Fun fact: Kingdra can learn Body Slam via Move Tutor in FR/LG (Seadra still cannot), so you could probably justify Kingdra learning that move in R/B/Y. I think it's the only movepool difference between Seadra and Kingdra in FR/LG

as a kid i use to think kingdra was epic, i always thought horsea was just the cutest thing ever and when gen2 finally came out it got a big upgrade, glad to see it getting some love :)

Idk if Gyarados not being a dragon is for balance reasons. The fact that they made Dragon weak to Dragon and then made the only damage-dealing dragon move do flat damage is evidence that they weren't really thinking about it all that hard Edit: and let's not forget that the reason Gorochu doesn't exist is because they thought it'd make the Pikachu line too OP. Raichu. Too OP. Raichu.

That Growl on a Pokémon with 20 HP was peak Surge.

I like how faithful you were with Kingdra's movepool, youtubers tend to be too generous with them. However, the two-colored sprite feels off. In Yellow, sprites use 2 shades of the same hue + black and white. So close!

Gen 2 baby Pokemon would be interesting to backport for challenge runs some day, seems like sensible choice, like for examples a race between Magby and Elekid or how Tyrogue would fare compared to Hitmonchan and Hitmonlee. The back porting thing is a cool idea I'm on board with the other viewers who are into it.

When Gen 6 changed the critical hit mechanics to be weaker but more consistent I started running crit abuse Kingdra competitively. It has Sniper so it still gets 2.25x power, Focus Energy + Scope Lens guarantees a crit every attack, and crits cancel Draco Meteor’s Sp Atk drop. Everything stacking on top of each other makes it’s pretty good stats excel. I also wasn’t a huge fan of Kingdra’s design in 2D games, but it got cooler in 3D and it’s beta design is pretty cool too.

I'd love to see a mini series with traded versions of Alakazam, Gengar, Machamp, and Golem. Routing around the exp boost and disobedience thresholds sounds interesting. Maybe even include the in-game trade exclusive guys like Marcel the Mr. Mime or Dux the Farfetch'd.

One reason Gyarados was given the flying type is that its design is based on the "Koinobori", a Japanese kite-like flag thing designed based on a Karp, that is often hung out on Japanese national children's day. Just google that term and you will know why that resembles Gyarados, that thing is something fish-dragon looking that looks like it flies in the sky.

kingdra is one of the few pokemon that has no issues going to a gen 1 game since it's special attack and defense are the same. I love seeing these crossgen runs, they're really fun to watch and very creative For moveset-I actually disagree with putting agilty and hydro pump later in the learnset-if you actually check the gen 2 movepools for kingdra and seadra, they learn moves at the same levels. I think most (all?) trade pokemon are the same-both the middle stage and final stage pokemon learn the (mostly) the same moves at the same level, unless there is a significant type change like onix -> steelix or scyther -> scizor. Even the gen 4 extra evolutions like Probopass and Magnezone seem to have the same level up learnset and levels as their prior evolutions (Nosepass and Magneton)

Aaaa, this was such a blast to watch! You should totally keep making gen 1 backports. I loved watching this and Misdreavus!

Hey Scott, great job! I love your videos and the fact that you've put so much effort into the overlays, programming, and your optimizations. These videos in particular are some of my favorites, the extra thought process of what would this Gen 2/3/4 whatever pokemon have in gen 1 is very interesting.

This was a ton of fun. These Gen I port backs are really cool, I cannot wait until we get to port back Meganium into Gen I. I am very convinced that Meganium will be really good throughout :)

So happy to see another one of these backward imported mon videos! It's a fun little shake-up, I can't wait for whichever one you have planned for the next one!

Love the back ports! Fun to see how newer Pokémon handle the first gen, great work Scott!

Cool video idea! I might give this ROM patch a try, because in my rebalancing RBY notes I've included a change to seadra's typing to make it stand out and increase its overall viability (Water -> Water Dragon) while adding some weaker dragon moves like twister and dragonbreath to make dragon type pokemon feel like... well actual dragons (also giving lance enough dragons to have at least a team of primarily dragon pokemon and not flying ones lmao). Giving it a test even with buffed stats would give me a more accurate reading of how that might affect the balance of the game. Thanks for all your cool work, and looking forward to finishing the video!

The ports back to gen 1 are really fun. Keep doing them. Nice work!

Gyarados, Aerodactyl and Kingdra - the dragons Gen 1 needed and deserved, but never got... looking forward to it!

Definitely enjoying this format, mate, I hope you keep it up 🙂

Hey man, I dont watch all your videos because they are a little long but I watched this one because Kingdra is one of my favorite pokemon and I just wanted to tell ya that I loved it! The layout is so cool! I love how you have all the stats showing, you explain the reasons behind what you are doing, and you even have custom artwork for certain trainers! Thats so cool! also, I love the commentary. Though I know its a script, its cool to hear your reaction as its happening on screen even though you already know the answer. for example, when you were fighting Koga the first time, you said "And I actually do hit the first 2 venonats" making me think that you aren't gonna one shot the next one but then you do and its just cool to have you narrate it as if you are watching it with us. Just wanted to share. Thanks for the video man, I enjoyed it. : )

This was really cooll. It's so cool and fun to port back these pokemon. Can't wait for the next one!

I love it! I also really love the faithful mono generation runs too. Ahhhhhhhhhhh too many choices!

Another great video ive watched every video you put out i love working out to pokemom challenge runs 😁

Your videos are very well-done and are a lot of fun to watch. Keep up the great work! And yes, more back port videos are desired because I'm a gen 1 boomer and prefer pokemon in a gen 1 context 😂

Kingdra can learn Body Slam in Gen 3 so I would have given him access to Body Slam in this playthrough.

My first pokemon game with one of my favorite pokemon, instantly loving the video!

I like this format. Interesting to see how the 'mons do. hope you're well today :)

These Gen I port-back videos are awesome, but I'm gonna enjoy anything you make, so make whatever you want or whatever is most convenient =)

I love this series. The back ports are so cool and interesting. I agree though that they should be done only when it’s to answer a specific question like Kingdra which is “how would a water/dragon type actually do in Gen 1?” Great content as always, Scott. Looking forward to the next one.

I haven't paid attention to the credits before and I am so happy that you have already reached Generation V. I am not supporting you monetarily, I hardly comment, but I am a silent supporter for sometime. Glad how things are turning out for you. I always look forward to your weekly videos.

That was fun to watch! Also I want to say I very much like the Oak battle at the end. I've said it before but it just fits to naturally and is a lot of fun to watch.

The way the type of Venemoth changes as I binge these videos is just great XD

Thanks Scott for making the Kingdra video ❤❤❤. It is my favourite Pokemon. Hopefully you will show us the Kingdra solo run in your Pokemon Crystal/Silver/Gold videos too 🤗

I’m crossing my fingers for politoed next. This series is so cool.

Love these videos where you bring pokémon back to Yellow.

Kingdra with its egg move Aurora Beam would definitely make the early game way faster and better as would Seadra and Horsea.

love these types of videos, they're my favourites

Oh this is gonna be fun love when I can catch his vids early

I think an interesting challenge would be to engineer a Pokémon (typing, base stats, learn set, tm pool) to try to minimize the amount of time playing a play through. You could use some restrictions (a tm learn set limit, basing the learn set levels on a starter Pokémon, etc) to provide some structure and balance but it would be really interesting to see what you and others create.

42:40 finally Seel the reason i like Seel so much is first of All it just looks so happy, but secondly seals were the spirit Animal of my partner, who sadly is Not Here with us anymore. So im Glad i can give this blubbery Boy a home and a Name 🙂 Also of course thanks for the run, i always found Kingdra really cool (same as Slowking), but never had anyone to trade with 😅

Yes, that is exactly the reason that Gyarados was not a dragon. An interview with a developer revealed this.

Man, I remember when the Patreon list was implemented, and now you're in Gen 5!!! Love the support and growth of the channel.

Gen 2 Pokemon in gen 1 is a great idea, this was a fun watch and would love to see more ❤Kingdra was one of my favorite gen 2 Pokemon as a kid and I was so happy I had a card of it 🤭

On my flight back from South Korea yesterday, I was playing pokemon yellow, and right before Vermilion City, I had to fight these Pidgeys with Sand Attach, and I instantly remembered your videos haha! Almost got KOed as well because I kept missing!!

It is interesting to see port backs, I think looking at gen 3 moveset as well as gen 2 moves would make a lot of sense.

I love these backport videos. I'm still excited to possibly see agility luvdisc in gen 1.

I love the non gen 1 pokemon in gen 1! Great vid! And I like the Oak battle, too. No other Poketubers do that...

Absolutely love back ports of newer Pokemon. There are so many cool things you could do with this.

Man I would like to see more of these done, i like how you tried your best to balance a g2 mon in a g1 game.

Love how Scott looks mothera in the eyes, and goes surfing on him despite it resisting water being ice/grass this time

Whilst i do love the anachronistic runs, i think personally i like them being rare like they are!

I feel like this will be a great one

I always love seeing videos like this. I think it'd be neat if every once in a while you took a POkemon from the really later generations that you like, and see how they'd handle in Gen 1. Also be fun to see what "harder" pokemon have to deal with; like if you wanted a steel, dark or fairy pokemon or what someone who didn't attach themselves to a prior Pokemon could do with their movepool and so on. Movepool in general is always a fun question; some people always try to keep the signature moves, some pokemon only have moves that are from later generations so you kind of have to wing your way through it by looking at other similar Pokemon and those lead to interesting decisions, etc. one time i decided to try theory crafting, like, Rillaboom and its amazing how much of the movepool gets culled and how much you basically have to assemble a fully original moveset based on gen 1 trends. Or something like Grimmsnarl.

Should be a good one! Excited to see!

I think Flygon would be a really interesting Gen 3 pokemon to port into Gen 1. Like Kingdra, it's a Dragon-type that has equal special stats. It also has a pretty feasible Gen 1 moveset (Earthquake, Rock Slide, Fire Blast are some.of the highlights) and completely unique defensive profile (Ground type not weak to water or grass is cool). I'd love to see a RB-style Flygon sprite as well. Just something to think about, great video as always!

This will be awesome. Easily one of my top 2/3 favorite Pokemon - in my favorite game.

I feel like you should put it in the tierlist even though it's Gen2. I also think this would be a great series ranking all those Gen2 Pokemon. Great video as always❤

I look forward to more of these.

Awesome video Scott

One day you'll have a super gen1 rom patch that will be a work of art.

These back port videos are so good

I’m happy to see another “Gen 2 Pokémon in Gen 1” video! This one was really interesting because of no weaknesses in the day, and I just generally like that you really try to imagine what the Pokémon would be like in Gen 1 rather than heavily relying on creating moves for that Pokémon. On a somewhat unrelated note, your comment about Koffing relying heavily on SmokeScreen during its solo got me thinking: what if it didn’t have to rely on evasiveness so much, but rather an offensive set? Sludge, Thunderbolt, and Fire Blast is solid type coverage, with Fire Blast being key for Sandslash, and it even leaves room for Mimic and/or Rest. I don’t know if Koffing actually has solid enough stats to pull off an offensive presence, but it’s worth thinking about I think.

I can't believe your patrons have breached into Generation 5 already! You're growing so fast you may have to start slipping Digimon in there to avoid running out of space!

Oh boy. This Pokemon in Gen 1 has no weaknesses since the only dragon move is dragon rage. I predict fastest yellow time so far

I love seeing how pokemon look from other advanced gens when they are introduced to gen 1. The sprite work is always interesting.

Scott, Here’s a fun idea for future challenges: How fast can you beat Pokémon using optimal/only four moves? So, the idea is you have two challenges: Optimal Moves/Only Four. Optimal Moves is an addendum to your solo challenges where, for any battle, you can program your Pokémon to have any four moves it can legally learn in that generation, TMs included. Egg moves in any combination are allowed if the Pokémon meets certain criteria, such as being lower than C-tier. This is meant to help provide worse Pokémon have better performance metrics, especially if they have a move they learn later that would benefit them right away. This could help those especially with massive Brock splits. Only Four Moves is a challenge geared towards A-tier and better. You can choose any four moves that Pokémon can legally learn in that generation, including legal Egg Move combinations and Special Event Pokémon. HOWEVER, once you have chosen your four moves at the start of the game, THAT’S IT! You cannot learn nor replace any of those moves. Some of the best moves later in the game could be a liability in the beginning, such as Blizzard, so choose wisely! Definition of legality: in this context, a “legal” move covers any move -either through level-up, TM/HM, or move tutor- the Pokémon can learn in either its generation or any generation it can be ported to (I.e., Gen I Pokémon can have access to Gen I moves they can learn in Gen II, and vice-versa. Pokémon in Gen IV games can have any move they can learn in Gen III, but will not have access to Gen III or IV moves they learn in Gen V.) Egg moves: a legal Egg Move follows the same rules as any legal move, with the caveat that combinations of egg moves that cannot be obtained are disallowed. An exception to this rule should be noted if invoked. Event Moves: moves learned through Special Events (I.e., Surfing Pikachu) shall be considered legal, but incompatible with ALL Egg Moves. An exception could be made for special Pokémon at low tiers. Anyway, I thought this could make for an interesting challenge for some of your runs. How fast can Mewtwo beat Yellow with only four moves?

This was a blast. Kingdra did marvelously.

Neat idea. Ik it's more work to do the verses videos, but they're by far the most captivating. Kinda has a sports feel if you like one mon more than the other. Port gen 2 mons into gen 1 for verses videos!!!!

Omg Yes! I'm sooo Hyped for this!

This was fun thanks for the video!

I love this kind of video! Also I'm sure you know this but I was curious and looking at movesets and kingdra does learn body slam in gen 3. Since you can't learn body slam in gen 2 via tutor or TM I wonder if kingdra would have had body slam if he was in gen 1. I bet it would have. Thanks for the content Scott!

Great video as always. The only change I would recommend making if you do any more porting of Gen 2 Pokemon to Yellow would be using some of the pre-existing palletes for Pokémon in yellow. Kingdra could have worked with either Seadra or Lapras's pallete. I know what you have now should theoretically work but All the other Gen 1 Pokémon are stuck with a choice out of the small selection of color sets. Would just keep the custom sprites from sticking out so much. Seriously though, great video

Needed this. Perfect way to de-stress

These are a cool idea for a series. A Dark type in Gen 1 would be interesting since there weren't any. But lots of extra programming :p

I love these videos when you put future pkmn back I to gen 1.

I'm surprised kingdra didn't get S tier. But high A tier is still great. Definitely love these backport videos. I'm trying to backport slaking into gen 1 lol. Although I've recently discovered certain GameShark codes work with Sanqui roms. I've been dabbling with changing starting move sets through that for certain mons

"Just bought a Pony made of diamonds. Because i am rich!" -Handsome Jack

I love this kind of run

Scott It was brutal to see you pull a juan on misty. I can feel her pain.

Also Kingdra is my favorite Dragon type Pokémon so I’m happy this was made.

I think something that could speed up the training a bit and make Kingdra more exciting is giving it the “traded” Pokémon increased EXP but also won’t obey you if you over level. It’s one of the things made to balance out the not slow growth rate similar to Alakazam, Gengar, Golem etc

I thought that Kingdra could do an s tier finish, because of the early game luck it had in the first playthrough.🤔 But I think despite it's great typing,it needed some kind of coverage to deal with the early grass types like in the case of the status condition junior trainer's case. But in the end it had some great results,and it did great with lance and oak.😊 I really liked the idea of creating a Pokemon yellow rom of Kingdra. I'd really like to explore that concept,and try out Breloom or Joltik in gen 1 , because I'd like to see how well their unique typing could do in yellow.🤔

One of my fav mons!! In yellow??! Let’s goooo!

I like this kind of video :) I would have thought that Kingdra got a higher rank tbh.

thats amazing rom patch

Hey Scott small thing I noticed: in the overlay for this run, the move pool lists Ice Beam as having 95 power, when in gen 1, it only has 90 power. It doesn't get 95 power until gen 2. But also, great run as always! Can't wait for the next one!

Excellent vid

Still waiting for the day Scott realizes that Venomoth is actually a Salamance/Onix type

I like to see pokemon given as much love as possible, especially in the early games where a lot of them just get a very raw deal, what with terrible stats, terrible movepools and the mismatch of types being effective in game. A series of backported pokemon and pokemon being given every move they could possibly learn (egg moves, time machine moves, Stadium or Special release moves) to make a sort of "Ultimate" version of the pokemon would be pretty fun. Especially the already high tier or Bruno tier pokemon. Even Ultimate Magikarp probably won't have enough to keep it from being hopeless, but Tackle and Dragon Rage might make it merely a slog to get through.

I probably stated it in Misdreavus video as well but it's something that cannot be stated too often. The juice of these types of runs is the fact how the newer Pokémon would perform in previous generation with same limitation that others had. So 🦭Seel of approval for not adding Dragon Breath. Kanto games have been re-released couple of times so if you would like to play a modded with Dragon Breath Kingdra, Let's Go Pikachu is better yellow-ish version for that.

At first I was like wait a sec... but then I remembered the misdreavus video. Interesting interactions for sure here.

I really like videos like this

Can't wait for this!

I love this concept, so many ideas. If I made some sprites (I’ve been practicing) and a moveset, would you consider using the Pokémon (if it’s not a hard one to pull off lol). Maybe you could try generation 2 or 3 at some point. Also, maybe you could also try beta Pokemon too, Helix Chamber made sprites for all the beta gen 1 Pokémon that can be used with credit and there’s tons of Gen 2 ones. Also, gonna try and do the fanart eventually lol.

To be real, if Gyrados was Water/Dragon, then it would be a just reward for grinding through the low levels with that trash fish(or paying the daycare) EDIT: Kingdra could learn Bodyslam in Gen 3 onward, so it should have been able to get it in Gen 1. Should probably check the Gens 2 & 3 movesets when backporting mon to cover moves that didn't exist in gen 2 but did in 1 & 3.

I'd like to see Hipmontop in Yellow. However I imagine how things would go.

Great video, Scott. Have you considered challenges where you take Mons that are at most PU by Smogon analysis and seeing if they would be viable in Yellow or Crystal (depending on typing).

We NEED more of these gen 2 Pokémon in gen 1 runs

I’d love to see a gyarados with the water dragon type play through in yellow. Would be a machine to maybe even rival mewto

Kingdra. My favourite water type ever since seing it at the 8th gym in my first Crystal run, on my very first cartridge game when it came out when I was 7 in 2001.🤩