Rules:
1. Only my starter in battle
2. No items in battle, except held items
3. No glitches, exploits, save states, or RNG manipulation
4. No evasion moves before level 100
Rule details:
— I am allowed to manipulate my starter
— I play the game at 4x game speed
— For fair comparisons all my Pokemon have perfect (or near perfect) DVs / IVs
— I am allowed to catch HM users – I can use all field moves
— All in-battle glitches are allowed in generation 1
— In generation 1, I’m allowed to skip Marowak with the Poke Doll
— Surge’s trash-can-puzzle is automatically solved
— The bike is allowed in gen1, banned in gen2, and allowed for bypassing terrain in gen3
— Saving between league members is allowed
— If the solo Pokemon faints and I choose to blackout it counts towards my reset counter
— I can pause the game and timer to take breaks
— The footage is sped up / slowed down to match the pace of my narration
— The ability Pickup can only be used if the starter has it
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scottsthoughts
YouTube memberships:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY7DKhupT6K3bYXgzbgdErA/join
Twitter: https://twitter.com/psychicflying
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/scottsthoughtspokemon
Illustrations by https://twitter.com/SarinaVail
Thumbnail art by https://twitter.com/BrianLSArt
Universal Pokemon Randomizer: https://pokehacks.dabomstew.com/randomizer/
Universal Pokemon Randomizer Guide: https://youtu.be/tRuneAisRnU
STAB: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Same-type_attack_bonus
DVs / IVs: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Individual_values
Damage Calculations: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Damage
Gen1 Stat Calculator: https://pycosites.com/pkmn/stat_gen1.php
Gen2 Stat Calculator: https://pycosites.com/pkmn/stat_gen2.php
Gen1 Crit Rates: https://www.smogon.com/rb/articles/critical_hits
Learnsets: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Category:Pok%C3%A9mon_learnsets
Base Stats: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_Pok%C3%A9mon_by_base_stats_(Generation_VIII-present)
Software I Use:
— Live Game Data: https://gamehook.io/
— Routing: https://bit.ly/3vB03Yw
— Filming: https://obsproject.com/
— Photo / Video Editing: https://adobe.ly/3Q4uj77
— Timer: https://livesplit.org/
— Reset Counter: https://github.com/LiveSplit/LiveSplit.Counter/releases
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I have a recommendation for the next community race: Smeargle.
Given that it can Sketch pretty much any move, I imagine it would be very interesting to see the ideas people come up with to get through the game. Most Pokemon have a best way they can get through and that's it… but Smeargle makes the player decide.
Been here since your first video. So glad to see how good you’re doing. Keep up the good work!
Thought you had way more subscribers already! Congratulations!
Scott, love your videos. When you upload, it always makes my day.
Your vids are always the highlight of my week! Congrats on 50k and here's to the next milestone ^^
Edit: It's not necessarily a romhack, but there's Pokemon: This Gym of MIne, a fangame where you run your own gym, restricting you to a single type (mostly). It's a chance to be a better Bug leader than Bugsy, right? (and my name being Rusty, I get to be a punny Steel gym leader)
Would love to see you reach out into newer generations & they’re games. Like Platinum & even because they’re my favourite games ORAS
It's kinda funny, you were talking about your favourite music track in Pokémon over my favourite track, which is Gen III's arrangement of S.S. Anne. As a kid, I used to basically be always playing Pokémon Ruby, and I used to spend so much time in the Oceanic Museum in Slateport just listening to the S.S. Anne arrangement that plays there.
I don't comment much, but I just want to comend you on your overlay. It really blows every other one I've seen out of the water.
Congrats to 50k ❤️
13:44 lol dont Pick Up Candy from the Streets xD
You should try XD gale of darkness
Why did you not teach Ancient Power to Mew? It has 100% accuracy with a chance to increase all your stats, although it is a 15 points less powerful than Rock Slide.
Oh yes, sun/moon was the decline of my interest in playing pokemon.
Ok but how much would that megahorn have done to Mew? Heracross is scary…
15:43 is the stuff I am here for. These little moments make your content unique and fun to watch (and then of course rewatch while doing something else just for the soothing background noise :D) Keep up the good work, congratz to 50k.
Confirming that the trainer Pokémon in Japanese have different natures than English. This makes speedruns of the game a lot more difficult in certain situations (for example the Jynx on Lorelei is too fast to outspeed naturally so there is an X-Speed used on that fight).
YEW 50k YASSSS
Its sad that this cute pokemon only lerns psychic on a high lvl as psychic pokemon 😅 but it was so much fun to make that glitch and play with mew 😊
While you don't plan on doing a side-game, Pokémon Colosseum would be awesome. "Can you beat Pokémon Colosseum with only Plusle and Minun?" or something like that would really pique my interest, personally.
Uh Scott? Regarding the porygon video… didnt you take that down and reupload it a couple weeks later? You have to count the original views too. Your numbers are not correct
why do u fight sandy cant u skip her?
congratulations well deserved but why weren't you allowed to watch the anime? it seems werid that you were allowed to play the games but not the anime
All hail the dome fossil!
That being said Scott… I normally don't watch videos like this. I love your content. I'm super stoked about you releasing any video.
Had to go back and watch every video you have released. I'm gonna keep worshiping the dome fossil.
Looking forward to future content. I work usually 12-17 hour days. Coming back and knowing that I have one of your videos to watch keeps me motivated.
Keep it up!
Love your content!
The fact that you just hit 50k is crazy. Easily one of my favorite creators
One question I like and I'll ask all you fine people. If you were a gym leader what generation would you be in, what type would you want to have and what would your team be.
Mine would be normal in gen 4. 3rd or fourth gym.
Team Munchlax, Staravia Raticate (my personal favorite pokemon), and Ambipom would be my ace.
Ay, you’re doing great Scott. I hope you & your fiancé get to evolve into Husband & Wife together!
One of my personal beliefs about Mew is that if ever a move was a TM and ceases to be a TM in the next generation, it should become part of Mew's level-up or move tutor learnset to keep it consistently in Mew's repertoir. Doesn't matter that Pay Day both sucks and is otherwise the signature move of the Meowth line, Mew should always have access to it because it was a TM in gen 1 and thus Mew could be taught it back then!
WOOHOO!!! Platinum Baby.
I´m really surprised that your Porygon video did poorly compared to others.
It´s one of my favorites and I like this race format very much.
Would love to see more of it.
nuzlocke early 2022…. yea not looking good year later
69 HP
69 Atk
69 Def
69 Sp.Def
niiice
Fun fact: 'Tackle', in these here quaint old isles of Britannia, is another word for… Well, let me put it this way. When you say things like 'But my tackle wasn't very impressive', or 'My tackle managed to absolutely destroy him', it does the funny.
If you ever get the chance please try out Pokemon colosseum and Pokemon XD. They are great side story pokemon games that dont get enough love.
Seeing Mew reset to the first gym brings up an interesting question: if you could build a perfect stat pokemon (700+ stat total distributed how you want) that can only learn one or two moves, would it beat the game faster or slower than a 100 base stat pokemon with any moves you want? I know that would require modding…but the question itself would really get at the heart of 'the moves make the mon' discussion cough cough, double team and hidden power
Proud to be in the credits as a Steelix! I choose Aron but I'm not fussed it's more about supporting you. Glad to see you at 50k and excited to see the 100k q&a special! Well done Scott 🙂
Electric gets walled because they have the only relevant 0x offense type and electric is so strong outside of that one case that they don't have good coverage to compensate. Surfing Pikachu still struggles because Pikachu is a non-fully evolve pokemon that has stats to show. Surfing Raichu or Alolan Raichu would crush the game….probably. Earthquake is still the best offensive move in the game and it's also their one weakness, so…..
For a brief moment I had a theory on why Gary/Blue was named Terry in the code…in the show Parks and Rec one of the running gags is that one of the characters keeps getting his name around the office changed by his coworkers. Gary, Terry, Larry, Jerry so I thought this could’ve been a case of one of the developers having some fun. Then I realized that FireRed predates Parks and Rec by a number of years. Oh we’ll 😂😂😂
I can't remember if I submitted a Q. I'm not too good at Q&A's, but I am excited to see Mew hopefully crush this game. It's just a fun little pokemon to use if not
Tip for Emerald: You can get a second Return TM in Pacifidlog Town from the Fan Club Chairman's Younger Brother (or the Squother, for short).
Yo, I dig your starter list.
I'm just gonna put mine here so other people post theirs.
Bulbasaur
Totodile
Treeko
Turtwig
Snivy
Froakie
Rowlett
Sobble
Fuecoco
I dont understand why giovanis ace isnt mecha mewtwo lol
15:13 omg please never play sun and moon on the channel lmao I cannot stand how slow those games are. 9999 cutscenes, 99999 lines of dialogue. Z move animations that take 30 seconds. Literally the only generation I cant bring myself to play through again
oh dude it's pretty cool to hear you're looking to do more nuzlockes in gen 1/2. I'm more interested in gen 2 than 1 but it's nice to hear that you're looking to make more videos in the older games. not a lot of people doing stuff in gen 2.
One can really tell how much time and love and effort you put into your work mate, 50k is much deserved! Congrats, keep it up bro!