Can these YouTubers BEAT Pokémon Emerald Kaizo?

A few months back, I challenged four KZbinrs to BEAT Pokémon Emerald Kaizo's first gym leader...this time I wanted to see if they could beat the next TWO gym leaders in one of the hardest Pokémon games ever, Pokémon Emerald Kaizo. I invited cjya, Jaiden Animations, Small Ant, and WEEGEETHEGOD to find out which of these two had the skills to take down both Brawly AND Wattson in one of the hardest Pokémon challenges of all time.
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[@CaptainKiddYT]

Be sure to check out Drxx's video as well! kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5OTYnaKh9mAjLc

[@Jess-Cruz]

I beat this game a few times no nuzlocking it yet so no I wasn't gonna type what u thought lol great vidio very entertaining this game is hard af with some insane teams

[@unni_sloth]

Inviting Smallant to this video is like bringing a Gun to a Knife Fight.

[@CakeHound612]

Yeah I agree

[@JustDivine-zh6wd]

Literally, he is the one person I have seen that has beaten an entire pokemon game without being hit once

[@omnigamergt6216]

@@JustDivine-zh6wd i recomend gamechamp9000 they did a damageless pokemon red playthrough

[@Hayball1]

Inviting Pokémon challenges would be bring a nuke to the American revolution.

[@joshuamercer7572]

@@JustDivine-zh6wd gamechamp3000 also did a great video where she no-hit Pokemon Red without resetting, if you wanna check that out.

[@kevinsantos8439]

Captain Kidd: Flail Gyarados isn't gonna do much Flail Gyarados: hold my cheri berry

[@eggmcfuggin]

flail gyarados 2 mins later: yo bro ima need that berry back

[@XenoPyraXMythra]

Alternate title:We Watch SmallAnt Play Emerald Kaizo while everyone else gets cooked in the deep fryer by Brawly

[@abhinnbaxi6295]

😂😂😂

[@Ender41948]

Smant's both totally optimal and yet super creative in how he creates answers and builds his teams. I'd love to see him just play through EK.

[@T3Draco]

If you look back on his twitch vods he played radical red to around 4-5th gym if that interests you (he found it boring after that so I don't think he's finishing it)

[@davidhayden6481]

​@@T3DracoI suspect he'd have the same issue in Kaizo, however these days with infinite rare candies and berries being acceptable, maybe not. Those games are largely about grinding the perfect team over and over for a certain match.

[@montyeggman3075]

Alternate title: Let's Watch SmallAnt Play E.K.

[@JUMPYCOOL]

While everyone else gets crit by Brawly

[@DarkAoiishi]

@@JUMPYCOOL and paralyzed.... and flinched....

[@saoranachnah-alba723]

Tbf, Smant is the only onee of these people I care about.

[@jpluss6378]

Jaiden becomes the definition of insanity

[@MrWik0078]

thats why we love her

[@youngrootv]

Smant could legitimately beat Emerald Kaizo normally, but no need for anyone to willfully put themselves through that stress

[@Alex67893]

he put himself in a worst position by beating platinum without taking damage and reseting to last gym every time he took damage

[@joshbarba2225]

@@Alex67893 I argue that that challenge was more time consuming than difficult. At some point he just bikes 1million steps to get to lvl 100 and one shot everything. I'm sure he can beat emerald kaizo hardcore nuzlocked but it would be quite difficult for him I think.

[@Rarest26]

Jaiden and Weegee have revealed their inner masochism when accepting coming back after last time

[@brendan7030ify]

Hearing sweet and family friendly content creator jaiden repeatedly call the game "fucking bullshit" was magnificent

[@fletch-a-sketch9250]

I believe at one point she even said “butt-fucking bullshit” 😂

[@nicoerbschloe3575]

Smant's teambuilding was awesome and all, and he likely still wouldve won with luck like the others, but his run here is legendary not for skill, but for pure unadulterated Main Characterness.

[@nagitokomaeda4316]

Smallant truely is the Main character

[@llee_gg]

When he says "it won't happen to me because I'm lucky" and then it doesn't happen to him, I was like yeah he's the main character

[@safidraws9499]

Watching Smallant being the definition of "let him cook" is always so funny

[@tristanhackman9791]

Jaiden still being Miku warms my heart

[@MongooseJeffOfficial]

Jaiden Animation Animation is running real estate scam targeting elderly

[@otakuamerican5190]

Cj’s truly illustrates murphy’s law in these group challenge videos

[@Siinory]

Oh no... He tortured them again... Oh no, SmallAnt tortured the AI

[@mangocad189]

Smant is such a smart player, it’s really interesting to watch him play

[@TealZero]

The lesson we learned today was that announcing your moves/strategy like an anime protagonist will make you an anime protagonist. Congrats to SmAnt for winning, the rest for challenging him, and you for making the video

[@mardoonco.5796]

This is making me think smant should just do a run of this

[@vogas4117]

Everyone was getting crit and/or flinch spammed and SmallAnt was like "Oh look, a crit. Also the game just broke" 🤣🤣🤣

[@illegalmemedealer3549]

Smant yet again proving that luck is a skill

[@AWanderingSwordsman]

As soon as I saw the participants I felt that one of them wasn't like the others. No surprise the man who beat a pokemon game without taking any damage could easily blow through this competition.

[@jaykhan3191]

I swear, smant is blessed by the rng gods. I mean he's a phenom at video games, in general, but he usually has some crazy luck too

[@ichliebefireemblem7241]

Alternative title: Kirlia wipe compilation and Smallant breaks Wattson's AI

[@gofglida4155]

It would be fun to do another for flannery. It would be funny seeing the contestants try and use a water type in that gym.

[@juanrocollazo]

I brought a Sharpedo to that gym thinking I could spam water moves, and proceeded to spam Strength and Crunch after learning of the horrors that happen in there.

[@liviquail]

Idk anything about Emerald Kaizo, why don't Water types work on Flannery's gym? And why does Kirlia keep getting its ass beat in Brawley's gym? Do regular type strengths/weaknesses not apply to EK?

[@fenderdewit7520]

​@@liviquailkirlia is made out of paper it has 35 bade defense and 38 hp

[@liviquail]

@@fenderdewit7520 Oh okay

[@furiouscorgi6614]

​@@liviquail Kirlia: physically frail, doesn't quad resist like modern gens, not fast enough Water types: Permanent sun in the gym, Solar Beam silly hours, and the AI has a random chance to click solar beam no matter what's in front of them unless they saw a kill iirc

[@sahilmillwala7570]

Having Smallant here is like going back to pallet town after beating the league and fighting pidgeys with ur champion squad. Rip other contenders

[@danhatter6823]

We have the full range of human emotion: “How’re you guys feeling?” “Awesome!” “A little nervous.” “Sick to my stomach.”

[@kanalight2898]

"I round some new faces" yeah because Yaki was a terrible person lol

[@LuxSingsSongs]

What happened with Yaki?

[@clottedfishd2928]

​@@LuxSingsSongs late reply but she abused her boyfriend and exploited other content creators i think

[@themathiasP]

And that's how Smallant was not invited to future events

[@popinyourdog4321]

13:36 Jaiden is always my favorite in these videos. I remember the nuzlock speedrun with her not knowing the map and her reactions are the best.

[@archerelms]

Keep doing this! I want to see Smant fail repeatedly but then somehow come out on top like he always does 😂

[@Raindrizzle]

Spinda is pretty good he says as he reworks the stats and gives it a z move

[@keycatrich]

that's just how Spinda is in EK lol, the dev buffed some pokemon stats

[@berserkerciaran]

EK Spinda has Glalie stats, that's not the problem. The problem is Hyper Voice being a 120 power Rock Smash.

[@NokoTheTaco]

@@berserkerciaran + STAB

[@gicrueldad9520]

Sableye was also absurdly buffed in the Hack, but so much that, since it´s OP, they made it unavailable to the player to obtain. Although I remember seeing an In-game trade that asked for a Legendary, either Suicune or Articuno I think, for a Sableye xD. How did you obtain one of these? No idea, probably unavailable too.

[@amcooloraminot6411]

Small Ant insane luck and his insane Pokémon knowledge makes him one of the best

[@bobzour]

I do like this rule set especially for people who haven't touched EK before, but I think it would be good to give everyone the exact same pokemon. I suppose there were other intimidate pokemon but it was super weird/lucky how Smallant got a Hitmontop while Cjya got a Hitmonlee.

[@Tyler-nq5tk]

I didn't even notice until you said this, but looking back in the video it looks like they accidentally gave Cj hitmonlee while everyone else got tyrogue and could choose the evolution.

[@abyssalcast3107]

No, they had a tyrogue and they just had different evos due to stats.

[@exia0616]

​@@Tyler-nq5tki looked up Drew's pov video on this and they both have tyrouge smant got lucky and it evolved to hitmontop, cj got hitmonlee

[@SkywardSonnet]

inviting smallant to this is just the "hydrogen bomb vs. coughing baby" image

[@pebbellz]

Smant is just cracked. Like... the AI going for thunderwave on low HP gyarados, not once but TWICE??? He has insane luck which, paired with his good team building, great strategy and general knowledge of the game just makes him the clear frontrunner in any competition like this.

[@natedelaunay]

Everytime they went back with that Kirlia and it would get one shot no matter what. "OH MY GOD I JUST LOSE TO CRITS"

[@Yuribird46]

Good to see at least 2 of the 3 original victims return

[@bluebutton7263]

This was just hilarious to watch! I tend to be overwhelmed when I watch such races live but you did a great job explaining and highlighting what exactly happened in this video so this was a lot of fun! :) I hope we will get another race in Emerald Kaizo, I really enjoyed watching this one

[@tonyg9775]

Thus is a true testimony to just how lucky Small Ant is

[@cardinal8200]

SmallAnt is the type of guy who is actually just average at games he doesn’t know but given any tools and information he can optimize and learn all the in’s and outs super quick. Also having the blessing of Lady Luck tends to help too

[@Kotenekrazy]

This seems super fun to do with the set box.

[@ame-chan579]

I can't expect less from the man, the myth, the legend that managed not only to beat platinum without receiving any damage, but also to beat gen 1 remakes without INFLICTING DAMAGE through damaging moves *and* faster than another person doing the same challenge, even starting before him. Only because said person insulted his baby (Wooper). Dude's a tactical genius, specially without permadeath

[@duskyer]

Everyone else: Smallant is some kind of Pokemon genius. Smallant: Holy shit, how'd I do that?

[@EvilPillows]

I love videos like this, thanks for posting!

[@AnorakDovahkiin]

I’d absolutely love to see more of this “series”

[@omegalucario9153]

I loved it ❤ 🎉😂😂😂 it’s exactly what I was looking for. Can’t wait to find more videos likes this.

[@janehrahan5116]

Next time have them actually play ek. Furthest (as defined by trainer fights) wins. Since it's just a one shot it would be short to record and would not be too painful for the participants (just enough pain). You'd probably want more than 4 for that tho.

[@mollychankawaii]

Oh my goodness, PLEASE make more of these. Smant got waaaay too lucky here and we gotta see him suffer next time.

[@saoranachnah-alba723]

He won't though

[@GemsOfRedditStudios]

I’ve seen all of them before this video, lol. Love more content, so great job. 👌🏼

[@indominusrex2859]

Smallant is just too good

[@ozyssah]

the average smallant experience, everyones losing to crits while he wins landing crits of his own also continuing this series would be awesome and we would all love it

[@Spaimosh]

Small ant slaughtered this

[@captainnootnoot2525]

Smallant is TOO GOOD LOOK AT HIM GO

[@dynosgarcia7645]

So... why are rock types good vs Brawly? Yeah ok, Kirlia is not good, so? That doesn't answer the question, hell psychic pokemon still look like a good option after seeing what Spoink did

[@freiafly3984]

Switch in against baited rock/normal moves, bait fighting moves back into Gyarados for a resisted switch in for Intimidate proc, repeat the cycle.

[@dynosgarcia7645]

@@freiafly3984 Thanks dude

[@furiouscorgi6614]

​@@dynosgarcia7645Rock types also have generally good physical bulk to switch in even better

[@Agumame]

Idunno if its just the way the editing/narrative works out but only knowing CJ through these types of group challenge compilations, he ends up being the butt monkey every time and I feel bad for the man lol

[@iantaakalla8180]

Except when doing Odyssey hide and seek/tag because he is one of the people that can juke for minutes.

[@parerion8254]

PLEASE give us more Emerald Kaizo with SmallAnt, we NEED to see it!!!

[@dralinkushinen]

I swear, SmallAnt is just on a whole different level in all things competitive gaming, he's built different!

[@Vigsol]

CJ in these videos are my favourite and that kirlia compilation was so good

[@ghosttidragon6875]

14:32 his lemongrab arc is growing... Just need him to say the line

[@lemons38]

16:59 this fight is actually really fun in randomizers, yes, very "fun", not a roadblock since you cant do much against pokemon that is LV 70 at this point of the game and wasnt actually designed to be a joke, "fun" for sure (i mean you can poison or burn it but still, kinda crazy)

[@sgt.marcus1879]

I would love to see you and do this again with some of the Wildcard members this time

[@lindabiscuits9330]

Let’s fricking go, a captain kid upload

[@ScyrousFX]

This feels like a SmallAnt video with additional commentary. Oh and Weegee talks for about 20 seconds.

[@randomtrainerx.3424]

Is it wrong that I'm invested with how they'll handle Liza and Tate in the future?

[@ProbsNotABot]

SmallAnt luck too good. Please nerf.

[@SweetieEvie]

Including Smallant is guaranteeing no one else stands a chance.

[@pokemontwu]

Idea: Radical Red challenges (Both with randomizer enabled + difficulty changes)

[@arrow-1237]

I can’t believe KZbin just let people be left in an colosseum being tortured for an audience to enjoy

[@GemKnightRuby]

Please tell me someone told them that Kirlia was just a bait, right? Please? Don't let them suffer as hard next time.

[@konlecon]

having both smallant and cjya in the same challenge will always be my favourite thing in the world

[@zedeclipse6029]

In the future it would be fun to do this but with pokemon uranium or other fangames with intense difficulty

[@meldarion]

Smallant would've beaten the champion before the rest got through flannery 😂

[@case_in_point]

12:23 Cpt Kidd was taking no chances. He didnt say the name of the pokemon, he said "the pokemon that evolves into swallot".

[@itsBrunden]

Thank you for everything you do Mr. Captain Kidd

[@xMorphasis]

This fool brought a small ant to a Pokémon battle

[@isakwolff5491]

I know it will take a long time, but you should have them going through all of the gym leaders xD

[@dejinnthedjinn5311]

You're not gonna have any friends after this huh?

[@Aiden-fq4ei]

"I decided to gather them up once again" Yaki and Failboat: are we jokes to you

[@LurkingAnon]

I think putting the permadeath back on while they still have access to the full boxes would bring some fun spice.

[@masonm8351]

Jaiden: "Just, just raw dog it and you'll be fine." Never ask an aro ace for health advice...

[@violeth2255]

Were Kirlia almost any other mid-stage psychic type, it would likely be a pretty good choice for the gym. Problem is that Kirlia has stats worse than Unown.

[@bluegg996]

Smant could have probably done this in some hours with perma death and no box I’m pretty sure

[@Jess-Cruz]

Smallant is one hell of a speedrunner /gamer if ima be honest i wasnt too surprised he won

[@Kkell0x]

CJ&Jaiden became the definition of insanity with the kirlia it had literally done nothing for him 😂😂

[@clottedfishd2928]

6:41 if anyone can't read : guts and facade get stronger when you have a status effect that combination is deadly

[@dinconium2570]

even Pchal would cry to fight the elite 4 with 5 onixes

[@TeamPandaTCG]

Lmao Smallants luck is making laugh irl, how lucky can you be😂😂 Twice he lived explosion on 1hp 😂 EDIT: HOW DOES HE LIVE WITH THE GYARADOS VS LANTURN 😂😂 EDIT EDIT: nahh im done, the crit Manectric😂

[@y-hat868]

The magma hideout video boutta be crazy

[@videopar9750]

I do want to see Smallant vs Pokemon challenges in the Kaizo vs, see who's better

[@kyukyusaurusrex7044]

Kidd: The Kirlia is a bait. SmallAnt: That's where you're wrong, kiddo!

[@leanblasterex5240]

they really love that kirlia, no matter how useless they were to the team xD

[@jetttinlin]

EustAss Midd could never make content this good

[@Destroyer437]

I think with the garados since it's faster the AI wants to out speed and sees that the first fail won't kill so it goes for thunder wave instead of thunderbolt is my theory

[@billybobbobson3797]

That's not how it works.

[@megasora4]

the actual reason is that gyarados is quad weak to elec and turns the normal +3 for speed control into a +5. meaning any gyarados will prompt a thunderwave over a kill. this info is given at 27:00 by showing the ai priority chart for EK.

[@noodle4939]

Why does captain Kidd look like he’s about to sell his tech startup for $10 million

[@venomgaming7014]

Make them fight the emerald kaizo elite 4. They’re all full teams of 6, level 100, competitive built.

[@shashankvithalani4145]

I think jan from pkmnchallenges mentions it, but sometimes the A.I. will go for a speed control move instead of attempting to kill off your pkmn

[@yamanatclash]

Part 2 wahoo

[@Fav-ze4pi]

SmallAnt's Wattson fight is what we like to call "SmallAnt luck"

[@stagelights_]

idk if emerald kaizo changed it, but in vanilla gen 3, kirlia has lower stats across the board than unown (with the exception of special defense)

[@BlaCKFRozeN1]

my man Smant is so insane :D that was like a warmup hahaha