For Phoebe: her lead Dusclops *does* always use Protect until the first turn you use a move. Key word, until. If you open the bag and use a useless item, like a pokeball 10 times, you can burn all protect PP as she will use it over and over until you attack. Video source of this trivia - Alpharad's Mudkip solo run
Idk how this is coded but back when I completed the Pokedex in Emerald and grinded everything on the E4 there were a couple times when her Dusclops didn't use Protect on the first turn. Same with Drake's Shelgon which supposedly has the same behavior. It must've been like a 1 in 100 chance or smth but it can happen
Funny enough I did this challenge my senior year of high school but gave up around the weather institute. I remeber the reason for me stopping was that I was getting bored of doing the same thing ever battle very slowly. So good job JRose! I respect the commitment.
It's one of those really grindy repetitive challenges, not everybody can do them or should. These challenges are more of a huge test of patience and focus than anything else, like with completing a bare-fisted Dark Souls run.
Bide in gen 3 actually got standardized to 2 turns of bide guaranteed instead of 2-3. Fun fact, In gen 4 it got a +1 priority bracket; making it much scarier imo
@@evankurasu3190 Yup, I even double checked Bulbapedia before posting. It’s always really interesting to keep track of all the little nuances of Pokémon moves across the generations
i was just waking up when I read this and read the first instance of Bide as Biden, and now the Biden Blast being standardized to 2 turns is living rent free in my head.
Cool little mechanic: at 34:21, Vigoroth gets taken out by toxic damage, and since it dies to a passive effect, the game reads that as Slaking’s first turn in battle, so its first ACTIONABLE turn is being read as its second, which is why it looks like it’s loafing around on its first turn
I spotted the first turn loafing around and was like wtf lmao is this an unknown bug? I don't pretend to know everything about these games but I thought I knew a lot of the big bugs and glitches
Something like that happens in Gen 6 and 7. If an Alakazam Mega Evolves in front of a Slakoth or Slaking, they will loaf around in the very first turn.
it'll be ok bud, Shuckle can protect you with it's defenses until you feel a little better! Shuckle is here for us, he's a fantastic emotional support... rock thing (?) 🤗
You, sir, are insane. The amount of patience and tolerance required to actually beat this kind of challenge must be huge. Massive respect for doing this! Oh, and getting Leftovers the long and legal way, too!
Each of these videos is like a badge boost to my enjoyment. Thank you Jrose for going through these fun and often grueling challenges to cheer me up after a long day at college.
I love Shuckle, he's such a cute little dude. playing with a Shuckle is such a different experience from playing with a normal pokemon. he is just so unique in just about every way.
The „Impossible Challenges“ are my favorite videos from you, the uncertain outcome makes them interesting and the lengths you have to go through to achieve victory
I wish they did Ice first and Rock last for once because Ice has the opposite situation to Rock: Ice gyms are usually 7th or 8th when everyone and their grandma can hit them super effectively. Not to mention the two Ice type Elite 4 members who both are basically Water type trainers in disguise because Ice on its own would be a joke at this point.
The point of rock type gyms being first is that you can't just click through them with normal type attacks as long as you aren't really over leveled, so you find out how type effectiveness works
@@rainpooper7088also generally there's rock types you've seen on your journey to the first gym but not really many ice types. I agree tho ice would be rad
Might be buried by now but there is a good way of levelling up your Pokémon in the day centre. If you choose the Acro bike and then head to the mud slide thing above the desert (normally you need the Mach bike to go up it) you can just keep something pressed against the "Up" button/key and you will repeatedly move. You can leave this going overnight or whatever and will max out your level no problem.
I feel like Encore could've been used a lot more in the early game, especially with moves like Rock Tomb and Constrict to lower speed. Continually locking Makuhita into Bulk Up instead of just once, locking Manectric into Howl to prevent damage and locking Numel into Sunny Day to lower chip damage are just some of the strategies I think could've been used to make things easier. It probably would've taken even LONGER so I understand why it wasn't used that often but I still feel it could've helped out a lot more.
Yeah I thought more Encore would be better. There was one point in Roxanne where he Encored a Rock Throw though, so maybe you don't use it to avoid that
@@douglaswills4624I don't see how it couldn't be viable against, say, Manectric. Rock Tomb to lower speed and then Encore the Howl. When the encore is about to end, do it again. Infinite howl. Unless Gen 3 is different than modern mechanics for how encore works.
8:23 - almost 6 GB footage so far haha holy. Can’t wait to watch the rest. I have made many Shuckle teams for ranked on the mainline games. My fav Pokémon! Always entertaining haha
I really love the idea of moving past red and blue, like I adore the red and blue content but throwing in some gens 2-5 playthroughs now and then would be pretty cool
Just saw JRose beat Watson, it's insane how many of these battles Shuckle is winning on single-digit HP on the lucky runs. JRose is one tenacious shuckler!
I absolutely love the 1HR+ videos! This looked excruciating! I was so excited to watch this, thanks for the vid and all of your content! And thanks to AJ for his work editing! The little bits you toss in are great!
I've been subbed for almost 3 years and I have to say, this is now my favorite video. Thank you and your editors for taking on this monumental challenge, what an incredible showcase of all your strategy, knowledge (edit: and patience 😂🤣) of the game. This is just legendary.
Just a heads up as someone who did a Feebas Diamond/Pearl solo run since you mentioned you're doing one near the end for Platinum: As someone who did that same thing years ago, it's almost a necessity to use an egg move (Dragonbreath) because of the changes made to Struggle during Gen 3 -> Gen 4 that make it damn near impossible to use a Feebas that only hatches with Splash; the Feebas with an Egg move was my second attempt. Instead of dealing recoil damage based on how much damage you dealt, you simply lose ¼ of your health every time you use it. I’m guessing they did this because of Wobuffet - two Wobuffet locked into battle with Leftovers was a huge problem in competitive Pokemon in generation 3 but I digress. Since it’s your only means of damage for Feebas until Level 15, it becomes a major problem, especially given how frail a level 1 Pokémon is, let alone one with such awful stats. And since I wasn't using not using items in battle, not even against wild Pokémon, this makes it considerably more daunting than it would have been compared to any of the past generations. In the first two routes, there’s only one Pokémon that you can burn Splash PP against without risking being knocked out against, Kricketot, who has Bide and Growl. Kricketot can only be found at night which isn’t that big an issue since you can just change the clock. The bigger issue is that it learns Bide which is pretty hard to avoid. While you can try to flee, since Feebas is only level 1 and the chances of fleeing Kriketot or any other Pokemon are based on speed, it’s unlikely that will succeed and this is even further compounded by the lack of resources one has at the start of the game, let alone how few one will have going forward. It’s all a matter as to whether they use Bide before getting KO’d/before Growl lowers your attack to the point where you're dealing less than 1/4. And while you can always try to run until you succeed and face a Bidoof or Starly, it’s not like the other local Pokémon will be much easier to beat even if you do have Struggle and full HP. Both of them possess the move Growl which will lower Feebas’ already meager attack even further.
@@Eroil Well for one i'm assuming JRose is acquiring his Feebas the same way I did/the same way he did in Emerald which is via an Egg he bred and in Gen 4, eggs start out at level 1, not 5. For another, Feebas still doesn't learn any moves until level 15 which because it's part of the erratic egg group means getting the EXP for that is excruciating. It's worse in Platinum than Diamond/Pearl because the latter actually gives you access to Hidden Power fairly early so you could conceivably make a rush for it and hope you get lucky with an HP that will help you out at one of the points you'll get stuck (the first Purugly/Team Galactic boss, the Grass gym which has the benefit of a good grinding spot due to Cheryl healing you after every encounter, etc.) before you get access to Surf or Blizzard. There's also Abomasnow at the Ice gym who took an absurd amount of time to beat but that's way later in the game when you have more tools to approach that battle.
@@CazMeister afaik usually he uses a cheat engine to replace one of the starters to Feebas, this is what he does in most of his videos. It might still be a wise decision but I'm pretty sure for Jrose it's usually as long as it's possible he would not use anything but the standard (which wouldn't be an egg move mon)
@@Eroil He never uses cheat engine unless it's a modded run using an emulator. 99% of the time he is using an actual cartridge, a gameshark or action replay to hack in the mon, or trading an egg in, and playing on a Retron5 for the speed up mode.
Heya Jrose! Just popping in to tell you that Rock Tomb IS a TM in gen 4. You can get it in the Ravaged Path (that tiny cave just north of Jubilife) if you rock smash to the left after going in. So you need to wait until after the first gym, but it's entirely obtainable. Hope that helps! Thanks for all the videos! They're always a treat! Keep at it!
@Jrose11 The other day, I realized that there is a Pokemon that's gonna be as bad as Abra in Gen 1: Raichu. Raichu only has Thunder Shock, Growl, and Thunder Wave. That's it. Combined, those moves have a whopping 90 Power Points! It'll take forever to use Struggle, but hopefully, due to Raichu having much higher Attack and HP, it'll be faster than Abra.
How did the Zigzagoon level up to 91 and evolve to Linoone? Experience Share and fighting on a higher level route? I get it's an investment, but it's also lowering your pickup chance in the mean time a lot, because you can't hold Experience Share and use Pickup at the same time. EDIT: Gets answered much later in the video, rare candies from Pickup.
to me even being able to time the Substitutes at all is insanely impressive, I flat out can't use Substitute strategies in game because I never get the timing right. Some of the play in that final E4 run was just insane, most especially how the Milotic was handled, hahaha. Toxic/Sandstorm is also a really funny and rude combination.
Jrose you always know how to deliver a video right when the world seems to need a good day. Keep doing what you do we all appreciate your work more than words can express.
Ok, so you said in the opening this would be significantly harder due to a lack of roll out, but iirc, in emerald specifically, there's a guy in Mauvaile who will teach it to one pokemon. Will edit if you bring this up.
The things you do for us JRose, I think I speak for all of us when I say thank you for bringing us this content. I know some videos are more of a struggle than others, but we appreciate it all!
Oh hey, another Impossible Challenge run for me to watch, that’s what we like to see. But this one will have to wait for the morning this time. Let’s see how this turned out in a few hours Edit: Welp, that sure was a Shuckle run in Pokémon Emerald
@@stormbornapostle5188Yeah, that's why I went for Duskull, an evolved pokemon would actually be reasonable X3 Was kind of a harsher thing for him to say I suppose, but I can't blame him after suffering through this run lol
Isn’t TM44 Rest available in Lilycove? Seems like an obvious choice for a Toxic-stall strategy. Sleep Talk and Substitute are options available via Move Tutor as well. 🤔🤔 I mean, mad props for grinding for Leftovers instead, but Rest seems like a slam dunk even in combination with Leftovers. Edit: Ah, I see; “I thought I might ultimately regret deleting a move” strikes again. Edit 2: Gee, if only there were a way to heal poison or prevent it with a move, then that Tentacruel might not be so dangerous. 😅 Edit 3: Ah, he’s finally discovered Substitute. 😂 Edit 4: NO STEVEN FIGHT?! 😢 I was so curious/sadistic about seeing whether you’d need to pivot off of Toxic entirely in order to get a moveset that can deal with his Toxic-immune Steel types.
Longest run? Better start watching now then 😁 (if you see this comment I love your content, it helped me big times when life was kinda rough, keep up the good mood and the good work 🔥)
Jrose I had this video playing while I was on my walk today, and I loved every second of it, it was probably such a pain to get through on your end but a very entertaining video nonetheless!
All that time getting leftovers when you can get rest in lillycove, love the video I'm sure theres a good reason you didn't use rest vs Juan keep up thw good work.
"We beat the run and entered the Hall of Fame, but you know it's not over yet-" "No! No, you shut up, it IS over yet! I am NOT going after Steven with a Shuckle! Skarmory will try Toxic from turn one, I am NOT going through Meteor Falls just to find that out firsthand!" "…Okay, then, jeez. Touchy, much?"
Jrose approaches these runs like artisans of Japanese Calligraphy Ink. The effort may be lost on some folks, but you can feel the energy put into the product 👌
I feel like Rollout in Mauville and Swagger in Slateport could've been helpful move tutor moves to learn for this run, but I love all your runs JRose! Edit: Rollout does appear! It genuinely surprises me that Shuckle can't learn defence curl until the battle frontier, could've made it significantly easier
At the end of the video, did we just get a teaser about Feebas in Pokemon Platinum? That's REALLY interesting. Looking forward to that. Anyway, amazing video even though this run HAD to be brutal for Shuckle. Once again, you did it with Shuckle though it was hardly the curbstomp that this was in Crystal. Also can't believe how long this vid was, lol. But yeah, was nice to see some variety on a Pokemon NOT known for variety in strategy. Would Defense Curl have even worked in this game, assuming Shuckle could even get it? That's what I'd like to know.
At end: Well played! I know you had to do a fair amount of rejiggering for champion, but you still made it through! (Also, I can understand why you didn't attempt Steven, I wouldn't either after that epic champion fight -- my wild guess is that Shuckle wouldn't be able to beat Steven anyways, but you never know.)
I just so happened to be watching this video while playing Pokemon Stadium 2, so I'm gonna put this comment here. Thanks to watching these solo runs, you have made me much more knowledgeable about how to utilize pokemon effectively. Your strats have helped me immensely. Tysm (Edit) sorry it took me so long to sub
A wise person once said, “Don’t f*ckle with Shuckle.”
Do not*
@@m.ajmal.ndon't*
@@creeperfun12 He says it as "Do not..". Correct yourself.
@@m.ajmal.n you must be fun at parties.
@@m.ajmal.n that is so extremely not mattering, brother..
Both is right, Do not, or don't. But that's so absolutely not of interest for anyone 😂
For Phoebe: her lead Dusclops *does* always use Protect until the first turn you use a move. Key word, until. If you open the bag and use a useless item, like a pokeball 10 times, you can burn all protect PP as she will use it over and over until you attack.
Video source of this trivia - Alpharad's Mudkip solo run
Hooray for funny broken AI moments
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Dont think you can use Pokeballs to skip your turn though
no items in battle though
Idk how this is coded but back when I completed the Pokedex in Emerald and grinded everything on the E4 there were a couple times when her Dusclops didn't use Protect on the first turn. Same with Drake's Shelgon which supposedly has the same behavior. It must've been like a 1 in 100 chance or smth but it can happen
Funny enough I did this challenge my senior year of high school but gave up around the weather institute. I remeber the reason for me stopping was that I was getting bored of doing the same thing ever battle very slowly. So good job JRose! I respect the commitment.
It's one of those really grindy repetitive challenges, not everybody can do them or should. These challenges are more of a huge test of patience and focus than anything else, like with completing a bare-fisted Dark Souls run.
If you play the game sped up the grind isn’t bad
Bide in gen 3 actually got standardized to 2 turns of bide guaranteed instead of 2-3. Fun fact, In gen 4 it got a +1 priority bracket; making it much scarier imo
No shot. Really??
@@evankurasu3190 Yup, I even double checked Bulbapedia before posting. It’s always really interesting to keep track of all the little nuances of Pokémon moves across the generations
i was just waking up when I read this and read the first instance of Bide as Biden, and now the Biden Blast being standardized to 2 turns is living rent free in my head.
@@CillmaCuvas Bro same wtf.
On topic, I find it crazy that it got priority so late, it was so underpowered because of 0 priority.
Biden getting buffed is insane. No wonder he's president now.
Cool little mechanic: at 34:21, Vigoroth gets taken out by toxic damage, and since it dies to a passive effect, the game reads that as Slaking’s first turn in battle, so its first ACTIONABLE turn is being read as its second, which is why it looks like it’s loafing around on its first turn
I spotted the first turn loafing around and was like wtf lmao is this an unknown bug? I don't pretend to know everything about these games but I thought I knew a lot of the big bugs and glitches
@@JellyLocke lmao i saw it and immediately knew something was up, so I dug into it and found like a 15 year old gamefaqs post talking about it
@NotoriousDink this is actually pretty interesting. Thanks for the tidbit!
I would classify that as a bug, not a mechanic, seeing how it's not actually Slaking's first turn in battle.
Something like that happens in Gen 6 and 7. If an Alakazam Mega Evolves in front of a Slakoth or Slaking, they will loaf around in the very first turn.
18:01 you know the situation is dire when Rock smash is the best move you have access to.
This is a whole actual feature film. Borderline sanity. I love it.
I like that you didn't say he was bordering on *insanity* bro is genuinely insane for videos like this
*borderline insanity
Yh it is... I really like when you tubers playing runs that I have no patience to do
@@Medabee8nah he got it right. Read first reply lol
I like trains.
Somehow I get the feeling this isn't going to go as well as Gen 2 did for Shuckle
Especially because Defense Curl is a post-game exclusive tutor move, so the combo that made it awesome in Gen 2 is unavailable.
Too much water
@@lukaskback9710I got that reference
> it did not
The ai is also a lot more tricky, the battles don't go as straight as they did in gen 2
This video has come to at the perfect time for me, as I was feeling down, Jrose videos always makes me feels better
it'll be ok bud, Shuckle can protect you with it's defenses until you feel a little better!
Shuckle is here for us, he's a fantastic emotional support... rock thing (?) 🤗
Hope you get to feeling better bud👍
I know what you mean. I hope you feel better.
Hope you feel better man
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You, sir, are insane. The amount of patience and tolerance required to actually beat this kind of challenge must be huge. Massive respect for doing this! Oh, and getting Leftovers the long and legal way, too!
Each of these videos is like a badge boost to my enjoyment. Thank you Jrose for going through these fun and often grueling challenges to cheer me up after a long day at college.
Jrose always comes in clutch! Been going through a rough time and nothing makes it better than a new Jrose video!
Hope it gets better soon
I love Shuckle, he's such a cute little dude. playing with a Shuckle is such a different experience from playing with a normal pokemon. he is just so unique in just about every way.
I think that's the problem
The „Impossible Challenges“ are my favorite videos from you, the uncertain outcome makes them interesting and the lengths you have to go through to achieve victory
Game freak just really loved having rock types as the first gym. Gen 1 and 3 really jamming you up
Don't forget gen4
I wish they did Ice first and Rock last for once because Ice has the opposite situation to Rock: Ice gyms are usually 7th or 8th when everyone and their grandma can hit them super effectively. Not to mention the two Ice type Elite 4 members who both are basically Water type trainers in disguise because Ice on its own would be a joke at this point.
The point of rock type gyms being first is that you can't just click through them with normal type attacks as long as you aren't really over leveled, so you find out how type effectiveness works
@@rainpooper7088also generally there's rock types you've seen on your journey to the first gym but not really many ice types. I agree tho ice would be rad
And Gen 4. lel
Might be buried by now but there is a good way of levelling up your Pokémon in the day centre.
If you choose the Acro bike and then head to the mud slide thing above the desert (normally you need the Mach bike to go up it) you can just keep something pressed against the "Up" button/key and you will repeatedly move.
You can leave this going overnight or whatever and will max out your level no problem.
The day care also forces your Pokémon to learn new moves though
@@TheJingles007 thankfully that doesn't matter in this case since he's not worried about what moves it knows, only what level it gets to
He doesn’t like doing that kind of thing though.
At that point you might as well just cheat the rare candies in with the cheat device he uses to replace the starters lol
I feel like Encore could've been used a lot more in the early game, especially with moves like Rock Tomb and Constrict to lower speed. Continually locking Makuhita into Bulk Up instead of just once, locking Manectric into Howl to prevent damage and locking Numel into Sunny Day to lower chip damage are just some of the strategies I think could've been used to make things easier. It probably would've taken even LONGER so I understand why it wasn't used that often but I still feel it could've helped out a lot more.
I watched a lot of this run live cause I know Jrose. It was tried. Quite a lot. It just wasn't viable IIRC. Tho, Jrose could correct me if I'm wrong.
@@douglaswills4624 he never tried to encore and rollout though. Normally you use encore to setup, but rollout does that too.
Encore would have helped immensely with Kingdra I feel
Yeah I thought more Encore would be better. There was one point in Roxanne where he Encored a Rock Throw though, so maybe you don't use it to avoid that
@@douglaswills4624I don't see how it couldn't be viable against, say, Manectric. Rock Tomb to lower speed and then Encore the Howl. When the encore is about to end, do it again. Infinite howl. Unless Gen 3 is different than modern mechanics for how encore works.
8:23 - almost 6 GB footage so far haha holy.
Can’t wait to watch the rest. I have made many Shuckle teams for ranked on the mainline games. My fav Pokémon! Always entertaining haha
Happy to see someone else having it as their favourite pokemon as well! Welcome, Friend!
I really love the idea of moving past red and blue, like I adore the red and blue content but throwing in some gens 2-5 playthroughs now and then would be pretty cool
watching this on .25x speed
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Thank you...
Just saw JRose beat Watson, it's insane how many of these battles Shuckle is winning on single-digit HP on the lucky runs. JRose is one tenacious shuckler!
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It's always a good day when Jrose uploads. Even moreso when it's one of your favourite Pokémon in your favourite game of the series.
Wholeheartedly agree - was genuinely surprised to see Shuckle AND Emerald in the same title
Shuckel yeah
Ps during poke fest 2023 ended up only getting a single shiny in pokemon go and it was shuckel
Duuude after seeing your videos for the first time, about 3 years ago, I did my own shukle run on emerald! Love your video, keep on :D
I never know how much i need a jrose video until i see a new one in my feed one of my favorite channels right now!!!
Game freak are cowards, give 👏 shuckle👏body👏press👏
That's what I'm saying, muh boi gets Iron Defense, and now with Contrary it could even set it up with Shell Smash, but noooooooooo
Game Freak coward pigs better give us a good Pokemon game again... anything from gen 5 is shit 🤮
I absolutely love the 1HR+ videos! This looked excruciating! I was so excited to watch this, thanks for the vid and all of your content! And thanks to AJ for his work editing! The little bits you toss in are great!
I've been subbed for almost 3 years and I have to say, this is now my favorite video. Thank you and your editors for taking on this monumental challenge, what an incredible showcase of all your strategy, knowledge (edit: and patience 😂🤣) of the game. This is just legendary.
Just a heads up as someone who did a Feebas Diamond/Pearl solo run since you mentioned you're doing one near the end for Platinum: As someone who did that same thing years ago, it's almost a necessity to use an egg move (Dragonbreath) because of the changes made to Struggle during Gen 3 -> Gen 4 that make it damn near impossible to use a Feebas that only hatches with Splash; the Feebas with an Egg move was my second attempt.
Instead of dealing recoil damage based on how much damage you dealt, you simply lose ¼ of your health every time you use it. I’m guessing they did this because of Wobuffet - two Wobuffet locked into battle with Leftovers was a huge problem in competitive Pokemon in generation 3 but I digress. Since it’s your only means of damage for Feebas until Level 15, it becomes a major problem, especially given how frail a level 1 Pokémon is, let alone one with such awful stats. And since I wasn't using not using items in battle, not even against wild Pokémon, this makes it considerably more daunting than it would have been compared to any of the past generations. In the first two routes, there’s only one Pokémon that you can burn Splash PP against without risking being knocked out against, Kricketot, who has Bide and Growl.
Kricketot can only be found at night which isn’t that big an issue since you can just change the clock. The bigger issue is that it learns Bide which is pretty hard to avoid. While you can try to flee, since Feebas is only level 1 and the chances of fleeing Kriketot or any other Pokemon are based on speed, it’s unlikely that will succeed and this is even further compounded by the lack of resources one has at the start of the game, let alone how few one will have going forward.
It’s all a matter as to whether they use Bide before getting KO’d/before Growl lowers your attack to the point where you're dealing less than 1/4. And while you can always try to run until you succeed and face a Bidoof or Starly, it’s not like the other local Pokémon will be much easier to beat even if you do have Struggle and full HP. Both of them possess the move Growl which will lower Feebas’ already meager attack even further.
Good tip! But why start with a level 1 Feebas? Traditionally the Pokemon that you get always starts at level 5
@@Eroil Well for one i'm assuming JRose is acquiring his Feebas the same way I did/the same way he did in Emerald which is via an Egg he bred and in Gen 4, eggs start out at level 1, not 5.
For another, Feebas still doesn't learn any moves until level 15 which because it's part of the erratic egg group means getting the EXP for that is excruciating. It's worse in Platinum than Diamond/Pearl because the latter actually gives you access to Hidden Power fairly early so you could conceivably make a rush for it and hope you get lucky with an HP that will help you out at one of the points you'll get stuck (the first Purugly/Team Galactic boss, the Grass gym which has the benefit of a good grinding spot due to Cheryl healing you after every encounter, etc.) before you get access to Surf or Blizzard.
There's also Abomasnow at the Ice gym who took an absurd amount of time to beat but that's way later in the game when you have more tools to approach that battle.
@@CazMeister afaik usually he uses a cheat engine to replace one of the starters to Feebas, this is what he does in most of his videos. It might still be a wise decision but I'm pretty sure for Jrose it's usually as long as it's possible he would not use anything but the standard (which wouldn't be an egg move mon)
@@Eroil He never uses cheat engine unless it's a modded run using an emulator. 99% of the time he is using an actual cartridge, a gameshark or action replay to hack in the mon, or trading an egg in, and playing on a Retron5 for the speed up mode.
Heya Jrose! Just popping in to tell you that Rock Tomb IS a TM in gen 4. You can get it in the Ravaged Path (that tiny cave just north of Jubilife) if you rock smash to the left after going in. So you need to wait until after the first gym, but it's entirely obtainable. Hope that helps!
Thanks for all the videos! They're always a treat! Keep at it!
31:10 "Norman leads with Spinda, and of course, we lead with Shuckle."
Dry humor like this kills me.
Do not fckle with Shuckle. Mewtwo has been put on notice. My appointment is measurable and my day is perfected.
Jrose? You're my goddamn hero. The effort you put into this... is astounding. I applaud you... you absolute lunatic lol
This man really did a solo Shuckle run, and at some point, Shuckle wasn't even his highest level Pokemon. Outstanding move.
50:45 that’s some dedication to get the lefties! But isn’t there a free leftovers you can get in the wrecked ship?
Your videos always make my night Jrose :)
I'm glad, after Lafrenière and Kakko you deserve something to look forward to :P
@@Jrose11 'Can I beat Fire Emblem with just an Amelia?' You really could expand into Fire Emblem y'know. It's just Pokemon with arena tactics.
@@Marcara081I'm doing a deathless hard run of that game RN 😅 Training Ross in the arena and considering trying to throw Amelia in there as well...
@Jrose11 The other day, I realized that there is a Pokemon that's gonna be as bad as Abra in Gen 1: Raichu. Raichu only has Thunder Shock, Growl, and Thunder Wave. That's it. Combined, those moves have a whopping 90 Power Points! It'll take forever to use Struggle, but hopefully, due to Raichu having much higher Attack and HP, it'll be faster than Abra.
@@Jrose11 OUCH
What a great video. I love Shuckle and as he's my favourite, it was nice to see the journey happen
Was looking for something to fall asleep to for the last hour. Guess the universe was just keeping me awake in order to enjoy this
This might be my favorite JRose11 video ever. All the different strats, twists and turns. Truly an epic ride.
@Dorkly needs to take note of this and do an episode. Imagine Shuckle constricting a Geodude to death. 😂
yeeeah, shuckle!
How did the Zigzagoon level up to 91 and evolve to Linoone? Experience Share and fighting on a higher level route? I get it's an investment, but it's also lowering your pickup chance in the mean time a lot, because you can't hold Experience Share and use Pickup at the same time. EDIT: Gets answered much later in the video, rare candies from Pickup.
I apologize in advance for the fresh underworld you will be experiencing in this challenge. This thumbnail and title made me immediately go "Oh no."
I have determined that the only people who enjoy Shuckle are people who do not wear socks while playing
havent started watching the video yet but i just wanted to say i love whenever you do an emerald run!
The dedication is inspiring. Love these impossible challenges!
to me even being able to time the Substitutes at all is insanely impressive, I flat out can't use Substitute strategies in game because I never get the timing right. Some of the play in that final E4 run was just insane, most especially how the Milotic was handled, hahaha. Toxic/Sandstorm is also a really funny and rude combination.
That Bad Religion sample in your music is dope.
So rollout is available in emerald in mauville city. The guy by the gym or pokecenter will teach it.
Watch the whole video next time. 😂
Yay. I'm struggling to sleep. Cheers for the good work. Keep it up ❤
Jrose you always know how to deliver a video right when the world seems to need a good day. Keep doing what you do we all appreciate your work more than words can express.
My man is really giving a new meaning to "Don't Fuckle with the Shuckle."
One more video before bed...
5:08
Jrose: can you imagine doing this at normal 1x speed?
Me: _listening to this video at 1.5x speed_
*oh god, please no*
Ok, so you said in the opening this would be significantly harder due to a lack of roll out, but iirc, in emerald specifically, there's a guy in Mauvaile who will teach it to one pokemon. Will edit if you bring this up.
You remembered correctly. Don't know why he didn't get it.
I believe he does call out that there's a move tutor but chooses not to anyway
The things you do for us JRose, I think I speak for all of us when I say thank you for bringing us this content. I know some videos are more of a struggle than others, but we appreciate it all!
I love this. MDB's playthrough of Fire Red with a Shuckle was what first got me into watching these runs.
This upload’s timing was perfect I just finished all your Nuzlocke videos. I can’t w8 to see this conclusion
Oh hey, another Impossible Challenge run for me to watch, that’s what we like to see. But this one will have to wait for the morning this time. Let’s see how this turned out in a few hours
Edit: Welp, that sure was a Shuckle run in Pokémon Emerald
sweet dreams, my dude!
"Don't fuckle with Shuckle"
- Shuckle Shucky the 3rd
Jrose, remember that EVs were not capped at 252 until like gen 7. In gen 3, they cap at 255, but the extra 3 points have no effect.
gen 6*
They technically have an effect because those points beyond 252 become wasted, meaning you have lower potential stats for the others
i know these long videos can take their toll on you but trust me, we, the fans love them, this was amazing to watch my dude.
YAAAAY.😃
Always always Always a wonderful day
ight when a new Jrose video pops up.
Now it's "Shuckle time."
"Yeeaaah, Shuckle."
😄👍
So well presented buddy! You even get me interested with Pokemon games with your energy in these videos.
Whoo boy. Imagine if Shuckle could get Foul Play. I wish.
Imagine if it got fissure. The salt would be immense
Leech seed is my pick. It would heal it a ton.
"Offensive dusclops is a bad Pokémon"
Jrose 8 years later: can duskull beat emerald with only offensive moves?
Dusclops (+SpDef, -Spd nature) with Shadow Ball, Focus Punch, Will-o-Wisp, and Icy Wind has served me very well in the past in Emerald.
@@stormbornapostle5188Yeah, that's why I went for Duskull, an evolved pokemon would actually be reasonable X3 Was kind of a harsher thing for him to say I suppose, but I can't blame him after suffering through this run lol
1:10:39 that glalie voice was spot on 😂
😂😂 lmfao I thought to myself is that really what it sounds like??
these are just so entertaining. thank you for continuing to make these
Isn’t TM44 Rest available in Lilycove? Seems like an obvious choice for a Toxic-stall strategy. Sleep Talk and Substitute are options available via Move Tutor as well. 🤔🤔 I mean, mad props for grinding for Leftovers instead, but Rest seems like a slam dunk even in combination with Leftovers.
Edit: Ah, I see; “I thought I might ultimately regret deleting a move” strikes again.
Edit 2: Gee, if only there were a way to heal poison or prevent it with a move, then that Tentacruel might not be so dangerous. 😅
Edit 3: Ah, he’s finally discovered Substitute. 😂
Edit 4: NO STEVEN FIGHT?! 😢 I was so curious/sadistic about seeing whether you’d need to pivot off of Toxic entirely in order to get a moveset that can deal with his Toxic-immune Steel types.
Been falling asleep to your impossible challenge playlist lately and now I got a new one woot
Longest run?
Better start watching now then 😁 (if you see this comment I love your content, it helped me big times when life was kinda rough, keep up the good mood and the good work 🔥)
Everybody gangsta until Jrose uploads a two hour run.
Another video so soon? I am shell shocked. Thanks for another awesome video.
Yay Shuckle!!! Now in the spirit of the Mewtwo run, how about Rayquaza? 😅
The Nosepass sprite’s arm/leg looks like his lips are blowing a kiss and now I can’t unsee it
Jrose videos always hit so different time to vibe out 🙌🏾🙌🏾
No joke, i was just checking in to see if he had a new video, 8mins ago!
Love the content
Don't fuggle with shuggle
Jrose I had this video playing while I was on my walk today, and I loved every second of it, it was probably such a pain to get through on your end but a very entertaining video nonetheless!
You don't messle with shuckle
All that time getting leftovers when you can get rest in lillycove, love the video I'm sure theres a good reason you didn't use rest vs Juan keep up thw good work.
Its Midnight.
Hard to sleep.
Suddenly, Jrose11 video pops up!
Welp, time to watch this epic run lol
"We beat the run and entered the Hall of Fame, but you know it's not over yet-"
"No! No, you shut up, it IS over yet! I am NOT going after Steven with a Shuckle! Skarmory will try Toxic from turn one, I am NOT going through Meteor Falls just to find that out firsthand!"
"…Okay, then, jeez. Touchy, much?"
Let's go Shuck!!!
"If it were modern wrap"
Me: it would have less mumbling and heavy autotune, and more talent?😂
Jrose approaches these runs like artisans of Japanese Calligraphy Ink. The effort may be lost on some folks, but you can feel the energy put into the product 👌
🐢Don't Fuckle with Shuckle🐢
I feel like Rollout in Mauville and Swagger in Slateport could've been helpful move tutor moves to learn for this run, but I love all your runs JRose!
Edit: Rollout does appear! It genuinely surprises me that Shuckle can't learn defence curl until the battle frontier, could've made it significantly easier
...he...he did use Rollout. I seriously don't grasp how so many people are commenting this. Did y'all just...not watch the video?
@@stormbornapostle5188 made this comment around the Wattson battle and then forgot and didn't delete it
I rewatch the old videos anyway, I can do reruns all year long :D
your narration is king
idk why i lost it at “its Glalie! GGLLLAAALLIEEEE!” 😂😂😂 way to make my day Jrose
This is some top tier patience here. Great video as always
At the end of the video, did we just get a teaser about Feebas in Pokemon Platinum? That's REALLY interesting. Looking forward to that.
Anyway, amazing video even though this run HAD to be brutal for Shuckle. Once again, you did it with Shuckle though it was hardly the curbstomp that this was in Crystal. Also can't believe how long this vid was, lol.
But yeah, was nice to see some variety on a Pokemon NOT known for variety in strategy. Would Defense Curl have even worked in this game, assuming Shuckle could even get it? That's what I'd like to know.
shuckle was making rock tomb look like a 50% accurate move in this video
This is a challenge movie=) And i am all here for it! Thank you and have a nice day=)
Awesome! It akways makes my day when Jrose video goes up
Me: "I can't watch movies anymore, I just lack the attention span nowadays, y'know?"
Also me: "90 minutes of Jrose? Hell yes!"
So fact about the ability Sturdy. Until Gen 5 it only protected you from moves that are 1 hit ko (Sheer Cold, Fissure, and Guillotine)
What an absolute horror. You’re a beast for pulling through!
This really highlights just how much Emerald relies on RNG shenanigans for its difficulty. So much Double Team, Acc dropping and Attract.
At end: Well played! I know you had to do a fair amount of rejiggering for champion, but you still made it through! (Also, I can understand why you didn't attempt Steven, I wouldn't either after that epic champion fight -- my wild guess is that Shuckle wouldn't be able to beat Steven anyways, but you never know.)
Awesome job again Jrose, love it!!
I just so happened to be watching this video while playing Pokemon Stadium 2, so I'm gonna put this comment here.
Thanks to watching these solo runs, you have made me much more knowledgeable about how to utilize pokemon effectively. Your strats have helped me immensely. Tysm
(Edit) sorry it took me so long to sub
Congratulations Jrose, hard fought. Proud of you.