I can't believe i didn't know this, but in Koga's gym, unlike in Red/Blue/Yellow, there is a second path that cuts out a Juggler. The one doesn't change too much, but the final count should be 68.
Colosseum minimum battles actually sounds pretty interesting because its not only harder than most mainline games but quite a few pokemon are locked behind optional trainers, the variation between a normal and minimum run will be significantly smaller indeed though
Not to mention any repeats, as this would force you to prepare with items or be extra careful as if you leave certain areas to heal, you'll have to re-battle some trainers.
@@mayborneflower Not just the last two fights, pretty much every major battle has absurd level spikes. For exmple after beating Miror B. who has pokemon in the early 30s, the next required fight has pokemon in the mid 30s with only 3 trainers in between, and the next boss right after only has 9 trainers to fight and expects you to jump another 10 levels.
I hate to be that guy, but I believe there are only 68 battles needed for FR/LG. I’ll go double check, but I did this run myself twice a few years ago after being inspired by your R/B/Y min battles run, and I got 68 battles both times. You mentioned two trainers in the Fuchsia gym, but there is only one required trainer in the gym before Koga. You edited out the route you took, but I’m going to assume you don’t know about the hidden path at the top right of the gym after the spinner Bird catcher. Taking this path only makes one juggler mandatory. Still love the vid and all your content! Thanks so much for all the time together spent entertaining us with these super inventive and creative challenges, minimum battles is my favorite! Here’s to many more!
Leftovers aren't the only hidden items you need the Itemfinder for, there's a Soothe Bell in Pokémon Tower, Macho Brace in Viridian Gym and Sacred Ash on Navel Rock. My guess is that it's because all of them can be found on a tile that was previously occupied by a NPC and the game can't handle two different "press A to interact with" on the same tile. There's also a PP Max in Cape Brink that requires the Itemfinder, but that's because it's a single piece of land and you can't interact with land tiles when surfing.
As someone who has tried rom hacking I can say that you're hypothesis is incorrect, it's really easy to code something like that *Some technical stuff so you might not understand* First you need to know the meaning of the term 'flag' *Definition of flag* It is a marker of sorts that you set when a certain event is done to let the game know that it's already happened (if you don't set it the same sequence of events will happen each time you trigger it) *Steps on how you set something like that up* • first You set up the battle • Make it so that when the battle is won it sets a flag and make the NPC sprite disappear • set it up so that interacting with it (after the flag has been set) gives you the items • Now in the game when the battle is won and you interact with that tile again the game will check for that flag • And when it realises that you have already won that battle • and then It will give you the items I know this sounds complicated but is quite easy to do
@@Kambyday It'd sound a lot less complicated if you used punctuation. Run-on sentences are hard to follow in general, no matter how complex the subject matter.
@@Kambyday I've never seen someone opt to use line breaks as their only method of punctuation before, but sure. It's a lot more readable than before. Your explanation still has a lot of redundancy, but I can follow it.
It was almost FOUR years ago (end of 2019, I believe) you did Red and Blue, which is just wild to me that I've been watching for SO long, man! Keep up the amazing work! I look forward to watching this video right now, while at work!
Seeing your comment made me look to see how long I've been watching. The first video I saw was his majikarp video 5 years ago. Hard to believe I've been watching him this long
I know it's not much, but I just wanted to give you something ahead of the holidays to say thanks for the videos! You got me back into Pokémon massively, playing all my old games and whatnot. So big thanks and look forward to all future vids!
Amazing man! I’m thinking if I have anything left in my giving fund I’d give it to him as well! If all of us did he’d be able to not worry about finances and just focus on his health and videos ♥️
I’m not sure who’s been doing the thumbnails, if it’s you, AJ or someone else, but the artwork for these niche challenges like L100 and pacifist is amazing and they deserve all the props! Diamond/Pearl would be utterly brutal since you’d only get your starter and a fossil, but Platinum could be an interesting game to try this on. Free Eeveelution for HMs, free Togepi, free Porygon, and a fossil (probably require species clause to not get unlimited), balanced with Cynthia being one of the hardest final bosses in the series. Further games also either make it so running from the box legendary doesn’t progress the story or force you to catch it, so you’d have Dialga, Palkia or Giratina unless outright banned.
I'm not sure how it works in base DP, but in Platinum you actually can progress the story if you run away from Giratina to avoid battling it, which is another point in Platinum's favor for this type of run.
23:12: You also need the Itemfinder to get the Soothe Bell where Mr. Fuji was at Pokémon Tower, and also need it to find the Macho Brace at the same spot Giovanni was at his gym after he disappears forever from the game
I remember watching your videos at the end of 2019 through 2020 when the lockdowns started, and it really helped get me through that part of my life. Watched every video since and haven't regretted a minute! One of the best in the business.
I love seeing FR mr mime getting some love, this little guy is an absolute monster with the boosted XP + moves it can learn naturally from level up, I rarely choose another psychic type when I start a new playthrough now
Been watching this channel regularly since this series started. (And had seen a few videos here and there before that like the magikarp video) and I just want to say thank you for such entertaining videos. They never fail to make me smile even when I am going through a hard time.
In generation 3 trainers are incredibly likely to go for speed-lowering moves if you outspeed them. So on lance after you got the rare candies you could just go for substitute against aerodactyl and set up calm mind while it spams scary face, which would make for a consistent battle. Dodging hyper beam twice also works though
Have been doing some “super minimum” battles on fire red and leaf green, With Pokémon like Mewtwo, most legendaries and psychic types etc The total number of battles needed is 38. If you’re unsure on super minimum battles- it’s basically starting with the Tea and A pokemon that knows cut So once you beat Misty you cut out all the trainers up to bills house as well as all the rock tunnel ones etc
YO! I actually followed your video for red/blue to do this exact same run. You're an inspiration, and these challenges have revitalized an old favorite for me! Thanks so much!
so a fun thing about spinners (at least for gen 3, unsure if it works for later games) is you can pause, and then open the bag, and then close the menu either using start or manually going down to 'exit' (basically just dont use B since youll likely start running and it makes them face you and you get caught) and it locks them in place for a short amount of time, enough to casually walk past them
I loved this one! I was groaning at my screen at the overly cautious plays with substitute 😂😂 One thing I want to say about the recent string of videos is that I feel like the new thumbnail style is less clickable than the kinds you’ve used in the past. They almost look like alpharad thumbnails, which I suppose may actually be the point/improve general clickability, but for me at least I feel like the reasons I click on his videos for example are different than why I do on yours, so I subconsciously put off watching this challenge until now rather than when it first popped up in my notifications and on my home page. Ofc I don’t expect you to just give up on this new style bc of my comment that would be silly, but I figured I would provide my opinion. If it turns out that in general these new thumbs are generating more clicks and new subscribers etc, ignore my dumbass and keep doing that! Awesome work as always sir, thanks for all your hard work and entertainment :)
I have loved the new art direction on the thumbnails of your latest videos but today's art is so fantastic I had to tell you. The player hiding behind a bug catcher is the most hilarious encapsulation of the min battles experience and I love it very much.
Hey Jrose, I just wanted to say that even though I’m not that much into Pokémon anymore, you’re my favorite UA-camr and whenever I see a new video of yours, I watch it immediately! I love how you’re doing your narration, and there’s just something nice about your voice. Thank you for doing all these challenges and good luck on next ones!
I did Diamond earlier this year and it was very interesting with probably many different ways to tackle it. Platinum will undoubtedly be a lot harder though
@@justinmedeiros7600 my final count was 89, but honestly I might have miscounted once or twice haha. I thought it was decently easy with the exception of a couple of major battles. I will talk about it in greater detail further down in this comment so read on if you like Spoilers Technically you can choose any starter since you will need to catch something for waterfall if you choose chimchar/turtwig and you will need to catch something for rock smash if you choose piplup, but I think the only feasible way to beat Mars early on is to choose piplup and catch a lvl 9 onix (or potentially geodude) for rock smash and use them to weaken purlugly for piplup to defeat. On route 207, there is a double battle before mt. Coronet that you can skip by dropping down a ledge that bypasses them. This is VERY IMPORTANT because you have to go back that way to eventually get to Bryon, which means you can either fight the double battle or catch a Pokémon with fly to fly back to Jubilife. This means you can catch a level 40 pelipper on route 213 (made easier with repel strategies). This makes HM management SO much easier as well as having access to a level 40 Pokémon. If any Pokémon could learn waterfall, fly, and surf, then that would mean that we can’t pick peplum as our starter, but luckily pelipper can’t learn waterfall. My final team was empoleon, happiny, onix, cranidos, and pelipper. Some hard battles for me was: First battle against mars, which again was trivialized by having piplup as my starter and catching onix. Likely means you can’t use chimchar or turtwig as the starter unless you catch a buizel early on and somehow cheese mars idk Crasher wake, but only because I was hesitant to teach prinplup grass knot, but I didn’t even use it for the rest of the playthrough Volkner, which probably requires you to have a cheri berry to avoid paralysis from the lead Raichu. I actually made sure to have a female piplup so that rivalry from Luxray doesn’t have an attack boost, but it might not matter because Volkner’s AI is seemingly random, so winning kinda requires his luxray to use crunch a couple of times Funny enough, the hardest battle was actually against Lucian, who has a large amount of team diversity and coverage moves, including focus blast and close combat. I had to use all of my rare candies for this fight and even then only barely won. I just barely won on my first try against Cynthia after using rare candies. Let me know if you have any other questions!
Their isn't a single other person on UA-cam I can say thay my average completion rate of their video is %100. New or old, I love your content!!! You do everything I could ever want to grind 40 hours on and complete it into a solid 45 minutes to an hour of fun. Keep on keepin on and have a Bloody Good Day!!!
Great video as always, some might say the ending was very nice ;) Just a small tip for anyone doing this themselves: Eevee always has Run Away in Gen 3, so you can use that to escape from wild Diglett on your way to get Mimien from the trade. That is, if you don't want to use Repels or risk a wild Dugtrio.
Great video as usual JRoss11!! I like the Toxic strategy against Sabrina!! I usually go with the Shadow Ball TM you can get from the Celadon Game Corner👍💪
I can't decide whether Colosseum and XD would be very interesting or very bland for minimum battles. You get to catch pokemon because of the snag mechanic, xp splitting in double battles could be interesting to track, but I'm not sure how many battles are skippable.
I totally thought Nintendo forgot about that game until I'm playing PoGo and it's actually integral to the plot, AI battles and important in PVP. Unfortunately never got to beat it 'cause I evolved into a middle schooler in 2001 and playing "baby games" made you 4x weak to bullies on the bus.
I thought what was funny is when they introduced genders in gen 2. So, with that said, Sabrina has a Mr. Mime. It's female... For some reason, I found that funny as a kid. Great video, as always!
With the throwback comparisons to that first R/B minimum battles run, I'm honestly a bit bummed the Count von Count impression didn't make a cameo appearance 😂
I can't wait for DPP and HGSS, I got inspired by your first minimum battles video and I've tried them both for myself. I did beat Platinum but it was with some slightly different rules and I allowed healing items, so it was on easy mode. I tried HG following your rules strictly and I got stomped, I failed with 3 different mons.
Another great video :) Btw, there's an easy way to pass spinners. Stand right next and open a submenu (like Pokemon or Bag) and close the menu with Start already holding the direction. The spinner won't turn for a short time after closing the menu. This trick is used in all the speedruns (except if you count it as a glitch which it's not really considered as)
Whew, the Colosseum min battles run. I paid out the wazoo for a physical copy and 100%ing it to transfer all Pokemon to Ruby, IDK how you'd fare towards the end of the game. Remember now, their pokemanz gets really high leveled and so suddenly too, so consider that!
Hey Jrose! Just a heads up that you can find a hidden Leppa Berry in the grass patch west of Lavender Town along with a couple of extra hidden berries! Edit: Yeah, Gen 3 loves status. In that Lance fight in particular if you hid behind a Substitute, Aerodactyl would just keep using Scary Face because it doesn't know how to interact with your mon while it's behind a substitute. Likewise, the Dragonair with Thunder Wave would just keep spamming it even though it's doing nothing. The champion's Pidgeot is hilariously easy to set up on with Substitute too since it knows both Sand-Attack and Feather Dance. Substitute is really strong in Gen 3 due to that fun little quirk :)
Are there any spinners in Rock Tunnel? Would be an absolute pain trying to monitor them with such a limited field of vision. Great video, really looking forward to the hellscape that will be Diamond and Pearl. From watching the failed streams on Twitch I know it's gonna get real complicated
Just to let you know, there's actually at least one Leppa Berry on Routes 8 (the Saffron-Lavender route) and 23, outside of Victory Road. The latter wouldn't help much while still going through the Gyms, but the former might have. :P
A challenge I really want to see one of you guys do "Can you beat all the pokemon generations with the same team traded along?" So you'd get a team from Pokemon red/blue or yellow and once you beat it you trade all those mons into the next game and beat that. Then you repeat until you beat all the games!
I only listened to most of this episode until the Elite 4 and then started watching and thought it was weird that you deleted the move "combine" until I realized I heard it wrong the entire time. Figured it was a move I wasn't familiar with because I've never used a Mr. Mime, but Calm Mind makes much more sense.
Gotta say, your vids inspired me to try taking this challenge to Trails in the Sky FC. I uh, didn't finish it, but I got all the way to the final boss before I caved and did other stuff. I know it's possible but it would take insane luck.
The Leftovers isn't the only "ItemFinder only" item, there are several including the Macho Brace, the Soothe Bell, several uncommon berries (mostly the ones for Pokeblock blending) and I think some Big Mushrooms and Nuggets. Also: the Sacred Ash if you hack in the event item to capture Ho-Oh & Lugia.
Only the Soothe Bell, Macho Brace and Sacred Ash require the Itemfinder. And also a PP Max on Cape Brink, but that's because it's on a single land tile in the middle of the water and you can't interact with it while Surfing. The others you mentioned don't require the Itemfinder, however many of them are recurring items and they're really weird in FireRed/LeafGreen. I suggest looking up "recurring item" on Bulbapedia, the way they work is incredibly messed up and non-intuitive. I spent years trying to figure out why I'd sometimes find either Big and Tiny Mushrooms, only Tiny Mushrooms or simply nothing at all on my first visit to Mt. Moon. Basically, every 1500 steps you take, the game decides whether they will be here or not.
This was how I first played the game once upon a time because I thought of my Pokemon as friends and didn't want them getting hurt. And this made me unable to beat the Elite 4 for YEARS before i realized i needed to actually train them.
I can't believe i didn't know this, but in Koga's gym, unlike in Red/Blue/Yellow, there is a second path that cuts out a Juggler. The one doesn't change too much, but the final count should be 68.
Interesting, the more you know xD.
I think we're all willing to collectively ignore this
But that final number in the video is... nice 😉
Would the xp from the extra battle affect anything though?
Please try doing the same challenge with Gen 4 nonetheless 🙏
Colosseum minimum battles actually sounds pretty interesting because its not only harder than most mainline games but quite a few pokemon are locked behind optional trainers, the variation between a normal and minimum run will be significantly smaller indeed though
I genuinely believe that fainting Umbreon and letting Espeon take the lead is the correct choice.
don't people also tend to grind in casual playthroughs of it as well, due to the level spikes?
@@athath2010 Oh man, the last two fights is quite a jump from both the boss rush and one another. Yeesh.
Not to mention any repeats, as this would force you to prepare with items or be extra careful as if you leave certain areas to heal, you'll have to re-battle some trainers.
@@mayborneflower Not just the last two fights, pretty much every major battle has absurd level spikes. For exmple after beating Miror B. who has pokemon in the early 30s, the next required fight has pokemon in the mid 30s with only 3 trainers in between, and the next boss right after only has 9 trainers to fight and expects you to jump another 10 levels.
Huge fan for almost 4 years now - thanks for all the work you put in!
Thank you so much, that's incredibly generous.
I hate to be that guy, but I believe there are only 68 battles needed for FR/LG. I’ll go double check, but I did this run myself twice a few years ago after being inspired by your R/B/Y min battles run, and I got 68 battles both times. You mentioned two trainers in the Fuchsia gym, but there is only one required trainer in the gym before Koga. You edited out the route you
took, but I’m going to assume you don’t know about the hidden path at the top right of the gym after the spinner Bird catcher. Taking this path only makes one juggler mandatory.
Still love the vid and all your content! Thanks so much for all the time together spent entertaining us with these super inventive and creative challenges, minimum battles is my favorite! Here’s to many more!
You hate to be that guy, but went out of your way to be that guy... lol
@@JohnSmith-rr3jthey I figured he would want to know
I assume you hate being the guy because it ruins the 69 number
@@dylancasalino637 grow up, dude.
@sanjicook08 Chill out, mam
Leftovers aren't the only hidden items you need the Itemfinder for, there's a Soothe Bell in Pokémon Tower, Macho Brace in Viridian Gym and Sacred Ash on Navel Rock. My guess is that it's because all of them can be found on a tile that was previously occupied by a NPC and the game can't handle two different "press A to interact with" on the same tile.
There's also a PP Max in Cape Brink that requires the Itemfinder, but that's because it's a single piece of land and you can't interact with land tiles when surfing.
As someone who has tried rom hacking I can say that you're hypothesis is incorrect, it's really easy to code something like that
*Some technical stuff so you might not understand*
First you need to know the meaning of the term 'flag'
*Definition of flag*
It is a marker of sorts that you set when a certain event is done to let the game know that it's already happened (if you don't set it the same sequence of events will happen each time you trigger it)
*Steps on how you set something like that up*
• first You set up the battle
• Make it so that when the battle is won it sets a flag and make the NPC sprite disappear
• set it up so that interacting with it (after the flag has been set) gives you the items
• Now in the game
when the battle is won and you interact with that tile again the game will check for that flag
• And when it realises that you have already won that battle
• and then It will give you the items
I know this sounds complicated but is quite easy to do
@@Kambyday It'd sound a lot less complicated if you used punctuation. Run-on sentences are hard to follow in general, no matter how complex the subject matter.
@@caliburnleaf9323 I just did that. Does it feel better now?
@@Kambyday I've never seen someone opt to use line breaks as their only method of punctuation before, but sure. It's a lot more readable than before. Your explanation still has a lot of redundancy, but I can follow it.
@@caliburnleaf9323 who are you my grammar teacher? If it's understandable without much effort then it's a success for me
It was almost FOUR years ago (end of 2019, I believe) you did Red and Blue, which is just wild to me that I've been watching for SO long, man! Keep up the amazing work! I look forward to watching this video right now, while at work!
I totally understand that. I started watching about 6 years ago. Time flies.
Seeing your comment made me look to see how long I've been watching. The first video I saw was his majikarp video 5 years ago. Hard to believe I've been watching him this long
Time does truly fly, but that's the beauty of life! @@Renfrovarietychannel
Right??? I can't believe it's been that long either! Jrose is definitely an amazing creator! @@MLMinReality
This comment makes me feel ancient as I’ve been watching him since his first catch ‘‘em all video in summer 2017. I was 12 at the time
I think Lance’s Dragonite could’ve been cheesed by just saccing something to Hyper Beam, so you probably wouldn’t have needed that much luck to win
I know it's not much, but I just wanted to give you something ahead of the holidays to say thanks for the videos! You got me back into Pokémon massively, playing all my old games and whatnot. So big thanks and look forward to all future vids!
Objectively, 10 pounds might not be a lot but you choosing to be giving is enough in of itself. 🤜
Amazing man! I’m thinking if I have anything left in my giving fund I’d give it to him as well! If all of us did he’d be able to not worry about finances and just focus on his health and videos ♥️
@@bp3366 i legit thought you meant eating 10 pounds of food
Thank you so much for that generous gift!
Sid was one of my favorite wrestlers growing up, although there's a good chance you might not know what the heck I'm talking about.
😅👍
Jrose: it is IMPERATIVE that you don’t save between elite 4 members
Also Jrose, 0.5 seconds later: so I saved after Agatha
glad to see Jrose giving Gen 3 some more love
I’m not sure who’s been doing the thumbnails, if it’s you, AJ or someone else, but the artwork for these niche challenges like L100 and pacifist is amazing and they deserve all the props!
Diamond/Pearl would be utterly brutal since you’d only get your starter and a fossil, but Platinum could be an interesting game to try this on. Free Eeveelution for HMs, free Togepi, free Porygon, and a fossil (probably require species clause to not get unlimited), balanced with Cynthia being one of the hardest final bosses in the series.
Further games also either make it so running from the box legendary doesn’t progress the story or force you to catch it, so you’d have Dialga, Palkia or Giratina unless outright banned.
I'm not sure how it works in base DP, but in Platinum you actually can progress the story if you run away from Giratina to avoid battling it, which is another point in Platinum's favor for this type of run.
Honestly, even unlimited fossils wouldn't help all that much, since they're all level 5 and shieldon isn't exactly the best thing ever.
You get Happiny in DP also
@@plebisMaximusFossils are given at level 20 in gen 4, so they'd be at least useful for a bit after you can first obtain them.
@@radaf4429 Happiny is just death fodder, it hits like a wet noodle and dies to any physical attack.
23:12: You also need the Itemfinder to get the Soothe Bell where Mr. Fuji was at Pokémon Tower, and also need it to find the Macho Brace at the same spot Giovanni was at his gym after he disappears forever from the game
I remember watching your videos at the end of 2019 through 2020 when the lockdowns started, and it really helped get me through that part of my life. Watched every video since and haven't regretted a minute! One of the best in the business.
So excited to eat my lunch and watch this
Merry Christmas JRose, thanks for so many fantastic videos this year
My work can't expect me to be productive with JRose dropping new videos in the middle of the day.
I love seeing FR mr mime getting some love, this little guy is an absolute monster with the boosted XP + moves it can learn naturally from level up, I rarely choose another psychic type when I start a new playthrough now
Wow, Sand Attack, Kinesis, and Smokescreen in the same fight? Time to rename Rival 3 to Karen
hi Josh, I've been watching your videos since high school, and I just finished my undergrad courses! thank you for sticking at it for so long! :)
Your videos have given me a lot of entertainment. Happy holidays.
Happy 200th video! Your dedication is awe-inspiring and you deserve every cent!
Happy holidays! Thank you for the great videos
Been watching this channel regularly since this series started. (And had seen a few videos here and there before that like the magikarp video) and I just want to say thank you for such entertaining videos. They never fail to make me smile even when I am going through a hard time.
these vids are such a great different way of looking at the games, you should be proud of inventing a whole new challenge format.
these really are some of the greatest videos YT has to offer. keep up the awesome work my man, & happy holidays 🙏🏾
The moment he saved after Agatha, i thought there goes the run because you can't faint at this point
I guess I’ll just watch/listen to this while I’m working on notes at work. JRose always saving the day when it comes to my sanity. 😅
Definitely helps me when I’m on the road
In generation 3 trainers are incredibly likely to go for speed-lowering moves if you outspeed them. So on lance after you got the rare candies you could just go for substitute against aerodactyl and set up calm mind while it spams scary face, which would make for a consistent battle. Dodging hyper beam twice also works though
Loving the thumbnails for these challenges.
Finally, my favorite game of all time. Ive done this challenge twice and it was a great time.
What strats did you use?
Have been doing some “super minimum” battles on fire red and leaf green,
With Pokémon like Mewtwo, most legendaries and psychic types etc
The total number of battles needed is 38.
If you’re unsure on super minimum battles- it’s basically starting with the Tea and A pokemon that knows cut
So once you beat Misty you cut out all the trainers up to bills house as well as all the rock tunnel ones etc
YO! I actually followed your video for red/blue to do this exact same run. You're an inspiration, and these challenges have revitalized an old favorite for me! Thanks so much!
Something I didn’t know I was excited for until it was an option.
Well done Jrose, your work ethic and dedication is something special indeed.
Jrose: “Hey everyone, how’s it going?”
Me: :D
so a fun thing about spinners (at least for gen 3, unsure if it works for later games) is you can pause, and then open the bag, and then close the menu either using start or manually going down to 'exit' (basically just dont use B since youll likely start running and it makes them face you and you get caught) and it locks them in place for a short amount of time, enough to casually walk past them
I loved this one! I was groaning at my screen at the overly cautious plays with substitute 😂😂
One thing I want to say about the recent string of videos is that I feel like the new thumbnail style is less clickable than the kinds you’ve used in the past. They almost look like alpharad thumbnails, which I suppose may actually be the point/improve general clickability, but for me at least I feel like the reasons I click on his videos for example are different than why I do on yours, so I subconsciously put off watching this challenge until now rather than when it first popped up in my notifications and on my home page. Ofc I don’t expect you to just give up on this new style bc of my comment that would be silly, but I figured I would provide my opinion. If it turns out that in general these new thumbs are generating more clicks and new subscribers etc, ignore my dumbass and keep doing that! Awesome work as always sir, thanks for all your hard work and entertainment :)
I have loved the new art direction on the thumbnails of your latest videos but today's art is so fantastic I had to tell you. The player hiding behind a bug catcher is the most hilarious encapsulation of the min battles experience and I love it very much.
Hey Jrose, I just wanted to say that even though I’m not that much into Pokémon anymore, you’re my favorite UA-camr and whenever I see a new video of yours, I watch it immediately!
I love how you’re doing your narration, and there’s just something nice about your voice. Thank you for doing all these challenges and good luck on next ones!
Pokemon but red has social anxiety
FireRed was the least battles challenge I've been looking forward to the most! Great video!
Platinum min battles would be very interesting, if even possible at all. might even have to catch wild mons to even make it far
I did Diamond earlier this year and it was very interesting with probably many different ways to tackle it. Platinum will undoubtedly be a lot harder though
@@justinmedeiros7600 my final count was 89, but honestly I might have miscounted once or twice haha. I thought it was decently easy with the exception of a couple of major battles. I will talk about it in greater detail further down in this comment so read on if you like
Spoilers
Technically you can choose any starter since you will need to catch something for waterfall if you choose chimchar/turtwig and you will need to catch something for rock smash if you choose piplup, but I think the only feasible way to beat Mars early on is to choose piplup and catch a lvl 9 onix (or potentially geodude) for rock smash and use them to weaken purlugly for piplup to defeat.
On route 207, there is a double battle before mt. Coronet that you can skip by dropping down a ledge that bypasses them. This is VERY IMPORTANT because you have to go back that way to eventually get to Bryon, which means you can either fight the double battle or catch a Pokémon with fly to fly back to Jubilife. This means you can catch a level 40 pelipper on route 213 (made easier with repel strategies). This makes HM management SO much easier as well as having access to a level 40 Pokémon. If any Pokémon could learn waterfall, fly, and surf, then that would mean that we can’t pick peplum as our starter, but luckily pelipper can’t learn waterfall. My final team was empoleon, happiny, onix, cranidos, and pelipper.
Some hard battles for me was:
First battle against mars, which again was trivialized by having piplup as my starter and catching onix. Likely means you can’t use chimchar or turtwig as the starter unless you catch a buizel early on and somehow cheese mars idk
Crasher wake, but only because I was hesitant to teach prinplup grass knot, but I didn’t even use it for the rest of the playthrough
Volkner, which probably requires you to have a cheri berry to avoid paralysis from the lead Raichu. I actually made sure to have a female piplup so that rivalry from Luxray doesn’t have an attack boost, but it might not matter because Volkner’s AI is seemingly random, so winning kinda requires his luxray to use crunch a couple of times
Funny enough, the hardest battle was actually against Lucian, who has a large amount of team diversity and coverage moves, including focus blast and close combat. I had to use all of my rare candies for this fight and even then only barely won.
I just barely won on my first try against Cynthia after using rare candies.
Let me know if you have any other questions!
I *just* noticed for the first time that Giovanni is holding a master ball in his gym battle in this game.
I know I’m just one guy, but I’m so appreciative of your work! These are great for before bed
I’m excited to see gen 4! I wanted to attempt the challenge myself but thought I’d rather see you put yourself through the pain of making it work
Their isn't a single other person on UA-cam I can say thay my average completion rate of their video is %100. New or old, I love your content!!!
You do everything I could ever want to grind 40 hours on and complete it into a solid 45 minutes to an hour of fun. Keep on keepin on and have a Bloody Good Day!!!
Nice edition with the pause before the battle with lass Sally. Great video as always Jrose!
Great video as always, some might say the ending was very nice ;)
Just a small tip for anyone doing this themselves: Eevee always has Run Away in Gen 3, so you can use that to escape from wild Diglett on your way to get Mimien from the trade. That is, if you don't want to use Repels or risk a wild Dugtrio.
Im really liking the new thumbnails, they’re a lot more eye catching.
Bro your videos are so relaxing and chill 😌
Another absolute classic by the man Jrose
Keep it up chief
Great video as usual JRoss11!! I like the Toxic strategy against Sabrina!! I usually go with the Shadow Ball TM you can get from the Celadon Game Corner👍💪
I love your channel and watch all your videos and I hate to be that guy, but...
Fewest* battles possible :p
Great vid :)
Great job Jrose and a coleseum run will be very interesting to see and keep up the amazing work
I can't decide whether Colosseum and XD would be very interesting or very bland for minimum battles. You get to catch pokemon because of the snag mechanic, xp splitting in double battles could be interesting to track, but I'm not sure how many battles are skippable.
Not many are, honestly... mostly just the non-Cipher trainers such as the Battle Circle in Pyrite Town.
I totally thought Nintendo forgot about that game until I'm playing PoGo and it's actually integral to the plot, AI battles and important in PVP. Unfortunately never got to beat it 'cause I evolved into a middle schooler in 2001 and playing "baby games" made you 4x weak to bullies on the bus.
Love this series, keep it up 😊
Yes! Been waiting for this one! LF/FR are my faves
I like how theres art in the thumbnail and the video quality is grtting better! Keep it up
I thought what was funny is when they introduced genders in gen 2. So, with that said, Sabrina has a Mr. Mime. It's female...
For some reason, I found that funny as a kid. Great video, as always!
With the throwback comparisons to that first R/B minimum battles run, I'm honestly a bit bummed the Count von Count impression didn't make a cameo appearance 😂
I can't wait for DPP and HGSS, I got inspired by your first minimum battles video and I've tried them both for myself.
I did beat Platinum but it was with some slightly different rules and I allowed healing items, so it was on easy mode.
I tried HG following your rules strictly and I got stomped, I failed with 3 different mons.
JRose got me eating better than I will on Christmas lately! Thanks for the all the work
Yesss ive waited so long for a FR LG video!! ❤
Another great video :)
Btw, there's an easy way to pass spinners. Stand right next and open a submenu (like Pokemon or Bag) and close the menu with Start already holding the direction. The spinner won't turn for a short time after closing the menu. This trick is used in all the speedruns (except if you count it as a glitch which it's not really considered as)
God. I love these types of runs! Thank you JRose! ^_^
My little professional editor eyelid always twitches at "least battles" (fewest), but I will enjoy this latest jrose installment nonetheless 😅
Whew, the Colosseum min battles run. I paid out the wazoo for a physical copy and 100%ing it to transfer all Pokemon to Ruby, IDK how you'd fare towards the end of the game. Remember now, their pokemanz gets really high leveled and so suddenly too, so consider that!
I was waiting for this video. ❤
Great video as usual, sir!
This is the earliest I've ever caught one of these drop, let's gooo
LMAO I was actually scared that you would lose and have to restart after saving after Agatha, excellent video once again dude.
Ugh I hate Mondays.
Jrose upload? I LOVE MONDAYS!
finally a vid i was looking forward to
Hey Jrose! Just a heads up that you can find a hidden Leppa Berry in the grass patch west of Lavender Town along with a couple of extra hidden berries!
Edit: Yeah, Gen 3 loves status. In that Lance fight in particular if you hid behind a Substitute, Aerodactyl would just keep using Scary Face because it doesn't know how to interact with your mon while it's behind a substitute. Likewise, the Dragonair with Thunder Wave would just keep spamming it even though it's doing nothing. The champion's Pidgeot is hilariously easy to set up on with Substitute too since it knows both Sand-Attack and Feather Dance.
Substitute is really strong in Gen 3 due to that fun little quirk :)
Are there any spinners in Rock Tunnel? Would be an absolute pain trying to monitor them with such a limited field of vision. Great video, really looking forward to the hellscape that will be Diamond and Pearl. From watching the failed streams on Twitch I know it's gonna get real complicated
Great video!
Just to let you know, there's actually at least one Leppa Berry on Routes 8 (the Saffron-Lavender route) and 23, outside of Victory Road. The latter wouldn't help much while still going through the Gyms, but the former might have. :P
Too bad you couldn't use rare candies differently and get Mr.Mime to level 69 with 69 battles. Extra nice ;) But great video as always
I see JRose, I stop everything I'm doing and start watching immediately
IIRC, in Gen 3 you can go into a menu and out and the timer for spinners resets giving you enough time to pass them without them changing direction.
My favorite series on UA-cam is back! Thank you JRose!
The original video was what put you on the map for me. Cool to see Mime still works.
A challenge I really want to see one of you guys do "Can you beat all the pokemon generations with the same team traded along?" So you'd get a team from Pokemon red/blue or yellow and once you beat it you trade all those mons into the next game and beat that. Then you repeat until you beat all the games!
The thumbnail art for the newer videos (especially this one) look great!
49:11 what a fancy mustache that Mr mime has
Art for the thumbnail is rly good
I love when Jrose does FireRed videos.
Fun vídeo 😊 and a lovely thumbnail ❤
Always love a challenge where we get to see big brain Jrose at work!
love it ! waiting for a grimer/muk red run !
Very good Video and the best part is where Jrose says how many Videos He will be uploading this month❤
Love the new graphic, old one was great as well one of the reasons I was drawn to the channel in the first place
All this content!! Keep it up! At your pace tho....we just like you.
I only listened to most of this episode until the Elite 4 and then started watching and thought it was weird that you deleted the move "combine" until I realized I heard it wrong the entire time. Figured it was a move I wasn't familiar with because I've never used a Mr. Mime, but Calm Mind makes much more sense.
Congrats. Well done. I thought you would battle pre erika mandatory trainers before giovanni to make it easier.
Beautiful video as usual, but also that's a beautiful haircut! ♡
Gotta say, your vids inspired me to try taking this challenge to Trails in the Sky FC. I uh, didn't finish it, but I got all the way to the final boss before I caved and did other stuff. I know it's possible but it would take insane luck.
Reminds me I wanted to check out that series
Really good games, I'd recommend. Although, they're all super fucking long.
The Leftovers isn't the only "ItemFinder only" item, there are several including the Macho Brace, the Soothe Bell, several uncommon berries (mostly the ones for Pokeblock blending) and I think some Big Mushrooms and Nuggets.
Also: the Sacred Ash if you hack in the event item to capture Ho-Oh & Lugia.
Only the Soothe Bell, Macho Brace and Sacred Ash require the Itemfinder. And also a PP Max on Cape Brink, but that's because it's on a single land tile in the middle of the water and you can't interact with it while Surfing.
The others you mentioned don't require the Itemfinder, however many of them are recurring items and they're really weird in FireRed/LeafGreen.
I suggest looking up "recurring item" on Bulbapedia, the way they work is incredibly messed up and non-intuitive.
I spent years trying to figure out why I'd sometimes find either Big and Tiny Mushrooms, only Tiny Mushrooms or simply nothing at all on my first visit to Mt. Moon. Basically, every 1500 steps you take, the game decides whether they will be here or not.
This was how I first played the game once upon a time because I thought of my Pokemon as friends and didn't want them getting hurt. And this made me unable to beat the Elite 4 for YEARS before i realized i needed to actually train them.
Solo pokémon Gale of Darkness runs would be cool.
Another Jrose video! Lets freaking goooooo!