I dunno what it was, but you really knocked it out of the park with this video. You played super well, you sounded really upbeat, and your commentry was an awesome blend of informative and funny. Especially early in the run, you had me snorting my sodie pop!
Appreciate that! Yea I've been working on the craft and trying to get some fun to come across in the video. These are sweaty and optimized but they are still a good time!
The videos from Scott, jrose, and yourself really reinvigorated my love and interest for these games, theres at least 151 unique experiences (for better or worse) one can have in Gen 1 playthroughs which was lost on my feeble 8/9/10 year old brain back in the day. Keep up the good work, brother. On a side note, we really do need a dual type ghost/ground Tombstoner in future gens, its a good flipside to Flying Press and would be a fun call back to gen 1.
Cool to be mentioned with those guys! I'm just a humble dude doing it on the side as a passion project and they live the dream of doing it for a job. Scott is cool and active in the community. Jrose, sadly, is in that mansion up in the hill and doesn't associate with any other channel lol.
One of my mains as a kid playing yellow and red. Always thought it needed more respect than it got. Shot out to ya for putting in the work with it. Always appreciate the runs… REAL ONE Brotha
I think ground types are underrated in general. Groudon showed it can be top tier and even runs like Rhydon and Golem are pretty good. The double weaknesses are whatever but this one killed it!
Earthquake … like moving from fighting with a pocket knife to an AK 47 😂. Banging out the quotes tonight, I need that on a t-shirt. thanks for running sandslash, it was my all time fav back in 1999 when i first played gen 1. I thought that it was a Demi-god, back then i had no idea about speed and crit hits, badge boosts, etc. I’ve learnt a lot about my favourite game from your channel.
Lmao, those are the things that come out when you don't write a script, proof it, and cut it down. No one has time for that lol. There's really a lot to learn and even I learn more about the game as time goes on. It's crazy lol.
This video unlocked a childhood memory. Back in the day, I lent my copy of yellow to my cousin, when I got it back from him I checked out his save. He was in Viridian, his party was a level 86 Sandslash, a Nidoking, and a Pidgeotto that were both below lv 40. I checked the PC, and there sat his poor neglected Pikachu at level 9. His hall of fame team was indeed Sandslash, Nidoking, and Pidgeotto. A total of 8 pokemon caught in the pokedex. I was horrified by his playstyle, and promptly started a new game to rid my cartridge of that abomination of a save. I think my cousin would like this video.
If this video has taught me anything, it's that I should use a Sandslash next time I play Gen 1. Been doing solo runs myself and trying to use mons that I've never used before; this sparks some confidence in me! Nice vid!
Wow i am really surpised by how well sandslash did. I did not think about him being a swords dance user and i guess that really is the answer to all questions. Swords dance and punch things in the face really hard. Solves all your problems.
Remember that as a wee lad back in gen 2, I literally bred boxes full of Sandshrews, calling all males "Sandro" and all females "Sandra". Just a huge little Sandshrew farm. Good times. Been one of my favourite pokémon ever since, love the Alolan form as well. Good to see it perform well.
Y'know, I hadn't ever made the connection between your voice and AJ's. Now I can't unhear it lol. Really good run, AJ would be proud.. Although, I don't know that he would've left dig and earthquake on at the same time, but then again he did use fissure in all of its 30% glory. Looking forward to the next one
That’s a fair assessment. I leveled the volume about a year ago to not get any surprise wake up moments because I’ve gotten a lot of sleep comments and I know I used to turn videos on to sleep as well lol.
Only being single weak to the things that Rhydon/Golem/etc are double weak to definitely help but the main thing was not being incredibly slow. 65 is that perfect sweet spot.
Solid run! On paper sandslash doesn’t look like much, except when it’s on the rival’s team in yellow but it really has all the tools it needs and not having 4x weaknesses just makes it feel better than the rock/grounds for the most part, plus it’s stat distribution is a lot better than dugtrio or marrowak. If only it started with a ground move.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 Who knows man, why don’t any of the fossils learn rock slide except for Lance’s illegal aerodactyl? I think game freak secretly hates the rock type and rock moves and won’t make good ones or give them to reasonable Pokémon. I heard an explanation about marowak’s move set recently, it’s supposedly one of the developer’s favorite Pokémon so they gave it like almost all the great special moves in spite of having a base 50 special stat.
I argued the opposite in my video. They gave it special moves as a cruel joke, made it start with an 85% accurate move, and made it the only Ground type Pokemon in the entire game to not learn Rock Slide. It also doesn't get anything else useful and it's just almost exclusively using Earthquake/Dig and Body Slam on Flying types. It's a badly designed Pokemon and if it was someone's favorite, they had a strange way of showing it lol.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 Honestly that would make more sense but there’s definitely something weird going on with Marowak and the favorite story came from the VGC commentator Joe Brown so there’s probably some validity. The designer of pikachu once stated that the made the encounter rate so low for it because they didn’t want to share it with everyone so it’s possible that this is just a weird and impenetrable group of people making a game in Japan in the early 90s
I used to think about stuff like that in the earlier times but after diving into the code and just playing the game a ton, the answer that satisfies me is that they just didn't know what they were doing and didn't know the gravity of the series. It continues in gen 2 where they thought they'd be done with Pokemon and send it off with a love letter but there's some weird and awful decisions there too. Gen 3 is where the polish and actual progression of the series comes into play.
I've been trying to make the hurt/faint sprites better, gradually increasing over time. This one was pretty good! It's always a balance of how much to 'hurt' them lol.
The sand demon was really good without the use of throwing sand. Knowing whenever to set up and how to do that ,is something that requires a lot of trial and error, especially that risky Brock fight. I started to realize that the Brock split can make or break some runs, even just a little.🤔 But also knowing to feel how what kind path to take in the mid game, which really hard to figure out without prior experience. I really liked that you carried slash up until Sliph ,and then teach sword dance and body slam. Because having to rely on crits is really good at the early game, but it falls off shortly after the 4th gym. 😮 I never knew that Sandslash could be that good , I'm excited to see how Sausage would do in yellow or better else in Legacy. But I'll get to do that in following week😊.
For sure. There's no doubt Brock is the worst gym leader in the game. He probably walls or at least impedes the progress of like 85% of runs in some way so it's a hassle. Some people ask if you could skip Brock or if you could train up to the entrance of Mt. Moon how it would affect the tier list and my guess is significantly. It was a good route! Figuring out how to get slash without slowing down and getting to Silph without the run being too far behind was the goal and it's just a bunch of zoomies to the end from there. For the last line, are you saying the Meganium run is coming out soon and you'll start on the sausage run? That's what I need to hear lol.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 The brock split is one important split, watching a lot of gen 1 content and doing a lot of run of Parasect made me think of that. I like that kind of planning that's why I was trying my best with Meganium to cut down the time and be as efficient as possible that's why I ended up spending the entire week and a half doing that 😂 and thinking outside of the box without having a rock move. Now I'm starting the editing part,so that I can do Susasge runs as much as possible. 😆
I got to redo Meganium under x3 speed, in game time rules one day and I’m not looking forward to it. I do plan on doing Diglett sometime soonish though, maybe April. It has solid stats where it counts but no badge boost seems like Lorelei will be a nightmare and I’m scared of the level it’ll have to be for that. Interested to see what you come up with!
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 I did it on 4x speed and the menu was a different challenge 😂. I wonder how much you'll improve it. I basically did what the game wanted me to do with this pokemon,in other words if you can't beat them ,stall them. 😄 If Meganium had sleep powder the run would have been way different, because I felt how weak a pure grass type is in Johto. 😮💨 Diglett is really fast and can hit hard ,but once it meets up with water,ice ,grass moves it would run as far off as it can from the screen. I bet that level 66 Lorelei is not farfetched, as long as these rock slide are going to hit. I think that Diglett will have a better time in red and blue because Lorelei doesn't have that much water moves or ice moves in her team, or so I hope. By the way I hope that mid terms will go well for you. 🙂
For sure. I wish it got sleep powder but at least it gets ground coverage…at the end of the game basically lol. Hidden power is pretty nice for the run but I think I used ice for Lance. I great considered sunny day/solar beam strats but then Charizard at the end can just roast you lol. Yea 65 sounds right for Dugtrio. It wouldn’t surprise me if Diglett needs 70+ but remember a key thing. STAB EQ does the same damage as super effective rock slide so no need to put it in the hands of accuracy there but I do think it’s fast enough to not worry much about Misty. Thanks! Midterms are stressful and I’m a stickler for details and want to maintain a 4.0. I’m not naturally gifted and need to study a lot so I’m fairly confident! I’ll be streaming Crystal this week hopefully to get back in line with hopefully finally getting a Crystal tier list back.
The comparison with Dugtrio will be interesting. Starting with Dig but not learning SD will pretty much flip the early-game and late-game power levels.
Always a risky thing to do lol. For example Magikarp with Dragon Rage was dominant for a while but fell off and what worries me about the 3 little sausages is how frail it is. I don't think it'll be at this level of greatness but if it's struggles aren't too bad then it can be alright. I'm worried it'll need like level 65 just for Lorelei or something but I haven't done a single test.
sand attack is a solid move in gen 1. its not as good in later gens but in gen 1 3 of those connecting will almost ensure ull never be touched again. which gives sandslash time he needs to get a few critical slash attacks in or a hard hit with earthquake or dig. sandslash is my fave pokemon and i really wish he got more respect than he does. i cant tell you how many times hes saved my ass.
I am fond of Sandslash. Very cute, and good performance too. But I'm really looking forward to your Tentacruel run. I did a Tentacool solo run recently and there were very few parts of the game it didn't have good tools to take on. I'm curious whether you'll choose physical sweeper Tentacruel with Swords Dance as your badge boosting move over wall Tentacruel with Barrier. I wasn't impressed with its physical movepool too much so I used Barrier, and it let my Tentacool tank Hyper Beams from Lance's Gyarados fine as long as he didn't crit, and then Mega Drain the health back. But then, Tentacruel has access to better physical attack moves like Hyper Beam, huh... it might make more sense to go Swords Dance for it. Look forward to finding out!
Yea it'll be similar to the Tentacool run I did on stream earlier in the year. I think that swords dance will be rather weak and barrier to make Lance consistent is what I did with that run too. I think in the years old video I didn't have barrier but on the redo, I used it to have a pretty solid time. We'll see how wrap and supersonic at the start feels and go from there lol.
@GymLeaderMatt1987 Yeah, it's annoying to be a water type that doesn't obliterate Brock with a water move, but with Wrap you shouldn't have to overlevel either since you'll be able to easily outspeed.
Yea, not a ton, but it gets all the stuff it needs. Slash just carries it so hard for a while and you get to make that beautiful Silph pivot to take you the rest of the way. It really was a beautiful route.
I can tell this is a high level run with some serious legwork put into the optimization. I’m impressed by the level 11 Brock choice and the 2 candies before Misty (I was just hoping for the best at level 23 with slash). A couple questions came to mind in comparison to my attempts and Scott’s thought’s Sandslash video: 1) why get body slam? Seems like slash is good until you have earthquake and rock slide, so it doesn’t seem needed 2) why target a level 60 finish when it can be done at 58? I’m curious if this was to try to survive a hydro pump against lance and an additional hit from the second dragonite while setting up a second sword’s dance. If so, would rest have been faster than picking up the 2 additional levels? Nice video, just found it and enjoy seeing sandslash get some love
It’s been a minute since I record and the true answer to most things is that I just do a few runs as a hobby and call it quits. There’s likely more optimization to be done for most runs but I have to draw the line at some point on the hobby. These days Scott gets other talented runners to do their own runs, does his own runs, and then melds all of them together into a super run that one would only have time and resources to do if it was a full time job. Things like the Parasect race and Smeargle race are an idea of ‘full power’ optimization when you do a lot of runs but I’m somewhere between the casual runs of Jrose and the nitpicky, collaborative effort of Scott for my runs.
Yea I think it's 11 to date. I'm sure the reasoning for Body Slam was so it would work with Swords Dance later but it was probably a little obsolete. I don't have notes or the route pulled up so its hard to say. I generally do my blind run, move some things around, fix some of the problems, do another, then finally look at some damage numbers, do a third run and call it quits unless I make a blatant mistake or I feel there's a ton of time left on the table. Lately I've found myself doing 4th and 5th runs and with a newborn it's been rough lol. Part of me envies channels like MDB or Jrose that just turn it on, do one run, then pop out a video. They are way more successful than any other solo channel and maybe that's the secret lol.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 Personally I love the optimized runs. Congrats on your newborn! I have a 19 month old myself. I feel like I just barely have time to play and optimize, and I’m not even editing videos and posting them :)
I hear that. You really have to be efficient with the voiceover work. I lost my voice yesterday so I’m out of commission for at least a little bit lol.
Poor Little AJ he is locked in the Basement. His head is on fire. He just wanna escape his enslavement. Forced to train Pokémon. If you want know which Basement. Then look no further than GLM's Mansion. He just don't wanna end up at the pavement. This is not his passion. 😂😂😂😂😂 Okay I had better stop now.
Scott's video yesterday reminded me of something. In speed runs (1x speed) they cut the two bushes in Fushia. I always figured it was slower to do on 4x speed but Scott started doing it. Have you tested to see if it's faster on 3x? Great video as always!
Him and Otto says it’s faster but going into the menu and using cut twice feels bad to me. I think Austin and I (top 2 in the Smeargle race) just go around. It might be a bit faster if you execute it perfectly but I just see it as an alternate way that’s about the same. I only bring up the race because you might not know Austin lol. I’m not too worried about a second or two but might look into it. My strat is to avoid menus if I can and opening two seems a little risky.
Any time I look at level up movesets like Sandslashes, I do wonder what was being smoked in the Gamefreak offices at the time. Because that isn't the moveset of someone who was consciously thinking.
GameFreak employee 1: Some shrews have venom that the deliver through claws and stingers, so its moveset should represent that. GameFreak employee 2: Some shrews burrow underground and we DID make it a ground type...so I was thinking maybe it doesn't get any ground moves via level up.
To be fair there's only like 3 ground moves in the game. Fissure is exclusive and...I got nothing else for why they didn't do more with EQ/Dig. Sometimes it's left as a TM, sometimes Pokemon just learn it via level up.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 Sandslash/Sandshrew getting Dig via level up would have made sense for sure. Dugtrio gets it and then Cubone and Marowak while weaker, get exclusive moves. Can understand keeping EQ as a TM though due to its absurd power.
Matt please!!! I can’t keep seeing Gyarados in the B tier that other creators have put him in. If there is anyone who can get that water snake boi up it’s you! Please do the Gyarados solo run
I don’t have things planned that far. No doubt it’ll be good but expectations should be kept in check. Remember, he did a lot of runs, members of his discord cracked it, he modified his route based on that, and did a ton of more runs. I generally do 3 runs and touch up if I made a big error but that top 3 is hard to crack.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 I didn't know that his discord did a deep dive with Victreebel. Scott still doesn't have the big 3 of Alakazam, Mew, and Mewtwo on his list, and maybe not even the 3 legendary birds, or Charizard, either. He might save those for his last runs of Yellow.
I’m not 100% but I think they do all the videos like that these days. Ever since the Haunter video last year. I don’t know the full details and he usually discloses it in some way but he did the 3 birds at the end of the year. I remember Austin telling me he did like 15 runs+ with some of the birds to help Scott out along with other players. Alakazam won’t be top 3 in yellow. They weirdly nerfed its starting learnset to where you have to use struggle on Brock. The main point being is in a one man show and just do a few runs and call it a day. The number of runs put into Victreebel for his channel is unrealistic unless you made TH-cam videos for a living and I don’t.
Does anyone know Dewgong’s precise chances of using rest on turn 2? I’ve heard 3/5, 4/5, and now in this video 81%. Very curious how this actually works
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 Snowy helped me get to the bottom of it. Are you ready for a truth bomb? 81% is only the correct calculation if bubblebeam, aurora beam, and rest are all considered super effective. So I think that’s just for Nidoking and Nidoqueen
@@ZealousPawn I guess I just get lucky in all my yellow runs lol. I’ll stick with the AI modification numbers from the speedrun wiki. The explanation is that regardless of their effectiveness, 102/256 of the time it’ll see all moves as neutral and has a percentage for what it’ll go for. Here’s the link. I think it’s a waste of time to independently test it. wiki.pokemonspeedruns.com/index.php/Pokémon_Red/Blue/Yellow_Trainer_AI
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 yep, pretty sure that wiki page is just for nidoking numbers, which would make sense if you’re doing traditional speed runs rather than solo runs. Dewgong is ~70% likely to use rest when one of bubblebeam/aurora beam is super effective, and 52% likely to use rest if they’re both super effective. Edit: And 100% likely to use t2 rest if Ice and water are neutral or resisted
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 snowy tested it with 1 million trials on different types of Pokemon, so you don’t need to independently test it. Edit: But please do if you’re interested! It probably won’t take you long to see there’s a 100% chance of t2 rest if you take a mono normal type into the fight over and over
Step 1: Pay hundreds of dollars for Premiere Pro and watch a bunch of TH-cam videos haha. Maybe one day the idea would be feasible but I have a hard enough time getting a lot of people to watch regular videos lmao.
Prediction level 62 Time 2 hours 28 minutes 51 seconds Early slash n TOMBSTONER BROTHER Swords dance the important slide IN THE ROCK SLIDE Misty, Erika skip, Blaine lorelei lance possibly koga is problematic Lack of speed n special concern me TOMBSTONER BROTHER and let this gen 1 diggersby do something
@GymLeaderMatt1987 I appreciate the shoutout I was thinking of giving up since yall surpassed me but I got inspiration from your criticism I am thinking of trade secrets shorts for obscure and stuff I use for x gyms Like Tate n liza n Norman n Maxie 1 I see TH-cam people no offense miss key items I know you can execute this far better than myself but how the heck is people supposed to know if the knowledge is hidden n I figured a few things on accident or sheer curiosity I learned about 60 percent of rse by playing it n not looking anything up the other 40 percent I looked up The persim berry stuff I was like is there a collision radius behind lanettes house n can I get this before surf I also heard complaints by glacia freeze when the berries are 4 steps north of path n I facepalm on the complaints by people better than me
@GymLeaderMatt1987 my goal in Pokémon since I failed to make it to the top in 2008 to 2011 is to try to teach whatever I can possibly learn to you guys I was competitive as high as 8th in the world in gen 3 But seeing everyone else in the past 5 years my better years have passed so I play as trying to be a professor oak n I want to mentor far better players I want people around me whether in Pokémon or in the job site I do 9 to 5 to be better than I ever was I want people to explore different curious strategies to go on their OWN JOURNEY n not try ai n meta slave strategies because that prevents INNOVATION
Yea I think most people, especially on speedruns, just follow a static route and just actually don't know much about the game. If you only have one avenue of learning, you'll just be limited. Getting your own experience, doing some deep dives, or finding different sources will only help you in the long run. You even see it in the solo run community where people will maybe watch Jrose and just do stuff he does rather than learn more about the game on their own but I guess that's their right and we can only control what we do. In competitive at least sometimes you have to follow a little meta, lol. I play PoGo PvP a lot and it's alright to run some off the wall pics but unless you are extremely skilled, you'll never reach top rank or leaderboards but I do understand what you are saying. I think the most dangerous players are the ones who understand the meta in and out and also understand niche picks and their place on the fringe.
Ha, let’s not go that far. It’ll finish ultimately way outside of the top 10 and it already has multiple swords dance users ahead of it. In competitive, it’s C tier at best in the UU tier. It’s underrated for a slowish ground type, but it’s not godlike lol.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 no prob Bob. Most parents aren't one year older than their offspring though. Dare say you could have offered a tad more respect in your initial reply.
I feel like you are deeply confused. You commented on a Pokemon video made a by a dude that just does this in his spare time. The 'this genocide' part makes absolutely no sense in the context of a Sandslash video and I offered a lighthearted reply because it's a weird, out of place comment. I heard about the US vet setting himself on fire. It's sad but I never alluded to, made light, or even remotely mentioned anything about that in the video and it's just a strange thing to connect it to. I'm sure there are at least a million other mediums to discuss a topic like that if it's something you are passionate to the point of turning toxic to even a simple comment like that. Calling me a child after an innocent reply and then going for the obnoxious, stale, low hanging fruit insult in your next reply gives me absolutely zero incentive to show even a modicum of respect. Either you are going through some shit or you just lack any sort of social awareness. Either way, I'm not going to be a part of it. Be better.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 yeah. I just think arbok when I hear sandslash. And when I see gen 1 sandslash would likely be the better choice. But with intimidate I wonder if Arbok is better. Sorry should have been more clear.
Ha, I've never thought of the two in the same sentence. Sounds like a Zangoose/Seviper wire cross. I think intimidate is pretty good but there's just no substitute for good ol' swords dance. I do plan on playing Gen 3 at some point in the future, but Emerald rather than the remake of something I play a lot already. It'll be a process but I did start playing Crystal just this last year and finally I'm enjoying it a lot so I have hope for Emerald.
You literally have to wrap around the map before Rock Tunnel and go to the top left corner where nothing is at to fight that guy and it's not even good experience lol.
I understand that you call it 124BP for a like to like comparison, since 124BP "rated power" if it Crit normally at 12.7% rate would be equivalent to 140BP. But it still seems weird. Slash is 140BP 100% of the time. Maybe all other moves should be calculated as effective power instead so Scratch is shown as 45, but even that is confusing. Maybe I'm just rambling...
Crit isn't a flat 2x rate in gen 1. It scales with level and it's all accounted for. You take base power, chance to crit, and crit damage to get effective power. If something had a 12.7% chance to crit starting at 70 base power, that only maths out to like 79 effective power, assuming you did it wrong with 2x crit multipliers. It's cool to do with high crit rate moves and not every Pokemon has a 100% chance to crit. For example, Tyranitar was just under the 100% crit so accuracy matters. It doesn't make sense to muddy the waters to do it with all moves but in gen 1, high crit rate moves deserve a little more spotlight without focusing on little trivial things like Tackle's effective power. Having STAB and type effectiveness is enough!
But does that mean it's not a like to like comparison? Is the 85BP Body Slam (which has a 12.7% chance to Crit) compare directly to the 124-131BP of Slash you had in the video (which now can't Crit over and above)?
High crit moves get the special treatment because they are 8x more likely to crit. Meaning 12.7 becomes 100%, 10% becomes 80%. At that threshold it’s worth it to display the actual value to get idea of where it’s at. For a normal crit move like Body Slam, it’s just 85 base power move 83% of the time. For reference, during the whole video, there’s only one crit highlighted and that’s because it bypasses the swords dance boost and caused a reset. The formula for that would just use the base power and the chance to not crit and then the chance to crit and the crit multiplier but that’s too misleading for my blood since it’ll just be the power shown over 80% of the time. Anything approaching that 60-100% crit, it’s worth showing that it’s stronger than it looks on paper. Everything else is just not worth the confusion. If Earthquake was written as 187 effective power then it would just be like ‘what’s more often than not.
really underrated for Sandslash! really agreed with you, sometimes pkmn speed run you really need to understand how AI works for this case if you don't, you will get stuck at Lorelei thanks GLM, you made my Monday better!!
It's weird to see people struggle with the concept. Yellow Lorelei is easily exploitable. I would have ran Golem in Yellow but Slowbro with Surf turned out to be the final boss of that run.
One of the most underrated Tombstoner users in the game IMO
It's properly rated now!
@@GymLeaderMatt1987true!
TOMBSTONER BROTHER
I dunno what it was, but you really knocked it out of the park with this video. You played super well, you sounded really upbeat, and your commentry was an awesome blend of informative and funny. Especially early in the run, you had me snorting my sodie pop!
Appreciate that! Yea I've been working on the craft and trying to get some fun to come across in the video. These are sweaty and optimized but they are still a good time!
His comment about the opponent using “36 defense curls” made me legit laugh out loud 😂
0:16 “Lances Gyrados, it’s chomping at the bit to give you the pump of the hydro variety” Gym leader Matt
It got one shot and missed!
I literally died laughing 🦥 good run!!
The beat-up sandslash sprite is great. Really makes me feel sorry for the spiny boy.
It had to suffer a little to put on that top 10 finish!
The videos from Scott, jrose, and yourself really reinvigorated my love and interest for these games, theres at least 151 unique experiences (for better or worse) one can have in Gen 1 playthroughs which was lost on my feeble 8/9/10 year old brain back in the day. Keep up the good work, brother. On a side note, we really do need a dual type ghost/ground Tombstoner in future gens, its a good flipside to Flying Press and would be a fun call back to gen 1.
Cool to be mentioned with those guys! I'm just a humble dude doing it on the side as a passion project and they live the dream of doing it for a job. Scott is cool and active in the community. Jrose, sadly, is in that mansion up in the hill and doesn't associate with any other channel lol.
“Through the power of sandattack all things are possible, so jot that down” hahaha
Recognizing that always sunny plug
Always put it in when it makes sense haha.
My favorite Pokemon!!!! :D Glad to see Sandslash kicking ass and taking names.
Top 10! (for the moment)
Heck yeah. I loved this thing as a kid. I thought it was SO strong against ghosts with dig. Lol.
Yea dig does a number on them lol.
Tombstoner brotherrrrr , another banger Matt ! Great vid hyped for tentacruel
When I'm done with midterms I'll work on that, then prob do a few different kind of videos before going back to the evolved runs.
One of my mains as a kid playing yellow and red. Always thought it needed more respect than it got. Shot out to ya for putting in the work with it. Always appreciate the runs… REAL ONE Brotha
I think ground types are underrated in general. Groudon showed it can be top tier and even runs like Rhydon and Golem are pretty good. The double weaknesses are whatever but this one killed it!
Why your channel doesn’t have a bigger following is beyond me. You are def my favorite
It’s a mystery!
Your commentary in this vid is top notch
That's high praise. Glad to see the work I put in is paying off!
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 it really is! keep up the amazing work
Focusing on midterms then coming back to Tentacruel and some other fun runs!
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 good luck with midterms!!
Earthquake … like moving from fighting with a pocket knife to an AK 47 😂. Banging out the quotes tonight, I need that on a t-shirt. thanks for running sandslash, it was my all time fav back in 1999 when i first played gen 1. I thought that it was a Demi-god, back then i had no idea about speed and crit hits, badge boosts, etc. I’ve learnt a lot about my favourite game from your channel.
Lmao, those are the things that come out when you don't write a script, proof it, and cut it down. No one has time for that lol. There's really a lot to learn and even I learn more about the game as time goes on. It's crazy lol.
This run and route was beautiful! Paired with a bit of timely luck it makes for a really enjoyable video
It would have been immaculate without the crit on Lorelei!
Real one! Good luck with your midterms.
Thanks! I'll be studying and preparing, treating it just like an optimized solo run lol.
Ah, Sandslash... The Pokemon in which everyone has named their Shiny one "Knuckles" and claims that it does not, in fact, chuckle.
Lmao, the ramblings of a madman. I can't say I'm diehard and in the forums for Pokemon, but I've never seen that nickname for Sandslash.
This video unlocked a childhood memory. Back in the day, I lent my copy of yellow to my cousin, when I got it back from him I checked out his save.
He was in Viridian, his party was a level 86 Sandslash, a Nidoking, and a Pidgeotto that were both below lv 40.
I checked the PC, and there sat his poor neglected Pikachu at level 9. His hall of fame team was indeed Sandslash, Nidoking, and Pidgeotto. A total of 8 pokemon caught in the pokedex.
I was horrified by his playstyle, and promptly started a new game to rid my cartridge of that abomination of a save.
I think my cousin would like this video.
Good on him neglecting the Pikachu. It's pretty bad in Yellow tbh.
If this video has taught me anything, it's that I should use a Sandslash next time I play Gen 1. Been doing solo runs myself and trying to use mons that I've never used before; this sparks some confidence in me! Nice vid!
I'll get to them all some day but it's cool seeing which one truly does good.
Wow i am really surpised by how well sandslash did. I did not think about him being a swords dance user and i guess that really is the answer to all questions. Swords dance and punch things in the face really hard. Solves all your problems.
For sure. Minimize the time to that point and it’s off to the races!
Remember that as a wee lad back in gen 2, I literally bred boxes full of Sandshrews, calling all males "Sandro" and all females "Sandra". Just a huge little Sandshrew farm. Good times. Been one of my favourite pokémon ever since, love the Alolan form as well. Good to see it perform well.
I did the same but for slowpokes lol.
Real one! Sandslash put in the work! I have to say the commentary was top tier on this one, had me laughing several times
Glad to hear it! I've heard that a few times today and I'm not sure what I did different but I need to study it lol. Thanks!
Single highest cluster of brisk swims to get yourself a soda pop. Great run!
No need to swim. Just go up 6 flights of stairs to buy an overpriced sodie!
Great run. Nice job holding off on the Tms to save time.
Thanks! Get to slash, ride it until the wheels fall off and let swords dance carry me the rest of the way lol.
I love slash commentary. It’s always a good day getting to watch Gym Leader Matt and have a bottle of code red.
Thanks! Sometime in the next week I'll have an 'overlay' type video out for people wanting to get started in that space.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 I will be looking out for that video. I’ve been wanting to try and create my overlay.
Look for a link and an announcement Sunday! It's not going to be a listed video find the post or look in future video's descriptions.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 downloaded the video! Thank you!
Sandslash/shrew are my original favorite pokemon, and it's nice to see it getting some love recently.
I don’t know where else it got love but good to see it get some recognition!
Glad to see more Sandshrew-equivalent (
Gotta rep my boy AJ!
Y'know, I hadn't ever made the connection between your voice and AJ's. Now I can't unhear it lol. Really good run, AJ would be proud.. Although, I don't know that he would've left dig and earthquake on at the same time, but then again he did use fissure in all of its 30% glory. Looking forward to the next one
Ha, he’s a scrub if he didn’t have both ground moves and needs to learn how to speedrun better. Dig overworld time skips save the most time!
You ARE one of the best commentators. Your really funny. Plus you tend to get the best times. Youre the Real One brother
Thanks! That's kind of you to say. I just hone the craft and try to get a bit better each time.
Thanks for the video Matt. I’ll catch you again in 2 weeks
I’ll stream to make up for the missed drop! Maybe Crystal!
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 I’ll be there if the time ends up working out with my schedule otherwise I’ll watch it back later
Nice. We’ll see how it goes!
Sand stoner brother. I watch scott to fall asleep. I watch matt to get TOMBSTONER BROTHER
That’s a fair assessment. I leveled the volume about a year ago to not get any surprise wake up moments because I’ve gotten a lot of sleep comments and I know I used to turn videos on to sleep as well lol.
Me and brother from early on recognized sandshrew/slash was a solid hard hitter.
was very happy you get him early in gen 2
Pretty early in blue as well. It was pretty solid. Ground leaves a little bit to be desired but you really can't hope for much more than this.
Sandslash keeping it classy 👌 Surprised how well he did!
Only being single weak to the things that Rhydon/Golem/etc are double weak to definitely help but the main thing was not being incredibly slow. 65 is that perfect sweet spot.
Kordell Stewart nicknamed "Slash" was on the cover of the best N64 sports game NFL Blitz
I played some Blitz about a month ago. Good times!
Hell yeah tombstoner brother!!
Hell yea, brother.
Awesome upload man, real one
Appreciate that! Glad you liked it.
I always found it funny how in early gens they refuse to give you earthquake in their learnset.
Outside of Diglett and Geodude lines, it was just absent lol.
Great routing, stream rolled from the fourth gym into the top 10
Early candies to not lose momentum on Misty then a lot of setup led to a pretty big snowball and you love to see it!
Liking and commenting for the sodie pop algorithm. Sandslash was my favorite pkmn when i was just a young lad!
Spikes = cool!
9:48 well Slash has epic guitar solos 🎸 🤘
Be hard to hold in the string on the fret with claws for sure.
Solid run! On paper sandslash doesn’t look like much, except when it’s on the rival’s team in yellow but it really has all the tools it needs and not having 4x weaknesses just makes it feel better than the rock/grounds for the most part, plus it’s stat distribution is a lot better than dugtrio or marrowak. If only it started with a ground move.
Don’t get me started on Marowak lol. Why doesn’t it learn Rock Slide? Haha. It’s such a weird Pokémon. That run was baffling.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 Who knows man, why don’t any of the fossils learn rock slide except for Lance’s illegal aerodactyl? I think game freak secretly hates the rock type and rock moves and won’t make good ones or give them to reasonable Pokémon. I heard an explanation about marowak’s move set recently, it’s supposedly one of the developer’s favorite Pokémon so they gave it like almost all the great special moves in spite of having a base 50 special stat.
I argued the opposite in my video. They gave it special moves as a cruel joke, made it start with an 85% accurate move, and made it the only Ground type Pokemon in the entire game to not learn Rock Slide. It also doesn't get anything else useful and it's just almost exclusively using Earthquake/Dig and Body Slam on Flying types. It's a badly designed Pokemon and if it was someone's favorite, they had a strange way of showing it lol.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 Honestly that would make more sense but there’s definitely something weird going on with Marowak and the favorite story came from the VGC commentator Joe Brown so there’s probably some validity. The designer of pikachu once stated that the made the encounter rate so low for it because they didn’t want to share it with everyone so it’s possible that this is just a weird and impenetrable group of people making a game in Japan in the early 90s
I used to think about stuff like that in the earlier times but after diving into the code and just playing the game a ton, the answer that satisfies me is that they just didn't know what they were doing and didn't know the gravity of the series. It continues in gen 2 where they thought they'd be done with Pokemon and send it off with a love letter but there's some weird and awful decisions there too. Gen 3 is where the polish and actual progression of the series comes into play.
real one! i'm not sure if you've done this before and i just didn't notice but i like the injured sprite when ol sandy isn't healed up
I've been trying to make the hurt/faint sprites better, gradually increasing over time. This one was pretty good! It's always a balance of how much to 'hurt' them lol.
Sand-scratch, sand-slash, swords-quake!
Sounds right to me!
Enjoy your music choices, great video as always!
Appreciate it! I try to pay extra attention to transitions and audio stuff!
The sand demon was really good without the use of throwing sand. Knowing whenever to set up and how to do that ,is something that requires a lot of trial and error, especially that risky Brock fight. I started to realize that the Brock split can make or break some runs, even just a little.🤔 But also knowing to feel how what kind path to take in the mid game, which really hard to figure out without prior experience.
I really liked that you carried slash up until Sliph ,and then teach sword dance and body slam. Because having to rely on crits is really good at the early game, but it falls off shortly after the 4th gym. 😮
I never knew that Sandslash could be that good , I'm excited to see how Sausage would do in yellow or better else in Legacy. But I'll get to do that in following week😊.
For sure. There's no doubt Brock is the worst gym leader in the game. He probably walls or at least impedes the progress of like 85% of runs in some way so it's a hassle. Some people ask if you could skip Brock or if you could train up to the entrance of Mt. Moon how it would affect the tier list and my guess is significantly.
It was a good route! Figuring out how to get slash without slowing down and getting to Silph without the run being too far behind was the goal and it's just a bunch of zoomies to the end from there.
For the last line, are you saying the Meganium run is coming out soon and you'll start on the sausage run? That's what I need to hear lol.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 The brock split is one important split, watching a lot of gen 1 content and doing a lot of run of Parasect made me think of that.
I like that kind of planning that's why I was trying my best with Meganium to cut down the time and be as efficient as possible that's why I ended up spending the entire week and a half doing that 😂 and thinking outside of the box without having a rock move. Now I'm starting the editing part,so that I can do Susasge runs as much as possible. 😆
I got to redo Meganium under x3 speed, in game time rules one day and I’m not looking forward to it. I do plan on doing Diglett sometime soonish though, maybe April. It has solid stats where it counts but no badge boost seems like Lorelei will be a nightmare and I’m scared of the level it’ll have to be for that. Interested to see what you come up with!
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 I did it on 4x speed and the menu was a different challenge 😂. I wonder how much you'll improve it. I basically did what the game wanted me to do with this pokemon,in other words if you can't beat them ,stall them. 😄
If Meganium had sleep powder the run would have been way different, because I felt how weak a pure grass type is in Johto. 😮💨
Diglett is really fast and can hit hard ,but once it meets up with water,ice ,grass moves it would run as far off as it can from the screen. I bet that level 66 Lorelei is not farfetched, as long as these rock slide are going to hit. I think that Diglett will have a better time in red and blue because Lorelei doesn't have that much water moves or ice moves in her team, or so I hope.
By the way I hope that mid terms will go well for you. 🙂
For sure. I wish it got sleep powder but at least it gets ground coverage…at the end of the game basically lol. Hidden power is pretty nice for the run but I think I used ice for Lance. I great considered sunny day/solar beam strats but then Charizard at the end can just roast you lol.
Yea 65 sounds right for Dugtrio. It wouldn’t surprise me if Diglett needs 70+ but remember a key thing. STAB EQ does the same damage as super effective rock slide so no need to put it in the hands of accuracy there but I do think it’s fast enough to not worry much about Misty.
Thanks! Midterms are stressful and I’m a stickler for details and want to maintain a 4.0. I’m not naturally gifted and need to study a lot so I’m fairly confident! I’ll be streaming Crystal this week hopefully to get back in line with hopefully finally getting a Crystal tier list back.
The comparison with Dugtrio will be interesting. Starting with Dig but not learning SD will pretty much flip the early-game and late-game power levels.
Always a risky thing to do lol. For example Magikarp with Dragon Rage was dominant for a while but fell off and what worries me about the 3 little sausages is how frail it is. I don't think it'll be at this level of greatness but if it's struggles aren't too bad then it can be alright.
I'm worried it'll need like level 65 just for Lorelei or something but I haven't done a single test.
I actually had a sodie pop ready for this video 😊
Preparation is key!
sand attack is a solid move in gen 1. its not as good in later gens but in gen 1 3 of those connecting will almost ensure ull never be touched again. which gives sandslash time he needs to get a few critical slash attacks in or a hard hit with earthquake or dig. sandslash is my fave pokemon and i really wish he got more respect than he does. i cant tell you how many times hes saved my ass.
Yea, the multiplier starts at .66 and was changed to .75 in gen 2. Any debuffs or modifier is that much more annoying in gen 1 for sure.
13:14 Definitely don’t want PP problems 😏 haha :p
I'm always here to teach people to get around that without wasting time on PP ups.
Let the after work relaxation begin!
Perfect. That's what I like to hear!
I feel vindicated, Sandslash is a good guy
It was a great run!
I am fond of Sandslash. Very cute, and good performance too. But I'm really looking forward to your Tentacruel run. I did a Tentacool solo run recently and there were very few parts of the game it didn't have good tools to take on. I'm curious whether you'll choose physical sweeper Tentacruel with Swords Dance as your badge boosting move over wall Tentacruel with Barrier. I wasn't impressed with its physical movepool too much so I used Barrier, and it let my Tentacool tank Hyper Beams from Lance's Gyarados fine as long as he didn't crit, and then Mega Drain the health back. But then, Tentacruel has access to better physical attack moves like Hyper Beam, huh... it might make more sense to go Swords Dance for it. Look forward to finding out!
Yea it'll be similar to the Tentacool run I did on stream earlier in the year. I think that swords dance will be rather weak and barrier to make Lance consistent is what I did with that run too. I think in the years old video I didn't have barrier but on the redo, I used it to have a pretty solid time. We'll see how wrap and supersonic at the start feels and go from there lol.
@GymLeaderMatt1987 Yeah, it's annoying to be a water type that doesn't obliterate Brock with a water move, but with Wrap you shouldn't have to overlevel either since you'll be able to easily outspeed.
Oh yea, I got a good grasp on it so it'll be Tentacool with better stats. I'll get to work on it soon!
I remember as a kid not knowing crits ignored stat changes and wondering why slash didn't do more damage after setting up.
Real one!
I think a lot of people still don't know so worth going over! You learn something every day!
30:44 it’s always appreciated what you do. #RealOne & still thankful for the random shout out in a video last year too :)
No problem, brother.
You know who else knows the power of sand-attack?
Dale Gribble.
RIP Dale. He died back in '99.
Sandslash is my favourite pokemon, and for good reasons. He looks cool, cute and is just overall awesome
I’m a big fan of the alolan version myself.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 SSJGSSJ Sandslash
Needs a few more S, G, and Js to be true to the power level.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 Fake it till you make it :D
real engagement one!
Appreciate it!
I love Sandslash. Both forms ❤
Same. I use alolan Sandslash in PoGo pvp a lot. It’s a menace to dragons and fairy types.
Real ones dig earthquakers and shakers who use two ground type moves on one Pokemon.
Oh yea, overworld time saves are too valuable lol.
Thanks for the video! I have nothing interesting to say. Sandslash went super saiyan 3 before it was cool.
Ha, sorry to fact check that but the Buu Saga manga released in 1994. Pokemon Red/Green didn't release in Japan until 1996 lol.
i stan for sandslash
I slash for sandstan.
Hell yeah, its not often you get a full moveset swap, at least they gave him a lot of TM options since the learnset is so limited
Yea, not a ton, but it gets all the stuff it needs. Slash just carries it so hard for a while and you get to make that beautiful Silph pivot to take you the rest of the way. It really was a beautiful route.
My favorite mon in all of pokemon
Nice. Every Pokémon is someone’s favorite!
I can tell this is a high level run with some serious legwork put into the optimization. I’m impressed by the level 11 Brock choice and the 2 candies before Misty (I was just hoping for the best at level 23 with slash).
A couple questions came to mind in comparison to my attempts and Scott’s thought’s Sandslash video:
1) why get body slam? Seems like slash is good until you have earthquake and rock slide, so it doesn’t seem needed
2) why target a level 60 finish when it can be done at 58? I’m curious if this was to try to survive a hydro pump against lance and an additional hit from the second dragonite while setting up a second sword’s dance. If so, would rest have been faster than picking up the 2 additional levels?
Nice video, just found it and enjoy seeing sandslash get some love
It’s been a minute since I record and the true answer to most things is that I just do a few runs as a hobby and call it quits. There’s likely more optimization to be done for most runs but I have to draw the line at some point on the hobby.
These days Scott gets other talented runners to do their own runs, does his own runs, and then melds all of them together into a super run that one would only have time and resources to do if it was a full time job.
Things like the Parasect race and Smeargle race are an idea of ‘full power’ optimization when you do a lot of runs but I’m somewhere between the casual runs of Jrose and the nitpicky, collaborative effort of Scott for my runs.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 got it, makes sense. Even so, this was a very high level run. Thanks for the video
Yea I think it's 11 to date. I'm sure the reasoning for Body Slam was so it would work with Swords Dance later but it was probably a little obsolete. I don't have notes or the route pulled up so its hard to say. I generally do my blind run, move some things around, fix some of the problems, do another, then finally look at some damage numbers, do a third run and call it quits unless I make a blatant mistake or I feel there's a ton of time left on the table. Lately I've found myself doing 4th and 5th runs and with a newborn it's been rough lol.
Part of me envies channels like MDB or Jrose that just turn it on, do one run, then pop out a video. They are way more successful than any other solo channel and maybe that's the secret lol.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 Personally I love the optimized runs. Congrats on your newborn! I have a 19 month old myself. I feel like I just barely have time to play and optimize, and I’m not even editing videos and posting them :)
I hear that. You really have to be efficient with the voiceover work. I lost my voice yesterday so I’m out of commission for at least a little bit lol.
18:00 *TOMBSTONER, BROTHER!!!!!*
Bro is just clicking on the video, skipping to one part, leaving a comment, and clicking off. That's not real one behavior.
@GymLeaderMatt1987 oh hell no, I find the TOMBSTONER brother and then go back and watch fully
Now that's real one behavior.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 yessir
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 yeah was gonna say I usually find the TOMBSTONER, BROTHER!!!! and go back since i listen when I drive
Poor Little AJ he is locked in the Basement. His head is on fire. He just wanna escape his enslavement. Forced to train Pokémon. If you want know which Basement. Then look no further than GLM's Mansion. He just don't wanna end up at the pavement. This is not his passion. 😂😂😂😂😂 Okay I had better stop now.
The anime came out like 26 years ago lol.
A.J. Smiles upon you
I am him and he is me.
Scott's video yesterday reminded me of something. In speed runs (1x speed) they cut the two bushes in Fushia. I always figured it was slower to do on 4x speed but Scott started doing it. Have you tested to see if it's faster on 3x?
Great video as always!
Him and Otto says it’s faster but going into the menu and using cut twice feels bad to me. I think Austin and I (top 2 in the Smeargle race) just go around. It might be a bit faster if you execute it perfectly but I just see it as an alternate way that’s about the same. I only bring up the race because you might not know Austin lol. I’m not too worried about a second or two but might look into it. My strat is to avoid menus if I can and opening two seems a little risky.
Love Sandslash.
It was a good one!
26:32 you didn’t even need Mimic 👌
Nope. I don't think many of the tippy top mons use it though. It's usually a filler for weaker learnsets or something struggling.
Sandslash appreciation comment
The spiky devil himself.
It's sad that Sandslash can't learn TOMBSTONER, brother!
It can! It's TM28, a known Marika/Radagon Elden Ring type situation.
Any time I look at level up movesets like Sandslashes, I do wonder what was being smoked in the Gamefreak offices at the time. Because that isn't the moveset of someone who was consciously thinking.
I doubt there was much thinking lol.
GameFreak employee 1: Some shrews have venom that the deliver through claws and stingers, so its moveset should represent that.
GameFreak employee 2: Some shrews burrow underground and we DID make it a ground type...so I was thinking maybe it doesn't get any ground moves via level up.
To be fair there's only like 3 ground moves in the game. Fissure is exclusive and...I got nothing else for why they didn't do more with EQ/Dig. Sometimes it's left as a TM, sometimes Pokemon just learn it via level up.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 Sandslash/Sandshrew getting Dig via level up would have made sense for sure. Dugtrio gets it and then Cubone and Marowak while weaker, get exclusive moves. Can understand keeping EQ as a TM though due to its absurd power.
Matt please!!! I can’t keep seeing Gyarados in the B tier that other creators have put him in. If there is anyone who can get that water snake boi up it’s you! Please do the Gyarados solo run
Yellow is understandable with the learnset nerf but it'll come in time. Gotta space them out but I got some bangers in the works!
Is Victreebel on your list of runs this year for Gen 1? Scott's Thoughts found it to be one of the best OG Pokemon in Yellow.
I don’t have things planned that far. No doubt it’ll be good but expectations should be kept in check. Remember, he did a lot of runs, members of his discord cracked it, he modified his route based on that, and did a ton of more runs. I generally do 3 runs and touch up if I made a big error but that top 3 is hard to crack.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 I didn't know that his discord did a deep dive with Victreebel. Scott still doesn't have the big 3 of Alakazam, Mew, and Mewtwo on his list, and maybe not even the 3 legendary birds, or Charizard, either. He might save those for his last runs of Yellow.
I’m not 100% but I think they do all the videos like that these days. Ever since the Haunter video last year. I don’t know the full details and he usually discloses it in some way but he did the 3 birds at the end of the year. I remember Austin telling me he did like 15 runs+ with some of the birds to help Scott out along with other players.
Alakazam won’t be top 3 in yellow. They weirdly nerfed its starting learnset to where you have to use struggle on Brock.
The main point being is in a one man show and just do a few runs and call it a day. The number of runs put into Victreebel for his channel is unrealistic unless you made TH-cam videos for a living and I don’t.
Bro what was that song at the beginning of the video????? Its so groovy
Street Fighter 2: Dudley's theme!
Does anyone know Dewgong’s precise chances of using rest on turn 2? I’ve heard 3/5, 4/5, and now in this video 81%. Very curious how this actually works
81% is on the modification deep dive page of Bulba and my experiences show it to be true. It’s much less on R/B, sometimes feeling less than 50.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 Snowy helped me get to the bottom of it. Are you ready for a truth bomb? 81% is only the correct calculation if bubblebeam, aurora beam, and rest are all considered super effective. So I think that’s just for Nidoking and Nidoqueen
@@ZealousPawn I guess I just get lucky in all my yellow runs lol. I’ll stick with the AI modification numbers from the speedrun wiki. The explanation is that regardless of their effectiveness, 102/256 of the time it’ll see all moves as neutral and has a percentage for what it’ll go for.
Here’s the link. I think it’s a waste of time to independently test it.
wiki.pokemonspeedruns.com/index.php/Pokémon_Red/Blue/Yellow_Trainer_AI
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 yep, pretty sure that wiki page is just for nidoking numbers, which would make sense if you’re doing traditional speed runs rather than solo runs. Dewgong is ~70% likely to use rest when one of bubblebeam/aurora beam is super effective, and 52% likely to use rest if they’re both super effective. Edit: And 100% likely to use t2 rest if Ice and water are neutral or resisted
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 snowy tested it with 1 million trials on different types of Pokemon, so you don’t need to independently test it. Edit: But please do if you’re interested! It probably won’t take you long to see there’s a 100% chance of t2 rest if you take a mono normal type into the fight over and over
Tombstoner brother. Tbh i knew sandslash was good. I was guessing bottom A tier but it outperformed.
Yea it has a great moveset to overcome the weaknesses!
Single highest cluster
For the algorithm
Single highest algorithm cluster right here.
Always like sandy boi
It's a pretty good one!
If you've never done a video on how you edit and the process you do for making videos that'd be some good content.
Step 1: Pay hundreds of dollars for Premiere Pro and watch a bunch of TH-cam videos haha. Maybe one day the idea would be feasible but I have a hard enough time getting a lot of people to watch regular videos lmao.
My like got the video to 111 likes, so that’s kinda cool.
That is pretty cool!
Prediction level 62
Time 2 hours 28 minutes 51 seconds
Early slash n TOMBSTONER BROTHER
Swords dance
the important slide IN THE ROCK SLIDE
Misty, Erika skip, Blaine lorelei lance possibly koga is problematic
Lack of speed n special concern me
TOMBSTONER BROTHER and let this gen 1 diggersby do something
It definitely did!
@GymLeaderMatt1987 I appreciate the shoutout I was thinking of giving up since yall surpassed me but I got inspiration from your criticism
I am thinking of trade secrets shorts for obscure and stuff I use for x gyms
Like Tate n liza n Norman n Maxie 1 I see TH-cam people no offense miss key items
I know you can execute this far better than myself but how the heck is people supposed to know if the knowledge is hidden n I figured a few things on accident or sheer curiosity
I learned about 60 percent of rse by playing it n not looking anything up the other 40 percent I looked up
The persim berry stuff I was like is there a collision radius behind lanettes house n can I get this before surf
I also heard complaints by glacia freeze when the berries are 4 steps north of path n I facepalm on the complaints by people better than me
@GymLeaderMatt1987 my goal in Pokémon since I failed to make it to the top in 2008 to 2011 is to try to teach whatever I can possibly learn to you guys
I was competitive as high as 8th in the world in gen 3
But seeing everyone else in the past 5 years my better years have passed so I play as trying to be a professor oak n I want to mentor far better players
I want people around me whether in Pokémon or in the job site I do 9 to 5 to be better than I ever was
I want people to explore different curious strategies to go on their OWN JOURNEY n not try ai n meta slave strategies because that prevents INNOVATION
Yea I think most people, especially on speedruns, just follow a static route and just actually don't know much about the game. If you only have one avenue of learning, you'll just be limited. Getting your own experience, doing some deep dives, or finding different sources will only help you in the long run. You even see it in the solo run community where people will maybe watch Jrose and just do stuff he does rather than learn more about the game on their own but I guess that's their right and we can only control what we do.
In competitive at least sometimes you have to follow a little meta, lol. I play PoGo PvP a lot and it's alright to run some off the wall pics but unless you are extremely skilled, you'll never reach top rank or leaderboards but I do understand what you are saying. I think the most dangerous players are the ones who understand the meta in and out and also understand niche picks and their place on the fringe.
Gen 1 learnsets are wild. Sandshrew line no naturally learned ground moves. Just like voltorb like learns no electric move naturally.
For sure. What’s wild is a lot of learnsets are worse in Gen 2 lol.
@GymLeaderMatt1987 gligar. What were they thinking
It's just the tip of the iceberg. Lanturn, Forretress, Umbreon, and Steelix were all head scratching.
oh boy oh boy I am really still alive
Always good to hear!
Sandslash is not only underrated but also the most broken pokemon in gen 1.
Ha, let’s not go that far. It’ll finish ultimately way outside of the top 10 and it already has multiple swords dance users ahead of it. In competitive, it’s C tier at best in the UU tier.
It’s underrated for a slowish ground type, but it’s not godlike lol.
nice
A US vet immolated himself to end this genocide.
Sounds like some deep lore.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 it's reality child.
I'm old enough to be your dad, bitch. Get out of here with condescending replies.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 no prob Bob. Most parents aren't one year older than their offspring though. Dare say you could have offered a tad more respect in your initial reply.
I feel like you are deeply confused. You commented on a Pokemon video made a by a dude that just does this in his spare time. The 'this genocide' part makes absolutely no sense in the context of a Sandslash video and I offered a lighthearted reply because it's a weird, out of place comment.
I heard about the US vet setting himself on fire. It's sad but I never alluded to, made light, or even remotely mentioned anything about that in the video and it's just a strange thing to connect it to. I'm sure there are at least a million other mediums to discuss a topic like that if it's something you are passionate to the point of turning toxic to even a simple comment like that.
Calling me a child after an innocent reply and then going for the obnoxious, stale, low hanging fruit insult in your next reply gives me absolutely zero incentive to show even a modicum of respect. Either you are going through some shit or you just lack any sort of social awareness. Either way, I'm not going to be a part of it. Be better.
not watched yet but im going to guess that the only real problem sandslash will have is lack of coverage
It's the weaknesses really. Ground/Rock leave very few holes and it has nice and neutral things like Body Slam along the way!
Matt, look at this cool bug I found
Whoops, I used stomp.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 you are mean
Mean or making light of an internet stranger telling me to physically look at something and the joke falling flat? Lol.
I’m curious what’s the best version exclusives for rb vs frlg
These days, I couldn't even list all the version exclusives lol. That part of the game died a long time ago for me, thank god haha.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 yeah. I just think arbok when I hear sandslash. And when I see gen 1 sandslash would likely be the better choice. But with intimidate I wonder if Arbok is better. Sorry should have been more clear.
Ha, I've never thought of the two in the same sentence. Sounds like a Zangoose/Seviper wire cross. I think intimidate is pretty good but there's just no substitute for good ol' swords dance. I do plan on playing Gen 3 at some point in the future, but Emerald rather than the remake of something I play a lot already. It'll be a process but I did start playing Crystal just this last year and finally I'm enjoying it a lot so I have hope for Emerald.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 you do good work. Keep it up Matt
Appreciate that!
Sandslash and Sonic the Hedgehog are related. Just gonna leave this here
Probably!
GLM: "Let's talk about clusters..."
Me: "HE'S GONNA SAY THE THING!!!!"
I always look forward to the Nugget Bridge explanation haha. Great job, man!
I can't even tell if it's a running bit or the truth anymore.
Yo bro, did you know that you had both dig and earthquake at the same time, also i remember one of the sandshrew sprites in gen 1 being very cute.
Had to be Yellow. Definitely wasn't R/B/G lol.
Hopefully you fight the trainer with a sandshrew with fissure
You’ll never see me go that far out of the way lol. This is a pseudo speedrun and the time trumps all.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 ooh right. I need to see if I beat that trainer
You literally have to wrap around the map before Rock Tunnel and go to the top left corner where nothing is at to fight that guy and it's not even good experience lol.
I understand that you call it 124BP for a like to like comparison, since 124BP "rated power" if it Crit normally at 12.7% rate would be equivalent to 140BP. But it still seems weird. Slash is 140BP 100% of the time. Maybe all other moves should be calculated as effective power instead so Scratch is shown as 45, but even that is confusing. Maybe I'm just rambling...
Crit isn't a flat 2x rate in gen 1. It scales with level and it's all accounted for. You take base power, chance to crit, and crit damage to get effective power. If something had a 12.7% chance to crit starting at 70 base power, that only maths out to like 79 effective power, assuming you did it wrong with 2x crit multipliers.
It's cool to do with high crit rate moves and not every Pokemon has a 100% chance to crit. For example, Tyranitar was just under the 100% crit so accuracy matters. It doesn't make sense to muddy the waters to do it with all moves but in gen 1, high crit rate moves deserve a little more spotlight without focusing on little trivial things like Tackle's effective power. Having STAB and type effectiveness is enough!
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 Ohh, that makes a lot more sense then!
But does that mean it's not a like to like comparison? Is the 85BP Body Slam (which has a 12.7% chance to Crit) compare directly to the 124-131BP of Slash you had in the video (which now can't Crit over and above)?
High crit moves get the special treatment because they are 8x more likely to crit. Meaning 12.7 becomes 100%, 10% becomes 80%. At that threshold it’s worth it to display the actual value to get idea of where it’s at. For a normal crit move like Body Slam, it’s just 85 base power move 83% of the time. For reference, during the whole video, there’s only one crit highlighted and that’s because it bypasses the swords dance boost and caused a reset.
The formula for that would just use the base power and the chance to not crit and then the chance to crit and the crit multiplier but that’s too misleading for my blood since it’ll just be the power shown over 80% of the time.
Anything approaching that 60-100% crit, it’s worth showing that it’s stronger than it looks on paper. Everything else is just not worth the confusion. If Earthquake was written as 187 effective power then it would just be like ‘what’s more often than not.
Thanks for your time and explanation! Cheers
You were at 69 likes but then I got here.
Lets go for 69,420.
really underrated for Sandslash! really agreed with you, sometimes pkmn speed run you really need to understand how AI works
for this case if you don't, you will get stuck at Lorelei
thanks GLM, you made my Monday better!!
It's weird to see people struggle with the concept. Yellow Lorelei is easily exploitable. I would have ran Golem in Yellow but Slowbro with Surf turned out to be the final boss of that run.
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Nice video my boy😎💪🏿
Appreciate that! Worked hard on it lol.
@@GymLeaderMatt1987 😎💪🏿 anytime matt one thing i do hate is grindin solid rock and ground types i did that in leafgreen never again 😂
I gotta do Geodude. It's hit or miss for me. Golem/Rhydon are solid in the B tier, Onix and Rhyhorn are bottom 5 lol.
first like first comment again
Ah yes. The comment saying first. What a highly coveted and engaging comment I look forward to every week.
the least we can do to show our commitment
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