I miss how darn cool the battle sprites looked in Gen 2, especially the moving ones in Crystal. Some pokemon, like skarmory, don't translate over to 3D well.
@@cyberdarkturtle6971no sir, I don't reckon. You're entitled to thinking that though if you'd like. I've played every mainline Pokémon game and to me and many of my friends, the pokemon and the games lost something special to us when they changed.
Sprites had undeniable power in their presentation, while a 3d model is just *there*. Used to be able to look forward to a new sprite, often with new poses or sometimes shades of color. Sprites have infinitely more personality
There's actually an even better way to found the beasts. You can go in that little building that connects Ecruteak to Route 38. Stay in front of the door to Route 38, use a Super Repel, put on your bike and save the game. Then go to the Route 38 and wander around the grass until the repel wears off. If the beast didn't appear, just reset the game (A+B+Start+Select) and repeat. You can even turn on the Pokémon March on the radio if it's Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday or Sunday to increase your odds. That's actually one of the methods shiny hunters use to found both Raikou and Entei shiny, and that's the one I used to found them. Also, it is technically possible to get an evolutionary stone in Gold and Silver before Kanto. It's VERY unlikely, but it is possible to obtain one through the Mystery Gift function. Even if you don't have two GBCs around, you can still use it once a day with the Pokémon Stadium 2 if you have it. The thing is that each cart can only give you ONE of the stones (and they can give you no stone at all, it is a 50% chance that depends on the trainer's ID), and even then the odds of getting it is about 0,75%, so good luck with that. If the cart gives you a Max Ether, Max Elixer, Max Revive of Scope Lens, then you will know you can't get an evolutionary through this one though.
This is only relevant in the remakes, but if you want to more easily get the Metal Coat or King's Rock, have a Pokémon with the ability Compound Eyes in the front of your party which doubles the chances of a wild Pokémon holding an item Again, this only applies to the remakes
This takes me back. No one believed me when it happened (as the game has just been released), but the first magnemite I caught had a metal coat on it. Everyone thought I was messing with them and when I showed them I told them I hadn't gotten from anyone yet, I literally had just caught it. None of us knew that they could be caught with hold items, as this was a brand new mechanic at the time.
@@sky_pirate game FAQs was a thing, but we actually enjoy playing a game legitimately. Weird, I know. The mindset of someone who actually likes to learn things on their own rather than be spoon-fed
Yeah, ngl I feel like not having someone to trade is a way bigger limiting factor than getting the item in the end. I'm glad I had my brother to trade with.
5:36 This one is interesting. I occasionally speedrun Crystal with Eevee/Espeon only, my current run involves fishing a Magikarp just like this, giving my Eevee enough X-Items. Didn't know that the friendship kept raising even if the stats have the +6 boost.
I've been doing some play testing on the most "powerful" teams you can get by/right after the second gym badge in pokemon games. Sort of a "What are the disc 1 nukes of pokemon" series, if you will. So I have a bonus catch/acquisition for you - if you let your mom keep your money, she will occasionally buy things from a predetermined list. Once she hits a specified amount, around 12k saved up, she will buy a moonstone. Now that's easy enough, BUT! Most people forget that mom can hold any money you have on you, not just the littler she can take after battles. So if you bum rush trainers and keep expenses down, you can have a moonstone by the time you're in....Ilex forest? I think bugsy gives you the final push needed to get the stone. This is important because you can get a jigglypuff on the little patch of a route above the first route you can catch mons on, and Wigglytuff in gen 2 can learn the elemental punches from goldenrod while having a 75 special attack stat. She's not exactly a legendary but having full elemental coverage on a mon before the third badge helps out a lot for the middle section of the game, especially with a massive HP score to help switch in and just not need to take so many breaks for healing.
@@sloppysteaks5813 Well, you could get a Slowking right away, even before the second gym. It involves trading, though. The same could be said about Politoed in Crystal version, but that one needs to be at least Lv25 for Poliwag to evolve into Poliwhirl. Trade evolutions will generally speed things up greatly. Especially when it comes to Kadabra, as it already has a very low requirement to evolve (just being Lv16). Alakazam is incredibly overpowered at that point and stays strong throughout the whole game.
Goldenrod in general breaks the game hilariously open. The three elemental punches being available so early as TMs that can be bought with 3k each instead of coins is insane, and return for later use is crazy. Honestly, while I think the later games are indeed easier from my experience, it also mostly seems to be because the later games are way more helpful in pointing you towards the good stuff and give you the stuff that breaks the games wide open directly and encourage you to use them (alongside all the forced stuff like friendship and exp share and stuff). Like, Whitney is infamously horrible for many people's younger selves, but they gift-wrap you a gift poké in the department store. I also know that my dumb kid ass didn't ever visit the department store and got any of the elemental punches which imo trivialize the game if a poké can learn all 3 or even just two. Cuz honestly, when I now go back to older games vs. e.g. B2W2 or USUM, I am baffled how dumb my 6-year old self was vs. how Guzma's fucking Masquerain just takes out a massive, throbbing dil-*censored for youtube guidelines* with me.
Crystal added a way to get a Fire Stone while also removing Vulpix entirely. I was so mad when I found out. Sidenote, Mareep was removed from Crystal too for no reason.
Yeah my neigh our would lord his ampharos over me all the time. My first ever wild caught Magnemite had a Metal Coat though. Didn't even know about Steelix until the same neighbour Freaked Out I had it.
Noob question about your romhack: are you changing the way trade-evolutions like Alakazam and Scizor function, since a romhack is (to my understanding) single-player? EDITED TO INCLUDE THE ANSWER FOR OTHERS: "Yes he is. Graveler, Machoke, Kadabra and Haunter will evolve at lvl36. The other trade while holdingg an item evos work like Evo Stones. Just use Metal coat on Scyther for. Example"
Yes he is. Graveler, Machoke, Kadabra and Haunter will evolve at lvl36. The other trade while holding an item evos work like Evo Stones. Just use Metal coat on Scyther for example
0:05 Yes. Yes, I did. 🙂 (Wild Magnemite grinding is _so_ much easier with the TM for Thief… I _still_ have unresolved trauma from seeing “Wild [PKMN] fled!” 😖)
i have an issue with that 20 min approximation for finding a metal coat with thief because it took me at least 2 hours to find one, but hey thats the game of luck we play i guess 🤷🏻
So, would you be changing some of these mechanics in your Crystal ROM, or are we keeping them? As hard as they are to find, I wouldnt mind an alternative way to get the stones, but it is one of the only useful things the call function does in-game. The only thing I would consider changing is to up the Magnemite hold rate of Metal Coat to 5%, which is consistent with later games hold rates for items.
I hope he makes the "hold item and trade" evolves into that item acting like an evolve stone for the pokemon it affects. It's hard to find people to trade with, and it would be even more so with a rom-hack. How do you even trade with a rom-hack?
@zidaryn most ROM Hacks actually have compatability with themselves. Assumed that you'll be using an emulator to trade with one another, which most modern ones have trade functions. I've actually traded with 3 ROM Hacks before, Crystal Clear to Full Color Red to Gold 97 Reforged. Only possible because CC keeps compatability with Gen I, and Full Color is just Gen II graphics while keeping Gen I mechanics the same. Meanwhile, 97's time machine works how Gen II's works. So, even with a different newer Pokédex, the original 151 are still compatible
I actually did end up using Steelix and a Slowking in my Crystal playthrough quite the while ago. Since I knew of the later gen thing about the hold items for Magnemite and Slowpoke, I checked I think Serebii and funny enough, yes they were thievable in Gen 2😁! So, those two came to my team of unfinished game of Crystal and they indeed are a great wall combination of physical and special defenses, I recommend of trying them out! It's a somewhat big process to get them both, yeah but it's worth it I promise you!!
I don't want to edit my last post, but I want to mention that I've made an oopsie. It was Silver, and not Crystal with these two! Also, anyone interested, the rest of the team are Meganium, Heracross, Ampharos and Crobat😁!
As someone who grew up only playing one version since my brother has the other one, playing Gold as an adult for the first time was a treat. I always knew GS had different sprites per version, but seeing the respective other ones first-hand is really cool. Some mons also end up looking infinitely cooler in one version. I actually never put enough thought into it though, to realize that GS are the only games that do it. In my mind, RB and RS must have done it too, but looking at spriters resource, you are correct! How I never noticed this is beyond me.
Oh my god, this is exactly how I came across Raikou, at the age of 6, which left me absolutely flabbergasted. I had no idea what that beast was, why it was there and that I basically forced it to spawn. Wild stuff haha
I never made the connection between held items and the evolutionary items! Great find -- I thought Scizor and Steelix were basically this generation's Umbreon/Espeon or Kabuto/Omanyte!
For legendary dogs, just walk in and out of the day care center, it resets their location. Walk out, encounter in grass. If it's on the day care route it will be the first encounter.
Wow, after all this time I never knew X items can increase friendships. I only knew Irons, Proteins, etc. Niiice. You learn something everyday. Thanks!
2% is such a strange number for Magnemite to be holding Metal Coat... Usually the % is 10, 5, or even 1... but 2%? That's so unique and interesting. Also, I very much appreciate you actually having footage of successfully thieving the MC from Magnemite. This type of thing makes me want to play through Crystal again!
But you still have to trade with someone. That’s the sucky part so technically you can’t get steelix or scizor. You made it sound like you can do it with out trading
With the Legendary Beasts, I've always been consistent with finding Raikou on Route 44 in the small grassy patch in the (middle of the route by the water) and Entei on Route 45 for my first encounters lol.
Found it easier to go to Ecrutek, pop a repel run down through the grass run back up into ecrutek to reset routes and repeat process always would find one in a couple minutes. Especially if you have pokemarch playing.
It also pretty much loses against all the other gyms except Chuck (sort of, because you can still get messed up from Hypnosis into DynamicPunch) Has trouble vs Morty Can't do much vs Jasmine, can at least hit Steelix for neutral damage but takes a lot from Iron Tail Has super effective moves vs Pryce but also takes a lot from ice types Clair is an alright matchup as long as you don't get paralyzed or die to Dragonair's Ice Beam It's also weak to most if not all of Team Rocket's poison & fire types If you compare that to Cyndaquil or Totodile, despite obviously having access to more team members to help cover weaknesses, it's still noticeable that these starters will do better, simply because Johto by itself, it not kind to grass types.
@@nousername191 To clarify since that area is a bunch of interconnected routes its got a high probability of having at least one dog on that route. Additionally since its a great shortcut between Goldenrod/Ecruteak you are gonna be using that route a lot.
Regarding the beasts... go to the Pokédex, check for the location, fly to the location, use a super repel, fight it when it appears... Worked like a charm, if my 15 year old memory serves me correctly 😅
Thank you so much for all the Gen 2 content. While it was probably one of the more poorly made generations, it's still my favorite and I appreciate the nostalgia you deliver me :)
I beg to differ. Gen 2 is not one of the greatest pokémon games ever but it amplified the ingame universe in a way Gen 1 didn't. You can learn more about the better side of the game in videos here on yt.
I was born in 2004. I managed to grab pokemon crystal on the 3DS before the E-Shop closed and it's genuinely my favorite game. I have no nostalgia bias: the vibes are simply immaculate.
There's a specific trick to the legendary beasts: every time they are on a route, they are in a specific field of grass; field, not patch. If you enter the field they are in, while in it, you have a very high chance to encounter them first (guaranteed with the repel strategy). However, if you run into a different field, or encounter another pokemon first, they will immediately leave the route. So, the trick is to go to routes that only have one patch of grass (like the aforementioned routes) and do your wandering there. And if you can track them, it just becomes a matter of time before they show up at one of the two routes. Their roaming is semi-predictable too, so it's not that hard.
I unintentionally did the Legendary Beasts route as a kid as i figured they'd still be nearby, though I'd Cut the grass and check if it was still present first lol
The legendary dogs one is pretty interesting. I would always walk down and catch Raikou south of the city. I thought that's where it spawned. I didn't know they actually roamed until after you find them once back in the day.
Technically, they're roaming all the time since first first encounter in the burned tower. You just can't see them on the Dex until first encounter. Then, they roam as usual, but you can see where they are at any given time.
I am now in a state of deep depression and procrastination. Every „random“ „secret“ „hidden“ thing I know already. I think I did something wrong in my life .
As long as you encouter them once the legendary dogs can be tracked with the Pokegear even in gen 2. Random Fly + Pokegear track + Repel Trick makes it a lot easier to find the dogs.
@j.d.714 Choose an area to fly (I usually fly between Violet and Ecruteak) and check the map. If the roaming Pokemon is nearby, go there. It'll change location once you enter the route. Check the map again. If the Pokemon is in a route nearby, chase him without Fly. It won't change route this time. Lead your party with a Pokemon at level 39 or 40 and use Repel this time (a fast Pokemon with Sleep moves, Mean Look, Block, or some ability like Arena Trap and Shadow Tag is recommended). By doing it, the only pokemon able to appear is the roaming one.
Regarding friendship: newborn Pokémon always have 120 points so, by capturing a Ditto and breed with Eevee you can get both Espeon and Umbreon before level 16 with any of the said methods. The same applies to Chansey.
2:33 with that information.. I really would like to meet that very lucky trainer who came across that king rock holding a slowpoke... since its unheard of LMAO
For the Legendary Beasts, you don't need to fly. Anytime you change a route, it changes its location. Try one route, if it doesn't work walk towards the other route, and if it doesn't work... just walk back to the other route. Walk in circle, using repels, and you'll quickly get them.
I don't know what it is, but I was doing my living dex in gen 2 in Silver earlier this year and was trying for HOURS to get another metal coat off of wild Magnemites. I was just getting unlucky that whenever one spawned, it wouldn't have it, but on top of that they just weren't spawning for me all that much.
The steps Trick at the gym, department store or radio station doors works, however, you may get calls and that will stop the process. Legendary dogs show up if you have a Pokemon below 40lv. Took me 3 hours to get Raikou and Entei, I used a 39 Lv Parasect with spores then a Smeargle at 80lv with Spores + false swipe and level balls (those are the best) and the quick claw item equipped.
It’s interesting that you say that about the roaming legends, but Tip on that, if you enter a gate that’s between a city & a route, then they will not move to another route.
