Thank you for your kind words!! I'm so glad that you enjoyed the video :) There were definitely a day or two of wake up, edit for 16 hours, sleep, repeat. Worth it!

Thank you!! Your superior Dome will be put to the test very soon my friend :)

@@Eggsceptional whether it wins or not, Kabutops will always be cooler

@@corymurphy4459 Swords for hands are pretty killer :) It'll be a fun race I'm eggscited for the next several vids!

Those double intimidates can be nasty! I've used them as the Rival's team a few times when the Ace typing just didn't make sense. Hmm I've been receiving a few comments suggesting some team challenge videos. I'll consider them :)

I appreciate it! I shouted out your Smeargle run in the live chat :)

You bet! It's the trick that taught me the special typing in the early generations

Thank you thank you! I love being able to do fun things with my voice. I'm not saying I'm great at it, but it's all about having a good time! Your nickname is like my usual name "I". "I is evolving!"

I'm glad that you're enjoying them! I try to keep it interesting and lately have been trying to include more details in my narration for those that choose to just listen :)

Thank you!!! Such a big milestone to have hit :)

Keep blowing up king!

@@Ed-lg5qq I'm doing well thanks to all of you!!

@@Ed-lg5qq I'm doing well thanks to all of you!!

I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for the kind words. I've been working hard :)

​@Eggsceptional and I for one am grateful to you for it. How you'll ever be able to go back to regular mons after these pseudo and legendary runs I'll never know, it has to feel so unEGGceptable 😂

@@antoniolara9004 I have some nasty runs that have been requested and I'm thinking about jumping into one or two of them after doing the fossils. They're going to be painful, especially after the pseudos. They'll feel downright EGGregious!

It's so hard to find a time slot that works for everyone! I'll be putting up a poll in the next few weeks to determine a time that works best for the majority of people. Thank you!! 1000 is a big milestone :) 1 million??? Maybe I'll shoot for 2k first :)

@@Eggsceptional i'll keep an eye out for your poll

That weather text hurt so much! Simply for my own edification I'd be interested in a run without Sandstream. Maybe when I eventually break into a later Gen I can try against with T-tar having Unnerve instead.

funny that the one thing that makes Ttar the best pokemon in gen 3 loses him this competition

That would be quite the entourage!

Thank you! I'm happy to have you around, contributing to that growth :) I've been putting the work in and I'm so happy that others are enjoying it! One milestone at a time right?

There are a disproportionately high amount of Dragon types among the pseudos, eh? I'm looking forward to revisiting this VS in Gen 4 so the moveset diversity can broaden a bit. And Sandstorm does more for Tyranitar than cause a lot of text to show up on screen.

Close enough! 🤣

Godzilla dancing to Sandstorm ..... just saying.

Oh be something you love and understand. Baby, be a simple kind of man. Oh won't you do this for me son if you can? Glad you're enjoying the content :) Thanks for the sub!

Thanks I appreciate the kind words :) The 3 way video darn near killed me but it was totally worth it! Glad to have you!

I love making the long form content! It just takes more time to produce is all. My favourite Pokémon is not Exeggcute! Though I can see why you'd think so. My fave is Gyarados, has been since I was a little kid. Gyarados was the best Pokémon card too. Foil. Obviously :)

So close!! And now, just an hour later, over 1000!!

As a player that usually runs as fast as possible I cringe at the thought of that much training. But you're so right.. they would be a force to be reckoned with

Admittedly the pseudos have been a ton of fun, but there is a point where stomping through the game with relative ease gets old. I'm excited to move onto the fossils they're so diverse!

All of the trade evolutions I like it. I've been wanting to play through with them indivodually too and setting them to evolve at 36 or something. I'll add it to the list thanks for the comment :)

Thank you :) I love a good pun

Shhhhhhhhh! Nobody was supposed to find out this early.

Thank you! It's been a ride in the last few weeks seeing the growth :) Glad to have your support!

Welcome! Thank you for your kind words. There's plenty more to come :)

You are correct! I guess I confused the two I just saw "Re...." as I clicked away and assumed it was Reversal. Good catch! I'll make a note to have a correction in the Salamence video :)

That's a good point. If you haven't played through these games 1000 times then every area you get to would prompt exploration. Oh no I can't see these ghost things I'll go check out somewhere else! I'm glad that despite driving you nuts I've earned your sub :)

I need a bonk counter that tallies them automatically it's so bad. Particularly on the bike, but even the run speed when playing at 4x gamespeed is SO hard to control. I've gotten better!

Welcome aboard :) glad to have you!!

I do put a lot of work into these. I'm glad to hear that it shows. Thank you :)

Thank you so much for the membership :) It absolutely tickled me pink seeing that little winking egg!!

You defently deserve it! Hopefully you will see more eggs very soon

Thank you! I appreciate it. I've been working hard and it's nice to hear that it shows :)

Thank you! I sometimes sit and ponder nicknames for so long you'd think that I was naming my first born or something.

Right!?!?!? It's so true!! Aggresive, intimidating design on Sala, Meta, and T-tar, while Dragonite just wants a hug.

Thanks I appreciate it :) I'm having so much fun with the Salamence video. It's so darn powerful! That's good to note concerning typing. More things to try to keep track of I guess! I'm breaking into Gen 4 soon and I think I'll be having a lot of moments of "Um, which Gen am I playing again?" in my future.

@@Eggsceptional no problem and I hear ya, it's hard to keep track of all the changes between gens, ones that constantly trip me up are Flamethrower, Thunderbolt, Surf, and Ice Beam being 90 base power and Fire Blast, Thunder, Hydro Pump, and Blizzard only being 110 base power starting in Gen 6 and some older Pokemon getting stat changes like Raichu gaining +10 to speed, they're small changes but somehow they trip me up every now and then.

@@lumineinfinitussilverkagat8094 To think I can barely handle the Steel typing offensively in one Gen how am I going to balance all these facts? My poor spaghetti brain... That's why I'm running it as a Nuzlocke first to try to learn as much of the game as I can

I hope you enjoyed it!!

@@Eggsceptional I definitely did enjoy it! keep going, you are doing an amazing job.

@@eduardosalguero8506 Thanks I appreciate you saying that :)

Thank you!! I, admittedly, may spend a little too long on nicknames from time to time. This video, though they came right out :)

Thank you! Glad to have earned it :)

I'm glad that you're enjoying the videos!! Poor Tyranitar suffered so much time loss because of the weather. And he didn't even get to benefit from the 50% increased Sp.Def because it's Gen 3!

@@Eggsceptional Poor Gojira pokemon. Not even getting the benefits. Not to mention the fighting weakness. which is so much more common than Ice attacks

@@dee7571 It's so true! Dragonite had like 3 spots to be aware of Ice Moves. Tyranitar had a bunch! And so many were random encounters that took my totally off guard.

It was a chess reference! Well.. more AI and supercomputer but definitely chess was a factor in it. Naming things is hard at 4x gamespeed! I like my Rival "U". "I defeated U" is just so satisfying every time!!

Thank you :) One day at a time! Hitting the 1k mark is already such a huge milestone for me. Now I guess it's time to target the next power of 10.

Yeeeaaahhh I caught that during the premiere. Then went back to my script and it's listed correctly at 1212.5 lbs. Sometimes my mouth/brain connection is a little weak, and then my ear/brain connection misses it too when I'm editing. D'oh! Thanks for the comment :)

Right you are! I really need to start fact checking my scripting more I've had a couple mistakes lately that are either incorrect, or correct in modern Gens, but incorrect in Gen 3. So many little quirks to these games!!

It's so hard to pick a time that works in everyone's timezone!! I'll be posting a poll in the not too distant future looking for suggestions to try to and target a time that works best for everyone (or at least as many people as I can).

You're right! I made an error when I made the moveset for the video, and so I thought he couldn't learn it. I'll play Meta again eventually :)

More 3 way VS content coming soon :) Things have evolved a bit since I made this one. Thanks!

True! Unless it's hitting with the type advantage. It also has the benefit of hitting Ghosts, so Dragonite didn't have to rely on some horrible sub optimal move to chip them down. Though Return is my jam, I felt Aerial Ace had more utility

@@Eggsceptional now explain Dragonite vs Lance where Aerial Ace leaves like all of his pokemon on 5% HP and Return is just there smiling at you.

@@TheMoogleKing93 I guess it would depend on which round league it was. If Round 1 it's to preserve it for Round 2. If Round 2 Return would have been the better choice. With set up Venusaur would fall to Return just as easily. I'm not always perfect I'll be sure to keep this in mind :)

Rock does not resist Rock that's true.. I've been making a note of that a lot in subsequent videos :) The SpD boost from Sandstorm isn't introduced until Gen 4 unfortunately, so it really was just chip damage and extra text all run.

@@Eggsceptional Damn, tyranitar had no right taking super effective special moves like that throughout the run then, lmao

@@UnknownVir It felt a little brutal at times but he is still a pseudo legendary Pokémon after all. It didn't slow him down too too much.

I felt the same way! When I was doing the scripting and editing I take timestamps of all of them as they progress through the game it was so cool to play them, then edit them and watch the runs converge and diverge. Such a blast! Finding those random points to be aware of too with Poison point/random OHKO fighting moves was so great. So many uneggspected things I find even with pseudos. I love approaching the runs with the mentality of "what's possible" then "what's optimal". If I just set up a bunch in the first runs I don't feel I'd be able to push the limits as much with the second runs. I do damage calcs sometimes but not all the time. I prefer to feel things out and learn by experience. Only calcing in those extra tricky spots or when I'm genuinely curious if a crit mattered, or if I would have survived a miss. I honestly wasn't too surprised with the Metagross win. I thought maybe the lack of set up would cost it but it's just too beastly. Thanks, I feel like these runs are making me a better player, which is making the content better! I'm looking forward to more tricky run that require more thought like the snakes, or upcoming fossils. There are so many things to discuss!

@@Eggsceptional to say you lived up to your name and did Eggsceptional is an understatement. its hard to predict when something going to come along to take down a Pokemon like a Pseudo, but as we saw there are moments like, rock type moves always take me by surprise when I have dragonite, but I keep water moves on it instead of ice beam for such occasions. you seemed to do the same and kept aerial ace for the fighting types for Tyranitar. I like that you kept crunch for the 2nd run, Tyranitar is one of very few that make good use of it mostly because it is a special move that mostly physical attackers get. I would of added thunderbolt to it to help deal with water types I am still surprised Metagross won, but in hindsight I can see how it did, most of Fire Red's EV's lean towards attack, defense and speed, which is what Metagross needs the most, psychic is a nice STAB move and its typing is pure defense. I look forward to what you're going to do with Salamance. I have a feeling you'll go Dragon Dance on it as well, but If I may I suggest Hydro pump will serve you well, Salamence is a glass cannon and a mixed attacker, lean into it and go big, it doesn't get ice beam and hydro pump will serve well in its place, also how many Pokemon get flamethrower and hydro pump at once ah yes the fossils, we have much to discuss, why shall we start?

@@jptheflipper3825 It was so cool finding those random wipes throughout the game that caught me completely off guard. Like the random Low Kicks and Revenges from Mankey and Machoke. I couldn't not have Tyranitar using Crunch it feels so thematic to him. If it weren't for all of that weather text I feel like Tyranitar might have won it. I had considered Hydro Pump to get past Brock super early but I was struggling to find a way in the late game to avoid DD. It exists sure but I'm not convinced that it would be faster than using DD strats. Salamence gets the move that Dragonite was sorely lacking - Rock Slide. I couldn't decide how I want to do the fossils though I really want to do most cross generation match ups but having Helix VS Dome just can't go unexplored. It's too hype of a topic in the Poke-communite

@@Eggsceptional I had my money on Tyranitar, I think it could of won if not for the random fighting moves and the weather text as you say, I rarely consider stuff like that for a race, but imagine Tyranitar without it, how many minutes might it safe? I guess to keep it consistent with the others Dragon Dance makes sense. I suggest Hydro pump because how salamence compares to dragonite, its attack it as good, its special attack and speed are slightly better, but its defenses and HP are all lower and it will not take much of a hit, below a certain level Onix might 1 shot with Rock Tomb every time, Hydro Pump might get you around that, rock slide will be a nice addition to its move set, it gets a lot dragonite doesn't but it gets less than dragonite in other areas. as you're running all the fossils, its a straight 5 way race to me, with the exception of Cradilly I can't guess at who the winner of it will be, each has its road blocks and difficulties, grass will be the downfall of Omastar and Kabutops, but not the others, the others might fall to Lorelei's ice types or rock slide or rock tomb from Bruno of all people, there is a lot to consider. the parings kinda have to be a certain way, everyone is going to want to see dome vs helix, aerodactyl is a lone flier and the Bug vs the grass is very much a battle of who falls the the most to Blaine and Charizard. with the exception of Aerodactyl, you'd find the movesets a frustration as well, Omastar needs more special moves and Kabutops needs more physical, Cadilly is decent for a duel STAB but the stats don't help it and Armaldo's typing will leave it weak or neutral to most of the game regardless to moveset, its speed it awful

@@jptheflipper3825 In the second playthrough though I was able to navigate the Fighting moves fairly easily. Tyranitar just suffered so much from the weather text. If only he could've benefitted from the 50% Sp.D buff from Gen 4. I understand your thinking with Hydro, Salamence's stats offensively are better than Dragonite. I do think that the holes I was looking to fill in Dragonite's learnset are filled in Salamence's. Despite it being more limiting overall. I haven't started running the fossils yet but I'm super interested in the Gen 3 ones. I have a lose idea of how I feel Helix/Dome will go (not a winner, just the runs themselves) but I have no idea how Cradily and Armaldo will stack up. Armaldo's speed is only 45? I had to look it up. That's going to be terrible to try and run! At least he's not weak to too much.. except you know.. Water.

Thank you :)

I guess it does!!! I was at 973 at the time of the premiere and it's gone crazy overnight. The support is real :)

I like it! 3ways with the birds will likely have to wait until 2024, but I've definitely got them on the list. I feel like Swellow might steal the show a little with Guts/STAB Facade. They're going to be such fun runs to do though. Farfetch'd might get lumped in elsewhere. Fartfetch'd with a Stick, Cubone with a Thick Club, Pikachu with a Light Ball.

It was pointed out to me that I didn't have Rock Slide in my learnset which is likely why I didn't think Metagross learned it. It would have been sooo much better than Rock Tomb

You are correct! I did get this wrong. I didn't fact check myself and went with the first typing matchup that I saw, not realizing the newer Gens had changed it since Gen 3. My bad! Thanks for the correction :)

Yes, thank you. I've had a lot of corrections about that.. darn Gen 3 and its randomly different mechanics!

@@Eggsceptional haha it took them 3 gens to realize that steel doesnt need to resist the entire type chart 😂

@@thebandit6886 Hey in fairness Steel was a typing, along with Dark, that felt like it was made specifically to counter that OP Psychic typing in Gen 1. Who cares how arbitrarily strong it was for many generations :P

@@Eggsceptional true! They needed two types to counter psychic 😂😂😂 that is bonkers!

@@thebandit6886 Fast types with Psychic rocked that generation. Alakazam, Mewtwo, even Gengar. It was part of that Gen 1 flavour we all know and love.

Hopefully I did the pseudos proud in this vid :) Goodra came up lots in the premiere's chat. Tyranitar may not have won the day but I definitely enjoyed him the most!

Thank you!!! It's such a big milestone to have hit already!! Thanks for being a part of it!

I feel like there are fewer and fewer people in the world that recognize that instantly :)

I enjoy being prepared! It's in the second playthroughs that I try to push the boundaries a little more :)

@Eggsceptional the difference between a warm up set and a max out set. Ahahah

@@AlmostCoolGuys I suddenly find myself very curious about what the 1RMs of so many Pokémon are...

@Eggsceptional the Machamp line is the only creature to take its belt OFF for a big lift. 😆

@@AlmostCoolGuys No squat suits for them, no knee straps, nothing. They do it RAW!

That's awesome! I've never had a shiny Dragonite. My first thought was Watermelon?

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Very true and in an RNG heavy game you're kind of forced to roll with the punches. I had considered pursuing HP Rock for Metagross but I didn't know if the time investment would help or hurt it's time. Rock Polish didn't exist until Gen 4 unfortunately, but we did get access to Agility. With the EVs I collected though with a few extra levels Speed wasn't Metagross's biggest issue. Poor Tyranitar and his weather text. Cost so much time!

Thank you I'm glad you found me :) 1. Yes, I try to choose a single Egg move that will offer the most overall improvement in time for the runs. 2. I only manipulate the IVs. I feel optimizing EVs is a key aspect of routing through the game, and no the trash can puzzle is random every time. I do save cheese it but it's still random.

@Eggsceptional Hello again, I had another question come up after watching another of your videos, you've earned my sub at this point lol. How do you figure out your stats like when you need outspeed a certain mon or have to be at a certain HP threshold to survive?

@@bladert2322 This is a lot of what I aim to discover in the first playthrough. The speed thresholds I've become familiar with: like Round 1 Champion's Alakazam has 159 speed for example. In game I just look at the start menu status screen to see my stats, and the calculations I do in post in a spreadsheet that I built. Or on an online tool that can show you damage ranges in every situation. I intend to introduce live updating elements from GameHook so we can see my stats in real time as I play but that's something that needs to wait until I get a hardware upgrade :)

Metagross was an absolute treat to play. I'm looking forward to playing it again in Gen 4 once I've upgraded my hardware :)

Oh have you seen a shiny Metagross? It's awesome, gold and white colors.

@@valor1omega I just looked it up, very sharp! I'm not up to date on my shiny sprites at all.

You can! I think I randomly realized this a couple of weeks ago. Crunch is just so good...

It's a big reason why I had to choose FireRed. I loved being able to do the Round 2 E4. I saw a big lack of R2 content and just had to make my own.

Replying to my own comment like a boss, after this comment I learned you are doing a Salamance run. 😂

I tried to stick with 1 from each Generation. Darn Gen 3 wanting to add 2! Next week Salamence will finish off our Pseudos

@@Eggsceptional That's a good take, one from every gen :)

@@snugglefrygames7726 Salamence next week to wrap things up! :)

Ahh!! Why would you put that image in my mind? I suppose you're right about it having 4 arms.. so why no Mega Punch? A freaky human-Cronenburg creation could still Mega Punch. Well maybe not Mega.. but punch!!

@@Eggsceptional I guess it hits too hard for mega punch and can't hold it's heavy hand back. Meteor mash is called comet punch in Japan, and bullet punch is a thing, so it can punch.. only thing I can think of is that it's too good to throw a normal mega punch lol

@@sandysantos7182 I could see that being a thing! It's the Pokémon equivalent of martial arts! I only know how to throw these punches because they're my special punches. Other punches are inferior.

Fossils. Yes :)

Tyranitar, with the exception of the Fighting weakness, felt the most solid out of the 3 honestly. Maybe I'm just biased because Tyranitar is my fave of the 3 :)

1212.5 lbs. That's even what I had in the script! My brain-mouth connection was weak that day it seems :)

I did a follow-up video with Salamence the following week! If you're interested in seeing Salamence rip through :)

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You are correct! This was a lesson for me to check how things have changed between generations, not just trust the first thing I look up. Thanks for keeping me honest :)

Yet it still couldn't learn Mega Punch! Oh GameFreak :)

@@Eggsceptional they probably didn't think of it since it was a FR/LG tutor 🤣

You are correct!! I did get that wrong. I was looking at the weaknesses online not accounting for the fact that typing matchups have evolved over the years. I mean... Fire didn't even resist Ice at one point. Thanks for pointing it out :)

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Yes, this was something that I got wrong. I have been more diligent about checking the " * " points for changes between generations when I'm scripting these days. Thanks for keeping me honest :)

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Lord Helix did so well last week!

I think it might have without all of that darn weather text!

If I had a nickel for every time I wanted something that existed in newer generation I'd have like.. at least $3.00

FireRed was the game I played most growing up. I played Blue on release then Yellow ad nauseum. I waited for Crystal to come out for Gen 2 and played that until FireRed gave me a run button. That's been my game of choice since, for nearly 20 years :)

@@Eggsceptional oh cool! Are you planning to do every pseudo or just up to gen 3?

@@SCOTLAND_ISGREAT I need a hardware upgrade to break into newer generations but yes, that is in the hopefully not too far future with Gen 4. As far as running newer Generations through FireRed I haven't found a way to do it yet that fits my format. I'm working on it and when I find a way heck yeah. Garchomp, Dragapult. They'd be so fun to run.

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That's a good point. I guess I was so in love with Meteor Mashing everything and couldn't think of a stat I was fine with reducing. In hindsight probably could have used Defense, though we did take some heavy Earthquakes near the end there.

What? The scouter must be broken!

I'm a just a wee baby after all :) I'm still a fairly new channel all things considered. I'm glad you found me!

@@Eggsceptional Well keep doing what you're doing. Your editing is superb, the script is good, and the topic is interesting. The narration is well done and very captivating.

@@prycenewberg3976 Thank you I appreciate you saying that :) I'm making the type of content that I like to watch. I'm so glad that others like it too!

Welcome! We have beverages 😅

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Did I not say that? Maybe I was just grabbing information straight off the internet without verifying the Generation. Good correction, thank you :)

The 3way VS videos take a LOT but they're so fun to do. Thanks :)

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I went back and looked at this in my script and it's written correctly! I just didn't speak it correctly and ignored the "1" at the start of the number 😅 One day I'll release an error free video... Thanks for keeping me honest :)

True, but in the final times Puff suffered more. It's best moveset to compliment DD that I could come up with was Aerial Ace and Brick Break. Not the most stand out moves for power!

That's an interesting one. I'll put it on the list. Thanks :)

Taurus clears super easily.

I think Zangoose VS Seviper wouod be more interesting since they are canonically rivals

@@thenudgyhampter6969 That would be interesting but Seviper already has an opponent in Arbok. Battle of the snakes :)

You are correct! I've had a lot of comments correcting me on that one. I've never understood the steel typing!

I had considered it following the Jrose11 format, but real time is the metric that I place the most weight on as opposed to the hardest challenge. I feel that sometimes the fastest strategy requires luck which would give a disadvantage to some Pokémon on the league compared to others without saves

Well shucks :) Thanks!