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One time in the Elite Four of Paldea, my Dradnaw missed Stone Edge 5 times. Rock Blast did pitiful damage and my Pawmot was at low health, so there was nothing I could do.
for those who are wondering why he did not pick Squirtle is because then your rival gets Bulbasaur which has sleep & poison powder and leech seed and the early game becomes even harder
I thought he did that because grass is also good against water and resist electric. I didn’t even think about the moves just making the 3 beginning gyms easier
What is great about this kinda challenge is that because every enemy both always crits and max rolls, it turns battles more into a puzzle than a challenge, trying to find the right team comp 'n solution within possibility in order to overcime
8:03 worst mistake in the run, Kabuto can have battle armor which nullifies critical hits, which would have been SO useful going forward from that point on
@@McMuffinMastaX yes, but Kabuto also has the speed advantage, and while both of them can negate critical hits, Omanyte can easily get RNG'd by sleep, confusion, or basically any mon that's able to outspeed 55, which is extremely low, compared to kabutops' 80 speed, which, still isn't the best, but it's much more reliable + has better offenses to work with
@@terrariaskeletonpre1.0.39Kabutops has a lot less special attack than Omastar, and you're only ever clicking water moves with them because rock moves are inaccurate.
@@owenaspinall2046 the problem is that Omastar is too slow, it won't be able to get off that special attack because it is vulnerable to status, flinching, and a plethora of other RNG mechanics, so while you're safe from crits, you're still going to want to outspeed the opponent, even if it costs you some attack in this challenge in particular, speed is everything, because the faster you kill something before it can move, the less you have to deal with RNG screwing you over, so it might have the offensive pressure in that sense, but it would still be extremely vulnerable due to that low speed One saving grace omastar does have, however, would be the fact special moves typically don't make contact, so you would be free from contact abilities like flame body or static
Something about how these uber complex challenges makes random NPCs massive threats feels so motivational? Like, these trainers probably get steamrolled by everyone else, but here you come giving them the chance to see an opponent struggle against them! I bet you totally made hiker Dylan's day!
In many solo runs that Hiker is quite a wall beacuse his self destructing geodudes often KO the solo pokemon, but the REASON these trainers were massive threats made me really wish the base game had this kind of difficulty. Like this takes me back to when Misty's Starmie was a genuine threat to us 6 year olds who never heard of pokemon before cause it literally didn't exist. The itch for that kind of challenge is there. and NO...not via Nuzlock...I don't like nuzlocks as they're just self imposed challenges and don't require strategy as much as caution and luck. I want the game to be more "you can't pass unless you figure this out." not "you can't pass cause some BS lucky crit cost your mon and now you have to release it." which to me is about as challenging as "If I lose a pokemon I have to restart the whole game." not harder, just a waste of time.
@@MarioMastar You just don't understand nuzlockes. It's never about getting lucky. It's about avoiding RNG as much as possible. Stacking the odds in your favour as much as possible through the use of every tool provided by the game. Strategizing on how I can beat this certain trainer without having my Pokemon faint (or in the case of a nuzlocke, die.)
@@PotatoPrem I was going to ignore this, but, like, what? I understand being bothered by the incorrect use of a word (The best way to get replies and engagement on a comment is to replace "there" with "their"), but an "incorrect question mark"? And you let it ruin your day? Buddy, you're getting unintentionally gamed into replying by an inconsequential piece of punctuation. Rest in peace, man, and I hope you realize how malleable language is in the afterlife.
41:09 the crazy thing about this team is if you replace the beedrill with a spike setter like skarmory you have yourself a genuinely solid fast offense team for competitive gen 3, the team is surprisingly well thought out
probably harder than playing normally since it relies on insane moveset RNG by enemy trainers since that isn't something that can be simply rigged up to always fail (ie, what if pikachu never growled and grimer never used disable or harden) there's the one that works without visual or sound feedback but that has a small chance to fail to fast pidgys or surge luck
@@HaloNeInTheDark27, think about it. This game we watched is the worst possible RNG. No player will ever be this unlucky again, which means we have a method of literally guaranteeing eventual victory.
@@kuboskube Maybe, but it'd be prety pointless since FRLG is not that hard in the first place. You would spent more time and effort trying to get these strats to work than just beating it normally.
I really like how this challenge required you to build and adapt your team for each fight as you went along, it added a really nice layer of depth to the challenge instead of just using the same 6 mons to steamroll everything.
“Since I am rich I can give you anything” “Can you give me good RNG?” “Actually yes. This pokeball will always catch anything. That’s as good as RNG can be.”
@galaxyquestminute7490 Or other secondary effects, now that you mention it. Getting Optimal but Situational side effects of attacks is TAS, but "always-heads" RNG is something else. Maybe a better term is a Blessed Run (versus the Cursed Run that was this nonsense, lol!)?
"This challenge is pushing us to our very limits and turning 5v1's into 1v1's. Also him : Should i kill the low charizard with quck attack?Na lets watch venasaur burn so it looks scary
@@SeppelSquirrelBut later he WANTED to encounter Pikachus, so that would've been a boon. That's likely why encounters were left alone; whether a certain encounter is good or bad luck can change depending on many factors. So best just not alter it.
This is without a question one of the best pokemon challenge videos I've ever seen! I mean it opened up so much new depth of strategy that I never see in other games and genuinely begged the question "is it possible?" forcing you to pick movesets and even intimately know pokeball catch rate mechanics as well as exactly which pokemon was best to solve the next gym and what the ultimate team would be given these conditions. and while I was a bit worried about the whole "limiting the level and number of pokemon for the gym" the fact that you succeeded to beat all the gyms despite that restriction is nothing short of super impressive! I also loved the animations with them! Those were so funny and the timing of the sound effects with the "but the next gym leader... *glaring red eyes*" really got my heart pumping. This got me so excited I almost feel like I'd love to try such a challenge myself with later games. I really love how you really had to go out of your way to solve some of these battels (the persim berry, and the Krabby thing, mind blown!) and unlike other challenge runs where you could brute force your way through with good luck or higher levels, this one genuinely forced you to master the mechanics of pokemon. Defintiely up there with Seer's "Only pokemon/items/tools that don't have vowels in the name" run that saw him solo the whole game with a Jynx with all those restrictions somehow. Wasn't even known for playing pokemon and yet pulled it off (and was hilarious as always). very S++ tier. Also major MAJOR shoutouts to Ms Nido and Beedrill being MVPs. Get that Garchomp OU only nonsense out of here! Beedrill is as OG and really looks like it should've been one of the best bug pokemon of all time. Major props for using a fan favorite bug from the OG days! and legit too with that Twineedle KO.
I know it would've taken literal years, but if he just bought the Magikarp in Route 4's Pokémon center earlier and switch-trained it until it evolved, he would have a Gyarados with Bite, a 100% accurate move that isn't resisted by any of Super Nerd Miguel's Pokémon and he would've saved himself so much pain
He would only get one Bite against Voltorb before getting para-locked (unless he let it get Poisoned either earlier in a fight or against the... Weedle? in Viridian Forest). It would still be helpful, but Gyarados is likely not getting that KO with its moveset at that point.
True, but it would take out both the grimer and koffing out with relative ease, leaving Ivysaur at completely full health for the Voltorb and is a second chance against paralock. Plus, I calced it, and even with 0 IVs and a serious nature, Gyarados can do almost half his health, and Ivysaur's Vine Whip will do enough to get him in the red. While he would probably still need bullet seed anyway, it would make it a lot easier.
"Can you give me good RNG?" "It will be oddly specific, but I can give you something that will completely remove RNG... once." "... Better than most. What you got, old man?"
It's cool to see the video of this, I love the animations! Coincidentally I just wrapped up my nuzlocke of emerald with the worst luck possible yesterday, that was a lot of fun too!
I love the video but there's a little too much animations and stuff shoved in there when I want to watch the actual game play. Not saying animations and stuff are a bad thing but if there could be a little more of the actual gameplay instead of animations every 3-5 seconds that would be nice. Like I said, still love the video though 😊.
@@JasonMedlar-by3ck Hehe I kind of disagree. we've seen pokemon 10001 times, these animations were unique and I like how they were pulled not just from other games but also his own artwork and lined up well. Yeah some effects were used a bit too often where thier appeal ran out, but some like the Misty red eye glare was genuinely frightening and she went on to prove it. That was actually peak.
Has nobody notices that you shouldn't be able to fish up Pokemon since it's not guaranteed? Great video though, and i understand why you didn't make that a thing.
@@acdcljb interesting idea, from what I know it a fixed chance per step in the older games but the exact implementation may have changed over the years, in any case both me and the thread creator just pointed how even minor things are randomized, and so not trying to throw shade at the video at all, I really liked it, but it's fun to consider how many things in these games are random and what "the worst luck" would even mean, for example some npc move around randomly, it would be really bad luck if these kept blocking the player
@@wanderingwatcher3981 Isn't that the opposite? Grass/dungeon-encounters are really annoying any draining, so they should happen with every step, because this is a full bad luck run.
41:05 becaus i lik beedrill Me: same but in the elite four??? Have fun My wirple: u used me in hoene elite four and why??? Because i needed to use u And u defeated the skarnory!!! Wurple: thx
I was thinking about this same idea lately, except just with "what if every move against you crit" and you expanded on this idea, AND the video is well edited and voiced!! Awesome video ❤
The battles in this series are epic and the routing is REALLY interesting. I love how unique solutions were needed to solve the most basic of problems, and the team was changing depending on the strategy needed for each fight. It'd be super cool to see more !
@@mlpfanboy1701 basically in RBY the issue is that the accuracy check is a random number from 0 to 255 that is compared to an accuracy value of the move. But a 0 will always fail. They tried to patch the 1/256 bug by having the accuracy check reroll every time it hits 0, but it can only happen once - which means if the 0 happens again, the move will still miss
Is it not in this run because it's a glitch? I know it wouldn't be very fun if even 100% accurate moves missed but the true worst RNG/luck would be funnily impossible is that was included
If you get hit by accuracy lowering moves then, even if the move has 100 accuracy, they will always miss due to the mod. Swift bypasses accuracy checks.
Damn, this video straight up made me feel like a kid again. Cause when you're a kid you have these playthroughs where it FEELS just like all the odds are stacked against you in one way or another, seeing the worst RNG possible really highlights how the game intended to do so in the various gym and rival battles (heck even in some of the trainer battles). It was enjoyable from start to finish seeing how you overcame those odds with strategy and planning, and oddly enough even a little luck at times. Hope you make this into a series dude!!
@@saxor96 by that logic, nothing is the worst outcome in every single occasion A true worst RNG run has the RNG always doing the worst thing regarding your current situation It's not possible to program in the game, but this challenge should answer the question "can you beat Pokemon FireRed no matter what RNG you get?"
@@diamondmemer9754 But getting criticals against you, low rolling your attacks and high rolling theirs, missing non-guaranteed catches or missable attacks, guaranteed status effects, it's all objetivelly the 'worst rng' in a fight. The rng in every other instance would be impossible to code, but it would be in a case by case basis and even then you would have to argue if a strong catchable pokemon is worse than a weak unfarmable one, while everything that is objetively bad it's forced in this challenge. The video title doesn't lie.
@@saxor96 your paralyzed Pokemon uses thunder wave against the opponent, but the opponent switches into a Pokemon with lightning rod, your Pokemon can't act because of paralysis, which prevents them for increasing the opponent's special attack Your opponent has the ability arena trap and knows swords dance, it attacks your Pokemon and doesn't get a crit, your Pokemon can't switch out and none of its moves are good against the opponent, the opponent sets up 3 swords dances, if your opponent had KO'd your Pokemon with a crit you would have been able to defeat them with a different pokemon Nothing is truly objective, but I suppose "can you beat Pokemon FireRed while blind and deaf?" is closer to being an answer to this question
@@saxor96 What do you mean "he could always get the pikcahu later"?? If you mean he could always catch it, no he cant. He cant catch anything without a better Ball. But he wouldn't be able to reach said ball without beating all those Kakuna/Metapod so he could level up to beat Brock, thus soft-locking him. There isn't a "worst" encounter in ALL scenarios but, objectively speaking, within the ruleset laid out in the video, Pikachu is the worst (unwinnable) encounter in Viridian Forest. Also it literally wouldn't be that hard to code either. In a real program there would be exceptions of course but, for instance, just as a beginning premise in C++: if (Starter == Bulbasaur) viridianForestEncounter == Pikachu; A better programmer than me could improve upon that drastically and in very few lines of code I imagine. On top of that, let's assume he meant "Worst RNG" in battle ONLY, excluding the impossible Grimer fight in Rock Tunnel, at 9:08 he says "I need it to use 'Growl' twice in a row' which means he's relying on luck/RNG that, by the video's own title, should never happen. In battle, the opposing Pikachu should only ever use Thundershoc (since it's a guaranteed paralysis)k, thus, invalidating that stance on this video as well. It is very much NOT the "Worst RNG in a fight" as you put it.
Outside of a challenge like this, I think my favorite gen 1 (and gen 3 versions) starter is either Squirtle or Bulbasaur. Both are viable options in a normal playthrough of the game imo, plus Squirtle eventually learns Bite which really helps for some of the later gyms
Honestly, this is the just the first video I've watched from this channel but I'm subbing anyway because the editing work AND the storytelling in here is insane.
The funny thing here is that because so many opponents have a move that will just guaranteed steamroll you, you... wait for them to not use it. Passing your 'worst possible rng' run includes several moments of *waiting for good RNG*.
Many UA-camrs implement these editing effects to give a stronger impact to their speech in videos. Editing at this level does take a lot of work, more so than a neutrally edited video, but I guess too much of a good thing has been applied here.
@@KawaiiBabyTragon Don’t worry, I just went to “newest comments first” and replied to maybe 6, I only whiteknighted maybe 4. Of course, I know I don’t have to, but I like making friendly conversations out of unhappy comments because I find it fun and interesting.
Something I would recommend for the future, if you can, I highly recommend doing any EV training possible. Your IVs may always be terrible, and idk about natures if they're still randomized or set to neutral/always inoptimal depending on the mon, but you can control what EVs you get within the confines of what pokemon are available to fight.
I've been playing this game for years without even knowing it I have THE WORST crit luck ever of all time not to mention the worst luck when it comes to Moves like fire blast and Hydro pump who have no garentied way to hit outside of lock on I use fire blast twice ON DIFFERENT POKEMON and miss BOTH TIMES Yet my opponent likes to spam Hydro pump AND I'VE SEEN HIM MISS ONCE Even against the same pokemon we are down to 1 pokemon each my Dialga Vs his Ash-Greninja (this was in U.SM) Greninja obviously outspeeds and uses Dark pulse AND GETS A FUCKING CRIT FLINCH THE ONE SCENARIO WHERE I DONT WIN THE BATTLE BECAUSE GRENINJA HAD ALREADY TAKEN DAMAGE BY THE TIME DIALGA CAME IN
@sushi-mayo how is it a skill issue when crits are usually random Hell even battle armor has managed to screw me over somehow Ability wasn't suppressed nor was it an opponent with Mold Breaker Leadian glitch crit killed my Larvitar in a nuzloke
Ok, so why bulbasaur? Squirtle is the far better choice 100% acc pound to start, most water moves are mostly 100% accurate, while most of bulbasaurs moves are inaccurate, like razorleaf, leechseed etc Like the problemsolving tho
I mean if you had truly the worst most rigged bad luck, wouldn't you also get the worst encounter every time? So you would always get Pikachu for example early game, making it impossible to guarantee a favorable encounter? Or VS Grimer, if you had the worst possible RNG, would the enemy not just use the move least favorable to you every time? The definition of "worst RNG" is really being limited here to make this possible, huh?
came here to comment abt the encounters as well. if we go by simple rng, you would NEVER see any of the less likely encounters, eg. that Pikachu in Viridian Forest, or Kakuna for that matter. since Weedle is the most common outcome, you would always only see that and nothing else. or worse, you would never see an encounter in your life, which would make it impossible to level up and proceed at all. a fun video nonetheless, tho i wish it was made a bit more clear what all is meant by "worst rng", and why some things are considered such but others ignored
I mean, I think he didn't do that because it's really subjective, is it a worse outcome not having any encounters, or having an encounter every single time you step on tall grass? Is it worse to never get the most common encounters or to never get the least common? What would be the cutoff for how common the encounters are? 1%? 10%? Maybe anything below 50%. Also the "most problematic encounter" would really depend on the current strategy so you'd have to make code to change the wild encounters accordingly and I'm sure that'd be way too hard for way too little value/making you lose before the challenge can even start, making this video not even that interesting because you'd only advance through 2 routes 💀
You claimed that this mod would always give you the worst RNG possible, then immediately disproved that claim. After all, you relied on RNG to get to Viridian Forest and encounter Kakuna. The true worst RNG would trap you in Pallet Town by always giving you an unwinnable encounter as soon as you step into the first grass patch.
Why didn't you just use charmander? They've got a 100% hit move. Also, given worst possible RNG, you'd never be able to get past Surge, because you'll always fail to get the second trash bin.
@@All54321 The second trash bin is always chosen as one of the bins surrounding the first, I believe. And I think you need to get it immediately? Thus, you can simply never win assuming worst RNG.
@@All54321 Yes. And since it's a random spawn in the surrounding ones, and you get one shot at it, worst RNG would imply it will be one of the ones you don't pick first. Otherwise, it would have retroactively been in your favour.
@@BalrogQuote Worst RNG means that when an RNG roll happens it’s always against your favor. Picking the trash cans is not a roll. One is randomly picked and you just need to pick that one. It’s not a yes/no thing that rolls when selecting one, which is what worst RNG means.
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This is painful to watch, especially since it reveals that my save data really was courupted right before the end of the game all those years ago when I played Pokemon red, and ever since that day I have never been able to complete a pokemon game without my save data getting courupted
Many UA-camrs do that to try and reach peak audience retention amongst younger viewers who stop watching due to the slower pace of videos with a more neutral editing nature. But as all UA-camrs have their own editing styles, there's a piece of cake for everyone. I will say that editing a video this densely takes much more effort than otherwise, but as they say, there can always be too much of a good thing.
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One time in the Elite Four of Paldea, my Dradnaw missed Stone Edge 5 times. Rock Blast did pitiful damage and my Pawmot was at low health, so there was nothing I could do.
My lucario flinched 7 times in a row but he had steadfast so win win
Bro play Pokemon wings of chaos alpha
A lot of miss
@MicahPonderWhat Pokemon?
for those who are wondering why he did not pick Squirtle is because then your rival gets Bulbasaur which has sleep & poison powder and leech seed and the early game becomes even harder
I thought he did that because grass is also good against water and resist electric. I didn’t even think about the moves just making the 3 beginning gyms easier
@@zwillscoopchannel9689 that's also true but some were wondering why did he not pick squirtle since it starts with 100% accurate pound
@@ranveerbhattialso synthesis when it becomes a venusaur
yeah MandJTV learned the hard way
i thought instead "Why don't take Charmander scratch has 100% accuracy"
What is great about this kinda challenge is that because every enemy both always crits and max rolls, it turns battles more into a puzzle than a challenge, trying to find the right team comp 'n solution within possibility in order to overcime
Tbf there’s RNG in praying that the trainer ai makes the move you’re hoping for, sometimes they’re dumb
8:03 worst mistake in the run, Kabuto can have battle armor which nullifies critical hits, which would have been SO useful going forward from that point on
Omanyte can have Shell Armor which does the exact same thing
@@McMuffinMastaX yes, but Kabuto also has the speed advantage, and while both of them can negate critical hits, Omanyte can easily get RNG'd by sleep, confusion, or basically any mon that's able to outspeed 55, which is extremely low, compared to kabutops' 80 speed, which, still isn't the best, but it's much more reliable + has better offenses to work with
@@terrariaskeletonpre1.0.39Kabutops has a lot less special attack than Omastar, and you're only ever clicking water moves with them because rock moves are inaccurate.
@@owenaspinall2046 the problem is that Omastar is too slow, it won't be able to get off that special attack because it is vulnerable to status, flinching, and a plethora of other RNG mechanics, so while you're safe from crits, you're still going to want to outspeed the opponent, even if it costs you some attack
in this challenge in particular, speed is everything, because the faster you kill something before it can move, the less you have to deal with RNG screwing you over, so it might have the offensive pressure in that sense, but it would still be extremely vulnerable due to that low speed
One saving grace omastar does have, however, would be the fact special moves typically don't make contact, so you would be free from contact abilities like flame body or static
...except you won't get it until Cinnabar Island, and by that point he already had Kingler and Lapras with the same ability.
Something about how these uber complex challenges makes random NPCs massive threats feels so motivational? Like, these trainers probably get steamrolled by everyone else, but here you come giving them the chance to see an opponent struggle against them! I bet you totally made hiker Dylan's day!
In many solo runs that Hiker is quite a wall beacuse his self destructing geodudes often KO the solo pokemon, but the REASON these trainers were massive threats made me really wish the base game had this kind of difficulty. Like this takes me back to when Misty's Starmie was a genuine threat to us 6 year olds who never heard of pokemon before cause it literally didn't exist. The itch for that kind of challenge is there. and NO...not via Nuzlock...I don't like nuzlocks as they're just self imposed challenges and don't require strategy as much as caution and luck. I want the game to be more "you can't pass unless you figure this out." not "you can't pass cause some BS lucky crit cost your mon and now you have to release it." which to me is about as challenging as "If I lose a pokemon I have to restart the whole game." not harder, just a waste of time.
@@MarioMastar You just don't understand nuzlockes. It's never about getting lucky. It's about avoiding RNG as much as possible. Stacking the odds in your favour as much as possible through the use of every tool provided by the game. Strategizing on how I can beat this certain trainer without having my Pokemon faint (or in the case of a nuzlocke, die.)
Your incoorect use of the '?' doesn't feel so motivational :(
@@PotatoPrem I was going to ignore this, but, like, what? I understand being bothered by the incorrect use of a word (The best way to get replies and engagement on a comment is to replace "there" with "their"), but an "incorrect question mark"? And you let it ruin your day? Buddy, you're getting unintentionally gamed into replying by an inconsequential piece of punctuation. Rest in peace, man, and I hope you realize how malleable language is in the afterlife.
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41:09 the crazy thing about this team is if you replace the beedrill with a spike setter like skarmory you have yourself a genuinely solid fast offense team for competitive gen 3, the team is surprisingly well thought out
That would work... If he could obtain skarmory, or spikes at all.
@@Jay_Games4409but he can’t. So your comment is pointless
Damn you telling me those strong pokemon he picked were strong?😱 who wouldve thought
We finally got the full playthrough we've been waiting for from SmallAnt lol
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Keegan said “fine I’ll do it myself”
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It's fully uploaded in his vods channel. Not the ideal thing, but at least something
Ahh, so I am not the only one who thought about that!
I think it's neat that we now have a 45 minute tutorial that will guarantee victory in a normal game.
probably harder than playing normally since it relies on insane moveset RNG by enemy trainers
since that isn't something that can be simply rigged up to always fail (ie, what if pikachu never growled and grimer never used disable or harden)
there's the one that works without visual or sound feedback but that has a small chance to fail to fast pidgys or surge luck
What
@@HaloNeInTheDark27, think about it. This game we watched is the worst possible RNG. No player will ever be this unlucky again, which means we have a method of literally guaranteeing eventual victory.
@@kuboskube Maybe, but it'd be prety pointless since FRLG is not that hard in the first place. You would spent more time and effort trying to get these strats to work than just beating it normally.
I really like how this challenge required you to build and adapt your team for each fight as you went along, it added a really nice layer of depth to the challenge instead of just using the same 6 mons to steamroll everything.
My average playthroughs be like:
Lol
Jesus dude is it that bad
Lol
@@LiemaKubheka put fire blast on gyrados for coverage. Never connected. Always lost to RNG based trainers like Candice and fantina
@@AhmedHussain-ju6xd why would anyone have fireblast on a Gyarados I just use aqua tail , earthquake, dragon dance , ice fang
23:50 this is not how gen 3 sleep mechanics work, there is a 100% chance to wake on the 5th attempt to wake
Tbf a 5 turn of sleep is as good as a dead Pokemon xd
Almost no Pokémon is going to survive 5 crits, so it's as good as "never"
@@ritwikism kid named shell armor lapras: 😎
Even so, if it survives 5 hits, it’s still gonna have taken too much damage
Similar thing for confusion, which is 4 turns max iirc
But surviving hitting themselves for 4 turns _and_ getting crit by the enemy is rather unlikely
“Since I am rich I can give you anything”
“Can you give me good RNG?”
“Actually yes. This pokeball will always catch anything. That’s as good as RNG can be.”
Yes you are correct
Now I kind of want to see the opposite of this. How quickly can you beat a pokemon game if RNG was all in your favor. So Best RNG basically
Effectively a TAS?
Get a couple Ether's, a pokemon with an OHKO move, and it'd basically GG
Is there a game that does that? I wanna play it
@@travisalexander6440Technically, a Best RNG run would be slower than a TAS, because a TAS will have fights where crits only waste time
@galaxyquestminute7490 Or other secondary effects, now that you mention it. Getting Optimal but Situational side effects of attacks is TAS, but "always-heads" RNG is something else.
Maybe a better term is a Blessed Run (versus the Cursed Run that was this nonsense, lol!)?
"This challenge is pushing us to our very limits and turning 5v1's into 1v1's.
Also him : Should i kill the low charizard with quck attack?Na lets watch venasaur burn so it looks scary
For the content
Also the worst RNG would be 100% Pikachus in the first area so this challenge isn't even accurate.
@@SeppelSquirrel Won't the true worst RNG be just never encountering any mons?
@@SeppelSquirrelBut later he WANTED to encounter Pikachus, so that would've been a boon. That's likely why encounters were left alone; whether a certain encounter is good or bad luck can change depending on many factors. So best just not alter it.
@@nousername191 That might not even technically be possible, depending on how the RNG works.
I like the fact he used “his world”for his win on misty
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That’s actually Solaris Phase 2.
What can I say? Sonic games have some amazing tracks....even Sonic '06 lol
@@Connowot387🤓🤓🤓
This is without a question one of the best pokemon challenge videos I've ever seen! I mean it opened up so much new depth of strategy that I never see in other games and genuinely begged the question "is it possible?" forcing you to pick movesets and even intimately know pokeball catch rate mechanics as well as exactly which pokemon was best to solve the next gym and what the ultimate team would be given these conditions. and while I was a bit worried about the whole "limiting the level and number of pokemon for the gym" the fact that you succeeded to beat all the gyms despite that restriction is nothing short of super impressive! I also loved the animations with them! Those were so funny and the timing of the sound effects with the "but the next gym leader... *glaring red eyes*" really got my heart pumping.
This got me so excited I almost feel like I'd love to try such a challenge myself with later games. I really love how you really had to go out of your way to solve some of these battels (the persim berry, and the Krabby thing, mind blown!) and unlike other challenge runs where you could brute force your way through with good luck or higher levels, this one genuinely forced you to master the mechanics of pokemon.
Defintiely up there with Seer's "Only pokemon/items/tools that don't have vowels in the name" run that saw him solo the whole game with a Jynx with all those restrictions somehow. Wasn't even known for playing pokemon and yet pulled it off (and was hilarious as always). very S++ tier. Also major MAJOR shoutouts to Ms Nido and Beedrill being MVPs. Get that Garchomp OU only nonsense out of here! Beedrill is as OG and really looks like it should've been one of the best bug pokemon of all time. Major props for using a fan favorite bug from the OG days! and legit too with that Twineedle KO.
"Remember if it's 100% accurate, its 50% accurate"
-Mandjtv
if its NOT
Its 0% accurate now 😭😭😭😭
But your brain is 0% accurate with that statement
Yeah isn’t it “If it’s 95% accurate, it’s 50% accurate”
@@redofredocap3000that joke 0% accuracy in making people laugh
This video was not only incredible but the editing paired with the amazing story telling really made this a cinematic masterpiece 🔥
These challenges are so awesome because you have to use Pokemon and strategies you usually won't use.
And I need that crabs dancing gif
Keegan: “Poisons Pokémon to avoid sleep”
Also Keegan: “Doesn’t Poison Raticate at all”
@@CabbageMuncher13 yes? That would make it a good thing?
@@CabbageMuncher13What do you mean? Guts buffs the Pokémon?
13:56 missed opportunity for a "1 bee 1" joke 😂
I’m surprised that fishing rods aren’t also hard coded to never catch a Pokémon on the line since it has a chance to catch not even a nibble…
also sense every step in grass has a chance to not spawn a pokemon... you should never be able to train.
well depending on the circumstances, not catching anything could be good or bad. No pokemon means no pikachus either.
@@organichotchoco ok but overall being unable to grind or catch anything is worse objectively than a small chance pika shows up and kills you
25:04 you can time these spinners. Its not luck based. Literal skill issue.
KeeganJ: Adds additional rules to make it even harder than it needs to be
Also KeeganJ: "Why is it so hard it's impossible to beat 😭😭😭😭"
MandJTV: if it's not 100% accurate it's 50% accurate
This game: if it's not 100% accurate it's 0% accurate
Stolen
I know it would've taken literal years, but if he just bought the Magikarp in Route 4's Pokémon center earlier and switch-trained it until it evolved, he would have a Gyarados with Bite, a 100% accurate move that isn't resisted by any of Super Nerd Miguel's Pokémon and he would've saved himself so much pain
He would only get one Bite against Voltorb before getting para-locked (unless he let it get Poisoned either earlier in a fight or against the... Weedle? in Viridian Forest). It would still be helpful, but Gyarados is likely not getting that KO with its moveset at that point.
True, but it would take out both the grimer and koffing out with relative ease, leaving Ivysaur at completely full health for the Voltorb and is a second chance against paralock. Plus, I calced it, and even with 0 IVs and a serious nature, Gyarados can do almost half his health, and Ivysaur's Vine Whip will do enough to get him in the red. While he would probably still need bullet seed anyway, it would make it a lot easier.
Technically, probably not, because if the misty level cap. If he tried, Ivysaur would have been overlevelled
"Can you give me good RNG?"
"It will be oddly specific, but I can give you something that will completely remove RNG... once."
"... Better than most. What you got, old man?"
thank you ms nido ♥
nidoqueen has always been one of my favorite mons, and im glad to see raticate clutch up. underrated fr
It's cool to see the video of this, I love the animations! Coincidentally I just wrapped up my nuzlocke of emerald with the worst luck possible yesterday, that was a lot of fun too!
pikachu & ivysaur: whos ready to kick starmie
five minutes later
Starmie: You got blood on my suit
42:28 starmie: this is a great opportunity for slaughter!!!
I had the honor of working on this video with Keegan and Luke and I'm very thankful for that! I had a lot of fun with this!
(Edit: Thanks Ms Nido!)
I love the video but there's a little too much animations and stuff shoved in there when I want to watch the actual game play.
Not saying animations and stuff are a bad thing but if there could be a little more of the actual gameplay instead of animations every 3-5 seconds that would be nice.
Like I said, still love the video though 😊.
pog
@@JasonMedlar-by3ck Hehe I kind of disagree. we've seen pokemon 10001 times, these animations were unique and I like how they were pulled not just from other games but also his own artwork and lined up well. Yeah some effects were used a bit too often where thier appeal ran out, but some like the Misty red eye glare was genuinely frightening and she went on to prove it. That was actually peak.
Has nobody notices that you shouldn't be able to fish up Pokemon since it's not guaranteed? Great video though, and i understand why you didn't make that a thing.
I think smalant couldn't fish any magikarp back in the emerald run 😅 just, bad luck finding
fair enough, but then he shouldn't encounter any wild pokemon in grass/dungeons either
@@wanderingwatcher3981 pretty sure the game forces an encounter after certain amount of moves
@@acdcljb interesting idea, from what I know it a fixed chance per step in the older games but the exact implementation may have changed over the years, in any case both me and the thread creator just pointed how even minor things are randomized, and so not trying to throw shade at the video at all, I really liked it, but it's fun to consider how many things in these games are random and what "the worst luck" would even mean, for example some npc move around randomly, it would be really bad luck if these kept blocking the player
@@wanderingwatcher3981 Isn't that the opposite? Grass/dungeon-encounters are really annoying any draining, so they should happen with every step, because this is a full bad luck run.
22:18 you could say exeggcute executed you. And look, you are even in the Pokemon tower, how fitting.
41:05 becaus i lik beedrill
Me: same but in the elite four??? Have fun
My wirple: u used me in hoene elite four and why???
Because i needed to use u
And u defeated the skarnory!!!
Wurple: thx
Gyarados's face at 11:53 is marvelous
I remember seeing one of his videos a few years ago. I randomly subbed because he knew his stuff about Pokémon. Now he’s my favorite UA-camr.
I was thinking about this same idea lately, except just with "what if every move against you crit" and you expanded on this idea, AND the video is well edited and voiced!! Awesome video ❤
The battles in this series are epic and the routing is REALLY interesting. I love how unique solutions were needed to solve the most basic of problems, and the team was changing depending on the strategy needed for each fight. It'd be super cool to see more !
‘And once were no longer disabled, bullet seed is enough two defeat koffing’
-Steel Ball Run
Holy shit Mishn knocks it out of the park with the editing!! Amazing video, had me hooked since the first second
Thank you so much! ^^;
I'm very honored to be working with Keegan! 😊
Lmao naming the MC Gambler and the rival House is such a clever detail
When I was younger, before I knew what the 1/256 glitch was, I felt I had the unluckiest game.
Go play Pokemon Stadium where the infinitely funnier 1/65536 glitch is a thing
@@andreaseverin1346how do they make the same mistake in 2 different ways?
@@mlpfanboy1701 basically in RBY the issue is that the accuracy check is a random number from 0 to 255 that is compared to an accuracy value of the move. But a 0 will always fail. They tried to patch the 1/256 bug by having the accuracy check reroll every time it hits 0, but it can only happen once - which means if the 0 happens again, the move will still miss
Is it not in this run because it's a glitch? I know it wouldn't be very fun if even 100% accurate moves missed but the true worst RNG/luck would be funnily impossible is that was included
@@andreaseverin1346 A 0 will always succeed - a 255 will always fail
If you get hit by accuracy lowering moves then, even if the move has 100 accuracy, they will always miss due to the mod. Swift bypasses accuracy checks.
Or, worse, if the opponent Evasion buffs
Man I really love those little animations
Bro, I have Grimm's theme as various of my alarms and when it started playing in the backgroung in the Misty part I thought it was the alarm, lmfao
The animation in between are so amazing really loved it.💯
To be honest, his animation skills are so good. I am so thankful that he exists actually I’m thankful that this channel will exist to.
When RNGesus doesn’t just actively ignore your prayers, you’re on his hit list.
Damn, this video straight up made me feel like a kid again. Cause when you're a kid you have these playthroughs where it FEELS just like all the odds are stacked against you in one way or another, seeing the worst RNG possible really highlights how the game intended to do so in the various gym and rival battles (heck even in some of the trainer battles). It was enjoyable from start to finish seeing how you overcame those odds with strategy and planning, and oddly enough even a little luck at times.
Hope you make this into a series dude!!
Same
If it’s not 100% accurate, it’s 0% accurate -KeeganJ
Thank you miss Nido for all your labor, Queen. I wish I were a Nidoking. 👑
RIP Keegan’s dignity
38:15 “His Ground types are slow.”
1 second later: Dugtrio
2:28, In reality if you were getting the "worst RNG possible" you'd get pikachu every time.
But then he could always get the Pikachu later. Regarding random encounters, there isn't an "objectively worst encounter in all instances".
@@saxor96 by that logic, nothing is the worst outcome in every single occasion
A true worst RNG run has the RNG always doing the worst thing regarding your current situation
It's not possible to program in the game, but this challenge should answer the question "can you beat Pokemon FireRed no matter what RNG you get?"
@@diamondmemer9754 But getting criticals against you, low rolling your attacks and high rolling theirs, missing non-guaranteed catches or missable attacks, guaranteed status effects, it's all objetivelly the 'worst rng' in a fight.
The rng in every other instance would be impossible to code, but it would be in a case by case basis and even then you would have to argue if a strong catchable pokemon is worse than a weak unfarmable one, while everything that is objetively bad it's forced in this challenge. The video title doesn't lie.
@@saxor96 your paralyzed Pokemon uses thunder wave against the opponent, but the opponent switches into a Pokemon with lightning rod, your Pokemon can't act because of paralysis, which prevents them for increasing the opponent's special attack
Your opponent has the ability arena trap and knows swords dance, it attacks your Pokemon and doesn't get a crit, your Pokemon can't switch out and none of its moves are good against the opponent, the opponent sets up 3 swords dances, if your opponent had KO'd your Pokemon with a crit you would have been able to defeat them with a different pokemon
Nothing is truly objective, but I suppose "can you beat Pokemon FireRed while blind and deaf?" is closer to being an answer to this question
@@saxor96 What do you mean "he could always get the pikcahu later"?? If you mean he could always catch it, no he cant. He cant catch anything without a better Ball. But he wouldn't be able to reach said ball without beating all those Kakuna/Metapod so he could level up to beat Brock, thus soft-locking him. There isn't a "worst" encounter in ALL scenarios but, objectively speaking, within the ruleset laid out in the video, Pikachu is the worst (unwinnable) encounter in Viridian Forest.
Also it literally wouldn't be that hard to code either. In a real program there would be exceptions of course but, for instance, just as a beginning premise in C++:
if (Starter == Bulbasaur)
viridianForestEncounter == Pikachu;
A better programmer than me could improve upon that drastically and in very few lines of code I imagine.
On top of that, let's assume he meant "Worst RNG" in battle ONLY, excluding the impossible Grimer fight in Rock Tunnel, at 9:08 he says "I need it to use 'Growl' twice in a row' which means he's relying on luck/RNG that, by the video's own title, should never happen. In battle, the opposing Pikachu should only ever use Thundershoc (since it's a guaranteed paralysis)k, thus, invalidating that stance on this video as well. It is very much NOT the "Worst RNG in a fight" as you put it.
Outside of a challenge like this, I think my favorite gen 1 (and gen 3 versions) starter is either Squirtle or Bulbasaur. Both are viable options in a normal playthrough of the game imo, plus Squirtle eventually learns Bite which really helps for some of the later gyms
The scary part of this is that this is theoretically possible to happen on a normal playthrough.
I liked how you started bringing the same number of pokemon as the gym leaders
glad u posted so early after that water type challenge 🥰
The use of Xenoblade 2 and Hollow Knight music is much appreciated, 2 of my favorite soundtracks!
I would love to see this in another Pokemon game. The strategies you used were so cool!
Honestly, this is the just the first video I've watched from this channel but I'm subbing anyway because the editing work AND the storytelling in here is insane.
You know Not only you have amazing editing animations comedy there's one other that makes me love you(As a UA-cam) your a fellow aussie🇦🇺
🇦🇺🌏🦘🪃
The funny thing here is that because so many opponents have a move that will just guaranteed steamroll you, you... wait for them to not use it. Passing your 'worst possible rng' run includes several moments of *waiting for good RNG*.
This video is overedited.
I feel like my head is going to hurt from how many movements the camera does
Many UA-camrs implement these editing effects to give a stronger impact to their speech in videos.
Editing at this level does take a lot of work, more so than a neutrally edited video, but I guess too much of a good thing has been applied here.
@@StatickyCatYou don't have to whiteknight every single unhappy comment
@@KawaiiBabyTragon Don’t worry, I just went to “newest comments first” and replied to maybe 6, I only whiteknighted maybe 4. Of course, I know I don’t have to, but I like making friendly conversations out of unhappy comments because I find it fun and interesting.
Something I would recommend for the future, if you can, I highly recommend doing any EV training possible. Your IVs may always be terrible, and idk about natures if they're still randomized or set to neutral/always inoptimal depending on the mon, but you can control what EVs you get within the confines of what pokemon are available to fight.
Man, I love your videos, I wait every month for your videos, greetings from Brazil!
ok wait the idea of pre-poisoning your pokemon to avoid the paralysis was actually so smart, props to you fr
Loved the animations on this one!
42:09 starmie's base special attack is only 100, not 120
Can you please try to beat Pokémon let’s go Pikachu! as Ash Ketchum please! Kanto is his home region and you know you got to do it!
That’s actually a speedrun category, lol! Not the most popular one (tauros. Three hours of tauros), but it exists.
31:48 bro cooked the eggs and ate them
I've been playing this game for years without even knowing it I have THE WORST crit luck ever of all time not to mention the worst luck when it comes to Moves like fire blast and Hydro pump who have no garentied way to hit outside of lock on
I use fire blast twice ON DIFFERENT POKEMON and miss BOTH TIMES
Yet my opponent likes to spam Hydro pump AND I'VE SEEN HIM MISS ONCE
Even against the same pokemon we are down to 1 pokemon each my Dialga Vs his Ash-Greninja (this was in U.SM)
Greninja obviously outspeeds and uses Dark pulse AND GETS A FUCKING CRIT FLINCH THE ONE SCENARIO WHERE I DONT WIN THE BATTLE BECAUSE GRENINJA HAD ALREADY TAKEN DAMAGE BY THE TIME DIALGA CAME IN
massive skill issue /j
@@sushi-mayo hsgsnatahafuqvM
yo wtf is your pfp
@@RandomKid680 yo wtf did you time travel from the 2010's because that's an outdated comment
@sushi-mayo how is it a skill issue when crits are usually random
Hell even battle armor has managed to screw me over somehow
Ability wasn't suppressed nor was it an opponent with Mold Breaker
Leadian glitch crit killed my Larvitar in a nuzloke
This man has officially earned the right to tell his opponents, who wish him luck, that he needs no luck to defeat them.
STOP WHAT YOUR DOING KEEGAN DROPPED🔥
THE SOAP
Hey! I saw that good RNG!
The first use of the good rod was "Not even a nibble."
Every use of the good rod should have been that.
This came out FAST!
Gary: The game was rigged from the start... yet, you still always come back.
Ok, so why bulbasaur?
Squirtle is the far better choice
100% acc pound to start, most water moves are mostly 100% accurate, while most of bulbasaurs moves are inaccurate, like razorleaf, leechseed etc
Like the problemsolving tho
3:56 here's the answer
I think he just enjoys making himself miserable 😭
because then your rival would get bulbasaur with sleep , poison powder, leech seed and the early game becomes even harder
@@ranveerbhatti OHHH That sounds horrific. I would say why not Charmander but Onix and Starmie misery
Cuz sleep powder and leech seed would be hell to deal with.
This has to be the best pokemon video i have ever watched
I mean if you had truly the worst most rigged bad luck, wouldn't you also get the worst encounter every time? So you would always get Pikachu for example early game, making it impossible to guarantee a favorable encounter?
Or VS Grimer, if you had the worst possible RNG, would the enemy not just use the move least favorable to you every time?
The definition of "worst RNG" is really being limited here to make this possible, huh?
came here to comment abt the encounters as well. if we go by simple rng, you would NEVER see any of the less likely encounters, eg. that Pikachu in Viridian Forest, or Kakuna for that matter. since Weedle is the most common outcome, you would always only see that and nothing else. or worse, you would never see an encounter in your life, which would make it impossible to level up and proceed at all.
a fun video nonetheless, tho i wish it was made a bit more clear what all is meant by "worst rng", and why some things are considered such but others ignored
I mean, I think he didn't do that because it's really subjective, is it a worse outcome not having any encounters, or having an encounter every single time you step on tall grass? Is it worse to never get the most common encounters or to never get the least common? What would be the cutoff for how common the encounters are? 1%? 10%? Maybe anything below 50%. Also the "most problematic encounter" would really depend on the current strategy so you'd have to make code to change the wild encounters accordingly and I'm sure that'd be way too hard for way too little value/making you lose before the challenge can even start, making this video not even that interesting because you'd only advance through 2 routes 💀
This video is pretty well-edited
To answer your rhetorical question: I like Charmander
You claimed that this mod would always give you the worst RNG possible, then immediately disproved that claim. After all, you relied on RNG to get to Viridian Forest and encounter Kakuna. The true worst RNG would trap you in Pallet Town by always giving you an unwinnable encounter as soon as you step into the first grass patch.
You call this "worst odds", I call this a tuesday
Why didn't you just use charmander? They've got a 100% hit move. Also, given worst possible RNG, you'd never be able to get past Surge, because you'll always fail to get the second trash bin.
I don’t think that’s how the trash bins work… but I do second the charmander thing.
@@All54321 The second trash bin is always chosen as one of the bins surrounding the first, I believe. And I think you need to get it immediately? Thus, you can simply never win assuming worst RNG.
@@BalrogQuote It spawns in one of the nearby ones, it’s not a roll to determine if you chose the right one or not.
@@All54321 Yes. And since it's a random spawn in the surrounding ones, and you get one shot at it, worst RNG would imply it will be one of the ones you don't pick first. Otherwise, it would have retroactively been in your favour.
@@BalrogQuote Worst RNG means that when an RNG roll happens it’s always against your favor. Picking the trash cans is not a roll. One is randomly picked and you just need to pick that one. It’s not a yes/no thing that rolls when selecting one, which is what worst RNG means.
2:53 I had no idea they changed struggle tbh.
Hey everybody I'm 10 years old and there was this man in an ice cream truck selling popsicle things. He looked a bit old, and I heard he was having some car problems with his truck. so, I went over and bough two popsicles and let me tell you, he was the nicest person I've met in a long time. he was patient with me and was being very nice and so I went back to my house, and I heard ice cream truck music and then I knew he got his truck to work. About an hour later, I heard some more music, and I knew that he was going to have a nice day. I didn't know who to tell about this, so I know this isn't about Pokémon, but I wanted to tell you guys about it and the story. W's in the comments for ice cream truck man, one of the nicest people I've met.
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Hell yeah ice cream man
at first i was like "yeah possible" then i heard the level cap and was like "Well... that makes it less likely where I can say yes easily"
why cant youtubers edit normally anymore, this video would be infinitely better without the skibidi retention maxing
Starmie being the strong boss that later joins your party but doesn't power down was a nice twist
Prob gonna be brst video
Burst?
This is painful to watch, especially since it reveals that my save data really was courupted right before the end of the game all those years ago when I played Pokemon red, and ever since that day I have never been able to complete a pokemon game without my save data getting courupted
WHAT!!!! It's not the worst RNG possible afterall... It's a lie. That weedle should have poisoned you with its poison sting.
If you're talking about Weedle on Bulbasaur, that's not possible, since Bulbasaur is a poison type
Worst RNG is not running into the most favorable matchup in the Veridian Forrest
680 views in 8 minute?
41:47 If you truly had the worst RNG, that Ice Punch should have frozen you.
It fainted though, so it couldn’t..
overedited and obnoxious
Many UA-camrs do that to try and reach peak audience retention amongst younger viewers who stop watching due to the slower pace of videos with a more neutral editing nature.
But as all UA-camrs have their own editing styles, there's a piece of cake for everyone. I will say that editing a video this densely takes much more effort than otherwise, but as they say, there can always be too much of a good thing.
This Challenge is actually interesting!
Please, do the Post game with this!
3 views in 43 seconds? bro fell off
700 in 7 minutes
The hell you on about
Ye lol
@jonno156 shut up you probably don’t have a UA-cam channel so you got no room to talk
But neither do I so
in a universe, in a galaxy, in a solar system, in a planet, in a country, in a state, in a city, in a town, in a street, in a house, in a room someone may have had this exact run unintentially..
Also first like les go
Just think, if even a single enemy Pokémon were holding a Focus Band you’d just be toast
You can still use toxic i guess