Zubat is *Really* BAD in Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire 

If my math is right your Roxanne attempt is less than a 1% chance of all the flinches and misses. So very lucky and very insane.

I love the hoenn elite four. Sidenigh, fuebbe, glaseeyah, and dracky are all super cool. Their champion Stevine Stahnee is amazing too

That Roxanne win was absolutely perfection

Hidden power: With the fact you don't choose your DVs/IVs, it'd be a bit bad for a tierlist like your gen 1 one, but for an impossibles run I see 0 problem with it

At 26:41 Lunatone attacked Zubat because when the AI estimated the damage for Psychic, it rolled a favorable range against Zubat and saw a KO on both targets, causing it to choose randomly.

Such a punch in the gut they buffed Leech Life like crazy in Gen 7 then instantly gave Zubat absorb instead

So the odds of Nosepass either getting flinched or missing rock tomb is 38.75% on a single turn. For that to happen for 6 turns in a row (7, but we're not counting the potion) would be a 0.34% chance. Its not really important to find the odds of exactly miss-miss-flinch-miss-miss-flinch or w/e because we don't really care about any specific order, just that Nosepass was unable to move for 6 turns.

It's strange how Zubat only has a worse and worse time as each gen progresses despite the many advancements and possible strategies that come with each generation.

Hidden Power can be a lifesaver in solo runs depending on the Pokémon and the type, but pretty much only in cases of awful matchups in specific battles. When I was putting together my personal project of solo runs in Platinum, I put Hidden Power in the category of "crutch" -- moves or items that tend to help weaker runs more than stronger runs -- which led me to avoid using it when possible and adjust the run's ranking downward if I couldn't get past certain battles at a reasonable level without it.

The Zubat videos are some of my favorite. It feels like it somehow gets worse more and more even though it should have more tools every gen.

Casual 1% encounter at 10:34 Volbeat was my last Hoenn entry on Ruby. This was before I had easy access to the internet so I thought my game was bugged so that Volbeat wouldn't spawn lol. I still remember which patch of grass I spawned her in.

Phweb is killing me man. Sydny and Drakey are great too, but Phweb is just iconic mispronunciation. I'm totally naming some ghost type Phweb at some point Edit: 51:02 From this day forth I will forever call Steven Stone, Steveen Stany

I think for any "impossible" runs you should be aloud to have max IVs/whatever hidden power youd like. To say any challange is truly impossible it has to be under 100% optimal conditions.

A Jrose11 video on my birthday? AND it opens with the Count?? AND it’s over an hour??? Magnificent. Utterly magnificent. Thanks for all the hard work you and your editor do!

Preemptively commenting that I hope the Count Dracula counts show up a few times in this video. Love the content as always!

A quiet benefit of Gen 1 & 2 was that because of the way that Stat Experience worked, there was no such thing as detrimental experience grinding. Afterwards, you even out in a way that makes your pokemon less tanky. It wouldn't surprise me if this Zubat was worse than a non-badge boost glitched Gen 1 Zubat.

I actually really like the whole Zubat line, so I'd be more than happy to see you run them in every gen. (Even if it's just Zubat)

Killing me with these elite 4 names 😆

your pronunciations of the elite 4 members was spot on, thanks for taking our criticisms!

Idk what inspired you to release so many videos all of a sudden, but I love it. Thank you

Hey Jrose, thanks for the content lately! These videos are a great way to just relax for a while and simply enjoy the entertainment! We all appreciate the work you put in!

7 videos in the month of October?? And you start the video with the Count Von Count voice?? Oh now you're just SPOILING us!! Forget Halloween AND Thanksgiving cuz Christmas has come early folks!!! Keep em coming JRose11!!!

Dude. My sleep schedule will never be normal with these late night drops. Love the videos. You're my favorite youtuber.

A whole playlist of zubat vs each pokemon generation would be pretty awesome tbh, if your up to that task, assuming zubat is in the generation anyway

YES COUNT JROSE IS BACK Also, can I just say how awesome AJ has been at editing the videos? I usually listen to these on the background at work so I don't get to watch them as much as I'd like, but he's been making beautiful transitions and effects when you explain things with supplemental info. It's awesome. Very professional!

I'm fine with hidden power I honestly hated it before it had its base power fixed IV RNG is one thing, getting a great typing and learning it has a base power of 32 or something? Way too much of a hassle.

Thank you! These videos help me so much in these dark times. I watch most videos 3 or 3 times in the past month 😅

Love the ruby and sapphire runs! Thank you for putting this one ❤️

Regarding hidden power- part of the fun of these videos is also the narrative story you tell and so the thrill of HP being good/useful or disappointment of it being bad/useless is part of the fun for me

I legitimately burst out laughing with the elite 4 intros. Well played haha

I was really looking forwards to the intro being done in your vampire voice and I’m so glad you did it again

I absolutely love your videos. Wish I could like them all multiple times over. Keep up the good work, I always look forward to your uploads. That being said, I feel so lucky with the frequent uploads prior to the month of JRose! 😅❤

I'd love to see you go through all games with zubat. also really great music, anyone know the name of that intro music?

Jrose and AJ are on fire with these releases, every video an absolute banger, bravo

Thank you for your pokemon videos as I really enjoy watching them and learning more about these games.

I just got back from bootcamp and your the RU-vidr I missed the most. Something about your vids are so incredibly relaxing

Didn’t know the “bloodthirsty AI” of always going for the kill shot if it has one wasn’t introduced until Emerald, I just assumed it was the same AI across games. That’s the only explanation I can think of why Walrein went for Surf the second time (the first time, if it sees a kill with multiple moves, it just picks one at random UNLESS one is a priority attack in which case it will always pick that, thank you PokemonChallenges)

LES GOOOOOOOOOOO, the unofficial month of JRose continues :)

Snow came today. I needed this upload more than ever 🙌

I've been enjoying all the recent drops of your videos lately!

Hi Jrose. Long time viewer here. I think hidden power is OK for your runs. I watch to see how you win and if you happen to randomly get an advantage from it, so be it. Pokemon always has randomness involved. Keep up the good work! :)

Would've loved to see this in Emerald. I realize it probably would be impossible with the harder leaders and hidden Steven final battle but it would be truly incredible to see you pull it off.

The week of Jrose was a real treat! Happy Halloween and thanks for the awesome content!

I don't know what we did to deserve so many videos from you, but I'm feeling pretty lucky! Another great video 😊

25:12 Personally, I don't mind the usage of Hidden Power. On one hand, it can definitely help Pokemon that struggle with coverage or against certain match-ups, but on the other, it's still a part of the arsenal that can be considered. Truth be told, I had actually thought it was Dragon before you mentioned it was Ice, as I thought that Steel didn't resist Dragon-type moves in Gen 3. Whatever the case, I think it's hardly comparable to Evasion moves and even at its worst, it could be mildly useful in certain battles. Besides, part of the fun is finding out what the typing of your Hidden Power even is, assuming you don't set it ahead of time in PKHex or something prior to a run.

Thinking about the possibility of a Zubat run in every generation is so exciting. I love the Zubat line!

Dang, this dude is good as hell at pokemon! These videos keep getting crazier, keep up the good work!

Wow a count von count impression! That’s how you know it’s going to be a good video! Love it!

Explanation of what happened on Wattson: Gen 3 has some weird quirks about its AI, like all the gens. -Since shockwave can paralyze, the AI considers it a "status effect move" and because you were already paralyzed, it will only go for shockwave if it sees a KO on its damage roll. The damage roll is like any normal damage roll, it rolls for crit and everything normally, and it appears that it saw a kill with shockwave because its simulated damage roll was a crit. But it didn't get a crit on the actual damage roll.- Edit: It can't be this explanation because Shockwave can't para. My only possible explanation is it saw "hits self in confusion" with Shockwave on that roll, that's the only *possible* explanation I can think of. Now that may lead to some of you wondering "But what about Norman and Slaking randomly going for Yawn?" And yeah...yeah, that's a thing. But you see, sleep is a bit different from Paralyze, Poison, and Burn, it can end on any given turn, so it's treated slightly differently. It is thrown into the rotation of possible moves. Especially if it's acting second in a speed match up.

Zubat is only legit good because of the fact that it eventually becomes Crobat, that's it lel.

Let's go! Great video as always.

Man this Month has been special appreciate the uploads Jrose11 and AJ 🔥🔥

Jrose AND The Count? Yes!!

I'm really, really loving the consistent uploads recently, Jrose! Thanks for spoiling us ♡ I hope it continues! xD

This was awesome! Happy Halloween!

Was going to watch Pluto but then this popped up. You are the best!!!

On the topic of hidden power, I think you should only use it for pokemon that are particularly weak and need everything they can get

I'm gonna love seeing Zubat attempt BW/BW2. In fact I'd LOVE if you tried BW2 challenge mode. Basically an already good ai game has even better ai with stronger mons, it's rly fun and sounds perfect for our fav bat to try and suffer lol.

Nice to hear your Count von Count voice is coming along 🧛‍♂️

I love the intro your impression always gets me 🎉

Zubats unironically one of my favorite mons. I love seeing it get so many runs

I remember i had a hidden power electric on butterfree in GEN 2 Which is incredible because gyarados and rock types FOR OBVIOUS REASONS were problems IT was near perfect too as everything except attack n special defense were PERFECT and those were near perfect too I found out my odds of a butterfree that good were 1 in 60,000 If i had the skill i have now i would have beaten red around 80 to 83 range instead of level 95

Thank you for an awesome Halloween Special=3

I enjoy Hidden Power as a part of the runs. Also, appreciate the awesome content!

Jrose since backports have become so popular recently how would you feel about backporting Crobat and doing a run with it?

The scariest parts about this Halloween Special were those Elite 4 pronunciations. 💀 Fweb caught me so off guard lol

Nice video! I especially liked the battles against the Elite 4: Sadnay, Fooeb, Gleesia, Draky, and the champion Stiveen Stony.

I just caught up on your vids and this is immediately uploaded. Jrose youre spoiling us.

Crobat was very useful in gen4, had decent special moveset like nasty plot giga drain heat wave sludge bomb air slash. In gen5 golbat can use eviolite roost superfang confuse ray etc.

I legit can't wait to see how Zubat does across all games 😅

legit the best pokemon youtuber. Definitely the best personality of all pokemon youtubers. Thanks for another great vid Jrose

Ah yes, my favourite elite four member, Fweb. Sidenote, I really like the music you use in the background!

Bro just use hidden power. No one cares.

What wonderful timeline have i landed in where jrose uploads so frequently, im so well fed at this point i think I'm starting to gain weight. Thank you for your hard work.

just got off work and there's a Halloween special? excellent/

I got Pokemon Red and Dragon Warrior Monsters shortly after they came out. Thank you for finally giving me the "Zubat vs Dracky" fight I've been waiting for.

Watched the video three times. I kept falling asleep. Granted I put it on before going to bed, but I wanted to finish the video.

I like your impressions. It makes me less depressed when I don't hear your intro song.

I genuinely enjoyed and chuckled at your pronunciation of the Elite Four menbers :)

What a treat! Happy Halloween

Love your content jrose! hope everyone is having a nice day!

Jrose, thank you for always restoring my interest in Pokémon!

47:17 - "Blizzard is useless..." Me: "But chip damage?" 47:31 - Instant karma It's these little surprises and this kind of writing that keeps me coming back over and over again.

This run is awesome. I'm actually really excited that you're digging into gen 3more. My brother is die-hard for gold/silver, but ruby/sapphire always has had my biggest fixation. Treecko run in ruby for funsies? Keep it up!

I miss the count voice thanks for bringing it baxk❤

love the vids. I think hidden power is fine as a last resort, especially when youre doing this kind of impossible challenge.

Happy Halloween, Jrose, you character!!

I love seeing the Zubat series continue, especially today on Halloween! Regarding Hidden Power, I think it’s perfectly fine for the impossible challenges series because they are primarily one off videos and much more difficult than the usual R/B solos, so having that potentially useful tool seems fine to me. However, if you started doing a tier list in later generations, then I’d err on the side of banning Hidden Power so that no Pokémon has an unfair advantage because they happened to get lucky (or you could create perfect IVs with whatever Hidden Power you need).

You are really good at doing that impression.

"Fweb" had me rolling.

Great video! Hidden Power is good to go! I think the series is using whatever is at your disposal, so it's fair game

It's crazy how to this day the Zubat line has a unique typing. Poison/Flying is such an incredible defensive type combination when used as part of a team, but solo it definitely runs into types it can't handle that well pretty often. Zubat for sure gets some pretty good moves but not a lot of them. Giga Drain, for example, is a really good coverage move and it helps it serve a defensive purpose on a team, or last longer in solo runs. Honestly Zubat and Golbat's biggest issue is their stats, and the fact that they didn't get many good STAB moves until Gen 4. Crobat is genuinely *really* good in almost every game it's available.

I can already tell 5 seconds in this is gonna be another banger video 💀

The perfect Nevada day video, thanks Jrose

Happy Halloween Jrose!

Back to back vids. Thank you Jrose!

Another Zubat run, let's GOOO!

3:15 The odds of that happening I think are 0.00345744%, or 1 in 289 attempts. Very unofficial math, but the sequence was: Flinchless (70% chance) Rock Tomb miss (20% chance) > Flinchless Rock Tomb miss > Flinch (30% chance) > Flinchless Rock Tomb miss > Flinchless Rock Tomb miss > Flinch So I think the math is 0.7 * 0.2 * 0.7 * 0.2 * 0.3 * 0.7 * 0.2 * 0.7 * 0.2 * 0.3 which gives 0.0000345744. We're treating 1 as 100% chance, so to extract a percentage from that result you move the period two digits to the right because of the 2 extra zeroes. Also, since it's only multiplications (which can be shuffled and will give you the same result), I think that's the chance of getting that combination of Moves, but in any order, which means getting that specific order of flinches and misses is probably less likely (since it's 4 actions of one type and 2 actions of another type, you can think of the number of possible orders for the actions), but the order doesn't exactly matter to us (we're just like woo 4 misses and 2 flinches!), and once you start counting order of actions in long playthroughs where a lot of actions are happening every second (or couple of seconds for turn based games), the chances get tiny quick (and that's why these games are so replayable).

I love that you do the things I couldn’t cause I’d break and rage off. 100% reason to remember Jrose11 bro.

Love the Sydney pronunciation, also I was only listening during the Wally battle and was confused when you said Sludge Bomb was the best attack vs Magneton, but I get you meant Shadow Ball