Unown is SUPER UNDERRATED in Pokemon Crystal

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Unown is actually an amazing Pokemon for a solo run, at least in Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal. Don't believe me, just watch the video!
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Rules and Explanations
Rules: (1) Only use the one Pokémon in Battle, others for HMs are fine. (2) No Items in battle (3) No Glitches* (4) Set Mode (5) No evasion moves

[@Jrose11]

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[@ebenuke]

thousand yard stare

[@patrickormerod3472]

No

[@chairforceoneYT]

please no : (

[@dragonknight1560]

HONKAI! I love it!

[@tkThePigeon]

Yes, thank you

[@alexisauld7781]

"Alright Unown, we're going to solo through Crystal today!" Unown: "K"

[@pokemata1035]

Listen here you little shi-

[@ianfinrir8724]

Take your like and git.

[@pokemata1035]

Listen here you little shi-

[@stevejohnson6593]

"O"

[@mceky89]

I read that K in Alluka's voice

[@SWISS-1337]

As a child I was obsessed with the unknown ruins. Always thought I was missing something big. But turns out that it wasn't completed as fully as they initially planned.

[@creepslime6502]

Do you know what plans they had? I know in its current form it’s basically an ad for the gameboy printer but it definitely feels like it had bigger aspirations

[@ianslee4765]

​@@creepslime6502 Pretty sure it was where one of the legendary cats were

[@baticeer_]

When I was a kid I thought getting all the Unown would give me the Kanto fossil pokemon because there's that sliding puzzle of Kabuto in the ruins... turns out it's just hey you can PRINT your Unown now

[@Medabee8]

*Ruins of Alph

[@EliteLoserZR]

I remembered being obsessed with the ruins trying to catch a Natu because I really liked Xatu but I was a dummy and had no clue how to reach the grass patch at the ruins. I just remembered doing random encounters in the ruins themselves expecting to run into a Natu assuming it was super rare random encounter while growing a hatred for the Unown I kept encountering.

[@DFPWeaponX]

Love that he plays so much gen 1 where typically Agatha is the biggest challenge that he refers to Karen as Agatha lol

[@Rambestgirl]

is like goga in the gen1 he be the gym leader and in that version he be the elite 4 and let her student be the gym leader i never look about that little detail

[@biggzum]

I originally thought I misheard him 😂

[@DanBottiglieri]

JRose11 was spoiled last video with having a choice between Tackle and String Shot, so he cut his moveset in half.

[@JefferyMewtamer]

And yet, it's a pretty significant upgrade since Hidden Power can have halfway decent power, a decent type, and doesn't have so many power points that setting up for struggle strats is annoying... Honestly, I feel like deleting string shot would actually be an improvement to Caterpie's move set... Too bad game string shot isn't as good as anime string shot.

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

​@@JefferyMewtamerString Shot was what allowed victory in the very end though.

[@baconcatbug]

"Reset for a favourable Agatha fight." The PTSD is real.

[@tk24life]

Like grandmother, like granddaughter.

[@bettyunicorn6132]

@@tk24life I’ll believe it.

[@rickyi3523]

The Gen 2 videos are always the most surprising ones to me. Sometimes they're expectedly difficult like the Pichu video, but other times Pokemon I would expect to really struggle or be impossible end up being weirdly good like Togepi and Unown.

[@darthparallax5207]

Togepi being good makes sense because it's like Magikarp: You get Gyarados and Gyarados is good, And like Eevee and the Fossils: usually when the game makes it easier to get a Pokémon that Pokémon gets the advantage of often being an early acquire that gets to level up a ton as just the beginning of benefits in addition to being available for any thing related to opportunities at earlier points in runs and they're often designed to fill holes in a team at the time you acquire them. Eevee is your 2nd Starter Pokémon type bouquet to guarantee a balance of typing on defense and Celadon Dept. has TMs and Items to round it out on offense. 50% shot of a good Fossil at Mt. Moon (Omastar works better than Kabutops) So with Gyarados Omastar a Starter and an Eevee just given to you for free in runs you get a lot of versatility even before legendaries. Togepi is exactly analogous to Magikarp in that it's very rewarding to invest time in and exists specifically to teach the fundamental game mechanics of level up and evolving with an example of a weak Mon that improves with growth a lot instead of starting out swinging hard like a Ghost or Psychic type. The final payoff for this in RBY is that Dratini is really not a great Pokémon but you know from understanding the game mechanics that the rare little dragon from a Safari Pond should turn into something really good. And it does. Sudowoodo Snorlax and Red Gyarados are more free encounters too. I think it ends up being the case that Kabuto is low key the worst Pokémon distributed like this but it proves the rule that received Pokémon are almost always good. Also I think Whitney was designed to be a hint that Togepi should be given Rollout in a loosely anime inspired run. (3 Johto starters + Togepi + Pikachu + something good)

[@hi-i-am-atan]

@@darthparallax5207 togetic is not anywhere near as much of a payoff as gyarados, and is also wholly irrelevant because ricky's talking about the *_togepi_* run, not some theoretical togetic run starting with togepi i'm honestly not even sure if you're in the right universe right now. this is the universe where the starter trio is grass-fire-water and psychic and ghost types don't tend to be accessible until you've already started to establish a team. and even then, the first psychic types we tend to see in a game are shit like abra and ralts, which demonstrate the magikarp principle _infinitely_ better than togepi does. like, abra can't even attack until it evolves. there are many ways to describe teleport, but "starting out swinging hard" is not one that comes to mind

[@pwl66925]

FYI for future Johto challenges, you can get a gold berry by placing third in the bug catching contest

[@BioniclesaurKing4t2]

A contest you can only enter once each of three specific days a week, not convenient to all recording schedules, unless lots of clock manips which may or may not be considered a fair strategy for all challenge runners' personal rules. But yes, an escape hatch if needed.

[@parkermarker742]

@@BioniclesaurKing4t2they have an website for that, trainer id for the in game time changer.

[@iss2075]

@@BioniclesaurKing4t2 I'm not 100% sure but I think he plays around with the clock anyway because he seems to always get the day-dependent type-boosting items when he needs them. But getting 3rd in the bug catching contest itself seems RNG dependent, is there a reliable way to (almost) always come third?

[@nightpups5835]

@@iss2075 not quickly, can be sure on that.

[@youtube-kit9450]

Yup, he can just set the AI for that. Or start on the right day, remember that ingame time is like 10 hours to the league, which at 3x speed is 3 hours (so an afternoon at best) and the scores for AI is somewhat known, making placing third a case of about calculating what is best and hoping for the results. Tedious, but doable in a day. And especially worth it for a valuable item like gold berry he'd otherwise have to suspend the run for 24 hours.@@iss2075

[@JoeKell365]

Unown should have had Ancient Power to pair with Hidden Power. i don't think it would be overpowered with it

[@SnepperStepTV]

Yeah like a level 50 move or something, reward for taking the time to level up

[@amberhernandez]

It totally deserves Secret Power as well, and maybe Nature Power. Honestly, just lean into a new gimmick and give it all kinds of Power moves! Cosmic Power, Nature Power, Power Trick/Power Shift, Stored Power, Earth Power, Power Gem, Mystical Power; all of those can make sense at some level. Things like Superpower, Power Whip, and Power Trip aren't likely to make the cut, however. Since they cut out the one thing Unown had, it wouldn't be so terrible to give it something new!

[@CierraJohnson-bh4mc]

@@amberhernandez Unown would totally make sense having all moves with "power" in the name or is it just me?

[@ForeverLaxx]

@@amberhernandez That "gimmick" only works because of specific translation choices and is unlikely to make any sense at all in Japanese, the language the games originate with.

[@amberhernandez]

@@ForeverLaxx Trust me, I'm aware lol

[@ivanbluecool]

Unknown so good it had to be removed from the entire game later on. Clearly it's stronger than arcues Mewtwo and fans love of Charizard combined

[@Donutlover42069]

Fun fact, Unknown in the anime is actually a legendary

[@Slickcactus]

*Unown

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

​@@Donutlover42069yep, an alphabet soup of Unknown are arguably the strongest legendary we see until Gen 4, their first act in their movie appearance being literally teleporting a random guy to a dimension we see Arceus is sleeping in during one of the later movies... That basically puts them on par with the Space-time trio...

[@ivanbluecool]

@@Slickcactus *grammar police

[@climbitclimate]

@@ivanbluecool lol it’s not grammar to spell a name correct

[@danielhale1]

Dude, the volume of videos you're putting out is insane! I hope you're treating yourself well. I love your work, and as long as you're having a great time, I'm all for this pace.

[@shunsuikyoraku5428]

He's got an editor now, he mentioned it being the reason for uptick in uploads

[@bongchoof]

Don't do that. JRose said he doesn't like that. MDB has had a lot of health issues this year.@@leedsunited8787

[@soupstoreclothing]

think he got burnt out and i'm really missing his videos

[@jordanar18]

Fun fact: It can also learn Hidden Power via TM. Except it can’t, since it will always know Hidden Power only already. So the TM will never work on it.

[@Reedonkulouz]

He called Karen, Agatha lol. That's how you know you play too much Gen 1 😂😂😂 love to see some JROSE runs definitely love them. Great work with the run 🤙

[@blackomega2526]

I was gonna say the same thing😂

[@NathanCotrill]

They should have brought Unown to SV and made hidden power only learned by Unown, and does 70 power and is affected by your tera type if you haven't terastalized.

[@raineob4996]

Hidden Power is in PLA and is changed to always be super effective, but can only be learned by Unown.

[@youtube-kit9450]

Was just gonna say so, should have kept it that way. @@raineob4996

[@scientificallyaccuratespino]

>Unown is underrated >”Impossible Challenges”

[@lilith_fox]

The moment you said you were going for Psychic hidden power my heart sank. Hopefully the Rival's sneasel and Karen weren't too tedious to defeat but only one way to find out

[@jbz4788]

Yeah I was like “But Karen?” Guess he’ll have to use struggle on them

[@burtmacklin1880]

Yeah my initial thought was definitely to not go with something that has an immunity. Dragon, Dark, even flying or rock might have been better

[@TheWarofArt27]

@@burtmacklin1880 Idk if he's going for red or not but unknown probably needs the extra power from stab for his pokemon.

[@ZorotheGallade]

Sneasel fortunately is almost completely useless. Both its STABs go off 35 Special Attack, and the rival's has Feint Attack and Icy Wind. If you can take a Pidgey's Tackle you can take those.

[@BenjaminGlatt]

Or, y'know, Jasmine.

[@Grey_Warden_Invasion]

That Unown sprite from behind looks like a very simplified drawing of a fish. XD

[@jidennanwankwor187]

Fun fact due to gen 2 programming being gen 1 programming with a few more bandage on top of it struggle is effected by pink bow

[@Lyanhyrt]

Last year we got the month of Jrose, this year we get some of the more difficult solo runs ever conceived. We are truly blessed.

[@PlagueOfWasps]

I spent uncounted hours in the ruins as a kid trying to figure out if there was some hidden secret to these guys. I caught every letter and even tried to use a team of four unown that spelled DOOM to see if it would trigger some instant win, since the Pokédex entry in silver referred to something similar.

[@MLPIceberg]

Nope. None of that would have worked. Instead, it was left unfinished. A shame... would have been really neat to discover what would have been complete if they (the small GameFreak dev team at the time) were given the time to flesh out the game as they wished.

[@13JackStorm]

I love how the Unown K in the thumbnail looks like it's saying OK, because of how the eye looks

[@johngleeman8347]

I wish you could fuse unown of different letters together. If you had a full collection it could become on-par with a legendary pokemon.

[@AndrooTheNerd]

JRose using the word “excellent” to describe Unown’s Attack and Special Attack really threw me off. 💀 Compared to what he usually works with I suppose it’s pretty good.

[@youmukonpaku3168]

cut him some slack, man's just gone through Kanto three times with a Caterpie; almost anything will look like decent stats after that.

[@AndrooTheNerd]

@@youmukonpaku3168 Unown is basically a legendary compared to Caterpie. 💀

[@th3exceptionexception452]

Hearing that he wanted pyschic for his hidden power I instantly wondered how bad Karen would be with having to use struggle against sand attack. Also, 69 power is the true best power for hidden power

[@Shyguymask]

0:15 I have a many years-old video of an Unown gen 2 solo run on my channel, but it has basically no editing and I'm pretty sure I spammed X items in battle lol.

[@PANICBLADE]

When he saved at Karen after using the rare candies, saying he hasn't used anything he could get back, I winced.

[@Zygarbodor]

0:55 The move actually still exists, it's just exclusive to Unown now, meaning it's only in games that include it (namely BDSP and Legends). Funnily enough, it actually got buffed in Legends. Since Legends uses Effort Levels instead of IVs, rather than having its type vary based on the user, it's instead based on its target. Namely, it *always* does super effective damage. I wonder if this change will stick around for any future games with Unown (it probably won't, but it'd still be cool to see.)

[@maconer5924]

29:32 i really had to laugh when you said try for a favorable agatha fight Hey Jrose, It's not gen 1 anymore 😂

[@Gungho73]

I quit my job to focus on therapy today. I've been in a very dark corner lately in my life. These videos you put out are often the difference for me. I know a lot of people won't convey this thought and some may even chastise me for saying it out loud. But your videos make a genuine difference in my life by giving me a breather from all thats been going on. I really appreciate you and your editor for what they do. Thank you Jrose11, sincerely. Happy holidays.

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

Honestly, I was there too, I totally get it. Hope things will get better eventually

[@Gungho73]

Thanks lad I sincerely appreciate it so much. @@shytendeakatamanoir9740

[@skindoormimiz]

I'll be waiting for unown's gen 5 evolution, sigilyph

[@thatponybro6940]

considering Unown is in the little animation that plays if you stay idle on the title screen for too long with Suicune, you'd think they'd be more, important

[@ChaosNoahV]

So i asked my friend to make my a team for a playthrough of crystal i was doing, and he chose unown, (I went with Unown D, and named it "WillOfD" and it was surprisingly really good, i luckily pulled a Ghost Type hidden power so that also REALLY helped going thru the game, i usually dont give my Moves PPup/Max but i def did for Hidden power since it was its only move. Also in the same playthrough he gave me Shuckle and Wobbuffet (Which i named HITME!!!!) I had a rough go with that playthrough as im someone who likes to keep levels in sync with each other so trying to kill mons with shuckle was rough

[@chevgage6210]

That's where switch training comes in clutch

[@amberhernandez]

Shuckle's Defense Curl + Rollout combo is _killer_

[@ChaosNoahV]

@@amberhernandez I actually just learned TODAY that defense curl increases the damage of rollout, I was going thru Chuggaaconroys B2W2 playthrough since it's almost done and he was talking about that, around the 3rd gym, wish I knew that when I did my playthrough

[@amberhernandez]

@@ChaosNoahV Oooooooof I learned how dangerous it is because I accidentally bopped a Lugia with a third turn hit :P

[@calebjohnson9740]

Exp. Share: *exists*

[@mr.cleffa8809]

I love the 29:35 "favorable Agatha fight" 😂

[@Crusina]

You know, I'd love to see False Swipe Gaming crew do a video wiith Jrose11. Like imagine if FSG talked about the history of solo runs/nuzlockes or something, talking about traits and pokemon that have historically always done well game to game or ones that are impossible/horrible. combined with commentary from jrose on how correct they are, adding additonal insights, and ofc doing a solo run.

[@felixcroc]

I believe the video that kicked off the recent solo run craze was Pikasprey's Ditto run a few years back

[@Crusina]

you mean the impossible escapes person? why am i not suprised lol they make excellent stuff@@felixcroc

[@Begeru]

@@felixcroc Jrose’s Magikarp run came out before that, and solo runs were already a thing

[@sakuram69]

Man I remember when these games first came out and internet access was restricted because of tying up phone lines and such so we only had access to really shady rumors, aka the mew truck, but omg the rumors about this particular Pokémon were insane. We would tell each other the dumbest stuff about this little noodle lol the one I fell for was the “if you catch 5 unown and spell O-M-E-G-A in your party in that order they get a special super powerful attack.” I spent a week hunting those little suckers down. I felt so cheated lol

[@Jaesthetic_music]

the HSR Sponsor, letsgo. I was like: Wait is this Wildfire??? thi sis HUGE for my boy ( I am literally playing while watching the video)

[@Zenek_Rozenek]

With HP Dragon you have only 1 resistence and no immunities in this gen, I believe this is the best HP for that run

[@freezingdart]

I did a Unown solo run in Crystal years ago. Unown W with a 69 Hidden Power Dark. I chose Dark as it seemed most advantageous across the type chart, psychic would mean dark types are immune. I beat Johto, the League, Kanto and Red even. It was a super fun run.

[@Porygondolier]

This is beautiful, glad to see Unown getting more attention ☺️

[@Venomous28]

Pory is here!

[@Porygondolier]

Of course! Unown is close to my heart. And K is pretty close to X if you squint!

[@DanBottiglieri]

Pory proved Unown is even better in gen I!

[@Porygondolier]

@@DanBottiglieriwell, lack of Dark type helped 😅

[@youtube-kit9450]

29:30 bruh so ptsd'd by the lottery he calls Karen Agatha lol

[@SomeGuy712x]

(29:33) Karen is now Agatha, it seems. :P (30:13) 1 HP and a dream, yo! (34:39) Very clutch timing for your crit there. (34:59) And that's game! That's sweet that you didn't have to get to level 100 for Red!

[@JefferyMewtamer]

You know... now that I think about it, Karen kind of looks like a younger Agatha... and they are both effectively Lance's second in command... and it's Odd that Blue only had to defeat the Elite 4 to become champion when the standard set by following games is an Elite 4 and a Champion... New Head Canon, Blue beat the Elite 4 and Champion Lance, bumping the lowest ranked Elite 4 off the team, knocking the other three down a rank, and knocking Lance from Champion to Elite 4 just in time for Red to face Lorelei... And Creepypasta... Agatha didn't retire or die during the timeskip between RGBY and gSC... She used her mastery over Ghosts to possess a younger body and took over her victim's Identity... Both tend to be the most trolly of their respective Elite 4's, both have a pair of poison types that aren't of their stated specialty, both have a Gengar...

[@DanBottiglieri]

29:35 I love how you appear to associate Karen with Agatha

[@ultrafly100]

One interesting thing about these solo runs is seeing the intricacies of the gym leader and trainer strategies in the games. When you’re playing without restrictions, it’s easy enough to brute force your way past pretty much any strategy, but solo runs don’t always give you that option.

[@dosbilliam]

"Unown has better stats than Kirlia." - Keizaron, early 2020.

[@dosbilliam]

Also, after looking at the Gen II type chart, Dragon would probably be the best type to have, since it's only bad against Steel, which was already a problem with Psychic, but does full damage against Dark. Would probably require a decent level just to ensure a one-shot on a lot of stuff, but not having to Struggle against Dark-types might make it less painful overall.

[@grundgutigertv6170]

Yeah but you wont get stab on this so scyther could be a problem

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

​@@grundgutigertv6170HP Fire would be a good one too. Kingdra would be an absolute threat though.

[@elysahatestostudy9364]

"We just have to reset for a favorable Agatha fight" Old habits die hard 😂

[@Sam-oz8pn]

I hope he tries other hidden power types, psychic will be really rough against Karen and I feel like it’s probably not worth it, or at least worth trying other options

[@burningtaubsi1208]

I thought the same thing. The type I'd mainly try would be Ice. Even if resisted like with Pryce it should still work and I guess it would fare decently towards most other trainers/teams and especially the E4 would not be that bad. Yes, Psychic has STAB but I would fear that Karen or Dark Pokemon in general would be quite a hassle. Most other types would also have a weak matchup or two, but Water or maybe Dragon would both be worth a try. Dragon is neutral vs. most and Water would be overall ok I guess.

[@tijnvannelmen5832]

Think rock would be quite strong, though Jasmine could be quite an obstacle

[@MarkJGGs]

Yeah, i went through a type chart and would have picked rock too. That immunity is killer, and i dont think having a stab move is worth it.

[@dantemalick2872]

Problem with alot of hidden powers is the req ivs

[@SombreroPharoah]

Rock can do it. Just gets walled at Red.

[@chibiraptor]

Psychic seems like such a difficult choice. Being forced to struggle against any trainer that starts with a dark type is just rough. Why not a better offensive type, like ice? I dont think any mandatory battles have a 4x resist to ice other than pryce, and it does neutral to a lot of stuff. Worst case, you never need to struggle.

[@CptGallant]

I had the same thought, but I don't know if Red would be possible without the STAB boost. At least one of Blastoise, Charizard, and Venusaur will resist just about any other type you would want to use, and Snorlax will ruin your day regardless. Maybe a physical type like rock to bypass Snorlax's SpDef? We still have the problem of no STAB though, which feels bad.

[@BrawlLegendLink]

​@@CptGallantit might have taken a few more tries, but certainly would happen.

[@batterybrainz]

Unown is one of my favorite Pokémon because I think the concept of it, visually and with hidden power, is super cool. I actually didn’t even know how exactly the letter it is and the hidden power stats worked in this gen until this video! I’m also decently good at reading things that are written using Unown which sometimes is a useful skill… sometimes lol. I’m still early in the video as of typing this and really excited to see how this goes! Currently listening to the sponsor part of the video.

[@DaenaMichelle]

Rock is technically the best offensive hidden power, at least in a vacuum, as nothing is immune to it and it has the least types that resist it VS the ones that are weak to it

[@seisner6655]

You know, I think Hidden Power Dragon might have been better. It's resisted by nothing except Steel in this generation, so you wouldn't really have to worry about that except against Jasmine (which was also resisting Pyschic). Plus, you would get super effective damage against Clair and Lance, which is always nice considering they are the final gym leader and final elite 4. I just think the existance of dark types in this generation is such a massive downside to using hidden power psychic.

[@sergeikalashnikov556]

Dragon deez

[@Rork310]

The trade off being without the Same type attack bonus against anything other than Dark and psychic he's only doing 2/3rds the damage. It avoids the Karen brick wall but instead of having to level a bunch to beat Karen he'd probably have had to level a bunch across the whole Johto region to make up for it. And Red may have been impossible without insane luck. It'd also make struggle strats redundant which would have cut a lot of the strategy from the video.

[@BiTT_2000]

Jrose i love putting on your videos for background listening. this might sound bad, but i even like to put them on when i want to take a nap. BUT! you're not boring! you just make nice chill videos that i know i'll enjoy either by watching the ride or by taking a little nap, lol

[@mr.number9279]

Mystery Berry vs. pre-Elite Four Rival was great. Didn't think that item would come up. 1 HP Karen win was insane. Unown winning before Level 100 was legit shocking, that means Unown is actually better than a lot of other Pokemon you'd think are better than it. Great run.

[@pleightfour]

Imagine this: you are one of the elite four. A kid walks through with a level 80 K.

[@jacobmeebling822]

Man it’s hard to believe that MDB’s only unown run was 4 years ago……damn

[@perkypenguin1663]

Wow, that title wasn't lying, Unown ended up being decently powerful! Minor Hidden Power complaint: while it doesn't matter at all, I wish Hidden Power was ??? type, like Curse was in Gens 2-4.

[@Qisou]

Wow, one impossible challenge follows the other. I just watched the Weedle, Ditto and Level 100 Trainers Challenge and just a few days later comes the next highly interessting challenge! Keep doing those videos, they are just so entertaining. Great work man! Thank you very much!

[@doglover3716]

Nice video! I liked the decision to go with psychic hidden power. I bet it was tedious to do struggle strats, but it was interesting and entertaining to watch!

[@jackbailey5515]

Red: "..." JRose: "k"

[@loulou3676]

"Enter the Unown" does Unown challenges!

[@dannywaider]

I’m so glad to see you having sponsors ♥️ it helps the channel, but they have also been very intriguing to me!

[@profchaos91]

As always, Jrose's ability to spam the A button is rivaled only by his talent for rhyming and we're all here for both of those things 😂

[@chrisr393]

Another great video, as always! I think another interesting one might be Unown fighting type hidden power. You're still equally weak to psychic Pokemon, but dark types are a cinch, and 2 of the dark Pokemon (Sneasel and Murkrow) become neutral effectiveness

[@SomeGuy712x]

Actually, Sneasel is 4x weak to Fighting.

[@bradlauk1419]

I actually tried to use an unown in my Silver playthrough lol. Somehow I ended up with an unown and a deli bird on the same team. That was a "fun" run.

[@Axioanarchist]

At least Delibird can learn some TMs.

[@RaynmanPlays]

Unown's design would have been a lot better if its type was the type of its Hidden Power.

[@skulltothebone5003]

I never saw that before but K's back sprite kinda looks like a duck with one big "white" eye that is quacking to the left and now that you saw it you can't unsee it 🙂

[@VelvetAura]

I think Ice type Hidden Power would have been pretty good too for the sheer amount of types you hit. Then again you'd probably have to shoot for max power because you're not getting STAB..

[@meta1429]

Base 69 Power for Hidden Power?! That's quite based.

[@danielgloyd4529]

Prediction before watching fully... HP psychic is going to come back to bite you in the E4 and rival fights. You're going to be forced to use struggle against sneasle, which may be doable. But Karen leads with Umbreon and that's just going to wall you, plus vileplume has moonlight to heal. along with the plethora of Dark type attacks on her team to hit you super effectively. Probably should have went with something like HP Dragon. Neutral hits throughout the game and super effective hits for Lance and Clair

[@danielgloyd4529]

Got pretty close but managed to win in the end at lv 97. Still would be interested to see how dragon would go.

[@JohnGunn-]

Thanks for making such good in depth quality pokemon videos I listen to you all day at work and it's super awesome hearing all of the stories. I love when something crazy happens with a lot of good luck and you go off the chain lol.

[@ifistedabear]

All of Kanto's gym leaders: "You shall stand NO CHANCE against all of us!" Jrose's Unown: "K."

[@jeanbob1481]

Nice mystery berry trick. This series still manages to be interesting and different even after all these years

[@LivinSober]

…. Not me playing Pokemon Crystal since I was 8 years old and JUST discovering the secret room in the Unown temple TODAY. FOR THE FIRST TIME 💀

[@cthebeastgaming2682]

Every time I see a jrose upload, I get so excited!!

[@timmaia5082]

I'm pretty sure you called Karen Agatha on purpose there. And yeah the Dark-type immunity was unfortunate, but tbh I'm not sure you'd have been able to beat Red without STAB, seeing as you were already at lv97 Either way, happy holidays!

[@zbynekurbanek3345]

I did a run where I just caught 3 Unknowns at the Ruins and rolled with it... just 3 Unknowns for the rest of the game... it was super fun figuring out their typing based on performace in battles...

[@kratal122]

24:17 thing is, even as early as Gen II you can equip a Shuckle with a berry and after enough steps in the over world the Shuckle will turn it into a rare candy.

[@darkfiredragon3410]

That has never been a thing, it's just an urban legend.

[@21stcenturymessiah16]

TBH, it's so satisfying to see a replaced pokemon in a starter pokeball, instead of catching it in grass.

[@rad_98]

it's so uncanny hearing jrose talking about a hoyoverse game XD

[@Dante...]

I wonder if hp dragon would've been better since it only has 1 resistance and no immunities.

[@Onmur]

Nice run. I was thinking you'd use dragon or dark type hidden power for better coverage, but you struggling with struggle was more interesting.

[@TheRandomGuyTheFarNoGameCat]

My favourite thing about K Unown is that it's front sprite looks like OK. 😅

[@francescobardbard4129]

Just for you to know, a couple of days ago some friends/coworkers came over and I showed them a couple of videos. And they went "oh, you follow jrose too?" And we talked about you!

[@Filsantos86]

As an Gen 2 and Unown enthusiast, I gotta say this video is a work of art. My most precious Unown are the shiny I and V, and the X with the best DVs for Hidden Power Psychic, which I fully trained to Lv 100 and gave 3 PP Ups and the Twisted Spoon.

[@deathsnitemaresinfullust2269]

This one seems to be running even faster than usual, like the text and walking animation. Not the playthrough, the playthrough seems to be long enough for how comparatively easy it sounds to be playing out. 😄👍

[@benediktwindisch2778]

haha as a child when Crystal was new I caught all the Unown because of the influence from the third movie and actually trained my favorite looking letters (H,M,K,Q and W) to 100. They've grown on me even if they probably one of GameFreaks biggest scams

[@BioniclesaurKing4t2]

Here's a somewhat cruel challenge run idea: Unown with Hidden Power Ghost. All those Normal Types in the early game, nearly every trainer, even grinding against most wild Pokémon to prepare for the trainers, all with relying only on Struggle with so little HP to spare and no Rare Candies to speak of. And then after the opening brutal slog, it'll suddenly become trivial until those random no-name trainers who decided to still use a weak Normal type randomly in the middle of their team that your entire strategy now has to bow down to.

[@xSugknight]

and you cannot beat snorlax

[@briankim1098]

29:35 Ah yes Agatha, my favorite Johto E4 member.

[@Gingerbreadley]

When you play weedle so much unown looks good.

[@DarkYuan]

18:47 - "There are no more Dark Pokemon remaining until Houndour..." he says while fighting a Murkrow 18:58 - "Now the only Dark Pokemon we need to worry about are Karen's..." forgetting about Rival 5's Sneasel

[@noukan42]

Honestly if the goal is consistency and getting it done at all rather than speed i think Psychic is not the best type for HP. Losing stab is still better than having to struggle againist every trainer that run dark types. I don't know wich type would be best. On the top of my mind i would say Ice or Dragon.

[@AkumaMasurao]

29:33 - The trauma runs deep.

[@sir.hopper]

And now for Jrose's next series: "Beating Crystal with Unown using EVERY typed Hidden Power"

[@the_bug_bus3882]

Look at how you sneakily showed us squirtbottle at minute 17

[@graduator14]

Up until now, the potential of this Pokemon was unknown!

[@mongolidp]

Unown was always one of my favorite pokemon ever since I saw the 3rd movie back in the early 2000's. Im happy to see you doing a challenge using it!

[@seankemsley3893]

I love how he's so used to facing off with Agatha in the Elite Four that accidentally referred to Karen as Agatha at some point. So much Red and Blue on the mind.

[@CozyButcher]

Cozy joined the club. New JRose vidya, Cozy must drop what doing and watch. As always very well done mi fren. Thank you!

[@davidcasper3746]

Hey Jrose, love your content, watch your videos all the time. FYI, you should get a pop filter for your microphone, and also (if you have an EQ you use) lower the bass frequencies (everything below about 80 Hz). Your "p" sounds hit the mic really hard and it's obvious in this video, especially in the first couple minutes. Keep putting out awesome stuff!

[@21stcenturymessiah16]

If Unown is ever brought back, I have an idea how to improve it: instead of Hidden Power, it would have 4 moves, each randomly generated for each Unown, with type, power, whether it's physical or special, and secondary effects all generated.