PokéTuber Reacts to World Record Speedrun of Pokémon Red

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I recorded myself watching a Pokemon speedrun for the first time, and it's actually the WORLD RECORD speedrun of Pokemon Red set by Pokeguy!
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[@karljohanahlefeldt6299]

Imagine becoming a world known Pokémon champion around an hour and forty minutes after greeting a blue turtle...

[@rateater236]

Haw yee

[@namtranhoai8248]

Yet somehow his rival still faster than that XD

[@spenck7740]

Yoo hoo

[@Beyondthe5thPanel]

Nam Tran Hoai two fastest trainers in the world 😂 And somehow the rival levels up his Pokémon even more in a lesser amount of time. How amusing would it be if the rival said something like, “You went so fast, I knew I had to keep pace with you. I nearly gave up.”

[@DSteiger123]

Cool

[@BrickyRiver0712]

Can we admire the fact that blue still got there before the player

[@reaperofthings]

Bricky River Blue’s the REAL speedrunner here lmao

[@kgs4512]

XD

[@ravinercf]

his name is A

[@ravinercf]

@mason backus well they are both blue

[@zavnoob]

Lol

[@evagarcia865]

Breaking news: Kid named A beats the current champion, A, with his strongest Pokémon, A.

[@Zamtrios245]

Not to be confused with his weakest pokemon, A

[@gekkiethegecko]

😂

[@Officewaffle]

And his other partners, A, A, A and A!

[@t-archer0820]

Hahahahahaha

[@VoaThiagao]

Lol

[@zulpi2103]

Imagine Oak giving a Pokemon to Red and after an hour and a half already going to the elite four to congratulate him

[@arek.k8688]

You mean A

[@zulpi2103]

@@arek.k8688 yeah, sorry

[@calamorta]

Congratulate A and also his rival, A

[@KalosChampionThunder]

Oak had to start driving right after he gave the starter

[@mattbeckley9483]

Theres a glitch on 1st gen if you turn off the game as you save it corrupts your save you continue move a few invisble pokemon and throw out a certain amount of an item that get 0.00 time

[@z.connoisseur1991]

Micheal: You can unfaint with rare candies in gen 1!? Me: You still can because leveling up increases the hp stat

[@MattDoes_Stuffs]

Lmao

[@nathoghazi5026]

*this happens in gen 6 ORAS as well.*

[@cosmicpegasus9697]

In emerald too played 500+ times remember it like the back of my hand

[@jnrhymes]

Z. Connoisseur Mopolodo I never knew that

[@kylianmbappe4522]

You hacker

[@relixeo6705]

PokeGuy: It took me 1 hour and 45 minutes to complete the pokemon league Ash: It took me... 22 years

[@Ovechkinz]

LMFAO

[@pao-ulul7475]

That's why he's trash and I hate him no matter what other say

[@nierusu3113]

@@pao-ulul7475 the reason he never wins is not cause he sucks, its cause they can continu the series.

[@pao-ulul7475]

@@nierusu3113 yeah that's a good reason,but can't they make ash rest, I mean its almost 22 years and still he's 10 like how could that be,it would be better if they make anime that based on game cuz not only me,and other people are tired of ash's anime. Like ash take the role of mc of the game of respective region, and I'm tired of his anime,so what if he's chased by hot girls, did he love them back,and why team rocket still annoying us,and when his adventure come to end?

[@nierusu3113]

@@pao-ulul7475 i think the problem then would be that nostalgic people would want ash back so i think it will stay ash for a while. They are making extra mini series now but they dont do that much. But i think they are heading in a great direction with pokemon journeys and maybe he will get some character development lmao

[@meshaksharma7647]

I just wanna say that the reason he saves and quits every once and a while is to manipulate rng. With specific inputs after every save and quit, he can guarantee wild Pokémon encounters (such as skipping a bunch of wild battles or guaranteeing a wild Pokémon with good ev’s). Also he talks to the bike guy because it initiates a code that stops text animation.

[@brandonlink7091]

Both of those things are glitches which makes it weird that they are used in the glitchless runs. I guess you COULD argue the rng manipulation isn't technically a glitch, but the bike guy text speed is absolutely a glitch

[@antonvigensmolarz2250]

@@brandonlink7091 The reason the text thing was not deemed a glitch is because it is initiated by doing something intended in the game. The thing that starts it is just talking to the bike guy without the bike waucher, which you are meant to be able to do

[@brandonlink7091]

@@antonvigensmolarz2250 but the act of talking to him causing unrelated text to speed up for no reason is the definition of what a glitch is

[@antonvigensmolarz2250]

@@brandonlink7091 As I have heard it; it was a huge discussion in the community. So I do not think that there is a definitive answer to the question. I can se how you can argue that since it is so easy to do in a casual play trough and by mistake, it is just a part of the game's wierdness, even though it probably was a mistake from the programmers side when programming the game. Edit: also there is the "glitchless (classic)" category where it is not allowed. The main reason why people dislike it is because it resets every time opening the menu. Meaning that you cannot heal the team etc. And the run therefore gets more RNG depended.

[@klooger28]

@@antonvigensmolarz2250 glitchless rules for any game are always weird and arbitrary, in this particular example it makes more sense to me that the text speed thing be counted as a glitch, because imo a glitch is defined by an altered output on the game, and not on how you achieve that output

[@redboi2523]

The reason for him taking the damage is because when the “low HP” noises start to play, they cancel out the battle cry of a Pokémon which takes more time

[@cTPH]

Mikey, look at this, he resets the game to reset the RNG, so that when he takes a certain path through a place, he will get no encounters, or the perfect nidoran, also, the bike person is used to activate instant text. Last thing, he needs red bar, so that he can skip the level up music.

[@zidanez21]

Thanks I was actually wondering about that

[@-metroro-]

Pokefan 999 it's a random number generator, in this game, the number decides what Pokemon appear when. And the "random" number is how many steps you take. When you save and quit, the number is reset

[@ritvikbalachandar3803]

also red bar makes text faster

[@giridharanp2705]

@Pokefan 999 Random number generator. Basically when something is not guaranteed. The game assigns numbers to many possible outcomes. However the game chooses numbers at random. So, outcomes are also random!

[@jadonlong925]

Yeah. In these earlier games, RNG is determined by what the player does, which means that he can make what he wants in a speedrun to happen with certain conversations and steps. This is called RNG manipulation, and it's perfectly okay even in glitchless.

[@marekkrol8415]

Paras: uses dig Every building: what the F happened to the floor!

[@pokemongirl6419]

Marek Krol haha lol

[@NickyvMLP]

It's even worse when you use it on the S.S Anne

[@Rebateman]

@@NickyvMLP wait...

[@stanstanstan2597]

NickyvMLP oops everyone’s drowning

[@333ShadowFire]

Most underrated comment. 😂😂😂

[@ins0mn1ac10]

I think he deposited his pokemon before the league to save time with the hall of fame cutscene

[@Generic_Drummer]

I absolutely ADORE that you ask permission simply to react. Thank you for your kindness

[@CodeRedDamax]

Right? Under Fair Use he absolutely does not have to ask permission at all, but the fact that he does just speaks to MandJ’s genuine kindness as a human.

[@danielsantamarina4507]

@@CodeRedDamax He (and everyone) has to ask. This is not a demerit to the guy for asking by any means though. If you are making money out of it in any shape or form, you have to. You can do reviews, educational stuff, and parodies provided you don't make money out of any of those. You can't review the work of somebody else by showing all their work with your voice over for example. It's not a quote or a mention of other person's work but sharing of their whole product. Fair use takes into account money making, reasons for sharing, and quantity of the work shared, and this case is clearly not under fair use.

[@Kikiricki11]

@@danielsantamarina4507 No, you don't have to ask if you comment more than you watch. I think you have to have like 80% commentary or smth like that. Then you make their product your own. I think it is a stupid rule, but it definitely exists. I am just unsure about the percentage, but I think it was around 80%.

[@thatgayhead]

@@Kikiricki11 still, crediting the creators and asking permission is important because copyright said so

[@Kikiricki11]

@@thatgayhead yep. Except when you do what I said.

[@jarjlol]

Here's some explanation: He wasn't getting encounters in viridian forest because if you follow a certain route you are guaranteed no encounters. He saved before catching nidoran to manipulate the game such that gets that nidoran on that tile and is guaranteed to catch it with one pokeball. Same for Mt. Moon and paras (manip and no encounters). He talked to the bicycle dude when he can't get the bike to give instant text, so the animation for text to show doesn't happen. He did it the second time because the instant text gets reset at Bill's house. He was able to hit the horn drills very successfully due to X-Accuracies being broken in Gen 1 and causing pokemon to skip the accuracy check (to always hit ) instead of increasing chances. He also many times lost HP on purpose so that his health bar is in the red region. This increases the speed of everything in this game. Edit: This was written as soon as I heard Michael question it, I didn't know he clarified them later when I wrote this.

[@rodrickheffley1597]

To much wirting

[@tomasgomezcorbalan9081]

He puts squirtle and paras in the pc to make the hall of fame animation shorter, but I think that's pretty obvious.

[@MrLollersnakes]

it definintely helps people who are looking for the answers BEFORE he answers the questions

[@jayden3879]

What a waste of my tome

[@jovicagasic98]

Thank you for the explanation

[@plohka1141]

I’m assuming he boxed Paras and Squirtle to make the hall of fame cutscene faster

[@ibrahimuysal6808]

Also, after pidgey fainted game don't ask if he wants to switch pokemon because there is no other usable one

[@cupofspiders5830]

İbrahim UYSAL no that’s easy to do on Set

[@megaparodiasxd7910]

@@cupofspiders5830 that would of take time

[@pembertoons4576]

@@ibrahimuysal6808 no, that's set mode.

[@ibrahimuysal6808]

@@pembertoons4576 Oh, right. I forgot that detail.

[@Mr.M1STER]

Does everyone else call those items "times accuracy" and "times attack" ? I have always called them X accuracy as in pronouncing the X as in "ex".

[@gargervon8697]

I've always pronounced it as "x."

[@Lord_necromancer]

Everyone calls is "X" (ex) accuracy. This guy literally the only human ever to call it "times accuracy" 🙄

[@TheMiig1513]

I always said x too

[@zarif1217]

@@Lord_necromancer50% of humanity call it times,sooooooo yeah but i still call it x

[@lordluxembourg8777]

@@zarif1217 no

[@jimsmith7690]

When i was like 5 years old, i found out i could use rare candies to revive pokemon when i was desperate in the elite 4. never seen it done by anyone else till now

[@accidentallyaj5138]

Me too

[@Someone-ro5ct]

I remember doing in it Pokémon Brick Bronze. Anthian sewer. Time stopped. A single Pokémon alive in the red. Healed it up, but minimal PP on most their moves due to the battles beforehand. No escape to the Pokémon Center. I frantically searched my bag. 1 revive. Well, Lucie (my Lucario) resists the upcoming Electrode's Self Destruct, so let's heal her. Oh, rare candies here? Okay.. Use it on Lucie. Wait.. Her HP went up? And then everyone was alive. I would not have won without the Rare Candies I got by jumping on top of some dude's roof.

[@gameworldjt]

@@Someone-ro5ct Pokémon brick bronze, one of the best Pokémon fan games, yet also on roblox, one of the worst platforms The duality of game

[@king4037]

I’m in my 20s and still do this as a last resort

[@zarif1217]

@@gameworldjt I don't get why people hate on roblox so much. It's a really fun platform. But then again like everyone there is a kid but whatever it doesn't change the fact roblox isn't that bad.

[@forgottenshadows7548]

he names everything "A" rather than leaving their default name cause "A" goes by faster in the text. fun fact.

[@gyrozeppeli9546]

Yeah that was what I thought when I saw it.

[@trainercim6973]

I thought "I" was faster than "A"

[@anthonyhutchins2300]

I mean obviously lol... He was just joking

[@sleepingzoro7530]

Trainer CIM If you spend the time to put the letter “I” than “A”, you would overall lose time because of the time you would gain overall by having A as your name.

[@comicstans3278]

really sherlock

[@cdoggo3352]

The reason why he wanted the vine whip to happen is that: if your Pokemon is in red hp, the text goes by faster

[@bigweldjr3219]

and it can use sleep powder

[@gforcemaster3885]

He showed that in the video

[@cdoggo3352]

@@gforcemaster3885 yeah but I placed the comment WAY before he showed it

[@OidhcheLanFala]

As a former Pokemon Red Runner it's so funny hearing you talk about how he is lucky and not knowing anything about stuff like rng manipulation xD

[@basicallysnake]

27:02 “Man it has been *eons* since he healed his team!” I know I’m a bit off topic but eon was eevee’s original name

[@apexax]

Ohh that makes perfect sense as all of its evolutions end in eon! Now imagine they also renamed them to Jolteevee, Vaporeeve and Flareeve 😭😂😅

[@axorandom]

@@apexax those terrible names won’t happen for eons

[@anannoyedasszorua570]

@@apexax no, eon fits well.

[@FroststormFrenzy]

@@apexax Fun Fact, The 'Eon' suffix for the Eeveelutions isn't in most languages. The Gen 1 trio only has it in English, Italian, and Spanish. Side note, in French the Eeveelutions all contain -li at the end, which is part of Eevee's german name - Evoli

[@zappyzen5388]

Lol I got a shiny eevee from sos hunting in ultra sun and named it that! He’s now evolved into Umbreon now though. HE LOOKS SO COOL!!!

[@Brandon-eo2hj]

Some speed run tips that might've gone over your head throughout the video: -speaking to the bike man before you can get it increases text speed until certain things turn it back down -red health increases text speed -hard resetting in certain areas messes with the rng, guaranteeing a lv.4 nidoran, decreasing spawn rate in Mt. Moon for a while and guaranteeing paras, etc. -speed is the determining factor in ohko move accuracy in Gen 1 but X Accuracy guarantees hits as long as they're out in that battle

[@flavio6897]

Oh I didn't know the bike man sped up text speed

[@jayneleomara9870]

Thats awesome! But wouldn't those count as glitches when its meant to be glitchless?

[@jayneleomara9870]

@@ChildrenOfGielinor Ah okay, cool. He's using exploits not glitches. Thanks for explaining.

[@SoggySlopster]

No in gen 1 ohko moves are always 30% look it up

[@TheForeverRanger]

@@SoggySlopster X-Accuracy is bugged in Gen 1 to where it will guarantee a hit no matter what. If you don't think it is legit, try it out for yourself.

[@crazyfam2414]

He deposited his Pokémon so he didn’t have to wait for the Hall of Fame to end

[@BarisKPunkt]

The ONLY THING i understood right away....#NoobLife

[@astrocandy148]

@@BarisKPunkt I didn't realize until his pokemon actually showed up in the hall of fame.

[@josephm9172]

I just commented this and then saw the comment

[@ControlledChaos1994]

A year later, but the reason he has so few encounters during early stretches like the forest and mt moon is because there are specific tiles that have a 0/near 0 chance at producing an encounter if you hit them at certain frames (gotta be fast and accurate as any misstep messes this up). Needless to say these tiles have been mapped out and memorized by all Gen 1 runners. Excellent reaction! Cheers in 2022

[@nhhshusky21]

“Is that like a mistake?” lel. No mistakes that drastic made in WR speed runs

[@Kurayamiblack]

Mom: "Okay Red, goodbye honey! Good luck!... I'll miss him but he'll be back. Those gym leaders are rough and the Elite 4 is brutal. I'll have my doors open for him. Now, what do I want to do now?" *puts on a movie and finishes it* Mom: "Wow, that was really good! Before I start the dishes, let's see what's on the news" News: "We have a new Pokemon Champion in Kanto ladies and gentlemen! Behold, League Champion Red!" Mom: "WHAT!?"

[@elijah5374]

👏 👏 👏

[@SJohann]

Ahem His name is A

[@jellalshadow2318]

Nani??

[@Ewremen]

Correction: News:”We have a new Pokémon Champion in Kanto ladies and gentlemen! Behold, League Champion A!” Mom:”WHAT?! Wait since when was he named A?”

[@InterYamah]

tbf kanto is smaller than a village, 1:1 scale to real life distance, totally achievable

[@miaiko]

Michal: uses all of his brain cells to figure out why he has a pigey Everyone: it’s for fly

[@cranberryjuice1005]

@Kurt Gerardino ahaha same

[@cranberryjuice1005]

Michael* Pidgey*

[@bukvynecko9089]

@@cranberryjuice1005 shhhhut up

[@cranberryjuice1005]

@@bukvynecko9089 why?

[@DanielCardenas23]

Facts

[@yuumijungle548]

6:11 not exactly, hes using tail whip, because he needs to save up every pp he can, so he doesnt have to visit the pokemon center. generally tail whip is only worth it if you need like 5 hits to KO like for example during the very first rival battle (in any game pretty much) but if your starter has super flawless stats then using tackle can be better i think.

[@vanshgarg5514]

Note to Michael : you can un-faint a Pokemon using a rare candy in almost all generations, since the damage they gave taken stays constant but their base HP increases due to the level up, thereby leaving them with the amount of HP they gained from leveling up

[@The_One_In_Black]

I abused the hell out of this in Legends: Arceus.

[@joemck85]

Note that in this speedrun, Rare Candy revival is far preferable to using a Pokemon Center. It leaves your Pokemon with extremely little HP. When it's low enough for the annoying low health chime to play, that sound overrides many other sounds that the game stops and waits to finish playing.

[@vrushaskitchentastybite7257]

I found it out in my first play of Pokemon firered

[@Yomom12388]

“Why does he keep talking to the bike guy? Is that like a mistake orrrr...?” It’s a world record run, nothing you see is a mistake.

[@erichall090909]

If you talk to him before having a voucher it maxes all text appear instantly instead of letter by letter like normal. Saving a chunk of time. It resets when you do bills house so you do it again. It’s something that was debated for a while in the speed running community if allowed in glitchless but was ruled ok

[@slurpythedog2153]

World Record runs can have mistakes

[@mystereoheart2579]

@@erichall090909 What, how?? Thats crazy

[@erichall090909]

Hayley Tilghman gen1 games had a lot of odd coding glitches, stemming from the amount they had to get into a single cartridge, they used every trick in the book to make it work, but sometimes the cracks show lol

[@slurpythedog2153]

@O K I know there isn't, this run is very very good, and the bike thing was clarified to be intentional. However, in the grand scheme of speedruns, its not rare to find a WR run with mistakes, particularly if a huge timesave that is hard to do is successfully preformed, but minor blunders are made along the way.

[@VinnyTheGamer-wg7up]

Fun fact: the rival is always the fastest speed runner, despite become champion before the player.

[@SomeRandomGuy..]

You mean A right?

[@Ian-wn5lc]

@@SomeRandomGuy.. 'your rival, your Nidoking, or you?'

[@VinnyTheGamer-wg7up]

Death yeah

[@ElHarmonyV]

@@Ian-wn5lc "Yes."

[@stuart2littlle18]

Button Mash “freakin smartass.”

[@tyleralmquist7606]

The red Hp strat is called redlining. In gen 1, if your Pokémon has health in the red, text will immediately appear on screen rather than taking the time to slowly write itself out. As such, battles go faster in red health, so it’s a constant struggle between safety and speed

[@azurebalmung4520]

I like that Snorlax has so much HP that's it's legitimately a good time-saver to run instead of OHKO them with Horn Drill, from how long it would take his health bar to drop to 0.

[@fishmasteryt2994]

4:36 he resets to manipulate RNG to get a nidoran. The game counts steps and gives Pokémon accordingly, giving the feeling of random. A reset resets the step counter, making a nidoran guarenteed 10:02 he doesn’t get a bike because if you y’all to the bike npc, the game sets a flag that makes text appear instantly, rather than slowly typing out. If you don’t get the bike, the game never removes the flag and all text will appear instantly. This saves iirc ~:30-1:00

[@kubathehuman7652]

I started reading more about Bike Shop instant text glitch. It was allowed in a glitchless category for some time. Reasoning for this was that it's tricky to maintan - any yes/no text box, healing in pokemon center or opening start menu will stop the glitch.

[@oofsgamingchannel]

It allowed me to read more even tho it fits

[@Shady-up5cz]

7:36 their is a specific pathing that prevents wild encounters used in speedruns

[@jager869]

You only get the paras before the grunt and the save also manipulates it I think

[@chendror872]

Also glitches

[@Nomrah]

@@chendror872 It says it's a glitchless run though. Maybe the saving does some sort of reset of the spawn regions for the pokemon in the cave

[@tdbninjagaming]

@@Nomrah but he used it just befor lt. Surge

[@chendror872]

@@Nomrah probably (and yea i realise he said it i commented it before he said it)

[@rhuridking]

Blue will always hold the record. He's always at the pkmn league before you.

[@darrellgardner4561]

The idea of speed running always sounds interesting to try until it gets super technical and you're counting frames and what not.

[@ajbenitez2597]

There are certain tiles in the game where wild pokemon don’t spawn thats how he got through so many parts without wild encounters

[@ajbenitez2597]

Quinn_Cidence Gaming Yeah but early game when he couldn’t get repels

[@alkaspoon9282]

I’m pretty sure it s the RNG manipulation not really a certain path with unspawnable tiles

[@ajbenitez2597]

Alakaspoon In some parts he was just lucky but in the first forest (for some reason im forgetting the name) there are tiles of grass that don’t spawn pokemon thats why you see him take a specific way through it

[@epsilon497]

@@ajbenitez2597 viridian Forrest has the flower tiles that don't produce encounters

[@t.e.a4357]

2 reasons why pokemon gameboy will never reached A. Machamp can have a ability which guarantees the first hit and can learn the 1 hit ko move B.the mew glitch will cause a massive armie of mews

[@natorxtreme5038]

Doctor: You only have 1 hour and 45 minutes to live, what are you gonna do? Pokeguy: Give me my Gameboy

[@InterYamah]

poor guy will die just before the end

[@saiyanprince5072]

@@InterYamah he needs 25 sec more

[@saiyanprince5072]

For 25 seconds the doctor pump his heart I think

[@yoshpeters3079]

saiyan prince 25 seconds close enough just give it to the guy! It doesn’t have to be exact.

[@kazemizu]

No, the time from when the doctor tells him that and turning on the gameboy needs to be considered too

[@QueenCheetah]

I've never seen a Speedrun before, but I knew about the Marowak/Pokedoll trick- so cool to see someone put that in action to speed up the game!!

[@knox9739]

do you know a good trick to find a wild pokemon with good EV's stat?

[@Kamirasu]

@@knox9739 wild pokemon have 0 ev's, you have to grind them yourself with vitamins and ev training

[@nix207]

What i always hope to see in reaction videos is the reactor finding out the answers to their questions during/after the reaction. Twelve minutes in, and im praying that Michael just googles (like for the save/reset, pidgey, bike man) but that would take away from his genuine reaction. Edit: YES THANK YOU for being curious enough to ask/look things up. Its such a relief.

[@sronaimus3640]

That guy: I did a world record on pokemon red speedrun! Blue: Pathetic

[@crispcrasp8375]

You mean A

[@crispcrasp8375]

@@altariamotives16 A

[@drsupriyobhattacharya8785]

@@crispcrasp8375 *visible confusion*

[@unknownincognito2425]

@@altariamotives16 you idiot ofcourse its A

[@kobienotcoby2862]

@Jafferson Llaban But he clearly means A.

[@MasterQuestMaster]

Michael: "I had no idea that's how times accuracy worked in Gen 1" Me: "I had no idea they were called 'times accuracy'. I always thought it was 'ex accuracy'." xD

[@fredcheaib8511]

Me to

[@jarredallen3228]

Yeah, I've also always called them ex accuracy

[@charlesmanapat5418]

I also call it "ex" accuracy... Or maybe Michael's wrong? 😂

[@liebling4069]

I still plan to say it that way anyway, but I’m pretty sure the right way is cross accuracy.

[@Arachninja752]

I always pronounced it "ex", but I guess "times" makes more sense since it's multiplying your stats.

[@clintmcbride7830]

I love how you ask people for permission to react to their videos even though you don't have to. You're a cool dude, guy.

[@carlroy]

I will say this, it's very cool that you do a reaction video with the permission of the creator. Some twitch people and KZbinr does "reaction" video in their complete state without adding much commentary nor even Adding the name of the creator. Great stuff

[@Doofinschmirts]

He picked squirtle because what the f happened to the floor

[@connorcheshire2274]

Or what the happened to the show

[@FrostCrispz]

@@connorcheshire2274 squirtle and bulbasaur are practicing social distancing.

[@lildipper1047]

What the f happened to the wild encounters?

[@DarthRaichu]

What t f happened to the speed run!

[@jesusaldairortizrosas1386]

Ou yeah

[@marukorino.]

Doesn't use repel, doesn't get a single wild encounter Me: WHAT A MAD LAD

[@PhantomZ1758]

They made a special route for speed running in gen1 were you can't get a single acounter

[@icarrera3840]

It's just RNG manipulation. He save and restart the game to reset the RNG and then he manipulate it with that specific route he follow, doing that his only enconter in that cave is a Paras that is being caught by 1 single poke ball.

[@marukorino.]

@@icarrera3840 Oh thats cool, I didnt know that

[@marukorino.]

@@PhantomZ1758 Really? Good job Gamefreak

[@Minecraftler2306]

@@marukorino. well the community found out, that there are patches of grass, that cannot generate an encounter, and the others are worked around by RNG manipulation. The patches probably cannot generate an encounter because either the space on the cardridges was to low or it was left out to not overrun the player

[@PPpeepi]

Ladies and Gentlemen A has finally defeated A, only using his A And A is now the champion of the Kanto Applause for A...

[@GrizzliusMaximus]

Hwangbro just broke the record 5 days ago. after 2 years. his run is 15 seconds faster

[@MysteriaHatya6977]

"You could revive with Rare Candies in Gen 1?" Oh hun, you can do it in all gens.

[@MaddoxEscoberry]

I never knew you could do that. Holy crap

[@MysteriaHatya6977]

@@MaddoxEscoberry Yeah, it's a neat trick. Since your HP goes up with each level, it brings you to like 1-5 health

[@axorandom]

@@MysteriaHatya6977 usually 2-3 hp

[@calvinsimpson1301]

Yeah I was like what? That never went away. I did it in the elite 4 in several games when I didn't have revives

[@D3vilB4sket]

I was today years old when I learned this

[@RobynAnarchist]

Being someone who likes to take their time with pokemon games, speedruns never made much sense to me but weirdly they're kinda fascinating to watch

[@WildWeavile]

We think alike dude.

[@ahumanbeingfromtheearth1502]

@Whyte Chocolate that's no more or less nothing than you'd get for being the game regularly. The general appeal of speedruns is that they require you to have a in depth understanding and engagement with all the games mechanics and design in order to pull them off properly.

[@SHAD0WKNITE]

Yeah i am still playing x and y and moon

[@purpledawn2727]

I get what you mean, but if you have played through gen 1 a trillion times, you kind of want to spice things up every once in a while:) I once did a spontaneus speed run of gen one and even with little to no research I still managed to play through it in like 3 hours. So you don't exactly need to practice speed running to be able to get a good time.

[@sanjithechef]

As someone who played through gen 1 a lot because I grew up with Pokémon Red, it’s funny how all of these weird things (revive with rare candy, x accuracy, etc) were so normal and not surprising , but I also forgot they were part of the game lol

[@CodeRedDamax]

So the reason Pokeguy saves and resets his game is for RNG manipulation. To put it simply, events such as wild encounters are determined from the moment the game boots up. He saves in the first two spots to guarantee a Nidoran with good DV’s and get no encounters besides a paras at the end of mt. Moon. The reset outside Lt. Surges gym guarantees the trash switches to be in the exact spots that he checks. These all add consistency to the run to eliminate as many random factors as possible

[@theoaremevano3227]

"Sometime in 2018, a crack commando unit was sent to Palette by Professor Oak for a speed run attempt. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security house by digging to the Cerulean underground. Today, still wanted by the Kanto government, they survive in red HP to skip text boxes. If you need Pokemon beaten fast, if no one else can help, and if you can find them....maybe you can hire The A! Team."

[@subhasnandy391]

This comment deserves upvotes ! xD

[@Wilex-Rivi]

This comment is amazing

[@thekeyboardmaster2487]

when I first saw this video i thought he somehow managed to do it in 1 minute and 42 seconds

[@prantaX]

No it's 1 hour

[@alexanderzack3720]

i think the glitched versions is somewhere around that time since you warp to the hall of fame when you leave your own home

[@screamingmankey3114]

Same

[@zayden2780]

69 likes. Nice.

[@ryanmajor7563]

Same

[@AbdulazizTariqA]

Perfect run, perfect reaction

[@rainstormfr1838]

24:12 yes, you can do that in any game. Rare candies raise the level by one (obviously) and every time you level up, your health stat increases, causing your pokemon to have 1-4 health depending on how much you get per level.

[@Just_Jon_Guy]

In my first playthrough of Blue, I actually never know the rocket base existed. I accidentally figured out the poke doll skip, and that's how I thought it was supposed to work. Kid me was a natural speed runner I guess.

[@shulkgameplay2509]

Nice gotta start early

[@getcucked9402]

Jonny Johto what is the poke doll skip?

[@shulkgameplay2509]

@@getcucked9402 its a skip where you use the poke doll on the ghost and it allows you forward without getting the silph scope

[@knmfujiwara]

I never knew this!

[@uwuvix3788]

7:06 The saving and resetting was for RNG Manipulation. For this reset, he did it to never get any wild encounters until the paras for Cut.

[@jaheim1872]

I literally can't take one step without a wild encounter in any Pokemon

[@user-jz5mx5ye9y]

that's not possible

[@calamorta]

@@user-jz5mx5ye9y You literally can't call out people for misusing the word literally.

[@user-jz5mx5ye9y]

@@calamortai wasn't calling him out for that

[@marlonsantana21]

"I should've never delete Tail Whip!" lmao

[@derps2487]

Just delete the tail.... whip them all

[@kazuichisouda2026]

Michael: Why'd he catch a Nidoran? Me: Oh, this is gonna be fun.

[@Pluggedinmusic206]

I actually had no idea about the x accuracies, i thought he was just gonna do a sweep nidoking

[@nathangamble125]

Nidoran = Speedran.

[@aaronconway4435]

@@nathangamble125 more like Nidoran = Speedoran eh

[@knightofmagnolia2344]

You should try the “Ultimate Nuzlocke Challenge.” Essentially, it’s the same rules of a Nuzlocke, but with added challenges. 1) This Nuzlocke challenge must be played in Pokémon Diamond or Pearl, objectively one of the hardest Pokémon games in the main series. 2) You cannot use healing or battle items during battle. Moves that heal Pokémon are allowed. 3) You cannot catch the same species of Pokémon more than once. Example, catching a Starly on Route 202, you cannot catch another in a later route. 4) You are only allowed to catch Pokémon using only normal Poke Balls. 5) Once you enter a gym, you cannot leave until you have beaten the leader. If you ever decide to try a Nuzlocke challenge, I think this would be fun to see, exciting to tell, and glorious to achieve.

[@MattDoes_Stuffs]

Imma do this in b2 cos the level difference in gyms is huge

[@LetsPlayerAshe]

This doesn’t seem that hard tbh I’ll have to try it

[@FairyLightMoons]

Idk might try it sounds fun Only thing I don’t have is diamond and pearl

[@scarfxb7237]

He already did a nuzlocke once btw

[@Kaiizerr_]

This is torture

[@yungruuku]

Oh god, I love watching you watch this with absolutely no experience with Pokémon speed runs. I’m just sitting here yelling at my screen with all the answer to your questions lmaoooo

[@jackmutsers5794]

in case you didn't know, you can still revive a pokemon using a rare candy in sword and shield, because it gains an increase in health with the stat changes, but de dmg taken is still the old health amount, meaning it will be revived.

[@jgilly0]

i remember it took me and hour and 45 minutes just to pick my starter

[@ellieava1]

Lol what

[@cobwebbedcobalt]

@Ritesh wrong place

[@Mjgaming54321]

It took me an hour just to beat Brock... And about 48 to beat the game.

[@tantibusking7095]

an hour and 45 to pick a starter was my speed run, which was stupid because i always picked Charmander, lets be real.

[@cobwebbedcobalt]

@Ritesh this isnt reddit, you came to the wrong app bud

[@skynet0912]

Michael: I didn't know you could dig in buildings in gen 1! Twitch plays pokemon: Vietnam flashbacks of Digrat!

[@amirulamani1487]

All praise Lord DOME You thought it was Helix but it was actually me Dome LOL

[@jspaceman]

amirul amani how dare you

[@amirulamani1487]

@@jspaceman muahahahahhaahhaahahahahhahahaha

[@jspaceman]

amirul amani *pulls out helix cross*

[@amirulamani1487]

@@jspaceman ahhhhhhhhhh. The cursed Helix. I'm burning save me oh Lord DOME cause I am your loyal follower

[@123doubleoz5]

It doesn't matter if it's rare candy or anyting as long as your Pokemon levels up it will gain two additional hit points no matter if it's fainted or not

[@nicholaspeters238]

This is sick video man great content

[@sidosh2229]

I would LOVE to see a reaction to a Catch 'em all speedrun now. I mean he doesn't even have a clue what is going on here, so Catch 'em all would blew his mind lol

[@spenck7740]

He doesnt have a clue*

[@sidosh2229]

@@spenck7740 Thanks for correcting me ^^

[@legendarytrainerred8104]

I Want To See Michael React to Jaiden's Nuzlocke

[@arlenderkaloussian7560]

that would be very interesting and id love to see that

[@anoopachuthan1788]

yeah i wanna see it too

[@jkc-l8978]

Ima post this on mikey’s subreddit

[@anoopachuthan1788]

@@jkc-l8978 If you do it, that'd be great..!😁😁

[@SSGSSTheo]

YES!!!!!!

[@glitchvomit]

It's so funny that I watched this right after watching Astroid Video's video about modding Pokemon so his mom could play it, because she also refers to moving the character as "driving" at one point, and you use that term several times in this video! Just a cute little connection I noticed.

[@johanmedioni7856]

Watching this knowing why the guy does things is plain hilarious.

[@glenn.c]

could you explain why? e.g., the save-restarting and the minimal wild encounters? are those 2 things related? hahah

[@cr-nd8qh]

I think he's on a step route where you don't get encounters and resets the rng

[@Leo90187]

Pokeguy- “I did a speed run of Pokémon Red.” MandJTV- “What did it cost?” Pokeguy- “Not much. Just two hours.”

[@emeroxo]

Last time I ever did a speed run I bought meth.

[@sheepvenom1798]

This whole vid is micheal saying “why did he do that “ and “ oooo”

[@derps2487]

and *HE ESCAPED ROPED IN BILL'S HOUSE?!*

[@zachwolfe1011]

Michael: "All right, now back to the video." KZbin: "Hold up, I got an ad too."

[@Kresh42]

24:12 "You can do that in gen 1!?" That sums up Gen 1 in a nutshell.

[@chocolixo]

You can do that in every game lol

[@megalo5850]

Pokeguy: Dead run, dead run Micheal: I am 4 parallel universes ahead of you

[@saraldwivedi]

*skips rocket hideout by just a poke doll That’s insane INSANE!!!

[@kamiru2993]

Isn't that a glitch tho?Or am I wrong, I genuinely don't know.

[@saraldwivedi]

✰ Kamiru ✰ Yes it is. You can’t do that in FR/LG

[@saschathiel2608]

That's so old. I can't believe people who play pkmn from the beginning don't know that😅😅😅

[@saraldwivedi]

Sascha Thiel Actually I started from Gen 3 games and not Gen 1 sooooo it was something new for me.

[@kamiru2993]

@@saraldwivedi I'm not an expert of speedrunning but if this run is any%glitchless doesn't that mean this shouldn't have been allowed since it's a glitch?

[@mkuromi]

For why he reset: It helps him to make the trainers to cooperate with turning. (And only routes and caves no buildings) For why he talked to the bike person: Because in red and blue and yellow there’s a glitch whenever you talk to the bike man the text boxes will appear instantly making a huge time save Any extra questions I will edit this to answer it

[@mrnoneofurbusiness7942]

trainers in gen 1 dont turn he resets to manipulate encounters. (nidoran and paras will always be encountered at a specific tile and stay in the 1st pokeball)

[@mkuromi]

@@mrnoneofurbusiness7942 your right I am way focused into gen 6 speedrunning

[@VeeOasis]

Mt moon is incredibly hard to get that manip And the reset outside of surge is to reset the frames counted (an internal clock counts the frames and when you reset the game it goes back to zero) to reset where the switches are since the first one is in the front and the second is next to it on the left for a certain amount of time

[@femkefeenstra7754]

When the subtitles read "happy 8-bit music" the moment he entered the Pokémon Tower 😂

[@eat139]

Oh boy that was messed up. Considering it's a tower *t o p r a y f o r d e a d p o k e m o n*

[@ellieava1]

XD

[@nathangamble125]

@@eat139 Happy dead pokémon. I feel like it's something Bob Ross' mentally-disturbed evil twin would paint.

[@coldt5258]

How many moves should Nidoking learn Pokeguy: Yes

[@zaithon141]

21:23 I once got stuck in silph co. for 30 minutes because i was dumb enough to not go past one of the rocket grunts to find the key

[@mangocad189]

Fun fact for people watching in 2021, Lorelei’s Dewgong goes for rest on Nidoking because it is a poison type and AI sees rest (a psychic type move) as super effective because of type matchup

[@kieran5099]

4:26 literally everyone while watching speedruns

[@michaelabate7230]

Springtrap1zk00L1235 Not me cause I actually know stuff

[@calheaven]

@@michaelabate7230 Well done to you for knowing stuff cap'n! 😂

[@michaelabate7230]

Callum Heaven Yeah Lol jk I don’t know anything about speed runs. All I knew was that nidoking is broken and low hp Mamés text scroll faster.

[@DaBannyGaming]

Me: *looks at thumbnail* Also me: The WR is 1 minute 42 seconds?? Omg... oh wait.

[@mromero1124]

Da Banny Gaming I’m glad I’m not the only one lmao

[@truzer0211]

Yea, it made me a little sad, Mikey used to be more honest with his thumbnails but seems to be getting more increasingly click baity which is sad

[@MiuXiu]

There are glitch runs that are incredibly short and also incredibly interesting. Using menu glitches to spawn every pokemon and whatnot.

[@M644theawesome]

@@truzer0211 I cant tell if you are joking or not

[@roykoopaplush8610]

There's speedruns that are like 0 secconds kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJ3QoHimg7OcjKs

[@yerzzyy4833]

MandJTV saying " Hail Yeah " Me never watching his channel before " what? "

[@johngear1415]

Awsome. You can easily see where this world record could be beaten, shame it’s pure RNG and the patience it will take would be phenomenal

[@Smol_Butt_Cheeky]

Me: "Hey, this doesn't look so bad" *takes a step inside grass* Wild Pokemon: "So you've chosen death!"

[@vrldf8181]

This comment sucks.

[@MattDoes_Stuffs]

Speedrunner: yes but actually no

[@vrldf8181]

@SceptileFan254 1-It has an exclamation point. 2- It's not even relatable.

[@theslackingsofficial6683]

do you watch anime,and also that a funny comment

[@vrldf8181]

@@theslackingsofficial6683 YGS.

[@nicholasjulian7859]

drinking game: take a shot every time michael says “that is interesting”

[@sophisticatedmike1687]

I did it I'm in hospital

[@nobod4194]

How did I end up on this roof

[@oriondool1525]

Zach Deyo gta lol

[@isaacliang3059]

no this is bad for my health

[@paronormalpir851]

dad, is that u?

[@zulpi2103]

Actually, I remember the way through Siloh Co.: 5th floor, left-down (card key) 3rd floor, middle-left door, first teleport It's actually easy (also the 2nd teleport on the 3rd floor takes you to heal)

[@brianhalligan9268]

So a few things. The happiness over low health or getting hit is because red health makes text instant. Horn Drill hits cause X accuracy use making it never miss

[@bloxoss]

Mandjtv: *I am god* Pokeguy: _i am speed_

[@tdbninjagaming]

Kachow

[@ryanmarcus3970]

I don’t think he ever claimed to be god

[@MattDoes_Stuffs]

Idubbz: im gay

[@MattDoes_Stuffs]

@@ryanmarcus3970 he did

[@Portersona69420]

correction. He's Pokemoses.

[@njs314]

Mikey: calls it a TIMES accuracy Me: wait isn’t that an “X” accuracy?! (like /ex-accuracy/)

[@GazMatic]

Joshua Santiago it’s because we say 2 times 2 for 2x2

[@therandomnobody3407]

X accuracy caused perfect accuracy in g on 1 due to a glitch ,or so I have heard

[@Moradollie]

I've always said "ex accuracy"

[@simpingforbabish1209]

@@therandomnobody3407 that contributed nothing, thanks!

[@synergie71]

Joshua Santiago,the symbol ‘x’ is times. xD

[@MrMoasn]

I thought that you had to use a Poké Doll in order to escape the ghost when I first played through, not knowing the Silph Scope existed

[@nukefile]

The quitting is paired with exact walking and button presses on specific tiles, especially in Mt. Moon

[@TheSilentNinja-ji4xv]

When he resets he doing something called RNG Manipulation. This helps with the wild encounters dropping. That’s why he doesn’t do the optimized route cause each input changes the RNG. This also helps with encounters so the first reset is to guarantee nidoran it’s also why he takes some weird steps in between. I’m new to the whole Pokemon Red Speedrunning thing so this might be wrong.

[@rainglass1296]

Every one else playing Pokémon: yes this is very fun. I will cherish this game for the rest of my life. This guy: G O T T A G O F A S T

[@sukie7689]

Hello fellow pichu fan

[@misteranu_speak]

This was great, thank you!

[@jordanbutler8530]

I don’t know if any comments answered this, but squirtle is the best option due to getting a STAB move as soon as possible. I know for a fact that bulbasaur gets leech seed before vine whip which makes it slower than bubble squirtle. As a plus, nidoking is better than ivysaur due to stats, move pool and efficiency.