One thing that would help with Red is that certain days don't have hail. Christmas and your birthday (registered on your DS) have diamond dust instead of hail, so you wouldn't need Sunny Day to avoid the damage.
Another fellow diamond dust knower! Only thing I’ll correct (at least based on my bulbapedia research) is that it seems like it’s New Year’s Eve and not Christmas that has the diamond dust. And it seems the players birthday doesn’t effect diamond dust until XY.
A thing to note, is that it's possible to disable the hail on Mt. Silver. On certain days, the hail is actually "diamond dust" instead, which just disables the hail effect. Might be something to look into when trying to take on Red in the future, since it means you aren't taking damage every turn and it also means his Blizzards arent guarenteed hits anymore. 15th March for example is one of the days where there's no hail on Mt. Silver.
But why did they have to make a spider BUG type? The same as why did they make Breloom a grass type? Spiders are not bugs and Mushrooms are not plants.
Claire: "You have to prove you lost your lazy ideals!" Jrose having grinded a spinarak to defeat everything in the game but the last boss, and grinding that boss hundreds of times: *Eye twitches*
That line isn't what got me. The line from the trainer inside the cave, accusing you of being 'uninvited' is. Like dude, the gym leader just told me to come here. That doesn't count as an invitation?!
I love the fact that this was a failed challenge. It sets a precedent for future impossible challenges that it's not just a given that they'll be completable just because you uploaded them. Raises the stakes! Great content, JRose.
@@Shadowjackal Exactly. Jrose stated he's never failed a challenge before. My first thought was wait the gen 1 magikarp was a failed challenge. . Now im sure he knew that challenge was impossible before doing it. But, he never mentioned it until he got to the tower with the pokeflute. Which is were the run stopped. The challenge was can you beat gen 1 with a magikarp. The answer is no it can not be done.
Yeah he’s mentioned before that he had a Beldum run which ended at Steven I believe? And he never uploaded it even though he reached the last battle. So I’m glad he’s seemingly changed the rules on this and will show unsuccessful runs if they get this far, even though I personally consider Kanto postgame so he did beat the main game
1:17:34 there’s actually a way around having to use a move slot on Sunny Day. Starting in Gen 4, there’s certain dates in each game that cause a weather called diamond dust. While mostly cosmetic in snow filled areas in the over world, it does have the added bonus of overwriting hail in battle. By fighting Red specifically on the dates of February 29th (on leap years), March 15th, October 10th, or December 31st, you can avoid having to worry about hail damage. No taking 2 turns to set up sunny day, not even needing sunny day on the move set in the first place. I can’t speak to if this makes it humanly possible, but it certainly creates a better strategy and needing a bit less luck. Since you did give us you Spinarak’s exact stats, I may try and see if this would be possible even without the perfect spinarak.
“I don’t cheat to find out my IVs because that’s not representative of how people play.” My brother in Christ you’re using a level 100 Spinarak, all conventionality has been lost already
scott's plays usually uses perfect iv pokemon and he uses hidden power which jrose doesn't like to do. i think i prefer scott but i still enjoy jrose. he's right that most of us don't like when he resets because he got too lucky. my argument for that is if the pokemon sucks, it needs all the luck it can get. no one is probably going to try to emulate a run with a shit pokemon and the videos are just for entertainment value, so i personally think jrose should go the way of scott and pick perfect natures with perfect ivs and use hidden power if he needs to in order to show if a pokemon can legitimately beat the game or not. if you're not giving it all of the chances it has available to it it feels like a failure of the trainer, not the pokemon.
I love how some of the players are like "I won't use items because that's cheating" and then go "so then I use swords dance to abuse the badge glitch."
@@ninjaguyYTThey don't resist using non held items because it's cheating, they avoid it because it's boring for everyone involved. Almost all runs are doable with the use of items - outside like gen 1 runs being halted by normal/fighting only mons facing ghost roadblock. Especially when you're able rebattle trainers for unlimited/renewable money potential. You will always be able to out spend your opponent. Trainers rarely have items, and have a very small limited pool when they do (think maybe 5 items max). They will never have 99+ full restores or stacks of xyz etc at ready in official games. Sure, maybe you don't like badge boost glitch, okay, but watching magikarp beat the game through the use thousands of items is boring and slow AF to watch. Would hardly get views.
I was really starting to find 'can you beat pokemon with X' questions a little silly because I'd never seen one fail. I still really enjoy watching the challenges and strategies, but the answer was becoming an obvious "yeah, duh". I massively appreciate you releasing a failed run, because failure actually being possible has made these videos a genuine mystery again, and it's super engaging!
To be honest, you put a lot of time and effort to come up with the strategy needed in order to defeat Red, I think most people here won't mind that you couldn't do it. What's cool about your runs is the way you narrate and show the story of doing all that crazy stuff, and it was honestly interesting to see such a weak pokemon actually get that far.
10:00 Sucker Punch is actually 80 base power prior to gen 7. Believe it or not, Ariados' abundance of priority and later access to Sticky Web actually gave it some surprising success in the Psychic infested lands of Ubers
Really bad at sticky webs. If you are using webs in ubers slurpuff is better. Ariados can lay a single layer of toxic spikes against darkrai and that's it.
@@YOSSARIAN313 Yeah, after gen 6 Ariados got pretty consistently powercrept in pretty much every area. Ribombee's Bug/Fairy typing makes it fantastic for the Psychic and Dragon infested gen 7 Ubers. Slurpuff is also a really great choice these days thanks to Misty Explosion and Unburden. Haven't played much of gen 8 Ubers since Shaymin is stuck in BDSP, so I'm not sure which one would be best, but I got a lot out of Scarf Ribombee in gen 7 so its at least decent
I also consider Red the "actual ending" of GSC/HGSS because for me this game is a direct sequel to RBY both literally and figuratively that ultimately concludes in fighting your "old self" at the end. And honestly that part is probably why GSC/HGSS is one of the most loved games in the series.
I absolutely respect and appreciate a failed challenge hitting the presses. The enjoyment from these videos comes mostly from the struggle to succeed, which is present win or lose. Plus, if you’re gonna spend THAT long on it, may as well let it see the light of day!
There's a clip on the Johto Journeys opening with a Spinarak climbing a thread, and it looks pretty determined. Maybe the Spinarak soloing the game in this video is the same one?
@@09-nguyentaman64 Because, when using Spinarak, Blue sends out Arcanine second which, after Intimidate, isn't a OHKO with Dig and destroys you with Flare Blitz.
10:00 Sliiight error - Sucker Punch is base 80 power in gen 4. Very fun to see how Spinarak performs! Might be an ominous sign for what's to come with the gen 1 bugs...
@@specodhec341 "And I use Tackle. And I tackle. Aaaand tackle. Tackle. Yep, tackle. Oh right you guessed my next move: It's tackle. Yea I wouldn't watch that run.
Why is it that my first thought when seeing you refer to gen 1 bugs is things like the badge boost glitch and (my personal favourite) how the levels that Omanyte and Omastar's learn moves are the wrong way round.
Please don't be discouraged to upload runs you didn't win, it makes it all the more interesting! I'd love to see more! I once stopped a challenge run of Omega ruby when I realised my wurmple only run would be very very unlikely to get past Origin forme groudon
@@eeveestars3668 i actually don't recall how it works in ORAS, but I think by that late in the series, ur probably forced to battle and/or capture the legendary pkmn
Jrose, lemme just say right now: I LOVE the fact that this run wasn't a success!!! Yes, it is nice to see a "weak" Pokemon win against some of the strongest trainers in the game. But sometimes, a failed run is what people need to see! Hell, the fact that you beat the E4 and all post game gym leaders is insane enough! I love your content man, you go through so much and teach us a lot on how these things work! What interests me too, personally, is when you get into the odds of things, like that ending talking about the INSANE 1/16,000 chance to beat Red!! That's literally almost double over odds for getting a shiny! What I'm trying to say, is that even though some of these will turn out to be failed runs, at the end of the day, you still did your best and did everything you could to get past these battles! Keep up the good work man, always stick to what you believe in, and best of luck for future runs!
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I love how it is mandatory to beat Red, but no one bats an eye at ending Black/White challenge at Ghetsis, when Alder should be the real end of the run.
except BW has a solid ending. no new region opens when you defeat ghetsis. no new gyms. of course playing through the postgame of BW feels like the right thing to do, it's so big. but the main story definitely ends at ghetsis, and it ends so freaking well. as for the credits roll, it happens in every game when you beat the E4 again. if for some reason alder left the league and you battled him somewhere else, like red, the credits wouldn't roll
Monotype bug challenges are still the most fun way for me to play the games. Seeing you play the pre evo of my favourite Ariados, makes me excited for this one!
Really enjoyed the ending. Keeps us all honest and on our toes as viewers. In future videos I’d love to hear you talk more about deciding which moves you use throughout the game. For example, when/why you decided to get rid of leech life. Or when you realized psychic outlived it’s usefulness etc. it feels like a really interesting part of the journey for me!
“Who’d be crazy enough to try this?” Me, having tried this several years ago, having gave up at Lance. “Yeah, I tried.” I would not have had the patience to go as far you, but kudos for making it as far as you did. Good on you for saving your sanity, the little spinarak did their best.
Personally, I’m shocked that it took _this long_ for something like this to happen. Can’t imagine anyone being upset with how it ended, I mean it was bound to happen eventually.
fantastic job as always. far from being disappointed, i'm glad to see a run that technically ends in failure. if challenges were guaranteed to always be uploaded as successes or otherwise left on the cutting room floor then there would be no tension. the occasional 'i made it all the way to the end but the final hurdle was too high' keeps things fresh and exciting. plus, it proves that you're not just picking the low hanging fruit for video content, but rather actually pushing yourself out of your comfort zone into uncharted territory. good for you.
Great ending to the video. The Blue/Red commentary is so engaging. Like many others JRose, I want to thank you for the content. Continued success to you 🙂
34:37 Silverpowder is obtainable, but it might take a bit as you'd need to Headbutt trees on Route 47 leading up to the Safari Zone. Butterfree is a 50% chance of appearing and getting the item is only 10% of that so its possible just a bit of a pain
If you catch a Butterfree with the Compound Eyes ability and put it at the front of your party, it raises your chance of a wild pokemon having a held item by a large amount (can't remember the exact amount, but it's significant). If you let it get KO'd, and have your second party pokemon have the move Thief, you can still get the Compound Eyes effect without having to switch out to your Thief-er on every encounter. This is how I got a ton of lucky eggs off Chanseys (5%) in Diamond version in a relatively short amount of time.
I just wanted to add a few ideas to make the very last fight slightly more "stable". It's really farfetched but with this strat you could one shot charizard. As you said, spinarak does survive some hits , the more important one being thunderbolt. If you survive the thunderbolt, you can place an agility, making you faster than red's team. You can then one shot the pikachu with poison jab (while avoiding paralysis of course). From then, you can outspeed charizard and use natural gift. Using naturtal gift while holding a magost berry turns it into a 70 based physical rock type move. This can one shot charizard with range. (or guaranteed with a perfect spinarak) As a note, you can stop the hail from falling in this battle (with specific dates), making all blizzard moves 70% accurate, allowing spinarak to survive with low HP, and giving another free move slot. The last move slot could be used for attract: your spinarak being female and faster, you could infatuate all of red's team. it's heavily luck based of course and still not in the realm of the viable. After that, it's just poison jabs, waiting hopefully for crits (except Lapras) and poison statuses (except venusaur). This strat still doesn't represent a real playthrough since the magost berry can only be obtained through the pokewalker. But it's the theoretical best I think. Even for a perfect spinarak, the chances of winning stays in the thousands (1/2048 just to have 9 infatuated turns, the amount of poison jabs necessary for a perfect spinarak to finish the battle).
Super long, and super interesting. These 'can I' videos are usually a foregone conclusion that with enough levels and enough experimentation then Yes. A No once in a while is refreshing, and baby spider managed to make it all the way to the top of Mount Silver and turn into Barbecue for Charizard and that's ok
This is a movie where the bad guys win and it’s about damn time 😂😂 I actually think it’s even better content and I honestly started to think it might not work just because you hit lv 100 so quickly but great run can’t wait for the next
Ditto. I love it when one of his impossible challenges lives up to its name. If he found ways to beat all of them, the "impossible challenge" label would be false advertising.
Knowing that some of the runs going forward may fail gives the videos more suspense too, so I agree, failed runs really add to the content of the channel
Getting rid of Night Shade in the early game, where your next best moves are poison sting and leech life, probably made the game a *LOT* longer than it had to be. While it doesn't affect normal types it does do flat damage based on level, and with a pokemon that you're always gonna be a higher level, it's actually a good move.
Jrose, What a fantastic and frustrating run you experienced here. Your effort was absolutely incredible and your fan base will not hold it against for not defeating Red. Amazing content here, thank you for all your effort and brilliant commentary throughout.
One thing to note, even though it didn't ultimately matter. I think you said that Silver Powder is not available by the time you reach the E4. You can actually get it off of wild Butterfree, I think as soon as you have Headbutt, or lacking that, once you reach the Bug-Catching Contest.
@@ZebNyan96 I wasn't sure if that might be the case, but with this case for example, it wouldn't be an issue. You get the Thief TM from the Rocket Hideout, and Spinarak can learn it. (It's a pretty widely distributed move too)
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I loved this run. I think it is just as important to show off the runs that are practically unbeatable. Having every run be a win would get boring after a while. I absolutely adore and admire your persistence, calculation, and determination to do these runs! You have an incredible amount of willpower and clever strategy and I commend you greatly for that.
Honestly I'm surprised Spinarak made it as far as it did! I thoroughly enjoyed watching this, honestly failed challenge or not, you always make it entertaining and the amount of dedication and patience is super impressive. Always a great watch!
It's also wrong. Someone took his same Pokemon, fixed its EVs (a thing you can do in this game without cheating rather easily) and beat Red in 20 minutes. It's not really "science" when you just decide the victory condition can't include certain tactics arbitrarily. He even got Paralyzed by the Pikachu and won, basically only having to reset against Volt Tackle.
@@ForeverLaxx Oh, Jrose's knowledge about the games aren't perfect, hence not knowing about diamond dust? How outrageous! Seriously, dude, stop your hate, you are impressing no one
If it would upset/frustrate any viewers that you didn't redo the game with a hacked spinarak and then face red several thousand times just to get one lucky win, they are what's wrong with humanity. The fact that you did this run and then went out of your way to calculate exactly what would need to happen to beat red already shows that you're insanely good to us. Thank you for all the time that went into this video!!
Man, Spinarak have the weirdest level up moves. You wouldn't expect a spider thingy learning moves like Night shade or Psychic naturally, such a unique mon
Once Lance forced you to level up to 98, I knew. Most of the damage Spinarak was doing was mainly due to being double the level of the opposing pokemon, so when Red came along, I just knew. Was a fun ride until the end, though.
"I'm not going to be beating this one-" aw, that's a bit disappointing "-because mathematically the best attainable odds of winning you can possibly get assuming a Spinarak perfectly-optimized for the task are 1/11,111" oh you know what that's perfectly understandable actually Ah, well... Spinarak, little buddy, you had a good run, and it's impressive you made it as far as you did
Great video as always, one thing: did you know you could theoretically do a magikarp solo run in gen 1? There was a special event magikarp that had dragon rage so that one lets you hit ghost and avoids using struggle before level 15
I dunno about that, I tried a sonic boom only challenge and I got walled by sabrina because of recover spam. In the case of a magikarp solo run, he has to be able to kill the 2 Gengars and Haunter, being able to endure all the "Agatha Lottery Shenanigans" and hope to have enough pp , because Agatha can heal her pokémon with Dream Eater and healing items. So , it all depends on how much Hp the two Gengar and Haunter have combined and if it's less than the max amount of Dragon Rages damage, hope she will never heal them (but hey , at least he could reach the Elite four no probs).
Just looked this up. I think there were only 20 distributions and no-one can currently track any of them down. Most likely, the people who got them had their Gameboy cartridge run out of battery and their data wiped. Also it's on Japanese red/green, not western red/blue.
Gotta give you a fuckton of credit for getting to Red while using this weak yet adorable spooder. Reminds me of a challenge Silph did; Spinarak in Gold. Red's Charizard was just completely and totally impossible for him to beat due to the way the AI sends out 'Mons, which is pretty much what happened here too. I wonder if the Diamond Dust weather mechanic would help.
Ok so, some info on gen 4 rng: The game generates an rng value whenever you reset it, and this value remains the same until the game needs to use it, at which point, said value ticks forward by one. The value that the game generates is dependent upon the date and time of your ds system, and the exact frame in which you press a button to start the game, this is why save states don't work, since you're not restarting completely and the game will therefore just reuse the same rng value. Assuming there's some kind of online resource that could help you find what the exact rng value that leads to victory is, you could change the date and time of your system and try to time the exact frame on the title screen to get the desired seed, which you could check with the pitch of chatot's cry, it would require you to be frame perfect, but if you can time it, it would allow you to beat red with skill rather than luck. Idk if reviving a 5 month old video is worth it, but it's honestly fascinating that this is even possible with anything other than crazy luck.
Not learning night shade since the beginning of the game is a huge miss in my opinion. In this kind of battle you have to overlevel and night shade shine here, basically a 2-3 hko on every pokemon. Also for steelix, it doesn't have a good special defense, you should have kept psychic, it's the best move you could have used in this challenge
It was, Night shade is actually the best move for Bugsy and rival 2, and same for steelix actually. Psychic is actually bad against steelix though, it resists and from my experience, you'll barely land a hit at all LOL It however is very helpful against Koga's 3 pokemon however, same for Bruno and Karen's Gengar :)
Love that you named your rival "???"! That's what my sister and I named our rival in Crystal back in the day 😄 we didn't speak (much) English back then, so we didn't understand that the questionmarks were a placeholder for "insert rival's name here".
For me, watching your videos has never been about seeing if you actually can beat the game with said pokemon. It's completely been about just watching you go through with it. Win or lose, your content is top notch.
Jrose, I've been playing Pokemon since Red and Blue and never beat red in any Johto game. Well whole watching this video I grinded and grinded in my soul silver and finally defeated him. Thank you.
Hmm, well Red is hard in both games. In GSC, he’s very overleveled and it’s very hard to grind levels in this game because all the Kanto trainers are very underleveled and won’t give you much exp. however, the moves that Red has aren’t very good and neither is his AI. His Pikachu used Charm (physical attack lowering move) on my Alakazam lol. With some powerful Pokemon with the right type advantages, it won’t be too hard to beat him even if you’re not near his level.
I can’t help but think that Lance threw that last battle cuz he didn’t have the heart to wipe the floor with this little kid and his bug for the 100th time in a row
Don't worry about having an ending like this for a video, man. By all accounts you have beaten 99% of the game with just the mon, through many twists and turns. I'd consider that a monumental success!
You are 100% right on releasing this video, after all, the little spinarak did his best and he never gave up, even if he's not the best one. Respect that spinarak
You know, around bugsy I was wondering if you would ever make and post a video where you are unable to finish. Your series is called "is it possible..." after all so I always found it odd how you've never actually posted a video of one you've actually lost. Whether you've scrapped losing runs or not in the past, I really hope you continue to show difficult runs like this regardless of winning or losing. It keeps the suspense and I am in shock and awe that there came a challenge deemed to difficult for the great Jrose11! Keep up the awesome videos man!
I had flashbacks to when I beat HG with just a volbeat. When battling Red, the only way to win was to essentially get crits on every hit. It ended up taking hundreds of resets and hours upon hours of time. But mission accomplished, right? T_T
Knowing the theorical way to beat it is still satisfying, so don't go harsh on yourself! I think most of us wouldn't even care if you get white herb with cheats (after Blaine) and even get the IVs and EVs with cheats to fight Red. Finally, it results it is so so so hard it would take so much time or so much luck, but the work you did to investigate how you could beat him is astonishing, so once again, don't go hard on yourself, this is an excelent video!
I loved the run Jrose! I listen to them in the car on my way home from work. I love the discovery finishing the run doesn't make it. I am curious however if you'd have allowed yourself to use items in the final Battle would that have made it possible?
Probably, though you'd still have to rely on chance a lot. You'd still want 6 double teams and Bright Powder to minimize how often you get hit. 6 X-attacks, 2 X-speeds (or Agility), maybe an X-accuracy. Should be able to sweep everything while outspending too. Though there's more luck involved if things somehow still aren't a OHKO. That's just my thoughts on it anyway.
Clicked on this at first thinking it was a how to on where to find spinarak, stayed and watched the rest of the vid. You sir are an amazing creator. Bravo
The early game (mainly bugsy) likely would've been much easier with Night Shade, and Natural Gift could have helped in nearly every hard battle after assuming he could get the right elemental berries. Not that it really mattered in the end, since all of those extra levels were pretty necessary lol.
I like that you showed one where it wasn’t practically possible. These wouldn’t feel as much like “impossible challenges” if you never showed us any that you couldn’t finish. Plus it was fun to see hg/ss and Gen 4 in general
Gen 4??? On Jrose’s channel??? Omg! 😱. I strongly prefer the first 3 generations. But I DID play a little of gen 4 and you made a great video! Keep up the great work homie! 💯 🤙
honestly, that ending was cool! sure, you didnt beat red, but you got as far as it is statistically probable for you to get. your "throwing a puzzle against the wall" analogy nails it imo. plus you even went through the trouble of calculating what IS, theoretically, the "optimal" strategy. even if you didnt beat red, you won at making a great video!
I usually don’t comment on videos but I’ve been watching all of your runs and I loved that you took not being able to complete this challenge in stride. You put in a *ton* of work (understatement of the year) and it was incredibly satisfying to watch, even if you didn’t win. These videos, to me, have always been about “is it possible to do x” and we’ve finally seen a video that poses the question and answers back “no, not really” and there is nothing wrong with that being the answer. Loved the video, I’m glad you decided to release it anyway. I hope you didn’t let the loss to Red dishearten you too much. Thanks for having the patience to do these incredible challenges. Can’t wait to see the next journey you invite us on. :)
@@moblinmajorgeneral you can't use them if the stat you want to raise already has more than 100 EVs and by the time he reached Blaine the Spinarak had way more than 100 EVs in speed and attack already
I love that you went out of your way to give us a scenario in which defeating Red is, even if only theoretically, possible. As you said, it's about journey - and I'm pretty sure 99% of your viewers agree. We wouldn't be watched countless hours of your content if we wouldn't love it. By the way, I'm not sure if it's possible without too much hussle, but I would love to see something similar for other impossible challenges - like if you decide that it's impossible to defeat Red with some other, "standard" Pokemon, if you could then try few times with perfect IVs and EVs (but only if it looks possible - so you won't waste your time for cases like that, when even with perfect Pokemon you would need astronomical luck). Although I understand if it would took too much time or if you decide that it's against spirit of these challenges. And one other thing - if you are ever doing that Ledyba challenge, if it still seems impossible to defeat Red, you could try using both Ledyba and Spinarak :P In any case, amazing video. If you ever wonder if you should post some video because you didn't complete the challenge - post it. 100% of the times. There are tons of people, including me, that would love to watch it. Maybe you can use your second channel for that, if you don't want to use your main one.
Really love the Content from other gens. Even tho this amounted to a very rare Jrose L, it really is all about the journey. Thanks for putting in the work. Keep the vids coming!
I like it when you reset. Like you, I hate it when I feel that you (or I) get overly lucky. I also love it when you accept that you need to go all the way to 100 to get a consistent run. And that you concede defeat when a run is not realistically possible -- it shows your fallibility. I don't know, maybe I'm just a sadist.
I mean, the video delivers perfectly. Is it possible to beat HeartGold or SoulSilver with just a spinarak? No. It is not. You got your answer. Continue with your life with this new piece of knowledge
I’m sure it was probably deflating to have to acknowledge the impossibility of this from a practical standpoint, but the ending honestly rocked in my eyes. This was a super cool video to watch (as are all of them) and thank you for doing this all the time Mr. Jrose. We appreciate it a lot.
Just to make a thing noticed: a single intimidate lowers the attack by 1, which is a 66% result (-34%) in the stat. The -2 attack is the -50% level that has appear many times throughout this great vid Oh, and I think evasion/precision uses the 75% (-25%) incr/decr, that one is not obtained in typical stats
I love how you said "some of you are gonna hate this", I thought you WOULDN'T reset the game as I kinda expected a reset after the first time beating Clair
To quote Picard, "It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose." Your run was astounding to watch and I applaud your consistency in delivering this content.
One thing that would help with Red is that certain days don't have hail. Christmas and your birthday (registered on your DS) have diamond dust instead of hail, so you wouldn't need Sunny Day to avoid the damage.
Another fellow diamond dust knower! Only thing I’ll correct (at least based on my bulbapedia research) is that it seems like it’s New Year’s Eve and not Christmas that has the diamond dust. And it seems the players birthday doesn’t effect diamond dust until XY.
I thought it was like every Wednesday doesn't have hail or something like that.
For HGSS, the full set is Leap Day, Honen Matsuri, Pokemon Blue's release date and New Years Eve (Feb 29, Mar 15, Oct 10 and Dec 31).
@@TrevCL the virgin hail wuss vs. the Chad diamond dust knower
Is that a speedrun strat? I assume that would save a decent amount of time.
A thing to note, is that it's possible to disable the hail on Mt. Silver. On certain days, the hail is actually "diamond dust" instead, which just disables the hail effect. Might be something to look into when trying to take on Red in the future, since it means you aren't taking damage every turn and it also means his Blizzards arent guarenteed hits anymore. 15th March for example is one of the days where there's no hail on Mt. Silver.
Ngl knowing Jrose he’s probably wait until that date IRL bc playing this challenge isn’t difficult enough
That’s genius. Then focus band, doubleteam, and sucker punch your way to victory
@@williamaguilar2230 doubleteam substitude leftover is probably better than doubleteam and focus band.
@@bohanxu6125 leftovers is kinda less usefull on a spinirak that likely won't survive to use it tho
Also trying to TRICK the system by setting the DS/3DS's Clock to those dates without having to wait I believe that will NOT work at all.
when the video is longer than a hour you know it’s gonna be painful.
I know im exited already
Or not that bad and half the video is elite 4 like it usually is..
Edit: it is...
Painful for Jrose11. Not for us!
Love the longer videos 😍
And you know it's gonna be good 😊
I didn't realize Spinarak had such a cool movepool for an early game bug type - shadow sneak and psychic! New appreciation for this little spider
Johto actually has some really cool bugs! Forretress and Heracross are awesome too :)
But why did they have to make a spider BUG type? The same as why did they make Breloom a grass type? Spiders are not bugs and Mushrooms are not plants.
Claire: "You have to prove you lost your lazy ideals!"
Jrose having grinded a spinarak to defeat everything in the game but the last boss, and grinding that boss hundreds of times: *Eye twitches*
I remember doing a ledyba run in crystal, and I felt the same, and I fought every Trainer. aaa
@@BaconEater666 Tell me you are a masochist without telling me you are a masochist. lol
@@puddlespuddles5208 magikarp run without items
@@johnapple6646 bullets taste better
That line isn't what got me. The line from the trainer inside the cave, accusing you of being 'uninvited' is. Like dude, the gym leader just told me to come here. That doesn't count as an invitation?!
I love the fact that this was a failed challenge. It sets a precedent for future impossible challenges that it's not just a given that they'll be completable just because you uploaded them. Raises the stakes! Great content, JRose.
This was already true as the first of this series was gen 1 magikarp lol
@@Shadowjackal Fair point! Haha. I guess I just meant all of them since then. XD
@@Shadowjackal Exactly. Jrose stated he's never failed a challenge before. My first thought was wait the gen 1 magikarp was a failed challenge. . Now im sure he knew that challenge was impossible before doing it. But, he never mentioned it until he got to the tower with the pokeflute. Which is were the run stopped. The challenge was can you beat gen 1 with a magikarp. The answer is no it can not be done.
Spoiler
Yeah he’s mentioned before that he had a Beldum run which ended at Steven I believe? And he never uploaded it even though he reached the last battle. So I’m glad he’s seemingly changed the rules on this and will show unsuccessful runs if they get this far, even though I personally consider Kanto postgame so he did beat the main game
1:17:34 there’s actually a way around having to use a move slot on Sunny Day. Starting in Gen 4, there’s certain dates in each game that cause a weather called diamond dust. While mostly cosmetic in snow filled areas in the over world, it does have the added bonus of overwriting hail in battle. By fighting Red specifically on the dates of February 29th (on leap years), March 15th, October 10th, or December 31st, you can avoid having to worry about hail damage. No taking 2 turns to set up sunny day, not even needing sunny day on the move set in the first place. I can’t speak to if this makes it humanly possible, but it certainly creates a better strategy and needing a bit less luck.
Since you did give us you Spinarak’s exact stats, I may try and see if this would be possible even without the perfect spinarak.
Please do, it would be an awesome thing to see
Would love if you commented an update if you get around to it
@@baconcatbug is there some kind of battle simulator where you could try out the battle against red?
Problem is, Jrose couldn´t even pass Charizard, it doesnt make much of a difference
Commenting to follow this :)
“I don’t cheat to find out my IVs because that’s not representative of how people play.” My brother in Christ you’re using a level 100 Spinarak, all conventionality has been lost already
scott's plays usually uses perfect iv pokemon and he uses hidden power which jrose doesn't like to do. i think i prefer scott but i still enjoy jrose. he's right that most of us don't like when he resets because he got too lucky. my argument for that is if the pokemon sucks, it needs all the luck it can get. no one is probably going to try to emulate a run with a shit pokemon and the videos are just for entertainment value, so i personally think jrose should go the way of scott and pick perfect natures with perfect ivs and use hidden power if he needs to in order to show if a pokemon can legitimately beat the game or not. if you're not giving it all of the chances it has available to it it feels like a failure of the trainer, not the pokemon.
I love how some of the players are like "I won't use items because that's cheating" and then go "so then I use swords dance to abuse the badge glitch."
@@ninjaguyYTThey don't resist using non held items because it's cheating, they avoid it because it's boring for everyone involved.
Almost all runs are doable with the use of items - outside like gen 1 runs being halted by normal/fighting only mons facing ghost roadblock.
Especially when you're able rebattle trainers for unlimited/renewable money potential. You will always be able to out spend your opponent. Trainers rarely have items, and have a very small limited pool when they do (think maybe 5 items max). They will never have 99+ full restores or stacks of xyz etc at ready in official games.
Sure, maybe you don't like badge boost glitch, okay, but watching magikarp beat the game through the use thousands of items is boring and slow AF to watch. Would hardly get views.
I was really starting to find 'can you beat pokemon with X' questions a little silly because I'd never seen one fail. I still really enjoy watching the challenges and strategies, but the answer was becoming an obvious "yeah, duh". I massively appreciate you releasing a failed run, because failure actually being possible has made these videos a genuine mystery again, and it's super engaging!
To be honest, you put a lot of time and effort to come up with the strategy needed in order to defeat Red, I think most people here won't mind that you couldn't do it. What's cool about your runs is the way you narrate and show the story of doing all that crazy stuff, and it was honestly interesting to see such a weak pokemon actually get that far.
10:00 Sucker Punch is actually 80 base power prior to gen 7. Believe it or not, Ariados' abundance of priority and later access to Sticky Web actually gave it some surprising success in the Psychic infested lands of Ubers
Very small success, but success nonetheless
It was a gimmick but it did sometimes get the one up on deoxys spd and darkrai leads in gen 4 ubers.
Sticky Web didn’t exist yet.
Really bad at sticky webs. If you are using webs in ubers slurpuff is better. Ariados can lay a single layer of toxic spikes against darkrai and that's it.
@@YOSSARIAN313 Yeah, after gen 6 Ariados got pretty consistently powercrept in pretty much every area. Ribombee's Bug/Fairy typing makes it fantastic for the Psychic and Dragon infested gen 7 Ubers. Slurpuff is also a really great choice these days thanks to Misty Explosion and Unburden. Haven't played much of gen 8 Ubers since Shaymin is stuck in BDSP, so I'm not sure which one would be best, but I got a lot out of Scarf Ribombee in gen 7 so its at least decent
I also consider Red the "actual ending" of GSC/HGSS because for me this game is a direct sequel to RBY both literally and figuratively that ultimately concludes in fighting your "old self" at the end. And honestly that part is probably why GSC/HGSS is one of the most loved games in the series.
To be fair I like the resets when you get absurd luck, it feels more like you’re trying to show strategy and not just take the easy way out.
I absolutely respect and appreciate a failed challenge hitting the presses. The enjoyment from these videos comes mostly from the struggle to succeed, which is present win or lose. Plus, if you’re gonna spend THAT long on it, may as well let it see the light of day!
There's a clip on the Johto Journeys opening with a Spinarak climbing a thread, and it looks pretty determined. Maybe the Spinarak soloing the game in this video is the same one?
The lore thickens. It’s even thicker than the blood of Jimmy the Diglett at this point.
@@rainpooper7088 crazy cause Jimmy's blood is thick as MUD
The White Herb fiasco had me dying😂😭
he should've had a burn heal for all those burns
ruxin34 a jrose watcher?? cant believe both my hobbies are converging in one comment section rn
why did he even need a white herb there, i dont understand its function
@@09-nguyentaman64 Because, when using Spinarak, Blue sends out Arcanine second which, after Intimidate, isn't a OHKO with Dig and destroys you with Flare Blitz.
@@darkfiredragon3410why didn’t he just steal the white herb. It was super easy to do lol
10:00 Sliiight error - Sucker Punch is base 80 power in gen 4.
Very fun to see how Spinarak performs! Might be an ominous sign for what's to come with the gen 1 bugs...
Caterpie solo run would be absolute horror to perform and extreme pain to watch
He did Paras already and it was only 30 minutes video, but I'm dreading Weedle and caterpie
@@specodhec341 caterpie solo run isn't possible since it doesn't learn a non-normal type damaging move until gen 4
@@specodhec341 "And I use Tackle. And I tackle. Aaaand tackle. Tackle. Yep, tackle. Oh right you guessed my next move: It's tackle.
Yea I wouldn't watch that run.
Why is it that my first thought when seeing you refer to gen 1 bugs is things like the badge boost glitch and (my personal favourite) how the levels that Omanyte and Omastar's learn moves are the wrong way round.
In the nicest way possible, this is my favorite channel to sleep to. I haven't seen the end of one of these challenges in like a year.
I often fall asleep to these too lol xD
Lol I wake up and have to figure out where I was in the video when I fell asleep so I can finish it
Please don't be discouraged to upload runs you didn't win, it makes it all the more interesting! I'd love to see more!
I once stopped a challenge run of Omega ruby when I realised my wurmple only run would be very very unlikely to get past Origin forme groudon
How did you beat Watson mageaton is what I wanna see 👀
Can you not run from the groundon
@@eeveestars3668 i actually don't recall how it works in ORAS, but I think by that late in the series, ur probably forced to battle and/or capture the legendary pkmn
I mean what's the point in naming the series "can you beat pokemon with x" if all the runs you post are you winning?
@@Jekuma its to show yes you can and heres how. But showing you fail to do it proves that not all pokemon can solo run
Jrose, lemme just say right now: I LOVE the fact that this run wasn't a success!!! Yes, it is nice to see a "weak" Pokemon win against some of the strongest trainers in the game. But sometimes, a failed run is what people need to see! Hell, the fact that you beat the E4 and all post game gym leaders is insane enough! I love your content man, you go through so much and teach us a lot on how these things work! What interests me too, personally, is when you get into the odds of things, like that ending talking about the INSANE 1/16,000 chance to beat Red!! That's literally almost double over odds for getting a shiny!
What I'm trying to say, is that even though some of these will turn out to be failed runs, at the end of the day, you still did your best and did everything you could to get past these battles! Keep up the good work man, always stick to what you believe in, and best of luck for future runs!
Why did I head into the comment section before finishing the video
@@MyHandleIsAplaceholder same
great, this spoiler ruined the video for me
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I watched every agonizing second of Spinaraks glorious journey knowing exactly how it would end. F's in the chat for our fallen soldier.
Like the halo reach trailer from the beginning you know the end
I love how it is mandatory to beat Red, but no one bats an eye at ending Black/White challenge at Ghetsis, when Alder should be the real end of the run.
Or Steven in emerald
Nah Steven is post game, nothing happens when you beat him, same as Cynthia in B/W. Defeating Red and Alder rolls the credits.
except BW has a solid ending. no new region opens when you defeat ghetsis. no new gyms. of course playing through the postgame of BW feels like the right thing to do, it's so big. but the main story definitely ends at ghetsis, and it ends so freaking well. as for the credits roll, it happens in every game when you beat the E4 again. if for some reason alder left the league and you battled him somewhere else, like red, the credits wouldn't roll
Monotype bug challenges are still the most fun way for me to play the games. Seeing you play the pre evo of my favourite Ariados, makes me excited for this one!
Really enjoyed the ending. Keeps us all honest and on our toes as viewers.
In future videos I’d love to hear you talk more about deciding which moves you use throughout the game. For example, when/why you decided to get rid of leech life. Or when you realized psychic outlived it’s usefulness etc. it feels like a really interesting part of the journey for me!
Spinarak is one of my favourite Pokémon despite it’s lack of power. Never tried using it alone though.
Same ! And I am arachophobic lol guess it is just that cute
“Who’d be crazy enough to try this?”
Me, having tried this several years ago, having gave up at Lance. “Yeah, I tried.”
I would not have had the patience to go as far you, but kudos for making it as far as you did. Good on you for saving your sanity, the little spinarak did their best.
"Their"?
I didn’t notice it was male, my bad.
@@gaobot pRoNoUnS 🥴🥴🥴
@@HoloTWWOriginal ?
@@gaobot why are you correcting his use of a pronoun on a creature in a fictional game?
Personally, I’m shocked that it took _this long_ for something like this to happen. Can’t imagine anyone being upset with how it ended, I mean it was bound to happen eventually.
fantastic job as always. far from being disappointed, i'm glad to see a run that technically ends in failure. if challenges were guaranteed to always be uploaded as successes or otherwise left on the cutting room floor then there would be no tension. the occasional 'i made it all the way to the end but the final hurdle was too high' keeps things fresh and exciting. plus, it proves that you're not just picking the low hanging fruit for video content, but rather actually pushing yourself out of your comfort zone into uncharted territory. good for you.
Great ending to the video. The Blue/Red commentary is so engaging. Like many others JRose, I want to thank you for the content. Continued success to you 🙂
34:37 Silverpowder is obtainable, but it might take a bit as you'd need to Headbutt trees on Route 47 leading up to the Safari Zone. Butterfree is a 50% chance of appearing and getting the item is only 10% of that so its possible just a bit of a pain
If you catch a Butterfree with the Compound Eyes ability and put it at the front of your party, it raises your chance of a wild pokemon having a held item by a large amount (can't remember the exact amount, but it's significant). If you let it get KO'd, and have your second party pokemon have the move Thief, you can still get the Compound Eyes effect without having to switch out to your Thief-er on every encounter. This is how I got a ton of lucky eggs off Chanseys (5%) in Diamond version in a relatively short amount of time.
@@tommydevine9993 that's cool! I never knew that, I have to keep that in mind. Thanks!
@@tommydevine9993MVP right here.
8:40 Small correction, Sitrus berry heals 25% HP in Gen 4.
25:05 Intimidate lowers one stage which means you have 67% attack not 50%
I just wanted to add a few ideas to make the very last fight slightly more "stable". It's really farfetched but with this strat you could one shot charizard.
As you said, spinarak does survive some hits , the more important one being thunderbolt. If you survive the thunderbolt, you can place an agility, making you faster than red's team. You can then one shot the pikachu with poison jab (while avoiding paralysis of course).
From then, you can outspeed charizard and use natural gift.
Using naturtal gift while holding a magost berry turns it into a 70 based physical rock type move. This can one shot charizard with range. (or guaranteed with a perfect spinarak)
As a note, you can stop the hail from falling in this battle (with specific dates), making all blizzard moves 70% accurate, allowing spinarak to survive with low HP, and giving another free move slot.
The last move slot could be used for attract: your spinarak being female and faster, you could infatuate all of red's team. it's heavily luck based of course and still not in the realm of the viable. After that, it's just poison jabs, waiting hopefully for crits (except Lapras) and poison statuses (except venusaur).
This strat still doesn't represent a real playthrough since the magost berry can only be obtained through the pokewalker. But it's the theoretical best I think.
Even for a perfect spinarak, the chances of winning stays in the thousands (1/2048 just to have 9 infatuated turns, the amount of poison jabs necessary for a perfect spinarak to finish the battle).
Super long, and super interesting.
These 'can I' videos are usually a foregone conclusion that with enough levels and enough experimentation then Yes.
A No once in a while is refreshing, and baby spider managed to make it all the way to the top of Mount Silver and turn into Barbecue for Charizard and that's ok
Super long is always nice..!
I just did this play through in Crystal , I was pretty surprised at how well spinarak did through Johto.
This is a movie where the bad guys win and it’s about damn time 😂😂 I actually think it’s even better content and I honestly started to think it might not work just because you hit lv 100 so quickly but great run can’t wait for the next
Ditto. I love it when one of his impossible challenges lives up to its name. If he found ways to beat all of them, the "impossible challenge" label would be false advertising.
Knowing that some of the runs going forward may fail gives the videos more suspense too, so I agree, failed runs really add to the content of the channel
Getting rid of Night Shade in the early game, where your next best moves are poison sting and leech life, probably made the game a *LOT* longer than it had to be. While it doesn't affect normal types it does do flat damage based on level, and with a pokemon that you're always gonna be a higher level, it's actually a good move.
It does, you'll be faster and at a lower level with it :)
I did a run myself similar, and kept it till ner the elite 4, it really paid off ;)
I can't sleep and then my favourite PokéTuber is out here uploading a new run?
Perfection.
Jrose,
What a fantastic and frustrating run you experienced here. Your effort was absolutely incredible and your fan base will not hold it against for not defeating Red. Amazing content here, thank you for all your effort and brilliant commentary throughout.
I am no longer bored, thanks Jrose for saving my day
I think it's perfectly fair to end with answering "no" when this is the kind of luck that's required.
One thing to note, even though it didn't ultimately matter. I think you said that Silver Powder is not available by the time you reach the E4. You can actually get it off of wild Butterfree, I think as soon as you have Headbutt, or lacking that, once you reach the Bug-Catching Contest.
Good call! There's just a problem that JRose's challenge doesn't allow catching wild pokémon except for HM/field move uses.
@@ZebNyan96 I wasn't sure if that might be the case, but with this case for example, it wouldn't be an issue. You get the Thief TM from the Rocket Hideout, and Spinarak can learn it. (It's a pretty widely distributed move too)
@@rroadagain2810 That's a great idea! Totally forgot Thief.
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I loved this run. I think it is just as important to show off the runs that are practically unbeatable. Having every run be a win would get boring after a while. I absolutely adore and admire your persistence, calculation, and determination to do these runs! You have an incredible amount of willpower and clever strategy and I commend you greatly for that.
Honestly I'm surprised Spinarak made it as far as it did! I thoroughly enjoyed watching this, honestly failed challenge or not, you always make it entertaining and the amount of dedication and patience is super impressive. Always a great watch!
The transitions are clean. Definitely noticed the step up. Commentary is great too, better than the others imo. High quality video.
These challenges are always framed as a question of "can you..." and this time the answer was "nope," and that's great. That's science
It's also wrong. Someone took his same Pokemon, fixed its EVs (a thing you can do in this game without cheating rather easily) and beat Red in 20 minutes. It's not really "science" when you just decide the victory condition can't include certain tactics arbitrarily. He even got Paralyzed by the Pikachu and won, basically only having to reset against Volt Tackle.
@@ForeverLaxx Oh, Jrose's knowledge about the games aren't perfect, hence not knowing about diamond dust? How outrageous!
Seriously, dude, stop your hate, you are impressing no one
@@fifaworldcup1994 I'm not here to impress fools, so you can rest easy.
I respect you more for being able to walk away and give a detailed reason why then anything
If it would upset/frustrate any viewers that you didn't redo the game with a hacked spinarak and then face red several thousand times just to get one lucky win, they are what's wrong with humanity. The fact that you did this run and then went out of your way to calculate exactly what would need to happen to beat red already shows that you're insanely good to us. Thank you for all the time that went into this video!!
I love how this was released a day or two after the Spinarak Spotlight Hour, where this pokemon spawned all over pokemon go for a hour
The fact you even made it past both the elite four and all the Kanto gym leaders is impressive!
Man, Spinarak have the weirdest level up moves. You wouldn't expect a spider thingy learning moves like Night shade or Psychic naturally, such a unique mon
Once Lance forced you to level up to 98, I knew. Most of the damage Spinarak was doing was mainly due to being double the level of the opposing pokemon, so when Red came along, I just knew. Was a fun ride until the end, though.
Always loved the spinarak line :D
Gonna be glorious and can't wait for the scyther vs pinser rivalry to be settled 👌
Let's go team scyther 👌
The vid was great :)
Scyther is definitely better I’d say. Pinsir is in the slow experience group for one thing, I don’t think Scyther is
"I'm not going to be beating this one-" aw, that's a bit disappointing "-because mathematically the best attainable odds of winning you can possibly get assuming a Spinarak perfectly-optimized for the task are 1/11,111" oh you know what that's perfectly understandable actually
Ah, well... Spinarak, little buddy, you had a good run, and it's impressive you made it as far as you did
Great video as always, one thing: did you know you could theoretically do a magikarp solo run in gen 1?
There was a special event magikarp that had dragon rage so that one lets you hit ghost and avoids using struggle before level 15
Don't give him any more masochistic ideas 😂
I've always wondered if that were possible
There's also an event Magikarp in gen 2 that knows Bubble, so while you'd have to deal with the awful disobedience thing it's yet another option
I dunno about that, I tried a sonic boom only challenge and I got walled by sabrina because of recover spam.
In the case of a magikarp solo run, he has to be able to kill the 2 Gengars and Haunter, being able to endure all the "Agatha Lottery Shenanigans" and hope to have enough pp , because Agatha can heal her pokémon with Dream Eater and healing items. So , it all depends on how much Hp the two Gengar and Haunter have combined and if it's less than the max amount of Dragon Rages damage, hope she will never heal them (but hey , at least he could reach the Elite four no probs).
Just looked this up.
I think there were only 20 distributions and no-one can currently track any of them down.
Most likely, the people who got them had their Gameboy cartridge run out of battery and their data wiped.
Also it's on Japanese red/green, not western red/blue.
Gotta give you a fuckton of credit for getting to Red while using this weak yet adorable spooder. Reminds me of a challenge Silph did; Spinarak in Gold. Red's Charizard was just completely and totally impossible for him to beat due to the way the AI sends out 'Mons, which is pretty much what happened here too. I wonder if the Diamond Dust weather mechanic would help.
I couldn't sleep so 6 am Jrose is good Jrose lol
Ty for this blessing
Ok so, some info on gen 4 rng:
The game generates an rng value whenever you reset it, and this value remains the same until the game needs to use it, at which point, said value ticks forward by one. The value that the game generates is dependent upon the date and time of your ds system, and the exact frame in which you press a button to start the game, this is why save states don't work, since you're not restarting completely and the game will therefore just reuse the same rng value. Assuming there's some kind of online resource that could help you find what the exact rng value that leads to victory is, you could change the date and time of your system and try to time the exact frame on the title screen to get the desired seed, which you could check with the pitch of chatot's cry, it would require you to be frame perfect, but if you can time it, it would allow you to beat red with skill rather than luck. Idk if reviving a 5 month old video is worth it, but it's honestly fascinating that this is even possible with anything other than crazy luck.
Not learning night shade since the beginning of the game is a huge miss in my opinion.
In this kind of battle you have to overlevel and night shade shine here, basically a 2-3 hko on every pokemon.
Also for steelix, it doesn't have a good special defense, you should have kept psychic, it's the best move you could have used in this challenge
It was, Night shade is actually the best move for Bugsy and rival 2, and same for steelix actually.
Psychic is actually bad against steelix though, it resists and from my experience, you'll barely land a hit at all LOL
It however is very helpful against Koga's 3 pokemon however, same for Bruno and Karen's Gengar :)
Love that you named your rival "???"! That's what my sister and I named our rival in Crystal back in the day 😄 we didn't speak (much) English back then, so we didn't understand that the questionmarks were a placeholder for "insert rival's name here".
For me, watching your videos has never been about seeing if you actually can beat the game with said pokemon. It's completely been about just watching you go through with it. Win or lose, your content is top notch.
Not gonna lie, throwing a puzzle at a wall and having it come down perfectly would be 1000x more satisfying than doing it myself 😂
Jrose, I've been playing Pokemon since Red and Blue and never beat red in any Johto game. Well whole watching this video I grinded and grinded in my soul silver and finally defeated him. Thank you.
Hmm, well Red is hard in both games. In GSC, he’s very overleveled and it’s very hard to grind levels in this game because all the Kanto trainers are very underleveled and won’t give you much exp. however, the moves that Red has aren’t very good and neither is his AI. His Pikachu used Charm (physical attack lowering move) on my Alakazam lol. With some powerful Pokemon with the right type advantages, it won’t be too hard to beat him even if you’re not near his level.
I can’t help but think that Lance threw that last battle cuz he didn’t have the heart to wipe the floor with this little kid and his bug for the 100th time in a row
Seeing more generations is always a treat, I love all the vids though!
Don't worry about having an ending like this for a video, man.
By all accounts you have beaten 99% of the game with just the mon, through many twists and turns.
I'd consider that a monumental success!
You are 100% right on releasing this video, after all, the little spinarak did his best and he never gave up, even if he's not the best one. Respect that spinarak
I would watch a series where you play with "perfect" versions of failed pokemon.
You know, around bugsy I was wondering if you would ever make and post a video where you are unable to finish. Your series is called "is it possible..." after all so I always found it odd how you've never actually posted a video of one you've actually lost. Whether you've scrapped losing runs or not in the past, I really hope you continue to show difficult runs like this regardless of winning or losing. It keeps the suspense and I am in shock and awe that there came a challenge deemed to difficult for the great Jrose11! Keep up the awesome videos man!
I had flashbacks to when I beat HG with just a volbeat. When battling Red, the only way to win was to essentially get crits on every hit. It ended up taking hundreds of resets and hours upon hours of time. But mission accomplished, right? T_T
Knowing the theorical way to beat it is still satisfying, so don't go harsh on yourself! I think most of us wouldn't even care if you get white herb with cheats (after Blaine) and even get the IVs and EVs with cheats to fight Red. Finally, it results it is so so so hard it would take so much time or so much luck, but the work you did to investigate how you could beat him is astonishing, so once again, don't go hard on yourself, this is an excelent video!
I loved the run Jrose! I listen to them in the car on my way home from work. I love the discovery finishing the run doesn't make it. I am curious however if you'd have allowed yourself to use items in the final Battle would that have made it possible?
Probably, though you'd still have to rely on chance a lot.
You'd still want 6 double teams and Bright Powder to minimize how often you get hit. 6 X-attacks, 2 X-speeds (or Agility), maybe an X-accuracy. Should be able to sweep everything while outspending too. Though there's more luck involved if things somehow still aren't a OHKO.
That's just my thoughts on it anyway.
Clicked on this at first thinking it was a how to on where to find spinarak, stayed and watched the rest of the vid. You sir are an amazing creator. Bravo
Iron Tail has 75% accuracy, not 70%. That might be why it hit more often than you were expecting.
"...that rounds up to around 1/600 chance..."
"...to get to charizard"
That made me laugh lol
The early game (mainly bugsy) likely would've been much easier with Night Shade, and Natural Gift could have helped in nearly every hard battle after assuming he could get the right elemental berries.
Not that it really mattered in the end, since all of those extra levels were pretty necessary lol.
Though, I'd have ditched night shade because of whitney.
I like that you showed one where it wasn’t practically possible. These wouldn’t feel as much like “impossible challenges” if you never showed us any that you couldn’t finish. Plus it was fun to see hg/ss and Gen 4 in general
When you got to Blue, you could have tried using the Swagger TM to have Arcanine hit itself in confusion
I cannot WAIT for: can you beat Pokemon Black & White with only a Larvesta
Gen 4??? On Jrose’s channel??? Omg! 😱. I strongly prefer the first 3 generations. But I DID play a little of gen 4 and you made a great video! Keep up the great work homie! 💯 🤙
really appreciating the posting speed recently. I'm always so happy to see you posted a new video.
honestly, that ending was cool! sure, you didnt beat red, but you got as far as it is statistically probable for you to get. your "throwing a puzzle against the wall" analogy nails it imo. plus you even went through the trouble of calculating what IS, theoretically, the "optimal" strategy.
even if you didnt beat red, you won at making a great video!
The failed runs are the most interesting to me. Good on you for giving as much effort as you can into these!
I usually don’t comment on videos but I’ve been watching all of your runs and I loved that you took not being able to complete this challenge in stride. You put in a *ton* of work (understatement of the year) and it was incredibly satisfying to watch, even if you didn’t win. These videos, to me, have always been about “is it possible to do x” and we’ve finally seen a video that poses the question and answers back “no, not really” and there is nothing wrong with that being the answer.
Loved the video, I’m glad you decided to release it anyway. I hope you didn’t let the loss to Red dishearten you too much. Thanks for having the patience to do these incredible challenges. Can’t wait to see the next journey you invite us on. :)
Love the dedication! It is called "impossible" challenge! If they were all possible, then you'd have to change the series name 🤪
I think the EV reducing berries wouldn't have helped you with Blaine anyway since in Gen 4 you can't get any more EVs once you're level 100
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@@moblinmajorgeneral you can't use them if the stat you want to raise already has more than 100 EVs and by the time he reached Blaine the Spinarak had way more than 100 EVs in speed and attack already
I feel like the final battle proves that Double Team isn’t that broken of a move.
"Say what you want about me"
Jrose, we love you, dude. No one wants to say anything bad about upu.
I love that you went out of your way to give us a scenario in which defeating Red is, even if only theoretically, possible.
As you said, it's about journey - and I'm pretty sure 99% of your viewers agree. We wouldn't be watched countless hours of your content if we wouldn't love it.
By the way, I'm not sure if it's possible without too much hussle, but I would love to see something similar for other impossible challenges - like if you decide that it's impossible to defeat Red with some other, "standard" Pokemon, if you could then try few times with perfect IVs and EVs (but only if it looks possible - so you won't waste your time for cases like that, when even with perfect Pokemon you would need astronomical luck). Although I understand if it would took too much time or if you decide that it's against spirit of these challenges.
And one other thing - if you are ever doing that Ledyba challenge, if it still seems impossible to defeat Red, you could try using both Ledyba and Spinarak :P
In any case, amazing video. If you ever wonder if you should post some video because you didn't complete the challenge - post it. 100% of the times. There are tons of people, including me, that would love to watch it. Maybe you can use your second channel for that, if you don't want to use your main one.
Really love the Content from other gens. Even tho this amounted to a very rare Jrose L, it really is all about the journey. Thanks for putting in the work. Keep the vids coming!
I'm honestly surpised how many runs ARE possible. I'd assumed the fail rate to be higher.
Mad love for you on this one. I already had respect for you before, but my god what you had to do in this one was nuts.
I like it when you reset. Like you, I hate it when I feel that you (or I) get overly lucky. I also love it when you accept that you need to go all the way to 100 to get a consistent run. And that you concede defeat when a run is not realistically possible -- it shows your fallibility. I don't know, maybe I'm just a sadist.
Swagger, double team, poison jab, agility. Equip bright powder/lax incense. Under diamond dust weather. This should do the thing.
I like to think you has Spinerak on your arm the whole time, like a ninja tool.
I mean, the video delivers perfectly. Is it possible to beat HeartGold or SoulSilver with just a spinarak? No. It is not. You got your answer. Continue with your life with this new piece of knowledge
I’m sure it was probably deflating to have to acknowledge the impossibility of this from a practical standpoint, but the ending honestly rocked in my eyes. This was a super cool video to watch (as are all of them) and thank you for doing this all the time Mr. Jrose. We appreciate it a lot.
Just to make a thing noticed: a single intimidate lowers the attack by 1, which is a 66% result (-34%) in the stat. The -2 attack is the -50% level that has appear many times throughout this great vid
Oh, and I think evasion/precision uses the 75% (-25%) incr/decr, that one is not obtained in typical stats
I love how you said "some of you are gonna hate this", I thought you WOULDN'T reset the game as I kinda expected a reset after the first time beating Clair
To quote Picard, "It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose." Your run was astounding to watch and I applaud your consistency in delivering this content.
Gotta say, when the Gengar got you with destiny bond, I cackled. Great video, keep it up my dude.