I found the Perfect Speedrun Pokémon

[@CaptainKiddYT]

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[@micahelsgames7024]

Now I guess you are by definition a pirate/captain now (at least to my knowledge [ unless you don’t have a boat of sorts I’m more recent on the channel idk much about you].)

[@thewaffleman7441]

fun fact, because of the amount of grass types you run into in FRLG speedrunning, mudkip is actually a slower route than squirtle. Speedrunners have already tested out this theory before!!

[@alexhirsch5738]

I don't know what they've found to be fastest for FR/LG, but I would have bet my house that Staryu was a top-tier choice that somehow went unconsidered. Strong base stats, especially high in speed and special offense, access to phenomenal TMs and HMs, and a perfect typing for Kanto. Water Stone access is fairly abundant, but even going out of the way to get one and then evolve Staryu, there's no way it's slower than Lapras

[@videogameman110]

​@alexhirsch5738 I think it's because you have to go out of your way to get the rod or surfing, and then also catch it. While using lapras, you get it probably earlier and with no battle that isn't required.

[@LonggoBonggo]

​@@alexhirsch5738I think the problem was that Staryu doesn't have a good answer for misty and the fact that it's also pretty frail, since the need for speedy hard hitting mons aren't as important as having a consistent pokemon throughout the game.

[@jasonbell8515]

He knows. Mudkip is below squirtle on the thumbnail podium.

[@thewaffleman7441]

@@alexhirsch5738 while all true i assume it would take too long to reach your potential as starmie. Having to wait to get the water stone in celadon city is way too long. Using staryu for that amount of time is just not reliable. This is all assuming you just hack in any mon as your starter

[@Spannondorf]

Gotta love that Giovanni was so little of a threat at 15:33 that his gym footage deleted itself.

[@PlayrR3D156]

It's literally that one meme: "About to go fight I'll post the video after." *later* "I got my butt beat bruh I ain't posting that crap"

[@thedahliallama]

A wonderful lesson in the importance of the medium fast vs slow level up group

[@Alxi_08]

I never would have expected Seanie and Kidd doing a collab but I’m glad to see them together

[@EffinChat]

The music at the beginning being the one that Summoning Salt uses was a lovely little touch

[@Zeppongola]

I feel like, in this format, Staryu would have been at least competitive, if not outright outclassing Lapras and Squirtle. In the remakes it gets water gun early, so Brock is a freebie, Camoflage-Recover would probably be enough to handle Surge without too much of a problem, and once you get to Celadon it can evolve into a 'mon with higher SpAtk and speed (at least until EVs make the latter irrelevant), and get access to stab Psychic and Surf, plus you can teach it TB and later blizzard for Lance. (Ice beam not being as trivial to get in the remakes is unfortunate, but with TB and Surf the only pre-Lance 'mons its hitting for super effective damage that aren't otherwise covered are Grass types, which are almost all part poison and thus nuked by stab Psychic) If you go into the E4 with Psychic, Surf, TB, and Blizzard, I think you hit everything for SE damage except Jynx and Alakazam. Meanwhile, Squirtle probably takes longer than Celadon to fully evolve, and ends up with worse offensive stats and movepool. It does get Bite for Psychics, but I think neutral stab Surf actually hits harder? Meanwhile it lacks TB and Psychic, and in return gets like... Brick Break, which is probably decent for random trainers, but not that much stronger than neutral stab Surf, and towards the end Earthquake, which still does less than stab SE Psychic against the one type that you encounter after the point in which you get it that isn't already covered by Surf. Dig is probably handy for Surge though.

[@HappyCat1929]

how much work did you put into this

[@galileodirectio]

okay but how do we handle misty with a staryu? I think she is the real problem tbh...

[@galileodirectio]

as in, I dont know if it has enough moves and bulk to get through her that early. (if so please let me know!)

[@Zeppongola]

@@galileodirectio Apparently Secret Power and Recover is sufficient; looks like there's a video of someone doing a similar run ( /watch?v=kYyPIBELtDs?t=1342 ), which suggests you can get there at 23 without too much grinding, and secret power is a 70BP move with a good chance to para, which is good enough to take out Staryu without much trouble and go toe to toe with Starmie, weaving in recovers and SPs as necessary. In between her AI making her use weaker moves and getting full-para'd, you get plenty of "free" turns with a bit of luck. I think that run is without in-battle items (and he seems to just walk everywhere rather than run, since he's playing on 4x speed), so we can't really compare the time of this video to that one, but it does show that Staryu at that level can clean up Misty's gym even without items, and for what it's worth they ended up with Staryu being faster than Squirtle (both slower than this Lapras run). Dunno how much items would change the calculus; I'm pretty sure Staryu at 15 isn't beating Starmie even with items, but dunno if he actually needed them with this Lapras fight since its edited so much; if he did need them, its possible Lapras would have needed quite a few more levels, since it has no recovery without them. If it could just plow through itemless at 15, then it does have a very strong head start over Staryu (but I doubt Squirtle is doing the same). Will be interesting to see if he uploads a Lapras run (or, for that matter, a Slowpoke/Tentacool/Poliwag/Shellder, who he used as examples over Staryu)

[@Princelle]

Not a crossover I saw coming, but I'm happy to see it nonetheless.

[@natesaurus4089]

Should’ve picked Onix lol

[@Glis54]

They weren't allowed to pick legendaries

[@LilyNotDoffen]

Onix with quick claw is the GOAT

[@theterrarianmudkip]

Speedrun plus pokemon plus mudkip in thumbnail is definitely a great video

[@QuarrelInsect]

Great narration from Kidd and massive props to the editor for their amazing work.

[@drdagonator3544]

Love the summoning salt music at the start amazing

[@cullenhutchison6528]

I like the constant edits during the narrated sections. They look cool/funny and keep things interesting. Props to the editor.

[@Siinory]

The summoning salt musics got me

[@hopeburnett8313]

I loved all the animations and such in this video! :D Great speedrun, loved the video

[@Adelaide_Spence]

AN INCREDIBLE CROSSOVER YES

[@zeenogre]

A Seanie and Kidd crossover was something I never knew I needed

[@FireAndFoodCompany]

Lapras is also my pokemon rogue starting pokemon

[@Walt_Raleigh]

Hey Kidd great video, you just keep getting better and better at narrating your videos and I'm here for it

[@kingtaco536]

The editing in this video is top tier

[@OfficialShiro]

You gotta do this for other games 🔥🔥

[@blast__zone]

Biggest Pokemon video today

[@Thefrogking15]

I feel so vindicated that kidd had trouble with koga since little kid me also did

[@jimbo3942]

Fire edits for the e4 🔥🔥🔥

[@brotherpilz1808]

The SummoningSalt music at the beginning is peak

[@cleffee]

Your videos are so good man always look forward to watching em!!!!!!

[@mattnificent510]

What's the speedrun of Pokemon Sleep

[@smc-jp8yf]

The melatonin gummies is the easiest way.

[@Jay_Games4409]

Nah bro, a coma would make this absolutely free

[@ObamacareInventor]

However long it takes for a bottle of ZZZquil to kick in

[@buggibii]

* loads shotgun *

[@ReagentGray]

Pokemon Nap

[@Turret_run]

Never thought the stars would align where I'm early enough to find a gift card and need more gamersups. Thanks for paying for my tub of Anime Girl Thigh Cap ✊

[@Jamstaro1]

Nidoking entering the chat :am i a joke to you?

[@ShadowOfCicero]

From what I hear, Nidoking only really works in Gen 1 proper, back when Giovanni gave Fissure as his TM and one X Accuracy was all it took.

[@owenborton8094]

Love the summoning salts intro >:)

[@notDmanTV]

prediction before finishing the run, mudkip is good for solo running hoenn because you don't have to fight your rival after gym 6, whereas the rival is the champ in this game.

[@howdycowboy247]

Seaniedew!! Nice

[@JaykubHarreld-y1t]

Mudkip is a legend

[@fatefulseven]

jesus christ this is a well edited video

[@memetan_24]

Ends with 151 HP

[@Mayochip227]

My school claims a mystery of history is “finding Captain Kidds treasure”

[@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32]

...mud.kip Edit: ...couldn't you just the other lapras instead of machop

[@Dracas42]

That undertale slash hurt me.

[@Aprycas]

Lapras is actually my favorite pokemon so I’m glad to see her getting the attention she deserves

[@yo-kaikid1925]

wouldn’t you go exeggcute? super affective against the first two gyms plus gets psychic type moves for the grass one which are all poison types and then is once again super effective against koga and giovanni plus it resits sabrina and lt. surge meaning its good against 5 of the gyms and resists 2 which is 7/8 where its good yet the last one gets is weak against and going into the elite 4 its good against 1 and weak against 2 so its not the best but could be worse there and finally going into the champion team he is supper effective against 2 and resits 1 while being weak to only 1 (possibly 2 if he has charizard)

[@CaptainKiddYT]

You have to realize that a Pokémon is way more than just its typing. Exeggcute doesn't even get a special move until Confusion at 19. Doesn't ever learn a Grass type move until Solar Beam at 43. Grass types are notorious for having bad learnsets in Gen 3. Not to mention, it wouldn't be able to evolve until you arrive in Celadon. It wouldn't even come close to the other options in terms of speed.

[@yo-kaikid1925]

@@CaptainKiddYT wow i never even realized his learnset is so bad until i just checked thats crazy

[@victorscutari]

Wait, what's that text at 3:27?

[@thunderandreign]

what happened at 3:28

[@Ceruledge5386]

Wouldn't water types be bad against Erika??

[@CiCodiCadno]

Lapras learns Ice Beam. He explains this in the video

[@digitaldarmanitan3072]

Fastest is Nidoking, no? Or is that just red and blue

[@Emakura]

Why did you say tortoise?!!!

[@TheStickCollector]

I hop i can make the one i would run be up there

[@randomocto9842]

dang, never been this early to a vid bfore! betting its a good one!

[@ashleyhuynh9732]

I may be missing something, but why did he pick mudlkip over swampert? And why did kidd debate between squirrel and not wartortle?

[@austinheinbuch8642]

First 30 seconds of the video he said no fully evolved pokemon ☠️

[@skotiaH2O]

​@@austinheinbuch8642 >No fully evolved Pokémon >Proceeds to pick Lapras

[@ivanlol7153]

@@skotiaH2O Lapras is single staged, not fully evolved pokemon in that context meant no final forms of existing mons

[@skotiaH2O]

@@ivanlol7153 but it kinda defeats the point of that rule to have a Pokémon with such high stats right from the start

[@ashleyhuynh9732]

@@austinheinbuch8642 ur right, I meant marshtomp

[@dragonblade-go6pe]

So kidd there kinda cheated honestly that battle with misty and not putting on the animations gave him the boost he needed

[@kittyrin2]

Why aren’t you more popular!!!