25:02 This is the TAS speedrun strat because Self Destruct instantly sets HP to 0, instead of the HP bar taking some time to decrease. So even if you can OHKO the Weezing, a Gen 1 miss Self Destruct is the luckiest possible thing that can happen in terms of time :P
Maybe they thought the 40% chance to poison would make it too strong otherwise? That's the only explanation I can think of. Game Freak isn't always good at figuring out balance. Take Pokemon like Regigigas that they nerfed into the ground with its ability, for example.
@@xelac1334probably so that playing against poison types in single player isn't too annoying. It makes more sense if you think of gen 1 pokemon as dragon quest instead of a competitive game
@@gamermanzeake I mean, you can sleep powder with Butterfree (I don't think it's at that unreasonable of a level, but I don't remember) and burn with Charmander
> Strongest stab move was 65 bp sludge (which I don’t think they even used) > weak to psychic and ground which does have powerful moves > no resistance > did have coverage but never used It’s pretty bad team when lickitongue is an improvement
I love how no matter how many Red and Blue challenge videos you put out, there is always another fun challenge concept and it always ends up interesting. Always here for it.
I'd say the reason why Koffing's level-up move pool is so crap is because they didn't expect players to have a Koffing that was below level 30 (30 or 32 is the level of Koffing at the Pokemon Mansion). Actually, a lot of Pokemon you couldn't get at starter level didn't learn moves until you leveled up past their base capture level. Gen 2, I believe, is when they started having low-level move pools for Pokemon that can breed, since you could get one as an egg, where it would hatch at level 5.
true but honestly u would have to trade a koffing from silver to red but problem with that? it wont obey u. and u would have to rush just so it will obey u lmao
@@ladyriethegoldendelmo5441 not true, they wouldn't obey you if they were above a certain level. The boulder badge states anything over level 20 will now obey you, even traded Pokemon.
Great to see JRose. Those daily uploads during the month of JRose really spoiled us. Hope you’ve been well, thanks for the video, excited to see the fiasco that is solo koffing
yeah i think to make it more like their actual teams not only should he have been allowed to evolve Ekans and Koffing but he should have also been able to use their other pokemon if he really wanted this to be like what its like to play as team rocket
He had a Growlithe, but it wasn’t something he was using in the field as Team Rocket, which I think is the spirit this run through tries to capture. Agreed it would have been interesting if James got his second iconic pokemon / evolutions.
Koffing is in that category of Pokémon (along with stuff like Tangela and Grimer) where it’s only available in the late game right before evolution and so you were never meant to (and can’t because no breeding) use it at this level, and so the developers just didn’t bother to give it any moves.
Yea but you then have pokemon like Mewtwo with good moves at level 5 Still, I see your logic, thats what makes solo runs with mid to late game pokemon that are caught in the wild in the mid twenties to mid thirties, much harder.
@@aceclover758 well that may be lore, i mean, Mewtwo in the movie can easily destroy like an island at a theoretical lvl. 1 so it makes sense, or, it’s gen 1 and it’s all just messed up💀
I never understood why they gave Brock these full heals and basically prevented him from being status'ed in Gen 1. That pretty much precludes any 'clever' strategies from being used against him and makes the battle into a dull "Can you do enough damage even if you picked Charmander." Just a weird choice to make the first portion of your game less fun than it could be...
The colors for this episode are really nice. Also, love how Gen 1 move pools will give you no good STAB or type coverage, but TWO moves to make your Pokemon explode.
For real. Wtf were game freak smoking back then? Furthermore why did they even have the whole theme of type-based gyms and not have 6 Pokémon of each type?
To be fair on the move pools side of things, this was the very beginning of the franchise. As far as I am aware, there weren't have any games like this out at the time for them to reference, so they did their best on what they thought would be balanced. At least they've gotten much better over the years.
I always like seeing the different colour pallets for these runs, but the shading colour was definitely too dark this time, it makes the player on the title screen look like a burn victim
It’s so funny how in modern Pokémon the 1st gym is always a joke, like borderline tutorial, but in Gen 1 (without Bulbasaur or Squirtle) Brock is by far the hardest fight in the game.
@@maximilianbelmont4901 it's a sum of the two, because Brock only needs a special move to be destroyed if I'm not mistaken Charmander is actually 1-2 minutes faster than both Squirtle and Bulbasaur due to ember being way better than vine whip and bubble
@@mortovivo9655no chance, ember is resisted and vine whip/bubble are 4x super effective. all charmander has is a slight advantage over the bug catchers but he can still get poisoned and bulbasaur cant so its pretty much nulled out.
Brock is a nightmare before you work out the trick to bide or the difference between special and physical moves. He’s also a really hard fight if you don’t want to use a starter!
The most bizarre design choice in RBY is Brock’s 10 Full Heals. Like, were they so determined to teach type matchups that they didn’t want anyone to use strategy? If someone wanted to use Poison instead of Bulbasaur/Squirtle, let ‘em. That’s creative, assuming they’re a totally new player in 1999
I am excited to see another Gen 1 solo from this channel! Your R/B solos are some of my favorite YT content. I did have a few criticisms, however. Some parts felt a bit awkward, particularly when you skipped the wins against the self destructing Hiker. The “show don’t tell” aspect of your solos is what makes them so great, so missing out on some victories was a bit weird. Also, I remembered that you used Rest in your Weezing solo, but didn’t here, which would have made the self destructing Hiker as well as Giovanni much easier. In all fairness, it had been some time, so you likely forgot that you did that, but I was bothered by that. With that said, I’m happy to see a new Jrose video and this was no different. I still really enjoyed it and I’m excited to see what the future holds for this channel! Edit: turns out you did show the Erika win and I missed that part. Sorry about that.
Glad to see you back dude! Your twitch streams always happen when I'm in the middle of work so I've been missing out lol. Its funny you uploaded this today, I was watching a random "impossible things gamers have done" video yesterday and your Magikarp fire red run was included.
I realise it's not in the spirit of the challenge, but I was really hoping you would let Koffing evolve near Fuchsia City, since that's where James' Koffing evolves in the anime. It might have made the challenge too easy for you though!
I would think you should lean into the fact that you're using a bulky poison type. This is the kind of mon where you bust out Toxic, Bide, and Rest. It seems like trying to force it to be a fast sweeper is a mistake.
Yeah, rest on the rhydon at the final battle works pretty well. The problem is that you need those levels anyway for Agatha, you don't want to rest into something that can use dream eater 😂
(25:03) I laughed so hard when Weezing used Self-Destruct and got the Gen. 1 miss. That was simply amazing, and resulted in your Koffing beating that gym battle without taking any damage.
Rest I think is just in one of the rooms in the SS Anne, so it’s easy to get and just requires an optional battle. Substitute is in the game corner so it’s not useable in these runs, far too much time to play the slots, or even just buying the coins takes forever
I can't wait grimer because it learns sludge even later, and it has a lower special and speed, so psychic types will be even worse. However, it could beat brock and misty faster because pound is better than tackle, and it learns mega drain for all the ground rock types.
I love your video I'm a big nostalgia guy like eversione watches this channel, but it kinda gets me that you pretend what you are doing is even remotely hard. It's not.
Man watching these runs always makes me wanna play and speed thru a red or blue run and then i go to play and it takes me like an hour of real time to get through mt moon and im like eh im good 😂😂
When I was a kid I use to do this one. Koffing was always one of my favs. Yeah it wasn’t easy… I think I gave up on a single Koffing and would end up doing Koffing, Wheezing, Ekans, Arbok and Meowth so I could actually play the game without being knocked out constantly lol.
YKnow you can actually play as james in this old rom hack called ‘rocket red’. I highly recommend it and it was a cool twist on the regular pokemon formula
Koffing has Thunderbolt, Sludge and Fire Blast. I appreciate that this was a struggle in the early game, but I think that's quite a good movepool with a range of coverage
@@RaphielShiraha64 if you watch the video you would see that thunderbolt allowed Koffing to deal with gyarados and other water and flying types, and fireblast allowed it to deal with rock ground types
@@joefarrow1599 Yes my point still stand, even with supereffective if your special stat is crap, it will still do crap damage. Also fire blast has a decent change of missing and rock types literally resist fire moves i have no idea where you got that it would help.
Super excited to see a vid from you, JRose! It's been a while! Sometimes I wonder why you disappear from uploading content for as long as you do, but then I watch you doing a run like this Koffing one and it all makes sense. For the sake of your sanity, please pace yourself and take all the time in the world you need between playing and uploading these runs 😅
Light Screen doesn't boost your Special the way Barrier boosts your Defense, Light Screen is just a blanket reduction in damage from Special attacks. With Barrier, he can raise his other stats (namely Special and Speed) through badge boosting in hopes of outspeeding Alakazam or tanking a Psychic attack.
Finally! I've watched all the challenge videos, but I was inspired to do my own run at the time of the Jesse video. Here are my stats so I can compare after the video. Hit the elite 4 at level 60 and rare candied to 70. Finished at 73. Atk-146 Def-198 Speed-112 Spec-134 Moves: sludge, smokescreen, mimic, thunderbolt. Can't wait!
Great run, Koffing seemed to do a lot better late in the run than early in the run. Well, now that Ekans and Koffing are done, it's time for Team Rocket's other Pokemon... that's right Lickitung I am rather curious how Lickitung will go, not just because it's my favorite gen 1 Pokemon but also because it's kind of like a weaker version of Snorlax, wide movepool but slow. The big differences is it starts with Wrap, but unlike Ekans it'll have other options and more bulk, so it may be able to get through Brock easier. (It also doesn't get Amnesia which is unfortunate, it does get Swords Dance but Amnesia would def be more useful). Might have trouble in the midgame though.
Well that was a lot of fun. Finally getting to part 2 of this little mini series is great. See you in another 3 years when you get to part 3 with Meowth
Fun gen one fact: if you use just 1 x-accuracy, you never miss (save the 1/256 glitch). Even negates sand-attack. The missing with fire blast reminded me.
Gen 1's handling of poison type Pokemon was the reason I never used them for the longest time. I only discovered how good they are when fairy type was released and since then frequently had a free space in my team for them. Mostly Muk. Muk is love 💙
Seeing that move puddle of Koffing made me think, that Game Freak made like 30 good Pokemon and rest were just a filler that they didn't give a crap about. They probably thought "Who would even want to use this one? Just give it whatever and move on"
Hi Jrose and AJ, how do you guys produce a youtube video like this? My best guess is that it goes a little like this: - Jrose records and sends the video file(s) over to AJ, maybe with some notes or with a first draft of the script - AJ edits the video down and sends the result back - Jrose records the narration with the video playing on his screen - Jrose sends the audio file back with notes - AJ puts everything together, does the timing, music & the remainder, then uploads it to youtube To me it seems like a lot of going back and forth, and it seems hard to edit the video down without knowing exactly what to show and how long. But it also seems hard to narrate without having a video to narrate over. How do you guys do it?
Very funny that the Ash (and thus the Jessie and James) era of the anime full on ended in between these two videos. Delighted to see another upload from you! Glad you're doing better, and great content as always!
i did exactly this back in 2002ish. well it was with an ekans, a meowth, a koffing, and i only really used koffing, and it was on Silver because I much preferred the sprites, the in-battle exp meter.
Poison and bide. I think that when they made bide they attached the move the HP, so if it takes 20 damage those are 20 points for bide. I guess when poison damage it's applied they put a minus to it and bides gets it's "points" reduced by the poison damage as well.
Koffing just got frustrated with its own time and was like "you know what I'm tired of this game, I'mma just win the Elite Four real quick" Also, glad to see you back again!
Jrose: Drumroll please! Me: *Drumrolls* Jrose: I can tell you're not really drumrolling... Me: 🥺 *Drumrolls harder* I'm doing the best I can here boss! 😭
44:55 There's a 3rd PP UP you can easily get without going out of the way. Instead of hugging the West wall on the Bike Path, hug the East wall. You can avoid all encounters, and there's a hidden PP UP a little bit below the guy who's hanging out 1 step away from the East wall. I can usually grab it without wasting more than a few seconds. There's also a hidden Rare Candy in the grass that's at the top of the East wall.
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I see a Jrose video and just auto-like it. He’s just that good and entertaining that I know I’m going to enjoy it. Thanks for all the content!
If you can't get lapras yet and you don't want to fish for a water type, you can always evolve the eevee you get in celadon city into vaporeon. Easy surf pokemon!
not enough love for this awesome palette swap. black on all the sprites looks just like Team Rocket and the red matches the brand superbly. Great choice J!
No way, I just looked up some of your old videos (the old kakuna rattata run) because I felt like watching Jrose today and a little bit later you upload this video!
Looks like after jrose prepared for trouble 3 years ago, he finally made it double
Meowth, that's right!
@@IAmMissingnoMaster Wobbuffet!
😂😂
i love that they followed the same thumbnail style and everything. attention to detail!
I can't believe it's been 3 years
Always a good day when my boy Jrose uploads a run. We've missed you dude
It's like Christmas for me, the fact that it happens so rarely just makes it more precious
We were truly spoiled during the month of Jrose
You guys are sad lol just watch him on twitch
Any time he uploads is a huge W.
@@gogreencomi damn that went mean quick
25:02 This is the TAS speedrun strat because Self Destruct instantly sets HP to 0, instead of the HP bar taking some time to decrease. So even if you can OHKO the Weezing, a Gen 1 miss Self Destruct is the luckiest possible thing that can happen in terms of time :P
also its a hilarious concept of how a giant close proximity explosion misses. Just imagining it in battle is a funny thought
Smog with 20 power was too strong, so they had to nerf its accuracy.
The idiots at game freak have always made poison pokemon garbage. And eventually they made it literal garbage.
@@fizzbrew *croagunk enters the chat
Maybe they thought the 40% chance to poison would make it too strong otherwise? That's the only explanation I can think of. Game Freak isn't always good at figuring out balance. Take Pokemon like Regigigas that they nerfed into the ground with its ability, for example.
@@xelac1334probably so that playing against poison types in single player isn't too annoying. It makes more sense if you think of gen 1 pokemon as dragon quest instead of a competitive game
@@gamermanzeake I mean, you can sleep powder with Butterfree (I don't think it's at that unreasonable of a level, but I don't remember) and burn with Charmander
The Pokemon they had were never the problem, it's that both Jesse and James were good at a lot of things except actually being bad guys lol
That's why they started their podcast
> Strongest stab move was 65 bp sludge (which I don’t think they even used)
> weak to psychic and ground which does have powerful moves
> no resistance
> did have coverage but never used
It’s pretty bad team when lickitongue is an improvement
blasting off again
Hell, they couldn't even get the Team Rocket mantra right
@@vondas1480 wobbafett being the best on the team
I love how no matter how many Red and Blue challenge videos you put out, there is always another fun challenge concept and it always ends up interesting. Always here for it.
I'd say the reason why Koffing's level-up move pool is so crap is because they didn't expect players to have a Koffing that was below level 30 (30 or 32 is the level of Koffing at the Pokemon Mansion). Actually, a lot of Pokemon you couldn't get at starter level didn't learn moves until you leveled up past their base capture level. Gen 2, I believe, is when they started having low-level move pools for Pokemon that can breed, since you could get one as an egg, where it would hatch at level 5.
true but honestly u would have to trade a koffing from silver to red but problem with that? it wont obey u. and u would have to rush just so it will obey u lmao
@@ladyriethegoldendelmo5441 not true, they wouldn't obey you if they were above a certain level. The boulder badge states anything over level 20 will now obey you, even traded Pokemon.
@@osets2117and before that level 10 is the default, at least in some gens
You know the run went pretty well if he's at the elite 4 like 75% into the video instead of halfway through
Great to see JRose. Those daily uploads during the month of JRose really spoiled us. Hope you’ve been well, thanks for the video, excited to see the fiasco that is solo koffing
I feel that. I kept counting down the videos during the month dreading when it would end.
You all do know the month of Jrose pays more money, because december is the holiday season ad revenue is higher.
Was very surprised that Koffing can't learn body slam. Seems like it's gonna be a *sludge* fest... 😂
That joke was toxic
Everyone doing smog azz puns
@@JoseFlores-xh5cj oh god, the poison is spreading!
I hate all of you😂
These gen 1 solo runs feel like Christmas morning. Rock on JRose!
These probably feel more like purgatory to JRose, lol.
Amen brother let's hope the mr. Jayroe's keeps doing videos until the lizard people finally take over and reap their horrible vengeance on mankind
Technically, Jessie has Ekans AND Lickitung (then later, Wobbuffet). James had Koffing and Victreebell for a long while.
yeah i think to make it more like their actual teams not only should he have been allowed to evolve Ekans and Koffing but he should have also been able to use their other pokemon if he really wanted this to be like what its like to play as team rocket
James also had his growlithe, which would have made the psychic match up a lot less painful.
He had a Growlithe, but it wasn’t something he was using in the field as Team Rocket, which I think is the spirit this run through tries to capture. Agreed it would have been interesting if James got his second iconic pokemon / evolutions.
He also had a magikarp and then it evolved into gyarados
Koffing is in that category of Pokémon (along with stuff like Tangela and Grimer) where it’s only available in the late game right before evolution and so you were never meant to (and can’t because no breeding) use it at this level, and so the developers just didn’t bother to give it any moves.
maaan i *wish* tangrowth existed in gen 1.
I mean it doesn't get any moves in later levels either.
Yea but you then have pokemon like Mewtwo with good moves at level 5
Still, I see your logic, thats what makes solo runs with mid to late game pokemon that are caught in the wild in the mid twenties to mid thirties, much harder.
@@aceclover758 well that may be lore, i mean, Mewtwo in the movie can easily destroy like an island at a theoretical lvl. 1 so it makes sense, or, it’s gen 1 and it’s all just messed up💀
I feel tackle smokescreen shoulda been the starting moveset
The return of the king! We've missed you man. This videos never fail to entertain.
Now this is a good start to the month THANK YOU JROSE
Finally, Jessie isn't alone anymore
Crazy to think that the Month of Jrose was 4 months ago! I hope the break was revitalizing! Glad to see you back out here producing bangera
Remember kids: Any move that isn't 100% accurate is 50% accurate.
I never understood why they gave Brock these full heals and basically prevented him from being status'ed in Gen 1. That pretty much precludes any 'clever' strategies from being used against him and makes the battle into a dull "Can you do enough damage even if you picked Charmander." Just a weird choice to make the first portion of your game less fun than it could be...
The colors for this episode are really nice.
Also, love how Gen 1 move pools will give you no good STAB or type coverage, but TWO moves to make your Pokemon explode.
For real. Wtf were game freak smoking back then? Furthermore why did they even have the whole theme of type-based gyms and not have 6 Pokémon of each type?
To be fair on the move pools side of things, this was the very beginning of the franchise. As far as I am aware, there weren't have any games like this out at the time for them to reference, so they did their best on what they thought would be balanced. At least they've gotten much better over the years.
@@EresirThe1st it's almost like they didn't know how to make a good Pokémon game back then
It's almost like the first Pokemon game was a proof of concept and wasn't intended to be an actual series
@@emisor9272 It's almost like there were no pokemon games back then to improve on
I just want to appreciate how, at 16:33, the save screen showed he had 3 dex entries and 3 badges at 3:33 play time. Perfect.
I always like seeing the different colour pallets for these runs, but the shading colour was definitely too dark this time, it makes the player on the title screen look like a burn victim
Rewatching and holy shnikeys yeah
I thought he just flat out forgot to do a color pallet for this vid
Rewatching the series, and there are a few that hurt my eyes, like the Mewtwo and Gyrados runs. Some are on point though!
It’s so funny how in modern Pokémon the 1st gym is always a joke, like borderline tutorial, but in Gen 1 (without Bulbasaur or Squirtle) Brock is by far the hardest fight in the game.
Actually Charmander is faster at reaching and beating Brock than Squirtle and Bulbasaur.
As long as you have any special attack you're good to go :v
I get the reaching part, but how is Charmander supposed to beat Brock faster than the other two?
@@maximilianbelmont4901 it's a sum of the two, because Brock only needs a special move to be destroyed if I'm not mistaken Charmander is actually 1-2 minutes faster than both Squirtle and Bulbasaur due to ember being way better than vine whip and bubble
@@mortovivo9655no chance, ember is resisted and vine whip/bubble are 4x super effective. all charmander has is a slight advantage over the bug catchers but he can still get poisoned and bulbasaur cant so its pretty much nulled out.
Brock is a nightmare before you work out the trick to bide or the difference between special and physical moves. He’s also a really hard fight if you don’t want to use a starter!
Gen 1 miss on a selfdestruct is hilarious, especially when Koffing was untouched by Koga’s first three.
So excited! The Red/Blue challenges are my favorite ❤️
Anyone else go back and watch old videos while waiting for new ones?
The amount of hours I fell asleep listening to this man....
every day :)
he is one of my top 3 go to channels for falling asleep to. Love his content and dedication.
The most bizarre design choice in RBY is Brock’s 10 Full Heals. Like, were they so determined to teach type matchups that they didn’t want anyone to use strategy? If someone wanted to use Poison instead of Bulbasaur/Squirtle, let ‘em. That’s creative, assuming they’re a totally new player in 1999
The game does let them. it doesn't stop them. It isn't being creative, it's being stubborn.
I am excited to see another Gen 1 solo from this channel! Your R/B solos are some of my favorite YT content.
I did have a few criticisms, however. Some parts felt a bit awkward, particularly when you skipped the wins against the self destructing Hiker. The “show don’t tell” aspect of your solos is what makes them so great, so missing out on some victories was a bit weird. Also, I remembered that you used Rest in your Weezing solo, but didn’t here, which would have made the self destructing Hiker as well as Giovanni much easier. In all fairness, it had been some time, so you likely forgot that you did that, but I was bothered by that.
With that said, I’m happy to see a new Jrose video and this was no different. I still really enjoyed it and I’m excited to see what the future holds for this channel!
Edit: turns out you did show the Erika win and I missed that part. Sorry about that.
Great to see you back. Hope you’re feeling better!
I'd expected Butch to be James' rival, not Jessie.
I feel asleep to these all the time and I mean that in the best most positivity way! Love em!
3 years later? Damn, this puts into perspective how long the entire thing is.
He'd be done with the base forms if he had focused them and not adding final evos.
Not that I'm complaining mind you.
Thunderbolt and Fire Blast are great for Koffing.
Yeah without them koffing would give Pidgey a run for its money
Watching this in between times when I can see my newborn son on the ICU has saved my sanity a little for the day thanks for the great content ❤
2:10 Jrose "6 damaging moves" while there are 7 moves on the screen. Not counting Bide. Huh?
Koga, after exploding his last Pokemon and getting a Gen I miss: "Hm! You have proven your worth!"
PREPAAARE FOR TROUBLE
*3 years of crickets*
and make it...double
Nice vid. Wouldn't Bide have been useful during the early Rival/Misty fights? Even Koga maybe?
Glad to see you back dude! Your twitch streams always happen when I'm in the middle of work so I've been missing out lol. Its funny you uploaded this today, I was watching a random "impossible things gamers have done" video yesterday and your Magikarp fire red run was included.
I always wondered how Koffing knocked out Onix in "Clefairy and the Moon Stone"
I realise it's not in the spirit of the challenge, but I was really hoping you would let Koffing evolve near Fuchsia City, since that's where James' Koffing evolves in the anime. It might have made the challenge too easy for you though!
Imagine if he did it just to get the joke in and then reset to right before evolving him :P That would've been epic
FINALLY!! Was wondering when James would get his turn. Love the content, JRose!
I would think you should lean into the fact that you're using a bulky poison type. This is the kind of mon where you bust out Toxic, Bide, and Rest. It seems like trying to force it to be a fast sweeper is a mistake.
Yeah, rest on the rhydon at the final battle works pretty well. The problem is that you need those levels anyway for Agatha, you don't want to rest into something that can use dream eater 😂
Tackle, Smog, Sludge, Rage, Thunderbolt, Thunder, Fire Blast and technically Bide would be seven/eight not six/seven.
Rage and Bide are garbage in gen 1
(25:03) I laughed so hard when Weezing used Self-Destruct and got the Gen. 1 miss. That was simply amazing, and resulted in your Koffing beating that gym battle without taking any damage.
How hard is it to get Rest/Substitute? Seems pretty good for stats like Koffing
Rest I think is just in one of the rooms in the SS Anne, so it’s easy to get and just requires an optional battle. Substitute is in the game corner so it’s not useable in these runs, far too much time to play the slots, or even just buying the coins takes forever
Editor missed an opportunity to replace "jessie blacked out" with "jessie blasted off again"
I can't wait grimer because it learns sludge even later, and it has a lower special and speed, so psychic types will be even worse. However, it could beat brock and misty faster because pound is better than tackle, and it learns mega drain for all the ground rock types.
Looks like we are blasting off into a subcategory (of sorts) with these solo runs
I love your video I'm a big nostalgia guy like eversione watches this channel, but it kinda gets me that you pretend what you are doing is even remotely hard.
It's not.
YESSSSS I've been so ready for this
Edit: i tried adding a koffing to my Yellow team..... for about 5 minutes.
Man watching these runs always makes me wanna play and speed thru a red or blue run and then i go to play and it takes me like an hour of real time to get through mt moon and im like eh im good 😂😂
When I was a kid I use to do this one. Koffing was always one of my favs. Yeah it wasn’t easy… I think I gave up on a single Koffing and would end up doing Koffing, Wheezing, Ekans, Arbok and Meowth so I could actually play the game without being knocked out constantly lol.
Could've added Victreebel, Lickitung and Growlithe to that.
YKnow you can actually play as james in this old rom hack called ‘rocket red’. I highly recommend it and it was a cool twist on the regular pokemon formula
He returned when the world needed him the most🎉🎉
"These channelers are annoying, but we won" koffing dies "...eventually."
Koffing has Thunderbolt, Sludge and Fire Blast. I appreciate that this was a struggle in the early game, but I think that's quite a good movepool with a range of coverage
no point having good special attack moves, if you have shit special stat.
@@RaphielShiraha64 if you watch the video you would see that thunderbolt allowed Koffing to deal with gyarados and other water and flying types, and fireblast allowed it to deal with rock ground types
@@joefarrow1599 Yes my point still stand, even with supereffective if your special stat is crap, it will still do crap damage.
Also fire blast has a decent change of missing and rock types literally resist fire moves i have no idea where you got that it would help.
@@RaphielShiraha64 because he uses them in the video and it helps?
@@RaphielShiraha64rock doesn't resist Fire, it's neutral
I feel like Bide might have helped you against Misty, maybe against the graveler and Erika
What a surprise, just what I needed a new jrose. I was literally checking your channel yesterday for updates🎉😂
Super excited to see a vid from you, JRose! It's been a while!
Sometimes I wonder why you disappear from uploading content for as long as you do, but then I watch you doing a run like this Koffing one and it all makes sense. For the sake of your sanity, please pace yourself and take all the time in the world you need between playing and uploading these runs 😅
Holiday in my country, great start already! :)
The best parts:
- The new title of Surge.
- Weezing getting a gen-1-miss on self-destruct.
FR
jrose: in the future we might need to...
me: *looks at timeline* sureeeeeee bud
Would mimicking Light Screen from Mr. Mime not have been a better move than Barrier to reduce special damage from Alakazam?
Light Screen doesn't boost your Special the way Barrier boosts your Defense, Light Screen is just a blanket reduction in damage from Special attacks. With Barrier, he can raise his other stats (namely Special and Speed) through badge boosting in hopes of outspeeding Alakazam or tanking a Psychic attack.
I'm delaying getting to work this morning because one does not simply scroll by a new Jrose11 video!
While being an adequate color scheme it's pretty hardcore to look at haha
Love that front sprite. Just the right amount of menacing and derpy
Finally! I've watched all the challenge videos, but I was inspired to do my own run at the time of the Jesse video. Here are my stats so I can compare after the video.
Hit the elite 4 at level 60 and rare candied to 70. Finished at 73.
Atk-146
Def-198
Speed-112
Spec-134
Moves: sludge, smokescreen, mimic, thunderbolt.
Can't wait!
Great run, Koffing seemed to do a lot better late in the run than early in the run.
Well, now that Ekans and Koffing are done, it's time for Team Rocket's other Pokemon... that's right Lickitung
I am rather curious how Lickitung will go, not just because it's my favorite gen 1 Pokemon but also because it's kind of like a weaker version of Snorlax, wide movepool but slow. The big differences is it starts with Wrap, but unlike Ekans it'll have other options and more bulk, so it may be able to get through Brock easier. (It also doesn't get Amnesia which is unfortunate, it does get Swords Dance but Amnesia would def be more useful). Might have trouble in the midgame though.
Any day jrose uploads is a fantastic day
Yeah i'll look forward to his next upload in like September
Glad you upgraded to the Virtual Boy! Looks great!
His long awaited return is nothing short of magical. Good seeing you upload, hoping life's good!
YES! Really missed your videos! Glad to see you back!
Finally Koga's selfdestruct just missed. Gen1 at it's finest.
Hearing it referred to as "move puddle" is something I hope you utilize more often
Well that was a lot of fun. Finally getting to part 2 of this little mini series is great. See you in another 3 years when you get to part 3 with Meowth
Fun gen one fact: if you use just 1 x-accuracy, you never miss (save the 1/256 glitch). Even negates sand-attack. The missing with fire blast reminded me.
That edit on the movepool to remove Selfdestruct and Explosion was SMOOTH!
Haha thanks! I was wondering if anyone would notice, it's always fun to put in a little stylistic flair here and there~
I really miss this solo runs ❤️
Welcome back. Please don't go for long time.
PD: sorry for the bad english
Gen 1's handling of poison type Pokemon was the reason I never used them for the longest time. I only discovered how good they are when fairy type was released and since then frequently had a free space in my team for them. Mostly Muk. Muk is love 💙
It took me until Toxtricity to like poison types lol.
It's actually fun that a some of the top tier mons for solo runs in gen 1 are poison types too (nidos, Gastly line Bellsprout line)😂
Seeing that move puddle of Koffing made me think, that Game Freak made like 30 good Pokemon and rest were just a filler that they didn't give a crap about. They probably thought "Who would even want to use this one? Just give it whatever and move on"
Thanks for this, mate! You're the best! Take care!
Hi Jrose and AJ, how do you guys produce a youtube video like this? My best guess is that it goes a little like this:
- Jrose records and sends the video file(s) over to AJ, maybe with some notes or with a first draft of the script
- AJ edits the video down and sends the result back
- Jrose records the narration with the video playing on his screen
- Jrose sends the audio file back with notes
- AJ puts everything together, does the timing, music & the remainder, then uploads it to youtube
To me it seems like a lot of going back and forth, and it seems hard to edit the video down without knowing exactly what to show and how long. But it also seems hard to narrate without having a video to narrate over. How do you guys do it?
James finally gets his time
I'll feel sad when all 151 original Pokemon are done!
Very funny that the Ash (and thus the Jessie and James) era of the anime full on ended in between these two videos.
Delighted to see another upload from you! Glad you're doing better, and great content as always!
Jessie and James carried the anime, they deserve their own spin off lol
i did exactly this back in 2002ish. well it was with an ekans, a meowth, a koffing, and i only really used koffing, and it was on Silver because I much preferred the sprites, the in-battle exp meter.
The Man, the Myth, the Legend, with another video!
Poison and bide. I think that when they made bide they attached the move the HP, so if it takes 20 damage those are 20 points for bide.
I guess when poison damage it's applied they put a minus to it and bides gets it's "points" reduced by the poison damage as well.
Koffing just got frustrated with its own time and was like "you know what I'm tired of this game, I'mma just win the Elite Four real quick"
Also, glad to see you back again!
Jrose: Drumroll please!
Me: *Drumrolls*
Jrose: I can tell you're not really drumrolling...
Me: 🥺 *Drumrolls harder* I'm doing the best I can here boss! 😭
44:55
There's a 3rd PP UP you can easily get without going out of the way.
Instead of hugging the West wall on the Bike Path, hug the East wall. You can avoid all encounters, and there's a hidden PP UP a little bit below the guy who's hanging out 1 step away from the East wall. I can usually grab it without wasting more than a few seconds.
There's also a hidden Rare Candy in the grass that's at the top of the East wall.
Sludge, Thunderbolt, Fire Blast, Mimic and Rest are basically the only moves worth using here - that's one hell of a shallow move pool
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I see a Jrose video and just auto-like it. He’s just that good and entertaining that I know I’m going to enjoy it. Thanks for all the content!
If you can't get lapras yet and you don't want to fish for a water type, you can always evolve the eevee you get in celadon city into vaporeon. Easy surf pokemon!
I was beginning to think you were turning into Santa Claus, only working in December.
Tentacruel, please!
I was hoping you'd buy the Magikarp outside Mt. Moon for the real James experience (lol).
2:07 "I can tell you're not drumrolling }: ( "
Me: agdangit, alright hold on.
*Leg-slapping*
not enough love for this awesome palette swap. black on all the sprites looks just like Team Rocket and the red matches the brand superbly. Great choice J!
No way, I just looked up some of your old videos (the old kakuna rattata run) because I felt like watching Jrose today and a little bit later you upload this video!
The month of Jrose was so long ago I watched AJ's entire back catalogue of videos in the meantime, haha