Fun Fact: in gen 1 toxic and leech seed do damage off the same counter, so if you stack them together leech seed will take and heal for more damage as the toxic counter starts to raise.
I did a challenge where I only used pokemon with multiple heads, used that combo on Exeggutor. Very fun, and the leech seed healing gets a bit nutty, but it’s sure not fast.
I thought this was going to be easy until I saw that it didn't learn any grass moves... Here's what the Pokedex says about the multi-headed gen 1 pokemon: -Doduo's heads contain identical brains and communicate their emotions telepathically. Only one head needs to sleep at a time. -Dodrio's third head came from one of its heads splitting into two, and its three identical brains means three times the mental power to devise complicated plans of attack. Like Doduo only one head needs to sleep at a time, and it also has three sets of lungs and three hearts so it can run for super long times. -Dugtrio is a set of identical triplets that split off from Diglett's body and think together like a hivemind. They sometimes fight over who gets to eat first though. -Exeggcute always come in groups of six. If one gets lost somehow, their telepathic bond always brings them back together. As their shells crack more and more, it means they're getting closer to evolving. -Exeggutor's three heads have their own personalities but they're all friendly and never fight one another. Once a head grows large enough it drops off and becomes an Exeggcute who sends out a telepathic signal to any other lone Exeggcute so they can eventually form a new pod of six.
@@domdude64dd The Pokedex doesn't say where the other three Exeggcute go upon evolution. I guess the heads don't fight cuz they're a big happy dopey palm tree thing.
Anytime I've caught an Exeggcute I've always named it Order 66 for the perfect chance at a double pun. The fact you finished at level 66 now makes that even better XD
Thanks for the great work, Scott. You've become my fave Pokemon TH-camr. I'm always hyped for the latest videos. I love throwing your videos up at night to go to sleep to (I mean that in the most positive way). Heck my wife even asks me to throw your videos on when we go to bed.
I feel like that is an achievement to have the wife ask for the videos too. Seems like high praise to me. Thanks for writing the comment. Brightened my day!
Barrage would be so much better if 1) It had 100 accuracy and 2) Exeggcute got STAB with it. Grass-type would make the most sense, but knowing that bullet seed will exist 2 generations later, I'd think it'd be neat if it was psychic-type, like it uses psychic powers to fling itself. We need more physical Psychic moves.
Oh yeah, grass type barrage would be awesome! I like that change. I’d even take the trash accuracy if it was a trapping move instead of a multi-hit move.
The 'broken' egg actually does have a face! It's just not usually looking in the same direction as the others. You can see it in the Let's Go screenshot displayed at 3:00!
Speaking if pokemon with multible heads. I think the saddest multi head pokemon is Zweilous, Deino only has one head so when it evolves it gains a twin and they fight each other over the food and the one who eats the most is the leader. And while Hydreigon has three head, the ones on it's arms don't have any brains. Pretty much implies that Zweilous dominant head gets to live and the other one lost.
The efforts you put in to give us EVERYTHING we need on screen. All the info is insane, I love it! Hats off to you, Scott. Your content is awesome, so are you😊
This exeggcute run is going to be absolute hell, especially with barrage and your favorite move: hypnosis. Let's see how this goes. I predict this will be worse than seel.
28:05 I never thought I would ever hear the phrase "fulfilling bad". It made me laugh because it sounds ridicoulus but it made sense in the context. Thanks for your videos!
Exeggutor was my favorite 'psychic' pokemon in gen1, but for some reason I thought it was unavailable in yellow so I never got it. Bummed that I never had an opportunity to use it back in the day. Edit: also, thinking about seeds- you get one seed to one stalk. I think Exeggutor is simply the only egg/seed that survived, and the new heads are simply the offspring of the one surviving seed... as they fall off, they join together and become a new exeggute.
I never had much love for this Pokémon as a kid due to its strange appearance, but I am glad you found joy with these half dozen dudes in your playthrough.
OMG an Exeggcute run soon after the Krabby run? You are absolutely spoiling me here Scott, you keep running pokemon from my favorite evolution lines back to back! I swear if you run like, Weezing in the next week or to I'll absolutely lose it in the most positive way possible
watching Koga absolutely throw that first fight was incredible, just amazing. I'm honestly very impressed with the way exeggcute handled this challenge, and it's always interesting to see what kinds of unique strategies you need to come up with for pokemon with more limited movepools! Not a Good result timewise, but a more impressive result that I was expecting, well done eggs.
Omelette stood in there, weathering bide barrages and all, and kept throwing till the champ went down inside the last minute of the fight. As an avid combat sports and Pokémon fan, that ish was epic lol 🥊🏆
Dodrio is a large, wingless, three-headed avian Pokémon. Each head has a long, sharp beak and a black V-shaped, feather crest. It has bristly brown feathers covering its heads and upper body, while its lower half has a smooth layer of black feathers. Its tail consists of three pale red feathers with lighter tips. Its wingless body rests on two long and slender, but powerful legs with feet that have three clawed toes in front and one in back. A male has black necks, whereas a female has brown necks; both genders have brown legs. Each head has its own working brain and distinct personality. Each head represents and expresses either sorrow, anger, or joy. Despite being separate, it has the innate ability to use all three of its brains to collect data, formulate, and then execute complex plans and strategies. However, on occasion it may overthink, which causes it to become immobilized and unable to carry out any action whatsoever. Being separate individuals on the same body, the three heads will continue to bicker until they, or at least one of them, gets to eat. This satisfies the other two heads, quelling them and temporarily ending their infighting. Another form of adaptation that it has acquired is the ability to have at least one head alert at all times. Extreme caution is advised when all three heads are facing separate directions. It is in this state that it is the most dangerous and going near it may result in a severe pecking.
Dugtrio is a set of Diglett triplets sharing a single body, although no one knows what its body looks like since it's perpetually buried underground. Each head is incredibly tough with a smooth surface, and has brown skin, black eyes, and a large, round, pink nose. Dugtrio's three heads think the same thoughts and act cooperatively, though on rare occasions may fight over which head gets to eat first. In order to make burrowing easier, each head will bob up and down to loosen the soil.
Magneton is a robot-like Pokémon, the result of three Magnemite becoming linked together by a strong magnetic force, although a single Magnemite can evolve by itself when there are no other Magnemite in the vicinity. Each individual Magnemite has a gray spherical body with a single eye, and a gray and red-and-blue tipped horseshoe magnet on each side. The topmost Magnemite has three Phillips head screws on its body, while the others appear to have only two. The three Magnemite that Magneton consists of can be linked in several ways. Magneton is most commonly seen as one Magnemite on top, and two Magnemite linked by the screws on the bottom, forming a triangle.
Dodrio is a large, wingless, three-headed avian Pokémon. Each head has a long, sharp beak and a black V-shaped, feather crest. It has bristly brown feathers covering its heads and upper body, while its lower half has a smooth layer of black feathers. Its tail consists of three pale red feathers with lighter tips. Its wingless body rests on two long and slender, but powerful legs with feet that have three clawed toes in front and one in back. A male has black necks, whereas a female has brown necks; both genders have brown legs. Each head has its own working brain and distinct personality. Each head represents and expresses either sorrow, anger, or joy. Despite being separate, it has the innate ability to use all three of its brains to collect data, formulate, and then execute complex plans and strategies. However, on occasion it may overthink, which causes it to become immobilized and unable to carry out any action whatsoever. Being separate individuals on the same body, the three heads will continue to bicker until they, or at least one of them, gets to eat. This satisfies the other two heads, quelling them and temporarily ending their infighting. Another form of adaptation that it has acquired is the ability to have at least one head alert at all times. Extreme caution is advised when all three heads are facing separate directions. It is in this state that it is the most dangerous and going near it may result in a severe pecking.
Along with its three heads, it has three sets of hearts and lungs as well. This allows it to efficiently oxygenate and pump blood throughout its body, thus giving it increased endurance to run vast distances without rest. It is especially prone to race vigorously across grassy plains, even in arid seasons with little rainfall.
Exeggutor is a tall, bipedal Pokémon that resembles a coconut tree or palm tree. Its body and legs are light brown with thin black rings and its legs are thick with two-toed feet. There is a light yellow paw pad on each foot's underside. It has thin, green leaves sprouting from the top of its body. Exeggutor has three round, light yellow heads that resemble coconuts, each with different facial expressions. Exeggutor's heads think independently and don't appear interested in one another, so it makes a lot of noise as each head speaks its mind. They still appear to get along, though, for they never squabble amongst themselves. If all the heads want to go in a different direction, its body is unable to move. They are able to communicate telepathically as well and sometimes use it to come to a joint decision. It uses psychic powers to fight, and since all three heads are capable its power is tripled. If one of these heads grows too large, it falls off and groups together with others to become an Exeggcute.
Yeah, the game recalculates my attack stat with my Pokémon’s summary attack and the modifier and then in a separate step it reapplies badge boosts to all my stats. (In this case I only have Brock’s badge so only my attack is boosted.)
Exeggute wouldve been great if Gamefreak just gave him confusion at the start or early level up. Love the Pascal/Cage meme and overal this was really one of your most entertaining videos. Your viewers love the alternative strategies nobody used in their childhood like bide and reflect. :D As a kid I considered tm for egg bomb completely useless since I went special moves only for exeggute line but its so nice to see this inaccurate move in action.
This was a really fun one to watch with so many interesting battles in the first playthrough of the two playthroughs featured. The way things were going reset wise on the second run I thought for sure Exeggcute was going to be in for more resets even if every other metric improved so I was glad to see that didn't turn out to be the case. It made such a valiant effort to put out a good performance that I am sad to see it at the end of the tier it landed in on the tier list.
I'm glad to finally know why critical hits didn't do double damage in the early game! I knew it was a bit of a weird formula but I hadn't actually looked into it
I perused the comments for a bit to see if this had already been said but I couldn't find anything, so I'm sorry if you're heard this already, but: the cracked egg amongst Exeggcute's pile actually DOES have a face, you just can't normally see it because he's facing the opposite way. Starting in Generation 5, when Pokemon began getting full backsprites it becomes much more clear.
I’m pretty sure I got them. They are what allow me to get 5 vitamins. 6 is very hard. You have to go out of your way and buy nothing to do it, honestly it usually just slows the run down
I loved eggsecute because I could teach it goofy move sets. My favorite was toxic leech seed rest and reflect. The more damage it takes from toxic the more leech seed health you get. It was a weird glitch
I only just realized, after decades, that not putting moves on the level-up movepool before the level you find them at isn't just a lazy choice that GF did because they _could._ They actually _had to,_ because there was no breeding or move reminder.
I've been using Exeggcute in Crystal as part of a really silly challenge run I'm doing, and its definitely a really interesting Pokemon to use. It has just the right moveset to be really solid defensively but really, really does lack the offensive power to do much. But at least in Gen II Leech Seed is like, really good. This was a really fun video. I don't think Exeggcute was ever going to be great, but it's always really cool to see just how much of a difference these optimizations make, even with worse luck.
5:59 Exeggcute has 6 heads, actually: the "opened egg" one still has a face, it's just hidden in the official artwork because it's turned around; you can see it, for example, in its 3D model when it's on your side of the field.
I really like Exeggcute and its evolution, so I was happy to see a solo being done with it today! Especially in time for Easter (I don’t celebrate it, but found it a nice touch)! I do wonder if mimicking Earthquake would’ve helped vs the champion. I’m not saying it definitely would have since I don’t have calcs, but especially if it OHKOed Flareon, that could be worth it.
Imagine a world where we can get all our favourite Pokémon solo runners to go head to head with a random Pokémon live on stream then all the donations go to a good cause, I wish Agdq or sgdq could pull that together, I’m sure the donations would go through the proverbial roof.
I remember first learning some of the many glitches after my interactions with ghost types. I remember ghost in the anime are super effective against psychic and wondering what was going on. Lick wasn't working on psychic types and it confused me so much.
I forgot when you started to implement the Oak fight at the end instead of the Mewtwo fight but I really like it. It has real postgame final boss energy due to it being a full team to fight instead of just one Pokémon. Btw can you say at the end how many attempts it took you to beat Oak? I'm not sure if you did say it and I just forgot or if you just said that it took a few attempts.
Magneton is a robot-like Pokémon, the result of three Magnemite becoming linked together by a strong magnetic force, although a single Magnemite can evolve by itself when there are no other Magnemite in the vicinity. Each individual Magnemite has a gray spherical body with a single eye, and a gray and red-and-blue tipped horseshoe magnet on each side. The topmost Magnemite has three Phillips head screws on its body, while the others appear to have only two. The three Magnemite that Magneton consists of can be linked in several ways. Magneton is most commonly seen as one Magnemite on top, and two Magnemite linked by the screws on the bottom, forming a triangle.
That first run felt like eggsecute had so much good in the early game, then so much bad luck in the mid. It"s like it had the luck of 6 people in one pokemon. 😊
I am speechless as to how well it did, I just watched Squidgy do a live Exeggutor on Crystal and that was rough and somehow you made it look so much easier with Exeggute, slow yes, but easier. I look forward to your Yellow run with it, who it'll face it face for the VS though is a tricky one, how about in a separate Parasect vid for giggles
Hey Scott, Eggcelent playthrough as always. I was unaware that Exeggecutes move set was so bad in generation 1. I don't love sleep strats but since its your the first person who i dont particularly mind doing it especially with this pokemon. Anyways have a good weekend. Also exeggcute on easter? Well played, don't know if it was planned but hey Happy Easter.
I really enjoy your formula for making videos and your content. I was always curious to know what playthroughs would've been like using different pokemon as your starter when i played these games as a kid.
Another comment now that I've finished watching the whole run. I still think that avoiding Jolteon due to Pin Missile is a bit misguided (I mean, Leech Life from Venomoth and even Fly from Aerodactyl didn't hit that hard), but like with the Oddish run (where I kinda said this same thing), it's probably still the right call to go against Flareon and Magneton rather than Jolteon and Ninetales simply because Jolteon's the only one of those four that'd be outspeeding. Also, it was interesting to see Brock's AI not using any Full Heals on Onix during the first playthrough. Was that because it used Bide before being put to sleep? I don't think I've seen that happen before across all the runs I've watched!
These kinds of odd movesets and stat distributions are what I live for in Randomisers. As fun as Speed Boost Snorlax and Huge Power Slaking can be in randomisers, the real fun is when you are given duct tape and straw then have to make a competent team out of it. xD
Exeggutor is so odd. He learns more moves than his pre-evolution through TM. It seems like you want to evolve it as soon as possible and teach is psychic and mega drain.
The stone must be used at level 28 to get both Leech Seed from Exeggcute (for Leech Seed + Toxic strats) and Stomp from Exeggutor (for Physical Damage so you can hold off on teaching Egg-Bomb for longer) but doing this means losing out on the powder moves if you happen to want them which only Exeggcute learns so its either no powder moves or no Leech Seed and Stomp if you evolve it before at any other level than 28 as an Exeggcute.
@@Zorafin In gen 1 Leech Seed is rarely not useful. You can stack it with Toxic to simultaneously hurt the opponent double time while healing yourself in the process adding so much insult to injury. As for Stomp, do you want Stomp or Double Edge for a physical attack? One can flinch while the other has recoil damage. I'd say Leech Seed, Toxic, Stomp, and Psychic are definitely the ideal moveset. Alternatively you can replace Stomp with Mimic to steal stuff that might make things easier for you against the Elite Four and Champion.
Man I remember being so surprised in Stadium when my mewtwo got hit with leech seed and toxic and I couldn't recover it off. I wouldn't call it good and I was never able to get it to work, but it's a fun idea.
I always found it weird Exeggutor doesn't get body slam. It's a bleedin' great tree monster, for pity's sake, why does the small cat pokemon get body slam but it doesn't? I guess it might have been unbalanced for competitive, but since when did the gen1 design team even consider that?
In the first Blaine fight you mentioned that it would take too many levels before you could outspeed his team. What about leveling up just to the point where a badge boost from Ninetales would let you outspeed with sleep powder? Maybe route in an extra Carbos or two somewhere? Edit: Guess it worked out fine in the second playthrough, nice
Neat idea! I never really like getting hit by the Ninetales tail whips. Just because then Rapidash and Arcanine hit so hard. But I could consider that in the future. Thanks for the idea.
Poor Exeggcute , gen 1 didn't want it to have good moves, despite its decent typing.😮 And yeah, before watching that playthrough I was so sure it could get mega drain or solarbeam via TMS , because every grass type (and some poison types ) could learn it.😅 But overall,it gave the early game some special flavour, especially when you had to rely on bide for the early game ,and with a lot of crazy luck involved, especially in terms of resets.😂😂 Also , I really liked the smart usage of egg bomb ,even though I think that the combination of leech seed and double edge could synergize well too , because the Exeggcute line is pretty bulky (for some odd reason, it's Pokédex entry in gold says that it's shell is very durable. Even if it cracks, it can survive without spilling the contents, I guess that's why they are so bulky who knows?😅)so you can take advantage of that,even though it cost you more time.😊 But in the end Exeggcute did it without becoming an omelette. Well done!👏👏👏👏
Exeggcute's movepool of Leech Seed, Reflect, Sleep Powder puts it way up on my list of cool pokemon. That combination is VERY fun against the AI and the only reason I'm not using the funny bunch every time I move through Gen1 is its late encounter. I didn't even realize it doesn't get Mega Drain - that's more awful offensively than I thought. Then, in Gen2, you can get it VERY early (from headbutting trees in Ilex Forest, which is VERY funny to me) and even an easy Leaf Stone in Crystal, but Jumpluff does the Leech-Sleep strat way better in that game because it's so fast and it's one of my favorites. I do wonder though why it didn't get 50% more exp on that first playthrough, being such a Lucky Egg....
21:04 didn’t you recently show where the healing bed is on the S.S. Anne in gen 1? You could use it on your way out instead of the Pokémon center and thereby retain your ability to dig to Cerulean city, or am I missing something?
Wow execcute had a bright start, no doubt. But sooner or later it would get tougher to him. Blane was such a brick wall, really difficult, but I guess it could have been worse, especially the beginning. In my opinion what helped execcute the most was it's typing and sure what helped the least it's move pool! Man so horrible!!! Why could it not learn mega drain? Dude such an unfair thing... Absolutely one of the most difficult challenges, but you did great Scott, good job! Though I think Exeggutor would do significantly better, I guess everyone would agree on that!!!
I wouldn't have the patience to CRACK this challenge lol I could use some eggcellent eggs right now Isn't the struggle eggtastic? I'm barraging you with these runny puns
I love Eggy in Gen 1. He's so counterintuitive. Really slow, low stats, and bad moves, but somehow it's just insanely consistent. Slow and steady wins the race I guess. Then when it evolves it just turns into an absolute behemoth.
I havent watched the second playthrough yet, but i hope you try out Psychic, Reflect, Leech Seed, and Rest. I'm curious if that slow and steady move set has any merit or if you're too susceptible to your weaknesses still
I’m sorry. I saw another poketuber do this already and I will preemptively apologize on behalf of your sanity.
Lmao
Jep was about to comment the same
@Sapphic Craftknight JRose has done a run with this thing for sure.
Not sure if Van Man has or not
The fact Scott knows how his community is going to react to his sleep tactics makes me love him even more lol
The perks of reading all the comments.
Fun Fact: in gen 1 toxic and leech seed do damage off the same counter, so if you stack them together leech seed will take and heal for more damage as the toxic counter starts to raise.
Yeah! It’s so fun. I used it before with Tentacool in combination with wrap. Very potent!
Wait now we need a run that does that
Another reason why Gen 1 is fun.
Jesus Gen 1 is so broken lmfao 😅🎉
I did a challenge where I only used pokemon with multiple heads, used that combo on Exeggutor. Very fun, and the leech seed healing gets a bit nutty, but it’s sure not fast.
A clutch of eggs can refer to two things:
(1) the total number of eggs laid in one nesting attempt.
(2) Exeggcute during a challenge run.
I thought this was going to be easy until I saw that it didn't learn any grass moves...
Here's what the Pokedex says about the multi-headed gen 1 pokemon:
-Doduo's heads contain identical brains and communicate their emotions telepathically. Only one head needs to sleep at a time.
-Dodrio's third head came from one of its heads splitting into two, and its three identical brains means three times the mental power to devise complicated plans of attack. Like Doduo only one head needs to sleep at a time, and it also has three sets of lungs and three hearts so it can run for super long times.
-Dugtrio is a set of identical triplets that split off from Diglett's body and think together like a hivemind. They sometimes fight over who gets to eat first though.
-Exeggcute always come in groups of six. If one gets lost somehow, their telepathic bond always brings them back together. As their shells crack more and more, it means they're getting closer to evolving.
-Exeggutor's three heads have their own personalities but they're all friendly and never fight one another. Once a head grows large enough it drops off and becomes an Exeggcute who sends out a telepathic signal to any other lone Exeggcute so they can eventually form a new pod of six.
So do the heads fuse or what? Is that why they don't fight since they are 2 or more brains combined
@@domdude64dd The Pokedex doesn't say where the other three Exeggcute go upon evolution. I guess the heads don't fight cuz they're a big happy dopey palm tree thing.
Anytime I've caught an Exeggcute I've always named it Order 66 for the perfect chance at a double pun. The fact you finished at level 66 now makes that even better XD
Glad you started this challenge on the sunny side
This is gonna be eggcelent
And the yolks are on point as always
your strategies are cracked.
Can't believe there are actually people who don't get the "light years" jr trainer joke.
I wonder how many don't know about Shorts Kid and Youngster Joey.
The transitions in editing are really getting top notch! Digging out of the mansion and coming down on a teleporter in Silph *chefs kiss*
As a kid, I always thought you could control what the rivals eevee could evolve into by evolving the gift eevee before the rival's eevee does
It would be cool if it worked that way!
I thought the same thing!
Kek, and there was me, a kid that always fought every trainer and never knew that the rival could have a different team, than the jolteon one
11:26 - That victory is just gen 1's quirkiness at its finest.
Thanks for the great work, Scott. You've become my fave Pokemon TH-camr. I'm always hyped for the latest videos.
I love throwing your videos up at night to go to sleep to (I mean that in the most positive way). Heck my wife even asks me to throw your videos on when we go to bed.
I feel like that is an achievement to have the wife ask for the videos too. Seems like high praise to me. Thanks for writing the comment. Brightened my day!
Barrage would be so much better if 1) It had 100 accuracy and 2) Exeggcute got STAB with it. Grass-type would make the most sense, but knowing that bullet seed will exist 2 generations later, I'd think it'd be neat if it was psychic-type, like it uses psychic powers to fling itself. We need more physical Psychic moves.
Oh yeah, grass type barrage would be awesome! I like that change. I’d even take the trash accuracy if it was a trapping move instead of a multi-hit move.
The 'broken' egg actually does have a face! It's just not usually looking in the same direction as the others. You can see it in the Let's Go screenshot displayed at 3:00!
Speaking if pokemon with multible heads.
I think the saddest multi head pokemon is Zweilous, Deino only has one head so when it evolves it gains a twin and they fight each other over the food and the one who eats the most is the leader. And while Hydreigon has three head, the ones on it's arms don't have any brains.
Pretty much implies that Zweilous dominant head gets to live and the other one lost.
The fact that they're based on the German words for "one" "two" and "three" fucks me up with what that implies about the pronunciations.
The efforts you put in to give us EVERYTHING we need on screen. All the info is insane, I love it! Hats off to you, Scott. Your content is awesome, so are you😊
I appreciate that!
His overlays are absolutely goated for sure
@@levy9595 class of his own in EVERY aspect
Eggcelent, I was looking forward to this eggtastic run for quite some time!
I like that so many normal trainers are a "nice to watch challenge" for it too, thanks for including them
I first thought “What? This shouldn’t be that bad.” Then I saw the moveset and everything changed 😂
This exeggcute run is going to be absolute hell, especially with barrage and your favorite move: hypnosis. Let's see how this goes. I predict this will be worse than seel.
28:05 I never thought I would ever hear the phrase "fulfilling bad". It made me laugh because it sounds ridicoulus but it made sense in the context. Thanks for your videos!
Your excitement is infectious here :) Also my favorite video of yours in a long time!
Wow, thank you!
Exeggutor was my favorite 'psychic' pokemon in gen1, but for some reason I thought it was unavailable in yellow so I never got it. Bummed that I never had an opportunity to use it back in the day.
Edit: also, thinking about seeds- you get one seed to one stalk. I think Exeggutor is simply the only egg/seed that survived, and the new heads are simply the offspring of the one surviving seed... as they fall off, they join together and become a new exeggute.
That's dark... My money is on the center Exeggcute. He's clearly the superior one, especially if you look at the RB sprite.
I never had much love for this Pokémon as a kid due to its strange appearance, but I am glad you found joy with these half dozen dudes in your playthrough.
11:56 "Thanks so much, Nurse Joy, for restoring my PP"
SCOTT!!!!!
OMG an Exeggcute run soon after the Krabby run? You are absolutely spoiling me here Scott, you keep running pokemon from my favorite evolution lines back to back! I swear if you run like, Weezing in the next week or to I'll absolutely lose it in the most positive way possible
watching Koga absolutely throw that first fight was incredible, just amazing. I'm honestly very impressed with the way exeggcute handled this challenge, and it's always interesting to see what kinds of unique strategies you need to come up with for pokemon with more limited movepools! Not a Good result timewise, but a more impressive result that I was expecting, well done eggs.
5:31
It DOES have a face. It's just facing in the other direction.
Omelette stood in there, weathering bide barrages and all, and kept throwing till the champ went down inside the last minute of the fight.
As an avid combat sports and Pokémon fan, that ish was epic lol 🥊🏆
Dodrio is a large, wingless, three-headed avian Pokémon. Each head has a long, sharp beak and a black V-shaped, feather crest. It has bristly brown feathers covering its heads and upper body, while its lower half has a smooth layer of black feathers. Its tail consists of three pale red feathers with lighter tips. Its wingless body rests on two long and slender, but powerful legs with feet that have three clawed toes in front and one in back. A male has black necks, whereas a female has brown necks; both genders have brown legs.
Each head has its own working brain and distinct personality. Each head represents and expresses either sorrow, anger, or joy. Despite being separate, it has the innate ability to use all three of its brains to collect data, formulate, and then execute complex plans and strategies. However, on occasion it may overthink, which causes it to become immobilized and unable to carry out any action whatsoever. Being separate individuals on the same body, the three heads will continue to bicker until they, or at least one of them, gets to eat. This satisfies the other two heads, quelling them and temporarily ending their infighting. Another form of adaptation that it has acquired is the ability to have at least one head alert at all times. Extreme caution is advised when all three heads are facing separate directions. It is in this state that it is the most dangerous and going near it may result in a severe pecking.
Cool,how about exxecute
Dugtrio is a set of Diglett triplets sharing a single body, although no one knows what its body looks like since it's perpetually buried underground. Each head is incredibly tough with a smooth surface, and has brown skin, black eyes, and a large, round, pink nose. Dugtrio's three heads think the same thoughts and act cooperatively, though on rare occasions may fight over which head gets to eat first. In order to make burrowing easier, each head will bob up and down to loosen the soil.
Can you write more Pokédex entries in the comments? This was really enjoyable to read.
Magneton is a robot-like Pokémon, the result of three Magnemite becoming linked together by a strong magnetic force, although a single Magnemite can evolve by itself when there are no other Magnemite in the vicinity. Each individual Magnemite has a gray spherical body with a single eye, and a gray and red-and-blue tipped horseshoe magnet on each side. The topmost Magnemite has three Phillips head screws on its body, while the others appear to have only two. The three Magnemite that Magneton consists of can be linked in several ways. Magneton is most commonly seen as one Magnemite on top, and two Magnemite linked by the screws on the bottom, forming a triangle.
Dodrio is a large, wingless, three-headed avian Pokémon. Each head has a long, sharp beak and a black V-shaped, feather crest. It has bristly brown feathers covering its heads and upper body, while its lower half has a smooth layer of black feathers. Its tail consists of three pale red feathers with lighter tips. Its wingless body rests on two long and slender, but powerful legs with feet that have three clawed toes in front and one in back. A male has black necks, whereas a female has brown necks; both genders have brown legs.
Each head has its own working brain and distinct personality. Each head represents and expresses either sorrow, anger, or joy. Despite being separate, it has the innate ability to use all three of its brains to collect data, formulate, and then execute complex plans and strategies. However, on occasion it may overthink, which causes it to become immobilized and unable to carry out any action whatsoever. Being separate individuals on the same body, the three heads will continue to bicker until they, or at least one of them, gets to eat. This satisfies the other two heads, quelling them and temporarily ending their infighting. Another form of adaptation that it has acquired is the ability to have at least one head alert at all times. Extreme caution is advised when all three heads are facing separate directions. It is in this state that it is the most dangerous and going near it may result in a severe pecking.
Along with its three heads, it has three sets of hearts and lungs as well. This allows it to efficiently oxygenate and pump blood throughout its body, thus giving it increased endurance to run vast distances without rest. It is especially prone to race vigorously across grassy plains, even in arid seasons with little rainfall.
Exeggutor is a tall, bipedal Pokémon that resembles a coconut tree or palm tree. Its body and legs are light brown with thin black rings and its legs are thick with two-toed feet. There is a light yellow paw pad on each foot's underside. It has thin, green leaves sprouting from the top of its body. Exeggutor has three round, light yellow heads that resemble coconuts, each with different facial expressions.
Exeggutor's heads think independently and don't appear interested in one another, so it makes a lot of noise as each head speaks its mind. They still appear to get along, though, for they never squabble amongst themselves. If all the heads want to go in a different direction, its body is unable to move. They are able to communicate telepathically as well and sometimes use it to come to a joint decision. It uses psychic powers to fight, and since all three heads are capable its power is tripled. If one of these heads grows too large, it falls off and groups together with others to become an Exeggcute.
A Pokemon YELLOW run with this Pokemon?? Absolutely wild and the fact I know Scott is going to perfect this run in a way I never could, I'm hyped
At 16:54 the spearow hits growl lowering your attack to 21, but a few seconds later it goes up to 23. Is that because of the badge boost glitch?
Yeah, the game recalculates my attack stat with my Pokémon’s summary attack and the modifier and then in a separate step it reapplies badge boosts to all my stats.
(In this case I only have Brock’s badge so only my attack is boosted.)
Exeggute wouldve been great if Gamefreak just gave him confusion at the start or early level up. Love the Pascal/Cage meme and overal this was really one of your most entertaining videos. Your viewers love the alternative strategies nobody used in their childhood like bide and reflect. :D As a kid I considered tm for egg bomb completely useless since I went special moves only for exeggute line but its so nice to see this inaccurate move in action.
This was a really fun one to watch with so many interesting battles in the first playthrough of the two playthroughs featured.
The way things were going reset wise on the second run I thought for sure Exeggcute was going to be in for more resets even if every other metric improved so I was glad to see that didn't turn out to be the case.
It made such a valiant effort to put out a good performance that I am sad to see it at the end of the tier it landed in on the tier list.
Exeggute moves in reality
Barrage- each seed/eggs rushes in and makes contact doing damage.
Egg bomb- one of the seed/eggs rushes and blows itself up.
Your rant about the heads on Pokémon was so hilarious.
Happy Easter Scott!!
I'm happy you have the success youve garnered and wish you more!
Also I now want to see a 0 reset Exeggcute run. But that's something for the TAS to do lol, wouldn't want to put any person through that pain. 😄
I'm glad to finally know why critical hits didn't do double damage in the early game! I knew it was a bit of a weird formula but I hadn't actually looked into it
I perused the comments for a bit to see if this had already been said but I couldn't find anything, so I'm sorry if you're heard this already, but: the cracked egg amongst Exeggcute's pile actually DOES have a face, you just can't normally see it because he's facing the opposite way. Starting in Generation 5, when Pokemon began getting full backsprites it becomes much more clear.
Great video Scott. That Brock fight was just unreal haha
I would have picked up the tm's from the thirsty girl in celedon city, that would made you have enough for 6 vitamins
I’m pretty sure I got them. They are what allow me to get 5 vitamins. 6 is very hard. You have to go out of your way and buy nothing to do it, honestly it usually just slows the run down
I saw you post that meme/gif on twitter and lost it lmao.
Glad you included it in the video xD
Guard spec company is funding team rocket
So Giovanni always does product placement for them
Any chance he
Gets
I love that explanation
i love your videos man! ive seen just about every single one. They've really helped me understand pokemon a lot better
I’m glad they’ve helped you understand Pokémon more!
I loved eggsecute because I could teach it goofy move sets. My favorite was toxic leech seed rest and reflect. The more damage it takes from toxic the more leech seed health you get. It was a weird glitch
I only just realized, after decades, that not putting moves on the level-up movepool before the level you find them at isn't just a lazy choice that GF did because they _could._ They actually _had to,_ because there was no breeding or move reminder.
Oh yeah, of course! That’s a great way to think about it.
I feel like with as niche as Egg Bomb is, it should have much better accuracy
This movepool has a really big plus. You dont have a hard time to choose, what moves will be on the final moveset.
So true. Sometimes over choice makes things really difficult. Especially when looking for the strategy.
One of the Kings of RBY LC. Long may it reign!
I've been using Exeggcute in Crystal as part of a really silly challenge run I'm doing, and its definitely a really interesting Pokemon to use. It has just the right moveset to be really solid defensively but really, really does lack the offensive power to do much. But at least in Gen II Leech Seed is like, really good.
This was a really fun video. I don't think Exeggcute was ever going to be great, but it's always really cool to see just how much of a difference these optimizations make, even with worse luck.
5:59 Exeggcute has 6 heads, actually: the "opened egg" one still has a face, it's just hidden in the official artwork because it's turned around; you can see it, for example, in its 3D model when it's on your side of the field.
Cool!
Seeing bide having use with reflect in gen1 makes me so happy C:
You mentioned that Exeggcute had five heads but if you look at the battle sprite there are six eggs because game freak back sprites are fantastic.
there are 6 eggs, one of them doesn't have a face so 6 objects in the back sprite and 5 faces when you look at it
@@corberus3119 It DOES have a face, though. It's just facing the other direction.
I really like Exeggcute and its evolution, so I was happy to see a solo being done with it today! Especially in time for Easter (I don’t celebrate it, but found it a nice touch)!
I do wonder if mimicking Earthquake would’ve helped vs the champion. I’m not saying it definitely would have since I don’t have calcs, but especially if it OHKOed Flareon, that could be worth it.
With Exeggcute’s attack I think it’s better to avoid trying Earthquake.
Thanks! Good Job beating Brock 1st try.
Imagine a world where we can get all our favourite Pokémon solo runners to go head to head with a random Pokémon live on stream then all the donations go to a good cause, I wish Agdq or sgdq could pull that together, I’m sure the donations would go through the proverbial roof.
That would be so cool!
I remember first learning some of the many glitches after my interactions with ghost types. I remember ghost in the anime are super effective against psychic and wondering what was going on. Lick wasn't working on psychic types and it confused me so much.
I would love to see how arcanine does in gen 3
I forgot when you started to implement the Oak fight at the end instead of the Mewtwo fight but I really like it. It has real postgame final boss energy due to it being a full team to fight instead of just one Pokémon.
Btw can you say at the end how many attempts it took you to beat Oak? I'm not sure if you did say it and I just forgot or if you just said that it took a few attempts.
I’ll try to remember to add that. Good idea.
Magneton is a robot-like Pokémon, the result of three Magnemite becoming linked together by a strong magnetic force, although a single Magnemite can evolve by itself when there are no other Magnemite in the vicinity. Each individual Magnemite has a gray spherical body with a single eye, and a gray and red-and-blue tipped horseshoe magnet on each side. The topmost Magnemite has three Phillips head screws on its body, while the others appear to have only two. The three Magnemite that Magneton consists of can be linked in several ways. Magneton is most commonly seen as one Magnemite on top, and two Magnemite linked by the screws on the bottom, forming a triangle.
Perfect Nugget Bridge Rival? No, that was a Nice Nugget Bridge Rival
That first run felt like eggsecute had so much good in the early game, then so much bad luck in the mid. It"s like it had the luck of 6 people in one pokemon. 😊
Thanks for releasing one of my favourite Gen 1 Pokemon for my birthday today! Psychic Grass was a great combo, if only the move set was better...
Happy birthday @matti1003 hope you had a great day!
Golduck has the same weirdness. You can breed it to know psychic, but it can't learn psychic through tm. Drives me crazy.
I thought Golduck was a psychic type until I tried to use it in BDSP… why is it mono-water? It evolves from PSYduck.
Barrage and Egg Bomb are two moves you don't see often, but its always cool when they appear just because they are so unique
Agreed!
I am speechless as to how well it did, I just watched Squidgy do a live Exeggutor on Crystal and that was rough and somehow you made it look so much easier with Exeggute, slow yes, but easier. I look forward to your Yellow run with it, who it'll face it face for the VS though is a tricky one, how about in a separate Parasect vid for giggles
Hey Scott, Eggcelent playthrough as always. I was unaware that Exeggecutes move set was so bad in generation 1. I don't love sleep strats but since its your the first person who i dont particularly mind doing it especially with this pokemon. Anyways have a good weekend. Also exeggcute on easter? Well played, don't know if it was planned but hey Happy Easter.
The high defense stat is really an evasion stat. You can crack the eggs easily, but damage is dealt by hitting the smug center one.
If Gamefreak want us to believe 6 eggs can be a Grass type then surely Egg Bomb should have to be a Grass type move as well?
But then they couldn't have made Seed Bomb😅
I really enjoy your formula for making videos and your content. I was always curious to know what playthroughs would've been like using different pokemon as your starter when i played these games as a kid.
Glad you’re liking the videos!
Another comment now that I've finished watching the whole run. I still think that avoiding Jolteon due to Pin Missile is a bit misguided (I mean, Leech Life from Venomoth and even Fly from Aerodactyl didn't hit that hard), but like with the Oddish run (where I kinda said this same thing), it's probably still the right call to go against Flareon and Magneton rather than Jolteon and Ninetales simply because Jolteon's the only one of those four that'd be outspeeding.
Also, it was interesting to see Brock's AI not using any Full Heals on Onix during the first playthrough. Was that because it used Bide before being put to sleep? I don't think I've seen that happen before across all the runs I've watched!
Yeah, bide prevents him from using full heals. It’s one of the reasons I’m confident in the fight at level 15.
If I recall dodrio is listed in the pokedex as having at least different emotions for each head.
Good run! I was really looking forward to a toxic/leachseed combo with this one, I think it would have been fun if you tried it!
Maybe with Exeggutor?
Blaine went from using a super potion at full health to not healing at red health.
Yeah. He does have super potions in yellow, he just very very rarely uses them.
you should name the light years jr trainer Buzz
Got a few suggestions for that to be his name!
These kinds of odd movesets and stat distributions are what I live for in Randomisers. As fun as Speed Boost Snorlax and Huge Power Slaking can be in randomisers, the real fun is when you are given duct tape and straw then have to make a competent team out of it. xD
Exeggutor is so odd. He learns more moves than his pre-evolution through TM. It seems like you want to evolve it as soon as possible and teach is psychic and mega drain.
The stone must be used at level 28 to get both Leech Seed from Exeggcute (for Leech Seed + Toxic strats) and Stomp from Exeggutor (for Physical Damage so you can hold off on teaching Egg-Bomb for longer) but doing this means losing out on the powder moves if you happen to want them which only Exeggcute learns so its either no powder moves or no Leech Seed and Stomp if you evolve it before at any other level than 28 as an Exeggcute.
Oh I didn't realize you could get both! Will you want both leech seed and stomp though? Is leech seed used on Exeggutor?
@@Zorafin In gen 1 Leech Seed is rarely not useful. You can stack it with Toxic to simultaneously hurt the opponent double time while healing yourself in the process adding so much insult to injury.
As for Stomp, do you want Stomp or Double Edge for a physical attack? One can flinch while the other has recoil damage. I'd say Leech Seed, Toxic, Stomp, and Psychic are definitely the ideal moveset.
Alternatively you can replace Stomp with Mimic to steal stuff that might make things easier for you against the Elite Four and Champion.
Man I remember being so surprised in Stadium when my mewtwo got hit with leech seed and toxic and I couldn't recover it off. I wouldn't call it good and I was never able to get it to work, but it's a fun idea.
I always found it weird Exeggutor doesn't get body slam. It's a bleedin' great tree monster, for pity's sake, why does the small cat pokemon get body slam but it doesn't?
I guess it might have been unbalanced for competitive, but since when did the gen1 design team even consider that?
In the first Blaine fight you mentioned that it would take too many levels before you could outspeed his team. What about leveling up just to the point where a badge boost from Ninetales would let you outspeed with sleep powder? Maybe route in an extra Carbos or two somewhere?
Edit: Guess it worked out fine in the second playthrough, nice
Neat idea! I never really like getting hit by the Ninetales tail whips. Just because then Rapidash and Arcanine hit so hard. But I could consider that in the future. Thanks for the idea.
Eggs can't learn softboiled??? :| Also understandable eggs can't use body slam and use egg bomb instead. Happy Egg Day!
I’m going to enjoy this one. Hopefully Exeggcute doesn’t crack under pressure
Poor Exeggcute , gen 1 didn't want it to have good moves, despite its decent typing.😮 And yeah, before watching that playthrough I was so sure it could get mega drain or solarbeam via TMS , because every grass type (and some poison types ) could learn it.😅
But overall,it gave the early game some special flavour, especially when you had to rely on bide for the early game ,and with a lot of crazy luck involved, especially in terms of resets.😂😂
Also , I really liked the smart usage of egg bomb ,even though I think that the combination of leech seed and double edge could synergize well too , because the Exeggcute line is pretty bulky (for some odd reason, it's Pokédex entry in gold says that it's shell is very durable. Even if it cracks, it can survive without spilling the contents, I guess that's why they are so bulky who knows?😅)so you can take advantage of that,even though it cost you more time.😊
But in the end Exeggcute did it without becoming an omelette. Well done!👏👏👏👏
Exeggcute's movepool of Leech Seed, Reflect, Sleep Powder puts it way up on my list of cool pokemon. That combination is VERY fun against the AI and the only reason I'm not using the funny bunch every time I move through Gen1 is its late encounter. I didn't even realize it doesn't get Mega Drain - that's more awful offensively than I thought. Then, in Gen2, you can get it VERY early (from headbutting trees in Ilex Forest, which is VERY funny to me) and even an easy Leaf Stone in Crystal, but Jumpluff does the Leech-Sleep strat way better in that game because it's so fast and it's one of my favorites.
I do wonder though why it didn't get 50% more exp on that first playthrough, being such a Lucky Egg....
Not watching in sync with the live stream, but I love it. Can't wait until I get here on my Challenge Dex Attempts...
33:15 I am so used to grass pokemon to be poison that I was thinking it was stupid for the AI to use toxic
21:04 didn’t you recently show where the healing bed is on the S.S. Anne in gen 1? You could use it on your way out instead of the Pokémon center and thereby retain your ability to dig to Cerulean city, or am I missing something?
The video where I showed the bed was released on April 1st
We had to mod it into the game haha
@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon Oops, I had forgotten about (or not noticed) that little detail 😂
Wow execcute had a bright start, no doubt. But sooner or later it would get tougher to him. Blane was such a brick wall, really difficult, but I guess it could have been worse, especially the beginning. In my opinion what helped execcute the most was it's typing and sure what helped the least it's move pool! Man so horrible!!! Why could it not learn mega drain? Dude such an unfair thing... Absolutely one of the most difficult challenges, but you did great Scott, good job! Though I think Exeggutor would do significantly better, I guess everyone would agree on that!!!
Yeah the lack of mega drain is really disappointing. At least Solarbeam got to be featured. It never gets used in gen 1
6:29 aw… Juno cut after here, experience bar doesn’t change… seeds no kill bird?
Of course Exeggcute did well against Venomoth. Venomoth is a water-fighting type after all.
Man I wasn't expecting him to do so badly. Lack of TM moves and bad early game options really ruins him.
Yeah… I unfortunately knew he would be bad. Checked out his starting moves ages ago and since then I was dreading doing this run.
Well at least you seemed to enjoy it.
It's funny, his evolution is really strong. This guy just seems useless though.
I wouldn't have the patience to CRACK this challenge lol
I could use some eggcellent eggs right now
Isn't the struggle eggtastic?
I'm barraging you with these runny puns
I love Eggy in Gen 1. He's so counterintuitive. Really slow, low stats, and bad moves, but somehow it's just insanely consistent. Slow and steady wins the race I guess.
Then when it evolves it just turns into an absolute behemoth.
Scott I need you to know the cracked one does have a face at least according to my Exeggcute plush
It took me way too long to notice that he had named this guy Omelette. I laughed out loud.
Some reason, I've always loved Exeggutor's look. I've never used him, but I've always wanted to. And Ezeggcute is kinda cute, oddly enough.
The psychic type really saves this Pokémon. No wonder it’s accessible later in the game
Meanwhile Abra's just hanging out at Nugget Bridge.
Psychic type is completely busted in Gen 1 games. Only super effective moves against psychic in the entire game are leech life and pin missile
Well exeggcuted Challenge, Scott!
I havent watched the second playthrough yet, but i hope you try out Psychic, Reflect, Leech Seed, and Rest. I'm curious if that slow and steady move set has any merit or if you're too susceptible to your weaknesses still
Poor Bruno. With 5 eggs, I would be embarrassed, too. But 6? Come on, that's like a full team! I respect that giant buff gym rat.
We can all respect that physique, but not his battling skills.
33:40 - LOL! Praise be to Exeggcute.