Unown is SUPER UNDERRATED in Pokemon Crystal 

thousand yard stare

No

please no : (

HONKAI! I love it!

Yes, thank you

Listen here you little shi-

Take your like and git.

Listen here you little shi-

"O"

I read that K in Alluka's voice

And yet, it's a pretty significant upgrade since Hidden Power can have halfway decent power, a decent type, and doesn't have so many power points that setting up for struggle strats is annoying... Honestly, I feel like deleting string shot would actually be an improvement to Caterpie's move set... Too bad game string shot isn't as good as anime string shot.

​@@JefferyMewtamerString Shot was what allowed victory in the very end though.

Do you know what plans they had? I know in its current form it’s basically an ad for the gameboy printer but it definitely feels like it had bigger aspirations

​@@creepslime6502 Pretty sure it was where one of the legendary cats were

When I was a kid I thought getting all the Unown would give me the Kanto fossil pokemon because there's that sliding puzzle of Kabuto in the ruins... turns out it's just hey you can PRINT your Unown now

*Ruins of Alph

I remembered being obsessed with the ruins trying to catch a Natu because I really liked Xatu but I was a dummy and had no clue how to reach the grass patch at the ruins. I just remembered doing random encounters in the ruins themselves expecting to run into a Natu assuming it was super rare random encounter while growing a hatred for the Unown I kept encountering.

is like goga in the gen1 he be the gym leader and in that version he be the elite 4 and let her student be the gym leader i never look about that little detail

I originally thought I misheard him 😂

Like grandmother, like granddaughter.

@@tk24life I’ll believe it.

A contest you can only enter once each of three specific days a week, not convenient to all recording schedules, unless lots of clock manips which may or may not be considered a fair strategy for all challenge runners' personal rules. But yes, an escape hatch if needed.

@@BioniclesaurKing4t2they have an website for that, trainer id for the in game time changer.

@@BioniclesaurKing4t2 I'm not 100% sure but I think he plays around with the clock anyway because he seems to always get the day-dependent type-boosting items when he needs them. But getting 3rd in the bug catching contest itself seems RNG dependent, is there a reliable way to (almost) always come third?

@@iss2075 not quickly, can be sure on that.

Yup, he can just set the AI for that. Or start on the right day, remember that ingame time is like 10 hours to the league, which at 3x speed is 3 hours (so an afternoon at best) and the scores for AI is somewhat known, making placing third a case of about calculating what is best and hoping for the results. Tedious, but doable in a day. And especially worth it for a valuable item like gold berry he'd otherwise have to suspend the run for 24 hours.@@iss2075

Yeah like a level 50 move or something, reward for taking the time to level up

It totally deserves Secret Power as well, and maybe Nature Power. Honestly, just lean into a new gimmick and give it all kinds of Power moves! Cosmic Power, Nature Power, Power Trick/Power Shift, Stored Power, Earth Power, Power Gem, Mystical Power; all of those can make sense at some level. Things like Superpower, Power Whip, and Power Trip aren't likely to make the cut, however. Since they cut out the one thing Unown had, it wouldn't be so terrible to give it something new!

@@amberhernandez Unown would totally make sense having all moves with "power" in the name or is it just me?

@@amberhernandez That "gimmick" only works because of specific translation choices and is unlikely to make any sense at all in Japanese, the language the games originate with.

@@ForeverLaxx Trust me, I'm aware lol

Togepi being good makes sense because it's like Magikarp: You get Gyarados and Gyarados is good, And like Eevee and the Fossils: usually when the game makes it easier to get a Pokémon that Pokémon gets the advantage of often being an early acquire that gets to level up a ton as just the beginning of benefits in addition to being available for any thing related to opportunities at earlier points in runs and they're often designed to fill holes in a team at the time you acquire them. Eevee is your 2nd Starter Pokémon type bouquet to guarantee a balance of typing on defense and Celadon Dept. has TMs and Items to round it out on offense. 50% shot of a good Fossil at Mt. Moon (Omastar works better than Kabutops) So with Gyarados Omastar a Starter and an Eevee just given to you for free in runs you get a lot of versatility even before legendaries. Togepi is exactly analogous to Magikarp in that it's very rewarding to invest time in and exists specifically to teach the fundamental game mechanics of level up and evolving with an example of a weak Mon that improves with growth a lot instead of starting out swinging hard like a Ghost or Psychic type. The final payoff for this in RBY is that Dratini is really not a great Pokémon but you know from understanding the game mechanics that the rare little dragon from a Safari Pond should turn into something really good. And it does. Sudowoodo Snorlax and Red Gyarados are more free encounters too. I think it ends up being the case that Kabuto is low key the worst Pokémon distributed like this but it proves the rule that received Pokémon are almost always good. Also I think Whitney was designed to be a hint that Togepi should be given Rollout in a loosely anime inspired run. (3 Johto starters + Togepi + Pikachu + something good)

@@darthparallax5207 togetic is not anywhere near as much of a payoff as gyarados, and is also wholly irrelevant because ricky's talking about the *_togepi_* run, not some theoretical togetic run starting with togepi i'm honestly not even sure if you're in the right universe right now. this is the universe where the starter trio is grass-fire-water and psychic and ghost types don't tend to be accessible until you've already started to establish a team. and even then, the first psychic types we tend to see in a game are shit like abra and ralts, which demonstrate the magikarp principle _infinitely_ better than togepi does. like, abra can't even attack until it evolves. there are many ways to describe teleport, but "starting out swinging hard" is not one that comes to mind

Fun fact, Unknown in the anime is actually a legendary

*Unown

​@@Donutlover42069yep, an alphabet soup of Unknown are arguably the strongest legendary we see until Gen 4, their first act in their movie appearance being literally teleporting a random guy to a dimension we see Arceus is sleeping in during one of the later movies... That basically puts them on par with the Space-time trio...

@@Slickcactus *grammar police

@@ivanbluecool lol it’s not grammar to spell a name correct

He's got an editor now, he mentioned it being the reason for uptick in uploads

Don't do that. JRose said he doesn't like that. MDB has had a lot of health issues this year.@@leedsunited8787

I was gonna say the same thing😂

Hidden Power is in PLA and is changed to always be super effective, but can only be learned by Unown.

Was just gonna say so, should have kept it that way. @@raineob4996

Yeah I was like “But Karen?” Guess he’ll have to use struggle on them

Yeah my initial thought was definitely to not go with something that has an immunity. Dragon, Dark, even flying or rock might have been better

@@burtmacklin1880 Idk if he's going for red or not but unknown probably needs the extra power from stab for his pokemon.

Sneasel fortunately is almost completely useless. Both its STABs go off 35 Special Attack, and the rival's has Feint Attack and Icy Wind. If you can take a Pidgey's Tackle you can take those.

Or, y'know, Jasmine.

Nope. None of that would have worked. Instead, it was left unfinished. A shame... would have been really neat to discover what would have been complete if they (the small GameFreak dev team at the time) were given the time to flesh out the game as they wished.

cut him some slack, man's just gone through Kanto three times with a Caterpie; almost anything will look like decent stats after that.

@@youmukonpaku3168 Unown is basically a legendary compared to Caterpie. 💀

That's where switch training comes in clutch

Shuckle's Defense Curl + Rollout combo is _killer_

@@amberhernandez I actually just learned TODAY that defense curl increases the damage of rollout, I was going thru Chuggaaconroys B2W2 playthrough since it's almost done and he was talking about that, around the 3rd gym, wish I knew that when I did my playthrough

@@ChaosNoahV Oooooooof I learned how dangerous it is because I accidentally bopped a Lugia with a third turn hit :P

Honestly, I was there too, I totally get it. Hope things will get better eventually

Thanks lad I sincerely appreciate it so much. @@shytendeakatamanoir9740

I believe the video that kicked off the recent solo run craze was Pikasprey's Ditto run a few years back

you mean the impossible escapes person? why am i not suprised lol they make excellent stuff@@felixcroc

@@felixcroc Jrose’s Magikarp run came out before that, and solo runs were already a thing

You know... now that I think about it, Karen kind of looks like a younger Agatha... and they are both effectively Lance's second in command... and it's Odd that Blue only had to defeat the Elite 4 to become champion when the standard set by following games is an Elite 4 and a Champion... New Head Canon, Blue beat the Elite 4 and Champion Lance, bumping the lowest ranked Elite 4 off the team, knocking the other three down a rank, and knocking Lance from Champion to Elite 4 just in time for Red to face Lorelei... And Creepypasta... Agatha didn't retire or die during the timeskip between RGBY and gSC... She used her mastery over Ghosts to possess a younger body and took over her victim's Identity... Both tend to be the most trolly of their respective Elite 4's, both have a pair of poison types that aren't of their stated specialty, both have a Gengar...

Actually, Sneasel is 4x weak to Fighting.

Pory is here!

Of course! Unown is close to my heart. And K is pretty close to X if you squint!

Pory proved Unown is even better in gen I!

@@DanBottiglieriwell, lack of Dark type helped 😅

Only 5 min in myself, but struggle is typeless after gen 1, so itll be struggle

Whopper, yes

Geodude is nuts in Gen 2 Johto.

Two of the best mons for a casual run, Geodude and Mareep, are available before Union Cave. You also get the Old Rod for Magikarp into Gyarados, and Abra is available on the route before Goldenrod. Funny enough, Abra _also_ gets the elemental Punch TMs, which are right there in Goldenrod anyway! That's four great team members (+ your starter) before the third badge!!

@@skyeplaysgames4598 Love me a Whopper from Burger King. lol

At least Delibird can learn some TMs.

This guy is so much better than MDB

I thought the same thing. The type I'd mainly try would be Ice. Even if resisted like with Pryce it should still work and I guess it would fare decently towards most other trainers/teams and especially the E4 would not be that bad. Yes, Psychic has STAB but I would fear that Karen or Dark Pokemon in general would be quite a hassle. Most other types would also have a weak matchup or two, but Water or maybe Dragon would both be worth a try. Dragon is neutral vs. most and Water would be overall ok I guess.

Think rock would be quite strong, though Jasmine could be quite an obstacle

Yeah, i went through a type chart and would have picked rock too. That immunity is killer, and i dont think having a stab move is worth it.

Problem with alot of hidden powers is the req ivs

Rock can do it. Just gets walled at Red.

Yeah but you wont get stab on this so scyther could be a problem

​@@grundgutigertv6170HP Fire would be a good one too. Kingdra would be an absolute threat though.