For this one it's probably a mix of it being cheesy and just the fact that I didn't play this one multiple times.

Lmao. I tried it in a few runs. I like the edit.

A solid choice.

Only a fool would teach it to Snorlax. He learns it at level 28 in gen 3 naturally!

Hope you enjoy!

Swampert...soonish. Probably September. I have the audio/video but it'll be a second before I get the full edit. For a new series, this one didn't do so hot for my viewers lol.

@@GymLeaderMatt1987 time to start sharing on my end... :) can't wait for Swampert!

Oh, it was a while ago. It was just hard to work on the gen 3 transition while having a newborn all those months.

I'd imagine the box art Pokemon are tons of people's favorites!

Talented to do that in their room!

Well anymore isn't relevant to when he got a mega. That was 10 years ago lol.

Gotta get the long explanations out at the start!

Good on him neglecting the Pikachu. It's pretty bad in Yellow tbh.

No need to wonder! Every two weeks I release a video on Sunday and if not I'll have a community post like I did for this one last week.

I study but that’s the extent these days. I practiced the Gen 1 run but x1 speed combined with the absurd amount of button presses turns me away from it. It’s very arthritis inducing to me.

@@GymLeaderMatt1987 Yeah, I've heard from people that do it that carpal tunnel is a real problem. Makes total sense to me. I enjoyed the run, hope you have a good day!

Doing great irl!

It's been a few months but thanks!

I’ve heard a few people say that but I don’t fully agree. The problem for me is that if you do that, Tate and Liza become the game’s ‘hardest’ battle where 99% of the time your solution is to just add in more training and/or use all of your candies on top of using HP dark/ghost every run. I’m down for making things challenging but forcing yourself to 1v2 Tate & Liza has no nuance or strategy to it. You get no reward or strategical satisfaction to it. It feels like bloat for the sake of bloat and some weird badge of honor, as if seeing Tropius survive 2 extra turns is even that much different than Marill dying on turn one.

@@GymLeaderMatt1987 I see the point, and I for sure don't have any experience solo-running the game. Maybe when not optimizing for steven and using some rare candies before them and then collecting more candies that are available could negate that. But I get your point. Looking forward to the next runs and seeing your development.

It’s a hard thing to balance. You never want the runs to be funneled into a strict mode that most runs have to follow. With Gen 1 it’s not allowing the Marowak pokedoll skip or double team TM, Gen 2 it’s banning the curse TM, and here it seems like Tate and Liza would force a strict ‘level up to elite 4 levels’ type of approach.

I'm being funny but it is the worst part of the game.

Thanks, maybe. Probably not lol.

Thanks!

We'd be golden if I had AI that could edit for me.

Nice. I've started a little higher than normal just because of how long it took to get everything else to work. I've probably been practicing runs since February!

Its a pretty good remake for sure.

Lmao, seems extreme. Just paint over it!

@@GymLeaderMatt1987 nah see if you tear it down you can also build the floorplan you want. Double whammy

I think Norman is overpowered in speedruns! We always see the best version so you'll just never see a fight with tons of resets but in every run I've tried so far, you have to go back to the drawing board for Norman every single time. It's rough! Yea, intimidate just automatically makes special attackers superior in the scope of solo runs. You can get one herb to stop one intimidate drop but when there's so many I'm not even sure it would help but its at least interesting to think about.

Milk type gym.

She's milk type.

Lmao, I highly doubt it with how these analytics have looked the last few months.

Thanks!

Half an hour at x3 speed isn't so bad I guess!

I’m not at the computer to see the time stamp but you mean in Winona’s gym? I think I tested the Mt Pyre and they just tell you to go away lol but you’d need a Pokémon in your party to not waste a huge chunk of time.

@@GymLeaderMatt1987I’m pretty certain about Winona’s gym, but I’m uncertain about Mt. Pyre. There are two different kinds of double battles: where there’s “one” trainer (like the Twins trainer class or Tate and Liza) or where there are two trainers. They function differently in battle (if it’s against two trainers you can eliminate an entire side and fight only one Pokémon at a time for the rest of the battle). I assumed the Mt. Pyre trainers are the latter (a pair) because they’re individual objects that come from two sides, like in Winona’s gym and the Plusle + Minun duo north of Slateport.

Thanks! I redid it about 3 times and when base ROM changes made the callback values different, I almost lost my mind and thought about no overlay lol.

@@GymLeaderMatt1987 that sounds frustrating! The result is great though. I’ve actually added a buffer in the pokedex seen/owned data of red/blue now so that as my pokedex size grows, i can tweak the buffer to make sure all the ram addresses after that point don’t change. I imagine Gen 3 has all kinds of additional complexities though

Yea it’s a completely different ballgame compared to Gen 1/2. It’s more modern in terms of reading the code but in terms of connecting to it for the purposes of the video, DMA and encryption make it a nightmare for someone who just wants to play Pokémon a few hours on a weekend lol.

Wally is a sickly little bench warmer for sure haha.

It's definitely pronounced like tropical, per official Pokemon Plays events. I think surf users are a dime a dozen. I like Tropius.

For sure. Flygon and Salamance are the highest speed Pokemon in the run. I guess some can ignore it but I ran into problems with Swampert so its already an exception to that rule lol.

@@GymLeaderMatt1987 Perfect example lol, swampert is base 60 speed, good growth rate and has reputation for a terrible late game matchup

Rival 2 and 3 are nightmares! Initial testing had me thinking I’d need to be like level 23-25 for it but I got it much lower with some tactics.

@@GymLeaderMatt1987 Oof yeah, I know rival 2 is a run killer for emerald speed runs with marshtomp but the better stats probably help some

I was expecting *BRAWLY, BROTHER!!!!* however it was a total missed opportunity in spite of me posting about it a long time ago

I’ll probably do a poll. The first two videos won’t have one but I was more focused on getting it done and it kind of slipped my mind. Brawly might be a little too early in the video, but alliteration is cool. Dewford, Wattson, or something similar comes to mind too!

World record uses female because they save like 40 frames in a x1 run in a game that's been ran for like 20 years at full optimization, which is the only way that would matter. On faster speeds, I waste 40 frames in the first 2 minutes, bumping into walls. For purposes of higher speed, made up rules, solo runs, it's insignificant. I do use the female in the next run because the rival teams swap up slightly and the female had an easier time in what was otherwise a nightmare fight. I'm just not a fan of just making Tate and Liza harder atm because it gets rid of any nuance and strategy. It's already a stacked fight in a forced double battle scenario. If you just give yourself fodder that dies instantly, you are pigeon-holed into either overlevleing, using rare candies, or using hidden power ghost/dark on every single run and I'd rather give it more flexibility rather than be like 'look at how challenging I made this game!' because you have to think of all the worse Pokemon that aren't Rayquaza, and even it would have had to level given a big handicap.

The American dream.

Also the 1996 bad movie lol.

@@GymLeaderMatt1987 Touche.