Chansey Only - Pokemon Yellow

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/...
-- 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...
-- 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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[@grammysworld5449]

As a kid, I caught this thing because the guide I read said that Chansey had the most potential of any pokemon in the game.. " A Well-rounded Tank and special attacker with it's own healing utility " - Some Pokemon guide from 1999

[@fightingfitz214]

Strange for a guide but it wasn’t wrong being one of the big 3 in Gen 1 OU

[@cam32189]

Well, the guide was pretty accurate...Chansey is either #2 or #3 in the game. Snorlax may get more KOs on average, but Chansey fills a roll that basically nothing else can.

[@grammysworld5449]

@@fightingfitz214 most of the obscure guides tried to be cheeky

[@TheRealBlakers]

@@cam32189 I mean Chansey is the only mon in Gen1 that can POTENTIALLY check Mewtwo, which is freaking absurd.

[@cam32189]

@@TheRealBlakers Chansey is not a Mewtwo check, it just allows Mewtwo to set up. Yes, it can survive for a bit, but it can't do anything to Mewtwo. Slowbro (Tobybro at least) is a much better Mewtwo check than Chansey. But, Ubers isn't really played much because it isn't a very good competitive format. It really just comes down to who uses their Mewtwo and Mew best. OU is a much more fun format.

[@GymLeaderMatt1987]

Double Slap is just an American name. It hits more than twice because it's called Round Trip Slap in it's original language.

[@TheMoogleKing93]

It's only Round Trip Slap if it's from the Kanto region of Japan, otherwise it's just sparkling Doubleslap

[@somaricraftbros6283]

Ayo a wild gym leader?

[@gabrieldevoogel6225]

Gym leader Matt? I love your videos man, been on a bit of a break from KZbin but now that I’m back expect random comments from me binging all your stuff again

[@GymLeaderMatt1987]

@@somaricraftbros6283 Haha, I'm always lurking.

[@GymLeaderMatt1987]

@@gabrieldevoogel6225 My body is ready. Videos are forever, never feel rushed to watch!

[@lastfullast8819]

Wow. At first I was thinking “What are you doing, Scott, Chansey is so underleveled!” (especially at Blaine’s gym). But then this cute pink egg continued steamrolling enemies with relative ease, and I was flabbergasted. Chansey is truly awesome.

[@mahnameisj]

I wonder if someday you’d be crazy enough to revisit this challenge but have Chansey use only Physical moves 😂

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Perhaps one day!

[@kode-man23]

Mod it so that the OPPONENT can only use physical moves. Now that would be challenge.

[@igorrossinol8598]

"The challenge that turns me to a psychological pacient"

[@insan3beaver]

@@kode-man23 that whole ass 5 defense 🤣

[@franslair2199]

There was a versus video about special rhydon vs physical chancey (not by Scott tho)

[@PegbordFegs]

It's strangely satisfying seeing Chansey take catastrophic damage from a random move like Spike Cannon.

[@MsAmber82]

Is not random at all It had a little more power than Bind and made problems to a lot of challenges

[@insan3beaver]

"...and this took three hours and fifty-one seconds." Scott. You are a such a gem. 💎 Your stat overlays and comprehensive game info in your videos are why you deserve more subs.

[@davidmcgill1000]

Always considered Chansey as a portable pokemon center thanks to its massive HP while learning Softboiled and Rest.

[@shadowtitanx3962]

Too bad she cannot restore PP, unlike some Pokemon with Harvest + Leppa Berry spam.

[@ryanwells137]

Ah the only double mono-type in the game, Venomoth. It has triple the legs of most fighting types so low kick against Chansey is actually 12x effective.

[@shinipede3998]

Don’t you mean 18x effective? It’s fighting/fighting so it gets STAB twice

[@marcisbravo9445]

This made me giggle

[@britishpalmtree9268]

I didn't have a lot of friends growing up and I remmeber I caught a Chansey with no real issue, wasn't until YEARS later I found out how difficult this pokemon is to catch, and no one believed that I caught it, let alone so easily! 😂

[@Lucurryo]

Seeing Bide beeing so effective on this massive HP pool made me smile :D

[@DarkPurpleDude]

I have a particularly fond memory of Chansey. My brother had been trying to capture one in Leaf Green for hours on end, and had no luck, so I decided I'd take a crack at it, see if I would have better luck. A few failed attempts later, I encountered another Chansey. Threw some bait at it to decrease the chances of it running on me, threw five or six Safari Balls, didn't catch it. It finished eating, and was now back to watching me carefully. How it didn't run away by this point, I'm really not sure, but I figure it was probably going to run away very soon, and didn't want to risk throwing another bait at it. So, just as a joke, I say, "Stay in the ball, Chansey. I give you vodka." and chuck another Safari Ball, expecting it not to work. Shakes once... shakes twice... shakes three times... "There's no way..." Gorcha! Chansey was caught! Laughed about that for a good minute or so. A little later on, my brother decided to reset his game and play through it again. Before he did so, I went into the game, took that very same Chansey out, nicknamed her "Vodka", and traded her over to one of my games. And that's the story of how a Chansey became my in-game drinking buddy. XD

[@browncow5210]

Man, I've got a crazy story for the last time I was playing Blue. I was in the Safari trying to get a Rhyhorn, and a Chansey appears during my first visit. I catch it in the first ball. I've genuinely had more tame reactions to finding shinies than easily capturing that Chansey that I wasn't even looking for. The kicker is that Rhyhorn was an absolute butt to catch and took me several trips.

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

Mah-Dry-Bread finally got well enough to upload his own long-coming Chansey run. I'd normally never talk about other Pokétubers, but he's been bedridden for months, so l'd love to see that video take off.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

I'd love to see that one take off too!

[@nickswargaminghistory4637]

So I’ve been trying to finish the game in the fastest time possible using a 1989 Gameboy and Pokemon Red (I have Blue and Yellow too). I play on the bus on the way to work and university. I take all the Pokemon i finish the league with and transfer them to Pokemon Stadium, then start again. By best is 15 hours game time. Still a bit to go, it’s more for leisure then anything competitive. Seeing the fun you and others, like VanMan and JRose have was the inspiration to get me started. Love your content, production value is really great and keeps getting better.

[@saltystick_99]

"it shouldn't be called the 'fast growth rate', it should be called the 'pink growth rate'." Well, it definitely would if Mew was in the same group.

[@iceymonster4675]

Lol dual type fighting. Man, I love your videos! I've been playing (casually) pokemon since a few months after release in 1997 (was in primary(elementary) school) - we played Red on our school PCs (80486's mostly) using no$gmb emulator and an incredibly badly translated ROM that was mostly Japanese with part French and English, which we smuggled into school on a 1.44mb dual side 3.5" Floppy disk. The fact that RBGY is being played in 2022 just blows my mind in a fantastic way. I remember playing Yellow for the first time on an actual GBC (a friend's, since my family were a SEGA family) a couple years later... The sounds of Pikachu and the different sprites made it feel like a totally new game, and obviously the exclusives.. Oh man, what a trip down memory lane! Love your content, mate! Shoutout from New Zealand!

[@jussioman]

No need to explain why to revisit Chansey. Your content these days is top quality. :)

[@jeffreyplumb4226]

Hey Scott have you considered using seismic toss against misty by doing the extra battle along the path to Bill's house. At Chanseys level Staryu would be a 2 hit and starmie would be a 3 hit ko. I think it would eliminate the chance of almost losing while waiting for bide.

[@GymLeaderMatt1987]

I'm taking notes for when I get to the single stage mons. Sounds solid.

[@jeffreyplumb4226]

@@GymLeaderMatt1987 all of you have a lot more experience than I do when it comes to these games but if it helps then that's great. Big fan of your content as well so keep it up and thanks for the reply.

[@GymLeaderMatt1987]

@@jeffreyplumb4226 Don't say that! There have been countless time someone in chat or a random comment just made so much sense and I implemented it for great success. An example was in the Poliwrath stream I did a couple of weeks ago. I thought I had this thing optimized fully and someone named Issac just tossed out a suggestion and it alleviated a problem I was having and made the run better.

[@jeffreyplumb4226]

@@GymLeaderMatt1987 Well thanks for letting me know that. I appreciate it

[@paul-mx1ls]

@@GymLeaderMatt1987 hick

[@hardhatlunchpal]

Scott the editing in these videos is awesome. The smooth transitions and just leaking through trainer battles is always satisfying. I also noticed that you were using B-roll footage when fighting Misty and was like is this the same try? Then you talked about it vs Erika. Nice

[@Ruesen]

Despite me loving to use chansey way back in pokemon red, i could have sworn she learned soft boiled naturally. My memory must have muddled it with future generations. I also remember thinking soft boiled tm is stupid, considering she (and mew) were the only ones that could use it. Also, love you used some of the bide strategy with Chansey! It can be fun and satisfying! Doing it too early though can be tough though, i utilized minimize/substitutes and rest/softboiled depending whats needed. Seismic toss being her whatever attack. Edit: Also, my chansey was part of a team, not solo, so different move set up, haha!

[@Penguindude1]

46:32 Butthead: "*laughs* Check it out, Beavis. His Chansey has 420 HP." Beavis: "*laughs* Blaze it *laughs* with FIRE! FIRE! *laughs*"

[@autobotstarscream765]

The Pokémon World needs Beavis and Butt-Head, their misadventures would be joyous. 🤣

[@Lotus_RT]

I think to go for the best time with Chansey, the best move set you should have by the end while under your rules is Minimize, Softboiled, Thunderbolt, and Ice Beam. After you finish Koga, you really don't need Psychic anymore (unless you want to fish for Special drops on someone like Blaine). Bolt Beam already gives perfect coverage in RBY, and this move set has everything necessary; it has a means to badge boost, reliable recovery, and perfect coverage. Maybe try working with this move set to take Chansey's time down.

[@CMZneu]

Haven't finished watching the video but i just had to congratulate you on the display of stats, move power, etc it's superb, good job man! you can see the glitches and how much difference stab makes, very educational... kudos on for using bide, it might not be great but if there ever was a pokemon that could effectively use it it's chansey, you could even make a "bide only attacking move" with rest/soft boiled and maybe defensecurl/minimise/reflect though it would kinda be counterproductive since you want to take damage.

[@ahmadbassam2898]

I would consider this thing cute if I don't play competitive

[@brandonkilbourne76]

Ahh, you too have had a salad tossed by Chansey. The best

[@jackruby6696]

Chansy freezing everything in gen 1 must’ve been the inspection for serene grace

[@roberte.o.speedwagon6043]

I can see Chansey getting crit Stomped by Blaine's Rapidash over and over. Other than that, should.. *in theory* ... be relatively painless was the moveset gets special

[@gmanz5]

You’ve actually witnessed a Chansey in the Safari Zone to have the opportunity at painful Nostalgic memories? Must be nice

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

That's fair, it is incredibly rare!

[@TheDarkFiddler]

Loved seeing Bide have its day in the spotlight 💖

[@DarkCT]

I really don't mind evasion in these tests. especially since as per your own rules, it's a natural ability of Chansey. and now im thinking about how key body slam often is when it's via TM as well as some other moves.

[@TheDarkFiddler]

Seeing Chansey gain 7 HP per level is absurd ngl

[@sonshawnzy9975]

Blissey after hp ev training is wild

[@kikomagana1990]

“If you were not watching the video just listening in the back…” Lmaooo I felt called out 😂

[@defiantlydefiant]

The fact that its base attack is so poor means Nurse Joy's Chansey is an abnormality. Her Chansey was JACKED.

[@fernandoguillen5996]

"The legend of chansilla" With this finger!

[@Gen2Red]

I remember in SwSh Dynamax Chansey had 1,408 Hp with max EV's and IV's, the highest number of hit points ever in any Pokémon game.👀

[@ru213]

I love the music you play for Bruno 🤣

[@parttimesaint3165]

I expected Brock to be a wall for a while but you proved me wrong. Well done!

[@omarkennedy7056]

Revisiting some of these old videos is a trip. Im so glad you stopped trying to make everything so safe now so you can go way faster

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Yeah, consistency to This degree comes at a great cost.

[@myggmastaren3365]

Chansey is like the pacifist version of Wobuffet

[@gmanz5]

B-Roll footage for the Gym Leader intros genius

[@iSmurfYou]

Some things that came to mind in terms of potential optimization after watching: going against the Jolteon team instead of Flareon to avoid paralysis early into the fights (Flareon can also threaten you with physical attacks), taking out rival 2 before Misty and getting Seismic Toss to use instead of Bide for the early water types as well as grass types until you get to Celadon for Ice Beam, and finally something that might be unusual; Body Slam for Sabrina. If you can't take out her psychic types quickly with special moves, maybe it'd be enough to bring her pokemon into range of a special move with a 30% paralysis chance on an earlier turn.

[@vfranceschini]

Hey there, Scott! Thanks again for the great content and all the work you put into creating it! You're amongst my favourite YTers at this point haha btw, I wanted to again suggest that you give the original japanese versions a try(R/G, B Y and maybe gen2 too?); maybe in a comparison video with the international releases or however you see fit! The og versions are very nostalgic to me and I'd love seeing a comparison or just a playthrough the way you do, with your rules, metrics and etc. All the best! Cheers!

[@Gungho73]

I hope noone is being overly critical about you going back to Chansey. You've changed so many little things on how you played. I think even in the last year you might've upgrade from 3x to 4x speed like even that minor of a detail can be dramatic. That's considered a minor aspect, a major aspect I found going back to that video quickly before this that already justifies the re-run? The fact that you beat the game and that was it! Every Yellow video now you've done with an eye towards bettering time, raising consistency, lowering resets on a 2nd run. That old video by comparison was happy to beat the game (no offense old Scotty). I think the fact a user will be able to come into your channel, see you have a set for Yellow, and can confidently know that those pokemon are treated more as less as fair as you could do is outstanding. I appreciate it now, it makes rewatches easier! Sorry to blab on, I just figured you needed to know one viewer was in your corner on the topic ^_^

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Honestly, almost no one has complained about the re-do videos. I think as long as I do them with a long enough distance ffrom the initial video and that I can show sigfnicantly different results that they are okay. They perform just as well, if not better with the algorithm as well.

[@bobjob2514]

I love seeing the enemy's stat breakdown in the top right! Nice addition. Do you worry that it's getting too cluttered for the non nerds?

[@kevindudson2344]

Pokiman is all about math.

[@kylelundgren5133]

@@kevindudson2344 Technically pokemon's all about rng. Ther's no luck involved.

[@priestesslucy3299]

There's some real merit to feeding Chansey Iron. That Stat EXP can have a big impact on its diminutive Defense

[@surtrgaming1730]

It looks like Machamp's Submission could actually one shot. It only took one of the strongest physical attackers getting a stab Super Effective move against Chansey to find a One Shot xD

[@stevehuber1586]

I love how Shawn and Sarina get a shout-out now in the naming menu. I think that Denis should get a shout-out on the rival menu.

[@CelticGuardian7]

With all those freezes, I'd agree that Chansey is indeed a lucky Pokémon.

[@ExplodingDuckBrigade]

Catching up to your videos. It’s very nice to see how much you’ve improved with the layout and statistics on screen

[@Noman69420]

The pink blob be back at it again, thanks for the vid Scott

[@NoirePkmn]

Regarding the sing vs brock thing it's also worth noting he has 10 million full heals.

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

He bought it with "One MILLION Dollars!"

[@shadowtitanx3962]

If only Sing hits all the time. And, if you have infinite PP.

[@olavjorvik94]

"All of the best elemental moves. Except for Surf" Flamethrower: *am I a joke to you?*

[@emilydonegan3208]

Chansey is so cuuute! I love it’s little frills on the sides of its head egg body! Reminds me of an axolotl! Always had trouble catching one in the Safari Zone lol

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

It felt like a Legendary, or even rarer in the Safari zone. I wish it didn’t appear in Cerulean cave…

[@emilydonegan3208]

Me too! I think it would have been better if it were Safari Zone exclusive! I much would have preferred Tauros or Kangaskhan being in Cerulean Cave instead; It would have made them easier to catch, and made Chansey stay super rare

[@zerraticz]

Hello Scott and Denis! I think Chansey is underrated and will do fairly well.

[@mrdewarion]

12:39 - when your crush unexpectedly approaches you at a party and you don't know what to say or how to react.

[@charlessegale6493]

Scott: Chansey looks like it can roll. Me: * Pokémon Snap memories intensify *

[@bateltheassistant]

Chansey is an s tier pokemon in competitive, it's high special stat was giving it a nice edge, even though it can't really use stab effectively, it's still overall an interesting pokemon to do a solo run with. I remember trying to catch it as a kid and I have always failed to do that, because it was always fled away after one turn. But the first one that I got was in gen 2 for the battle tower.😁 It was nice to watch back to back how minimize was impacting this run's results. Even though whenever you're using evesion strats it's always like a coin flip, but if you can set it up, with bulky pokemon like chansey, you'd get one of the most useful badge boosts, and that kind of impacted the first run in a sense. 🤔 Anyways, I'm glad to have onter awesome video tomorrow, for a whole month. So thanks for working hard for us. 😁

[@anlev11]

14:15 "was it a smart play?" Yes, it was. Since Chansey have low defense and high HP, she can take high absolute damage that is actually low relative to her HP. That is perfect for Bide strats. It only was bad because you got bad luck

[@cdajah6920]

Dodging that fighting venomoth was done beautifully gj

[@DG-nv4pf]

Lol not getting seduced by sing. That's how you win

[@rjthepoet500]

Wow! This was a great run! I thought Chansey would do better the second play through actually but 1 minute isn’t too bad at all for it not to utilize badge boosts. Very nice job Scott!

[@TheLunarLegend]

I dunno which is funnier, chansey's rock bottom attack, or the fact it probably does more damage to brock's pokemon than pokemon in other challenges thanks to double slap lol

[@klingofgames1560]

Lance: “Dragons are the strongest type, they are truly the creatures of legends. Now witness as Dragonite pulls down the heavens to strike you with lightning!” Chansey: “Meh”

[@andrewjoseph2749]

Chansey had Serene Grace

[@blastoiseddr]

That battle with Brock was crazyyyyyy I would have given up long before that point

[@easymixedsignals534]

hey scott, awesome videos . keep it up. :3 heres my fun quiz with you and your fiance. Which are you in the pokemon world? 1. gymleader? 2. trainer? 3. criminal? 4. pokemon? 5 scientist? 1. if you become a gym leader or an E4; what is your gym type? What will your 1 ace MAIN pokemon be and its 4 moves? What is your favorite region to travel to? (depending on the region you picked) Pick a gym leader or an Elite 4, to do battle and replace them? What's your favorite badge? 2. What is your home region to start with? What's your starter pokemon depending on that region? In all gens, what is your 6 dream team, you like to travel with? Would you travel alone or with anyone else in pokemon world? Of the 6 dream team, you chose; what's your mascot pokemon you would travel with? (example like Ash's pikachu) 3. Which evil organization will you side with and what's your grunt pokemon partner be? Which region and city/town will you take over? Which Legendary will you capture? 4. Which pokemon are you? which region are you born in? Which trainer do you want to be with? and what ball are you in? And what is your favorite food to eat? 5. What kind of outfit will you be wearing? What do you research? Is your lab a hidden place or public ? If you get to create your own Pokémon; what will it be ? What stats are you focusing on? and what 3 starters(fire,water and grass) will you give to new trainers?

[@tehy123]

Honestly, Bide seems like it's the best way to beat Misty, or at least a pretty good one. I feel like you got thrown off it because it's a meme move, but you got a pretty bad streak of luck with it (double tackle crits on the startup turn) and still ended up winning. And certainly with more levels it would probably be faster and more reliable too. And better than like 5-shotting with Mega Punch.

[@TJF588]

You were teaching Softboiled to make _eggcellent_ content for us~

[@danielkorrmann5467]

Thats the most meaningfull freezes i have seen in a single run.

[@TheWispGuy]

2:29 Like Patrick Star says as one of his win quotes in SpongeBob Lights Camera Pants: "Pink means best!" 3:36 Who would've thought the girl hunting for a Pikachu would prove to be Chansey's first biggest obstacle? 12:50 I can only imagine the look on Misty's face as Staryu and Starmie go flying straight towards the walls after getting hit by Chansey's Bide. 39:15 You could say that Chansey is giving her foes the "cold shoulder", ha ha! 40:14 Chansey is certainly rolling good numbers for those Ice Beam freezes! The second attempt was rather surprising, but hey, it's still not bad! I do wonder how well Chansey would've done if you taught her Seismic Toss. It would've been better than Body Slam, at least.

[@Lucurryo]

The "pink growth rate" indeed wtf, didn't know that xD

[@ruthlesace]

Calling it Bruno is going to offer a challenge for this one EDIT: I very underestimated chancey based on its stats

[@gcleeman]

I'm so proud of you for saying no to sing

[@villehaavisto5133]

It was a close call, but you managed to pound the lass in Viridian forest into submission

[@rjante2236]

Yes officer, this comment right here

[@et34t34fdf]

You have painful memories of trying to catch chansey in the safari zone, reminds me of an old werster video were he caught both Tauros and Chansey first try, while the pokemon he was really looking for was nidoran, he had problems with the easy ones.

[@zakariyamajidzaki2658]

Hi Scott! Man this channel got me hooked on nostalgia and your struggles perhaps I have one thought/suggestion to share, you keep saying how broken double team is but we never or barely see. Perhaps we can have a playthrough with double team for each Pokémon for comparison? I mean you can start with the normal playthroughs and at the end do ones with double team. Sometimes its really good to see a struggling Pokémon breeze through looking at Arcanine >.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Yeah, this one was a completely different story! I needed some easy runs after the slog that was the fire-types.

[@kulrigalestout]

I've only ever seen one Chansey in the Safari Zone in any of my playthroughs, and it ran away the first turn after I was kind enough to try and feed it. It was then that I learned the dual lies of BAIT and ROCK, and the only truth was BALL.

[@W0lfMan26]

Also, using Sing against Brock would be hell because he's got the 5 full heals for each Pokémon. With 55% accuracy, you would likely run out of pp (15) beforehand.

[@Joker22593]

It doesn't "beg the question" it "raises the question".

[@jackruby6696]

Imagine irl jinx slapping the f out of chansy with double slap kinda funny

[@fizzbrew]

I'd pay to see that Donkey show

[@EHShinobi]

Chansey is known as the "Lucky" pokemon, of course it gave you all those freezes, it had serene grace before it even became a thing XD

[@justsomejojo]

Sometime after watching the Mewtwo vs Mew movie (which made genetics seem really scary to kid me) I came up with this crackpot theory that every pokemon in Kanto and every technical achievement revolving around them (TMs and HMs, but also the PC system which is very similar to Teleport) is based on Mew and the scientific achievements involving its fossilized remains (yes, I conflated anime and game canon). For the pokemon themselves, that explained how so many of them could learn all those elemental TMs that are off-type for them, but also why so many bug types (and in Gen2 Normal types) had innate psychic powers. In the case of TMs, it just made sense to me that Mew's DNA would allow pokemon to unlock some sleeping part of their ancestry to Mew. In essence, I said "everything is Mew". Chansey is just a bloated Mew. Does it make sense? Probably not. But it added a ton of scary mystery to the region for me that felt appropriate.

[@connorgross3410]

seeing chansey getting all those freezes gives me flashbacks to competitive rby

[@Corundrom]

Considering that it says growl is done in a cute way it makes sense that chansey can learn it(it's unspecified what the growl is like, just that it causes attack down, till gen 3)

[@Pepega580]

You struggled at the beginning, fortunately nurse joey was there to replenish the pp haha 🤣

[@YozoraHeart]

I am completely bamboozled by Chansey not learning Softboiled on level up.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Yeah, me too... it's so weird that it has to be taught by TM

[@ConservativeSatanist666]

I have to admit.. I never used Chancy as a kid because of looks. It took almost 15 years to return and realize how the Special made it OP lol

[@TrueNomadSkies]

I always thought it was weird that you needed to teach Softboiled with a TM. These days tho, it's kind of like a dlc thing and not so strange.

[@michaelklos8089]

For Brock you can probably just attack through bide because it's HP based damage so he won't actually hurt you that much. Alternatively, use tail whip when he's using bind but save the doubleslaps for after you've used the 6 tail whips. Use pound instead to do damage while his defence isn't at minimum yet, it'll probably make this feasible at a slightly lower level.

[@JKBrown-vv1yw]

I had the same thought, until watching him leave Brock all 3 times as a bloody pink paste. All the defense drops he was causing helped pound make up for the lost time. I'm not sure he could afford taking extra damage, with LESS hit points via lower levels. (Also remember the main reason for the extra levels was the damage threshold, not the hp)

[@michaelklos8089]

@@JKBrown-vv1yw true, but he beat it at level 15 albeit in a less consistent way. This says to me that if he had saved up the doubleslaps for when the defence was at a minimum, he could take down the onix in less turns than using doubleslap without the defence drops. Also, bide doesn't get affected by screech, so it would probably still do less damage than his tackles and binds anyway.

[@JohnWTolbert]

I made a friend quit Pokemon Stadium when my Chansey muscled through five of his pokemon and then used rest when the last one came out 🎨

[@DropdeadGamingLive]

Scott: Sing might cause Riot! Me, gearing up for a brawl: YOU DAMN RIGHT, I'M GOING TO RIOT!!! 🤣 That being said, a Chansey run seems pretty brutal

[@anusthing]

I hated the safari zone, as chancey would always run away and I'd get mad, so I never caught a chancey.

[@kevinb2389]

“Check the description if you think i violated any rules” The Me rule sir. I was violated by how awesome these videos are

[@tylorvezina9793]

I always chuckle at the Venomoth type combinations you come up with, but I wasn't expecting Fighting Fighting type. That one got a good laugh from me. lol Great video as always!

[@justinsims655]

I like to think the fast growth rate tier was decided by one of the devs' daughters during a Bring Your Kid to Work day.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

“Daddy these Pokémon are fast.” *looks at chansey* “Are you sure about that sweetie?”

[@krystlspoonz]

31:35 thank goodness Abra failed to flash you. That's the last thing he needed in his record.

[@garryfischer3679]

I think there’s a good….chance this video will be liked

[@nicholashazel7049]

*Uses Sonic Boom on Chansey* Chansey: "Am I a joke to you?"

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Hehe

[@andrewsimpson5848]

Brilliant video as always. Just a quick note though, the Lapras can't paralyse as Chansey is normal type

[@piratebear3126]

I never caught a Chansey until Pearl due to the Safari Zone being annoying. It was my carry, due to Rare Candying in to Lv 100 with my Action Replay. Ended up trading her on the GTS for Dialga after I beat the game. At least in Gen 1 Chansey can do some good Special damage, she has 0 offensive presence after that.

[@ok_iot]

I suggest putting the definitions of the badge boost glitch and rounding damage in the description. Then telling people to check there.