Fun fact, the only poison-type that can get poisoned in gen 3 is Dustox. The games are hard-coded to have poison- and steel-types be completely unable to get poisoned, but due to an oversight, you can evolve a poisoned Cascoon - which is mono-Bug - and the resulting Dustox will STAY poisoned despite Dustox being Bug/Poison. Once the poison is cured, whether it's through an item or by receiving a party heal such as speaking to your character's mom or using a Pokémon Center, the glitch is corrected and the Dustox can never be poisoned again. Edit: Dustox fainting will also fix the glitch, and that includes in-battle fainting as well as overworld damage from the poison status itself.
It happens with every type change. Acquiring a type with status immunities does not remove the statuses if you had them. Oddly it doesn't happen with ability changes. Paralyzing a Pokémon, then giving it Limber, will remove the paralysis at the end of the turn.
@@llSuperSnivyll Yes, meaning evolving an Eevee into a Flareon, for example, means it will stay burned if it wasn't in the first place. It's just that Dustox is the only case for poison-types - steel-types such as Forretress can also be poisoned this way, Dustox is the only poison-type that has this issue. There are other non-poison Pokémon that evolve into poison-types in later generations such as Galarian Slowpoke, but gen 3 is the only generation I'm aware of that has this oversight.
This also works for non-poison or steel-type pokemon Terastallizing into one that is poison or steel, still being poisoned and taking damage despite being immune.
On the twentieth day of December, Scott's Thoughts gave to me: A metal crab whose stats stay even A pseudo legend walled by Steven The egg tree with a garbage move pool A 'Bro "destined for greatness" Giovanni's aces finally winning The tapirs using hypnosis The 'King of emerald loafing A lively mid stage slashing The Johto trio roaming Surge's 'Chu with a competent trainer Classy Cat v Pig Monkey! A moonstone evolution The "Rhydon of gen three" A Pure Power powerhouse Wattson's ace in Hoenn 'Phan v Ursaring! A tiny turtle's bubble The fire starter digging A garden lizard's leech seed And those three weirdo mons punching
If Scott really has called Torchic "Chikorita" in past videos, it totally got past me. I guess I probably just looked at the picture of the little orange chicken and my brain was like, "OK, sure, if you say it's Chikorita then I guess that's Chikorita. Sounds right."
One thing I like about the Hoenn League (at least in R/S as well as OR/AS) is how the pseudo legendaries are used on enemy teams; the strongest Elite Four member uses Salamence while the champion uses Metagross. I think that's really cool and helps to cement them as truly powerful and resilient trainers , considering how long it would take to train a Bagon or Beldum to become powerful. It really makes me wish that the Johto League had given Karen a Tyranitar as her ace, especially because Lance already uses Dragonite (well, three of them, but you know what I mean). In any case, very well done with Metagross, though I wonder if it could've gotten away with using Take Down or Confusion against Wattson's Magneton instead of sacrificing a move slot for Rock Smash.
Yeah…whenever he inevitably teaches rest at the E4 I usually leave the video lol. Rest is how I used to beat the games as a kid. Surely there are better ways to win it 20+ years later?
@@haunter5271 Well, if you only have one Pokémon, and your one Pokémon is NOT a phenomenal sweeper? No, I don't think most Pokémon have a chance. Maybe those with Recover or another healing move, but other than that, the majority needs to rely on healing, unfortunately. The no items clause makes sure of that.
I have no idea. Jrose11 doesn’t rely on rest to much. But he doesn’t ompitmize like Scott does so IDK. It dose become really boring though. I like RBY challenges no broken Tm’s rule for this reason.
@@bettyunicorn6132 jrose also plays R/B, where the elite four is easier overall (bruno is much easier, lance gets stuck with agility against poison types) even though the game before is harder overall
Ok two things. 1. I have been enjoying your videos back when you had like 10+ subs and your videos just are fantastic. I love them so much 2. Because of you I've actually picked up playing emerald again and I forgot how much I love that game and the Pokemon in it so thank you for reminding me of how great emerald is. Hope you and your wife have a great holiday season and I can't wait for next year to see what's in store. Love you Scott and keep up the great work
Hey scott. your videos are my absolute favorite on youtube atm. I got severe adhd and it´s really hard for me to focus on specific tasks, but I could watch your videos all the time. I grew up playing pokemon ruby and your challenges are soo comforting for me too watch and I just wanted to say that I really appreciate them and they do more for me than your probably think
4:05 Gonna be honest here. While it's true that 2 is twice as much as 1... when your metagross has 45 hp, I don't think it really matters xDDDD I'm really happy of how well my favorite pseudo legendary performed in its home region. I was the first one among my friends to find Beldum's egg in Steven's house, and it became my signature mon in the 3rd gen among my group of friends, so I'm quite attached to the killer cybercrab.
Clear Body really does a lot more heavy lifting when you're doing a solo run from beginning to end. Fantastic ability. I always liked Metagross a lot because it felt so unique. Cool signature move, 2 base stats in the 130 range instead of 1 that other pseudo-legendaries typically have, genderless, so many quirks that make Metagross different to so much it could be compared to
This was sooo worth the wait!!! An S tier beast like Metagross is such a fitting end to the year especially because it is one of my favorite Pokemon ever!!!! I especially loved the final fight against Steven Stone! Love your content! Keep it up!!
Fun fact Scott, the Salamence line doesn't ever learn Dragon Dance by level up, it gets it by breeding in most Gens and TM/TR in Gen 8 & 9. That's why battle simulators for Competitive is much better vs using in-game pokemon, the time crunch is far less.
Great vid as always! I noticed you mentioned that the reason you werent able to KO in a single hit Glacia's Sealeo was because of the slow growth rate but I think it might be more related to steel moves dealing neutral damage to the water/ice type combination since water takes half damage from steel. Just something to consider! Edit: both levels and type combinations are in play here so yeah, you are right too!
Now this is what Salamence should've been! Much better movepool despite worse (but still elite) stats for solo running. I was honestly expecting a harder time because of its 70 base Speed combined with the Slow growth rate, but it appears that 70 is still more than enough.
For future runs with Tate/Liza, is Iron Defense actually the play? Since you have one shots on Xatu, Lunatone and Solrock, I think you could just one shot them every turn and then trap Claydol in a healing loop so it'll only get a single attack off. It could save the time of going back to relearn Iron Defense if it is consistent enough to avoid too many resets, and given you were able to sweep through the other three your first attempt I think it might be possible. Fun run as always, Metagross is a beast! I also wonder if keeping Metal Claw over Take Down might be the play when you get Secret Power? Type coverage and a chance to increase attack.
@@shadowtitanx3962 Since Salamence already has the speed, there is little difference between Meditate and Dragon Dance. And yes, you need to get hit. But I think you can deal with that
Dope run bro! I lost almost 20 mins on Flannery but otherwise our splits were so similar lol I was really looking forward to forward to this one! Thanks Scott 🤙
still not sure what the hell Metagross is supposed to be but it's always been one of the coolest Pokemon since release. Meteor Mash is one of the best move names ever. a few Pokemon I'm looking forward to seeing Emerald runs for: Claydol, Swellow, Lunatone & Solrock (vs video perhaps???), Sharpedo, Camerupt, Wailord, and the absolute misery of Volbeat and Illumise. Zangoose might be pretty interesting because it has a few nice advantages, like getting Swords Dance by level up super-early, and Slash not too long after, and 115 attack + 90 speed . it doesn't get Earthquake when it would like to, but although its special isn't great it has an insane special movepool. Zangoose's ability making it immune to being poisoned would come in handy allowing it to set up Swords Dance against Steven's Skarmory. I don't feel like a Zangoose vs Seviper would be competitive because Zangoose is min-maxed better, with Seviper's 100/100 attacking stats kind of a waste when it would like to have either better speed, HP, Defense, or Special Defense.
Great video! As someone else mentioned - teaching secret power instead of metal claw makes very little sense. Take down is useless when you have secret power, and metal claw has more effective power than secret power as well as a 10% chance to raise attack.
I fully get and understand why you don't use egg moves for the runs. But i do think a special episode with some pokemon that would undoubtedly do better with them like Mence would be fun to do and to watch.
I only remember bits and parts of these videos over the year. I mostly have it on while my cat Maple and I sleep. I've came to a few premieres, had some good times, and look forward to next year's projects.
Hey Scot! Love your stuff. Random but I was thinking for your overlay: What about a type matchup reminder on 1-1 battles? A 2x2 matrix could show the info, although it might be superfluous and convoluted. Just a thought.
I have a feature suggestion/request for your overlay: For the games with natures, could you change the font color of the stats affected to red/blue so we can still remember what the nature does later in the video?
I'm pretty sure you could cut over 10 minutes from this time. I don't think you needed to grind levels for Brawley or for Wattson, and you didn't need Iron Defense for the twins, you could just take out the non-claydoll Pokemon and save the Claydoll for last, in addition to the other many things you mentioned.
Wow last emerald run for 2 months! Scott if i may ask, what will you be working on in the meantime? Tryna finish the yellow runs? More crystal, both of those or something else entirety? Either way i look forward to finding out! Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Metagross was the first Psudolegendary added to gen 3 actually. And Salamence was added afterwards as a more traditional big boy cause they were worried people wouldn't like Metagross that much
Confusion will actually do more damage to the Magneton, as it will be 37 power, while Rock Smash will be 40 power. And because of the difference between Magneton's defense and special defense, Confusion will hit for more damage.
However, Metagross's Sp.Atk (especially with the +Atk nature chosen here, but otherwise this'd still be the case) is more lower than its Atk, than Magneton's Sp.Def is lower than its Def. So if anything, the difference between Rock Smash and Confusion should even be a little bit bigger in Rock Smash's advantage (though I have to admit I didn't run the calculations).
Wouldn’t you want a lonely nature since Metagross has a super high defense? Seems like there’s a lot of special attackers in this game to prey on its lower special defense stat
If a time ever comes where Emerald mons get re-ranked with multiple playthroughs I'm confident Metagross can be right up there with Medicham. Dont think it'll beat it, but it'll definitely be able to beat Armaldo.
Hi Scott, I don't really comment on videos much, but considering this is the end of the Emerald Season for this year, I thought I'd make a comment regarding solo running this game. Have you considered skipping Steven Stone? I appreciate that technically they are the highest level trainer, and being the champion of Ruby and Sapphire, it seems fitting to finish the run with them, but just from watching I think it would be more fun to end the game after the Elite 4. When I think about Yellow, there are lots of interesting puzzles to solve; because the toolkits are constrained and you have the badge boost glitch and mimic, so most fights come down to figuring out a puzzle and then executing that in the most efficient way. Crystal is mostly dominated by how you stack up against Red, and is definitely skewed in that direction, again because of the big level jump, but in that game the rest of the challenges are much easier because past Whitney, most of the gyms are fairly trivial, and especially on the second playthroughs you can solve your pokemons problems with Hidden Power. It does mean that runs are quite homogenized in that game but, in my opinion, thats not a bad thing when you get a first run to see the pokemon deal without Hidden Power and if the game didn't have Red there just wouldn't be enough challenge in the run. Gen 3, on the otherhand, is quite obviously just the hardest game so far, every gym is a tough challenge, especially Watson and Tate & Liza. Sydney is pretty weak on the elite 4, but most of the rest of them are challenges and Wallace is a pretty difficult champion, even if it seems strange to have 2 water specialised trainers, you can't just counter Wallace with an electric move easily and their pokemon are just incredibly bulky and synergistic. The curve ends at 58 at the Champion, which is a pretty decently high level, but to then have the jump to 78, it completely skews the game so you always have to think about Steven the whole playthrough; where you can't solve any of the games earlier challenges with Rare candys unless the pokemon is just so good against Steven that they become unnecessary to save to this point. It basically becomes thematically a little more like Gen 2 at this point, and I think the games would be much easier to run multiple times if you aimed for your final fight to be against Wallace, because I love your optimisation process and it feels like right now that just wouldn't be feasible in these Games with the current run ending at Steven, maybe it would still be hard but I think more doable. Alternatively, i could see a good idea being modding Steven Stone's team to their version from Ruby/Sapphire. The teams are very similar but then you wouldn't have such a massive level jump and have the entire run skewed around 1 trainer in an already pretty difficult game. I know you would probably be pretty reluctant to change this; but I'm thinking in the future if you continue wanting to go up the gens there are some games that have some pretty excessive post game content. While in Gen 2 it makes a lot of sense because without it the game would be without any real challenge; and it was always sort of meant to be an extension of the Kanto Games, i think from gen 3 onwards the post game would just make the games almost impossible to do multiple playthroughs with unless you want to be a total masochist with your time. I also think its more interesting having realistic options of using Rare candys in the mid game, like in Yellow as it just adds to your toolkit of ways to get past a problem. Anyway, I love your content and hope you continue having fun playing these games and solo running them.
Hey Scott I’ve been watching you since the beginning as a fan I think it would be cool for you to do runs where u have all the tms from the beginning and maybe u only can learn the move once or something like that idk seems interesting it would make runs like these faster because pseudo legends have great move sets but u have to wait to get the best moves
Seing how Steven was the wall for Salamence, quite better. The main problem, though, would be setting against Skarmory, but with Dragon Dance, Flamethrower shouldn't be needed, so Rest, Brick Break, Earthquake and Dragon Dance should take down Steven's team fairly easily. It would beat Metagross time. But again, this run has a few places where Scott made mistakes that cost time for Metagross, either by overtraining in the wrong place, or just combat or moveset mistakes. Salamence and Metagross are beasts whom their Slow growth rate BARELY holds back. A bit.
Against Wallace, couldn’t you Meteor Mash the Wailord (to neuter Water Spout and fish for an ATK boost) and then set up Iron Defense on it to neutralize the later Whiscash and Gyarados rather than try to Rest against Milotic?
I get the feeling that having Brick Break on your set during Steven was a bad choice. Between Earthquake and Meteor Mash, you cover pretty much everything he can do. Honestly, couldn't Brick Break be replaced with Meteor Mash when you learn it? What disadvantages would that bring?
I personally would've picked a nature that lowered speed since it's so much faster than everything else early-game, you'll be outsped by almost everything late-game anyway, and the increased special defense would be really helpful against Flannery, the one major trainer (aside from the rival) which may pose a serious threat.
It was still really powerful in Gen 2 (although not to the degree of Gen 1) and Gen 3 was still a good gen for psychic, but not as much as gen 2 (there were actually ghost pokemon with the right stats, and a lot more dark and steel types). After that, it truly begun the downfall of the strongest type of all times in pokemon, with the appearance of strong ghosts that can actually use their moves correctly, the move type split, and the powerful dark and steel types that kept appearing. That also marks the rise of the fighting type, as not only the type that once walled it hard fell from glory, but also Gamefreak kept giving it great moves, like mach punch, close combat, aura sphere, etc.
I love the focus on intimidation for clear body, completely not mentioning the bane of a Scott run in sand attack at the beginning.
Fun fact, the only poison-type that can get poisoned in gen 3 is Dustox. The games are hard-coded to have poison- and steel-types be completely unable to get poisoned, but due to an oversight, you can evolve a poisoned Cascoon - which is mono-Bug - and the resulting Dustox will STAY poisoned despite Dustox being Bug/Poison. Once the poison is cured, whether it's through an item or by receiving a party heal such as speaking to your character's mom or using a Pokémon Center, the glitch is corrected and the Dustox can never be poisoned again.
Edit: Dustox fainting will also fix the glitch, and that includes in-battle fainting as well as overworld damage from the poison status itself.
same situation as when ditto transforms after being burned or poisoned
I’ve experienced this myself in Gen 4 with a poisoned Riolu evolving into a Lucario and remaining poisoned.
It happens with every type change. Acquiring a type with status immunities does not remove the statuses if you had them.
Oddly it doesn't happen with ability changes. Paralyzing a Pokémon, then giving it Limber, will remove the paralysis at the end of the turn.
@@llSuperSnivyll Yes, meaning evolving an Eevee into a Flareon, for example, means it will stay burned if it wasn't in the first place. It's just that Dustox is the only case for poison-types - steel-types such as Forretress can also be poisoned this way, Dustox is the only poison-type that has this issue. There are other non-poison Pokémon that evolve into poison-types in later generations such as Galarian Slowpoke, but gen 3 is the only generation I'm aware of that has this oversight.
This also works for non-poison or steel-type pokemon Terastallizing into one that is poison or steel, still being poisoned and taking damage despite being immune.
On the twentieth day of December, Scott's Thoughts gave to me:
A metal crab whose stats stay even
A pseudo legend walled by Steven
The egg tree with a garbage move pool
A 'Bro "destined for greatness"
Giovanni's aces finally winning
The tapirs using hypnosis
The 'King of emerald loafing
A lively mid stage slashing
The Johto trio roaming
Surge's 'Chu with a competent trainer
Classy Cat v Pig Monkey!
A moonstone evolution
The "Rhydon of gen three"
A Pure Power powerhouse
Wattson's ace in Hoenn
'Phan v Ursaring!
A tiny turtle's bubble
The fire starter digging
A garden lizard's leech seed
And those three weirdo mons punching
Please keep this going I'm pretty sure everyone who reads it appreciates it
I appreciate this every time I see it. It'll be awesome to see again at the very end
It even follows the original tune...
Looking forward to this every single day!
I think I missed this the previous vid! _Not this time._
If Scott really has called Torchic "Chikorita" in past videos, it totally got past me. I guess I probably just looked at the picture of the little orange chicken and my brain was like, "OK, sure, if you say it's Chikorita then I guess that's Chikorita. Sounds right."
One thing I like about the Hoenn League (at least in R/S as well as OR/AS) is how the pseudo legendaries are used on enemy teams; the strongest Elite Four member uses Salamence while the champion uses Metagross. I think that's really cool and helps to cement them as truly powerful and resilient trainers , considering how long it would take to train a Bagon or Beldum to become powerful. It really makes me wish that the Johto League had given Karen a Tyranitar as her ace, especially because Lance already uses Dragonite (well, three of them, but you know what I mean). In any case, very well done with Metagross, though I wonder if it could've gotten away with using Take Down or Confusion against Wattson's Magneton instead of sacrificing a move slot for Rock Smash.
Honestly game freak not giving Karen a tyranitar and instead giving her a freaking vileploom makes me so sad
@@mattiamerlo2688 It should have been on her team, yeah. It would have given fighting moves a better niche in a playthrough, too.
Rollout might be the play instead of brute forcing with Take Down and Confusion for Magneton. Plus, Rollout will be helpful against Flannery.
too much water? scott uttering the forbidden phrase and sounding like IGN over here
One thing about Scott is hes gonna find a way to squeeze return and rest in just about every Pokémon's moveset 🤣
you could even say that he keeps returning to them
Yeah…whenever he inevitably teaches rest at the E4 I usually leave the video lol.
Rest is how I used to beat the games as a kid. Surely there are better ways to win it 20+ years later?
@@haunter5271 Well, if you only have one Pokémon, and your one Pokémon is NOT a phenomenal sweeper? No, I don't think most Pokémon have a chance. Maybe those with Recover or another healing move, but other than that, the majority needs to rely on healing, unfortunately. The no items clause makes sure of that.
I have no idea. Jrose11 doesn’t rely on rest to much. But he doesn’t ompitmize like Scott does so IDK. It dose become really boring though. I like RBY challenges no broken Tm’s rule for this reason.
@@bettyunicorn6132 jrose also plays R/B, where the elite four is easier overall (bruno is much easier, lance gets stuck with agility against poison types) even though the game before is harder overall
Thank god for that Hidden Power Grass, no idea how the run could have ever succeeded without it
I absolutely love the emerald credits theme. It was a nice touch for the outro to this video.
Ok two things.
1. I have been enjoying your videos back when you had like 10+ subs and your videos just are fantastic. I love them so much
2. Because of you I've actually picked up playing emerald again and I forgot how much I love that game and the Pokemon in it so thank you for reminding me of how great emerald is.
Hope you and your wife have a great holiday season and I can't wait for next year to see what's in store. Love you Scott and keep up the great work
Great job on all the content this month Scott. I’ve really enjoyed the emerald content. Keep it up!
Why are this series so addicting. I like that you are doing other generations
Hey scott. your videos are my absolute favorite on youtube atm. I got severe adhd and it´s really hard for me to focus on specific tasks, but I could watch your videos all the time. I grew up playing pokemon ruby and your challenges are soo comforting for me too watch and I just wanted to say that I really appreciate them and they do more for me than your probably think
4:05 Gonna be honest here. While it's true that 2 is twice as much as 1... when your metagross has 45 hp, I don't think it really matters xDDDD
I'm really happy of how well my favorite pseudo legendary performed in its home region. I was the first one among my friends to find Beldum's egg in Steven's house, and it became my signature mon in the 3rd gen among my group of friends, so I'm quite attached to the killer cybercrab.
Clear Body really does a lot more heavy lifting when you're doing a solo run from beginning to end. Fantastic ability.
I always liked Metagross a lot because it felt so unique. Cool signature move, 2 base stats in the 130 range instead of 1 that other pseudo-legendaries typically have, genderless, so many quirks that make Metagross different to so much it could be compared to
This was sooo worth the wait!!! An S tier beast like Metagross is such a fitting end to the year especially because it is one of my favorite Pokemon ever!!!! I especially loved the final fight against Steven Stone! Love your content! Keep it up!!
I always found weird Wattson is the one that alllows Rock Smash to be used and Brawly allows flash.
Now that you mention it, it really is weird...
Also weird that it is Koga who enabled Surf, not Misty. I don't think a gym leader's specialty has ever lined up with their HM except by accident.
@@RoninCatholic Now that you mentioned it there is also Chuck giving acess to Fly not Falkner.
17:17 ummm thats a Golbat but your software shows it as a Crobat ? wonder why..??
I love how with this run, he put the pedal to the “metal.”
Fun fact Scott, the Salamence line doesn't ever learn Dragon Dance by level up, it gets it by breeding in most Gens and TM/TR in Gen 8 & 9. That's why battle simulators for Competitive is much better vs using in-game pokemon, the time crunch is far less.
What a way to end the year, with my favorite Pokemon in all of Gen 3. Thanks for all of these amazing videos Scott!
"I'll see you in February"
AH!!
"For my next Emerald playthrough"
Oh thank heavens...
Will miss these daily releases when they're gone! Thank you, Scott, for all your hard work.
man i have so much videos from you to catch up its so nice that youre providing so much content keep up the good work and merry christmas
That recap of this previous year at the end of the video was so lovely 😊😊
Great vid as always! I noticed you mentioned that the reason you werent able to KO in a single hit Glacia's Sealeo was because of the slow growth rate but I think it might be more related to steel moves dealing neutral damage to the water/ice type combination since water takes half damage from steel. Just something to consider!
Edit: both levels and type combinations are in play here so yeah, you are right too!
These daily December videos are truly the highlight of each day for me
Now this is what Salamence should've been! Much better movepool despite worse (but still elite) stats for solo running. I was honestly expecting a harder time because of its 70 base Speed combined with the Slow growth rate, but it appears that 70 is still more than enough.
Is it really optimal to forget Metal Claw for second Normal Type Move? I feel like keeping a physical STAB move in Metal Claw might be the better play
Great to see you getting more comfortable with gen 3, keep up the great work in 2024!
For future runs with Tate/Liza, is Iron Defense actually the play? Since you have one shots on Xatu, Lunatone and Solrock, I think you could just one shot them every turn and then trap Claydol in a healing loop so it'll only get a single attack off. It could save the time of going back to relearn Iron Defense if it is consistent enough to avoid too many resets, and given you were able to sweep through the other three your first attempt I think it might be possible. Fun run as always, Metagross is a beast! I also wonder if keeping Metal Claw over Take Down might be the play when you get Secret Power? Type coverage and a chance to increase attack.
Salamence gets rage as set-up move. That's basically dragon dance
Well. More like Meditate, but requires you to get hit.
@@shadowtitanx3962 Since Salamence already has the speed, there is little difference between Meditate and Dragon Dance. And yes, you need to get hit. But I think you can deal with that
Dope run bro! I lost almost 20 mins on Flannery but otherwise our splits were so similar lol I was really looking forward to forward to this one! Thanks Scott 🤙
More like Petalbonk Woods amirite?
Love the video can't wait for the rest of the month!
The camerupt waking up numel in the flannery fight opening is hilarious lol
Thanks for all the emerald love this year Scott 😊
You're incredible Scott!
Thanks for everything.
I have been looking forward to this all year!!
still not sure what the hell Metagross is supposed to be but it's always been one of the coolest Pokemon since release. Meteor Mash is one of the best move names ever.
a few Pokemon I'm looking forward to seeing Emerald runs for: Claydol, Swellow, Lunatone & Solrock (vs video perhaps???), Sharpedo, Camerupt, Wailord, and the absolute misery of Volbeat and Illumise. Zangoose might be pretty interesting because it has a few nice advantages, like getting Swords Dance by level up super-early, and Slash not too long after, and 115 attack + 90 speed . it doesn't get Earthquake when it would like to, but although its special isn't great it has an insane special movepool. Zangoose's ability making it immune to being poisoned would come in handy allowing it to set up Swords Dance against Steven's Skarmory. I don't feel like a Zangoose vs Seviper would be competitive because Zangoose is min-maxed better, with Seviper's 100/100 attacking stats kind of a waste when it would like to have either better speed, HP, Defense, or Special Defense.
Metragross vs Koga in Kanto would be funny.
Great video! As someone else mentioned - teaching secret power instead of metal claw makes very little sense. Take down is useless when you have secret power, and metal claw has more effective power than secret power as well as a 10% chance to raise attack.
Tochikorita is my favorite Grass/Fire starter.
I fully get and understand why you don't use egg moves for the runs. But i do think a special episode with some pokemon that would undoubtedly do better with them like Mence would be fun to do and to watch.
I only remember bits and parts of these videos over the year. I mostly have it on while my cat Maple and I sleep. I've came to a few premieres, had some good times, and look forward to next year's projects.
@Scott’sThoughts I’d love to see you do an Ocarina of Time play through or a Zelda of any kind.
I don't know why but the way you said balls at the department store section made me laugh
Hey Scot! Love your stuff. Random but I was thinking for your overlay: What about a type matchup reminder on 1-1 battles? A 2x2 matrix could show the info, although it might be superfluous and convoluted. Just a thought.
It’s super funny that the over basically functions to remind Scott of effective power, IE venomoth, and it still always falls apart with Steven’s team
You probably would have been best with a defense lowering nature considering the fantastic resistances steel pokemon get as a whole
Never cared for gen three but this is one of my favorite Pokémon so I HAD to tune in!!!
11:10 Flannery saw you use that Super Potion to heal 2 health and was like, 'Not today!'
I have a feature suggestion/request for your overlay: For the games with natures, could you change the font color of the stats affected to red/blue so we can still remember what the nature does later in the video?
I'm pretty sure you could cut over 10 minutes from this time. I don't think you needed to grind levels for Brawley or for Wattson, and you didn't need Iron Defense for the twins, you could just take out the non-claydoll Pokemon and save the Claydoll for last, in addition to the other many things you mentioned.
A video being less than 30 minutes can mean only one thing, METAGROSS SOLOS
Metagross will always be my favorite pseudo, just cause it's the coolest.
Looking forward to February too! Good way to end the year!
Amazing pokemon and run 😎.
Hope you enjoy the holidays with your new family! I know I'm 3 months late but congratz on the marriage! 🥳
Thank you so much 😁
Wow last emerald run for 2 months! Scott if i may ask, what will you be working on in the meantime? Tryna finish the yellow runs? More crystal, both of those or something else entirety? Either way i look forward to finding out! Merry Christmas to you and yours!
When you hit the passing trainer on the gondola I was so hype
Metagross was the first Psudolegendary added to gen 3 actually. And Salamence was added afterwards as a more traditional big boy cause they were worried people wouldn't like Metagross that much
What do you mean? You can catch bagon and get a salamence before you can get a beldum in gen 3.
@@GrimmReaperz95he meant programmed into the game
glad to see at least one of the pseudos getting a great result!
Hi scott. Love ur videos! Are you thinking Off using starmie in one of your emersld playtroughs?
Eventually, not in the near term though.
Confusion will actually do more damage to the Magneton, as it will be 37 power, while Rock Smash will be 40 power. And because of the difference between Magneton's defense and special defense, Confusion will hit for more damage.
However, Metagross's Sp.Atk (especially with the +Atk nature chosen here, but otherwise this'd still be the case) is more lower than its Atk, than Magneton's Sp.Def is lower than its Def. So if anything, the difference between Rock Smash and Confusion should even be a little bit bigger in Rock Smash's advantage (though I have to admit I didn't run the calculations).
Wouldn’t you want a lonely nature since Metagross has a super high defense? Seems like there’s a lot of special attackers in this game to prey on its lower special defense stat
In hindsight, Adamant or Jolly would have worked better since he barely used special moves.
He also got knocked out by multiple earthquakes many times in this run. I guess it could be remedied by iron defense though.
Which Pokémon do you think could beat Emerald without using HMs or TMs?
If a time ever comes where Emerald mons get re-ranked with multiple playthroughs I'm confident Metagross can be right up there with Medicham. Dont think it'll beat it, but it'll definitely be able to beat Armaldo.
Hi Scott,
I don't really comment on videos much, but considering this is the end of the Emerald Season for this year, I thought I'd make a comment regarding solo running this game. Have you considered skipping Steven Stone? I appreciate that technically they are the highest level trainer, and being the champion of Ruby and Sapphire, it seems fitting to finish the run with them, but just from watching I think it would be more fun to end the game after the Elite 4.
When I think about Yellow, there are lots of interesting puzzles to solve; because the toolkits are constrained and you have the badge boost glitch and mimic, so most fights come down to figuring out a puzzle and then executing that in the most efficient way. Crystal is mostly dominated by how you stack up against Red, and is definitely skewed in that direction, again because of the big level jump, but in that game the rest of the challenges are much easier because past Whitney, most of the gyms are fairly trivial, and especially on the second playthroughs you can solve your pokemons problems with Hidden Power. It does mean that runs are quite homogenized in that game but, in my opinion, thats not a bad thing when you get a first run to see the pokemon deal without Hidden Power and if the game didn't have Red there just wouldn't be enough challenge in the run.
Gen 3, on the otherhand, is quite obviously just the hardest game so far, every gym is a tough challenge, especially Watson and Tate & Liza. Sydney is pretty weak on the elite 4, but most of the rest of them are challenges and Wallace is a pretty difficult champion, even if it seems strange to have 2 water specialised trainers, you can't just counter Wallace with an electric move easily and their pokemon are just incredibly bulky and synergistic. The curve ends at 58 at the Champion, which is a pretty decently high level, but to then have the jump to 78, it completely skews the game so you always have to think about Steven the whole playthrough; where you can't solve any of the games earlier challenges with Rare candys unless the pokemon is just so good against Steven that they become unnecessary to save to this point. It basically becomes thematically a little more like Gen 2 at this point, and I think the games would be much easier to run multiple times if you aimed for your final fight to be against Wallace, because I love your optimisation process and it feels like right now that just wouldn't be feasible in these Games with the current run ending at Steven, maybe it would still be hard but I think more doable.
Alternatively, i could see a good idea being modding Steven Stone's team to their version from Ruby/Sapphire. The teams are very similar but then you wouldn't have such a massive level jump and have the entire run skewed around 1 trainer in an already pretty difficult game.
I know you would probably be pretty reluctant to change this; but I'm thinking in the future if you continue wanting to go up the gens there are some games that have some pretty excessive post game content. While in Gen 2 it makes a lot of sense because without it the game would be without any real challenge; and it was always sort of meant to be an extension of the Kanto Games, i think from gen 3 onwards the post game would just make the games almost impossible to do multiple playthroughs with unless you want to be a total masochist with your time. I also think its more interesting having realistic options of using Rare candys in the mid game, like in Yellow as it just adds to your toolkit of ways to get past a problem.
Anyway, I love your content and hope you continue having fun playing these games and solo running them.
Beldum would have been a fun start xD
Petition to put Medicham in its own S+ tier.
Bro that’s crazy! I did this same run a few days ago and lost to Maxie for the exact same reason… just to the mightyena not the bat
Hey Scott I’ve been watching you since the beginning as a fan I think it would be cool for you to do runs where u have all the tms from the beginning and maybe u only can learn the move once or something like that idk seems interesting it would make runs like these faster because pseudo legends have great move sets but u have to wait to get the best moves
That Stephen fight was a massacre
Maybe you should do a "what if" DDmance run, like when you did gen 1 with elemental punch Abra. Though I know emerald is much longer...
But what if Salamence has the Egg Move of Dragon Dance? How much better will it perform?
Seing how Steven was the wall for Salamence, quite better. The main problem, though, would be setting against Skarmory, but with Dragon Dance, Flamethrower shouldn't be needed, so Rest, Brick Break, Earthquake and Dragon Dance should take down Steven's team fairly easily. It would beat Metagross time. But again, this run has a few places where Scott made mistakes that cost time for Metagross, either by overtraining in the wrong place, or just combat or moveset mistakes.
Salamence and Metagross are beasts whom their Slow growth rate BARELY holds back. A bit.
So i believe that the Legendary Birbs in Yellow are going to be the grand finale of Dailycember, soo…
Platinum Butterfree as the Christmas special?
At last! I finaly finished this after the 6th try. Just in time for Hariama to take its place in the ranking back.
Against Wallace, couldn’t you Meteor Mash the Wailord (to neuter Water Spout and fish for an ATK boost) and then set up Iron Defense on it to neutralize the later Whiscash and Gyarados rather than try to Rest against Milotic?
The back sprite is so tiny and cute lol
HP grass is a weird choice. Let's see how this goes
You mention using Meteor Mash for super effective damage against Glacia, so I guess Steel is super against Ice? I wonder why....
Metagross was a complete beast
The true boss of this video:
*Navigating That House*
You don't have to defeat Winona to get access to Lilycove City. That's only in ORAS.
Some gen3 solo runs I hope to see in 2024 Walrien,Zangoose, and Kecleon
Did Flannery expect you to switch pokémon or something?
I get the feeling that having Brick Break on your set during Steven was a bad choice. Between Earthquake and Meteor Mash, you cover pretty much everything he can do. Honestly, couldn't Brick Break be replaced with Meteor Mash when you learn it? What disadvantages would that bring?
Missing. I guess once the second runs start, he'll do riskier strats as he does in gen 1
Skarmory is a tough cookie to take down, and Meteor Mash wouldn't be enough. Psychic would be a good alternative, though.
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Max PP Meteor Mashes and the chance to steamroll 20% of the time is a lot better than it looks.
@@shadowtitanx3962 it still eats time and you need to keep a few of then for Armaldo and Cradily.
Fun fact Metagross is the only Pseudo-Legendary Pokémon that cannot learn a Dragon type move at all
Tera Blast Dragon, but that's not a great Tera to utilize.
Metagross looks like it has a mustache lol
I personally would've picked a nature that lowered speed since it's so much faster than everything else early-game, you'll be outsped by almost everything late-game anyway, and the increased special defense would be really helpful against Flannery, the one major trainer (aside from the rival) which may pose a serious threat.
When will you start with the 4th Generation? :)
Can u do with Arbok in Emerald ? im from Brazil and i love your videos...
6:38 I still hate that lady in green. She can reach you past the bump on the ground
Sludge Bomb actually has good neutral damage.
I can't wait until he does gen 4 runs
Fun fact: This thing has the best shiny. It’s better than all the others.
23:16 You played Medicham's cry twice.
Metagross is my favorite psudo and it's not even close
How do you choose the pokemons nature in the randomizer program please
I don't, I do this with my own special software. Unfortunately, it isn't available for the public yet.
@@ScottsThoughtsPokemonoh ok no worries. appreciate the reply Scott thank you.
I'm always really depressed this thing is only available in the post game...
Why not play throughs here and only on gen 1?
Do you think Psychich was really that broken after Gen 1?
It was still really powerful in Gen 2 (although not to the degree of Gen 1) and Gen 3 was still a good gen for psychic, but not as much as gen 2 (there were actually ghost pokemon with the right stats, and a lot more dark and steel types). After that, it truly begun the downfall of the strongest type of all times in pokemon, with the appearance of strong ghosts that can actually use their moves correctly, the move type split, and the powerful dark and steel types that kept appearing. That also marks the rise of the fighting type, as not only the type that once walled it hard fell from glory, but also Gamefreak kept giving it great moves, like mach punch, close combat, aura sphere, etc.