Raikou VS Entei VS Suicune - The Gen 2 Legendary Beasts Solo Challenge - Pokémon FireRed 

Neither did I! I loved watching this one come together. Even if it was way too late at night :P Thanks!

I feel like it's less that he's weak, but more weak as a solo runner in FireRed specifically. The Fire type gets super punished. Thank you :) Plenty more to come!

Thank you for your kind words! Working hard is really helped by the fact that I love doing it :)

Love it :D Thank you! I'm glad to hear that the work behind the scenes shows on screen :) Thanks!

I've been working hard, and it's paying off. One day at a time, right? Thank you for your kind words :) Cheers!

Thank you!! This one ended up being a bit of a bigger project than I'd eggspected, but boy, was it fun :D

Thank you! I'm glad to hear that my work behind the scenes shows on screen :) Cheers!

I did as well! I was surprised at how close this ended up being. I'm less familiar with the competitive scene but I know a lot of competitive players question the things I do in solo runs :P Suicune was without a doubt the most solid feeling to play. Thanks!

Thank you!! I really appreciate it :) I hope you enjoyed the runs!

I'm happy to put in the hard work :) I had a lot to say about these. Thanks!

Extra long today! I hope you enjoy :) Happy holidays!

Ahh did I get the pronunciation wrong there? *Googles* yep :P My bad! I'll have to be sure to remember that the next time Raikou comes up. Thanks :)

Thank you! As a kid, and honestly until I started making videos for the channel I was right there with you. In the interest of real time completion though I find that setting up makes everything faster. Thank you! :)

Thank you! I had a lot of fun putting this one together, even if I became a complete work gremlin for 4 days straight to make it :P

I enjoyed picking nicknames for these three! They were also a ton of fun to run. Vulcan fits Typhlosion very well. Thor for Amphy too :) Ooohh I like the aeon names! I'll have to remember those for the future

Aside from an early reset or two against Rival 2 or 3's Sleep Powder I really didn't feel like the Venusaur team would have made a significant impact. Venusaur is less threatening to Raikou than Exeggcutor was I think! Thanks for your input :)

I hope I still did Entei proud for you! This one was crazy fun. Thank you :)

@@Eggsceptional Entei had a great run! I thought the other two would be more ahead so I'm very happy! At first I thought maybe HP Rock could've been a good idea to solve Lance and take advantage of Entei's solid attack stat, but then I saw the work HP Grass put in and how it synergized better with that set. Very excellent 👌

@@d.a.d.-ohgosh I had considered going with Rock and leaning into the physical side more with Entei. I decided against it because of Intimidate from Gyarados and Calm Mind. Set up it just too good!

@@Eggsceptional I totally agree. Intimidate in the Gen 1 remakes is so awful for physical attackers!

@@d.a.d.-ohgosh It makes me think about using moves like Haze which as a kid I'd never once considered :P But I don't know why there isn't an equivalent SpA version!

Which HP to use was a really tough choice to make! Thank you :)

It's such a hard thing to predict sometimes! I thought for sure Suicune had this, but playing them it turns out that Raikou's stats really make a different. Plus, Thunderbolt was so darn strong ALL the time :P Poor Entei struggled all game long in that first run. The second run definitely felt like redemption for it. Entei is the one that looks the most huggable to me :P It's my pleasure! Thanks :)

@@Eggsceptional Same here. I thought that the water typing and Suicune's defensive bulk will be enough to carry it out throughout the run. I guess that I was comparing Firered to pokemon yellow too much 😄. In gen 1 usually fire and electric types are having a hard time. But I guess the Raikou was reminding us that having great stats and having hp with a type that fits the pokemon,can in fact make the difference sometimes. And I can't argue with that, Entei seems to be fluffier than the other two.☺️

​@@bateltheassistant I felt the same way initially! The Water type is just so good, and Suicune was 100% the most solid feeling to play. I kept complaining about the Fire type, but you're right Electric suffers a lot too. Raikou was just too strong :P Doesn't he though? Ahhh it feels like he'd be very wild animal like though. Super fluffy and touchable looking, but as you approach a low growl starts emanating from Entei :P

That was my initial assumption as well! I hope you enjoy watching :)

I honestly don't feel like Venusaur would have made much of a difference. Maybe a sleep powder loss or two in the early game, but by the late game Raikou was one shotting everything anyway. Thanks for your input!

@@Eggsceptional yeah, I think I commented that before I realized the beasts had calm mind in gen 3. I assumed it was later

@@spencerbrummett6712 That's fair! If not for the TM from Sabrina I would have had to wait until 81 for Calm Mind. That would have changed things a LOT.

It felt super weird having to supplement a legendary learn set but hey, them's the breaks. I'm looking forward to re-eggsploring this trio in Gen 4 when I'm more comfortable playing SoulSilver with more options. Thank you!! :)

I appreciate that! I try to be really positive and friendly in my content. Spreading some love while appreciating such an incredible game is all that matters :D

Two thoughts: 1) Snap reaction - oh man what did I do now? 2) Scott and I have connected in the past! He knows how to find me :P He is, after all, the one that inspired me to finally take a shot at this RU-vid thing!

@@Eggsceptional it was all meant humorously, I just thought it was darn coincidental that you both released videos on the same set of Pokemon so close together :P

@@teriddax3692 It's happened before too, totally by accident! I released my Magnemite video like 3 days after Jrose11 did his :P I love when these happy little coincidences happen!

Hmm I'll try playing with it a bit more. I was thinking about vertical stripes of sprites with multicoloured bars then extending horizontally and down. It may look more organized? Ooph. It already looks a little messy :P Thanks for your input!

@@Eggsceptional I’d honestly say the sprites without the box and having them overlap with the faster ones on top might be the way to go.

@@Dark-Aclyss Hmm elminating the boxes may well eliminate the clutter. I'll give it a shot! The aspect ratio was weird on it too in this video. I stretched it a bit because I had an "F" tier at the end that I didn't end up liking so I may have cheated and stretched it :P Many improvements needed.

You know, I've been made aware of the Misdreavous before, but never the Exeggutor! I could have sworn it had that "C". If you happen to find the 3rd "n" in Giovanni as well, all three are now on the list of fixes. Thank you for pointing it out! I have some rebuilding to do in early 2024 :)

No kidding the R2 league is tough! I felt the same way initially, that Suicune would win. Raikou just did better today. I feel like with Hidden Power evening things out the runs would likely bounce around each other with completion times. In later gens the beasts get way more coverage! I don't know about Kyogre not being beaten though... Today's video might have something to say about that ;) I did look at Lugia VS Ho-oh. It'll be awful! Neither learn an attacking move until level 22 :) I appreciate it. Thank you!

Right?? I want to good Entei the biggest cuddle. I've been getting better about recognizing when it's time to walk away. Better.. I still have room to grow 😅 Thanks!

@@Eggsceptional he looks like he'd be so soft to hug! It's a hard skill to learn. Good on you for putting in the work to learn it! I'm still learning too.

@@kitsunekun2345 Every one of us has something we're working on right? Be a little bit better every day :)

@@Eggsceptional Richtig!

Raikou: I thought about it a bit and didn't feel that the Bulbasaur line would have made a significant impact on the run overall. HP Water would still have been my choice as Venusaur is less threatening than Exeggcutor was in the league :P Early game though you are correct! Some back Sleep Powder resets would have likely been inevitable. Suicune: Thank you :) This one felt the most intuitive. Entei: Ooph, the troublesome one. Thank you for the suggestion with Eevee! That has never occured to me before that's brilliant! That'll broaden my strategy so I can face Blaine early more comfortably in every future run. That's so great :D Hmmm a minimum battles run in FR would be a tough one. I don't think I'd do that one for any kind of competitive time, or even optimize because I'd have to save in front of every spinner. It'd be a fun idea to eggsplore for sure! Thank you for all of your input!! Cheers :)

@@Eggsceptional Well, HP water does solve bruno's steelix well but given a rerun, HP ice just works so much better due to boltbeam coverage will be neutral, and against t-tar, HP water is still weaker than thunderbolt just due to STAB bonuses, a nice thing to note is with lv 75, u guaranteed up to 90+ % of OKO t-tar with +2 T-Bolt with the current stat u have for raikou and a gd chance to OKO venusaur if u went with the grass starter for the rival, so a third optimized run u may wanna consider that, at lv 75, a +2 HP ice also does decently against bruno steelix by having a gd chance to OKO it as well, so overall I feel that HP Ice solves more issue than HP water, especially in the lategame, but given damage calcs are involved, it may make the run too mathematical XD Looking forward to the not a rat rodent race coming not sure when. I am gonna vote for best furboi furret, but I have a gd feeling linoone gonna take home the crown. :) But still, lets try to make gd of raticate to make youngster Joey proud of raising the best raticate he could ever imagine

@@shootingstardust97 Hey I'm genuinely convinced that math is a superpower. I'm really trying to be better at adding a more precise way to route second playthroughs. I want to build an HP Picker for instance that does these calcs for me in Excel :P Think today so I don't have to tomorrow! But yes, HP and Natures are something that I still struggle with sometimes. I appreciate your input :) I don't know.. Ratticate has Guts and STAB Facade in Round 2. That little fella is going to be hitting hard. I'm hoping to get that video produced in the next month or two. The 3ways are just such a titanic effort to put together in a week. Cheers!

I can definitely scratch that down for a future project! Be patient with me please - that list is long :) Thanks!

@@Eggsceptional Awesome! And no problem I love your videos so everything you put out before will keep me hooked!

@@zeebalex4762 That's great to hear thank you :D I appreciate it.

Rock Tomb was a range to knock out the decoy. So sometimes it would break, sometimes it wouldn't. I needed my speed intact for the rest of the battle so it ended up being a "cross your fingers and hope" type of situation. If I were to do it again I'd put more effort into Entei's Defense to not have that problem again.

I just want to give him a hug. He looks so cozy!

Suicune has an amazing sprite! My favourite of the trio is Raikou I think it's spot on. I hope I did Suicune proud for you :) Thanks!

@@Eggsceptional I'd certainly say so! Some great moments throughout the run and a surprisingly close finish for all three of these Pokemon. No disappointment on this one.

@@Flaris I loved how close this one was. Thank you :)

I was right there with you initially! I hope you enjoyed the results. This was a really close one! Thanks :)

@@Eggsceptional Yes! I was floored at the ground Entei made up. I thought Raikou would have more resets and lose time due to the difference in bulk and the common EQ in the late game.

@@Necrostevo Honestly I was in the same boat but Raikou's ability to hit hard without much set up, and with good type line ups most of the time (LOVE STAB Thunderbolt).. Reflect to supplement Def. Raikou was solid. I was so happy with Entei's second run :) Thanks!

142 vs 120

Surf: 95 x STAB: 1.5 = 142.5 = 142 effective power. Bite: 60 x SE: 2 = 120 effective power. Wild right?

I want to see this

The Regis have been being discussed for a while. They all start with Explosion and nothing else until level 9! I think we've come up with a clever way of making it work though :) Be patient with me! The list is long...

@@Eggsceptional take your time! And be sure to take some time for yourself! I appreciate all the content you've been making for us, Mr Eggman! Happy Holidays!

@@RobKni76 It's my genuine pleasure :) I'm working myself hard right now so I can have a week off at least at the end of the month. I need to spend some time with family :) Happy Holidays to you as well!

Thanks! This was the first in a video. I just wasn't feeling the alliteration in that moment :)

I feel like if you broke down the runs enough all of them had plenty of opportunities to make time back. I loved how close this ended up being :D Thank you!

@@Eggsceptional I wonder if the RNG lined up right for them every time would it still be that close a race? I kind of thought Raikou, cool as it is, would have a hard boiled time with this. And suicune would have it over easy

@@ShukakuTheCrazy1 Love the puns :) I feel like with perfect RNG and eggsecution from me Raikou would end up on top. Needing so few set up turns in the league poses a lot less risk, and well less turns, so less time. But Suicune was definitely the most solid to play. It's another video where I'm leaving it with almost as many questions as I answered :P

@@Eggsceptional yeah I have a deep love of puns and word play. Too many dad jokes. I tend to... Crack myself up! Ha!

@@ShukakuTheCrazy1 The yolks are strong :D You know steak puns are a rare medium well done.

Oak's had his GameShark in for almost a quarter century if we include Red/Blue! Thanks :)

It's true, of the Poison types Muk was the MOST troublesome. But that Venonat... I did consider leaning into the physical side more with Entei but I was so worried about the Intimidate from Gyarados hurting the damage output too much. I suppose I could have tested it a little more extensively. Set up is just so effective, but yeah it's not always fastest. The closeness of all three in this race, the way they bounced around in the first playthroughs. I loved watching this one come together. Water and Electric do compliment each other beautifully, and yeah generally mixed with Ice is pretty much perfection for this game. I actually played Raikou (I'm pretty sure) and the problems that I had with Entei's set up of Sunny Day, and just Entei in general I think really discouraged me from anything that was remotely similar. I had thought about Thunder/Rain Dance, but Reflect was so valuable. With PKHeX I have the ability to just cheat around so I don't use any save states while running. I test using a save file in front of R1 and in front of R2 because it's so easy to just swap out the Pokémon, and boom ready to go. I have the inventory stacked with items too for convenience. I'm not sure when I'll get to the Eeveelutions but I'm very excited for them. I haven't looked at them extensively but I'm hoping they have a LITTLE bit more coverage, at least in egg move options. Anything more than 2 types. The Roar from Blaine can be such a pain! That's awesome to hear that your Parasect is having so much success. I can't remember how my Paras run went exactly I may have blocked it out. But level 80 for Round 1 sounds appropriate. R2 is disgusting :P That's a pretty wild base defense but I totally forgot about how heavy the Regis are and how much that Mankey is actually going to hurt because we'll be like.. level 16? Either way, with my production process slowly getting more streamlined I'm hoping I can bring more VS videos, especially more 3ways than once every 5-6 months. I feel like the any similar run like that - Steelix, Aggron, Golem, Rhydon. Any of them with low speeds and common weaknesses will have a guaranteed number of hail mary moments that need to be routed in. Quick Claws/Iron Tail hits or die. I really don't like the idea of random IVs because it's harder to extract meaning from the results for the second playthrough. The Parasect hatred is all in good fun I hope you know :P Yeah there were a few coins added to the swear jar on that last one. I was all fired up by the end of the stream! That's a fair point too about all having a lot to learn. That shortcut in Koga's gym absolutely rocked my world for example. I love learning new things! A few people have requested old VS pairs going through as doubles pairs but that kind of sparked another idea in me. If, after a little while of course, we can dial in the format I'd love running Scyther/Pinsir VS Scizor/Heracross and expand the VS format as well. Those would be a lot of fun, but a huge amount of effort I feel. Probably the same amount as a solo 3way VS? Eh. I don't know. Below level 80 is pretty respectable for sure! That's including Round 2? I'm pretty impressed by Venomoth. And yes, see above for Parasect praise. I'm all caught up on it again!

​@@Eggsceptional the mono poison types (and quite a few of the others for that matter) can be rough to run, but are always oddly rough opponents, Muk is a special pain, I think many forget that it special defense and HP are massive and can boost with acid armor and add in minimize and you got a problem, straight in with a round move is the best way with it. ah yes the intimidating water onix, always a problem, the fact that Lance leads with it is the most trolly thing in all of Gen 3, an instant attack drop with no choice in the matter (except a select few you'll love running of course). testing is always a good plan for runs, although you got to have time for it and I think its save to say you've been busy recently. and yes the closeness of the 3 at the end of the 2nd run was a big surprise, I though entie would be a lot further behind, but you did good with it and all of them. I think Entei and Raikou had the most issues with set up, for all the speed and power they both have, they are very frail especially compared to suicune, reflect was a good call overall, I think entei should of had it as well, rock and ground are the bane of it after all. calm mind is good for special, but what good is that when the physical is like a sheet of glass. did you consider looking into having a nature for plus defense for either of them, suicune is few enough as its pure special attack and bulky already, but the others need of a little bulk make it worth trying. I love the Eeveelutions, in fire red they run in very interesting ways. Vaporeon is like suicune junior and almost identical moveset except no bubblebeam or calm mind, but acid armor is good. Jolteon is fast but frail as you can imagine but has the best coverage as it gets double kick and pin missile (better than nothing I assure you) although I don't think it needs agility on its moveset base 130 is enough. flareon is the odd one, its base 130 attack means shadow ball, dig, iron tail, all the normal moves, are gonna hit hard and base 90 special attack isn't bad for flamethrower. I can't comment on espeon and umbreon as I have never owned one in Gen 3. I don't need to guess you egg moves for all of them as curse is an option and we both know you love your set up, flareon and jolteon might make best use of it because of the movepools and stat spreads. you might need to take some optional battles for the sake of bulk with all of them for the sake of that mankey alone, regirock might not need it as much, registeel has base 150 for defense and special defense so might be ok but I wouldn't risk it, but regice will need the bulk most, all 3 get curse so boosting its defense is an option at least. I guess they are a long way off and you have time to think them through a little. the big rock and steels all are rather similar in terms of stats, movesets and weaknesses and will run in a similar manner. I believe Golem might get the win though, despite the dual water and grass weaknesses, it is a reliable runner. it always feels a touch faster than the others and I think i has the better special defense, add in STAB rollout and earthquake is monstrous for any run, add in defense curl and brick break and you got a rock monster. Steelix I think would a close 2nd, it has less crippling weaknesses and a rather good moveset and STAB and I believe if you do a VS it has access to curse, I need to look into that though. Aggron and rhydon is harder to call, appropriate as they are thematically similar, but both will suffer in similar ways. you may hate Parasect a little more after I tell you my results with it. but I know its all good fun. and fair enough with the random IV's, they might be awful or perfect, thats the nature of the game, but would yield some weird results and some strange HP options of course. I like little things like that with Kogas gym, I wonder how many more there might be? I rarely need to use it though, with gyms, I take on all trainers in there, once the gym leader is beat, you can't battle them and that is wasted experience, the levels might be needed later. an interesting prospect and I think worth looking into, I am glad its bot just me thinking of the old VS remade into doubles and I see my love of the bugs is rubbing off on you, those big bugs will be very interesting to see run like that, but that is a big big ask to do all 4 of them as a VS in doubles, I'd say more work than the 3 way VS. the Venomoth got through the R1 at 75-78, I use a rare candy or 2 for damage rounding against Lance and the champion of course, but the R2 was 83-85, a little lower than the butterfrees, but still the overall winner, I still would of loved dream eater or even shadow ball for it. I have finished Parasect, R1 was smooth, Lorelei and Bruno were fine, but Agatha and Lance were harder and caused a few resets, but we eggspected that. the champion caused half a dozen but thats because of Arcanine, its flamethrowers KO'd everytime. I did this at 85-88 with a moveset of giga drain, dig, HP rock (power between 65 and 70) and aerial ace. R2 was a lot harder as you can imagine, a few resets on Lorelei because of ice beams and sleep ending too soon. I had switched to pure physical for R2 and had spore and SD with Aerial Ace and I rotated dig and HP rock depending on the opponent. no need to talk about Bruno no no. Agatha was an evil witch, the whole team out speeds and status ruined Parasect so many times, confusion with full attack set up is evil. most of my resets in the R2 are because of her, I relied on a lum berry and sleep lasting long enough for set up there. Lance wasn't as bad as you'd think, Parasect, thanks to how the EV's of fire red spread and some decent IV's as a massive defense and tanked aerial aces and wing attacks from the dragonites and aerodactyl, very handy, but it fell a few times to flamethrowers again, it has almost no special defense and even neutral or non STAB special attacks can KO. again more resets here but not as many as Agatha. now you're not going to believe this, but I got no resets on the champion. I somehow speed tied the heracross, got it to speed and set up completely and KO'd it and the tyranitar, blastoise came next and set up rain dance so sandstorm was gone and Arcanines overheat was weakened in the rain (but still missed) alakazam just tried to set up calm mind and the final egg fell to aerial ace. I did it with maybe 50 resets overall and level 95-98 (leveled up to 99 on the last Pokemon) I shall not brag, I got lucky in a lot of places, but I'd like to think I have proved Parasect can do it that is the end of the solo bug runs for me, now it is time for the bug team, again on leaf green, I will do a full Gen 1 bug team (I will trade over a scyther once I have a few badges so it will obey), I may do a 2nd run on fire red using a few Gen 2 bugs after and I have a few other runs planned before moving to Hoenn for a while

@@jptheflipper3825 Thank you! It was honestly when Entei's speed just lined up perfectly for and earlier Misty with the 31 IV run that I starting to feel REALLY good about the Entei run. It was a wild race to script :D I did consider a +Def nature with Raikou, not with Entei, though with how that one turned out I almost should have. I felt that like given the results in the first run and how many ranges I just BARELY missed I needed to stick with Modest. I wish I could put the time into doing like.. 3-5 runs with these videos to really dial in each one. But yeah.. no time for that. Depending on what I can do with Jolteon going with Curse may not be the way. I just haven't looked into them enough. But yeah. base 130 speed AND agility? No way :P I'm looking forward to running them. I'm thinking maybe in the early months of 2024 I'll get to them? They've been on my mind a long time. The Regis are definitely in the "future project" category. With that being said, the next 3way poll I post will likely include them. The slow Pokémon I've honestly been really avoiding in solo runs. I hate being slow! It forces me to think more. Ugh :P Of all of them I think that Golem and Aggron are the ones I'm most looking forward to playing. Less because of how they'll do and more because I think they're awesome and I've never used either. Parasect is definitely lumped into that slow category. That's fair enough too in Koga's gym. If I'm lacking a little XP I often grab an extra trainer in there. Arbok/Sandslash/Hypno give great XP. I think that you're right about that one. I'm not sure if I'd call my opinion of Bugs going in the "love" direction quite yet :P That just seems like such a fun idea to explore, and we've already seem them against each other. Venomoth seems pretty solid! I really need to get around to running it solo.. What a wild run you had with Parasect. When you said that you got through the R2 Champ reset-less my first thought was "what!?". But, you may have convinced me that when I run Paras again it needs to be against Blastoise. Because that Charizard is just too much. That's awesome though good job on another completed run! With that thing of all Pokémon :P That's fair! You can't just run the same style of run over and over without driving yourself around the bend. You need a little bit of variety mixed in for sure. Are you going to involve ALL of the Bugs like Scizor/Heracross/..other good Bugs

​@@Eggsceptional I always get the feeling you have a hell of a time scripting all of these runs, the beasts being no eggception. thats fair enough with Entei, having that speed and the full IV's (well nearly full) was a game changer for it, Misty is a rough opponent that early into a run, I would of left her for after the SS Anne for the sake of a few levels and EV's if nothing else, there are some special EV's to be gained doing that. again thats fair, given the data you gained from the 1st runs, it makes sense to leave the natures alone. time to run these Pokemon multiple times is very short I guess, 6 runs in total for one video is a lot, I would test them myself but I lack the facilities, I don't think it would make a big difference overall time wise as you'd need to train more to make for that 10% drop in special, but I think there would of been less resets for the run, which is as we have said before is quite swag. Jolteon might make good use of it as it has a better physical set thanks to its TM's, the same as the rest of the eevee's but also gets some double kick and pin missile for extra coverage opposed to its special coverage which is essentially whatever HP you give it. it is fast enough naturally though that curse might not slow it down too much and allow it to use that physical move pool. and yeah agility is useless on it, unless you baton pass it of course. the regis will be great fun when the future gets here, I wonder how they will do in a poll, given how much we talked about them in the last stream, they might get some votes, but I think the legendary birds might win the next one. you will truly love both of them, golem is a go to rock type in Gen 1 and aggron is very much the Gen 3 equivilant, move becoming available after the 1st gym. I think the dual weakness of aggron will hurt the run more than the dual weaknesses of golem. golem is almost used to it in fire red if that makes sense, it adapted, aggron is still learning in comparison, plus that damn mankey again lol. I genuinely hate Koga's gym, it is good experience, but nearly every battle in there is rough, especially those hypnos, why so many psychic types in a poison gym, its madness to me. Koga is not the hardest gym leader as you can skip him for quite a while to train, but his gym is almost always a challenge, at least for my runs. I doubt you will ever love the bugs, I think parasect and shuckle have made it so that will never happen, but you seem to like them and enjoy the challenge of them more and more. seeing the 4 big bugs of Gen 1 and 2 all together in a single vid would be awesome, a bit of me wonders if any of the Gen 3 bugs could pair up in a similar way for a doubles as well, Ninjask and Shedinja maybe? Venomoth is rather solid, for your runs of it, I suggest speedy natures, that Aerodactyl and the big fire types of the champion will always be a threat, perhaps HP water just for them. resist the urge to use sleep all the time as well, without compound eyes it is an unreliable strat. I couldn't believe it did that as well, it was close, don't get me wrong, I still needed to tank a hit or 2, but its high physical defense served it well, I think if you do a 2nd run, look into EV training for its HP and special defense if you can, I went with a brave nature for it, I knew it would never out speed anything that it really needed to, so I leaned into it and gave it some attack, sassy nature might be better as it boosts special defense instead of attack. I am more proud of doing it before level 100, I didn't think THAT was possible. I have a few solos left to do, but just not bugs, my poison boys are up next for that but breaking it up with a few team runs 1st helps keep it fresh. in my 2nd bug run I will use more Gen 2 bugs. Scizor of course as its fire fire and heracross works for me instead of pinsir and I am thinking of breeding a yanma for the R2 to replace beedrill, I will keep parasect though, it has earned its place, I am not a fan of any of the other Gen 3 bugs to use them though and shuckle and fortress are emerald exclusive

@@jptheflipper3825 It's true but generally the SpA EVs on the SS Anne get left behind. I'm usually not ready to grind by then. Outspeeding Starmie by 1 point was beautiful. I was ready to use a Rare Candy too just to avoid the backtracking. It's true I really hope that I can get another 0 reset run soon. The swag is real :P And yes, I wish I could invest more time into refining the runs for every video but that just isn't in the cards at the moment. Someday maybe.. but not today! True enough. I was hoping that Jolteon would end up being similar to Aerodactyl where with that insane speed stat I could get away with a Curse or two without being punished too heavily. Hey, physical or special, I tend to prefer the one that has the best coverage. Or set up move :P I don't know. I feel like there's enough mystery surrounding the Regis to be compelling. We'll see! I likely won't hold another 3 way vote for a few weeks either way. I need to finish off the year and find where that reset button for my brain is. Ahh that damn Mankey. It'll be interesting to see for sure. I'm worried about Golem against the early Rival and Misty for sure. Then, approaching the late game I'm probably worried more about Aggron because of Bruno. We'll have to see though! Maybe I'll just race them to be sure. For how often Koga poses a problem I'd say someone in his gym poses one as well. I agree, the Sandslash/Arboks everywhere can throw down some pain, but those Hypnos are nasty. Especially the level 38 one with Psychic. Maybe that's something to explore then. I mean.. eventually. The best bugs of Gen 1/2/3 all showing down in VS matches. The dynamic would shift a lot I feel, with the Gen 3 Bugs being more suited to a team environment. Maybe? But yes, I'll likely never LOVE the Bugs, but I don't outright avoid them anymore! Yeah Venomoth will be one that will need some fine tuning. The more I play and the more little strategic bits that I can find through fights the easier every subsequent run gets. That's part of why I'm looking so forward to re-running Tauros after 1 year of making content. That's fair enough! It sounds like I just need to be a little more kind to myself in that run and it can go down without TOO much headache. .....he says not knowingly :P That's awesome! Keeping Parasect around in a team environment makes way more sense to me than P as a solo runner. Forretress as well, seems like a team addition, not a solo runner. But hey, eventually I'll run 'em all. The good, the bad, and the headachy.

What a race it was too. Raikou was so fun to play :) Thanks!

I hope you enjoyed the ending :D Thanks!

I'm not sure about how impossible Entei would have been if I'd geared him more physically. In the interest of speed though I felt that SpA and Calm Mind were the answer. I maybe could have tested more extensively with HP Rock that's for sure. 115 base Atk is solid by itself. I absolutely love Raikou. It has such a killer design! That's a really cool thing with your childhood team. Does it bring you back at all seeing me battle him every week? That double Intimidate is so nasty!

@@Eggsceptional True 115 atk stat is nothing to scoff at and maybe with enough bulk it could be a solid run with sub but yeah in terms with keeping up with the other two I don't think it would work. Yeah it does bring back memories when I see the Venusaur team, my brother and my friend Yin would complain about the double intimidate whenever we battled since a lot of their favorite Pokémon were physical attackers, so sometimes I would swap out Arcanine with Aerodactyl or swap out Gyarados with Lapras (though Yin would have a lot of bad luck whenever I would use Larpas since I always got a freeze in every battle we had hehe)

@@lumineinfinitussilverkagat8094 There was always that one friend that hit Freezes without fail :P That's so fun! If they didn't like your Intimidates so much they should have cheesed you with Substitute ;) Nah, as far as kid me was concerned if it didn't do damage it wasn't a good move. It's great having those memories! I agree though, without the Sub/Calm Mind strats I'm not convinced Entei would have kept up with the others.

@@Eggsceptional I don't know why but it was only when me and him battled that the freeze would happen, that and there was one battle where I used one flash as a misclick (I forgot to delete it from my Alakazam) and Yin's Charizard missed four moves in a row. I know my sister used a lot of status and defensive moves but she didn't battle as much as we did, she preferred to complete the pokedex and do all the side content in the games like contests. as with Entei and it's gen 3 moveset I think you made the right call with sub and calm mind. That might as also be the play to go with in HGSS since I don't see much improvement with it's physical movepool outside of the event Entei who got Flare Blitz, Howl, and Extremespeed

actually that's a question to ask, in gen 4 would you consider using event versions of Pokemon or add in the event moves if you think it will help them or would you just use a base version of the Pokemon to keep it fair?

Upon googling how early you can encounter them it’s right after the burned tower, so I must have gone back to goldenrod to grind levels in the grass.

I thought their first action was always to run away or Roar you out of the battle though?

@@gaminggoddess85 you’re totally right I must be misremembering

This may be some sort of Mandela effect, but I swear I can remember something similar. I think they're incredibly likely to Roar/run, but I could swear I've been smacked by one of the roamers in the past too. These are shaky, 20+ year old memories mind you :D

That would have been really nice to see a more "full offense" style Entei. We can dream right? I'm looking forward to re-eggsploring these in Gen 4 when I'm more familiar with it. Cheers!

I hope I remembered to put more in later in the video! I was getting a tad tired by the end :)

Definitely! HP Ice is always a solid choice, especially when you consider battles like Lance. Cheers :)

No Nasty Plot in Gen 3 I'm afraid no. I'm really looking forward to re-eggsploring this trio in Gen 4 with a few more options available. Raikou has always been my favourite as well. The design is absolutely gorgeous. Aggressive, yet I still just want to give it a hug :)

@@Eggsceptional ye, absolutely gorgeous! In gen 4, it gets access to Discharge by level up, so that makes it so much better w/o dipping into T-bolt or Thunder.

@CasualVideoGamer Discharge would have been a great addition. I hear it even gets Scald in later gens. THAT would be awesome!

@@Eggsceptional Scald, Discharge/Tbolt, and Calm Mind with maybe Crunch or Shadow Ball would be an excellent move pool I think. At least the first three, not sure about that fourth move slot.

@@CasualVideoGamer Hmm Crunch may fall off a bit in Gen 4 since it isn't special anymore. It hurt me so much to not take it in the second playthrough. I just look at Raikou's Gen 4 moves, and though Scald isn't on there I see some other fun options. Even in the event moves it can learn Aura Sphere! That would be fun....

I hope you enjoyed the results!! I was worried about the Electric typing but Raikou was a beast! Litetally! Thanks :)

I see at least 4 possibilities there for "budget" beasts that I can run in FireRed! At least until I get into that backporting sorcery.... Great suggestions thanks :)

Raikou was the one I was most eggscited to play. What a wicked cool Pokémon! Thanks :)

Hadn’t finished the video yet, Can’t believe Raikou won!!! Thank you for bringing this spectacular video!

@@eduardosalguero8506 Thanks for watching :) I couldn't believe how close it was!

That's fair enough :P I never cheat in the second runs so adding Earthquake, while fun, wouldn't give me much info for playthrough 2. Though I agree... If roaring makes a volcano erupt surely there's some seismic activity... Thanks :)

I hope I did Entei proud! Cheers :)

​@Eggsceptional i think you did amazing id love to see a heartgold/soulsilver playthrough with these pokemon

@@KingTheDjinn Thank you :) Absolutely!! Once I feel more competent in the game there are SO many runs I can't wait to check out in HG/SS.

Added to the list :) Thanks!

Hey now, at least in solo play Suicune wasn't much cheesier than the others! I can see how nasty it could be in competitive though. Suicune took hits so incredibly well. Thanks :)

The Intimidate against Lance and access to Calm Mind really swayed me from using physical. I do love me some HP Rock though :P Thanks!

@@Eggsceptional I swear that pesky lead intimidate

@@Straven93 Every time :P

Solarbeam = 120 effective power (neural) Flamethrower = 95 * 1.5 (STAB) * 1.5 (Sun) / 2 (Resistance) = 106 effective power Close! But Solarbeam wins out slightly. If I were in Blaze range, mind you, Flamethower would have been dealing more. Thanks :)

@@Eggsceptional ah I was thinking Sun was 2x not 1.5

Aside from the potential for an early game Sleep wipe I really didn't feel like the Venusaur team would have made any significant impact in the late game. Only Heracross decided that. Thanks for your input!

There were plenty of mistakes throughout all of these runs. But hey, they sure were fun :)

@@Eggsceptional I agree, thank you for the great runs. Always watching and enjoying. The fire type was one of my favorites, so i voted at the end for the underdog.. even so i like all of them :)

@@CimbomluEmrah It was such a close one too! The Fire type has such a rough go in FireRed, ironically enough. Thanks :)

Entei struggling the most I feel was much more a consequence of the game I was running. They definitely felt the most well synergized, just the most punished with the Fire typing in FireRed. Thanks!