Why Speedrunners Gamble to Beat HeartGold SoulSilver 

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The dratini pronunciation hits like a brick to the head every time

“Ecru-ti-ak” “Dra-tiny” I am inside your walls

“What can I get you sir” “I’ll have a Martiny, on the rocks please”

Now RU-vid understands the pain Twitch chat has had to endure for years…. Pulses Pokémon pronunciations

Pulse... Did you just call Dratini... Dra'tiny'??? I hope there's an inside joke i've missed 😂

Update: a new world record just dropped that does EVEN MOAR GAMBLING to pick up the Flamethrower TM on top of everything else.

Dra-tiny and Ecroo-tea-act are crazy.

The fact that half the current comments are about your pronunciations is hilarious

Ecroodiak 💀

pulse increasing engagement on the video tenfold with "dra-tiny"

Maybe you should pronounce Dratini as "Dra-tee-nai" to get maximum headturners. Edit: Another way to pronounce it would be "Dreh-tehn-nai".

The way he says “dra-tiny” has got to be on purpose lmao

I'm really glad that you brought up pokerus because it's something that at first I didn't know what pokerus was

It's always funny to randomly see the clip when Werster is losing his sanity.

I wouldn't really call card counting and Pokemon RNG manipulation all that similar. Card counting is the process of getting an idea of what cards are left in the deck. You're still getting random results from new cards, you just have a decent idea of whether what's left is good for you or not. RNG manipulation is more like having a deck of cards where you know there aces as the 5th, 17th, 32nd, and 51st card. There's a machine that grabs cards from the top of the deck one at a time and puts them down. You then try to grab the aces from the machine at the right time. I find card counting to be much more interesting and strategic.

Why did he make me question if I’ve mispronounced dratini for years, it could literally be ‘tiny dragon’

No one: Pokémon trainers from Ohio: “oh boy! I can’t wait to go to ek-ru-te-ack city with my Dratiny!”

nothing like training my Dratiny in Ecrute-ack City

It’s more like shuffling the deck yourself and memorising all the cards

I got no issue with rng manip, but that card counting analogy made me laugh. It might not be illegal, but tell the casino that card counting is just a strategy lol. Watch how fast they kick you out.

I will never be able to hear Dratini the same again

“Solid PP management” yeah that was an accident I’m sure 😂

Dratiny is a pass but Ecrutiack is just no

I know it’s just to encourage engagement… but dratini rhymes with martini, and ecruteak is the color ecru combined with the wood teak So dra-ti-ni not tiny And ec-ru-teak

Speedrunners: “Let’s go gambling!” Gamefreak: “Aw, dang it”

-... Wow. At this point I'm surprised they pronounced Violet City correctly-

You could get a confession from someone by making them listen to those pronunciations

Ah yes, notorious dragon type DRATINY

Everybody mentioning the Dratini pronunciation, but the Ecruteak one just hurts. A lot. Nice video! Here's my like!

The way I got so mad over hearing him pronounce Dratini like that 💀💀

This video hits like a really good pizza on a lactose intolerant: I was craving that Speedrun content like one craves that amazing cheese taste and I really, really enjoyed it, but it made me feel bad down to my stomach because of the name pronunciation of literally everything that has a name. Again, great video thou!

That Dratini pronunciation gave me such a lethal dose of whiplash. Dear lord I did not see that coming

Broke: complaining about Dra"tiny" Woke: complaining about Ecru"teeyak"

I love the Voltorb Flip because of how much skill-based it is. It actually makes it worthwhile to 'gamble' for Pokemon and TMs instead of just buying them using money (its not really gambling as you can't lose anything, and you also can't buy coins anymore)

I fucking LOVE voltorb flip so much and I wish they included it in all subsequent games. I can play that shit for hours on end, day after day (and I’ve done so before). I have accidentally maxed out my coins on several different cartridges and would have to spend them on things I didn’t care about just so they would let me play more voltorb flip...which is...the exact opposite reason why people would play voltorb flip in the first place (‘play it so you can spend coins on rewards’ vs ‘spend coins on rewards so you can keep playing it’). I think I have a problem lmao Most people seem to dislike it compared to the original slot machines but I can’t understand why. Even if you hate both, you can’t *lose* coins on voltorb flip, and there’s an element of strategy to it compared to just ‘insert coin, hope for win’, which gives you more control over winning. It’s still luck reliant, but you can GREATLY increase your odds if you know what you’re doing. Being able to eliminate useless paths, *using safe but useless paths as buffers* so you don’t get sent all the way back down to level 1 if you flip a voltorb, and counting exactly what multipliers each row/column will have deeply satisfies my troubled personality patterns I fucking LOVE voltorb flip. Please tell me there’s someone else on this planet who shares my affinity for it.

I will say the card counting analogy is kinda a bad one because it is heavily frowned upon and a lot of casinos will kick you out if they suspect you are counting cards

Surprised he didn’t pronounce thunder bolt “thoonderballt”

The way you pronounced Ecruteak and Dratini make me want to commit war crimes.

I'm just happy that people who would have been gambling addicts 100 years ago can just speedrun Pokemon in 2023.

"Eh-crude-e-ahk" genuinely hurts my ears.

I was considering that I was wrong about the pronunciation of Dratini, but THEN you said Eh-crew-tee-ack, instead of like, the type of wood teak. Cool vid tho

"Dratayne" Dratini's name is a combination of "dragon" (Dra) and "teeny" (tini)

Bro we should just become youtubers and purposefully mispronounce every 3rd word to get the highest engagement possible

I mean honestly dra-tiny makes as much sense as dra-teeny. It's a teeny tiny dragon. I'm more concerned about him pronouncing similar as _simular_ XD

I'm a card counter as well as a casual speedrunner. That's a bad comparison of the two tbh. Card counting generally gives the player a 1% advantage over the casino (more if you use the advanced deviations as well). This is if you make no counting mistakes, use perfect basic strategy, and use a perfect bet spread. Rigging the RNG in speedrunning gives you a 100% chance of saving time using tactics that wouldn't otherwise be obtainable. Not saying it's cheating or anything, but card counters like myself have winning streaks and losing streaks and win in the long run after 1,000s of hours of play based on a small advantage. This tactic allows you to save time everytime as long as you don't make a mistake. Sorry, but the comparison is terrible IMO, as one is guaranteed without human error, and the other take 1000s of hours of play to guarantee a win in the long term with a slight advantage.

I have been able to get voltorb flip to level 7 legit. Maths and good understanding of statistics. Its for the most part not deterministic (sometimes is), so even if you think right you are still likely to hit a voltorb at some point. There are about 5 different articles I have read regarding voltorb flip, all heavy in math. But, to simplify voltorb flip in a way that semi-reliably gets you to level 3-4 would be: Row_value = points + voltorbs - 5 - num_revealed_2's - 2 * num_revealed_3's. When Row_value is 0 the entire rest (or whole) of the row can be skipped. And when in doubt its usualy better to go for where the higest point tile might be, rather than the lowest risk tile.

DratIni is pure gold. Omg 😂

"dra-tie-nie" "ecru-tee-ack" "raikoo" this has to be an elaborate joke, right?

The way he pronounced Ecruteak had me seething at first, but hearing it a few more times it actually sounds kinda cool

Can you use this time changing method to get easier shines?

dude answered the question in the thumbnail so we don't have to watch the video

Me: "Dont have time to watch here at work, let's see what the commemts have to say as a preview." The comments: "Pronunciations!"

Are the odds of getting that perfect starter pokemon really over 1 in 22 BILLION? That's actually bonkers

It’s a similar phenomenon to Gamechamp3000 where streamers will have the oddest pronunciations for words that should otherwise have their pronunciation be obvious at first glance.

4:32 "dRaTiNy" I was hoping this content creator actually knew pkmn but I think he's just the voice in the channel lmao

I swear each video he picks exactly 1 Pokémon name to mispronounce

Should've called Dratini Gible just to extra mess with these crazies lol.

You are saying the names of Dratini and Eckrateak City for comments right?

when you go to order a sandwich from a stand do you ask the vendor for a "panini"

Bro said “drawtiny”

I thought the comments was dramatic but what in the world is that Dratini pronunciation 😭

Werster is RNGesus

What a nice informatical vi- DRATINY DRATINY DRATINY DRATINY DRATINY DRATINY DRATINY DRATINY DRATINY DRATINY DRATINY DRATINY DRATINY DRATINY DRA-

Tiny dragon yeah! Thanks for the video!

You're my new favorite RU-vidr. Also, dratiny and Ecruteeyok, lol like the other commenter said, I think it's a conspiracy to get comments xD AND IT WORKED

There's no way I heard you say Dra-Tiny

Dra'tiny'..... HOW TF DO YOU MESS THAT UP

Great video as always man

So this implies that manga Gold is a speedrunner

Fact: 99% of Heartgold Speedrun gamblers give up right before they make it big 💯💯💯💯💯💯

Speed runners are a different breed

wtf is a drytiny 😭😭😭

Expected werster dying to some Red crit in this video Was not disappointed

“Dratini”- Druh-teen-e

i hear a vineboom after every dratiny

anyone gonna talk about the really weird "dratini" pronunciation

Never say "Dra-tiny" again. Or EcruteeAck.

Cant play dis heart gold and soul silver. Its stuck

4:32 dratiny?

Loving this content !

just a heads up, you get kicked out of casinos for card counting so it is considered cheating

DRA-WHO???

Dratiny, I'm quitting my job

I think the pronunciations made me mentally blank out on like, an entire minute of the video. XD

I should gambling irl

Ik it's bait but dratiny is same levels as wolfey with criminal mispronouncing, but hey he baits comments with it too, so if it ain't broke..

Wow that werster clip was just uploaded to his channel today. Either you make these quick or you got that clip from twitch.

DraTINY, Dratainy, Drateiny? what happened to Dratini?

Doesn't matter if card counting isn't cheating or not, you'd still get tossed out on your ass eventually.

Your pronunciation is on par with wolfy

Did u say Minesweeper needs luck? Is there any luck based move in Minesweeper?

Is it the Dratini with dragon rage? Edit: Yes

Some of those pronunciations sounding a little sus

Woo pulse vid dropped

Admit it, if not for the anime, yall would be pronouncing Pokémon names all kind of ridiculous ways and nobody would know who is right.

I left after you said dratini that hurt to hear

Why grab Abra when you can catch it

You had me at pokemon

Dratiny… Ecrootiak… It’s not too late to delete this