Venonat wiping out viridian forest's bug pokemon population during training seems like an invasive species situation lmao

Venonat has got to be the most "just a little guy" Pokemon in the entirety of Gen 1. Just a round little dude that you could probably put into any RPG without it looking out of place.

I love how on the winning attempt of the champion, Venonat takes absolutely no damage

I cant wait to see a 45 min elite four run

One bit of feedback as the tier list keeps getting l longer, it would be nice if you could highlight the one being added. It can be hard to find them on the screen sometimes. Something as simple as a colored box around the cell in the table would be great

You could have used Mimic on Agatha to learn Dream Eater and spare some Psychic’s PP. you were already using Sleep Powder and Dream Eater is both super effective and restore HP.

I always find it interesting to see which pokemon will struggle against Brock. That being said, I expect that venonat would have done way worse. Either way, this was a fun run to watch.

Don't let this distract you from the inevitable full length caterpie film

This Venonat run gets the OG Bug Catcher official stamp of approval! 👍

Bide could have potentially been used to take out Misty's Starmie earlier on or help against Charmeleon at Rival 3. Venonat could live 2 embers at max hp and bide always hits, so sand attack wouldn't have interfered provided you could get to that point. Not sure if either of these changes would have mattered in the long run though.

Lance: "Hey, where's the guy who keeps coming around and beating us with a single pokemon? He's really late!" Sabrina: >.>

Venonat and Venomoth are so underrated, always loved them since gen I.

Sure am glad Jrose is gonna do a separate video for every pokemon in every generation in which they appear!

I finished my attempt at this level 77 and I was still using leech life. Can't wait to see how this unfolds

This is basically "if Weedle/Caterpie had actual moves". Leech Life being useful was the last thing I expected, nice job; I wouldn't have thought of it.

venonat not getting confusion in R/B really hurts its viability. no wonder this run was pain.

I think this is the first time in my life that I've seen Venonat's back sprite, and I played Red as a kid when it came out! Thank you JRose for the hours of frustrating entertainment and showing us everything we missed in this great game of all our childhoods. Also, love the sly Nat King Cole reference with the names

It's always a good day when Jrose uploads a video

Colour palette was on point here. Was like grape pop and cream soda, really pretty! Absolutely miserable run though. That string of bad luck on the Sabrina and Blaine attempts hurt (not even counting the champion and Brock). I think Venomoth will be shockingly good too, so here's hoping!

I think the reason bug is so underpowered in gen 1 because it's actually great against a large portion of the game. Ive done scyther and Pinsir runs where I would change cut to a bug type move and it makes both of them hilariously overpowered

These are my favorite runs -- Pokemon we would never, ever use or think about. Well done, JRose!

Anyone who plays Dungeons and Dragons can tell you that 1/16th isn't that unlikely.

Not even that large of a pokemon fan, but I can't get enough of your videos. They're a joy.

I love how the 2 geodude + graveler hiker has become such an infamous trainer that he gets his own designated segment in these videos

I’m so used to Venonat learning Confusion that I was waiting for Jrose to say “and this is when we get Confusion and make Brock trivial” but sadly that part never came…

"We get Leech Life, that's gonna suck" I see what you did there JRose 😉

1:28 It's those reactions to the gameplay that makes me wonder if Jrose records the audio after or during the gameplay... or maybe both. His response to getting two crits in a row is just so genuine lol

7:38 that count impression reference gave me life today. ❤ Aww and the the little edit against rival 6 charizard

I can't begin to explain how happy these videos make me.

AJ has been killing with his editing lately! It makes these great videos even better!

"We get leech life. That's gonna suck" -Out of context Jrose

Ah. As a kid I wouldn’t even bother catching a Venonat because I thought it was useless. When Fire Red/Leaf Green came out I decided I was going to try a team of Pokémon I hadn’t used before, and ended up falling in love with 3 of the “useless” Pokémon I spent years neglecting. I still have a soft spot for Cloyster and Exeggutor, but Venomoth has been on every team I’ve used since then. This video brought back so many happy memories.

In the future, if another Pokémon takes a long time on Brock it would be cool to have the Mewtwo run play in the corner to show have far it progressed in the same time P.S. Great run, as always!

“Venonat gets Psychic movesand Sleep Powder. How bad can it be?”

I always kind of cheer for Leech Life to stay up until the end, it is a bad move overall, but considering the lack of bug moves and how it's not often bug types get stab, it feels nice to see it until the end, like cheering for the underdog to overperform.

Always love getting to Elite Four and seeing over 20 minutes left on the video xD

I love Venonat, it's my favourite bug mon, if not my favourite overall, so cute, so funny looking.💜 If I could have any Pokémon as a pet, I would choose it.

So funny to see a run where Blain's Superpotions really make a difference haha

Legit venonat is my favourite Pokémon, such an adorable little floof, glad to see him getting the spotlight for once !! Amazing run btw !

Thank you for continuing this series. I've seen every one and always enjoy the new episodes. ❤️

AJ adding the count during Rival 6 was priceless

One of my favorite 'mons!! Tracy's Venonat in the anime was cute. Also cute: the additional AJ-content in these videos!

Now I truly understand why Bug is super-effective against Psychic. It literally gets mental. Sabrina. Blaine. The god-forbidden Champion. My body was in pain throughout this entire video. But one must imagine Sisyphus happy, and he would be proud of your struggles. Love your videos, Jrose. You can hurt me plenty.

JRose: I think that’s the first time Rhydon has actually defeated me! Weedle:

I think Jrose deserves a like from every viewer for putting himself through that for us. What a hero

I still to this day think that the Oddish run was the worst lol. Jrose is just getting some of the WORST luck I've ever seen! Love the content xD

Your name: Nat Rival’s name: Kingcol 🎵Chestnauts roasting on an open fire…🎵

Before watching, I just wanna say that this has always been my favourite pokémon ever since gen 1 when I was 3 years old, so this is a big day for me! :D Edit: ok, this was a nightmare. I'm so sorry and I'm not sure who to direct it towards more, Jrose or Venonat.

Tried this challenge in Yellow and even that took me ages before the first gym and until the mid 90s to beat the game, I can’t imagine how hard red/blue will be

I miss the GBA intro so much lol... I love watching your older videos with that as your intro... gets me back into my childhood seeing it

I love how you can hear the madness settling in during the E4 runs. This is probably one of the most painful runs I’ve ever seen done with this sheeeesh

Mimic once again carrying the run. Without it soo many would drop like flies

I know that it was very frustrating to play, but I don’t think it was overly unlucky? Needing to sleep powder 5 of the rival’s pokemon, plus avoiding them waking up too early, crits, and other rng like leer, I think the strategy was just doomed to be miserable. Maybe at level 90 or something it’d be more consistent, but that’s also a huge time sink.

Great job Jrose and keep up the amazing job

sabrina's battle was hard bc you forgot about compounding chance: -> 1/2 chance for kadabra to use psybeam -> 3/4 chance for your attack to hit -> 9/10 chance for psybeam not to confuse you -> 159/200 chance for no enemy crit -> 255/256 chance for no gen 1 miss on your part + sth difficult to calculate like instant wake ups with you missing afterwards and so on + you messing up lol that's a 26.7...% chance of your plan working. at best. against kadabra. alakazam is obviously much harder due to higher crit rate and overall more things being able to go wrong due to the longer battle. and dont forget that these are just chances. it's perfectly possible to not work out 100 times in a row. but even if we could expect to try 3 times and it definietly working out the 4th time, you messing up that 4th time means it'll definitely take 8 attempts. and if that 8th attempt happens to be the one where alakazam doesnt play along, then we're at 12 attempts. kadabra waking up early and you missing? 16 attempts. messed up again? 20 attempts. obviously this last part wasnt very mathematical at all, but considering you tend to mess up more often when games take long during tedious parts, this whole sabrina battle wasnt AS improbable as you probably wouldve thought. ps: old games have garbage rng. you couldve entirely been caught in a loop there or at any other spot, happened to me tons of times, too

This is such a cool series. A little late in the game- but you should do a randomizer at the end of each video to choose which one you do the next run with (depending how far ahead you are compared to the videos that are released I suppose). That would give it another layer of excitement and challenge!

Haaii JRose, sleep hasn't been with me, insomnia is kicking my beehind. Thanks for the uploads lately, that sweet dose of nostalgia has kept me entertained and engaged on long form content! Thank you for being (basically) back and hope you are doing way better than me, altough doing this with a Venonat sounds like hell 😅

Yes. Was just thinking about when your next video was going to come out

Good ol’ AJ slipping in ‘The Count’ for us. 37:43 🤣😂

Jrose videos just make me forget everything bad in life for the time it’s on

Venonat is one of those Pokemon I wish was available a little earlier in Gen 1. It's so cool!

That Mirror Move from a missed Sleep Powder was painfully funny.

I'm not one to enjoy your pain normally but the champion fight was super entertaining for just how bad the luck was this go around. looking forward to your next video!

OH YEAH LET'S GO AN HOUR LONG EPIC FOR THE AGES

Does anyone else like to pause when j rose shows the movepool and try and predict the final moveset?

54:42 my best lolllll. Love you so much on these vid. And my 3 favorite pokemon are geodude, venonath and chansey, so glad you finnaly used all of them

Needed this run today, JRose, you saved the day.

A ralts solo run would be epic

Rejoice sleepers. We are going to sleep well tonight and have a good video to watch in the morning

37:47 love the ah ah ahs from aj. aj you the best

I found Venomoth to be surprisingly good (at least for what I was expecting) but Venonat is a very rough time

I can feel the video release pace picking up. Will there be a month of jrose to look forward to?

Need more AJ and Jrose banter an communication. Those little tidbits are always so fun

Great upload, thanks JRose!

I just so happened to get a Shiny Venonat in Violet once i saw this video, so what timing that a solo run about Venonat gets uploaded

Any chance we can get a spreadsheet of what you named your character and your rival for each pokemon you used?

I know you might hate them, but I love these types of runs. It’s always interesting to see what the strategy is when it seems impossible.

The more I'm entertained, the more I worry for Jrose's mental health. What a catch 22.

Man, could you imagine how different this run would be with the version of Leech Life in the newer era games where it has way more base power (if I recall it has 80 instead of gen 1’s 20 base power)? The Brock section would still have been suffering, but the improved Leech Life would basically be the “Body Slam” this run needed until getting Psychic.

This should be a interesting run. I honestly might have took Psybeam over Psychic here just to for the confusion as well not many moves it can have . Iam interested again to see what you come up with to win again

When I saw Venonat on the thumbnail I already knew the video would last 1 hour long

“We should do more FireRed” YES

I love when you run Pokemon that nobody ever uses because it just now occurred to me I've never even seen some of these Pokemon backsprites

I think you could create a house rule specifically for when something like this happens in the elite four on future runs. If you're stuck in the champion and can consistently win against everyone else maybe 3 or 4 times in a row, just save before the champion to spare yourself of the misery, no one is gonna complain about that. Fuckin love you, man ❤

Disable has a 55% chance to hit. Foes with 2 moves 27.5% chance to disable the intended move. 3 moves? 18.3%. 4 moves? 13.75%. X Accuracy makes it 50%, 33.3%, and 25% respectively. We're about halfway there to 151.

I got it randomly for my current run and I must say I love it. Except for boosting moves, it's full of resources and its design is great, so even with the hassle of defeating Brock, I think I'll enjoy this one.

Love to watch how you struggle with bad Pokemon but going further and further into it, only to be fainted by a bad luck :D

Your videos play without buffering even though I'm like almost out of data... Cool!!

Really enjoyed the video, was tempted to watch a tv show but I couldn’t click off. Was so invested in this venonat

"I guess we get Leech Life but...that's gonna suck!" Nice play on words.

Jrose: Okay, as long as we get even remotely reasonable luck, we have this! RNGesus: I'm gonna use what's known as a Pro Gamer Move...

Heh. "We don't get a bug type move except for Leech Life, and thats gunna suck." On purpose or not, that amused me XD

Man I love your narrations, watching you I feel like watching a world cup final

Love the reference to Nat King Cole! May he rest in peace.

Recently I used a Venonat/Venomoth on my team in Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu. I named her Verona and tbh she wasn't my first pick. I was going to use Mr Mime as my go to for Poison types but unfortunately in Gen 8 Mr Mime is part Fairy type so he gets one shot by sludge bomb that surprisingly a lot of trainers with poison types have. Verona actually remained on my team till the end of the elite 4. She was kind of out classed by some of my other Pokemon but I did rely on her to defeat two of my Rivals team. If you are using a Venomoth in a team run it could be a valuable Pokemon and I was surprised by how much I used Verona. Verona's psychic took out any poison type and her sludge bomb took out any psychic type she was faster than which seemed to be every family except the Abra family, and it was a good answer for fairy types.

Omg earliest I've ever been! Love the colour pallete as always! Length of video is scary haha

It's equal parts amusing and frustrating seeing jrose slip into his younger self's 'gotta do absolutely minimum battles with this pre evolved pokemon as if it's mewtwo' and the game's RNG going 'how many times do I have to teach you this lesson!?' in being utterly pitiless.

"Well i guess we get leech life... Nah it's gonna suck" That must be in the jrose pun compilation

I want to give a shout-out to the music for this episode - very nice, and quite reminiscent of 90s-era Final Fantasy games.

0:11 I mean, it's pre evolved 0:20 I mean, it's not the worst in any specific stat 0:29 I mean, getting Psychic. 0:39 I mean, no poison move