Piloswine Solo - Pokemon Crystal - Fine swine or hog slog?
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- Rules:
1. Only my starter in battle
2. No items in battle*
3. No glitches or exploits
4. No Double-Team TM before level 100*
*no healing, restore, or battle items. Pokeballs, Pokedolls, and Held Items are allowed.
*Double team is boring...
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The first shiney I ever caught was a shiney Entei. I was sad when it first fled, but yay, even when it flees, it's still a shiny when you find it again.
Gsme freak would be the biggest ass holes in the entire gaming industry if they allowed it to work the alternative way. And I’m saying that with EA in mind
@@noahp1124 oh God if that happened to me I would be so incredibly sad
That's the case in the remakes too right?
@@paulnewton2284 yes
@@paulnewton2284 I'm pretty sure yeah, but u know what's funny, the second shiney I ever saw was a shiney Nidoqueen and... It belonged to the Battle Factory in Pokemon Emerald. 😭 But I at least got to play with it before having to give her back. Now that was a real kick to the ding ding, seriously! I mean I was just a little kid, so finding a shiney was something really special, so u can imagine the disappointment in seeing something as cool as a shiney Nidoqueen and not even being able to keep her.
25:22 Elder: "You must really love Pokemon. I entrust you with this Dratini, a symbol of our clan."
Scott's Thoughts: "Thanks." *proceeds to use it as an HM Mule.*
That’s it’s only purpose
I love that adding of the stones to match the boost you get. Its the small things you add that really make these videos a cut above the rest! Keep up the great work
(commenting before watching)
I always wanted to love Piloswine in the GSC days but I could never really make it work. Not only do you get one so late into the run (hey at least its better than the treatment Houndour got...) but it was so low level I never wanted to train it. Excited to watch and see what you can do with a starter Swinub.
I don't care if you get too big to read all the comments, I will still post just to boost your channel until you reach stardom.
Edit: The first shiny I caught was a random full odds shiny in Crystal. I was just running from city to city for something and accidently ran into the grass.
_Comments are good for the TH-cam algorithm_, right?
Gen 2 actually gives you a great opportunity to train it: the final Rocket Event in Goldenrod
I had it on my soulsilver team the first time I played through the johto games, it can evolve into mamoswine and it hard carried the team alongside kingdra.
Dont forget Misdreavus just able to obtain till you literally beat the whole game.
@@mickgorro it’s youngster joey!
3:53 - should have went with Hidden Power - Flying, as Piloswine had lots of Hp anyway
I think he made the right call. Fighting types have high defense and Piloswine is meant to have decent Sp. Atk because the Ice type was special. Choosing a type strong against Water types would not be useful because they tend to have strong Sp. Def.
@@jennytalia6724 All of the Fighting types in Gen 1 and 2 except Machop, Machoke, and Poliwrath have higher SpDef than Def. Machoke only has 10 more Def and Poliwrath only has 5 more. Piloswine's Atk is significantly better than his SpAtk.
Maybe you were thinking of before the Special split.
It stinks that Fighting types are such an obstacle because HP Rock would've helped with Gyarados and Charizard.
Man, I love your videos so much! The fact that you're going through with every Pokemon in the game scratches an itch I didn't even know that I had. Thank you for all your awesome content!
I am a completionist! We’re going to get through them all!!!
My first shiny was a Carvanha. I was trying to catch a Feebas, and my child mind thought that I could get it just by fishing enough times in the same spot. I did that enough to get a shiny. Really, it's remarkable how dedicated I was as a kid.
I feel like I did that for hours as a kid trying to complete the pokedex.
I did the same thing. Reset my file before finding out it was only on specific tiles. It was the last pokemon I needed for my first compleet dex to.
I love the "no stone unturned" mentality in these. As always thanks for sharing your passions with us, man. 👍👍👍
Wouldn't be a Scott's Thought without hearing about Scott's Girlfriend
And his PP or lack of thereof... xD
Wouldn’t be a Scott’s Thought without hearing about Scott’s Thot
Gotta flex on the down low haha
Wait, he has a girlfriend? Strange that he never talks about her.
@@rennyjesus I think it's time we ask Scott if Scott's Girlfriend can make a channel that makes comments on Scott's PP as Scott's Girlfriend gives her Thoughts?
Pryce after he forgot to take his pills :
im not a simp/ i was sent by astraios
Btw. in union cave you can climb down 1 level where you'll find lvl. 8-9 pokemons which cuts down grinding time quite a bit.
First shiny was a geodude. Remember thinking it looked stupid and feeling disappointed. Really like it now though, it's like to imagine all the gold nuggets I find around are from shiny geodude battles 🤠
Same!
my first shiny was the jankiest shiny possible a rattata i caught in red, that i only found out was shiny thanks to stadium 2 lol
My first ever shiny was a Hoot-Hoot I found near the start of Gold version. I remember being incredibly excited since Ash also had a shiny Noctowl in the anime at the time. Tragically, I lost a shiny in that same run, a Tentacruel while heading to Blaine. I had run out of repels and it appeared when I was low on balls and failed to catch it. Since then I've never carried less than 30 Ultra Balls (or better depending on the game) in my inventory.
I've still never encountered a shiny.
Personally, I find the best way to get HM users is to start at night and catch Oddish and Psyduck in Ilex Forest (at night Psyduck can be encountered by just walking around), and grab Kenya. Very fast and easy.
Surprised you didn't try leftovers against Red.
Adding the Pokemon's currently held item to the info overlay would be a good addition.
I'm guessing you don't play Pokemon very much or haven't played very long. I've encountered about 12 shinys legitimately throughout my playthroughs. But I've been playing since the days of R/B/Y, before shinys were even a thing. So, I've been playing for over 25 years. All the other shinys I got were either through glitches, wonder trade, or gameshark hacks.
Important note though: Even if you have played for a long time, if you don't grind much against wild Pokemon, you're unlikely to ever run into a shiny. Almost every shiny I've ever encountered happened when I wasn't actively looking for one. I would be grinding up my Pokemon's levels or EV training and one would randomly pop up. In the older games, your chances of encountering a shiny are like 1/8096, or something like that. So, it would stand to reason you'd have to go through thousands of wild encounters to encounter more than one. You might get lucky and encounter one early, but encountering two without grinding or specifically shiny hunting is extremely unlikely in those games.
I've run into about five myself.
They always show up when you arem't looking for them, and are a great reason to always ALWAYS have quite a few of the best kind of pokeball variant you can get on you. Running from or killing them sucks.
My first shiny was a Zubat. To this day, Crobat is one of my faves. Granted, Crobat's been one of my faves since its debut and is one of the reasons I don't care much for FR/LG. I'm still salty that I grinded up my golbat's happiness for nothing on my first playthrough.
Side note: This channel inspired me to work on a Firered hack where every pokemon is a Venonat/Venomoth with every possible typing (including Fairy), with appropriate abilities and learnsets. I'm still in the planning stage since I need to do some MAJOR moveset overhauls to make the game make some sort of sense. Related, I learned that a physical attack used by venomoth on venomoth deals almost as much damage as a special attack used by venomoth on venomoth. Just a fun oddity I stumbled on when mathing things out.
I just got my first shiny a couple days ago! Full odds in Heart gold. Just headbutting trees for Pokémon. Then,
BAM!
Shiny Metapod
That was my first shiny too
This is one of the most underrated Pokémon channels on TH-cam. I’ve shared Scott with all my friends!!
I like to be shared :)
I remember when I first started with Pokemon I watched anime and learned about games. After a while, I bought myself a pokemon fire red. When I got to the Pokémon mansion, I came across a shiny golden rattat and caught it. I know almost nothing about these games, I thought it was a top-secret Pokemon and used it in the team.
The Pink Bow on overlay was a nice touch 😂
I was really happy to read you were allowing yourself so many things and overly restricting yourself. Doing all these metrics is already hard enough, shouldn't need to restrict yourself unnecessarily.
I think I get a shiny every Pokémon run I do. They’ve started to lose significance to me. I care more about Pokémon I thought would be trash that ended up being dope. Probably 90% of the reason your videos appeal to me dawg! Thanks Scott
You’re welcome :)
You’re awesome dude. Glad to see the channel starting to blow up! My first full odds shiny was a geodude in rock tunnel while playing a gift-only run of fire red like 10 years ago. I ended up changing my rules to “only gift Pokémon and Geodude/Graveler” 😂
Hey Scott have you ever run into a shiny during these Crystal playthrough?
I did in my Crystal Nuzlocke! It was very painful
I like 50-60 BP moves with guaranteed secondary effects like Icy Wind, Snarl, Bulldoze, Rock Tomb and Low Sweep. Outspeeding the opponent is pretty important unless you're bulky AF.
PS. Assuming your attack and both defenses are maximized, the chance of not getting critted by any of Red's team ignoring Pikachu (which is harmless) is 15^5/16^5 = approx. 0.72 at best, which means you got lucky with the 9/10 run. Still, 0.72 is a pretty good ratio.
Hey Scott! I usually get to these videos during the weekend but I just wanted to leave a comment that I love watching your playthroughs And I always feel special for the Raticate episode
You are special!
I've been asking for you to use held items for ages, glad you finally caved :))
I’ve been wanting to for so long, just didn’t want to ruin the comparison with my previous work!
Nice run. I can't remember what my first Shiny was actually which leads me to believe it was probably a Pokemon I didn't like or felt indifferent towards.
My first shiny was a Shroomish. It was just another Sapphire playthrough, nothing special until a chance encounter in Petalburg woods. Granted, at the time I had no concept of what a "shiny" Pokemon was, even writing off the red Gyarados as "just another color" and nothing more. Nevertheless I captured the little fella and immediately started training it. The "Golden Shroomish" as I called it was the envy of my friends. Of course, when ORAS rolled around I went and caught myself another shiny Shroomish using new game mechanics that made shiny hunting easier, if for no other reason than to complete the circle
My very first(legitimate) shiny was a Purple Slowpoke in Pokemon Silver.
It was such a mind blowing thing when I saw it as a young child, and luckily I was able to catch it!
I thought I'd pop into the algorithm to say that I'm excited for your new set of rules for Johto, and I also really appreciate your videos every week.
My first shiny Pokemon was actually a Geodude in Crystal, in Route 46 (north of Route 29, which is the route west of New Bark Town). I'd just gotten Pokeballs, and remembered running into a Geodude in Route 46 when I was exploring on my way to Mr. Pokemon's house. Went back to go try and catch a Geodude, and the first one I ran into was shiny! I didn't know why there had been stars at the start of the battle, and didn't realize it was different color until after I'd caught it!
Became one of my main party members for the rest of the run. I also ran into a shiny Caterpie in Ilex Forest before the Reg Gyarados. Same playthrough, I also caught a shiny Magikarp while fishing later in the game.
First full odds shiny I ever caught was a shiny Registeel in Ruby 😃
Yay I've been waiting for this for so long :D
im not a simp/ i was sent by astraios
6:57 “For once it’s the balls, and not the PP” 😂😂😂
I've had the phrase 'fine swine or hog slog' stuck in my head for hours, wtf
My first shiny was a Shiny Elekid from the random egg in Silver! I loved it. Great run, Scott.
The first shiny I got, that wasn't gyrados, was a hoothoot in gen 2. I used it all game because I was still young and thought I was badass showing it to friends at school. I also traded a weedle from red to gold that turned out to be shiny. It was just to finish the pokedex so I only got it to lv 10 and never used it for anything.
Right now I'm playing Pokemon Infinite Fusion (a fangame where you can fuse any two pokemon and merge their appearance, types, abilities, movesets and stats) and I have a Phanpy mixed with a Swinub on my team. It's still ice/ground type and its moves are pretty standard but it's so cute, it's just like a Phanpy with Swinub's shaggy brown stripey fur. I hope it's not ugly when it evolves lol.
My first shiny was a gross green Zubat in Silver, and then shortly afterwards a Pidgeotto in Gold (really close to that old "shiny Pidgey" meme). I think both of them were encountered in the Kanto revisits.
On Silver's pokemon: it's easiest to see his development from "pokemon are only tools" to "pokemon are my friends" with his Crobat in the Mt. Moon battle since Golbat only evolves from high friendship. His trade evos are fully evolved by then too.
On the Earth Badge shape: Giovanni is named after the sacred Sakaki tree in Japanese, so his badge might be shaped like a leaf from said tree. Not positive though.
My first Shiny was a Wurmple/Silcoon... I like the Pokémon but never used one on a team so it doesn't hold much significance to me. Swinub/Piloswine holds more to me as one of those later game Pokémon I've wanted to use but never got around to using. Younger me always wanted a full team earlier on.
Swinub/Piloswine really lived on the edge here with it's many incredibly close fights. A neat video overall and I look forward to Dennis' Fearow playthrough of Yellow version.
My first shiny encounter other than Gyarados was a shiny Caterpie in Gold. But I didn't know about shiny encounters back then and killed it. I wasn't paying much attention at the time and heard the stars. The first one I caught was a Makuhita in Ruby and later a Poochyena in the same playthrough before the 7th gym.
Off Topic: I had a Vileplume in Emerald that unlocked all the ribbons.
Wow a piloswine run, you don't see that everyday. Points for originality😁 Also fascinating that your first shiny was swinub
My first shiny was a hoothoot in Pokemon Silver. I was hunting for Entei by going back and forth between New Bark Town and the route next to it. I was using repels and when it wore off, a golden hoothoot showed up.
First shiny I caught was a Teddiursa in Gold Version. I was leveling up a pokemon while playing the game half asleep when it appeared. Before I selected a move to knock it out, I questioned if it was a shiny (half asleep so I missed the shiny animation). So throw an ultra ball to catch it, saved the game, and took a nap. The next day when I started the game, I remembered catching a Teddiursa for no reason so checked the PC and there it was, a shiny little bear.
I remember finding my favourite shinies, but I couldn't tell you what my first shiny was to save my mother's life.
I'll be honest, seeing this run while seeing your others, made me impressed by how much you've improved! I'm saying this for those who don't know but he's doing a versus race in Pokémon yellow and he'll take whoever's the fastest and follows his rules. Good luck to all and the deadlines February 1st latest.
PS forgot to add this you have to record it.
Also I forgot to answer your question, my first shiny was a wurmple, who evolved into a beautifly!
Yeah, the improvement has been wild over the last year and a half.
The Porygon Race is going to be awesome! Some other people have been getting really competitive times. I've got to step up my game!
I’m 32 years old, and I’ve been playing Pokémon since I was a wee lad lol. I have NEVER found a shiny Pokémon other than the red gyarados in gen 2. I’ve played so many play throughs, I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve been through gen 1 and 2!
Scott: Lance's whole team is flying-type, that's why he is Falkner's father.
Me: *has a deep realization and starts writing fanfiction about Gold helping to heal severed family bonds*
Very cool vid! While I like that you got to a consistent Red fight, it's kinda bummer that it could only be done with such a universal move set. If I'm not mistaken most pokemon can learn rest and return, and some stat boosting moves. I would have like to seen this done with a moveset more tailored to Piloswine. Either way very happy to see another upload from you, always fun to watch!
Looking forward to the Fearow video, I was really surprised at how big it actually is, I was expecting like this really really huge bird when I looked into it’s height
Hey scott thank you for the awesome videoes.
I have thought of something interesting to try.
What about doing gen 1 without TM/HM (only moves it learn)
Thank you for your hard work!
im not a simp/ i was sent by astraios
Without the move variety, it may be too difficult for many pokemon to go through an entire playthrough
@@mikebaichoo576 thats what make it interesting
The first shiny Pokemon I ever found was a shiny Buizel by the Polished Rock where Shaymin's event was in Pearl. It was the first I CAUGHT though...when I was little, I was training to take on the Rock Tunnel and when I was training, I found a shiny blue Voltorb. I thought something was wrong with my game and I didn't like Voltorb much anyways, so I didn't even hesitate to take it out in one hit. I told my older sister later on and she said it was a shiny Pokemon and that I missed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to catch one. I was disappointed but didn't let it get to me. That was the first one I ever found, about 16 years ago.
My first shiny was a shiny Eevee that I hatched while breeding for a good nature+IVs, but my first random wild shiny was a Drifblim.
Hey man, great video. Just a little tip (if possible in your emulator): asign the "turbo speed" to an actual key or button. That way when your scrolling through the menu, you can simply turn it of quickly en set it up quickly again. I do it with my emulator, it works great!
Yeah, I’m doing that with Flying, I can navigate the menu fairly well while at 4x speed.
My first shiny was Poochyena and my second on another playthrough was Nincada. It seems I only get shinies that are gold.
Also, I don't know if you noticed it but you said the Bellsprouts were doing neutral damage. They were doing super effective damage because ice does not resist grass. I would say you did well on that part with all of them hitting you super effectively.
My first shiny was snover in Y. Shocked the heck out of me as it was a full odds random encounter while I was just rushing through the snow area.
My first Shiny was a Mareep in Gen 7. I was walking to the Pokemon Center after the old west looking town on the second island. When I got a wild encounter and saw that Shiny Mareep.
In nearly 25 years of playing pokemon I have had a grand total of 2 shiny encounters in the main games (not including the red gyarados). The first was a mareep in Soul Silver that I accidently knocked out with a critical hit, and the second was on a gen 3 rom, I forget which and I got a shiny Swalot which I did manage to catch.
The first non-gyrados shiny i caught was a machop also in Silver. I had no idea what it was, I actually thought it may be a glitch since I never saw another and caught it near Lake of Rage.. so it kind of made sense.
Anyway, I showed it to a friend at his house one day. Went to use the restroom and when I came back he said his mom said I had to leave. I didn't notice my cartridge was missing until I got home, and was never able to even get him to admit it, let alone get the game with the shiny back.
My first shiny wasn't until gen 6, and only because I manipulated the odds with chain fishing. It was a crawdaunt. I have only ever encountered 1 full odds shiny in my time, and that was a galarian Mr mime. Gen 6 is when I started shiny hunting, and to this day I still shiny hunt, I love it. I've just had terrible luck with chance encounters.
Normally I dont watch people play video games unless im getting info on a part im stuck at but I listen to these at my night job it makes the 4 hours go by better
My first shiny was a Bellsprout in Leaf Green. I still remember which tile I caught it on. On Bond Bridge, in the corner east of the cut tree.
the return of DENIS was long anticipated
Ooo god who's to say how this boi is gonna do. I use this guy often and don't get craaaazy results but it's quite good so I have high hopes for it! Especially early game
I'd say it was a fine swine!!
My first shiny was a Skorupi in Platinum, after playing gens 2-4 for over 1000 hours. And it was a Safari Zone spawn... luckily, it stayed in the first Safari Ball.
My first shiny was in silver. a tentacool, and i did exactly what you did in 25:35. Wnet for the soft sand and when i entered the water BOOM shiny tentacool... I was so excited because neither i nor my friends knew that was even a thing (i was like 8 or 9, and i was starting to learn english at school). And i was so afraid to lose it that i NEVER USED IT IN BATTLE, fearing it might lose the colors if it fainted xD
But this is not the best part. YEARS AFTER THAT, aldready in college, i got a nintendo ds and soul silver. and look and behold, i found and caught my second ever shiny: a tentacool. And I KID YOU NOT, I WAS DOING, AGAIN, WHAT YOU DID IN 25:35, just to see if soft sand was still in there. This time i had to bench my feraligator because i had a new "starter" in town.
also everyone is a gangster till scotts does a smeargle run.
The first shiny I ever caught was a shiny Voltorb in New Mauville! Still one of my favorite shinies to this day, along with the shiny Cottonee I got in my B2 playthrough.
Maybe this doesn't quite apply but I also tend to have pretty decent luck in ROMhacks too, like Touhoumon Purple. I've gotten at least a couple of shiny Chens from that game~
My first Shiny was a random Boldore in White or a random Linoone in Sapphire. I never really used them, but that Boldore did eventually return to me as another random encounter in Moon. I think that Boldore single.....handedly, not quite sure if it has hands, caused me to like Rock types as much as I do
My first full odds shiny was a Geodude in Crystal. As a result, had to make him a team staple and get the oh so cleverly named "SHINYROCK" into the hall of fame. Even in crystal clear (a rom hack w normally full odds, but a method to raise chances) I've yet to catch my most saught after shiny, a Staryu/Starmie. Knocked out 350ish of em, and with 10 rerolls no shiny. Only other full odds shiny's have happened VERY recently, with a Koffing and a Gastly in 2 different playthroughs of Fire Red.
I'll never forget that first shiny swinub my first shiny ever caught it on my neighbor's crystal version good times
Man i used to be quilava my favorite pokemon ever lol. Thanks for the love
1st shiny was in gold in was Venonat my third in counter in the big contest, in the same play through I got a Gligar
My first shiny was a Gastly in Levander Tower in FireRed, full 1/8192 odds. My second one was an Adamant Meditite in Brilliand Diamond (first encounter in that grass, and it even was the pokémon I was looking to add to my team), full 1/4096 odds.
I also got a shiny Minun in OmegaRuby, but it was with a DexNav combo and my brother did all the work, so I don't count that to my own shiny luck.
Never knew about that soft sand. Great video.
Yeah, it's pretty hidden away!
First shiny I caught was a spearow on leaf green in 2017 on a cart that my neighbour gave me. It's strange how it took me nearly 20 years of playing pokemon to get my first shiny
I never considered using a Piloswine before because the truffle boar just looks weird after evolving from the cute Swinub. Mamoswine looks cool though because it's part mammoth and elephants were my thing when I was a kid before Pokémon took ahold.
Also my first shiny was a Kadabra in Leaf Green. Never got to transfer it up because I lost the cart 1 week before I beat Pokemon Diamond and gained access to the Pal Park.
To answer your opening Q, the first shiny of my own that I encountered was a Fearow in the postgame of Platinum version, outside the survival area. I make that distinction because when I was too young to know what a shiny was, I encountered a shiny Spinda on my brother’s copy of Emerald and ran away from it, not thinking anything of it. The biggest mistake young me ever made playing Pokémon.
My first shiny was an Igglybuff from the random egg in Crystal. I remember seeing the screen effect when I sent it into battle but I remember not liking training Jigglypuff from Red and Blue so it ended up boxed. Then I lost my Crystal cartridge so I can't prove it's existence.
First shiny I remember was a Koffing in the traps in the Rocket Hideout. I wish I still had her
I’ve been binging all of your videos, and finally made it to this one. My first shiny was also a little blue swinub in Crystal! I never evolved him because I was afraid it would lose the cool colors.
No way! That’s so cool that we got the same shiny.
My first non-Gyarados shiny I found was right before Gen 3 released in Pokémon Silver.
Since internet wasn't super widespread back then, I was wondering how many different Pokémon you could find inside Rock Smash boulders, so I ended up testing it out myself by repeatedly breaking them.
Ended up finding a Shiny Krabby in there. Since I had no idea about how shinies worked back then, I actually never evolved it. I was scared it would lose its sparkles if I did.
Sadly, my Pokémon Silver cartridge's battery ran out, so I lost that save file. I guess I could try breeding one in Pokémon Shield for nostalgia sake since they're much easier to acquire there.
Shiny Onix was my first shiny in Gen 2. I think I was able to catch it on two separate playthroughs. Definitely one of the easier shinys to encounter
I adore Swinub and Piloswine for aesthetic alone. I can see why it got the Mamoswine buff tho.
im not a simp/ i was sent by astraios
I've never found a shiny in any of the main games (other than the obligatory Gyarados). With how many of these games I've played, you'd think I'd have gotten one by now. ;_;
Hilariously, my husband found two shiny Bidoofs in the same playthrough, and has never found another shiny otherwise.
If we allow spin-offs, my first shiny was Ninetales in the Mystery Dungeon remake. I'm actually hunting for the only four I'm missing now (Starmie, Altaria, Metagross, and Espeon). They're much easier to find than in the main games. I've also gotten several in Legends of Arceus with my first being Vaporeon (not counting the guaranteed Ponyta), but again, they're a lot easier to find there. I will say that with the Eeveelutions being my favorites and Vulpix/Ninetales being my favorites after them, it is funny that the spin-off shinies I did find first were some of my most loved Pokémon.
(Yeah I know Legends of Arceus is apparently a main game rather than a spin-off, I just refer to it as such because of how different it is gameplay-wise, and in this case, it's ridiculously easy for shiny hunting).
TL;DR: Cursed to never find a natural shiny in main games, not so cursed as to miss them in others with higher odds.
My first shiny was a herdier. Totally accidental when I was biking for egg hatching and my bike went into the grass. Was about to run when I heard the shiny sparkle.
The interesting thing about Piloswine is that its actually one of the best mons to use in game. Yes in a lot of its best MUs (namely Clare and Lance) they do possess moves that fold it, but it makes Piloswine a glass cannon. I mean it is the best Johto ice type. I also once did a run where I wanted to use a Piloswine on my team, so I had one of many Smeargle (I like to catch a lot of them in Gen 2 runs) to Sketch Rock Slide from Sudowoodo (it missed on my end so the Smeargle sketched it) and Blizzard from Pryce's Piloswine in order to get the perfect moveset for it. I was even lucky enough when it bred it had max DVs. This was around a couple years ago. I know Ice path is fairly late, but honestly I don't really consider anything within Johto gym badge range to be too late game, as you still have room to use them. Hell I've used Skarmory before.
To me what I classify as late game for Johto would be anything after Claire basically, once you cross the waterfall in Tohjo Falls that's when late game kicks in, as you're approaching post game. By which even mons like Piloswine have major story events like Clare, victory road rival, Suicune battle (if you choose) Claire and elite four, which are all pretty lengthy events. Plus it has all of Kanto on top of that. Its why Sneasel got the better deal in Crystal because surprisingly Sneasel does well in Johto. I mean considering how beelined Chuck to Jasmine is and Chuck is considered mid game, that to me says Ice path is fair game to classified as late mid leading to late game.
I do find it odd that Swinub or Piloswine can't learn dig, but can learn Earthquake. lol It's the same for the Nidos. Or how Crobat is unable to learn Sludgebomb, which is why I find Crobat underwhelming to use in the original games, its movepool is just bad. No STAB option or coverage moves outside of Hidden Power variants. Even Noctowl I consider a better flyer because at least it can serve a purpose in helping catch roamers with Sleep (which I find to be more effective as it seems they choose to stay in once slept, at least from my experience) as well as having a nice combo with Hypnosis + Dream Eater/Nightmare.
I really do think people overcriticize elements of this game a lot, they are flawed for sure. I wouldn't argue against that, but a lot of the criticisms these game get I feel can be hyperbolic or I disagree with, like team building. It's actually not as limited as people claim, in fact Pokemon games always have some sort of limit on team building. Really outside of the Dark types (excluding Umbreon and Sneasel in Crystal) Misdreavus and Slugma every Johto mon is in Johto, though I do dislike how some are rare when they shouldn't be, considering they are the regions new mons. People sleep on the Odd Egg, which regardless of what you get (unless its Igglybuff, since Jigglypuff can literally be caught outside the Daycare, bad decision to make it common to hatch) it will produce an excellent team slot. I mean Jynx is the strongest Ice type in the game, Magmar isn't in Crystal until Mt Silver, the Hitmons are all Fighting types useful against Dark and Steels (as well as the many trainers who use normal types) Elekid and Pichu can give you two useful electric types. And with the avaliability of stones in Crystal (another reason to play it over Gold and Silver) it creates more team options. Cloyster, Jolteon, Vaporeon, Flareon, Starmie, Exeggutor, Vileplume, Raichu, Victrebeel all become options because of the stones. Which is a wide roster, and there might be others I'm forgetting too.
The first 2 shiny encounters I had were the worst. In the same game and the same week... an abra, which teleported away and a Voltorb which self destructed. That's real trauma.
I come for the speedrun strats. I stay for the "swinub is a ground-type because pigs like mud"-like conspiracy theories.
Scott's Theories
Got a shiny Numel in Sapphire before I even understood what shinys really were, back then the closest most of us got to even knowing shinys existed was a myth about a pink Butterfree inspired by the anime. The other kids I showed it to thought I was hacking again, I was the one who discovered Pokemon duping in Gen 2 in our friend group.
First shiny ever was a rattata in Heart Gold. Ended up evolving it and having it be my cut/rock smash/strength mule, and bizarrely an _amazing_ Pokeathlon competitor.
Named it Rusty since shiny Raticate is a rust-red-brown color.
You know what's funny, I caught my first shiny in the route right before the red Gyarados in Silver. It was a Flaafy, but I already had an Ampharos and didn't bother raising a new one, but I should have. Didn't realize how unusual it actually was because it was still pink.
Good lord nothing can stop those powerful tusks
Keep up the great work Scott!! I always look forward to your videos. :) The first shiny I ever caught was an Oddish but I was too young to understand how amazing that was. The first shiny I successfully hunted was a ponyta for my girlfriend because that’s her favorite. (Ha! You’re not the only one that can mention their girlfriend in a Scott’s Thoughts video)
My first shiny was a Poliwhirl I caught near Mt. Silver. I think it was in Soul Silver, never got a shiny that wasn’t the Red Gyarados until gen 4 despite playing since gen 1.
6:58 "For once it's the balls, not the pee pee. I gave up on that area."
Practice makes perfect bro :)
Great run. I think that the changes you made are for the best, overall.
My first shiny was a female Nidoran in Pokémon Silver! I no longer have it, but Nidoqueen is still among my favourites. 🙂
My first shiny was an Electrike, caught on Hoenn's cycling road route (the one you fight the rival on going from Slateport to Mauville)... and I lost the copy of Emerald it was on.
This happened one or two more times from my foggy memory, but right now I have a shiny Manectric that I still have to this day.
Nice! My first shiny was a buizel, and then my second was a masuda method Caterpie 🐛💛
Around the 5 min mark out said that you were impressed of the damage Bellsprouts did even if it's normal effective.
I don't know if anyone said this already but it's not, it is super effective. Ice doesn't resist grass.
Ice just sucks defensively
I don't remember the first shiny I caught, but I do remember using the Red Gyarados glitch to do it.
Mine was shiny rhyhorn in victory road in crystal. Was amazing for my 10 year old self to see that when Pokémon was still pretty new