Octillery Solo Run - Pokemon Crystal - The most forgotten gen 2 Pokemon...

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1. Only my starter in battle
2. No items in battle - held items are allowed
3. No glitches or exploits
4. No Double-Team TM before level 100
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[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Note: Octillery's stats increase by 40 not 50 like I said in the video.

[@m.ajmal.n]

@Denis Denis

[@grundgutigertv6170]

@Denis your ava still looks like a butt xD

[@warrior316]

Lantern vs octillery

[@patrickfrei9322]

@@m.ajmal.n mohammed ajmal nizar

[@brickerboom]

The memory of you and your grandpa is incredibly heartwarming. My grandpa feigned interest in my interests as a kid and it always meant the world to me

[@rawbebaba]

My grandpa told me the cards were a waste of money and a passing phase I wouldn't care about in 5 years. I mean he was right on the second part but boy I coulda had some cash had I kept em lol. When I was like 10-13 I used to go to toys r us steal as many packs of pokemon as I could, then I'd walk across the parking lot to the mall and sell the Holo cards to the kiask stores, I sold at least two Charizards. But that was live when they would give you like 50-60 bucks, but now lol damn I wish my younger criminal mind had thought about appreciation of value.

[@PapaBattles]

@@rawbebaba My grandparents called me the N word cause my jeans had holes in them. I'm fucking white lol. Times where different that's for sure.

[@shararm]

My grandpa bought me my first gbc and pokemon yellow and it's a great memory

[@maze3285]

My grandfather did the same

[@frankietafuro530]

Octillery can get both attack and special attack over 300 the only other two at this point in the series (gen 2) are Ho-Ho and Mewtwo

[@TrueNomadSkies]

I had no idea. Always thought this was just another water Pokemon that truthfully I only paid attention to for the sake of getting my Smeargle to learn Lock On.

[@unidentifiedx4319]

How?

[@frankietafuro530]

@@unidentifiedx4319 max out both attack and special attack and if you are wondering where I learned that info check out SadisticMystic’s Pokémon Stadium 2 Round 2 Gym Leader Castle run in fact kzbin.info/www/bejne/mYmkooymac94aJY there’s a link to it he says that during the fight with the second Team Rocket Executive

[@Medabee8]

You left out so many more Pokemon that can have Attack and Spl Attack of over 300 in Gen II. Here are some more: Tyranitar, Lugia, Arcanine, Moltres, Zapdos, Mew, Exeggutor, Flareon, Houndoom, Kingdra, Entei, Celebi, Dragonite, Magmar, etc.

[@LotusAuer]

"Ho-Ho"

[@andrewsimms4904]

Dude, I just lost my grandpa. He and I were so close. You reminiscing about time with yours. Beautiful man. Thanks so much for sharing. It’s a blessing.

[@TateS26]

Same just lost my grandma yesterday and hearing him say that made me smile

[@nautgamingnautgaming9949]

@@TateS26 sorry about that I understand the pain

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

I’m sorry to hear that Andrew and Tate. I lost my grandpa too. I’m glad that me sharing was helpful for you to hear.

[@antimatt_r]

I wonder how many kids that grew up during the Pokemon craze have those kinds of experiences. One of my best memories of spending time with my grandmother was a long day of running errands, going to the cider mill, and getting ice cream. The last place we stopped, I asked for a pack of Pokemon cards. I ended up pulling a holo neo genesis Lugia (my favorite Pokemon at the time) and I was so ridiculously excited. She didn't quite understand why but was happy for me anyway, as grandparents are. She passed away late last year. I have that card framed on my desk.

[@olavjorvik94]

Dude! Everyone has been sleeping on this powerhouse, the same way everyone has on Cacturne in Gen 3. could we PLEASE see an Emerald Cacturne solo playthrough?🤩 I love him, he’s sooo good! Faint Attack, Giga Drain / Needle Arm, Leech Seed, Growth, and he’s good to go! Such a beast, with it’s 115 atk and Sp. atk!

[@tsawy6]

I'm actually /right now/ doing a cacnea solo playthrough, because, yknow, cacturne would be too good! My current set against the league (I'm not quite done yet) is Faint Attack, Giga Drain, Growth and Substitute. Leech seed isn't /super/ good, because you need to be sweeping, and the recovery doesn't help against multiple pokemon. TBH more useful was Ingrain, of all things, which was pretty rad before I started using Giga Drain. In truth, Emerald is pretty easy for solo runs, I'm beginning to suspect a little too easy. Even with a first form pokemon I've used no rare candies, trained none at all, skipped lots of (but not all) optional trainers, and made it all the way to lance already. This is /with/ a weakness to Flannery and Winona, two of the harder gyms. EDIT: Just beat Wallace at level 74! Had to use my 7 candies, Drake was pretty inconsistent, and Wallace was surprisingly tough with his resistant Tentacruel and Milotic and the strong Waillord Blizzards, but Stab Giga Drains and Growth with Substitute is excellent tankiness. I also tried the league casually levelling to Cacturne, and I could do the whole thing without candies. Cacturne is good, but also, Emerald is pretty chill for single mon runs

[@olavjorvik94]

@@tsawy6 yeah, I just wanted to see Emerald because I don’t like playthroughs of pokemon in other generations / games, where they’re not even possible to catch… Plus I prefer Leech Seed to Ingrain, BUT in a solo playthrough, I guess you’re right, it would be better. But at the same time, certain pokemon like Magneton and Skarmory, would need to be seeded to die, Ingrain wouldn’t help that. Can’t possibly take down Winona or Stevens Skarmory with Giga Drain and Faint Attack… Maybe with 6 x Growth…🤔🤷🏻‍♂️ Gonna go solo it now😂

[@tsawy6]

@@olavjorvik94 Don't forget Drake's Altaria! I didn't bother grinding out the extra levels for Steven's Skarmory, but there's maybe a little hope with the way it likes to use toxic? The trouble is that they all have strong super effective flying attacks that make stalling with leech seed difficult...

[@ext93]

Cacturne was a part of my team on my last run. he's a beast

[@miguelaguilar5115]

To be honest, the gen 2 runs are my favorites at this channel. I always look up for them

[@lmaolol7702]

gen 2 is just really appealing and calming to look at

[@ryzen232]

I think so too

[@harb1ng3r82]

Octillery will always put fear into my heart, because I play Gen 3 competitive singles and it was the scariest recipient of a full baton pass chain before Mr. Mime got banned. Imagine facing down a +6 speed, +6 def, +6 spa, +6 spdef monster with Surf, Ice Beam, Flamethrower, and Hidden Power Grass. This was not uncommon.

[@kabirdang1346]

Medicham and exploid are more common as baton pass receivers but it got banned

[@albabimam1114]

Fun Fact: For gen 5, among all the broken Moody abusers (even Bidoof destroyed Ubers unironically), Octillery was probably the best one discluding Smeargles Baton Pass. It had the best typing among all of them and often times felt having like the best defensive stats, it's move combination (Scald and Flamethrower) also scared away Ferrothorn who would wall the others. So yeah, Octillery, congrats on being one of the strongest Pokemon ever

[@buddyfree1321]

Octillery is one of my favorite gen 2 mons if not my favorite. I always liked octopi as a kid so when i saw that there was not only just an octopus pokemon but a fire breathing octopus pokemon i was like hell yea. I used it in platinum for the first time and it did pretty well. This octopus has a movepool that rivals some legendaries. Plus the idea of a fish evolving into a octopus is really funny to me.

[@mmmapplesauce1673]

This is a certainly a veemo moment

[@BlazeElPadrino662]

That's because that wasn't originally the idea, the idea was a gun that evolved into a tank. Even in the beta designs of Gen II we can clearly see that Beta Mantine was also a weapon (a plane with bombs/torpedos, sorta). Best regards!

[@bitterzombie]

Remoraid is based on a wrasse, which use suction to attach themselves to other fish (like mantine). So the suction is the basis of its evolution. Which is still kinda weird

[@riccardomosena4162]

As blaze said, it was supposed to be a gun into a tank (and the designs are fantastic xD)

[@bitterzombie]

@@BlazeElPadrino662 hydreigon was also originally designed to be tank-like, it was redesigned before release but still has the tank tread patterns on its belly

[@bitterzombie]

I always thought Karen was Agatha's daughter or granddaughter, she looks similar and her preference for dark types sorta mirrors Agatha's preference for ghosts (Karen's gengar could have been hers originally)

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

I like this idea!

[@FernandoRafaelNogueiraReis]

They also both manage to roulette your ass! Karen's the mom Blue never had.

[@ext93]

i always wanted an Octillery when i was a kid playing Silver. i didnt realize it evolved from remoraid so i never got one. i thought i had to find it or trade from gold. good old days

[@pixel3042]

First pokémon on the "really needs an evolution" list. Alongside with Tauros, Sudowoodo, Jynx and Fearow.

[@bigkirbyhj666]

and is an evolution itself xD

[@Darkelefantos]

I feel like the only reason Jynx never got one is the controversy about its appearance. Beyond that I always thought it was sort of a trio with Magmar and Electabuzz.

[@JayHankEdLyon]

A squid whose tentacles are little cannons and whose beak is a giant cannon.

[@shimauta1941]

But like what would it even evolve into? A bigger Octopus?

[@tomforge614]

@@shimauta1941 Nah. It would probably evolve into a sea scorpion with cannons to keep up the weirdness of its evolution.

[@fifaworldcup1994]

Geez, this one really surprised me, specially given how almost no one talks about it. As if its good stats weren't enough, it can learn FLAMETHROWER!? That, on a Water type, is inmediately cool to me. Definitely using one on my next playthrough :p

[@eliyaskiya]

Octillery has insane coverage. Water, Ice, Poison, Psychic, Grass, and Fire ( in the more recent games )

[@fifaworldcup1994]

@@eliyaskiya Makes you wonder why almost no one uses or even talks about it.

[@corhydrae3238]

As it's based on a cannon, Octillery learns pretty much all moves that are some kind of shot or beam. In later gens, it also gets access to moves like charge beam, sludge bomb, energy ball, signal beam and mud shot. Its coverage is honestly insane.

[@aerrae5608]

Typhlosion was pretty decent back in gen 2 as well since it could learn Thunder Punch. Super easy to just solo everything with Flamethrower/Thunder Punch/Earthquake

[@cmck362]

It's early moveset sucked in gen 2 though. It doesn't get ember until level 12 then doesn't get flame wheel until 31. It can't learn thunder or fire punch until it evolves at 36. Earthquake tm is in victory road so it has to settle for dig before that. Finally flamethrower isn't learned until level 60. Or after the E4 from the move tutor. It's got good stats and moves, but gets access to them way later than you'd like. It always feels like you're in a mid game power slump with it. Plus first gym has mud slap and third has roll out. Looks good on paper, but it doesn't translate well in practice.

[@aerrae5608]

@@cmck362 You're not wrong but as a kid I soloe'd everything with it. If you do a Solo run you WILL be level 60 during the elite four and you WILL one shot pretty much everything with fire stab that doesn't resist. The only gen I wasn't able to solo with JUST a starter was gen 3 and 5. Every other gen gets steamrolled by fighting all trainers with just the starter no other grinding.

[@cmck362]

@@aerrae5608 You're over leveled then if you're 60 during the E4. Just in this video he _finished_ it at 55. And I'm pretty sure typhlosion is in a slower exp category than octillery. Not saying you can't brute force it. Just that it isn't as good as you make it out to be and that its final learnset isn't what you have to slog through the game with.

[@jakerockznoodles]

Kadabra/Alakazam was better at making use of the elemental punches imo. It had access to them right by the route you find Abra on so you could use those moves in the 3rd gym without even being overlevelled (and its good speed pretty much ensured you'd hit first without being overlevelled too). Them being buy-able TMs also meant you could swap out which ones would be useful for a given scenario easily, even between E4 members. It's like they knew dark type would make the Abra line significantly worse with its previous learnset, so gave it this as a way of diversifying its move-pool.

[@swagbear9965]

My guy was a powerhouse my first playthrough

[@Terminaut1]

The sheer amount of effort you put into these videos is incredible. One of the best decisions I made this last year was subbing to you and watching new content regularly. Great work for some of my favorite mons.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Thanks for the compliment, means a lot. Gives me motivation to keep improving!

[@gweddillionerail791]

Still holding out about for that Furret Solo. Definitely not the greatest pokemon but still one of my favorites.

[@briehart-nutter4357]

furret == biggest friend like seriously have you looked at it's pokedex entry? This thing is huge! ~things I imagine scott saying

[@akilcharles3473]

Remoraid/Octillery to me was never a forgotten Pokemon. Its a great Pokemon with great abilitles (mostly the Moody ability) and it can learn moves that do great coverage for it like Flamethrower for grass types and even Mud Shot for electric types. Its great epsically in Sword & Shield with new moves it can learn and how awesome it looks when Dynamaxing. Tho I was hoping it got a Gigantamax form making it look more like a tank but whatever I suppose.

[@Gungho73]

I did a 6 team randomizer in Crystal a year ago with some friends and Octillery was one of those the roulette landed on. Not the fastest but the guy had some really great moves to choose from. Definitely an underrated pokemon and I'm glad you seemed to enjoy it here.

[@pokeperson1000]

I remember that as a kid, Octillery was one of my favorite Pokémon conceptually. Never went out of my way to get it for my team or anything, but if I happened to get one, of course I was going to use it for something or other. I really liked Octillery, and also liked the animation for Octozooka, believing the move itself to be far stronger than it actually was.

[@Cozy_Tony]

Hey Scott, I’ve been binging your videos over the past couple weeks. Things have been pretty stressful lately, and listening to your solo playthroughs has been my latest go-to when I need a breather. I especially enjoy your generation 2 videos as I have fond memories of playing Silver on my Gameboy color, steamrolling the Elite Four with my level 100 Feraligatr and wondering why my level 99 Slowbro hasn’t evolved into a Slowking yet. Octillery was one of my favorite Pokémon as a kid. I remember making special trips to the Goldenrod Department Store to buy fresh water from the vending machine on the roof, because in my mind Octillery deserved a refreshing drink after having me drag him around all day. (to be 10 years old again) Anyway, I just want to say thank you for helping me get through the days, and for the nostalgia trip. I hope you know you make a difference. I look forward to watching your Forretress and Shuckle playthroughs one day. Keep up the good work.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Hey A Squared, thanks for leaving this comment and reminding me of how important making content can be. I'm glad my work has had a positive impact on you during the stressful times. Also, it sounds so painful that you levelled Slowbro up to 99...

[@TheGamingCamel22]

Holy Arceus Octillery is actually good, I never knew! And yes like you, I knew about Remoraid but actually thought Octillery was a gen 4 evolution, I think it's only main usage in games is the electric gym in Sinnoh as part of Volkner's team and is kinda there in Legends Arceus, hope it really gets more love!

[@dtayza5432]

Octillery is my absolute favourite Pokemon so I'm very excited to see a challenge run with it. And from my favourite runner as well! Thank you for showcasing everything that makes Octillery such a cool and unique mon. This video made my day. The funny thing is that it's movepool is still relatively small in this gen. It gets so much more coverage options in later gens which allows it to be a very flexible Pokemon. Just like octopuses are in real life. Another reason for the movepool seems to be that it is also based on a tank so it gets a lot of beam/blast/etc moves. Also, an octopus can move quite fast by utilizing the water around it to propel itself, it's pretty awesome.

[@WeAreTheInsurgents]

Not gonna lie, your little giggles at some of the plays and bloopers are adorable, you have a really likeable demeanour and these videos are really relaxing to watch

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

I’m glad

[@maze3285]

These Pokémon have references to the real world. Remoraid is like a hand gun and Octillery is like a tank

[@aaronwaters7358]

You promised this run and here it is! I had an octillery in silver when I was a kid and it was a beast I loved that thing so I'm so happy to see this run

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

I deliver on what I promise! (Usually late though).

[@anotherwaterroute]

I just finished and posted my first run today, thank you so much for the inspiration. It was painful, thought provoking, and I may or may not have cried a bit lmao. Ampharos is next for me, he's got a big stomach so I'm betting he'll give a good hug lol. Thanks for the amazing content, you make it look way easier than it is XD

[@grahamcoombe5461]

Hey Scott, thanks again for providing the fantastic content. I’m playing catch up on your videos due to a heavy university semester. This run you did with Octillery was really fun to watch. The story about your grandpa was really touching too. Thanks for everything you do, you’re awesome!

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Enjoy catching up! There going to be some fun stuff in May too!

[@sagacious03]

Nice run video! Thanks for uploading!

[@emilydonegan3208]

I love Octillery and have since G/S came out! It was one of my favorite Pokémon and is still up there! Great video as always! Also, that story about your grandfather was very sweet.

[@mattrobertsjr.3279]

At the hospital with a sick little. This video ( and a few old videos) was much needed to help pass the time. Keep up the great work👍!

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Hey Matt, glad the video can help. Hopefully they recover soon!

[@thomasjay3291]

Glad to see some Octilery love. Such an underrated and interesting pokémon concept. A fish that looks like a gun evolving into a turret octopus is neat. And the video is amazing as well!

[@rjthepoet500]

Almost a 7-7-7 run 7 resets Almost 7 hours of gameplay time Level 79 This was a very nice run. Much respect to you and Watergun on this one.

[@Medabee8]

Let's go!! If Octillery wasn't so slow, it wouldn't be so bad.

[@pixel3042]

It was actually used somewhat frequently on the competitive scene, when moody was so good. But now it's useless.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Yeah, it's offensive stats are really good!

[@iantaakalla8180]

Still, it says a lot that it needs a competitive-breaking ability to be good competitively. Mainly that it is far too slow to be good and not hard-hitting enough to be on trick room.

[@LogosBKC]

Thank you so much for this episode. These long forgottens are so underrated

[@theone825]

I just got the pun that Octillery is a play on artillery, hence why it can learn all of the beam moves and octazooka. Great run once again Scott! This series is maybe giving me an idea for my own run of sorts…

[@toxicperson8936]

Just want to say, your play throughs are the only ones I can sit through the entire thing!

[@loomisam9913]

Always a pleasure to see you've uploaded!

[@juvie_phenom5001]

Always look forward to the weekend for your upload, thank you for the fun entertainment!

[@LovevonMelenEkman]

Your videos are so great! And it's great to see the long-term evolution of both quality of the videos but especially of the way you analyse the game and the runs! Also, Venomoth forever!

[@LovevonMelenEkman]

AND YOUR GRIMER VIDEO IS UNDERRATED

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

This brings me great joy

[@Rat2rrj]

Octillery has been one of my favorite water types to use in psmd, it learns so many ranged attacks so it’s mad helpful at sniping in dungeons

[@thebigbean8783]

Ooo boy i am very happy to see this. I can't get this pokemon because I usually play crystal, but it's just so cool. I love to actually see a video on it. It's gonna do great! I can feel it

[@Axioanarchist]

I've always loved these guys, got a lucky fish on my first Gold playthrough and Remoraid became my party's water type. Maybe one day we can get a Water/Steel regional form for them that restores their beta designs, where their gun and tank inspirations were a tad more obvious.

[@The_Dominick]

People say Octillery is forgotten but it somehow made it in to the Base 400 in SW/SH and the 242 in legends Arceus plus it’s in BDSP meaning that Octillery has never been cut from a mainline Pokémon game

[@et34t34fdf]

Great moveset, great attacking stats, it did very well. Struggled with snorlax, but so does many pokemon.

[@TheAuron32]

just watched some videos about that "thing" in Gen 2 competitive, sweet lord Arceus its f**king TERIFYING how brutal it is!!

[@michaeld8705]

When gen 2 launched octillerty was my bro thru the game. Glad he is getting some YT love

[@ExhaustedCoot]

So happy to see an Octillery run, one of my favourite ever Pokémon 🤩

[@NativeGolfer10]

I low key forgot about Octillery. This was an awesome play through I’ll have to try out myself when I get the time.

[@andersonantunesdeleu8591]

Great Job, Scott! You got Octillery in a decent position! It is a good Pokemon really! The only difficult fight was the last one, with Red, the rest was all easy! Thank you! Keep up the good job!

[@nautgamingnautgaming9949]

Octillery is not forgotten in Gen 4 where volkner the electric type leader USES IT

[@Nottecielo9]

Hey first time I'm commenting cause I mostly watch u on KZbin on my TV but just wanted to take the time to go on my phone and say ur content is absolutely amazing and I think super underated especially the challenge videos with who's better like Gengar vs Alakazam and how u do multiple runs and explore different possibilities I think ur super amazing and one of my favorite pokemon content creators fall asleep to ur vids almost every night keep up the amazing work I hope u grow wayyyy big

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Thanks so much. This comment really motivates me to do my best! I’m glad you’re enjoying the versus videos. I love making them. More coming soon!

[@adamnilsson9107]

Felt like watergun became an unstoppable kraken. It’s been fun and inspiring seeing your channel evolve and grow

[@thehegemon996]

I was screaming all video for you to equip a quick claw, glad you finally did. I used a quick claw octillory as a child in a playthrough on a 10hr car ride to disneyworld, great memory

[@allenvirgen3879]

I know I’m super late to these videos but I absolutely love them!! I never played gen 2 growing up so watching the play through is so fun .

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Honestly not that late! Still getting occasional comments on stuff far older than this. I’m just glad you’re here and enjoying Pokémon!

[@ButterMyPanda]

Scott, I’m a fan of these videos and I apologize for just now subscribing. Keep up the great work. The dialogue along with the gameplay is what I look forward to at the end of my evening every night. I hope this finds you well, Regards

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Hopefully soon I can start bringing you more than one video a week!

[@Ars-Nova258]

Was not expecting this Pokémon to do as well as it did. Kudos to you for going the distance with a Pokémon who’s existence was forgotten to me until Pokémon Legends Arceus (amazing game btw).

[@Rattenstahl]

I love your content!! Keep up the great work!!

[@bateltheassistant]

Thanks for doing this playthrough, I have been waiting for this playthrough for so long. Octillery is my favourite water pokemon, because of it's animation in the gen 2 games(it's so cute when it's moving its tentacles, with it's unimpressed eyes, demanding for respect🤗). You've done well in this playthrough, maybe teaching flamethrower as fast as possible for the Jasmine fight, or keeping hidden power ground for the Red's pikachu maybe would have one shot it🤔. And as for the fact that, octillery(a water type 😂) able to learn flamethrower, it's probably due to it's original Japanese name, Octotanku, which is a combination between the 2 words of octopus and a tank, which resembles it's early bata sprite, so probably game freak didn't remove that, form it's early bata days. I hope you could do a gen 4 playthrough with this mighty octopus, to see how the physical special split would do for it. If you want a real challenge, then do a Smeargle run. 😉 In general, I really like your playthoughs and this one especially, means a lot to me, so thanks for playing with my favourite pokemon.☺️ And I really appreciate that you took about 3 hours of your life, trying different movesets for the red fight. Keep up the hard work 😄

[@gustavu_as]

I'll be honest here, I didn't even know what moves this guy learned, I just always assumed it was a very weak pokemon and never bothered with it. Will definitely try it in a regular playthrough soon! Thanks for the amazing content as usual!

[@JunkFlashify]

I didnt expect octillery but im all for it, great vid!

[@ThibsyCube]

I’ve never used an Octillery before because of it’s availability and my fear for slow pokemon! But I’ve always found it interesting with it’s good cover! Thanks for another great video!

[@Flatthew3333]

That's a really sweet memory with your grandpa. I miss mine dearly. Fantastic tutorial on world domination

[@popcorngenerator1925]

Octillery was easily one of my favourite Gen2 Pokémon. The move diversity was awesome

[@juliamavroidi8601]

I forgot Octillery so hard, I thought it was Gen 4

[@Joker22593]

Octillery is one of my favorites. He had me at Octazooka! Good to see him in a video.

[@firelifeblizzard8782]

Scott's Thoughts if he made videos about memes instead of Pokémon: "ahh 'my brother in christ.' I love that meme. As a kid my parents didn't know what memes were or let us have them, so I would spend hours hiding in the bathroom making my own memes. Back then Spongegar was my favorite, but I didn't have anyone to share it with. Nowadays me and my girlfriend send memes to each other all the time. That's girlfriend mention number 2 of the video. Anyways, so back in 2015, people didn't really know the mechanics of memes yet. Then came this meme called rare pepe which, [...]"

[@customfwj642]

Finally got my Scott’s thoughts fix. I love your videos bro.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Thanks for the compliment!

[@customfwj642]

@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon of course bro, I watch all your videos. Please keep going. Look forward to your 100k subscriber video.

[@Schmootzidootz]

Missed a good scotts thoughts run, love gen 2 and always wanted to use octillery…hope this helps the algorithm!

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Yeah, I love gen 2 as well! Can wait to do more Johto videos in the near future.

[@trippyhare]

Wowzers. I knew Octillery was good, but this was really impressive!

[@attackonyugioh92]

Best game gen mon best video ever!!! Thanks Scott love your content plz never go away lol

[@hammdogporkington3058]

I never took Octillery in Johto because I would always have Feraligatr, but I always thought it was really cool It's good to see you doing it justice here

[@jordanmeadows4115]

Actually thoroughly enjoyed this! I had no idea this Pokémon even existed lmao. Great time too!

[@idiom104]

Awesome run with an awesome Pokemon

[@Nick-ci8ve]

"I actually outspeed all the electric types" as he gets outsped by electrode

[@dannykrise9721]

I genuinely forgot octillery existed awesome run

[@OmniBlightz]

You never disappoint with the content Scott! Enjoyable watch as always 💯👌

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Glad you enjoyed

[@OmniBlightz]

@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon always man

[@logans.7932]

Not quite related to Octillery, but I feel like the fellow underloved Pokémon appreciators here would agree: If Magneton becomes a Steel type in Gold and Silver, why didn’t any Gen 1 Pokémon become dark type? I feel like Arbok, Fearow, or Pinsir were all menacing enough to deserve it. Arbok especially with its role in the anime and being able to learn like, literally every Dark type move in Gen 2.

[@SimplyScottIs]

And Dark Arbok and Weezing were baller designs in the TCG

[@VHScape1449]

Octillery is underrated for sure! I used one in my playthrough of Shining Pearl and it was an absolute monster with Flamethrower, Thunderbolt, Ice Beam, and Surf.

[@TerraEmperor1]

Octillary is one of those pokemon that really grew on me over the years. It's became one of my favorite from a What if done by Ronin Charizard

[@marilynlucero9363]

Octillery used Psybeam! Poliwrath used Mind Reader! Octillery's mind: You're dead meat. Poliwrath: Uh oh... Octillery used Psybeam! Poliwrath fainted!

[@cambutcooler_]

man octillery is one of my favorite mons glad to see its finally getting some respect :D

[@VCV95]

Octillery was amazing in Legends: Arceus for me! Helped a lot in the gauntlet. Amazing coverage, good stats, plus he pewpew.

[@josephgarcia8209]

I loved Octillery in Gen2, great movepool when diverse movepools actually made a pokemon unique. I was fortunate to have a Gameshark to catch whatever Pokemon I wanted to train at the start. I'd love to see this customizability offered in the main series games, but we can only dream...

[@Speedrunner0218]

Always look forward to a new challenge run

[@pannekook2000]

I used this pokemon in the spaceworld demo romhack last year because it has an alternative design, so I expected it to be very good here. but this is just crazy. just goes to show that the ideal pokemon for these games are truly just bulky mixed attackers, and octillery is among the greatest of them

[@geofff.3343]

I think Galarian Stunfisk did a lot to redeem the Pokemon. Also, I love the Trubish line. It's so darn creative.

[@ggletsplay5041]

I had a Octillery way back in the day. All those beam moves in the 20's was super overpowered.

[@Schlavius]

KZbin algorithm!!! Also I love your vids - keep the series yellow/ gen 2 up man the gen 1/2 pokemon fans love It I assume cause we grew up with it 🙌🙌🙌

[@thepulseman7154]

Excellent as usual. I hoped Octillery would do well and I was not disappointed. It was always one of my favourite especially due to it's movepool, ever since I had my Pokemon Silver Cartridge. So obviously when HGSS came out, it was part of my team and one of the few mons I trained up to level 100 in both Silver and Soul Silver. Not quite a forgotten Gen 2 Pokemon for me, in fact it is my personal favourite water type tied with Vaporeon. So who was my most forgotten Gen 2 pokemon, I don't really know. Girafarig? It was the only shiny I caught in Silver besides Gyarados, so not quite. Magcargo? Back then I was totally crazy over it because it was so rare and no one talked about it so I thought it was so unic in a way, I trained one up to level 100. So again, not quite. Glygar? Probably, but to be fair, since I had Pokemon Silver I couldn't even catch it. So, to be a bit more fair, I would say Stantler.

[@TotallyCluelessGamer]

I feel like Remoraid/Octillery suffers from being in Gen 2 and as a result Remoraid is very easy to completely miss(only caught on Route 44 with a Super Rod in G/S and not even in C), along with being a Water Type which has so many Pokemon in it. It is an absolute unit being the second strongest Special Attacking Water-Type(behind Vaporeon), and the third strongest Physical Attacking Water-Type(Beingd Kingler and Gyarados) in Gen 2 being the only water type to exceed 100 in both Attack Stats at once. Its only real competition back then for a mixed-attacking Water Type would have been Kingdra who is held back by having a Gen 2 MovePool compared to Octillery's gen 2 MoveOcean.

[@actofcawd209]

3:33 I empathize with you on your frustration about Gligar not getting Earthquake in gen 2, I was hoping he'd be able to learn it since he's a GROUND type. But in gen 2, of course Game Freak treated Gligar like a bug type and not a ground type!

[@Randroth]

Fun fact: Back when I was a kid, Pokemon Crystal was new and dinosaurs roamed the Earth, Octillery happened to be one of my favorite Pokemon. The three beams he learns at lvl 22 (as a Remoraid) made me believe that "Oh my god, this Pokemon is so good, it can just super effective hit anything!!" (note that kid me did not know about STAB existing, or how much power any moves had) Over time, I just sort of forgot about it, but I am now glad that it got such a good finish here! Maybe I should give it another shot in a playthrough as well!

[@allknowingidiot1835]

I can't believe you roasted mah boi Stunfisk like that in the first 15 seconds of the video. As the only Ground/Electric in existence at the moment, he deserves some respect!

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Cool type…….. but just look at it….. (I’ll have to do a solo Stunfisk challenge one day!)

[@SephieRothe]

So in PTU (a pokemon tabletop rpg) I had a poison focused trainer who through mad science made a Water Poison Octillery (a blue ring octillery) and loved this pokemon.

[@VioletRaze]

I first used Octillery in Ultra Sun, if you can believe it. I found a Remoraid and REALLY needed a water type so I said "screw it!" and tossed it on the team. Its moveset, plus the Sniper ability had me wrecking EVERYTHING! I love my squishy Doc Ock!

[@NoLeather]

Octillery is secretly the goat for these type of runs!

[@lance5691]

So I did know Octillery existed because of their debut in X/Y, but the fact that Remoraid evolves into it was a HUGE plot twist to me. My brain just can't rationalize it.

[@0pyrophosphate0]

Octillery has been one of my favorites for many years. First off, the name "Octillery" is just about the perfect pokemon name. And second, of course, the ability to do strong, super effective damage to almost anything. I had never played Diamond and Pearl before the remakes came out recently. I had Octillery leading the party for almost the whole game just because when you don't know what the next trainer might throw at you, there's a pretty good chance Octillery will have something to say about it. The downside in normal play is that when you have a well-balanced team of 6 pokemon, Octillery can become redundant. For all the different types that Octillery can hit for good damage, you will probably have something else that can do even better. It's not like it becomes bad, it's just that its biggest strength gets watered down somewhat. My other favorite pokemon, Magneton, is my favorite for exactly the opposite reason. It does exactly one thing (thunderbolt) and does it extremely well. Not the best to have all by its lonesome, but what team doesn't need thunderbolt and 17 type resistances?

[@trevorstevenson4038]

Octillery!? Lets go Scott!!

[@dakotashroom5401]

It's very satisfying to see you start with Remoraid then evolve it into Octillery. It learns all the beams!

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

So many beams!

[@Specious_Seraphim]

I liked octiler never knew it was this good I'm really really excited for the magcargo run after how good octillery is never could figure it out as a kid in gen heart gold

[@taylorbates5669]

I like how you talked about draining snorlax’s PP