Radical Red 3.02 Mono-Dragon Major Trainer Battles
Channel: Rooreelooo
Date: 13/08/2022

here's the bulk of my mono-dragon playthrough of radical red v3.02. enjoy! that's 14/18 monotypes done now, and the second one that i've uploaded video of here. this time i decided to record ALL the major battles instead of just the e4. 

elite 4 video: https://youtu.be/ro6bLjec4es
full playlist of my monotype runs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZQQ3CBOJeZo0XkmpGNOcLKlr9JGxHwAu

dragons are very strong, and i feel like i sorta made this a bit hard on myself. i probably could have subbed in some much better mons here - salamence, dragonite, dragapult, dracovish, some other stuff called dra-something etc. but i didn't really feel like it. i was having a lot of fun with some of the same mons - kommo-o really surprised me with it's bulk and setup potential, and seviian-wishiwashi came in useful almost every battle. i guess i cheaped out a bit relying so heavily on mega-sceptile (who is fucking busted in this hack lmao), but i had never used it before. passed it over in my mono-grass run, so it felt like it was now or never for the big gex.

the hardest battles in the game were probably against claire and pryce, no surprises there. they both kinda walled me for a while, and i had to retry them a lot until i got lucky with a setup sweep. but some of the battles that i usually struggle with (both archer + ariana battles, the final giovanni battle etc) went incredibly smoothly. i think i beat the back-to-back rocket admin battle in cerulean cave on my FIRST try, which is something that has definitely never happened before lol.

anyway here's the usage stats, because i find it fun to track those (these stats include the elite 4 battles but i uploaded them separately):
23: helicopter (vibrava / flygon)
19: gupdrake (sevii-wishiwashi) and gobblin (axew / fraxure / haxorus)
12: biggex (sceptile / mega sceptile), onskad (turtonator), fruitpunch (applin / appletun) and burden (goomy / hisui-sliggoo / hisui-goodra)
11: scaletiper (kommo-o)
5: gargovoir (druddigon)
4: bistro (noibat)
3: spiritbomb (dreepy), greggs (exeggutor-alola) and sawtooth (kingdra)
2: heelywheel (zweilous / hydreigon) and turnover (second applin)
1: grandad (drampa)

btw, i'm gonna confess to cheating in the goodra now because it's possible somebody will spot it's not in the right pokéball for a legit hisui mon. i was soft resetting the cerulean egg for hisui mons, and taking waaay to long to get my goomy. then i accidentally saved after hatching the wrong thing lol. so in frustration i cheated a goomy in. but it was a regular-ass goomy that didn't give me any extra advantage or anything. and i was at a point in the game where i could legitimately get a goomy from the egg anyway, so it's not like i got it early and used in battles where i shouldn't have. i think that's fine, it doesn't invalidate my run or anything. just wanted to let you know.

all music is from final fantasy crystal chronicles. this whimsical medieval-y fantasy music feels very fitting for a consort of dragons.

00:00 falkner
01:02 brock
02:18 archer (mt. moon)
03:08 rival (cerulean)
03:49 misty
04:40 bugsy
05:05 brendan (s.s. anne)
05:51 lt. surge
06:41 whitney
08:05 erika
09:53 giovanni (rocket hideout)
10:42 ghost marowak
10:57 morty
12:00 chuck
13:07 rival (silph co)
14:10 archer & ariana (silph co)
15:33 giovanni (silph co)
16:48 sabrina
18:18 mudkip kid
19:37 brock (rematch)
20:48 misty (rematch)
22:20 lt. surge (rematch)
24:00 koga
25:18 brendan (fuchsia)
26:20 erika (rematch)
27:45 jasmine
28:15 pryce
29:38 jojo fan
30:22 may
31:20 blaine
32:50 archer & ariana (cerulean cave)
34:27 giovanni (cerulean cave)
35:56 clair
37:11 rival (rt 22)
38:40 brendan (victory road)