All of Twitch.tv Plays One Game of Pokémon Red

[PrimaGaga 1025]

Apparently we are going in for season generation 2

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2014/02/twitchplayspokemon_renewed_for_generation_two

[Sahaqiel 1232]

Bird Jesus has been the last Pokemon out against Giovanni every time we've lost to him, and it's always with both the last Pokemon being ridiculously weak and us choking somehow and losing by using like, Whirlwind or something. Our chances were not very good, since we only had one attack move, Quick Attack, this time around. It seemed we were doomed to fail.

 

BUT NOT TODAY

 

 

BIRD JESUS PULLS THROUGH

 

#EIGHTBADGES

#EIGHTBADGES

#EIGHTBADGES

#EIGHTBADGES

[Chimetals 344]

Just walked in on them attempting to heal--they were on the way to victory road, with some players opting for the ten-square walk to blue, some wanting to walk back to the pokecenter. We wound up fighting blue.

[T1g 1503]

[Sahaqiel 1232]

Spent a ton of time getting my sales merch together for shipping, then giving the Helix Fossil a new paint job for my listings.

 

I spent half an hour putting a discrete reference in two of the pictures. Tell me if you find it.

[T1g 1503]

LORD HELIX HAS EVOLVED, AND REACHED HIS TRUE POTENTIAL. HE SHALL LEAD US INTO PROSPERITY

[Sayubie 405]

LORD HELIX HAS EVOLVED, AND REACHED HIS TRUE POTENTIAL. HE SHALL LEAD US INTO PROSPERITY

ANARCHY!ANARCHY!ANARCHY!ANARCHY!

[Sahaqiel 1232]

Evolution of TwitchPlaysPokemon Religions

[PrimaGaga 1025]

so in the latest elite 4 run (run #5) we were facing Lance, and down to his last Dragonite. Bird Jesus went down, leaving us with only ATV (All Terrain Venomoth), at level 36. Things looked bleak. And then… we beat it.

Here’s why:

In Gen 1, the AI programmed for opponent trainers has a main objective of using supereffective moves. These were determined not by the move’s base strength, but by the type matchup. Lance’s Dragonite has 4 moves: Slam, Hyper Beam, Barrier, and Agility. ATV is a Poison type- meaning it’s supereffective type matchup was Psychic. Barrier and Agility are Psychic moves, while Hyper Beam and Slam are normal moves.

Basically we tricked the AI into thinking it was super-effective attacking us, when really it was slowly poisoning itself to death.

And that’s how we beat a puppying level 61 Dragonite with a level 36 Venomoth, good day.

(via musicalsharpie)

[Sahaqiel 1232]

I actually looked away just when that happened. I was wondering why they kept calling Venemoth "Dragon Slayer".

[PrimaGaga 1025]

[PrimaGaga 1025]

Someone on tumblr:

imagine if they play gold version next on twitch plays pokemon, and when they finally reach the end of the game and must face Red at the top of mt silver, they discover it’s a ROM hack and Red’s team has been changed to include pidgeot, zapdos, omastar, venomoth, nidoking, and lapras. twitch’s greatest challenge… is to defeat themselves.

How cool would that be?

[Sahaqiel 1232]

hopefully with a better movepool

[Chimetals 344]

Nah, it'd be better if they had to fight themselves every time, just for the milestone-ness of it.

[PrimaGaga 1025]

wut do you mean by "every time"?