You mentioned that Fire and Dragon have perfect neutral coverage (Steel actually isn't needed for this, since Fairy hasn't been introduced yet), but as you also mentioned, the calculator doesn't factor abilities, which means there is actually one Pokemon that resists both of those types (and Steel). And fittingly, that Pokemon is Heatran! Steel resists Dragon, and Flash Fire makes it immune to Fire! lol
@@Thund3rDrag0n12 Shame it is bulky enough to be able to decently tank that with the right EVs. Or Assualt Vest once that shows up. Iirc, FSG hit well over an hour on Heatran.
Heatran is such a unique legendary. The typing, the design, the fact it's a legendary with a random gender, such a good stat spread, and an excellent movepool only really missing reliable recovery, but if its performance competitively through the years means something, it never truly needed it. It's no wonder despite the struggles, it managed to do quite well.
Big caveat for its competitive performance is that most sets used eruption, a special fire attack with 150 base power that decrease as it loses health. The move is only obtainable with a heatran from Pokémon ranger so it’s not gonna help in solo runsz
Still, competitive Heatran would be an interesting idea - if Heatran had Eruption, how much better would it do, or would it not matter because Eruption is based off of HP and therefore OHKO are still tantalizingly out of reach?
11:15 normally i would agree, but that shiny machop says otherwise lol. That's so cool you've found shinys in every generation you have played on this channel.
You know what could have helped against Wake? Natural Gift with a berry that gives Grass damage. It can be a good resource when you don't have that deep of a movepool
I used to hate Heatran as a kid, but as I’ve gotten older and played competitive I really appreciate it for being really unique because of its typing and ability in combination. It walls everything and has an amazing signature move. The design has grown on me a ton. Love Heatran, he’s the goat
I think getting fire blast at the department store for ¥5500 and might help in some battles. Also the choice specs is located in the top left house in Celestic town in the morning. So if you don't need anything form other times and the Pokemon is a special attacker i recommend that you have the time set between 4 and 9 am.
The choice specs probably aren’t that useful for a solo run, since it only makes sense to equip it for fights that you only need one move for. Most of the time thats gonna be fights you already have super effective damage on and will probably sweep anyways, so spending time swapping the head item is a waste.
@@ShadowvanifyJust because one move is always the most optimal doesn't mean that you've got an easy sweep, and getting a 50% power boost to that move could save time if the other options are either training in the wild or resetting over and over for a low-chance strat. Also, with how unoptimized these early runs are, the couple seconds it'd take to switch out his held item is negligible.
I’ve been binge watching a lot of these Platinum runs the last couple days while I’ve been knocked out with the flu, and they’ve been such a wonderful thing to just sit back and chill with ❤️
Never check off the box for only including later generation types and the numbers might not be inflated, it depends. The calculator gets confused with fairy types and will mark them down incorrectly, stating them as normal effectiveness instead of super effectiveness because the first type does not exist, which I’m assuming puts them as typeless instead of normal because fighting is for some reason not super effective. Fairy has multiple weaknesses so if included and not checked off then only dark ghost types will be normal effectiveness which is true if you don’t have a fairy type. Otherwise fairy types will be bloating the results, but because of some normals being switched to fairies it messes it up anyways.
Heatran's moveset almost reminds me of the movesets of late-game mons in gen 1, being pretty clearly built/balanced around it being obtained in the post-game at a high level.
I loved Heatran as the reward for the postgame in Diamond many years ago, but never knew about the unusually high base friendship! Good performance held back from being even better by an solid but shallow movepool and a bad defensive typing against several key foes.
The fact that you caught a shiny Machop is so fitting due to the fact that paldean fates just came out and it’s full of shiny arts! I hope you train it up and give it a solo video in its home game platinum (I believe you have done a vs video in the past Machamp vs golem) so giving it a solo video seems fitting while you continue to increase your mastery in this game. 😁
I'm a bit surprised that SunnyBeam strats never made an appearance in this solo, but your video demonstrated that even without that, Heatran has a wide enough movepool to do what it needs to do! (Also you could say this Pokemon puts the ace in furnace :p)
10:55 Ponyta are really good experience though. I understand the risk of the machop, but when I'm in the area grinding for experience, unless I've got something weak to fire, I'll just keep running away unless I run into a ponyta.
Heatran's one of those Pokemon I've grown to like more as time goes on. I love this grandpa/grandma furnace salamander by this point so I am glad it, too, apparently likes me a lot.
Everyone's favorite molten steel spider-frogboi-thing that's actually pretty good in competitive, both singles and doubles. You got a better time with this thing then expected.
fun fact: there is one pokemon in gen 4 that resists fire, dragon, and steel: heatran. since it has flash fire, it is immune to fire. and of course, the other two resist.
Minor correction, Scott; you could potentially get the Flame Plate before the postgame, if you go down into the Underground & dig into the walls. It's not a consistent nor guaranteed method, & would require a variable amount of time to potentially obtain, but it is an option.
Heatran is actually a Pokemon I'm really fond of. It's got a long competitive history as a powerful and versatile Pokemon and being able to beat Blissey with Magma Storm was always really cool. Imagine Magma Storm in Gen I. Also I noticed a small overlay inaccuracy: during the fight with Fantina, Duskull's Future Sight was showing up as 40 BP. This is inaccurate! In Gen III and Gen IV, Future Sight actually does typeless damage so Heatran wouldn't resist it. It's a very small thing though.
Oh yeah also someone else said it in the comments, but Natural Gift is a really powerful option! I think I left a list of where you can get every berry somewhere in one of your discords...I'd have to find it again.
I tried doing the Heatran only run in pokemon heartgold, only to realize it's only attacking move for a while is ancient power, which has 5 PP and sprout tower (a.k.a worthless EXP yields) is obligatory..
There’s a video that suggests that fire/steel is the statistically best typing in Pokémon, but this is also the game where every late game trainer has close combat or earth quake lol. I totally forgot about heatran’s base friendship, but lopunny has base 140 so that’s fun.
Venomoth Fact #2: Venomoth really was originally meant to evolve from Metapod. But late into development, they realized giving the player access to such a monster that early in the game and at only level 10 broke the games already broken balance. Thus the change was made to Butterfree.
30:10 “comes right before I learn lava plume at 49” screen fades to indicate the move but nothing to indicate the move in anyway, little edit mistake there but let’s be real it doesn’t matter to much in the end
Strange. I did add the highlight because I did that edit myself. I remember double checking it before the final render. Somehow it could removed… I’ll have to think through the process to understand why it happened.
@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon I couldn’t tell you why it happened, but it doesn’t matter anyways, least you can say nothing important broke, still always great video
I like the pace this video has. Sure it all depends on how well the Pokemon is doing but the last Platinum runs felt a bit rushed in the editing but this one feels much better!
Hey Scott, not sure if anyone else has commented it, but at and around 15:36 when you’re talking about type effectiveness, you still have Ground selected. I don’t have it up in front of me right now, so I’m not sure if that effects the calcs against types or not, but thought you should know
Rabbits tend to be very difficult to tame/get to warm up to you and Friendship is the one of the themes of the Bunneary line. Frustration and Return by level up at a very low level (12, iirc) tests you the player on how efficiently you can earn it's trust.
While my favorite legendary is still Cresselia followed closely by Giratina and Darkrai, Heatran stands out for me because it's such a unique lava dog. Platinum honestly has some of the best uniques in the entire series imo.
Regarding the unevolved level 36 prinplup, I always assumed that the level pokemon evolve at varies by trainer skill, so yes if you had a prinplup get to level 36 it would evolve, that just means Barry isn't quite as skilled a trainer as you are. It also explains, for instance, Lance's underleveled Dragonites
My 7 year old caught her first shiny in Shield. She was like, "this isn't usually green right?" It was a tangrowth and when i told her about shinies she caught it and was very excited.
Each solo Pokémon has a different capacity for catching. Some have sleep powder etc. some are so powerful they immediately KO. In other gens I force encounters so there isn’t random rng before I find the pokemon. But this isn’t yet possible in platinum. Overall, this series is more on the casual side of things right now. Over time it will become refined and precise.
I love that this giant metal magma toad wants to be your friend more than even your starter. It being the only legendary with a random gender could imply that the one you catch is just a single member of a rare, possibly all but extinct species, kind of like the Eon siblings. Maybe Heatran is so eager to befriend you because it's lonely?
Buneary has base zero Friendship because the line is designed around Return and Frustration. Buneary starts with Frustration and Lopunny has Return by Heart Scale. Buneary absolutely hates your guts on capture, but steadily learns to trust you until it's ready to do anything for you.
I find it interesting that Gamefreak created the biology of Heatran as it has an orange glow coming from inside it that can be seen from its mouth and Boiling magma-like blood circulates through it's body, AND part of it's Steel body is melted by it's own heat, yet it doesn't know a fire type move at birth. No Flame Wheel, no Ember, no Lava Plume, at least until Gen 6. I'm just shaking my head. 😵😵
I’ve seen you mention about the gameplay speed for the gen 4 games and that you can’t get 60fps, there’s a tutorial somewhere where you just adjust the code slightly and it takes the limit factor off, works for me, speeds up the movement and health bars etc, if you’ve not seen this before I can try look it up as I don’t remember off heart where it is
I like to imagine that Pokémon (because they have random ai) don’t understand type matchups or abilities, so they like being directed by good trainers since it brings out their true power :)
lockstin has a really good video on why buneary starts with crap friendship... i forget the major points but basically tame bunnies are notoriously hard to get to like you but once they do they're your bff but theres more ,,
0:10 you knew exactly what you were doing there Sir. Don’t think we didn’t notice which specific Pokemon you picked for that line up mister. Bad Scott, Bad.
“Some like them (pokemon) for their aesthetics.” He says showing some of the most… uhhh…. Drawn…. Pokémon (and weepinbell which I’m scared to know what that art looks like)
@Scott thought can’t wait for Rampardos Evo line video in Pokémon platinum the 1st Pokémon who can use earthquakes on Levitate mons fun. Head 1st (my name for Rampardos) would be proud
Also remember u may be able to beat maylene just by getting Fire Blast also There are two entrance to Amity Square and u went on first entrance when u should went to other entrance for amulet coin
I love those Sinnoh runs. Maybe it is because most of my favourite Pokemon are from Gen 4. Empoleon, Shaymin, Cresselia, Heatran, Floatzel, Drapion, Giratina and Dusknoir. But there are so many more awesome ones. Even the bad ones feel great. Maybe it is, because it was my first "real" Pokemon Game. And the Music. I mean Gen 3 and 5 are Great, but Gen 4... so many great tracks
Yooo, the shiny! It feels kind of wild to me that you've only seen three so far, with how many runs you've done. Though, there are no shinies in gen 1 and that makes up a ton of your content, so maybe it makes sense.
I actually don't know what some people have against Heatran. I always loved the design, the type combination and Heatran is my favorite gen 4 legendary together with Giratina
I skip the Great Marsh candy, and the route 212 one unless i'm going to the move tutor. The mud is just too annoying to navigate on high game speed. Also the NPC next to the Flamethrower TM will trade you one of each shard for each star piece you give him, which is super useful if you want a tutor move
just curious are you ever gunna incorporate effort values and natures into the runs? or do you think its too tedious? natures and ev's could have a huge effect on the run forsure or do you think its too many variables?
Natures yes, effort values are unlikely to work out though because of the time component. It just takes too long to optimize for them (outside of just battling intelligent trainers that give the yields you want). I also aim for optimal trainers this way when planning in gen1 and 2. It’s just so rarely able to make a difference. Just KOing every Pokémon you encounter levels you faster and so few Pokemon need lv100 to win. That said: for gen3 and 4 evs MAY play a big role in the success of first-stage Pokemon. Without the optimized stats the late game threats (Steven specifically) are likely to be insurmountable.
I lost it when the Blissey footage went into picture-in-picture mode and just went from laughing to crying as it went on and on.
Heatran is friend shaped, of course it has a 100 base friendship
1:30 this graph is hilarious, you have deities, guardians, calamities, an alien and then… a bunny
I couldn't stop laughing.
Rabbits are notoriusly cautious.
You mentioned that Fire and Dragon have perfect neutral coverage (Steel actually isn't needed for this, since Fairy hasn't been introduced yet), but as you also mentioned, the calculator doesn't factor abilities, which means there is actually one Pokemon that resists both of those types (and Steel). And fittingly, that Pokemon is Heatran! Steel resists Dragon, and Flash Fire makes it immune to Fire! lol
Mmmhm. In competitive Pokemon one of Heatran's most common moves is Earth Power primarily just to beat other Heatran!
Competitive pokémon in a nutshell
@@Thund3rDrag0n12 Shame it is bulky enough to be able to decently tank that with the right EVs. Or Assualt Vest once that shows up. Iirc, FSG hit well over an hour on Heatran.
And interestingly, the first Dragon/Fire Pokémon , could hit Heatran for neutral damage with its Fire STAB due to its ability
This is an awesome little fact, thanks for sharing 😁
Heatran is such a unique legendary. The typing, the design, the fact it's a legendary with a random gender, such a good stat spread, and an excellent movepool only really missing reliable recovery, but if its performance competitively through the years means something, it never truly needed it. It's no wonder despite the struggles, it managed to do quite well.
Big caveat for its competitive performance is that most sets used eruption, a special fire attack with 150 base power that decrease as it loses health. The move is only obtainable with a heatran from Pokémon ranger so it’s not gonna help in solo runsz
Still, competitive Heatran would be an interesting idea - if Heatran had Eruption, how much better would it do, or would it not matter because Eruption is based off of HP and therefore OHKO are still tantalizingly out of reach?
11:15 normally i would agree, but that shiny machop says otherwise lol. That's so cool you've found shinys in every generation you have played on this channel.
Oh yeah! 1 per generation so far. FireRed has to be next!
Omg the Blissy split-screen 😂😂
I remember as a kid thinking that something was broken, there was no way that it was supposed to take that long.
the picture-in-picture of the blissey's hp going down was *chef's kiss
You know what could have helped against Wake? Natural Gift with a berry that gives Grass damage. It can be a good resource when you don't have that deep of a movepool
Yeah Rawst berry is easy to get for this
I used to hate Heatran as a kid, but as I’ve gotten older and played competitive I really appreciate it for being really unique because of its typing and ability in combination. It walls everything and has an amazing signature move. The design has grown on me a ton. Love Heatran, he’s the goat
That Home Alone reference 😆
Scariest furnace in any movie lol.
Truly!
Seriously! Always scared me as a kid.
Hetran is a 900+lbs Derpy Magma Froggo who just wants to give you a hug. *_And I'm here for it!_*
a bull, or an ox, or a boar perhaps?
@@iBenjamin1000 his legs structure don't make much well for a ruminant mammal animal
Hetran is a good doggo
Buneary's low friendship is because rabbits take a long time to build trust with
Yup, and it's very easy to break their trust as well. A rabbit's cautiousness borders on paranoia.
I think getting fire blast at the department store for ¥5500 and might help in some battles.
Also the choice specs is located in the top left house in Celestic town in the morning. So if you don't need anything form other times and the Pokemon is a special attacker i recommend that you have the time set between 4 and 9 am.
The choice specs probably aren’t that useful for a solo run, since it only makes sense to equip it for fights that you only need one move for. Most of the time thats gonna be fights you already have super effective damage on and will probably sweep anyways, so spending time swapping the head item is a waste.
Wise Glasses (same NPC at night iirc) are probably better
@@ShadowvanifyJust because one move is always the most optimal doesn't mean that you've got an easy sweep, and getting a 50% power boost to that move could save time if the other options are either training in the wild or resetting over and over for a low-chance strat.
Also, with how unoptimized these early runs are, the couple seconds it'd take to switch out his held item is negligible.
I’ve been binge watching a lot of these Platinum runs the last couple days while I’ve been knocked out with the flu, and they’ve been such a wonderful thing to just sit back and chill with ❤️
I hope you feel better soon!
Never check off the box for only including later generation types and the numbers might not be inflated, it depends. The calculator gets confused with fairy types and will mark them down incorrectly, stating them as normal effectiveness instead of super effectiveness because the first type does not exist, which I’m assuming puts them as typeless instead of normal because fighting is for some reason not super effective. Fairy has multiple weaknesses so if included and not checked off then only dark ghost types will be normal effectiveness which is true if you don’t have a fairy type. Otherwise fairy types will be bloating the results, but because of some normals being switched to fairies it messes it up anyways.
Heatran's moveset almost reminds me of the movesets of late-game mons in gen 1, being pretty clearly built/balanced around it being obtained in the post-game at a high level.
I loved Heatran as the reward for the postgame in Diamond many years ago, but never knew about the unusually high base friendship!
Good performance held back from being even better by an solid but shallow movepool and a bad defensive typing against several key foes.
I love the little dance you give Candice's Sneezle, it's one of the gym leader intro animations I look forwards to the most
Great vid, the Blissey sloooow ho bar got me cracking
Yes! My favorite legendary, i was hoping for it in December but scott coming in clutch
Gen 4 might be peak legendary hunting. Stumbling across Heatran exploring was such a cool moment.
Loved this run 👍 great hook of an intro and everything felt so smooth and informative
The fact that you caught a shiny Machop is so fitting due to the fact that paldean fates just came out and it’s full of shiny arts!
I hope you train it up and give it a solo video in its home game platinum (I believe you have done a vs video in the past Machamp vs golem) so giving it a solo video seems fitting while you continue to increase your mastery in this game. 😁
18:21 if i recall correctly Wisp triggers Flash Fire, so it would even be beneficial for you if she uses it
You were very lucky in the end, if the Togekiss used Aura Sphere instead of Water Pulse, Heatran would have fainted for sure!
I'm a bit surprised that SunnyBeam strats never made an appearance in this solo, but your video demonstrated that even without that, Heatran has a wide enough movepool to do what it needs to do! (Also you could say this Pokemon puts the ace in furnace :p)
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Agreed. Brian's work here is fantastic!
I suspect its friendship is High because In the Story you Rescue it for Team Galactic. And / or Returning the Magma Stone from Buck.
I haven't watched any of your videos since last year(live streams included). Glad to get back into the swing of it
10:55 Ponyta are really good experience though. I understand the risk of the machop, but when I'm in the area grinding for experience, unless I've got something weak to fire, I'll just keep running away unless I run into a ponyta.
Heatran's one of those Pokemon I've grown to like more as time goes on. I love this grandpa/grandma furnace salamander by this point so I am glad it, too, apparently likes me a lot.
had this on in the background and i was so startled when i heard my name lolll cant wait for that machop playthrough
The game's telling you that if you love your furnace, it'll love you back and won't die on you. =)
Well, that's definitely not how I expected this video to start! But it was nice!
I think black out training against the first gym leader would have been so much faster.
Love the series btw, keep on the good work. =)
5:30 you forgot the STAB so the effective power is aven more impressive 360! Definitely going to KO your heatran lol
That art is absolutely amazing, well done!
i never knew heatran was such a friendly lil guy :o
I remember playing Diamond way back in 2007 and accidentally stumbling on Heatran thinking "huh, that's neat."
Everyone's favorite molten steel spider-frogboi-thing that's actually pretty good in competitive, both singles and doubles. You got a better time with this thing then expected.
Idk why I find it so hilarious that Heatran just wants to be your friend
Big goofy fire dog, of course it wants to be your friend
fun fact: there is one pokemon in gen 4 that resists fire, dragon, and steel: heatran. since it has flash fire, it is immune to fire. and of course, the other two resist.
38:36: I love that this is a running gag here. XD
Minor correction, Scott; you could potentially get the Flame Plate before the postgame, if you go down into the Underground & dig into the walls. It's not a consistent nor guaranteed method, & would require a variable amount of time to potentially obtain, but it is an option.
20:22 DENIS
Heatran is actually a Pokemon I'm really fond of. It's got a long competitive history as a powerful and versatile Pokemon and being able to beat Blissey with Magma Storm was always really cool. Imagine Magma Storm in Gen I.
Also I noticed a small overlay inaccuracy: during the fight with Fantina, Duskull's Future Sight was showing up as 40 BP. This is inaccurate! In Gen III and Gen IV, Future Sight actually does typeless damage so Heatran wouldn't resist it. It's a very small thing though.
Oh yeah also someone else said it in the comments, but Natural Gift is a really powerful option! I think I left a list of where you can get every berry somewhere in one of your discords...I'd have to find it again.
I was the first in my friend group back in high school to find and catch this pokemon. This was always a special pokemon for me from this gen.
I grew up in fairbanks alaska, when our furnace broke we had to crack the oven open and turn it on and break out the space heaters.
As a fellow Lexi, I'm very excited to see how Machop does!
Love Scott’s hardware thoughts. You should reach out to some tech UA-camrs for an emulator deep dive.
13:35 ooooo 69 nice (special attack)
16:33 ooooo 69 nice (defence)
I tried doing the Heatran only run in pokemon heartgold, only to realize it's only attacking move for a while is ancient power, which has 5 PP and sprout tower (a.k.a worthless EXP yields) is obligatory..
Heatran looks very polite
There’s a video that suggests that fire/steel is the statistically best typing in Pokémon, but this is also the game where every late game trainer has close combat or earth quake lol. I totally forgot about heatran’s base friendship, but lopunny has base 140 so that’s fun.
Venomoth Fact #2: Venomoth really was originally meant to evolve from Metapod. But late into development, they realized giving the player access to such a monster that early in the game and at only level 10 broke the games already broken balance. Thus the change was made to Butterfree.
Love the content bud. Keep it up!
i haven't watched your content for awhile
glad to come back
Good to have you back :)
30:10 “comes right before I learn lava plume at 49” screen fades to indicate the move but nothing to indicate the move in anyway, little edit mistake there but let’s be real it doesn’t matter to much in the end
Strange. I did add the highlight because I did that edit myself. I remember double checking it before the final render. Somehow it could removed… I’ll have to think through the process to understand why it happened.
@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon I couldn’t tell you why it happened, but it doesn’t matter anyways, least you can say nothing important broke, still always great video
I like the pace this video has. Sure it all depends on how well the Pokemon is doing but the last Platinum runs felt a bit rushed in the editing but this one feels much better!
-Scott starts with Mew and every TM unlocked
-Sticks with Return anyway
Then I run rest, return, curse, sleep talk ;)
@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon perfect type coverage to this day
i always gotta come back and check your still posting homie.
I really love platinums intro music
Hey Scott, not sure if anyone else has commented it, but at and around 15:36 when you’re talking about type effectiveness, you still have Ground selected. I don’t have it up in front of me right now, so I’m not sure if that effects the calcs against types or not, but thought you should know
The graphics are likely just wrong. We collected them after I did my research, not at the same time.
Rabbits tend to be very difficult to tame/get to warm up to you and Friendship is the one of the themes of the Bunneary line. Frustration and Return by level up at a very low level (12, iirc) tests you the player on how efficiently you can earn it's trust.
Now I’m excited to see that Shiny video to come out
While my favorite legendary is still Cresselia followed closely by Giratina and Darkrai, Heatran stands out for me because it's such a unique lava dog. Platinum honestly has some of the best uniques in the entire series imo.
Eagerly looking forward to the Machop solo platinum run.
Regarding the unevolved level 36 prinplup, I always assumed that the level pokemon evolve at varies by trainer skill, so yes if you had a prinplup get to level 36 it would evolve, that just means Barry isn't quite as skilled a trainer as you are. It also explains, for instance, Lance's underleveled Dragonites
My 7 year old caught her first shiny in Shield. She was like, "this isn't usually green right?" It was a tangrowth and when i told her about shinies she caught it and was very excited.
I think you have already discussed it, but might missed it. Why don't you pause for the hm users?
Each solo Pokémon has a different capacity for catching. Some have sleep powder etc. some are so powerful they immediately KO. In other gens I force encounters so there isn’t random rng before I find the pokemon. But this isn’t yet possible in platinum.
Overall, this series is more on the casual side of things right now. Over time it will become refined and precise.
Always love it when you encounter a shiny (even tho I'm still a bit salty about the Rattata)
I love that this giant metal magma toad wants to be your friend more than even your starter. It being the only legendary with a random gender could imply that the one you catch is just a single member of a rare, possibly all but extinct species, kind of like the Eon siblings. Maybe Heatran is so eager to befriend you because it's lonely?
Poor Heatran. I love it more now.
Buneary has base zero Friendship because the line is designed around Return and Frustration. Buneary starts with Frustration and Lopunny has Return by Heart Scale. Buneary absolutely hates your guts on capture, but steadily learns to trust you until it's ready to do anything for you.
Hey my furnace broke in January too! It sucked, I had to get an $13k loan to get it fixed
You didn't get an HP Ice Heatran? You get Hidden Power Early.
HP is only available early in Diamond and Pearl.
Heatran. Good choice. I don't really know anything or feel anything about this thing. It seems cool though, and I'm sure it will do great
I find it interesting that Gamefreak created the biology of Heatran as it has an orange glow coming from inside it that can be seen from its mouth and Boiling magma-like blood circulates through it's body, AND part of it's Steel body is melted by it's own heat, yet it doesn't know a fire type move at birth. No Flame Wheel, no Ember, no Lava Plume, at least until Gen 6. I'm just shaking my head. 😵😵
I’ve seen you mention about the gameplay speed for the gen 4 games and that you can’t get 60fps, there’s a tutorial somewhere where you just adjust the code slightly and it takes the limit factor off, works for me, speeds up the movement and health bars etc, if you’ve not seen this before I can try look it up as I don’t remember off heart where it is
I put that into the video, it didn't work for my issue.
I like to imagine that Pokémon (because they have random ai) don’t understand type matchups or abilities, so they like being directed by good trainers since it brings out their true power :)
Did you know that Fire Fang bypasses Wonder Guard?
Also, you should turn on animations for Cynthia
The power of Heatran will prevail
lockstin has a really good video on why buneary starts with crap friendship... i forget the major points but basically tame bunnies are notoriously hard to get to like you but once they do they're your bff but theres more ,,
I would recommend hp grass for the second playthrough to help with Crasher and Bertha
Not only is that a full odds shiny, it's a female machop too, making her extra rare!
Can't wait for her journey to begin one day
Oooo I didn’t realize it was 25% female. Btw 29 in her attack DV!
Haven’t watch the video yet, liked it already.
0:10 you knew exactly what you were doing there Sir. Don’t think we didn’t notice which specific Pokemon you picked for that line up mister. Bad Scott, Bad.
;)
Excellent video as always =)
Yes, I am excited for Magneton vs Electrode! I predict that Magneton will win, but not by much?
Is Charizard on your list for this year in Yellow? Gym leader Matt found it to be one of the best Gen 1 Pokemon, I was surprised.
“Some like them (pokemon) for their aesthetics.” He says showing some of the most… uhhh…. Drawn…. Pokémon (and weepinbell which I’m scared to know what that art looks like)
@Scott thought can’t wait for Rampardos Evo line video in Pokémon platinum the 1st Pokémon who can use earthquakes on Levitate mons fun. Head 1st (my name for Rampardos) would be proud
Also remember u may be able to beat maylene just by getting Fire Blast also There are two entrance to Amity Square and u went on first entrance when u should went to other entrance for amulet coin
i think heatrans base friendship is higher because in the after story you bring heatran the stolen magma stone back/help him against team galactic!
I love those Sinnoh runs. Maybe it is because most of my favourite Pokemon are from Gen 4. Empoleon, Shaymin, Cresselia, Heatran, Floatzel, Drapion, Giratina and Dusknoir. But there are so many more awesome ones. Even the bad ones feel great. Maybe it is, because it was my first "real" Pokemon Game.
And the Music. I mean Gen 3 and 5 are Great, but Gen 4... so many great tracks
Always a pleasure to meet another fan of the steel emperor. Gen 4 really just hits different and I love it.
Yooo, the shiny! It feels kind of wild to me that you've only seen three so far, with how many runs you've done. Though, there are no shinies in gen 1 and that makes up a ton of your content, so maybe it makes sense.
Also, I don’t battle a lot of wild Pokemon. Mostly trainer battles.
I actually don't know what some people have against Heatran. I always loved the design, the type combination and Heatran is my favorite gen 4 legendary together with Giratina
Wait till you get to gen 7 where perfect friendship will save your Pokémon from fainting or even heal status conditions.
i think you might be overvaluing the shell bell.
it adds a bunch of extra time to almost every turn and it really doesnt recover that much hp
I skip the Great Marsh candy, and the route 212 one unless i'm going to the move tutor. The mud is just too annoying to navigate on high game speed. Also the NPC next to the Flamethrower TM will trade you one of each shard for each star piece you give him, which is super useful if you want a tutor move
Those will be useful for Machop!
just curious are you ever gunna incorporate effort values and natures into the runs? or do you think its too tedious? natures and ev's could have a huge effect on the run forsure or do you think its too many variables?
Natures yes, effort values are unlikely to work out though because of the time component. It just takes too long to optimize for them (outside of just battling intelligent trainers that give the yields you want). I also aim for optimal trainers this way when planning in gen1 and 2. It’s just so rarely able to make a difference. Just KOing every Pokémon you encounter levels you faster and so few Pokemon need lv100 to win.
That said: for gen3 and 4 evs MAY play a big role in the success of first-stage Pokemon. Without the optimized stats the late game threats (Steven specifically) are likely to be insurmountable.
@@ScottsThoughtsPokemongotchya thanks for clarifying love the vids XD