Can you beat Pokemon Red/Blue with just a Ditto?

[@Jrose11]

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[@cerealexperimentsgrain]

not only did you get a sponsor but it's a really cool one

[@grifftown]

P5 Tactica is sick good to see ya gettin some good sponsors bro

[@DecoyVoice]

ditto was always my favorite pokemon ever but a persona5 ad? that's amazing. congrats jrose!

[@ItsReallyGeo]

Short sponsor block on long form content? Hell, I'll actually check it out. Less is more, advertisers.

[@DanTheMeek]

Congrats on the sponsor, and its awesome its something actually semi-relevant to your content too given the overlap with shin megami tensei games and pokemon. The sponsorship is well deserved, been following you for roughly a half decade now and you were already great when I found you, but you've just continued to improve and these days your videos are arguably the things I most look forward to on the internet.

[@marcelinebellafiore8695]

Here's a silly little fun fact: the Ditto crit glitch is actually relevant in RBY Ubers. Ditto is sometimes used to copy the opponent's Mewtwo, so landing a critical hit while transformed is actually bad since it's calculated with Ditto's tiny 48 Special.

[@marowakcity3727]

To be fair, ditto copying mewtwo isn’t expected to make offensive progress, it’s just their to waste 20 turns

[@redreoicy6698]

Another fun fact, RBY Ubers incorrectly uses dittos base speed to determine the crit rate. While ditto's stats are used on a crit, the transformed pokemon determines the crit rate.

[@DanHowsen]

If only its special was 10 lower. Then it could just shoot everything.

[@FatherOfGray]

If this is true, why hasn't anyone informed them of this? They really want to make the emulation as close to the original game as they can, so I'm sure they'd appreciate knowing.

[@redreoicy6698]

I posted on smogon forums a while ago idk who to let know

[@James-vc1kc]

Pikasprey's ditto run is legendary. The lack of solo content at the time, especially scaled at the levels of insanity that Jrose does quite often nowadays, had me convinced he wouldn't be able to finish the challenge

[@raineob4996]

Especially considering he encountered not one, but two game-breaking glitches that meant he had to use Transform the whole time.

[@James-vc1kc]

@@raineob4996 OH YEAH!!! damn it's been so long I forgot he was forced to use transform halfway through the run. I gotta rewatch that tonight

[@raineob4996]

@@James-vc1kckind of crazy that those glitches are both COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from the one that Jrose got that broke his game. How did Ditto even make it past playtesting?

[@sigiligus]

Pikasprey much more of an entertainer. Jrose’s runs are more like documentaries.

[@youtube-kit9450]

I mean, you can say that about the whole game. GF can be glad people had low standards for games back then and have their brains filled with nostalgia about this game cuz holy moly if a game released even with a tenth of the glitches this game did, people would be going complete apeshit.@@raineob4996

[@megamuffin15]

We have reached the point where Rage was important multiple times in a run. These challenges are incredible.

[@yesec9]

As for Jrose's "worst moves" list...there is still one more box that needs to be ticked off: Bugged Focus Energy being used to reduce unwanted crits when stats are boosted. Don't think I've seen that niche strategy employed yet. Will it ever?

[@yesec9]

@edgevalmond6173Wait what? Focus energy triggers the badge boost glitch?? I'm searching around and not seeing anything about it. I was under the impression that 2 move slots would have to be taken up; one by focus energy to eliminate crit chance, and one with the stat changer such as amnesia, defense curl, etc. to trigger the actual badge boost glitch. If that strategy only requires 1 move slot solely with focus energy, that's actually a game-changer! Even with the one downside being that you aren't getting the non-glitched, game-intended stat boosts that increase with defense curl or amnesia, that's still a big deal

[@DJFracus]

@@yesec9 TECHNICALLY he used Focus Energy in this run even though it was just to use up Ditto's PP as for preventing crits after stat-boosting, I think it's too hard to justify a whole moveslot on just that

[@shnoogums1]

rage is a good move. having it as the worst move on his list is so ridiculous with constrict existing

[@DJFracus]

@@shnoogums1 no shot you think Rage is "a good move" it starts at 20 base power, IF you get hit 6 times and live (which is no small feat), the payoff is... a maximum of 80 base power. if you got hit every turn, that's an average of 50 base power per attack. you are barely better off than using tackle every turn, even in the unlikely case you survive 6 attacks, and much better off using something like body slam. furthermore, it locks you into that move forever, which is horrible to say the least. at least tackle doesn't lock me into using it. I'm not going to necessarily say it's the worst move in the game, but it's definitely bad with that said, Rage is actually pretty good in Gen 2 and sees a lot of speedrun usage, I'm talking about the Gen 1 version, which is never useful outside of extremely niche situations like this one time in the Ditto run against Bruno

[@key099able]

1:04:03 The editor being really mad at you missing your chance of victory then was hilarious.

[@theevilmugen]

Gotta understand that Jrose was very tired and he tends to make miss click sometimes.

[@SimplyAJ]

Ahaha, I was wondering if anyone would catch what I was "saying" there!

[@cryptodentist]

I think the issue was the barriers Dragonite used, but maybe there could have been a crit. Great editing regardless.

[@blahpy]

The cooltrainer move and the bug where pikasprey had no pp but couldn’t use struggle are actually two completely different bugs. The cooltrainer move is caused by the move in slot 1 being a blank slot (caused by swapping the slot transform is in with another slot while transformed), and the pp one is caused by a bug with mirror move creating pp in a blank slot

[@a-s-greig]

Haha, relatable.

[@skyeplaysgames4598]

Quick addition: Mirror Move (and Metronome does this too) don't add PP, they remove 2 PP, then add 1. This goes wrong, where the first removed PP and the first added PP happen like they should, but the second removed PP happens in the untransformed moveset. If this happens in a slot that has 0PP (which includes empty moveslots) it underflows to 63 PP (also removing a PP Up if it has one, or giving max PP Ups if it has none). This means that if Metronome/Mirror Move is used on an empty moveslot, it gets 63PP and that blocks you using struggle until you use Metronome/Mirror Move another 63 times on the same moveslot.

[@Sparkle8205]

mirror move glitch and ditto move swap glitch my beloveds ❤

[@globalistgamer6418]

Gen 1, truly one of the engineered softwares of all time...

[@nbproductions194]

Dude you earned this. Beating the game with just a ditto and keeping the commentary entertaining is just double impressive

[@Jrose11]

Thanks so much for your generosity!

[@iamwhoiam7887]

Hey?? Spoiler alert???

[@NoLuckJustSkill1337]

Always watch the video first and then go to the comments my friend :p

[@ericjrparent]

@@iamwhoiam7887 That's on you for scrolling down

[@ld3534]

@@iamwhoiam7887why would you go to the comment section and you late to the video? Lol

[@snocades]

when i saw 17 minutes left after the gyms i thought this was going to end up being impossible, really cool elite four strats

[@Alex_Off-Beat]

You gotta love how Gen 1 is so broken that you need to perform certain actions to NOT break the game with Ditto! 😂

[@MLPIceberg]

Back then, we thought Gen 1 was some kind of amazing game. Nowadays when we have the tech and ability to look at the coding... we see that it was some kind of miracle the game even functions at all. That or some kind of satanic ritual keeps it going... who knows with those older game developers.

[@Alex_Off-Beat]

@@MLPIceberg To be fair they were pushing the system to it's absolute limit, it really is amazing what they were able to accomplish given just how limited the original GameBoy hardware was!

[@Jinny-Wa]

Nah, most games are way more broken nowadays, ofc talking about AAA titles. These are fun and quirky weird bugs and rarely game breaking, apart from the transform one@@MLPIceberg

[@shadowtitanx3962]

@@Jinny-Wa Scarlet and Violet be like:

[@ajsommer1]

@@Alex_Off-Beat It's not an excuse for a lot of the bugs though, that were just programming errors (1/256, Focus Energy, etc). But other than the glitches and a small handful of things that don't balance well it really was an amazingly well-made and well-designed game.

[@afroduckaka4pf593]

Dude, I am so happy for you man. Getting sponsors and still growing. You deserve it for all your hard work

[@CelticGuardian7]

Especially for a game series like Persona! That's a great thing to get to promote! =D

[@StevenRogers268]

Good point 🙂 I just bought a Persona game for the first time on Prime Day. Seems like it will be fun 🤩

[@SWISS-1337]

Early Christmas present. You've gotten me through some really tough times, and the amount of content you've provided exceeds what I can afford many times over. Thanks for taking me back to my childhood so often. Thank you.

[@craigyeah1052]

Giovanni is typically quite easy for many pokemon but he is an absolutely devastating opponent for the two worst. Just like him to pick on the weak.

[@GlennMagusHarvey]

Oh wow that is amazingly on-theme. Almost certainly not an intended part of the design, but hey.

[@thelippyserver58]

@@GlennMagusHarvey His gym is placed in the first town you visit, despite being the final one, and his pokemon are strong against the early starter normal, flying and bug types in the area. I HIGHLY doubt this is accidental.

[@aidendickinson4093]

the image of jrose jumping up and down after beating giovanni at 230am brings a smile to my face

[@michaelhuniak2700]

"Giovanni, that kid with just the Ditto is here again!"

[@philippfrogel9355]

Haha so underrated

[@palmtree2711]

This is legit one of the most impressive runs of a game I've ever seen just for the sheer amount of patience it must have taken, even moreso than the scarlet/violet magikarp run. I can only imagine how frustrating this must have been and gotta say, you have more perseverance than I think I ever will. Fantastic work!

[@raineob4996]

Giovanni3 on both Weedle and Ditto being the most miserable fight of the entire run is wild.

[@shadowtitanx3962]

Especially considering that Giovanni 3 in Red and Blue is a joke to many Pokemon.

[@raineob4996]

At this point it’s almost a miracle that using Gen 1 Transform doesn’t just make the cartridge explode, it’s that glitchy and broken. Also, if I remember correctly, the Pikasprey thing wasn’t due to swapping moves, but because of a bizarre interaction between Mirror Move/Disable and Struggle.

[@Spyvy]

You are correct. Crystal_ found out that when you use Mirror Move or Metronome, the PP of the move is decreased twice: once for the activation and once when the move is picked. To fix this, Game Freak added a function that increased the PP by one afterwards so you don't notice it. While transformed however, this increase is applied to the party data and not the temporary one, resulting in the PP for that slot to increase. If there's a blank slot with non-zero PP and everything else is out of it, you can't use Struggle because the game thinks you can use a move even though you can't select it.

[@pokepress]

If you think transform is rough here, take a look at the TCG.

[@lambybunny7173]

@@pokepresswell now I'm curious....

[@kengally]

What makes it rough in tcg?​@@pokepress

[@thethe3031]

I love the hot pink and mint green together. The color combos are unironically one of my favorite parts of the gen 1 runs.

[@Zelphiez]

The purple and teal from the weezing video was 👌

[@autobotstarscream765]

90's aesthetic af 😌

[@SeanGrady90]

Craving some Taco Bell now😂

[@IzumiChenmeiru]

theoretically, if there was a universe where you needed to use struggle strats on every elite 4 member besides agatha, you could use srruggle vs the first 2 members, then ether for agatha, then use the old rod on the bottom half of the statues to use the rest of transform's pp before fighting lance. like you said, struggle wouldn't have been mathematically possible, but there is that possibility to get rid of pp

[@YukeWeiss]

Oh wow I totally forgot you could use the statues to farm Pokemon. That's probably a glitch but a genius idea!

[@AT-il2ej]

Glitch. They're banned in the runs

[@GlennMagusHarvey]

The idea of using one glitch to make up for another is so comedically brilliant I'm now slightly disappointed it didn't happen.

[@shaunduzstuffs]

​@@AT-il2ej That's not a glitch by any means. Just a funny oversight

[@renatamaclean1163]

Not sure if anyone's pointed this out yet, but the crit glitch does seem to work both ways. So any opponent's crit would hit ditto's much higher base defence and probably do less damage than a regular hit

[@snoozbuster]

It’s like the game considers the stat changes applied via transform in the same category as stat changes from other moves like growl. So when it strips everything to base to calculate a crit it does it based on the dittos stats

[@danielortman2527]

I was wondering about that, if true that turns the rivals bulbasaur into an even better match up for ditto.

[@logans4789]

Getting sponsored by Atlus is almost as insane as beating Gen 1 with only a Ditto.

[@romarsalis3350]

You don’t get enough credit for actually seeing these challenges through! I would’ve rage quit long before Rival 4 lol

[@Humg12]

The edit with Jrose not noticing the one PP left against Lance was great. I was so confused why he didn't use it.

[@coryfusting9294]

I appreciate the fact JRose was aware of the Pikasprey video but chose not to watch it up until a certain point.

[@coryfusting9294]

Also, spoiler if you havent watched the full vid yet... I got a kick out of the fact he beat Rival Fival, then Koga and then Giovanni 2

[@Adamyup32]

I honestly have not played Pokémon for 10/15 years. But your videos are absolute must watches. It has to do with how serious and firm you are about completing the task at hand. Zero bullshit or rule bending.

[@PKMNwww411_MkII]

If you're getting a Rare Candy from the Power Plant, don't forget to fight the Zapdos for a little more EXP.

[@youtube-kit9450]

Yeah, if you make the effort to go all the way through the power plant, might as well grab the 1500 or whatever exp.

[@YukeWeiss]

I assure you he would absolutely do this before doing the Pokemon Mansion.

[@DrPotatoSkins]

Me who knows how Pikasprey's Ditto run went: *_"This is what we in show business call a BIG FREAKIN' YIKES."_*

[@LadyBrightcynder]

Fun fact: you can actually use the Cooltrainer move if you restore PP with an item like Ether! It has really low accuracy but if it hits, it has a similar animation to Earthquake, is pretty powerful, and uses your trainer name as the move's name!

[@burritoman2k]

It also causes massive memory corruption and will most likely instantly crash the game unless specific precautions are taken

[@LadyBrightcynder]

@@burritoman2k I wasn't aware of this, thank you for additional info!

[@CapnWilly]

Really like that people are STILL finding programming quirks or new little secrets to these games. Really enjoyed this one. 👍

[@hobgobigan6602]

Man Ditto is such a struggle to use :)

[@lozangekitten-gamer7626]

wow! You went above and beyond with that run, stringing in the EXACT run to get this far. You ABSOLUTE legend there

[@mongolidp]

I discovered your channel about a year ago and I'm so happy to see that you're getting sponsors for your videos. You put so much work into your videos and it's to see it paying off. Keep it up!

[@Mrnotpib]

I just realized, like two days ago, Ditto is both a slime and a mimic.

[@kevinmclendon3047]

When you started the series I was doing my own runs at home of others. It took forever on ditto, glad you were able to enjoy the misery as well. I stumbled into the glitches and forced my way through the early game without thinking about using non transformed struggle from the start making the grinding so painful against endless low level bugs.

[@TheMarkTenification]

I so badly needed this after the few days I've had; thank you, Jrose!

[@Tundra.]

What a cool video! Thank you for your dedication to such a niche series, and taking us with you along the way. Beyond being the quintessential breeding Pokémon, Ditto is also an incredibly unique battler! Just incredibly, inarguably frustrating when it's all you can rely on.

[@YodatheJedi12]

7:31 According to the Smogon Generation 1 page for Ditto, Ditto keeps its original (low) critical hit after using transform.

[@redreoicy6698]

However, it is wrong. Feel free to test by transforming mew into a machop with karate chop.

[@magamisic5924]

you're getting your information from smogon which is shit and unreliable

[@HewleyxAngel]

So funny thing about you getting a Persona sponsorship, I actually found your channel from an SMT youtuber named Nyarly who shouted you out as his inspiration for his SMT3 Nocturne Minimum Battle Run a while ago. As it is, would love to see the absolute zaniness and misery of this run in Yellow! Thank you for the video!

[@FireGazerR]

Your runs are so amazing to watch! Thanks for keeping me entertained all the time. :)

[@GlennMagusHarvey]

> have watched Pikasprey's video a long time ago > watch this video > "I wonder if he'll accidentally trigger the underflow glitch. He probably won't since he already knows about it" > video: "big mistake" > "oh no is it gonna be the underflow glitch" > 0 PP > "oh no it *is* the underflow glitch" > COOLTRAINER-type move, 0/13 PP ............wait, what this is a *new* level of broken

[@nickya19]

Hey man! Haven’t been able to catch your twitch streams lately cus I’ve been going through a lot but I wanted to genuinely thank you for providing us with so many hours of entertaining content! Not to be sappy but It always brightens my day, especially recently. Still holding out for that Jrose Hockey podcast go Bruins

[@hopeburnett8313]

That was awesome, I cant imagine the pain of grinding so many of those luck based battles out! Thanks for sharing with us ^_^

[@davidhannum9017]

I have a feeling that not only is this one truly impossible, but even if it isn't it's going to be a massive slog

[@luisgarcia1337]

No, it's definitely possible. Hell, Jrose even mentions that someone else did it 10 seconds in. It's definitely a massive slog tho

[@reillywalker195]

Pikasprey already did it.

[@davemartin660]

​@@luisgarcia1337how when Magikarp can't attack gastly

[@danielmoney5962]

@@davemartin660 we're talking about ditto, where's magikarp involved?

[@izme1000]

Also caterpie

[@nevermindmeijustinjectedaw9988]

holy moly you are literally insane awesome video

[@birdbrain4445]

Having seen Pikasprey's video on this, I knew that when it was time for you to get to it... oh man is it gonna be a ride. I'm braced and ready.

[@darkonecion]

Hold up! Atlus, the company that created the monster capture genre, sponsored your video about a game developed by the company that made the monster capture genre popular in the west. Great for you man! You deserve this. I've been following you for years and have enjoyed every second of it.

[@Illumous]

Finally, 5 years later I finally know what happened in Pikasprey's Ditto run! Great video!

[@nolongeraperson]

And with a much better non-ear grating voice!

[@franslair2199]

Different bug

[@TheSpecialPsycho]

Who tf finds Pikasprey's voice grating? The man is funny and chill

[@igokoma]

​​@@TheSpecialPsychoit's just this one dude is going around on EVERY comment mentioning asprey to talk about how they hate his voice, just wants an excuse to slag off another content creator lol

[@GlennMagusHarvey]

@@franslair2199 The fact that it's a *different* bug is one thing that makes this challenge as...uh, hilarious and/or epic, as it is.

[@gauchojoplin7788]

Hey, Jrose. I'm just halfway through the video. Not only I gotta say that this got to be one of the best series in this site's history. I ought to add a personal note to this comment, which is, you, with this series, have unknowingly given me hope and comfort through very difficult moments in my life, and I just want to say thank you. You're my favorite content creator

[@Nedded]

My boy Jrose needed a full restore to use it himself after this ordeal

[@aetherling9162]

Oh you madman, this again? Hyped to see how it goes :)

[@djmike679]

Pikasprey I believe has done this as well. However, it was definitely a long time ago, so I am ready to watch the Jrose edition of this. Quite a long video too gonna be exciting

[@kaptainKrill]

Pikasprey also had a glitch halfway through that prevented him from using Struggle. I assume that won’t happen here, so there’s a chance for another strategy.

[@djmike679]

@@kaptainKrill spoiler, it does, jrose is able to explain it too so that's nice

[@nolongeraperson]

And Jrose is much more pleasant on the ears than Pikasprey.

[@ShanK1NooB]

Narration keeps me coming back. You're awesome, jrose. Thank you.

[@Rubbly]

I feel like on "Impossible Challenges" you may as well just roll perfect stats...

[@hEnjoi]

Didn't expect a sponsor, but cool that you got one!

[@FrancisImprailer]

What a funny coincidence. I was just watching your Emerald Ditto run yesterday and i was thinking "He didn't make a Ditto run in Gen1 yet, when will this happen?" and here we are... Keep up the good work :)

[@alananderson1615]

I wish there was not a stigma about only one person doing a challenge run or "youre copying". More than 1 person can play a game and your are different than someone else. Just do it if you want to do it.

[@A_quip]

Love seeing the typically easy parts of the game become completely impossibly hard with ditto

[@David_Poole]

Jrose getting that bag. Its about time sponsors took notice. Love your content!

[@theaaronlennon]

The hero returns to give us all an early Christmas present!

[@Alex-mq6qi]

The Cooltrainer thing reminded me of a quote: "He who does not know his history is condemned to repeat it, but he who does know his history is condemned to see others who don't know repeat it"

[@chompyzilla]

In gen 1, you can fish and surf on those statues in league buildings. You could switch strategies in elite four if you wanted by either wasting your transforms on Magikarp fishes from the statue to gain struggle or using an Ether to gain transform. Transform every time turned out correct but it’s funny that switching is possible because of more gen 1 nonsense.

[@Kolokasidis]

That would be glitch abusing, which is against the runs' rules

[@sephirothrhal1930]

Jrose, thank you for actually using the gimmick! I've seen a few other people do Ditto only find, and you're the first one to actually make use of transform. Awesome video brother!

[@namespelldwrong9779]

Dude, the fact that you got sponsored by Atlus feels insane to me. You really have come a long way props to you

[@JosephHk743]

I knew from watching Pikasprey’s Ditto run a long time ago, this would be possible. However, it was interesting to see the struggles you faced doing it yourself Jrose.

[@RhythmJigoku]

2:26 I was cringing waiting for the RAID sponsor (which, I wouldn't blame anyone, they pay out good), and I was pleasantly surprised! A REAL GAME!!

[@Jiraki_the_Wingless]

I could never do this, I don't have the mental fortitude. Well done, you masochist!

[@無名兄弟-i7m]

I haven't watched the video yet but... I remember pika did this same run and had a lot of trouble with Giovannis Rhydon... Let's see if it's the same here 😮 Omg i knew it, that last Rhydon, I remember pikasprey explaining everything and then when he had to explain the rhydon he was like "and if it that wasn't bad enough..." Congratz man 🎉🎉🎉 crazy grind 😮

[@michaelf719]

Heck yeah jrose! Never been this early but I'm not skipping over your ad. Good for you! Can't wait to see how this plays out!

[@IntrigueAndWhimsy]

Atlus sponsored this video??? Big ups man, that's sick dude

[@NymphieJP]

I'm really glad you got sponsored by Persona 5 Tactica. It's a great game and your content it great too! It's beautiful! :D

[@connordevers6460]

Thanks for the content. I can always count on your vids to make my days better! DITTOOOOOO

[@StrangerForever85]

58:24 Those three words. Holy. Shit. It is that bad. I didn't think it would be that bad, but as soon as I realized it was heavily luck-based, I actually asked "It can't be that bad, right?" Nope. For the sake of your sanity, I'm glad you broke the "no save" rule. There is no way there's a consistent strategy with luck.

[@thetone90]

I recently thought that focus energy actually might have been intended to work as it did but critical hits were also meant to be worse than what came after gen 1. Focus energy is on some pokemon that have a high crit move and an ATK boosting move (meditate+karate chop, slash+swords dance), so maybe you were meant to boost your ATK and focus energy to actively avoid the crits in certain situations. Even the name could kinda make sense "focus energy"="focus the ATK-boosts you accumulated"

[@hitmanx200]

They actually fixed this is early as pokemon stadium so idk mang

[@federicogou]

Being sponsored by Atlus is such a big win! Congrats

[@SeonilKim-ry5lj]

I wonder how a Ditto solo run will work in Gen 5, where it's able to Transform instantly at the beginning of a battle with its 'Imposter' ability.

[@RitterDerHaselnuss]

Well Imposter is the hidden ability so you don't get it by resetting it as a modded starter or something

[@SeonilKim-ry5lj]

@@RitterDerHaselnuss Ah I see... Then would you say Imposter Ditto solo run is not possible to do?

[@DisplayThisOkay]

@@SeonilKim-ry5lj Probably not. They made a big change to struggle in Gen 4 that made struggle only/ditto playthroughs with no items usually impossible. Since ditto has Imposter you can never use struggle intentionally so any fight where the lead pokemon can't wreck most of the rest of it's team before running out of PP is doomed to fail.

[@HideoV]

Watching all these sharp image videos of gen 1 made me see that all those "black boulders" at the side of the road that I used to see on my game boy pocket and could not figure out what they were, were just trees. I must confess that a lot of the mystery and magic of Kanto was lost after that

[@ferrugemj18]

Since Pikasprey had to deal with the glitched ditto much later in the game I was under the impression struggle had a hidden PP amount that for some reason wouldn't replenish when healing at a poke centre. But no, it was only Gen 1 jankiness

[@dukesmith3381]

CoolTrainer move is a very bizarre move. Due to its glitchy nature, the output of the move is actually based on the tiles loaded in the overworld. Sometimes it crashes, and that's a good thing. Because sometimes it can wrongwarp you, produce strange battle effects, or even corrupt your entire cartridge. NEVER use this move on an actual cartridge.

[@colinobetz9506]

Wonder if he’s going to run into the Pikasprey struggle disable glitch where Ditto couldn’t use struggle any more?

[@SaerasChuu]

So long as he avoids bird pokemon with Mirror Move, he should be fine.

[@redreoicy6698]

If it happens, just battle wild fearow for 10 minutes to fix it XD

[@Double_K_A]

This is really one of your best videos. Thanks for enduring through the pain.

[@Igorcastrochucre]

We are reaching the latter third of Gen 1 Pokemon, we're gonna have runs of Goldeen, Horsea and Tangela. Those sure are Pokemon.

[@trentloosemore]

Can't wait for his rant about Tangela's Constrict 🤣

[@MLPIceberg]

He sill hasn't done Magikarp yet~ that's gonna be a special one. Unless you count his Impossible Run featuring Magikarp.

[@jbz4788]

@@MLPIcebergMajikarp (like Caterpie) just can’t get past the Pokémon tower

[@bongosmcdongos4190]

​@@jbz4788I want him to use the event Magikarp. It has dragon rage

[@Oi_Aussie_bloke]

That was an absolutely amazing video. The patience and perseverance was simply next level

[@leivaslt666]

Ditto would be fun and strategic if you could keep a transformation for the next battle. This way you could plan ahead order of battles to have the right moves for the next

[@anlev11]

That would be a cool romhack to play

[@darthparallax5207]

You'd have to have it save Transform slots to its move list so it could remember 3 previous Transformations and you're expecting the game to not break from glitches lol no.

[@nolongeraperson]

So glad your editor caught that at 1:04:01 because I was about to have an aneurysm 😂.

[@MLPIceberg]

Actually... I think Ditto's Transform is more like using Swords Dance (i.e., temporary stat increase). After all, Crits are based on Speed and never take into account offensive and defensive stat changes (for the Pokémon getting a crit, both offensive and defensively) in Gen 1. So when a Ditto transforms into a Persian and tries to use Slash, gets a crit; it'll do so much more using Ditto's original stats (when it entered that battle) over the stats gained via transforming. Basically put, It's not a glitch, but how the game is programed to operate under such circumstances. I did not know that- then again, I never use Ditto, so... yeah. Learnt something new today. Ditto isn't as useless in gen 1 as I originally thought.

[@Eeraz]

You are an absolute Mad Lad. Thank you as always for the absolutely fantastic and fun Content.

[@C_Train74]

Just realized for the first time that Fearow’s sprite’s face is in the middle of its body. I thought its wing was a bad profile.

[@jarradpavy6750]

Your tenacity is incredible! Amazing that you were able to get this done. 👏

[@franciscodeabreu4004]

It would be great to have a Ditto run in gen II or IV. You could use your delayed leppa strats (which I think it's one of the coolest things I've seen youtuber do in a pokemon challenge run)

[@NoLuckJustSkill1337]

Damn that’s quite the cool sponsor, gratz dude

[@wol3059]

Glad to see JRose finally getting a sponsor. He's been at the grind too long to be without one

[@Vekstar]

i would rather him gatekeep these videos by asking for money so we can download these videos than to get a sponsorship. Too me i feel like he has sold out, and i do not know if i can trust him with his content. Since there is outsider influencing his content, Same reason i stop watching summoning salt and Karl Jobst

[@RenatoSantino]

@@Vekstarit's a pokemon challenge video, what are you talking about??? trust? he's not trying to lure you to a ponzi scheme, selling you crypto or something like that

[@Vekstar]

@@RenatoSantino its the belief that people on KZbin should be doing this as a hobby and not a job. When they turn it into a job. there is a financial interest to do whatever it takes to keep them afloat. Because less views = less money. Can't wait for him to try and sell me on Raid Shadow legends.

[@SFTekken2028S]

@@Vekstaryes I am concerned too. I am concerned that now he has a sponsor, and not just Adsense from views, he will have more time improving his content and its quality to appeal to a wider audience to get more views. I can no longer trust that his Pokémon videos will not have sinister intentions in the future…

[@Vekstar]

@@SFTekken2028S agreed. I feel as though him doing this full time will be his downfall. I rather have less videos that I have to pay for than him doing sponserd content. And it's not so much the videos that I am concerned about, but more what he will be sponsering. But yeah, I agree with you.

[@GoliathZ13]

I can imagine Red just crying from happines after hours of trying to defeat Koga w/ a Ditto and everyone just staring at him like "dude why are you torturing yourself like this"

[@chucktaylor2172]

I'd subscribe again if I could Jrose. One of only a few KZbinrs who I watch every video without question.

[@VampVampChamp]

Love your videos, they’re always so fun to see what challenges you try next 🔥

[@Exponaut_R-01]

I was really “Yep, if this gets finished this is the easiest bottom of the tier list.” I forgot about Weedle

[@alekx6145]

Bro I can’t even begin to put into words how much of a great time this vid dropping is for me. It’s been a wacky week, and you never fail to entertain. Thanks bro, keep up the good work.

[@marksaum8904]

Hey Jrose, idk if you'll read this or not but I wanted to apologize to you. I've left some not so nice comments on your videos in the past. I love all of your videos and I don't know why I did that, but I think it was me taking frustrations from other aspects of my life out on you, which is not cool or fair. So yeah I just wanted to say I'm sorry, you don't deserve mean or hurtful comments, and your content always makes my day better when a new video drops. Thank you

[@BrandonVout]

I could've sworn you were the one who made the other Ditto run. For a moment I thought you were revisiting old runs with current strats.

[@Sheikh_Speare]

I thought the same thing but then realized it was Pikasprey. He even mentioned him and I was like, "oh yea, that's where I saw it."

[@Peelster1]

Jrose11 references Pikasprey's Ditto video by saying: "I haven't watched that video yet." Which is cool because that means Jrose doesn't know how to do this run and will come up with his own plans. It is also scary, because poor Jrose has no idea about the hellish struggle he is in for. This is going to be a good video.

[@user-ck7tg1dq9y]

3:43 Is when the sponsorship ad ends. Yes, I will keep the proud tradition alive.

[@MisterMcCrumch]

One of my favourite KZbin’s sponsored by my favourite IP. This brings a tear to my eye