How I Beat Pokémon's "HARDEST" Challenge

Again?

there is some skill in execution and adaptability, but that is also me giving the "challenge" far more credit than it deserves. You nailed most of the issues in the rant vid, but i am not so stubborn to insist a casual could beat a run without at least one higher tier of skill; damage calcs, good item use in battle, and risk management. That last one is the embodiment of the singular challenging element: when is a mon good enough to push the run past the first rival, how early should you cut your losses, and when do you get the most benefit from an item?

All that said, it is JUST me trying to be as fair as possible. I still entirely agree about the central premise of the challenge, and the only ones i bother watching are for the stories that come out the other end and not the challenge itself. "hardest" isnt entirely inaccurate, but the gap between expectation (skill based) and reality (RNG fest only testing endurance through tedium) is where the inaccuracies come in. Anyone who markets it as "hardest" unironically (do they include the quotation marks?) is being disingenuous and click-bait-y. Ironmon is the most punishing of mistakes, but the number of times a success or failure is defined by mistakes is too low for that to be an accurate result of the sample size.

It's ok to keep with the complaints , this challenge sucks.

Bravo on winning the slot machine at last. Also, I LOVE the new manic!Squirtle sprites, they really added to it.

What setup did you use to get hidden ground items to appear as the little x as well as the pokemon stat hud you had?

This is just rng based I don't really think it's hardest challenge

Hardest challenge for a pokemon fan is enjoying the game

I still think most of the kaizo rules are just children playground rules to make it so you can't win

I was there during the Porygod run and this one. It was so awesome seeing the fall and the rise!

I'm wondering why you didnt use your lava cookie!! Was it your only status heal item and healing items are just more likely to be found,m thus making them the more expendable resource?

Little correction for ironmons it dosent randomise total base stat but the distribution of the bst

That aereodactill came from the last moment of the dino era ... After the rage of disappearing came to sweep the pokemon kanto time

How did you leave the SS anne while poisoned to heal up? It's a dungeon, you can't leave until you've defeated the captain, and after that you can't fight any trainers.

Never said bye to mom so this run DOES NOT COUNT!!!!

I will say, the most skilled imo is speedrun. A mix of high varience with top tier execution and game knowledge while making on the fly decisions. Now if you want the biggest challenge of patience that puts soul-like games to shame, you play pokemon like this.

i love captainkidd

This just seems like take away as much skill based choices you can make and leave as much to random chance as possible

So you beat the classic ironmon kaizo I see... what about the improved ironmon kaizo with 5 generations and split special/physical moves? That one is really difficult

What was the ost of the champion battle?

Was Swift so important that you didn't want to drop Dig for *that*, or was there a rule preventing you from doing so about when Swift ran out of PP?, or was it just that it's got low PP

Can someone explain why he didn’t replace swift with dig when he got it in Blane’s gym?

Using Ringabell's theme for the final fight was beautiful!

Kidd: Kaizo Ironmon is a terrible challenge.

Also Kidd: Keeps playing it

Trainer classes are randomized to mix up the amount of money you get throughout the run that being said it typically just makes the early game easier as a result

You can't pick the best mon on the table in the lab and get a legitimate win.......

You are entering and remind me a lot of a good friend of mine which makes your content that much more entertaining

How come every time someone explains an ironmon challenge, it looks even less appealing?

Man why you gotta make us nuzlockers who like kaizo look bad. I hope you get constant diarrhea

969 nice

If only he knew about pokemon run & bun, then he wouldn't be calling this the hardest challenge

I love when you can tell how hard it was to come up with a happy outro line

everyone has beaten kaizo already, it's easy as hell
the hardest challenge is now pivoting halfway through the run, nobody has beaten it yet

969? cenice 😉

why not make a tournament in a random starter style everyone gets a random pokemon every round of a random typing and then after winning your opponent instead of choosing randomly you can tkae his pokemon if you want... ohh and a with each round being given a limited amoun of rare candies to either share with your pokemons or just spam on one dude and maybe a level cap..

Come to think of it, a Kaizo Ironman is just a massive roguelike, new randomized run everytime and you pray to get a good build to finish the run

The NICE run ;)

whats the music name from the final battle?

Half of this video is filled with stuff you explained in the video where you criticize this mod. This is useless.

.... this is such a shit challenge

congrats

how to download and play?

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CrawdauntCory beat kaizo ironmon on his 57th attempt so idk seems pretty skill based to me

22 heals in bag

yeah. ironmon is wack.