It's Christmas Eve. I'm 36. And I'm settling in to watch a guy play Pokemon Yellow with Weedle.
@d00b3rt13 сағат бұрын
You and me both brother. Merry Christmas!
@woooooooah13 сағат бұрын
Hopefully with a lady, like myself
@kevinwilkes514713 сағат бұрын
I'm 34 almost 35 😢😮😢😮
@kevinwilkes514713 сағат бұрын
Merry Bhristmas
@silver_was_found13 сағат бұрын
Happy holidays! I feel young for a Scott viewer lol
@TheMoogleKing936 сағат бұрын
Weedle doesn't have a horn, he just always wears a party hat, hence why he's the perfect Christmas pokemon.
@Dolph1nRacer13 сағат бұрын
For the record, Fresh Water is actually the most cost-effective vending machine drink. It costs 4 dollars per hitpoint, while a Soda Pop costs 5 dollars per hitpoint and a Lemonade costs 4.38 dollars per hitpoint.
@steveita216213 сағат бұрын
How many more waters do you have to buy and use? That costs precious time in a speed run
@Dolph1nRacer13 сағат бұрын
@steveita2162 Fair point!
@arkjag299113 сағат бұрын
Interesting.
@vampocalpyse10 сағат бұрын
@@steveita2162 it could be a net neutral giving the extra clicks and the register time plus the inevitable miss clicking.
@thetrav21009 сағат бұрын
yeah forsure if not going for a quick finish its worth to spend the time
@monopolyrubix187512 сағат бұрын
One of my favorite things about your runs is seeing specific random trainers consistently outshine important characters like Surge, Bruno, Juan, etc. Shout-outs to the wrapping lass, the self-destructing hiker, Bird Keeper Abe, Youngster Calvin, etc.
@AzureAlliance318 сағат бұрын
After this series ends, we need the "let's play Pokemon Yellow" vids as these notable junior trainers. May Sandy become the champion she was always meant to be!
@bumblebabble1813 сағат бұрын
I believe in this funky little corndog
@Lotus_RT13 сағат бұрын
I know it can't learn it, but I can't help but laugh at the mental image of what it would look like to see Weedle use Body Slam.
@ShiningJudgment66650 минут бұрын
Considering there's a battle in Blue Kaizo where you battle a Bug Catcher that has a Level 100 Weedle before Vermillion, I can picture that. A giant Weedle against your team of Level 30/40 somethings (can't quite recall the level curve but I think that's about where you'd be in Levels).
@justanotheremptychannel247213 сағат бұрын
The one we all waited for, the mightiest hero pokeworld has ever seen
@theSato12 сағат бұрын
>Christmas Eve >Christmas (and my birthday) tomorrow >Finally get the much-dreaded (and much awaited) Weedle episode of RBY Scott's Thoughts >It's over my coveted 1 hour mark god bless Scott, Merry Christmas!
@justanotheremptychannel247210 сағат бұрын
Not everyone can get a gift like this
@theSatoСағат бұрын
@@justanotheremptychannel2472haha. unironically it's been a really bad birthday/Christmas so far (I'm sick with infection and will be spending it alone) - but having this video to fall asleep to is seriously making it better right now
@muffinland12 сағат бұрын
BONGZILLA LIVES!
@Trevorkian20108 сағат бұрын
Just wanted to say I absolutely love the editing and polish on your videos. Literally everything is a pleasant experience and that's rare for me because it is so easy for a lot of people to overdo effects and whatnot to where it is painful on my eyes (I've got vision issues). Your voice also strikes a fantastic balance of being engaging without being over the top. Thank you and your team for all the effort that I know goes into these.
@rainbowskin337912 сағат бұрын
I love runs like this, that have objectively no strategy to them. And you make them so compelling.
@TheWispGuy13 сағат бұрын
52:09 Fans: "Be careful, Scott! Sabrina could be quite challenging for [Insert Pokemon Here]!" Weedle: "Are you sure about that?"😏 Sabrina:😧😞
@pyrotempestwing12 сағат бұрын
Well, Weedle was also Lv100 vs Sabrina’s Lv50, and the damage calc, iirc takes the attacker’s level into account, although that might not be until later, Gen I is odd.
@TheWispGuy7 сағат бұрын
@@pyrotempestwing Fair point. I just found it amusing, is all.
@Alector127 сағат бұрын
Yeah, these solo runs feel like the big disenchantment of Sabrinas usual reputation as the strongest Gym Leader she has online. Many streamers mention Sabrina having no "type weakness" and that she does massive damage with Psychic but as can be seen, her mons are so frail that they croak with any attack anyway and her stupid AI almost never picks Psychic as an Attack move, rather often doing 1 damage with Psywave, the baddest, most awful TM a Gym Leader hands out.
@TheWispGuy6 сағат бұрын
@@Alector12 Good point. Sabrina can be scary IF she can land Flash/Kinesis, uses Psychic, and you can't outspeed her. But more often than not, she chooses the worst options.
@milanmach23794 сағат бұрын
Most terrible pokemon are physical attackers and Sabrina just folds to that. Whereas all RBY starters are special attackers that just don't do much to her with their STABs. So people's memories of their kid strategy of bulldozing everything with their starter make Sabrina seem much stronger.
@sandsunderthetable.662513 сағат бұрын
I’m sorry for your loss
@PabloNeves2613 сағат бұрын
The heck happened?
@krisc168411 сағат бұрын
@@PabloNeves26 I assume theyre referring to the the fact that Scott is doing this run
@sandsunderthetable.662511 сағат бұрын
@@PabloNeves26 weedle :(
@retloclive911812 сағат бұрын
Looking up the early bugs, an interesting run one day will be Caterpie in Gen V onward where for whatever reason, the developers started giving it Electroweb as a tutor move.
@Killagoose7711 сағат бұрын
It finally happened. Best Christmas gift we could ask for!
@MrKrembar10 сағат бұрын
"and as you can expect he (surge) is going to be quiet pathetic" * proceed to loose*
@mr.number92799 сағат бұрын
I just spent the wee hours of Christmas watching someone beat Pokemon Yellow with a Weedle. God. Damn. I'm really surprised Weedle got to Giovanni without needing X items---and even more surprised that in-battle healing wasn't even necessary. Your commentary throughout was hilarious. I think the tier below Bruno, which is probably just going to be Weedle and... Ditto? Can Ditto realistically beat the game or is it as improbable as Weedle? The tier should be the Gambler tier. It's not going to happen. But, it is POSSIBLE, at least, more than the literal Impossible tier of Caterpie/Kakuna/Metapod/Magikarp. Great video.
@AMH900012 сағат бұрын
A run so nice, you posted it twice. As I said before, I am powerful
@porquenao782213 сағат бұрын
This is because of the video quality stuck in 480p?
@adventureoflinkmk213 сағат бұрын
Most likely. I double checked the quality and the max is still 480p
@nachorzeszut185713 сағат бұрын
Since I always watch on mobile I didn't even notice
@rontheauraknight960613 сағат бұрын
I’m on mobile and I could notice lol. It was much blurrier than normal
@Hablamannen2 сағат бұрын
Higher resolutions are available now, I think it might take some time for youtube to enable it sometimes
@adventureoflinkmk213 сағат бұрын
0:48 suggestion: backport bug bite into gen 1 and re run weedle with it 1:13:45 do like Teo does, hack in harden because you can take your lvl6 weedle into GSC and level it to 7 to evolve into kakuna so you can get harden and trade back to your RBY save
@Zulk_RS6 сағат бұрын
On the topic of an additional tier to the tier list, you can perhaps add a "Lance" or "Cheater " tier which is for pokemon that can beat the game but if you bend the rules slightly. Like allowing Weedle to use X Items when you hit level 100,
@ShiningJudgment66647 минут бұрын
Lance tier is accurate considering his Barrier Dragonite in Red and Blue.
@Zulk_RS5 минут бұрын
@@ShiningJudgment666 That and his under-leveled Dragonite.
@bettyunicorn613213 сағат бұрын
Lets see if Scott can do the impossible! Cause Agatha will probably stop you in your tracts.
@Kramllegdub13 сағат бұрын
Merry Christmas you crazy bastard!! I hope you take a well deserved vacation in January. Thanks for all the content, sorry it helps me get to sleep some nights.
@HunnyDoo12 сағат бұрын
Everytime you said "You wouldn't think this would be that hard" I was like heeeeell yeah I would
@Xeraser25 сағат бұрын
Sandshrew using Sand Attack at the very last turn before it faints from poison makes it look like it might genuinely be aware. It knows.
@Cream147player10 сағат бұрын
Liking and commenting on the new video so it doesn’t get neglected by the algorithm!
@TheLukeskywalker26 сағат бұрын
Weedle's first Brock split is longer than the whole video covering the challenge run.
@logans.793210 сағат бұрын
To this day I have NO idea why Brock has TEN full restores. Were they really so insistent on the player learning type matchups that they didn’t want you to win by any other methods? I feel like encouraging creative strategies early on would be good 😂
@EthanTheWerewolf10 сағат бұрын
The devs where alergic to fun, and burns
@EthanTheWerewolf10 сағат бұрын
And poison
@thomaswinwood4 сағат бұрын
Game Freak were extremely prone to schedule slip in their early days and had to be forced to get Pokémon Red and Green into a state that could be shipped to customers, so I am like 90% sure trainer-used items never actually got _finished_ since the item assignments make very little sense in general (Guard Spec. Giovanni) and the code for Blaine doesn't actually check his Pokémon's current health before having a chance to use a Super Potion. It's entirely possible Brock's choice of item dates from when he was the second gym leader rather than the first.
@silver_was_found13 сағат бұрын
Before I watch the video, I'm already doubting that Weedle can finish the game. Might be another possible but very unlikely situation.
@diegorojas895913 сағат бұрын
??? Reupload?
@NuevoSMD8 сағат бұрын
The moment this channel has been building to over the years. 🎉
@silver_was_found13 сағат бұрын
I can already tell this run is going to be painful.
@CrookiNari10 сағат бұрын
It's funny you mention that video idea at 1:01:51... Years ago, I did run Weedle in Blue on my 3DS. Obviously I don't have video footage of any of it, but I did take a photo of my lil guy in the Hall of Fame at lv 88. This was long before I was super exposed to the solo challenge community so I was using items in battle pretty much the whole time. Once I got past Brock, it felt strangely freeing just relying on Struggle and X items, and not having to prioritise my learnset at all.
@PojoLoneWolf9 сағат бұрын
Why am I lying in bed eating a Snickerdoodle while watching Scott grind a Weedle to beat Brock? 😂
@VegeMaticPragtarian8 сағат бұрын
Never noticed this before, Kakuna looks like it has a tie in that picture at the end of the video. Little bug gentleman
@PrincessGoth57413 сағат бұрын
Despite how weak it is, I could not defeat weedle in a fight because its so adorable I could not harm them.
@ruthlesace13 сағат бұрын
Re-upload already?
@lyoukeefen71992 сағат бұрын
1:05:00 even if the guard spec could prevent status conditions, you get paralysed by a non-status move, so it wouldn’t help anyway
@Matthias.Abaddon13 сағат бұрын
Hooray! No more 480! Also i did this in red and lorelai is a hard wall because of rest spam :(
@DarkFEPKMN11 сағат бұрын
This is one I've been waiting for. Happy holidays
@arr0w76913 сағат бұрын
im curious how weedle would do with bug bite (the only move it gets besides string shot and poison sting)
@erik19borgnia11 сағат бұрын
And I will say it a third time. Are you ok, Scott? Why are you doing this to yourself? xD
@proceededspy137013 сағат бұрын
Is possible to mod in for Kakuna to learn Harden up on evolving? i mean come on, looking over at Metapod's move pool in Yellow and the fact Kakuna does learn Harden in gen two, it is supposed to. I refuse to believe anything else😑. Now do i think Kakuna can beat the game? no, but it might get further than Weedle.
@ThePKMNTrainerAndrew31 минут бұрын
"Tonights Story: Vermillion City Police baffled by sudden removal of all Diglett and Dugtrio from Diglett's cave. Officer Jenny delivered a statement that local authorities believe an infestation of Weedle forced the Diglett out of the cave due to signs of mass poison stings, though the infestation responsible seems to have moved on as well. Experts believe that Bug Catchers raising Beedrill releasing newborn Weedle into the Vermillion Sewers may be responsible. 'You know, raising a Beedrill is a joy, but eventually mating season comes and most Bug Catchers don't know what to do with all the Weedle.' Tune in tonight at 7 for more on this developing story."
@ShiningJudgment66651 минут бұрын
Regarding Kakuna, the Harden at Level 7 thing got fixed in Gen 2. So Kakuna could be possible if you allowed Gen 2 trade-backs and if it starts out as a Weedle.
@kaan-kaant4 сағат бұрын
Honestly the worst kind of run imaginable. It's not a bad pokemon in any interesting way, it doesn't have any specific walls, because everything is a wall. And any strategizing is more or less impossible. It is a hell of a spectacle though, thankyou for your sacrifice, scott. Merry Christmas 🎁
@silver_was_found13 сағат бұрын
A long Scott video is the best Christmas present :]
@Steve_A935 сағат бұрын
Shinies being determined by DVs in Gen 2, mean that any gen 1 pokemon could technically be shiny. Gotta wonder how many shinies popped during the grinding in this video
@bobosmith1015 сағат бұрын
Instead of Giovanni, Agatha is the unbreakable wall in Red Blue.
@brandonyoungquist171312 сағат бұрын
Bongzilla has arived
@paulmann857011 сағат бұрын
It’s Christmas and my headcanon is that Bruno stopped the bug.
@woxyinaboxy2413 сағат бұрын
Completely new video!
@hannahbriarly419213 сағат бұрын
surely this will go well
@oligould85755 сағат бұрын
I've always wanted to see a caterpie and weedle (team worm) run. neither can win alone without items, but is it possible to complete the game with the standard ruleset if they tag team? This would open the door to a few stratagies and make the run somewhat interesting too
@myggmastaren336512 сағат бұрын
Weedle vs Agatha, what could possibly go wrong :D
@Antholography8 сағат бұрын
I propose calling the “needs X items” the Lance Tier. In gen 1, Lance’s Dragonite knows Barrier. And THEN in gen 2 Lance’s Aerodactyl knows Rock Slide. He literally cheats. It’s not possible for it to have that move. I.E. this is the “Cheater” tier. Only possible if you cheat the rules!
@thomaswinwood4 сағат бұрын
The Ditto playthrough may be interesting given I'm pretty sure Yellow still has the Transform PP bug.
@briancaster287613 сағат бұрын
Well, I'm not watching this whole video again but ill comment and like for the algorithm.
@Crowdragon22512 сағат бұрын
Here's an inquiry for you. Would you be willing to do another Weedle run while back porting Bug Bite? It might just speed up the process to "bearable" levels.
@djkates19162 сағат бұрын
Everything mentioned at the end of the video about Kakuna is accurate. It does, however, bring up an idea for a potentially interesting "what-if" run. In Gen 2, the devs did apply the same fix for Kakuna's moveset that they did for Metapod in Yellow, namely adding a second instance of Harden at Level 7 so that Kakuna would learn it on evolution. A Kakuna that learned Harden this way could then be traded back to a Gen 1 game. So... what if the devs had applied the fix in Yellow, OR what if someone traded a Weedle over to Gen 2, evolved it there so it learned Harden, then traded it back to the Yellow file it had originated from? (I specify the two-way trade because then obedience isn't an issue. Kakuna's bad enough without adding that into the mix.) Could the resulting Kakuna beat Yellow under Scott's usual rule set? (I'm imagining that the playthrough would start as a Weedle, and evolve into Kakuna at Level 7, with the one change being that Kakuna's move set would be modified to include an instance of Harden at Level 7.) My initial thought is that the run would be at least *possible* because of the Badge Boost Glitch (coupled with the legitimate utility of Harden), though it would be *well* into the Bruno tier. The Brock split alone would be at least as bad as Weedle's, possibly even worse due to Kakuna's Base Attack being even lower than Weedle's. (After all, you can't badge boost Attack until *after* you beat Brock.) I wouldn't be surprised if this run had to hit Level 100 to be able to beat the game.
@PokeMaster222224 сағат бұрын
If only Bug Bite existed from the start, huh? That move would've been amazing here, probably would've saved Weedle a bunch of time - both from having a more powerful move with better type coverage, and also having more PP to use as well.
@adrienneladd837511 сағат бұрын
so obviously starting with a kakuna is impossible, but what if you evolve into it (but can't go to beedrill)?
@pommyadam10 сағат бұрын
so Scott mentions that the next yellow video was going to be hard to beat the game with, so after we got IronBundle out of the way... this should be a steamroll /s
@pommyadam10 сағат бұрын
also at 58:10 discovering that the routing software doesn't cap out stat experience is a "what? why would that EVER be relevant" fix, truly the best bug tester it's also kinda weird that BOTH runs that failed to finish ended at Giovanni's gym battle, I wonder if that's a consistent thing moving forward?
@rafilosofo11 сағат бұрын
I though it was youtube trying to make me pay premium "no way they disabled the HD option!" lol
@EthanTheWerewolf10 сағат бұрын
You madman. I am very interested with how you are gonna actually do this
@eternalnos21798 сағат бұрын
Happy Holidays Scott and crew :D I'm still confused about Machop if glitches are against the rules. Can anyone help clarify?
@gerarddekloe93859 сағат бұрын
Koga is possible? I thought it had a poisen steel type in his team😂
@connor-34553 сағат бұрын
shouldn't magikarp be ranked above the cocoon's? since it can attack and make it farther?
@Soulerize15 сағат бұрын
I attempted a weedle only run a few years ago and also got stopped at Giovanni, even with HEAVY use of save states I did not have the patience to RNG through something that improbable. I had seen some generic TAS runs where they got passed certain trainers by manipulating gen 1 misses on key abilities, most famously a triple gen 1 miss on the self destructing hiker using self destruct. I thought I could just save state roll Giovanni to do something similar, but it was so painful, literally doing it for hours, getting poison on turn 1, crits, gen 1 misses… I am pretty patient, I wanted to make it happen so badly, but in the end I said screw it and also used x items, which fundamentally just breaks the game.
@perkypenguin166312 сағат бұрын
On the twenty-fourth day of Christmas, Scott’s Thoughts gave to me… Twenty-four bot and bug bundles, Twenty-three godly showdowns, Twenty-two transformer…Mew, Twenty-one cicada fams, Twenty Swords Dance backports, Nineteen mid tadpole swirls, Eighteen mid bell peppers, Seventeen backported legends, Sixteen evolution tests, Fifteen Kanto kaiju, Fourteen starter redos, Thirteen rare Normal girls, Twelve bear v bull fights, Eleven Gen 1 backports, Ten pounds per pink puff, Nine resists when evolved, Eight Belly Drum badges, Seven years with Psywave, Six slow squad solos, Five mid starter flings! Four Eevee runs, Three years post redo, Two Grass/Ice types, And a Hitmontop in Gen 3!
@BlackEscanor6 сағат бұрын
Let's go for my prediction ! Poison Sting String shot Tier : impossible
@BrieDonadieu9 сағат бұрын
Watched the original intently in 480p. here to rest to your voice in 1080p... I feel like I did this in the wrong order
@PabloNeves264 сағат бұрын
Does Dire Hit work the same way Focus Energy does? I mean, glitched?
@Zelgius14 сағат бұрын
Yes! This Bongzilla video finally happened! : D ...How much suffering will Crystal and Emerald inflict upon Scott, with a Weedle only run? : D
@thesillyone383753 минут бұрын
Impossible since steel type was added
@Fenstermanscience12 сағат бұрын
Ya ever feel like a needle against an onion I often do
@UnknownVir5 сағат бұрын
was the start of the video slightly cut off?
@Zulk_RS7 сағат бұрын
30:40 "Weedle is starting to fall off" Starting to? Weedle has been falling since the moment you got it. Its just been falling at an accelerated rate over time.
@c.m.93693 сағат бұрын
Before watching: Well, that‘s gonna be rough! X-D Other generations probably would be impossible, but gen1 is janky enough that it might be doable, but it has to be on lvl 100. Weedle just has no tools to work with. Two moves, that‘s it. No badge boost glitch to benefit from, nothing… saving grace will be Poison Sting, being able to poison an opponent could make the difference. But unless it turns out that Weedle can‘t even beat the game, it will end up in the Bruno tier as probably the worst pokemon you tried so far. After watching: The little Weedle that couldn‘t… I‘m actually surprised how early the run becomes impossible. I thought Agatha would probably stop it, but Giovanny, so early on? Damn! But yeah, Poison Sting is just a terrible move, and Weedle is obviously awful. I appreciate the effort you put into this, to show what it would take to beat this game with a Weedle! Really interesting!
@TomatoSalad1237 сағат бұрын
This is going to be a banger
@7highstraight7 сағат бұрын
kzbin.info/aero/PL0bgUZuenvq2o5kYyKMDVykxHvqzGdbG_ Let me introduce you to Bongzilla. Years ago a dude named Jake went through most of the series with just a weedle.
@jasonkerbs8069 сағат бұрын
You should try a team run with weedle and abra
@aardappelgang63353 сағат бұрын
Its not 480p anymore
@garfieldsmoistbones78106 сағат бұрын
The rocker is such a strange trainer class that I don’t think I’ve ever heard you mention. Do you ever fight one in runs where you’re using an actual Pokémon?
@dakillaklown71511 сағат бұрын
Seeing runs like his make me wonder if you need someone to talk to... or if you're just sadistic..
@hammdogporkington3058Сағат бұрын
48:23 One must imagine Sisyphus happy
@azure_paladin470612 сағат бұрын
I think weedle gets walled at the ghost tower
@connor-34554 сағат бұрын
going into this video im gonna assume Agatha is not possible even at lvl 100
@connor-34553 сағат бұрын
well, it turns out it was Giovani should have guessed that
@Nickm0112 сағат бұрын
What about doing The Missingno glitch to get your Pokemon to 255? Could Weedle win at 255?
@tysonpestner6 сағат бұрын
You’re the man, Scott
@baddragonite11 сағат бұрын
Merry Christmas 🎄😁
@AlexanderJamesWhite8 сағат бұрын
Kakuna is gonna be wild
@Salnax12 сағат бұрын
Last non-HGSS video of the year!
@veghesther320412 сағат бұрын
Like Red/Blue its still nearly IMPOSSIBLE in Crystal ALL of Sabrina's pokemon can 1 shot it EVEN at lv 100 and NONE of Koga's can be poisoned FROM Poison sting at all.
@Philip48213 сағат бұрын
Been waiting this forever!!
@justinploskonka661113 сағат бұрын
Bongzilla
@lewisgregory19964 сағат бұрын
I pretty sure that Kakuna is going to be worst
@lewisgregory19964 сағат бұрын
Struggle can't hit ghost, so yeah lol
@ZerglingOne113 сағат бұрын
2 seconds in. Cannot complete by reason of Giovanni. That's my guess.