{"id":11788,"date":"2022-08-06T14:40:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T14:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/06\/this-extremely-hard-pokemon-randomizer-is-the-best-thing-on-twitch-right-now\/"},"modified":"2022-08-06T14:40:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T14:40:50","slug":"this-extremely-hard-pokemon-randomizer-is-the-best-thing-on-twitch-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/06\/this-extremely-hard-pokemon-randomizer-is-the-best-thing-on-twitch-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"This extremely hard Pok\u00e9mon randomizer is the best thing on Twitch right now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/5\/23290606\/pokemon-ironmon-challenge-best-twitch-streams-kaizo-randomizer<\/a>
\n
<\/br><\/code><\/p>\n

\n

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

\n <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n\"\"<\/p>\n

<\/source><\/picture>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

\nStreamer GrandPooBear\u2019s STEELEDUP looked promising, but it was unfortunately taken out <\/em>just moments later<\/em><\/a>. RIP STEELEDUP.<\/em>
\n<\/figcaption><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

Many streamers will likely be stuck in Professor Oak\u2019s lab or tromping around the initial parts of the game. It\u2019s quite difficult for a pok\u00e9mon to be good enough to survive the early areas. Though it might sound boring, I find the early game entertaining \u2014 the chat typically helps vote on which starter to pick, for example, and it\u2019s hilarious when the chat picks wrong and the streamer immediately loses. Sometimes, streamers will also \u201cpivot\u201d to a new main pok\u00e9mon, and they\u2019ll will usually debate the merits of picking one pok\u00e9mon versus another with their chat. <\/p>\n

When a run gets going, it\u2019s thrilling. Every opposing pok\u00e9mon poses a potential danger, even when the streamer\u2019s pok\u00e9mon is dozens of levels ahead. An opponent can defeat even the most powerful pok\u00e9mon with a well-timed countermove or by whittling down health through a status effect, ruining an hours-long run. And players always nickname their pok\u00e9mon, so I\u2019ll get invested in the fates of creatures with silly names like \u201cSTEELEDUP\u201d (a Steelix) and \u201cSMILE\u201d (a Blissey). <\/p>\n

But more than anything else, I keep watching out of the hope that I\u2019ll see a run go all the way \u2014 and to be there when things almost inevitably fall apart. One night, I was watching streamer Iateyourpie<\/a> (who is credited on the rules site with creating IronMon) absolutely demolishing a run with a powerful Blissey. In the morning, I checked Iateyourpie\u2019s Twitter feed to see how things ended up. I\u2019ll let you watch what happened for yourself in the final battle of the game<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Heartbreaking. But I\u2019m still tuning in to more streams to try and catch the next great run \u2014 or even those that are stuck in Oak\u2019s lab.<\/p>\n

Screenshots by Jay Peters \/ The Verge<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


<\/br><\/code><\/p>\n

Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/5\/23290606\/pokemon-ironmon-challenge-best-twitch-streams-kaizo-randomizer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: For the past two weeks, every time I hop onto Twitch, I\u2019ve found myself browsing through Pok\u00e9mon FireRed and LeafGreen streams so I can watch people play the classic games in perhaps the most difficult ways possible. If you\u2019ve played through a mainline Pok\u00e9mon title before, you\u2019ve probably been able to get through the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-11788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","category-technology","tag-gaming"],"yoast_head":"\nThis extremely hard Pok\u00e9mon randomizer is the best thing on Twitch right now - Science and Nerds<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/06\/this-extremely-hard-pokemon-randomizer-is-the-best-thing-on-twitch-right-now\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"This extremely hard Pok\u00e9mon randomizer is the best thing on Twitch right now - Science and Nerds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Source: For the past two weeks, every time I hop onto Twitch, I\u2019ve found myself browsing through Pok\u00e9mon FireRed and LeafGreen streams so I can watch people play the classic games in perhaps the most difficult ways possible. If you\u2019ve played through a mainline Pok\u00e9mon title before, you\u2019ve probably been able to get through the […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/06\/this-extremely-hard-pokemon-randomizer-is-the-best-thing-on-twitch-right-now\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Science and Nerds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-08-06T14:40:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-08-06T14:40:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/this-extremely-hard-pokemon-randomizer-is-the-best-thing-on-twitch-right-now_62ee7d7180591.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"628\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/06\/this-extremely-hard-pokemon-randomizer-is-the-best-thing-on-twitch-right-now\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/06\/this-extremely-hard-pokemon-randomizer-is-the-best-thing-on-twitch-right-now\/\",\"name\":\"This extremely hard Pok\u00e9mon randomizer is the best thing on Twitch right now - Science and Nerds\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/06\/this-extremely-hard-pokemon-randomizer-is-the-best-thing-on-twitch-right-now\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/06\/this-extremely-hard-pokemon-randomizer-is-the-best-thing-on-twitch-right-now\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceandnerds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/this-extremely-hard-pokemon-randomizer-is-the-best-thing-on-twitch-right-now_62ee7d7180591.jpeg?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-08-06T14:40:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-06T14:40:50+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/#\/schema\/person\/ea2991abeb2b9ab04b32790dff28360e\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/06\/this-extremely-hard-pokemon-randomizer-is-the-best-thing-on-twitch-right-now\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/06\/this-extremely-hard-pokemon-randomizer-is-the-best-thing-on-twitch-right-now\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/06\/this-extremely-hard-pokemon-randomizer-is-the-best-thing-on-twitch-right-now\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceandnerds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/this-extremely-hard-pokemon-randomizer-is-the-best-thing-on-twitch-right-now_62ee7d7180591.jpeg?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceandnerds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/this-extremely-hard-pokemon-randomizer-is-the-best-thing-on-twitch-right-now_62ee7d7180591.jpeg?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":628},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/06\/this-extremely-hard-pokemon-randomizer-is-the-best-thing-on-twitch-right-now\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"This extremely hard Pok\u00e9mon randomizer is the best thing on Twitch right now\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/\",\"name\":\"Science and Nerds\",\"description\":\"My WordPress Blog\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/#\/schema\/person\/ea2991abeb2b9ab04b32790dff28360e\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7e6e14fc6691445ef2b2c0a3a6c43882?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7e6e14fc6691445ef2b2c0a3a6c43882?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"This extremely hard Pok\u00e9mon randomizer is the best thing on Twitch right now - Science and Nerds","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/06\/this-extremely-hard-pokemon-randomizer-is-the-best-thing-on-twitch-right-now\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"This extremely hard Pok\u00e9mon randomizer is the best thing on Twitch right now - Science and Nerds","og_description":"Source: For the past two weeks, every time I hop onto Twitch, I\u2019ve found myself browsing through Pok\u00e9mon FireRed and LeafGreen streams so I can watch people play the classic games in perhaps the most difficult ways possible. If you\u2019ve played through a mainline Pok\u00e9mon title before, you\u2019ve probably been able to get through the […]","og_url":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/06\/this-extremely-hard-pokemon-randomizer-is-the-best-thing-on-twitch-right-now\/","og_site_name":"Science and Nerds","article_published_time":"2022-08-06T14:40:49+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-08-06T14:40:50+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":628,"url":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/this-extremely-hard-pokemon-randomizer-is-the-best-thing-on-twitch-right-now_62ee7d7180591.jpeg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/06\/this-extremely-hard-pokemon-randomizer-is-the-best-thing-on-twitch-right-now\/","url":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/06\/this-extremely-hard-pokemon-randomizer-is-the-best-thing-on-twitch-right-now\/","name":"This extremely hard Pok\u00e9mon randomizer is the best thing on Twitch right now - Science and Nerds","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/06\/this-extremely-hard-pokemon-randomizer-is-the-best-thing-on-twitch-right-now\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/06\/this-extremely-hard-pokemon-randomizer-is-the-best-thing-on-twitch-right-now\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceandnerds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/this-extremely-hard-pokemon-randomizer-is-the-best-thing-on-twitch-right-now_62ee7d7180591.jpeg?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1","datePublished":"2022-08-06T14:40:49+00:00","dateModified":"2022-08-06T14:40:50+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/#\/schema\/person\/ea2991abeb2b9ab04b32790dff28360e"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/06\/this-extremely-hard-pokemon-randomizer-is-the-best-thing-on-twitch-right-now\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/06\/this-extremely-hard-pokemon-randomizer-is-the-best-thing-on-twitch-right-now\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/06\/this-extremely-hard-pokemon-randomizer-is-the-best-thing-on-twitch-right-now\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceandnerds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/this-extremely-hard-pokemon-randomizer-is-the-best-thing-on-twitch-right-now_62ee7d7180591.jpeg?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceandnerds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/this-extremely-hard-pokemon-randomizer-is-the-best-thing-on-twitch-right-now_62ee7d7180591.jpeg?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1","width":1200,"height":628},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/06\/this-extremely-hard-pokemon-randomizer-is-the-best-thing-on-twitch-right-now\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"This extremely hard Pok\u00e9mon randomizer is the best thing on Twitch right now"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/","name":"Science and Nerds","description":"My WordPress Blog","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/#\/schema\/person\/ea2991abeb2b9ab04b32790dff28360e","name":"admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7e6e14fc6691445ef2b2c0a3a6c43882?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7e6e14fc6691445ef2b2c0a3a6c43882?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"admin"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com"],"url":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceandnerds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/this-extremely-hard-pokemon-randomizer-is-the-best-thing-on-twitch-right-now_62ee7d7180591.jpeg?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11790,"href":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11788\/revisions\/11790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}