Pokémon Red but I can only Catch Glitch Pokémon

I Beat Pokémon Red With Only Glitch Pokémon
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[@smithplayspokemon]

1 million gang :)

[@beforedrrdpr]

Congratulations!

[@BNY1Flawless]

1m in 1Y

[@difference649]

Idk

[@theawsomesausesquad6512]

This was posted 1 month ago

[@tiltmasterflex7220]

I like how you mentioned that Mewtwo's stats would make the game too easy when it had no way to attack outside of struggle.

[@jayeraine]

lol, i forgot about that. I guess he could teach it Strength, but...yea. Isn't there also something like if a pokemon at a higher level than 100 gains any experience, it will just revert back to level 1 or something?

[@AdmiralKnusperbacke]

@@jayeraine Back to 100

[@iamlorddems3859]

@@AdmiralKnusperbacke no it's 1 at least back during gen 1

[@AdmiralKnusperbacke]

@@iamlorddems3859 When I catched a lvl 146 Wartortle (Something around this) and it leveld up, the level was 100. Only used the classic cinnabar glitch next to the arena

[@jayeraine]

@@AdmiralKnusperbacke Ahh, ok, yeah, it looks like i might have been thinking about what happens when you give a rare candy to a pokemon that's lvl 255

[@thesteelcolonel]

You’ve been hit by- You’ve been struck by- TRUCK

[@iZetto1]

a smooth truck

[@fatterhorner]

*HONK*

[@IamCoalfoot]

The ultimate Isekai protagonist.

[@rashidarahman2171]

​@@IamCoalfoottruck-kun be like:

[@AnemoneEnemy]

Not only does Bide hit ghost in gen 1, it also never misses. Same as nightshade hits normal pokemon

[@Drip404]

Holy shit and here i am selling it 🤣

[@RoninCatholic]

And Seismic Toss also hits Ghosts despite being Fighting type. And no level-based or strictly fixed attacks (Sonicboom, Seismic Toss, Bide, Night Shade, Psywave, Dragon Rage) take type weaknesses or advantages into account.

[@jaredcrabb]

I think Night Shade and Seismic Toss working is because theyre fixed damage. Pretty sure Sonic Boom also works on ghosts.

[@ronin85]

​@@jaredcrabbbut on addition of fairy pokemon dragon rage don't deal the fixed 40 damage because fairy is immune to dragon.

[@bradleywalker8642]

​@@ronin85There was no Fairy type in Gen 1 Red Blue Yellow.

[@matthewdodd1262]

The missingno glitch actually has a secret hidden extra step. Missingno will always turn into Rhydon unless you have completed one of a few certain conditions, one of which is to register Cubone in the Pokedex... I don't know why Cubone of all pokemon, but it's a thing.

[@Kali_Krause]

It's because the capture flag is set to Cubone. Which isn't until later in the game. As for Yellow Missingno, that's whole different ball game

[@matthewdodd1262]

@@Kali_Krause Failure to answer the question.... Classic. I know that the flag is set for Cubone. What seems to have escaped you is the question of what is reason why it is specifically Cubone and not a different pokemon

[@matthewdodd1262]

I would assume that something about Missingno requires you to encounter Cubone because of the internal index number that Cubone occupies... But I don't know the real reason why it has to be a Cubone and not a different pokemon

[@tlet3]

@@matthewdodd1262 I mean, it's fitting considering it's gen one.

[@brettrigby2226]

i mean as smug as your reply to that guy was you actually didn't ask any questions. prehaps learn about punctuation and the use of a question mark before you shoot your trap off.

[@Slickcactus]

To those of you who are new to the Gengar glitch there is also a special way to make it lvl 100. What you do is a reducing stat move against either the encounter or the trainer battle (cannot remember exactly which one) and each time you do it it will lower the glitch Pokémon’s level by 1. Continue the glitch as normal and once you encounter the Gengar it will be lvl 1. Now in your first battle ensure that the Gengar doesn’t level up and it will automatically glitch out and will level up to lvl 100.

[@soichirohonda69]

this is the mew glitch/nidoking or queen in pokemon yellow no ?

[@Slickcactus]

@@soichirohonda69 yes that’s where I did mine

[@PlaguevonKarma]

Exp must be less than 55!

[@Rumple88.]

I think if he used the lvl 100 glitch, the run would be over before it begon ;)

[@smithplayspokemon]

its a fun addition to the glitch, but then the challenge would have been too easy!

[@MercenaryGreil]

PSA: to use Missingno. early like he was attempting here and keep it from turning into a Rhydon, all you need to do is register Cubone in the Pokedex. This would require doing a separate ditto trick to encounter a Cubone as I think you can only get one normally using the silph scope in lavender tower.

[@strange17]

cubone is a normal encounter in the tower, the scope is for a marowak

[@MercenaryGreil]

@@strange17 Ah, for some reason I thought every encounter was the same unknown spirit that your pokemon is too scared to battle until you get the scope and can identify them?

[@solgaleo3533]

@@MercenaryGreil I think it is like that, I’m not sure if it applies to Cubone though, might only be the Gastlys and Haunters

[@solgaleo3533]

You only need to have it seen though, and there’s one in rock tunnel owned by a trainer

[@MercenaryGreil]

@@solgaleo3533 That's a good point. Though it raises the question if that trainer is skippable. It seems that a lot of people must skip the trainer if this glitch happens often... Still good to know though.

[@xtra3678]

what's really funny about this is that your use of mew as a physical attacker is actually very accurate to how people use new in RBY Ubers, since it's psychics are resisted by some of the biggest tier threats, and it doesn't learn amnesia, only swords dance, it makes the most sense to make it into a swords dance set up sweeper

[@smithplayspokemon]

Wow that’s actually really neat!

[@MDLuffy1234YT]

​@@smithplayspokemon did you discover the save collision glitch for multiple starters (but in this specific case, manipulating your rival's starter) or smth? I feel like such a glitch would be essential for a gen 1 catch em all speedrun since you get 6 more entries w/o trading.

[@RileyGein]

@@MDLuffy1234YTit’s a very old and highly well known glitch

[@Bugser64]

actually mew is the most flexible pokemon knowing every move in the game +600 bst

[@pxm2337]

@@Bugser64mew can only learn TM moves plus a few level up moves, it can’t learn amnesia.

[@DjBrito95]

I pictured Mew transforming into a truck with hands, i'm in awe

[@revomitderwelle]

Maybe mew is actually Kirby

[@thatsquishedadam]

@@revomitderwelle 😳

[@Netroshin]

Missingno turned into a Rhydon because it isn't located as "caught" and you will see the pokedex entry. The "caught-pokedex-entry" for Missingno is cubones "seen-pokedex-entry", thus if you saw cubone before, it will still be a Missingno due to the fact, that no Pokedex entry is shown. Missingno from the cinnabar island will not show the pokedex entry because you are forced to fight against a trainer with a cubone in rock tunnel.

[@NiFeGetsTubey]

The love you had for Truck is the real MVP.

[@eliseosterbrink8000]

You should try this again, but only use actual glitch Pokemon. I'm talking the one that fuses Pokemon below it together to create unstable hybrids (and creates infinite copies of itself if you're not careful), the ones that can use Super Glitch, the ones that paint sections of the screen very scary colors. It would be awesome to see you struggle with their quirks while exploring their strengths.

[@JoeDan54]

Using true glitchmons like 44HY and LM4 in a run would be hype, especially if the true glitch final boss, Blue Ultimus, is the video's finale.

[@Potmre]

​@@JoeDan54did you watch let's glitch Pokémon yellow as a kid too?

[@JoeDan54]

@@Potmre You bet I did, Pokemon Blue as well

[@pressniftyofficial]

Female symbol.

[@Arrow-Pointer]

@@pressniftyofficialno dont bring me back

[@robertlupa8273]

18:39 Fun fact: this is because the Aerodactyl Fossil MissingNo. don't have any stats associated with them, so they just copy the stats of the last Pokemon in the party (besides another MissingNo.), so in this case, it copied Zapdos's stats.

[@katzlover321]

Why did it have stuff that applied to MissingNo. and why did it look like MissingNo.?

[@beartankoperator7950]

a good thing about the first glitch where he gets the charmander is that it registers as a traded pokemon so it gets a bonus to exp

[@illuminum87]

Is there a knack to this glitch that I'm missing... do both saves have to be restarted at the right time during saving or just the last save has to be at a specific point? Not sure whether I should be starting from scratch every time or to keep trying from the second save (using gba emulator)

[@stardmg]

The alt forms of Missingno. (Kabutops Fossil, Aerodactyl Fossil and Ghost) all have a unique quality in that they actually have no base stats, starting moves or experience groups assigned to them and take those from the last Pokemon accessed in memory (other than another Special Missingno) which in this case was your Venusaur.

[@roxasxdarknessx]

Trainer who beats your Missingno: "Hey why do I have so many Potions?"

[@VariantTea]

more like “ayo wtf what is wrong with my master balls”

[@jefufflekluse9573]

Sabrina was acting weird because she was so confused by your pokemon's paradoxical nature she had an aneurism.

[@djt08031996]

The perfect gen 1 experience doesn't exi-

[@thatsquishedadam]

Lol i could not stop laughing when i read this

[@shirakorimio1363]

I like how this video could have been a 30 second long video where you just get a level 100 in viridian forest and say "that's it. It sweeps every enemy in the game. See you." Instead it's 26 minutes long and I enjoyed all of it hehehee.

[@zuperzach]

I enjoy this type of content from you a lot more than the "x number of things in pokemon" vids. I hope you do more of it!

[@smithplayspokemon]

Honestly me too! They take a lot more work but it’s so much fun

[@timfitz96]

When I saw your thumbnail, I got super excited to see you use glitch Pokémon in your video. However I was bummed out when I realized the only glitch Pokémon you used on your team was missingno. The rest of your Pokémon were caught using an extension of the mew glitch. I would love to see a future vid where you just use glitch pokemon! Big Yellow has a great video ranking their viability on his channel

[@Larszard]

Well the fossil Aerodactyl too

[@wynexplode2593]

Yeah there's a whole lot of fun glitch Pokemon I'd love to see! Besides like- maybe C1 and some of the other super broken ones.

[@gemhunter498]

@@wynexplode2593 i really wanna see M' FF, but you cant get that until Cinnabar Island

[@elfmonster1476]

@@gemhunter498 You can't get it on Cinnabar Island. You get it via Cooltrainer corruption at Route 1's Glitch City.

[@MellowhearttheCat]

I wanna see someone suffering through using 94 haha

[@TetrisMaster512]

20:25 You didn't actually have to worry here, crit rate is determined by the species' base speed in gen1, not the effective speed, so it doesn't take into account DVs or stat modifiers. Also, as I saw mentioned elsewhere in the comments, agility is being used here because of the "good" AI sees that gengar is weak to psychic type moves, so it will always use agility and since trainers' pokemon don't have PP it'll never run out. Can be useful for setting up. Gotta love the gen1 jank.

[@AlmostNamedOne]

he was making a joke. "I was in fear that AGILITY would crit"

[@TetrisMaster512]

​@@AlmostNamedOne I guess I either misheard or just thought that he misspoke.

[@Nizzy37]

Also if you just use your trainer's name and set the last character to the m/n symbol you can force professor oak to spawn where you surf in cinnabar. You should really watch scykohs glitchquest on these games

[@Seth_Hezekiah]

Yea but that gives him a glitched team. This gives you the actual team.

[@Nizzy37]

@@Seth_Hezekiah much more interesting with lvl 100+ mons in my opinion. Also this whole run was based on glitched mons so it makes sense

[@Seth_Hezekiah]

@@Nizzy37 well the problem is 1) he didn't glitch lv 100 mons and 2) half of the glitched Oak team has terrible moves.

[@Nizzy37]

@@Seth_Hezekiah I meant oaks team. He literally rolls up with a super glitched missingno its hilarious

[@meadnex331]

For anyone wondering, the reason for bide hitting gengar is cause it is technically a set dammage move, like night shade and seismic toss, and in rby those bypass type immunity

[@emlyashlrou2546]

I mean according to the anime, Prof Oak had a Charizard so I guess this run is canonically accurate lol

[@T33wh7]

In episode 1 of the anime ash show up late and doesn’t get a starter from professor but some how gets a pikachu I thought what am I missing or forgetting.

[@emlyashlrou2546]

@@T33wh7 You're not missing anything. What's the connection between the two?

[@T33wh7]

@@emlyashlrou2546 to be honest it’s been forever since I watched it and you’ve had me stumped for a couple days trying to it it together.

[@Kulkogo]

Interestingly, if you repeatedly growl at the slowpoke for the mew glitch, you can make the level of that mew 1. If you level it up with just enough EXP, it instantly becomes level 100, basically beating the game with ease.

[@smithplayspokemon]

Of course! But as you said, it would have ruined the challenge!

[@gamingwithfoss]

Okay, that was fun to watch! Great work and can’t wait to see more

[@chrisbroughton1659]

Love all the content you put out Pat. You the man

[@markusfassbinder8275]

I think the title is misleading, you mean that you can only catch pokemon via glitches, but you wrote glitch pokemon, I expected only glitch pokemonlike missingno or 4 4 hy

[@leaderjord]

Against Weezing, if you used Nidoqueen, it could've used Selfdestruct as its first move because of how the trainer AI works (or so I've heard)

[@FatherOfGray]

The Aerodactyl Fossil, Kabutops Fossil, and Ghost MissingNo. don't have consistent base stats, EXP growth type or TM learnsets and instead take this information from the last Pokémon in the player's party. Their starting moves specifically are taken from the last Pokémon whose data the game last referenced. (Source: Bulbapedia) Anyway the point is a future run with this form of MissingNo. could be really interesting because of the way it can copy attributes from all kinds of different Pokémon throughout the playthrough.

[@William_Kyle-Yuki_Yuuki]

The commitment to the Mew Truck bit was fantastic.

[@wherethetatosat]

Finishing off Bruno with a mega punch from a psychic type. The disrespect.

[@NOCOMMENTSHOW]

I love your videos, man. Keep posting content!!

[@joshbaker55]

I laughed at the vileplume joke for a solid 5 minutes. Very well done 🤣

[@mandykaterina7866]

Another amazing idea for a challenge run! I can't wait to see what the next video holds!

[@czmmpower3005]

Nah mew doesn't hit like a truck. Mew IS THE TRUCK

[@emersoncoe1993]

Smashing the content pal, keep it up 💪🏻

[@Thewaterspirit57]

Mew only having punch moves, and you playing off of that with the script….. was just gold :P Mews abouta throw some HANDS up in here lol

[@yoshidababies4222]

This was so fun! Loved the useless glass cannon! And Truck wad a beast :)

[@DreQueary]

This was one of the funnest challenge videos ive seen in a long while. Props 👍👍

[@LITTLE1994]

Impressive doing that in real hardware without destroying the cartridge.

[@PokemonTrainerIsaiah]

Look who it is! I had a feeling I would find you here!

[@monochameleongaming5317]

I first beat the Champion fight in Red all the way back in 1999....with my very last pokemon: a Haunter, level 35, Night Shading and Licking my opponent's Charizard to death, as it had gotten locked into Rage. This brought back great memories.

[@bernardohchongching224]

For viridian forest glitch, growl on rival's charmander 6 times, and the gengar will become lvl1 Glich for lvl1 pokemon is that leveling up makes it go from lvl 1 to lvl100

[@jacksonpercy8044]

does it actully have all the stats of a level 100 pokemon?

[@philipmurphy2]

Great to hear a video from you again on KZbin for sure.

[@jboi6196]

I feel that its totally justified to abuse glitches in a glitched mon only run, i think it would have been fun to see you also abuse the badge boost glitch, and mayber count how many 1/256 glitch misses you got. This run looks really fun, if i was any good at following glitch tutorials, id definitely try this.

[@leonparsons2279]

Great edits - enjoyed your run c:

[@zacharysloan7018]

Ain’t no way this is the same smith plays I used to watch all them years ago play cod holy crap man never knew you were into Pokémon too! So much more content! :)

[@arc1279]

I'm a fan who found your main channel 2-ish years ago when you pivoted away from Fortnite content into COD Zombies videos, so seeing you have ANOTHER career pivot into being a poketuber on the side and you finding this much success so far is really inspiring and motivational for me. Love the videos, hope you have tons of success in the future!

[@186scott]

Thank you for explaining how to get the 3 starters and after your explanation I realised if you have the volume on it helps with timing the frames

[@nashrigler8358]

Is it just me or is this man's voice perfect

[@joejack1452]

Sus?

[@creatormanualdarytendotmve4748]

He was genetically created in a lab.

[@bonafidehustler-entreprene8781]

Kind of high pitched tbh.

[@shaneman9274]

The perfect voice. Now we need more perfect characteristics and then fuse them together.

[@Rockername2]

🤨

[@baboon_gamer]

This video is one of a kind. Its cool,its weird and it actually made me start my own run with missingno suprisingly carrying me thru the e4

[@zeroknots1297]

title: "I can only Catch Glitch pokemon" proceeds to catch an abra

[@christianremboldt1557]

I love when a small team makes a game and it has cool glitches. It gives the game character

[@HACSSuperbMiner]

The Persona 5 Strikers music in the background makes this video even better! You’ve earned a sub!

[@josephelballat721]

Love your concept! It's so cool :D

[@Frotheru_The_Dragon]

Its funny how Mew is an absolute monstrocity,but MissingNo can just one shot it...

[@juliennizan3129]

pause how did i not notice this was the smithplays, i just got hit with a huge wave of nostalgia wow

[@WaltonGFilm]

That Mew, "Truck", was my life during this!! Love that running joke!! x,D

[@EdenNeedsAYoutubeHandle]

7:01 Ah, yes, the trainer that can grant you a Nuzlocke-friendly Mew encounter. Love that guy.

[@pokechallengeruns]

That was some great content. Thanks, and keep them coming!

[@TNTom67890]

That is a nice Abra ya got there to use warp @7:25. How you glitch that in to catch it?

[@damiont.1554]

love the longer challenge videos patrick, even if they dont fully fit the YT algorithm

[@PrismariLaura]

...not quite what I was expecting when you said "glitch pokémon".

[@CinderFallenAngel]

I'm sure the Horsea in Misty's gym can also be used to cause the Mew glitch. Although like you I've only ever done it with the Slowpoke. I absolutely adore glitches in Pokemon.

[@ShiningJudgment666]

Yep. The Slowpoke is the better known one but yeah, the Swimmer in Misty's gym can also give you a Mew. So you could technically end up with 2 Mews at that point in the game.

[@Xaero13]

​@@ShiningJudgment666 as long as you lose the fight, you can encounter Mew an infinite number of times.

[@ShiningJudgment666]

@@Xaero13 But why would you?

[@Xaero13]

@@ShiningJudgment666 infinite Mews

[@JulianSloman]

Now that's some serious "no overlevelling" beating lvl 70's with 40's :D

[@DirtGod101]

There's a shirt idea, Mew with the red headband and text reading "Though he may look like a Mew, the kid hits like a TRUCK!" 😂

[@DemonyGhost]

So this is essentially a triple challenge. Glitch Pokémon only, no items in battle, no TMs.

[@thegayone9968]

"Mew isn't under the truck. No ladies and gentlemen, it turns out mew hits like truck."😂😂😂

[@AmandaE329]

“Agatha hears a rumbling in the distance” Mew: ✨👄✨

[@The-Dancing-Rat]

The persona 5 mementos music be hittin😂❤

[@RarePixel]

Ninja Mew isn't real it can't hurt you. Ninja Mew: 19:11

[@SirBitesALot101]

8:56 Very missed opportunity to say that mew _"struck_ like a _truck."_

[@vtubermissingno]

As a glitch myself, this video makes me very happy. Thank you

[@Meatychance]

Got the notification of this vid at work. couldn't get home any sooner!

[@LuwiigiMaster]

The AI in gen 1 tends to cheat - if you still kept Gengar out, it would've chosen either Fire Spin or Flame Thrower, but since you switched into a Pokémon that resists these moves, it then chooses Slash. The AI basically chooses moves immediately before executing them. In Gen 2, the AI picks moves before, like you normally would, which allows for some easy predictions, such as using a team of level 5s to take down Red.

[@lucasmoreirar]

Haha when I was a kid my Missingno. turned into a Poliwrath with Fly. Can't believe you made me remember this. Thanks, dude! This nostalgic feeling made my day.

[@saden7277]

not only is this good content but it helps you learn so many glitches lol

[@maomaeramnon3870]

„Use only glitch Pokémon“ - uses normally caught abra

[@WaynesStrangeBrain]

Honestly seeing the bug catcher as you faint at the exact same time challenge you made me go wow. How do people even figure this out

[@ElderKarp]

Really enjoyed watching this great video!!!!

[@WindRegalia]

This feels like glitchquest and I’m not opposed to another type of series like that

[@firstbaseblue1991]

This is one of the sickest runs I've ever seen 👏

[@DaenaMichelle]

Crits are determined by base speed, not leveled up or "boosted up by moves" speed. So it's fix no matter the level of the Pokémon neither Agility use.

[@smithplayspokemon]

yeah but you still gotta watch out, agility might crit you no matter what

[@captaincyrmu7349]

first video ive seen from you gotta be said very entertaining

[@Duskaria]

"Every Main Character has a Charizard" That's pretty much current Pokemon in a nutshell

[@pi_xi]

10:40 When you encounter Missingno for the first time, it is transformed into Rhydon. This has to do with the Seen PokéDex flags. The second Missigno will stay a Missigno.

[@retro-spective9217]

I appreciate the work and time that went into this video. It was great! It was also really entertaining! Thank you.

[@BakaTaco]

I'm not sure if your profile picture is coincidental or not, but in any case, it fits perfectly with this video.

[@thatsquishedadam]

THE ACE OF THE VIDEO IS IN THE COMMENTS!!

[@Manuel_Flaggschiff]

Great narration, respect to you!

[@grimguygames449]

This is awesome. Falcon punch mew is best mew. Weird question, do you have a music list for this vid?

[@mikea1785]

I love this kind of content!

[@JTRogue151]

I just imagine a random child playing around with getting glitched Pokémon then unexpectedly getting assaulted by a final boss that was cut from the game 😂

[@borrelsupremacy]

Nuzlocke of Red and Blue, but every route you spin a wheel of Glitchmons to GameShark in, so you could get anything from worse than Migikarp to "haha, imma solo the 10 pokemon with the highest base stat totals because almost 200 in every stat goes brrrr"

[@jakeiswayblack3377]

Dude missed out on getting a lv126 Nidoking in veridian forest with the offscreen glitch

[@gadielinutil]

Using that Mt.Moon glitch with the team rocket grunt that you said it was in Rock Tunnel, I caught Gengar, Lickitung, Gyarados, Exeggcute, Exeggutor, and Grimer. (BTW I'm editing this comment every time I catch another pokemon via that glitch)

[@NickC_222]

This is legitimately more hype and engaging than the super bowl.

[@baggedapplesgaming3207]

I doubt my copy of Red still has the save, but I had a Missing no. that was water/flying. It knew Water Gun, Water Gun again, and Sky Attack. I taught it Fly, then battled with it and it immediately evolved into a lvl 100 Kangaskhan, keeping its moves.

[@BDra7]

alakazams iq is over 5000, they both telepathically agreed to not body you and end your playthrough lol

[@BDra7]

although I don't know if psychics can outrun trucks

[@williamboehler5119]

You made me think of a fun Speedrun. Lowest combined level vs Oak, red and blue.

[@tamar7065]

I recently started a series playthrough and when I found out about the mew glitch I decided to slot it straight into my starter team. I don't really pay attention to stats much bc I only play PVE where basically anything will get you through the game, but I did in fact notice it was hitting like a truck despite only having pound rotfl. Rocked it all game long and it was fun as heck.