Golduck-line Solo Challenge - Pokemon FireRed

[@PegasusPablo]

Preposterous! Ice Beam used to cost a fresh beverage...

[@Dolph1nRacer]

I remember using a Golduck on a playthrough of FRLG and being SO MAD that it doesn't get Psychic. This poor guy really got the short end of the stick.

[@tobiasgund8048]

It learns it only from gen 4 on? What the heck?

[@irish_owl21]

TIL that a Pokémon named Psychic Duck is not a psychic type…. Just… why?

[@ostint912]

It’s an egg move so it does get it if you breed it with a male slowpoke/bro with psychic

[@tobiasgund8048]

@@ostint912 ah yeah, but that makes it even worse IMO

[@ostint912]

@@tobiasgund8048 water types are always easy to train so if you wanted it for the elite 4 you could have it plus there’s also the option of giving it cross chop from primape

[@nihildwo4874]

i remember psyduck being my moms favorite mon. she said "it reminds me of dad, because it only got 3 hairs on its head". the funny thing is: i talked with an online friend, and i casually mentioned "ye, psyduck was my moms favorite", and she responded - that was my moms favorite too!" kinda hilarious psyduck seems to be the "moms favorite" pokemon XD

[@dvillines26]

just like mom it has a perpetual migraine

[@silver_was_found]

my mom was looking up random pokemon once, and she said Psyduck was “super cute”. She also thought Psyduck’s beak was a tongue

[@pkmn1260]

wow...it was my Mom's favorite as well when i was a kid.

[@redreoicy6698]

29:20 while sandstorm is NOT going to chip away at you :) cloud 9 OP

[@paulmann8570]

*Sweats in Primal Groudon*

[@findout2655]

@@paulmann8570 unironically golduck was a decent counter to primal groudon, but if you missed hydro pump it was kinda useless

[@Glidus]

a Scott's Thoughts notification hitting me JUST when i took a break from work and thought "damn i need something to watch" you have come in clutch so many times 🙏 SHOW ME MEGA-GOLDUCK IN L:ZA PLEEEAAASE

[@Chronoflation]

I'd be happy with a full evolution like Stantler got

[@Chronoflation]

If it gets an evolution, it'll be a great anti-weather support Pokemon with the Cloud Nine ability and holding Eviolite, so long as it has the right support moves

[@asinussum]

A wild glidus encounter. Looking forward to HotD takes with AltSchwift

[@davidwatson6202]

I blame the anime having psyducks psychic abilities such a focus of the character really made us believe it was a psychic type

[@durianthesleepy]

Y'know you're right Scott. The typing of Golduck is odd. It clearly is a psychic pokemon, and being a bird I think the only correct typing would be Psychic/Flying.

[@wompus_king]

Yeah, like Venemoth!

[@MattWarb]

Nah it’s definitely a water type. You sound like them people who say Charizard should be a dragon type.

[@silver_was_found]

@@MattWarbit’s a channel joke

[@MattWarb]

@@silver_was_found okay now tell me about Armaldo too 🤣

[@silver_was_found]

@@MattWarb it’s CLEARLY a Ground/Dark type (jk)

[@DarthBupsbricks]

Bro said vileplume brought GolBAT to red haha. But fr great videos

[@DarthBupsbricks]

Oops just got to the part where you called yourself out on it LOL

[@LeopardBull5trik3]

Golduck in Pokémon Radical Red is one of the best mons to use. Cloud nine completely blocks weather effects from working and it's access to encore is so useful. Great Pokémon

[@tsawy6]

Also really important in Garbage Green as an early psychic move learner

[@MFMegaZeroX7]

The reason the names are weird has to do with the names origin. Golduck as a name comes from Japanese, where the name is ゴルダック (gorudakku, AKA "golduck"). Gorudakku was seemingly chosen since Pokemon seems to like associating "Gold" with psychic types. For example, Sabrina's badge name in Japanese is ゴールドバッジ (goorudo bajji, AKA "gold badge" rather than the English "marsh badge"), and how in Mystery Dungeon gold gummies boost psychic types. I wonder if there is a Japanese cultural reason for it. Then the localizers had to do something with the first form, which is コダック (kodakku, literally "kid duck"), so they just went with "psyduck" as a decent name. Goldduck is probably also a play on コールダック (kooru dakku) or "call duck" which is a kind of duck. Specially when you consider it goes form "ko" to "goru" it is more obvious they are playing around it.

[@rooislangwtf]

Gold just has a general association with "Psychics"

[@bp3366]

Hit the gym

[@samuell8721]

Golduck currently also shines as the best Team member for Any% Speedrun for Platinum, looking forward to the solo video of how it works in normal playthrough in these games too

[@alexzander2211]

😂 you watched wersters new video too 🎉

[@MindBlank110]

I really liked the little animations all of the gym leaders’ Pokémon had during the gym battle intros.

[@coltonmartin5057]

Lots of people mistake that. Golduck is in fact a monotype! Pure psychic! So many think it's a water type just because it looks like a duck!

[@chrisnelson93]

I remember when I was a kid being confused because Golduck wasn't a psychic type lol

[@marbehq8469]

Thats why Psyduck is confused all the time

[@Smileyrat]

I like that, even on the run were you beat the chamion A, the archanine still tried to use extreamspeed. Like it remembered how it won on the other two runs.

[@TigeriPlaysGames]

i will NEVER underestimate a golduck. when i did a nuzlocke of platinum a few years ago, one survived as a team mainstay from a level 6 psyduck in oreburgh gate all the way up to being my last 'mon standing and soloing cynthia's garchomp and roserade. best girl fr

[@ptiscool3334]

Nintendo needs to create an evolution of golduck and call it bluduck and have it be gold in color. It’s the only logical evolution.

[@mr.number9279]

That Level 16 thing is brutal. Absolutely destroys the game after though. Awesome run.

[@Shenaldrac]

I'll be honest I'm totally fine with pokemon having serious move diversity that isn't in line with their typing and wish Gamefreak did it more. I LIKE that Psyduck and Golduck are momo water types that still have some strong psychic influences without being psychic type. I don't think a pokemon should need to have a typing to have access to those moves. I think that it would be really cool if the regional birds could just stop needing to be part normal. It's okay to have pure flying types. The Golduck line is a great showing of how pokemon can be more than just their type combination and I really would love to see that taken further.

[@justsomejojo]

Golduck was one of my favorite pokemon as a child, because the anime made it out to be really cool (though only for like one scene in an episode that otherwise treats it as a womanizing joke). I think I just really liked the progression of derpy->cool-looking in general. That said, actually using one (in a team) always feels like a bit of a slog. It has nothing to really make it stand out compared to other water types (except for Calm Mind) and the fact you have to lug around a Psyduck until Lv33 for that meager payoff doesn't help. There are a bunch of Gen1 lines evolving in the 28 to 33 range that just feel underpowered for how long they're stuck in their base stages and Golduck is one of them. Sidenote, I really had to pay attention to not mix up the names thanks to your joke. Well played.

[@ZesTheMaze]

the ''gem'' on golduck's forehead is actually a pimple XD

[@silver_was_found]

This is my first time seeing the battle intro animations for FRLG and I’m really loving how much personality they have, especially Misty’s and Koga’s!

[@A.Radwick]

Golduck not getting psychic is criminal. Completely destroyed one of my runs and made me rethink things. I believe I went with Lapras instead, the low-hanging fruit. Golduck has always been one of my favorites.

[@brandonsoto7225]

Golduck needs a 3rd evolution or Mega where it gets the Psychic type.

[@seanotoole9840]

Yes, it does.

[@Mr37Kyle]

Hey Scott, love your Videos. Just wanted to point out that at 8:46 there is a picture missing for magnemite's Thundershock attack.

[@SkyNinja759]

Fun Fact: Golduck has been in every mainline pokemon game and is the favourite pokemon of one kf the head developers. Even then it still can't get a buff. Reminds me of how bad Kirby was nerfed in Smash after Smash64. Kirby wss specifically nerfed for Melee because the lead dev didn't want to show bias to his own franchise mascot.

[@lizzofan]

I’m currently doing a Persian/Meouth solo run, I’m right before the 8th badge and I must say once you get to the mid 20s he honestly just clears the game with no struggle anywhere. Good option so far

[@silver_was_found]

When you learn that Golduck can’t learn Psychic in Gen 1: *Confusion intensifies*

[@MattWarb]

Big fan of the gym battle animations. Spinning Staryu was awesome! 😁

[@jacobliston7339]

Golduck has always been one of my favorites. I was so mad when the anime made us think that Misty's Psyduck had finally evolved.

[@redwings13400]

Looking at the TMs list: "Wait... that can't be right. Why is there no psychic on there? Golduck always uses psychic moves. I should look this up." But it's not a mistake! Apparently Golduck can't learn psychic via TM in gen 3, but it can learn this move via egg move in gens 2 and 3! That's ridiculous! They fixed this in gen 4, but wow Golduck was screwed over by the devs here!

[@KSmanderes]

Psyduck's name in Japanese is "Koduck" which translates to "Child Duck" or "Little duck". We got Psyduck which is a bit of a misnomer as it's essentially just supposed to be a duck

[@puffypuff3144]

There's always a sense of 'aw no' whenever you play a Water type without a Water STAB move early on, particularly in these early gens with early rock leaders. That sense of 'bro you should be cleaning *UP* not grinding on bugs!!' At least Psyduck has Seel to keep him company.

[@TheMoogleKing93]

Psyduck is my daughter's favourite thanks to Pokemon Concierge

[@silver_was_found]

Small addition to what you said about natures in competitive here, Timid and Jolly natures are also really valuable but mostly because a lot of mons can be expected to have max speed investment (even moreso in modern gens where speed creep is reaching concerning levels).

[@benkesler487]

I really love Golduck's design and have always been sad how medicore he is. It's also such a shame he wasn't a psychic type in gen 1, which would have only been an upside at that point

[@shadex08]

1:37 - In addition to this, some of the Pokemon cards for Golduck feature moves using psychic energies!!!

[@deadlydragqueens]

A really cool adjustment to the overlay for runs where you evolve could be showing the +/- figure for how much stats have changed over evolution. Can’t hold the maths in my head to see how much difference has just happened. Just a thought 🥰 love your content

[@TheOriginalJphyper]

Golduck _can_ learn Psychic... as an _egg move._ As far as I know, it's the only Pokémon that gets a TM move exclusively as an egg move, though it's admittedly been a long time since I last checked.

[@fortello7219]

For a long time I've thought (even as far back as Gen 1) Psyduck should have been a flying type that primarily learned water moves. That then evolved into a Flying/Psychic type. I think that would have worked with the design, without adding yet ANOTHER water/psychic type. It also would have done a lot to diversify the gen 1 types, considering the FOUR normal/flying types they have! (Eight with evolutions) Dodrio was already a flightless flying-type (that probably should have been a ground/flying type) so it's not that crazy to make Psyduck one. And Farfetch'd similarly feels land bound.

[@Gungho73]

A Golduck line solo challenge video aye? We're getting one step closer to that legendary Psyduck vs Stadium Psyduck run. It's **gonna** happen. Please.

[@dxjxc91]

Fun fact, psyduck and golduck have been in the most main line pokemon games of any pokemon.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

No way?

[@dxjxc91]

@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon yep. The Psyduck line has been catchable in the wild of every pokemon game except leaf green (version exclusive) and the game cube games. For comparison, pikachu was in both kanto remakes, but not in any of the 4 gen 5 games or catchable the GC games, so psyduck is in 3 more games than pikachu at present.

[@banditrests]

There’s a niche VGC strategy called Double Ducks with swift swim golduck and drizzle peliper. If you’re thinking hey, peliper isn’t a duck, you’re right, we just name things silly for fun.

[@dxjxc91]

I used to think psyduck gained psychic type when it evolved due to the anime. In episode 91 (I looked it up) Misty battles another water trainer who exclusively uses dual types believing the second type gives them an edge. She has a psyduck and says golduck is one of her favorites.

[@AmnesiaPsyduck]

In the anime, Misty's Psyduck was my favorite. The poor guy was always in pain, but when it finally snapped it was both hilarious and terrifying. Was secretly hoping to witness a snapped Psyduck during battles. Perhaps in the future, if this gets noticed.

[@contestwill1556]

TOMBSTONY? That's TOMBSANTHONY to you, bub.

[@SouthrnKoala]

Golduck came in clutch for me many times during various nuzlockes, and has therefore become one of my favorite mons. Hoping to see a good result here for my boy 👀

[@realperson69]

7:42 With Secret Power on your set, Mega Punch no longer has any clear use case, but Mega Kick still does. I can give you a lot of numbers on that, but the most telling is that Secret Power and Mega Punch have overlapping damage rolls, meaning that unless you’re doing the damage calculations, you can’t even reliably tell if Mega Punch will speed up a KO. The second most telling is that the difference in accuracy is so low that even if you need to connect twice, going with double Mega Kick will only fail 16% more of the time than double Mega Punch (roughly 7 in 12 compared to roughly 9 in 12). Ironically, a 16% failure rate is roughly the same as a single Mega Punch, which may suggest that our risk tolerance is already high enough to retain Mega Kick instead as our Hail Mary of choice. I just won’t stand for spurning Mega Kick like that.

[@TastyMeerkat]

Venomoth Fact #30: The reason many people think that Psyduck and Golduck have psychic powers is because as a Psyduck, the little guy always wished they had those powers. So Venomoth would always be in the background, subtly using super moth psychic powers to let the little duck live their dream in front of the amazed masses.

[@DaKirbinator]

Koga's battle intro animation is hilarious! And yeah, it is strange that Gold/Psy ducks' names work better reversed

[@The_Dominick]

The psychic type would not really help Golduck in terms of usage. Who would pick Golduck over Slowpoke or Staryu?

[@blue_boo3171]

Fun fact: the Psyduck line is exclusive to Firered, while both the Slowpoke and Staryu lines are exclusive to Leafgreen.

[@RsSooke]

It is amazing that Golduck can't learn Psychic, yet a Ghost/Water type like Venomoth can.

[@ostint912]

Hey Scott have you thought about using egg moves before? That’s the only way that golduck gets psychic and cross chop this gen

[@andreapareti324]

I don't know if it would actually be faster, but another option worth mentioning for Lorelei is Brick Break: between Golduck's relatively even offensive stats and Lapras's inferior physical Defense, Brick Break might allow you to set up less against her and therefore have faster battles that are less close; of course, that would require another Ice Beam TM to re-teach it after the Lorelei fight, so it's, again, likely not worth it and I'm not even sure if it's possible with the money you have by the end, but still.

[@thetrav2100]

love how romhacks fix type issues i think inclement emerald makes golduck a psychic water type

[@TangerineTux]

Fun fact: Golduck’s French name is “Akwakwak”.

[@n64_kfp]

I really expected this run to go worse than it did. What a pleasant surprise!

[@tobarf2940]

Never knew Golduck never learned psychic, that's frustrating. Love Churro

[@ZachFerg]

Psyduck not being psychic type is even more offensive when half of its name matches half of the word "PSYchic" 😅

[@Camurgladius]

I guess this is an outlier, but I like the idea of some Pokemon having affinity for another Type via levelup moveset but not enough to be dual-Type, at least in theory. (Because of that, I do think the ducks should have had a wider array of Psychic moves, though.)

[@CasualVideoGamer]

I absolutely LOVE Golduck. Probably my favorite water-type from gen 1 (I say probably, because Starmie and Kingler are also favorites).

[@goldbanker2777]

Golduck was my favorite water type to pick up for firered runs. It worked great with surf and had good speed compared to the Lapras everyone used and hit harder with surf than gyrados.

[@twindragonstvab]

Actually golduck does not take hail and sandstorm damage because your golduck have the ability cloud nine shown in 29:19. Cloud nine is an pokemon ability that negates weather effects, only in generation 3. Nice video and I watched your videos.

[@silver_was_found]

the Churro pic looks like he’s using Calm Mind :D

[@Shawnzy1]

They went “ augh we already have 2 water/psychic . Efff it “

[@danpitzer765]

Churro is loud because he knows we love him.

[@n00dl3]

I'm kinda glad Psyduck and Golduck are just Water-type. Gen 1 already had Starmie and Slowpoke/Slowbro

[@jamiecarter4461]

You beat blastoise's time and Mew's that's my Boy Golduck.

[@jeffwhite1334]

Omg! Is this cuz I asked if you could do a Psyduck and Snorlax playthough? You should also do a Psyduck only instead of Psyduck line.

[@nelsondaily]

29:21 Golduck has Cloud Nine, so it negates all weather effects, so you still heal in Sandstorm with Lefties :)

[@DJarr216]

Psyduck and golduck not learning psychic via tm in gen 3 is even weirder then you think because they can get it as an egg move.

[@jeffwhite1334]

He’s just an ambitious little baby duckling

[@Coolborder1]

Funfact : some CPU Golducks in Pokemon Stadium 2 have Psychic as one of their move! Movesets aren't a thing in Pokemon Stadium games

[@Zomonitan]

So you had a Damp Psyduck instead of Cloud Nine? Cloud Nine would prevent Sandstorm damage on the entire field while Golduck is active. It's actually really funny, because Golduck had a moment in VGC where it was an anti Primal Groudon tech, because it barely out speeds and specs Hydro Pump could OHKO through Desolate Land weather because of Cloud Nine

[@Reluxthelegend]

0.15 Golduck is actually in Green's team (red's rival) in the manga!

[@BaronofStrange]

It's possible that the developers chose not to make it a psychic type in order to make it weaker. Water and psychic with a medium fast growth rate would be pretty strong in generation one.

[@Speedrunner0218]

70k by the end of summer. I'm calling it. We're almost there!!!

[@tsawy6]

Sandstorm is ineffective vs Golduck's Cloud Nine ability!

[@ItsApePalm]

Scott, I love your channel my man. May I ask how you got those overlay with automatic stat counter? Please and thank you so much

[@ilovegarradors]

Golduck can learn psychic in Gen 3. But only as an egg move. For some reason, if its dad didn't pass down the move, it doesn't want to learn it. :/

[@TheMoogleKing93]

Cloud Nine means no Sandstorm damage!

[@shootingstardust97]

For round 1 elite 4, I felt that you are over prioritizing mystic water benefits, especially if u have a setup move like calm mind, do consider sitrus berry for cases like this where u can have some recovery which may help with like the final portion. Sitrus berry can be found in FRLG outside of the gate at route 6 and right outside of the victory road entrance

[@Dpmt]

I just sant to note the Psyduck line is available in every mainline Pokémon game, one of a very few and the only one to never get any forms or variants.

[@gaz9411]

25:51 "Really nice finish" - I saw what you did there

[@BadDubII]

The Dark Golduck TCG Card made Golduck look cool af

[@nathanandsugar5252]

The HP, DEF and S EVs early on make your pokemon bulkier for the whole game. It also makes Brock easier.

[@nich6200]

It’s Gen 3. Accessing the pc is a lot less time consuming. It might be worth it to deposit hm users if your strategy requires you to set up on the pidgeot and risk whirlwind

[@alexrobinet7576]

Making psyduck water normal into water psychic for golduck would have fixed a lot of psyduck problems.

[@alexrobinet7576]

If only it was designed like that.

[@blackoutXbrian]

I was playing a totally authentic pokemon crystal run today and happened across a shiny venonat! Can’t wait for the ice/ground type to be the frontrunner on my team ❤

[@josefnocera4414]

Not sure what you mean about Game Freak forgetting about Golduck; Psyduck is in practically every Pokemon game including Scarlet/Violet & Legends Arceus; meaning you can evolve him and use Golduck. I know this because he’s my favorite Pokemon and use him in every game. And yes, he’s always beenjust Water type lol

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Maybe I’m the one forgetting Golduck

[@josefnocera4414]

@@ScottsThoughtsPokemonhaha! Don’t do that! Love your videos bro; looking forward to when you do Golduck in Yellow 🤙🏽

[@lyonnaismatt]

When you're under a substitute you don't need to worry about hail OR sand damage. They're both blocked!

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Hail and Sandstorm deal damage even when you have Substitute in place. Anecdotally I remembered Glacia's hail dealing damage to my Pokemon when I set Substitute up. Checked it on Serebii, "If Sandstorm or Hail are in effect and the Pokémon is not of the types that are protected by those weather effects, the damage will still go directly to the Pokémon." Source: www.serebii.net/games/substitute.shtml#:~:text=Re%2Dcoil%20from%20moves%20used,go%20directly%20to%20the%20Pok%C3%A9mon.

[@razornathon]

Golduck can learn Psychic through breeding.

[@CGInsightHub]

I love the addition of the "field" condition box! I'm not sure if this is the first video with it or if I have just never noticed it until now. Are you trying to have it centered with the pokemon's sprite? Any thoughts on potentially placing it to the right of the repel counter box?

[@reshawshid]

Speaking of finishing the Yellow tierlist, since you already really like the game, you may want to consider doing another for Yellow Legacy since you've already started it. Gives you more opportunity to play it, right?

[@tneon9132]

1:10 Its only called psyduck in english even in japanese its called Koduck wich basically just means Small duck or child duck

[@calebshmanderson]

I really want to see how well Stantler will do in this gen, having access to calm mind, return, eq, psychic and thunderbolt theres so many ways you can use it

[@tiagoleivas3495]

I love Golduck design! Till today I thought it was psych also lol

[@Kiaxiou]

The best part of the video is churro 😂 also Psyduck is a strong pokemon

[@Medabee8]

Psyduck can learn Psychic through breeding, however.

[@bethbengoa5665]

Psyduck is my favorite Pokemon!!! I hope you do a run with the special amnesia Psyduck in Yellow one day!