Disgraceful as his cheating was, I can verify that not having the hardware to be able to record runs is a real issue. As someone who very casually runs stuff like SM64, SMO & Yugioh Legacy of the Duelist, I'm not gonna pay a crapload on recording equipment (but then again I'm not submitting runs or showing off times)
I find Meganium a surprisingly good out of the box starter. It's bulky; and gets Screens; Leech Seed; Synthesis in case you're still not healing enough and Giga Drain. Leech Seed is busted on bosses because it's % damage. And not much can really chunk a Meganium behind screens while it's Leech Seeding and Giga Draining you. Plus; there's quite a lot of biomes with Water and Ground types. I'd go so far to say they are the most common biomes. The thing about Biomes is you can just use something else to cover for places Meganium is bad in. Meganium is a great candidate to give any Irons and Zincs you find too due to this; since higher defences essencially amply the effect of HP recovery. Even against Mega Ray; since Meganium baits it in; you just Leech Seed and swap to a flying resist that scares it out and Mega Ray takes two turns of Seed damage and loses a HP bar. It feels WEIRD to say "Chikorita is a good starter" but it legitimately is.
Renember when Pulse in his Sun/Moon and Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon speedrun explanation videos said that Popplio was a very busted starter? Yeah he wasn't lying
Nah. Maybe it's you who had no idea I procrastinationed for weeks on this while also practicing for the Pokemon North American International Championship before releasing it. 😄
Ultra Sun would be easier to speedrun simply because Solgaleo's animations are shorter than Lunala's. Same with the Necrozma forms. Therefore, some cutscenes in this version are just longer than Sun.
Popplio is really good, everything with high SpDef is, Meowscarada is kinda bad though, compared to many other starters... Always go bulky in this game. You should also try Blastoise and Torterra, they get shell smash and steamroll most of the game.
Surprised you're posting this considering the faults of the game's creator/team. As a content creator, you should really take a glance into the communities of fanprojects when you cover them, as recently, there was a very rabid instance of immense transphobia in the Pokerouge server. Not trying to fault you as a person, as I doubt you knew about this, but if you get some angry comments, then I hope you read this one first and realize what went on.
I actually did educate myself on this matter and almost did not post this. I will say that I do not condone transphobia of any kind and do not support the original dev and teams actions. The reason I went ahead and posted is due to hearing how much of a turnaround the community and new team have had! It seems to be quite inclusive now from what I've heard.
@@PulseEffects Really? I hadn't heard anything about it, and generally tend to wait around a month before checking back in on spaces like those. Thanks for notifying me!
@@okayIguess123 I... don't get what you mean by that... there are plenty of games with nice communities! As a trans person, I just don't like being discriminated against in communities i *am* a part of.
so what exactly made this a speedrun? many of your choices and strategies were poor, and a normal basic run of me is faster than this. I dont mean no hate or dont want to brag, but this was literally just a normal playthrough with a clickbaity title.
Fun little thing, you can force switches on a rival fight really easy by switching in a pokemon with a resistance to the rivals pokemon. They almost always switch, especially on the later battles
You probably thought of it and it’s slower or something but you can also hold the button to skip dialogue optics and also hold it to constantly attack iirc. Either way great video! Please give your hand/wrist some rest so you don’t get carpal tunnel!
I've come to a similar conclusion for the three starters, but personally I like picking bulbasaur over sprigarito (even if sprigatito is super fast and compensates the other two) simply because having a gen1 starter guarantess that if you ever find a mega bracelet or g-max you'll have at least one eligible pokemon, which is pretty nice
Technically the map doesnt always let you choose. Sometimes one area will have a 100% chance to go to another. Other times theres a 20% chance you could go to a more rare location but the map wont let you choose the rarer location
For the first phase of the final boss, you can switch between Steel and Fairy types, leaving it with DD and Cosmic Power. Afterwards, you set up with whatever you got.
A handy Steel/Fairy 'mon is Tinkatink; they're not much to sneeze at at first, but between unlockable Egg Moves and the unlockable bonus Ability, they're *really* solid. Like, they can solo 90% of Classic Mode. Just bring something along to help out with Fire/Ground types, and maybe a non-Poison percent-damage user (Leech Seed, Salt Cure, etc.) to make Wave 200 easier. Even if you don't have any unlocked stuff yet, they're handy to have around; they're missing some offensive coverage without Egg Moves so you'll need to have more support for them (I recommend bringing a Starter like Mudkip to support them at this stage), and their daamge output isn't incredible without the bonus Ability, but they're perfectly serviceable as an all-rounder that can blindly walk into most fights in the game.
