The Hog Rider is a fast ground troop with medium hit points, low damage, and the ability to jump over enemy Walls. He is unlocked at level 2 Dark Barracks. The Hog Rider (person) is a bare-chested black man holding a hammer. He has a Mohawk, wears a brown leather loincloth, a red belt, and a pair of leather sandals, as well as two large golden wristbands and a gold earring. His ride is a large hog, about half his height. It has a brown leather bridle looped around its tusks, which in turn is held by the Hog Rider. Hog Riders prioritize defensive structures above all other targets, and will bypass all other types of enemy buildings and troops while any defenses remain on the battlefield. This is true even if they are under attack by enemy Clan Castle troops, heroes or Skeleton Trap skeletons. Note that like all troops that prioritize defenses, Hog Riders do not consider the Clan Castle to be a defense regardless of whether or not it contains enemy troops, but do consider the defending Grand Warden and the activated Town Hall weapon (if any) to be defensive buildings. Once all defenses are destroyed, Hog Riders become like any other troop with no preferred target; they will attack the nearest building to them regardless of type, and will turn and attack enemy units if they become aware of any nearby and can fight back against them. However, they will not switch targets to enemy units until their previous target was destroyed.
The Hog Rider card is unlocked from the Spell Valley (Arena 5). He is a quick building-targeting, melee troop with moderately high hitpoints and damage. He appears just like his Clash of Clans counterpart; a man with brown eyebrows, a beard, a mohawk, and a golden body piercing in his left ear who is riding a hog. A Hog Rider card costs 4 Elixir to deploy. Strategy His fast move speed can boost forward mini tanks like an Ice Golem in a push. At the same time, he can also function as a tank for lower hitpoint troops such as Goblins as he still has a fair amount of health. Most cheap swarms complement the Hog Rider well, as they are nearly as fast as him and usually force more than one card out of the opponent's hand. The Hog Rider struggles with swarms, as they can damage him down and defeat him quickly while obstructing his path. Barbarians in particular can fully counter him without very strict timing on the defender's part, though be wary of spells. A Hunter can kill the Hog Rider in 2 hits if placed right on top of it. However, if you place something in front of the Hog Rider, the Hunter's splash will damage the Hog Rider and hit the card in front of it more. The Hog Rider in conjunction with the Freeze can surprise the opponent and allow the Hog Rider to deal much more damage than anticipated, especially if the opponent's go-to counter is a swarm, or swarms are their only effective counter to him. Skeletons and Bats will immediately be defeated by the spell, while Spear Goblins, Goblins, and Minions will be at low enough health to be defeated by a follow up Zap or Giant Snowball. However, this strategy isn't very effective against buildings as the Hog Rider will take a while to destroy the building, giving the opponent ample time to articulate another counter. Against non-swarm troops, it can deal a lot of damage during the freeze time, but this can allow the opponent to set up a massive counterpush. For this reason, players should either only go for a Hog Rider + Freeze when they have other units backing it up from a counterattack, or if the match is about to end and they need to deal as much damage as possible. It is not a good idea to send in a Hog Rider simply to destroy a building, especially if it is the only building targeting unit available, as defeating Crown Towers becomes substantially more difficult. Spells or simply waiting out the lifetime of the building are more effective. The exception to this is an Elixir Collector placed in front of the King's Tower. If a Hog Rider placed at the bridge, he can destroy the Collector for a positive Elixir trade, though the damage from both Princess Towers will usually mean he does not survive to deal any damage to them. However, if the opponent sends in defending troops, it can be an opportunity to gain spell damage value. In a deck with several low-cost cards, it might be worth it to simply send the Hog Rider against one building. These decks shuffle their card rotation quick enough, that they will arrive to their next Hog Rider before the next building arrives in the opponent's card rotation. Long-ranged troops like Musketeer and Flying Machine can snipe those buildings, preserving some of the Hog Rider's health, possibly allowing it to get some Tower damage. When there are buildings placed in the middle to counter the Hog Rider, understanding the placement of the Hog Rider and the type of building placed can help the Hog Rider to bypass certain buildings. Passive buildings such as spawners and Elixir Collector have a larger hitbox than defensive buildings; which means that if a passive building was placed 3 tiles away from the river in the middle of the opponent's side, then it is impossible for the Hog Rider to bypass that placement as the Hog Rider will get pulled to that building. Defensive buildings have a smaller hitbox than a passive building, which means if that if a defensive building was placed three tiles away from the river in the middle of the opponent's side, a Hog Rider placed at the very left or right side of the Arena may be able to bypass it due to its smaller hitbox
28:51 The reason why he called tickle the “ultimate technique,” is because on one of his really good runs, Blaine gave Smallant the TM for tickle and said, “Tickle is the ultimate technique!” or something like that.
This video was edited perfectly. You really felt like seeing the entire stream instead of just hearing a story about it. What especially hooked me was getting excited for the Gym TMs.
@@jbillion maybe ironmon? but not ironman, ironman is meant to be for SKILL, in any other games ive heard of ironman mode its just meant to mean that you cant save. so the rule of deleting the save when your party faints is what makes sense and actually makes it "ironman" but throwing in the extra randomization to make it rely on luck just kills the point of ironman being related to skill. why would i watch a 30 minute video of some guy just pressing random buttons with no thought because he has no idea whats gonna happen? like i dont have any problem with this challenge existing or him doing it, but calling it "exactly ironman" when it completely defeats the purpose of ironman doesnt make any sense. a "hardcore nuzlock where you need to sit down and calc stuff/plan for battles" would be a real ironman challenge, not whatever this clickbait is
@@TheJuiicee the pokemon are randomised... but they're consistent. if he sees a jolteon, any jolteon he meets later will have the same base stats and moveset. it's something to learn and plan for and react to, and denies information up front. no button mashing here?
I really appreciate what Lanturn contributed to this winning run, being the mon that "always died to Extrasensory", and also that it snuck its way onto the champion's team twice!!!
Well actually Blaine's badge boost is the same as the original games because back then there was no separate Special stats. It's why psychic Pokémon were so broken
@toastr1255 there's more too it as well. In Kanto, nearly a third of the pokemon in the region are poison type and with no dark type, there were no immunities
@@hammerstix5791 I mean maybe, but I think you’d still prefer other Pokémon like Pelipper, and also calling Gyarados “a bunch of weak garbage” is just the cherry on top.
This was an amazing video to watch. I watched Ironmon when it first came to be and the reason the islands got banned was that the creator was informed during a run that went super south that they could go to the islands and they had not known this. After seeing how much advantage the islands gave, they felt it was too much for the challenge run.
I remember that last Lantern also have Perish song, and he used healing item on that turn facing it. It was so lucky, if that Lantern have used Perish song, he would only has 3 turn left to shut down Magnetric which would have killed the run at the last moment.
I think people think it's easy because the strategy is way different. You don't have multiple options to deal with all the threats that come your way, and with all of the limiting rules there isn't much room for skill expression. The difficulty comes from playing around the rules and making critical decision in regards to them.
For anyone that's not acquainted with the average FR Ironmon run, getting 800% of heals or 14 items is something that some people failed to get in thousands of runs. This kind of luck is insane. On top of that, it looked like PP maxes and status healing items were raining in this run. White herbs as well. Something that you'd struggle to get in thousands runs he accomplished in 2k. No mirror coat, destiny bond or perish trap users either. He could win the lottery with this luck. No pop off at the end is freaky man, this dude is a cyborg
I mean, he balanced the luck with a suboptimal pokemon. Stats and moves were good but not league-winning good. All those healings really hard carried, and he managed to use them in the best way possible
@@vancyboi162 That I don't believe at all. SmallAnt's been doing challenges like this for a long time and has an insane amount of experience when it comes to critical thinking and improvisation. When you try this type of challenge over and over again with his set of skills, you just need to wait for the moment where the luck is on his side as well.
I was watching him stream this about a month ago, so many attempts and seeing him put it on hold to stream other stuff, didn’t think he’d beat it. Props smant, this is impressive 👏🔥
Couple of clarifications for anyone wondering: - Step-based items actually appear a few places in the overworld in addition to Mt. Moon. The QOL patch gets rid of them but, at the request of the challenge creator, the ones in Mt. Moon are kept because there's actually risk involved in getting them to spawn - The "second Pokemon is the strongest" isn't exactly true. Trainers will usually send out a mon with a super-effective move if they have one, which is why the second mon in a fight is often the most dangerous - For anyone confused why he went to Lavender Tower right away after Rock Tunnel, the rules require you to go there and fight the Rival. This is also an exception to the "enter each dungeon once" rule.
I missed the one entry per dungeon rule. I was wondering why Silph Co was as problematic as it was if he could just go heal at the center. That rule explains why he couldn't.
@@redgyrados2000 the issue with that is the rules say they’re non negotiable so the rules having changed also disqualifies it from being a kaizo ironmon unless that was always the rule based on the wording they can’t change these rules so if herbs started off as not fine they’re still not fine and the game creators by trying to negotiate their non negotiable rules actually just failed themselves based on the wording of kaizo ironmon rules only the original rules count and literally everything else even changes made by the owner are against the rules
@@hihyrules I mean, the original creator of the challenge is the one who changed the rules to allow herbs. I think an official rule update like that is fine
I just realised that this video has subtitles made by a person - thank you! I cannot explain how frustrating it is to watch pokémon videos when the automatic subs don't know what any of them are!
Yeee he is one of the best Narrators for his own adventures. It never gets boring watching him. Heck not even his own adventures.. the way he Narrates speedruns he watches and analyzes is also incredible :D
Ironic that despite Aerial Ace and- moreso than that- Blast Burn were the two moves that were realitively weak and memed on for just that in the run, there was at least one notable time both came in clutch IE the Shedninja popping up. Especially Blast Burn for the last attack to land you the win. GGs all around to you, 10/10 never touching this ruleset ever and going through this hard of a challange.
@@runeheal And move the battle along how? Using the limited pp he has of moves? Using his limited amount of items? Even if it would have gone down to chip, taking turns that would waste resources could have killed the run too.
@@rubye4022 I don't get this response. If he had something better than Aerial Ace, he could have just attacked. Even if he didn't hit, Shedinja would have died. The only variable is that it can attack back, but Shedinja doesn't have a huge amount of base stats either, so there is not much to fear (I would assume that the HP stat wouldn't be changed as they didn't change its ability either).
@@Modie Well I don't have the exact timestamp on me, but I believe he said the only difference Shedninja has compared to other Pokémon was just the fact it still has Wonder Guard. Wonder Guard only lets it only be hit by super effective moves, it has nothing to do with the HP stat of the user, thus I'm sure it's total HP- as well as it's other stats- was randomized too such as every other 'mon. My entire point is if it's HP was randomized, which it likely was, chip more than likely is not be enough to take it out and he'd have to sit there wasting PP on moves that would guarantee to miss, or use the limited items he has, of which, both would be more useful on other Pokémon later in the run given the rules.
Entering the hall of internet legends with this one, Smant. Conveniently, you're also entering the hall of insano-crazy person-test of patience-willpower-omegachad-fame as well. Two honors you truly deserve. You're the man.
The "favorite" mechanic lets you disregard the pre-decided starter if one of the other two is a favorite. It should be mentioned that Small Ant picked really honest and truly fun favorites for this run. This attempt number would be way lower if he optimized his play there, but chose not to. I thought this deserved a mention.
So if the choice is between Delibird and Magneton, I can just take Magneton? He's a personal fav bc as a kid, I had a Lt. Surge Starter Deck for the TCG, and only one Magneton in the entire pack. He was my strongest card!
Holy cow what an amazing video im glad there are Pokemon Trainers out there who have done it all and are willing to put themselves through this type of hell so i can enjoy some amazing content!!!
After watching this, I'm convinced that Pokémon should come with a warning label: 'May lead to extreme cases of triumph and tragedy in Kaizo Ironmon. Viewer discretion is advised.' 😂 Seriously though, insane job on the run!
I remember this run from stream. It was so late for me that I'd dozed off midway through, woke up in the final fight, immediately awake and hyped to see Della get this far, going back to sleep right after, feeling a little giddy cuz I was among those immediately attached when smant said "don't get attached before Brock" XD
The run itself or how many attempts? cuz it says how many attempts in the vid itself. The total run tho... can't have been more than 5 hours, idk there should be a timer on screen anyway @@possomt6211
this reminds me of a crazy old flash game that's played with virtual cards. one Challenge level requires you to start a battle with only 10 health. someone posted a comment on the forum that said it took him 128 attempts, and he lost on the first round in HALF of them! I gave up after 10 or 20 attempts...
This whole endeavor was a wild ride from start to finish and I'm so happy to have seen you win this live! Congratulations and cheers to Cosmizog for the amazing edit and Lycel for the hype thumbnail! That last sentence.. the Kaizo Ironmon Madness Returns.. here's to hoping it doesn't take 1786 attempts this time. Looking forward to it!
To be clear, Smant getting the moves and heals he needed is not why hes stupidly lucky, thats just why were actually seeing this run. What makes him lucky is getting a run like this within 2000 attempts.
Ironmon is like a roided version of how I played pokemon when i was 10. Use one pokemon the entire time and sweep every gym, minus the masochist's wet dream
I mean.. i like pokemon. But im old and not that much to go as far as to play the equivalent of a white room. I do love Gen 5's songs. Absolute bangers. Love your videos my guy.
You explaining the badge boost to people made my hair turn grey and my bones turn to dust. Fire red and leaf green are still the "new remakes" in my head, hahaha. No, but for real, I have some grey hairs nowadays.
Really nice video that explains what Kaizo Ironmon is for people who might not be familiar while showing off this really sweet run. I hope this encourages more people to try it out! It's fun!
Thank you, Smant. Skarmory and Absol have been my top two favorite pokemon since ruby and sapphire came out. Nice to see someone use the metal birb even if it's a meme run.
Forgot you won specifically with Skarmory, congrats! I'm on a wild run with a lucky Skarmory of my own - Flash Fire; Dragon Dance + Drill Peck; bulky but mediocre attack stat at best. Wish me luck!
When he was describing how you can kind of safely find out which pokemon are dangerous reminded me of my cranidos only nuzlock (kind of) I'm doing myself in diamond. Because everything is dangerous if I can't one shot it 😃🥲, going through victory road was fun. Until a kadabra 20 levels lower than me out sped me, and brought me from 221 health down to 27 with a crit psychic and I almost cried
This legit gives me ptsd , i completed this challange in 2022 in about 200 something attempts finally using a Donphan and im never doing this again. Watching this video was a pain for me.
It's hard to emphasize how hard a run is while showing only the winning attempt, but I think this did a spectacular job showing how difficult it truly is
18:52 I love how the The trainer class of all the Gym Leaders was “God”, it just seems so fitting for Kaizo and especially for this to be run he finally won! 23:57 Then the Elite 4 are chiefs haha
I think aplharad said it best. Its hard in the same way fliping a coin 100 tomea and getting head is hard. So much of the challenge is dependent on good rng. The vast majority of runs died early and boils down to " should have been luckier"
I see your perspective, but If skill was the only limiting factor it could never be "hard" (or unlikely to succeed) enough, you'd have tons of people who could complete it every time. If you want to make it "harder" than that you have to go add rng. And it is limited a lot by skill as well, you have to be resourceful and know the game really well, much due to the rng. Even if the stars happen to align enough for a technically possible run you'll have to be extremely good to have a chance.
Having watched these stream for weeks, this video was so much fun to watch. Excellent job editing, great effects, great narration. Just an incredible video! Well done Smant!
very nice video, loved the narrative, you really got a lucky ironmon but it totally came through because of your plays and another bunch of luck. really love seeing more attention brought to the kaizo ironmon challenge hope youll really do a hgss one
The way you were talking about aerial ace made it feel like a dark/ground type with flame absorb was gonna appear and it would save the run. Unfortunately sandile doesn't exist in gen 3.
Isn't one of the rules to not use ANY hold items EXCEPT berries? Yet at 31:33 SmallAnt uses White Herb which is not a berry. Doesn't that invalidate the run?
Wow what a “challenge” ts is like a gambler calling the slot machine hard. Just because it took you 1700 attempts doesnt mean it is objectively hard. You could get this luck on the first attempt. The difficulty isnt in the teambuilding or route prepping. Its how overlevelled we can get this defensive wall and gamble that the opponent has weak stage 1s. I like ur videos but calling this challenge the “hardest ever” is just wrong. Play a hardcore nuzlocke on emerald kaizo like pokemon challenges
"Wow what a “challenge” ts is like a gambler calling the slot machine hard. Just because it took you 1700 attempts doesnt mean it is objectively hard. You could get this luck on the first attempt. The difficulty isnt in the teambuilding or route prepping. Its how overlevelled we can get this defensive wall and gamble that the opponent has weak stage 1s. I like ur videos but calling this challenge the “hardest ever” is just wrong. Play a hardcore nuzlocke on emerald kaizo like pokemon challenges" 🤓🤓🤓
@@koustabborah4959 To be fair the amount of RNG needed for this run is kinda insaine to the point where i as a guy that loves challenge runs wonders whats the point.
cuz of you, I started doing this challenge, first regular Ironmon (149 attempts), then ultimate ironmon (187 attempts) and i just completed Kaizo ironmon in 43 attempts with Gardevoir
7:00 What? This rule seems like one of the sillier ones to me. It seems like it just limits fun and playability rather than limiting an abusable mechanic. Especially because it's already really hard to avoid trainers anyway. I feel like if you added a feature where all the trainers just do that spinning thing at a slow rate then you could eliminate this rule and make the game a lot more free form. Gotta say, watching these challenges that SmallAnt does kinda makes me want to get back into Pokemon slightly. Seeing the Skarmory with basicly perfect coverage was pretty cool : D
Bruh i was doing this ironmon with an arcanine only special moves and died at 7th gym by a milotic with counter because i used hidden power (dragon type) but the game still count on counter instead of mirror coat im very pissed off
my back STILL hurts from carrying you through this challenge (* ^ ω ^)
wonderful vid smallant, keep it up !!!!!
The Hog Rider is a fast ground troop with medium hit points, low damage, and the ability to jump over enemy Walls. He is unlocked at level 2 Dark Barracks.
The Hog Rider (person) is a bare-chested black man holding a hammer. He has a Mohawk, wears a brown leather loincloth, a red belt, and a pair of leather sandals, as well as two large golden wristbands and a gold earring.
His ride is a large hog, about half his height. It has a brown leather bridle looped around its tusks, which in turn is held by the Hog Rider.
Hog Riders prioritize defensive structures above all other targets, and will bypass all other types of enemy buildings and troops while any defenses remain on the battlefield. This is true even if they are under attack by enemy Clan Castle troops, heroes or Skeleton Trap skeletons. Note that like all troops that prioritize defenses, Hog Riders do not consider the Clan Castle to be a defense regardless of whether or not it contains enemy troops, but do consider the defending Grand Warden and the activated Town Hall weapon (if any) to be defensive buildings.
Once all defenses are destroyed, Hog Riders become like any other troop with no preferred target; they will attack the nearest building to them regardless of type, and will turn and attack enemy units if they become aware of any nearby and can fight back against them. However, they will not switch targets to enemy units until their previous target was destroyed.
HOOOOOG RIDAAA in clash of clans i hogspam with 44 of em
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The Hog Rider card is unlocked from the Spell Valley (Arena 5). He is a quick building-targeting, melee troop with moderately high hitpoints and damage. He appears just like his Clash of Clans counterpart; a man with brown eyebrows, a beard, a mohawk, and a golden body piercing in his left ear who is riding a hog. A Hog Rider card costs 4 Elixir to deploy.
Strategy His fast move speed can boost forward mini tanks like an Ice Golem in a push. At the same time, he can also function as a tank for lower hitpoint troops such as Goblins as he still has a fair amount of health. Most cheap swarms complement the Hog Rider well, as they are nearly as fast as him and usually force more than one card out of the opponent's hand. The Hog Rider struggles with swarms, as they can damage him down and defeat him quickly while obstructing his path. Barbarians in particular can fully counter him without very strict timing on the defender's part, though be wary of spells. A Hunter can kill the Hog Rider in 2 hits if placed right on top of it. However, if you place something in front of the Hog Rider, the Hunter's splash will damage the Hog Rider and hit the card in front of it more. The Hog Rider in conjunction with the Freeze can surprise the opponent and allow the Hog Rider to deal much more damage than anticipated, especially if the opponent's go-to counter is a swarm, or swarms are their only effective counter to him. Skeletons and Bats will immediately be defeated by the spell, while Spear Goblins, Goblins, and Minions will be at low enough health to be defeated by a follow up Zap or Giant Snowball. However, this strategy isn't very effective against buildings as the Hog Rider will take a while to destroy the building, giving the opponent ample time to articulate another counter. Against non-swarm troops, it can deal a lot of damage during the freeze time, but this can allow the opponent to set up a massive counterpush. For this reason, players should either only go for a Hog Rider + Freeze when they have other units backing it up from a counterattack, or if the match is about to end and they need to deal as much damage as possible. It is not a good idea to send in a Hog Rider simply to destroy a building, especially if it is the only building targeting unit available, as defeating Crown Towers becomes substantially more difficult. Spells or simply waiting out the lifetime of the building are more effective. The exception to this is an Elixir Collector placed in front of the King's Tower. If a Hog Rider placed at the bridge, he can destroy the Collector for a positive Elixir trade, though the damage from both Princess Towers will usually mean he does not survive to deal any damage to them. However, if the opponent sends in defending troops, it can be an opportunity to gain spell damage value. In a deck with several low-cost cards, it might be worth it to simply send the Hog Rider against one building. These decks shuffle their card rotation quick enough, that they will arrive to their next Hog Rider before the next building arrives in the opponent's card rotation. Long-ranged troops like Musketeer and Flying Machine can snipe those buildings, preserving some of the Hog Rider's health, possibly allowing it to get some Tower damage. When there are buildings placed in the middle to counter the Hog Rider, understanding the placement of the Hog Rider and the type of building placed can help the Hog Rider to bypass certain buildings. Passive buildings such as spawners and Elixir Collector have a larger hitbox than defensive buildings; which means that if a passive building was placed 3 tiles away from the river in the middle of the opponent's side, then it is impossible for the Hog Rider to bypass that placement as the Hog Rider will get pulled to that building. Defensive buildings have a smaller hitbox than a passive building, which means if that if a defensive building was placed three tiles away from the river in the middle of the opponent's side, a Hog Rider placed at the very left or right side of the Arena may be able to bypass it due to its smaller hitbox
Who are you and why are these guys talking about clash royal?
@@Nam3D626they're mudbloods
28:51 The reason why he called tickle the “ultimate technique,” is because on one of his really good runs, Blaine gave Smallant the TM for tickle and said, “Tickle is the ultimate technique!” or something like that.
that dialogue was shown and commented on by narrator smant
@@nathanh2523 Except the Ultimate Technique was MAGIC COAT in his final run.
32:10 "I am the most powerful trainer in the world" *sends out delibird*
He is right. Delibird is op
"Strong pokemon, weak pokemon..."
Or a magikatp
If you can make Delibird work, you are the most powerful trainer in the world
He googled strongest Pokémon and saw Iron Bundle but since he didn't know how to get it he said "This should work"
It didn't work.
Imagine him getting to the end after a grueling 1700+ attempts, and someone pointing out "hey, you forgot to talk to mom"
Probably off screened it.
@@tnb4509on a livestream?
wrgg
I would create an entire new category called:
Pokemon FireRed Kaizo Ironmon - any% Momless
That’s what happened on attempt 1785
This video was edited perfectly. You really felt like seeing the entire stream instead of just hearing a story about it.
What especially hooked me was getting excited for the Gym TMs.
It feels like this challenge is mostly "play often enough to get good enough RNG to carry you through" xD
That is exactly what ironman is lol. It's like the antithesis to hardcore nuzlocks where you need to sit down and calc stuff/plan for battles.
with everything being randomized it kind of loses the point imo
Risk of Rain and Noita be like:
@@jbillion maybe ironmon? but not ironman, ironman is meant to be for SKILL, in any other games ive heard of ironman mode its just meant to mean that you cant save. so the rule of deleting the save when your party faints is what makes sense and actually makes it "ironman" but throwing in the extra randomization to make it rely on luck just kills the point of ironman being related to skill. why would i watch a 30 minute video of some guy just pressing random buttons with no thought because he has no idea whats gonna happen?
like i dont have any problem with this challenge existing or him doing it, but calling it "exactly ironman" when it completely defeats the purpose of ironman doesnt make any sense. a "hardcore nuzlock where you need to sit down and calc stuff/plan for battles" would be a real ironman challenge, not whatever this clickbait is
@@TheJuiicee the pokemon are randomised... but they're consistent. if he sees a jolteon, any jolteon he meets later will have the same base stats and moveset. it's something to learn and plan for and react to, and denies information up front. no button mashing here?
I really appreciate what Lanturn contributed to this winning run, being the mon that "always died to Extrasensory", and also that it snuck its way onto the champion's team twice!!!
LEND ME YOUR STRENGTH BRO
Yoooo pokeaim
Can you leave some for me?
joey punching the air rn
Hello!
Yo don't tell me you do challenges now.
I d sacrifice a goat for challenge runs with you and emvee
"you have to talk to mom, i dont know why this is a rule"
CAUSE WE DONT WANT TO BE RUDE SMANT!
Hollow Knight speedrunners could learn a thing or two.
Kaizo Ironmom
SmallAntMom just wanted to check in
elderbug can suck it man i am NOT wasting the 3 seconds@@jdk2535
@@Stevonicus Nah, SMANTMOM!
The fact that Lickitung survived on 1 hp in the lab fight so that Smant could find the Skarmory pivot
Fran walked so that Della could run
Profound
Fran limped so that Della could sprint at Mach 12*
25:10 "Volt Tackle?! BBWWUUUAAAAHAHHHHHHH!!!" is the most cartoonish reaction i may have ever heard from smallant
lmao
Well actually Blaine's badge boost is the same as the original games because back then there was no separate Special stats. It's why psychic Pokémon were so broken
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@@toastr1255ghost also had like, no fucking moves so that wouldnt matter
@@toastr1255also, the best bug move was Pin Missile and RBY has an absurd amount of poison types
🤓🤓🤓
@toastr1255 there's more too it as well. In Kanto, nearly a third of the pokemon in the region are poison type and with no dark type, there were no immunities
30:30
“Let’s hope it’s a bunch of weak garbage, 6 Gyarados, please”
That must be a brand new sentence.
I mean, even under normal circumstances you'd be wishing for 6 Gyarados if you had a moderately good mon with t-bolt
@@hammerstix5791
I mean maybe, but I think you’d still prefer other Pokémon like Pelipper, and also calling Gyarados “a bunch of weak garbage” is just the cherry on top.
@@VearruIt makes no difference though. Pelipper or Gyrados will be down in one hit of a mighty thunderbolt.
6 magikarp guy fighting demons when he sees this
Gyarados is always garbage.
This was an amazing video to watch. I watched Ironmon when it first came to be and the reason the islands got banned was that the creator was informed during a run that went super south that they could go to the islands and they had not known this. After seeing how much advantage the islands gave, they felt it was too much for the challenge run.
I remember that last Lantern also have Perish song, and he used healing item on that turn facing it. It was so lucky, if that Lantern have used Perish song, he would only has 3 turn left to shut down Magnetric which would have killed the run at the last moment.
Sorry for my miss infomation, that last Lanturn didn't have Perish song. It was Horn Drill that it has but somehow I remember it to be Perish Song.😅
@@inhthinh522gotta appreciate someone coming back six months later to correct themselves!
From somebody who’s watched kaizo ironmon since it came out, massive respect. This challenge is much harder than people seem to think
Seems like any bad luck could be fatal like e4 jolteon did so much damage that if even a half decent thing afterward may lose the game
When did he start
I mean, 1786 attempts just to win once is pretty self explanatory lol.
I think people think it's easy because the strategy is way different. You don't have multiple options to deal with all the threats that come your way, and with all of the limiting rules there isn't much room for skill expression. The difficulty comes from playing around the rules and making critical decision in regards to them.
@@yungruuku and lots of luck.
Lots, and lots of luck.
For anyone that's not acquainted with the average FR Ironmon run, getting 800% of heals or 14 items is something that some people failed to get in thousands of runs. This kind of luck is insane. On top of that, it looked like PP maxes and status healing items were raining in this run. White herbs as well. Something that you'd struggle to get in thousands runs he accomplished in 2k. No mirror coat, destiny bond or perish trap users either. He could win the lottery with this luck.
No pop off at the end is freaky man, this dude is a cyborg
I mean, he balanced the luck with a suboptimal pokemon. Stats and moves were good but not league-winning good. All those healings really hard carried, and he managed to use them in the best way possible
@@_rosmarinoBut then again, the stat distribution on his Skarmory was next to perfect
Yeah the luck seens fishy asf, wouldnt be surprised if its a modded run to tip the scales in his favour
@@vancyboi162 That I don't believe at all. SmallAnt's been doing challenges like this for a long time and has an insane amount of experience when it comes to critical thinking and improvisation. When you try this type of challenge over and over again with his set of skills, you just need to wait for the moment where the luck is on his side as well.
@@redox4604 Im pretty sure people like you think dreams speed run was legit and that mlb players arent on gear lol
14:08 there is just a Deoxys chilling in the safari habitat XD
It's an easter egg, Deoxys killed so many runs for the creator of this challenge.
Dang how’d you notice that?
XD
People be going around chilling and then outta nowhere stop a legendary 💀
@@T3DracoSounds like he went insane and threw it into "prison" for the suffering
I was watching him stream this about a month ago, so many attempts and seeing him put it on hold to stream other stuff, didn’t think he’d beat it. Props smant, this is impressive 👏🔥
27:46 I love the suspenseful music while he slowly kills the torkoal then the beat drops on the final kill 🔥
33:05 "volt absorb? You're a genius" that literally made my day HAHSHAHS
Couple of clarifications for anyone wondering:
- Step-based items actually appear a few places in the overworld in addition to Mt. Moon. The QOL patch gets rid of them but, at the request of the challenge creator, the ones in Mt. Moon are kept because there's actually risk involved in getting them to spawn
- The "second Pokemon is the strongest" isn't exactly true. Trainers will usually send out a mon with a super-effective move if they have one, which is why the second mon in a fight is often the most dangerous
- For anyone confused why he went to Lavender Tower right away after Rock Tunnel, the rules require you to go there and fight the Rival. This is also an exception to the "enter each dungeon once" rule.
Why'd he use white herb? I thought only berries were allowed.
@@Anonymice Rules were changed a while back to allow any consumable items so herbs are fine
I missed the one entry per dungeon rule. I was wondering why Silph Co was as problematic as it was if he could just go heal at the center. That rule explains why he couldn't.
@@redgyrados2000 the issue with that is the rules say they’re non negotiable so the rules having changed also disqualifies it from being a kaizo ironmon unless that was always the rule based on the wording they can’t change these rules so if herbs started off as not fine they’re still not fine and the game creators by trying to negotiate their non negotiable rules actually just failed themselves based on the wording of kaizo ironmon rules only the original rules count and literally everything else even changes made by the owner are against the rules
@@hihyrules I mean, the original creator of the challenge is the one who changed the rules to allow herbs. I think an official rule update like that is fine
He passed the first “road brock”. Oh smant these are so good
SMANT???? XD
@@Piplup425-ej8zubro you good? Smant is what people call him
I had to replay that bit to make sure I heard what I heard lol
I stopped what I was doing to consider if I actually heard right haha
That was a chatters idea lmao
I just realised that this video has subtitles made by a person - thank you! I cannot explain how frustrating it is to watch pokémon videos when the automatic subs don't know what any of them are!
I see now, the true strength of smallant... DELIBIRD.
hello nuqi
Shut up bot
The aliens want us to fight among ourselves.
🤫🧏
Hella annoying bot
You pace narratives so well, it really hooks in to be along on the ride with you
Yeee he is one of the best Narrators for his own adventures. It never gets boring watching him. Heck not even his own adventures.. the way he Narrates speedruns he watches and analyzes is also incredible :D
Ironic that despite Aerial Ace and- moreso than that- Blast Burn were the two moves that were realitively weak and memed on for just that in the run, there was at least one notable time both came in clutch IE the Shedninja popping up. Especially Blast Burn for the last attack to land you the win. GGs all around to you, 10/10 never touching this ruleset ever and going through this hard of a challange.
idk man he has permanent sand shedinja is a non issue
@@runeheal
And move the battle along how? Using the limited pp he has of moves? Using his limited amount of items? Even if it would have gone down to chip, taking turns that would waste resources could have killed the run too.
@@rubye4022
I don't get this response. If he had something better than Aerial Ace, he could have just attacked. Even if he didn't hit, Shedinja would have died. The only variable is that it can attack back, but Shedinja doesn't have a huge amount of base stats either, so there is not much to fear (I would assume that the HP stat wouldn't be changed as they didn't change its ability either).
@@Modie
Well I don't have the exact timestamp on me, but I believe he said the only difference Shedninja has compared to other Pokémon was just the fact it still has Wonder Guard. Wonder Guard only lets it only be hit by super effective moves, it has nothing to do with the HP stat of the user, thus I'm sure it's total HP- as well as it's other stats- was randomized too such as every other 'mon. My entire point is if it's HP was randomized, which it likely was, chip more than likely is not be enough to take it out and he'd have to sit there wasting PP on moves that would guarantee to miss, or use the limited items he has, of which, both would be more useful on other Pokémon later in the run given the rules.
@@rubye4022
I am sorry, but what is the point of keeping Wonderguard if you don't keep the 1 HP? That's the whole gimmick after all.
Niceeee. The Elite Four was intense! Saw you run a few of these on twitch. Grats man, looked very frustrating
Entering the hall of internet legends with this one, Smant.
Conveniently, you're also entering the hall of insano-crazy person-test of patience-willpower-omegachad-fame as well.
Two honors you truly deserve. You're the man.
This challenge is much harder than people seem to think
No shit really
Well, I sorta assumed that after 1500 tries.
@@logix8055 L comment and attitude.
This channel’s a scam. Report them and move on.
@@therealmichirukaiouwanna explain?
The "favorite" mechanic lets you disregard the pre-decided starter if one of the other two is a favorite. It should be mentioned that Small Ant picked really honest and truly fun favorites for this run. This attempt number would be way lower if he optimized his play there, but chose not to. I thought this deserved a mention.
So if the choice is between Delibird and Magneton, I can just take Magneton? He's a personal fav bc as a kid, I had a Lt. Surge Starter Deck for the TCG, and only one Magneton in the entire pack. He was my strongest card!
@@yeetlordentertainment3937yes if you click it as favorite
how many times did he pick a wooper?
You are slowly destroying every challenge on this platform man respect 🔥
Mate you’ve been robbed
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@@Shorts-stealer what if he watched it on like 10x speed
Holy cow what an amazing video im glad there are Pokemon Trainers out there who have done it all and are willing to put themselves through this type of hell so i can enjoy some amazing content!!!
After watching this, I'm convinced that Pokémon should come with a warning label: 'May lead to extreme cases of triumph and tragedy in Kaizo Ironmon. Viewer discretion is advised.' 😂 Seriously though, insane job on the run!
30:05 "You've gotta be kidding me brother" is so funny to me
30:05
Same 😂😂😂
I remember this run from stream. It was so late for me that I'd dozed off midway through, woke up in the final fight, immediately awake and hyped to see Della get this far, going back to sleep right after, feeling a little giddy cuz I was among those immediately attached when smant said "don't get attached before Brock" XD
How long did it take him to complete this? (Sorry if he said and ive forgotten)
The run itself or how many attempts? cuz it says how many attempts in the vid itself. The total run tho... can't have been more than 5 hours, idk there should be a timer on screen anyway @@possomt6211
this reminds me of a crazy old flash game that's played with virtual cards.
one Challenge level requires you to start a battle with only 10 health.
someone posted a comment on the forum that said it took him 128 attempts, and he lost on the first round in HALF of them!
I gave up after 10 or 20 attempts...
Would love to see a compilation of all the funny/intense fails
Me too!!
The editor would die from watching 1786 attempts and the editing process too
@@Yuu-Gene can you imagine the bag of money that editor will get😂
Everyone talking about Delibird but bro, it makes me so happy that the bulk of the game you got through with my favorite pokemon Skarmory.
My favorite too :)
This whole endeavor was a wild ride from start to finish and I'm so happy to have seen you win this live! Congratulations and cheers to Cosmizog for the amazing edit and Lycel for the hype thumbnail!
That last sentence.. the Kaizo Ironmon Madness Returns.. here's to hoping it doesn't take 1786 attempts this time. Looking forward to it!
"...and clearing the first major *roadbrock* of the game"
man that got me gigglin lmao.
To be clear, Smant getting the moves and heals he needed is not why hes stupidly lucky, thats just why were actually seeing this run.
What makes him lucky is getting a run like this within 2000 attempts.
Ironmon is like a roided version of how I played pokemon when i was 10. Use one pokemon the entire time and sweep every gym, minus the masochist's wet dream
Just make charizard flamethrower everything
Everyone when they played pokemon as a kid
"What you use growl? Let's go he just wasted a turn by not doing damage!"
literally this lol flamethrower vs the world
5:14 thats now how you say "repel"
Ray-poll
ruh pell
(don't tell anyone, Smant is secretly a frog)
re PLs
Red bull
Skarmory is one of my favorite pokemon
I mean.. i like pokemon. But im old and not that much to go as far as to play the equivalent of a white room.
I do love Gen 5's songs. Absolute bangers. Love your videos my guy.
You explaining the badge boost to people made my hair turn grey and my bones turn to dust. Fire red and leaf green are still the "new remakes" in my head, hahaha.
No, but for real, I have some grey hairs nowadays.
Really nice video that explains what Kaizo Ironmon is for people who might not be familiar while showing off this really sweet run. I hope this encourages more people to try it out! It's fun!
Love your Kaizo Ironmon guides!
I hope it doesn't encourage TOO many people to play it. It's not for everyone. But more people, definitely!
If you think that this is fun then you are a mad man
It isnt fun lol
Im saying this as a ro hack and soul game player
It is literally designed to be unfun bc of all the rng involved
Thank you, Smant. Skarmory and Absol have been my top two favorite pokemon since ruby and sapphire came out. Nice to see someone use the metal birb even if it's a meme run.
"nice to see someone use skarmory"?? the pokemon that has been extremely popular for over 20 years??
@@topichu970 god forbid people like a pokemon
@@kilobucket thats not what maria said, maria was just baffled by their apparent unawareness of skarmorys popularity
Forgot you won specifically with Skarmory, congrats! I'm on a wild run with a lucky Skarmory of my own - Flash Fire; Dragon Dance + Drill Peck; bulky but mediocre attack stat at best. Wish me luck!
Best of luck!
Keep us updated pls XD
good luck!
Best of luck!
And if you don't make it, it was all for RNG manipulation, trust 🤣
How'd it go?
Those damn road-Brocks.
When he was describing how you can kind of safely find out which pokemon are dangerous reminded me of my cranidos only nuzlock (kind of) I'm doing myself in diamond. Because everything is dangerous if I can't one shot it 😃🥲, going through victory road was fun. Until a kadabra 20 levels lower than me out sped me, and brought me from 221 health down to 27 with a crit psychic and I almost cried
10:55 “Fury Cutter? It wouldn’t cut it” Lmao
*Furry cutter
@@not_pockchan3418Its fury cutter
despite knowing this was THE run, i was on the edge of my seat the whole time. a true legend
What an insanely good vid man! Really enjoyed watching
This legit gives me ptsd , i completed this challange in 2022 in about 200 something attempts finally using a Donphan and im never doing this again. Watching this video was a pain for me.
It's hard to emphasize how hard a run is while showing only the winning attempt, but I think this did a spectacular job showing how difficult it truly is
#1 on Trending...
You are literally dominating the YT algorithm with a gaming video amongst all other topics
now its #43
thanks for naming it Fran ❤
No esperaba encontrarte acá crack, un saludo! Hace tiempo no veo tu contenido pero era muy bueno tambien
Funny to see someone else with that name lmao. I was the sub he named it after, my name is Frano on Twitch
fein
19:00 man that Shedinja could actually be a run killer
18:52 I love how the The trainer class of all the Gym Leaders was “God”, it just seems so fitting for Kaizo and especially for this to be run he finally won!
23:57 Then the Elite 4 are chiefs haha
I think aplharad said it best. Its hard in the same way fliping a coin 100 tomea and getting head is hard. So much of the challenge is dependent on good rng. The vast majority of runs died early and boils down to " should have been luckier"
I see your perspective, but If skill was the only limiting factor it could never be "hard" (or unlikely to succeed) enough, you'd have tons of people who could complete it every time. If you want to make it "harder" than that you have to go add rng. And it is limited a lot by skill as well, you have to be resourceful and know the game really well, much due to the rng. Even if the stars happen to align enough for a technically possible run you'll have to be extremely good to have a chance.
Having watched these stream for weeks, this video was so much fun to watch. Excellent job editing, great effects, great narration. Just an incredible video! Well done Smant!
very nice video, loved the narrative, you really got a lucky ironmon but it totally came through because of your plays and another bunch of luck. really love seeing more attention brought to the kaizo ironmon challenge hope youll really do a hgss one
Amazing job!! Kaizo runs always take massive luck to even have a chance of winning, but you maximised it and played it great!!! Huge congrats
I love how soft spoken Commentary Ant is. Almost an entirely different man
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Haha I love how Smant’s posting a lot more often like he used to! These challenges bring back the good old days of Smant
14:07 are we just going to ignore the deoxys chilling out in the open
ya, its meant to be ignored.
what, you don't have aliens just chilling in your local park?
He’s just chill like that
0:19 I paused the video here long ago and went to do other stuff... I came back to this tab and I ALMOST clicked on the "game over" or "TMs"
I am not into Pokemon whatsoever anymore, but ant can still make it such a good video
The way you were talking about aerial ace made it feel like a dark/ground type with flame absorb was gonna appear and it would save the run.
Unfortunately sandile doesn't exist in gen 3.
this man beats one of the hardest challenges in all of pokemon and then immediately sets out to do another
he cannot be stopped
20:36 “the pp just wasn’t there” 💀
28:09 i thought rule was no held items other then berries? Or is white herb a berry
Its berries or herbs. Hes allowed herbs
"Please don't full restore again... COME ON"
You could really feel that disappointment.
23:18 "Skipping every trainer" 10 seconds later ... "Fighting every trainer"
You didnt just pronounce repel like that
Repple 😂
Furry cutter
The hardest part of this challenge for me was hearing this at 5:13 🤦♂️
ok?
“Repples” 😭
I feel you man. 20:42
Hey SmallAnt, thanks for the more frequent uploads, these videos have been fantastic! Please keep them coming, we really appreciate them
This video taught me how wrong SmallAnt pronounces so many pokemon names lol
In 1786 the US congress founded the mint.
"Repel" Pronunciation lol
a pokemon challenge run can only have so many rules before it just turns into straight up gambling
No way that's how you pronounce "repel" @5:10
I was coming to comment the same thing
Isn't one of the rules to not use ANY hold items EXCEPT berries? Yet at 31:33 SmallAnt uses White Herb which is not a berry. Doesn't that invalidate the run?
Read again 5:14
How can you be this stupid? The world is doomed if are you this stupid It says berries and herbs he says it and there's text you can read
@@Negativ3_ Gotcha
Thank you for clarifying!
Gotta love the domesticated Deoxys chilling at the zoo at 14:09
I watched this knowing you’d do it but my heart still felt like it was gonna explode during the Elite 4. Jesus. I need a break.
R.I.P Akira Toriyama 🕊
I'm sorry.... did you call a repel, a 'Repple'
You're absolutely INSANE for doing this, good Lord.
12:47 “I did have to skip one due to a lack of PP” LMAO
Why did you pronounce repel like that? 😂
Roadbrock 😭
How I like it
The editing and commentary are very engaging and entertaining. Thanks for the video Mr. Ant!
Wow what a “challenge” ts is like a gambler calling the slot machine hard. Just because it took you 1700 attempts doesnt mean it is objectively hard. You could get this luck on the first attempt. The difficulty isnt in the teambuilding or route prepping. Its how overlevelled we can get this defensive wall and gamble that the opponent has weak stage 1s. I like ur videos but calling this challenge the “hardest ever” is just wrong. Play a hardcore nuzlocke on emerald kaizo like pokemon challenges
"Wow what a “challenge” ts is like a gambler calling the slot machine hard. Just because it took you 1700 attempts doesnt mean it is objectively hard. You could get this luck on the first attempt. The difficulty isnt in the teambuilding or route prepping. Its how overlevelled we can get this defensive wall and gamble that the opponent has weak stage 1s. I like ur videos but calling this challenge the “hardest ever” is just wrong. Play a hardcore nuzlocke on emerald kaizo like pokemon challenges" 🤓🤓🤓
Isn't that most Pokémon challenges? It's a kids game so it's majority luck
There is always a guy like you in every good video.
@@koustabborah4959 To be fair the amount of RNG needed for this run is kinda insaine to the point where i as a guy that loves challenge runs wonders whats the point.
cuz of you, I started doing this challenge, first regular Ironmon (149 attempts), then ultimate ironmon (187 attempts) and i just completed Kaizo ironmon in 43 attempts with Gardevoir
7:00 What? This rule seems like one of the sillier ones to me. It seems like it just limits fun and playability rather than limiting an abusable mechanic. Especially because it's already really hard to avoid trainers anyway. I feel like if you added a feature where all the trainers just do that spinning thing at a slow rate then you could eliminate this rule and make the game a lot more free form. Gotta say, watching these challenges that SmallAnt does kinda makes me want to get back into Pokemon slightly. Seeing the Skarmory with basicly perfect coverage was pretty cool : D
Bruh i was doing this ironmon with an arcanine only special moves and died at 7th gym by a milotic with counter because i used hidden power (dragon type) but the game still count on counter instead of mirror coat im very pissed off