How Easy Is It To Beat Pokemon Yellow With Only Beedrill?
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- čas přidán 2. 08. 2020
- In this challenge I attempt to beat Pokemon Yellow with only a beedrill. Thanks to JRose11 for his awesome videos and the inspiration to start making these videos.
Like and subscribe if you enjoyed the run and would like to see more! Thanks so much for watching.
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Twineedle is almost always a better move to use than Fury Attack. With STAB, Twineedle is effectively 75BP and has 100% accuracy, Fury Attack would need to do all 5 hits to equal 75BP and only has 85% accuracy. Even if the opponent has a single resistance to Bug there's still a 45% chance that Twineedle does more damage!
Yeah I probably would have went with a moveset of Swords Dance, Twin Needle, Hyper Beam, and Mega Drain. While Beedrill doesnt have a very good special, neither do any of the rock types, and all of them except Sandslash, Marowak, and Dugtrio are all 4x weak to grass, instead of base 40 power, Mega Drain ends up being base 160 power
I was thinking the same thing. Or at least kept pin missile over fury attack for STAB
Imagine being the master of the most famous pkm ligue, a dragon master with litteraly : a leviathan, a resurected-flying dinosaur and the most powerful dragon of the entire region, BUT, loosing against a little caped boi with a bee
Or against a bunch of idiots controlling a moth
Twineedle is the reason why Beedrill is one of my favorites pokémon in the first generation (I use it every time I play Pokémon Red). The four times effective damages against Grass/Poison types are something very unique in these games, alongside the effectiveness of Poison Sting against Bug types (very useful in Viridian Forest, against bug catchers, and one of the worst nightmares of Parasect lol)
Yep, then they removed poison's weakness to bug, but did make dark weak to it for some reason
fire and flying pokemon are parasect's worst nightmares
Everyone gives Beedrill a hard time but he's actually pretty good in gen 1. Bug was a good typing for a lot of battles in the game, it wrecks the middle gyms and Team Rocket.
Yeah, they did a dirty on the gen 1 bug types by making bug ineffective against poison for all the later games.
@@jakerockznoodles honestly I don't know why they changed that. It made both bug and poison worse for no reason.
But it wasn't just because of psychic types and how much faster kazam was and how bulky slowbro was and jynx was offensive to
@@jimimcmahon4522 I meant for an in game playthrough. In competitive yeah don't bother with it but in game Beedrill is better than you would think.
@@paradygmshift7826 i mean of course ALL pokemon is good since ai in pokemon games have shit IV and no EV spread att all it was design that way (to be easy)
Twinneedle is such an underrated move. Gen 1 it's super effective against Poison as well as the normal Grass and Psychic types, so that's 3 gyms and most Rockets covered. And it can also poison. Fun fact: in Gen 2, it can poison Steel types, since it isn't a Poison-type move. I think they fixed it in either Gen 3 or 4.
Was playing a poison-monotype Let’s Go for a change (actually an enjoyable game if you ditch your starter) and Beedrill was quite effective in the early game, as it’s attack is high for that point and Twineedle is so good (as are Poison Jab and Brick Break, to which it gets access early on). The thing did become useless in the latter half of the game though, everything else had better Attack and could take more punishment, and almost nothing was weak against bug or poison
@@vwts useless? Somebody ditched Focus Energy early in their playthrough. 5 crits later you'll watch that Slobro hp melt.
My younger brother played this game once with a beedrill as his main pokemon, heading to misty. He got a win with 1 hp with a five-hit fury attack, in the last hit. It was the most memorable battle in pokemon history and bedrill earned my respect.
I love those battles that just stay with you forever! Pretty epic that he won on 1 HP with a five-hit fury attack!!
Cute!
With all 5 being crits!
One time I was playing a randomizer and I barely made it through mt moon with my last remaining Pokémon at 1 hp. Good times.
But it is better to use Twineedle vs Starmie, because starmie is psychic type
The lass after brock kept using sand attack bc beedrill is poison. Gen 1 AI automatically uses super effective moves even though it isn't an attacking move. Same thing happens in runs with lances dragon airs and agility (not that far in this one yet idk if that happens but I would assume so)
That would make sense if it were a ground type move, but it’s a normal type move.
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There’s a fan made Pokémon game called Pokémon Clover with a Pokémon called Marleyzard. Grass / fire, learns a move called Toke and its cry is Snoop Dog singing “smoke weed every day”
I never thought I would hear the sentence "it can hit extremely hard with Wing Attack" today
Twinneedles power is always impressive early game. Bug type is actually so good in gen 1, being super effective against both psychic and poison types, that it kind of feels like prior to release they went back and nerfed the power of bug moves and the stats of bug pokemon so that they would peak early and not get better options later
Leveling up during a fight doesn't reset all of the stat boosts you set up. It gets rid of the badge boost glitch increases sure, but agility, swords dance, amnesia, or similar boosts are still in effect even after a level up.
Yeah, but in the case of Agility he's relying on the Badge Boost Glitch more than the move.
Also, Leveling up also wipes out your baseline badge boosts that you're supposed to have
I like that you’re doing yellow! The bigger guys don’t really play yellow in their runs but I find it a little more interesting.
Yeah I noticed that as well. I started off with Yellow as a kid and I always liked the sprites way more!
Also the game is harder trough higher Levels/better movesets.
Yet have to admit i prefer the Rivals Red/Blue team over the Yellow team.^^"
Dudes subscriber count has more than tripled since this comment
@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon as did I
Beedrill is my favorite bug type Pokemon. This run was fun and interesting to watch. This channel has great content which made me subscribe, keep up the great work Scott.
All the bug catcher trainers in the game continue to train their Kakunas after witnessing this pwnage.
Another great video. Rest was definetly the biggest surprise, I wasn't expecting it to be useful on such a frail pokemon.
I thought the same thing! I'm glad it made things possible in the end.
Watching this is crazy knowing your game knowledge and just overall how far you’ve come with video polish today. You deserve all the success and more Scott!
NICE run! Was really funny to watch Hope going in his journey to victory!
19:36 "I want to Take Down Ninetales"
*uses Double Edge*
Still sadly a better move to work with than fury attack...
@@InfernosReaper even in Gen 1 where double edge is only 100bp
So cool to see pin missile in use. I used to always imagine a Pokémon / move that could one shot mewtwo. Maybe it’s this!?
Eh probably more like wall snorlax
Modern Pin Missile with 25 base power can OHKO Mewtwo from a Mega Beedrill
5 crits on a Pin Missle will ABSOLUTELY ohko Mewtwo.
Beedrill is far one of the greatest to do a solo run! It can learn swords dance, that really makes easy the game afterwards! Maybe you could have taught it the move swords dance, Scott, I saw in other run with Beedrill beating the game at level 67, all because of swords dance! But no matters, I like to see different attempts! It was fun, really! Thank you, Scott!
Pin missile wouldve been better to keep than fury attack since its basically the same move and it gets STAB
Thanks for tip
@@MrGrimlocksmash stab pin missile is 21 base power with 95 percent accuracy compared to fury attack 15 base power with 85 percent accuracy. Pin missile does take a base crit loss but base power makes up for it.
@@dannykrise9721 base crit.
_wut_
@@priestesslucy3299 I think I meant it has a lower chance to hit 4-5 times than fury attack but honestly I have no clue lmao
@@dannykrise9721 it doesn't. All 2-5 hit moves have the same odds of rolling any given number of hits.
(The mean is right around 3 btw, so average base power for a base 15 would be 45, which demonstrates why Twinneedle with two base 25 hits is better in Gen 1)
The rare moment when the all-powerful Generation 1 Psychic-types are humiliated by a bug.
It felt so good ;)
*Psychic type wants to speak to your manager*
@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon bugs don’t resist rock there just weak to them
I loved this video and reminded me how much Twin Needle surprised me as well. I did a Beedrill only in Pokemon Silver and was worried about Jasmine, but to my surprise, Twin Needle actually poisons Steel types in Gen 2!! This was fixed later.
Cool run, great commentary, deserves way more views/subs, gonna watch all your videos, +1 sub
Love Jrose, and Mah-dry breads videos. Yours are the best though because of the length of content. Keep it up man! (Probably butchered their screen names😂)
Glad you enjoy the length! I love long form content myself so I'm enjoying creating something that is longer.
Leaving in some of the narration errors is a nice touch, actually. I appreciate the human touch.
That line about being unthawed by Hitmonchan really messed with my brain. I thought it was wrong, but apparently it's technically correct. Well, good video. All hail the YT algorithm! :)
Hey man!! Love the videos. Been watching all month. Can you do a solo run with Scizor in Gen 3?? He's my favorite and you've already done him in Gen 2!!
Lickitung (or Crabby) run is cool since they can learn all 3 HM’s needed to beat the game. You can beat the game with a Pokédex of one!
Also aside from the mega drain/ Swords Dance/ Hyperbeam strategy another fun move you can try is Substitute. A lot of Pokémon can learn it but no one uses it since you have to get it at the game corner.
Yes, would love a arbok, weezing and meowth run!
I'd be super down to see a team rocket run. The market is saturated with solo runs so having a team to work with could be interesting
"I am significantly higher."
Aromatherapy is fucking anazing maaaaaaaan.
It's mind-blowing to see Psychic types consistently taking super-effective hits on Gen I. I think this is only possible using Beedril, since Jolteon only learns Pin Missile very late and no one's gonna use it. Anyway it's very satisfying to watch the SE hits, Psychic types by default are a pain in the ass on these games, so Beedril gets this merit.
I forgot about Leech Life, but with only 20BP, even a STAB SE hit only reaches 60BP... i.e. the same BP of a Rattata using Tackle. Not really a "super effective" move.
Great video man beedrill rocks however you use fury attack when not needed far to often
Watching this as a way to celebrate the shiny Beedrill I just found in pokemon gold's bug catching contest!
I'm almost done with watching all of your runs now qwq ;___;
Loving this. ❤🌹💯
Love your vids
I think the reason twin needle takes so much damage is because the programmers may have applied stab twice and it erroneously applied both bonuses to the first attack, similar to how crits carry over.
Is there proof to that because I don’t think it’s true. It probably does a lot of damage because after stab the attack is 75 power and physical. It did so much to Brock because rock doesn’t resist bug and he was so high level. It beats psychics cause they usually have awful defense. Even if it did apply stab twice on the first attack that’d still be less than a 20 point increase in damage.
@@theccarbiter Yeah that's pretty much it. Twineedle is a powerful Stab Move that isn't resisted. Also there is no issue I know of where Stab is applied twice.
J uhh how is my opinion unproven? I literally explain it in my comment. Also I wasn’t gonna ask for proof and just wait for months without saying why I think it did more than he thought it would because then I’d never get to say my opinion.
For the 8th gym, beedrill can learn giga drain from Eric's TM. You could have taught it to beedrill and use it on dugtrio, and rhydon
I respect how Scott doesn’t rely on Mimic. I may have missed it, but I haven’t seen him use it yet in any videos.
Honestly I didn't know it existed in my earlier runs. haha
Yeah, rock doesn't resist bug. Since bug is my favorite type, I'm always happy to remember that. ^.^
I love beedrill i cant wait to watch this
I love using Beedrill in Gen2 because I found out about the Fury Cutter Whitney cheese by using a Beedrill. I never actually used one in Gen1 though. Now I kind of want to.
Seeing a Beedrill only run reminds me of Game Grumps' playthrough of Pokémon Fire Red. Good ol Buntd,
Found your channel earlier nice content
When you said butterfree with no sleep for a second I thought you meant a sleep deprived playthrough as in you didn’t sleep before playing 😆
Hell yah to the team rocket playthrough!!
Twinneedle doing THAT much damage to Brock is nuts, like yeah you're over-levelled but that is nuts to Pokémon KNOWN TO BE DEFFENSIVE WALLS...
also, when they gave him a Mega-form, i lost my mind, always liked Beedrill so seeing this guy get a buff like that was a nice change.
I like how Oak is the old man who teaches you how to catch a weedle this time
Weezing/Koffing and Arbok were always on my gen 1 team. I would like to see that run
thanks Scotty
You did two sets of Viridian Forest powerleveling in the same playthrough!
Okay it’s not that bad but it is a good reference.
Has always been one of my favorite pokemon
Why get rid of focus energy? It pairs well with fury attack, pin missile, twin needle since each one has a separate critical chance
Focus energy lowers critical hit chance to 1/4 in gen 1 due to a glitch.
Crit build, too much fun.
You give me hope to pokemon runs in my 30s in beyond.
I would love to see a video with you playing through the game with Team Rocket's Pokemon/ Jessie and James Pokemon
Hope van Dyne is also the name of the Wasp in the Marvel series.
Great video! is there a reason you used agility for so long instead of sword dance to trigger badge boost? I think it would have been way more effective.
33:55 Btw you landed a crit with twineedle ignoring stat changes and badge boost, that's why it did so little damage.
Swords dance would be better.
I think Twineedle does more damage than a 5-hit Fury Attack with STAB, and Rock doesn't resist bug!
Instant like for Team Beedrill btw
EDIT: No Mega Drain for Ground/Rock types? I would've used that instead of Rest...it doesn't look like you used Rest too much, at least through Giovanni...
Facinating, you didn't even use hyper beam.
I would be interested in watching you play through with Jesse and James's terrible team.
Arbok, Weezing, and Meowth?
Good idea
Weezing is pretty decent, right?
@@porsche911sbs pretty sure it's one of the better Poison types in Gen 1, but it isn't the best one. Probably Tentacruel or Victreebel is the best one.
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Coulda used an edit or second take, getting better tho! Do nidoking next if you haven’t
Those drills are so powerful
Our bug saviour is here
I know this counts as using a glitch but having Scyther learn Pin Missile and Twineedle is a killer combo.
Between Stab and Scyther's speed and attack; an opportunity was waisted.
This entire time my mind was breaking with the interaction of bug type moves against various pokemon.
Yup. Me too. That how you know there are almost no bug moves in gen 1 haha
I'm surprised you did not take the opportunity to level beedrill at the route beside Viridian city, there are Mankey and male nidoran to boost that attack stat. But i suppose it's faster to level at the forest.
5:10 actually there are 2 "bugs" here. 1st is the one you said, that Bug moves are Super effective against Poison. However, those are also resisted by Flying pokemon (which Zubat is). This is when the other "bug" cames in. It's just a display bug, it doesn't affect the fight, but when a pokemon that has dual types, one that is resistent and one that is weak against a move, it will wrongly display that it was "Super effective" or "Not very effective" even if it has neutral damage. The message displayed depends on the first type of the foe: in that case, Zubat is POISON/Flying, so it will say Super Effective. A different example would be a Nidoking hit by a Grass move. Nidoking is Poison/Ground, which gets neutral damage from Grass moves, but Gen 1 games will say "Not very effective" because the first type (Poison) is resistent to Grass moves :)
For the sake of amusement, I would like to see that Jesse and James challenge.
Always liked the og bugs for how early you could get them.
I love them too :)
That surprises me, Beedrill is a lot better in gen 1 than I thought
You'll be surprised even more very soon!
Fun fact if the first hit is a critical on a multi turn move they will all be in generation one.
Bug type moves deal neutral damage against Rock/Ground, you're level 20, and it gets STAB.
I’m gonna subscribe I like you 👍🏼
I like you too :) welcome aboard
Any reason you didn't use the poke flute after you used rest to wake up? Just wondering if it's frowned upon in runs or something. I been playing gen 1 lately and using snorlax w rest and poke flute so i was curious why you didnt choose to use the flute
One of my rules is no items in battle for these runs. In regular gameplay I always use the Pokeflute :)
@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon ahh gotcha. I kept watching more of these runs and actually listened to the rules in the beginning, felt silly for asking this 😂 anyways love the runs man great content
It is sad that I can't catch a weedle in Pokémon Yellow, Beedrill is my favorite bug Pokémon
Yeah, the lack of Weedle always made me sad as a kid. But I think it actually made me like Beedrill more. It feels really rare to me still!
3:25 It's because of the same type attack bonus
6:16 twineedle is super effective here
Setting up on sandslash in the sylph fight was a glaring tactical mistake. You ended up taking *way too much* damage for the boost to make up for. I'd have done it on the weak magnet instead.
27:07 - "It can actually unthaw me." Hmmm haha it's just thaw 😅
Language has always been hard for me :P
Of course the Venomoth went down in one turn to Twinneedle. It is a Bug/Grass type, after all!
I hoped he would be great because Beedrill was one of my favorite mons in gen one... and all the eeveelutions, but which one is best?
I am seeing a old video of yours. If you see this, do the challenge with team rocket's Jessie and James team, I would love to watch that
I see all comments!
@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon Haha nice, thanks. I like your voice I was watching the video like a podcast
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Why did you use Double Edge on Alakazam in the final battle? Isn't Twin Needle super effective?
Shhhhhhh
Yeah twineedle would’ve done 150 damage instead of the 100 damage that double edge does in gen 1
@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon WHY SCOTT, WHYYYY??! 😩
Bit late now but I think Harden would have been a better set up move than Agility, seeing as at that level Beedrill should outspeed most opponents. Are smaller, more repeatable boosts better for the badge glitch also?
Smaller is better for badge boost as it triggers each time you use the more. If it says "it won't have any effect" then you don't get the boost.
The power of STAB
this will be easy. the signature move has win in the name
I would have kept Pin Missile. It's similar to Twin Needle but can hit more then 2 times most of the time.
In regards to Twineedle doing decent damage against Brock's Pokemon, apparently, Rock (and Ground for that matter) does NOT resist Bug. Just found this out, I'm as shocked as you are. It's not a Generation I thing either, Bug does neutral damage to both types in all generations. Always assumed Rock resisted Bug, but guess not.
I just imagine a small bee attacking a giant rock snake... Doesn't seem like it should do very much.
This just proves that Rock type was completely useless even then, and is redundant now. It really only is useful for Tyranitar and that is solely because of Sandstorm. The rest are good Pokémon with the rock typing, but even that list is short and is just Lycanroc and Mega Diancie and maybe Glimmora and Aurorus if being suicide leads count, and maybe Coalossal counts because of its cheesy Dynamax strat.
I don’t know if you’ve found more success with the format of your recent videos, but your delivery in this videos the best I’ve heard in all of your videos. Your voice has a lot more variation in pitch and cadence, and sounds less monotonous. Like I said, I don’t know how this video performed relative to your other videos, maybe the newer videos get more views faster? Your newer content is good, the delivery is just kind of dry. This video, you rarely stutter (not that you do in the new videos, but this sounds less scripted than your newer videos which is why it’s notable), you sound less nervous, and it is more auditorily engaging. This is different from the more casual feel of your Grimer video, where that video was more natural, but it was mainly just laughing at your own jokes with a dry delivery.
Like I said, idk how your new videos are performing relative to this video, also I don’t know what the workflow process was like for these videos, but just some thoughts to consider. Ultimately you should do what you find best, and what helps your workflow most. Keep up the good work.
This one was not scripted. Older videos had no script, newer videos are scripted. This type of video is far more stressful to produce and leads to a lot of bad mistakes in the video. I find it interesting that you feel this video has better delivery. An interesting point to consider.
@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon it doesn't sound like you have a script in the video which maybe means that the dialogue could flow more naturally.
If it's more stressful to produce then definitely stick to scripts, because low stress is key.
I think it just feels more natural because you're not reading. This video sounded more like a conversational tone rather than presentational.
I definitely prefer a more conversational cadence. It sounds more authentic, not that I think your scripted videos are unauthetic, because you are probably one of the more authentic poketubers I watch. Love the recaps of memories you have of these games.
Neither is better or worse, just wanted to comment and potential get some of Scott's thoughts on the subject. Like I said, keep up the good work.
i've been playing this game for 20 years & just learned about the badge boost glitch today lol.. wouldn't it work better if u used swords dance instead tho ?
Swords dance would have been better for sure!
U know wut that means its scythers turn next, my favorite pokemon 😁
Bug is the only type more OP than psychic in gen 1, the only downside is that all bug pokemon besides pinsir and scyther are awful and beedrill and jolteon are the only pokemon that can learn offensive bug moves preventing scyther and pinsir from getting STAB bug moves
I know when I was young I liked butterfree better. Right now though Beedrill is one of my favorite pokemon. I'm not sure when or why that changed.
Also Twin Needle opposite of psyshock confirmed.
I do not know the significance of this, but level is calculated into the damage, you are higher level, high attack stat, and normal damage, of course you crit like that.
Do the team rocket run!
you should be learned Swordsdance to boost your Attack and brute force the Trainers.^^
It was harder this way???? Haha, good point!
You get so obsessed with the Badge Boost Glitch you forget the basics XD