Mewtwo Only - Pokemon Emerald

[@PrincessGoth574]

Theory: May's Torkoal is actually her dads that she borrowed until she caught slugma and returned it.

[@javelin4646]

even better, Norman used his connections as a gym leader to borrow a torkoal from Flannery to help may learn about type effectiveness

[@Great_Olaf5]

Theory! May's Torkoal was borrowed from an older family member to help her start off, and she gave it back once she got her own fire type and more experience.

[@JacktheRah]

Finally, a Pokemon theory that not only makes sense but also isn't absurdly dark.

[@Corundrom]

Another theory, the Torkoal just wasn't enjoying the journey so she let him leave,

[@NerdKing2nd]

Why is there so much fascination with developing very dark theories for things in the pokemon fandom, personally i blame trickle in from the pokemon manga which does have a bit of dystopian vibe for the pokemon world. Like half the fan made games for pokemon always seem to focused on making a "darker" or "gritter" story.

[@pikapuffin368]

@@NerdKing2ndBecause some adults who consume children’s media still want their darker edgier fix while consuming that media, Pokemon consistently includes darker elements thru Pokédex entries and whatnot so they don’t see as that farfetch’d, and some people are Just Like That.

[@robmayer9141]

This actually makes sense lore wise because in the manga May (Saphire for those who care) gets all of her pokemon from her father with the exception of a single minum who her and Brendan (Ruby) befriend

[@crimsoncutz8430]

I'm noticing a trend where Scott never seems to know the right move to use on Ludicolo. Is it the new Venomoth? Would be fitting given that the OG Venomoth is also a grass/water type

[@darude2893]

Can you explain to me why everyone keeps making up Venomoths typing? Is it an inside joke?

[@Surfer92]

It is a joke stemming from this:
Venomoth leaves psychic, and is randomly on Sabrina’s team in gen 1. So Scott used to joke that it was a psychic type.
Then it turned into “what type even is this thing anyway, surely it’s ice flying, right? Look St those wings, clearly it’s a flying type” etc.

[@brendanhart517]

I enjoy the constant reminder of venomoths toxic/flapping type

[@tsawy6]

@@darude2893 it's just a Pokemon that looks like it could be psychic, flying, bug or poison believably, so it was hard for Scott to remember the typing when he started

[@shadowtitanx3962]

Nah. Armaldo is better for this meme. Besides, they are both Bug types, right?

[@olavjorvik94]

«I would have expected Mewtwo to be a little more consistent"
*Enters gyms at level 8*
😂😂

[@randumo24]

Ugh, it was painful to see how many resets there were just because of wrong move choices.

[@dragonfly4441]

Steven is known to us as the steel champion, but I think his theme is actually ore/minerals/fossils. He's obsessed with all kinds of evolution stones. He uses fossil Pokemon.
I think a lot of Elite Four and Champions is less monotype, and more dual speciality/vibes. Ie. Hiker is about the slow and sturdy physical attacker (rock/fighting), and Agatha is about status movies (poison/ghost). Lance and Cynthia are both about overwhelming power - the fast and strong Dragonite and Garchomp. Steven actually stands out because a lot of his pokemon in addition to being good attackers, are very good defensively: Cradily, Metagross.

[@iantaakalla8180]

I mean, come Generation 5 that is not true anymore until Raihan, which because Dragons can almost be any type runs a weather Dragon team as his sort-of Elite 4 battle, and even as a gym leader runs a good-if-flawed sandstorm dragon team

[@iantaakalla8180]

At best Diantha has the theme of a weak team as does Geeta for some reason, Kukui has the feeling of a setup team as befits a trainer studying moves, Hau just has a team that is generically good, and Leon just has popular Pokémon to reflect he is popular.

[@iantaakalla8180]

Yes, there is Psychic-to-Fairy Bede which reflects his less haughty attitude and also mocks the common Psychic/Fairy type, but then there is Normal/Flying Larry to reflect a common starting bird type. But other than those, every Elite 4 member is strictly monotyped.

[@benjaminmadrigalperez9010]

There is a fan theory that the elite four of kanto was originally meant to be double tiped.
Loreli water/ice
Bruno fighting/rock
Agatha poison/Ghost
Lance dragon/flying.

[@Brainee1]

I think Kyogre has the potential to be the "Mewtwo" of generation 3. It starts with a base 180 power water pulse (thanks to rain and STAB), and only gets better from there. If memory serves, the 8th gym is the first one to resist its water-type attacks, and it even has surf for Tate & Liza.

[@tesladrew2608]

And it should have thunder by then

[@rikaniebangbang]

@Ravi Kiran If you don't have to reset because you're one-hitting everything due to the rain boost, you're actually saving time. Kyogre is used in Sapphire and Alpha Sapphire speedruns to beat the rest of the game for a reason...

[@shadowtitanx3962]

@Ravi Kiran Who cares if the text box still says the rain continues if Kyogre 1 shots everything. Even in early game, Water Pulse is really dummy strong. You have a 135 Power Water move to start with at Level 5. And, there's not many things that resist Water from something with 150 Special Attack.

[@semajniomet981]

@@shadowtitanx3962 Not even Shedinja could possibly resist Kyogre's powerful water moves.
Wonder Guard: About that...

[@shadowtitanx3962]

@@semajniomet981 Except, there's no Trainer that uses a Shedinja in Hoenn. It's only in the remakes.

[@Willingmess]

Ooh, I just had a fun idea for another one of the potential fastest completion pokemon, Deoxys. It would be fun to see a race between all four forms, and see which is the fastest!

[@shadowtitanx3962]

There are 2 barriers with that idea:
1) Deoxys that are not fatefully encountered (Events) or the one obtained at Birth Island will always disobey.
2) There needs to be 4 Emerald Versions with 1 different form of Deoxys because in Emerald, Deoxys is in its Speed Form. Gen 3 games do not support Form variants until Gen 4.

[@prestonpearson581]

@@shadowtitanx3962 I'm pretty sure mewtwo isn't a faithful encounter in emerald but yet here we are. Second if we can randomize games and make games from the ground up with rom hacks, I'm sure we can figure out how to get the form we need in any game.

[@Kahadi]

@@prestonpearson581 actually the Fateful Encounter thing is a check implemented in the code for only Deoxys and Mew. If the game registers they are not from an event, they will disobey. This is only a thing in gen 3, and only with Mew and Deoxys, as a rather unique anti-cheat mechanism. There are patches randomizers can implement to change this, though. You can also hack them in by hacking in the events themselves, but this doesn't work for making it your starter.
Edit: As for Deoxys forms, the data for the other forms doesn't even exist in the game. For a randomizer or hack to allow their access, they need to actually put them in the games themselves, at least as far as I can find. Deoxys will always change forms to whatever is default for that game otherwise.

[@Kahadi]

@@shadowtitanx3962 It is possible to patch in a loophole to the disobedience, randomizers have found ways to as have other romhacks, so doing Deoxys in general is possible. But you are right that the other forms aren't even in the game, only whatever it's base form is for that game, at least in gen 3. The only way around it is to put them in yourself, which I believe randomizers and romhacks have done, making it possible, but not easy. Maybe he could get help to manage for a much later run, like with skipping Lt. Surge's puzzle or reading the game data for stat updates in gen 1.

[@shrapt3528]

@@Kahadi The only form in emerald is the speed form btw if you were curious. I think ruby and sapphire was the normal form then fire red and leaf green had attack and defence.

[@theglowcloud2215]

In this video: Scott steadfastly refuses to click Psychic and loses a bunch.

[@a1465]

May stumbled upon a nest of abandoned baby Slugma. Her Torcoal stayed behind to take care of the babies. One of the babies was attached to May wanted to come with her. He kept following her until May offered him a pokeball.

[@christiandevey3898]

The reason Ghost is physical is because lick was the only regular ghost move in gen 1 and lick is obviously physical

[@mithos92]

Bite?

[@gidan1128]

@@mithos92 bite was a normal type move. No dark type in gen 1

[@888Grim]

@@gidan1128 I think mithos92's point is that they made Dark type (Bite, Pursuit, Beat Up) use Special Attack, which is inconsistent with the idea that ghost type is Physical Attack because Lick, which is a very fair point =P

[@Ashura_Morgraine]

I think Lick does emotional damage

[@nyambrosial1244]

@@888Grim It's almost certainly because steel is a much more purely physical type, and to try to have a more equal number of physical and special types dark was made special.

[@olavjorvik94]

Btw: The reason Steven jumped the ledge was because he was on a camping vacation in Fortree, but needed a Sitrus berry for his Metagross to hold, because he was getting ready to go to Meteor Falls. So he needed to go to the Berry Master to get a couple. After all, nice day for a walk. After that he flew back to Fortree, went to the Keckleon, but as he saw you were on your way, he waited to show you his great skills. Then he flew to his house on Mossdeep :)

[@ElliottDent]

My headcanon for May's Torkoal is that it was actually just her Slugma hiding in a rock

[@ShadowtheYouTuber523]

Chuggaaconroy also thought that it evolved into Torkoal when he was a kid.

[@gabbagundam]

I knew it, the moment I heard you where planning a follow up legendary I was like "Mewtwo hype"😀

[@pyriel6870]

Nice, when I heard that I thought kyogre or groudon but I was clearly wrong lol

[@gabbagundam]

👍

[@tiemen9095]

The Torkoal was clearly traded to her, since that early on she couldn't have acquired one herself yet. The traded torkoal was her ace, as it was her only good pokemon and therefore it leveled too quicky - so quickly indeed that it started to ignore her orders. Considering that this turtle is basically a vulcano that erupt, May got scared to use the Torkoal anymore and decided that the Slugma she caught was super friendly and nice to her so she started to train the Slugma instead. It's not as good as Torkoal quite yet but at least it isn't a danger to herself, her friends and her environment.

[@Agora0000]

Let's see if Mewtwo can defeat Rayquaza

[@rjthepoet500]

Another great run! Mewtwo’s early game struggles and lack of psychic moves hurt it but this was still fun to watch. Especially with the great coverage it has.
Also, You said mild nature but it’s the modest nature that raises special attack and lowers physical attack. Very nice job Scott!

[@andersonantunesdeleu8591]

Great job Scott! Mewtwo is the favorite one of many, including mine!😁but of course it can always be improved, I can't wait to see your next legendary challenge! One Suggestion, play it with Kyogre! That's my favorite legendary of Hoen! I'm sure it's unbeatable!😁

[@ahad1609]

Mewtwo is the best

[@anni321]

Psychic was sooo op in Gen1 so it's really interesting to watch this legendary psy not just dominate everything.
I don't think I ever played mewto 'cause you got it so late in the game... but it was obvs the MVP of the game.

[@Shenaldrac]

I think the reason Mewtwo doesn't have as easy a time as you'd expect is because gen 3 is, well, gen 3. It has a lot more type representation among trainers. Like, in gen 1 you didn't have Steel types or Dark types, there wasn't really anything that _could_ resist Mewtwo's psychic type attacks. It also doesn't start with Psychic like it did in gen 1. So while it does have very high base stats, it now actually has some poor matchups. Oh, and the special split reduced its special defense so there's that too. Enemy pokemon in gen 3 also just have much better movesets overall than gen 1. Even Yellow version which tries to improve gym leaders and the elite 4 is by comparison pretty mediocre. I mean, look at Watson with self buffs, thunder wave, shockwave, etc. Hell, just the fact that gym leaders in this gen have more pokemon minimum than in earlier gens. Roxanne has 3 to Brock's 2, as does Brawly, and Watson has four.
So, yeah. Mewtwo's still an excellent pokemon, but gen 3 is a more difficult game for a variety of reasons.
edit: 16:30 The turnstile puzzles are fun, yeah. I call those Golden Sun puzzles, cause they're like the puzzles in the Golden Sun series which is awesome and you should definitely play it.

[@Khaine87]

Boltbeam is always a good combo for coverage, it's the same with the rock/ground combo if you are playing with a physical attacker, which makes earthquake/rock slide very versatile.

[@matheusv7219]

The ultimate moveset for Mewtwo, Psychic, Thunderbolt, Ice Beam and Calm Mind and you just destroy the leftover of the game after the fifth badge

[@garryfischer3679]

Im surprised by how this run went. Im looking forward to the eventual sweep of Gen 1/2 with it! Keep of the great work Scott!

[@SupremeToafu]

Oh! I was expecting Kyogre or Groudon next.
But this works too, I suppose!

[@leekyb3837]

Aerial ace or brick break woulda gone crazy in the Sydney fight

[@XiuHang]

A quick note on Steven's name. Yes Steve sounds vaguely similar to 'steel,' but what is more fun is the realization that his name is Steven Stone so it sounds like 'Steel and Stone'. It's fitting considering that Steven uses Steel types and Rock/Ground types.

[@laureate90]

Got to say, loving this incredible treat of a month. It is quite the early Christmas present. Hope you're enjoying the start of the festive season and not sacrificing your own sanity to bring us so much.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

We're actually ahead as of this week. Likely early vacation for me, as long as there are no significant set backs.

[@nautgamingnautgaming9949]

@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon actually sabeleye can be super weak to FIGHTING
How
Foresight allows fighting to hit the ghost dark type for super effective damage
I actually learned this in a playthrough with ghosts

[@liamcochran931]

Just so you know, if you run past trainers they immediately flip around to see you. You have to walk, not run

[@Brando1444]

Scott I just did a Kingler run in Yellow and man that was a fun one. Really impressed me with its power I would love to see you do that one next!

[@emilydonegan3208]

I remember growing up, my big brother always liked Mewtwo, but I preferred Mew! I always thought it was cuter, and I loved that it was pink and could learn Transform and every TM

[@ArtUndertheArch]

Wow they sure are lucky the mighty fighting fighting Venomoth isn't here to challenge them 👀👀

[@Rebelsk8s]

Question: Which statement is correct?
A: Mewtwo has the weirdest neck.
2: Mewtwo has the weirdest fingers.
B: Mewtwo has the weirdest feet.
1: Denis.

[@TREECO21]

Loving these Gen 3 videos. Keep 'em coming!

[@peacegardenpress4843]

Yes

[@gaminggoddess85]

Mewtwo's been my favorite pokemon since I was a kid, but back then it made me sad that there was nothing left to use it on since catching it was the only postgame content in Red & Blue (and then Pokemon Stadium came out so yaaaay). I still have and use the Mewtwo mouse pad my mom bought me like 20 years ago.
Steven does have three rock types on his team though, the Cradily (grass/rock), Armaldo (bug/rock) and Aggron (steel/rock). And then there's the ground/psychic Claydol who doesn't really fit into his theme. Maybe he just likes ancient pokemon because he likes ancient rocks.

[@jameswhite2308]

TL;DR: This channel is great and others honestly just are a straight tier below yours. Also maybe hidden power bug for pokemon that might struggle with Wallace's Ludicolo and maybe Sidney and not much else(like Swampert).
I realized why i love your channel as much as I do. It's the improvement that youve made as a creator and as a challenge runner. When i watch a video, i love the general improvement from the first run to the second (or more). It removes a factor for player error from what may be the first time you ever use a pokemon. I love seeing the strategies implemented, I love seeing how you get better. You've really spoiled me for other channels that do solo runs, aside from jrose, cause they often stop after the first attempt and say "this is the definitive answer". Jrose at least does his best to truly see consistency, and while his mild obsession with minimum battles sometimes hurts a pokemons performance more that it should.
What made me realize this is that towards the end of the video, I was feeling disappointed. I felt like this Playthrough had a lot more mistakes than Rayquaza's. The biggest issue (aside from that dang poochyena) is that Sidney caused a 5 minute delay. (White herb plus brick break likely carries you through the pokemon you struggled with on Sidney). Right there, without touching on anything else(except for maybe calling you out for using thunderbolt on a Marshtomp and again on a whiscash 😆) is the difference in time between the two. I would say it's likely because of Mewtwo's unintuitiveness (lol, not sure if this is a word), cause I would've likely done the exact same thing. But when you said you might have to do what is effectively a versus video between Mewtwo and Rayquaza, instantly made me look at this more positively, because I know that you'll give them their best shot at their best completion time, and mistakes that made Mewtwo slower than Rayquaza will not even be a factor. Its not even funny how good you are at the improvement. You crush it! Thanks for the great content!
Also I'm curious why there were many times you didn't use the running shoes on straight paths, but I'm sure you just night not be as comfortable with them at 4x speed. Also don't forget the white herb.

[@DoubleDrastik]

Scott be throwing bombs you said u had big plans for the end of the year but your really blowing my mind with these runs 💜💯

[@darryljames3798]

Loving all the videos Scott. I've seen every post for awhile now. Keep up the good work

[@cesarferreira386]

The best legendary Pokémon from generation 1 we all remember how hard it was to capture Mewtwo with its psychic power moves well only with a master ball.

[@FirstKingPotato]

Should've gotten Thunder for Wallace since he so helpfully sets up Rain dance for you.

[@Austin-cn8vh]

Very late. But the Torkoal totally wandered into a grill once and now works a happy life smoking ribs and brisket.

[@boogaa_tv9489]

tbh the editing is amazing 10/10.

[@BRMdrivingschool]

I’m sorry but I couldn’t help laugh at getting a reset so early

[@Objectorbit]

I honestly recommend revisiting Mewtwo after a while. You could easily shave off at least five minutes.

[@PK-zw3fd]

Hidden power type psychic would give mewto a stronger STAB move as confusion till TM29 is available.

[@jamestaquino7726]

I forgot how beautiful the little root town theme is.

[@scottprice1330]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ I have waited so long. I love this. Yes I am curious of how fast he can go in Gen 2 but this will do for now.

[@viniciusmartins2426]

scott, it feels that you spend so many time trying to beat a luck dependant battle, when you could just gain 2 or 3 more levels in 3 minutes and win.
take psychic tm as soon as possible to get rid of confusion, and go with fire blast instead of flamethrower, as it's cheaper and has passable accuracy.

[@ThatJamesGuy88]

The only reason Rayquaza beat Mewtwo is the dark types at the beginning and misplays. A replay would be great for both mons.

[@bootortle]

Seeing these legendaries has me looking forward toy favorite Pokémon, Kyogre
As well as the oddly difficult to obtain in gen 3 Johto legendaries
And especially the Regi trio, which may actually be impossible

[@paulhiggins6433]

The Regi's are all impossible. They all start with Explosion as their only move. And since blacking out heals all Pokemon, there's no way to drain the PP.

[@Kanbei11]

I think an interesting take would be to compare RayRay and Mewtwo in FRLG where Mewtwo's starting moves don't hamper it so much.

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Good idea

[@Kanbei11]

@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon you've heard it before but don't burn yourself out or go out of order lol

[@gamingwithfoss]

Just like Blue’s Raticate, you accidentally killed her Torkoal in the first battle, which is why she refuses to follow you through Mt Pyre and chooses to battle you in Lillycove despite the non-fully evolved team

[@C_Train74]

You’re so right about the quality of gym minigames. Gen 9 does have some interesting ones, though (and arguably the worst one ever where you push a big olive).

[@ScottsThoughtsPokemon]

Yeah, true. The olive one wasn’t difficult but I found it sort of fun.

[@shadowtitanx3962]

I seriously wonder how will the Regis do if you not let them explode at the start of the adventure. Starting in Platinum, they gain Stomp to prevent the Explosion softlock.

[@ShadowtheYouTuber523]

I have downloaded a Randomized Ruby rom and one of the starters is Regirock. In the wild, there are Psyducks and the second ability is Damp so I can just PP stall against them until level 9 when it learns Rock Throw.

[@Kahadi]

@@ShadowtheCZcamsr523 but that's a full randomizer. If they are your starter and you aren't randomizing the normal encounters, there is nothing with Damp in the first couple of routes, and you need to somehow beat your rival before you can even get your running shoes.

[@ShadowtheYouTuber523]

@@Kahadi I know

[@Speedrunner0218]

I actually have a three-way race of them in emerald in the next couple of months or so. I do something with some software to make sure I can still do the run. You're going to want to see it when it comes out

[@andrewrivera1054]

May was hungry and ate her Torkoal.

[@yeahbrotha3717]

scott and jrose have been on fire!

[@ok_iot]

If you take a rubber made totes, line inside it with foil then foam. Like pillows or old blankets. Then cut a hole for entry. Random animals use it for survival in the winter.

[@HolyPineCone]

I would love a replay of mewtwo and rayquayza, or however you spell it's name. I never managed to get one as a kid 😆 but your optimizations and replays are one of your key features as a CZcamsr and I really missed them here.

[@bateltheassistant]

Mewtwo is still good in gen 3,not as much is in kanto, because in emerald psychic types are really doing poorly, because of the dark types and ghost types having physical strong moves. 🤔
That reset on the poochiyena was really brutal though. 😂
And about that May's torkoal she had onr in the anime, so maybe the developers were trying to make her have it in the games as well?🤔I think that torkoal would be a better choice to face then slugma would ever be.
Like always thanks for making us have a good time, I can't wait for tomorrow's video. 😁

[@ahad1609]

Mine too😊

[@Jujewjuices]

Babe wake up Scott uploaded again :)

[@xSugknight]

i cant even keep up watching, you are amazing!

[@xardasjhh]

Hi Scott! Very enjoying video as always though surprising that Mewtwo struggled sp much in the early game. I really like your focus on data and statistics in all your playthrough and your constantly improving overlay. One suggestion: Can you mark the stats influenced by your chosen nature somehow? You did that in your earlier videos but now it is somehow missing! Thanks a lot for always entertaining me!

[@pyriel6870]

Scott actually talks about that in the video, these videos were released out of order. This is an earlier video before he made the changes to the overlay, so he has that issue fixed already.

[@urmasslow]

@@pyriel6870 so, this is a reupload?

[@pyriel6870]

@@urmasslow no he's not uploading them in order. This one is brand new but he recorded it awhile ago, at the end of the video he has a leader board he puts up and under the chronology part he shows what order he played the pokemon in.

[@reaperxdxgrim738]

Theory time!!!!! It's obvious why may didnt bring her torkoal with her. It's because torkoal is known for its incredible beauty and often attracts most pokemon to it, so on her way to go fight Watson her torkoal caught the eye of a huge salamance flying by and it flew down and met torkoal confessed its love and told torkoal how beautiful it is and may even though she wanted to take torkoal with her didn't have the heart to break up such a beautiful love between Pokemon and she let her torkoal go and live its life in the sky on top of a mountain with salamance starting a family and living happily ever after . And that's why she doesn't have torkoal

[@classace7261]

You using thunderbolt on wallace’s ludicolo until the very end psychic, had me yelling at the screen like wtf are you doing man

[@yuumijungle548]

0:53 dude imagine this fight in the anime, this 10 year old kid does his very first pokemon battle with a little dog and beats mewtwo, he will tell that story to his grandchildren xD

[@darkessinzero]

My Idea for the Torcoal is that the rival in Ruby, Emerald and Saphire does not seem like a confrontational person, I mean the last fight with them you have before they even get to fully evolve their starter. So I guess since that fight was scipable and it is the only one where they can have a Torcoal the rival just thought that Torcoal was to scary of a Pokemon and the reason why noone ever fought them there.

[@HollandTHG]

Wasn't even her Torkoal, just a tortoise trundling by, decided WAR looked fun.

[@anlev11]

8:54 Also, when the character collects the berries he for whatever reason destroys the plant as well. I never understood this, why did he do it? If he didn't destroy the plant there would have no need to plant a berry to replace it (also, this is one of the best songs of the game 😁)

[@TrojanSalesmen1]

I think this is the first time I've ever seen Mewtwo in Emerald. I never got him in OG emerald and none of my friends had them in Ruby or Sapphire so never got traded

[@blakeschwab7518]

ghost should have been special and dark should have been physical. fun video man, mewtwos still a beast.

[@TheLeviathan1293]

15:04 He has a Skarmory and is flying everywhere :D

[@shanegoes5778]

Pokemon emerald, the greatest Pokemon game of all time

[@mesplin3]

I was looking at Armando but while it learns water gun at level 13 in gen 4, in gen 3 it doesn't learn it until level 19.

[@TheLeviathan1293]

26:34 Yeah psychic type was nerfed a little in gens 2 and 3.

[@VerseTherapy]

I instantly thought of jrose11 thank you bro great well paced speaking sub

[@DeuxisWasTaken]

"Sableye is really good, I should use it in a playthrough soon" oh boy I feel sorry for future you already

[@constructionbootgazer]

Aww, don’t hate on zombie Stitch. I love that little ghoul

[@pauldm5222]

Good move set for Mewtwo for end game: Psychic, Ice Beam, Thunderbolt, Calm Mind.

[@mindacos69]

I was expecting Mewtwo to beat Rayquaza, but I guess that struggle fest against Poochyena mattered a lot more than I thought!
I'm really looking forward to the Kyogre run. I actually did a run myself since I was curious, and I managed to first try Steven at level 57! You could probably do this in a lower level though, since I was too reckless and stumbled on a lot of optional trainers haha. My Kyogre didn't have perfect IVs, nature and EVs either, so I'm speculating a level 52-54 run is possible.
I learned a few things to make a Kyogre run consistent though:
-Make sure you reach Level 35 before the rival fight in Fortree. It is possible to beat this fight without Ice Beam, but I had to reset twice since Grovyle's Leaf Blade can and will 1-shot if it crits. It also makes Winona a joke. It's worth the slight time loss to fight some optional trainers and grab some rare candies, because the entire game after this point is essentially free. (I notably only needed to reset here and in the Wattson fight... though honestly the only reason I had to reset for Watson was because I forgot to grab Cheri Berries. So I had to keep trying the fight until I crit the Magneton.)
-Kingdra and Ludicolo are the only two pokemon that can reasonably wall Kyogre. Funnily enough, though, both are also fodder for setting up Calm Mind. Although Ludicolo could be annoying with Leech Seed, since I almost lost the wallace fight thanks to Leech Seed getting me into red.
-Kyogre is so strong that most battles you won't need Calm Mind at all! I only felt like I needed to set up against Norman, Wallace and Steven. I did set up against Phoebe and Drake predicting Protect from both, but it felt pretty overkill.
-Timid is the best nature. This guarantees that Kyogre can outspeed and 1-shot Wattson's Voltorb at level 20. STAB Water Pulse on rain is so strong that it even does more damage on resisted hits than Ancientpower or Body Slam. I pretty much only ended up using the two on very fringe cases, or to save Water Pulse PP.
Good luck on your run! I want to see that 2 hour barrier broken!

[@jameswagoner1460]

So happy to see you playing Pokémon emerald!!! Love your content!!!

[@pianofromscratch2072]

Theory! May is just doing research so once she realized the Torkol didn't evolve she stopped carrying him around.

[@iantaakalla8180]

Scott, it should be noted that every single gym leader is annoying. There is no single gym leader that will always be a pushover: even Brawly, Winona, and Juan can be threats if you let them or if the Pokémon is uniquely unsuited for the gym leader battle.

[@bobjoe3492]

Truant Pokémon vs Brawly have fun eating focus punches

[@baileycarter9989]

Shadow Ball being a physical attack makes me think Mewtwo uses it like the Rasengan from Naruto

[@TheGoodWillSpreader]

counter argument: you could have taken out shadow ball and taught mewtwo icebeam. It doesn't matters how bulky dusclops are, they are going to get _hurt_ by psychic. Remember huge special and STAB.

[@dark.anonymous]

Theory maybe torkoal died like Blues Raticate on the SS Anne in gen 1 that's why he was in the pokemon tower to pay his respects to the pokemon that's no longer on his team even though he had space

[@Steeldragon493]

0:59 "That's unfortunate" xD

[@pyriel6870]

Hmmmmm 7:16 "why do you think May chose not to bring her Torkoal with her on the rest of her journey?" Well I have 2 reasons I think could be pretty good. 1. She was borrowing that pokemon from a friend or family member and had to give it back or 2. Like gen 1 in lavender town with the rivals Raticate(creepypasta) during the battle with you the pokemon actually died and that's why it's absent for the remainder of the game.

[@TheDarkFiddler]

May's Torkoal was pregnant and gave birth to the Slugma and decided to retire to give the new generation room to excel.

[@twilightjoltik3151]

My headcanon is that the Torkoal was actually Professor Birch’s that May borrowed so she’d have fire type coverage until she got her own fire type in the form of Slugma

[@marvemes]

cant wait for you to do sengo. I did a 1:48:32 with Sengo. I'ts actually Insane.

[@violetsystems8566]

Could you try the Legendary dogs also? These runs would be so interesting!

[@1stclasswarior]

It's me again! The guy that left that massive comment on your Absol video! I'm here with more advice for future runs. I understand this footage is old, so you're still in that "most playthroughs are fairly blind" state. I'm writing this comment as I watch the video, pointing stuff out that might be useful as I see it.
I think you need to take the early fights against trainers on. They offer a lot of EXP, and Roxanne is very different to Brock. The kind of thinking behind "minimum battles" runs and the approaches typically taken to beat Brock at a low level don't really apply here. You beat Roxanne at lv8, which is cool, but I think getting to level 11 would be faster. You seem to value the time to clear the game more highly than the number of resets, so I think going in, setting up one Barrier and then going for Confusion was a better strategy, as you'd have a faster end time and less resets.
In regards to Roxanne in particular, you should think of Nosepass as an Onix that's actually a decent Pokemon. It has exceptional defense, especially for that level. It has significantly higher special defense, and it also doesn't have a 4x weakness. These factors, combined with the Oran Berry that it holds mean that its effective HP is significantly higher than that of Brock's Onix. In addition to this, it also has Rock Tomb, so, unlike Onix, it has a high-power STAB move to click, so it's a bigger damage threat too. Thinking about Nosepass in this way should help you to better estimate at what level you should initiating the fight against Roxanne. If you want quick EXP to have a better time against Roxanne, the gym trainers all have Geodude, so their typing and low special defense that's easily exploitable by anything with a special move. Take the path to the right, and you can battle all three individually, making very quick work of each of them.
You have a tendency to over-set up. You used 5/6 possible Bulk Ups against Flannery's Numel. I call this the "gen 1 mindset" because the badge boost glitch makes this so much harder to be punished for. In other generations, this isn't the case. You can and will be punished for setting up too much. In this case, you took an Overheat which ignores all of your defense buffs and put you below half very early into the battle. I think you need to practice finding that sweet spot between +stats and -HP. Each turn you spend setting up is a turn your opponent can hit you. This means another chance to crit, another chance to flinch (if applicable), or another chance to apply status, or use Sand Attack. Considering each stat boost is +50%, you'll often find that +2 or +3 is enough to oneshot anything in your path. If it isn't, you'll be real close. In this case, if you'd chosen to set up three Bulk Up, you'd have taken far less damage from Numel, oneshot Slugma, maybe take one hit from Camerupt and have far more HP for Torkoal, taking it down in 2-3 hits. Instead, you took twice that many hits from Numel and were punished for it by not having enough for the Torkoal, but still knocking it out in the same number of turns. At +2 you did under 50%. At +6, you put it into the red. Therefore, +3 and +6 are functionally the same in terms of the number of turns required to knock out Torkoal. It's a 2KO regardless. Of course, it takes experience to get better at this, but I think you will benefit greatly over time by practicing this skill.
Once you've beaten Winona, you gain access to Fly. This is critical to speeding up some runs. This is because the Game Corner has some incredible TMs you can use to bypass level limits. Way earlier in the story, as you enter Slateport for the first time, head into the mart. There, buy a Harbor Mail. Then, as you advance to Mauville, head into the very first house, left of the mart there. There's a lady that wants the mail. Hand it over, and you'll get the Coin Case. If you can't get it right away, drop by the Game Corner itself. There's a guy by the roulette tables that tells you about the NPC in the house. Then you can give her the mail. Once you have the case, you need to start saving money. You can buy 500 coins for 10k each, and you want either 3500 or 4000 coins, so you want to save up 70k or 80k by the time you return here after Norman. In the Game Corner, you can buy the TMs for Ice Beam, Thunderbolt, Flamethrower and Psychic. Psychic costs 3500, and the rest cost 4000. Ideally, you want to pick one of these up by the time you have to pass through to continue the story anyway. You don't need Thunderbolt, since Wattson will give it to you. In that case, just complete the New Mauville side quest like you did in this run. If you can't learn the move, just ignore him. You don't need to do it to progress. Here, you could have picked up Psychic and carried it through for the remainder of the run, having Mewtwo complete this run WAAAAAY faster than you did. If you need multiple, or are short on cash, there are a few options. Firstly, you could battle more trainers as you play through the game. Yes, it takes time, but the amount of time you save by having these amazing moves earlier than you should will almost always be greater than the time spent battling optional trainers. The best two to battle are the very wealthy trainers with Zigzagoon. They are directly north and south of Petalburg woods. Not only should you be battling them for EXP anyway, but they hand out a lot of money. If you need a lot more money (possibly for multiple TMs), then this is where Fly comes in. Fly back to Littleroot and talk to your mom. After beating Norman, she gives you the Amulet Coin. Just hold that while you're playing through normally and you'll rack up money passively. Then just put a real item on for difficult battles. In a worst-case scenario, you can press onwards to Winona, beat her, then fly back to Mauville, pick up the TM, fly back to Fortree and continue on. It'll take around 60 seconds, but that's still way faster than continuing on with Confusion/Ember/Powder Snow or whatever move you have in any specific run. (You went on to mention the Game Corner a few minutes later, it's good to see you figured this out on your own).
An NPC in Sootopolis gives you Brick Break. I think you would have had a faster time if you had held off on learning Calm Mind. It sounds weird but, Brick Break is really good against Sydney, and you know you have a bad matchup into dark types. You instead use a Bulk Up strategy to beat Juan (even though Thunderbolt seems really obvious), combining it with either Shadow Ball, Brick Break or Aerial Ace (for Kingdra). You then go on to use a Bulk up and Brick Break strategy against Norman, and a Bulk Up and Shadow Ball strategy into Phoebe. You then use the same strategy into Glacia. Once Glacia is down, you teach Calm Mind and Ice Beam over Shadow Ball. One Calm Mind on Shelgon's Protect turn will be enough, and then just sweep with Ice Beam. You can then use a Calm Mind + Psychic strategy to finish off Wallace.
You should now have enough money to buy Flamethrower from the Game Corner. Calm Mind + Flamethrower will make quick work of Steven, including Aggron and Cradily. Aggron has much lower special defense, so if you're boosted, it should knock it out. Cradily is bulkier, but it should go down in only two turns. The rest should be easy. You clearly had half of this idea down already, because you did buy Flamethrower. I just think you could have sequenced the way you learned moves in a more efficient manner.
I notice that most of the things I mentioned, typing this comment as I watched along, you went on to recognise those as mistakes in your commentary a few minutes later. That's a very promising thing to see. I think you're starting to get the hang of Emerald.

[@MatthewJemilo]

Her original Torkoal died (thanks for bringing it up). It was a gift from her grandmother). Since she died May has trained her Torkoal, named Missy, which is the same name her grandmother called her. After that battled her Torkoal succumbed to its injuries, primarily a cracked shell. Unable to cope with the loss of her best friend (and a fistful of her Pokédollars), she captured a pokemon lacking a shell, so no matter what, you couldn't kill anymore of her memories

[@NerdKing2nd]

And here's the obligatory incredible dark background story commonly made up by Pokemon fans and DnD fans alike

[@sjoerdglaser2794]

The fact mewtwo lost to the first trainer in the game just made me laugh.

[@Greater_L7576]

Torkoal drunk too much saltwater on the way to the next city and had to sit this one out.

[@chicken_person]

I totally agree that Wallace doesn't seem right as the Champion in Emerald. Not only is he barely involved in the story, but it means that both the 8th gym and the Champion are water-type specialists, which I find odd (even for a region so *infamously* covered in water).

[@claudiomonteverdi847]

May needed a very hot pokemon to stop that meteorite from crashing on Earth so she traded her Torkoal with one of Flannery's Slugmas

[@brendanhart517]

Flannery is always difficult, norman not having double slaking in emerald is an interesting change. Like challenge runs would make it harder but watson, flannery and norman is a difficult section.
May is also easier in the route 119 fight. As for her torkoal she had to leave it with mr briny because his stove broke

[@wilhelmisaac]

If Wallace is always going to set up rain dance on turn one, then using calm mind first turn (assuming you outspeed) means that thunder is the better option imo. Assuming you have something to one shot the wishcash, the rest should be one-hits, and with rain dance, thunder obviously bypasses the accuracy check and always hits.

[@iantaakalla8180]

In fact, all of the Elite 4 and the Champion tend to use a non-attacking move. You can use that to set up once with Calm Mind or Bulk Up or something.

[@wilhelmisaac]

@@iantaakalla8180 yeah good point. The E4 love to spam protect first turn

[@xRuinedFaithx]

Steven is an “earth” trainer, every pokemon has Rock, Steel, or Ground as a type

[@GandharKulkarni2000]

New subscriber! I wanted to see Jrose but for emerald. My desires are fulfilled!

[@the_juug_god4100]

First time I've heard mewtwo referred to as a cat, gettin real beerus vipes from that

[@psyxypher3881]

Y'all ask about why May switched her Torkoal for Slugma but I'm interested in knowing where or how she got those Pokemon, since they're on the other side of the Region.