"My memory's very bad, I can't remember 10 seconds ago" *remembers every name of every spin trainer and every pokemon they have* And yes, those switches destroyed me as a young trainer. Nice run!
@@prawtism some areas you're just way overleveled for and the constant battles don't provide enough exp for the time spent. But, if the wild pokes are within like 7 or so levels of me I don't mind fighting
@GoDLiKe211 to me it's just insanely annoying, mainly when trying to traverse a cave or just somewhere where you actually need to pay attention to where you're going. on normal routes it isn't too bad
Camper: "Hey Crys, do you wanna trade some poke-" Crys: "SHUT UP I GOT A SPEED RUN TO DO!" Bugsy: "Congratula-" Crys: "SHUTUP AND GIVE ME MY BADGE IM IN A HURRY!" *rival comes out of Jasmine's Gym* Crys: "ONE SIDE I GOT PLACES TO GO" *shoves rival* Red: "..." Crys: "This guy speaks my language!"
Oh shit, this makes my 4:02 gold run look like nothing. Fantastic job man, I've recently become pretty obsessed with this game and have been looking to get into speedrunning.
2018 here! Was looking for a speedrun "guide" for Crystal so I could start shiny hunt Celebi... stumbled upon this video and I just wanted to thank you! Followed almost your every step, got past the league in 5 hours and 30 mins. Magic!
Your record has been beaten many times by now, but I choose to watch your video because I support you. Thanks for all the Pokemon entertainment you provide brother.
What an absolutely unbelievable run! He knew every trick, where things could go wrong, which moves caused bosses to use healing items, where the right Pokemon were, the power points needed to be conserved, got the best possible outcome in 90% of the situations, only hit 7 out of 18 spinners, knew where to look at the items and teach moves, got amazing speeds and opportunities on all tough battles including Red, knew the DV/IVs he needed and knew how to explain everything. Perfect/unbeatable run!
God-DAMN! This was so exciting and interesting to watch. So many little things you have to consider when speedrunning that can make a big difference later on. This also reminded me of how much the Gen II music rocks. HG & SS's remixes made me forget how much better the originals were.
Japanese is faster. However, the pokemon speedrunning community in the west agrees to run on English so that audiences can understand what move is going to be used. The choice to run on English is purely because running with a different language would alienate an audience as its so vital to understand what moves he is using/used against him/items used using to enjoy the run as a viewer.
I think the Rare Candy thing might be down to the item's text boxes also being set to Fastest, technically. And the game isn't told to change it during an evolution.
It kinda made sense, it goes from right side of the screen towards your Pokemon's sprite to the left. Perhaps signifying that your Pokemon is this much or that much close to getting stronger.
I like that your character started his journey to be league champion one night and then by the next day is champion with his starter he received the night before, and 3 low level hm slaves one of which is a stolen spearow. This is the first ever pokemon speedrun I've watched, but it was so awesome I'll probably be watching a ton more of your footage in the next week or so.
Wow, this was very impressive. The sheer amount of commitment it must of taken to do this is incredible. You knew the stats and possible scenarios of all the Pokemon you fought. Amazing.
Re: Fury Cutter: I actually just did the math on this, and it totally checks out that three Scratches would barely do half the damage of three Fury Cutters. Rather than doubling the base power of Fury Cutter each turn, Fury Cutter's final damage (before random adjustment) is doubled, and this means that it benefits from the +2 that's added in the damage formula before STAB and type effectiveness are added - when super effective, it becomes a +4 on the first Fury Cutter turn, then +8 on the second, then +16 on the third. Scratch, meanwhile, is only getting the one +2. It adds up!
That was fucking awesome man. I watched the Yellow run the other day also, both very entertaining. The commentary really makes it a whole different experience. I hope to see more of these in the future, in the mean time, LOOK AT THAT DITTO!
I am actually interested when I watch your speed runs because you are so skilled & the fact that I can learn abit from watching to AND your an australian 2. Just adds to the godlikelyness
Werster, you are a beast, you're making Australia look even better. Someday, man, I'm gonna get a better time, even if I have to segment. I was wondering about save corruption though, because until it was mentioned on the agdq schedule, I didn't know what it was, and even now I can't find anything on it. What exactly is it?
It just takes a couple milliseconds to load different frames, so over the course of 3 1/2 hours, it saves maybe a couple mins, which in a speed run counts.
Footrace1 The person didn't say they beat the whole game with that Scizor, just Red himself. I actually think that's pretty amazing, but yeah, I'm sure he'd have issues getting through the whole rest of the game just on that moveset.
ookwormbay7 word I just realized that distinction when I reread the comment. Pretty incredible indeed, I imagine he’d just spam double team until evasion is maxed out and hope to not get hit as he hopes for crits
I was considering trying to do a segmented Gen II run, would you consider the route to be incredibly different? I mean obviously it'd be cleaner (eg less encounters, no spinners) but would there be any massive route changes? Cheers if you can help
It does. It's what I always did so I didn't have to go through the hassle of going to the pokecenter. You deposit your injured pokemon in werseter's case feraligator and it saves him a good chunk of time.
To be more clear, Soft Resting can be used for both the Masuda Method and Legendary Pokemon that you interact with (Latios, Latias, Entei, Suicune and Raikou are harder to RNG though, since there IV's are set at a certain point I believe). Stationary Legendary Pokemon, like Regirock for example, can be saved in front of, then RNG manipulated to have certain stats based on how many frames you advance, the time (as in at 2 PM or 2:10 PM) and/or the amount of soft resets done. Hope this helps.
i remember the first time i played this, me and 2 friends all did a run at the same time, picking diff pokemon each, i got screwed with chikorita first run and i was so far behind for so long
That ditto thing in the first credits did scare me a little,nonetheless I admire your determination for Pokemon, soooo sad you do not have any good "rival" / competition. :]
Not sure if you updated your strats but I found it's faster at a few points to deposit Toto in the PC's along the way rather than taking a center. The Radio Tower hijack for example, after the first pass through the tower you can deposit and withdraw from the PC on the bottom. You can also do it between Goldenrod and Ecruteak in one of the hallways you pass through. It's only ever so slightly better if you do it perfectly though
According to the 'bulbapedia' (pokemon wiki), freeze has a 20% chance each turn of thawing. Thus the probability of lasting for 4 turns (or more, since it lost on the 5th) is (1-0.2)^4 = 0.4096 ~ 0.4
What you've got to understand is that the skill in this run comes down to a) The fact that werster himself did the routing. Routing Pokémon games is tough work, especially given all the different possibilities to consider. b) The sheer perseverance involved. When watching werster's stream, I know that I myself watched about a hundred resets. I certainly did not watch all of werster's attempts, I imagine that getting this run required at least 500-1000 resets.
Hmm... for example how are criticals handeled in this generation?In gen 1 I believe it was around 1.6 of the original dmg and criticals only applied the baes attack/special and not the modified (Through x-attacks/special for example) one.That is something that is not obvious and most people didnt now. Can`t think of any good example though atm. Or at an sda marathon one explained how trainer flight works which was quite revealing for those not invested into speedrunning (Just an example)
Great run! I can't believe I watched the whole thing. I'd be interested in seeing you do runs of other versions. I wonder if a faster time is possible using a different pokemon.Probably not.
I love the fact that he knows all the spinners' names and says them with such dislike
Fucking. Boarder. Douglas. 😤
Wake up in your hometown, become the Johto Champ by noon. Hell of a day.
Arch_Saltsworn yup
For you
"I wont Run this game again" Werster 2012.
"My memory's very bad, I can't remember 10 seconds ago" *remembers every name of every spin trainer and every pokemon they have* And yes, those switches destroyed me as a young trainer. Nice run!
"I hate Douglas" -1:34:30
"His name is Irwin. I hate him." 42:33
He really dislikes the spinners, huh
Fun (but useless) fact:
At the way Unown are coded, ironically, the only Unown that could become shinies are the letters I and V.
Unknown*
The pokemon is called "Unown".
@@Jake-tp2xw lol dumbass
@@Jake-tp2xw UGG
@@Jake-tp2xw UGG z zzz
1:11:37 “When I hit her I get mad”
Whoa
Me: 50 max repels for one route.
Werster: 15 super repels for the whole game.
Me: zero repels for the entire game of Crystal !!
@@ironpyrous5787 I never understood the point of repels, until I found out about speedrunning
@@prawtism some areas you're just way overleveled for and the constant battles don't provide enough exp for the time spent. But, if the wild pokes are within like 7 or so levels of me I don't mind fighting
@GoDLiKe211 to me it's just insanely annoying, mainly when trying to traverse a cave or just somewhere where you actually need to pay attention to where you're going. on normal routes it isn't too bad
can't believe he commentated that entire thing, imagine if he did this on all his runs
It would be awesome. I believe this commentary was made at a later stage, though, not recorded live.
@@FixdalOK obviously...
Weirdly relaxing though, probably because he's not narrating it in real-time.
I love seeing my childhood games ripped apart, either by glitches or abuse of mechanics and knowledge. Great videos.
Camper: "Hey Crys, do you wanna trade some poke-"
Crys: "SHUT UP I GOT A SPEED RUN TO DO!"
Bugsy: "Congratula-"
Crys: "SHUTUP AND GIVE ME MY BADGE IM IN A HURRY!"
*rival comes out of Jasmine's Gym*
Crys: "ONE SIDE I GOT PLACES TO GO" *shoves rival*
Red: "..."
Crys: "This guy speaks my language!"
how do you bold print?
BiggBiteProductions do I put it in *stars*?
*hi*
@@AwkwardAndInnocent _no_
Odds of the final battle outcome:
Pikachu Thunder miss: 0.3
Ice punch freeze: 0.1
4 turn freeze: ~0.4
Flinch 1: 0.3
Flinch 2: 0.3
0.3*0.1*0.4*0.3*0.3 = 0.00108 = 27/25000 = ~1/1000
Damn
Your commentaries are really relaxing. Thanks for uploading this.
That Red fight was insane. Would be great if Werster did commentary like this for all his PBs
I like how Blaine still says "HA! You better have burn heal!"
Oh shit, this makes my 4:02 gold run look like nothing. Fantastic job man, I've recently become pretty obsessed with this game and have been looking to get into speedrunning.
2018 here! Was looking for a speedrun "guide" for Crystal so I could start shiny hunt Celebi... stumbled upon this video and I just wanted to thank you! Followed almost your every step, got past the league in 5 hours and 30 mins. Magic!
This game by far has the best soundtrack to any other Pokemon game
+brian Out of any core game, maybe. Some of the spin off games though have AMAZING soundtracks.
gen 2 by far my favorite, but black and white had some lit ass music though.
Oh man this soundtrack brings me back. I remember going through so many AA batteries on my purple gameboy color back in the day
Joe Majewski the AA batteries mention made me nostalgic lmao
Daan D'Eer I was always a thrifty bastard. Used my allowance on rechargeables lol
Your record has been beaten many times by now, but I choose to watch your video because I support you. Thanks for all the Pokemon entertainment you provide brother.
When i told my friends in primary school that i was able to beat crystal in 4 hrs and a half, everybody laughed at me. and i was so sad
nicolapodgornik wut?
Dude they were jealous
@@joeh4955
True. I agree with Joe
This is one of the best commentaries I've ever heard. Keep this up, man
Watching these old Crystal videos and playing along was what got me into speedrunning. Good times
Forgot how good the music is in this game
I watched all of this, absolutely incredible how you did that, amazing effort! You have truely earned that 700th like haha :D
What an absolutely unbelievable run! He knew every trick, where things could go wrong, which moves caused bosses to use healing items, where the right Pokemon were, the power points needed to be conserved, got the best possible outcome in 90% of the situations, only hit 7 out of 18 spinners, knew where to look at the items and teach moves, got amazing speeds and opportunities on all tough battles including Red, knew the DV/IVs he needed and knew how to explain everything. Perfect/unbeatable run!
God-DAMN! This was so exciting and interesting to watch. So many little things you have to consider when speedrunning that can make a big difference later on. This also reminded me of how much the Gen II music rocks. HG & SS's remixes made me forget how much better the originals were.
I actually did name my rival ??? When I was a kid.
Dustin Peterson what's on you
same
I still named them now, what’s wrong here ?
Great commented run.. Truly a legend
What? I is evolving! Lol
Correct grammar :
(Either, pick one)
I am evolving
He is evolving.
@@ironpyrous5787 wat
@@ironpyrous5787 he's quoting the text in the video dumbass. try not to reply to 6 year old comments with stupid things
As soon as I came across this comment, I literally saw the evolution from Totodile X3
The fact that this is over a decade old is just unbelievable to me.
Japanese is faster.
However, the pokemon speedrunning community in the west agrees to run on English so that audiences can understand what move is going to be used. The choice to run on English is purely because running with a different language would alienate an audience as its so vital to understand what moves he is using/used against him/items used using to enjoy the run as a viewer.
A new spinner appears
Werster: his name is Kane, he has a ratata and mankey, his blood type is a-, and his address is....
Your knowledge of this game is incredible. You definitely deserve that short short gameplay time!
LOL that waifu part.
YEAH YOU BETTER RUN
Lol, "It doesn't get worse than border Douglas!" =)
Amazing run, its all about knowledge and luck, kudos to you sir, I really enjoyed watching it and the commentary keeps it fun
this is my favorite pokemon game. or at least gen 2. thanks for the upload.
2020 isolation relief viewing ❤🇦🇺
Hey it's a classic!
I think the Rare Candy thing might be down to the item's text boxes also being set to Fastest, technically. And the game isn't told to change it during an evolution.
I LOVE the commentary. Thank you!!!
It's always bothered me how the exp bar goes the opposite way the hp bar goes.
It kinda made sense, it goes from right side of the screen towards your Pokemon's sprite to the left. Perhaps signifying that your Pokemon is this much or that much close to getting stronger.
I love this video, second time watching now. The knowledge and insight is simply amazing.
watched the whole thing.. super entertaining hearing your thoughts. hope to see more (with commentary makes it 100x better)
I like that your character started his journey to be league champion one night and then by the next day is champion with his starter he received the night before, and 3 low level hm slaves one of which is a stolen spearow. This is the first ever pokemon speedrun I've watched, but it was so awesome I'll probably be watching a ton more of your footage in the next week or so.
Wow, this was very impressive. The sheer amount of commitment it must of taken to do this is incredible. You knew the stats and possible scenarios of all the Pokemon you fought. Amazing.
Re: Fury Cutter: I actually just did the math on this, and it totally checks out that three Scratches would barely do half the damage of three Fury Cutters. Rather than doubling the base power of Fury Cutter each turn, Fury Cutter's final damage (before random adjustment) is doubled, and this means that it benefits from the +2 that's added in the damage formula before STAB and type effectiveness are added - when super effective, it becomes a +4 on the first Fury Cutter turn, then +8 on the second, then +16 on the third. Scratch, meanwhile, is only getting the one +2. It adds up!
"It doesn't get any worse than Boarder Douglas..."
XD I cracked up here.
Werster, you're my hero. You're also the REAL POKEMON MASTER!!!
That was fucking awesome man. I watched the Yellow run the other day also, both very entertaining. The commentary really makes it a whole different experience. I hope to see more of these in the future, in the mean time, LOOK AT THAT DITTO!
I forgot how much I loved the Kanto Gym leader music.
What an awesome video, im hooked on werster runs now
I watched this in one run... damn
speedwatching
Shiet, just watched all 3 and a half hours of this, Sum1 give dis guy a medal this is amazing.
My first and favorite Pokémon game. Man the nostalgia is hitting hard.
I am actually interested when I watch your speed runs because you are so skilled & the fact that I can learn abit from watching to AND your an australian 2. Just adds to the godlikelyness
I like to watch speedruns, but this one is one of the best for pokemon series!
could you explain exactly what frame 4 is, and how to achieve it?
It's the frame, or boarder rather you see around the text boxes. There are 7 boarders/frames to choose from in the options.
Congratz werster. I was there and was surprised. A perfect run. =)
Ah, so *RAGE* is how you beat Miltank when you don’t have a fighting type or another strategy (e.g. overlevelling)
Gastly Hypnosis works
once again, congrats on an amazing run : D
Werster: "I name myself I, because that's obviously the coolest name by far."
Chinese ppl: "Hold my beer..."
When I first saw Silver saying his name was ???, I was like "Okay. You don't even know your own name."
6 hours put into this, I give you credit
That final battle was TAS worthy. God the luck u got. Great run werster
I love how you know all the spinners by name
Werster, you are a beast, you're making Australia look even better. Someday, man, I'm gonna get a better time, even if I have to segment.
I was wondering about save corruption though, because until it was mentioned on the agdq schedule, I didn't know what it was, and even now I can't find anything on it. What exactly is it?
gg man this was awesome especially the final battle
It just takes a couple milliseconds to load different frames, so over the course of 3 1/2 hours, it saves maybe a couple mins, which in a speed run counts.
One time I beat Red only using a level 48 Scizor and a lvl 5 Togepi(for flash) Scizor moveset was Double team Swords Dance Agility Slash
Resurrecting an old comment. How did you deal with ghost types? And PP management with a moveset that only has one damage delivering attack seems hard
Footrace1 The person didn't say they beat the whole game with that Scizor, just Red himself. I actually think that's pretty amazing, but yeah, I'm sure he'd have issues getting through the whole rest of the game just on that moveset.
ookwormbay7 word I just realized that distinction when I reread the comment. Pretty incredible indeed, I imagine he’d just spam double team until evasion is maxed out and hope to not get hit as he hopes for crits
Footrace1 hmm if he had foresight it would make sense
Brilliant run, well done, very impressive!
you are AMAZING!!!! beating Red 15 levels lower then his Pokemon!!! that was awesome!!
Ah ok thank you.
Will LOVE your glitched run!GL
Loved this, TW Werst from the past.
This was incredible. I'm glad I watched the whole thing.
Yes exactly what I wanted to watch
This is my favorite game too
I still don’t know what daylight savings time is
I enjoyed this thoroughly
thank you for explaining this run, this is fantastic.
Starting to watch this the 3rd time :D Your awesome dude, thx for this video
I was considering trying to do a segmented Gen II run, would you consider the route to be incredibly different? I mean obviously it'd be cleaner (eg less encounters, no spinners) but would there be any massive route changes? Cheers if you can help
I love how you have such a love for Misty!! I respect you bro!! :D Misty is ADORABLE!! Sabrina is my favorite to be honest :)
It does. It's what I always did so I didn't have to go through the hassle of going to the pokecenter. You deposit your injured pokemon in werseter's case feraligator and it saves him a good chunk of time.
Damn. Can't believe he was only 18 here
1:20:13 Werster speaking straight facts.
To be more clear, Soft Resting can be used for both the Masuda Method and Legendary Pokemon that you interact with (Latios, Latias, Entei, Suicune and Raikou are harder to RNG though, since there IV's are set at a certain point I believe). Stationary Legendary Pokemon, like Regirock for example, can be saved in front of, then RNG manipulated to have certain stats based on how many frames you advance, the time (as in at 2 PM or 2:10 PM) and/or the amount of soft resets done. Hope this helps.
i remember the first time i played this, me and 2 friends all did a run at the same time, picking diff pokemon each, i got screwed with chikorita first run and i was so far behind for so long
That ditto thing in the first credits did scare me a little,nonetheless I admire your determination for Pokemon, soooo sad you do not have any good "rival" / competition. :]
Wow thats awesome! nice luck on the final battle
Not sure if you updated your strats but I found it's faster at a few points to deposit Toto in the PC's along the way rather than taking a center. The Radio Tower hijack for example, after the first pass through the tower you can deposit and withdraw from the PC on the bottom. You can also do it between Goldenrod and Ecruteak in one of the hallways you pass through. It's only ever so slightly better if you do it perfectly though
According to the 'bulbapedia' (pokemon wiki), freeze has a 20% chance each turn of thawing.
Thus the probability of lasting for 4 turns (or more, since it lost on the 5th) is (1-0.2)^4 = 0.4096 ~ 0.4
Huh, I don't recall Blue's dialogue on Cinnabar being so morose. That was oddly poignant.
That's some way of perfuming smell ya later
The fuck are you saying?
@Jackir Miah lol
God damn it, douglas ..
fucking boarder douglas
What you've got to understand is that the skill in this run comes down to
a) The fact that werster himself did the routing. Routing Pokémon games is tough work, especially given all the different possibilities to consider.
b) The sheer perseverance involved. When watching werster's stream, I know that I myself watched about a hundred resets. I certainly did not watch all of werster's attempts, I imagine that getting this run required at least 500-1000 resets.
he means the trainers that look in every direction possible.
3 and a half hours well spent, cheers!
i honestly dont know why i watched the entire thing, but good run, i learned some stuff
Can someone please explain why frame 4 allows you to speed run this game more efficiently?
I love that you know everyone's name.
and WOW. That Venasaur. Red's probably pissed.
Hey man, awesome run:D im currently learning to run pokemon games (Currently Sapphire) Its good to see an Australian on the scene:D
Hmm... for example how are criticals handeled in this generation?In gen 1 I believe it was around 1.6 of the original dmg and criticals only applied the baes attack/special and not the modified (Through x-attacks/special for example) one.That is something that is not obvious and most people didnt now.
Can`t think of any good example though atm.
Or at an sda marathon one explained how trainer flight works which was quite revealing for those not invested into speedrunning (Just an example)
Great run! I can't believe I watched the whole thing. I'd be interested in seeing you do runs of other versions. I wonder if a faster time is possible using a different pokemon.Probably not.