Elite 4: what challenger who's rigorously raised their pokemon for weeks to stand here comes to challenge us? Jrose: caught those bad boys a minute ago
Oak to his grandson: "You didn't love your pokemon!" Red pokerfacing about the numerous pokemon he put in the PC the minute he was able to catch stronger ones while Blue actually maintained a consistent team through the whole game.
A piece of strategy Jrose did and didn't talk about. You have to be careful in which tile you are when the rival battle cut scene triggers because depending on where you are nature power can be either stun spore or swift
That's an incredible piece of trivia that I'm sure most people wouldn't have the eye for detail to notice. I'm amazed at how I'm still learning new things about Emerald to this day
It's absolutely unreal how many small seemingly inconsequential things that are coded into these games. Like the one about Pressure or Vital Spirit or whatever to get a lvl 45 Gyarados? Fucking BONKERS.
@@Bludgeoned2DEATH2 Bonus points if they're genuine mechanics and not just exploits that make Gameshark fair game. Jrose does keep the game as vanilla as possible so these are all things we can try in our playthroughs casually.
@@taebeebeePressure and Vital Spirit give a 50% chance to force an encounter with the highest level possible on a route. This applies to every Pokemon you find on the route.
This run is way more interesting with the "no items" and "no legendaries" clause. I expected the E4 to just be swept by a Lvl 70 Rayquaza -- looking forward to how you will do it!
This is what I like about Jrose. His rules really are meant to show the limits of the game itself, and not just his personal limits as a player. This allows any of us watching to really see the full potential of a pokemon and even discover surprises we wouldn't have known about them (like Abra being TERRIBLE in a solo run because until WAY later in the game, it doesn't learn any useful special moves) as well as how to make the most of particular strategies (like as annoying as it can be when he does reset a tough battle he barely won due to luck, he does verify where the battle could ONLY be won by luck or if it's a legitimate win, like seeing if a lucky crit may have completely changed the course of the battle). So it's very informative and thus a lot more entertaining for veterans and new players a like.
Jrose runs are the perfect inbetween of "i can watch it to fall asleep" and "i can watch it and learn a thing or two" and i am always all for it. This run just showed how much strategy and difficulty you can get out of pokemon games outside of the typical "Nuzlocke" ruleset. Simply amazing run, keep up the awesome videos!
honestly i think it's an insult to his work to say "i watch this to fall asleep". never understood you type of people. immerse yourself, enjoy and appreciate the work. some of y'all use too much tiktok so you're sentisized to the point of not being able to sit down and watch a 1:30h video without losing all attention within 10 mins 🤦♂
@@xKamiiiiDude you should enjoy and appreciate life. Because this is some negative bullshit. People have been falling asleep to shit for millenia, we used to fall asleep to birds and animals, then we fell asleep to the sounds of villages and music. People evolve and so do their forms of entertainment, it has nothing to do woth tiktok. Also, they are appreciating the work did you not read anything besides half of the first sentence of their comment?
@@xKamiiii are you dense? Can there be anything more immersive than shutting your eyes and losing yourself in the creator's storytelling, no distractions?
Im gonna say this because i feel like JRose doesnt hear this often, but I really love the little jokes he sprinkles throughout these runs. These challenges are already very entertaining, but the little jokes always put a smile on my face
Evil zacharynewman7627 be like: Im gonna say this because i feel like JRose doesnt hear this often, but I really hate the little jokes he sprinkles throughout these runs. These challenges are already very boring, but the little jokes always put a frown on my face
The battle vs Steven in this is one of the more impressive battles I’ve seen across any challenge run. You’ve genuinely become quite good at these games over the years
Simply incredible. Your mind for strategies and how to mix and match teams to outsmart the AI is truly remarkable. Obviously the red/blue solo challenges are your bread and butter but videos like these are truly where your skills are on full display. Keep up the amazing work.
Yeah, if you take into account knowledge of multiple gens, he’s definitely in the top 1000 pokemon players in the world imo. Incredible achievement when you remember that millions of people play these games.
I love how your videos show off the complexity of Pokémon. How the items and abilities are used, strategies like PP stalling or destiny bond, and even AI manipulation... absolutely stunning.
@@averyhaferman3474I think that's what they're saying -- by playing Pokemon with crazy constraints it forces you to really use the extra stuff they put in the game, rather than just being able to spam a super effective move
Try battle frontier challenges. They are really fun to play and actually different. Especially when you add constraints they become next to impossible, bar some crazy strategies
After your no experience run of crystal I was inspired to do a no exp run on fire red and you are so right about gamefreak's design early on. Every gym leader has a counter nearby and it's really neat. Blaine surrounded by water, surge and diglett cave etc. had a perfect team to counter rival 6 but has to make sacrifices to the lineup to counter Agatha. Was a wild ride. Champion took 100s of tries but it was possible and it felt so cool to achieve
I love the use of Substitute against Steven. I always used it on my own soloruns, because Skarmory has Toxic and Spikes and Steven's AI actually doesn't see that Toxic won't work, so you can get free setup (with a bit of luck) as early as Turn 1. I even managed to beat the game with a single Carvanha that way, and that thing is a one-hit from just about every move in the game :D
Truly intense. I was on the edge of my seat for most of this. It's funny you mentioned SmallAnt, he actually beat Emerald with *negative* XP, but he used Legendaries and items in battle.
Hey Jrose, I just wanted to thank you for creating these videos. I remember stumbling across your catch em all videos and hoping you would eventually return with more content. I have anxiety, and something I've been trying to work on is "grounding" myself when im anxious. There are a lot of things recommended for this, but talking about things I'm familiar with, like reciting the entire plot of a pokemon game, helps me. Your videos help me a lot when I'm anxious. You talk indepthly about topics that are familiar to me, but I still get to learn more stuff at the same time. I love hearing you find solutions to problems with all the tools you have accessible to you. Thank you. I wish you the best!
The madman actually did it! I saw a bit of this live and was convinced it was impossible after you struggled so much with Wallace haha. Glad to see you proved me wrong
Jrose: I think Gamefreak wants you to catch new Pokémon teams for each gym, especially in Red and Blue Also Jrose: Let‘s beat Red and Blue with every single Pokémon solo
I actually remember playing this challenge as a kid. My Gameshark for some reason back in the day had an option to manipulate EXP so they would be at 0% among other options to increase EXP drastically. So one time I played though sapphire with 0 EXP for fun. I actually got to Drake and then at some point gave up because i couldn't ever get past him.
Probably one of my favourite runs ever! It was interesting to watch the strategies for each battle unfold. Through the narration, you can also really hear your enthousiasm for these games and how fun it can be to craft the required strategy. Thanks and I'm looking forward to the next runs!
Roxanne’s nosepass will always use rock tomb until your Pokémon is slower than it and then it will switch to its other moves for the rest of the fight.
@@Whurlpuul Because speedrunners and romhackers have analyzed the intricacies and depths of each generation's trainer AI. Unfortunately, because this is the work of speedrunners and romhackers, there is no convenient collection of all the information, and you have to jump between sources in order to find the info for each generation. For Gen 3, there is a video called "Pokémon Generation III ROM Hacking: Tutorial 15: Trainerbattle Dissection" that has the information.
I admire you SO MUCH for sticking through this. I definitely wouldn't have had the patience for such a thing, and I'm sure it helped thatyou had a stream chat there with you to make it less agonizing, but still, it sounds like hell. Not only did you stick with it, but you DID IT. Good job, genuinely!!
Love this! One of my least favorite things about Pokemon games is the grinding and the inevitable moment where you overshot the power level and just decimate the gym leaders with no competition. It never feels like you can just slot a wild (non-legendary) Pokemon into your party and compete with it, so this is a really inventive and impressive run!
I'm going through a rough break up right now and these videos are honestly a great distraction. These challenges are amazing to watch. I can do solo runs but I wouldn't have the patience to do runs like this. Need to see a gen 5 no exp run sometime!
Somehow these are always incredibly entertaining the entire time despite being 30 minutes to over an hour long. Some of my favorite videos to see appear on my RU-vid feed
Bless him for putting up with this in REAL time. Unlike the Shiny hunters and nuzlockers who really seem like they're just wasting thier own time for the sake of views, JRose actually puts effort into something worth watching. Anyone can win the slots and brag about how they got rich overnight, but JRose actually puts in the work hours and earned his paycheck in the end of the year!
Just want to say that you're a huge inspiration and entertainment for all of us. I took a page out of your book and tried to see if I can beat FR/LG with every evolutionary line at least. Just finished Venusaur in 5:35 at level 72 while using fun strategies. So fun doing it and it was thanks to you (btw I know the time was kinda slow lol)
What an amazing run! Being able to achive this with no legendaries is nothing short of impressive. Wow, kudos, honestly. I really thought before clicking on the video that you might not even be able to get through Tate&Liza, let alone the Pokémon League!! I guess I really underestimated how high level the Pokémon in water routes can get to, uh? 🤔 Just a small correction, I don't think the Mod of the ROM does anything to Effort Values (EV). EV's work in tandem with EXP gained, meaning that if you don't gain EXP, you can never get EV's. That's simply the consequence of the way they're implemented, not just something that is arbitrarily disabled.
Loved the glalie impression 😂 great video as always jrose!! Keep up the great work!! (And aj too ❤) the video ideas that you do are always so crazy, absolutely love watching them!
All I can say is just WOW!!!!! Truly amazing! Your dedication to this challenge is just out of this world! I’ve gotta say this is the first challenge that I actually thought there’s no way I can do! Kudos brother
I will say this was probably my favorite challenge run. The solo runs are really fun and most of the impossible challenges you can more or less see they'll either be possible with some strategy or not possible at all. This one actually looked impossible and you still managed to find a way. I knew about the Gyarados but was thinking it wouldn't make a difference against Wallace anyway so no point going for it. Didn't think it would be able to beat Wailord and save Wobbo for his Gyara.
Yes I've only seen one other no exp challenge done by someone else and the strategies used in that one video were some of the most interesting I've ever seen in a pokemon challenge can't wait to watch this
A strat you could have considered against Wallace is teaching Substitute to Altaria. Of course, it has to go over something (I'd say Fly first, and then teach fly over Dragonbreath after Lance). With Substitute, you can protect yourself against Leech Seed while you set up Dragon Dance. If you have +6 Atk, +6 Spe when you knock out the Ludicolo, and your substitute is intact, you can get 2 attacks off against whatever switches in as you'll now outspeed and the opponent still has to kill your substitute.
I love how Jrose is "If I can get a Pokemon with a Speednature, I have enough speed to go first and tank an Icebeam with exxactly 5 HP, so heil wont kill me and i can setup. Wilst MDB is like If I cant beat it now, I grind up some more. Both are fun to watch and so fundamentally different in their approach of a problem. One plays like young me, just powering through, the other like old me, theorising 4 hours to beat a battle without leveling up.
15:59 brought back some bad memories lol. Had to do this against a random scientist's grimer/muk(don't remember which) in black and white 2. It had just used minimize 3 times and couldn't actually damage it. Used the unremarkable regional bird to avoid the mud slap and the megnemite to avoid sludge.
Fun fact for anyone else dumb enough to try this challenge, all of the GBA Hoenn games let you catch a Level 40 Carvanha with Super Rod fishing. It’s default move set is Screech, Take Down, Swagger, Agility. And since it can outspeed or resist STAB on the entire Elite Four roster, you can absolutely do some confusion hax cheese the whole way through if you really feel like it. Or you can just use it as an opener to a rough battle and then put your actual strategies forward with the other five team members.
I got a lvl 45 Gyarados in Sootopolis today on my second try: I had the most ridiculous luck today, and the fact that I’m watching this video on the SAME DAY is insane. I am trying to catch every Pokémon at max level on Emerald, and today I did Gyarados. I have the spreadsheet with the probabilities of different level ranges and I knew that even getting a Gyarados in the 5-45 range was ridiculously small, and even with my Absol at the front to have a 50% chance of boosting the level, I knew I was in for a long session of reloading… First catch, a Magikarp so I reset before I even saw the level. Second catch, it was a Gyarados but of course I wasn’t expecting anything so I was still fumbling with my phone to play a RU-vid video in the background. I looked up and saw the 45, and I nearly fell out of my computer chair laughing! I thought it was going to be just as mind-numbing as getting my lvl 45 Whiscash (which actually took so long that I got a shiny Barboach while trying to get it), so the SECOND CATCH was absolutely ridiculous. I just paused at the point where you just started to explain how different level ranges appear, so I really hope that you didn’t suffer the way I was expecting to 😅
Wow, ok ngl, now that I’ve watched your description, I didn’t know my odds were that high 😅 I only knew about the 5-45 block. My spreadsheet was missing the 35-45 block, so I thought it was only a 1% chance of getting it in the 45 range and then a further 50% of boosting it… Don’t get me wrong, getting a 2nd try on a 1/37 is still pretty cool, but I thought I had just hit it on a 1/200 😅
I didn't think you'd take on Steven....really impressed with this one! Super glad you decided not to bother with legendaries and hopefully maintained your sanity in the process
This was so good. I expected wobbuffet strats but the type swapping for type immunities and stalling out PP was cool to see. Also, it seems like gen 3 water Pokémon are just unrivaled.
this run in particular is pretty water-biased because a lot of the higher level Wild Pokemon you can catch are from Surfing/Super Rod fishing, only other good spots that come to mind is Victory Road and Sky Pillar
I love your videos cause played Pokemon clover and I know the struggle of infinite repeating a battle looking for a necessary par o frz but you're really an hero
I usually don’t like videos, but I had to like this one. Your dedication, your strategy, your determination and your ability to complete it was just truly amazing. This was incredible.
I love all the videos you do over red and blue. However, it really does change the pace of your videos when we see ones like this in a different region. Even a Pokémon yellow version run of some Pokémon would be nice to see. Keep up the great videos. Love them.😊 Also, if you can ever added post game, Contant like this. I would always watch it. Love getting to see the last little bit of the games.
Dude, Ive been with you since the absolute beginning. I know these take a while, but I still really enjoy these videos! Especially this gen. Keep it up
Me before watching the video: "At least the Elite 4 won't be so bad with Rayquaza and maybe the Regis" Jrose not even a minute into the video: "No legendaries" Me: "Bruh!"
jrose, thank you for all the videos you've made :) i love them all and they're so well made and have lots of thought. i give you a genuine thank you for this
Amazing video man! Wallace here gave me ptsd from my Mudkip solo run. Had to train to Lv.94 to win. Aside from that I enjoyed the video a lot, thank you :) Have a nice day ^^
I've always wanted to see Pokemon Emerald without EXP after finding Smallant's run, albeit different because pokemon levelled BACKWARDS, underwhelming nonetheless because he spammed legendaries. In a way, it feels pretty poetic that his Gyarados suggestion made this run possible
you hold us back for long enough. show us the first edition secret king. cubone/marowak. starts with strong ground atk. can learn bubblebeam. can learn icebeam. can learn firestorm. stab dig and earthquake. lot of badge boost options.
