Cleffa Only - Pokemon Crystal

Rules:
1. Only my starter in battle
2. No items in battle, except held items
3. No glitches, exploits, save states, or RNG manipulation
4. No evasion moves before level 100*
Rule details:
-- *In gen1, evasion boosting is allowed if the Pokemon does it through means other than learning the move by level up or TM. For example, using Mimic or Mirror Move to boost evasion is allowed. (This exception is to keep ranking consistent with my legacy videos.)
-- I am allowed to manipulate my starter
-- I play the game at 4x game speed
-- For fair comparisons all my Pokemon have perfect (or near perfect) DVs / IVs
-- I am allowed to catch HM users - I can use all field moves
-- All in-battle glitches are allowed in generation 1
-- In generation 1, I'm allowed to skip Marowak with the Poke Doll
-- Surge's trash-can-puzzle is automatically solved
-- The bike is allowed in gen1, banned in gen2, and allowed for bypassing terrain in gen3
-- 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 and timer to take breaks
-- The footage is sped up / slowed down to match the pace of my narration
-- The ability Pickup can only be used if the starter has it
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[@popcorngenerator1925]

I love how disgusted Scott is with sings accuracy, yet will happily rely on hypnosis with 5%more accuracy 😂.

[@misirtere9836]

5% of the time, it's worse every time

[@greysquirrel404]

That 5% difference means that it's missing about 11% less often though.

[@movezig5]

Until now I had no idea that Cleffa learned Flamethrower and Fire Blast, but _not_ Thunderbolt, Thunder, Ice Beam, or Blizzard, whereas Clefairy _does_ get those moves. What's more, this is _still_ the case in gen 9! I guess nobody uses this thing long enough to discover this naturally. I'm honestly confused as to why it has such a specific restriction...

[@Romeder]

It's because Cleffa spits out straight fire. Cleffa is a rap artist.

[@Kahadi]

My guess? It has to do with the visual design Visually, it looks like a star thanks to the two big ear points, the feet, the point from the hair swirl, and the arms tucked in. A star or a meteor, asteroid, or comet, considering it has a similar basic shape to the later introduced Minior. It kind of doubles as a reference to the theory Clefairy came from space, specifically the moon. And going with that, you have Flamethrower, a trail of fire coming from it like the tail of a comet, and Fire Blast, an explosion of flames, referencing what one would think comes from a meteor impact, or similarly, both being fire moves referencing the heat of a star. It might be a bit of a stretch, but most Pokemon references are, and it's the only reason why I can think of it getting Flamethrower and Fire Blast but not moves of equivalent power in other types, like Thunder, Thunderbolt, Ice Beam, or Blizzard. Fire has more of a connection to the visuals (yes, asteroids and meteors tend to be covered in ice, but Ice Beam and Blizzard don't really reference that beyond the "ice" connection)

[@JustAnderw]

Cleffa likes spicy food, what can she say?

[@KEATONSTOOS]

What's weird is that gastly CAN learn the elemental punches because it's evolutions can, even though it doesn't have hands

[@pyriel6870]

​@@KEATONSTOOSI've noticed that too. Maybe it makes gas hands to use the moves.

[@PegasusPablo]

Pryce in the artwork looks like a fancy gentleman, but in the actual game he's more like your drunk grumpy uncle.

[@HighPriestFuneral]

That's Heart Gold/Soul Silver design which did a fantastic job upgrading a good number of visuals and overall just really made the games more enjoyable.

[@iantaakalla8180]

GSC Pryce, however, actually fits how challenging he will be, which is to say not at all.

[@zedruumd2119]

It still boggles me how Cleffa, a Pokémon whose design is intentionally shaped like a star, doesn’t learn Swift.

[@HighPriestFuneral]

In Japanese that move is even called "Speeding Stars"! It is a tad ridiculous.

[@WorkInProgressX]

That’s gen2 movesets to you

[@lazyhippie6139]

It gets worse. The whole Cleffa line can't learn it until gen 9. Why? Idk

[@daddydonphan5677]

I just wanted to point out Scott missed the Octazooka that the Clefairy metronomes dropped his accuracy hence his horrendous luck with rollout. I think the rollout strat should of gotten another attempt lol

[@ViperMagnum7]

That Octazooka from Whitney's Clefairy... oof.

[@male_maid5951]

I feel like not using sleep in first playthroughs is great as it really shows where sleep is needed/very optimal and where it is not.

[@qinaxin7107]

So I read this as not sleeping IRL and was like "sleep is always optimal and needed"

[@Lucifers-Stepdad]

New rule maybe? Lol

[@GrandleJams]

At 12:10, I do think your original strategy for Cleffa was the right choice, where rollout would break through onto Milktank. The only reason it ended up being so inconsistent and missing twice was due to the octazooka lowering your accuracy that the Clefairy did. i have a feeling that if you did stick to your guns, Milktank wouldn't have been an issue a second time around, as long as clefairy didn't hit you with a metronomed accuracy lowering move. Although Rollout is at a 90% accuracy, rollout hitting 4 times in a row, what you need, is still a higher chance than sing hitting when you need it to. .9^4 is 65%, and .9^5 is 59%, which are both higher than Sing's 55%. I do think that mud slap is probably(?) more consistent at that lower level, as long as Milktank cooperates and doesn't just stomp you to oblivion, I think it's mostly the correct answer with making sure Milktank's rollout doesn't do rollout things. Although, if Cleffa's Rollout hits, it's probably the fastest of the strategies, with the least amount of moves used. I guess it's the margin of consistency that you're willing to put up with for the possible gain. The second playthrough where you're level 30 with headbutt and pink bow is definitely the most consistent though, and if you need to reach that level later in the challenge anyways, it'd be fine to do so earlier on to steamroll through Whitney.

[@ShadyScienceFeline]

Regarding the complaint about the name “Psychic”: In the Japanese versions, the type is called “Esper type”, and the move is called “Psychokinesis” (they used loanwords from English, not native terms). The latter is obviously too long for a move name in English Red and Blue, and also the gen 1 localizers took some liberties that caused problems later - not that this hasn’t happened again … Looking at you, Aerial Ace, Sucker Punch, and Noble Roar.

[@Xeraser2]

Big Ackermin fan.

[@TJF588]

And Splash, a signature move of...seeds?

[@lenlimbo]

To be fair, they could have changed the name later. It's not like it hasn't happened, at least in certain localizations. Like in spanish, where bullet seed was, for many gens, called Recurrente (I'm still not sure where they were going with that, besides being a single turn multihit attack) before changing it to Semilladora, which is a mix of semilla (seed) and ametralladora (machine gun), or Swift being changed from Rapidez (Swiftness) to Meteoros (a closer translation of the japanese name), to give a few examples. Psychic could have been changed to Psychokinesis at any given time, and let's be honest, it sounds much cooler.

[@MK-yg2np]

In Germany, they called it Psychokinese right from gen1

[@bluelemon-nf7wr]

I have to say that thumbnail has to be one of the cutest on the channel

[@JustAnderw]

Considering the old way of remembering what types are special in the early gens was "all the types eevee evolves into+dragon" and sylveon was added in gen 6 with the farie type, yeah definitely would be another special type

[@Silvitewolf]

You say that but given ghost and dark who the heck knows what they would have done. ghost should have been special Dark should have been physical.

[@cadencenavigator958]

In gen four, every single Dark attacking move becomes physical, and most of the Ghost ones become special. I do think the entire reason Ghost was physical is that the only direct damage move it had (besides Night Shade) was Lick.

[@perkypenguin1663]

I’m happy to see Cleffa get a solo, that thing is just adorable! Wonderful video as always! Spoilers for second solo below: Watching HP Psychic in action, I didn’t see anything it did that HP Dark (aka perfect DVs) didn’t do better. It does the same damage to Morty, plus Return does about the same, if not more, to Chuck and Bruno. Plus you don’t have to sacrifice any defenses at all. I acknowledge that maybe HP Psychic is really good against Petrel’s team of Koffing x5 and Weezing, but from what you presented, I don’t see any advantages to HP Psychic over HP Dark.

[@patonosequecosa]

I guess Cleffa will be the star of this video

[@bigsmoke44gaming44]

What makes you think that? 😮

[@SlvrStryker]

...boooooooooooo...

[@anthonypeterman959]

If hidden power was only useful against morty, then wouldn't hidden power dark be better than hidden power psychic? Should be the same damage output, but with better stats overall? Unless I'm missing something

[@bobosmith101]

Dark is special, which might be why.

[@corberus3119]

@@bobosmith101 so is psychic

[@PKMN649]

He was probably thinking that it would be useful against Chuck as well?

[@skeetermania3202]

@@PKMN649HP Psychic would be worse than Return due to most Fighting types having higher Special Defense.

[@johnnysasakithethird1209]

Drageon? What about Bugeon, Dirteon and Rockeon? Or the the steel eveelution, Steevee.

[@Captain_Hutch]

I love Hitmonlee’s Gen 2 front sprite. It looks like it trying it’s hardest to get way from your Pokémon.

[@lzzy134]

I hope the rest of the babies are easier than Tyrogue to some extent, because it's kinda crazy how you go from the three elemental babies with fairly high BST to three low BST babies in a row. Stay strong, Scott!

[@shiro1744]

In a previous video, he was complaining about how he had a couple of runs where he couldn't even beat the game with Pichu. So . . .

[@lzzy134]

@@shiro1744 hoo boy. Yeah, I could foresee Pichu suffering vs Brock without HP Ice from playthrough 2, let alone Blue and Red, with its pathetic BST preventing many crucial KOs. Could it be the first time we see Double Team?

[@shiro1744]

@@lzzy134It has Iron Tail by then - the question is what the heck is it gonna do against Jasmine without hidden power?

[@johncalabro8710]

It could be argue that the fast growth rate might be the best for gen 2. This is only because how big a level gap Red is.

[@user-mu9rf3tx3p]

I think it says a lot about how "seduced" you are by Sing that even when you acknowledge that you immediately deleted it from your moveset so you wouldn't be tempted by such an unreliable and inaccurate move, you are still lamenting how much it would solve your problems if you kept it. Especially because you had the tools you needed to break the combos on your moveset the whole time! Using Charm against the Scyther and Mud Slap against the Miltank are far more reliable strategies (and they're exactly how you beat them)! The irony of saying that not using Sing will force you to think of non-sleep strategies and then opining about how you wish you had kept it when you have better options that you're hesitant to take advantage of... You got this, man! You don't need Sing!

[@HighPriestFuneral]

It's the Spongebob meme, unironically.

[@skeetermania3202]

@@HighPriestFuneralWhat meme?

[@HighPriestFuneral]

@@skeetermania3202 "I don't need it, I don't need it, I really don't need it, I desperately don't need it..." "I NEED IT!!!" - Or something like that, its been a while since I've seen the meme or the episode, haha.

[@iss2075]

About Psychic and Psychic, there's also Metronome (item) and Metronome (move) which I find strange too. And Igglybuff is so bad, much worse than Cleffa imo, I think it will be in Bruno tier.

[@JayFnkay]

I am living for the daily uploads man. Keep em coming

[@isaacvanderbilt4505]

I'm trying to convince bro to start a 24/7 livecast with all his videos on a reel. I think it'd be a hit for everyone from serious players to those who use his videos as background noise. Also gives all his fans a live chat to talk to each other on.

[@Rubbly]

"we don't care about cuteness. So let's BREAK DOWN CLEFFA"

[@apollobro91_2]

It's so amazing how you keep churning these videos out! Not many people would be this mad, er, committed to their challenge AND be willing and able to produce and present their results on such a steady pace!

[@mullet_muffins]

I've been out with a cold for the past week, and the daily uploads have really helped me feel less like garbage. Looking forward to more

[@keymer91]

This series is so good, your work rate is amazing

[@dotgone]

Scott, on the topic of fire blast/thunder/blizzard, bear in mind the weather effects were added in gen 2 too. In gen 2, thunder gets perfect accuracy in rain and 50% accuracy in sun (and is also able to hit while flying.) Fire blast's accuracy is constant 85%, and blizzard is 70%, but weather doesn't affect its damage. So rain buffs thunder's accuracy and nerfs fire blast's damage, sun buffs fire blast's damage and nerfs thunder's accuracy, and blizzard doesn't care what's going on. Weather being a whole new system, it kind of makes sense that they decided to try different things with the capstone abilities - Solar Beam also gained the 1 turn in sun / reduced damage in rain. And lastly of course, Gen1 hyperbeam was patched, so all of them got massively changed. (edit: needless to say, lots of changes came in later gens. In gen 3, blizzard has perfect accuracy in hail, and it hits both enemies in a double battle, and weather and double battles were kind of a big part of gen 3.)

[@ScottE-2]

It doesn't cease to amuse me that it can learn Iron Tail. One of the smallest Pokémon that can use that move. It was my first Shiny Pokémon from the Odd Egg. Haven't had too many since but it is still a favorite of the babies because of my experience with it. Even though personally I'd love to live with a Wigglytuff. Maximum softness to help sleep. Anyways, I expected it would have trouble given its low stats. But at least its tool kit isn't the worst though the early game is almost always rough with limited move pools like this.

[@fofoxyz7083]

Friendly reminder that Cleffa, by Amity Square standards, is *NOT* cute, but Clefairy is...the more you know

[@michaelklos8089]

Easy explanation for ghost being physical: The type was decided on gen 1 where the only ghost type move affected by the split was Lick. Lick is physical, cant change types after gen 2 as it was too late. Then, dark type was made to be special to create a contrast to ghost and that probably led to the motivation to make the physical/special split in gen 4. Just a theory, but I'm almost certain that's what happened. It just makes sense.

[@tmullins64]

Just had the hardest Pavlovian response. Watched this shortly after it came out and completely passed out in the middle of the day.

[@ktvx.94]

If HP's main use was Morty, wouldn't Dark have been a better type? Also the jp name for Psychic is Psychokinesis so it does make more sense (the type Psychic I think is called ESP)

[@isaacvanderbilt4505]

Cleffa is a straight up Gangster.

[@lazyhippie6139]

I totally thought that Cleffa would learn Swift. It doesn't. In fact, no one in this evolutionary line can learn it until gen NINE. WHAT?! THEY ARE LITERAL STARS! I'm madder about this than I should be lol. I also didn't realize it didn't get the elemental punches. This sucks, but I can accept it more because it doesn't look like it can use them (but then again, Wooper gets Ice Punch... lol...) Edit: love your content! I'm sorry I haven't been commenting as much, but I've watched everything. I've just been depressed and not knowing what to say. Who knew it would be CLEFFA of all mons that would inspire a novel of a comment lol!

[@PokeMaster22222]

I love the concept of this tiny, adorable lil' star thing shooting a massive fiery kanji (大) that's like several times Cleffa's size or something at Jasmine's Steelix, which himself towers over the pink toy-sized 'mon. ...That's just ridiculous.

[@BamadeusTTV]

Glad to hear you're planning on playing some legacy crystal. gen 2 is my fav gen, and playing a much more realised version of it is nice.

[@ICE-ek8zj]

Umbreon was originally supposed to be a poison type. So all of eevee's evolutions, being a special type, is most likely a coincidence.

[@hosonno1947]

It actually makes sense that ghost type moves would be considered as physical, considering they were introduced in gen 1. If you think about it, the only damage dealing ghost move in gen 1 was lick, which was undoubtedly a physical move. The type categorization only stopped making sense after the introduction of other moves like shadow ball in gen 2, which remained the only would be special attack ghost move until gen 4

[@pyriel6870]

Glad to hear that you'll try Pokémon Crystal Legacy out at some point in the future. Im 100% sure you'll really enjoy it.

[@BlahLab]

Man, great job. Good luck powering through the rest of the babies

[@isaacwright1275]

Loving this series, all your this content is realy getting me through the nightmare month that is November. Can't wait for you to do this challenge in gen 4 for my favourite baby pokemon, budew ❤

[@mikeymike9217]

Only reason I can think of for the developers making ghost move’s physical is that they are supposed to be your ace in the hole against psychic types which are generally all bulky in terms of spc defence but not standard defence.

[@DFAnton]

Ghost is physical because the only move with a damage calc in gen 1 was Lick. Once they introduced more moves in Gen 2, I agree it should've been special instead. Or they should've just named/flavored Lick as something else in the first place.

[@shironeko1843]

Absolutely, Ghost should have been special, and Dark physical.

[@matteotorre1333]

Hello Scott 👋 Great video as always. I don't know if you know it (sorry for the pun 😂), but in the right side of Goldenrod Game Corner, the slot machines are different from all the others. If you don't consider it "cheating", you can use the save states during each round, so you can earn coins quickly, in case you want to get coins through the machines.

[@21eeveevulpix]

The whole bit about Ghost being Physical in Gen 2 reminds me of a bit on a twitch stream, where trying to explain that *all* Poison Moves in gen 3 are Physical and trying to give a Physical Attacking mon Sludge Bomb was an absolutely terrible idea and a waste of the TM. Good times. Cleffa also out here making a point that good movepool doesn't always overcome the atrocious odds stacked a bad stat mon.

[@corberus3119]

poison in general isn't a good type so there is an argument to be made not to teach any poison moves if you have an alternative

[@sushilbhandari4068]

Loving this baby mon runs 👏👏

[@briliantinoprihandikakhari6754]

Pichu is the definition of glass-cannon baby Pokemon

[@888Grim]

Excellent video as always

[@ultimapower6950]

Fun fact: neo genesis cleffa in the formats where it’s usable, is one of the best cards in them. Do with that info what you will.

[@midnight1978]

Funfact: Psychic (The Move) is named Psychokinese in german while Psychic (the Type) is called Psycho, which makes it easier to differenciate them x)

[@Caun-88]

Hey I've been wondering something in these Crystal playthroughs. When it comes to obtaining the held items from the 'Day of the week' siblings which only appear on a certain day, do you stop and set the day appropriately each time if one is needed in a run, or is your Crystal rom modded to have them spawned in regardless of the day? You often pick up one of these items on runs but I'm not sure if you ever mentioned this detail.

[@KayLoo202]

Scott's journey of throwing a toddler at high level Mons continues

[@bateltheassistant]

Cleffa seems playful,like it knows that it moves won't carry it like we thought they would.😊 But at least it's the strongest out of the bottom tier baby Pokémons. Well, if Iggybuff is a worse Celffa than the next run is going to be interesting for sure.😊

[@MrMovees87]

Glad to see that Icy Wind is getting some love in the run, which I’m sure Pryce appreciates, haha

[@ZerglingOne1]

You asked why the capstone elemental damage moves have different accuracy ratings. And I think it goes back to gen 1 and what I believe would have been an expanded use of the Speed stat. I am fairly certain it was originally intended to govern the accuracy of moves. Hence thunder is very inaccurate, hydro pump a bit less, fire blast a bit more accurate still, and Blizzard at 90%. The only explanation I have for hydro pump is they were afraid Tentacruel was going to be too strong as a fast special monster. Other than that just look at the average speed of whatever will be using the move and you see a pattern emerge where they all always hit the average pokémon when comparing speed. I believe they abandoned it due to both time constraints, and balancing nightmares. I also believe that's why accuracy lowering and evasion boosting moves are so busted. I think at least Double Team was added very late in development to give Pokémon the chance to evade as they intended.

[@TheModdedwarfare3]

Perhaps speed wasnt for accuracy but for evasion. There's also the likely possibility that they just didnt balance it very well because that is the case for so many things in the first 2 generations.

[@antoniocalado7101]

This is a great take

[@yamiryushi]

CLEFFA!

[@DLC88]

Every time you 'niced' with cleffa, it made me think of the sexy cleffa trainer from pokemon rusty

[@malikamajjoud8324]

This man is so unbelievably prolific, shaping up to be the Bach of PokéTube :p

[@realperson69]

Why choose HP Psychic over HP Dark and perfect DVs? Were you using it to sweep through Team Rocket’s poison types, helping to conserve Return PP? Edit: Looks like I’m not the first person to ask this. 😅

[@mirkonia3721]

Hey Scott, fun fact in german psychic is called psychokinesis which is a bit more fitting in my opinion

[@D3sdinova]

Whitney metronomed octazooka lowering your accuracy. Using rollout is quite reliable otherwise.

[@SentretPeanut]

Oh god just look at how CUTE it is!!! 😭😭😭 just started this video. Gonna be a wild ride XD

[@SombreroPharoah]

Eyyyy! Someone who enjoys Sentret!!! 😁

[@SentretPeanut]

@@SombreroPharoah I do!

[@SentretPeanut]

@@SombreroPharoah sentret is #1! XD

[@drewpatterson7917]

Literally all dark moves introduced before generation 4 were switched to physical in generation four - so it really should have been a physical type.

[@NativeGolfer10]

I think Hidden Power Dark would probably be the better option in the second attempt. Same damage against Morty and Bruno’s Onix, Return gains power so it doesn’t affect Chuck’s battle. I don’t think it skewed results much if any, but the babies need as much help as they can get with their stats.

[@vincentsterel6448]

Great video! I feel like HP dark would have made more sense, you get perfect DVs so better chance to survive hits, and it still deals with Morty. From the video it didn't seem like HP Psychic has all that much use aside from Morty. Edit: just realised someone else also commented this, oops.

[@claudiomonteverdi847]

Would you consider adding effects like the screens directly on the gameplay display as little icon? I think the borders are getting real busy, xD

[@lmr4403]

I like the idea of Sing/hypnosis/etc. similar to hidden power to be restricted to second playthrough only. (then from the first playthrough you also learn where these moves would be actually usefull)

[@sandramendozarivera2784]

Cleffa is pink like Blossom from The Powerpuff Girls

[@franslair2199]

If Fairy was in the game before gen 4 it definitely would have been special seeing as all its non-signature damaging moves besides play rough are special.

[@derekberthiaume5367]

What do you think is better? Decent stats but a slow growth rate or a great growth rate but subpar stats

[@BambiDiego]

Oh yeah, name dropped Legacy Crystal!!!

[@PokeMaster22222]

27:11 Adding a 'Reflect' feature sounds amazing, Scott - but does anyone actually use Light Screen?

[@mmpsp693]

Great video

[@bersa2398]

I had this question for a long time, you pick a lot of items for type atack boost. But the mayority of these can inly be pick on diferent days. Did u set the day for the item u want the most, or changue the gamr clock while playing. I speak spanish excuse my english

[@valor1omega]

As far as gen 2&3 are concerned i wonder if playing baby pokemon in g3 (FR/LG) would be easier or harder than g2?

[@celtyrysuje]

I feel the need to create a bingo board connected with your videos with stuff like "Umbreon is bulky and loves to use sand attack" etc :D

[@dakotahadley2865]

Great play :)

[@red-eyessolares1817]

I you tried Rollout a little bit in your first playthrough. Was it just not as good for Cleffa compared to its other moves?

[@GoonieLord]

Back when Cleffa and Snubull were both Normal

[@tehpeej]

Take a shot every time Scott says “as is possible” (don’t, you’ll die)

[@shimmianNS]

A suggested additional data point: number of early game restarts -- that isn't tracked on any of the current metrics, but is very important in setting expectations for a mon's performance

[@PokeMaster22222]

24:03 Oh, and as for the accuracy discrepancies between Hydro Pump, Thunder, Fire Blast, Blizzard (and later Focus Blast and Hurricane) - when I create my personal ROM hacks, I like to equalise them all at 85%. That way, they miss often enough to not be completely reliable, but still hit often enough to not be overly frustrating or flat-out worse than their 95-power counterparts (Surf, Ice Beam, Thunderbolt, Flamethrower).

[@sailormax1620]

In German the move psychic is changed to"psychokinesis" which I think makes a lot of sense.

[@FelipeQuirce]

Loved it

[@GhGh-gq8oo]

If a mon can learn defense curl/rollout just stop even using anything else. It's just the best

[@M3WT-va]

You mentioning a KZbinr using Chuck's strategy actually made me really curious as to which trainers' teams would be the best to speed run these games. Is there any chance that would be something you'd be interested in trying out? A tier list where you rank trainers' teams would be hilarious, especially if Bruno ends up in Bruno tier lol

[@corberus3119]

there is a youtuber who ran an ai tournament with all the NPC traniers to see who was the best

[@M3WT-va]

@@corberus3119 I know I watched that, and it was sick, but that wasn't using them in a playthrough. I'm curious how that would go.

[@thesaltyweeb]

Somewhere there is a rom hack where they put in the fairy type in gen2! Think you can make a run with that?

[@NecromancyForKids]

I would say that Encore is actually very good for a solo playthrough, but only if you are faster than the opponent.

[@jan_wh1tey]

I feel like you should just put all of the field effects in the same area (eg. reflect should go with weather)

[@cesarferreira386]

Scott hi, what software or hardware do you use to do these nuzlocks in your KZbin channel thank you if you could help I also to do this but I don't know what software or hardware to use.

[@TJF588]

Re: Shadow Ball -- The Gardevoir I ran with in Emerald had a Naughty nature, so the only benefit to it was that Shadow Ball could take advantage of its ATK boost...until I ported it forward.

[@TJF588]

How does a star-shaped backsprite like Cleffa's _not_ get Swift?? Is it really that slow...?

[@EnergyBurst2]

If I were to spitball as to why Hydro pump got slightly worse accuracy compared to Fire blast despite not having a secondary effect it would be likely due to the existence of Surf being both 95 power + perfectly accurate and being an infinite use HM thus Water types (and some special attackers in general I suppose) already have very easy guaranteed access to a very strong move compared to something like Flamethrower which is a 1 use TM while being just as strong and accurate, that and in general making water types will always be easier than fire types meaning there would be more of them (and this is indeed that case in both gens 1 and 2) so they don't want to make their type's ultimate move too good since water is already a very good type overall in addition to being fairly common, plus Burn while not a bad status is not nearly as severe to suffer from as Paralysis or Freeze are since if a special attacking Pokémon gets burned its basically just the same as being poisoned whereas losing your turn is always devastating even when not guaranteed in the case of paralysis.

[@breadpope0358]

Now thats what I call a sticky situation

[@kb27787]

I would've thought sing + defense curl + rollout would be the endgame... (I still remember Pineco...) With sing I had thought this should've been easier than what it actually was...

[@-elrean]

Pippi!

[@ThorinKyuubi]

About the combo breaker theory, also Flash. It's another option for this purpose.

[@SmashMath151]

Final time was certainly faster than I thought, was expecting something closer to 2:10. Also, shoutout to a unique Hidden Power type!

[@arcthegreat2009]

So I know HP Psychic helps with Morty, but wouldn't HP Dark do the same? I'm assuming you chose Psychic because it helps speed up the rocket plotline? Or just the midgame in general?

[@valor1omega]

Fairy pokemon don't exist as far as I am concerned. Anyways I am glad he has done the baby pokemon.