Weedle Only - Pokemon Yellow

[@Shady97342]

It's Christmas Eve. I'm 36. And I'm settling in to watch a guy play Pokemon Yellow with Weedle.

[@d00b3rt]

You and me both brother. Merry Christmas!

[@woooooooah]

Hopefully with a lady, like myself

[@kevinwilkes5147]

I'm 34 almost 35 😢😮😢😮

[@kevinwilkes5147]

Merry Bhristmas

[@silver_was_found]

Happy holidays! I feel young for a Scott viewer lol

[@TheMoogleKing93]

Weedle doesn't have a horn, he just always wears a party hat, hence why he's the perfect Christmas pokemon.

[@Dolph1nRacer]

For the record, Fresh Water is actually the most cost-effective vending machine drink. It costs 4 dollars per hitpoint, while a Soda Pop costs 5 dollars per hitpoint and a Lemonade costs 4.38 dollars per hitpoint.

[@steveita2162]

How many more waters do you have to buy and use? That costs precious time in a speed run

[@Dolph1nRacer]

@steveita2162 Fair point!

[@arkjag2991]

Interesting.

[@vampocalpyse]

@@steveita2162 it could be a net neutral giving the extra clicks and the register time plus the inevitable miss clicking.

[@thetrav2100]

yeah forsure if not going for a quick finish its worth to spend the time

[@monopolyrubix1875]

One of my favorite things about your runs is seeing specific random trainers consistently outshine important characters like Surge, Bruno, Juan, etc. Shout-outs to the wrapping lass, the self-destructing hiker, Bird Keeper Abe, Youngster Calvin, etc.

[@AzureAlliance31]

After this series ends, we need the "let's play Pokemon Yellow" vids as these notable junior trainers. May Sandy become the champion she was always meant to be!

[@bumblebabble18]

I believe in this funky little corndog

[@Lotus_RT]

I know it can't learn it, but I can't help but laugh at the mental image of what it would look like to see Weedle use Body Slam.

[@ShiningJudgment666]

Considering there's a battle in Blue Kaizo where you battle a Bug Catcher that has a Level 100 Weedle before Vermillion, I can picture that.

[@justanotheremptychannel2472]

The one we all waited for, the mightiest hero pokeworld has ever seen

[@theSato]

>Christmas Eve >Christmas (and my birthday) tomorrow >Finally get the much-dreaded (and much awaited) Weedle episode of RBY Scott's Thoughts >It's over my coveted 1 hour mark god bless Scott, Merry Christmas!

[@justanotheremptychannel2472]

Not everyone can get a gift like this

[@theSato]

​@@justanotheremptychannel2472haha. unironically it's been a really bad birthday/Christmas so far (I'm sick with infection and will be spending it alone) - but having this video to fall asleep to is seriously making it better right now

[@muffinland]

BONGZILLA LIVES!

[@Trevorkian2010]

Just wanted to say I absolutely love the editing and polish on your videos. Literally everything is a pleasant experience and that's rare for me because it is so easy for a lot of people to overdo effects and whatnot to where it is painful on my eyes (I've got vision issues). Your voice also strikes a fantastic balance of being engaging without being over the top. Thank you and your team for all the effort that I know goes into these.

[@rainbowskin3379]

I love runs like this, that have objectively no strategy to them. And you make them so compelling.

[@Zulk_RS]

On the topic of an additional tier to the tier list, you can perhaps add a "Lance" or "Cheater " tier which is for pokemon that can beat the game but if you bend the rules slightly. Like allowing Weedle to use X Items when you hit level 100,

[@TheWispGuy]

52:09 Fans: "Be careful, Scott! Sabrina could be quite challenging for [Insert Pokemon Here]!" Weedle: "Are you sure about that?"😏 Sabrina:😧😞

[@pyrotempestwing]

Well, Weedle was also Lv100 vs Sabrina’s Lv50, and the damage calc, iirc takes the attacker’s level into account, although that might not be until later, Gen I is odd.

[@TheWispGuy]

@@pyrotempestwing Fair point. I just found it amusing, is all.

[@Alector12]

Yeah, these solo runs feel like the big disenchantment of Sabrinas usual reputation as the strongest Gym Leader she has online. Many streamers mention Sabrina having no "type weakness" and that she does massive damage with Psychic but as can be seen, her mons are so frail that they croak with any attack anyway and her stupid AI almost never picks Psychic as an Attack move, rather often doing 1 damage with Psywave, the baddest, most awful TM a Gym Leader hands out.

[@TheWispGuy]

​@@Alector12 Good point. Sabrina can be scary IF she can land Flash/Kinesis, uses Psychic, and you can't outspeed her. But more often than not, she chooses the worst options.

[@milanmach2379]

Most terrible pokemon are physical attackers and Sabrina just folds to that. Whereas all RBY starters are special attackers that just don't do much to her with their STABs. So people's memories of their kid strategy of bulldozing everything with their starter make Sabrina seem much stronger.

[@sandsunderthetable.6625]

I’m sorry for your loss

[@PabloNeves26]

The heck happened?

[@krisc1684]

​@@PabloNeves26 I assume theyre referring to the the fact that Scott is doing this run

[@sandsunderthetable.6625]

@@PabloNeves26 weedle :(

[@retloclive9118]

Looking up the early bugs, an interesting run one day will be Caterpie in Gen V onward where for whatever reason, the developers started giving it Electroweb as a tutor move.

[@Killagoose77]

It finally happened. Best Christmas gift we could ask for!

[@MrKrembar]

"and as you can expect he (surge) is going to be quiet pathetic" * proceed to loose*

[@mr.number9279]

I just spent the wee hours of Christmas watching someone beat Pokemon Yellow with a Weedle. God. Damn. I'm really surprised Weedle got to Giovanni without needing X items---and even more surprised that in-battle healing wasn't even necessary. Your commentary throughout was hilarious. I think the tier below Bruno, which is probably just going to be Weedle and... Ditto? Can Ditto realistically beat the game or is it as improbable as Weedle? The tier should be the Gambler tier. It's not going to happen. But, it is POSSIBLE, at least, more than the literal Impossible tier of Caterpie/Kakuna/Metapod/Magikarp. Great video.

[@AMH9000]

A run so nice, you posted it twice. As I said before, I am powerful

[@Kramllegdub]

Merry Christmas you crazy bastard!! I hope you take a well deserved vacation in January. Thanks for all the content, sorry it helps me get to sleep some nights.

[@porquenao7822]

This is because of the video quality stuck in 480p?

[@adventureoflinkmk2]

Most likely. I double checked the quality and the max is still 480p

[@nachorzeszut1857]

Since I always watch on mobile I didn't even notice

[@rontheauraknight9606]

I’m on mobile and I could notice lol. It was much blurrier than normal

[@Hablamannen]

Higher resolutions are available now, I think it might take some time for youtube to enable it sometimes

[@adventureoflinkmk2]

0:48 suggestion: backport bug bite into gen 1 and re run weedle with it 1:13:45 do like Teo does, hack in harden because you can take your lvl6 weedle into GSC and level it to 7 to evolve into kakuna so you can get harden and trade back to your RBY save

[@bettyunicorn6132]

Lets see if Scott can do the impossible! Cause Agatha will probably stop you in your tracts.

[@logans.7932]

To this day I have NO idea why Brock has TEN full restores. Were they really so insistent on the player learning type matchups that they didn’t want you to win by any other methods? I feel like encouraging creative strategies early on would be good 😂

[@EthanTheWerewolf]

The devs where alergic to fun, and burns

[@EthanTheWerewolf]

And poison

[@thomaswinwood]

Game Freak were extremely prone to schedule slip in their early days and had to be forced to get Pokémon Red and Green into a state that could be shipped to customers, so I am like 90% sure trainer-used items never actually got _finished_ since the item assignments make very little sense in general (Guard Spec. Giovanni) and the code for Blaine doesn't actually check his Pokémon's current health before having a chance to use a Super Potion. It's entirely possible Brock's choice of item dates from when he was the second gym leader rather than the first.

[@HunnyDoo]

Everytime you said "You wouldn't think this would be that hard" I was like heeeeell yeah I would

[@Xeraser2]

Sandshrew using Sand Attack at the very last turn before it faints from poison makes it look like it might genuinely be aware. It knows.

[@Cream147player]

Liking and commenting on the new video so it doesn’t get neglected by the algorithm!

[@TheLukeskywalker2]

Weedle's first Brock split is longer than the whole video covering the challenge run.

[@silver_was_found]

Before I watch the video, I'm already doubting that Weedle can finish the game. Might be another possible but very unlikely situation.

[@diegorojas8959]

??? Reupload?

[@NuevoSMD]

The moment this channel has been building to over the years. 🎉

[@silver_was_found]

I can already tell this run is going to be painful.

[@CrookiNari]

It's funny you mention that video idea at 1:01:51... Years ago, I did run Weedle in Blue on my 3DS. Obviously I don't have video footage of any of it, but I did take a photo of my lil guy in the Hall of Fame at lv 88. This was long before I was super exposed to the solo challenge community so I was using items in battle pretty much the whole time. Once I got past Brock, it felt strangely freeing just relying on Struggle and X items, and not having to prioritise my learnset at all.

[@PojoLoneWolf]

Why am I lying in bed eating a Snickerdoodle while watching Scott grind a Weedle to beat Brock? 😂

[@VegeMaticPragtarian]

Never noticed this before, Kakuna looks like it has a tie in that picture at the end of the video. Little bug gentleman

[@PrincessGoth574]

Despite how weak it is, I could not defeat weedle in a fight because its so adorable I could not harm them.

[@ruthlesace]

Re-upload already?

[@lyoukeefen7199]

1:05:00 even if the guard spec could prevent status conditions, you get paralysed by a non-status move, so it wouldn’t help anyway

[@Matthias.Abaddon]

Hooray! No more 480! Also i did this in red and lorelai is a hard wall because of rest spam :(

[@DarkFEPKMN]

This is one I've been waiting for. Happy holidays

[@erik19borgnia]

And I will say it a third time. Are you ok, Scott? Why are you doing this to yourself? xD

[@arr0w769]

im curious how weedle would do with bug bite (the only move it gets besides string shot and poison sting)

[@proceededspy1370]

Is possible to mod in for Kakuna to learn Harden up on evolving? i mean come on, looking over at Metapod's move pool in Yellow and the fact Kakuna does learn Harden in gen two, it is supposed to. I refuse to believe anything else😑. Now do i think Kakuna can beat the game? no, but it might get further than Weedle.

[@ShiningJudgment666]

Regarding Kakuna, the Harden at Level 7 thing got fixed in Gen 2. So Kakuna could be possible if you allowed Gen 2 trade-backs and if it starts out as a Weedle.

[@silver_was_found]

A long Scott video is the best Christmas present :]

[@Steve_A93]

Shinies being determined by DVs in Gen 2, mean that any gen 1 pokemon could technically be shiny. Gotta wonder how many shinies popped during the grinding in this video

[@kaan-kaant]

Honestly the worst kind of run imaginable. It's not a bad pokemon in any interesting way, it doesn't have any specific walls, because everything is a wall. And any strategizing is more or less impossible. It is a hell of a spectacle though, thankyou for your sacrifice, scott. Merry Christmas 🎁

[@bobosmith101]

Instead of Giovanni, Agatha is the unbreakable wall in Red Blue.

[@brandonyoungquist1713]

Bongzilla has arived

[@paulmann8570]

It’s Christmas and my headcanon is that Bruno stopped the bug.

[@woxyinaboxy24]

Completely new video!

[@hannahbriarly4192]

surely this will go well

[@oligould8575]

I've always wanted to see a caterpie and weedle (team worm) run. neither can win alone without items, but is it possible to complete the game with the standard ruleset if they tag team? This would open the door to a few stratagies and make the run somewhat interesting too

[@myggmastaren3365]

Weedle vs Agatha, what could possibly go wrong :D

[@Antholography]

I propose calling the “needs X items” the Lance Tier. In gen 1, Lance’s Dragonite knows Barrier. And THEN in gen 2 Lance’s Aerodactyl knows Rock Slide. He literally cheats. It’s not possible for it to have that move. I.E. this is the “Cheater” tier. Only possible if you cheat the rules!

[@thomaswinwood]

The Ditto playthrough may be interesting given I'm pretty sure Yellow still has the Transform PP bug.

[@briancaster2876]

Well, I'm not watching this whole video again but ill comment and like for the algorithm.

[@Crowdragon225]

Here's an inquiry for you. Would you be willing to do another Weedle run while back porting Bug Bite? It might just speed up the process to "bearable" levels.

[@djkates1916]

Everything mentioned at the end of the video about Kakuna is accurate. It does, however, bring up an idea for a potentially interesting "what-if" run. In Gen 2, the devs did apply the same fix for Kakuna's moveset that they did for Metapod in Yellow, namely adding a second instance of Harden at Level 7 so that Kakuna would learn it on evolution. A Kakuna that learned Harden this way could then be traded back to a Gen 1 game. So... what if the devs had applied the fix in Yellow, OR what if someone traded a Weedle over to Gen 2, evolved it there so it learned Harden, then traded it back to the Yellow file it had originated from? (I specify the two-way trade because then obedience isn't an issue. Kakuna's bad enough without adding that into the mix.) Could the resulting Kakuna beat Yellow under Scott's usual rule set? (I'm imagining that the playthrough would start as a Weedle, and evolve into Kakuna at Level 7, with the one change being that Kakuna's move set would be modified to include an instance of Harden at Level 7.) My initial thought is that the run would be at least *possible* because of the Badge Boost Glitch (coupled with the legitimate utility of Harden), though it would be *well* into the Bruno tier. The Brock split alone would be at least as bad as Weedle's, possibly even worse due to Kakuna's Base Attack being even lower than Weedle's. (After all, you can't badge boost Attack until *after* you beat Brock.) I wouldn't be surprised if this run had to hit Level 100 to be able to beat the game.

[@PokeMaster22222]

If only Bug Bite existed from the start, huh? That move would've been amazing here, probably would've saved Weedle a bunch of time - both from having a more powerful move with better type coverage, and also having more PP to use as well.

[@adrienneladd8375]

so obviously starting with a kakuna is impossible, but what if you evolve into it (but can't go to beedrill)?

[@pommyadam]

so Scott mentions that the next yellow video was going to be hard to beat the game with, so after we got IronBundle out of the way... this should be a steamroll /s

[@pommyadam]

also at 58:10 discovering that the routing software doesn't cap out stat experience is a "what? why would that EVER be relevant" fix, truly the best bug tester it's also kinda weird that BOTH runs that failed to finish ended at Giovanni's gym battle, I wonder if that's a consistent thing moving forward?

[@rafilosofo]

I though it was youtube trying to make me pay premium "no way they disabled the HD option!" lol

[@EthanTheWerewolf]

You madman. I am very interested with how you are gonna actually do this

[@gerarddekloe9385]

Koga is possible? I thought it had a poisen steel type in his team😂

[@eternalnos2179]

Happy Holidays Scott and crew :D I'm still confused about Machop if glitches are against the rules. Can anyone help clarify?

[@connor-3455]

shouldn't magikarp be ranked above the cocoon's? since it can attack and make it farther?

[@Soulerize1]

I attempted a weedle only run a few years ago and also got stopped at Giovanni, even with HEAVY use of save states I did not have the patience to RNG through something that improbable. I had seen some generic TAS runs where they got passed certain trainers by manipulating gen 1 misses on key abilities, most famously a triple gen 1 miss on the self destructing hiker using self destruct. I thought I could just save state roll Giovanni to do something similar, but it was so painful, literally doing it for hours, getting poison on turn 1, crits, gen 1 misses… I am pretty patient, I wanted to make it happen so badly, but in the end I said screw it and also used x items, which fundamentally just breaks the game.

[@perkypenguin1663]

On the twenty-fourth day of Christmas, Scott’s Thoughts gave to me… 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!

[@BlackEscanor]

Let's go for my prediction ! Poison Sting String shot Tier : impossible

[@BrieDonadieu]

Watched the original intently in 480p. here to rest to your voice in 1080p... I feel like I did this in the wrong order

[@Fenstermanscience]

Ya ever feel like a needle against an onion I often do

[@PabloNeves26]

Does Dire Hit work the same way Focus Energy does? I mean, glitched?

[@Zelgius1]

Yes! This Bongzilla video finally happened! : D ...How much suffering will Crystal and Emerald inflict upon Scott, with a Weedle only run? : D

[@thesillyone3837]

Impossible since steel type was added

[@UnknownVir]

was the start of the video slightly cut off?

[@Zulk_RS]

30:40 "Weedle is starting to fall off" Starting to? Weedle has been falling since the moment you got it. Its just been falling at an accelerated rate over time.

[@TomatoSalad123]

This is going to be a banger

[@c.m.9369]

Before watching: Well, that‘s gonna be rough! X-D Other generations probably would be impossible, but gen1 is janky enough that it might be doable, but it has to be on lvl 100. Weedle just has no tools to work with. Two moves, that‘s it. No badge boost glitch to benefit from, nothing… saving grace will be Poison Sting, being able to poison an opponent could make the difference. But unless it turns out that Weedle can‘t even beat the game, it will end up in the Bruno tier as probably the worst pokemon you tried so far. After watching: The little Weedle that couldn‘t… I‘m actually surprised how early the run becomes impossible. I thought Agatha would probably stop it, but Giovanny, so early on? Damn! But yeah, Poison Sting is just a terrible move, and Weedle is obviously awful. I appreciate the effort you put into this, to show what it would take to beat this game with a Weedle! Really interesting!

[@7highstraight]

kzbin.info/aero/PL0bgUZuenvq2o5kYyKMDVykxHvqzGdbG_ Let me introduce you to Bongzilla. Years ago a dude named Jake went through most of the series with just a weedle.

[@jasonkerbs806]

You should try a team run with weedle and abra

[@aardappelgang6335]

Its not 480p anymore

[@dakillaklown715]

Seeing runs like his make me wonder if you need someone to talk to... or if you're just sadistic..

[@garfieldsmoistbones7810]

The rocker is such a strange trainer class that I don’t think I’ve ever heard you mention. Do you ever fight one in runs where you’re using an actual Pokémon?

[@hammdogporkington3058]

48:23 One must imagine Sisyphus happy

[@azure_paladin4706]

I think weedle gets walled at the ghost tower

[@connor-3455]

going into this video im gonna assume Agatha is not possible even at lvl 100

[@connor-3455]

well, it turns out it was Giovani should have guessed that

[@Nickm01]

What about doing The Missingno glitch to get your Pokemon to 255? Could Weedle win at 255?

[@tysonpestner]

You’re the man, Scott

[@baddragonite]

Merry Christmas 🎄😁

[@Salnax]

Last non-HGSS video of the year!

[@AlexanderJamesWhite]

Kakuna is gonna be wild

[@veghesther3204]

Like Red/Blue its still nearly IMPOSSIBLE in Crystal ALL of Sabrina's pokemon can 1 shot it EVEN at lv 100 and NONE of Koga's can be poisoned FROM Poison sting at all.

[@Philip482]

Been waiting this forever!!

[@justinploskonka6611]

Bongzilla

[@lewisgregory1996]

I pretty sure that Kakuna is going to be worst

[@lewisgregory1996]

Struggle can't hit ghost, so yeah lol

[@ZerglingOne1]

2 seconds in. Cannot complete by reason of Giovanni. That's my guess.

[@sirkarl0s593]

Merry Xmas everyone

[@SonicMeters]

Weedle cool only run

[@DantinozMC]

No way

[@UnknownVir]

We da L, for not clicking on your video sooner.