Used a held Berry vs Falkner because I forgot your starter starts with one. RIP, failed the challenge right away. Haha. I decided not to reset just because he was incredibly easy anyways, I didn't even heal before him.

Despite all my rage I am still just a snake in a cave

Rage is also the reason why Totodile is commonly considered the best starter in Johto. It’s a move it gets early on and can easily sweep the first few gyms with.

Dunsparce is actually pretty fantastic. I like putting rollout on him. His stats might not be anything to write home about, but he gets access to a decent enough movepool to be usable.

I fear that the day dunsparce opens its eyes is the day we'll regret everything. It has the energy a child who did something bad and was put on the naughty step by Arceus and is now just biding it's time until it can get up again

22:03 "and it one hits the Kingdra" Me doing anything else: now u have all my attention again sir

Well, I am 34 and I started buying the old 1st and 2nd gen a while ago and they made me feel happy so I understand how you enjoy doing this videos

That is one angry snake. She did mellow out towards the end though. To the point that she prefers to sleep off all that pent up stress, and repay your care and patience tenfold.

Don't think I ever got stuck in Crystal. Then again I habitually read everything and wandered all over the place

Dunsparce was always an amusing Pokémon to me. Seeing it win in Johto makes me happy.

The slowpoke well graphic only made sense to me as a kid because of the rocket standing in front of it. I remembered rockets standing in front of doors in gen 1 and the stairs graphic looks ripped straight out of Links awakening on the GB

I love Dunsparce, its such a cute little snake. One of my favorite Pokemon tbh.

Not “getting stuck,” exactly, but another thing about unclear tile graphics: younger me playing Red and Blue thought that the man blocking the entrance to Cerulean Cave looked like he was wearing a tall black hat. Like the guards at Buckingham Palace. The tile for the entrance to the cave was lined up with that man’s sprite in just the right way that it looked to me like they were a single image.

28:27 Pretty sure Elite Four Karen is the exact opposite of a regular Karen, so I don't think you'll have to worry about her "pulling a Karen" on you.

Mind reader into hypnosis miss is the most hilarious and anti-climactic shit ever

Im gonna show love to the rare Fire types in the first couple of Generations and go team Magmar for the win on that video down the line. Nah, age is just a number, im around your age and I watch your videos for the nostalgia and because of good content so keep it going bro. I've been shreading guitar for 25+ years, and since I don't want to put down the Axe, I miss out on alot of time being able to play good games like this or anything new that comes out. I gravitate to channels like this to catch up on older/newer games while I enjoy my hobbie. Thank you as always Scott, I'll be back for the next one.

"for all the people not looking at the screen" Scott I'm listening while driving home from work how do you expect me to watch.? 😅

I believe in the manga Bruno was hypnotized to helping the elite 4 ( who are evil ) and once their plans where foiled Bruno was able to keep his job because he's the only one that wasn't evil.

Rest talk with toxic for Red was a great strategy. That snorlax is always a problem.

Awesome run, it's cool seeing Dunsparce getting through without serene grace stunlocking. Love that weird little tsuchinoko.

It’s a long “I” on Ilex Forest.

Finally, a second member to add to the "I beat Whitney's Miltank on my first attempt with a Dunsparce" club. ☺

I've always loved dunsparce, he's so cute. I always use one if its available. I think in my first run through of gold version I had one that ended up being level 80 or something. Thanks for the video!

Pro Tip: Chinchou is an absolute HMslave, since it can learn flash, surf, waterfall, and whirlpool. It can be caught in Olivine city harbour and New bark town, using good rod. Hope it helps.

I love Dunsparce, it's such a weird outlier Pokemon. I'm a sucker for obscure 'mons like Dunsparce. My favorite HGSS let's play makes excellent use of a Dunsparce and he's just a good old boy in general.

"God, I said this line 5 times" Lol i know that feeling

Trainer:*Throws pokeball at Pokémon* Paras: * breaks out pokeballs repeatedy* *another Pokémon sternly looks at it* Paras: *Paralyzed* Trainer: *throws Pokéball, finally works* TF?! Dunsparce: *shrugs* Trainer:

23:24 I chuckled when you said that you'd forget Xatu because I never remember Dunsparce. I've even jokingly told my wife it is a gen 3 pokemon because I have no memory of ever seeing it as a kid in Gen 2.

Rage.. Rage.. ? RAAAAAAAAAAAGE!!!!

Dunsparce is pretty great! Really deserves an evo.

Wow...she literally beat that Dragonite with her eyes closed...

Can’t wait for another awesome video Dunsparce is my favorite Pokémon

I think that return would have been better against Foretress, as return has 153/2=76.5 power, which is a bit better stronger than digs 60 power. Loved that run either way 👍

i’ve been playing through pokémon moon with a shiny dunsparce i brought in with X on my team and it made me wonder if anyone has done any challenge videos with one and i was happy to find this video! really good stuff and a really entertaining video. i love dunsparce

it's so cool seeing the development of your content skills. the quality improves with every video. always a pleasure 🎉

Me: I like Scott. He uses Pokemon,no one uses in KZfaq runs. Scott: I will choose the dome fossil. Me: ... so what is Jrose11 doing? ;)

haha another great video, Scott! I love the stories too. I was playing Pokemon before I could read, thanks to my older brothers, and that led to me getting lost and stuck for so long within many places in the game.

First thing first, I really like all the information you provide like the move set and stats. It definitely separates you from the other runners, as well as your sense of humor. Fantastic content through and through. Second off, I feel like a kimono girl run is coming up (eeveevolution race!)

The intro made me laugh because my level of focus is non existent, I just love good content

3 minutes discussing the infuriating aspects of Rage? I'm in! Edit: I'd say this is your best video overall. Narration + sense of humor + no memes. You're getting better and more original with each one. Congrats!

that onix story i can relate too i was training my rhyhorn and came across a trainer with a team of flying types so i thought to myself oh ok this'll be a breeze so i spammed rage on his team till it missed and his pidgey use sand attack x2 and i think you know what happened next for an hour....

The helix joke is almost 10 years old, I think it's use-by date is far passed. Good on you for going with Dome lol

WOW!!! This guy is great at the game. He really has a good thought process around the game and he puts together really intelligently done videos. The data and the methodology and stuff is rigorous and we trust his results.

Slowpoke cave looked like stairs to me. But I did think the guy guarding Mt. Silver in blue had a British hat until he moved. That moment blew my mind more than anything else in the game as a kid.

Gen I rage: gamebreaking. Gen II rage: speedrun viability.

The rage comes from it knowing what its future evolution will be like.

You know your mon is a badass when it takes down half of the Champion's team and then gets bored, falls asleep, and takes down the other half of his team, including his ace, while asleep

What about a solo run with Venonat in Gen 1, later on evolving it to Venomoth? It would be interested hard it is with Venonat compared to the high special status of it's own evolution.

You have such great personality in your videos :) As always, a great episode and looking forward to the next one!

5:30. I had the same issue in pokemon blue when I was a kid. I got stuck in viridian forest and couldn't find my way out because I had no idea you just walked into the wall at the end to get out. I eventually just started mashing buttons out of frustration and made my way out, but it honestly took me days of wondering "why does everyone like this game so much, it doesn't even work" before I eventually made it to the first gym.

In an alternative timeline not too far from our own, dunsparce could have been a mythical pokemon and that prospect scares me, long live godsparce.

I had a fantastic time watching you show off the glory of my 2nd favourite Pokémon of all! Your little Rage backstory at the start was fascinating (I also knew of few Pokémon fans growing up) and there were plenty of enjoyable hijinks and exciting close moments. Glad you came to love the cute and sleepy land snake that is Dunsparce; whom had a surprising knack for slaying dragons in this video!

The real dragon type 😳

I feel called out for listening to you in the background lol! But your voice is just so pleasant. I use these videos to sleep. They're better than rain. Exciting enough to be kept at attention, and such a nice voice to calm down to. I do watch them when awake too for the record...

In gen 2, enemy Pokémon status moves actually have an additional chance to fail against you other than missing, that’s why the Morty fight felt so lucky.

3:40 Lord Helix won't be amused about that. I'd reconsider that.

I'm happy to realize I'm not the only one to get confused about slowpoke cave as a kid

Pryce: *Holding his defeated pokemon* How? How did you become so strong? Dunsparce: My creators left me incomplete and ignored. For years I struggled, Overlooked, Neglected, Awaiting a final form that would never come. You think your moves wound me. You seek to defeat me with your attacks. Yet each blow is a reminder of what it hits. My stubby wings that dont allow my to fly. My short, stunted body. My tail that still misses a true stinger. No your moves do not weaken me. I take that pain you bring me, a pain I am so familiar with, and I turn it into...*rage*

Well dude, you narrated my childhood experience of gaming with my peers in the first minutes of this video.

And now I'm seeing the Venomoth self dig and realize it must be a running gag. Welp, respect!

Double and triple checked this from scientific sources, since Ilex is just the botanical name for Holly plants. It appears to be: Ilex /ˈaɪlɛks, so that would be "eye-lex". Then again, it is possible that in the anime it was called "ee-lex" forest. Great videos thanks!

Watching you go for a solo challenge with my favorite pokémon was the best thing I did in a while. Thanks for doing this. ♪

"Despite all my rage, I am still just a snake stuck in rage" Or w/e Smashing Pumpkins said.

Was watching this on the side while working from home, got called out hard during that Chuck fight LOL

I hope Gamefreak finds it in their hearts to one day give Dunsparce an alternate form, a regional variant, or an evolution. The fact that they decided to give one to Stantler, Basculin, and Qwilfish gives me hope.

Your overlay is awesome; I like seeing movesets/stats at a glance.

Dunsparce's early Rage and massive health for a single-stage pokemon found in the beginning of the game are the reasons it became my favorite pokemon to this day. It being a flying snake with a drill tail didn't hurt matters.

16:13 way to call me out man... one of the few games i can listen to in the background and completely know what is going on

Ayyyy, one I've actually done before! Nice, im excited to see you prove how much better it could've been done.

This actually went much better than I thought it would. Well done making Dunsparce look not so bad. I really hope they come up with an evolution or something for it.

Butterfree makes venomoth look like a joke. Seriously why would any psy trainer that uses bug type use venomoth(bug/poison) instead of Butterfree(flying/bug)? Anyways, duns is a good Pokemon that is heavily underrated. It's nice to see him showing this.

Scott, I did the exact same thing my first time around outside Azalea town back in my childhood days. It never looked like a tile you could step on so never knew you could enter it. It took me forever to figure out how to get the rocket member to move lol kids are so privileged being able to look up how to’s for games these days

Similar story to your slowpoke well thing, I was trapped in Viridian forest for days because back in gen 1 there was no real indicator that there was an exit there, the forest just kinda ended. I eventually got out by accident the same way you did.

I thought I was the only one who got stuck in crystal lol. I didn’t realize you were supposed to return to the lab after the first rival battle so I’d go to the first trainer route to progress. Ended up having a croconaw before facing youngster Joey.

I know it's an older video, but in case you aren't aware, since it might help with future Johto videos, in Gen 2, the catch mechanics are rather buggy. Consequently, the only status conditions that help with catch rate are sleep and freeze. All other status conditions appear intended to buff catch rate, but the check always fails. Technical explanation: the game loads the enemy status conditions into the 'a' register, then it checks that register for sleep/freeze, then if that check passes, it factors in the condition. If it doesn't, it moves on to check the contents of the 'a' register for any status conditions (in practice, poison/burn/paralysis, since it won't reach this point for sleep/freeze), as this can be done simply by checking if the enemy status is 0, i.e. no status condition, but there's a major issue: the check for sleep or freeze is done using the 'and' opcode, which is sensible given the options available to implement the check as well as the way the data is structured, but the 'and' opcode modifies the contents of the 'a' register. If the enemy pokemon is neither asleep nor frozen, the result will be 0, which sets the zero flag (intended, as the conditional branch to account for the status is triggered when the zero flag is not set, which will happen if the pokemon is asleep or frozen). But after that, they needed to reload the status from memory back into the 'a' register to make the burn/poison/paralysis check work. Since they forgot to do that, when they use 'and a' to check for any status condition (i.e. burn/poison/paralysis since sleep/freeze are already handled), it always returns 0, since the contents of the 'a' register are guaranteed to be 0 at this point, because if the 'a' register did *not* contain zero, the game would have taken the conditional branch to account for sleep/freeze and thus would not have reached the check for burn/poison/paralysis. Therefore, it's literally a one-line-of-assembly bugfix to restore the effect of burn/poison/paralysis on catch rate. There is a comparison instruction that doesn't overwrite 'a', but it may have been more convenient/performant to use 'and' due to it being able to combine the checks for both sleep and freeze in a single instruction for the check and thus only a single conditional jump instruction (otherwise, it would have to check for sleep, then jump if sleep, then check for freeze, then jump if freeze). It would also probably work fine if sleep and freeze were ordered differently, as then you could just check for it being greater than/less than a certain value instead of equal to multiple possible values, but that's not how they're ordered and there might be some other situations in the code where different orderings may have been optimal. (That said, using 'and a' to check for zero makes sense for performance if you don't need to re-use the current contents of 'a' later, as it's 4 cycles compared to 8 for 'cp 0' since on the Gameboy the instructions using a registers' contents as an operand are usually faster than the ones using fixed numbers for reasons I don't know).

Mudslap is sand attack with water added "Deal damage with your sand attack now! Just add water!"

I have a childhood memory of actually choosing Charmander for once and having rage around the time I fought the sand attack pidgey lass outside of Pewter. Haven't chosen Charmander since :(

little confession here.... you're the only pkmn youtuber who is doing these challenges with all my favourite pokemons (bug trainer forever) plus i always loved pokemons who are not to lovable just like dunsparce....i reeeealy enjoy your videos and i know you'll never disappoint me/us....hail to you and wish you the best, you deserve it man ❤️ ^^

Angel:"So God how smooth do you want this ones voice to be?" God:"Yes." Amazing Voice and Video

My man scotty giving me gen 2 nostalgia 😩 Crystal was the first pokemon game I played and it takes me back to the good times I had. All the best, brother. Hoping to see your channel grow even more :)

It always nice to see a run with my favorite pokemon!

Dunsparce is not a snake. It's a BEE. I have taken care of snakes for 12 years. Dunsparce is yellow, has a stinger tail, has stripes, and wings. IT'S A DAMN BEE!!!!

"you can go back to watching/listening in the background now"...damn, have to call me out for playing my pokemon yellow emulator while watching... 🤣

So as someone who works in horticulture re:Ilex, I have two answer's to the pronunciation of it. 1. Botanical Latin has no official pronunciation rules, and as Ilex is the genus for hollies, there is no official pronunciation so there is no official right or wrong pronunciation. 2. The regional pronunciation for the United States is generally Eye-Licks (it is a word I get to hear several times per week)

Me and you bare similar, with the whole 16 a hour Pokemon binge

I think you should occasionally allow yourself a breed move on one of your challenges. For example: I bred ancient power on to my dunsparce a while back. Named it MVP. And eventually went for a set with: - return - glare - curse - ancient power And leftovers. Way over the top. But loads of fun xD since you're aiming to just buff The Sparce into oblivion and then hit hard with return. (and yeah! I tried to make dunsparce work on my theme bug team. ... basically "cheating" because ofcourse it's not actually a bug type) Anyways, really cool choice! Dunsparce often gets ignored or overlooked. And I think people underestimate how much fun it can be if you really try :D so... a like. just for that!

Nice story about the move rage, lol

"I'm calling all of you out for listening to this in the background." I feel personally attacked.

I do listen to your videos in the background, but I do not miss your great memes because I watch along while playing Pokemon rom hacks.

True story, Venomoth was my first holographic Pokémon card.

I always loved bugs, despite their general lack of power... Then generation five came along and introduced so many powerhouses. The grand crown of this selection was my beloved fire moth, Volcarona. I have destroyed try-hard teams of legendaries with it. Bugs rule.

-"I'm calling out to all of you who are listening to this in the background" -Slowly looks up from Switch

Talking about weird tiles. I got Pokemob Blue for Christmas as a kid. I had not seen any gameplay, I just knew I needed a Pokemon game as a kid, it hadn't been out that long either so I hadn't seen friends playing it. I got stuck in the first house. The tile for stairs looked like stairs, so that was obvious but the rug in front of the door to exit the house just did not click with me and I couldn't figure out how to leave the players house. I remember thinking I had a broken copy of the game until I figured it out

25:07 something to remember is that in Gen 2 your moves get a 12.5% damage modifier based on your Gym Badges. Each Gym Badge gives a boost corresponding to the type the Gym is themed after. For instance the Hive Badge badge gives all your bug type attacks a boost. So this would actually give Return a boosted power of 172. Yeah normal types are the kings/queens of Gen 2 when you consider just how early you get the Normal Badge, and how strong Return is :)

Dunsparce is and always will be my favorite pokemon ever

Perhaps you'll become known as the bad-boy who don't play by the rules, and also keeps discovering new types that Venomoth has.

I’ve always thought Dunsparce was highly underrated. It’s got decent enough stats and with rage, def curl, rollout, and glare?? Nasty

I revisit a lot of your older videos lately. It is amazing to see how much this channel, the crew behind the channel and scott himself improved. I know, that you want to revisit these runs as well. Im curious how much you can be done here for example, since Crystal is now the go-to Gen 2 choice instead of gold. For some Pokémon this means other moves in their set. From all the older Gen 2 runs I would love to see Dunsparce, Corsola and Ledian the most.

Lance his Aerodactyl has always changed the rules; it's the true final boss! ..Least it has been for all my gold / heartgold runs, he's my venomoth LOL My own rage aside, Dunsparce is a fun pokemon to do a run with! I finished mine just now, and I learned from my slugma run that speed is.. SLOW! ;) That's why I always borrow the quick-claw and show Dunsparce CAN go fast! All aside, awesome run man, your content is really shaping up so much! I'm willing to say you've become one of my three favorites, so keep that up! :D I don't know if you take suggestions, but I figured to try a Hoppip run myself. It seems a pokemon to really struggle! ;)

Also, that thing you mentioned with rage is actually a strategy some speedrunners use against Miltank. Setup rage against clefairy, hope for a doubleslap, then destroy the cow. That being said, it's kinda unreliable due to metronome compared to fury cutter who also helps against bayleef, but so is every attempt against clefairy.