The cutest Pokemon - Phanpy Only - Pokemon Crystal

Rules:
1. Only my starter in battle
2. No items in battle, except held items
3. No glitches, exploits, save states, or RNG manipulation
4. No evasion moves before level 100*
Rule details:
-- *In gen1, evasion boosting is allowed if the Pokemon does it through means other than learning the move by level up or TM. For example, using Mimic or Mirror Move to boost evasion is allowed. (This exception is to keep ranking consistent with my legacy videos.)
-- I am allowed to manipulate my starter
-- I play the game at 4x game speed
-- For fair comparisons all my Pokemon have perfect (or near perfect) DVs / IVs
-- I am allowed to catch HM users - I can use all field moves
-- All in-battle glitches are allowed in generation 1
-- In generation 1, I'm allowed to skip Marowak with the Poke Doll
-- Surge's trash-can-puzzle is automatically solved
-- The bike is allowed in gen1, banned in gen2, and allowed for bypassing terrain in gen3
-- Saving between league members is allowed
-- If the solo Pokemon faints and I choose to blackout it counts towards my reset counter
-- I can pause the game and timer to take breaks
-- The footage is sped up / slowed down to match the pace of my narration
-- The ability Pickup can only be used if the starter has it
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[@MatthewIceDragon]

Phanpy is such a cute and cool Pokemon design. I actually think it's really neat that Phanpy gets Water Gun through breeding when Donphan breeds with a male Quagsire. Quagsire can also give Phanpy Ancientpower and Body Slam through breeding. Also I believe Sage Li's name in the manga translates to Elder Li which is a play on the word elderly.

[@PokeMaster22222]

I'm pretty sure that's also true in HGSS - the "Elder Li" part. As for Water Gun Phanpy...why'd they remove that? Sure, Ice Shard is way more useful, but it's not as fun or 'logical' as Water Gun.

[@MatthewIceDragon]

@@PokeMaster22222 I know Water Gun and maybe Hydro Cannon should be given to Donphan that would have been cool even though they are special moves it would just be canon with their design.

[@sonshawnzy9975]

Some of the random moves Pokémon use through breeding is wild

[@JPayne95]

​@Tziouv they mean the name elder li is a play on the world elderly which means old people.

[@Chogathable]

I think Karen's Gengar is destined to use Lick, it has 69 Attack after all.

[@TheJbjfan]

Nice

[@ChaosWindScar99]

Nice

[@rctecopyright]

Nice

[@theSato]

Nice

[@zeckemyro7031]

Nice

[@PokeMaster22222]

Funnily enough, when Phanpy evolves into Donphan his HP doesn't change *at all* - they both have 90 base HP. I've always found that quite bizarre.

[@brendanhart517]

Some mons lose stats upon evolution i think floette into florges loses sp attk Keeping hp stat is kinda cool

[@PokeMaster22222]

@@brendanhart517 The one I remember the most is Torracat into Incineroar - it loses like 30 points in Speed, for some dumb reason.

[@rjante2236]

@@PokeMaster22222 Trapinch has the same Attack stat as Flygon, too.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Yeah, Octillery is another weird one for level up. Lanturn too.

[@shadowtitanx3962]

Iron Treads has the same HP as Phanpy and Donphan. Great Tusk has a good deal more HP than those 3.

[@vo117man]

38:50 Phampy out here ejecting sus Team Rocket from Electrode electrical with its tiny amongus feet. What a good crewmate. Thanks for the upload! Cool to see some of the Twitch stream for one side of your production cycle, then KZbin for the final part!

[@danielspencer4665]

Scott: Phany is one of the cutest Pokémon Scott’s Fans: That’s why theyre perfect for you

[@myggmastaren3365]

Thank god that Phanpy can learn mud-slap from the TM Falkner gives you, otherwise you would have to grind to level 33 so that it can hit Mortys ghost pokemon with roll-out!

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

The TM for Rollout is just north of Goldenrod, so that would be an option instead of doing the training. Annoying, but thematic, that this little Elephant doesn't get Dig.

[@shadowtitanx3962]

Don't forget the Rival's Gastly btw.

[@TheKingQazbatt]

yeah you wouldn't reach morty unless you struggle the rival after bugsy for the whole fight

[@TheDarkFiddler]

@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon Elephants will actually dig for food and water with their trunk, so I say give the elephant Dig!

[@eternalnos2179]

I'd just like to point out that there is now a comment that praises mudslap and justly so.

[@NativeGolfer10]

Phanpy is one of my favorite Gen 2 mons. Great job getting a good time out of it! Can’t wait for Donphan, Teddiursa, and Ursaring!

[@johnyboy413]

Love our little bluey elephant💙 He’s gonna Crush the enemies ❤

[@nathanandsugar5252]

*Roll on

[@Kanbei11]

How could you cut away when Lance had something important to tell you? Perhaps he was about to admit he's actually a flying type trainer Edit: just as the first Jasmine fight, I wonder if a PP restoring berry would have helped

[@TheMoogleKing93]

Til there is a PP restoring Berry in Gen 2; the Mystery Berry. You can get one in one of the secret Ruins of Alph areas.

[@thesacredlobo]

@@TheMoogleKing93 - You can also get one from the tree on Route 35. Albeit you need surf in order to reach it.

[@TheMoogleKing93]

@@thesacredlobo ah thats probably the easier one to grab then

[@charlessegale6493]

I haven't used a Phanpy in years! I ended up evolving it into a Donphan later on and used it up until the Red battle where I stumbled upon a Larvitar and power-leveled it up to 51 so it could learn Earthquake (I previously taught that to Donphan in Victory Road) and then leveled it up again until it became a Tyranitar. Fun fact: Chuggaaconroy caught a Phanpy in his playthrough of Pokémon Crystal many moons ago.

[@MadameTeqi]

And our boy Chuggaa's reaction was nothing short of precious. "OH MY GOD I FOUND A PHAN-PYYYYY

[@charlessegale6493]

@@MadameTeqi And then the first one fled. ;~; Chugga: *WHAT?!*

[@TheABom1989]

Swapping to flail against Scyther. OP move Scotty. Nice play.

[@MrVelyx]

"I've got a plan so cunnung, you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel!" -Blackadder

[@TyrantofChaos]

Phanpy was my first shiny Pokémon (excluding Red Gyarados). So happy to see this play through.

[@KayLoo202]

As someone who adores elephants, I adore Phanpy with all my heart. I just want to kiss his snout, so so SO cute.

[@CelticGuardian7]

Phanphy is such a cutie! I'm glad it did as well as it did, considering it's a first stage. =3

[@jrodriguez9017]

My favorite pokemon to catch right away after picking my starter. I'm glad you can locate it in the early stages in crystal despite how annoying it was encountering geodudes and spearows. I'm happy you did a Speedrun with phanpy. It's an amazing pokemon

[@vincentsterel6448]

One thing I think might have made the Bugsy fight easier - though also even less consistent - set up less defense curls. Scyther's fury cutter would do more damage and you might get better flail ranges earlier on in the fight. Plus, a reset would be less costly time-wise as the battles would be shorter.

[@rainbowfish420]

Man blows me away how much u grew over the last two years, I started watching u a little after u started and loved all ur vids,u are my fav pokemon solo run youtuber, I recorded my solo run with pokemon outlaw with Mewtwo but still working on my first rom hack playthrough tho,it is a lot of work with full-time job and family haha haha, keep up the good work bud and looking forward to our new vids

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Yeah the last two years have been a roller coaster of learning. Strangely, it feels like it’s accelerating. It just takes longer for new things to be implemented now that I’m juggling 4 games.

[@xPandamon]

Ah Phanpy. I have some old Pokemon cards here, including a well preserved eCard Phanpy ^^

[@arga400]

Fun Fact: Phanpy can learn Water Gun via breeding in Gen 2 and can be transferred up to Gen 7 with the move via 3DS ports.

[@adventureoflinkmk2]

Let's hope by gen2 you mean HeartGold SoulSilver because GSC isn't even compatible with gen3

[@nomis2268]

​@@adventureoflinkmk2virtual console (on 3ds) gsc is compatible with bank or whatever it's called tho

[@adventureoflinkmk2]

@@nomis2268 derp I forgot that will soon be a thing

[@adventureoflinkmk2]

@@nomis2268 oh yeah and it's Pokemon Home now

[@TerraEmperor1]

Man I love this little guy definitely one of top 10 pokemon on OC rooster

[@DrDrao]

I'm sorry, but imma stan my boys shaymin and pachirisu here.

[@MrTakashihongo]

Waking up at 4am due to work... luckily you uploaded so i can watch(listen) as i go to work..

[@Batlas]

The change to the rankings is nice. seeing it ranked in time windows makes so much sense.

[@woofervision673]

Never really used this Pokemon, always seemed like a bad Sandslash and terrible Gen 2 learnset, like did you really want to waste your earthquake TM on this thing? But looking at Donphans stats, really much better than expected, better than Sandslash in almost every way. More strangely though, its HP value stays the same upon evolution, not sure Ive seen many Pokemon like that (At least through Gen 4). I don't think HP ever worsens on evolution, minus Shedinja, it almost always increases. Anyways, thanks as always for the excellent content and keeping the nostalgia alive!

[@Unotuchable]

Really love how Phanpy is one of the pokemon that has a 50% flee chance so you can't really whittle it down early game.

[@mmburp]

Hey Scott :) To feed the algorythm I did some calculations: Hidden Power fire would be a guaranteed 2HKO (with the same stats your Phanpy had) while HP ground would only be around 98% to 2HKO (even with Soft Sand). Phanpy is cute and I appreciate your work :) Keep it up man

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Granted hidden power Fire is so much less useful in a playthrough, especially with a Pokémon with less special attack.

[@mmburp]

@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon Absolutely agree on that. I just wanted to write something kinda interresting ._. Maybe this will come in handy someday, especially if the atk/sp atk stats aren't that far off each other (as a sidenote, long ago I ran an Adamant Donphan with HP Ice to 1HKO Gliscor)

[@pocketpoprocks4577]

To be honest, while idk if you would want to do it, I personally think it’s reasonable to pause the timer while you get HM Pokémon. While I haven’t posted anything, I’ve recorded a few Gen 3 challenges and before I enter the forest I pause the timer, go back, catch every HM Pokémon needed for the rest of the game, walk back to point I was at then start the timer again. I also pause the timer when boxing hm Pokémon for gyms, as I think cause HM Pokémon are mandatory and in every run they shouldn’t really count towards time, especially since they made a few seconds of variance depending on whether or not you actually get the one you need in random encounters. So with the Psyduck you could pause the time just to get the optimal HM poke,on for your runs without worrying about how they impact game time.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Probably not. This is way more complicated than it sounds. And for other generations it isn’t fair. I want to avoid generation specific rules if possible.

[@NecromancyForKids]

​@@ScottsThoughtsPokemonRuns between generations aren't really comparable, so it doesn't really matter if one has exceptions and the other doesn't. The results are going to be completely different no matter what.

[@lumencontego4997]

Elephants have feet! Each foot has five toes, and they're actually able to "hear" through their feet. They have a special nerve that runs along through the feet and gives elephants a similar sensation to how it would feel to have your ear to the ground. It allows them to hear when other animals are nearby and may be used in long distance communication!

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

That is exceptionally awesome…

[@bateltheassistant]

That run was reminding me about me as a kid trying to catch a Phanpy in route 46, because I wanted to complete the pokedex in crystal. 😁Lately I had one in a nuzlocke and it was really good, and that run has shown me, that I wasn't just lucky to have one, Phanpy is just a really good pokemon, especially with hidden power. 😄As first stage pokemon, even though its speed could have been problematic, it was doing a fantastic job in this run,and all thanks to you. Well done.👏👏👏 The second playthrough was really showing that you were studying from your past mistakes in the first one, even though Karen was causing you a somewhat usual reset, but I think that if only Phanpy could have learn dig, you could change the type of hidden power to fighting, so that Karen could been trivia, and avoiding losing because sand attack. That kind a reset can be really annoying sometimes. But overall that was well played, and I had a great time, so thanks for that. 😄

[@shadowtitanx3962]

The main problem is that Hidden Power Fighting's DV drop is worse than Hidden Power Fire's DV drop. You have 3 DV in HP and 12 Atk and Def DVs for HP Fighting.

[@bateltheassistant]

@@shadowtitanx3962 yeah that's things that you'll need to take into consideration whenever you're hidden power. 🤔And yeah that could hurt that peak performance of any pokemon with these kinds of dvs. So I could get why it wouldn't be useful as much.

[@laureate90]

Donphan name suggestion: 'Stampy', a la Bart's brief yet memorable pet in the Simpsons.

[@matheusrios4223]

I love the fact that you named the Phanpy Dumbo.

[@TalesoftheChronic]

Phanpy is my first shiny in pokemon go love this. way to go scott!!!!!!!

[@magicalgirllaurie]

I love Phanpy and Donphan, they’re such good designs. Phanpy gets the same reaction out of me as my dogs, that being I can’t stop smiling when I look at it bc it’s so cute. And Donphan is just a Pokémon I’ve always thought looks really cool, and it’s good in battle too. Also as a note: Phanpy is really annoying to catch in Crystal even though it is early on because it’s one of those annoying Pokémon that can flee. And it’s not one of the 3 flee mons that the Fast Ball works on.

[@SSK2600]

Hi Scott! Thanks for another great video! I have a suggestion: Could you maybe add the levels of the opposing trainer's Pokemon in the overlay? You've done an amazing job on that overlay in general, BTW! So much attention to detail - love it! :)

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

It was that way originally. I dunno if I’ll add it again, I’ve been toying around with it. Preventing clutter is very important at this stage.

[@thebigbean8783]

I never have trouble training a phanpy or a donphan, so I think you're gonna do a good job with it. This is one I'm really looking forward to

[@SkaPhilosopher]

That Clefairy's first Metronome cracked me up.

[@JPayne95]

After gen 2 pokemon went from being types of animals but cooler with some mythical elements added to full on elemental hero style humanoids.

[@thebigbean8783]

I made a pinecoe comment that was supposed to be on a KZbin short. It ended up posting here. I'm sorry if you saw it. Go phanphy though! Great finish for the little guy

[@TeamRedWolf11]

Hey for your next crystal playthru have the kingdra in claires intro hydropump the Dragonair instead

[@thecatherd]

You're actually correct about Morty's AI regarding Curse. The AI for "smart" trainers has various exceptions when it comes to certain moves including recoil, self KO and other status moves. It will favor Curse at full HP, but will discourage it once damage has been taken.

[@thecatherd]

If you want more info on this, I heavily recommend looking into the decompilation project for Crystal. It takes a bit of deciphering and snooping in the game files, but the AI logic is in there and fairly well annotated.

[@jaycobsimmons4078]

Also, in hindsight, tou could have set up 6 defense curl against the last magnenite, not sure if 1 mudslap would have killed it but that would have potentially made steelix much more consistent

[@kylelundgren5133]

The sage at the end of bell sprouts tower is named elder Li in Is heart gold and soul silver.

[@lzzy134]

Phanpy is incredibly cute, agreed! Have you considered doing a Porygon2 + Sharpen playthrough? The idea for this is silly. I've noticed that one of your favorite terms when it comes to easily beating (or being beaten) fights is to 'polish' off the trainer(or yourself). Why not literally polish yourself?

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Haha that’s a funny idea. I’ve got plans for Porygon2 this year!

[@ktvx.94]

Hey Scott this is a rather specific scenario but, since in pvp matches if one player uses self KO moves or Destiny Bond and both pokemon faint, the other player wins, wouldn't it be fair for you to not reset if Karen does it? If you don't have any revives it's kinda moot but still.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Interesting point. Maybe… still feels like an emotional loss though. I’ll probably keep things the same but maybe mention this if it occurs in the future.

[@thesacredlobo]

You could also go for a LvL 20 Magikarp and level it up once with a rare candy. That would give you a Gyarados that can learn Strength, Waterfall, Surf, and Whirlpool. And you can find a level 20 one using the Good Rod 35% of the time in Olivine City.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Losing the rare candy is very bad for the playthrough.

[@shadowtitanx3962]

If Great Tusk and Iron Treads are in Gen 2 and did a race together, I think it's hard to judge with hypothetical Gen 2 movesets. Great Tusk has much higher Attack than Treads. But, its Fighting type is pretty much just there, just like Gen 1 Poliwrath unless if you give it HP Fighting, but HP Fighting has really bad DVs for a 70 Power STAB Fighting move. It might be able to KO Umbreon in the League, but HP Fighting Great Tusk is significantly weaker than Machamp's Cross Chop, even with its poor accuracy. I think Will is gonna be a huge problem for Great Tusk, since Xatu and Exeggutor do not care about Ground and Fighting moves. Same with Lance. Its Special Defense is gonna be a liability for those 2 opponents and Red's Blastoise. Iron Treads has a similar problem with Great Tusk in that it lacks a Steel STAB option in Gen 2 without committing to HP Steel. But, I think HP Rock will be the right one to use, since Treads will be in a pickle against Lance's army and Red's Charizard. Steel is a very good type defensively along with Ground for Red's Pikachu and Snorlax.

[@desiccant]

Can't wait to see Shuckle's run when you get around to it.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Next month

[@BenOfNebb]

I feel like you should set up a recurring bit with Mr. Pokemon. Maybe he can tell you the best hidden power to use.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Cool idea

[@frankiebeato4680]

I am glad you are doing this video for phanpy and donphan are in my top 5 favorite johto Pokémon and hoping to see donphan vs ursaring video and a speed run of donphan

[@Bl3Moze]

The only and only true trunk boy. Unlike the fake trunks from DBZ.

[@retrobrownsoloruns]

That Azalea Rival with Chikorita is deadly against ground and water type solo runs :')

[@retrobrownsoloruns]

Try a wooper only run next? the early game is very difficult with the rival having Chikorita

[@OathOfRevenge]

Hey Scott! Bit of a niche issue, but would it be possible to have the overlay show flail's damage dynamically? Thank you for these, I'll finish the video now ;)

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Yeah I already have that in Gen3. Forgot to port it over. Thanks for the reminder.

[@grinbrothers]

Ground types are one of my preferred types, an with Crystal's new placement of Phanpy, I was able to enjoy a Johto adventure with one of these adorable elephants. I imagine there will be difficulties given it's limited move-pool but I'm rooting for Phanpy to do well. 5:44 - In the remakes, Li's title has changed to Elder. Also, wouldn't Mud-Slap have been the better option here? 100% accurate, lowers accuracy and the STAB would have resulted in it being almost as strong as Tackle. Such an exciting and close fight early on. 9:55 - I was expecting that to be the solution. Your strategy was to use Flail so I doubt you'd have an Oran Berry equipped and you've yet to get Roll-out to utilise that Hard Stone. 13:17 - Very unfortunate results; I'm sure Phanpy could have tanked that Selfdestruct on it's own but a crit on top of it was harsh. 20:32 - Had to pause to see this part but you'll be happy to know it got a good laugh out of me. 28:07 - I love the fanfare feeling to obtaining Earthquake, though I hardly blame you. Looking over Phanpy's move-set, I question why it learns Sunny Day. Was it supposed to learn or be able to be taught Flame Wheel at some point? Johto's Pokémon and their moves are rather peculiar overall. 32:38 - Rather funny that minute speed difference. I know Phanpy is 13 levels higher but it is amusing to see it out-speed Charizard here. 35:17 - I feel the better play here would have been to just go with Earthquake here. The only remaining Pokémon Blue had after the Alakazam would be Arcanine and Rhydon; the former would do less to your defence increased Ground type and the latter being better dealt with by Earthquake than Rollout. Still, it worked out well in the end with your new move-set being ideal for taking Red out afterwards. Congrats to Dumbo the Phanpy for the great results!

[@iantaakalla8180]

Sunny Day feels like retroactive justification to make a past paradox Pokémon Great Tusk that interacts with the sun (being that Phanpy was technically associated with sun teams by being able to set the sun and Ground not being a bad typing for Sun teams given base form Groudon)

[@prchdm]

I have just realized that i've been mispronouncing Phanpy as Phanphy for the past couple of decades. Oops!

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

I think this is the case for a lot of people

[@gaminggoddess85]

I could swear I've caught Phanpy on Route 46 in Pokemon Silver before but both Bulbapedia and Serebii say it's not found there, even in the remakes... maybe I'm just remembering catching Geodude there or something.

[@input-latency2684]

hello person scrolling by. hope you have a good rest of your day. also, i feel like this little goober is gonna do at least *okay*? haven’t looked at stats or movepool, but being a physical attacker will help versus Red’s Snorlax, i think - assuming you can deal with Pikachu’s Charm.

[@ShukakuTheCrazy1]

Now do a paradox donphan race!

[@shimauta1941]

Four because Phanpy is so cute that I don't even mind if it never evolves into Donphan in this video.

[@ZyphisV]

I've wanted to try using the phans, but I've yet to play a game that includes them, and never had friends to trade for it. :/

[@TheArgentAgent]

Fun fact: If you search for and find a Phanpy before Cherrygrove City, there's a chance during the encounter it will just run away. Not sure why the programmers did this to troll Nuzlocke players in the future...

[@keltikglider9188]

Never fails to give me a laugh anytime you see 69 and say “nice” 😂😂😂😂

[@hillrp1]

For Bugsy, you'd have to math it out in advance, but I wonder if you could have set up only 4-5 defense curls specifically so that the second fury cutter would bring you low enough to max out the damage of flail

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Interesting idea, worth exploring!

[@C_Train74]

Lol’d at that awful luck on the first Whitney fight.

[@brendanhart517]

I love phanpy and donphan, looks interesting in the gen 9 games with new forms (i need to see) never actually used one and had no idea you could get one early in crystal but i never really play in the morning time (unless I can’t sleep) but that’s cool. Also crystal is the only game that you can breed water gun onto Phanpy, totally useless but still kinda cool i think Also i just thought of damage rounding thresholds acronym as DRT or just Dr T

[@leahbeth8335]

I feel so slow for only noticing today that Phanpy's ear thingies are little elephant toes.

[@Skipatronic]

Phanphy is adorable

[@KraftBreakfast]

19:00 It takes a big man to admit it

[@ChrisZi.]

Good Job Scott ... but you should do it without rollout. That was a way to easy run.

[@nedstark93]

Wouldn't It be Better to pre-damage phanphy to have flail hit hard from the start of the bugsy Battle? To One shot the cocoons and survive One Quick Attack from the ace?

[@justinsims655]

Self-destruct and then Guillotine. Are we sure that Clefairy isn't Whitney's ace?

[@Real_Beyoga]

So is it worth trying to code it so that way the rollout power is reflecting the damage increase from defense curl? I know this is a very niche occurrence, but was curious if it was something you thought of doing?

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Coding rollout and having it's power display properly has been a nightmare. We have had to make a patch to the rom to actually implement it in a visually satisfying way. In the next video it should work a lot better. It accounts for defense curl, updates when I'm selecting my next move (instead of immediately after Rollout hits) and it resets properly when I miss or Rollout finishes.

[@brendanhart517]

Also something i found in my gold playthrough you know the built in chance for status moves to miss in gen 2? Mind reader doesn’t bypass this, Chuck used mind reader then hypnosis then missed so that was a nice thing to learn

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Yup, that’s happened a bunch in my playthroughs. It’s also so funny to see chick setup and then miss anyways. At least it makes his dynamicpunch always hit.

[@tanorokq5657]

Snorlax is the toughest one for me against Red. The elite 4 the toughest one for me is Gyrados. Snorlax and Gyrados are beasts.

[@iBenjamin1000]

recently discovered that donphan i actually really hard to find for a casual team. it's in the national dex for many games but it's only available in the regional dex in like, silver, crystal, heartgold (hgss switched the regional exclusives from g/s). then it isn't even in any national dex from like, gen 6-8 and finally gets back into the regional dex in gen 9. it got a new special form.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

No wonder I’ve never used it

[@vizzy61]

actually, i just checked, it only appears in 3 regional dexes. johto, hoenn & paldea. and in hoenn it's only found in the safari zone.

[@PenguinMafia336]

Glad to see my favorite ground type getting a chance to sweep johto

[@prancingzebra9106]

Scott, How do you set your DV/IV's with the universal pokemon randomizer?

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

I don’t. I use Gamehook for that.

[@shidoumezawa]

One of the pokemon i loved using when i was little. It was always a pain to catch it

[@inazuma-fulgur]

Hey I saw that one live! No predictions today!

[@inazuma-fulgur]

Ha funny that you mentioned a lot of ppl suggesting hp fire to you. Fire is a go to filler because it's such a good offensive type and I also thought about it. But upon more planning I think the only alternative to ground you have is ice. Because the Magnemites aren't an issue only steelix is, which is still hit neutrally so it's good enough, and hp ice might allow you to drop using rollout for lance. Return is good enough for his Charizard

[@milkdud8993]

It’s rank my be a little low, but it’s still as adorable as any out there.

[@calumv988]

I love phanphys sprite. Reminds me of little Tantar from Tarzan

[@SourSensationZ]

Haven't been to a premiere in a while and can't stick around today, but stopping by to leave my like and comment for the algorithm. Gotta go now though. Later!

[@Shingo-ei3ly]

Donphan is my favorite pokemon from gen2

[@mickgorro]

You've been doing this for 2.5y? So I've missed a year of your content, finding you only in summer 2021? Pretty sure I made up for the misses though :).

[@darkblue62]

11/10 Has Phanpy

[@tanorokq5657]

I have not been able to only use 1 Pokémon for a play through but I mostly used 1 for old games.

[@mickgorro]

Route 45 goes down from Blackthorn into Route 46 and into the first routes of the game, right? Route 46 is the one you can't go up through because of a ledge, and Route 45 is where the "back door" of Dark Cave is.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Correct

[@greggchambers9716]

Can Phanpy not learn Dig? Seems like a huge, huge oversight if it can't.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

It can’t

[@veghesther3204]

With the Exception of Miltank if you don't off it in 1 turn or Red's WAY over leveled pokemon its easily doable with this one.

[@AB-04]

Phanpy still the only wild shiny I’ve ever come across was in crystal too

[@paleoscinkus542]

We need an Ursaring vs Donphan video!

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

We do. It’s planned.

[@Growhio330]

Another great video

[@mickgorro]

Why "stinky flower" tho?

[@Orrphoiz]

Elephantastic bug love c:

[@PrincessGoth574]

Today's been a tough day so im really grateful for the video today. Have you seen beta phanpy? It reminds me of elephants seen in india and id love them to revisit the idea again for a regional phanpy.

[@Zabe_B]

unlikely, doesn't copperajah already fill the indian elephant pokemon niche?

[@iantaakalla8180]

Perhaps Pokémon India regional Phanpy line is a competitor with the Cufant line?

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

I looked it up after seeing this comment. Unbelievably cute.

[@phoenixguy7016]

Have you done Slowking vs Slowbro?

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Not yet

[@phoenixguy7016]

@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon Slowking is a Pokemon I like but I never really got the chance to try because of not having anyone reliable to do a trade evolution with. It might have become a favorite if I had the chance to try it out in a playthrough.

[@Maravillante]

7:47 Slowpoke Skip 39:23 Slowpoke not skipped

[@eraser7832]

I'm a mental health therapist and was thinking which pokemon would make the best mental health therapist????? I was thinking Mr. Mime, but many people are scared of clown looking things.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Phanpy would be pretty good, it cheers me up just by looking at it!

[@Robin93k]

The only kind of "therapist" Mr. Mine could be is the one with a space after the 3rd letter~ He's the literal reminder that Fairies aren't what Disney shows you... You and your children would be safer under the hypnosis from a Hypno.

[@breadpope0358]

29:32 its a flying type but earthquake damages it?? that sure was a weird BUG

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Definitely a bug.

[@JO-iv7tl]

Would be interesting to do runs with an egg move, in GSC at least.