I trapped Poketubers in a Pokemon Escape Room.

[@AstroidmaniaVideos]

Thanks for having me! Next time I’ll beat it in a socially acceptable amount of time 💀

[@jayzell3687]

As soon as I saw Frank the Tank in a Smant video? Instant watch

[@AidedLicense2012]

bro gotta get Vinny into one of these lol

[@jayzell3687]

Honestly I'd love to see more of these from creators like Smant with people like Vintendo, Shady, and others like Dylan who do so much content around Pokémon.

[@char3er458]

MY JAW DROPPED WHEN I SAW FRANKY

[@ben_ruby]

I couldn't believe it your here!

[@insomniacnerd5592]

Alpharad’s brain is an enigma. He’ll pick up the subtle stuff, then miss that Wobbuffet had an item.

[@endercrafter5104]

I honestly relate so much lol. Like when I'm doing a puzzle I'm super good at figuring out a complex solution or having a good idea but miss really subtle dumb stuff lol

[@kalvinjonesman]

We call that ✨adhd✨

[@Rubywing4]

ADHD gang :D

[@zes7215]

wrrr

[@swevasaurus6648]

so funny cuz i just came here to say i relate LMAOOOO

[@liamaldrich2476]

"I hate losing to Jan" is such an incredible capstone on this video bc I suspect the entire pokemon community feels that way, but ESPECIALLY alpha lmao

[@Savyflores]

And he was on a roll at the beginning 😭

[@selfloathinggameing]

Alpha is PETTY

[@zachhouston514]

RTgame still has that win over Jan in the PLA tournament Wolfe did. That was such a fun stream to watch

[@knightsurda]

@@Savyflores Smant just had the upper hand knowing that Alpharad doesn't read trainer dialogue lol

[@vietnamgamer9490]

The alpha-Jan rivalry is so good. They are both just chasing clout but sometimes it gets a little personal

[@YouTube]

this is a Jigsaw level puzzle, i would love to see more of these escape rooms!

[@sourcreamndonion]

wtf real youtube?

[@aryanjain9278]

same !

[@lukapenavic1130]

KZbin slay

[@Epicber]

W youtube

[@zanebuckett8352]

When youtube comments on ur video u know ur video is good

[@Waffles17643]

Can’t believe you had to nerf Alpharad with forced reading

[@jstar3382]

Seriously. Nothing more painful than watching him fail to read ANYTHING.

[@Animelover3819]

I feel like this is Karma for him making that fake escape room.

[@Blaze-nm1uh]

@@jstar3382god the misinformation he spread due to not reading dialogue in three houses was a damn nightmare

[@GamerSapss]

@@Blaze-nm1uh wait what misinformation? I never watched his 3H video

[@Groffylom]

As a alpharad gold enjoyer definitely never reads dialogue not even once

[@Sonicstriforce]

Alpharad doing the first part *SOOOO* well but then fumbling so bad at the end totally fits in with his Icarus Mindset XD

[@user-.--.-]

had an icarus moment :/

[@dustin202]

He is the modern day Icarus. It’s a matter of time before he falls from grace, let’s just hope it’s not in a Minecraft way.

[@wat007]

For those that don't know Astroid Videos was the first person to do a pokemon escape room challenge on his channel. I'm glad SmallAnt gave it a shot too because are so much fun to watch!

[@Savyflores]

Only fitting that he’d be a guest on! I love that he was included because he was one of the last poketubers I found and I believe is less known than the other three involved in this video? I could be wrong though. I don’t know his subscriber counts

[@totalynota2ndaccount18]

I’m so glad Astroid is getting out there. His content, ideas, and editing are so amazing. I’ve been watching him for a few years now.

[@optimisticpanda3787]

Frank's content is always top notch and unique in Poketuber community

[@fromnoonon]

Was glad he was involved here too. Smant said he was doing this on stream a couple weeks ago and I wondered if he'd seen it from Astroid

[@Licw-Luxus]

Not really a concept anyone can claim for themselves lol

[@woogia1860]

it says so much about alpharad and jan's respective strategies when it comes to approaching pokemon that alpharad immediately figured out the overworld puzzle but jan was able to overcome that with pure moveset knowledge

[@endercrafter5104]

And also alpharads biggest mistakes were all to do to not paying attention to text lol.

[@landsdelacruz233]

Just what you'd expect from a nuzlocker like Jan

[@PJOZeus]

But it wasn’t moveset knowledge It was just pure reading

[@Slightlyfreaky_7]

And the unmatched power of literacy

[@droozyyy]

Smant got so good at beating impossible challenges he started making his own

[@Screamz]

Props to Atsign too, by Smant's side for a long time now making excellent mods!

[@KitsuneKoinu]

Did Smant do a 3 game map randomizer yet?

[@MizuTT]

​@@KitsuneKoinuI think he just streamed that yesterday

[@joeywheeler8309]

That’s how he succeds

[@jameskirby8086]

Yes. This was always inevitable

[@CrownedGaming]

Idk how long exactly it took you to create this, but PLEASE PLEASE do more! This is such unique and innovative content, genuinely wish it was longer. All 3 of the participants were craaaazy smart to even figure the entire thing out. Impressive all around!

[@UkNoobGamerzz]

If you like this pikasprey soft lock picking is quite entertaining

[@CrownedGaming]

@@UkNoobGamerzz Thanks for the suggestion!

[@raghavpant3251]

Video game escape rooms are such an interesting idea. Super excited for a possible Zelda or Mario Odyssey one in the future!

[@wetnamE]

Pretty sure cj and fir have done some odyssey escape room videos.

[@damamapi]

Yeah I've seen both they're great :3

[@Darkatious]

@@damamapi There's actually 3 now. Fir released a new one 2 weeks ago.

[@dirkstam0511]

Tbf Zelda escape rooms is just very hard shrines

[@k1ngofsloth]

​@@dirkstam0511oh I'm sure you could make some super interesting escape room challenges/puzzles for games like minish cap with all its items and mechanics if there is an engine for it

[@shangerdanger]

wow this is brilliant. wish i was a poketuber to do something like this lol

[@Tanystropheus10]

You watch this stuff?

[@unfathomablyunfathomable]

​@@Tanystropheus10You just did as well so why bother🤦‍♂️

[@thewritingrowlet2980]

@@unfathomablyunfathomableI think he means he’s shocked that shangerdanger likes Pokémon content because it’s not at all evident from his channel

[@unfathomablyunfathomable]

@@thewritingrowlet2980 Ah. It looked like a rude comment.

[@MrEvanNoyes]

@@unfathomablyunfathomableIt really doesn’t.

[@clxckb4it340]

alpha figuring out the first parts almost instantly then selling at the end is so in character

[@idk_what_im_doing04]

you could say he flew too close to the sun

[@grimmashley8422]

This is actually such a brilliant set of puzzles, I would never have guessed Pokemon had the potential for something like this. Genuinely blown away

[@triplethizz]

Go look up Pokemon VR Missions, it's a rom hack that is all puzzles like this

[@lord_apophis]

I love how Alpharad’s hair progressively got more messy as he continued to lose his mind

[@mechashadow]

Einstein was'nt made in a day

[@denimvelvet4670]

I'm not normally a fan of escape room style content, but this was great. Good puzzles, great pay off to said puzzles, and still managed to make sense in the realm of being based on Pokemon. 10/10.

[@GreenMonkeySam]

Ironically, when you finally "escape" you end up in a room; having been outside for the most part

[@POISON_IVWY]

Alpharad getting reallt lucky in the beginning and then completely stuck immediately after is such a mood and also extremely on brand lol

[@pennroseglyph1077]

Alpharad's rivalry with Jan will never not make me laugh

[@DrGamer365]

“Rivalry” 😏😏😏😏😏😏

[@kylewarne1265]

Having an escape room where the clues can be especially obtuse because options are limited by the "rules" of the video game they're playing is a really interesting well fo content. Id love to see more stuff like this. Its probably super time consuming conpared to challenge run content to set up though.

[@timr.2257]

We need more KZbinrs that make these kinds of small puzzles.

[@TheRavenDoctor]

AstroidVideos has done a couple, he was the first from my knowledge to start doing them

[@anthonynguyen1289]

There’s various puzzles in different games quality depending on the creativity of the creator and the limitations and mechanics of the games. Minecraft escape rooms can be really cool, but most designers either don’t think about certain mechanics or implement an honor system to restrict a player making the puzzles less satisfying. Super Mario Odyssey has had a few escape puzzles. Fir has made two which SmallAnt has been in both. I believe some other SMO creators have made some as well. You will find these for nearly any game that has any level of modding and level creation. The amount might drastically differ just due to how popular the idea is for certain game communities. Like technically you could do this in Fire Emblem, but I don’t know how popular escape rooms are in the Fire Emblem community.

[@nemikoo23]

this was so fun to watch! it's amazing how much in-game knowledge you need to have to actually be able to solve those. and I really liked how the hints didn't straightforwardly tell them what to do and just hinting, like they were supposed to! love it and can't wait for the next one :)

[@mpty]

Pikaspray would come up with some nasty escape rooms

[@ryanford1267]

Trueeeee

[@mr.freedom4625]

"The only way to escape this escape room is watering the berry tree and selling the berry for 249 days straight "

[@brennanruiz1803]

Pikaspray honestly might have helped design this

[@Pieceofbreadhuh]

True

[@albevanhanoy]

Ah, a man of culture

[@solomonnightscav]

this is such an amazing concept, really wish there could be an episode 2 with other contestants or maybe the same but on a even trickier/longer map now that they know a few tricks!

[@Bambooshark999]

Alpharad immediately figuring out nearly everything is so on par for him

[@maximilianbrunner1203]

Yeah and then fucking up at the end

[@plutonicattic7995]

He sold this cometition so hard he managed to profit

[@jordan0183]

u commented this half way through the video lmaoo watch the whole thing first next time

[@erlandochoa8278]

@@jordan0183as soon as he had all information he immediately figured things out, he was just pretty bad at finding information

[@andresr5634]

I’m actually surprised they didn’t check on the PC the HOF team at the beginning of the challenge. That was a a good hint.

[@ozyssah]

so dope seeing frank in collabs with such big youtubers nowadays, he's come a long way

[@Infernatus]

Smant got tired of being tortured in Fir's escape rooms and decided to become the torturer himself

[@bryce1197]

I love these; ngl I would watch an entire series of these, though I can bet this is incredibly challenging to put together given the lexicon of knowledge nuzlocke and poketubers already have.

[@andresr5634]

This is actually awesome. I watched it during a Chrism stream. You should make more roms like this Smallant they are a cool concept

[@TrueLawbringer]

This was super cool, I wish you had asked Pikasprey Yellow to participate, he has a whole series on his channel called softlockpicking that’s basically about making scenarios like this (but in the base games not using roms)

[@cl8906]

Oh this is a fascinating concept! Kudos for putting this together. Interesting to see how alpharad intuits things, but if that doesn't work he's stumped, while Jan breaks shit down but by bit

[@pokeninjapratyush4797]

I appreciate how Jacob applied some big brain moment in starting and also Smant who made this escape room challenge. It was funny to see Astroid the one who is expert at making these kind of ecape room came last.

[@star0chris]

This was such a cool concept, and it was great seeing how each person went about solving each part of the puzzle! Great storytelling as always and I'm excited to potentially see more stuff like this :)

[@chillinnstuff7538]

PLEASE do more of these. I've never seen a Pokémon escape room, this was such a fun watch!

[@victoro.9792]

“I’m a little shocked I didn’t do that.” is the best part for me. Hope you get more mileage out of this idea and all your effort for it!

[@Doofito]

this video was perfection. i put it on as background noise while i studied but couldn't look away 😂 the pacing was fantastic, the information he gave us was just enough to understand everything that was going on while still being able to solve it ourselves, only 15 minutes so no bs, great video.

[@dawltonburger4039]

The fact alpha knew exactly what to do without seeing protection is insane

[@SilentMeteorite]

I am proud of myself for solving literally every puzzle before seeing the solution in the video (even having my first thought be "I would check the twins with covet" after seeing the Muk didn't work, without even needing to know their dialogue) , except I KNOW I would have never seen that protect TM on Wobuffet and just not progressed or grinded on Sableye lmao

[@uberstoof6819]

Love seeing Astroid getting into the bigger Pokétuber circles. He really deserves it!

[@Dommelien]

I used to watch him years ago and it was so nice seeing him again, especially on Smant's channel :)

[@SmashingVR]

This is fantastic! If you're ever doing more of these and want to put it out to more creators, I would LOVE to volunteer every brain wrinkle I have! (I do pokemon stuff on my other channels haha)

[@360Chrism]

Video turned out great! The escape room was tons of fun, makes me wish there were more of this kind around c:

[@thesaltdragon]

Gotta say, it's so unbelievably in character that Alphard would stumble past the first step like, 25 minutes ahead of everyone else, only to miss the held item for like an hour

[@michael-fw3vz]

Frank taking the longest is surprising considering he makes videos on Pokemon escape rooms too lol

[@topher7823]

He's also Frank 😂

[@jasonmartin7968]

@@topher7823he has the speed of a sebring

[@Adi-oc7vu]

​@@jasonmartin7968I love the references 😂 I was also surprised to see frank on smallant's channel didn't see that coming

[@valeereon9954]

This reminded me so much of the challenge battles in XD Gale of Darkness hahahaha! Where the game would give you a set team with a turn limit to complete the battle, and you had to find the right combination to solve the puzzle! You should do more of these!! It was so much fun to watch!

[@Screamz]

It's safe to say that I am genuinely addicted to SmallAnt content. Just wanted to give a thanks for the great videos you produce :)

[@randomshotz13]

Great video, funny to see that if AlphaRad just read dialogue he probably would've won the whole thing, he was much faster than the others to figure out the overworled mechanics but Jan was quick (unsurprisingly) with the battle problems

[@misrupt5226]

I love all the tricks like the shiny togepi just to really throw them off

[@Serryy]

"Who finds the final solution the fastest" *sweats profusely in german*

[@davidacus956]

I was wondering if Sketching Waterfall off of Seaking in order to traverse a waterfall was ever going to happen. I also thought maybe you needed to catch a Sableye who is immune to both Psychic and Razor Wind in order to beat the double battle. But the puzzles that were actually in here were way better than anything I could come up with

[@vndrwP]

bruh this is amazing, and their knowledge to solve these is pretty insane

[@IveGotAMatch]

This was a really, really fun watch. Such intelligent use of the game mechanics! And really satisfying to watch them figure it out (which is testament to how well edited the video is!). More of this sort in Pokemon would be great!

[@HamsterMaster8]

Man I could watch so many of these escape room videos I love being able to solve it alongside them

[@brendenjacoby9682]

I LOVE ASTROID… so good to see Frank recognized for his greatness ♥️

[@vc3245]

Absolutely awesome video. Wish it was longer but of course, hard to get these guys to commit to spending 5+ hours filming this. Great concept

[@rextek5421]

"I hate losing to Jan" Jacob's and Jan's rivalry is always to engaging to watch

[@NelmArt]

This is such a cool concept. I'm in the middle of watching Shadypenguin's escape room stream and I had no idea you made more than one of these!

[@T3Torus]

I love to see astroid in one of these collab videos! Dude is super underrated imo

[@nikkidenarno4566]

I LOVED watching this! Maybe its your narration over others, the the type of challenges you do, but i really enjoyed this vid.

[@DecentHuman99]

My only problem with this video is Frank's pronunciation of covet, other than that this is a perfect video.

[@chucktowski_]

absolutely this

[@DanHowsen]

That drove me nuts. At first, I thought it was a gag based on COVID, but he said it a few too many times for that to be the case.

[@jacksmith9051]

coveit? ^.^

[@TheGeneReyva]

I'm loving these escape room theme'd mods. Between you and Fir... I love it!

[@masonroper4817]

great to see frank doing some big collabs with some big youtubers

[@Bakeshop040]

This is definitely one of the coolest things I've seen recently - fantastic job on making the Poke'mon Escape Room!

[@Abimations7]

I love escape games, much less stressful than working with real people to do real escape rooms

[@Bossarama]

Honestly that was amazing! I would love to see more Pokemon escape rooms like this!

[@llshinda9508]

This is such a cool idea! Pokémon has so many niche mechanics that most players wouldn't immediately think of so there's a lot you could do with this concept, I really hope we'll see more of it!

[@shadowlife15]

This was a super fun idea for a challenge, definitely do more of these.

[@fable23]

Frank, my dude! Good to see him getting such big collabs.

[@topher7823]

Yeah, was not expecting it, been watching Frank since the og diamond and pearl soul link😊

[@simonroy7590]

The collab was great and god such a cool concept! Need to see you do more pokemon escape rooms the way it uses the game mechanics is insane!

[@steeltshadowgaming7931]

"I hate losing to Jan" is by now such an iconic sentence to say for Alpharad haha 😂

[@tisiphone535]

The set of puzzle is incredibly brillant ! As others said in the comment section, I couldn't figure out that it was possible to create such escape room in Pokemon, well done ! I'm eager to see others videos like that 😁

[@smokefire3]

Respect to Jacob, he has come so far from his first Nuzlocke.

[@Wingsaber]

This was a REALLY cool video! Please do more, this was so fun to watch

[@Xsyven]

I hope this escape room was fun for you to make, because I want more.

[@MoonlitxShadows]

Brilliant idea really gets you thinking about pokemon mechanics you don't normally think about. Amazing job!

[@davishall]

Covet pronunciation is killing me

[@nic1x]

This was definitley one of your best videos I've seen, cant wait to see more escape room content in the future!

[@aaronstuart8490]

God damn, Smant, Alpharad, Jan, and the loch ness monster in one video!

[@LilLamboo]

Pls make more longer challenges! So cool to see mechanics like these used in puzzles!

[@adamschneider5755]

This was an amazing idea for a video. If I didn’t have an idea of how long this must’ve taken to do, I’d say do a series. Definitely worth doing at least 1-2 more of these. Especially with these guys. It’s not to see smant’s extremely in depth knowledge and strats about the game being used to create the puzzles. I like the twist on it

[@gustavolordelo4422]

Love the format please do more of those! Jan is the GOAT

[@Zach2K]

Frank finally getting the recognition he deserves

[@Adi-oc7vu]

Yeah let's go frank !! From the diamond and pearl soul link and "hoenn and sinnoh we're playing different games !" to here lol

[@lebagswag128]

I’m so proud of frank man he’s such a legend

[@colincantella7132]

Please do more of this! I love this concept:)

[@Xyc3ll323]

I’m not breathing until you post a new video

[@LightTheMars]

This is an amazing idea. Please do more of this!

[@mynameiscal3478]

Man i love frank, thanks for giving him the respect he deserves. Hes singlehandedly pushing forward the ideas that can be created within pokemom, and his editinf style is unmatched. Easily my favorite youtuber of all time next to chuggaaconroy.

[@Adi-oc7vu]

Yeah great to see him here

[@gravemanbob]

Please please please do more of this. its such a creative idea for making pokemon fun again

[@brandonjanssen7696]

Pretty wild to hear “Covet” be mispronounced like that. Then again, one should never judge another for mispronouncing a word because it means they learned it from reading!

[@TwilightChomperEnthusiast]

This is super creative! I hope we can see more of these in the future (as well as with different KZbinrs as well)!

[@expressbean64]

As a long time viewer of astroid it’s insane to see how far he’s come

[@chipelter]

“Battling is not always the correct way forwards” Astroid: *describes his battle* Smant: “sounds like a battle to me” 😏😏😏

[@RandomThingsInc.]

The fact that it opens with, “I trapped three Pokémon KZbinrs” is freaking comedy gold

[@Lt._Nut]

This is really cool! You should do more of these Smant!

[@CrayRT]

The Alpharad and PokemonChallenges rivalry continues.

[@lordmonocr6206]

Wait this is so cool! I want more people to keep making things like this! Pokémon escape puzzles seem like an incredible idea!

[@StevensDs]

This concept is so cool. I wonder how you could incorporate this into a longer session 🤔

[@ZebNyan96]

Wow! This was brilliant! I would love to see a new part!

[@ingvarbusch4288]

8:53 for a sec i thought he said Skitty might get covid 😂

[@gavenheglar4717]

Yes I been watching Frank since I was 12 so happy his hard work is finally paying off and Vinny getting a million subs. I’m so proud of our community that you guys have build up over the years. For Frank and only real ones of will get it, “I’m ducklett I’m savage, get that crit with that super effective damage your a has been I’m the truth, I’m a duck boy what are you?”

[@A-Microwave]

I winced everytime Astroid mispronounced covet