World Champ Reacts to Pokemon Red World Record Speedrun

[@WolfeyVGC]

Watch the original here! kzbin.info/www/bejne/rajZmHR3q82rg5o

[@DaBannyGaming]

Wolfe cool

[@Azmatic24]

Yee

[@Christmasmoose714]

Edited!?!?

[@johnverheul989]

Pog

[@SnowflakeTheLegend]

PogleyVGC

[@jermizzey]

Wolfey develops psychic powers, but instead of using them to predict natural disasters and accidents, he just predicts when Mega Punch crits -_-

[@ERROR-CitationNeeded]

I can predict when the world record video contains footage of the speedrunner breaking the world record of the game they’re playing. Works every time.

[@jonahabramson3648]

@@ERROR-CitationNeeded I can predict stuff after they happen

[@miinesweep]

Suggesting watching the history of Red/Blue speedruns by Summoning Salt

[@ristopoho824]

Preferrably live, though that doesn't go well to a reaction video, atleast not in this kind of fair nonstealey way. But live i'd watch, There are so many weirdnesses that Wolfey would get his mind blown.

[@sargonavocado4582]

Or just watch it alone by yourself

[@ristopoho824]

Already did. That's why we know that it contains a lot for wolfe to see. To maybe understand anything in this. This video too was more about wolfe being wtf;d than about the run, so it's cool to do this, not stealing the content but adding to it without making the other video redundant. Summoning salt has a lot of content that would interest the same audience as pokemon competitive, so he'd benefit from the visibility the world champion of the different kind would bring. I'll stop before this turns into a rant. Kinda did already. Sorry..

[@saixmusic9322]

Yes! That's a great video from an awesome channel!

[@joebobby1412]

We need Wolfey to react to every Summoning Salt video.

[@playinjazz2724]

Wolfe: Doesn’t know that Special is one stat in gen 1 Me, who watches FSG: YOU FOOL

[@ashenamber2305]

unfortunately, i dont think wolfe watches fsg

[@aidenpons9584]

@@ashenamber2305 "World Champ reacts to FSG" would mean Wolfey never runs out of content XD

[@TOG285]

Same

[@shadowhawk3933]

Huge fan of fsg and I know so much thanks too him and have built a team from each gen from just watching every fsg video and to be honest it makes my game play so much faster

[@eclipse9727]

Honestly, seeing Wolfe react to FSG videos would be very interesting. I've seen zero reaction videos on them even though they're entertaining, and Wolfe's even featured in some of them.

[@kashm9954]

Wolfe hurt himself in confusion.

[@elliotw.888]

playing gen 1 be like

[@romajimamulo]

7:03 any% is in contrast to 100%, a category where you have to finish everything. any% as in you can finish the game (reach the credits) at any percentage of completion. EDIT: 19:19 yes, pokemon speedrunners use "range" instead of "roll" EDIT 2: 32:23 "Percent to finish" is the chance of a given run finishing, that is, making it to the end without losing far too much time to make up

[@craigtanton1757]

Just remember, no matter how fast you are, Gary still has the WR.

[@yoshpeters3079]

It’s Blue Gary is anime Red blue is games. But he called his rival A.

[@Beastintheomlet]

I love watching someone who is super knowledgeable about pokémon on the whole but hasn’t fucked with G1 being so utterly confused by how weird it is.

[@89Dustdevil]

If you could just hold bread in this game you’d save so much time.

[@williamholtzclaw3029]

Ok but imagine how fast BLUE is going in this run

[@kheireddineattala1281]

Everyone : gen 1 amnesia is two calm minds Wolfey : gen 1 amnesia is geomancy minus speed without power herb works too

[@sirpoglington]

I love Wolfe’s immediate denial as soon as anything happens “Potion?”

[@Patterrz]

Gen 1 is a broken mess LMAO

[@SnowflakeTheLegend]

Very true :3

[@kevinbell5674]

Not really. Like, not even close. Try not to base your opinions on only bias.

[@quinncrypt_media]

Yeah, people are still finding glitches in this game

[@TheAetherleaf]

oh hi paterrz your a cool youtuber

[@kevinbell5674]

@jvalex18 Factually, it's glitchy. Saying it's buggy implies there's game-breaking issues around every corner when only one appears under specific circumstances.

[@jamham9000]

"I don't hate gen1, I just don't understand it." I feel like if this was applied to more than just Pokemon, the world would be a much better place.

[@Hax_R_Us]

Thanks Wolfey for informing me the correct pronunciation of Brock is "Bork" :0

[@bamafan5099]

Bork Laser

[@lapplandkun9273]

Gym Leader Bork

[@BfaltS1K]

Pa rass too

[@lapplandkun9273]

@@BfaltS1K Par Ass?

[@BfaltS1K]

Watch the mt moon part where he battles the paras

[@gavinlee9999]

I want Wolfey to react to SmallAnt’s Pokémon but they level down series

[@AstralSpitfire]

Day 92 of asking for "Why Gastly is a threat," because it has the 169th best special attack of all pokemon, all forms, according to Serebii. Short list of some pokémon that have lower special attack than Gastly: Dragalge, Noivern, Clefable, Kingdra, Cofagrigus, Gothitelle, Lugia, Ludicolo, Blastoise, and the superbowl itself, Noctowl. Gastly stronk.

[@AstralSpitfire]

@Pokémon & FF fan no

[@Jackoff_icial]

hearing dead run in the wr speedrun has the same energy as hearing the world champ say I definitely lose now. WELL. no I definitely win. no wait I lose. no wait

[@StompyRoA]

Commenting on Wolfey’s wideo for it to get into KZbin’s circulation algorithm! I love how you can basically get away with doing glitches in red and blue speed runs because the game is barely holding itself together as is. Edit: I feel like I should clarify, stuff like focus energy giving lower crit rate, psywave in general and the badge boost glitch is what I’m talking about. Hell, you even get a glitch before gameplay even begins! (Wrong Pokémon cry when oak shows you a Pokémon)

[@chikenugets9165]

@@uptheironsdutch actually thats any% no save corruption, the true any% run is like 20 seconds so they banned that glitch to make it more entertaining

[@tylerd1297]

Also the game boy color and GB player/advance allow you to perform a sequence of inputs at the title screen that result in different colors. It happens to be a part of the commands for that specific manip. So if you have Red you can change the color to Blue and vice versa. The most interesting one is UP+B which has a dull sequoia tone. In a well lit area, you can actually use that tone to see in Rock Tunnel. Exarion was the first to use that trick in a speedrun. Pretty neat

[@Jamaha5]

Speed Runs are really weird but also incredibly calming and great to watch. Your reaction to this record was great

[@SnowflakeTheLegend]

Real youtubists, upload late. Im not asking why you uploaded at 10PM EST Also you forrrgot the intro

[@PabloGarcia-gw1np]

European here, it is 4am for me, I too would like the old upload schedule

[@daking6361]

You don't have to say to read it in wolfey singing voice. It's automatic for the true wolfe heads

[@SnowflakeTheLegend]

Da King true but i put it for people who only seen a few wideos. I edited it out tho

[@delta0964]

World Champion wins another world championship for watching the world champion win the world championship of Pokémon red

[@Michael.032]

"He can see things before they happen. It's a Jedi trait"

[@soulkarver956]

"The Gameboy dies." That would be a crippling blow if that ever happened to a speedrunner.

[@Christian.work.credit]

Wolfe does top tier editing? Quarantine really has changed us all

[@aleclapierre6020]

Potion in Viridian was one of those hidden items that, in future games, would normally only be on empty/grassless tiles. Gen 1 “super effective” text is wrong fairly often, I’m not sure what happened with the leech life at @6:00 but it can also happen when a dual-type pokemon is hit by a move that it resists with one type but is weak to with the other typing (e.g. Venusaur getting hit by a ground type move will show “It’s super effective!” when, as we know, it is not) Critical hits, for those who don’t know, are derived from the speed stat in Gen 1 - that’s why Nido has a ~1/6 chance to crit. Also, something that isn’t mentioned in this is the badge boost glitch. Some of the gym badges you get also give you a (12.5%?) boost to a particular stat. Due to a coding error though, whenever you boost any of your stats (this excludes accuracy), you add those badge boosts again multiplicatively. So the X Speeds/X Specials etc. boost the other 3 stats as well, just to a lesser degree.

[@lemmy2776]

The super effective message was correct, because in gen 1 poison and bug are super effective agaisnt each other

[@aleclapierre6020]

Lemmy oh shit that’s some stupid shit, thanks for letting me know!

[@danh9676]

Just so you know. Growl didn't fail, it missed. Any status moves that miss in gen 1 say failed.

[@Rust_BKT]

Please make more content like this, it would be great to see collabs between speedrunners and competative players. Theres a huge knowledge base that each side shares, and it would be awesome to see and learn from the other side, both for runners and competetive players, especially for thsoe wanting to get into previous gens

[@ristopoho824]

" love how they can skip trainers in *BORKS* gym" I love you Wolfey

[@zauber_]

Ever thought of reacting to the perfect pokerap?

[@0rbeez]

The collab I never knew I needed

[@bulbasam2143]

I would love to see Wolfe’s reaction to that haha

[@R0bilicious]

The perfect pokerap needs more reactions!

[@SchattenKetchup]

Viridian Forest: "Why is there a potion showing off?" Because it's a hidden one.

[@Grayvern]

I love all your content wolfey!! It brightens my day every time I see them in my notifs

[@DaBannyGaming]

Day 92 of asking Wolfey Wideo Man to make "Why Scorbunny is a threat" because it's hidden ability is amazing. It can also do stuff with Sucker Punch + Weakness Policy mummy.

[@woopersquirtle1422]

:0

[@gdxnsk]

wolfey is 3x more excited about that crit than the speedrunner

[@silverrey7379]

My favorite thing about gen 1 is the Badge Boost Glitch. Imagine winning against the champion while underleveled only because he used Leer once and boosted all of your stats

[@tylerd1297]

I believe there's also some weird mechanics that boost your stats based on the last number of your Poke's level. I don't remember but it's something like you get extra boosts if your Pokemon's level ends in the numbers 3, 5, and 8. Something like that

[@ISE-gg6yr]

Wolfe:"Ok here's the deal. This is the pokemon red world champion speedrun. So, here's the deal..."

[@Ray-wz8sg]

wolfe please have mercy with these late uploads on school nights i already have trouble falling asleep

[@Teriyakikuma]

Would definitely love more speedrun reactions, or even a Twitch Plays Pokemon reaction.

[@RossMK97]

The "WHAT" at 1:36 was hilarious, it was so aggressive lol

[@cloudfinraptor]

The best part of this video is seeing Wolfe not know random casual stuff. But this isn't his game and that's completely okay. Love you Wolfe!

[@jalenwoodley8362]

Speedrunning is actually legit. I recommend watching Werster he has a lot of Pokémon speedrun world records

[@MunkeeMazik]

Werster is also really good at explaining his speedrunning strategies as he plays, so you can understand why he's doing everything and how the different glitches work

[@joaomrtins]

His videos on failed runs and rages are among the funniest things any poketuber has ever done.

[@coot33]

​@@joaomrtins World Champ Reacts to Pokemon World Champ Red ruining Werster day..

[@thebestworst8002]

He should watch everything in the Pokémon moments playlist

[@SnowflakeTheLegend]

The only way i know werster is from the wally shiny

[@ogeid772]

Wolfey in 8:29 "is this the power of Ultra Instinct?"

[@eclipseok1217]

Instead of rock,paper,scissors wolfey plays grass,water,fire

[@duncanlapkin8845]

Or dark, psychic, fighting

[@joeymama9088]

I was waiting for Wolfey content so bad that I watched old Twitch Wods. At least I'm early for today's wideo.

[@appleycider402]

Watch at 2x speed to set the next world record

[@ShepherdXander]

Biggest brain

[@lukas8017]

Awesome video! TBH I'd watch ALL the speedruns in this manner since it's so boiled down to the important moments.

[@Deadflower019]

Gen 1 has to be one of my favorite generations, not for the nostalgia but because of how broken everything is. Poison and Bug are strong against eachother, Psychic is immune to Ghost, Special was one stat, there's a 1/256 chance of missing a 100% accurate move, Dig and EQ did the same amount of damage, RNG manipulation is ridiculous, *Wrap,* Dragon Rage is the only Dragon type move but deals a set amount of damage making it pointless, Explosion halves the opponent's defense, lots of Pokemon have really weird coverage such as Water Gun and Bubble Beam, Bike guy making text instant, I could go on for a good while. Edit: oh yeah, how could I forget Focus Energy reducing your chance of landing a Crit by 75%? That's one of the basic ones.

[@Running_Man_OG]

Speedruns are cool wolfey, I like watching old games I used to play be beat really fast

[@suchalameo]

Wolfey: I can feel when things will burn or crit KZbin: *looks at last VGC matches*

[@tylerd1297]

Ouch

[@erickiliany]

Time for reaction to wester gets all gold symbols in emerald version.

[@micahwoller7401]

I remember watching this stream, such a good one! Great content wideo man!

[@strikingdummy8001]

I like how Wolfe says “schedule”, as if any run is supposed to be WR

[@kamakazikila4734]

seeing more speedrun related Wideos would be pretty cool. i think having pokeguy/gunner on the call would be very helpful and informative for people who aren't familiar with the runs as they're both very knowledgable and do an excellent job of explaining both what is happening, and why you do it.

[@nickwatic]

I feel like I've already seen this. Maybe i watched it live and forgot

[@backhander8710]

2:03 ohhhhhhhhhh i get it now,the 100% accuracy Nidoking+horn drill strategy with the X-accuracy

[@galenburnett9791]

9:00 That’s amazing that you’ve got so into the game that you can psychically intuit crits. I 100% believe you and know that it’s true. It’s so amazing. You can either believe me or not but I tell you that there are intelligences behind the seemingly random events in our lives; and this must extend to mathematical probability too.. because not knowing any better we think that there’s a x/y chance of a crit happening and that it’s determined by sub-atomic particles firing off randomly inside the game-chip. But you are testiment to the intelligences behind these probabilities, because you actually have an intuitive psychic connection with them, which has developed in you over your time with the game. Amazing.

[@veryyes7900]

wolfe went from a normal person to a person with psychic powers

[@cyanideonfire5924]

8:40 "sometimes I can feel crits" Me playing dota since I was about 8 or 9 years old, so about a decade. When you play a game for a long time you can just feel crits.

[@randoml97]

"The crazy thing is he probably could have been about a minute, minute and a half faster" Honestly I'd be really curious to see the fastest time per split. There are so many rng things that can kill or save a run that the world record is still so far from perfect even if every button input is optimal. That's what makes this such an interesting speed run to me. The game is so RNG based that the world record isn't won or lost by milliseconds. You can get totally derailed by hitting yourself in confusion and still come back

[@reubenmiller2142]

You can sort of, it’s called TASBot (Tool Assisted Speedrun... Bot lol). I can’t remember off of the top of my head if there’s a Glitchless run on the books, mainly because the bot can operate at speeds higher than human capacity, but there are plenty of No Save Corruption runs that demo how broken Gen 1 truly is.

[@reubenmiller2142]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/npbQpIuFr9d3h9k

[@CarmenLC]

No, it's called Segmented Runs

[@mikehall4730]

The date Wolfey starts speedrunning Gen 1

[@maouzen7109]

Wolfey has 1 second Epitaph instead of 10, but for pokemon.

[@chadfishfruit]

King krimson erases his opponents moments of being defeated

[@switchxb]

I'm super down for more speedrun reactions, speedruns are tons of fun to watch

[@Bird_in_a_Trenchcoat]

Wolfe can see things before they happen, it’s a Jedi trait.

[@Rebateman]

Idea - 24 hours to learn Pokemon Speedrunning then preform a run. Any Pokemon game. Or game in general. Smallant did this for Super Mario Sunshine.

[@christophermoon2136]

Gen 1 AI used super effective moves against Pokemon. However, if the target is asleep already, then it does not use hypnosis and will use its other moves. 21:27 abilities were first introduced in gen 3.

[@vengeflyking2722]

It’s weird how some type effectivenesses were different or glitched in gen 1. For example how Psychic is immune to Ghost rather than weak to it and how Fire doesn’t resist Ice. It’s a whole different world and we can be happy that Gamefreak prefers buffing Charizard over bringing back some of the wacky mechanics.

[@colyrne]

I don't know if it was ever explicitly answered, but he stored the Pokemon in the box before league so that it cut the League win entry in half since it just had to show/register Nidoking and Pidgey.

[@Joveoak4]

12:18 Goldeen’s generation 1 sprites weirds out Wolfey.

[@ManShaww]

Cool video, would love to see you react to other generation speedruns if you enjoy them

[@psymar]

hi, I'm a (not very good) red runner; my PB is 2:07:06 because I suck at menuing and haven't landed moon manip yet. running commentary: nice catch on the growl fail. basically if you don't x acc, every move in gen 1 has a 1/256 chance to miss, which can happen at the worst goddamn times but also at hilarious times like when koga selfdestructs weezing he did NOT RNG manip on route 1, that was pure luck he's not blocking the rival's path, that's where the rival stops anyway, but by moving beside oak, he scrolls the screen up so gary doesn't walk as far the nidoran catch is rng manipped by the save/reset, walk path, and seven a presses; it's also guaranteed to have perfect DVs of FFEF in hex (15, 15, 14, 15 on a 0-15 scale) that potion is always there, the bug catcher even hints at it by saying he dropped it. there's other invis items you see in underground path and other places that you're supposed to find with itemfinder, which you get for having 30 species in your dex in a normal run. saving works because the game starts from the same RNG state every time, so as long as your inputs are the same at every point the game checks for inputs (which is not every frame), you're gold. you don't press B while walking, just A. there's 7 for the nido manip and like 30 for mount moon,, also one or two for the surge trash cans manip later moon rocket is super deadly when you go into it as nidoran; there's a beginner strat that fights a lass and a wild bird on route 3 to get an extra level, so you can rare candy and moon stone evolve to nidoking before that, but it's a bit slower he almost escape roped instead of moon stone-ing, which I've seen happen you go back to pallet it's very sad psychic is only immune to lick; the only other ghost moves are night shade (fixed damage, immunity/weakness/resistance don't apply) and confuse ray (no damage) starmie does not have psychic but it does have bubblebeam which can crit and kill from that hp, or misty can X defend and nidoking gets 3-turn thrash and gets confused, that fight is awful when he talks about "surge world record" he doesn't mean the world record's time to surge, he means the best time to surge anyone's ever gotten I love the SS anne cutscene because I frequently get to that point *really* needing to use the bathroom and by doing it there I lose less time the game saves by the time you can see the word "saving..." so you don't actually have to wait, it just makes you wait before saying you saved because they may not have had the hardware specs when coding it idk I think modern strats is to mega punch the first mon on the route 9 trainer, and then thrash, but if you're low on mega punches you can just thrash and pray for four-turn thrash or to hit through confusion, it's the same odds either way; this is why she's known as four turn thrash girl vine whip is good from bulbasaur because stun spore and other moves are bad yes, rock slide can miss, it's 90% to hit which is why tower is all we use it for he had in fact been to lavender, he didn't stop there but he walked through it going from rock tunnel to celadon horn drill has a speed check, not a level check, in gen 1 in emu, and newer game boys, you can actually see the invisible walls as little gaps in the lines in koga's gym yeah boom strats blow everyone's mind, what's especially hilarious is when selfdestruct misses because 1/256 chance yeah menu speed is huge that's like ten minutes of my run that I lose to pokeguy; he mostly buffers the inputs to do it frame-perfectly and I haven't learned those tricks yet you do not usually lose the run to tangela because tangela sucks lol you don't get ko'd by growlithe because "good ai" means it only uses super effective moves if it can, which in growlithe's case, means agility because psychic beats poison; this is also useful on the lance fight yeah just the red HP strat from koga to lorelei saves two minutes lmao there's no voltorb flip in game corner, just slots, we skip it by pokedolling marowak in pokemon tower Blizzard against agatha's golbat is in fact not 100% accurate, and it knows haze, that's why you normally heal for agatha, unless you need to yolo it for WR pace. that plus the other attacks from second gengar yes, they can crit there, gyarados can crit too and that's a death even from full health so we just hope it doesn't happen; same with pidgeot sky attack I think if you give it two turns? yeah x speed because as I said earlier, horn drill is speed based not level based it's hard to mess up on the hall of fame split, but I did see someone earthquake gary's aerodactyl once by mistake when doing no-PP-up strats, instead of using blizz or thunderbolt (either kills it there); it killed them. that was very sad

[@joaopescusa]

Pokeguy, Exarion and Gunner are such amazing pokemon speedrunners, it astonishing how good they are.

[@JamesDC42]

I thought he was actually talking to someone for the longest time.

[@wolfiemuse]

It’s so funny bc wolfey is the 2016 world champ yet there is so much he doesn’t know about Gen 1 haha

[@teraphIl1000]

Wolfey's reactions are gold.

[@stonerbland256]

Speedruns are amazing, pokemon speedruns in particular there's so much math, and a surprising amount of improving

[@stonerbland256]

Great content, really enjoyed

[@v.4892]

16:40 reminds me of the twitch chat telling the guy who holds the minecraft wr to quit the run

[@richardwilliams3497]

Lol “any dentures in chat?”

[@Viviantoga]

Reminder that there tends to be a distinct difference between "glitch" and "exploit" that's usually divided around developer intent and severity of things breaking. Hence why things like using Pokedoll to skip Cubone's mom is allowed in this category, but Trainer-Fly isn't. Also, if nobody mentioned it in chat while recording: "Any%" means there's no real restrictions progress-wise. Some games can have 100% or Low% categories, and Any% is an extension of that, used for basically every game as shorthand for "anything goes".

[@Bajancheese90]

It’s amazing how much Wolfe doesn’t know bout Gen 1 😂😂, you learn something new everyday

[@Man2th806]

The mouse cursor at random times hanging out on the screen drove my nuts that my "cursor sorcerer" app wasn't working hahaha

[@JesseNightingale]

I find it funny that nearly every world record speed run I've watched the runner says "this is a shit run I did so bad" or "dead run I should just reset" It's a really bizarre thing that happens more then you'd think lol

[@JBSouls]

Wolfey being confused by rng manipulation and gen 1 in general for 35 minutes straight xD

[@pawouapproval984]

WOLFE NEEDS TO DO HIS OWN SPEEDRUN

[@ABort1]

Pokémon Sapphire at GDQ by Gunnar is really cool too. He and his couch explain a lot about the run as well.

[@davidellett9316]

We need a Woofley/Keizaron collabo. I would love to see more of these but would recommend you watch a version that has commentary, like any of the wideos from Awesome Games Done Quick, because they actually have commentators explaining all the strats and such. I’m also sure that one of the top runners would love to walk you through the run as they perform it, since they are all super super welcoming

[@kunalroy3579]

Day 1 of asking wolfey to react to gen 1 battling explained (by false swipe gaming)

[@bustin1946]

or literally any fsg video

[@jordancwoodard4568]

He gets bonus points for taking the helix fossil.

[@aaronfarabaugh6573]

Day 4 of asking WolfeyVGC to use a team that counters trick room by out speeding the trick room

[@TheYoshiChannel-7]

Bug is super effective on poison and the other way around in gen one and due to a bug, psychic is immune to ghost

[@esdraskuhn8896]

Alternative title: "Pokemon World Champion TRIGGERS genwunners for 30 minutes"

[@Yamato73915]

What?

[@empier79]

Weirdo really said "according to my calculations" like okay buddy

[@SnakeandLevi]

“The G%# D#%m PEN IS BLUE”!!!!😅😂

[@NoOneOnYT]

You Attempting a speedrun would be so dope

[@CarnageO31]

I legit just want to see you speedrun something Wolfey

[@ParrotDash]

You should totally react to more pokemon speedruns in the future Id reccomend watching the pokemon saphire speedrun I thought it was super intresting watching the marathon run on agdq.

[@marcoasturias8520]

1st gen is so wacky that even a Pokémon champion is taken by surprise!

[@Whatupitskevin]

When a pokemon has two types in Gen 1 and it's weak to one of the types, it will say "super effective" but it's not.

[@davidpellecchia4360]

My high school history teacher could do the same thing. Call things before they happened pretty accurately

[@shestewa6581]

My high school history teacher had a similar power. Every day that we had his class, he was able to call out things that had happened in the past. It was shocking.

[@davidpellecchia4360]

Apostastrophe why is it always history teachers. I mean it makes sense but man they’re weird. Talking about weird things in school: I remember one day the power went out for an entire school day cause backup generator wasn’t working. So for the entire day we had a powerless day.

[@Nobody-xe9fc]

I dare Wolfey to say the word "video" with an actual V.