@@ReyanshSharma-h8l yeah i'm trying to figure that out too, because froslass would defeat it no problem but i can't see a solution with just the cresselia
Thank you for having me! Gave me a greater appreciation for these types of in-game challenges, I had a ton of fun. I’ll look forward to watching your next one!
Smallant resetting the final fight until he gets the very unlikely odds to cheese the fight and actually getting first place with that is the most smallant thing ever.
The worst part is, Detect was so broken, it wasn't even that hard to get it every turn. Smallant managed to get it 4 times in a row (if I remember correctly) without reseting !
this comment being the top comment and got featured spoiled me, welp time to guess how smant break the game edit:HOW DID SMALLANT BRING RNG TO RNGLESS ROMHACK
Imma be real I’ve seen blunder play the game so much and knowing his… tendencies I had zero faith in him but his competitive knowledge really paid off.
Bro Blunder coming seconds and maybe could've got first place if smallant didn't find the exploit is so wild. That truly shows that both are equal in goat-ness
Gap was too big, Smant surely would've found a solution that wasn't cheesy. The cheese solution doesn't even seem that viable, I've got a feeling Smant took the RNG route just to fuck around with an overlooked mechanic. It's the kind of thing he does all the time.
@@ThePurplePeppy While I do agree with op's sentiment, yeah... Smant finished with his rng fishing method over an hour earlier, when rng fishes notoriously can be very slow compared to the intended solution. While getting detect/protect 5 times in a row isn't like astronomical odds, as long as the game speed can't be sped up you'll be there for a while. Doubly so in a double battle.
5:55 Regarding Sokoban, it's not just NP-Hard, which is a general term for problems harder than NP, but also PSPACE-Complete! This is a class beyond the standard NP-Complete problems one sees, it's really a difficulty of its own that goes beyond what we currently think are hard problems, even if we were to figure out P = NP, Sokoban may still be too hard!
@@hornkneeeee P = can calculate the solution within a reasonable time NP = can verify the solution within a reasonable time NP-hard = (assuming P ≠ NP): solution is not calculable within a reasonable time. Solution may not even be verifiable within a reasonable time
@hornkneeeee it isn't really a difficulty standard, it's a measure of algorithmic complexity. In other words, how hard is it to brute force this problem? You can have a problem that is relatively easy for a human that is difficult for a computer to brute force.
If I hear someone say "you'll never need to grind more than one level" my immediate takeaway is "ok so level everything I get once immediately, got it"
Blunder and SmallAnt are masters of their crafts; always entertaining. Looking forward to see what types of challenges you'll hand these goats next. ..Good luck making it SmallAnt proof, lmao.
The escape room was really fun but when attempting it myself, I found it was actually really easy to beat the final trainer using the team from the ferrothorn trainer and completely ignoring the trainer who gives you the new pokemon. Not sure if that counts as cheating or not.
The in-depth knowledge required to even create the puzzles and seeing the thoughts behind them being laid out is greatly appreciated. Plus showing the condensed highlights of the challengers made this a very interesting & enjoyable video - thanks so much!
What a amazing video, you really were able to showcase many different strategies by different players. I throughly enjoyed this one, even compared to some of your previous videos
I feel like that first puzzle of making them copy lunar dance is way harder than any of the other ones. The other puzzles I think I could reasonably get, but that first one I don't see how I could have ever figured that out; it is way more obscure than the others. Especially weird since it's the first puzzle.
"When you have an accomplishment, you feel good. But when you have truly, genuinely struggled to reach that goal, you don't just feel good. You feel amazing" Freezai putting into words my mantra for life
Dope video. Great work creating the rom and getting the creators to play. But bro, you gotta hire some editors, you could easily had yourself a MAJOR hit with this video had it been edited in a pchal style. More background info, more moments, more time spent with the creators as they solve to leave the audience/viewer in a state where they’re trying to solve it too. Felt like my hand was held all the way through the video and their wins didn’t feel like my wins since I wasn’t made to think at all as the answers were automatically given to me as the viewer. Not saying that the video was bad either, but this lineup and content was too juicy to not squeeze out every last drop. Also the blunder love is due, mans is the goat 🙏 Great video hope this comment doesn’t get lost!
6:00 as an FYI, an NP-Hard problem doesn't mean the problem is "hard" (which is subjective anyways) in the sense you may think of it. It's just that there is no "fast" algorithm, non-polynomial time (aka it's exponential). basically NP-hard problems have to do brute force, taking a LONG time. Exponential grows way way faster than any polynomial time. One of the coolest thing you'll learn with an NP-hard problem is that you can change ANY NP-hard problem to another NP-hard problem, like traveling salesman, by adding in small-changes that are just linear/ploynomial complexity. Which means if one person solves ANY NP-hard problem in polynomial time, then all NP-hard problems are polynomial time (like encryption!). Thus P = NP That is why there is a $1 million prize if anyone solves that (in in the general case, either Prove P = NP or P !=NP. There have been no proofs yet (it's a proof if you solve an NP-hard problem with P time), and everyone basically agrees P != NP but just needs to prove that.
Sick escape room Freezai, congrats to Smallant for winning! Everyone did really well, but my man Acko picked it up fast and you know I’m proud for my streamer. Edit: Serious props to Archie, you and Wiz do a lot for the romhacking community and we love and appreciate y’all fr
This video makes me wish i could subscribe twice. Awesome escape room, great work from all the participants, and this video eas edited perfectly. Thanks for the awesome content!
I love watching these type of challenges and seeing the smartest pokemon players come up with weird strategies is really cool to see. I'm looking forward to the next. Hopefully more crazy and old traditional puzzles are included like the old Japanese one.
Great video! I’m not sure how other people feel, but I personally like more input from the other players perspective. I love how you explain things more than other escape room videos I’ve seen, but I personally think It’d be great if you add more perspectives vs. explaining so that it shows them explaining it as they solve it.
calling ackolade a veteran to escape rooms is kinda hilarious considering he spent 20 minutes in Maxies Island trying to shoot down birds in the overworld with a remoraid after reading its dex entry.
Very impressed with Blunder. I did assume that this was going to be more about overworld jank than actual battling, so him getting in second place is a good reflection of the time he's spent battling.
This is really dope! You should use those annoying field item mechanics from gen 6 like cutting the background grass or breaking the stone pillars with surf on one of these.
double battle was the only one i didn’t need a hint and i instead disabled iron head / crunch then tried to protean into ghost type. took me several tries
Just completed the room myself, and I definitely did not do the intended strats for the first double battle, doing something very similar to smants strat, or the final fight, something im pretty proud of coming up with, but still super fun!
I also did the double battle differently. I fake-out destiny bond to take out the Sandslash, then used guard swap to steal Snorlax's buffs and hit it with rock smash til it died. It was pretty easy, and simpler than the intended solution I think.
Before watching imma call out how its gonna end: Blunder will against all odds be ahead and then decide to absolutely send it trying to predict some stuff choking the doub.
Try the game here! ko-fi.com/s/40633ff8a2
how do i beat the hitmonlee at the 2nd trainer
my cress doesn't 1v1 it
@@ReyanshSharma-h8l yeah i'm trying to figure that out too, because froslass would defeat it no problem but i can't see a solution with just the cresselia
@@ReyanshSharma-h8l nevermind, i think gravity might help
15:50 uncensored
Thank you for having me! Gave me a greater appreciation for these types of in-game challenges, I had a ton of fun. I’ll look forward to watching your next one!
Goat🐐
hunnid thousand on a hunnid thousand on a hunnid thousand on a hunnid thousand on a hunnid thousand on a hunnid thousand
the next one will have an entire hour of playtime dedicated to ice puzzles, which is, as we know, blunder's main weakness in emerald rogue
The agency remains on top
Agency Agency
Smallant resetting the final fight until he gets the very unlikely odds to cheese the fight and actually getting first place with that is the most smallant thing ever.
The worst part is, Detect was so broken, it wasn't even that hard to get it every turn. Smallant managed to get it 4 times in a row (if I remember correctly) without reseting !
Yupppp.
I mean he challenge pokemon x and y with all of the pokemon are level 100 while his is standard, that guy has tons of patience
The agency has claimed this challenege and this domain will henceforth be "blunder's mountain"
escape room was fun af!! thanks for having me ❤🔥❤🔥
:o
Worst blunder throw since the agency was up 5-1
never forget how the whole team got shamoned
@@yadaran9054We could never forget the story of the greatest fucking battle ever thrown
Calling blunder throwing when smant did unintended fishing is crazy
@pikminman13 It wasn't even a particularly viable route. Smant did it just to mess around with unintended solutions its something he does a lot.
Swaps out into clef like hes already won
Smant winning by breaking the game is the most smant thing ever
this comment being the top comment and got featured spoiled me, welp time to guess how smant break the game
edit:HOW DID SMALLANT BRING RNG TO RNGLESS ROMHACK
He is lucky when it is most funny
Press select to break the game
lol
"He found the *one* exploit in my game, and punished me for it."
Business as usual for the tiny insect.
2:26 "Smallant has been doing Pokemon Challenges for years" 😳😳😳
Freakant
bro how did you even think it that way 😭😭😭
So the rename to pchal was for anonymity or a break up?
AYOOOOOOOO
@@Kotenekrazydef breakup.
I'm low-key really proud of blunder for doing so good, mad respect to the goat
Imma be real I’ve seen blunder play the game so much and knowing his… tendencies I had zero faith in him but his competitive knowledge really paid off.
This was a blast! Very impressed on the quality of the escape room and I'm excited to see more in the future. Thanks for having me!
:o
You literally didn’t even win sthu 😭
@@GyozaDevourer it's literally just a game. chill
my eternal goat
Blunder: Finesse through the challenge
SmallAnt: Run into the brick wall until it crumbles
The bricks flinched first!
Agency stocks have not been this high since the summer of 2021
2021 reminiscing that summer
Was that black sludge Bisharp era?
Freezai: "I thought I accounted for everything"
-invites smant
Bro Blunder coming seconds and maybe could've got first place if smallant didn't find the exploit is so wild. That truly shows that both are equal in goat-ness
"equal" bro blunder got smoked
He came second by a whole hour
Gap was too big, Smant surely would've found a solution that wasn't cheesy. The cheese solution doesn't even seem that viable, I've got a feeling Smant took the RNG route just to fuck around with an overlooked mechanic. It's the kind of thing he does all the time.
@@ThePurplePeppy While I do agree with op's sentiment, yeah... Smant finished with his rng fishing method over an hour earlier, when rng fishes notoriously can be very slow compared to the intended solution. While getting detect/protect 5 times in a row isn't like astronomical odds, as long as the game speed can't be sped up you'll be there for a while. Doubly so in a double battle.
@@AnglerJakeBlunder got cheesed. My goat had that in the bag
You should get Pikasprey on one of these. He has solved softlocks before so he is probably pretty familiar with getting out of obscure situations
BLUNDER MY GOOOOOOOOAT
Blunder when he specifically has a Salamence, Pelipper, Barraskewda, Clefable and Melmetal alive against a single Toxapex:
Blunder has integrity and is therefore the real winner
@@Commenter3726the worlds biggest throw of all time
100000 outta 100000 I’d still choose you
When Smallant is in the competition, you are competing for second place.
Why brain when Luck?
- Small Ant, 2024
Dude as if Blunder finished in 4:20 that's too perfect
Btw, Smallant's 5 consecutive Detects strat has aproximally a 0.41% chance of happening
That’s better than shiny odds right?
@ yup, it's over 16 times better with current shiny odds, and over 33 times with the original shiny odds
Trafalgar D. Water Law my goat
Smallant doing Smallant things and Blunder doing Blunder things
“The other players were right on his tail” meanwhile one of them was an hour behind
Blunder: wins
Small Ant: Imma just break the game.
Smallant won.
What a GOATED poketuber lineup. Shoutout agency
5:55 Regarding Sokoban, it's not just NP-Hard, which is a general term for problems harder than NP, but also PSPACE-Complete!
This is a class beyond the standard NP-Complete problems one sees, it's really a difficulty of its own that goes beyond what we currently think are hard problems, even if we were to figure out P = NP, Sokoban may still be too hard!
What's 'np' in this context? I know about the p=np problem but never heard the terms being used as like a difficulty standard
@@hornkneeeee
P = can calculate the solution within a reasonable time
NP = can verify the solution within a reasonable time
NP-hard = (assuming P ≠ NP): solution is not calculable within a reasonable time. Solution may not even be verifiable within a reasonable time
@hornkneeeee it isn't really a difficulty standard, it's a measure of algorithmic complexity. In other words, how hard is it to brute force this problem? You can have a problem that is relatively easy for a human that is difficult for a computer to brute force.
15:50 Think you missed an f word from Blunder there my man 😂 hard to censor a man who swears twice a sentence on average hahaha
Lmaooo that’s my bad, after four hours in the challenge I was too excited to finally finish 😂
Smallant doing smallant things
Pretty sure as the inventor of priority leer, it comes to no surprise that Smallant won
If I hear someone say "you'll never need to grind more than one level" my immediate takeaway is "ok so level everything I get once immediately, got it"
Blunder and SmallAnt are masters of their crafts; always entertaining. Looking forward to see what types of challenges you'll hand these goats next.
..Good luck making it SmallAnt proof, lmao.
People acting surprised Blunder has problem solving skills, when his roots are in chess is funny.
'yo am I about to be able to get to eat lunch?' is a god quote
The escape room was really fun but when attempting it myself, I found it was actually really easy to beat the final trainer using the team from the ferrothorn trainer and completely ignoring the trainer who gives you the new pokemon. Not sure if that counts as cheating or not.
how did you beat the hitmonlee at the 2nd trainer
@@ReyanshSharma-h8lYou use gravity on cress which prevents high jump kick from working
The in-depth knowledge required to even create the puzzles and seeing the thoughts behind them being laid out is greatly appreciated. Plus showing the condensed highlights of the challengers made this a very interesting & enjoyable video - thanks so much!
Agency disproving the haters 🔥🔥
Unlucky Blunder
Melly swaps to pelly
Insanely creative battle puzzles! I would've never figured out the avalanche and curse-protean mechanics. I hope we get more of these! :)
This is great. Love the personalities you got involved.
Freezai pls use zoroark in the next one, that could be a very confusing immunity.
What a amazing video, you really were able to showcase many different strategies by different players. I throughly enjoyed this one, even compared to some of your previous videos
I would never call Blunder an underdog in any situation 😂
@@spongeb27 blunderdog
@pikminman13 I really wanted to say that but didn't know how to fit it into my comment
he's just the DOG
I feel like that first puzzle of making them copy lunar dance is way harder than any of the other ones. The other puzzles I think I could reasonably get, but that first one I don't see how I could have ever figured that out; it is way more obscure than the others. Especially weird since it's the first puzzle.
"When you have an accomplishment, you feel good. But when you have truly, genuinely struggled to reach that goal, you don't just feel good. You feel amazing"
Freezai putting into words my mantra for life
blunder, smant and drxx in one video feels like a fever dream
I love that no matter where SmallAnt goes he always finds a way to cheese the challenge
Dope video. Great work creating the rom and getting the creators to play. But bro, you gotta hire some editors, you could easily had yourself a MAJOR hit with this video had it been edited in a pchal style. More background info, more moments, more time spent with the creators as they solve to leave the audience/viewer in a state where they’re trying to solve it too. Felt like my hand was held all the way through the video and their wins didn’t feel like my wins since I wasn’t made to think at all as the answers were automatically given to me as the viewer. Not saying that the video was bad either, but this lineup and content was too juicy to not squeeze out every last drop. Also the blunder love is due, mans is the goat 🙏 Great video hope this comment doesn’t get lost!
Classic SmallAnt, finding the unintended solutions and exploits to win every time
The fact that smallant finds some cheese every single time he does one of these (from the ones I've seen) is crazy
This escape room is so brilliant and I loved this summary. It's brilliant and I enjoyed it greatly. More of this would be a lot of fun!
team aqua community is so insanely helpful. everyone in there has made rom hacking way easier.
everything i’ve worked on still sucks
6:00 as an FYI, an NP-Hard problem doesn't mean the problem is "hard" (which is subjective anyways) in the sense you may think of it. It's just that there is no "fast" algorithm, non-polynomial time (aka it's exponential). basically NP-hard problems have to do brute force, taking a LONG time. Exponential grows way way faster than any polynomial time.
One of the coolest thing you'll learn with an NP-hard problem is that you can change ANY NP-hard problem to another NP-hard problem, like traveling salesman, by adding in small-changes that are just linear/ploynomial complexity. Which means if one person solves ANY NP-hard problem in polynomial time, then all NP-hard problems are polynomial time (like encryption!). Thus P = NP
That is why there is a $1 million prize if anyone solves that (in in the general case, either Prove P = NP or P !=NP. There have been no proofs yet (it's a proof if you solve an NP-hard problem with P time), and everyone basically agrees P != NP but just needs to prove that.
one can never assume they've removed all cheese, especially in the presence of a speedrunner
This should be Smant's audition to join The Agency lmaoooo
very proud of both of them, fantastic job :D
00:35 - 00:40 is simply the explanation of the Fromsoft method. Nice touch.
Agency must represest
This video is only rivaled by wolfey's tournament runs in terms of my favorite pokemon video of all time
Sick escape room Freezai, congrats to Smallant for winning! Everyone did really well, but my man Acko picked it up fast and you know I’m proud for my streamer.
Edit: Serious props to Archie, you and Wiz do a lot for the romhacking community and we love and appreciate y’all fr
❤
This video makes me wish i could subscribe twice. Awesome escape room, great work from all the participants, and this video eas edited perfectly. Thanks for the awesome content!
L'AGENCY REPRESENT!!! BLUNDER STOCKS TO THE MOON
2 minutes into this video:
- I see Oricorio
- I see Cresselia
And I member Weedle's legendary Lunar Dance play some few years back
Acko won my heart and that was the real challenge
Freezai: don’t worry guys there’s no rng so you can’t gamble and win
Smallant: :))))) gambles and wins
Love seeing Acko here. Dude is super underrated
I love watching these type of challenges and seeing the smartest pokemon players come up with weird strategies is really cool to see. I'm looking forward to the next. Hopefully more crazy and old traditional puzzles are included like the old Japanese one.
Great video! I’m not sure how other people feel, but I personally like more input from the other players perspective. I love how you explain things more than other escape room videos I’ve seen, but I personally think It’d be great if you add more perspectives vs. explaining so that it shows them explaining it as they solve it.
BLUNDER MY DAWG ON THE MIC I CAN'T BLUNDER
calling ackolade a veteran to escape rooms is kinda hilarious considering he spent 20 minutes in Maxies Island trying to shoot down birds in the overworld with a remoraid after reading its dex entry.
He’s a veteran with an Unconventional Approach. We love him 💖
ackolaMunch
Sokoban is actually PSPACE-complete, which is MUCH stronger than mere NP-hardness.
Freezai: All competitors have an equal chance to win
Smallant: Are you sure about that?
Smallant’s been doing PokémonChallenges for years? 😳
SHUT UUPPP 😭😭😭
It may be 5 am on a Tuesday but I AM watching this right now.
Of course Smant finds an exploit xD
SmallAnt is like undisputed champion of Pokemon Challenges now
pchal fuming rn
hey freezai! i love all your content but definitely want to say i really enjoyed this and hope you continue to do more escape room stuff like this
"If this doesn't work, my computer desk is dying - two pieces, karate chop down the middle" that's the 🐐 right there
Smant found two exploits, of course he did!
Very impressed with Blunder.
I did assume that this was going to be more about overworld jank than actual battling, so him getting in second place is a good reflection of the time he's spent battling.
Everyone out here working to solve puzzles, then there's smallant who's just playing the game
I'm a giant fan of exploiting a dev's mistakes to find unintended solutions. +1 and a sub for owning it and showing it off
This is really dope! You should use those annoying field item mechanics from gen 6 like cutting the background grass or breaking the stone pillars with surf on one of these.
Bro smallant cannot keep getting away with this type of thing bro he gotta be locked up
Man, how does SmallAnt does it. He has to be one of the best gamer I have ever seen, always excelling at games he touches
Death, Taxes and Smallant breaking intended game mechanics...
Awww yeah. I was waiting for this recap since the challenge was announced.
double battle was the only one i didn’t need a hint and i instead disabled iron head / crunch then tried to protean into ghost type. took me several tries
awesome job smallant and blunder
love it
thank you freezai for incredible content as always
And once again, he found an exploit
AGENCY
Blunder is lucky he wasn't competing against Galarian Darmanitan
watched the 4 hour blunder vod and waited for the video lol. good escape room!
Just completed the room myself, and I definitely did not do the intended strats for the first double battle, doing something very similar to smants strat, or the final fight, something im pretty proud of coming up with, but still super fun!
Great that you let smaller youtubers like SmallAnt try to beat this challenge and be featured here
Blunder was the lockpicking lawyer.
Smant was McNally.
Great video man would love to see more :)
Thanks for pointing out Sokoban. It is great fun
I also did the double battle differently.
I fake-out destiny bond to take out the Sandslash, then used guard swap to steal Snorlax's buffs and hit it with rock smash til it died. It was pretty easy, and simpler than the intended solution I think.
Before watching imma call out how its gonna end:
Blunder will against all odds be ahead and then decide to absolutely send it trying to predict some stuff choking the doub.
Dancer copying Lunar Dance would have been a free puzzle for watchers of WeedleTwineedle!
Smallant always finds the strats that were not intended by the dev
2:29 he's being doing who?!? 😮 Good for him and Jan