The hard part about getting Scizor and Steelix is not finding a metal coat, but finding someone to trade with

I miss how darn cool the battle sprites looked in Gen 2, especially the moving ones in Crystal. Some pokemon, like skarmory, don't translate over to 3D well.

There's actually an even better way to found the beasts. You can go in that little building that connects Ecruteak to Route 38. Stay in front of the door to Route 38, use a Super Repel, put on your bike and save the game. Then go to the Route 38 and wander around the grass until the repel wears off. If the beast didn't appear, just reset the game (A+B+Start+Select) and repeat. You can even turn on the Pokémon March on the radio if it's Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday or Sunday to increase your odds. That's actually one of the methods shiny hunters use to found both Raikou and Entei shiny, and that's the one I used to found them. Also, it is technically possible to get an evolutionary stone in Gold and Silver before Kanto. It's VERY unlikely, but it is possible to obtain one through the Mystery Gift function. Even if you don't have two GBCs around, you can still use it once a day with the Pokémon Stadium 2 if you have it. The thing is that each cart can only give you ONE of the stones (and they can give you no stone at all, it is a 50% chance that depends on the trainer's ID), and even then the odds of getting it is about 0,75%, so good luck with that. If the cart gives you a Max Ether, Max Elixer, Max Revive of Scope Lens, then you will know you can't get an evolutionary through this one though.

This takes me back. No one believed me when it happened (as the game has just been released), but the first magnemite I caught had a metal coat on it. Everyone thought I was messing with them and when I showed them I told them I hadn't gotten from anyone yet, I literally had just caught it. None of us knew that they could be caught with hold items, as this was a brand new mechanic at the time.

“A Kings Rock holding a Slowpoke”

This is only relevant in the remakes, but if you want to more easily get the Metal Coat or King's Rock, have a Pokémon with the ability Compound Eyes in the front of your party which doubles the chances of a wild Pokémon holding an item Again, this only applies to the remakes

i just watched this man throw a madter ball at a level 20 pupitar

2:47 Pupitar can only be caught in Crystal. In Gold and Silver, you can only get it by evolving Larvitar.

Bro I feel sorry for all the 1% of people who didn’t know lapras was in the cave

As a kid I got lucky and got the metal coat randomly from magnemite. However I didn't had anyone to trade it with me :)

Somehow I never knew about the Metal Coat on the traded Magneton. Huh.

2:30 "Kingsrock holding a slowpoke" I thought I was having a stroke for a second there

The problem I had was I could never trade so the metal coat didn't matter. Truly sad lol

Crystal added a way to get a Fire Stone while also removing Vulpix entirely. I was so mad when I found out. Sidenote, Mareep was removed from Crystal too for no reason.

I've been doing some play testing on the most "powerful" teams you can get by/right after the second gym badge in pokemon games. Sort of a "What are the disc 1 nukes of pokemon" series, if you will. So I have a bonus catch/acquisition for you - if you let your mom keep your money, she will occasionally buy things from a predetermined list. Once she hits a specified amount, around 12k saved up, she will buy a moonstone. Now that's easy enough, BUT! Most people forget that mom can hold any money you have on you, not just the littler she can take after battles. So if you bum rush trainers and keep expenses down, you can have a moonstone by the time you're in....Ilex forest? I think bugsy gives you the final push needed to get the stone. This is important because you can get a jigglypuff on the little patch of a route above the first route you can catch mons on, and Wigglytuff in gen 2 can learn the elemental punches from goldenrod while having a 75 special attack stat. She's not exactly a legendary but having full elemental coverage on a mon before the third badge helps out a lot for the middle section of the game, especially with a massive HP score to help switch in and just not need to take so many breaks for healing.

I always disliked how they made so many evolutions require trading. As a kid I could never find anyone to trade with. Low key ruined the games for me.

5:36 This one is interesting. I occasionally speedrun Crystal with Eevee/Espeon only, my current run involves fishing a Magikarp just like this, giving my Eevee enough X-Items. Didn't know that the friendship kept raising even if the stats have the +6 boost.

Elemental Stones are also available as Mystery Gift rare items, but you need to roll a ~1.6% chance and most save files have other rares

Ok but a Magneton named Maggie is actually pretty adorable. I love how much thought the game devs put into naming some of these NPC trade pokemon 😄

i assumed i knew most everything about my old crystal & silver gen 2 games.. what a plethora of information! great vid

I've been playing these games my entire life. And this is the first time I've learned something about these games I didn't already know in years

2:35 lolol come across a kings rock, holding a slowpoke 😂

Oh man... I miss so much those good days of Gen 2

Oh dang, the Friday Lapras is so cool!

Oh my god, this is exactly how I came across Raikou, at the age of 6, which left me absolutely flabbergasted. I had no idea what that beast was, why it was there and that I basically forced it to spawn. Wild stuff haha

That walking into the teleport to get steps in is genius lol I used to go to cycling path and go all the way up then just let him go down himself

Noob question about your romhack: are you changing the way trade-evolutions like Alakazam and Scizor function, since a romhack is (to my understanding) single-player? EDITED TO INCLUDE THE ANSWER FOR OTHERS: "Yes he is. Graveler, Machoke, Kadabra and Haunter will evolve at lvl36. The other trade while holdingg an item evos work like Evo Stones. Just use Metal coat on Scyther for. Example"

0:05 Yes. Yes, I did. 🙂 (Wild Magnemite grinding is _so_ much easier with the TM for Thief… I _still_ have unresolved trauma from seeing “Wild [PKMN] fled!” 😖)

Very informative thank you! Question though: dose the x item happiness trick work in FR/LG as well or was that just Gen 2?

Will have to keep these in mind for my playthroughs of the Virtual Console Gen 2 games

Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

Regarding friendship: newborn Pokémon always have 120 points so, by capturing a Ditto and breed with Eevee you can get both Espeon and Umbreon before level 16 with any of the said methods. The same applies to Chansey.

Gen 1 and 2 jank will always be home to me. Loved this vid

You had me excited for a sec. I thought you meant Steelix or Scizor without trading

Wow, after all this time I never knew X items can increase friendships. I only knew Irons, Proteins, etc. Niiice. You learn something everyday. Thanks!

As long as you encouter them once the legendary dogs can be tracked with the Pokegear even in gen 2. Random Fly + Pokegear track + Repel Trick makes it a lot easier to find the dogs.

2:34 I know you correct yourself, but it was so funny lol. A king's rock holding a slopoke. I'd never thought I'd see that lol

I actually did end up using Steelix and a Slowking in my Crystal playthrough quite the while ago. Since I knew of the later gen thing about the hold items for Magnemite and Slowpoke, I checked I think Serebii and funny enough, yes they were thievable in Gen 2😁! So, those two came to my team of unfinished game of Crystal and they indeed are a great wall combination of physical and special defenses, I recommend of trying them out! It's a somewhat big process to get them both, yeah but it's worth it I promise you!!

Regarding the beasts... go to the Pokédex, check for the location, fly to the location, use a super repel, fight it when it appears... Worked like a charm, if my 15 year old memory serves me correctly 😅

i have an issue with that 20 min approximation for finding a metal coat with thief because it took me at least 2 hours to find one, but hey thats the game of luck we play i guess 🤷🏻

After 20 yrs I finally understand how Friendship is working in Gold. Thanks

The first time I encountered a legendary beast in Gold as a kid was just south of Ecruteak City. I'm not sure which one it was though.

You are telling me Crobat was that easy... 'Throws chair outta window'

I think the issue is having people to trade with, not getting the metal coat ...

My first shiny was a Raticate on that route trying to find Magnemite with a Metal Coat

I never made the connection between held items and the evolutionary items! Great find -- I thought Scizor and Steelix were basically this generation's Umbreon/Espeon or Kabuto/Omanyte!

I remember doin the clone glitch with held item back in the day. Shared with friends heh.

My problem when I was a kid was i don't have a link cable or a friend I can trade with.

I remember the duplicate Pokémon glitch with items held, but I know it replaced whatever Pokémon you had in the box and accidentally got rid of my starter and with the auto save I had to restart.

these were all actually rly cool facts

I always used the haircut lady in Goldenrod for friendship. 4 haircuts with some time manipulation and you get an evolve

I never knew about the double-friendship gain in Crystal when you level up on the same route you caught the mon... that's insanely cool!

So, would you be changing some of these mechanics in your Crystal ROM, or are we keeping them? As hard as they are to find, I wouldnt mind an alternative way to get the stones, but it is one of the only useful things the call function does in-game. The only thing I would consider changing is to up the Magnemite hold rate of Metal Coat to 5%, which is consistent with later games hold rates for items.

I remember training up a zubat from when it only had leech life it was hell it couldn’t do anything till it got confuse ray.

With the Legendary Beasts, I've always been consistent with finding Raikou on Route 44 in the small grassy patch in the (middle of the route by the water) and Entei on Route 45 for my first encounters lol.

"come across a king's rock holding a slowpoke" 😂

I was replaying crystal and caught a slowpoke that kept flinching bugsy and I looked at slowpoke and it had a kings rock

wow, the ecruteak gym thing is really great!

God, I've just completed Gen 2 Pokédex and I wish I had found this video earlier 😅

There's a specific trick to the legendary beasts: every time they are on a route, they are in a specific field of grass; field, not patch. If you enter the field they are in, while in it, you have a very high chance to encounter them first (guaranteed with the repel strategy). However, if you run into a different field, or encounter another pokemon first, they will immediately leave the route. So, the trick is to go to routes that only have one patch of grass (like the aforementioned routes) and do your wandering there. And if you can track them, it just becomes a matter of time before they show up at one of the two routes. Their roaming is semi-predictable too, so it's not that hard.

I needed this last year lol

If your rich buy iron and carbos medicines and max out it’s ivs with it until he can’t take anymore. This always works for any pokemon you want to evolve with friendship keep in mind the other medicines like need to be max as well not just iron and carbos. I’ve never tried the X items though. That’s new to me

So we all gonna pretend he didn’t say a kings rock holding a slow poke. Ok then

Abou thief... Red pikachu has a lighy ball, so dont forget to steal it

hey, just a little question for your crystal rom hack, will ampharos be available in it? i love ampharos so ill want to use it when the hack comes out

"See-zorr" aiyah

Damn to make pokemon your friends you just need to give them speed

You can actually find a level 45 puupitar/larvitar by using repel and then sweet scent/ running around and still encountering one , same goes to dratini/dragonair in lance cave

2:44 Actually, Larvitar can be bought at the Celadon Game Corner in Crystal.

8:14 i remember discovering this as a kid and presenting my Raikou and Entei to my best friend. Man was astonished

I knew the Magnemite trick because I did it when I've played the games again on 3ds, so painful to get but it was worth it 😂

I did the goldenrod friendship walk back when gold was a new game 😅

Everytime u change a route the wild pok like raikun alway going to move away and if u dont catch him when the first time is mega pain to try ti find him a sec time

For the roaming dogs just stand bellow ecruteak city pull the repel trick and soft reset your game. Every time you load your game changes the dog position as well

2:33 with that information.. I really would like to meet that very lucky trainer who came across that king rock holding a slowpoke... since its unheard of LMAO

Got my hopes up that there was some way to get them without trading. If you still have to trade with another game anyway, you might as well just trade with a file that already has the items obtained and duped.

I always found my first legendary dog on that route with Sudowoodo. Now I know why.

getting your pokemon addicted to speed makes them happy.. im dead

King's rock holding a Slowpoke......accurate xD 2:30

You can also use thief to snatch the metal coat.

I don't know what it is, but I was doing my living dex in gen 2 in Silver earlier this year and was trying for HOURS to get another metal coat off of wild Magnemites. I was just getting unlucky that whenever one spawned, it wouldn't have it, but on top of that they just weren't spawning for me all that much.

the barber in the underground made your pokemon happy too

Where was this video back in 2000 when I needed it?

But you still have to trade with someone. That’s the sucky part so technically you can’t get steelix or scizor. You made it sound like you can do it with out trading

2% is such a strange number for Magnemite to be holding Metal Coat... Usually the % is 10, 5, or even 1... but 2%? That's so unique and interesting. Also, I very much appreciate you actually having footage of successfully thieving the MC from Magnemite. This type of thing makes me want to play through Crystal again!

As someone who grew up only playing one version since my brother has the other one, playing Gold as an adult for the first time was a treat. I always knew GS had different sprites per version, but seeing the respective other ones first-hand is really cool. Some mons also end up looking infinitely cooler in one version. I actually never put enough thought into it though, to realize that GS are the only games that do it. In my mind, RB and RS must have done it too, but looking at spriters resource, you are correct! How I never noticed this is beyond me.

Phanpy can be caught early in Crystal but it's only mornings and very low encounter rate.

i left a level 6 togepi in the depot for like 450 ingame hours(emulator) eventually took it out, got it level 7 and it evolved to a togetic. i was baffled

I played Pokemon Crystal when I was a kid, I loathed how I could not have certain Pokémon unless I was able to trade. I had no friends to trade with😭

"A king's rock holding a slowpoke" lolol

Is rare that I find new interesting things I would like to try out on this 20+ year old game. Great video

I always farmed the metal coat. 11 year old me had the time and and unhealthy love for Steelix.

Use clone glitch to get money for vitamins. They greatly increase friendship.

I knew about this. What I DIDN'T know was about shiny hunting: in my pursuit for a *magnimite* holding a Metal Coat, I caught my only UNSCRIPTED shiny 'mon; Meowth. Also the search took me 5 hours :, [

I unintentionally did the Legendary Beasts route as a kid as i figured they'd still be nearby, though I'd Cut the grass and check if it was still present first lol

i shit myself, my name is chris and the algorithm spoke to me.

Scizor’s design was waaaaay ahead of its time. So good

I did that to catch the dogs when I was like 8 or 9 naturally because i realised they'd always appear on those routes. Good times

the magnemite thief method of getting a metal coat is how i got a steelix for my recent run on crystal before the third gym haha.

I like your Metal Coat strategies. Do you have any strategies on making friends so that I have someone to trade with?