Natu Only - Pokemon Crystal
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Rules:
1. Only my starter in battle
2. No items in battle, except held items
3. No glitches, exploits, save states, or RNG manipulation
4. No evasion moves before level 100*
Rule details:
-- *In gen1, evasion boosting is allowed if the Pokemon does it through means other than learning the move by level up or TM. For example, using Mimic or Mirror Move to boost evasion is allowed. (This exception is to keep ranking consistent with my legacy videos.)
-- I am allowed to manipulate my starter
-- I play the game at 4x game speed
-- For fair comparisons all my Pokemon have perfect (or near perfect) DVs / IVs
-- I am allowed to catch HM users - I can use all field moves
-- All in-battle glitches are allowed in generation 1
-- In generation 1, I'm allowed to skip Marowak with the Poke Doll
-- Surge's trash-can-puzzle is automatically solved
-- The bike is allowed in gen1, banned in gen2, and allowed for bypassing terrain in gen3
-- Saving between league members is allowed
-- If the solo Pokemon faints and I choose to blackout it counts towards my reset counter
-- I can pause the game and timer to take breaks
-- The footage is sped up / slowed down to match the pace of my narration
-- The ability Pickup can only be used if the starter has it
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Those new stats you're tracking are pretty exciting, you could use them to develop a "luck quotient" for how lucky your runs are
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I always liked how Xatu looked up as if he thought acknowledging his opponent was beneath him. He had a very regal presence.
Natu/Xatu is a personal favorite of mine, possibly just because green happens to be a favorite color of mine or maybe because I actually found a shiny one in my original copy of Silver. Ever since it's been a staple for my teams anytime I revisit Johto, even if mostly only to learn the fly HM after it evolves... or if I'm using fixed stats, also giving it hidden power psychic for STAB before Kanto.
It really is a shame about it move pool though. I can sort of see what they were going for not giving it confusion or psybeam to help put emphasis on future sight as its main gimmick, but while interesting in concept, that move is absolutely lousy in execution, and at the very least it needed to be way stronger for how awkward it is to use.
i feel at this point a real challenge would be a run without return as it seem to be the go to for any pokemon run.
It really does seem to be the "click this to win" for gen 2. Then again having to take it out and redo all the other pkmn at this point for rankings is. . . A lot.
@@bradlauk1419 Something to do once the list is complete.
If that was the case same should be with rest and body slam in gen 1 since it is basically go to moves in those games. Return isn't game breaking strong like double team, and for most mons it is the only real option seeing that most gen2 mons are just terrible with no real movesets
@@superkubus-nk8lb he honestly should try gen 1 runs without those two moves more
Return is a great move, but the real problem is that learn sets in gens 1 and 2 are often so terrible that there are very few viable alternatives. Banning it probably just means leveling up way more and then fighting with worse moves.
This poor guy may see some serious struggle with how smol he is, but at least psychic will happen eventually. Night Shade could be a pretty solid carry as well. Idk. I'm not expecting more than a C tier finish, but I'm rooting for a solid placement in that tier
I guess I was feeling ambitious. To be fair I've not used this thing very much at all
You should get a playthrough with the iconic bad Pokémon of Gen 2 - how well does Sunkern do?
Mah-Dry-Bread did that
@@ShadowtheUA-camr523 but Scott hasnt!
@@theSato you want to put him through that shit too?
@@ShadowtheUA-camr523he needs to suffer too
30 base stats for everything is a horror. 😂
The fact that you keep adding more and more stats is my favorite thing about this series. You really are one of the most unique and interesting PokeTubers out there. Please keep up the amazing content!
I promise to continue working to bring more impactful stats like bonks!
Fun fact: I found 2 shiny Natu in pokemon Go before I found a single ditto
That sounds unfun
I caught a perfect ditto before I got a Mewtwo.
2 shiny kickballs??
I found 3 shiny Ditto before a single shiny Natu.
Maybe niche usage of Future Sight could come into play?
I mean, Andrew Davis managed to in his own run, though he also said he had to do it even in unimportant battles, and it really slowed him down.
Your overlay is incredible at this point. And the level of analysis is really cool. Keep it up.
i would reallly like to see how having drill peck changes the playthroughs time.
Drill peck is definitely one of those egg moves that can really make a big difference for a lot of pokemon
This.
Lorelei's Slowbro has a terrible moveset in Gen 1 though, it's really only her Lapras that's a threat. lol But it does suck how awful Natu got it. It does feel weird how it doesn't get at least Psybeam. But I don't mind you have to go out of your way to find Pokemon, since it adds to finding new areas to explore and rewards exploration.
In Red/Blue sure, but in Yellow it dumps Growl and Water Gun for Psychic and Surf. Amnesia becomes quite a bit more concerning with dual-STABs like those.
@@SquallLionhart409 True. And there's no denying Slowbro is a great Pokemon in Gen 1, however one issue with the game is how it often punishes the use of slower Pokemon with how Wrap and status work, not to mention the high critical hits based on speed. Auto crit Razor Leafs, Speedy Thunderbolts and such can take care of it. II suppose it can do damage with STAB of its two typings, but you can manage that with status to avoid damage or with the optiions above.
@@Surgemaster2012 Slowbro is pretty tanky, so it can survive quite a bit. Critical hits are a detriment to a pokemon that has setup in gen 1, so Slowbro appreciates the low rate. Amnesia doubling your special means Slowbro flat beats most speedy thunderbolts. This is specifically in-game where you have a level/stat exp advantage OR use items. A Jolteon switching in on a Slowbro using Amnesia actually loses if it doesn't get a crit on one of its first two attacks. The problem comes from those autocrit razor leaf attacks. The only upside there is that all pokemon that know razor leaf are weak to psychic.
@@Surgemaster2012 what about Toby?
Bonks was a much needed stat track 🤣 otherwise, wow I really thought natu had a better move pool. I also never used it purely because it was out of the way.
Would love to see the wall bonks vs date recorded plot in the future. See if you improve with time! Also with the percentage of time in battle statistic it could be possible to create an "effective time" for each pokemon. I know you didn't like how clustered all the pokemon were in this series I would guess that it is mostly because so much of the game is cake walk regardless of the pokemon chosen the effective time might spread that distribution out a fair bit.
Natu is my BFF's favourite Pokémon. He used it as his pfp for years, and sometimes roleplayed as it. I haven't talked to him in years. Lost contact with the forum we were both members of. I miss you, Raylas.
Slugma is coming up? Dude! I love that guy. I use to catch him, hatch em and put em on a different cartridge so I could play through with em on my team from the start
Hey, so I got an idea, but also, I was curious what you thought of the Goodra, I was working on a Yanmega, but had another idea. It’s been a debate if Meganium is actually bad or if it was just given a bad hand by being put in a region that is hard on grass types, so I’d love to see how Meganium would do in Kanto. I think for the sprites you could probably use the Silver sprites from Spaceworld 99 as they’re unique and bizarrely seem to have been made with the Super Game Boy palette in mind as there’s some weird shading despite Spaceworld 99 having the same palette as the final mostly.
Yeah I want to backport Meganium!
Xatu is still my favorite psychic type from johto, I think Natu would perform slightly better with Faint Attack and Drill peck at the start. But definitely needed for Xatu.
Natu's movepool surprisingly bad, but I'm sure they gave it better moves in future gens! Let's see...
In Gen 3, they gave it Wish at Level 30... and that's it by Level up. And although the TM's availaable are a BIT bette, you're only getting Thief as a reliable Special move again until the second half of the game.
What about Gen 4? Well, it looks like they gave Natu a bunch of moves to work with. Problem is, stuff like Lucky Chant, Me First, and Power Swap are not your typical go-to moves in a solo run. Ominous Wind is a nice addition... at Level 39. You still only get Psychic as a STAB Special move by level up though. But hey, at least the TM for Shadow Ball is useful now as a coverage option! AND you get Grass Knot as your early game special move. That's not exactly great though...
Even in Sword/Shield, its latest appearence, Natu is mostly relying on Peck and Night Shade until it gets Psychic, which thankfully is now at Level 35.
Much as I like this line, it isn't particularly good in a solo setting. It's a bit better as a member of a full team and in competitive thanks to tools like Baton Pass, Magic Bounce, and Wish, but for solo runs it's pretty bleh.
That Future Sight strat against Whitney was so big brain! This is why I love Pokémon
Also, it made me smile how excited you got when you talked about that. Your passion for these games is palpable and that’s why you are so good at this job!
There's no way you can take Future Sight out of his movepool
Looking into the future is basically what Natu&Xatu do with their life
imo Natu should learn it even sooner
as type effectiveness doesn't apply it could have been useful against Jasmine ? but more so against Pryce and his piloswine
Natu could probably by pass the blizzard problem the same way it bypassed the rollout problem
Also there was some time were Nightshade could be useful.
Like, it could two shot the gengar in the first Morty fight (don't know how the second one went) while peck was a three hit.
one move every 10 lvl is boring.. Early gen are dry movewise.
I’m curious how Xatu will perform. With the exception of better stats and access to fly, Xatu suffers from the same problems as Natu. In fact, Xatu learns psychic, future sight, and confuse ray even LATER than Natu! One could argue that Xatu will perform worse than Natu.
Have you thought about doing runs based off the rivals team? Could be a nice switch up from the single mon runs.
Yeah, I’ve thought about doing an NPC series
Hi Scott. Would it be possible to do a Gen 1 run with Starmie but with a full moveset? For example starting off with Psychic, Surf, Thunderbolt and Ice beam/blizzard. I’d love to see just how quick it could beat the game
Prediction before watching:
Natu's stats are pretty unremarkable for an unevolved pokemon. Not good, but also not exceptionally terrible. Its movepool however is pretty disappointing. Not getting any psychic moves until lv 50 is just so terrible. At least it gets night shade for consistent damage.
In all I expect natu to end up in the E tier.
Honestly Xatu's design and general lore has always interested me, and I do have some personal attachment to Natu specifically through using it for Magic Bounce in LC (very fun to use, and flavor wise both mons function just as their design intended in battle; using prediction). That all being said, that doesn't necessarily mean it's good competitively at all before gen 5 lmao great run
Check out GSC NU. You can put Xatu on any team and wreck shit because its the best mon in the tier by far
Another one of those Pokémon I've liked from a design perspective but never got around to utilising. Natu was always a distinct bird and I hope it does well in this Johto challenge. The opening line about badly designed doesn't bode well.
0:39 - Huh... never really thought of it like that. Typically if a stronger trainer used a Pokémon, particularly if it was their Ace, I would try and avoid using that Pokémon. Then again, kid me often had his team assembled before the 3rd gym so...
3:12 - Giga Drain is... odd choice for it to learn. I wonder what the reasoning for that is. I suppose it is totem based and they were usually made of wood (though some could be made of Rock... the line seems like the type that would fit Ancient Power). Honestly, I'm surprised how fast Natu/Xatu are.
5:45 - The Flying type Gym's most powerful move; a Ground-type attack.
7:39 - Gen 2 does like it's Flying types; introduced more in that Gen than any other type.
10:05 - I always thought that was pretty interesting, facing an opponent who has stone evolved their Pokémon early. It actually makes in-game sense unlike Lance and his early evolving Dragonites.
14:49 - So Circle here isn't easily confused... but certainly likes to sleep.
16:25 - It's been a while since I watched a Crystal Solo Challenge of yours so it's surprise to see Nob with official art here. Cool to see, particularly knowing why said trainer is named Nob.
18:54 - Oh no, that is tragic. Losing to Pryce of all people. You truly did pay for the Electrode incident (that also made me feel guilty; very dark moment).
20:40 - Confuse Ray and Night Shade is a nice combo for dealing with a defensive juggernaut like Steelix.
21:27 - Even if they did, they would have likely slapped it on at Level 60. They seemed to really want to stick with that new move per 10 levels thing they had going. Also, despite the abundance of new Flying types they introduced, they added only one new Flying type attack in Gen 2... and it was Lugia's signature move.
25:46 - The Natu versus Xatu showdown was surprisingly one-sided. Not quite the epic encounter you'd expect from a battle against your evolved counterpart.
27:54 - Given you haven't really used Peck since learning Psychic, I'm rather curious as to why you got rid of Confuse Ray instead. It seems like the confusion status is very effective against you here and using Confuse Ray could be a good gamble move against the Pokémon you can't one-hit.
33:13 - The final test; a random Parasect! I just felt the timing here was hilarious.
36:28 - The amount of Critical Hits across a whole playthrough seem a lot lower than I would have expected. Interesting to hear about the amount of battles fought (not quite sure the amount of frames is worth tracking but the other data is interesting).
38:36 - Well I've been ignoring Future Sight for too long then because that is an amazing concept. Being able to use the first Pokémon's lower stats against the stronger Pokémon that follows is amazing.
41:58 - Strange to be able to consider Steel type Jasmine trivial with a Psychic/Flying type of all things.
45:33 - A bit sad to have two of "my" Pokémon listed as bad Pokémon but it will be cool to see their solo challenges. Best of luck with them!
I wonder if there's some more future sight tech that could be used to make Karen possible at a lower level.
Set up some future sight damage against the comparatively weak Murkrow, locking in the damage based on its stats (only 42 base special defense) then knock it out and let the Houndoom take the hit. Presumably, this could make things less consistent elsewhere though.
It's such an odd move mechanically, makes it interesting to theorycraft around.
Imagine being one of the strongest trainers in the world, and some dude walks up with a small green bird and solos your entire team.
Circle? That's adorable!
Mind you, I'd have gone with Short Round. He hangs around ancient ruins after all.
Wobbuffet fact: Its about 130cm (4'03'') Tall wich is about the size of a kickboxing punching bag
Just starting the video and cheering on little Circle but I did want to mention there is an interesting edge case with Future Sight. Healing items in Gen II are no longer retroactive like in Gen I, so Future Sight can potentially be timed to finish off a Pokemon that's on low health without triggering the use of a healing item. If you know you're going to hit a Pokemon into Future Sight KO range on that turn, you essentially get to blow past the healing threshold. It's definitely an edge case scenario though and pretty hard to actually make work (and as a result, might not be worth the slot on the moveset for obvious reasons), but you never know, it might come up some day. Now back to the video!
Oh wow it came up! That's the cool thing about Pokemon, there's always unintuitive strategies that can get you on top. :D
Just imagine an anime rendition of this. A Natu beating the elite 4 + champion in 5 back to back consecutive fights, using peck and nightshade.
Improvements are improvements I suppose, still this poor tiny bird got done so dirty considering how good it should be just based on which dual typing it got and its decent base stats.
We need an egg move video series!
Scott, thanks again for an amazing video! The new run statistics are really cool!
We do need it!
The kemono sisters should all be done without saving or healing between battles, that'd make them a fun minibus and more of a noteworthy part of the run. Sincerely, the Eevee guy
Would be cool if we could get a live bonk counter on the layout. This is critical information!
move set not great but room for potential? I expect a painful first run but still like a D tier finish. red and blue are gonna be rough
When you say you don't allow a pokedoll in the fight against the red gyrados, how do you think about skipping the rocket hideout with the pokedoll glitch on the marowak?
Additional idea (for streams maybe): For bad pokemon you could do redos and allow yourself an egg move, like eggsceptional does in his versus videos to see how much it makes them better.
I skip the hideout because it is incredibly boring. Doesn’t add anything of value to narrate, plus this is how speedrunners do it.
I have to disagree. I loved natu as a kid.
I tried using the xatu line in crystal myself and it was just so hard to use, the moveset i used on my female xatu: swagger, attract, fly , futuresight. This set was actually quite gimmecky and fun to use but just not what I expected going into this playthrough.
pokemon crystal but every time you bonk into a wall you have to restart the game lmao
Boi as a child Xatu carried my first run ever in crystal. Xatu and Suicuine got me to lance. Never got to Red with that save file, end game was to hard for a 8 year old ;)
Before watching:
Interesting one. The stats aren‘t too bad. Decent speed and special attack for a first stage pokemon. And psychic and flying are nice types that give a lot of benefits. Peck and Leer to start will make the early game rather easy since you‘ll have STAB. Yes, from the weak physical side, but still, STAB early on will help. And Nightshade will give you consistent damage against any Rock pokemon.
The mid game will be trickier, since you don‘t have many great moves and coverage. Once you get Future Sight there will probably be some interesting strats where you have to prolong the battle until the move can hit. All in all, the mid game will be rough.
Biggest problem in that phase will be Jasmine and Karen‘s Umbreon and Houndoom. Those will cause a lot of trouble.
And then late game will be easy until Blue and Red which will cause huge issues, especially Snorlax.
My expectation is that this one will be rather difficult. A lot of very easy fights but the road blocks will be TOUGH and really add a lot of time!
After watching:
About as expected. Maybe a bit worse than I thought. I figured „Future Sight“ might be more useful in the mid game until you got psychic. Else it‘s about as expected. Middle of the game is rough and Umbreon is a problem.
The move set is really frustratingly bad. And for no apparent reason. There are plenty of moves you could just give Natu without any additional explanation. Psybeam, Drill Peck, Confusion, Fly…
Why it didn‘t get any of those is really a mystery to me.
It gets Drill Peck as an Egg move, so there is at least that…
I'm currently at the Morty portion of the video as I start typing this, and I'm here to offer more help and advice.
I think you made an early moveset mistake. You know you're going to be using mostly physical moves for this run, and you start out early with Leer. Your only flying type option is Peck, which you held onto for a long time, and then you picked up Return and Swift. With this in mind, you could have chosen to keep Leer and not learn Teleport.
Miltank was a great example of this in action. Swift and Return didn't do all that much damage against Miltank. In cases in which your total TTK is quite high (roughly 4 hits or more) then Leer will give you a whole bunch of value as it will result in less total turns required to knock a Pokemon out, thus saving you HP and PP. For example, if you need 5 hits to knock something out, then you can use Leer and that could reduce their DEF enough that they now need 3 hits. With Leer included, that's a 4TK compared to a 5HK when you straight up attack, which means that's one less hit you're taking. With Return being such a big part of your run, you could have gotten so much Mileage out of this move.
Another (super tiny) thing to point out is that, just before taking on Morty, you ate a Sand Attack to the face, but then gambled on missing with Return, while under the effects of Curse. If you had missed, taken a hit, and then taken Curse damage, that's a reset. Swift would have been much safer. If a lower BP move will finish off a low-HP target, it's generally better to use that weaker move you don't click much to close out that KO, as it saves you PP on your main attacking move, and in this case, has the added benefit of circumventing Sand Attack.
Your struggles against Umbreon are an example of how a moveset of Return/Swift/Leer/Psychic may have been better than Night Shade, which falls off in how useful it is the higher the levels and/or base HP of the opponent.
Good tips.
I think the 4 moves you are using look better at the bottom rather than the top left
Tate and Liza make a way better case for Xatu than Will ever did
A metric that I'd love to see for each run is non-Rare Candy XP. That is, how much XP did the Pokemon gain through battle alone?
For me, it's a far more interesting number than final level, removing the level-up group effect on how much training a Pokemon had to do in order to beat the game. Bonus points if the metric distinguishes between raw total non-RC XP and XP above mandatory XP from minimum battles. I'd love the idea of being able to say "this Pokemon needed Y XP above minimum battles to beat the game", with the potential to comment on efficiency about when and how that XP was gained. Bonus bonus points if the time in non-mandatory battles is also tracked as a metric, allowing you to say "this Pokemon needed Y XP above minimum battles to beat the game, which added Z to its game time". I imagine that would be a little trickier to add though, given that you'd need to internally label which battles are mandatory and which battles are not, whereas with XP the mandatory XP could just be a set variable based on out of game calculation.
Tracking Rare Candy XP (and average XP per Rare Candy used) could also be fun for commenting on how efficiently the Rare Candies are used in that run - higher XP from Rare Candies means more bang for your buck. This would be more of a novelty metric than a serious one to track though.
That is interesting! I’ll try to find a way to track that conveniently.
I kinda want to know who would be faster belosim or vileplume
Scott, please do a metronome-only run! Like a team of 6 Pokémon of your choice but they only have 4 slots of metronome.
BONK
I feel like Xatu would be a great run. Natu, though, not so much
Xatu has the same movepool problems except it gets Fly, but Psychic gets pushed back to lv 65/Kanto.
@@shiro1744 true but much higher bst
long live the bonk counter!
It would be fun to see a few runs of F tier pokemon with ideal conditions (best egg moves in addition to optimal DVs/IVs, best nature, etc.), just to see how that would change things.
Gotta have stuff to stream right?
I love how Whitney's Clefairy whipped that Zap Cannon out of her ass and not missed, lololol 😭😭
I know! Ridiculous.
Something I feel like would be very interesting is number of times you used a move, especially if you can get a time-resolved graph of it. Especially to see how Hidden Power influences playthroughs - which Pokemon really depend on it, and which need it only for a few key moments.
I should find a way to track that.
I had no idea Future Sight worked like that! What a cool strat! =3
There's actually a Pokémon escape room challenge that made use of Natu not being able to learn Fly. It forced you to evolve it into Xatu so you could use Fly to escape. So hey, at least there's that.
Also, I was wondering when Pryce would finally score a win. I did not expect two. XD
Is it a first for the channel that you lost to Pryce?
I lost with Gligar and Murkrow too
Honestly, its SpA isn't THAT much better than its Atk. Like, ~33 points at Lv.85 is a fair bit (around 18%) but it's not super lopsided like the 40% higher BASE SpA would suggest.
Interestingly, Xatu has two big additions: Hyper Beam and Fly. Considering how long you kept Peck, I suspect that might make it a rather different playthrough. (Plus, you know, higher stats across the board.) A huge demerit, though, is it doesn't get Psychic until *_Level 65_* which is mighty awful.
Unrelated, it's possibly something you've heard before and you just don't care, I dunno, but Kanto has a soft "a" sound. 🙂 I debated mentioning this, but figured it'd be better to just say it and let you do with that what you will...
I like Natu because he is a round little birb. Even if they are not statistically good (seriously, Xatu only has base 95 Special Attack and Speed. Not even 100), I still love the Natu line.
Also yay a run with Mr. No Arms! (Wooper) coming soon
Fun video Scott! I remember doing a playthrough with Natu/Xatu in FRLG when I was younger and it was just....not good. Drill peck from the beginning would be interesting though.
I laughed out loud at the 38 minute mark when you are making your remarks about having to resort to future sight, that it sounds like you are putting your head in your hands because you are in such disbelief of the choices you have to make. Please tell me that's the case.
Keep up the great work my friend! Love the wall bonk counter.
I just looked up Natu's level up learn set going forward and holy cow, this thing gets no attacking moves added until Sword and Shield with Stored Power at 17, Ominous Wind at 20 and Psychic moved to 33.
You say you can't use a pokedoll to get past the red Gyarados, but don't you use them to cut out Cubone's dearly departed progenitor at the pokegraveyard in Gen 1?
Yeah but that's because uhh umm
Yeah... I was about to comment this, but then I saw yours. btw which is better for the algorithm? this reply or a fresh new comment?
This is an inconsistency because of historical precedent.
nice updates !!!
20:25 Since you got lucky with confusing the 1st magnemite to hit itself twice and didn't use up your przcureberry, you only needed to use Night Shade on the 2nd magnemite to 2HKO it. Confusing the 2nd magnemite was unnecessary.
Ever since I was little, I liked Natu and Xatu thanks to their design and typing.
But then I tried to use them and uuh... yeah, their movepool is so awful that even young me was like "nope I am not doing this".
To this day, I never finished a playthrough with it on my team.
It's quite sad really, they might not be amazing stat-wise, but they would be decent single player Pokemon if they just had a better movepool.
Even with STAB, because every type that resists normal also resists flying I'm pretty sure the only instance where Peck is better than Return is against Ghost types and you're better off with another move against them for much of the playthrough so I feel like Peck was kept way too long
Another person referencing Psypoke for data this week! First MDB, now you! I'm surprised, since it hasn't had an update in years. Is there something about the color scheme that you like, or is it just the first thing that showed up?
Smol birb bonking through Johto 😄
9:45 i ALWAYS fight that trainer JUST so they know what it's like to be forced to battle whilst minding your own business 😂
Scott, you're breaking my heart man, I thought you were gunna name Natu or Xatu after me for becoming a patreon 😢😢😢 I also thought you were gunna do natu or xatu for a Columbus Day special because hes like a totem pole
When i was a child I loved xatu, not because of the pokemon, but because of its name. The name xatu sounds like "chato", which in portuguese means annoying, and I found it hilarious.
Going into Kanto with Peck on the moveset. At level 68. With a Natu. I totally expected Kanto to be significantly worse than it was. Curse really do be one of those moves.
Gen 2 is all about keeping all the good moves away from 90% of the mons. I hope you enjoy Return and Hidden Power my friends. XD
#BringBackDennis
Natu is very cute and Xatu looks pretty cool. Sadly movepool and learnset both suck. And it's set up to be pretty good due to balanced base stats too. Why sabotage it so much it can't take advantage of those balanced base stats GameFreak why? 😞
You lost to Price twice, the Johto Bruno of ice. 😢 That's not nice.
I also love when you find a use for "useless" moves. I hope zatu does a lot better, I love the way these birds look.
Looks wise Natu and Xatu are up there for my favorite flying type Pokemon so it's so sad that Gamefreak did them dirty like this. Dunno what their thought process was to not even give them confusion as a early or mid level up move.
Natu is one of my favorite Psychic types and one of my favorite Flying types. Part of this is just because of its name - NATu and me being NATe/NAThan.
I fully thought this was a video like Misdreavus in Yellow, one of the back-ports. Feels like such a Gen 3 Pokemon to me
Do a run with Misty's Psyduck. Bonking its head into the wall 1500+ times, it will be unstoppable!
There may be room for 'what if egg move' runs in the future, since there are some moves that just make me wonder why the only way a species can get a move is to go out of your way to breed it. The biggest offender is drill peck Murkrow.
Honestly I'm still reeling from the fact that Natu and Slugma are gen 2 Pokemon. My whole life, I thought they were introduced in gen 3!
Your sleep luck with Natu is highly ironic given that its ability going forward is Early Bird... which makes it more likely to wake up each turn.
I remember finding Natu. I was exploring everywhere in my first playthrough of Silver, I wanted to find Scizor, and Lo and Behold, this little birb shows up and I catch it. Fast forward to the E4 and He was carrying the team as a my sweeper. 8 outta 10, xatu and Natu are good birbs.
We had the same childhood
I thought xatu was so cool when I was younger, and using it on a team was a huge disappointment in finding out that its stats aren't built for attacking and that it has a pretty bad moveset even in hgss. still I do like the pokemon, and I've been hoping to find a way to take advantage of its support moves.
There's a video talking about the moves that bypass type effectiveness. So while future sight does not gain stab if you equipped your pokemon with the twisted spoon the move is still boosted 10%
(Too bad the Twisted Spoon is stuck to a time machined Kadabra...)
Makes no sense
@@bradlauk1419 Snowy did a deep dive into the "typeless" moves in which Struggle and Future sight are apart of. It is an amazing video.
Yeah, Snowy’s vids are amazing.
I think if your Pokémon has an egg move or a event move it could learn, I think those should be legal. Especially if it helps solve a problem.
i never used natu because i couldnt find it, but i personally like its evolutions design. i live close to Oklahoma and New Mexico, so ive seen quite a few of those bird totems in my day
Crazy thing I looked up while watching this. Apparently, Xatu can learn Hyper Beam, Flash, and Fly. On a side note, I believe Night Shade could be handy to dodge potion ranges when you are certain you can't one hit the pokemon.
pretty much every fully evolved pokemon gets access to hyper beam so that's nothing special
I've always wanted to like these wonky little birds, but Game Freak apparently think I shouldn't.
If we're picking hidden powers would you consider egg moves to help fix poemon that struggle without them?
I would love to see (every once in a while when it is mentionable) the time/level stats like in your second Chuck fight....
confuse ray vs the second Magnemite provided no additional benefit over just using night shade twice since you had your berry still
0:26 I got to will and saw this cool psychic flying bird and thought I want one of those on my team... it was only when I used it that I decided I didn't. Some of us did think it seemed cool.
Turns out that GF knew that Natu's biggest weakness was 5 turns sleep, so they gave him early bird.
Fun fact nightshade is a busted move in gen 2. Most all the pokemon in johto are so low leveled that dealing damage based on level is really really good
Why don't add a bonk optimization formula for adjusted time? At least a bonk counter.
stats! stats! BONK! Stats! Awesome job as always, and pretty cool to have more statistics about your runs
Anyone else sometimes think the bright spot next to silvers animation kinda looks like an unown? Idk why my brain always sees it 😂