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Reacting to SmallAnts Can You Beat Pokemon Platinum Without Taking Damage
Edited by Lucas Braun
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[@Smallant]

he thinks I'm really cool 😮😮😮😮😮

[@Big_G12]

You are

[@zaxtonhong3958]

Whoooaaaaaaaaaa it's the cool guy

[@PokemonChallenges]

I've been noticed 🥺🥺🥺

[@jackcowan8318]

SmallAnt you need a break from these stupid challenges

[@smartboy201]

Yo dawg, I heard he loves you!

[@Beowulfr23]

I like the, "he's going to get quick attacked, he's going to get quick attacked" then gets quick attacked for the hilarious amount of 3 damage

[@dzzenok4136]

Damage is damage

[@calebdevilbiss6447]

The crit was just mental damage

[@misfittoy4078]

Nobody bothered to check if your math was correct

[@desiterdane8128]

you PM

[@desiterdane8128]

you PM

[@charlesbersamin9623]

The whole video is basically him insisting that SmallAnt should’ve chosen Chimchar as the starter.

[@Blue-fg8vt]

Tbh i don't think that chimchar is worth starting with due too it being so hard too get out no hit

[@imjustryley2197]

He wouldn't have gotten past the first rival battle for a long time if he chose Chimchar, because Piplup has growl, which makes you deal less damage, and it also has 100% accuracy, so he was even wrong in saying that he should use Chimchar.

[@charlesbersamin9623]

@@imjustryley2197 I think what he meant to say was that even though the rival battle wouldve been longer the subsequent battles wouldve required less time because of Infernape.

[@byrontheusurper6505]

A bit annoying but not wrong. Still, hoping for like 8 turns of misses or status moves is insane.

[@Predated2]

@@imjustryley2197 I mean, whats better? Spending 3 hours on a turtwig, only to be delayed 8 hours later in the game by grinding up your pokemon? or spending 5 hours on a chimchar and only having to train up like 2 extra hours? Its like saying you can earn 5 million $ now and get 5.000$ every single month for the rest of your life, or earn 1 million$ right now, but earn 50.000$ every single month for the rest of your life. Which would you pick? On the short term, the first option is very appealing, but the second option is by far the best option on long term.

[@emjer7906]

I decided to do the math on the odds of beating the first rival battle using chimchar, and the best odds seem to be 1/21065 for chimchar having 4 or more ivs in attack, an attack boosting nature, and getting double crits against a piplup with a negative defense nature using growl, which means an average of about 15000 resets to beat the first rival battle. Assuming each reset takes 10 seconds, that's about 41 hours worth of resetting, which is longer than smallant's entire run, so it doesn't seem like picking chimchar is really any faster than picking turtwig

[@ashtic9140]

Dayyum

[@iam-geoffreytheelite5275]

Yeah thanks for crunching the numbers, watching this was annoying every time he’d smugly say “Shoulda picked chimchar” Smallant is very smart and knows what he doing lmao. If he thought the longer rival battle at the start was worth it he would’ve done it.

[@killuafan4365]

I think he does everything from title load screen since he doesnt get a save pre first gym, hed have to do cut scenes if im not mistaken. I think poke challenges didnt know about the rules as clearly as he thought.

[@kasyu1101]

so, the answer to 2:56 is yes. also, if you actually look at the timer, it actually took smallant about a minute between attempts, meaning it would actually take over 300 hours to get past the rival battle. in other words, just take the turtle and dont ask questions.

[@The_Mang]

yeah I dont think that PC accounted for the fact that each turn that you successfully didn't take damage, you would be losing attack so every crit would deal less and less damage

[@zeezeyhd1412]

i absolutely love how he skipped Small Ant killing the Shiny buisel🤣🤣

[@das_flauschige_animehorn6085]

Me too lmao

[@bishop_breloom]

Shiny Pokémon are bad for speed runs

[@adrianabarrantes1059]

@@bishop_breloom why?

[@explicit6615]

@@adrianabarrantes1059 shiny animation adds time

[@JustALittleSillyGoose]

Adriana Barrantes encountering them adds more frames and more frames means more time to your final time. I think.

[@patrickl671]

You should try this challenge with chimchar

[@shine-ub6eb]

I would watch for sure

[@romantorchic971]

That would be epic. And he can try to beat SmallAnt’s time of 39 hours

[@justapancrepe8455]

He really should!

[@BenStonememe]

As long as PC resets the entire game instead of the latest gym if he takes damage ;)

[@alexperper6390]

No

[@ian_velez]

Smallant1:loses hours worth of time after grueling amounts of training. This guy: *laughs*

[@theatomicbob9067]

Smallant1:I'm not trying to waste my life away

[@jacobbau8328]

It was funny, admit it.

[@cassio_o8180]

Who's SmallAnt1?I only know SmallAnt.

[@strogonoffcore]

as we say in Brazil, "pepper on someone else's butt is a refreshment for some"

[@sr.piedra3802]

This guy: *C H I M C H A R*

[@PokemonProfessorNebula]

When pokemon moves say they hit 80% of the time, they really mean 50% of the time, lets be honest.

[@EskChan19]

Xcom and Fire Emblem agree.

[@woozlegamer8253]

If it’s not 100% accurate, it’s 50% accurate. MandJTV - All the time

[@NormalWeeb.]

And 30% accuracy sheer cold feels like 100%

[@dylancross1039]

@@NormalWeeb. Only if the AI uses it

[@taiderscoliosis7258]

Now im asking how my sleep powder never misses

[@xavierbehrens3015]

Buizel: is shiny Smallant: kills it Also smallant: catches a buizel later in the run.

[@estebanvelazquez353]

He's doing a Speedrun so he doesn't want a time waster like a shiny. The animation takes more time

[@yoshimatt09]

@@estebanvelazquez353 this isnt a speedrun he just put the timer there so youtube knows how long it is, but if theres a speedrun category for this then i want to see it

[@steventhecookielover]

SmallAnt actually explained that it was too risky to throw a Poke Ball since he didn't have access to the Net Ball to catch Buizel easily, so he decided to kill it since he didn't want to risk it, still hurts to watch a little tho lol

[@Crxsseyed1]

It was too risky, he just spent a ton of time to train, and if he didn’t catch it, he would need to spend even more time

[@BurgoYT]

@@estebanvelazquez353no, it’s because he’d already done heaps of grinding since a gym so catching it would be very risky if it failed and he got attacked

[@darrellwillis4871]

For the gen 5 version, I feel like the 'pick your starter' that would be awful. You'd have to beat BOTH starters without getting hit once.

[@erfegxD]

Ikr

[@darrellwillis4871]

@@erfegxD I want to do B2/W2 no damage. I also did a run in Pearl (I want to do plat. and Gen 5 status only run)

[@erfegxD]

@@darrellwillis4871 B2/W2 is hard i havent even beated it i only reached the elite four so gl with your run

[@darrellwillis4871]

@@erfegxD I think I'm gonna either start with oshawott or tepig. Water for aqua jet or fire for arm thrust to break sturdy users. If oshawott, get riolu because Lucario is a good fighting type that probably gets a multi-hit. They're also early game.

[@erfegxD]

@@darrellwillis4871 oshawott is decent just catch a riolu train it up until it learns force palm its only a few levels up and then crush cheren and sandile is great too when you get to nimbasa city catch one asap they are good for the elite four catch one with the ability "moxie" its very useful since krookodile is good for sweeping teams

[@carlosx8603]

Something that hurts the use chimchar argument is that you eventually have to train a normal type pokemon for fantina's duskull, and a pokemon with a priority move for fantina's haunter as Infernape would only have mach punch. So in the end you'd catch Staraptor and Floatzel regardless.

[@acemerceramv8561]

Floatzel yes, but not necessarily Staraptor, at least for Fantina, you could train Floatzel to outshot Duskull

[@carlosx8603]

@acemerceramv8561 true enough, if one wanted to get a chimchar run off the ground, then that would be an option.

[@TheRMJQandA]

Take a drink every time he mentions should of started chimchar/monferno

[@Firetrigger2110]

Imagine not being the definition of a ZA WARUDO TURTLE. This post was made by the Turtwig Gang.

[@ricardoj376]

I don't wanna die.

[@trfinnila6074]

I don’t know that I have enough water

[@chasemathis2016]

had to go get my stomach pumped

[@Wauly]

Hate me if you want, but it's "Should've"

[@---Mattia---]

I love SmallAnt, his challenge runs are so unique and fun

[@khunpaciny7273]

We love seeing him suffer with his challenges

[@HakainoMegami]

Awesome pfp btw

[@Gallentecitizen1]

Smallant's video: **exists** Everyone reacting: "Oh I didn't know Hail makes Blizzard bypass the accuracy check I thought it was just set to 100%. "

[@billybobbobson3797]

I’m honestly sick of this new KZbin trend of someone dumping hours into a video and then other youtubers watching it and leeching views off of it

[@AlightBlaze]

Im not much of a pokemon player whats the difference?

[@Gallentecitizen1]

@@AlightBlaze If a move has a listed accuracy of "100%" it can still miss if the user's accuracy stat is lowered (e.g. by getting hit by Sand Attack) or if the target's evasion is raised (e.g. by using Double Team or being in Hail with Snow Cloak) but a move that "bypasses the accuracy check", like Aerial Ace or Blizzard in Hail, will ignore the user's accuracy and the target's evasion and hit regardless.

[@AlightBlaze]

@@Gallentecitizen1 ah thank you

[@M4x_P0w3r]

@@billybobbobson3797 New? Pal, reactions have been a thing for a long, long time

[@stevendeng6720]

This challenge would be next to impossible on set mode, no? You’d have to set up one Pokémon that can sweep every team imaginable because switching would just get you hit in 99% of situations.

[@janelle57759]

Maybe moves like Roar, Baton Pass, and U-turn would have to be implemented just for a decent chance

[@boianko]

I guess you could get a Shedinja (if that's even possible in DPPt) and use that as a safe switch to most moves, then sweep dark, fire, flying and rock types directly.

[@psychopathicporo]

You'd have to tryhard with pivoting to pokemon who aren't affected by whichever move you bait out

[@poisonedmaple6874]

@@boianko shedinja is not available until post game

[@ericdissing]

I still have fond memories of the daycare leveling stat. I wanted lopunny to be my main Pokémon for a run when I was 10, and I remember going to the factory wrapping a rubber band on my ds so it presses left and I’m pressing left towards a panel that spun me to the right. I would wake up before school and see my lopunny gained 15+ levels every night and it was so satisfying.

[@CalamitasDeus]

So, I don't know if Pokémon Challenges realizes that this wasn't a time trial. This was strictly a no-damage run. How much time it takes isn't relevant, so picking Chimchar isn't actually a helpful tip necessarily.

[@joegod9488]

it was in reference to turtwig being picked to save time whereas chimchar would have saved more overall time on the run

[@FlandrionScarlet]

@@joegod9488 yeah spending 42 hours for 1 try instead of 16 minutes would save more time

[@dylanh8163]

i'd also factor in not wanting to spend his whole life doing the run. In theory he could reset every fight until a quick attack crit on a speed tie is how he wins, but smallant doesn't because a million resets doesn't seem fun. also the chimchar thing definitely seems like it just became a meme in his stream during this.

[@dathunderman4]

@@joegod9488 he’s just wrong tho. Someone did the calculations and it’d take 48 hours in the best case scenario if you picked chimchar to get thru the first battle alone. That’s longer than what small ant spent actually playing the entire run. Not to mention that small ant didn’t allow saves until after he beat the gym, and the first gym would be really hard with chimchar

[@Korow-]

@@joegod9488 No it wouldnt. u gonna be at the first battle for about 300h. even speed up thats no time save

[@zylena8004]

Ushijima: yOu shOulD'Ve cOmE tO sHirAtOrIzAwA This guy: yOu shOuLd'Ve chOsEn chImChar

[@bruv7521]

What i didn't expect a Haikyuu comment in pc's comment section. Col

[@SilharaTheChosen]

A lot of people throwing shade over the "best nuzlocker in the world" bit, but honestly have you seen his videos? Man isn't wrong imo.

[@siren6245]

God but he's so boring in his nuzlock videos smallant keeps my small goober brain stimulated

[@mendia43]

@@siren6245 idk man, he is just super chill and I really apreciate that specially nowadays when everything is way too exagerated.

[@siren6245]

@@mendia43 to be fair I'm kinda retarded I pretty much only watch paymoneywubby because of it

[@ezio934]

Yeah he is the only nuzlocker who play difficult rom hacks with set mode + no item in battle + no overlevelling. There is marilland but he does not play any hard rom hacks.

[@sirbrokkoli5309]

@@ezio934 Doesn't Mr Ding Dong Games do that as well?

[@orphen923]

Choosing Chimchar is the exact same outcome as if he were to choose Piplup... Its a stupid decision. Though it works in the endgame, you'll inevitably spend more time trying to get through the first battle than if you were to just pick Turtwig

[@flallana18]

Turtwig learns a defense raising move, which makes it take longer to kill, which increases the chance Piplup will get hit

[@betonamu7514]

Crit ignores with defense boost and attack drops so the odd is not as bad as you think

[@betonamu7514]

It’s not as bad as you think. The key is we need to leer until we can crit while needing piplup to growl. The reason for this is the chance for pilup to growl is 1/2, and the chance to crit is 1/16, which means leering into crit kill is always beneficial. We do not care about growl attack drop, since crit ignores attack drop. Since chimchar goes first, the math would be: 1/2 ^ (# num of lear) * 1/16 * (chance to OHKO) Worst case (-atk nature 0 atk iv chimchar and +def nature 31 iv piplup), we need to lear 5 times into crit to have a 30% chance to KO (0- Atk Chimchar Scratch vs. -5 0 HP / 0+ Def Piplup on a critical hit: 18-22 (85.7 - 104.7%) - 31.3% chance to OHKO ) which means piplup has to hit 5 growl so the chance is: 1/2 ^ 5 * 1/16 * 0.3 = 1/1536 And this is the WORST case scenario The average case should be: neutral nature with 15iv each and we need 4 lear into crit: 0 Atk Chimchar Scratch vs. -4 0 HP / 0 Def Piplup on a critical hit: 22-26 (104.7 - 123.8%) - guaranteed OHKO So piplup will growl 4 times => clear chance is (1/2)^4 * 1/16 = 1/256 which is not bad at all Best case scenario we get a chimchar with 31iv +atk nature and a piplup with 0hp 0def iv -def nature. Now we only need to lear twice to have to KO: 0+ Atk Chimchar Scratch vs. -2 0 HP / 0 -Def Piplup on a critical hit: 20-24 (100 - 120%) - guaranteed OHKO Which means piplup get to roll growl twice. Which brings the math to: 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/16 = 1/64 Remember that we can also check the chimchar’s stat so we can reroll for at least neutral nature and average attack iv

[@doheonlee6703]

@@betonamu7514yes, a ridiculously lucky chance to roll a 1/64 huh? That isn’t accounting for the fact that small ant could miss catching starly and redo the rival fight AGAIN (like he did in the video)

[@betonamu7514]

@@doheonlee6703 infernape line has priority mach punch so u dont need quick attack from starly

[@YakoSWG]

Starting with Chimchar with average luck would take about 5-6 hours to beat the first fight. It might save time in the long run but being stuck on the first fight for over 5 hours is super demoralizing.

[@Luis-gz3oo]

About 40 hours* if contents above are correct

[@caseabase]

21:18 I like how you censored the first one, but not the second one right after, lol.

[@Ricci9170]

Well, 2 different meaning

[@paydaydallas6615]

I'm doing this challenge in platinum and I can confirm chimchar is not the right choice, you need to generally get lucky to beat piplup with him using growls and missing his attacks, turtwig was the correct choice

[@Macie-Jay77]

The reason he didn’t use chimchar was because if he did, in the rival battle against piplup, the piplup would have to use growl to not deal damage, which would reduce his chimchars damage, resulting in him needing to hit more and the rival to miss more attacks. The chance of this happening is much lower than just picking turtwig.

[@LoKing1337]

Or just get some crits since they don’t care about stat changes

[@leonel392]

@@LoKing1337 trusting in crits is super inefficient

[@LoKing1337]

@@leonel392 that is why this run is a test of patience

[@levy9595]

the difference between turtwig and chimchar winning the first battle is 1/16 for turtwig and over 1/1000 for monferno. Grinding for that complete with restarts and all isnt worth getting chimchar. There are no optimizations you can make other than just getting insanely lucky and resetting over and over again. took him 40 mins of real time for 1/16 odds imagine the time itd take for over 1 in 1000

[@cocomoch5392]

Alternate Title: I keep making reasons why SmallAnt should have chosen chimchar.

[@Luis-gz3oo]

Making up*

[@olibassily2967]

"Do you know it changes colour when you subscribe?" Ah, learning from Ludwig I see

[@goose5200]

You may be the best nuzlocker ever, but SmallAnt is the patient man in the universe.

[@bluegg996]

I understand that for the rest of the game picking chimchar is clearly the best choice, it’s a much faster Pokémon and a better sweeper, but getting trough the first battle would probably take you more time to do then the rest of the challenge with torterra dude.

[@betonamu7514]

It’s not as bad as you think. The key is we need to leer until we can crit while needing piplup to growl. The reason for this is the chance for pilup to growl is 1/2, and the chance to crit is 1/16, which means leering into crit kill is always beneficial. We do not care about growl attack drop, since crit ignores attack drop. Since chimchar goes first, the math would be: 1/2 ^ (# num of lear) * 1/16 * (chance to OHKO) Worst case (-atk nature 0 atk iv chimchar and +def nature 31 iv piplup), we need to lear 5 times into crit to have a 30% chance to KO (0- Atk Chimchar Scratch vs. -5 0 HP / 0+ Def Piplup on a critical hit: 18-22 (85.7 - 104.7%) - 31.3% chance to OHKO ) which means piplup has to hit 5 growl so the chance is: 1/2 ^ 5 * 1/16 * 0.3 = 1/1536 And this is the WORST case scenario The average case should be: neutral nature with 15iv each and we need 4 lear into crit: 0 Atk Chimchar Scratch vs. -4 0 HP / 0 Def Piplup on a critical hit: 22-26 (104.7 - 123.8%) - guaranteed OHKO So piplup will growl 4 times => clear chance is (1/2)^4 * 1/16 = 1/256 which is not bad at all Best case scenario we get a chimchar with 31iv +atk nature and a piplup with 0hp 0def iv -def nature. Now we only need to lear twice to have to KO: 0+ Atk Chimchar Scratch vs. -2 0 HP / 0 -Def Piplup on a critical hit: 20-24 (100 - 120%) - guaranteed OHKO Which means piplup get to roll growl twice. Which brings the math to: 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/16 = 1/64 Remember that we can also check the chimchar’s stat so we can reroll for at least neutral nature and average attack iv

[@betonamu7514]

@@andy-utop where

[@Saviarai-Dravolika]

I love SmallAnt and Pokemon Platinum without taking damage is awesome.

[@kafkeinated]

SmallAnt: *does this challenge* MandJTV: YOU SHOULD HAVE TAKEN THE SHINY BUIZEL! PC: YOU SHOULD'VE CHOSEN CHIMCHAR!

[@tempsxt]

When you realize SmallAnt's Staraptor has Brave Bird which does recoil damage. 11:52

[@TiggySL]

Yea that tends to happen when you leave Pokémon in the daycare

[@coyolord8031]

i think he just made sure to never click brave bird

[@tiltmasterflex7220]

There's a Blue run of this by Gamechamp that's always worth watching.

[@doohresarf321]

gen 1 nonsense makes that run particularly good imo

[@CinanzonRoll]

It's also the video that made me discover Pikasprey, and I'll always thank it for that.

[@simohayha6031]

@@doohresarf321 y

[@bryanloo4116]

"Chimchar this monferno that" All bark thou

[@alexshablovsky8864]

14:42 somehow it was quite satisfying then they said "Ice Beam" at the same time

[@yasminchan7425]

Was I the only one who kept thinking "he picked Turtwig get over it already!" whenever he mentioned "should've picked Chimchar, monferno better"? 😅

[@MAT_DoesStuff]

Nop, I did the same lol

[@JWZhang94]

Yah that was annoying lol, it would've taken much much longer to start

[@Rattus375]

Especially because it was so objectively wrong. He would have spent longer on the first battle than he did on the entire run if he had picked chimchar

[@paanazmi8062]

true..they should try this run with chimchar to prove their theory

[@Sammy_The_Umbreon]

Yeah, i got tired of it soon

[@wetalktothewind6275]

Your videos have inspired me to do my first nuzlocke, which I've always been very much against. I've played Pokemon for a very very long time, but only casually, and I don't have much competitive knowledge. I literally play to form emotional connections with my Pokemon, and keep them for a very long time. I'll be attempting Pokemon Firered. Everyone pray for me before I absolutely dickslapped, please and thank you.

[@ricardoj376]

So how is progress comming?

[@charana538]

did you win

[@cadhlakai]

I never thought I'd enjoy watching people react to Lets Plays but I keep coming back... I sometimes wish I knew more about Pokemon like you do. I just started playing Pokemon Shield, and my last pokemon game was Pokemon Red... so it's been a while and I feel like I probably make a lot of mistakes that just make the game harder for me

[@SwirlEP]

It depends on the context for me. Someone like this giving an informative spin on things while also being entertaining (along with SmallAnt being entertaining as well) is a good combo. Some reactor yelling like a hyena at an LPer yelling like a hyena sucks. If you're coming into Sword/Shield from 1st gen of all things, first of all, welcome back! Second of all, this might as well be a whole new franchise now. The amount of stuff you have to adjust to is staggering.

[@cadhlakai]

@@SwirlEP so much stuff...

[@zan1971]

Bruh it's pokemon, there's nothing wrong to do. You choose a monster and mash 'A' till you win. Literally that's it. If you're going for competitive pokemon on showdown then you have to know stuff but if you just want to play the main game then there's pretty much nothing.

[@HoneyAnimates]

Yes I’ve been waiting for you to react to this lol

[@becausesakamoto5938]

Just watched Wolfey react to this again and thought that Jan should as well, lmao

[@levisokshow2333]

I find Smallant’s challenge impressive and beyond everything I could ever do, but if he had access to trading, he should’ve got a scizor for bullet bunch which would definitely deal with Candice. Technician would also make the calculations better in his favor.

[@ThePhantomKerbecs]

Imagine a no damage nuzlocke by the greatest nuzlocker in the world

[@r3io4mf]

that is basically what nuzlocks is

[@ThePhantomKerbecs]

@@r3io4mf you usually take a hit or two every battle on a nuzlocke. I said no damage at all

[@r3io4mf]

@@ThePhantomKerbecs taking no damage is basically a nuzlocke but harder since nothing will faint if they take no damage

[@diegolarrea7932]

gamechamp3000 did one where he cant take damage and if he does he has to restart the run.... not the save... the entire run

[@ricardoj376]

@@diegolarrea7932 Sounds boring. I think they meant that, if a Pokémon takes damage, it's considered fainted. All other nuzlocke rules remain standard

[@leragefish4944]

I REALLY want him to react to Mr ding dongs nuzlockes

[@CreditableHulk]

Same lol

[@noname-tw4mm]

no pls

[@leragefish4944]

@@noname-tw4mm why?

[@noname-tw4mm]

@@leragefish4944 idk man, i watching ding dong for quite a long time but just dont want it to happen

[@leragefish4944]

@@noname-tw4mm no reason soooooo

[@riol2_]

It’s funny that you reacted to this immediately before he uploaded his second pokemon platinum challenge run

[@Killrbladez]

Kinda to do with the "speedrun" aspect you kept bringing up through the video, I'd honestly say Turtwig would be the better choice if timing starts on New Game. At least until the speedrun would need to get optimized that much. While you could cut out the requirement of Starly completely with Chimchar, the early part is the most likely for resets, which means more relying on double crits for chimchar.

[@hydrocheese4122]

14:50 “ the fastest way to do this is to fight the” What was the word? It can’t be THAT bad. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was nothing at all, YT bots just buggin maybe. I need to knooowww

[@rub8252]

AHHHH that’s the only reason I’m in this comment section it’s killing me, if you find out please hook a homie up and reply yo

[@mrwaffleman8732]

I assume it's the same rich kids that ant talks about right after

[@otiliagabriel1382]

@@rub8252 "the fastest way to do this is to fight the snoby rich kids"

[@researchinbreeder]

He just cut it off bc SmallAnt was literally about to say the same thing

[@garrettreven5144]

21:17 he curses just after a censored curse

[@amberco21]

you straight up said yourself that it would be practically impossible to get past the first fight with chimchar unless you get extremely crit lucky. and then spent the entire video saying he should have chose chimchar… bruh

[@magikcode]

He chose the right starter, you’re not always right, chill out

[@LoKing1337]

He didn’t tho

[@leonel392]

@@LoKing1337 Chimchar would take forever almost literally

[@tacostastegood3720]

Nice vid, I just want to note you can do those damage calcs better. In the stats you assumed both pokémon had 31 iv's, but you don't know that. Personally I always tend to calc for the worst case scenario. Putting my own iv's on 0 with defences of the opponent on 31 and giving them a beneficial defensive nature

[@Danny_Deleto]

I just lost my first Renegade Platinum Nuzlocke run to the first Mars fight. I hate that first Mars fight so much.

[@paanazmi8062]

You should try no damage run with chimchar to test your theory..so far nobody did this

[@whisennandalex7821]

piplup knows growl,, so good luck beating the first rival battle with chimchar

[@NoodIndigo]

Just call this video "But monferno tho"

[@dauntlesstark9850]

Hey PC I was wonder when you are grinding out for levels do you plan for EV'S and IV'S or do you not have time for that ?

[@angelotorres1]

the intro is purely chaotic evil. the quick attack and the hahahahhaha I loved it

[@awkwardvulpix3085]

Assuming no crits, it'd be a 1/6400 chance to beat Piplup using Chimchar. Assuming you actually do get 2 crits in a row, it's a 1/4 chance. But... that's 2 crits in a row. That's a 1/256 chance. So if you add those together, a 1/1024 chance per reset. Let's give the benefit of the doubt and assume all the in betweens make it a 1/1000 chance to beat Piplup without taking damage. With him showing it took him roughly a minute per reset since he started from scratch, only saving at gyms. This would take a little over 16 hours for 1k attempts. Now THOUGH he did take 40 hours according to his timer, he'd still need to grind his entire team to level 100, and like you said a couple times, his Chimchar would have to be significantly higher leveled than his Turtwig was. Aka the "need to grind less" arguement was just dumb. It saves nothing but him needing to catch Staraptor. On top of that, you basically shit on the run at the end because he doesn't have to worry about higher priority and he doesn't have it to set battle style. Top this off with the fact that you introduced yourself as the best nuzlocker in the world, and I have no clue why I watched through this video, because you come off as EXTREMELY full of yourself constantly, as if you had the willpower to try this yourself. I'm not seeing a no damage run on your channel 8 months later

[@sam_unown]

Ok feetnix

[@Plankner]

Commenting for the algorithm I guess. Good shit, dude. You deserve more subs.

[@zehllie]

Love smallant, love his interaction with chat. Need to catch one of your streams pokemon challenges.

[@zehllie]

I agree you should run this with chimchar but also with level caps. Overlevelling makes things easier.

[@Sir-Vesh]

@@zehllie dude chimchar won't be able to pass first rival battle due to piplups growl

[@Mqstodon]

@@zehllie without overlevelling it's literally impossible, what are you talking about?

[@ssr8555]

19:23 for anyone interested, pointcrow did gen 5 with no damage/1hp. Though no yt video yet, just vods

[@captainnwalps6689]

No one: No one at all: Jam: Hey you should use chimchar

[@shivsankarbanerjee5675]

The 1st few minutes was about why he fucking can not use chimchar

[@endercode1164]

The thing is that it doesn't matter if monferno is better for everything else since all your pokemon will out lvl other pokemon by so much to the point you will oneshot everything that didn't have priority moves. So the only reason that he choose turwig is to get through the first battle. After that you only use staraptor and floatzel to use priority move, turwig is just there for type cover.

[@yaboifabio2979]

Broke out the old DS to attempt my first nuzlocke, I’m doing it on platinum because I have so much nostalgia for sinnoh, Turtwig was always my favorite but I’m not putting myself through torterras abysmal speed

[@zoruamaster2495]

The thing is, chimchar even taking 5 hours at best doesn’t account small ant would’ve had to try get chimchar MULTIPLE times

[@Wally-mz8yr]

There is also a b/w run of this by ChaoticMeatBall and a hg/ss one by zwiggo btw

[@PsionicMonk]

Do it with chimchar. I'll wait.

[@bopplemcnuggets4387]

tbch, the constant insistence that chimchar would've been the better choice drags this video down a lot when you know that it'd never be worth it from the first rival battle

[@zanelost]

Omg the self-proclaimed PRO NUZLOCKER

[@weskintime4177]

Everytime you said “should have picked Chimchar” was a facepalm.

[@roberthansen5727]

It's so wholesome to see PChal simping for Smallant.

[@aliesterus1.023]

If anything, speedup can possibly worsen your decision making, either by not accounting for the speedup and accidentally hitting a direction key too many times(or alternatively, the system you're using is too sensitive), or because you start to just... Stop thinking, and make a misplay.

[@JBuckley1997]

Yeh Gen 4 did some cool stuff like this Thunder also bypasses accuracy check in rain in gen 4 where as before it purely set it to 100

[@brocksteele7475]

I loved Smallant's video and its condensed-but-still-illustrative editing/pacing. Now I'm loving your nuzlocker mindset, analyzing his choices and giving some solid insight on potential optimization. But I'm mostly just commenting for the algorithm, carry on. P.S. Also, Monferno plus Mach Punch at level 14?!? Holy SHIT that's so early. Never knew Chimchar was so broken.

[@Luis-gz3oo]

Still he would not be able to pass the first battle

[@gingerkays7362]

VGMyths did this same challenge but with Blue. It would be cool to see you do an analysis of that one

[@greyscaleadaven]

I love how hard he simps for ant ngl, great video

[@IcaroenEspanol]

I'd love to see more of your reactions and commenting on SmallAnt challenges ^-^

[@Sonyatakashi97]

I heard the word “Monferno” at least a billion times today

[@dank_tank4725]

Here’s some Jan lore for the KZbin comment crowd: Jan actually thinks pineapple on pizza is okay. That’s a pokemoWeird from me personally. Have a good day everyone!

[@HowManySmall]

It's fine it's pizza all pizza is good

[@kodenameaurasphere3104]

I like pineapple on pizza ;-;

[@mathieul4303]

I like it.

[@soggypikachu1233]

You only say it's bad if you've never tried it, it's not bad

[@caolanochearnaigh9804]

PINEAPPLE ON PIZZA IS A SIN!!! IT'S HERESY, I TELL YOU!!!!!

[@BlackwingKei]

I was waiting for this! 😁

[@Carolanne17]

I knew something Jan didn't? HYPE (blizzard hitting in hail 100% and thunder also hits 100% of the time in rain)

[@sgt.garrick]

He had a 1/16 chance of getting past the very first battle without taking damage with Turtwig, and it took him 40 minutes. He has a 1/1024 chance of getting past the first battle with Chimchar without taking damage, and if we just run a calculation, that would take about 2,560 minutes (42.6 hours roughly). Chimchar would not be worth any time saves later on in the game. It would be interesting to see a Chimchar run, though. Edit: Yes, this is probability we’re talking about, so anything could happen. However, that number (which is given to us by Jan) is as accurate of a calculation that we can make right now. Either way it would still most likely take multiple hours. Now, this doesn’t include the chance of crit or other standard Pokémon battle factors in an effort to keep the calculation as simple as possible.

[@Fox_Olive]

thats without crits. you only need two crits with chimchar and two growls with piplup. calculating without crits in a game with such high crit chance doesnt make sense

[@sgt.garrick]

@@Fox_Olive yes but also take into account weakness policy, plus damage rolls, it would still take a lot longer. Also, you need more than 2 crits. I just did a rough calc, bro

[@thwompu3206]

SmallAnt: PC: Yeah if he had Mach Punch that would've been easier

[@curator3539]

That is insane to be. To do no damage is already crazy and I love how your brain was like, 'but how to make harder??' LOL!

[@MyratheDunmer]

Absolutely adore SmallAnt, he’s hilarious and just effortlessly charming

[@bradynbrunson6038]

Dude... you have inspired me to try a nuzlocke... and wish me luck on my first nuzlocke challenge, doing Sword, cause wanted to replay it

[@TanoTuesday]

Be prepared for Opals gym. She killed my nuzlocke the first time

[@veeeter8402]

how do you even nuzlocke swsh? the pokemon appear on the overworld

[@TanoTuesday]

@@veeeter8402 ez first pokemon you see in the wild is the one u catch

[@bigmoneyswager]

14:51 what did he say lmao

[@lordanimorph]

You should React to Game Champ 3000's Damageless run, it's a really good run and really fun to watch.

[@mjm3091]

19:35 To be fair later gens actually give you a lot of nice tools to do this. Kanto - you can just sweep through anything. Same with Johto, which is actually kinda easier early on, as you get access to a lot of early priority moves and Pokemon they always give you Pokemon that is SE against the leader. Hoenn brings Fake Out, but it also brings Shedinja, which helps with a lot of issues. Shedinja also appears in 6th and 8th generation. 7th Gen can be done using strong priority moves and it's also a generation that brings Psychic Terrain and Psychic Surge, which can be utilised even more in Gens 8 and 9, with Indeedee. Kalos has Mega-Kanga, Alola also has Mimikyu. Galar has Eiscue. Most of the later games actually have Sylveon with Pixilate Quick Attack as well. And Bibarel also at some point becomes a Double STAB priority overlord. Which pretty much leaves you with Gen 5 and that has Unfezant super early on and that's a solid priority STAB user. Unless you can Dream World Nincada somehow early on as well. 19:45 Good part about Sturdy - those Pokemon don't really get Priority moves and their spread is limited. Mold Breaker, Skill Link and Parental Bond can also help with that. And obviously multi-hit moves are standard ever since gen 1.

[@lavafox9845]

7:52 I did a pearl nuzlocke I walked out of the Mars fight with just my monferno

[@westhorizon2472]

I legit lost my prinplup and staravia and walked out BARELY with my Pachirisu because of it knowing Charm XD

[@SweetPeaPD]

Funny though I walked out of the Mars fight loosing only my monferno 😂

[@lavafox9845]

@@SweetPeaPD Jojo the Monferno was over leveled due to me being scared of the first gym and that cause me to carelessly neglect my other mons as that was my first nuzlocke

[@BuywithTyOMS]

Yes, Monferno would get Mach punch, assuming it beats the Piplup (who has growl) which would be the same issue as picking Piplup in the first place.

[@LoKing1337]

Growl doesn’t matter if you just get some crits

[@AlphaFX-kv4ud]

​@snusmumriken7764 same applies for withdraw and you saw how long he tried with piplup, it would take even longer than that to actually beat the piplup with chimchar

[@theatomicbob9067]

with set/higher priority you can use U turn and extreme speed

[@kipup4life]

Love your videos. Can you please review subjectively new Pokémon region and just react to their designs and inspirations. I think it would be really entertaining.

[@finalbossgamer5481]

Ok this video is good but I can't help but get annoyed that he kept saying chimchar was the better choice.

[@kohinoorbanerjee4009]

Yeah, after all, it is much easier to comment about it than do it yourself

[@EXRDaBeasta]

He aint the smartest, just the loudest.

[@Crxsseyed1]

Chimchar (as a legend who did the math here in the comments stated) would seriously not save time, unless you were one of the luckiest people on the planet, by the time you would normally beat the rival with chimchar, smants run would be over, several times

[@opalescent4694]

I agree with other comments, if you think chimchar is better, you should do it with chimchar.

[@jakquinn4207]

I’d like a Rom Mod where every gym leader has end game 6 stacked teams. The plot twist is you’ve got to explore the world and do missions fight team rocket etc and only once you’ve got a team strong enough (maybe through a renown) mechanic you can challenge the gym leaders. You should keep the option to challenge them whenever but there’s very little chance obviously. It’d be a great challenge for vets like me to complete the game, but the bigger challenge is for the Nuzlocke boys to beat the gyms in order as they go past them with a shocking team in comparison.

[@ind0minusr3x51]

"Should've choosen Chimchar" We are not plebs m8

[@wyatt-gaming6912]

Been waiting for this

[@visalarun5129]

the worst feeling is trying to get past a trainer and they turn and when you try to get past them they immediately turn again and your forced to battle them :(

[@VirtualMarmalade]

0:50 its easy to spend a lot of hours in gen 4 because every battle takes 100 years