Those new stats you're tracking are pretty exciting, you could use them to develop a "luck quotient" for how lucky your runs are

I always liked how Xatu looked up as if he thought acknowledging his opponent was beneath him. He had a very regal presence.

The fact that you keep adding more and more stats is my favorite thing about this series. You really are one of the most unique and interesting PokeTubers out there. Please keep up the amazing content!

This poor guy may see some serious struggle with how smol he is, but at least psychic will happen eventually. Night Shade could be a pretty solid carry as well. Idk. I'm not expecting more than a C tier finish, but I'm rooting for a solid placement in that tier

Your overlay is incredible at this point. And the level of analysis is really cool. Keep it up.

Natu/Xatu is a personal favorite of mine, possibly just because green happens to be a favorite color of mine or maybe because I actually found a shiny one in my original copy of Silver. Ever since it's been a staple for my teams anytime I revisit Johto, even if mostly only to learn the fly HM after it evolves... or if I'm using fixed stats, also giving it hidden power psychic for STAB before Kanto. It really is a shame about it move pool though. I can sort of see what they were going for not giving it confusion or psybeam to help put emphasis on future sight as its main gimmick, but while interesting in concept, that move is absolutely lousy in execution, and at the very least it needed to be way stronger for how awkward it is to use.

i feel at this point a real challenge would be a run without return as it seem to be the go to for any pokemon run.

Maybe niche usage of Future Sight could come into play? I mean, Andrew Davis managed to in his own run, though he also said he had to do it even in unimportant battles, and it really slowed him down.

Fun fact: I found 2 shiny Natu in pokemon Go before I found a single ditto

Slugma is coming up? Dude! I love that guy. I use to catch him, hatch em and put em on a different cartridge so I could play through with em on my team from the start

That Future Sight strat against Whitney was so big brain! This is why I love Pokémon Also, it made me smile how excited you got when you talked about that. Your passion for these games is palpable and that’s why you are so good at this job!

Natu is my BFF's favourite Pokémon. He used it as his pfp for years, and sometimes roleplayed as it. I haven't talked to him in years. Lost contact with the forum we were both members of. I miss you, Raylas.

We need an egg move video series! Scott, thanks again for an amazing video! The new run statistics are really cool!

Just imagine an anime rendition of this. A Natu beating the elite 4 + champion in 5 back to back consecutive fights, using peck and nightshade.

Honestly Xatu's design and general lore has always interested me, and I do have some personal attachment to Natu specifically through using it for Magic Bounce in LC (very fun to use, and flavor wise both mons function just as their design intended in battle; using prediction). That all being said, that doesn't necessarily mean it's good competitively at all before gen 5 lmao great run

Circle? That's adorable! Mind you, I'd have gone with Short Round. He hangs around ancient ruins after all.

Would love to see the wall bonks vs date recorded plot in the future. See if you improve with time! Also with the percentage of time in battle statistic it could be possible to create an "effective time" for each pokemon. I know you didn't like how clustered all the pokemon were in this series I would guess that it is mostly because so much of the game is cake walk regardless of the pokemon chosen the effective time might spread that distribution out a fair bit.

Natu honestly did pretty good. It was cool seeing Future Sight come in play. We probably won't see that much at all in these types of challenges so it was really cool.

stats! stats! BONK! Stats! Awesome job as always, and pretty cool to have more statistics about your runs

You should get a playthrough with the iconic bad Pokémon of Gen 2 - how well does Sunkern do?

Lorelei's Slowbro has a terrible moveset in Gen 1 though, it's really only her Lapras that's a threat. lol But it does suck how awful Natu got it. It does feel weird how it doesn't get at least Psybeam. But I don't mind you have to go out of your way to find Pokemon, since it adds to finding new areas to explore and rewards exploration.

Imagine being one of the strongest trainers in the world, and some dude walks up with a small green bird and solos your entire team.

I love that you can keep track of your number of head bonks.

Fun video Scott! I remember doing a playthrough with Natu/Xatu in FRLG when I was younger and it was just....not good. Drill peck from the beginning would be interesting though. I laughed out loud at the 38 minute mark when you are making your remarks about having to resort to future sight, that it sounds like you are putting your head in your hands because you are in such disbelief of the choices you have to make. Please tell me that's the case. Keep up the great work my friend! Love the wall bonk counter.

Bonks was a much needed stat track 🤣 otherwise, wow I really thought natu had a better move pool. I also never used it purely because it was out of the way.

i would reallly like to see how having drill peck changes the playthroughs time.

This was my favourite Pokémon in Gen 2. So amped for this. I just loved the design. Was obsessed with Native American totem poles as a kid and this just tapped into that.

I love how your first victory against Lance was at such a *NICE* level! XD

Now, see, I thought I was a bad trainer. As soon as you started dogging future sight, I remembered how useful that move was for me. I would forget I set it up and it would save my battle. Good for you future sight!

Natu and Xato are my favorite pokemon lines. I always try to use one in my normal playthroughs. Also Natu was the first pokemon I would draw constantly. So glad someone is trying to use one. ❤

I fully thought this was a video like Misdreavus in Yellow, one of the back-ports. Feels like such a Gen 3 Pokemon to me

Xatu is still my favorite psychic type from johto, I think Natu would perform slightly better with Faint Attack and Drill peck at the start. But definitely needed for Xatu.

Love your work Scott! Huge fan of a fellow Canadian's success. Congratulations on 60k!

I wonder if there's some more future sight tech that could be used to make Karen possible at a lower level. Set up some future sight damage against the comparatively weak Murkrow, locking in the damage based on its stats (only 42 base special defense) then knock it out and let the Houndoom take the hit. Presumably, this could make things less consistent elsewhere though. It's such an odd move mechanically, makes it interesting to theorycraft around.

It's still so weird that no one thought to give the ghost type gym leader the new ghost type pokemon they added in gen 2 instead of a second haunter

Turns out that GF knew that Natu's biggest weakness was 5 turns sleep, so they gave him early bird.

Just starting the video and cheering on little Circle but I did want to mention there is an interesting edge case with Future Sight. Healing items in Gen II are no longer retroactive like in Gen I, so Future Sight can potentially be timed to finish off a Pokemon that's on low health without triggering the use of a healing item. If you know you're going to hit a Pokemon into Future Sight KO range on that turn, you essentially get to blow past the healing threshold. It's definitely an edge case scenario though and pretty hard to actually make work (and as a result, might not be worth the slot on the moveset for obvious reasons), but you never know, it might come up some day. Now back to the video!

I love the new stats. The bonk counter is quite funny

Hey, so I got an idea, but also, I was curious what you thought of the Goodra, I was working on a Yanmega, but had another idea. It’s been a debate if Meganium is actually bad or if it was just given a bad hand by being put in a region that is hard on grass types, so I’d love to see how Meganium would do in Kanto. I think for the sprites you could probably use the Silver sprites from Spaceworld 99 as they’re unique and bizarrely seem to have been made with the Super Game Boy palette in mind as there’s some weird shading despite Spaceworld 99 having the same palette as the final mostly.

The kemono sisters should all be done without saving or healing between battles, that'd make them a fun minibus and more of a noteworthy part of the run. Sincerely, the Eevee guy

Yes! I am thrilled to see natu. It's a pokemon with great tools at its disposal, but glaring weaknesses that makes things challenging. Should be an exciting run!

Awesome work Scott haven’t gotten to watch this yet but I’m sure it’s awesome

Another one of those Pokémon I've liked from a design perspective but never got around to utilising. Natu was always a distinct bird and I hope it does well in this Johto challenge. The opening line about badly designed doesn't bode well. 0:39 - Huh... never really thought of it like that. Typically if a stronger trainer used a Pokémon, particularly if it was their Ace, I would try and avoid using that Pokémon. Then again, kid me often had his team assembled before the 3rd gym so... 3:12 - Giga Drain is... odd choice for it to learn. I wonder what the reasoning for that is. I suppose it is totem based and they were usually made of wood (though some could be made of Rock... the line seems like the type that would fit Ancient Power). Honestly, I'm surprised how fast Natu/Xatu are. 5:45 - The Flying type Gym's most powerful move; a Ground-type attack. 7:39 - Gen 2 does like it's Flying types; introduced more in that Gen than any other type. 10:05 - I always thought that was pretty interesting, facing an opponent who has stone evolved their Pokémon early. It actually makes in-game sense unlike Lance and his early evolving Dragonites. 14:49 - So Circle here isn't easily confused... but certainly likes to sleep. 16:25 - It's been a while since I watched a Crystal Solo Challenge of yours so it's surprise to see Nob with official art here. Cool to see, particularly knowing why said trainer is named Nob. 18:54 - Oh no, that is tragic. Losing to Pryce of all people. You truly did pay for the Electrode incident (that also made me feel guilty; very dark moment). 20:40 - Confuse Ray and Night Shade is a nice combo for dealing with a defensive juggernaut like Steelix. 21:27 - Even if they did, they would have likely slapped it on at Level 60. They seemed to really want to stick with that new move per 10 levels thing they had going. Also, despite the abundance of new Flying types they introduced, they added only one new Flying type attack in Gen 2... and it was Lugia's signature move. 25:46 - The Natu versus Xatu showdown was surprisingly one-sided. Not quite the epic encounter you'd expect from a battle against your evolved counterpart. 27:54 - Given you haven't really used Peck since learning Psychic, I'm rather curious as to why you got rid of Confuse Ray instead. It seems like the confusion status is very effective against you here and using Confuse Ray could be a good gamble move against the Pokémon you can't one-hit. 33:13 - The final test; a random Parasect! I just felt the timing here was hilarious. 36:28 - The amount of Critical Hits across a whole playthrough seem a lot lower than I would have expected. Interesting to hear about the amount of battles fought (not quite sure the amount of frames is worth tracking but the other data is interesting). 38:36 - Well I've been ignoring Future Sight for too long then because that is an amazing concept. Being able to use the first Pokémon's lower stats against the stronger Pokémon that follows is amazing. 41:58 - Strange to be able to consider Steel type Jasmine trivial with a Psychic/Flying type of all things. 45:33 - A bit sad to have two of "my" Pokémon listed as bad Pokémon but it will be cool to see their solo challenges. Best of luck with them!

0:26 I got to will and saw this cool psychic flying bird and thought I want one of those on my team... it was only when I used it that I decided I didn't. Some of us did think it seemed cool.

Something I feel like would be very interesting is number of times you used a move, especially if you can get a time-resolved graph of it. Especially to see how Hidden Power influences playthroughs - which Pokemon really depend on it, and which need it only for a few key moments.

38:00 Great effin move Scott 🏆🔥💪🏽🦛

The Slugma grind set! It’s going to be ROUGH

Tate and Liza make a way better case for Xatu than Will ever did

Before watching: Interesting one. The stats aren‘t too bad. Decent speed and special attack for a first stage pokemon. And psychic and flying are nice types that give a lot of benefits. Peck and Leer to start will make the early game rather easy since you‘ll have STAB. Yes, from the weak physical side, but still, STAB early on will help. And Nightshade will give you consistent damage against any Rock pokemon. The mid game will be trickier, since you don‘t have many great moves and coverage. Once you get Future Sight there will probably be some interesting strats where you have to prolong the battle until the move can hit. All in all, the mid game will be rough. Biggest problem in that phase will be Jasmine and Karen‘s Umbreon and Houndoom. Those will cause a lot of trouble. And then late game will be easy until Blue and Red which will cause huge issues, especially Snorlax. My expectation is that this one will be rather difficult. A lot of very easy fights but the road blocks will be TOUGH and really add a lot of time! After watching: About as expected. Maybe a bit worse than I thought. I figured „Future Sight“ might be more useful in the mid game until you got psychic. Else it‘s about as expected. Middle of the game is rough and Umbreon is a problem. The move set is really frustratingly bad. And for no apparent reason. There are plenty of moves you could just give Natu without any additional explanation. Psybeam, Drill Peck, Confusion, Fly… Why it didn‘t get any of those is really a mystery to me.

I tried using the xatu line in crystal myself and it was just so hard to use, the moveset i used on my female xatu: swagger, attract, fly , futuresight. This set was actually quite gimmecky and fun to use but just not what I expected going into this playthrough.

Great video. Only thing it’s missing is an excessive amount of “not too” puns

Tracking all those metrics is really exciting to me haha. I really like natu theyre very cute.

9:45 i ALWAYS fight that trainer JUST so they know what it's like to be forced to battle whilst minding your own business 😂

Natu's sprit is really cute from behind. Haha

I love how Whitney's Clefairy whipped that Zap Cannon out of her ass and not missed, lololol 😭😭

I love that Gengar sprite he knew he was the shit back then

Would be cool if we could get a live bonk counter on the layout. This is critical information!

I had a Natu card and a Xatu card back in the day,and I used to win with these, quite frequently,so I thought that these pokemon would have some kind of potential, especially after winning against Will.😊 But then once I tried to grind it in order to complete the Pokedex, I knew how bad it was 😂. Game Freak sure didn't like it that much, I feel really bad for it especially whenever I watched that run. That makes me wonder how great it can be with egg moves 🤔. Because drill peck and even steel wing can be great for the mid game. Also, Karen and Jasmine were really tough in this run, because not a single move that Natu has in this point can be great against them . I wish it could get fly at least, I mean even Pidgey and Spearow can learn it,then why not Natu?! Maybe after all it can join Gligar's club .😂😂😂😂 By the way you did an amazing job with this run. Keep it up!😊

Smol birb bonking through Johto 😄

pokemon crystal but every time you bonk into a wall you have to restart the game lmao

I love the stats in the end. I'm a sucker for statistics!

Great video, I'm waiting now for Xatu playthrough

It would be fun to see a few runs of F tier pokemon with ideal conditions (best egg moves in addition to optimal DVs/IVs, best nature, etc.), just to see how that would change things.

When you say you don't allow a pokedoll in the fight against the red gyrados, how do you think about skipping the rocket hideout with the pokedoll glitch on the marowak? Additional idea (for streams maybe): For bad pokemon you could do redos and allow yourself an egg move, like eggsceptional does in his versus videos to see how much it makes them better.

A metric that I'd love to see for each run is non-Rare Candy XP. That is, how much XP did the Pokemon gain through battle alone? For me, it's a far more interesting number than final level, removing the level-up group effect on how much training a Pokemon had to do in order to beat the game. Bonus points if the metric distinguishes between raw total non-RC XP and XP above mandatory XP from minimum battles. I'd love the idea of being able to say "this Pokemon needed Y XP above minimum battles to beat the game", with the potential to comment on efficiency about when and how that XP was gained. Bonus bonus points if the time in non-mandatory battles is also tracked as a metric, allowing you to say "this Pokemon needed Y XP above minimum battles to beat the game, which added Z to its game time". I imagine that would be a little trickier to add though, given that you'd need to internally label which battles are mandatory and which battles are not, whereas with XP the mandatory XP could just be a set variable based on out of game calculation. Tracking Rare Candy XP (and average XP per Rare Candy used) could also be fun for commenting on how efficiently the Rare Candies are used in that run - higher XP from Rare Candies means more bang for your buck. This would be more of a novelty metric than a serious one to track though.

I remember finding Natu. I was exploring everywhere in my first playthrough of Silver, I wanted to find Scizor, and Lo and Behold, this little birb shows up and I catch it. Fast forward to the E4 and He was carrying the team as a my sweeper. 8 outta 10, xatu and Natu are good birbs.

HOLY MOLY i never noticed but in the intro before fighting lance your editor timed the down arrows in the text box with the music!

There's a video talking about the moves that bypass type effectiveness. So while future sight does not gain stab if you equipped your pokemon with the twisted spoon the move is still boosted 10%

Improvements are improvements I suppose, still this poor tiny bird got done so dirty considering how good it should be just based on which dual typing it got and its decent base stats.

The insane luck on that jasmine fight lmao. Hit themselves in confusion almost every turn? Haha

I definitely appreciate the Future Sight tech. :)

When i was a child I loved xatu, not because of the pokemon, but because of its name. The name xatu sounds like "chato", which in portuguese means annoying, and I found it hilarious.

I'm currently at the Morty portion of the video as I start typing this, and I'm here to offer more help and advice. I think you made an early moveset mistake. You know you're going to be using mostly physical moves for this run, and you start out early with Leer. Your only flying type option is Peck, which you held onto for a long time, and then you picked up Return and Swift. With this in mind, you could have chosen to keep Leer and not learn Teleport. Miltank was a great example of this in action. Swift and Return didn't do all that much damage against Miltank. In cases in which your total TTK is quite high (roughly 4 hits or more) then Leer will give you a whole bunch of value as it will result in less total turns required to knock a Pokemon out, thus saving you HP and PP. For example, if you need 5 hits to knock something out, then you can use Leer and that could reduce their DEF enough that they now need 3 hits. With Leer included, that's a 4TK compared to a 5HK when you straight up attack, which means that's one less hit you're taking. With Return being such a big part of your run, you could have gotten so much Mileage out of this move. Another (super tiny) thing to point out is that, just before taking on Morty, you ate a Sand Attack to the face, but then gambled on missing with Return, while under the effects of Curse. If you had missed, taken a hit, and then taken Curse damage, that's a reset. Swift would have been much safer. If a lower BP move will finish off a low-HP target, it's generally better to use that weaker move you don't click much to close out that KO, as it saves you PP on your main attacking move, and in this case, has the added benefit of circumventing Sand Attack. Your struggles against Umbreon are an example of how a moveset of Return/Swift/Leer/Psychic may have been better than Night Shade, which falls off in how useful it is the higher the levels and/or base HP of the opponent.

Crazy thing I looked up while watching this. Apparently, Xatu can learn Hyper Beam, Flash, and Fly. On a side note, I believe Night Shade could be handy to dodge potion ranges when you are certain you can't one hit the pokemon.

Honestly I'm still reeling from the fact that Natu and Slugma are gen 2 Pokemon. My whole life, I thought they were introduced in gen 3!

It makes sense for Natu and Smergol to be next to each other, you can catch them in the same spot.

A frame-perfect inaugural playthrough~

This little psychochicken is dishin out da heat

Have you thought about doing runs based off the rivals team? Could be a nice switch up from the single mon runs.

those extra statistics you mentioned would be really nice for gen 1, especially the Crit tracker!

Natu's movepool surprisingly bad, but I'm sure they gave it better moves in future gens! Let's see... In Gen 3, they gave it Wish at Level 30... and that's it by Level up. And although the TM's availaable are a BIT bette, you're only getting Thief as a reliable Special move again until the second half of the game. What about Gen 4? Well, it looks like they gave Natu a bunch of moves to work with. Problem is, stuff like Lucky Chant, Me First, and Power Swap are not your typical go-to moves in a solo run. Ominous Wind is a nice addition... at Level 39. You still only get Psychic as a STAB Special move by level up though. But hey, at least the TM for Shadow Ball is useful now as a coverage option! AND you get Grass Knot as your early game special move. That's not exactly great though... Even in Sword/Shield, its latest appearence, Natu is mostly relying on Peck and Night Shade until it gets Psychic, which thankfully is now at Level 35. Much as I like this line, it isn't particularly good in a solo setting. It's a bit better as a member of a full team and in competitive thanks to tools like Baton Pass, Magic Bounce, and Wish, but for solo runs it's pretty bleh.

Natu is one of my favorite Psychic types and one of my favorite Flying types. Part of this is just because of its name - NATu and me being NATe/NAThan.

C'mon Tangela, let's cheer for roundbirb!

I’m curious how Xatu will perform. With the exception of better stats and access to fly, Xatu suffers from the same problems as Natu. In fact, Xatu learns psychic, future sight, and confuse ray even LATER than Natu! One could argue that Xatu will perform worse than Natu.

The breakdown on the accuracy debuff at Morty always makes me realize just how unlucky I must have been as a kid, because Morty was an unstoppable force akin to Whitney's Miltank, just because he'd always put my entire team to sleep and heal up to full. I only really got over this when I started regularly catching Girafarig which can sweep his entire gym with no additional training. Really made it grow on me. Speaking of, I actually had a Lv100 Xatu in Silver way back. I really liked the Natu line back then - I still kinda do, though its learnset and Xatu's abysmal flying model didn't help.

Love your videos! I wondering for side series of doing solo challenges with egg moves. I feel, especially in gen 2, that a lot of the gen 2 mons have great egg moves.

Of course it would be Scott who figures out how to track wall-bonks

poor Natu got that Gen 1 gym leader type moveset

Boi as a child Xatu carried my first run ever in crystal. Xatu and Suicuine got me to lance. Never got to Red with that save file, end game was to hard for a 8 year old ;)

I have memories of catching a Natu really early on in my Silver playthrough as a kid, and it reminded me of totem poles and stuff and I thought it was so cool. It was part of my team from then on! But... later on as an adult, replaying Silver... I can't have caught it at the point in the game that I thought I did. I've gone through every door in Alph as many times as I could, poked every wall, booped the snoot of each statue... nothing. I cannot find the patch of grass it spawns in. So now this Pokemon sticks out in my mind not for its performance in battle, but for the apparent false memories of my childhood it caused.

long live the bonk counter!

I like Natu because he is a round little birb. Even if they are not statistically good (seriously, Xatu only has base 95 Special Attack and Speed. Not even 100), I still love the Natu line. Also yay a run with Mr. No Arms! (Wooper) coming soon

Going into Kanto with Peck on the moveset. At level 68. With a Natu. I totally expected Kanto to be significantly worse than it was. Curse really do be one of those moves.

Natu is one of the Pokémon I used when I played Soul Silver with only Johto mons. And boy let me tell you, I was not happy to find out that it didn't learn any STAB special attacking moves until level SIXTY. I made do with Shadow Ball for a while but I've used bad Mons only while informed. It sucks to find out one is bad after sinking time into it. And that's why Xatu is one of my favorites, they committed to the Future Sight gimmick real hard

Ever since I was little, I liked Natu and Xatu thanks to their design and typing. But then I tried to use them and uuh... yeah, their movepool is so awful that even young me was like "nope I am not doing this". To this day, I never finished a playthrough with it on my team. It's quite sad really, they might not be amazing stat-wise, but they would be decent single player Pokemon if they just had a better movepool.

0:32 I dreamt of having an Onix like Bruno's

Wobbuffet fact: Its about 130cm (4'03'') Tall wich is about the size of a kickboxing punching bag

Hello Scott I don't know if you remember me at all but I was one of the original thousand fans when you started the channel I just recently went through divorce and just found out my mom has cancer and just wanted to let you know that watching your channel helps me get through it thank you for what you doing please keep going

There may be room for 'what if egg move' runs in the future, since there are some moves that just make me wonder why the only way a species can get a move is to go out of your way to breed it. The biggest offender is drill peck Murkrow.

Prediction before watching: Natu's stats are pretty unremarkable for an unevolved pokemon. Not good, but also not exceptionally terrible. Its movepool however is pretty disappointing. Not getting any psychic moves until lv 50 is just so terrible. At least it gets night shade for consistent damage. In all I expect natu to end up in the E tier.