Some guy thought he could beat me in a Pokemon race...

PointCrow challenged me to beat him in his Loading Zone randomizer. So I did.
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[@Smallant]

I FORGOT TO SAY AT 16:00 THAT THERE WAS A GLITCH AND THE MOD CREATOR HAD TO FIX THE GYM. SORRY ABOUT THAT ALSO THE SOFTLOCK THING WAS A SIMPLE MISCOMMUNICATION DONT BE MEAN TO MY FRIEND

[@illdee1]

I questioned that

[@toastr1255]

I just reached that point in the video, nice timing

[@evilthwomp2836]

Ah iwas wondering lol, came down to the comments

[@NOMASTER1021]

Ditto, wondered why it cut out

[@PokeCastle]

Ok, now I understand.

[@sommeone]

PointCrow: "I think we're in the lead" *Cuts to SmallAnt with his level 54 Golbat*

[@aquilleswinkler5051]

i think at the point when it was showing ant's full team with victory road pokemon and rayquaza vs pointcrow's two pokemon team. It was over. Ant already grinded and pointcrow didn't even get to the point where he realised he was too weak.

[@jisungshypewoman7299]

what the hell is with all these spam bots

[@android19willpwn]

@@jisungshypewoman7299 yeah there have been a bunch the last couple days.

[@cheerkub8110]

@@jisungshypewoman7299 these spam bots are surprisingly common and extremely uncomforting.

[@MuruganNarayanan]

How far had PointCrow gotten in the end when SmallAnt won? Like 6th badge?

[@mattyf8558]

"I'm assuming he hasn't found the 7th gym yet." **Cuts to Ant fighting the 7th gym.** The editing on this is fucking brutal.

[@Kage_rem]

"I'm assuming he hasn't found the 7th gym yet" "Tate and Liza lets go"

[@TigerTask3]

3k likes but posted 1 day ago and this is reply 3. What?

[@parikshitsamant9346]

@Discordial Hunter x

[@Kage_rem]

@Direquiessy z

[@buddchan]

Blah blah pokemon blah

[@atomicace42]

Crow lying about having Raquaza and then Ant actually catching him is absolutely glorious

[@drego6548]

Talk about a plot twist lol

[@Jaybird_102]

Wow this is rare. 1.2K likes and only 2 comments

[@crazyfriend2388]

Lets make it 3

[@TheDelethar]

And called it B, what a legend

[@XioticsV2]

@@Jaybird_102 5 comments with 2.8k

[@kafir1mw2quick]

Ant is a master of mental play in this challenge, he got into Eric's head by simply telling the truth and leave out the details that Eric was fishing for, making him think Ant was lying.

[@ruukinen]

Only works if you actually are ahead though. Otherwise you are just reassuring the other person that they have it in the bag.

[@DdragonGun001]

Telling a truth but leave a small sarcastic tone can mentally confuse anyone

[@joey7107]

@@DdragonGun001 I always did that when I was playing rummy card with my friend at school, good time, and also, one time we set a bet, it's relatively small bet but our teacher was so furious about the fact that we're gambling. So it was banned to play a rummy card, lol

[@elliottrockx5428]

Wow this guy... genius analysis man, well done.

[@trianglemoebius]

@@joey7107 I made a $1 bet with someone that I could beat them in some Yu-Gi-Oh gameboy game. They won, so I handed them a dollar, and the school was convinced I had a - their words - "gambling addiction" from that alone. So yeah, I feel you on that last part.

[@NachoEvans]

PointCrow:"you got drake and now at the champion right?" SmallAnt:"i am the champion" funniest shit ive heard all week

[@akaza2248]

Funniest

[@VorseRaiderStrike]

@@akaza2248 Finniest :)

[@jsmit5635]

Ant: Look at me; I’m the Champion now.

[@hungryallmylife]

Lmao

[@jairedlyons]

Eric: "He's fallen for my masterful deception," Ant: "Yeah he's definitely lying"

[@VijaySingh-ht7sy]

Name of the game???

[@hououinkyouma1301]

@@VijaySingh-ht7sy Pokemon Emerald

[@rolo0o]

Ikr this was so funny lol

[@Keijo_]

Ant: tells the truth Crow: "Yeah he's definitely lying"

[@invinciblegamer8530]

@@VijaySingh-ht7sy Skyrim: Breathe of the wild (Ssj4 gogeta dlc)

[@basilgamesx2422]

There's something oddly cute about the fact that Smallant's Golbat had a high enough friendship level to evolve into Crobat.

[@traceurs619]

With the speed you have on an emulator, it’s faster than normal by just running around doing ya business. Especially when you spend alot of time running around finding out which door went where. Getting that golbat early was a win

[@cheddarsunchipsyes8144]

Ironically this video ruined their friendship

[@cliverosfield69]

​@@cheddarsunchipsyes8144where can I watch the complete video?

[@dravenocklost4253]

​@@cheddarsunchipsyes8144what?

[@rivershen8954]

What​@@cliverosfield69

[@jaccob7119]

While it's cool having the Elite 4 all in one place. Drake being in that one part of Meteor Falls (which is especially cool because it's the one place in the game you can catch Bagon) made me realize how cool it would also be for the player to have to hunt down the Elite 4 and find where they are. They could be in especially difficult places to find, leading to a greater emphasis on exploration.

[@brianforsyth2225]

Isn't this basically the organization of gen 6 or 7 idk which cause I played neither but I heard in one of them the equivalent of the E4 fucked off and you had to go find them or smth

[@stephenreilly2334]

@@brianforsyth2225 no, in generation 6 and 7, it’s still regular structure of the elite 4. But in 7, the elite 4 members( 2 or 3 of them) are people you already faced. Maybe that’s what you heard

[@DaTimmeh]

@@stephenreilly2334I think he means gen5, where you hunt down g-cis’s followers for looker.

[@jimmyh2137]

but then you wouldn't have the normal restriction, 5 battle in a row without healing

[@rokkraljkolesa9317]

@@DaTimmeh you don't look for Dennis' crew until the postgame, regardless

[@dhichicpop2531]

The fact that he raised a crobat tells us that the real victory was the friendship we gained along the way

[@No__Vanity]

I love the originality of your comment. Im used to seeing 20 different people just copying the top comment in hope to get some virtual thumb ups lmao

[@AndersKehlet42]

I love the originality of your comment. Im used to seeing 20 different people just copying the top comment in hope to get some virtual thumb ups lmao

[@dhichicpop2531]

@@AndersKehlet42 I love the originality of your reply. Im used to seeing 20 different people just copying the top reply in hope to get some virtual thumbs up lmao

[@BoneThugsRTheBest]

Hahhaaha

[@gamechanger8908]

Now this reminds me of the time I found a meme in a facebook comment section with the caption "when you repost the same meme in the same group" and the green goblin saying "you know I'm kind of an idiot myself" and I reposted it in the same comment section.

[@tvftw1]

Crow: "Mudkip's the best starter, me and my buddy versus the world" Ant: "Oh boy, 3 minutes in, time for my level 42 Golbat"

[@exaltedwiththefloor7028]

This made me laugh so hard lmfao

[@scorcher117]

And it’s especially strange that Crow didn’t do something like that considering he did actually catch some early victory road pokemon in his solo attempt at this randomiser.

[@Mysticfateee]

Right? big brain of Ant because it evolving into Crobat means it would outspeed anything he came up against as well and would make it beating most of the gym leaders super easy without having to waste time grinding levels

[@FroststormFrenzy]

@@Mysticfateee Then he got Rayquaza

[@jookthecook]

top tier comment

[@cal505]

I love how Crow pretends he’s doing really well while sucking, while Ant pretends to be sucking while doing really well

[@vani1030]

act weak when you are strong, and act strong when you are weak

[@gamechanger8908]

@@vani1030 Sun Tzu would love this video, it's a great example of his philosophy.

[@jackgebhardt2932]

@@jomsies Yo, it's me, Sun guy. The dude's totes right.

[@JN-so6wt]

@@gamechanger8908 the Chinese Prince Matchabelli?

[@leshengesd9484]

"Dude W-wasn't the third Gym in, like, a really hard spot?" "Man, I'm amazed you found it so fast." "Really?!" That was so far out of the way" His face. I died.

[@jaredbowers9503]

Definitely one of the best parts lolol

[@inkymkk]

The fact after I read this it played

[@fantaaa.]

The pain in his eyes. I knew that SmallAnt would NEVER tell Point.

[@averytubestudios]

I love that each of Eric’s “soft locks” are included just to rub it in his face.

[@XenithShadow]

The water cave one is a soft lock if you stop surfing if you fulfil all 3 criteria a. don't have a surf user b.Don't have the lens to reveal the smeargle c.Don't have a fishing rod (if you have old rod then its a very long soft lock)

[@shadowoftheseven7992]

@@XenithShadow He didn't stop tho lmao

[@shillbear6611]

these bots get worse and worse

[@averytubestudios]

@@shillbear6611 Yeah. It's kinda annoying.

[@black_nyello7663]

@@averytubestudios definitely more than kinda lmao

[@grantharriman284]

The waterfall fix was insane game knowledge. To just know that a certain pokemon learns it naturally and go get it is so far beyond what I could ever pull off.

[@TimothyGod]

And it worked

[@ShinzuXTruth]

yes and no...he did remember goldeen learns waterfall..but he had to google where to find one :P

[@Asidders]

Gen 1 energy

[@fukunaga-kane]

@@justincoulter1992 yes googling something is amazing

[@bishhsasspusi2904]

@@fukunaga-kane googling something is basically just the most simplest version of scampering through books and finding information just made super easy for everyone. Dont belittle the power of a curious person using google. Smh.

[@javarisjavaris4877]

I wish I could have half the confidence pointcrow has. He really believed the entire time he was miles ahead

[@randomyoutuber5563]

There's a fine line between confidence and stupidity. The details are based on the outside observation

[@randomyoutuber5563]

You see confidence from crow and I see an idiot who underestimates his opponent and loses because of it

[@sportsfaniguess154]

@@randomyoutuber5563 He didn’t really lose because he underestimated Smallant, had he been able to gauge how well Ant was actually doing he would have had a sense of urgency which may have helped him a small amount, but he lost because he was ill prepared to play someone with Smallant’s level of game knowledge and weirdly useful resourcefulness. Oh, and most of all, he lost because he dared to ever speak poorly of Wooper, an unforgivable sin which gave the gods reason to give true appreciators of Wooper good luck.

[@randomyoutuber5563]

@@sportsfaniguess154 you're aware that being ill prepared to play someone of a higher knowledge and resourcefulness literally is the long way of saying 'underestimate' right? So you're trying to tell me that I'm wrong about the situation and then continue to explain exactly why I was correct. He lolly gagged almost the entire time, wasted so much time on dumb endeavors like thinking a lot about lies. Had he spend half as much energy actually doing the same thing Ant was doing(speed running) instead of just thinking about where ant really was and trying to make a big lie, he might have ran into the waterfall and likely realized that he needed waterfall and done the same thing. But he wasted his time lying, cheating, and fucking off.

[@randomyoutuber5563]

@@sportsfaniguess154 ant spend how long on trying to get that Rayquaza, and still he came first. Think about that. He also spends a lot of time on finding that golden

[@freepotatoez1189]

I just started watching Ant’s content and I gotta say this dude has an encyclopedic knowledge of Pokémon. It’s crazy he knew how to bypass the waterfall glitch with Goldeen

[@magicball3201]

Fun fact you needed 2 years later: waterfall used to be Goldeen/Seaking's signature move. In gen I, it had no use outside battle. Only in later gens would it be made an HM. They're still the only pokemon to naturally learn the move

[@Toogzoog]

"You nervous? You feelin' the nerves at all yet?" *SmallAnt is exerting his Pressure!*

[@babyvee7615]

PointCrow used Bluff! It's not very effective...

[@mitochondria6247]

The weird thing about these bots is thg hat I swear some of them post actual replies on dunkeys channel, and always on comments I've already replied to

[@rylenstuffsv2]

*ITS SUPER EFFECTIVE*

[@DJAlex1417]

@@mitochondria6247 i think that somw of the bots are hacked channels, based on the fact that one of them joined YT 7 years ago

[@mitochondria6247]

@@DJAlex1417 I'd believe that if i didn't get notifications for their replies, but they keep appearing and they always have the cringe names and pfps.

[@judeconnor-macintyre9874]

Crow: lies Ant: plays along Crow: he totally believes I did it.

[@deathberryjam907]

Ant: I dont think hes telling the truth y'all..

[@IveGotBeef]

reverse psychology

[@gamingspacemonkey]

You know Crow ends up putting his foot pretty firmly in his mouth and I’m here for it.

[@purpleninja102]

Ant: Sprays a little bit of Deceit™ on the truth, to try and mislead Crow Crow: Probably knows he's being at least a little lied to, doesn't believe a single bit of it.

[@adog3129]

the mind games were so much fun

[@hyperbiscuit2284]

It's really funny switching back and forth between the two because of how different their teams are. Ant keeps sweeping all the early gyms with his level 40 Lairon and Golbat, while Crow's starter isn't even level 20.

[@kaelanmick3065]

80% of people would have been like "oh, you can't get waterfall, guess its impossible. " Not only did you force waterfall, you were right about needing it

[@ItsFireTiger]

Technically there are 2 entrances to Drake, but that one also may have been a Waterfall entrance as well idk what happened to Smallant that he couldn't find Wallace to give him Waterfall, like he completed the Legendary Storyline, so why wouldn't he have access to the Gym? But imagine if he did find the way to exit Wallace/Juan's Gym & Wallace was standing there outside the Gym. But ironically was also blocked by a Waterfall spot

[@AntiPhantasm]

Eric: “we’re doing so well” Ant: *literally has a full team of pokemon 30 levels higher than his*

[@kir4toplays771]

Why does this does not have a reply with 1k likes lol

[@graalfizz4372]

@@kir4toplays771your data

[@diogoflorido]

the higher your pokémon's levels are the longer it takes for zubats to white you out

[@ruukinen]

@@diogoflorido Yeah that is why he got raltz for the teleport.

[@illusionaryheart3325]

To be fair, Eric did think that Smant was lying about his progress

[@raeosunshine24]

eric’s confidence throughout this is absolutely hysterical to see

[@noahleach7690]

His unflinching confidence while being one of the least skilled speed runners is always funny

[@Overseer-]

*loses Also 200th like

[@noahleach7690]

@@Overseer- no one cares that you clicked like

[@Overseer-]

@@noahleach7690yeah

[@Overseer-]

@@noahleach7690 but even if they did. Would it matter? In the grand scheme of things.there is much more serious thing happening in the world. Like wars for example. Then again Out of everything you could be doing you decide to call someone out. Yet again, the grand scheme of things says “ whoopee do why does that matter!?”

[@Anonymous-zk6wl]

Ants strategy for this was extremely intelligent. Recognizing that because the order is messed up an effective strat is to catch whatever pokemon you can early from a diverse set of levels so that you can breeze through the gyms once you find them all was brilliant. That kind of situational awareness is something I think speedrunning really builds into someone. Knowing what strat to apply when and when to abandon a strat and try something else is a fundamental life skill in general. As the great Kenny Rogers put it, "You gotta' know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, and know when to run."

[@BaufenBeast]

I think Crow had a similar strategy, but he couldn't afford pokeballs for a long time. Ant's big advantage was finding and selling that lax incense.

[@elliottrockx5428]

What a great analysis. Genius

[@matthew8629]

The Goldeen waterfall strat was genius

[@traceurs619]

Idk if it was catching ‘random’ Pokémon at different levels. He hit victory road which gives him his beloved crobat opportunity and he loves the Aron line because both Pokémon are either a tank or sweeper, so getting through the gyms was easy since they were already 40, only got the raltz for teleport to go around resetting in soft lock or whiting out, and got the goldeen strictly for waterfall when the game glitched so he couldn’t get it naturally. Luckily went through rayquaza’s path so spent a good chunk of time wasting great balls and got lucky enough😂 that rayquaza pretty much helped him sweep the rest of the gyms, the elite four, and the champion which brought him back up to pace when he wasted all that time prior. I guess the best strat is just having superior Pokémon knowledge so you know how to use the specific Pokémon you come across to your advantage and which ones to strictly choose for that reason.

[@xxExtremeOdzxx]

Catching that level 40 Golbat in the beginning really helped you alot , he was still using a level 36 swampert halfway through the vid , MVP goes to that Golbat , and after you caught Rayquaza it was over, great video great hunch on Drake

[@HunterX57]

The almost instant catching of lvl 40 pokemon was a the most clutch part of the run. Especially with both of them running on multiplied speed, having a lvl 40, whether it listens or not, greatly reduces the amount of white outs, obstacles, and overall stress so that Ant could calmly focus on mapping the world.

[@secaleohsrevlis2039]

Why wouldn't it listen? It wasn't traded to him.

[@xxExtremeOdzxx]

@@secaleohsrevlis2039 each gym increases the cap lvl where pokemon listens, his Golbat was 40 something so he had to beat the 3rd ot 4th gym for Pokemon lvl 40 and up to listen

[@podled942]

@@xxExtremeOdzxx did you like, not read their reply right or something? It doesn't matter if they're high level or not if they caught it within the game. You can have a level 100 starter without badges and it will still obey

[@xxExtremeOdzxx]

@@podled942 so why wouldnt it listen

[@Fra_6]

I loved pointcrow’s “softlocks”

[@randomusername1735]

The fact that smallant described the sadly-not-a-sofltock to pointcrow and then pointcrow got stuck there and just reset is too suspicious to be an honest mistake haha

[@ssr8555]

@@randomusername1735 I think he just thought Smant reset there too, just that he explained what the only way to get out of it was. It’s not like Crow could see Smants screen after all, lol

[@priestesslucy3299]

@@ssr8555 oh, is there a Pokemon Center with no additional accessible warps? I think even the Mossdeep one has a few lol. Could be mistaken though, Hoenn isn't really my region (mostly a Gen 1, 2 and 5 kind of girl)

[@PopeMical]

@@priestesslucy3299 if you whiteout to Evergreen you only get 2 warps to not softlock. Dewford or Sootopolis would be the next worst whiteout if you don't have surf with only like 6 warps to escape.

[@Drakenwild]

@@ssr8555 I think he was being stupid tbh, because I did watch Crow's Vod of this, well, most of it, and I heard this conversation in full. To me, it was very clear that ant was fighting Zubats to white out, he even mentioned that one of his Pokemon has Roar so after PP in all other moves got depleted, Roar prolonged the soft lock even more. And I think he very clearly stated he lost X number of minutes to it.

[@spicytuna62]

My favorite part of all of this is how Crow thinks Ant is bullshitting the whole time and Ant is being 100% legit when he says he's in the gyms he's saying he's in.

[@NicolasClark7732]

Makes it pretty much better than Crow is lying pretty much the entire time and Ant is calling him on it most of the time, or at least doesn't believe him.

[@NotOnLand]

"We're doing so well!" *_slowly levelling his mudkip_*

[@TheFirstCurse1]

I miss these 2 together. The soft lock thing was a simple miscommunication. I hate that the fans ruined their friendship.

[@Shadox-yv8ms]

still have no idea what happened

[@weeklyhan8506]

@@Shadox-yv8ms long story short, some bad fans were attacking pc, after a few message exchanges pc asked smant to stop their (millions) of fans, smant tried without outright banning people, pc was not happy yet, smant had done enough on their eyes, thing went by affecting pc feelings on smant, pc decided they didn't want to collab with smant anymore, each made a stream about it, seems nothing was conclusive, feelings were hurt, it was better to part ways. tldr: long story was not so short, pc decided to part ways with smant after the toxicity around their rivarly got out of hands, smant accepted pc's decisions and moved on.

[@Fast-Pass]

I miss them together too, I hope they return to friends at least even if they don't compete anymore

[@some_williott]

Same tbh, I hate how unfortunate that whole thing played out... It hurt to watch, from an empathetic, genuine point of view :( To this day I still do understand both sides though, and I suppose with the festered negative emotions and stuff there wasn't much more left they could salvage. The healthiest thing to do was to move on and leave the misunderstandings behind them, even if they felt like open wounds to an outsider's perspective

[@cliverosfield69]

​@@some_williottfull video link?

[@nieveangeletti1271]

I think my favourite part of the video was how Crow would make a claim, Ant would play along, cut to Crow saying “lmao he totally believes it!” and then cut back to Ant saying “Yeah I call total BS”

[@l_alphy]

Editors are amazing

[@brimstone9602]

nobody cares

[@apexkonchu2234]

@@brimstone9602 Really? Because right now it looks like 505 people care.

[@brimstone9602]

@@apexkonchu2234 wow, really got me with that one. Woopdie fuckin doo. Give yourself a gold medal in creativity while you're at it.

[@angelusramirez9600]

@@brimstone9602 cry

[@SiferiusVT]

"That's good guys, we're doing well here." He was not, in fact, doing well here.

[@rhogqr]

unfortunate how this video was the beginning of the end for their friendship :(

[@midhunv5973]

Wait what?

[@adityagandhi9882]

​@@midhunv5973they stopped collating with each other because their chats are jerks

[@hikaruocto7888]

Ye Very unfortunate :( Loved their collabs

[@midhunv5973]

@@adityagandhi9882 damn that's really unfortunate they seem fun 😔

[@TheFirstCurse1]

@@adityagandhi9882 And you can even see some of them commenting on this video too. It's genuinely disgusting.

[@Perfectionado]

For those interested from the catch calc for Lv70 Ray with 100 HP using a GB: You have a 0.416% chance of capturing it per ball. Thus, you have at least a 50% chance of catching it within 167 balls and at least a 95% chance of catching it within 719 balls.

[@cookedrice6318]

I find it kind of poetic that in order to find Drake, the dragon master, SmallAnt had to catch a goldeen, a pokemon based off of Karp, and have it accend a waterfall. Just like the legend of old, where a karp climbed a waterfall and became a dragon.

[@juanjomaster8455]

Inside Meteorfalls, where Bagon lives, which is the Drake's main pokemon :0!

[@maxinac]

This is dope. I love your brain.

[@BoneThugsRTheBest]

Was it random or did a mod purposely make it like that

[@l_alphy]

Goldeen is a fucking goldfish

[@geraldinebs2785]

Would have only been better if it were a magikarp, the pokemon that's literally based on that legend.

[@Sonofshuwu]

The steady amount of disrespect to now call him "some guy" in the title.

[@twat3789]

@SpelunkyGuy101 “my stalker”

[@Luis-kv8zc]

He did do him EXTREMELY dirty with the softlocks even tho they weren't softlocks

[@minorcomet282]

@SpelunkyGuy101 "some dude i found on the street"

[@Nixahma]

@@minorcomet282 The gremlin in my shed

[@codetaku]

He completely earned it after all of those "softlocks" lol

[@ps5account394]

Can't wait to see content like this again, glad they are back together

[@red-asassin9817]

12:30 Love that part. How he is messing with him because he knows that he didnt find the 3 Gym. Just Gold

[@evanelzinga282]

I know that was amazing

[@Plasma476]

“I’ll be real with you guys, he’s like, he’s in my head” This is the funniest line in the video LOL

[@TheAero16]

I was thinking of: pointcrow: "there's the fifth gym" while ant is at the elite 4XD

[@lilstubbs9553]

Lol

[@RazAnime]

What a fantastic display of psychology: Eric keeps lying about far ahead he is and when Ant says in truth that he really is that far ahead, Eric thinks "since I am lying about being super far head, then that must mean he is also totally lying which means that in truth Im actually like 4 badges ahead because he must be super far behind to lie about all of this!"

[@thebuzz567]

holy shit Raz wtf are you doing here?! Big fan!

[@imaginaryboy2000]

Contrast this to Ant. Rarely ever lied, because why would he need to? He knows pokemon better than Crow, that's undisputed, and he was confident in his own progress through and through. Whenever Crow lied, he was more than able to rationally think about Crow's ability, his nature, and his psychology; he knew what was feasible, and from there knew what wasn't true.

[@conorhumphrey8587]

that's politics not phychology

[@that2amvagueexistentialdread]

Ladrón juzga por su condicion - "A thief judges because of his condition." Someone prone to being dishonest expects others to be as well. Really useful way to look at people in order to understand them better

[@marzipancutter8144]

@@imaginaryboy2000 Seeing Ants history with lying and non-lying, I can definitively state that telling the truth was 100% intended to be a double mindgame here, not because he thought he'd win but because he wanted crow to think he was behind.

[@LittleRaAnime]

this is actually a really interesting race type to watch, is it possible to see this done again with new randomization or another gen?

[@AudreyToothpast]

Pointcrow is the one who is in charge of these randomizers and he said he is going to make this kind of randomizer for every gen and he will play them on his stream and once he releases a youtube vid of whatever gen he is working on at the moment, he will release it to the public on his discord! emerald is already out on his discord and he is currently working on platinum. i would highly check out his streams, his map randomizer race with purplecliff is the funniest thing i ever watched! Oh also he's doesn't make theses mods he is just in charge of the mods who make them and is the one who came up with the idea. Anyways sorry this was long lol

[@CinnaSwirls]

Randomize X or Y and watch as they bumble around Luminose City, a location players get lost in normally as it is, trying to find the loading zone containing that one gym leader they're missing.

[@cliverosfield69]

​@@juscbhbhuvsdsdvbhjwsdv3843it's still his money dumbo

[@JoshuaZablin]

this is my favorite vid of yours. i love seeing you guys do totally different strats and mess with eachother the whole time.

[@PointCrow]

Awesome video!! This was so much fun to do :) for those wondering, we weren’t clear about softlocks when going over the rules and sometimes you miss things! It’s nothing huge anyways and it’s all in good fun 😁

[@deocker6640]

nice

[@jaewol359]

Lol that was funny seeing his struggle and then you resetting 4 times

[@dhichicpop2531]

Plot twist : pointcrow purposefully wasn't clear about softlocks so he could later trick smallant. Impressive mindgames

[@dre5586]

Hey Eric, do you ever get collector’s anxiety?

[@carsonst293]

Right okay

[@Shadowxx98]

Ant: "It's not a softlock as long as my team can die" PointCrow: *slight inconvenience* "SOFTLOCK!" (love both though)

[@silvia-narity]

Your username means 'horny' in my native language lol

[@kingprawn9892]

@@silvia-narity Bold if you to assume it wasn't Intentional

[@MisVEVO]

Ah yes, softlocks that aren't softlocks but instead just take an incredible amount of time to be beaten. Pikasprey Yellow could sing a song about that.

[@Shadowxx98]

@@kingprawn9892 It was honestly not intentional, but that doesn't mean that it isn't true

[@CEFG100]

Smallant is just built differently

[@GeneticallyEngineeredCatgirls]

This is the most fun I ve had watching someone play pokemon for a very long time! Keep them coming!

[@cappella264]

This is one of my favourite videos that I’ve seen of yours, would love to see more :)

[@zachmcwilliams9839]

The nice thing is that the “soft locks” for PointCrow wouldn’t be as bad because he only held the one pokemon for forever

[@superior96]

Yep, he "cheated" and still got btfo lol.

[@groudon6295]

@@superior96 bruh

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Having that Rayquaza on his team that early just equated to him steamrolling the rest of the game. The fact that he knew that Drake was going to be on top of that waterfall, was an amazing hunch tbh.

[@mysticflow467]

well he explored most of the places already if not all. i didnt watch stream tho

[@Shakeofcroberto]

Bruu

[@Shakeofcroberto]

You everywhere

[@Successfulentertainment]

My last video was literally talking about you 😑. I don’t know how

[@MrMakoto2]

Why do you feel the need to comment inherently obvious things 24/7?

[@williamjones4185]

This is the first video of yours that I ever saw, I hope you bring this challenge back again, it was a ton of fun to watch! I have been hooked on your channel for a couple of weeks now.

[@mortomultiverse8778]

They say Mario Party and Monopoly ruins friendships, but I never seen someone mention Pokémon Emerald map randomizers, like, damn.

[@CiderVG]

@@shmadow.. Yeah, super funny to watch a friendship die because assholes started harassing someone for no reason

[@haydenmann7908]

@@shmadow.. the chats harassed the KZbinrs, and the Blaim was pinpointed on Smant. His chat decided it would be a really cool idea if they ruined a friendship. I bet they regret that shit too

[@shmadow..]

@Hayden Mann oh, I didn't know about that, thanks

[@jimfoot]

The best parts of the video were the cuts to Eric either being excited he finally beat something or struggling to find something Ant already beat 20 minutes ago

[@No__Vanity]

To be honest the other guy would probably never figured out how to finish the game anyways

[@iantaakalla8180]

When he tried it himself it took five hours to find the second gym, and after the hour of clearing five more gyms, another hour to complete state and Liza’s, and then a few more to complete gym 8. PointCrow may be good at Pokémon but he is bad at strategizing, and he went up against a person who does challenge runs for a living. The outcome was inevitable.

[@ShallBePurified]

PointCrow: This is my Mudkip and I will raise him and love him SmallAnt: To hell with my starter, give me that Golbat

[@theramendutchman]

PointCrow: Caring about his digital pets SmallAnt: *S T R A T S*

[@kristkratos]

This was such a great concept and just a great video. I loved this so much

[@Cheddarsharp]

I haven't even played Pokemon since yellow and found this video awesome! Such a neat idea to add fun back into the solved game for pro's like you, with the use of a randomizer.

[@nathanieljarrold6608]

The best part about this, Every time PointCrow lied Ant did that exact lie moments later. Awesome video.

[@Keijo_]

Last thing you want to do is make ant think he's behind cause then he goes crazy

[@langopig104]

the exact lie is the largest overstatement of the century

[@dandelion40k87]

@@langopig104 and the lie of the last century is…?

[@leodzepe]

You know, it's almost like it was edited for entertainment purposes

[@Nixahma]

I love how PointCrow keeps challenging Ant and they clearly know each other and yet every time Ant calls him "Some Guy"

[@pikachufanz4744]

he actually does that with most other creators. if you didn't know who Eric was, "some guy" is much better in the title than "PointCrow"

[@Kage_rem]

@Hanaey💦 is this super idol lyrics?

[@JojoDigitalArtist]

I really hope they can repair their friendship one day so we get amazing runs like this again.

[@Danrhm]

What happened? Although ain't surprised since the other guy sounded and acted like a overconfident dickhead

[@fadassb]

​​@@Danrhmthere's videos about It from both of them I recommend watching both videos for the whole thing

[@orphscookie8047]

I saw this today watched one video on it but can say I wouldn't want to be friends with someone who gets mad at people in the youtube comment section. They did the challenge 75% for youtube and 25% for the fun of doing it why let youtube ruin the fun you did have while playing the game.

[@fikrinuzulul2851]

​@@orphscookie8047can you tell me the detail? Just make it short, like who is in the wrong and what is the problem

[@orphscookie8047]

never ask someone else for their opinion of whose in the wrong always ask for the facts and determine that yourself, you'll find most of the time people aren't necessarily in the wrong, just mistaken or flawed, which we all are as a human. @@fikrinuzulul2851

[@nathanbemus2628]

I want this to become a new speedrun category so bad! This was a really interesting concept and I hope there is another run of this soon!

[@philorgneopolotin8762]

This was so entertaining to watch. If anyone was wondering, they actually did a rematch after this one a few weeks ago and the full, unedited videos are on Pointcrow’s VODS youtube channel and Smallant’s “past broadcasts” on his twitch. If you put them side by side it’s so interesting to see the mind games they try and play with each other

[@KitsuneKoinu]

cant find it on smallants twitch do you have a link?

[@Ray25689]

Link would be awesome

[@sirkana]

@@KitsuneKoinu pointcrow vods in youtube.

[@Ray25689]

@@sirkana its not about the KZbin link I guess, more about the Twitch Vod Just in case anyone is interested about the Vod of pointcrow: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oILQfn-smrl_mMU

[@philorgneopolotin8762]

Kitsune Koinu yep just linked it below. Pointcrow’s is on his VOD KZbin channel

[@justinh4462]

The strategy employed here by Ant was so good. I'm sure he probably knows Emerald inside and out, but that big brain waterfall play had me absolutely slack-jawed.

[@AM-ee2ro]

MAAAN this was soooo entertaining. I literally want this to be a thing like how people do nuzlockes. This is amazing!!!!

[@cRAVEtrance]

Making this a race between you two made this all the more fun to watch 🙂

[@KNACK2BABY]

Even with the “softlocks” of Pointcrow you still did win, and all the strats were actually amazing

[@stefanbroers8146]

the biggest difference was that ant caught strong pokemon from victory road and didnt waste time leveling up his mudkip

[@ssr8555]

@@stefanbroers8146 yeah, Crow didn’t think of buying pokeballs right away before he lost all his money, lol

[@conore5154]

@@ssr8555 I think he knows to buy pokeballs but if he can't find a pokemart it doesn't matter

[@quetzalcaotl8257]

@@conore5154 yeah, but based on the video crow found the mall first. He should have had ample access to balls if he wanted them

[@humanoidfrog4645]

@@quetzalcaotl8257 i've been watching all his streams and he never checked the mall in this game

[@ther3aper561]

Going to victory road and catching high level mons almost immediately was a massive big brain move that saved a lot of time

[@chavaspada]

yeah grinding mudkip was brainlet tier, even catching a lv 20 mon saves hours of grinding.

[@mikelunsfordii3790]

This was actually really fun to watch. You should totally do it again on gold/silver or something. Gold was actually my favorite gen

[@emilieloveskiwi]

This was so good. Omg. Loved every second of this video!

[@jergarmar]

The whole Waterfall "arc" was a fun bit of outside-the-box thinking. Great challenge, great edit, much fun, thanks.

[@LukaFireIce13]

When Pointcrow reset cause of his 'softlocks' I was like "Oh please tell me Smant still beats him" and was glad I was proven right

[@Po-vt3jr]

With the title you already know whos the winner😂😅

[@Ben-vu6su]

@@Po-vt3jr he doesn't really upload his losses

[@jeffbaker9180]

@Hanaey💦 why do people code you

[@ameliaarquette8934]

@@jeffbaker9180 I have reported 4 accounts for all the same message posted on at least 40 comments so far. I am pretty certain they’re going to have to establish new spam accounts. 😂

[@jasonlobo2350]

@@Ben-vu6su thats because only the winner gets to upload so when he lose its on the enemies channel hence why we dont see loses here

[@jaredparis9405]

dude you have to do more of these! loved it

[@CJ-jx1wz]

It’s midnight and there’s nothing I would have liked to see more in my recommended than a SmallAnt race vid. Thx for being my source of happiness during COVID, ily, please never stop uploading

[@BarryBruh]

this randomizer is a whole acid trip

[@Ghdfshhs]

Spoken like a couple of people who have never done hallucinogens.

[@MiuXiu]

@@Ghdfshhs Lol, seriously.

[@DecisionsRQuestionable]

@Random-user *I*

[@calebcarter5057]

Watching this on acid makes it better. I would know

[@vadoom3353]

...how? Like if you have done acid before I have no clue how you would think that. If you haven't done it then how do you think that

[@doinggraphics]

"Well you should be... 'cause I just beat Phoebe." "Where is gym 5????" lmao

[@davidfoley2657]

As soon as Crowe said he was grinding levels on his mudkip I knew it was already over 😆. Catching pokemon on victory road was the superior and much faster strategy for sure 👌. If Crowe didn't level grind at all then him resetting all those non soft locks would have mattered. Ant is too big brain though

[@Youtuberrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr]

That instant karma Eric has was hilarious. Lying about Rayquaza then Ant getting it is priceless

[@samyakjain3603]

I swear Ant is like an anime protaganist who bets everything on a hunch and it all works out in the end

[@arandombear1693]

plot armour

[@cywersswivelchair4564]

What do you mean like, he is

[@KanaiyaSK]

This was honestly so fun to watch! I don't think people should get too heated about stuff, as they said themselves it's just fun.

[@bensongoates3819]

🫣RIP

[@MichelleUpNorth]

That was such an amazing strat with Goldeen! My gosh the payoff! Really great gameplay, good editing, just tight work all around.

[@Patterrz]

"some guy" LOOOOOOL

[@AditBasu]

Yo

[@v6jq17]

hi pat B^)

[@Rubywing4]

Why hello there Pat! :D

[@Deadpool1804]

Tell me you haven't watched Smallant's videos without telling me you haven't watched Smallant's videos: I am convinced the only one you've watched is the one you reacted to

[@bullyshrek7477]

Hi pat

[@worldlygoat2824]

I love how in every race with Eric Ant labels him as "some guy" in the title

[@Dz73zxxx]

actual nice clickbait...first time read and click it, thought for some defiancy upon discord silly challenge lmao

[@pokeinator7834]

Chad move

[@knownas2017]

Oh hey, the bot got removed

[@lickilicky64]

I love how Ant was able to win even when he would spent several minutes trying to white out in areas he was stuck in, when Crow was often resetting when getting "softlocked" goes to show how quickly Ant can think/work.

[@tousawa808]

Crow was pretty much cheating though, and the mindgames that he was lying was pretty much cringe. Can't see myself watching him

[@syweb2]

@@tousawa808 The softlock thing was the result of a miscommunication.

[@31088489]

@@syweb2 miscommunication his ass, fucking cheater deserves no respect

[@scrambled_eggs929]

@@31088489 bro chill

[@whomstdvelyyaintntediessye5776]

@@31088489 lmao go outside

[@noyce.]

Amazing ending, dang! Need more of this!

[@fihyrulesmonado7659]

PointCrow, as always, exuding little brother energy like only he can.

[@catboyuwu]

Neve heard anything more true The amount of little brother energy is overwhelming

[@greasybastard7209]

I'm so happy he shit on this dude lol

[@lycalopx]

@@greasybastard7209 really? ;-;

[@SilastheMatchmaker]

@@greasybastard7209 omegalol you do realize that they're buds just having a friendly competition right? No need to be rude.

[@itzmat1587]

@@greasybastard7209 are you like 7 years old

[@wyattdarshay8243]

"he hasnt found the third gym which is nice to know" *ant literally fighting flannery*

[@nileprimewastaken]

wattson is the third gym leader not flannery

[@wyattdarshay8243]

@@nileprimewastaken yeah ik that's not what I was saying

[@gavintackett5626]

@@nileprimewastaken He was saying he's super ahead lmao

[@nileprimewastaken]

@@gavintackett5626 i know, i hadnt watched the vid yet

[@gavintackett5626]

@@nileprimewastaken me neither it's okay 😂😂

[@selk6535]

Dude, this guy always amazes me. I mean, I first played Pokemon Blue when I was 4 years old, one year before I learned to read (trust me, another kind of random...) but even later, I never figured out the strats he uses. Like, from smokescreening 6 times to knowing when a mon automatically learns an HM...? Just wtf man. xD AMAZING.

[@meowmeow89012]

Its amazing how they remember what every place is from first glance while I have to check the map after not playing for a day

[@alexquertz2999]

Alternate tittle: “2 liars with trust issues challenges each other to a pokemon race…”

[@remasailesh4349]

Tanner didn’t really lie tho

[@MikaeruDaiTenshi]

Tanner was ~90% (or more) honest the whole time

[@gamechanger8908]

Eric was more of a liar here, Ant said mostly the truth but in a sarcastic way making it seem like a lie, but one thing I won't forget Ant did was lying that he was indeed lying.

[@sebastianb.3978]

Alternate comment: OP can't tell the difference between lying and beeing sarcastic

[@wish9366]

Eric: **looses something** Eric: Well, gonna have to reset

[@MisterDingbat]

Eric is trying to optimize his speedrun of life, which apparently includes losing races sometimes

[@mw3fanboy6]

The video that ruined a friendship fat RIP

[@gamingwizard6000]

Big r.i.p. this was my favorite duo

[@theman3971]

💀

[@squeakymeow]

Ah yes the straw that broke the camel's back originally. Happy you guys are back together!

[@sadiesays8108]

PointCrow resetting in the exact same area you're enduring so much pain hurt ME, I can only imagine your pain XD

[@alexanderurbina560]

Same hahaha

[@android19willpwn]

thing was, it would have taken him like 2 seconds to white out there. Smant had a team of much stronger pokemon, which is why dying took so long. I think one of the things he learned from this is that you shouldn't get a beefy team before you have a reliable way of getting out of places without dying.

[@titaniafae4114]

@@android19willpwn someone actually did the math and ant saved more time with the team since he was immediately able to fight the first couple gyms instead of how pointcrow did it.

[@Sneaky_Turtle2]

@@titaniafae4114 yeah but then again, Crow wasn't doing it to get ahead, he was doing it because he didn't know

[@titaniafae4114]

@@Sneaky_Turtle2 I... that wasn't my argument so yeah sure lmao.

[@Magicannon_]

This was one of those perfect randomizers from a watching entertainment factor. Everything was jumbled, sure, but most was accessible...right up until Drake. And it required one single piece of the puzzle in Goldeen that needed to be trained up. I love when a player has to think on their feet like that instead of finding a way around the weather issue or needing it fixed (rather unfortunate on Norman; no choice there).

[@justweirdout]

You'd think by now Eric would've learned that Tanner is just naturally good at every challenge he does and almost never lies when he says he's ahead lol

[@jazzingpanda3190]

This was so intense the 25 minutes flew by. God damn those pronunciations hurt my soul though😂 Class video, subbed

[@EmperorZ19]

PointCrow: Yeah, I discovered a glitch that gave me six level 100 Rayquazas SmallAnt: Sure, okay PointCrow: He totally believed that

[@rachael5099]

😎😎😎kzbin.info/www/bejne/gYKnm5mgh9mAqa8

[@drakke125Channel]

kinda shows how gullible crow is X_X facepalms*

[@Dmobley9901]

I do find it a bit funny how Crow psyched himself out with his own lies, and was lying almost the entire time, meanwhile Ant was just legitimately honest the entire time about what he was doing and Crow didn't believe him or realize how far behind he was until near the end.

[@epsilonsolves1457]

I thought the same thing lmao especially when ant actually caught a rayquaza😂

[@l_alphy]

You mean siked? Psyched is a completely different word.

[@SoulStealVideos]

@@l_alphy No, they mean psyched.

[@SaviourInDistress]

@@l_alphy siked is the misspelling of psyched.

[@originalman6599]

@@SaviourInDistress at this point siked isn't a misspelling, it is it's own word.

[@Al-cm8ny]

This form of randomized nuzloke is really cool ! would like to see more

[@micahphilson]

"Okay, PokeMart is the 4th gym." Not exactly what I woke up expecting to hear today...

[@ScootsLounge]

I love how Crow was lying through his teeth the whole time while Ant was always telling the truth.

[@samuelradley1625]

And Ant's truths were wilder that Crow's lies. Truth is stranger than fiction I guess.

[@samulady4638]

It's ironic compared to the smo lockout where it was in reverse

[@drakke125Channel]

15:10 even the chat couldn't fool Ant, he reads them like a book.

[@ben4923]

PointCrow: "Yeah I caught a Rayquaza" SmallAnt: "And I took that personally"

[@imakeplaylists4171]

I feel bad that miscommunication ended this friendship, its not fair to either party here

[@TheMightofDab]

@PerfectGoatPerfectGoat 1 day ago Who does this random guy think he is? ^ Most recent comment on this vid when i checked. Idiots like this are why they stopped collabing and it'll prolly be a while yet before they bury the hatchet

[@swipeslogjack_tgaming9472]

What happened I had no idea there was beef between them?

[@lorcanzo2498]

They are good now

[@TheGeneReyva]

Wow. That hunch and waterfall work around was ABSURD!