowing anything about chess only makes it more interesting

  • @fiqures1529
    @fiqures1529 Год назад +6

    Hey Alpha, would you be able to put a music list in your future videos? You seem to have the right songs for every scenario

  • @darianramos344
    @darianramos344 Год назад +4

    Literally just finished the little Z video and was wondering when I’d get to see your perspective

  • @josephwilliams5292
    @josephwilliams5292 Год назад

    Alpharad discovered competitive Pokémon chess and signed a dark pact with Big Stall

  • @fambi1271
    @fambi1271 Год назад

    I know everyone knows Jacob's The Score King™ but the music choices are so good in this vid

  • @CaseyLabAnimations
    @CaseyLabAnimations Год назад +5

    As always, alpharad's luck works in the funniest way possible. In the end, luck was against him