Twitch streamer’s 6-hour Pokémon run is ended by opponent’s one-hit KO Destiny Bond
Twitch streamer Calebhart42 has been running Pokemon challenge runs lately, and one of his latest runs ended in absolute tragedy. Caleb fought a trainer battle towards the end of Pokemon Heart Gold/Soul Silver, when an enemy Scizor used Destiny Bond. Since the Twitch streamer skipped past the text too quickly, he missed some vital information.
This led to the streamer’s lead Pokemon, Blaziken (HAMBURGE), dying to Destiny Bond immediately and ending his run. Since this was an Ironmon run, the moves of the Pokemon were all randomized, and there was no way to know this was coming.
After a controller was thrown and a chair was smashed into the ground, there was no other move but to keep going with another attempt.
Calebhart42 was running through Pokemon Heart Gold/Soul Silver on what’s called an Ironmon Challenge and unfortunately hit a stumbling block a good six hours into the run. The Twitch streamer was distracted, talking about how often Pokemon can survive on 1 HP in this kind of run.
His Pokemon was level 65, and the trainer’s Scizor was 50, but it seems the two had a speed tie that Blaziken lost. Calebhart42 skipped through the text too fast and saw all too late that Destiny Bond was used by the enemy Pokemon.
Destiny Bond is a move that, when used, kills the opponent when the Pokemon using the power dies. So the 1 HP Scizor used Destiny Bond, and when Blaziken fired back with Drill Peck, the streamer's run was immediately extinguished. There was nothing the Twitch streamer could do about it. Trainer battles cannot be fled from, so the only way out was to combat that first.
This led to a bit of confusion from a Reddit user, but the next person briefly explained what exactly happened. This style of Pokemon challenge run
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