Ludicolo Only - Pokemon Emerald - YOLO
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- Playthrough Rules:
1. Only my starter in battle
2. No items in battle*
3. No glitches or exploits*
4. No Double-Team TM before level 100*
Other rules:
-- *Pokeballs are allowed in battle when I need to catch an HM user
-- I play the game at 4x game speed (238 frames per second)
-- I allow myself to manipulate my starter (IVs, nature, HP type)
-- Using the bike for movement speed increases is banned (it can be used to obtain items)
-- Saving between league members is allowed
-- If the solo Pokemon faints and I choose to blackout it counts towards my reset counter
*Double-Team:
-- Almost every Pokemon can learn Double-Team through TM
-- The TM can be purchased in Celadon
-- Using it would centralize the meta
-- Every Pokemon would use it to overcome tough battles at lower levels
-- It raises evasion
-- It triggers the badge boost
-- Banning the TM allows Pokemon who learn it through level up to use it
-- I believe evasion is part of Pokemon and shouldn't be banned entirely
-- I don't want the videos to all be double-team spam though, that's not fun or entertaining
-- Only two Pokemon learn Double-Team through level up: Pikachu & Scyther
-- Minimize is the other evasion raising move, these Pokemon learn it through level up:
-- Clefairy, Clefable, Grimer, Muk, Chansey, Staryu
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15:00 Actually, the reason you're not outspeeding Wattson's team now is because of the Macho Brace. Yes, it doubles the amount of EV's you earn... at the cost of cutting your current Speed in half.
I love Wallace's Team Intro, where most of his team shows up normally, then Wailord falls in like "BEEG!"
Finally regarding Steven, I love that you use the Weather Trio theme for his fight. I'm not sure if Armaldo will be the Venomoth of Gen 3, but its actual typing is Rock/Bug.
At first I thought he was being sarcastic with the macho brace. Then I remember who he is and that he is not experienced with gen 3 anyways.
So if you take it off does the speed go back to normal
@@selbywrightjr yes.
oh is THAT the speed reduction, I thought it just reduced your speed growth but then again i've never actually used it
Wow I didn’t know macho brace cuts speed
Hey Scott,
Don’t forget about the power of the TM thief in gen 3. You can pick it up in Slateport from an Aqua grunt. Over half the Pokédex can learn it and it should be really helpful for some mons in boss fights where you need to heal and prevent the opponent from healing!
Yeah and if he skips the rich kid and Lady trainer outside of Petalburg and comes back later I think they hold a nugget, so he could steal those for extra money if he’s running low for any reason.
@@jman12g73 The rich trainers on Route 116 (which require Cut) also have Nuggets on their two Pokémon.
This is incredibly helpful Jake. I'll try to remember and implement it. Could also be useful to search for some boosting items...
Teaching Rain Dance for Phoebe is likely the best way to go about the matchup. It exploits her tendency to use Protect on the first turn, thus not wasting extra PP.
Rain Dance would also help against Steven. Based on damage rolls, Rain would push them into OHKO range.
Looks like this is another case where starting with the unevolved base pokemon would make the game much easier, since Lotad and Lombre's level-up moves would be REALLY helpful.
Honestly they don't get really great moves either. Both version exclusives were pretty screwed with their moves
Mega drain and bubblebeam could have helped, the second at least against Magneton
@@omarzaragoza9173 lotad line doesn't get bubblebeam in gen 3 and they only get mega drain if you keep lotad from evolving until level 43
First of all it was a great playthrough, very exciting!
The HUD at first was a bit overwhelming but you get used to it very soon and it was also great to see the stats change like in Gen 1.
The animations are great and lovely for the big battles, you should give them all the props❤
I'm very excited to see soon more of gen 3!!
It used to be even more overwhelming. I'm trying really hard to visually tune it to be a bit less overwhelming. Glad you got used to it quickly though! That's good feedback.
Emerald with only bug types would be fun because there’s so many equally bad options to chose from
I'm actually playing Sapphire with only bugs right now. The beginning was a slog, and Wattson was a nightmare, but many pokemon in the team get actually pretty decent later in the game because of their tm movepool. It's definitely much better than gen 1 with only bugs.
@@corhydrae3238 there’s a lot of fun options but the base stats on everything besides heracross/pinsir is so low it’s hard to use as just bug types. Volbeat and ninjask setup is almost mandatory
@@wilbert3842 Armaldo's got decent stats, it just evolves rather late unfortunately.
I find Masquerain to be rather useful. 100 base SpA, 80 base Spd and access to moves like Bubble beam, Ice beam and Giga drain. And Intimidate.
I did the same run in Firered btw, and I think that one would be impossible if Scyther didn't exist.
Great video! And I'm loving the emerald overlay!
Just starting the video but -SpD seems wild to me. I'd almost certainly go -Att, but if you're going to decrease one of the defenses on Ludi it should be Def.
I’m increasing starting to love your content more.
Thanks ShadowSky03, I'm working really hard to make it better and better. Maybe that's contributing a bit? Either way, glad you're enjoying :)
I have to say that I didn’t realize how long you would have to go before being able to upgrade your move set. I think Ludicolo would be improved if you started with Lombre or even Lotad. I think earlier access to better moves will make up for having less power.
Writing this before I get entirely through the video but feel like this would have been addressed in the Swampert comparison preamble -
Interested as to why the Ludi run is starting with Ludi, but the Swampert run (and others besides Butterfree) started with Mudkip. Aside from the obvious starters being starters, this kinda throws the comparable progression out the window since you're losing a few level-up moves, getting stronger base stats for the beginning progression, and, most importantly, skipping the incredible suffering that is getting a Water Stone in RSE, which can only be done *after* getting the HM for Dive 🥴
Last I recall Emerald is not getting the "every-mon-playthrough" treatment like Yellow, so it seems a shame to lose 2/3rds of the evolution family and the full experience that accompanies
Ludicolo is best boi can’t wait to see how you improve his run next time!
Hey Scott, learned this from watching FlygonHG, but Winona's Pelliper will 100% of the time open with Protect making it a good time to use any set up moves or any moves you aren't going to use to conserve pp.
As good as Flygon is, I don’t trust his 100% probability judgements, especially since I’ve seen exceptions in many other videos.
Scott a bit of advice, unless youre doing the medicham run i would advise you to fight every single trainer you see. Medicham is the only pokemon i know if who can solo this game with relative ease.
Good video, i do love our pineapple duck buddy. :)
A couple of ingame things that might help ya:
keep on the back of your mind the potion ranges for pokemon like ludicolo who are not sweepers. There are quite a few difficult trainers here, (like watson) where you could actually manipulate the battle so that he might not get to super potion his magneton.
Because of his lower attack, a +atk nature would help make the first 5 gyms much easier.
Niceeeeeee 🎉 I was thinking astonish into bullet seed for Brawly originally good viddy
That move pool early on had terrible options 😮💨 u a strong man I give u that
I forgot we started calling them HM Mules collectively and was like, “Oh, Scott has a WAY better name for these useful friends!”
I suppose I’m even more glad we’ve all found a better name 😂
Would Rock Smash have been worth it for Wattson? I know you'd be stuck with it until Lilycove, but it seems like it would be worth it for the short-term considering bad moves early on.
Would have been worth a try at least!
Saving often is a smart move Scott. Don't forget it.
Don't worry. I probably will :P
Hey Scott, really like your videos and especially the quality that has gone up massively lately and I hate to sound like a broken record, but... Do you have something against hitting the opposing pokemon hard? You seem to make a habit of using icebeam instead of surf or prioritise giga drain for healing while you can simply onehit. It cost you battles against the first two elite four members and you seemed to be making Norman harder for yourself by not using return.
It's a really fun juxtaposition when you put your videos next to someone like Jrose11. You seem to like consistency, recovery and niche moves and strategies while Jrose tends to brute force stuff.
I try to make the best decisions while playing. Sometimes I make errors.
I'm really loving the overlay Scott! It's very informative and the programming is impressive. I do have a question though, would it even be possible to dynamically show exact (barring damage range) damage calculations like the move's power? I'm no programmer, and have no clue how difficult this could even be if it was possible, but I'm more just curious. 😅
Yes. I’ve already programmed this. However, I want to only display it in certain situations and it won’t show up in gen 3 for some time.
Seeing exact damage ranges can ruin the surprise, fun, and make the experience far too easy for me. I’ll show this during testing portions of videos though once it’s completely ready to go. (It needs to be visually styled.)
I thought you were going to start from stage one mons and evolve them in your Gen 3 videos? I like your Gen 3 videos a lot, so keep it up! But I do like seeing the power spikes.
Just having fun right now. I’ll start as first stages eventually when I get more serious with the gen and I get better with my play.
Something that might help you in the future, Scott - Rock Smash. I know it has a pathetic 20 Power in this gen, but considering your only other option was Bullet Seed, it was the better move here (I ran the damage calc - even in the best-case scenario [5 high-roll hits], Bullet Seed does about as much damage as Rock Smash, and Rock Smash has a hefty 50% chance to lower defense). You could've taught Rock Smash over Absorb, then Surf over Secret Power, then Ice Beam over Bullet Seed, forgotten Rock Smash in Lilycove, and taught Giga Drain then.
I was going to ask if it would be easier to start with Lotad and actually get some water attacks at the cost of stats, but then I looked it up and saw it doesn't actually get those. It seems like movesets didn't really get good until gen 4.
Here's an interesting idea for a race: Vigoroth vs Slaking.
Oh that is a neat idea! No versus videos for awhile in gen 3 though, got to learn the game really well first.
I remember playing emerald for the first time and using lombre and i can still feel the frustration of its poor movepool levelling up lmao
Juan's Kingdra and Wallace's Ludicolo are the reasons why Emerald is frustrating to nuzlocke
Oh dear. That sounds brutal now that I think of it.
I remember trying to do a solo run with just Pelliper once, like, 20 years ago. Wattson crushed me. I think i finally beat him around level 50+. But I did learn a lot from that.
Oh yeah… even Protect can protect the bird against Watson.
During Norman you used an oran berry, which is kinda silly. You were going to use absorb in the fight anyways, so why not use miracle seed to boost the damage of the move and thus increase the healing you get from it? That would probably earn you more than the 10 health you get from the oran. Either way, good vid man.
Hey Scott I really like your videos. If you have a chance I'd like to see a versus video in generation 2 between espeon and umbreon.
I feel like if you started with a Lotad and we’re able to get its level up moves it learns, that might have helped? Thief and fake out + rain dance for regular HP restoring?
Something I noticed about Phoebe is that Surf was doing more than 2/3 damage, so you could set up Rain Dance to give your Water moves a 1.5x boost and then OHKO her entire team. Granted that would give the first Dusclops a chance to use Curse, but you could also dodge a Protect.
That's a good idea
Slowing down speed in a solo challenge can make sense on extremely slow pokemon like shuckle since mo matter the bonusses and level advantage it won't move first anyway or an extremely fast mon that will always move first anyway. mid tier speed like swampert you kinda need to maintain speed so that you can use the level advantage to outspeed
Great video but there seem to be a bug on the overlay when you use bullet seed. Absorb showed a power of 80 when bullet seed hit four times.
Was absorb super effective making it 2x stronger? The powers dynamically update
For future runs I recommend grabbing the Silk Scarf in Dewford if you're gonna be using Normal Type moves like Swift, Secret Power and Return, since it powers them up by 10% like the other held items.
Also, since you hate Pelipper, I recommend using it next ;)
I've filmed a bunch of runs and so I'm not going to implement this right away. But I will start grabbing it as soon as I get off the boat now.
Why didn't you use Nature Power Swift on Watson instead of Bullet Seed?
Completely random but have you thought about doing an Ursering vid?? Never see that one used
I started a new emerald game back in March using my game cube and I spend hours breeding a good abra and I'm only about halfway. this has inspired me to actually go back to it.
I agree with you swampert would still be slower! Can’t wait for the next run! Thanks for the video.
One final comment. Why didn't you ever use Rain Dance when you went out of your way to pick it up? I feel against Steven it would have helped just Surf spam your way through while also healing because you had Rain Dish.
Thought I was going to use it, decided against it in the end. Would be worth exploring though, I think I underestimated Rain Dish + Rest + Giga Drain + Left Overs/Shell Bell too much.
One tip for the bag manip is instead of mashing b to get out of the menu, mash the start button. that way you don't accidentally run
Good tip
@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon rash was what I would have chosen second would have been modest n I have a ton of Gen 3 experience
I would have chosen swift swim for drake alone his teams very fast n to not be destroyed by a speed drop
I'm thinking rain dance surf ice beam giga drain n hp electric for say Wallace if that's too big of a problem with tentacruel
@@nautgamingnautgaming9949 with gen 3, there are so many ways of doing a run. It's awesome.
@@Speedrunner0218 it's brutal if you're doing a hardcore challenge
Keep in mind you have access to 11 rare candies
@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon let's get this community run software fixed n SEE PARASECT
Everyone wants to see the RUN COMPLIATION
That poor hiker guy never amazes anyone, whats his name again?.. magickarp? Yeah
Miror B. is from the Pokemon Colosseum games, not the Stadium games.
This is just some theroy crafting but you had rain dance and rain dish that combined with your shell bell gives a lot of hp recovery and makes surf hit like a truck. It might have made the late game easier and really utilized your ability
I agree. I really neglected it in the late game.
@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon I never did the calcs for it but I think it would be a really neat thing to throw out there. Even if it would just be fore
trying to defeat Steven. It may not be viable for the elite four cause you would have a limited "pool" of moves for Wallace at the end.
Persim berry is based on a persimmon. You got the pronunciation right.
9:14 The previous battle, Machop was level 15. Now it’s up by a level at level 16.
It was always 16…
Before entering the E4 it you return back to the guy that gives you the bullet seed TM you should see a lady standing outside the building above you. She will give you a white herb. Could be useful for some of the intimated users during E4. Especially on physical attacker runs.
AMAZING TIP! (I'm sorry for the pain you'll experience in the next few videos. I swear I didn't know about this white herb when I filmed them haha)
Against Norman facade gains more power with status. Paralysis was probably hurting more than help
I predict Ludicolo surprises you by getting the best results yet of your gen 3 runs.
Not normally about the gen 3 but LUDICOLO!
Scott forgetting protect for Norman
Can't get Protect until after Norman. It's in Lilycove Department, not Slateport.
And once again, Scott can't win a challenge without rest. Might as well do a rest only challenge
Custom run with a mon of his choice with only Rest, Sleep Talk, Spore, and Dream Eater. Now that I think about it this sounds like a stuff of nightmares moveset to have on a Parasect or another creepy bug type.
Why didn’t you just click ice beam over and over against Kingdra? The first hit did over half!
Macho Brace cuts your speed in half, which is why Wattson outsped you that one time
ngl yor layout had me confused for quite a while because to me spd is special defense and speed spe. and speed was where i expected special attack to be, and special defense were i expected speed
now im wondering what the most used abbreviations are, noticed this becase you mentioned ludis ridiculous spdef which I then interpreted as base 100 just based on visual order
Yeah, I thought about that for a long long long time. In the end I think it makes the most sense to see attacking stats in the same row and defensive stats in the same row. Then HP and Speed can be in the same row because they are the two odd ball stats. Certainly seems most intuitive to put speed in bottom right though.
I'll be updating abbreviations.
@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon alright, cool!
Just noticed that your Magikarp ist called Bruno. xD
Player defeated Black Belt Nob!
OK, that's just funny. XD
28:18 I think it's not that bad. Skarmory being half metal has the advantage of reducing the weaknesses and giving it resistances so I'd you have a non "not very effective" move that should do it. Besides that with ice beam I don't think it should be an issue.
Ludicolo looks very dumb but it’s dumb in an endearing sort of derpy way
Rock Smash against Watson
"See-lo"
Miror B is not in Stadium but in Pokémon Colloseum. Sorry, couldn't focus on the video without mentioning that. Good game indeed. I got it because it has easier access to the Legendary Beasts and Johto Starters (I am very lazy).
He was great in XD: Gale of Darkness too!
@@MrZrbrownie I'll have to nab the game one day
XD is my fav pokemon game to date. I highly suggest it
I was wondering if he deliberately got it wrong (like Venemoth's typing) but I also felt the need to make a comment on it too.
Came to the comments to see if anyone had pointed that out haha
Hey Scott, I don't know if it was said anywhere before but in Emerald, the pokenav has the match call feature, allowing you to rebattle some trainers like in GSC. The difference is you don't actually have to call them or look at the nav to engage the rebattle. I suggest looking up a full list of rebattle trainers, like the triathlete on the route west of Mauville City and Wattson
This only starts working after the 5th (?) badge. I only learned this recently, thinking they were somehow tied to the dried up battery (because they never happened for me)
Maybe in this one Scott will see the error of his ways and admit that Ludicolo is the best gen 3 Pokémon?
A poncho and sombrero wearing lillypad duck. It's awesome.
Never liked it to be honest, even now I still don't.
Had no issues dispatching it with Butterfree what so ever
Having watched his Wattson time I'm guessing no.
@@Carson_Neiss platypus
Wait, venomoth isn't in the dex?!?
Teaching Rock Smash makes your life waaaaaay easier against Magneton. Allows you to equip the cheri berry to waste one of Magneton's turn's, and after a defence drop you'll be doing real damage. Don't really need all 4 move slots on Ludicolo for a really long time and you can delete Rock Smash in Lilycove.
I didn't know about the defense drop from Rock Smash, that would have made me try it out. Thanks so much for the comment. Next time! I'll use it.
The drawback is that Rock Smash is gonna be stuck with Ludicolo until it gets to Lilycove City.
Yeah, like I mentioned Ludicolo doesn't really need the four move slots. Ludicolo is fine to run rock smash/surf/ice beam/return until the Giga Drain TM which is on the way to Lilycove already. You'll still have a grass move for rock types until you get surf, and you don't need grass moves between Norman and Winona for any battles. It might even be useful against Norman to dodge some healing turns by getting defence drops.
Not like it was using Astonish anywhere. Rock Smash has a 50% chance to drop defense, anything with Serene Grace has 100%.
Hey Scott, I am liking the new stat layout for this generation but I hope you keep the older one for your Yellow runs it matches the old school feel. Keep up the great videos!
I agree
Unfortunately, Yellow is getting updated. More of a re-skin though.
@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon I’ll take it hopefully it won’t be too drastic lol
It's not the greatest option, but Rock Smash would have made Watson's Magneton and Norman a little easier. Plus you can delete it in Lilycove, just before the "7/10 Too much water" part of the run.
P.S. - Brick Break is given to you by a NPC just for talking to him in Sootopolis. It's a great move against Steven.
regarding why you weren't outspeeding in that one fight: i believe you forgot to unequip the macho brace. it is great for getting evs, but it halves your speed in battle
Bingo
I think your nature was a good choice,
both stab types are Spc. Atk. so raising it is a no brainer.
NOT lowering your Atk. was also good so you can use coverage moves like Nature Power Swift.
Yeah - lowering an attacking stat in a solo challenge feels off to me. Unless you can get through everything with only physical / special moves. But that requires a very perfect movepool.
Fun fact: in later generations, things are so heavily minmaxed that you can, in fact, get away with raising one attack stat and lowering another with the proper nature.
Hopefully we can see Ludicolo again in a vs against Shiftry. Great vid as always! Love to see your progress at learning new generations. Also I do hope you have seen Ludicolo’s look in the live action Detective Pikachu movie. I’m sure you’ll love it 👌
This is the plan.
People most likely have already said this, but Mirror B is from Pokémon Coliseum.
Also in XD gale of darkness
This is my favorite mon in gen 3! This going to be interesting seeing that Ludicolo has one of the worst learn sets in gen 3.
I did a Seedot and Lotad Only run of Emerald because of MDB, so I can sympathize with this one in particular. Cause that was a very memorable run in that it scarred me for live. I hope you picked something like HP Electric for Milotic and Tentacruel cause Giga Drains will not be sufficient.
This run is Ludiculous.
Glad to see you back, Scott c:
Bug love! c:
Tbh, starting ludicolo as a lotad would likely improve its results via level up moves. And I think it'd be fun to try and see how the hyper heal set of rain dish, leftovers, leech seed and giga drain would perform.
If you keep doing Emerald runs I would love to see a run with Slaking that isnt hampered by truant. Give it something useless for it like overgrow (assuming it doesnt learn grass moves). Comparing the real times for truant and truant-less runs would be amazing
I love Ludicolo and in the regular runs I pair it with Swampert to have good coverage and the Surf/Dive split into two active pokemons.
I think that in solo runs Ludicolo is really held back by its terrible moves until you have Surf available.
2 quick notes for future reference. If I'm not mistaken holding the macho Brace drops your speed, which is why you got outsped when you were faster before. And using secret power to paralyze slaking is not good, because facade is stronger if you have a status condition. So basically gave it a stronger stab move.
Noted! Thanks :)
Id have used a Bold nature, its one of my favorite natures tbh and would help with the types Ludi is weak to (flying, poison, bug) and a little more bulk against common physical threats like fighting and normal type. Ludicolo can use some physical attacks efficiently in R/S/E, but with the potency and coverage of ice beam, surf, and giga D, i honestly think nerfing it for a boost to def or sp attack is usually the best option for pineapple duck. But if you're ever on the fence, there are honestly some pokemon that I prefer neutral natures on, like especially in gen 3 where all types are one stat or the other. Swampert, Blaziken, and Sceptile are all good candidates for neutral natures in these games, imo
You skip all of the trainners in the first gym, even though you have super effective moves / typing vs them. You eventually hit a point in the game where you need to level up. Is there consideration to face these gym trainers, especially because they are in close proximity so no need to travel much.
Hey Scott, I have an interesting idea for a video- 2 walkthroughs with the same pokemon, but one mon has perfect EVs, IVs and best nature from the start and other one with normal (or even suboptimal) stats/nature and no intentional EV training during the play through.
I've always wondered how much better such perfect pokemon would fare during normal gameplay. Plus this would show viewers why professional players spent so much time breeding perfect pokemons for tournaments.
That sounds super interesting
I've wanted to make a video like this for awhile (1.5 years now). Eventually it will happen!
@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon That's awesome to hear and I can't wait to watch this video when it comes out!
Thank you for reading and replying to so many comments under your videos 😊
When you were in a battle of attrition with Watson, you probably should've used Absorb until he was in KO range for a 3 or 4 hit Bullet Seed on the Manetric, to counter/avoid his super potions
Yeah, that's a good idea.
having Rain Dish and not utilizing Rain Dance just feels outright wrong. Not only would Surf do way more damage (and oneshot a lot of pokemon), you would also recover a lot of health in case the enemy is stalling the battle (and pairs well with the shell bell for even more recovery)
The fact that Lotad, my second-favourite Hoenn Mon in terms of looks*, was a version-exclusive, was the only regret of asking for Ruby for Christmas as a child.
* My favourite looking Hoenn Mon is Kecleon.
Lol you said Mirror B is from Pokemon Stadium when in fact he's from Pokemon Colloseum and Gale of Darkness XD, which I'd highly recommend cause they are the hardest official turn based Pokemon Games
Another great video, as always. *ahem* Road to Stadium *cough*
Question: Is it possible to beat Pokemon Colosseum using only Umbreon and Espeon?
I fun few pokemon challenges
Which champions team(your rival) has best team.
I mean you play with that team and see which is faster
I'm not sure about rule using the teams moves sets as well
You can decide
Nice you learnt to like your least favourite pokemon more
I don't think any pokemon run will manage furfrou any better
Just change forum dosent do anything but change its clothes
If you do furfrou only pokemon run
Could at least change it clothes for fun
I think the villain team is a lot longer in emerald but it’s also a lot less tedious, better written, and just more fun. It makes sense within the story of the game where team rocket in gen 2 feels like an afterthought after the slowpoke tails thing.
I see you're doing this playthrough fully evolved
Well that reminds me of something, when you do the trapinch line make sure to evolve it through the playthrough because trapinch actually looses 30 attack as it evolves into vibrava and regains it when it evolves into flygon, pretty interesting interaction
I pronounce Persim as Person and SIM-card. Or the Per in Persian and Sim to rhyme with Dim.
Gotta love the “learning brick break and going with a different strategy anyway” strat, great vid as always
Watching these vids of Gen3 are helping me get through PokeMMO! I never played Gen3 so I got stuck at the very beginning of the game. Thanks Scott!
0:22 Small correction, but he’s from Colosseum and XD only.
When choosing which stat to lower with natures, you generally want to lower the stat thats already the lowest as natures change the stat based on a percentage of the base stat, so if you lower a base 100 stat, you're effectively losing 10 bst, whereas if you lower a base 50 stat, you're effectively losing only 5 bst, so you're losing less stats from the nature. Unless that lower stat is REALLY important to have at its base, you get more bang for your buck stat wise by lowering the already lowest base stat
Good idea
Miror B is from Pokemon Colosseum and XD not from stadium (It would be sick to see a Challenge in those games aswell, even though i would have no idea how) Keep up the great work
I scrolled for a bit looking for someone to make the correction lol
Agreed with how you think future retries will work out for Ludicolo and Swampert. Fishdog is great, but really struggles in end game, while Ludicolo only seems to get stronger as it goes. I am curious if starting from Lotad would be easier or harder though.
Miror B is from Pokémon Colosseum, not Stadium :)
Mirror B is from Pokemon Collesium, Not Stadium
Scotty, Mirror B is from Colosseum not Stadium.
I think Swampert deserves another chance. Like, we all know that's the best Hoenn starter, the reason the first playthrough with it was so bad, is cause Scott wasn't yet familiar with the Hoenn games, and not cause Swampert itself is bad. If given another chance, with better strategies, I'm certain it can outperform Ludicolo. So yeah, I'll be waiting for another Swampert playthrough where it gets to prove its worth, no matter how long I have to wait, cause there's no way Ludicolo is better.
Haha, all of the Pokemon I'm playing in gen3 will deserve another chance. Precisely why I'm not doing 2 playthroughs per video in this series yet!
To be fair, it’s possible that Swampert’s strengths aren’t as relevant in a solo playthrough. For one, it lacks boosting moves.
When it comes to Wattson, I think you should try using Swagger (Slateport City) or Rock Smash (Mauville City) for Magneton if a Pokémon like Ludicolo can’t hit it effectively. There’s also some specific Pokémon (Ex. Shiftry, Linoone) that can learn Rollout (Mauville City) which can bypass Magneton’s defenses. Another plan can also be try to save money to buy a powerful TM from the Mauville Game Corner (Ex. Flamethrower, Ice Beam, Psychic).
I didn't know swagger was there. I'll keep that in mind for the future, it's a good move when there's nothing else available!