Octillery Solo Run - Pokemon Crystal - The most forgotten gen 2 Pokemon... 

Note: Octillery's stats increase by 40 not 50 like I said in the video.

The memory of you and your grandpa is incredibly heartwarming. My grandpa feigned interest in my interests as a kid and it always meant the world to me

Dude, I just lost my grandpa. He and I were so close. You reminiscing about time with yours. Beautiful man. Thanks so much for sharing. It’s a blessing.

Octillery can get both attack and special attack over 300 the only other two at this point in the series (gen 2) are Ho-Ho and Mewtwo

Dude! Everyone has been sleeping on this powerhouse, the same way everyone has on Cacturne in Gen 3. could we PLEASE see an Emerald Cacturne solo playthrough?🤩 I love him, he’s sooo good! Faint Attack, Giga Drain / Needle Arm, Leech Seed, Growth, and he’s good to go! Such a beast, with it’s 115 atk and Sp. atk!

To be honest, the gen 2 runs are my favorites at this channel. I always look up for them

Octillery will always put fear into my heart, because I play Gen 3 competitive singles and it was the scariest recipient of a full baton pass chain before Mr. Mime got banned. Imagine facing down a +6 speed, +6 def, +6 spa, +6 spdef monster with Surf, Ice Beam, Flamethrower, and Hidden Power Grass. This was not uncommon.

Octillery is one of my favorite gen 2 mons if not my favorite. I always liked octopi as a kid so when i saw that there was not only just an octopus pokemon but a fire breathing octopus pokemon i was like hell yea. I used it in platinum for the first time and it did pretty well. This octopus has a movepool that rivals some legendaries. Plus the idea of a fish evolving into a octopus is really funny to me.

Fun Fact: For gen 5, among all the broken Moody abusers (even Bidoof destroyed Ubers unironically), Octillery was probably the best one discluding Smeargles Baton Pass. It had the best typing among all of them and often times felt having like the best defensive stats, it's move combination (Scald and Flamethrower) also scared away Ferrothorn who would wall the others. So yeah, Octillery, congrats on being one of the strongest Pokemon ever

I always thought Karen was Agatha's daughter or granddaughter, she looks similar and her preference for dark types sorta mirrors Agatha's preference for ghosts (Karen's gengar could have been hers originally)

Geez, this one really surprised me, specially given how almost no one talks about it. As if its good stats weren't enough, it can learn FLAMETHROWER!? That, on a Water type, is inmediately cool to me. Definitely using one on my next playthrough :p

First pokémon on the "really needs an evolution" list. Alongside with Tauros, Sudowoodo, Jynx and Fearow.

i always wanted an Octillery when i was a kid playing Silver. i didnt realize it evolved from remoraid so i never got one. i thought i had to find it or trade from gold. good old days

The sheer amount of effort you put into these videos is incredible. One of the best decisions I made this last year was subbing to you and watching new content regularly. Great work for some of my favorite mons.

Typhlosion was pretty decent back in gen 2 as well since it could learn Thunder Punch. Super easy to just solo everything with Flamethrower/Thunder Punch/Earthquake

I like how the heartwarming story about your grandfather was in the video with the death-dealing flame-spitting region-destroying octopus. Both parts were great.

Not gonna lie, your little giggles at some of the plays and bloopers are adorable, you have a really likeable demeanour and these videos are really relaxing to watch

Hey Scott, I’ve been binging your videos over the past couple weeks. Things have been pretty stressful lately, and listening to your solo playthroughs has been my latest go-to when I need a breather. I especially enjoy your generation 2 videos as I have fond memories of playing Silver on my Gameboy color, steamrolling the Elite Four with my level 100 Feraligatr and wondering why my level 99 Slowbro hasn’t evolved into a Slowking yet. Octillery was one of my favorite Pokémon as a kid. I remember making special trips to the Goldenrod Department Store to buy fresh water from the vending machine on the roof, because in my mind Octillery deserved a refreshing drink after having me drag him around all day. (to be 10 years old again) Anyway, I just want to say thank you for helping me get through the days, and for the nostalgia trip. I hope you know you make a difference. I look forward to watching your Forretress and Shuckle playthroughs one day. Keep up the good work.

I did a 6 team randomizer in Crystal a year ago with some friends and Octillery was one of those the roulette landed on. Not the fastest but the guy had some really great moves to choose from. Definitely an underrated pokemon and I'm glad you seemed to enjoy it here.

I remember that as a kid, Octillery was one of my favorite Pokémon conceptually. Never went out of my way to get it for my team or anything, but if I happened to get one, of course I was going to use it for something or other. I really liked Octillery, and also liked the animation for Octozooka, believing the move itself to be far stronger than it actually was.

Holy Arceus Octillery is actually good, I never knew! And yes like you, I knew about Remoraid but actually thought Octillery was a gen 4 evolution, I think it's only main usage in games is the electric gym in Sinnoh as part of Volkner's team and is kinda there in Legends Arceus, hope it really gets more love!

Remoraid/Octillery to me was never a forgotten Pokemon. Its a great Pokemon with great abilitles (mostly the Moody ability) and it can learn moves that do great coverage for it like Flamethrower for grass types and even Mud Shot for electric types. Its great epsically in Sword & Shield with new moves it can learn and how awesome it looks when Dynamaxing. Tho I was hoping it got a Gigantamax form making it look more like a tank but whatever I suppose.

Almost a 7-7-7 run 7 resets Almost 7 hours of gameplay time Level 79 This was a very nice run. Much respect to you and Watergun on this one.

Still holding out about for that Furret Solo. Definitely not the greatest pokemon but still one of my favorites.

You promised this run and here it is! I had an octillery in silver when I was a kid and it was a beast I loved that thing so I'm so happy to see this run

Not quite related to Octillery, but I feel like the fellow underloved Pokémon appreciators here would agree: If Magneton becomes a Steel type in Gold and Silver, why didn’t any Gen 1 Pokémon become dark type? I feel like Arbok, Fearow, or Pinsir were all menacing enough to deserve it. Arbok especially with its role in the anime and being able to learn like, literally every Dark type move in Gen 2.

Great moveset, great attacking stats, it did very well. Struggled with snorlax, but so does many pokemon.

I've always loved these guys, got a lucky fish on my first Gold playthrough and Remoraid became my party's water type. Maybe one day we can get a Water/Steel regional form for them that restores their beta designs, where their gun and tank inspirations were a tad more obvious.

Was not expecting this Pokémon to do as well as it did. Kudos to you for going the distance with a Pokémon who’s existence was forgotten to me until Pokémon Legends Arceus (amazing game btw).

When gen 2 launched octillerty was my bro thru the game. Glad he is getting some YT love

People say Octillery is forgotten but it somehow made it in to the Base 400 in SW/SH and the 242 in legends Arceus plus it’s in BDSP meaning that Octillery has never been cut from a mainline Pokémon game

Octillery is my absolute favourite Pokemon so I'm very excited to see a challenge run with it. And from my favourite runner as well! Thank you for showcasing everything that makes Octillery such a cool and unique mon. This video made my day. The funny thing is that it's movepool is still relatively small in this gen. It gets so much more coverage options in later gens which allows it to be a very flexible Pokemon. Just like octopuses are in real life. Another reason for the movepool seems to be that it is also based on a tank so it gets a lot of beam/blast/etc moves. Also, an octopus can move quite fast by utilizing the water around it to propel itself, it's pretty awesome.

These Pokémon have references to the real world. Remoraid is like a hand gun and Octillery is like a tank

I was screaming all video for you to equip a quick claw, glad you finally did. I used a quick claw octillory as a child in a playthrough on a 10hr car ride to disneyworld, great memory

Octillery has been one of my favorite water types to use in psmd, it learns so many ranged attacks so it’s mad helpful at sniping in dungeons

At the hospital with a sick little. This video ( and a few old videos) was much needed to help pass the time. Keep up the great work👍!

Scott, I’m a fan of these videos and I apologize for just now subscribing. Keep up the great work. The dialogue along with the gameplay is what I look forward to at the end of my evening every night. I hope this finds you well, Regards

Thanks for doing this playthrough, I have been waiting for this playthrough for so long. Octillery is my favourite water pokemon, because of it's animation in the gen 2 games(it's so cute when it's moving its tentacles, with it's unimpressed eyes, demanding for respect🤗). You've done well in this playthrough, maybe teaching flamethrower as fast as possible for the Jasmine fight, or keeping hidden power ground for the Red's pikachu maybe would have one shot it🤔. And as for the fact that, octillery(a water type 😂) able to learn flamethrower, it's probably due to it's original Japanese name, Octotanku, which is a combination between the 2 words of octopus and a tank, which resembles it's early bata sprite, so probably game freak didn't remove that, form it's early bata days. I hope you could do a gen 4 playthrough with this mighty octopus, to see how the physical special split would do for it. If you want a real challenge, then do a Smeargle run. 😉 In general, I really like your playthoughs and this one especially, means a lot to me, so thanks for playing with my favourite pokemon.☺️ And I really appreciate that you took about 3 hours of your life, trying different movesets for the red fight. Keep up the hard work 😄

Just want to say, your play throughs are the only ones I can sit through the entire thing!

That's a really sweet memory with your grandpa. I miss mine dearly. Fantastic tutorial on world domination

I'll be honest here, I didn't even know what moves this guy learned, I just always assumed it was a very weak pokemon and never bothered with it. Will definitely try it in a regular playthrough soon! Thanks for the amazing content as usual!

Hey Scott, thanks again for providing the fantastic content. I’m playing catch up on your videos due to a heavy university semester. This run you did with Octillery was really fun to watch. The story about your grandpa was really touching too. Thanks for everything you do, you’re awesome!

I never took Octillery in Johto because I would always have Feraligatr, but I always thought it was really cool It's good to see you doing it justice here

I know I’m super late to these videos but I absolutely love them!! I never played gen 2 growing up so watching the play through is so fun .

Great Job, Scott! You got Octillery in a decent position! It is a good Pokemon really! The only difficult fight was the last one, with Red, the rest was all easy! Thank you! Keep up the good job!

I think Galarian Stunfisk did a lot to redeem the Pokemon. Also, I love the Trubish line. It's so darn creative.

Octillery was easily one of my favourite Gen2 Pokémon. The move diversity was awesome

I love Octillery and have since G/S came out! It was one of my favorite Pokémon and is still up there! Great video as always! Also, that story about your grandfather was very sweet.

Glad to see some Octilery love. Such an underrated and interesting pokémon concept. A fish that looks like a gun evolving into a turret octopus is neat. And the video is amazing as well!

Scott's Thoughts if he made videos about memes instead of Pokémon: "ahh 'my brother in christ.' I love that meme. As a kid my parents didn't know what memes were or let us have them, so I would spend hours hiding in the bathroom making my own memes. Back then Spongegar was my favorite, but I didn't have anyone to share it with. Nowadays me and my girlfriend send memes to each other all the time. That's girlfriend mention number 2 of the video. Anyways, so back in 2015, people didn't really know the mechanics of memes yet. Then came this meme called rare pepe which, [...]"

I can't believe you roasted mah boi Stunfisk like that in the first 15 seconds of the video. As the only Ground/Electric in existence at the moment, he deserves some respect!

I just got the pun that Octillery is a play on artillery, hence why it can learn all of the beam moves and octazooka. Great run once again Scott! This series is maybe giving me an idea for my own run of sorts…

I low key forgot about Octillery. This was an awesome play through I’ll have to try out myself when I get the time.

Let's go!! If Octillery wasn't so slow, it wouldn't be so bad.

Wowzers. I knew Octillery was good, but this was really impressive!

Octillery is underrated for sure! I used one in my playthrough of Shining Pearl and it was an absolute monster with Flamethrower, Thunderbolt, Ice Beam, and Surf.

I had a Octillery way back in the day. All those beam moves in the 20's was super overpowered.

Ooo boy i am very happy to see this. I can't get this pokemon because I usually play crystal, but it's just so cool. I love to actually see a video on it. It's gonna do great! I can feel it

I just finished and posted my first run today, thank you so much for the inspiration. It was painful, thought provoking, and I may or may not have cried a bit lmao. Ampharos is next for me, he's got a big stomach so I'm betting he'll give a good hug lol. Thanks for the amazing content, you make it look way easier than it is XD

I first used Octillery in Ultra Sun, if you can believe it. I found a Remoraid and REALLY needed a water type so I said "screw it!" and tossed it on the team. Its moveset, plus the Sniper ability had me wrecking EVERYTHING! I love my squishy Doc Ock!

On his way into the S.S. Anne, Scott stated that you can actually heal on board. He know if he didn't state that someone would start asking. Actually now that he thinks about it -- everyone ask anyway. Comments are good for the RU-vid algorithm

Octillery was amazing in Legends: Arceus for me! Helped a lot in the gauntlet. Amazing coverage, good stats, plus he pewpew.

RU-vid algorithm!!! Also I love your vids - keep the series yellow/ gen 2 up man the gen 1/2 pokemon fans love It I assume cause we grew up with it 🙌🙌🙌

Felt like watergun became an unstoppable kraken. It’s been fun and inspiring seeing your channel evolve and grow

Hey first time I'm commenting cause I mostly watch u on RU-vid on my TV but just wanted to take the time to go on my phone and say ur content is absolutely amazing and I think super underated especially the challenge videos with who's better like Gengar vs Alakazam and how u do multiple runs and explore different possibilities I think ur super amazing and one of my favorite pokemon content creators fall asleep to ur vids almost every night keep up the amazing work I hope u grow wayyyy big

So I did know Octillery existed because of their debut in X/Y, but the fact that Remoraid evolves into it was a HUGE plot twist to me. My brain just can't rationalize it.

Scott, you've won me over. I used to dislike your videos from how similar they were to Jrose, and I thought some of your jokes were a bit cringe. To be honest though, you put a lot of effort into these, and I really like some of the things you've added and changed to make it more unique. Seeing optimizations in beating the Red fight, and the perfect IV + Hidden Power thing are some things I really enjoy watching. Great video, you've finally earned my at first reluctant sub.

Your videos are so great! And it's great to see the long-term evolution of both quality of the videos but especially of the way you analyse the game and the runs! Also, Venomoth forever!

Missed a good scotts thoughts run, love gen 2 and always wanted to use octillery…hope this helps the algorithm!

No, not truly forgotten! I love Octillery! One of my favorite Water Types, and one of my favorite lower tier Pokemon to use... just wish it got some type of love. Evolution that becomes a Water/Steel type, or a Regional Varient that is Water/Fire Type... regardless, I absolutely love Octillery! Great offensive stats, Absolutely amazing Move Pool: Scald, Ice Beam, Thunder Wave, Charge Beam, Fire Blast, Sludge Bomb, Energy Ball, Bullet Seed, Psybeam... so fun to use, despite being a Slow Glass Cannon. Leaving this comment before watching the video, so I hope you didn't trash talk my Boi, Octillery! Lol ...Or I might be right back in this comment section defending him. Lol Fun fact: Harley's Octillery from the Hoenn Saga, knows Fire Blast! Lol Also, Ash lost to an Octillery in the WCS, so see? Octillery is amazing!! Lmao

Octillery is one of the most underrated Pokemon. It has pretty good offensive stats, has decent enough defenses to tank anything that isn't unboosted or super effective, and probably one-shot anything that isn't extremely bulky with a super-effective move. This thing gets insane coverage. Water STAB, Flamethrower/Fire Blast, Ice Beam/Blizzard, Bullet Seed/Seed Bomb, Psychic, Sludge Bomb/Gunk Shot, and Rock Blast. Water, Fire, Ice, and Grass are unresisted and super effective against about a third of the Pokemon forms that are separate in battle ( 709/1076 ). Give this thing a Scope Lens with Sniper and it can dish out some extremely powerful attacks with critical hits or if you want to get really lucky and mean, use an Ability Patch and have it get Moody and at that point, you're pretty much unstoppable.

I feel like Remoraid/Octillery suffers from being in Gen 2 and as a result Remoraid is very easy to completely miss(only caught on Route 44 with a Super Rod in G/S and not even in C), along with being a Water Type which has so many Pokemon in it. It is an absolute unit being the second strongest Special Attacking Water-Type(behind Vaporeon), and the third strongest Physical Attacking Water-Type(Beingd Kingler and Gyarados) in Gen 2 being the only water type to exceed 100 in both Attack Stats at once. Its only real competition back then for a mixed-attacking Water Type would have been Kingdra who is held back by having a Gen 2 MovePool compared to Octillery's gen 2 MoveOcean.

Octillery used Psybeam! Poliwrath used Mind Reader! Octillery's mind: You're dead meat. Poliwrath: Uh oh... Octillery used Psybeam! Poliwrath fainted!

I forgot Octillery so hard, I thought it was Gen 4

Octillery and Remoraid are just awesome design ngl

So in PTU (a pokemon tabletop rpg) I had a poison focused trainer who through mad science made a Water Poison Octillery (a blue ring octillery) and loved this pokemon.

Thank you so much for this episode. These long forgottens are so underrated

In the bloopers you said octopuses, while in the main video you said octopi. I had heard that octopuses is correct, however I looked it up before posting and it turns out that both pluralizations are correct (as is the odd pluralization which I had never heard of before, octopodes). As for the question of octopus speed which prompted the pluralization, you are correct, at least in the ocean: octopuses use jet propulsion to move up to 25 miles an hour. However, in air where they can't do that, I imagine crawling around is significantly slower on land.

I like how you talked about draining snorlax’s PP

Octillary is one of those pokemon that really grew on me over the years. It's became one of my favorite from a What if done by Ronin Charizard

Fun fact: Back when I was a kid, Pokemon Crystal was new and dinosaurs roamed the Earth, Octillery happened to be one of my favorite Pokemon. The three beams he learns at lvl 22 (as a Remoraid) made me believe that "Oh my god, this Pokemon is so good, it can just super effective hit anything!!" (note that kid me did not know about STAB existing, or how much power any moves had) Over time, I just sort of forgot about it, but I am now glad that it got such a good finish here! Maybe I should give it another shot in a playthrough as well!

So happy to see an Octillery run, one of my favourite ever Pokémon 🤩

Nice run video! Thanks for uploading!

Finally got my Scott’s thoughts fix. I love your videos bro.

"I actually outspeed all the electric types" as he gets outsped by electrode

Always loved this pokemon. Sidenote while watching: "It learms all or the beams !" - should have called him mr. beam :$

I’ve never used an Octillery before because of it’s availability and my fear for slow pokemon! But I’ve always found it interesting with it’s good cover! Thanks for another great video!

Just imagining you spinning Remoraid into a holster on your belt on every victory. As well as just dropping a cannon out of nowhere when you use Octillery.

I loved Octillery in Gen2, great movepool when diverse movepools actually made a pokemon unique. I was fortunate to have a Gameshark to catch whatever Pokemon I wanted to train at the start. I'd love to see this customizability offered in the main series games, but we can only dream...

Octillery is one of those pokemon that look bad stat-wise, but are actually pretty strong. I remember using one in Pokemon Colosseum and being VERY impressed. Sadly, Pokemon Colosseum is also the first time early usage of this pokemon is possible without trading. In Gen2, you can get Remoraid after Mahogany, but ONLY with the super rod, making it a postgame mon, same as Qwilfish. It's great to see you using held items in these Gen2 challenges now. They feel like a proper tool here and not too strong either. You can get Leftovers without catching Snorlax iirc - it's located in a trash can in the Celadon restaurant. I don't think it's actually that useful in this generation, but hey, options.

The correct plural for octopus is either octopuses (as per standard English rules for pluralizing words) or octopoda (how it would be pluralized in the language the word is originally from, in this case Greek). It is definitely not octopi, as that's a Latin plural but octopus is a Greek word.

For what it's worth, Octopi seem to be able to move at 25 miles per hour.

octillery is one of my favorite designs and this run was great. should have named him taco for the Japanese word of octopus and the comedy of taco being its name

I once realized how good Octillery is because some guy named Anthony traded me a shiny one for my shiny Empoleon a long time ago in Y. I quickly realized that Octillery can have a pretty versatile moveset and good stats. For my water challenge in Crystal, I never ended up using it and the others I wanted. I plan on doing a second where I use all new water types since it's my absolute favorite type of Pokemon besides dark or ghost.

Octillery has been one of my favorites for many years. First off, the name "Octillery" is just about the perfect pokemon name. And second, of course, the ability to do strong, super effective damage to almost anything. I had never played Diamond and Pearl before the remakes came out recently. I had Octillery leading the party for almost the whole game just because when you don't know what the next trainer might throw at you, there's a pretty good chance Octillery will have something to say about it. The downside in normal play is that when you have a well-balanced team of 6 pokemon, Octillery can become redundant. For all the different types that Octillery can hit for good damage, you will probably have something else that can do even better. It's not like it becomes bad, it's just that its biggest strength gets watered down somewhat. My other favorite pokemon, Magneton, is my favorite for exactly the opposite reason. It does exactly one thing (thunderbolt) and does it extremely well. Not the best to have all by its lonesome, but what team doesn't need thunderbolt and 17 type resistances?

Forgotten Pokemon for Gen 2 runs: Kingdra, Kingler, Electrode, Eeveeloutions, Stage 2 Trade Evo's, Porygon 2, Togetic, Houndoom. That's all I can think of atm most of these pokemon you either get so late that you already have your team setup

never used it in this game but I did use it in Platinum and in Shining Pearl and it was an absolute beast, 10/10 would recommend

I did a playthrough of pokemon Y with only 2 octillery. Also did emerald with it too. It is the perfect example of how movepool is way more important than stats. It has to have the best learned move set it the game

I used this pokemon in the spaceworld demo romhack last year because it has an alternative design, so I expected it to be very good here. but this is just crazy. just goes to show that the ideal pokemon for these games are truly just bulky mixed attackers, and octillery is among the greatest of them

I genuinely forgot octillery existed awesome run