It makes 0 sense why venonat n paras werent viridian forest like viridian forest encounters should be here's your bugs Have onix instead of paras in Mt moon also Mt moon should have allowed reentry from cerulean city Have rhyhorn in the rock tunnel instead of safari zone Have drowzee in lavender tower because they're creepy in a creepy tower instead of route 13 Throw some sandshrew n sandslash in diglett cave but make it low encounter rate And why just tentacool n tentacruel on surf add a gyarados seaking poliwhirl And why raticate in the mansion instead of fuschia or cycling road the mansion should have all the fire types be it's one stop shop Victory road should have chansey to allow easy grinding for a full playthrough with 6
Venonat has got to be the most "just a little guy" Pokemon in the entirety of Gen 1. Just a round little dude that you could probably put into any RPG without it looking out of place.
One bit of feedback as the tier list keeps getting l longer, it would be nice if you could highlight the one being added. It can be hard to find them on the screen sometimes. Something as simple as a colored box around the cell in the table would be great
I always find it interesting to see which pokemon will struggle against Brock. That being said, I expect that venonat would have done way worse. Either way, this was a fun run to watch.
This run honestly made me wonder how much faster/easier the run would be if 1. Venonat started with Leech Life instead of Tackle and didn't learn a move at level 23 2. Venonat started with Leech Life instead of Tackle and e.g. learned Confusion at level 23. Since the two things that made the early run quite miserable were Brock brick walling your tackle and not having psychic until level 43.
Bide could have potentially been used to take out Misty's Starmie earlier on or help against Charmeleon at Rival 3. Venonat could live 2 embers at max hp and bide always hits, so sand attack wouldn't have interfered provided you could get to that point. Not sure if either of these changes would have mattered in the long run though.
You could have used Mimic on Agatha to learn Dream Eater and spare some Psychic’s PP. you were already using Sleep Powder and Dream Eater is both super effective and restore HP.
Dream eater is only 10 more base power and requires an extra turn of set up. Plus no 33% chance of lowering special. Granted it could've made the battle more consistent.
@@cherry9787Don't matter, it's still the better choice, he was even risking with Leech Life just to restore health to stay outside Night Shade range, risking wake ups. Dream eater negates all that risk.
Colour palette was on point here. Was like grape pop and cream soda, really pretty! Absolutely miserable run though. That string of bad luck on the Sabrina and Blaine attempts hurt (not even counting the champion and Brock). I think Venomoth will be shockingly good too, so here's hoping!
It still bothers me how obviously they swapped Venomoth's and Butterfree's families, given the eye similarities between Venonat and Butterfree. I do still like the design of both families though... well, except Metapod...
I think this is the first time in my life that I've seen Venonat's back sprite, and I played Red as a kid when it came out! Thank you JRose for the hours of frustrating entertainment and showing us everything we missed in this great game of all our childhoods. Also, love the sly Nat King Cole reference with the names
This is basically "if Weedle/Caterpie had actual moves". Leech Life being useful was the last thing I expected, nice job; I wouldn't have thought of it.
I feel like most of gen 1 is designed to teach you to play Pokemon games and Weedle/Caterpie are meant to teach you to evolve cuz in early game Beedrill and Butterfree slay. But then again, in the whole game metapod and kakuna are trash which might make you second guess evolving. So. Idk. Good talk, bro 😅
I think the reason bug is so underpowered in gen 1 because it's actually great against a large portion of the game. Ive done scyther and Pinsir runs where I would change cut to a bug type move and it makes both of them hilariously overpowered
Iirc wasn't Bug strong against poison in gen1, weirdly, so it's literally all the rockets too. (aside obvs weakness to them, but poison bug esp, back to neutral)
@@rajkanishuNo they literally just used a GameShark or the like to turn cut into a bug type move. Cut is not a strong base power move so it just goes to show how ridiculous these mons would be if they had access to any bug type move at all.
I’m so used to Venonat learning Confusion that I was waiting for Jrose to say “and this is when we get Confusion and make Brock trivial” but sadly that part never came…
1:28 It's those reactions to the gameplay that makes me wonder if Jrose records the audio after or during the gameplay... or maybe both. His response to getting two crits in a row is just so genuine lol
no chance he remembers exactly everything that has happened in every battle on every attempt, he simply genuinely reacted to that moment during voiceover
Ah. As a kid I wouldn’t even bother catching a Venonat because I thought it was useless. When Fire Red/Leaf Green came out I decided I was going to try a team of Pokémon I hadn’t used before, and ended up falling in love with 3 of the “useless” Pokémon I spent years neglecting. I still have a soft spot for Cloyster and Exeggutor, but Venomoth has been on every team I’ve used since then. This video brought back so many happy memories.
I love how you can hear the madness settling in during the E4 runs. This is probably one of the most painful runs I’ve ever seen done with this sheeeesh
54:42 my best lolllll. Love you so much on these vid. And my 3 favorite pokemon are geodude, venonath and chansey, so glad you finnaly used all of them
I'm not one to enjoy your pain normally but the champion fight was super entertaining for just how bad the luck was this go around. looking forward to your next video!
In the future, if another Pokémon takes a long time on Brock it would be cool to have the Mewtwo run play in the corner to show have far it progressed in the same time P.S. Great run, as always!
I always kind of cheer for Leech Life to stay up until the end, it is a bad move overall, but considering the lack of bug moves and how it's not often bug types get stab, it feels nice to see it until the end, like cheering for the underdog to overperform.
Tried this challenge in Yellow and even that took me ages before the first gym and until the mid 90s to beat the game, I can’t imagine how hard red/blue will be
Recently I used a Venonat/Venomoth on my team in Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu. I named her Verona and tbh she wasn't my first pick. I was going to use Mr Mime as my go to for Poison types but unfortunately in Gen 8 Mr Mime is part Fairy type so he gets one shot by sludge bomb that surprisingly a lot of trainers with poison types have. Verona actually remained on my team till the end of the elite 4. She was kind of out classed by some of my other Pokemon but I did rely on her to defeat two of my Rivals team. If you are using a Venomoth in a team run it could be a valuable Pokemon and I was surprised by how much I used Verona. Verona's psychic took out any poison type and her sludge bomb took out any psychic type she was faster than which seemed to be every family except the Abra family, and it was a good answer for fairy types.
I love Venonat, it's my favourite bug mon, if not my favourite overall, so cute, so funny looking.💜 If I could have any Pokémon as a pet, I would choose it.
Before watching, I just wanna say that this has always been my favourite pokémon ever since gen 1 when I was 3 years old, so this is a big day for me! :D Edit: ok, this was a nightmare. I'm so sorry and I'm not sure who to direct it towards more, Jrose or Venonat.
Venomoth is one of my favourite pokémon aswell, and I was actually baffled that I hadn't used it in any run yet - turns out this is very easy to explain since I just realized that aside from Kanto/Johto, it literally never was available before the national dex until *finally* Scarlet/Violet. What a shame.
@@youtube-kit9450 Huh, I didn't even realise. Tbf, there are a lot of early route bug pokemon that have cooler evolutions, so I don't think it's that much of a shame, but it would be nice if they gave Venonat something nice soon. Like a branched evolution or even a third one that resembles the first stage a little more :)
Haaii JRose, sleep hasn't been with me, insomnia is kicking my beehind. Thanks for the uploads lately, that sweet dose of nostalgia has kept me entertained and engaged on long form content! Thank you for being (basically) back and hope you are doing way better than me, altough doing this with a Venonat sounds like hell 😅
AJ's comments were especially on point for this one. Love him keeping the Count gag alive. Also, sorry for legit laughing at your rotten luck against the champion. That has to be the compensation game decided to give you for the consecutive attempts.
This is such a cool series. A little late in the game- but you should do a randomizer at the end of each video to choose which one you do the next run with (depending how far ahead you are compared to the videos that are released I suppose). That would give it another layer of excitement and challenge!
I know that it was very frustrating to play, but I don’t think it was overly unlucky? Needing to sleep powder 5 of the rival’s pokemon, plus avoiding them waking up too early, crits, and other rng like leer, I think the strategy was just doomed to be miserable. Maybe at level 90 or something it’d be more consistent, but that’s also a huge time sink.
It's equal parts amusing and frustrating seeing jrose slip into his younger self's 'gotta do absolutely minimum battles with this pre evolved pokemon as if it's mewtwo' and the game's RNG going 'how many times do I have to teach you this lesson!?' in being utterly pitiless.
I got it randomly for my current run and I must say I love it. Except for boosting moves, it's full of resources and its design is great, so even with the hassle of defeating Brock, I think I'll enjoy this one.
Man, could you imagine how different this run would be with the version of Leech Life in the newer era games where it has way more base power (if I recall it has 80 instead of gen 1’s 20 base power)? The Brock section would still have been suffering, but the improved Leech Life would basically be the “Body Slam” this run needed until getting Psychic.
This should be a interesting run. I honestly might have took Psybeam over Psychic here just to for the confusion as well not many moves it can have . Iam interested again to see what you come up with to win again
I think you could create a house rule specifically for when something like this happens in the elite four on future runs. If you're stuck in the champion and can consistently win against everyone else maybe 3 or 4 times in a row, just save before the champion to spare yourself of the misery, no one is gonna complain about that. Fuckin love you, man ❤
The problem with saving in front of the champion is that he uses elixers in between E4 members. If he then hits an unexpected problem versus the champion (e.g. the Charizard outspeeding Venonat), those elixers are gone.
Funny yesterday I was at work listening to your older runs while closing and thinking "lets see what hasn't he done yet that would be "interesting" to see. Oh yeah Venonat" lol and lo and behold the very next vid is venonat hahaha.....yep just about as miserable as I thought it would be. Looking forward to the day all 151 are done. Halfway there lol. Seriously though I do really love your playthroughs. They are such a joy and got me to replay Pokemon Red as one of these challenges. Never done any type of challenge so am going on the bunny slopes and just seeing if I can do it with a starter and only a starter with no items.
Nice run! Even though it was a pain I appreciate the multiple attempts at the Sabrina/Blaine fights. Other famous poketuber would have “ground” to level 70+ and say “he can’t believe how easy it was!!!”
Venonat wiping out viridian forest's bug pokemon population during training seems like an invasive species situation lmao
Venonat even looks like one.
Like the aisan long horned beetle 🪲 😂
I could totally imagine an episode of the anime about that
It makes 0 sense why venonat n paras werent viridian forest like viridian forest encounters should be here's your bugs
Have onix instead of paras in Mt moon also Mt moon should have allowed reentry from cerulean city
Have rhyhorn in the rock tunnel instead of safari zone
Have drowzee in lavender tower because they're creepy in a creepy tower instead of route 13
Throw some sandshrew n sandslash in diglett cave but make it low encounter rate
And why just tentacool n tentacruel on surf add a gyarados seaking poliwhirl
And why raticate in the mansion instead of fuschia or cycling road the mansion should have all the fire types be it's one stop shop
Victory road should have chansey to allow easy grinding for a full playthrough with 6
I agree with most of this, the mansion I think is pretty well stacked though
Venonat has got to be the most "just a little guy" Pokemon in the entirety of Gen 1. Just a round little dude that you could probably put into any RPG without it looking out of place.
Kuriboh if he was more buggy
yep it's even in that yugioh game
@@corenlavolpe6143oh...oh my gods...
I can't unsee it now.😮
@@rival_fightThe Sabrina episode, right?
Funny because in Stadium it is like really big.
I love how on the winning attempt of the champion, Venonat takes absolutely no damage
@@hennesseevol and rival be like wut? lmao
I cant wait to see a 45 min elite four run
It's much worse than that... Nearly halfway through and he still hasn't even gotten 6 badges...
It was literally 43 minutes , LIAR
Hey now it was 23 minutes. Put some respect on the name.
Wasn't that pidgey?
PRETTY sure when you pick this mon as a starter 8badges are gifted the elite 4 kneel and the credits begin running for a 120second run
One bit of feedback as the tier list keeps getting l longer, it would be nice if you could highlight the one being added. It can be hard to find them on the screen sometimes. Something as simple as a colored box around the cell in the table would be great
I agree but also we can zoom in
@@eanoworro1028not on mobile
@@eanoworro1028 even when we zoom in if the list is so big it's pixelated it'll be impossible to read upon zoon lol
I always find it interesting to see which pokemon will struggle against Brock. That being said, I expect that venonat would have done way worse. Either way, this was a fun run to watch.
This run honestly made me wonder how much faster/easier the run would be if
1. Venonat started with Leech Life instead of Tackle and didn't learn a move at level 23
2. Venonat started with Leech Life instead of Tackle and e.g. learned Confusion at level 23.
Since the two things that made the early run quite miserable were Brock brick walling your tackle and not having psychic until level 43.
Bide could have potentially been used to take out Misty's Starmie earlier on or help against Charmeleon at Rival 3. Venonat could live 2 embers at max hp and bide always hits, so sand attack wouldn't have interfered provided you could get to that point.
Not sure if either of these changes would have mattered in the long run though.
Bide's one of those moves that you try your hardest to forget about and end up not realizing the usefulness of it until its too late 😂
@@rarestpepe98 🤣
You could have used Mimic on Agatha to learn Dream Eater and spare some Psychic’s PP. you were already using Sleep Powder and Dream Eater is both super effective and restore HP.
Dream eater is only 10 more base power and requires an extra turn of set up. Plus no 33% chance of lowering special. Granted it could've made the battle more consistent.
@@cherry9787Don't matter, it's still the better choice, he was even risking with Leech Life just to restore health to stay outside Night Shade range, risking wake ups. Dream eater negates all that risk.
Sure am glad Jrose is gonna do a separate video for every pokemon in every generation in which they appear!
Lance: "Hey, where's the guy who keeps coming around and beating us with a single pokemon? He's really late!"
Sabrina: >.>
Colour palette was on point here. Was like grape pop and cream soda, really pretty!
Absolutely miserable run though. That string of bad luck on the Sabrina and Blaine attempts hurt (not even counting the champion and Brock). I think Venomoth will be shockingly good too, so here's hoping!
Venonat and Venomoth are so underrated, always loved them since gen I.
Really have to agree. Such an ideal design for a fun cartoon critter!!
I always REALLY liked the Venomoth from the original trading card game (also the TCG Gameboy game).
It still bothers me how obviously they swapped Venomoth's and Butterfree's families, given the eye similarities between Venonat and Butterfree. I do still like the design of both families though... well, except Metapod...
If by underrated, you mean garbage, then I agree.
Moth might be underrated, but Nat is not
Don't let this distract you from the inevitable full length caterpie film
Caterpie cant get past the channeler in pkmn tower.
Guess what
I think this is the first time in my life that I've seen Venonat's back sprite, and I played Red as a kid when it came out! Thank you JRose for the hours of frustrating entertainment and showing us everything we missed in this great game of all our childhoods.
Also, love the sly Nat King Cole reference with the names
Ohhh, that's what that was!
When JRose finishes this series, I would love to see him simply build his favorite team. Not strongest necessarily, but favorites.
@@eanoworro1028 Like the ones he had the most fun playing throughout the series and take them all through a legit playthrough?
7:38 that count impression reference gave me life today. ❤
Aww and the the little edit against rival 6 charizard
I finished my attempt at this level 77 and I was still using leech life. Can't wait to see how this unfolds
Double edge, leech life, sleep powder, psychic
Real one for still using leech life (my level 58 Parasect also using it)
@@enderluckjarmg985 literally all for Agatha and Alakazam
These are my favorite runs -- Pokemon we would never, ever use or think about. Well done, JRose!
Why I'm looking forward to Lickitung! I don't think even a trainer in the game uses it.
@@Zafire063I think there's that trainer before rock tunnel?
@@GanonSTORMthere's 100% a pokemaniac with a lickitung. I don't remember where but I know it exists somewhere
I forgot Venonat was a Pokemon tbh XD
I do. When i decide to do monotype runs.
AJ has been killing with his editing lately! It makes these great videos even better!
This Venonat run gets the OG Bug Catcher official stamp of approval! 👍
Legit venonat is my favourite Pokémon, such an adorable little floof, glad to see him getting the spotlight for once !! Amazing run btw !
It's always a good day when Jrose uploads a video
Yeah! My grandma died and I got fired, but that just means I get more time to watch JRose!
Oh yeah well my great uncle died and my alien died
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@@steezuskryst7201are you on the spectrum or something?
This is basically "if Weedle/Caterpie had actual moves".
Leech Life being useful was the last thing I expected, nice job; I wouldn't have thought of it.
I feel like most of gen 1 is designed to teach you to play Pokemon games and Weedle/Caterpie are meant to teach you to evolve cuz in early game Beedrill and Butterfree slay. But then again, in the whole game metapod and kakuna are trash which might make you second guess evolving. So. Idk. Good talk, bro 😅
venonat not getting confusion in R/B really hurts its viability. no wonder this run was pain.
Oh yeah it gets Confusion in Yellow doesn't it
@@joefarrow1599not sure about yellow but in gen 2 it definitely does, poor little dude. One of my fav mons
@@sniperfoshoAnd then it waited 7 generations to be in a regional dex again after that. Poor dude indeed.
Gen 1’s balancing is so bad one wonders how the series ever got off the ground.
@@EresirThe1stim still surprised how badly the pokemon games are balanced even in the modern era... bloody hell...
I can't begin to explain how happy these videos make me.
I think the reason bug is so underpowered in gen 1 because it's actually great against a large portion of the game. Ive done scyther and Pinsir runs where I would change cut to a bug type move and it makes both of them hilariously overpowered
Erika, Sabrina, Misty, the rival's Alakazam and Exeggcuteor, and Koga..... Not bad, considering
Iirc wasn't Bug strong against poison in gen1, weirdly, so it's literally all the rockets too. (aside obvs weakness to them, but poison bug esp, back to neutral)
scyther and pinsir are the only ones with good stats and neither of them learn any bug moves 💀
@@DJFracus bet they are talking about frlg
@@rajkanishuNo they literally just used a GameShark or the like to turn cut into a bug type move. Cut is not a strong base power move so it just goes to show how ridiculous these mons would be if they had access to any bug type move at all.
Not even that large of a pokemon fan, but I can't get enough of your videos. They're a joy.
I’m so used to Venonat learning Confusion that I was waiting for Jrose to say “and this is when we get Confusion and make Brock trivial” but sadly that part never came…
I had the same thought lol
I love how the 2 geodude + graveler hiker has become such an infamous trainer that he gets his own designated segment in these videos
1:28
It's those reactions to the gameplay that makes me wonder if Jrose records the audio after or during the gameplay... or maybe both.
His response to getting two crits in a row is just so genuine lol
I think he records so many of these that there's a backlog so then his later commentary is kinda reacting to moments he doesn't fully remember
no chance he remembers exactly everything that has happened in every battle on every attempt, he simply genuinely reacted to that moment during voiceover
One of my favorite 'mons!! Tracy's Venonat in the anime was cute. Also cute: the additional AJ-content in these videos!
Ah. As a kid I wouldn’t even bother catching a Venonat because I thought it was useless. When Fire Red/Leaf Green came out I decided I was going to try a team of Pokémon I hadn’t used before, and ended up falling in love with 3 of the “useless” Pokémon I spent years neglecting.
I still have a soft spot for Cloyster and Exeggutor, but Venomoth has been on every team I’ve used since then. This video brought back so many happy memories.
I love how you can hear the madness settling in during the E4 runs. This is probably one of the most painful runs I’ve ever seen done with this sheeeesh
Thank you for continuing this series. I've seen every one and always enjoy the new episodes. ❤️
54:42 my best lolllll. Love you so much on these vid. And my 3 favorite pokemon are geodude, venonath and chansey, so glad you finnaly used all of them
I think Jrose deserves a like from every viewer for putting himself through that for us. What a hero
I'm not one to enjoy your pain normally but the champion fight was super entertaining for just how bad the luck was this go around. looking forward to your next video!
In the future, if another Pokémon takes a long time on Brock it would be cool to have the Mewtwo run play in the corner to show have far it progressed in the same time
P.S. Great run, as always!
That is a brilliant idea
Seconded. This is a great idea
I always kind of cheer for Leech Life to stay up until the end, it is a bad move overall, but considering the lack of bug moves and how it's not often bug types get stab, it feels nice to see it until the end, like cheering for the underdog to overperform.
Your videos play without buffering even though I'm like almost out of data... Cool!!
Tried this challenge in Yellow and even that took me ages before the first gym and until the mid 90s to beat the game, I can’t imagine how hard red/blue will be
I still to this day think that the Oddish run was the worst lol. Jrose is just getting some of the WORST luck I've ever seen! Love the content xD
Always love getting to Elite Four and seeing over 20 minutes left on the video xD
Recently I used a Venonat/Venomoth on my team in Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu. I named her Verona and tbh she wasn't my first pick. I was going to use Mr Mime as my go to for Poison types but unfortunately in Gen 8 Mr Mime is part Fairy type so he gets one shot by sludge bomb that surprisingly a lot of trainers with poison types have. Verona actually remained on my team till the end of the elite 4. She was kind of out classed by some of my other Pokemon but I did rely on her to defeat two of my Rivals team. If you are using a Venomoth in a team run it could be a valuable Pokemon and I was surprised by how much I used Verona. Verona's psychic took out any poison type and her sludge bomb took out any psychic type she was faster than which seemed to be every family except the Abra family, and it was a good answer for fairy types.
I love Venonat, it's my favourite bug mon, if not my favourite overall, so cute, so funny looking.💜 If I could have any Pokémon as a pet, I would choose it.
Paras
AJ adding the count during Rival 6 was priceless
29:25 Does Dig always turn you into backwards letters or is that just something weird happening here for some reason?
Yes, but only in Red and Blue. They fixed that in Yellow IIRC.
Before watching, I just wanna say that this has always been my favourite pokémon ever since gen 1 when I was 3 years old, so this is a big day for me! :D
Edit: ok, this was a nightmare. I'm so sorry and I'm not sure who to direct it towards more, Jrose or Venonat.
Venomoth is one of my favourite pokémon aswell, and I was actually baffled that I hadn't used it in any run yet - turns out this is very easy to explain since I just realized that aside from Kanto/Johto, it literally never was available before the national dex until *finally* Scarlet/Violet. What a shame.
@@youtube-kit9450 Huh, I didn't even realise. Tbf, there are a lot of early route bug pokemon that have cooler evolutions, so I don't think it's that much of a shame, but it would be nice if they gave Venonat something nice soon. Like a branched evolution or even a third one that resembles the first stage a little more :)
37:47 love the ah ah ahs from aj. aj you the best
Just doin' what I can!
Jrose videos just make me forget everything bad in life for the time it’s on
Great job Jrose and keep up the amazing job
Haaii JRose, sleep hasn't been with me, insomnia is kicking my beehind. Thanks for the uploads lately, that sweet dose of nostalgia has kept me entertained and engaged on long form content! Thank you for being (basically) back and hope you are doing way better than me, altough doing this with a Venonat sounds like hell 😅
As somebody who struggles with delayed sleep phase disorder I understand your struggle and I hope you manage to find the sweet release of sleep soon
@@bronwaith Thank you so much for the kind comment, hope you can also sleep well when you do. Bless you 🙌🏽
I miss the GBA intro so much lol... I love watching your older videos with that as your intro... gets me back into my childhood seeing it
Needed this run today, JRose, you saved the day.
Great upload, thanks JRose!
Anyone who plays Dungeons and Dragons can tell you that 1/16th isn't that unlikely.
AJ's comments were especially on point for this one. Love him keeping the Count gag alive.
Also, sorry for legit laughing at your rotten luck against the champion. That has to be the compensation game decided to give you for the consecutive attempts.
Venonat is one of those Pokemon I wish was available a little earlier in Gen 1. It's so cool!
By the time it becomes available it's already irrelevant.
Man I love your narrations, watching you I feel like watching a world cup final
JRose: I think that’s the first time Rhydon has actually defeated me!
Weedle:
When I saw Venonat on the thumbnail I already knew the video would last 1 hour long
Mimic once again carrying the run. Without it soo many would drop like flies
No wonder mimic was nerfed lmao
or the dull rest / toxic strat
Need more AJ and Jrose banter an communication. Those little tidbits are always so fun
This is such a cool series. A little late in the game- but you should do a randomizer at the end of each video to choose which one you do the next run with (depending how far ahead you are compared to the videos that are released I suppose). That would give it another layer of excitement and challenge!
That Mirror Move from a missed Sleep Powder was painfully funny.
“Venonat gets Psychic movesand Sleep Powder. How bad can it be?”
Omg earliest I've ever been! Love the colour pallete as always! Length of video is scary haha
"We get Leech Life, that's gonna suck"
I see what you did there JRose 😉
I know you might hate them, but I love these types of runs. It’s always interesting to see what the strategy is when it seems impossible.
I know that it was very frustrating to play, but I don’t think it was overly unlucky? Needing to sleep powder 5 of the rival’s pokemon, plus avoiding them waking up too early, crits, and other rng like leer, I think the strategy was just doomed to be miserable. Maybe at level 90 or something it’d be more consistent, but that’s also a huge time sink.
Love to watch how you struggle with bad Pokemon but going further and further into it, only to be fainted by a bad luck :D
Does anyone else like to pause when j rose shows the movepool and try and predict the final moveset?
It's equal parts amusing and frustrating seeing jrose slip into his younger self's 'gotta do absolutely minimum battles with this pre evolved pokemon as if it's mewtwo' and the game's RNG going 'how many times do I have to teach you this lesson!?' in being utterly pitiless.
OH YEAH LET'S GO AN HOUR LONG EPIC FOR THE AGES
I got it randomly for my current run and I must say I love it. Except for boosting moves, it's full of resources and its design is great, so even with the hassle of defeating Brock, I think I'll enjoy this one.
I found Venomoth to be surprisingly good (at least for what I was expecting) but Venonat is a very rough time
Really enjoyed the video, was tempted to watch a tv show but I couldn’t click off. Was so invested in this venonat
I just so happened to get a Shiny Venonat in Violet once i saw this video, so what timing that a solo run about Venonat gets uploaded
That's super nice. I got one in Fire Red. The timing was great!
Yes. Was just thinking about when your next video was going to come out
A ralts solo run would be epic
Basically abra
Hey the music in this one is fantastic, really creates a great atmosphere for the video
Any chance we can get a spreadsheet of what you named your character and your rival for each pokemon you used?
Your name: Nat
Rival’s name: Kingcol
🎵Chestnauts roasting on an open fire…🎵
I can feel the video release pace picking up. Will there be a month of jrose to look forward to?
This run is so much fun! I keep getting frustrated in that sabrina fight alongside you!
Man, could you imagine how different this run would be with the version of Leech Life in the newer era games where it has way more base power (if I recall it has 80 instead of gen 1’s 20 base power)?
The Brock section would still have been suffering, but the improved Leech Life would basically be the “Body Slam” this run needed until getting Psychic.
The part with Sabrina is just a rollercoaster of emotions! Well done!
This should be a interesting run. I honestly might have took Psybeam over Psychic here just to for the confusion as well not many moves it can have . Iam interested again to see what you come up with to win again
Whoo another video! Happy to see it.
I liked your video even though you got annoyed at the end, and you made me laugh there too, but I'm glad you finished. Go, Jrose!
Watching Jrose suffer through such ridiculous runs gives me life.
Great job mate!
I think you could create a house rule specifically for when something like this happens in the elite four on future runs. If you're stuck in the champion and can consistently win against everyone else maybe 3 or 4 times in a row, just save before the champion to spare yourself of the misery, no one is gonna complain about that. Fuckin love you, man ❤
The problem with saving in front of the champion is that he uses elixers in between E4 members. If he then hits an unexpected problem versus the champion (e.g. the Charizard outspeeding Venonat), those elixers are gone.
Oooo! I really like this color palette 😍
You’re my favorite UA-camr! Always stoked when you upload, keep it up man!
So funny to see a run where Blain's Superpotions really make a difference haha
YES. I waiting for this one in a while, Venonat is one of my faves from gen 1.
Glad you're back Jrose! 👏
Funny yesterday I was at work listening to your older runs while closing and thinking "lets see what hasn't he done yet that would be "interesting" to see. Oh yeah Venonat" lol and lo and behold the very next vid is venonat hahaha.....yep just about as miserable as I thought it would be.
Looking forward to the day all 151 are done. Halfway there lol.
Seriously though I do really love your playthroughs. They are such a joy and got me to replay Pokemon Red as one of these challenges. Never done any type of challenge so am going on the bunny slopes and just seeing if I can do it with a starter and only a starter with no items.
Nice run! Even though it was a pain I appreciate the multiple attempts at the Sabrina/Blaine fights. Other famous poketuber would have “ground” to level 70+ and say “he can’t believe how easy it was!!!”
Venomoth is my favorite pokemon, cant wait to see it done sometime soon. of course i love venonat too, so i was happy to see this today ~
I've watched almost every 1 of your videos. Good background noise for cleaning my house etc & runs intrigue me, nice work