Omastar-line Solo Challenge - Pokemon FireRed
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- Rules:
1. Only my starter in battle
2. No items in battle, except held items
3. No glitches, exploits, or save states
4. No movepool evasion-boosting moves before level 100*
Rule details:
-- I make no attempt to have the exact same rule details between generations.
-- I am allowed to manipulate my starter
-- I play the game at 4x game speed
-- For fair comparisons my Pokemon have perfect (or near perfect) DVs / IVs
-- I am allowed to catch HM users - I can use all field moves
-- Evasion boosting is allowed if the move is not obtained from the Pokemon’s movepool. For example, using Mimic or Mirror Move to boost evasion is allowed.
-- Surge's trash-can-puzzle is automatically solved
-- The bike is allowed in gen1 & 4, banned in gen2, and allowed only to bypass terrain in gen3
-- Saving between league members is allowed
-- I can pause the game and timer to take breaks
-- Items obtained with the ability Pickup can only be used if the starter obtained them
-- The footage is sped up & slowed down to match the pace of my narration
These Rule details apply only to generation 1:
-- All battle-mechanic glitches are allowed (glitches that occur outside of battle are banned)
-- In generation 1, I'm allowed to skip Marowak with the Poke Doll
If you didn’t read these rules and left a comment. Thanks for helping with the algorithm.
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If you're new around here, Venomoth is a Psychic/Flying type, you can't change my mind.
Scott's Thoughts drinking game
Drink any time Scott...
● says "damage rounding threshold"
● complains about a move's accuracy
● says "frustrating"
● says "fantastic"
● says "completely useless"
● uses Rest
● says "establish my Substitute"
● teaches Return
● teaches Curse
● says "same type attack bonus"
● says "badge boost"
● says "super effective damage"
● says "one hit" or "knock it out in a single turn"
● makes fun of Brock/Surge/Bruno/Chuck/Pryce
Finish your drink when Scott...
● gets Venomoth's type wrong
But he never gets Venomoth's typing wrong! It's always been a Psychic/Flying type, which is great, because Fire/Ground is excellent offensively, and of course Venomoth's Electric/Ice typing gives nearly perfect coverage on everything in the game. Defensively it's admittedly pretty rough being a Bug/Ground type, but it can make use of some unique resistances as well.
oh uh the rest of that I'd like to keep my liver halfway in tact please
That's how you get alcohol poisoning
@@Flaming_Rokno its bug/poison type
Bro isnt an og @@danielotano8677
@@danielotano8677 Hello friend. It seems you are new here. Venomoth's typing is an ongoing joke in the community. Scott got it wrong early on, so he's joked about it with us ever since.
I think Omastar starting fully evolved would’ve absolutely dominated this game, given that in these games it starts with Bite AND Water Gun
Definitely not gonna be able to unsee Omastar tickling people with its weird little tentacles.
Tickle in general is a move I wish used more by gamefreak. How flavorful!
Things I learned from Scott today
1. Omanyte can bite apprently
2. Tm case can be registered
I mean Omastar visibly has beak-like teeth, fairly reasonable to assume Omanyte has something like that too
The Omanyte on Yellow the Lass was a complete nightmare. I remember that
Had a super shitty day, super shitty week. My gf is lying sick in bed with the virus and I had to work extra hours. Got her some food and now I'm chilling. Thank god Scott uploaded a speedrun today, gen3 with its abilities quickly became my favourite gen to watch speedruns of!
The mighty Lord Helix! Omastar is a beast when it gets Shell Smash. I used it on my Rock type run in White 2
Ability sometimes switches between Swift Swim and Shell Armor in the overlay, most notably in Silph and Fuchsia. Unsure if this is a software error or not - personally I blame the nefarious Dome Fossil.
Venomoth Fact #44: Omastar is one of Venomoth's favorite gen 1 sprites. It reminds them of the fun times busting a move on the dance floor in the 70's
I love Omastar so much, very unique Pokemon with its typing/stats/movepool and its design goes so hard. Love your videos Scott, much wuv!
The leech seed healing non-planty-pokemon is something I'd always thought! GG
Praise be to Lord Helix, He who was born to dance.
I made it to 29:47. And no Scott, YOU'RE INCREDIBLE!
Tiny thing I noticed while watching this: Omastar's Gen 3 back sprite has an error. If you look closely at the FR/LG official art, there's a sixth spike poking out from the back of its shell, but the sprite doesn't have it. Granted, most Gen 3 back sprites of returning Pokemon are just scale ups of their Gen 2 versions, but still. Really, I'm just glad it's not another Feraligatr situation. YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID GAME FREAK
22:05 “The last member of the Elite 3” - I will never stop loving the Bruno diss tracks
Of course you need to grab the Dome Fossil. You already have Omanyte!
I might be looking a little too much into it, but is the Omastar's pose in the thumbnail a reference to it's RBY front sprite?
Fat
“Stretch” heh
I love your runs please continue with them
This is his last one. He stopped just to spite you.
He's right. I checked it.
One of the luckiest first run i have ever seen on your channel. So many freezes and crits on the rival's venausaur
Surprisingly dominant once it evolved! 125 Special Attack and STAB Surf really helps, as does having just enough Speed.
I had a thought about the Rival's team in FRLG. The Venusaur team might be the most difficult one for Physical hitters to deal with, since he has two Intimidating critters in that scenario.
That said, the point of Rival in these games is that his Starter is the one that has an advantage against yours, not that his team gets better at dealing with it.
Love you're videos, man! I also enjoy doing solo challenge runs.
Thanks so much! Solo challenges are so fun.
In the future, we need a Mean Girls-themed Pokemon for October 3rd... but I'll take Kabutops tomorrow. Hail the Dark Dome.
I love what you did with the arrow in the beginning.
I definitely wouldn't be surprised at Aerodactyl's performance. As they say in ADV OU, "Where there's an Aerodactyl, there's a way!"
You popped up on my feed. You have a fan from the U.S.
Babe, wake up, there's a new Scott video.
Very original
Ye
I remembered in the Yellow video when you took the Dome Fossil and the evil Kabutops made Omanyte cry.
It's good to see the fossil mons are doing better than in gen 1
Omanyte/star did really good. Despite no boosting move, nothing really troubles it after awhile. Gyarados is annoying I guess but never seems to be a run stopper. Great run.
Great run love omastar😊
Man, I don't think I actually ever used Omanyte and Omastar in Gen1 or Gen3. I certainly was unaware it learned Tickle. That's spooky season appropriate for sure. I actually remember my brother having a really good time with Omastar in his first Yellow playthrough. Back then, really good pokemon just kinda became famous in our friend circle and his Omastar was right up there with always critting Slash Charizard and my Farfetch'd (which was special because we weren't aware of Swords Dance's power until then)
I just realized that Agatha is pretty much like a rocket grunt that unlocks its full potential, using all the same Pokemon but in a way that actually works (especially in gen 1)
Watching this video im realizing something. Kabuto, being a physical attacker is going to struggle heavily against the rival. 2 intimidate mons in gyarados and growlithe, on top of having to one shot the Venusaur. Good luck in that run 😂
As long as he has a substitute up, Intimidate won't take effect.
We all know you should always yake the Dome Fossil 🗣️🔥🔥🔥
I will now never stop calling a group of kakunas kakunes
I always loved omastar as a kid, playing gen 3 I first learned about rain dance and swift swim when I misclicked rain dance during Giovanni and then swept his whole team
After that kid me thought omastar was super powerful
Lord Helix ❤ The better fossil 😊❤
Not new, so following directions and liking the video o7
Last member of the Elite Three, I'm weak 😭
banger vid bestie
*while grabbing the dome fossil for the millionth time* "Hmm. I wonder how one even gets an Omanyte?"
I love you and the channel deeply, Scott; but drawing attention to the Venomoth meme and the "new viewers" bit really hits the ear wrong. The meme itself is fun; but it simply is not so esoteric or confusing that you need to say anything. -- Obviously, all just my two cents; and obviously, I'll still watch everything you release anyway. Hyped af for daily December. 🖤
First!! keep up amazing work
Cool vid! Yep see you tomuuruuuu to Scott
Perfect for my 30 minute break!
Hey Scott, absolutely love your work....but whats with the weird alignment of koga's artwork? Scott always has a reason for whats on screen so this always interested me.
I have literally never heard of the move "tickle" in any Pokemon playthrough. Congrats on sweeping through Erika, and I really liked the gym leader animations--are they new?
been skimming various firered videos and learned the little tutorial girl after picking a starter won't show up if you remember to open the start menu once at any point before leaving the lab and I guess there's only a 1% encounter chance for the first 6 steps in grass in a new route or 8 in a cave.
I remember beating gen 1 e4 with omastar lvl 50ish, rest of my team late 30s, felt almost like I was left unfulfilled with the other mons but omastar in laye 40s just blazed through everything it felt 😂 was amazed but still for rest of team felt sad haha
And another gift in this glorious month of Venomothween.
Edit: What's up with Omastar's ability in the tab? I noticed it keeps switching between shell armor and swift swim.
I’ll watch this later but I seen uploaded 1 minute ago and couldn’t resist the opportunity to click
Ya know what, I don’t want to hurt the watch time retention so I guess I’ll watch now :)
oo future run with omastar and kabutops as starters confirmed?
I love the fossils
Blasphemy! Lord Helix for life!
Praise Helix!
Haze felix
Raze remix
Kraze Fenix
(12:05) I've never really gotten such a clear look at Oddish's FireRed sprite.
I'm torn between whether its expression is gormless or distraught. (°□° )
I love the 0:40 arrowmoth
Arrowmoth will point the way
Yeah, no other pokestreamer chooses the dome fossil all the time.
That´s really unique.
Scott do you think in making what if videos, like, what if Omastar have Shell Smash in pokemon FireRed, things in this vibe
Did you consider running Swift Swim as your ability and teaching Rain Dance to Omastar? I’m not sure if it’d be any faster/slower, but I think the rain boosted Surfs plus the doubled speed would make it a major threat
Don't know if you noticed but @ 11:06 when you lowered the Raichu's speed the new speed was shown (35) but the Spe disappeared. Hadn't noticed that happened before and thought you might not have as well!
Went back and looked and it happened to the Voltorb too.
It would be funny to see Metagross against Koga.
Are you sure that you had shell armor as an ability? Or might it be swift swim? At 19:21 the enemies gyarados uses rain dance and your speed shown in the overlay increases
Omanyte's speed goes from 106 to 108 after beating Rhyhorn because it leveled up, and then it doesn't change from 108 after the Gyarados made it rain.
And on my way there… I took the Helix Fossil! I knew that if I didn’t say what I took, you’d all ask. Actually, now that I think about it, everyone ask anyways. Comments are good for the TH-cam algorithm!
-MDB
Aye, one of the first to see this one.
Gengar 👻 for halloween 🎃
So which fossil did you take? I’m asking because I hear it’s good for the algorithm.
It shows Omastar having different abilities during and outside of battle.
maybe it was just an overlay glitch but did anyone else catch that inside battle the ability window showed that Omastar had Shell Armor but outside of battle it was swift swim?
Yeah I saw that too!!!
I was like oh it has swift swim now? Lmao 😂
Scott if you need to level up a pokemon, like a lot, would you use the VS seeker?
Scott is raining content this week
Hm... I'm surprised that you decided Shell Armour was the better ability for Omanyte. Rain Dance is available on Route 15 and boosting the power of Surf and doubling Omanyte's speed seems like it could come in handy for certain battles.
There going to be the moth solo?
It's ghost dark after all! ;)
Kabutops I feel like is gonna struggle a ton
venomoth grass type 🗣️
I love that you do the full line in this series. Please do not test how Omastar would do starting fully evolved
Trying to objectively think about why choosing the dome fossil is a better choice than the helix fossil in Mt Moon, is it because that choice requires you to take less steps / make less inputs to exit Mt. Moon, even if that timesave is minimal at best?
26:44 - Shadow Ball is a physical move that Omastar DOES NOT resist lol
6:15 Why not use rock tomb on bulbasaur? It would be strong enough to put it in KO range for bite instead of bite's 3HKO. And the speed drop should even let you move first.
I was the 1000th like let's goooooo
Probably Lorelei switch into lapras because you used surf, and lapras has water absorb so can counter you
Bah, I did this run in Ultra Sun recently. THAT was "fun". Not as much "fun" as Carracosta, but as my bet goes, that won't be the worst of the fossils.
Btw, there are like half a dozen (6) middle-evolution appearently none ever did in R/B/Y. Why?
Omastar is good but I wish I had a job
I am surprised Omanyte can learn bite. Are those things in its mouth teeth? Did the ammonites they're based on even have teeth?
ORDER IS PROGRESS
ADHERE TO THE DOMEOCRACY
starting as omastar would change things signifigantly, cut out all the pre brock grind at the very least as the moveset is very differnt at level 1 for omastar
Kinda sad that Venusaur's final move set is that awful. If only it still had Wine Whip...
0:40 ope arrow changed
2:16 perfect run ends here, F in the chat Press F to pay respects
10:17 and 24:41 ooooo 69 nice
11:48 and 22:03 oooo 69 nice.... but ya missed it 😞
You know what I would love to see one day, MdB and you doing a collab. Dunno if either of you would be up for it but it could be fun, maybe playing with the format and expectations.
For the rival's Bulbasaur and Ivysaur, why not use Rock Tomb instead of Bite? Not only is Rock Tomb a STAB attack but it also has higher effective power than Bite. Plus, the ability to lower speed would allow you to go first after the first hit if you survive an attack.
Lower accuracy and bite can cause flinches
Lower accuracy and Bite uses Oma's better attack stat, since dark deals special damage this gen
Its funny when you talk about omanite outspeeding other pokemon, being weird to some people.
Like there is someone who remembers the base speed for every pokemon but not aware of the badge boost.
can't wait to see kabutops cut the competition tomorrow. expecting it to do well even though water moves are special in this gen.
I have never heard of "Tickle". More Pokemon need this move. Why does a pokemon like swablu not have tickle? Its fluffy little wings are meant for tickling!
I keep expecting Speed to be in the bottom right and misreading your stats
TIL omanyte learns bite
69 Centiseconds? Surely you meant to say 6.9e+8 nanoseconds.
Could someone explain where the venomoth gag comes from?
Please do a Gengar special theme for halloween