Can you beat Pokemon Crystal WITHOUT EXP?!!

[@NathanielBandy]

It's so weird to see you using more then one pokemon at a time

[@Smooth_operator32]

Indeed

[@eudstersgamersquad6738]

So true! I am just not used to him doing non solo runs.

[@SupahMari0]

true

[@justyouraveragechad9354]

It's weird seeing you here and not playing Mario 64 lol

[@Jrose11]

I honestly prefer these runs since there's more interesting strategy.

[@bigrigjoe5130]

Jrose battling with a whole team is like when "weighted clothes" come off in anime and the protaganist becomes 100 times more powerful.

[@CopDoctorLawyer]

Dear Jrose11, idk if you'll see this, but i've discovered your channel about 3-4 months ago. i've watched every solo run you've put out, and i've even rewatched a good amount of them. I'm currently serving over seas in Iraq, and this niche pokemon content you've created has been the perfect entertainment whenever I browse youtube. I play randomizer nuzlockes on my laptop to pass the time, and I always share the screen with your youtube videos while i'm playing. Just wanted to show my appreciation for the content you create, and thanks for keeping the early gen pokemon games alive. You rock man, keep it up.

[@boze7180]

Getting wobbuffet from the game corner to fight Whitney was such a galaxy brain play. Never thought about that in all the time I’ve spent on these games

[@troyb5362]

You’ve outdone yourself Jrose! This was such a fun run and really well made video, the month of Jrose has been incredible so far ❤

[@thesuntitan]

I really hope the "All Opponents at Level 100" is coming soon, I enjoyed that stream a lot!

[@Slickcactus]

Key would be to catch a Gastly in the sprout tower and level it up until it learns Curse. Then go around battling mono normal type trainers for exp, or even just roll the dice and go into battle with the hope you don’t get hit with a physical attack on the first turn, land a hypnosis, followed by curse and that the opposing Pokémon sleeps for 5 turns. Would also be easy victories over the trainers with Magikarps considering the only level 100 move that it would have is Tackle, just have to set up the curse mentioned earlier. Also would pay to have multiple Gastlys so you can repeat if one is to faint. Take notes jrose!!!

[@dynastystar5515]

I do like the "All Opponants are level 100" streams from what I've seen of them. Hopefully he touches on that challenge soon(don't care which gen or anything)

[@MrZrbrownie]

Spoilers! Seriously though, that sounds entertaining.

[@paradocks184]

So how does he do those? How do you modify your game to not gain experience or have every trainer at level 100?

[@Silvia.Sparks]

@@paradocks184 idk about all level 100s but Ik that removing exp is a cheat code.

[@zezarusgaming9286]

The fact you didn't go for an ice/electric/rock hidden power unknown at the beginning to help push through sprout tower and Falkner was interesting. This is one of the few challenges that an unknown could have genuine viable use. Would have been cool to see.

[@Begeru]

He probably didn’t think of it

[@Begeru]

@Anime-bob SquarePants there’s only one Snorlax in Gen 2

[@aceclover758]

@Anime-bob SquarePants what? Lol

[@Pwjdjskw]

@Anime-bob SquarePants kekeke dummy

[@GrandDuchessTaco]

"Thankfully I was able to hit myself in confusion" is a sentence I never thought I'd hear in a challenge run.

[@nunya6537]

Lol same

[@Willingmess]

I’ll admit, I didn’t expect this to be next, but I’m excited to see if this will be possible! Red seems like he’ll be a really rough challenge especially with how low level the wild pokemon are in this game

[@kaptainKrill]

Without watching, I have to assume that Ho-oh and Lugia are pretty key

[@jimcanterak7349]

@@kaptainKrill He doesn't allow legendaries.

[@priestesslucy3299]

@@jimcanterak7349 I feel like he's going to have to break that rule for Red

[@kaptainKrill]

@@jimcanterak7349 just got to that point. Seems like an odd rule, but eh- Jrose likes to make himself suffer.

[@tabeebyeamin9986]

@@kaptainKrill LEGENDARIES ARE FOR WUSSES

[@Otonio_Bruno]

Tip for Red's Snorlax: To sped up the strat with Misdreavus, teach it swagger to boost Snorlax atk and with curse residual damage, it shouldn't have much chances to keep spamming rest. Also teaching rest sleep talk to your Snorlax might be a great way to waste Special Attackers PP since only in generation 2, when a pokemon uses sleep talk and it select rest, it doesn't fail, restoring your HP back to full if damaged and resetting sleep turns.

[@ZebNyan96]

That Sleep Talk tip was interesting to hear! Amazing how much details there are to be found in these games after couple of decades :D

[@lisan3627]

​@@ZebNyan96 It's part of why Snorlax is so nuts in Gen 2 competitive. This run was a good showing of how crazy that Pokémon is in this game.

[@phoebe5114]

The true most wonderful time of the year is the month of Jrose. 😄 Been a fan for years and I'm so excited to see more!

[@Blj_282]

Very true. Merry Christmas Jrose

[@volgtorbg]

hey jrose, i was listening to u beginning of pandemic with yourntop 5 videos and i still listen now, through all the turbulent and terrifying changes of my life its extremely comforting to have your videos as a constant despite them. i know i am not the only one who finds your videos special, keep doing what youre doing and enjoy your holiday

[@Altair1243WAR]

Honestly, came for the pokemon gameplay, stayed for the personality. He has a very positive and calming atmosphere, plus very creative with the strategies and his commitment to the runs

[@emma48586]

i agree i love jrose

[@stephenveerasammy3074]

This is such a testament to 'do the best you can do, at what your passionate about'

[@volgtorbg]

@@Altair1243WAR when he talked abt not hsing double team is what struct me, and funnily enougj while i hate that every youtuber these days has to ask for likes and subscribes, whenever jrose says it i dont mind it at all and i in fact am pleased he is trying to get more from the algo, it is crazy what high quality and genuininity from content can do for enjoyeability

[@nokronis]

This was super fun to watch! Seemed like a lot more strategy had to go into it compared to most of the solo ones, which was really cool to see because you're great at planning!

[@HaydnG266]

52:16 I'm not gonna sacrifice any of my Pokemon. Sacrifices Rhydon immediately.

[@mayborneflower]

Nice job. Though, speaking as someone who’s watched MoogleBoss’ old 0 EXP challenge and theory-crafted about if the rival could beat Red as presented in-game (he can), there was an easy way to beat Red’s Espeon casualty-free. When Espeon comes in after Rhydon, send in Sneasel to absorb the incoming Psychic. Per MoogleBoss’ notes on their past Red experience, Red will retaliate against a dramatically underleveled Sneasel with Swift. So Misdreavous can absorb that in kind. Then it’s just a PP stall until Psychic runs out, at which point the stall chain continues with Mud-Slap. So you then replace Sneasel in the stall with a flying type like Golbat. Once Espeon is tapped of Mud-Slap, Misdreavous can just come in and squat on the remaining Swift uses to cast Curse.

[@paulthompson382]

That successful Lance battle was honestly one of my favourite all-time JRose moments!

[@ShadowSora8491]

I'm amazed at the fact that that challenge actually turned out to be possible, given how difficult Red already is, even without self-imposed challenges. Amazing videos, Jrose.

[@tradeka4206]

I had a feeling something like wobuffett would make an appearance. Those gimmicky Pokémon always have some good uses in runs like this

[@ZebNyan96]

You should include in the thumbnail or the title/description that you don't use items in battle and legendaries because that's seriously very impressive! Didn't even think that would be possible without evasion moves or Attract. Amazing video!

[@AKHalex]

I love you man, thank you for all these videos. You have been my go-to guy for eating and sleeping videos for months at this point, and I am really excited now for a new video every day. It's the weekend, I'm enjoying my meal and every second of this video, excited to see how you will beat every trainer. Keep going!

[@joetalentoh]

Yes! I did a no exp playthrough of Blue after seeing your level 5 video. Such a fun run and fresh take on how to play the game. Looking forward to this one.

[@elysongums6732]

Damn, I was expecting "easier" videos this month. This is simply amazing!

[@luckfee4653]

Okay guys, mark the day: November 25th, 10 pm german Time: Jrose11 officially has gone mad!

[@delt19]

This is probably the most interesting and fun run you've done in a while.

[@saltybot5449]

I love a month of Jrose, it’s amazing

[@CelticGuardian7]

Very good run! I do have a question though, if Jrose sees this. You mentioned being able to use Rare Candies, but it never got mentioned again (unless I missed something). I would think they would at least be useful for getting an evolution from a high-leveled first form, or for getting to a move that a fresh catch might not have. Did you use any Rare Candies this run at all and just not mention it, or did they go completely unused? Loving all the videos! =)

[@ZebNyan96]

I think he used at some pokemon (maybe Gyarados) because some of them were like one or few levels up in later battles.

[@CelticGuardian7]

@@ZebNyan96 Fair enough, I didn't notice that. I might rewatch later to check. Thanks!

[@johnelliotschmit5621]

The really important use for Rare Candies would be for collecting EVs, which only happens when you level up.

[@DrabekNewburn]

@@johnelliotschmit5621 This is Gen II. You can use the box trick for stat experience.

[@michabaron4129]

Somehow everyday i manage to forget its Jrose month and im delighted everytime

[@Absolbr]

you have been popping off with these videos lately, really love your content, can't wait to watch!

[@PokemonmastersExisfun]

Month of Jrose11 needs to happen atleast twice a year this content is so good

[@ryroller9394]

That much content would probably lead to massive burnout. I think 2 weeks of Jrose11 per year is more reasonable.

[@HarveyMeadowlark]

@@ryroller9394 good point, I worry too about the workload starting to wear on JRose. I hope very much that the community would respond with respect and understanding if he needed to interrupt the month of uploads for any reason.

[@Altair1243WAR]

Pretty sure if he outright said he was stressed, which hasn't happened to my kniwledge, most people would prefer he relax the schedule to whatever best fits his schedule After all, the potential short-term gains are way less than the long-term (Plus I'm not some kind of insensitive monstrosity)

[@PokemonmastersExisfun]

I don’t ever want anyone to stress over making videos but i do mean it when i say his content is really good

[@HarveyMeadowlark]

@@Altair1243WAR yeah, I think the overwhelming majority of JRose fans feel the same as you and I. He’s created a good community over his years.

[@retrodungeonYT]

That Lance victory was so insane.

[@kristinnkristinsson1369]

I *really* thought that wouldn't be possible. Insane is the right word.

[@masamune0202]

Damn dude. I'm watching your videos for a couple years now, and I think this is probably my favourite. Lanturn getting that kill is just icing on the Snorlax cake. Very nice one!

[@Axecon1]

Mad props to all the videos from this channel recently! Also this looked like a super cool challenge, always great to see a variety of Pokemon showcased in a run.

[@Wildcat2017]

You have desensitized me to the true challenges of these runs. You explained the premise and I thought "Red will be the only problem you run into" then realized that even the E4 was a dozen+ levels above what you could get and still thought "nah, easy for JRose"

[@gabrieldevoogel6225]

Absolutely brilliant so far, love the content and the whole month has been so dang exciting, thank you, you’ve gotten me through essay after essay this month

[@HarveyMeadowlark]

Jeez, I am jealous, cause I have been the opposite. I also love the content and the daily uploads, but I am struggling with my work related assignments because I keep getting distracted by the new JRose videos lol. Enjoy your holiday season and good luck on all the essays 👍

[@gabrieldevoogel6225]

@@HarveyMeadowlark same to you for your work

[@robroy7934]

On the 6 day of month of jrose, jrose11 gave to meeeee. A crystal run with no XP.

[@Norien711]

Dude, I can’t believe we’re getting full 30 min to 1hr long videos during your month of uploads. I love it and am looking forward to watching all of them!

[@Disastress]

This backlog of videos is insane! 0.0 I wish I could always watch this show every day since it's just ALWAYS a good time, and has shown me a lot of the reasons to love the earlier generations of pokemon! Totally understand that is probably and insane amount of work for you, hope it's as fun for you as it is for all of us!

[@Zorgdub]

That Elite 4 + Lance gauntlet was amazing. I would never do a challenge like that because I'd be too terrified to use TMs too early and be screwed later, so I couldn't pull the sort of strategies needed to win here.

[@timwaldowski8047]

Love the Jrose month. This video was the most interesting yet. Looking forward to more! :D

[@TheRealityJack]

What a fun run, thank you so much for all the effort you put into these videos! It is a joy listening to you narrating all your thought processes that go into a run like this

[@ShadowTasos]

Oh my god Jrose this was an amazing run! Thank you so much for uploading it! I had a blast watching it :D Really creative strategies, was at the edge of my seat the entire time!

[@riftsquid7659]

this was a really fun run, and a nice change of pace from all the solo runs we have been getting lately. keep it up, Jrose! You're my favorite pokemon youtuber!

[@marsella527]

I wanna say, I love all the pokemon challenges people do. Definitely have opened me up to using a whole different variety of Pokémon I'd normally never use

[@The_Jho]

It’s so nice of you to shout out smallant like that, look how many subscribers he has now, it’s insane how much his channel grew

[@clam3974]

I in fact, do believe Jrose will be able to beat the game with no XP

[@pseudodistant]

"You don't get to become champion of the Pokemon League without knowing how to spam Full Restores " - Lance, 2015

[@RK-cj4oc]

I freaking love you Jrose. Keep up the great work. I wish The Month of Jrose could continue forever.

[@rushilsaini6356]

Love the daily content jrose, let's goo!

[@andresportingbraga]

I think this is my new favourite Jrose11 video, I love the inventiveness of strategies for a challenge like this. Please consider more multi Pokémon challenge runs.

[@coldcoma]

This is one of the most epic challenges Ive ever seen you do.

[@rennyjesus]

In fact, considering that every single status move has an innate 25% chance of failing on gen 2, the actual chance of Gengar hitting Hypnosis in one turn is 45%. That means missing 5 times in a row is actually around 5% chance... Is not that huge, but we have seen Tackle missing multiple times, right? 😂

[@OmegaTyrant]

No, the AI modifier makes it so all status moves have 75% accuracy regardless of their original accuracy, it doesn't take away 25% accuracy from them. So Hypnosis when used by the AI in Gen 2 (and Gen 1) is actually more accurate than usual.

[@Altair1243WAR]

Isn't that math actually wrong anyways? Unless I'm mistaken, that would still be ~1.8% chance instead of ~1%

[@kingnothing8482]

@@OmegaTyrant Morty’s cheating ass kept using the hypnosis dream eater combo on me 😡

[@skeetermania3202]

@@OmegaTyrant Some don’t like Confuse Ray.

[@therainbro]

Loving the 2nd Gen content. So much nostalgia as crystal was my first Pokémon game

[@ZelTheGr8]

One thing to remember is that Red will ONLY use full restores on his pikachu. Great video btw 😊

[@ButchiGaming]

Really enjoying the month of jrose! keep it up. I think these funky challenge videos really show your creativity and knowledge of the games. narratively on point as always! Really fun video as a break from the normal jrose runs!

[@chronicdose]

One of my fav runs so far! Super interesting the variety of strats!

[@BertKreisinger]

Another banger, you're frickin' killin' it Jrose!!!

[@kyukrock]

This is my favorite video you've done for your Month of Jrose so far!!! Looking forward to the rest! It's been such a pleasure to come home from work and have another new video ready to go and cheer me up, thank you for all that you do!!!

[@doodstamper1152]

This is more fun to watch then the usual

[@BZgA]

Awesome run! The idea is nice and I like that you thanked your team members for their service

[@PeCzech]

Awesome. I didn't watch it yet, but I am sure it's gonna be awesome. And it's nice to not know if your today's run gonna be "standard" run or some other challenge.

[@truegamerking]

That was cool I really liked this challenge. Hopefully we'll get to see more full team runs in the future

[@Jrose11]

there should be *at least* one a week, but likely more.

[@brandonroyal1255]

Not surprised Graverler did so well it was in the Prima guide for the game as one of the best Pokémon to play the game with oh btw love the vids man thanks for all the uploads we the fans appreciate you!

[@Gogeta0991]

Best video so far! Such a pleasant change to have the complete opposite scenario. Free choice of pokemon but no leveling instead of a fixed pokemon which almost always has to level up to 100. I'm excited for more of these runs!

[@FlyinLionQuinn]

That Hoothoot/Gastly swap is incredible!

[@Madmeerkat55]

Such a cool run. Those Lance and Red battles were incredible!

[@brentsta]

I’m so happy to see more gen 2 content on this channel!

[@ericmargolis9415]

this is officially my second favorite jrose vid besides the emerald ditto video! Absolutely amazing work, thanks for the content

[@Pelifrost]

This was such a unique playthrough! Great job! 🙂

[@iamjustkiwi]

I never expected a Bugsy fight to be so hype and clutch. Amazing video idea!

[@TheSme14]

I really like these unique type of challenges they bring a nice variety to your content! Would love to see more in the future!

[@gregoryechevarria3939]

Such a fun run! Always love your gsc videos anyway, but this is a great break from the normal one pokemon runs. Some really interesting strategies, I think my favorite was using detect to let hitmonlee hi jump kick itself to KO. Never even crossed my mind!

[@Yamcha1717]

Wow, what a week ! You please us with a lot of videos. I can't wait for the next videos, I love watching your runs !

[@svansiian2050]

Incredible vid. Battles vs Lance and Red were just crazy

[@maxiumite]

So nice having you as part of my daily video routine Jrose

[@maxtornogood]

If it's a "Save between Elite 4 members" kind of difficulty I'm always here for it!

[@baconaterlover5399]

Definitely one of your most interesting runs, it really allows for a lot of strategy. So far the Jrose month has been awesome, I can’t wait to see what’s next!

[@delfo8063]

Next challenge should be: JRose's Pokemons automatically reach lvl. 100 and evolve as soon as he receives them and he will have to Lose against every trainer in the inverted order. That would be the definition of pain.

[@s0vnds]

You're putting out more content than I can watch right now! Looking forward to having a backlog of vids to watch

[@tamaplayer22]

The way you swapped between ghastly and hoot hoot was brilliant! You're the man!

[@YesImUrFather]

JRose is on the grind right now dropping heat left and right, let me get my snacks ready haha

[@No_Limits17]

This whole playthrough with no exp and being underleveled is basically what Ash goes through in the anime...

[@GhengizKanye]

I really sat around for half the video wondering why you didnt use kadabra with elemental punches and recover and completely forgot the premise was no exp

[@flatwoodscryptid]

Love the video! Always exciting to see the kinds of strategies runs like these can lead to. Gotta disagree about Lanturn though. Going from chinchou's weird lantern eyes to normal pokemon eyes is such a downgrade I struggle to really love it

[@zenkurahidachi7915]

Dude u like ALWAYS have the best random facts in your videos. Your fun facts be more interesting then the actual fact videos...the Waterstone thing I had no idea about . That was awesome. I like learning stuff like that

[@heyopc]

i really appreciate that you didn't use legendaries, makes the run way more interesting

[@dannyt9744]

Just realized that despite this taking place years after Red/Blue, Bruno and Lances Pokémon are several levels lower haha and I love that Bryce is 80 but his Pokémon levels are in the 30s

[@cedriclothritz7281]

19:51 "Something you can't do in a solo-run" Gen 1 Koga would like a word with you.

[@limjahey9983]

This was great!! Really cool to see all strategy awesome job!!👍

[@nightmare348]

The Month of JRose is just chugging on along with amazing vid after amazing vid. ^_^

[@nickmac1104]

I’ve come to like anything with JRose in it. He’s just got an addictive personality that’s hard to not like.

[@AsterixtheGaul7]

Loved seeing the different Pokémon strats, more interesting IMO and def more interesting to play like you said haha. Looking forward to the next one, which I’m sure will happen because you know, the whole whole month of videos thing... which rulesss

[@spage0]

This was really really fun! Thanks for another great ep J!

[@burntalive]

I like how often these runs with full teams are often harder than most solo runs!

[@SnowyTotodile]

???/Silver: "I hate the weak." Jrose's level 8 Zubat: "...and I took that personally." Also, IIRC the 25% miss chance of status moves used by the AI is actually a separate check on top of accuracy, so Hypnosis actually has 45% accuracy, not 60%, so the odds of 16:04 happening are actually around 5%. Still pretty low though~

[@dialga5]

The month of jrose is an early Christmas gift. Thank you jrose for this. I always enjoy watching your vids

[@GhengizKanye]

Were a week in and im already hoping you say screw it and keep dropping content until new years. Definitely still need a pikasprey collab for an impossible challenge though

[@MijmerMopper]

A soullink run with Purplecliffe would be an amazing watch and probably a horrible experience for both of them.

[@bordomsdeadly]

@@MijmerMopper I want this bad now.

[@LiamFromNewBarkTown]

This is such good content as usual of course. Like to see a gen 3 attempt of this no exp challenge at some point 🙏🏼

[@jaeusa160]

@40:00 Graveler: "They see me rollin..."

[@MrBrendanRizzo]

I actually knew this was possible going in since I saw another video doing this in the remakes years ago, but your version is much more entertaining to watch.

[@FlyinTonite]

“I’ve bonded with all my Pokémon since birth you have no chance.” *Beats with Pokémon you found 5 minutes ago*