Crystal Romhack Beta Playtest (Part 2)

[@knuxchux]

Suggestion: Have a TM shop in the Battle Tower area or somewhere in Kanto so you can get repeats for all TMs, but only in the postgame

[@MageLeaderInc]

I'd rather TMs just be reusable like HMs

[@SporkyMcFly]

​@@MageLeaderInc The goal of the ROM-hack is to mimic the spirit of Gen 2. What you are suggesting would definitely be outside of that scope.

[@MageLeaderInc]

@@SporkyMcFly how is that outside the scope but making HMs forgettable and adding a store that sells all the TMs isn't? Making it so they don't break is just a quality of life.

[@SporkyMcFly]

@@MageLeaderInc It devalues the TMs. Just ask Gamefreak that removed infinite TMs. Edit: In Blackthorn City you can forget HMs in the originals, what change are you talking about with that?

[@MageLeaderInc]

@@joefarrow1599 it does actually because by not being able to forget HMs you are forced to have an HM slave which is usually a useless pokemon for battling or limit your move pool by being forced to have an HM move over something better.

[@danielquinlan2457]

Still think Gengar should get Ice Punch over Thunder Punch, considering how often the Pokédex talks about it lowering temperatures when it's near by

[@kvltofsobek90]

Ghost is also just generally associated with night, cold, chill, FREEZING with terror etc

[@JstnRbnsn]

Hard agree with this. & it makes it different from Alakazam.

[@slimjong-un5743]

Good points

[@onlytrueway8742]

Too OP

[@CheckUnderYou]

I still like Icy Wind as a safe middle ground, might just be me though.

[@iamlordapollo]

The idea to have Giovanni working with Lance is straight up chefs kiss tier. He tells his son to love his Pokemon, gets to hyper beam a guy (so Lance retains his "good guy" status) and provides a climax to the rocket arc that was desperately needed. I do think a little bit of villain characteristics should persist though. Hyper beaming only one guy could be taken a number of ways. His motivation should be something like "these pretenders are tarnishing the legacy I built... MY legacy! I will not allow them to continue destroying the name of team rocket!" Also his team should be different. He is no longer a ground type trainer. His theme should just be rich and powerful with slightly evil, like a gangster, or as close as possible. His ace is Persian, so he needs a better lead. I think a nice spiritual successor to the "rich person normal type" would be Granbull, since pugs are stereotypically for rich ppl. I also think it's important to include Slowking to reaffirm his place stop the pecking order. Then Forettress or octillary to represent his Glock because he's a gangster. I personally like octillary but they both fit the theme, shit you could even have him run both. And lastly, Donphan because old habits die hard. Maybe you disagree but Donphan just seems like a Giovanni pokemon to me, idk why. Obviously any of the Pokemon he had in the previous games would work too. To be honest, if he had the exact same team from yellow, but scaled up with updated moves that would be incredibly nostalgic and hit hard in it's own way.

[@Icalasari]

Giovanni is Yakuza, not Mafia. And Nidoking is his other Ace

[@iamlordapollo]

@@Icalasari uh... When did I say anything about Mafia? You got me confused. And yeah Nidoking is sort of like his second ace, but if you include him, you have to include Nidoqueen too because theyre two sides of the same coin. Persian is his main ace but the king and queen together represent the second one. That's why I prefer Donphan since it's like Giovanni got with the times and adapted his team to include the Johto roster.

[@TheYankeesUnited]

Couldn't watch this live so love catching up on both run throughs. Super fun watching all the changes and playthrough. Even more excited to play the game.

[@FishdipDeen]

Team Rocket's goal is to bring Giovanni back so he can lead them again. Everything they're doing (slowpoketail for money, radio tower to send him a message) is for the sole purpose of regaining their leader, so the original plot falls flat when some kid shows up and stops them. Beating them doesn't resolve their story; TR is looking for him at the beginning, and doesn't get any more info on him after they're defeated. To change that, Giovanni needs to confront TR at the climax of that story beat. He needs to denounce what they're doing, but the new admins should retaliate in denial. To prevent Giovanni from coming out of nowhere, he should be at different TR events as they happen, in disguise. Possibly to give the Player an item or something, but definitely to critique TR for their failures. "So they've managed to force pokemon to evolve. Too bad they can't control them afterwards." or "Selling Slowpoketails for a quick buck? They're much too short-sighted." As for after the story, Giovanni should be an optional boss fight. Kanto needs more content, and if GameFreak had more time/space they would have added more.

[@worstwurst7593]

Smith,please, keep up the amazing work! You really give this classic of my childhood all the love and appreciation it deserves! Godspeed to you, Sir!

[@emarti3853]

Love the move tutor available once per day in goldenrod Not a big fan of the new sprites on a nostalgia kick but they are pretty cool Canonical is Slowpoke having Shelder bite their tails, thus evolving into Slowbro. If team rocket cuts tails off Slowpoke, they cannot evolve that way. They can be bitten on the head, instead evolving into Slowking. Eto - hyuck hyuck guy - being a nice guy, would not have cut the tail off his slowpoke. His could thus evolve into Slowbro.

[@mythicbuilds2951]

The easy way to fit Giovanni into the whole "fighting against team rocket" narrative would be to have Lance (still fight TR in Mahogani) say that he received an anonymous tip that TR was there and thats how he came to stop them. And then, in the radio tower, Giovanni comes in after your final fight with Archie and denounces team rocket. You then meet him again in Kanto, potentially inside Cerulean cave, where you have a proper fight with him. The reason he's in Cerulean cave could be because he's trying to fix his past mistakes, which may include stopping the rampaging mewtwo inside the cave. After his fight with you, he tells you about mewtwo and realizes that you would be much more fit to resolve the issue.

[@tenkenroo]

It might be neat if maybe in the old rocket locations you find logs of Giovanni saying he created mewtwo and regrets it due to releasing a dangerous pokemon.

[@benjaminlawless4463]

Suggestion for Rocket trainers mons: if you want to show the stolen Pokémon theme then you could make them act like over levelled trade Pokémon (sometimes disobey etc). You could even make them higher level to compensate or have a mixture of levels (as they might of stolen a lvl 20 and a 39). Might be too different from your vision - but thought it could be cool

[@kildawg]

Idea for trainer near Beth. His name can be Ace with a team of Azumarill, Ariados, Ampharos, Arcanine, and Aerodactyl. Rematchable with eventually adding Alakazam for a full team.

[@tasorodri]

I have an idea for the jotho starters, make prof elm give you the spare starter after you beat the Elite four, and have Silver give you an egg of it's starter in Kanto

[@codymcgrew4015]

Definitely increase the money paid for winning trainer battles. This will give more incentive for people to buy items to heal with throughout the tougher battles.

[@nickrobinson9629]

Hear me out, this is a name idea for the romhack. Playing the rom your feelings of nostalgia are kept intact because the usual frustrations of Crystal have been fixed. It's playing Crystal while wearing "rose-tinted glasses". It's the perfect game you remember from your childhood's first playthrough. So Rose Crystal, or Crystal Rose.

[@ExperimenturalVideos]

"it's not moving a rock it's the strength to move the rock" don't you take imagining your perfect DV Ursaring just yeeting rocks all fight away from me

[@Philostipher]

It would be cool if the guy who is lost in Victory Road could be given an escape rope if you have one available, and maybe he could give you a cool item in return. Possibly have him respond during certain days/times for different items you could get once per however many days it takes to reset

[@Ivashanko]

I strongly suggest that you give each Elite 4 member 6 Pokemon. Unless you rework the AI from the ground up they won't ever be as difficult as the fights in Radical Red or Reborn can be, so they'll be beatable but still properly challenging.

[@nicolapodgornik6644]

I don't personally like having Giovanni here in johto. Maybe a fight in Kanto (all silph co is unused, maybe he still beneath casino?), maybe a fight after you beat the radio tower as you mentioned. But I don't enjoy that much him like this tbh

[@AgusSkywalker]

Is there a way to make whirlpools and cut trees not respawn? You cut a tree one time and you never have to cut it again.

[@RyanNash20]

That's.....f***** genius. Super big and super simple quality of life improvement I've never even considered. I despise backtracking and running into a tree needing cut only to not have an hm slave in my party.

[@AliUguz]

chance for perfect DV is 16^4 because there are 16 different values a DV can be 0-15 and there are 4 DV's that are randomly generated: Attack, Defense, Special and Speed. HP is calculated based off of these 4 and special defense and special attack are connected to special because gen 2 games had to be compatible with gen 1. 16^4 = 1/65636 which is exactly 8 times rarer than the base 1/8192 shiny rate in this game.

[@spooky8662]

Have a random NPC at victory road tell us that lance got a Zapdos from red. Its weird that lance mentions it.

[@plasmiusphantom]

Lance is expressing righteous fury at the pain Team Rocket is causing to these Pokémon. Plus, lance is a Dragon Master and the Champion. He is the Elite of the Elite. He does what he wants xD

[@deinonychus6860]

With Claire’s focused branding to sea dragons, could the lava in her gym be turned blue to become a primal, boiling lake? It feels very off for all these water types to huddle around lava, and I don’t recall the lava reappearing anywhere else in the game.

[@kildawg]

Bruno has lava in his E4 room

[@deinonychus6860]

@@kildawg Oh, you’re right. It wouldn’t be the first spritework the team’s done before, though, and it’s just the lava texture but blue.

[@tenkenroo]

I think Giovanni should be a kanto boss. Perhaps there are more rocket happenings in kanto cause the tunnel shortcuts are closed down as is the safari zone perhaps the rockets are behind that as well. Maybe you keep running into a guy in each town who eventually revealed as Giovanni An idea is after you defeat the boss in the radio tower perhaps a message comes through saying it’s from Kanto that thanks Archie for his disruption to allow him to close down the power plant in Kanto which allows him to proceed with the next phase of his plan. Maybe Giovanni invites the player to face him in Kanto

[@manuelpavanello90]

The trainers on the road to Victory Road should all have 5/6 pokemons with one HM slave/friend because they need HMs to get past the gym leaders of Johto/Kanto. This way you can have more battle experience without making the opponents too much broken.

[@Surgemaster2012]

Another problem with Will wasn't just that a Dark type could wall him, but it was easy to exploit his Pokemon's secondary weakness, Typhlosion for instance could solo his team or even Ampharaos if you play GS. This was a similar problem I had in Emerald too.

[@Typhlosion56]

Typhlosion with stab move, EQ, thunderpunch, (insert extra move) legit put hard carries the first two fights. It’s so good.

[@bunandcheeseproductions1915]

Any possibility you can do something with Whitney when you have to go back to Goldenroad for the Radio Tower battles.. It's always bugged me whenever a massive event is happening in the town of a gym leader and they are nowhere to be seen. Could even give her a mini arc of becoming more mature since you last fought I.E - She losses to a strong Rocket member and instead of crying reflects on how far her and her pokemon have come. Either way loving the changes bro!

[@RyanNash20]

Also pertaining to the Koga situation, I feel like forretress is way too exploitable with the 4x fire weakness. Maybe give it a focus sasb, otherwise its just getting one shot by everyone always. I feel like Nidoqueen would fit better in place of it. High special def to eat psychic attacks and hit hard with bodyslam/earthquake/ then maybe special coverage like surf and thunderbolt.

[@lynayra6492]

Buff Ariados, give it to Koga. Give Bugsy a Yanma instead. Give Jasmine's Ampharos Iron Tail so that it's still on brand with Steel type.

[@arrowblade_1238]

You should give Koga a venisaur, it’s a powerful poison type that would make sense on his type

[@weckar]

Question: You gave gyms 5 through 7 variable teams. When are those locked in? If I went to Jasmine, whited out, and decided to go do Pryce instead... Would Jasmine have a stronger team or the same when I come back?

[@AgusSkywalker]

I think it checks your amount of badges before the fight, so you can't cheat it by "locking" a lower level team before fighting another leader.

[@furakko]

Just watched it. Into the Koga/Jasmine discussion: Jasmine's: Steelix, rain dance Magneton, Foretress, Skarmory and Ampharos Koga's: Scizor for the win. That's the ninja Pokémon ultil then. Also, he could use a Hypno, since the Jugglers on his gym in Gen1 had some, and is a good counter/resist for Psychic Also, give Zapdos Steel Wing, to counter rock/ground

[@MageLeaderInc]

I think right before you enter the 8th gym in Kanto Giovanni should show up with the intent to take his gym back and plans to use you as a warm-up. Or if you really want him in Johto you could have him do the same thing but at Claire's gym. When he loses he realizes he still isnt ready to return and disappears again. Giovanni has to have Persian. It's not Giovanni without it. He still has it all the way into Pokemon Go. Giovanni as a good guy feels wrong. He has never had that side to him.

[@Minshifu_911]

i love how he changed the icons of the pokemon, just look at smol totodile

[@lynayra6492]

Shiny Tyrtanitar would fit the dark color motif of Karen even better.

[@XiaoKerr]

Big fan of the work you’re doing. All the best and can’t wait to play!

[@DarthAnimal]

I hate watching vods cause I have to end up leaving like 100 comments. But make Strength fighting. That will give fighting a Dragon Claw/Drill Peck level move. In Turn, buff Submission to be 100 power 100% accuracy, bringing it to the same level as Double Edge in Gen 1, and lowering the recoil given to 1/4th, making it actually worth using

[@ozs01]

You went trough all your battles without major trouble, do the levels of the trainers really need to be lower ? On that note, it’s a hard mode possible? I’t would be cool if the trainers also switched mons in and out during battle.

[@plasmiusphantom]

Kano gym music with Giovanni fight is 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@plasmiusphantom]

I had the exact reaction to PChal’s video. Thank you for making this ROM 🙏🏿

[@antoinepolnareff8970]

I think Gym leaders in Kanto should Go from 56 with a team promedium lower than Lance(Janine, so is maintained that she is the weakest) and increase from there in canonical order 1 level up to before Blue(With the 7 Gym leader having cap of 62) to directly Blue having level 65 cap with all his other Pokemon at level 64.

[@nleon1313]

Blackthorn city needs some more beef. Some sort of event or something so plain for the last gym

[@mythicbuilds2951]

Idea: What if Blaine isn't the one who gets Moltres, but instead it's prof. Oak who you get to fight after you beat the Kanto gyms?

[@captainziggymfzb6737]

Hey man, love this Rom Hack What about the three Soft Sand Girls / sisters south of goldenrod City? ✨️🤔❤️ Greetings from germany

[@emarti3853]

Blackbelt is held by Wesley who appears Wednesdays in the lake of rage maze. Poison Barb is Freida on Friday just above the pokemon center on route 32.

[@TBreakk]

Thank you for keeping the vod up :)

[@Matoyak]

The Discord invite link is still invalid / expired :(

[@whiteeeveeangel]

Agreed! I need an updated discord invite so I can join the talks about this game and keep up with updates more actively! Please update the discord invite!

[@whitejacket9725]

could you make strength rock type to spread around a decent rock type attack? rock slide has really poor distribution.

[@MrSlizzard]

I had the Lance/Giovanni thought at the same exact time as you lmao that's brilliant

[@Karaseri]

Lance figured out where the Rocket Hideout was because they have a radio antenna, poorly disguised as a tree, attached to their cover building.

[@Kris_not_Chris]

there is the celebi event from HGSS you could draw inspo from for how to work Giovanni into the story, or drawing directly on the Gold/Silver and Crystal stories from Pokemon Special. I would like to see references to the fact that Silver is Giovanni's son and that's why he randomly hates Team Rocket so much

[@supeLP]

I have been enjoying this project, Gen 2 is my first gen and my favorite and seeing it get the love it deserves is amazing. I was watching this stream and during the part of talking about Giovanni and Team Rocket, I am not sure I like the idea of turning Giovanni into a reformed villian who is now a good guy, unless I am mistaken I think Giovanni didn't disband Team Rocket because he was turning a new leaf, but because he did not want to people to know that he as the leader was defeated by a 10-year old nobody... Something I think might be interesting and still wrap up the Rocket storyline is you meet Giovanni in Victory Road where you fight the rival; Giovanni have been in hiding in Victory road and saying he heard Team Rockets pleas for him to return and that you had defeated them at each turn. Giovanni challenges you to a battle wanting to prove that himself and as the challenge pokeball appears the Rival pops in and confronts Giovanni (his Father) and tries to challenge Giovanni and Giovanni just disregards him and say something to the effect "Why would I waste my time with you!" You fight Giovanni and after you defeat him your rival says something like "Father, you truly are worthless and weak." Giovanni leaves saying that he sees that Team Rocket cannot recover anymore. You Rival than turns to you and he unloads his change of heart and his Pupitar Evolves and then he challenges you. If possible if you lose you don't fight Giovanni just your rival standing in front of the door that you have to talk to. I think this scenario can do alot of things, 1: It ties up Team Rocket story in Jhoto (I know you are technically in Kanto, but I always felt that Kanto didn't start until after you ride the boat) 2: Gives more closure to the rivals struggle with Team Rocket 3: Shows the Rivals connection to Giovanni, which is missing from gen 2 until the remakes but feels like it is in the DNA of Gen 2 and 4: Gives more context to the Rivals change of heart, he was unintentionally following in his father's foot steps in how he treated pokemon and he can see from an outside perspective how wrong that is. Sorry if that is long winded, but I had to pass it along, I don't like Giovanni being apart of Team Rocket since they are trying to reach out to him and him trying to dismantle it in secret doesn't line up for him personally.

[@thelivingend127]

90 minutes in or so all the talks of lance and gio teaming up. My opinion is this rom hack is supposed to be just fixing whats wrong with crystal. Not changing the story right? So i dont think there should be that drastic of a story change

[@lsmit6121]

Maybe I'm the only one who cares about this, but the early evolution of Silver's Pupitar really irks me. It feel to me like a middle finger to the player because you NEVER get any rare early evolutions, yet this guy who has not been caring for his Pokemon through the whole journey gets it as soon as he only SAYS he needs to do better. I would find it much more fitting for his Larvitar to remain at stage 1 until that moment right before the Elite 4. Then it could be a Tyrannitar by the time you fight him in Kanto. I could believe him refusing to give up on it if he knows what it becomes at stage 3. His character arc from "inconsiderate jerk" to "caring and considerate" is already stretching it -- I think his initial harsh behavior should be mellowed somewhat. I've always been exasperated by hearing him saying "strong" and "weak" and "wimp" almost every time he faces you in Johto.

[@blvck5943]

It would be dope if when you enter radio tower some grunts close off the exit and every time you approach them they knock you back like silver and steal 150¥ It makes it a real challenge and dire situation and let’s be real if you entered a crime syndicate takeover I find it hard pressed theyd just allow you to leave whenever you wanted You could make some of the NPCs give you revives or heal when you save them

[@MrSlizzard]

One more: I have Whirlpool as a strong inaccurate move (100/75), Surf as 85 power, and Waterfall as 50 power, 50% chance to Paralyze. I know that last one is a little weird, but I like it because it makes it stand out and gives it utility where it would normally be just permanently inferior to Surf.

[@tenkenroo]

I think a good idea for distinct characters like the hyuk hyuk guy is give him shiny Pokémon to make them stand out perhaps

[@TheGarlic-Gamer]

Loving the series! Don’t know if you need testers but I would love to join the testing as it seems like a great idea!🎉

[@blvck5943]

Question: what’s the point of Giovanni being at the tower then if the whole point of taking it was to contact giovanni Edit swapping Lance for Giovanni to help you is a great idea

[@intergalactic92]

2:19:11 shouldn’t that skiploom be jumpluff? Should be fully evolved right?

[@D1cksontello]

If this was like a Fallout modding where you can toggle some of this stuff as optional, but still have this overhauled experience it would be amazing.

[@Fun_Ai-Heart]

You should remove one of the water hm, 3 is too much

[@Blj_282]

when will you have this rom hack available to everyone?

[@GiovanniMejiaSantana]

1st time That I have seen Balbasaur professor's face 😂

[@intergalactic92]

2:14:16 was that quilfish supposed to only use protect for 5 turns? Maybe look at that?

[@henriquecallegas322]

1:52:25 Probably too late and someone already said it, but as a maths guy I can't just sit here The chance is indeed 1/15 × 1/15... So basically it's 1/(15⁵), which is 1/759,375 You got better chances in getting a full shiny team with pokérus, if I recall right the odds Edit: 1:56:20 Damn, that's a point I dunno if 0 is an option, but if it is, it becomes 1/(16⁵), or 1/1,048,576 Geez, talking about lucky odds...

[@henriquecallegas322]

Damn, that's a point I dunno if 0 is an option, but if it is, it becomes 1/(16⁵), or 1/1,048,576

[@ryanbaker7434]

Suggestion add a Giovanni fight and give team rocket more of an arc in kanto

[@tenkenroo]

If you had Giovanni being mentioned in each city to eventually fighting him in hojo falls would be cool. Maybe there is more rocket grunts than just the one

[@jb_meerkat]

I think you should move Giovanni encounter to Kanto side. He should be an encounter after you beat all 8 Kanto gyms. His levels should make sense between the last gym leader and before meeting Red in Mt Silver. Instead of Oak suggesting you head to Mt. Silver he could suggest you go pursue Mewtwo, where you run into Giovanni trying catch Mewtwo. Defeating him will give you an encounter with Mewtwo. I think this makes alot of sense because maybe Giovanni is trying to recapture his experiemennt clone pokemon in order to reform Team Rocket and bring the to former glory.

[@tenkenroo]

I think it would make sense he wants revenge on red and red should have mewtwo. Maybe he’s trying to steal his mewtwo. Perhaps he has a metal coat and berserk gene he gives you after ( to simulate the armor from the anime) perhaps red calmed mewtwos soul with friendship rather than control

[@dyaha5571]

I really like this great piece of work and enjoy seeing all fixes, but in my opinion, Giovanni should have 41-45 levels in his team, same as Clare, because he was being the final gym leader too

[@p.zansei3280]

Yeesh, the man Behind the bulbasaur is Brutal to chat on the live cam. Sorry, still watching a quarter through, but knowing myself, if I caught you Live and you talked to me like you talked to them? I'd be leaving in tears

[@blvck5943]

39:20 can you give ETO a running away animation?

[@oh_jeebus1021]

Have Lance as one of the elders in Dragons Den helping fix Clare's attitude

[@bobjob2514]

Will surf sprinting also increase encounter rate by 25%? Or is that even a thing for this hack since it’s gen 2?

[@nleon1313]

Boost dragon breath attack power

[@Migh7yb00sh]

Yesssssssss🙌🏻🙏🏻 bro Ty for this upload!

[@baisurino]

I highly suggest ariados on koga, yes fortress dies to fire instantly but when you look at it, ariados is just so weak so it doesn’t scream ELITE FOUR I think it’s perfect on bugsy Fortress on jasmine, bad idea I think Ampharos is perfect, it goes along with the story so well

[@Karaseri]

You should raise Sneasel’s Sp. Atk to 75, that’s the cutoff for usable offensive stat. You should also raise Blissey’s Sp. Atk to 100 or 105 to match Gen 1 Chansey. So Chansey stays a Special Wall and Blissey becomes a Special Tank.

[@Philostipher]

For the Whirlpool issue, you could just rename it something that reflects that it calms whirlpools and its battle properties status based. Possibly make it similar to barrier or reflect in some way, bur unique

[@onlytrueway8742]

2:19:08 Why Skiploom and not Jumpluff?

[@RyanNash20]

Ever considered bringing Giovanni back in Kanto, at the Lavender radio tower? Like you think you succeeded in stopping Team Rocket, only to learn that Giovanni was in fact inspired by his underlings actions, and decided to return by perfecting their plan. Keeps him on theme with being a bad guy. I know your vision is to keep it as genuine to gen 2 as possible, and Giovanni being a good guy feels a little out of place. But maybe thats just my own headcannon being biased. Love the hack and cant wait to play it

[@nithinhmhmd5289]

Can u buff the stats of the involved Pokemon in this generation but evolved in the next generation like ursearing to ursaluna stats and togitic to togikiss stats and piloswine to mamoswine stats etc

[@josephpetersen6903]

That polygon in the radio tower should be a porygon2 instead of it being in the hideout!

[@LordZeranos]

Even though it is more coding, I personally like the second idea for Giovanni

[@Lortius]

I feel my only issue with the Giovanni fight is that due to his placement, he is notably weaker than he was in his last Gen 1 battle, maybe it would be possible to have something extra with the guy who stole the machine from the Power Plant in Kanto, like saw the news of Team Rocket trying to contact him, but couldn't join them in Johto? Or even a Giovanni that went with the "change of heart" route after losing to Red being on his way to Mt. Silver for a rematch after training his Pokemon further "The right way"

[@MasterH1024]

Lance is too weak to rock. In my opinion the team that makes sense for him is Kingrda (he has a Seadra in let’s go) Tyranitar (Manga) Ampharos (becomes dragon when mega, and great Johto rep) Aerodactyl Charizard Dragonite (please give him a reliable move set, flamethrower thunderbolt ice beam and outrage

[@benjamejias]

When its will be available to play ?

[@blvck5943]

1:26:00 Giovanni OBLITERATING a nigga makes WAY more sense than Lance doing it😂 honestly don’t be afraid of a lil fanfic you already doing it changing the game that change isn’t crazy 1:30:00 how about keep Lance at the lake of Rage and have Gio be a shadowy figure in the background

[@stormyandsnowy]

3:53:30 Having Lance start with Water Onix is perfect! Don’t change it

[@alexandredecarvalho4357]

Maybe Lance should have a yanma so that would make him officially a dragonfly trainer!

[@FinrodFelagundTheFair]

If this was Gen 3 I would say Flygon. But alas, we are talking Gen 2

[@jacobreynolds9372]

yes to switching out lance at the lake of rage and Gio showing up at the end of the radio tower. lance as elite 4 champ still makes sense.

[@blvck5943]

55:00 how bout instead of Giovanni at that moment leave it as a lead admin. But before you fight him have him call out to Giovanni on the radio 📻 tower where in the mt moon cave where he’s hiding he hears the call out and you can run into him back in kanto after the silver fight? Like actually allow the rocket plan to happen

[@HarmonicDX]

A lot of suggestions in these comments, but the E4 is honestly looking perfect to me!

[@mandomario]

Were shiny odds kept the same in this romhack? Or improved?

[@FinrodFelagundTheFair]

Same

[@winstonwhite655]

haven't seen exeggcute in the pkmn location changes?

[@arrowblade_1238]

I’ll be honest, lances team is still pretty trash. I would remove the swoons Dragonite. Give him a Tyranitar or kingdra Instead. He said he team will not be able to be swept by a single water or ice type, but it’s still the same. You can sweep him exactly the same. Giving him the legendary bird with the lowest stat total also doesn’t help him

[@antoinepolnareff8970]

Both of those Pokemon are ashes of other characters

[@arrowblade_1238]

So, what’s wrong with an occasional repeat? Important Trainers can share a Pokémon! He doesn’t need to remove fortress from Kogas team and add ariadoes and remove ariadoes from bugsy team just cause it’s a repeat! Also, it stupid to add Ariadoes to kogas team since ariodoes is trash at that point in the game

[@antoinepolnareff8970]

@@arrowblade_1238 Because there is a reason why they are ases and cause Lance is a Dragon pokemon specialist, all pokemons in his team has to be Dragons from Pokedex references

[@michaeljbuckley]

Could lean into the E4 Themes rather than type. Might especially help with Will and Koga. Plus bugs me that the best trainers are essentially monotype. Will talks about travels so rare Pokémon (tied to Safari Zone), Koga the ninja stick - statuses or set up and sweep sets. Bruno power houses Karen all friendship Pokémon. Strong or weak she doesn't mind. Great video, feel E4 is a bit underwhelming

[@collenrivers9762]

Don't know if you already addressed this/have a video showing, but it would be cool if you made it where the kanto gym leaders scale up more in levels. Like the first one you fight (i think surge?) Is 60-65, then each one after in order is like 65-70, 70-75, 75-80, 75-80 (because i think there's an option between two gyms later if i remember correctly) then 80-85, 85-90, 90-95 for Blue, then elite 4 rematch is all 95+, then Red has all level 100s, it would make the kanto feel like a nice challenge of a post game and not just a clean sweep boss rush until you get to Red at Mt. Silver. I have watched a lot of your romhack videos but don't remember if you covered kanto changes. I hope you see this comment and agree that it would be a fun challenge for the kanto postgame and implement something similar

[@Alienldr]

That might be too much of a level curve. If the champion is 50, then let's have the gym leaders be in the 50's, and work up to Blue being 65 or 70, so he's not weaker than his champion team in rby. But since you can't grind on wild pokemon at all in Kanto, we don't want a 5 level jump between gym leaders when the gym leaders would be the only real experience you can get. And then also it doesn't feel like a hard mode Kaizo hack that casual or new players wouldn't be able to beat. We still want it to feel like crystal, with just some minor changes that fixes problems without it feeling like a rom hack

[@collenrivers9762]

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[@Alienldr]

@collenrivers9762 you did bring up a good suggestion though. 6 gym leaders still weaker than the elite 4 and champion doesn't feel as fun. Blaine is the only other leader to reach 50 other than blue, but he only has 3 pokemon and thus is still weaker than the champion we beat 7 badges ago. It definitely is a problem that needs something looked into, and hopefully he can take the best ideas everyone brings up to make a good solution. Maybe the higher levels would be ok if they were to implement a rematch feature. The kanto gym leaders in the original version comment how they will beat us one day, implying they want a rematch. Maybe they can give us their number and we fight them again, similar to the 4th gen remakes. Then we can get extra experience. Or they ask for a rematch anytime we talk to them.

[@blvck5943]

1:18:30 what if they pay off was when archer radio Giovanni before the fight after you beat him he radios back like “fuck off give it up” and then he can stay as a battle in kanto maintaining his arc from kanto

[@williamperry4661]

I had my golem outspeed a Gengar twice in a row. Might wanna check that.

[@MageLeaderInc]

Gyarados should also learn sky attack.

[@blvck5943]

The sprites are dope