Can you beat Pokemon Emerald with Just a Numel?

4x weak to water.... in Hoenn... oh boy!
I stream at twitch.tv/Jrose11
Edited by: SimplyAJ ( / simplyaj )

[@smalen4288]

Bro when he said “can u imagine an entire run 2v1 that would be abysmal… I should do it” had me absolutely dying 😂

[@Jecoopster]

Lino the time stamp! I don’t wanna watch the whole video

[@TrulyAtrocious]

@@Jecoopster you want to watch the whole video

[@user-lg5xu6id5j]

@@TrulyAtrocious at .5 speed lol

[@erc3338]

I think that mod already exists, and either Smallant or PointCtow did it in one of the games.

[@ChrisPierreBacon]

Lol jrose enjoys the punishment (read: challenge) I think, especially after that Weedle run.

[@Mortagg]

“The problem is…they just use Psychic, and I faint.” Accurate synopsis for many many fights

[@crimsoncutz8430]

The life story of every kid who played RBY and thought using a poison type would be fun

[@MsAmber82]

​@@crimsoncutz8430But it was when some trainers used Agility

[@wesleykushner8028]

I expected the month of jrose to be a 10-15 minute video every day (which I wouldn't be against!) Instead there's a bunch of 1hr+ impossible challenges

[@kacpikachu5951]

Ikr. I hope he’s pulling some of these from a backlog because holy hell.

[@obsidianfrost9514]

Based on some comments some of these were from streams which makes sense imho probably the 15 min ish videos are what he does that day

[@dynastystar5515]

10-15 minute jrose video? You must be new here. Even some of the shorter videos are barely under 30

[@無名兄弟-i7m]

We should start calling him mailman because HE DELIVERS (I stole this joke from pokechal)

[@kaptainKrill]

@@dynastystar5515 it makes you think back to the pre-COVID Jrose, where a 30-minute video had him commenting on how crazy long the video was.

[@SoapyFae]

numel was the one to write the infamous "7.5 too much water" review

[@bakurasensei]

"Team Magma did nothing wrong." -Numel, probably

[@diairairship2403]

"Can you imagine doing an entire run of 2 vs 1? That would be ABYSMAL! ...I should do that." - Jrose11, ever the masochist.

[@tijuanagenius4320]

I thought he was going to have a bunch of filler videos to get through the month but these have all been bangers

[@MIrfanPerdana]

The mighty Jrose11 doesn't do filler! And we're all here for him!

[@BattIeBear]

"Hope this run didn't disappoint you" your runs could never disappoint me, doesn't matter if they are easy, impossible, or "complicated" I'm here for them all!

[@volcanolord100]

I love how this video comes out the DAY I finish this challenge myself. This run I found to be far easier than I expected, but I did allow myself a perfect Numel, so results may vary.

[@shapesnatch1341]

Camerupt is probably my second favourite pokemon (Behind yeboi Gyarados) and I'll never forget being in a double battle against my brother when I kept spamming flame charge until Camerupt was pretty fast, then he hit me with a crit and I was on exactly 2 hp, but Camerupt's hidden ability Anger Point triggered, giving me max attack and I just sweapt his team with Earthquake. Good times

[@bp3366]

Yeboi

[@Andrewbert109]

I just stumbled on these videos and i gotta say I absolutely love these. This is exactly the kind of thing i used to do playing red and blue as a kid, except I'd do it with just a Blastoise or Gyarados or something, i cannot fathom using just a Numel never mind some of your other runs like Magikarp and Shuckle. I can't imagine the dedication and frustration this must take

[@bossboy191919]

J became my favourite poketuber, he drops great content like a boss lately and it is long and fantastic. I enjoy the journey each video brings so much

[@viii8993]

Same. I love his energy, all his uploads have so much effort and quality put into them.

[@thegreatmr.a3846]

If I'm correct, the Juan Kingdra double team thing is because the A.I. in the game, if it doesn't see a K.O. will either pick a move at random, or i believe some are programmed to attempt to boost stats. so my guess is that because you had full health, it didn't see a K.O. and the other half of the programming kicked in.

[@jbz4788]

That’s an interesting idea actually. A “How much of a difference do EV’s make.” Video (or mini series) where you compare an otherwise identical Pokémon/team when properly Ev trained, The random Ev training of a casual/uninformed player and having Ev’s turned off.

[@DesktopCrocs]

Always a joyous day when there's a Jrose upload. The month of Jrose has been amazing so far! Keep up the great work my dude!

[@jordand8371]

It has been a fantastic time so far with a Jrose a day!

[@petercross1879]

@@jordand8371 he didn't upload yesterday, but he Gave us 2 today. Though this video is very...... Generic. I still think his Gen 1 runs should have been in Fire Red. That game had actual strategy

[@steezuskryst7201]

Yah you should probably start your own channel and upload more consistently , Mr critic

[@okMizu]

The greatest month for KZbin ever, also you're missing an e in your name

[@caliburnleaf9323]

I think the Kingdra in the Juan fight went for double team because you finally reached it with enough HP to not get knocked out by water pulse. If it sees a guaranteed KO, it will take it, but since there was no KO to take, it just selected moves randomly.

[@Soinetwa]

this! yes was about to comment this den 3 always goes for kill moves if they see a kill

[@ShadowOfCicero]

I think in Gen 3, anything that doesn't see an OHKO and knows Double Team will set up all six. Justy, I'm looking at you.

[@saltybot5449]

Numel is a perfect boy without flaw (except for its 4x weakness to water in the too much water game), this will be easy.

[@mesplin3]

Numel's typing is actually quite good. The issue is that it is an aggressive type combination like ice ground which works better for faster pokemon.

[@MIrfanPerdana]

Precisely Magcargo's issue. It's typing is very good offensively, but it's statted as a tank... (I mean I get it, it's a snail, *of course* it's gonna be slow af, just... man, Magcargo just got screwed over by a type-stat mismatch).

[@mesplin3]

@@MIrfanPerdana Speed does hurt for Macargo but even so, I think that fire-rock is not that great of a combination.

[@youtube-kit9450]

Offensively, rock/fire is actually quite potent. 38 pokémon resist it, 650 pokémon normal effective and 507 SE. Ground/Fire is resisted by 29, 595 normal effective, 571 SE. Both type combos are clearly geared towards offense, but rock/ice especially have the problem that gamefreak is obsessed with making those types slow. @@mesplin3

[@Golden_Deus]

​@@mesplin3Hisuian Arcanine says otherwise (at lease Offensively)

[@mesplin3]

@@Golden_Deus I looked over my data since I posted this. Fire/Rock isn't as bad as I initially thought. The rock coverage provides a decent amount of neutral coverage to otherwise strong types. Although I think Rock Head/Head Smash is a big contributor for Arcanine's success in UU.

[@timbawden2577]

I think Juan's Kingdra calculated that it's water pulse wouldn't knock you out (Lvl 46 0 SpA Kingdra Water Pulse vs. Lvl 68 60 HP / 100 SpD Numel: 144-172 (80 - 95.5%) -- guaranteed 2HKO) so it chose a random move and you got really lucky. I obviously don't know your Numel's IVs but I guessed a fairly logical spread of average (15s) in IVs and matched your HP stat. Very lucky! Any damage even just from confusion probably results in an attack.

[@Ultimaximus]

He usually resets for slightly better than average IVs

[@MijmerMopper]

Damn, this is gonna be a rough one. It ain't fast, it's weak to water in Hoen, looking forward to this.

[@patrickschneider1986]

but jo it looks cute

[@alexanderalfonsson5874]

Man I kind of feel spoiled by these amazing daily uploads. What a treat this has been so far.

[@CobraComputerSystems]

Would love to see a Kabutops gen 1 run. Super effective move against Brock and misty, decent speed, good atk and def, and a good movepool 👍

[@dawnsbuneary]

Yeah, but that move is ABSORB. No STAB on it, 20 Base Power and Kabutops's Special sucks. Not great.

[@youtubeviewer1387]

@@dawnsbuneary this is true, but neither of them will be doing too much damage against it to be fair. Definitely worth trying at least!

[@DisplayThisOkay]

@@dawnsbuneary At least as far as Brock is concerned that's still base 80 power move that's healing you half the damage dealt and neither of his mons can hit you back very hard. Also stats are so low that early in the game having bad special doesn't really matter.

[@scoobiusmaximus9508]

So it's a good think that you got that crit on Norman's Slaking instead of the burn you wanted. Slaking has Facade, which does double damage under status and ignores the damage drop from burn, so the burn plan would just fail anyways.

[@tinkerer3399]

Actually in this gen Facade does get the damage drop from burn. It isn't until Gen 6 that it ignores the damage drop.

[@scoobiusmaximus9508]

@@tinkerer3399 Interesting. I assume it still gets the double damage though so it would still basically negate the burn.

[@tinkerer3399]

@@scoobiusmaximus9508 Yep, so it is identical to its other attacking move. Wait... I'm an idiot, I forgot that Dark was Special in Gen 3. It is way better than Feint Attack.

[@AlphaAutistenAlfred]

@@tinkerer3399 facade is a normal type attack

[@tinkerer3399]

@@AlphaAutistenAlfred Yes so it gets STAB + it's based off Slaking's Atk. Way better than it's other attacking move.

[@DissociativeIdentity]

I really like the thumbnail to this video. An apprehensive (or just dopey?) expression on the Numel over a background of one of Hoenn's many water routes. The yellow and blue compliment each other nicely. Great job!

[@DrPotatoSkins]

I absolutely LOVE Numel, and as someone who did this run on his own a while ago, it's one of the funnest Pokemon challenges I ever did. Glad to see an official video on it now ^-^ As for what Kanto solo run to do next, I have an interesting question: Which Gen 1 Fire-type is worth using your Fire Stone on? You've done Eevee and Flareon, now how about Growlithe/Arcanine and Vulpix/Ninetales? As a massive Arcanine fan, I would like to know which is best. (Day 11 of asking)

[@N12015]

Ninetales. Scott's thoughts made a video about it some hours ago and Ninetales was far better than Arcanine because of that crucial 100 special, as well as the exp. group (Slow group can even ruin gods like Tauros).

[@TheRedAzuki]

Arcanine is pretty bad at gen 1 (if you don't start with Growlithe movepool) cuz its movepool is pretty poor.

[@nautgamingnautgaming9949]

@@N12015 that and Arcanine having balanced stats hurt it because it wasn't consistently getting one shots on its special moves This even caused BRUNO of all people to LET ARCANINE KNOW WHOSE BOSS

[@chucktaylor2172]

Hey Jrose I really hope all this hard work is paying off for you. Hopefully your able to make a living doing these pokemon videos because I'm fully addicted now lol I want you to keep making videos FOREVER haha

[@prof.reuniclus21]

7.5/10 "Too Much Water" -Numel's gravestone

[@Pikachuness]

Sun reducing water moves power definitely helped majorly here, good job on the run!

[@an-albinocrow33808]

How could you forget the 8th gym leader. He’s the most important Juan

[@michaeljbuckley]

The standard of runs is off the charts. Here was me thinking November will be mostly Gen 1 solo Pokémon. Savage effort JRose!

[@avmarev4230]

"2 on 1 would be abysmal" - JRose11 as they're grabbing a pen to write that down.

[@Zorgdub]

In the Tate & Liza battle it was really smart to go for Charcoal over White Herb, since Rollout was the better move to use for the rest of the battle. Neat!

[@CountShaman]

I never thought I'd hear someone say "Steven is not good at battling" considering everyone loved him as the champion, but that also isn't false considering he teaches thunder and solarbeam to Aggron. THUNDER and SOLARBEAM to BASE 60 SP ATTACK AGGRON.

[@ryanhowse9266]

I have a bad memory so every day I forget it's the month of Jrose and every day I'm so excited to see a new video come up.

[@niallplatt457]

Hope all this hard work pays off for you jrose been watching your videos for years the quality hasnt dropped even with all the extra work youre putting in really enjoyed the daily videos!!

[@nicholasaiello3611]

Magnitude odds gave me a good idea. A run of variable damage only, whether it be weight, based, number of hits or variable power. Could be interesting

[@NorseThunderFox]

Would metronome be allowed

[@Torquedbattlespec]

Please jrose, do this

[@nicholasaiello3611]

@@NorseThunderFox I’d say yes but that also screams to have it’s own run

[@rainpooper7088]

@Nicholas Aiello Metronome is funny, but thing with Metronome only runs is that there’s absolutely no strategy and they always turn into leveling past your problems eventually. Level up enough and it no longer really matters what move you roll.

[@jordanthejq12]

33:00 What happened, I think, is that you survive a Water Pulse from full, so the AI instruction to go for the kill doesn't activate, so Juan just does whatever he wants, which is usually evasion spam.

[@thisguy9378]

Honestly I'm so happy that all these videos are like regular videos and not 20 min ones thank you for putting in the time and effort in doing these I know this was a lot of work so again thank you!!

[@bigkevinm84]

I absolutely love these challenges, they've been a ton of fun. The worse the Pokemon, the more entertaining. Keep it up!

[@AfterAnAutopsy]

I always wonder if Jrose has ever missed an evolution skip in one of these runs and had to reset a battle.

[@luasaturni3092]

that's exactly why I only do solo runs with fully evolved pokemon because I used to do that way too much

[@sniperfosho]

Why not just cheat items into your inventory, and equip the everstone? Unless you're on an actual cartridge

[@creeperbro7677]

@@sniperfosho but you can clearly see he hacked numel as his starter

[@sniperfosho]

@@creeperbro7677 he doesn't emulate, so I forgot about that. I emulate and when I play games like gen 2 or gen 2 remake, I code break Evo stones because they suck to get unlike gen 1

[@rawbebaba]

It is kind of mind boggling how often a gym leader will heal instead of just one shot your last pokemon lol

[@michaspi]

It’s a flex

[@DisplayThisOkay]

I mean to be fair they don't know if you're just going to heal yourself. Healing is the logical choice because at worse it just resets both pokemon to neutral.

[@rawbebaba]

@@DisplayThisOkay well, it's logical, unless it can one shot you lol.

[@TheSkyWhale]

Dude is straight up grinding. Keep it up man I really enjoy the content

[@Seloliva1015]

Jrose: "His speed is ABISMAL" Numel: "And I took that personally"

[@SomeGuy712x]

Awesome run with Numel managing to get past Wallace at level 95! But, I'm surprised you didn't attempt the bonus battle with Steven Stone afterwards, which I was hoping to see as well. I'd expect Numel to do real well against most of his team.

[@JustusRodan]

I agree I think that’s why he didn’t show it would have been super easy at his level and without type disadvantage cheers!

[@vyor8837]

Or the fight with the legendaries

[@SomeGuy712x]

@@JustusRodan But, Steven Stone is typically regarded as the true final challenge of Emerald runs, and I expected him to at least mention it. I'm betting he simply forgot about it altogether.

[@cadencenavigator958]

Did he try using Amnesia in the Wallace fight? Can hit Wailord with Flamethrower since Earthquake knocks it out, tank the Water Spout, and set up Amnesia so later water moves don't one shot you.

[@camhall5993]

These daily uploads make me unbelievably happy

[@litofficial]

The content this man is putting out is amazing.

[@BrainyTB]

Camerupt has one of the best pokemon names, change my mind

[@KainaX122]

Girafarig. Farigiraf.

[@radioactivebeverage]

Eternally in your debt for providing background noise and lunch entertainment

[@PalladinPoker]

For maximum challenge you probably should have given the rival torchic. That gives May 2 a Wingull who is immune to Magnitude.

[@sal40151]

*rollout*

[@XenoZach]

All of these impossible challenges lately have been a real treat, thanks for the hard work!!

[@yuumijungle548]

numel: " 7.8/10 too much water :( "

[@harveytomos4959]

I cannot keep up with this the devotion to posting right now is immense

[@MekhetM]

"Numel, the speedy camel that knocks out water Pokémon with fire moves" epic material right there.

[@roamingnyiad]

"Too much water. 7.8/10." Words to live by from Numel, November 30th, 2022. In any case, WOW. That final clash with Wallace, which I thought would be the WORST THING EVER FOR GEN 3, went actually kinda okay in the end with the right strategy. Good to see this still works even despite a really BAD match-up.

[@SofterSideStudios]

Numel/camerupt is one of my best, Pokémon in Pokémon scarlet, can’t wait to see him destroy emerald

[@williambrown5934]

4:52 I love how Brawly looks like Wolverine without the claws with that wild hair style 😍 🤣

[@theorycrafting.pokemon]

Damn, I remember doing this same challenge like a year ago... I feel your pain. I used a different ruleset tho, so I guess that made things more bearable... with your rules, no way this can be beaten without overleveling like crazy! Keep it up Jrose, you are an inspiration to many

[@djdjinn6340]

I am living for this month of jrose. So much fun to look forward to these challenges everyday. I hope your channel gets a big push from this, you deserve it

[@red-eyessolares1817]

This Numel run was fun! Would be cool to see how the big bro Camerupt will do!

[@velvetbutterfly]

I wonder how helpful it would be if there were essentially Held X-Items, where you can start a battle at +1 for a single stat you choose

[@frankfort332]

Apparently gamefreak thinks it's powerful enough to lock behind an item + ability

[@justanothercommenterwithan9089]

@@frankfort332 well it kinda is

[@Thori45]

The math is 1 - 0.8^2 = 36% for qc or miss, because you calculate that both thing are not happening so 0.8 * 0.8 and if you substract that from 1 you get the probability for one (or both) things happening.

[@petelee2477]

Why keep amnesia over overheat? You didn't use amnesia a single time throughout the run meanwhile overheat has a few niche scenarios where it might have been useful. Maybe you could have one shot flygon for example

[@renatatostada3318]

I wondered the same. Amnesia just completely wasted a slot since he never used it once

[@phuck4757]

Numel was my first random shiny back in emerald so this is a great run to see, amazing vid as always man!

[@BayouBunny]

Hey Jrose, been a fan for years now. Love the vids, love the effort you put into it, keep up the excellent work man. Small note on editing btw. Ive noticed this with dozens of creators i follow as well. Maybe give a 1-2 second pause in your vids before you start the voice over. With youtubes auto play when you scroll over a video on mobile by the time you click the vid its already 2 or 3 seconds in and if you stared talking from frame 1 then the viewer has to rewind or the first few words you say get cut off.

[@primobrickhouse]

Hell yes!!! Long live Jrose and his 30 straight days of pokemon challenges!!! Day 12

[@shepskydad]

I recently used Numel and Camerupt in a playthrough of XD. It’s a really fun one to use, but with water types being the MOST common type in the game, it’s an uphill battle 😂

[@frankfort332]

Have you tried the XG mod? Idk, just kind of makes the game better in every way

[@maxwellwilliams1802]

Idea. Can you beat Pokemon gold/silver/crystal using only moves that were normal type in gen 1 but are no longer so in gen 2(low kick, bite, gust, etc)

[@abigriffin9496]

Finally, a run where Juan is a challenge

[@GrahamArnold64]

I'm absolutely loving all of these runs, keep them up!! Would love to see a tier list for other gens one day potentially too!

[@Ryan-xo9tf]

Totally agree; I think the strats for later gens really open up because the mechanics are a bit more complex.

[@seandaniels7938]

0:34 I've played these games since release and never knew you could do this I always thought you had to touch the poke ball

[@Norien711]

Dude, I can’t believe you’re actually doing these videos every day for a month. Hope you’re not killing yourself to do this! I love it though!

[@Axecon1]

Mad respect for this run but it feels incomplete without the Steven Stone battle. I really shouldn't complain though over an optional postgame battle, we are getting a month of uploads from this awesome channel.

[@samueldeptula4976]

I love numel. I used to name it wakuwak cuz that’s the noise it makes. Camerupt won me my first ever Pokémon sapphire

[@lurientheenjoyer6711]

I have already commented about this before, but i really like how you pronounce Juan. It makes such a common hispanic name sound mysterious... (Btw, if you were curious about it, the actual pronunciation is more like "who-ann")

[@Daenijel]

34:14 So, the first elite 4 trainer is Sidney, a dog-type trainer. He leads with Mightyena...

[@joshuaspector8182]

My lad! This run was the **opposite** of disappointing!! 😂

[@Matkin222]

I'm not sure I'd count this as a complete run, since Emerald has Steven Stone beyond the champion.

[@Jrose11]

Except that's post game, the Battle Frontier is also post-game, does that need to be done?

[@walterking8577]

You are out of control this month! I love it

[@JordyPordy10]

These uploads have been great cuz I love listening to your stuff to fall asleep to.

[@MrCrixmadine2]

Getting some magcargo vibes from MDB's run. I like seeing these kinds of videos.

[@montblancnoland1]

Nasty sir lol

[@closetodeathseth]

Bro I’m so happy you keep churning out these videos!

[@ace94d]

I wonder if Return over Secret Power would have been useful to knock out Flygon on Drake w/o Quick Claw / Sunny Day? Definitely went a lot like I expected, Numel not having a problem for 90% of the game but Wallace being a late game roadblock. He's got super strong moves and his stats aren't bad, so it's just a matter of when he gets one shot. And Tate/Liza always being super hard for these runs. Was quite the fun video, though! Lovin' the Month of JRose here.

[@shadowtitanx3962]

IGN: 7.8/10 ToO MuCh WaTeR

[@BlackTempleGaurdian]

You know, for 'mons like this where the core problem persists, I'd love to see "how much easier?" videos with their evolutions.

[@Gigabowzard]

I’d say magcargo is probably worse. It’s even slower with lower base attack and Roxanne must be worse when you’re weak to rock and your HP stat is lower too. Sure it’s got defense, special defense, and special attack on its side, but it’s nothing major for special attack and defense can only go so far when you still have to worry about 4x ground, 4x water, and has no immunity.

[@MikeSkinnerAudio]

Can’t describe how stoked I am that all these videos of one month of JRose are 1+ hour long. Love this content so much

[@U2B4U]

Let’s go Numel!! 🐫🌋🔥 You can do it buddy 😁🥇

[@Gogeta0991]

You know what would be an awesome idea: A dark souls pokemon. Instead of leveling up as always, you only get rewards after each (gym) trainer like the giant souls. You can use them to learn new attacks or to level up and have to make smart decisions in order to be able to beat the game

[@caseynubnub6815]

Hol' up let the man cook

[@TheAncardiaCodex]

I can't handle all these good videos coming out so quick lol

[@themoabrigade]

Burn is a great stat to abuse..... its why despite me not using fire types normally, my fave Pokemon always has will-o-wisp on it..... full tank Sableye with it is a beast X)

[@autobotstarscream765]

Sableye gets more out of Will-O-Wisp than most Fire-types. 😎

[@themoabrigade]

@@autobotstarscream765 true, Fire types make more use out of direct damage fire moves. What I mean though is Burn feels like one of the strongest statuses (not counting freeze which is OP) versus attack based pokemon, so the way I see it is if you can burn a physical attacker you always should unless your damage is 100% based on Foul Play :)

[@autobotstarscream765]

@@themoabrigade Absolutely, and remember SwagPlay (Swagger + Foul Play)? 😈

[@themoabrigade]

@@autobotstarscream765 oh yah, thats a bit more risky for pokemon that go hard on EV/IV for defense but a good bit more rage inducing for the one it's used on lol

[@nfmjcn2687]

I’m loving the impossible challenge streak going on… bet there’s way more he’s got too lol hope to see one in colosseum or XD!

[@TheDrunkLawyer]

This is really like if a Team Magma Grunt tried to become champion

[@Just_Jules_333]

That was a very nice amount of HP to win at

[@o7ViiGHTMAREo]

I didn’t realise that magnitude worked in a Prato distribution, that is really interesting!

[@Miguel_Macias1]

Amazing journey! I had to take a few days to watch in short sessions due to being too busy but it was amazing! I'm excited to watch the rest of your videos as well!

[@keegandebruyn6567]

I’m going to be so sad when this month of Jrose is over

[@barrybludgeon7448]

ngl I was a little disappointed you didnt try steven after such an awesome win

[@HORRIOR1]

I feel like you would have found more use for Amnesia than that. Also kinda disappointed we didn't get a Steven fight. Numel would have wrecked it.

[@Dzyntara]

God I hope the man doesn't burn out after all this content, he wasn't messing around with the month of Jrose at all. Not that I'm complaining! I'm absolutely loving the videos as something to put on in the background while I draw, but I hope the man is doing okay