Gerber also pushed them to do the clay gym before grinding. And I'd have to recheck but he may have also pushed them to do Flannery without grinding but not as sure on the Flannery thing. Don't trust Gerber
"Any of Salty's friend in the next Friendlocke that chooses not to evolve, $50 for you" Welp, it's been fun folks, but seems like this is now the end of Friendlockes for good lol
51:29 To anyone who wasn't there to read the manga (the VOD or livestream), I cannot underestimate how **PISSED** Salty got. The Greedent bs with Mikey wasn't Salty being angry, he was annoyed. You can tell because despite the tone, he was still talkative and witty. After Gerber and Jay's graveyard cook-off, Salty was almost dead silent for most of the stream after that. No more laughs, no more jokes, you can feel the tension. It's gotten past the point of loud anger and went straight into silent seething rage. The editors did an honestly swell job hiding how much anger Derek was radiating on that stream. You can *_TELL_* he wanted to end the stream right then and there, even Chat was kinda spooked. I highly recommend you check the VOD and the anime (highlights) when you have the chance. This shit is why Friendlocke is the gogoat of the YT Nuzlocke genre. It can be humourous and nonsensical, but also so raw and emotional in so many different ways. No other series compares.
i do wanna say this tho...the counter greedent counter shit was kinda his own fault cause Mikey wanted to evolve yet Salty persuaded him not to and instead go to the gym to evolve Not to mention even in the normal gym Primeape is frail if you're not careful but you can't blame him or his friends not knowing that, along with them not knowing there would be a Greedent with counter So mainly it is 50/50 for him not evolving primeape before the gym and for them not knowing there was a Greedent that knew counter
To be fair, I don't blame him. Gerber almost lost the run singlehandedly on a bad bit. Imagine having to start over cause the strongest member of your team kamikaze'd you. He handled that better than I would.
@@jaimereupert4247unless you're trash you shouldn't ever lose a pokemon to grinding rare candies just skip the almost objectively not fun part of the game, specially true for the elite four's because most of their level caps are like 10 levels above the last level cap and that's just nonsense. You could make an argument that rare candies are a downgrade if anything because you lose out on a lot of potential EVs just for the ability to do the already almost completely riskless process faster I could see an argument to be done about banning them in the early game when deaths to wild pokemon are more plausible and level caps are small so it's less justifyable, but really who cares
26:17|44:05 I hope everyone else found the irony in Jan predicting the major fuckup of the run being from one of Salty's friendmons fucking around during one of the fights which would then absolutely screw him and the rest of the gang over *WHILST* having paused directly on Jayweed. The hard read was already great in of itself, but the fact that (one of) the culprit is literally sitting right in front of Sherlocke as he's obliviously monologuing feels like some scripted bit from the actual friendlocke You just can't make this shit up💀
@@DParkerNunya I took Skeledirge to the the cleaners with my Quaquaval 😂. Soon as that monster came out it was my strongest stab water move immediately and I was never underleveled 😅 so that thing was put down before it started setting up 😅 Thankfully Quaquavals faster
The irony of them not evolving to Annihilape and then getting KO’d by Counter, a move they would have been immune to if they had acquired the ghost typing , is wild
Since Jan made the connection himself later in the video: Dan: "WHAT DID I SAY, GERBER?" Gerber: "I THOUGHT IT HAD WIND RIDER?" Also the Elite Four was nothing in the video because the Paldean E4 somehow surpassed the Kalos E4 as the most disappointing E4 experience
@@Color_Splsh Larry is my favourite too, but the rest are so underwhelming it balanced out. The shock value of Poppy being a child E4 was already wasted in the introduction scene after you get your 7th badge, Rika shows up every other time Nemona doesn't, and honestly I just don't like Hassel. In every generation that's had a Dragon Gym/E4, it's been the final one. (AKA Literally all of them except Sinnoh, and even Cynthia has a Garchomp ace) It's so overdone.
@@0bject_cuppy554 That wasn't the point, I meant more in impact rather than battle. If your pokemon are high enough level and you knew basic type matchups literally every E4 is a cakewalk.
@@metalapplesus in SV's defense, they did se the 18 types, so it was bound to happen to have a dragon type Other wise, it's mostly because pokémon follow rpg tropes, and dragon types are generally tough pokémons, with high stats, which is why you'd often see them toward the end (and generally after an ice type gym, so you get ways to go through it) Although, genuine question, about the "experience" you're talkingabout the characters or the actual fights ? If not both, out of curiosity
So for what was happening around 31:27 is that Salty had several friends doing that union circle thing where they show up on the map, that's why the Finizen/Palafin and Bellibolt were there and why the Ultra Ball was floating in the air.
I watched the streams live and this was BY FAR the most stressful any friendlocke has ever been. That anger point was the moment everyone in chat was like "ohhh nooo this is gonna be a rough one"
I was watching the streams and remember thinking "wait Greedent gets counter" right before The Event happened. I remembered that exact trainer for some reason.
this video just made me feel bad for the person piloting tinkaton. i wanted more of them, but they were a victim of cyclizar's drunk driving :( him getting fairy type was salt in the wound lmao
Bro as manga (vod) watcher you have NO IDEA just how short of time lots of the mons had. Tink I think had 1 stream, and Moushold was caught, had to go away due to personal things, showed back up and immediately died.
You should check out The Domino Effect animatic for Friendlocke, it was done by the person who played Tinkaton (Claire) from season 2 of friendlocke. She's a very talented artist :)
"How did I build my entire career on being the nerd emoji" is the most self-aware thing Jan has ever said. I mean, I'm watching the content so I'm not going to throw stones from my house of glass, but y'know.
27:52 I love when Jan tries to be super analytical even though it really isn't necessary because for those who don't know, the other moves that Kofu's Crabominable knows is Rock smash and Slam for some reason so it would be more beneficial for the Crabominable to go for random move if anything.
A Friendlocke of Nuzlockers but they are all weak Pokemon statwise so they challenge all resources in their minds to succeed. That's what should happen people.
39:19 can't shed tail for 2 reasons 1. Shed Tail consumes 50% of the user's HP and Cyclizar is under 50% 2. Torch Song goes through Substitute since it's a sound move
Jan schafft es wieder völlig ohne Anstrengung einem visuell 100% Kiffer - Vibes zu geben - und er coseplayed das so überzeugend, dass man regelrecht schockiert darüber ist, wie schnell er redet.
the most ironic part is that if they *didn't* use the tera, Cyclizar would have resisted Torch Song. Terastallizing into pure normal was the worst possible decision they could have made in that situation
Losing something to counter because you decided not to evolve your pokemon which would have become a ghost type on evolving is pretty unique as well lol
10:34 My garganacl has sturdy,a nature that up it defense,and also has hammer arm,earthquake and salt cure. Needless to say,she was my first mon to be lv 100 and was sweeping anything that came my way. Everyone talks about skeledirge but Nacli's line is BROKEN AF
Don mind me, just putting the timestamp of Gerber’s trol- I mean plan that should have work… kek 44:20 But I agree with the style as well the difficulty
when i saw Gerber kill Jay my first thought was genuinely "oh Jan's gonna have a field day with this one" but yeah i knew the run was completely fucked the second Derek gave Nemona Skeledirge
@@PixelRockett they joked about smosh after salty mentioned Shayne Topp but while editing the videos Ian and Anthony bought the channel reuniting them after years of radio silence.
Nothing says Christmas like watching the 2nd best Nuzlocker (next to Alpharad because TH-cam said so), reacting to my favorite white guy! Happy Holidays, everyone!
To be fair, Gerb is making the right call refusing to use shed tail every time vs the skelidurge. Torch Song is a sound move and ignores substitute. Its the same as switching normally but also damages gerb
I think it's good to still reasons to watch the original. Also this is a relatively short video compared to how much content there is about the friendlocke.
I'm sure a lot of people have already talked about it, but since Pchal didn't know, at the Nemona fight around 39 minutes, shed tail wouldn't have worked because it requires half health. And even if it had, torch song is sound based and bypasses substitute
Happy Holidays, Jan! Enjoy your winter time and can't wait to see your reaction to season 3 of Friendlocke. One of my favourites, but just as infuriating (in a good way).
how to beat the skeliderge: 1. try not to kill lark 2. probably should have had grunpilo on the team before each nemona fight 3. use 4rest and tarastalise into ground type
I have personally never lost a mon to grinding. Only to random ass trainers because I had to sack for a pivot. I'm at a point where I have too much going on to manually grind and these challenges are supposed to be fun for the nuzlocker like you have said in this video. I have never seen the problem of someone trying to save time with candies.
Everytime he talks up one of Salty’s pokemon and say how strong they are, I have this immediate response in my head that goes “Well, you’re gonna love how they lose that pokemon”
41:20 I think the feature's cool, I just wish it had a way to turn off, doing the Blueberry League fights in post-dlc and randomly winning to a crit or survive is kinda bleh, but in regular battles it's usually fine xD
I like at the start, it was blind as the day they started the nuzloke was when day the game was released, and I think the play though was mostly blind and it was enjoyable to watch (especially when the game crashed during the water gym and the accidental egg)
3:50 The happy part when I decided to do reverse order nuzlocke for my first playthrough and my starter turned out to be the most broken Pokemon ever, that pretty much could have won all my fights in this game, if not for the fact that I actively decided to use more Pokemon as I progressed (and I did find Shiny Glimmet when going to Psychic gym and suprisingly have not let it Self-Destruct on me catching it in regular Ball, so I had to use it - after I actually learned how lucky I was). Kinda annoyed I didn't check which route is the hardest, because I probably wouldn't defeat Team Star or the Titans as easily as I did with Grusha. Winning with major level disadvantage. 4:20 To be fair they did also have a lot more time for this. From trailers, to game leaking week before release for the emus. Obviously there were some day 1 arts for the reveals. But for the actual premiere, we had enough time to get all those hundreds upon thousands art pieces. And to be fair Meowscarada had it easy. Both Professors though? That was rough. 25:10 The sad part is that they never learned you can bulk-buy drinks at the school cafeteria. 1:16:10 Ok but nuzlocking the DLCs is actually cute. At least that got some better touch. Steps by steps we are reaching potentially good Pokemon game 😂
7:18 For anyone wondering, he said "Force - Kinning" Kinning is when you see yourself in a fictional character and like to try to act like that fictional character The joke was Salty is forcing a kin, in this case the name Pastey, onto Pastey
24:28 i realized through this nuzlocke that this gym leaders wallet is 1. Not a water type, and 2. Not the pokemon he terastalizes into water type or even like… interacts with, so i guess he just bought it at a raffle or something? I feel like it could be utilized for his character design alot better, like for instance, if they did this with larry i could see his wallet being a flying type pokemon because that’s what he uses in the elite 4 and that would be a nice hint to that
I find it funny how you didn't even once mention what, or rather who, the spidops was named after. It even seemed once like you intentionally dodged saying their name. Does he know?
@@menderbug1 no spidops is its species name, he meant the nickname, which was vriska, who is a homestuck reference, something that once shooked the internets
The rant about the rare candies is so true. People like Verlis who use the "well the challenge is part of the grind" just reveal that they have no business talking about nuzlockes. The challenge comes from the fights and pokemon availability, it always has. To pretend that you need to make grinding inherently difficult or that you're not allowed to skip the mindless grinding for literal days for it to be a legit nuzlocke is just so delusional.
Oh, Iono. Violet was my first-ever nuzlocke, and at first, while I still used items, I tried to not overlevel for the battles, and that cost me for the Iono fight. Because of this, I didn't evolve the Sandile that I caught in the Asado Desert. So, due to Iono's Mismagius constantly getting the boost from Charge Beam, I lost my Spidops (my second 'Mon, since I switched up the encounter for Poco Path), my pre-mentioned Sandile, and my Lycanroc (don't know if it was a mistake going with Midnight Lycanroc, but whatever). On the plus side, it got me VERY attached to the shiny Hariyama who remained one of my best Pokemon in the run, since she managed to survive and beat that thing. After that, I didn't care as much about overleveling.
I actually tried this myself. I did a hardcore nuzlocke with the rule that I can only use Pokémon that are NU or lower on Smogon (and no Tera). Kind of an arbitrary rule, but I found it worked well enough. It’s been a really fun run and a great level of difficulty for me! Would recommend! My best Pokémon have definitely been Bruxish, Hariyama, and Florges, and it’s been fun getting to use so many mons I’d normally pass over. Even spidops has been decent with access to counter for good damage on the team star revavrooms and sticky web in the late game
In the one time when gerber said he’d refuse to use shed tail in that nemona fight, shed tail wouldn’t have worked anyways cause torch song is a sound based moved so it would have bypassed the sub.
To be fair big time wasters and lengthy segments were always kind of present in Pokémon, it's mostly notable in SV for frontloading the exposition and buildup in the beginning rather than interjecting it throughout. Gen 1's best route theme is exclusive to a side path with next to nothing in it, tons of forgettable trainers and inexplicable pole mazes Gen 2 has the entire Radio Tower segment of Team Rocket be an incredibly time consuming affair Gen 3's "too much water" segment with so little happening and stuff to see between Lilycove and the Pokémon League Gen 4 has you constantly run into side NPCs trying to sell you their new gimmick. The Pokétch campaign, the underground kit... and some other drawn out Team Galactic sequences
The difference is that in most of these cases, you actually play the game. You fight through team rocket, you surf and explore from Lilycove. In Scarlet and Violet, however, you press A. For an hour. That's it
It's not great for storytelling though. When you gradually introduce worldbuilding and plots throughout an experience, you can more seamlessly and creatively introduce things. It's boringly overwhelming to have expedition dumps before all the gameplay, and let that instance of exposition being main thing carrying the whole story.
I remember watching the first stream, and then i never got any notifications for other streams so i just assumed they cancelled it. Nice to see its a full season again.
I agree with the candy using argument. To avoid the grind, I use pokemon in raids and also don't count raid deaths because I could always just train on random low-level pokemon for 10 hours to get one pokemon leveled up without risk, this just speeds it up, especially as when you exit the raid den, your pokemon is at 1 hp still, so it didnt die
Technical difficulties are definitely one of the biggest reasons that people who say content creation isn't a real job don't know what they're talking about.
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1:06:41 “The Onix clip is nothing compared to the damage this man has done”
That’s it, Gerber’s dead, there’s no coming back from that
Braden Captain Kidd (> '_')>
Gerber also pushed them to do the clay gym before grinding. And I'd have to recheck but he may have also pushed them to do Flannery without grinding but not as sure on the Flannery thing. Don't trust Gerber
There's a subtle, humorous foreshadowing with Jan saying that Cyclizar is a Pokemon that requires having good strategies to be effective
"Any of Salty's friend in the next Friendlocke that chooses not to evolve, $50 for you"
Welp, it's been fun folks, but seems like this is now the end of Friendlockes for good lol
Yeah cause they’re not gonna be friends anymore lol
51:29
To anyone who wasn't there to read the manga (the VOD or livestream), I cannot underestimate how **PISSED** Salty got. The Greedent bs with Mikey wasn't Salty being angry, he was annoyed. You can tell because despite the tone, he was still talkative and witty.
After Gerber and Jay's graveyard cook-off, Salty was almost dead silent for most of the stream after that. No more laughs, no more jokes, you can feel the tension. It's gotten past the point of loud anger and went straight into silent seething rage. The editors did an honestly swell job hiding how much anger Derek was radiating on that stream. You can *_TELL_* he wanted to end the stream right then and there, even Chat was kinda spooked.
I highly recommend you check the VOD and the anime (highlights) when you have the chance. This shit is why Friendlocke is the gogoat of the YT Nuzlocke genre. It can be humourous and nonsensical, but also so raw and emotional in so many different ways. No other series compares.
i do wanna say this tho...the counter greedent counter shit was kinda his own fault cause Mikey wanted to evolve yet Salty persuaded him not to and instead go to the gym to evolve
Not to mention even in the normal gym Primeape is frail if you're not careful but you can't blame him or his friends not knowing that, along with them not knowing there would be a Greedent with counter
So mainly it is 50/50 for him not evolving primeape before the gym and for them not knowing there was a Greedent that knew counter
To be fair, I don't blame him. Gerber almost lost the run singlehandedly on a bad bit. Imagine having to start over cause the strongest member of your team kamikaze'd you. He handled that better than I would.
Yeah, I remember, I was there. The rest of the stream kind of felt like walking on eggshells... thank god they caught Cookie to lighten the mood lmao
Referring to the vods as “manga” and the highlights as “anime” is the funniest way to put it. I’m so using this.
@@applekoi8639it's funny cause it's usually the anime that has the filler lmao
Alpharad phrased the whole candies debacle the best: "Grinding is cringe and cheating is based"
Grinding is part of the game and cheating is cheating. If you're hacking in rare candies, your nuzlocke runs are NOT legitimate.
@@jaimereupert4247if I catch anyone cheating in rare candies then they WILL be banned from nuzlocking for life
@@jaimereupert4247 rofl okay dude enjoy wastong 12 hours grinding in your gen 2 runs for "integrity" just to fuck up some calc on an explosion mon
@@jaimereupert4247unless you're trash you shouldn't ever lose a pokemon to grinding rare candies just skip the almost objectively not fun part of the game, specially true for the elite four's because most of their level caps are like 10 levels above the last level cap and that's just nonsense.
You could make an argument that rare candies are a downgrade if anything because you lose out on a lot of potential EVs just for the ability to do the already almost completely riskless process faster
I could see an argument to be done about banning them in the early game when deaths to wild pokemon are more plausible and level caps are small so it's less justifyable, but really who cares
@@jaimereupert4247if you wanna sit there for like 2 hours straight and grind your ass off hey you do you
26:17|44:05
I hope everyone else found the irony in Jan predicting the major fuckup of the run being from one of Salty's friendmons fucking around during one of the fights which would then absolutely screw him and the rest of the gang over *WHILST* having paused directly on Jayweed. The hard read was already great in of itself, but the fact that (one of) the culprit is literally sitting right in front of Sherlocke as he's obliviously monologuing feels like some scripted bit from the actual friendlocke
You just can't make this shit up💀
Something to note here is that Torch Song ignores substitutes. Thus, Shed Tail would not have been a good play in the Skeledirge encounters.
Ohhhh right it’s a sound based move and those ignore subs don’t they
God Skeledirge is so strong
Skeledirge is so strong that it makes picking Quaxly dangerous. I say this as someone who loves Quaxly the most out of the three starters.
@@DParkerNunya I took Skeledirge to the the cleaners with my Quaquaval 😂.
Soon as that monster came out it was my strongest stab water move immediately and I was never underleveled 😅 so that thing was put down before it started setting up 😅
Thankfully Quaquavals faster
The irony of them not evolving to Annihilape and then getting KO’d by Counter, a move they would have been immune to if they had acquired the ghost typing , is wild
Lol
the entire rant around 26:11 with jayyweed on screen is incredible foreshadowing
Since Jan made the connection himself later in the video:
Dan: "WHAT DID I SAY, GERBER?"
Gerber: "I THOUGHT IT HAD WIND RIDER?"
Also the Elite Four was nothing in the video because the Paldean E4 somehow surpassed the Kalos E4 as the most disappointing E4 experience
How can you say that when Larry exists?
@@Color_Splsh Larry is my favourite too, but the rest are so underwhelming it balanced out. The shock value of Poppy being a child E4 was already wasted in the introduction scene after you get your 7th badge, Rika shows up every other time Nemona doesn't, and honestly I just don't like Hassel. In every generation that's had a Dragon Gym/E4, it's been the final one. (AKA Literally all of them except Sinnoh, and even Cynthia has a Garchomp ace) It's so overdone.
@@0bject_cuppy554 That wasn't the point, I meant more in impact rather than battle. If your pokemon are high enough level and you knew basic type matchups literally every E4 is a cakewalk.
@@metalapplesus in SV's defense, they did se the 18 types, so it was bound to happen to have a dragon type
Other wise, it's mostly because pokémon follow rpg tropes, and dragon types are generally tough pokémons, with high stats, which is why you'd often see them toward the end (and generally after an ice type gym, so you get ways to go through it)
Although, genuine question, about the "experience" you're talkingabout the characters or the actual fights ? If not both, out of curiosity
So for what was happening around 31:27 is that Salty had several friends doing that union circle thing where they show up on the map, that's why the Finizen/Palafin and Bellibolt were there and why the Ultra Ball was floating in the air.
I watched the streams live and this was BY FAR the most stressful any friendlocke has ever been. That anger point was the moment everyone in chat was like "ohhh nooo this is gonna be a rough one"
I literally started watching when Gerber started cooking.
the streams were nuts. I was mourning lark for a whole week lmao
I was watching the streams and remember thinking "wait Greedent gets counter" right before The Event happened. I remembered that exact trainer for some reason.
Every week was a new tragedy 😭
"Why is the Brambleghast holding a Carbos?"
Jayweed needs his vitamins, dude.
Well apparently he needed to take his pills because what was he cooking
this video just made me feel bad for the person piloting tinkaton. i wanted more of them, but they were a victim of cyclizar's drunk driving :(
him getting fairy type was salt in the wound lmao
Bro as manga (vod) watcher you have NO IDEA just how short of time lots of the mons had. Tink I think had 1 stream, and Moushold was caught, had to go away due to personal things, showed back up and immediately died.
All because a lizard and a plant wanted to do a funny bit
You should check out The Domino Effect animatic for Friendlocke, it was done by the person who played Tinkaton (Claire) from season 2 of friendlocke. She's a very talented artist :)
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"How did I build my entire career on being the nerd emoji" is the most self-aware thing Jan has ever said.
I mean, I'm watching the content so I'm not going to throw stones from my house of glass, but y'know.
27:52 I love when Jan tries to be super analytical even though it really isn't necessary because for those who don't know, the other moves that Kofu's Crabominable knows is Rock smash and Slam for some reason so it would be more beneficial for the Crabominable to go for random move if anything.
Alpharad becoming the fallen hero of the Pokémon nuzlock community while you become the redeemed villain is tbe greatest Oprah ive ever seen lol.
What did alpharad do?
@@nottachance8554yeah i’m also curious lol
Commenting because I also wanna know. Don't leave us hangin', pal.
You'll see. Just give the plot some more time to cook.
Oprah? The tv show host?
They should really invite you to be a part of a Friendlocke.
A Friendlocke of Nuzlockers but they are all weak Pokemon statwise so they challenge all resources in their minds to succeed. That's what should happen people.
@@GunmetalGatorgarbage green friendlocke
@@bigragegageno that game sucks
@@sunpraiser96ok then EK friendlocke
@@sunpraiser96thats kinda the whole point
39:19 can't shed tail for 2 reasons
1. Shed Tail consumes 50% of the user's HP and Cyclizar is under 50%
2. Torch Song goes through Substitute since it's a sound move
Came for shits and giggles, stayed for hardcore furry roleplay
real
Well that means I should head the fuck out now.
@@Jloz3your loss silly boy
@@InsertFunnyThingHere No losses here just saving my time from.
@@Jloz3 your loss then silly boy
Jan schafft es wieder völlig ohne Anstrengung einem visuell 100% Kiffer - Vibes zu geben - und er coseplayed das so überzeugend, dass man regelrecht schockiert darüber ist, wie schnell er redet.
is that spanish
@@aededipilooks like german to me
@@Foxkiin is that french
Rare occasion of the translation making actual sense
Bischen Kiffen
Y’know. The friendless-locke made more sense than the friend-locke. All jokes aside, we all were waiting for this.
57:44 Mr. Jan(itor)
Shed Tail only works if Cyclerdino is above half hp.
However that tera into the Normal Type was crazy.
it also doesn't block torch-sound because the latter is a sound-based move
the most ironic part is that if they *didn't* use the tera, Cyclizar would have resisted Torch Song. Terastallizing into pure normal was the worst possible decision they could have made in that situation
@@nataliecoronado4206 If they hadn't tera'd they probably would be above half hp.
Jan doesn't play around the crit when flirting/making small talk and gets punished for it 🙏🏻
Gerber getting Cyclizar and proceeding to get 7 people killed is both a Gerber thing to do and a Cyclizar thing to do
You'd think they'd have learned to not fuck around on a set-up sweeper after the first fight with Skeledirge, AND YET
28:31 it’s safe because all the crab has is Rock Smash, Slam, and Crabgammer, all of which Brambleghast is either resistant to or immune to
Losing something to counter because you decided not to evolve your pokemon which would have become a ghost type on evolving is pretty unique as well lol
If Nemona gets Skeledirge the run turns into a horror game
I could swear the ad read was going in another direction
"But you know what's always been a constant in my life and in this channel? My shaved balls"
Watch everyone skip straight to the Rhyme gym battle to see what he says
It did NOT disappoint.
Literally exactly what I did.
i personally skipped to miykye’s death
Friendlocke is truly never complete until you react to the season. Really ties everything together
I picked Fuecoco because I thought it was adorable and I liked the typing. I had no idea about Torch Song on day one, but yeah it 100% carries
10:34
My garganacl has sturdy,a nature that up it defense,and also has hammer arm,earthquake and salt cure. Needless to say,she was my first mon to be lv 100 and was sweeping anything that came my way. Everyone talks about skeledirge but Nacli's line is BROKEN AF
Gerber is to Salty what Brayden was to Alpha
32:15 "He's doing great, the only ones who can screw him over are his friends." Oh, the dramatic irony. It hurts.
Don mind me, just putting the timestamp of Gerber’s trol- I mean plan that should have work… kek
44:20
But I agree with the style as well the difficulty
I also putting 11:28 and 35:20 for the heck of it. They’re my favorite moment when one decision cause the downfall for some poke- I mean units. :l
In a post session Q&A, one of the friends playing the pokemon said they'd love to have you feature in a future series somehow!
when i saw Gerber kill Jay my first thought was genuinely "oh Jan's gonna have a field day with this one"
but yeah i knew the run was completely fucked the second Derek gave Nemona Skeledirge
Jan is experiencing the magic of the holy Goon Box at 50:07
Oh god the next friend-locke is gonna have so many un evolved Pokémon, I can feel it
Pchal seeing the smosh bit out of context is so funny.
What was the context?
@@PixelRockett they joked about smosh after salty mentioned Shayne Topp but while editing the videos Ian and Anthony bought the channel reuniting them after years of radio silence.
The animation at the end of the "movie" is amazing. And the song, 'The Scarlet and Violet Skies' is peak.
Nothing says Christmas like watching the 2nd best Nuzlocker (next to Alpharad because TH-cam said so), reacting to my favorite white guy!
Happy Holidays, everyone!
To be fair, Gerb is making the right call refusing to use shed tail every time vs the skelidurge. Torch Song is a sound move and ignores substitute. Its the same as switching normally but also damages gerb
The call back to the onix clip is incredible, and the fact that Gerber surpasses it is amazing.
there is a disturbing absence of how little of da cheff we get to see
I think it's good to still reasons to watch the original. Also this is a relatively short video compared to how much content there is about the friendlocke.
Book at 8:04 is “House of Leaves” by Mark Z. Danielewski
1:13:15
To be completely honest, Metronome could have picked Guilliotine and landed the hit.
The most annoying thing about Mikey dying is that if he had let him evolve into fighting/ghost that never would have happened 😅
I'm sure a lot of people have already talked about it, but since Pchal didn't know, at the Nemona fight around 39 minutes, shed tail wouldn't have worked because it requires half health. And even if it had, torch song is sound based and bypasses substitute
Happy Holidays, Jan! Enjoy your winter time and can't wait to see your reaction to season 3 of Friendlocke. One of my favourites, but just as infuriating (in a good way).
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how to beat the skeliderge:
1. try not to kill lark
2. probably should have had grunpilo on the team before each nemona fight
3. use 4rest and tarastalise into ground type
I have personally never lost a mon to grinding. Only to random ass trainers because I had to sack for a pivot. I'm at a point where I have too much going on to manually grind and these challenges are supposed to be fun for the nuzlocker like you have said in this video. I have never seen the problem of someone trying to save time with candies.
Biggest mistake of this run was not the weird ghost gym "strat" but letting the rival have the fire starter.
1:06:28 Bro Gerber broke the Onix record for worst moment in pokemon nuzlocke history...even Jan confirmed it was bad XD
Everytime he talks up one of Salty’s pokemon and say how strong they are, I have this immediate response in my head that goes “Well, you’re gonna love how they lose that pokemon”
"I don't do shootouts go fuck yourself" classic Jan you're a real one for that
YES. I have been waiting for this since it came out, it's like I'm getting to watch it again, but remixed. Thank yooooooou, Jan!
41:20 I think the feature's cool, I just wish it had a way to turn off, doing the Blueberry League fights in post-dlc and randomly winning to a crit or survive is kinda bleh, but in regular battles it's usually fine xD
7:00
Wait, didn't Jan himself use Clodsire? I think it was in his "no deaths" gen 9 attempt, wasn't it?
Who would possibly know that, neeeerd.
no, he duoed it with Cloyster and Skeledirge
I like at the start, it was blind as the day they started the nuzloke was when day the game was released, and I think the play though was mostly blind and it was enjoyable to watch (especially when the game crashed during the water gym and the accidental egg)
LMAO. him paying them to not evolve is hilarious. hope it becomes a thing
Jan: That's a pretty good Pokemon!
Nuzlocke RNG: Yeah, about that...
The fact that vriska single-handedly changed your mind on spidops makes all us homestuck fans very happy ::::)
not only has vriska done nothing wrong, shes done everything right ::::)
3:50 The happy part when I decided to do reverse order nuzlocke for my first playthrough and my starter turned out to be the most broken Pokemon ever, that pretty much could have won all my fights in this game, if not for the fact that I actively decided to use more Pokemon as I progressed (and I did find Shiny Glimmet when going to Psychic gym and suprisingly have not let it Self-Destruct on me catching it in regular Ball, so I had to use it - after I actually learned how lucky I was). Kinda annoyed I didn't check which route is the hardest, because I probably wouldn't defeat Team Star or the Titans as easily as I did with Grusha. Winning with major level disadvantage.
4:20 To be fair they did also have a lot more time for this. From trailers, to game leaking week before release for the emus. Obviously there were some day 1 arts for the reveals. But for the actual premiere, we had enough time to get all those hundreds upon thousands art pieces. And to be fair Meowscarada had it easy. Both Professors though? That was rough.
25:10 The sad part is that they never learned you can bulk-buy drinks at the school cafeteria.
1:16:10 Ok but nuzlocking the DLCs is actually cute. At least that got some better touch. Steps by steps we are reaching potentially good Pokemon game 😂
7:18 For anyone wondering, he said "Force - Kinning"
Kinning is when you see yourself in a fictional character and like to try to act like that fictional character
The joke was Salty is forcing a kin, in this case the name Pastey, onto Pastey
The verbal version of shitty kerning
24:28 i realized through this nuzlocke that this gym leaders wallet is 1. Not a water type, and 2. Not the pokemon he terastalizes into water type or even like… interacts with, so i guess he just bought it at a raffle or something? I feel like it could be utilized for his character design alot better, like for instance, if they did this with larry i could see his wallet being a flying type pokemon because that’s what he uses in the elite 4 and that would be a nice hint to that
I find it funny how you didn't even once mention what, or rather who, the spidops was named after. It even seemed once like you intentionally dodged saying their name. Does he know?
I guess he just didn't want to fight the homestuck
I thought it was just named after "Spider" and "special ops"
@@menderbug1 no spidops is its species name, he meant the nickname, which was vriska, who is a homestuck reference, something that once shooked the internets
11:15 jan casually trying to sabotage salty’s run
The rant about the rare candies is so true. People like Verlis who use the "well the challenge is part of the grind" just reveal that they have no business talking about nuzlockes. The challenge comes from the fights and pokemon availability, it always has. To pretend that you need to make grinding inherently difficult or that you're not allowed to skip the mindless grinding for literal days for it to be a legit nuzlocke is just so delusional.
More importantly, nuzlockes are about the content, and grinding is boring as fuck
Oh, Iono. Violet was my first-ever nuzlocke, and at first, while I still used items, I tried to not overlevel for the battles, and that cost me for the Iono fight. Because of this, I didn't evolve the Sandile that I caught in the Asado Desert. So, due to Iono's Mismagius constantly getting the boost from Charge Beam, I lost my Spidops (my second 'Mon, since I switched up the encounter for Poco Path), my pre-mentioned Sandile, and my Lycanroc (don't know if it was a mistake going with Midnight Lycanroc, but whatever). On the plus side, it got me VERY attached to the shiny Hariyama who remained one of my best Pokemon in the run, since she managed to survive and beat that thing.
After that, I didn't care as much about overleveling.
The green screen background is actually so funny lmao
Nuzwlocke of S/V but with only bad/weak mons would be fun with how OP mons are in the game
I actually tried this myself. I did a hardcore nuzlocke with the rule that I can only use Pokémon that are NU or lower on Smogon (and no Tera). Kind of an arbitrary rule, but I found it worked well enough. It’s been a really fun run and a great level of difficulty for me! Would recommend! My best Pokémon have definitely been Bruxish, Hariyama, and Florges, and it’s been fun getting to use so many mons I’d normally pass over. Even spidops has been decent with access to counter for good damage on the team star revavrooms and sticky web in the late game
smogon rankings are not the same...@@combro7096
21:42 That friendly rivalry at its finest towards Alpharad, Lol
In the one time when gerber said he’d refuse to use shed tail in that nemona fight, shed tail wouldn’t have worked anyways cause torch song is a sound based moved so it would have bypassed the sub.
It was all pure chaos, which definitely made it the best Friendlocke season so far.
To be fair big time wasters and lengthy segments were always kind of present in Pokémon, it's mostly notable in SV for frontloading the exposition and buildup in the beginning rather than interjecting it throughout.
Gen 1's best route theme is exclusive to a side path with next to nothing in it, tons of forgettable trainers and inexplicable pole mazes
Gen 2 has the entire Radio Tower segment of Team Rocket be an incredibly time consuming affair
Gen 3's "too much water" segment with so little happening and stuff to see between Lilycove and the Pokémon League
Gen 4 has you constantly run into side NPCs trying to sell you their new gimmick. The Pokétch campaign, the underground kit... and some other drawn out Team Galactic sequences
The difference is that in most of these cases, you actually play the game. You fight through team rocket, you surf and explore from Lilycove. In Scarlet and Violet, however, you press A. For an hour. That's it
It's not great for storytelling though. When you gradually introduce worldbuilding and plots throughout an experience, you can more seamlessly and creatively introduce things. It's boringly overwhelming to have expedition dumps before all the gameplay, and let that instance of exposition being main thing carrying the whole story.
3:03 its gonna be reaaaaaal hard to win a friendlocke with just one pokemon.
7 Pokémon total…
Yeah… we’re gonna need to optimise.
ALSO! You can switch Pokemon from the boxes between fights during the E4.
"How did I buily my hole career by beeing the nerd emoji?"
That's the real question to be asked
I remember watching the first stream, and then i never got any notifications for other streams so i just assumed they cancelled it. Nice to see its a full season again.
I agree with the candy using argument. To avoid the grind, I use pokemon in raids and also don't count raid deaths because I could always just train on random low-level pokemon for 10 hours to get one pokemon leveled up without risk, this just speeds it up, especially as when you exit the raid den, your pokemon is at 1 hp still, so it didnt die
"The big spenders are always the ones who smoke the most crack"
You don't say....
Elon Musk on his way to drain a crack cartel
Based friendlock shot call. I see your bet jan and i'm declaring myself a believer in the scuff
the gerber slander is wild 😭
33:00 So he made the brutal murderer of a teammember go into a low level area to rage fist baby pokemon?
Are we the baddies?
hey jan, cooler jahresabschluss! danke für deine videos. immer wieder geil anzuschauen
Also known as: 1 hour and 16 minutes of pChal roasting Salts lack of nuzloke knowledge
you know its the end of the month when jan uploads with a sponsor in the video
I dont know if you noticed
but during the anime intro, gerber was shown with the villains
Simple nerf. Make torch song 90% accurate. 57:31
I don't think signature moves are allowed to be balanced anymore
@@InsertFunnyThingHere true
Watching this season live was something else between Mankey anger point and just the Ryme fight.
So glad to see gerber get roasted by pchall
Jan you should join the next friendlocke but before every session get absolutely wasted
If he changed Espathras nature with a mint it would’ve live it had a spa lowering nature
33:15 getting talked about by Verlisify is a rite of passage for the Pokétuber community now lol
Technical difficulties are definitely one of the biggest reasons that people who say content creation isn't a real job don't know what they're talking about.
Rare candies are a godsend even in normal playthroughs, grinding just isn't fun imo
I'm glad they had fun with their run. Personally, I prefer a lose where I had fun over a win where I didn't have fun.