This Smash Bros Nuzlocke is INSANE

[@HopCatSmash]

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[@ItsWillowOffical]

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[@captainnikolai25]

To mix things up, you could also choose your map to Nuzlocke between Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, Kalos, Alola, and Galar!

[@thechaosrifter]

don't forget Paldea

[@ultragamer8816]

Sounds like a good idea

[@literallynoone9923]

Final Smash Meter on for Alola to simulate Z-Moves 🤔

[@Diamand1243]

and for galar, both players should have the mushroom to simulate dynamax

[@captainnikolai25]

@@thechaosrifter I omitted Paldea simply because the game isn't out yet and no one outside data miners and early access players know the map.

[@itsagameriag]

I love how calm the Peter voice over is and then when it's the actual match he's screaming XD

[@Matpit18]

The trio of Marth, Pit, and Ridley is actually just the Smash equivalent of the Pokémon trio of your starter, the early route bird, and the normally Dragon type pseudo-legendary

[@redgerran]

Love the Nuzlockes! Can't wait to see you win on your first attempt of the day!

[@grinder4907]

A wild red gerran just appeared!

[@mrdarkducky879]

15:15 What an absolute Hopcat victory!!! I hate being the one that happens to but if I watch my opponent get greedy I get happy

[@twistedphysics22]

Nah

[@smashdriven1640]

HopCat’s first game with Marth: Does nothing but up tilts and F smash in place. HopCat: How am I losing to 7 Mil GSP people!?

[@Crossbar_Pain]

Let’s go a new hopcat video🙌🏼🙌🏼 Edit: 4:20 that’s how all my worst characters at like 4-6 million GSP characters go up against, I got half my people in elite smash and the other half gets dominated by smurfs

[@animefanrk2k]

Thanks to the modified smash nuzlocke, I actually have a few characters close to elite smash. I may one day be able to do the elite smash version of this challenge.

[@CrawYT]

Yo nice! You got this!

[@jellycore1316]

Aww, awesome! ^^ And heck yeah, you've got this! I wanna try this now, too! XD

[@Harmonix05]

7-9 mil GSP isn’t a joke. People are very competitive there cuz we’re trying to get into elite. It’s pain. I’d argue it’s more sweaty there than in actual elite

[@rogierownage]

Pit vs Little Mac is a great matchup. Fairy/Flying vs Fighting.

[@DrMd-jr3xt]

these are two of your best videos, pete. Well done!

[@lairaye]

I like to think that Ridley was his "False Swiper", even though Ridley is more about impaling, beaming like Godzilla, and more about killing than being merciful than leaving your catch at 1 HP.

[@cragl3yman343]

So technically in Nuzlocke if you die to a Random Encounter in Pokemon it's still a death. When grinding or catching Pokemon you can still very well lose a Pokemon to a random Koffing using Explosion on your face or something.

[@mrdarkducky879]

It'd be pretty nice to see him get all the encounters he SHOULD be getting if we're going based on the map. Gives him a much better chance to win but also to balance it out make it to where he can lose fighters when he's on a "catch" fight

[@Robbie_Haruna]

I'd like to see that, but he should also add in rival battles on the appropriate routes/towns too

[@LuisFelipe-th1lk]

Just noticed that the Ridley you faced with pit is the infamous hc. His classic run off fair as Mario in the underdogs channel will never be beaten

[@zazzles9914]

Watching Hop navigating through the pokemon map just exposes him as a super nerd and o cant be more proud

[@mrdarkducky879]

Ah yes Violet City with the Pokemon Tower and Cerulean City with Erika, my favorite places in Kanto

[@RuneClawLCC]

Amazing video Hop, I love this video concept please make more! Only critique, the background music was a bit loud during your commentary segments towards the beginning of the video.

[@LazyStarrfish]

Even though the run didn’t go as long, it was still an enjoyable experience! If you still like doing these, I’d say try for another run sometime!

[@kylethompson4543]

Loving the nuzlock series, keep em coming 👍

[@davidhollowelljr949]

Dude with that duck hunt, you were talking matchup experience and I was like "But Cogger's custy Duck Hunt" and then they wall jumped and I had no clue DH could even do that so I guess that's fair enough

[@indigo7898]

You could be adding markets, where in like every trainer battle you do you get one item to choose from in the store, like a revive or a specific "pokeball", letting you play until you find a specific "type" of pokemon, or something like a higher catch rate, say you need for example only take 2 stocks or deal 300% dmg or something like that to catch, even if you dont win the fight, a pokeradar, increasing your encounters by one or two depending on how easy it might become there could also be like randomly selected legendary items, a master ball giving you a free catch for example, turning it more into a dungeon crawler type, where every round is somewhat different

[@gren8te319]

15:57 fits into pokemon type asdvantages hilariously well

[@Cyrovolt]

I feel like you should add rival battles in here somewhere and have a different rule applied to them, maybe where you fight someone and if you win you get a free character

[@deep_fried_cringe7962]

I genuinely feel and for Hop. Man I hope your day got better.

[@ultragamer8816]

“He’s touching me!” Hopcat, 2022

[@EmceeGrail]

Hypecat with a PrimeGaming sponsor? I'm so happy for you fam 👏👏👏

[@jesusgaming6538]

15:52 song is named Golden Sins and its actually 🔥

[@Deibid38]

I think it could be good to add a safari zone after gym 7 where you get a free random character

[@WaluigiWahrrior]

2:39 why did i just get an ad in the absolute worst moment possible

[@chargegarg8234]

Lol the second half was basically you just yelling at poor ridley

[@O.K.E7]

I find that you videos are catering to the less experienced group leaving the more experienced players/watchers bored Love the content just trying to help

[@starcatinum7378]

Falcon is 1000% a Fire/Fighting type Edit: 16:12 HAH FUNNY JOJO REFERENCE

[@SaxoraMcOhn]

Doesn't watch anime. Plays Golden Wind X Megalovania during the Little Mac match. What a Chad move.

[@loshtrimpo8781]

Comments: In real nuzlockes you lose pokemon in wild encounters Hop: Comments: Victory road Hop: That's a great idea

[@beastabuelos6421]

You should incorporate upward fired arrows into your combos

[@sarimsalman2698]

8:32 let's not forget about that jv4 against the young link now Peter

[@thetrapps2704]

HopCat did an unintentional pun in the promo. LOL. Also sorry for the Pichu game HopCat, didn't realize it was you until after the game lol.

[@ByoKora775]

In Nuzlockes every new route is a wild encounter and Viridian forest counts as a wild encounter too.

[@WDinATX]

Hop’s track record is so freaking weird. Not even sure how to explain it but the obvious example is that most of his losses are against encounters and he still made it to the Elite Four. Twice!

[@NightFreeze9128]

24:07 that dude in chat seems like he could drive a streedle

[@TaleOfTheToaster]

Glad to see another one so soon, see you in Johto

[@josepablovargasguzman1315]

If you lose to a wild encounter with a 2 stock diff, you should lose that character, so there's more room to strategize

[@byrontheusurper6505]

You should add a victory road encounter for sure edit: omg he listened to me, hell yeah! Love this guy!

[@thecoffeeshophey]

Every time someone says DK or Ganon are free matches, the chance for loss increases to 90% I swear.

[@FlickySmith]

"This event end November 1st." The video being released on the 28th October, with Prime Gaming allowing me to grab 3 of the daily log ins before being useless to use on Pokémon Go.

[@ThatOneWeirdFlex]

The hardest part about these is not using every route encounter. Cutting out each of the other routes absolutely ruins runs that need them

[@assordante2205]

8:32 forgetting about that time a Young Link JV4'd him, I see 😂

[@HopCatSmash]

ayo wtf man id forgotten about that

[@rreeeekk]

They should make a Pokémon game where every random Pokémon encounter you have to beat them in a platform fighter first to 1 stock to knock them out and catch them (like in the show)

[@tornadogaming584]

The pyra and mythra called errorGamez was also as pyra and mythra in the previous elite smash nuzlocke

[@GodlyDiamonds]

Fun Fact: Ridley isn't a heavy character

[@johnstarinieri7360]

True, even Samus is heavier than him. It really hurts being a Ridley main sometimes

[@GodlyDiamonds]

@@johnstarinieri7360 yeah, I think that's kinda stupid. He should weigh as much as charizard or more

[@John-sm1pg]

I swear the elite Smashers hide out in the 7-9 million GSP area.

[@fitchfam6312]

Starters Corrin: Water, Steel Captain Falcon: Fire, Fighting Isabelle: Grass, Normal

[@fitchfam6312]

Forgot to put 2nd Run Mario: Fire, Fighting Luigi: Grass, Fighting Marth: Water, Steel

[@ThisAintGood.]

22:25 Wait, I fought a Joker who had that same name and played just like that but just without the Jr. and I live in America. Soooo that means that he has two different accounts, with a name like that, for literally no reason

[@ashdcookie]

I think pits dair works like Marths and lucinas, which only have 2 frames that they actually spike

[@Endershock1678]

Lucina and Marth have 1 frame.

[@javiermaldonado7120]

As someone with most of my characters at 7 million GSP, yes, most people really are that good, which is why most of my character’s are still at 7 million GSP. I think the reason this happens is because I think that’s the average GSP people start with, so any new characters they try are at that GSP, so they have tons of skills since they’ve played the game for a while but run into other people with those same skills and get stuck. The same thing happens at about 2-3 million GSP, I know because I had a character stuck there for a while and the people I ran into were doing full combos, reads, etc. Only slightly worse than the ones at 7 million GSP

[@javiermaldonado7120]

This isn’t always the case, and most of the time it isn’t, but I’d say about 40% of the time it is

[@E7636]

Ikr I ran into an ice climbers player who did the desync footstool stuff on me at 8 million

[@Endershock1678]

Must be regional because ive never had this problem, even when I raised all my friends characters from 5 mil to borderline Elite over the course of 2 weeks as a joke. I've said it before and I'll say it again. That range of players have 1-2 things they know how to do that works against noobs, which is usually a good combo game or strong reads, but just as easily 1-2 brutal weaknesses that are easy to exploit. If you are losing, I'm willing to wager you see their good points but aren't paying attention to their bad habits. I've won against a 7 million Kazuya who could EWGF 100% of the time but lost to one at 11 million who couldn't once because the 7mil kept air dodging after getting hit, while the 11 million one called out multiple spot dodges of mine and got a shield break when he conditioned me not to spot dodge. I remember in an Underdogs video, Little Z was complaining about how a Pika not in Elite was really good, then Hop called out that they probably didn't know how to quick attack recover, and he was right. The same thing happened here. Just watching, I can tell that Hop played terrible, and so did his opponents because they didn't change their playstyle based on their opponent, so the one with a slightly better style worked better.

[@javiermaldonado7120]

I’ll keep this in mind in the future, thanks

[@saxeladude]

7:50 well electricity is effective against water

[@sirron2929]

I fought you on Smash Bros during lockdown. Good times.

[@lilvargyt9964]

Love the customer Pit combos!

[@lilvargyt9964]

*custy

[@hunterculpepper1973]

I remember alpharad once fought a jok4r with hero seemed like he wins he magic burst with 100 mana the joker frame of getting got Arsene and up b immediately being one of the most fucked cause you could tell he was spamming up b the moment he got Arsene

[@birdothebold9614]

Anyone else notice that the Pichu he lost to called hc was the same person that played Mario in an underdogs video and made them come up with the phrase “hc fair”? 😂

[@landshark170]

HE FINALLY ADDED VICTORY ROAD!!

[@successfulfailure1298]

Anyone else notice that the pichu is hc the Mario? The man the myth and the legend is actually a returning character

[@successfulfailure1298]

Oh dang he plays Ridley too

[@successfulfailure1298]

And little mac

[@Noaxe721]

Btw the first one was an average 7m for me, im stuck down there cus everyone is cracked, i win 2-3 times then some insane kid pulls up and shreds me

[@bukenator0788]

You should add a rule where you lose your character if a wild opponent 2-stocks you.

[@illusion2457]

"where at Cerulean city to fight Erika"

[@natunatu24]

IMO i feel like the only problem is that the encounters are as difficult as the gyms. Maybe you could do your encounters against LV 9 CPUs? That would be a bit easier to get the encounters and it would also make more thematical sense

[@caydenleclairbartels142]

To be fair though, id highly doubt hop would lose to a LV 9 CPU at any point

[@natunatu24]

@@caydenleclairbartels142 well yeah but there's a good chance that you don't lose to a wild pokemon too

[@creativeandfunnyname3744]

The way you can tell I'm a fucking dork is that a took note of every time he got a Pokemon city's name wrong.

[@time.notfound]

Hopcat had already seen that player on pyra/mithra

[@NoName-wb1er]

6:20 I don't understand, how did you instantly figure out he was a streamsniper ? Edit : I get it now, it's just the same guy that destroyed him a few games before, so he figured out he was a steamsniper.

[@Veecy]

HopCat you can't just call Lavender Town Violet City 😭

[@mysterymon3851]

I beat the challenge first try. My team included Fox, Sheik, Mewtwo, Byleth, and Captain Falcon. The only one who survived was fox(Fox was my starter)

[@JUMPYCOOL]

So how long is it gonna take until Purplecliffe does this kind of Nuzlocke?

[@elimun10]

Definitely wanna see Jordan try this 😂

[@rocketgod6808]

Captain falcon is literally a fire fighting starter lol

[@ratburrit0935]

did i miss something? how come you blocked the inkling immediately?

[@ultragamer8816]

This is a fun challenge

[@darklion2704]

LETS GOOOOO THE GOAT RETURNS

[@paynemoschillo5470]

Idk how gsp system is rn but I would imagine 7.5 mil-9.5 mil is purgatory now, all the players who have the ability to get into elite but just can’t because of bad matchups or skmething

[@nchristy6689]

Hopefully you’ll be able to catch a toon link in the future

[@cameroneads815]

Every time someone makes fun of me for having no characters in elite smash I send them this vid

[@freedfg6694]

That C.Falcon is my exact experience trying to get good at the game. I'm bad, but its hilarious that I can easily get up to 9m on my mains, but then I run into players that seem to just totally shut me down and have crazy movement. Every time, all I can think is "what are you doing down at this GSP" these people even exist at like 4m when I play random character.

[@Veckler]

Because this whole gsp system is horrible. When I started playing smash I was terrible, so all my characters dropped to around 2 mil. But over time I got better, my mains are just below Elite, yet I still have a lot of characters at low gsp. Even though I'm not especially good with those characters my game-sense is much better, and I gained plenty of experienced, yet I'm still getting matched with people who are in the "getting bodied every game because I'm new" phase currently. This whole matchmaking and ranking system is piss poor.

[@Endershock1678]

From my experience, they all have 1-2 things they excell in but 2 major Weaknessest hat can exploited to hell and back. Like ran into say an Icies who knew how desync, but literally every time they got me on a ledge trap, did the worst charged f smash ever, and I so three stocked the, despite them getting an 80% combo instantly. That, alongside jumping after getting hit, air dodging without a jump, and always Rolling after they get hit by one move off ledge are easily the most common weaknesses. Using that Falcon as an example, he was very inconsistent with combos (the reason nobody does up smash there is because it true combos into knee, which is stronger and after the stop could have gotten a true grab as a follow up which would have been better) and went for a lot of bad smash attacks and weird options after hitting shield (like knee into down tilt), so if you stay calm and don't press panic buttons, you'll probably get a lot of punishes. He also kept using his double jump to edge guard, meaning if Hop had jump baired as a reversal, he would be dead at like 60. That's what online teaches you, not how to play your character, but how to pay attention to what others do.

[@SherriJones7000Orphans]

Can someone let me why did he run from inkling? It seem unfair but idk why so please help

[@HopCatSmash]

Was the same player as the corrin, who was in my Twitch chat trying to match into me

[@SherriJones7000Orphans]

@@HopCatSmash oh thanks!

[@Veckler]

Today's episode of "GSP means fuck all"

[@ErrorGamez]

Man the buffer system does suck

[@baldibasicsedulearn1offici996]

When I saw pichu I got so excited And then he lost

[@merp4294]

this is sick

[@phillizeigtnilli]

Are there really normal Smash Players WHO actually Care what Pit you are.

[@ultragamer8816]

Fun fact: you time travel every second

[@Kanu03]

did you just call ridley a heavy in our lord's year of 2022?

[@hunterculpepper1973]

Popit1 went back to ness even his lucunina is worse than his ness

[@mixed6640]

Are you gonna play Pokémon Scarlet/Violet when those games come out?

[@marcusdenny1261]

Even with pichu you still have to face the hc fair 😂

[@ubbychubbs4238]

My wifi is so bad I liked the video 6mins before I could watch it

[@Mene0]

22:44 but if you hit him Arsene goes away faster

[@Endershock1678]

Also complaining about Jokers moves being invincible when none of his normals, Arsene or otherwise, have invincibility. His lack of MU experience really shined through those fights.

[@saxeladude]

the video should just be re-titled what are the 7million gsp players smoking

[@reapsd1i931]

THE PICHU WAS HC LMAO

[@FlaggermusMann_]

These are great!

[@cjlite0210]

The fact that the starters actually follow the starter types to a degree this time feels really thematic And Hopcat chose Charmander- Nevermind he died lol, he chose Squirtle (Marth now lol)