I Attempted a Pokemon Platinum Nuzlocke

For those who didn’t watch the stream, Jaiden actually lost her first attempt at the Elite Four. Her Togekiss died to a crit Stone Edge against Aaron’s Heracross, and her Garchomp and Quagsire had really unlucky deaths against Bertha’s Rhyperior. Since the rest of her team was weak against Flint, she gave up. However, since the reason for her losing was extremely unlucky and not mistakes on her part, she did a poll asking if she could retry the Elite Four. 70% said yes, so she did it again. She won, but it was hollow. “Alternate Timeline Jaiden” was her, when she lost the first attempt.

For those confused by the duel jaiden thing, she died to Bertha on the first attempt due to some bad luck, but did one more try afterwards just to see if she could make it to Cynthia for the story

I love how Jaiden chose to incorporate both of her experiences with the elite four into the story. It is creative, unnerving, and seriously memorable. That one flash of Togekiss is haunting...

The first time I saw this, I thought the whole thing with the 2 Jaidens and the glitching and the alternate timeline was actually part of the game's plot. Now after reading the comments I realize the meaning and have a new found respect in Jaiden's creative storytelling.

“I don’t know what ending was meant for me, I don’t think I ever will.” This line is going to be locked up in my memory forever.

For context during the end of her twitch live streams she lost the elite four battles and she did a vote with chat to try again or end the play through there and chat decided to try again but Jaiden counted that as a lost but wanted to win for the video

I feel so bad for poor Failure the shinx, he was so happy to be caught and so scared and confused in his first battle WHERE HE IMMEDIATELY DIED😭

Her adapting her failure into her story like that is AWESOME. Who gives a shit about NL rules! So amazing. So smooth.

Can i just say that Jaiden’s speech and storytelling was: CHEFS KISS

For anyone who doesn't understand: Jaiden actually "lost" this Nuzlocke the first time she challenged the Elite Four. Her team was wiped out, but instead of quitting when she was so close, she chose to try again to at the very least beat the game, much to the support of her livestream at the time.

Her Scizor bullet punching while Approaching Cynthia played, chills, ALSO THE FEELING OF OUT SPEEDING THAT DAMN GARCHOMP IS THE BEST FEELING EVER.

Watching Shinx turn around and just watch in horror on his own impending demise is just horrifying to watch...AND SHE ANIMATED IT THAT WAY!

So for anyone confused about the whole giratina timeline jazz I’ll explain. In the nuzlocke during the stream Jaiden had lost half her team while fighting the elite 4 and held a poll during the stream where she would restart from the Pokémon Center in front of the elite 4 this is why she kept seeing flashbacks those are the Pokémon who died during those fights. Just thought I’d explain for anyone confused. Edit: For anyone looking for the stream it was reuploaded by “A daily dose of Jaiden”

To those curious about the glitchy scenes, she lost to flint in her "first run", and if you pay attention to the weird scenes she showed images of who beat who which was actually amazing, what happened was that during aaron, togekiss was killed, but that was ok. However against bertha, rhyperior took out quagsire which was her sole plan to take out garchomp. This caused her to make the rash decision of throwing in garchomp against a th rhyperior with earthquake and avalanche which cost her that too. If you look at the video it shows thyperior holdimg both garchomp and quagsire. Then, flint finished her team as they all were weak to fire which is shown how everyone left is burnt in the flames. She decided to go again because of course that's what we wanted and she managed to win.

I can see now that when people get into Nuzlocke’s, they get so into the game and their beloved pokemon that they worked so hard on that they cannot accept a defeat. They didn’t want to fail. They didn’t want the worst things to happen, and losing a nuzlocke is such an emotional loss for other people cause they can grow attached to their team just like how people grow attached to their beloved pets who always helped them go through a lot of things. Tbh I would cry, even if it’s just a game. My team is the only team I want to win. I do not want to go through the acceptance of losing everything… And maybe it’s something I will have to do, is to take a defeat…. And start over

I’ve watched this video a lot…. ALOT ALOT ALOT….. and the ending is just so deep. I know it’s coming every time but the words just hit every time. “I don’t think I can accept this victory, I don’t know what ending was meant for me and I don’t think I ever will” literally makes my eyes water. EVERY TIME

Imagine you die and see on your tombstone as a ghost: "FAILURE" and "LOL" and "OOPS"

The "undeserving win" and "Giratina splitting her" was actually a reference to her Twitch stream, where she actually lost the Nuzlocke, but the chat called court, and let her try again since she took like 10 crits or something.

The ''i dont know what ending is right for me.. and I don't think I ever will'' HIT HARD

That ending monologue still gets me, it such a strange melancholic feeling and it almost makes me cry combined with the beautiful ending music.