Hey guys, several comments have notified me that critical captures are just superficial animations that occur when you already have the same pokemon, and don't actually affect the catch rate(though the route 1 catch rate still looks to always be 100%). Also, for those you worried about the Ralts at 4:57, I reviewed the footage and have bad news...
I like how this run shows a redemption arc where in sprigatito's first battle, it failed to crit and thus couldn't avoid damage, but upon maturing, it perfects critical hits so well that it's signature move only does so.
Wow really? I didn’t think the original commenter noticed that. Someone should have made a comment based on that unfailing crit percentage! (Some dude above me said that the move that always crits, indeed crits all the time)
fun fact for the algorithm: Hidden Move HMs arent in this game but Herba Mystica stands for Hm which is why it gives Miraidon and Koraidon the new abilities 👍
26:50 You don't need any Miraidon power ups to access the elite four. There's a cave in the main city that leads to the path. I went there before doing any gyms and beat up a level 12 maus trainer, only to get stomped by the next guy's level 52 krokorok.
Correct. In fact pretty much the only quest related thing that requires an ride ability, is the Lake Titan. Otherwise, the abilities are just for convenience or for a few small items of no substance. (Most items on cliffs can actually be landed on from above without climbing needed)
So, a fun thing you can do with Nemona’s second battle. She terastalizes Pawmi, but the only move it ever goes for is Thundershock, even if your Pokémon has an immunity to it. That means that battle can be very easily cheesed with a level 5 Wooper, which is available immediately after you leave the lighthouse. Every playthrough I have done so far I have simply switched in Wooper after her starter goes down and Mud Shotted her Pawmi to death with no damage.
Ideally she would fall for it once, have special dialogue for the occasion ("Wow, an immunity? You learn quick!"), and then play around it for the rest of the battle
@@absollnk Also, when I used flower trick on one of her pokemon, she goes "oh a critical hit, you must be lucky!". Yeah right, I annihilated her entire team with flower trick just to show it's not luck.
I love the Vivillon pattern in this game. For those who don't know, the pattern of the ones in Paldea is the Fancy Pattern. Originally, you were only able to get a Vivillon with this specific pattern via the Nintendo Network in July 2014 when the Global Trade System celebrated its 100 millionth trade. So the fact they brought it back for Gen 9 is a detail that I appreciate. As for the storylines, the Titan one is hands down my favorite. Because once you realize why you're collecting the Herba Mystica, you feel bad for (or relate to) Arven and his Mabosstiff and so you're motivated to help him and get his Mabosstiff better and stronger. Not to mention the story connects to the legendaries.
About egg moves: you actually don’t need to make a sandwich for the Pokémon holding the mirror herb to learn the move, you simply have to spend 30 seconds in picnic mode
Flyingfalcons: Where did all the people go? Arceus, disguised as Larry: *Gone, reduced to atoms* As much as I love Spain, it's nice to see they also did their research for the Portuguese bit of the region and that it's not all Spanish. The striped houses in Porto Marinada are based off the ones in Costa Nova, nicknamed the Venice of Portugal. The striped houses there are cottages used by fishermen to store their nets. They're called palheiros, which means haystacks. And Alfornada is based off Sagres. The dishes on the walls are a reference to Artesanato a Mó in Sagres, and the chimneys there are based off ones found all over the Algarve.
interestingly, porto marinada and alfornado are both on the left side of the region. those places are, if the paldean map is approximately equivalent to a map of the iberian peninsula, about where portugal would be !!
I noticed that you were pushing the emotion button repeatedly at 16:44 but you only need to press it once per emotion; this will save some time as the timer stops each time you press a button. Great vid!
I dont think I'm the first to see this but at 4:56 there is a ralts just sitting under the water. I barely caught it as it transitioned to the next scene. I couldn't help but laugh seeing that.
100% loved the Titan storyline literally only because it upgrades your dragon bike and that's my favourite part of this game: getting from point A to point B by riding my dragon bike.
Personally I think the starfall street storyline was my favorite. Expecting it to just be another "We're the antagonists so we must want world destruction for some reason at the cost of the box art legendary" storyline, it actually turned out to have me feeling really bad for just going in and steamrolling them. Then to find out who it was totally not commiting crimes to pay me to do it was absurd and surprisingly unexpected. Also I have a strong biased liking to the character due to relating to them a lot in regards to their experinces and personality. (Also their design is really cute).
The past 3 games haven't followed that storyline, to be fair. Team Skull did perform crimes but they were seen more as a nuisance and never as a threat lol.
3:46 In Scarlet and Violet if you already have a Pokemon of one species, every successful capture attempt on a later Pokemon of that species will play a critical capture animation, but still go through the normal calculation for 3 shakes.
heres a comment for the algorithm: been breeding for a shiny Bombirdier for about 2 days straight, roughly 2000 eggs. i was down to my last half box full, promised myself this was the last batch for the day. hatched it as soon as i pressed play on the video. thanks bro 😎👍
I thought at the start, "There's no way you could possibly go through the game without taking damage", and yet! I'd also say I wound up enjoying the titan storyline the most, when it was my least favorite at the start. I'm playing Scarlet, so running around with my Koraidon has been a lot of fun. I can't imagine how Pokemon will one-up itself next time.
I seriously love your videos, dude. I have binged every single one of them in the past 3 days. Your sense of humor perfectly appeals to me but outside of that, your use of strategic replacement of moves, switching of Pokémon, grasp on AI and knowledge of stat training is very interesting and digestible for me! I mainly shiny hunt in PKMN games and get very lost when people much more intelligent than I am try to explain competitive (or Nuzlocke adjacent?) strategies to me because all I know how to do is make my Pokémon turn a funny color. But something about how you can briefly describe what you're doing then show it in action makes it make a lot more sense for me! I know you're not meant to be a tutorial channel by any means, but still, past being a very entertaining guy I feel like I'm learning a lot about a game I've been playing for way too long to not know half this stuff! I can't wait to see more from you!!
14:15 The Titan storyline is, in my opinion, the best. It actually makes you feel emotions besides: "yAy, i DId a pOKemOn baTtLe!" I feel proud of Arven and Masbosstiff (besides the fact that I actually remember their names, unlike anyone else. Except Clive. Clive is the MVP of pokemon games.)
I really enjoy your no damage videos. I was a bit worried at first that with your rules to save anywhere that they may become more luck based reset-fests, something that I feel really misses the point of a no-damage challenge. While some segments (like the first battle with the starter in almost any generation) that really can't be avoided, I've come to appreciate that your goal of under 10 resets post-starter helps serve the same purpose as restrictions on saving while allowing you to maintain a far larger chunk of your time/sanity. Real shame about the little asterisks on this game, but it was a fun watch none the less and I look forward to watching more of your challenge videos as a whole!
Just a quick comment to say thanks for adding subtitles! Despite these videos usually being scripted, most youtubers don't really bother, so it's nice to see someone making the effort!
Although you said that catching Pokemon in the first route could be risky, I recall from somewhere that you actually have a 100% catch rate of any pokemon in Poco Path. This is similar to the Route1 in Alola and Route 2 in Kalos, the first route to catch pokemon will never fail So theoretically you could just keep catching pokemon there to level up Pokemon, if that is really the case. Also, in this game, any successful capture for registered species will display as a critical capture, regardless of what it really was.
@@ericr.malice318It's usually only on the first time you go through, in the case of Alola and Kalos. I'm guessing, since you don't have enough pokeballs, you went to get more and that stopped the 100% chance.
Your videos are very entertaining and you've got a very calming voice, I think this means you're one of the greatest youtubers, at least in my book. Keep up the great content!
37:14 regarding the skunktank sucker punch fiasco, ive observed that the team star bosses can have some pretty strange and erratic AI behaviors. When I fought Ortega, I sent out my Great Tusk against the fairy star mobile. It had three whole chances to use a super effective fairy move on Great Tusk, but it never went for it, instead just using the not very effective Steel Roller and Spin out. For the algorithm question, I really enjoyed the Team Star story, learning about their struggles and the lore about the school was really fascinating, and the fights were all pretty fun. I did also really enjoy Path of Legends, having lost two dogs Arven's story really got to me. I also had a ton of fun taking on Great Tusk 15 levels underleved, and catching it way before I was probably supposed to. It wouldn't even obey me at first haha. The weakest story for me was probably the gym challenge, mostly because it really just does feel like a standard pokemon gym romp without much variation. Though, I did enjoy a lot of the leaders personalities and gym challenges (Iono's gave me a huge smile.) I also really liked Nemona as a character and she makes for a really fun final fight.
@@flyingfalcons7 Yeah! When you beat a titan, if you go back to where it was originally found there will be a static pokemon you can fight and catch. They've all got maxed out height like alpha pokemon and they come with a special mark, it's pretty neat.
I had a weird thing go on in the poison fight. The skuntank was getting told to use toxic on my pokemon that was immune to it several times before I defeated them
The reason Steel Roller gets used is because the base power is doubled when terrain is in play (which then gets destroyed by the move). The AI will generally prioritize any chance to have increased power. It seems that no matter what setup you have, Ortega will always go for Steel Roller.
gen 1 was broken in cool, fun, useful, and interesting ways. gen 9 is just broken in ways that don't matter for the most part (gameplay-wise) - it's just graphical bugs or bugs that have very little impact. boring in comparison.
@@ericr.malice318 Yup. gen 1 didn't have these weird frame rate downs that bring down what is meant to be a 30 or 60 FPS game with great new features. Guys Frame rate is important to give a good impression. we want MORE fans. Not more Haters saying "oh gen 9 sucks cause it lags"
Awesome Video! I love your no damage challenges and also huge respect for the work you put in this challenge. They are hella difficult cuz you have to research and plan every single thing, which can be frustrating sometimes... I would never come to the idea to use fake out to break sturdy. My brain would tell me ,,go for spiky shield! " XD.
8:00 Even if the raids aren't replicable - you still can change the Tera Types after finishing Normal Gym. You should be allowed to use these after that as it's only a matter of slow grind for Tera Shards. 11:35 Using Miraidon you can actually cheat it and kick the olive over the spider webs. Straight line into the basket. 12:40 And that's why you buy a Loaded Dice and get yourself a Multi-Attack Pokemon. Then you don't really even need to use slow Pokemon like Hariyama. Funnily enough this generation has extreme amount of Pokemon that can put others to sleep. That's also alway good strategy for no damage playthrough. 14:20 I actually enjoyed the Gym Challenge + School/Classes storyline the most. It was more distinct from other games and I like that ever since Sword and Shield they are giving more character to it. 18:05 They got nuked. 24:05 Also I love how we all refuse to use official pronouncation of Farigiraf. It makes so much more sense for it to be Fari-Giraffe and not Fari-Key-rafe - as said in reveal trailer.
here's a comment for the youtube algorithm! my favorite storyline is probably the team star one i like the designs of all the bosses, decent backstory, a good story overal (for a pokemon game anyway) but if the area zero storyline counts, that ones my favorite also wooo new upload
My opinion on the champion battle is that Geeta is going (somewhat) easy on you. She knows Nemona wants to go all out against you, and from a gameplay standpoint Nemona would be the 'true' champion battle.
But then you fight her again in the battle tournament...and she still is a joke. LEAD WITH GLIMMORA! KINGAMBIT IS YOUR REAL ACE! IS YOUR HAIR SUFFOCATING YOUR BRAIN?
At 3:30, those aren't actually "critical captures." What the game does is, once you've registered a pokemon, all future successful catches of that pokemon will display as crit caps. The early pokemon just have wildly high catch rates. It doesn't affect your catch rate in any way. Failed critical captures also just look like the pokemon broke out with no shakes; so, in a way, critical captures in this game have a 100% catch rate.
Regarding Iono's Bellibolt having its ability activate even when it's fainting - if I had to make a guess, I'd say that abiities are programmed to always go off whenever activated, even if the Pokemon's about to faint, so that things like Aftermath and Glimmora's Toxis Debris proc as they should.
14:50 Mindy's Haunter is only holding an Everstone because Diamond/Pearl/Platinum have their in-game trades broken in that they don't cause trade evolutions. The Everstone is just to hide this from most players. No idea if the in-game trades are still broken in Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl, but I wouldn't be surprised given how the "remakes"(read: bad attempt at a remaster) are "extremely faithful"(read: basically a copy) of the original Diamond/Pearl. 25:53 The sandwich part isn't actually needed, if anyone is wondering, you can just immdiately exit the picnic and it'll have happened.
Titan story line felt like the most polished of the 3. By the end of Victory Road, I was just perpetually annoyed with Nemona. Penny felt like a poorly kept secret in a weirdly written story. Seeing Arven, a guy I thought I was also annoyed by, go on a pure mission to save his doge. Arven is the real MVP
Honestly, I knew the answer to this, because it's basically how I've played every Pokémon since I was a kid. I always have a tendency to overlevel. Oops.
Fun fact: You can no-hit some of the later raids with gholdengo, because they will spam a status move that you are immune to, and they don't get the idea of trying a damaging move for once.
This video appears in sort by most popular before videos with less views. If you want to know why. That's because it's gaining views faster than youtube can update 'most popular'. This is a really good video and youtube can't keep up with how fast it's gaining views
I know it's been 8 months but I thought it'd be good to add in how this actually works for anyone who stumbles into the discussion in the future. Critical Captures are very much not just visual, as they have their own calculation separate from the catching formula. The chance you have to get a Crit Cap is determined by how many species are registered in your pokedex, capping out at 600 for the highest chance. At 31 species in the dex, you have a multiplier of 0.5. It factors the original catch rate formula (that I will not be putting here since it is absurdly complicated) into that multiplier. The game then generates a number from 0 - 255 every time you throw a ball, and if that number is less than your crit cap modifier, it becomes a Critical Capture. Critical Captures only have to do one shake calculation instead of three/four (depending on which game you're playing). TLDR: Critical Captures are a rare chance to get a much higher success rate on a catch that is based on how many pokemon are in your pokedex. Now onto the animation part. Scarlet and Violet exclusively have a quirk with the animation of Critical Captures that make any successful capture of a pokemon already in your dex appear to be a Critical Capture, regardless of whether or not it actually was. For example: a player catches a scatterbug. The decide they don't like the ability it has and go to catch a second one. Despite them not even having enough pokemon in their dex to have a chance of a Critical Capture, the second one they catch looks like one. There is another (albeit much less common) occurrence within the same quirk, that being the fact that any Critical Capture that ends up failing its singular shake check actually appears to be normal instead of critical. TLDR: Already owned pokemon will always show a Critical Capture when you successfully catch a new one, regardless of the actual chance of Critical Capture. Source: Bulbapedia's page on catch rate. I hope this comment helps to clear up any confusion on the matter! If you want to check out more details about how all of this works, I highly recommend looking through Bulbapedia's page on it all. It's a lot of numbers and math but the main paragraphs make it all concise enough to understand (most of the time).
honestly my favorite story in this game is by far the team star storyline, i cant quite articulate why correctly but it just felt... genuine, I guess. i love how as the story goes on you realize these arent bad kids, and clavell realizes this too. and the ending almost made me cry, im not going to lie. plus penny is probably one of my favorites in this game, but i love all 3 of the main allies in this game either way. though the titan storyline is amazing too, the genuine, unadulterated joy arven has every time mabosstiff gets better just hits me in such a specific way. ill be honest that story made me cry too, LMAO
13:06 TFW you got all the Strange endings in VoltWhite 2 and actually had to modify the game to get past the Red Fog of Terror series because Drayano messed about with Sigilyph
My favorite storyline of the three is easily Starfall Street. The way the story unfolds is both interesting and sad. Spoiler warning even though the games have been out for almost two months; the fact that every main member of Team Star was being bullied was really sad. The fact that Penny convinced them all to join together and stand up to the bullies was great, but then was made even more sad by the fact that the plan failed once everyone started believing that they were the ones in the wrong. Then Penny takes all the blame herself and is sent to Galar for a year and a half as a result, and she does so in order to protect her friends which was really wholesome. And then the ending where Penny and the five Team Star bosses all get to meet up in person and be proper friends is even more wholesome. Overall it's an amazing storyline and easily my favorite in the game. Quite possibly my favorite in the series, even.
Fun fact about the first battle with Nemona: According to Bulbapedia, the game is programmed so that moves never crit during your first battle against nemona. You kept soft resetting for nothing.
"Most polarizing games in the series", you say? I mean, sure, the technical shortcomings are sparking many a discussion... ...but if I'm being honest, I don't think we're ever going to dethrone the Sword & Shield Dexit debacle in that regard :V
I apparat you are considerate of those that haven't finished the game yet, and you know there in no need to put out entire runs or late game content in the first week.
33:42 when the screen wasn’t moving for a second I thought it was glitching so I panicked but then I fast forward twice and realised it wasn’t. Did this happen to anyone else?
Nah I just paused it there to show the amount of damage Tatsugiri was left with at that point, I probably should have just slowed the clip down instead
Vivillon's pronunciation had me completely baffled. Turns out hard or soft double L could work in French pronunciation. I had always pronounced it vi-vil-lon rather than vi-viy-on
Great vid. The effort and the research you put into each of these vids(no dmg) is amazing. Just a request; is the layout of the vids where you have your 6 pokemons/team somewhere is something I've personally found aesthetically pleasing. If u have the chance to in the future I would love to see that. plz and thank you love your content!!!
Hey guys, several comments have notified me that critical captures are just superficial animations that occur when you already have the same pokemon, and don't actually affect the catch rate(though the route 1 catch rate still looks to always be 100%). Also, for those you worried about the Ralts at 4:57, I reviewed the footage and have bad news...
Poor ralts lmao
Yes it is, I didn’t think of that
I didn’t see anything what happened?
@@hishamoweiss806 only punching moves tho iirc
@@thecoolkidsclub4776 it turned into a water/ghost type. It was underwater
I like how this run shows a redemption arc where in sprigatito's first battle, it failed to crit and thus couldn't avoid damage, but upon maturing, it perfects critical hits so well that it's signature move only does so.
Wow really? I didn’t think the original commenter noticed that. Someone should have made a comment based on that unfailing crit percentage!
(Some dude above me said that the move that always crits, indeed crits all the time)
@@blockywow lmao some people really have problems understanding jokes
W comment
@@rox-playz5063 no shit
Don't forget that it crit quaxly in the second nemona battle as revenge for the first.
fun fact for the algorithm:
Hidden Move HMs arent in this game but Herba Mystica stands for Hm which is why
it gives Miraidon and Koraidon the new abilities 👍
Wait that's insane
I never realized that until now
You absolute madman. I had no idea. 🤯
But arven's dog didn't learn any abilities😂
@@SouledxS0uled he got his groove back
26:50 You don't need any Miraidon power ups to access the elite four.
There's a cave in the main city that leads to the path. I went there before doing any gyms and beat up a level 12 maus trainer, only to get stomped by the next guy's level 52 krokorok.
That jumpscare of a trainer. God was it satisfying to show up for the elite four and stomp him in a krookodile ditto.
Correct. In fact pretty much the only quest related thing that requires an ride ability, is the Lake Titan. Otherwise, the abilities are just for convenience or for a few small items of no substance. (Most items on cliffs can actually be landed on from above without climbing needed)
So, a fun thing you can do with Nemona’s second battle. She terastalizes Pawmi, but the only move it ever goes for is Thundershock, even if your Pokémon has an immunity to it. That means that battle can be very easily cheesed with a level 5 Wooper, which is available immediately after you leave the lighthouse. Every playthrough I have done so far I have simply switched in Wooper after her starter goes down and Mud Shotted her Pawmi to death with no damage.
Stuff like this is the most immersion-breaking thing in the series imo. Like what do you MEAN the trainer doing this to me is the champion
@@absollnk she forgot to teach it new moves 😐
moreover, if you have a water absorb clodsire and she chooses quaxly, her tera move will just be absorbed. Her team is a complete joke.
Ideally she would fall for it once, have special dialogue for the occasion ("Wow, an immunity? You learn quick!"), and then play around it for the rest of the battle
@@absollnk Also, when I used flower trick on one of her pokemon, she goes "oh a critical hit, you must be lucky!". Yeah right, I annihilated her entire team with flower trick just to show it's not luck.
I love the Vivillon pattern in this game. For those who don't know, the pattern of the ones in Paldea is the Fancy Pattern. Originally, you were only able to get a Vivillon with this specific pattern via the Nintendo Network in July 2014 when the Global Trade System celebrated its 100 millionth trade. So the fact they brought it back for Gen 9 is a detail that I appreciate. As for the storylines, the Titan one is hands down my favorite. Because once you realize why you're collecting the Herba Mystica, you feel bad for (or relate to) Arven and his Mabosstiff and so you're motivated to help him and get his Mabosstiff better and stronger. Not to mention the story connects to the legendaries.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the Pokedex entry say it's from a different land as well? That makes it even better.
My Vivillon, Facade is scary lol. It all started when I saw a smaller than normal scatterbug. She has the fierce title too lmao
I’m glad vivillon was brought back :)
Wish we could get the other patterns tho
Yeah but Area Zero plot is absolutely dark and off the rails for a Pokemon game
@@staydetermined6717did you figure it out yet
8:27, I never noticed that all of Makuhita's stats are exactly doubled when it evolves. Neat
About egg moves: you actually don’t need to make a sandwich for the Pokémon holding the mirror herb to learn the move, you simply have to spend 30 seconds in picnic mode
Not even that, you can just enter and exit and the pokemon holding the mirror herb will have the egg move
why not make the sandwich though? pokemon deserve treats!
dont even need to wait, you can spam b to leave the picnic asap and your mon will learn the move
Not even 30 seconds, they learn it immediately
So if I wanted to teach my tinkaton quash I would just have to give it a mirror herb and let it hangout with my oranguru
6:33 love the slideshow, it's so detailed, it even looks like the actual game!
Veeeery good game!
It is a good game, it's just the frame rate people have a problem with
Flyingfalcons: Where did all the people go?
Arceus, disguised as Larry: *Gone, reduced to atoms*
As much as I love Spain, it's nice to see they also did their research for the Portuguese bit of the region and that it's not all Spanish. The striped houses in Porto Marinada are based off the ones in Costa Nova, nicknamed the Venice of Portugal. The striped houses there are cottages used by fishermen to store their nets. They're called palheiros, which means haystacks. And Alfornada is based off Sagres. The dishes on the walls are a reference to Artesanato a Mó in Sagres, and the chimneys there are based off ones found all over the Algarve.
interestingly, porto marinada and alfornado are both on the left side of the region. those places are, if the paldean map is approximately equivalent to a map of the iberian peninsula, about where portugal would be !!
I noticed that you were pushing the emotion button repeatedly at 16:44 but you only need to press it once per emotion; this will save some time as the timer stops each time you press a button. Great vid!
Wait... We can do that... My friend told me to spam it and I thought I had to time mine just right
That mini game is so stupid-
It should be an ACTUAL Rythm game, it’s so damn obvious they didn’t know what to use
I think the reason for the critical captures at the start are due to the area having 100% capture rate, but I could be wrong
Also according to Serebii critical captures are purely visual
If you have a pokemon already registered in the dex in S/V every time you catch it after that will display as a critical capture
@@MarbleSodaPop ohhh that explains why literally everything is a crit capture
tysm for explaining
Shows ur paldean self is a chad (only at capture!(Rip the dance move:(((. ))
@@gem2121 preferred the sw sh dance when u spin
I dont think I'm the first to see this but at 4:56 there is a ralts just sitting under the water. I barely caught it as it transitioned to the next scene. I couldn't help but laugh seeing that.
Poor Ralts is drowning :c
100% loved the Titan storyline literally only because it upgrades your dragon bike and that's my favourite part of this game: getting from point A to point B by riding my dragon bike.
I would literally die for arvens mabosstiff
Yes
@@grilldtoazt330me too ngl
Damn you're one heartless son of a gun
@@grilldtoazt330 same
Personally I think the starfall street storyline was my favorite. Expecting it to just be another "We're the antagonists so we must want world destruction for some reason at the cost of the box art legendary" storyline, it actually turned out to have me feeling really bad for just going in and steamrolling them. Then to find out who it was totally not commiting crimes to pay me to do it was absurd and surprisingly unexpected.
Also I have a strong biased liking to the character due to relating to them a lot in regards to their experinces and personality. (Also their design is really cute).
'"Totally not commiting crimes" Everyone but Penny and her massive debts to the League for embezzlement XD
The past 3 games haven't followed that storyline, to be fair. Team Skull did perform crimes but they were seen more as a nuisance and never as a threat lol.
3:46 In Scarlet and Violet if you already have a Pokemon of one species, every successful capture attempt on a later Pokemon of that species will play a critical capture animation, but still go through the normal calculation for 3 shakes.
a rare flyingfalcons upload
Yeah rare but I'll say better than other people like Silph Specter and FlygonHG in my opinion best videos I've watched
It's like a random shiny encounter
bro this challenge takes a long time 💀
@@clawedd109 I never said it didn’t…
the ed sheeran jumpscare was horrifying, it was like 2 am when i beat the game and then suddenly ed sheeran starts blasting on the tv
heres a comment for the algorithm:
been breeding for a shiny Bombirdier for about 2 days straight, roughly 2000 eggs. i was down to my last half box full, promised myself this was the last batch for the day. hatched it as soon as i pressed play on the video. thanks bro 😎👍
Congrats!
I got 2 of them from one outbreak
Lmao, breeding something that's so simple and efficient to get otherwise
@@AdminAbuse lmao, i'm not using some scrub-ass wild pokemon for competitive 🤓
@@kasagure. bottle caps and nature mints exist now
I thought at the start, "There's no way you could possibly go through the game without taking damage", and yet! I'd also say I wound up enjoying the titan storyline the most, when it was my least favorite at the start. I'm playing Scarlet, so running around with my Koraidon has been a lot of fun. I can't imagine how Pokemon will one-up itself next time.
I like how both times he fought Larry he had difficulty the first time he lost and the rematch he got lucky and didn’t hit himself in confusion
I seriously love your videos, dude. I have binged every single one of them in the past 3 days. Your sense of humor perfectly appeals to me but outside of that, your use of strategic replacement of moves, switching of Pokémon, grasp on AI and knowledge of stat training is very interesting and digestible for me! I mainly shiny hunt in PKMN games and get very lost when people much more intelligent than I am try to explain competitive (or Nuzlocke adjacent?) strategies to me because all I know how to do is make my Pokémon turn a funny color. But something about how you can briefly describe what you're doing then show it in action makes it make a lot more sense for me! I know you're not meant to be a tutorial channel by any means, but still, past being a very entertaining guy I feel like I'm learning a lot about a game I've been playing for way too long to not know half this stuff! I can't wait to see more from you!!
14:15 The Titan storyline is, in my opinion, the best. It actually makes you feel emotions besides: "yAy, i DId a pOKemOn baTtLe!" I feel proud of Arven and Masbosstiff (besides the fact that I actually remember their names, unlike anyone else. Except Clive. Clive is the MVP of pokemon games.)
I really enjoy your no damage videos. I was a bit worried at first that with your rules to save anywhere that they may become more luck based reset-fests, something that I feel really misses the point of a no-damage challenge. While some segments (like the first battle with the starter in almost any generation) that really can't be avoided, I've come to appreciate that your goal of under 10 resets post-starter helps serve the same purpose as restrictions on saving while allowing you to maintain a far larger chunk of your time/sanity. Real shame about the little asterisks on this game, but it was a fun watch none the less and I look forward to watching more of your challenge videos as a whole!
My favorite story line was the titan story line. It really hits you in the feels
Just a quick comment to say thanks for adding subtitles! Despite these videos usually being scripted, most youtubers don't really bother, so it's nice to see someone making the effort!
Violet is such a fun game, it’s unfortunate that the school sections are so boring and the fact that nothing works as intended
Although you said that catching Pokemon in the first route could be risky, I recall from somewhere that you actually have a 100% catch rate of any pokemon in Poco Path.
This is similar to the Route1 in Alola and Route 2 in Kalos, the first route to catch pokemon will never fail
So theoretically you could just keep catching pokemon there to level up Pokemon, if that is really the case.
Also, in this game, any successful capture for registered species will display as a critical capture, regardless of what it really was.
Gotcha that makes way more sense
100% catch rate on poco path is bullshit lmao
ive had several lechonk break out of pokeballs there (i was getting a full box of lechonk)
@@ericr.malice318 why do you need a box full of lechonk
@@rosstastic5213 comedy
@@ericr.malice318It's usually only on the first time you go through, in the case of Alola and Kalos. I'm guessing, since you don't have enough pokeballs, you went to get more and that stopped the 100% chance.
Your videos are very entertaining and you've got a very calming voice, I think this means you're one of the greatest youtubers, at least in my book. Keep up the great content!
You’re the first poketuber I’ve heard who can pronounce the name Cassiopeia correctly.
Thank you so much
Another day substantially improved by a flying falcons video
25:57 you do not need to make a sandwich. You can open a close the picnic.
0:40 When you don't have a chimney but Santa needs to come in to steal your cookies and milk and leave coal
i really really enjoyed the titan storyline. The mabosstif was really emotional and the plot of the proffessor was really enjoyable
37:14 regarding the skunktank sucker punch fiasco, ive observed that the team star bosses can have some pretty strange and erratic AI behaviors. When I fought Ortega, I sent out my Great Tusk against the fairy star mobile. It had three whole chances to use a super effective fairy move on Great Tusk, but it never went for it, instead just using the not very effective Steel Roller and Spin out.
For the algorithm question, I really enjoyed the Team Star story, learning about their struggles and the lore about the school was really fascinating, and the fights were all pretty fun. I did also really enjoy Path of Legends, having lost two dogs Arven's story really got to me. I also had a ton of fun taking on Great Tusk 15 levels underleved, and catching it way before I was probably supposed to. It wouldn't even obey me at first haha. The weakest story for me was probably the gym challenge, mostly because it really just does feel like a standard pokemon gym romp without much variation. Though, I did enjoy a lot of the leaders personalities and gym challenges (Iono's gave me a huge smile.) I also really liked Nemona as a character and she makes for a really fun final fight.
Yeah team star was a pretty unique evil team, in a good way. Also I had no clue the paradox titan was obtainable before area zero lol
@@flyingfalcons7 Yeah! When you beat a titan, if you go back to where it was originally found there will be a static pokemon you can fight and catch. They've all got maxed out height like alpha pokemon and they come with a special mark, it's pretty neat.
I had a weird thing go on in the poison fight. The skuntank was getting told to use toxic on my pokemon that was immune to it several times before I defeated them
The reason Steel Roller gets used is because the base power is doubled when terrain is in play (which then gets destroyed by the move). The AI will generally prioritize any chance to have increased power. It seems that no matter what setup you have, Ortega will always go for Steel Roller.
"Extremely fun but extremely broken." It worked out well for gen 1.
at least gen 1 didn't have weird lag spikes.
gen 1 was broken in cool, fun, useful, and interesting ways.
gen 9 is just broken in ways that don't matter for the most part (gameplay-wise) - it's just graphical bugs or bugs that have very little impact. boring in comparison.
@@ericr.malice318 Yup. gen 1 didn't have these weird frame rate downs that bring down what is meant to be a 30 or 60 FPS game with great new features.
Guys Frame rate is important to give a good impression. we want MORE fans. Not more Haters saying "oh gen 9 sucks cause it lags"
Mnemona: "and in your most private moments, you will remember that the one trainer that could hit you, was me!"
Awesome Video!
I love your no damage challenges and also huge respect for the work you put in this challenge. They are hella difficult cuz you have to research and plan every single thing, which can be frustrating sometimes... I would never come to the idea to use fake out to break sturdy. My brain would tell me ,,go for spiky shield! " XD.
Problem is Pokemon who learn Spiky Shield aren't the best for this challenge.
8:00 Even if the raids aren't replicable - you still can change the Tera Types after finishing Normal Gym. You should be allowed to use these after that as it's only a matter of slow grind for Tera Shards.
11:35 Using Miraidon you can actually cheat it and kick the olive over the spider webs. Straight line into the basket.
12:40 And that's why you buy a Loaded Dice and get yourself a Multi-Attack Pokemon. Then you don't really even need to use slow Pokemon like Hariyama. Funnily enough this generation has extreme amount of Pokemon that can put others to sleep. That's also alway good strategy for no damage playthrough.
14:20 I actually enjoyed the Gym Challenge + School/Classes storyline the most. It was more distinct from other games and I like that ever since Sword and Shield they are giving more character to it.
18:05 They got nuked.
24:05 Also I love how we all refuse to use official pronouncation of Farigiraf. It makes so much more sense for it to be Fari-Giraffe and not Fari-Key-rafe - as said in reveal trailer.
here's a comment for the youtube algorithm!
my favorite storyline is probably the team star one
i like the designs of all the bosses, decent backstory, a good story overal (for a pokemon game anyway)
but if the area zero storyline counts, that ones my favorite
also wooo new upload
Yeah i was really surprised how dark they made the area zero storyline(well, relatively dark)
My opinion on the champion battle is that Geeta is going (somewhat) easy on you. She knows Nemona wants to go all out against you, and from a gameplay standpoint Nemona would be the 'true' champion battle.
I’d like to believe this. Though Geeta’s line about being “utterly incapable of holding back” (or something like that) kinda takes away from it
@@delightfulmochas Also the fact that the champion shouldn't be going easy on you just so you can "boss fight" someone else 💀
But then you fight her again in the battle tournament...and she still is a joke. LEAD WITH GLIMMORA! KINGAMBIT IS YOUR REAL ACE! IS YOUR HAIR SUFFOCATING YOUR BRAIN?
So, the answer is "No, but we're gonna do it anyway."
I respect that.
At 3:30, those aren't actually "critical captures." What the game does is, once you've registered a pokemon, all future successful catches of that pokemon will display as crit caps. The early pokemon just have wildly high catch rates. It doesn't affect your catch rate in any way.
Failed critical captures also just look like the pokemon broke out with no shakes; so, in a way, critical captures in this game have a 100% catch rate.
Basically, if it looks like a critical capture, you've caught it. If it doesn't and that species has been caught before, it'll break out.
I really like the Titan storyline with Team Star storyline being a close second. Then changed depending on my mood.
bros felt a lil pain and went nuh uh
this was super cool to watch, incredible video!!! love your dry humour also :)
babe wake up, new flyingfalcons7 upload
You should've named Meowscarada Puss in boots. After all... Puss in boots has never been touched by a blade.
Yeah Geeta's team is bizarre. I laughed out loud when I saw Gogoat. Great job on the run!
Ngl, tinkaton is my favorite pokemon so I am very happy to see you use it in the run
I got sick with covid recently, but I got so excited with a new flyingfalcons upload.
Regarding Iono's Bellibolt having its ability activate even when it's fainting - if I had to make a guess, I'd say that abiities are programmed to always go off whenever activated, even if the Pokemon's about to faint, so that things like Aftermath and Glimmora's Toxis Debris proc as they should.
14:50 Mindy's Haunter is only holding an Everstone because Diamond/Pearl/Platinum have their in-game trades broken in that they don't cause trade evolutions. The Everstone is just to hide this from most players. No idea if the in-game trades are still broken in Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl, but I wouldn't be surprised given how the "remakes"(read: bad attempt at a remaster) are "extremely faithful"(read: basically a copy) of the original Diamond/Pearl.
25:53 The sandwich part isn't actually needed, if anyone is wondering, you can just immdiately exit the picnic and it'll have happened.
Titan story line felt like the most polished of the 3. By the end of Victory Road, I was just perpetually annoyed with Nemona. Penny felt like a poorly kept secret in a weirdly written story. Seeing Arven, a guy I thought I was also annoyed by, go on a pure mission to save his doge. Arven is the real MVP
Ralts in the water 4:58
Honestly, I knew the answer to this, because it's basically how I've played every Pokémon since I was a kid. I always have a tendency to overlevel. Oops.
My favorite aspect of scarlet/violet is everyone’s unparalleled love for Larry
"Wugtrio is up next, but it waints to a flower trick as well." LMAO that got me good
Subscribed because you are the first poketuber to pronounce Geeta's name right
This is crazy for a run, awesome vid
Disguise doesn't work in autobattles, so avoiding them made no difference in the fairy base
I really enjoyed the titan storyline the most too! really good video :)
Fun fact: You can no-hit some of the later raids with gholdengo, because they will spam a status move that you are immune to, and they don't get the idea of trying a damaging move for once.
The ralts at 4:57 just casually drowning
This video appears in sort by most popular before videos with less views. If you want to know why. That's because it's gaining views faster than youtube can update 'most popular'. This is a really good video and youtube can't keep up with how fast it's gaining views
5:47 poor ralts
You can actually access the Pokemon League from Mesagoza, from the top left of the city.
For the Nemona battle before entering Mesagoza, her pawmi only knows electric moves so you can use a ground type like wooper
Bro I love tinkaton. It genuinely might be my favorite Pokémon ever now
Hey I just found this channel and wanted to say I love the content you are making, please keep up the awesome work!
Thought it was neat how the captions included some extra text. Arven's story was definitely my favorite, and was indeed very touching.
“A suicide means you’ve killed the most important existence of all: yourself.”
I know it's been 8 months but I thought it'd be good to add in how this actually works for anyone who stumbles into the discussion in the future.
Critical Captures are very much not just visual, as they have their own calculation separate from the catching formula. The chance you have to get a Crit Cap is determined by how many species are registered in your pokedex, capping out at 600 for the highest chance. At 31 species in the dex, you have a multiplier of 0.5. It factors the original catch rate formula (that I will not be putting here since it is absurdly complicated) into that multiplier. The game then generates a number from 0 - 255 every time you throw a ball, and if that number is less than your crit cap modifier, it becomes a Critical Capture. Critical Captures only have to do one shake calculation instead of three/four (depending on which game you're playing).
TLDR: Critical Captures are a rare chance to get a much higher success rate on a catch that is based on how many pokemon are in your pokedex.
Now onto the animation part. Scarlet and Violet exclusively have a quirk with the animation of Critical Captures that make any successful capture of a pokemon already in your dex appear to be a Critical Capture, regardless of whether or not it actually was. For example: a player catches a scatterbug. The decide they don't like the ability it has and go to catch a second one. Despite them not even having enough pokemon in their dex to have a chance of a Critical Capture, the second one they catch looks like one.
There is another (albeit much less common) occurrence within the same quirk, that being the fact that any Critical Capture that ends up failing its singular shake check actually appears to be normal instead of critical.
TLDR: Already owned pokemon will always show a Critical Capture when you successfully catch a new one, regardless of the actual chance of Critical Capture.
Source: Bulbapedia's page on catch rate.
I hope this comment helps to clear up any confusion on the matter! If you want to check out more details about how all of this works, I highly recommend looking through Bulbapedia's page on it all. It's a lot of numbers and math but the main paragraphs make it all concise enough to understand (most of the time).
36:18 REEVAVROOM
It’s revavroom, like revving an engine. REV avroom.
"I named it Jerry." 😂😂
Bro ur knowledge is great, u gained my respect and a sub.
honestly my favorite story in this game is by far the team star storyline, i cant quite articulate why correctly but it just felt... genuine, I guess. i love how as the story goes on you realize these arent bad kids, and clavell realizes this too. and the ending almost made me cry, im not going to lie. plus penny is probably one of my favorites in this game, but i love all 3 of the main allies in this game either way. though the titan storyline is amazing too, the genuine, unadulterated joy arven has every time mabosstiff gets better just hits me in such a specific way. ill be honest that story made me cry too, LMAO
13:06 TFW you got all the Strange endings in VoltWhite 2 and actually had to modify the game to get past the Red Fog of Terror series because Drayano messed about with Sigilyph
That day when flyingfalcons7 started this challenge.
Friends: What did you do at today?
Intense nine hour flasback.
Flyingflacons7: Oh, nothing.
I laughed when you forgot that Staraptor lost its flying type
are we not gonna talk about the ralts that's just drowning in the pond? 4:57
My favorite storyline of the three is easily Starfall Street. The way the story unfolds is both interesting and sad. Spoiler warning even though the games have been out for almost two months; the fact that every main member of Team Star was being bullied was really sad. The fact that Penny convinced them all to join together and stand up to the bullies was great, but then was made even more sad by the fact that the plan failed once everyone started believing that they were the ones in the wrong. Then Penny takes all the blame herself and is sent to Galar for a year and a half as a result, and she does so in order to protect her friends which was really wholesome. And then the ending where Penny and the five Team Star bosses all get to meet up in person and be proper friends is even more wholesome. Overall it's an amazing storyline and easily my favorite in the game. Quite possibly my favorite in the series, even.
2 uploads in 3 months, what a good time to be alive 🙏
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Damn u weren’t kidding when u said “Soon”
"Wugtrio is next, but it Waints as well"
Lol nice pun
Fun fact about the first battle with Nemona: According to Bulbapedia, the game is programmed so that moves never crit during your first battle against nemona. You kept soft resetting for nothing.
“i’ll reset to my last save if i take damage” never have i clicked off a video fast than this before bro didn’t even commit
the GOAT is back
"professional student Clive" 🤣
underrated good youtuber keep it up!
"Most polarizing games in the series", you say? I mean, sure, the technical shortcomings are sparking many a discussion...
...but if I'm being honest, I don't think we're ever going to dethrone the Sword & Shield Dexit debacle in that regard :V
imo Dexit would have been just as controversial in SV (or worse since our feedback wasn't considered) but it was overshadowed by glitches
I apparat you are considerate of those that haven't finished the game yet, and you know there in no need to put out entire runs or late game content in the first week.
My favorite storyline is the team star one, because at the end of it, Penny wants to watch anime. mood
4:57 is there a ralts under the water
When your cat gets hit once and you won’t allow it to happen anymore
33:42 when the screen wasn’t moving for a second I thought it was glitching so I panicked but then I fast forward twice and realised it wasn’t.
Did this happen to anyone else?
Nah I just paused it there to show the amount of damage Tatsugiri was left with at that point, I probably should have just slowed the clip down instead
Titan storyline is my favourite because Mabostiff and I want to help Arven by helping him heal his Mabostiff
Vivillon's pronunciation had me completely baffled. Turns out hard or soft double L could work in French pronunciation. I had always pronounced it vi-vil-lon rather than vi-viy-on
Great vid. The effort and the research you put into each of these vids(no dmg) is amazing. Just a request; is the layout of the vids where you have your 6 pokemons/team somewhere is something I've personally found aesthetically pleasing. If u have the chance to in the future I would love to see that. plz and thank you love your content!!!
I don’t know how intentional it is but your delivery is absolutely hilarious