i've never really used x items outside of challenge runs (like the youngster joey challenge) but i'm glad they seem to have some use lmao anyway, here's hoping the almighty algorithm promotes your stuff again! i came across your channel just a few days ago and i think the stuff you put out is great
thanks! I truly have zero understanding of the algorithm, which in a way is nice, since I imagine that's the kind of knowledge that drives people insane over time
@@tortoisecity i think if anyone understood the algorithm youtube would be worse off because then you'd have all those bad channels making content designed to be recommended to everyone and the recommended feature would be rendered completely fucking useless. kind of like how google search nowadays is dominated by marketing teams designing their pages to be always the first which sucks since it makes search engines progressively more useless
Ok but what ARE X items? I always thought they were something like a baby bottle and you bottle feed your Pokémon, but closer inspection shows they're like pill containers with round pills inside of them. Amazing video, as always
I always thought as a child that boosting by 1 stage meant 1 star point, so I thought they were useless as I was like well I already have 200 attack so why bother TTD!
@@tortoisecity yeah, rby through rse were all infamous at not describing the intricate game mechanics, even though it's poor game design, the idea behind the game carried it so well that my 7 years old brain basically brute forced learning the mechanisms and how things worked, wasn't till years later some things I learned by being told or reading, such as burn halving attack, para quartering speed, aforementioned vitamins. How protein etc worked, EVZs and IVs and so much more however in a way the lack of information gave the game a mythical value to it, playground rumours were a fun way to try out things. It added to the fun. It doesn't however give LameFreak a pass on skipping out on vital mechanics that the player requires to win, such as in the frontier. I have such vivid memories from when i was about 6 throwing a pokeball at brock's onix only for it to bounce off. Of lanevder tower. I used to ride the bike quickly into the pokecentre or right through because the music used to scare me back then. What a game. Wouldn't trade those experiences for the world. (blog post over)
i've never really used x items outside of challenge runs (like the youngster joey challenge) but i'm glad they seem to have some use lmao
anyway, here's hoping the almighty algorithm promotes your stuff again! i came across your channel just a few days ago and i think the stuff you put out is great
thanks! I truly have zero understanding of the algorithm, which in a way is nice, since I imagine that's the kind of knowledge that drives people insane over time
@@tortoisecity i think if anyone understood the algorithm youtube would be worse off because then you'd have all those bad channels making content designed to be recommended to everyone and the recommended feature would be rendered completely fucking useless. kind of like how google search nowadays is dominated by marketing teams designing their pages to be always the first which sucks since it makes search engines progressively more useless
The X in Excadrill stands for "I'm my own X Attack"
that's exactly correct (excadrill is just so damn strong)
Slugma balls
Ok but what ARE X items? I always thought they were something like a baby bottle and you bottle feed your Pokémon, but closer inspection shows they're like pill containers with round pills inside of them.
Amazing video, as always
They're vitamins.
They're like a suppliment or vitamin capsule or bottle lol
thanks! and I find so many of pokemon's item sprites to be quite odd looking, not inherently clear what they're meant to be imitating
They are more like energy capsules, since vitamins already exist, which boost a Pokémon's EV score instead (10 points a piece, I think).
The answer is always drugs. (Note: The answer is rarely drugs)
Gen 1 X-Accuracy....totally busted
You mean how it made all moves never miss? It's not _that_ broken.
horn drill and fissure all day long
I always thought as a child that boosting by 1 stage meant 1 star point, so I thought they were useless as I was like well I already have 200 attack so why bother
TTD!
lmao honestly fair most of the time they just say "increases attack" or smth like that, hard to intuit that it's a 50% boost for one
@@tortoisecity yeah, rby through rse were all infamous at not describing the intricate game mechanics, even though it's poor game design, the idea behind the game carried it so well that my 7 years old brain basically brute forced learning the mechanisms and how things worked, wasn't till years later some things I learned by being told or reading, such as burn halving attack, para quartering speed, aforementioned vitamins. How protein etc worked, EVZs and IVs and so much more however in a way the lack of information gave the game a mythical value to it, playground rumours were a fun way to try out things. It added to the fun.
It doesn't however give LameFreak a pass on skipping out on vital mechanics that the player requires to win, such as in the frontier.
I have such vivid memories from when i was about 6 throwing a pokeball at brock's onix only for it to bounce off. Of lanevder tower. I used to ride the bike quickly into the pokecentre or right through because the music used to scare me back then.
What a game. Wouldn't trade those experiences for the world. (blog post over)
lmao would you believe I have an entire lengthy video on the subject of gamefreak not explaining things well, so I would tend to agree with you there
I don't like speedruns or Nuzlockes at all, but it's interesting to watch videos on it.
speedruns are super interesting, as someone who didn't do any for a long time while watching them a lot
speedruns are painful to play through and nuzlockes take forever. watching is tons of fun. i personally like nuzlockes but idk why
fair enough, there's lots of things I watch others do that I have no desire to do myself
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