This extremely hard Pokémon randomizer is the best thing on Twitch right now

Streamer Iateyourpie's Blissey was a beast.

For the past two weeks, every time I hop onto Twitch, I've found myself browsing through Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen streams so I can watch people play the classic games in perhaps the most difficult ways possible.

If you've played through a mainline Pokemon title before, you've probably been able to get through the game without too much trouble. I'm pretty sure all of my friends growing up experienced some variation of just letting their starter carry them to becoming the Pokemon champion. But there's a community of players making the games dramatically more challenging by applying some form of what the community calls IronMon" rulesets.

The IronMon challenge

The gist of IronMon is that it's a really hard randomizer. The pokemon you...

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