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The thing about Curse is that the non-Ghost variant targets the user, as it is a boosting move, and the Ghost variant targets an enemy, since it inflicts passive damage. So when Curse was selected, Snorlax was still a Normal-type and therefore she herself was set as the target for the move. But just as the move was about to go into effect, Snorlax changed into a Ghost-type and thus this move she was targetting herself with changed from a stat boosting one to a passive damage inflicting one. And thus boom! Snorlax just Ghost-Cursed herself by mistake.
@ConchobarJ It can work in single battles since there is still target selection occurring in those, it's just automatic and requires no additional input from the battlers. That said, I don't know if there are any Pokémon with Protean/Libero that learn Skill Swap, since that would be necessary to pull this off in a single battle. If there aren't, then a little bit of hacking may be required (just enough to get a mon with both the ability and the move).
My favorite hint is the Robert Frost poem as the "a road less traveled" is supposed to be ironic. It referred to his friend who always took a weird route in his garden because it was more special but it never changed anything. So the hint really means taking the less traveled road doesn't really matter (the more difficult strength puzzle), and both will take you to the same place
the snorlax curse interaction is apparently cause regular curse targets the pokemon itself, while the ghost type curse targets the enemy. but yeah, funky
So, when Snorlax used Curse, the game registered that she was stat-boosting herself, so she was the target. Protean switched Snorlax to Ghost, Curse became the Ghost-type version, and since Snorlax was already the target (for the statboost version), she gets hit with the Curse effect.
Bodies of water are easy to forget. We're about 70% water, so you have a 70% chance of just being blind to it. We've all forgotten about Lake Iowa before. That's my (probably legit) excuse for consistently forgetting where to go back and get items when I gain a water movement ability like surf. I know they're out there, but where?! (edit: odd that leech seed can miss -- modder probably missed that one?)
What do you mean inelegant that last battle was beautiful!!!!expert switching, expert knowledge of baiting moves via stat drops!! Great video as always!!
How dare the algorithm hide this from me for two days!? Really though, I came to your channel for your nuzlockes, narratives you sometimes do, fun delivery of commentary, and sense of humor. Stayed for everything else because your videos are just so fun. Things like "time to live an introvert's worst nightmare: talking to people" with the way it's delivered is a good example. I'm gonna be starting my own first nuzlocke soon, and thank you for inspiring me!
I love how the puzzle everyone seems to struggle on requires players to be observant enough to notice a giant body of water. Freezai is a master puzzle builder
11:40 According to Bulbapedia, the protean curse interaction is a specific gen vi glitch. In base gen 3, if you gain ghost type after selecting a move, you pick a random target. So this interaction means that the romhacker specifically implemented an obscure gen vi glitch which I doubt was present in Emerald originally.
11:51 this will be because in double battles you have to select a target, and it would have selected itself as the target for curse when it was trying to use it as a stat raising move, so when it becomes ghost type it will target itself with the curse.
to be fair, he does purposefully mispronounce a lot of Pokemon names for comment bait, so you're probably right on how you pronounce it EDIT: have been corrected that that's how they pronounce it in the anime (strange but fair enough). Also been corrected that he apparently doesn't do it for comment bait, but... Mispronouncing words to get people to comment on them is like the #1 trick for easy engagement, so. Shrugs. Get the bag, Doc.
@Ross516 A) i don't do it to bait comments. They are all either how I've pronounced it for years, or because I think it's silly and fun to do. B) That is how Ferrothorn is pronounced in the anime.
@FlygonHG Hey, thanks for clarifying! I for one, did not think you were pronouncing it in a funny way on purpose as you occasionally do. And I don't watch the anime so I had no idea that's the official pronunciation. That said, I'm still gonna pronounce it ferr-row-thorn cuz I'm too old to learn :)
Having seen several people attempt this escape room, I love how a good chunk of them are foiled not as much by the puzzles as by forgetting of a Surf location. XD
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pretty sure the snorlax wasn't supposed to curse itself. If the pokemon's type changes to ghost before the move is activated, it's supposed to target the enemy right in front.
i’m only 60 seconds in but i recognize that tune anywhere: rise of the field fillers!! are you a brock beard fan by any chance or is that music royalty free and two of my favorite youtubers happened to use the same music?
YESSS DR. FLYGONHG PhD LETS GO haha. Gosh, I hope that wasn’t a reference to the shit storm about if PhDs were “real” doctors in the comment section of WolfeyVGC’s last video :’) I pissed everyone off by saying that MDs are more commonly referred to as doctors ( day to day ) than PhDs are, It made everyone sooo mad, as if I was saying PhDs weren’t “real” doctors lol Let the record show, I deeply respect our PhD doctors in this here Pokémon TH-camr community 😂
No shot it’s actually supposed to be pronounced fair-ah-thorn. Ferro meaning iron, and thorn like the ones on various plants. The thing is a spiky steel/grass type. How is it not ferro-thorn? It’s literally spelled the same and everything. I saw the clip from the anime but the voice actor had to have mispronounced it. Ferro-thorn.
Was this Freezai's first attempt at map editing or something? The amount of incorrect tiles and layering issues is off the charts. The escape room challenge itself is solid, but good lord do these maps need a complete overhaul. Huge shame, honestly.
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What is this. How do you have a Cresselia.
Flygon, you get stuck in a lot of escape rooms. Have you considered not walking through every door with a “Free Treats 4 Poppy!” sign on it?
Hey man, surely the next room will be full of Corgy Grade Treats Deluxe in them right?
Have you considered that Poppy is worth the risk?
That ONE room that ACTUALLY contains the free treats: :(
No matter the odds, it's worth the risk
He's just like Frieren. One day it won’t be a mimic/escape room puzzle.
The thing about Curse is that the non-Ghost variant targets the user, as it is a boosting move, and the Ghost variant targets an enemy, since it inflicts passive damage.
So when Curse was selected, Snorlax was still a Normal-type and therefore she herself was set as the target for the move.
But just as the move was about to go into effect, Snorlax changed into a Ghost-type and thus this move she was targetting herself with changed from a stat boosting one to a passive damage inflicting one.
And thus boom! Snorlax just Ghost-Cursed herself by mistake.
I think this would only work in double battles too since that's the only environment in which you'd select a target
@ConchobarJ It can work in single battles since there is still target selection occurring in those, it's just automatic and requires no additional input from the battlers.
That said, I don't know if there are any Pokémon with Protean/Libero that learn Skill Swap, since that would be necessary to pull this off in a single battle. If there aren't, then a little bit of hacking may be required (just enough to get a mon with both the ability and the move).
It's so funny how Flygon AND SmallAnt made the same mistake of doing both ice and strength puzzles unnecessarily
Oh it's the same escape room video smant had uploaded that's why it was looking very familiar.
My favorite hint is the Robert Frost poem as the "a road less traveled" is supposed to be ironic. It referred to his friend who always took a weird route in his garden because it was more special but it never changed anything. So the hint really means taking the less traveled road doesn't really matter (the more difficult strength puzzle), and both will take you to the same place
Congrats to "Frieza" on conquering planet Namek and constructing this very compelling theme park
the snorlax curse interaction is apparently cause regular curse targets the pokemon itself, while the ghost type curse targets the enemy. but yeah, funky
Thats precisely the reason.
so if you turned a ghost into a different type you could make them buff you? interesting
Worth a try, at least to see if it works.
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Flygon, this is an intervention. We're worried for you. You keep getting in these escape rooms, is this a cry for help? Blink twice if yes.
Adding the puzzle in the corner of the ad read was so funny, absolute peak comedy thank you
Fur-Ah-thorn is the craziest thing I’ve heard all day. And I acknowledge that it may even be correct 😂 13:00
Hey flygon! I challenge you to nuzlocke any game you want, but using only Pokemon that are 0.5m or less in height. The short king locke.
So, when Snorlax used Curse, the game registered that she was stat-boosting herself, so she was the target. Protean switched Snorlax to Ghost, Curse became the Ghost-type version, and since Snorlax was already the target (for the statboost version), she gets hit with the Curse effect.
"And obviously this puzzle, too, is no match for my sophisticated mind" famous last words, lmao
Classic FlygonHG "PhD btw" moment with the Strength challenge hahaha
I saw Whacko do this one and he gave up at the Priority/Gravity fight.
Bodies of water are easy to forget. We're about 70% water, so you have a 70% chance of just being blind to it. We've all forgotten about Lake Iowa before.
That's my (probably legit) excuse for consistently forgetting where to go back and get items when I gain a water movement ability like surf. I know they're out there, but where?!
(edit: odd that leech seed can miss -- modder probably missed that one?)
What do you mean inelegant that last battle was beautiful!!!!expert switching, expert knowledge of baiting moves via stat drops!! Great video as always!!
00:38 We Heard you like Honda Civic's, so we put a Honda Civic in your Honda Civic
How dare the algorithm hide this from me for two days!? Really though, I came to your channel for your nuzlockes, narratives you sometimes do, fun delivery of commentary, and sense of humor. Stayed for everything else because your videos are just so fun. Things like "time to live an introvert's worst nightmare: talking to people" with the way it's delivered is a good example. I'm gonna be starting my own first nuzlocke soon, and thank you for inspiring me!
Frieza's Mountain is crazy
I love these escape room videos! They really bring light to the hidden mechanics of Pokémon!
Non-Ghost Curse targets the user, so when the user changes to Ghost, it also inflicts the Curse on the user.
I guess you could say... that those Strength puzzles aren't one of your... Strengths?
Someone else thought about counter at 8:30 ?
I love how the puzzle everyone seems to struggle on requires players to be observant enough to notice a giant body of water. Freezai is a master puzzle builder
11:40 According to Bulbapedia, the protean curse interaction is a specific gen vi glitch. In base gen 3, if you gain ghost type after selecting a move, you pick a random target. So this interaction means that the romhacker specifically implemented an obscure gen vi glitch which I doubt was present in Emerald originally.
11:51 this will be because in double battles you have to select a target, and it would have selected itself as the target for curse when it was trying to use it as a stat raising move, so when it becomes ghost type it will target itself with the curse.
I'm sorry, the heck is an "Arc-a-nee-nay"?
It's like a fire doggy version of Magnemity
It's the dog to the fox like nee--nay--tales.
Fire dog
Don't forget La-pra
Fer-ah-thorn also got me 😂
It's super weird to hear him pronounce Ferrothorn Ferr-RAW-Thorn. I've always imagined it as Ferr-ROW-Thorn but now I'm not sure which is correct
to be fair, he does purposefully mispronounce a lot of Pokemon names for comment bait, so you're probably right on how you pronounce it
EDIT: have been corrected that that's how they pronounce it in the anime (strange but fair enough). Also been corrected that he apparently doesn't do it for comment bait, but... Mispronouncing words to get people to comment on them is like the #1 trick for easy engagement, so. Shrugs. Get the bag, Doc.
I believe ferr-raw-thorn is how the anime pronounces it. But i've always called it ferr-row-thorn as well
Freezuh
@Ross516
A) i don't do it to bait comments. They are all either how I've pronounced it for years, or because I think it's silly and fun to do.
B) That is how Ferrothorn is pronounced in the anime.
@FlygonHG Hey, thanks for clarifying! I for one, did not think you were pronouncing it in a funny way on purpose as you occasionally do. And I don't watch the anime so I had no idea that's the official pronunciation. That said, I'm still gonna pronounce it ferr-row-thorn cuz I'm too old to learn :)
That giant lake in the midwest, often referred to as Inland Ocean of Water Andnothingelse.
Having seen several people attempt this escape room, I love how a good chunk of them are foiled not as much by the puzzles as by forgetting of a Surf location. XD
16:35 can confirm, it's a giant lake filled with agriculture pollution runoff.
Best sponsor segment/transition I've ever seen! 😂
A new Video :D
I love your pronunciation of "Holzkern" :D
And the quality is really good :D I got my boyfriend a chain and he got me a bracelet, we are both really happy with them :D
Would love to see a split evolution nuzlocke were you can only use pokemon that have split evolutions/different forms upon evolving.
Nice one again! Love the escape rooms
love these escape room vids, dr. flygon
0:41 nice reference
I’ve never been this early to a video. I must be in an alternate universe.
Me watching the video not knowing the puzzle: Oh surf is good maybe he can go somewhere else with it!
The nefarious Dr One Ball HG: 😵💫💀
This might sound random but I learn’t two days ago that sharpedo has a mega evolution! 😂
The puzzle playing through the whole ad segment 😂
pretty sure the snorlax wasn't supposed to curse itself. If the pokemon's type changes to ghost before the move is activated, it's supposed to target the enemy right in front.
If ever there was a time where a flygonHG video was needed, it’s this week
"Are we still not done with the Strengyh puzzle?"
No, alp of the vrauncells went into the sponsor
Currently working in Iowa, and I love how now I am drowning I a giant lake
Loving your content Dr F
i LOVE the escape room videos.
Ugh. I hate escape rooms, they always try to convince me to stop drinking :/
i’m only 60 seconds in but i recognize that tune anywhere: rise of the field fillers!! are you a brock beard fan by any chance or is that music royalty free and two of my favorite youtubers happened to use the same music?
The rage bait on those names though 😂
Nice solve detective! If only the killer didn't escape using that large body of water 🤔
What is the name of the music that appears at 8:30?
5:56 is that not the same awnser of the last one???
For the Pangoro i thought you would have to use Riolu to copycat a destiny bond to kill it
“But was I really going to use a hint? They’re discouraged!” 💀💀💀
I see!! you tried to flee America... Oh no, a pokemon scape room... my bad gang
Wonder when he's gonna make his own escape room
Small ant already did this and explains why the snorlax died
Fer Roth orn
you absolute madman
Also calling freezai freezah so many times ijbol
first oricorios fight was awsome
Look pal you don't scare me
Lake Iowa mentioned
Dang, some state is catching strays
Feels illegal to be this early
Poppy got the brain worms!
Feroforn? Arcakneeneigh? lol
Snorunt's name threw me off a little LMAO.
you should do a nuzlocke of ash gray
I think Frieza's a different guy actually
I’m not trying to be weird but, do you use a filter on your camera? Your skin always looks perfect.
RUN AND BUN ATTEMPT 1 E4 CREW CHECKING IN! GOOD LUCK DR. HG!!
Im from that "giant lake south of Minnesota" dang just erase my state 😂
HOLY SHIT IS THAT FREIZA???
Yo dawg I heard you like caves in your caves
YESSS DR. FLYGONHG PhD LETS GO haha. Gosh, I hope that wasn’t a reference to the shit storm about if PhDs were “real” doctors in the comment section of WolfeyVGC’s last video :’) I pissed everyone off by saying that MDs are more commonly referred to as doctors ( day to day ) than PhDs are, It made everyone sooo mad, as if I was saying PhDs weren’t “real” doctors lol
Let the record show, I deeply respect our PhD doctors in this here Pokémon TH-camr community 😂
How about a run of radical red normal mode with NFEs only
Good adbreak lol
Video 24 of requesting a hard-core nuzlocke but you can only use pokemon markiplier would smash
Could have sworn this guy used to do vanilla nuzlockes.
He did and indeed still does. This (very obviously) is not one of those videos. 😂
@ i don’t believe you. i don’t believe you. i don’t believe you. i don’t believe you. i don’t believe you. i don’t believe you. i don’t believe you.
I remember when he did them too. I'm anticipating the day when he moves over to rom hacks full-time
Gaming
Guys, flygonHg doesn't eat his vegetables 😭😭
FlygoatHG
Freezai not having a Mewtwo😢
No shot it’s actually supposed to be pronounced fair-ah-thorn.
Ferro meaning iron, and thorn like the ones on various plants. The thing is a spiky steel/grass type. How is it not ferro-thorn? It’s literally spelled the same and everything.
I saw the clip from the anime but the voice actor had to have mispronounced it. Ferro-thorn.
Ok he said Ar-cah-knee-nay like a minute later. Man just doesn’t know how to pronounce these things.
freezuhs 😭
Nice
10:05 An Alolan Snorlax?
Furrahthurn
Crazy I never knew I lived in a lake, thanks Flygon
Freezai deleted user comments warning about the incredibly poor quality and service, and deception of BetterHelp. I have been unsubscribed since then.
Play Pokemon Unbound!!!
dang less than 200 views in 4 minutes, Dr. Flygon’s dropping off
Is he intentionally mispronouncing Pokemon names?
I am early gang and I finally reached my goal of 25 subs last year 1 sub now 26
Was this Freezai's first attempt at map editing or something? The amount of incorrect tiles and layering issues is off the charts. The escape room challenge itself is solid, but good lord do these maps need a complete overhaul. Huge shame, honestly.
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Lol "Arc-a-nee-nay" 🤣😂🤣😂🤣 9. NINE. Arca-nine. Ar-K-9. Ar-canine. Arcanine!
no its arcaneenay. youre wrong