I love how Smant's mom is in the chat and is cheering for all the other content creators' Pokemon. When her Bidoof comes out she says, "Come on little guy." So wholesome!
So glad I was on chat when you faced my Marowak so I was able to provide the lore. The last move was Phantom Force, and it was holding a Fossilized Skull.
It's a super cool submission. I haven't been on Twitch lately but I was there her first day playing Pokemon and I'm pretty sure it was one of her first ever encounters in the franchise so it was a special pick to her here.
I think when implementing it they may have said "if positive stat change then negative stat change" and health accidentally got included in that so the contrary killed it.
For those wondering why it took 20 minutes to heal then do the battle is because Falkner did not have the right Pokemon. So it took about 20 minutes for AtSign to fix it
It’s really something special how much you’re contributing to early pokemon modding, purely by paying modders to make fun stuff for you. The infrastructure you’re helping provide is invaluable for many more mods to come, and it’s deeply appreciated. Thanks 🥰
Even indie developers can make a better game like Cassette Beast, Patch Quest, Palworld, and many more. Gamefreak needs to use their billions to make a better game.
I had no idea what I was doing when I made my mon, but I’m glad my lil Pachirisu put up at least a bit of a fight before being rapid spun to death 😂 Such a great idea & video, thank you for letting me be a part of it 👏🏻
I know RTgame used to play competitive in gen 5 and earlier, plus he’s just good at Pokémon in general, and it REALLY shows with how he got mega ampharos onto the same power level as contrary dragon ascent Rayquaza. It genuinely might have been over if destiny bond didn’t stay active.
Lando T hasn't been anywhere near the force it was in the past this gen, so I'm guessing he based it on gen 5-8 sets, when it was way more obnoxious. And if it hadn't gone out last, it would have been even more annoying, intimidate with uturn and stealth rocks up is so good at getting in the way of smallant's strat, since most of his strong setup mons were physical.@@itztaytay2
this is actually genius: a) it is a cool challenge idea that hasn't been done before (not your average nuzlocke spam or 1 pokemon only) but also b) it has community involvement - EVERYONE gets excited to see everything of theirs unfold, as opposed to being stuck with one chosen one the whole game
I love how RT had his Pokemon where it was. He is such a good Pokemon player and it somehow always surprises me how competent he is, even all these years later.
He said in the beginning that he asked a bunch of content creators for Pokémon that would be in his egglocke, but he then said the Pokémon were actually gonna be gym leaders and trainers not what he uses.
ik no one cares but. i accidentally refreshed the page and was like shit where am i. then i clicked on the exact part i was on right before i did on the first try
these tiny moments always feel really awesome, but it's never really possible to share with anyone. except you just did, so props for that. have a good one
That final Pokemon was the most normal of them all and I was actually laughing my ass off at it. It was remarkable how such a normal set easily made for a scary final challenge. The creator that sent it in does know his stuff well, after all.
This is probably the most fun Pokemon challenge I have seen on youtube. Pokemon is a franchise where nearly everything has been done, so I'm impressed you manage to keep it fresh
Oh my god that's amazing. Here I was, thinking that jerk "DougDoug" would participate in this, when he actually just used his second channel. For shame. (This is a joke.)
Such a great concept lol. Genuinely surprised that I didn't see the combination of No Guard/OHKO moves, but at least Sturdy Shedinja made an appearance
this is a funny concept. instead of making the gifted pokemon yours, make the gifted pokemon the pokemon of the opponents. this will make battles against troll 'gifters' really easy and battles against people who actually wanted to give you good pokemon a lot more difficult lol
20:33 I was going to call this foreshadowing, but then it occured to me: atsign made the mod, and there's at least one point where it had to be updated. So did atsign just see this and think "hmm, that's a good idea actually"?
Nah, I asked Smant if I could make a mon despite knowing the "trick" and he told me to make the hardest mon I could possibly think of, workshopped it a bit with my friend and ended with that. I forgot to pp boost the moves D:
@@atsign9782 I see. So you and smallant were just on the same wavelength with this one, lol. I wonder, if you had given it a Leppa berry with recycle instead of spore, would the AI know how to use that? That'd be evil if it actually works.
I feel like the yache was just to remove any chance that it doesn't cause issues, since if he'd happened to have an ice shard pokemon that didn't prompt it to go for extremespeed, depending on the mon it would've killed without that. @@squiddler7731
I think mega Ray is the strongest pokemon in the history of pokemon (or at the very least the strongest up to gen 6 which is all the hack had implemented), so it being the "final boss" makes sense; and some of the strongest moves in pokemon reduce your stats as a downside so "contrary + moves with absurd base power that lower your stats" is a likely choice as well.
@@NightKev Outside other Megas, he only things that might compete raw stats wise is Ultra Necrozma, Zygarde Complete, and Stellar Terapagos. Only thing that actually beats it raw stats wise is Eternamax Eternatus. Zygarde and Terapagos have higher HP, but are far weaker offensively and overall has lower stats. Eternatus has ridiculous defenses (255 HP, 250 Def, 250 SDef), but much lower offenses (slightly less than 2/3 Mega Ray's). Best alternative is Ultra Necrozma. Very slightly lower defenses, slightly but meaningfully lower attack (92% of Mega Ray's), but meaningfully faster (12% faster). However, up to Gen 6 only, a more defensive option is Zygarde Complete. Much less scary offensively, but over double the HP. Among Megas, two stand out. Mega Mewtwo (either one) is also a scary option, both have same BST as Mega Ray. Mega X is just as bulky, slightly stronger physically (but weaker on special side), and slightly faster (13%). Mega Y is even faster than that (21% faster than Ray), slightly but meaningfully more powerful and bulky on the special side, but much more frail on the physical side (70% Def). However, both have worse typings than Mega Ray. The other standouts are Mega Latias/Latios. Give them a Soul Dew (the older version), and they are much scarier on the special side offensively and defensively. Latias has 16% more SAtk and 125%(!) more SDef. Latios has 33% more SAtk and 80% more SDef. They have less HP (both have 76% of Mega Ray's HP), but Latios has just as much Def and Latias has 20% more Def. They have much lower physical Attack (Latias 55%, Latios 72%), but are only slightly slower (96% as fast). Among these, Mewtwo X is the best alternative. Best physical attacker, so the best contrary moves (V-Create, Close Combat and equivalents) are all available. Also, it has an item slot available. Without Soul Dew, Latias/Latios is much weaker, but with it they could spam Draco Meteor and equivalents to become much scarier offensively, while still using V-Create and Close Combat (and equivalents) to bulk up in theory. A much scarier offensive threat, and Mega Latias in particular would be an even scarier wall before boosts.
Legit I think just the champion's team would make it impossible. I don't think any pokemon could stop that mega ray from getting going. My best thought would be a choice banded weavile, since it outspeeds as long as 1, he gives it enough speed EVs, at least 12 speed IVs, and isn't a - speed nature, and OHKOs with icicle crash with choice band or life orb (and has an 87.5% chance to OHKO with an nevermeltice), but that would require him to 1, get a weavile in a randomizer, which can't be guaranteed or even made reasonably likely, and even if he gets that, he needs to either get weavile in on a sack exclusively to extremespeed, since literally any boosts will either mean weavile dies to extremespeed, can't KO with icicle crash, or just gets outspeed and V created, or otherwise force the AI to pick ray against a weavile), and he'd still need to hit a 90% accurate move and avoid the possible extremespeed crit (Although I don't think the AI would use extremespeed there since both of its other attacking moves always kill) and all of that, including most likely a sack, just for one mon. And if the AI uses the stealth rocks before that, then weavile won't be able to be used at all during the fight before that , since 2 stealth rock switch ins, or rocks plus any chip, and the AI could go for the kill with extremespeed (also can happen off one stealth rocks round if the weavile is - defense nature) Other option would basically be something like a latios or other strong, fast dragon type that can drop a draco or outrage, but that still relies on preventing it from boosting, and if the rayquaza is jolly, rather than adamant like I was assuming (assuming that atsign gave it a useful nature and EVs, even though the AI rarely had that in the games before gen 7), then the only gen 6 and earlier dragon types that outspeed it and aren't mega pokemon are noivern (needs a plus speed nature, and with life orb you remove the risk of bad EVs, as well as the possibility of a low roll not KOing that exists without a boosting item). The other options are an arceus with a draco plate, or having a weather team to make something like kingdra or one of the rock type swift swim users outspeed. Only thing else I can think of would be a prankster sableye to burn it or a whimsicott or tornadus/thundurus with tailwind, but then you're sacking 2 pokemon potentially, and having to deal with boosts. The main issue with any of these is that none of them can be setup consistently with randomized wild pokemon.
I think it'd be possible, but it would have to be such an immaculate run that it wouldn't be much fun. Just praying for everything to line up perfectly once with little room for improvisation, you know?
Watching this afrer Alpharads egglocke video im suprised everyone was planning on giving SmallAnt such op pokemon like a shedinja with sturdy compared to Alpharad getting a bidoof with truant.
To be fair there was another run I saw that went well like this one, I think it was either pChal or Cpt. Kidd. I guess the Comedians:tm: got it out of their systems with Alpharad's run.
alpharad and smallant also cultivate very different audiences. i would say alpharad's content style is more chaotic neutral to chaotic evil while smallant's leans more toward chaotic good and the culture in their twitch audiences reflects that
It's been so long since I've seen smant, Its been a long time, last time I've watched you was your smo speedruns, but now your doing Pokémon challenges and smo hide and seek, thanks for always making me happy
This is really smart actually, all the pokemon made to troll you will be easy and the ones meant to help you were the biggest challenge. Thats awesome.
I genuinely want to see someone hardcore nuzlocke this, but with modified HGSS encounters so that each area has set pokemon you can encounter instead of just being randomized, but you can encounter all the pokemon gens 1-6. It seems like it would be... mildly challenging
Shoutout NumbNexus, that guy is hilarious. Ps. 37:28 is the exact moment that I realised there's a lil smiley face in the gap in Unown A's sprite lol, I know it's meant to be shading/shadow but I cannot unsee!
This was incredible! I would love to see this RomHack made available to people like PChal and Flygon and to see their runs, or a nuzlocke from any of yall. Great video
I love how Smant's mom is in the chat and is cheering for all the other content creators' Pokemon. When her Bidoof comes out she says, "Come on little guy." So wholesome!
I went back to look at that and it was so cute
28:26 for anyone who wants to see, just pause and look over his hat
Thank you for pointing this out 🙏🏻
Pretty sure it was Simple Bidoof, which explains why 1 quiver dance boosted its sp.d and sp.a so much.
wrgg
44:10 It was a shame to see bruno squander the true power of the heracross but alas
XD
XD
XD
Shall we improv about it over some British cuisine?
@@TheRealPokeWhizz😂😂😂
Leave it to Smant to completely bamboozle us all, what a great idea and I'm glad my Snorlax got at least one team wipe lol
😮
445 likes and only 2 comments? I’ll change that
i totally agree
@@ARedDragonBrawlStarClipsshut up
946 likes and only 4 comments? I’ll change that
LET’S GO PANCHINKOOOO!!!!!
sorry my little guy was so tough 😂😂
Hi
So cool to see a kind of interaction between my 2 fav pokemon creators
we love Pachinko in this house!
What was the ability?
@@ThunderBirdJack my guess is that the Rotom has Adaptability, given that the only attacking moves it had are both STAB
So glad I was on chat when you faced my Marowak so I was able to provide the lore. The last move was Phantom Force, and it was holding a Fossilized Skull.
The crossover I didn't know I needed and would love to see more of.
That brutal 😂😂😂
That was my favorite submission, good job!
Blade doing Pokemon content when???? o.O
BlaDe your sdv knowledge is amazing I'd love to see what you could minmax in a game like Pokémon, and I'd love it if more people knew about you ❤
10:18 I tried making a cute Pokémon that just wanted to chat with you smallant
AND YOU MURDERED IT IN 3 SECONDS!!!
Sad, yep.
That’s a real feelsbad moment.
Poor fundy 😂
My guy furret was definitely calling him slurs
Lol
Justice for hot dog
they took hims lunch :(
Y E S
What was the hot dog supposed to do?
@@graceholbert2126 yes
Agreed
dougdougs dugtrio pain splitting itself into instant fainting is just perfection 10:30
*dougtrio
Rigged
That represent's doug's carrier with twitch chat so well.
i only wish he had named it dougdougdoug
Rigged
It’s so funny that smallants mom knows so much about Pokémon that’s she can craft an actually insane bidoof.
Runs in the family I guess
Nah she knows the goat.
Where do you think he learned it from?
Rusty 😂@@AUG_Glow
It's a super cool submission. I haven't been on Twitch lately but I was there her first day playing Pokemon and I'm pretty sure it was one of her first ever encounters in the franchise so it was a special pick to her here.
SO I was under the impression my pokemon would be Smallant's so I completely played. Love to see a cool pokemon challenge from Ant tho
Wait, what did u give him?
Or, try to give him
Watch the video @@TheRealPokeWhizz
It was the shedinja in the final rival fight @@TheRealPokeWhizz
Oop haven’t gotten their yet lol
43:38 “he’s nothing without his hotdog” greatest smant quote ever
If it wasn't for the glitched enigma berry you were cooked by The Monke
I think when implementing it they may have said "if positive stat change then negative stat change" and health accidentally got included in that so the contrary killed it.
@@PbnPhilosophyguy that's kinda sick if true LMAO
That Vaporeon set at 22:30 is vile.
LMFAO
I saw the UA-cam short about it so it’s nice seeing the vaporeon set with context
I hate that they did that to my favorite water type
Yall need to grow up
And get a vaporeon like that for yourselves 😏
@@Sailor-Khioneif you wouldn't smash it clearly isn't your favorite 💀
Kaizo Ironmon has nothing on this games difficulty
For those wondering why it took 20 minutes to heal then do the battle is because Falkner did not have the right Pokemon. So it took about 20 minutes for AtSign to fix it
I don’t know how this comment got over 900 likes 😅
I don’t know how this has 1k likes and no comments… until now
What?
Even without the followers your mom is still a content creator.
She created you and you're the content
a content creator creator
Doesn't smant mom have her own channel?
@@RandomCat82Yes she has, she has a following on Twitch. She is still the creator of a content creator as well.
@@DieAlteistwiederda a Content Creator Content Creator Creator, who is the Creator of a Content Creator and Content
It’s really something special how much you’re contributing to early pokemon modding, purely by paying modders to make fun stuff for you. The infrastructure you’re helping provide is invaluable for many more mods to come, and it’s deeply appreciated. Thanks 🥰
Even indie developers can make a better game like Cassette Beast, Patch Quest, Palworld, and many more. Gamefreak needs to use their billions to make a better game.
@@archithrough palworld is a joke wtf are you talking about
@@bones7868 it sell well so ...
and most of all pokemon fanboys like you, are crying and pissing on their bed/X so ...
@@archithrough You don't seriously think that Palworld is going to compete with Pokemon, do you? Cause that will be the joke of the century.
@@bones7868have you played it
Shout out to the thumbnail artist
Thumbs up
Nagyon jó
Nice
Bkhh
ilike it
I had no idea what I was doing when I made my mon, but I’m glad my lil Pachirisu put up at least a bit of a fight before being rapid spun to death 😂
Such a great idea & video, thank you for letting me be a part of it 👏🏻
I know RTgame used to play competitive in gen 5 and earlier, plus he’s just good at Pokémon in general, and it REALLY shows with how he got mega ampharos onto the same power level as contrary dragon ascent Rayquaza. It genuinely might have been over if destiny bond didn’t stay active.
Does anyone know what exactly his set was? I was really looking forward to see what he had.
And well, ofc it knew Draco Meteor.
Country Roads, take me home
@@demonicloaf2100 All hail the Shit Volcano
@@demonicloaf2100did you transport here from 7 years ago
Freezai having a raid boss at the end is pretty fitting for him.
@@toastr1255Well was, Lando lost Toxic in the generational shift
Lando T hasn't been anywhere near the force it was in the past this gen, so I'm guessing he based it on gen 5-8 sets, when it was way more obnoxious. And if it hadn't gone out last, it would have been even more annoying, intimidate with uturn and stealth rocks up is so good at getting in the way of smallant's strat, since most of his strong setup mons were physical.@@itztaytay2
@@itztaytay2 Freezai's specific lando might be from gen 7-8 where it mostly used that specific moveset if I remember correctly
I was really hoping it was landy-i sheer force life orb and got a little sadge when the EQ came out
@toastr1255
I thought it was a troll giving lando I the moveset of Lando T so I was laughing super hard
The unintentional foreshadowing at 20:33 paid off beautifully at 49:24
We know AtSign sometimes changes code during runs to fix bugs. Maybe he heard that and actually implemented it.
@@GooglerPraveen if not, they had to have been cackling like mad when smant said that.
The funny thing about this challenge is that it becomes more difficult the less people want to troll you
17:47 Shoutout to the chatter who asked if I was a furry
This comment got so ignore
this is actually genius: a) it is a cool challenge idea that hasn't been done before (not your average nuzlocke spam or 1 pokemon only) but also b) it has community involvement - EVERYONE gets excited to see everything of theirs unfold, as opposed to being stuck with one chosen one the whole game
I love how RT had his Pokemon where it was. He is such a good Pokemon player and it somehow always surprises me how competent he is, even all these years later.
No way mom, I'm on TV :o
Also for the record the set of the Ambipom was Fake Out, Protect, Last Resort with Technician
youre internet famous!!!! your mon is the only non-creator mon i remember the name of :)
2:10 ""Name him Mr. Beast"- he's gonna control all of the content creators." 7 months later, _oh no_
frr hah
THE WAY THE SMILE SLID OFF HIS FACE WHEN PAT DIDN'T KO THE MAGICTHENOAH LMAOOO
holy shit its tiphereth
Holy shit its tipereth
holy shit its tiphereth
heracross should have used thunder spell smh
He’s gonna have to spin a bad wheel for that
It always shocks me to learn how connected twitch/youtubers are, especially when Smant calledout GameBoyLuke for the Rotom
I was surprised with MandJTV
Its as simple as sending out an email.
A pokemon youtuber knowing a pokemon youtube wasn't that crazy but Smallant knowing Esam of all people was kinda crazy
Shout out to the thumbnail artist because it looks absolutely amazing
It was made by another UA-camr called Lycel
thanks!!
@@LycelGlad you're still around!
Alpharad's Absol having King's Rock... because he's the Nuzlocke King.
I love this concept.
I thought it was the one two punch of Parental Bond giving King's Rock 2 chances to flinch instead of just the 1.
Dylan, Shady and Luke all in the same team for the final gym leader is insane
YES I WAS FREAKING OUT AND DOBBS FOR THE RIVAL FIGHT WAS AWESOME
Too bad no Vinny nor Tobin or any of the rest of the
@@antoninocuffaro2804 Patterz was in there too
Yeah no Chienzo
shady's lilligant got a crit and no one in chat shouted ITS A CRIT... made me sad
i thought the form said YOU would have to use the pokemon so i made it as dumb as possible LOL
oops!
He lied ☠️
No he trolled us
it did say that
small ant lied
He said in the beginning that he asked a bunch of content creators for Pokémon that would be in his egglocke, but he then said the Pokémon were actually gonna be gym leaders and trainers not what he uses.
he lied lmfao
Bloody’s Sylveon was a tsundere: moody, judges you but also has sweet kiss and holds hands. 😂
Felt like a masterclass in how to flirt through Pokemon
ik no one cares but. i accidentally refreshed the page and was like shit where am i. then i clicked on the exact part i was on right before i did on the first try
1 in 10k moment
This feels so good when it happens
Quite a rare moment, I’ve done it once before so I can relate to your moment of satisfaction ☺️
@@Freeze-n-Frostsame, really satisfying when it happens.
these tiny moments always feel really awesome, but it's never really possible to share with anyone. except you just did, so props for that. have a good one
That final Pokemon was the most normal of them all and I was actually laughing my ass off at it. It was remarkable how such a normal set easily made for a scary final challenge. The creator that sent it in does know his stuff well, after all.
22:51
Notice how Smant used Leech Seed on this thing 😭 "Vaporeon was Seeded."
bro you down bad 😭
horny as hell dude XDDDD i dont blame you
@pipoledo Bro, he's the one who used Leech Seed on a Vaporeon using SUBMISSION
OH NO
Some of the pokemon are really creative, I really liked BlaDe‘s marowak, can‘t wait to see more
It's last move was Phantom Force and it was holding a Fossilized Skull
@@BlaDeSDV may his mom rest in peace 😌
His mom is actually such a badass for crafting that INSANE Bidoof
Hahah it was sweet seeing my Altaria up there!!! This was a fun video 😊
The Dream Pokémon at 44:35 killed me
Someone was a real dream hater lol
Two SmallAnt videos in one month can this month get any better 😊
Yes, for example if the war in Ukraine ended.
True@@Patrick-vv3ig
@@Patrick-vv3ig no need to bring in politics buddy no one asked you about ukraine we were just talking about how much we enjoy smallant's content
A 3rd small ant video
Exactly
This is probably the most fun Pokemon challenge I have seen on youtube. Pokemon is a franchise where nearly everything has been done, so I'm impressed you manage to keep it fresh
10:30 DougDougDoug
Oh my god that's amazing. Here I was, thinking that jerk "DougDoug" would participate in this, when he actually just used his second channel. For shame.
(This is a joke.)
@@Interestking R/wehatedougdoug will hear about this
Such a great concept lol. Genuinely surprised that I didn't see the combination of No Guard/OHKO moves, but at least Sturdy Shedinja made an appearance
There was at least one, but it was lower level so it would automatically fail.
i love the fact that you can see chat through the brim of his hat because it’s green
"CJ let his Poliwhirl hold a hot dog and it broke the rom hack"
Hour long Smant video? Sounds good to me.
Sounds perfect actually
@@harolddeleon2341would you said more than perfect?
All I can say is Smant Vods
Bet
RTGame probably sent in a mega ampharos with wonderguard for the champion fight. Gonna be honest, I was thinking about it at the start of the run.
The chaotic energy from eggs sent to Nuzlockers for egglockes is always fun
Will’s unown kinda popped off, para+flinch, followed by a freeze only off the elemental fangs is insanely lucky
And all it took was restyling it into a Luxray.
@@iantaakalla8180 well i mean luxray is the best, so it’s not too surprising knowing that
this is a funny concept. instead of making the gifted pokemon yours, make the gifted pokemon the pokemon of the opponents. this will make battles against troll 'gifters' really easy and battles against people who actually wanted to give you good pokemon a lot more difficult lol
That's what he did
20:33 I was going to call this foreshadowing, but then it occured to me: atsign made the mod, and there's at least one point where it had to be updated.
So did atsign just see this and think "hmm, that's a good idea actually"?
Nah, I asked Smant if I could make a mon despite knowing the "trick" and he told me to make the hardest mon I could possibly think of, workshopped it a bit with my friend and ended with that. I forgot to pp boost the moves D:
@@atsign9782 I see. So you and smallant were just on the same wavelength with this one, lol.
I wonder, if you had given it a Leppa berry with recycle instead of spore, would the AI know how to use that? That'd be evil if it actually works.
I feel like the yache was just to remove any chance that it doesn't cause issues, since if he'd happened to have an ice shard pokemon that didn't prompt it to go for extremespeed, depending on the mon it would've killed without that. @@squiddler7731
I think mega Ray is the strongest pokemon in the history of pokemon (or at the very least the strongest up to gen 6 which is all the hack had implemented), so it being the "final boss" makes sense; and some of the strongest moves in pokemon reduce your stats as a downside so "contrary + moves with absurd base power that lower your stats" is a likely choice as well.
@@NightKev Outside other Megas, he only things that might compete raw stats wise is Ultra Necrozma, Zygarde Complete, and Stellar Terapagos. Only thing that actually beats it raw stats wise is Eternamax Eternatus.
Zygarde and Terapagos have higher HP, but are far weaker offensively and overall has lower stats. Eternatus has ridiculous defenses (255 HP, 250 Def, 250 SDef), but much lower offenses (slightly less than 2/3 Mega Ray's).
Best alternative is Ultra Necrozma. Very slightly lower defenses, slightly but meaningfully lower attack (92% of Mega Ray's), but meaningfully faster (12% faster). However, up to Gen 6 only, a more defensive option is Zygarde Complete. Much less scary offensively, but over double the HP.
Among Megas, two stand out.
Mega Mewtwo (either one) is also a scary option, both have same BST as Mega Ray.
Mega X is just as bulky, slightly stronger physically (but weaker on special side), and slightly faster (13%). Mega Y is even faster than that (21% faster than Ray), slightly but meaningfully more powerful and bulky on the special side, but much more frail on the physical side (70% Def). However, both have worse typings than Mega Ray.
The other standouts are Mega Latias/Latios. Give them a Soul Dew (the older version), and they are much scarier on the special side offensively and defensively.
Latias has 16% more SAtk and 125%(!) more SDef. Latios has 33% more SAtk and 80% more SDef. They have less HP (both have 76% of Mega Ray's HP), but Latios has just as much Def and Latias has 20% more Def. They have much lower physical Attack (Latias 55%, Latios 72%), but are only slightly slower (96% as fast).
Among these, Mewtwo X is the best alternative. Best physical attacker, so the best contrary moves (V-Create, Close Combat and equivalents) are all available. Also, it has an item slot available.
Without Soul Dew, Latias/Latios is much weaker, but with it they could spam Draco Meteor and equivalents to become much scarier offensively, while still using V-Create and Close Combat (and equivalents) to bulk up in theory. A much scarier offensive threat, and Mega Latias in particular would be an even scarier wall before boosts.
I’m beyond surprised that it took 1 hour to see a levitate electric type and a sturdy shedinja.
It happened literally 4 minutes in with ampharos
@@dollenrm I meant his actual stream time, not the video time. I would assume that was his first, otherwise he would have shown it sooner.
@@Random-person-on-the-internet ah my b makes sense
Imagine a hard-core nuzlocke of this. It actually didn't seem possible. Give a copy to PChal, I'd love to see him try. xD
Legit I think just the champion's team would make it impossible. I don't think any pokemon could stop that mega ray from getting going.
My best thought would be a choice banded weavile, since it outspeeds as long as 1, he gives it enough speed EVs, at least 12 speed IVs, and isn't a - speed nature, and OHKOs with icicle crash with choice band or life orb (and has an 87.5% chance to OHKO with an nevermeltice), but that would require him to 1, get a weavile in a randomizer, which can't be guaranteed or even made reasonably likely, and even if he gets that, he needs to either get weavile in on a sack exclusively to extremespeed, since literally any boosts will either mean weavile dies to extremespeed, can't KO with icicle crash, or just gets outspeed and V created, or otherwise force the AI to pick ray against a weavile), and he'd still need to hit a 90% accurate move and avoid the possible extremespeed crit (Although I don't think the AI would use extremespeed there since both of its other attacking moves always kill) and all of that, including most likely a sack, just for one mon. And if the AI uses the stealth rocks before that, then weavile won't be able to be used at all during the fight before that , since 2 stealth rock switch ins, or rocks plus any chip, and the AI could go for the kill with extremespeed (also can happen off one stealth rocks round if the weavile is - defense nature)
Other option would basically be something like a latios or other strong, fast dragon type that can drop a draco or outrage, but that still relies on preventing it from boosting, and if the rayquaza is jolly, rather than adamant like I was assuming (assuming that atsign gave it a useful nature and EVs, even though the AI rarely had that in the games before gen 7), then the only gen 6 and earlier dragon types that outspeed it and aren't mega pokemon are noivern (needs a plus speed nature, and with life orb you remove the risk of bad EVs, as well as the possibility of a low roll not KOing that exists without a boosting item). The other options are an arceus with a draco plate, or having a weather team to make something like kingdra or one of the rock type swift swim users outspeed.
Only thing else I can think of would be a prankster sableye to burn it or a whimsicott or tornadus/thundurus with tailwind, but then you're sacking 2 pokemon potentially, and having to deal with boosts.
The main issue with any of these is that none of them can be setup consistently with randomized wild pokemon.
I think it'd be possible, but it would have to be such an immaculate run that it wouldn't be much fun. Just praying for everything to line up perfectly once with little room for improvisation, you know?
Also, if you looked at a particular point the Rayquaza had Yache Berry. It would have had to be an immaculate dragon, not Weavile.
I love how basically every Pokemon will end up either being a like truant magikarp or a shedinja with sturdy, endeavor, and quick attack
Or a Castform with Parental Bond, Blue flare, metronome, and boombox😂 29:38
Or a Poliwhirl with a Hotdog
@@SeaweedBrainCabin3castform spitting beats
Shedinja with Sturdy is such a brilliant idea.
That dude who made the vaporeon knew very well what they were doing
Funnily enough, I actually know that guy. He's a regular in the Twitch chat.
lol@@awsmrs
@@awsmrs hihi raysLick
@@Zeldrake omg hihi softLick
@@awsmrs omg u know me
I love the creativity of these unique challenge runs! It's always interesting to see new ways to play Pokémon.
Watching this afrer Alpharads egglocke video im suprised everyone was planning on giving SmallAnt such op pokemon like a shedinja with sturdy compared to Alpharad getting a bidoof with truant.
To be fair there was another run I saw that went well like this one, I think it was either pChal or Cpt. Kidd. I guess the Comedians:tm: got it out of their systems with Alpharad's run.
alpharad and smallant also cultivate very different audiences. i would say alpharad's content style is more chaotic neutral to chaotic evil while smallant's leans more toward chaotic good and the culture in their twitch audiences reflects that
Also, he had a team to choose what he had to go against, rather than getting to make whatever they want.
9:50 Pretty neat play. Returning ‘poisoned’ to deliver more damage to *Snorlax* Wow O.O
It's been so long since I've seen smant, Its been a long time, last time I've watched you was your smo speedruns, but now your doing Pokémon challenges and smo hide and seek, thanks for always making me happy
32:36
First time ever hearing a youtuber say this
Mod suggestion: You can only get items from wild pokemon-- every wild pokemon has a random item.
That sounds really fun
@@Yuzuki1337 not really, just tons and tons of thief grinding
Add that they don’t level and it’s a nuzlocke then
And that you can’t use thief/covet
@@Elkariamnow its just pokeball spam
i feel a little bad for freezai because his set is supposed to be used as a lead/pivot but it got used as an ace lmao
Is there a document with all the Pokémon present in this? I'd love to look through it to see what people went with
One of the mods was keeping up to date with a google doc of all the mons, but it never got past chuck, so everything afterwards is undocumented sadly
4:52 “YOU GAVE IT STURDY??” Is a hilarious turn of events. The only ability better for shedninja than what it already has.
it’s so amazing to see Smant start to upload more! I can’t wait for what he has cooking, and I know it’s gonna be as golden as his other content
49:40 You know the funniest thing ?
During gen 5, 6, and 7, V-Create was a legal move for Rayquaza
28:32 not smallant talking to his mom like a JoJo villain 😂
16:48 “every single pokemon is so incredibly powerful it could solo the run if i had it” had me dying🤣
I think when Atsign sent a new file over for the Bruno team he secretly included the contrary Mega Rayquaza that Smant talked about before 😂
44:09 the facial expression when Heracross survived was hilarious LMAO
The people who contributed sprites are so talented!
Facts! And adding the cries too!
Naming the very evil bad rival guy Mr beast has a whole new meaning now
This is really smart actually, all the pokemon made to troll you will be easy and the ones meant to help you were the biggest challenge. Thats awesome.
Smant's real worst matchup would be a Pokémon with Embargo.
I would have chosen Beldum too. My thought process is suffering early on to then have a BA Metagross later.
Metagross evolves way to late to be useable
If you’re playing with level caps like Smant was, you wouldn’t be able to use Metagross until the elite 4. Not really worth it.
I genuinely want to see someone hardcore nuzlocke this, but with modified HGSS encounters so that each area has set pokemon you can encounter instead of just being randomized, but you can encounter all the pokemon gens 1-6. It seems like it would be... mildly challenging
I was just waiting for RTgame the entire video and he showed up finally in the champion team. Damn.
The fact you remember a lot of Pokémon’s moveset at certain levels blows my mind so impressive
"It's a stall Carbink?" Checks set, PIXILATE EXPLOSION lmao
That Judgement Furret though ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I swear i hear of atsign in every Pokémon mod smant plays, atsigns kinda the GOAT
United Gamer, Gameboy Luke, and Shady being in the same fight is just perfect.
What shenanigans has he gotten up to this time
using memento
....goddamn that has to be the most creative idea to make a rom hack i have heard in a long time.
Same!
At 28:30 when he is fighting bidoof you can see his mom say "Comeon little guy" and it is the sweetest thing ever.
You can see it better at 28:29
Hbomb submitting a pokemon was a fun, surprise collaboration.
Freezai choosing a competitive pokemon is such a him thing
mr beast being the rival aged like milk
Shoutout NumbNexus, that guy is hilarious. Ps. 37:28 is the exact moment that I realised there's a lil smiley face in the gap in Unown A's sprite lol, I know it's meant to be shading/shadow but I cannot unsee!
Loving that shady Luke and Dylan were all in the same gym
6:49 a marowak with parental bond is absolutely vile
I never thought about that 💀
I now desperately want to see an actual run using these as the player's Pokémon just to see all of the moves and abilities that got missed
This was incredible! I would love to see this RomHack made available to people like PChal and Flygon and to see their runs, or a nuzlocke from any of yall. Great video
That vaporeon was vile 💀💀💀
to whoever sent in the shiny quagsire: thank you for making such a strong quag, brings so much joy to my heart
great video as always!!
The funniest thing about this is the people who tried to troll him ended up helping him and vice versa.