Butterfree Only - Pokemon FireRed - My first time playing the remakes in a decade!

Playthrough Rules:
1. Only my starter in battle
2. No items in battle (except held items)
3. No glitches or exploits*
4. No Double-Team TM before level 100*
Other rules:
-- My Pokemon have perfect genetics to ensure fair comparison between species.
-- *Pokeballs & Pokedolls are allowed in battle
-- *The badge-boost glitch is not restricted at all
-- *Skipping the Rocket Hideout & Marowak is allowed
-- I play the game at 4x game speed (238 frames per second)
-- My Pokemon has perfect DVs
-- The Trash-Can-Puzzle is automatically solved so times are not affected by RNG
-- The bike is allowed (the bike skip is not)
-- Skipping the bike is not allowed
-- 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 & timer to take breaks
-- The footage is sped up / slowed down to match the pace of my narration
*Double-Team:
-- Almost every Pokemon can learn Double-Team through TM
-- The TM can be purchased in Celadon
-- Using it would centralize the meta
-- Every Pokemon would use it to overcome tough battles at lower levels
-- It raises evasion
-- It triggers the badge boost
-- Banning the TM allows Pokemon who learn it through level up to use it
-- I believe evasion is part of Pokemon and shouldn't be banned entirely
-- I don't want the videos to all be double-team spam though, that's not fun or entertaining
-- Only two Pokemon learn Double-Team through level up: Pikachu & Scyther
-- Minimize is the other evasion raising move, these Pokemon learn it through level up:
-- Clefairy, Clefable, Grimer, Muk, Chansey, Staryu
Yellow Version changes from Red/Blue:
1. You cannot use Dig/Escape Ropes in Bill's House or the Pokefan Club
2. You cannot talk to the trainers in Blaine's gym to battle them
3. Surge, Sabrina, and Blaine do not have Good AI
4. The Elite Four have better movesets
5. Koga, Sabrina, Blaine, and Giovanni have higher level teams
6. Blaine doesn't use Super Potions are full HP
7. The rival picks his eeveelution based on the outcome of the first two battles.
-- Lose in the lab: Vaporeon
-- Win in the lab and skip route 22: Flareon*
-- Win in both locations: Jolteon
-- *You cannot lose on route 22 because you blackout
Terms:
-- STAB
-- Same-Type-Attack-Bonus - a 1.5x damage multiplier
-- Stat Experience
-- The Gen1&2 equivalent of effort values. You can invest in all stats until they max
out at 65535
-- DVs or Determinate Values
-- The Gen1&2 equivalent of IVs (individual values), these range from 0-15
Resources:
-- Gen 1 Stat Calculator: pycosites.com/pkmn/stat_gen1.php
-- All Trainer Pokemon have IVs (DVs) of 89888 (hp, atk, def, spd, spc)
-- All Trainer Pokemon have EVs of 0
-- Gen 1 Crit Rates: www.smogon.com/rb/articles/cr...
-- Crit rate is determined by dividing base speed by 512
-- High crit rate moves determine their rate by dividing base speed by 64
-- All crits have a 1/256 to fail, even if the rate is 100%
-- Crits don't multiple damage by 2, it's a formula based on level
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[@rex_melynas]

Scott, for next Fire Red runs, you can get into some extra tips: - You might want to hack the game to have the pokedex complete, so you can get the rewards for capturing pokemon, which are more interesting these time. This will also allow to make you go into the postgame, so you could technically try to beat the league's harder version, which is unlocked at the end of postgame now. - The hidden items work different in FRLG, itemfinder now materializes some items somehow, if you don't use the item finder it won't find the hidden item. For example, if you use the itemfinder on the spot snorlax was after defeating it, you get a Leftovers. So yeah itenfinder in FRLG is required to get some items.

[@gamerdude491]

Also, if you don't already since this run turn text speed to Fast at the beginning of the game so you don't have to mash buttons to make the chitchat faster.

[@hiei248]

I'll jump in to second that I'd like to see the "hard e4" as the end goal/post credits special.

[@Gibstack]

I feel like giving yourself the entire pokedex for itemfinder is a bit cheaty, but it may overall be better for the sake of solo runs. I feel like it's important to keep the game as vanilla as possible (other than modifying your starter, obviously)

[@tylerjung5824]

Thirded on the R2 Elite Four as the end game time. They're far more interesting battles and a decent equivalent of Red/Steven fights.

[@afmorales7155]

I think R2 E4 will be impossible for some pokemon

[@DoGTripwire]

Scott. On Christmas. Its a Christmas miracle

[@GleppaPigg]

You should really say a holiday miracle... Not everyone celebrates Christmas and your arrogance is showing dude. You have to be better next time, be assured I sent a complaint to KZbin overthis blatant xenophobia.

[@DoGTripwire]

@@GleppaPigg ....... shoo. Go have a merry Christmas.

[@brodyodyo4671]

@@GleppaPigg you’re trying to make fun of liberals when not a single person cares. you’re making up hypotheticals in your head to get mad at 😭

[@mastertadakatsu]

This is the Power of the Dark Lord Kabutops

[@jackg2346]

@@sp00kypasta cry

[@miguelnovais3878]

NOTE TO SCOTT: the tiles of grass that look weird have a berry on them! only in fire red and leaf green. It can be very useful in solo challenges I would imagine

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Good tip

[@montecito5986]

I really TM28 how organic/genuine your videos are. They’re fun as much as they’re educational. I’m a Pokémon veteran (6th grade Blue baby) but I’ve learned so much from you and have never once felt talked down to. I love your positive, inclusive energy.

[@montecito5986]

I submitted this comment at 14:54 coincidentally. It’s a Christmas miracle!

[@RetroNintendo91385]

I see what you did there!

[@Lyraaaaaaaaaaaaa]

The wrapping lass is named Alicia because she *leashes* your pokemon. Edit: for future videos, I think you should include the e4 rematches. Bruno's two steelix can wall and hit hard, Agatha's crobat will outspeed nearly everything, Lance's kingdra is a kingdra, and Butt's permanent sandstorm can whittle down anything without recovery. Butt2.0 is the *true* final boss, standing next to Oak, Red, and Steven from the other games

[@Sakaki_Hime]

Fire Red was my very first game as a kid so this is incredibly nostalgic.

[@RichardBlaziken]

Yo, Butterfree learns that Thief TM in the early game, which can help against Misty AND steal a Twistedspoon from wild Abra! Edit: Now that I've finished watching the video, I want to add - thanks for the daily entertainment this month! They've been a joy to watch and listen to! I'm sure this was a TON of work, so hat's off to you for pulling it off. Merry Christmas!

[@musicstuff6310]

You can also get dream eater when you get to vermillion. Digletts cave isnt long and you dont have to worry about arena trap. Sleep powder is super accurate with compound eyes. 100 base power and it heals. Giga drain for coverage

[@mmburp]

Wanted to tell him exactly the same thing. Thanks for doing it already :) Also Thief uses the better attacking stat and has 100% accuracy, compared to Tackle's 95%

[@SephieRothe]

Also can make it easy to steal items from wild pokemon, which considering compound eyes boosts the rate of wild pokemon having items.

[@yaakovappel8820]

@@mmburp in this case the accuracy doesn't matter because compound eyes makes tackle always hit anyways.

[@jordanthejq12]

Ooh, are we doing game tips in this thread? Here's another one: Return can be found in the gatehouse south of Lavender, where you would get Swift in RBY. You can access this immediately before heading to Celadon, which is a very nice power boost. (An RBY runner wouldn't think to go that way since so few mons use Swift anyway.)

[@sonnytapman]

38:53 To answer your question, Wugtrio is based on the Garden Eel. They’re colorful eels that bury themselves in the ground and just kind of bite at whatever food comes near them. A few other games where they recently appeared are Monster Hunter World and Genshin Impact.

[@toxicperson8936]

I’m surprised you never used Giga Drain. It’s only 60 BP but I feel like it’s definitely one of the best special moves that Butterfree can learn besides Psychic. I actually have only ever done one solo playthrough before, which was Butterfree in LeafGreen. Giga Drain, Sleep Powder, Psychic, & Silver wind was my final move set. Giga Drain & Sleep Powder were the MVPs of the run. Also, Happy Christmas! ❄️

[@asierrv]

giga drain is only 5 pp 60 power maybe thats why he didnt use it

[@toxicperson8936]

@@asierrv yeah that makes sense, I even remember using the PP ups on it. But even then, it only had 8 PP.

[@KeitaroHirochi]

@@toxicperson8936 Also, Grass just isn't the best type offensively, and 60 base power is very underwhelming. Dream Eater's power was actually a meaningful upgrade over Psychic, so Giga Drain would've been such a big downgrade. With a 97.5%-accurate Sleep Powder, Dream Eater was definitely the superior choice.

[@shadowtitanx3962]

@@KeitaroHirochi On top of that, other than opposing Psychic types and the occasional Magneton, there's no other Pokemon that can resist Psychic moves.

[@ProfJayBee]

I have to believe that this is Ash’s Butterfree, that just recently returned to him. Love this gen and Pokémon. Cracking Christmas! Loving the 3 stage play through.

[@mattrogers6107]

Hey, come on, don’t bring up Ash reuniting with Butterfree, you’re making me cry… it was so beautiful, he met Butterfree and his (presumably his, I’m pretty sure that the pink colouration was “because girl”) mate. I really hope that they either leave the door open or that his VA wanted to move on to get back to other stuff, but at least they didn’t do Ash dirty. Hopefully in the upcoming miniseries he reunites with Pidgeot, and maybe even gets Primeape back and evolves it. If they do that stuff it’s possible I’ll even cry more than seeing the Butterfree scene. Took me right back to being 8 or 9 or whatever as when I first saw it. Kinda wondering how many kids saw it like “what’s that Pokémon, and why is it important that Satoshi met it?”. LOL

[@mattrogers6107]

And now I’m realising that Primeape is far more likely because it got a new evolution just now, and because the writers likely don’t care about Pidgeot… honestly, I don’t blame them, it was so bad in Ash’s team. All the writers were either involved in that decision or are bound and influenced by it. May as well assume that Pidgeot’s dead, for all the difference it’ll make. Oh boy, depressed myself.

[@ProfJayBee]

I was really happy to see that Primape got some love in Gen9. But I’m a GenOner, so I have a huge soft spot for all, well most of the original gen1, expect jynx and Mr. mime 😅. I heard that Ash, when on Lugia in the most recent ep, had a ‘moment with the lead pidgeot’ when passing a flock of pidgeot. And similar with a Lapras. I think that’s all we’ll get. I thought that a regional or mega pidgeot should have got the fairy typing.

[@johnrobertson3398]

Having to do Christmas solo this year because my family is sick, wasn’t expecting many uploads from my favorite channels because of the holidays so this is a wonderful surprise. Thanks Scott, have really enjoyed everything you’ve released this year!

[@gorrumKnight]

Hope you have a Merry Christmas man! Done the solo Christmas before, so glad your favorite channels got some videos for you today!

[@juggernick8]

Merry Christmas bro, hope although the situation is not ideal you’ve managed a good day

[@catsabotage3362]

Happy Freeza Day. I hope your family gets well soon.

[@GleppaPigg]

You should really say a holiday miracle... Not everyone celebrates Christmas and your arrogance is showing dude. You have to be better next time, be assured I sent a complaint to KZbin overthis blatant xenophobia. Your solitude this holiday season is God punishing you

[@1Mystery10000]

Great, I really like this game. The different abilities make the pokemon just a little bit more different and the challenges more divers. I wasn't sure if you would include the remakes, so I'm glad you do (especially because HG/SS are probably my favorite main series games)

[@Tricken0187]

Merry Christmas Scott. Been a heck of a month with a lot of good videos. truly enjoy them. hope you keep the content up.

[@kevinsips3658]

Aaaannnd boom! He's made it to 50k! Loved every video of the holiday season, you made my December, Scott!

[@red-eyessolares1817]

Happy Holidays, and thanks for the daily content. I love that you’re using Butterfree as the way to introduce new games in the series! For future runs with mons like Butterfree that don’t want to be statused, Substitute is available as a Tutor Move in Fuchsia City.

[@paulmartin7380]

This is the first video I’ve seen of yours. I absolutely love the layout of your videos! All of the information it’s perfect to look at!

[@pogotick]

Hey Scott, the remakes of gen 1 are my favourite versions of Pokémon! I can’t wait to see more of these beauties 😁 Thank you for your continued hard work on making this enjoyable content every week 💚

[@OldLiberty96]

Great video as always, Scott! Merry Christmas and congrats for 50k!

[@Zelphiez]

The amount of passive aggressive shade throwing on display between 15:46 and 16:06 is truly inspiring. Tell em Scott!

[@airhead3409]

Congrats to 50k subscribers. Glad to have been here since much earlier :) looking forward to seeing your future videos. May 2023 only bring good tidings to you.

[@m.ajmal.n]

50k, and before 2023. Incredible, Scott. A testament to your hardwork, and it's great to see you get into FireRed. Hope the success continues from here on out, as well.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Thanks so much!

[@shimauta1941]

Congrats on such incredible channel growth this year. I wish you even more success in 2023.

[@tylorvezina9793]

Another great video, Scott! Love seeing you add another game to the list. I really liked you leaning into the Compound Eyes/Sleep Powder into Dream Eater combo. It feels a bit broken, but like with your Double Team rule, if it is naturally a part of a Pokemon's skillset, it's fair game. I agree that having the 2nd Elite Four matchup as bonus fights would be a fun thing to do for FR/LG playthroughs. Lastly, thank you so much for the daily content this month, it has been a long month for me, but to be able to relax and watch a new video of yours each night has made my days better. It must have been alot of work, so I wanted you to know we all appreciate it!

[@unfunnyusername9719]

I'm really happy that you are doing some Gen 1 remakes runs because those are the games that i am currently playing obsessively, so i can play along with this on one half of the screen and my run on the other half.

[@PokeMaster22222]

If you ever do a FRLG run again, and try to use a Johto or Hoenn Pokemon, you kinda *have* to hack the National Dex in - Game Freak coded in a mechanic where, if you don't have the National Dex, trying to evolve into a non-Kanto Pokemon will automatically cancel the evolution (which is kinda silly, considering Golbat and Chansey both evolve via friendship, so this can happen by complete accident with those two).

[@justinsims655]

Just wanted to thank you for helping to get me into solo challenges. I'm not tech savvy at all, but your vids finally motivated me to get a randomizer and try it this weekend. Now I'm playing Crystal with Porygon 2, which I never had as a kid because I had no trade partner. It's a blast. Merry Christmas!

[@rensvopstal]

I hope you have a wonderful christmas scott! thanks for all the amazing content and the crazy daily uploads.

[@ptiscool3334]

Congrats on 50k subscribers. You deserve many more. Will be great to watch your channel with a few hundred thousand subscribers.

[@27danike]

You did it! Congrats on 50k. Merry Christmas 🎅🏿

[@devinmiracle7680]

Merry Christmas Scott! You are the man for all of these daily uploads. You are definitely my favorite Pokétuber, and I look forward to what you bring in 2023.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

2023 is going to be a great year!

[@wideright7567]

also congrats on 50k!! It has been coming and it is so well earned. 100k around the corner

[@notmyrealnameify]

Supporting you for close to a year now, it's insane how much your video's improved. Thanks so much for all the video's, watched all of them except some streams.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Hopefully a similar amount of improvement will occur next year too!

[@emilydonegan3208]

Finally time for Fire Red and Leaf Green! Now that I’m getting caught back up, I’m excited for what Christmas will bring *this* year! I like the method for handling evolutions that you settled on! I think it’s the best way to do it!

[@richarddill692]

Early Fire Stones are available in the Johto games. The Schoolkid with the Tangela just before the Sudowoodo can be registered to your Pokégear, and will sometimes call saying he picked something up that he thinks you will like. If you go back to him after he calls and says that, he'll give you a Fire Stone. Leaf Stones can also be gotten the same way from the Picnicker by the Day-Care Couple; Water Stones from the Fisherman with the Qwilfish on the Mahogany Town side of Mt. Mortar. I believe Lass Dana (with the Fflaffy and/or Psyduck, depending on the game) gives Thunder Stones on the route between Ecruteak and the Farm with the Mint Berry and hidden Nugget.

[@emdiameh]

Only in Crystal

[@TheDarkFiddler]

@@emdiameh Yeah, but Scott plays Crystal. I think the bigger issue is how inconsistent the phone calls can be.

[@richarddill692]

@@TheDarkFiddler It's pretty consistent. I did a Crystal nuzlocke, (beat Lance, then considered it a successful run because I was just bored with Kanto at the time) and only registered the trainers that give gifts, like the stone trainers and Bug Catcher Wade (berries). By the time I reached Claire I had at least two of each evolution stone; more specifically I had like 5 Fire Stones, 3 each of Leaf Stones and Water Stones, and 2 Thunder Stones.

[@peterdenman2143]

I was not ready for your daily uploads to end. They have gotten me through this holiday season.

[@valor1omega]

This was a great gift, seeing Butterfree again was great. Thank you for that.

[@georgiosvavliaras1066]

Merry Christmas Scott, its been a great year thanks to you and the great amount of work and love you put into your videos!

[@wolffecarlson4994]

These daily videos have been the best christmas present I could ask for!

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Glad you liked them! Merry Christmas!

[@zidaneishtar2852]

Hope you had a great Christmas Scott. Thank you for the videos and daily content this week. Hug the family and have a great new years

[@mellysandshrew]

Thank you so much for all of the videos this month! This was a super fun first run in Fire Red, I hope you and your fiancée had a lovely christmas!

[@SinnerChrono]

I cant wait to see you play the remakes more often. I love them. Ive played red and fire red multiple times over the years. And while i like the og games. The QoL updates to fire red make it superior in the experience of playing. Especially since im not conditioned to the new modern games

[@stevensurnear8938]

Whichever you choose to celebrate today. Happy Hanukkah, happy Kwanzaa, Merry Christmas, and from me and mine Happy Yule! Love your videos Scott Can't wait to see the Kecleon solo run!

[@GleppaPigg]

Thank you for being the first commenter to be all inclusive. Many blessings to you!

[@lazyhippie6139]

I haven't commented on every video you uploaded this month, but I want you to know I watched and enjoyed them all and they definitely made a very stressful month much more bearable. I randomly decided to draw a bunch of cards for everybody and was like, "What did I get myself into?" I had a long video every day (actually 2 since I watch jrose as well) to look forward to while working on my Christmas projects. Perfect timing! You definitely deserve a break, I love the details in the overlay (is that the right word? I am so out of it right now lol). Anyway, excellent work and thank you! Here's to an awesome 2023! I hope you do the bonus Elite Four in later FrLg runs. I don't think it should count towards the Pokémon's score (it's kind of like multiple Red/ Steven fights), but it'd be very interesting to see. I was going to say the Sevii Islands too, but I understand wanting to skip them (especially the ones before the League... kind of a slog imo. Plus I'd hate for you to have to stick to the Sevii Islands if you don't like them and have to do them every time). Butterfree is fun to use. Idk, it's basically a pseudo Psychic type. Glad they finally gave it Dream Eater and usable STAB in gen 3.

[@ryank4955]

I love using Butterfree in games like FireRed and try to take it as far as I can, but usually end up having to drop it by the E4 so I really enjoy seeing you use it in challenges like this!

[@chrisnelson93]

Congrats on 50k! Also Merry Christmas everyone!

[@titouanrobin874]

Cool to see FRLG! Also totally agreed, ranking each evolution stage separately would be better.

[@GleppaPigg]

He copies Jrose so dang much that I'm suprised he hasn't copied him on this as well.

[@matissimoj1190]

He... Doesn't though? They do kind of different comparison between pokemon, one thinks that first playthrough is the best way to compare pokemon and uses the in-game time (better option in my opinion), the other does multiple playthroughs to master using a pokemon and prefers real time. Also their playstyles are totally different. Jrose goes for consistency, while scott goes for best results

[@gabr.7878]

I already love Butterfree, but you have just made me love the absolutely adorable bug

[@gabrieldevoogel6225]

Thank you for this video on Christmas Scott, happy holidays and merry Christmas to all Edit: Gen 3 Mankey run

[@Rithordus]

Awesome to see FRLG. I love the remakes of Gen 1 and Gen 2. You mentioned the E4 having rebattles, maybe save that for whatever runs end up being "S" tier. It's like bonus content for only the fastest of contenders since they should have a reasonable time doing the rebattles.

[@ashleyrosencrantz2839]

Just started playing pokemon 2 months ago and started with Fire Red! Very cool to see you on the remakes now!

[@shimauta1941]

50.1K subscribers. Your wish came true. Congrats!

[@mmburp]

Mery Christmas Scott :) Have some nice days and some rest (youre very useful again in Kanto ;D) And congrats to 50k. It was a ride since the beginning

[@Neodlie]

I totally agree that doing evolutions makes it hard to rank on a singular specific tier list. You could possibly also create a species tier list would be interesting to compare and contrast how the Pokémon’s growth affects the times presented. As say a third video after you have done the optimised run for each stage. Would also give interesting decisions as ‘when should I level up’ when earlier stages learn some moves earlier etc. Also loving the content cheers for a fun December!

[@milkdud8993]

Looks like you have that 50k! Congratulations! Thanks for more butterfree!

[@ashlepker6488]

Really a good Christmas gift for someone who doesn't celebrate it. And I'd love to see the rematch battles. Would be like a victory lap.

[@Ganjor420]

I think your decision on how to deal with evolving Pokémon is the correct one… I personally just prefer it like that, but your explanation was conclusive too. Happy Christmas :)

[@sebasimp]

Thanks for uploading so many videos this month. It was wonderful. I'll really miss the daily content. Can't wait for the 31st for the next video

[@crownedclown_x]

Hilariously I'm in the middle of watching the emerald playhtrough when you posted this! Looking forward to how everything will change

[@DeuxisWasTaken]

This was cool. I do think there's value to rating an evolution line of a Pokémon, since that's how they're intended to be played, but as a separate thing to rating each form separately. And as it's not as interesting as multiple playthroughs with each form it makes sense to leave it for the future and special occasions. PS: A super interesting playthrough would be Emerald with a Nincada, but you allow it to evolve and play with both Ninjask and Shedinja for the rest of the game. It would be the only possible legit solo challenge with two pokemon and it'd be cool to see them complement eachother in normal and double battles.

[@tyler5271]

Merry Christmas Scott. In surges gym you need to use the save/reload technique for Serge's gym. Once you find the first switch then save and you can load and try the second again

[@arr0w769]

Id really love to see the replays with the league members as a bonus, its fun seeing how much your gen 1 knowledge helped/hurt you in this playthrough

[@jungleoboe520]

I love that you expanded on the dome fossil today sir - that was my Christmas Miracle :)

[@kevinkurani93]

Fire red! Yes! Thanks scott. Love all your content but was waiting for it!

[@gamingwithfoss]

Merry Christmas Scott! Great video per usual!

[@TheDarkFiddler]

Enjoyed the full month of content... hope you enjoyed the time, as well! You've become one of my favorite creators on YT, and I'm looking forward to next year's content! Happy Holidays to you and your fiancé!

[@americanmann123]

Happy Yule, Scott. It's been neat watching all the videos man. Thanks a ton bro.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

You're welcome!

[@jasonmorgan6188]

Commenting for the algorithm to say thank you for releasing a video on Christmas (on my all time favorite game btw)

[@malcanater007]

Ahhhh! Yes finally!! I've been doing monotype nuzlocks in frlg for years now, done normal, water, grass, fire, flying, bug and poison, I've found it to be a decent challenge with 5 or 6 mons, it's amazing seeing how it is possible to do everything with one pokemon, it's great, you're great 🤣

[@Chefvonbreezy]

Merry Christmas Scott ! So happy it’s still butterfree

[@eboybay693]

bro as im listening to the end of the delibird video i refresh youtube to this! amazing timing scott!!!

[@komododrogo9171]

Pleasant surprise, personally the gen 3 remakes are my favorites, they were the first Pokemon games I got and I've been hooked ever since.

[@vorpalkdg1774]

Merry Christmas Scott, thanks for all the great content this year 🎄👌🥳

[@GleppaPigg]

You should really say a holiday miracle... Not everyone celebrates Christmas and your arrogance is showing dude. You have to be better next time, be assured I sent a complaint to KZbin overthis blatant xenophobia.

[@r0bz0rly]

Made me so happy to see you shout out to squidgy. Love his runs! Merry late Christmas Scott, so excited for FR/LG runs in the future

[@MattWarb]

Congrats on 50k Scott!

[@Zorgdub]

I'm looking forward to seeing how much you're going to improve at FireRed.

[@zacharyessey5904]

Scott, I want to thank you and your team for the amazing content that you have uploaded this year. I love watching your videos and I love your ambition. It is truly something to admire seeing someone not just be content even when their content is already great, but to take it to new heights. I hope that your channel can be all that you want it to be and more and that the subscriber count keeps growing substantially. When I was listening to you saying about Butterfree being the first for all of your playthroughs despite Venomoth being the mascot, a thought occurred to me. Since you go for the bug catcher theme where you have the net because bug types are your favourite, why not find a way to use both Butterfree and Venomoth in your uploads? Since Venomoth is on your shirt, maybe Butterfree can be on your shoulder like what Pikachu is to Ash. Heck, I would love to see a playthrough where you do double battles using Butterfree and Venomoth. Merry Christmas!

[@Lightborn1311]

Yeeeees Fire Red time! I am so here for this game, Merry Christmas dude!

[@Nixoth]

Thank you so much for another vid scott...i really needed one. My kid left last night to go be w her mom and i was invited to spend xmas w my friends parents since my parents are a whole state away. I also caught the flu from my kid so today is quite literally the worst xmas ever for me. I love you man never stop

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Oh no, sorry to hear that. I hope things get better. Sending good vibes your way!

[@yeahbrotha3717]

just heard the end of the video congrats on 50K scott!!

[@Bl3Moze]

You could say that another sweet treat from Scott. It’s like having a cake that was butter free.

[@Randroth]

Hi Scott! Congrats to 50k subscribers! Since you asked, I'd really like if you included the E4 rematches. They can get quite tough, so I think that some of the weaker Pokemon could not even beat them at lvl 100. Could be interesting to see! Keep rockin' dude! Your videos are awesome, I am astonished how much effort you put into them! Oh and Happy Holidays to you and all your loved ones!

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Happy holidays!

[@Gungho73]

Merry Christmas to Scott, anyone who works in production with these videos, and his gal.

[@theclumzys]

Bro dropping these daily is fascinating

[@anni321]

I have this game in my gamebox but have yet to play it. Watching you play a few solo runs might get me motivated :) also def gonna be fun watching you learn these games, still some bumps in this one but I'm sure you'll be optimizing your routing in no time! Have a lovely Christmas time and post-daily-posting-break haha, it has been amazing and I'm still catching up :)

[@andreapareti324]

Finally you got to these, and it'll be incredibly interesting to see your Kanto knowledge applied to this version of it, as well as your insight on all the differences from a solo speedrunning perspective. In regards to the evolution dilemma, I do think that evolution methods add to the flavor of the Pokémon, just like Stats and Movepools, etc., and would therefore give more realistic and repeatable results (by others doing these runs, for example, and repeatability is a key part of scientific research), but I also totally understand and respect that, since you seemingly want to do a complete challenge run Dex (and more, considering "downgraded/Gen 1 Misdreavus" and the like) for every game, skipping directly to the stage you're running with makes each run more different for you to play through (and so for us to watch as well) and, therefore, there should be less of that homogenization of the results you speak of, in regards to the Gen 2 rankings. tl;dr: while evolution is part of the flavor of the Pokémon and would therefore influence the results in a natural way, I get where you're coming from, with your decision, and I ultimately agree it's the best for the kind of thing you're doing; I look forward to seeing your Gen 2 tierlist updated with all the extra playthroughs you're gonna have to do to "fix" it!

[@jptheflipper3825]

Merry Xmas Scott. Love the vid and love that you have finally started on doing fire Red and Leaf Green runs, once you get used to them, you'll love them, it is my Home game and where I have done my only solo challenges including Butterfree only. I have notes you may find helpful. 1st there are vids showing the locations of all the Rare Candies (14 in total) and all hidden items in Fire Red, look at them, you'll need them for the many items including PP UPs and a PP Max. 2nd Meowth is a legit HM friend and user of pickup. I know you avoid pickup ability, but HP shouldn't be ignored in Fire Red, Butterfree will benefit from some that makes use of its special attack for coverage, electric or fire is good. 3rd, Giga Drain (with PP Ups) or Solar Beam is very helpful in the league and sometimes for recovery. I have more but this comment is long enough, I love your work, I look forward to the next years vids

[@bateltheassistant]

Butterfree was really adorable today, with its red hat, and it got a good time for a first playthough. 😊So thanks for this holiday gift, that was the best gift ever. 😁 By the way, the usage of dream eater was really creative, but I think that giga drain is a better self healing move in my opinion, for the Ryhdon. It was finally nice to see you get the onmi boost from sliver wind, it was so satisfying. If you'd like avoid being asleep from the exeggutor you can use skill swap, and swap your ability with the Alakzam's synchronize(if the rival Alakzam gets it and not the inner flinch ability) to make the exeggutor asleep too, if it goes for sleep powder. But overall I think that won't matter that much, maybe that information can help you with future runs. Anyways, I had a good time, learning more about rare candies in firered, because I didn't knew where the hidden ones were at, so thanks for that. 😊

[@charlessegale6493]

I played the Gen 1 remakes for the first time in well over a decade last year when I got my GBA Everdrive. This allowed me to trade with my old Fire Red and Emerald cartridges in order to get a busted Starmie. I haven't touched the Everdrive since the cartridge told me the battery was already low several months after I got it. Anyways, here's rooting for yet another great run. Merry Christmas Scott and Team!

[@vulpescana1779]

Hi Scott, thanks for your vids! As a kid I always leveled my caterpie to lvl 9 till I let it evolve, cause I hated the 2nd stage. So I just had to play it 1 lvl 😁 I wish you merry holidays

[@brendanhart517]

Brick break is one of my favourite moves, it probably would count as a signature move of mine. The ability to break screens isn’t always used but it’s darn good, maybe a little less useful in a solo playthrough because a huge chunk of the screen setters resist fighting but hey useful. It’s nice to have fire red and leaf green played so close to red blue yellow so we can see some actual differences. Theres move tutors across the map, i know in rock tunnel you can get rock slide I think the game corner tms are fairly similar to emerald mainly the 95 power elemental moves Thanks for so much content over this month

[@SourSensationZ]

Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas! 50k subs!

[@Ruckus907]

Merry Christmas Scott and Scott's Fiance! Great video as always.

[@Articision]

Your reaction to the raticate is just the best, had to look over for a sec;) Chunky boy Raticate

[@MonarkOfLies]

Hell yeah, fight the rebattles as bonus content. The more scott playing pokemon the better.

[@eboybay693]

so happy to finally see frlg content!

[@mattprice302]

Great vid! Waiting for that Dodrio run!

[@sleepyduk16]

Congrats on 50k!!

[@perkypenguin1663]

For future FRLG solos, definitely look into the move tutors. For example, the karate guys outside of the Mt. Moon exit teach you Mega Punch and Mega Kick, and there’s a Youngster in Rock Tunnel who teaches Rock Slide, as well as one in Fuchsia City who teaches Substitute.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

I’ve researched them all now

[@perkypenguin1663]

@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon Nice! I’m excited to see how you implement them in your FR playthroughs!

[@chelseainspace]

I'm so glad you finally made it to FRLG. You first inspired me to try solo challenges myself and I have settled on FireRed! I deeply admire your passion and excitement for gen 1 which make your videos an absolute treat and it's really cool to see you familiarise yourself with a game I know really well myself for once

[@GleppaPigg]

Cringe dude

[@lavitzdies624]

Thanks for the month of Scott! I, too, got stuck in the Sevii island as a kid. If you do more FRLG please do the league rebattles! I miss the Oak battle at the end of the gen 1 videos, too.