Medicham Only - Pokemon Emerald
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- Опубліковано 6 гру 2023
- Rules:
1. Only my starter in battle
2. No items in battle, except held items
3. No glitches, exploits, save states, or RNG manipulation
4. No evasion moves before level 100*
Rule details:
-- *In gen1, evasion boosting is allowed if the Pokemon does it through means other than learning the move by level up or TM. For example, using Mimic or Mirror Move to boost evasion is allowed. (This exception is to keep ranking consistent with my legacy videos.)
-- I am allowed to manipulate my starter
-- I play the game at 4x game speed
-- For fair comparisons all my Pokemon have perfect (or near perfect) DVs / IVs
-- I am allowed to catch HM users - I can use all field moves
-- All in-battle glitches are allowed in generation 1
-- In generation 1, I'm allowed to skip Marowak with the Poke Doll
-- Surge's trash-can-puzzle is automatically solved
-- The bike is allowed in gen1, banned in gen2, and allowed for bypassing terrain in gen3
-- Saving between league members is allowed
-- If the solo Pokemon faints and I choose to blackout it counts towards my reset counter
-- I can pause the game and timer to take breaks
-- The footage is sped up / slowed down to match the pace of my narration
-- The ability Pickup can only be used if the starter has it
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scott this was an unreal run. for that poochyena with 5 resets don’t even bother training to 18, you had the rock tomb tm from roxanne and that can deal damage. you can teach it over bide and just delete it for HP. hope to see some reattempts on stream!
Twas thinking the same thing lol
Yeah exactly, him getting resets there felt so painful >.
Yeah, same. I was watching expecting him to teach it and then he didn't. Still a fun watch!
In general I felt he massively underestimated the physical potential of Medicham. Him using confusion against the makuhita on Brawley was also painful to watch :p. Medicham has the highest possible attack stat bar none (well, Marowak with Thick Club I guess) and enough speed. Fighting+Ghost coverage is absolutely perfect and with Bulk Up and Recover/Rest/Substitute the end game becomes trivial.
Medicham, the first coming of Annihilape
On the seventh day of December, Scott's Thoughts gave to me:
A Pure Power powerhouse
Wattson's ace in Hoenn
'Phan v Ursaring!
A tiny turtle's bubble
The fire starter digging
A garden lizard's leech seed
And those three weirdo mons punching
Going to keep an eye for these.
When I come home from work, this is the first comment I am looking for! Keep it going
I look forward to seeing this comment on every daily video going forward
Please keep this up and also come back for next december 😂. This continuous comment is just as good to see as the runs lol
WOO HOO YOGA POWER!!!!
Edit for context: in Japanese games pure power is called Yoga Power.
And Huge Power has something to do with mochis and bunnies. Wth are these names!
The run was really good but I think you can get through even faster with a few adjustments. You can learn rock tomb for Poochyena and replace it later. You should stop using special moves as soon as you have hidden power, resisted hidden power does more than neutral confusion. For Wattson as soon as you out speed Manectric you can bulk up twice on Voltorb and sweep with hidden power, the only loss there is if it paralyses you with spark twice in a row and this cuts a lot of optional trainers. I think you over set up for Glacia but that only saves a second or two. And rest plus chesto berry should make Steven easy as you mentioned at the end. If you route to out speed Stevens whole team at the end you can use rare candies earlier to cut resets because the only way he beats you is a crit from Skarmory while you set up your sweep.
Bro I wanna see you run Medicham and I'm not even being ironic
1:40 correction, Medicham is the only pokemon in gen 3 to learn HP naturally, but not overall ! In the next generation, Shellos will also learn Hidden Power naturally !
You need to start going for a setup move when the opposing Pokémon is at red health and you know they’re gonna heal. It’s literally a free turn for you
Such is the downside of playing on 4x speed.
Scott I’m absolutely loving the content!! Keep up the amazing work. PS Medicham has one of the best design’s in Pokémon history
I really agree with your perspective regarding the box legendaries.
Having the *option* to get such and a such a box legendary through exploration is awesome.
Being guaranteed the box legendary because of the story is a lot less exciting to me.
Medicham is one of my favorite pokémon of all time and this run made my day, thanks Scott.
One optimization is Substitute.
It would greatly simplify the Drake speed bump as you would not have to worry about Intimidate or Rock Tomb Speed drops. It would also allow easier setup on Skarmory without Rest.
Speaking of which, I would’ve also taught Bulk Up right away since it would make Drake even easier and likely save setup turns.
Totally agree on legendary Pokemon being rewards for exploration. I think Emerald is a really solid example of how you can involve the big guys in the story while not just handing them to the player on a silver platter.
Also wow, Medicham is a beast. Seeing Steven go down that easily is really something.
I really think they should have made Pure Power effect Special Attack, because as it is, it's just like Huge Power. It certainly would fit Medicham better given its access to all those special attack moves
psychical attackers have a lot of nerfs like intimidate, the burn status reducing psychical attack (with both moves like will o wisp and abilities like flame body) or confusion self inflicted damage being calculated by the user psychical attack
Making an ability like that for special attackers would be way better
@@thecriticalghost4626Tbf they could have also made it a lower multiplier to balance that out (1.4x is probably okay, we don’t want it to hit 2.25x range like with gorilla tactics/choice band but for a pokémon with this low of base stats it still gives a significant enough boost). It is true though about attack being more countered throughout pokemon history, it’s why choice band was the only of the three choice items to be in gen 3. Now, we have abilities that double defenses like Ice Scales or Fur Coat, and those are also in response to HP being higher priority for tanks then individual defenses generally.
@@thecriticalghost4626also moves like charm, growl are common but there is no way to reduce SpA. It'd be completely broke without some balancing effects being introduced alongside it in gen 3.
Radical red has an abilty like that
@@thecriticalghost4626I feel like gen 3 is significantly better for physical attackers than special
1. Physical attackers have MUCH BETTER setup moves
2. Double edge return earthquake brick break iron tail headbutt n shadow ball COVER everything n actually have better base POWER than special moves
The special moves that ARE BETTER are horribly inaccurate like iron tail has better accuracy than thunder or blizzard
3. Physical moves often have better secondary effects or proc 30 percent of the time like headbutt, or iron tail
4. When a special Pokémon gets walled ITS ALMOST ALWAYS grind time, physical attackers CAN BE but usually a moveset change will be BETTER like zangoose or blaziken for example, I CHANGED the moveset around while special types your moveset either works n you are LIKELY to stick it out with 4 moves 2 to 3 have stab n another had coverage n maybe rest or sitrus berry
reasonably fast fighting types are so good for solo runs. fighting stab, return, and a ghost, rock, or ground move is superb coverage against basically everything. toss in bulk up or swords dance and _bada bing bada boom_
You said Steven as Steven Jackson was showing on Infernape this makes me so happy
You haven't been performing badly, Scott, even across generations. I've been around since the first 3k subscribers and even then you weren't bad. I have seen you go from a good player, to an amazing one.
I think the people who are complaining about your plays in different generations aren't considering everything that goes into each playthrough and that's before you consider the additions and different opponents for each gen, item location differences you need to remember, scripting, editing, uploading and probably more. I don't stream but I do solo gen 4 and 5 runs, inspired by you and Jrose. Keep recording that data, learning as you go and you'll keep getting better. Edit: added something I remembered about playing solo challenge runs/nuzlockes over different generations.
A full month of projects this size every day. You're truly a mad lad Scott. Absolutely peak performance UA-camr. I wish my personality was more like yours in terms of just being a man of action. My best friend is pretty similar in regards to that. I just have never been able to get myself to do that. The only way I'm able to intrinsically motivate myself is when I'm doing hard work to avoid something unpleasant, or because I really want something and the hard work is in my way. Which I guess is more extrinsic too. I just don't have that intrinsic drive and I respect it so much, and sadly the result I want to achieve with my personal projects is just never enough to get me to see any of them through to the end. I need some external force applying to me, and I really need to find a way to get one on me so I can step up like you have.
All the respect dude. You are an inspiration
I love watching your videos when I go to bed your voice is so soothing to fall asleep to
I watched this hours ago. And you got blazakin learning bulk up? I love your humor. I love how much you have grown as a creator. Keep up your amazing journey!
Great first run! Can't wait to see a physical vs special medicham playthrough! Similar to what did with Snorlax that has amnesia and doesn't
I lost it at the artwork of the Vigoroth and Slaking during the bulk up list, it's incredible
One thing I would love to see Scott do when they get around to doing later generations is to attempt each game using only what's available from the original 151 pokemon. I am playing through scarlet version with gen 1 pokemon, and its pretty fun!
That Slaking and Vigoroth art was great 9:47 shoutouts to your artist!
Wow, that was dominant. I’m really excited for Agron though, it’s one of my favorites
Wow, Medicham was amazing! Aside from the Rusturf Poochyena (you could've taught Rock Tomb to deal with that), you handled this solo quite well!
This is the first pokemon I've really wanted to see a second playthrough of.
small note: pure/huge power are better than doubling the base attack because of ivs evs natures. it's almost like each attack iv and every few attack evs count twice
Medicham's Attack Stat after Pure Power would actually equal out to 169 Base, reaching 480 at Level 100 and with maxed out hidden values.
future Mega Medicham will go up all the way to 656 Attack, equaling 249 Base!
I never consciously thought about how many Dark-types there were in this gen until seeing this run (probably because I didn't play this one much as a kid). I'm excited to try Medicham now!
Watching the resets on the Poochyena was so painful knowing that there's a rock tomb TM sitting in the bag 😢 still great run and as always love your videos man
It's worth noting that Pure Power makes Medicham's attack stat roughly equal to base 150, depending on EV investment. (169 at maximum investment)
I’ve never played Gen 4, so I’ll be excited to learn the game with you.
Scott: I am REALLY excited for this playthrough
Listen Scott lets be real. If you could skip the playthrough for now, but acquire puffy pants in the shape of Medichams calves/legs for free, I have a feeling you could not resist that offer. And to be fair, I'm getting more tempted by the minute!
The huge power ability doesn't outright double the atk stat.
It only interacts with moves used by the pokemon as if it had double the attack.
So for example if an opponent used foul play, it would take the base atk into play, and not the doubled atk.
But if you used foul play with a pokemon with huge power, your pokemon will read the opponents atk, then apply the huge power boost to it.
Woot finally made it into the end credits lol. Looks like I scored Patrat as my official Scott's Thoughts pokemon lol. Great run there Scott, awesome results even with the player error. Don't beat yourself up about it. Remember the most important thing is to have fun. And stay hydrated.
i eagerly await the day we get second playthroughs in emerald, i think medicham is one that would benefit heavily from it, hopefully in the new year youll feel confident enough in your emerald skills to invest the time in it, i think youre getting to a good spot with gen 3
MEDICHAM! One of my favorite from the gen!
So, a final note at the end. The fighting type is so good in gen 3, that it makes the grass type playable (Breloom).
Congrats on 300 posted videos! (According to UA-cam)
This was awesome. Now to see the aggron run
Next time do a vrs Special Medicham vs Physical Medicham to see which is the most consistent and fast. Love your content Scotty❤
Just a question Scott, at what point do you feel like you’ll be in a position to start including or doing second playthroughs with Emerald? Your familiarity and knowledge of the game is improved drastically over the past year and at some point you have to think that doing 2nd playthroughs while the Pokémon is still fresh in your mind after a first playthrough will be more beneficial than improving your play and trying later down the road? Just curious your thoughts on this balance.
I love swans too
Love watching the poochy struggle without teaching rock tomb
Psychic fighting is such a cool typing!!! And Medicham is a great mon
It's funny, because Medicham was a Pokemon that I slept on in its debuted, the concept is cool, but I just didn't care much for the design, and somehow it just didn't occur to me how monstrous of an ability Pure Power is. Fortunately, I eventually rectified this mistake in Gen-4 where the physical special split was very kind to it.
Speaking of gen-4, I'll be interested to see how Scott handles it. The games keep getting longer and harder from here. I've only ever done one solo playthrough of Platinum, and when I did, I also cheated in a lucky egg to cut down on grinding. Even with the boosted EXP, there were still a few key fights where I found myself struggling.
Scott, I love how you always say call him by his full name: Steven Stone.
Great video Scott.
Damn! I expected Medicham to be good but not that dominant! I, for one, would love to see you play Platinum completely blind. Perhaps as a regular playthrough or nuzlock? If you wanted to make such a video it seems like it could be fun personally gen 4 is one of my favorites and I can't wait to see how some of my favorite Pokémon do. And justice for Gligar and Sneasal with their really good evolutions
I hope he does a few test playthroughs in Platinum and maybe goes over some peculiarities of the game in advance, including the effect of the physical/special change, TM availability, determining if the 'partner' sections are useful for grinding, and what gym leaders to specially watch out for.
tbh, Sinnoh has a few of the most dangerous trainers in all of Pokemon, not just Cynthia. even Roark isn't free because Cranidos hits like a speeding 18-wheeler running into a baby carriage. well, Candice usually isn't that good, but Pokemon with unfavorable type matchups could still struggle. Gardenia's Roserade, Maylene's Lucario, Wake's whole team, Fantina's Mismagius. okay Byron is usually free for anything that can hit Steel types. and then Volkner can be deceptively dangerous. I had a few fights against him spin out of control.
the real issue, where I've seen people hit a wall, is the last Cyrus fight. in the Elite Four, the first three aren't that bad, but Lucian's quite dangerous, and then...we all know about Cynthia. I guess the Spiritomb does give set-up opportunities, tho.
Scott: I've played Platinum twice, I barely know it.
Me: *playing Platinum for the 100th time while watching this video.* huh
Wow. I am very suprised about Medicham's ranking, despite the player errors that occured.
Look forward to when you start doing Emerald 2nd playthroughs, to see how high they can soar
Excited to see huge power azumarill someday!
Is nobody gonna commend you for naming it 'Psykick'? Well played, Scott 👏
That poochyena is a hero to all us who despise medicham from pogo great league! You go lil pooch!
Gardevoir and Medicham are tied for my favourite gen 3 pokémon so I am so happy about her results. Also what you were talking about in the outtro makes me wonder about how ground types will do. I know you have run with flygon and swampert, but flygon has a bit of a weird level up moveset. I dont think ground will be as good as fighting but it would be interesting to see.
Cant wait to check oot your aggron video tomooroo
Special vs Physical Medicham should really happen at some point. I know Pure Power is a big boon to the fighting half, but Psychic is a really potent type to utilize, plus the elemental punches offer some of the best coverage available.
Scott needs to remember even normal trainers are going to have decent AI in comparison to gen 1 / 2, so he can't just go with whatever into every battle
I totally agree with you about the legendary Pokemon. That's half of why I don't like the newer generations, especially gen 8. They pretty much force you to catch 2 back to back in that one, and it takes away from the exploration. I like how gen 3 did it the best. Yes, they are important to the story, but you still have to find them after the cutscene. They don't force you to fight one or more of them in that moment. And I love it. You get a hint of what they're capable of then have to go find them. To me, it makes finding and catching them more rewarding than just coming across them in the main story. Especially the first time you find one.
Came up literally while I was watching the champion victory of the previous video.
Really cool one! Medic ham is a favorite of mine because when I was first getting into Pokémon as an adult, it was one of the first Pokémon I was totally wrong about when I looked at it's base stats because I didn't understand it's ability, so it's been special to me since. I'm curious to see if it'll be better to use its monstrous special coverage or equally monstrous physical attack though I suspect that with access to bulk up and recover for hard trainers, it's likely to be better to take fast one hits on easy trainers with physical moves.
Watson is definitely one of the strongest gym leaders in any gen 3 run, but the Twins in Emerald can be a nightmare too.
I have found that Fighting types generally do quite well in RSE. There are a lot of trainers with dark types, especially the evil teams, and while steel types are generally rare they show up in a few major battles: Watson, Winona and Steven. There is also a rock gym leader, normal gym leader, a dark elite four and ice elite four, so there are a good number of major battles where the Fighting type damage can be quite useful. The new fighting types also get access to more & better coverage moves so I expect the fighting type to jump up a lot in the gen 3 type tier list.
It actually might be interesting to see how they preform as backports into the old games.
Nice run I hope we can see an optimized version some day
Aw man, I never saw it as a mouth and now ill never unsee it.
Great run. When you knowthe opponent is going to heal, do another turn of setup
Whether a move makes contact or not is also separate from the moves typing in later gens, too. For example, Draining Kiss, a special move, makes physical contact.
Would be great to have a themed kaiju Pokémon race video or series. Bashing Aagron, Tyranitar, Nidos and all against each other
he's got a bandana, he's got a vest, he's got TWO balls.
what a guy.
lmao
The early game really was kind of hard to watch when the mentioned rock tomb from other posts will solve the poochyena fight, also medicham just works well with bulk up and u will nvr even need calm mind just due to its ability.
Also if u want a contender for medicham, i believe one of the pokemon that is able to contest with it will be zangoose, looking forward to it being covered as either a solo or a vs series with its rival serviper
Scott: *deletes Detect ahead of Norman*
Me: Oh noooo.
That Pokemon really gets the shaft.
Voltorb sees rising attack stat: Voltorb used Suïcide!
Bro great vid! Need to replay! Finish at 69, cause medi just owned
just noticing how the last seven pokemon played and the next one all have mega evolutions, any chance you'll be doing a mega series playing through the games with backported mega evolutions? I think it'd be super interesting, especially in cases where the mega evolution changes the typing (thinking charizard x and sceptile)
I'm very new and very in love with your content. I do have a question- have you played pokemmo? If not it's super neat.
I had no idea that this Pokemon was that good. I just took a glance at the stats and I was like nah I'm not going to take that one. I'm definitely rethinking that now
Will it be a Medi-champ, or a Medi-chump? I can't wait to find out :D
I know I'm late posting. But that was amazing you didn't have to use rare candies at all. It's a first time for everything I guess.
Nothing clever to say. This was just a good videio. Really looking forward to second runs.
Nosepass's "suction cup mouth thing" can't say I've ever seen it like that 😅
On the Steven fight, High Jump kick may give the extra damage at +3 you need. You can also try going into the fight pre poisoned, that way youll only have to recover through normal poison and can probably set up to max on skarmory without endangering the sweep.
it was hilarious when you were worrying about Intimidate attack drops, also I think using the White Herb with Sidney was maybe a misplay because Drake's Salamence could potentially be slightly more of an issue. with how ludicrously powerful Medicham is, there's no reason to fear Intimidate Pokemon. you also don't need to set up as much as you assume. and also with that ridiculous attack, there's not much point either teaching Calm mind or sticking with any special moves for a long time.
First :D, love you videos!
our new MediChamp ^^
I really like medicham, it's shiny is amazing too, hope it does well
Just for the sake of clarification to anyone that's interested: Medicham has *a lot* more than 120 Base Attack following it's Pure Power Ability!
60 Base Attack with a positive nature and maxed out EVs/IVs ends up on 240 Attack at Level 100. Since the doubling doesn't happen to the base stat but the actual face stat, we end up at 480 Attack - as a comparison, Metagross, who has 135 Base Attack, ends up at 405 Attack if all hidden values are maxed out.
Medichams Attack Stat is actually most comparable to that of Mega Gallade - A Pokémon that has an insane 165 Attack Base - and still ends up on top, as Mega-Gallade "only" ends up at 471 Attack with maxed hidden values. The Base Stat Total that Medichams Attack actually equals is 169 - that would reach exactly 480 Attack with maxed hidden values.
Funfact: The later existing Mega Medicham raises it's base Attack to 100 while maintaining this Ability, raising it's effective Attack with max hidden values to 656. That is stronger than a Machamp that already is boosted by 1 stage, for example, and would not only equal out at 249 Base Attack, but would also be the second highest unboosted Attackstat ever brought into the games, just short of the 339×2 = 678 that Huge Power Mega Mawile (105 Base Attack) can reach!
My boy Aggron tomorrow!! Hell yeah!
Great now I can't unsee Nosepass' foot as a mouth in its Emerald sprite
Wondering when you'll be doing a video on zangoose, i think it could be very interesting
another thing about pure power is that it also boosts your EV boosts to your attack stat.
Oh hey, the Pokemon I choose in the credits. It's my second favorite- Umbreon was taken.
Scott, have you ever thought of doing runs where you have all items and TMs available? Just for raw, controlled data and "best" scenario playouts?
Man, RSE Medicham with Mind Reader, HJK and Hidden Power in contests? So good! (I forget what I had for the fourth move)
I think once you move post physical special split these are the runs that could have crazy differences. Hitmons too
Yes. Hitmonchan is actually really great with the punches. And by then all the Pokémon have much better move pools and coverage
Medicham is interesting IT CAN ACTUALLY do either set WELL
You can run PHYSICAL OR SPECIAL on this Pokémon well since it learns bulk up n calm mind
You can run mixed set with 2 punches calm mind hi jump kick
Or PHYSICAL Medicham bulk up shadow ball, hi jump kick and return
Special medi is bad and so are you
Medicham is almost broken, absolutely awesome
It sounds like Medicham deserves a tier gap between it and Hariyama, if it crossed an hour threshold. S+ tier?
Good video
Would it make sense to code the overlay so it takes into account stat changes when showing effective power of moves?
i think Medicham deserves its own category
Oh wow, the December 7 Pokemon is Medicham. Good Birthday for me
The nickname is next level
When will you do a play through with your usual beginning mon Butterfree when it gets its best move(Quiver Dance) and have/ use QD Sleep Powder Air Slash and Giga Drain or Bug Buzz? lol
Medicham is already in my head canon team, and it has just topped your list. That makes me feel good about myself and choices.
If you somehow optimised this further, you could get close to 1:25, however that is just a guess. Perhaps a comparative video using special moves versus physical moves should be on your video list.
And solosis learns hidden power from level up, also you rock medicham
Wanna do another run with it, but with a special build? Id love to see the comparison