Top 10 WORST Pokemon to do the "Solo" Challenge - Pokemon Red/Blue

53 Pre-evolved Pokemon, which one can do the Solo Challenge the best? Find out over the next few weeks, and here's a list of the 10 I'm LEAST looking forward to!

[@Jrose11]

Get ready for Bulbasaur in the next couple days! Sorry I didn't have better footage for this, I was super nervous about just using the Lapras run for most of it. If I had a camera I would have probably just done one of those ones where I just talked, but alas. Hope it's not too bad.

[@TVIDS123]

It’s a great video. Looking forward to the rest!

[@gonkdroidincarnate4237]

Jrose11 if you are reading this just wanted you to know now you have 69 videos. Nice

[@LadyBrightcynder]

Hey, how do you keep up playing the same game without getting sick of it? I've tried doing Red/Blue runs of my own but I always get fed up of going through the same game over and over.

[@joshuathompson3325]

Weedle? You mean bongzilla?

[@jaycob1830]

Bulbasaur yaaaaaah

[@thebestworst8002]

I like how 23 minutes is now short for a jrose11 video

[@TheEmilyFravel]

Lol

[@frappompi]

I'm not complaining tbh

[@ragingmex5442]

remember in one of his older videos (I think it was the gen IV catch em all) he said that there was no way he was going to make a 1 hour video I'm not complaining though

[@TonioQuo7]

Shows just how good the quality, and the amount of effort is :D

[@kamoroso94]

@@TonioQuo7 it's a lot of rambling though. Could be condensed.

[@MahDryBread]

I could see Diglett being one of those runs where most of it is really fast thanks to dig's 100 power in Gen 1 and the base speed crit system in Gen 1 favouring Diglett, but that every once in a while you'll run into a Pokemon that you normally hardly think about that's a brick wall. That and most of Lance would be awful. Three strong flying types. If your rival has Charizard too, that's rough. Also Paras was horrible and I did it in Fire Red where at least it could hold a quick claw. At level 100 it was still slower than the rival's Charizard in the final battle, and it's flamethrower would bring us to red health from full. Doing the same thing in Gen 1 would probably require the AI to do something stupid, or just fantastic luck with Spore. Also, I'm literally doing a Zubat in Red run while I'm watching this! What a coincidence!

[@ryanamburgy2791]

MDB will you do another generation 5 challenge?

[@JNT101]

Hey MDB! Can't wait to see the challenge tomorrow!

[@shadowtitanx3962]

Which Fossil did you take?

[@000007073]

Your channel inspired me to find a youtube channel filtering/blocking extension, thanks!

[@HoratioMcAlge]

I'm so glad I don't subscribe to you. Sexist who begs for views with all-caps.

[@thisisntcorrect1031]

Jake Mcaulay has done multiple Weedle runs on his channel. It requires items and lots of luck

[@WDR7]

“Bongzilla has entered the chat”

[@ahang6904]

Bongzilla cause you have to be hella high to even attempt this shit

[@LiskHelio]

Bongzilla is a god

[@Penguindude1]

Oh hey, someone else who has heard of the tales of Bongzilla.

[@shadowtitanx3962]

Sadly, in the vid, it is going through an "Itemless" and no saving in between E4 fights.

[@yommmrr]

Jrose you are so good at what you do. No bs clickbait or generic content. Just interesting and well put dialogue. Thanks man

[@darianclark3980]

Jrose11: I never seen anyone do a Weedle run *Jake McCaulay: Allow Me To Introduce You To My Weedle Army Lad!*

[@shadowtitanx3962]

Except he used Items. And, Jrose wants Itemless runs.

[@darianclark3980]

@@shadowtitanx3962 He actually did only one for Pokemon Yellow. But he had to evolve it bc he couldn't pass the 8th Gym aka Giovanni

[@tegistardis69]

This is about SOLO pokemon runs tho. 1 involved pokemon not a team of them

[@tmgthemariogamer3676]

Bongzilla

[@ForumcoldiArchon]

its pretty much impossible due to the toxic top4 trainer. Cant poison her ghosts and you only have 35 of not effective poisonstings.. even on lvl 100 its not enough

[@noddwyd]

This is funny because Pidgey's evolutions beat the game quite easily. Actually the Gen III remakes are way harder on pretty much all singlemon runs. Even at very high levels you get dunked by the Elite Four without items.

[@OmegaTyrant]

Yeah a lot of people think the Gen 1 games were the hardest, but then they had the worst AI, absolutely terrible movesets in Red/Blue, and you had the old Stat Exp system that let you get a way bigger overall boost to your stats than the modern EV system (no overall limit and each stat can get the maximum boost while the EV system has an overall limit about a third of what you could get with the Stat EXP system). There's additionally the Badge boosts system where certain Badges will permanently boost a corresponding stat by 12.5% for all ingame battles with all your pokemon, and by the time you get the 7th Badge all your non-HP stats will be boosted by 12.5%, while Gen 3 would nerf the Badge boosts to 10% and then Gen 4 onward just took them out altogether. For an example of how big of a statistical advantage you got from the Stat EXP system combined with the Badge boosts, the last time I played Blue I had a level 48 Nidoking (a pokemon with 85 base Speed) outspeed Agatha's level 60 Gengar (110 base Speed). Gen 1 is absolutely the easiest Gen to do challenges when it stacks so much in your favor.

[@nousername34]

It's a loooong time ago but I always single mon'd fire red with only my starter. Blastoise always had good move coverage, just spam full restores amirite

[@Iceblade269]

You also have to consider that you as the player are buffed too! Better TMs, better moves, VS seeker,-and move tutors (Rock Slide being one of them.) I think it’s an even trade

[@OmegaTyrant]

@@Iceblade269 It's not like the player struggled to get good moves in Gen 1, while the AI trainers were severely gimped in that regard, to the point that in Champion Blue's battle he has shit like a Rhydon with only weak Normal moves, an Arcanine that is still using Ember for STAB, and an Exeggutor whose only damaging moves are Normal and doesn't even have a full moveset. The Vs. Seeker just made it quicker to grind levels and gave a better way to grind money than relying on Pay Day, but it's not like either game really requires grinding and the player should never be struggling for funds to afford items throughout the game.

[@ssjbread2803]

@@OmegaTyrant plus the badge boosts are glitched so that double team not only boosts evasion it also boosts attack

[@mrniceguy7168]

Just hearing these Pokémon makes me exhausted. I can only imagine all the Struggle strats. You must enjoy torturing yourself.

[@xMarbleSnow]

The fact that this video uses the soundtrack from Pokémon conquest already makes it amazing

[@superparadox]

I think you should include a final end game timer for each run as well! I'd love to see if there's a correlation to a Pokemons ranking compared to how long it took you.

[@dustybot3274]

I've done a pikachu only run on blue because he's my favorite pokémon and the first 2 hours we're difficult to get up to lvl 16 and beat Brock, but after that the game was pretty easy. Once you get thunderbolt, battles become way easier and once I got double edge, rock types weren't even that big of an issue. I ended up beating the elite four at level 86 and I killed all three legendary birds to establish my dominance.

[@supertaco_6415]

I really like the Pokemon Conquest music in the background. Also the actually video is really good.

[@Blauboad]

How about a low level challange. Finish the game with a team, as low level as possible. Would be interesting to see because it is not simply a yes or no question. Looking forward for your content during the next weeks or months.

[@AS34N]

This

[@cubedmelons876]

I remember trying that back in the day, abusing gen 1 AI to make it possible. My team was in the high 30s by the time I beat the game. Actual skilled people could probably go as low as the mid-20s.

[@OmegaTyrant]

I've been thinking of this and seeing how low level you can get (while banning the use of evasion-boosting moves since they can allow you to win any battle with enough luck) would be a lot more interesting, as the mainline Pokemon games being so easy and opponents' levels just not getting high enough means very few challenges are actually impossible (at least prior to Gen 4, Gen 4 onwards having the EV system plus no Badge boosts makes things a lot tougher for challenge runs). Also when challenges involves teams more people gotta use the Set battle mode, way too many people are using Shift/Switch when that makes things so much easier. If you're not going to use items because they give you a big unfair advantage, why use the battle mode that also gives you such a blatantly unfair advantage over the AI?

[@GhengizKanye]

He just finished (only the elite 4+champion) with a team of level 5 pokemon. Spoiler alert Bruno was still a 1st chance win and agatha was a pain.

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

I am incredibly hyped by this new project. Having your outlook on those challenges promise to be really interesting.

[@mathuasher9184]

Been a fan of your videos for a while. Other folks make quality videos too but yours are the apotheosis of this genre to me.

[@cameronshand8874]

Listening to the audio from the first couple minutes of this is just...oof. Our poor boy Jrose was so innocent. He thought this was gonna be only 53 videos, and that it would only take a few weeks to finish.

[@Seando42069]

Where it all began

[@schlix]

Don't know how I came back after 3 years to this video.. but greetings from 2024. Time to enjoy the good old vids😊

[@davveromeliloto4306]

Thank you so much for the company Jrose! Great content as usual, can't wait for the next video!

[@OSmeone]

Great video!

[@Gorden121]

I would love to see you do that kind of challenge in a different generation. Maybe one in every generation, potentially with the same Pokémon (if that's even possible) and compare what the challenges and differences are in each run?

[@Chronoflation]

I am so glad I randomly found your channel a while back and noticed this series. I am loving it and it's totally gotten me back into retro Pokemon. I wanna do some red and blue runs on my 3DS since I can't find my original copies (I never got rid of them but I think my parents tossed a bunch of my stuff when I went to college and they didn't tell me). I'm just bummed out cause I grew up on the GBC and playing them in black and white is just not the same. I want my jank colored and jank designed Pokemon, is that so much to ask for lol

[@Gorgon_Tanza]

I had a friend back in the day that did a 6 weedle run. All of them were level 100 by the end of the game and they used items.

[@rafaellum]

Did the challenge with Zubat! It was a bit hard to get through Sabrina, Lorelei and Agatha but other than that it was doable at lvl 60+. Use Double team + Confuse ray to set up badge boost glitch power ups, and become untouchable (albeit relying on RNG). Against E4, use Mega Drain + Wing attack until Agatha. Replace Mega drain for Mimic to copy Hydro Pump from Gyrarados (to OHKO Aerodactyl), and Sky attack from Pidgeot for 2HKOing Blue's pokemon other than Exeggutor (Wing attack on it). Or replace Wing attack to use Mega drain on Rhydon to get some health back from Pidgeot's wing attacks, and possibly useful against Blastoise if you chose it as the rival's Pokémon.

[@stevensmith6705]

Great video man i love it. You arent cringey and annoying like most youtubers.

[@uncle2950]

Gotta love the pokemon conquest soundtrack in the background :)

[@Sythian289]

These have been an amazing way to get through lockdown

[@azeemsiddiqui4764]

You wouldn't even be able to get to Agatha with Caterpie. You'd be stuck at the Pokémon Tower.

[@BloodySabbath88]

A new breath of fresh air!! Thanks guy!

[@coolsonicfan90]

Nice pick of the music from pokemon conquest

[@beebobber546]

Do you think the test will be easier to get through the longer you play? What I mean by this is once you get 20 Pokémon in you’ll know trainers Pokémon by heart for some of them. You can avoid certain ones that’s have a lot of Pokémon to get through faster. Just a random thought I had

[@megaball-ps8tq]

I like the content you make Keep up the good work 👍

[@wardemonwar4912]

Anyone else spend like a minute and a half just trying to find out where the music for the opening came from? No? Well, it’s from conquest if anyone be wondering.

[@elianewinter2638]

Fun fact: In the popularity ranking of Kanto pokémon Magnemite got place #30

[@erikchen9918]

"No one's really done [an itemless Weedle run]" *Jake Mccauley has entered the chat* He got to Giovanni at the Viridian Gym, pretty impressive. Did take him some 70 tries against Blaine.

[@shadowtitanx3962]

That was in Yellow, which is a lot more difficult than Red and Blue.

[@bobjones4469]

Its funny how much Brock is a roadblock but the Elite 4 version of him is a joke. Special Attack is such an unbalanced mess in this game.

[@Mafiiia43]

CreepFanLP has a Weddle challange

[@llewelynjohn7154]

Would you do a kacoona Rattata run again?

[@PeterCordi]

Hey JRose- would you rank the Yellow Version of Pikachu this low as well? I'm not sure if it has different stats but it has an expanded learnset/moveset and learns attacking moves much quicker. Been using it for a solo challenge of my own for fun in my spare time, and rock pokemon are really not giving me any worse problems than I've had using other pokemon. Interested in your thoughts!

[@theconnected7234]

Back in 99 I would've easily preferred getting Diglett to lv19 vs getting Charmander strong enough for Brock

[@rpg64ds38]

When you do eevee. Remember to give it bide for pokemon tower. Also don't blame you if you skip weedle

[@VeronaLivesInside]

Yesss you my favorite one! Your like the forensic files guy but of Pokémon

[@johnwest6690]

I like the sorts of videos that are creative. Not just "Can you beat emerald with Deoxys" (Literally a legendary). If you can beat it with Febas you can beat it with A legendary. So YES. Well, whatever. Still not as bad as Top 10 videos which are effortless.

[@StockiestPlum]

your videos are so good! Thank you!

[@jaeusa160]

Ah so no evolves allowed. I'd guess #1 or 2 is Magikarp, Ditto is very near there as well (since Transform removes any stat advantage it might have from levelling), Caterpie, Weedle, Metapod, Kakuna, Pikachu, Zubat, Magnemite, Voltorb. I think those are my approximate guesses.

[@wilFluffball]

magikarp, caterpie, metapod, and kakuna are impossible because they can't damage ghost pokemon

[@PKMNwww411_MkII]

Struggle is useless against ghosts. Magikarp only run ends at Pokemon Tower.

[@hhjan594]

I'm very curious how are you progress the pokemon tower with a solo eevee. I believe I saw a solo eevee run in red a few weeks ago and it failed because eevee can't touch ghosts in that point of game.

[@OmegaTyrant]

Eevee can damage Ghosts with Bide, which hits Ghosts in Gen 1, that run you referenced overlooked it so a solo Eevee run (and solo Scyther, another pokemon that just learns Normal attacking moves in Red/Blue) is possible.

[@kiks12]

I never played any of the original pokemon games, the first one I was introduced to was emerald and ruby, that to on an emulator. So, when I learnt about yellow, red and blue I just could never get into the style. But whenever I see these challenge videos I watch them.

[@Carpatouille]

I've done an Onix solo challenge run and beat the elite 4, seeing the stats and moves geodude has, I don't think it would be that different. The only thing is that Onix doesn't hit as hard, but has more speed so it attacks first against fast mons and crits quite a lot, and also he has screech so early game is feasable. Regardless I think Geodude would be the same.

[@edwardcollins8102]

So it looks like the pokemon all HAVE to be able to evolve as well. I've noticed there's no Chansey, Tauros, Mew, Mewtwo, or Legendary Birds.

[@stephencelestino2172]

1 second into the video and I know magikarp, weedle and caterpie will be all up in this bitch.

[@jurgenh.7980]

Nobody can beat Pikaspreys Ditto run in which his Ditto "forgot" how to use struggle roughly halfway through the run 😂. Also you will have to grind a lot. And i really mean A LOT. All Elite four in a row without saving and reloading? This is probably not possible with like 80% of these pokemon. I wish you luck 😂.

[@Nimos087]

Yeah rock < ice and rock > electrik

[@jordanhardwick4472]

I've done every pokemon from bulbasaur to lickitung in ultra sun

[@nmotschidontwannagivemyrea8932]

To clarify, in these challenges, you aren't allowed to evolve your Pokemon, right? Also, your favorite Pokemon is Kadabra? Not Alakazam? And while talking about using Geodude, you showed footage of using Onix. And with these runs, make sure you start with a Pokemon that has near-perfect DVs, or else you're screwed.

[@CelestialAmethyst92]

In Yellow, Pikachu is a lot easier because of Tail Whip and sightly better moves than R/B. Red and Blue would be way harder.

[@JakeMcaulay]

I am somewhat a expert in weedle only runs and I can confirm it's incredibly difficult. I did a yellow with no items video and it was impossible to get past Giovanni.

[@tanglelover]

Heyyyyyyyy bongzilla dude!

[@zacht8050]

BONGZILLA!!!

[@Cris_Blu]

This dude deserves more credit

[@Daeltha]

Giovanni tried to destroy the weedle~~~ But the weedle carried ooon~~~

[@snow-vixen2593]

And so bongzilla became its ultimate form to defeat pokemon yellow

[@Camurgladius]

It'll be interesting to see this looking back when they're all done--quite a few surprises already. Full retrospective once the "tier list" is complete?

[@pablerarav9016]

Surprising indeed. He's really come a long way.

[@Lucifers-Stepdad]

Hello, it's 2023. This list is wild lol

[@efnfen]

"Top 10 WORST Pokemon Against Brock"

[@dark_colour5204]

efnfen Zubat isn’t weak against Brock

[@orangesilver8]

@@dark_colour5204 it is though

[@dark_colour5204]

orangesilver8 yeah most of it is

[@nicholasSantosOPrimeiro]

@@dark_colour5204 mae dry bread prove it yesterday

[@mrfantaguyfiftytwo7383]

Pikachu

[@calt7964]

Love the Pokémon conquest music you used!

[@windfisch]

I like to just listen to these challenge run videos while going to sleep, since they have the very predictable format and they are usually narrated to the point, that you don't need the visuals to follow along (until you fall asleep). So, all in all, very good trend, keep it up content creators.

[@dogearflopper7011]

[Jrose under quarantine]: "Welp, time to run through red and blue five dozen times."

[@ThatguycalledJoe]

"It's gonna be possible, we know it's gonna be possible." > Red/Blue Magikarp seems discontented, somehow...

[@TheSocks221]

it is because of the ghost. it is literally impossible

[@alfie859]

@@TheSocks221 struggle is type lese

[@MelodicTurtleMetal]

@@alfie859 not in Gen 1. Struggle doesn't hit ghost pokemon

[@eeveestars3668]

cant meowth use tms

[@thesinistermobs1564]

Bide works on ghosts because of bizarre Gen I programming. Magikarp only has been done using this

[@loulou3676]

Every KZbinr ever: CaN YoU BeAt PoKeMoN WiTh OnLy [...]? Jrose11: I'm about to ruin all of these peoples' whole careers

[@CloaksCosplays]

美丹瑠衣 GameChamp3000, MittenSquad, Mah-Dry-Bread, Jrose11: “I’ll explain how you can beat _____ without _____!” DanteRavioli and Senza: “how about I rant into the mic while I show you the highlight reel?”

[@LiroRaeriyo]

@@CloaksCosplays are the blanks "Pokemon" and "Moves"? cause beating pokemon without moves would be a real chore

[@californium-2526]

@@LiroRaeriyo Items.

[@nerdstop5025]

@@californium-2526 used in battle, held items are allowed, as stated in the rules

[@goracks69]

One week later... “Is Pikachu ACTUALLY One Of The Best Starters!?”

[@richardbaker308]

So far gastly is the best pre evolved pokemon

[@hankwheels]

Nice profile pic! 🌿🍁

[@PresidentNathan]

it happened lmao

[@killwillv2610]

He wasn't though

[@birdbrain4445]

As of the Magnemite run just a couple of weeks ago, I believe he's now done all 10 Pokémon featured here. So I think it'd be interesting to see how they ended up performing and if he under (or indeed, over) estimated the Pokémon's capabilities. 10. Magnemite - 7h 18m, Lvl 68, Ranked 12th. Honestly, respectable; it's in the upper half of the tier list. I think he underestimated it a bit. 9. Diglett - 8h 28m, Lvl 78, Ranked 24th. Not an amazing performance, though not the absolute shits; it's still quite far down the tier list though. I think he guessed this one about correctly. 8. Nidoran F - 8h 37m, Lvl 80, Ranked 26th. Again, not a sterling performance, and a bit further down. I think he guessed this one correctly, including it being worse than Nidoran M. 7. Paras - 9h 22m, Lvl 72, Ranked 27th. Yeah, not amazing, though in fairness poor Paras was hindered by the mistake of having Body Slam deleted from it. Still, I think he guessed correctly. 6. Pikachu - 6h 57m, Lvl 69, Ranked 11th. Pika did pretty good here, 2nd best of all the Kanto starters. He definitely underestimated it. 5. Abra - 17h 18m, Lvl 63, Ranked 30th. He himself has said he didn't fully grasp how annoying it'd be to get by Brock so, yeah. Abra should have been 2nd or something, in hindsight. 4. Zubat - 9h 17m, Lvl 82, Ranked 28th. Yeah he definitely guessed this one correctly; took ages and took a lot of experience. 3. Pidgey - 10h 48m, Lvl 90, Ranked 29th. He absolutely guessed this one correctly, including stating that it is in many ways the worst Pokémon he's used (that can actually finish, anyway.) 2. Geodude - 7h 49m, Lvl 79, Ranked 20th. Not a tremendous showing however, it wasn't *that* bad. I think he underestimated Geodude a fair bit here. 1. Weedle - DNF @ 44h 16m, Lvl 100. I think everyone could have seen this coming without him even having to do it, so sure enough he was quite correct here lol. Honestly aside from Geo, Pika and Magnemite his predictions were very much on point.

[@oliverleonard7730]

Raichu would be harder than Pikachu because Raichu doesn't get access to any non electric damaging moves before Brock so you'd have to struggle.

[@willardpatterson706]

Nice comment. Cool you went through all this. Thanks

[@MerndZ]

It seems this quarantine has a good thing i guess

[@AekuLeaf]

Also being unable to go out for junk food past 9 lowkey 🤔

[@karlrudd4818]

@@AekuLeaf Oh man I feel you there dude

[@karlrudd4818]

@ThatSalesGuy Yeah true. I'm lucky I guess I'm still in work and getting paid

[@Chago1997]

Rashidi Smith same lmao

[@karlrudd4818]

@matt fahringer Eat vegetables then.

[@ChrisPierreBacon]

You finally did that Weedle run! And it was even worse than you expected!

[@Pacca64]

Weedle was incapable of doing damage to steel types outside of struggle until gen 4 gave them bug bite as an egg move. A gen 2 run would be god awful, the Steel type gym and any random steel type would completely wall you off and force you to use struggle

[@joewileman4480]

When Abra: a Pokemon that basically can't attack the first part of the game, is only halfway through the video.

[@eyalinbar4845]

He was wrong

[@eyalinbar4845]

Abra is prob 2nd or 3rd worst

[@212mochaman]

@@eyalinbar4845 that abra run he refused to teach it psychic even tho its possible

[@TheEmilyFravel]

First: Next time I play through gen 2 I will name a kadabra after you. And two: because kadabra is your mascot can you please do can you beat Pokémon yellow with just an abra?

[@Stefanoabed05]

In gen 1 that would be hell, i approve

[@blanks7151]

Played crystal so many times I always switch to just using kadabra once I get to goldenrod

[@Colteor7761]

Eyyy you got your wish

[@nerdstop5025]

@@Colteor7761 and he did it without psychic

[@solarrrrrrrr]

“Hey Brock, it’s JRose again” Brock: *cracks knuckles* “Let me at him”

[@bossboy191919]

Pokemon solo challenges in 2019/20: *Beats game with one weak pokemon* Pokemon solo challenges in 2030: *Beats game with one weak pokemon blindfolded, hanging upside down a cliff with one hand only while being constantly yelled on by Gordon Ramsay*

[@TheEmilyFravel]

tru

[@coryfusting9294]

As of yesterday he's done all ten of these pokemon. Magnemite and Pikachu actually did better than he thought. Also shout-out to two Clefairy popping up in a row from 4:09 - 4:15. Drives me nuts every time I see it.

[@notjaredfromsubwaysson7822]

So, you're showing us the Pokemon you'll be using in the future?

[@Jrose11]

I'm going to do all 53, these are the ones I'm least looking forward to.

[@notjaredfromsubwaysson7822]

@@Jrose11 oh my god

[@gonkdroidincarnate4237]

@@Jrose11 hold up 53 Pokemon?Are you sane?

[@kalosianporygon]

@Jrose11 You friggin' masochist.

[@athath2010]

@@Jrose11 You sure? I feel like doing all 53 is gonna bury the more interesting runs beneath a pile of tedious/samey runs. Maybe you could condense some of the less interesting runs together into a montage video?

[@coryfusting9294]

As of this December? Just Magnemite remains.

[@SaiyaMan2011]

The reason why Magikarp isn't on here... is because you can't get pass the Ghost Tower in Lavender Town. Struggle is a normal type move (as you know, it is ineffective against Ghost-type Pokemon) and there's a mandatory trainer you need to battle on the second floor.

[@ssjbread2803]

Yeah. You cannot finish the game with it unless you get one with dragon rage, which is event-only and also defeats the purpose of the challenge imo, if youre just gonna rig movesets like that

[@N12015]

And the same thing for Caterpie I guess.

[@tijsbitter1459]

Yeah the elite 4 Will be easy with dragon rage....

[@nerdstop5025]

@@tijsbitter1459 the e4 would not be easy with dragon rage on magikarp with no items in battle. 40 damage a turn is nice, but that's only because it's magikarp.

[@tijsbitter1459]

@@nerdstop5025 i mean the ghost Pokémon arent the only reason why magikarp is impossible, you cant beat the elite 4 with only magikarp

[@HibinoKafka0210]

13:53 “What I find interesting is what strategies can we use that make the fights consistent and reliable so that if you wanna try this you can do it” Jrose > other pokemon channels

[@manguy01]

"Use mega drain 3 times, you win" Hop: "YOU KNOW TYPE MATCHUPS?!?!??! :-O

[@RoarkeIsBored]

MicManGuy That’s why you’ve gotta torture yourself by using Pokémon like Weedle and Zubat, to show the game that type matchups don’t mean shit and that real strategy must be employed (actual reason as to why I hate Single Battles is what you described above, too much spamming one super effective move to win)

[@groudonvert7286]

@@RoarkeIsBored Super Effective spam or Struggle spam ? ^^

[@demizorua570]

i love how you always try to bring something more... unique to the table! the other solo pokemon runs are entertaining for sure, but you're taking it a step further and looking into the more complex angles of it, and it's always great to see!! i'm excited for this "series" so to speak, but try not to overwork yourself!

[@Campaign2024]

No one has done a Weedle run Cries in Jake McCulay

[@shadowtitanx3962]

That's for an Itemless perspective and DOING the E4 without saving in between fights. Jake did it with Items.

[@dasutanehineri]

lmao jake's comment appeared right above this one

[@Campaign2024]

@@shadowtitanx3962 He tried it again without items and was stuck at the final Giovanni fight.

[@АлександърВитков]

@Aarantula in Pokemon Red/Blue you can beat the final Giovanni battle with one weedle if you're outlandishly lucky.

[@o6_jakob]

A german KZbinr called CreepfanLP has done it without Items!!

[@GaeFootballClub]

the answer is usually yes but i still watch them cause it's the journey i watch

[@amparolopez6236]

@FullTimeSlacker Not Jrose11 the other yeah

[@DJTileTurnip]

Here's to another good video, Jrose

[@jonnyapplefriend401]

You can’t have seen the whole thing because of the time you typed this comment.

[@mathuasher9184]

@@jonnyapplefriend401 Is that a big deal?

[@DJTileTurnip]

@@jonnyapplefriend401 Well yeah that's why I wrote it, I'm hoping it's another good video

[@ryaquaza3offical]

A solo weedle run would still be more interesting than a Unown run of GS or any other game. Although I wouldn’t wish ether on my worst enemy

[@aroobism]

Someone did it

[@jacksonbennett5671]

Jake McCauly did it up to get 5

[@nolongeraperson]

And he just did it 😂

[@jadynd7916]

I love the Conquest OST in the background, great addition. Can't wait to see these videos!

[@exceedxatu]

The fact that he even used the respective type of the castle for each pokemon was a nice touch too

[@MrMadness1]

So when's that 'No Items Weedle Solo Challenge in Less Than 24 Hours with Least Amount of Battles'?

[@eyalinbar4845]

In 2055 after gen 1s 15th remake

[@VaporeonEnjoyer1]

The OG speaks. Take notes muh dry bread.

[@jellykaan9604]

Ryan Stewart yeah MDB is getting boring, his challenges are to easy and his strats always the same: grinding to level 100 and spamming dubbel team

[@Acacius1992]

@@jellykaan9604 Even I like MDB... yeah there are better KZbinrs in this category. Coach Max Entertainment, Silph Spectre or K9beasts.

[@VaporeonEnjoyer1]

I like MDB too, I was mostly being tongue in cheek.

[@johnwest6690]

Some guy literally made a vid saying "can you beat emerald with Deoxys" ... A legendary, it's a real video. People are getting stupid now, if you can beat Pokémon with Magikarp or Weedle, you can beat it with almost anything.

[@Pyxis10]

@@johnwest6690 True.

[@IsuKen]

KZbinr: Solo run time! Brock: I'm about to end this man's whole career.

[@iWantToDetonate]

KZbin recommended this video to me even though I've already seen it. But I thought it could be fun comparing this list of "which run might be the most awful" to the tier list result. Best to worst: 1. Magnemite 2. Diglett 3. Nidoran F 4. Paras 5. Pikachu 6. Abra 7. Zubat 8. Pidgey 9. Geodude 10. Weedle On the tier list: 1. Pikachu 2. Magnemite 3. Geodude 4. Diglett 5. Nidoran F 6. Paras 7. Zubat 8. Pidgey 9. Abra 10. Weedle The biggest "difference" is Geodude. Even though it might not be as "fun" it ended up somewhat good. Quite interesting to see Abras positioning too. Everyone could image that the beginning of the game would be really bad, but HOW bad it actually was might have been difficult to predict.

[@willardpatterson706]

Great comment. I hope Jrose does something like this at the end.

[@StmaclGaming]

I was actually looking back at this and decided to look through a few pokemon myself. I think Caterpie will get stuck at Lavender Tower like Magikarp did. I do look forward to seeing you struggle through Brock and Misty to get there though if you do it.

[@praseo995]

Since Caterpie only has normal moves, it literally can’t finish the game, same as Magikarp. It will get stuck at the same place.

[@MA-km3rr]

Your content is awesome, you deserve more recognition.

[@cereal7591]

1:16 "Whether I was right or wrong once we finish DOING ALL 53 PARTS". DAFUQ, 53?? Are you insane??? Also, I dunno, man. There's plenty of solo runs out there, and while they're ok, a lot of them end up being too similar: overleveling + dumb luck. You sure you have enough tools in gen l to add much variety to it?

[@NiceRoboT]

Yes! So glad to see this upload :D This is my favorite channel.

[@tomtom-tz6zc]

Well, they might take a long time, but considering now that we all have so much spare time, wasting so much time isn't actually that terrible.

[@sterling8389]

Is that pokemon conquest music playing?! It's so rare to find someone who actually knows the game exists. You, my friend, has excellent tastes.

[@Fig_Bender]

Jake mccaully (sp?) Beat the first 3 or 4 gens with weedle only, check it out!

[@shadowtitanx3962]

He did these runs with Items. Jrose is doing his runs on these itemless.

[@crazychristopher1989]

To an extent. JRose has relied on buying Potions to have certain Pokémon not faint too quickly due to Struggle because of recoil damage. That's mostly in the case of Pokémon that can't learn attacking moves upon obtaining them, namely Abra or Magikarp.

[@YourGuyAlex]

Finally someone who actually does something interesting with these videos

[@TheCartMAN1]

Use sand attack against Brock it helps a lot bc I've beaten him with a really weak Pidgey while getting luckyish with -6 accuracy on geodude and Onix

[@danielkings2443]

Conquest music! I’m really nostalgic for that

[@paulwalker3758]

I’m betting Staru will be one of the best pre-evolved Pokemon in your challenge. Good speed. Good special. Phenomenal move pool (particularly for gen 1).