I hope Pokemon Challenges reacts to my reaction following this also my lighting was a bit weird for this, I don't think it's possible to be that red haha. Have fixed since this
@@512TheWolf512 yeah but British is no longer just a geographical term. Once you slap a name to an empire and then commit genocides in a place, the people there are t gonna be content with“lol I’m technically correct look it up on a map!”
I do not think you can count him as one, considering RT provides actual commentary for a good chuink of the video, rather than just recording himself staring in silence.
Alpharad: *systematically makes a video that targets all of Jan’s weaknesses to insult him in a way he cannot recover from* Jan: “Meh, I’m fine.” RT: *casually improvises devastating insults to Jan* Jan: “I will never be able to financially recover from this.”
@@ASquared544 It’s cause Jan knows the best comedic way to respond to his meme rivalries with all these different youtubers. It’s funnier to respond to Alpha’s spite by continuing to bait him further and funnier to be “devastated” by RT and Ludwig.
I really like how he's critiquing the run and RT's choices, but he's also very clear that this is also supposed to be fun so some decisions he doesn't personally agree with are fine so long as RT is having fun. We need more of that.
Exactly! It's meant to be educational without taking away the fun from it all/apparently to rant about Gothitelle. Hell RT even mentioned the last review is part of why he improved so much
@@nuke_raider I don't know, sometimes being bad is the fun. I'd rather improve myself rather than somebody pointing out all my mistakes then showing them to 200k people
Him misremembering his 4th place at the Pokémon Tournament in combination with what we see in his Mario Kart videos makes me question whether Dan was ever actually crowned the Drift King or if it‘s just his memory playing tricks on him.
maybe this is 100% a joke and you actually know, but in case anyone comes around wondering as well, he actually was crowned the drift king as he's shown photographic evidence of him with his crown! it's in one of his mario kart videos with the irish lads (I Lost All My Friends Playing Mario Kart, timestamp: 7:56 )!
I do really like how Jan, despite the stuff he doesn't exactly approve of (No Rare Candies, probably assuming it was emulated and the Second Victini Try) he always does make sure to remind his viewers "Hey it's his run he can do what he wants and whatever he thinks is fun" because yeah it's not like RT is trying to submit a speedrun or anything. He's just playing a nuzzlocke for his viewers and himself to enjoy
Y3ah tbf he's gotten a lot better at like reminding people it's just a game and made for fun, because like his one jaidenanimation review his viewers were like throwing a fit about it
I really want these two to do a livestream together, but they don’t talk directly to each other, they just react to everything the other is saying in real time
RT, I know this isn't your most recent video, and I don't know just how many comments you get a day, but it's been really lovely watching you grow as a person, player of games, and a channel over the years. I watched you back in the TF2 days, and then I started more consistently watching you when you branched out, especially when I saw you covering games I really enjoy (most notably; Pokemon! Literally my childhood). Watching this and the prior Nuzlocke review back-to-back, it really shows to me how much the times have changed, and highlights just how entertaining your content still is, and how skilled you are at games - especially Pokemon. You have also been a very uncompromising self, and that is beyond respectable. You've grown so much that you interact/interacted with so many other TH-camrs now. CallMeKevin, TheSpiffingBrit, the YogsCast as a whole, PokemonChallenges, WolfeyVGC, JaidenAnimations and more. I'm just really proud of you Dan, you've grown so much and I'm just glad you've stayed yourself, even years later. Much love. Keep being yourself.
14:00 So i don't remember if Jan said this in his video, but on his stream he said that his editor basically edited down Dan's 5 hours of nuzlockeing content into a single 1 hour video for him to be able to react to on stream in a single sitting. It is entirely possible, and probably very likely, that the whole level 100 Diagla thing was cut out in his 1 hour version. So unless his stream or someone else told him about it, Jan might not have even seen it or heard about it. That or it was not that big of a deal for him and he didn't react to it for his TH-cam video, but I think that if he did see it then he would have said at least something about it.
He probably just would have thought it was funny tbh, given that Dan specifically refused to use it in battles it really doesn't affect the content being reviewed
I love whenever RT plays pokémon because it's super enjoyable watching people that weren't aware of his competitive past lose their minds over him being cracked at the game.
I personally really dislike it. RT doesn't play clean enough in Pokemon and his 'competitive past' only shows when he abuses the idea of a Nuzlocke by going for guaranteed encounters and thus catches of super strong pokemon, which defeats the central point of a Nuzlocke which is using what hand you are dealt (and also letting less commonly used Pokemon shine). RT's pokemon teams ALWAYS tend toward that team you used at 12 with 5 500+BST pokemon and a starter/legendary, and MAN that is boring. He also just... isn't that good. He doesn't do simple things like staying in Torrent to ensure kills, double switching, scouting for moves with certain pokemon... It takes no particular skill to crush BW with Excadrill, and he had 5 other Pokemon and still failed. And he didn't even make it fun to watch along the way, so... (But that's just an opinion and RT can and should do whatever he wants since it's his fun, of course)
@@cractor6307 That would be a more subjective question than good or bad play but basically, it boils down to you neutering the entire 'use the hand you are dealt' luck of the draw philosophy of a Nuzlocke. It's not just about not letting pokemon faint - it's also about not having a choice of party members and having that random Plusle you were so disappointed to catch at level 12 carry you versus Juan. RT goes out of his way in BW to suspend the species clause 'oh, the Excadrill I played badly with and let faint was caught as a Drilbur, so I should be allowed to catch an Excadrill again!! But I won't catch all these other dupes because it suits me not to!' That's goalpost shifting at its finest and is incredibly... disingenuous? Pokemon isn't so serious that that should be a big thing, but RT takes a LOT of shortcuts. Later, he argues that he's only using the Dialga to Fly - but in a proper Nuzlocke, you only get HM slaves if none of your entire legitimately caught box can learn the HM. This means you have to use your Luvdisc on the team instead of your lucky 6 dragons or whatever - and that is part and parcel of the challenge that also makes you appreciate the mon or rage at the circumstances of it all. RT suspends all this and spends many many minutes on stream debating the idea - if it really had no impact, he wouldn't even need to debate it, but it does and he knows it. He's just happy to hide behind 'oh chat said it was okay' when he knows enough about Pokemon as a lifelong player to know it is not. He's just jumping through hurdles to justify not sticking to the rules - then why advertise it as a Nuzlocke?
@@oopsausername4111 Lol u kinda need to chill a lil bit and have fun, maybe you're a nuzlocke pro but he did establish at the start of the og video that it was a lets play combined with nuzlocke n hes not really trying as hard compared to first nuzlocke. Sure pros may disagree wit some of the things he did but im just saying he wasnt really considering a tryhard full nuzlocke run n was just having fun
@@oopsausername4111 It may very well have been goalpost shifting, however, playing a game with self-imposed rules for the sake of unfun is simply just not good entertainment for anyone except sadists. Even as an experienced pokemon player, I do not blame him for bending the rules over what, to him, could've been seen as throwing the run. For someone like RT, it's probably impossible to go into this game without a fair estimate of how well he'll go in the upcoming fights. If the outcome is 99% certain death, it's not fun to bank on that 1% chance of victory and lose, especially when losing means packing up and leaving after how many hours of gameplay. You may lose pokemon, and that hurts, but the fun is in the struggle of a Nuzlocke to win and succeed. If the run is dead, then there is no struggle and there is no fun. It's just wasted time. Given how much time was already sunk into the run, I can't blame him for making decisions like that live, when they directly contribute to the livelihood of the run, and therefore how much fun he'd have. It's probably fair to call it out as an unproper Nuzlocke, but it's not as if it's ranked, so if it's a Nuzlocke to him, and the viewers he had and has now, then that's all that really matters, in the end.
the pivot from "whimsicott is a wonderful pokemon, how dare you slander his good name, i placed fourth in a vgc tournament with a whimsicott" to "it wasn't a whimsicott, i retract my statement" will never not be funny to me
I feel like I need to mention that Gothorita is based on Gothic Lolita fashion, rather than traditional Goth fashion, which makes it's design make a lot more sense. The bows, pigtails, etc. are from the Lolita influence, and don't fit in as much with the western Goth styles.
Nah it's still ugly. As someone who wore gothic Lolita thru high-school it's much cuter than that pokemon. It's the face for me though not the bows. The face is off-putting.
I honestly love to see how Jan's reviews push people to get better at the game. It's rare to see react content have such a positive effect on a community. It's so cool to see that Jan's original intent for them to be used as a learning tool shine through here with RT talking about how he watched more of Jan's videos for tips on improving in every element of the game from team building to encounter routing to planning. Honestly, it's incredible. :)
i think he doesn't realize that the gothita line is based on gothic lolita fashion, not western gothic fashion. that's why it's made cute, with pigtails, with bows. i also personally think gothitelle is the more awkward evolution and i would've been 1000% fine if it stopped at gothorita. but i love the gothita line they're cute.
Jan: British people, am I right- The Irish: (plays Come Out Ye Black and Tans) Jan: *Why do I hear boss music?* Like how Jan has become a well-known menace to any youtuber who makes a nuzlocke video at this point. The double take when RT heard him say "Kinda thick too" just broke me
21:17 The other thing about optional dupes clause is that you can play a lot more risky and aggressive. You don't have to try your hardest to switch around to keep a certain useful Pokemon alive when you can just get the same one again after the first one has died.
My head hurts. Daniel reacts to a Nuzlocke reviewer as they watch Daniel's Nuzlocke as Daniel says 'I can't wait to react to the review of THIS Nuzlocke'.
Imagine if the two of you just kept reacting to each other's reactions until it's gone through about 8 cycles. The screen no longer shows any gameplay instead just a checkerboard of RT and Jan's webcams. And the audio is just a horrific eldritch noise of 16 people all talking at once, pausing eachother to talk more and or talking over eachother.
So we got Jan reacting to Dan, then Dan reacting to Jan reacting to Dan and now all we need is Dan reacting to Jan reacting to Dan reacting to Jan to get the holy trinity.
TECHNICALLY SPEAKING your first encounter being, for example, a Pidgey means it's THAT Pidgey. If your second encounter is also a Pidgey, then as far as your in-game character is concerned, it probably isn't even the same Pidgey. If you walk into a room that has exactly one Pokémon...and it's a Pokémon that there is only one of...then it's the exact same encounter because it's the exact same Pokémon. But I'd let this slide because come on, it's a Victini...HOW can you say no to how cute it is?
So in Dungeons and Dragons there is this concept called RAW vs RAI, or Rules as Written vs Rules as Intended. It's basically the divide of what the wording of a rule actually is as opposed to what was most likely the intent behind the rule. For a Nuzlocke, the rules as they are written state that you can only catch the first Pokemon you encounter on a route. That can very easily be interpreted as only being allowed to catch the type of Pokemon you first encounter on that route, which would mean in the case of the Victini that you can only catch a Victini on that route, even if it's not the same one. Obviously though the rule is intended to mean that you can only catch the exact Pokemon that is present in your first encounter. However, the rule does not actually state that, and so the rule is up for interpretation. I personally think that when it comes down to this that whatever is most fun for you is the best option, because as a DND player the best rule is Rule of Cool.
Your "let's play all of" videos where it's just one long video are my favorites of yours. They give the whole thing in one go, which I appreciate! Some of the best Pokemon content available
Jan making fun of Dan saying seimitoad wrong when he called samurott "samirott" Also as an Irish person, I have no problem enforcing the stereotype of car bombs if it means Jan no longer calls an Irish person "British". I was also fuming
I have complete confidence that Pokemon Challenges is gonna be absolutely flooded with DMs from goth girls after his in-depth analysis of Gothorita and its evolutionary lineup, just maybe not for the reason he's hoping Honestly, as a New Yorker, battling a Victini is much more exciting than seeing a copper green statue on the IRL island. I'd let that second chance pass. Also, IRL, you don't need to board a pricey ferry from NYC to see the Statue. You can just go to the southern side of Liberty State Park where you could park for free and see the backside of the statue. There's also a science museum with its own planetarium in the park. My uncle helped open the park by raising one of 13 US flags in the park in 1976 when he was a boy scout, so the park is something special for my family.
One thing grinding has over rare candies is the fact that you get EVS Edit: Look guys I'm not trying to say which one is better TwT. Some have no choice but to grind, some have cheats/emulation. I'm just saying that you do get EVs from grinding. (Awesome idea btw is the berries thing @Denly mentioned in the replies.)
@@possiblyivy726 I think it's mostly in the context of streaming or time efficiency. The grinding can take a lot of time and either you or your audience can get bored with it before completing a challenge. It means you don't rush as much, even if there are pros and cons to both methods
@@possiblyivy726 Pchal commonly does hard nuzlock runs, not just the base games. If a run can take even hundreds of attempts to win do you really want to spend hours grinding on stream for every one of those attempts? Yeah it's a bias but grinding gets boring when you reset a run multiple times
It's a time efficiency thing mostly. What people will usually do is add the stat berries to affect EV levels. It's usually paired with a No Overlevelling clause to keep things interesting
0:30 That's what the RT actually stands for! Review Tik Toks, Game It also shows the order of your priorities. very clever, Review Tik-toks Game. Very clever indeed.
I think the next time you do a Nuzlocke you should intentionally just make decisions that would anger the man. Fill up the rage meter like a special bar and sip on the tasty fury. But that's just me and I'm a naughty man.
Right as Dan says "This stream is sponsored by manscaped" guess what ad pops up? That's right, Cards, the Universe and Everything (CUE for short!) But imagine though
I hope Pokemon Challenges reacts to my reaction following this
also my lighting was a bit weird for this, I don't think it's possible to be that red haha. Have fixed since this
reaction to a reaction
i cant wait for you to react to his reaction of your reaction to his reaction of your video
and then you react to his reaction of your reaction of his reaction
I hope Alpharad reacts to this reaction of a reaction
TBH I just thought I had missed an RT Goes outside stream at some point and you were just deeply sunburned.
“There’s a fine line between hate and love” Is that right, Mr. “I Wish Daisy Was Deleted from The Game”?
no STOP
This needs to be top comment just on the merit that it's hilarious
@@RTGame Oh, what a hypocrite Mister "Reaction Tuber".
@@RTGame ADMIT IT
@@RTGame HI IM DAISY! - RT's *Favorite* character to hate
PokemonChallenges: "British TH-camr"
RTGame: *pulls out gun*
PokemonChallenges: "Just kidding, haha"
RTGame: *slowly puts gun away*
Love how he said he's seething with rage
"Saying this, he casually threw aside a large rock"
I smell a carbomb!
*knife you mean
@@Genus39 * dueling pistols
I can’t believe that Jan would criticize RT. Doesn’t he know about his lucrative college history?
He would dare criticism the Drift King???
@@ladyofrillwater tbf, when has his college degree actually been useful?
@@nift36 do you think that English degree doesn't have any correlation with how good he is at Mario Kart????
@@mcdanzy8379 Why do all the streamers and youtubers i watch have an english degree, is it really that bad????
@@SwizzleDrizzl maybe it's just a common degree to get there
The "R" in RT now stands for "Reaction", and there's nothing you can do to change that.
What does it stands for normally?
and the T stands for Tiktok
@@riroufudo Racist
Reaction Tumble Gaming
Reac Tion Game
"British people, am I right?"
Dan: "THIN, FUCKIN', ICE."
your name honestly says it all
Keep calling the Irish British. Super funny lmao
@@512TheWolf512 Yeah go over to Ireland and tell that to them yourself, see how that goes for you.
@@512TheWolf512 yeah but British is no longer just a geographical term. Once you slap a name to an empire and then commit genocides in a place, the people there are t gonna be content with“lol I’m technically correct look it up on a map!”
@@macaroon_nuggets8008 I can't see the comment anymore, I take it the ira got em lol
Dan's apology is truly what cemented him as a Reaction Tuber
Reaction Tuber Game
There was even a midroll ad
Is that a new kind of potato tuber?
@@NoireEiki my pfp?
I do not think you can count him as one, considering RT provides actual commentary for a good chuink of the video, rather than just recording himself staring in silence.
RT saying “I’m coming for your balls” is such a powerful sound bite that I hope haunts Rumble Tumble forever
Lol where is this timestamp? During the ad segment?
@@johnnyzhou4480 18:33, it was the first time Jan called him a "British TH-camr"
Dan makes fun of Jan for hating on Gothitelle so much.
Everyone: looks at Dan. Then slowly turns towards Daisy.
Nicknaming my gothitelle Daisy just for them
@@EtamirTheDemiDeer someone needs to do this if they ever end up in a tournament with both of them in it lol
Alpharad: *systematically makes a video that targets all of Jan’s weaknesses to insult him in a way he cannot recover from*
Jan: “Meh, I’m fine.”
RT: *casually improvises devastating insults to Jan*
Jan: “I will never be able to financially recover from this.”
It’s actually hilarious that this run seemed to have gotten higher praise from Jan than Alpharad’s spite run.
It's because Jan respects RT :p
@@ElMoss64 nah its because alpha/jan have a meme rivalry
@@ASquared544 It’s cause Jan knows the best comedic way to respond to his meme rivalries with all these different youtubers.
It’s funnier to respond to Alpha’s spite by continuing to bait him further and funnier to be “devastated” by RT and Ludwig.
Now I want to see Alpharad and RT do a nuzlocke against each other
I really like how he's critiquing the run and RT's choices, but he's also very clear that this is also supposed to be fun so some decisions he doesn't personally agree with are fine so long as RT is having fun. We need more of that.
Exactly! It's meant to be educational without taking away the fun from it all/apparently to rant about Gothitelle. Hell RT even mentioned the last review is part of why he improved so much
This is why I really respect PC quite a lot when it comes to reviewing runs and his own content tbh
I'd still be upset if someone started watching me and started critiquing my every move
@@averynaiveoddish7052 then how do you wish to improve?
@@nuke_raider I don't know, sometimes being bad is the fun. I'd rather improve myself rather than somebody pointing out all my mistakes then showing them to 200k people
The Gothorita rant had me dying, he's been fighting them demons and needed to let them out
I hate him, those are some of my favorite psychic types and I love their designs.
@Valian G And that’s ok. It’s completely valid to have the wrong opinion
@@ms.fukawa-hanamura3754 lmao
@@ms.fukawa-hanamura3754 Power comment.
@Brandon Gray ...I'm sorry I have autism. Was that sarcastic or not, I literally can't tell..
Him misremembering his 4th place at the Pokémon Tournament in combination with what we see in his Mario Kart videos makes me question whether Dan was ever actually crowned the Drift King or if it‘s just his memory playing tricks on him.
maybe this is 100% a joke and you actually know, but in case anyone comes around wondering as well, he actually was crowned the drift king as he's shown photographic evidence of him with his crown! it's in one of his mario kart videos with the irish lads (I Lost All My Friends Playing Mario Kart, timestamp: 7:56 )!
@@ashtonisvibing yes but the picture shown shows nothing but RT in a crown, no evidence of the competition in question. Highly suspect 🧐 /j
BLASPHEMY
@@dreamnomore550 He was crowned the king of having an English major.
To be fair, he had pictures.
“There’s someone you didn’t ask for consent before shaving your balls, Mr. Challenge!”
- RTGame “Drift King” Daniel, 2022
Kid named challenge:
Kid named 's:
Lol timestamp?
@@johnnyzhou4480 That part didn’t make it in the video sadly. It’s in the VOD if you want to hear it. (Don’t remember the time stamp though)
@@BenSpace Ah that's unfortunate, do you remember roughly which part it was at? Such as between so and so? Although if not tanks anyways.
my favourite part was when Dan said "it's reacting time" and reacted all over the place
Reactbius
reacting time game
This truly is one of the reactions of all time
Not funny. Didn’t laugh. Do better.
@@madysonandres9571 shut up
RT reacting to the sponsor candidly instead of just skipping it is an amazing bit
It seems to be the standard thing for people to watch the sponsor segments when doing react content, although it doesn't seem like RT knows that.
@@danieljensen2626 i dunno, i watch some that outright skips them
It’s like when CallMeKebin watches the ads on those mobile games
I was wondering what the hell my add-on skipped lmao.
@@thelambsauce7307 Ke🅱️in
It's good to know there's such kind and generous people in the world, giving "React To Games" such a high rating.
Honestly thats Now my new headcannon of what RT Stands for
absolutely LOVE the fact that jan accidentally said bungle instead of tranquil as if Bungle is now a pokemon species of its own
5:10
I can't believe this. I can't even begin to describe the amount of light this shed on my view of Randy-Tandy Gamer. Morgana, get the Brick.
Rackity Tackity Gamer
"Randy-Tandy Gamer" is a name I haven't heard for him, but it fit's unreasonably well.
@@schnig01 Ruckus Tuckus Gaymer
Rango Tango Gamer
“Get the brick “is gonna become a new channel meme and I’m all for it
The Manscaped ad was a truly important part of RT learning what to do for the next Nuzlocke.
Shave your balls, the aerodynamics makes you a better trainer
He's going for them pokeballs the next nuzlocke
@@blazerheata6479 oh shit
He also needs to throw in a conspicuous ad that is so smooth you’ll never see the ad coming
first rule of nuzlocking: you have to shave your balls.
Can't wait for Jan to review this video again for an infinite loop like last time
The cycle must continue
It’s surreal to hear RT say something I said in chat on stream and on video. I’m still not forgiving you for cheating my RumbleTumble
Timestamp?
@@holymolee1525 about 1:04 in
@@overkia5958 what stream was this?
@@paintrainfunhousetwo it was a Persona stream and right after he stopped playing he watched this review I don’t know the name
The RT in RTGame now stands for ‘React-tuber’
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I do really like how Jan, despite the stuff he doesn't exactly approve of (No Rare Candies, probably assuming it was emulated and the Second Victini Try) he always does make sure to remind his viewers "Hey it's his run he can do what he wants and whatever he thinks is fun" because yeah it's not like RT is trying to submit a speedrun or anything. He's just playing a nuzzlocke for his viewers and himself to enjoy
Y3ah tbf he's gotten a lot better at like reminding people it's just a game and made for fun, because like his one jaidenanimation review his viewers were like throwing a fit about it
@@danielshore1457 Everyone took P.Chal way too seriously before because of his monotone, deadpan delivery of everything.
If it’s single player, do whatever, no one is affected by you
Dan: Now here’s 7 mid roll ads
*Actually gets an ad*
Me: I am shocked and appalled
was looking for someone else to point this out
You can set where ads appear so good comedic timing
Yeah, I honestly laughed out loud at that
The review was going well until Pokemon Challenges wanted to let the world know what his preferences on Audino and Goths are
first reply woo
I think he meant by health lol
It was going well until he started talking about his shaved balls
Dan almost went on an hour long rant when Jan called him british
I really want these two to do a livestream together, but they don’t talk directly to each other, they just react to everything the other is saying in real time
One of them says a sentence, then the rest of it is reactions to responses
RT, I know this isn't your most recent video, and I don't know just how many comments you get a day, but it's been really lovely watching you grow as a person, player of games, and a channel over the years.
I watched you back in the TF2 days, and then I started more consistently watching you when you branched out, especially when I saw you covering games I really enjoy (most notably; Pokemon! Literally my childhood). Watching this and the prior Nuzlocke review back-to-back, it really shows to me how much the times have changed, and highlights just how entertaining your content still is, and how skilled you are at games - especially Pokemon. You have also been a very uncompromising self, and that is beyond respectable.
You've grown so much that you interact/interacted with so many other TH-camrs now. CallMeKevin, TheSpiffingBrit, the YogsCast as a whole, PokemonChallenges, WolfeyVGC, JaidenAnimations and more. I'm just really proud of you Dan, you've grown so much and I'm just glad you've stayed yourself, even years later. Much love. Keep being yourself.
damn.
14:00 So i don't remember if Jan said this in his video, but on his stream he said that his editor basically edited down Dan's 5 hours of nuzlockeing content into a single 1 hour video for him to be able to react to on stream in a single sitting. It is entirely possible, and probably very likely, that the whole level 100 Diagla thing was cut out in his 1 hour version. So unless his stream or someone else told him about it, Jan might not have even seen it or heard about it. That or it was not that big of a deal for him and he didn't react to it for his TH-cam video, but I think that if he did see it then he would have said at least something about it.
He probably just would have thought it was funny tbh, given that Dan specifically refused to use it in battles it really doesn't affect the content being reviewed
Jan just not mentioning the level 100 shiny dialga is honestly the highlight of this review
pokemon challanges has gone from censoring RT swearing to talking about his balls.
character development.
It’s weird to know he defo has shaved nuts
"Does improvise wildly count as a plan?" is a great yearbook quote
I love whenever RT plays pokémon because it's super enjoyable watching people that weren't aware of his competitive past lose their minds over him being cracked at the game.
I personally really dislike it. RT doesn't play clean enough in Pokemon and his 'competitive past' only shows when he abuses the idea of a Nuzlocke by going for guaranteed encounters and thus catches of super strong pokemon, which defeats the central point of a Nuzlocke which is using what hand you are dealt (and also letting less commonly used Pokemon shine). RT's pokemon teams ALWAYS tend toward that team you used at 12 with 5 500+BST pokemon and a starter/legendary, and MAN that is boring.
He also just... isn't that good. He doesn't do simple things like staying in Torrent to ensure kills, double switching, scouting for moves with certain pokemon... It takes no particular skill to crush BW with Excadrill, and he had 5 other Pokemon and still failed. And he didn't even make it fun to watch along the way, so...
(But that's just an opinion and RT can and should do whatever he wants since it's his fun, of course)
@@oopsausername4111 I'm sorry how is using guaranteed encounters s bad thing? It requires forethought and knowledge of the game and its resources.
@@cractor6307 That would be a more subjective question than good or bad play but basically, it boils down to you neutering the entire 'use the hand you are dealt' luck of the draw philosophy of a Nuzlocke. It's not just about not letting pokemon faint - it's also about not having a choice of party members and having that random Plusle you were so disappointed to catch at level 12 carry you versus Juan. RT goes out of his way in BW to suspend the species clause 'oh, the Excadrill I played badly with and let faint was caught as a Drilbur, so I should be allowed to catch an Excadrill again!! But I won't catch all these other dupes because it suits me not to!'
That's goalpost shifting at its finest and is incredibly... disingenuous? Pokemon isn't so serious that that should be a big thing, but RT takes a LOT of shortcuts. Later, he argues that he's only using the Dialga to Fly - but in a proper Nuzlocke, you only get HM slaves if none of your entire legitimately caught box can learn the HM. This means you have to use your Luvdisc on the team instead of your lucky 6 dragons or whatever - and that is part and parcel of the challenge that also makes you appreciate the mon or rage at the circumstances of it all. RT suspends all this and spends many many minutes on stream debating the idea - if it really had no impact, he wouldn't even need to debate it, but it does and he knows it. He's just happy to hide behind 'oh chat said it was okay' when he knows enough about Pokemon as a lifelong player to know it is not. He's just jumping through hurdles to justify not sticking to the rules - then why advertise it as a Nuzlocke?
@@oopsausername4111 Lol u kinda need to chill a lil bit and have fun, maybe you're a nuzlocke pro but he did establish at the start of the og video that it was a lets play combined with nuzlocke n hes not really trying as hard compared to first nuzlocke. Sure pros may disagree wit some of the things he did but im just saying he wasnt really considering a tryhard full nuzlocke run n was just having fun
@@oopsausername4111 It may very well have been goalpost shifting, however, playing a game with self-imposed rules for the sake of unfun is simply just not good entertainment for anyone except sadists. Even as an experienced pokemon player, I do not blame him for bending the rules over what, to him, could've been seen as throwing the run. For someone like RT, it's probably impossible to go into this game without a fair estimate of how well he'll go in the upcoming fights. If the outcome is 99% certain death, it's not fun to bank on that 1% chance of victory and lose, especially when losing means packing up and leaving after how many hours of gameplay.
You may lose pokemon, and that hurts, but the fun is in the struggle of a Nuzlocke to win and succeed. If the run is dead, then there is no struggle and there is no fun. It's just wasted time. Given how much time was already sunk into the run, I can't blame him for making decisions like that live, when they directly contribute to the livelihood of the run, and therefore how much fun he'd have.
It's probably fair to call it out as an unproper Nuzlocke, but it's not as if it's ranked, so if it's a Nuzlocke to him, and the viewers he had and has now, then that's all that really matters, in the end.
13:00 I'm laughing my ass off at how widespread this meme has become, along with the limited 3d copypasta.
SOMEONE ELSE NOTICED IT TOO LMAO
Top 10 damn Daniel references in gaming
I cannot unhear RT saying "I'm coming for your balls"
IVE WANTED TO SEE ANOTHER ONE OF THESE REVIEWS FOR AGES!!
the pivot from "whimsicott is a wonderful pokemon, how dare you slander his good name, i placed fourth in a vgc tournament with a whimsicott" to "it wasn't a whimsicott, i retract my statement" will never not be funny to me
It’s time for all the epic gamer moments
The "POG'?" "Me Mes"? "May mays?"
I remember seeing this and the watching Jan's full reaction. Both of you are great content creators.
I feel like I need to mention that Gothorita is based on Gothic Lolita fashion, rather than traditional Goth fashion, which makes it's design make a lot more sense. The bows, pigtails, etc. are from the Lolita influence, and don't fit in as much with the western Goth styles.
Nah it's still ugly. As someone who wore gothic Lolita thru high-school it's much cuter than that pokemon.
It's the face for me though not the bows. The face is off-putting.
Getting an actual Mid-roll AD after the Apology makes the entire bit that much funnier
Dan looking straight into camera has the same vibe as a foreword facing Simpsons character
Finally. Someone is taking RumbleTumble down a peg.
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I honestly love to see how Jan's reviews push people to get better at the game. It's rare to see react content have such a positive effect on a community. It's so cool to see that Jan's original intent for them to be used as a learning tool shine through here with RT talking about how he watched more of Jan's videos for tips on improving in every element of the game from team building to encounter routing to planning. Honestly, it's incredible. :)
RT is my favorite reaction channel!
i think he doesn't realize that the gothita line is based on gothic lolita fashion, not western gothic fashion. that's why it's made cute, with pigtails, with bows.
i also personally think gothitelle is the more awkward evolution and i would've been 1000% fine if it stopped at gothorita. but i love the gothita line they're cute.
Jan: British people, am I right-
The Irish: (plays Come Out Ye Black and Tans)
Jan: *Why do I hear boss music?*
Like how Jan has become a well-known menace to any youtuber who makes a nuzlocke video at this point. The double take when RT heard him say "Kinda thick too" just broke me
21:17 The other thing about optional dupes clause is that you can play a lot more risky and aggressive. You don't have to try your hardest to switch around to keep a certain useful Pokemon alive when you can just get the same one again after the first one has died.
My head hurts. Daniel reacts to a Nuzlocke reviewer as they watch Daniel's Nuzlocke as Daniel says 'I can't wait to react to the review of THIS Nuzlocke'.
Imagine if the two of you just kept reacting to each other's reactions until it's gone through about 8 cycles. The screen no longer shows any gameplay instead just a checkerboard of RT and Jan's webcams. And the audio is just a horrific eldritch noise of 16 people all talking at once, pausing eachother to talk more and or talking over eachother.
"i made quite a few mistakes, BUT i got away with them."
i will now live by these words.
30:48
He really called out Dan for his pronunciation of Seismitoad and then a few moments later said Elektross instead of Eelektross.
rt please do a run using only gothitelle just to watch pokechallenges have a meltdown
Getting an ad immediately after he said there would be seven midroll ads and a sponsorship from Manscaped made that joke 100% better.
So we got Jan reacting to Dan, then Dan reacting to Jan reacting to Dan and now all we need is Dan reacting to Jan reacting to Dan reacting to Jan to get the holy trinity.
TECHNICALLY SPEAKING your first encounter being, for example, a Pidgey means it's THAT Pidgey. If your second encounter is also a Pidgey, then as far as your in-game character is concerned, it probably isn't even the same Pidgey. If you walk into a room that has exactly one Pokémon...and it's a Pokémon that there is only one of...then it's the exact same encounter because it's the exact same Pokémon. But I'd let this slide because come on, it's a Victini...HOW can you say no to how cute it is?
I can say no to a Victini, or any legend, mythical, or shiny for that matter. Scratch, that I always kill shinies anyway.
What a wholesome turn of events! I can’t wait for your next nuzlocke to be just as fun!
I always look forward to the latest RT: reacts video!
30:50 The truly amazing thing is Dan's ability to pronounce them perfectly upon second inspection
This was my second time watching the N/Ghetsis fight and I was still biting my nails over it
10/10 anxiety would watch again
Yoooo at around 29:05 the video progress bar lines up almost perfectly with the actual video Dan is watching. Pretty epic ngl.
So in Dungeons and Dragons there is this concept called RAW vs RAI, or Rules as Written vs Rules as Intended. It's basically the divide of what the wording of a rule actually is as opposed to what was most likely the intent behind the rule.
For a Nuzlocke, the rules as they are written state that you can only catch the first Pokemon you encounter on a route. That can very easily be interpreted as only being allowed to catch the type of Pokemon you first encounter on that route, which would mean in the case of the Victini that you can only catch a Victini on that route, even if it's not the same one.
Obviously though the rule is intended to mean that you can only catch the exact Pokemon that is present in your first encounter. However, the rule does not actually state that, and so the rule is up for interpretation. I personally think that when it comes down to this that whatever is most fun for you is the best option, because as a DND player the best rule is Rule of Cool.
I unironically love these videos for the behind the scenes stuff
With manscaped, I can take care of my very own pokeballs!
Personally I think Alpharad should react to this next so Jan can make two more videos on it
I want more RT Nuzelockes so we can get more Dan reacting to Jan reacting to Dan
The RT in RT Game stands for Reaction Tuber
RT is my favorite reaction TH-camr!
IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO I WASNT SURE IF WE WOULD GET IT LETS GOOOOOOO
Your "let's play all of" videos where it's just one long video are my favorites of yours. They give the whole thing in one go, which I appreciate! Some of the best Pokemon content available
Ok i NEED to see here how they put Dan's reaction to being called British in his review, it was like a full 3 minutes of silence in the vod
Absolutely the best reaction channel!
Jan making fun of Dan saying seimitoad wrong when he called samurott "samirott"
Also as an Irish person, I have no problem enforcing the stereotype of car bombs if it means Jan no longer calls an Irish person "British". I was also fuming
Or Jan pronouncing Chandelure with a hard Ch, like come on have you never heard the word Chandelier before?
@@ihappy1 yer man's german, ch is hard in german
18:25 After hearing the song "Come Out Ye Black and Tans" for the first time a few days ago, this reaction was both priceless and justified.
i love the dynamic these 2 have, everytime i see rt reacting to his nuzlockes getting flamed i go HELL YEAH
I love your trolling thumbnail. Both times he's reviewed you he's been super kind despite your thumbnails.
What's funny is even in an edited video he still left in the sponsor
I have complete confidence that Pokemon Challenges is gonna be absolutely flooded with DMs from goth girls after his in-depth analysis of Gothorita and its evolutionary lineup, just maybe not for the reason he's hoping
Honestly, as a New Yorker, battling a Victini is much more exciting than seeing a copper green statue on the IRL island. I'd let that second chance pass. Also, IRL, you don't need to board a pricey ferry from NYC to see the Statue. You can just go to the southern side of Liberty State Park where you could park for free and see the backside of the statue. There's also a science museum with its own planetarium in the park. My uncle helped open the park by raising one of 13 US flags in the park in 1976 when he was a boy scout, so the park is something special for my family.
One thing grinding has over rare candies is the fact that you get EVS
Edit: Look guys I'm not trying to say which one is better TwT.
Some have no choice but to grind, some have cheats/emulation.
I'm just saying that you do get EVs from grinding.
(Awesome idea btw is the berries thing @Denly mentioned in the replies.)
Theres so many ways grinding is better, and the supposed best nuzlocker here still wants to say rare candies are better
@@possiblyivy726 I think it's mostly in the context of streaming or time efficiency. The grinding can take a lot of time and either you or your audience can get bored with it before completing a challenge. It means you don't rush as much, even if there are pros and cons to both methods
@@Sootielove if you cant come up with a way to make a grinding section interesting, then you shouldnt be streaming a pokemon nuzlocke
@@possiblyivy726 Pchal commonly does hard nuzlock runs, not just the base games. If a run can take even hundreds of attempts to win do you really want to spend hours grinding on stream for every one of those attempts? Yeah it's a bias but grinding gets boring when you reset a run multiple times
It's a time efficiency thing mostly. What people will usually do is add the stat berries to affect EV levels. It's usually paired with a No Overlevelling clause to keep things interesting
Such an intense nuzlock. Nice to see another perspective on it!
Challenges: "how did RT just pronounce that pokemon?"
Also challenges: "sam yer ott"
0:38 is what my brain feels like 24/7
4:30 It sounded like they were having a real conversation.
RT: I wanted to make the run more interesting by sacking Excadrill, he was doing too good.
Also (past) RT: *gets a new one anyways*
Dans pure rage after being called English and then his face after needing to apologise is priceless 😂
The double take when RT heard him say "Kinda thick too" just broke me
Watching those ending battles a second time was just as intense even though I already knew the outcome.
0:30
That's what the RT actually stands for!
Review Tik Toks, Game
It also shows the order of your priorities.
very clever, Review Tik-toks Game. Very clever indeed.
This guy gives off the biggest "um, actually." vibes it cracks me up b
I think the next time you do a Nuzlocke you should intentionally just make decisions that would anger the man. Fill up the rage meter like a special bar and sip on the tasty fury.
But that's just me and I'm a naughty man.
so pull a apharad on him lol, that'd be great
I appreciate the stress PChal puts on forming your own ruleset, important mindset to have when doing reaction content I feel like
Imagine if this guy just starts up a new channel or series or whatever, and it's based around solely reviewing all of RT's content
I imagine its the lighting, but I love how he turns red when he gets called british
Steam began to blow from his ears
More content from one of my favorite TH-camrs, RTreact!
10:05 RT's grabbng the boxing gloves
18:24 Oooh, that's not good lol
Right as Dan says "This stream is sponsored by manscaped" guess what ad pops up?
That's right, Cards, the Universe and Everything (CUE for short!)
But imagine though
they've advanced past reacting to eachother reacting to eachother to just having a conversation
The serendipity of "Jan" and "Dan" rhyming is almost surreal to me.
I think Jan is German so (if I'm right) it doesn't actually rhyme.
@@mr.goldfish1530 you're correct, it's pronounced something like "yahn" instead
@@GKoopa yawn
Someone, get this man an action replay