Pro Nuzlocker Reacts To Smallant & Cjyas Soullink
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Wowie
dont drink the drink its got pubes in it
I ooooooooooooo
Your editor did a nice job.
Hey Jan I need a list of the best team of 6 for each pokemon game being the newest versions like frlg and hgss
Edit: Adding movesets and held items would also be appreciated
"Smallant is really good, and CJ is really funny"
That threw me.
easiest battle of my life
14:02 Turns out you CAN fish from the walkway to the S.S. Anne (after showing the ticket etc), and it counts as a separate encounter, with "S.S. Anne" in the location field!
thats whats been used for years, at least in romhacks since you get additional encounters that way :)
@@robinsimon4176 ´llotesgsgs
Yeah but not a lot of people know about it
@@elmerijaakkola5489 haha true.
@@elmerijaakkola5489 HE SPITTIN
You and Wolfe doing a soul link would make me so unbelievably happy
Might be too overpowered
Make it happen
They would have to do an actually hard rom hack tho, which probably rules out randomizers.
@@fdthqwerty maybe a Drayano hack, not too challenging but still pretty difficult.
@@fdthqwerty Radical Red or Pokémon Unbound Insane mode.
26:27 Cjya threw so hard he got Jan sounding like a gen 3 Pokemon cry.
*laughs in nincada*
Not to be rude, but it looked like Cyja really held Smant down a lot with his constant deaths
Favorite Pokemon is Zangoose but he laughs like a Seviper
@@silentkhaos1176 Ah who cares, it's funnier that way
He sounds like a Flukewarm from Hollow Knight
He is 100% correct about Rare Candies. Grinding in these games fucking sucks speed up or not.
>early game
>soullink randomizer
>using Rare Candies
I usually am fine with this but in this case it just removes the fun
Smant has been using candies for a while now. This is an old stream
@@abarette_ Then set a level cap for it. You can still have the thrill of the randomizer experience if you don't overlevel. Besides, what's the most entertaining thing that could happen without rare candies? You can't catch half of the pokemon you find in the early game and trainer battles are already enough to scare you shitless with an unexpected move, pokemon, crit, etc. At the end of the day, an hour of grinding on low-level pokemon is an hour of grinding on low-level pokemon and it's not something worth looking forward to for both the streamer and the viewer. That's why pokemon challenges uses rare candies along with literally any other pokemon content creator
@Donut Apostle [7th of the Twelve]
Level caps. There's hardly anything fun nor strategic about grinding 6 teammates, since the optimal play is fighting low level Pokemon to avoid crit deaths. Rare candies let you skip to the actual challenge of the game (gyms/E4), but you can optionally require fighting all trainers.
@@marshie5434 He edits them out? I thought I heard him talking about using rare candies as well at some point. Did he stop?
Its funny how Jan went from "I am the best nuzlocker" to "I am probably the best nuzlocker" to "Im a professional Nuzlocker" to " I have over 5000 hours of nuzlocke experience" xD
cause people like drxx exist and they are probably better nuzlockers, but Jan is still an amazing nuzlocker and a really entertaining content creator who keeps it real
5000+ hours is quantifiable. More objective and less subjective
@@grzmit5904 who that
I'm glad he changed that, I like this dude and his vids but I would physically cringe whenever he said that
Character growth
I reached a point where I consider people who play on an emulator without rare candies actual psychopaths.
imagine doing it on an official cartridge. not me haha (sweats nervously)
Big masochists for sure
I did a Soul Silver nuzlocke before I started using rare candies, and there were moments I considered throwing just so I’d stop wanting to die when grinding
I play Pokemon normally and on emulator without Rare Candies, though in my defense, I didn't know what PKHEX was until I started watching this channel. And I still don't. Guess I must be locked up in a mental hospital by this logic.
Regardless of how other people feel, if you're using outside resources to affect your game, it's considered cheating. And I personally refuse to do that. If people can't handle the fact you need to grind in rpg games, they shouldn't be playing them in the first place. #ThisGuy #KeepingItReal #TheTRUTHHurts
It's been so refreshing watching Jan take the "grinding safely is a skill" to "just use rare candies" pipeline.
You realize that grinding safety isnt actually a skill when you can grind on level 2s infinitely
Even in full randomizers, only thing that can kill you at level 2 is sturdy + endevor + extremespeed cheese which you can avoid by fleeing from sturdy mons
@@SuccimusPrime mans is the General Grinder
@@SuccimusPrime And I don't even want to calculate the odds of all those stars lining up, you should go buy a lottery ticket if that happens to you.
Lmao right
Personally I'm fine with just hacking in rare candies, but I also like seeing people know how to EV grind safely, so 50/50 for me. Also some people just don't know, don't want to, or can't hack in rare candies in which case grinding is a skill once again.
Was watching their stream and physically died when both of their aces died to the same gimmick and both knew they had lost
So how’s heaven?
Rest in rip
nice top comment spoiler
@@gogogo123454321 yup. sad times
I'm talented I guess?
Smallant: *deletes bulk up on groudon*
Me: Where have I seen this before?
Alpharad groudon..
@@valerieyggdrasil7984 Every single battle will end with a Groudon spamming earthquake, and this one is no different...
*J O M E D O M E*
Probably ate a chicken sandwich, but that's just my diagnosis
Love the time of comments LOL,
4 months / 2 = 2months
2 months / 2 = 1 month
1 month/ 2 = 2 weeks
Lool
You nailed what works about the pair of them. Tanner is calm, analytical, and hyper competitive, and CJ is pure unadulterated charisma.
29:25 Smallant once again speaking words into reality. This is his lore defined superpower.
Honestly, I want to see a SmallAnt/Jan soulink. SA has decent game knowledge and would like to see how he would adjust if they played with Jan ruleset
"alakazam is...made of origami paper" bro, that's giving zam too much credit
origami paper has structure and can maintain any given shape while zam gets pummeled by a faint breeze
I love how the editing was done on this one. Jan is talking the whole time, and everything shown is something that's worth commentating on, with nothing really sitting around between them, and as a bonus it still encourages people to go watch the original video.
If wolfey and Pchal did a soul link it would be hype
Imagine an emerald kaizo soul link
@@auoie_YT as much as I love the concept, it's such a precise game to nuzlocke(at least the beginning you need perfect encounters) that I don't feel like that's possible, at least not to complete the series haha
@@AltrTheEgo They'd have to choose encounters I think. Even then it would be super difficult.
@@AltrTheEgo im thinking not a hardcore nuzlocke tho where you can use items since hardcore soul link nuzlocke seems to be impossible
@@auoie_YT emerald kaizo actually forces no items in battle haha
Today I learned Corsola can have Mirror Coat, and can live on one HP from whatever the fuck attack Kyogre used at that level/special stat
I only knew it because I built a cheesy Gen 1 team in Platinum era and Corsola was in the same egg group as Blastoise so I needed one to get it for breeding. 😅
it was stab surf under rain too lmao.
"it's really hard to coordinate with my stream schedule because I'm a goblin" the representation we deserve
Jan: I've got over 800 hours of nuzlocke experience
Based editor: he looses a lot
Always a good day when this guy uploads
patrick spotted
vouch hes the reason i got into competitive pokemon and nuzlockes at all
Big fan pat been watching since top 5’s and now I watch niftysmiths videos too
W
did not expect to see you here but its neat to see
If you and wolfey do the soul link. A hardcore version would be so interesting not many people do soul links without items, set mode, and no overleveling. Though however randomizes feels like it’s only option only because lack of type diversity on routes otherwise since the same type rule is a big part of what makes the game hard because you usually won’t end up with a full team
Me and my friends usually just force fully evolved at level 36 in order to try to maintain difficult as game goes on
I wonder which game and ruleset would be the right difficulty. It would have to be challenging but only to a degree where it doesn’t get frustrating.
@@El_Kanto imo, from how I’ve seen Jan react, I don’t think he’d keep the unique type ruling if he ever did a soul link. As for the game that they’d play, I think that they would do a drayano game, so that they could actually progress. I think a Kaizo(not notably) game would be too much since the early game is really repetitive.
Honestly a Wolfey and Pchal Soul Link would be hilarious and super fun to watch
I wish more people would actually use the power level settings in the randomizer more. You can force fully evolved pokemon and similar base stat totals and nobody uses it
@@neophyta ah yes, because when someone does a randomizer, gets to the pokemon league and all the trainers have are pre-evolutions, that's the most fun in a randomizer.
I've actually used the setting that forces fully evolved pokemon in the few randomizers I've done and it's just so much more fun, I don't understand why people don't. Maybe they don't bother looking at all the settings and don't know that it exists or something. Going against pre evolutions in late game just removes any possibility of challenge, it's so boring.
@@Akai93 agreed. Nothing feels lamer than sweeping a champion who’s sending out aipoms and shit
This is what I do in my hardcore randomizer lockes, have done for years. Also no legendaries, though sometimes I enable them for both trainers and encounters when I'm feeling in the mood.
I use it whenever i do a randomizer. Its much more fun to come up against good pokemon in late game, i just force fully evolved at 36.
“This is gonna be the easiest battle of my li-“
-Cjya, 2022 (rip magneton)
I have a love/hate relationship with Jan but some lines keep me around. "Rip that bandaid off and tell your audience they're cringe if they try to backseat about it" 😂😂
Every CJ death was accompanied by speedup 😂
I'd really like to see Jan do a Soul Link with someone that's kind of worse at Nuzlockes in comparison, just because I think it'd be funny. Someone like Alpha or Mand, lmao
He did one on the Jaiden/Alpharad one
@@traingirl3234 He wants Jan to do a soul link with someone. Not review their soul link
@@beastminer147 oh i'm stupid thanks
Alpha would be amazing but now I’ve commented on a CZcams vid it turns out I’m one of those dumb fucks the Jan describes
Alpharad has shown that he's capable of doing runs with optimal plays but *chooses* not to for content (ie the Onyx vs Jynx play)
Removing EVs from roms is probably the best quality of life change for nuzlocking. It also helps justify candies instead of grinding since ideal grinding is tedious and unrewarding due to mons dying anyway
That metang catch luck crazy tho "You have a 0.416% chance of capturing it per ball"
CJ knew too.
Agree with the rare candy sentiment. Some, like MDB, have started using them so he can finish his runs quicker and tells us when he does. I don't see a problem with removing hours of gameplay if it means a better video and a less stressed/overworked content creator.
18:01 so I slowly eased myself into the hardcore nuzlocke ruleset PC uses and I still buy immense amount of items. Potions of all sorts and other healing items as well.
They literally allow you to not go to the Pokémon Center every 5 seconds and it makes the experience so much more enjoyable.
That's why I always check the box for "no legendaries" in my randomizers. It just becomes to sweep or to be swept.
The animation included in Cjya and Smant’s vid’s intro is legitamately very useful for those of us that aren’t quite as familiar with SL’s!!! :)
a wolfey soullink would be everything i ever needed out of a collab
Smallant inherited the luck of jaiden and CJ inherited the power of James killing all the encounters.
Am I wrong?
James? Do you mean Jacob?
the in-built balancing factor for randomised soul links, where unless you get astronomically lucky (withboth players encountering linked ubers and managing to catch them) a legendary will likely be tied to a much frailer pokemon makes them really interesting and less vulnerable to getting boring if the player gets a lucky encounter imo
- getting double omniboost into flinch into crit
wtf was this Rayquaza on holy shit
Maybe a good common ground between rare candies and grinding would be to grind on exp multiplier. It makes grinding a lot faster
PC: How does Cj do it all the time!
Also PC: Hey why are you killing these legends and good mons Jacob, silly boy
You should do a soullink with Purplecliffe only because it would be sooo chaotic
I like how CJ looks dead tired all the time.
Smallant's pokemon challenges are really fun to watch. The early parts of the vs lv.100s were really interesting to see him strategize
"A chain is only as weak, as its weakest link."
-Pokémon Challenges
Another educational resource for me to realize that I will never do a hardcore nuzlocke again cuz I suck
Love coming home from work at 7 am and watching these
22:28 Are we not gonna talk about this? I felt myself take psychic damage
I think we shouldn't
@@adv78 Thats very fair honestly.
Sheesh editting has improved and your getting more confident w your intro/outro. Good shit dude 👍
You and Wolfey doing a soullink is what I need in my life.
Started doing all my runs with rare candies and I’ve never looked back, it’s so much more fun to actually just play around encounters instead of spamming a for an hour
I've been doing a randomizer where you use similar strength options as much as possible. This lets the game still follow its normal balancing and strength curve while allowing for a lot more variety than a vanilla game. I keep everything else vanilla but the difference in encounters alone make the games feel fresh.
I totally agree with your stance on randomizers, the way I do them is that I don't have legendaries as random encounters at all to avoid the adventure being too easy. I like to have the random encounters and starters be randomized (starters base form with two evos) since what I like to do is test myself on how I can overcome what the game has when my usual options aren't available to me.
He’s right. It actually is Exeggutor always
He's not wrong
So glad to see Nappy and Shady’s format truly blow up
the real challege too is how you beat the manidotory trainers, gym leaders and villans so 100% I agree with rare candies
Something that would be really cool in my opinion would be a double battle soul lock. Not like how they are doing it but actually making every battle like when you team up with a second trainer in those few sections of platinum and the games that came afterwards. Having to build your team as a team of 12 to fight a team of 12 when you could actually sweep a full 12 Pokémon team would be sweet.
Honestly playing rare candy nuzlockes is way more fun than grinding. Shut up stupid commenters and twitch chats, rare candies make nuzlockes much more enjoyable.
as long as you have level caps, rare candies are great. make nuzlockes so much less of a pain.
"This is Exeggutor always"
*inspirational quote right there*
I lately played a randomizer without Legendaries on both Teamsides and it was actually pretty good.
With the option that every pokemon on the enemy side above level 40 is fully evolved I still had some challenging battles.
So won’t soul links be really cool to do when Scarlet and Violet come out? Isn’t is supposed to be multiplayer?
I hadnt thought about that 🤔
Just depends on how good the co op is I guess
Also, I think a bigger question is how will encounters work in an open world game? Will nuzlocking even be possible in Scarlet and Violet?
Well its probably gonna be incredibly easy and boring for anyone who has played a pokemon game before.
Oooh that’s an excellent point!
Cjya struggling on relicant reminded me of the first time I caught, it was like trying to get a legendary. Actually, I had more luck with the legendaries in that playthrough
(Of the few that I’ve watched) this is my favorite react/advice video of Jan’s. Editing, too. I’m getting back into Pokemon after 20 years and am trying to learn the type chart. Learning about eggsecutor and stuff is great
watching Cjyas suffer trying to catch a pokemon makes me look back on how many times I tried to catch Moltres and in the end I caught in a great ball, the ultra balls failed most of the time
My friends and I did a 4 player sword/shield soul-link (works well since it is 4 to a dynamax raid) (we also imposed dupes clause among all of us, and fixed the starters by transferring the gen 1 and gen 7 starters and choosing from them) . That was fun, even if we decided the run was a loss because between piers and rihan we lost 8 mons total
I look forward to seeing a soul link with PChan and Wolfy, it would be so cool! I think maybe a randomizer, randomized to similar strength mons, then the enemies aren't randomized. Also great video too!
My favorite line in this video was the "blend in" "einblenden" mix up early on 😄
Hey Jan always been a huge fan of your high quality videos and streams! I recently met the girl who did your outro music and literally was saying I wished you’d do a soul lock! And honesty it’s be insane to see one with wolfey!!
Thank you Jan, my father just died, can't wait to get this for him for Father's day
My condolences buddy, I lost my mom in 2020 and losing a parent changes u. Do your best to grieve in a healthy way because it’s very easy to slip into the bad kind of grieving in my experience. Good luck 👍
@@HarveyMeadowlark thank you, I just kinda did this as an out of seasons joke for me, but I appreciate it none the less
I agree with rare candies for most scenarios, for me though I think finding a good place to grind in a randomized is part of the fun/challenge. You aren’t grinding for 15 exp a pop on Poochyenas or some shit, you can get tons of exp from low level mons if you get a good Pokémon in the right spot
Gotta love the shade the editor throws in some of these newer episodes. Actually hilarious
25:10
after some calculations, assuming the lugia has 0 EVs with 8 hp IVs (112 hp) and 0 defense EVs or IVs, the feint attack was a guaranteed K/O. However, with 20 defense EVs and 15 defense IVs, that moves to a 44% chance to kill. The crit could have mattered.
your vids inspired me to start my first nuzlocke on white, 5 badges in with only 3 pokemon lost so far!
grinding /gameplay/ is only worth watching if the person is talking about interesting things, but would always prefer them using candies
Is it weird that I figured you’d be like, way way serious, dry/dark humor, just bc you do so many nuzlockes? I didn’t expect the good nature and goofiness. Subscribed!!
That was an amazing ad read I had to like as soon as he opened the box with the lawn mower
your ad reminded me of father’s day lol i’m the worst son ever
Found this guy a week ago and he's easily one of the best PokeTubers
I’m so excited for the Wolfey collab, that will make my whole year
Alpharad is now a staple in Nuzlocke videos I love it!
Wolfie Jan Soul Link. They both upload and each one reacts to the others gameplay :v
I think you and Wolfey should do an EK Soullink... If it's even winable
I'm a fan of all 3 of these content creators. I was waiting for this reaction!!
23:16 “I’m standing in front of _master_ Kogha a made me smile
My nuzlockes to this point in time have always been randomised, but there's something I do that fixes the main issue with them. I employ the 'Use Similar Strength' option. This makes the randomisation process swap out Pokémon for another of similar power, such as Bidoof being swapped with Rattata. This allows you to have all the fun of a randomiser without gaining an uber and the game being too easy or fighting an uber and the game being unfair.
Watching SmallAnt choose to Bubblebeam a Wobbuffett when he had Nightshade and Curse just breaks my heart. Come on dude, you're better than that!
CJ: I have no fear
Also CJ: gets wiped out
🤣🤣😂😂
Unsure if anyone has mentioned it before but another reason as to why milotic took that explosion so comfortably is because regices attack stat is tied with its speed being only at 50
What I wouldn't give to see a soulink between Pchal and MandJTV
As far as I know, Pchal and MandJTV have never made content together. Not once. Also, MandJTV is a child friendly poketuber. Pchal viewers are older, as he discusses more mature themes. He's said himself he doesn't want any children watching him.
@@neophyta Well that's exactly the reason. They are debatably the two most opposite poketubers out there, and pchal has specifically shown distaste towards Mikey in his reaction vids. I think pchal's jatedness towards nuzlocking combined with Mikey's hatred and inexperience would create an immensely entertaining dynamic.
@@icemntnwater No, that way of thinking is entirely flawed. If they are opposites, they have nothing in common. They wouldn't be able to interact besides the bare bones narrative of the gameplay. The only reason Mandjtv works in videos with other Poketubers is because he knows them and they are friends. Imagine being forced to play a game with a pretty much total stranger, it wouldn't be entertaining it would be awkward. Not to mention their content and video styles are so different, their personalities are different. It just wouldn't work.
@@neophyta You ever heard of the saying, "opposites attract"? People say that for a reason. From what I can tell after watching both of them a lot, they have juuuust enough in common for all of their differences to be entertaining.
@@icemntnwater How? What would be entertaining. They have nothing in common besides being poketubers. Pchal makes more mature content, nuzlockes primarily. Mandjtv makes content that is more towards kids. Mandjtv would not upload a video that has Pchal swearing in. Pchal wouldn't upload a video where Mandjtv was just being there, child friendly. Mandjtv has high energy, lots of edits and tries to make the viewer laugh more. Pchal is more laid back, trying to provide smooth entertainment for older audiences with less blatant editing. If the video was on Pchal's channel, it probably wouldn't appeal to as many Mandjtv fans due to the more subtle editing. Vice versa for Mandjtv's channel. I also forgot to mention, pchal viewers don't all watch mandjtv due to his appeal to younger audiences and Pchal's to older. It literally just does not work. How is it hard to understand? Purplecliffe and Pchal work better, as they have communicated before. Im pretty sure both Mandjtv and Pchal are unwilling to do a collab with eachother due to: lack of communication, not having good synergy, and different attitudes. Its been stated, it will never happen because it would not work.
Anyone else want to see Jan do a soul link with Jaiden animations? Feel like that would be very funny. Wolfey would also be amazing but NGL it might be funnier to see Jan with someone bad. Wolfey might not be a nuzlocker but he still has great game knowledge
The PMD music at the beginning had me SO nostalgic
When it comes to randomizers with random items as well I think there could be a rule implemented that you can use items however you can't buy them makes them a valuable resource where you might want to consider sacking a pokemon instead of using a potion to heal
thats a decent idea. so potions and status restores are a rare find then. how would that work with pokeballs? are pokeballs still shop items?
@@dogma32 yes since there's already the luck factor of random encounters anyway and it make people save the rarer ball for example luxury ball can be saved for a high friendship evolution I feel it'd be impossible with a bad randomizer as well just imagine never getting any balls
@@harryh4h720 ahhh okay. unique setup for a run either way, i like it. gl with your runs.
Congrats on becoming a dad with these crispy jokes. Nice work upholding the stereotype XD
I was hoping you’d react to this, I died watching it.
I just wanna say, your ad reads are priceless
8:40 "I think Eggsecutor is trash"
is this why Wolfey never followed up on that soul link?
I would love to see you react to MoxieHDs Pokemon Platinums Nuzlock 😁 that would be amazing
If you want a really entertaining nuzlocke (or nuzlockes) to react to, ZeroLenny has two nuzlocke series that are HILARIOUS. Very crude, very funny, very good content.
25:38 this is a face of Undead that knows what he mustn't do but does it anyway
Wolfie and Pchal doing a soul link would complete my life
Smallant as the colour commentator and Cjay as the play-by-play will forever be in my brain from now on, it is so on point lmao.
Other way around but yeah
Yeah except it's the other way round?
@@sammoon7897 the colour caster provides the detailed analysis and tells the viewer what to look out for, while the play-by-play creates the narratives, narrates the current plays and supplies the banter. Now watch the video again and see who does what.