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The Most Diabolical Softlock In Pokemon Ever

Magpie Labs

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Is this the worst softlock ever? I think it might be. I'd love to know if there's something more painful to escape than this.

Credit to both pikasprey and saltedneos!
@pikasprey
@saltedneos

Chapters:
0:00 - Softlock picking
0:48 - Eagun the Gatekeeper
4:15 - Softlock Analysis
6:15 - Attempting to level
12:05 - The EV issue
15:23 - Escape?
16:48 - Actual Escape
19:30 - Old Man Eagun

Songs (in order):

Chopin - Nocturne No.9
Zelda TOTK - Paraglider Minigame
Grieg - In the hall of the mountain king
Satie - Gnossienne 1
Pokemon XD - Cipher Lab
Zelda Twilight Princess - The Light Spirit
Bach - Air on the G string
Silksong - Choral Chambers
Satie - Gymnopedie no.1
Rossini - William Tell
Zelda Twilight Princess - Courage

20 Comments

@magpielabs Creator 5 months ago Pinned

Hey everyone,

A lot of comments are about the pronunciation of togetic. Totally fair, I genuinely did not know. I was never able to watch the anime as a kid and I have bad dyslexia - name pronunciations are a real blind spot for me. This isn't a bit or "comment bait", I'm just wrong on it. I realise some people are trying to defend me or say I did it intentionally - but I'm just wrong.

I wish I could fix this now. Sadly, that's not possible with how youtube is.

I can only apologize and try and do better in future videos.

@appelofdoom8211 5 months ago

Old man and his army of rats holds world saving child hostage

@TheTexasDice 5 months ago

You can literally save the world and the boomers will still prevent you from living successfully

@BloodfelX 5 months ago

In Orre news:
Young boy saves region,
Rescues, rehabilitates and releases back into the wild over 80 abused animals,
Is bullied into house arrest by old man.

@MmeCShadow 5 months ago

The effort that goes into setting up this softlock is its own Hell.

@Patashu 5 months ago

'time to escape OR prove that escape is impossible' is really innovating the softlockpicking meta, I love this metric

@kurdtcoben 5 months ago

"My name is Tojehtic, blade of Softlockpick. And I have only known defeat."
- L100 Togetic after several decades of grinding

@gowonfan12 5 months ago

jigsaw trap but for an immortal being

@SaltedNeos 5 months ago

It's good to finally see this softlock acknowledged somewhere! I figured when I posted it that no one would ever think about it! (also bonus points for using my favorite Pokemon in the video covering it!)

@SlamTackle 5 months ago

I love Tojehtic.

@JaybugJabbers 5 months ago

I always love watching Pikasprey's Soft Lock Picking videos, so it was a real treat getting one from you. Usually Pikasprey commits to actually escaping the 'soft locks' and showing how long it took, but I don't think even he would wanna touch this one.

@MetroNomicon777 5 months ago

I love that Metronome is needed to escape this. Not only do you need to be incredibly persistent but also absurdly lucky.

@jordanspencer2157 5 months ago

Old Man Ash taking out his rage on a child because he's a washed up old trainer and not an Elite Four member

@Necrosmos 5 months ago

Thank you for spending so many years in the time chamber figuring this all out for us.

@Silver_Roll 5 months ago

congratulations on capturing the first known footage of hell!

@Zelmys 5 months ago

At that point Michael should just sucker punch Eagun directly

@ChristmasPterodactyl 5 months ago

Another escape I think would be possible is to Metronome into Blizzard, get a double freeze using Serene Grace, and then call the right moves via Metronome to set up into a tanky sweeper while the Eagun's Pichu are frozen. I elect not to calculate the odds of this.

@natalie-iu3ru 5 months ago

One thing that pokemon softlocks have told me is that the protagonists NEED to learn how to say no

@HollyworldDroAngels 5 months ago

huge fan of Toe Jettick

@tommylucatiel7911 5 months ago

... what kind of insane mad scientist comes up with this kind of cbt? lmao. and he had to think ahead of everyone like magpie with 500iq brains so it can't be cheesed.