Why Swampert Reigns Supreme Among Starter Pokemon | Pokemon Emerald Solo Challenge

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There's no question Swampert is good, but I'm not sure everyone understands just how good it is. With only a single weakness to worry about, it has all the tools in its box to handle all situations.
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►I can only use the title Pokemon in battle. No switching at all, HM Pokemon are required.
►Gen 3 has a caveat. There are 3 forced double battles and I'm still figuring out the best way to handle it.
►No use of items in battle. Potions, TMs, etc. are allowed outside of battle.
►No use of skips/exploits.
►The TMs for Double Team, Attract, and Toxic are banned. Pokemon that learn similar moves naturally are allowed to use it but not the TM. To elaborate more, stall/luck based strategies feel cheap and are not the way I want to play the game and I don't want to funnel a 'meta' into double team or attract.
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►I play on x3 speed and use the in-game time for the run along with resets to rank these runs.
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►I have a toggle for early encounters. Random encounters skew rankings and add nothing to the playthrough.
►HM users and honorary HM user Abra are guaranteed spawns. Catch rate is also almost guaranteed. I had to manually tweak the catch formula and sometimes they can break out.
►I changed spinner logic. The bag trick to freeze them is very consistent but also tedious so I cut the middle man out to where I don't have to waste a lot of time on them.
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@fabiof.8152 18 дней назад

4:29 "Now, first, it's the nature. We are *lonely* today-" Woah, man, I came here to relax, not get called out like that D:

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

Gotta learn how to be alone before you deal with the grass.

@mukariz 18 дней назад

I like that you used Tropius. It is a fun Pokemon and didn't really alter the fight much. Banana chin for the win!

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

It was on my team every playthrough for the HM potential!

@bananaspice1967 17 дней назад

Bananaramaslamma!

@kangaskdan 18 дней назад

Slugmaballs made me choke on my blackcurrant squash so thanks for that :D

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

Lmao, such a frustrating fight to figure out that even an annoying little speed bump like Slugma got to me.

@kevinsips3658 18 дней назад

Oh, wassup Matt, thanks for dropping a vid for us today. I’m gonna consolidate my comments into one comment today, rather than leaving like six. I think that’s just “the way” to pronounce Grovyle.

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

It better be the way. I researched it so that I wouldn’t get blasted for pronouncing a 20 year old Pokémon name wrong lol.

@Landood 16 дней назад

We believe in Swampert Supremacy in this household. I did a college project on the starters, yknow back in the day.

@GymLeaderMatt1987 13 дней назад

Lmao, I did one on tank controls in Resident Evil back in the day. Maybe I'll use something Pokemon related in my capstone project. Congrats on the baby! As a semi-new dad, I can definitely say that first month or two are something else. You reach depths of tired and being stretched thin that you didn't know existed but it gets better!

@SoraDonaldGoofy99 18 дней назад

Swampert is my favorite Hoenn choice. Glad to see you using it!

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

I don’t even think it’s close who the best is in Gen 3. I emphatically don’t like the other final starters very much.

@darlhiatt8136 18 дней назад

Good spotlight on Aqua Admin Shelly, I am so jealous of her hair

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

She should have been the leader!

@LQVaughn 3 дня назад

I’m glad you decided to handle Tate and Liza that way for the emerald runs

@GymLeaderMatt1987 2 дня назад

What are your thoughts on it? My blanket thoughts are that if you only allow a single, low level, no move Pokemon into the fight, you are handicapped to the point to where this fight will demand all of your resources in some way, shape, or form. Whether it be extra training, candy usage, or forcing you to use HP dark/ghost in nearly every run. At least you have some slight variance under these rules to allow more flexibility. Doing Tate/Liza to me is almost as bad as allowing Double Team in a gen 1 run or Curse in a gen 2 run. It just funnels strategies and makes runs too same-y.

@peterchauvin1486 18 дней назад

Of all the guys that do these types of solo challenges, I think I like yours the best. Keep it up!

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

I appreciate that, brother. Glad you enjoy the content!

@PraefMace 18 дней назад

Still catching up with your older videos but wanted to show support on the newer videos as well! Also I do appreciate the TCG soundtrack you have in the mix, and the TCG-esque intro you got going for the important fights.

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

Appreciate it, brother.

@J3Puffin 17 дней назад

Swampert my boy. I didn’t evolve my Mudkip during my Emerald playthru but I’ve grown to appreciate this hyper-Quagsire

@GymLeaderMatt1987 13 дней назад

Quagsire to Swampert is like that old drake meme. Me? I roll with the Whiscash.

@sartrisbt 18 дней назад

great way to close out the weekend. thanks for the occasional drops in between dad duty

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

On that two week grind!

@flounder1527 13 дней назад

YESSSSSSSSSSS!!!! These Hoenn runs give me pure joy

@GymLeaderMatt1987 13 дней назад

Glad you enjoyed!

@simonludwig1270 18 дней назад

Love your content, just as entertaining as always. Thanks for your efforts :) warm greetings from Germany!

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

Appreciate it! Greetings from a tired dad lol.

@oEllery 17 дней назад

Rock Tomb is great when it hits and you get that extra attack. One of my favorite underrated gen 3 moves.

@GymLeaderMatt1987 13 дней назад

For sure. That and mud slap really changed the face of several fights in the run.

@shadowfox8748 18 дней назад

Was thinking about you yesterday. Awesome to have a new video. Thanks Matt

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

Thanks! Think about me again in two weeks when the next one drops lol.

@SableyeBoi 18 дней назад

Heck yeah bringing out another emerald beauty this will perfect for an after nap video can’t wait to watch

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

Nice! Enjoy it!

@SableyeBoi 18 дней назад

@@GymLeaderMatt1987 nice video like always Matt and believe me I understand the mightyena frustration and protect frustration lol I know you were annoyed

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

It just makes me scared for any physical attackers in the future!

@SableyeBoi 18 дней назад

@@GymLeaderMatt1987 oh yeah for sure you’re gonna have to watch out for that best to have setups or special moves in case you do

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

Probably just use a bulk up user. Haven’t used that or calm mind in a playthrough yet.

@Buddy26420 18 дней назад

Hi Matt, got my sodie pop right here to watch a curbstompong

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

Watch out for the grass!

@Buddy26420 18 дней назад

@@GymLeaderMatt1987 I dont touch Grass, I am a gamer lol

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

Wish Swampert was that resilient!

@paddingtonbear-uk4wh 18 дней назад

Great video matt. Great channel

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

Appreciate that a lot, brother.

@Speedrunner0218 18 дней назад

Lol I was playing swampert earlier today In sapphire. He's A BEAST.

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

Yea, it’s pretty good!

@Elfman126 18 дней назад

Swampert will always be my favourite starter and Pokémon in general along with Zekrom. Funnily enough, they have the same base HP as each other.

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

Nice. I like Swampert a good bit. I just think it was a unique spin on a starter that holds up well today. Zekrom is cool too!

@BigTurboD11 18 дней назад

Great video! Swampert is Ol' Reliable. If only Swampy got Sludge Bomb, that could've been the silver bullet for Ludicolo. Oh well 😅

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

That thing is so bulky I could see it still surviving one, especially without STAB.

@BigTurboD11 18 дней назад

@@GymLeaderMatt1987 I can see it being a clean 2-shot though!

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

Yea, I didn't put an addendum on the video like I do when I make mistakes but you can see an unused protein in my inventory before the elite 4 that I didn't catch and just this run was so tight that the missed vitamin messed up the ranges and likely screwed up a perfect finish.

@unicorncat7644 18 дней назад

Oh heck yeah, axolotl boi. It's a good thing there's not a lot of grass pokemon. Imagine having to clear Erika with her razor leaf victreebell

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

It would definitely be a ‘wait until the 7th gym’ or get to the 100% one shot chance type of run. I’d like to get to the starters in Gen 1 eventually but there’s more starters than I even do runs in a year so I’ll just take it as it comes.

@unicorncat7644 18 дней назад

@@GymLeaderMatt1987 I think you'd have to route around getting ice beam as quickly as possible, otherwise yeah you're skipping Erika until way later

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

Even if not, blizzard after you EQ Koga and Surf Blaine is an option. I think it would be great!

@raypetrisko7059 18 дней назад

This could also be an "HM only" run later on since mudkip line only starter to learn "Every needed" hm

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

That’s how the speedrun uses it lol. Gets by with x items and what not, offloads the final stretch onto Rayquaza.

@montyeggman3075 18 дней назад

A nice showing of how powerful Swampert is in Hoenn. With no major battle with a Grass specialist, you only have to worry about the occasional Grass-type popping up. And even before the Physical/Special split, Swampert was quite effective at using its two types to give it an edge.

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

Thank god. I’m going to search for a physical Pokémon in the future and see if it’s as bad as it sounds with all the intimidate users.

@montyeggman3075 18 дней назад

@@GymLeaderMatt1987 I wish you good luck with that. 👍

@banditrests 18 дней назад

To be fair, the best minds of Pokémon speed running have been struggling with emerald rival 2 for like 20 years. The speed drop was pretty clever though. Swampert is such an interesting Pokémon, basically every competitive analysis for 5 generations had a note about HP grass just to deal with it and mega swampert is the best swift swimmer in history, other than maybe basculeigon. Also yeah, Gen 3 is really the high water mark for hidden power, it going all special in Gen 4 really limits it’s use cases, especially as a replacement STAB or coverage move for physical Pokémon. I do think there are cases where the worse hidden powers in Gen 2 are still useful even if it doesn’t feel good though.

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

Imagine my horror when I saw how they did it and it was just items and even crit manipulation in some spots. I couldn’t believe how oppressive Absorb was during my first playthrough lol. It made me start over immediately.

@youtube-kit9450 18 дней назад

It's funny how the slateport devil is such a menace in speedrunning and is hailed as such a brutal, difficult rival and it's mostly just because Grovyle has absorb and for any challenge/speedrun, Mudkip is just so optimal and its one achilles heel is grass. Hence why no one who played the game normally knew that that rival is supposed to be difficult.

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

At least it’s a competent Pokémon overcoming a double weakness and not something like Magcargo trying to get past ground or water lol.

@banditrests 17 дней назад

@@GymLeaderMatt1987 Reminds me of a smallant joke about how speed runners are item-type trainers lol. Absorb is deceptively strong here, grovyle doesn’t have great special attack and marshtomp has ok special defense but even a 20 bp move hits hard when it’s STAB and 4x super effective- that’s 120 effective power and 180 if you accidentally get it in overgrow range. Magcargo is just a mess. As to the double battle situation, you’re only playing against yourself and using a magikarp is a totally arbitrary rule, kind of like playing against the rival that’s strongest against your solo mon. It made sense for Jrose or MBD running terrible mons but I think we’re past the spirit of the game part of this. You found a slightly more efficient way to deal with one of the most annoying battles in emerald, more power to you. Even Scott has adopted the abra routing after complaining about it for like a year. You do you, brother.

@GymLeaderMatt1987 17 дней назад

Yea, I'm not the biggest fan of the Tate and Liza battle as is. A forced double battle that hogs all of your creativity for the run if you force yourself into a splashing Magikarp box lol. I think having 99.9% of runs burn a bunch candies, train, or pigeonhole them into using HP Ghost doesn't feel great and doing something that can give you an extra turn or two makes it feel more 'normal'. In a perfect world, I'd make a few edits like remove the double battles from the game and maybe put Steven Stone back as the champion but I have like a handful of changes to the base rom already and I never want to dive into it again.

@austindmunday 18 дней назад

im glad your doing more Gen 3 runs. I find gen 3 more interesting than 1 and gen two is especially boring,

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

I sort of agree about Gen 2. Love the games but they always feel a little grating to play and sift through the footage and route it out.

@reddragonpress 18 дней назад

it's so sad that swampert died of slugma In all seriousness, Water/Ground is a really good typing both offensively and defensively! Having STAB access to both Surf and Earthquake can really go a long way under the right circumstances.

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

Yea it’s really solid all the way around. I love the one huge weakness in favor of being solid everywhere else. Skarmory reminds of a similar style but without the offensive power.

@SeanFerguson-w5o 4 дня назад

Swampert supremacy

@GymLeaderMatt1987 4 дня назад

Yea, it's only downhill from here lol. Maybe Blaziken will surprise me.

@bateltheassistant 18 дней назад

Swampert is one Hoenn's finest Pokémon. It has a great typing, great stats (except for that mid 60 speed), which gives a very strong presence in early game, going with almost minimum battles run up until that point. Norman and Wallace were somewhat tricky to route out,and add in Rival 2 to the mix. But that's how powerful a 4 times weakness can go. Luckily, grass moves are not that much in use, which makes Swampert such a powerhouse.🤔 I'm glad that rock tomb got to be used in early game at least, because for slow Pokémon it kind of helps ,in certain battles. By the way,Swampert looks super cool in the thumbnail, especially with the background's colour scheme. About Tropius , I think that as long as it doesn't affect the battle by attacking, it's as good as Megikarp in the Tate and Liza battle. Saving time by letting the game showing less text is really a smart play. 😁

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

Yea I was really impressed with how much the speed lowering moves nullified the lower base speed of Swampert. It really felt like an equation to get through those battles and I’m happy with the final product. It’s crazy how we had Quagsire and Wooper a generation earlier but no one took notice to the OP typing until Swampert added its offense to the table. The thumbnail is something I worked hard on. It’s a good pose, good coloring, good contrast. Glad you noticed!

@bateltheassistant 18 дней назад

@@GymLeaderMatt1987 Wooper and Quagsire has a lot of defensive capabilities, which are decent up until the late game,in which like you've been mentioning the low speed is becoming an issue . If you can't outspeed ,that means you'll usually need to scale that issue with extra levels. Swampert can take hits,and can hit hard. I think that it's one of the most broken starters in the series in general.🤔

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

They’ve gotten better at designing starters in general but back then they’d give us the badass unique fire/fighting chicken, the cool water/ground and then you’d wonder what grass was finally going to get…and it’s just a mono grass type lizard lol.

@bateltheassistant 17 дней назад

@@GymLeaderMatt1987 😂😂😂Yup,Game freak didn't really was a fan of the grass starters,ever since gen 2 (the peak of dislike was gen 5 or 6, in my opinion),but at least some of them got a second type and a good design.

@GymLeaderMatt1987 13 дней назад

Better than Pignite. The absolute worst Pokemon in existence and I say that as a fire type fan. I hate that Pokemon so much lol.

@youtube-kit9450 18 дней назад

Honestly, imo gym leaders like Winona and Champs like Wallace show me that mono-type bosses aren't a problem. Just give them type variety or strategies to adapt to their weakness or something to show off they're the master of that type. Just don't do it like Volkner in Platinum where facerolling earthquake 4 times wins you the game.

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

For sure. They figured out a good mix and knocked it out of the park with some of them. Then you have something like Tate/Liza from a solo running perspective. If this game’s code was wasn’t such a colossal pain to change and was more like Gen 1/2, I’d probably modify two things. I’d make Tate/Liza a single battle and I’d put Steven Stone back as champion and Wallace back as gym 8.

@TheRelinquished2 18 дней назад

Blessed with a video, yessss lets go

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

Let’s go!

@loha2288 18 дней назад

Yo Matt. Great video. Been watching for years now. Just wanna ask why not get magikarp with splash for double battles?

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

Man, i feel like I talk for 5+ minutes about it lol.

@Hydrocannon 18 дней назад

Mudkip learns Protect & Hydro Pump, Swampert learns Earthquake. Teach it Foresight too and you've got yourself a solo machine.

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

You had me until foresight.

@Hydrocannon 18 дней назад

@@GymLeaderMatt1987 I lost matches to double-teamers dude, do NOT scoff at foresight!

@gutherford007 18 дней назад

Real one emerald content is baller.

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

Glad you enjoy it!

@ΒαγγέληςΓκιοκας-β4β 18 дней назад

Imagine being so good 💯

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

Swampert just knows what it brings to the table.

@adventureoflinkmk2 18 дней назад

Hmm. *JUAN, BROTHER!!!!* ?

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

Whenever I’m working on the next one I’ll prob get a poll to see how much more the audience is creative than me lol

@ronaldmaxwell6668 17 дней назад

Woah was that tcg sound track

@GymLeaderMatt1987 13 дней назад

The goat soundtrack!

@redreoicy6698 18 дней назад

I'm a fan of using Tropius.

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

Because it's a cool, underutilized Pokemon or because the ravings I did about it hyper focusing the Tate/Liza battle to force Hp types/rare candies, ultimately having too much sway on the entire landscape of gen 3 runs? Haha.

@mattprice302 14 дней назад

SWAMPERT!!!!!!!!

@steezuskryst7201 18 дней назад

Tombstoner brother!!!!!!!!!!!

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

Appreciate it!

@jamesomara8036 18 дней назад

Slugma ballz is wild 😂

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

Lmao, get that thing outta here.

@jamesomara8036 18 дней назад

@GymLeaderMatt1987 probably the worst type combo, maybe not the worst design ever, but i find slugma to be so mid. He was bad in gen 2 never got any life and such a trash typing he was doomed to slugma ballz from the beginning.

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

I think Slugma is just mono fire but Magcargo and the rock/fire typing is awful for sure. Neutral to grass, double weak to water, double weak to ground. I guess it's alright against an all normal move user though lol.

@jamesomara8036 18 дней назад

@GymLeaderMatt1987 Yeah, you always find the silver lining. Thats makes you a good runner. 👍 like oak said pokemon is about winning with your favorite, thats why i like this channel.

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

For me, Magcargo looks so bad but it’s like that old Drake meme when I see Coalossal. Same type but I really love the design of that Pokémon.

@CaravanOfSleep 18 дней назад

SLUGMABALLS

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

Sluggem.

@nrgzam 18 дней назад

It's actually pronounced like "grovel" after what you did to the rival

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

Good one, lol.

@tamonowo247 18 дней назад

slugma balls

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

Gottem! Sluggem!

@braillynn 17 дней назад

Zesty

@GymLeaderMatt1987 13 дней назад

Zesty and Fishy.

@carl4889 18 дней назад

How do you think Mega Swampert would do?

@GymLeaderMatt1987 18 дней назад

I'm sure more stats would eliminate a ton of little things and push it to new heights! Unfortunately I'm not sure I'll ever custom gen 3 content. The amount of effort and custom addresses I had to hunt down just to get this base ROM to work was already a nightmare and I could only imagine the headache of getting a new Pokemon in. It's much easier to understand the code in gen 3 because it isn't a mnemonic riddled hellscape like the old assembly language games but it comes at a price of DMA. I'd like to do all the starters in general in gen 1 one day but given that there's more starters than I do videos in a year, it's hard to focus my efforts sometimes.