Raticate is ACTUALLY pretty GREAT in Pokemon Red/Blue
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 28 ноя 2023
- Go to expressvpn.com/Jrose and find out how you can get 3 months of ExpressVPN free!
Editing by @SimplyAJ
Music by @makegamemusic
Complete Playlist: • Kanto Solo Challenges
Rules and Explanations
Rules: (1) Only use the one Pokémon in Battle, others for HMs are fine. (2) No Items in battle (3) No Glitches* (4) Set Mode (5) No saving in the Elite Four (6) No evasion moves
Badge Boost "Glitch" Explanation: When you collect odd numbered badges the game boosts a stat by 12.5%. Brock gives ATK, Surge DEF, Koga SPE, and Blaine SPC (in game text is wrong). When any of your stats are modified (even by you using a move like Withdraw, or your opponent using Leer) the badge boosts are re-applied. So If you use Swords Dance, you also gain *an additional 12.5% in Speed/Defence/Special (on top of the 12.5% you were supposed to be getting). When you level up, the game corrects this error, and only the non-glitch 12.5% remains. Because of how difficult it is to avoid, I've allowed for it to be exploited, since opponents will spam Leer/Growl anyways, and this way battles are less random. Red/Blue are extremely buggy, so there's always going to be some glitches present, and because of how unavoidable this one is, it is allowed in runs, and considered more like a special Generation 1 mechanic as opposed to a glitch. 
Игры
Go to expressvpn.com/Jrose and find out how you can get 3 months of ExpressVPN free!
Best RUclips ad read I've ever seen
Sponsors!!
I can't wait to see the final tier list.
I appreciate your content so much I even watched the ad. And I'm not gonna lie, loved the presentation with the Team Rocket stuff lol.
This was honestly an amazing way to integrate Pokémon into an advertisement. That’s when you know it’s good. 😎
I've watched so many JRose solo runs recently that my wife caught me whispering "retroactive super potion" in my sleep
That wasn’t a literal fact right ? That’s so funny
Lol!
Dang my wife hates when I watch it in bed lol
You guys are getting wives? 😟
Lmao
I swear Raticate is a pokemon who seems OP when weilded by NPC trainers. Hyper Fang & Super Fang is scary at the wrong time.
It's a nuzlocke nightmare
They get it quite early - you run into STAB Hyper Fang before your starter gets anything stronger than Ember, Water Gun or Vine Whip unless you are significantly overleveled.
Alohan Raticate is just busted. A dark/normal type in Kanto? That thing is the best Pokémon in the game behind mewtwo or maybe some of the megas.
The goon with the level 16 Raticate in Mt. Moon was a full-on boss fight for my brother and I as kids! We were super underleveled and kept beating our heads against it until I finally won with Squirtle. My brother freaked out afterwards, and we learned what evolution was! Such a magical time in life!! 😊
:)@@amberhernandez
It brings a smile on my face to see a Raticate dunk on most of the game.
brook
I expected this. I used a raticate in my crystal team and it 2nd best member
It still dunks on most games. Guts boosted return is insane.
Not me..I have huge rats in my palm tree outside
When you start out making an hm slave and end up killing everything with rat strength
Normal STAB moves about to go hard in this run
Due to a programming oversight normal moves don't even get stab in gen 1
@@TheBouSheaAre you sure? I researched your statement and all sources I came across stated normal not getting STAB in Gen I is a myth spread by some very early game guides.
@@unbearable505it’s a myth but honestly would you even be surprised if it were true
You mixed up your thoughts. Normal does get stab. What you’re thinking of is due to oversight, glare and body slam cannot paralyze normal types.
@@Jackieness402 Honestly, no. Gen I is just "special" like that.
The fact Raticate was actually underleveled for most of the run is pretty crazy. People really unnecessarily hated this mon back when this was current gen, dismissing it out of hand
Yeah, its design is really bad :(
Seemed to take a lot of experience to level up
in standard gen 1 play if you wanted a normal type you'd likely have access to clefable long before you could evolve a rattata. beyond that normal types easily get hit by status moves and can't do super effective stab damage for most of the game. so all the effort would be better spent on a nidoqueen/nidoking.
Many Normal types have the same or similar movepools since Game Freak tossed basically every TM at them so it becomes a matter of stat comparisons. You say it's "dismissed out of hand" when everyone else would just say that's a simple matter of statistical inferiority.
Its one advantage is early Hyper Fang, but Body Slam comes not long after and is a superior move. Tauros just does everything it does but with better stats and a slightly better movepool due to Earthquake.
No one hated Raticate, it just wasn't designed to be a permanent teammate.
@@psionx1I mean you're tripping if you think anyone will be going for that 1% Clefairy chance, if anything the confirmed level 30 Snorlax can just solo the game no matter the moveset
Raticate learning water-type moves by TM actually makes sense. Their dex entry says they're very good swimmers, so I imagine they spend a lot of time in the water.
The only problem i had on my raticate run was when it ran out of pp for its water fun in Lavender.
Not to mention real life rats are capable swimmers too.
@@Toast_94 Raticate is heavily inspired by the coypu, a South American rodent that was introduced to Japan and thrives there. And wouldn't you know it, they're also strong swimmers.
@@misterbadguy7325 Neat!
Most of the Gen 1 Normal types can learn a strange assortment of special TMs, in fact most of the fully evolved Pokemon can learn random TMs you'd never expect in later gens
A 22 minute JRose video?! How good is this thing 🤯
with an in-video ad too!
It's not really surprising since it's a staple multi-player top tier
It learns dig, body slam, bubble beam, and thunderbolt. So probably really good lol.
@@21stcenturyrambo16It’s a solid enough, low tier option. Not exactly what I’d call a staple.
@@rueblie2627In gen 1 specifically, it kinda is a stable. Not the top tier one, but I’d say it is one.
Raticate is a very underrated pokemon! It carries the early game for... well, pretty much every game in which it's available!
I remember using a Raticate against Morty in Gen 2 with Dig and completely wiping his team. It's a good all-round mon that can fill a role in about every battle!
In gen 3 with guts it can carry the league too
AJ, nice job on the tier list at the end. I remember in a recent video some commenters suggested somehow highlighting the current pokemon's placing. It's much nicer to look at now. Kudos.
Also Jrose, great stuff, loved the run.
One of the two RUclipsrs who introduced me to Pokemon through Leaf Green ditched his starter in favor of Raticate, so seeing this thing be actually pretty good makes me happy.
@@astroblaster6347 Wirgliusz. He's Polish, however, so I doubt you'd want to watch him.
Im so fucking old
A Jrose video at a europe friendly time? Christmas is early this year 🙌🏻
Congrats on the sponsorship! I still remember the Ratata video, and you and the channel have come so far. Really happy for you.
I was so happy for him getting a sponsor that I actually sat and watched the entire thing which I NEVER do for sponsorships
Major props to the editor for taking the constructive feedback about the tierlist! It was great seeing a brief rundown zoomed in like that, and highlighting where Raticate went was phenomenal!
Yes. I was about to comment the same thing. Great job
Thank you, AJ!!
Great run! And congrats on the sponsor. You deserve it. Years and years of no-ad videos and WAY MORE content than the average youtuber. Thank you. Hope it brings you help to your family
i remember using Raticate on my first run as a child back in the 90s. I basically just used whatever first 6 mons I found cause I could barely read and didnt understand the PC LOL. I still remember my Raticate using struggle all the way through the elite four and me just stuffing him full of potions over and over, good times
I'm so happy that jrose is getting sponsors. He really deserves it.
Nobody deserves sponsors. Advertising is a plague upon humanity.
@@knodelimperator8790 just install sponsorblock LOL jrose getting paid regardless
Glad he finally getting extra paid for all his hard work.
@@knodelimperator8790 alright then. Jrose deserves to be paid for his work, just like everyone else. If you can find a better way to do that than sponsorships, please share.
@@knodelimperator8790 Dude, making videos only nets you peanuts in return, so for JRose is either sponsors or having to cut his free time in half by getting a job.
Whenever I see the learnable move list and spot body slam, ice beam, psychic or dig I know that it will be an easier run. So seeing 3 of those in the same list I already expected a walk in the park
Lmao this is a memory unlock. I remember the first time I played Yellow as a smooth brain 6 year old and I couldn't beat Brock with my yellow rat so I caught a Chad purple rat that became a giga chad brown rat and proceded to hyperfang every pokeslave on sight.
Fucking loved it.
jrose11 iv been watching you since you started the solo mon series and let me tell you. you have brought back a love for pokemon i havent had in years and i thank you so much for that. youe gen three runs are my fav because sapphire was my first ever pokemon game
Would be interesting to see just how fast Raticate can beat gen 2 honestly. He eradicates everything with Return, and you can teach him Dig for Ghost/Rock/Steel types. Really funny how a Pokémon you can catch on the first route in the game can become stupid broken very easily.
Heh, eradicated... I see what you did there.
@@TrueNomadSkies Not even intentional, I realized it while proofreading the comment before posting, found it funny, kept it lol
Aren't speedruns done with Raticate in that gen?
@@youtube-kit9450 Human speedruns in Gold/Silver are done with Feraligatr. You're probably thinking of the Gold TAS which uses Raticate. Crystal speedruns (both human and TAS) use Raikou since you can get it really early as a level 40 roaming Legendary in that game.
Fun fact: You mentioned fire emblem Jegan being a throwaway unit in the late game, but a majority of the fire emblem characters the community counts under the Jegan archetype are among the best units, even in the game, by players shooting for efficiency. This includes FE6/7 Marcus, FE8 Seth, FE9 Titania, and funnily enough Shadow Dragon's Jegan. This is mainly because difficulty in Fire Emblem tends to be extremely front loaded, and Jegan units start with such high stats that even with poor growths their stats are usually good enough to at least contribute for the entire game. From an efficiency perspective, "good enough" is almost the only thing that matters
Exactly, I was like.... Did he just said Jagen!??LIKE the PALADIN JAGEN !!? Paladins are op in FE.
@pn8937 not really a surprising misconception, especially from more casual players.
And then you have Frederick who is both really strong early game and has good growths, but all the units in Awakening can become broken due to how easy it is to grind levels.
I thought the consensus was that Seth and Titania were Oifeys, no? Since they have great bases and amazing growths
@@mastemathedank4043 Oifey is a fake archetype that only exists because people thought Jagens were bad but couldn't deny that Seth is the best unit in FE8
imo there should be a DNF tier for Pokemon like Weedle and Magikarp, ranked on how far they got in the run before stopping! It would make the true "everymon is here" list of 151 at the end.
Yes!
yeah it's a good idea !! i hope jrose will see it
It's been done for Weedle on the unevolved tier. We can't do it for Magikarp (or Caterpie or Metapod) because it's actually impossible for them to finish the game; they can't hit ghosts. It's theoretically possible to finish with Weedle, but it would require such extreme odds that will never be seen in our lifetime.
I think the only sponsor ad I've watch in its entirety- Very happy for you, Jrose, and thanks for the many videos! I re-watch a lot of them while I'm at work.
There's a meme category speedrun out there for gen 1.
Rat%
WR is within 15 mins of the nido run and 10 mins of squirtle.
Raticate is unironically a fantastic solo mon
Thank you as always JRose, by far my favorite series on youtube. Keep up the great work!
Thank you for that change to the tier list at the end. So much easier to read and see where the pokemon landed!
NO WAY YOU GOT A SPONSOR I’M SO HAPPY FOR YOU JROSE!!! Well deserved man
I was just re-watching your Rattata video today at lunch of all things! Perfect timing as always
Jrose dunno how long I follow your channel, but the last couple weeks I really watch every video of you again and again, at least blue red and yellow.
You really have a great style. Keep doing what you enjoy.
I thanks for entertaining us.
9:40 I know the Jagen archetype from Fire Emblem has gotten more known over the years, but a very competent player never discards their Jagen because their base stats are that good to keep around, kind of how most people stick to using the same pokemon unless a pokemon was by far their weakest. But with good strategy, One can use their weakest Members of their team to their advantage.
For pokemon, it's all about movesets and abilities. If a weak pokemon has top tier speed, it can setup for the rest of the team if possible. Meanwhile for Jagen, if they are not strong enough to defeat enenies, they can always chip and let others enjoy the EXP far more.
I’ve been playing the first 2 gens of Pokémon for idk 20 or so years now and I already know all of these things. But I love watching these videos every time you come out with them. Keep at it. I love it.
Thanks for another video!
I'm really looking for the middle stages, like Charmeleon and Graveler
Rattata (later Raticate) was one of my first Pokemon as a kid. Always thought it looked awesome and it was so easy to catch. Awesome Pokemon and so underrated. So glad to see it getting some love
Lunch break just got done 22 minutes longer
Ahah ! Good job on the tier list AJ ! It was a nice addition. You nailed it ! ❤
Been watching your pokemon solo videos since near the beginning, love your content Jrose!
Massive congrats on securing a sponsor, glad to see your hard work paying off and thank you very much for the hours of entertainment you've provided me and many others! :)
We shall hereby declare every November to be “The month of Jrose”
I remember doing a Raticate run on my Pokémon Yellow as a child. I was really surprised how easy it was!
Actually been waiting for this since I first watched your channel!
Glad to see you got a sponsor man! Been watching for over a year and I’m happy for you!
I see jrose upload. I jwatch
Jtrue
Raticate has rat power and pure, unadulterated, incomprehensible rage
Man I just love it when Jrose uploads. Always such a good time. Really love the Kanto challenges.
Fun as always! Hoping for an Arbok vid soon!
I’ve been looking forward to this one! Raticate is THE most underrated gen 1 mon. STAB hyper fang is just completely OP in the early to mid game, and it’ll outspeed almost everything
Congrats on the sponsor! Well deserved.
Video aside, I am super happy you got sponsor! Nice transition, nice execution, keep up the great work, mate!
Thanks for scrolling through the tier list closer up, makes it easier for us to see it because of how big that tier list is now!
It seems like... Raticate eraticated Kanto haha 😅
Behold: General Squeaks' revenge.
Look, anyone who watched GameChamp's Gen 1 video knew this was gonna go _way_ better than JRose thought.
Love this Jrose, you have got me doing speed runs on Pokémon Blue at the minute. I’m useless but having fun.
Thanks AJ! The tier list was Much clearer😍
Jrose has entered phase two of the RUclipsr lifespan - a sponsorship. Congratulations, well deserved!
Great speed, good attack. Strong stab moves. Recipe for success.
I am happy to hear that you have a sponsor now, and I loved how you included Pokémon into your script.
Yes, the tier list was very nice to read this time. Thanks for the effort
Youngster Joey's 1% Rattata finally evolved!
I think this run really shows how normal is actually the greatest type in gen 1 and not psychic
It was psychic, but normal is a close 2nd.
Ingame psychic is probably a little better but in competitive normal is significantly better
Well, I beg to differ.
Starmie Slowbro Alakazam Jynx and exeggutor are all psychic types and are all great in competitive gen 1, the only good normal types are Tauros Snorlax and Chansey.
Not counting mew and Mewtwo ofc
@@mattiamerlo2688yeah but those 3 are mandatory in any team that wants to win while the psychics aren’t
@@mattiamerlo2688 You don't consider Persian a good competitive Pokemon in gen 1? It's obviously not as good as Tauros, Snorlax, and Chansey (who are probably rank 1, 2, and 3 Pokemon in that order... all three are better than any legal psychic type), but it's pretty playable with the great speed, guaranteed crit STAB Slash, and Bubblebeam/Thunderbolt for coverage into everything that is not Gengar that likes switching into Slash. Normal and psychic are both downside free typings in gen 1 with no weaknesses that actually matter (hence the majority of most teams just load up on those two types), but normal is immune to Body Slam paralysis which is really good.
I don't know how you evaluate in-game (until jrose is done with the Pokedex I guess), but I do know that the better normal types, especially Dodrio, are generally considered top tier finds in rando very competitive with the best psychic types and the non-Mewtwo legendaries. Normal is truly outstanding in gen 1.
Nothing like opening up RUclips and seeing jrose uploaded 5 secs ago
Dude! Had to congratulate you on the sponsor! Love the content, keep up the great work!
This man finally got a much deserved sponsor
Always liked Raticate
Thanks for the birthday upload!
So excited to see that you got your first sponsor. Great channel, looking forward to much more content.
Seeing Jrose get sponsors fills me with an indescribable joy that I have never felt.
It's the opposite for me. One of the reasons I liked him was because I thought he wasn't a sellout. I mourn the loss of the person I thought he was.
@@knodelimperator8790 He is not a "sellout", he's just making sure he can eat.
@@knodelimperator8790 I mean one hes not begging for money unlike boogie. 2nd its none of your business. third off he gets money from panteron or youtube money. also a lot of people do that doesnt mean they are bad lol
@@ladyriethegoldendelmo5441 If a lot of people jumped from a bridge, would you jump off too?
Love how everybody in the comments is actually happy for you getting a sponsor haha. We can all agree though, it's very well-deserved. Love the videos, as always!
I'm not. Nobody deserves sponsors. Advertising is a plague upon humanity.
Ignore the dude above. He doesn't know how hard it actually is to both create videos and also pay an editor without sponsors.
@@knodelimperator8790you need to deal with how entitled you are
@@toumabyakuya Patreon exists.
@@j644 You need to stop confusing principles with entitlement.
I’m so happy he got a sponsor man, great job bro, keep it up! I’ll be supporting you the entire way
Congrats on the sponsor. You tied it into your video flawlessly - keeping it humorous and informative. 💯
Wow, i remember watching your Catch 'em all series a while back, so seeimg you again is really nostalgic, and wow, now you have a huge solo playthrough series, congrats
I wonder if he ever said, is he planning to attempt all 151 pokemon, since he's already more than halfway there?
Awesome video at the end I definitely would like to see a PDF file of everything. I watch you during COVID when I was always busy working and when I had surgery last year your videos got me through.
Every time I see your video I tell my wife Jrose posted video don't bother me and she was like I need to get you something with it
OMG I LOVEEE the Community reference! It took me a second to get the Inspector Space time but the Blorgon really helped give it away. Amazing video as always JRose! If i could ask for a great Christmas gift for us can you throw in an appearance of the Count during the holiday season?
Congrats on the sponsor jrose! Love the content. The very first shiny I ever encountered in my life was a shiny Raticate
That's the first time I listened to a RUclipsr actually talk about there sponsor. Glad you're getting sponsors!
Woohoo!! So happy to see you've gotten a sponsorship. Really moving on up, congrats dude!
I was watching your videos last night and saw the last time you uploades was three weeks ago and i said to myself, he is gonna make another video soon!
Why isn’t this vid in the Kanto Solo Run playlist? Glad I just noticed it.
Love your vids!!!
as somebody who used to love using raticate as a kid, I knew it would stomp a good chunk of this challenge :D
hey Jrose
I can't wait to see your gen1 Tangela video!
Congrats on getting a sponsor! Great vid as always - happy to see the big rat featured at last
Love the new tier list!
Congrats on the sponsor! Also gonna be a sad day when this gen 1 series ends :(
My favourite!! I'm so hyped for this one :DDD
@SimplyAJ thanks for optimizing the Tier-List
Jrose, u always do such a great job with the color palette of the game, matching the color of the pokemon
Congratulations on the sponsorship!!! I couldn't be any happier that you're getting that compensation. Love your content
I really liked your ad read. Glad to see you get one.
Love watching these I managed to catch up I only started to watch last weekend lol
This video’s been in my watch later for two days, and i just want to say: Congrats on the sponsor! Awesome!
Omg jrose got sponsored?!? Finally!! Congrats man ^-^ great video as always jrose! Keep up the great work
A great video with a personal favorite Pokemon of mine on my birthday no less?!
Was a total treat to see Raticate show just how far a good movepool can take a pokemon in Gen 1!
Another great combination of colors, with the purple and the brown. Excellent stuff.
11:20 "Dugtrio we go for dig"
Radicate uses *BODY SLAM*
This is such a cool series because it makes me appreciate a lot of Pokemon that I never really thought much about!
Wahoo fantastic ad segment. Super smooth jrose 😂👍👍
I actually played back the sponsor 😂 happy to see you getting more notability
Wish you the best like always Jrose!
Nice video. I'm currently on a Pokémon Blue Nuzlocke with a Rattata in my team. Now I know I won't have to throw it away
11:07 watching Jrose select Fly on Pidgey dude he hanging on for dear life every run to that pidgey 😂❤ ready to see your first gen solo runs complete just to know the statistics
I’ve been waiting this one!