LIVE! Dragonite Only - Pokemon Crystal

[@vampocalpyse]

for egg moves just put an egg in the corner, for event put a confetti popper or something like that would be easy enough to differentiate. The upper right corner generally isn't used in any of your thumbs I could find and could easily fit a signifier in there.

[@ericwolf9664]

Seeing scott actually teaching Agility makes me think we are about to see double dance rest return for at least red.

[@travisalexander6440]

He mentioned Bulk-Up as one of the better moves, but my heart goes out to Dragon Dance. Curse, Agility, Rest, Return would be very on-brand for Gen2, though, especially if you know you need to outspeed Blastoise and take down Snorlax quickly. And almost 50 minutes into the video later... yep, That Tracks!

[@laureate90]

47:04 - We find out Scott's true priorities 😂😂 Seriously though, these videos are always a joy, thank you for them 🥰

[@KigerrEE]

Having sex and performing better, better and better 😮

[@jonsparks5344]

Seeing Feraligatr in S makes me so happy

[@mikemckenzie3175]

Ice punch is huge for it

[@AlexanderJamesWhite]

KZbin comments are good for the algorithm. Not sure what to say just want to support the channel. Your content is great for my commutes~

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Glad I can make the commutes more enjoyable!

[@Lacrèmedelacrème27]

47:06 ... That small blunder is no coincidence

[@stefanmccrae]

😂😂😂😂

[@Yet_Anther_N3rd]

Came here as soon as I heard it XD

[@darrelleffingeez]

SAME!!!!

[@laureate90]

@@Lacrèmedelacrème27 Comes from having large PP

[@paulmann8570]

What a glow-up right here. Dragonite went from being a decently good, but occasionally tricky pick, to a Top Tier performance. At this rate, the tier list may need another edit later this year given how things are starting to crowd a bit up top, lol.

[@laureate90]

Dragonite using ice punch on Claire's Pokemon feels wrong. It's like, dude, you grow a pair of arms and first thing you do is smack your younger cousins in the face

[@THEDEY2]

I've been asking for the 18 way versus of Unowns for a long time, just earing you thinking about it made my day much better. Wish you give it a try, i think i could give a lot of interesting information about the usefulness of different Hidden Powers, and even information about how Shiny pokémon perform in gen 2.

[@evilvitamin]

So inspired by this, I decided to check whether there’s mechanical differences in the 26 Unown forms, to see if Scott would need to take any of that into account when running the 16 Hidden Powers. Turns out, the form is determined by DVs. “Oh cool” I thought, like a fool, “Each letter will correspond to a specific Hidden Power, giving an easy way to distinguish runs.” NOPE. The calculations are done oddly. Long story short, with optimal DVs, each type corresponds to one of 4 letters. Physical types are either R or T, Special are X or Z. Gamefreak WHY.

[@MigrantBirdStudio]

I haven't heard of something as hype as Heracross vs Pinsir since the Beatles.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Omg.

[@MigrantBirdStudio]

@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon Someone had to say it 🤣

[@Muzgrob]

I want that tierlist program so badly. It looks so cool.

[@mullet_muffins]

makes me wonder if we should consider the same moveset for Red for any other mons...

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

I’m wondering too

[@andersonantunesdeleu8591]

Perfect run, Scott! It just went perfect! Except for that pesky Pikachu 😠 thank you Scott, amazing job with the dragon!

[@kaseywalton]

I much prefer the live content rather than the produced videos. Keep up the good work.

[@MrMovees87]

Always nice seeing the dapper gent Pryce get some real showtime! (The resets are a bummer, of course, but the rad attire from the HG/SS art makes up for it, haha)

[@NativeGolfer10]

I love the idea of doing special runs like the Egg moves in the first releases for the generations (Blue/Red, Gold/Silver, etc). I also like the evolution line you’re doing in FR and doing something for each game.

[@mickgorro]

Chunks: 1. 0:00-1:03:31, playthrough 1 headed for Sabrina; 2. 1:03:31-2:02:31, 59mins exactly, playthrough 2 has beaten Pryce; 3. 2:02:31-2:46:38, the end.

[@snek1287]

Holy you're so right about Agility! (Typing seems like it should be flying to compliment string shot) New head canon 😊

[@Gabbaguy19]

Hey Scott, I would love to see you do casual playthroughs. My initial thought was a livestream series of a casual playthrough of the new game you're going to start on December 25. Don't know how you feel about sort of bumping up the release of a new game before the 25th, but it might be nice to do it live so chat can help you learn the nuances of the new games and do R&D before you start recording a bunch if solo runs. I think it would also be a good way to showcase some different content during daily December, where there's already going to be tons of solo running content.

[@SmashMath151]

The improvement from the new strategy really impressed me! I know it's been a meme on the channel the past couple weeks, but I wonder if Surf could actually help defeat Pryce at a lower level since it can be deleted right after in this generation.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Maybe? We won’t need a higher level at the end though, so the extra trip to delete it just seems like time bloat.

[@SmashMath151]

Part of my thinking was that this would unlock the Blackthorn Fly point before Radio Tower, but the move deleter is pretty far from the Ice Path exit. Might mean you could skip some of the out of the way candies and delay the one on Route 27, though I'd guess the time would be really close either way.

[@marlysalt]

Icons you could use to show that you're doing a special run include (but are not limited to): Charish ball for event pokemon Egg icon for egg moves Linking cable for evolving a trade evolution mid run Actual link cable or trade icon (the one with two pokeballs) for tradebacks/trade only moved(unless the time capsule has an icon) Another option for event icons is move specific. Like, Onix has a picture of Porygon for the sharpen run. More work, but it'll look cool. Also, about the egg moves, I am pretty sure there is a limitation in gen 2 where they can only receive one egg move. Citation needed, but you're also more familiar with the code than I am.

[@ryandunn2930]

This is creative. I like it. Nice job. 👍

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

I like those ideas!

[@a.r.4822]

Scott, you can actually grab that item in union cave @6:14 from the ledge above, saves time if you use the ladder anyway, gen 1 & 2 have that feature in common btw.

[@Bj5m17h]

I think blackout training might be useful against certain wall opponents, in this case Bryce. Especially with slow evolution pokemon, considering good trainer experience is at a premium. Thoughts?

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

You lose friendship so returns power goes down as the Pokémon faints. That might be useful for a first-stage mon where the run is going to be like 2 hours anyway. Then the faster exp might be the thing that makes the difference. With Dragonite I think finding a way around him like this (5 candies) is far preferable.

[@ChaosWindScar99]

Hey, nice to see D'nite do so well its one of my favorites. Too bad Pikachu got the hax right at the end but hey S tier is still S tier. I wont be home for the T-tar stream but looking forward to seeing the VOD. Thanks for the entertainment its been a rough couple days for me.

[@ElgarTheRegicide]

@ScottsThoughtsPokemon what are your thoughts about adding a "rule" where you essentially roll a d8 to determine the sex of your starter, where applicable naturally? If you roll an 8, you get female. All other results give you a male.

[@keysradiotheradio]

As a kid, teaming up with Lance was pretty cool

[@somegal3836]

Scott hired Eggceptional (unsure on spelling)?

[@Zorafin]

With Unown, Hidden Power Dragon would be the way right? Nothing resists it. Psychic would be nice but then you're walled by dark types. I don't know much about the DVs needed though.

[@kevh6303]

Steel resists Dragon, tho.

[@Zorafin]

@@kevh6303 goddamn steel resisting everything!

[@Zorafin]

God hidden power rock would be so convenient for rock types. Even if you get rock slide, it's only 75 power at 90% accuracy. The flinch is nice though.

[@mickgorro]

I'm watching these in a somewhat random order, but I remember a foster that didn't get along with Churro at all. I suppose it's not the one you mention in this video?

[@WillowEpp]

Very impressive time! GG! BTW, Kanto is a soft A sound. (It's a place that exists IRL, not a made up name.)

[@ZealousPawn]

I found the tier list comparison interesting. While this was a really good run, my eyes were telling me I was watching something like a 45 minute run in yellow. Maybe I’d feel differently if I had experience running gen2. As a sidebar, I think we’re due for a tier list shift in gen2 soon, and one (final?) tier list shift in gen1 by next year. My prediction is

[@banditrests]

I get your point about learning to play music but there is a limit. I played viola all through school and bass guitar later on (what can I say, I like a counter melody and I only ever learned to read bass cleft), but my hands just don’t listen to me very well, sensory/motor planning disability. That’s one of the reasons I like turn based RPGs, my crappy thumb skills don’t matter that much.

[@tehy123]

My prediction: it will do well because it has good stats, great attack, access to a lot of generic coverage moves and probably strong generic normal moves.

[@letsmakeit110]

are there any other 3-stage where the final stage is the cutest one? Ugh I just want to pat his belly and take him home.

[@ZealousPawn]

Idk, dratini is pretty cute

[@wompus_king]

Yeah but dragonite is just a big yellow boy 🥰

[@mickgorro]

Any reason for showing max HP and not current HP on the overlay?

[@orionzervakos]

It's obviously Ar-CA-nine. It's a portmanteau of Arcane and Canine.

[@bluethemew9273]

A while ago I commented about surf being the move people just naturally go to cause of multiple factors but at 21:40 when mentioning about surf, probably in a first playthrough I would use surf on dragonite cause to me it feels like a good move to have especially the uses it could have, Pryce’s piloswine, jasmines team, the houndoom and such, but the punches basically invalidate it cause they are tms while surf is HM so that need to delete in blackthorn is a pain

[@Lurker504]

that one guy in the live chat calling the time down to 5 seconds, damn.

[@AmnesiaPsyduck]

I'll be looking forward to those Psyduck runs! Don't forget to make a Camper Scott joke! 😁

[@Zorafin]

Did you keep a move at the beginning of the game to only use in the last fight? My god.

[@ZealousPawn]

Just like many badge boosting moves in gen1 😂

[@RyanPoulter]

SSL 2 is a great interface and is cheaper than the 2i2. If you need more outputs get the SSL 2+ and if you want 4 inputs spend extra and get the SSL 12. Honestly, they're amazing, even better headroom than some full recording consoles!

[@davidestabrooks211]

Man heart breaking getting all those resets at the end here. Def feels like Dragonite can push further into the S tier for sure. I mean without the resets on track for what a 1:11:00ish finish. Maybe one more really good behind the scene attempt?

[@davidgardner6677]

For an unown run, would it be made possible if the HP type was changed after every gym leader?

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

I think it's possible even with a fixed HP type

[@davidgardner6677]

👀

[@mickgorro]

Arcaynine is also for arcane, I guess. And then there's FlygonHG with his arcaNEEnay ane magNEMmytee and laPRAH and probably more :).

[@Zorafin]

I've put a few songs into these games. It'd be awesome if you had that for these runs. You have two melody instruments, one bass, one drum. The drums are absolutely vital to making anything sound good. You cannot use one channel to play two notes. Only four notes can play at once, again one of them being bass. And in gen 1 at least it causes weird freezing issues if you use the fourth channel. I don't think transposing it for this game would be all that hard compared to everything you've done. Let me know if you want any help with it.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

I wrote the tracks specifically for the channels you mentioned.

[@Zorafin]

@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon Alright so you should have most the work done! Transcribing them to the .asm files may be hard but surely you can get some people willing to help with that grunt work. What I'm realizing though is how you listen to music. I play through the game normally because, I played through my hacks twice. For what you're doing, you'll probably get sick of your music. Honestly with mine I listened to the track I wrote for 5 hours. That's enough for even the best song to get tiring.

[@MigrantBirdStudio]

What about a song tier list as well?

[@mufasa5851]

Remember. Scott recommends using elixirs to solve any pp problems

[@wompus_king]

But you can always rely on Nurse Joy to restore your PP if you ask nicely.

[@RalphyNoPants]

It's nice to see Scott took care to make sure his PP was big enough by getting a PP Up this time.

[@KigerrEE]

Puff the magic dragon has all the special coverage, checks out

[@braingaming8224]

scott can you tell me why sabrina doesnt have her psychic/psychic type venomoth, to this day i dont understand.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

I dunno. They were clearly rushing when they put together Kanto.

[@braingaming8224]

@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon how unthoughtfull of them :,(

[@Zorafin]

Slow growth already make a pokemon pretty bad, but then psudos also have late evolution times and unimpressive stats and moves until evolution. Going through the game with a full party of psudos is a challenge run man.

[@jollyroyale1590]

That would be dreadful without emulator speedups

[@Zorafin]

@@jollyroyale1590 Oh yes. I learned that as a kid. Even fairly recently I tried adding a few to my team, and most were really bad. Gibble was pretty good. Metang wasn't bad.

[@evilvitamin]

I did a run of Violet where I used a different team of bred lvl 5s for each storyline, and one of them was all Pseudos. Gible was excellent, the others were painful. Shout out to the stupid Ghost/Dragon for being completely useless. IDK what they were thinking with that one.

[@Zorafin]

@@evilvitamin Man dragons are not as good as they seem! They're only useful if they overpower their opponents and most dragons don't. Only the fully evolved ones. It's Gibble and Beldum that halfway work, the others are useless except for specific scenarios in specific games.

[@BootLeg_King]

Haven’t seen the whole vid yet but why not use Iron Tail on Piloswine unless it doesn’t 1-hit it.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Good idea. Iron Tail has the damage, so a 75% chance to KO the Piloswine at 33. Knowing you can just use 5 candies and OHKO with Fire Punch is more consistent though.

[@yodoni96]

No surf dragonite?? 🤔 Cant you force the first encounter in routes where you caths your HM users?? I feel that if you need to wait for them, if you have bad luck, can be a time lost comparable to MT Moon wild encounters in yellow. Maybe I'm wrong and is not that problematic, but could be interesting to test if it makes a really diference

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

I can. I haven't implemented it in gen2 yet. There is still a certain amount of HM user shift occurring. For example, Sandshrew might become the HM user for Cut, Strength, and Dig.

[@Zorafin]

I forget, did you do Machamp in gen 2? I used him in my last playthrough and thought he was really good. I even used him in Stadium 2. Mostly because I needed a dark counter though.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

No Machamp in Gen2 yet. The only gen1 trade evo I've done is Gengar.

[@Zorafin]

@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon I really like when people prove fighting wrong. That's...not happening in gen 1 unless you make some moves yourself. And even then, I made a rock/fighting type in gen 1 and it wasn't great. There's just not much use for one. But Gen 2 will surprise you!

[@AlexanderJamesWhite]

Is T-tar next?

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Yup. Thursday.

[@AlexanderJamesWhite]

My commutes gonna be Tyrantarific

[@mayamayhemmusic]

Run starts at 0:46

[@zidaneishtar2852]

So I m at the part where Scott’s in the league on first play through I m guessing he uses agility to cancel out curse’s speed reduction in red fight

[@michaelmills8205]

Dennis needs to be wearing a shirt that says "Scott".

[@Smileyrat]

This would be very funny.

[@thomasbailey226]

Hey brother, just checking, you doing alright? You almost always have talked about your fiance/wife and I can’t remember if that’s still a good thing since you got married or not? Still living the happy life? We appreciate all the videos but keep us in the loop! Great video as always, hope you’re well!

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Yeah. I’m loving married life. Wish I had done it sooner actually. Things behind the scenes are a bit tense right now, trying to figure out new processes with making the videos with 3 people instead of 2. But that is a fun problem to work on, even though it is stressful at times.

[@breadpope0358]

2:18:30 there needs to be a bonk focused stream, which pokemon can beat the game with the least amount of bonks

[@Smileyrat]

If you did make a game, I would not mind a brief mention in a videio or two to let me know. I exspect otherers would feal similar.

[@mickgorro]

Is it me or does that thumbnail look like Derpgonite :)?

[@realperson69]

Against Lance, you can probably set up one Agility against Gyarados to outspeed Aerodactyl. (Though I think there’s only like a 2% chance for Aerodactyl to kill you from full HP.)

[@mickgorro]

Playthrough 2 Lance reset, pretty sure the mike cut your scream off :).

[@Spudmay]

Oh man, Karen having Ttar would be so cool!

[@elladrinn4318]

are you going to do a scyther vs scizor in pokemon crystal?

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

I am

[@TipOfTheSauce]

I was gonna ask this during the stream, but I never got a good opportunity. I really want to do a Goodra gen 1 back port, but I have no idea which special stat I should give it. As much as I want to do 150 I know that would be absolutely busted. At the same time I think 110 would be unfairly holding it back. Based off its stats and move set I think Goodra has incredible potential in gen 1. What do you think?

[@qorv4973]

I think gym leader Matt did one with 150 base special.

[@willysmith2990]

Chansey rule

[@TipOfTheSauce]

@@willysmith2990what’s that?

[@DillyBobBanana]

​@@TipOfTheSauce the chansey rule is taking the higher special stat for a gen 1 backport

[@TipOfTheSauce]

@@DillyBobBanana what about cases like hitmontop?

[@Burningtreeblood]

Bloomburrow shoutout. ☺️ it’s amazing

[@mmpsp693]

Crazy results

[@donaldduck7707]

Could you do an Hardcore Challenge with the early trade Evolutions? Golem/Gengar/Alakazam/Machamp/Scizzor and Steelix in one Team. PS : i Play Pokemon Heartgold with that Team right now. Its really Fun.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Well don’t really use teams, but I will use those Pokémon in solo runs!

[@dantemalick2872]

Talking about your investment class if you take pokedollars deal otherwise

[@apack12345]

You should change the names of your videos to how quickly can return beat pokemon crystal.

[@marlysalt]

Between about 2:20 and 2:23 (second run, lance reset and fight) the mic cut out about three times.

[@marlysalt]

Cut back in 2:36:30, mic cutout

[@marlysalt]

2:38:04

[@marlysalt]

2:38:47 (ish)

[@marlysalt]

2:42:29 Fun fact: idk how to edit my comment on mobile browser youtube

[@marlysalt]

2:43:13

[@Zorafin]

Dragon type moves in gen 1 isn't that interesting. It's basically another normal, that's fine against rock

[@Quidditchgoat]

2:22:12 OOOH 😮

[@TipOfTheSauce]

Perfectly cut screams

[@breadpope0358]

Talk about a Denis situation!

[@datboidrummer29]

Grandbull ranked?

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

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[@datboidrummer29]

@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon can you do a magneton run Gen2

[@HaydnG266]

2:23:13 your mic was in fact, cutting out.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

I think I know what's happening. If it happens again I'm getting another replacement.

[@HaydnG266]

@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon a replacement for your replacement

[@CüneytAlpan]

😍

[@brianwisecarver4880]

Zap cannon is 120 power

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Starting in gen4, 100 power before that

[@brianwisecarver4880]

Ahhh that makes sense. Bulbapedia says 120 up top

[@milesmcculloch]

How dare you name a dragonite A 😂 lol super mad

[@mickgorro]

A karen philosophy?

[@veghesther3204]

Love it hate it that if you don't HACK it into the game Dratini takes FOREVER to hit LV 50 to Evolve it to Dragonite and by that time you get Dragonite NORMALLY its either around the time of the Elite 4 or AFTER you beat them.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Obviously. Not sure what your goal was in leaving this comment? Seems like it's trying to imply that my format is invalid? To which I say, yes, these rules are entirely my own for evaluating the mechanics/characters within the game.

[@veghesther3204]

No your format is fine my comment still applies if you don't WANT to hack the game at the start and actual Lv up Dratini all the way to lv 50 first though you won't actually get a Dratini itself until most of the Gyms in Crystal are beaten anyways.