How fast can I beat Pokémon Crystal with Smeargle only? - Pokémon Crystal Solo Challenge

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    The Rules:
    1: The timer starts when walking away from Professor Elm after receiving the starter Pokémon.
    2: Only the Challenge Pokémon may participate in battle.
    3: No items in battle, except Balls from the bag.
    4: No evasion-increasing TMs, and no Rest and Sleep Talk TMs until every other option has been exhausted.
    5: No intentional uses of glitches or exploits, except the Teleport glitch after the SS Aqua.
    6: No Rare Candies until facing Red. Rare Candies will be used in a 3-3-4 pattern.
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    8: Save states are permitted in the overworld, but no save states may be used mid-battle.
    9: If the challenge Pokémon faints, the previous save state must be reloaded and progress regained.
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  • @kingcygnus
    @kingcygnus Рік тому +19

    Smeargle runs are always so cool because everyone runs them a little bit differently. So much customization

  • @corebinik243
    @corebinik243 Рік тому +14

    I like to think that the entire beginning of the run smergal was just consumed with rage and fury xD fitting for a struggling artist like itself

  • @Kaiserdudegaming
    @Kaiserdudegaming Рік тому +17

    Clever, the Smeagle on the right's hue change on its tail over the video's runtime wasn't a detail I was gonna overlook. How many other viewers noticed?

    • @Squidgy
      @Squidgy  Рік тому +5

      You were the first to notice it, as I don't think anyone caught it in the Premiere!

    • @theknightwithabadpictotall7639
      @theknightwithabadpictotall7639 Рік тому +2

      I noticed it and came to see if anyone else did
      It's a fun detail

    • @peachleaf
      @peachleaf Рік тому +2

      I couldn’t tell if it was changing each time we got a new sketch move (colored by the type we just got) or a slow shift throughout! So cool.

  • @RobKni76
    @RobKni76 Рік тому +6

    Really appreciate all the planning and work that went into this one! Well done to Smeargle and his HM friends!

    • @Squidgy
      @Squidgy  Рік тому

      I don't think I've extensively planned a route as much as this one before - I think there's still room for improvement, but I'm proud of Smeargle's time!

  • @stevechurch1687
    @stevechurch1687 Рік тому +1

    "We don't have anything super effective against the sneasel".
    You had fire punch. I mean, it's not physical, but it's still super effective 😂

  • @N12015
    @N12015 Рік тому +3

    The cool thing about Smeargle is indeed how it demands both deep knowledge of the game to be good period, and creativity to determine what's useful. Here you clearly used a more creative approach to the game via using rage, meditate, fire punch, amnesia and reflect from Red's Espeon.
    Scott for comparison, used a much more methodical, more consistent and slower approach with peck, HP ice, fury cutter, magnitude, body slam, recover, spore and swords dance, partially because no items means not even pokéballs for him and because he's not doing CPU resets but manual ones, and he doesn't doubt about using rare candies on Red.

    • @NecromancyForKids
      @NecromancyForKids Рік тому

      Would hurt, but could always teach a useless move like Growl or a buff like Harden to use as a time waster move if you don't want to limit yourself to not using pokeballs in battle

    • @N12015
      @N12015 Рік тому

      @@NecromancyForKids In this case those moves were meditate and rage. It's the kind of case where each one has the other half of the puzzle to get the perfect Smeargle run.

  • @ReVist
    @ReVist Рік тому +1

    Crystal Clear: choose smeargle as your starter. Mail attached. "Why would you do this"

  • @mazaltawab9360
    @mazaltawab9360 Рік тому +1

    Never thought of using a PokeBall in order to move last, I'm slow lol

  • @101germanguy
    @101germanguy Рік тому +1

    I went to sleep and mis the middle half of the stream. Hopefully one of these days I can catch a little later stream. Very fun run to watch.

  • @slippy318
    @slippy318 Рік тому +1

    13:58
    That's nothing. In the manga he used hyper beam and destroyed half of Vermilion City!

    • @Squidgy
      @Squidgy  Рік тому +3

      The man's unhinged! He needs to be stopped!

  • @peterrealar2.067
    @peterrealar2.067 Рік тому +2

    Dang, we both purposefully encountered a Dunsparce. Talk about madness!

  • @GrafifiLover
    @GrafifiLover Рік тому +2

    It's cool you tslk about which pokemon you use for HMs and which ones they use!

  • @ddrawingjosh
    @ddrawingjosh Рік тому +2

    One hp and a dream against stellix and jasmine

  • @NecromancyForKids
    @NecromancyForKids Рік тому +1

    I'm sure this took a lot of planning, to be able to figure out the best moves you could reliably get.

  • @NightLifeX
    @NightLifeX Рік тому +1

    Awesome Vid. as always. but i wonder how you´d do with wobuffet? :P

    • @Squidgy
      @Squidgy  Рік тому

      Badly. Just plain terribly!

  • @kangaskdan
    @kangaskdan Рік тому +1

    Great video! Smeargle is such a unique run! Some really interesting strategies there :)

  • @CurlyCat3
    @CurlyCat3 Рік тому +1

    squidgy are you single?

  • @SillyInsaneGamer
    @SillyInsaneGamer Рік тому

    I recently did this myself and smacked myself SO hard for not learning amnesia!
    It would've made my fight with red a breeze..well done! I've nearly done 100 runs in Gold, but it's nice to see a smaller channel do a similar thing!
    I'll have to see some videos of runs I've done and see if I can spot differences, always fun to see!
    Kudos for using rage early game, I thought I was the only one thinking of that move, so convenient for a pokemon with good speed! :D

  • @EStarstruck
    @EStarstruck Рік тому

    We're once again graced with another banger.

  • @pariahdark2
    @pariahdark2 Рік тому +1

    Honestly, I'm just surprised this was possible, let alone getting a solid time.

  • @Slickcactus
    @Slickcactus Рік тому +1

    Fire Punch is super effective against Sneasel

    • @Squidgy
      @Squidgy  Рік тому +2

      I have a few people go through the videos with me to spot errors like this now, and not a single one of us picked it up! I normally reserve Slot 3 for Status Moves, so I must've subconsciously ignored that move for the Sneasel!

  • @Wizard_Gamer_star
    @Wizard_Gamer_star 3 місяці тому

    Did you know that if you use mimic to mimic sketch it permanently copy's sketch to the Pokemon? This allows the Pokemon to learn any move!

  • @reina3074
    @reina3074 Рік тому +1

    Are you a Lois Lowry fan Squidgy? Shes written some good stuff

    • @Squidgy
      @Squidgy  Рік тому +2

      I didn't know about Lois Lowry until today's Premiere, but I'm definitely going to look at some of the things she's written now!

    • @reina3074
      @reina3074 Рік тому

      @@Squidgy If you heard of The Giver, she wrote that series

  • @veghesther3204
    @veghesther3204 Рік тому

    Its doable depending on WHAT moves you give it else by default it sucks.

  • @ilovegarradors
    @ilovegarradors 11 місяців тому

    I like the sutble slow change of smeargle's tail color in the picture on the right as the video goes on.

  • @Mengz2169
    @Mengz2169 24 дні тому +1

    Love this! ❤😊

    • @Squidgy
      @Squidgy  24 дні тому

      Smeargle's one of my all-time favourite challenges, just because of how different each individual run can be!

  • @TheAngelChaz
    @TheAngelChaz Рік тому

    go lil smeargle! one of my fave pokemon glad it did so well with such limited stats :)

  • @eyedewtwo
    @eyedewtwo Рік тому

    Very cool run! I bet the routing for this one was complex, but a lot of fun nonetheless!

  • @andrewhaberkorn1687
    @andrewhaberkorn1687 Рік тому +1

    What an artist the creativity the utility the color and moves as well as the emotion truely a work of art (video) great job as always 🎉

    • @jay-5061
      @jay-5061 Рік тому

      It did really well given how pathetic its base stats are

  • @Chimaira222
    @Chimaira222 Рік тому

    I love your runs but i think theres one that could take it all. Kadabra

  • @kaileeheckathorn6826
    @kaileeheckathorn6826 Рік тому

    I love smeargle! Such a gimmick pokemon.
    Skarmory 👉👈🎵🎶

    • @Squidgy
      @Squidgy  Рік тому

      Skarmory's one I'm looking forward to running - I gave it a go a few months ago and we got walled by Lance, so I need to regroup and come up with a better strategy before doing the run!

  • @griifster99
    @griifster99 Рік тому

    How often do you accidentally run into either raikou or entei before your mon is strong enough to keep them away with repels?

    • @Squidgy
      @Squidgy  Рік тому

      It happens much less often than I'd expect - I think I've only seen them twice in total in runs

  • @MrHARRUT
    @MrHARRUT Рік тому

    LS Lowry , what an artist. year 7 arts only lesson

  • @BlackEscanor
    @BlackEscanor Рік тому

    I underestimated Smeargle

  • @nachosanz4630
    @nachosanz4630 Рік тому

    7:15 was that a Beatles reference?

  • @robertmcdonough2990
    @robertmcdonough2990 Рік тому

    Great work as always!!! :-) you even make pokemon I hate, very interesting.

    • @Squidgy
      @Squidgy  Рік тому +1

      I've got a soft spot for Smeargle - he used to help out with egg move breeding back in the old days, and his gimmick is more interesting than a lot of newer gimmick Pokémon!

    • @robertmcdonough2990
      @robertmcdonough2990 Рік тому

      ​@@Squidgyoh I will agree with you on this one!! :-)

  • @markjoslin4684
    @markjoslin4684 Рік тому

    The best moveset I ever used for Smeargle in Crystal was 1. Spore 2. Mind Reader 3. Guillotine 4. Leech Seed. I had to level up a Paras myself though to get a wild Smeargle to use Sketch and then catch it

  • @Muzgrob
    @Muzgrob Рік тому

    Really cool run with lots of neat details. It's such a unique pokemon for these types of runs.

    • @Squidgy
      @Squidgy  Рік тому +1

      Smeargle was my favourite run to produce. Having to take a deep dive into the inner workings of every trainer to cherrypick the best moves was certainly the most in-depth research I've ever done into a run. I reckon I could get a better time with some more optomised move choices, so this is another redo I'm excited to do!

    • @Muzgrob
      @Muzgrob Рік тому

      @@Squidgy I look forward to watching the redo!

  • @jonsparks5344
    @jonsparks5344 Рік тому

    I feel like i never naturally encountered Smeargle in gen 2 😅

    • @Squidgy
      @Squidgy  Рік тому +1

      He was so, so rare! I believe he was a 10% encounter in the hidden part of the Ruins of Alph! Another Gen 2 Pokémon tucked away so nobody could find him!

  • @VirtualVirtuoso101
    @VirtualVirtuoso101 Рік тому

    Did it bother anyone else that he kept Meditate when he learned Swords Dance? 😅

    • @Squidgy
      @Squidgy  Рік тому +1

      With the way this run panned out, there was no other option but to have both Swords Dance and Meditate on the learnset at the same time - we couldn't directly replace one with the other, so there was some overlap for 10 levels.

    • @VirtualVirtuoso101
      @VirtualVirtuoso101 Рік тому

      @@Squidgy ah yes I see it now. I was thinking why would you just not sketch over the meditate but I just looked and now see that that would’ve been a long time without the attack raising move lol

  • @styzek1
    @styzek1 Рік тому +1

    Love how creative you were with this one! Great work

    • @Squidgy
      @Squidgy  Рік тому

      Cheers, Michael! I wanted to make this run as unique as possible, and I like to think I succeeded

  • @nate_freeman18
    @nate_freeman18 Рік тому

    I recently discovered your channel from the Feraligatr run (my favourite Pokémon) and I really enjoy the other videos, this one included. Great video!

    • @Squidgy
      @Squidgy  Рік тому

      Thanks, Nathan! I'm really glad you're enjoying the runs!

  • @robertomolina1986
    @robertomolina1986 Рік тому

    Great work, a really fun run 🎉

  • @Kanbei11
    @Kanbei11 Рік тому +1

    That was a great run, was surprised at how well smeargle did in the end even though perhaps I shouldn't be with normal hitting almost everything for neutral damage

    • @Squidgy
      @Squidgy  Рік тому

      Smeargle's Normal typing definitely gave him a boost, but having access to almost any move in the game definitely helped the time out!

    • @Kanbei11
      @Kanbei11 Рік тому

      @@Squidgy helped but your excellent choice in routeing too. I was surprised how easily you were able to get good moves

    • @Squidgy
      @Squidgy  Рік тому +1

      This run was almost 6 months in the planning phase. I looked at literally every trainer's learnset to try and figure out the best routing, but in hindsight, I think there is still some room for improvement.
      I might try replacing Fire Punch with a sleep move for the Steelix, and brute force with HP Ground instead of doing the Fire Punch method

    • @dj0tiny
      @dj0tiny Рік тому

      @@Squidgy is there a pokemon with mimic early game

    • @Squidgy
      @Squidgy  Рік тому

      Mimic's the signature move of Sudowoodo in Gen 2, so that'd be the only opportunity to Sketch it