Can the WEAKEST Hoothoot beat Pokemon Crystal?

Hoothoot ranks #229 out of 251 Pokemon in terms of base stats. Does it even stand a chance to beat Red and complete Pokemon Crystal?
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[@17Master]

Predict before watching, Mud-Slap and Sleep strats are about to drag Hoothoot to the finish line kicking and screaming.

[@bradleywhite886]

Hypnosis to the rescue 😂

[@GSCPokemonChallenges]

Yeah surprisingly Hypnosis was pretty good in Johto, not so good at the end of Kanto

[@ttc3453]

Its always a good day when we hear "Hello and whats up GSC pokemon challenges fam"

[@GSCPokemonChallenges]

Ah yeah! Hello and What's up ttc!

[@DarKnightKilla13]

Welcome back, brudda! So happy to see a new vid! Hope all is well and the travels have treated you well!

[@GSCPokemonChallenges]

Yeah, back to it. I've been doing some background work as well to hopefully speed up production.

[@DarKnightKilla13]

@@GSCPokemonChallenges Awesome to hear! Looking gorward to everything you have in the pipeline going forward 😄

[@jawonjones1877]

Don’t even gotta watch to know you made it happen. Instant like!

[@GSCPokemonChallenges]

Appreciate it!

[@gen.wunner]

Excited for Whitney in the GSC challenges. I’m calling it, she knocks out 60% of all challengers remaining.

[@GSCPokemonChallenges]

Possibly so. I think the elemental punches will help a fair bit, and some faster Pokemon may be able to flinch-lock her with Headbutts in a lucky run, but she's definitely going to be hard

[@philipmurphy2]

GSC Pokemon Challenges in what is night for some, what a hoot

[@GSCPokemonChallenges]

What a hoot indeed. And a night run to boot!

[@conoromelia8435]

Great video, love the channel. Gen 2 was such a big part of my childhood.

[@GSCPokemonChallenges]

For sure. I started as not a huge fan of Gen 2, but it's grown on me in recent years! n

[@DoctorNovakaine]

Hm, I didn't account for Quick Claw when thinking about this one. Being able to bypass your slow speed on occasion makes luck more of a factor in your favor. I dunno, Hoothoot may have ended at a lower level, but it also had a significantly worse score than Spearow did. I feel like the takeaway is that Spearow might need more levels to get through but it has a path to potential consistency (maybe not against Red but against most of the rest of the game), while Hoothoot's entire run more or less was "I pray to the gods of RNG for success." White Hoothoot had a moveset that gave it a chance to win under slightly more adverse conditions, I don't think that makes it the better Pokémon.

[@GSCPokemonChallenges]

This is exactly true. I felt like it would consistently beat the Elite Four at a lower level thanks to sleep - it was really just a matter of reaching a level to outspeed a couple of key opponents. That said, it felt much worse at the end than Spearow and certainly wasn't going to beat Red until it could outspeed the Blastoise. I imagine with Max DVs the results would flip, especially if we also used Curse, and a good Hidden Power for Spearow, it's better attacking stats would carry.

[@celticv]

do certainly think will do better as long you get a good sleep turn . am currently doing my own run of crystal with all 3 starter pokemon. i didn't have any issues beating Clair with my Typlosion with minimum battles thank god i had headbutt

[@GSCPokemonChallenges]

Yeah zif you use the ultimate Pokemon randomizer, it's very easy to change the starters, not need for coding etc.

[@jasperdeboer3257]

37:55 I see what you did there.

[@brolsroyceyt2362]

What a Hoot! 🦉🦉

[@GSCPokemonChallenges]

Hooters in the comment section 🦉🦉

[@d.a.d.-ohgosh]

First oh gosh. Hoothoot? More like Hoot-Immadestroythisgame.

[@GSCPokemonChallenges]

That comment is a hoot!

[@adventureoflinkmk2]

Aww man i was expecting RBY Pokémon Challenges... but its not! Aww man

[@GSCPokemonChallenges]

Sad day... You'll have to wait for the weekend to get your hit of RBY

[@IsuKen]

Hoot Hoot was my first shiny in Gold so I'm cheering for the little hypnobird!

[@GSCPokemonChallenges]

We shall see, but a Shiny Hoothoot sounds like a hoot to play!

[@IsuKen]

@@GSCPokemonChallenges Owl be the first to confirm it was!

[@inflationking01]

Wait rbu got a question that I don't think yoy ever covered in ya rules

[@GSCPokemonChallenges]

What's that?

[@inflationking01]

@GSCPokemonChallenges when you say 0 dvs that also mean they don't gain any as you play jw I don't remember you saying anything about it ever

[@billybrame3990]

@@inflationking01 DV and stat XP are not the same He still Gets Stat XP

[@felicityc]

i love hoppip, unsubscribed actually i didn't realize it but i wasn't subscribed, so i subscribed, and then unsubscribed, and then subscribed again

[@GSCPokemonChallenges]

Damn, the Hoppip fandom is real 😂. Don't worry, he'll get his chance to prove me wrong!

[@felicityc]

@@GSCPokemonChallenges when i bought silver as a wee lass it was one of the first new pokemon I encountered and I instantly loved it now that's not to say it's not completely trash because it is but it sealed its place when I swept my friend's team in a monotype tourney because his weavile missed bc of jumpluff brightpowder, got slept, and then got swept