Zubat is *Really* BAD in Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire
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Published 2023-10-30
Edited by: @SimplyAJ
Music by: @makegamemusic
Rules and Explanations
Rules: (1) Only use the one Pokémon in Battle, others for HMs are fine. (2) No Items in battle (3) No Glitches* (4) Set Mode (5) No evasion moves
All Comments (21)
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If my math is right your Roxanne attempt is less than a 1% chance of all the flinches and misses. So very lucky and very insane.
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Hidden power: With the fact you don't choose your DVs/IVs, it'd be a bit bad for a tierlist like your gen 1 one, but for an impossibles run I see 0 problem with it
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That Roxanne win was absolutely perfection
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At 26:41 Lunatone attacked Zubat because when the AI estimated the damage for Psychic, it rolled a favorable range against Zubat and saw a KO on both targets, causing it to choose randomly.
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I love the hoenn elite four. Sidenigh, fuebbe, glaseeyah, and dracky are all super cool. Their champion Stevine Stahnee is amazing too
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Such a punch in the gut they buffed Leech Life like crazy in Gen 7 then instantly gave Zubat absorb instead
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So the odds of Nosepass either getting flinched or missing rock tomb is 38.75% on a single turn. For that to happen for 6 turns in a row (7, but we're not counting the potion) would be a 0.34% chance. Its not really important to find the odds of exactly miss-miss-flinch-miss-miss-flinch or w/e because we don't really care about any specific order, just that Nosepass was unable to move for 6 turns.
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It's strange how Zubat only has a worse and worse time as each gen progresses despite the many advancements and possible strategies that come with each generation.
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Casual 1% encounter at 10:34 Volbeat was my last Hoenn entry on Ruby. This was before I had easy access to the internet so I thought my game was bugged so that Volbeat wouldn't spawn lol. I still remember which patch of grass I spawned her in.
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The Zubat videos are some of my favorite. It feels like it somehow gets worse more and more even though it should have more tools every gen.
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Hidden Power can be a lifesaver in solo runs depending on the Pokémon and the type, but pretty much only in cases of awful matchups in specific battles. When I was putting together my personal project of solo runs in Platinum, I put Hidden Power in the category of "crutch" -- moves or items that tend to help weaker runs more than stronger runs -- which led me to avoid using it when possible and adjust the run's ranking downward if I couldn't get past certain battles at a reasonable level without it.
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I think for any "impossible" runs you should be aloud to have max IVs/whatever hidden power youd like. To say any challange is truly impossible it has to be under 100% optimal conditions.
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A Jrose11 video on my birthday? AND it opens with the Count?? AND it’s over an hour??? Magnificent. Utterly magnificent. Thanks for all the hard work you and your editor do!
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A quiet benefit of Gen 1 & 2 was that because of the way that Stat Experience worked, there was no such thing as detrimental experience grinding. Afterwards, you even out in a way that makes your pokemon less tanky. It wouldn't surprise me if this Zubat was worse than a non-badge boost glitched Gen 1 Zubat.
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your pronunciations of the elite 4 members was spot on, thanks for taking our criticisms!
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I actually really like the whole Zubat line, so I'd be more than happy to see you run them in every gen. (Even if it's just Zubat)
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A whole playlist of zubat vs each pokemon generation would be pretty awesome tbh, if your up to that task, assuming zubat is in the generation anyway
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Preemptively commenting that I hope the Count Dracula counts show up a few times in this video. Love the content as always!
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Killing me with these elite 4 names 😆
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Phweb is killing me man. Sydny and Drakey are great too, but Phweb is just iconic mispronunciation. I'm totally naming some ghost type Phweb at some point Edit: 51:02 From this day forth I will forever call Steven Stone, Steveen Stany
