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[@PulseEffects]

I wish I knew Ash's secret to catching Tauros

[@rooislangwtf]

Obviously it's rng manipulation

[@Father_Bohawk]

That secret is the REAL reason the episode was banned!

[@PulseEffects]

@@rooislangwtf I can't believe Ash would cheat like that

[@rooislangwtf]

@@PulseEffects he's the same guy that used a sprinkler system in a rock gym to win, I wouldn't put anything past him tbh

[@LocalMaple]

He used the “fly to cinnabar” trick.

[@Someguyhere111]

Sadly all the runs that have been done for this catagory are invalid, because none of them saw Ho-Oh on Route 1

[@Shadow-64686]

True.

[@Kev.in1997]

Shiny ho oh that is

[@d007ization]

That's freaking evil of you, someguy

[@XPlayzzGamz]

Ash knows people will want to be him so he made sure that nobody can be him

[@alexdiaz1425]

Even if you saw Ho-Oh, you would need Brock to catch one of the 30 Tauros Ash caught.

[@stellarsub-orbital9922]

Fun fact, if your Pikachu isn't happy enough by the time you get to Bulbasaur, you can use potions at full health on Pikachu which will trick the game into increasing happiness.

[@Krixwell]

Medicine applied unnecessarily and excessively in search of "happiness"... concerning.

[@stellarsub-orbital9922]

@@Krixwell proof that Game Freak associates happiness with drugs.

[@imtoolazyforaprofilepic4961]

Force your friend into a trip to bond

[@scorcher117]

@@stellarsub-orbital9922 Although any herbal medicine lowers happiness.

[@greenkitty1]

Benadryl challenge

[@Begeru]

I love how someone must have pointed out that Ash *technically* caught only 29 Tauros when first thinking of this category. Every Tauros adds so much time it must have been a relief to remove one of them.

[@paperluigi6132]

Speaking of, the last time I remember Ash using Tauros in battle was in the Orange Cup championship match. Did Ash ever use a Tauros in battle again after that?

[@dukemon6163]

@@paperluigi6132 In a tournament in Johto in the episode Jessie traded Lickytung for Wobbuffet, against Gary in the Johto League and against Anabel in the Battle Tower.

[@ryanergo754]

​@@dukemon6163That's some memory.

[@SmugLookingBarrel]

As someone who always loves the Awful Games Done Quick block, the thing that this run made me realize I wanted is an "Awesome Games Done Awful" event, where players take some of the best, most famous speedgames and run the most painful categories. We could have this, and Twilight Princess low%, and Hollow Knight low%, and SMO minimum captures, and multiple runs could be going on at once so when one runner is doing a rupee slide you could watch another catching Tauros. It would be amazing, and Awful, but also amazing.

[@CommanderWiggins]

I love this idea so much. The mental image alone of Link staring at a rupee on one screen while a runner has been catching Tauros for 2 hours on the other screen and chat is going "GIVE IT UP FOR TAUROS 15 LETS GOOOOO" brings me so much joy.

[@jordanbrown3660]

Unfortunately would take too much time up at a regular AGDQ event. But perhaps it could be done as its own event, I would love to see that.

[@werisekk3]

Hollow Knight low%... sweet jesus have mercy.

[@xelac1334]

Twilight Princess low%, if I remember right, takes over 24 hours with at least 17 of those hours spent staring at rupees, so it would be incredibly long and boring. However, I've always liked the idea of trying to make it work by having other runs going on at the same time. During those hours-long sections where the runner is doing nothing, another runner could speedrun a different, shorter game whose run should finish by the time the Twilight Princess run needs to pick up again. Maybe while the other game is going on, the footage of the Twilight Princess run could still be playing in the corner, so the audience could check up on Link as he slowly phases through a wall while staring at a rupee. I don't know, I think that would be fun and hey, speedrun marathons like AGDQ tend to stream 24/7 for multiple days in a row anyway.

[@qazzaqstan]

@@werisekk3 Depends, true ending low% (which I assume was the one meant) yeah I agree. Regular low percent, weird but not much longer than an any% speed run though I imagine much much harder (I have not done either or practiced my mechanics enough to even come close).

[@fiendspeedrun9213]

So I am the reason why they offically banned RNG manips in this category (before me it was unoffically banned). I found a manip for every pokemon one has to catch, but I never found a Tauros manip with a guaranteed catch so I never completed a Ash% run with manips. Maybe some day I will find my motivation to do it again.

[@PulseEffects]

The hero we need but don't deserve. 😭

[@gideonparry5684]

RNG manip could be a seperate category

[@hpswagcraft]

Real Chads are the reason people ban fun things, excellent work brother

[@Bean_TCG]

It's ridiculous they would ban RNG manipulation

[@IamGrimalkin]

Imo they shouldn't have banned RNG manipulation. If nothing else, it resembles plot armour.

[@CoopDiggityDawg]

The run should include encountering pidgey, throwing a poke ball and having it pop out

[@TheUltimateShade667]

That would mean you have to reset everytime you accidentally caught it.

[@CoopDiggityDawg]

@@TheUltimateShade667 that’s the point

[@CM_684]

And ratatta eating stuff from your bag

[@Horatio786]

Wait. Ash gave Primeape away for training. Doesn't that mean that it should be put in the Day Care instead of released?

[@matthewkuscienko4616]

I'm pretty sure the reason it's counted as being released is because after that episode, Ash never sees Primeape again, so in a way, it kinda sorta technically counts

[@thenameless7810]

​@@matthewkuscienko4616No primeape is not considered released it cameo again in the pokemon black and white opening, it is just training same with Charizard and Squirtle.

[@matthewkuscienko4616]

@thenameless7810 I know he technically didn't release Primeape, but it hasn't appeared in any actual episodes after he gave it away for training. Also, it appearing in an opening I'm pretty sure doesn't count

[@thenameless7810]

@@matthewkuscienko4616 Agreed, I always wondered even if Ash released his pokemon he could always still used them for example he technically released Greyninja and Goodra but he still have their pokeballs which he could still return them with. Also in the pokemon journey aim to be a pokemon master pidgeot return and decided to travel with Ash again which means that Ash still kept his pokeball. I imagine he still kept all the pokeballs of his pokemon that he had released in the past.

[@pinkie723]

​@@matthewkuscienko4616Yeah, but dropping it off at the daycare to never pick it up still fits more thematically. In both cases you're not actually releasing it, just giving it to someone else to train it even though you'll never see the result of that training

[@TheProPlayZ69]

You can also make pikachu happy by spamming potion on pikachu while in full health (around 4 to 6 times) means you only need 1 potion and stand and spam potion to pikachu (you can also check the happiness of pikachu by talking to it ( 1 heart to 5 heart ) Means you don't need to walk many time just to make pikachu happy to lessen the speed run time

[@PulseEffects]

I saw one of the Ash% runs do this! Any clue why this works?

[@TheProPlayZ69]

@@PulseEffects Probaly the game is coded to make pikachu positive attitude to + when healing it with item and - when losing a fight Probably, the attitude + got bugged due to coding of game, because pikachu is already full health, the attitude + still get recorded as + even when the heal is not working (and since pokemon yellow is gen 1, they don't have things like patch that time to fix bugs/glitch in game) My very first game was pokemon yellow and i still don't know how things work before, and just found things out by playing it for almost 3-4 years by resetting the data.

[@CommanderWiggins]

​@PulseEffects So basically the code that increases Pikachu's happiness simply checks if an item was used, and doesn't have any kind of checks to see if the item actually worked or not. It would have been very easy to implement as far as I can tell (I don't know Assembly though) so it seems like the devs just straight up forgot to implement it and no one noticed.

[@homerman76]

​@@CommanderWiggins Good old Gameboy era game code

[@TheProPlayZ69]

@@SongokuJidai pikachu's happiness changes every fight and every steps, so it's not advisable to spam the potion before going to fight borck or going in mount moon, since the video is about speed run on ash journey, means its time consuming if the happines reverted after reaching baulbasaur

[@erikaz1590]

Might as well have been %Tauros speedrun

[@red-eyessolares1817]

I definitely think it would be interesting to see the Ash speedrun category in other games other than Yellow and Let’s Go. It’s technically possible to get Ash’s full team for Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, X, Y, Omega Ruby, and Alpha Sapphire.

[@rueblie2627]

You wouldn’t be able to start out with pikachu though and you couldn’t delay getting treeko until after taillow

[@catriamflockentanz]

Hoenn Ash% Rule: You need to use Pikachu's Thunder on your own Swellow in the Double Battle against Tate & Liza. Also getting Pikachu in the Safari Zone sounds awfully late for Ash.

[@twobladedswordsandmauls2120]

​@@catriamflockentanzTrade one from another game that's originally comes from a Kanto game? Or just in general?

[@GreaterPhenom]

Ash% rule: don't let the perfect get in the way of the good. Just start with Treeko and get Pikachu as early as possible.

[@Gatherway]

​@@rueblie2627at that point, I feel like it would be well within the spirit of the challenge to just mod Pikachu into your starting team

[@eeveebest11]

The Squirtle squad episode doesn't have a gun... It has a BAZOOKA.

[@PulseEffects]

The amount of assault rifles in that episode is insane LOL

[@TheAres1999]

@@PulseEffects I think the rationale is that other episodes are so over the top that they qualify for cartoon violence, but the Legend of Dratini having just the one hand gun was too realistic.

[@mobgabriel1767]

snake in smash bros logic

[@BJGvideos]

​@@TheAres1999Yeah plus look at the Warden. He's based on Clint Eastwood

[@calicokity1]

Fun fact: my first shiny was Noctowl in Crystal and I went "Cool! Ash's Noctowl is in the game! How fun!"

[@Shonisto343]

My first ever shiny was a Cleffa, in Crystal, from the egg you get from the daycare man, second was a rattatta in Sprout tower.

[@ellas.2744]

Mine was a Sandshrew I stumbled on accidentally and I was like "Wait it's green, is it sick?"

[@CupidDunk]

I’ve never encountered a shiny. Ever. 🥲

[@Stathio]

Reminds me of when in Sapphire as a kid I casually went 'Oh cool, Mirage Island is here today. That's neat.' and only many years later found out how enormously rare that actually was!

[@jaredcrabb]

I had a shiny weedle. Thats how I learned how good Beedrill can be against psychic types. Of course, you have to outspeed or it might die.

[@CaptainKiddYT]

I kind of want to attempt this...

[@PulseEffects]

Honestly, you might suffer less through this than you did with beating the game with Onix. 😂

[@CaptainKiddYT]

@@PulseEffects I don't know about that...the idea of playing through a Pokemon game with no candies or speedup already pains me LOL

[@metalsonic8888]

If the route is actually designed for suffering, then losing before you even see the Elite Four should be the ending

[@PokemonMadoka]

if ash never battled the E4 that means we don't have to either well thats it game over

[@catriamflockentanz]

Ash had a battle against Agatha after coming home from Hoenn. (Granted, she was merely the temporary Stand-In Gymleader in the Viridian City Gym, but he did fight her.)

[@samanthamc1698]

I was thinking of a joke Speedrun category named (plushie%). Basically, you would have to do a normal FireRed/LeafGreen speed run, but you would have to get every one of the plushies in Lorelei's house which means you would have to beat the entire game, then rematch the elite four 250 TIMES! The speed run would end when you you enter Lorelei's house and see all the plushies. I can not even comprehend how many hours this would take 😵

[@katieg1071]

Well, let's see... The current WR holder for FRLG E4 Round 2 enters the E4 at about 3h 16m, and wraps up at 3h 28m. So let's call one run of E4 R2 battles 15 minutes to account for RNGesus's wrath and give us a nice number to work with. 15 times 250 is 3,750 minutes. Adding in the 3 hours it'll take to get to E4 R2 in the first place (that is, assuming you have world-record pace), that's APPROXIMATELY... 65.5 hours. Surprisingly, I've seen worse!

[@samanthamc1698]

@@katieg1071 wow! I didn't expect to get any answers. Thanks 😁 Edit: I wonder if it would add any significant time to get to the house?

[@Bubbly_Dragon]

@@samanthamc1698 When the run is already an optimal 60+ hours, probably not lmao

[@hpswagcraft]

Honestly... I wouldn't be surprised if I've done this playing Red version as a kid. The effect hundreds of car rides has on a kid... Dang.

[@samanthamc1698]

@@hpswagcraft I wouldn't be surprised either, but are the plushies in Red/Blue?

[@bigfudge2031]

As soon as you mentioned the Tauros episode my stomach just sank because I knew what was coming.

[@Robochuck]

oh my... when you said Safari Zone, I knew where you were going... and I just started laughing uncontrollably. WHO WOULD SUBJECT THEMSELVES TO THAT!!!?????

[@timothymclean]

The larger the speedrunning community, the more goofy speedrun categories they'll invent to one-up each other.

[@paperluigi6132]

7:37 What kinda peeved me about this is that they shoot sakura petals. In the dub, they localized it to ice guns that shot snow, despite the petals looking nothing like them. They could’ve just left them as flower petals, or if they didn’t wanna use flowers, use confetti instead.

[@darkmetal2412]

1:32 wow I never knew Gary's Eevee actually evolved differently base on how well you do. If you lose Eevee evolves into a Water type, making it easier for Pikachu to deal with. If you win once Eevee evolves into a Fire type, which only take regular damage from Pikachu electric attacks. But if you win twice Pikachu now has to deal with a Pokemon that im assuming electric attacks on Jolteon is ineffective.

[@RedPandaTables]

Want to know two other weird things about gen 1 Pokemon games? A helpful tip is that you can change your moveset around though unlike in later games you can only do such in battle. Hover a move, hit select then go to another move and hit select again iirc. Another thing but completely useless for speedrunning is that most people believe gen 1 is the only Pokemon game where Oak doesn't give you free pokeballs but that would be incorrect. He does but only after the 2nd rival battle and even then only if you never evolve or catch another pokemon up to that point and never pay for your own pokeballs. If successful with the conditions and you talk to him he will give you 5 pokeballs with a dialog box that includes an error which show up even in Yellow I believe. Guess even the testers were unaware of it.

[@callmezeldaonemoartime]

Bruh his name is Blue

[@jaredcrabb]

Not before gen 3 and abilities. Gens 1 and 2 its just not very effecrive. Theres also the fact he could have 1 if his other 2 abilities.

[@EPIKURIBOH242]

@@RedPandaTables you could change move order in battle in gen 2 & 3 too

[@azentra7560]

Let's not forget Ash beat Sabrina as his fourth badge gym, not Erika... Shouldn't that be part of the requirements?

[@albertonishiyama1980]

Keeping the battle order could cause some weird problems... I'm talking out of my memory and it is quite bad, but as an exemple... Ash would need to do the Lavander Town part first, then Sabrina and Sylph Co. last. What is actually possible with glitches to scape the Marrowak fight but the category doesnt let you use glitches. Adding the "battles in order" and some other restrictions (like using the exact pokemon used), but forgiving glitches made to catch the impossible mons could be funny.

[@Modie]

@@albertonishiyama1980 Isn't it technically to challenge Sabrina, lose, then catch a Haunter in Lavender Tower to beat Sabrina with it?

[@CallumMcPherson]

Top tip: If you try to give Pikachu a Potion when its HP is full, its happiness will still increase. You can do this over and over with the same Potion to get Bulbasaur quickly.

[@FLIGHTL355]

This just seems like setting yourself up for a painful speedrun. Also, I always find it funny that Ash's Noctowl was a shiny and the first shiny I came across (excluding the Gyarados encounter because it's static) was a Noctowl and thought my game was glitched because I didn't realize what a shiny Pokemon was.

[@cj_skywalker]

Seriously, I think that anyone trying to replicate Ash's journey in a real game is as insane as Kefka. XD

[@Zarvanis]

I dunno, Kefka has more productive things to do with his time. You don't become a god by pointlessly torturing yourself.

[@higueraft571]

@@Zarvanis Unless you're the God of Torture, at least...

[@jaredcrabb]

Kefka is still more insane, hes just smart insane.

[@GrandCorsair]

At the start I was like "wait... you have to catch all those Tauros in the Safari zone without glitches?". This speedrun must be a true test of patience.

[@tallboiedd2846]

Great video. I loved every second of it!

[@IdentifiantE.S]

You've seen no more than 2 minutes of video

[@Bulkynemesis4534]

This is the most hilarious speedrun category ever

[@yuh2852]

I wonder if there's categories for ALL of ash's journeys. Some rules might have to be fudged for the pikachu rule, but it might be a neat concept

[@lightdanger]

If there was an Alola Ash Percent would be worse because first you need a rockruff that has its special hidden ability THEN you a to get Maltan that you evolve into Melmetal in game (an impossibility to do without hacking) I think shiny odds are better

[@SumTr011]

I actually attempted a run in Yellow very similar to this with friends on a modded Wii back in 2011-2012, but I believe we stopped around gym 4 and that save is long gone. I was recently considering doing this again, only to find this video did it perfectly. Glad someone else had the same idea, bravo!

[@PhonyLyzard]

Bye butterfree, I will forever remember your confusion spam.

[@MattGOG666]

Babe wake up, new PulseEffects just dropped

[@Sipricy]

4:51 An easy way to max out Pikachu's happiness is attempting to use a Potion on it while it's at max HP. The game will tell you that it has no effect, and it won't consume the Potion, but Pikachu's happiness will go up. You can pretty easily max out its happiness this way. If Pikachu's happiness isn't high enough when speedrunners get to this point in the game, this could be an easy way to get Pikachu's happiness high enough to get Bulbasaur.

[@Alkaris]

Everyone's reaction to the episode where Ash suddenly had 30 Tauros in his collection: _"Wtf? When did he catch all of those?"_ and not realizing a banned episode never aired, nor was there anything to clear it up. And it wasn't the only banned episode, there was a badly edited episode that was so short, and it was a shorter than normal episode too because of James's inflatable boobs scene.

[@andrewboothe2216]

Huge mistake in the entire category ash beat magmar with Charizard

[@PulseEffects]

I can't tell if this is sarcasm since he doesn't have a Magmar in game 😂

[@yamapikarya1591]

I've done this challenge. Not as a Speedrun, though. It was fun.

[@erikaz1590]

It was fun to catch 29 tauros!?

[@dominicmoisant8393]

Yeah I used to do this as a kid too, no Tauros though lol

[@sdgdhpmbp]

I would straight up cheat the Tauros thing. Doing it for an audience is one thing but playing a joke on myself isn't funny when no one is laughing.

[@SilverSalamence]

Nice video! All those Tauros sound like Hell to catch, but somehow I am Tempted... Also 6:50 'Walking With You' from the Xenoblade chronicles 2 playlist spotted!

[@Pawlmer]

I used to use his team in Pokémon yellow bc my siblings told me the game would crash if I didn’t lmao

[@PulseEffects]

That's just evil LOL

[@DePariah]

Peak sibling moment

[@captainsunshine64]

Fantastic music choice for this episode! The run is insane

[@latexu9589]

7:35 And also that gun-crazy old lady in the Tentacruel episode.😉

[@about7grams]

"using pikachu without experiencing pain"? that's an auto fail for me. i'll stick to getting a volt absorb lanturn in kaizo. that seems like it'll hurt less. which says a hell of a lot.

[@screwtokaiba]

Tbf va lanturn is actually pretty common and in lockes common enough it was an expected thing.

[@Mypreist123]

I just knew from reading the title that catching the 29 Tauros was the run killer.

[@DragonArbock]

I feel like using long range trainer glitch would make getting primeape easier and should be allowed, but ditto can't be found until cinnabar in yellow so idk if any available trainers can give it earlier anyway.

[@donvoltonus8898]

I'm imagining the worst pain possible. Running into the Viridian grass, only to hit the 1% Pidgeotto BEFORE the 55% Caterpie, and having to ignore it.

[@ricebox3048]

Ah yes one of the most impossible tasks, subscribing to the channel.

[@ArlecchinoAKAFather]

7:20 I freaking love the sky tower OST

[@yeastyman]

I loved watching Shen doing these runs as a meme

[@tylersanders2388]

Having to get a shiny for a speedrun sounds cool but insanely tough

[@evilmurlock]

3:30 omg, the yourney of buterfree was so emotional. Such a good story arc. 6:20 so emotional

[@beesus1412]

when i saw shen in the beginning the title suddenly made so much more sense

[@hpswagcraft]

7:35 - Don't forget the machine guns, rocket launcher, and TANK Nastina uses against the giant Tentacruel while in Porta Vista in season 1!

[@Mike199797]

Idk about other countries but the safari episode even aired in Greece as well. We even had that episode on Blue Ray xDD

[@catriamflockentanz]

What the Hell(as)?

[@djoshawott2850]

I'm not surprised. Playing as if you're Ash just means you never win anything legitimetly.

[@LunaticKD1991]

I remember searching for and catching a Pidgeotto in Viridian forrest when I played Pokemon Yellow back in the day.

[@lucasjao91]

Loved The calamity ganon theme btw

[@latexu9589]

6:17 "Besides krabbing Grabby."🤣

[@Vertraic]

As far as I can remember (it was when the games were new), when I originally got Pokemon Red, Tauros was the only one I was missing... I spent about 20 hours running around the Safari Zone and saw about 5 in total... And all of them ran away. Trying to get a Tauros was probably what made me decide not to play future pokemon games...

[@TeamEmpyrean]

i randomly thought about an ash% speedrun today and i was surprised to find out there was already a category for this 😂

[@genuineinterest]

I did not expect 'make Red LARP as Ash' to be an entire category of competitive gameplay. But hey, how else are we supposed to kill time

[@RichtersShadow]

You mentioned that someone has done a run of this on Let's Go. Do you have a link to the video as I was trying to find it? Cheers!

[@IschmarVI]

the speedrun that makes the LGPE professor oak challenge look engaging and easy-going.

[@dallastwitchmom5460]

Great job Pulse!

[@BJReolon]

the tauros episode was aired in brazil and was pretty popular

[@strawberrylemonadelioness]

Dang, Ash really did rely a lot on dumb luck didn't he?

[@dokchampa9324]

The fact that the pikachu just walks on two legs in yellow is so infinitely funny to me

[@taylorhillard4868]

The moment I saw Shen I was like "oh yes....the Tauros run"

[@CopperYeen]

On my current playthrough of yellow, the first pokemon encountered in the forest.. was a pigeotto. I didn't know how rare that was until now and I regret wasting all of my pokeballs beforehand even more.

[@CoCofi8103]

"Now that we have our starter pokemon" 1:25 (throw's pikachu into the ether)

[@zeemgeem]

somehow the thing that did the most mental damage to me in this video is gust being normal type. why. how. gen 1 is a magical place how did anyone figure out the type chart

[@PulseEffects]

What if I told you Karate Chop was also a Normal Type move in Gen 1. 👁

[@N12015]

Bite was also normal

[@richardkirkland6805]

One thing I would add to the list of things not being possible is the "Dodge It" command, as that is as of right now exclusive to the anime. It would be cool if there was a dodge command in a fan game or an official game where you can command ypur Pokémon to attempt to dodge a move.

[@kennythedragon40]

Lmao, at the end when he was talking about shiny noctowl I looked down at my do and found a shiny venomoth

[@MacMatician]

You should do a video on the recruit em all speedruns for the pokemon mystery dungeon games especially pokemon mystery dungeon blue rescue team and red rescue team

[@BlitzChanSaysHi]

Why the Safari Zone episode was banned in a nutshell: Haha gun go pew pew

[@LukeA471]

The category should require you to overlevel Charmeleon/Charizard so he won't listen to you for half the game

[@PulseEffects]

Disobedience only happens with overleveled traded Pokemon! Charmander gets your own TID

[@LukeA471]

@@PulseEffects Oh interesting I totally thought it was just based on level. That makes sense though

[@SryBut]

Oh yeah, catching 29 Tauros. At least Ashes next BBQ's are delicious.

[@kirara2516]

Wait, Gary's eeveelution depends on whether you win lose or fight again? I honestly never knew that, after all these years. That's awesome!

[@latexu9589]

0:55 Pokemon Yellow is probably the best fit for this kind of challenge, because that version is loosely based on the Pokemon: Indigo League anime, and because you have Pikachu with you from the beginning.😉

[@saikanzen1762]

This is how I would replay Yellow Version way back. Wasn't speedrunning but I followed the anime as best as I could.

[@darkmagician1184]

For the actual fun of it, would be better to just catch a mankey and evolve immediately so that you can over level charizard so that he doesn’t listen. Having 6 badges, you never get the real headache

[@BoBz013]

i had no idea that was how blue’s eeveelution was picked

[@sirpalotti1953]

Bro the thumbnail gave me TPSD from Mewtwo movie

[@aabrightlove]

1:25 - WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT

[@NGamesify]

Gotta love and respect those absolute mad mans that run this category

[@igorlopes8463]

I wonder how low the time would be if glitches and rng manips were allowed. Kuddos to the guys who did that speed run

[@ianweston310]

I wonder which of all of Ash's journeys would actually be the WORST to speedrun. Not saying it can't be Johto, but Ash certainly committed innumerable Pokésins.

[@jake______]

the safari zone episode was absolutely aired in australia

[@garykent7642]

When I played Heartgold for the first time I named myself Ash. The first pokemon I found on the way to the next town was a shiny Hoothoot. I couldn't catch it because I hadn't unlocked Pokeballs yet...

[@Will-uv9kx]

This run looks great, kind of how you would play as a child, maybe not the taurus thing, but I remember going to check the indigo plateau after getting badges etc

[@CommentingCommenter]

I use to do something similar when I played Pokémon games, which is why it always bugged me when Ash had more than 1 starter Pokémon in a certain anime arc or how the writers rarely made his Pokémon evolve or let him catch more then 5 new Pokémon at a time.

[@Ryoland]

After getting pikachu, spam using the first potion from your pc while its at full health. After a bunch of uses its happiness goes up. You can max happiness before leaving town 1.

[@MoonshineH]

I've never had a happy enough pikachu to get bulba when arriving in cerulean for the first time WHAT

[@ferbawlzpresents]

This is just how I played Yellow as a kid.

[@powertomato]

I remember watching the Safari Zone episode. Mandela effect right there, huh?

[@mjm3091]

Mind you most of the other runs aren't even possible. For generation 2, 4, 5 and 7 Ash gets multiple starters. For generation 6 he should be using Ash-Greninja, which is not available until gen 7 and similarly he uses Meltan in Gen 7, which is not available in USUM games. Leaving Gen 1. Orange Islands (assuming you use Sevis), Gen 3 and gen 8 the only generations that can be legally finished. But even then - gen 8 you need to use your original Yellow file and use Pokemon Home to get back Pidgeot at the end of your Journeys. I do think though - if you ever actually attempt gen 7 or gen 8, with some changes (like the whole Raticate or Haunter ordeals). They would probably be the most fun. Especially gen 8 makes you go to all the areas around the Galar region.

[@hoaujudaiyubel]

Usually challenge runs that require you to use specific pokemon usually allow cheats and trading to obtain the pokemon that would otherwise be impossible to obtain So I imagine the regions where Ash gets multiple starters would allow to transfer them in so long as the it is Ash

[@moody7947]

Me: “this doesn’t seem so bad” Me 8 minutes later: “oh no… no no no”

[@jaimeXDgo]

Imagine trying the Johto Ash% and finding a shiny that isn't Noctowl.

[@johnsamuel6096]

It's ironic that the safari zone episode only aired in Japan

[@et34t34fdf]

Safari zone sounds like a nightmare.

[@appoxy]

The entire video I'm thinking to myself this seems like the type of category only Shen would run.