How I Would Fix Paras in Pokémon Fire Red & Leaf Green 

damn

Gonna need a full restore for that one

Hopefully he blows up before it becomes a trend!

For real I absolutely adore his work in a sea of uninspired content and was devastated when he I realised he only had a couple of videos. Your production quality and skill are crazy good

Definitely. I subbed immediately when the first video dropped and I get audibly excited about the next video.

couldn’t agree more

Couldn't have said it better myself!

- This line is based :) - Based? Based on what? - Based on something _really_ creepy. o_o

I didn’t want to sleep tonight anyway

Second for kricketot

I feel like all most the early game bugs need one but like especially spidops and many leavany

I need a kricketot fix, i used it last Week and it was a horror movie using it

This Parasect would prob (in my limited knowledge) be really good in gen 3 NU. It can wall the Normals (Raticate and Vigoroth), beat Chimeco, and be generally useful with its bulk and access to Spore. Hell I wouldn’t be surprised if it has a niche in gen 3 UU since it can switch into Kangaskhan and threaten Lunatone.

I don't think that kricketot needs buffs because it's an early game bug

That doesn’t make sense because Parasect is mostly/already dead, it should be either Grass/Psychic or Grass/Ghost referencing mind control or possessing its corpse.

Someone get Gamefreak on the horn and tell them to give Parasect a bug/ghost evolution.

@Matheus Demello how doesn't that make any sense? It's a bug being taken over by a fungus/parasite, a bug is not a plant, and a fungus/mushroom isn't a plant either, bug/ghost makes sense I mean sure, you can make the argument for it's first form, but I think our guy made the right choice making paras a grass/bug type and parasect a bug/ghost type

@@gigastrike2 Doesn’t make sense? Ghost/Grass is better because the *BUG* is *DEAD* the mushroom is in control and there are other mushroom Pokémon that are mushroom.

@@matheusdemello2323 Hello

I second this!!! Agatha has ghost parasect vibes. It'd go great on her team

Thanks! So naturally most mons WOULD get better as generations go on, with the physical special split and better move pools in general, but that won’t stop me from mixing in an early Gen vid every now again. But they will be tougher on average.

@@ZenModeYT Is nice to see you use old gens to make mons better! I wish you can do something with oddish/gloom/vileplume line since they were ALWAYS under venusaur shadow. One more thing would be dope to see in your videos is the rework of the TM's the improved mons can learn and here I'm gonna adress what others say in the coments, maybe parasect can't learn shadow ball naturally but seriously needs to be allow to learn it by TM, other mons that don't even have the slightly supernatural, haunting, spectre vibe learn it totally for free, so parasect would also for sure doing it, besides there is a couple of grass type moves in their TM list that need to go. Keep the AWESOME work!!

​​@@ZenModeYT but this one is weird ngl. Foongus is a mushroom and is a Grass-type. Also Breloom is Grass/Fighting.

@@blazechaos212 you are assuming that they are staying that way in zenmode's ideal pokemon game

@@hi-i-am-atan I'm not assuming. I'm going off with the details he shared in the vid

Yeah dream eater is so niche and almost never used, but it works so perfectly here I was so happy! It almost seemed busted at point, but hey, it’s Parasect. He’s had it too tough for too long!

@@ZenModeYT feel like giving my own buffs for it in later gens using your version of Parasect as base for them. First I would pull down X-Scissor from level66 to 39. Second I would buff it’s HP, Atk, Defense and Spd from 50, 95, 80 and 80 to 85, 110, 95 and 95 respectively in total buffing it’s BST from 405 to 480. Third it would give it two new moves to learn: one that’s more or less a general buff to physical attacking ghost types that learn it and the other a Signature move to help further set it apart from other sleep users. I’ll start with the signature move. The signature move in question is Zombifying spores: “the User scatters its spores to force the opposing Pokémon into a zombified state” Base Power -- Catagory: Status Type: Ghost Targeting: Single-Target, Adjacent. Is effected by the same abilities spore is Effects: the Pokémon hit by Zombifying spores will be given the zombie status which to put it simply it will be put to sleep for 2-5 turns and take 1/8 of its health in damage for every turn its asleep, wearing off when the Pokémon wakes up. To ensure it won’t outclass spore it’s PP will be maximum of 5 (8 with max pp ups) and it will only be learned when Parasect reaches level 62. The second one is Siphon Soul: “the User uses a hand or Claw-like appendage to drain the opponents life force” Base Power: 85 Catagory: Physical Type: Ghost Targeting: Single Target Abilities it interacts with: Rough Skin, Iron Barbs, Liquid Ooze,. Contact? Yes Bonus Effects: Heals the user for half the damage dealt, Base Power increased by 1.3x and healing increased to 75% of the damage dealt if the user has less Hp than the opponent. Examples of Pokémon that would learn it including but not limited to: Parasect (Hence why I mentioned it) Banette Duskinoir Driftblim Mimikyu

​@@ultimapower6950 I'm gonna share my changes as well since I'm making a romhack of Crystal called Redv2.0 with Physical/Special split and later gen moves. I like the Bug/Grass typing and I don't want to change it, but I am aware of its drawbacks. Thus, I am leaning onto the gimmick by buffing it HARD. Paras gains +20 HP and +15 Atk, making its stats 55/85/55/45/55/25. I really love this pattern of BST ngl. Slight buff but nothing too crazy. What's crazy however is Parasect. I buffed it hard: +25 HP, +15 Atk, +30 Def, and +60 Sp. Def, making its base stats 85/110/100/60/140/30. Yes, it's insane but remember, its typing is littered with weaknesses. This bulk makes sense because look at that BIG mushroom. But, x4 and x2 weaknesses can deal with it very well. That bulk allows it to switch in on neutral hits much more easily than before. It also gets X-Scissor and Leech Life, allowing it to be a good offensive Pokémon.

For Bug it makes sense, things like Clawitzer honestly should have been Water/Bug. Now for snails like Accelgor on the other hand…

@@Glory2Snowstar pure bug type Accelgor is indeed weird. It rather could’ve been (part) Dark type since it appears to be based on a Ninja, or even Ground type because it seems to be wearing a motorbike helmet.

Fungi were considered plants at one point. I dare to guess that Gen1's developers were still taught in school that Fungi were plants. And it just became the status quo for later generations, even if we know better now

Biologically they are different but aesthetically and the way they survive are similar. I think its a good fit. Better than just inventing a new "mushroom" type or associating mushrooms with say normal or poison types.

😊😊 Lp 😊.😊,

i think cinderace should learn all ball moves tbh

Clawitzer getting it makes sense, like it's shooting a ghost cannonball from its claw

It makes sense for Snorlax as well as it's known for Hyper Beams

@@NecromancyForKids yet its Dex entries only ever talk about shooting water and how it can move quickly through water at over 60 knots (base speed of only 59).

@@whatthefrancium Snorlax is known for eating anything, even moldy foods. Emerald even talks about how it’s used as a children’s playground while it’s asleep because it’s to docile. Gyarados is the one known for Hyper Beams.

Move over Darkrai

Shiinotic can actually pull that combo in the official games. Mina uses it in pretty much every fight.

Based on what he said at the end of the video, you might’ve just guessed it.

Surskit is my guess

I think they removed aromatherapy from SV so I was fine with him removing it in this video

Don't we have enough Ghost/Grasses already? Treavenant, Gourgeist, Dhelmise, Decidueye, the new desert thorn from Paldea...

@@robertlupa8273 Well technically those all came long after Parasect so it’s all retroactive. That said I’d argue Bug/Ghost is fine because yes the bug is dead, but it’s still the corporeal body that’s being used, similar to Shedinja. I think that better illustrates the creepiness of it, giving it the ghost typing to say “the bug is now dead” instead of removing the bug typing to say “the bug is gone”.

_"But it grew on me"_ 🍄💀

Actually Shedinja is the reason it makes sense to me. Shedinja is just a dead husk of a bug, but you’d never just call it a bug type, or just a ghost type, it would inform too little. The Bug/Ghost is there because although the bug is now dead/undead, the physical body is still strongly the main form of the Pokemon, the ghost type just informs its state of being. Which leaves the mushrooms out to dry in terms of characterizing through typing, but I really do think keeping the Bug typing in is important. Grass/Ghost just seems like a more spectral kind of thing anyway, like those Gen 6 pokemon, but Parasect is corporeal.

@@emblemblade9245 That same reasoning works the other way around. Parasect is certainly a Pokemon that _would_ have three types of it could.

I agree. In later games Parasect gets Energy Ball so Shadow Ball isn't out of reach.

It's easier to just have them be grass and bug. As much as a Fungi type would be cool, i'm not sure it could work in the pokemon games.

I agree that he could work a bit on video editing, specifically synching up the commentary with the footage.

I was a bit confused by it at first but then I realized that it was done so he could narrate at his own pace while showing the entire fight (sped up) on screen. Rather than having to constrict the length of narration against each individual opponent Pokemon to the amount of time it was on screen, which varies and is often quite short

Honestly outside of powercreep it’s still a pretty good change what with the addition of Shadow Claw, buffed Leech Life and Ghosts just getting stronger over the years. It’s not the best Mon around but its got a lot of going for it now instead of being the Mon that takes the most damage possible

I have a good feeling that it _is_ Skitty, since he said he'll be covering "a Pokemon even weaker than Paras[ect], as we take a lap through the Hoenn region" and the only fully evolved Pokemon with less BST than Parasect's 405 are: Dustox, Beautifly (unlikely that he'd cover two bugs in a row), Shedinja (previous point, plus Shedinja is actually pretty good), Nosepass (got an evolution in Gen 4, so I doubt he'd try to fix something that is already fixed), Mawile, Sableye (as bad as they are, they're still pretty usable, although I speak from personal experiences that they fall off _hard_ in the lategame), Plusle, Minun (they have _exactly_ 405 BST) Volbeat, Illumise (they got a stat buff in Gen 6) Luvdisc (don't even bother fixing that one; it's found way too late) Spinda (actually a pretty likely choice too, now that I think about it) Delcatty (notoriously underwhelming, probably mostly intended to be used in Contests and not in battles) And yes, Masquerain has higher stats than Parasect. Doesn't make it any less sucky.

Since it is a santa bird, I imagine a sort of supportive movepool with some ice and flying coverage would work. Assuming we are using gen 4, this means moves such as fling, natural gift, recycle, along with various weird moves and staple moves like roost. Mainly anything with bomb in the name or anything that can be pictured as coming out of the sac like spikes because it desperately needs literally anything to help it. Even if we gave the sad boy some thing stupid like stealth rock or dark void, or no guard sheer cold it would probably still be mediocre since its defenses and speed are abhorrent and literally comparable to first stage Pokémon (its defense and speed are somehow worse than magikarp for reference). If the thing in front of it can outspeed it and kill it, it’s practically dead, and that’s alot of things that are built for that even in the story mode.

Even in Legends Arceus?

I mean the entire point of this mushroom type is that it's not stationary thanks to its host

@@appelofdoom8211 it’s not like ingrain is a permanent thing but sure! I get what you mean

Same

Thanks :) it’d be boring if every Pokémon was built as the typical offensive sweeper. Nice to mix in some more interesting strategies here, even if it’s not “optimal”

Some people like to joke that exposing Snorunt to a Dawn Stone is just melting it to death

Isnt snorunt based on decapitated head? It should've been ice ghost from the beginning lol

I agree on the Stun Spore! On the other hand I dislike that his Paras/Parasect could learn Bullet Seed... Someone show me a mushroom that forms seeds!

Yeah had to go back and re-record a couple lines 😅 still getting the hang of audio recording but it’s an improvement over last video :)

Eh. I’d say that 70 is still pretty slow. It’s certainly the slowest electric type in Kanto by a wide margin (every other fully evolved one has at least base 100 speed). Base 70 puts it below Nidoqueen, Beedrill, Hitmonchan and every Kanto starter while it only matches Dewgong, Skarmory, Poliwrath and Victreebel. It’s even slow enough that Magnezone doesn’t really mind it dropping further.

@@yorecf9641 Isn’t Magneton base 80? EDIT: Double-checked, apparently not. Huh.

So bland with mediocre jokes? Poketubers got that covered plenty

Aren't cordyceps like, everywhere in tropical areas?

@@nunyabiznes33 probably