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Reacting to SmallAnts Can You Beat Pokemon Platinum Without Taking Damage
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  • @Smallant
    @Smallant3 жыл бұрын

    he thinks I'm really cool 😮😮😮😮😮

  • @Big_G12

    @Big_G12

    3 жыл бұрын

    You are

  • @zaxtonhong3958

    @zaxtonhong3958

    3 жыл бұрын

    Whoooaaaaaaaaaa it's the cool guy

  • 3 жыл бұрын

    I've been noticed 🥺🥺🥺

  • @jackcowan8318

    @jackcowan8318

    3 жыл бұрын

    SmallAnt you need a break from these stupid challenges

  • @smartboy201

    @smartboy201

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yo dawg, I heard he loves you!

  • @charlesbersamin9623
    @charlesbersamin96233 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Blue-fg8vt

    @Blue-fg8vt

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @imjustryley2197

    @imjustryley2197

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @charlesbersamin9623

    @charlesbersamin9623

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @byrontheusurper6505

    @byrontheusurper6505

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Predated2

    @Predated2

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @emjer7906
    @emjer79063 жыл бұрын

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

  • @ashtic9140

    @ashtic9140

    3 жыл бұрын

    Dayyum

  • @iam-geoffreytheelite5275

    @iam-geoffreytheelite5275

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @killuafan4365

    @killuafan4365

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @kasyu1101

    @kasyu1101

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @The_Mang

    @The_Mang

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Beowulfr23
    @Beowulfr233 жыл бұрын

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

  • @dzzenok4136

    @dzzenok4136

    3 жыл бұрын

    Damage is damage

  • @calebdevilbiss6447

    @calebdevilbiss6447

    3 жыл бұрын

    The crit was just mental damage

  • @misfittoy4078

    @misfittoy4078

    3 жыл бұрын

    Nobody bothered to check if your math was correct

  • @desiterdane8128

    @desiterdane8128

    3 жыл бұрын

    you PM

  • @desiterdane8128

    @desiterdane8128

    3 жыл бұрын

    you PM

  • @zeezeyhd1412
    @zeezeyhd14123 жыл бұрын

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

  • @das_flauschige_animehorn6085

    @das_flauschige_animehorn6085

    3 жыл бұрын

    Me too lmao

  • @bishop_breloom

    @bishop_breloom

    3 жыл бұрын

    Shiny Pokémon are bad for speed runs

  • @adrianabarrantes1059

    @adrianabarrantes1059

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@bishop_breloom why?

  • @explicit6615

    @explicit6615

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@adrianabarrantes1059 shiny animation adds time

  • @JustALittleSillyGoose

    @JustALittleSillyGoose

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @patrickl671
    @patrickl6713 жыл бұрын

    You should try this challenge with chimchar

  • @shine-ub6eb

    @shine-ub6eb

    3 жыл бұрын

    I would watch for sure

  • @RomanTorchic

    @RomanTorchic

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @justapancrepe8455

    @justapancrepe8455

    3 жыл бұрын

    He really should!

  • @BenStonememe

    @BenStonememe

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @alexperper6390

    @alexperper6390

    3 жыл бұрын

    No

  • @ian_velez
    @ian_velez3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @theatomicbob9067

    @theatomicbob9067

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @jacobbau8328

    @jacobbau8328

    3 жыл бұрын

    It was funny, admit it.

  • @cassio_o8180

    @cassio_o8180

    3 жыл бұрын

    Who's SmallAnt1?I only know SmallAnt.

  • @strogonoffcore

    @strogonoffcore

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @sr.piedra3802

    @sr.piedra3802

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @PokemonProfessorNebula
    @PokemonProfessorNebula3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @EskChan19

    @EskChan19

    3 жыл бұрын

    Xcom and Fire Emblem agree.

  • @woozlegamer8253

    @woozlegamer8253

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @NormalWeeb.

    @NormalWeeb.

    3 жыл бұрын

    And 30% accuracy sheer cold feels like 100%

  • @dylancross1039

    @dylancross1039

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@NormalWeeb. Only if the AI uses it

  • @taiderscoliosis7258

    @taiderscoliosis7258

    3 жыл бұрын

    Now im asking how my sleep powder never misses

  • @darrellwillis4871
    @darrellwillis48713 жыл бұрын

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

  • @erfegxD

    @erfegxD

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ikr

  • @darrellwillis4871

    @darrellwillis4871

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @erfegxD

    @erfegxD

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @darrellwillis4871

    @darrellwillis4871

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @erfegxD

    @erfegxD

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @xavierbehrens3015
    @xavierbehrens30153 жыл бұрын

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

  • @estebanvelazquez353

    @estebanvelazquez353

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @yoshimatt09

    @yoshimatt09

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @steventhecookielover

    @steventhecookielover

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Crxsseyed1

    @Crxsseyed1

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @BurgoYT

    @BurgoYT

    11 ай бұрын

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

  • @carlosx8603
    @carlosx86033 жыл бұрын

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

  • @acemerceramv8561

    @acemerceramv8561

    5 ай бұрын

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

  • @carlosx8603

    @carlosx8603

    5 ай бұрын

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

  • @---Mattia---
    @---Mattia---3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @khunpaciny7273

    @khunpaciny7273

    3 жыл бұрын

    We love seeing him suffer with his challenges

  • @HakainoMegami

    @HakainoMegami

    9 ай бұрын

    Awesome pfp btw

  • @TheRMJQandA
    @TheRMJQandA3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Firetrigger2110

    @Firetrigger2110

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @ricardoj376

    @ricardoj376

    3 жыл бұрын

    I don't wanna die.

  • @trfinnila6074

    @trfinnila6074

    3 жыл бұрын

    I don’t know that I have enough water

  • @chasemathis2016

    @chasemathis2016

    3 жыл бұрын

    had to go get my stomach pumped

  • @Wauly

    @Wauly

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Gallentecitizen1
    @Gallentecitizen13 жыл бұрын

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

  • @billybobbobson3797

    @billybobbobson3797

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @AlightBlaze

    @AlightBlaze

    3 жыл бұрын

    Im not much of a pokemon player whats the difference?

  • @Gallentecitizen1

    @Gallentecitizen1

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @AlightBlaze

    @AlightBlaze

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Gallentecitizen1 ah thank you

  • @M4x_P0w3r

    @M4x_P0w3r

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @ericdissing
    @ericdissing2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @stevendeng6720
    @stevendeng67203 жыл бұрын

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

  • @janelle57759

    @janelle57759

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @boianko

    @boianko

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @psychopathicporo

    @psychopathicporo

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @poisonedmaple6874

    @poisonedmaple6874

    3 ай бұрын

    @@boianko shedinja is not available until post game

  • @CalamitasDeus
    @CalamitasDeus3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @joegod9488

    @joegod9488

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @FlandrionScarlet

    @FlandrionScarlet

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @dylanh8163

    @dylanh8163

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @dathunderman4

    @dathunderman4

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Korow-

    @Korow-

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @SilharaTheChosen
    @SilharaTheChosen3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @siren6245

    @siren6245

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @mendia43

    @mendia43

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @siren6245

    @siren6245

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @ezio934

    @ezio934

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @sirbrokkoli5309

    @sirbrokkoli5309

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @orphen923
    @orphen9233 жыл бұрын

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

  • @flallana18

    @flallana18

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @betonamu7514

    @betonamu7514

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @betonamu7514

    @betonamu7514

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @doheonlee6703

    @doheonlee6703

    9 ай бұрын

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

  • @betonamu7514

    @betonamu7514

    9 ай бұрын

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

  • @YakoSWG
    @YakoSWG3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Luis-gz3oo

    @Luis-gz3oo

    2 жыл бұрын

    About 40 hours* if contents above are correct

  • @zylena8004
    @zylena80043 жыл бұрын

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

  • @bruv7521

    @bruv7521

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @cocomoch5392
    @cocomoch53923 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Luis-gz3oo

    @Luis-gz3oo

    2 жыл бұрын

    Making up*

  • @Macie-Jay77
    @Macie-Jay772 жыл бұрын

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

  • @LoKing1337

    @LoKing1337

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @leonel392

    @leonel392

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@LoKing1337 trusting in crits is super inefficient

  • @LoKing1337

    @LoKing1337

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @levy9595
    @levy95953 жыл бұрын

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

  • @caseabase
    @caseabase3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Ricci9170

    @Ricci9170

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well, 2 different meaning

  • @paydaydallas6615
    @paydaydallas6615 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @yasminchan7425
    @yasminchan74253 жыл бұрын

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

  • @MAT_DoesStuff

    @MAT_DoesStuff

    3 жыл бұрын

    Nop, I did the same lol

  • @JWZhang94

    @JWZhang94

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Rattus375

    @Rattus375

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @paanazmi8062

    @paanazmi8062

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Sammy_The_Umbreon

    @Sammy_The_Umbreon

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, i got tired of it soon

  • @olibassily2967
    @olibassily29673 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Saviarai-Dravolika
    @Saviarai-Dravolika3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @bluegg996
    @bluegg9962 жыл бұрын

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

  • @betonamu7514

    @betonamu7514

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @betonamu7514

    @betonamu7514

    Жыл бұрын

    @@andy-utop where

  • @kafkeinated
    @kafkeinated3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @tempsxt
    @tempsxt3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @TiggySL

    @TiggySL

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @coyolord8031

    @coyolord8031

    4 ай бұрын

    i think he just made sure to never click brave bird

  • @alexshablovsky8864
    @alexshablovsky88643 жыл бұрын

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

  • @goose5200
    @goose52003 жыл бұрын

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

  • @tiltmasterflex7220
    @tiltmasterflex72203 жыл бұрын

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

  • @doohresarf321

    @doohresarf321

    3 жыл бұрын

    gen 1 nonsense makes that run particularly good imo

  • @CinanzonRoll

    @CinanzonRoll

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @simohayha6031

    @simohayha6031

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@doohresarf321 y

  • @My30dayjourney
    @My30dayjourney5 ай бұрын

    Not Jan simping over small ant in the beginning 😭😭

  • @HoneyAnimates
    @HoneyAnimates3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @wetalktothewind6275
    @wetalktothewind62753 жыл бұрын

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

  • @ricardoj376

    @ricardoj376

    3 жыл бұрын

    So how is progress comming?

  • @charana538

    @charana538

    2 жыл бұрын

    did you win

  • @magikcode
    @magikcode2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @LoKing1337

    @LoKing1337

    2 жыл бұрын

    He didn’t tho

  • @leonel392

    @leonel392

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@LoKing1337 Chimchar would take forever almost literally

  • @leragefish4944
    @leragefish49443 жыл бұрын

    I REALLY want him to react to Mr ding dongs nuzlockes

  • @CreditableHulk

    @CreditableHulk

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same lol

  • @noname-tw4mm

    @noname-tw4mm

    3 жыл бұрын

    no pls

  • @leragefish4944

    @leragefish4944

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@noname-tw4mm why?

  • @noname-tw4mm

    @noname-tw4mm

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @leragefish4944

    @leragefish4944

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@noname-tw4mm no reason soooooo

  • @ThePhantomKerbecs
    @ThePhantomKerbecs3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @r3io4mf

    @r3io4mf

    3 жыл бұрын

    that is basically what nuzlocks is

  • @ThePhantomKerbecs

    @ThePhantomKerbecs

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @r3io4mf

    @r3io4mf

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @diegolarrea7932

    @diegolarrea7932

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @ricardoj376

    @ricardoj376

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @awkwardvulpix3085
    @awkwardvulpix30853 жыл бұрын

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

  • @sam_unown

    @sam_unown

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ok feetnix

  • @cadhlakai
    @cadhlakai3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @SwirlEP

    @SwirlEP

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @cadhlakai

    @cadhlakai

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@SwirlEP so much stuff...

  • @zan1971

    @zan1971

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @bryanloo4116
    @bryanloo41163 жыл бұрын

    "Chimchar this monferno that" All bark thou

  • @hydrocheese4122
    @hydrocheese41223 жыл бұрын

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

  • @rub8252

    @rub8252

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @mrwaffleman8732

    @mrwaffleman8732

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @otiliagabriel1382

    @otiliagabriel1382

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @researchinbreeder

    @researchinbreeder

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @garrettreven5144

    @garrettreven5144

    3 жыл бұрын

    21:17 he curses just after a censored curse

  • @becausesakamoto5938
    @becausesakamoto59383 жыл бұрын

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

  • @BlackwingKei
    @BlackwingKei3 жыл бұрын

    I was waiting for this! 😁

  • @Plankner
    @Plankner3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @riol2_
    @riol2_3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @amberco21
    @amberco212 жыл бұрын

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

  • @NoodIndigo
    @NoodIndigo3 жыл бұрын

    Just call this video "But monferno tho"

  • @angelotorres1
    @angelotorres13 жыл бұрын

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

  • @levisokshow2333
    @levisokshow23333 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Killrbladez
    @Killrbladez3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @zehllie
    @zehllie3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @zehllie

    @zehllie

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Sir-Vesh

    @Sir-Vesh

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Mqstodon

    @Mqstodon

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @dank_tank4725
    @dank_tank47253 жыл бұрын

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

  • @HowManySmall

    @HowManySmall

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @kodenameaurasphere3104

    @kodenameaurasphere3104

    3 жыл бұрын

    I like pineapple on pizza ;-;

  • @mathieul4303

    @mathieul4303

    3 жыл бұрын

    I like it.

  • @soggypikachu1233

    @soggypikachu1233

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @caolanochearnaigh9804

    @caolanochearnaigh9804

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Sonyatakashi97
    @Sonyatakashi973 жыл бұрын

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

  • @whisennandalex7821
    @whisennandalex78213 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Danny_Deleto
    @Danny_Deleto3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @evan1430
    @evan14303 жыл бұрын

    i was waiting for this vid

  • @paanazmi8062
    @paanazmi80622 жыл бұрын

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

  • @weskintime4177
    @weskintime4177 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @Carolanne17
    @Carolanne172 жыл бұрын

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

  • @zoruamaster2495
    @zoruamaster24952 жыл бұрын

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

  • @roberthansen5727
    @roberthansen57273 жыл бұрын

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

  • @sgt.garrick
    @sgt.garrick2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Fox_Olive

    @Fox_Olive

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @sgt.garrick

    @sgt.garrick

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @ssr8555
    @ssr85552 жыл бұрын

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

  • @bopplemcnuggets4387
    @bopplemcnuggets4387 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @brocksteele7475
    @brocksteele74753 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Luis-gz3oo

    @Luis-gz3oo

    2 жыл бұрын

    Still he would not be able to pass the first battle

  • @tacostastegood3720
    @tacostastegood37203 жыл бұрын

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

  • 3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @greyscaleadaven
    @greyscaleadaven3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @shivsankarbanerjee5675
    @shivsankarbanerjee5675 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @PsionicMonk
    @PsionicMonk2 жыл бұрын

    Do it with chimchar. I'll wait.

  • @yaboifabio2979
    @yaboifabio29793 жыл бұрын

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

  • @JBuckley1997
    @JBuckley19973 жыл бұрын

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

  • @endercode1164
    @endercode11643 жыл бұрын

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

  • @finalbossgamer5481
    @finalbossgamer54813 жыл бұрын

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

  • @kohinoorbanerjee4009

    @kohinoorbanerjee4009

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @EXRDaBeasta

    @EXRDaBeasta

    3 жыл бұрын

    He aint the smartest, just the loudest.

  • @captainnwalps6689
    @captainnwalps66892 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Wally-mz8yr
    @Wally-mz8yr3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @CrimsonWyan
    @CrimsonWyan3 жыл бұрын

    Been waiting for this

  • @dauntlesstark9850
    @dauntlesstark98503 жыл бұрын

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

  • @kipup4life
    @kipup4life3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @zanelost
    @zanelost9 ай бұрын

    Omg the self-proclaimed PRO NUZLOCKER

  • @gingerkays7362
    @gingerkays73623 жыл бұрын

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

  • @konoegiatanez3754
    @konoegiatanez37542 жыл бұрын

    Man I got sick of him saying "Shoulda gone for Chimchar" within 8 minutes already. Like, we get it, Chimchar is the better starter holy shit, pack it in

  • @paanazmi8062

    @paanazmi8062

    2 жыл бұрын

    it will be more convincing if pronuzlocke try this challenge with chimcar..so far he havnt done that to prove his theory

  • @curator3539
    @curator35392 жыл бұрын

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

  • @MyratheDunmer
    @MyratheDunmer3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @BuywithTyOMS
    @BuywithTyOMS3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @LoKing1337

    @LoKing1337

    2 жыл бұрын

    Growl doesn’t matter if you just get some crits

  • @AlphaFX-kv4ud

    @AlphaFX-kv4ud

    8 ай бұрын

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

  • @bigmoneyswager
    @bigmoneyswager3 жыл бұрын

    14:51 what did he say lmao

  • @aliesterus1.023
    @aliesterus1.0233 жыл бұрын

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

  • @anthonyverde1522
    @anthonyverde15223 жыл бұрын

    I finally subscribed, worth it.

  • @Elite_JSM
    @Elite_JSM3 жыл бұрын

    It’s funny how he thinks everyone has a second monitor

  • @Tree_-wp5zn

    @Tree_-wp5zn

    3 жыл бұрын

    Small is a KZreadr mate..it won't make sense if he doesn't.

  • @thwompu3206
    @thwompu32063 жыл бұрын

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

  • @opalescent4694
    @opalescent4694 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @visalarun5129
    @visalarun51293 жыл бұрын

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

  • @bradynbrunson6038
    @bradynbrunson60383 жыл бұрын

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

  • @TanoTuesday

    @TanoTuesday

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @veeeter8402

    @veeeter8402

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @TanoTuesday

    @TanoTuesday

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Dukstless
    @Dukstless3 жыл бұрын

    7:07 "Moves have the same level of priority" This isn't actually true, there are priority moves that can outprioritize priority moves. Though to be fair, in G4 the only damaging move that has priority higher than +1 is Feint, other +2 or better moves were status stuff like Helping Hand or Protect. ...Funny how Fake Out was just +1 priority at the time, and then G5 it gets boosted to +3. On side note, there's also Gamechamp who did similar thing in Red/Blue... except there's no checkpoints; take damage and it's all the way back to start. With all the cool G1 stuff in the mix, like the 1/256 miss!

  • @dylancross1039

    @dylancross1039

    3 жыл бұрын

    We forgetting that Extremespeed exists? Or was that not Gen 4?

  • @Dukstless

    @Dukstless

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@dylancross1039 Even that was just +1 in Generation IV.

  • @jw-mp9yp
    @jw-mp9yp3 жыл бұрын

    Sure yt recommended, I’ll watch this for a 3rd time

  • @widerrapier5394
    @widerrapier53942 жыл бұрын

    it would've taken him fucking ages if he started with chimchar since growl lowers your attack, and crits are not very fuckin consistent

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