Pro Nuzlocker Reacts To Friendlocke Season 3
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"Merry Christmas!" for you and everyone else :)
It’s Sprigatito…not Sprigato. Loser
Go for the 4.0radical red hc nuzlocke plz ;)
Dope
Alpharad phrased the whole candies debacle the best: "Grinding is cringe and cheating is based"
Grinding is part of the game and cheating is cheating. If you're hacking in rare candies, your nuzlocke runs are NOT legitimate.
@@jaimereupert4247if I catch anyone cheating in rare candies then they WILL be banned from nuzlocking for life
@@jaimereupert4247 rofl okay dude enjoy wastong 12 hours grinding in your gen 2 runs for "integrity" just to fuck up some calc on an explosion mon
@@jaimereupert4247unless you're trash you shouldn't ever lose a pokemon to grinding rare candies just skip the almost objectively not fun part of the game, specially true for the elite four's because most of their level caps are like 10 levels above the last level cap and that's just nonsense.
You could make an argument that rare candies are a downgrade if anything because you lose out on a lot of potential EVs just for the ability to do the already almost completely riskless process faster
I could see an argument to be done about banning them in the early game when deaths to wild pokemon are more plausible and level caps are small so it's less justifyable, but really who cares
@@jaimereupert4247if you wanna sit there for like 2 hours straight and grind your ass off hey you do you
"Any of Salty's friend in the next Friendlocke that chooses not to evolve, $50 for you"
Welp, it's been fun folks, but seems like this is now the end of Friendlockes for good lol
Yeah cause they’re not gonna be friends anymore lol
They should really invite you to be a part of a Friendlocke.
A Friendlocke of Nuzlockers but they are all weak Pokemon statwise so they challenge all resources in their minds to succeed. That's what should happen people.
@@GunmetalGatorgarbage green friendlocke
@@bigragegageno that game sucks
@@sunpraiser96ok then EK friendlocke
@@sunpraiser96thats kinda the whole point
There's a subtle, humorous foreshadowing with Jan saying that Cyclizar is a Pokemon that requires having good strategies to be effective
1:06:41 “The Onix clip is nothing compared to the damage this man has done”
That’s it, Gerber’s dead, there’s no coming back from that
Braden Captain Kidd (> '_')>
Gerber also pushed them to do the clay gym before grinding. And I'd have to recheck but he may have also pushed them to do Flannery without grinding but not as sure on the Flannery thing. Don't trust Gerber
51:29
To anyone who wasn't there to read the manga (the VOD or livestream), I cannot underestimate how **PISSED** Salty got. The Greedent bs with Mikey wasn't Salty being angry, he was annoyed. You can tell because despite the tone, he was still talkative and witty.
After Gerber and Jay's graveyard cook-off, Salty was almost dead silent for most of the stream after that. No more laughs, no more jokes, you can feel the tension. It's gotten past the point of loud anger and went straight into silent seething rage. The editors did an honestly swell job hiding how much anger Derek was radiating on that stream. You can *_TELL_* he wanted to end the stream right then and there, even Chat was kinda spooked.
I highly recommend you check the VOD and the anime (highlights) when you have the chance. This shit is why Friendlocke is the gogoat of the YT Nuzlocke genre. It can be humourous and nonsensical, but also so raw and emotional in so many different ways. No other series compares.
i do wanna say this tho...the counter greedent counter shit was kinda his own fault cause Mikey wanted to evolve yet Salty persuaded him not to and instead go to the gym to evolve
Not to mention even in the normal gym Primeape is frail if you're not careful but you can't blame him or his friends not knowing that, along with them not knowing there would be a Greedent with counter
So mainly it is 50/50 for him not evolving primeape before the gym and for them not knowing there was a Greedent that knew counter
To be fair, I don't blame him. Gerber almost lost the run singlehandedly on a bad bit. Imagine having to start over cause the strongest member of your team kamikaze'd you. He handled that better than I would.
Yeah, I remember, I was there. The rest of the stream kind of felt like walking on eggshells... thank god they caught Cookie to lighten the mood lmao
Referring to the vods as “manga” and the highlights as “anime” is the funniest way to put it. I’m so using this.
@@applekoi8639it's funny cause it's usually the anime that has the filler lmao
The irony of them not evolving to Annihilape and then getting KO’d by Counter, a move they would have been immune to if they had acquired the ghost typing , is wild
this video just made me feel bad for the person piloting tinkaton. i wanted more of them, but they were a victim of cyclizar's drunk driving :(
him getting fairy type was salt in the wound lmao
Bro as manga (vod) watcher you have NO IDEA just how short of time lots of the mons had. Tink I think had 1 stream, and Moushold was caught, had to go away due to personal things, showed back up and immediately died.
All because a lizard and a plant wanted to do a funny bit
You should check out The Domino Effect animatic for Friendlocke, it was done by the person who played Tinkaton (Claire) from season 2 of friendlocke. She's a very talented artist :)
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Something to note here is that Torch Song ignores substitutes. Thus, Shed Tail would not have been a good play in the Skeledirge encounters.
Ohhhh right it’s a sound based move and those ignore subs don’t they
God Skeledirge is so strong
Skeledirge is so strong that it makes picking Quaxly dangerous. I say this as someone who loves Quaxly the most out of the three starters.
26:17|44:05
I hope everyone else found the irony in Jan predicting the major fuckup of the run being from one of Salty's friendmons fucking around during one of the fights which would then absolutely screw him and the rest of the gang over *WHILST* having paused directly on Jayweed. The hard read was already great in of itself, but the fact that (one of) the culprit is literally sitting right in front of Sherlocke as he's obliviously monologuing feels like some scripted bit from the actual friendlocke
You just can't make this shit up💀
I watched the streams live and this was BY FAR the most stressful any friendlocke has ever been. That anger point was the moment everyone in chat was like "ohhh nooo this is gonna be a rough one"
I literally started watching when Gerber started cooking.
the streams were nuts. I was mourning lark for a whole week lmao
I was watching the streams and remember thinking "wait Greedent gets counter" right before The Event happened. I remembered that exact trainer for some reason.
"Why is the Brambleghast holding a Carbos?"
Jayweed needs his vitamins, dude.
Since Jan made the connection himself later in the video:
Dan: "WHAT DID I SAY, GERBER?"
Gerber: "I THOUGHT IT HAD WIND RIDER?"
Also the Elite Four was nothing in the video because the Paldean E4 somehow surpassed the Kalos E4 as the most disappointing E4 experience
How can you say that when Larry exists?
@@Color_Splsh Larry is my favourite too, but the rest are so underwhelming it balanced out. The shock value of Poppy being a child E4 was already wasted in the introduction scene after you get your 7th badge, Rika shows up every other time Nemona doesn't, and honestly I just don't like Hassel. In every generation that's had a Dragon Gym/E4, it's been the final one. (AKA Literally all of them except Sinnoh, and even Cynthia has a Garchomp ace) It's so overdone.
@@0bject_cuppy554 That wasn't the point, I meant more in impact rather than battle. If your pokemon are high enough level and you knew basic type matchups literally every E4 is a cakewalk.
@@metalapplesus in SV's defense, they did se the 18 types, so it was bound to happen to have a dragon type
Other wise, it's mostly because pokémon follow rpg tropes, and dragon types are generally tough pokémons, with high stats, which is why you'd often see them toward the end (and generally after an ice type gym, so you get ways to go through it)
Although, genuine question, about the "experience" you're talkingabout the characters or the actual fights ? If not both, out of curiosity
the entire rant around 26:11 with jayyweed on screen is incredible foreshadowing
"How did I build my entire career on being the nerd emoji" is the most self-aware thing Jan has ever said.
I mean, I'm watching the content so I'm not going to throw stones from my house of glass, but y'know.
Came for shits and giggles, stayed for hardcore furry roleplay
real
Well that means I should head the fuck out now.
@@casperdias-broughton9408your loss silly boy
@@InsertFunnyThingHere No losses here just saving my time from.
@@casperdias-broughton9408 your loss then silly boy
Alpharad becoming the fallen hero of the Pokémon nuzlock community while you become the redeemed villain is tbe greatest Oprah ive ever seen lol.
What did alpharad do?
@@nottachance8554yeah i’m also curious lol
Commenting because I also wanna know. Don't leave us hangin', pal.
You'll see. Just give the plot some more time to cook.
Oprah? The tv show host?
So for what was happening around 31:27 is that Salty had several friends doing that union circle thing where they show up on the map, that's why the Finizen/Palafin and Bellibolt were there and why the Ultra Ball was floating in the air.
Jan schafft es wieder völlig ohne Anstrengung einem visuell 100% Kiffer - Vibes zu geben - und er coseplayed das so überzeugend, dass man regelrecht schockiert darüber ist, wie schnell er redet.
is that spanish
@@aededipilooks like german to me
@@Foxkiin is that french
Rare occasion of the translation making actual sense
Bischen Kiffen
39:19 can't shed tail for 2 reasons
1. Shed Tail consumes 50% of the user's HP and Cyclizar is under 50%
2. Torch Song goes through Substitute since it's a sound move
Jan doesn't play around the crit when flirting/making small talk and gets punished for it 🙏🏻
Y’know. The friendless-locke made more sense than the friend-locke. All jokes aside, we all were waiting for this.
You'd think they'd have learned to not fuck around on a set-up sweeper after the first fight with Skeledirge, AND YET
If Nemona gets Skeledirge the run turns into a horror game
Losing something to counter because you decided not to evolve your pokemon which would have become a ghost type on evolving is pretty unique as well lol
27:52 I love when Jan tries to be super analytical even though it really isn't necessary because for those who don't know, the other moves that Kofu's Crabominable knows is Rock smash and Slam for some reason so it would be more beneficial for the Crabominable to go for random move if anything.
Watch everyone skip straight to the Rhyme gym battle to see what he says
It did NOT disappoint.
Literally exactly what I did.
I could swear the ad read was going in another direction
"But you know what's always been a constant in my life and in this channel? My shaved balls"
Gerber is to Salty what Brayden was to Alpha
57:44 Mr. Jan(itor)
Shed Tail only works if Cyclerdino is above half hp.
However that tera into the Normal Type was crazy.
it also doesn't block torch-sound because the latter is a sound-based move
the most ironic part is that if they *didn't* use the tera, Cyclizar would have resisted Torch Song. Terastallizing into pure normal was the worst possible decision they could have made in that situation
@@nataliecoronado4206 If they hadn't tera'd they probably would be above half hp.
when i saw Gerber kill Jay my first thought was genuinely "oh Jan's gonna have a field day with this one"
but yeah i knew the run was completely fucked the second Derek gave Nemona Skeledirge
Friendlocke is truly never complete until you react to the season. Really ties everything together
I picked Fuecoco because I thought it was adorable and I liked the typing. I had no idea about Torch Song on day one, but yeah it 100% carries
28:31 it’s safe because all the crab has is Rock Smash, Slam, and Crabgammer, all of which Brambleghast is either resistant to or immune to
In a post session Q&A, one of the friends playing the pokemon said they'd love to have you feature in a future series somehow!
Whats funny is that you became a reacuring gag in this season
Oh god the next friend-locke is gonna have so many un evolved Pokémon, I can feel it
The most annoying thing about Mikey dying is that if he had let him evolve into fighting/ghost that never would have happened 😅
Love how they self-sabotaged during the only battles that had some semblance of a challenge
Nothing says Christmas like watching the 2nd best Nuzlocker (next to Alpharad because CZcams said so), reacting to my favorite white guy!
Happy Holidays, everyone!
Gerber getting Cyclizar and proceeding to get 7 people killed is both a Gerber thing to do and a Cyclizar thing to do
there is a disturbing absence of how little of da cheff we get to see
I think it's good to still reasons to watch the original. Also this is a relatively short video compared to how much content there is about the friendlocke.
Jan is experiencing the magic of the holy Goon Box at 50:07
Don mind me, just putting the timestamp of Gerber’s trol- I mean plan that should have work… kek
44:20
But I agree with the style as well the difficulty
I also putting 11:28 and 35:20 for the heck of it. They’re my favorite moment when one decision cause the downfall for some poke- I mean units. :l
I have personally never lost a mon to grinding. Only to random ass trainers because I had to sack for a pivot. I'm at a point where I have too much going on to manually grind and these challenges are supposed to be fun for the nuzlocker like you have said in this video. I have never seen the problem of someone trying to save time with candies.
Biggest mistake of this run was not the weird ghost gym "strat" but letting the rival have the fire starter.
The call back to the onix clip is incredible, and the fact that Gerber surpasses it is amazing.
LMAO. him paying them to not evolve is hilarious. hope it becomes a thing
Book at 8:04 is “House of Leaves” by Mark Z. Danielewski
Pchal seeing the smosh bit out of context is so funny.
What was the context?
@@PixelRockett they joked about smosh after salty mentioned Shayne Topp but while editing the videos Ian and Anthony bought the channel reuniting them after years of radio silence.
Happy Holidays, Jan! Enjoy your winter time and can't wait to see your reaction to season 3 of Friendlocke. One of my favourites, but just as infuriating (in a good way).
👍
To be fair big time wasters and lengthy segments were always kind of present in Pokémon, it's mostly notable in SV for frontloading the exposition and buildup in the beginning rather than interjecting it throughout.
Gen 1's best route theme is exclusive to a side path with next to nothing in it, tons of forgettable trainers and inexplicable pole mazes
Gen 2 has the entire Radio Tower segment of Team Rocket be an incredibly time consuming affair
Gen 3's "too much water" segment with so little happening and stuff to see between Lilycove and the Pokémon League
Gen 4 has you constantly run into side NPCs trying to sell you their new gimmick. The Pokétch campaign, the underground kit... and some other drawn out Team Galactic sequences
The difference is that in most of these cases, you actually play the game. You fight through team rocket, you surf and explore from Lilycove. In Scarlet and Violet, however, you press A. For an hour. That's it
It's not great for storytelling though. When you gradually introduce worldbuilding and plots throughout an experience, you can more seamlessly and creatively introduce things. It's boringly overwhelming to have expedition dumps before all the gameplay, and let that instance of exposition being main thing carrying the whole story.
Nuzwlocke of S/V but with only bad/weak mons would be fun with how OP mons are in the game
I actually tried this myself. I did a hardcore nuzlocke with the rule that I can only use Pokémon that are NU or lower on Smogon (and no Tera). Kind of an arbitrary rule, but I found it worked well enough. It’s been a really fun run and a great level of difficulty for me! Would recommend! My best Pokémon have definitely been Bruxish, Hariyama, and Florges, and it’s been fun getting to use so many mons I’d normally pass over. Even spidops has been decent with access to counter for good damage on the team star revavrooms and sticky web in the late game
smogon rankings are not the same...@@combro7096
I'm sure a lot of people have already talked about it, but since Pchal didn't know, at the Nemona fight around 39 minutes, shed tail wouldn't have worked because it requires half health. And even if it had, torch song is sound based and bypasses substitute
I find it funny how you didn't even once mention what, or rather who, the spidops was named after. It even seemed once like you intentionally dodged saying their name. Does he know?
I guess he just didn't want to fight the homestuck
I thought it was just named after "Spider" and "special ops"
@@menderbug1 no spidops is its species name, he meant the nickname, which was vriska, who is a homestuck reference, something that once shooked the internets
how to beat the skeliderge:
1. try not to kill lark
2. probably should have had grunpilo on the team before each nemona fight
3. use 4rest and tarastalise into ground type
1:13:15
To be completely honest, Metronome could have picked Guilliotine and landed the hit.
Everytime he talks up one of Salty’s pokemon and say how strong they are, I have this immediate response in my head that goes “Well, you’re gonna love how they lose that pokemon”
the gerber slander is wild 😭
32:15 "He's doing great, the only ones who can screw him over are his friends." Oh, the dramatic irony. It hurts.
YES. I have been waiting for this since it came out, it's like I'm getting to watch it again, but remixed. Thank yooooooou, Jan!
"I don't do shootouts go fuck yourself" classic Jan you're a real one for that
Thank you Jan for the amazing videos this year, have a nice new year
Merry Christmas P Chals! love the content, keep it up!🎄🎁
Hada good year with u. Even if i dont play pkmn and only played diamond on my old DS (The only one i ever played until the end)
Its fun to watch your videos. I had so much fun with your videos.
Frohe Weihnachten ^^
hey jan, cooler jahresabschluss! danke für deine videos. immer wieder geil anzuschauen
7:00
Wait, didn't Jan himself use Clodsire? I think it was in his "no deaths" gen 9 attempt, wasn't it?
Who would possibly know that, neeeerd.
no, he duoed it with Cloyster and Skeledirge
The green screen background is actually so funny lmao
I remember watching the first stream, and then i never got any notifications for other streams so i just assumed they cancelled it. Nice to see its a full season again.
Oh, Iono. Violet was my first-ever nuzlocke, and at first, while I still used items, I tried to not overlevel for the battles, and that cost me for the Iono fight. Because of this, I didn't evolve the Sandile that I caught in the Asado Desert. So, due to Iono's Mismagius constantly getting the boost from Charge Beam, I lost my Spidops (my second 'Mon, since I switched up the encounter for Poco Path), my pre-mentioned Sandile, and my Lycanroc (don't know if it was a mistake going with Midnight Lycanroc, but whatever). On the plus side, it got me VERY attached to the shiny Hariyama who remained one of my best Pokemon in the run, since she managed to survive and beat that thing.
After that, I didn't care as much about overleveling.
I like at the start, it was blind as the day they started the nuzloke was when day the game was released, and I think the play though was mostly blind and it was enjoyable to watch (especially when the game crashed during the water gym and the accidental egg)
The fact that vriska single-handedly changed your mind on spidops makes all us homestuck fans very happy ::::)
not only has vriska done nothing wrong, shes done everything right ::::)
41:20 I think the feature's cool, I just wish it had a way to turn off, doing the Blueberry League fights in post-dlc and randomly winning to a crit or survive is kinda bleh, but in regular battles it's usually fine xD
It was all pure chaos, which definitely made it the best Friendlocke season so far.
"How did I buily my hole career by beeing the nerd emoji?"
That's the real question to be asked
Good to see another Pokémon challenges video
Watching this season live was something else between Mankey anger point and just the Ryme fight.
Good to see you back at it man ❤
Yes I am glad you are doing this have. A great rest of your year
ALSO! You can switch Pokemon from the boxes between fights during the E4.
Thank you for the great content throughout the year.
Rare candies are a godsend even in normal playthroughs, grinding just isn't fun imo
Based friendlock shot call. I see your bet jan and i'm declaring myself a believer in the scuff
Great vid as usual PC
I do want to see you try this with some of the other nuzlockers, either all taking it seriously in a hard game or with people working against you/not caring in an easy game
you know its the end of the month when jan uploads with a sponsor in the video
It feels weird to be this early. Thanks for your content and am always waiting for your next videos. Keep up the great work and Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays to everyone and hope you have a fun break
I'm interested to see some nuzlockes on the 2nd part of the DLC, I feel like that's gonna be interesting.
If he changed Espathras nature with a mint it would’ve live it had a spa lowering nature
Been waiting for this video. Also your hair looks nice, you're looking good
hell yeah another season of friendlocke reactions
3:50 The happy part when I decided to do reverse order nuzlocke for my first playthrough and my starter turned out to be the most broken Pokemon ever, that pretty much could have won all my fights in this game, if not for the fact that I actively decided to use more Pokemon as I progressed (and I did find Shiny Glimmet when going to Psychic gym and suprisingly have not let it Self-Destruct on me catching it in regular Ball, so I had to use it - after I actually learned how lucky I was). Kinda annoyed I didn't check which route is the hardest, because I probably wouldn't defeat Team Star or the Titans as easily as I did with Grusha. Winning with major level disadvantage.
4:20 To be fair they did also have a lot more time for this. From trailers, to game leaking week before release for the emus. Obviously there were some day 1 arts for the reveals. But for the actual premiere, we had enough time to get all those hundreds upon thousands art pieces. And to be fair Meowscarada had it easy. Both Professors though? That was rough.
25:10 The sad part is that they never learned you can bulk-buy drinks at the school cafeteria.
1:16:10 Ok but nuzlocking the DLCs is actually cute. At least that got some better touch. Steps by steps we are reaching potentially good Pokemon game 😂
3:03 its gonna be reaaaaaal hard to win a friendlocke with just one pokemon.
7 Pokémon total…
Yeah… we’re gonna need to optimise.
As far as grinding in Nuzlockes go, for me I grind at the most recent route/area I have access to. Quicker than going back to a low-level area, even if it's higher risk.
Jan: That's a pretty good Pokemon!
Nuzlocke RNG: Yeah, about that...
"The big spenders are always the ones who smoke the most crack"
You don't say....
Elon Musk on his way to drain a crack cartel
I'd love to see him do the DLC and think it's still easy
21:42 That friendly rivalry at its finest towards Alpharad, Lol
I JUST WATCHED THE REACTION TO THE FRIENDLOCKE SEASONS TWO DAYS AGO, HOW!??
Jan just gave me one of my favorite Christmas gifts this year.