How Long Does It Take To Get To The First Gym In Every Pokemon Game?



Pokemon Gyms
What do they know?
Do they know things??
Lets find out!

0:00 Intro
1:15 Red & Blue
3:10 Yellow
4:05 Gold & Silver
6:00 Crystal
6:50 Ruby & Sapphire
9:35 Emerald
10:00 Fire Red & Leaf Green
10:55 Diamond & Pearl
15:15 Platinum
17:20 Heart Gold & Soul Silver
19:15 Black & White
23:25 Black 2 & White 2
26:20 X and Y
28:35 Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire
29:50 Sun and Moon
36:00 Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon
37:25 Letā€™s Go Pikachu & Letā€™s Go Eevee
39:25 Sword & Shield
46:15 Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl
47:10 Scarlet & Violet
56:33 Recap

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36 thoughts on “How Long Does It Take To Get To The First Gym In Every Pokemon Game?”

  1. The best thing about BDSP is the water physics. Why a top-down extremely faithful remake needed beautiful rippling water is beyond me.

    Also, calling Nemona Pneumonia has me wanting to spell her name NemoƱa which would, in fact, be pronounced pneumonia.

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  2. If you canā€™t believe that Bede is a guy, wait until you hear about Ilima. And if that blows your mind, wait until you hear about Sinnohā€™s ā€œRoxanneā€! XD

    Thanks for doing this! I had a thought recently about how long it would take to get to the first gym of each region. I had thought XY was longer, but I must be thinking about the gap between gym 1 and gym 2 instead.

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  3. Good job on this video! I don't think I could have managed to do the Gen 7 games for this myelf :p I'm allergic to Melemele Island. WORST place and WORST game section in any PokĆ©mon game. One friggin' hour and 18 minutes of INSUFFERABLE tutorials…

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  4. Galar and Paldea have a long time to the first gym, but they really don't feel as opressive as the Gen 7 games. You get a lot more areas where you can just walk around catching PokƩmon and you don't have STUPID situations like the stretch from the school to the PokƩmon Center on the other side of Hau'oli City where you get stopped like every five steps. In Violet I think I played for three hours before reaching Mezagosa! Honestly I feel like the tutorial section of Sword and Shield actually ends when you reach the Wild Area.

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  5. Ah, firstgym%. The only time the Charmander line is actually usable. Except… wait a minute… if you go with Yellow instead Pikachu is even better in the early game. Here's why:
    Charmander starts with Scratch, which is a 40 power normal type move, and has a base attack of 52.
    Pikachu starts with Thundershock, which is a 40 power electric type move, and has a base special attack of 50. However, Thundershock is super-effective against Pidgey, Rattata's base special is 25 vs its 35 defense, Caterpie only has 20 base special vs Weedle's base 30 defense, and as a special move Thundershock bypasses Metapod's Defense Curl. So in theory, Pikachu has a significant advantage over Charmander for this route. The only two issues are the additional wild encounter at the start and the fact that you have to bash your way through Blue's Eevee during the lab rival battle, which from my experience is a harder fight than any of the matchups in Red and Blue. Oh, and the unskippable catching tutorial.
    Well, so much for the fire lizard's time to shine. Sure, it was faster, but it was faster for reasons unrelated to the starter itself. If Pikachu was a starter in Red and Blue, it would be faster than Charmander for this run.

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  6. Ok, when you said "Ghetsis kinda has a point", I facepalmed. Keep in mind that Pokemon are intelligent creatures with abilities that could kill a human. The human isn't the one wearing the pants in that relationship, with the exception of a few exceedingly weak Pokemon like Magikarp (and even then Magikarp learns Flail at lv. 15). And before anyone tries to argue that Pokeballs are brainwashing machines, Yellow version's Pikachu, the Farfetch'd in Elix Forest from GSC and HGSS and the disobedience mechanic for traded Pokemon in previous generations prove otherwise.

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  7. I played sword/shield quite late so was able to get the 3 starters witj the best stats and hidden abilities from pokemon home for my first playthrough.

    All 3 of them were overleveled by the first gym and not listening to me.

    Partly funny at how long it took to get to the first gym and how overleveled id got them but also partly frustrating

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