I Attempted Pokemon's Hardest Escape Room

[@godminnette2]

The Endure, disobey, Fling mechanic might be the coolest trick I've seen in any of these escape rooms. Effectively transferring the priority of Endure onto another move... genius!

[@anim4niac307]

I know the reunion happened almost a year ago but hearing "my friend smallant" made me smile

[@nagol37]

Yay

[@pkmntrainermark8881]

Has it been that long already?

[@taoafro1740]

I only subscribed because he mentioned his friend Smallant, who’d I’d mostly forgotten about lolol! Now I’ve got two dorks doing kooky Pokémon escape content to watch. Yay! ✌🏾❤️👾😁

[@beezzinha]

reunion? I'm so out of the loop, what happened?

[@PharaohofAtlantis]

@@beezzinha Also out of the loop here.

[@infernox1099]

Eric came up with a solution for the "impossible" version, sure having shellos die over a thousand times isn't a fun solution, it is however a solution

[@EvilMastermindOfDoom]

@@infernox1099 He liked this solution so much, he started playing Kaizo Ironmon to watch Pokemon die over 2000 times! (Only on the VOD channel for now, he can't make a video until he beats it, lol)

[@Johan-ct3xg]

I'm not entirely sure it would've even worked though. I might be wrong but I think level up evolutions only trigger if you actually win a battle, so after all of the knocked out Shellos the magnemite will eventually level up but it would still just lose the battle and not evolve because the player blacked out

[@cognisentnt8613]

​@Johan-ct3xg I'm pretty sure this is wrong. To my understanding, a pokemon will evolve after it has been revived if it has enough experience to evolve, but fainted in that battle, even in HG/SS. So yes, this should work. However, I could easily be wrong, as my research wasn't that deep.

[@Johan-ct3xg]

@@cognisentnt8613 I do think you're right but it's not exactly what I was trying to say. From my knowledge it doesn't matter at all if a pokemon fainted in battle, as long as it hit the evolution level it will evolve even if it's still fainted, you don't even have to revive it during the battle, I'm pretty sure I've had a fainted pokemon evolve after a battle before. However you do need to actually finish the battle (aka win), because if you lose a battle you just black out and get sent back to the pokecenter without any evolutions happening. So yes it doesn't matter if the pokemon that needs to evolve faints if you still win the battle, but it does matter if all of your pokemon faint because you'll lose the battle. I've had it happen before in playthroughs of emerald, your starter evolves at level 16 there and then learns a new move at that level tol after evolving. But it's happened that i went to fight the first gym leader with my level 15 starter, it defeats her first two geodudes and levels up to level 16, and then my whole team wipes to her nosepass so i black out and my starter doesn't evolve even though it's still level 16. So then it will only evolve once it levels up again to lvl 17 but it will never get the move it would've learned because it evolved too late. (For example combusken gets double kick at lvl 16 but torchic doesnt, so because torchic only evolved into combusken at lvl 17 it just never gets double kick)

[@glassphoenix9095]

as soon as i heard him say that i thought it sounded like some pikasprey/softlock picking shenanigans gndfjkghdfn

[@tylersyaboi]

Okay the "pay attention to the gender" puzzle being MAIL was genius but groan worthy puns

[@Bookworm159]

I literally didn't understand it until I just read your comment.

[@kevinhoogers7682]

Oh, I interpreted it as toxic masculinity, since the male grumpig gets the toxic orb

[@CGammer101]

Thats clever @kevinhoogers XD

[@theRealSlimGordon]

​@@kevinhoogers7682what's that gotta do with a puzzle? Lol

[@kevinhoogers7682]

@@theRealSlimGordon that you need to gice the grumpig the toxic orb?

[@april1099]

i love how "educational" this video is. i feel like it's really easy for poketubers to assume that their audience has the same amount of game knowledge as them, which can make things hard to follow for a casual fan. i really loved all the explanations thought the video!

[@RealRamaladni]

at the same time, it can be annoying when they overexplain very simple mechanics, but it's easy to solve that by hitting the right direction key twice here. with wolfey it's more annoying because he'll take 5 mins to do this

[@trulyunknowable]

The fact that Eric practically beat the first version of the escape room was very entertaining. Smant's escape rooms are always so cool to see!

[@ryandunn2930]

This was a very entertaining watch. I’ve never seen a smant escape room before. The dude is clever.

[@Vaserius]

@@ryandunn2930 Check out the Smants other escape room on his own channel. Thats also very creative.

[@modulusshift]

You know, I thought the hint was “take note” for a second, and thought that was clever, and _then_ realized male = mail lmao

[@weirdlypicturedbeing2122]

Tbh, could be both!

[@windexcleaner7549]

​@@weirdlypicturedbeing2122knowing smant, it 100% is the male = mail version first

[@SheepStar8]

15:25: The key indicator here is that PointCrow takes one turn to say "I'm about to sneeze" and then sneezes.

[@SorcerorNobody]

It's just sneeze-type Dig.

[@aykarain]

shadow sneeze

[@Gamer3427]

I've seen a few people do this puzzle now, and I knew something was wrong the moment he didn't have a sign mentioning only deleting one move, but I didn't catch the fact that it was Shellos instead of Smeargle, so I wasn't sure if maybe he'd just skipped the sign. Definitely didn't expect Smant to have just sent him an old version by mistake.

[@semajniomet981]

Knowing SmallAnt, it was probably intended.

[@KrakatonMain]

I remember hearing this brought up in another video at some point, maybe from either smant or pcrow, but seeing it used for something like this is SO genius. Also, the clever use of Chuck to 1, give you a badge, and 2, use his mid-battle dialogue to tell you "you won't need Hypno after this!" is GENIUS. Doing that, plus having a hint sign before Giratina to tell you the two moves you no longer need, as well as "you'll need some luck" to confirm that yes, this will be slightly dependent oj RNG, is a great choice. Smanthony did a genuinely amazing job on this. I think I remember stopping the VoD pretty early on when that released, because I wanted to try this myself. But now I'm glad I'm seeing this instead, bc I definitely would not have solved this. I didn't know the disobedience mechanic that well to have figured out the priority trick. I'm still only at 13:47 , but this is seriously just so well designed. This follows my philosophy of puzzle design to a T. Everything here has a purpose, down to "tools" available, hints, and even the choices and placement of terrain and grass tiles! I even just now realized that the Hypno's name is displayed in Japanese, while everyone else has their name in English, and that's literally there as a hint that the Hypno is an "outsider" (Pokémon obtained via trade that will disobey if you have insufficient badges)

[@robirdta]

I love seeing how people are messing around with the pokemon format! Really makes the games so much more fun to mess around with and figure out what's possible. Though no matter how hard you try, you aren't escaping Ironmon

[@LlamaWarrior101]

Nice to see you Robirdta

[@AkashThePerson]

Ok this man is an actual genius He just beat the part of the outdated puzzle that was literally deemed impossible

[@jayemover_16]

This seriously needs to be a genre of Pokemon fan games. Moves have so many cool tricks like this, it wouldn't be difficult to come up with more puzzles. I hope this video inspires people to make more!

[@skull4658]

it is

[@sunshinegamer1999]

recommend wiz1989's escape rooms if you're interested in seeing more! all three so far have been covered on youtube ^^

[@wiz_1989]

@@sunshinegamer1999I can second this 😉

[@arwin1794]

Its very hard to make because cheezing an escape room is always easier than actually following the intended route so people find other ways to do it.

[@naomidolan3773]

So happy to see you guys do another collab together, I love both of y'alls content! :))

[@lucasm.3864]

These were incredibly creative puzzles. Even though I know the games inside and out, I appreciate how you explained all of the components for people who might not know them. I also find it hilarious that you were solving an unsolvable puzzle.

[@ThePhilCraft22]

I'm so happy seeing you two doing something together!! ❤

[@boyparkgaming]

The fact that PointCrow managed to get that far in an old escape room is impressive. Well done!

[@ATinCanOnYT]

Eric pointcrow never fails to deliver a good video whilst I'm burying a family of four

[@Daniel_3322]

Only four? Weak, I'm burying a family of 13!

[@tundestreats9891]

remember to put your back into it cap

[@blackwolfboi3679]

Its also a good video to watch while i am being buried with my 3 family members

[@theradicalginger3060]

I'm sorry..! 😅 I feel I may be missing something here If someone is kind a clues me in great if not and people comment around me I shall try n decipher what this could mean I was about to just straight up be like my condolences 😅

[@catborgir8763]

@@theradicalginger3060i got a stroke trying to read your comment 💀💀

[@SHMOUSEY86]

15:36 Bless you.

[@WilliamAfton-n7d]

I find it hilarious that smallant learned the disobedience priority tech on a heracross in his random team run. And puts it in all his escape rooms. Real neat lore bit

[@THE-SHADOW--]

Video title?

[@WilliamAfton-n7d]

@@THE-SHADOW-- (Pokemon Diamond but every battle my team is random). Since I looked it up, the moment happens specifically at 10:08

[@THE-SHADOW--]

@@WilliamAfton-n7d thank you

[@The_engineering_potato]

I’m so glad smat and pointcrow are on better terms now, It was genuinely really sad never seeing them in the same video but now they are doing exclusive collabs. This proves that if you own up to your mistakes and communicate like adults, everyone is better in the end.

[@amirulamani1487]

Wait what happened?

[@anonymousapproximation8549]

I, too, must know.

[@The_engineering_potato]

It’s titled “i spent a day with two PRO SPEEDRUNERS (smallant and pointcrow)

[@EvilMastermindOfDoom]

These are so much fun to watch (in retrospect) (watching live without being able to try things yourself should count as torture)

[@Sumire9287]

Not just that, finding a solution and being locked on emote chat

[@EvilMastermindOfDoom]

Nah, backseating is lame

[@lores9412]

Oh my god this is a veeery good video! The editing makes the explanation more schematic and easier to understand! Well done Pcrow (and Pcrow's editor ;)

[@Ciarnyn]

I think this is one of the first videos I've watched of yours (having seen you as a guest on numerous other videos)... your explanations are concise and educational, and your enthusiasm is infectious. Subscribed.

[@anomaly_doopliss]

I just learned so much new tech with this game i did NOT think it was quite that deep that was wild

[@Deelee2020]

can’t believe you got so far even with an old copy! I always wondered if it was possible to find alternate routes to escape and you did it!

[@NintenHawk]

Very cool escape room! It was really fun watching you play it!

[@Aghul]

I love these Pokemon escape room videos so much! Those escape rooms have such hyper specific puzzle with equally hyper specific solutions to them, it really tests all your very deepest understanding of Pokemon game mechanics. Super interesting to watch.

[@GrandSleuth]

Managing to get to the final puzzle, finding it that both it and the mew ones were “impossible”, and still having technically solutions (Sub/Struggle and 1k+ Shellos) is crazy

[@allanscott7564]

Doug is in fact very good at 2d pokemon games

[@GodOfFame373]

NOT SCIENTIFICALLY POSSIBLE!!!!!1!!!!!!

[@theredknight3736]

Dog is in fact very good at 2d pokemon games

[@Megaprime53]

That montage of um, hm, I'm clearly missing something, ughh, etc. was so funny. Also, I'm about to sneeze. LOL

[@zuperkirbi8378]

Smallant is just the questgiver

[@Hey_Vas]

The editting on this is 🔥🔥

[@youtubeuniversity3638]

Imagine an Escape Room based around Pokéstar Studios.

[@RisingExult]

Smant always delivers. This was a really cool puzzle to watch and I would’ve taken much longer 😭

[@luke7478]

1:26 WHERE DID HE LOOKED? IS SOMEONE BEHIND THE CAMERA AND FORCING HIM TO PLAY POKEMON????

[@PokeArtHunt]

Wow so cool I have never seen this part of the Pokemon world. Custom escape rooms?? Amazing 😂

[@controllerpleb6568]

I really appreciate how you explain everything so well. I don't really play pokemon games, so it was nice to be able to follow along.

[@meowtannie.]

i love how understandable this was to watch even as someone who has never played the pokemon games 💙

[@Gamer_poop4993]

It’s always a good day when pointcrow uploads

[@jasonbarry3301]

23:56 Man was literally killed by toxic masculinity

[@mp4studios830]

LEVEL 100 SHEDINJA… competitive nightmare

[@astrorookie]

this is such a cool video! if smant made this escape room, you've gotta make an even harder one for him!! this was so fun to watch omg; I'm good at Pokémon but nowhere NEAR this good!!!

[@bahamutdragon1754]

22:50 Normally a Pokémon can never use more than three substitutes as it becomes too weak to make a copy after the third. However at specific maximum HP values, Substitute actually rounds down, but only if a Pokémon’s HP is uneven, leaving you with 1HP, allowing you to use 4 substitutes.

[@sophiaisabelle027]

I'm sure this is one hell of a masterpiece. Time and time again it has me contemplating on what my next step should be.

[@JohnDoe-gp3vu]

This is such a good puzzle, i absolutely love the creativity mixed with the humor

[@ked49]

25:12 mail male

[@820_anemone]

This concept reminds me of Pikasprey's 'Soft Lock Picking' series, but having a custom modded-in puzzle is a fun twist on the idea! Neat to see.

[@PenelopeStoneVT]

I know you've been chill again for a while, but hearing the sentence "My friend smallant" again feels great. 😢

[@ameribano8910]

Love hearing, “My friend SmallAnt,” from Pointcrow. Warms my heart.

[@ardianhesa4340]

This is no longer thinking outside the box, this is thinking from a different room

[@aPixelatedPerson]

Man Pointcrow, u are THE BEST OF THE BEST, I'm not even kidding. You make me laugh so hard in every video, and your video ideas are genius. Thank you so much for making my day every time you post a video!!!

[@Rainy_R]

As a person who doesn't know much when it comes to pokemon moves and stuff (or just Pokemon in general, yet I still enjoy watching Pokemon stuff), this honestly helps me understand some things better when it comes to what moves and can do and other things 😭😭

[@GappyV]

escaped harder than when my dad escaped his marriage to go get milk from the grocery store

[@catborgir8763]

it’s like he’s in some kind of… pokémon escape room.

[@SomeChristianGuy9]

r/wooooosh

[@suffering9481]

No shit

[@m4rcyonstation93]

@@SomeChristianGuy9 p sure this is a reference to "i think he's in some kind of... snow grave" actually so

[@janwill1]

@@SomeChristianGuy9counter r/woooosh

[@The_Woop]

25:25 admirable trait, being respectful to others hard work

[@Zorgdub]

It's impressive that PointCrow figured out a way to beat the broken version that was supposed to be unbeatable. Sure, it would take over 500 fights before enough Shellos had sacrificed themselves, but it'd have _worked_ . Eventually. And then he'd have to do it again to level up the Natu...

[@natelex7084]

17:35 And then "exeggcuting" it. Good one.

[@Coolio_Ash]

Escape room rom hacks are such a creative concept, I love this stuff

[@Anthony-uz5tj]

what an awesome game i dont have the poke knowledge to win it but it was fun watching you figure out each step. i love fan made games its amazing how smart and creative some of you guys are.

[@NavnikBHSilver]

YESSS! I love natu, and I love the fact that the lil round borb became the hero at the end.

[@thatdiamondofhope]

Why do I feel like I've seen this escape room before? No, I haven't seen PointCrow do this live. Edit: I remember. It was ShadyPenguin and Dylan from DadsBeingDudes

[@gfghdgfghd6391]

FlygonHG didi a video on it. You might have seen that?

[@Carlhero-ce2xq]

Smant had a lot of people do this escape room, you've likely seen one if them do it

[@suburbanhippo2830]

Before I clicked on the video, i thought that it might have been just a goof vid where its just crow reseting kaizo runs that all end in the lab.😂😂😂

[@frostydog6068]

This is one of the best escape rooms ever made, smallant never disappoints. Also huge props to Eric for not using any hints in this video

[@XhanAnimations]

I like pokemon but I've never kept up with fighting details to this extent so seeing the solution to the mew and tentacruel fight was so neat! Also first time even hearing of pokemon escape rooms so very neat video!

[@SmithYorkinster]

Hidden npcs/items in this kind of escape rooms is pretty lame, unless finding them is part of a puzzle itself.

[@KainaX122]

Nice to hear that you and Smant are back to being friends. You guys both seem really cool so it broke my heart to see you guys mad at each other

[@karanoelle4819]

I would love for this to be a series. Part 2 would be a second mod that has your current stats and all, that then builds up a second locked room based on this.

[@lauraviegas8850]

i love the way you narrate it makes it very easy to keep up!

[@CyborgMenace3k21]

man absolute mastery and understanding of the games mechanics, what an amazing vid

[@andrewcavender8443]

I love how creative this stuff is

[@lilygibbs4749]

Love this whole idea. Would love to see more videos like this

[@NotHawaiian]

If this were made 7 months ago I would've never known what those berries did but thanks to your Pokerogue video getting me into the game I knew all of them except the Custap Berry.

[@RyderDunei]

All these Fling interactions reminds me of a old pokemon memory from when i was a young, i was struggling to catch Mesprit in Pokemon Diamond. As it was a roaming legendary, it would run away instantly when battle started, and i was having trouble getting sleep, freeze or a lock-in move to trap it. One night i had dream about catching it, and in that dream i had my pokemon use Fling while holding an Ultraball, which did damage then attempted a catch, it doesnt work in real life unfortunately, it just does damage, but at the time i was like "damn, why is dream me smarter than regular me?" ;p

[@Thehollowness-j6k]

Me: gives up Pointcrow: destroys the game

[@lordlyka68]

3:08 why is the beedrill spontaneously changing genders help 😭

[@Coocoocrazy3]

Lol prob different encounters

[@suffering9481]

Ah so that's the true reason for the gender clue

[@lastnamefirstname8655]

nice fun pokemon escape room! this was so amazing! hope we see so much more of these pokemon escape rooms!

[@jaewol359]

The explanations are awesome. Despite knowing a lot already, I feel like I’ve learned something.

[@draco4569]

That "I'm about to sneeze!" bit got me! I cracked up when that came out of nowhere.

[@Palasid11]

This escape room was incredible! Amazingly well done!

[@dillpickle6679]

The way my feet were kicking and I was happy when I heard "My friend smallant" should be studied

[@redpandamurphy]

Imagine if, at the end of the escape room, after using fly to New Bark Town, there was a new escape room for you to take on. 😂

[@byrontheusurper6505]

I LOVE these!

[@AaliaAustin]

Oh my god this is a veeery good video! The editing makes the explanation more schematic and easier to understand! Well done Pcrow (and Pcrow's editor ;)

[@ryansquibb5991]

“I’m about to sneeze” 15:37 😂😂😂

[@TheLegoMan22BBY]

Great video!!! it's content like this thats why your my favorite youtuber.

[@joewalker4155]

This was awesome and really well edited

[@Icalasari]

Since we didn't see Barrier right away, I thought the Tentacruel solution was a brute force puzzle involving Recycle, Fling, and Magnemite being immune to poison damage

[@GeorgeDCowley]

4:44 I did that with Kyurem. 6:25 Luck. 10:00 Nice. 17:30 You can't walk through the middle? Why do you still need just substitute? 27:35 Even number, integer battle number.

[@Skelwing]

i really love the escape rooms! they look like a lot of fun!

[@OnePieceFanForever]

We want another Pokemon race with you and Smallant, pleeeease!!! Those are easily some of the best vids I've seen in this genre. Edit: *pokemon randomizer race

[@theradicalginger3060]

Everytime i watch videos like these i learn a massive amount of poke knowledge i never knew about and how it truly works and affects things because i would never be able to try this i would fail spectacularly 😂

[@SCP-4680]

I so wish this was an actual gba/ds rom hack. Awesome vid!

[@DARKSABER860]

You know it's a good day when point crow uploads.

[@Ihelps]

"I'm about to sneeze, uhh choo"

[@cyrusshay]

You should for sure look into playing the fan game Pokémon Salt and Shadow. It’s really, really fun and has great lore, but it has the sensibility of this sort of locked room.

[@Dez_Bryan]

Holy shit I just went down an escape room while then the best KZbinr uploads one

[@Whyfoos]

It's crazy to think about figuring out the strategies to solve this AND coming up with the puzzles too. My IQ def increased with this one

[@fruit3193]

My thought for the Level 100 Mew was that you had to outspeed via the berry giving you priority, use Substitute, then Transform would fail and it would Struggle to death eventually. The solution in the video is far more interesting though, probably more reliable too.