LIVE! Absol Re-ranking - Pokemon Emerald
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- First playthrough: • Absol Only - Pokemon E...
Rules:
1. Only my starter in battle
2. No items in battle, except held items
3. No glitches, exploits, or save states
4. No movepool evasion-boosting moves before level 100*
Rule details:
-- I make no attempt to have the exact same rule details between generations.
-- I am allowed to manipulate my starter
-- I play the game at 4x game speed
-- For fair comparisons my Pokemon have perfect (or near perfect) DVs / IVs
-- I am allowed to catch HM users - I can use all field moves
-- Evasion boosting is allowed if the move is not obtained from the Pokemon’s movepool. For example, using Mimic or Mirror Move to boost evasion is allowed.
-- Surge's trash-can-puzzle is automatically solved
-- The bike is allowed in gen1 & 4, banned in gen2, and allowed only to bypass terrain in gen3
-- Saving between league members is allowed
-- I can pause the game and timer to take breaks
-- Items obtained with the ability Pickup can only be used if the starter obtained them
-- The footage is sped up & slowed down to match the pace of my narration
These Rule details apply only to generation 1:
-- All battle-mechanic glitches are allowed (glitches that occur outside of battle are banned)
-- In generation 1, I'm allowed to skip Marowak with the Poke Doll
If you didn’t read these rules and left a comment. Thanks for helping with the algorithm.
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If you're new around here, Venomoth is a Psychic/Flying type, you can't change my mind.
Hey Scott, what you were talking about around 1:10:00 regarding your voice and the impact it has on you really resonated with me. For the last 2 and a half years I've been struggling with long covid and the impact of brain damage on my life, which dramatically cuts into my energy budget. Every little choice, from doing groceries, having conversations, doing the dishes, cleaning up, all of that is something which is weighed against the energy budget I have for the day, for the week even. I find it really hard to communicate to those who don't experience these things the same way I do just the sheer impact it has on my life. I hope you know you're not alone in these situations, and good going for all the steps you've taken in bettering your ability to deal with it. Have been loving your videos for a few years now, much love
I'm sorry to hear about the brain damage and long covid, that sounds really rough. It's nice to find someone else that understands the idea of having to budget a resource that most people never even need to think about. I hoping that things improve for both of us!
Omg we got a hand reveal
There's been a few hand reveals atp 😅
But we understand more about the hand each time
I'm so glad the tip I shared about the skippable trainers in Winona's gym has been helpful. Love that I can help my favorite RUclipsr optimize these runs just a bit more!
It was very helpful!
23:13 “% of your DVs lost” especially in HP, is not a good way to think about the stat decrease from choosing Hidden Power in Gen 2.
DVs make up only a small portion of your actual stats, even for Pokémon with very low base stats and very little stat XP. It’s an even smaller portion for HP specifically, which has a bonus growth of 1 per level on top of base stats, DVs, and stat XP.
The difference between 0 and 15 in a DV is .3 points per level.
Even at a low base 50 HP, at level 10, 0 DVs yields 30 HP plus some for stat XP, whereas 15 DVs yields 33 HP plus some for stat XP. It’s around, or less than, 10%. This roughly holds at higher levels. (At level 50, at the vitamin limit for stat XP, it’s 130 vs 145, for a Pokémon with a low base 50 HP, like a first stage ‘mon.)
TL;DR: You should definitely stop caring as much about how Hidden Power affects your DVs in Crystal. (Unless you have good reason to believe that up to 10% more HP and 5% more ATK and/or DEF (at most) would solve more hard fights than the right type coverage on Hidden Power.)
The thing is, in the end game vs red that swing in HP can be a big issue, requiring several levels to survive some likely scenarios.
I think he's done a pretty good job balancing the cost and benefit on stream and will continue to get better. You can also see the utilization of Brave natures in gen 3 as a similar thing. Extra bulk but especially speed typically only matters when a specific threshold is crossed, you either survive the attacks or you don't. With HP though there are so many factors that the lower it gets the more resets you'll end up with on average due to bad luck or narrow win conditions.
15-30 HP can be the difference between surviving a high roll or dying to a low roll.
@@UnknownVir That's exactly right. That 3hp doesn't sound like a lot, but it can be the difference in a key damage range down the line. At level 60, that's now 18 HP which could be the difference between surviving every damage range of an ability instead of only half of the damage ranges.
@@ZerglingOne1it would be more like 9 hp because he wouldn't be using 0 Dv's anyway
Absol is my favorite pokemon! I’m so glad you’re re doing it
When Scott enters Drake's room and you go "Oh, Sussy Baka!", then you know you've watched too much Too Many Types :).
As a fellow introvert/INTJ with a profession requiring nonstop vocal communication, I can somewhat relate to your struggles with your voice. By the time my workday ends, I am mentally and emotionally drained from the sheer daily volume of vocal output. My vocal cords consistently feel frayed, for lack of a better word.
I feel like I also recall you mentioning being prescribed amphetamines. I’m not sure if you stopped taking those or not, but they seem to exacerbate the symptoms for me.
I genuinely hope your voice-related struggles improve! Cheers for all the much beloved content!
I have an overlay question: would it be practical to modify the move tutor portion of the overlay to omit the Battle Frontier exclusive tutors? You never use them anyway (for good reason), so I feel like including them not only bloats space (this is a bit of a weaker argument because the moves have plenty of space, but if it isn't relevant, I don't think it needs to be included), but also potentially raises instinctive questions of "why aren't you using x move?" That's just me anyway, and if it's more trouble than it's worth to omit them, then it's not worth it.
Absol may be pretty powerful, but he's no match for the Great Orange Churro!
Glad to see you taking advantage of Teleport more. This gen, with it’s nested loops of backtracking, is basically designed for clever teleport routing. I know you often don’t have access to the move, but when you do, there’s a LOT of walking you can avoid, beyond just obvious shortcuts.
Let’s go my lovable Dark Blade. Man I love Absols design but you get it so late in a normal play through I almost never used it. Glad to see it doing so well.
Your comments about Platinum Mapper file, is that work still ongoing somewhere? After doing my own Emerald overlay for casual play through was hoping to do one for Platinum but um ye, memory address issues on mapper load :)
I’m 20, so technically part of the gen 5 era. I started with Emerald when I was 9 though. I basically soloed the game with the Sceptile line. By the time I was able to beat the elite for I think it was about level 74. The rest of my team was only in the mid forties. Really enjoy the Emerald videos. Can’t wait for you to improve with it even more.
I can’t wait to get better at Emerald. It’s really a great game. I didn’t really appreciate it fully until this year.
Wow, that comment about not watching ya 'cuz you sound like a different person is so... hurtful and disjointed from reality. Seriously, I think anyone who ever worked at a hotline can relate. "Yeah, I sound robotic and monotonne, it's not because I don't want to help, it's becasue I was yammering non stop for the last 7 hours"
Churrocam is amazingly distracting, your voice talking about the game and orange cat just laying around slow blinking biscuit making is a dream combo.
Cats are cute. And as a programmer, definitely love the behind the scene coding stuff!
Alot of Pokemon speedruns have actually allowed autofire in the rules since runners were developing RSI
I didn’t know that. Interesting
@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon I can't remember which games allow it, but I remember some runners talking about it since the amount of dialogue you have to mash through over hundreds of runs just gets brutal
Starting this a week later, when Medicham is being streamed, is a curious coincidence :)
Thanks for sharing about your troubles. It can't be easy being vulnerable in front of an audience of thousands, as you're always in the spotlight as a presenter.
I haven't been through the voice troubles you have, but I can relate from a perspective that you have some experience with your RSI. I got RSIs, carpal tunnel syndrome, in both wrists. Your word budget was like my restrictions I had. I worked in a factory, and by the time I got home I wasn't able to do a lot of what I wanted to. I couldn't pursue most of my hobbies, like video games, home improvement, playing music,, or even really hold my phone up at times. I enjoy alcohol for its flavor but had to cut out alcohol and sugar or I would have extra inflammation the next day. I was unable to give my wife physical affection and often basic chores were difficult like dishes or cleaning, and anything I did do despite discomfort and numbness and dropping things worked against my ability to do my job or other parts of life the next day. Luckily my injury had a surgical intervention, so I am better now, aside from a little bit of weakness and lost dexterity.
Please continue to take care of yourself. I really hope that you can continue on a general upward trend, even with the recent stressful setbacks.
Also on a lighter note, AI scott voiceover when??? 😂
I really like your monotone voice. I remember it from older videos and I find it soothing. I wish you used it more.
2:31:10 Exactly! There’s a whole formula it plugs in the name too, it’s really interesting. You would think being able to name your rival would change their nature but nope, Terry.
In the description, you put Stantler in Gold playthrough instead of Absol's first playthrough.
Absol is the GOAT! I remember the first time I saw it when I played pokemon mystery dungeon blue rescue team because its part of the story.
Welp, my night at work is about to be so much better. Absol gameplay!! 💜
I’m okay with the new colors but the order of them throws me off. On the enemy team’s Pokémon, Speed is the last stat listed but on Scott’s team it is at the top😵💫
For the bonk counter... would it be easier to monitor audio code and increment when it plays the sound effect? We love the bonk counter
Monitoring audio has been really inconsistent for us. There have been several projects that it’s been apart of and it always falls short. It’ll be best long term to just add a software function to the game to increment a counter so that it’s precise.
No hiker, sadly. Why is it called Gonda when in Italian a gondola is a boat? 🤔🤔
Absol horn works as a scythe? I wonder this because pokedex entries don't mention this but if you see the anime mainly cutting attacks are done with the horn like Razor Wind + he learns a lot of attacks that would be boosted by Sharpness like Night Slash, Psycho Cut, Slash, X Scissor, etc.
Also when it Mega Evolves it changes to a halbert form.
Scott, hope your voice gets better. Its good to hear it.
This new tech is so sweet, those robot hands look almost real!
1:29:44: Churro is not centered on the thumbnail thing? How could you :)?
Absol is one of the best pokemon. aside from Eevee of course..
also i totally get the mental budgeting thing too. i dont experience it as drastically as you but im consciously aware of the concept and its very real..
I haven't seen you do it in a video yet, but there is a way to skip the two trainers in flanery's team. Instead of walking between them, you can use the tile above them to get passed. Love that content!
Are you sure? I didn’t think there was a tile above them. I’ll have to look into it more apparently.
@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon I just double checked! Using the warp pad above those two trainers allows zero battles in Flanery's gym
57:39 You're welcome! If I see any other time-saves, I'll comment them.
Lmao. That made me laugh so hard. @3:25:40. True gamer moment. 'Wait, why would you want to go outside? Pokemon is on my computer!'
2:27:20 where is this music from?
It's a physical-special split for every type, if you will. Maybe that's why it was called that?
Chunks:
1. 0:09-58:03, we're in a mountain, Winona just swept (as in, you saved before her, I looked away for seconds, and when I looked back you were at the pokecenter :) );
2. 58:03-2:22:31, playthrough 2 starting;
3. 2:22:31-3:06:43, at dept store;
4. 3:06:43-3:42:47, the end.
Another youngin who watches your videos here👋 I’m 22 and my first pokemon game was Black, lol
Haze removed confusion in gen 1 I think. I remember the absurdity of Golbat confusing me and then removing it with haze.
Tried doing absol in fire red and ran into a lot of problems mainly from Bruno of all trainers. Onix wasn’t an issue with ice beam but water pulse would’ve been fine, steelix was a pain an resulted in using hidden power fighting and an adamant nature for the second play through but still had issues trying to swords dance because rock tomb and then being out sped by the hitmons. 6 hour game time for round 2 but early game was easy, passed Brock at level 15 and only had a reset to misty because confusion and not out speeding starmie.
How about cloning yourself to do double crystal :)?
I use a combo of Bulbapedia, pokemonDB, and smogon depending on what specific info I need. I now avoid Bulbapedia unless I can't get it elsewhere.
Oh, and serebii, used to use psypoke too
You might like D'annunzio's "Rain in the pine wood", which is all about... what the title says :).
Do you need White Herb if you get Substitute?
I don’t think so.
Idk man, I think you sound more naturalistic in live streams more like yourself. Both are great though. I feel your pain to some extent, my voice gets really rough sometimes because of my allergies and I live in a city with the third most trees per capita in the world. Some days I end up sounding like Batman by the evening.
Two-and-a-half-hour video? Is that the ground pokemon versus video in Yellow?
UPDATE Yup.
I know it's not a gen 4 pokemon, but a platinum run with absol to see how much the physical special split changes things
Swords Dance, Double Team, Shadow Ball, Hidden Power "Fighting", Jolly nature
Jolly nature makes more sense in competitive, raising speed isn’t great in Emerald solo challenges. The enemy pokemon are all quite slow.
feels kinda weird that Absol is a mono Dark type, considering it looks like it should be like, Dark/Normal, though that may very well just be a me thing, Absol is honestly in my top 3 Dark types though, not because of stats or moves, but because it looks very snuggly
No look at it’s entry in the pokedex and it’s design and you can clearly see it was designed to be a pure dark type. It predicts didasters, it’s based off a japanese cryptid and in the anime it’s a brat lol
Small improvement wait to teach secret power till you repel at the start of the next route
Same thing happened several times when teaching other moves wait till you repel like 5 seconds later
Also not all pokemon is inside pokemon go is ourside sadly
Ever tried Pokemon too many types :)?
This is my all time favorite pokemon, it is also the first one i ever got shiny and to level 100
You’re not a robot huh? That’s what a robot would want us to think! And a robot could have just said someone to flash their hand real quick lol
Moustache brackets, aka curly braces {} :)
I mean I was a teen when I played my first game with X so
2:32:35 idk I seek all types of content on YT, but I think your dad is right that people want authenticity, but that doesn't exclude videos that's highly produced / scripted
Then again some fake mf'ers are also popular so what do I know 🤷♂️
True.
1:31:08 #TechStream :)
Feel like I'm in the minority, but I've never much liked this thing's design. Humanoid face on dog body just looks weird to me.
The hell? It’s literally got a snout lmao
I hated using this Pokemon in all my runs.
First
The 2nd run was 🤌, finally some justice for Absol. Pity it has such a slow start, it really holds it back from getting a great time
This thing would be a monster if it started with Bite