Can Aerodactyl get the redemption arc it deserves?
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- Playthrough Rules:
1. Only my starter in battle
2. No items in battle (except held items)
3. No glitches or exploits*
4. No Double-Team TM before level 100*
Other rules:
-- My Pokemon have perfect genetics to ensure fair comparison between species.
-- *Pokeballs & Pokedolls are allowed in battle
-- *The badge-boost glitch is not restricted at all
-- *Skipping the Rocket Hideout & Marowak is allowed
-- I play the game at 4x game speed (238 frames per second)
-- My Pokemon has perfect DVs
-- The bike is allowed
-- Skipping the bike is not allowed
-- Saving between league members is allowed
-- If the solo Pokemon faints and I choose to blackout it counts towards my reset counter
-- I can pause the game & timer to take breaks
-- The footage is sped up / slowed down to match the pace of my narration
*Double-Team:
-- Almost every Pokemon can learn Double-Team through TM
-- The TM can be purchased in Celadon
-- Using it would centralize the meta
-- Every Pokemon would use it to overcome tough battles at lower levels
-- It raises evasion
-- It triggers the badge boost
-- Banning the TM allows Pokemon who learn it through level up to use it
-- I believe evasion is part of Pokemon and shouldn't be banned entirely
-- I don't want the videos to all be double-team spam though, that's not fun or entertaining
Terms:
-- STAB
-- Same-Type-Attack-Bonus - a 1.5x damage multiplier
-- Stat Experience
-- The Gen1&2 equivalent of effort values. You can invest in all stats until they max
out at 65535
-- DVs or Determinate Values
-- The Gen1&2 equivalent of IVs (individual values), these range from 0-15
Resources:
-- Gen 1 Stat Calculator: pycosites.com/...
-- All Trainer Pokemon have IVs (DVs) of 89888 (hp, atk, def, spd, spc)
-- All Trainer Pokemon have EVs of 0
-- Gen 1 Crit Rates: www.smogon.com...
-- Crit rate is determined by dividing base speed by 512
-- High crit rate moves determine their rate by dividing base speed by 64
-- All crits have a 1/256 to fail, even if the rate is 100%
-- Crits don't multiple damage by 2, it's a formula based on level
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Error alert: I entered Aerodactyl's time wrong in the leaderboard at the end. So it slower than Ampharos by a larger margin. Will correct this for the next gen2 video!
For this run, Scott chose the Old Amber. He knew if he didn't state that y'all would ask. Actually now that I think of it -- everyone ask anyway; comments are good for the TH-cam algorithm
Thats a reference from mahdrybead
Ahh I see you are cultured as well
@@DvonDowell Yes i am cultured not like other people
I just hope bread is okay. He's a great poketuber and guy in general
@@f.d8059 its been Weeks without a Video from mdb
I really miss his content
Regarding the duplication glitch, I remember duplicating a dozen Togepi and releasing them into the wild, thinking I was some sort of Pokémon conservationist
That was one of the excuses for why I was duplicating master balls, yes.
The spooky story from the guy in Celadon plays on the name of Curse itself: In Japanese, the words for “curse” and “slow” sound the same (のろい “noroi”), so ghost-types use the “curse” meaning and all others use the “slow” meaning. They couldn’t translate the pun into English obviously, so the humor of the story of a kid thinking their bike was *slowing* because it was *cursed* kinda got lost.
Don’t worry, Scott. You gave my life an omni-boost with this video.
That’s what really matters!
"...you need 99 ultra balls, 99 great balls, 99 pokeballs..." And that's why I'm here. Scott gets it.
Aerodactyl was trying so hard the second run to get a better time with all those critical hits. He understood the assignment.
I LOVED listening to your anecdotes. I also thought it's hilarious how you didn't get a single omniboost (10%) the entire playthrough, but in the last fight you got a crit twice (6.25% each).
8 Resets is also pretty good. Imagine getting beat up by sudowoodo though hahaha
Let's not forget how sick the back sprite looks for aero!
The only pokemon where they were like well let's just show his head and not his whole body for some reason
Love the nostalgic stories. I got yellow at the same age as a reward for going through one of those painful allergy tests where they stick you with a bunch of needles. I got gold and silver for Christmas the following year
Haha I had to get that test as well and it confirmed I was literally allergic to everything. I had to get my test because after camping one time my face was fully swollen and so bad I couldn't see out of 1 eye it was usually bad but not like that. Then I had to get allergy shots for a while until my parents got tired of taking me. In case you are wondering I got this test for my daughter done and now they just test the blood instead of testing it on you so it's much better these days.
Already had Yellow, but got that "Pokémon Pikachu" LCD toy (early) after a long night as a young, constipated child. My dad exhibited hella patience and grace through that whole ordeal.
As a kid, I thought Aerodactyl was like this alternate version of Charizard. I appreciated it more in the Kanto games since it was the cool Hidden Flyer outside of the Normal Birds. Cool to see it do a lot better here than in Kanto.
I still believe that Aerodactyl is Charizard's ancestor
They both have two little horns at the back of the skull, bat wings, long neck/big head/big mouth, they are around the same size, too.
That's a lot in common
One fossilized and became rock, the other kept evolving and became fire
@@ryomaanime4563 Except Aerodactyl is a Pterosaur and Charizard is a lizard. They gap between them is too far in the evolutionary tree for them to be directly related. If anything, I'd say this is a case of covergent evolution, where two completely separate species evolve similiar traits due to their similiar environment.
Because of being such a hidden Flyer, via influence from Adventures/Special, I imagine it being Red's main Flyer in game canon.
@@MonkeBrain07 I can't think about anything to say, you are scientifically correct.
The only (petty) thing i have is : it's pokemon, over millions years or evolution, the gap isn't that far
@@ryomaanime4563 Ouch. That's petty (just like you acknowledged yourself), but yeah, we can't exactly compare Pokémon to real life fauna. I'm mostly following real life biology as the basis because there are some similiarities, but some examples like Magnemite, Porygon, and whatever the fuck Grimer is supposed to be don't follow the Darwinian model of evolution. At least not in a natural way.
I think the most nostalgic parts of these videos and your stories is hearing how you learned and heard things at school. I think SO MANY of us relate that immensely. And it brings me such pure joy that we all sort of went through this shared experience together. Pokémon truly brings people together in so many more ways that you would initially think. It’s pretty beautiful if you ask me.
Until that story about him not being taught to read
Underrated comment ✨🙏🙌✨
I was the only one playing pokemon and got bullied enough to where I stopped bringing my game boy to school.
You're not the only one who played video games before they could read! Though I'll be showing my age here, I learned to read a LITTLE through playing Dragon Warrior for the NES. My dad had to tell me what weird symbol blobs meant heal, so that may have ended up being one of my first words I could read. I also started learning math without realizing it as I saw damage numbers. I also remember i liked magic damaging spells, so I think I started learning those too. At least, it logically would make sense as I don't see why I'd have wizards in my party if I didn't know how to use their spells.
I don't think you're getting unlucky on Omniboosts, I've never seen it activate on a hit that knocks out a Pokemon in Gen 2, Stadium 2 included.
I’ll have to test that
Scott! I would absolutely LOVE and APPRECIATE a video by you clearly and in simple form, all the glitches and oddities of Yellow/ Gen 1. Like, part of it explains the badge boost glitch in a way as of no one ever heard of it and is unfamiliar with game mechanics, so it’s simple to understand. Or like the Bide attack being affected by status conditions. Or other things you have encountered or shown in your various videos. It would be really enjoyable and useful to have them all to reference in one video. The way you explain things is super engaging so I thought it would be a cool addition to your page that people can have for their own reference and enjoyment too.
Hearing about your difficulties learning to read and writes helps me feel better
Remember kids: Omniboost are the friends met along the way.
Maybe it's not a full fledged redemption, but it's a MASSIVE improvement for sure... Having a Rock type STAB in the repertoire was definitely a game changer.
all these years later... i still feel mad about that CHEATER that has Rock Slide....
@@TheAuron32 What makes me made about it is that Gamefreak KNEW he deserved and needed it
But for some reason, no.
I think Wing Attack being 60BP is also such a massive improvement
I really like that you do second playthroughs nowadays because while it’s fun to see a final battle win happen because of an onslaught of critical hits, it’s also satisfying to see it optimized with a pretty consistent strategy.
Yesterday, during your Gastly stream you and Matt were talking about the Ditto runs that Matt and Jrose have done. If you decide to do one, I recommend you watch Jrose's video first. He found a very helpful glitch.
When transformed, if you level up mid fight, you'll get Ditto's stats back. That could be helpful should you go up against someone who uses a bad Pokemon to start with. The won't help with trainers like Surge, since he only has one Pokemon in Yellow. I don't know how helpful that will be in the endgame, but in the early and mid game, it should be pretty handy.
I have no idea if the glitch works in gen 2 and beyond though. As far as I know, it's only a gen 1 thing
I just looked at your T-shirt and realized it was Venomoth, the 4th Fire Fighting starter Pokémon!
Yup! It is :)
I had that handbook too!
I LOVE THE STORIES.
I am pretty sure we had the same stuckpoint. Also too forever to figure out the slowpoke well.
I think you could have avoided a reset versus Lance in the second playthrough if you use the hard Stone because the extra 10% damage would have made both those ancient Powers one shots and then you don't have to worry about getting paralyzed at all
I didn't have cable TV as a child either, but the Pokemon anime was on the Saturday morning cartoons on The WB (the channel was later renamed The CW). I still have fond memories of watching Pinky and the Brain and Animaniacs waiting for the episode of Pokemon to start.
I never knew Sudowoodo hopped away when you flee! Thanks for the heads-up!
EDIT: I would love to see an edited Girafarig and Stantler video! Live streams and VODs aren't my thing.
What have I learned today?
Scott was a very silly child. Adorably so.
I'm just going to guess that the answer is "no." Despite its great stats, Aerodactyl is just too hamstrung in gen 1/2 by the lack of good STAB moves for its rock half existing, and by its terrible move list which keeps it from learning any good flying moves. I mean the best STAB it gets is a pair of 60 base power moves, one of which has only 5 PP. I think you'd have to wait until at least gen 3, maybe gen 4 for it to be great since by then there's actually some good moves to back up its stats and you get the physical/special split.
I mean pp ups and ethers/elixers exist for a reason. You can take that 5 and turn it into 6 or 7. Now thats somewhat decent pp, still not great.
Also hidden power having a chance for physical coverage is nice. Heck tbh aero with flamethrower solos koga and is good vs lance and bruno. Sure youd have to do menuing to restore pp, but really ancient power has a 10% chance to just gg whatever fight youre in. An omni boost and aeros base stats make up for low damaging moves.
Since we are sharing stories of our early experiences with pokemon. Christmas of 1996, just got pokemon blue. Never have I played an RPG before. It took me 4 months and a friend to show me how to LEAVE YOUR HOUSE! I figured out the stairs to go between the floors, but since the door was at the front of the building, I never thought to walk into the wall. Then, I finally left the house. I talked to the pokemart guy who gives you a free potion. I had never heard of that word, so to me, it was a pot-on. Later on, I caught a ratata. I told my dad what it was and that I wanted help with a nickname. To this day, I name my first ratata in a playthrough "Tar" because, as my Dad said, "Tar is rat backwards".
I think my first 3 hours of Pokemon Red were spent trying to get out of my house at the start. I asked my family and none of them had any clue. Eventually I over came this incredible obstacle.
No boost is rough my guy, great video!
Gen II art was pinnacle. Really appreciate your play throughs of Johto.
aerodactyl was finally getting it's redemption in this gen. 😁👏👏That ryn was super well played, but you haven't got the omni boost😂.
I really like to listen to your stories from childhood, about pokemon. I remember that as a kid ice path's ice puzzle was so hard for me to solve, it took me a week to get it right... So I grinded my pokemon to level 40 so that I can keep playing the game. 😂
And pokemon yellow was my first pokemon game, I was 4 when I was playing that, and I didn't know how to English or my native language yet, but my siblings helped me with that, because I've borrowed the game from them. 😊Then when my brother got pokemon gold we all played in his save file, and I helped him complete the pokedex as much as we could back then. At about when I was 6 i think my parents got us a copy of pokemon crystal, but it couldn't save our games and it was in German for some reason. So we had to return it And I was so sad, because really wanted to complete that game so bad. So after a while when I was 12 or 13, and I have completed pokemon crystal, and started to hate the rocket plot line after completing the game multiple times, and I still do to this day. 😅
So thanks for reminding me these wonderful childhood memories. Maybe because of these things I like pokemon to this day. 😁
I had a great time, so thanks for making these videos. ☺️
Me: *trains up clefairy in the solo challenge*
Scott: "she leads with clefairy"
Yep. I feel called out.
Hello Scott and Denis!
I'll have to watch this tomorrow with the Gastly video, but my guess is that the answer is yes, Aerodactyl will redeem itself!
Hearing playground rumors about pokemon and then getting home to trying to see if it was legit was one of the best things of my childhood years
Honestly i had the same experience as scott since i was defeated pretty bad in yellow due to not having my starters because of not understanding the box system i really lacked a good team for the elite 4 and after many attempts i stopped because the champion battle seemed unbeatable and then i got gold and finished that one with ease i remember i also felt disappointed because of the lack of difficulty then returning to play yellows league after i had crystal and then finding my boxed pokemons trading them over to gold.
After that i decided to do re runs of. Yellow and gold and trade over all the pokemons i collected from de gen 1 gamesto my crystal file and from there on proceeded to the battle tower and that for ever changed the way i viewed pokemon game because at the battle tower i finally understood what the game was about and i could finally read enough english to understand and i remember taking a real liking to the turn based strategie aspect of the game
The art on the thumbnail makes me happy, that's a happy Aerodactyl just by it's facial expression!
Edit: i got lost in Kanto as a kid, i never faced Red. I have memories of playing on my pink Nds lite as a kid with Soul Silver which is my first mainline pokemon game. (My first pokemon game in general is explorers of darkness, glad i grew up with it!) U had to find Blane so i can finally defeat Blue after but i couldn't for the life of me find him as he isn't on the now-ruined Cinnabar and i couldn't reach Cinnabar anyway.
I caught my first shiny in gold, a heracross from headbutting trees outside Littleroot Town. I had never seen heracross before and I don't recall it being used in any trainer fights, so I had no idea it was the "wrong" color or why it had those star when I sent it out into battle.
We were well into Gen 4 by the time I realized what it was XD
That’s an awesome shiny to find! True regarding not seeing it in any trainer battles. Another Pokémon that gamefreak hid away from the player.
@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon Gen 2 does make some baffling choices, relegating so many new pokemon to Kanto or Mt. Silver. Heracross definitely should have been Bugsy's ace instead of Scyther
Getting lost in silph in gen 1 was the worst growing up. It took me forever to accidentally walk down after coming out the warp point near the arbok trainer 😅 so frustrating
Your stories remind me so much of my childhood 😅
Oh dang, you were only 7 in 1999 haha. I was 12 when Red/ Blue came to North America so I never really got to experience Pokemon as a little, little kid. Also, I like to think that people my age are probably the oldest fans of the game. I know that if I had been in junior high when they came out, I would have been "too cool" for Pokemon. I'm glad that I didn't miss out haha.
I was an early reader so I didn't ask for help a lot and my parents usually bought me the strategy guides. I had few, if any, situations where I would get lost. However, I do remember getting absolutely annihilated by the Elite 4 in Yellow and had the overwhelming feeling of "this game is easy as heck" for the second gen.
I also learned about new versions from friends at church or school. When I heard ruby and Sapphire I thought those were dumb and he was making it up.
I also thought people were making it up when I first heard about ruby/sapphire.
Honestly you learning how to read so late doesn’t surprise me, I live in Brazil so that’s a history that i see a lot of
Bro, i remember when my mom bought me Pokémon Silver for Christmas i was so excited, only for me to see my younger sister get Pokémon Crystal that same Christmas. I was so upset when i found out the games were so different and ended up playing my sister’s crystal more than my silver after getting all 16 badges and beating Red.
I hated the ice puzzle as a kid. Very frustrating. I remember being stuck for a while. Just had to walk away from it and clear my head for a while.
My first shiny was a Tangela on Mt. Silver, but the box was full! I would not find a single shiny until Basculin about 10 years later. After that I started finding a bunch of shinies for a while, then it stopped.
Omg that is so sad :(
I was very fortunate in that both my brother and I liked Pokemon when we were younger, but I LOVED Pokemon. So we always got one of red/blue, then I got Yellow because my mum knew how much I loved Pokemon. I then got Silver, my brother got Gold. I then got Crystal. After that I just got all the games myself because my mum could tell how obsessed I was with the games! I still have them all today 😄
Omniboost is bugged in gen 2, Ancient Power only gives a chance for Omniboost if the opponent is still alive.
Ah yes, the genlocke no-brainer. It's an absolute MUST on any team that I bring over to Johto in a nuzlocke variant where I'm only allowed to use the 6 pokemon I bring over. It slices through the early game and its late game is pretty great but MAN that rock weakness to Milkout is annoying. Still, I think this one will be amazing, there's so much to slice and dice in the early game to let it fly through the end. Let's see if I'm correct!
The fight with Red I was screaming at the screen for you to use protect. Sandstorm damage and protect would have worked so good to get Blastoise. Great videos nonetheless!!
Hell, I don’t think Rest was even needed, and he could’ve used Leftovers to make up for that.
I was lost for 2 years of never managing to enter Kanto in my Silver game, cause I never knew where the waterfall TM is.
Bro I Really felt every aspect of that nostalgia trip. The moving Sprites still hype me up to thia day. Thats also the reason i wasnt into Gen 3 since the Sprites didnt move
I was SOOOO disappointed when the gen3 sprites didn't move
I caught a shiny Magikarp and by the time I could tell anyone, it was a Gyarados and no one believed me. In the same playthrough I got a pink Nidorina and that one was considered 'legit'.
You getting stuck in azalea reminds me of how I got stuck in ecruteak lol. I thought the black floor in morty's gym had to be unlocked by progressing the story 😂😂
I always thought Gen 2 had such calming music, with the national park and surf themes being especially notable. Pokemon in general has great energetic music, but those calming tones really let you space out and reminisce.
Oh man nostalgia about the old days huh?
Mind if I share my own?
Back in Gen2 I never owned my own copy but instead i'd be borrowing my friend's games!
The kicker? They weren't in english and it was one of those pirated rom games!
I was never able to track down a copy in english and all I kept finding were those fake versions! But I was able to memorize the game thanks to this! So when my friends needed help they'd go to me!
I feel that Raikou story, though, not only was there a reading barrier for me, but a language barrier as well.
Didn't help that the anime at the time aslo decided to localize move names, so there went that option to learn, unless spellings were more or less shared.
Least to say, got better at memorizing what I did to get the game to progress instead of learning English.
Never really cought more and replaced Pokémon on the team, because I played Yellow and Silver, just tried to match Ash's team as closely as I could, though I did evolve the Pokémon. Less chances to relase Pokémon if I didn't have an interest in using them. Still stuck in that, only use the first 6 cought mentalitu, and when I tried to, switch Pokémon out, I burnt myself out by capturing pne of everything I didn't already have, and didn't continue on untill ALL of them reached the same level as the next gymleader before challenging them...
Worst idea that I evet got. Just grinding, upon grinding, upon grinding.
Ended with me clearing each reginal Kalos Dex before picking up the next, did get back and forth trade help from friends for the registration of the legendaries,(thank you the want of clearing the Battle Chatue before progressing, to speed up training.) So, full team of 6 level 100 before ever reaching the 2nd gym.
Least to say, I am going back to just the 6 first catches...
I think that I might have gone off topic here...
It’s okay Scott. I couldn’t figure out how to get the item behind the fence where the bug catching tournament happens. That one small space you can walk through was so stupid.
Dear Scott; Dont be down that you haven't found a 'legit' shiny thoughout the years. You could be me: _Who's only shiny was a Special Attack Ratatta in HG/SS_
I got lost in Pokémon gold because I didn’t realize that you could push the boulders down the holes in the ice path. Played for about a month doing random stuff before I figured it out. I played in 2009 when the game was older so I couldn’t ask for help from friends
1:26 so Aerodactyl as ADHD too? Nice!
In my silver game i found a shiny Ratata, which i was too scared to evolve because i assumed the colour would disappear.
On my gold version i found a green zubat, which again i locked away afraid to use.
I remember playing Gold/Silver fan-made translation before the official one was released. It was painful as a lot of the text were corrupted.
I think double-kick got translate-corrupted into "Wu Shu" which is kinda of funny.
Fast-forward to today and now I play Japanese games in their original language.
Oh also, since you happened to get rid of Curse this time, I had an interesting idea for how it could have been used better.
Basically, it doesn't apply on turns when you get the knockout, but switching no longer cures it, and it does damage to whatever Pokemon is/are out until one of them faints, or the battle ends. This way it feels a lot more daunting, like a curse should. That, or it just does 1/16th damage to your entire party if you don't get a knockout.
Still hoping to see a giga-chad Smeargle with things like Aeroblast and Sacred Fire obtained from link battles as early as possible.
Not as giga-chad as it sounds. Now one with all those stat boosting giga-chad moves are where its at
"Of course now, it's very easy" he says, as he struggles to get out of the HM07 ice puzzle.
Man I remember finding a shiny wild donphan as a kid. Unfortunately it rollouted my entire team of legendary birds when I tried over 50 ultra balls and failed to catch it.
I told my brother about it and he called me a liar, and that only Gyarados could be red (shiny donphan in silver was red so I called it a red donphan). It wasn’t until he fished up a shiny poliwag about 2 months later that he did eventually believe my story. Ah the days of heresay and rumours.
Just wanted to say thank you for uploading all your content. It has helped me immensely during my chemotherapy, pstd and depression this past year. I have been having a very hard time getting my life back together is all aspects . However the day is done I can relax with my cat and watch a episode of your content. Thank you again
I’m not sure what to say, but thank you so much for commenting. I’m so happy that I’ve helped you by making this content. Sending good thoughts and vibes your way!
@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon thank you! 😊
Rock doesn't resist rock because you can use a rock to break/sharp another rock, that's what the proto-humans did :)
I love watching these videos while I work nightshifts alone at the laboratory. I usually save the videos for these occasions. I work nightshifts a whole week now so your Halloween uploads is like hitting the jackpot! Thank you!
You’re welcome! Happy to get you through the night shifts!
The ice cave ice puzzle was a bit tricky but the obstacle that was messing me up so badly was the Ragecandybar guy just before that part. ughhhhhhhhhh mooooove I bought your stupid candies and you ran out of stock just moooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove!!!!1!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is it possible that ancient power's omniboost doesn't have a change trigger if it's used on a turn where the opposing pokemon is knocked out? I haven't used it in GSC much so I might be way of base, but it wouldn't surprise me given how buggy some interactions are in gens 1 & 2.
Insane how it didnt throw you a single omniboost. You even got a couple crits with ancientpower even though thats more rare
Hi Birdkeeper Denis! I hope the weather is nice in the lighthouse today
I recall being a kid and getting so stuck on Karen that I just reset my game to create a new team. Seems a bit rash but in my mind it was my only viable option. When I got older and learned about Ivs and Evs/ stat experience I never got stuck on her again. I also started carrying a fighting type move for that pesky umbreon and houndoom. The nostalgia this game brings is immense.
I’ve never seen that Sudowoodo animation!
I really like your personal stories about playing Pokémon when you were younger. :)
They remind me of my own experience I had with Gen 1 and 2. Especially your story about not being able to read ...
For example: I remember playing Pokémon Yellow when I was 10 years old and since I'm from Germany, I had ... well, a german copy, of course. But there was the trainer class called "Teenager" and since it's an english word I never heard before, I always read "Tee-Nager", which means something like "tea gnawer" or "tea rodent" in German. I imagined that these trainers liked to gnaw on their tea cups, which didn't make sense, but I didn't know better and just took it as a fact... xD
Anyway, thanks for redeeming Aerodactyl! I love that aggressive looking Rock Bird!
Your videos are lot of fun!
Between its stats, movepool, and typing, it should do very well.
Jasmine will be an issue, so will clair, i don't expect many problems against the elite 4 tbh, should sweep.
27:08 the #1 getting lost for me was the Magma Hideout in Emerald. You arrive in Lilicove, try to go east, nope. So you find the aqua hideout... but the grunts are blocking the stairs. How was I expected to remember that single Magma grunt half of the game ago on the other side of the map that was standing near a wall? That section has a lot of potential to get lost too, I still sometimes forget that you also have to go to Mount Pyre and the order you're supposed to do these 3.
There's a couple of spots like that in Hoenn when you have to backtrack without a good hint where, but that Lilycove debacle is the only one that kept annoying me even in the later playthroughs when I was a teen and could read some English.
i can definitely relate to getting lost in pokemon games. that ice path is pretty tricky. i also hate that you can’t dig out of sabrina’s gym in gen 2. it took me ages to find my way out
About Ice Path, I had the same issue for a long time. I ended up having some kid at church do it for me and I was so thankful. Today, I don't have any problems with these kinds of puzzles. The Myst series taught me how to see patterns and think several steps ahead. Thanks to my dad for having me play those.
Also if no one has said it yet, Hitmontop didn't use Dig because Aerodactyl is immune to it.
I was the kid that you went to to get through Ice Path. I think because I played a ton of Chip's Challenge on Windows 95.
@@flaskeyboredom5942
If you lived in Dallas, Texas at the time, it might be possible.
Also I loved Chip's Challenge back in the day. It was a great idea, but was ultimately held back by some dickish practices common in games back then.
Man gen 1 i got lost badly in rock tunnel ended up wandering there for weaks had a charizard and a prime ape who wouldent listen to me ended up learning charizard flash and cut i remember not being able to hit the ghost types with chari and primeape Once i hit lavender and boxed them and didnt knew how to get them auto thus needing to make a new team
fun fact: by the time i got the pokemons out of the box i already owned Pokémon gold and crystal and then went back and found alot of pokemons boxed in
And in gen 2:
I got stuck in the rocket basement hide out because i didn’t understand the puzzle because i couldn’t read english very well
I felt that Slowpoke Well anecdote on such a personal level! When my brother and I were little, our mother found two Gameboys, Pokemon Yellow, Gold, and Silver, and Pokemon Pinball at a car-boot market. We were so excited to finally have the games after watching so much of the cartoon, but we had no idea how to play them.
The thing is, we didn't know how to leave the house. It didn't click that the doormat was an exit to the room so we thought the games were broken. We were trapped. Disappointed and angry, we ended up just watching the opening cutscenes or playing Pinball.
One afternoon I discovered that walking into a wall makes a funny thud noise. I started walking into every spot on the walls until eventually I stumbled out the front door and our lives changed forever.
I think I lost to either Koga or Karen my first E4 attempt. Then I figured out what to lead with against them and it was easy. Once I beat Lance I was like “ that’s it? No rival champion battle ?? “
Have you ever tried the Polished Crystal ROM hack? If your like me and gen 2 was your favourite growing up, its quite a pleasure to play. They've updated mechanics to modern gens with p/s split, newer moves, added more trainers and bumped the difficulty. They also added some newer mons without changing the feel of the game, like only evolutions from the original 251 are in it like Mamoswine, Leafon, Magmortar, etc. If you do feel like playing it, get the 3.0 beta, its the full game still. It might be a nice break, but it's quite difficult and time consuming lol.
Haven’t played any rom hacks before. I will in the future!
This is a third comment but I don’t care, it’s for the YT algorithm. Story from my childhood as a kid. I remember when I would release Pokémon, I would specifically try to do it in areas where you couldn’t normally find that Mon. Then I would spend hours trying to see if I could find my Pokémon I had just released in the wild grass nearby. Never could obviously. I just thought as a kid it would’ve been so cool if you could find your old friend you had set free in the past.
Funny story. As a kid I didn't know first how to get the badge from Whitney so I walked around for months not knowing what to do. I finally figured out youjust talk to her again. Then I didn't realized how to get the water bottle so I spent another month walking around aimlessly.
Omg yeah. Goldenrod city is pretty brutal. The Squirtbottle walled me for so long too.
Aerodactyl is saying yes to crits, no to Anicentpower boosts, lol.
I really loved your stories of experiencing gen 2 for the first time, it made me remember my time with it all those years ago.
My big sad gen 2 moment is we went on a trip when I was young to visit family in st louis(we live close to chicago) I played pokemon gold version the whole way there i think i had just gotten past the sudowoodo after whitney saved the game booted it up the next day and I hadn't noticed the internal save battery had died(this was somewhere between 2000-2002) probably had a Nad cartridge back in the day my parents never knew about it and I just always played silver instead😂
There's a bug in the move power preview code at 31:52 too. It's doubling the power of Wing Attack against Venomoth.
Oh yeah, it's a Rock type so that shouldn't be happening. Good catch.
That photo of your Crystal cart makes me so nostalgic! I forgot how absolutely beautiful that cartridge is.
Houndoom's animation in Crystal is THE BEST.
I will take no questions.
Houndoom is best dog
for the longest time i was stuck on the ice cave puzzle also the fist time i played i had a lvl 22 croconaw before i figured out how to get past mr pokemon lol
You. Released. Raikou. Oh my god.
Your poor childhood self.
Yeah. It was so sad.
My experience through silver version and crystal
Silver version was the first game I received during Christmas time so it’s a major memory.
Raikao is the first Pokémon I trained to level 100 and the ice path was a killer it almost made me quit the game lol
The Area where Lugia resides was the worst for me as a kid, constantly got lost there, second worst is Articunos Islands... idk why but Rocket Base in Saffron city wasnt nearly as bad as those 2
Scott, you should deposit all HM slaves before the league so you can't get accidental whirlwind/roar boons.
It wastes so much time. Both before the league and after.
i speak from experience when i say that rock is actually fairly effective against rock, especially if you utilize gravity
I always enjoy your videos. The genuine excitement, enthusiasm and energy is so refreshing in the doom and gloom world. Love your childhood stories. I was 12 when Pokemon came out so I was good for a lot, but struggled in the underground area. Couldn't get the doors to open right haha.
Take care!
I'm not sure if we got lost but I remember sharing a single copy of the game with my brothers and we ended up with blastoise (lv 40 or so) before lt.surge in blue.