@@owenaspinall2046 Walrein only won 1 time and the fairyless win had Urshifu, Arcanine-H, Togedemaru, Weavile, Latios and Absol, unless there was another fairyless attempt that made it with Walrein you're wrong...
honestly having high special defense is REALLY nice considering 3/4 of this thing's weaknesses are generally special-oriented types. and having bad defense isn't as bad considering that 4th weakness is easily covered by pult. if he's forced to take a special hit in an emergency there are a lot more threats to it there based on typing than there are from the physical side, so he can scale HP and kinda be fine.
There is something just amazing about getting shit encounters the whole run, and enjoying the content and the crazy cook, for him to finally get rewarded with a guy
I've been playing casually, and I can't imagine the stress of doing this as a nuzlocke. It's genuinely amazing watching you play through this, seeing (and stealing) your strategies, and just being able to enjoy the steers and the well executed fights. Hope this run goes all the way, and I'm excited for New Game-!
Plato is a girl. Although - this name creates a multilingual pun, since “Plato” is Greek for “broad.” Broad being somewhat old-timey slang for a woman. Plato is also a really good name for a bear because Plato was a wrestler and used his wrestling name - we don’t actually know Plato’s given name. We’re basically citing the teachings of THICC every time we talk about Plato.
Me, chanting as he runs around for encounter: "Guts-a-luna, Guts-a-luna, Guts-a-luna !" Pchal: Gets Guts-a-luna Me, lying through my teeth out loud: "I helped !"
Is it ? I'm so sorry if I've forgotten you, but do I know you ? I don't recognize your channel, but also why is it wild to see me anyway ? I'm a (bad) nuzlocker, why wouldn't I be a fan of the best nuzlocker in the world ?
Plato for ursaluna is actually perfect because Plato literally means “broad-shouldered” and Plato was a jacked wrestler who would literally flex on his philosophical opponents when he was losing an argument.
Those two seafloor cavern steers were some of the best this whole run. The steers that you emerge deathless from are so satisfying. I get that they really hurt after a 6 hour cook, but damn, they sure make for a great video.
It’s a stretch but I love the name Plato for Ursaluna because it makes me think of “Play Dough” which is similar to peat which is used to evolve Ursaluna. Either way I’m excited to see where things go :)
Im a bit skeptical at this point when anyone says an encounter is bad when weve seen how resourceful and innovative pchal has been with a lot of supposedly bad encounters this run.
24:50 i actually experienced this myself this weekend, thank you for saying this my friend and I just beat our black and white soul link after 9 attempts and over a year of playing (off and on, obviously. i have college and he has work) and we were just so ready to be done. when we got to the E4, we didn't play the game for 2 days bc we would just meet up and cook our lines, ended up being a total of 9 hours for each of us cooking our own E4, N and Ghetsis fights. and the lines felt super good to have found unfortunately, i guess our understanding of the switch-in AI isnt exactly what we expected and both had to steer in a couple fights despite our meticulous planning, and idk about on my partner's side but i definitely could have lost the run on a couple of bad RNG calls. but i was literally nauseous the whole time doing this E4-N-Ghetsis gauntlet because of exactly this, the feeling of having to steer when everything should have been accounted for is SO demoralizing-- especially in a context where the result matters to other people too, like a soul link or a stream
That's an interesting thing about bad nuzlocke encounters, I was doing a blazing emerald nuzlocke and got a whismer on the route before rustboro tunnel, which is normally really bad, but that dupe gave me a technician hitmonlee from tunnel which made the first two gyms completely free
3:52 What is the significance of Ursaluna and Dragapult being on the encounter table twice? It seems like all the abilities and stats are the same, so why are they duplicated? Why isn't Ursaluna just 15% instead of Ursa 10% + Ursa 5% both being on there?
might be wrong, but it has to do with fitting all of the allowed slots of 12 pokemon per table. 12 for land encounters, 10 for fishing, and 5 for surfing.
can someone explain roamer encounters to me ? i’ve seen other vids/streamers having thunderous and such, is that possible for him to get as a roamer later?
"Plato" is actually perfect. It's a nickname that means "broad" and may have been given to him by his wrestling coach on account of his broad shoulder. You truly could not find a better name for a jacked dude who lives in a cave.
There's a Key Item in the game, called the Scanner. It does nothing for the player; it's just a quest mcguffin. After obtaining it from the Abandoned Ship, you're supposed to give it to Capt. Stern, and he'll give you something in exchange, letting you choose between multiple items. In the vanilla game, those items are the DeepSeaTooth and DeepSeaScale, held items useful to Clamperl. In Run & Bun, trading away the Scanner instead lets you get any one of several especially powerful held items like the Choice Band, Choice Scarf or Leftovers, and after you make the trade you can visit Capt. Stern later and exchange the item you chose for any one other item in the list. Jan broke the logic of this by using Skill Swap against Tate & Liza to steal a Leftovers item, so he has two of the items you can exchange the Scanner for.
Choice Specs/Band/Scarf, Leftovers, and Assault Vest. They're held items, the reason that they're called scanner items in R&B is because you trade the scanner key item for one in Slateport. You're allowed to freely swap between them, you're just normally limited to one of them so you have to decide which one you want to use on each fight. (Jan has two scanner items because he did the leftovers heist on T&L. It's technically possible to get three of them by stealing the lead Tapu Lele's AV on Liza, but I don't think anyone has even tried for it in a nuzlocke. It's hard to get even in a casual play-through.)
The scanner quest from the main game gives you a choice between the choice items, assault vest and leftovers. You can swap them out anytime. With the Hoopa Heist, we can now have two at a time
man im struggling with vanilla emerald hc nuzlocke and i got a swellow on 115 after norman just to lose her and other 2 mons to a freaking optional double battle against 6 mons on an optional route near abandoned ship to get a damn star piece. i got hard countered by their team bc i left my main team in the box bc damn flannery norman and winona all have so tight level cap. yt frog moment i guess. hope Jan will bring his Ursaluna to the E4.
Absol is e4 viable for sure, Walrein has been taken twice, and Greninja and Exca have been brought before but maybe not for Jan due to Absol and Ursa overlap respectively
@@gabrielpasqualini8413 Sandbox runs (infinite heart scales but 1dr) aren't on the HoF sheet. Jo Ferr's sandbox run won with a Walrein (and a Donphan and Ferrothorn, two never before champed mons).
No dark shifu, no slowbro leppa recycle stall, no OP water fairy, no game corner jirachi - feels like seafloor will be nothing in comparison to the like 2 weeks of e4 calcing this run would end with
Man I sure hope the video titled “Run-Deciding Encounter” results in finding Wyrdeer dupes for 30 minutes in a row…
oh hi finch
I love finch comments on pChal videos.
There‘s a reason it‘s not titled „This Encounter Saves the Run“
Unfortunately you can't just ban the opposing Trainer's Pokemon you think are unfair in a Nuzlocke ):
@@FreeTendiesFantasy Dekzeh actually came from Smogon, sadly his genius spans beyond our mortal comprehension
Guts abuser ✔
Named after an Ancient Greek figure✔
Saves the run✔
Died Aqua Hideout
Born Cave of Origin
Welcome back Pythagoras
Saw that before I saw the encounter and it spoiled it for me, but I don't mind spoilers like that honestly
Welcome back. We missed you.
hes gonna die to a miscalculation
The spirit lives on
name starts with p ✔️
I can't believe he wiped to 6 choice band explosion Electrodes
The last one having special ai to explode despite being the last mon was nuts
Dragapult dying to Explosion is insane
@@misalignedmisanthropist Jan really should have played around Explosion bug
Classic M Night Shyamalan-esque twist ending. 5/5 stars.
nawh my person, the REALLY insane part is they all had Guts and each one of them terastralized normal.
I cant believe he got Pilot 2: Ground Control
Mission control minimized all risk of lightning strikes
@@flygawnebardoflight now needs to worry about seismic activity while underground.
The Pilot is actually Dragapult. Amelia Earhart was a pilot
ursaluna's sprite looks blazed out of his mind
Jan: Nidoqueen, draglage, and walrein are all on the chopping block
Nidoqueen, Dragalge, and Walrein: Father, why have you forsaken me?
In your eyes forsaken me
In your thoughts forsaken me
Walrein is a 2x e4 mon, one of which is maybe the only fairyless e4, which Jan might need.
@@owenaspinall2046 Walrein only won 1 time and the fairyless win had Urshifu, Arcanine-H, Togedemaru, Weavile, Latios and Absol, unless there was another fairyless attempt that made it with Walrein you're wrong...
Queen is on borrowed time right now, she was saved by a hair last time but her usefulness is running thin
@@gabrielpasqualini8413 It was Jo_ferr's sandbox E4 that made it fairyless and with Walrein, then again it was a sandbox so that helps
LMAO the dance when he saw attack and speed IVs ☠️
honestly having high special defense is REALLY nice considering 3/4 of this thing's weaknesses are generally special-oriented types. and having bad defense isn't as bad considering that 4th weakness is easily covered by pult. if he's forced to take a special hit in an emergency there are a lot more threats to it there based on typing than there are from the physical side, so he can scale HP and kinda be fine.
jan gotta be a dark type the way he resists mental damage
Plato was actually a nickname given to him, meaning "Broad". Our boy was a giga chad wrestler, pretty fitting for the big bear
A German called a Serbian guy "Russian" and all of Europe had to take a quick, calming breath
gotta start calling him belgian
Spoiler: you’re going to have a good day, gamer, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
How dare you
There is something just amazing about getting shit encounters the whole run, and enjoying the content and the crazy cook, for him to finally get rewarded with a guy
"Nikola Tesla's a Russian guy..."
*pChal used Confusion*
It was super effective!
I've been playing casually, and I can't imagine the stress of doing this as a nuzlocke. It's genuinely amazing watching you play through this, seeing (and stealing) your strategies, and just being able to enjoy the steers and the well executed fights.
Hope this run goes all the way, and I'm excited for New Game-!
still looking for the porn bot to use as a spoiler blocker
probably got reported
Pchal at the start of every attempt: Can't wait to cook those fights
Pchal in lategame attempts: This game is cooking me
Oh how the turn tables
we went from a turtle run to a bear run
The deer scaled so hard actually.
This run has been hype af, but I can’t say I won’t be a bit sad if it wins cause that means no more run & bun.
New game plus
NEW GAME PLUS BABY
Wow I can't believe *INSERT SPOILER HERE* happened! Incredible!
Win or lose, I have had so so so much fun watching this. One of my favorite channels on YT right now for sure.
I can't believe he wiped to the lack of universal healthcare
broiler spocker
You mean 1 catch for a whole video ans no fight?yea BIG SPOILER
XxTheBladex@ this "encounter" is what deciding if this run is even possible it's a big deal
Stfu we hate spoiler blockers
@@Js-eq7yd STFU some people do like them
Plato is a girl.
Although - this name creates a multilingual pun, since “Plato” is Greek for “broad.” Broad being somewhat old-timey slang for a woman.
Plato is also a really good name for a bear because Plato was a wrestler and used his wrestling name - we don’t actually know Plato’s given name. We’re basically citing the teachings of THICC every time we talk about Plato.
3 fold joke i love it
Thanks Jan for the daily 11pm uploads, content is great and means a lot to my school sleep schedule!
Hello fellow Eastern Standard Timer
Not me on NZ standard time at 1am each day
@@helennice91I woke up not too long ago and now watching it at 3am in the morning because I can’t go back to sleep 😂🤦🏽♂️
Me, chanting as he runs around for encounter: "Guts-a-luna, Guts-a-luna, Guts-a-luna !"
Pchal: Gets Guts-a-luna
Me, lying through my teeth out loud: "I helped !"
wild to see you in this comment section
Is it ? I'm so sorry if I've forgotten you, but do I know you ? I don't recognize your channel, but also why is it wild to see me anyway ? I'm a (bad) nuzlocker, why wouldn't I be a fan of the best nuzlocker in the world ?
Plato for ursaluna is actually perfect because Plato literally means “broad-shouldered” and Plato was a jacked wrestler who would literally flex on his philosophical opponents when he was losing an argument.
Plato just leapt out of Cave of Origin of Jan's future victory.
Those two seafloor cavern steers were some of the best this whole run. The steers that you emerge deathless from are so satisfying. I get that they really hurt after a 6 hour cook, but damn, they sure make for a great video.
It’s a stretch but I love the name Plato for Ursaluna because it makes me think of “Play Dough” which is similar to peat which is used to evolve Ursaluna. Either way I’m excited to see where things go :)
Im a bit skeptical at this point when anyone says an encounter is bad when weve seen how resourceful and innovative pchal has been with a lot of supposedly bad encounters this run.
From turtles carrying one of his previous runs to bears carrying this run, he has ascended
The all-caps "SEXISM" in chat at 17:24 when streamer locks in Plato instead of Catherine the Great xD
If this run wins it will be the craziest run recap vid
24:50 i actually experienced this myself this weekend, thank you for saying this
my friend and I just beat our black and white soul link after 9 attempts and over a year of playing (off and on, obviously. i have college and he has work) and we were just so ready to be done. when we got to the E4, we didn't play the game for 2 days bc we would just meet up and cook our lines, ended up being a total of 9 hours for each of us cooking our own E4, N and Ghetsis fights. and the lines felt super good to have found
unfortunately, i guess our understanding of the switch-in AI isnt exactly what we expected and both had to steer in a couple fights despite our meticulous planning, and idk about on my partner's side but i definitely could have lost the run on a couple of bad RNG calls. but i was literally nauseous the whole time doing this E4-N-Ghetsis gauntlet because of exactly this, the feeling of having to steer when everything should have been accounted for is SO demoralizing-- especially in a context where the result matters to other people too, like a soul link or a stream
Hello, we’re so back department? I’d like to file a claim 🔥🔥🔥
Tesla is Serbian :(
Joke: Tesla is Serbian
Broke: Tesla is Croatian
Bespoke: Tesla is Bosnian
Awoke: Tesla is American
Man the "How I beat the hardest Emerald romhack" video from THIS RUN is going to fucking nuclear, I love it
This has become the only piece of media out there that i would legit get mad if i was spoiled
Haven’t seen Jan so excited in a very long time
The Dreepy encounter was overshadowed by the Pyre Tag battle pressure
Dude this encounter got me so hyped! Its about time man! ggs
Watching the frag animation at the end made the loss of Heracross hurt that much more. At least Plato is here to clean up shop.
is this the mythical scaling I’ve heard so much about?
Welp, this series was really fun but looks like gg now. really wp run Jan, will look forward to watching whatever you grind next :)
Not me screaming Laika at the screen for 5 solid minutes
"Pult in the top 5 now" Shows chart with Pult at #6
Plato was his stage name for his wrestling career. Plato in Greek translates to "The Broad" because he was just built like that apparently
That's an interesting thing about bad nuzlocke encounters, I was doing a blazing emerald nuzlocke and got a whismer on the route before rustboro tunnel, which is normally really bad, but that dupe gave me a technician hitmonlee from tunnel which made the first two gyms completely free
Dis gonna be a good one to watch when I'm down
Dying to crit ice beam every single damn time lmao
3 months of work aint gone, you made 3 months of daily vids, and we here at pChal Daily appreciate that.
Damn can't believe he wiped to a wild Magikarp with flail!!!!
What’s the difference between say the 10% Ursaluna in the encounter table, and the 5% one?
Initial level, if I had to guess. So like a 10% chance to be level 82-84, and a 5% chance to be level 86.
Nothing. They're split up like that because that's how encounter tables are coded in game.
I just realised is the song from hades in the background isn't it?
3:52 What is the significance of Ursaluna and Dragapult being on the encounter table twice? It seems like all the abilities and stats are the same, so why are they duplicated? Why isn't Ursaluna just 15% instead of Ursa 10% + Ursa 5% both being on there?
might be wrong, but it has to do with fitting all of the allowed slots of 12 pokemon per table. 12 for land encounters, 10 for fishing, and 5 for surfing.
Wilhelm set the stage for Plato to ball out in late game.
we got that scoliosis bear🔥🔥🔥cant tank anything but he got ridiculous offenses
the encounter is a pokemon used to beat PChal at a certain pokemon tournament two years ago, so I think rtgame should advise him on how to use it
can someone explain roamer encounters to me ? i’ve seen other vids/streamers having thunderous and such, is that possible for him to get as a roamer later?
Plato was my childhood cats name, and he was a chonky boi. Gives me hope for this run!
Ok but why is the music so good today
The music is from a really cool greek mythology inspired action roguelike game called Hades made by Supergiant games. Would definitely recommend.
Hades soundtrack
Anyone remember which pchal daily video Heracross died in? I forget the details of how that happened
Plato was also known to be a massive dude who wrestled. Ursaluna fits that name
What is the website to see the encounters and movements?
so question what are the legendaries replaced with in this game?
"Plato" is actually perfect. It's a nickname that means "broad" and may have been given to him by his wrestling coach on account of his broad shoulder. You truly could not find a better name for a jacked dude who lives in a cave.
That'll do ~~pig~~ bear, that'll do.
What song is playing while he looks at the encounter around 9 minutes? It rules
I believe that’s from the Hades soundtrack, not sure which one specifically
plato was a bodybuilder no? like he would flex his muscles to win arguments
How could he wipe to Hiker Mike?
That damage calc is nuts holy shit
bro called nikola tesla russian aintnoway
quick ball is so goated bro
What is a double scanner ? 😅
I can't believe he didn't name it Grau
I can’t believe he wiped to 6 roggenrola in a trench coat
No fight 35min, but atleast that means no astma gasps
Damn i was yelling Catherine at the screen so badly😅
Who from the current box is E4 material?
Not a single battle and still this video was entertaining to watch for me.
pokemon players when anything gmax is an option on pokedoku:
We got the other bear
guys what does he mean by "double scanner items"
What are the scanner items? And what do they do?
There's a Key Item in the game, called the Scanner. It does nothing for the player; it's just a quest mcguffin. After obtaining it from the Abandoned Ship, you're supposed to give it to Capt. Stern, and he'll give you something in exchange, letting you choose between multiple items.
In the vanilla game, those items are the DeepSeaTooth and DeepSeaScale, held items useful to Clamperl. In Run & Bun, trading away the Scanner instead lets you get any one of several especially powerful held items like the Choice Band, Choice Scarf or Leftovers, and after you make the trade you can visit Capt. Stern later and exchange the item you chose for any one other item in the list.
Jan broke the logic of this by using Skill Swap against Tate & Liza to steal a Leftovers item, so he has two of the items you can exchange the Scanner for.
Choice Specs/Band/Scarf, Leftovers, and Assault Vest. They're held items, the reason that they're called scanner items in R&B is because you trade the scanner key item for one in Slateport. You're allowed to freely swap between them, you're just normally limited to one of them so you have to decide which one you want to use on each fight.
(Jan has two scanner items because he did the leftovers heist on T&L. It's technically possible to get three of them by stealing the lead Tapu Lele's AV on Liza, but I don't think anyone has even tried for it in a nuzlocke. It's hard to get even in a casual play-through.)
The scanner quest from the main game gives you a choice between the choice items, assault vest and leftovers.
You can swap them out anytime. With the Hoopa Heist, we can now have two at a time
We scale from here boizz...please lets clear those 10 trainers
I’m so here for a new encounter EV checking
I can’t believe he wiped to Denmark in Round 2
Does this mean Vermeer saved the run by being the best dupe ever?
Mega mawile not good ? How is 105 atk huge power steel fairy not good ? Maybe I'm missing something ahah
I just want to add, as i watched this, I was currently taking a break from reading plato
man im struggling with vanilla emerald hc nuzlocke and i got a swellow on 115 after norman just to lose her and other 2 mons to a freaking optional double battle against 6 mons on an optional route near abandoned ship to get a damn star piece. i got hard countered by their team bc i left my main team in the box bc damn flannery norman and winona all have so tight level cap. yt frog moment i guess. hope Jan will bring his Ursaluna to the E4.
Bears in the building, LET'S GO!
I really need chat to be over game window in calc mode. Chat is funny c: community is important
i want to see chat reaction to Yawn's commentary i feel like itd add a lot to otherwise stale frames zzzz
FINALLY, now I can start my day
Three E4 mons now? Doom, pult and Luna
Absol is e4 viable for sure, Walrein has been taken twice, and Greninja and Exca have been brought before but maybe not for Jan due to Absol and Ursa overlap respectively
@@owenaspinall2046 Walrein only won once according to the HoF
@@gabrielpasqualini8413 Sandbox runs (infinite heart scales but 1dr) aren't on the HoF sheet. Jo Ferr's sandbox run won with a Walrein (and a Donphan and Ferrothorn, two never before champed mons).
“Wyrdeer’s the goat, it saved the run” and now Ursaluna? Plus hoping to geta Sneasler? So what I’m hearing is don’t mess with Hisui pokemon
WE WERE DUE!!
No dark shifu, no slowbro leppa recycle stall, no OP water fairy, no game corner jirachi - feels like seafloor will be nothing in comparison to the like 2 weeks of e4 calcing this run would end with
That bear sprite is so bad 😂
This is such a cool run, Jan! I really liked the part where you CAUGHT URSALUNA.