steven is my favorite champion just because of how he's just a guy who likes rocks who just happens to have a pretty crazy team and (except in emerald) be the champion
@@dashingclasheryeah Steven is my favorite champion. I respect Cynthia cuz she's like a post game player and she is solid, and Leon is an awesome guy that is genuinely an amazing person and it's impossible to not love him. But Steven. He isn't "special", he is a steel type specialist, he loves rocks (so do I), and he wanders around doing shit he likes. Oh and he's strong AF
I'm guessing that Spinda kept using Teeter Dance because the game still thinks you have 2 pokemon out, and so it registers it as 1 pokemon on your field that isn't confused yet.
Similarly to why some Pokémon kept using ground moves when there was only a flying type on the field… whatever that “empty” slot is, apparently the game doesn’t see it as being immune to ground
"Why am I so under leveled?" I feel like it's a recurring issue in Ants runs but it always seems like he avoids trainer fights and too readily suicides his team and they don't get XP from that. But it does make him the even bigger underdog and that makes it more exciting
Whenever I fight trainers (usually the gym leaders) and a Pokémon I want to level dies, I always try to go for a revive while using a higher leveled Pokémon to take the hit. It’s good to try to at least keep them alive if you have xp share, because grinding wild Pokémon battles takes forever for farming xp. If Ant weren’t so lax about faints, he wouldn’t have been so underleveled for all of these gym fights and would’ve had an easier time
@Conquest no chat only said no items in battle items outside of battle were never excluded (unless something saying that in the vod was cut out of the video)
@I ah, yes, the twitch gentlemen, the working class, the adults. Yes. Definetely not children using the prime subscription from their family amazon account
Yeah I feel like Tentacruel and Crobat occupy a similar space where people are so annoyed by constantly seeing tentacool/zubat in water/caves that they don’t give them the time of day bc they’re so common and seen as a nuisance, so they get underestimated when they are actually very strong mons
Yeah, Tentacruel occupies something of a similar role to Crobat. They're both weirdly good evolved forms of really common Pokémon. At the end of the day, being rare is meaningless.
Well, 90% of the trainers in Gen 5 only run one Pokemon, and another 9% only have two. There's only a small handful of trainers that actually have three Pokemon, and only half a dozen who have more than three.
These challenges are always great to watch. Seeing Ant’s strategizing in full effect, beating difficult battles while handicapping himself further is peak content.
Did you know that in Gen 3 if you press start in a double battle you can swap between the HP bar and the actual HP numbers so you don't have to go into the Pokémon list to check their HP 😁
"he doesn't have any dark moves but now he looks cool." also, i'm really curious about that second glitch pokemon you've got there. it took damage from spread moves (magnitude, perish), was able to affect enemy ai (claydol earthquaking skarm and spinda spamming teeter), and could be selected by random target moves (assist). yet it only seems to be an issue sometimes - i wonder if atsign could talk about that bc i think it'd be really cool
Smant. The quick claw destiny bond could have still worked even though they left banana alive, because you can then use a move that’s guaranteed to go last, keeping the previous destiny bond active through another attack
I think the real reason for this change is so that the opponents spread moves only target smallant, and not the invisible level 0 pokemon beside him. Just a limitation of the mod I suppose.
@I **Snotty Nerd Sniff** Um, ackshually, it's Pokémon, not pokemon. **Snotty Nerd Sniff CD** And also, the plural of Pokémon is **Snotty Nerd Sniff 2** still just Pokémon. **Snotty Nerd Sniff 3 & Knuckles**
@@bookswithbek2702 sorry, i assumed you were trying to be funny/satirical because otherwise your comment would add literally nothing to this thread. but i guess for some reason that was your goal, in which case you succeeded
@@frostyclouded Eh, it's understandable, the only reason I used the snotty nerd sniffs was to already satirize myself so nobody could call me a nerd without being redundant, while also being a grammar/spelling nazi.
I get home from work, sit down with my dinner, pop the YT open and BAM *_Pokemon Emerald but every battle is extremely unfair_* 1 min ago... had a whack day and this turned it right around : )
ok, I've seen it too many times to reasonably call it anything else, Tanner really can just will crits into being by his word alone. Godspeed, you goddamn wizard.
I really liked this challenge Also i would like smallant to have more pokemon challenges without items and legandaries. It adds an extra bit if difficulty which i personally like ...
How about a run where you basically play as an NPC? The game randomly selects an NPC for you to control in battles. Or even better, you can only use Pokemon that a specific NPC would... like Bug Catcher... or Mountaineer
Normally I see your videos and think "Wow that's a neat concept, I'd probably never put myself through that, but cool!" But in this case, I actually wanna play this lol, is the ROM gonna be released per chance?
36:04 Random Amazing Doubles Leads, Double Team Shiftry, Extrasensory clears out Fighting Types. Sand Attack, Intimidate Mightyena. You cant touch this gimmicky duo.
Sheesh, SmallAnt really had to grind for this challenge. He left no trainers unbattled. He couldn’t be underlevelled for this at all. Never seen him do that before.
Usually I don’t watch your videos(even though I’m subscribed) because they don’t really show up on my home page, but the ones that I’ve seen I’ve really enjoyed
Smant: Claydol and Cradily are missing one tiny aspect of what makes them amazing tanks with decent damage? Useless Also Smant: Replaces them with Wobbuffet and Shedinja
Dunno if I'd call missing a health recovery move or a set up move tiny aspects, those are both pretty important for making stall mons viable without items.
@@erniehines claydol has good type coverage with its STAB moves but I wouldn't call it a tank without recover given that the latter half of emerald is chalk full of amazing water types and a dark type E4 member. It needs both to be a good tank. I don't think cradilily offers much, tbh. I think ingrain is pretty mid without leftovers recov on top of that.
@@cowsanonymous Cradily has more than enough bulk without a setup move thanks to Ingrain, it’s natural bulk, and its good defensive typing, while Claydol is a naturally bulky Pokémon with decent damage and would’ve been particularly useful at the psychic gym, where it resists all of their attacks bar Solar Beam, and can learn Solar Beam for itself as well as Shadow Ball, both TM that are available before even Lilycove City.
@@Solanne11 Decent damage?? shadow ball is a physical move better given to other teammates and cradily learns no STAB offensive move other than ancientpower, which isn't even special in this gen. Ingrain is also honestly pretty awful because of how it locks you in. It has a special attack stat of 71, which is pretty mediocre at best, making solarbeam pretty mid. Shedninja with toxic is the strongest stall mon in singleplayer pokemon. Ant made a good call.
The biggest flex was actually evolving the wynaut. You’re one of like 4 people I’ve seen actually do that. Big props I certainly don’t have that patience.
Why are there never more than one part on these, i love them but i only come here every year for like one day to binge it all and then wait until it fills up again^^
Can you imagine small ant reaching out to you to make a Pokémon mod? On the one hand it’s an honor. But on the other, what impossible crap is he doing this time…
Really happy with how this challenge turned out, forcing you to build a full team without it being outright impossible beyond some insane minmaxing like others. Challenging without being too unfair (with the added bonus of an awesome party)!
I really like these challenges Smant does to make the game harder and more interesting. But I think it would be cool to see more of the unusual pokemon in battle / forcing smallant to use PokéMon he'd usually not use. An idea for a challenge I have is to try to complete Emerald where u can only use a pokemon once (each PokéMon can only be used to fight one opponent PokéMon), with your level capped at the opponent's highest level. That way u have to save better PokèMon for the harder opponents. Perhaps, if there are too many compulsory battles then he could do 'only allowed to battle twice', etc... Basically, a challenge that forces him to use unusual ones like say Natu or Feebas would be interesting. (for Magikarp etc, he may have to battle an opponent above a certain level in order for him to win). Anyway, keep up the content SmallAnt
A similar way of doing this might to let chat/other TH-camrs pick his team for each major battle (gym leaders, evil team admins etc.) and once that Pokemon has been used it can't be again (perhaps even if you lose the battle. Though I'd allow Rare Candies so the grind doesn't get boring to watch). Chat might be super helpful and give him a really strong Pokemon or screw him over with a bunch of first stage bug types and a Magikarp. XD
This is probably the opposite of the cahllenges he does. Literally. Just go and comment this on any other pokemon challenge TH-camr, there are enough out there.
@@cptKamina The essence of the challenge that the OP proposing is to limit what Pokemon he can use. I can see Smallant doing a challenge like that even if not in the way the OP suggested.
You know, if you really think about it, the first “battle” you do against your rival in any of these (except maybe Gold/Silver, I guess) is just two kids shouting at their new pets to beat the crap out of eachother. They know one useful move at this point and it’s either scratch or tackle. Might as well be out there yelling GET HIS ASS.
From what I've heard early gen trainers only choose moves based on a pokemon's first type, not its second. They know that Skarmory is a steel type, so they use ground moves, ignoring that it's also flying
Second thought, it could be a bug in how the game is edited. Perhaps the empty slot on SmallAnt's team is treated as an untargetable Pokemon with a Null type, so the AI uses moves that hit everyone thinking it'll hit the dummy team member the fights use
a bingo pokemon challenge would be interesting. Tasks would range from getting some gyms first, finding rare mons, find rare itesm with pickpoket zigzagoon etc.
Shoutout to the people in chat who said “Polo” after everytime Smallant said Marco the Skarmory’s name
Polo
@@SquidSatan mm
Polo
I love silent mutual understandings online, just builds a sense of fun cooperation and humor
I thought everyone did that
Real talk, Steven winning a legit 1v3 was pretty bad ass
That's why he's the true Hoenn Champion
He the true champion after all
steven is my favorite champion just because of how he's just a guy who likes rocks who just happens to have a pretty crazy team and (except in emerald) be the champion
@@dashingclasheryeah Steven is my favorite champion. I respect Cynthia cuz she's like a post game player and she is solid, and Leon is an awesome guy that is genuinely an amazing person and it's impossible to not love him.
But Steven. He isn't "special", he is a steel type specialist, he loves rocks (so do I), and he wanders around doing shit he likes. Oh and he's strong AF
Steven is a legend, i'm happy to share my name with him. Best champion for sure!
I'm guessing that Spinda kept using Teeter Dance because the game still thinks you have 2 pokemon out, and so it registers it as 1 pokemon on your field that isn't confused yet.
Similarly to why some Pokémon kept using ground moves when there was only a flying type on the field… whatever that “empty” slot is, apparently the game doesn’t see it as being immune to ground
@@snuffysam it might've been on the VOD comments that people suggested it was the classic invisible shiny bulbasaur?
@@altariamotives3158 I think it is more likely to be a ?????????? whose texture got removed/replaced by a blank texture
@@skyeplaysgames4598 yeah, iirc that has the same (albeit hidden) features as a lv0 shiny bulbasaur
No that specific spinda is bugged and try’s to reapply confusion on confused pokemon. It’s actually really annoying for speed runners.
"Why am I so under leveled?"
I feel like it's a recurring issue in Ants runs but it always seems like he avoids trainer fights and too readily suicides his team and they don't get XP from that. But it does make him the even bigger underdog and that makes it more exciting
Ive noticed that too, he's way to chill with his pokemon fainting, I think it's slipping his mind that they don't get experience when they're fainted
Whenever I fight trainers (usually the gym leaders) and a Pokémon I want to level dies, I always try to go for a revive while using a higher leveled Pokémon to take the hit. It’s good to try to at least keep them alive if you have xp share, because grinding wild Pokémon battles takes forever for farming xp. If Ant weren’t so lax about faints, he wouldn’t have been so underleveled for all of these gym fights and would’ve had an easier time
He should just use rare candies and play with level caps. Like most challengers do.
@Conquest no chat only said no items in battle
items outside of battle were never excluded (unless something saying that in the vod was cut out of the video)
@Conquest they also said he couldn’t use the rayquaza :(
"The whiteout counter is never going up"
(not 2 minutes later)
*the counter goes up by one*
*SmallAnt refuses to elaborate*
at least he finished with 69 whiteouts [nice]
I'm sure it was Rival. Because that Wurmple was the first double battle, which means either he lost to Rival... or a single minor NPC.
@@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist3 no thanks weirdo
ok
shush
11:54 "We'll take the confusion."
12:00 after hurting himself twice due to confusion "Wait, What? How am I on such low health?"
short term memory loss
he should get that checked out he has that a lot
he _is_ confused tbf
ok
You say "every way" but clearly you ain't winning awards for that _delightful_ personality of yours.
@Bia Tch Me going through my brain to find when I asked
ant on his way to use every single pokemon mod in existence, and if it doesn't exist, he has someone make it. gigachad move
Soon we'll see "pokemon soul silver but I can only use cut" or somethin😂
@@spoof2062 don’t give him idea
All hail Atsign
Just you wait until the Ruby worst luck video
Pokemon Crystal, but I have received a bullet wound and must beat the game before I bleed to death
Smant desperately trying to take out Steven's team as the latter proceeds to win the entire battle is the funniest thing I've seen in a while.
The CPU with the casual 1v3 win
@@doomse150 that's steel types in a nutshell right there
I was looking for this comment.
ok
ruby or sapphire would have destroyed smant, steven 1v2 champion battle would be actually insane
7:40 I love how everyone in chat is shouting slugma balls for the start of the fight
Ikr twitch chat is very original and creative
It's the culture, gotta do it
@I ah, yes, the twitch gentlemen, the working class, the adults. Yes.
Definetely not children using the prime subscription from their family amazon account
@I I mean twitch is free to watch, subscriptions aren't mandatory.
We all come together for something stupid but regardless it was funny
People always tend to forget that Tentacruel is weirdly fast. Base 100 Speed. Overall, Tentacruel is a fast, strong special wall. A VERY good pokemon.
Yeah I feel like Tentacruel and Crobat occupy a similar space where people are so annoyed by constantly seeing tentacool/zubat in water/caves that they don’t give them the time of day bc they’re so common and seen as a nuisance, so they get underestimated when they are actually very strong mons
Love tentacruel and crobat in nuzlockes
@@keghan4824 crobat cool tho, and has good usage for it's stats
Yeah, Tentacruel occupies something of a similar role to Crobat. They're both weirdly good evolved forms of really common Pokémon. At the end of the day, being rare is meaningless.
ok
Imagine this but in Gen 5 with Triple Battles... this is already pretty damn hard with 1v2, so that would be insane!
Well, 90% of the trainers in Gen 5 only run one Pokemon, and another 9% only have two. There's only a small handful of trainers that actually have three Pokemon, and only half a dozen who have more than three.
@@Celestia282 that seems made up
@@RRRR-jr1gp The percentages, probably. But I think during the base game only the rivals, Elite 4, and the two final bosses have 4 or more pokemon.
@@Celestia282 the last time i saw ant modding genV, he did it on blaze black 2 and volt white 2, where the trainers are rebalanced
I'll do you one better, rotation battles!
These challenges are always great to watch. Seeing Ant’s strategizing in full effect, beating difficult battles while handicapping himself further is peak content.
Get a crit get a crit GET A CRIT
Yep I agree
Watching SmallAnt go from confident of a win to whiteout and then mumbling a google search for a new move is incredibly funny to me
Yeah that shit was hilarious. Exactly what I do lmao
"He doesn't have any dark moves, but now he looks cool."
Lord, that had me rolling with laughter. 😂😂😂😂
Did you know that in Gen 3 if you press start in a double battle you can swap between the HP bar and the actual HP numbers so you don't have to go into the Pokémon list to check their HP 😁
Damn thats cool
I did not! Thank you muchly.
Wow. After all these years.
seriously?? I feel.. actually stupid now LOL
@@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist3 yes
"he doesn't have any dark moves but now he looks cool."
also, i'm really curious about that second glitch pokemon you've got there. it took damage from spread moves (magnitude, perish), was able to affect enemy ai (claydol earthquaking skarm and spinda spamming teeter), and could be selected by random target moves (assist). yet it only seems to be an issue sometimes - i wonder if atsign could talk about that bc i think it'd be really cool
I think claydols earthquake didnt freeze the game because it didnt hit smant's pokemon
Keeping spinda alive was crazy. The +6 confusion selfhit on linoone was deciding in gym 5!
21:22 "im gona name this one banana (:" the way he said it made me feel so fuckin happy for some reason lmao
Keeping spinda alive was crazy
Supper
Nice
Its nice !
STOP TEETER DANCING
i like it
It's actually super cool watching Atsign's coding skills grow as these challenges get more elaborate.
Smant winning by 1v2'ing every enemy but gigichad steven casually winning a 3v1
The one he kept mentioning is Earthquake, which isn't one of those moves.
@Rvve Duio i did not know this. Neat
it's impressive how well smallant can will good RNG into existence
English
@@thomasc9248It already is
@@thomasc9248 ,,its impressive how smallant wills good things to happen to him based on a random number generator"
I can’t stress this enough but Smant playing any Pokémon game is my favorite thing to watch while eating
That's what I'm doing right now :)
Ikrrrr that's what I'm doing now
What's everyone eating
@@perfectworldbeholder right now, I'm eating lunch (rice and vegetables)
@@perfectworldbeholder I’m eating breakfast, a ham sandwich
31:12 "Steven won the 1vs3"
Steven: sure I did kiddo
Damn dude, Steven straight CARRIED in that 1v3 Mossdeep fight despite all of Ant's attempts to sabotage him haha! Great video!
I underestimated the Magnitude of this challenge
The moral of this story: Wobbuffet is the best pokemon in the game.
Smant. The quick claw destiny bond could have still worked even though they left banana alive, because you can then use a move that’s guaranteed to go last, keeping the previous destiny bond active through another attack
I like how Smallant just goes into these challenges without looking too far ahead into the enemies teams moves and team
Small ant “Use a set up move”
Linoone *Uses belly drum*
Small ant - No, you weren’t supposed to do that
Spread moves that target only opponents deal half damage in generation III, so allowing this in the mod would not have be broken at all.
I think the real reason for this change is so that the opponents spread moves only target smallant, and not the invisible level 0 pokemon beside him. Just a limitation of the mod I suppose.
This is such a cool concept! It's really interesting to see how you overcome double battles with one pokemon, something only a BEEG BRAIN can do!
If it’s big brain, than how is Tanner able to do it?
@@Big_Steg that one there was a violation, personally I wouldn’t have it
@@Big_Steg Tanner has likely more than 1.5x your IQ. He is beeg brain. Also, you used the wrong 'then'.
@@jameskelly-smith1279 no duh. I have an IQ of 405.
Oops I mean 4.05
30:32 this is my favorite moment
“everything is trying to fight me, including myself apparently.” Sum up my life.
"Smallant! They outnumber you, -three- two to one!"
*"Then it is a fair fight"*
@I **Snotty Nerd Sniff** Um, ackshually, it's Pokémon, not pokemon. **Snotty Nerd Sniff CD** And also, the plural of Pokémon is **Snotty Nerd Sniff 2** still just Pokémon. **Snotty Nerd Sniff 3 & Knuckles**
@@bookswithbek2702 fella. that was incredibly unfunny.
@@frostyclouded Because that's the point.
@@bookswithbek2702 sorry, i assumed you were trying to be funny/satirical because otherwise your comment would add literally nothing to this thread. but i guess for some reason that was your goal, in which case you succeeded
@@frostyclouded Eh, it's understandable, the only reason I used the snotty nerd sniffs was to already satirize myself so nobody could call me a nerd without being redundant, while also being a grammar/spelling nazi.
13:36 smant realizing there’s trainers in the gym to battle is easily the best part of this vid
I get home from work, sit down with my dinner, pop the YT open and BAM *_Pokemon Emerald but every battle is extremely unfair_* 1 min ago... had a whack day and this turned it right around : )
25:53
Ant: Camerupt flinched, STUPID
*Skull flinched!*
Ant: *Grumpy face*
Best 10 seconds out of the whole video for me lol
ok, I've seen it too many times to reasonably call it anything else, Tanner really can just will crits into being by his word alone. Godspeed, you goddamn wizard.
Smant: Steven cant win a 1vs3
Steven: *Observe*
I really liked this challenge
Also i would like smallant to have more pokemon challenges without items and legandaries. It adds an extra bit if difficulty which i personally like ...
kool
34:50 has some “WHY WONT YOU LET ME SCREW YOU WALLY?!” vibes, really hope someone else gets that reference
That just sounds like something Chuggaaconroy would say and regret
@@BlueRiging At the risk of getting r/whoooshed, that's because it IS a Chugga reference :P
@@ShycoWar no whoosh. Wasn't sure if it was a chuggaa quote, but it sure sounded like one.
Small Ant boosts his pokemons crit ratio more than Focus Energy does
12:07 "We're just gonna get lucky" then his gyarados immediately dies lmao
steven actually won 1v3. no wonder he was the champion 😂
I love how Wallace’s team was the perfect counter to SmallAnt’s team
How about a run where you basically play as an NPC? The game randomly selects an NPC for you to control in battles. Or even better, you can only use Pokemon that a specific NPC would... like Bug Catcher... or Mountaineer
No matter what video I'm watching of yours, whenever slugma turns up chat never disappoints.
5:24 🤣🤣🤣 that zoom up was perfect
Normally I see your videos and think "Wow that's a neat concept, I'd probably never put myself through that, but cool!" But in this case, I actually wanna play this lol, is the ROM gonna be released per chance?
I wanna Nuzlocke this mod, looks like a blast honestly
To me, looks like a blast...
...burn onto my oddish.
From both a Camerupt and Torkoal.
@@jameskelly-smith1279 neither of those pokemon learn blast burn…
I think he releases his mods in his discord
Noah don't you have the funds and the programmers to commission your own pokemods 🤨
19:07 “skull. stop. hitting yourself” me to myself for some years now
6:25 “Why did it Splash?” 🤣
36:04 Random Amazing Doubles Leads, Double Team Shiftry, Extrasensory clears out Fighting Types.
Sand Attack, Intimidate Mightyena.
You cant touch this gimmicky duo.
We need a smallant calling all the crits compilation
This is like smash online getting teamed on in free for all but the other person Can’t stop it from happening
Dang! Number 10 on trending for gaming! Good job, ant!
Ant: *"Camerupt flinched! Stupid!"*
1 second later: *'Skull flinched!'* 😂😂
I love you as always Ant, but the "steel is my favorite type" got my like this video
Small Ant runs into a Slugma
Literally the entire chat *SLUGMA BALLS*
Small Ant "Were gonna use bite on the Slugma"
"Why does a zigzagoon have surf at level 14?!"
My zigzagoon that knows surf at level 3: insolent fool.
Sheesh, SmallAnt really had to grind for this challenge. He left no trainers unbattled. He couldn’t be underlevelled for this at all. Never seen him do that before.
Always a delight to see a SmallAnt Pokémon video!
Usually I don’t watch your videos(even though I’m subscribed) because they don’t really show up on my home page, but the ones that I’ve seen I’ve really enjoyed
"We're gonna fly Gardevior"-Smant 2022
I always come back to these videos, they’re honestly great to fall asleep to, very relaxing.
this was such a tense but fun challenge, it was fun watching
At this stage atsign could have programmed entirely new Pokémon games from scratch
This is just "Pokemon emerald but every opponent is a let's go protagonist"
Small ant: this challenge is gonna be hard.
So there’s actually this ancient technique called over levelling,
this was great. definitely shouldve gone for steven at the end though xD
climbing a ladder on a bike makes as much sense as said bike fitting in a bag
It's a folding bike. They did make some effort to justify that one even if it's still a bit implausible.
SmallAnt wakes up one morning and thinks “how can I torture myself today?”
"Bagon TIIIIME"
"Please stay in the bal- We're gonna name it Bacon"
Nah that sht killed me
Smant: Claydol and Cradily are missing one tiny aspect of what makes them amazing tanks with decent damage? Useless
Also Smant: Replaces them with Wobbuffet and Shedinja
Dunno if I'd call missing a health recovery move or a set up move tiny aspects, those are both pretty important for making stall mons viable without items.
@@cowsanonymous just because there stall doesn't mean it's necessary, they both have things they have they can use to make them useful
@@erniehines claydol has good type coverage with its STAB moves but I wouldn't call it a tank without recover given that the latter half of emerald is chalk full of amazing water types and a dark type E4 member. It needs both to be a good tank. I don't think cradilily offers much, tbh. I think ingrain is pretty mid without leftovers recov on top of that.
@@cowsanonymous Cradily has more than enough bulk without a setup move thanks to Ingrain, it’s natural bulk, and its good defensive typing, while Claydol is a naturally bulky Pokémon with decent damage and would’ve been particularly useful at the psychic gym, where it resists all of their attacks bar Solar Beam, and can learn Solar Beam for itself as well as Shadow Ball, both TM that are available before even Lilycove City.
@@Solanne11 Decent damage?? shadow ball is a physical move better given to other teammates and cradily learns no STAB offensive move other than ancientpower, which isn't even special in this gen. Ingrain is also honestly pretty awful because of how it locks you in. It has a special attack stat of 71, which is pretty mediocre at best, making solarbeam pretty mid. Shedninja with toxic is the strongest stall mon in singleplayer pokemon. Ant made a good call.
>Fast forward spams past everything while confused
"How am I on such low health!?"
Pffft. xD
This was such a great concept Smant. Thank you
33:30 I also once named a bagon as "BACON". He loves sweeping Drake's team over and over again.
“this whiteout counter will never go up” said like a liar
The biggest flex was actually evolving the wynaut. You’re one of like 4 people I’ve seen actually do that. Big props I certainly don’t have that patience.
This would make an amazing nuzlocke
Me: I can never come up with cool nicknames.
Ant: I'm gonna name this banana.
Why are there never more than one part on these, i love them but i only come here every year for like one day to binge it all and then wait until it fills up again^^
0:30 How savage for the poor zigzagoon
Little did we all know that getting 69 resets was his plan all along
This video is really well edited. I'm always skipping dead space in videos, but this kept me engaged
Can you imagine small ant reaching out to you to make a Pokémon mod? On the one hand it’s an honor. But on the other, what impossible crap is he doing this time…
Really happy with how this challenge turned out, forcing you to build a full team without it being outright impossible beyond some insane minmaxing like others. Challenging without being too unfair (with the added bonus of an awesome party)!
I really like these challenges Smant does to make the game harder and more interesting. But I think it would be cool to see more of the unusual pokemon in battle / forcing smallant to use PokéMon he'd usually not use.
An idea for a challenge I have is to try to complete Emerald where u can only use a pokemon once (each PokéMon can only be used to fight one opponent PokéMon), with your level capped at the opponent's highest level. That way u have to save better PokèMon for the harder opponents. Perhaps, if there are too many compulsory battles then he could do 'only allowed to battle twice', etc... Basically, a challenge that forces him to use unusual ones like say Natu or Feebas would be interesting.
(for Magikarp etc, he may have to battle an opponent above a certain level in order for him to win).
Anyway, keep up the content SmallAnt
A similar way of doing this might to let chat/other TH-camrs pick his team for each major battle (gym leaders, evil team admins etc.) and once that Pokemon has been used it can't be again (perhaps even if you lose the battle. Though I'd allow Rare Candies so the grind doesn't get boring to watch). Chat might be super helpful and give him a really strong Pokemon or screw him over with a bunch of first stage bug types and a Magikarp. XD
This is probably the opposite of the cahllenges he does. Literally.
Just go and comment this on any other pokemon challenge TH-camr, there are enough out there.
@@cptKamina The essence of the challenge that the OP proposing is to limit what Pokemon he can use. I can see Smallant doing a challenge like that even if not in the way the OP suggested.
You know, if you really think about it, the first “battle” you do against your rival in any of these (except maybe Gold/Silver, I guess) is just two kids shouting at their new pets to beat the crap out of eachother. They know one useful move at this point and it’s either scratch or tackle. Might as well be out there yelling GET HIS ASS.
Alternate title: Pokemon but Legends Arceus is in Emerald
"the wild zigzagoon does not have a friend"
Zigzagoon: *depressed
From what I've heard early gen trainers only choose moves based on a pokemon's first type, not its second. They know that Skarmory is a steel type, so they use ground moves, ignoring that it's also flying
That's only the Smart AI in Gen 1 & 2, Gen3 overhauled a lot of stuff so it's more likely it was just Random AI
Second thought, it could be a bug in how the game is edited. Perhaps the empty slot on SmallAnt's team is treated as an untargetable Pokemon with a Null type, so the AI uses moves that hit everyone thinking it'll hit the dummy team member the fights use
"Your profile picture is a PNG but your content is 100 times better then all PNG TH-camrs combined"
I love these Pokémon videos, they’re just so good
The real challenge was letting twitch chat decide the rules. "Do you want mudkip? No items, okay."
You had 2 rock types, 2 water types, 2 steel types and 4 flying types. Great team planning
Swampert is Ground, not Rock.
Also that’s 3 Flying typed he had at the end.
@@ShawFujikawa I talked about lileep, not swampert
7:08 That little squeak was so fitting for the situation.
it'd be cool to finally get that Pokemon XD playthrough on TH-cam, not trying to be ungrateful but it's one of my favorite Pokemon games 😢
a bingo pokemon challenge would be interesting. Tasks would range from getting some gyms first, finding rare mons, find rare itesm with pickpoket zigzagoon etc.
Thanks for the quality content as usual Smant :D.
atsign has made every single mod I’ve seen ant play in pokemon challenges. Props to them.