Hey Scott you should really capitalize on enemies using items when you have a setup move. If you hit a Pokémon into potion range don’t just attack it again. Set up on the potion turn so you get the one hit on the next attack and you’re set up for the rest of the fight
@@TheMoogleKing93 the early Pokémon games are very very simple. So yeah if they have a potion they will 100% use it unless some alternate ai quirk prevents it from happening. (Not sure if that’s even possible but there’s some weird af ai quirks in gen 1)
I first learned of Crawboi here by getting a Corphish when I was randomly fishing in Petalburg as a kid. Crustacean Pokemon are fun and have good designs overall, I particularly like how Craw looks here.
In Ruby and Sapphire I think its a Pokemon that you don't even really see used by trainers (not the case in Emerald, since Juan and Sidney use it there) so I never knew of its existence till later.
Two of my favorites in a row... Awesome! I love both Breloom and Crawdaunts designs and how they perform competitively, they are so cool and unique. I wonder how they would do in a run with their broken hidden abilities... Crawdaunt seemed pretty good with hyper cutter even though it gets Adaptability to wreck stuff in gen 5. Technician Mach punch breloom also seems pretty busted in a solo playthrough.
not at all shocked that crawdaunt could power through like this with an absolutely bonkers attack stat plus swords dance. I think figuring out how to maximize that with a decent spA is really showing with your skill, looking forward to the next one
Rock Lobster immediately came to mind when I saw this in my feed. Interesting run considering how Crawdaunt though having a similar exp growth rate, is the opposite type to Breloom. Good contrast. But also a great demonstration to the benefit of Hyper Cutter. Now imagine if an ability like Contrary or Competitive were available in gen 3... It would negate all threats that want to lower your stats. But yeah, Steven seems to be the one guy that has consistently filtered Pokémon and their best potential time.
I discovered this account a few days ago and been binge watching for the last couple of days it's become my favorite pokemon channel on RUclips! Keep up the good work!
As someone who grew up and has family all around the gulf coast, the "crustacean" line of Pokémon and water types in general have always held a special place in my heart so this is awesome for me, thanks Scott. I must say however that the Cajun in me thinks you really missed an opportunity to call this guy Crawdaddy so if you ever get to a second run I humbly request that as the name but as always, keep up the amazing work brother!
I remember Crawdaunt is a gen 3 Pokemon, not just because it's used by Sidney in Emerald, but also because of the eternal discussions whether Crawdaunt or Sharpedo is better. As a result of that, it'd be interesting to see a Sharpedo run (and heck, it'd be fun not only for that question, but also to answer the question if Sidney was right replacing his Sharpedo with Crawdaunt).
22:30 Good.... you too have realized the power of Gardevoir... I, and many others discovered this in our first playthrough... Seriously though. I think that's going to be a great run! For now though, i gotta admit i'm surprised by how well crawdaunt did. That thing always seemed so crappy when i played this game. I think that's what i've come to enjoy about your vids though. Its really giving me an appreciation for all the pokemon i never used, so keep it up!
I feel it really helped that you gained some decent experience with emerald before this run. Crawdaunt feels like an ultimate choice paralysis Pokemon, somwhat of an mixed attacker, dual type with both of them using the weaker stat, some good coverage moves plus set up all taking up moveslots. And all that combined with a growth rate which punishes early rare candy use. I could have easily seen it strugling forever in the late game with just a few bad placed choices.
Yeah, that’s true. Over choice is actually a problem when learning a new game. I’ll have to keep that in mind when I start working on generation 4. Give it some time before I play overly complex Pokémon.
Just wanted to say I really appreciate the display showing how much damage an attack can do, or its accuracy etc. Gives Good insight for those of us not so great at the quick maths.
Considering that both Water and Dark are special moves, I didn’t expect amazing results from Crawdaunt, but man did this run prove me wrong. Keep up the great work, Scott!
Yaaaas Hariyama is coming! My favorite gen 3 mon of all! When I did my first playthrough of gen 3 about a month before Diamond and Pearl came out, I actually ditched my starter as an ace for Hariyama because it's such a beast. Mind you, I had beaten RBY and GSC all with 90% my starter, so doing this with Hariyama was a new experience to basically beat the game with a found mon, rather than a gift mon. I think you're going to love that run, Scott.
Corphish is one of those Pokémon it's SO easy to miss in playthroughs, a combination of eing found in a location where you need to specifically backtrack for it, and it not being overwhelmingly good. Nosepass and Jigglypuff also have this problem in Hoenn. In other regions I can think of Wobbuffet, Lickitung Natu and Smeargle in Johto, Dhelmise in Alola, or Buneary and Vulpix in BW2... Go hard with Crawdaunt tho! Don't let that frailty and misplaced stats let you down, Scott!
Two videos in a row? You are spoiling us Scott. Also curious about Crawdaunt, since his stabs are both special and can’t take advantage of his 120 attack (not that 90 special attack is bad in any mean)
I always am so amazed by the new things I learn in these videos. For example, at 31:10 I learned that Scott cracked the secret to learning how to give Pokémon a 5th move when his Crawdaunt used EARTHQUAKE to defeat Armaldo!
Finally Sludge Bomb! Thanks for the double video week. Love Breloom and Crawdaunt. Great videos, can't wait for the second playthroughs with these guys.
It took me four trys to finish this. I kept getting interupted and forgetting. So its funny that each time I came back, I hear Scott talking about how he forgets Crawdaunt. I was jinxed😂 Great video as always.
Scott my wife and I foster cats as well! She’s a vet tech so whenever there is a pregnant cat brought to her work we take it in and find the mom and babies homes. It’s been so rewarding and nice getting to know each litter
Crawdaunt and pals was basically my endgame team for my recent Emerald Nuzlocke. Swords dance setup plus aerial ace & brick break did a number on the Elite 4 goons.
While you were talking about your tortie foster, my Tortie (Named Guenhwyvar after a fictional panter) was rampaging around in the background. Shes the same, an endless bundle of energy.
I've always enjoyed Crawdaunt but I've never had a chance to use it. Glad to see it might be a good idea if I ever get a chance but I'll have to put a lot of time into helping it keep up towards the late game. Glad to see a new champion in terms of time, looks like you've about gotten the game down now.
hello person scrolling by, hope you have a good rest of your day. very happy to get a second vidya in a weekend, also i always forget crawdaunt exists in general
Oh wow I didn’t think it would perform this well, i was very far off. And finally in found another Exploud fan! It’s my all time favorite normal type and in my overall top 5, i love that menacing organ monster
Putting a Water-type in a place where you need to backtrack to get it in the region with too much water... yeah, well done, devs, it will be memorable for sure...
"Alles für den Dackel, alles für den Club, unser Leben für den Hund" (Everything for the dachshound, everything for the club, our lives for the dog) -Hausmeister Krause
You played well in this run! I have only one piece of advice for you. A common theme that comes up in many runs is that you land a hit which leaves a key Pokemon in the red, which leads to a Full Restore. You then use the same move again, which puts it back in heal range and you get stuck in a healing loop when it is otherwise easily avoidable. An example of this punishing you is your first attempt against Steven in this video. You bring Skarmory down to the red and it heals up, then you use Brick Break again. If you had used Brick Break into Surf into Brick Break, you would have avoided the heal range as it would be in the high orange, then you would have way more BB and Rest PP remaining for the rest of the battle - this would have mattered a lot as you said yourself that in that same attempt, you ran out of PP. This was a totally avoidable loss. You would have entered the Claydol with more HP, then could have used Surf to have it enter the orange, it would set up Light Screen, which you then break with Brick Break and that allows you to finish it off with a Surf, meaning you would have taken one less Earthquake and therefore had the HP to take out Metagross for a first-try-victory. This sequencing error is the only thing I can honestly even consider as a mistake at all. You did really well. I'm looking forward to both of the mentioned runs, they're some interesting choices.
It's interesting to see what the pre physical special split does to pokemon like this and breloom. The breloom video definitely made me like it more as a pokemon
I didn't think Crawdaunt would do so well in this challenge, so kudos to the little guy. I'm more familiar with his pre-evo Corphish, who was a bro in Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky. Also dumb idea that I didn't think of yesterday, but was thinking of when I was watching this video: in Route 118, 119, 120, and 121 you can catch wild Zigzagoon above level 20. I bring this up because all of them have the Pickup ability in Gen 3, and above level 20 they have a 4% chance of getting a Rare Candy if Pickup activates, and you can exploit this by having multiple of them in your party and occasionally checking them for items. Granted, this probably won't be useful for fully evolved mons because you're going to bleed some time checking them, but if you're doing a middle or first stage evo and you have to grind in the mid or late game, you could possibly end up with more Rare Candies than you'd normally have access to. Though... like I said I dunno how useful it would be in speedruns. I've used it myself, but I've never done a speedrun, and you'd have to go out of your way to catch 3-4 Zigzagoon just to have in your party, so might not be worth it.
Respect to the Craw. If you think about, he actually had a lot going for him, including hitting very hard, a somewhat advantageous levelup group, arguably the best setup move for physical attackers, immunity to intimidate and a type advantage for Roxanne, Flannery, Tate and Liza and a good chunk of Steven's team. There also wasn't any trainer he didn't have some kind of move to deal with. Put all that together and it's not surprising he did well. As Scott said, his big disadvantage was his speed. I think we're seeing that water is the type to beat here. For a really good water mon with coverage for Juan and Wallace, the only trainer who has that much of an advantage is Wallace, and as we've seen here his team isn't that bulky so if they're fast and hit hard they can get through him before he can do that much. So what I'm saying is that I could see Kyogre perhaps being the fastest mon in Emerald. Drizzle-boosted water pulse plus 150 SPA and 90 speed is going to be brutal in the early game, then later it gets 100% accurate thunder, the usual suite of ice moves and also calm mind for setup.
Crawdaunt did way better than I thought it would. I thought its bad Speed and low special bulk would hurt a lot more than it did. The other Water/Dark type introduced in this gen, Sharpedo, could be interesting, but in the more difficult sense. To my knowledge, before Surf, Sharpedo gets NO Water-type attacking moves, meaning no way to hit Wattson's Magneton for neutral damage, and its also the Slow growth rate. Also infamously frail, but quite fast, so a unique circumstance there.
And why even I really want to play the same run now? I discovered pokemon games as a gift to humanity last summer, and I have been looking for all the possible runs and challenges, and what now? Now I need to find where to get this game. Amazing content!
Crawdaunt is a machine! I chainfished for a Crawfish in ORAS abd found a shiny Crawdaunt. Didnt even know it was catchable! Okay, that was 8 years ago but still ..
I saw Crawdaunt first time during the battle tower challenge. My first intuitional thought was “He’s definitely can be caught if I fish in the pond on route 117”
It's kind of funny that they had two Dark/Water Pokémon in the same generation. I think Crawdaunt gets forgotten a lot since Sharpedo is Team Aqua's 'mascot' of sorts, plus sharks are (probably) more popular as animals. That being said, I prefer Crawdaunt. Corphish has such a derp expression too, it's great. =P
Would not have guessed Crawdaunt would be this good, between this and Milotic water types that aren't Swampert have been very impressive in Gen 3. Admittedly, this was more of a Swords Dance demonstration than a Water type demonstration, but its okay Special Attack + Ice Beam/Surf and water attacks in the early game still did a surprising amount of work here. Makes me wonder how good Kyogre will be, I feel like its going to be an absolute monster.
Wobbuffet fact: In the anime, Jessies Wobbuffet is ordered to use counter even against special moves, so it probably decides on his own if it should use Mirror coat or counter.
Great video, loved Crawdaunt when i first played sapphire. When you talked about using taunt against the magneton i was hoping you would so you could explain that in gen 3, taunt is a one turn effect, unlike later gems when it’s a 3 turn effect
Breloom and Crawdaunt are two of my favorite gen 3 Pokémon. Feel like if this was the special counterpart to breloom and had a big special attack stat as opposed to being a slow mixed attacker people would remember it more fondly
Something I'm looking forward to in optimized gen 3 runs is the potential for EV training to snag an extra crucial couple speed points against Steven's slow mons
knock off's an interesting move as theoretically, despite the low power, its possible crawdaunt knocking the manetric's sitrus berry away, may give Crawdaunt a range to ko with bubble beam. but that'd depend on the damage both hits deal alongside crawdaunt's level thats actually the only use I see knock off having, getting rid of gym leader sitrus berries for a theoretically better chance of Crawdaunt living a bit longer, or koing the mon. watson's the only place I see the actual usefulness of knock off as everywhere after watson Crawdaunt'll eventually have the power to oneshot most mons no problem w/swords dance
Next to rays and Mantine obviously, I love crabs and the crab Pokemon. The icon is Kingler for sure and Crabominable is ridicolous but Crawdaunt is really cool and it's really strong, in Gen 3 actually. Awesome performance
"Erratic first stage Pokemon are going to be awful" Nincada line: *sweats nervously* I mean, seriously, all three of them are gonna have a rough time. Nincada has abysmal stats and movepool, Ninjask is going to be banging its head against Roxanne for an eternity, and Shedinja is, well, Shedinja. Nincada has
I don't know how hard it would be to program but if you truly wanted to measure the growth rates against each other wouldn't it best to have a modded version of the game where you use the exact same Pokémon - only manipulating it's growth rate? I was surprised by Crawdaunt's performance though with it slightly done dirty before the physical/special split.
I shouldn't be surprised that a pokemon with such high attack and swords dance did well but I never expected first place in both game time and real time. I really expected 55 speed to hold it back at least a bit.
9:30 Getting rid of Protect is ordinarily not a great idea, but Crawdaunt was strong enough to make up for it. The issue is that Protect-using Pokemon *literally* can't lose to Norman's Slaking, who is ordinarily a giant stumbling block in solo runs. Might be useful to note for future Pokemon runs where someone has Detect/Protect via level-up by that point. Great run.
Good point. I’ve got a few thoughts on this subject: Dig is better than Protect for Norman,also just having a weak special move counters the Slaking quite well. The aspect that needs to be balanced is that protect is basically dead weight outside of the Norman battle so carrying it for awhile can reduce your available options and slow a Pokémon down.
Are there any plans of doing a Sharpedo run? They have the same type and identical offensive stats, so it'll be interesting to see whether Crawdaunt's bulk or Sharpedo's speed win out.
With Crabman's beefy attack stat, I was hoping this was going to be the run where we actually get to make Sludge Bomb useful. Then I remembered Return exists 🙃 Maybe for Sceptile and, like, Wallace's Ludicolo?
As an English teacher who is a stickler for pronunciation, what you can do for Juan so it doesn't become Won is remember "WHO - on". Because who won, you did! :)
31:00 I've always struggled to remember Armando's typing. It's tricky because it learns water gun and has swift swim as a hidden ability in later generations.
Knock Off has its purpose, but it wouldn't become really good until Gen 6, when its Base Power goes from 20 to 65, and it gets a 50% buff if you use it and it actually knocks off the opponent's held item. Hariyama is super good, I've used it in several of my Sapphire playthroughs, it is very bulky with HP and Defense, and (I'm speaking from experience here) don't sleep on Bulk Up into Arm Thrust. Vital Throw can also be a good option against Sidney. Spoilers That has to be the lowest level a non-legendary has beaten Wallace in Emerald. Also if Claydol ever sets up Reflect or Light Screen, Brick Break can shatter them.
Unexpected result. Great run. I hope the random rumor of crawdaunt getting an Evo in the DLC for ScVi is true. It's already so badass, but they did bisharp great, so they should handle this one no problem :p
Hi Scott, good work as always. The move brick break negates the effects of light screen and reflect in addition to doing damage. I hope that information helps!
I really am in a camp of my own, where I like dark types Cacturne, Sharpedo and Crawdaunt. The water types problem is that they have higher attack than special attack, while Cacturne has an even 115 in both. All 3 have incredible attacks, but they fail to utilize their STAB. In gen 4 this is all fixed, but they all still have incredible stats in one or the other that they won’t use at all. Like Cacturne; he has a massive 115 in a stat he’ll never use, and would / should be distributed in other stats. With Sharpedo in gen 4 onwards, he would be helped if he could put some sp atk in his defences, which is very weak, while in gen 4, he’d want his massive attack distributed. Same goes for Crawdaunt. Basically, they’re all just 1 gen ahead of their time. Imagine if gen 3 and 4 switched, and Emerald came out with the modern split. It would be absolutely massive. I’d love that.
I just did a run with exploud and it was insane seeing it's type coverage and being able set up with howl. I think you could do it more justice than I could
"Dusclops' ability pressure shortens my PP and I'm not sure if I'll be able to finish"
I see what you did there Scott
🤌Exquisite🤌
So did his fiancee 🥲
😂😂 will done Scott, well done. 👏😂
Hey Scott you should really capitalize on enemies using items when you have a setup move. If you hit a Pokémon into potion range don’t just attack it again. Set up on the potion turn so you get the one hit on the next attack and you’re set up for the rest of the fight
And then when they randomly decide not to use another potion?
@@TheMoogleKing93I’m pretty sure that’s not possible. If a trainer has a potion and a Pokémon is below 20(?)%, they always heal
@@TheMoogleKing93 the early Pokémon games are very very simple. So yeah if they have a potion they will 100% use it unless some alternate ai quirk prevents it from happening. (Not sure if that’s even possible but there’s some weird af ai quirks in gen 1)
@@marzbar5877what if they are all out of potions and u forget they are all out
Two Scotts thoughts videos in a single week? You are a king.
Well, _technically_ Sunday is the start of a new week so it's still two videos in two weeks.
@@Shenaldrac🤓
I first learned of Crawboi here by getting a Corphish when I was randomly fishing in Petalburg as a kid. Crustacean Pokemon are fun and have good designs overall, I particularly like how Craw looks here.
The same thing happened to me. No idea how many playthroughs it took for me to discover it.
In Ruby and Sapphire I think its a Pokemon that you don't even really see used by trainers (not the case in Emerald, since Juan and Sidney use it there) so I never knew of its existence till later.
Two of my favorites in a row... Awesome! I love both Breloom and Crawdaunts designs and how they perform competitively, they are so cool and unique. I wonder how they would do in a run with their broken hidden abilities... Crawdaunt seemed pretty good with hyper cutter even though it gets Adaptability to wreck stuff in gen 5. Technician Mach punch breloom also seems pretty busted in a solo playthrough.
not at all shocked that crawdaunt could power through like this with an absolutely bonkers attack stat plus swords dance. I think figuring out how to maximize that with a decent spA is really showing with your skill, looking forward to the next one
Rock Lobster immediately came to mind when I saw this in my feed. Interesting run considering how Crawdaunt though having a similar exp growth rate, is the opposite type to Breloom. Good contrast. But also a great demonstration to the benefit of Hyper Cutter. Now imagine if an ability like Contrary or Competitive were available in gen 3... It would negate all threats that want to lower your stats. But yeah, Steven seems to be the one guy that has consistently filtered Pokémon and their best potential time.
I discovered this account a few days ago and been binge watching for the last couple of days it's become my favorite pokemon channel on RUclips! Keep up the good work!
Welcome there is tons of amazing content enjoy it
Come for the pokemon, stay for the pp-ups.
Denis
@@pjanderson4876 Denis indeed. 😁
good find, out of all pokemon run related channels this is one of the best ones
As someone who grew up and has family all around the gulf coast, the "crustacean" line of Pokémon and water types in general have always held a special place in my heart so this is awesome for me, thanks Scott. I must say however that the Cajun in me thinks you really missed an opportunity to call this guy Crawdaddy so if you ever get to a second run I humbly request that as the name but as always, keep up the amazing work brother!
My girlfriend's away for the weekend and Scott just so happens to upload both days. Now that's awesome!
My gf is out at work today, all I needed was some star crab freak
My gfis currently out of the country working in Saudi Arabia here🫣
Bro same, I was worried I'd have to entertain myself all weekend. Thanks Scott!
Same. This was great!
All of your girlfriends are at my house
I remember Crawdaunt is a gen 3 Pokemon, not just because it's used by Sidney in Emerald, but also because of the eternal discussions whether Crawdaunt or Sharpedo is better. As a result of that, it'd be interesting to see a Sharpedo run (and heck, it'd be fun not only for that question, but also to answer the question if Sidney was right replacing his Sharpedo with Crawdaunt).
I like this idea... Sounds like a perfect video idea too
I have a feeling that Crawdaunt will absolutely destroy Sharpedo due to Sharpedo having all the defences of an extremely used very wet paper bag.
Also, Sharpedo is in the Slow Growth rate
I freaking LOVE Crawdaunt, so I am glad you made a video with the angry lobster/crab boyo!
Two excellent and surprisingly impressive Pokemon in a row. Water-dark is definitely an interesting combo for this generation.
22:30 Good.... you too have realized the power of Gardevoir... I, and many others discovered this in our first playthrough... Seriously though. I think that's going to be a great run! For now though, i gotta admit i'm surprised by how well crawdaunt did. That thing always seemed so crappy when i played this game. I think that's what i've come to enjoy about your vids though. Its really giving me an appreciation for all the pokemon i never used, so keep it up!
Been in hospital for 8 days and I got 2 Scott uploads! Absolutely make my weekend
From one random user of the internet to another, I sincerely hope you feel better soon!
I love the Crawdaunt line, but man, did they get shafted. Team Aqua doesn't even use it and it only gets 1 Dark Type move in Knock off
I feel it really helped that you gained some decent experience with emerald before this run. Crawdaunt feels like an ultimate choice paralysis Pokemon, somwhat of an mixed attacker, dual type with both of them using the weaker stat, some good coverage moves plus set up all taking up moveslots. And all that combined with a growth rate which punishes early rare candy use. I could have easily seen it strugling forever in the late game with just a few bad placed choices.
Yeah, that’s true. Over choice is actually a problem when learning a new game. I’ll have to keep that in mind when I start working on generation 4. Give it some time before I play overly complex Pokémon.
Just wanted to say I really appreciate the display showing how much damage an attack can do, or its accuracy etc. Gives Good insight for those of us not so great at the quick maths.
Considering that both Water and Dark are special moves, I didn’t expect amazing results from Crawdaunt, but man did this run prove me wrong. Keep up the great work, Scott!
Yaaaas Hariyama is coming! My favorite gen 3 mon of all! When I did my first playthrough of gen 3 about a month before Diamond and Pearl came out, I actually ditched my starter as an ace for Hariyama because it's such a beast. Mind you, I had beaten RBY and GSC all with 90% my starter, so doing this with Hariyama was a new experience to basically beat the game with a found mon, rather than a gift mon. I think you're going to love that run, Scott.
Corphish is one of those Pokémon it's SO easy to miss in playthroughs, a combination of eing found in a location where you need to specifically backtrack for it, and it not being overwhelmingly good.
Nosepass and Jigglypuff also have this problem in Hoenn. In other regions I can think of Wobbuffet, Lickitung Natu and Smeargle in Johto, Dhelmise in Alola, or Buneary and Vulpix in BW2...
Go hard with Crawdaunt tho! Don't let that frailty and misplaced stats let you down, Scott!
Two videos in a row? You are spoiling us Scott.
Also curious about Crawdaunt, since his stabs are both special and can’t take advantage of his 120 attack (not that 90 special attack is bad in any mean)
I always am so amazed by the new things I learn in these videos. For example, at 31:10 I learned that Scott cracked the secret to learning how to give Pokémon a 5th move when his Crawdaunt used EARTHQUAKE to defeat Armaldo!
Finally Sludge Bomb! Thanks for the double video week. Love Breloom and Crawdaunt. Great videos, can't wait for the second playthroughs with these guys.
It took me four trys to finish this. I kept getting interupted and forgetting. So its funny that each time I came back, I hear Scott talking about how he forgets Crawdaunt. I was jinxed😂
Great video as always.
Mister Craw!
I don't think he's very good this gen, but i love this guy in later gens and Emerald Rogue.
Scott my wife and I foster cats as well! She’s a vet tech so whenever there is a pregnant cat brought to her work we take it in and find the mom and babies homes. It’s been so rewarding and nice getting to know each litter
I was just thinking how much I'd love to see a Crawdaunt playthrough after the Breloom one and what do I wake up to? Perfect!
Crawdaunt and pals was basically my endgame team for my recent Emerald Nuzlocke.
Swords dance setup plus aerial ace & brick break did a number on the Elite 4 goons.
While you were talking about your tortie foster, my Tortie (Named Guenhwyvar after a fictional panter) was rampaging around in the background. Shes the same, an endless bundle of energy.
I absolutely love Crawdaunt's design. Also happy it only has grown better over time!
I've always enjoyed Crawdaunt but I've never had a chance to use it. Glad to see it might be a good idea if I ever get a chance but I'll have to put a lot of time into helping it keep up towards the late game. Glad to see a new champion in terms of time, looks like you've about gotten the game down now.
Probably one of my fav underrated Pokémon. A crab with a star on its head? Thank you very much
hello person scrolling by, hope you have a good rest of your day. very happy to get a second vidya in a weekend, also i always forget crawdaunt exists in general
Oh wow I didn’t think it would perform this well, i was very far off.
And finally in found another Exploud fan! It’s my all time favorite normal type and in my overall top 5, i love that menacing organ monster
I'm so happy you have a visual chart of the Rankings now. Thank you
You’re welcome!
Putting a Water-type in a place where you need to backtrack to get it in the region with too much water... yeah, well done, devs, it will be memorable for sure...
"Pressure is lowering my PP, I'm scared I won't be able to finish" - Scott 2023
"Alles für den Dackel, alles für den Club, unser Leben für den Hund" (Everything for the dachshound, everything for the club, our lives for the dog) -Hausmeister Krause
You played well in this run! I have only one piece of advice for you.
A common theme that comes up in many runs is that you land a hit which leaves a key Pokemon in the red, which leads to a Full Restore. You then use the same move again, which puts it back in heal range and you get stuck in a healing loop when it is otherwise easily avoidable.
An example of this punishing you is your first attempt against Steven in this video. You bring Skarmory down to the red and it heals up, then you use Brick Break again. If you had used Brick Break into Surf into Brick Break, you would have avoided the heal range as it would be in the high orange, then you would have way more BB and Rest PP remaining for the rest of the battle - this would have mattered a lot as you said yourself that in that same attempt, you ran out of PP. This was a totally avoidable loss.
You would have entered the Claydol with more HP, then could have used Surf to have it enter the orange, it would set up Light Screen, which you then break with Brick Break and that allows you to finish it off with a Surf, meaning you would have taken one less Earthquake and therefore had the HP to take out Metagross for a first-try-victory.
This sequencing error is the only thing I can honestly even consider as a mistake at all. You did really well. I'm looking forward to both of the mentioned runs, they're some interesting choices.
A very cool Pokémon that I'm thrilled to be seeing get a run. I've always wondered how this thing would perform in game
Whoa, Crawdaunt was able to use earthquake instead of brick break in the final battle ;)
It's interesting to see what the pre physical special split does to pokemon like this and breloom. The breloom video definitely made me like it more as a pokemon
I didn't think Crawdaunt would do so well in this challenge, so kudos to the little guy. I'm more familiar with his pre-evo Corphish, who was a bro in Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky.
Also dumb idea that I didn't think of yesterday, but was thinking of when I was watching this video: in Route 118, 119, 120, and 121 you can catch wild Zigzagoon above level 20. I bring this up because all of them have the Pickup ability in Gen 3, and above level 20 they have a 4% chance of getting a Rare Candy if Pickup activates, and you can exploit this by having multiple of them in your party and occasionally checking them for items. Granted, this probably won't be useful for fully evolved mons because you're going to bleed some time checking them, but if you're doing a middle or first stage evo and you have to grind in the mid or late game, you could possibly end up with more Rare Candies than you'd normally have access to. Though... like I said I dunno how useful it would be in speedruns. I've used it myself, but I've never done a speedrun, and you'd have to go out of your way to catch 3-4 Zigzagoon just to have in your party, so might not be worth it.
Respect to the Craw. If you think about, he actually had a lot going for him, including hitting very hard, a somewhat advantageous levelup group, arguably the best setup move for physical attackers, immunity to intimidate and a type advantage for Roxanne, Flannery, Tate and Liza and a good chunk of Steven's team. There also wasn't any trainer he didn't have some kind of move to deal with. Put all that together and it's not surprising he did well. As Scott said, his big disadvantage was his speed.
I think we're seeing that water is the type to beat here. For a really good water mon with coverage for Juan and Wallace, the only trainer who has that much of an advantage is Wallace, and as we've seen here his team isn't that bulky so if they're fast and hit hard they can get through him before he can do that much.
So what I'm saying is that I could see Kyogre perhaps being the fastest mon in Emerald. Drizzle-boosted water pulse plus 150 SPA and 90 speed is going to be brutal in the early game, then later it gets 100% accurate thunder, the usual suite of ice moves and also calm mind for setup.
Although actually, now I think about it, it will also lose a whole lot of time constantly telling us about the weather!
Crawdaunt did way better than I thought it would. I thought its bad Speed and low special bulk would hurt a lot more than it did.
The other Water/Dark type introduced in this gen, Sharpedo, could be interesting, but in the more difficult sense. To my knowledge, before Surf, Sharpedo gets NO Water-type attacking moves, meaning no way to hit Wattson's Magneton for neutral damage, and its also the Slow growth rate. Also infamously frail, but quite fast, so a unique circumstance there.
And why even I really want to play the same run now? I discovered pokemon games as a gift to humanity last summer, and I have been looking for all the possible runs and challenges, and what now? Now I need to find where to get this game. Amazing content!
That’s awesome that you just discovered Pokémon games! They are really great. I’d highly recommend doing a Breloom run, it was really fun!
Shell Bell might be my favorite item, so it always pleases me to see it in action.
Crawdaunt is a machine! I chainfished for a Crawfish in ORAS abd found a shiny Crawdaunt. Didnt even know it was catchable! Okay, that was 8 years ago but still ..
I saw Crawdaunt first time during the battle tower challenge. My first intuitional thought was “He’s definitely can be caught if I fish in the pond on route 117”
It's kind of funny that they had two Dark/Water Pokémon in the same generation. I think Crawdaunt gets forgotten a lot since Sharpedo is Team Aqua's 'mascot' of sorts, plus sharks are (probably) more popular as animals. That being said, I prefer Crawdaunt. Corphish has such a derp expression too, it's great. =P
Scott: ...getting him from level 58 up to level 70.
Me: That's so many damage rounding thresholds!! :)
It is!
Doesn’t brick break break light screen? 29:52
Would not have guessed Crawdaunt would be this good, between this and Milotic water types that aren't Swampert have been very impressive in Gen 3. Admittedly, this was more of a Swords Dance demonstration than a Water type demonstration, but its okay Special Attack + Ice Beam/Surf and water attacks in the early game still did a surprising amount of work here.
Makes me wonder how good Kyogre will be, I feel like its going to be an absolute monster.
ahven't watched it yet, but thanks for crawdaunt! I was looking forward to see you solo through gen 3 with him!
Wobbuffet fact: In the anime, Jessies Wobbuffet is ordered to use counter even against special moves, so it probably decides on his own if it should use Mirror coat or counter.
Hyper cutter was sooooo good. Not having attack lowered by intimidate was huge
Great video, loved Crawdaunt when i first played sapphire. When you talked about using taunt against the magneton i was hoping you would so you could explain that in gen 3, taunt is a one turn effect, unlike later gems when it’s a 3 turn effect
Breloom and Crawdaunt are two of my favorite gen 3 Pokémon. Feel like if this was the special counterpart to breloom and had a big special attack stat as opposed to being a slow mixed attacker people would remember it more fondly
Something I'm looking forward to in optimized gen 3 runs is the potential for EV training to snag an extra crucial couple speed points against Steven's slow mons
A gardevoir playthrough would be fun to watch
knock off's an interesting move as theoretically, despite the low power, its possible crawdaunt knocking the manetric's sitrus berry away, may give Crawdaunt a range to ko with bubble beam.
but that'd depend on the damage both hits deal alongside crawdaunt's level
thats actually the only use I see knock off having, getting rid of gym leader sitrus berries for a theoretically better chance of Crawdaunt living a bit longer, or koing the mon. watson's the only place I see the actual usefulness of knock off as everywhere after watson Crawdaunt'll eventually have the power to oneshot most mons no problem w/swords dance
If the leaders had better held items it would be far more interesting.
Crawdaunt is definitely the better crab pre phys/special split! Very cool moon
Thanks for 2 awesome videos this weekend Scott we all appreciate it
I’ve grown to appreciate crawdaunt more as I’ve used it more often.
The thumbnail artist killed it with this one!
I love the spoiler warnings! Scott, you are SO GOOD at this!
Next to rays and Mantine obviously, I love crabs and the crab Pokemon. The icon is Kingler for sure and Crabominable is ridicolous but Crawdaunt is really cool and it's really strong, in Gen 3 actually. Awesome performance
"Erratic first stage Pokemon are going to be awful"
Nincada line: *sweats nervously*
I mean, seriously, all three of them are gonna have a rough time. Nincada has abysmal stats and movepool, Ninjask is going to be banging its head against Roxanne for an eternity, and Shedinja is, well, Shedinja.
Nincada has
I enjoy the empty stare of the back-sprite.
Nice run, there's probably some moveset optimizations to be made, still fun overall and nice to see Crawdaunt pop off
I don't know how hard it would be to program but if you truly wanted to measure the growth rates against each other wouldn't it best to have a modded version of the game where you use the exact same Pokémon - only manipulating it's growth rate?
I was surprised by Crawdaunt's performance though with it slightly done dirty before the physical/special split.
I shouldn't be surprised that a pokemon with such high attack and swords dance did well but I never expected first place in both game time and real time. I really expected 55 speed to hold it back at least a bit.
Clawdia the crawdaunt likely was the pokemon who brought me back to the franchise lol.
Hey Scott, do you know how many gyms remain after Tate&Lisa ?
Just Juan.
I think the coolest attack name is "octozooka" like sure crab hammer is fun, but the prior sounds much more... Explosive
9:30 Getting rid of Protect is ordinarily not a great idea, but Crawdaunt was strong enough to make up for it. The issue is that Protect-using Pokemon *literally* can't lose to Norman's Slaking, who is ordinarily a giant stumbling block in solo runs. Might be useful to note for future Pokemon runs where someone has Detect/Protect via level-up by that point. Great run.
Good point. I’ve got a few thoughts on this subject:
Dig is better than Protect for Norman,also just having a weak special move counters the Slaking quite well. The aspect that needs to be balanced is that protect is basically dead weight outside of the Norman battle so carrying it for awhile can reduce your available options and slow a Pokémon down.
Are there any plans of doing a Sharpedo run? They have the same type and identical offensive stats, so it'll be interesting to see whether Crawdaunt's bulk or Sharpedo's speed win out.
With Crabman's beefy attack stat, I was hoping this was going to be the run where we actually get to make Sludge Bomb useful. Then I remembered Return exists 🙃 Maybe for Sceptile and, like, Wallace's Ludicolo?
As an English teacher who is a stickler for pronunciation, what you can do for Juan so it doesn't become Won is remember "WHO - on". Because who won, you did! :)
31:00 I've always struggled to remember Armando's typing. It's tricky because it learns water gun and has swift swim as a hidden ability in later generations.
Knock Off has its purpose, but it wouldn't become really good until Gen 6, when its Base Power goes from 20 to 65, and it gets a 50% buff if you use it and it actually knocks off the opponent's held item. Hariyama is super good, I've used it in several of my Sapphire playthroughs, it is very bulky with HP and Defense, and (I'm speaking from experience here) don't sleep on Bulk Up into Arm Thrust. Vital Throw can also be a good option against Sidney.
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That has to be the lowest level a non-legendary has beaten Wallace in Emerald. Also if Claydol ever sets up Reflect or Light Screen, Brick Break can shatter them.
Can't wait to see it! Crawdaunt is one of my Favourite Pokémon.
31:15 "Earthquake"😂
Hey Scott since Whiscash is Crawdaunts version exclusive counter part does that mean a video with Whiscash will be coming soon?
Yesssssss another one I’ve been wanting to see KEEP EM COMMMIIINNNGGGG!!!!
Just realized that “Crawdon’t” which kinda sums up my feelings on that thing.
Unexpected result. Great run. I hope the random rumor of crawdaunt getting an Evo in the DLC for ScVi is true. It's already so badass, but they did bisharp great, so they should handle this one no problem :p
Oh that would be awesome!
Crawdaunt is going to be getting a final evo in Scarlet and Violet's DLC, it's nice to see GameFreak giving it some love
Where’s that revealed?
I'd be interested to see Golduck run, great video!
Fun fact, Hyper Cutter also makes you cut a wider area of grass on the floor if the user has it.
No way?! That’s so silly. I love it.
Taunt smooths out every Mightyena (Sand Attack, Swagger, Scary Face), Winona (Perish Song, Pelipper), and Steven's Skarmory. Maybe worth investigating!
Hi Scott, good work as always. The move brick break negates the effects of light screen and reflect in addition to doing damage. I hope that information helps!
I really am in a camp of my own, where I like dark types Cacturne, Sharpedo and Crawdaunt. The water types problem is that they have higher attack than special attack, while Cacturne has an even 115 in both. All 3 have incredible attacks, but they fail to utilize their STAB. In gen 4 this is all fixed, but they all still have incredible stats in one or the other that they won’t use at all. Like Cacturne; he has a massive 115 in a stat he’ll never use, and would / should be distributed in other stats. With Sharpedo in gen 4 onwards, he would be helped if he could put some sp atk in his defences, which is very weak, while in gen 4, he’d want his massive attack distributed. Same goes for Crawdaunt. Basically, they’re all just 1 gen ahead of their time. Imagine if gen 3 and 4 switched, and Emerald came out with the modern split. It would be absolutely massive. I’d love that.
I just did a run with exploud and it was insane seeing it's type coverage and being able set up with howl. I think you could do it more justice than I could
uh that fossil pokemon isnt dark steel its bug rock type. but anyways good playthrough. wonder if u can do emerald Armaldo only?
you know what scott, YOU are incredible!
I'm now finding it very funny that too many Water types was used as a criticism against Hoenn when clearly they're OP.
Gen 3 music slaps. Super nostalgic
I can never unsee the blue bands as a mouth...