Elite 4: what challenger who's rigorously raised their pokemon for weeks to stand here comes to challenge us? Jrose: caught those bad boys a minute ago
Oak to his grandson: "You didn't love your pokemon!" Red pokerfacing about the numerous pokemon he put in the PC the minute he was able to catch stronger ones while Blue actually maintained a consistent team through the whole game.
@@MarioMastarReminds me of when Jrose did that Emerald doubles Nuzlocke and won with essentially fourth-string Pokemon at every position due to carelessness and bad luck.
Jrose runs are the perfect inbetween of "i can watch it to fall asleep" and "i can watch it and learn a thing or two" and i am always all for it. This run just showed how much strategy and difficulty you can get out of pokemon games outside of the typical "Nuzlocke" ruleset. Simply amazing run, keep up the awesome videos!
honestly i think it's an insult to his work to say "i watch this to fall asleep". never understood you type of people. immerse yourself, enjoy and appreciate the work. some of y'all use too much tiktok so you're sentisized to the point of not being able to sit down and watch a 1:30h video without losing all attention within 10 mins 🤦♂
@@xKamiiiiDude you should enjoy and appreciate life. Because this is some negative bullshit. People have been falling asleep to shit for millenia, we used to fall asleep to birds and animals, then we fell asleep to the sounds of villages and music. People evolve and so do their forms of entertainment, it has nothing to do woth tiktok. Also, they are appreciating the work did you not read anything besides half of the first sentence of their comment?
@@xKamiiii are you dense? Can there be anything more immersive than shutting your eyes and losing yourself in the creator's storytelling, no distractions?
Im gonna say this because i feel like JRose doesnt hear this often, but I really love the little jokes he sprinkles throughout these runs. These challenges are already very entertaining, but the little jokes always put a smile on my face
Evil zacharynewman7627 be like: Im gonna say this because i feel like JRose doesnt hear this often, but I really hate the little jokes he sprinkles throughout these runs. These challenges are already very boring, but the little jokes always put a frown on my face
A piece of strategy Jrose did and didn't talk about. You have to be careful in which tile you are when the rival battle cut scene triggers because depending on where you are nature power can be either stun spore or swift
That's an incredible piece of trivia that I'm sure most people wouldn't have the eye for detail to notice. I'm amazed at how I'm still learning new things about Emerald to this day
It's absolutely unreal how many small seemingly inconsequential things that are coded into these games. Like the one about Pressure or Vital Spirit or whatever to get a lvl 45 Gyarados? Fucking BONKERS.
@@Bludgeoned2DEATH2 Bonus points if they're genuine mechanics and not just exploits that make Gameshark fair game. Jrose does keep the game as vanilla as possible so these are all things we can try in our playthroughs casually.
@@taebeebeePressure and Vital Spirit give a 50% chance to force an encounter with the highest level possible on a route. This applies to every Pokemon you find on the route.
The battle vs Steven in this is one of the more impressive battles I’ve seen across any challenge run. You’ve genuinely become quite good at these games over the years
This run is way more interesting with the "no items" and "no legendaries" clause. I expected the E4 to just be swept by a Lvl 70 Rayquaza -- looking forward to how you will do it!
This is what I like about Jrose. His rules really are meant to show the limits of the game itself, and not just his personal limits as a player. This allows any of us watching to really see the full potential of a pokemon and even discover surprises we wouldn't have known about them (like Abra being TERRIBLE in a solo run because until WAY later in the game, it doesn't learn any useful special moves) as well as how to make the most of particular strategies (like as annoying as it can be when he does reset a tough battle he barely won due to luck, he does verify where the battle could ONLY be won by luck or if it's a legitimate win, like seeing if a lucky crit may have completely changed the course of the battle). So it's very informative and thus a lot more entertaining for veterans and new players a like.
After your no experience run of crystal I was inspired to do a no exp run on fire red and you are so right about gamefreak's design early on. Every gym leader has a counter nearby and it's really neat. Blaine surrounded by water, surge and diglett cave etc. had a perfect team to counter rival 6 but has to make sacrifices to the lineup to counter Agatha. Was a wild ride. Champion took 100s of tries but it was possible and it felt so cool to achieve
Hey Jrose, I just wanted to thank you for creating these videos. I remember stumbling across your catch em all videos and hoping you would eventually return with more content. I have anxiety, and something I've been trying to work on is "grounding" myself when im anxious. There are a lot of things recommended for this, but talking about things I'm familiar with, like reciting the entire plot of a pokemon game, helps me. Your videos help me a lot when I'm anxious. You talk indepthly about topics that are familiar to me, but I still get to learn more stuff at the same time. I love hearing you find solutions to problems with all the tools you have accessible to you. Thank you. I wish you the best!
Simply incredible. Your mind for strategies and how to mix and match teams to outsmart the AI is truly remarkable. Obviously the red/blue solo challenges are your bread and butter but videos like these are truly where your skills are on full display. Keep up the amazing work.
Yeah, if you take into account knowledge of multiple gens, he’s definitely in the top 1000 pokemon players in the world imo. Incredible achievement when you remember that millions of people play these games.
@@edman1357 Considering that a lot of the mistakes he does are extremely amateurish and that his most common answers to obstacles (that are most of the time just obstacles because of rules he set for himself and still occasionally break regardless or because of his own mistakes) are just relying on absurd amounts of luck and overleveling, that he lacks a lot of basic knowledge regarding games that he played quite a lot by this point and is quite forgetful, I would be surprised if he was even in the top 10,000 worldwide. Once you also bear in mind that a lot of great Pokémon players aren't on the public scene in any way, shape or form, you will quickly realise that he's really not all that. Jrose's appeal lies in the entertainment value (which is owed, in part, to all the shortcomings that he has) and the funny Pokémon run concepts he toys with. That's really it.
The madman actually did it! I saw a bit of this live and was convinced it was impossible after you struggled so much with Wallace haha. Glad to see you proved me wrong
I love how your videos show off the complexity of Pokémon. How the items and abilities are used, strategies like PP stalling or destiny bond, and even AI manipulation... absolutely stunning.
@@averyhaferman3474I think that's what they're saying -- by playing Pokemon with crazy constraints it forces you to really use the extra stuff they put in the game, rather than just being able to spam a super effective move
Try battle frontier challenges. They are really fun to play and actually different. Especially when you add constraints they become next to impossible, bar some crazy strategies
I love the use of Substitute against Steven. I always used it on my own soloruns, because Skarmory has Toxic and Spikes and Steven's AI actually doesn't see that Toxic won't work, so you can get free setup (with a bit of luck) as early as Turn 1. I even managed to beat the game with a single Carvanha that way, and that thing is a one-hit from just about every move in the game :D
Truly intense. I was on the edge of my seat for most of this. It's funny you mentioned SmallAnt, he actually beat Emerald with *negative* XP, but he used Legendaries and items in battle.
Probably one of my favourite runs ever! It was interesting to watch the strategies for each battle unfold. Through the narration, you can also really hear your enthousiasm for these games and how fun it can be to craft the required strategy. Thanks and I'm looking forward to the next runs!
Jrose: I think Gamefreak wants you to catch new Pokémon teams for each gym, especially in Red and Blue Also Jrose: Let‘s beat Red and Blue with every single Pokémon solo
Love this! One of my least favorite things about Pokemon games is the grinding and the inevitable moment where you overshot the power level and just decimate the gym leaders with no competition. It never feels like you can just slot a wild (non-legendary) Pokemon into your party and compete with it, so this is a really inventive and impressive run!
Just want to say that you're a huge inspiration and entertainment for all of us. I took a page out of your book and tried to see if I can beat FR/LG with every evolutionary line at least. Just finished Venusaur in 5:35 at level 72 while using fun strategies. So fun doing it and it was thanks to you (btw I know the time was kinda slow lol)
I admire you SO MUCH for sticking through this. I definitely wouldn't have had the patience for such a thing, and I'm sure it helped thatyou had a stream chat there with you to make it less agonizing, but still, it sounds like hell. Not only did you stick with it, but you DID IT. Good job, genuinely!!
Somehow these are always incredibly entertaining the entire time despite being 30 minutes to over an hour long. Some of my favorite videos to see appear on my UA-cam feed
Bless him for putting up with this in REAL time. Unlike the Shiny hunters and nuzlockers who really seem like they're just wasting thier own time for the sake of views, JRose actually puts effort into something worth watching. Anyone can win the slots and brag about how they got rich overnight, but JRose actually puts in the work hours and earned his paycheck in the end of the year!
What an amazing run! Being able to achive this with no legendaries is nothing short of impressive. Wow, kudos, honestly. I really thought before clicking on the video that you might not even be able to get through Tate&Liza, let alone the Pokémon League!! I guess I really underestimated how high level the Pokémon in water routes can get to, uh? 🤔 Just a small correction, I don't think the Mod of the ROM does anything to Effort Values (EV). EV's work in tandem with EXP gained, meaning that if you don't gain EXP, you can never get EV's. That's simply the consequence of the way they're implemented, not just something that is arbitrarily disabled.
I actually remember playing this challenge as a kid. My Gameshark for some reason back in the day had an option to manipulate EXP so they would be at 0% among other options to increase EXP drastically. So one time I played though sapphire with 0 EXP for fun. I actually got to Drake and then at some point gave up because i couldn't ever get past him.
Roxanne’s nosepass will always use rock tomb until your Pokémon is slower than it and then it will switch to its other moves for the rest of the fight.
@@Whurlpuul Because speedrunners and romhackers have analyzed the intricacies and depths of each generation's trainer AI. Unfortunately, because this is the work of speedrunners and romhackers, there is no convenient collection of all the information, and you have to jump between sources in order to find the info for each generation. For Gen 3, there is a video called "Pokémon Generation III ROM Hacking: Tutorial 15: Trainerbattle Dissection" that has the information.
I'm going through a rough break up right now and these videos are honestly a great distraction. These challenges are amazing to watch. I can do solo runs but I wouldn't have the patience to do runs like this. Need to see a gen 5 no exp run sometime!
I will say this was probably my favorite challenge run. The solo runs are really fun and most of the impossible challenges you can more or less see they'll either be possible with some strategy or not possible at all. This one actually looked impossible and you still managed to find a way. I knew about the Gyarados but was thinking it wouldn't make a difference against Wallace anyway so no point going for it. Didn't think it would be able to beat Wailord and save Wobbo for his Gyara.
Dude, Ive been with you since the absolute beginning. I know these take a while, but I still really enjoy these videos! Especially this gen. Keep it up
I didn't think you'd take on Steven....really impressed with this one! Super glad you decided not to bother with legendaries and hopefully maintained your sanity in the process
Fun fact for anyone else dumb enough to try this challenge, all of the GBA Hoenn games let you catch a Level 40 Carvanha with Super Rod fishing. It’s default move set is Screech, Take Down, Swagger, Agility. And since it can outspeed or resist STAB on the entire Elite Four roster, you can absolutely do some confusion hax cheese the whole way through if you really feel like it. Or you can just use it as an opener to a rough battle and then put your actual strategies forward with the other five team members.
Loved the glalie impression 😂 great video as always jrose!! Keep up the great work!! (And aj too ❤) the video ideas that you do are always so crazy, absolutely love watching them!
I got a lvl 45 Gyarados in Sootopolis today on my second try: I had the most ridiculous luck today, and the fact that I’m watching this video on the SAME DAY is insane. I am trying to catch every Pokémon at max level on Emerald, and today I did Gyarados. I have the spreadsheet with the probabilities of different level ranges and I knew that even getting a Gyarados in the 5-45 range was ridiculously small, and even with my Absol at the front to have a 50% chance of boosting the level, I knew I was in for a long session of reloading… First catch, a Magikarp so I reset before I even saw the level. Second catch, it was a Gyarados but of course I wasn’t expecting anything so I was still fumbling with my phone to play a UA-cam video in the background. I looked up and saw the 45, and I nearly fell out of my computer chair laughing! I thought it was going to be just as mind-numbing as getting my lvl 45 Whiscash (which actually took so long that I got a shiny Barboach while trying to get it), so the SECOND CATCH was absolutely ridiculous. I just paused at the point where you just started to explain how different level ranges appear, so I really hope that you didn’t suffer the way I was expecting to 😅
Wow, ok ngl, now that I’ve watched your description, I didn’t know my odds were that high 😅 I only knew about the 5-45 block. My spreadsheet was missing the 35-45 block, so I thought it was only a 1% chance of getting it in the 45 range and then a further 50% of boosting it… Don’t get me wrong, getting a 2nd try on a 1/37 is still pretty cool, but I thought I had just hit it on a 1/200 😅
Yes I've only seen one other no exp challenge done by someone else and the strategies used in that one video were some of the most interesting I've ever seen in a pokemon challenge can't wait to watch this
All I can say is just WOW!!!!! Truly amazing! Your dedication to this challenge is just out of this world! I’ve gotta say this is the first challenge that I actually thought there’s no way I can do! Kudos brother
This was so good. I expected wobbuffet strats but the type swapping for type immunities and stalling out PP was cool to see. Also, it seems like gen 3 water Pokémon are just unrivaled.
this run in particular is pretty water-biased because a lot of the higher level Wild Pokemon you can catch are from Surfing/Super Rod fishing, only other good spots that come to mind is Victory Road and Sky Pillar
15:59 brought back some bad memories lol. Had to do this against a random scientist's grimer/muk(don't remember which) in black and white 2. It had just used minimize 3 times and couldn't actually damage it. Used the unremarkable regional bird to avoid the mud slap and the megnemite to avoid sludge.
I usually don’t like videos, but I had to like this one. Your dedication, your strategy, your determination and your ability to complete it was just truly amazing. This was incredible.
That was honestly oncredible. The shift from grueling step by step explanation of beating Wallace to "anyway after 7 hours this is how I beat Steven" was some aerious whiplash. What a journey.
A strat you could have considered against Wallace is teaching Substitute to Altaria. Of course, it has to go over something (I'd say Fly first, and then teach fly over Dragonbreath after Lance). With Substitute, you can protect yourself against Leech Seed while you set up Dragon Dance. If you have +6 Atk, +6 Spe when you knock out the Ludicolo, and your substitute is intact, you can get 2 attacks off against whatever switches in as you'll now outspeed and the opponent still has to kill your substitute.
Me before watching the video: "At least the Elite 4 won't be so bad with Rayquaza and maybe the Regis" Jrose not even a minute into the video: "No legendaries" Me: "Bruh!"
(3:40) It's actually a 10% chance for Effect Spore to trigger in Gen. 3, and then after that, only a 1/3 chance of getting the status effect you want. So, a 1/30 chance poison will occur with any one direct hit. (39:04) LOL, "Phweb". (1:07:06) Huh, a level 5 Gyarados is possible there? I somehow wasn't aware of that. (1:21:24) And that's game! Congratulations on winning without EXP! (1:28:27) Wow, you even managed to defeat Steven Stone! That's amazing!
When Shelgon got frozen in the first Drake battle, I was like: "Surely, he's gonna switch in Altaria now, set up a few Dragon Dances and try to sweep. After all it's only 20% each turn that it thaws out." Aaaand then he just didn't...
I've always wanted to see Pokemon Emerald without EXP after finding Smallant's run, albeit different because pokemon levelled BACKWARDS, underwhelming nonetheless because he spammed legendaries. In a way, it feels pretty poetic that his Gyarados suggestion made this run possible
Amazing video man! Wallace here gave me ptsd from my Mudkip solo run. Had to train to Lv.94 to win. Aside from that I enjoyed the video a lot, thank you :) Have a nice day ^^
Adter so many years of playing and viewing pokemon content It's rare to find out something that I didn't know already... but Actually I never knew about the effect of Pressure/Hustle/Vital Spirit outside of battle... Congrats, that was a nice surprise
Steven's battle was the highlight for me, glad it made the cut. Funny enough (not that I would recommend obv without manipulation), you could actually get a level 51 Wobbuffet pretty early through Mirage Island where level 50 Wynauts can be found (also I'm sure that Liechi berry could come in handy). May not have been too beneficial in certain spots early on for counter damage, but it probably would've made the final battles much more palatable, or at the very least less luck based.
Jrose11 Drinking Game: Drink every time he: - earns a gym badge - says "thankfully" - says "unfortunately" - gets a first try victory - wonders whether a crit matters - counts as the count - says "let's go!" - mentions the pathway to victory - apologises for his pronunciation of something - explains the badge boost glitch or defends its use Finish your drink when he becomes the champion.
I had genuinely expected to see a Crobat somewhere in this run. Your point about the tunnel vision is so true. When your strategy feels like it 'could' work, it's very difficult to pivot to something else.
You can get a Golbat at Lvl 44 in Victory Road, run around with it for a bunch of time to increase friendship and use a rare candy to get Crobat @@TheSarias
@@TheSarias exactly, once you get surf you have access to lv35 Golbat in meteor falls. I believe once you have waterfall you could find them at lv40 in a couple places, but I had used the earlier one.
I love all the videos you do over red and blue. However, it really does change the pace of your videos when we see ones like this in a different region. Even a Pokémon yellow version run of some Pokémon would be nice to see. Keep up the great videos. Love them.😊 Also, if you can ever added post game, Contant like this. I would always watch it. Love getting to see the last little bit of the games.
Sorry I'm responding to people who think there are stronger Pokemon to the North, i can't access them without rock smash, nor can I get higher level geodude
As someone who was part of the time where Pokemania first started in the mid 90s and has not played a Pokemon game in 22 years I have to say that I absolutely love watching Jroses videos.
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Elite 4: what challenger who's rigorously raised their pokemon for weeks to stand here comes to challenge us?
Jrose: caught those bad boys a minute ago
Oak to his grandson: "You didn't love your pokemon!"
Red pokerfacing about the numerous pokemon he put in the PC the minute he was able to catch stronger ones while Blue actually maintained a consistent team through the whole game.
😊😊
@@MarioMastar❤32
@@MarioMastarReminds me of when Jrose did that Emerald doubles Nuzlocke and won with essentially fourth-string Pokemon at every position due to carelessness and bad luck.
Jrose runs are the perfect inbetween of "i can watch it to fall asleep" and "i can watch it and learn a thing or two" and i am always all for it. This run just showed how much strategy and difficulty you can get out of pokemon games outside of the typical "Nuzlocke" ruleset. Simply amazing run, keep up the awesome videos!
honestly i think it's an insult to his work to say "i watch this to fall asleep". never understood you type of people. immerse yourself, enjoy and appreciate the work. some of y'all use too much tiktok so you're sentisized to the point of not being able to sit down and watch a 1:30h video without losing all attention within 10 mins 🤦♂
@@xKamiiiiDude you should enjoy and appreciate life. Because this is some negative bullshit. People have been falling asleep to shit for millenia, we used to fall asleep to birds and animals, then we fell asleep to the sounds of villages and music. People evolve and so do their forms of entertainment, it has nothing to do woth tiktok. Also, they are appreciating the work did you not read anything besides half of the first sentence of their comment?
Man has a soothing voice I fall asleep to his videos at times but most of the times I give them my full attention. Let people enjoy things
@@xKamiiii ok
@@xKamiiii are you dense? Can there be anything more immersive than shutting your eyes and losing yourself in the creator's storytelling, no distractions?
"But Minun is fairly bulky."
I never thought I'd hear that sentence
I pictured some really buff Minun lol
It kinda is though early game. 😂
@HOUOUIN_KYOUMA_001 Some thoughts should stay inside your head
@HOUOUIN_KYOUMA_001 why is it futanari though?
@HOUOUIN_KYOUMA_001delete this nephew
Im gonna say this because i feel like JRose doesnt hear this often, but I really love the little jokes he sprinkles throughout these runs. These challenges are already very entertaining, but the little jokes always put a smile on my face
Evil zacharynewman7627 be like:
Im gonna say this because i feel like JRose doesnt hear this often, but I really hate the little jokes he sprinkles throughout these runs. These challenges are already very boring, but the little jokes always put a frown on my face
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A piece of strategy Jrose did and didn't talk about. You have to be careful in which tile you are when the rival battle cut scene triggers because depending on where you are nature power can be either stun spore or swift
That's an incredible piece of trivia that I'm sure most people wouldn't have the eye for detail to notice. I'm amazed at how I'm still learning new things about Emerald to this day
It's absolutely unreal how many small seemingly inconsequential things that are coded into these games. Like the one about Pressure or Vital Spirit or whatever to get a lvl 45 Gyarados? Fucking BONKERS.
@@Bludgeoned2DEATH2 Bonus points if they're genuine mechanics and not just exploits that make Gameshark fair game. Jrose does keep the game as vanilla as possible so these are all things we can try in our playthroughs casually.
@@Bludgeoned2DEATH2wait could u explain this one?😳
@@taebeebeePressure and Vital Spirit give a 50% chance to force an encounter with the highest level possible on a route. This applies to every Pokemon you find on the route.
The battle vs Steven in this is one of the more impressive battles I’ve seen across any challenge run. You’ve genuinely become quite good at these games over the years
I am now honestly convinced that quickclaw Wobbuffet is the MVP in all MinBats and 0 Exp challenges
Can quickclaw Wobbuffet even do anything, since it's main way to do damage is countering?
@@TheShiningEnergyDestiny bond
@@logans4789 ooh. forgot about that move.
This run is way more interesting with the "no items" and "no legendaries" clause. I expected the E4 to just be swept by a Lvl 70 Rayquaza -- looking forward to how you will do it!
This is what I like about Jrose. His rules really are meant to show the limits of the game itself, and not just his personal limits as a player. This allows any of us watching to really see the full potential of a pokemon and even discover surprises we wouldn't have known about them (like Abra being TERRIBLE in a solo run because until WAY later in the game, it doesn't learn any useful special moves) as well as how to make the most of particular strategies (like as annoying as it can be when he does reset a tough battle he barely won due to luck, he does verify where the battle could ONLY be won by luck or if it's a legitimate win, like seeing if a lucky crit may have completely changed the course of the battle). So it's very informative and thus a lot more entertaining for veterans and new players a like.
You can’t even capture Rayquaza until after beating the E4 anyway
Same with the box legendaries in emerald only
@@aceclover758 Actually in Emerald you can go back to Sky Pillar right after Rayquaza stops Groudon and Kyogre and catch it.
@@aceclover758wrong. In emerald you can catch Rayquaza before the elite 4
@@Goro_Maj1ma you catch the dragon while your trying to beat the final gym
Right before bed?!?! Dude...
Who needs sleep when you have no experience emerald
@@spectatorrd6826 agreed
No kidding, I just laid down...
I just got home from work. This is awesome 😂
do what i do WATCH IN BED lol
After your no experience run of crystal I was inspired to do a no exp run on fire red and you are so right about gamefreak's design early on. Every gym leader has a counter nearby and it's really neat. Blaine surrounded by water, surge and diglett cave etc. had a perfect team to counter rival 6 but has to make sacrifices to the lineup to counter Agatha. Was a wild ride. Champion took 100s of tries but it was possible and it felt so cool to achieve
Hey Jrose, I just wanted to thank you for creating these videos. I remember stumbling across your catch em all videos and hoping you would eventually return with more content.
I have anxiety, and something I've been trying to work on is "grounding" myself when im anxious. There are a lot of things recommended for this, but talking about things I'm familiar with, like reciting the entire plot of a pokemon game, helps me.
Your videos help me a lot when I'm anxious. You talk indepthly about topics that are familiar to me, but I still get to learn more stuff at the same time. I love hearing you find solutions to problems with all the tools you have accessible to you.
Thank you. I wish you the best!
These are my favorite videos to binge. I've seen most of them twice (or more). Always so happy when you upload!
Simply incredible. Your mind for strategies and how to mix and match teams to outsmart the AI is truly remarkable. Obviously the red/blue solo challenges are your bread and butter but videos like these are truly where your skills are on full display. Keep up the amazing work.
Yeah, if you take into account knowledge of multiple gens, he’s definitely in the top 1000 pokemon players in the world imo. Incredible achievement when you remember that millions of people play these games.
@@edman1357except he didn’t know some very crucial stuff that actually helped him win. He needed a lot of help from chat
@@edman1357 Considering that a lot of the mistakes he does are extremely amateurish and that his most common answers to obstacles (that are most of the time just obstacles because of rules he set for himself and still occasionally break regardless or because of his own mistakes) are just relying on absurd amounts of luck and overleveling, that he lacks a lot of basic knowledge regarding games that he played quite a lot by this point and is quite forgetful, I would be surprised if he was even in the top 10,000 worldwide. Once you also bear in mind that a lot of great Pokémon players aren't on the public scene in any way, shape or form, you will quickly realise that he's really not all that. Jrose's appeal lies in the entertainment value (which is owed, in part, to all the shortcomings that he has) and the funny Pokémon run concepts he toys with. That's really it.
@@Forever...Wanderer ok bro you’re in the top 10. Feel better?
@@edman1357 I'm not even in the top 10,000 myself so whatever it is you think you're doing there is just silly at best.
The madman actually did it!
I saw a bit of this live and was convinced it was impossible after you struggled so much with Wallace haha. Glad to see you proved me wrong
I love how your videos show off the complexity of Pokémon. How the items and abilities are used, strategies like PP stalling or destiny bond, and even AI manipulation... absolutely stunning.
You say this but 90 percent of people's playthrough is: spam type effective move. Win
@@averyhaferman3474I think that's what they're saying -- by playing Pokemon with crazy constraints it forces you to really use the extra stuff they put in the game, rather than just being able to spam a super effective move
Try battle frontier challenges. They are really fun to play and actually different. Especially when you add constraints they become next to impossible, bar some crazy strategies
Watch any Nuzlocker or Speedrunner and they show off all that stuff and more
I love the use of Substitute against Steven. I always used it on my own soloruns, because Skarmory has Toxic and Spikes and Steven's AI actually doesn't see that Toxic won't work, so you can get free setup (with a bit of luck) as early as Turn 1. I even managed to beat the game with a single Carvanha that way, and that thing is a one-hit from just about every move in the game :D
Truly intense. I was on the edge of my seat for most of this.
It's funny you mentioned SmallAnt, he actually beat Emerald with *negative* XP, but he used Legendaries and items in battle.
Go see his insane Wattson strat for the best part.
Probably one of my favourite runs ever! It was interesting to watch the strategies for each battle unfold. Through the narration, you can also really hear your enthousiasm for these games and how fun it can be to craft the required strategy. Thanks and I'm looking forward to the next runs!
With the swapping of pokemon, this video could alternatively be titled, "Can you beat Pokemon Emerald as a Pokemon Ranger?"
Jrose: I think Gamefreak wants you to catch new Pokémon teams for each gym, especially in Red and Blue
Also Jrose: Let‘s beat Red and Blue with every single Pokémon solo
Love this! One of my least favorite things about Pokemon games is the grinding and the inevitable moment where you overshot the power level and just decimate the gym leaders with no competition. It never feels like you can just slot a wild (non-legendary) Pokemon into your party and compete with it, so this is a really inventive and impressive run!
Most entertaining pokemon streamer for sure, im never tired of your videos
Just want to say that you're a huge inspiration and entertainment for all of us. I took a page out of your book and tried to see if I can beat FR/LG with every evolutionary line at least. Just finished Venusaur in 5:35 at level 72 while using fun strategies. So fun doing it and it was thanks to you (btw I know the time was kinda slow lol)
I admire you SO MUCH for sticking through this. I definitely wouldn't have had the patience for such a thing, and I'm sure it helped thatyou had a stream chat there with you to make it less agonizing, but still, it sounds like hell. Not only did you stick with it, but you DID IT. Good job, genuinely!!
Somehow these are always incredibly entertaining the entire time despite being 30 minutes to over an hour long. Some of my favorite videos to see appear on my UA-cam feed
Bless him for putting up with this in REAL time. Unlike the Shiny hunters and nuzlockers who really seem like they're just wasting thier own time for the sake of views, JRose actually puts effort into something worth watching. Anyone can win the slots and brag about how they got rich overnight, but JRose actually puts in the work hours and earned his paycheck in the end of the year!
Who else can't stop binging Jrose? I swear your content is so addicting. Love it!
This challenge should be quite the... experience.
jrose runs is the best thing to watch before sleep 🫶🏻
Where is Jose running to?
It's better than ASMR
I love to sleep to them XD
Most times I fall asleep in Cerulean and sometimes I wake up when RNG makes Jrose scream during E4 fights xD
@@kurono1934 😭
What an amazing run! Being able to achive this with no legendaries is nothing short of impressive. Wow, kudos, honestly. I really thought before clicking on the video that you might not even be able to get through Tate&Liza, let alone the Pokémon League!! I guess I really underestimated how high level the Pokémon in water routes can get to, uh? 🤔
Just a small correction, I don't think the Mod of the ROM does anything to Effort Values (EV). EV's work in tandem with EXP gained, meaning that if you don't gain EXP, you can never get EV's. That's simply the consequence of the way they're implemented, not just something that is arbitrarily disabled.
I actually remember playing this challenge as a kid. My Gameshark for some reason back in the day had an option to manipulate EXP so they would be at 0% among other options to increase EXP drastically. So one time I played though sapphire with 0 EXP for fun. I actually got to Drake and then at some point gave up because i couldn't ever get past him.
Roxanne’s nosepass will always use rock tomb until your Pokémon is slower than it and then it will switch to its other moves for the rest of the fight.
How do you nose that?
@@Whurlpuul Because speedrunners and romhackers have analyzed the intricacies and depths of each generation's trainer AI. Unfortunately, because this is the work of speedrunners and romhackers, there is no convenient collection of all the information, and you have to jump between sources in order to find the info for each generation. For Gen 3, there is a video called "Pokémon Generation III ROM Hacking: Tutorial 15: Trainerbattle Dissection" that has the information.
@@misirtere9836 I'll give it a pass.
@@WhurlpuulI gotta say, asking how someone knows this and being like "lol whatever" when they answer you is pretty snotty
@@bluegum6438
I think their original comment was meant to be a joke, not an actual inquiry
Wow! That was some big brain energy at the end.
Highly entertaining. Loved it.
"id advise you to look at how much video is left"
me: holy crap lol
btw your Glalie impression, spot on lmaoo
I'm going through a rough break up right now and these videos are honestly a great distraction. These challenges are amazing to watch. I can do solo runs but I wouldn't have the patience to do runs like this. Need to see a gen 5 no exp run sometime!
Praying for quick healing for you, friend. These vids are wonderful. Sleep well.
good new no one will get mad at u when u look at the hot girl walking by anymore
i'm going through one as well and it's horrible. i hope things get better for you and just know you're not alone. these videos help me a lot too
I will say this was probably my favorite challenge run. The solo runs are really fun and most of the impossible challenges you can more or less see they'll either be possible with some strategy or not possible at all. This one actually looked impossible and you still managed to find a way. I knew about the Gyarados but was thinking it wouldn't make a difference against Wallace anyway so no point going for it. Didn't think it would be able to beat Wailord and save Wobbo for his Gyara.
Dude, Ive been with you since the absolute beginning. I know these take a while, but I still really enjoy these videos! Especially this gen. Keep it up
i love how jrose acts surprised and jukes you as a bit, makes the battles exciting instead of just another explanation of a battle. love you bro.
17:41 when you’re trying to trick someone with a ligma joke setup they haven’t heard before
I didn't think you'd take on Steven....really impressed with this one! Super glad you decided not to bother with legendaries and hopefully maintained your sanity in the process
All these Gen 3 runs lately have been sick, hope they perform well for you! ❤
is that claire as your pfp?
@@xLadyRaine yep!
GEN 3 IS THE BEST.
Fun fact for anyone else dumb enough to try this challenge, all of the GBA Hoenn games let you catch a Level 40 Carvanha with Super Rod fishing. It’s default move set is Screech, Take Down, Swagger, Agility. And since it can outspeed or resist STAB on the entire Elite Four roster, you can absolutely do some confusion hax cheese the whole way through if you really feel like it. Or you can just use it as an opener to a rough battle and then put your actual strategies forward with the other five team members.
Incredible and unbelievable! Congratulations, Jrose! Nicely done! That is in fact a specialist's job!
Loved the glalie impression 😂 great video as always jrose!! Keep up the great work!! (And aj too ❤) the video ideas that you do are always so crazy, absolutely love watching them!
13:20 that's the face of someone who desperately needs a haircut. I found that line hilarious for some reason 😂
Bravo! Maybe its your best video. Very interesting the final battle, and garyados is always a game changer
Great video, really full of great strategies. Looking forward to the next one!!
I love being able to see a wide variety of Pokémon (often under appreciated ones) come through in a run like this.
Also the GLALIE got me so good 😂
I got a lvl 45 Gyarados in Sootopolis today on my second try:
I had the most ridiculous luck today, and the fact that I’m watching this video on the SAME DAY is insane. I am trying to catch every Pokémon at max level on Emerald, and today I did Gyarados. I have the spreadsheet with the probabilities of different level ranges and I knew that even getting a Gyarados in the 5-45 range was ridiculously small, and even with my Absol at the front to have a 50% chance of boosting the level, I knew I was in for a long session of reloading… First catch, a Magikarp so I reset before I even saw the level. Second catch, it was a Gyarados but of course I wasn’t expecting anything so I was still fumbling with my phone to play a UA-cam video in the background. I looked up and saw the 45, and I nearly fell out of my computer chair laughing!
I thought it was going to be just as mind-numbing as getting my lvl 45 Whiscash (which actually took so long that I got a shiny Barboach while trying to get it), so the SECOND CATCH was absolutely ridiculous.
I just paused at the point where you just started to explain how different level ranges appear, so I really hope that you didn’t suffer the way I was expecting to 😅
Wow, ok ngl, now that I’ve watched your description, I didn’t know my odds were that high 😅 I only knew about the 5-45 block. My spreadsheet was missing the 35-45 block, so I thought it was only a 1% chance of getting it in the 45 range and then a further 50% of boosting it… Don’t get me wrong, getting a 2nd try on a 1/37 is still pretty cool, but I thought I had just hit it on a 1/200 😅
That was a very intense video and I enjoyed it very much keep up the good work jrose
Okay, I was not expecting you to actually beat Steven Stone. Impressive work!
I love the thumbnail!! Lycel is such a good artist
Yes I've only seen one other no exp challenge done by someone else and the strategies used in that one video were some of the most interesting I've ever seen in a pokemon challenge can't wait to watch this
At 45:30 wobbuffet doesn't get Destiny Bond off due to getting Frozen, but that doesn't matter, since it Goes down to hail anyway.
All I can say is just WOW!!!!!
Truly amazing! Your dedication to this challenge is just out of this world! I’ve gotta say this is the first challenge that I actually thought there’s no way I can do!
Kudos brother
AAAAHH this was so good! Genuinely thrilling, great work!
It's really nice that Gyarados helped you in this challenge and the one in Crystal version.
Spoink is such a great name lol the Flannery battle was so good because Jrose said it like 20 twenty times 🤣
This was so good. I expected wobbuffet strats but the type swapping for type immunities and stalling out PP was cool to see. Also, it seems like gen 3 water Pokémon are just unrivaled.
this run in particular is pretty water-biased because a lot of the higher level Wild Pokemon you can catch are from Surfing/Super Rod fishing, only other good spots that come to mind is Victory Road and Sky Pillar
15:59 brought back some bad memories lol.
Had to do this against a random scientist's grimer/muk(don't remember which) in black and white 2.
It had just used minimize 3 times and couldn't actually damage it.
Used the unremarkable regional bird to avoid the mud slap and the megnemite to avoid sludge.
the switch loop to PP stall is a Battle Frontier classic
Absolutely stellar battle with Steven.
Great video Jrose!
This was soooo satisfying to watch!!! I knew you would need agility with beedrill for Red, but I did not anticipate using curse!! BRAVISIMO!!!
I usually don’t like videos, but I had to like this one. Your dedication, your strategy, your determination and your ability to complete it was just truly amazing. This was incredible.
This was way too good !!! Your videos keep getting better and better
That was honestly oncredible. The shift from grueling step by step explanation of beating Wallace to "anyway after 7 hours this is how I beat Steven" was some aerious whiplash. What a journey.
A strat you could have considered against Wallace is teaching Substitute to Altaria. Of course, it has to go over something (I'd say Fly first, and then teach fly over Dragonbreath after Lance). With Substitute, you can protect yourself against Leech Seed while you set up Dragon Dance. If you have +6 Atk, +6 Spe when you knock out the Ludicolo, and your substitute is intact, you can get 2 attacks off against whatever switches in as you'll now outspeed and the opponent still has to kill your substitute.
Love these full length movies we're getting
Holy crap that was an impressive run, well done sir!
Awesome video, great journey!
That was brilliant!!!! Incredible strategies and so much patience. All I can say is congratulations 🎉🎉🎉
I didn’t even think this run was possible. It’s nice to know all the tm’s in the game and how to use them to your advantage.
Other trainers: "My Pokemon and I have bonded for so long that we are inseparable!"
Jrose: :)
Me before watching the video: "At least the Elite 4 won't be so bad with Rayquaza and maybe the Regis"
Jrose not even a minute into the video: "No legendaries"
Me: "Bruh!"
I don't know what it is about your videos but I usually watch every single one. Keep up the good work
(3:40) It's actually a 10% chance for Effect Spore to trigger in Gen. 3, and then after that, only a 1/3 chance of getting the status effect you want. So, a 1/30 chance poison will occur with any one direct hit.
(39:04) LOL, "Phweb".
(1:07:06) Huh, a level 5 Gyarados is possible there? I somehow wasn't aware of that.
(1:21:24) And that's game! Congratulations on winning without EXP!
(1:28:27) Wow, you even managed to defeat Steven Stone! That's amazing!
When Shelgon got frozen in the first Drake battle, I was like: "Surely, he's gonna switch in Altaria now, set up a few Dragon Dances and try to sweep. After all it's only 20% each turn that it thaws out." Aaaand then he just didn't...
I've always wanted to see Pokemon Emerald without EXP after finding Smallant's run, albeit different because pokemon levelled BACKWARDS, underwhelming nonetheless because he spammed legendaries. In a way, it feels pretty poetic that his Gyarados suggestion made this run possible
I am always happy to see a new upload, especially when I am getting ready for bed and everything, I am going to be chilling tonight
That mention about new teams for each gym leader...I did that for Violet! Very fun.
Amazing video man!
Wallace here gave me ptsd from my Mudkip solo run. Had to train to Lv.94 to win.
Aside from that I enjoyed the video a lot, thank you :)
Have a nice day ^^
This Run was Incredible Nice Work !
One of your best challenge videos!
Watching these at .25 or .5 speed, you are my drunk buddy talking about pokemon.
Man, these videos are awesome! I don't get why they seem to get less views than some of your other videos, these deserve WAY more views!
Love the videos brotha ! Keep doing what ya do ! 🎮🎮🎮
Watson and Tate/Liza are arguably the hardest gym leaders in Hoenn. Roxanne and Flannery are royal pains. Norman is a bit tricky but manageable.
Adter so many years of playing and viewing pokemon content It's rare to find out something that I didn't know already... but Actually I never knew about the effect of Pressure/Hustle/Vital Spirit outside of battle...
Congrats, that was a nice surprise
Steven's battle was the highlight for me, glad it made the cut. Funny enough (not that I would recommend obv without manipulation), you could actually get a level 51 Wobbuffet pretty early through Mirage Island where level 50 Wynauts can be found (also I'm sure that Liechi berry could come in handy). May not have been too beneficial in certain spots early on for counter damage, but it probably would've made the final battles much more palatable, or at the very least less luck based.
43:20 VAMPIRES ATTACK AH AH AH 🧛♂️ 🧛♂️ 🧛♂️
This was actually insane!!!!!!! Bravo, brother.
Jrose11 Drinking Game:
Drink every time he:
- earns a gym badge
- says "thankfully"
- says "unfortunately"
- gets a first try victory
- wonders whether a crit matters
- counts as the count
- says "let's go!"
- mentions the pathway to victory
- apologises for his pronunciation of something
- explains the badge boost glitch or defends its use
Finish your drink when he becomes the champion.
that steven battle was just unreal. Can't believe you pulled that off lol
"Oh no, the E4 is half the video!" went to "OH NO WALLACE IS 1/3 OF THE VIDEO" reaaaaal fast
I had genuinely expected to see a Crobat somewhere in this run. Your point about the tunnel vision is so true. When your strategy feels like it 'could' work, it's very difficult to pivot to something else.
How would he even get a crobat?
You can get a Golbat at Lvl 44 in Victory Road, run around with it for a bunch of time to increase friendship and use a rare candy to get Crobat @@TheSarias
@@TheSarias Walk for a few hours and use a rare candy probably
@@Rarest26 oh yeah, rare candies ofc
@@TheSarias exactly, once you get surf you have access to lv35 Golbat in meteor falls. I believe once you have waterfall you could find them at lv40 in a couple places, but I had used the earlier one.
You seriously know how to entertain us fans. You also make my job that much bearable when work is so boring. Kudos to you, JRose!
That was an awesome run. Really shows the skill of the player, and employees strategy to the highest ability.
I love listening to these while on my jogs and / or in the background while i drive.
I love all the videos you do over red and blue. However, it really does change the pace of your videos when we see ones like this in a different region. Even a Pokémon yellow version run of some Pokémon would be nice to see. Keep up the great videos. Love them.😊
Also, if you can ever added post game, Contant like this. I would always watch it. Love getting to see the last little bit of the games.
14:56 Can't use rock smash outside of battle? The concern is INSIDE of battle. Would it have helped to use rock smash? Or is there some other blocker?
Sorry I'm responding to people who think there are stronger Pokemon to the North, i can't access them without rock smash, nor can I get higher level geodude
@@Jrose11That makes much more sense! Thanks for clarifying.
As someone who was part of the time where Pokemania first started in the mid 90s and has not played a Pokemon game in 22 years I have to say that I absolutely love watching Jroses videos.
Great job Jrose and the amount of patience you have is incredible and keep up the amazing work