The Great Parasect Race | Pokemon Yellow Solo Run
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.ค. 2023
- What happens when you pit hundreds of people against each other in a race using only Parasect? Part of it involves a lot of waiting but it's finally here for your viewing pleasure.
If any of that is too complicated or you don't know what I'm talking about, treat it like a regular run with the exception that the Pokedoll Marowak skip will be allowed in this one.
I know the people that point this stuff don't read descriptions but my name is Yellow in the footage due to a ROM building mistake but I use fastest text so character length is irrelevant to the time.
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►I can only use the title Pokemon in battle. No switching at all, HM Pokemon are required.
►No use of items in battle. Potions, TMs, etc. are allowed outside of battle.
►No use of skips/exploits. This includes the Pokedoll Marowak skip. Badge boost is unavoidable.
►The TMs for Double Team and Toxic are banned. Pokemon that learn similar moves naturally are allowed to use it but not the TM.
►I play on x3 speed and use the in-game time for the run along with resets to rank these runs.
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It sounds like the race was pretty brutal mentally, but your skill as both a player and a content creator really benefitted from the experience. Hopefully it'll lead to some well-deserved recognition.
Yea, it was pretty rough because of the time period but really did learn a lot. Like I said in the video, if a few people enjoy it and share that with me, that's all good to me!
I’ve waited for this for so long
You and me both, brother.
Never in my lifetime did this real one expect this video to drop, BROTHER! Glad it did though, it was entertaining as always!
Glad you enjoyed it This was a fun one.
I am so glad you joined this race so I could find your channel. The Real Ones know
Glad to have you here! I've been neck deep in the next race for a redemption arc.
I was rooting for you when I watched Scott's video, and that Alakazam reset at the end was brutal.
You don't even know brother. If you want to know how inconsistent the run was, just know that was the run I had to submit because it was so hard to get a 46xx run.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 5 weeks was prob too long, with a shorter submission window people'd be forced to figure out consistent runs instead of just re-rolling for a good luck-based one.
Yea, some things were a little glossed over but I covered what I needed to here. This one is 3 days so maybe that’ll be the result
I can appreciate how Matt talks about Turn Economy in the video, and, almost like the Game was listening, decided to drive that lesson home with Alakazam like a Final Exam. Absolutely brutal way to teach it, though.
I’m a hands on learner. Hoping to crush the next one!
The gym leader graphics look great, and I appreciate the behind the scene details on the race. 2nd place is no joke!
Yea, as if I needed a reason to hate Alakazam more lmao. I wanted to have the intros and gym leaders match my card based aesthetic I'm going for and I'm glad you mentioned it. I worked a while on it! It's what I've been doing since I haven't actually played Pokemon in a month while I'm letting my backlog catch up.
At least the race came out and didn't get tombstoner'd in the end
I kind of did.
Funny story I thought GLM had a bigger channel than ST. Great work Bub.
Lmao! Far from it. I get a few thousand views and don't ever break into the 10k range often. It's just a passion project!
I found your channel in the recommended section off of one of Scott's videos, and I found him through a Jrose video, and I found Jrose through a Pikasprey video... it's fun seeing all the different techniques, routes, advice, and commentary styles that each of you bring to PokéTube realm.
Awesome! Thank you! Yea, I look up to those guys too. Glad to see the algorithm do a little work every now in then for the little guy.
I just want to say that I actually found you through Scott recommending your content and although I don't comment a lot I do really enjoy your videos :D
I do think that while races and solo runs do often share a lot of the same end goals, the competitive aspects of a race do often push the runner into more inconsistent, but faster strats in order to save time. That's not even really a negative or anything, but I can understand where that's not everyone's cup of tea. I actually personally love it though, and this video along with Scott's was really fun to watch.
I definitely don't mind it either. It's fun to see it all come together. Scott took the high road and spun it positively in the video but behind the scenes a lot of people were questionably looking at the one person who was consistently getting runs while the rest of us had so much grind but it's water under the bridge lol.
Glad we finally got to see the legendary Parasect in action. 32:20 best part
Best part is the Alakazam crit to cost me the race LMAO!
Just finished watching the race. Great job!
Thanks!
Well worth the wait Matt!
Appreciate that.
Talks to chansey
“I’ll leave you with that”
Lmao
Lmao, I've done it too many times to count.
I love all the content! So much fun!
Editing and replaying this was a mix of fun and anxiety.
I'm so happy to finally see this great run seeing the pokemon you were using I'm surprised it did so good I was expecting over 3 hours
Yea it's a pretty dominating run.
IMO, I think this video is one of the best you've ever made. Tombstoner, brother!!!
Yea, new editing style. The next few won't be this polished but in the future they'll get there. I put a little extra time because it was a special run to me because of the race.
Great job my man! Number 1 in our hearts!!
The people's champ.
Well done man, was on the edge of my seat.
The main video? Same. I had to relive some bad memories lol.
Returning real one. Loved to see you place in this race! Parasect is such a cool Pokemon design-wise, and at the end of it all, I'm just happy to see you make a video for him B)
Ha, this is my second one! I also have a Paras one with a Paras stream I did not too long ago. I've done these little guys A LOT lol.
Thanks for sharing this run! It’s awesome to finally see Parasect
Oh yea. It was a crushing loss but I put up a fight and got the adoration of the people.
As always, you did a great job with this run! I'd say you actually did really well in the race as well. As I said in Scott's video, sit back, relax and grab yourself a sodie pop. You earned it, *(TOMBSTONER) BROTHER!*
That’s the support I need haha. Looking to bounce back next time!
This was an awesome watch! Thanks for cranking out the great content man.
Glad you liked it. I'm trying to wrap up some things. Outside of yesterday's Pidgeot stream, I haven't recorded footage in a while. I got some backlogged footage to edit and I'm being lazy lol.
Great video! I've been behind on your channel. Will definitely catch up !!!
Lots to get to. Things get more dated the more you go back. The updated gen 1 playlist or the cross gen playlist is the most up to date.
I was happy to see it finally came out, and it was great to see this too!
Glad you enjoyed. It was a long wait lol. Glad I could share my huge blunder.
I just got done watching Scott's thoughts race video and the last reset with the Alakazam is just heartbreaking
It really was. My video would have at least 10 more views if it hadn't had crit haha. I mean, it is what it is. Like Scott, I didn't have that Ike luck to have 10+ 46xx times and it's the submission I had to go with. It's heartbreaking, but it's memorable. Keeps the winner on their toes because they know they only won because of a some extremely low odds bad luck.
I'm coming back next time for revenge!
I will be rooting for you next time
Fruitlessly working on an effort now!
GLM. I really hope your channel continues to grow because your gen 1 videos are some of the best. Great work
I appreciate that! Glad to hear some kind words.
Holy smokes. You had to run the triple double weakness friend one-thousand times? That's a lot of work. XD
Gotta do what you gotta do.
Bro! I just saw this on Scott’s channel nice job! Super fun to watch.
Oh yea. I had to provide the suspense and let the Alakazam crit me at the end.
Congrats ❤✌🏾✌🏾 you’ve improved a lot bro 😎
Improving all the time!
Happy I found this channel! I'm new here, but this is already my favourite Pokemon channel. Good luck with your next run! I'll be here.
Nice. Appreciate the kind words!
I thought I had missed this race as it is mentioned in Livestreams often... Good to see the run now 😁
Nice. Maybe that Alakazam crit was good luck afterall, LOL.
Way more excited for this than I have any right to be
It was a fun ride!
I recoiled in real life when that crit happened against the champion, You still won in my heart. Great video and great run!
Yea, lots to be learned from that one. The real question is how I bounce back next time.
REAL ONE
ALWAYS
finally the race
and bro your music choices for the "elite four"... more of that pls^^
love your content
Yea, I put a lot of time into the music for this one.
Tombstoner Brother Army! second overall is awesome Matt!
5.86% chance to crit, full restore, speed tie coin flip loss, Alakazam 25% chance to select Psychic, Psychic crits. The odds...
the myth! the legend! excited to see it :)
Hope you enjoyed. I’ve been in lair trying to redeem myself.
that race was amazing and you did amazing.
Yea, it was a pretty good video!
Like I said on Scott's video, unbelievably bad luck a damn foot from the finish line. Still a sick run though - especially your item & turn optimizations. You can really see how much it adds up in time savings if you watch many of your videos - compared to pretty much anyone else.
Thanks! I...had some bad luck in this one too for my submitted footage. It looks like it's going to be really close. Maybe down to the seconds at the top. Will be interesting to see.
Good race Matt!
Parasect is my 3rd favorite bug despite the 3.2 million weaknesses it has
Who's #1? Volcorona?
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 Scizor
Good choice. I’ve ran both for a reason!
I have always enjoyed the bug type in Gen 1 such a struggle but feels rewarding.
Yea, when all of those puzzle pieces come together it feels great.
I found your channel via Scott. Absolutely love your videos. I’m making a point to go back and watch all of your stuff #RealOne
Awesome! Thank you! There's a ton of stuff lol. Anything post Abra 2022 is 'modern' and applies to tier list stuff!
Real one! Another solid run I just watched the race.
The crit heard round the world.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 true understatement!!!
@@stormybrooks1512 Gives me a good redemption arc, that is unless someone has a 3 encounter Mt. Moon again lmao
I have been waiting for this! Amazing man!!
Hope you enjoyed it! I had to relive the tale.
Absolutely! This was well worth the wait!
It was a pretty solid video.
This one is going to be rough! Props for giving this a shot.
It's a lot better than you'd think.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 3 4x weaknesses are scary but you are right except for fire you don't really see the scary moves much. Still a rough early game though.
Love the video!
Thanks! Put a lot of love into this one.
Hi Matt, awesome race awesome material to watch and relax after hard day of working. Tbh i've started watching your materials thx to Scott but love your creation the same. I hope those race videos became most popular/viewed materials on your channels so you all decide to do it more often cause its simply awesome. At least once per year please.
We are in the final stretch of the next submission now! Hopefully it's out in a month or two!
They should have given this thing crabhammer. Great run, looking forward to the backport race
It would still only crit like 45% of the time only and ignore the badge boosts lol.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 not a super serious suggestion but considering they did give a water type absorb you wouldnt think it would be a stretch to give a grass type a water move. I honestly always hated this pokemon as a kid i thought it sucked due to its awful typing and speed... after watching you guys race i will say it has utility but... still dont wanna put this zombie on my team.
I really like your animation on the gym leaders. 👍
Thanks! It’ll be a couple more weeks but they’ll be standard from here on out.
as it turns out, the real pokegods weren't mew or pikablu, they were a group of friends years later.
🤔
Parasect did alot better than I anticipated, superb job. Growth plus Spore is a deadly combo and real one!
It's very deadly. Almost as deadly as critting Sandslash then getting crit by Alakazam to lose the race lol.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 rofl 🤣
Coming back strong next time!
Bro you were so 🔥!
Appreciate that!
you the real one Matt. Great work as usual.
Appreciate that, Tony. You're always a tombstoner in my book.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 you going to participate in the Smeargle race?
I am going to do some runs. If I can find a good route, I'll grind a good bit.
Shoot I remember when you were at low hundreds of subscribers. Glad to see you growing
Got me confused with another channel brother. I had this channel about a decade ago, quit TH-cam with like 9k subs, and revived the dead channel in 2021 to do Pokemon so I've always been at 9k.
Well, honestly I was thinking to myself "somethings different here" while i was watching. I would say it felt nice and I'm looking forward to the video where you explain the new cards.
When it get to 50 or a little over I'll do an actual video but in the Oddish video that's like 2/3 weeks out there will be an unlisted video for math peeps.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 sweet, I'm looking forward to it!
Me too!
I really liked the Cynthia music for the Jr. Trainer with the Goldeen! Real One!
It's highly recommended to watch Scott's Thoughts video on the race. It's long but you can skip an hourish when he's done with his run to talk about the competitors.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 I saw his video before watching yours so I was sort of spoiled.
The Smeargle one will be the same!
Well done, Matt! Definitely a real one.
I appreciate that! The real ones are the best ones.
honestly i have always really liked parasect but have never had a game recently to play with one... the hunt is on!!
I’m sure you can find one. Weird Pokémon to use but when mastered it delivers a very dominant run.
Wow the fabled race vid dropped !
Indeed it did. Hope it does well! A years worth of waiting and a lot of work in this one! Appreciate that!
You did so well! Really tough last battle but great to hear your thoughts about the run and the race overall. I know you're going to great things with smeargle too and hope you get a lot of extra views after all your hard work! The new major battle entry cutscenes is real nice 👍
Really glad you like them. I’ve been slacking on content because I’m prepping up something special for the Smeargle run. One day left!
Real one. PUMPED to have finally see this video. Hell yes, great run with the fungus.
Yea, it was a pretty high tier run for what it was. Yellow brought out the best in it.
Awesome run time dude!!
Thanks!
omg, just seen scott's one, looking forward to the refined versions you're known for
I can appreciate that. His was like a movie, lmao. Longer than some movies even.
It's almost a bittersweet feeling seeing this happen. I'm happy it's here but also sad that I can't wait for it anymore 😂
There will be another one soon enough! Smeargle in Yellow!
The final moveset was pretty cool! The fact that you had to use Growth over Swords Dance was especially neat.
Yea the 3 extra badge boosts were essential.
this was a good watch ^-^
Thanks! I tried to spin a tale.
That unlucky crit on Sandslash screwed you, btw gj on your race. Tombstoner brother
There's a 95% chance you don't crit! Guess who's lucky enough to crit right there in that moment? Me lmao.
Eevee is one of my favorite Pokémon not because it’s a cute little creature but because it’s an absolute beast that carried me through the entirety of johto with iron tail
Gotta evolve that one for sure. Espeon and Umbreon are both solid team members.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 I tried to get espeon I spent like 20 minutes at the hair salon but I simply didn’t have enough friendship it only evolved when I reached the elite 4 (I got carried by jynx and ho-oh their)
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 I also had a level 30 far fetch’d that I bought to the elite 4 as emotional support I was genuinely shocked when he took down the spinirak evolved form while being 20 levels less
PP is a tombstoner! Now if he didnt crash on take off... Get hom a tombstone
Crashed on the landing lol.
The razzle dazzle is good. The real ones get it. Keep it up
The razzle dazzle has never let anyone down!
Everyone needs to do their own rules set and style. Thats what makes all channels unique. You were the peoples champion on the Parasect race so tombstoner brother. For me the crit luck at the end was painfull.
Yea, it's sad that the run was so inconsistent I couldn't get close to the time even with the messups.
13:15 No shame in Stun Spore here as a safety strat for a hard encounter! 😊
If it hits, it automatically recovers a turn, since it causes you to outspeed. Since Goldeen generally gets at least five turns unless you crit (one before paralysis + four after), it’s 68% likely to miss one or more turns to full paralysis.
25% lose a turn (miss)
24% turn-neutral
51% gain one turn (or more)
In terms of minimizing resets here, the math checks out! 👍
Tell that to the Alakazam crit, haha.
That was a really nice run outside of the resets in the early game and hopefully it'll get more people to subscribe. Scott's video had an unfortunate lack of guard spec by Silph Co
Your edit style is really cool, adds a nice new dimension to your videos. I'd add they're supplementary to the main content so don't bother if it's taking too much time
Thanks. Yea, no guard specs today sadly. When you say don't bother, you mean just don't put in the effort if it takes a little time? That part is a little confusing, haha.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 I think Kanbei prefers your edit style overall, don't worry about the final time and keep those cool intros.
FINALLY! Buggin out, brother!
I really was at the end lol.
It's been 10,000 years!
It has been quite a while.
Congratulations 🎉
Ha, 2nd place trophy!
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 Yeah. You got robbed by the Alakazam.
Gotta take the lumps and learn for the next one.
OH MY GOSH it's finally here 💪
Okay I usually wait until I'm done with the video before I comment but I was way too excited today lol so I'm here to add that I would LOVE to see a podcast with you and Scott and any other runners discussing the thought process behind the run. I loved the stream you did with Scott because it was really interesting to listen to the both of you discuss the strategies you use and the logic behind them, and really get into the minutia of all of the little decisions that go into a run that tend not to make it into a scripted video
I'm always down to talk about a little Pokemon. You really don't get to see that stuff a lot. Most of burnout/time off over the last few weeks has just been from how disconnected and futile it can all feel but I'm grinding out the next race this weekend. Maybe it'll be as good!
ALL PRAISE TO OUR LORD PARASECT👓
A solid run at the end of the day!
Along time coming finally the random encounter has appeared
Watch Scott’s video if you haven’t. The most dramatic and crushing defeat ever.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 i just saw he posted and came to your channel been waiting along time
We all were! Hopefully not as long next time
Now this is Pod Racing
Just call me Watto.
At long last! The race!
Took quite a while!
Your production level of content is equivalent to channel with far more subscribers. I'm always shocked you don't have more.
Also this is the first time in my life I notice the rival ditches his spearow.
This one was more edited than most but it's a style I've been working on and hopefully all videos will be up to this level. I'm really glad you noticed. That's cool! Glad it's worth the work.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 I don't really watch too much TV Pokemon is my favorite form of content and I love the puzzle and challenge of solo runs. I don't like Nuzlocks, I've recently gotten more into VGC and POGO VGC but that's different and a lot of times like conventional speedruns only feature a few key Pokemon. With soloruns there's a chance for every pokemon to get their flowers. And your videos, style, Cadence, music animation etc are perfect for me. You and guys like Scott are basically my favorite tv show.
Bro you 🔥!
Nice. Once upon a time I was going to spin off into PoGo PvP. I've reached legend a few times but recent game changes and the remote nerf means I really don't play as much. I'm glad you like it and that means a lot. I'm like you, I watch a lot of TH-cam long content but for my mental health I've been trying to do some other things.
Thanks!
Wow! Appreciate that brother. Much appreciate.
The race was great 👍🏾 😊
Yea very close and entertaining
Hell yeah brother
Hell yea.
Hell yeah! Tombstoner brother.
The biggest tombstoner yet.
tomb stoner XD still make me laugh :) keep it up Matt
Once a tombstoner, always a tombstoner.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 main part i watch threw the vids for is that line hah and yes sit and watch :) keep it up
Real one, hearing an accent is worth it ngl
Thanks. Glad you like it lol.
This seemed like it was a slog glad for your sake its over with.
5 weeks is too long for any race lol.
An underrated pokemon imo
Maybe not anymore.
Here's the interesting part about GYM LEADER MATT out of 2,000 submissions to scott HE WAS THE ONLY ONE to attempt the early game corner into 2 Erika trainers n decided to go with the extra rare candies instead of optionals
Matt had arguably the strangest route and you had to get 15 places down the leader board to obtain another nonmeta route
ONLY gym leader matt comes up with these radical good routes
I was definitely tweaking a lot. Most of the routes were extremely similar. Hell, the winner just took Vanman's route.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987the thing that impressed me about YOU was it was A UNIQUE STRONG ROUTE
Nobody did that and EVERYONE EXCEPT YOU shared information
Scott ironically through SHEER DUMB LUCK did your midgame route but YOU were doing wild xp n Nobody else did n you had THE FASTEST SILPH to blaine by a minute jumping you from a close 6 to 8th to FIRST so you keeping the route SECRET DID WORK and I felt you HAD THE WINNING ROUTE although much riskier
They all did instant koga or a third silph into koga which was actually slower
The goal was to make anything post rival 2 consistent and it was until I chopped some things out at the end to save like 30 or 40 seconds but it just wasn’t in the cards for me.
Little tip. When using speed control, like stun spore, while you are slower, it's almost free, cause you get the turn back by out speeding. Similar for double Stat boosts like sword dance. One double Stat boosts doubles the damage you do, so it's the same as attacking when you'd need to multi hit ko in the first place. Same applies to defensive statboosts.
I always see a lot of solo runners ignoring this concept instead of abusing it.
Ha, some people are just dumb I guess. I talk about it in some videos but I bring up turn economy and what not here. Total turns in battle is important and with the speed badge boost, you can get a free turn as well if you only underspeed by 12.5% or less.
32:25 for all that celebrate!
Man, what a race. Not gonna lie i stopped watching Scotts video, about 20 mins in to hope you won, before he announced anything started watching yours and was like damn... I hate the luck based bs, but it is gen 1, hence the only reason Weedle could technically win the game. Anyways about the time saves comment all of those would add up to at least 5 seconds per encounter, which would technically add up to a minute, which makes or breaks a lot of times. Besides that been loving the Alolan summer. Stoked for Marowak this week. Keep up the good work brother! Excited for the surprise stream as well. Stay Real one, or just keep kicking ass.
Appreciate that! I was going to stream the new race but it turned out to be Smeargle and after setting up, it's not a very time friendly blind run lmao. I decided against it.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 as much fun as that would be, save your sanity for another day. I bet another good run would be Dragonair, with no flying weakness hindering it, I wonder if it could stand the test. But if you did a gen 2 stream, do Miltank, that boy is surprisingly beefy. Used one in a random casual playthrough recently and ended up being very good. Still waiting on that Nidoqueen though, imo one of the best Pokemon in Gen 1. Or just throw caution to the wind and do a Gyarados stream lmao 😂
I’m not sure what the future holds. I got about 3 ish more videos done and I’m practicing the next race now so it’ll be up in the air.
Oh Lord, just finished the Scott's Thoughts video I see now why you said Smeargle... Fuck that is all I have to say as a player, for me grab a couple of very hard Sodie Pops, and probably, some whiskey. Good luck brother you should have won that.
@@ryanbenedetti-kp2yx The crit king lol. Yea, Smeargle is honestly weird. It's been really fun planning it. I'm in the 'run' stage now with a planned route so we'll see.
My tomb is fully stoner’d for this
Hope you brought one extra.
Real ones always do
He’s a real man’s man 😅😅
Doing what needs to be done.
Awesome job...what was the consistent run time? 45min is pretty sick
Like 47 minutes. This one wasn't the recommended type of route. Everyone suffered but only the winner magically could get consistent 46 times every day it felt like.
Tombstoner, Brother.
Real one, Brother
Appreciate that, brother. Hopefully my second place finish was valiant enough.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 It was.
When you hear that bell, you know the undertaker has sat up just like I’m going to do the next race
Oh lord...Bless Matt's heart lol
Yea pretty heartbreaking lol.
I recently had my Parasect at level 95 full maxed out and I setup Sword Dance on Pidgeot who couldn't do squat because I used Guard Spec prior and with the badge boost glitch and Sword Dance I wiped out the Rival/Champion in mere moments. My move list is Leech Life, Mega Drain, Swords Dance, & Slash. Parsect in gen 1 was a absolute monster and not much could stop it once its over leveled
Ha, I think everything outside of like Ditto or Weedle are unstoppable in their 90s. Quick note on the learset is that Slash crits just ignore the Swords Dance so they are kind of clashing hard in that learnset.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 Parsect is slow so crits are rare I never heard of Slash getting mucked with Swords Dance but gen 1 is bug central so anything is possible