Pro Nuzlocker Reacts To SaltyDKDan "Friendlocke"
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Surely you react to FlygonHG's DP Nuzlocke
Among us memes are my version of your mudkipz meme
Pouring the water on the trimmer instead of sticking the trimmer in the cup of water is why I respect Jan.
Still you kinda missed the great moments in this.
...like the "graveler 2" obviously.
The pufferfish moment.
..also i guess the aftermath of deaths and gym battles.
And the "AFTERGAME ENDING" ...oh boy its so good, they take on "Rayquaza" as their final challange. But with a twist...
..though i highly recommend seeing ALL the season two edited episodes for skipping.
videos there for good moments and people like me want to see your reaction and thoughts on this cast of characters and the run.
Since they give alot of character development towards the finale.. i watch the unedited twitch streams and.. oh it hurts so much..
....well looking back after i replied, i noticed your only thinking about the "trainer" ...it kinda ruins the fact the "trainer" isn't in control. The friends are so basically they don't want to die. You can't "sacrifice" since it's limited on people. So even if its a later route encounter... it doesn't mattet based on people.
We need you to react to Nuzlocke season 2's parts. Wiping to who he wiped to, it's pretty common for this little man. I'd love to hear your take on it
To explain some things about how salty plays these friendlockes
1. He will rarely sacrifice one of his party members since the charcter he plays up is a bit of a jerk with a heart of gold type who doesn't like seeing his friends "die." So with the mightyena's death was sort of a case of the role playing elements of the friendlocke overriding good strategy
2. The reason he ignores the wipe-out = game over rule is because he thinks it's funny if the run ends with every single one of his friends dying
And also because he wants all of his friends to get a moment to shine
Salty: I don't want my friends to die! :(
Also Salty: lol all my friends are dead.
@@jeremymitchem327 salty pre vs post Clay fight
So are we just going to forget about colon
The ignoring party wipe is so all his friends can play
One thing I actually really liked about this type of Nuzlock is that it really helps capture the spirit of the original Nuzlock because each mon is connected to a person it's very easy to get attached to the pokemon it's why Salty never thought about switching in a sacrifice against the Grovyle because he didn't want to sacrifice any of his friends
Alternative title: *PC reacts to Vanilla Emerald Nuzlocke but he has Emerald Kaizo PTSD*
This is the post game now
Hit hardest when he saw a Lotad
@@Astra.d2 Ludi in crit range getting ice beamed against Glacia MonkaS.
"OH NO! IT *IS* POLYAMOROUS!" Is one of my favorite Salty quotes, & he's a highly quotable person.
My personal favorite is "what if thanos was Irwin?"
Agreed. I doubled over laughing.
“Fuck you Jesus”
-Salty
@@sneezewatch That meme will forever haunt me, mainly cause when the youtuber "Miniladd" got outed for being terrible that meme was being played on stream when they were making a statement about it
@@lazybones8962 oh god i remember that lmao
I know he said he doesn't have enough friends to do this but god I want to see him do this so he'll look his friends in the eye and say "I'm going to sacrifice you"
Yes lol
To be fair he’d probably play with other people familiar with nuzlockes so they’d be fine being killed. 🤷🏻
Just imagine alpharad as an onyx
@@gbond3210 THE ULTIMATE IRONY
I wonder why....
Jan: *giving actual critiques of the best plays and who would be the best to sack to make sure the May fight goes the smoothest*
Me, too emotionally attached to the pixels with personalities: Y-You can’t just sack Gabi.
Well Jan is looking at the nuzlocke in a purely logical and analytical way.
Which is how he plays the nuzlockes, I do want to see Jan doing a friendlocke, maybe with other well known Pokémon nuzlocke players and see if he would actually sack them to get a win or not sack them because he would feel bad if he killed them.
@@cynicalducky1041 he would 100% sack them and itd be funny as fuck
Sacking Gabi is homophobic tho
@@scarlett4417 trueeeee
@@scarlett4417 Yeah,Jan as a Brute Army General will fit perfectly who can sack anyone without hesitation.
I like that he understood that the focus is more on the comedy and the friends than the actual nuzlocke. Too bad he skipped literally every frame with Jae in it, huh?
Dan skipped a death of sandslash
@@soulhoney1227 rip chrissy
Auntie Sandslash will be remembered
We skipped most of Mikey too
Yeah wonder if he’ll check out season 2
I would have also let the Azumarill die, I was way more useful as a Mightyena.
Yooo is that Gerber (real?)
The only ok pokemon you got to play was Vileplume. Feelsbadman. At least you got to sweep the champion
Bruh you were the one who killed her anyway by wanting the secret battle
YOOOOOOOOO IT'S FUCKING GERBERVLOGS
Gerber games
Not gonna lie, the “speaking of balls though” transition is easily the best ad transition i’ve ever seen.
I do think evolving electrike makes a difference
Manectric could take a guts boosted non crit if its at full
Unebolved I guess min roll is around 75
Speaking of balls...
This guy thinks he's the best at something?
*glances at Japan*
Doubt it
@@octopushands6923 Well no one has contested him
Nah
“You could also just sack the Loudred”
You don’t understand that’s Joe, Joe’s the man
Not joe T^T
Joe mama
Joe's the king
@@mitzaellopez3556 cause king mooch right
he ordered the fortnite pasta you can't just sack him
genuinely appreciate that Jan is like "y'know? let's skip to the part i can actually comment on instead of just playing this dudes whole video with minimal meaningful commentary"
I kinda wish we could’ve seen the confusion during the pufferfish arc.
@@SNK_LRD
"From my experience, moaning for long periods of time leaves you more vulnerable to the death"
- Pro Nuzlocker
@@dustydudle880 i mean… did anyone who partook in that part ever die?
@@SNK_LRD at the end they did, if we're considering Steven
@@dustydudle880 Yeah, I uh… forgot about that part for the longest time
God watching someone who isn’t familiar with Salty’s humor is so fucking funny
soy
It makes me wanna merge without looking.
Oh.. humor.. that's what he calls it.
@@laneaification what else would it be
@@laneaification dont understand why we need to shit on someone for what they consider funny, i personally don't find him funny but who cares?
“Trying to pause around the obama screenshots” is probably my biggest chuckle this month
watching the full friendlocke was hilarious, borat spoink had me in tears
very nice
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Jan: "The problem with you watching this at home is you don't have enough friends."
Me: "Damn.... didn't have to come at me that hard."
Have enough*
**He implied you still had friends, thus you gain 1 friendliness point**
While l agree with set mode being harder/more interesting, l think switch mode probably makes more sense in the context of this friend-locke,, you dont want to have to manually pivot past people's mons for 1 turn, you want mons/avatars to shine and keep it snappy. This whole series is probably more geared towards messing around with friends rather than actually being optimal, so for this one l think it's wise to keep set mode off :]
didn’t think about that. this makes a lot of sense now
Yeah I agree.
@@lukehennessy2152 I think Shift also makes sense for blind runs or randomizers.
@@skeetermania3202 I personally disagree with randomisers. Dealing with things as they come in unexpected situations is part of the deal imo.
Yeah, I'd go with removing items over using set mode if Salty wants to up the difficulty for season 3.
“The problem for you watching at home, is that you don’t have enough friends to do this.” And all I can say to that is TTTRRRRRRUUUUUUUUEEEEEEEW
That almost took me out lmaoo
I’ve never been more offended by something that’s 100% true
He called us all out...........
it would be fine i will just complete the whole game with my starter but my only friend has never played a Pokémon game before.
Jan woke up and chose violence
I’m standing by whenever youre ready to bust out the friendlocke Jan, i think you could pull it off :)
It'd be of an actually hard game. You sure?
I'd love to see that
Not to be offensive but I don’t think Jan even remembers you (love your videos though)
He'd need like 30 or 40 friends to have someone for each encountrr
Friendlocke EK?! That’d be torture
EK has really shaken him with how that probably was put in the intro
Ek went on for a year right
@@tsurin-2160 I think it was longer than that
Well...it's a shame he didn't see most of it, since there were some REALLY interesting moments like the Wobbuffet and Victory Road.
I just realized he never saw chrissy and that makes me sad :(
Ikr, that wobbuffet strat is really funny especially in later gens
Ah yes, Joe’s final destination moment
Or Monsters’ big brain Confuse ray, which I’m still sad that they didn’t put it in the highlights video, considering that entire fight was scuffed.
@@Slug_ssbm Monsters is kind of incredible. Everything just seems to go well for him.
I don’t know whether it’s good or bad that he skipped the moan cave
its bad
That's important for the lore
Why the hell would he skip that? That is very important to the lore and plot of the Emerald Friendlocke. And the fact that he skipped it shows that he doesn't appreciate their friendlocke and I am going to _sue._
Hail Sithis.
It was a good choice it stopped being funny very quickly
@@NoHer0 I agree, it got really awkward/annoying.
i love jan talking about the many ways that Pastey could've avoided dying
when literally everyone in the video thought the same thing and Pastey just did it because he was stubborn
The genius of the Friendlock is how some Salty’s friends really inhabit their avatars. Plus salty has to balance having good Pokémon with people who actually know what they’re doing.
My favorites are the Borat Spoink because funny and Mikey because he’s an active threat to anyone he’s in a double battle with.
I'd absolutely love if Jan somehow joined season 3 or started his own friendlocke.
The reason why Electrike died was because the person controlling Electrike, Pastey, chose not to evolve, then he chose to have Electrike use Thunder Wave, and then Pastey didn't have Electrike switch out. I feel that's the main beginner mistake in nuzlockes, not switching out of disadvantageous matchups. If Pastey simply had let Electrike switch out (because Salty doesn't control the moves made) and Kenny decided to let Sableye come in, it would've been trivial.
@Loli boohoo lol
@Loli
He’s not watching the whole thing because he’s being recorded on stream. Imagine watching the same video with no commentary, the whole point of a reaction channel is to react to it. That’s why he skipped a good chunk. He probably watched the whole video off-stream though since he doesn’t uphold that pressure of giving commentary.
@Loli
He’s going to watch it off-stream after the stream. He didn’t watch it before the stream because the point of a commentary channel is to get an authentic reaction. After getting his reaction and turning off the stream he can now fully enjoy the whole video with no skips and no commentsry.
@Loli
oh well, that’s just the filming style this guy does
@Loli I mean also he’s doing commentary, he literally said in the video that there’s not much he can talk about for most of this so it would basically just be straight up ripping someone else’s video for 90%. Plus this video would be even longer than it already is
I must say everything from Jan post EK feels like post game, because now he really is the best nuzlocker in the world.
He might be, but if you are basing that off him beating EK, some has beaten it before him and someone has already beaten the new Radical Red Hardcore Nuzlocke, which Jan wants to do next. He does have though the most decorated Nuzlocke profile completion I would say.
There are a few players that are better than Jan, for example, buhrito, gian97, dekzeh and udaii97. These streamers are all finished EK and buhrito is the first to beat the new radical red. Buhrito and udaii97 are doing deathless emerald kaizo runs rn. There are also probably a few non streamer discord players that are better, but nobody knows because they don’t stream
@@ashvinmohan6576 they aren't really "better" for doing this. EK is all luck with your encounters and maybe 35% strategy. Jan just got cucked by shitty encounters for a year and that's why it took so long. Jan is probably the most decorated and consistent nuzlocker to date, and that's why he deserves the title "best nuzlocker in the world"
@Jar Jar Binks Jan also pioneered a ton of strategies for ek nuzlockes, which made him take more attempts
@@sithlordbinks This is probably my biggest issue with EK. It feels like if you don't get near perfect encounters you just lose. That's not an expression of skill. It's just resetting until you don't get fucked over.
If he reacts to season 2 I hope he takes the time to talk about each friend, like hearing him talk about how good and bad each pokemon are. Also I'm surprised he didn't notice Gravaler 2.0.
I was hoping he was going to talk about him
You called me Trash >:(
She's not trash, she was MVP.
i like lotad
@@TheRealGerberBaby so true gerber
Sara Your job of being Lotad was the best
I swear this looks like the first time he's enjoyed any of these reaction videos and he still has no emotions about the deaths no matter the story, it's both impressive and worrying
You don't need friends to do friendlocke, you can just do a "sublocke" and have your subs control pokemon. You get to gatekeep trollers since if they do smth bad they just get banned and it encourages more people to sub. Based win win scenario for content
Fun concept but it'd be really hard to do in reality. Maybe if there's a sub discord and they can pick the most trusted people from it but it definitely would be completely different.
@@Ghost-ql6tn wouldn't really be too hard since PC can still control the game and just have the other people just tell him what they want to do. And if they're intentionally ruining the run or so you could just boot them out mid game.
(angry in no money)
Shoutout to the editor for making that ad read make sense. The live read was rough to say the least.
I'm surprised it turned out as good as it did, saw it on the stream LMAO
"How thick is this Spoink?"
Monsters: ma wife
“The problem for you watching at home, is that you don’t have enough friends to do this.”
Man, that cuts deep dude.
The two friendlocke seasons are probably one of my favorite things one TH-cam so I’m very happy that Jan watched some of it.
“I thought he was gonna say he kills them in real life or something.”
Friendlocke season 2 intro: allow me to introduce myself
“Oh no! It’s using its second item… a SNIPER RIFLE” i freaking died😂
This might be the most scuffed run that Jan’s ever reviewed, and that’s saying something
Nah, Alpharad's run was easily the most scuffed of any Jan's seen
@@grunkleg.3110 >Onix in E4
Sounds about right
Alpharad's was a bit more scuffed than this tbh
I feel like you forget that he doesn't just wanna sacrifice his friends on the spot sometimes-
These, like all of his reactions, are only meant to be used as helpful advice for the audience. It's nothing against the creators themselves and he knows this is primarily a comedy series
@@dominickperez2952 yeah, I know that im actually a fan of both content creators
*Except Collin
nah, jan would definitely sacrifice his friends like that if he did a friendlocke
When he was saying that they should sack a mon, i don’t think he realized just what that entails lmao.
This is a very funny Idea. Exactly like dnd, some of my friends will try to self sabotage and others will try hard it.
I might suggest this sometime, thank you Jan for bringing this to my attention.
Recently found out that the absolute best counter for Flannery is huge power Azumarill and rollout. Defense curl then two shot the numel with rollout and you outspeed mon. You just roll through the whole gym without a scratch
Random but ok
As long as you hit lol
@@pedromiguelabdofidelisdepa4732 If it's not 100% accurate it's 50% accurate
@@pedromiguelabdofidelisdepa4732 between huge power and def curl, thats 120 base damage on the first rollout at 90acc. Even if you only hit the first rollouts, you will win pretty easily. You have to get unlucky to miss all your 90 accs, but thats what backup strats are for
Ya know, that works just fine. Unless burn. Or rollout misses.
As someone who has been playing Pokemon games for 25 years, watching them spam Water Gun in the sun against Torkoal *when they have Mud Shot* really upset me.
I don't think I've ever seen the words "Streptobeeb" and "blood for the blood god" used in the same 5 seconds. Thanks Twitch chat.
Timestamp 22:15
“I wish someone would spit in my mouth.” Um!? Sir!?
And wow I didn’t think about how Vileplume just kind of owns Wallace’s whole team.
Thing is, you didn't take into account the fact that if the Elektrike managed to show how it could MaChoke on this, it instantly gains 5 IVs in every stat, so it was definitely worth the risk
Oh my gosh, I absolutely love Salty and PChal, this is like the Jimmy Timmy Power Hour of Pokemon Nuzlockes
this makes me wish for a poketuber friendlocke with jan as the trainer, that would be so fucking dumb and hilarious
this video makes me want to merge without looking
I am happy to see Jan really having fun reacting to someone's nuzlocke
Dude you gotta remember this was a emotion filled nuzlocke you keep saying to sacrifice something but he doesn’t want to sacrifice anything. In this it’s his friends not just 1s and 0s
Oh he knows this, but he's said numerous times he's giving advice in those situations for normal nuzlockes and for the people wanting to attempt a nuzlocke
"I wish someone would spit into *my* mouth." -Pokémon Challenges
I’m sure 300 people have said this already, but you should really look at season 2. It’s randomized Black and White without the reincarnation rule, so I’d imagine you’d have a lot more to say than here
Haven't seen it yet, but I knew he would watch this, even Salty himself said that he tried getting Pomemon Challenges to watch it.
He did?
@@blueyoshi5133 Yes, I believe it was in one of the streams, he called out Pokemon Challenges
Why is Jan laughing the cutest thing ever
I LOVE THIS, FINALLY
I can't stop laughing at the fact that Jan took off the manscaped shirt after the sponsor segment.
To me, this represents 2 different extremes of nuzlockes. The friendlocke takes the attachment to your team of pokemon to a new level, something nuzlockes achieve. Jan, however, takes the element of challenge nuzlockes bring to new levels.
The problem with sacking any pokemon it that is like sacking a friend.(also i'm pretty sure they are new to nuzlocke and such) so yeah it's hard to sack a friend like that
Also for the movesets,the friends decided what they wanted to keep or not. Not salty's choice
I love how Jan instantly got out of the Manscaped T-Shirt after he had done the advert.
And of course he changed into a classic pChall-Shiert
“Speaking of balls tho…”
Oh boy here comes the manscaped sponsor
I'm so glad you reacted to this!
No cap, the first time I ever did Acid was a bit after the Damn Daniel Video happened, maybe 2 months.
For some reason, I spent like 20 full minutes crying of laughter at that shit. The side effect is that now I still giggle at it.
"If the meme is on Ellen, you know what im saying" LMAO
I was today years old when I learned that was Nosepass's foot and not a whistling mouth... I've played through this game at least a hundred times... I'm upset.
You can actually do a Subslocke even though the majority of us are cringe.
You have ludwig's ludlocke
Shadylocke's?
I would try my best to not be cringe
Rumor has it the fly is still hanging out within Jan's place
Could you react to SilphSpectre’s Mono-Ghost HC Nuzlocke of Platinum? It may have come out just yesterday, but he uses a lot of cool strategies all the way up to the end, even having 0 deaths up to the champion.
Would a close to perfect/lucky game be interesting to review tho? pluss PChal only review larger creators to actually gain subs.
@@adammortensen6283 If the strats are interesting enough I don't see why not, but the second point is fair lmao
@@adammortensen6283 no he doesn't, he reviewed FlygonHG's fire type nuzlocke, lol.
@@carolej339 because flygon is actually good
@@unknownskigo i second that, flygonHG is a beast
I was anxiously waiting for you to review this, i love the friendlockes Salty makes
2:10
Me: (thinking to myself) oh man this sounds like a fun challenge! I should totally do this-
Him: The problem for you is that you don't have enough friends to do this
Me:
Me: Just because you're right doesn't mean it hurts less.
Mate your videos have come along way. Congrats dude.
"you don't have enough friends" hit me hard because I do but our schedules never match lol
Whenever I think of when a paralyzed mon with guts is on the field is this yolked Pokémon in a wheelchair, i just imagine the Machoke wheeling itself over to the electrike and plunging it’s fist into its head killing it and it’s the funniest thing to me rn
Yeah, I just finished up making a Emerald ROM with buffed gyms/E4 (and some trainers where I felt like it). Gave the Elite 4 all strategy themed teams and made Wallace not locked in to one type. Glacia ended up as a Sun team (gym 8 is already Water for rain, Hail isn't great, not sure how much can abuse Sand in the regional dex) and Vileplume as the ace. Wallace also uses Rayquaza in the Champion fight as his ace (still has Milotic though... just thought it would be cool if had Rayquaza as the one person to open the Sky Pillar, then releases it for you to catch.
Problem with vanilla Emerald is you can catch Rayquaza before the Elite Four so the logic of Wallace releasing him sort of fails unless you changed the script for it to appear post-Elite Four. Sand also has Sand Stall.
@@ShiningJudgment666 If I can find a way to change the script, maybe I will. I always thought it wasn't catchable until post-game. Maybe I am thinking of the Delta Episode in ORAS?
@@alexanderkaufman3575 I didn't realize until years after that it was the case lol. Yeah. In the Hoenn games, it's only in Emerald that you can catch it pre-Elite Four and at Level 70 no less. It's kind of broken in that way since it out levels the entire Elite Four by a good margin and it has quite a wide movepool (Brick Break for Sidney, Crunch for Phoebe, Ice Beam or Dragon Claw for Drake, etc) and it's a feasible speed run strategy.
This is honestly amazing and I'm gonna go watch the original later, so funny, such enjoyable banter :)
After that, watch the manga
I feel like you could get a crew together for a poketuber friendlocke
I’ve been looking forward to this so much!!
My favorite thing about the emerald poocheyena sprite is just how disinterested he is in life
Poochyena is a good early encpunter because it increases the odds of getting a nincada if your not going for duplicates
Plus Mightyena has Intimidate so there's that too.
So glad you got to see this one! Such a fun spin on a nuzlocke
I love all the planning and like strategy that pchal plays out into "is that all were gonna get for the normal gym". All it took was one boxer shroom
Fun fact, I finished an emerald nuzlocke a bit ago and put sunny day vileplume in my team for ONE purpose. Killing Walrein, ended up killing both sealeos too but Walrein was surprisingly a 1 shot. Only difference between that vileplume and the one here is mine was running moonlight
2:20 that hit me deep.
i mean come on, who has 6 friends?
I love the friendlock, I'm so happy Jan is reacting to it
Even your ads are funny man. Love the content
*Patiently waits for the EK vid*
Just so you know you can use < and > to frame advance that way you don’t have to worry about pausing on the right frame
is it weird that i like your reaction videos much more than actual gameplay videos, in addition i feel like they are more educational... atleast i learnt more in them
Bro it’s funny how he talks about “sacking” some one. The reason he doesn’t do that much is because his friends are linked to them and he doesn’t want them to die.
the amount of people in that twitch chat that don’t understand humor is subjective is kinda sad
Season 2 spoilers
I can't wait for the season 2 marathon to be released, I really want to see his reaction to the starters and everything else
The first fight with Jay having to Defense Curl the whole time killed me
watching this live was an incredible experience
Thank you for saying Ugandan Knuckles was never funny, I can't believe so many people were living in denial over that.
All I gotta say about salt's nuzlocke videos, is they're great! Both for watching, or listening to like a podcast
I love it when jan has a sponsor lol
Have we ever seen Jan laugh at a joke someone else made this hard?
I started doing this with some online friends and its become a weekly thing, we have soo much fun
Do a chatlocke where chatters have avatars and if their avatar dies the chatyer is banned.
Damn it I had to continuously lower and raise my volume bc Jan's audio was waaaay louder than the nuzlocker's
this
the first time ive seen him without a button up shirt
i would love to see Jan try a friendlocke, with the way that he strategically sacrifices pokemon and everything. would be funny to see him try and 300 IQ his way through a game while his pokemon yell at him
Him being like "Hes got the dumpy" is making me laugh so much