Can You Beat Pokémon Fire Red Using the Exact Team That Ash Used For Every Major Battle?

Today, I'm attempting to answer the question, "Can You Beat Pokémon Fire Red using the exact team that Ash used for every major battle?"
A day may come when I come up with a short and catchy title for a challenge video, when I learn my lesson and make a decent thumbnail, but it is not this day. Thanks for watching! I hope you enjoy!

[@EnterTheUnown]

The 2nd Generation Ash Only Challenge is up now: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3WZpJJ9q9OWkLc

[@Lukasafer]

How about: Beating Fire Red Using Ash Ketchum's Lineup

[@CaptainScarBeard]

What is the song used in the first 5 minutes of this video?

[@AZbullish]

Enter The Unown unown is spelled “unknown”

[@luxrayever]

@@AZbullish uhhhhhh.... r/whoosh?

[@DeathStorm-gl1gb]

Why not play ash gray the fire red Hack where its exactly like ashs adventure added with the struggle of his stupid ideas and horrible but adequate team?

[@rainmaker9715]

“and we more or less need a miracle *one miracle later* oh man that was lucky” This is the actual show

[@harisinghk.c.5880]

He was hacker

[@KyanPlaysOG]

@@harisinghk.c.5880 maybe so

[@alenec]

Plot Armor was certainly thick

[@goldiedylan1]

"Ashs pokemon didnt like evolving. Something about this kid not willing to grow and learn truly inspired them." 😂😂😂

[@rifasclub]

Is like a pretty fucked up version of Peter Pan.

[@Wildcard-Jack-47]

rifasclub so the original story of peter pan

[@byronlyons3548]

Well, Ash never ages. So, yeah, it fits.

[@coldwind6556]

Byron Lyons cause the show should've ended after it started too get cringy

[@alexs5814]

Give that Kid a Burn Heal.

[@kappamania5674]

Did anyone notice by playing like ash, he got sort of plot armor that make his luck stats 100

[@tubegamingmastermind2584]

Lmao.

[@peterkeys1105]

Could've also been the fact that he was using an emulator and perhaps modded some stats ie: crit hits

[@testerwulf3357]

@@peterkeys1105 He doesn’t mess with critical hits, he actually redoes the battles till he can get them. He messes with the game only to add in the pokemon he needs with the right moves.

[@user-vw4xp5nt9f]

he might be cutting out the losses from the video

[@YeetusDeletus239]

😁🤪

[@yeetdoge4148]

*catches 30 Tauros* *Doesn’t include krabby* Krabby: am I a joke to you?

[@pokeman5000]

It's like he forgot Krabby literally obliterates a guy in the end tournament. Like he clean sweeps him. It's one of the only episodes I remember. It was gangster as shit.

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

pokeman5000 Kingler was never used in any of the battles that were replicated, though. Same reason he never mentioned Primeape, Raticate, or Pidgeot.

[@coowl8082]

Ash:Sweet, I caught a krabby *Full team, gets sent to PC* Krabby:Am I a joke to you? Also ash:Never uses it in the anime again...

[@johntanseco282]

Sharwan Dsouza screamt?

[@primalkong619]

@@coowl8082 ummm pokemon league..

[@brendenkuku5071]

Misty once said don't try to copy ashs strategy because most of his wins are the result of dumb luck emphasizes on the word dumb

[@popopop984]

Surf Surfing Do they fans are dumb- Wait the fans are kids

[@misukiylambertson2764]

@@popopop984 Do they fans are dumb ^

[@scandinavianjoelmiller]

Lol

[@Prince19912]

@@misukiylambertson2764 aaaand rofl

[@byronlyons3548]

And she loses to him on their gym rematch, even when she had a Mega. So what does that make her? Then again, she does little to nothing anyways, so it was to be expected.

[@SpottedAlien]

What I learned today is that Ash starts off rough in the early game, then makes up for it in the mid-game by over leveling his Pokemon.

[@thebaseandtriflingcreature174]

Just like RT

[@masako8980]

@@thebaseandtriflingcreature174 RT?

[@thebaseandtriflingcreature174]

@@masako8980 Lad spent hours looking for a shiny wooloo in sns,and the challenge was that he is to only use the wooloo (cupcake) for the entirety of the game,this isn't much of a problem,as cupcake;and the rest of all his pokemon, are severely overleveled

[@masako8980]

@@thebaseandtriflingcreature174 ah ok thanks

[@Cyfearal]

Brady Wilkinson and yet this level 50+ pikachu gets annihilated by a freshly hatched Level 5 Snivy later on in the anime 😂😂

[@SSZaris]

It's like someone watched someone else playing Pokemon incredibly poorly and decided to turn it into an anime

[@Crouton-]

I played better than ash and I was 6 years old!

[@Marian_Polnocny]

@@Crouton- Weird flex, but ok

[@KazeelBaYz]

@@Crouton- Weird flex, but ok

[@Katharina-rp7iq]

Well...when I was in elementary school I used the starter and the cutest pokemon I could find. If they involved into sth not cute they got retired. And not cute pokemon never got the chance cause I never caught them. I had sandshrew, pikachu, meowth, that blue pokemon with the circle on its belly, charmander and eevee (1st stage only, no involving!) as my team most of the time. Not always these, but usually at least 3 of them were on the team. Also Butterfree as the only one I evolved, I think I had one 90% of the time. And I did the league with teams like that because they were cute. Since it worked my 7 or so year old self was perfectly happy playing with inefficient teams.

[@SSZaris]

@@Katharina-rp7iq Same here. I still do. If the Pokémon looks cool then I'll use it. I'm not really into the whole stats part of the game

[@jasonjuneau]

"Erica's Gym burning down, and I think that just happened again." Savage

[@donniejefferson9554]

I love that the Surge fight is the exact opposite of the anime. A nimble Raichu using its speed to dodge the devastating slams of a Chad Pikachu

[@blakeswanson1322]

Donnie Jefferson LOL

[@thebaseandtriflingcreature174]

CHAD! pikachu vs VIRGIN! Raichu -Ouch!

[@lozm4835]

Oh how the turn tables.

[@AlexanderLingg]

@@lozm4835 that turned a take for the unexpected

[@minhdo803]

LOL

[@IndigoGollum]

Shopkeeper: "... Yeah, we just restocked on full restores-" Gary: "I'LL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK"

[@thereza3]

I don't _think_ I need them anyways.

[@buck9559]

STONKS NOT STOCK

[@silentobserver2348]

need some of them potions for the upcoming zombie virus.

[@attackcrash0787]

@@buck9559 *STUNKS

[@buck9559]

@@attackcrash0787 STUONKS

[@goldenhydreigon4727]

When he catches 30 of Tauros but he forgets to capture a Pokemon who is, no joke, one of Ash's best team members in terms of win loss record, even better than other strong fighters like Sceptile, Pikachu, and Charizard. *sad Kingler noises*

[@gamepixel5904]

Kingler has died a lot

[@taimoorsarfaraz46]

Sceptile was surely very strong

[@goldenhydreigon4727]

@@taimoorsarfaraz46 But his win-loss record is lesser than Kingler surprisingly

[@goldenhydreigon4727]

@Nikhil Gourab Rout_6308_A2 I think he also lost to an Arcanine

[@apassionatenerd.3564]

Maybe I'm forgetting but didn't he not use krabby in any of the gym battles in the first series?

[@rhettzkie]

You didn't knockout brock's onix using pikachu's thunderbolt on the sprinklers. Dislike for inaccuracy.

[@realwonderkidd]

Rhett Simbulan 😂😂😂

[@shawnrich2630]

Real mvp would have made his pikachu so it using struggle

[@E.a.Z.S.e.n.T]

Shit a high level Butterfree with confusion and sleep powder,plus stun spore would take care of onix pretty nicely. Bulbasaur or Squirtle beat onix no contest. Pikachu would massacre Misty. So first two gym leaders would be a cake walk

[@rhettzkie]

@@E.a.Z.S.e.n.T bruh what? Did you watch the anime? 🤣

[@E.a.Z.S.e.n.T]

@@rhettzkie in middle School yes that's when Pokemon cards first came out😁😎

[@xaropevic7918]

ETU: Of course, the battles are inspired by the anime style, so we will not be allowed to use items. 1:43 Gary: To Be A rEaL cHaMpIoN, yOu NeEd To LeArN tHe ArT oF sPaM fUlL rEsToReS

[@ragergamer3111]

You don't get to be champion of the pokemon league without knowing how to spam full restores!!!

[@peteryanes9339]

Before watching yea u can I did it as a kid after the first time I beat it soit was my own 2 time playing Pokemon this when it first came out when I was 6 when Pokemon came out so yea

[@ragergamer3111]

@@peteryanes9339 R/Wooosh

[@lancekeys5948]

Screw the rules, I have money!

[@mainman3476]

I swear people never get used to this tired joke.

[@lilshortkid100]

"Muk uses his final breath to raise his evasiveness one last time. Truly heroic" RIP Muk. You did nothing

[@InfamousRafe]

Lol

[@murdokdracul]

Muk was playing the true pacifist route.

[@supquez931]

jstephtrumpet 😂

[@SerFondue]

I died 😂💀

[@MLGRACCOON]

No one talking about how ash had a loaded gun pulled on him lmao

[@edugenchris6227]

Psh...who DIDN'T have a gun pulled on them when they were 10?

[@davidhong1934]

Why would you pull a gun on a kid carrying a mouse capable of summoning lightning storms?

[@aruhe6650]

"you want to get shot?" lmfao

[@pandadogunited1504]

David Hong because he has a mouse capable of summoning a thunderstorm

[@AbsolXGuardian]

That's the joke. He's going "I can't think of any reason why this episode wouldn't have been dubbed into English" while showing the offending clip on screen. Because even more than today, in America, cartoons were seen as for only little kids. Which is why For Kids removed things that yeah, you probably wouldn't want your five year old watching.

[@stillcantthinkofaname4800]

You forgot the most important battle in the entire series, the Metapod fight

[@DarKnight-ct8zm]

I didn't want to see two metapod using Harden

[@Bradnauseam119]

This man spent the agonizing time to catch almost 30 Taurus. You got my like and sub dude.

[@JoshuaTheTransitProdigy]

**30th Like for the 30 Tauros captured**

[@Lloyd_Christmas11]

Probably used a gameshark or something

[@rileydunton5290]

the episode never aired due to a gun in one scene

[@GeorgMaUlWurf]

22:39 he used a superball to catch that one. should be a safari ball tho.

[@DaiMonAlex]

@@rileydunton5290 no, the episode never aired due to a gun being pointed at childrens and threaten to be shot just for requesting respect when being asked to make less noise around.

[@bmombaerts]

I love that you actually went and caught 30 tauros for accuracy's sake

[@GeorgMaUlWurf]

22:39 he used a superball to catch that one. should be a safari ball tho.

[@DigiDestined13]

By that logic, he should have caught the Krabby and evolved it into Kingler.

[@rhettzkie]

He didn't knockout brock's onix using the pikachu's thunderbolt on the sprinklers.

[@princeapoopoo5787]

I never realized how absurd it is how strong Charmander is so early on in the series. Can't tell if it is an oversight or foreshadowing.

[@whovianhistorybuff]

And yet his previous owner abandoned him for being weak🤔

[@travv88]

People beat this game with a damn Magikarp, so I'd say so.

[@andrewzhang8512]

Ditto.

[@RenyxGhoul]

i remember that youtuber

[@xahndi3300]

Pokemart: How many full restores would you like? Gary: *y e s*

[@ButtercoreFTW]

how many*

[@xahndi3300]

@@ButtercoreFTW Ok my bad.

[@MemeDeliveryPrime]

*Furret walk intensifies*

[@smd0512]

@@ButtercoreFTW *Grammer Police*

[@user-um4jj5im8k]

nightmare freddy Movies grammar***

[@MrAlex400]

Ash : "Raichu never learned those quick moves, you evolved him too quickly" Raichu in the game : Double Team & Quick Attack

[@adambrotherton9930]

Ash warned him so we'd have to deal with them, what a ten year old bastard

[@MoJoProfessional]

Actually, if you look at the agility and spd atk stats before and after evolving Pikachu, the stats go lower

[@jakkank]

@@MoJoProfessional this is just wrong. Lol.

[@MoJoProfessional]

@@jakkank I'm pretty sure Pikachu's spd atk stats are higher.

[@jakkank]

@@MoJoProfessional pokemondb.net/pokedex/pikachu pokemondb.net/pokedex/raichu bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pikachu_(Pok%C3%A9mon) bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Raichu_(Pok%C3%A9mon)

[@VoiceAnon]

Mate, I've been playing pokemon for well over a decade and even I don't know what level pidgey learns gust. That school is bogus, man.

[@charlesfernow124]

The poison type then uses his final breath to raise his evasiveness one final time... truly heroic. Genius line lol

[@MultiStevo123]

26:33 Gary: Call an ambulance. (Gary uses full restore) Gary: But not for me

[@ghost3337]

The poison type uses his final breath to raise his evasion one final time. Truly heroic.

[@frost_sprite]

Oh my God, it's like we watched the same video!

[@abhishekverma8303]

@@frost_sprite omg what a Insane coincidence!!

[@ghost3337]

Frost Sprite Oh no, I never watched the video. It was parallel thinki- I mean it would be parallel thinking if it was said in the video, cause I definitely wouldn't know... I didn't watch.. Take my word for it

[@mergy101dalmatians4]

@@ghost3337 u said parallel thinking implying that u watched that part but didnt hear it but that means u did watch it and ur saying u didnt watch. Ik it was a joke but it just doesnt add up

[@ghost3337]

mergy101 Dalmatians hence the joke part

[@Borchert97]

This is more or less how I played LeafGreen. As a kid I just thought the main character was Ash so I was that guy that named himself "ASH" and only caught Pokemon he had. I did this in Ruby, LeafGreen, and Diamond in that order before I stopped doing it lol

[@lt.finglefubledingler1972]

I’m almost certain you can battle Sabrina before Erika, you just have to do all the rocket stuff first

[@SuperWifiBattler]

I was gonna go to the comment section to say this. Factually incorrect. You can in fact battle Sabrina before Erika.

[@JamTube01232]

I did an Ash playthrough once and that's exactly what I did,so yes you can battle Sabrina first

[@ArthurNunes29]

The correct order in the game is Erika then Sabrina, but you can fight Sabrina first. I did, grinded for a week just to then swipe Erika gym 8 levels above

[@AmeliaOak]

Absolutely correct.

[@youtube-kit9450]

I haven't played FR/LG a lot, but unless they put in additional roadblocks, after Misty, you can battle gym leaders 3-7 in any order except having to fight Koga before Blaine because of surf.

[@AutumnCrusader]

How Ash 'earnt' his badges: Boulder: Rewarded for only cheating a little bit Cascade: Rewarded for losing due to disobedient pokémon Thunder: Legitimately earnt Rainbow: Rewarded for trying to put out the fire he helped start Soul: Rewarded because Misty's psyduck impressed the leader Marsh: Rewarded for making the leader laugh Volcano: Earnt legitimately Earth: Stolen from a vandalised gym after fighting uncertified stand ins due to the leader being absent

[@SuperKamehameha2]

He beat Koga legit. And he would have beaten Misty if not for team rocket

[@chrise5011]

He didn't cheat against Brock, he just used the battlefield to his advantage, if that is cheating then so did Misty and virtually every water type leader who has pools and uses them.

[@aglasscup8740]

I guess many of those are reasons why he can't win the tournament 😅.

[@AutumnCrusader]

@@chrise5011 Vandalising mandatory safety installations isn't a case of using the battlefield to his advantage

[@chrise5011]

@@AutumnCrusader it's poor planning on behalf of the gym leader, a smoke alarm and a water pokemon on standby does the same job, you say potato, I say tactically taking advantage of a gym leader who didn't plan ahead, something that unfortunately Ash rarely exhibited later on. Either way it is not cheating, cheating is breaking the rules and the gym leader makes the rules and Ash didn't break them, so it's Brock's own lack of forethought that Ash exploited.

[@PizzaRatJC]

This is a really neat challenge idea. Easier than "only x pokemon", but it sounds like it would be more fun to do

[@EnterTheUnown]

Yeah, I had a lot of fun making and researching this. Most of my challenges have been really difficult ones so this was a nice change of pace!

[@SebastianVeit]

​@@EnterTheUnown I honestly enjoyed this one more than the others :D Here is a nice idea for another run for gen 6 or 7: Late Bloomers: Pokemon with high evolution levels: Noibat Larvesta Mienfoo Pawniard Vullaby/Rufflet No Pseudo Legendaries though, would be OP

[@tar135]

I hate those videos yea of course you can beat any Pokémon game with infinite number of try’s and over leveled 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@mochapoke3100]

@@tar135 especially since the games have been beaten with a weaker Pokémon, sometimes by the same channel, so of course they can. Some are interesting, like gimmick Pokémon like ditto or shedinja but most of them are just the same

[@LeyZandroStiller]

@@EnterTheUnown Have you tried "Pokemon Ashgray"? www.pokemoncoders.com/pokemon-ash-gray-rom-hack/ I just googled this video and pokemon ashgray is a related link. I tried playing it in GBA emulators and it works.

[@dogoca62]

The fact that you actually caught all of those Tauros really shows your dedication. Very well done video

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

If only we can use Pikachu's electric moves to affect ground types like Ash too

[@Outcastsage9033]

*insert surprised comment about you being everywhere*

[@bluetowel-reko]

Totally Justin Y.

[@ghostofachance8727]

28th Count of seeing you on Random KZbin Videos.

[@dvshooligan868]

*Foooooooound youuuuuu*

[@gamersingh2498]

**Found Once More**

[@SuperSilver7591]

Gary learned from Lance: YOU DONT GET TO BE CHAMPION OF THE POKEMON LEAGUE WITHOUT LEARNING HOW TO SPAM *_FULL RESTORES_*

[@nadiayousaf1472]

SuperSilver759 Matty Burrito

[@soleilsenpai2426]

I could hear that quote.

[@BlueEyesGuardian]

*Insert Lance humping motion here*

[@knju1monsterhunt656]

*(Dramatic realization)* "...that's right."

[@BladeOfLight16]

Hm. Lance wasn't champion until after Gary/Blue/rival. Maybe Lance learned from him.

[@NoxGoblin]

“Gary doesnt care though, he just throws a full restore at rhydons head and keeps the battle going.” Mood

[@Metal_Groove45]

Let's face it! In the anime, Gary goes through more character development than Ash! He is clearly the better trainer!

[@mpelite5527]

Your profile pic scares me

[@ultra-flamaxus]

Ash still became the very best a Champion.

[@AllFiery]

You don’t get to be the champion of the pokemon league without knowing how to spam full restoooores!

[@patchmoulton5438]

@@ultra-flamaxus But he never won a league except the Battle Frontier. I think the closest he got to was third place in... Best Wishes?

[@dougloremaster7413]

I think you may have overlooked Charizard knowing seismic toss in the anime. Other than that, impressive recreation. I can see the care and respect that went into this project. Much love.

[@catgaming0]

Pikachu: "gets paralyzed" Me: IMPOSSIBLE

[@BlazeSLK]

Not until gen 5

[@ronswanson7371]

BlazeSLK 6*

[@Rapclone]

Happens to mine all the time

[@kennethnwebb]

What about Dugtrio using slash?

[@Hlhud]

"At almost no point did he actually earn a Gym Badge. He usually just got the Gym Leader to pity him enough that they'd just hand one over." Hey Misty, we found your long-lost brother! :P

[@NeidalRuekk]

4 out of 8 he earned.

[@TFStudios]

@@NeidalRuekk technically only 3, since the earth badge was from a battle against team rocket and not an actual gym leader. Plus they weren't gonna give it to him anyway, but dropped it after they blew up.

[@upbeatteacher6349]

Ash is over leveled

[@darkghoul4049]

@@TFStudios team rocket leader giovanni was the gym leader.

[@TFStudios]

@@darkghoul4049 he was but that's not who ash battled for the gym badge. Giovanni left the gym before ash arrived putting jessie and James in charge, and they're not as strong as a gym leader should be.

[@ExistingKirb]

For anybody confused: Ash fights Gary in the Johto League, not Kanto, that’s why he has a Bayleaf and Heracross in Kanto.

[@johnathanholmes1297]

Isn't Johto and Kanto leagues the same?

[@MasterRyoSakurai]

@@johnathanholmes1297 No, its not lol

[@johnathanholmes1297]

@@MasterRyoSakurai But the games stated that both Leagues are the same.

[@MasterRyoSakurai]

@@johnathanholmes1297 They're connected, but not the same. And this about the anime, not the video games.

[@johnathanholmes1297]

@@MasterRyoSakurai So in the anime, they are separated. Thanks.

[@13Recon19D]

The warden had guns, that’s why it was never aired in america... ironic

[@patchmoulton5438]

I blame 4kids. The pokerap was pretty good though

[@bayern643]

They could save others from guns but not themselves ironic

[@kazesoon]

4kids was liberal, so no guns.

[@IceMetalPunk]

Very ironic. They realize it's wrong to teach kids that using guns is a good idea, because we've had so many mass shootings (especially in schools), and yet we now have adults running around the capitol with huge guns yelling about being told to protect other people from dying of a disease that literally suffocates them... by wearing a small mask. #Murrica

[@Stray___]

@@IceMetalPunk Well boo hoo.

[@StarkMaximum]

I can't believe it; in the show, Pikachu beat Raichu because it was fast and quick and able to dodge Raichu's power strikes, so in order to recreate it in the game, you had to rely on the sheer brute force of Slam while Raichu hindered your speed with paralysis and then spammed Quick Attack. You literally managed to reverse the roles somehow.

[@shadethenovice]

10:40 In FireRed you can totally defeat Sabrina before Erika. Just ignore the Celadon city gym and defeat Team Rocket at Silph Co to unlock the Saffron city gym.

[@EnterTheUnown]

I was so sure you could and for some reason my brain couldn't come up with the idea of just ignoring Erika. Thanks for the info! And my bad!

[@TheDjbz]

Gen 1 (and the remakes) are rather loose in badge order. You can do 3-6 in any order and only need to do koga’s (5) before you can try Blaine’s (7) I miss being able to do them out of order....

[@evilartnboy]

@@EnterTheUnown run is now invalid, must be done again

[@DaffyTaffy93]

TheDjbz the only other one was Johto and after that no more lol

[@bricker7244]

HotDogBun Hoenn doesn’t require beating Brawly or Flannery until you’re trying to beat Norman for surf. You can also ignore Winona, as she doesn’t provide any essential HM’s. (She unlocks Fly.)

[@BouncingTribbles]

Alternate title: "could Ash actually beat the elite four?"

[@shaylus_4158]

Hell no

[@dayandere2669]

Could've... But he's kinda dumb so probably not

[@tachonka4747]

perhaps

[@samahissimplistic]

Lol hell nah

[@SUPERMATT5546]

I remember him losing to Agatha rather quickly, so probably not.

[@SoullessNazzerin]

12:37 "Her female Mr.Mime-" me: Wait, hold on...

[@kaseysendou5322]

I mean, Mr Mime is called Barrierd in Japan, so there's originally no Mr in the name

[@thedappermagician6905]

That battle with Lt. Surge being almost verbatim how it was in the show put a dumb smile on my face

[@gamenmegan3255]

When you released butterfree, it hit a heart string I forgot about 😭

[@gwynblaidd8607]

GamenMegan Word!

[@slushyjelly7424]

Azure Zero ash just takes his pokemon’s feelings into consideration :3

[@copyman9737]

Grow up

[@kimmoreels7950]

@ lol dude i can image you being a real life trainer and imprisonate poor animals for the rest of there lives just because you think they are rare haha your a collector dude xD

[@BrianGlaze]

GamenMegan saddest episode ever

[@matfraser1989]

“Her female Mr. Mime is out next.” Thank you! I’ve noticed this too in the games and it drove me crazy.

[@CristianMcmillian]

IT'S MR. MA'AM THANK YOU

[@user-mh6ev9vg8r]

Mrs. Mime

[@Tran1494]

"The matchup everyone wants to see.. charizard vs blastoise but I dont want charizard to get washed away" . It's the whole reason he beat gary. He got lucky it's the miracle that got pulled off

[@RigalicReign]

Before the vid: so how many Tauros are you going to catch? During the vid: uncontrollable laughing, well done mad lad

[@noesunyoutuber7680]

One of my favorite articles about Pokemon that I can't find anymore was about the process of preparing a competitive pokemon team and how horrifying it is from the in-universe perspective. It's a process in which you inbreed pokemon until they have the perfect stats, releasing many an inbred infant into the wild in the process. Then, you train them to level 100 fighting the same pokemon over and over to train their EVs. It's a brutal and statistics-based sequence of events that runs closer to dogfighting than the power of friendship. The fact that the anime has never really drawn on the fact that the game's stat system simply doesn't reward sentimentality for a villain still disappoints me greatly.

[@philophos]

NoEsUnKZbinr oh my god, that would make for a great and horrific villain in the anime. A psychopathic master trainer who treats his Pokemon like tools, but is genuinely undefeatable in battle. How would they stop him? I imagine the only way is by tag teaming him. It’d be so interesting

[@bramderacourt9499]

I mean, during D/P Paul was basically a competitive player insert who only cared about results and closely analyzed the stats and abilities of all his Pokemon. I think that they only didn't really touch on the ''breeding'' aspect because it's a bit too risque for a kids show. The final sentiment was that, since Pokemon in the anime were live creatures and not pieces of Data that can be Min-Maxed a trainers bond and the amount of training made the difference. Like that early reference to leveling is completely out of place in the later anime.

[@Paellain]

Yeah, that's why Team Rocket would love competitive Pokémon. You just use Pokémon for breeding and wins, and you only care for the strong Pokémon, releasing the "weak" ones and just using for battle the strong ones and the ones in the metagame. Just the opposite of what happens in the anime by the majority of Trainers.

[@CrystalGreymon]

You need to play catch-up with the games then. As of Generation 7 any Pokémon's stats can be perfected with the use of Hyper Training and as of Generation 8 Stat Boosting items like HP up are limited only by the EVs as well as nature changing mints being included to freely alter the Pokémon's nature so the stats grow differently. Effectively, you can catch any Pokémon, no matter how awful it is and make it the best possible Pokémon of its species. So all these problems that existed way back in the old days are just outdated methods now.

[@noesunyoutuber7680]

@@CrystalGreymon Yeah, I was gonna mention that that's why the anime really lost its chance to do that, since Gamefreak have since tried to rectify that dissonance (and really have been since introducing Return, the attack that literally runs on the power of friendship).

[@EnterTheUnown]

Okay, first of all, I'd just like to thank anyone who has watched this. The support on this video has been amazing. There are way too many comments to reply to individually so let me just answer some of the most common: "Are you going to do this for other generations?" Yes! A video for Johto is in the works. Hopefully it shouldn't take too long (but the levels are harder to gauge and I just decided to start from scratch with any Kanto Pokémon rather than go through the whole game with a Level 80 Pikachu or something). "How did you get Pikachu as your starter in Fire Red? How did you get '_____' in Fire Red?" I used the Universal Pokémon Randomizer to get Pikachu as my starter and all of the other wild Pokémon that seem out of place were there because I edited the wild Pokémon before starting with Advance Map. "You can battle Sabrina before Erika!" I know. I'm dumb. "You should've used Seismic Toss on Charizard!" I should have. I somehow was entirely unaware that the Seismic Toss move tutor existed until this video came out. My bad. "You should've traded Charizard so it wouldn't obey you!" This is an excellent idea and if I had any idea how to set that up, I absolutely would have! "Omanyte Shyamalan is an amazing nickname!" Only like two people have commented about this and I'm pretty sure neither of them called it amazing but I'd like to thank them nonetheless. "Do you even remember what the other common questions on this video were at this point?" Nope. Literally no idea. If you have a question that I didn't answer though, you can just message me on twitter.com/EnterTheUnown and I should reply before too long! EDIT - Forgot about this one! "Are you South African/Stop trying to sound American/What's your accent?" I spent time between England and Ireland growing up so my accent is a weird mix of both. I'm Irish. I'm definitely not trying to sound American but somebody said that and I'm a bit confused about it, honestly. Thank you again if you read down to the bottom! I'm gonna keep working hard and trying to make interesting content that people can enjoy!

[@LittleDogHD]

for the traded Charizard i think you can use pokegen to alter save games and edit Charizard profile, I think you can check a box to be recognized as traded

[@Arkanelancer]

I think for the Charizard you can edit one of the trades in game to make it be what you want. I see it in crystal randomizers all the time, so I figure you'd find it useful

[@AcerKF]

It's that good ole KZbin algorithm grats on the 300k+ views

[@Kiss_My_Aspergers]

...Why didn't you just use Pokémon Yellow? *EDIT:* Ohhh, okay. I didn't realize he'd used Johto Pokémon at the League. My b.

[@jamescanjuggle]

I knew I heard some Irish twang in the accent, cool how yours developed. (I'm Irish too, but somehow adopted an American Buzz to my accent )

[@hug0cru5h3r]

“Nobody wants to take a psychic from Harry Potter and the sorcerer’s spoons”. You just made my day with this one xD

[@douglasrau5094]

Seeing as how Lt. Surge in the game uses more then his Raichu, I feel like you should have been allowed to use more then just your Pikachu. If the Gym Leader is going to use additional Pokemon that he didn’t use in the anime, the player should be allowed to, as well. That’s only fair.

[@jebus159753]

At first I was thinkng: hmm does he really grind that much or does he use cheats? Untill I saw Tauros..

[@goonhead3791]

Santiago Belgrano the starter didn’t give it away ?😂

[@nateperkins-fields353]

So he does or does not? I was analyzing much, and haven't played in years.

[@blubbfisch98]

@@nateperkins-fields353 It seems like he genuinely grinded

[@natenatenate10]

@@nateperkins-fields353 he probably used a randomizer to alter the starters and a few of the routes and grinded naturally

[@Callamuchi]

@@nateperkins-fields353 100% cheated, Tauros is in a greatball meaning he never caught that tauros from the safari zone. Meaning his joke about spending a day catching a tauros was complete bs

[@Obi-Wan_Kenobi]

Please make this a series! If you could do this for the other regions using the exact same pokemon Ash used in the anime it would be so epic! I think I and many others would love to see that!

[@victorfajardo3329]

Obi-Wan Kenobi general Kenobi!

[@Zeonthebrave]

Hello there

[@dylansickinger545]

It would probably be most interesting for gen 5, cause he used like 15 different pokemon in that anime.

[@jdmarsh91]

Want to buy some Death Sticks?

[@trevorserra2207]

Obi-Wan Kenobi I agree, that is a good idea!

[@dillydoo6880]

Dude, I was cheering for you the entire way!! Every lucky break and every moment your Pokémon stood up and took on big challenges was so invigorating! I loved this video! The cherry on this sundae is the clever writing; the mentions of Erika's gym burning down and the Safari Zone episodes were the FREAKIN' best XD

[@natedogg1088]

Now to be fair to Ash, the area between Pallet town and Pewter city, there's really nothing to catch that's very effective against rock types unless you branch off on Victory Road to catch a Manky or pick up a Male Nidoran outside of the entrance to Pewter city (Not sure you can even catch a male Nidoran that early in fire red, I remember mine from red I think.

[@HolyDemonSnap]

No wonder Ash beat all his opponents more or less, he was over leveled.

[@truearea53]

Fearei Shatter An electric type moves cracking through a ground types? That’s hacks

[@jadethest0ne]

You are an absolute legend for catching all 30 Tauros! This is a delightfully interesting challenge idea! Nice job!

[@yangchenyolmo4260]

' no body wants to take a psychic from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's spoon '. This sentence had me laughing 😂 like a manic. How in the world could you even say that with a straight face? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@LeKornorBros]

10:39 Actually, Lt. Surge, Erika, Koga, Sabrina and Blaine can be beaten in any order because the games weren't so strict with Gym orders. Like, after getting Cut in SS Anne, you can head straight towards the Rock Tunnel without approaching Surge. Then, once you're in Celadon City, beat Giovanni in the headquarters, skipping Erika. Then you have Saffron unclocked, and after Silph Co. events you can go straight for Sabrina. The only Gym Leaders in Kanto and the Gen 3 remakes you have to beat in a specific order are Brock, Misty and Giovanni, being always 1st, 2nd and 8th respectively.

[@evanozrovitz9402]

You have to do koga before Blaine though since you need surf to get to Blaine and you can only use surf outside of battle after you beat koga

[@LeKornorBros]

@@evanozrovitz9402 Well, true. But even with that in mind, the Gym order customisation is still pretty big.

[@uamdbro]

Damn dude the sheer amount of time you must have spent just trying to figure out the levels.

[@loulou3676]

I was thinking that too, seems like you'd basically have to go back and watch every episode of the cartoon

[@enough-applause-3368]

@@loulou3676 *heavy breating* Cartoon

[@mayborneflower]

Bulbapedia has an episode list. Just go to the start of the season you’re starting with, go to the first episode therein, and just check the “Major Events” section of each page. If any main character’s Pokemon either evolves or unveils a new move, it’ll pop up there.

[@loulou3676]

@@enough-applause-3368 oh it's not that bad, c'mon. Surely we can talk this out over a couple of nice fresh jelly filled donuts.

[@Peelster1]

@@loulou3676 I was actually planning on rewatching when I play through AshGray to do what ETU did in this video. Seems like a fun thing to play along as you watch.

[@SteelWG]

Enter The Unown: "Her Female Mr. Mime" Me: *Confused Screaming*

[@danieldyer6916]

Its MAAM

[@idiocracy9020]

@@danieldyer6916 Mr. Maam

[@sanguinepub]

Let's just substitute the Japanese name. Enter the female Barrierd. There we go- all is right with the world.

[@rhys2275]

gender fluidity be like

[@Chrono_Mitsurugi]

@@sanguinepub agreed.

[@Kaiser00Wilhelm]

This is an amazing piece of work you put together here. I can't wait to check out your other videos! Kudos, my friend!

[@4kmentality]

My excuse for watching this whole video: Self Quarantine

[@RobertoBlake]

This is the perfect example of taking a smart approach to LP and that you don’t need subs to crush it. Good work.

[@bennyboicreates3253]

LP?

[@keengkai8175]

“that’s not a catchy title” sir i beg to differ, you caught my ass with it

[@5Porygon]

Thank you so much for all videos you made. You are one of my absolutely best youtubers ever. :)

[@kiyaleelevyrunaya9495]

Ofc you can. That's how I do my in-game story after the anime release, ever since Pokémon Silver. I only use pokémon Ash catches. I also try to match the timing in the anime. Example: Ash has 3 pokémon up untill badge 3, then so so I. BUT! If one of those pokémon can't be caught untill late in the game, then I leave that spot open untill I can catch it. It makes the in-game aspect more challenging

[@Void_Echoes]

“Nobody wants to take a Psychic from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Spoon” As a Harry Potter fan I burst out laughing at that point.

[@mysterbox7194]

ShadowDragonGamer 476 Same

[@davidhong1934]

The sorcerer's spoon is no laughing matter. In the books, it was a mythical relic created by Ekrizdis, first resident of Azkaban, to harnass the power of the Dementors so he would be able to properly measure sugar for his morning crumpets. Alas, fearing the powers of exact measurements, Damocles Rowle, in a fit of rage, chose to steal the spoon for his own misguided attempts to convert Azkaban into an elementary school, only to later settle for a prison after figuring that both were the same thing. The spoon was then lost to history, it's dark powers forever lost to time.

[@ArthurNunes29]

My face distorted of laughter

[@Vexy93]

It's even more funny if you are from Italy like me, because a famous animator/comic artist/youtuber ages ago did make a video parody of harry potter where he just turns people into spoons

[@meowxd6167]

This is basically like: Did Ash really win by friendship or high iq?

[@hidden1319]

The real elite 4, is the friends we made along the way.

[@leeman27534]

bullshit, he won by bullshit.

[@eafesaf6934]

@@leeman27534 hax! that's fucking hax!

[@GenJuhru]

the answer would be the same on why it took him 20+ years to win a pokemon league

[@Jay-st8jf]

He is the immortal unaging idiot

[@ptbunz2501]

Thanks for such an entertaining video! Also, Thank You for all the hard work you put into the video!

[@salakast]

10:02 this is one of those moments where anime logic actually made sense. In Gen 1, if you evolve Raichu too early, it never learns Quick Attack. This isn't the case in Gen 3 though.

[@damthatssick]

Agility + Quick Attack? Wow, Ash was bad with sets back then.

[@RenegadeStriker7]

Well in the anime being faster makes you dodge easier

[@talon1776]

Beaver Dam Goes to show what you know of the anime. Moves don’t usually matter much if ever, it’s type or strategy that really matters in the anime

[@damthatssick]

@@talon1776 Strategy? Quick Attack, which is a priority move, combined with a speed increasing move. What's the point of increasing speed?

[@wrathybear]

@@damthatssick like 7striker said, being faster makes sense for you to dodge incoming attacks faster. But that's just my opinion

[@damthatssick]

@@wrathybear Yeah, I guess I should probably get my head out of the game. The anime and the game are two different things.

[@jaykay5811]

“Well there’s no way he’s gonna beat that first gym... gtfoutta here”

[@Openreality]

He didn't beat the first gym. Brock had pitty on him and gave him the badge, at least the games are better in the sense of teaching kids type advantages and how to better play pocket monsters better than the Indigo League season.

[@jaykay5811]

Peter von Feldt uhhhhhh, I meant in this video lol. Calm down nerd

[@CookieGal-]

@@Openreality You try and sound soooo sophisticated to the point it's annoying, and yet you can't spell pity. Edit: you know what, I just realised you're actually wrong. Pikachu sets off the sprinklers to make electric moves work on onix and beats him on the 3rd try.

[@jemiahpenzien3668]

@@CookieGal- Yes but Ash did not win because he did not finish off onix because Brock's siblings keep Ash from making the finishing blow

[@atcera8714]

@@jemiahpenzien3668 aaand he damaged Onix with thunderbolt so yeah...

[@85GOCARDS]

Awesome! Thanks for putting the time and effort into this.

[@hyperbiscuit2284]

I love how the biggest obstacle in these challenges is Ash's lack of intelligence.

[@fienderman7563]

Charizard should know semismic toss

[@JackieRabbit5]

I agree that was an iconic move and should've had that over rock slide I don't recall him ever using.

[@silvertiger4441]

JackieRabbit5 well snorlax knows 8 moves . Ice punch , rest , body slam, sleep talk, hyper beam, double edge, headbutt and zen headbutt. In the same battle used all those moves ... Can’t use snorlax like that in the game lol 😂

[@MetaGiga]

I knew Ash was an Action Replay user

[@chrise5011]

@@silvertiger4441 Metronome?

[@501stPokemonLegion]

Seismic toss isn't a move in fire red

[@orangenasa]

I like how Gary tries to show you what it feels like when your opponent spams Full Restore but actually still gets destroyed.

[@GiuseppeGaetanoSabatelli]

It's actually super satisfying how good and balanced most of these battles were.

[@berserkfury3182]

the effort was on point. you earned a like and my subscribe. congrats man! this was awesome!!

[@pendazareyrodriguez666]

10:35 I came here to laugh, not to feel

[@s.e.111films3]

16:53 It is, though, cause the Squirtle episode featured Ash being held at gunpoint by four people, so why guns were a problem in this specific episode eludes me.

[@joshkyei3105]

Meowth had a Hitler-like disguise as well.

[@AlmightySmorg]

It's possible that in good ol' 4kids fashion they didn't watch ahead in show and thought the Tauros wouldn't be that important

[@nightspawnson-of-luna4936]

and those guns were rifles iirc... Also there was a gun in the episode where they went to the officer jenny training school... but I guess that one was allowed because...it might have been fake? (Also thank you for pointing out the Squirtle Squad gun thing... I thought I was the only one who thought that was weird)

[@PrinceOfSaiyans01]

That was... surprisingly fun and exciting to watch!

[@HORRIOR1]

You should have done this in Pokemon Yellow. The gym leader teams were more anime accurate there.

[@matthewphiliproberts9446]

Charmander being caught at a high level makes sense due to how quickly it evolves into Charmeleon and then Charizard - and could also be a reason for why it doesn’t listen to Ash for some time. He doesn’t see Ash to be worthy enough for his efforts, which links in to how Pokemon in the games don’t listen to you above a certain level if you don’t earn ‘x’ amount of gym badges.

[@santosvazquez8829]

Matthew Philip Roberts also, technically it’s a trade Pokémon, which makes it more likely to disobey

[@TonyNumber9]

Does make Charmander's former owner not only jackass but complete idiot

[@latioshunter]

Or as the dude said: most of Ash's Pokemon dont wanna evolve because they take after his childish nature of not wanting to grow up, compare that to Charmander who immediately evolves very quickly and (probably) thinks Ash is a weakling-this may due to how his previous trainer treated the Pokemon, leaving him in the rain for being weak.

[@dmdoombot8796]

Only traded pokemon disobey due to high level, but one could debatably consider charmander traded since we never saw him get released, just abandoned

[@byronlyons3548]

@@santosvazquez8829 Except it wasn't traded, and they have actual trade machines as shown in the S.S. Anne episode. So Charmander is fully owned by him, yet he still disobeys. Can you explain that?

[@barbershopbible]

I appreciated the Dodgeball reference: "Bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for them."

[@brandonheflin06]

I remember watching Ash get several badges without actually beating the gym leaders back in the Kanto days... Man, that really pissed me off.

[@TheJotaroKujo]

You can tell Gary beat Lance. His full restore spamming game is on point.

[@jadeblack2948]

24:05 "... And no one wants to take a psychic from Harry Potter and the sorcerer of spoons" I'm dead XD

[@MemeDeliveryPrime]

Hes dead to me

[@KaplenPayne]

"I think I have a problem, lets keep going." I have never herd a more relatable sentence in my life. Subbed

[@comcasttiny]

I love your challenge videos.. I like how you include parts of the anime in them!!!

[@Ougerosity598]

Quality content! Always wondered about this challenge, as many others likely have.

[@LexLerInc]

I know someone probably already said this, but “Omanyte Shyamalan” is absolutely genius

[@lizardizzle]

When capturing low resolution games for upscaling to larger resolutions, make sure you disable bilinear/trilinear/gaussian filtering to keep the footage as sharp and clean as possible and make sure to capture the footage at original resolution or at a resolution larger than the original by factors of 100%. The GBA's resolution is 240x160, so you resize that resolution by 200%, 300%, 400%, etc. (480x360, 720x480, 960x640, etc.) and choose one that fits within the resolution you'll want your final project to be. 240x160 can be upscaled cleanly to fit a 720p youtube video by resizing the game footage to 960x640. If you choose KZbin's 1080p resolution, you can resize to 1440x960. You place the resized footage into your project at 1280x720 or 1920x1080 so you have some space around the game footage for your background, decoration, or what have you, and boom, you've got the cleanest looking game capture you can get. I can see that your captured footage was resized to an in-between resolution because the pixels are stretched to long thin rectangles in multiple places. Every pixel should remain perfectly sharp and square as long as you scale the footage by integers and avoid filtering tanalin.com/en/articles/integer-scaling/ www.imagemagick.org/Usage/filter/ andrew.hedges.name/experiments/aspect_ratio/

[@hidden1319]

Hey I’d like to thank you.

[@theshinken]

Thank you for pointing this out. Not gonna lie: Those mashed pixels triggered me so much that I thought about quitting the video early.

[@HilaryWestfall]

"Lonely in that he's alone, not in nature. He's actually careful." I started choking 🤣

[@LupercalRising]

Awesome dude, this is exactly what I wanted to see

[@MiraPacku]

"I didn't make the rules. well I did. but I'm just following those roules." imagine you could actually catch all of the starters

[@milo1133]

U can catch them but u need to be very lucky

[@MiraPacku]

@@milo1133 I don't believe that

[@milo1133]

@@MiraPacku check it on yt then

[@MiraPacku]

@@milo1133 that has never been a thing, in any of the games except for yellow that was part of the reason why there were always 2 games

[@plainoldcereal9409]

In let’s go you can find them all in the wild

[@blue_moon9312]

"Your onestop shop to answer questions you were never bored enough to ask" Aight with an opening like that I'm subing

[@jagotiberan2181]

“This is so unnecessary. I think I have a problem.” - sums up the whole video pretty much 🤣❤️