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action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home4/scienrds/scienceandnerds/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/5\/23290606\/pokemon-ironmon-challenge-best-twitch-streams-kaizo-randomizer<\/a> For the past two weeks, every time I hop onto Twitch, I\u2019ve found myself browsing through Pok\u00e9mon<\/em> FireRed<\/em> and LeafGreen<\/em> streams so I can watch people play the classic games in perhaps the most difficult ways possible. <\/p>\n If you\u2019ve played through a mainline Pok\u00e9mon<\/em> title before, you\u2019ve probably been able to get through the game without too much trouble. I\u2019m pretty sure all of my friends growing up experienced some variation of just letting their starter carry them to becoming the Pok\u00e9mon champion. But there\u2019s a community of players making the games dramatically more challenging by applying some form of what the community calls \u201cIronMon\u201d rulesets<\/a>.<\/p>\n The gist of IronMon is that it\u2019s a really hard randomizer. The pok\u00e9mon you encounter, their moves, and the items you pick up are randomized, while the pok\u00e9mon you fight in the wild or those owned by trainers have increased levels. Yes, this means that your starter pok\u00e9mon will be random, too, so you won\u2019t just pick between Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle. According to the rules, you even can\u2019t peek at which pok\u00e9mon are available to make your choice; you just have to walk up to a pok\u00e9ball and accept what you get. (Though streamers often check the other pok\u00e9balls after they\u2019ve already decided which one they\u2019ll pick to see what they might be missing out on.)<\/p>\n IronMon challenges are kind of like Nuzlocke runs<\/a> but even harder. The standard IronMon rules, to me, sound like an already mind-boggling level of difficulty \u2014 what if my starter is a weak Metapod? But the challenge doesn\u2019t stop there. If your pok\u00e9mon faints, you must release it or put it back in storage, meaning you can never use it again. And on Twitch, I tend to drift to watching a harder version of the challenge, dubbed Kaizo IronMon, where players must battle with a single pok\u00e9mon<\/em>. If that pok\u00e9mon faints, the run starts all the way over.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re interested in reading all the rules, you can check them out here<\/a> (and learn about an even harder<\/em> IronMon ruleset, survival), but I really recommend just popping onto Twitch and checking out some streams<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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