Soft Lock Picking: Over 700 Hours to Level Up Larvitar

[@Pikasprey]

No, you can't walk on the soil tiles, lol.

[@a_cup_of_joe540]

Oh I didnt realize that lol

[@gmk9321]

I just got this now imma see what you mean

[@KudaKeileon]

So many people going "well why don't you plant two berries instead of one" This. This is why.

[@CatOrigins]

couldn't you reset your step count by getting into a battle then walk 2 spaces to the right? that would give you an extra tile to plant berries on (one on each side), so it would still be really long but not quite AS long

[@DaBannyGaming]

Rip

[@Leafsw0rd]

This is perhaps the biggest aesthetic softlock you've done. Sitting by a lake watching berries grow, with Larvitar by your side.

[@cameronschiralli3569]

Nursing it and caring for its poison

[@Rockman9830]

Sounds like something out of the anime " I found this little guy poisoned by a lake in the middle of a forest.I stayed with him for over 30 days, nursing him back to health. Hes been my best friend ever since. "

[@Felixkeeg]

@@Rockman9830 "And when I tried to leave to get help, I blacked out and woke up in the middle of the ocean"

[@bridgeseller7004]

Guys, that's beautiful

[@PeterGriffin11]

@@Felixkeeg Oh...

[@christophertaylor8149]

Fun fact: this is actually the only way Pacifidlog gets new residents.

[@whatdatechnodogedoin]

Lol

[@justsomeguywholikeswater3566]

I mean, it makes sense. Who would stay in a tiny water place with no gym or pokemart? It has nothing special

[@davidperez3645]

@@justsomeguywholikeswater3566 it’s simple... mirage island :D

[@glanni]

@@justsomeguywholikeswater3566 Social outcasts, and hippies.

[@packfan525]

And after going crazy for years, decades even, one old man started seeing things. After awhile, he became convinced he found something called "Mirage Island". Alas, it was his craziness all along.

[@Br4v010]

“Okay, only one more berry and I’ll be free.” The internal battery has run dry. The game can be played. However, clock-based events will no longer occur.

[@anthonyhutchins2300]

Oh god

[@WinVisten]

OOF

[@averytubestudios]

I would literally cry my eyes out if that happened.

[@TayoEXE]

Get your battery's life to 99% and do this. :3 (If only there was a consistent way to tell if the battery is about to die, this would be even more evil.)

[@kirukiru5924]

Oh no

[@ChazSmith]

This is the Saw movie series equivalent of Pokemon.

[@Z5Z5Z5]

Iv never seen such a horrible thing in pokemon

[@hugodrouin-marcotte821]

Jigsaw should be the mascot of this serie.

[@Paniekzaaiertje]

I’m your 1K’th like

[@kikiretzorg1467]

Live or get softlocked. Make your choice.

[@TSfish94]

“I want to play a game. Time and power are two things people value most. In your pokeball you have a level 99 larvitar, quite a powerful ally, however one step and it will faint: forcing you to end up stranded on an island. Your only chance of escape is to dedicate over a month of your life to watering a tree and exterminating a specific fish species from the pond in front of you. What will you do? Learn time and temperance? Or recklessly run away with power? Let the game begin.”

[@thetreyceratops]

He’s not even trying to make them impossible anymore, he’s just trying to make these as sadistic as possible

[@gmk9321]

Yeah it almost makes me want to torture my inner demons with these scenarios by playing them myself. If only I had my gen 3 game/ a link to Pokémon emerald that doesn’t give me viruses

[@floatingduck6232]

This is what playing with only a ditto does to u

[@Cherryblossoms110]

Sadism? Considering the fact that he's doing it to himself, it's more like masochism 👀

[@gmk9321]

@@MightyCaesar37 ok thanks I’ll try

[@degmcgee]

i mean all he had to do was not keep the berry and/or move one space up to make it impossible

[@Mecceldorf]

So this is what it feels like being a route trainer. Could you imagine the euphoria of seeing another trainer walking by and forcing them to battle you on the off chance you might get thousands of exp?

[@memebro8703]

But if you lose you are stuck there forever. Wait, is that what the player has done to these poor trainers?

[@anoyd1817]

@@memebro8703 nobody else in Pacifidlog Town ever leaves either...

[@MrcreeperDXD777]

@@anoyd1817 all the population of pacifidlog are trainers that softlocked themselves.

[@eqsaz]

>Hyperbeams your first pokemon >Immediately dies to poison >Refuses to elaborate >Stays

[@Green24152]

imagine a romhack that just adds this guy

[@disturbed135711]

I feel like this is an entire layer of masochism that Pikasprey single-handedly discovered and mastered

[@TheReaperofHades]

He probably got it from the Exodia Rare Hunter he took an hour and a half to beat lmao

[@thenthson]

Even greystillplays is telling him to calm down.

[@vanesslifeygo]

@@TheReaperofHades I remember this lol

[@imaginaryboy2000]

Imagine being the 200th Goldeen to get reeled in by a kid only to be obliterated instantly by a pint-sized rock child on the verge of death.

[@kalemjade5258]

this is my new favorite sentence

[@CatchTheMarmosets]

@@kalemjade5258what was your previous favourite? Or now that your comment is a year old what is your new favourite sentence

[@LinkinPark4Ever1996]

​@@CatchTheMarmosetsI'm curious as well

[@Dexuz]

​@@CatchTheMarmosetsYou're my new favorite pfp.

[@CatchTheMarmosets]

@@Dexuzthx i stole it

[@wheelotime2581]

Every 16 hours you log in to gain a tiny bit of meaningless reward? Sounds like a mobile game....

[@IAmMissingnoMaster]

Underrated comment.

[@Cinderblock-c7l]

Pokemon Masters be like...

[@Dragonrealms245]

I burst out laughing when I saw this

[@leecrawford6560]

remember the gold, silver/ crystal Ice berry thing he did that was crazy

[@spectrasoulfaire215]

Damn, I was going to make this joke but this chap beat me to it. Well played.

[@prisma.]

Request for Pikasprey to release a pokemon savefile with a similarly overcomplicated softlock, and we have to figure out the answer.

[@shinkiro403]

This is actually a cool idea, upvoted 🤚

[@shapeshifterk]

Agreed, would love that.

[@DreamingInSlowMotion]

It would be hilarious to open up this save like "ok this doesn't seem too bad" *takes one step* "oh"

[@crystaltaiko0274]

Agreed

[@gkstelarbeo4135]

Great idea

[@thepigeonmanlyon7155]

Imagine that Larvitar's perspective on this whole scenario. You're 1 step away from dying, and your closest friend plants a berry, goes to sleep for 16 hours, wakes up, grabs the berries, fishes, then picks you up and uses you as a laser cannon five times, on repeat for a little over a month That's a real sad situation

[@emdivine]

Sad? Your best friend sticks by your side for a month straight, painstakingly ensuring you stay alive by desperately farming and fishing for you with what little room you have around yourselves. That's heartwarming!

[@Cervarius_K]

@@emdivine except he's only doing it to avoid the seaside purgatory realm

[@JohnW88]

To make it a little sadder: He's also one level away from evolution, but his trainer has decided that he is not worthy of becoming his best form, Tyranitar. He's stuck as a Pupitar for life even if he does succeed. :(

[@jacobesterson]

@@Cervarius_K To be fair both of them will end up stuck in Pacifilog. Only way Larvitar could escape is through trading.

[@jacobesterson]

​@@JohnW88 Nintendo should've put in an evo stone for level 100 Pokémon who didn't evolve. So if you were to level a Charmander to 100 without evolving you could just use two of those stones to get it up to a Charizard. I'm surprised they never implimented something like that when you look at some of the really obscure shit they did to stop you from screwing up your save. It's hard to get a Pokémon to 100 without evolving by accident though lol.

[@7MukuroRealm]

Pikasprey Softlocks: How They Started: "Is it possible to escape from this situation or is the game locked for good?" How They Ended Up: "Okay how do I arrange the most miserable experience possible without even pretending that I'm trapped?"

[@thegoldmario4879]

Fax

[@jackmoore4005]

I mean the fail is truly trapped

[@gregparker8604]

Make videos about it and put them on KZbin

[@peashooter268]

Yes

[@ianfinrir8724]

As someone else stated, Pikasprey put a ten year old in a SAW trap.

[@HobbesHobbiton]

Pikasprey has singlehandedly discovered what purgatory looks like.

[@malachiatkinson7245]

More than once.

[@rossjohnstone4689]

Its kind of terrifying, but I think that's part of the point

[@BrokenGodEnt]

And we love him for his sacrifice.

[@HobbesHobbiton]

@@rossjohnstone4689 Its like watching a man slowly walking into Hell voluntarily just to taste the fire

[@rossjohnstone4689]

@@HobbesHobbiton and the fire tastes like fish and berries

[@epicluck4391]

Man these softlocks keep becoming more and more evil.

[@Halvos12]

Of course you could make it unpickable by just taking that step yourself and then saving at the pokemon center.

[@miscellaneousmastermind8817]

DoOfEnShMiRtS eViL iNcOrPoRaTeEeEeEeEeD

[@procommentr]

@@Halvos12 Except that's less "fun"

[@TheJunky228]

and I absolutely love it

[@shapeshifterk]

This is one of the easiest locks if you have been watching the series, lorelai was terrifying, this only takes a month (not even factoring how long caterpie took[200+ non skippable days])

[@JohnGlasscock]

How nice you get to look at the lake and watch the clouds for the rest of the game 😁

[@gmk9321]

Yeah agreed verification person

[@paulblache2122]

@@gmk9321 lol

[@windblazeanims6253]

Hey can you give me some PS4 tips 😁

[@keksikunkku]

just a month actually. Well I guess you're right, because it's not like anyone would ever bother to escape from this softlock.

[@Brawler_1337]

@@keksikunkku just a month assuming you check the game every sixteen hours on the dot and always KO a level 10 Goldeen. If you fuck up or get unlucky, it could easily take way longer.

[@Pzychosis]

Something else that you forgot that adds another layer of sinistry; You have to save after every wild Pokémon kill. Incase your attack misses and the poison kills you

[@defaultusername1145]

That doesn’t make it any more sinistry

[@kordami28]

Oh god, you're right

[@tessl8984]

@@defaultusername1145 well I haven't played in awhile but I'd say opening the menu and saving takes about 4 or 5 seconds each time multiplied by how many battles you have to survive it adds up also if you forget to save you'd have to do it again and your mental health would take a hit

[@defaultusername1145]

@@tessl8984 if you choose to do nothing for the first 5 seconds of your day it will add up over a lifetime but it won’t change your life at all

[@tessl8984]

I get your point but that doesn't change that it adds a layer of sinistry ,which was the point of my reply and the comment I was replying to

[@toppo8091]

The dirtiest part of it all is that after all that, the larvitar will never get to become a Tyranitar

[@chompyzilla]

Not in this game, but you can send it to SwSh and use a Rare Candy on it.

[@chompyzilla]

No Name - In SwSh, using a rare Candy on a level 100 Pokémon that evolves by level up will make it evolve.

[@theinsanegamer1024]

@@chompyzilla really? That's actually a good idea, why didn't they do that earlier?

[@plant7371]

@@chompyzilla Aha, but that's also the problem. Transferring a Gen 3 pokémon to SW/SH is about as easy as escaping this softlock. (with a guide) I already made a rant on it, so I'll just copy and paste it. you need a gen 3 game, a gen 4 game, a gen 5 game, a gen 8 game, pokémon bank, poke transfer, a ds lite, a 2ds, and a switch lite. this is the most cost effective way. you don't need a gba, but you do need both a ds and 2ds/3ds to do this, since the ds can play rse with the dual slot function and you need to have Bank to transfer gen 5 pokémon to gen 6, 7, and 8. you need to beat gen 4 and 5 and complete their pokedexes, (regional for gen 4 and national for gen 5. you also need to have the national pokedex in gen 4) play gen 3 to the point you get a pokedex and pokeballs, and catch one pokemon (you need RSE because FRLG won't work, and also you need at least 2 pokemon in your party to trade/transfer), then transfer the gen 3 pokémon to gen 4 by catching it again, (now timed. yay.) then transfer it to gen 5 by playing a timed minigame (you need 5 extra pokémon to play the minigame) then put the pokémon you want into pokémon bank, send it to pokémon home, and then finally send it to sword/shield.

[@davidcelona8167]

The only good thing about sword & shield is that they fixed that

[@horschtguenter]

12:00 'there is no way that anyone would ever make their game like this on purpose' Dude I just watched you do exactly that.

[@bashfulbreloom9294]

I assume it's an emulator and he uses cheats to get the pokemon and items ect.

[@TheBfutgreg]

I feel like he meant to say "on accident"

[@tejaswiraj6610]

He was talking about the devs

[@Neptunequeen42]

This is actually making me think it would be neat to make a “puzzle” save file. Make sure the larvitar has enough exp that you need more than 5 magikarp to level up, but not more than 10. The player would have to realize that they can’t move without fainting, figure out that evolving larvitar is the solution to curing poison, start fishing, and realize that they have to plant their leppa berry instead of using it. A lot of these soft locks could be repurposed into fun little puzzles for people to test their knowledge of pokémon mechanics.

[@3st3st77]

That sounds amazing! You could then also give the player some useless items and a few more steps to take. That way you could increase the challenge if necessary.

[@phyllotaxis]

He actually played a hack exactly like that. /watch?v=45m48I8Y1Y0

[@kyleschwendiman706]

Reminds me of yugioh games. Pretty much all of them include a section full of puzzle challenges

[@markky3050]

@@kyleschwendiman706 Thronebreaker: The Witcher tales has lots of puzzle battles too. Giving you set cards and specific rules. Theyre the best part of the game imo. So satisfying working out how to win using very specific mechanics.

[@loganreaper8981]

You could also give them an everstone so that the player has to realize it needs removed.

[@fansean9273]

I think my favorite part about this is last kick in the teeth for this arrangement: because it evolves at Lv100 to Pupitar, you can't get it to become a Tyranitar.

[@bridgeseller7004]

Trade it to SwSh, give it a rare candy, you won't believe what'd happen.

[@Maragidyne555]

@@bridgeseller7004 we really making all 700 hours worth it lol

[@bridgeseller7004]

@@Maragidyne555 Can't lose a pokemon that endured harshness of life for so long, my friend.

[@iantaakalla8180]

When the tortured Pokémon has to undergo the longest transfer ritual to become a Tyranitar

[@awb7776]

and therefore you couldn't use surf to escape pacifilog town

[@evillecaston]

Moral of the story: Never let Pikasprey borrow your Pokemon games, or he'll smite you with the fury of a thousand Lorelei troll battles.

[@PeruvianPotato]

...or you can just hit new game

[@greyzetsu2733]

I agree he will end your save files

[@MamaTrixxieAsmr]

@@PeruvianPotatoyou can hit the new game but you lose one or more shiny Pokemon

[@amberhernandez]

700 hours? Still less time than it'd take to get all the Rage misses with Primeape vs. Dewgong!

[@gmk9321]

@Mario yeah the amount of resets for a normal luck person will be longer than 700 hours

[@shapeshifterk]

Right? Like this is easy stuff compared to ditching a shiny or the caterpie lock.

[@cameronschiralli3569]

@@gmk9321 It's still technically possible because it's not time gated like the Larvitar The odds are so inconsequentially small that it'll never happen, but it's possible

[@badvoodoo2097]

Let’s be honest the 1/256 chance is basically a fraction of a % to occur so you could play the lottery if you found the means to use all rage pp after a few hundred hours at that point you could have caught every available pokemon and maxed them to 100

[@bruhjoement]

true, but that one is effectively impossible because of statistics. i think pikasprey is moving away from impossible locks because they’re not as hard to get, rather moving to soft locks that can be beaten, but only with great suffering

[@QuokkaWaka]

"Who's he ma?" "Oh him? I don't know, he's always been there. Legend has it he's been sat there for years, fishing and eating no more than a berry a day."

[@HelloImFalco]

Underrated

[@kingd8232]

This softlock is all fun and games until you accidentally press B during the evolution.

[@Lionimia]

This is definitely why you'd save after every single Goldeen. I mean, I'd still probably throw my GBA across the room, but at least I would just have to kill 1 more Goldeen again to evolve..

[@KyojuroRengoku204]

Thats genius

[@aidenconway9087]

In what existence is this softlock fun and games

[@kingd8232]

@@aidenconway9087 It's relaxing, at the very least.

[@cheese0827]

Jokes on you I'd just reset before fighting a single goldeen

[@semibreve]

Nothing's wrong, our trainer's just retired to live next to the lake, tending to his crops and fishing every day. Let him farm in peace

[@MelancholyRequiem]

So this is what quarantine has done to Pikasprey...

[@Juliame]

Oh no he was like this before

[@jcnot9712]

Go to his Pikasprey blue channel, you haven’t seen the least of it. He’s doing a 6 smeargle stadium run for like the third time and beating purity forest (which takes around an hour and a half to beat) with all 386 pokemon in mystery dungeon. He’s truly gone mad.

[@renakunisaki]

Quarantine makes me sympathetic for the trainer.

[@Ludvix]

i would love for a friend to try figure out how to lock pick the soft locked files without watching this video to see if they figure it out. its like breakout rooms but with video games lmao

[@Akash7154]

Yo what’s up Luvdix

[@williamferreira231]

Hello this is the Softlockpicking Lawyer and today...

[@justinbennett6062]

hay that’s the guy that plays melee

[@xyannail4678]

@@williamferreira231 The Lockpicking Lawyer would materialize a Rare Candy to give it to Larvitar I swear.

[@sir_smilesalot7589]

Hey Ludvix, thanks for uploading again!

[@bengermin3104]

Trainer: "Oh no, my Pokémon fainted!" Also trainer: *goes to the furthest pokecenter*

[@coolguy6567]

Wait, if it’s surrounded by water and the trainer doesn’t have surf how the hell did the trainer even get back????

[@nikk-named]

@@coolguy6567 desperation and magic

[@rizolo4585]

@@coolguy6567 they walked.

[@kouron]

@@coolguy6567 the power of friendship

[@Yes-by6jq]

@@coolguy6567 the trainer has the power of jesus

[@cjfuller43]

this is an act of true unadulterated evil. imagine finding out how to do this to your friend's saves in 2005

[@y.z.6517]

Not as bad as starting a new game, and save it...

[@cjfuller43]

@@y.z.6517 maybe

[@eoinmccormack690]

@@y.z.6517 well if they get out of the soft lock they will have no pokemon or items I'd honestly prefer for my game to be wiped

[@y.z.6517]

@@eoinmccormack690 You can wipe your own game at any point. Rebuilding your team can be a fun challenge.

[@rubylancaster2163]

I would just reset the game and start over. With 750 hours i would have a better save and would be more fun

[@jblen]

I've always overlooked how perfect pikaspreys voice is for this. It's got that serious, almost sinister quality but it's also reminiscent of a reporter which is perfect for someone teaching you how to torture a child by putting them in this situation

[@Matt-no7gg]

I love how some of these locks are designed to be straight up impossible and others are just meant to be as absurdly time consuming as possible

[@MercuryA2000]

Hey, they're functional identical past a certain point. What's the longest time you would spend on escaping a soft lock after all? Even if all 3 Pokemon on this save were shiny?

[@stormbreaker_101]

oh hi matt

[@justin9202]

He has yet to make A lock that isn't impossible

[@NARFNra]

Is it weird that this feels like a mildly calming routine to me? No complex requirements required. Every day you just get up, plant your berry, do your dailies, and leave. There's a nice lake to look at your reflection in with clouds over it. Free berries. What more could you want

[@Arbron]

Plus that route has some of the nicest music in the game. This isn't Purgatory, it's Heaven.

[@Dragonboy55564]

It's basically gacha game design.

[@KowoishiKowomeiji]

@@Dragonboy55564 The Battle Cats, Genshin Impact, Dokkan Battle, Touhou Lost Word, and every other gacha game in a nutshell:

[@Megidramon]

What more could I want? A Larvitar that isn't on the verge of death.

[@mangosightless]

@@Megidramon though, knowing you’re so dedicated to your companion larvitar that, even in this perilous situation of its chronic illness, you choose to wake up every day and feed your little friend a leppa berry and fish up some magikarp and goldeen for it to fry, it kinda makes me misty-eyed over the thought of such devotion, even if it’s just a larvitar

[@C4lmaria]

Brendan, to his grandson "Have I ever told you of that time I stuck myself with a poisoned rock dragon and had to stand still for one month, living out of the fish it killed with its lasers and half of the leppa berries I used to feed him?"

[@M4x_P0w3r]

Gold: You Hoenn trainers sure have it easy. I was stuck in the route leading to the pokemon league for 8 months with no company other than a caterpie, living off the berries from a tree

[@cityblue7029]

@@M4x_P0w3r Red: I'm in a constant loop of my Primeape using rage against Lorelei Dewgong for eternity.

[@iantaakalla8180]

Lorelei: Don’t worry. I’ve learned since last time. If you use rage, I’ll make sure to knock your Pokémon out so that I can end your pain

[@Toomanymareeps]

The most evil part of this is the text speed never being set to Fast.

[@jacobesterson]

And battle animations are set to on.

[@bashfulwolfo6499]

@@jacobesterson I always keep battle animations on, it’s more entertaining lmao

[@MycroftGlassgow]

YOOO, I got the same picture as profilepic on Instagram :D

[@grantshope]

The one step you need is to make sure the Jirachi from the Colosseum bonus disc has been received on the save file and released, otherwise you can transfer it into the party directly from the disc and avoid the soft lock.

[@Alex_Off-Beat]

The saddest thing about this scenario is that, despite all that time you and Larvitar spent together all alone in the woods, despite the countless days spent growing berries and catching fish in order to nurse your best pal back to health, poor Larvitar will never be able to become a Tyranitar and achieve it's full potential 😭

[@IAmMissingnoMaster]

It will if you send it up to SwSh, at least. If you use a Rare Candy on something that would require leveling up to evolve but is level 100, it'll evolve.

[@epicponedge1177]

You could if you transfer it up to Sh/Sw.

[@aurumarma5711]

Just make it a lvl 98. Now you can spend some quality time with your Larvitar, and still watch them grow big and strong.

[@aurumarma5711]

@@IAmMissingnoMaster I didn't know that's a thing. Despite my dislikes Sw/Sh has some excellent quality of life additions.

[@rosheafan]

Unless you trade it up to Sword and Shield and use a Rare Candy on it there.

[@MorbusFreak2011]

31 days just to level up once, not so bad compared to the Caterpie scenario.

[@jogadorjnc]

47 days if you only play once a day.

[@brambleberryproductions1235]

Hey, a month is totally doable! And way shorter than my estimate-

[@wario5080]

I am not on all the time, and i might get some lower level goldeens, so it would take me about 2 months.

[@San-lh8us]

@@wario5080 you can flee from lower level goldeens, it wouldn't take you that long to find one, and if you played it once a day lik @Jn C said, it would take less than 2 months

[@fraidei2094]

Still deleting the save file and restarting the game is faster.

[@marshmllodragon]

"It's pretty easy to avoid getting, and most people don't bother with it anyway." *Hides wailmer pail behind my back.*

[@rgderen88]

I dunno why anyone WOULDN'T get it

[@eagletgriff]

@@rgderen88 who even plants berries (unless its a liechi)

[@rgderen88]

@@eagletgriff Dude, free meds lol I sell all the status meds and ethers I get because I have so many berries.

[@MasterathGaming]

I'd put an everstone on just in case they didn't notice it. They probably would but would be hilarious if they didn't.

[@kayfeduran3999]

imagine finishing this for who knows how long to then realize your larvitar had a fricking everstone

[@bwburkeGaming]

Mindy, is that you?

[@lazydelibird]

@@bwburkeGaming Mindy is the worst.

[@quinnk.328]

You monster

[@FinalLuigi]

Not too big of a deal since you have to save every five battles, at most it would be just one more round.

[@davidem759]

You left out the most important detail: save after every goldeen; if hyper beam misses it's game over.

[@y.z.6517]

Or after every 2/3/4 goldeens, because save costs time, and the chance of missing is only 10%.

[@portwise23]

The leppa berry grows at the same rate anyway, better to save after each hit

[@mikul9204]

@@y.z.6517 That is a terrible idea. You will eventually miss and you will have wasted all of the time you put into this.

[@tigerheaddude]

@@y.z.6517 or just use save states via hotkey

[@landonmain3]

What's worse is at the end you have to use shead skin.... Allowing a attack.. you can die after 700 hours on your last move

[@ace-zg8lv]

This is just a very elaborate setup to play farming simulator

[@ShadowArmyDes]

Oh,so this is why that kid in Petalburg is just staying in front of the lake talking about the reflection in the water,he is crazy.

[@raymondkertezc364]

are you hi?

[@coldore6734]

@@raymondkertezc364 he meant he

[@ThorsShadow]

"Hello, this is the Lockpicking Lawyer..." Oh, wrong video.

[@riolubruh]

I love these types of softlocks. It's not impossible, but the requirement to get out is so insane that nobody would ever subject themselves to it.

[@Zichqec]

It would be better just to reset your save and spend 700 hours leveling up a whole new team XD

[@MahDryBread]

I don't know how you come up with this stuff

[@eternal2647]

Mah-Dry-Bread - Gameplay & Streams! Idk either lmao

[@quadq3285]

Sheer force of game knowledge

[@Kelsang01]

Big league Em dee bee

[@thrackerzod3303]

I assume he gets some of them from the comments. They are good for the KZbin algorithm after all.

[@TayoEXE]

You do big Pokemon challenges, and he can create them. You should collab sometime.

[@swipeslogjack_tgaming9472]

There is no way that anyone would ever deliberately make their game like this... Says the guy who deliberately made his game like this.

[@raymondkertezc364]

I guess he meant accidentally?

[@uzitay815]

I was just thinking this lmao

[@ChazSmith]

You... you didn’t actually spend over 750 hours evolving that Larvitar... did you?

[@lsgoe3717]

I wouldnt be suprised. Pikasprey is a madman

[@scantyer]

He used hacks and save states

[@RoBoNinja939]

Imagine spending over a month to make a single video about solf-locking a Pokemon game

[@kuiperbelt2488]

@@RoBoNinja939 Hey, some guy managed to level up cloud in ff7 all the way to 99 in the first zone of the game. This wouldn't be far off of reality too

[@RoBoNinja939]

@@kuiperbelt2488 I guess if you have the time and patience in anything, you could do it.

[@adityasanket070796]

* grinds for 700+ hours * * Accidentally presses B during evolution *

[@brendanstreecko7847]

Oh no

[@zacsolo1594]

Unless you intentionally saved after, you shouldnt get this

[@ArtisChronicles]

@@zacsolo1594 what if you didn't save before those 700 hours?

[@zacsolo1594]

You left your GBA on for 700 hours? I respect and am extremely dissapointed in you

[@Soup0066]

I felt physical pain

[@Jack-sy6di]

"Hey kid... do you need some help? You've been sitting there fishing and planting berries for six months." "I'm fine, it's just that I can't move from this spot or my Larvitar's motion-activated poison will kick in and faint him, and then I'll have no choice but to book a flight to a distant land which apparently has an airport that only has INCOMING flights and no outgoing ones, and go to the Pokemon Center there, and then I'll be stuck."

[@cupofspiders5830]

“man that’s too bad”

[@yorulaney8563]

Thats rough buddy

[@mrkncd]

just ask for pecha berry

[@jacobesterson]

@@mrkncd This is a good point. In a stupidly specific situation like that the best bet would be to beg strangers for pecha berries, eventually someone would give you one, probably faster than 700 hours. Might take a few days but eventually someone will walk by who has pecha berries.

[@drdca8263]

@@jacobesterson you could also ask for an antidote or potion, if there were people you could ask for items.

[@guitar45rocks5]

God when he puts me in an awkward social position: "Once again, we're going to be putting this guy's save file into a pretty ridiculous state..."

[@gengarzilla1685]

Just so long as you don't reset your own save file.

[@TheHortoman]

basically youre telling me youre stuck in a berry growing simulator to escape being stuck in a pacifidlog simulator

[@TayoEXE]

Imagine: You're just a random camper, when all of a sudden, you are cursed and are told you will be trapped in an inescapable purgatory forever if you make one step, and the only way for you to escape is for you to turn into a berry farmer for your animal friend to keep annihilating hundreds of fish with a gigantic laser, for over a month, and let it form into a beautiful cocoon.

[@SwaggyBoost84]

LMAO

[@GameIsMyOxygen]

Sounds like a great plot for a movie to me

[@Samuel-qi7in]

then after going through multiple generations to swsh it can become a dragon thing

[@stardf29]

Worth noting that in the next generation (Gen IV), once a Poisoned mon gets to 1 HP from poison damage, the poison will be automatically cured. Almost makes you wonder if that was at least in part to prevent situations like this where whiting out leaves you in an awkward place. (Gen V was when poison stopped draining HP outside of battle completely.)

[@GippyHappy]

Casual reminder to never complain about how long a video takes when Aspery is out here spending almost 800 hours on a larvitar for our amusement

[@KobianoRoll]

Nah

[@OmegaGamer1989]

To be fair he doesnt necessarily HAVE to actually spend that much time. for instance, he could use an emulatoran turn off Frame-limiting while waiting. This would result in the game's clock moving forward much faster than IRL, so instead of 16 real life hours between each berry, it could be reduced to maybe like 15 minutes, or even less depending on how fast your PC can run the emulator. It would still take a long-ass time to do everything he needs to do, but it wouldnt take 800 IRL hours.

[@GippyHappy]

@@OmegaGamer1989 I genuinely believe he would do it legitimately even if he really really doesn’t need to.

[@thepigeonmanlyon7155]

It's possible that he just used a rare candy for the sake of demonstration. I certainly wouldn't go through 752 hours of this for a video

[@pulim-v]

@@thepigeonmanlyon7155 didn't he show the empty inventory tho?

[@MrBizznessMan]

Forgot to mention that hyper beam can miss on occasion, and that means you will die next turn. So I hope you saved often

[@Valpokbest]

there's actually a way to compute how often you should save to minimize the expected time, maybe i'll do it if I find data

[@entwixed3406]

@@Valpokbest Wouldn't it just make sense to save after every battle? a 10% chance of missing becomes trivial with that-

[@blueshell292]

And, again, we got attached to a Blaziken we knew for about two minutes.

[@SnoFitzroy]

who wouldn't get attached to Blaziken ;3

[@cameronschiralli3569]

had to look away for that one

[@KainYusanagi]

At least it wasn't Jaiden's Blaziken with Altrive's backstabbing lol

[@BlueRiging]

"Hello internet users!" Oh hey that's me! I use the internet!

[@maria.456]

hahaha! I do that!

[@nothingtoseehere9648]

NO WAY, ME TOO

[@j-meister3284]

Finally, something we can all relate to.

[@BrokenGodEnt]

he didn't mean you though

[@tpsam]

Sounds like something producer guy would say

[@redyellowpink01]

I love that you could've made this actually impossible by leaving larvitar with a non damage move or just stranding yourself in the town or leaving larvitar on level 100 instead of 99 but you went with just torture instead

[@thetakengamer4256]

It's not about making an impossible to win game... It's about sending a message

[@Jerrremy]

This sounds like a jigsaw trap. Hello, Steve. Before you is a copy of Pokemon. You have only one poisoned pokemon, a leppa berry, and an old rod. You have 752 hours to get to the next town over without ending up in Pacifilodg town. Good luck. Let the games begin

[@wakeupandsmellit]

For a little added annoyance, have the Lavitar traded in without collecting all the badges. This is possible and would make the process even more of a hair-pulling process.

[@toumabyakuya3498]

No possible, in gen 3 badges are needed to use HMs.

[@wakeupandsmellit]

@@toumabyakuya3498 ...No? You only need Surf and Fly to get to Pacifilog. The fifth badge gives you access to Surf and and the sixth badge gives you access to Fly. You wouldn't need the seventh or eigth badge for this setup.

[@MegaMinerd]

Wouldn't make it take longer, but you will hate it more, yes.

[@1012Digimon]

It's a little questionable if it would make it longer. Yes, having a pokemon loaf around or refuse to listen to you would force you to soft reset, but a traded pokemon gets boosted exp. So I'm not sure if that will equal out or not.

[@Godoflegos]

@@1012Digimon Its not really questionable, it straight up WOULDN'T. To your point, it would most certainly be faster. Keep in mind that your objective is to beat 5 level 10 goldeen within 16 hours. It doesn't matter if it takes you 5 minutes to do this, you'll still have to wait the full 16 hours for the berries to grow. You can get into A LOT of encounters in 16 hours,

[@Jumf1]

Me laying in bed: :( Pikasprey makes a softlock video: :)

[@matt5740]

me opening comments after pausing video :( realising every comment is like this :(

[@shadowflamelightburst4503]

Pikasprey makes a soft lock video for pokemon: Ü

[@Vex-sn7ne]

(:

[@gay_plant_veil]

you are now softlocked in bed and cannot leave

[@20oxide36]

@@gay_plant_veil :(

[@Bongus_Bubogus]

So that’s why it’s been so long since the last upload.

[@JunaidWolf3]

Trainer's mom: my son should be home soon Trainer:

[@Discoh]

Once again, Pikasprey, I'm quite impressed with your knack for getting yourself into pointlessly sadistic situations. Good job. I guess the key details here, though, is that it takes 700 hours in real time. You don't need to be playing the whole time, just check in every 16 hours. You can do whatever in the meantime, which makes it a lot less painful. Needing to spend 700 hours in-game would be completely asinine.

[@tigerheaddude]

Much easier with an emulator

[@TreeFlob]

Alternative title: Man sits on edge of lake for extremely long time with his poisoned pet on the brink of death. Surviving off of goldfish and feeding them to his pet as he waits for a berry bush to grow beside him. When interviewed he states “I was scared I’d go back to that town surrounded by water. I wouldn’t be able to get out because my pet can’t swim or fly. And nobody wants to trade with me. That’s why I have to turn my Pet into a cocoon.” 460 Hours later: BREAKING NEWS: GOLDFISH POPULATION PLUMMETING!

[@Deleted_User258]

pwhahahahahaha

[@CradilyBestPokemon]

Nice

[@davidwilson2916]

And the fisherman who gave you the rod gets arrested.

[@averytubestudios]

I’M DEAD LOL.

[@ernestotorelli1209]

I love how this set up sacrifices unbeatability for additional cruelty. You truly are the Saw of pokémon.

[@Arbron]

In true Saw essence, these custom-built ones *are* escapable. For a price.

[@kittymae335]

This just makes me wish larvitar were lv 98 so he could still become tyranitar, he deserves it after all that

[@FryzuxD]

It's no longer Soft Lock Picking. No longer a "guide" to lockpick a common softlock. It's a guide to torment friends.

[@EthanMiyai]

To make it a true softlock, your Emerald cartridge should be out of battery.

[@stormbornapostle5188]

If he wanted to make it a true softlock, he could have just not left a leppa berry in the bag. This isn't about making things inescapable...this is about causing PAIN.

[@cameronschiralli3569]

@@stormbornapostle5188 he could've also left you a step further from the lake, not grabbed the old rod, or make Larvitar level 100

[@kirigayakazuto963]

@@cameronschiralli3569 or delete hyperbeam instead of screech

[@KainYusanagi]

@@kirigayakazuto963 That's not a softlock, that's a hardlock.

[@snbeast9545]

Replace the battery. Easy.

[@raffyel179]

This is what saving resources for a gacha game feels like to a f2p player

[@Neptune_1337]

yup

[@funnycat4241]

Hahhah gacha fan hahaahha

[@johnr797]

Gotcha game

[@spimber5517]

@@funnycat4241 different kind of gacha

[@MercuryA2000]

@@aika1313 Yea some of them are cruel as can be, but others actually go with the strategy of "If we make a fun (if a bit grindy) game people will want to play it. Then if they want to play it, more people will actually give us their money)" First time I played one like that I was actually shocked.

[@bakurasensei]

The amount of thought you put into just creating this death trap is amazing. This channel deserves millions of subs tbh

[@Arbron]

Pikasprey for the next Jigsaw killer?

[@glanni]

Local Pokemon trainer has mental breakdown after torturous Smeagle challenge, lives under berry bush for one month.

[@peachiequeen3897]

It always breaks my heart to watch a starter Pokémon get released

[@mihaelarusu7822]

😥😥😥😭😭😭😢😢😢

[@sjakierulez]

why?

[@thatonebonkchoyguy]

Every time I do a Pokemon Shield challenge run (which is often), I release my starter, and I've done it so much I've become numb to it.

[@jacobhenn1504]

Oh thanks man, saved my save file. Thought it was a goner for a minute there, see you guys in 700 hours!

[@Arbron]

Did you ever make it out of there?

[@PowerHawthorn]

obviously a joke…

[@grimes558]

@@PowerHawthorn really?

[@TheTombot]

What I really like about this one is that you can tune it to how mean you want it to be. Like, I would probably make the Larvitar level 50, keep the HM and the wailmer pail, so there are more options for the victim to work with.

[@mrcephalopod]

I'd probably make Larvitar LV 98 (to allow full evolution) but provide a higher quality rod to speed things up a little

[@Pikachu0071000CS]

@@mrcephalopoddoesn't quite work, Tyranitar can learn surf so you can just use the pokecentre

[@builttoscalevideos]

>procrastinating at work >new softlock picking. >”heck it I’m going on break.”

[@wdalbright]

Same. Lol

[@theiceygamer4742]

Don’t go on a 700 hour break

[@Valkenhyne]

It's nearly 6am and I have a job interview in five hours... but I will sacrifice 15 extra mins of sleep for this blessing you've gifted us

[@haarisiqbal8259]

Good luck with the interview!

[@killjoy3579]

Good luck!

[@LatinoLover]

Hope it goes well!

[@bumpadump7981]

wish that was me :')

[@Valkenhyne]

Thanks all! 😊

[@ShycoWar]

Bro. I _literally_ rewatched all of the more recent episodes of Soft Lock Picking on a complete whim just a few hours ago. What even.

[@HeeminGaminStation]

same and I thought... I think it's about time for a new episode of... oh there it is.

[@tripleaaabattery8480]

For me it was 2 days ago.

[@emo-nordegraf]

I love how he gives a tutorial on how to do this, like anyone would be insane enough to even try it

[@Zorgdub]

This man actually did this. This isn't just theory-crafting. He went and did this to himself and then got himself out of it.

[@Kamirasu]

@@Hollow_Tim well this video came out half a year after the last soft lock picking video so it could be plausible

[@Kamirasu]

@@Hollow_Tim i 100% agree for someone to do this, theyd have to be either insane or a masochist still though i said it was possible, but it definitely isn't probable

[@blueyandicy]

@@Hollow_Tim you literally aren't playing the game, what do people not understand about this?? you literally check into your Pokemon save every 16 hours, play for 15 minutes, and wait. There's nothing hard about that, it's just like 10 minutes of your day dude

[@blueyandicy]

@@Hollow_Tim What. That's like not brushing your teeth because 2 minutes and day adds up over time. Just because you are busy 24/7 with every important thing in the universe doesn't mean everybody else is.

[@boring_content]

For all three of you; while we're on the topic of spending our time doing useless things, what are we arguing for? There's not much point to it. Let's just agree that he never said he actually did it and got out of it legitimately and so it doesn't matter much, and move in with our lives :D

[@AgeAgeAge]

This is one of my favourites so far. Such a clever use of the berry planting mechanic.

[@JAWMOW]

This channel is just a child friendly Saw

[@megaagentj2248]

I’m just imagining the daycare staff taking care of the HM users for years until their owner comes back

[@Arbron]

And the funny thing is, because you aren't taking any steps, the haven't been gaining any XP. Daycare Man: If you want your pokemon back- Trainer: *For the love of god yes*

[@Felixkeeg]

"This is the soft lock-picking lawyer and today..."

[@WinVisten]

HOLY SHIT THAT'S PERFECT

[@grantbaugh2773]

We've got it set on hp, poison is binding...

[@Amsel_616]

@@grantbaugh2773 and we evolved it

[@Swordkiller55623]

And the worst part of this is that if the battery DIES in those 700 hours, it becomes literally softlocked.

[@mjdxp5688]

I sure hope you're not playing this in Ruby or Sapphire, and if you are, I hope you patched the berry glitch...

[@brambleberryproductions1235]

@@mjdxp5688 berry glitch?

[@mjdxp5688]

@@brambleberryproductions1235 After a year of playing there's a glitch in R/S that makes time based events stop happening

[@brambleberryproductions1235]

@@mjdxp5688 what? Excuse me, how exactly did they manage that? Does anyone know the cause?

[@kuatro_as]

@@brambleberryproductions1235 After playing for many hours, the internal battery of the game dies, causing time-based events to stop. This includes berry growing, obviously. Rather than a glitch, it's just part of the hardware not working properly. I think they fixed this error in Emerald, but, unless yoy didn't send your copy of R/S to Nintendo back in 2003 and managed to soft lock yourself in this way, you're pretty much fucked up. Maybe they fixed this in the international releases, but I'm not sure.

[@TheG1995]

When you thought this channel was hell and then Pikasprey starts a Purity Forest run with every pokemon available on his other 'fun' channel. Oh how the tables have turned

[@Arbron]

Five-Point Palm Exploding Heart technique right here. Poisoned and on the brink of death, but as long as you don't take another step, you're good.

[@DShy96]

Holy crap, he's back with a new lock.

[@SethTheSouthernWeirdo]

You could easily make this impossible to escape, but I think that having the solution makes this all the more cruel.

[@Frelia00]

There's a sick kind of fun watching this series. So many creative ways of achieving a very specific goal.

[@daverowe1081]

"So why'd you move to Pacifidlog Town?" "Move? No, my child. I, like all others who reside here, are soft locked."

[@InkubozuNikki]

I used to think it was silly how they went and basically cut out HMs and started to progressively idiot proof the games, but the soft lockpicking series lets me know it was probably the right thing to do.

[@Licw-Luxus]

I mean, no one would ever end up like that on accident...

[@MyratheDunmer]

@@Licw-Luxus people are alarmingly stupid.

[@Licw-Luxus]

@@MyratheDunmer That I can agree with.

[@fraidei2094]

@@Licw-Luxus it's almost impossible, but still possible. A game should never have this kind of situations, where you have to delete the save file just to be able to play the game normally. Or if a game has those kind of situations, they usually have like a command console where you can type commands to "cheat" you out of that situation, like Skyrim

[@HobbesHobbiton]

>Be me >Have Pokemon Emerald >Spend three years playing it >Beat the game, level up my perfect team >Three years later get Platinum and a DS >Attempt to transfer Pokemon to Platinum >Discover that my Emerald cartridge is fake :-(

[@tomikun8057]

:(

[@Vex-sn7ne]

(:

[@rumiyano]

Yeah those fake cartridges are bitches, I had my share of fake Emerald and Leaf Green cartridges back in the day and when I plugged it on my DS to transfer, the save file gets deleted :(

[@HobbesHobbiton]

>Discover that my Emerald cartridge is fake :-( >Start furiously playing on my Leafgreen copy >Beat the game >Level up all my Pokemon >Perfect an Umbreon via breeding >Attempt to transfer Pokemon to Platinum >Discover that my Leafgreen cartridge is fake too :-(

[@vakk985]

@@HobbesHobbiton should have tested the LG before going all out lol

[@HobbesHobbiton]

Pikasprey: Releases new softlock video where he slowly goes insane Everybody: _Oh my god, okay its happening, everybody stay calm._

[@crislouise2509]

Larvitar should have been shiny that way it become the perfect trap.

[@14239]

It's as if my earphones strings are so entangled so the time it takes to unwrap them all is longer than making money and buying new earphones.

[@RWAsur]

"They have to spend hundreds of hours feeding their Pokemon fish and berries" I mean, I would if they were real, but I think the sadder reality is "to help them get better". The poor Larvitar that has to be poisoned for over 29 days straight.

[@juliamavroidi8601]

"I call this the Delay-pa Berry strategy" Pikasprey

[@oceankiwi4563]

“Congratulations! Your Pokémon Emerald has evolved into mindless mobile game!”