Water is a great choice for the psychic gym! Not what we went with for Pinsir though :)

Team Poison, lez go~!

Sludge Bomb was definitely useful for Gulpin as it's normally locked behind post-game in Fire Red; same-type is icing on the cake. Lil dude has fun type coverage too! Glad you enjoyed the run!

Yep

@@RazadorsPokemonShenanigans great playthrough. Brings back memories of playing with my gameboy back then.

Glad you enjoyed it!

And our first contender in the Slow level up group :)

I do plan on running Silver's team through Emerald sometime in the not-so-distant future! As far as Emerald goes though, I got a couple of runs here on the channel, namely Emerald with one Aron and Emerald with one Murkrow; got Emerald with one Misdreavus coming up soon too! :)

Appreciate it!

With this particular overlay, as well as my Invasive Species one, I'm going for a classic Gameboy vibe with the screen. I have a series in mind where I'll make the jump to animated overlay, but I wanna take my time on getting the design right.

Hope you had a good Xmas!

Thanks, hope you are doing well too! One of the reasons why I like to include Fire Red post-game is that the E4 battles are so different and the star of this run was a great way to showcase that!

Beedrill getting Swords Dance & Hyper Beam in Gen 1 makes it extremely powerful. I loved that run :)

Thanks a ton!

Awesome! Thanks for the input :)

@@RazadorsPokemonShenanigans actually, I've discovered something surprising: ditto gets badge boosts! Hence it'll always outspeed after transforming, and... it still can't KO the pidgeot in one hit. I wouldn't be totally shocked if with perfect luck it /was/ just barely possible to squeeze through the fight transformed but... you're well into save state territory, impossible luck for a human. You'd have to whirlwind out the rhyhorn which he wants to switch in immediately every time so you can use your aerial aces on other mons.

Yep, I believe the badge boosts are 10% in Gen 3. I miss those. Yeah you would for sure need critical hit luck to KO Pidgeot. And that's not taking into account that it might try using Feather Dance on you; since we're Pidgeot, he won't ever go for Sand-Attack either. I think we'd wanna Whirlwind Pidgeot out while tanking an Aerial Ace; if Rhydon comes out, hope that he misses with Rock Tomb, Scary Face, or Take Down to bring out another mon. We'd also need to be careful not to Whirlwind in Gyarados or Arcanine due to Intimidate & they have 100% accuracy moves that we'd have to soak a hit of due to Whirlwind's negative priority. Ideally we'd Whirlwind into Alakazam (can for sure take em out with Aerial Ace) or Venusaur whom we're super-effective against. If Gyarados comes out, hope that Hydro Pump misses; by the time our Whirlwinds are gone, our attack stat would be completely shot so we'd need to be super lucky! That's a fight I'd gladly leave for Hal from Space Odyssey to beat :)

Thanks! Yeah, that run definitely drove me mad, lol.

Ditto learned to appreciate the quality of healthcare in the Pokemon Universe :P

This run was definitely interesting, even if it was a bit soul-draining haha. Unique way to play the game and it's kinda funny how much easier a trainer like Lorelei, one of the tougher trainers in the game typically, was easier than about 80% of the game!

@@RazadorsPokemonShenanigans Yeah that is strange to be honest ha ha.

Ditto rolled Rock, Fire Red rolled Scissors

I'll keep that in mind for the next VS Edition run!

I have a finished run on the backlog where I let the Pokemon evolve. It's a little different from the Invasive Species format but it was pretty fun! Later on in this series I'll be doing runs with the middle & final evolutions of the starters too :)

I'm doing alright, been sick for a bit but am getting better. Hope you're having a great day too!

Glad you enjoyed!

He underestimated Ziggy's true power :)

Master Splinter approves

Happy birthday to your brother. Make the trip to see your family when you can. I'm far from mine too and every time might be your last chance!

Absolutely.

Thanks man :)

Same, always had Beedrill and Butterfree both on my Gen 1 teams as a kiddo! And thanks :)