Whoo!! Congrats on the 100th upload and what a run!! That lucky break against Bruno took my breath away and had me cheering for my 2nd favorite Electric type! Looking forward to seeing more uploads!
Lets go Pikachu! 5th fastest on the leaderboard, and its not even a fully evolved Pokémon. As a huge pikachu fan, I was grinning ear to ear watching this. Thank you for making this, it was “eggsceptional”
Love the idea of a souped up Pikachu! Yo dawg, I heard you like Special Attacks, so I added a Light Ball and HP Ice to your Pikachu, so you can Special Attack while you Special Attack
Eggcellent sir, truly Eggcellent. 1st great to see you back doing Poke runs, feels like a long time since I saw you do one. 2nd, oh my wow Pika-chad was awesome, you definitely have improved the way you run, I'm glad to see Scott has been imparting his wisdom. that 1st run went about the way I thought it might, nearly identical to mine actually, although you definitely had the better moveset to play with, surf is definitely better than HP water and HP ice is kind perfect, those grass types were a nightmare with just electric and water moves. I stand by the idea of messing around with other HP's to see how the coverage might help, but I think you got the set right. just surprised you didn't throw on volt tackle for style points, might of been handy for dealing with Jynx if nothing else. 2nd run, I can't comment, it was near enough perfect, 0 resets and just a little blackout training, job done you got through. was there any consideration to thunder and rain dance over sub strats, I know it would of meant taking one hit, but at that level, taking one hit was possible, the added power of thunder and the boosted surf might of saved a few minutes grinding. aside from speculating about the moveset, which lets face it, we're always going to do whenever its an option, that was perfect, one hell of a 100th run. I mentioned in the the chat Gen 4 Pika, I stand by it, you will have great fun. Light Ball for a start will boost all your moves not just the special ones and thanks to the physical special split, you get a wider variety of options. moves like volt tackle become monstrous, surf is still an option, but you also get grass know which is a special version of low kick, you also get nasty plot and I think sweet kiss from pichu if you evolve through the run. and the cherry on top is HP is now all special so you can have a rarely seen special rock or fighting move on top of all of the other special options you had in Gen 3, add onto that Sub is now a TM so you can learn and relearn as you please. so imagine if you will, a Pikachu with surf, nasty plot, Electric STAB and any other special move you could think of rotated through a run as you please. are you tempted yet? my runs on Fire Red and Leaf Green are nearly don now, I can't recall what I was on last time we talked, but both my clefairy runs are done, special was easy, physical with belly drum I messed around with metronome a lot, but eventually just went with STAB, shadow ball and brick break to sweep. I did a team run using the rivals team from fire red, replacing Blastoise with Gyrarados. I caught a wild one so I could test the HP and got HP flying, which on a Gyrarados is awesome, surprisingly smooth run. right now doing another rival team run, just using the Yellow Rival team, which is a real pain, Cloyster is useless, ninetails isn't the best, Sandslash is ok, but I'd prefer any other ground type and Magnaton has no moveset, is going ok, but the grinding sessions are so slow, especially hunting the EV's. I might do a Gyrarados solo before I'm done, but I am more than likely going to start on Sapphire and Ruby runs next, same kind of team runs as leaf green and fire red to start off with, poison, sandstorm immune, bugs, fighting, maybe a dragon run and then start the solo bugs and starters plus anything else that comes to mind along the way. I will genuinely miss the FRLG runs, but I can always come back to them later.
Thank you, thank you. It feels good to be putting out another Pokémon vid. This one was a blast. I have been trying to be aware of not falling into the same strategic ruts. HP Ice just felt so good! With Volt Tackle, you know me. Recoil terrifies me. I had really considered including Rain Dance. It was that threat of losing too much speed. Not being able to one shot = death, as you know. I would say I got my nature wrong though. Going Modest instead would have saved some speed. It was a great 100th! Now it's time to aim for the 200th. Yeah, that Gen 4 moveset on Pikachu sounds ridiculous. I need my overlay in Gen 4 to be better, but I might have an alternative. I just need to be playing it :P Ahh yes, I can see that being a bit of a grind. That'll be a pretty killer team when it's fully assembled. Which Eeveelution did you end up going with? Gyarados is a run that I need to get back to. Not having used a single Rare Candy has continued to bother me to this day. I've missed my FRLG runs so I know you'll go back to it too.
@@Eggsceptional its been good seeing you back on here. I could tell you were enjoying this one, it was such an easy one, you can enjoy yourself much more when you're stressed by a run. HP ice did do its job, can't complain, when I ran Racihu I was stuck without it or HP water, I had grass, you find you appreciate the standard HP when you don't have a good one in these runs. I was gonna ask about your choice of nature, considering how frail Pikachu is, have a minus speed nature seemed like a hindrance, modest would of made sense, you never used the physical after all. rain dance is very handy for Pikachu and worth the risk, it can mean the different between KO and 2 hit and Pikachu rarely gets a chance to 2 hit safely so risking it for the KO is worth it its been a long time since I've seen your en 4 overlay so I can't comment, maybe borrow Scott's or use it to build up your own, it could work. and oh yes, Gen 4 Pikachu is awesome, I have 2 of them for competitive, one physical , one special, both are powerful little mice. physical volt tackle with a light ball is very OP and KO's my enemy Milotic when I'm in a pinch more than I care to mention. it was a rather solid team against the R1 and R2, very few KO's on my team, for the R2 I upgraded the sets for most of the team and swept. I couldn't decide on which eeveelution, Vaporeon would of made sense as Shellder is not available in Leaf Green but the rest of the team is, but I wanted to do the team itself without the eevee like I did with the fire red rival team run. Magnaton, ninetails and cloyster, are the options depending on eeveelution and the rest was sandslah, exeggutor and alakazam, very effective. I think you'd like sandslash for a run, has a decent set and gets swords dance for R2. I'll tell you this though, not counting HP all of them had a very poor movepool, most STAB only and limited coverage. I decided on one last FR run before sapphire and ruby, a gyrarados. getting it will be the worst part, but I have a plan, I shall buy the magikarp from the salesman and replace squirtle (as per my rules) evolve it with 15 transferred over rare candies and test its HP. I want HP flying ideally, but anything physical aside from ground or steel will do the job. if I don't get it, I reset, going back to the save before I bought the magikarp and start again. this will take a long time, but will be worth it. once I have the right magikarp, I will start the run proper. if and when you go back to your gyrarados run, would you consider a HP flying for it, as mad as this sounds, but in Gen 3 it is the best STAB move it gets aside from a rain boosted hydro pump, as I found with parasect having a flying move is very handy neutral damage against a lot of the game
It feels like you had fun with this one 😊. Happy to see you’re back with poke runs! No pressure tho! Even if it’s not amazing I still like pikachu, it’s so cute.
100 was an eggseptional legend, even though I'm not a fan iof Pikachu, because of pokemon Yellow. But with surf and substitute it definitely makes it up to it's horribly bad defenses. Blackout training is a great option to grind for levels and EVs too,Thanks to Bruno Pikachu's defense EV's were not that bad,for the round 2 champion. That makes me wonder how great Raichu could have been with these boosts?🤔 And also old habits die hard, it's hard to constantly check if you haven't picked up certain items that are kind of mandatory in your run,but not picking them saves a lot of time that's for sure.😊 Congratulations on having your 100th upload!🎉 Keep it up!
I loved having a moveset that set up Pikachu for the run right from the start. I did race through the game with Raichu solo against Scott in a stream a while back. I can't recall how it did, only that I lost :) Breaking that muscle memory was tough! I had to focus on it so much in the second run. Thank you :) Here's to 100 more!
@@Eggsceptional Wow,then I got to watch it then at some point, I know that it would be fun.😊 I'm not sure if it a problem that occurs once you get older ,that you tend to be forgetful when it comes to memories.😅 But all I can say is that it takes one to know one . I'm looking forward for next 100 videos! Keep up the good work!
@@bateltheassistant Oh for sure! If I don't write everything that enters my brain down it's gone just as quickly. There's no shortage of future content to make :D
@@Eggsceptional Lol, of course, I forgot you haven’t played any of the later gens. 110 base stat increase and some really nutty moves like basically special electric type return and surf but with para. The partner eevee moves are even dumber lol
@@Eggsceptional to be fair, let’s go pikachu and eevee are kind of notorious for being very easy and the partner pikachu isn’t technically as powerful as light ball pikachu but it does have 120 speed and better stats all around. Also baddy bad and sparkly swirl are busted.
@@banditrests Baddy Bad and Sparkly Swirl? Are they even trying anymore :P I haven't played the Lets Go games but they might be a fun thing to experience. I want to see how much love can prevent game mechanics :D
It seems like the main obstacles were Fighting-types oddly enough and not Ground-types. As a side effect of buffing the Fighting-type in general, Machamp and the Hitmons got substantial boosts to their Special Defense in Gen 2, and Heracross also has decent Special bulk. Paired with most of these Pokemon having Earthquake in Round 2, yeah.
Egg, lets say you were 10 years old and about to go on your Pokémon adventure. What 6 pokemon would you make your team of? (Remember pokemon are real and this adventure is going to take you across the land far and wide. It will be difficult and your Pokemon will not only be your team but also your tools, your pets and your friends). Rules for simplicity: gen 1 and 2 only, no legendaries, may select 1 starter only (if you choose to get a pokemon from one of the professors). Bonus: what would be your goal to become a "pokemon master"? Catch all the pokemon? Beat the elite 4? Just to adventure and have a fun life with pokemon? Something else?
It would pretty much be Blue's team, honestly. Pidgey, Growlithe, Magikarp, Abra, Exeggcute, and Rhyhorn. Including Gen 2, I might swap Rhyhorn for Phanpy. That's it!
Hey Eggsceptional :) Congratz for the 100 :D A thing I have to mention when playing Pikachu (or Marowak). You said early in the run, that it would be either one shot or get one shot. Then why did you bother with defense EVs? You had about 170+- SpAtk Evs (first run), when you mentioned, you had them all maxed out. If you would have maxed out those SpAtk EVs, you'd have more favorable ranges, since every SpAtk stat you gain is basicly doubled. You could've maybe saved some time cause you didn't need to overlevel as much, since you gained the stats needed more effective (Your round 1 Spatk Stat of 177 would be acquired as soon as Pikachu reaches lv 80 instead of lv 90) Your 2nd run SpAtk stat of 182 could be reached at lv 83. I don't know if that's efficient or a time waste, but that's a thing, I would consider (Psyduck in Fuchsia while surfing gives 1 SpAtk EV and is between lv 20 and 40/ 230 - 460 exp) Besides that, enjoyable as allways! Kepp it up :D
The defense EVs were mostly geared towards Round 2. Making our decoy tougher allowed me to tank a Rock Tomb later in the game allowing us to avoid more threatening things like Machamp's Cross Chop. I've found that maxing out SpA EVs takes a huge time investment. I don't have any fancy routing software or anything, just anecdotal bits from the first run, and hope for the second :P There's always room for improvement, especially when I'm only doing 2 runs per video. Thanks for the tips!
Wow you didn’t even have to use rain dance thunder and boosted surf! Eggcelent run egg! Now all we need is that clampearl sea tooth run! Or marowak thick club! Idk just spitballin
I stuck only to event moves that were in Gen 3 (unless I missed Petal Dance). As far as I could find it was Surf and Fly - Fly wasn't super attractive. Why Growl? Because.. vicious..? :)
Recoil moves scare me so much in these solo runs. Without reliable healing they feel super inconsistent to try to use. Though I do agree.. it would have solved a few ranges for SURE.
Nice video. I'll disagree with the nature. A nature with minus attack would have been better than minus speed. There were points in the first run where the speed mattered and a minus attack would have meant you did less damage to yourself with confusion which would have been nice if there was bad luck. I liked seeing some league grinding in the second run. In the first run did you consider grinding against Lorelei and Bruno rather than doing cycling road and victory road. I definitely think its something you should consider sometimes to speed up your grinding.
I agree with your disagreeing with my nature! Modest would have been much better option. In the first run I was worried about needing Brick Break for Tyranitar, but in run 2, Modest was the obvious choice. I should do some testing and see what's more time efficient - grinding the league VS Victory Road. Thanks for the feedback :)
@@Eggsceptional hahaha, I believe in you!!! You're way ahead of me. I want to learn to mod Pokemon games, but I have no clue what software to even use with the decompilations, much less all the solo runs you and the rest of the community do. I really need to learn about it more. I wanna make a UI like you guys that works for a full team so I can do some high quality Nuzlockes and the such
@@Chronoflation For sure! I was super lucky with my content. I didn't have the live updating overlay for the longest time, then another creator (KangaskDan) reached out and offered to help get me some upgrades :) I still don't understand 3/4 of the code
Cool run dude, was just wondering why you didnt use Volt tackle though? Like ypu said: this rat needs to oneshot or get oneshot, so why not sacridice some hp for damage? 😅
Recoil moves scare the daylights out of me. Especially in a run like Pikachu I was worried that relying on Volt Tackle would result in a dead Pikachu more times than not 😅
So the Quiet nature was just to give yourself more challenge since you didn't use your physical attack stat at all? Lol. This was great, and the amazing thing is, I bet it could still be improved with a -atk nature and a focus on more sp atk EVs, purposefully minimizing atk EVs as much as possible. Though, now that I think about it, I can't think of any real good ways to optimize for sp atk EVs in Kanto
Upon reflection, going with Modest probably would have been better. My runs are definitely far from perfect. I just enjoy sharing my eggsperiences in these runs ;)
@@Eggsceptional I love it! I think you've got a great style and your learning just makes the runs continue to get better and gives the series a serialized feel, even though your runs are effectively episodic runs that theoretically shouldn't have much to do with each other outside of the leaderboards at the end. Thanks for responding to all my comments. Always great when a TH-camr engages in the conversation in their comments. I really respect it. I know it's hard to do, and only gets harder as you grow
@@Chronoflation Thank you! I try my best. I really enjoy discussing my learning process and narrating my gameplay. I've never been much of one for social media, but I love the feedback that I get in the comments. Sometimes I'm.. less than prompt in my responses :P
@@Eggsceptional hahaha, I can relate to that. I deleted basically all of my social media except for TH-cam, if this even counts. Keep up the great work and I'm gonna keep watching. It's really fun
Random fact light ball pikachu thunderbolt hits basically just as hard as Mewtwo psychic assuming a neutral Target obviously Ran calcs vs a blissy and got 16.1% pikachu 16.5% mew two So yeah basical superchu has the power of mewtwo. But the defense of paper mache ...or Raditz (bonus points to those who get the ref)
Im only about 15 mins in so far but i feel like secret power or return aren't the worst ideas ever. Pikachu is gonna have better physical attack until after you beat Blaine and alternative coverage is ALMOST never a bad idea. Especially since you'd only be giving up thunderwave anyway, which I don't think you've used even once (correct me if im wrong)
This was my mentality in the first run. I definitely could have used more physical moves, but there wasn't a lot motivating me to do so. You're correct, I never once used Growl OR Thunder Wave in that 4th move slot. I'll chalk it up to being a bit rusty with solo runs. That's my eggscuse ;)
Honestly, I think doubling down on Sp Atk EVs would be better than Defense. Sure, he survived that Machamp EQ, but with light ball effectively doubling the gains from your EVs, if you had a remotely significant amount of EVs left from maxing out sp atk for Pikachu, some 100 or so, then a lot of those hits into red may have turned into ranges or possibly even guaranteed KOs. I'm curious about the math on this, are you able to see it on your end?
I don't have route files or anything breaking this down, no. The problem I encounter when going hard into SpA EVs is that there are only so many available without going off the beaten path. I could get more from wild battles, or going back to say Pokemon Tower, but I feel this would have had a negative impact on completion time.
@@Eggsceptional ah, yeah, that makes sense. I wonder if there's a way to route in like 100 more sp atk EVs relatively efficiently, even if it's maybe a minute or 2 slower than the other necessary grinding you'd do anyways 🤔
@@Chronoflation Probably the most reliable place to train for SpA EVs is just outside Vermillion with the VS Seeker. There's a trainer there with 3 Magnetons (2 SpA each) that can be rebattled. As far as speed doing it? No idea :P
@@Eggsceptional oh yeah, vs seeker rebattling feels like it's be pretty slow. But maybe. You'd need to battle him like 15 times though. I guess there is no effective way that still will make you progress. Maybe not using a repel in lavender tower could get a few along the way with the Ghastlys and Haunters, but probably not enough to be worth it
@@Chronoflation I also skipped the trainers in Pokémon Tower which would also be a good source of SpA EVs. It's not a lack of options I think it's a lack of good/fast options.
I definitely should have gone Modest in the second run. I thought maybe I'd need Brick Break later for Tyranitar in the first run, but Modest would have been much better in the second. Good looking out :)
I use two pieces of software. First, the Universal Pokemon Randomizer to change my starter to what I want. Then, after obtaining it I use PKHeX to edit the starter to exactly what I want. This could be done entirely with PKHeX but I like the image of my starter showing up :)
@@Eggsceptionalnice, I thought maybe I was missing something. I think red in gold/silver and the remakes has a light all pikachu but other than that, I had no idea how strong it was. This is probably my favorite run of yours! Good stuff!
@@Hitdouble Thank you :) I really enjoyed playing this one. It makes me want to eggsperiment with more held items like Deep Sea Tooth, Thick Club, Soul Dew
Yo have you seen Captain Pikachu yet in Pokemon Horizons? Cap makes Ash's Pikachu look like a 2 pump chump. *edit* Also since you're now working under Scott is it mandatory to pick up the Dome Fossil? lol
I haven't seen that no! This Pikachu felt more like 1 pump :P Nah, I grab the Helix every time the Pokémon that I'm running is even remotely blue. I'm fickle like that
Not Modest, but Quiet? On a pure special attacker? 🤨 Isn’t speed a concern against Starmie, Raichu, and Aerodactyl? There’s not a single physical attack worth using when you have a Light Ball, unless you have Fly against Heracross, and even then, it’s barely better than STAB Thunderbolt, mostly just because Heracross has slightly lower physical defense. (Note: There’s nothing up through Gen 3 that resists Electric, Ice, and Water coverage excluding Shedinja, and only Magneton, Heracross, Sneasel, and Medicham take neutral from those types while being 4x weak to a physical type, but two of those are extremely fragile and three don’t appear in any major fights.) Also, Steelix and Heracross probably had ranges with Earthquake. If they roll an OHKO, they go for it. If they don’t roll an OHKO, they use Rock Tomb for speed control. (The Hitmonchan in your second playthrough has me doubting this, since it went for Sky Uppercut when you were at full health but Rock Tomb when you were at half health. Does the Gen 3 AI calculate misses when rolling for damage?) Also I was low-key expecting a port of Partner Pikachu from Let’s Go. But with Light Ball too. 😂
Yessss.. upon reflection Modest would have been a much better nature in the second playthrough. Generally, yes the AI will go for the knockout as the highest priority. In fairness to the Hitmonchan, when he selected the move I was still at 75% health instead of 50%. With Steelix though, after that first sub was out if he didn't go for Rock Tomb on the first it was a slow death from there. I've never played anything past Gen 5 (and I've only played that once). I wasn't even aware of what a Partner Pikachu was until after making this video :P
When several of these Pokémon gather, their electricity can build and cause lightning storms. When it is angered, it immediately discharges the energy stored in the pouches in its cheeks. When it smashes its opponents with its bolt-shaped tail, it delivers a surge of electricity equivalent to a lightning strike. :D
20:18 and 21:16 and 42:36 for the onixiseseseses 22:22 and 45:03 and 45:25 ooooooo 69 nice 26:21 for both onixiseseseses AND steelixeseseses 36:40 for the cleverererer
I use the Universal Pokemon Randomizer to swap out my starter, then I use PKHeX to edit the Pokemon that I'm using to be eggsactly what I want. It beats spending hours upon hours of breeding. It also allows for runs like this :D
@@xlatheblackdragon705 Surf was an event move for Pikachu. To me that means it IS possible for Pikachu to Surf. So I added the move using software :) Kid me would be blown away
@@xlatheblackdragon705 surf Pikachu its prety" standandart" in many events he can surf/fly and in mamy games especial fans games they give him abilty to learn IT somehaw . And you got gen 7 allolan raicbu with surf
HES DOING IT OMG ITS FINALLY HAPPENING
At long last :)
Congrats on 100 sir egg! Keep on keepin on!
Always :D Thank you
Whoo!! Congrats on the 100th upload and what a run!! That lucky break against Bruno took my breath away and had me cheering for my 2nd favorite Electric type! Looking forward to seeing more uploads!
Thank you! This run was amazing to play :D That's amazing that you were right there with me in that last stretch. What a rush!
Missed the eggceptional videos! Glad to see ya posting again!
Good to be posting again :) Thanks!
“This battle could’ve FALLEN away from me”
Korn instincts just triggered
Raichu's beating, beating me down. Down, down into the ground
How Eggsceptional of you to come down and end Groudon’s merciless drought, and Kyogre’s torrential rain. Glad to see a video from you bud. 🍻
It makes me want to play that pair again. I improved Tauros by 40 mins after 1 year after all :) It's my pleasure. Thanks for watching.
Lets go Pikachu! 5th fastest on the leaderboard, and its not even a fully evolved Pokémon.
As a huge pikachu fan, I was grinning ear to ear watching this. Thank you for making this, it was “eggsceptional”
Thank you for watching! This run might have been a little ludicrous, but Pikachu ranking with the legendaries? That was a great feeling for me :D
@@Eggsceptional exactly. Truly making the mascot of the series prove to us all why he is so good
@@zeldapadawan5634 It makes me want to really dial in this run. Maybe that's something I'll have to do in the future.
Love the idea of a souped up Pikachu!
Yo dawg, I heard you like Special Attacks, so I added a Light Ball and HP Ice to your Pikachu, so you can Special Attack while you Special Attack
Seriously. This run was a blast!
Love these videos, keep it up dude!
Thank you! I plan on it :)
Eggcellent sir, truly Eggcellent. 1st great to see you back doing Poke runs, feels like a long time since I saw you do one.
2nd, oh my wow Pika-chad was awesome, you definitely have improved the way you run, I'm glad to see Scott has been imparting his wisdom. that 1st run went about the way I thought it might, nearly identical to mine actually, although you definitely had the better moveset to play with, surf is definitely better than HP water and HP ice is kind perfect, those grass types were a nightmare with just electric and water moves. I stand by the idea of messing around with other HP's to see how the coverage might help, but I think you got the set right. just surprised you didn't throw on volt tackle for style points, might of been handy for dealing with Jynx if nothing else.
2nd run, I can't comment, it was near enough perfect, 0 resets and just a little blackout training, job done you got through. was there any consideration to thunder and rain dance over sub strats, I know it would of meant taking one hit, but at that level, taking one hit was possible, the added power of thunder and the boosted surf might of saved a few minutes grinding. aside from speculating about the moveset, which lets face it, we're always going to do whenever its an option, that was perfect, one hell of a 100th run.
I mentioned in the the chat Gen 4 Pika, I stand by it, you will have great fun. Light Ball for a start will boost all your moves not just the special ones and thanks to the physical special split, you get a wider variety of options. moves like volt tackle become monstrous, surf is still an option, but you also get grass know which is a special version of low kick, you also get nasty plot and I think sweet kiss from pichu if you evolve through the run. and the cherry on top is HP is now all special so you can have a rarely seen special rock or fighting move on top of all of the other special options you had in Gen 3, add onto that Sub is now a TM so you can learn and relearn as you please. so imagine if you will, a Pikachu with surf, nasty plot, Electric STAB and any other special move you could think of rotated through a run as you please. are you tempted yet?
my runs on Fire Red and Leaf Green are nearly don now, I can't recall what I was on last time we talked, but both my clefairy runs are done, special was easy, physical with belly drum I messed around with metronome a lot, but eventually just went with STAB, shadow ball and brick break to sweep. I did a team run using the rivals team from fire red, replacing Blastoise with Gyrarados. I caught a wild one so I could test the HP and got HP flying, which on a Gyrarados is awesome, surprisingly smooth run. right now doing another rival team run, just using the Yellow Rival team, which is a real pain, Cloyster is useless, ninetails isn't the best, Sandslash is ok, but I'd prefer any other ground type and Magnaton has no moveset, is going ok, but the grinding sessions are so slow, especially hunting the EV's.
I might do a Gyrarados solo before I'm done, but I am more than likely going to start on Sapphire and Ruby runs next, same kind of team runs as leaf green and fire red to start off with, poison, sandstorm immune, bugs, fighting, maybe a dragon run and then start the solo bugs and starters plus anything else that comes to mind along the way. I will genuinely miss the FRLG runs, but I can always come back to them later.
Thank you, thank you. It feels good to be putting out another Pokémon vid. This one was a blast. I have been trying to be aware of not falling into the same strategic ruts. HP Ice just felt so good! With Volt Tackle, you know me. Recoil terrifies me.
I had really considered including Rain Dance. It was that threat of losing too much speed. Not being able to one shot = death, as you know. I would say I got my nature wrong though. Going Modest instead would have saved some speed. It was a great 100th! Now it's time to aim for the 200th.
Yeah, that Gen 4 moveset on Pikachu sounds ridiculous. I need my overlay in Gen 4 to be better, but I might have an alternative. I just need to be playing it :P
Ahh yes, I can see that being a bit of a grind. That'll be a pretty killer team when it's fully assembled. Which Eeveelution did you end up going with? Gyarados is a run that I need to get back to. Not having used a single Rare Candy has continued to bother me to this day. I've missed my FRLG runs so I know you'll go back to it too.
@@Eggsceptional its been good seeing you back on here. I could tell you were enjoying this one, it was such an easy one, you can enjoy yourself much more when you're stressed by a run. HP ice did do its job, can't complain, when I ran Racihu I was stuck without it or HP water, I had grass, you find you appreciate the standard HP when you don't have a good one in these runs.
I was gonna ask about your choice of nature, considering how frail Pikachu is, have a minus speed nature seemed like a hindrance, modest would of made sense, you never used the physical after all. rain dance is very handy for Pikachu and worth the risk, it can mean the different between KO and 2 hit and Pikachu rarely gets a chance to 2 hit safely so risking it for the KO is worth it
its been a long time since I've seen your en 4 overlay so I can't comment, maybe borrow Scott's or use it to build up your own, it could work. and oh yes, Gen 4 Pikachu is awesome, I have 2 of them for competitive, one physical , one special, both are powerful little mice. physical volt tackle with a light ball is very OP and KO's my enemy Milotic when I'm in a pinch more than I care to mention.
it was a rather solid team against the R1 and R2, very few KO's on my team, for the R2 I upgraded the sets for most of the team and swept. I couldn't decide on which eeveelution, Vaporeon would of made sense as Shellder is not available in Leaf Green but the rest of the team is, but I wanted to do the team itself without the eevee like I did with the fire red rival team run. Magnaton, ninetails and cloyster, are the options depending on eeveelution and the rest was sandslah, exeggutor and alakazam, very effective. I think you'd like sandslash for a run, has a decent set and gets swords dance for R2. I'll tell you this though, not counting HP all of them had a very poor movepool, most STAB only and limited coverage.
I decided on one last FR run before sapphire and ruby, a gyrarados. getting it will be the worst part, but I have a plan, I shall buy the magikarp from the salesman and replace squirtle (as per my rules) evolve it with 15 transferred over rare candies and test its HP. I want HP flying ideally, but anything physical aside from ground or steel will do the job. if I don't get it, I reset, going back to the save before I bought the magikarp and start again. this will take a long time, but will be worth it. once I have the right magikarp, I will start the run proper.
if and when you go back to your gyrarados run, would you consider a HP flying for it, as mad as this sounds, but in Gen 3 it is the best STAB move it gets aside from a rain boosted hydro pump, as I found with parasect having a flying move is very handy neutral damage against a lot of the game
It feels like you had fun with this one 😊. Happy to see you’re back with poke runs! No pressure tho! Even if it’s not amazing I still like pikachu, it’s so cute.
I had a ton of fun with this one. I think the key was to allow myself to miss Pokémon. There's something about Pikachu crushing the game :D
Subbed. Love your voice and energy. 💜
Thank you :)
Got excited for a video before bed then realized I had to wait 6 hours.
Sorry! The premieres do better when people have notice :)
congratze on 100!
Thank you :D
Good upload my guy. Keep it going.
Thank you :D
100 was an eggseptional legend, even though I'm not a fan iof Pikachu, because of pokemon Yellow. But with surf and substitute it definitely makes it up to it's horribly bad defenses.
Blackout training is a great option to grind for levels and EVs too,Thanks to Bruno Pikachu's defense EV's were not that bad,for the round 2 champion. That makes me wonder how great Raichu could have been with these boosts?🤔
And also old habits die hard, it's hard to constantly check if you haven't picked up certain items that are kind of mandatory in your run,but not picking them saves a lot of time that's for sure.😊
Congratulations on having your 100th upload!🎉 Keep it up!
I loved having a moveset that set up Pikachu for the run right from the start. I did race through the game with Raichu solo against Scott in a stream a while back. I can't recall how it did, only that I lost :) Breaking that muscle memory was tough! I had to focus on it so much in the second run.
Thank you :) Here's to 100 more!
@@Eggsceptional Wow,then I got to watch it then at some point, I know that it would be fun.😊
I'm not sure if it a problem that occurs once you get older ,that you tend to be forgetful when it comes to memories.😅 But all I can say is that it takes one to know one .
I'm looking forward for next 100 videos! Keep up the good work!
@@bateltheassistant Oh for sure! If I don't write everything that enters my brain down it's gone just as quickly. There's no shortage of future content to make :D
He sounds like he's about to blow up and I'm all for it! 🙂
Selfdestructs and Eggsplosions always scare me...
Great video!
Thank you!
Light ball is a lot stronger than most people realize lol. Would have been fun to throw in the partner pikachu’s insane signature moves
Before creating this video I had no idea what a Partner Pikachu was :P I've got this written down for potential future videos!
@@Eggsceptional Lol, of course, I forgot you haven’t played any of the later gens. 110 base stat increase and some really nutty moves like basically special electric type return and surf but with para. The partner eevee moves are even dumber lol
@@banditrests I'm lame like that :P That absolutely sounds like something I need to try to do. Make Pikachu even stronger? Sure!
@@Eggsceptional to be fair, let’s go pikachu and eevee are kind of notorious for being very easy and the partner pikachu isn’t technically as powerful as light ball pikachu but it does have 120 speed and better stats all around. Also baddy bad and sparkly swirl are busted.
@@banditrests Baddy Bad and Sparkly Swirl? Are they even trying anymore :P I haven't played the Lets Go games but they might be a fun thing to experience. I want to see how much love can prevent game mechanics :D
It seems like the main obstacles were Fighting-types oddly enough and not Ground-types. As a side effect of buffing the Fighting-type in general, Machamp and the Hitmons got substantial boosts to their Special Defense in Gen 2, and Heracross also has decent Special bulk. Paired with most of these Pokemon having Earthquake in Round 2, yeah.
It's true. Surf pretty much solved every Ground/B-Rock problem that may have emerged. It's wild how much better Fighting types became in Gen 3
My dude is back
Trying to make an epic comeback ;)
Egg, lets say you were 10 years old and about to go on your Pokémon adventure. What 6 pokemon would you make your team of? (Remember pokemon are real and this adventure is going to take you across the land far and wide. It will be difficult and your Pokemon will not only be your team but also your tools, your pets and your friends).
Rules for simplicity: gen 1 and 2 only, no legendaries, may select 1 starter only (if you choose to get a pokemon from one of the professors).
Bonus: what would be your goal to become a "pokemon master"? Catch all the pokemon? Beat the elite 4? Just to adventure and have a fun life with pokemon? Something else?
It would pretty much be Blue's team, honestly. Pidgey, Growlithe, Magikarp, Abra, Exeggcute, and Rhyhorn. Including Gen 2, I might swap Rhyhorn for Phanpy. That's it!
Hey Eggsceptional :)
Congratz for the 100 :D
A thing I have to mention when playing Pikachu (or Marowak).
You said early in the run, that it would be either one shot or get one shot.
Then why did you bother with defense EVs?
You had about 170+- SpAtk Evs (first run), when you mentioned, you had them all maxed out. If you would have maxed out those SpAtk EVs, you'd have more favorable ranges, since every SpAtk stat you gain is basicly doubled.
You could've maybe saved some time cause you didn't need to overlevel as much, since you gained the stats needed more effective (Your round 1 Spatk Stat of 177 would be acquired as soon as Pikachu reaches lv 80 instead of lv 90)
Your 2nd run SpAtk stat of 182 could be reached at lv 83.
I don't know if that's efficient or a time waste, but that's a thing, I would consider (Psyduck in Fuchsia while surfing gives 1 SpAtk EV and is between lv 20 and 40/ 230 - 460 exp)
Besides that, enjoyable as allways! Kepp it up :D
The defense EVs were mostly geared towards Round 2. Making our decoy tougher allowed me to tank a Rock Tomb later in the game allowing us to avoid more threatening things like Machamp's Cross Chop. I've found that maxing out SpA EVs takes a huge time investment.
I don't have any fancy routing software or anything, just anecdotal bits from the first run, and hope for the second :P There's always room for improvement, especially when I'm only doing 2 runs per video. Thanks for the tips!
Wow you didn’t even have to use rain dance thunder and boosted surf! Eggcelent run egg! Now all we need is that clampearl sea tooth run! Or marowak thick club! Idk just spitballin
Or both :D There's also the Soul Dew Latis that need some love. These "over the top" runs are wicked fun to play
@@Eggsceptional 😩😩😩😩😩😩🥵🥵🥵🥵
Chonkychu lol
Woo! New Egg Video!!!
It's been too long :)
Fat Pikachu is best Pikachu, bring back obese mouse
I did take the speed reducing nature :D
Chonkychu
Weird Pikachu did learn petal dance and fly as event moves why growl
I stuck only to event moves that were in Gen 3 (unless I missed Petal Dance). As far as I could find it was Surf and Fly - Fly wasn't super attractive. Why Growl? Because.. vicious..? :)
I can't catch the premiere. But can't wait until I can watch when I'm off work.
This one was a blast :D
Was hoping to see volt tackle as the 4th move love that move
Recoil moves scare me so much in these solo runs. Without reliable healing they feel super inconsistent to try to use. Though I do agree.. it would have solved a few ranges for SURE.
Nice video.
I'll disagree with the nature. A nature with minus attack would have been better than minus speed. There were points in the first run where the speed mattered and a minus attack would have meant you did less damage to yourself with confusion which would have been nice if there was bad luck.
I liked seeing some league grinding in the second run. In the first run did you consider grinding against Lorelei and Bruno rather than doing cycling road and victory road. I definitely think its something you should consider sometimes to speed up your grinding.
I agree with your disagreeing with my nature! Modest would have been much better option. In the first run I was worried about needing Brick Break for Tyranitar, but in run 2, Modest was the obvious choice.
I should do some testing and see what's more time efficient - grinding the league VS Victory Road. Thanks for the feedback :)
You can always backport the Let's Go moves and have Pikachu Zippy Zap his enemies into submission
It should be possible! Once I get more skills 😅
@@Eggsceptional hahaha, I believe in you!!! You're way ahead of me. I want to learn to mod Pokemon games, but I have no clue what software to even use with the decompilations, much less all the solo runs you and the rest of the community do. I really need to learn about it more. I wanna make a UI like you guys that works for a full team so I can do some high quality Nuzlockes and the such
@@Chronoflation For sure! I was super lucky with my content. I didn't have the live updating overlay for the longest time, then another creator (KangaskDan) reached out and offered to help get me some upgrades :) I still don't understand 3/4 of the code
34:06 these moments I live for!
I was on a roll with that one :D
Not naming it Mascot is a missed opportunity.
Hindsight's 20/20 as usual with my videos :D
Here's to a hundred more!
I'm with you there :D
Cool run dude, was just wondering why you didnt use Volt tackle though? Like ypu said: this rat needs to oneshot or get oneshot, so why not sacridice some hp for damage? 😅
Recoil moves scare the daylights out of me. Especially in a run like Pikachu I was worried that relying on Volt Tackle would result in a dead Pikachu more times than not 😅
GG, eGG.
Thank you :D
Wow, that Pikachu had RNG on his side. This isn't game Pikachu... it's anime Pikachu.
I've always wondered where the secret breakable sprinkler in Brock's gym is...
So the Quiet nature was just to give yourself more challenge since you didn't use your physical attack stat at all? Lol. This was great, and the amazing thing is, I bet it could still be improved with a -atk nature and a focus on more sp atk EVs, purposefully minimizing atk EVs as much as possible. Though, now that I think about it, I can't think of any real good ways to optimize for sp atk EVs in Kanto
Upon reflection, going with Modest probably would have been better. My runs are definitely far from perfect. I just enjoy sharing my eggsperiences in these runs ;)
@@Eggsceptional I love it! I think you've got a great style and your learning just makes the runs continue to get better and gives the series a serialized feel, even though your runs are effectively episodic runs that theoretically shouldn't have much to do with each other outside of the leaderboards at the end.
Thanks for responding to all my comments. Always great when a TH-camr engages in the conversation in their comments. I really respect it. I know it's hard to do, and only gets harder as you grow
@@Chronoflation Thank you! I try my best. I really enjoy discussing my learning process and narrating my gameplay. I've never been much of one for social media, but I love the feedback that I get in the comments. Sometimes I'm.. less than prompt in my responses :P
@@Eggsceptional hahaha, I can relate to that. I deleted basically all of my social media except for TH-cam, if this even counts. Keep up the great work and I'm gonna keep watching. It's really fun
@@Chronoflation For real :D I appreciate it!
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You used my name with kilowatt and you used my son's name with 100. But his was a charzard. I love it
I struggle so much with nicknaming Pokémon. I'm glad they work sometimes :D
Random fact light ball pikachu thunderbolt hits basically just as hard as Mewtwo psychic assuming a neutral Target obviously
Ran calcs vs a blissy and got
16.1% pikachu
16.5% mew two
So yeah basical superchu has the power of mewtwo. But the defense of paper mache ...or Raditz (bonus points to those who get the ref)
This is my new favourite fact about Pikachu. Those calcs are unreal. Definitely more math than Kakarot could handle :D
Im only about 15 mins in so far but i feel like secret power or return aren't the worst ideas ever. Pikachu is gonna have better physical attack until after you beat Blaine and alternative coverage is ALMOST never a bad idea. Especially since you'd only be giving up thunderwave anyway, which I don't think you've used even once (correct me if im wrong)
This was my mentality in the first run. I definitely could have used more physical moves, but there wasn't a lot motivating me to do so. You're correct, I never once used Growl OR Thunder Wave in that 4th move slot. I'll chalk it up to being a bit rusty with solo runs. That's my eggscuse ;)
Honestly, I think doubling down on Sp Atk EVs would be better than Defense. Sure, he survived that Machamp EQ, but with light ball effectively doubling the gains from your EVs, if you had a remotely significant amount of EVs left from maxing out sp atk for Pikachu, some 100 or so, then a lot of those hits into red may have turned into ranges or possibly even guaranteed KOs. I'm curious about the math on this, are you able to see it on your end?
I don't have route files or anything breaking this down, no. The problem I encounter when going hard into SpA EVs is that there are only so many available without going off the beaten path. I could get more from wild battles, or going back to say Pokemon Tower, but I feel this would have had a negative impact on completion time.
@@Eggsceptional ah, yeah, that makes sense. I wonder if there's a way to route in like 100 more sp atk EVs relatively efficiently, even if it's maybe a minute or 2 slower than the other necessary grinding you'd do anyways 🤔
@@Chronoflation Probably the most reliable place to train for SpA EVs is just outside Vermillion with the VS Seeker. There's a trainer there with 3 Magnetons (2 SpA each) that can be rebattled. As far as speed doing it? No idea :P
@@Eggsceptional oh yeah, vs seeker rebattling feels like it's be pretty slow. But maybe. You'd need to battle him like 15 times though. I guess there is no effective way that still will make you progress. Maybe not using a repel in lavender tower could get a few along the way with the Ghastlys and Haunters, but probably not enough to be worth it
@@Chronoflation I also skipped the trainers in Pokémon Tower which would also be a good source of SpA EVs. It's not a lack of options I think it's a lack of good/fast options.
A like and an algorithm boosting comment for you
I appreciate it :)
Could you improve your time further by having a nature that hinders your attack, opposed to your speed, as you're outsped by Aerodactyl?
I definitely should have gone Modest in the second run. I thought maybe I'd need Brick Break later for Tyranitar in the first run, but Modest would have been much better in the second. Good looking out :)
I had a question young sir. How do you start a game with a preloaded pokemon?
I use two pieces of software. First, the Universal Pokemon Randomizer to change my starter to what I want. Then, after obtaining it I use PKHeX to edit the starter to exactly what I want. This could be done entirely with PKHeX but I like the image of my starter showing up :)
Why the quiet nature and not modest? What did you use physical wise?
I've had a few comments about this, and I agree. Modest would have been the superior nature. I used 0 physical moves
@@Eggsceptionalnice, I thought maybe I was missing something. I think red in gold/silver and the remakes has a light all pikachu but other than that, I had no idea how strong it was. This is probably my favorite run of yours! Good stuff!
@@Hitdouble Thank you :) I really enjoyed playing this one. It makes me want to eggsperiment with more held items like Deep Sea Tooth, Thick Club, Soul Dew
Yo have you seen Captain Pikachu yet in Pokemon Horizons? Cap makes Ash's Pikachu look like a 2 pump chump.
*edit*
Also since you're now working under Scott is it mandatory to pick up the Dome Fossil? lol
I haven't seen that no! This Pikachu felt more like 1 pump :P
Nah, I grab the Helix every time the Pokémon that I'm running is even remotely blue. I'm fickle like that
Unsliced Pikaman
So much fun :D
Like the Gen 1 games it sucks against the First gym and NORMALLY it can't even USE Surf against Brock and SUCKS without it.
Oooh yeah. I always got past Brock with Double Team in Yellow as a kid. Gross! Surf felt so good for the whole run.
Not Modest, but Quiet? On a pure special attacker? 🤨 Isn’t speed a concern against Starmie, Raichu, and Aerodactyl?
There’s not a single physical attack worth using when you have a Light Ball, unless you have Fly against Heracross, and even then, it’s barely better than STAB Thunderbolt, mostly just because Heracross has slightly lower physical defense. (Note: There’s nothing up through Gen 3 that resists Electric, Ice, and Water coverage excluding Shedinja, and only Magneton, Heracross, Sneasel, and Medicham take neutral from those types while being 4x weak to a physical type, but two of those are extremely fragile and three don’t appear in any major fights.)
Also, Steelix and Heracross probably had ranges with Earthquake. If they roll an OHKO, they go for it. If they don’t roll an OHKO, they use Rock Tomb for speed control. (The Hitmonchan in your second playthrough has me doubting this, since it went for Sky Uppercut when you were at full health but Rock Tomb when you were at half health. Does the Gen 3 AI calculate misses when rolling for damage?)
Also I was low-key expecting a port of Partner Pikachu from Let’s Go. But with Light Ball too. 😂
Yessss.. upon reflection Modest would have been a much better nature in the second playthrough.
Generally, yes the AI will go for the knockout as the highest priority. In fairness to the Hitmonchan, when he selected the move I was still at 75% health instead of 50%. With Steelix though, after that first sub was out if he didn't go for Rock Tomb on the first it was a slow death from there.
I've never played anything past Gen 5 (and I've only played that once). I wasn't even aware of what a Partner Pikachu was until after making this video :P
Who is Pikachu?
When several of these Pokémon gather, their electricity can build and cause lightning storms.
When it is angered, it immediately discharges the energy stored in the pouches in its cheeks.
When it smashes its opponents with its bolt-shaped tail, it delivers a surge of electricity equivalent to a lightning strike.
:D
Woahhhhh! Now that's an introduction to a Pokémon!
SUB STRATS BEST STRATS WOO WOO WOO!
Every time :D
Wow, you P'd all over 😅
Sometimes I get eggscited!
20:18 and 21:16 and 42:36 for the onixiseseseses
22:22 and 45:03 and 45:25 ooooooo 69 nice
26:21 for both onixiseseseses AND steelixeseseses
36:40 for the cleverererer
Hmm.. Seems lacking. Sounds like I gotta step up my game again :D
Wait how- are you cheating?
I use the Universal Pokemon Randomizer to swap out my starter, then I use PKHeX to edit the Pokemon that I'm using to be eggsactly what I want. It beats spending hours upon hours of breeding. It also allows for runs like this :D
@@Eggsceptional y I agree on this point but how does your pikachu have surf ?
@@xlatheblackdragon705 Surf was an event move for Pikachu. To me that means it IS possible for Pikachu to Surf. So I added the move using software :) Kid me would be blown away
@@xlatheblackdragon705 surf Pikachu its prety" standandart" in many events he can surf/fly and in mamy games especial fans games they give him abilty to learn IT somehaw . And you got gen 7 allolan raicbu with surf
When you have Trouble dealing with a female attract using jynx Just get a female Pikachu on your Second Run so attract wont Work then
That's a great point. It's only ever that Jynx and Round 2 Agatha's Misdreavus that give me issues with Attract. Thanks for the tip :)
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