I won a tournament using terrible rental Pokemon 

Gen 1's battle system was created very late in development because the devs just wanted to make it about catching pokemon, and battles were just gonna be automatic. Though Nintendo basically forced them to add a battle system with like 4 to 5 months left of development. The fact that the battle system works at all is a miracle in itself...

Stadium has a few small mechanics differences from RBY, like Hyperbeam actually needing to recharge (even if you miss), partial trapping moves not damaging the upcoming Pokemon, sleep only lasting 1-3, substitute actually being very good and blocking status moves, focus energy working properly and some others. Big Yellow did a great video recently related to the rentals metagame if you're curious and want to learn more about it

Persian is low key one of the best mons in Pkmn Stadium. Extremely high crit rates practically guarantee crits. The DVs allows Persian to be just slightly faster than Starmie despite the speed tie.

Fun fact: In gen 1 focus energy is actually broken and makes it so the user is unable to crit. Because ofc it does.

11:59 "think of it like a pokémon with the simple ability using calm mind" swoobat at home:

Fun fact: in Gen 1, Poison and Bug are super effective against each other. I found that out when i used Sludge on a Pinsir in this game, and i looked it up. Gen 2 onwards, that wasnt the case.

crazy how the animations have such personality unlike other gens, these look even better than some animations in the newer generations

I’m surprised there aren’t more tournaments done with rental pokemon. It’d be really cool to do this on a newer game and action replay/cheat in some battle factory pokemon

"Terrible" puts Slash Persian there lmao

Surprised Nintendo released this for NSO and allowed people to see how an N64 game had embarrassingly better animations than the actual Switch Pokemon games...

I think the lower evolutions having better moves is kinda cool since it gives a reason to use them.

Honestly this is such a fun wacky meta, glad to see you guys giving it some love!! Gotta love the weird movesets and fun low poly animations

Fun fact this is pokemon stadium 2 in Japan. Japans third game is called pokemon stadium gs (our two) Their 1 didn't have much pokemon and more were planned to be added as dlc or expansion pack stuff

Snorlax doing a drop kick is something I didn’t know I needed in my life

4:20 😂 The poor graveler missing self destruct

actually really tense battles with lots of neat rng plays. enjoyed this man thank you

You always surprise me with your Pokémon battle knowledge and ability to adapt to new formats. There’s a difference between just being good at one particular game and being able to adapt to any situation. I’m glad to see you get the victory even if it was rng heavy and hope to see you enjoy more stuff like this in the future

Man the use of origami king music is amazing makes me want to play the game again, definitely makes these battles more tense good job cal

Strongly recommend big yellow’s video on the stadium rentals metagame if people are interested in this

Again, congrats on the W Cal! And the luck in that last battle was incredible.

loving watching this and seeing you play against a few of my good friends! You proved that you still got it😉

Yeah gen 1 jank is real. I almost forgot they fixed focus energy in Stadium, and thought thats why the Marrowak didn't crit, but apparently they did so that really was lucky lol.

Taking a long look at the rental pokemon, Lapras seems very good in that field. Most rentals have garbage moves but Ice beam with STAB, Body slam to paralyze, and sing. Really enjoyed the flash back in time!

This was interesting to watch, speaking as a player who's greatly familiar with gen 1, decently familiar with gen 2, and not at all familiar with anything after that. It was fun watching you carefully explain things like Amnesia, which I already knew front and back, using analogies to Calm Mind, which I know nothing about~.

The funny thing is, that's not even a bad Gen 1 Persian build

Well done for the win and the great battles!

I was distracted by something around the part where you mentioned the prize money and I zoned back in like "oh shit wait he won?" ...it's the title of the video 🙃

From what I remember, raichu and dragonair are good rentals

Neat video! Thanks for uploading! It's both a blessing & a curse that Stadium ended up favoring this meta....

I’m honestly just happy that Persian is getting the love it deserves😂

I think my proudest achievement was completing the ultra ball prime cup, with rental pokemon only, as a kid who had no idea what he was doing.

RBY OU is my favorite meta to play and I'm so glad to see others giving it a try. Congrats on the win, Callum. Don't sweat about the RNG. It's what RBY is all about.

Jolteon, articuno, and tauros is the trio i drunkenly selected to run through gym battle tower. It is terrifying and incredibly hard to beat. I used ninetales for confuse ray/dig/quick fire spin moveset, parasect for bulk/spore swapouts with growth/mega drain set up, and vaporeon to finish out the FWG core with acid armor to outbulk attackers while surfspamming. If id change anything id be tauros/parasect but they are doing very well. The jolteon pin missile into vaporeon quick attack shreds alakazam and the jolteon toxic into ninetales fire spin is also incredible

Kinda surprised I didn't see Electrode or Scyther on any of those teams. Great battles though, props to the team that brought Golduck.

you're so good at pokemon man it's always impressive to watch

I swear i learn something new about Gen 1 every single day

Toxic is quite bad in gen 1. It's better to spam paralyze but most rentals pokemon lack the para chance

The whole "psychics are the best type" thing is a bit overstated. They're only the second best type in regular RBY OU. The actual best type is probably normal: the big 3 (Chansey, Tauros and Snorlax) that you see in every serious team are all normal types. They generally have amazing coverage options (which means they aren't even walled by rock types), as well as access to stab hyper beam and body slam, and the type that was supposed to counter them (fighting) is absolutely terrible at its job. The big 3 aren't as good in stadium though since their rental movesets are ass.

this was May dream back in the 90s, to play a tournament would have been huge

My dude was born on pkmn day's 1st year anniversary...its clearly fate ✨️🌟✨️

i literally watched a stadium competitive analysis yesterday

Persian is actually pretty good with slash.

Rental Arbock is actually kinda broken, as you can attack without them being able to do anything about it and in this game I missed 6 songs in a row with jiggly puff and got crit 4 times in a row which is why I hate it

Those Pokémon animations are hilarious XD

I wish i knew all of this years ago. I didn’t get to use my own for a while as they were either too good for one game mode, but too bad for other ones. Rentals were really the only ones I used. Also, used the game as a new game plus to trade pokemon back to myself after starting a new game, with mixed results considering i only had one version of the game at the time (good luck convincing mom and dad to get you what looks like the same game to them).

I can’t wait to see a Pokémon stadium 2 tournament

4:18 Oh my god the pain is coming back to me.

0:29 i'd like to see you try out the Battle Revolution rentals. not the ones you're given after beating the Rental Pass tournament (like Nate and Cyndy); i mean the rental mons you obtain in the Trade Battles format. let me give you the context. it works as follows: you beat the opponent, and you choose a pokemon to trade - *just 1.* there's Single, where you choose 3 mons, and Doubles, where you choose 4. there's also ranks to climb. the higher you climb, the more pokemon you "unlock". more context: i know the moves because i went to the site called "Pokemon Battle Revolution opposing pokemon data". depending on the format you choose, the rental pokemon's moveset changes. for example, Charizard in the Single's format Trade battle gets Fire Blast; in Doubles format, he gets Flamethrower. every rental pokemon has 3 fixed moves, the 4th is *random.* and their item and ability are random, too. if you're searching for a rental pokemon with a specific 4th move, not only are you forced to choose one of the candidates that are probably not that good, but be prepared to endure HOURS of grinding! why? because the opponent can only have 3 or 4 pokemon in battle (depending if it's Single or Double), so you better hope they're using the pokemon you're after in the battle; and pray that you win, because that's the only way you can choose which mon to trade! and even if you manage to beat your opponent, chances are the mon you're after won't have the move you want, so you'll have to start all over again! (i didn't get past Rank 4, because i *knew* what i had to do and how long i'd take) the point i'm trying to make? some rental pokemon in Battle Revolution have a fantastic moveset, such as Flygon in the Double Trade Battle: it's 3 fixed moves are Earthquake, Dragon Claw and Protect (get used to seeing that move in the Trade Battles section of the site i mentioned at the start. most mons have it); with the candidates for the 4th random move being Steel Wing, Dig, Stone Edge, Solar Beam, Rock Tomb, Flamethrower, Secret Power, Fire Blast, U-Turn, Dragon Pulse and Giga Impact. while other mons are basically screwed over, like Salamence - also in the Double Trade Battle: who has Dragon Claw, Crunch and Protect as the 3 fixed moves; while the candidates for the 4th random move are Rock Smash, Facade, Aerial Ace, Rock Tomb, Rock Slide, Fly and Secret Power... he didn't even get Heat Wave as a candidate, let alone Flamethrower! nor did he get a Special Dragon type move. not even Hydro Pump. how is any of this related to Stadium's rental pokemon? you think Stadium's rentals have questionable movesets? wait 'til you get a load of some of the movesets of the Battle Revolution rental mons! (if you visit the site) Battle Revolution 2/Stadium 3, should it happen, better have improved rental pokemon.

Something I want to point out, Gen 1 had a glitch that made Psychic immune to Ghost instead of being weak to it. I'm not sure if this applies to Stadium, but I still wanted to bring it up.

"Snorlax has mega kick, which packs one hell of a punch" lol

Theres many things i want to comment on here, vut theres two specific things that i just wanna say - For psychics, It doesnt matter that there are only 3 ghost moves in gen 1, or that the only non set damage one is the garbage lick - after all, in gen 1, psychic is immune to ghost. 2 - though charizard and zapdos speed tie by bst, in rentals the stat experience is different based on the pokemon you choose. Zapdos has very little stat experience, and thus it gets outsped by jynx and haunter in rentals, and likely doesnt come close to speed tying charizard. Same thing applies to Persian and starmie - Persian is just flat faster than starmie, despite the same base speed stat. Neither of these are detriments to the video, i just like to talk about gen 1 stuff.

This was pretty insane to watch I got to say!

While I DID have Pokemon Stadium growing up as a kid, I did not have any sort of GBA adapter so I played with only rentals growing up. I did learn a whole lot of Gen 1 stuff tho over time like how 1 hit KO moves are based on if the user goes first. (Meaning Paralyze them to half their speed and then 1 hit KO) or even that Toxic and Leech Seed stack together. (What I mean by this is as Toxic gets stronger, so does Leech Seed.). Today however I learned why my Slash team critted way too often. (Still love that Dugtrio can Slash.)

Fire spin is brutal when combined with either poison or burn, as it damages between hits

The concept of rental Pokemon always seemed so funny to me. They just exist to be marched out into battle, they aren't very good, they're free - Just send them out to get obliterated. There's something disturbingly cavalier about calling them "rentals."

That was a scare, huh? The Graveler into Slowbro Jolteon panic switch

4:20 self-destruct is good >misses

Ooh, I like this (I'm configuring my phone's keyboard layout)

Lets get more of these

Don’t worry not even Gen 1 Pokémon understands how Gen 1 Pokémon works.

I was unaware until Big Yellow's video of the terrible DV's slanted towards the better Pokemon such as my boy Zapdos. He glossed over it in that video in a few seconds and I've found Zapdos to be mandatory with the amount of good things it brings to the table lol. I guess if you play it all smogon like the DV's are bad enough it impacts speed creep.

Fun note: there were 3 Ghost moves in gen 1 but 2 of the 3, Confuse Ray and Night Shade, can't hit super effectively and the last, Lick, is actually worthless as Psychic types were for sone reason immune to Ghost gen 1 atop its low power. Sooooo 0 Ghost moves actually mattered versus Psychic

correction: Normal types are the best in Gen 1 Mew would be better than Mewtwo if it was Normal-type

I don't know how to explain it but the Persian in the thumbnail is doing the "excited male RU-vidr" face. It gives off a very self-aware feeling. Like is this a shot from the game or did you manipulate the model to do that?

The edits go hard

The reason why NumbNexus had a Golduck is for the type counter. Knowing how popular certain types are, it was a safe bet to have a water/psychic type around.

Important DV considerations: Jynx outspeeds Zapdos, and Charizard probably does too.

Nice tournament showing off.

I love the Paper Mario Origami King music :D

Well done, Cal

here i am wondering why jynx ice punch is flagged as an illegal move, thats what the pink text is supposed to mean

I miss Gen 1 Persian's pose seeing it again :(

Persians roaring animation (like when sent out) is so cursed lol

Due to how the game is programmed, if PARAS outspeeds you. You are gone and you have to switch out

i fucking love this, i already knew which mons would be picked lol we overplayed this game so much with rentals

Wow, Flash making Self Destruct *miss* is lucky as all get out. Wow.

cool video. would've been cool if you put an X over each mon as it faints

How are the videos in this channel so many times better edited than the main channel videos of yours I've been watching for nearly a decade, but also this channel has such few subs

Good thing you didnt face an Exeggutor HoodCal bc you're team would had been screwed!

focus energy was glitched in gen 1. It lowered crit

Ok, this is awesome

Looking back, Gen 1 had such an absolutely terrible combat system. Just the improvements to Gen 2 were monumental.

Meanwhile that persian set is very optimal lol

it's so funny how the pokemon staduim HAS NO TIMER

What a fantastic time

pokemon stadium rentals were always weird because the evolved forms had worse moves than the unevolved pokemon. also chancey was a beast because of its massive health and special

Articunos ice beam freezes the opponet way more often than 10% one of the reasons im about thru round 2 already

what is the page you are using to get the information about attacks?

i played this game a lot in the n64

4:21 zappos be like "this is fine"

Imagine in gen 1 just having a pokemon maxed out in speed buff and using guillotine to take out every single pokemon.

ngl some of these teams hurt to look at

Persian based

I feel more awed by how well the title of the video was worded rather than the video itself, although I'm sure it's more impressive. Like, damn.. I won a tournament using terrible rental pokemon > implies he's the only one doing that, but he's not. I won a tournament, that *uses* terrible rental pokemon; is what's more correct, but the former title was *not* wrong. It's just about how you read it.

Normal is the best type actually, especially from the standpoint that it has the best moves and Pokémon (especially when Mewtwo is removed)

God what is the song being used in the kurpie fight?

Just a correction You say Snorlax packs a punch, i disagree It packs a kick :^) Good video btw

Doesn't focus energy quarter crit chance in gen 1?

2:04 Ghost type didn't even affect psychic in gen 1

discord where are these tournaments held?