Pokemon Fire Red E4R2 World Record Commentary! (Explaining the Speedrun!)
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Welcome to the commentary video on the Pokemon Fire Red Elite Four Round 2 (E4R2) World Record Speedrun! In this video I provide commentary on the run, provide insight into the strategies used, explain the decisions made, point out mistakes and basically just explain what I'm doing to do and why. I hope you enjoy this video, if you do, please leave a like! I also hope this may help new runners that want to speedrun this game but don't quite know where to begin.
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Hope you guys like the video! The Pokemon Yellow grind has begun. Let me know if you enjoy these commentaries! I'd probably do commentary if and when I get the Yellow WR back too.
Yep loving it. Hope u also get the wr for yellow.. And if u do.. Please provide comentary explaining the run.. And ur thoughts behind it
I love love love these commentaries! LOVE THEM KEEP DOING THEM PLEASE
Absolutely love these commentary runs!! For us casual viewers that do not know the mechanics that well it is very interesting.
Love this content! Would love other commentaries as well (and maybe also some routing stuff in UA-cam) + that is some hand rest :)
Thanks for the great content
Hey Gunn been out of the loop for a while but what's the issue you've been having with your hands? Hope you're doing good bud and ggs on another record snag
I love how during the Growlithe catch, "present" Gunner was calmly explaining his decision making during the run while the "past" Gunner was literally on the verge of a heart attack.
The amount of mega kicks landing is absolutely absurd
Thank you so much for almost 4 hours of pure entertainment
I love Pokemon speedruns, the thing I dislike a little is that the runs that get uploaded on YT are usually from Twitch and are mostly chat interactions (which obviously makes sense if you attempt to run the game countless times you cant explain everything everytime)
So I really, really appreciate you taking the time and adding commentary to the whole run
Best and most true are relatable comment I've ever seen.
Just for you to know, in Greece its 00:00 when you upload these videos. Thanks for 3 hour no sleep, I have to watch it NOW. Thanks for content, smash that Yellow WR
I'm just here because alfabusa put this in the emprah TTS playlist
Excellent video, love watching the thought processes during runs. One of the things that makss pokemon runs so interesting is the runners knowledge of the game and forcing them to improvise on the fly.
Cheers
3 hours in and you hit me basically a SpongeBob blowing bubbles reference. You sir, are the GOAT Pokémon runner/commentator imo
Me after 3 hours: So, I beat Erika. Where are you right now?
Gunnermaniac: DONE.
love these commentary run explanations
I freaking love your commentary videos Gunner. Thanks for the great content.
been waiting for this! gonna grab the popcorn and enjoy! Congrats again man!
Thank you for uploading this. I only really watch speedruns with commentary from the runner because I won't understand the strategies otherwise. This is very interesting to watch!
I've always been impressed by pokemon speedruns when the stats appear for a split second and the runner goes "Yep, correct stats". Like wait, what? I saw nothing!
I swear this guys got a photographic memory at times
he’s probably not checking every stat individually, i’d guess he’s checking a few stats and basing the remaining stats on the numbers he looked at. helps when you know what to look for
I have next to no knowledge of Pokemon speedruns, but I watched your entire run trying to piece it together. Thanks for posting this, will watch later.
I enjoy the commentaries a lot because I dont know a lot about speedruns and need all these explanations just to get everything thats going on
I love the heart monitor, it really hammers home how stressful and into the run you are. Its a cool touch
Congrats again! Was great to see it live.
Underrated is your cardiovascular health brother, consistently at 60 bpm, very calm nature, well done! 💓
You seem giddy in this video Gunner, which I’m happy to see. When your morale is up, it takes you to another level man. Go ahead and smash this Yellow record!
In case anyone was wondering someone beat this time by 5 seconds, 2 weeks ago. Guess Gunner has to come back xD
Gunner is always gonne be my Number 1 speed runner. He's such an amazing guy. Keep it up buddy ur awesome!
Yeah but he uses a computer during runs...
@@bucsfan2565 what is your point?
Thomas Kleijn
During this run, he admitted to using a computer to look at rng scenarios the game produces.
Real speed runners don’t do that during a run. You should only use the console and the game.
@@bucsfan2565 well, you don't get to decide who is a 'real' speed runner and who isn't. Rng manip in fr/lg is allowed. So he is simply following the rules. You don't have to agree with that rule, but calling someone a fake runner who is using the tools that are given sounds very ignorant.
You can always watch the 'no rng manip' category.
Thomas Kleijn
I think rng manip is fine. Look at what I wrote. He used a computer program to aid him by providing the rng scenarios. 2:20 It’s frowned upon. For this game, you should only use a game boy advance and the game.
Run in a nutshell:
0:00 - 1:50:00/ thats great, I save a lot of time compared to the World record.
1:50:00 - end/ shit.
How do you mean
Pretty much
Such an awesome insight, love all the facts :) Great upload date as well (my birthday ;) ) Thanks for the video
The most important question though Gunner: do you stream on Sundays?
You did amazing with this video and exactly what I'm looking for.
I knew you'd get it. Got a sammich and my GB player working, commentaries are the best
Good work always. I’m glad I found your channel.
Hell yeah Gunner!! We love you big guy ❤️
Pokemon fire red Elite 4 round 2 is my favorite pokemon speedrun. Im glad I can listen to a commentary while doing something.
Why is this in the If the Emperor had a Text-to-Speech Device playlist?
I was just about to ask the same thing. I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed.
That was my question,
Primarchimon: gotta spank em all
I guarantee you that Alfabusa was watching this and accidentally added it to that playlist instead of favorites or watch later or something like that.
@@Yohfay on the plus side we can see a glimpse of what Alfa watches
Thanks for adding the supplemental text!
love the run gunner thanks for the commentary :-)
There's a net ball in Giovanni's room, was he trying to catch Kyogre?
Grats bro and thx for the explanation, INSANE run!
I love these commentaries keep them coming
Always liking the commentary videos on WR runs
1:32.43 typo in capture chance?
3:00.02 that path is insane
Yeah should have been diglett instead of Weedle
Your timestamps are off
My favorite part was a few weeks back when he had the big loss to Ttar I asked if EQ could be routed in as it was more consistent for Ttar, a couple weeks later it was routed in and Gunner had the run because of the new EQ strats
The amount of game-knowledge is just mindblowing 0.0
For all those who are intetested in the ongoing comments gunner is talking to and interacting with check out (t)his commentary on twitch!
#KeeponGunner
52:58 I did not know there's a super potion ther till now
You are such a LEGEND, saving my evening
Great video and editing!
Really awesome, thanks for the commentary
Technically Speedrunners spend all their time playing games but try to spend the least time in it
Pretty much the same for any time based sport, Michael Phelps spent thousands upon thousands of hours swimming just so he could spend less time swimming during races.
Hey mate just thought I’d be the first to let you know, I beat your record today
I like how he put on the nice dress shirt but still has the pjs trousers on
Flannel is a nice dress shirt?
Loving these commentaries
best runner in my opinion.
Glad you didnt redo the beginning, i found it funny
I'd love to see a commentated run of HeartGold or SoulSilver!
There's a commentated GDQ run for Heart Gold with Gunner on the couch. It's a bit of a fail run but they do explain what is going on.
ua-cam.com/video/rkkKO6ZLIuA/v-deo.html
@@sdfgjvnfgfkstjg Awesome, thanks!
This was fun to watch you beat. I’m sure eventually you’ll be back to it. Go reclaim yellow!
I can't believe I watched the whole thing. The addition of heart rate monitor is amusing....
That dude who thought he knew more when you were fighting Brock…. Like a kid who builds paper model rockets thinks he knows more than a rocket scientist….
Holy shiet, I've just went through 3-4 runs today (in the background) of different pokemon games You play, only to find out my left ear is somehow malfunctioning... I thought it's the amount of time I had my headphones on, but it turned out to be the effect of mono-sound pokemon games, streamed only to my right ear and my brain is confused xD
*QUESTIONING WHT THIS IS AT THE END OF THE 40K TTS SERIES PLAYLIST*
Alfa made a mistake when adding it to playlist
8======D
@@smexyskelator3209 happens to me too sometimes lol
me relaja mucho ver speedrun de pokemon las primeras generaciones ! este hombre es un makina
3rd time watching, here and live x2. But I like the addition of notes by Arkadius
Asks the chat to ask questions and then gets annoyed and/or gives condescending answers half the time lol
Watching the HR monitor is fascinating
1:32:41, diglett is weedle?
When you reset for right squirtle, does the timer keep going?
3:05:19 RIP water pulse 😔😔
Really wish you weren't a jerk about people calling you on Sundays. It's not their job to memorize your schedule and to call you on your time, that's just selfish. Either way, congrats on the world record.
The person who called me is one of my closest friends, and I've had the same exact schedule for over 7 years. I don't feel I was being unreasonable!
Is it me or has the general public gotten more sensitive as a whole? He wasn’t being a, “jerk.” Goodness...
Where does he obtain the magikarp? Before he reaches pewter city, he doesn’t catch a magikarp and after passing Mt. moon, he has one on his team.
Impressive run but the way he interacts with his chat makes me want to never stop by a stream or say anything if i did
He speaks absolutely normal to every single person except for the jackass who was trying to spam bogus stats. Good on Gunner. Screw that person anyway.
@@MsCravenMoorehead try werster and see how he interacts with chat
Dudeee! When your heart rate went up so did mine 😂 like thats intense! By the way theres a saying that says there is no such thing as luck. You create your own luck. And it seems that the way you master these games its just phenomenal. The fact that there's a possibility of you getting an even better run is crazy! Good for you man love the vids!
Now I have sth to watch ;D
Well deserved record after all that heartbreak!
Lmao the reset
FOR THE EMPEROR!
At 1:32:40 the text blurb says Weedle instead of Diglett
Simple editing mistake yeah, here's hoping all the others are correct
That's all I noticed, the game sound was edited in really well
What would be the best firered team in your opinion?
Mate-I wish you streamed on Sundays... my sabbath is actually on Saturday so I could watch if you showed up eh, oh well... 😁
❤️ 💥👊💥
THE Sabbath is on Saturday 😉
Out of sheer curiousity, coz your trainer id can determination how good your starter is, can this also be applied to the effectiveness of wild pokemon? I suspect no, but was wondering since the id determines how your run can go with your starter, excluding rng etc
At 40:00 you talk about how you need to mega kick Drowzee, but doesn’t Bite deal the same amount of damage? Am I missing something? Drowzee is Psychic type...
In this game, dark type moves are always special and normal type moves are always physical. In gen 4 they introduced the split, and that’s when Bite became a physical move. The calcs would be different for bite and mega kick because of this
PalpitoadMan Oh, I thought dark was a physical type for some reason. Thanks for the clarification.
Stella Biderman no problem! :) the way I remember it is that if the type was an eeveelution type (all of them including the gen 4 ones), then it was special, plus dragon was also special. All the rest of the types were physical before the split
@@palpitoadman321 That's a really weird rule of thumb, but one I'll use going forward.
How do you never get encounters in the grass after surge? Is there a repel active or is it just luck?
The first 6 tiles of grass on a new route are only like 1% to give an encounter each. It's happened before.
I wish we sorted out every problem like they do in the pokemon universe only using Gameboys instead.
"Do you know how fast you were driving son"
*Pull at my GBC and stare into the officers eyes as the theme plays.
" You son of a bitch *removes avaitors* let's do this"
Or like a robbery "put the money in the bag" some 9 year old with white hair wearing a very extra outfit appears from the shadows he turns on his GB. fear and sweat appear on the robbers face.
Dununununununununu dun dun dun dundundun dun dun dun dundundun duuuuun duuun dununudaaa duunuu
Ever consider running Colosseum or XD since you have so many of the gen 3 records? I know they’re so different but seems like it might be something you thought about before.
exarion would kill him
Tyler D he doesn’t have either of those records and doesn’t seem like he’s running them rn. Idk just wondering
@@ABort1 Exarion is about that life bro. When PokeGuy got the Crystal record his house got shot up the next day. Rumor has it that Exarion even has a bag on Werster right now
Hi gunner! Love these run explanations! I'm a huge Pokemon fan and want to get into running these older games so these videos are gold to me. 2 questions, 1st what's the name of the site to check your trainer ID for the squirtle? 2nd any other helpful videos you could recommend regarding e4r2 or any% glitchless runs for FR/LG and R/S/E? Thanks!
I was also wondering why you couldn't just buy more x-specials, just goes to show how little I know about pokemon speedrunning. Probably too much of a time sink/risk for the small amount of possible time save/perceived benefit.
Literally just not enough cash in the route, I even buy some extras where possible
Is there a specific reason to evolve Eevee into Flareon?
He needs a certain amount of Pokémon caught - 60 to be exact - to unlock the side quest on sevii Island and the elite 4 round 2 respectively.
To get these 60 Pokémon as fast as possible it's helpful to have some stone evolutions as they're faster than those by lvl up.
Evolving the Eevee into Flareon is just the fastest Eeveelution he can use
@@donsimon3919 he can turn Eeevee into Jolteon or Vaporeon too. It's the same process different stone
Flareon has a good attack stat and be useful at weakening certain wild encounters with Quick Attack, particularly when a run visits the Power Plant to catch Pikachu / Voltorb / Magnemite.
The other Eeveelutions have weaker attack. Gunner looked into Jolteon or simply using Eevee QA STAB and evolving it later, but it wasn't worth it.
@@Arkadius500 that's helpful. Thanks
Hey gunner! Huge fan of your content. I have a quick question. At the beginning you mention that the Pokédex counter starts at 16 because there are 16 you get every single run. What are they exactly?
why did he have to catch and evolve so many pokemon? is there a requirement to complete the game ?
I think you need a certain amount of pokemon to either fight the elite 4 or challenge all the gym leaders
01:05:00 “Doesn’t sell snatch for money anymore.”🤣🤣🤣🥴
Excited for the video upload but was kind of disappointed that it wasnt just a commentary over the original stream. I feel like it would have been entertaining to rewatch your and chat's reactions to crazy events. I feel like adding a new facecam recording doesnt really add much to the video.
Don't agree
That would be more a reaction video, which isn't really the purpose of what gunner was going for. It would be very chaotic as well because you'd have the original gameplay, gunner's original voice and all the alerts all while gunner is reacting and providing commentary. I've been trying to get gunner to react to his first ever Yellow 1:58 world record from like 6 years ago though.
@@Arkadius500 I meant the visual reactions, not all of the alerts and his original commentary. Just mute that audio and just watch the reactions. For someone like me who has no clue how lucky a certain event might have been, his and chats reactions help emphasize how lucky it was
@brandon bear you could pull up both videos and mute the other one
why dindy you catch hypno level 36 in the islands? it came up on the grass.
I guess the community here would know, is there a ROM or something which starts with FireRed (or LeafGreen or actual Gen 1) and continues into Johto Gen 2 (or even HG/SS)?
Idk sorry but that'd be cool if one exists!
@@Brittany_1992 ah cheers, I hope someone will know!
People have tried but I don't think anyone has managed to do it, I think there's not enough space in the rom.
Romhacks are getting better all the time tho, someone might figure it out eventually
Why do you catch Pokémon in this run unlike in leaf green ?
gunGoat
is the torrent ability the reason why runners stick with squirtle into blastoise instead of going for a nidoking like in gen 1?
Yes.
@@CreamyPesto505 thanks for clearing it up for me
This isn't the world record for fire red anymore. Someone beat it
This run is fantastic, I'm kind of turned off by the crazy good luck you got throughout the run only to complain about small amount of bad luck you got at the end which only felt so impactful because you were so far ahead, that's like winning a scratch ticket every day of the week and then on Sunday getting mad because you didn't win (or a better analogy that represents getting bad luck after getting exceedingly good luck throughout).
Once on top, you have to stay on top. Never be satisfied with what you own or you stagnate. That that "turns you off" is a bad thing. It means you easily capitulate. This is the same principle that enables the rich to get richer while the 99% remain losers.
If this was a “let’s play,” then sure, complaining about a little bit of bad luck at the end of a super good luck run is a bit much, but it’s a speed run for world record... so he’s holding himself to a high standard to achieve *world* record status.
@@ember-evergarden lol
Incel comment lol
@@maximus440 You're watching a pokemon speedrun bud, I mean I don't judge but don't pretend like there's a bar that my comment is under but your viewing habits are over
Could you do a speed run on Pokémon x&y
Wow, part 29 of tts is kind of weird.
Great run,can you run Soulsilver/Heartgold next? i watched all of your run in this channel
E4R2 mean guys ??
When you rematch the Elite 4 and they're stronger
Stands for “Elite 4, Round 2”
great video I really enjoyed it, but i didn't enjoy you using the R word so much. I'm fine with cussing and such but there are so many better alternatives to that word. Keep up the content!
I had to turn it off after a while because of that. Really disappointing.
Oh come on, you’ll take the F word over “retarded”??? What???
@@maliaprescott - What an odd thing. I’m perplexed- did you mute the video? Or did you come back to comment on this? Or did you comment, then turn it off?
@@JosephQPublic Yes. Fuck isn't a word used to hurt an entire group of people, its filler basically in modern times. The r word is taken very personally to many people who spend their whole lives trying not to feel lesser. It's very easy to not use it
Just wondering, does he use an actual GB console in his runs or an emulator?
IIRC most pokemon speedrunners use the gamecube GB attachment. Gunnar mentioned the SP at some point, idk if he meant gameboy SP tho
He’s using a real cart on GameCube gameboy player with an SP for controller
Emulator is not considered a legitimate run, so his record wouldn’t have counted on an emulator
can anybody explain why he has a counter for 60 pokemon in the run?
Because in order to access the postgame content that makes the E4 stronger you need to have 60 Pokémon in your Pokédex. That counter keeps track of the ones he catches.
Couldn’t you get mewtwo first before you head to the isle for the sapphire and ruby therefore it would gain a few additional level and since you have to get mewtwo for the elite four it shouldn’t be a time loss getting it earlier