Is it Possible to Beat Pokemon Red/Blue with Just a Magikarp? 

It is interesting that the guy that gives you the potion as a free sample of the Poke Mart, yet it doesn't sell potions. That guy is lousy at advertising.

>Footage winning vs Brock's Onix corrupts >Restart ALL over again *Absolute madman*

This man pressed "B" 29 times. 29 times he was offered a gyarados, and 29 times he said "No."

I like how he uses "you" throughout this video, as if we all dreamed of doing this and just lacked a tutorial video.

If your friend is doing a magikarp only run, it's not for fun...It's a cry for help.

There's got to be laws against self harming like this.

First man in the history of Pokémon to use a guard spec

Gen 1 sprites are hilarious yet nostalgically refreshing

This dude put more dedication into this video than I've ever put into anything in my entire life... goddamn.

I like how you explain it like a tutorial, as if someone is going to try this lol

It's mainly two types of battle: #1: "it's a complete joke" #2: "it's the hardest battle in any RPG"

"Let's get this video to something crazy like...20 thousand likes" Sees video at 128k. That does put a smile on my face. You deserve it man

so this is where he's been the last 7 months

Gary 20:15 "you're still struggling along back here?".... you don't even know Gary

“I’ll beat you with the Magikarp my dad gave me!”

That 4 minuet complicated explanation on how to level up magicarp was truly amazing. I could feel his pain.

Me: there's no way I'm watching this whole video Me 45 minutes later: I learned SO much

Now I understand why it took so long for you to upload a video. I highly respect that decision.

"The battle with Brock was one of the most difficult rpg battles I've ever had" Oh jrose, so young and foolish, blissfully unaware of the challenges he would do a year later.

" What are the chances the viewers have N64, Pokemon Stadium, controller, transfer tool, and the will to do this run?" *Looks into my old stuff* Well, guess I must take on your challenge good sir.

You must have raised the happiest healthiest magikarp ever.

The fact you went back at the beginning to get the footage to prove what you said happened makes me have so much respect for you lol XD

"How much do you hate yourself? " Jrose11: *Uploads this video*

When I first saw this vid was 45 minutes long I was laughing at the people in the comments who watched the entire thing....now here I am 45 minutes through. This is an absolutely brilliant video

I will never look at an oddish the same way again

I love how he says in some of the fights that, “it’s not to bad, just 10 try’s to win”. Truly a Pokémon master

*Deafeats LT Surge with only a Magicarp* LT Surge: “Woah! You’re the real deal kid...”

This video made me realize two things 1.) Magikarps are worse than I thought and I freaking hate them. 2.) There is so much more to pokemon battling than I ever cared to pay attention to. The thought of waiting for an opponent to run out of PP to use struggle and damage itself, while wouldn't work in red & blue is still something that wouldn't have ever crossed my mind.

*somebody using x items for the first time in pokemon history*

I thought you were going to be relieved when you finally let it evolve to Gyarados- But you kept it a magikarp. You monster.

Actually, you COULD beat it if you had a Magikarp with Dragon Rage. You could've got one if you were one of the 20 winners of the Celadon University Hyper Test in 1998.

I just wanted to let you know, its my current bedtime routine to put one of your playlists on, pick a video, put my headphones in, and fall asleep to it. Your voice is nice, the videos are long, and theres no screaming or upsetting noises. Overall, its just really relaxing to listen to and has helped my insomnia a lot. I love all these videos and feel like I can recite them by heart at this point. Thank you for making the content you do! And sorry if this is a weird comment haha

Thought this would be a 45 minute video of the word "NO."

Probability of the onix failing screech 5 times in a row is about 0.0076%

for the ones that are questioning how the magikarp is not evolving, it's not a mod nor a glitch, you just press B when magikarp tries to evolve.

I relized 1 minute after watching this you played for 11 hours and didn't know ghastly wasn't gonna end the run

TFW you're not sure if it's you or the Magikarp who is struggling.

He did not get this idea from Pikasprey. Jrose did a glitched Magikarp run of Pokémon Red over a year ago, this is just an extension of that idea. Plus, who hasn't wondered about beating Pokémon with only a Magikarp, or some other very weak Pokémon? Lastly, glad to see you back! :-)

I love how the Magikarp is able to do a lot more damage to itself through confusion than to an enemy.

Oh my god, this dude played on actual hardware. You’re insane dude.

When you’re that bored, youtube recommends you a 45 minute video of a random guy beating pokemon with only a magicarp Edit: didnt expect that many bored people :)

Why am I watching this I don't even play pokemon and its 2am

"Do I... just tell you what happened and trust that you'll believe me? Do I... give up and try a different video? or do I do the truly insane thing and do this a second time, in order to get the footage I need!" That. That right there earned you a subscriber, this is... insanity, and I love it.

I was thinking why doesn’t he use TM’s but then I realized you can’t use TM’s or HM’s on Magikarp

Omg you did it all over again just so we would believe you Im subscribing to you for that

When you mom says you're only allowed to watch documentaries.

This definitely deserves a LIKE because of the time and effort you put into this video AND USING SPLASH 40x every time

I'm so glad I found your channel. Amazing content and you can tell how much work you spend editing all this. Wish I was rich to give back to you!

"Is it possible to beat the game with magikarp?" "No, since it has no access to anything but normal-type moves and gets walled by ghosts" *outro music*

Jrose11? *takes hit from cigar* haven't heard that name in a while.

Idk why this was recommended to me but I watched the whole damn video and now I wanna play 😂😂

I thought I put in dedication when I evolved my starter on route 1

Oh my God...you're a legend for going back through the game to get to the Onyx battle. Your content is so entertaining and sometimes mind-blowing. Thanks!

Live to win! His Magikarp farmed 65,340,285 boars in Elwynn Forest to tackle Onix.

All the desperation all the pain. That Magikarp really deserves to evolove to Gyarados.

Dude, you are the perfect example of ‘work HARDER not smarter’ doing all this manually... and in any other case I’d say that’s a bad thing, but with you, I just gain more and more respect for you and your insane dedication with each video.

Here is a super fun idea for a Magikarp-challenge. Use the magikarp to beat gen 2 with tackle and typeless struggle. Not *a* Magikarp. *THE* Magikarp. Trade over the lv45 Magikarp from your gen 1 game and use that. It will be over-leveled, but it also won't obey you. Most of the time it will skip turns or fall asleep. Have fun!

you're insane and i love you for this

Each time an ad came the reflex to press the skip stopped maybe it was the respect I have for him

Gastly:Im about to end this mans whole career Magikarp: *Plays an uno reverse card*

I watched the entire video without skip and I don't regret it.

Everyone is asking if we "can", but nobody asks if we "should" 🐟

Even though this wasn't possible, I really appreciate that you made the video anyway. This was a lot of fun to watch and I hope you do more challenges like this. Thanks for the awesome video. :3

I watched the whole video. It was so fun, great commentary btw. I think half way through the vid or so I realized you couldnt beat the whole game but still for some reason I couldn’t stop watching. Good luck on your next challenge!

HOLY SHIT YOU'RE BACK!

This video must have been a real struggle.

You’ve honestly inspired me to try this and also taught me new strategies to beat the game while also making it tougher on my self

5.3 million views... jrose you definetly deserve it, your videos are great!

A Magikarp killing a gyrados lmfao how ironic and insane.

You're an insane masochist. Subscribed!

This reminds me of when I defeated the elite 4 in Leaf Green with a party of only Magikarp. That took me a solid 6 hours at least and over 500 revives. I never thought of using the X attack items though... You, sir, are my hero!!

Everybody is gangsta until Oddish appears.

For everyone asking about this in the comments: Magikarp can't learn TMs. Not a single one.

I thought you'd just let Magikarp evolve into a Gyarados and see where that gets you but you're an absolute madman.

The things you put yourself through. I'm not sure how you didn't quit to save your sanity but I can't complain. I'm satisfied.

I think you following through with these videos IS a positive characteristic… and I respect you for it!

I thought I'd just skip through this video, but damn this was an interesting watch.

"Obviously this run is just meant to be in good fun." You have a REALLY weird definition of 'fun' >.>

I love that this video has almost 5 million views I remember when it first came out. Well deserved views and likes

I thought going into this you were going to let you Magikarp evolve into Gyarados at level 20 but no, you went all out in the hard route XD

This was legendary. The fact you did your best to take it as far as you could is quite the feat on it's own. Can't wait for that fire red/leaf green run ;)

WELL HASNT IT BEEN A BIT? Also plz do Catch em All Gen 4 part 3

I come back to this video often. Love it

5.5 million views to watch a madman beat gen 1 pokemon with a magikarp

Despite the joy of seeing this guy suffer from a Magikarp, this was a very good video and deserves more credit for his commitment and keeping the audience engaged. By the end of the video, I didn't even know I had already watched 40 minutes of it. I honestly thought I'd skip 90% of the video. Well done mate.

Damn dude, mad respect. Especially for you restarting your whole file to show the onix k.o.

dude just because you did it again you deserve multiple thumbs up xD

Nice dedication man, playing this 2 times till the onix-fight just for us

In the case of Brock's Onix, your situation had a 0.006% chance of happening.

"I don't know how accuracy works in gen 1, but stun spore seemed to hit every time...." That's how accuracy in gen 1 worked. The computer was a cheating bastard that hit whenever it wanted, regardless of how accurate the move was supposed to be.

Good job you've started a trend in the PokeYT community(specifically well-researched insane challenge runs)

I haven’t seen any other videos you’ve done but I feel like I have to subscribe after you put yourself through this much suffering

Your a legend I cant believe you caused a kakuna genocide

Insta like for the amount of Struggle you went through to make this video.

As i remember, this video is the OG of pokemon challenges

Jrose: decides to redo the whole beginning because of lost footage and redoing the whole thing again instead of not redoing it and looking like it was all set up so he could skip that and cheat [EVERYBODY LIKED THAT]

My brain: Dude you gotta be up at 4am, it's a workday. Me: shut up brain, I gotta watch Magikarp grind for those exp points.

This video is probably my absolute favorite on the Internet. Literally the amount of hard work and dedication put into this gives me a sense of hope that one day I could be this patient. This video brings out the nerd in me and I’m not ashamed of it. EDIT: HOLY HECK THATS A LOT OF LIKES

You're an absolute boss dude. I've easily watched 10 of these in the past day lol. I need a Gameboy again

Dude props... no patience to do this once, let alone twice for footage....you are a god and I love your videos