Scott, for next Fire Red runs, you can get into some extra tips: - You might want to hack the game to have the pokedex complete, so you can get the rewards for capturing pokemon, which are more interesting these time. This will also allow to make you go into the postgame, so you could technically try to beat the league's harder version, which is unlocked at the end of postgame now. - The hidden items work different in FRLG, itemfinder now materializes some items somehow, if you don't use the item finder it won't find the hidden item. For example, if you use the itemfinder on the spot snorlax was after defeating it, you get a Leftovers. So yeah itenfinder in FRLG is required to get some items.

Scott. On Christmas. Its a Christmas miracle

I really TM28 how organic/genuine your videos are. They’re fun as much as they’re educational. I’m a Pokémon veteran (6th grade Blue baby) but I’ve learned so much from you and have never once felt talked down to. I love your positive, inclusive energy.

NOTE TO SCOTT: the tiles of grass that look weird have a berry on them! only in fire red and leaf green. It can be very useful in solo challenges I would imagine

Fire Red was my very first game as a kid so this is incredibly nostalgic.

Yo, Butterfree learns that Thief TM in the early game, which can help against Misty AND steal a Twistedspoon from wild Abra! Edit: Now that I've finished watching the video, I want to add - thanks for the daily entertainment this month! They've been a joy to watch and listen to! I'm sure this was a TON of work, so hat's off to you for pulling it off. Merry Christmas!

The wrapping lass is named Alicia because she *leashes* your pokemon. Edit: for future videos, I think you should include the e4 rematches. Bruno's two steelix can wall and hit hard, Agatha's crobat will outspeed nearly everything, Lance's kingdra is a kingdra, and Butt's permanent sandstorm can whittle down anything without recovery. Butt2.0 is the *true* final boss, standing next to Oak, Red, and Steven from the other games

I’m surprised you never used Giga Drain. It’s only 60 BP but I feel like it’s definitely one of the best special moves that Butterfree can learn besides Psychic. I actually have only ever done one solo playthrough before, which was Butterfree in LeafGreen. Giga Drain, Sleep Powder, Psychic, & Silver wind was my final move set. Giga Drain & Sleep Powder were the MVPs of the run. Also, Happy Christmas! ❄️

38:53 To answer your question, Wugtrio is based on the Garden Eel. They’re colorful eels that bury themselves in the ground and just kind of bite at whatever food comes near them. A few other games where they recently appeared are Monster Hunter World and Genshin Impact.

I have to believe that this is Ash’s Butterfree, that just recently returned to him. Love this gen and Pokémon. Cracking Christmas! Loving the 3 stage play through.

Having to do Christmas solo this year because my family is sick, wasn’t expecting many uploads from my favorite channels because of the holidays so this is a wonderful surprise. Thanks Scott, have really enjoyed everything you’ve released this year!

Cool to see FRLG! Also totally agreed, ranking each evolution stage separately would be better.

Great, I really like this game. The different abilities make the pokemon just a little bit more different and the challenges more divers. I wasn't sure if you would include the remakes, so I'm glad you do (especially because HG/SS are probably my favorite main series games)

Early Fire Stones are available in the Johto games. The Schoolkid with the Tangela just before the Sudowoodo can be registered to your Pokégear, and will sometimes call saying he picked something up that he thinks you will like. If you go back to him after he calls and says that, he'll give you a Fire Stone. Leaf Stones can also be gotten the same way from the Picnicker by the Day-Care Couple; Water Stones from the Fisherman with the Qwilfish on the Mahogany Town side of Mt. Mortar. I believe Lass Dana (with the Fflaffy and/or Psyduck, depending on the game) gives Thunder Stones on the route between Ecruteak and the Farm with the Mint Berry and hidden Nugget.

The amount of passive aggressive shade throwing on display between 15:46 and 16:06 is truly inspiring. Tell em Scott!

50k, and before 2023. Incredible, Scott. A testament to your hardwork, and it's great to see you get into FireRed. Hope the success continues from here on out, as well.

Merry Christmas Scott. Been a heck of a month with a lot of good videos. truly enjoy them. hope you keep the content up.

If you ever do a FRLG run again, and try to use a Johto or Hoenn Pokemon, you kinda *have* to hack the National Dex in - Game Freak coded in a mechanic where, if you don't have the National Dex, trying to evolve into a non-Kanto Pokemon will automatically cancel the evolution (which is kinda silly, considering Golbat and Chansey both evolve via friendship, so this can happen by complete accident with those two).

Id really love to see the replays with the league members as a bonus, its fun seeing how much your gen 1 knowledge helped/hurt you in this playthrough

As someone who grew up on fire red its neat to hear all the small differences between this remake and actual gen 1 from someone who knows it so well

Happy Holidays, and thanks for the daily content. I love that you’re using Butterfree as the way to introduce new games in the series! For future runs with mons like Butterfree that don’t want to be statused, Substitute is available as a Tutor Move in Fuchsia City.

I cant wait to see you play the remakes more often. I love them. Ive played red and fire red multiple times over the years. And while i like the og games. The QoL updates to fire red make it superior in the experience of playing. Especially since im not conditioned to the new modern games

This was cool. I do think there's value to rating an evolution line of a Pokémon, since that's how they're intended to be played, but as a separate thing to rating each form separately. And as it's not as interesting as multiple playthroughs with each form it makes sense to leave it for the future and special occasions. PS: A super interesting playthrough would be Emerald with a Nincada, but you allow it to evolve and play with both Ninjask and Shedinja for the rest of the game. It would be the only possible legit solo challenge with two pokemon and it'd be cool to see them complement eachother in normal and double battles.

Aaaannnd boom! He's made it to 50k! Loved every video of the holiday season, you made my December, Scott!

Merry Christmas Scott. In surges gym you need to use the save/reload technique for Serge's gym. Once you find the first switch then save and you can load and try the second again

I'm so glad you finally made it to FRLG. You first inspired me to try solo challenges myself and I have settled on FireRed! I deeply admire your passion and excitement for gen 1 which make your videos an absolute treat and it's really cool to see you familiarise yourself with a game I know really well myself for once

Hey Scott, the remakes of gen 1 are my favourite versions of Pokémon! I can’t wait to see more of these beauties 😁 Thank you for your continued hard work on making this enjoyable content every week 💚

For future FRLG solos, definitely look into the move tutors. For example, the karate guys outside of the Mt. Moon exit teach you Mega Punch and Mega Kick, and there’s a Youngster in Rock Tunnel who teaches Rock Slide, as well as one in Fuchsia City who teaches Substitute.

17:42 - yeah, Compound Eyes is functionally a +1 to accuracy, since it applies even to 100 accuracy moves, so you would have to get to -2 accuracy (functionally -1 after compoundeyes) to start being heavily impacted by reduction, which is nice.

You could say that another sweet treat from Scott. It’s like having a cake that was butter free.

Awesome to see FRLG. I love the remakes of Gen 1 and Gen 2. You mentioned the E4 having rebattles, maybe save that for whatever runs end up being "S" tier. It's like bonus content for only the fastest of contenders since they should have a reasonable time doing the rebattles.

Ideas from someone who's been doing FireRed solo runs: One thing that I suggest for better consistency (to only need to catch one pokemon) is catching a Spearow instead of Paras/Pidgey, and then trading it for a Farfetch'd in Vermilion City. This does activate the trade animation, but it feels generally faster to me to only have to search and catch one pokemon, as well as only needing one for HMs. Also, catching Paras could be somewhat annoying with statuses (Effect Spore); you could mitigate this, but it feels like it could be a headache in the wrong circumstance. For the Surge puzzle, I typically just pause my timer after fighting the trainers and solve the puzzle. It doesn't account for IGT, so it's better if you can solve it with software, but just in case you experienced difficulty with that. The Sevii Islands will likely be useful for some pokemon that really need to fight the most amount of trainers, and get every Rare Candy possible. There is one additional RC in Cape Brink on Two Island. Most pokemon will just want to skip this though; it's really just for the most difficult pokemon. You one hit the first Dragonair against Lance with Psychic, so why put the second one to sleep? (if you know this in advance, you would put neither to sleep, but I'd understand putting the first one to sleep if you didn't know that already) Important TMs that would be useful here: -Someone mentioned Thief in Mt. Moon already (highly recommend picking this up for those that can learn it; unless they already have 2+ good moves, this is almost always a good thing to take if it can be learned. It is better power against Misty as well, in this case. -Another one is Secret Power, as it is available early in the game (the trainer near the Cut tree on Route 25), and it is usually a great physical option for most of the game because it has a 30% chance to paralyze; essentially Body Slam but available for all pokemon. It would've been doubly effective compared to Tackle for Butterfree against Misty, just in terms of base power. In this case, sleep powder might be generally better (since you already outsped anyway, for one), but generally it's a great option especially for Misty for attackers without a status move. You can also learn it multiple times from the Department Store if you ever wanted to unlearn it and relearn it. -Aerial Ace is available on Route 9, which may or may not have been something you actually wanted here (so maybe you knew about it and ignored it) but it certainly would've been a direct upgrade to Gust. Like, it's the same effective power as Psychic against Erika except Psychic gets the better special attack, so it might've just been pointless. You used Gust against Lorelei originally, where you'd want Aerial Ace instead, but maybe you wanted Psychic/Dream Eater/Silver Wind/Sleep Powder in the end anyways. Random opinions: Marowak "glitch" is an oversight, not a glitch! They fixed the oversight. :) Fire Blast being Blaine's TM is fine because I'd rather Flamethrower be buyable than being one-use from Blaine, lol It might be cool to see the second round of Elite Four, however there are a couple of issues with it. One, you have to decide how to access it, and if you complete the extended postgame. There is some (I would say) annoying sidequest required beforehand, and you also need to have 60 caught in the pokedex. You could just skip right to it, but then you have a question of how to handle the level curve, since it's going to be more difficult. I also think the elite four second round is a bit samey; they just add a Johto pokemon or two to their team but it's otherwise pretty similar, just at a higher level.

Once your more comfortable with FireRed/LeafGreen and all your normal functions are functional for this generation, you should really redo the VS for the Hitmons. With this Gen, there are so many changes that would make it a significantly closer matchup. Just a thought for the future. Good month Scott. Content was fantastic 👍 Merry Christmas.

These daily videos have been the best christmas present I could ask for!

I already love Butterfree, but you have just made me love the absolutely adorable bug

I'm really happy that you are doing some Gen 1 remakes runs because those are the games that i am currently playing obsessively, so i can play along with this on one half of the screen and my run on the other half.

Whichever you choose to celebrate today. Happy Hanukkah, happy Kwanzaa, Merry Christmas, and from me and mine Happy Yule! Love your videos Scott Can't wait to see the Kecleon solo run!

This is the first video I’ve seen of yours. I absolutely love the layout of your videos! All of the information it’s perfect to look at!

The Lapras is just really happy! It's smiling so big that its cheeks are forcing its eyes to squint a bit

on a christmas where I have been snowed in, this is objectively the best part of the day

This was a great gift, seeing Butterfree again was great. Thank you for that.

Congrats on such incredible channel growth this year. I wish you even more success in 2023.

Really a good Christmas gift for someone who doesn't celebrate it. And I'd love to see the rematch battles. Would be like a victory lap.

Supporting you for close to a year now, it's insane how much your video's improved. Thanks so much for all the video's, watched all of them except some streams.

Hell yeah, fight the rebattles as bonus content. The more scott playing pokemon the better.

So a little thing about Fire Red/Leaf Green, underneath both Snorlax's are a Leftovers item... *If* you have the itemfinder. Like it explicitly requires the item-finder (not sure if any other hidden items do or not). It may be a good idea to try to put together a list of roughly 29 pokemon that are relatively easily obtainable (as you need to have caught 30 pokemon to get the itemfinder) so that a pokemon that needs the leftovers can choose to put in a time-sink to get it, similar to your Gen 1 Rocket Hideout/Hyper Beam timesinks that pokemon would sometimes have. Just a thought! Edit: As for the bonus portion, it'd be fun to see sometimes but having fought it in a solo run of my own I really don't think it's going to be worth the time for a lot of pokemon. I think that it'd be good to play it by ear, maybe start off trying it once or twice with a few legendary/mythical pokemon to get a feeling for how much time getting the ruby and sapphire for it involves, and from there just add it as an extra for any pokemon that feels like they'd be fun for a bit of an extra challenge. Maybe it could be something like in vs videos the winner of the race goes up against the elite 4 rematch or something?

Scott-What Type Are You Venomoth? Venomoth-Whatever Type You Want Me To Be

also congrats on 50k!! It has been coming and it is so well earned. 100k around the corner

hint: the two blackbelt looking guys at 10:45 (Cerulean Mount Moon) are the Mega Punch/Kick Tutors, which isn't relevant for Butterfree, but will be for other pokemon also curious to see how the leaderboard for FRLG stacks up to the Yellow leaderboard, as it's the same region and not there in the video yet, but Sevii?

After seeing the raw footage, Butterfree actually beat the game in 30 minutes, the rest of the time was Scott trying to find non-existent rare candies I wonder why he didnt mention this

Commenting for the algorithm to say thank you for releasing a video on Christmas (on my all time favorite game btw)

Thank you for the explanation on the evolution thing in the beginning. I always wondered why people who do solo challenges don't usually do evolution line runs.

FireRed champion theme will alway be my favourite, so intimidating and my first ever goosebumps.

bro as im listening to the end of the delibird video i refresh youtube to this! amazing timing scott!!!

Congrats to 50k subscribers. Glad to have been here since much earlier :) looking forward to seeing your future videos. May 2023 only bring good tidings to you.

Congrats on 50k! Also Merry Christmas everyone!

Mery Christmas Scott :) Have some nice days and some rest (youre very useful again in Kanto ;D) And congrats to 50k. It was a ride since the beginning

Brick break is one of my favourite moves, it probably would count as a signature move of mine. The ability to break screens isn’t always used but it’s darn good, maybe a little less useful in a solo playthrough because a huge chunk of the screen setters resist fighting but hey useful. It’s nice to have fire red and leaf green played so close to red blue yellow so we can see some actual differences. Theres move tutors across the map, i know in rock tunnel you can get rock slide I think the game corner tms are fairly similar to emerald mainly the 95 power elemental moves Thanks for so much content over this month

Finally time for Fire Red and Leaf Green! Now that I’m getting caught back up, I’m excited for what Christmas will bring *this* year! I like the method for handling evolutions that you settled on! I think it’s the best way to do it!

Great video as always, Scott! Merry Christmas and congrats for 50k!

Merry Christmas to Scott, anyone who works in production with these videos, and his gal.

As was said already, itemfinder is necessary in these games because they materialize some hidden items like leftovers under snorlax. Also the lumps on the floor like you found where the tree used to be? Those have berries. Only way to get 'em too so keep an eye out for 'em. They usually are where hidden items used to be like outside mount moon for example. The trashcans in the kitchen in SS Anne actually all have berries too. No more great ball. Trash berries instead! The game corner now has great TMs so keep that in mind. I believe it has all the 95 elemental beams if memory serves me right, its been a hot minute since I played it myself. And congrats! 50K and upwards! Mythical time!

2 years ago??? How long have I been watching your content? Time really flies, huh.

Brick Break as well shatters Light Screen and Reflect which provides boosted utility on it one of my favorite gen fighting moves actually.

I was not ready for your daily uploads to end. They have gotten me through this holiday season.

I played the Gen 1 remakes for the first time in well over a decade last year when I got my GBA Everdrive. This allowed me to trade with my old Fire Red and Emerald cartridges in order to get a busted Starmie. I haven't touched the Everdrive since the cartridge told me the battery was already low several months after I got it. Anyways, here's rooting for yet another great run. Merry Christmas Scott and Team!

Pleasant surprise, personally the gen 3 remakes are my favorites, they were the first Pokemon games I got and I've been hooked ever since.

I do kinda like the Lapras sprite. It's so derpy. For some reason, when I see it, my brain just goes to Sloth from The Goonies going, "HEY YOU GUYS!" 🤣

You've certainly spoiled us Scott. I loved having the constant content, but I know that's not really sustainable. Really looking forward to this week's upload to conclude a wonderful year of content!

What a gift one of my fave pokemon on christmas day! I remember first gettting yellow when it was new and catching a caterpie because of the anime. Only for my dumb child self to accidently name it Pille instead of Piller cause i was also unimaginative and its been a tradition of mine since.

Another great video, Scott! Love seeing you add another game to the list. I really liked you leaning into the Compound Eyes/Sleep Powder into Dream Eater combo. It feels a bit broken, but like with your Double Team rule, if it is naturally a part of a Pokemon's skillset, it's fair game. I agree that having the 2nd Elite Four matchup as bonus fights would be a fun thing to do for FR/LG playthroughs. Lastly, thank you so much for the daily content this month, it has been a long month for me, but to be able to relax and watch a new video of yours each night has made my days better. It must have been alot of work, so I wanted you to know we all appreciate it!

Thank you so much for another vid scott...i really needed one. My kid left last night to go be w her mom and i was invited to spend xmas w my friends parents since my parents are a whole state away. I also caught the flu from my kid so today is quite literally the worst xmas ever for me. I love you man never stop

I love that you expanded on the dome fossil today sir - that was my Christmas Miracle :)

Your reaction to the raticate is just the best, had to look over for a sec;) Chunky boy Raticate

Thank you for this video on Christmas Scott, happy holidays and merry Christmas to all Edit: Gen 3 Mankey run

I just did a normal monotype nuzlocke of fire red. I never realized how OP Clefable is. I mean it was really hard keeping Clefairy alive long enough to learn cosmic power and meteor mash, but god damn. Pretty much nothing can stop you from getting off as many cosmic powers as you want to, then calm mind and psychic just lets you breeze through every elite 4 battle lol

Just wanted to thank you for helping to get me into solo challenges. I'm not tech savvy at all, but your vids finally motivated me to get a randomizer and try it this weekend. Now I'm playing Crystal with Porygon 2, which I never had as a kid because I had no trade partner. It's a blast. Merry Christmas!

I love using Butterfree in games like FireRed and try to take it as far as I can, but usually end up having to drop it by the E4 so I really enjoy seeing you use it in challenges like this!

Thank you so much for all of the videos this month! This was a super fun first run in Fire Red, I hope you and your fiancée had a lovely christmas!

Ahhhh! Yes finally!! I've been doing monotype nuzlocks in frlg for years now, done normal, water, grass, fire, flying, bug and poison, I've found it to be a decent challenge with 5 or 6 mons, it's amazing seeing how it is possible to do everything with one pokemon, it's great, you're great 🤣

NOTE TO SCOTT: mega punch and mega kick are available from karate tutors next to the exit of mt. Moon

Scott, you ABSOLUTELY should give a round one and round 2 time. Some Pokémon do really well on the late game and some in the early, this would be something good to measure!

Scott, I think the right answer to the evos is to just count the run as a different entity. Then you can do, for example, a 'Poliwag line' run that should compete with both Poliwhirl and poliwrath, the best of both worlds in my opinion. Just my 2¢. Love your content Scott!

Big fan of how the wrapping lass' name sounds like "I'll leash ya"

The Sevii Islands are an awesome addition, imho. It's clear that they're not in RBY, there's a bit of a tonal shift, but it's so cute and quaint, I really like the atmosphere there.

Hey Scott! Long time watcher first time commenter. You can get stones early on in gen 2 by the trainer calls. Get the list of routes, get only the numbers necessary, get fly, talk to your mom about daylight savings time. Worked first time for me with all three 😊 hope this helps dawg

the only reason Giovanni doesn't evolve his Rhyhorn is because he doesn't wanna run into a "Rhydon Deez Nuts" Joke. That man was a visionairy for his time he was ahead of the memes Also what's wrong with the Lapras sprite... it's happy to see the player and is singing in joy. it's adorable.

Love Scott going all uncanny valley comparing this game to gen-1. Also, Scott hoping to hit 50k, causing me to look down and see he already has.

Looks like you have that 50k! Congratulations! Thanks for more butterfree!

Thanks for all the videos, Scott. I would love to see the elite four rematches, but I understand if it's too much work. I also used dream eater butterfree when I played fire red. Compound eyes makes butterfree an amazing pokemon for the entirety of the game which is nice since I almost always used butterfree as a little kid, but it wasn't that good in the gen 1 late game.

Bruno recovering his respect as an elite 4? Is this a christmas miracle?

Potentially fun idea. A challenge video, but it's a single pokemon species of your choice. R/B/Y (your choice) Vs FR/LG (your choice) Vs LGP/LGE (your choice) Which version of Gen 1 is superior? Which one has the more interesting routing and strategies? How do various changes (particularly the Physical Special split)affect the Pokemon's performance? All interesting questions I should hope!

Bro dropping these daily is fascinating

Being walled at Bruno was hilarious 😂

congratulations on 50 billion subscribers scott

I'm looking forward to seeing how much you're going to improve at FireRed.

Enjoyed the full month of content... hope you enjoyed the time, as well! You've become one of my favorite creators on YT, and I'm looking forward to next year's content! Happy Holidays to you and your fiancé!

50.1K subscribers. Your wish came true. Congrats!

Congrats on 50k subscribers. You deserve many more. Will be great to watch your channel with a few hundred thousand subscribers.

Great video! I highly recommend not doing the rematch tour. Chaotic meatball, whom I loved, tried doing it and it completely wore him out. After about fifteen runs, he stopped, and switched to just round one... but by then the extra slog had completely sapped his energy and he ended up not continuing with the series at all. We can't risk that happening with you.