The rival ditches Fearow because it's a free kill to Pikachu, Pikachu is also why he starts with Sandslash in later battles

The rivals Ferrow got stolen by team rocket in Saffron city, which is why the rival climbed to the top of Silph Co after knocking out the front guard. Unfortunately Geovani activated the building lock down before he could get to the director's office. So he's stuck waiting by the stairs, then you rock up.

Scott: and with his 3.9 % chance to crit…. Scott the very next sentence: what are the odds???? 😂

I think the rival boxes Fearow because he knows your starter is supposed to be Pikachu and typically would see it stood behind you therefore he chooses to reduce his electric weaknesses by boxing Fearow and leading with Sandslash, a pokemon immune to electric attacks

I feel Geodude's level up moveset helps too. I think Rhyhorn only got Stomp at like 30 and by the time it gets anything good you just get the TMs for EQ and Rock Slide.

I'm going to say that it is simple for the rival: After trying his best to get Spearow to work, he realizes after Pokemon Tower that Fearow is no longer carrying his weight and just boxes it.

Ground resists rock tho so rock throw would be resisted by both Geodude and Onix

I like how this guy is so confident in his red and blue sprite with his arm and thum pointing like he saying "hey trainer... if you wanna get outtathere it's this way!"

I am impressed with Geodude. I guess experience rates are really the deciding factor

Geodude is slowly becoming one of my favorite evolution lines. The only issues are Golem's design and the trade evolution. Besides that, Geodude is so fun to use. I love tossing it out on a physical type and hitting them back hard.

We don’t have any evidence that Defense Curl, Harden, or Acid Armor were ever different (they could have been earlier, but not in the dev data we have). However, you are right about Leer and Tail Whip! Originally, Leer lowered Defense and Special, while Tail Whip just lowered Defense. That makes me think that maybe Harden used to raise Special as well as Defense. They probably changed both of these because the intent was for them to cut or raise the Pokémon’s ability to defend against special attacks, but instead the moves were being used to cut or raise the attack power of special moves, which wasn’t the flavor intent.

The other day I was thinking about this - with physical/special being tied to type in early gens, Pokémon's defensive stats are essentially a second form of "type weakness" or "type resistance" in those gens. A high special stat grants a degree of resistance to all water attacks, all grass attacks, etc, whereas a low special stat means a weakness to all water moves, all grass moves, etc. This means that Geodude is weak to water and grass 3 times over - because of its rock type, because of its ground type, AND because of its low special stat.

I have to tell you something I would LOVE to see - Regional Modded version of Kanto mons vs Kantonian forms. Kantonian Golem vs Alolan Golem, Hisuian Arcanine va Arcanine, Galarian Meowth vs Meowth (or modded Purserker vs Persian). That would be awesome

"Rhyhorn, believe it or not, is faster than Geodude". Rhyhorn has legs, Scott.

I love these videos. I work 12 hours on an assembly line, and listen to stuff to pass the time. Listening to these makes it so much more tolerable. Thank you

13:32 it's not his Fearow. one of the guards from Safron loaned him a Spearow to deliver some mail. He simply returned it.

9:36 idk but this had me dying "ok so once again a difficult water type pokemon" the delivery was just priceless hahahah ahh man

I was always frustrated with all the rock/ground types in this game, but playing through with a rock/fighting and ground/ice type, I began to miss the combination. Despite its two quadruple weaknesses, it's really useful for a lot of fights.

Glad to see the Professor being a bit of a challenge this time. Two water types against a 1st stage ground/rock was a bit rough. Overall quite an interesting set of results!

He lost his Fearow in the Explosions and subsequent darkness of Rock Tunnel against the SD Hiker. And he just hot footed it out the tunnel

13:34 He got lost in Rock Tunnel since he didn't have any Pokemon with Flash. Eventually, he was lost for so long, that he had to eat the Fearow to survive 😔

I guess Geodude being able to weaponize the badge boost glitch as well as its medium slow growth rate made the difference (also at 37:44, you used the Geodude cry for Rhydon). Good video!

I know the slow growth rate absolutely kills times for those with it, but I don’t think that’s why Geodude beats Rhyhorn though. Geodude has a badge boosting move and I know Rhyhorn doesn’t get one through level up to help it through it’s rough patches. If Rhyhorn doesn’t have that explains why it struggles so much when Geodude might succeed. Your playthrough was impressive. I definitely thought you would end up with a worse time than that. Great job Scott!

Fearow Theory: After Lavendar town, your rival realizes fearow just isn't keeping up, and boxes it so he can trade with a certain silph co employee for a lapras, he's in the room ready to make the trade but gets mistaken for a team rocket member by the person he's su pposed to trade with, in explaining you show up, beat him, your rival in frustration walks off, and the poor silph employee gives you the lapras as a thanks for helping get rid of team rocket.

Spearow- he gives it to his sister who gives you the town map so she can see the world! Wholesome!

Great run! Before the last Dragonite an option is defence curl against the aerodactyl who can't really hurt to outspeed with the badge boost. Love your videos!

He was going to catch a pokemon and boxed the Fearow before the trip so his new pokemon would be in his party immediately. Idk, that's the best fearow theory I have

That animation of Pikachu ringing the Chimeko is so cute!

Hey Scott, good to see your videos again. Helpful hint: if your Pokemon is slow, train on diglett. The stat exp. is speed heavy, could add a few points if needed.

FEARow was spooked by the ghosts in the tower and flew away 😭

Saying Kingdra and seeing the Sprite got me so confused 😂

The Prof. Oak fight is a good way to close, mewtwo is fun in theory but it in a standard game the challenge was more about catching it. Assuming you used your master ball on one of the legendary birds, catching mewtwo with ultaballs can be tough, even with a team of pokemon that beat the elite 4

11:12 The odds, Scott, were about 3.91%. Jokes aside, that is phenomenal luck!

I always get so excited whenever I see you upload a new video, unlike any other youtuber. Thank you for putting out great content!

The "I've planned for every stat experience to have precisely enough speed to outspeed the Gyarados" is machivallian planning.

No joke, this is the first time I've seen the Gambler with the Poliwag and Horsea in literal years

My own theory regarding the Defense Curl/Harden thing is that it may be related to the fact that there really was a very limited number of moves available in Gen 1 and some pokemon just had their moveset lengthened with "filler moves". You know, that are there to give a feeling of progression while leveling up but they couldn't think of anything better to teach it. Incidentally, this is why when I created my own romhack for the game the first thing I did was add around 90 moves (which I tried to split evenly between the types), which radically changes the dynamics of the game.

Actually, Withdraw is also identical in effect to Defense Curl and Harden too. They just seem to have really liked defense boosts in gen 1. I hear that despite different text, Reflect also boosts Def by 2 stages instead of halving damage another way.

This one was surprisingly consistent once it got enough Speed for key battles! Another small advantage Geodude has over Rhyhorn is a badge boosting move, when it can get setup.

I've got an idea for a special run: Take one of the Pokemon which struggled the hardest with Brock and Misty and afterwards was sweeping and replay it in an open world version of Pokemon Yellow. Meaning you get access to and the ability to use every HM required for the playthrough. Maybe chose one that can't learn surf. Fly is only partially useful as you still can only fly to cities you've visited already. But it'd be interesting to see what happens to Pokemon with a lot of potential if you remove the biggest barrier at the beginning.

I wonder if the defence curl/harden thing is related to either movesets being based on what the pokemon should have thematically and/or to give players the opportunity to de facto relearn moves in the absence of the move reminder

That fan theory for the rival explains why his team is so awful at that point too. You interrupted their bereavement.

I think the rival having a spearow is a reference to the spearow attack episode. Maybe it was the plan all along to box it after Erika?

Talking about the ryhorn line makes me think future gen evos/Prevos would be good ideas for back ported runs. Like rypherior magbe and electovire

I wanna say thank you for always posting on Sat afternoons. I can see what you are leaving for me to listen to on the drive home. You are doing all the good brutha

27:16 Heheh, NICE-ly done! As for BUTT's Fearow, he boxes it because he thought flying everywhere was making him lazy.

2:14 - I mean Ground still resists rock so it’s still not very effective, but it does get stab so that’s correct, tho with decreased accuracy it’s a mixed bag. Edit: with stab even with lowered accuracy, it’s about 48 effective base power to tackle’s 33, so when resisted it’s ~24 to 16, all rounded down of course.

Dropping a like for the Misty crit. Go Dude!

The dude has done it ! The medium slow growth rate was coming in handy,and if added to that a badge boosting move with 2 good options for stab ,then Geodude is pretty decent. Adding seismic toss in early game made a difference when it comes to the resets. Even though most of Geodude's resets on second playthrough were due to bad luck and it's atrocious special capabilities with dealing with 4 times damage from stab water and grass moves.🤔 But overall Geodude as a first stage pokemon is really good in yellow. I'm glad that Geodude got better results than before,and it even got a better ranking than Ryhorn did . Which leads to a conclusion that better level up moves and better growth rate can lead to better results in a solo run.😊

Fearow disappear because it's weak. Blue isn't shown as a trainer with a big heart. He knows pokemons, and he want only the best. It's especially true after Raticate's death. No matter his love for Rattata, and no matter how strong this Rattata was, he died. He blames himself, he blames Rattata's weakness. He closed his heart and is looking for efficiency only so that it doesn't happen again. There's a manga developing this aspect it's great edit> it's called Pokemon : festival of champions

Fearow left on a journey to figure out what Venomoth’s type is

Gf perked her ears up at “I grind in diglett’s tunnel…”

The rival treats fearow as his weakest link, so while on the S.S. Anne, on the top deck, fearow sees it's chance to escape: flying away where no one can chase it over the water

Some time ago, I tried to do a solo Geodude playthrough in Red, with the difference being that the trainer rosters were randomized. It... actually did quite well, until I got to the Elite Four. Lorelei was changed from an "Ice" specialist into a Water specialist.

I feel a special connection to you Scott through the “Kingler-Kingdra”. I can’t believe how long it’s been since that first video it happened and the comment I made.

In regards to your harden/defense curl/acid armor theory, if correct, that means that sand attack or smokescreen would have been designed to reduce accuracy by 2 stages 😂what a nightmare

Kingdra edit was so random, I loved it

10:59 Geodude saw Starmie, and knew he had to take it out asap.

Geodude is a tough one to use. I love using a graveler and these days golem now that i have 2 gameboys (and two transfer paks 👀) but getting through the early stages of geodude is rough. I wish you the best of luck in this grueling journey

The venomoth type switch is back 😂

awesome video Geodude always wanted to use a golem in pokemon yellow but never got a chance to but then in fire red I ended up using one on my Gameboy advanced keep up the great content Scott always enjoy these videos and keep up your hard work

I did have the same theory about Tail Whip/Leer, mainly because so many Pokémon learn both and almost all of them learn Tail Whip first. I really do think Leer used to lower by two stages during development.

"When he dies, he dies" -Drago from Rocky

I've really enjoyed your content so far and I specially like seeying rock type playthroughs since it's one of my favourite Pokémon types. I would love to see Lunatone and Solrock any time soon since I really love them both!

It didn't come up, but Rock Throw wouldn't have done neutral damage to Brock's Pokémon. Rock may not resist Rock, but Ground does, and both of his Pokémon are Rock-Ground Types.

"The second member of the Elite Four is easy" He says, transitioned into a blank opponent screen, setting me up for the visual of the 'mon which comes out.

Random suggestion Scott, for rerun videos you could use the shiny sprite to show its a rerun vs a normal run to help distinguish them at a glance? Also, I admit I kinda just want to see shiny Geodude.

"Because the rock type does not resist itself this move is gonna deal neutral damage" about rock throw. Ground resists rock for future help.

19:07 - so that’s a fun interaction, it seems that Earthquake doesn’t hit digging Pokémon in Gen 1, I wonder if that’s a Gen 3 mechanic?

Sandslash is the counter to your starter, Eevee is his starter, Alakazam is insanely strong, and he has a fire/water/grass core with Magneton being a better version of your starter if he doesn't have Jolteon (which I feel is his 'canon' mon because of Red's team). Fearow not only doesn't really slot into his team, it is explicitly weak to your starter, dropping it is the logical choice.

I think while traveling the Rival and his ferrow encounterd a shiny female ferrow and her flock. After acerting it's dominance the Rival realised that ferrow would be much happier with the rest off his kind and released him to be with his new family. Or he simply craved chicken nuggets one day and the rest is history.

..so…geodudes…the bane of my existence…why must you do only geodudes

Hope you're enjoying your honeymoon! You deserve this break!

The reason Raticate and Fearow (and Rattata in Yellow, he ditches it after the S.S. Anne) get the boot is simple, and has nothing to do with them dying. Look at the rival's final team compositions, particularly in Red/Blue. Pidgeot, Alakazam, Rhydon, Gyarados, Exeggutor, Arcanine, and the starters. What do these Pokemon have in common? They all have high Base Stat Totals, all among, if not atop their main type. He's less strict in Yellow, but Fearow (381) and Raticate (343) are still a bit lower than anything that can pop on his final team (Magneton, 395). It's basically showing through gameplay that he cares more about winning than bonding with his Pokemon, and once it's clear they don't meet his standards, it's off to the box for them. It's why Oak tells the rival that he 'has forgotten to treat his Pokemon with trust and love', and only that. After all, if the rival really had gotten his Pokemon killed, wouldn't his grandfather, a man who decided to study Pokemon as a profession (which he absolutely wouldn't do if he didn't love them a good deal), be just a tad more upset towards him than a short scolding? Well, that's my two Pokedollars, anyway.

The kingdra bit got me haha

I wonder if it’s the experience curve of the Pokémon or the experience curve of Scott himself that won Geodude the race today…

Completely unrelated to the video, but the Venomoth gag reminded me of that the Venomoth from the Jungle set in the card game can change its type

You should do an Ash speedrun. Where you have to do all the things Ash did in order. So catching certain pokemon at certain times, evolving them at certain times and releasing them at certain times. Also getting the badges in the same order as him.

0:27 - TIL lmao, you could’ve quizzed me on that and I would have gotten it wrong, I just assumed it was Rock-Ground like all its other Kanto peers of Onix and the Geodude-evo line.

“I hope you spotted what the major problem was in that fight.” Yeah, Scott used a not 100% accurate move like bodyslam or earthquake when Cloyster was on a sliver. “I leveled up after Sandslash losing my badge boost.” … sure

He turned Fearow into his HM fly user.

I was surprised you didn't badge boost against Lance's Aerodactyl. You were already close to outspeeding the Dragonite, might as well deny it one turn of freeze/crit chance.

Geodude in Hoenn would be probably the hardest generation to solo with him

really can't wait till you get to my top pokemon in yellow, pysduck

for obvious reasons, i love this.

It has a decent move pool but 4x Weak to Water & Grass Misty will be a challenge along with Erika

Yeah Geodude! Love that lil' guy!

Fearow got boxed because Gary turned 16 and was now able to drive. Can't pick up girls traveling on a murder chicken.

Idea for April Fools video: Registeel Only - Pokemon Emerald. Registeel only knows Explosion at level 5, so a full length video of exploding and whiting out over and over.

Man says exact percentage of crit chance and then asks what are the odds. Long time viewer first time caller

"Geodude comes in clutch with a 3.91% critical hit. What are the odds?" Jeez I wonder.

I was in court today. I had to show them on the pokedoll where the van man gave me his helping hand

Wobbufact is back from the vacation: In gen 2 Wobbuffet had no levelup moves

8:45 Mistys Staryu whooped geodude so hard he breifly became a bird and flew into the sun

Mmmm Sandslash or Kinggler should be fantastic performers hope we see them soon.

Finally, the fated tyler1 run

"what are the odds?"..... ummmmm... *checks notes* about 1 in 25

Most birds become sexually mature early in life. His Fearow isn't gone, she's just on maternity leave! 🥰🐣

You really undersold Geodude's incredible level-up moveset I think in the Rhyhorn comparison. Rhyhorn has better stats, but an awful growth rate, and an even worse level-up set. Geodude learns Earthquake at 31 which is... amazing. Rhyhorn doesn't get it until Silph Co. This basically means the stat difference doesn't matter (admittedly it isn't very big, and does a bit more HP matter when only 4x effective Special attacks are what get you, anyway?), it's firing off arguably the strongest physical attack in the game (except a Normal-type using Hyper Beam) every turn (except for Flying-types) from 31 onward. Great runs.

Rock/Ground may be ass defensively, but it's a great offensive combination.