Can You Beat Pokemon Crystal With Only a Ditto?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ต.ค. 2018
- Ditto is back, and this time it's taking on the Johto region!
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15:20 "so for this battle I'm pretty much forced to sit there until I'm defeated by my own stupid strategy." LOL. the rant before hand made that line so much better, and despite having no emotion in his voice I can tell how much it bothers him lmao
And ditto eating the screen lol
I don't think he was upset. Probbly mostly amused
@@norisusi4747 congrats
He's like dying on the inside while this is happening lmfaoooo
This is literally the epitome of "getting a taste of your own medicine"!
I love when he explained the Ditto vs. Ditto thing lol "waiting as I'm beaten by my own stupid strategy."
Can I pet your profile picture?
@@ahmiehabibi I believe you misread his comment. He wants to PET it, not have it
@@ahmiehabibi oopsie poopsie XD
😂😂😂
I stroked my screen with my finger, thus technically petting the profile pic
15:00 that fade transition into Ditto’s face made me lose it
Me too lmao
I rewatch this video every few months just for that transition. Just flawless
My brain stopped working half way through.
ikkkkk
"DITTOTWO is having an Existential Crisis!
DITTOTWO Fainted!"
Every Pokemon in Crystal: Who are you?
DittoTwo: *I'm you, but stronger*
"I'm you but *weaker."
Ditto copies the exact stats except health . So stronger ? No
DarthRaider But he has more HP
Cuz overlevel
I'm you but *the same*
Would've been the best one
@@ryantan3070 i was thinking the same thing
*Man goes crazy after completing hardest, most unfun challenge in gaming. Proceeds to do it a second time. More at 11.*
I don't know, I think the Smeargle challenge was worse. At least in this, just running out of PP and spamming Struggle was a viable option, those Smeargles really were about worthless.
technically he did not complete this one, he couldn't beat Red without breaking his rules.
@@Mst3kfanatic1 I don't think he beat red period
@@Mst3kfanatic1 but with his rules there is a 1 in 4.5 billion chance of him winning
@@Amber7H That counts as a win right?
‘Transform’
‘Transform’
‘Transform’
“ *DITTO INTENSIFIES* “
@@HalfOtaku Even better, Ditto can't reproduce and as we all know, STIs are like Pokémon. Gotta catch 'em all
'Transform'
'Transform'
'Transform'
(Metapod appears)
*DO NOT TRANSFORM*
14:53
So in short
It's possible but
A bit of a struggle
Was the pun intended?
@@avenger-rw8nj yes
@@absolution9249 Ha, nice one.
But that possibility is like 1 in gazillion. Because of the stacking probabilities of crits/misses etc.
Red is just insane with a ditto lol.
Wow you need a burn berry to cure from that
@@acespider7781 lol
Right when he said: "I think we all know there's someone else I have to try to defeat before I can say this is over.." my heart ached for this man's sanity as I knew a certain primary color named mountain boi would crush it.
@@TwinklingStar0839 I mean, are they wrong
Is it bad that I immediately thought of Red from the Pokemon Adventures Manga and not Red from the Pokemon game Pokemon Crystal?
@@fukkthisnewupdate8882 I mean technically they are the same character, one just actually knows how to speak
GASP!! You can't possibly mean... GREEN?!?!
@@Shadethewolfy That's a secondary color, YOU FOOL
HERE'S WHAT YOU DO:
Battle Red with 2 Dittos.
No no, we gotta take it to the extreme,
TREE, not just three but TREE dittos.
@@unsie Stop right there, bub. You cannot bring up THAT number up in front of these poor mortals.
FORK dittos
@@porkyminchasc1150 FORK you >:(
I'm gonna need about tree fiddy
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One of my favorite things to do in Pokémon is look at the teams of the post game trainers and think “why are you not champion? Shouldn’t you be able to beat [insert champion’s name]”. So when you fought Blue my first thought was “shouldn’t he be able to beat Lance?” And then I remembered
Blue realised there's more job security in running a gym than being the champion; he doesn't have to give up his title every time a precocious preteen gets lucky
skill issue
Maybe you could beat Red with the Metal Powder. In Generation II it boosts a ditto's defense and special defense by 50% even when transformed. You wouldn’t be able to heal but I think this would be an overall net gain
@@Somerandomperson-hl1kt Dunno if you typo'd and meant to put III or something but Crystal is Gen II and the Metal Powder is in Gen II
Huh. I'm surprised he didn't talk about that. For all we know, maybe he tried it and it didn't make up for not having Leftovers, but he didn't even mention it, so we have no way of knowing. I'd love for him to weigh in on this.
Edit: Bulbapedia says the only way to get it in Crystal is to trade a Ditto from Gen I. Maybe Asprey considers that against the spirit of the challenge since it involves outside hardware?
@@NoriMori1992 also he mightve been using an emulator
@@kylecampbell565 He's done trades as setups in other challenges though, so I think he _can_ do it.
A bit late, but that wouldn't make up for the inherent problem of the fight: damage output. Transformed Ditto does NOT have the damage to completely KO the opponent's team with moves, and by the time it can use Struggle, the remaining pokemon have moves that are just too strong. A 50% boost in Pikachu's low defenses wouldn't make much of a difference, Charizard would *maybe* have to use an extra Flamethrower, but at the same time Struggle wouldn't be able to kill Charizard in the most optimal circumstances. Using Metal Coat or Magnet would have a slightly better return in the impossibly perfect scenario, but, again, Charizard would pop up and use Flamethrower.
I hope this becomes a series for every generation of pokemon.
It likely will, Christian just needs time to recover and go through intense therapy after doing something like this.
starting in gen 3, struggle takes out a fourth of your hp regardless of how much damage you deal, expect future episodes to end much earlier
@@rhysdog8600 regardless of his struggle straddle if he does another installment hoeen will end no later than the 7th gym. it's a double battle and they won't let you even attempt it without two unfainted team members.
If the player has only one Pokémon in their party
Tate: "Hehehe... Were you surprised?"
Liza: "That there are two Gym Leaders?"
Tate: "Oops, you have only one..."
Liza: "Pokémon that can battle."
Tate: "We can't battle that way!"
Liza: "If you want to challenge us, bring some more Pokémon."
Soapy Foten looks like he’s using two dittos
Jerry Yuan ib4 he uses imposter ditto gen 5 and up
For those of you who aren't content with an open-ended answer, after doing some testing, I was able to determine a few things:
- You need a good Ditto in order to beat Red; it benefits from having a high HP DV, the rest are copied from Red, which are nearly maxed as well.
- What really matters is Stat Exp, which has to be applied/updated on the level 100 Ditto by depositing and withdrawing it from the PC. You can use stuff like Calcium to get them 1/3 of the way, the rest must be maxed via wild battles and phone trainers/E4 rematches. Note that in Crystal, the Battle Tower won't work for this.
- Struggle strat will never work for Red, even if you crit every hit and Red misses every move(Brightpowder is the only way here) Ditto kills itself by the time you reach Blastoise.
- The only way I found to beat Red is to transform into Pikachu. With perfect stats and near-perfect RNG (Scope Lens helps with this, but can be obtained only via Mystery Gift,) it's possible to get enough crits to wipe out most of his team. Blastoise will even help set up for Charizard at the end by using Rain Dance on turn one.
I could be wrong, but I only tested this for a few hours.
Extra notes:
You need to have the first badge before you can pick up the Pink Bow. So backtracking was required regardless!
Mirror Move on transform isn't the issue; it's the fact that Mirror Move won't let you use a move you already know for some reason(likely trying to prevent bugs.) So since transforming into Pidgeot means you have all of its moves too, it will always fail until you fight another team member.
pigdab
We tested this for way too long, this man is dedicated
Very good!
You get an A for that.
"Struggle strat will never work for Red, even if you crit every hit and Red misses every move(Brightpowder is the only way here) Ditto kills itself by the time you reach Blastoise." Is this including potential leftovers or holding some berry?
@@illoney5663 If you have Ditto holding Brightpowder, then Leftovers/Berry aren't possible. :P
@@ladyarmourlapras Oh yea, right, somehow I didn't include the "miss every move" when I read through it a second time.
I remember when I caught six dittos and had them battle each other in Pokémon Stadium. It was the most pointless battle I'd ever done.
amazing. i would pay to watch that
I once had a similar experience in Pokémon Go where a gym had a ditto in it. I saw that I had a ditto and went, “eh, what the hell.”
I say it’s pretty impressive how far you got with Ditto alone. You beat probably 99% of the game or so with one Pokémon and that is pretty damn amazing.
this is real content
Or IS it?
MAYBE
Ed Ra r/wooosh
Real content > Fortnite clickbait
Astari here what a suprise
If you decide to do this in Gen 3, please consider making the Ditto shiny, because shiny Ditto in those games become the shiny version of whatever they transform into, which might be cool to see.
And being "Shiny" in Gen 3 isn't tied to specific IVs - unlike in Gen 2, where Shiny pokémon are almost always (if not ALWAYS) far weaker than their non-Shiny counterparts. :D
@@KizulEmeraldfire Actually, a shiny in gen 2 is a little stronger than average. All IVs except attack must be 10, and attack must be 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14, or 15. Since these IVs range 1 to 15, all but attack must be above the middle point of 7.5. Not perfect, but better than average (except Attack, which is more often than not awful).
@@jamesdinius7769: Ahh, right. :)
Well, at least I correctly remembered that their ATTACK stat is (nearly) always wimpy! :D
@@KizulEmeraldfire Um the attack stat is still better than normal, HP is shit. Attack averages 8.75. HP averages 4 (can only be 0 or 8, because it is based off the other dvs) .
@@michael_betts
…Well at least I remembered that AT LEAST ONE of the stats sucked! \D:/
It's been a long time since I used a GameShark to get illegitimate Shinies in Gold, though I HAD caught a FEW legitimate ones - before I accidentally erased my Gold game, that is.
Of course, I mostly used my GameShark for speeding up the text, hatching eggs near-instantly, maxing out a pokémon's Happiness… and also using it to max out IVs and EVs on and give legitimate moves (including Egg Moves) to a pokémon team made up of the then-fastest pokémon in the game - excluding legendaries - so that I could have a fighting chance in Pokémon Stadium 2's highest difficulty mode.
(Naturally, I never used that team against real people, since that would be cheating to the extreme, and therefore no fun for me OR my opponent: I'd (almost) always win all the time.)
The reason I did this is because I'm terrible at the "competitive" (i.e. "no items allowed except for Hold Items") style of battling: when I'm playing the main games, I usually use the "Lance" style of battling. XD
no items
ditto only
*FINAL DESTINATION*
a skilled Ditto can beat any Fox
*Held Items*
*Ditto Only*
*Mt. Silver*
Ok when and where
hiyahahahhahahahioauiyaigiygyiaiygyigaiyiyaygaioygaiygayig
the faster man looses
I loved the slow fade-in grinning face while you described being defeated by your own struggle strategy.
"DITTOTWO is having an Existential Crisis!
DITTOTWO Fainted!"
its really getting hard to find videos on youtube that are made carefully with planing... most channels nowadays just put out boring videos every day. i really appreciate your dedication and hard work man. you are doing good content :)
The reason for most channels doing things like that is because of TH-cam. You see, TH-cam favors those that upload content daily and so most youtubers prefer to do simpler content they can upload easily.
That's mainly due to youtube's preferences of consistent uploading with consistent views. I agree with you though, these clean and calculated videos are definitely better
chuggaaconroy is one hell of a dedicated let's player too
but lets be honest we all want him to put out more content right... :(
@@TheKeitaNobodyAskedFor He is, I love him, but even Emile doesn't upload everyday. That's the thing, YT wants daily stuff, even if it's low-effort content.
Pikasprey, asking the questions no one is asking but everyone needs to know the answer to.
more like questions that anyone with a bit more than basic random knowledge of pokemon knows the answers too. The answer is always yes, every pokemon can beat the game gen 2 and upward. Even this ditto can just need to be willing to use items.
A@$
i want my waffles
May I have my waffles back
@@NathanWubs unless that rule is "(insert pokemon) without items", right?
Maybe the real end of the game was the friends we made along the way.
Maybe the real end of the game were the Pokemon we imitated along the way.
You literally started a whole trend on TH-cam, you should be extremely proud of yourself
Yea very few youtubers will ever do that!
he didnt start it
@@sofikkos who did
@@sofikkos yea who?
yea
should have named him ditwo
Transforming - Dit-UwU
Struggle strat - dit-OwO
And for next time Dithree
@@Bumper210 Not Threetto?
Ditwo is a good one
Twoto, dIItto, DdIiTtTtOo, 2itto also work?
@@Bumper210 next one maybe dreito?
Rename Struggle to Suffering. Just suffer through the entire game to win.
Lol
yaaaaa!
"Pikachu ran out of useable moves! It began to suffer!"
Don't you know,
You can't become champion of the pokemon league without knowing how to spam FULL RESTORES!
Of spamming Struggle.
Pokemon goldier reference :D
Pkmn Golder
A cultured man is among us
Last time on Pokemon goldberg
The reason mirror move failed is because the move was what broke your gen 1 runs. What happens is when you use mirror move, it uses one PP, then the copied move takes another PP. Because of this, it adds back one PP to the move slot. You couldn't struggle in gen 1 because it gave you one extra PP in an empty move slot, meaning you had one PP left on that invisible move, so the game wouldn't let tou use struggle. They stopped mirror move working in gen 2 when transformed to fix this.
I did the damage calculations and you can do it...barely. You would need to crit every move, at least, with the following move combination: 1 tbolt and 2 quick attacks on pikachu, 1 thunder and 1 quick attack on espeon, three tbolts on snorlax, 3 thunders and one quick attack on venusaur, 1 thunder on blastoise, and 1 tbolt on charizard. You technically do not need one of the quick attacks to crit as you should only need to use 4, so you only require 13 crits. The chances of winning are therefore about 1 in 4.5 quadrillion. Even with the scope lens the chances of this happening are about 1 in 550 billion. Good luck.
so what your saying is that there's a chance?
Spencer Lee There is a possibility, but not a probability.
I didn't even factor in not dying, so probably not worth trying out at home.
Would it be possible to beat Red with Ditto's Struggle if it had max IV's/Attack EVs? What about if it had max HP EVs so it had more hitpoints, even while transformed? For all we know this ditto was awful, even for a ditto!
@@Shmandalf Even with max hp you would die before finishing off his 5th pokemon. Furthermore, the hp stat of his ditto is nearly the max.
Introducing:
POKEMON CRYSTAL
NOW WITH 50% MORE STRUGGLE
DITTO EDITION
I'm all about that struggle
I'm all about that grind
I'm all about that hustle
I'm all about that shine
HD REMIX 8 DELUXE AND KNUCKLES
i guess you could say...
the struggle is real. hehehe
i hate myself
*Less. With less struggle. It has less. You played yourself.
As much as I'd love to see how different a Heart Gold/Soul Silver version of this challenge would be, the new Struggle mechanics would make doing it by your rules impossible.
Unless he plans to actually beat it using only transform.
@@4Corry HG/SS is a bit harder then the original
Some Stranger agreed I actually beat the game with only a pikachu.
Some Stranger which you can see on my channel.
Wouldn’t he think would be similar enough, as he said in frlg?
Make him use a slakoth instead
“So Mr. Ditto what’s the problem?”
“I’m having trouble struggling”
LMAO 😂 Now that was a good one. How about you Transform it onto something godly?
I would like to think that after the Smeargle shenanigans, Red wasn't putting up with your shit this time.
IT'S HAPPENING, PIKASPREY UPLOADED, EVERYONE REMAIN CALM, FOLLOW THE PROCEDURE.
Strafin LOUD NOISES
FUNKe dude
@@SilentLegion96 Get people saying this a lot, have no clue who he is, got my profile pic from a friend
I AM NOT CALM
Tells people to remain calm. Screams at them while doing so. This man has mastered the art of making literal SOUND ARGUMENTS.
This is almost a year late but I think the idea of Jasmine's Steelix knowing Sunny Day is for weakening Water moves, which it is weak against. Unfortunately it boosts another type Steelix is weak to...
If you didn't pick Cyndaquil you might not even have a fire move at this point though, since fire Pokemon in Gen 2 are so scarce(though you can buy Fire Punch so)
magmar, growlithe/Vulpix are always available as far as i know, and yeah, get a abra from the game corner, give it all 3 punches and lvl it as far as you like near Whirl Islands because tentacool and cruel are easy and give enough exp.
@@dielaberbrudergaming6288 or just ohko the steelix with a surf stab in a feraligatr or quagsire.
@@luisjogos821 not when sunny day is active
@@dielaberbrudergaming6288 if you outspeed though,
@@dielaberbrudergaming6288 Ground moves and fighting moves are also useful. Quagsire's water/ground typing makes it one of the strongest Gen 2 pokemon before reaching Kanto (just from Stab it has advantage against Morty, Jasmine, Pryce, Koga, most of Karen's team, and 2 of Lance's team).
"Did I beat the game? Man, I dunno."
i respect that lmao
"he slowly loses his pp before he is forced to struggle me to death"
well ok then
This is a public reply
“Will use spite to drain my pp”😂😂😂
That sounds like a horrible way to die.
Oh shit it's the batter
Not the pp
The last video:
"Overall, I would not recommend this challenge."
In this video:
"I'm doing the challenge again guys."
Paraphrased of course.
It would have been SO SICK to beat miltank with metronome-rollout, my condolences
When/if he gets to gen 5, I vote that he uses a Ditto with its hidden ability to make thing less stressed-filled for him.
@Super Greyflash Imposter. Meaning he instantly transforms the moment he enters the battle
@@inflatablemattress2 Doesn't that ability can be a blessing and a curse. Blessing because you don't need to take a turn to transform, but a curse as if the opponent has bad stat and bad ability on his first pokemon
@@alsyafique43 & You Can't Struggle
@@spongefan155 Yes you can. Just exhaust the PP of all the moves and there you go.
@@fifaworldcup1994 But he can't go into a battle with struggle ready. Because when ditto transforms, it always has 5 PP on all of the moves the other Pokémon knows.
It also means he'd need to burn 20 turns before starting to struggle for every battle if the first Pokémon has 4 moves.
14:54 take a shot for every time he says transform
KidRex04 great way to die of alchool poisoning
Take a shot every time he says struggle is worse.
"He slowely loses his PP" XD
I don't feel so good...
@@AliceIsSleepy I think the moves are in _perfect balance, as all things should be_
Tmw your gimmick is to use your opponent's power against them, but they're too weak to make it an advantage
@ClipOnSunglasses the perfect strat. Very very stupid in any other situation, but when it works it works
@@EddieB-ready Exactly
Omg that first Whitney first RNG gods of RNG said " Hey kid we like you!" And then they they said " ok you overused our goodwill now suffer.
“So once again, struggling with Ditto is the way to go.” *pauses to consider life choices*
Next video: Can you beat Final Fantasy 6 with only a Ditto?
Can you beat Persona 5 with only a Ditto?
Can you beat Dark Souls with only a Ditto?
Can you beat fallout 4 with a ditto?
@@Corvin_Ito that game fucked with me so hard, I still have PTSD.
@@gliscorpropagandaaccount1764 Struggle Akechi to death
I never knew the transformed Sprite would be a purple version in this game. I really like it.
I thought the same thing, really love it
tfw hardware limitation creates a nice aesthetic
I find it funny that even if Pokemon who aren't pink use transform, they will turn into a pink version of the thing they transformed into. I remember teaching transform to a Smeargle and also getting transform randomly when my Togepi used Metronome an and it would always be pink. Guess the devs figured that most of the time the only Pokemon who can use transform naturally are pink (Ditto and Mew) so it wouldn't matter.
Cal DW lol what spaz would put transform on a mew
@@genericwhitemale9566 he can learn it through leveling up
The ditto ditto fight was hilarious
26:00 that mirror move thing isn't a glitch, according to Bulbapedia. Rather, it was a way of preventing the glitch which you encountered on your ditto run of gen 1. Its failure prevents you from having to use it 256 times just to be able to use struggle.
Wait, so he could have been able to struggle if he used the move 256 times in a row on that save?
@@green-6508 Not even in a row, just total, and in the same move slot - there's a video that should be linked in a pinned comment on his gen 1 video, but the basic thing is that because mirror move and metronome use two moves in one turn (first the mirror move/metronome, and then whatever move it copies) there was some code that came in after the move that added 1 PP to that move.
But when you transform, you create a sort of temporary pokemon, but the code that updates mirror move/metronome's PP does it to your base form; so when you use mirror move/metronome when transformed, unless by some chance it is the first move slot move, you'll have an unusable move with more than 0 PP, which prevents struggling (since you can't use that move, but all of your moves don't have 0 PP)
This is easier to visualize (and the video in question does so) with a Mew that knows Transform and 3 other moves; if you heal at a pokemon center, then transform into a mirror move/metronome pokemon, use the move, run, then look at the PP of the move that exists in that slot; it will be 1 higher than max (or where you left it if you've moved it since then, but that was the point of the pokemon center).
Then the only way to fix it is to overflow that integer value by getting up past 255, the highest number it stores before wrapping back around to 0.
But this is easier said than done, really, because you have to be *exact*
Could they not have just fixed the Transform+Mirror Move glitch? The glitch sounded more like an overlooked corner case than an actually difficult problem to solve.
You can't hide that Colosseum BGM from me Mr. Asprey! I think it would be considered a win situation because according to Lance: "You don't get to be champion of the Pokémon League without knowing how to spam Full Restores!"
OMG POKEMON GOLDER REFERENCE
"I'm more than just a sequal!"
“Here take this useless TM you will NEVER use”
@@horesfan400 You s-should call your mom sometimes.... ah.....
I thought you were insane to do this once.
*But twice!?!*
Well, when he does Hoenn (preferably Emerald) (and FRLG god forbid), that will be four times. He might possibly get a reprieve in Gen 5 because of Imposter, but that would mean he would have to do this challenge in Sinnoh (and god forbid he does it in HGSS).
Lets go for a third and fourth
Twice Twice aint Nice Nice
Asprey.... you are insane. Thank you for documenting your insanity for us all
Pikasprey in the last video: "can I do this in other games?"
Ahhh, yes,
F o r e s h a d o w I n g
ah yes, a fellow mobile user who physically cannot type a lowercase i without directly telling autocorrect "no" every single time
I no longer celebrate living, and instead celebrate every pikasprey upload
@@awesomepossume3682 why would anyone join some random group chat, go away
R. I. P Dittwo. His true name was never recognized...
We can just dub the Kanto part as “postgame”
Considering that its not even all that much more difficult (with TWO exceptions) I think that's a fair assessment.
Given the fact that Kanto IS a POSTGAME area, as it occurs after the credits...therefore literally IS POSTgame...I would call it as such lol
@@thedepressedguydoesstuff The credits roll a second time when you beat Red.
@@MuchWhittering They in fact do....and you have mentioned this beacauuuuuuuuse???
Not just that... but probaly the most overrated Postgame.
You only travel around and collect more badges, no story no realy difficulty... it is realy rather meh.
I'm just picturing Blue watching with steadily increasing confusion as your character throws himself into that fight over and over
Later that night he calls Red and is like "uh, dude, do you have a brother or cousin or something? 'Cuz i just had a really weird series of battles"
And Red doesn't reapond because he's mute. Not sure why he even owns a phone.
Can you beat Dark Souls 3 with only Ditto?
Is it a question of if sir or which one?
just use struggle
@Justin Eddy 39
As a veteran who did a few challenges of the game, I would just run past everything until Vordt and kill Emma for the banner and fight the Dancer way before you are supposed to. Now kill her by turning into her and use her "Spinwheel of doom" attack to kill her. Now run past everything in Lothric Castle and get some equipment to get some benefits (Like Strength Ring (+5 levels to Strength stat) and the Red Tearstone Ring (20% Damage boost when at 20% (or lower) HP.) Next with your OP Dancer form, play to the Cathedral of the Deep and to the DLC and play it up to Slave Knight Gael and turn into him, then leave. And that's it, now you can blow through the whole game.
Chio Chan Genocide *Transforms into Pontiff* Awwwww Yissssss *gets killed by my own clone, Pontiff and HIS clone* Ya know. I don’t know what I expected.
Also also, that thing with the Ditto vs. Ditto was awesome. I especially love how Ditto's smiling face slowly faded in as you explained it, like a trollface but Ditto. So awesome. XD (Sorry for posting three comments in quick succession, I know I'm a horrible person and a spammer but damn it I like talking!)
You're not a spammer, and more comments help videos. TH-cam sees comments as engagement, and more comments = more engagement = more times this video gets recommended. So comment away, and if anyone calls you a spammer, tell them to fuck all the way off.
In smash bros, if two players face each other with the same character, we call that matchup a ditto. So it was a ditto-ditto in that video
@@mjc0961 Not sure why TH-cam didn't inform me you said this and so I only noticed it when I decided to revisit this video…hmm…Anyway, I have literally been blocked from channels for posting too many comments on a single video in a short amount of time. This was in my early TH-cam days seven years ago, but still, to this day, I'm uncomfortable posting multiple comments. Thank you for encouraging me, it means a lot. :)
“And the blob of goo hits him like a storm”.
This made me laugh like crazy.
The run would probably be a bit more fun, albeit less impressively difficult, if you allowed the use of PP-restoring items in battle but not HP-restoring ones. That way you could struggle-strat through a trainer's useless first-pokemon, then restore Transform's PP and transform into another pokemon midway through the fight.
Agreed
Agreed. It would have definitely helped with most of the Elite 4 and Lance.
I like how Karen acknowledges your unusual choice of pokémon. 22:45
That's the normal dialogue
@@PaulSmith-od6dp r/woosh
But thats the normal dialogue
@@polox6571 R/woosh
@@Lu-by9jq r/foundthemobileuser
Sounds like this was a real... struggle.
ba dum tss
CRUCIO!
gOTTEM
Ayyyyyy
Du hier, Jojo?! xD
@@KarpfeDiem Klar doch^^
Never in my entire youtube life have I watched a whole video without skipping some scene.
This Challenge or Run is so amazing and well explained throughout.
All of your videos are so well put together it makes them very rewatchable.
The amount of torture you put yourself through for these is very much appreciated!
I could torture you if you like ;)
I think if you even get to Red with just a Ditto, you're allowed to relax a little on the rull restore rule ;)
Well done dude! This looked.....horrendously tedious
10:03, what are you talking about? Isn’t that what everyone clicked on this video for?
love these videos man, keep em coming!
I've never clicked in a video so fast in my life! Now I know how it is!
Yoyo me tooo haha
Same!
Yoyo same.!!!
Lol same
You really missed out on the opportunity to name Ditto "Dittwo"
I would be so happy if he did another Ditto Only in Gen 3 and named it "Dittto"
Red: He's the strongest Pokemon trainer of all time, for DAMM good reason.
Thank you! Other people that I have watched who did an only-ditto challenge just used struggle the whole time, making it very bland. Thank you for actually using transform!
The last time I was this early Oak remembered his grandsons name.
Noice
Don't be hatin just because your grandson ain't so popular you can ask any random stranger what his name is and expect them to know
LMAO
I guess you have never been early then.
The fact that you named your ditto “DITTOTWO” and not “DITTWO” made me very sad.
The fact you said dittwo instead ditwo made me very sad
What bout buu
rafinha19 they’re practically the same thing
@@PhantomXBLA but they arent the same
MOB ditdos
I’ve been rly into watching gameplay from earlier Pokémon games lately and I love your style of videos/editing! It’s just a breath of fresh air from the other lets players I’ve been watching lol. Love to see the ditto champion 😎
I always kind of assumed that Sunny Day on Steelix, as stupid as it is, was meant to be an answer to Surf in some ways. Think about it: You're guaranteed to have a pokemon that can use Surf by the time you meet Jasmine, which means 99.9% of the time you're going to be using it on Steelix. On the other hand, it's up in the air whether you have a fire type mon...
6:40 “ He likes to put you to sleep to drain you peepee”... wiser words were never pronounced before!
I needed this laugh all day, thank you.
@@theofficialchannelofoffici7962 Got ya fam ;)
Subtiltes are on point.
these videos make me smile! I love seeing you and your ditto overcome obstacles. even if you didn’t win against red, you have won my heart
This is my favorite of your videos because it combines several of my favorite things: ditto, my favorite Pokemon, and ridiculous challenges that you place solely upon yourself.
Please keep these challenge videos coming. Absolutely the best thing I've seen all week lmao
*slams fist on desk* Can you beat pokemon emerald using only ditto
@Shizune Hakamichi He can get in battle with 2 mons and beat them using only one. Thats legal.
@Charmiskit You get the castform just before it. You can still move out of the gym and deposit it, but when you try to fight them they tell you they can't unless you bring 2 pokémon at minimum. So early in the game he just has a to catch a low level pokémon and you replace the castform with that one before you go to the leaders. It will die on turn 1 before doing anything so Ditto still does all the work.
@Charmiskit just beet emerald you dont need a castrophorm to beat them
Oh you took took it to the best extent
Yeah no,even if you manage to get past you know that point. And you manage to get to the elite fours. Although I cannot confirm for you that they will use what I say since when I played it I practically just 1 hit ko all of them except for Wallace and Phoebe. Sidney shouldn't be too much of a problem however, Phoebe will f*ck your sh*t up since her Dusclops had Curse and confuse Ray (trust me confuse Ray wasn't fun AT ALL) Then Sableye has double team. Then Glacia shouldn't be too much of a problem I mean I don't really know about the movesets but hail, explosion and sheer cold would be a small problem. Then there's Drake I don't think he'll be much of a problem. Then here comes Wallace he, like Phoebe will f*ck your sh*t up too mainly because of his Milotic and Ludicolo since his Milotic knew Poison and Recover while his Ludicolo knew DOUBLE TEAM! Like I remember him the most cause of his Ludicolo. It'll switch in and spam double team. And for Milotic once you bring it down to low health Wallace might use a full restore or just recover. (Bring lots of hyper potions and revies. ) I had to go again. I mean it was kinda my fault for not looking up their teams beforehand to know not to bring dragon types. I mean don't bring dragon types to this seriously unless it can one hit ko Milotic or if its name is Rayquaza. But it's sad to replace your beloved *insert random Pokemon* for a green snake.
In the interest of more strategic flexibility, I have two suggestions:
1. Use two dittos
2. Allow the use of ethers on untransformed dittos in battle, once per battle
Changing the rules to include these would allow you to reset transformations and delay transformations using struggle, therefore giving you more options in battle. At the very least, allowing ethers would let you skip the first pokemon in a gym battle, so your transform could be of a more capable pokemon. That way not every battle is just “spam struggle”.
ThatGastrodon it certainly would have made the game more fun for him.
He should EV train the ditto, I'm sure it's high but not maxed out, or start the the game over and over until you get a perfect HP IV ditto
Rawin Taychamekiatchai I know, I was just wondering if the extra HP would keep him alive to survive struggle
I would've settled for allowing items mid battle so he could just restore PP after a decent Pokemon came out. Maxing the ditto's level and then struggling is a bit boring.
I love how watching Pokémon Challenge videos always brings me back to Pikasprey.
The moveset of npc trainers is weird, in US/UM by having a Ditto in my team I found that most trainer Pokémon have one or two moves, some of them even had just one stat boosting move like calm mind, others had useless combinations like quick attack + nasty plot. At some battles I was like dude wtf? Aqua jet only?
*uses 6 mons with "absorbing" abilities and immunitys*
Yeah, go on
The point of the newer games is for tiny baby child to be able to blast through no issue. As such, they had to remove the game.
This has been a thing since Gen VI. Only one of XY's gym leaders had four moves on all their Pokémon.
@@gengarzilla1685 Strangely, from my experience, the modern games are inconsistent with this. Several trainers (namely late-game NPCs) have very strong move sets that I’m sure a Ditto could take great advantage of.
It's largely the sixth and seventh generations where they thought things needed to be dumbed down for the kiddies.
I'm excited to see you run this in Emerald, as you get access to what could possibly make or break the run by itself: Leppa Berries. Extremely valuable, as you can go into a battle struggling, and then restore PP for transform part way through to transform into your choice of your opponents pokemon. On the other hand, I think this is the gen where struggle foes to 1/4 the users max HP, which probably makes it impossible by itself
RevenantBacon under what conditions does the Leppa berry trigger in battle?
@@kingandcountry1242 The pokemon will use it when it's first ability reaches 0 PP, with that said... I don't think it could be used in the way stated. However, it could (if it works in transform) be used to get more uses of an ability you get through transform.
Nope, that's gen 4. In fact, gen 3 struggle is why Leftovers on Wobbufett was banned during the gen 3 Nintendo metas.
Mystery Berries exist in gen 2.
Thanks, you've explained a lot.
This dude is insane. He legitimately does all the grinding...
About Steelix’s Sunny Day, I personally like the idea that Jasmine taught it the move when it was an Onix not to boost Fire attacks, but to weaken the Water ones it was 4x weak to at the time, and just hasn’t gotten around to teaching it Rain Dance for the same effect yet.
On the other hand, Water types are way more common than Fire types. So a Steelix probably would get more mileage from Sunny Day rather than Rain Dance. Would you rather want to weaken the common type or the uncommon type?
Thank you for uploading this. You're a great youtuber, i appreciate you.
I think Red, if anything, is a superboss, and not the actual final boss, since the difference in levels between the final gym leader and Red is MASSIVE.
Neurometry TV which one? Blue?
@@Somerandomperson-hl1kt yeah blue
It wouldn't be a Pikasprey video if he didn't have problems with Viridian Gym.
you really missed out on the ditto being nicknamed "dittwo"
Everyone else: Struggles with Whitney’s Miltank
Me: Struggles with Bugsy’s Scyther
i see you also chose chikorita...
I've always loved how ditto turns into a purple version of the opponent and shiny ditto turns into a blue one
Finnally, i was way more excited to this than Red Dead Redemption
This is great. Don't even have to watch the video, can just have it on in the background and I'll still know everything that is happening. Pretty cool.
I'm so excited for gen 3s video of this, anyway keep up the good work
I love the commitment to not using full restores hope to see dittothree take on hoenn
Ditthree?
*_Can you beat Pokémon Red with the truck Mew?_*
Good question , *but can you beat Pokemon Red/Blue with Missingno. ?*
@Dio Brando *Can you beat Jojo's bizzarre adventure without saying ZA WARUDO ?*
@Dio Brando I apologize in advance for replying seriously to an obvious joke, but I thought you'd be interested to know the answer is... Maybe?
So obviously, it's a no in the sense that you cannot progress without HMs.
However, in at least one generation (I think it was Gen 2, but was definitely either Gen 1 or 2) I discovered you can win every single _battle_ without Pokemon.
As a kid, I once used a gameshark to walk through walls around the trigger when you leave the starting town, and discovered that entering any battle without Pokemon caused the game to give me an automatic victory.
So in theory, if you were to make the same rule as in Pikasprey's playthrough about HM slaves, but were to somehow have a hacked game in which you could keep them fainted in your party with no other pokemon, could store them after use despite them being your only pokemon or simply were to allow the 'walk through walls' cheat to bypass HM requirements, you _could_ beat the game.
Drunk Kirby also a good question but can you beat it without collecting any coins?!
@@AverageEggmonEnthusiast Another good question is : *Can you beat it without jumping ?*
Here's an interesting and semi relevant fact: In Crystal (and I assume gold silver too, though I haven't tested it), if you catch a mew that has transformed into your pokemon, you'll end up getting a Ditto in your pc box. Since there's no legal way to be fighting mew, they apparently just coded it so that catching "transformed pokemon" gives you Ditto.
that was in RBY
I don’t know why I like your content so much. You are the one mystery in my sub bar. It’s just entertaining