SO MANY SACRIFICES!!! Reacting to "How I Survived My First Pokemon Nuzlocke" by Alpharad!
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“Is Psychic really that busted?”
For the early Gens it was *the* most powerful type. They had to make new types just to balance it out for Gold and Silver. It was only dethroned when Fairy Type was introduced in X and Y and some Pokémon types were changed.
Eh, I think it's been a general slope downwards. Literally overpowered in gen 1, then they added Dark and Steel to counter it in gen 2, then in gen 4 the Physical/Special split hurt them again by making a lot of stuff like Fire moves that they were still able to handle in gen 3 but now can't, etc.
@@sterlingmuse5808 True. It’s gotten weaker over time but early on it was ridiculous.
Yeah, Psychic in gen 1 was basically uncounterably OP considering in the original games its Ghost weakness was actually an immunity instead, Special being one stat to cover Attack and Defense (that would be split in gen 2) meant pretty much every Psychic powerhouse was also a tank and vice-versa, and its only true weakness - Bug - only having incredibly weak moves like Twinneedle or Pin Missile and the stronger Bug types like Scyther not even learning any Bug moves. Not even mentioning how some of the best Psychic types like Alakazam were also fast af and, in gen 1, critical hit chance was actually tied to having higher Speed, so the Psychic sweepers swept even harder.
The only types to ever even come close to Psychics gen 1 dominance in modern Pokemon was Steel and Dragon, which led to Steel losing some of its resistances (to Ghost and Dark) and Fairy being introduced specifically as the Dragon killer the same way Dark was introduced to hard counter Psychic.
Once psychic was knocked down, dragon became the best, at least until gen 6
x/y is a bit late. id say it was in the lower half of typing from gen 4 onwards - it wasnt THE strongest in gen 2 already, and the split made them actually kinda bad. the only meaningful thing theyve had going for them for a while now is theyre the only real hard hitters against fighting types, and those arent known to be too bulky
If you wanna keep reacting to Alpharad's content (after you do his randomized nuzlocke + Jaiden's final nuzlocke), the solo runs he does with certain Pokemon are also really good. His Mudkip one for Gen 3 is especially popular so I recommend that one.
The crossover I never expected. Alpharad's made a lot of reactable video over the years, and not just regarding Pokémon. But nobody ever does react to them, which is a little strange. Regardless of if this is just a dipped toe or if you want to see more from this guy, I'll be here for all of it!
I honestly really enjoyed this video a lot
"Messed up coming from me" says one of the most wholesome youtubers this side of the children's video barrier
Roasted
>wholesome
>TH-cam Kids content
Pick one.
My sense of humor is dark like pitch black though
Yeah, before you move on with Jaiden, watch his other one "How I survived a RANDOMIZED Nuzlocke".
Also I've been watching Alpharad for years so it's funny seeing you react to his style of humor
“Is Exeggutor’s next level a Dragon?”
No. Exeggutor is fully evolved. There’s an Alolan *variant* that is part Dragon in Sun and Moon though. Some games have subspecies that are exclusive to that games region.
Oooh yeah I saw the memes back in the day
@@theduckgoesmoo you were right but it doesn't count as an evolution or "next level" XD
Exeggutor is Grass/Psychic in Gen 1 through 6, but in Gen 7(Pokemon Sun and Moon), Exeggutor gets a regional variant that becomes a Grass/Dragon type.
16:02
“What should he have done?”
Level up his Pokémon. Seriously, he was WAY too underleveled for that fight.
"What if you have ones that are stored?"
Something, something up to you.
Some people reset when they wipe, some people keep going with what's in the box
Personally I usually reset at that point, not because of my rules, but because most things in the box are like 20 levels less than what was on your team.
I guess if the Pokémon lose they die then if you lose the battle you die too
@@theduckgoesmoo its dependent on what you decide for the rule... You can make the rule where 1 Whiteout is death, nothing else, or do multiple whiteouts
Yes you can lose the first trainer battle. In fact it’s actually recommended in Yellow to lose since you can actually control what your rivals Eevee will evolve into based on how many battles you win, lose or skip against them. Losing the first fight makes it a Vaporeon later giving giving your starter Pikachu an advantage. Sadly you can’t do that in a Nuzlocke since the rules kind of lock you into making it a Flareon or Jolteon.
every rival battle is possible to lose against unless it's a special scripted "impossible to lose" case.
8:49 This is something you’ve gotta know. Any Pokémon that evolves through an evolutionary stop:
Gloom->Vileplume
Poliwhirl->Poliwrath
Growlithe->Arcanine
Pikachu->Raichu
Their evolutions always have worse level up movesets than their pre-evolutions. You usually have to level any of them up to at least level 40 or so before evolving them, that is if you don’t wanna be stuck with Ember as your strongest Fire type move on Arcanine. At that point, you’d have to search the land of Kanto for the tm to teach Flamethrower to it, and there’s other worthwhile things to teach flamethrower’s TM on than Arcanine.
I love Alpharad because you’re never waiting for the other shoe to drop when he does a bit. The best way I can describe his humor is that the other shoe stays on the floor.
This is basically Rusty irl.
You can heal Fainted Pokemon? I've just been throwing them away!
So in regards to Sabrina's fight he firstly was way too under leveled. He wasn't actually playing with any level caps for his team so this was entirely something he could have corrected with a bit of training. As for his strategy in battle he could have just started with Lapras and immediately went with Perish Song, Sabrina had no other Pokemon so it was a guaranteed win since Lapras is a special defense tank and would have lived anything Alakazam could throw at it (before it started building up Calm Minds). He also was playing with items so he could have just kept healing his Lapras and then switch out to Snorlax on the last turn to avoid Perish Song KO'ing him. Another strategy would be to just lead with Snorlax. Snorlax is even tankier than Lapras and could have just muscled his way through Alakazam's pitiful physical defense even though he was so under leveled.
Him using a Master Ball on Onix didn't actually matter since Onix was his final encounter, he couldn't save it for anything else so he might as well throw it. That being said he really should have kept it and used repels until he got to Moltres to ensure that it would be his encounter instead. This is because Onix is one of the absolute worst Pokémon in the entire game he would have been better off with just about anything else because there is virtually no situation where Onix is actually helpful outside of death fodder.
Sabrina has 4 mons in fire red.
Kadabra, Mr Mime, Exeggutor, and Alakazam.
@@3reddytop But Alakazam is her last Pokemon so she can't switch him out to cancel Perish song. OP is correct.
@@grantisshananaa4906 it was her last Pokemon but not her only Pokemon. The strat in the comment is to start with Lapras use perish song on her Alakazam. Which could have worked but still had some risk as according to the list of additional rules he was playing on set mode so he couldn't just get a free switch. Also the phrasing of the comment made it seem like begin Lapras, perish song, stall and switch, win.
@@3reddytop The entire strat starts when Alakazam is the last pokemon as is with in context to this video. Don't blame OP for your own poor comprehension skills.
@@grantisshananaa4906 Firstly I never blamed OP for anything. Second with Alpharad playing in set mode he couldn't start with Lapras unless he defeated the previous mon with it so either way there is still a bit of a risk to get off the perish song.
You should definitely react to Saltydkdan's Friendlocke series too at some point; it's basically a Nuzlocke but his pokemon are represented and controlled (as in they suggest moves to use) by his friends. The videos are a lot longer than these ones have been, but he does have complete compilations of his season 1 and 2 videos on his channel. His other videos are worth watching too, like the one where he plays chess with the guy from Down the Rabbit Hole
So quick explanation
A ton of Pokémon who evolve via items, like Arcanine, don’t learn good moves when they evolve.
Growlithe can learn Flamethrower by itself at level 40ish. Arcanine can’t learn Flamethrower without the use of a TM or by already having it as a Growlithe beforehand. This was done to incentivize people to not evolve their Pokémon immediately to not just steamroll the early game.
Also, concerning the Onix situation, Alpha’s friend thought Onix had Sturdy, which it may have.
Sturdy is an ability introduced in Generation 3. Since Gen 5, Sturdy makes it so that the Pokémon it is on cannot be killed in one hit and will remain at one HP.
however, in gens 3 and 4, Sturdy would only protect the holder once from one hit KO moves like Guillotine or Sheer Cold.
Onix wouldn’t survive because if this, but even if it did, Jynx was going to outspend next turn and kill Onix anyway if it’s Quick Claw didn’t kick in, which it probably wouldn’t.
Never forget all the lost souls that gave their lives for this video
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In case anyone was wondering, the absolutely fucking epic song that Alpharad played as he went into the Elite Four is called "I Want To Live" from Pirate Warriors 4.
An excellent choice for the final stretch of a nuzlocke, if you ask me!
Alpharad has so many fun videos on his channel and he#+s such a funny dude. It would be nice seeing you react to more of his stuff.
Yep. Arcanine learns all its moves at Level 1 and then you have to rely on TM and HM. The *only* main series game I know where it learns moves through leveling is the Hisuian Arcanine from Legends Arceus. Which give the unfortunate implication Arcanine lost the ability to learn new moves after hundreds of years.
Can't teach an old dog new tricks, after all.
@@kereminde actually that's literally all you can do lol the implication is it can't learn anything on its own anymore you HAVE to teach it everything.
8:55 since you're clearly confused at this point, I should probably tell you that some stone evolutions (such as arcanine) tend to have the problem of having no level up moves
Him nicknaming the hitmonlee "mr bustdwn" was a homage to his hitmontop named "dr bustdwn"
In the video that was gonna play next at 28:08
Thank you for listening to my (and I'd imagine a few other people's) recommendation on doing Alpharad's nuzlock videos before watching Jaidens nuzlock (video) she did with alpharad.
Also I'd recommend you watch which one came out first between the randomized nuzlock video and the 2 player nuzlock video.
Edit: I think it's the randomized nuzlock but don't quote me on that.
Most people I see do Nuzelockes only start rules involving encounters when they are able to obtain PokeBalls. They usually still have the Death rule in effect from the start. I also lost my first attempt at Yellow version because somehow my rival's Eevee's Tackle did more damage than my Pikachu's Thundershock.
Oof that’s rough buddy
Alpharads pokemon content is absolute fire and super enjoyable to watch, but my favorites of his are definitely the irl videos, one is called something like "I hosted a normal dinner party with no ulterior motives" and the other is about an unsolvable escape room. Nobody has really reacted to them even tho they're insanely funny
The first nuzlocke I watched had the guys release any pokemon that fainted, but as it turns out if a pokemon's affection level is to high they won't leave. So they named a box "graveyard" and put all the 'dead' pokemon there after discovering that.
As you can see, Jacob Alpharad isn’t the best, but he is the lucky boi
Yeah in the earlier gens if you use an evolutionary stone to evolve a Pokémon at an early level, the moves they learn later get locked out. I don’t know if that has been removed in the newer games, but it has humbled many.
Just to explain the Arcanine thing, pokemon that evolve thanks to stones can't learn any moves except for one. Meaning if you evolve it too early you will miss out on better moves.
I love to see you watch more of alpha's content. Specifically his randomized nuzlocke, Copypasta Theatre, Romeo and Juliet but without any rehearsals, Super Mario odyssey but with 8 people, I hosted a normal dinner party with no ulterior motives, and finally Mario 64 as a first person shooter. These videos are among my favorite but watch whatever you feel like from alpharad as long as you watch him I'll probably enjoy it.
This whole run is just a scream of "give your hearts, sasageyo, TATEKAI!"
If you want to see an expert react to Jaiden’s and Alpharad’s nuzlockes and point out mistakes and stuff, you could react to Pokémon Challenges. He’s probably the best nuzlocker in the world and he has made videos critiquing these 2
lol what a title
For the evolutionary stone thing, that's well... complicated.
For Eevee, given its entire gimmick, can and does easily learn new moves through level up. However, other stone evolutions: your Cleffables, Ninetails, Arcanines, Nidos, ect, are more complicated. You CAN learn some moves by level up, but they are either so high (level wise) that they functionally irrelevant, or in that weird pre level 1 gap that requires the move reminder/tutor. Furthermore the moves that CAN be learned through level up are simply not worth grind.
now that you’ve discovered alpharad’s content, you have to watch his “only mudkip” video. it’s one of my favorites by far.
I plan to!
15:20 "Run away! Run away!"
But Duck, _You cannot run from a trainer battle._
I meant like dig underground to avoid getting hit to stall
Alolan (Pokemon Sun and Moon) Exeggutor, a regional varient, is Grass/Dragon and looks even more like a palm tree. Gyarados' Mega Evolution is Water/Dark. People are still salty about it.
Fun fact, if you start playing all the pokemon games right now, you have less than one year before Nintendo shuts down the DS/3DS Store, you can't download Pokemon Bank anymore and all your pre-Switch era pokemon are stuck forever, never being able to be migrated forward to Pokemon Home and the modern games...
Yeah THANKS Nintendo.
Also yes, that IS how you pronounce Arceus.
The two Alpharad Nuzlockes are noticed in Jaiden's video about the 2-Player Nuzlocke, I wont spoil his win ratio though
I suppose he could’ve used Yoshi from the beginning before Alakazam started stacking those Calm Minds. Maybe grinded a bit more
Oh boy, Alpharad's second Nuzlock was a thing. Watch that, then Jaidens Soulink. Won't be dissapointed.
Something I think you'd enjoy is Jocat's Guide To series.
In terms of the Alakazam Slaughter:
What should he have done? Used a physical attack with his Arcanine, since not only does Alakazam have naturally low physical defense but high special defense, he also used Calm Mind multiple times, so his special defense (and attack) were boosted to at least twice their normal level. Most likely, Dig would have one shot the Alakazam as Arcanine has high physical attack.
So his friend though the Onix would tank Jynx because it had the ability Sturdy however for Gen 1-4 Sturdy only applied to one hit KO moves and didn’t apply to all moves until Gen 5.
Alpharad's smash content kept me entertained in college
I recommend doing Alpharad's second nuzlocke, then doing Jaiden's double nuzlocke.
I think the reason they wanted you to do Alpharad is because he did the SoulLink (two player) Nuzlocke with Jaiden.
Arc e us is the official pronunciation shown in the Pokédex 3D app on the 3ds
I’ve only seen one Pokémon nuzlocke before this video. It was nothing compared to the cruelty of permadeath. Pokémon nuzlocke is not for the faint of heart. Also this guy is really funny! 😆
"Its Pronounce Arceus Fight Me" I will, for a very simple reason.
In the recent Pokemon Legends game, at the very start Arceus gives you what it calls an "Arc Phone", there is no way in hell that Nintendo would actually be alright with it being pronounced as ARSE PHONE (funny as that might be) XD
Nah, it's Arkoos.
Joking.
Thunderbolt, Flamethrower, psychic, and shadow ball all are good pokemon moves. They are 100% accurate with 80 base power. Most other moves that are stronger are 70%- 80% , which is unreliable, or give up a turn.
Starter Squad is another pokemon series that is good.
You wanna know what makes it worse, switching out Pokemon cancels out the Perish Song. Fyrus could have lived.
25:00
*weezing explodes*
“Doesn’t even show it”
Yah cuz it actually didn’t happen. Weezing just died and another Pokémon took Dragonite out, and Alpha just lied for the content. Didn’t change the outcome at all, just made the story better.
Don't worry, they've changed the pronunciation of Arceus a million times
Fun fact coughing never used explosion it just got crit and alpha lied for the bit
Next series I recommend is Salty DK Dan Friendlocke it’s a good nuzlocke where his friends control the Pokémon
Alpha kinda just has to waste the master ball every playthrough, it's tradition at this point
One video you could react to is *Game Grumps: Dan reacts to Pokemon.* One of the players was unfamiliar with the series, so it's a compilation of his hilarious reactions to each of the pokemon they come across
His Arcanine had bite -__- . He could've perish songed Lapras then just switch often
Yooooo Alpharad is like, probably my favorite dude on the internet
This video was my first experience with him and I really enjoyed it
Ooh, Alpharad? You should definitely check out the CPUCS. Incredible anime, and it gets insane in season 3.
This is a good one 🤣
A professional Nuzlocker reacted to both videos and...well. Lets say he considered Jacob Alpharad a Slobro at this 😅
Pchal! 😂
Yeeaaaaah, Pokemon that evolve by an evolutionary stone usually can't learn moves by level up after evolving. It was meant to be a balance for being able to evolve your Pomeon whenever you wanted.
Huh, honestly, this video makes it kind of hard to believe, that this is the same guy who’s supposedly to have such a great luck.
I just finished my own nuzlocke in Leafgreen. I beat the elite four only losing my blastoise (howitzer) and kangaskhan (madre).
It is arceus with a hard c because arse is the british way of saying ass, for this reason it has been pronounced arkeus in the promotional material for legends arceus, also the pokemon silvalli is intended to be a psuedo arceus and its ability is called RKS system
I recommend watching the Pro Nuzlocker’s reaction to this Video.
You need to react to his "Can you beat Pokemon Emerald with just a Mudkip?"
Love this video! Love doing Nuzlockes 😊 if you do play Fire Red or Leaf Green for a nuzlocke on stream, let this be a small warning... Sabrina is no joke! That is the #1 run ender in this game in my opinion. Do not take her lightly 🤣 also... Good luck and have fun! 😊
Side note, at that point, Perish song was the right call. You can stop the perish count on your Pokemon by switching it out, but he could have saved more if he did it sooner. There was a lot of changes that could have happened in that fight in particular, but the perish song was the best call.
You should react to young yong tales pokemon nuzlocke video.
I recommend you watch Alpharad's can you beat Pokemon emerald with only mudkip video.
After his randomized I think you’re primed to see his Luck ratio
Alpha rad makes good content and so do you duck goes moo
You know, since you're getting interested in Nuzlockes, you might wanna consider watching some of Team FourStar's Nuzlockes. They've played several full Nuzlockes on their gaming channel, as well as some other cool stuff worth checking out. The Nuzlockes themselves would be too long to watch for your channel unless you're interested in reacting to 50+ episodes of Pokemon gameplay with commentary from TFS, but a highlight or death compilation would be worth a watch though.
That's a pretty neat idea.
Does using a bike actually work for the daycare? Cuz that thought made my brain stop for a sec 😂
Nendoroids are infinitely better than Funkopops
You should check out alpharads nuzlocke run on world of light
After you watch the next Jaiden Nuzlocke video, I recommend watching MandJTV’s video, “My First Pokemon Nuzlocke”. It’s not as popular as Jaiden and Alpharad’s Nuzlocke videos, but it’s a good one and deserves more attention.
When I read The name of The video I was thinking you react to your old First pokemon video
4:45 Kyle…why did you hesitate?
……no reason
Do my eyes decive me, or am i actually watching a duckgoesmoo reaction to a Video by the Internet Funnyman Alpharad ???
No lies here!
“Is psychic busted” in kanto absolutely the only weakness psychic has in gen 1 is ghost and bug, the the 3 ghost type are also poison and psychic kill poison, and all bug type in gen 1 SUCK
Yeah, I'd say watch his randomized one next
Please keep reacting to Alpharad, he's called the Internet Funnyman for a reason
Is that really his name lol
@@theduckgoesmoo yeah, check his about section
idk why he doesn't switch Lapras out after
watch how I survived a randomized nuzlocke.
I think probably the only thing he probably could have done would be to use dig on it with arcanine because not only is it’s physical attack better than special but not even bite would work because In generation three dark type moves are special and alakazam’s Special defense is slightly better then it’s physical defense
He also has a couple of really funny solo Pokémon ones that you can watch after you do the two player nuzlocke
When it comes to nuzlocke videos, and any Pokémon content in general, you could say…you gotta catch em all
I’d say I’m sorry…if I was
You should look into randomizers if you decide to stream Pokémon stuff
You should watch his next Nuzlocke video before Jaidens 2 person Nuzlocke, because her’s has a spoiler for it… okay it was just 1 statement, but better safe than sorry.
"Its Pronounce Arceus Fight Me" I've been a loyal Patreon for 2 year and never felt a blow so harder than this.
And if you do a Nuzlock (I would watch) You should do a game you at least know
So I’ve actually been testing some things on my pc with Pokémon pearl
@@theduckgoesmoo Is it DS Rom?
@@funny9able uhhhh I think so?
@@theduckgoesmoo Well it's ok, it's sometimes glitchy but when I had it on my old laptop (playing HeartGold) it would go black screen. I did play other games and able to play the whole game.
I've always wanted to do a nuzlocke but am bad at pokman
See his charity livestream video too, if you thought Jaiden's luck was shit enough as it is
Alpharad a fantastic youtuber and you should check out some of his other videos like his escape room videi or mario sunshine vid also fun fact his nickname is the internet funny man
Yeah I would recommend to watch Jacobs randomizer nuzlock first
Alpharad mostly makes Super Smash Bros content, but makes content for a lot of different games.
Definitely watch the randomized Nuzlocke first, Jaiden spoils the result of it in her video with him.
(Before I've even seen the video)
0:00
Was it naming the gastly mankey?
Bingo
Heh
It's not Arceus it's Arkoos
The circle is now complete all that is left for you to do is do your own nuzlocke
I’m putting some things into works
@@theduckgoesmoo Nice can’t wait to see it good luck
@@theduckgoesmoo by the way Captain kid just released his video on his own nuzlocke so yeah more content for you my friend
I believe it is pronounced ar-koos