how ludwig was able to keep composed and not even crack a smile when pokemonchallenges whispered about his sweaty balls is very impressive

@FukaiKokoro

11 ай бұрын

Especially being lud has massive balls. Hahaha. I would have cracked.

@monkeylemur

11 ай бұрын

No way I wouldn't have laughed and tried to pretend it was a cough

@yololinsken3045

11 ай бұрын

29:50

@mikeweimer4783

11 ай бұрын

If you notice, he purses his lips at that time. He likely was using that to hide a smirk on the other end of his mouth when he turned his head. Obviously barely noticeable so I agree with you, but that’s just my assessment haha

@VixeyTeh

11 ай бұрын

Yeah! I cracked up laughing when I heard that. 🤣 Dunno how Ludwig kept a straight face. Poker pokémon face.

Honestly nowadays its more surprising to hear that Ludwig didn't cheat at something

@DavidGallagher-qq5jy

11 ай бұрын

Bro vs hoe

@psycholol4855

11 ай бұрын

Bro is a evil mastermind

@kirbyhypno2522

11 ай бұрын

Bro vs Toe

@getawayred

11 ай бұрын

Honestly nowadays its more surprising to see an original comment on a ludwig video. lmao

@misfortune5091

11 ай бұрын

🤣🤣

This is one of those videos that makes you love chatters. The sheer amount of people calling his choices terrible when it was Jan telling him what to do, and the people telling him to heal the paralyze the WHOLE time over and over again. So funny.

@zen1th636

11 ай бұрын

And the chat advice was comically bad too

@Deluvenai

11 ай бұрын

​@aidanfrazier6966 yeah literally on the ampharos sack someone said greedy when literally that was the only safe play to make in the Winona battle

@olive7155

11 ай бұрын

Chat spamming to shadow ball the Banette when it would've just used Destiny Bond 💀

@canisdirus6045

11 ай бұрын

People were telling him in the first stream not to use rare candies because of the EV thing lol.

@Suavamente

11 ай бұрын

They’re a bunch of nerds lol who donate to twitch streamers 😂

The best bait and switch of the entire run was reading out of chat that he could reload save but we'd call him a cheater. How he managed to get through that without laughing at us is beyond me.

@VixeyTeh

11 ай бұрын

I'm sure he was laughing internally. Looking over it again, he smirked just before saying "well then let's finish this!"

@l4stm4nttv14

2 ай бұрын

It's not hard to fool a bunch of children lol

@mochiyeosang1908

20 сағат бұрын

someone actually did say he would be a cheater lol

This is like the streaming version of ratatouille

@BigCoomer1928

11 ай бұрын

ludwin wouldnt need a rat on his head

@mikeweimer4783

11 ай бұрын

I’d watch that movie

@retelefe

11 ай бұрын

Subnoodle comment

@aguynamedsmith6489

11 ай бұрын

Ludwig got ratatouilled

The whole section at 20:30 about how he got paralyzed Linoone into the E4 is a perfect encapsulation of “if you spent as much effort studying as you did cheating, you wouldn’t have needed to cheat.”

@lythd

11 ай бұрын

but which is funner studying or cheating :)

@wowzanpakutou

11 ай бұрын

You mean the Liloon? He kept fucking saying it wrong lmao

@monke1544

10 ай бұрын

​@@wowzanpakutouNo... it is Linoone

@aliqbiaa

9 ай бұрын

​​@@monke1544late ahh reply but it's Rinoone not Linoone

@joshuabell1133

9 ай бұрын

@@monke1544 its linoone but lud kept saying liloon

give this man a fucking oscar, there's NO WAY you could actually keep a straight face at the sweaty balls thing

@tyguy275

9 ай бұрын

typical pchal lmao, lud was probably expecting it at some point during the call

@gonzax125

9 ай бұрын

He wanted to tho 😂😂

I love how the entire chat is spamming no when Ludwig says the idea but if Pokemon Challenges said it they would completely agree

@EmptyCrevice

11 ай бұрын

I feel like its like watching alex jones get something right vs watching Einstein get something right, like yes at the end of the day they are both right, but the ODDS they got it right beforr you see the outcome is widely different

@victoriatowns9237

7 ай бұрын

Well yeah. If a fifth grader starts mixing chemicals in a tube and then drinks it, you’re gonna freak out and smack it out of their hand. If a chemist who formulates life saving medicines does it, you assume he knows something you don’t and wait to see what happens.

@MononymousM

5 ай бұрын

@@victoriatowns9237 hmm. Good point, well made.

@adepressedcupcake

5 ай бұрын

@@victoriatowns9237that’s a really good analogy

As much as Ludwig is becoming the personification of the boy who cried wolf, I have to admire his skill to come up with bs excuses to be able to play this off on stream

@Nigolasy

11 ай бұрын

Why work if you can con your way through life? ;D

@OmegaCKL

11 ай бұрын

@@Nigolasy can’t spell content without the con

@vehrix

11 ай бұрын

@@Nigolasy cant spell content without tent

@alterch7242

11 ай бұрын

@@Nigolasy Fake it till you make it

@The_Redstone_Robot

11 ай бұрын

​@@vehrix cant spell counteint

I'm not even mad, I'm just disappointed that I thought Ludwig could actually win a Ludlocke in

@customch33s32

11 ай бұрын

Mmmm yes, trying to get that gold medal in instigating are we

@imjustwell9947

11 ай бұрын

@@havocpyro9166 Thinking he gives af what some random kids think while he farms you for money is hilarious to me

@thinshin6486

11 ай бұрын

ludlocke was legitimately shit content after run 10 and if you wanted ludwig to beat the ludlocke just beat it yourself wtf u get nothing from ludwig beating it

@MrGamis

11 ай бұрын

​@imjustwell9947 said kids are his audience. If audience starts hating him they hate his content and he enters KZread decline. He gets sent into an early retirement. I find it hilarious that people diss the audience for having an opinion when it's the audience that gives Ludwig his influence and success.

@fernovo4303

11 ай бұрын

@@MrGamisAll he cares about is making content that makes him money, could care less who consumes it😂

"Too early to call myself the greatest nuzlocker" has got to be the slyest most snakiest way to admit he cheated 😂😂😂😂

@Tyy-b-un9bl

9 ай бұрын

He said is it too early to call myself the greatest nuzlocker

@Tyy-b-un9bl

9 ай бұрын

Which implie he thinks he is

@mattman3122

9 ай бұрын

No. He making sly jokes at the fact he isnt playing but he cant say anything. He said he that because he knew he wasnt the one playing so he cant be the greatest nuzlocker if he wasnt actually playing. You gotta look at the context of the situation. He had to make jokes without outright saying what he was doing. Thats why it is funny

@moto2442

7 ай бұрын

The joke works even better when Jan is the self proclaimed greatest nuzkocker in the world. So yeah the greatest nuzkocker in the world was the one playing.

Not gonna lie, the way lud was talking and explaining things i would have never guessed he had someone on a call telling him what to do. His actions actually looked like he thought of them himself lol

@Jesin00

9 ай бұрын

Cheating is a skill and it's one Ludwig is REALLY good at.

We all know he struggles with Pokémon battles, not surprised he needed to hire help.

@lixx3255

11 ай бұрын

Fr😂

@samuelargyropoulos1249

11 ай бұрын

Skill issue

@Athene5702

11 ай бұрын

bro😅😅

@enzodr

11 ай бұрын

Expected tbh

@First8116

11 ай бұрын

He said Liloone instead of Linoone for the entire video. I don't think anyone was surprised.

FYI the Wally battle wasn't changed. That's where he appears in Emerald, he shows up at the end in Ruby and Sapphire.

@bartvansliedregt5482

11 ай бұрын

Thank you for pointing it out

@115UndeadAnarchy115

11 ай бұрын

I thought this too, checked here to see if anyone mentioned it lmao

@The_One_In_Black

11 ай бұрын

Yeah, that was the first comment I was going to make.

@CubowaK

11 ай бұрын

I was like “I’m not the crazy one, right?” 😂

@mustafaalkhafaji6152

11 ай бұрын

Lud is a fake mon fan

Ludwig actually really showed off his acting chops here I could not keep a straight face like that lmao

Only Ludwig can mispronounce 'Linoone' as 'LiLoone' 15 times during a monologue about how he's a genius 🤣

I loved seeing the experts in chat calling his choice of Pokemon bad when he was initially setting up the team when it was Jan's team lol

@Fanimati0n

7 ай бұрын

Goes to show that everybody's a critic

the editors did a really good job making everything flow seamlessly and fun to watch! props to them

@FANANA3

8 ай бұрын

1.4K likes and no comments? Lemme change that.

Honestly the Venesaur threw a wrench in the plan and Ludwig came up with the solution, he gets partial credit

@computertutorials1286

11 ай бұрын

I thought the same thing.

@lifetake3103

11 ай бұрын

Pretty sure pchal came up with it, but that was cut from the video, but not from pchals

@DreamGamingS2

6 ай бұрын

To be fair he would've accidentally stumbled into the solution at some point when he switched in shedinja

@arieleraso5734

5 ай бұрын

@@lifetake3103 just watched back to back, ludwigs comes up with it. I was v impressed, seems like he did learn sometihng

I like how he left out the part where he whited out on this run, said it didn't count, and reset keeping the pokemon alive

@EverythingSanti

11 ай бұрын

TRUEEEE

@Briggz001

11 ай бұрын

Because he took only 2 mons into the "steven" double battle. Classic Lud cheater

Lud’s next video will be “I hired a pro streamer to entertain my chat the past five years”

Being a ludwig viewer has given me trust issues

@x0cx102

11 ай бұрын

something something parasocial relationship. We have gone from "I am not your friend" to "I'll hire a pro to beat this game on stream so you think I did it myself, and then make a video out of it"

@drlemonjelly7085

11 ай бұрын

@@x0cx102 bro what

@bradentheman1373

10 ай бұрын

@@drlemonjelly7085 being a viewer also makes you insane

I don't blame Lud for doing this. It's super frustanting having to replay stuff you've already done.

I like the showmanship, the acting, the drama etc. However what I like most of all is that in the end, when you where at your wits end, you called a friend for help. I hope you both had fun and keep up the good work.

Ludwig really showing Linoone no mercy with how he pronounced it’s name

@AlienApocalypse

11 ай бұрын

I was hoping someone would notice Liloone

@crazygreek6341

11 ай бұрын

Le Noon, take it or leave it

@galaraxity

5 ай бұрын

I thought I was the only one who noticed

All us banned chatters should change their name back to REDACTED.

@DavidGallagher-qq5jy

11 ай бұрын

Smart

@zidanez21

11 ай бұрын

Wait weren’t you the Hitmonlee?

@filthychurch

11 ай бұрын

what's the go with this banned chatters? are you banned from the stream? or just banned from chatting?

@Tech__Tyrant

11 ай бұрын

@@filthychurch Neither, basically our usernames were redacted in chat until Lud was able to beat the game.

@filthychurch

11 ай бұрын

@@Tech__Tyrant cheers bro, i don't watch live streams myself so i know nothing about it all.

Probably the most entertaining nuzlocke you have to to date. Can’t wait for the next one!

pchal and ludwig two of my favorite creators love when they do collabs like this.

the fun part about this is that Lud literally told us PChal was his coach for this game like stream one, and nobody batted an eye.

@360mew9

11 ай бұрын

wait fr? thats awesome lud has an excuse now

When are you gonna do the opposite and have a pro player hire you to secretly react to the button in their ear?

@taylon5200

11 ай бұрын

Im dying 💀

@rarinstraw1195

11 ай бұрын

That’s brutal 💀

@mattyisnice

11 ай бұрын

lmaoooo

@Wolkenphoenix

11 ай бұрын

Professional throwing for content

@JollyRancher08

11 ай бұрын

Top tier comment 😂

Already mentally and emotionally preparing for the damage of "I Hired a Pro Mario Party Player to Destroy My Chat"

you know, the reason i love ludwing is because even though i have never been really into pokemon, he still somehow managed to make this super interesting and entertaining

This is funny because he could have just said he's been watching pokemon challeges, and it gave him the inspiration to use that strategy.

@worthlesshuman5041

11 ай бұрын

Actually it probably wouldn't have worked, since Jan bans Shedinja from all of his runs. He does allude to how broken it could be, but he never talks about how best to build or pilot a shedinja team

@tyleredge5349

11 ай бұрын

@@worthlesshuman5041 I was more talking about using paralyzed linoone. I've seen him use that strat several times in his runs.

@worthlesshuman5041

11 ай бұрын

@@tyleredge5349 That could definitely work, but the way he did it was marginally funnier

@tyleredge5349

11 ай бұрын

@Worthless Human yeah now that I think about it I agree lol.

Ludwig is the kind of guy to break the law and submit the evidence to his local police station

Wow you started this on my birthday I feel so special now. This was so fun to watch lol

I just want to know who was so patiently waiting to speak to Ludwig to wait at the back of the room that whole time.

Honestly, Luds plan to get into the Elite 4 is far more impressive than any of the strats PC made up to beat them

@VixeyTeh

11 ай бұрын

Yeah, that was some kind of Ocean's Eleven plot twist.

@armoredanteater609

8 ай бұрын

If you watch PCs view, he actually gave him yhe strats to get through victory road (watching a speedrun to get through victory road and even the team he chose was given to him lmao)

15:21 random chatter had the gift of foresight lmaooo

@VixeyTeh

11 ай бұрын

"Too good..."

That was top tier content and you sold it pretty well, I ain't even mad

Missed this style of Lud content! Loved the video!

HE CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS

from becoming an instant lud fan watching the firered ludlocke years ago to being completely scammed out of my fav content.. thats my streamer :')

@jsuperhalo1

11 ай бұрын

rip to all the ludlocke fans scammed out of their fav content and likely to not see it again for a couple years if ever sadge

@serpent2776

11 ай бұрын

Black and White 2 Ludlocke was so fun... it's honestly disappointing to see he had to cheat at an easier nuzlocke, considering he wasn't leveling up to the cap in that run.

@thedaychr

11 ай бұрын

I mean it was a Joke, not necessary to be taken this personal

@joedorben3504

11 ай бұрын

wow

@serpent2776

11 ай бұрын

@@thedaychr If he hired a pro to finish it out for him because it was getting so tedious do you honestly believe he will do one again

Glad to see Pokemon Challenges getting some love

Very nicely done, it's very impressive that you contacted Pokemon Challenges to cover up the fact that you accidentally entered the elite 4 with a paralyzed linoone.

I thought the fast play was sussy. But I didn't think he had a whole other person playing. He sold it so hard though. Well played Mr. wig.

@juliendillingham6257

11 ай бұрын

Same, I thought he was doing it for content, not because there was an elaborate plan for cheating.

From beating the god gamer gauntlet to cheating in a childrens game, the character development is wild

I LOVE the ending. Lud: *nods* in appreciation for enjoying his acting skills and watching this far.

He knew what I was thinking. Like a good neighbor, Ludwig is there

That was an impressive stream, no wonder Lud had insane strats

@alandtic4616

11 ай бұрын

Now any time Ludwig does something smart people will think it’s someone else

3:17 🤣 It’s still funny that he stops himself from spiking the controller only to think about it then spike it anyway.

I'll be honest, the rage moment was way funnier than I thought it would be.

In vanilla emerald the rival battle is in the same spot of this mod

"Hi, I'm Ludwig, I'm a professional cheater. I'm probably the best cheater in the world, this is how I used the best Nuzlocker to help beat my own Nuzlocke." Should've been the intro

@KhyodenoPatton-xx4pq

10 ай бұрын

Trueee

Honestly this is so cool cause it gives the opportunity to show someone’s skills but also use Ludwig’s improve I need more of this

The "oh no i accidentally ran in" excuse was actually smooth af

@VixeyTeh

11 ай бұрын

I can't believe we bought that. 🤣 My spidey senses were tingling, but I didn't know why.

Actually The rival battle on the start of victory road is the normal game in the emerald version, the other versions its on the final

@lancebutbetter2919

8 ай бұрын

I was trying to find this comment (I thought I had played sum bullshit version 😂)

idc if he's cheating, at least it makes an enjoyable entertainment. GG Lud and Jan.

@shadowbandit147

11 ай бұрын

Right? I was enjoying myself just looking through his chat seeing if anybody was gonna come in and ruin the surprise 😂

Just a quick correction. You gain EVs for every pokemon you defeat, not only when you level up.

@Lu6ky

11 ай бұрын

I am pretty sure those stats only get applied when the pokemon levels up in the earlier games.

@slimegolem

11 ай бұрын

@@Lu6ky technically not, since stats also update if you put a Pokémon in the box, but generally you only get the benefits from the EV’s gained throughout the level as you level up. (Provided you didn’t box the Pokémon mid level)

@josephperets2649

11 ай бұрын

It only procs on level up

@ViciadoSocialempires

11 ай бұрын

You gain EVs for each defeated Pokémon, for level up you gain proper stats from the EVs

@VixeyTeh

11 ай бұрын

Yeah, but he point was it doesn't when you scoff down candies, so he was seriously gimping himself by using candies.

I had my suspicions when he didn't reset but this wasn't even really that bad! you just got advice from him and it made for a great vid

At this point I’d expect nothing less of Ludwig

I can't get over how well Ludwig does the Sykkuno voice. I keep wanting to look around for Sykkuno like he entered the chat somehow. 😅

i said ludwig lied people died and was placed back in time out (it was not worth it) i’m glad i got to tune in to what i could

@ellenlove

11 ай бұрын

it was a beautiful

@VixeyTeh

11 ай бұрын

Yeah, obviously he had to silence you. I've been careful to not say too much if I spot him being sussy. Just quietly enjoy the warm smug feeling of knowing. 😉

@ellenlove

11 ай бұрын

@@VixeyTeh i have learned my lesson the hard way o7 haha what a streamer, made me giggle to interact with him this way

Thank you for explaining EVs and IVs way better than Slack did on Cobblemon, I knew about IVs but had no idea EVs were a thing.

Honestly, I don’t think this even qualifies as cheating. He didn’t hack/break the game, abuse glitches or enter cheat codes. He just devised a strategy with a dude…

We can't let him keep getting away this

Missed opportunity to wear Jan's E4 glasses. The answer would have been right in front of us the whole time.

Keeping shedinja for that long actually pretty impressive

Imagine working 40 hours of the span of 6 weeks. Ludwig is living the life.

Watching the chat thinking he’s braindead for not healing linloon other than like one guys is so satisfying. I love watching people being so confident and so wrong at the same time.

@taylifts

11 ай бұрын

Chat being so loud and wrong has led to a number of deaths. Granted, lud should know when they're wrong but still lol

@samarthgautam

11 ай бұрын

backseating is cancer

@Nubis_FGC

11 ай бұрын

​@@samarthgautam backseating is also cringe

24:10 was hilarious when jan was calling the shots and lud is doing a mortal combat finisher ripping out the heart lol

Expectation: Online pvp battles with chat using a pro to play. Reality: Rudimentary lessons on EV/IV basics.

ludwig edited into the LTG thunder meme has literally scarred me mentally. truly the most mogul of moves

He really knows how to turn things controversial so people comment and like the video! Amazing storytelling and collab with Jan, love to see the interactions and antics Ludwig always gets himself up to! Can’t wait for the next one!!

I watched the stream live at the finally, I didn't watch much earlier of the ludlocke, but I was so amazed at how good you had gotten by the end! Now watching this… Great acting skills Lud, atleast there's one thing your good at

I can't believe this. My trust is ruined. I was so hyped when you finally beat it. My day is ruined.

ok but that sykunno impression was spot on

He can't keep getting away with it

the improv classes did pay off goddamnit you are an insane man

"Just me from now on, I don't need to cheat. My skill is enough" I was expecting him to say "this ending script was generated by an AI" after that one lmao

Okay I had no clue at all that he was cheating. I honestly thought he accidentally started the elite 4 with a useless linoone. Well played Lud.

@Fanimati0n

7 ай бұрын

There is no such thing as a useless linoone

no way i was there for that "accidental" run into the elite 4 rooms.

@VixeyTeh

11 ай бұрын

As usual, I thought "huh...that's kind of sussy..." and then just shrugged and poured myself another cup of tea then forgot about it. 😅

Ludwig does realized that he is never going to have our trust ever again?

@shadowbandit147

11 ай бұрын

Your still here ain't ya?

@OfficiallySnek

11 ай бұрын

@@shadowbandit147 Possibly

@thedaychr

11 ай бұрын

He lost our trust in the name of content.

@carsonggerber

11 ай бұрын

He's funny haha gamer man, it's not that deep

@biggyfishy130

11 ай бұрын

You do realize he does not give a shit if Snek trusts him or not right?

Honestly, still a beautiful ending to another ludlock :) this was so good 😊😂😢😢

Ludwig making the intro a whole adworthy video of it's own.

We trusted you and you betrayed that trust. How dare you. You're not a closer. You've never BEEN a closer.

lud is the reason i have trust issues

@scott--1629

11 ай бұрын

sad that

Wow, can't believe I admired Ludwig for the mental fortitude to not give up and eventually succeed

The fact that the Venasoaur wasn’t part of the code and Ludwig just kept his calm and thought of a new strat before pokèmonchallenges did is amazing.

Man I wish when he lost like 6 runs in a row to sped up crits on wild mons would've made it in, that shit had me rolling. Otherwise great vid Lud.

@EverythingSanti

11 ай бұрын

or the part where he whited out to team magma and kept going

Are we convinced ludwig doesn't cheat at reacting to the button and tik toks at this point

Lud and Pokémon will always go good together

Damn, this version of Ratatouille goes hard. Also to Lud, spending 6 weeks failing to beat this version of Emerald: "git gud".

Lud should really run a pokemon infinite fusion nuzlocke now. The Tom Foolery would be endless lol

@Watburnt

11 ай бұрын

Isn't it like emerald kaizo level difficulty

Ludwig scamming his way through another win again. Just another Tuesday.

Wow, now i feel like wallys last encounter was easier to TRY and sweep his mons with your starter than playing this game

13:45 "I just felt like Ender from Ender's Game: everyone who had died on my team and everyone I banned from chat was just fodder, I didn't see them as people anymore" this is literally the complete opposite of what Andrew Wiggins felt 😭😭😭 he was so good a strategist *because* he knew every single one was a full person and went through incredible distress for being able to use that to his leverage

@Kydrou

5 ай бұрын

It's cute that you believe he read the book, and did not refer to the movie.

Can’t wait for “I hired a professional streamer to trick my chat”

To be fair, the Wally location actually the same from the original emerald. The Wally location you claimed was the original location in emerald was actually the original Ruby/Sapphire location.

“If it kills me… I kill myself”😂😂

Aa someone wbo doesnt consume much Lud live content absolute banger video, loved watching it