Pokemon Crystal with only a Corsola - Can this little cutie do it? 

I'll take the "do everything with perfect DVs" strategy for future runs. It'll mean weak pokemon aren't made even weaker by crappy DVs. Also, Hidden Power Dark isn't super useful coverage in the main game compared to some other Hidden Powers.

"I figured out that Qwilfish is a sea urchin, Girafarig is a horse and Sneasel is a monkey."-Scott, 2021

Sneasel is a weasel, Corsola is natural coral. I love seeing Johto’s under-appreciated ‘Mon get used. Hope you use Skarmory and Murkrow soon. I think they’ll be pretty good. Murkrow actually hits harder than the Pidgey line, iirc.

When you called venomoth a feature bug type I had to pause the video to laugh, it caught me way off guard

There were so many mons left in the dirt from Johto. I'm glad they're getting attention. But secretly I want my boy heracross more than anything again!

Here's my thought on Hidden Power. If the goal is to compare the theoretically best version of each Pokemon, how about adjusting the IVs of your starter to make it have the most optimal Hidden Power?

Based on its poor stats, poor level up moves, and the fact you don't use items in battle, I'm predicting a Defense Curl/Rollout run.

Sadly just with one N, but Denis always makes me feel adressed

Ah, corsola, the adorable little coral creature that I added to my ultra moon team awhile back. It did pretty well, probably because of the better movepool it got. I love them.

Hey, Scott, I thought we established this in the last video's comments section. Sneasel is not a monkey... As I explained before, due to its beautiful plumage and wicked sharp Claws, it is obviously a Bird.

Gen 2 is my favorite and seeing unused Gen 2 runs is super cool Also….. SCOTT’S THOUGHTS!!!!

I know its stats are trash but i always liked corsola, remember searching high and low for it in g&s just to have it on my team as one of my faves in the gen. So glad they gave it an update with gen 8

I am making this comment because I want Scott to know that this fight against Red at the end was one of the most entertaining and interesting I've seen in a very long time. Thanks! I love how you compared and contrasted so many different strategies.

Hey Scott. Iron Tail is actually normal effective against Corsola. :)

YOOOO!!!!! I'm Finally In The credits as One of the OG 151 Patreons!! Thanks Scotts Thoughts You Are Awesome My Friend!!!

13:38 - You can't always pick it up so soon. If your run is really smooth, and you get there at a low level, your pokemon won't love you enough to get Return.

What about modifying the DV's to get the best type for hidden power as there's little difference between 14 and 15 DV's.

I like the attention to the forgotten Mons of Gen II. I do like the Galarian version of Corsola and think it's very clever. That and a new evolution in Cursola is one of the most clever designs and names to ever be brought out in Pokemon.

"Pink and rock hard.... 😂" Yes I'm 30, yes I watch pokemon challenge videos, yes I found that hilarious! I've actually tried to use corsola a few times, it's cute

"Chuck is cheating, everyone. Dynamic Punch never lands two turns in a row." -Scott, 2021

as a corsola enjoyer, this is sadly accurate LMAO i have a soft spot for the never used and forgotten pokemon it seems, the older i get the more and more i realize a lot of my favs are either bad or forgotten fkjdshkfsd, specifically with early gens. ive used corsola quite a few times (tho never solo, but its fascinating to watch, so glad i found this channel), my favorite moveset is probably surf, ice beam, ancient power, and recover. jack of all trades, master of none is very much the vibe. ancient power specifically defines this kinda playstyle for me, as the boost will always help her. i have always truly loved her moveset tho, cause there really is so many options there, and recover is wonderful. sandstorm team: sandstorm, toxic, recover, surf physical: recover, earthquake, headbutt (flinching is cool), ancient power special: surf, psychic, hidden power, recover curse: curse, recover, surf, ancient power a rollout set, like she has so much variety. she reminds me a lot of the slowpoke line, being a slow beefier water type, but her typing and speed hinders her so much more. edit: its hilarious you forgot surf, its easily my favorite HM, im always excited to get it fjdhfksdfs but i LOVE water types. really there's not much i dont love its like varying degrees of love depending on mood, but anyways, it gave me a chuckle that it just, wasnt really a factor/important for you while it is for me. i dont think ill ever tire of just how differently we all approach these incredible games. concerning hidden power, as someone that rarely uses it anyways, and when i do its like the above, corsola lacking MORE special moves, so i would try hidden power, see which one i got, if its special, cool, its if useful even more cool lmao. so basically, hidden power is filler, imho. i think being able to make it dark typing 100% of the time for a solid coverage and good STAB when needed while also helping runs be more smooth in general thanks to perfect DVs/IVs would be better in the long run. otherwise best case scenario is you use a pokemon with an absolutely garbage move pool and hidden power [random DVs/IVs] can make it better, or give you more type coverage, like it did with girafarig, but as you noted, that kinda skewed the playthru a bit, not in a bad way, just in a different way. if you tried it again, would it be the same? what would you have to approach different, etc. i also think just not using it is silly, when you could use it creativity anyways, its literally one of the few moves that you can do such with, why NOT take advantage of it? to curate your own hidden power is the true power.

I love the fact that you included the bloopers. I need more of these

I've noticed that almost all other RU-vidrs that talk about Pokemon have squeaky high pitched voices You are one of the only ones with a deep voice in comparison Cheers for the video and hopefully I'll get around to playing Pokemon Silver or Crystal at some point I haven't played those games yet

Corsola is so cute! I'm glad you did a run with one! :) I also really liked the bloopers at the end! I hope you keep including those. Regarding the perfect DVs/Hidden Power question, I personally like having a bit of RNG to spice up the runs. I think it makes for a more interesting story to discover things alongside you, but that's just my opinion. Keep up the great work! I am really enjoying your videos! :D

I love Gold/Silver/Crystal but never expected I'd enjoy watching runs like this. I really credit your editing, script, tone, and overall style of the videos. Well done. New patreon member :)

Hi Scott, watching your Dunsparse run gave me the push I needed to continue my very first pokemon challenge, which was of course, Crystal with only our lord and savior, Dunspartacus. I never finished because I have no idea how to edit and so I was too nervous to do it, but seeing your growth as both a player and a content creator has been inspiring. Wish you all the best, keep em coming

Are you sure Venomoth isn’t your favorite? You talk about him a whole lot. Kinda surprised we haven’t seen a run with him. Nice vid today!

I enjoy watching Scott's thoughts when I'm playing games like pokemon and dark souls. I don't have to worry about paying attention to what's said in the games and love listening to Scott so here's my comment to boost you in the algorithm

WOW!!! This guy is great at the game. He really has a good thought process around the game and he puts together really intelligently done videos. The data and the methodology and stuff is rigorous and we trust his results.

You damn near killed me with the Feature/Bug typing. 😂

the reset in the beginning was a great call.

I’ve been playing these games since they came out and this is the first time I’ve ever heard of pokerus. I immediately stopped the video and looked it up and holy cow my mind of blown

The Victory Road rival battle is NOT the last time you see him. If it's Wednesday or Saturday when you challenge the Elite 4, he'll ambush you immediately before you enter Will's chamber. He has a Crobat now, so all that dialogue in-game about loving your Pokémon must have made an impression on him! :D

Lmao I didn’t expect Corsola to do that. Max stat pokemon make sense. You’re putting them on the most even playground you can, the best version of the pokemon competing purely on stats and type coverage.

I would say to go with perfect pokémon, *unless* you think that having a specific hidden power type would be highly useful on a pokémon, in that case, set the DVs as perfect as possible while getting that power. For at least some pokémon, losing a few DV points for a good HP type is what actually makes them a perfect pokémon.

Your restarting of the playthrough was the perfect way to showcase how much your learning and previous experience improves your speed and efficiency. What an incredible contrast that allowed the dot-eyed smiley Corsola to shine in the end with a decent time. 0:13 - I'd argue that they did Corsola the opposite of a solid. How many people are going to use original Corsola now over it's regional variant? Regional variants to me always come across as an attempt to replace and overshadow the original.

Your videos are seriously so in depth, love the layout showing stats and moves, & love that you go over different options at the end. Seriously top tier quality.

Your premiers always start just as I'm having dinner on a sunday which honestly I love. Also, best pokemon game

everyone is a gangster until Scott does the "Pokemon Crystal with only a Smeargle"

Proud of you Scott, when I subscribed you had no clue how to stack or use combinations effectively. Just remember that it is a double edged sword. Every combination and stack has a hard counter. It helps keeping the game balanced.

Ehi Scott you can’t imagine how much I am happy to see that you did a run I suggested to you, I was probably one of the first to ask to to try to do a Corsola solo run, and... I loved it! It wasn’t easy especially at the begging I know, but Corsola needed you, this little cutie piece of coral is now happier

Corsola is adorable, and this was a fun run to watch. Thank you. I really love this lyout and the information you provide visually.

Currently using a Corsola in a Fire Red randomizer versus series! Been about the only Pokemon putting in the work lol! Great job Scott!

Wow, I really respect that you decided to restart the run. Hey, we all learn right? :) P.S. still waiting for that Slowbro vs Slowking run. Request #3

This may sound silly but I listen to these during my work day in the warehouse. I may not can see but hearing these helps me get through my workday thank you 😄

When I’ve done this in some of my other test playthroughs for different games, I’ve maximized/optimized the stat DVs/IVs at the beginning of the game. This tends to make the game go a little faster, still gives me the onus of EV training, and puts all mons on somewhat of an equal footing. However you do it, I love these videos. It keeps inspiring me to work out tier lists and solo runs of my own!

Bro LOVING these gen 2 runs

What an excellent video! Thorough as always Scott! That experimenting at the final Red battle is the most innovative concept of all the solo challenges I've seen on RU-vid. Personally, I think the more consistent strategy would still be: Protect, Surf, Recover, Rollout, at level 88 Reason? The biggest luck hurdle is Pikachu missing one Thunder only. - 3 Surfs required to kill off Pikachu and Espeon. - At this level, based on damage calculator AND assuming Red's Venusaur has perfect DVs (which it does not), each Surf deals an average of 15.2% damage, which takes 6-7 turns. You can alternate between Protect and Surf, and not worry about Full Restore as Red cannot heal while Venusaur charges up Solarbeam. - With Venusaur out of the way, you have 3-4 Surfs remaining. Surf (and Recover) until Snorlax has about half health, and start setting up Rollout. Set up in a way that takes 4 Rollouts to kill Snorlax and the final one on Blastoise. - then Charizard shenanigans

Excellent breakdown on Red. Loved the logical progression on where the hangups were and how to overcome them for maximum efficiency. Great video as always. Excited for the sky beetle.

Ooh, in addition to the lacklustre stats and the like, it has a predator named Mareanie that eats it alive if it can get its' poison hands on it, and it's hinted that their species is dying from global warming, hence why Galar has the ghostly Corsola and Cursola. And if that ain't bad enough, in Alola, when Corsola are in Horde Battles, if they call for help, Mareanie can appear, then they violently attack the Corsola. So yeah, Corsola hasn't had a great time of it.

22:07: Feature and Bug are definitely the correct types :).

I liked the bloopers at the end lol! The video was very interesting and I can’t wait for the next one.

Scott giving the wrong animals for the inspiration for Qwilfish, Girafarig, and Sneasel is one of my favorites lines from his videos.

Felt bad to see Octillery in this list. It's my favourite Poke since it's release and it is so unique. It's movepool is very wide and it's base stats give it a lot of diversity. Especially since gen 4 with the physical/special split and the introduction of trick room. But then I realised this means there's probably an Octillery run coming and I am very excited to see it! I really dig your approach to these challenges and the quality of your videos is high in my opinion. Keep up the good work!

The flash of Galarian Corsola when you faint is just *chef's kiss*

I am really happy to see this video, corsola is one of my all time favorites

26:51 woooo "understanding pkmn mechanics" and progress!!!

Just want to say that I love it that you experiment with movesets and show the pros and cons at Red. Best video yet!

"Rockets in Slowpoke Well give good experience" - I should go to bed. My first thought was: "... I don't remember a Rocket Pokémon.." - "... ... Oh.... Derp"

Dang. Another primere while i'm sleeping. Looking forward to watch it in the morning! Prediction: corsola d tier.

GASP, you radical! A reset?! It makes sense though, poor Corsola deserves better.

Scott: This thing didn't get a whole lot of love. Me: That's why in gen 8 it decided to kill itself.

Started watching your channel a while ago and I've gotta say just seeing the improvements to every video slowly add up has been just amazing and you quickly became someone I look forward to watching the second you post a video. Thank you very much for all the work you put into it! I'm sure full time with the channel will come in no time 🤙❤️

You should definitely play Pokémon Stadium 2's Pokémon School missions at some point when you have some free time between videos. And I'm not just saying that because the last chapter of my comic was all about Pokémon Stadium (I'm getting close to the introduction of Gen II in it in the next few chapters too). I mention it because it's a good primer for type advantages, combos, and the new mechanics introduced in Gen II that have stuck around since then. At least, for an 11 year old like I was when it came out, it helped me learn the major combos, and the battle segments helped solidify them in my mind forever. As always, I love the scientific approach you take for these videos, and it's a very enlightening approach to the challenges for the game series we all know and love. Keep on keeping on, and GLHF!

My friends and I did this to make our team comps fun. We would make list of all the types. We would roll dice 6 times to determine what types we could make our teams from. We would then spend 1 week catching and training. Then we battled.

I loved what you did at the end there, it was a funny surprise.

I did a play through similar to this with Corsola when I was young. I liked to do that a lot. Take one Pokemon through the entire game and see how it performed. Of course, I was a child and didn't know much about type advantages, STAB moves, and the like. There's something about these Gen 2 Pokemon, man. They're relatively plain compared to Gen 1 and 3, but I still love them. I got Gold version on my birthday and played it that night at my birthday party. I think I like Gen 2 the most because I feel so much nostalgia for it. Even moreso than Gen 1 even though I played it first.

Making the hidden powers consistent is more fair, but I think it's more fun to have it be different, so you can luck out every now and then like Girafarig did. Love your videos!

Been looking for more and more poketubers to follow, like mahdrybread, and jrose. Glad I've found your content. Been plowing through every video you've uploaded. I enjoy the structure and edit of your videos. Much love. And I'd love to see a crystal run with just phanphy. Love him! If you ever get to newer games I'd love to see a scolipede only run too!

Good luck with your RU-vid career. I really love your vids

Your Rival's Bayleef just really hates the idea of a clean ocean and thriving coral reefs, so that's why it prioritizes poisoning Corsola over knocking it out with Razor Leaf in Azalea Town. The more you know.

Oh, also, the Abra line is actually really great with the Elemental Punches in Gen II. Gengar is pretty great too

I know I always watch these a day late but now they're part of my Monday routine! Thanks for the video!

0:10 Yanma? Forgotten? It’s one of my favourites. Dunsparce, Gligar and Octillery are cool too. I think they should give Girafarig and Stantler counterpart evolutions, Dark-Psychic and Normal-Psychic type specifically.

Great run again! Hats off to you for restarting the run, it may have taken more time but improved the outcome immensely. Regarding your question, I'd prefer if you use perfect pokemons for better comparison.

Yo I discovered your channel after you commented underJrose a few days ago and i have to say that i love your content. It's cool to see how your vids and strategies get better and better! Already left a sub, keep it up man

I must say you really earned it! I subbed today, because i really really enjoyed your content for the past week! Keep it up my man and greetings from germany.

compareability is the heart of science. No Question in my opinion. Go with the always perfect mon.

I've been doing a water type run and included Azumarill and Corsola only because they're cute and I picked some favorite water types instead of the best. Their stats are crap though. Glad to see someone isn't alone in how aggravating it is to use this thing later on against better enemies.

For many years, I've had this mental image of a Lilleep attached to the top of a Corsola as it hopped around. The ultimate double battle! It's all I could think about during this run. It just looks like something should be between the horns(?) of its backsprite. Like a slingshot or something. Good job pink sea garbage.

Corsola is weak to electric, grass, ground, fighting. So you could've gone with HP Flying but Corsola is an example of a mon who benefits more from the perfect DVs.

I love the addition of bloopers at the end 🤣

With regards to the Red battle at the end, I'm curious if it would be any more consistent with Corsola's Mirror Coat. Five of six of Red's Pokemon are special attackers and Corsola has good bulk, so it would probably be able to counter-attack most of them pretty well and then use Recover afterwards. Would probably still leave Venusaur and Snorlax as issues though.

Ancient powers PP is a blessing from the Pokemon Gods. How blessed we were to see it in action today. Ill never forget that moment!

On hidden power, maybe you can set a rule of either choosing hidden power's type, or be allowed a Dark 70 Hidden Power with Return, which I think would give special attackers a tool that's compares reasonably to Return.

I remember the first time I came across Corsola: Super rod fishing in the daycare water, looked so cool! These vids bring back so many memories!

I see Scott calling Corsola "sea trash" as a commentary on capitalism's general disregard to coral / ocean health

Your giving these games a big show its awesome

I like the idea of giving your pokemon perfect EV's to counter it's biggest weakness and using hidden power to do so...

It's... It's coral. Corsola is coral. How does pink = manmade? There's all kinds of flowers and rocks that are naturally pink

Before I watch this video I want to say goodluck since I have been doing a rock type only run in gen 2 and it is ROUGH!

Love the change to the ghost Corsola for the resets.

I actually got Pokerus while replaying Pokemon Crystal with a Typhlosion. It happened at Ecruteak city, and it helped make my Typhlosion and any other Pokemon I had so overpowered.

I’m surprised that corsela is struggling so much with its base stats, which at a glance look decent. Also the thought of bellsprout learning flash is hilarious to me. It’s like belsprout is so full of sunlight that it’s chlorophyll will simply glow, I just imagine snapping it like a glow stick to get it to glow (not breaking it, obviously)

As a kid who knew nothing of stats and meta back in the day, I loved Corsola during gen 2

Hi Scott! Hi Denis! Go for the first option in what you asked in the video. That was a very fun run, congratulations! You're learning the ways of the Bingo and I'm all up for it. And the thing with the TMs before Victory Road was so "you": I've never seen it and I loved it! It was very original and you should be proud about finding things here and there that shows your personality in the challenges. I dunno how I feel about your making like five things at the same time. It seems the only way you can keep up with your schedule is like this but then it leads to you overwriting attacks that you didn't meant to or completely forgetting important battles. While it's all fun and games (and your job), I can't help but wonder just how much it annoys you, since you time the runs and all. Hope you're doing okay!

My solution would be to pick your hidden power before you start giving the Pokémon the best possible coverage, the better coverage might be better than having higher stats so the lower stat Pokémon might actually be the best of its species

I never even knew about pokerus! So interesting

Literally my favorite pokemon ever , idk how anyone could ever forget it

Great video I enjoy the tackle string shot battle begining to end videos are great corsola one of my favorite pokemon I love how you expirement and go so in depth with the pokemon content is great could watch these videos all day