Now I guess you are by definition a pirate/captain now (at least to my knowledge [ unless you don’t have a boat of sorts I’m more recent on the channel idk much about you].)

I don't know what they've found to be fastest for FR/LG, but I would have bet my house that Staryu was a top-tier choice that somehow went unconsidered. Strong base stats, especially high in speed and special offense, access to phenomenal TMs and HMs, and a perfect typing for Kanto. Water Stone access is fairly abundant, but even going out of the way to get one and then evolve Staryu, there's no way it's slower than Lapras

​@alexhirsch5738 I think it's because you have to go out of your way to get the rod or surfing, and then also catch it. While using lapras, you get it probably earlier and with no battle that isn't required.

​@@alexhirsch5738I think the problem was that Staryu doesn't have a good answer for misty and the fact that it's also pretty frail, since the need for speedy hard hitting mons aren't as important as having a consistent pokemon throughout the game.

He knows. Mudkip is below squirtle on the thumbnail podium.

@@alexhirsch5738 while all true i assume it would take too long to reach your potential as starmie. Having to wait to get the water stone in celadon city is way too long. Using staryu for that amount of time is just not reliable. This is all assuming you just hack in any mon as your starter

It's literally that one meme: "About to go fight I'll post the video after." *later* "I got my butt beat bruh I ain't posting that crap"

They weren't allowed to pick legendaries

Onix with quick claw is the GOAT

how much work did you put into this

okay but how do we handle misty with a staryu? I think she is the real problem tbh...

as in, I dont know if it has enough moves and bulk to get through her that early. (if so please let me know!)

@@galileodirectio Apparently Secret Power and Recover is sufficient; looks like there's a video of someone doing a similar run ( /watch?v=kYyPIBELtDs?t=1342 ), which suggests you can get there at 23 without too much grinding, and secret power is a 70BP move with a good chance to para, which is good enough to take out Staryu without much trouble and go toe to toe with Starmie, weaving in recovers and SPs as necessary. In between her AI making her use weaker moves and getting full-para'd, you get plenty of "free" turns with a bit of luck. I think that run is without in-battle items (and he seems to just walk everywhere rather than run, since he's playing on 4x speed), so we can't really compare the time of this video to that one, but it does show that Staryu at that level can clean up Misty's gym even without items, and for what it's worth they ended up with Staryu being faster than Squirtle (both slower than this Lapras run). Dunno how much items would change the calculus; I'm pretty sure Staryu at 15 isn't beating Starmie even with items, but dunno if he actually needed them with this Lapras fight since its edited so much; if he did need them, its possible Lapras would have needed quite a few more levels, since it has no recovery without them. If it could just plow through itemless at 15, then it does have a very strong head start over Staryu (but I doubt Squirtle is doing the same). Will be interesting to see if he uploads a Lapras run (or, for that matter, a Slowpoke/Tentacool/Poliwag/Shellder, who he used as examples over Staryu)

The melatonin gummies is the easiest way.

Nah bro, a coma would make this absolutely free

However long it takes for a bottle of ZZZquil to kick in

* loads shotgun *

Pokemon Nap

From what I hear, Nidoking only really works in Gen 1 proper, back when Giovanni gave Fissure as his TM and one X Accuracy was all it took.

You have to realize that a Pokémon is way more than just its typing. Exeggcute doesn't even get a special move until Confusion at 19. Doesn't ever learn a Grass type move until Solar Beam at 43. Grass types are notorious for having bad learnsets in Gen 3. Not to mention, it wouldn't be able to evolve until you arrive in Celadon. It wouldn't even come close to the other options in terms of speed.

@@CaptainKiddYT wow i never even realized his learnset is so bad until i just checked thats crazy

Lapras learns Ice Beam. He explains this in the video

First 30 seconds of the video he said no fully evolved pokemon ☠️

​@@austinheinbuch8642 >No fully evolved Pokémon >Proceeds to pick Lapras

@@skotiaH2O Lapras is single staged, not fully evolved pokemon in that context meant no final forms of existing mons

@@ivanlol7153 but it kinda defeats the point of that rule to have a Pokémon with such high stats right from the start

@@austinheinbuch8642 ur right, I meant marshtomp