This run is about Paras desperately trying not to evolve and let the mushroom take over.

"I promised myself I wouldn't go over a half an hour" sir, I happen to love the long videos.

I'm absolutely loving the fact that a frickin' PARAS hyper beamed Lance's entire team to death 😂

Fun fact: "Paras" means "Best" in finnish. Always been a pun over here that Paras is the best pokemon

Was JUST about to rewatch the Abra one. Excellent timing....

"We have to grind up xp just to get past the bug catchers" A more sad statement has never been said.

Before the video even starts, I can tell that it’s gonna be a spore fest

Weedle straight-up isn't happening. I crunched the numbers out of curiosity and because Agatha has three Ghosts that 4x resist Poison Sting (on top of two more mons that 2x resist it) and are immune to Struggle, she's a hard stop. It requires more than 56 hits (the max amount you can get with PP ups) to beat her without getting an impossible number of crits, even at level 100 with the best Attack stat possible, even if she wasn't fighting back. And once you run out, Struggle can't hit Gengar. Your movepool is so restricted that there's no other strategy possible. I think a run that might be more doable and interesting (as in not "hey let's use items this time!" because that saps all the fun out) would be a Weedle/Caterpie tag team run. They have a combined total of three distinct moves, so it's in many ways still worse than the majority of single-mon runs, and Caterpie could tag in for the non-Ghosts to save Weedle's PP and provide extra HP. Considering Caterpie isn't gonna be in this series otherwise (because of Ghosts) and Weedle literally can't win unless you get lottery luck, this would fix both problems! Still would be hard as all hell, but would also be theoretically doable.

Jrose at the end of this run: "We did it boys, London is no more."

19:40 Blaine: "Why won't my damn Growlithe wake up!? I'm wasting all my super potions on a mutt that won't wake up!"

I honestly i don't mind that these videos are over half an hour. I think the more detail in these things the better even if it does make them longer.

Ahh, I love how the fight against Lance, you had 9/5 PP for Hyper Beam. Just Gen 1 being Gen 1 I guess.

I just want this exchange Jrose: this video is sponsered by Me: Raid shadow legends Jrose: the badge boost glitch!

I hope you're having a fun time making these. If I did this, it would feel like torture.

Man, Rival Fival is always such a pain

Paras in the Lance battle: *Ima FIRING MAH LAZAR*

I tried this using Growth instead of Swords Dance and yeah it ended up working a lot better, with a perfect DV Paras and a tiny bit of Stat EXP grinding for one more level at the end, I was able to enter the Elite 4 at 49 and finish at 57. By being able to boost up six times, you're able to outspeed more stuff, which autowins when you have 100% accurate Spore in Gen 1, and it boosts your durability a lot more for when you can't outspeed. For my moveset at the end I went with Spore, Growth, Mega Drain, and Mimic. Really didn't want to give up Body Slam, but with that instead of Mimic, you're almost walled by Agatha; it's possible after maximizing my Special to beat her three Ghosts with 16 Mega Drains at the level I was at (52), but it required a good deal of luck with her not using Super Potions and not getting crits (and Gen 1 misses for that matter) to not run out of Mega Drain PP before taking out the final Gengar, which is on top of the luck needed to get her first Gengar to sleep and five Growths in (which is what was needed to outspeed her Gengar). With Mimic you can just get Dream Eater to sweep her team easily once you get all six Growths in, and Mimicking Hyper Beam against Lance and Psychic against Blue worked well enough to give up Body Slam for. Blue was a problem, since at that level it was impossible to avoid levelling up mid-battle even if you Rare Candy beforehand and you start off in a really bad matchup against Pidgeot so you can't afford to save your Growths for the Zard (which required five to outspeed). I found the best chance of success was to Spore the Pidgeot and just max out your Special immediately, it requires a bit of luck to get up to four (where you then outspeed Pidgeot) but most of the time I could do it. After you maximize your Special it only takes three Mega Drains to KO the Pidgeot, and then you outspeed the Alakazam, so you can safely put it to sleep and Mimic Psychic without retaliation, while then 2HKOing with Mega Drain. The Exeggutor sounds annoying when you just have Mega Drain and Psychic, but Psychic 4HKOs it and has a 33% chance to drop its Special to KO in less hits, so your PP will be fine as long as you avoid putting him into the HP range where Blue can use Full Restores. After that you level up, so you no longer outspeed the Gyarados. Gyarados can OHKO with a crit Hyper Beam but otherwise it's of little threat, Spore it and MD 3HKOs while Psychic 2HKOs, use the former if you got hit to get your HP back and use the latter to KO faster if he didn't hit you. Then there's the Zard, you need some luck against him but with maximized Special, Paras survives non-crit Fire Blast with about 20% of its HP left at that level, and it takes about ten rounds of non-crit Fire Spin to die, so you tank the Fire Blast or it misses you with either of its moves, then you Spore it and 2HKO it with Psychic. Overall you should win over half the time against the Zard, which isn't great odds but certainly better off than your Swords Dance Paras that couldn't outspeed and didn't have its Special quadrupled boosted to survive the Fire moves regardless of its HP.

No one: Jrose11: DO YOU KNOW ABOUT BADGE BOOST GLITCHES?

I love the thought of a Paras shoop-da-whooping Lance's entire team with hyper beam.

I was just about to sleep but jrose decided to tell us all a bedtime story about the courageous paras

"Salut tout le monde! Comment ca va? I feel bad that my French is so poor considering it's one of our national languages." Oh, you're a fellow Canadian, did not know that until now.

*levels up in Bruno fight to 69* Jrose: That was intentional Nice.

"Paras used spore" "Blaine used super potion" WHAT??? 😂😂

My video buffered at 1:19 and it sounded actually good: "And the bug catcher, who uses a weedle ... dramatic pause, DRAMATIC PAUSE!!! ... is tough"

Ah, so you uploaded this with Paris' time zone in mind! Merci, but -- buenas noches.

World: There's nothing to do, the covid is taking us down JRose: (exploits the badge boost) World: you saved us all, thank you!

Hey I should make a comment about how good the video is even though it hasn't been long enough for me to have watched it. That sounds like something the comment section does

Suggestion: using the new chapter features to break apart portions of the videos. Getting Past Brock: 1:05 Mt. Moon, Rival 2, Misty: 4:38 S.S. Anne, Rival 3, Lt. Surge: 7:07 Erika: 8:37 Rocket Hideout, Rival 4: 10:28 Koga: 12:25 Blaine : 19:09 Silph Co, Rival 5(al): 20:12 Sabrina: 21:18 Giovanni: 22:16 Rival 6: 22:52 Elite Four: 25:34

Knew this guy was Canadian based on the way he said “again”

Jrose1: “How bout Agatha?” Well placed ad: Dr Evil “HOW BOUT NO”

I am just gonna appreciate the Pokémon Conquest music

Love your Videos I try to learn english and this helps a lot! Best regards from Germany

It has become a ritual for me to watch this videos before going to sleep. Don't get me wrong, they are interesting but also kind of calming and relaxing at the same time. I watch one (if it is close to one hour long) or two of they are short and after that i go to bed relaxed and feeling good for some reason. Thank you sir and please continue with your great work.

I really like how you prefer strategy manipulation (like mimic, haha) instead of overleveling! It really adds to the interest in watching every run. I don’t mind when the strategy types overlap, it makes the runs more comparable and you use them different depending on the Pokemon.

"Koga! You have forced me to level up 11 more times! Now, I am going to beat you up over and over again!"

I did notice something. So far, Paras (especially compared to Scyther or Venusaur) has one thing going for it. Since crit rate is based on speed, Paras doesn't get that many. And since crits override buffs, Paras doesn't have to worry about doing less damage with a crit.

Spore is actually what made me use Paras on my first playthrough of Red, I loved him, didn't know about how weak he was back then.

Don’t let anyone give you crap for using Mimic. It’s always my favorite part of your runs because I like the strategies you come up with using it. And waiting for the Tail Whip all cheeky like that was hilarious

Pls name your Mankey DK when it’s time

"The game is now super difficult. And I'm not saying that for an ad bre--" *Ad starts playing*

You should track how hard the early game is by comparing the levels you beat Brock at

Lmao i love that these get posted at like 3 am my time. actually get to view them early.

I think it goes to show just how entertaining Jrose11 is when I know Mimic and the badge boost glitch are going to be used in almost all of the runs, but he still has me wondering how he's gonna beat the game. I'm loving this series, it's one of the highlights of my day whenever it comes out.

I freaking love how this series is shaping out, thanks for putting yourself through all this - I couldn’t do it.

Isn't the Weedle run litterally unbeatable? Dewgong will just spam rest on you because good AI, and you 4hitKO with Max attack level 100 critical hit poison stings after poison (I'm not sure about Dewgong EVS, but this is at best a 3 hit KO)

Man you could make hour long episodes and I would still be excited to watch them! Favorite thing to watch on KZfaq at the moment looking forward to the next one

You should do a little teaser at the end of each episode showing which pokemon you're doing next. The classic "who's that pokemon" with the black silhouette. Seems perfect for this series.

Keep the videos long! Love em that way. Your detailed content is why we're here!

I know it wouldn’t qualify as one of the 53, but I’d love to see a “how fast can I crush the game with a single Mewtwo?” run.

These videos are getting me through quarantine. Such a good series. Thanks man

Mate, I'm mostly canadian, have a lot of family in Quebec, and have taken french for around five years and my french is about as good as yours lol

Blessed 3 AM upload. Good luck on getting 200k subs, you deserve it.

Ah, the legend drops a video on us again. This one’s gonna be good.

You did gastly as the only ghost pokemon... Now its time for dratini the only dragon pokemon

Awesome video buddy! I'm a police officer and love watching them when things are slow!

That excitement when you see a new jrose video! I’ve been waiting for this :)

like I said, I'm glad these come out at like 3 am EST when I'm done with the day and I can go asleep to the sound of my favorite pokemon youtuber

I really love these frequent uploads, keep up the good work! And don’t push yourself too hard either!

Cool videoseries! While we already had the starters bulbasaur, charmander, squirtle and pikachu... eevee would be awesome as well! :D

can't wait for you to do oddish for 4/20

Video #5 where I say "Do Eevee next, do one of the hardest runs with the best Pokemon!" Was refreshing all of last night assuming it was due for the next video to drop! Been really helping me through a sad time (no, not the quarantine, its not even in effect in my state sadly).

LOVE these videos SO much!!! Best part of my day every time

He took the helix fossil and comments are good for the.......oh wrong channel lol In all seriousness, you sir have the patience of a Saint with some of these runs. I could never put this much effort into challenge runs, and I'm glad I don't have too. I can just watch you and others to satisfy my pokemon challenges appetite. Good work my friend.

Treat yourself to a Mewtwo run.

When you beat a whole game in one sitting (at least from our view) half an hour is amazing

It’s legitimately awful how in some challenges you have to keep going after the Geodude and then lose to the Onix just for EXP. The new thumbnails are looking great JRose!

God I love this series!

This run seems to have gone very similar to our own attempt at one of these challenges. We'll be especially interested to see your eventual EKANS run to see how you overcome the various hurdles of the nope rope.

You know what? Since it was caught here, let's see Poliwag!

Happy to see your video again. Keep it up! Looking forward for ratatta for some reason.

Love the series so far and excited/terrified for a few Pokemon to come!! Awesome work!

I love this series! Looking forward to the magnemite and zubat one

Recurring memes list: -Mimic -"Lora-Lee" -Badge boost glitch explanations Any more that you can think of?

Saddened to hear these'll be under a half hour now

This vid made me happy! I really like Paras design and I think it's a shame it's so bad in the games, but seeing you beat gen 1 with it was awesome!

I like how at 1:38 it looks like he finds Brock in the wild

I like applesauce

I love the half hour videos, keep them coming, I am totally into this

I always looking forward to watching these videos (even if its at 2 in the morning), keep it up man!

Slowpoke next?

I, as the kids say, never clicked so fast.

Between this series and False Swipe Gaming's Gen 1 competitive coverage, I see that Body Slam is a defining move of Gen 1 battling.

I remembered this being more painful than it actually was. I thought the bodyslam deletion had a bigger impact. And yes it was bad but not run ending. Thanks for the video!

Oh boy another one yeah Ça va Bien, Jrose ;) E VAMOS LÁ PARA MAIS UMA SPEEDRUN!! Fucking Love it

8:36 Honestly I want you to do this again in the remakes specifically for this fight. I'd love to watch Pikachu's static activate causing you to not be able to move for the next 7 turns before getting knocked out because that's RNG for you.

Oh man, your videos are a godsend right now, you're really keeping me sane when I have to work on these deadlines :' ) Excellent work, haven't even watched the whole video yet but I know it's going to be awesome!

Getting solid entertainment plus an education on gen one all in one. GOAT of pokemon challenges right here folks. Mah dry breads been dethroned.

I'm confused by the final battle. You recognized earlier Wing Attack only had 35 power, but you said Cut would've been too weak? Isn't it still 50 power in Gen 1? (although only 95% accurate I guess) Even though Wing Attack proved to be useful against Exeggutor you could've just spore stalled it regardless.

Honestly prefer the longer video styles Loving the series, keep it up king

Jrose out here harnessing the power of Gen 1 Jank like some kind of anime protagonist

12:46 Missed opportunity for a perfectly-placed ad break. Rookie move.

People who suck at their second national language, raise your hand. 🖐🏻

Ah yes, the hm mon himself all on his own. Lets see how this goes. ^-^ Edit: Keep up the great work! Makes me want to play this but Dead By Daylight came out on mobile so playing that rn instead.

The phrase "We're gonna body slam the pidgeotto" made me laugh way more than it should have.

This is my absolute favorite series on KZfaq.

JRose: *uses Double-Edge* Mimic: Am I a joke to you?

Despite messing up with double edge usage the switch to mimic was a nice and fully expected move for you, pretty much a signature move for you at this point. So can we get a sandshrew run next?

i love how this series kinda got my breakfast ritual during the lockdown :)

The belgian that I am is very satisfied by the intro

My dude it’s 3am. Now you got my ass staying up