Blastoise-Line Only - Pokemon FireRed

[@tubathegamer8579]

Scott, I think you made a mistake with the perfect IV's modifier. I noticed that Squirtle's stats at level 6 are quite low for a neutral nature Squirtle at level 6 with perfect IV's. I thought you'd change that at some point in the run, but as the run progressed I noticed that the stats were off. So I did some calculating: A level 6 Squirtle with a hardy nature and perfect IV's should be: 23, 12, 14, 12, 14, 12, but in your playthough the stats at level 6 are: 22, 10, 10, 12, 13, 11. (I noticed that its defence stat in particular was quite low throughout the playthrough). I did another calulation at level 65. A Blastoise with perfect IV's at level 65: hp197, a133, d155, sa135, sd161, s126 (no EV's). Your Blastoise at level 65 WITH EV's and badge boosts: hp193, a135, d145, sa156, sd166, s150. Special attack and speed stats are good, but the rest are not good at all 😱 So I decided to do some more digging. It turns out that the Charmander you used doesn't have perfect IV's either at the start of the run, but the stats are modified after the first rival battle 👍 The Bulbasaur you used doesn't start with perfect IV's either, but you activated the perfect IV's modifier after the first rival battle in that run as well 👍 Did you forget to activate the modifier for Squirtle? Because the numbers aren't right 🤔

[@tiecoonracoon3630]

The extra stats absolutely would have mattered in this case, i'm sure he will reattempt them in the future though

[@Naxhus2]

I commend your attention to detail and thoroughness. Good eye!

[@bradynbrunson6038]

Poor blastoise

[@juanca2648]

Yes, the damage ranges really hurt Blastoise, let's wait for a futuro versus video

[@HelloJohnRyan]

Bulbasaur = Bulba Charmander = Char Squirtle = Hydro 10/10 naming scheme!

[@midnight1978]

24:37 Venusaur was in Overgrowth, that boosted it's Grass-Type-Damage. Plus it set up Growth once boosting it's Special Attack, so yeah that definitly was overkill on that poor Blastoise xD

[@N12015]

As a small note, Blastoise is the main of choice during FireRed. Reason being that the Nidos were nerfed severely and that Torrent/Blaze/Overgrow are amazing habilities for speedruns. Despite inconsistency, you want mega kick for Rival 2 and misty, but luckily you after that can rely on secret power.

[@BasilLecher]

I won't stand for this Delphox slander. That witch is trying her best, unlike Incineroar.

[@Jeikobu]

I love Delphox, and when my friends gave it slander, I was just like "Here, look at this art of Delphox with a hat" As for the starter gen I don't like, honestly gen 8. All three of them just kinda look like a cross between a dude in a suit, and a plastic model. And yeah, I get the style with Incineroar, but it is my least favorite of the gen 7 starters.

[@randaljr.8581]

early club! surf, ice beam, earthquake. this should be a breeze

[@MattWarb]

In my casual playthroughs it’s usually these 3 and toxic on Blastoise

[@MattWarb]

In the remakes I’d use bite instead

[@MRbasthor]

Well i managed to get great times using tms as ice beam, bite and Brick break (Brick break Is awesome against ice/water lady).

[@pauldm5222]

Btw, you always keep forgetting the Torrent, Overgrow and Blaze abilities. You can use either of their STAB moves at low health than using your physical moves especially if your attack is lowered.

[@jakemellon255]

These also aren’t implemented in the calculations on the overlay 😢

[@Naxhus2]

He does, but I assume that he's been made aware since this has been filmed (IIRC these were done late last year or early this year?)

[@chrisdaignault9845]

Yeah the games themselves are trash at even hinting that these abilities are in effect. Even in gen 9 you just have to know.

[@dadish90]

Agree, I noticed during the charizard run. I guess Scott is not used to 3rd gen mechanics😅

[@erock2500]

@@chrisdaignault9845true, as a kid I for some reason I thought “in a pinch” meant being affected by wrap/bind etc and that the starters were just good Pokémon with a crappy ability. Wild how wrong I was lol

[@thebigbean8783]

I love how quickly we're getting these. I'm also happy to support these on KZbin. It makes it feel better than when I watched em on patreon

[@retloclive9118]

Physical attackers have it so rough in later gens due to Intimidate. Meanwhile, there's still no Intimidate-like ability against Special attackers.

[@johndavid-zf8qw]

Or burn status cutting physical damage. I really think Unnerve should be reworked to be a special intimidate, preventing berry usage is incredibly niche, even in competitive

[@TheModdedwarfare3]

​@@johndavid-zf8qwthe new frost status cuts your special attack but it took a long time to be introduced

[@shadowtitanx3962]

@@TheModdedwarfare3 And, they didn't put it in Gen 9.

[@pikminman13]

physical attacks are also, when not signatures, usually stronger at their peak, and have more varied utility. special attacks are often decently strong with a status second effect. physical attackers get close combat, earthquake, a large variety of priority moves, a few different options for flinching moves, some of the stronger recoil moves (which are more than viable in competitive), and on top of that what signature moves there are have cracked secondary effects, like the new hazard setting attacks or knock off. they also get more abilities that synergize with them, like guts, sharpness, iron fist, and strong jaw. they also usually have more coverage than special attackers, as a lot of the dominantly special types get only a few types to work with, whereas the many physical attackers get elemental punches, earthquake, rock moves, u-turn (which has more distribution than volt switch)... meanwhile, pretty much every good special move that isnt a signature is 80-90 bp and either causes a status 10% of the time or lowers special defense 10% of the time. on a rare instance you get one of the moves that lowers your spatt by 2 stages, which can leave you open to counterattack, or you get a weather gimmick ability that usually is not worth using outside of the weather (so they might as well be signature moves for weather setters and maybe mons that pair well with them). on top of that, scald was gutted from most movesets, so special water types are inherently worse now. i would at least nerf moonblast, though. 95 BP with 30% for spatt drop is insane especially since it came in the same generation where they nerfed thunderbolt and friends which only had a 10% chance effect in the first place. the special attacks with cracked secondary effects have awful downsides like zap cannon making sure you basically never use them. that being said, i would still like frostbite, not to nerf special attackers, but to remove the abomination of a status they somehow thought was ok.

[@Shadowvanify]

Fighting is actually one of the best types for coverage after Ground, Rock, and Ice, at least in Emerald and Gen 4+ where dark types are more common. Being super effective against 5 types, tied for the most with Ground and Rock, and it’s coverage is pretty diverse, with not much overlap with other types. It’s got a lot of resistances, but except for Bug and Grass a single move of any other type gives almost perfect neutral coverage.

[@PegbordFegs]

But in FRLG there are 2 steel types and 0 dark, so it's not great for this game. Maybe just for Raichu because its movepool is that barren.

[@MrEnte3000]

Rock isn't tied.

[@Naxhus2]

Also fighting tends to get some good moves in later gens. Close combat has 120 power and perfect accuracy with no downside if you don't get hit, and cross chop has reasonable accuracy, high power, and high crit ratio.

[@tsawy6]

Yeah but like, its not super good for that many actual /trainers/. The only mons in the e4 its really good for are the champs rhyhorn, brunos onixes (lmao) and lorelei. Lorelei is somethin, but not great. So its not great for rivals, and its really not that good for any of the gym battles past brock, /four/ have aces that resist it. Fighting is great for the normal spam throughout the game, and helps with the rare non-optional rock type if you dont have a special move, but thats mostly it tbh Lorelei is absolutely something tho, there will be many mons whos best move into her is brick break im sure

[@tsawy6]

Ground is also a little weak in frlg: so many poison types have levitate :(

[@tylerhartman3034]

Blaistoise is about to blow the other 2 out of the water

[@joefarrow1599]

I love you Delphox, even if no-one else does

[@CacophonyScamp]

Squirtle was my first pokemon ever, ❤ enjoy the run.

[@banditrests]

You probably know this by now but you can get the black glasses in the rocket hideout to boost bite and helps with some damage ranges, it’s a pretty common speed running tactic for frlg.

[@Dullstar2XQT]

FR/LG Lorelei is probably a strong contender for the hardest first Elite Four member in the whole series. I'm guessing you probably don't have interest in including it in your runs, but I thought I'd mention that FR/LG were the first games in the series to feature harder E4 rematch fights (at least I'm pretty sure they aren't in Ruby/Sapphire; I know Gen 1 and 2 don't have them), which make some swaps to their team (usually swapping for a Johto mon, though Bruno just evolves the Onixes). You'd definitely need to cheat to access them in a reasonable amount of time in a solo run, however, as they're gated by a postgame Sevii Islands questline which requires the National Dex, which is gated behind a minimum of 60 caught Pokemon.

[@ProfJayBee]

Gen 3 graphics, I could watch them forever ❤

[@94noj]

I don't know if you've considered this, Scott, but to avoid the hyper potion spams from the enemies I like to avoid making two big hits and instead do a small hit THEN finish them with the higher damage hit. For example instead of doing Surf for 80% damage and then trying to do it again. Maybe do Secret Power for 30%, then finish with Surf. This would have to be weighed with the possibility of getting a critical hit and hitting in one hit anyway though.

[@tsawy6]

This isnt really a super good use case (tho the para chance is something, being a 7.5% chance to prevent one hit), but its quite relevant if you have, e.g. two 45% rolls and a 20%

[@arch3223]

Fighting is super effective against Ice, Dark and Steel, Rock and Normal. Dark and Steel are barely present in Kanto so even though in later games, you want to have some Fighting coverage somewhere, in Kanto, it's really only useful against Lorelei.

[@paleoscinkus542]

This series is going to be absolutely brutal towards physical attackers, I’m predicting.

[@discgolfwes]

It's interesting hearing you talk about always soloing the games with your starter as a kid because I've never done that

[@chadpayne100]

Blastoise is a defensive tank and extremely bulky :)

[@Booperinos]

My very first starter ever ❤ I chose squirtle because my first game was Pokémon blue and it was on the cover

[@RealCaptainAwesome]

My first starter as well. I got stuck before Surge... I couldn't figure out how to get on the SS Anne. But it was still my favorite and played again later and beat the game with it

[@M0nochrome]

Aww Delphox is my favorite starter, the whole mage theme is great, with its wand and robe.

[@thedahliallama]

The amount of times Scott has called me incredible is.. incredible

[@ShadowtheYouTuber523]

13:57 FireRed and LeafGreen have an amazing trick in Nugget Bridge, go into the Team Rocket grunt battle with a weak Pokémon and keep losing to get Nuggets from him. Even after that, you can catch a Meowth, or like 5 of them and keep using Pay Day and hope for Nuggets with Pickup.

[@midnight1978]

Is that meant as a funfact of the Game or an Advice that Scott should use? Because that's agains the rules in a Solo-Challenge to use a different Pokemon in Battle than the one doing the Challenge. Plus it would take to much time away. He also mentioned in the Video, that he won't use Pick-Up outside of when the Pokemon doing the Challenge has the Ability

[@ShadowtheYouTuber523]

@@midnight1978 well in those cases it's a fun fact.

[@rdpnd5384]

Nugget bridge info is neat tho good idea for my play thoughts for gamecorner thanks friend

[@zeldapadawan5634]

I have a question. Seeing you are going through the Kanto starters, is Pikachu coming next or is it the true starter of pokemon yellow butterfree?

[@lazypaladin]

What are you, a fool?! Of course it's Butterfree

[@MattWarb]

You’d have to keep it as a Pikachu though so it’s like yellow 😂

[@zeldapadawan5634]

Hmmm, maybe it can be the surfing Pikachu or it is going to be a long run@@MattWarb

[@zeldapadawan5634]

Ahh of course, the best starter pokemon@@lazypaladin

[@DLC88]

What's funny is I've been hopping for more videos, and now I don't have time for them. Sad.. but still yay!

[@lzzy134]

The Rival's Pidgeotto and Pidgeot is such a pain, your next Pokemon should definitely get revenge and be a Pokemon that counters it hard, like Jynx. Edit: I just saw the Raichu premier soon at the end, and Brock is gonna suck, but yeah, you get that Pidgeot!

[@tsawy6]

Recall, these frlg videos are close to a year old!

[@lzzy134]

@@tsawy6 Right, yeah, only now we're getting them, mb.

[@Anditeshordo]

Awesome. Only if there was a pikachu raichu line tutor for surf. That'd make raichu probably better. Also can't wait to see a nidoking, nidoqueen, and rhydon run in Crystal

[@reedjohnson5916]

Yes ive been waiting, love these gen 3 red videos scott 🎉 water best type Edit: i remember a rumor as a kid if you chose the box starter... Eventually you would get charizard X or Venasaur X... Lol years and years before mega evolution 😅 i swear this was a school ground rumor back then

[@moonblaze2713]

Title: Blastoise line Intro: Squirtle line Poor Wartotle, the only mid stage evolution ice ever liked getting shafted.

[@johndavid-zf8qw]

I'm not sure if you'd be able to get it, iirc the item finder is locked behind pokedex progression, but if you use the item finder on the tiles that Snorlax was sleeping on, you can get Leftovers and heal 1/16th max hp every turn

[@vernonwilliams8344]

'Just wants to inflict the pain it feels to the rest of the world' 😂

[@zekemusic89]

Hey Scott. Ive been watching your channel for almost two years, and im wondering when you will play with Jynx, either in Yellow or Crystal. She is awesome in Crystal, at least in the mid-game.

[@MattWarb]

Blastoise was my favourite starter back in the day and that’s not changed. I got a Blastoise in my first ever pack of Pokémon cards too.

[@NativeGolfer10]

It’ll take a little getting used but Scott will get the FireRed figured out pretty quick. The abilities, held items, and changes from Yellow are going to take time to get used to. Truthfully, I wouldn’t bother with them until I finished Yellow. I would just do Emerald if I were Scott, but he’s a man of the people.

[@israelnevarez3118]

I kept bite on my moveset. It's descent against cloyster. Also I loved the flinches. I had brick break, bite, surf, and ice beam.

[@Smileyrat]

Well, I have to rewatch this one as it was my first pokemon. Ah, Erica vioplume trama.

[@muffinland]

Blastoise-only run in Pokemon red is how this game was meant to be played according to 10 year old me.

[@seriouskano2]

Just like I'm still having trouble accepting that there are people born after 2000, it's hard to grasp that many people *didn't* start with RBY or GSC.

[@wickedwhispers595]

I’ve been hurtin for a squirtin. Thanks Scott!

[@chineseman6580]

You have to talk to a person because you can’t just go into someone’s room and sleep in their bed without their permission. She’s letting you rest in her bed. Alternatively, they could’ve just given the player a room but since you’re not on the ship for long and it’s just docked not moving, having the lady makes more sense.

[@raianlima4758]

Scott thinks our ADHD asses could really remember the original order the status colors were 🤣

[@tsawy6]

Notably only the venusaur rival has two intimdators, the other mon is an exeggcute!

[@billy_naing]

Well, this is the first time I've been this early to a Scott video.

[@RyanPoulter]

I thought the speedrun used black glasses + Bite and dominates with that. Did you consider trying that? I know speedruns use items, but that's to make up for the lack of grinding, which you often do anyway. Could be worth a try in the future runs.

[@foggernaut8876]

I was waiting for this one specifically. And you didn't do the speed run strategy of taking Mega Kick to get through this portion of the game. If I remember correctly the speed run has to land 5 Mega Kicks to be on pace.

[@nathanandsugar5252]

I have two critiques of your play. 1- Pickup isn't OP. It gives HP (in FrR), but most importantly items to sell. 2- Then you can get Ice Beam (or any other GC items) earlier. I always do this. The only Gen 3 game I don’t abuse Pickup in is E.

[@Burningtreeblood]

What the S I thought this was a parasympathetic relationship! You we’re supposed to like everything I liked! How dare you!!! Love the video 💕 do more and have fun. (Pets Delphox lovingly)

[@ryanjtam]

Do you use perfect IVs for these run throughs? If so, how do you do that? Also, do you randomly get optimal nature and abilities as well or cheat code/hardcode that?

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Yeah, perfect or near perfect for ideal HP. Every aspect of my starter is programmatically manipulated with software in real time when I obtain it.

[@MelodicTurtleMetal]

Ahh first playthroughs 🥲 I had a pretty generic team i guess.. From memory Blastoise, Gengar, Nidiking for certain.. a pidgeot called piggy... I think an arcanine.. and either lapras or Articuno. Oh, and a level 255 electrode

[@draykenly8418]

U can technically get 4000 coins at the moment to get ice beam. There is an item called the V.S Seeker which lets u rebattle trainers for money and exp. So theoretically u can get it but in solo speed run it does take up a lot of time

[@jacobliston7339]

Huh, I never played through the game with just my starter as a kid. I always had a full "lineup" of 6 Pokémon.

[@sheahon1179]

Why do you need to talk to the woman? Because as the song says “I need some spiritual healing” 🎵

[@135forte]

As a kid that started Pokemon with Yellow version, I can safely say my starter never saw much use past Misty.

[@fifaworldcup1994]

Love how you just never acknowledge that your setup got glitched, thus not giving Squirtle perfect IVs

[@demarge1065]

"idk if I'm actually going to use hydropump in a challenge."

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

It happened. It happened.

[@Uran10]

Wartotle my beloved.

[@laurenwolfe7812]

Ahhh, childhood me and her obsession with her starter... I'd catch a whole team and pretend like I was going to use them, but my starter would always be 10-20 levels ahead of all of them, carry the entire game, and if it ever fainted my team, without exception, always wiped, because the rest of my team was neglected. Good times.

[@darkessinzero]

Watching this makes me realize that I dislike the champion having healing items in the remake. Since the whole stick of Professor Oak is that his grandson does not love his pokemon enough now kind of falls flat. Correct me if I am wrong, in the originals he does not heal his Pokemon right? And also is the only one in the league that does not heal?

[@mickgorro]

And with this, unless there's a video hidden deep in my Narrated Pokemon trimmed list, I'm up to date with Scott. Until tomorrow :).

[@napkin6184]

Keeping dig over bite seems like a misplay to me. Chance to flinch might be better than poison coverage.

[@adventureoflinkmk2]

31:51 oooooo two 69s double nice 34:00 oooo 69 nice (at the milliseconds) And, about time you put the nice over the 69s in the stats now lol

[@Nixoth]

Yoo future vid idea, have your fans make custom pokemon for you to use in gen 1 for hacked pokemon tier lists. Unlimited videos

[@hugodogobob]

Squirtle was my first choice as a kid, then it evolved into wartortle and I knew I made the right choice. Then it evolved into blastoise and I hated the tank turtle look

[@MRbasthor]

Finally, the king.

[@MRbasthor]

But it was a poorly display of it..

[@GaIeforce]

Hey now. There will be no Delphox slander where I'm at. Chesnaught slander is completely okay though. :)

[@Sunaki1000]

No Idea why People shit on the gen 6 Firestarter, looks fine to me. Beautifull Fox Miko.

[@jorgeabud1133]

AKA, a Speedrun of FireRed. Bow to your superior starter, fire and grass pleb

[@thecriticalghost4626]

It's just a game sir

[@braingaming8224]

The least favorite does the best. I love me turtle canon

[@ofox716]

The delphox slander 😂😂

[@psyxypher3881]

You should mention the W/rapping Lass simply for legacy reasons. Plus you get to use that art.

[@robindejong6795]

Why didnt u get ice beam for Erika? For change with the bottle caps at the top of the store?

[@Witzwo1]

I feel like you should really change the way your display shows effektiv power. There are so many factors, that it is hard to make informed and fast decisions. There is type, stab, damage type, move power, own stats, enemy stats, status and ability. And there are even more to come. I feel that a percentage based display or an HP based display would go a good way, especially for the generations to come and for optimizing the playthrough.

[@darlhiatt8136]

Hey the gen 6 starters are good, Chesnaunt is also a cool turtle

[@russellmartin1416]

what do you mean turtle's are not know for speed? i once heard a tale about one beating a hare!!

[@Muzii3EK]

Hi scott! Wait what! Fire psychic witch fox ftw!

[@valor1omega]

Great another one... I am starting to wonder why so many like that thing so much.

[@valor1omega]

I always wondered if the cabin was set aside for Bill and the woman was like an attendant or something. Would explain why she is there and being useful. Either that or it's her room and her bed while just enjoying watching people sleep. Not the most freaky thing Gamefreak has ever included.

[@Gimmik37]

It's nice just to have normal pokemon that are actually in the game they're playing in again lol. I missed this.

[@AlexS_983]

It would be a waste to collect Pokemon for round 2 in each run but what about just having a file you can manipulate to find out the level at which you can beat it? Round 2 is just a big step up in difficulty and I'm fascinated to see which Pokemon straight up can't handle it

[@tiemen9095]

Toxic + rest for Lorelei. Then Id drop toxic for rain dance so we sweep Bruno. And hopefully get to torrent while at it. With Torrent, it looks like all of Agathas mons are OHKO, otherwise we have to Rain Dance again. Then Lance is not hard if we teach Ice Beam. Looking at the Ice Beam damage on champion Pidgeot , I think Rain Dance Surf would OHKO. So for champion we could keep surf ice beam rain dance rest.

[@GandharKulkarni2000]

I love that gengar sprite

[@sahuanitasahu7696]

Water type feels middle of the pack but always on top

[@angelotirado3542]

If you choose to modify natures, mild would be best for blastoise. Only weak to special moves, so lowering def is w.e

[@valor1omega]

Red ear sliders are actually not slow, I seen them move fairly quickly. Unless mine was just unique and just loved chasing the cat at a speed that was not as quick as a cat but not slow like a tortoise.

[@MichaelFawcett-91]

I don't much like FIghting-Type moves either. They hurt my beloved Umbreon (His name is Eclipse) FAR more than I would prefer.

[@tirandeshibaraki743]

Delphox is great though, it's a fire fluffball witch. The Swindle and Shame starters are tacky, Quaxly and Fuecoco lines also do nothing for me.

[@richardcarrillo4827]

Hey Scott, have you considered pokemon stadium yet?

[@patonosequecosa]

You are basically doumg what i did the first time i played Pokémon

[@manjiimortal]

This series just shows how busted the Gen1 games were, due to poor balancing, glitches and exploits, rather crap AI, and poor moves in a lot of cases. By this gen you have the added complexity of natures, abilities, EVs, much better moves in general, combination moves, and better AI, so the difficulty increases a lot when compared with the rather broken Gen1 games.

[@Zabe_B]

can't relate to the starter thing, i always obsessively make sure my entire party is the same level...that's pretty much how ive always done it. although i do always keep my starter with me, uh... barring gen 8 where i hated all 3 of the starters. didn't bother buying gen 9

[@PlasticTIR]

What's wrong with Chesnaught? I've never gotten why he's so unpopular

[@lazypaladin]

_Can we all agree Wartortle is the best Mid Stage Starter?_ *_Why do I feel alone in this?!_*

[@michaelsevilla3697]

nah grovyle and frogadier are the best mid stage starters ✌️

[@TheModdedwarfare3]

​@@michaelsevilla3697+1 for grovyle. I wish they kept the fast tree hopper aesthetic for sceptile instead of dinosaur tank

[@danielosorno4266]

In case you didn't know there is a hidden item in the tree near the entrance of Viridian Forest.

[@remydirt3158]

Funnily enough Blastoise is the shell fish pokemon like wtf gamefreak

[@naraiceylob]

Hi Scott, have you considered the round 2 league as an option?

[@dafsvad5517]

You say “with 80 accuracy, I don’t think I’ll use hydro pump w any Pokémon” then u name him hydro??

[@angelotirado3542]

You got very lucky with surge. You could get paralyzed hitting the pikachu and the double teams can get crazy. You're better off using water pulse on everything

[@angelotirado3542]

Dig in general isn't great and you got rid of secret power too early. You should be getting rid of SP for BB after Giovanni, then tossing BB for return after lorelei

[@angelotirado3542]

KEEP BITE

[@tsawy6]

I think you might be overvalueing dig here! Bite and raindance both seem better!

[@Run2127]

Didn’t FR and LG make you go through the Sevii Island stuff after Blaine’s gym?

[@MrPuffer69]

You can literally just say no lol

[@Run2127]

@@MrPuffer69 wait what? Since when?

[@thecriticalghost4626]

​@@Run2127since... Always?

[@Run2127]

@@thecriticalghost4626 I always ended up finding myself there thinking it was mandatory lol