@@LiveHedgehog TH-cam changed it on mobile so it shows the top comment, it used to be so you had to scroll down but I guess TH-cam wanted to show us more videos so mobile TH-cam is a spoilerfest now.
Hey, Jrose! I know you probably won't see this, but thank you! Your videos brought me great joy for the entirety of 2020. These red/blue runs are really the best...
@@unwithering5313 Lol the crit moves in Gen 1 aren't broken. Maybe if better Pokemon got them. Venasaur, Victreebel and Persian, and Kingler are the only ones that benefit a lot from it.
Hello Jrose, how is it going. I think your strategy this time was suboptimal and didn't really made use of the full potential of Slowpoke. I've actually done this challenge myself before and I managed to win at level 69 (leveled just after beating Venusaur) and the main reason is one move that Slowpoke learns and is super useful in this run: Earthquake. While it has the same power as Dig, it made the Agatha fight much more consistent because it 1HKOs both Gengar and the Haunter without needing to set up Amnesia and without spending more turns confused like with Dig, which gives you much more tries at Lance. He is very difficult ironically because his "good IA" is actually good, he doesn't use barrier or agility because Slowpoke is a Psychic type. The second mistake was teaching Surf, not being able to get rid of it is huge in runs like this and it isn't actually that good because the Elite 4 pokemon weak to it are also weak to Ice Beam and Blizzard (with the exception of Arcanine, but you can 1HKO it with Psychic after 3 amnesia). Having the extra move gives you room for things like reflect, mimic or even substitute. In the end Slowpoke is not as good as Poliwag, but it's definitely better than Bulbasaur, so I'd say the final rank was accurate. I enjoy your content a lot so don't take this criticism as an attack or anything, please keep producing quality content and forgive me for any grammatical mistakes, English is not my first language.
@@Eminster before I knew more about pokemon and battling. Anytime I'd play through Ruby, beating the first gym with shroomish, using absorb, poison and absorb, because I didn't know about the Bullet seed tm
@@GlitchyNoibat A few glitch pokemon are fairly stable, and missingno is the most stable of them pretty much. I think he could just swap it in as starter like he usually does.
Bro, listen, Jrose - you are quickly turning into my favorite TH-camr across the board. I’m not talking just Pokémon challenges, I’m talking everything. Your dedication to excellence is astounding and very inspiring. Thank you for everything you do, if you’re ever in NYC , I would love to buy you a drink and pick your brain. Cheers, mate.
I feel like it will be sort of the opposite run. It's going to have way more of a problem getting past Brock then Slowpoke. However once it learns thunderbolt and swift the elite 4 shouldn't be too much trouble with its speed.
@@zeaferjones1404 It's gonna have to be at a stupidly high level though. Bruno's first Onix is gonna take forever to whittle down and Agatha will be even more of a nightmare than usual, it's also gonna have issues against Blue's Rhydon. Voltorb doesn't even get Agility in Gen 1 so it can't boost it's stats at all, Magnemite would be way worse though.
@@Alex_Off-Beat Magnemite has good special. Voltorb lacks that fundamental stat because it's only speed. Both are bad for a solo run but lacking the power is huge.
most of the pokemon on the table are preevolved pokemon which have much lower stats and cannot be considered representative of the generation as a whole’s average finishing level
@@ewhiteman27 aren’t there like 50 pre-evolved in gen 1? So a third of pop is fairly representative, especially since his stated purpose was to do all pre-evolved.
@@wideright7567 it is a third of the total population of the generation, but it is the third of the population with the lowest average stats. in the quote the original comment was talking about he says “most pokemon,” not “most preevolved pokemon,” so it can be assumed that he is talking about most of the pokemon in the generation as a whole, which would be able to finish the run at a lower average level.
Everytime I see that there's still the other half of the video left when you get to the elite 4 I die a bit inside. But then I get happy because a realize there's still more jrose to watch. :)
I feel like a dog waiting for your videos. I always think: "is he gone now :(((? Will he upload again soon?" And then I'm insanely happy once I see your new video in my subbox.
I've been rewatching these lately and I take immense pleasure in looking at the timestamp when you finish the gyms because it's always comical when there's only six battles left and still half an hour of video to watch. Love your stuff, can't wait for the next new one!
Missed a generation 1 run so much! I watched all the previous so many times since the start of this awful situation (March 2020 here in Italy). Happy to see a new one now, we all look forward to the complete 53 episodes series!
I don't know if you realize this, but these 8-bit videos are a godsend to those of us with bad internet. If I try to watch a typical youtube video, it takes forever and looks pretty harsh. So thanks jrose11, you're a real bro
I really want to see Snorlax now. It’s got great attack, great HP, ok special, and one of the best move pools available. The only drawback is it’s speed and it’s still 2x slobro’s. Also, since Munchlax isn’t a thing in this generation, it technically counts as a pre-evolved Pokémon, although I’d understand if you maybe didn’t count it that way, since it is a single-stage Pokémon.
@@nickperryman3662 I was kinda using the loosest possible definition there. Snorlax would technically count, since his first stage doesn’t exist yet. Other Pokémon who would qualify under these terms would be ones like Magmar, Electabuzz, and Jynx. I don’t think you’re wrong if you count any/all of these mons as fully evolved though, since none of them evolve and frankly what I was doing was using a technicality to stretch the definition.
Pretty nice, Jrose! Thank you for the fun! I got really surprised when you finally got to the league with so little time and I saw how much time until the very end, honestly, I kept wondering why much more time, Slowpoke was really doing it fast, but we need to agree that the league is such a lucky matter too! But, anyways, it did it really better than I expected, before the league!
“Sloooooooooooooooo *finishes video and also the Pokemon first movie in nostalgia* ooooooooooooooooooooooo...” wow, he’s still at it... haha. Loved that scene
JRose, I gotta say I just started getting more into TH-cam other than magic the gathering videos, and I just found your channel and I'm getting such a kick out of everything you do. You'd think one night get bored of binge watching the same battles with different pokemon but you make it so damn exciting every run. Your personality shines through so much, you deserve the success you've seen so far and all the future success to come.
Slow and steady gets the third place. Good video. I love the Gen 1 runs because it feels like pushing the mechanics to their absolute limits and beyond. Learning just how broken mimic and reflect are in Gen 1, how best to barge boost, all of it is really interesting. I think if you could figure out how to push mechanics in other Gens, it would go a long way towards making those runs even better. Like Ditto. Literally one of my favorite videos, period. I’ve rewatched a lot of your videos like 5 times each, but the ditto video only a few times, because it is too good to just leave on in the background. Anyway, love your vids. Glad you uploaded. Thanks for what you do. :)
I'm happy you're back to doin the OG preevolved. I've been watching the other videos, but I'm excited to see a full tier list of the non evolved Pokemon. Edit: I think Slowpoke should have been wedged between Bulba, and Pika. It seems like you had less headache with Bulba, and it being one of the first videos could have ended up in a slower time. With the problems, combined with the higher level. Just my thoughts.
Clefairy is an amazing mon. Between defense curl, BoltBeam, STAB Body slam, Psychic for poison types and bubble beam for hikers during the early game you can basically defeat most trainers with no problem. Top 6 on my list, around the same level as Poliwag, Slowpoke, Tentacool and Omanyte (No one can beat Gastly) PS: I think Jrose should do another run with Squirtle, this time with Withdraw instead of body slam just to be a fair run.
Jrose you are so awesome for making these videos, the nostalgia hits so hard and I swear I could listen to your voice talk about anything. I hope you get as much joy out of making them as I do watching them, thank you❤️
"Oh man, he's made it to victory road. Let's see how much close to the end we are. . Ogod no." Boy howdy 2020 still isn't done with Jrose having half of the video be E4 battles. :(
I've wondered what slowpoke tails actually taste like? Does it feel pain in its tail? Does that mean slowbro is in constant pain? If it doesn't, then why is it bad that Team Rocket wants to profit off of pokemon? We do that with battling. Does that mean pay day is bad?
I'm pretty sure Slowpoke doesn't feel anything in its tail, and that it grows back. I don't think the problem with the tail harvesting was stated, but I'd imagine that, if it were stated, it would be that they were being jerks about it rather than caring for the Slowpokes and making sure their tails grow back properly. The message that people and Pokemon are supposed to help eachother out is a pretty big thing for the series.
-Slowpoke tails ooses out a sweet sap, that's how Slowpoke fishes. People in Alola dry the tail and simmer it with salt. -It doesn't feel pain in its tail if its bitten or taken off, also it sometimes falls off on its own. It actually grows back and Slowpoke don't even notice. -Slowbro can't feel pain actually because the Shellder on its tail is poisoning him to both make him stand on his legs and not feel any pain. The shellder keeps biting Slowbro's tail because it loves its taste, if it ever comes off, Slowbro becomes a regular Slowpoke again. -As for Team Rocket, i guess it's because Slowpoke's tail is necessary to him unlike coins from Pay Day which is useless for Pokémons.
HI Jrose! I just found your channel recently and I have been hooked, binging so many of your really well made challenge runs. I love your content keep it up! I can’t really donate so I hope my sub is enough to support you ❤️
Great video =D You know, the one thing I wanna see is: Can you beat Pokemon Red/Blue with JUST an arcanine? At first people might think "PAH, Easy! Arcanine is one of the strongest non legendary pokemon in Gen 1, and one of the strongest Fire Pokemon even to this DAY! That will be a no brainer!" Except you realise that arcanine can NOT learn a single attack by Level up! It only has 4 Move from the get go: Ember, Leer, Roar and Take Down. And the only moves it can learn from TM's are: Toxic (Poison), Dragon Rage (Dragon), Dig (Ground), Reflect (Psycho, not even attack, but can be useful), Fire Blast (Fire) and 11 more Normal Type moves, of which only 8 are actual attacks, and the only noteworthy ones are Skull Bash, which is bad in Gen 1, Swift (kinda useful to hit targets in the air and in the ground), Body Slam (actually useful since it can paralyze enemys... except normal types in gen 1) and Double Edge. So I say an Arcanine Run would be pretty, pretty challenging actually =) Also a fire type with only 2 Fire Moves, and both are Special dispite Arcanine actually being more of a physical Powerhouse, since it's Special Stat is only 80, compared to his 110 Physical attack xD
1.00 in the morning in Germany and i have to work tomorrow. Thx for less sleep. But honestly thanks for these videos. I did my first Gen 2 Run because of your videos. It was so much fun.
Honestly with how luck-based the "not razor leaf" thing became with venusaur, I think you easily could have just saved at the rival instead of grinding levels. I know its not a thing you like doing, but you even said you didn't lose a single time at any of the other pokemon and then just kept getting rancid luck at the final hurdle.
I will disagree. He has a 33% chance of losing everytime. That's pretty huge. It's a luck based strategy for slowpoke to beat the game, and that should rank it lower imo. It certainly will take more time if you have to reset if you lose.
@@hihi-rg9vv 33% chance of losing every time meaning 66% chance of that not happening. The fact that it KEPT happening many times in a row is more on his luck than his strategy. Every single other member of the elite four but Lorelei I think gave him problems in one run or another. Even Bruno got victories this time. He never lost to the rival at anything but Venusaur and that was only because he kept getting Razor Leaf'd and that one unlucky crit on Mega Drain. *shrugs In the end he didn't even win off levels. He won because it didn't hit him with razor leaf. He could have gone to 100 and that might still have been the case. The final battle was 100% luck, so therefore a save before the rival until he didn't get razor'd would have been totally acceptable IMO.
@@ArchfiendRai You might want to rewatch the video though. He only got hit by razor leaf like 3 times and he was also knocked out by megadrain. He simply needed quite a bit of luck for all the things to happen to win. Also let's not forget he needed plenty of luck too to avoid getting hyperbeamed to death by Lance. The fact that it took so many tries to get through to Lance should tell you something.
20:00 It's fascinating how good you are at commenting in a way that raises hope, then despair, then hope, then joy then despair then wtf. It's a talent.
Hey Jrose, love your videos - you probs won't see this, but I did manage to actually do the solo-run with Slowpoke under minimum battles. Brock was a little RNG dependent for confusion to trigger, but is definitely possible at minimum battles. Otherwise, same thing with rival 2, perhaps my Slowpoke had better Special DVs though, which could be why I managed to do it. One thing I feel like you did overlook was the TM for Thunder Wave on Route 24; it definitely made the mid-portion of the run a lot more manageable and consistent for me, though Rival 5 and Erika still gave me trouble. It also works great in conjunction with Headbutt for ParaFlinching, plus it lets you outspeed stuff that would normally give you problems. I did eventually replace it with Amnesia though. In the end, I ended up with a Level 46 Slowpoke at the entrance of the Elite Four. I was also following your rule of doing the whole E4 without saving btw. While I wanted to see how far I'd go without Rare Candies, Lorelei wasn't consistent at all so I used my candies to get Slowpoke up to Level 55. From there, both Lorelei and Bruno were consistent. Even though Slowpoke was only Level 58 at Agatha, I had actually found a way to make it pretty consistent (not perfect, but good enough), which was just to set-up one Amnesia before spamming Psychic. While it doesn't KO Gengar in one hit, I found that it puts it in Super Potion range so it basically guaranteed the kill. The only times it'd really fail for me is if Slowpoke fell asleep and took too long to wake up. However, Lance was basically impossible at that level because Slowpoke can't take consecutive Hyper Beams very well. I also tried Reflect strategies like you did, but Gyarados was always a massive brick wall because I could never set-up without dying. Even when I got lucky, the furthest I would get is up to Dragonite, so I did end up resorting to Double Team but *only* this fight, and I only did so because I wanted to preserve the minimum battle challenge. Without Double Team for minimum battles, I definitely do think what you ended up with is an accurate result of using Slowpoke. Besides that, the Champion was also fairly straightforward. Like in your video, it was basically an easy run to Venusaur and just hoping it wouldn't use Razor Leaf. I didn't use Mimic, but I think it would have also worked. In the end, with my strats I managed to beat the league twice consecutively without saving. In the end, I managed to beat the game with a Level 61 Slowpoke - definitely a fun but challenging run. Overall, I definitely feel like a lack of Electric-type coverage really hampered Slowpoke's success (I always hated encountering Gyarados because of it) and it has a disadvantage against Poliwag due to lack of Hypnosis as well. That said, I do think Slowpoke is one of the best solo-run mons for unevolved Pokemon in R/B. :) Thanks for inspiring me to do the run!
I just did this with Yellow! The only real trouble i think i had, apart from his low speed, was beating the elite 4 in one shot. Love your vids man! Thanks for influencing me to do some gen 1 challenges of my own
I...can't believe I never realised that SLOWpoke was super slow. I'm a bit surprised at the ranking in the tierlist and wonder was Slowpoke in the Medium Slow or Fast Exp group. Or even the Fast group? I'm surprised you got so many levels in so quickly. Overall, super enjoyable video. I feel the ending was well justified. Here's to more of these!
"If we look at the chart, I mean, most Pokemon were able to do this in the sixties." Only five out of eighteen, actually. And two of those were level 69 ayyyyy
Great vid. Really illustrates what these videos are about: minimizing the number of attacks you take. You're not supposed to solo these games. There are enemies meant to wall out certain strategies. The reason you CAN solo them is because they only have a 25-50% chance of correctly punishing you on any given turn. If you outspeed and OHKO, they get zero bites at that apple. A slow two-turn gives two.
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"heheheh get outplayed"
- Bruno clicking Fissure, probably
"Yeah, this is big brain time"
Lmao
"Skill issue"
-Bruno, probably
I wish we saw a cut to of the footage of Bruno’s wins - I feel he deserves the proper credit when it happens.
5 battles left, 27 minutes left. This is gonna be a wild ride.
26:11 one battle left, 18 minutes left. The ride just went feral.
Thanks for spoiling it
@@Blernster Maybe don't read the comments before finishing the video? Do you expect people to not talk about the video?
@@LiveHedgehog they show up at the bottom of the screen when you open a video 🤦🤦🤦🤦
@@LiveHedgehog TH-cam changed it on mobile so it shows the top comment, it used to be so you had to scroll down but I guess TH-cam wanted to show us more videos so mobile TH-cam is a spoilerfest now.
Missed opportunity for Slowpoke being the last run.
also like a year later.
Slowpoke or Snorlax would be great for the last Pokemon.
I love these videos! I hope he makes them as long as he enjoys doing so, thank you Jrose!
you could've just waited and watched this one last 😋
What? Last run?
Hey, Jrose! I know you probably won't see this, but thank you! Your videos brought me great joy for the entirety of 2020. These red/blue runs are really the best...
Hey he saw it
SENPAI NOTICED YOU
Honestly i wanna see other gen runs cos gen 1 runs are becoming redundant
@@mr.mimikyu2342 I guess that delibird run wasn't enough for you 🤣
@@Blackonyeko yeah just one i want more gens other then gen 1
You know the E4 is gonna be rough when he gets there and there's still 2/3 of the video remaining.
who's that in your profile pic??
@@bunnycat24 Silver from Pokemon!
You know it's rough when he gets to the champion with half the video remaining
@@baileyBLIGHT ooo i knew he looked familiar lol
Always happens to me
Beats Agatha at 21:00
"Maybe I won't have to do that again"
Video is over 40 minutes long...
Slowpoke, closing in on gastly's time: I am inevitable
Venusaur: I am razor leaf
The luck will décide your fate
Honestly it's a good counter mechanic considering how broken Amnesia is lol. It gives Victreebel and Venasaur a good niche role for RBY OU.
@@galararticuno9419 counter broken stuff with other broken stuff, if everyone is overpowered no one is too overpowered
@@unwithering5313 Lol the crit moves in Gen 1 aren't broken. Maybe if better Pokemon got them. Venasaur, Victreebel and Persian, and Kingler are the only ones that benefit a lot from it.
@@galararticuno9419 it was more a joke than anything, except the last part, I still believe in that idea
Slowpoke: Is slow
Slowpoke's Moveset:
_F e y s t ._
Slowpokes body :famine
Slowpokes moves: FEAST
"Maybe this'll be our last battle we won't even have to worry about it!"
Me: I'm not even going to look at the time I already know.
"the final battle, hopefully"
-a not yet broken man
Hello Jrose, how is it going.
I think your strategy this time was suboptimal and didn't really made use of the full potential of Slowpoke. I've actually done this challenge myself before and I managed to win at level 69 (leveled just after beating Venusaur) and the main reason is one move that Slowpoke learns and is super useful in this run: Earthquake. While it has the same power as Dig, it made the Agatha fight much more consistent because it 1HKOs both Gengar and the Haunter without needing to set up Amnesia and without spending more turns confused like with Dig, which gives you much more tries at Lance. He is very difficult ironically because his "good IA" is actually good, he doesn't use barrier or agility because Slowpoke is a Psychic type.
The second mistake was teaching Surf, not being able to get rid of it is huge in runs like this and it isn't actually that good because the Elite 4 pokemon weak to it are also weak to Ice Beam and Blizzard (with the exception of Arcanine, but you can 1HKO it with Psychic after 3 amnesia). Having the extra move gives you room for things like reflect, mimic or even substitute.
In the end Slowpoke is not as good as Poliwag, but it's definitely better than Bulbasaur, so I'd say the final rank was accurate.
I enjoy your content a lot so don't take this criticism as an attack or anything, please keep producing quality content and forgive me for any grammatical mistakes, English is not my first language.
That moment when you see he’s beaten all 8 gym leaders with 30 minutes left in the video
Seeing what Jrose names Blue everytime is really something
The only reason I watch these videos tbh.
@JOSHUA CSINCSA Why is this so funny to me lol
Razor Leaf being a run killer just reminds of the good old days of the Magikarp run
Venusaur and exeggutor are so good in gen 1. Toxic + leech seed equals op
@@Eminster before I knew more about pokemon and battling. Anytime I'd play through Ruby, beating the first gym with shroomish, using absorb, poison and absorb, because I didn't know about the Bullet seed tm
When he says "I think we won" but there are still 17min left
"The final battle..." _26:29__ laughs in timestamp._
Emphasis on the h o p e f u l l y
I love the way you narrate dude. It really makes me feel like I’m watching it go down in real time
Ironically, this is the quickest I've ever clicked on one of your videos.
Can’t wait for you to beat the game with missingno.
Bird type about to give Psychic a run for it's money
I really hope he caps gen 1 off with missingno. Iirc it has abysmal speed, hp, and defense so it's going to be BAD.
He doesn't like to use glitches, so... I don't think he will, though it'll be cool
@@GlitchyNoibat A few glitch pokemon are fairly stable, and missingno is the most stable of them pretty much. I think he could just swap it in as starter like he usually does.
@@ryjelsum Apparently if you do that, Missingno turns into a Rhydon because you haven't seen Cubone yet
Id love an electrode run to pair with this, high speed with a shallow movepool.
Needs to be Voltorb! Couldn't give him a remotely easy time after all
It finally happened.
Bro, listen, Jrose - you are quickly turning into my favorite TH-camr across the board. I’m not talking just Pokémon challenges, I’m talking everything. Your dedication to excellence is astounding and very inspiring. Thank you for everything you do, if you’re ever in NYC , I would love to buy you a drink and pick your brain.
Cheers, mate.
lmao
Given the subject matter, I think you should've left "Road to 200k" on the intro screen
Why?
@@Zaderos because it's a Slowpoke
@@vthecreator8903 as you can see people wouldn't get it and comments would get full of comments telling that
Or put it to 250K just keep uping it
i get the joke!
Venusaur: * uses Razor Leaf *
Slowpoke: * faints *
Me: Let's try having Slowpoke use Razor Leaf against Venusaur…
"it goes for bite -- no crit, no flinch, awright"
are you writing lyrics for Tyga?
Could be kinda sounds like Playboi Carti too
Lol time?
@@j0s3p45 30:47
When he beats lance and there's 20 minutes left 😭
I'm 9 hours into an 11 hour shift and I feel like a Slowpoke. Thank you Jrose for giving me something to get through this madness
Either way, it was a national tragedy
Now try with Voltorb! It's basically the opposite of Slowpoke, awful moves but excellent speed!
I feel like it will be sort of the opposite run. It's going to have way more of a problem getting past Brock then Slowpoke. However once it learns thunderbolt and swift the elite 4 shouldn't be too much trouble with its speed.
@@zeaferjones1404 It's gonna have to be at a stupidly high level though. Bruno's first Onix is gonna take forever to whittle down and Agatha will be even more of a nightmare than usual, it's also gonna have issues against Blue's Rhydon. Voltorb doesn't even get Agility in Gen 1 so it can't boost it's stats at all, Magnemite would be way worse though.
@@zeaferjones1404 the virgin voltorb vs ELITE CHAD BRUNO
@@Alex_Off-Beat Magnemite has good special. Voltorb lacks that fundamental stat because it's only speed. Both are bad for a solo run but lacking the power is huge.
@@N12015 You're right, I thought Gen 1 Magnemite had 55 Special. It really has 95 so its likely much better than Voltorb
“And we’re done with 8 gym leaders 😃”
Video also has 30 minutes left
Me: uh oh
"Damn already at E4, this video was quick!"
*sees time stamp*
"oh no."
“Most Pokemon can do this in the 60’s” me looking at the table: “uhhh, you mean 70’s-80’s”
most of the pokemon on the table are preevolved pokemon which have much lower stats and cannot be considered representative of the generation as a whole’s average finishing level
yeah preevolveds average is almost 75
@@ewhiteman27 aren’t there like 50 pre-evolved in gen 1? So a third of pop is fairly representative, especially since his stated purpose was to do all pre-evolved.
He means win in under 7:00, not just win.
@@wideright7567 it is a third of the total population of the generation, but it is the third of the population with the lowest average stats. in the quote the original comment was talking about he says “most pokemon,” not “most preevolved pokemon,” so it can be assumed that he is talking about most of the pokemon in the generation as a whole, which would be able to finish the run at a lower average level.
Thumbs up one minute in. That's reputation my friend
A3za2
Frame 1 thumbs up every time. Not too many channels have that kind of clout haha.
You once again are the shining star of this particular TH-cam niche. Your rivals need to be taking notice, this is what we want.
Wow, Jrose used Amnesia so much he forgot the question mark in the title.
Everytime I see that there's still the other half of the video left when you get to the elite 4 I die a bit inside.
But then I get happy because a realize there's still more jrose to watch. :)
More like 2/3rd's this time. I checked the time and just thought.... "oh no .... thats not good"
In my opinion, you're the best poketuber on yt. You always hit home with these gen 1 runs, keep up the good work!
literally just dropped everything i was doing once i saw this got posted
I feel like a dog waiting for your videos. I always think: "is he gone now :(((? Will he upload again soon?"
And then I'm insanely happy once I see your new video in my subbox.
Before i watch this i'll say one word: Amnesia.
He forgot!
Razor leaf says what
Man, it feels good to be back with the Red/Blue 53 challenge. I love the other videos, of course, but I’m glad we’re back
I've been rewatching these lately and I take immense pleasure in looking at the timestamp when you finish the gyms because it's always comical when there's only six battles left and still half an hour of video to watch. Love your stuff, can't wait for the next new one!
Missed a generation 1 run so much! I watched all the previous so many times since the start of this awful situation (March 2020 here in Italy).
Happy to see a new one now, we all look forward to the complete 53 episodes series!
Ah, another Jrose video to even out the bad day I've been having :)
>"The final battle, hopefully"
>18 minutes left on the video
>hmmmm
I don't know if you realize this, but these 8-bit videos are a godsend to those of us with bad internet. If I try to watch a typical youtube video, it takes forever and looks pretty harsh.
So thanks jrose11, you're a real bro
Missed this! Glad to see you’re back at it!
I have long waited for this episode and I'm not disappointed with it.
Especially after seeing Slowpoke place in the rank.
Great Job, J and Slowpoke.
I really want to see Snorlax now. It’s got great attack, great HP, ok special, and one of the best move pools available. The only drawback is it’s speed and it’s still 2x slobro’s.
Also, since Munchlax isn’t a thing in this generation, it technically counts as a pre-evolved Pokémon, although I’d understand if you maybe didn’t count it that way, since it is a single-stage Pokémon.
Cakewalk imo.
Boy said snorlax is a pre-evolved Pokémon lol
@@nickperryman3662 I was kinda using the loosest possible definition there. Snorlax would technically count, since his first stage doesn’t exist yet. Other Pokémon who would qualify under these terms would be ones like Magmar, Electabuzz, and Jynx.
I don’t think you’re wrong if you count any/all of these mons as fully evolved though, since none of them evolve and frankly what I was doing was using a technicality to stretch the definition.
@@knosos15 I only said it could count on a technicality, not that it should count. Because it realistically shouldn’t.
It's not "pre"-evolved, it's "un"-evolved.
Pretty nice, Jrose! Thank you for the fun! I got really surprised when you finally got to the league with so little time and I saw how much time until the very end, honestly, I kept wondering why much more time, Slowpoke was really doing it fast, but we need to agree that the league is such a lucky matter too! But, anyways, it did it really better than I expected, before the league!
A funny thing happened... I was playing a Pokémon game while watching this and we both lost to ridiculously bad RNG at the exact same moment.
Jrose, lemme just say that this is hand down my absolute favourite page. Your content is brilliant, you're doing best.
“Sloooooooooooooooo
*finishes video and also the Pokemon first movie in nostalgia* ooooooooooooooooooooooo...” wow, he’s still at it... haha. Loved that scene
Imagine being one of the mythical dragons of the famed Elite Four Lance, dragon master, and getting outsped by a Pokemon called "Slowpoke"
Posted two minutes ago. I clicked so fast. ... How inappropriate.
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@@Zaderos cause its a *slow*poke run
@@keeganhughes6947 omg I feel dumb now
1. Thanks for this video! :)
2. Thank you very much for separating the tier lists (first form Pokémon vs Legendaries/fully evolved Pokémon)
I honestly love this show
JRose, I gotta say I just started getting more into TH-cam other than magic the gathering videos, and I just found your channel and I'm getting such a kick out of everything you do. You'd think one night get bored of binge watching the same battles with different pokemon but you make it so damn exciting every run.
Your personality shines through so much, you deserve the success you've seen so far and all the future success to come.
You inspired me to do the same with black2/white2. It’s fun but I know how tedious it can get. Keep it up bro :)
What pokemon have you done runs with?
I did the same with Popplio in UM.
@@chillinsquirtle just started so I’ve done Samurott, Krookodile, Thundurus, and I’m currently doing Altaria.
@@Apsburner9717 nice I did mudkip and blazekin in emerald, pretty far in a breloom run currently
Slow and steady gets the third place.
Good video. I love the Gen 1 runs because it feels like pushing the mechanics to their absolute limits and beyond. Learning just how broken mimic and reflect are in Gen 1, how best to barge boost, all of it is really interesting. I think if you could figure out how to push mechanics in other Gens, it would go a long way towards making those runs even better.
Like Ditto. Literally one of my favorite videos, period. I’ve rewatched a lot of your videos like 5 times each, but the ditto video only a few times, because it is too good to just leave on in the background.
Anyway, love your vids. Glad you uploaded. Thanks for what you do. :)
I'm happy you're back to doin the OG preevolved. I've been watching the other videos, but I'm excited to see a full tier list of the non evolved Pokemon.
Edit: I think Slowpoke should have been wedged between Bulba, and Pika. It seems like you had less headache with Bulba, and it being one of the first videos could have ended up in a slower time. With the problems, combined with the higher level. Just my thoughts.
I think ghastly's place at the top is safe
@@bubblewrapvillain I think so too.
You are the best Pokémon youtuber hands down. I get super stoked when I see one of your thumbnails!
I got a really good time (4: 37) in Yellow with Clefairy, looking forward to seeing if that ends up being the same in R/B when you do it.
Your icon is KILLING me, hahah.
Clefairy is an amazing mon. Between defense curl, BoltBeam, STAB Body slam, Psychic for poison types and bubble beam for hikers during the early game you can basically defeat most trainers with no problem. Top 6 on my list, around the same level as Poliwag, Slowpoke, Tentacool and Omanyte (No one can beat Gastly)
PS: I think Jrose should do another run with Squirtle, this time with Withdraw instead of body slam just to be a fair run.
with all this craziness about gen 1 mechanics i want to find some romhacks that still use them
That was a good run but I'm waiting on that Chansey run and Snorlax too
Jrose you are so awesome for making these videos, the nostalgia hits so hard and I swear I could listen to your voice talk about anything. I hope you get as much joy out of making them as I do watching them, thank you❤️
"Oh man, he's made it to victory road. Let's see how much close to the end we are. . Ogod no."
Boy howdy 2020 still isn't done with Jrose having half of the video be E4 battles. :(
Thanks for uploading. This is will now cheer me up after realizing I had homework due tomorrow and I can’t finish it
I've wondered what slowpoke tails actually taste like? Does it feel pain in its tail? Does that mean slowbro is in constant pain? If it doesn't, then why is it bad that Team Rocket wants to profit off of pokemon? We do that with battling. Does that mean pay day is bad?
It is unethical because Slowpoke use their tail to fish. They are too slow to catch any pray without it. Wild Slowpoke w/o tail will starve to death.
I'm pretty sure Slowpoke doesn't feel anything in its tail, and that it grows back. I don't think the problem with the tail harvesting was stated, but I'd imagine that, if it were stated, it would be that they were being jerks about it rather than caring for the Slowpokes and making sure their tails grow back properly. The message that people and Pokemon are supposed to help eachother out is a pretty big thing for the series.
-Slowpoke tails ooses out a sweet sap, that's how Slowpoke fishes. People in Alola dry the tail and simmer it with salt.
-It doesn't feel pain in its tail if its bitten or taken off, also it sometimes falls off on its own. It actually grows back and Slowpoke don't even notice.
-Slowbro can't feel pain actually because the Shellder on its tail is poisoning him to both make him stand on his legs and not feel any pain.
The shellder keeps biting Slowbro's tail because it loves its taste, if it ever comes off, Slowbro becomes a regular Slowpoke again.
-As for Team Rocket, i guess it's because Slowpoke's tail is necessary to him unlike coins from Pay Day which is useless for Pokémons.
Breezing through Lorelei at the 18 minute mark and then pausing to see 25 minutes left was a kick in the head. Jeez
HI Jrose! I just found your channel recently and I have been hooked, binging so many of your really well made challenge runs. I love your content keep it up! I can’t really donate so I hope my sub is enough to support you ❤️
I highly recommended not forgetting his older ones with Magikarps!
@@Zaderos Thanks I’ll look into them!
Great video =D
You know, the one thing I wanna see is: Can you beat Pokemon Red/Blue with JUST an arcanine?
At first people might think "PAH, Easy! Arcanine is one of the strongest non legendary pokemon in Gen 1, and one of the strongest Fire Pokemon even to this DAY! That will be a no brainer!"
Except you realise that arcanine can NOT learn a single attack by Level up! It only has 4 Move from the get go: Ember, Leer, Roar and Take Down. And the only moves it can learn from TM's are:
Toxic (Poison), Dragon Rage (Dragon), Dig (Ground), Reflect (Psycho, not even attack, but can be useful), Fire Blast (Fire) and 11 more Normal Type moves, of which only 8 are actual attacks, and the only noteworthy ones are Skull Bash, which is bad in Gen 1, Swift (kinda useful to hit targets in the air and in the ground), Body Slam (actually useful since it can paralyze enemys... except normal types in gen 1) and Double Edge.
So I say an Arcanine Run would be pretty, pretty challenging actually =) Also a fire type with only 2 Fire Moves, and both are Special dispite Arcanine actually being more of a physical Powerhouse, since it's Special Stat is only 80, compared to his 110 Physical attack xD
Seeing that he beats Giovanni for the Earth Badge 15 minutes in and there is almost 30 minutes left.
1.00 in the morning in Germany and i have to work tomorrow. Thx for less sleep. But honestly thanks for these videos. I did my first Gen 2 Run because of your videos. It was so much fun.
(Should've just one-shotted the Zubats in Mt. Moon inseatd of trying to run 5 times. Might've even helped with rival nr. 2 :D)
Would mess with the exp economy JRose likes to have at the early parts of these runs
Confusion doesnt scale with youre pokemon i think.
@@kowikowi7060 You are thinking of Psywave =)
Rewatching your videos. I literally turn these on in the morning and it's always a great way to start the day. You're a gem and must be protected
I was just rewatching an older one of these, thinking about how it had been awhile
Only found your content this week, its awesome. Really enjoy it thanks man!
P.s
We need a Taurus video!
26:28 - well, with how much is left in the video, this is looking really painful lol.
27:38 this is gold. I can't think of a more narrow way to lose a battle. Megadrain's crit negated the Amnesia and was just enough.
Honestly with how luck-based the "not razor leaf" thing became with venusaur, I think you easily could have just saved at the rival instead of grinding levels. I know its not a thing you like doing, but you even said you didn't lose a single time at any of the other pokemon and then just kept getting rancid luck at the final hurdle.
I will disagree. He has a 33% chance of losing everytime. That's pretty huge. It's a luck based strategy for slowpoke to beat the game, and that should rank it lower imo. It certainly will take more time if you have to reset if you lose.
@@hihi-rg9vv 33% chance of losing every time meaning 66% chance of that not happening. The fact that it KEPT happening many times in a row is more on his luck than his strategy. Every single other member of the elite four but Lorelei I think gave him problems in one run or another. Even Bruno got victories this time. He never lost to the rival at anything but Venusaur and that was only because he kept getting Razor Leaf'd and that one unlucky crit on Mega Drain.
*shrugs
In the end he didn't even win off levels. He won because it didn't hit him with razor leaf. He could have gone to 100 and that might still have been the case. The final battle was 100% luck, so therefore a save before the rival until he didn't get razor'd would have been totally acceptable IMO.
@@ArchfiendRai You might want to rewatch the video though. He only got hit by razor leaf like 3 times and he was also knocked out by megadrain. He simply needed quite a bit of luck for all the things to happen to win.
Also let's not forget he needed plenty of luck too to avoid getting hyperbeamed to death by Lance.
The fact that it took so many tries to get through to Lance should tell you something.
Yesss just in time!
I've binge watched all of these challenge videos
YAY I WAS WAITING FOR THIS!!!
Can I just say I find the intro to your videos rather calming? Thank you for keeping it all this time!
Thank you for my fix JRose. That is all
20:00 It's fascinating how good you are at commenting in a way that raises hope, then despair, then hope, then joy then despair then wtf. It's a talent.
Omg I was so scared he had given up on this series
lt Surge is such a bright guy.
Used an X speed on a Raichu against a Slowpoke
Well hey! I actually just checked your channel earlier. Must have willed it into existence.
ayy thanks bro
Hey Jrose, love your videos - you probs won't see this, but I did manage to actually do the solo-run with Slowpoke under minimum battles.
Brock was a little RNG dependent for confusion to trigger, but is definitely possible at minimum battles. Otherwise, same thing with rival 2, perhaps my Slowpoke had better Special DVs though, which could be why I managed to do it.
One thing I feel like you did overlook was the TM for Thunder Wave on Route 24; it definitely made the mid-portion of the run a lot more manageable and consistent for me, though Rival 5 and Erika still gave me trouble. It also works great in conjunction with Headbutt for ParaFlinching, plus it lets you outspeed stuff that would normally give you problems. I did eventually replace it with Amnesia though.
In the end, I ended up with a Level 46 Slowpoke at the entrance of the Elite Four. I was also following your rule of doing the whole E4 without saving btw. While I wanted to see how far I'd go without Rare Candies, Lorelei wasn't consistent at all so I used my candies to get Slowpoke up to Level 55. From there, both Lorelei and Bruno were consistent.
Even though Slowpoke was only Level 58 at Agatha, I had actually found a way to make it pretty consistent (not perfect, but good enough), which was just to set-up one Amnesia before spamming Psychic. While it doesn't KO Gengar in one hit, I found that it puts it in Super Potion range so it basically guaranteed the kill. The only times it'd really fail for me is if Slowpoke fell asleep and took too long to wake up.
However, Lance was basically impossible at that level because Slowpoke can't take consecutive Hyper Beams very well. I also tried Reflect strategies like you did, but Gyarados was always a massive brick wall because I could never set-up without dying. Even when I got lucky, the furthest I would get is up to Dragonite, so I did end up resorting to Double Team but *only* this fight, and I only did so because I wanted to preserve the minimum battle challenge. Without Double Team for minimum battles, I definitely do think what you ended up with is an accurate result of using Slowpoke.
Besides that, the Champion was also fairly straightforward. Like in your video, it was basically an easy run to Venusaur and just hoping it wouldn't use Razor Leaf. I didn't use Mimic, but I think it would have also worked. In the end, with my strats I managed to beat the league twice consecutively without saving.
In the end, I managed to beat the game with a Level 61 Slowpoke - definitely a fun but challenging run.
Overall, I definitely feel like a lack of Electric-type coverage really hampered Slowpoke's success (I always hated encountering Gyarados because of it) and it has a disadvantage against Poliwag due to lack of Hypnosis as well. That said, I do think Slowpoke is one of the best solo-run mons for unevolved Pokemon in R/B. :) Thanks for inspiring me to do the run!
Venusaur with razor leaf: "I'm about to end this man's whole career"
“Hmmmm it’s been a while since we had a classic Kanto run. What’s taking so long?”
*it’s Slowpoke*
“ohhhhh lol”
I missed the first form runs! Let’s go!!!
I just did this with Yellow! The only real trouble i think i had, apart from his low speed, was beating the elite 4 in one shot. Love your vids man! Thanks for influencing me to do some gen 1 challenges of my own
Clicked slower than Slowpoke holding a Lagging Tail!
Lt Surge using X-Speed in the most nonsendical sutuatios will never not be funny, but this time it was especially so
Hey guys! I heard someone beat these games with just a Ditto! Isn't that amazing???
Nice one
Underrated comment
Earlier today i was thinking: Man, a Jrose video would be great...
And here we are, thank you!
I guess this will be a Slow run huh?
Don't poke fun at my pun
I nearly didn't see what you did there BRO almost didn't notice you were joKING
@@Xapheion101 clever...
I...can't believe I never realised that SLOWpoke was super slow.
I'm a bit surprised at the ranking in the tierlist and wonder was Slowpoke in the Medium Slow or Fast Exp group. Or even the Fast group? I'm surprised you got so many levels in so quickly.
Overall, super enjoyable video. I feel the ending was well justified. Here's to more of these!
"If we look at the chart, I mean, most Pokemon were able to do this in the sixties." Only five out of eighteen, actually. And two of those were level 69 ayyyyy
Nice
Great vid. Really illustrates what these videos are about: minimizing the number of attacks you take.
You're not supposed to solo these games. There are enemies meant to wall out certain strategies. The reason you CAN solo them is because they only have a 25-50% chance of correctly punishing you on any given turn. If you outspeed and OHKO, they get zero bites at that apple. A slow two-turn gives two.