Can you beat Pokemon Emerald using ONLY items?

[@Smallant]

Shoutouts to Mah-Dry-Bread for basically doing this first. Go watch his video too to see how he did it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZfLinV5ZqiMeq8 Mah-Dry-Bread did a No Healing run at a Pokecenters and really only used the PC to deposit Pokemon, so we did slightly different challenges that are both pretty cool and have their own problems to solve (his is edited much better than mine too). Go check it out!

[@mr.dembiscuits3029]

you did do the nuzzlock challenge

[@uwilglo2172]

I'm second for reply

[@Smallant]

He's still cool. I like watchin his stuff 😎

[@MahDryBread]

Just to clarify, I only used the PC to withdraw Pokemon to actually add them to the team and despot ones that I'll literally never withdraw ever again. So I think I used the PC twice, both times just to withdraw something that I just caught. I also didn't use legendaries, so it's actually a pretty different run. Great job on the run!

[@Smallant]

@@MahDryBread I really enjoy your content and since I was doing a similar challenge I figured I should mention your run right at the start! Good stuff my man!

[@MeNowDealWIthIt]

Quick note: Rare candies can be used as revives. The pokemon wakes up with the amount of HP they gained from leveling up.

[@Zalied]

also since it only finishes xp needed to level the longer you wait to use it the more XP it gives so can always be nice to wait

[@DarkIceKrabby]

You can also do this with HP Ups

[@Yental]

Thats what I did when I wad little and didnt had revives xD

[@AdrianGK47]

Whoa I had no idea this was a thing!

[@redacted4909]

Yeah but you cant use them in battles

[@Smallant]

aka US healthcare system simulator

[@theawesometaco8299]

Smallant1 😂🤣🤣

[@false4943]

i felt that

[@ComfyChameleon]

smallant1 with the shade

[@jjwkoester]

Just cause it’s true, doesn’t mean that it’s right

[@RetroRemedies]

damn

[@francis7336]

Outrage is such a weird move, like imagine being absolutely livid and punching other pokémon, but then you get confused who you're angry at so you decide to punch yourself

[@User-1939t9]

why are you hitting yourself moment

[@francineaxisa8497]

Levi heicho

[@alancjmgmorales6420]

How about hi jump kick, if you miss, tou keep going up and then get hurt from going too high

[@gogeta_lp]

@@alancjmgmorales6420 When you miss High Jump Kick, you fall unto the ground, thus damaging yourself. It makes perfekt sense if you see it as fall damage

[@vqqiu2179]

I think it's more of the way when you punch so hard your knuckles can get skinned, you attack with no regard for your own health because of how outraged you are

[@kpbillie9356]

Watching this in 2021 is pretty funny. Hearing SmallAnt talk about how "beating the game without taking damage would be possible but super grindy" and knowing that he would later go on to do it and it was in fact SUPER Grindy. Or watching this man laugh at the thought of soft resetting to get a shiny Rayquaza, only to eventually wind up doing a shiny run full of soft resets.

[@sothisisbasicallyhow4696]

The title implies that you are beating this game without pokemon, which brings to mind the image of hurling a max revive at your opponent’s pokemon until those little spikes that it has impale their jugular. So thanks for that.

[@colossaldonut5190]

THE JUGULAR, GO FOR THE JUGULAR

[@SpikeTheBear]

Oof

[@duwang3195]

Next challenge: Can you beat Pokemon Emerald using ONLY a gun?

[@_tykow]

Nice

[@aepstein824]

I clicked to find out how he did this

[@jacobshoup3737]

I thought we were gonna see a ton of Hoen region pokemon, but it's clearly a Lo Lan run

[@Smallant]

You genius

[@Binky1000]

Jacob Shoup best comment I’ve ever seen

[@jenssuperkalifragelistisch4488]

Okay, now this comment is a 200 IQ move.

[@kart2542]

Top 10 puns

[@tecwynwilliams1323]

With a bit of Lag too!

[@waverider6302]

It’s so funny to look at the chat and see random conversations, like whether the Pokémon world would have Torchic McNuggets

[@lsieman65]

would there be like charizard meat which is like prime wagyu

[@snowleopard064]

Timestamp?

[@lsieman65]

@Idont Know lol i’m saying would the meat be luxury

[@TheAbysmalBrute]

I bet they would be 🔥 fire 🔥

[@kjl3080]

Wait but they’re sentient

[@pimzaeVT]

"even if youre super good at something, you can always get better" very wise words of advice!

[@ShycoWar]

The end of this run takes me back to my childhood days. Destroying everything in sight with just Rayquaza and an overleveled Swampert. Yup, that was me alright.

[@f.ckyalife]

Bro my literal playthrough though

[@DieAlteistwiederda]

Honestly me in Crystal with the fire starter whose English name I always forget and Lugia. Worked wonderfully and later I reduced it to just the water starter.

[@airbornefilip9139]

@@DieAlteistwiederda Cyndaquil? Wild guess because other two's names I could spell more than a decade ago (god damn I got old) and this one is bound to be forgoted due to this. Even though it's best one of three.

[@QuantumLeap215]

The three Johto starters are Cyndaquil, Chikorita, and Totodile

[@DieAlteistwiederda]

@@airbornefilip9139 yes that one. I know all the names in my native language but only about 1/3 of those I actually know also in English and mostly from KZbin videos.

[@skylarlee9691]

"Remember kids, if it's not 100% accurate, it's 50% accurate." _This playthrough in a nutshell_

[@skylarlee9691]

@familie v/d Heijden MandJTV

[@ThinkOutsideTheBlocks]

@familie v/d Heijden all three are great

[@Vassilinia]

If it's not 100% accurate it's 10% accurate -competitive battlers

[@IndellableHatesHandles]

If a move isn't 100% accurate, then it's 0% dependable. This is why Rock types suck.

[@pixelatedpixel657]

Hail yeah it is

[@kohinoorbanerjee4009]

Just one thing I realized, if he lost one battle in the elite four and didn't reset, he would technically get teleported to his mom's house, where he was first supposed to heal

[@utkarsh3103]

Omg why didn’t i realise that

[@AzureGuardian051]

What’s so important about that?

[@vitormadisantanna8652]

It's not important. It's a fun fact.

[@AzureGuardian051]

@@vitormadisantanna8652 Ok..?

[@swedishkofta7451]

@@AzureGuardian051 its just interesting lol

[@AjRobinsonUg]

"I peaked as a ten year old" A true Pokémon Master

[@MadameTeqi]

And I peaked here, getting to be like number 69

[@waldowaggins1330]

When you’re a Pokémon trainer and have to much social anxiety to talk to nurse joy

[@jayreddy1323]

This is me

[@alexgenel4932]

brock with restraining order playthough

[@shxhebx2039]

@@alexgenel4932 beatmetoit

[@DaBestNub]

@@shxhebx2039 r/beatmetoit

[@Ghost-vl2zw]

@@shxhebx2039 beatmymeattoit

[@gonicm]

Fun fact: in both gen 4 and 3 your rival’s starter will ALWAYS give 69 exp in the first battle Edit: ik it’s been 2 years but holy crap why didn’t KZbin notify me of the 6.5k likes

[@jamjon6616]

Nice

[@Hguodlcr]

Nice fact

[@M3G4T3RR4]

Nice

[@dchev]

Funi number laugh

[@gManGabe]

n i c e

[@conormurphy4328]

Imagine if you tried this past gen 5 or 6 and your Pokemon are being force healed by people every 5 seconds

[@totallyahuman5055]

Sounds easier but consider that you have to enter Pokémon centres to buy items in gen 7 and 8.

[@foxelyUwU]

@@totallyahuman5055 and gen 6 also

[@tomlucadolff9121]

@@InfoByAC calm down.

[@atharputra538]

@@InfoByAC calm down man, who shit in your cereal today?

[@InfoByAC]

@@tomlucadolff9121 make me

[@BurgerFred1]

"If we ever encounter a grass type we scream." *Encounters a Shroomish* *Doesn't scream* Disliked, unsubbed, and reported for misleading content

[@dhichicpop2531]

He was screaming on the inside. Legend has it, that he's still screaming to this day .....just on the inside

[@sistanofseljuks]

I don't know how, but 109,190 likes and 0 dislikes.

[@lix1806]

@@sistanofseljuks youtube removed the dislike count

[@maverickk8251]

@@sistanofseljuks the removed dilike count u fucking moron

[@gloomsdoom649]

You have an interesting trainer style!

[@MoarCheeseBirb]

"Wow this will be really hard." remembers PP "oh god no"

[@dad6765]

lietz13 I see what u did there

[@HI-pm3fm]

dad I miss you (jk it’s a joke)

[@JTheMelon]

It should be easier if you make your PP bigger ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@TheAbysmalBrute]

Exactlyyyy

[@Shiny_Spheal]

Can you beat Pokemon emerald with only items. Answer no. items cant fight.

[@gamergoose8184]

Who are you that is so wise in the ways of science

[@gale4821]

Or is it?

[@Shiny_Spheal]

@@gale4821 with a rom hack maybe

[@BakaYukki]

Yoo i hae the same thought, haha

[@kanjoganai3389]

@@Shiny_Spheal I really first thought he is gonna fight pokemon with just items but he is just not allowed to use places like pokemon centre and etc... But still quite entertaining

[@jacobshoup3737]

Wasn't sure about this run at first, but Lo and behold, he did it.

[@lorenzocastilloveitia8649]

Stop 😂😂

[@JTheMelon]

@@lorenzocastilloveitia8649 Stop using emojis

[@why8308]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/p6SYn2eFdppjm8k And this guy did it!

[@gradypharr1300]

@@why8308 he did

[@FlamingZelda3]

you mean he lan-ded the run?

[@ElFreyre_]

I love how Langamer really became Rayquaza and write in chat like he was responding as a Rayquaza to SmallAnt, what a legend

[@hisnotsolonely2961]

Timestamp pls

[@mochi3455]

Was kinda cringed lol.

[@noellecruz9619]

@@mochi3455 do you have a timestamp?

[@mochi3455]

@@noellecruz9619 u should just watch after ant got rayquaza

[@Crobat7269]

@@mochi3455 and the time stamp of ant catching a raquaza is?

[@EDoyl]

"Hi, I'm known as the MOVE DELETER" "Yeah cool; look, I'm gonna need you to do exactly the opposite of that"

[@ketchup5159]

Eoin Doyle 😛😛😛😛😛

[@loafingcoffin1030]

Big PP strats

[@bjarnhedur]

Eoin Doyle im not sure thats how you use a semicolon

[@cumulonimbusderie]

@Frostleaf Vlogs I know this reply is late but I’m pretty sure it is. “Yeah cool” is an interjection. Yeah cool(.) Look, I’m gonna... Yeah cool(;) look, I’m gonna... Just my two cents.

[@xannyphantom8864]

@@cumulonimbusderie another late reply but comma would've sufficed

[@thefanlair6638]

Keep in mind that MDB doesn't use items during battle, hence why he used more than six pokemon. He never used the PC to heal though, only to switch out pokemon when needed. I think you both did valid versions of the challenge, because both had their own trials and tribulations. Either way, I enjoyed the video! :D

[@Smallant]

Yeah we both did unique challenges. Both ways I'm sure is fun!

[@MahDryBread]

yeah, our runs ended up really different

[@toxictea753]

hey im the first non youtuber to reply

[@junstuck]

@@toxictea753 That's crazy but I don't remember asking

[@mrazarath3179]

@@junstuck imagine waiting 3 months to throw shade

[@lilpriceboyz]

When it said only items I thought it meant he potion stalled until the enemy struggled to death.

[@wthenioush4545]

Genius, I mean

[@overratedprogrammer]

Not possible

[@_username]

@@overratedprogrammer I think it's possible

[@San-lh8us]

holy hell, that would take forever ... TWICE!!!

[@frozenepsilon5295]

@@_username I dont think it's possible to earn enough money for all of the options it would require

[@HuntingMasterz]

I still remember my first shiny pokemon was a magikarp, literally the 2nd encounter after catching red gyarados...

[@skimaskedabi]

I caught my (first ever) shiny magikarp surfing on the lake of rage within sight of the red gyrados lol i feel u dude

[@NinjaPickle]

That's Red Gyarados's little brother, Yellow Magikarp

[@Gashnaw]

my first shiny was Eevee, the one you get from bill before red gyarados...

[@rahulsbhatt]

Same

[@Rubywing4]

My first shiny Pokémon was a Riolu in Y, in Route 22, after I got the Master Ball. I believe I was on my way to the League after getting the last badge, flew to Santalune City as a shortcut, accidentally roller-skated into the first patch of grass on the Route, and a Shiny Riolu popped out, and I just freaked out. I panicked and threw the Master Ball, and I named him Sirius. Still got him, even after I started a new run, just traded him over to Alpha Sapphire. Riolu was my first legit shiny, but before then, I used the Action Replay a LOT of times as a kid on Diamond/Pearl to cheat in a lot of shinies, as well as always OHKO'ing everything, having infinite HP, getting max EXP from a level 2 to get to level 100 instantly, and many other boring silly codes. Also had some legendaries appear in the wild just because I couldn't get them otherwise, which I think is fair, for the Pokédex. Although I did also tend to use the code that gave me an instant complete Pokédex, mostly so I could see all the Pokémon in existence coz I didn't know of Serebii back then, and it was also to hear all of their cries, slowed down, which I loved to do. At some point though I ended up finding the AR making gameplay too easy and boring, as I also used it in PMD and Ranger to make me win quickly. I don't know when, but at some point I decided to just stop ever using the AR again and I haven't used it since. Maybe when I was, like, 14 or 15 or something, I dunno. Now, whenever I DO find a LEGIT Shiny, I get much more excited than just hacking it into the game with the AR. :) I did use the AR once within the last year though to get a Nuzleaf in Diamond, because I wanted to do a run where I only use Cynthia's Platinum team, and I needed to breed Extrasensory onto a Budew, and the only close match I could find was Nuzleaf, the other way I believe was a long chain of several many Pokémon which I was too impatient with. And I don't have Ruby, so I couldn't get a Nuzleaf legitimately in the game. So I just spent SEVERAL minutes trying to get the AR to work on my very old DS lite, type in a code to make Nuzleaf appear in the wild, find one, catch it, save, put the game in my good DSi, and then grind it up to level 48-49-whatever to get Extrasensory and then breed it with a Roselia. I dunno if the other method without AR would have gone faster, but I was stubborn lol I also had to catch a Wobbuffet, breed Mirror Coat onto a Shellos and THEN breed THAT onto a Feebas. I wanted my Cynthia team to have the EXACT same move sets as hers, but natures were not as important. Although, my Feebas does not have a nature that likes dry food, so I might not be able to evolve it into a Milotic... so I may have to breed a new one in the same game lol

[@Jhakri_]

How terrifying it would be to be a gym leader or Elite 4 member and a child walks in with A GIANT GREEN DRAGON, a creature of legend that people have told stories about for generations.

[@TheAbysmalBrute]

Imagine that child was one of those school shooter type kids. We would all be screwed. Lol ever play pokemmo?

[@neaixphos6784]

23:45 "I wish I could shove a CD into my forehead and learn how to fly" Yes dont we all chat.

[@duwang3195]

That's actually the plot of Jojo part 6

[@SpinDash]

😁 I’m glad someone noticed that

[@literallydeadpool]

@@duwang3195 *Jumping Jack Flash intensifies*

[@bigghae9553]

@@duwang3195 part one:I can breathe intensely °^° Part two:i can breathe to read your mind ;3 cant fly a plane tho Part three:I will punch you with my ghost Part four:David Bowie murder mystery but hes got a thing for hands :,) Part five:I will stab myself with a arrow to become god,boss Part six:gay black priest becomes sonic and resets the universe

[@code_Rei]

@@duwang3195 yes.

[@SkulShurtugalTCG]

Isn't it kind of impossible to soft reset for Shiny Rayquaza in Emerald due to the broken RNG?

[@danpewpewman9711]

What do you mean

[@cloutan2746]

?

[@Christmasmoose714]

Wait. I know you. You’re the ninjala guy.

[@Arroww]

@@dirtyconsole2247 *shameless advertising*

[@Mintomatt]

I think it's only possible if your file has an early slide so it's the same forever same frame shiny if you learn the frame it's on you can get infinite shines I did it as a kid soft reset 17500 times and got a early shiny frame

[@legamerofstupidity9031]

For anyone to know watching this, if you use a rare candy, since they gain EXP from level up, they technically can be "revived."

[@Yolorex420]

We need to hope we don't get a crit *gets a crit* It's over...unless he doesn't use earthquake- *Uses earthquake*

[@xlayer5]

The battle is over unless I miss this tackle *Misses tackle*

[@shadowchild1338]

If you will win if a move misses... The move will miss. If you will lose if a move crits, or a specific move is used... The move will be used, or crit. These are the laws of Pokémon, which can not be broken by mere KZbinr luck.

[@janb.3600]

Random crits are fair and balanced.

[@jacobbau8328]

Ritesh wow! A rare double whoooosh appeared! No way!

[@jacobbau8328]

Ritesh well, he is saying random crits are fair and balanced, being sarcastic. Then you said whoooosh, and you didn’t get the sarcasm, or the joke, missing it, and getting “whooooshed” it’s a double whoooosh

[@jeremycapuder6684]

Fan theory: Archie and Maxie are severely colorblind

[@ezbakeovenofficial]

this is like 4 months later but i understand why you would think that. the orbs are actually supposed to go the opposite color scheme, as it matches the orbs in the pokemon's heads

[@Skullhawk13]

@@ezbakeovenofficial nope, Red orb to groundon, Blue to Kyogre. The correct colored Orb enables Primal Reversion and ultimate power. The incorrect Orb just pissed them off and nothing else. Check out Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. They are either colorblind or just stupid.

[@quadq3285]

I mean even if they are colorblind the orbs are still gonna be different colored than the primals

[@hasebrudihasebrudi9285]

@@Skullhawk13 they need to be stupid cuz the orbs have their respective color as their name

[@dawnseeker176]

@@Skullhawk13 well according to omega ruby and alpha sapphire those two games takes place in a alternate universe so you can't apply logic from those games to pokemon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald. there is no primal reversion, no mega evolutions, and no pokemon past gen 3. red orb awakens and controls groudon. blue orb awakens and controls kyogre. the opposite orb pisses them off, that part is correct, the rest is not applicable to pokemon R/S/E.

[@MrEpicPwnage1]

I was legally obligated to leave a like when you said: 4:30 "even if you're good at something you can always get better" Damn straight, testament to your humility. Keep it up!

[@HECKproductions]

when i first played red way back in the day i didnt realize you need to talkd THROUGH the counter so everytime i wanted to heal i went all the way to pallet town and every time i died i also respawned there fun times i also didnt realise i can change pokemon during battle or flee i was doing challenges way before they existed lol

[@ThyFloorestFloor]

Not knowing what you're doing is the greatest challenge ever. In my case my first Pokemon yellow cartridge was damaged and erased my savefiles every time I turned off my GB so I had to beat the game in just one run without letting it to turn off.

[@ahshitherewegoagain8695]

@@ThyFloorestFloor forced gba speedrun lmao

[@ThyFloorestFloor]

@@ahshitherewegoagain8695 XD -I never went past the 7th gym-

[@Mevanouche]

SAME !!!

[@beachballssideaccount]

"There are free heals in the form of Mom" I really like this sentence, I'll use it more often.

[@christopherfleetwood5252]

BEHOLD!.... The power of Warm Hugs!!!

[@theuprising2216]

my favourite part out of all your streams is when you tell people you will beat it in 20mins makes me laugh every time

[@cooltv2776]

unfortunately, hes only going to do that for another 20 minutes

[@luke1118]

I also think “really but you still have so much left?” Then 2 seconds later I realize it’s one of the jokes

[@jameschapman2782]

I like how Marrisa and Smallant are close enough friends that she raids him on occasion without the stream suggesting she do it.

[@azirul9311]

Kinda like Shu.

[@Mr.walwus]

Azirul shu and small ant are dating

[@azirul9311]

@@Mr.walwus not anymore lol.That ended sometime ago.They're still friends though

[@wolfsvoice853]

Thanks for clearing this for me, I wanted to know how it went with Marissa for a while now. :D

[@xXTobias_Erin_RogersXx]

kanaya

[@johnreed4786]

31:13 "this is probably one of my favorite songs in the game!" I used to jam to this with my GBA to my ear man. The nostalgia is strong with this one.

[@dontworry4945]

Best comment in chat: 29:30 "my brother used a master ball on a Pelipper" LMAO

[@lolbell6188]

Kurumi chan :3 I never used my master ball because I forgot I had it when I caught the legendaries

[@Eidenhoek]

Wingull is the rarest pokemon.

[@KuuraHelmi]

My sister used it on a lotad while I was saving it for latias 😭

[@CJ-be2cu]

My sister used it on stunfisk

[@joaogomes9405]

I got wonder traded a level 22 electrike in a master ball once

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

This challenge surprisingly seemed easier than I thought

[@gibberishyt8664]

Yooooooo

[@ijneb1248]

When you use move deleter yea it becomes a lot easier near the end

[@oscarlest9872]

rayquaza definitely helped alot at the end

[@golden_falcon9120]

Why do I see you on literally almost every video I click on? Lol

[@lan6523]

Dam bro the likes are getting lower

[@gormlessCreator]

Damn you were really lucky with the shiny Rayquaza! Specifically Emerald's RNG is "broken" so that soft resetting doesn't work for shiny hunting. The "shiny frame" is fixed meaning the moment you start a new file, you have a small chance of even being able to get shinies from soft resetting.

[@gormlessCreator]

@au I should probably clarify that the shiny Rayquaza I'm talking about was from his childhood and not from this run lol. That would've been insane though.

[@colossaldonut5190]

Nah dude, just use Cute Charm

[@tannertadlock7741]

@@colossaldonut5190 isn't that only gen 4?

[@alis3656]

I only ever got one shiny legendary and it was moltres and I always save before I battle any of those just cuz I've had them kill themself several times cuz they run out of PP so it died and I reset and then I battled it and it was pink and I was like wow it turned shiny so just wasted my masterball on it cuz i was afraid I'd lose it but that was cool. I think most frustrating shiny I ever got was in x or y and a horde came out I forgot what pokemon it was but damn all 5 kept putting my pokemon to sleep so it took me forever to knock out the other 4 and catch the shiny but I was so stubborn and kept at it lol

[@asapmidday1748]

Ant: "If I had to pick a favorite pokemon it would be aron" *sad wooper noises*

[@cdogthehedgehog6923]

Zangoose gang till the day i die.

[@MrGeorgeFlorcus]

To do this run without struggling once and without ever fighting a wild Pokemon, pretty impressive, and while it seems he only did the Move Deleter trick pretty sparingly, I'm naturally curious as to whether or not this run is viable without it. It probably is, I just wonder if it's still entertaining or if becomes grindy as a result. In any case, a very interesting and pretty well routed run. Pretty impressive given that this is essentially something you made up on the fly, it's not like there's a template to follow here, yet there definitely appears to have been a lot of thought and strategy put into this. Shows a wealth of game knowledge and general Pokemon speed-running tactics to have been able to complete this run in a single sitting. I'm sure an "optimized" run of this would be pretty intense, with an even closer shave on PP usage, even less grinding, and so on.

[@Tichi20]

When I first saw the title I thought "No. Surely you need to use pokemon as well?"

[@TheAbysmalBrute]

My thoughts exactlyyy loool. Ever play pokemmo?

[@SmolPotato8]

Another way this title could be interpreted: Can only attack with fling

[@kellyrants7673]

Only now do I realize that it's kind of weird that if you go to the Juan's gym's basement you'll just find a bunch of women trapped down there.

[@gManGabe]

How's that weird? What's your basement look like?

[@kellyrants7673]

@@gManGabe Well I've got both men and women in mine, so it's kind of strange how he's only targeting women. Like is there a disproportionate birthrate in Sootopolis or does he hold a grudge against female figures? Questions questions.

[@gManGabe]

@@kellyrants7673 Don't mind Juan, he's a little weird. Kids call him things like "Straight" and "Hetero", whatever that means...

[@bruv7521]

@@gManGabe mine only got kids. They kinda suck at working tho so women would probably be better

[@liltiplovergobbler74]

@@bruv7521 Mine has the corpses of the dead pregnant people I kill and I steal their baby and sell it on the black market for a bunch of money

[@unLucky704]

Im surprised you didn't use a zigzagoon. Its ability pickup would've really helped and the fact that Linoone can learn covet which takes the opponents items would have been very beneficial to the run.

[@90kalos1]

You can really tell the difference in their playstyles by how they did their versions of this challenge. MDB usually does grindy challenges with no items, which is very obvious with his plan to grind. Ant does fast runs so he plans around using x items to speed it up

[@Aizaia5]

I'm really surprised this run didnt involve him catching 5 zigzagoons for pickup ability

[@johnd6980]

Pickup sucked in emerald, it was way better in ruby/sapphire

[@fixedrng888]

@@johnd6980 how’d they nerf it

[@BubbyBoy]

@@fixedrng888 item rarity is based on levels

[@LunchBox092]

It's sad cause I got my first shiny in sapphire but I already planned my full team and ziggy boi ain't on it.

[@thallan]

God, gen 6 pickup is completely busted. I had my beloved zigzagoon pickup/hm slave with me the entire game in ORAS. I literally didn't buy anything until the elite 4.

[@JuanRamirez-zo5tb]

"I'm not using this old lady because that's...cheating" -Anticus

[@iterativeimprovements1713]

15:37 gets me every time "2 hours in, catchin a swablu"

[@heroplayer9608]

“Is it possible to do a damageless Pokemon run?... Yeah, it is!” Well Gamechamp knows for sure.

[@giantheccinwyvern]

Pokemon Platinum yes.

[@jaysonburke799]

Anyone: how much longe- Smallant: 20 more minutes Anyone: But- Smallant: DID I STUTTER?

[@Otenz1235]

"Unless we miss the tackle"

[@adamorfield7840]

"Obviously we're picking Mudkip." It was then that I knew that Smallant1 was truly a great man.

[@vigorouspringle8962]

Well I mean there's not much the other 2 could do

[@r.brandt2246]

@@vigorouspringle8962 It was then that I knew that Vigorous Pringle was too young to know the true power of Mudkip.

[@Squavez.]

@@vigorouspringle8962 i herd u liek mudkipz

[@vigorouspringle8962]

@@r.brandt2246 Water Ground vs Fire Fighting and just Grass type, obviously Mudkip is better

[@vigorouspringle8962]

@@Squavez. Also I have absolutely no recollection of even watching this video

[@Kalem1996]

Man! I have to tell you!! Beating all those games with INSANELY self-imposed hard challenges doesn't only prove how much skill you have, it also is such a great entertainment I love have got used to!!

[@jjscuatch634]

Bro, I had done the opposite of this with no items because when I was a kid I bought emerald from a gamestop, but there was a problem with the game where whenever I tried to buy items it would crash the game, so no pokeballs or heal items unless I found them. It was a rough first playthrough.

[@lsieman65]

bruh take it back to the gamestop

[@jjscuatch634]

I was just a kid and thought my parents wouldn't want to go back to gamestop😔

[@lsieman65]

@@jjscuatch634 😔

[@NicolasClark7732]

I find it funny how one of the best strats for speedrunners to avoid clicking B by accident when evolving a Pokemon is setting the game/controller down.

[@samloyd9287]

Smallant: The white rock, what does it mean??? Me: Yo, Angelo.

[@orionsblayd2704]

*Becomes Koichi* Oh. Yo, Angelo.

[@rihornior432]

Pp

[@Jarrod0067]

Getting all the flutes seems like a priority for this kind of run. Saves a ton of money

[@FatedHandJonathon]

But costs a LOT of PP. I’m not sure it would be worth it.

[@threes_leaves]

Dragon type moves were still all special in this gen so outrage wasn't boosted by the X-Attacks.

[@seb16x2110]

"we can ONLY capture 6 pokemon total, so we gotta be very careful and plan out what to capture" >procedes to only capture and never evolve a single tentacool and Swablu

[@doubleace11554]

The lvl 70 Rayquaza:

[@moosheep4524]

wow, my game's internal battery also ran dry and i didn't know what it meant, I never knew why my berries never grew.

[@amandeepbaghiana4510]

Zan Hooman what does that even mean? Does the battery need to be replaced?

[@anachronismic]

@@amandeepbaghiana4510 yeah if you want it to work properly. I guess back before the DS they kept track of time passing on the cartridge itself. Makes sense because gba was before ubiquitous networking.

[@emneedsacoma]

“No free heals” aH, American Pokémon

[@psachickennugget8617]

Pokémon, but you didn’t pay for insurance.

[@endslayer5133]

“How longs left in the run about 20 minutes” *two thousand years later*

[@BlueKyuubi64]

I love Pokemon Emerald, it's one of my favorite games of all time and definitely my favorite Pokemon game. I love watching other people play too so I can learn more about the game.

[@uwilglo2172]

Same but I didn't get a DS I had to play on an emulator

[@alexstewart9592]

@@uwilglo2172 Emerald is a GBA game. It can be played on a GBA, and cannot be played on a DSI or 3DS, while actual DS games can.

[@ashleyckack]

Alex Stewart but you can play it on a DS lite

[@KouvolaMies]

Forced heals in sun and moon: too many

[@ericlindesay1459]

Are you complaining? xD

[@haruhirogrimgar6047]

@@ericlindesay1459 Removes difficulty from the game. It is reasonable in some circumstances.

[@KouvolaMies]

@@ericlindesay1459 yes because this challenge is easy in sun & moon

[@alexstewart9592]

@@KouvolaMies Oh, so the challenge based around not being able to gain PP isn't as hard in the game which includes the ability to replace Pokemon in your party with anything you catch at the moment you catch it, and where you can use TMs infinitely to gain PP anywhere outside of battle? Also, they partly provide the free heals because most players would either go to the Pokemon centre immediatly anyway, would forget to do so and kick themself five minutes later, or would wish that they'd done so before advancing if the heal wasn't provided.

[@JohnnyYeTaecanUktena]

@HettGutt in Pokemon Sun and Moon you are forced to walk into a pokemon center by the tutorial at the beginning of the run about 30min in though the record holder goes in voluntarily around the 3 hour and 6min mark so about only two times in the run as the poke mart is in the pokemon center in those games

[@dukvalo]

40:03 this is called "foreshadowing"

[@AlexRonai]

I noticed around the beginning someone in the chat asking if he could at least buy things in the poké center and it made become older in an instant... It means that guy didn't play gen 1 to gen 5... It reminded of one time I was playing emerald and one of my cousin asked me why I wasn't using mega evolution

[@midasmagnezone4282]

Gen 5 is the gen that started to have Poke Marts in Poke Centers. Besides, just because they said that doesn't mean they haven't played those gens. Quite a bold assumption. I often forget Fairy types and other mechanics weren't a thing prior to gen 6 and I've played Pokemon games before gen 6. Not to mention that ORAS and Let's Go had Poke Marts as they were remakes of older games.

[@David-gj9qr]

Midas Magnezone still though, even though I forget sometimes as well. It’s funny how we don’t even consider the possibility that people never played the first 4 gens

[@clorbdorb1245]

Gen 5 was my first gen and when I bought Soulsilver I was so confused and frustrated by the differences lol You can only use TMs once? You don’t get to fight the other game’s legendary using yours? Madness!

[@spider-mancantsee5875]

I mean I forget sometimes and I’ve played all the games except the original gen 3 games

[@ArchbardWava]

I imagine Wallace's Gyarados was thinking something in the lines of: "That's Rayquaza! That's my idol! I can't screw this up, I'll make them proud. I'll set up and give it my best. Dragon Dance! YES! 🐉 SURF!!! 🌊"

[@richardsonjack1971]

You should have gotten a zigzagoon for the pickup ability

[@vimier]

the fact that he didn’t use outrage on the juan’s kingdra, then proceeds to use it on juan’s other pokémon, really bothers me.

[@samhotton6961]

The irony of ant complaining about grinding after doing a damageless run.

[@Richi0h]

Genuinely thought he was going to beat the game without attacking somehow before I watched.

[@iop4everdudesryu112]

Yeahh nahh sameeee bruv bruvvvvfam

[@dhichicpop2531]

Foreshadowing....

[@sunken_lilies]

When you don’t want to move during the holidays but you’re hungry “There are free heals in the form of Mom”

[@GG-dt5hh]

Why not catch an early Zigzagoon or two for the pickup ability? Free potions, ethers, rare candy, and everything would make this SO much easier.

[@adchong6054]

MegaPegasaurus he had open party slots

[@RebornRegal]

As he said, it's to avoid double battles.

[@tajneeley]

Avoid double battles , remember PP is limited

[@vitorcustodio5899]

He'd have them for the rest of the game

[@joshuamoyer4141]

When I saw the title I thought you were going to beat the game without attacking :/

[@NickqtGaming]

Ant is such a knowledgeable guy in so many games. He does speedruns, lockouts, bingo boards, races, etc, of Pokémon, Minecraft, Super Mario Odyssey(amongst other Mario games as well), and LoZ: Breath of the Wild, and he does it so well and with a ton of humility. Much love and respect Tanner. Your content is something I watch at least once a day while I'm doing other tasks or on break from those tasks. You truly inspire myself and I'm sure a bunch of other people. P.s. This Man has held a pencil sharpening world record, is top 100 on the SMO ladder for co-op with his mother controlling Cappy, and also on the ladder for pencil sharpening with his mother. Peace! ✌💚

[@AwkwardLynn]

I love how Pointcrow was in chat. Watching his fellow speedrunner. 👌 wholesome.

[@alainbcdefghijk]

Oh wow. I never realized out of all the times I play this Pokemon gen. That you can run from that Kecleon.

[@bagelpenguin6499]

"can you beat pokemon black/white without the pokecenter?" Nurse and Doctor trainers: "I'm about to save this man's whole career."

[@klop4228]

I believe all of them are optional?

[@bagelpenguin6499]

@@klop4228 oh, okay.

[@katieb9428]

I love the ending credits music. It’s so peaceful and rewarding

[@WoIf-]

These videos randomly appeared in my recommended and I somehow ended up watching them despite my only Pokémon games being Sapphire, Fire Red and later Black via an emulator as a result of sheer nostalgia and being surrounded by unexpected hype around those games. These videos brought back that nostalgia again so I fished out my old GBA and both games. After trying out Sapphire, I had a weird compulsion to get the only two entries I never managed to get, those being Feebas and her evolution. I never did manage to manipulate the Trendy Dewford saying to catch one - like an old guide once suggested - so I started it out the hard way, fishing the many, many tiles fives times over, one-by-one expecting full well to give up before long. Alas... I finally caught Feebas.... after 17 years, I thought I finally finished my first Pokédex(the only one that mattered to me anyways). ...then a guide reminds me that Feebas had an unusual evolution pattern involving Pokéblocks and a guide mentioned using berries I did not have and the internal battery on the game was dry so I could not grow any more no matter what. I thought I had celebrated too soon until I read that some other berries will work too which I luckily had. In the end, after some trial and error, I finally got Milotic too... so I have your videos to thank for putting a satisfying end to that frustrating, 17-year old goal of mine. Thanks!

[@xAkito]

gg dude

[@jamesvasquez3113]

Eh i had no one to share thid to because i have no friends but i completed the Hoenn dex which was for some reason a big accomplishment for me. Dont judge me.

[@xAkito]

@@jamesvasquez3113 OOOOOOH GG

[@xAkito]

@@jamesvasquez3113 Never completed the third Gen dex ooooof.

[@Motivatonbyaf]

my only Pokemon games are: pokemon quest, pokemon shield, pokemon lets go eevee and pokemon lets go pikachu

[@XerKoro_neo]

When you get to Lilycove city, HMs become eternal.

[@Jackoff_icial]

the amount of content possible to glean from a no-grind challenge that's also relatively difficult is pretty commendable

[@Celintro]

Games: "You need healing" Smallant: "No"

[@risecastor3798]

I love when he calls out Mdb yet he uses raquaza which was the rules he set in place to not make it too easy. Also you didn't fight steven in meteor falls smh.

[@xuspirahopte5549]

I'd point to MDB's "no glitches or exploits" rule as well as "only held items in battles". I would honestly say I'm more impressed with MDB's run for the clever grinding technique, though I'm also surprised by the move deleter use.

[@iBombsquad]

Fun fact : In slateport city the aquarium has oceanmini fact written on the glass specimens one of which is completely wrong it says "Ocean are coloured blue because it retains blue color from spectrum of light, when light falls on it". Which is clearly wrong since objects absorb all the light and reflect what they can't absorb which gets reflected in our eyes.

[@Headywon]

First shiny was a Raticate in Gold, had no idea what shinies were so I was very confused by the slightly different colors

[@chronic464]

“Legends never die? He just fainted, he didn’t die.” *ohmygodilovethissomuch*

[@beme7442]

"Technically" you also didn't have the rule "No glitches or exploits" and used the move deleter, which is just another way of free pp.

[@parrotpop7277]

That's why I wont call him a cheater but I cant respect the run if hes cutting corners to make it alot easier

[@ragingnep]

@@parrotpop7277 if it ain't a glitch or exploit that you have to go out of your way to do. It's fair game

[@mrviggs1493]

Calling the move deleter an exploit is like saying leppa berries and ethers are exploits. If the game clock worked he could have grown infinite leppa berries. This just saves time

[@ijneb1248]

He couldve easily caught 5 zigzagoons and exploited pick-up instead, so i'd say its kind of a fair trade-off

[@voadicia9593]

This is a bad take.

[@StarStalker28]

I fully thought the title meant that you found a way to win Pokemon without attacking with a pokemon and just using healing items + items that deal damage

[@SERGEANTTOMATO]

Nobody: Smallant: I'm not using the old lady because that's cheating.

[@gregbaguio168]

He would be a Good Husband

[@TheBearOfSpades]

But then he uses the move remover guy.

[@shenny255]

22:48 guess you could say that this is "a new lo."

[@geraldfisher8746]

“My favorite Pokémon might be aaron” Whopper looks on in shame

[@JohnDoe-wl5xm]

pokemon emerald had the best rematch sysem in the series and it should have been the standard from there on out imo

[@jjzeme3537]

Imagine having a rival and having a battle after like 5 days just to find out that he has a god-like dragon

[@laiir2958]

My first shiny was when I was a kid on heart gold. I was leveling up my lvl 99 feraligator off of ratatas in the area between the acne and slow poke well. My idiot brain hadn't comprehended "bigger levels bigger exp" so anyway. Found a shiny ratatta. Thought I broke the game so I caught it. Wondered how much I broke it so I went into the cave and encountered a shiny sand shrew. Got so excited. Cant remember why but immediately after I went to ecertuke city. Walk down to the route you use to get there and found a shiny pidgey. 3 shines in a row and I would be another 9 years before I found my next one legitimately. Even with all my shiny grinding and everything else it wasnt until sword and shield when I was trying to hatch a 6 iv shiny eever and a 6 iv shiny mimikyu when I would find a shiny binacle Which is one of my least favourite pokemon. To add to the irony of a ratatta being my first ever shiny, I have an irrational fear of rats

[@Lumy070]

Declan M Power Wow. What a story. How old were you roughly? Did you know how rare shinies were let alone what they were?

[@laiir2958]

@@Lumy070 about 8 or 9, and no I didn't but I also didn't think it was a glitch.

[@sad3624]

Those odds would be insane. Was the shrew and pidgey first encounters on the patch?

[@laiir2958]

@@sad3624 yeah. Know, looking back it's so crazy

[@lemonadegaming8165]

Tldr u were being stupid and got stupid lucky

[@jaltersimp9639]

the fire gym is the best one in ORAS. Love how she yells at you the whole time

[@justindavis6406]

I was thinking about this the other day but I saw someone mention in chat, "apparently sitrus berries only heal 30 flat hp in this gen" and I went the longest time not realizing they had ever changed it from that

[@dragonearth9643]

Sends out a Manectric. SmallAnt: I don't know what this can do to me. Manectric: I'll show you the most powerful move that sends trainers running. (notice the foe was also part ground.) On second thought, fear my howl. (Raises attack power) Fear me rookie.