COMMENTARY on the NEW POKEMON FIRERED WORLD RECORD! (Explaining the Speedrun!)

Hey everone! In this video I provide commentary on the new Pokemon FireRed Elite 4 Round 2 World Record Speedrun I set last week! You can find that run on my KZbin. I try to explain a lot of strategies, technical details and my thought process and decision making during the run. I hope this provides an interesting insight into the run. Be sure to like the video if you enjoyed it!
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[@Gunnermaniac]

Thank for support on the video! Hope you all enjoy!

[@marktaylor3290]

Looking forward to adding about 150 views over the next few weeks falling asleep to this over and over. Genuinely happy for you. Legendary Pokémon master.

[@mlbrandon94]

It's just crazy to think about this. This run beat the past record by 14 secs. If Gunner had gotten the other squirtle, which was 12 secs slower, maybe this WR run wouldn't have existed.

[@Xadanar]

if he had a single extra pokemon break out of a ball the record may also have been lost. Crazy how tight this is with all of the RNG and needing to catch so many pokes

[@Gunnermaniac]

Yes pretty crazy. It was really cutting it close after Rocket Warehouse. But then when we didn't get any encounters in Mewtwo cave, it was definitely looking possible again. You hear me saying in the video '"our chances just went way up!!" which was definitely true.

[@ProWrestlingPsychology101]

​@@Gunnermaniac Why up? 😉

[@mermer2938]

​@@ProWrestlingPsychology101 Repel is working only on less level pokemon. In Cerulean Cave, there are pokemon that overlevel Blastoise, resulting in potential encounters. One of them is even Wobbuffet that has Shadow Tag so you are trapped in a battle. The WR had an encounter in the cave, so it lost time there, which Gunner covered by having no encounter

[@JKLeScH777]

@@ProWrestlingPsychology101relax wrestling weirdo

[@jaymingles]

The commentary is great on this one. Hearing these detailed explanations makes it way more accessible to new viewers or people just getting into speedrunning (which I hope will grow your audience), but it's still fun to watch for those of us who already know about the more technical/strategical side of the run because we love to see your continuous effort and persistence pay off. Good stuff

[@timjohnson6694]

As someone who just watches random wr speedruns but never done any, the commentary is awesome and insightful

[@OLC62]

Hell yea Gunner! It's been so long since one of your WR commentaries. Love that you give us normies an inside look to your behind the scenes. Best wishes going forward

[@samelwell9463]

Great achievement Gunner. Been following you for years and amazing to see that you're healthy enough to do these runs.

[@nomagestus602]

So happy for you, well deserved WR after such a long time

[@teebs6089]

no wr is deserved. only earned.

[@maximilianpallmann4867]

Congratz Gunner! As someone who doesnt watch speedruns regularly, I LOVE these commentaries. And this one is probably your best so far, really well explained and fun to watch.

[@krasinski80]

Absolutely nuts that you had such a great run but champ still got the WR

[@readmycomment3707]

Congrats Gunner, its crazy that even 10 minutes into the run it has a 50% chance to die

[@bunnymoth7794]

1:31:30 -ish is fuckin HILARIOUS. The tiny "fuck" in the distance is just too beautiful.

[@ChipFreeSpace]

Your blood pressure spiking from 108 to 132 in like a second from the great cerulean cave run was awesome.

[@Uman_manda]

Love hearing the thought process behind your decisions. More commentaries would be appreciated!

[@kimpatrick21]

Wow!!! Just watched this. So glad for you, man!!!

[@GS3k]

Your videos are awesome. The fact that you don't ask everyone to like and subscribe is an automatic like and subscribe from me.

[@AldrichYan]

Cant wait for this video to be parts of the reels after the fr wr commentary reel part finished!

[@zyxaplayssomething]

So glad I was watching stream for this run. I tuned in for once and got mega rewarded with a WR run live! Congrat Gunner.

[@kevinmcaughey1907]

This category is awesome. There's so many variables and different ways to do things, it's not just click and memorize the lineal strat.

[@aidankelleher1797]

Appreciate the content as always my dude - glad to see you as always ! Congrats again

[@flazuki5288]

Thank you so much for doing this gunner! Top tier commentary and editing.

[@nickkazmierczak5965]

Gunner I’m happy to see you can still play, especially after your hand challenges and everything. Always kept checking in

[@anhedonia420]

Awesome dude! Grats on the new record 😊

[@GJBilliards]

Congratz dude. Thanks for the upload.

[@dnicej1293]

Happy for ya, bud. I wish I had half your level of focus, commitment and resilience. Much love!

[@MvdVegt91]

Loving the commentary. I watched part of the WR stream, but couldnt watch all since it was getting late in EU. Very hype you got WR!

[@LivelyxD]

Congratulations Mr Gunner! You really deserved it. Well done.

[@oEllery]

This is a great breakdown of all of the information that goes into making the run as optimized as possible!

[@olo7773]

Thank you for the upload ❤

[@cdnuzzo]

Congrats. Look forward to whatever is next.

[@kayneh5195]

The champ is back.!!!!! Congrats Gunner. Live the commentary

[@DawsonLongroyd]

gg Gunner, GG Arkadius

[@mermer2938]

Arkadius is his name? Omg awesome

[@Gorvinhagen]

Fantastic commentary. Instant sub

[@jonathancheesman8385]

Good stuff, congrats!

[@cfino9]

What a blessed day. Going to be getting some good ass sleep for the next week

[@spiff88888]

Great work!

[@Nationalsloppy63]

one of the best in the game, if not the best. man doesn’t stop

[@filipporicci6264]

Congratulations bro !!

[@deifiedtitan]

I thought you would have been thrilled with the WR, but after watching this I can see that you’re beside yourself

[@ricardokraft993]

Congrats!

[@-ooooooooooo]

congratus

[@DeepThought420]

Congratulations!

[@voltz8945]

from injury to success. Congrats Gunner on the comeback. Really happy for your win

[@3227gb]

These commentary vids are awesome

[@Blurillaz]

I credit this wr to the ghost of sawyer robins

[@jpaton4258]

Gg gunner u the man

[@loudthump6306]

My close personal friend doing something awesome! Great

[@connorroberts8530]

Super happy for you Gunner, after all youve been through the last few years, no one deserves it more! Congrats

[@channingrex5565]

If humans were pokemon you'd be legendary ❤

[@joeldixton5627]

22:54 this is so satisfying

[@Gunnermaniac]

especially in a WR

[@brandonwebb19]

I remember months ago there was that huge scandal with the dude cheating for money with Pokémon world records. Watching commentary like this proves why it’d be seemingly impossible to record so quickly… this shit’s HARD. It’s crazy how much you have to think about and remember. Thanks for the commentary, and congrats on the well-earned WR.

[@XBMAchilles]

This video was a banger!

[@gmantubs]

GRATZ!!!!!

[@Arkadius500]

1:12:07 the saving grace

[@krystlspoonz]

Thoroughly enjoy your videos. It's "Persimmon berry" btw. XD

[@chefkochjay]

Awesome!

[@user-uv5vc1gr7z]

How long does it take to learn how to speedrun this game?

[@TimeGuys72]

1:26:40 Hello Will 👋🏼

[@Bookmaniac77]

The true tragedy is that the WR holder will always be second fastest to Elite 4 Rd 2 cause your rival beats them first 🧐 Awesome run and explanations congrats!

[@cyruslyday9112]

Banger vid

[@benschreib5375]

How do you hit the 1/60 frame squirtle? Isn’t it more likely that you end up on the wrong frame.

[@zachmackay8469]

Any gen 4 speedruns upcoming?

[@Xiimen]

So crazy to think that with slightly better rng we smash this record even more. Solid run, so glad we got it.

[@Gunnermaniac]

There's definitely a real amount of timesave in this run, but considering the length of the run and the nature of RNG, this is already a really really good run. Improving it would require even better RNG which is possible of course, but it would take a lot.

[@Keixxo]

I’m upset the music is off/ not in sync, but congratulations much deserved.

[@mgordon3822]

The music is added in after, it’s not the actual audio from the run. The time it takes to essentially put every music change in would take forever, it’s good enough, you should be focused on the commentary, or go watch the actual wr video

[@Arkadius500]

If you mean that not all the music is correct, then yes you're right. That's because the music was added manually while editing the video. Making sure all the music is true to the scene is not really worth it imo. But if you mean that certain music transitions aren't accurate, something went wrong near the end of the editing. The test render I did was a lot worse, a lot of the music al like half a second off and I couldn't really explain it. So I went through the entire project and manually rearranged almost all the music, but I obviously could have missed stuff.

[@senatorcactus7184]

How do you hit a frame perfect . Is it difficult?

[@BarakGage]

Gz

[@donaldduck7559]

Love it. As a normie i aprecciate these videos so i can understand them

[@anthonyhill1620]

Is there going to be a point where it’s impossible to beat the game any faster? New to watching speed running but always been a gamer so it’s a cool new aspect of gaming to get into

[@smp5343]

22:00

[@Vuietnam]

Pog

[@StevenGrogan-sp5dk]

Congratulations bro

[@Arkadius500]

47:44 gunKappa

[@kapoioskapoiou9925]

I am bit confused you made the commentary on the wr the next day of the run.Why to make another one after few days.

[@tommynaugle3572]

The original commentary was a stream, and this is an edited version of that same stream, along with added bg music.

[@jbenn6338]

FIRRSSTTTT

[@Brom2093]

Congrats on the WR and really good explanations in the video. However the constant mini cuts are so annoying. They are just not worth the work.