The shiny Poochyena Kyle takes on Pokemon Emerald 

Known errors / narration issues: @Myggmastaren pointed out during the premiere that you can walk behind the house to grab the three Persim Berries. I have been thinking that I need Surf to do it.

Fun fact: This is Kyle's rematch vs Tate and Liza. He was present during Luvdisc's victory as the obligatory partner pokemon.

Something you should keep in mind as you play more gen 3 is because enemy trainers use items more consistantly, you can play around that. There were a couple times in the drake fights where it would have been better to set up another howl while drake heals, which would guarantee a 1 shot on the following turn and carry better ranges for future pokemon. Same thing in thay fight you survived the gyarados with 1hp. Howl on the heal and you probably would have knocked out both gyarados and milotic in 1 hit

"So, now, let's talk about Kyle's stats" is my new favorite Pokémon-related sentence.

I'm really curious to see how the Slaking line would stack up. For 2 reasons. One is maybe a VS video between Vigoroth and Slaking? To see if Truant really sucks so much that it can make a much "weaker" preevo go faster? And two is I'm wondering just how utterly horrible Slakoth is going to be, with even worse stats than Vigoroth coupled by Truant too.

Been having a pretty crumby day. Glad you put this out. Makes the day much better

GO KYLE!! For Wattson, you might generally find the battle easier if you need to set up, to do it on the Electrike, if at all possible. It loves to set up howl, can't paralyze you unless you attack it, and also hits less hard than any other Pokémon on his team

Remember that time Scott found a shiny Ratatata in Crystal? Do you think he'll do a run with that one at some point?

Armaldo is the extremely rare Venomoth type. We can confirm this

Misplays aren’t necessarily a bad thing. While I can understand why some viewers may not enjoy them, I actually think it helps get to know the game better and thus improve your own play in subsequent runs. Watching you learn from mistakes and optimize your routing for each Pokémon is why I enjoy the channel so much. Keep up the great work Scott!

Can't wait for you to use a perfect Mightyena for a real run. I'm very interested in what nature you pick and what the moveset differences will be.

Scott, the Persim berries on route 114 before Meteor falls are available even without surf. You just Need to go behind the house on the route and then you can pick the berries

This was a fun playthrough. It’s quite surprising seeing how “good” an imperfect Mightyena can perform.

Kyle may not be perfect but we love him anyways

Emerald guy returns! I noticed something that came up consistently in the later portions of the run, that I'd like to advise you on. When you were getting Pokemon to low-HP and triggering the AI to use a Full Restore, you *know* that this heal is coming. You can take this opportunity to set up another Howl and secure a KO on your next attack. This not only saves PP, but probably would have prevented a lot of resets as you ran into this situation on sequential Pokemon, just spamming Return when you had a clear out and path to victory had you chosen to take advantage of this opportunity. I'm glad to hear about the future of Emerald videos on your channel - this game is dear to my heart. I'm looking forward to Seviper and Zangoose. I've always liked Seviper and it having unique access to Poison Tail will be interesting to watch. Zangoose is my fav Pokemon, so I'm naturally excited about that.

I love seeing the rankings with all the official pokemon species names, then just Kyle in the middle there 😂 Great job Scott, another great video!

This turned out well. Glad we finally got the Shiny Poochyena run and also glad Scott decided to evolve it because boy would the results be different.

Excellent video as always

"Just Picture a depressed Onion, cutting itself " -Sad Bo Burnham

This was a lot of fun honestly! I'm glad Kyle did pretty okay as well. Obviously its completely perfect Attack stat helped out a bunch but Howl is just a pretty decent move overall. It'll be really interesting to watch you go through re-does, because there are definitely some older playthroughs that I think can get big time improvements. Like Swampert was done I think almost exactly a year ago, and I think Swampert just has a better time sitting under its belt, especially as its become more and more apparently that 2:15-2:30 is pretty average for Emerald. One minor suggestion for when you go back with Mightyena: you're absolutely right that setting up on the Voltorb against Watson is risky, so you should probably set up against the Electrike instead. I absolutely think that fight is doable at Level 30 and that you probably don't need the extra levels. I'm also thinking about potential Hidden Powers for Mightyena, and the best I can come up with is either Fighting or Ground. One of the big issues with Skarmory is that initially its weaknesses seem bad for it, as Fire and Electric are special typings and Skarmory has bad Sp.Def, but that also means that for physical Pokemon, there's no good coverage moves available to hit Skarmory with. You're always doing only neutral damage, and that's so difficult to deal with.

Hooray; it's finally time for Kyle to shine... literally in his case! I remember you catching this golden hyena and it's awesome to see the planned video come to fruition. 1:00 - Run Away really needs a bonus effect, like always wins speed-ties or something. 1:58 - Perfect Attack IVs and Adamant Nature is a pretty good draw for a Poochyena. Shame the Speed and Special Attack are so low but at least it can hit like a truck with it's potential Normal, Ground, Ghost and Steel moves. A shame there's no way for to gain the Egg Move of Poison Fang. 4:15 - Kyle grew up so fast. Awesome to see the 2D artwork to the side change at the same time, and as you note, that the colour scheme remains consistent with the evolution. Poochyena/Mightyena have a surprisingly cool shiny look. 7:47 - Fantastic planning with the Howl set-up. The CPU sure do love to set-up in turn despite having a type advantage. I assume Kyle is also currently garbed with a Silk Scarf here. 9:19 - Dig is only available after Watson? That is annoying. I always remember it being pretty handy that you can discover it before Whitney (interrupting her Rollout), though that does require going out of your way to search for it. They should have done something similar with Dig being available but tucked away so you have to look for it. 12:02 - The zoom-in made that way more tense than that needed to be. Lack of good moves seem to be the dilemma at the moment so hopefully you'll gain access to some good TMs at this point. A stronger Normal move is certainly needed to take advantage of that good Attack stat. 14:57 - Huh, everything went perfectly well first time... kind of expected something to go wrong after your statement of confidence. 17:26 - Also manages to hit with Supersonic. I swear the CPU just have a more accurate version of that move. I assume you have no Persim Berries both here and back against Norman's Spinda (though luckily, you didn't need it back then). 18:14 - I've barely seen mention of the Wobbuffet guy and he already has his own artwork. Odd choice to have artwork made for a trainer you're specifically avoiding. 20:19 - That's a relief. Lunatone and Xatu are lacking in offensive moves I see; foolish mistake to have your singular attack option be something that has immunity to it (never leave your Pokémon with only a Normal/Fighting/Poison/Psychic/Dragon/Ghost/Electric as their only attack option). 22:09 - Ah yes, the Sootopolis freezer basement filled with women... not weird at all. Cute cat story though; I understand being distracted by that. 23:35 - I mean, not like you many other viable options. Crunch won't work too well given your reduced Special Attack, Hyper Beam requires charging afterwards and Iron Tail is inaccurate. I feel you've got the best move-set given your stat line-up. 27:04 - I'm impressed with you and Kyle here; I was expecting Glacia to be a roadblock you'd face in the Elite Four but you easily overcame her. Who would have expected Sidney to be the guy posing a challenge. 28:46 - Out of curiosity, would a Shell Bell work better than a Sitrus Berry here. I was thinking of that as you suffered from the chip damage per Pokémon (and assuming finding a Leftovers is difficult as ever to find). 33:55 - Yeah, Gyarados was already good enough as is but they allow it to learn a strange variety of powerful moves on top of it's powerful base move-set. You'd think an easy way to balance powerful Pokémon would be to give them less varied move-pools but nope; the stronger ones tend to be able to learn a lot. 37:22 - I did focus on the screen. Funny seeing Water Spout do so little. 38:56 - Okay; Iron Tail wasn't even an option for those earlier fights then. 41:13 - Oh wait; Iron Tail is actually going to be used. It's such a low accuracy move that I've seen few folks try it out so I've long been curious about seeing someone try to make use of it. I do think this will work out better than Crunch, what with Steel being super effective against Steven's Rock types. Claydol might remain an issue though. 44:21 - Victory! Whilst I do think Shadow Ball would have worked out better (shame Wallace forced your hand there), it was awesome to see Iron Tail in action.

A shiny physical attacker with adamant and 31 attack IVs? Wow. That’s astronomically rare. Play the lottery Scott. You may hit the jackpot

6:20 I would like Scott's Thoughts to feel good about himself 🙌

Kyle has a Adamant Nature & it's Dark type STAB moves are special 🤣 I love gen 1-3

Fun run :) it would be cool to see how Kyle compares to a perfect poochyena/mightyena!

Bro this is one of your best videos, easily. Also that Pelipper bodying you had me 💀💀💀

It’s so funny I randomly thought about you catching this shiny and was like I wonder when Scott’s gonna make that video love the channel dude!

Oh boy! I’m excited to see what the little guy can do! Good luck!

Believe it or not, but i discovered your channel last week. It made me wanna replay Emerald. I actually found and caught a shiny Poochyena in the petalburg woods

So I said this on a different video somewhere, but the fact almost all the dark moves in the game at this point in the series are clearly _physical_ attacks like Bite and Crunch, despite being classified as Special, makes me think they were considering doing a physical/special split before Gen 4 ever came out

Question - have you thought about doing a "win the master contest badge" challenge for each of the contest category's?

I am so happy that this is the first shiny Pokemon you used for a run. This was the first shiny Pokemon I ever caught and I'm pretty sure it was the only one I ever caught LOL. I was so excited when I found it cuz I didn't even know what shiny Pokemon worried at that point in time all I knew was it must have been super rare and I was super excited. I ended up training that thing into a mightyena. I have no idea what ever happened to that Pokemon emerald game cartridge I had. Shiny Mightyena you will be missed!

Scott you are my absolute favorite PokeTuber. Watching your videos on daily makes me feel happy and nostalgic. Hoping one day you will make also a video Ladian VS Ariados :)

At the end I was pretty amazed that we’re getting into our Unova patrons, feels like yesterday when it was Kanto lol

I've been waiting for this! So glad we finally see Kyle's return.

Love your plan for Emerald, Scott! Looking forward to watching it!

A shiny being named Kyle. Hurts. That aside, I think this thing is gonna do pretty bad. Well, if it evolves, then it should do okay. Idk. Good luck, and it's super cool you ended up using this guy!

Every emerald video is just another confidence boost for all us matt's out there getting a compliment on our clothing.

Zangoose Vs. Seviper should be interesting, if for no other reason than that Zangoose has the Erratic growth rate (extremely slow early on but very fast in the late game), while Seviper has the Fluctuating growth rate (extremely fast at first but becomes very slow in the late game). And given that Zangoose will likely struggle with Roxanne and Brawly while Seviper will struggle with Steven, they're both going to face at least one massive hurdle during their slow growth periods.

Oh my god, I JUST realized that the Winstrate family's name is a pun. I played the original R/S/E games way back when, and I only now know that Winstrate = Win+Straight (because you have to defeat them with no breaks).

Hey Scott just recently found your videos through watching J Rose’s content, and I’m loving your videos as well! Keep up the good work. I’m trying to learn the mechanics of the game better, and I heard you mention “damage rounding thresholds”. What exactly are those? Sorry if you’ve already explained in a previous video, but I just started watching!

Can't wait to see Illumise vs Volbeat. Or Minun and Plusle.

3 years... Holy moly, what a ride! I have to say that I sat in front of my computer, crying that you didn't use howl in the Elite 4, when return wasn't enough to kill buut to let them use Full Restore which would be a perfect opportunity for another howl use to get the range instead of using Return 2 times^^

Just as a possibly useful note and observation. Drake's team apparently can receive a high chance to one shot the entire team(except salamance), with the attack stat, when the the attack is a over 300. I noticed that your Mightyena had 298 attack, the whole team either oneshot, or in the case of the last two pokemon, really small red bar consistently. Just thought I'd share that. So if you ever revist the pokemon, two to three howls should be more than enough. Hope this helps.

suggestion: since you needed to reach ranges so many times what about using facade and being pre statused before the league? it will make phoebe harder but if you can make it past her it would perhaps help you getting pass shelgon more consistently as you will only need lvl 68 to outspeed salamence

Yoooooo finally it’s here!!!!!!!!!!!! Btw shadow ball would’ve been useful for Steven. None of his Pokémon resist it and a couple take super effective damage as well. Just a thought for a future playthrough. Shadow ball and return are some of the best moves in gen 3

I found those dog pokemon more annoying than Zubats in my playthroughs. That said Scott did a good job making an enjoyable video.

One thing you can do, when facing enemies while having a set up move like Howl or Meditate or Calm Mind, is if you deal just barely not enough damage to KO and you're confident they'll use a healing item, instead of using your attacking move again and likely still 2-shotting them, use your set up move again. It will still take 2 turns to KO the enemy, but now you're boosted further and less likely to have the same thing happen against later mons on the team. This would have helped you against multiple trainers in the E4 this video.

Good to see Kyle back. Awesome shiny, and a fun run! On Drake would it be useful to use howl on the turn he is using a full restore? That way your next return would do more damage?

Dude I remember the fucking ratata like it happened yesterday, it's like a fucking core memory. The heartbreak at the shiny ratata during a Halloween themed run when there were no pokeballs was brutal as all hell.

Shiny poochyena was my first shiny as a kid in emerald. Unfortunately lost the copy of Pearl it was migrated to. Very nice to see this run.

Now that you mention the bike, you can grind on cycling road trainers whenever you get stuck on Wattson.

I'm so glad I got to be zigzagoon, its my fave gen 3 pokemon!!

Looking forward to Cacturne so you can appreciate its truly atrocious Gen III learnset. It's unbelievable, a sight to behold.

Great vid! You might have debunked this, but I thought if you used a different attacking move on turn 1 vs Pelipper it will still use protect.

at 30:40 there is no speed tie because you level up to lvl 64 and get 2 more speed than the flygon

Looks like Kyle has finally evolved.

Hey Scott! Very interesting video as always! I was wondering… is there a way to show the opposite trainer’s Pokémon’s level? Perhaps in the small empty area between the name, the sprite, and the stats… Also, I thought that you could benefit of some sort of “alert” via the screen to let you know whenever an issue comes up based on your settings at the beginning of the play through (recover pp alert, recover hp alert, etc etc). This might help you avoid “forgetting” about these things before key battles. Just a couple of… thoughts / suggestions hehe

Scott! I dont see a shuckle vid for gen 2!

I love Mightyena, they're one of my favorite Pokémon and definitely my favorite Hoenn Pokémon! I can't wait to see how much of a difference having a perfect Mightyena makes

Milotic is still the only pokemon with single digit resets in its own way thats impressive

This was super fun! I think Shadow Ball outperforms Crunch in every single situation given your stats (against normal types you’d have other options). A perfect Mightyena could have HP Fighting for Steven, would have made it way easier than Dig (since it hits fliers and doesn’t risk boosted Earthquake).

Verlisify is going to lose his mind when he sees that PkHex window. 😂

I think not having perfect IVs really hurt its time but it was still lots of fun to watch!

I'm always happy when Ludicolo gets a win. Ho got multiple here, but a true 1v1 full life is impressive \o/ I love this thing since it carried me trough Emerald late game (the fighting area) It's crazy what he can do with his unique typing and barely ok stats And he is always funny to look at. Can't stop imagining him dancing, especially after a win, with his smug duck face and hairy/fluffy body He look so happy

Thanks, Scott, this was a very fun video!

Wobbuffet fact: Its shiny form changes only the colour of the blue Body, while the tail keeps its colour. This could be a counter argument to the common theory that the tail is the actual pokemon.

I really liked Kyle as a shiny, and illustrated version of it was really adorable, I really liked it had some kind nice dynamics to the character.😊 Kyle wasn't having perfect IVs in all of its stats ,but at least you had 15 attack IVs which is pretty rare, that gave it's physical attacks an edge. But on the other hand Poochiyena's special capabilities are not that great, and especially it is the case with Kyle. Due to that ,you could use stab in gen. Kyle wishes it had the physical/special split in this run. It would be fun seeing it trying a run in omega ruby/sapphire or in gen 4 sometime, just to see how it improved its results.😊

okay this channel is amazing, so glad I found it!!

Hooray we’ve all been looking forward to this

I wouldn't say that Run Away is useless in a solo challenge, just that the use it has is EXTREMELY niche. Basically, it lets you escape Arena Trap and Shadow Tag, which is good if you're running away from battles in an area where Pokemon have those abilities, and also prevents escape failures so it eliminates one form of RNG that may or may not even show up in a run depending on the Pokemon's speed.

Did you pokehex leftovers in? The time and grind to get those in would be insane. (Only via a pickup pokemon at level 81 at a 1% rate) Love the videos and all the work you put in

It didn't do so bad for a mono-Dark with imperfect stats. Looks like Gen 3 is just that much harder for a solo challenge, you can go without a single reset in Gens 1+2 on some of the better mons but in Gen 3 you haven't seen less than 7 resets (so far). Maybe your Mewtwo vs. Rayquaza at the end of all this could do it?

I would love to see you attempt Emerald Legacy when SmithPlays finishes it. Have you played Yellow/Crystal Legacy before? I would love to see what you think of them.

I motion for "Kyle" to remain in the tier list. No image or qualifying context or anything - just "Kyle".

My very first shiny encounter was in gold version, it was a ratatta just Bernie Sanders the daycare centre. Having just finished silver without ever encountering one, i was a little confused (the colour was subtle too). I managed to catch it, and used it a bit, but strongly feared that if i evolved it it would lose its shiny colour. Eventually i found a green zubat, and also feared evolving it

Thanks for this run, been waiting a long time for it. I wouldnt mind over time, seeing kyle in gens 4, 5, 6, rtc but sadly deleveling a pokemon isnt a thing =(

Yeah nice one, but yeah Mightyena is basically "We have Absol at home"

Six for more luck because Kyle sounds like he needs all the luck he can get. Ganbatte ne Kyle!

I love the videos but I hate these live premiers lol. I watch everything at 2x speed so my playback catches up with the live and then goes sooooo slow.

Kyle is goodest Doggo. That is the comment.

I think it'd be pretty cool to do a shiny run series. Like if you caught a shiny in a previous episode or run and later just run the game normal with that shiny pokemon regardless of what pokemon it is.

Yaaay I remember when we first saw Kyle 💜

i would love it if you could put pictures in the tier list... i don't know most english pokemon names :)

great video enjoyed it as always keep up the great content awesome shiny my first was a Pidgey on fire red

Great ideas with the future direction for the series 😊

Started playing Pokémon again via emulator after watching your videos and just got my first ever shiny in emerald on my first play through yesterday and it’s a poochyena😂

Something that also always needs to be considered: Offensively Dark and Ghost are almost identical, especially prior to the introduction of Fairy-types. Dark and Ghost both only hit super-effectively against Ghost and Psychic. In Gens 2 to 5 Dark is resisted by Dark, Fighting, and Steel, while Ghost is only resisted by Dark and Steel but can't hit Normal-types. So the coverage benefits of running both a Dark and a Ghost type move are almost nonexistent as long as other (neutral) coverage against Dark, Steel, and Normal Pokémon is available.

Always surprised at how few subs this channel has. It's jrose11 but with more data. Sure, the personalities are different but LIVE UPDATES OF SPEED STATS!

I am very glad Kyle is on the tier list

Kinda surprising that they mangled the Poochyena line after upsetting everyone with Sneasel. I guess they figured Tyranitar was enough compensation for both.

Against the Shelgon, when you know the AI will use a full restore, you should use that free turn to howl for free. Then you can one shot the shelgon with +3 and sweep

Have you ever thought about releasing some RU-vid shorts cut from bigger videos where you just cover things like mechanics (like dark moves being special pre gen 4 etc). I don't think they'd take long to make since you can just splice them out of bigger projects and then you can have them around as references for people to watch

Crunch being special, and Shadow Ball being physical is a big reason I don't really replay games before gen 4. Physical/Special split really made things better in my opinion.

I was wondering if Plusle vs Minun would be interesting and the only difference in learnset is that at Lv 28, Minun gets Charm while Plusle gets Fake Tears. Base stats-wise, they have the same numbers just arranged differently - Atk and Def are swapped, and Sp Atk and Sp Def are swapped - giving Plusle slightly higher offence and Minun slightly higher defence. I feel like Plusle would win between the two but it would be close.

Leeeetsgooooo Finally it's time for my boy Kyle to shine!

Soooooo anyone else thinking "Shiny Tier list"? No? Just me? Okay.....

I started doing Fire Red solo runs recently. I've done Steelix, Houndoom, Wailord and Seviper so far. Steelix was the longest while Houndoom was the fastest. Oh, and I plan on doing Camerupt next.

This is the best video in existence

I’m gonna call him Rocky.