Another fellow diamond dust knower! Only thing I’ll correct (at least based on my bulbapedia research) is that it seems like it’s New Year’s Eve and not Christmas that has the diamond dust. And it seems the players birthday doesn’t effect diamond dust until XY.

I thought it was like every Wednesday doesn't have hail or something like that.

For HGSS, the full set is Leap Day, Honen Matsuri, Pokemon Blue's release date and New Years Eve (Feb 29, Mar 15, Oct 10 and Dec 31).

@@TrevCL the virgin hail wuss vs. the Chad diamond dust knower

Is that a speedrun strat? I assume that would save a decent amount of time.

I remember doing a ledyba run in crystal, and I felt the same, and I fought every Trainer. aaa

@@BaconEater666 Tell me you are a masochist without telling me you are a masochist. lol

@@puddlespuddles5208 magikarp run without items

@@johnapple6646 bullets taste better

That line isn't what got me. The line from the trainer inside the cave, accusing you of being 'uninvited' is. Like dude, the gym leader just told me to come here. That doesn't count as an invitation?!

Ngl knowing Jrose he’s probably wait until that date IRL bc playing this challenge isn’t difficult enough

That’s genius. Then focus band, doubleteam, and sucker punch your way to victory

@@williamaguilar2230 doubleteam substitude leftover is probably better than doubleteam and focus band.

@@bohanxu6125 leftovers is kinda less usefull on a spinirak that likely won't survive to use it tho

Also trying to TRICK the system by setting the DS/3DS's Clock to those dates without having to wait I believe that will NOT work at all.

This was already true as the first of this series was gen 1 magikarp lol

@@Shadowjackal Fair point! Haha. I guess I just meant all of them since then. XD

@@Shadowjackal Exactly. Jrose stated he's never failed a challenge before. My first thought was wait the gen 1 magikarp was a failed challenge. . Now im sure he knew that challenge was impossible before doing it. But, he never mentioned it until he got to the tower with the pokeflute. Which is were the run stopped. The challenge was can you beat gen 1 with a magikarp. The answer is no it can not be done.

Spoiler

Yeah he’s mentioned before that he had a Beldum run which ended at Steven I believe? And he never uploaded it even though he reached the last battle. So I’m glad he’s seemingly changed the rules on this and will show unsuccessful runs if they get this far, even though I personally consider Kanto postgame so he did beat the main game

I know im exited already

Or not that bad and half the video is elite 4 like it usually is.. Edit: it is...

Painful for Jrose11. Not for us!

Love the longer videos 😍

And you know it's gonna be good 😊

Please do, it would be an awesome thing to see

Would love if you commented an update if you get around to it

@@baconcatbug is there some kind of battle simulator where you could try out the battle against red?

Problem is, Jrose couldn´t even pass Charizard, it doesnt make much of a difference

Commenting to follow this :)

Johto actually has some really cool bugs! Forretress and Heracross are awesome too :)

But why did they have to make a spider BUG type? The same as why did they make Breloom a grass type? Spiders are not bugs and Mushrooms are not plants.

How did you beat Watson mageaton is what I wanna see 👀

Can you not run from the groundon

@@eeveestars3668 i actually don't recall how it works in ORAS, but I think by that late in the series, ur probably forced to battle and/or capture the legendary pkmn

I mean what's the point in naming the series "can you beat pokemon with x" if all the runs you post are you winning?

@@Jekuma its to show yes you can and heres how. But showing you fail to do it proves that not all pokemon can solo run

scott's plays usually uses perfect iv pokemon and he uses hidden power which jrose doesn't like to do. i think i prefer scott but i still enjoy jrose. he's right that most of us don't like when he resets because he got too lucky. my argument for that is if the pokemon sucks, it needs all the luck it can get. no one is probably going to try to emulate a run with a shit pokemon and the videos are just for entertainment value, so i personally think jrose should go the way of scott and pick perfect natures with perfect ivs and use hidden power if he needs to in order to show if a pokemon can legitimately beat the game or not. if you're not giving it all of the chances it has available to it it feels like a failure of the trainer, not the pokemon.

I love how some of the players are like "I won't use items because that's cheating" and then go "so then I use swords dance to abuse the badge glitch."

​​​@@ninjaguyYTThey don't resist using non held items because it's cheating, they avoid it because it's boring for everyone involved. Almost all runs are doable with the use of items - outside like gen 1 runs being halted by normal/fighting only mons facing ghost roadblock. Especially when you're able rebattle trainers for unlimited/renewable money potential. You will always be able to out spend your opponent. Trainers rarely have items, and have a very small limited pool when they do (think maybe 5 items max). They will never have 99+ full restores or stacks of xyz etc at ready in official games. Sure, maybe you don't like badge boost glitch, okay, but watching magikarp beat the game through the use thousands of items is boring and slow AF to watch. Would hardly get views.

You must be new here, he's posted several where the Pokemon cannot go all the way or needs to be Max level just to have a chance

it's not really humility, the challenge is just impossible

@@Pao-vo8mf His point is that he could have not posted it since it is impossible, but he did anyway.

@@ruthlesace An individual is never too unseasoned nor grizzled to pay reverence to brilliance.

Very small success, but success nonetheless

It was a gimmick but it did sometimes get the one up on deoxys spd and darkrai leads in gen 4 ubers.

Sticky Web didn’t exist yet.

Really bad at sticky webs. If you are using webs in ubers slurpuff is better. Ariados can lay a single layer of toxic spikes against darkrai and that's it.

​@@YOSSARIAN313 Yeah, after gen 6 Ariados got pretty consistently powercrept in pretty much every area. Ribombee's Bug/Fairy typing makes it fantastic for the Psychic and Dragon infested gen 7 Ubers. Slurpuff is also a really great choice these days thanks to Misty Explosion and Unburden. Haven't played much of gen 8 Ubers since Shaymin is stuck in BDSP, so I'm not sure which one would be best, but I got a lot out of Scarf Ribombee in gen 7 so its at least decent

he should've had a burn heal for all those burns

ruxin34 a jrose watcher?? cant believe both my hobbies are converging in one comment section rn

why did he even need a white herb there, i dont understand its function

@@09-nguyentaman64 Because, when using Spinarak, Blue sends out Arcanine second which, after Intimidate, isn't a OHKO with Dig and destroys you with Flare Blitz.

@@darkfiredragon3410why didn’t he just steal the white herb. It was super easy to do lol

Magikarp RB Challenge: Am I a joke to you?

@@aminadabbrulle8252 Shedinja Platinum: WHAAAT did you say

@@aminadabbrulle8252 the thing with OG magikarp was if you knew about struggle being a normal type move in Gen 1 then you knew going it was impossible. There was no way to hit a ghost Pokémon. However with this run it was theoretically possible just the odds made it basically impossible

Repent and follow Jesus my friend! Repenting doesn't mean confessing your sins to others, but to stop doing them altogether. Belief in Messiah alone is not enough to get you into heaven - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36). Contemplate how the Roman empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years to accomplish the religion of the Israelites C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate though because you can start a relationship with God and have proof. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life. - Revelation 3:20 Revelation has been unfolding since Jesus died. The Popes have claimed to be equal to God and set themselves in Jesus' place (antichrist(s)). Vatican City (Which is its own nation BTW) have risen up to fulfill the role of the false prophet Regarding the man of lawlessness or antichrist, 2 Thessalonians 2:4 says “Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” The restrainer that the Apostle Paul was referring to in 2 Thessalonians was the Western Roman Emperor, who held back the Popes from taking power. Once the last Western Roman Emperor was removed from power in 476 AD, the Pope was given civil and ecclesiastic authority over Rome; healing the deadly head wound of the beast in Revelation 13, as they took the Emperors title of Pontifex Maximus, leader of the church and state. “We may according to the fullness of our power, dispose of the law and dispense above the law. Those whom the Pope of Rome doth separate, it is not a man that separates them but God. For the Pope holdeth place on earth, not simply of a man but of the true God.” (Source: “Decretals of Gregory IX,” Book 1, chapter 3.) Pope Pius V blasphemed, “The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in Heaven and earth.” (Source: Pope Pius V, quoted in Barclay, Cities Petrus Bertanous Chapter XXVII: 218.) Pope Leo XIII declared, “We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.” (Source: Pope Leo XIII Encyclical Letter, June 20, 1894) The antichrist sea beast of Revelation points to the office of the papacy, the Popes of Rome, who controlled the Roman beast for 1,260 years, from 538-1798 AD. Daniel 7:25 says “And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.” The Popes of Rome spoke against Elohim and proclaimed to be God. They reigned for 1,260 years, from 538-1798 AD. during which they caused tens of millions of saints to be killed. The Pope’s title is Vicar of Christ, which in Latin is ‘Vicarius Filii Dei’, and equates numerically to the number 666

I often fall asleep to these too lol xD

Lol I wake up and have to figure out where I was in the video when I fell asleep so I can finish it

Like the halo reach trailer from the beginning you know the end

He knows, later when up against Drake he mentions how the second Intimidate would put his attack at 50% but the first at 75%. Of course this isn't entirely accurate but that's the point he knows roughly how attack drops work he just isn't the best at math.

@@craigyeah1052 I noticed after posting my comment and going on with the video... But the math teacher in me could hold it any longer :D

Please help, I don't understand this

This world is rapidly passing away and I hope that you repent and take time to change before all out disaster occurs! Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36) if you believed in Messiah you would be following His commands as best as you could. If you are not a follower of Messiah I would highly recommend becoming one. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life - Revelation 3:20. Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13 over the course of 1260+ years. Revelation 17 confirms that the beast is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God. Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc. Have a blessed day!

"Their"?

I didn’t notice it was male, my bad.

@@gaobot pRoNoUnS 🥴🥴🥴

@@HoloTWWOriginal ?

@@gaobot why are you correcting his use of a pronoun on a creature in a fictional game?

Why did I head into the comment section before finishing the video

@@MyHandleIsAplaceholder same

great, this spoiler ruined the video for me

Repent and follow Jesus my friend! Repenting doesn't mean confessing your sins to others, but to stop doing them altogether. Belief in Messiah alone is not enough to get you into heaven - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36). Contemplate how the Roman empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years to accomplish the religion of the Israelites C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate though because you can start a relationship with God and have proof. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life. - Revelation 3:20 Revelation has been unfolding since Jesus died. The Popes have claimed to be equal to God and set themselves in Jesus' place (antichrist(s)). Vatican City (Which is its own nation BTW) have risen up to fulfill the role of the false prophet Regarding the man of lawlessness or antichrist, 2 Thessalonians 2:4 says “Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” The restrainer that the Apostle Paul was referring to in 2 Thessalonians was the Western Roman Emperor, who held back the Popes from taking power. Once the last Western Roman Emperor was removed from power in 476 AD, the Pope was given civil and ecclesiastic authority over Rome; healing the deadly head wound of the beast in Revelation 13, as they took the Emperors title of Pontifex Maximus, leader of the church and state. “We may according to the fullness of our power, dispose of the law and dispense above the law. Those whom the Pope of Rome doth separate, it is not a man that separates them but God. For the Pope holdeth place on earth, not simply of a man but of the true God.” (Source: “Decretals of Gregory IX,” Book 1, chapter 3.) Pope Pius V blasphemed, “The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in Heaven and earth.” (Source: Pope Pius V, quoted in Barclay, Cities Petrus Bertanous Chapter XXVII: 218.) Pope Leo XIII declared, “We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.” (Source: Pope Leo XIII Encyclical Letter, June 20, 1894) The antichrist sea beast of Revelation points to the office of the papacy, the Popes of Rome, who controlled the Roman beast for 1,260 years, from 538-1798 AD. Daniel 7:25 says “And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.” The Popes of Rome spoke against Elohim and proclaimed to be God. They reigned for 1,260 years, from 538-1798 AD. during which they caused tens of millions of saints to be killed. The Pope’s title is Vicar of Christ, which in Latin is ‘Vicarius Filii Dei’, and equates numerically to the number 666

Caterpie solo run would be absolute horror to perform and extreme pain to watch

He did Paras already and it was only 30 minutes video, but I'm dreading Weedle and caterpie

@@specodhec341 caterpie solo run isn't possible since it doesn't learn a non-normal type damaging move until gen 4

@@specodhec341 "And I use Tackle. And I tackle. Aaaand tackle. Tackle. Yep, tackle. Oh right you guessed my next move: It's tackle. Yea I wouldn't watch that run.

Why is it that my first thought when seeing you refer to gen 1 bugs is things like the badge boost glitch and (my personal favourite) how the levels that Omanyte and Omastar's learn moves are the wrong way round.

Or Steven in emerald

Nah Steven is post game, nothing happens when you beat him, same as Cynthia in B/W. Defeating Red and Alder rolls the credits.

except BW has a solid ending. no new region opens when you defeat ghetsis. no new gyms. of course playing through the postgame of BW feels like the right thing to do, it's so big. but the main story definitely ends at ghetsis, and it ends so freaking well. as for the credits roll, it happens in every game when you beat the E4 again. if for some reason alder left the league and you battled him somewhere else, like red, the credits wouldn't roll

The lore thickens. It’s even thicker than the blood of Jimmy the Diglett at this point.

@@rainpooper7088 crazy cause Jimmy's blood is thick as MUD

If you catch a Butterfree with the Compound Eyes ability and put it at the front of your party, it raises your chance of a wild pokemon having a held item by a large amount (can't remember the exact amount, but it's significant). If you let it get KO'd, and have your second party pokemon have the move Thief, you can still get the Compound Eyes effect without having to switch out to your Thief-er on every encounter. This is how I got a ton of lucky eggs off Chanseys (5%) in Diamond version in a relatively short amount of time.

@@tommydevine9993 that's cool! I never knew that, I have to keep that in mind. Thanks!

​@@tommydevine9993MVP right here.

Same ! And I am arachophobic lol guess it is just that cute

Vitamins, Effort Value training, giving me another chance to train my team. I learned that the way in my Pokémon Platinum nuzlocke.

There’s a reason why Arceus cannot EV Train in Gen 4, since Hall of Origin Arceus is not obtainable aside from exploiting/Action Replay. And, the only way to get Arceus legitimately is through Mystery Gift, which happens to be Level 100.

This world is rapidly passing away and I hope that you repent and take time to change before all out disaster occurs! Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36) if you believed in Messiah you would be following His commands as best as you could. If you are not a follower of Messiah I would highly recommend becoming one. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life - Revelation 3:20. Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13 over the course of 1260+ years. Revelation 17 confirms that the beast is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God. Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc. Have a blessed day!

Nah. Another commenter took on this challenge and, even taking into account the limitations for fixing EVs at 100, he was able to craft a stat spread and move set that beat Red in 20 minutes and the only "instant reset" was if Pikachu used Volt Tackle. Even being paralyzed didn't matter.

Ditto. I love it when one of his impossible challenges lives up to its name. If he found ways to beat all of them, the "impossible challenge" label would be false advertising.

Knowing that some of the runs going forward may fail gives the videos more suspense too, so I agree, failed runs really add to the content of the channel

Super long is always nice..!

Agree 1000%. I actually came across your R&C wrench only challenges the other week and I was extremely impressed by them. While these challenges are super fun to watch (probably less so to play), the simple truth is that games aren’t designed to be beatable with these random and obscure playstyles in mind. I saw it in Vorselon’s hangar and at Commander Argos in your ACiT run and we saw it here with Red. And it’s just like JRose said, it’s not about the destination, it’s about the journey :)

@@StormEagleCH well said my man!

Nah, I don't think it could happen in Red and Blue, he will always be able to finish. No intimidate, no Red boss fight, I think he would always beat the game

@@Marlonbc90 He could have beat this one too but arbitrarily barred certain strategies and didn't fix his EVs. Someone else took his exact Spinarak, redid the EVs specifically to make Pikachu and Charizard possible, and beat Red in 20 minutes. Jrose gives up if he can't outspeed and one/two-shot very often since he refuses to use most strategies that do literally anything else.

Good call! There's just a problem that JRose's challenge doesn't allow catching wild pokémon except for HM/field move uses.

@@ZebNyan96 I wasn't sure if that might be the case, but with this case for example, it wouldn't be an issue. You get the Thief TM from the Rocket Hideout, and Spinarak can learn it. (It's a pretty widely distributed move too)

@@rroadagain2810 That's a great idea! Totally forgot Thief.

This world is rapidly passing away and I hope that you repent and take time to change before all out disaster occurs! Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36) if you believed in Messiah you would be following His commands as best as you could. If you are not a follower of Messiah I would highly recommend becoming one. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life - Revelation 3:20. Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13 over the course of 1260+ years. Revelation 17 confirms that the beast is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God. Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc. Have a blessed day!

It does, you'll be faster and at a lower level with it :) I did a run myself similar, and kept it till ner the elite 4, it really paid off ;)

I believe, starting from Gen IV, they replaced Night Shade with Shadow Sneak.

He removes night shade very early on in the run

@@moblinmajorgeneral It does have Night Shade (and Shadow Sneak) in Gen 7 for sure

@@moblinmajorgeneral it does learn night shade in hgss. as to why it wasn't used... I don't know. jrose is kinda slow sometimes

@@Pao-vo8mf He gets stuck on certain ideas. Sometimes they work out and sometimes he's banging his head against a wall trying to make it work. Often, when that happens, he can abandon a bad strategy and find a good one to salvage a run. Sometimes, he needs to start over, but won't. This kinda *feels* like one of those runs. Still, interesting to see in action and wonder "what if"

It's also wrong. Someone took his same Pokemon, fixed its EVs (a thing you can do in this game without cheating rather easily) and beat Red in 20 minutes. It's not really "science" when you just decide the victory condition can't include certain tactics arbitrarily. He even got Paralyzed by the Pikachu and won, basically only having to reset against Volt Tackle.

​@@ForeverLaxx Oh, Jrose's knowledge about the games aren't perfect, hence not knowing about diamond dust? How outrageous! Seriously, dude, stop your hate, you are impressing no one

@@fifaworldcup1994 I'm not here to impress fools, so you can rest easy.

Counterpoint, he's using a full team against a Spinarak.

@@Snipergod1024 counter counter point, not a RBY run, so it’s technically non-canon

Trainee surge needs to learn to get good.

This world is rapidly passing away and I hope that you repent and take time to change before all out disaster occurs! Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36) if you believed in Messiah you would be following His commands as best as you could. If you are not a follower of Messiah I would highly recommend becoming one. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life - Revelation 3:20. Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13 over the course of 1260+ years. Revelation 17 confirms that the beast is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God. Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc. Have a blessed day!

The vid was great :)

Scyther is definitely better I’d say. Pinsir is in the slow experience group for one thing, I don’t think Scyther is

Don't give him any more masochistic ideas 😂

I've always wondered if that were possible

There's also an event Magikarp in gen 2 that knows Bubble, so while you'd have to deal with the awful disobedience thing it's yet another option

I dunno about that, I tried a sonic boom only challenge and I got walled by sabrina because of recover spam. In the case of a magikarp solo run, he has to be able to kill the 2 Gengars and Haunter, being able to endure all the "Agatha Lottery Shenanigans" and hope to have enough pp , because Agatha can heal her pokémon with Dream Eater and healing items. So , it all depends on how much Hp the two Gengar and Haunter have combined and if it's less than the max amount of Dragon Rages damage, hope she will never heal them (but hey , at least he could reach the Elite four no probs).

Just looked this up. I think there were only 20 distributions and no-one can currently track any of them down. Most likely, the people who got them had their Gameboy cartridge run out of battery and their data wiped. Also it's on Japanese red/green, not western red/blue.

It was, Night shade is actually the best move for Bugsy and rival 2, and same for steelix actually. Psychic is actually bad against steelix though, it resists and from my experience, you'll barely land a hit at all LOL It however is very helpful against Koga's 3 pokemon however, same for Bruno and Karen's Gengar :)

Though, I'd have ditched night shade because of whitney.

Probably, though you'd still have to rely on chance a lot. You'd still want 6 double teams and Bright Powder to minimize how often you get hit. 6 X-attacks, 2 X-speeds (or Agility), maybe an X-accuracy. Should be able to sweep everything while outspending too. Though there's more luck involved if things somehow still aren't a OHKO. That's just my thoughts on it anyway.

Vitamins

@@moblinmajorgeneral you can't use them if the stat you want to raise already has more than 100 EVs and by the time he reached Blaine the Spinarak had way more than 100 EVs in speed and attack already