It saves your life every time, but it would be annoying if it told you that Shell Armor protected you every time you get attacked. EDIT: this is not serious, it's just a joke that the opposite implementation would make you assume that it saves you every time rather than none of the time.
@@hv433 oh I'd never advocate for it to popup, I'm saying it's great.. but because you never see it, you'll assume it's not happening. Even though it's probably prevented 3 or 4 resets lol (Or, none at all lol)
@@roberte.o.speedwagon6043 yeah, it's a joke. The current implementation makes you think it doesn't save you, but the opposite would make you think it's saving you a lot by wasting a lot of time.
My eyes instinctively shot to the bottom right corner when you picked up the Dome Fossil, and lo and behold, there was Kabutops. Scott, I live for the consistent jokes on your channel, it complements your content so well. With your attention to detail, and the sheer quality of your videos, you are by far the best Pokémon RU-vidr and your videos are a source of comfort to me. Cheers, man, and keep doing you, I’ll be with ya until the end!!
Honestly, Kabutops probably would have had a better time if the training in Mt. Moon instead of doing it on wild pokemon outside of cerulean city. I guess it's like getting to the center of a tootsie pop, the world may never know... Anyways, great run Scott excited for the next one. 🤘😎
The rival's Ivysaur probably knocked you out a few times just because of Overgrow after you left it on red health. I didn't go back to count, but it just occurred to me. Also, it feels like Surf would have been better than Brick Break in basically every case.
Not exactly, with Kabutops having nearly double the attack stat compared to its special attack, Brick Break is better. Plus, he can set up with Swords Dance and deal even more damage.
@@sw33t.angela after swords dance, sure. But brick break is not better than rockslide against any of Lorelei’s Pokémon, and Surf IS better than brick break against two Onix. At this point Swords dance was not available.
Accuracy is important. Rock slide would be way less consistent especially if dewgon got to use Double Team after the initial Rock slide misses. Unnecessary risk.
The transition from the Mt Moon exit to the house in Cerulean was super satisfying. It's been a joy to watch you grow as a creator. Keep up the good work, Scott
On your first run, I think replacing surf with brick break in the first E4 run was the wrong move. It only was used in 3 cases, against the two onix, and rhydon. All three of which are 4x weak to water and have far lower special defense. Surf would have 1 shot all three without issue.
Something like avoiding crits is difficult to quantify because you'll never know when the effect actually blocked a crit. It would definitely be more felt on, say, a Bulk Up or Calm Mind user relying on the defense buffs to carry them. Otherwise, what crits did you block? You can never know. Maybe the important hits were crits, maybe the only crits that ever would've happened were Pidgey Tackles. If you're knocking enemies out fast, then it's not as important of an ability.
The ability does not speed up the run, it prevents RNG from slowing down the run. The difference between no crits at all and never getting crit in a way, that forces a reset is 0. It improves consistency by a small amount, but if you played with the ability and with no ability, there would be no meaningful difference in the time taken between those runs.
@@Vitamin-L I remember several other videos on this channel where Scott straight up said, "As long as I didn't get crit by X move...which happened and that was a reset." It feels like it happens at least once per video.
Thanks for the content as always king 👑. Always enjoyed the polls for these types of series too. I enjoy seeing what others expect vs your expectations and the outcome
i really like the full evolution line playthroughs for this generation. it somehow seems more in line with how the game would actually be played with different starters. And it always felt arbitrary how some stone evolutions are otherwise handicapped early game
Scott! So good to be back! Recently was at home for a few months following a newborn, I’ll normally listen to ya while I drive around for work. Needless to say, on that I’m back-I’ve got some catching up to do!
Wow Scott, in these graphics kabutops really look like a reaper thing! Scary! And it amazed me so much in this game, I guess substitute makes a huge difference for the solo candidate, exceptionally when so Pokemon is a powerful machine! I was amazed by kabutops performance Scott, doubt! And this FireRed series I great too! Thank you so much! I was wondering, since eggsceptional is working alongside you now, maybe you could bring together nice HeartGold solo runs! Well it's ok if not possible at the moment too! Thank you so much!
Kabutops has been my favorite fossil since I was little. I got one in gold version and used to solo the elite 4 with it all the time. Its move set was awful but since i got it to level 100 it didn't matter. So I'm very happy to see it do so well, I agree with your prediction if you have it start fully evolved it should do well.
With such a narrow difference, kabuto/kabutops probably could have beaten aerodactyl if Scott had fought more trainers in Mt.Moon instead of having to grind wild Pokémon at Cerulean City.
Love your vids man, I wish you would've taught aerial ace over mud shot right away to solve all of the grass types right away. I think it would be a huge time save
Kabuto/ps dominated. This was a really good run. I think in a second playthrough that Kabutops would absolutely dominate. Omastar could be a sneak contender too if you went for Rain Dance + Swift Swim + Surf strategies, I think.
Teaching Brick Break is such a weird choice, Surf would overall be a better option for the Onix and Rhydon surely? You already have super effective damage for Loreli
Battle Armor and Shell Armor are both good abilities, but it’s worth considering situations in which having it would make a Pokémon miss out on a better ability, like Kingler potentially missing out on Hyper Cutter. In this case though, I think Shell Armor is correct for both Rock/Water fossils (maybe Swift Swim would be good to patch up Omastar’s Speed, but Kabutops definitely shouldn’t need it)
The decision to remove surf for brick break is truly baffling to me. You only used it against the rock/ground types in the first E4 so surf would've changed those 3 2-hits into 1-hits. Edit: I suspect fixing this mistake would put Kabutops above Aerodactyl but we'll have to wait for second playthroughs to know for sure.
It got used on Steelix later too, though that doesn't really matter for results. And given the massive gap between the defenses on those things, that's probably a very manageable two shot there too. That being said, maybe the numbers are wacktastic in a way we don't know
@@1stCallipostle I agree with the steelix. Especially since you want to set up for the machamp anyway; there's no reason not to use a fully physical set once you get swords dance.
Rock is an extremely underrated type when it’s on a Pokémon with have way decent stats and moves. So many moves in a play through are normal type so that resistance is super valuable and so few types resist rock, and like 1 Pokémon in the first 3 gens 4x resist it. Just steelix.
Expecting Kabutops to do the best. It's my favorite of the 3 fossils in Kanto, as long as Mega Aerodactyl isn't being counted. That being said... I'd love to see the mega being played backported to gen 1 or 3 EDIT: honestly it's cool to see Kabutops do as good as it did without Swords Dance. I'm sure that in repeat playthroughs, Kabutops will cut the competition and come out on top
Favorite fossil, and always will be. That said, both Kabuto and Omanyte should evolve at level 30... Also, I might be remembering wrong, but isn't there a Leftovers where Snorlax was sitting? It's hidden, so you do gotta click around a bit, but it might be more useful than Sitrus Berries at that point...
Issue with the Leftovers is that it requires you have an Item Finder. Even if you know where it is at, the game won't let you pick it up unless you stand on the exact spot and use the Item Finder to grab it. It'd take too much time to catch the necessary Pokemon to receive it from Oak's Aide, which is why Scott only starts using the Leftovers for the League rematches.
For some reason I have the image of Pearl's scream in my mind with the subtitle "Please Omastar" like: Scott after seeing in the damage ranges that there is a chance for the hex fossil survive an 4x grass type attack and finish the opposing pokemon Guess I should comment yesterday but can't really formulate untill now
It didn’t really matter but I do have to question keeping rock slide over Aerial Ace in the elite 4 rematch. I feel like after you set up with sword dance either move is in the 1 shot range against all neutral targets and then brick break just covers the rest
Forgets surf for brick break, uses brick break 0 times on Lorelei, loses to hicker, keeps brick break never once used on any league member, next use is against champion Rhydon (surf better) no other uses of brick break in League. Keep surf. Save lots of time
Honestly, I thought Omastar would win against Kabutops just because Surf off 115 SpAtk is so good and Kanto is a paradise for water types. The physical moves Kabutops uses are so much weaker in comparison without Swords Dance. Color me surprised for sure.
He did win the in-game time race by a country mile. 8 minutes faster than Aerodactyl and 21 more than Omastar. If he could get the resets down, Kabutops to would fly up the rankings
When I completed the Pokedex in Pokémon Red, Kabutops was the second to last Mon I got (Mew was last because I didn't know that it was an event Pokémon at the time. I felt so stupid looking for it for days. Luckily I founs out about the glitch.
I'd love to see videos comparing a pokemon’s result across different games someday, i.e. why is Raticate Surge tier in fire red, but A tier in Yellow? What specific changes between the generations led the same pokemon to perform so differently, even in a remake?
How many more evolving playthroughs will Scott be able to handle before his drive for optimization leads him to cave on the single playthrough challenges he's been doing in fire red and starts using fully evolved Pokemon doing multiple runs cause he just can't stand sub-optimal play and Pokemon not being where they deserve on the tier list? Taking all bets
I’m surprised you were able to resist the urge to do single stage omastar and kabutops videos immediately after these and upload them tomorrow and saturday lol
This might be a stupid question, but the way your overlay works, do you see the exact same things that we as the audience sees, or do you see even more or maybe even less?
Good lord, I watch your content a lot and I know a lot of trivia especially our normal knowledge of damage type split, whatever you preferred to call physical special split my mind kept thinking mud shot is special so it was complaining you had it till the part where you got dig did it re register that this is Gen 3 so it’s always physical ground moves
I think the misplays (like skipping trainers in Mt. Moon) robbed my boy Kabutops from getting that 1.st place. However despite 15 faults still being so close to Aerodactyl speaks volumes on how much of a beast it is.
yeah, I think it's the 15 faults that caused the delay, rather than the "starting fully evolved" Kabutops just shredding if you look at gametime means it probably dominates if there's a second playthrough, mostly because you eliminate the Misty/Rival problem
@@pommyadam my guess is that either Scott Played Kabutops first (therefore it makes sense that more errors snuck in), or he at certain points tends to overestimate and then underestimate Kabutops. Like I said regardless, it was a great Video and I enjoyed myself. The biggest takeaway from those 3 vids is that the fossils are all good to solo the game with.
Maybe im giving it too much credit but isn't there a chance that teaching aerial ace much earlier would have helped solve Erika and the lavender town rival easier? Since slash was basically useless
i had a thought, shouldn't you consider egg moves? like you are already playing with the best stats possible, why not also add in the egg moves of your choice. as an example, Omanyte would have been absurdly better with an egg move.
