Ursaring-line Solo Challenge - Pokemon HeartGold

[@ExSpectre]

No Scott, for pushing through such a difficult ending, and giving us daily content for over a month that you had to plan your entire year around, YOU’RE incredible.

[@Hoxeel]

I agree that it is very impressive that he's preparing daily content for an entire year to execute this, and it is very nice for *us*, it is also an open secret that december is by far the most lucrative month for content creators. Be assured that Scott is likely going to be fairly rewarded for this effort.

[@Dpmt]

Guts over Quick Feet? I thought Scott would jump at the chance to prevent the Paralysis speed drop for a whole play through.

[@kode-man23]

Quick Feet plus Facade would have probably wrecked anything from Red’s team. But poison/ hail damage every turn might have been too much.

[@AdamEspersona]

@@Dpmt he probably didn't research the pros and cons of Quick Feet vs Guts, or the ones who told him about Guts being "better" didn't do so.

[@Iris_1217]

Guts does the same with a pre-burn.

[@Dpmt]

He does address this later in the video. I think we will be seeing this one on a stream.

[@dragonhunterg6137]

I don't think preburning is viable for a run like this ​@@Iris_1217

[@TotallyCluelessGamer]

As a trick against Morty's Gengar for other Normal Types. Sucker Punch is its only move that can hurt Normal Types, and it only does damage if you selected an attacking move, so if you're asleep it could be beneficial to just spam a buff/debuff move while it burns its Sucker Punch.

[@MrStrawtube]

For your next playthrough with Ursaring, I see 2 comparable scenarios: 1) Quick Feet with Adamant Nature You'll outspeed any Pokemon after status and you probably will need 1-2 SD max to sweep everything. The drawback is needing 1-2 turns to set up which leaves you open to damage or hax 2) Guts with Jolly Nature You'll outspeed many more Pokemon and also have the attack to back it up, so you might not need as much setup, especially with Facade. Gotta make sure the Jolly Nature is enough to outspeed all primary threats Just worth considering because you may not need Quick Feet

[@DisasterLord]

You are correct on point 2, it may even be the best approach to shave off time if you map some speed ivs on your training Jolly with 184 speed ivs at lv 85 is 179 speed, enough to outspeed Charizard It's posible to outspeed Charizard, with a positive speed nature and abuse a status condition with guts to just sweep with facade/return and no set up moves, that would save a lot of time

[@pokecomic]

Oh Scott....the thing with Guts is so unfortunate XD. To be clear, I do think it's a good ability like most people in chat but with 130 base attack and access to Swords Dance the much better ability choice would have been Quick Feet to solve the speed issues you brought up from Crystal, something that's probably going to be even worse in this game. If you're unfamiliar with it, for future reference it works just like Guts but instead of increasing attack by 50% it increases speed by that amount AND it ignores the speed cut from paralysis. Hopefully this run doesn't run into too many problems but at the start here I foresee Ursuring struggling alot in the late game due to speed issues. Edit: Yep......That's about what I thought. I'm suprised Lance went so well but Red was brutal. I'm glad you know about Quick Feet now, not sure if you just didn't in the moment when prepping the run or discounted it but I'm glad we have the knowledge now to avoid this again in the future XD. I still believe in Guts as an ability in solo challenges though I take your point on the usibility here. For pokemon without sky high attack stats plus access to swords dance I think you'll find it really can help things along if you utilize it. Either way here's to a fantastic year and thanks to Scott, Shawn, and Eggceptional for all their hard work with Daily December. It really has been a treat to follow along with!

[@JayTheRed602]

Agreed. This is one of the most baffling decisions I've seen Scott's Thoughts make.

[@ryomaanime4563]

@@JayTheRed602 Well, he also did not use guts. sword dance is useless if you have guts, Ursaring would annihilate anything in one hit without set up.

[@wmzer0mw]

@@ryomaanime4563 No it wouldnt. Ursaring would fall prey to intimidate users and slow down significantly. It would also get walled by red as he did here. Quick feet was the only way barring controlling for speed EVs and jolly nature.

[@gerg905]

22:44 you're right, Hitmonchan doesnt have Mach Punch, but it DOES have Bullet Punch which is the same thing but Steel type, so it does have priority.

[@GhoullyXX]

Earlier in the year : "Why speed doesn't matter in Emerald" End of the year: "Why speed is everything in Heart Gold"

[@samuell8721]

Quick Feet is introduced as one of Ursaring’s ability in Gen 4, given how Scott mentioned how important speed is, I will say Scott should use Quick feet and pre-poisoned into the Red fight to outspeed his mons, even Pikachu’s Static can turns beneficial with Ursaring’s ability. Also, a versus video for both Ursaluna/blood moon versus video will be interesting too given that Ursaring utilize both its high attack+Normal typing, and it’s movepool (elemental punches, setup moves etc), while both form of Ursaluna perfectly split the two elements that makes Ursaring success.

[@raulnatokapa]

It's better the burn, the toxic orb is too damaging over time

[@MrEnte3000]

@@raulnatokapa Unlike Guts, Quick Feet doesn't prevent the Attack drop from the burn. Also he wouldn't need the Toxic Orb to get poisoned, he could just get regular poison from a wild Weedle or something.

[@RyanAtlus]

Every time you said "bearly survived" I chuckled.

[@darlhiatt8136]

Dang it's so lucky the EV spread ended with just enough speed... that Red fight was so painful. HGSS is really looking like a different beast than GSC now that we're getting an in depth look into it. Thanks for the research Scott!

[@Sup4Hippo]

Facade + Quickfeet might be able to solve red. You just need to get poisoned or burned before the fight. Hail + burn/poison do 15/16 hp over 5 turns.

[@yorecf9641]

He'd definitely want poison since burn would still half Ursaring's attack.

[@Sup4Hippo]

@@yorecf9641 Pokemon with quickfeet or guts ignore the attack drop from burn

[@rexisaurx9427]

​@@Sup4HippoI don't believe Quick Feet nullifies the attack drop from burn. Facade would... Starting from Gen VI onwards.

[@yorecf9641]

@@Sup4Hippo Guts does. Quick Feet does not. It nullifies the speed drop from paralysis instead.

[@1stCallipostle]

​@@Sup4HippoThat's only for guts. Quick feet does not ignore it

[@EmeralBookwise]

These Red battles are just proving to be so brutal in a solo format. Especially if Scott actually does ever start doing single species runs of anything not fully evolved, the DNF graveyard is gonna be absolutely massive.

[@Kali_Krause]

The reason why Red is brutal in HeartGold/SoulSilver is that his team gets a level buff from 81 in generation 2 to a whopping level 88! I did a Poison type run a while back and trained my team to level 91because of the massive buff

[@therealmorganofficial]

I wish I knew how insane STAB return was as a kid. Epic

[@NevG27]

Typing this halfway through the vid, so dunno if you address this, but I feel like a common theme contributing to a lot of the early losses (especially against the rival) is the over setup letting them screw you over with status or damage, when you didn't need to set up.

[@john_sensei_ii]

11:45 hey not sure if you're aware of this, if you spam swords dance while you're asleep, sucker punch will fail Also, to get the pp up in ice path: you go down, left, down, left, up, right, down, right, down

[@troyhanson8639]

I gotta say i love the new Elite 4 transition/animation you added for Heartgold. Clean and smooth, excellent 👌

[@zeckemyro7031]

Will's Bronzong has Heatproof in the league rematch fight instead of Levitate. There's no need for Faint Attack, Earthquake can deal with it very easily.

[@ChrisG667]

A few things after seeing this: -So with base 130 attack, you don’t need to set up as much. It gives the opponent time to attack or status you -Speed plus nature for sure on a lot of these mons during the second play through -Don’t be too surprised if other normal types fall off in Gen 4 and beyond. Power Creep is apparently a thing in solo playthroughs just like competitive. If you don’t have the moveset or the speed you’re gonna lose a lot of the time

[@1stCallipostle]

Even a power crept Pokemon can stand a chance when it's bred for solo running though Looking at you, Zangoose. Level 1 belly drum (+ access to power trip, lol) in addition to everything that made it slam crystal

[@tsawy6]

Yeah gen 2 is just a super low power region, stab return just handles a ton of threats really easily and cleanly. But with intimidates and higher levels amd team diversities thats a lil tougher now

[@javadkhusro]

22:45 Hitmonchan's Bullet Punch also has +1 priority.

[@corgipuss7468]

I like actually went "NOOOO" when you overwrote EQ with Substitute against Red. Cuz I was like, "eventually he'll realize there's no chance of static if he just uses the non-contact move, right?"

[@somedogsarecops2354]

He fell for the Guts meme.

[@AdamEspersona]

7:20 So yeah. Look at Miltank's ability. _She has Scrappy._ Meaning she can damage Ghost-types with Normal-type moves like Stomp. Something to keep in mind for later, especially if or when you use her in a HGSS solo challenge, though perhaps it would make more sense to be more defensive against Fire and Ice and give her Thick Fat. Depends on your preference.

[@BackPalSA]

Scrappy would negate the need for weird coverage.

[@breadpope0358]

If a pokemon as incredibly strong as Ursaring has to go to 100.... The hgss is gonna be so painful to play, good luck Scott :D

[@ryomaanime4563]

Ursaring is strong in the sense that it hit hard, but that's about it It's slow and not very sturdy, if the opponent isn't a punching bag it can go bad very fast

[@breadpope0358]

@@ryomaanime4563 Im not just talking about how hard he hits :D Gen 2 is flooded with absolutely terrible terrible terrible pokemon, compared to them, even compared to the average, Ursaring with its alright coverage, swords dance, not terrible bulk, alright abilities, it all looked really good on paper compared to so many gen 2 pokemon and it had to go all the way to 100! Terrifying!

[@graeff]

With quick feet, poison before the battle, 1 turn of swords dance + facade and shell bell, he might be able to beat Red a lot earlier

[@hiei248]

This is easily the most fulfilling series you've started other than the yellow series. Scaling to 100 with half the pokemon and straight up not going to be able to make it with many, this is a true gauntlet. My favorite so far. I can't wait to see you work the beginner kinks out and pick up a good pace in hgss. Take care of yourself Scott, take a rest, you've earned it!

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

I agree. I think these runs are going to be really challenging!

[@rikaniebangbang]

This makes me really want to do a Quick Feet + Facade run. Gotta find the quickest way to get paralysed in-between heals I guess.

[@GeargianoXG]

Daily December was a treat, but something about the Heartgold videos is extra good. Really been looking forward to all of them!

[@dwellerofgloom8450]

Jolly nature + Quick feet, also Earthquake over return on Red's Pikachu to avoid Static

[@bethbengoa5665]

I’m loving your heart gold videos. It actually seems like a challenge and not just a pretty easy playthrough

[@Shiina42]

I'm actually super excited by how difficult HG/SS seem to be in this format, like you said it's refreshing seeing a game where it will be a genuine question if some pokemon can make it at all. Also hi, I'm the person who was doing shiny encounters each day watching you videos, I ended up barely commenting but I never gave up, and I did get my shiny buneary in gen 4 after 21 thousand encounters XDD So....I worked for her!

[@AdamEspersona]

On today's video, things get grizzly. Will the Ursaring line be able to bear down on the competition and claw its way into a high ranking, or be forced into hibernation in the lower tiers?

[@shinigamimiroku3723]

Hello, Teddie. 😂

[@AdamEspersona]

@shinigamimiroku3723 He infected me and made me go bearzerk with the bear puns.

[@flamewarrior8172]

Daily December has been amazing every year, thanks Scott and team!

[@BubbaJoeSwag]

This is absolutely the most enjoyable game you are currently playing. So good.

[@Ascent9]

An optimization that would prevent Red's Pikachu from paralyzing you is to use Earthquake as that does not make contact. Great video as always!

[@ktvx.94]

Watch Mewtwo be a disappointment despite having access to all 3 elemental moves from Voltorb Flip because of some unforeseen thing lol.

[@Vorael]

"We can't leave this series on a disappointment, so we need to do one more run." Haha, what, is he just gonna pick Mewtwo? "I'm gonna be playing Mewtwo." lmao

[@efuii]

HeartGold continues to destroys Scott's happiness and joy 😂

[@sleepyleperchaun]

The Canadian apologizing trope lol. BTW great content year in year out. You are my favorite pokemon nerd!

[@MFMegaZeroX7]

I think you are learning that speed is a lot more important in HG/SS compared to most previous games you have played.

[@sheahon1179]

For anyone wondering how bad that quick claw luck is that is a 1/1000 chance to not get a single activation in that whole montage.

[@bitmen1296]

All those resets waiting for the quick claw activation was so painful to watch and probably even more painful to play. Pokemon's rng can be brutal.

[@TheMoogleKing93]

You bear-ly got through that one, a bit grizzly at the end. The ability choice can be a bit polar-ising. Panda-monium was avoided in the end at least and you had a koala-ty video. Brown.

[@johngleeman8347]

That ursaring of yours has the Devil's own luck!

[@TJF588]

Gods, how long would it take for me to ever get sick of how _mood-setting_ the Lance intro music is??

[@AKingofBacon]

Ursaring is right on the cusp of outspeeding so many key pokemon that giving it a jolly nature (+speed, -sp.attack) will likely have it shoot up your teirlist. This is why nature is just as important as iv's and abilities and it's why I personally think you should choose natures for your first playthroughs as well, since for a lot of pokemon on the cusp like Ursaring, the second playthrough for some pokemon will pretty much be more of a showcase of natures being good rather than an improvement in gameplay (though this will also have an impact of course). Idk, just something to think about, I'll be here to watch either way!

[@MaliciousMalcontent]

Guts with burn/poison would be amazing for a solorun on a fast pokemon. Ursaring is too slow for it because it'll take so many hits. Raticate with Guts+Facade would 210 or 252 base power hits from a good attack and speed.

[@Timmothy_plays]

This run is definitely deserving of a second playthrough in the future! But I guess that's what is making the Heartgold playthroughs interesting because the first playthroughs are a struggle, but show immense potential to save time in follow up runs!

[@mattgeffery8577]

For the future you might be able to lower you IVs with berries and buy vitamins for speed(or whatever stat) if you ever get stuck. This would hopefully be a fast alternative to grinding levels. There is a reason professional battlers control the IVs so closely.

[@misirtere9836]

EVs, but also this isn't remotely practical. Vitamins only work if the stat being boosted had less than 100 EVs in it to begin with. Anything more needs to be properly grinded on enemy Pokemon, which sorta defeats the purpose. What also defeats the purpose is how comically inefficient actually getting the EV berries is in HGSS to begin with. First off, the Qualot Berry to reduce Defense and the Tamato Berry to reduce Speed are effectively inaccessible, being locked to either the Pal Park (no) or the Battle Frontier (yeah good luck pal. go ahead, look up how it works. entirely impractical). The other four berries are available, but still at a very slow pace. The berries aren't even accessible until Fuchsia City in Kanto, and even when you get there you need the Shards from Rock Smash. Each Shard will get you ONE berry for ONE of the stats. Red for HP, Blue for Attack, Yellow for Sp. Def, and Green for Sp. Atk. This can only be done one at a time and each berry is given out alongside two other completely useless berries worth of dialogue boxes to mash through. And no, I don't mean niche, I mean *USELESS.* Out of the eight other berries, the only one that does ANYTHING in HGSS is the Persim Berry for Red Shards. The rest are ingredients for Contest food, which does not exist in HGSS. The good news is, because it's Gen 4, you only need a maximum of 11 berries to get an EV to 0 instead of the usual 26. The bad news is, 11 is still kind of a lot for how much work it is to get them, and this is all to facilitate Vitamins that, again, cap out 100 anyway, so this only does anything at all if your EV distribution is *cosmically* incorrect.

[@mattgeffery8577]

@@misirtere9836 i mean it takes time, but it should still be less than grinding the league. Also the, apparently evs, will be whatever he gets from just playing. They will be almost always the same, which will be incorrect for some pokemon. If he sets the game corner because of rng, he should set rock smash rocks for shards. i dont think it will be the right choice most of the time, but some mons will be helped by extra speed/attack/spattack and not care about reducing the evs gotten through easily accessible berries. it is just an option for these i was trying to make seen. Finally the berries being only after fuschia city means it wont matter unless he is having issues with lance 2 or red. Just a way to get like 5-10 speed or spA/Attack points without needing to grind to 100 and/or double team to win

[@misirtere9836]

@@mattgeffery8577 So the problems with this are: 1. How much EVs actually help 2. The magnitude of what is even capable of enabling this strategy The fundamental structure of EVs is that 4 EVs are worth one point in that stat... at level 100. This means a maximum potential of 63 points, going from zero to max, although it will always be less in practice as a consequence of the goal of this whole endeavor being to AVOID grinding to L100. However, that's using the full cap of 252. The full potential of what Vitamins are able to provide is a 20 point difference at level 100 (which, again, is less in practice). Thing is, you only get *that* much if it started at zero, which in an in-game playthrough, is never happening. You will inevitably have EVs in the relevant stats already, reducing the potential of using the berries to supplement vitamins even further. Assuming an approximately even distribution of EVs (which is a reasonable assumption given EXP gain isn't being filtered for specific ones), you would expect to have ~85 EVs in each stat by the time you hit the 510 hard cap. So even if you got 9 berries to wipe the wrong Attack stat clean, making room to dump Vitamins into the others, that's worth... four points. At level 100. Which the point is to not get to. So it's less in practice. Oh, and Team Rocket's numerous Rattatas and Zubats both give Speed EVs, so I would expect there to be a bias towards Speed to begin with, meaning there'd be even LESS room for the Vitamins to push that up.

[@mattgeffery8577]

@@misirtere9836 At level 50 if a base 90 attack pokemon had 85 evs it would have 121 attack compare to at 252 evs in attack it would have 142, aka 21 points more even for a level 50 mon, this is without nature and would be a 42 point change in the pokemons stats at level 100. I am not saying it is going to be useful much, but there will be times when it allows not grinding for huge periods of time(like a 30 min grind to level up by beating the elite 4 over and over). It also would just allow a higher level pokemon to have more stats in whatever, say you almost have a damage range when already at close to lv 100. it can be useful, even if niche

[@misirtere9836]

@@mattgeffery8577 I need you to understand that you can't get to 252 with vitamins. *It stops at 100 EVs.* Not levels. One Hundred Effort Values. Vitamins won't be able to go the rest of the way for four more generations. Wings won't exist until the next one. The only advantage vitamins can provide is getting to 100 if you didn't make it there naturally, and to not get so close to that vitamin threshold by the time you can get the EV reduction berries while still getting to the point where you need the EV berries to make any further progress is highly implausible. Anything further must be done by defeating enemy Pokemon. Which is just grinding.

[@fortello7219]

Wait, you can buy the wide lens in the game corner? Why didnt you use it on Donphan for more accurate Rollout?

[@constantinethecataphract5949]

Ursaring line is really underrated. They are a great physical attacker. Heracross is also underrated.

[@kieranbennett7453]

Something to note on the quick feet debate vs Red’s pikachu. Although you do get the full speed boost, Ursaring remains at risk of getting fully paralysed. You can circumvent that with pre poisoning, but you then have to survive the timer and try to one shot everything.

[@perkypenguin1663]

Leaving another comment for feedback (spoilers below): -I don’t need to criticize the choice in ability because Scott made that same realization that he used the wrong one. What I will say about it is that Ursaring can easily get away with Adamant nature with Quick Feet; since it gives a 50% boost to Speed, a Pokémon would only need 127 Speed to move past Pikachu with this ability. -Facade is an amazing move. The TM appears in the Goldenrod lottery on Fridays and with a status ailment, you can not only activate Guts or Quick Feet, but also buff its power to 140. Having done solos in this game myself, I find that I can get away with being pre-poisoned for most fights (even regular trainers) and stay healthy with potions and PP restoring items (though I imagine on 4x speed, healing poison damage in the overworld is near impossible). Still, I recommend finding a trainer/wild Pokémon to inflict a status condition on your soloist for strategies like this. -Building off the last point, if you’re pre-poisoned to fight Red, you need to outspeed and OHKO his entire team if you’re not holding Leftovers; you’ll have just enough HP to survive poison and hail. -Defense lowering moves are a really good way to play around Roost on Falkner. You can lower Defense until you 2HKO it and then win, whereas Falkner can win if he goes aggressive with healing.

[@Penguindude1]

Actually, Bruno's Hitmonchan does have a priority move, however, Bullet Punch is a Steel-Type move, so it doesn't get STAB.

[@bbugs100]

It's the donphan and ursaring versus video all over again. Just in 2 parts

[@T____W____7777]

Ursaing is one Pokemon that prefers not to use Guts like you found out, but if you’re going to use it, run Facade, Return, Rest Sleep Talk, and go into the battle poisoned. You get your Guts boost while asleep and you have a 2/3 chance of using a powerful STAB attack.

[@mistresskixen6142]

Scott, from what I saw Here is the solution for the PP up puzzle in the ice cave. On the opening to the puzzle start on the right side of the two opening tiles. Then go down, right, down, left, up, right, down, right, down. You should bump into the PP up if done like this.

[@LunaAlphaKretin]

A minor optimisation that didn't matter, but if Morty's Gengar is using Sucker Punch while you're asleep, at least on the first turn where you don't have a chance to wake up, you may as well have clicked Swords Dance instead of Shadow Claw so that Sucker Punch would fail. If a similar situation plays out with a frailer Pokemon, it could save some HP.

[@Xhalo1183]

From what I can see, the ice slide puzzle item you missed out on is enter on the right and slide into the stone, go to the right wall and slide down to the next rock, left to the far wall, up to the top left corner, right one space, then down to the stone, then right to the next stone, then down to the item. However, as long as you can get along the far left wall you should be able to follow the rest of the steps from there.

[@randycasto2009]

Love the content as always. I think are finding out the importance of nature/ivs/evs in gen 4 particularly hg ss

[@JayClearman411]

Pickup Pickup Pickup!! Pickup for the holiday season lol

[@tobarf2940]

When you come back to ursaring, I really would love to see a guts/quick feet vs or analysis of some kind. In my head these two play differently when it come to the late game with red

[@davidjimenez3822]

Scott must have forgotten about the Choice Scarf 😔 you can get it if you tell Mom to save you money. In casual playthroughs the deliveryman gives it to you around Goldenrod City, so it probably it would help out with Red in the future to solve the speed issues

[@nathant6655]

i would LOVE to see another playthrough. 91 faults is WILD!

[@llSuperSnivyll]

22:42 Hitmonchan does have priority. But it's Bullet Punch, so it is very unlikely to ever use it. If you want to get revenge against this awful luck, you can try Jirachi, evil incarnate, with 60% chance to flinch from a lot of moves.

[@Chronoflation]

Choice Scarf feels like a good item for Ursaring. Don't know when that's available, but a +50% speed buff seems useful for a slow Pokemon like this, even if you can only use 1 move for entire battles with it. Good for matches where you don't need swords dance

[@adrienneladd8375]

Blaziken line will be interesting as it learns bulk-up by level up, i suspect having a relevant set up move is going to be important for Red, and possibly Lance rematch for certain pokemon

[@Rpell1023]

Hey Scott, if you’re ever having trouble with one of the ice puzzles, my trick is to start at where I need to end up and work my way backwards to figure it out

[@pokerocker13]

Fun fact about Morty’s gengar, he can’t hit normal types outside of sucker punch, so if you stall for 5 turns, he can’t do anything. If your pokemon has any setup moves, sucker punch fails as well so it’s very easy to do.

[@blazie42069]

Wait ursaluna can be backported to hgss thanks to decomp, maybe drayano can help with backports

[@1Mystery10000]

17:24 The easiest solution should be: Go on the left side over all (there are a few ways to do that, either start one the right spot and go down, left, down, left or down, right, down left but the first one should be faster). Then go up, right, down, right, down. From there are different ways to go further. 1) Left, up (back to the starting left tile) right, down, left, down, right, down 2) Up, right, up, left, down, right, down I think the second one should be a little bit faster at 4 times gamespeed because although it's 2 blocks more to travel, you have to use one input less and stay on the ice through the entire path.

[@martlinkdiamond5644]

I had a feeling Ursaring would be next! :D

[@danw3576]

Idk if it's the audio balance or what but the sound on the HeartGold play throughs hits different

[@Goofy8907]

23:50 this screen is hilarious, love it 😂

[@perkypenguin1663]

On the thirtieth day of Christmas, Scott’s Thoughts gave to me… Thirty bears Swords Dancing, Twenty-nine ‘phants a-quaking, Twenty-eight sheep a-shocking, Twenty-seven crocs torrenting, Twenty-six Fire starters blazing, Twenty-five HeartGolden Grass kings! Twenty-four bot and bug bundles, Twenty-three godly showdowns, Twenty-two transformer…Mew, Twenty-one cicada fams, Twenty Swords Dance backports, Nineteen mid tadpole swirls, Eighteen mid bell peppers, Seventeen backported legends, Sixteen evolution tests, Fifteen Kanto kaiju, Fourteen starter redos, Thirteen rare Normal girls, Twelve bear v bull fights, Eleven Gen 1 backports, Ten pounds per pink puff, Nine resists when evolved, Eight Belly Drum badges, Seven years with Psywave, Six slow squad solos, Five mid starter flings! Four Eevee runs, Three years post redo, Two Grass/Ice types, And a Hitmontop in Gen 3!

[@realperson69]

24:25 Looking at those Dragonites’ stats, the first two are Naive (+Spe, -SpD), but the last one is Sassy (+SpD, -Spe).

[@yashasgupta1]

Not First!! Was thinking that it's time for Scott!! Nice!

[@matthewk320]

It is always funny to see how you try +6 first instead of +2 xD

[@thepotato513]

I think by far the best Pokémon to use Guts on is Swellow in Emerald. It's fast, hits hard, and gets guaranteed access to Facade after being Norman. You can also easily activate it by getting burnt by knocking out Flame Body Slugmas

[@TheKharymusic]

I think Ursaring absolutely needs a speed-boosting nature for better results; it's just not naturally fast enough to cut it.

[@bestbigbros1102]

That ending was BRUTAL!!!

[@popeyegaming1342]

to not get a quick claw in 25 attempts in a row is a 0.3% chance that sounds so painful

[@sopadumacacoumadelicia5]

I hope you're right about this line, Scott. I really like these 2

[@CarnageO31]

I feel like if any series risks burning Scott out its this one. Also its probably not a good idea, but with guts I wonder if a sleep talk set would work for Red? You can either set up or hit them really hard while asleep, and I'm pretty sure you get the attack boost from sleep.

[@nathant6655]

14:53 for slow pokemon like ursaring, i’d be interested to see how/if trick room can be used in solo playthroughs. (if it’s accessible of course)

[@Shockwave377]

From what I remembered seeing other people do play through of GEN four they were able to out speed so many of the AI’s Pokémon with things like maganium and mamoswine

[@tysonpestner]

You’re the man, Scott

[@vivecanada1]

Suggestion for future guts mons, pre-burn or para your pokemon on wild mons and use potions over full restores.

[@Goofy8907]

22:40 what do you mean no priority? It has Bullet Punch

[@VinnyB77]

SCOTT fun idea, we need to see a race of your video editors with a pokemon of your choice in a game they both agree on

[@MrMovees87]

No surprise that Pryce was an easy fight again, Swords Dance is just too good, haha. I imagine he won’t be a problem for Mewtwo tomorrow, either! I loved using Ursaring in Crystal a lot, with the elemental punches and Headbutt/Return to great effect

[@JayClearman411]

Likewise by it was emerald in my case! mine had metal claw earthquake bulk up Hyperbeam

[@christianbowersox6442]

I’m a bit curious if earthquake makes contact and if that would’ve been a slightly quicker way to get passed pikachu

[@raulnatokapa]

The issue with burn and facade was only in Gen 3, in gen 4 is fixed and you get the boost without the atk power drop. It's better than poison because toxic stacks a lot over time while burn keeps being minimal

[@chicken_person]

No, it was only removed in gen 6, according to Bulbapedia.

[@mathturtle37]

At the start of the video when you said you were going with Guts I knew this would be bad. Quick Feet is soooo much better especially because Swords Dance solves any attack problems anyway. I didn't expect it to need Lv100 though. Oof.

[@adventureoflinkmk2]

4:15 perfect run ends here, F in the chat Press F to pay respects

[@HavenKhaos]

Yeah choosing Guts over Quick Feet was a flaw, also not seeing the value in the speed picked up from pre-status vs the time lost from healing items to maintain the pre-status is the same as missing the Torrent/Blaze/Overgrow forest for the trees.

[@ChrisNelson93]

Time for the lil tedi and the big grumpy bear, I wonder how Ursaluna would do in Crystal?

[@Apfeljunge666]

Man, this one screams for a second run even though you just started this series with first playthroughs only

[@BakeoCraft]

Very curious to see a run with the other ability

[@michaelmills8205]

What I am going to predict is that HG/SS are going to be dominated by pokemon who can get access to good setup moves. They largely didn't change the level curves, so most of the strategies from Crystal are valid, until you get to get to Red who has been massively boosted both in level and difficulty. That one battle is probably going to determine more finishes and drive levels up more than any other final/secret boss in the earlier generations. The levels are substantially higher than any other final boss so far, so most pokemon just won't have the stats to completely it would boosting. The better movesets and importantly the hail are going to mean that you want to boost your stats are quickly as possible. If a pokemon can get access to moves like Sword's Dance, Bulk Up, Calm Mind, etc at a low time cost, it's going to massive improve their performance against Red. I suspect that we are also going to see a lot more use of double team overall.

[@nepcalibur2196]

To get guts to work you would need to find a Pokémon willing to burn you and then spend 90% of the game opening the menu to heal. Guts is amazing for solo run but not if you want to see how fast a Pokémon beats a run. Edit: Another way to get guts to work is to get the flame orb from the battle frontier which causes a burn on the Pokémon its equip to, if it to beat red i think it worth it as it allows you more flexibility in ursaring moveset. You could then get bulk up with a defense nature and rest to stall out the pikachu, and with the burn you wouldn't need to heal para.

[@lenlimbo]

41:30 Go with Jolly. It boost it's speed and lowers it's special attack. It's my goto nature for most physical attackers, unless I KNOW I don't need the extra speed. I usually need it, unless the mon I'm using is something like Meowscarada, a freaking F1 made into a pokémon. And even then, sometimes I've run jolly with the cat, because the rival I was facing was just THAT fast (read, almost as fast as Meowscarada, but with a jolly or timid nature). Besides that, yeah, quick feet would have been better here. In most playthroughs guts is much better, but in solo challenges, ironically enough, burn hurts a lot less than paralysis. About you being stubborn... you kinda were. Sure, the speed was a bit iffy if you were going to get enough to outspeed charizard, but the extra hp, defense and levels should have still helped.

[@RichardBlaziken]

Interesting thought - if you can buy effectively infinite Game Corner TMs, could you not sell them to buy Carbos in the Dept. Store? That might solve a lot of Speed issues!