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Stronger than a Machop Protagonist of PMD with Attract and Focus Energy + Karate Chop + Low Kick linked (He solos all the birds and Rayquaza without Revival Seeds if you try enough)

Im watching this and just chuckling because that route from Lavender to Fuschia was the way I went in all my years playing gen 1 only recently did i start going down southwest lol

speaking of Gym Leaders can you do ruby and sapphire Tate and Liza rng hell if you want a good time?

I always wondered why I despised going to Southeast Kanto 😂

Hey, im wondering why in Werster's famous "May 2" Video the rival leads with a Wingull that ends his run with one growl. I know May leads Wingull and Brendan leads Slugma so then why does he choose to be a boy in that run?

the worst problem with this area is that it makes the game non-linear, but for no reason. It's cool to have a non-linear rpg on the game boy, but if youre gonna do that, it really ought to be carefully designed. what we got is pretty clumsy

Not gonna watch this, however I understand how hard a PB is. Congratulations!!

You should rank the Safari zones next

Might be my fave gen 1/2 area

I think it was supposed to be the main road for those who didn't obtain HMs or bike, so it is like paying your less success in the side-game quests.

As far as “what purpose does it serve” I would say you’re right - there’s no apparent game mechanic or incentive for its existence. But the extra trainers and EXP are really helpful for the jump in difficulty following Erika. You get the Super Rod here and it’s another opportunity to catch the rare Snorlax. It’s as optional as the bike path is too, btw; and as noted, both have drawbacks. From a dev standpoint, it kind of is filler, but when the routes directly surrounding Saffron City are so short and generally uninteresting, you have to fill the extra space in the map somehow haha. And I think they did a good job to make it interesting from a world-building perspective. The fishing community on the piers; the birdkeepers and junior trainers using the fence maze (which is interesting, even if annoying) as a guaranteed way to improve their skill with passing trainers. It’s neat! All this to say I also don’t really like Southeast Kanto lmao but I almost always fight the trainers there for the EXP.

I feel like his champion battle team in Red/Blue is very good strategically. I still use it today

I think a large part of it is you are looking at it in the eyes of someone who has played it all, looking in hindsight. When I played FRLG as a kid, I couldn't find the tea to give the cops to get into Saffron, so I took cycling road down to fuschia. I beat Koga, but couldn't find surf, so I went the only option that was left, and that was South East Kanto. I didn't know it was going to be hollow, but I enjoyed facing more trainers, and gave me a Dark Souls Fire Link Shrine elevator moment (as someone who got the map and forgot about it). I was then able to circle back around to Celadon, find the tea, go to Saffron, instead of begrudgingly backtracking up cycling road. SE Kanto is simply an option to go if you get stumped without forcing the player to turn around. They could have been better designed routes with better pay off in them, but as a kid going in blind, it's more game to play, and a potential way forward if you are lost. Although I was pissed about the tea thing since the cops were like, "I'm so thirsty," when I had the fucking fresh water in my bag, and was just yelling, "TAKE IT! IT'S WATER! YOU WON'T BE THIRSTY!" As an adult it, makes me even more mad Gen I had it right, then they chose to change the puzzle for Gen III.

In the show Gary gets ten badges maybe they should have put another town or two in where you can have the option to get more badges make it some sort of achievement but they did not maybe a budget cut or something…

Was a great video, have a lovely week

Never even thought about this before. GF have a tendency of beta testing future ideas that show up in future games in the generation before it so maybe that’s something to do with it. Also trainer battles are always good for exp, no matter how annoying that may be.

I just prefer pixel-art esp Yellow/Gen2 sprites and simple mechanics: no natures, no abilities, no IVs, no EVs... I think TMs/HMs just saturate the movepools and make the games boring. What if every Flying Pokemon could "Fly" and every Water Pokemon could "Surf" from the menu without ever knowing the move... What if movepools were more niche, like only Blastoise could learn Water Gun as Squirtle and Hydro Cannon as Blastoise and no other Pokemon could learn those moves... Everytime I see Gen1 Seaking I think, dang it learns Waterfall naturally before it was ever an HM how cool is that... then I'm reminded that Surf outclasses every water move and saturates every Water Pokemon...

XP and money farming, and the pp up is nice for anything with moves like ice beam, psychic, or flamethrower. Plus, the swift goes great on a Persian imo. For speed running or other challenges and on its own merits as a route, it's definitely not the best, but if they just redesigned it a bit it'd be perfect.

What a MaChad 🙏

The only thing holding Hideki's Machop back is not utilizing the affection mechanic to have a passive +1 boost to critical hit rate. If that was present you REALLY don't want him to Low Sweep you after Focus Energy, because then you can't rely on being lucky enough to not get hit by a crit. He would ALWAYS crit you.

Hope you'll have a good day

Brawly: I need powerful trainers to make my gym a proper test for challengers. Hideki: *sneaks steroids into his Machop* Got it, boss!

Thank god we finally got to see the Nidoking die you were edging us the whole video

Pay Day may not be a great attack, but it is notably one of the few ways to make money in gen1, especially once every Trainer gets wiped out (the E4 and Champion being the only ones that can be rematched indefinitely). Pikasprey even did a Softlock video pointing out how it's possible to completely screw yourself if your save file no longer has a source of money (especially in Red and Yellow, where you're unable to catch Meowth, the only Pokemon that learns Pay Day naturally).

Gen 3's cycling road felt like the most fun to do over again because of that dude at the bottom that told you your number of collisions and total time to reach him. I went back up the road and tried to improve my time on several times until I was happy with the result. It doesn't mean anything, but sometimes, you just wanna do the challenge because you know you can do better than your earlier performances, so you aim for that. I mostly remember spending a lot of time on Gen 4's route to hatch eggs, going up and down that bridge SO MANY TIMES! In my head I started to rename it the egg hatching bridge. Overall I agree with this list. Gen 3 definitely had the best one. A few turns and a reason to go back and do it again, should you be competitively inclined. Even if that competition is only with yourself and doesn't offer a tangible reward.

5:23 you can’t go back through Eterna Forest, Floramora, Mt Coronet to bypass the cycling road?

SE Kanto is purely for training.

Excellent ranking

I loved doing wheelies with the Acro bike!

So he kills your speedrun by using a move that lowers your speed stat? You have to admit that's pretty funny

I took SE kanto the first 2 or 3 times i played because I couldn't figure out how to get the bike as a child. That's why it's there.

I want to take this moment to complain about Let's Go's Not-Cycling road isn't a bridge or pretending to be a bridge, so the boats are all landlocked.

In fairness, IIRC Pokemon gen 1 was originally meant to be quite a lot bigger than it ended up being due to lack of memory space among other things. Case in point the trainer in Cinnabar who claims your Raichu evolves because originally Pikachu was a 3 evolution monster #justiceforGorochu. A good few of the pokemon who were designed for gen 1 didn't end up making it into pokemon until gen 2 due to game limitations. It's possible originally SEKanto was meant to contain more towns and/or optional gyms along the lines of Celadon's fighting dojo maybe? Certainly it probably contained more pokemon that would have been unique to that route. If you take the anime into consideration where Gary shows off his ten badges when every pokemon fan knows there's only 8 possible gyms could there have been plans originally for more gyms? It certainly always seems more.. barren than the other areas in terms of things to do. I also wonder if there wasn't originally more to do with the power plant that never made it into fruition. The powerplant always felt a bit shoved in there last minute to me, with no indication unless you're determined to explore every single nook and cranny heading back to an area that by the time you have surf you have no need to head back to, just to find a power plant with no logical explanation for it ever having been needed within the storyline. Even the final cave holding Mewtwo is given more signs that it exists and holds something big, but that powerplant? Nothing. Have to wonder how many other things got left on the cutting room floor and never picked up again even on the remakes because they weren't needed in the end.

slugma being only available on cycling road is why many people (myself included) thought that it was a gen3 pokemon

I think that the Cycling Road phasing out from Gen V onwards may also be related to how the Unova games have many bridges, and these are long and largely uninterrupted stretches - they're definitely not replacements & don't have all the same functions as a Cycling Road, but are similar enough that it would feel redundant w/ all the bridges around.

I read somewhere that Kanto's cycling road is THE prefered method to reach Fuchsia city, and it blew my mind bc everytime I play RBY/FRLG, I go down Lavander town to reach Fuchsia city. I always thought the cylcing road was a grinding, optional area

Nice

I always thought I was crazy when it came to this fight. It all makes sense now.

I think this is an area that would have benefitted greatly from a "rest stop" about halfway through. As it is, the road between Lavender Town and Fuschia City is BRUTAL in that your only healing options are to stock up on supplies and spend a good chunk of money, or keep running back to Lavender Town to heal. It could have used a building where you could rest for a bit, like the old woman's house in Hoen. Interestingly enough, I've been playing through Yellow for the first time while on a quest to play every game to completion, and I was literally just wanting to my coworker about this the other day. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, but the road from Lavender to Fuschia is paved with boardwalks, dirt roads, and incompetent trainers who need more variety in their teams.

It's for grinding and getting money. Plus it's the second chance to get Snorlax if you missed the first one.

lol this dude is lv 13, means its the first gym right? so if you die, just restart the speedrun

Cerulean is actually rival 3. You fight him with a level 9 pidgy and a Level 9 starter on the route going to the pokemon league right outside of Viridian.

Hey, maybe they just wanted a way for kids to earn back all the money they lost playing the casino slot machines 😅

Bayleef quickly showing the trainers that they got the worst starter possible lol, it be like "have fun later with Crunch and Earthquake, Mr. Water pokemon"

The music is awesome in this area. This area was meh in Gen 1 and slightly better in Gen 2, but are really fun for me in Gen 1 and Gen 2.

The funniest thing is I had to actual think hard about those routes, I think I normally dont bother with Lavender town to Fusha route and just do the bike path

Nah Hideki is just that guy

Whenever I replay FireRed, I save SE Kanto for right before I go to Saffron, then use it to grind levels before I deal with Team Rocket and Sabrina. If it wasn’t a massive EXP deposit, I don’t know if I’d ever go there.

Amazing

It feels like there's a missing coastal town.