Solo Blaziken - Pokemon Emerald - Time for Blaze Kick and Sky Uppercut!

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[@simonalbert7518]

Double kick is actually stronger than se peck because of stab (as well as anything below 45. Good way to remember is 3/4 is the same as 1 if 1 is STAB and 3/4 is se)

[@kutabe2157]

It also hits twice, giving it double the opportunity to crit!

[@danielschultz96]

one day he'll remember this haha, I've commented similar things in the past :P

[@atmosdwagon4656]

Yeah, unless the opponent resists Fighting type, Double Kick is absurdly OP for regular Pokemon play. My first playthrough of Ruby waaaaayyyyy back, I picked Torchic (since I rolled Squirtle in RBY, figured I'd do the "opposite"...despite starters forming a triangle. Derp.) It's basically tailor made to sweep everything in Ruby, including the Champion's best and a lot of that comes down to Blaziken innately learning several really good Fighting moves. Both Fire and Fighting types improved immensely going from RBY to RSE; small wonder Gamefreak kept calling upon their prior success.

[@Medabee8]

What is "se"?

[@xBlackDawnx]

@@Medabee8 super effective. It took forever for me to catch that too

[@RichardBlaziken]

You asked how we feel about Blaziken, so here goes: it's been my favorite since I evolved my Combusken in Ruby back in the day. I began with gen 1, and played both 1 and 2 a ton, but nothing ever came close to Blaziken for me. The idea of mixing fire with martial arts is fun, and the design is so cool. The Mega is even better, showing a mastery of Taekwondo. And yeah, moves like Blaze Kick and Sky Uppercut are wonderfully named.

[@LogosBKC]

Me all the way. Loved and played hundreds if not thousands of hours on Gen 1-2. When 3 came out i immediately picked Ruby and Torchic naturally. Charizard and Blaziken have always been my favorite starters and its not even close. The nostalgia is so strong here. I still remember going and buying my first Gameboy advance and Ruby the week it came out with my dad. Infernape is alright and i quit playing essentially after gen 4 but ive yet to see anything that remotely caught my interest since Blaziken. Clearly im just a meme “gen wunner”

[@LogosBKC]

Also Torchic might be the cutest starter. Fight me

[@ktvx.94]

I remember Blaziken showing up at the end of Gen 2's anime season and it was SO cool. I was looking for mons with Blaze or Ken in their names and god was I elated when I saw my Torchic evolve into Combusken

[@codonbyte]

Same. I actually didn't get to experience the joy of Blaziken until 10 years later when I replayed the games as an adult. As a child, I was obsessed with poison types, so I quickly boxed Combusken in favor of Dustox and Zubat (yeah, I wasn't good at the game). I actually hope they make more Fire/Fighting types, as long as they aren't starters.

[@lenlimbo]

@@LogosBKC Piplup and Sprigatito may challenge Torchic in that department. Those two are also ridiculously cute critters XD And eh, nothing wrong with liking the third gen starters. They are fan favorites for a reason. I'm here since gen 1 and I'm still involved, and Blaziken is still my favorite fire starter, and Swampert my favorite water. The grass starter is a toss up between Venusaur and Meowscarada, which are my two favorite starters ever (fittingly, both the first and the for now last are grass ones XD). I do like Sceptile, but Venusaur was my first starter ever (team Bulbasaur forever!) and Meowscarada... at first I wasn't convinced, until I watched its animations, and the fact that it doesn't move like a human (one of the many many reasons I don't like Incineroar at all), but like a cat on two feet, convinced me, and after a playthrough with him, it decided to run a competition with Venusaur for the ranking of my favorite starter. Some days he wins, too. Blaziken, though reigns supreme without any worthy challenger among my favorite fire starters, while Swampert does get some competition from Empoleon. So yeah, you won't see me complaining about anyone liking the fire chicken.

[@VoiceAnon]

Sky Uppercut was probably my favorite move back in the days of Emerald. The name's ridiculously cool, the animation is great, and it just feels so good to use. ...Wait, you're doing a Weedle run? Ouch. I can feel the pain already.

[@codonbyte]

I assume he's going to evolve the weedle? The thought of using ONLY unevolved Weedle is actually giving me nightmares.

[@prof.reuniclus21]

I know this sounds cliché, but this channel has really helped me through the last year of my life. My mom was diagnosed with severe aplastic anemia, and she's going through chemotherapy currently. Your videos are criminally underrated, and I can see the effort put into them.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

I’m sorry to hear that you’ve had a rough year. I’m just glad I was able to provide my content to help you out during these hard times. Sending good vibes and wishes your way!

[@feldermouse]

Best of health to the both of you

[@AnaSchariac18]

I hope the chemotherapy works for your mother! Give her my best regards!

[@Shawnzy1]

Same this has helped me through the seasonal funk

[@HORRIOR1]

I fell in love with Blaziken's design from when it was first introduced in the anime during the Johto league. When I got Emerald, I played through the entire game in one day, loving the feel of being able to sweep everything with Blaziken. I never used stat boost moves, but the combination of Flame Thrower, Sky Uppercut, Aerial Ace and Earthquake got me through everything. I think I was level 82 when I fought Steven.

[@ktvx.94]

I had the same idea about Nosepass back then. Just now I remember this meme with three rocks making that "oof" face and RSE Nosepass looks exactly like that

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

I’m glad I wasn’t alone.

[@ktvx.94]

@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon some RSE sprites give a really wrong idea of what the pokemon looks like and when I pñayed the game there were no 3D models or anime airings of them. I think from gen IV onwards they became more representative of the actual design

[@buddyfree1321]

Gen 3 has a lot of forgotten mons like castform, solrock (My favorite), Tropius (Also pretty cool), spinda, torkoal, and lunatone. Can't wait to see them sometime in the future.

[@aylawyatt8841]

I don't think torkoal is as forgotten, because VGC. But delcatty, illumise and volbeat on the other hand.

[@levilouislaelsvideos]

In emerald castform carried drake just setup hail and sweep with weather ball also shellgon is perfect to set on

[@musicstuff6310]

Solrock is cool

[@BaconNuke]

Solrock has gained some infamy because... Martin...

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Can’t wait to play with Solrock! I really like it.

[@xatornovasplaythroughs1742]

For the Swampert playthrough, Mud Shot can lower the enemy speed to finish off with Earthquake without taking a second hit, so it can be a good idea to keep it. That helped me in my last playthrough with Swampert, maybe it could help you too! Remember there are a lot of Sitrus Berries in this game, some of them just in your way. The Ice Beam TM is the Abandoned Ship, and you can grab it once you get Surf (idk if it makes up for the time without Fly to have it pre-Winona though, maybe with an Abra it is possible). Also watch out for May in Route 110, not an easy fight when underleveled. Good luck, mate, great channel!

[@Gungho73]

To be fair, Route 110 May is mentioned as one of the harder rival fights for speed runners in the pokemon games based on what I had heard. So don't feel bad for that!

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[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Thanks for the tips! Wrote them down

[@enerc2333]

@@Gungho73 noob, the battles with may, are the easiest of all, you don't know how to play

[@wideright7567]

I think I know why Denis never came to Hoenn. It isn’t that he’d get walled by Tate and Liza, or that Steven’s champion team would rock tomb him into oblivion. Far from. It’s simply because Denis is waiting for someone to come check on him like you do red, as Denis is the true final boss of Johto. He and his team of level 100 Fearow waiting to stomp anyone who dares pass by

[@adriandrost4823]

Sad Story Time: I was a HUGE Pokemon fan when i was a kid and played Red, Yelow and Silver to death. It was Christmas and my dad said we (my 2 brothers and i) would get a Gameboy Advance each with a game we could choose if we behave. Of course we didnt behave and so we never got the new Gameboy and my Pokemon gaming carrer was at the end. I rediscovered Pokemon with Lets Go Pikachu for the switch.

[@timeducktorkie]

I'm happy you did a Blaziken run! The Torchic line is my favorite evolutionary line in Pokémon. This sort of mirrors how I did my playthrough of Sapphire; I had my starter (Torkie, for Torchic) and a series of HM Pokémon: Flygon, Sharpedo, Tropius, and a shiny Linoone. I loved the team so much because it was set for adventure; exploration was my favorite part of the game. :} My starter eventually was strong enough to take on the League all by itself consistently, so I would do that for fun. I always liked to imagine it would show up without me to challenge them on its own, and they were so used to it by then that they would roll with it. Fun times!

[@abonne3154]

3:56 Gen 3's sprite work was always so fascinating. Numerous Pokemon were drawn in such a way that left a lot of their design up to the player's imagination, which made it even more exciting to see them in 3-D on Colosseum for the for the first time! For me personally, I always thought that yellow cross on Carvanah's lower jaw was his mouth, without ever noticing hid little white "eyes" are actually his teeth!

[@drexelspivey872]

i think you are the best single runs pokemon guy. Most relatable for me, you have charisma in your delivery. Subscribed and enjoy your videos!

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Glad you’re enjoying T A

[@FatherlyTones]

You sir are the finest bringer of nasalgial I've see in many a year. I haven't played some of these game for well good and over a decade, but these videos really do bring me right back to a simpler time and place. Just thought I'd give you my sincere appreciation, you really are doing a bang up job.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Thanks so much silent father!

[@tiemen9095]

27:40 ghost and fighting is actually the only physical combination that I know off with perfect coverage in this game, dragon-fire being the special counterpart. Medicham makes best use of this. Edit: the exception is of course Venomoth, everyone's favorite Normal+Ghost type.

[@maguirebentz797]

Electric ice also is perfect coverage on the special side. Hence why bolt beam is so valued. Medicham with a fighting move, shadow ball, ice and electric punch is physical special perfect coverage.

[@jarredroberts8825]

also ice and electric, bolt-beam was a competitive staple for a reason.

[@tsawy6]

Stone Ground is another! Edge-quake is also classic! E: and looking now, Ground works with Flying, Normal, poison, ghost, bug, steel in addition to rock, and fighting works with flying, rock, steel. Fighting and ground are the only physical types that can hit steel in gen 3 (tho ghost can later), so this is the whole list

[@onijester56]

@@tsawy6 The problem being that Stone Edge isn't 100 Accuracy...and if it's not perfectly accurate then it's a guaranteed miss.

[@tiemen9095]

@@tsawy6 Rock Ground gets resisted by Flygon, Claydol (ground types with levitate), and Breloom (Grass / fighting). As far as I know, all other combinations also find at least one pokemon that resist it: Ground flying: Skarmory, Zapdos, Aerodactyl, Lunatone, Solrock, Ground/Ghost: Swellow, Pidgeot etc.. Ground+normal,poison,bug: Gengar, Ground +Steel: Skarmory, Gyarados, Zapdos, Charizard, Ludicolo... surskit 😀. Fighting+Flying: Zapdos Fighting+Rock: Claydol, Medicham, Fighting+Steel: Gyarados, Zapdos, Moltres etc.

[@xepikhybridx602]

I grew up with generation 2, Gold being the first game I ever played (blockbuster rental gone right!) I got Crystal that Christmas and fell in love. When Gen 3 came out, sapphire was my choice. I fell in love with the new game and new everything. Emerald hits a few months later and I get it for Christmas, everything I loved about sapphire but better. Gen 2-3 are my absolute favorites and I will forever love them above all

[@maximillionpegasus5160]

Really impressed with how radically one small changes the Tate and Lyza fight in the second playthrough

[@daveshn]

Nice job. Glad to see you implementing the time save at the start where you don't have to click on May's pokeball. You just have to go in and out her bedroom door. For the wailord at the end, you can set up on it real easy. You just have to get it down to low health so that it's water spout is weaker than bubble.

[@TechHunterOfficial]

2 videos, in only a couple days. Just what I needed this week. Keep it up Scott, I've watched every video, incredible to see your growth and how much extra you put into each video!

[@Nicholas86753]

I love all you Gen 3 runs, I know there are only two of them so far, and it's my least favorite starter of the Hoenn Trio next, but I'll still love it. I know I'll love all the future runs in Gen 3. I can't wait for which pokemon you'll use after the Starters. There are so many interesting, mostly forgotten Single Stage Pokemon (Mawille, Sableye, Absol, Tropius, Torkoal) and lots of pokemon that could make interesting VS Races (Lunatone VS Solrock is one I've been asking for before lol, Ninjask VS Shedinja would be fascinating, And Lineoon VS Mightyena would be super tough) I can't wait to see what comes next 😁

[@alextrujillo472]

Its been really fun seeing you tweek your format so its the best product you can produce. New Scott> Old Scott every vid.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

I’m dedicated to implementing new ideas and improvements. I’m really excited about some of the stuff that’s coming up!

[@tmbfreak_16]

Scott is spoiling us with all these videos and I am HERE FOR IT

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

It’s a big week!

[@jovicagasic98]

Thanks... Now I cannot unsee the suction cup mouth

[@maguirebentz797]

People have already called out the double kick strategy vs brawly (dw flygon hg make the same mistake at first in his hard core nuzzlock). So they next thing I had thought of was setting up against the wailord for Wallace. Water spout isn’t the same bp every time, it is dependent on health remaining. So if you do this run again, leave it in the red with sky uppercut then set up with bulk up until it’s unsafe. I would have a move set of return/Ariel ace (for ludicolo and gyarados), earthquake and sky uppercut. But really good video! It’s easier for me to make suggestions for moves, but I would suck at actually speed running. I have no idea how many trainers to take on or the likes so great job with that! Also above all, awesome video. Was very fun to watch

[@tylersutton7261]

The confusion you had with Nosepass design, I had that in gen 3 with Slakoth. I thought the arm he had extended into the air was like a long antenna similar to Majin Buu

[@zuthalsoraniz6764]

Peck isn't actually good to use there! Peck has 35*2=70 effective base power, while Double Kick has 30*2*1.5=90 effective base power.

[@Joel-iv3zz]

Really like your videos, they got a nice laid back feeling to them and its fun to follow your journey to become a better player! A tip: when you have a power up move like bulk up you can use it when you know that a trainer will go for a full restore and exploit that annoying potion spam.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

True!

[@bateltheassistant]

First off I want to say thank you for featuring my old comment on your video, and I'm glad that I have helped you improve. 😊❤️ I think that the chicken is really proud of you. Your run was really fun to watch. But there are a few minor things that can be improve the run overall: Like I mentioned before abilities are really important🙂, because they can effect the stab damage, when it comes to using the starters in this gen(whenever the pokemon' s hp is at 1/3 of it's hp, you get a 1.5x boost whenever using water/fire/grass moves, which already have stab boost 1.5 on a regular basis, and you have a 3x added to that base power of that move, which can obliterate almost any opponent) . So don't forget it whenever you would do a Swampert run, it can make some parts of the run really trivial. Onter thing would be setting up the right natures for a pokemon. For Blaziken, I think that a quiet or a rush nature would be a better option. Because a quiet(or a rush one) nature boosts special attack and decreases speed(or special defence), which not Blaziken's specialty. And besides, it will benefit you more, when playing around the blaze ability . 😉 So don't forget to research it before starting any gen 3 playthrough. After playing a lot of pre-gen 3 games, everyone can easily forget these kind of things, so always check these things out, so they won't slow your run😊. And I really liked the extensive use of bulk up, it's a really good move. I think that, Combusken can learn this through level up, at level 28🤔. So it's waste to teach it through a TM. Saving it for a later part of the game would have been the right call. And you have the opportunity teach some other moves, and teach it again whenever you really need it. Like always , keep up the hard work, and I'm glad that even I can be helpful, sometimes . 😁

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

I’ll try to remember the abilities for the swampert run!

[@bateltheassistant]

@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon 😊 I hope that you will have a good run and an easy one as well.

[@GigaChadJecht]

The hoenn starters are so equally good it's unbelievable how well balanced they are compared to other gen starters. I first played ruby from gen 3 and it's when I found out about emulators existing too I was so happy its insane lmao and I used sceptile first but blaziken was super dank too.

[@HeavenlyXRestricted]

Blaziken is easily my favorite starter pkmn. I was ecstatic when he got a mega. Love your videos and please keep it up.

[@e22ddie46]

Having never played after gold, I really enjoyed this video. Partially just because I had no idea what was happening

[@sockstatic2177]

Fun fact! There's a 1/64 chance I believe to see a Hiker walking down the mountain during the scene where you go up. It'll be interesting to see if you get it in one of these runs!

[@evawhite1144]

This video is good, and I can't wait for him to do Swampert. Just wanted to leave a reminder to pick up ice beam from the abandoned ship for Swampert, so that it can destroy Winona and Drake. You can get Ice beam after beating Norman and getting Surf, this tm is crucial for Swampert, as it can't learn any other good ice moves otherwise in this game.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Noted!

[@Oscar92839]

Blaziken was my first pokemon called larry and i did solo emerald in my first pokemon game and im going to use it in the indigo disk dlc

[@ThePiep]

I can't Denis that Blaziken is my favorite Gen3 fully evolved starter. It's good that you switch between doing Gen1, Gen2 and Gen3 runs. Every video is fun, but seeing a different game from time to time is refreshing. I like that you acknowledged that healing bed in the Climate Institute (always loved it). It's a start to making up for ignoring the one on the SS Anne in Yellow

[@gustavu_as]

It's so nice that all 3 starters are cool and strong in gen 3! Love them all, but Swampert is definitely my favorite, looking forward to it :)

[@thomasjay3291]

Funny thing? I really like Nosepass. It's kind of adorable in a silly way, and seems to be a really useful mon to have for a real life journey. And for me, it only gets better once it evolves. The fact that Probopass has open eyes now (wich are pretty cute btw) make it seems more active, feel even more like a friend. The moustache is kind of comforting in a way, and the mini-noses add to the charm and uniqueness. Overall, I can se why people don't like them very much, but all I see is a magnetic rock friend.

[@wjdelu6758]

One thing I will always love about Pokemon is that every Pokemon is someone's favorite. I always enjoy seeing people being unashamed about loving an under-appreciated Pokemon!

[@thomasjay3291]

@@wjdelu6758 yeah. Every pokemon has something unique about them, so that's the best part. I'm glad Unite and Legends are there to shed some light into some really underrated mons.

[@wjdelu6758]

@@thomasjay3291 Very true! Never cared for Wigglytuff, but after maining it in Unite I have developed a bit of an attachment!

[@thomasjay3291]

@@wjdelu6758 Yay. I'm a happy unite player because all of the supports (besides Hoopa) are mons that I really liked already. Eldegoss specifically was a very welcome surprise, and it rapidly became my new favorite of all time.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Your description of it just might have made me warm up to this evolutionary line, if just a little bit…

[@SourSensationZ]

I love the data-focused perspective of these games. Thank you for making these. I hope you consider doing a torkoal run. My favorite fire type from Hoenn- always named mine Peacekeepr (due to character limit)

[@LogosBKC]

So glad you did this one. Great content lately as usual. Looking forward to marshtomp eventually of course. But sceptile and blazekin are my favorite two of the gen 3. You made all the good points relevant to Blazekin and gen 3 in this video. I have nothing else to say except confirm your position. Cheers

[@salamense6791]

Blaziken buffed in gen 5 by making its hidden ability speed boost. this made it the first starter to banned form ou. i hope you have good luck with mudkip

[@treyparkerofficial]

This is going to be a great run, the only downside is that my favorite steel/fire type, venomoth, won't be here 😔

[@onijester56]

What variant do you have? Everyone knows Hoennian Veno is a Fairy/Dragon with the ability Thick Fat. :P

[@oligould8575]

c'mon guys, lets get real... we all know its a psychic flying type with the shed skin ability! :L

[@FGazi-qf1hp]

Nah its electric/fire type.

[@crazyoliver7877]

Venomoth is clearly normal/ghost type with the levitate ability.

[@HolyPineCone]

I'm new here. Is this some inside joke or something? I thought venomoth was pure ground?

[@hughjass2640]

I have exactly 1 suggestion, and that is that you probably shouldve gotten fire blast at the lilycove mart, around the same accuracy as blaze kick and the extra power could help smoothe out the end game. Also probably faster than the game corner. Great video.

[@oligould8575]

The accuracy of fireblast (120 damage, 85% accuracy, 5pp max 8) is actually 5% lower than blaze kick (85 damage, 90%accuracy 10pp max 16) he would have been better off with overheat (140 damage, 90% accuracy and 10pp max 16) it's usually enough to take out a particularly difficult Pokemon, then use sky uppercut and earthquake after the special drop making the most of blazikens heightened attack stat

[@danikirk5774]

@@oligould8575 only issue with overheat is the 2 step drop in attack every time you use it.

[@oligould8575]

@@danikirk5774 it’s best to use it sparingly and plan around using the move… but I would argue fire blast is used in the same way because of its low accuracy, so overheated is a better choice because it’s got more chance to actually hit and more power to KO… it’s also a special attack drop that you get from using the move… so blaziken can fall back on its high attack stat with sky uppercut or blaze kick which are physical moves 🙂

[@yorecf9641]

@@oligould8575 Blaze Kick is special in Gen 3.

[@jiminycricket5679]

That Roxanne Transition was so goddamn slick, really cool

[@AxDuncan2635]

Hell yeah! It was a pleasure to see my 🐥 make it’s way into the S tier. Can’t wait for more gen 3 playthroughs!

[@TheGoodWillSpreader]

Ludicolo is an unholy fusion of A pineapple, a duck, a kappa and a Mariachi

[@zacharymason3312]

Waited up until 3am for this and I am so excited

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Hopefully nothing important to do tomorrow!

[@krinkrea]

So I used to run the Alternate Main Blaziken category for Pokemon Emerald (though I never submitted and it's been like 9 months since I went over my notes) and there are 4 main buffs you could add to your play through 1. In Dewford Town make sure to pick up the Silk Scarf to boost your Normal-type moves over the majority of the run 2. Grab the Secret Power TM on Route 111, it's base 70 power so it'll almost always be more powerful than Peck (except against x4 weak mons like Breloom) AND gives you a chance for a secondary effect like paralysis or flinches depending on the arena. PP wise it'll also let you coast until you get Slash for that slot 3. When training for Tate & Liza, go ahead and travel all the way down to Pacificlog Town and grab the Return TM there, it'll be your strongest non-STAB physical move for the rest of the game (unless you're using Earthquake against an opponent weak to it) 4. Grab the Brick Break TM in Sootopolis city for a more consistent Fighting-type move than Sky Uppercut. It has 10 less base power, but 100 accuracy, so it helps mitigate resets My IRL time was 4:42.42 (in game was 4:23), so I know you can get this time even lower!

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Good tips! Nice time as well!

[@Salnax]

I never thought Nosepass had a weird suction cup mouth, but I don’t think I’ll ever be able to stop seeing it now.

[@elijahgooley385]

I love Blaziken in these games. I love how its balanced in such a way that allow it to fill any hole in your team and it inspires an entire new team as it is such an integral part of your first one. Swampert also allows for this function on your team, but makes weather strats really good. On a recent playthrough, i didn't realize how much Sceptile being the best grass pokemon just goes to show how bad grass pokemon are compared to their water and ground counterparts they are supposed to counter. Though I feel it offers the most challenge. Watson was a big wall for me for some reason. Interesting how no geodude, no electric type made this fight kinda bad. Maybe i'm just bad, but I felt I needed Grovyle to take the win and I just overleveled. 26. And I had a Hard stone Lairon I trained for insurance because I lost so many times. Luckily i didn't use it. Anyway love your videos, thought Id put 2 cents from the peanut gallery to make anyone read it feel like a chad pokemon player. Blaziken is best bird.

[@WyvernOverlord1]

Okay, Scott, you done your favorite starter, and the first of the Fire Fighting starter. Now you must complete the cycle and do it with the true king of Hoenn, bring the true best starter in all of Pokémon, Swampert, to its rightful place. The Hoenn region throne.

[@lewisedwards4058]

In Gen II I used to think the red orbs on Tentacool’s head where it’s eyes. When I was really young, I thought Sentret was a big eye with two little horns that sort of hopped along on this stumpy tail.

[@williamst.germain3394]

Hell yeah Blaziken! Favorite looking starter! Can't wait for Swampert though. My favorite to use. Be cool to see a Metagross vs Tyranitar vs Dragonite

[@oligould8575]

Tyranitar would probably come out on top... he can learn icebeam to take out dragons and has stab dark moves to deal with Metagross... only danger is if matagross gets of an earthquake first, tyranitars extra hp might not be enough... although if tyranitar survives and uses payback, matagross is done for blaziken would probably destroy all 3 though lol... sky uppercut the tyranitar, overheat the metagross and stone edge or rock slide for the dragonite... blaziken out speeds tyranitar and metagross, and ties with dragonite

[@adammagnacca1491]

Really really like this format for the Gen 3 videos! Hope you keep it!

[@DArtagnonW]

Aerial Ace is my favorite Gen 3 move. I used to reset Fire Red repeatedly since that was the fastest way I knew of to get the TM for my Emerald pokemon. You know, between that and using zigzagoons with Pickup to grind for Earthquake, I'm glad that newer pokemon games don't make it such a chore to get multiple (or infinite) TMs.

[@anni321]

I love that you play the first 3gens so much. I don't enjoy watching later gens cause I haven't played them (never had hendhelds myself (had to mooch off my brother and he was not into sharing when we were younger lol) and only semi-recently used my adult money to buy a ds so I could play gen3) but I do love pokemon challenges. Also I find your tone very nice to listen to :)

[@rennyjesus]

OMG... I can't stop seeing the suction mouth on Nosepass! U_U and I Guess if you don't care that badly about speed, your Mudkip can be Brave or Quiet. If you do, a neutral nature is going to be better to keep your Swampert bulk and attack stats without compromising speed

[@abugonapugonamugonarug1653]

Gen 3 really felt like a huge jump in quality from Gens 1-2

[@johnh8546]

I think Swampert is going to take the race for the gen 3 starters. Blaziken is the best competitively but that doesn't always equal best play through speed.

[@prof.reuniclus21]

The May battle might be tough with a Marshtomp, quad weak to Grovyle and May's other Pokemon will probably prevent Marshtomp from surviving on 1 HP or something like that.

[@danieldelawder5896]

oh yeah swampert is just so solid. and surf against the wall that is the 7th gym is going to be clutch

[@johnh8546]

@@danieldelawder5896 that and he drops the electric weakness altogether. If I remember correctly he is only weak against grass. It is a double weakness but still his only one.

[@hughjass2640]

@@evawhite1144 The issue with Swampert is the 4x grass weakness, its middling speed, and only good (not great) attacking stats. Its very likely Swampert wont be one shoting the issue Pokemon, and he might not be able to outspeed a sceptile or shiftry unless significantly over leveled. I still think Swampert takes it, but its not a guarantee. Blaziken is a beast offensively, and was simply able to overpower any potential obstacles, which swampert might not be capable of.

[@evawhite1144]

@@hughjass2640 Mah boy, we're talking bout a Grovyle, a Cacturne, a Shiftry and a Cradily here. Of the 4, the only one who can outspeed an overleveled Swampert is Grovyle. And even then, I fully expect Swampert to be able to resist one grass attack if it's at a high enough level. The last fight you have against your rival in Emerald in Lyllicove, their starter is lvl 34, ofc Scott's starter is gonna be at a much higher level than that, probably early, to mid forties. So Swampert won't be able to outspeed Grovyle, but it has enough bulk to take one of its grass moves. Grovyle is just a middle stage starter, ain't no way in heck, the Lillycove fight is gonna be a problem. The hard one though, is the route 110 one, cause Marshtomp doesn't have any coverage there. Regarding Sidney, yeah, he does have two grass types, but we're also giving his AI too much credit. Sidney's AI usually prioritzes status moves, like Swagger and Sand attack, before a super effective move. Besides, his mon are all below lvl 48, Swampert is probably going to be in its mid 50's once Scott reaches the league for the first time, so I'm certain he'll also be outspeeding Sidney's grass types, and one, or two-shotting them with Ice beam, Cacturne and Shiftry ain't that strong either. Cradily is even slower than Swampert, and while it's true that Swampert has no super effective moves for it, I'm certain 2 Earthquakes or 2 Ice beams, are still going to be more than enough to take that thing down. Like, came on, we've just seen Scott beating a double battle vs two psychic trainers and a water type champion with a Blaziken. And you think he can't beat a few grass types with Swampert? I can assure you, I've used Swampert before, and once it's overleveled enough, it will gain the ability to tank grass moves like they're nothing. I'm calling it now though, the biggest hurdles are going to be the 110 route fight vs May, (the one on your way to Mauville), and as surprising as it might sound: Norman, cause Swampert doesn't get any fighting moves other than rock smash, which is weak af, Norman's Spinda is a little shit with teeter dance, and Slaking is a beast. Even Blaziken lost once with a type advantage. So I'm certain those are going to be the main hurdles, not the grass types (aka: May's Grovyle in Lillycove, Sidney's 2 grass types, and Steven's Cradily). Cause by the time he reaches those 3 fights, he's gonna be so ridiculously overleveled, his weakness won't even matter anymore.

[@justsomejojo]

That went pretty much as expected. Of all the starters in Hoenn, Blaziken always felt like the most intuitive to me. Blaziken is pretty much a oneshot button for the fights it's good in and then it has some decent coverage options for its biggest weaknesses. In later generations, it even gets Shadow Claw to deal with stuff like Claydol without having to deal with the Hidden Power roulette. When I first played Sapphire, I started with Torchic and it stayed my favorite choice for Gen3 until now. Because of this, Emerald usually turned out to be the harder version to play through because Steven is much easier to deal with with Blaziken than Wallace, at least in my experience. I usually have a well-rounded team though, so anything Blaziken can't deal with, the team can. Funnily enough, Ludicolo is an early and almost perfect partner for Blaziken. It has a rough time early on, but when Surf becomes available, you can get it Ice Beam and Gigadrain and it absolutely explodes in usefulness. So yeah, the tasty duck and chicken combo really tears apart Gen3. Ludicolo would be interesting to see as a solo run too (if you start as Lotad, the beginning is absolute pain though, be warned)

[@lucaspereira9722]

Yay, another gen 3 video! I honestly think my favorite gen 3 starter will always be mudkip, swampert is just such a well rounded and powerful pokemon!

[@InfiniteStarz39]

I remember when I was kid and I one-hit KO Wallace's Wailord with my Blaziken with double kick. It was fun seeing the HP slowly go down to zero.

[@atmosdwagon4656]

The best perk of doing Gen III is that I get to hear my favorite music in the series. (Gym Leader Battle III, Elite Four III, Team Magma/Aqua)

[@BornagainKev]

Blazakin Is my 2nd favorite hoen pokemon behind flygon. He's so cool. Glad you did this play through. You should do swapert too He's a beast.

[@flprtc]

my favorite poketuber making a solo run with my favorite pokemon

[@PhilipMurphy8Extra]

So much content by Scott lately that I can barely keep up.

[@bretterry8356]

I've been playing through a LeafGreen Nuzlocke with the randomizer, and I've discovered that Zigzagoon/Linoone is my favorite HM mule. it gets cut, surf, strength, and dig (technically not an HM, but it is a useful field move) and it has Pickup.

[@MegaSilver]

Oh boy, I had so many playthrus back in the day when I'd use only Blaziken. Good times.

[@Mr-Opium]

You and MahDryBread have some of the best Pokémon content on the platform. I really enjoy the stats and move pool on the screen so it’s easy to follow along. Do you ever plan to do later gens like 6-8 or even platinum at some point?

[@evansalerno3694]

I’m so excited for this. Scott your videos make me so happy. I made pizza in honor of your Aipom video for the Lugia vs Ho-oh video so I think I’ll make chicken for this video

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

That’s a the best way to watch my videos, with awesome food!

[@togakhan1274]

One potential strat for Wallace could have been hitting Wailord once and getting it to red HP and then Bulking Up as Water Spout is weaker then. One more thing to note is that probably Hidden Power Rock/Rock Tomb + Return/Slash/Hidden Power Ghost might have felt better with Bulk Up than Blaze Kick.

[@TheGhostFart]

hp rock+return definitely wouldve been more consistent but that makes gym 7 dodgy

[@togakhan1274]

@@TheGhostFart Maybe run HP ghost instead of return?

[@destintosell5548]

My first playthrough of Emerald I basically only used Blaziken as kids do. I remember spending days on the Mossdeep gym.

[@tordcountry]

Scott! I love the content. You're up there with jrose for me! I have a cool idea for a competition for you. You should find the Pokemon with best total base stats for each type in gen 2 and see what is truly the best Pokemon type. Gen 1 is so broken that Mewtwo would dominant. Keep it up!

[@sleepyduk16]

It was only a few weeks ago I learned that Nosepass' funny whistling mouth is in fact actually a foot

[@federicodebiasi6228]

I’m so happy that you are also doing gen 3 challenges, it’s amazing watching you running the first three generations 😍 I also noticed BRUNO the Magikarp hahahahahaha

[@chemist1379]

Shhhhhhhhhhhhh... We don't talk about BRUNO no no no no...

[@christofmeister6247]

Bruno as magikarp is a perfect reference to it's true power in generation 1. xD

[@obviousalias132]

The gem pun was actually very good. Subtle inflection in the voice without obviously trying to call it out.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

;) glad you caught it

[@Connor_Watters]

Awesome vid man! I did this once and it was soo fun! Your vids are awesome! Kinda new and already love it! ❤

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Welcome to the channel Connor! Glad you’re enjoying the videos :)

[@wildefice1]

Starting @ 4:00 .....................Scott.................. You have officially ruined Nosepass for me, HOW DARE YOU!?!?!

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Not sorry

[@wildefice1]

@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon Well I am !

[@miepblur7586]

I really love the work you put in your videos, way better than other poketubers

[@briankaste6931]

2:32 even if Wally encounters a shiny ralts (which is possible), it will not be shiny in any of your battles with Wally. I'm not sure if that's why you pray that it's not shiny

[@dragonslayerz2220]

It's a time loss.

[@manuelcheeser8935]

The Blazekick thing sorta caught me offguard, well played!

[@ajs.7363]

So happy to finally be on Gen 3 with you Scott! My favorite group of starters out of any generation. I am also super excited for your Tropius run! He's the best jungle dinosaur!

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Best jungle dinosaur!!

[@ShadowKaiserin]

I didn't know about Blaziken when I chose Torchic way back in 2003, so I had images of something akin to Moltres dancing around in my head. You can imagine my disappointment when it evolved. Still, it was a decent Pokemon even though it was hell getting to and beating Steven. These days, it's my least favorite Hoenn starter, but I'm still fond of it even if I don't find it aesthetically pleasing.

[@MrMitchbow]

Blaziken is easily my favorite starter of this gen, and this gen had amazing starters

[@geegee2925]

I can’t unsee the “Nosepass suction cup mouth.”

[@TheGuyWhoMakesRandomTierLists]

I loved Blaziken as my favorite starter at the beginning of Gen 3. I picked it in Sapphire, but that save was soon eroded away at by my GameShark 😅. When I got Emerald, I picked Treeko to have the third (my sister picked Mudkip) and fell in love with both Grovyle and Sceptile, forgetting about Blaziken for years.

[@typhoonboom]

8:10, did you know that there's a small chanse that during that animation a camper (I think) hikes down? I think its pretty neat.

[@drunkennephilim2995]

You were over thinking the Champion fight, seeing the Wailord only has Water spout for SE damage, Double edge is physical and unboosted Sky uppercut doesnt KO you shouldve gone into the fight with Sky uppercut, Earthquake, Blaze kick and Bulk up, first turn Sky uppercut to nerf the Water spout damage then use it to set up your Bulk ups

[@mmpsp693]

I love that the Magikarp was called Bruno.

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

I literally only got a Nosepass in Ruby last year. It turned out it was only available in one cave in the rocks you use Rock Smash on. Wild.

[@MajesticTwee]

Your videos are so inspiring! Loved watching this!

[@milkdud8993]

Nice run! I too am looking forward to Tropius! Coincidentally I love bananas!

[@Formonn]

Great vid as always!! Keep it up. Also idea for vid. Get the crew from porygon vid and challenge them, who can beats pokemon crystal the fastest.. use whatever mons you want!

[@emilydonegan3208]

Also, I feel like listing level after E4 might be useful too, since Sceptile’s level was so much higher against Steven, whereas Blazikens wasn’t

[@DeathofanEra369]

Blazikin is my favorite fire starter. He started my change into a Bird Catcher.

[@morbontg]

Fire and Fighting as a starter type is one of my favorites.

[@damianoskatsoudas2579]

Alwayed loved solo runs. Keep up the good work.

[@FernandoRafaelNogueiraReis]

The gift Torchic broke X/Y in half. I had to actually refrain from using it all the time because it was that good. And the line is so memorable because it started the trend of Fire/Fighting Pokémon. So yeah, great chicken!

[@anotherwaterroute]

High-key I think Blaziken will not only be the best of the starters but I'd bet it'll be high in the ranking for a while. Not like deoxys or rayquaza good but it's daaaaamn good. Idk, you're insanely talented though, way to go smashing the 2 hour mark. I just finished an Ampharos run tonight and it took almost 5 hours on 4x speed 😭

[@thebigbean8783]

I remember blaziken being the first level 100 pokemon I ever saw. My friend had it, and he showed me him beating the elite 4 in one shot. I was baffled and amazed lol. Blaziken is pretty lame, but I'll never forget that moment lol So I think it's gonna do great