He Used Science to Find Pokémon's Strongest Trainer...

[@DerkDurski]

The Professor Oak fight is really interesting because if it had been left in, it 100% would have set a precedent for the rest of the series in which the Professor of the region is always a tough end game boss.

[@joemarais7683]

Really wish this stuck too, so we could finally kick the shit out of Kukui and get revenge for fucking our mom.

[@Yahmeen]

Would have made sense though. Student beats the master. Also makes sense that the person most responsible for Pokémon research in every region would be able to train the best teams.

[@zzeroara9511]

technically they followed up with professor kukui being who you fight to become champion in S/M

[@main202]

@@zzeroara9511 yea but no one played that sht

[@rexrupe3747]

Also could have great storylines with mewtwo and other engineered Pokémon

[@pulkitmohata5283]

Atrioc now: back to Paris 😢 Youngtrioc: back to Professor Oak 😢 Grinding from childhood

[@rented1102]

back to pallet town

[@thehaydnpaterson]

based

[@xtera5718]

It actually might explain why he’s so good at grinding games. He’s been used to seeing the same part of a game for his whole life

[@Benisuber1]

Atrioc grinding the same 4.5 hours of Pokemon Red every day as a kid explains so much

[@menburst579]

LMAO never thought of it this way but you are so right everything makes sense

[@Fuhzzzi]

The juggler trainer is the most sigma, he doesn’t go by the traditional code, but his own, a true sigma

[@bitterbatterdog]

By Atrioc's Logic, Charizard stans are actually cowards because they nerf the final boss to be the easiest he can be. Venabros win again, they take on not only Gary but also Oak at their best. Another point on the scoreboard.

[@skeletonizer7512]

Yeah but charizard is cool as fuck

[@kalestone6854]

I agree, because bulbasaur is the best gen 1 starter, but squirtle is still my favorite.

[@meadowlarks2450]

I stand with you. Bulbasaur forever.

[@Greatbabyred]

But venusaur stans are actually cowards because they nerf the TRUE FINAL BOSS PROFFESSER "THE GOAT" OAK to be even WEAKER than the champion

[@RolfSGaner]

love this for us

[@Amon_Star]

8:50 Big A doesn't know how strong Primape is. I recently completed a randomizer and in my last rival fight a Primape nearly wiped my entire team. It is not a Pokémon to mess with if you don't have immunities or a resist.

[@lemon5093]

"film theory, misty is also a Pokemon..."

[@vedaryan334]

Oh no

[@PrismaAce]

shiny those who know

[@rnglillian8081]

There is lore in the game saying that humans and pokemon were once considered the same. Couple the with the frankly alarming number of pokemon that are just dead people and that some people can learn essentially physic type moves and there's an argument to be made all humans in the pokemon world are pokemon. But thats just a theory, a game theory(there is actually one about this, but I don't remember if this is the justification he uses lol)

[@PrismaAce]

@@rnglillian8081 yes. atrioc reacted to it. this is a meme because he says that the one black nurse joy is a shiny (which is super weird)

[@themagictntpenguin7611]

I physically can not have finished the video but it is a certified atrioc classic

[@jacksondavies1451]

Theoretically if you watched this video near a black hole the fabric of space and time would be shifted away from ours, resulting in perhaps even a second of your time resulting in a day of ours. You physically could finish it, how you get the video there is the real question.

[@roblowe2714]

@@jacksondavies1451 i think you got that backwards, one day of his time would have to be one second of ours

[@jacksondavies1451]

@@roblowe2714 Wait man you're right. I tried to sound smart and failed. Yay me

[@BC-hu6yq]

@@jacksondavies1451 could be worse. You could be doubling down right now. Relativity is a slippery concept.

[@SeanRPS]

what if you watched it at 2x speed

[@raidersof7136]

that misty voice thing is from an old spoof on super early youtube from what I remember

[@elliotnoose]

I had an unsavable copy of Silver as a kid, and I would keep my SP plugged in overnight to keep my game file 😭

[@goombacumba608]

Oak is literally sigma. He isn't in the system but still above the rest

[@ricfair7549]

just like me fr

[@ChaseTrent]

2:27 This is audio from an old Pokemon Parody flash. It was truly art

[@ChaseTrent]

Max5000and1 uploaded it 15 years ago. I'm not sure if it was just funny in 2007, or if it was because I was in middle school, but I can't promise that it's still funny.

[@andrewyells]

if only big A’s chess Elo transferred to this list, he would just beat Youngster Joey without even tripping the 1000-move rule

[@MentallyLatent]

A-lo*

[@roguecypress]

I'm glad science finally recognized Big A as the strongest Pokemon trainer, about time 👏

[@Destirian]

Idk if anyone has said it, but the misty thing around 2:40 was from an old animation called “pokemon spoof”

[@sunayoru]

that video is a childhood CLASSIC

[@bloodwolf2609]

edit: 3:40 it was literally this lmao I remember one time in probably Soul Silver I was running back to the poke-centre because all except 1 of my guys had fainted, and I ran into a trainer with porygon. All I had was a HM slave or something and the porygon was only using protect and recover, while I had to sit there for probably 30 full minutes spamming moves that had 15-25pp and just dealing no damage and when I did deal damage it would full heal, and I was just forced to spam moves until I struggled to death, At the time I had never run into any softlock like that and I just remember it being excruciating being able to do literally nothing, but now it's very funny to think I was just softlocked for half an hour by AI that was probably only using heal moves because the damage moves weren't effective.

[@davidt1d]

8:02 atrioc invented speedrunning

[@rented1102]

"they sell your data at pokemon centers" is actually pretty funny

[@brbtexting6595]

The react content meta actually worked to help the original creator. I just watched half this video and immediately went and subbed to the original creator. It's absurd to me how this quality of content comes from a 50k subscriber channel.

[@左idari]

3:22 When his maniacal Laughter starts LOL

[@woode77able]

"I like pants" I don't think Big A every played Red/Blue guys. Jokes aside, the Red/Blue version that couldn't save is extremely relatable. As a kid I got blue version from an older cousin only to find out the internal battery was shot. I couldn't even tell you how many times I ran it back until I finally got a copy of gold version.

[@JadaKaiser]

I hope he also watched the follow up where they were level capped, that made a great idea amazing

[@lilplebby2062]

Sick video Atrioc! I always love your stuff! Keep up the good work!

[@johnjohnjohnson7720]

Number 0 are those people who became so brain dead focused on the game that they became robots defeating everything in sight.

[@luqdude]

pimanrules actually redid the tournament a couple of months back, this time using an actual tournament format where each trainer plays in the same amount of matches. The results are mostly the same as this one, but I still recommend watching it!

[@shrekstacy]

The Professor of every region secretly being a pokemon master would've been such a sick twist.

[@Cherokeechuck9]

This video is awesome, I hope this gives it some more recognition. I really like the animation

[@jonahrausch7950]

For those who don’t know, the sound byte of Misty saying “Misty Misty” is from a very old pokemon parody animation by trashmation- its a certified banger and a staple of internet animations

[@sevendeadlysquids404]

This video does not do the original justice and show the *insane* amount of work pimanrules did for this. For anyone who hasn't you should absolutely check out the original video, plus some other videos on his channel related to this project. Absolutely insane.

[@ghettogrower3499]

Damn some of them gym leaders about to be out of work after that video 😆

[@StarcraftOakley]

I woulda loved seeing this experiment done again, but with equal level pokemon for every trainer.

[@maerski5171]

im going to cry i was just trying to rest from a bloody assembly homework by watching atriocs new upload and then i see assembly again

[@patrickconnelly7940]

Glad to finally know Big A's speed running origin story. Shout out to the bully from the bus

[@RK-hs1ng]

"kids now a days don't like math a stinky numbers, they like tier lists" HOKY

[@ajmDRUM]

Now I know why they would use sleep over and over even though your already asleep.

[@HemmiezRS]

the fucking misty voice acting actually had me rolling for some reason and i'm not sure why LMAO

[@TheSmileyface616]

Oh fuck 2:25 unlocked a core memory of mine, from the KZbin video “spoof Pokémon” I think it’s called

[@MakasuVAL]

Yep, it unlocked it for me too

[@silphscopekeyitem4001]

I knew Atrioc was a fellow broken battery pokemon cartridge kid, you can just tell.

[@jdw9]

Now use science to find the hottest Pokemon

[@pulsetone]

I remember the first time Atrioc told the pokemon red without battery story, moons ago

[@bigbig173]

I physically can watch the video by watching it in 2x speed and it is indeed an atrioc classic

[@eggwonreal]

"That's why gigachads pick charizard" as #1 proceeds to be blastoise

[@Brandongamesall]

That actually was a fire video and I think he did such a great job!

[@zumzum74]

Holy fuck, that “misty, misty” audio is ANCIENT by internet standards. It’s from a KZbin poop from like, 2007 lmfao

[@sethwood1676]

The lorelei one makes sense regardless ice types are usually pretty lackluster.

[@Runeshark64]

So what I took from this video as Brandon "4 hour Pokemon Red speedruns" Ewing said himself I was justified in picking Charmander as my starter because he was the best in the long game lol

[@Hachiae]

the "misty, misty" thing was a reference to a pokemon spoof video made by trashanimation back in the original youtube days

[@codetaku]

Atrioc forgot youngster joey was a gen 2 trainer....

[@codetaku]

Also jesus atrioc was REALLY bad at Pokemon as a kid. My internal battery died too, not from breaking it but just from overuse, and so after that I'd play Pokemon Red on my GBC entirely to the end in about 4.5 hours (a bad run was 5). You don't need to be a speedrunner to be that fast (speedrunners are... much faster), you just need to know what you're doing lol.

[@LrnecBuma]

There are a few rom hacks that restore the professor oak fight. One of them fully fixes red a.i. its called Shinpokemon or something

[@miniyodadude6604]

The misty line is from a video called pokemon spoof. That brings back a lot of memories, lol

[@Kaybee3104]

A lot of people don't know that Steve Apple, of Apple Phone Company, actually invented the pokedex in his garage while taking ketomine with professor oak in 1994.

[@dylanseeley9222]

What Atrioc did with that copy of Red, I did with a copy of Gold! I'd only get to the lighthouse each time before the batteries died

[@ObzTicle]

The way he says Elo bugged me throughout the video :P

[@readmore5888]

“Women pokemon trainers are just shiny men” -MatPat somewhere probably

[@enickma910]

atrioc can you say your famous catchphrase "Atrioc! Atrioc!"

[@brendan8870]

These type of people could probably cure cancer.

[@elivandrisse]

Banger atrioc, keep up the good work, Video!

[@YourAverageReviews]

He didn't fix his code and re-run the test? You know how massive an outcome difference such a bug could produce?

[@charredolive]

I didn't realize that's how people say elo, I pronounce it like e-lo

[@Rachel-Pham]

thank god this wasnt matpat and his analysis of shiny nurse joy

[@jackdonoghue5527]

A true Einstein Ewing classic

[@AbrasiveCarl]

Incoming Bruno Mars Treasure Copy Strike :(

[@Lakersinfour20]

was that "misty misty" from pokemon spoof lmaoooo

[@SipShakeBurn]

I literally did the same daily grind with a copy of Pokémon silver. Never even thought anything of it at the time 😂

[@harperwin3553]

Btw "Misty Misty" is a reference to this classic: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZK5nJ-OnbN1hpY

[@virtualsplash72]

There is a glitch in pokemon yellow so you can fight with the secret final boss Oak and his stupid tauros and exeggutor are op as fuck.

[@billybrame3990]

He did Crystal

[@RenoReborn]

7:20 Yeah, Giovanni has a trash team that's mostly weak to the most common type in the game and more importantly, weak to 2 of the starter types, his only Counter is a Normal type but it's Gen 1 so Normal Types aren't really that good yet, I'm surprised he didn't end up lower tbh

[@lushG678]

Only thing i'd change is scaling gym leaders pokemon to the level of their opponents as most gym leaders have varying levels, otherwise wow, what insane work with data

[@Raze_4]

I also had a copy of Pokemon Red with a broken battery. I remember that I actually beat it on New Years while in my sleeping bag at my grandparents house. I pretended to be afraid of the dark so they would leave the lamp on so I could see the screen. I had so little health left when I beat Lance and I was so excited! That's when I saw that bitch Blue. I ended up taking out his last Pokemon with Struggle on my Charizard. That was my peak gamer moment.

[@riebread13]

i felt the battery story i did i similar thing with ps2 ratchet and clank, i didnt have a memory card

[@danielalorbi]

Same with the first PS1 Harry Potter game

[@markpalleschi5172]

The misty misty things from a super old Pokémon hand drawn video series pikachu had a deep voice and ash was even dumber than usual

[@lucasmalik8615]

i love you atrioc im a big fan atrioc man

[@haekarlos1156]

Has he changed the thumbnail like 5 times? Everytime i see this video its always different

[@eseph_agen]

Im just saying. If it were me designing pokemon red and blue id have made the delivery to oak in the beginning secretly be a pokeball with mew in it, and then when you catch all 150 pokemon and beat the champion, you fight him and by beating him he gifts you the mew that he used on his team.

[@codylor3884]

Take charmander and brock becomes difficult? No? Hes just as easy as if you take any other starter. A level 10 butterfree with confusion eats brock in 5 casts. A level 14 squirtle can't kill onyx that fast because water gun goes off of def and confusion goes off of spec which brock has none.

[@fiziktetrinet2330]

Atrioc should become a voice actor.

[@timmybottlestop]

Brock is the people's champion 🏆. His rating on the tier list only reinforces the common man to rally behind him.

[@gogoguppi]

“Heheheheh”

[@deadbrain6801]

Pretty sure after gen one the three potion thing was a thing lol

[@Penultimeat]

Misty is my favorite Pokémon. I don’t have the badge to make her listen to me though :(

[@MakasuVAL]

At 2:23 the "Misty, Misty" is a reference to Pokemon Spoof from 2006 kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZK5nJ-OnbN1hpY

[@murkel1731]

what is the name of the song for the outro?

[@SourceOfTheRightArm]

Merican attempts science big wow

[@connorpolsdorf8041]

Blastoise Users are gigachads

[@easymacintosh]

I love science

[@iMehKai]

I like shorts! They are easy and comfortable to wear! ~Youngster Joey (circa 1996)

[@SHMOUSEY86]

Ok I'm usually ok with transformative content, but Big Glizzy Hands A dogged on this way too much.

[@nikoleunig7932]

Is it just me or does Big A look too much like Christian Erikson

[@The_Real_M79]

You should try to beat pokemon red in less than 4 hours

[@jrdnanitsua]

Scientology* it's and honest mistake I understand, Yes Atrioc!

[@supercrazy843]

great video but one thing I can't stand is the volume on the endcard being so much higher than when Atrioc got done with the video. nearly went deaf :/

[@XxEvolutionxX23]

This dude must be Canadian.... Alow?????

[@KingR098]

2:35 man the zoomers out here really don't know Pokemon Parody Episode 1. It was a classic KZbin / Newgrounds animation from like 2007, the fucking "Misty Misty" was such a throwback haha.

[@kentellis]

COFFEE COW WITH THE FIRE VID!!!

[@blublublublubluh]

HES NOT HIP TOO MISTY MISTY

[@fudusaab4135]

What vod is this from ?

[@Parkey-uu5ug]

I’m new but love ur vids

[@r.mar.673]

I always took your starter as choosing the difficulty of the game. Bulbasaur would be easy. Good against the first 2 gyms. Squirtle would me normal. Good against the first gym. And Charmander would be hard. Not good against anything until Erika.

[@BaconNuke]

The newer games tho have lessened on if your starter is the difficulty imo since they started making you able to have so many options early on, for example.. Sw/Sh has like 4 routes or whatever PLUS the wild area BEFORE the first gym.. and that doesn't even count the DLC.. so like legit you could have a fire-water-grass core before Milo and just be pretty alright, and that still allows 3 other mons of varying types..

[@r.mar.673]

@@BaconNuke tbf I haven't played much past crystal. My post was only meant for 1st generation games and is only loose at best. You can always just get a butterfree and speed through. I think even in gold and silver they got rid of the starter being deciding difficulty by putting the flying trainer first. Removing all starter type benefits really.

[@BaconNuke]

@@r.mar.673 Chikorita is still the worst because weak to flying (1st gym) and bug (2nd gym) and just overall is kind of meh, the other two are better, with I think Cyndaquill being best since not only bug but later gyms are like steel and ice, both weak to fire

[@r.mar.673]

@@BaconNuke fair points.

[@telkaivokalma]

He likes shorts sir