As a die hard Porygon fan, I was fully prepared to suffer through that original color pallet for the entire video.

As someone who has watched literally this entire series, I totally understand the fatigue of explaining badge boost glitch every time, but I also know how important it is for new viewers. I think it'd be a good idea to have a text box graphic that you can paste into the side of each video when you mention the glitch that explains it briefly. That way they can pause it if they're curious, and if we already know we don't really need to pay attention to it. Glad you're still doing these, you're doing the Lord's work!

I absolutely love the remixed music. Also, Porygon is a total badass. It sent real life people to the hospital AND can wall Snorlax in competitive. 10/10 would pay 9999 coins again

I have bittersweet memory of Porygon: Before any guides, I did the legit gambling to "earn" Porygon from the game counter as a kid, no joke on Pokemon Red. Thinking that Porygon has to be some all powerful digital god pokemon worthy of a party spot and that amount of time. After all, they made it so expensive and kinda hidden in a way. When I got it, I was so disappointed I didn't play for a week. And if you asked my parents 1 week of not playing was crazy because I always had a a gameboy color in my hand and a pokemon game in that gameboy color. Later on in life, I participated in small prize online pokemon tourney's and won around ~$1000 over a year (don't quit your day job) with a trickroom Porygon 2 with eviolite. Which is still 1 of my all time favorite pokemon to this day. I nickname all my Porygon 2's "Digital Ducky" because they're all cute computer rubber duckies :D Thank you jrose for the vid and to anyone that reads this. Nostalgia is a helluva drug.

Always a good day when Jrose comes back

Can't wait for Porygon-2: Electric Boogaloo. Thanks for your content!

Surge being an actual roadblock for once is hilarious

I love Porygon, he's my favorite of all the mons even 20 years later. Saw him on a trading card and he immediately caught my eye with that wonderful card art! Also, Porygon didn't cause the seizures during that banned episode. JUSTICE FOR PORYGON!

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

Porygon is my single favorite Pokemon! I am so glad that Jrose has gotten around to using it!

I can always tell based on JRose's tone of voice in his "hello" whether it'll be a fun or painful run.

A note on rarely used moves: I really hope Goldeen gets a chance to use gen 1 Waterfall before it inevitably gets replaced by Surf.

Conversion was useful in gen 7 because it could be powered up into Z-conversion, which would change your type (usually into ghost for the fighting immunity) and give you an omni boost (+1 to all stats).

With regards to the burn heal, there is a full restore right next to the staircase in the underground tunnel from Cerulean to Vermillion, a nice quick grab to deal with unexpected status conditions.

Almost half way there. That's pretty cool. Also, for Conversion. Even if the AI isn't silly, you're trading 33% of the damage you deal on STAB for a 50% damage reduction from the opponent's best attacks. And with the AI manipulation stuff, you can trick the AI into just not using its good moves at all. Sounds pretty strong to me, even if coverage and buffs are more important. And that's without factoring that you're not using normal type attacks much with Porygon. Mathematically, you gain a number of turns by using it against any opponent that isn't one-shot by your attacks.

Porygon was one of my favorite pokemon growing up, the design is so cool

Somehow you make all of these videos really entertaining, great job. I just imagine you playing the game for hours on end to finish these challenges and narrating to yourself as you grind lmao "I go for tackle, I knock it out. My phone rings, I knock IT out"

Apart from a run with a pokémon I literally never used and never bothered getting I can't help but feel that in this one, jrose commentary is way calmer than in other runs. I think it's more soothing that way. Anyone else? Also keep those vids coming

I'm definitely excited for more. Its been a really stressful time lately and these are such a nice break from reality for a minute.

Porygon is such a cool Pokémon and I’m happy to see you using it in its original form! Spoilers below: I did have some thoughts (not necessarily criticisms). If one could hold on to Conversion for Erika, then using that could exploit her “good AI” and make her Victreebel use PoisonPowder repeatedly, as was seen in places like Oddish and Bellsprout. Also because Psychic is more or less useless vs the champion, I think using the Tri Attack TM could have gotten better damage outputs vs Alakazam, maybe half. Of course I’m always excited for a new Jrose video and I’m excited to see what comes next!

I am now so invested in this series. I can't wait to see final lists

It's so crazy how much of a movement solo challenges like this have begun to prosper thanks in part to you. Always a joy to see a new upload!

I was looking forward to this one. It's gonna be...interesting EDIT: Seeing both Conversion being useful and Surge finally getting a runback from his...Assistant Janitorial status (dying) is making this a classic already

Hey Porygon! One of my favorites! Before this video I iust want to say, I've been following this series since 'Ol Bulbasaur, but it means so much more to me now. I started a job this summer and this series is what helps keep me sane for eight hours a day. Thank you for this series!

What's funny is that in this generation, Porygon is a fully evolved Pokémon, but in modern generations, it's the first form of a three stage line.

Porygon? And this is only run 72? I really underestimated how long this series would take, I'm loving it

I think you should do a close-up sweep of the tierlist because it's getting really hard to see it, great video as always

I think you may have made this harder on yourself by using strictly special moves. Sure Porygon has better special, but with STAB it’s normal moves would still hit harder. Tri-attack would have been really useful for bulky special Pokémon like Jynx and Alakazam

You are genuinely in my top 5 favorite KZfaqrs to watch keep up the good work

So sporting of Jrose to pull punches against Surge and let him earn a temporary promotion from Janitorial Assistant Staff. Also the colors in this run are trippy!

You know the week is going to be great when Jrose uploads a new video.

There is no "if" I enjoy your content. I absolutely do! 🙂👍 I can't wait to see more of the gen 1, but I am also super pumped to see the other gen content you have as well!

Hi Jrose. I hope your July Tuesday is going well. I'm watching your video while doing delivery driving. I watch at red lights and listen while driving. I really appreciate your content and your voice overs. If I'm having a bad mental health day, I rewatch old videos of yours and I am taken back to a better place. I'll always watch your new videos and I'm about finished with my playlist of yours where I'm catching up! I try not to let the list at the end of the videos spoil the past ones lol Love you dude, keep it up

The Porygon line is most certainly not forgotten in competitive, every gen its available in its usually at least experimented with as a fast sweeper. Z Conversion in gen 7 was insane.

For a few years now i use your videos to fall asleep the combination of voice and gameplay is so soothing for me i just wanna say that i love your content

Man, this has been a wild journey with you. I played the heck out of gen 1-3. Things like badge boost, the ditto glitch, rollout glitch in gen 2, and how to manipulate AI...I can't thank you enough honestly. I never knew these things and it's changed how I perceive the games. Keep it up

Porygon2 remains, ever since Gen 5 and still up to current gen, one of the better defensive walls in the game. Eviolite does wonders for it.

Ohhhhhhh lordy this color scheme matches Porygon’s “from another dimension” aesthetic. Edit: He didn’t keep it the whole video and my eyes thank you JRose.

So glad to hear you plan on finishing this. I love watching your streams on twitch but this series legitimately changed my life. Found this at the perfect time and it started me recollecting old games, and eventually led to me starting my own small business and it was all in part inspired by your Pokemon videos.

Using ‘Conversion’ to cheese the Misty battle was the best thing I’ve seen in Pokémon.

Always one of my favorite Pokémon to use in any playthrough of Gen I, looking forward to seeing how Porygon fairs solo ^^

Well I will certainly never forget about Porygon-Z. Best non-Legendary user of Hyper Beam in the franchise. High sp atk, Adaptability, normal type. Porygon-Z can liquify just about any opponent that's not a special wall if he gets the opportunity to do an action.

Porygon is definitely one of those Pokémon that you take different approaches when trying to do a run. I hope we can see the Porygon line get more runs in the future since it definitely has that replay ability factor.

Love these videos, Porygon was always one of those that seem more powerful than they actually are, it was nice to see it do so well

I'm glad the Porygon stan community (me included) all came together to watch this video

Yay! My favourite normal type :D Always good to see a jrose video in the sub box ❤

I've been enjoying this 2 year journey so far. Thanks man

Words can not express the pain I felt when I had to take off my Spy-Kids 3D, 3D glasses when Jrose took away the 3D filter.

Glad to see you're back! I 'love' the color scheme, and (before i start) am predicting a average pokemon. Porygon doesn't have major stab, but it has great coverage. either way, I love your content jrose!

Easily one of the most interesting to look into because of Conversion. Definitely has some weird mechanics for Gen 1. Those are the runs we love.

Hard to believe it's about halfway there, halfway there, halfway there. It's a treat seeing how things have progressed since the early days of "that webseries I pandemic-watched" to much better production.

"thats gonna be so bad for the champion.......oh well 🤷🏻‍♀️" 😂😂😂😂 my favorite part of this video 😂

I love the color scheme you chose for the GBA footage

Gonna get some popcorn and watch it like a movie masterpiece! (It’s Jrose11 so of course it’s good). Been waiting for Porygon for so long.

I have to say I really enjoy your videos. There's something soothing and familiar about them.

I've been binge watching your videos ever since I swapped jobs, I love you

I think Porygon has to be one of the easiest solo runs, right? STAB Body Slam is an incredibly strong move and Ice Beam + Thunderbolt + Psychic is pretty much perfect coverage. Haven't watched the video yet though, so we'll see

Jrose is the only KZfaqr that I already give a thumbs up when the video starts because I know he never disappoints

I was really excited to see you do a solo run for Porygon since near the beginning of the Red/Blue solo series. Porygon really doesn't get a lot of love in general, so it's really nice to see some love here. That being said, it's interesting to see the challenges Porygon faces compared to other Pokémon. Having only normal-type moves really is a pain when facing Brock. 😅 Also, you really went crazy trying to defeat Surge without healing; it'd be so much easier to just walk to the Pokémon center and heal to get rid of that burn. In addition, it seems like Porygon struggles the most with Kadabra/Alakazam. It's pretty cool to see Porygon rank 26 on the tier list so far. I also like names you gave to your character(Polygon) and your Rival(Sprite).

Oh my god!!! I’m so pumped for this video

Let’s go been waiting for this one the porygon line is my favorite line in all of Pokémon because the line is good in battle grate in design and great in the actual, Pokémon’s backstory and concept. And Pure normal is by far my favorite type in Pokémon. Porygon original isn’t the best Pokémon to be fair but the later ones if you teach psychic on it, it covers it’s only weakness, and you get download gen three onwards and if you know your opponent and play it right you basically get a free special attack boost on switching in which basically makes it’s electric psychic and Ice coverage moves hit for stab equivalent damage. And there’s very few Pokémon in the game that are able to resist tri attack thunderbolt psychic an ice beam.

Hey Jrose11, love your videos! I was wondering, in this run, to make the Champion's Alakazam easier, you could get a Normal Type TM and replace Psychic for the last battle. Could be, for example, Tri Attack from Celadon Department Store. Thanks for the great content. I always learn a lot about gen 1 in your videos!

Consider splitting the tier list at the end into two columns. There's so many pokemon at this point, it gets hard to read due to the small font Anyways, great video!

This is a journey I didn’t know I needed but i’m happy i’m here. Love this series.

I always appreciate seeing novel strategies to complete these runs!

Let’s goooooooo a new JRose video! I appreciate your content, JRose. Don’t burn yourself out, though! Take a break if you feel the need.

Surge will be accepting his Lieutenant title back any day now lol

For the Agatha fight and getting 4 consecutive hits after being confused, the odds are actually 20.5%. This is because you also have to account for the increasingly smaller likelihood you stay confused. So turn 1 is a 50% chance, but turn two is a 62.5% chance you won't hit yourself in confusion because the odds you will hit yourself in confusion is multiplied by the 75% chance it's at least a two turn confusion and subtract the resulting decimal from 1 to get the odds you won't. Same deal for turn 3 except 50% and then you multiply them all together and you get that result. For reference the odds that you'll stay confused 4 turns AND break through each time is 1.56%. (I'm obviously assuming that the odds of each number of confusion turns are the same, feel free to correct me if anyone knows differently but I checked some mechanics explanations and none I've seen imply that it's weighted towards a certain number of turns).

I honestly think Porygon is severely underrated. I’ve always enjoyed its design as well as Porygon 2, and it was a lot of fun trying to obtain this creature in the game. I honestly think that the anime episode could easily be fixed and edited so it can finally be released. There’s honestly no real reason to keep it banned anymore when a simple editing fix can easily resolve the major issues of that episode, just have the og English dub cast reunited and with the other banned episodes fixed up, we could finally have a complete series released on blu-ray instead of an incomplete series with episodes banned for outdated reasons.

Love Porygon, this is going to be good.

You talked about freeze being permanent unless hitting with fire. Fun fact, freeze is also the only pokemon status that doesn't have a non-damaging guaranteed status application. Like thunderwave, toxic, swagger, will-o-wisp, spore. If you count flinch then it is an exception, but fake out when successful always causes flinch.

I did miss your videos, because I often use them to fall asleep... Now don't gimme wrong, i don't mean that they are boring, it is more that i feel confortable watching your vids and your voice now feel reassuring to me after all this years, and i love the feeling of rediscovering a game I deeply cherish Just a comment i hope you will see, to let you know that you are important to an insomniac stranger

Porygon is my favourite Pokemon. I was waiting for this run

Still in Vermillion during this comment, but I actually think Conversion could be super useful. These solo runs are usually tough because you have fewer options. But Conversion gives you room for a little extra strategy in battle.

When the video first started I thought that it was just gonna be THAT color pallet the entire time so I switched to my greyscale filter immediately and gave a sigh of relief when you mentioned that it was just for a bit at the beginning.

this was a fantastic video, really had me questioning everything with the philosophy of it all

Finally! The porygon run!

Do muk next!!

I love the fact that Jrose chose a colour pallet for the start of the video that may give you a seizure, just like what happened in the Porygon's episode from the anime.

That 3-D glasses color palette was indeed jarring, but the second one was actually one of my favorites so far

This is my favorite custom colors for these runs. It's an awesome eyesore

I appreciate that you changed the colors to match my vision after seeing the Porygon episode

He was Porgygon for 2 weeks but now Jrose is Poryback

Thank you JRose for the video. Today is full of housework and etc for me, so having a new JRose video really makes the day much, much more enjoyable

I normally appreciate the high energy of your vids Jrose, but today your slower cadence and deeper voice just hits different. I look forward to every one of these runs, keep it up!

Don't know if it would be faster, but there is neat strategy for beating Koga (and Sabrina and Silph Rival as well) at very low level with Porygon. Basically if you keep Sharpen and Recover, and get Swift, you can stonewall with Recover and max out Attack, and then sweep with Swift. Especially with Koga it's really neat because his accuracy lowering moves have no impact on that strategy. Truth be told, it's probably faster to go aggressive on Agility and Special moves like Jrose did, but Sharpen + Recover + Swift/Tri Attack + any if the special moves (Psychic, Ice Beam, Thunderbolt...) makes for nice strategy for challenge to finish with as low level as possible

Its honestly pretty amazing that, Pokemon shamed Porygon for THAT incident, despite it being Pikachu's fault, that Pokemon not only made an evolution the very next gen, but to add a couple gens after added another. It gives off "it wasnt their fault despite what the public says so heres some more"

Just when I was having the worst evening, I saw this video uploaded... Thank you so much ^^

Always stoked to see a JRose video!

I have nothing to sat but I'm happy to see an upload from you :)

I loved this video. I never did like Porygon when Red/Blue came out, but come Gen 4, I absolutely loved Porygon-Z, so seeing this video of Porygon winning has made me happy. Great work!

I was about to change the video when you took off the eye destroying effect. Thanks for that now I know what happens. Love the content bro

yessss! ive been waitng for this moment since you started

I love Porygon, always have. One of the first times I used a gameshark back in the 90s was to hack Porygon into Route 1 so I could basically start with one. Great video, Jrose!

These videos are my comfort watch always now. Made an 11 hour drive way more tolerable listening to these. Thanks bruh!

This is definitely a podcast-mode video. The effect is wreaking havoc on my eyes.

The color pallet for the intro had me double checking that this was the NEW video and not something released on April 1st, ngl. xD Well played.

Great color palette, it's a nice reference to when that one Porygon episode gave everyone epilepsy 💀

The cutaway for the sponsor that just ended up being yourself was brilliant lol

My retinas were cooked to a nice medium rare by this color palette. My whole world looks like I'm staring into a Virtual Boy now. Thanks!