Theory! May's Torkoal was borrowed from an older family member to help her start off, and she gave it back once she got her own fire type and more experience.

I'm noticing a trend where Scott never seems to know the right move to use on Ludicolo. Is it the new Venomoth? Would be fitting given that the OG Venomoth is also a grass/water type

Theory: May's Torkoal is actually her dads that she borrowed until she caught slugma and returned it.

Steven is known to us as the steel champion, but I think his theme is actually ore/minerals/fossils. He's obsessed with all kinds of evolution stones. He uses fossil Pokemon. I think a lot of Elite Four and Champions is less monotype, and more dual speciality/vibes. Ie. Hiker is about the slow and sturdy physical attacker (rock/fighting), and Agatha is about status movies (poison/ghost). Lance and Cynthia are both about overwhelming power - the fast and strong Dragonite and Garchomp. Steven actually stands out because a lot of his pokemon in addition to being good attackers, are very good defensively: Cradily, Metagross.

In this video: Scott steadfastly refuses to click Psychic and loses a bunch.

«I would have expected Mewtwo to be a little more consistent" *Enters gyms at level 8* 😂😂

I think Kyogre has the potential to be the "Mewtwo" of generation 3. It starts with a base 180 power water pulse (thanks to rain and STAB), and only gets better from there. If memory serves, the 8th gym is the first one to resist its water-type attacks, and it even has surf for Tate & Liza.

Ooh, I just had a fun idea for another one of the potential fastest completion pokemon, Deoxys. It would be fun to see a race between all four forms, and see which is the fastest!

May stumbled upon a nest of abandoned baby Slugma. Her Torcoal stayed behind to take care of the babies. One of the babies was attached to May wanted to come with her. He kept following her until May offered him a pokeball.

My headcanon for May's Torkoal is that it was actually just her Slugma hiding in a rock

I knew it, the moment I heard you where planning a follow up legendary I was like "Mewtwo hype"😀

Btw: The reason Steven jumped the ledge was because he was on a camping vacation in Fortree, but needed a Sitrus berry for his Metagross to hold, because he was getting ready to go to Meteor Falls. So he needed to go to the Berry Master to get a couple. After all, nice day for a walk. After that he flew back to Fortree, went to the Keckleon, but as he saw you were on your way, he waited to show you his great skills. Then he flew to his house on Mossdeep :)

The reason Ghost is physical is because lick was the only regular ghost move in gen 1 and lick is obviously physical

Another great run! Mewtwo’s early game struggles and lack of psychic moves hurt it but this was still fun to watch. Especially with the great coverage it has. Also, You said mild nature but it’s the modest nature that raises special attack and lowers physical attack. Very nice job Scott!

Let's see if Mewtwo can defeat Rayquaza

Im surprised by how this run went. Im looking forward to the eventual sweep of Gen 1/2 with it! Keep of the great work Scott!

The Torkoal was clearly traded to her, since that early on she couldn't have acquired one herself yet. The traded torkoal was her ace, as it was her only good pokemon and therefore it leveled too quicky - so quickly indeed that it started to ignore her orders. Considering that this turtle is basically a vulcano that erupt, May got scared to use the Torkoal anymore and decided that the Slugma she caught was super friendly and nice to her so she started to train the Slugma instead. It's not as good as Torkoal quite yet but at least it isn't a danger to herself, her friends and her environment.

Loving all the videos Scott. I've seen every post for awhile now. Keep up the good work

Got to say, loving this incredible treat of a month. It is quite the early Christmas present. Hope you're enjoying the start of the festive season and not sacrificing your own sanity to bring us so much.

Loving these Gen 3 videos. Keep 'em coming!

Scott be throwing bombs you said u had big plans for the end of the year but your really blowing my mind with these runs 💜💯

Great job Scott! Mewtwo is the favorite one of many, including mine!😁but of course it can always be improved, I can't wait to see your next legendary challenge! One Suggestion, play it with Kyogre! That's my favorite legendary of Hoen! I'm sure it's unbeatable!😁

i cant even keep up watching, you are amazing!

Psychic was sooo op in Gen1 so it's really interesting to watch this legendary psy not just dominate everything. I don't think I ever played mewto 'cause you got it so late in the game... but it was obvs the MVP of the game.

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ I have waited so long. I love this. Yes I am curious of how fast he can go in Gen 2 but this will do for now.

Boltbeam is always a good combo for coverage, it's the same with the rock/ground combo if you are playing with a physical attacker, which makes earthquake/rock slide very versatile.

The ultimate moveset for Mewtwo, Psychic, Thunderbolt, Ice Beam and Calm Mind and you just destroy the leftover of the game after the fifth badge

Scott I just did a Kingler run in Yellow and man that was a fun one. Really impressed me with its power I would love to see you do that one next!

Oh! I was expecting Kyogre or Groudon next. But this works too, I suppose!

Aerial ace or brick break woulda gone crazy in the Sydney fight

Just so you know, if you run past trainers they immediately flip around to see you. You have to walk, not run

A quick note on Steven's name. Yes Steve sounds vaguely similar to 'steel,' but what is more fun is the realization that his name is Steven Stone so it sounds like 'Steel and Stone'. It's fitting considering that Steven uses Steel types and Rock/Ground types.

tbh the editing is amazing 10/10.

Wow they sure are lucky the mighty fighting fighting Venomoth isn't here to challenge them 👀👀

Question: Which statement is correct? A: Mewtwo has the weirdest neck. 2: Mewtwo has the weirdest fingers. B: Mewtwo has the weirdest feet. 1: Denis.

I think the reason Mewtwo doesn't have as easy a time as you'd expect is because gen 3 is, well, gen 3. It has a lot more type representation among trainers. Like, in gen 1 you didn't have Steel types or Dark types, there wasn't really anything that _could_ resist Mewtwo's psychic type attacks. It also doesn't start with Psychic like it did in gen 1. So while it does have very high base stats, it now actually has some poor matchups. Oh, and the special split reduced its special defense so there's that too. Enemy pokemon in gen 3 also just have much better movesets overall than gen 1. Even Yellow version which tries to improve gym leaders and the elite 4 is by comparison pretty mediocre. I mean, look at Watson with self buffs, thunder wave, shockwave, etc. Hell, just the fact that gym leaders in this gen have more pokemon minimum than in earlier gens. Roxanne has 3 to Brock's 2, as does Brawly, and Watson has four. So, yeah. Mewtwo's still an excellent pokemon, but gen 3 is a more difficult game for a variety of reasons. edit: 16:30 The turnstile puzzles are fun, yeah. I call those Golden Sun puzzles, cause they're like the puzzles in the Golden Sun series which is awesome and you should definitely play it.

I forgot how beautiful the little root town theme is.

So happy to see you playing Pokémon emerald!!! Love your content!!!

I remember growing up, my big brother always liked Mewtwo, but I preferred Mew! I always thought it was cuter, and I loved that it was pink and could learn Transform and every TM

scott and jrose have been on fire!

New subscriber! I wanted to see Jrose but for emerald. My desires are fulfilled!

You using thunderbolt on wallace’s ludicolo until the very end psychic, had me yelling at the screen like wtf are you doing man

The best legendary Pokémon from generation 1 we all remember how hard it was to capture Mewtwo with its psychic power moves well only with a master ball.

I would love a replay of mewtwo and rayquayza, or however you spell it's name. I never managed to get one as a kid 😆 but your optimizations and replays are one of your key features as a KZfaqr and I really missed them here.

Babe wake up Scott uploaded again :)

I instantly thought of jrose11 thank you bro great well paced speaking sub

Oh my god, I was right! You are a generous creator, Scott!

Mewtwo's been my favorite pokemon since I was a kid, but back then it made me sad that there was nothing left to use it on since catching it was the only postgame content in Red & Blue (and then Pokemon Stadium came out so yaaaay). I still have and use the Mewtwo mouse pad my mom bought me like 20 years ago. Steven does have three rock types on his team though, the Cradily (grass/rock), Armaldo (bug/rock) and Aggron (steel/rock). And then there's the ground/psychic Claydol who doesn't really fit into his theme. Maybe he just likes ancient pokemon because he likes ancient rocks.

I’m sorry but I couldn’t help laugh at getting a reset so early

You’re so right about the quality of gym minigames. Gen 9 does have some interesting ones, though (and arguably the worst one ever where you push a big olive).

Hi Scott! Very enjoying video as always though surprising that Mewtwo struggled sp much in the early game. I really like your focus on data and statistics in all your playthrough and your constantly improving overlay. One suggestion: Can you mark the stats influenced by your chosen nature somehow? You did that in your earlier videos but now it is somehow missing! Thanks a lot for always entertaining me!

ghost should have been special and dark should have been physical. fun video man, mewtwos still a beast.

I was expecting Mewtwo to beat Rayquaza, but I guess that struggle fest against Poochyena mattered a lot more than I thought! I'm really looking forward to the Kyogre run. I actually did a run myself since I was curious, and I managed to first try Steven at level 57! You could probably do this in a lower level though, since I was too reckless and stumbled on a lot of optional trainers haha. My Kyogre didn't have perfect IVs, nature and EVs either, so I'm speculating a level 52-54 run is possible. I learned a few things to make a Kyogre run consistent though: -Make sure you reach Level 35 before the rival fight in Fortree. It is possible to beat this fight without Ice Beam, but I had to reset twice since Grovyle's Leaf Blade can and will 1-shot if it crits. It also makes Winona a joke. It's worth the slight time loss to fight some optional trainers and grab some rare candies, because the entire game after this point is essentially free. (I notably only needed to reset here and in the Wattson fight... though honestly the only reason I had to reset for Watson was because I forgot to grab Cheri Berries. So I had to keep trying the fight until I crit the Magneton.) -Kingdra and Ludicolo are the only two pokemon that can reasonably wall Kyogre. Funnily enough, though, both are also fodder for setting up Calm Mind. Although Ludicolo could be annoying with Leech Seed, since I almost lost the wallace fight thanks to Leech Seed getting me into red. -Kyogre is so strong that most battles you won't need Calm Mind at all! I only felt like I needed to set up against Norman, Wallace and Steven. I did set up against Phoebe and Drake predicting Protect from both, but it felt pretty overkill. -Timid is the best nature. This guarantees that Kyogre can outspeed and 1-shot Wattson's Voltorb at level 20. STAB Water Pulse on rain is so strong that it even does more damage on resisted hits than Ancientpower or Body Slam. I pretty much only ended up using the two on very fringe cases, or to save Water Pulse PP. Good luck on your run! I want to see that 2 hour barrier broken!

Could you try the Legendary dogs also? These runs would be so interesting!

Should've gotten Thunder for Wallace since he so helpfully sets up Rain dance for you.

I know you are working through the back log but I am surprised you didn’t do a video for scarlet and violet

Mewtwo is still good in gen 3,not as much is in kanto, because in emerald psychic types are really doing poorly, because of the dark types and ghost types having physical strong moves. 🤔 That reset on the poochiyena was really brutal though. 😂 And about that May's torkoal she had onr in the anime, so maybe the developers were trying to make her have it in the games as well?🤔I think that torkoal would be a better choice to face then slugma would ever be. Like always thanks for making us have a good time, I can't wait for tomorrow's video. 😁

Hey man love your videos been subbed a long time now. I feel like this playthrough shouldn't count because so much of it was player error. I want to formally request a re-shoot of this 1.

Seeing these legendaries has me looking forward toy favorite Pokémon, Kyogre As well as the oddly difficult to obtain in gen 3 Johto legendaries And especially the Regi trio, which may actually be impossible

May was hungry and ate her Torkoal.

The only reason Rayquaza beat Mewtwo is the dark types at the beginning and misplays. A replay would be great for both mons.

"Sableye is really good, I should use it in a playthrough soon" oh boy I feel sorry for future you already

I honestly recommend revisiting Mewtwo after a while. You could easily shave off at least five minutes.

I wonder if you’ll consider Substitute more. So far, I’ve only seen you use that only in the Ludicolo video.

Torkoal drunk too much saltwater on the way to the next city and had to sit this one out.

Enjoyed it! I think the only pokemon that can dethrone Ray is Kyogre.

I think this is the first time I've ever seen Mewtwo in Emerald. I never got him in OG emerald and none of my friends had them in Ruby or Sapphire so never got traded

If you take a rubber made totes, line inside it with foil then foam. Like pillows or old blankets. Then cut a hole for entry. Random animals use it for survival in the winter.

Shadow Ball being a physical attack makes me think Mewtwo uses it like the Rasengan from Naruto

I was looking at Armando but while it learns water gun at level 13 in gen 4, in gen 3 it doesn't learn it until level 19.

0:59 "That's unfortunate" xD

So many mistakes that I think Mewtwo would be in the 1st position if played properly. I hope you'll make Mewtwo vs Rayquaza video because it would be epic duel.

Hidden power type psychic would give mewto a stronger STAB move as confusion till TM29 is available.

0:53 dude imagine this fight in the anime, this 10 year old kid does his very first pokemon battle with a little dog and beats mewtwo, he will tell that story to his grandchildren xD

scott, it feels that you spend so many time trying to beat a luck dependant battle, when you could just gain 2 or 3 more levels in 3 minutes and win. take psychic tm as soon as possible to get rid of confusion, and go with fire blast instead of flamethrower, as it's cheaper and has passable accuracy.

Wasn't even her Torkoal, just a tortoise trundling by, decided WAR looked fun.

My headcanon is that the Torkoal was actually Professor Birch’s that May borrowed so she’d have fire type coverage until she got her own fire type in the form of Slugma

cant wait for you to do sengo. I did a 1:48:32 with Sengo. I'ts actually Insane.

I thought about this after the last video u knew what we wanted lol

Gotta love some gen 3

May needed a very hot pokemon to stop that meteorite from crashing on Earth so she traded her Torkoal with one of Flannery's Slugmas

Y'all ask about why May switched her Torkoal for Slugma but I'm interested in knowing where or how she got those Pokemon, since they're on the other side of the Region.

Now imagine if Ray got calm mind for it's dragon claw

I think an interesting take would be to compare RayRay and Mewtwo in FRLG where Mewtwo's starting moves don't hamper it so much.

15:04 He has a Skarmory and is flying everywhere :D

The fact mewtwo lost to the first trainer in the game just made me laugh.

My Idea for the Torcoal is that the rival in Ruby, Emerald and Saphire does not seem like a confrontational person, I mean the last fight with them you have before they even get to fully evolve their starter. So I guess since that fight was scipable and it is the only one where they can have a Torcoal the rival just thought that Torcoal was to scary of a Pokemon and the reason why noone ever fought them there.

May's Torkoal was pregnant and gave birth to the Slugma and decided to retire to give the new generation room to excel.

Nah dude, you gotta replant the berries!

Theory! May is just doing research so once she realized the Torkol didn't evolve she stopped carrying him around.

My explanation for the Torkoal is that she just put it in the daycare and forgot about it like every trainer does to some pokemon at some point.

You could've taught it Brick Break to have a Dark type counter some point before the Elite Four.

Just wait until you get to do wurmple playthrough against Flannery ;)

i hope there’s a groudon vs kyogre video

Stop smiling at me fish!

TL;DR: This channel is great and others honestly just are a straight tier below yours. Also maybe hidden power bug for pokemon that might struggle with Wallace's Ludicolo and maybe Sidney and not much else(like Swampert). I realized why i love your channel as much as I do. It's the improvement that youve made as a creator and as a challenge runner. When i watch a video, i love the general improvement from the first run to the second (or more). It removes a factor for player error from what may be the first time you ever use a pokemon. I love seeing the strategies implemented, I love seeing how you get better. You've really spoiled me for other channels that do solo runs, aside from jrose, cause they often stop after the first attempt and say "this is the definitive answer". Jrose at least does his best to truly see consistency, and while his mild obsession with minimum battles sometimes hurts a pokemons performance more that it should. What made me realize this is that towards the end of the video, I was feeling disappointed. I felt like this Playthrough had a lot more mistakes than Rayquaza's. The biggest issue (aside from that dang poochyena) is that Sidney caused a 5 minute delay. (White herb plus brick break likely carries you through the pokemon you struggled with on Sidney). Right there, without touching on anything else(except for maybe calling you out for using thunderbolt on a Marshtomp and again on a whiscash 😆) is the difference in time between the two. I would say it's likely because of Mewtwo's unintuitiveness (lol, not sure if this is a word), cause I would've likely done the exact same thing. But when you said you might have to do what is effectively a versus video between Mewtwo and Rayquaza, instantly made me look at this more positively, because I know that you'll give them their best shot at their best completion time, and mistakes that made Mewtwo slower than Rayquaza will not even be a factor. Its not even funny how good you are at the improvement. You crush it! Thanks for the great content! Also I'm curious why there were many times you didn't use the running shoes on straight paths, but I'm sure you just night not be as comfortable with them at 4x speed. Also don't forget the white herb.

First time I've heard mewtwo referred to as a cat, gettin real beerus vipes from that

Will you do reruns of all the pokemon? i feel like you could of gotten better time if you knew more about generation 3, your runs on gen 1 and 2 are amazing and i like listening to your videos on the background and you put so much time into it to have exact numbers on how fast a pokemon can beat a certain game, I also feel like if you took more time training you'd have less resets and at time because of higher lvl, you gain time for not retrying the same fight over and over again

Dat wailord playthrough though... should be an easy Flannery

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