Pokemon Subs, Cleaned.

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This is a tool-assisted run of Pokemon Blue (on the left) and Red (on the right).

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The goal of this run is to complete the Pokedex in both games and obtain the diploma.

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Both the player and the rival get a one letter name.

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Giving characters a short name saves time when the name is printed, as each printed letter takes a frame.

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Choosing a custom name costs time itself though, so it's only worth for characters that are used frequently.

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Changing the options in-game is faster than doing it on the title screen.

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Battle animations are turned off, the text speed set to fast and the battle style to fixed.

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Right from the start Red is slightly ahead of Blue.

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This is because Charmander's cry is shorter than Squirtle's, so Red takes less time in the title screen.

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<font color="#AAFFAA">Red's rival seems completely disinterested in the conversation with Oak, staring into the void instead.</font>

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Red takes Charmander as the starter, while Blue takes Squirtle.

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All three starters are needed to complete the run though, as well as all three Eevee evolutions.

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To get those, Red will dash ahead to Celadon City to grab an Eevee, trade with Blue and reset.

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All stat-lowering moves have a flat 25% failure chance when done by AIs. For the player they always hit.

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Also, failing stat-lowering moves is in most cases faster than failing offensive moves.

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Both Charmander and Squirtle will need to fight a lot, so they have high offensive DVs to speed up the fights.

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Charmander also has low HP and defensive DVs, which will come in handy later on.

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Roaming NPCs' movements are random and can be manipulated like other randomness.

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This is used throughout the run to avoid collisions or to bring them closer when interacting with them.

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Standing next to or behind Oak in this cutscene is actually faster than standing in front of him.

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NPCs move only half as fast as you, and scrolling the screen further up means the rival takes less steps.

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Both Red and Blue do extra fights to get their starter to learn a new move.

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This helps beating Brock and the following fights way faster and is well worth the time investment.

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<font color="#FFAAAA">Charmander does not deal critical hits every time.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">Crits cost extra time due to the additional text and are only used when needed.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">Unlike in later games, growing multiple levels at once actually skips the levels in between entirely.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">This saves some time and is used multiple times in this run.</font>

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Even with battle animations turned off, there are two different battle animations depending on the used move.</font>

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Moves with side effects use the shaking animation, while moves without side effects use the blinking animation.</font>

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The shaking animation is about one second faster, so using moves with side effects is always preferred.

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This is the most important speed-up during fights, outweighing even additional crit or effectiveness messages.

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<font color="#AAAAFF">Talking to trainers is faster than being spotted, and worth taking up to 3 extra steps (7 when on a bike)</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">Encounter mechanics in this game are based on encounter slots.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">There are 10 slots which have a different probability of coming up, and each area fills these 10 slots with Pokemon.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">Due to how the RNG in this game works, which of the encounters you get at a specific time changes only slowly.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">You can think of it as a spinning wheel with the encounters on them, doing one revolution every few seconds.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">There is no good known way to manipulate this wheel, except for waiting for it to move along.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">This also means that after a specific encounter, the wheel is always in the same spot.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">Choosing the right order for consecutive encounters is therefore vital in order to minimize wait times.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">Mega Punch is one of the strongest moves that you can get early on.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">It speeds up all upcoming fights and is well worth the detour.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">Rare Candies are the most important items in this run.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">The main bottleneck is gaining the necessary XP reach all evolutions, and Rare Candies speed this up dramatically.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">Throughout the game you can collect exactly 13 Rare Candies, but some are too far out of the way to collect in this run.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">In total, ~446k XP are required throughout the run, and ~140k of them will be saved by Rare Candies.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">For comparison, completing the game (any%) gives ~151k XP, beating the Elite Four gives ~56k XP.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">The evolution of Charmander and Squitle is canceled for now, because they need to be traded first to fill the Pokedex.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">Trainer AIs have different traits depending on the trainer type.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">The most relevant trait is whether they always use effective attacks when available, commonly called Smart AI.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">Most regular trainers don't use Smart AI, while all gym leaders (except Brock) do.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">Misty will never use Tackle on Charmander because of this, even though both Staryu and Starmie know it.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">Almost all offensive moves have a 1/256 chance of failure, even if they are supposed to always hit.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">This is why Water Gun and Bubblebeam can fail, and it is exploited many more times throughout the run.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">The only exceptions are the move Swift and any attack when under the effect of X-Accuracy.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">The Pokecenter in Cerulean is used to set the teleport location, and refresh the PP.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">PP management is a large factor in this run, as every Pokecenter visit costs a lot of time.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">Water Gun is overridden by Bubblebeam. This is another case of why the battle animation matters.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">Water Gun is a strictly stronger move than Bubble, but Bubble uses the faster animation, making it quicker to use.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">Bubblebeam's side effect lowers the speed of Pidgeotto, so that Squirtle is now faster.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">This skips Pidgeotto's second attack, a technique that will be used on a few more occasions.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">The overlay shows which encounter slot is active at each frame (slightly simplified).</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">You can see how it slowly changes all the time, decreasing in the overworld and increasing during fights.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">This shows that the order of encounters is crucial, and waiting to get the right encounters is inevitable sometimes.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">There is another encounter mechanic in this game, known as the 3 Step Rule.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">It lets you encounter the next Pokemon only after you have walked at least three steps from the last encounter.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">Blue's inputs seem sluggish, because Blue intentionally waits extra frames before each input.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">This manipulates the next encounter, and is done many times throughout this run, but is not noticeable in most cases.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">Bill's house is conveniently one of the few houses in the game you can Escape Rope out of.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">Charmander is taking intentional damage, to prepare a death warp after grabbing Cut.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">Leaving the SS Anne triggers a painfully slow cutscene which will be skipped.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">Being at low HP also triggers a constant warning noise, known as "redbar".</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">It overrides most other sound effects and therefore speeds up fights.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">Due to its annoying nature it is not used throughout the run, though.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">Red is using the collected Rare Candies on Charmander.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">While it is slightly less efficient in terms of XP gain, it speeds up the upcoming fights.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">Metapod and Weedle are switched into and out of the fight to give them XP, as they are too weak to fight themselves.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">This method of leveling Pokemon is rather slow though, so it is avoided whenever possible.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">You are supposed to use Flash to light up the Rock Tunnel, but you can navigate it just fine without.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">Pokemaniacs have Smart AI, so Cubone always uses Bone Club, the only effective move it knows.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">Pokemon can only do one evolution per fight, so even if Weedle got more XP, it wouldn't evolve to Beedrill.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">This is the cutscene that Red was able to skip using the death warp.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">Blue sits through it, since getting rid of the entire party and changing the warp locations is way more effort.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">The Hiker in this area was clearly meant to be a mandatory trainer, his range to spot you covers the full corridor.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">However, due to a mistake in how spotting works when an NPC is facing south, they can't see you at full distance.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">This allows Red to just go past him.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">The Hiker's Pokemon would be slow to defeat, but they conveniently know Selfdestruct and aren't afraid to use it.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">Missing Selfdestruct still causes the user to faint, which is even more convenient.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">The trash cans in Surge's gym don't work like they're supposed to.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">Due to improper use of bit operators, only half of the trash cans can ever be the one with the first lever.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">And due to a (different) improper use of bit operators, most of the adjacent trash cans can never be the second one.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">Instead, the top left trash can can be the second one even when not adjacent.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">All of this is not a concern when manipulating them, though.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">Raichu is another example where lowering the enemy's speed can save half a turn in the fight.</font>

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<font color="#AAFFAA">Surge is a dirty liar, the Thunder Badge does not in fact raise your Speed, but your Defense.</font>

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This is the first set of trades of a total of 9 throughout the run.

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Trades are fairly slow, and require Blue and Red to sync up, so the general goal is to do as few of them as possible.

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The only way to exit a trade is by saving and resetting. A soft reset is faster than exiting the trade menu first.

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This run only uses soft resets, to demonstrably not do any save corruption when resetting.

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<font color="#FFAAAA">After the trades are done, Red is starting over, now taking Bulbasaur as the third starter.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">Bulbasaur is by far the slowest starter to use, so it's not actually going to be used to fight early on.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">Losing against Charmander is faster than winning, and Bulbasaur won't need that bit of XP.</font>

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With Blue way further progressed in the game, it can be used to help Red progress faster.</font>

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Red is getting his Charmander back, in exchange for Bulbasaur which would be too slow on its own anyway.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">Bite's side effect causes the enemy to flinch, skipping its turn and saving time.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">It is used whenever possible, if the enemy is slower.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">At this point we acknowledge that the concept of obedience exists, and Charmander may disobey orders here.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">Disobeying orders has no advantages though, you'll never see it in effect throughout this run.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">Red visits the Pokecenter to set the warp location, and also to refill Charmander's PP which are still low from before.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">Charmander has been registered for Blue now, so it can finally evolve.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">Leaving and re-entering Route 3 resets all trainer positions, and allows Red to avoid the second Bug Catcher.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">This route is faster only if you are strong enough, any additional turns on the Lass fight makes it slower.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">Blue does not quite have enough money yet to buy everything that will be needed throughout the run.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">For now, Blue only buys things that will be needed in the near future.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">Giving the Soda Pop is a good example of a visual glitch that happens many times throughout the run.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">If you press a direction and A on the same frame, the selection moves but the cursor on the screen doesn't.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">This makes it appear as if the wrong thing has been selected.</font>

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<font color="#AAFFAA">In a shocking turn of events, we discover Blue's crippling gambling addiction.</font>

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<font color="#AAFFAA">Luckily for Blue he wins the jackpot every single time.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">Unsurprisingly, the the slot machines in this game are actually rigged against you.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">Whether you will win or not is already determined when the wheels start spinning.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">The game will actively try and make its predetermined result come true.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">For that, it rotates the last wheel some more even after you stopped it in case you managed to line something up.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">Conversely, it will also try and line something up for you if it decided you should win this time.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">That means there is no actual element of skill involved in the slot game, it is purely RNG.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">Also, winning the slots is only very slightly slower than buying coins directly.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">Even the additional distance to get to the counter makes it not worth for all but the largest amounts of coins.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">Moreover, money is a valuable resource that is needed to buy more items later.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">The coins Blue has won are used to buy Dratini.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">This seems like a waste of time, since you could just catch Dratini in the Safari Zone, and save minutes of gambling.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">Getting it from the Game Corner has advantages that make it worth it though.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">Dratini is the single most XP hungry Pokemon in this game, needing ~200k XP to fully evolve.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">Getting Dratini earlier gives more opportunity to let it fight and gain that XP.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">Furthermore, the Game Corner Dratini is level 24, while the Safari Zone Dratini is only level 15.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">This makes Dratini strong enough to fight on its own throughout the game.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">It will be the main fighter for the rest of Blue's run.</font>

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This is the third set of trades between Blue and Red.

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It is again used to speed up Red's progress through the game, by skipping parts of it.

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Red is given Farfetch'd, which knows both Cut and Fly, allowing Red to skip getting these HMs himself.

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This most notably allows Red to skip the Nugget Bridge and the SS Anne.

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Red is also given Abra, who knows Teleport, a crucial move to get back to Pewter City and skip the Nugget Bridge.

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Blue and Red will only trade three Pokemon here.

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To make the most of the trades, they should be beneficial for both sides, and Red doesn't have much to offer yet.

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Even the Pikachu and Pidgey in these trades Blue could have caught himself, but speeding up Red is more important.

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<font color="#FFAAAA">Magikarp is given to the Daycare.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">Daycare only gives you 1 XP per step you walk, so fighting is usually faster even when switching in and out.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">The reason the Daycare works here is that it can just sit there for most of the rest of the run.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">It also skips gaining each of the lower levels individually.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">In addition to knowing Teleport, Abra can conveniently also be traded for Mr. Mime.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">Dratini has been taught Thunderbolt, Ice Beam and Take Down.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">All of these have a high base power and are of different types, so a decent move is available against most opponents.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">Blue is collecting every Elixer on his way.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">Filling up Dratini's PP skips visiting the Pokecenter, and is important for the Elite Four fights later on.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">The purified zone does not only heal your Pokemon, it also restores PP, which notably restored Squirtle's PP for later.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">Blue uses a Poke Doll to get past Marowak and thereby skip the Rocket Hideout and getting the Silph Scope entirely.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">This is commonly not considered a glitch as it uses the item for its intended purpose.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">It is likely just not in a place the developers thought of when designing this item.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">Red's Raichu fight is another good example of the power of slowing your opponent down.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">By being faster, it not only saves Raichu's third attack, but also allows Meowth to make Raichu flinch.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">Meowth gets boosted XP since it was not originally caught by Red. Boosted XP is 1.5 times the regular amount.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">Boosted XP is important in some cases, but turns out to not be a major factor overall.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">Trading Pokemon just for boosted XP is not worth it, the trades generally take too long.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">Also, gaining boosted XP is slightly slower due to the additional texts, which can add up over time.</font>

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<font color="#FFAAAA">So it's more of a nice bonus when you need to trade anyway, but usually not worth going out of your way for.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">In the Fuchsia gym, Take Down is the most important move, as it is the only available high damage physical move.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">Its recoil damage requires healing Dratini twice between fights, which is still faster than using other moves.</font>

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<font color="#AAAAFF">Muk is paralyzed by Thunderbolt, which both makes it slower than Dratini and also can't attack.</font>

315
01:28:30,000 --> 01:28:37,066
<font color="#AAAAFF">This is not worth for most other fights though, since afflicting the paralysis costs a lot of time itself.</font>

317
01:29:13,333 --> 01:29:19,466
<font color="#AAAAFF">Weezing knows Selfdestruct, but since Koga uses Smart AI, it won't use it against Bulbasaur.</font>

319
01:29:19,800 --> 01:29:26,266
<font color="#AAAAFF">It also knows Smog which is considered to be effective against Bulbasaur and always used instead.</font>

321
01:29:26,600 --> 01:29:34,333
<font color="#AAAAFF">It actually isn't effective, but Generation I games have difficulty dealing with dual-types and evaluate this wrong.</font>

323
01:29:34,666 --> 01:29:39,400
<font color="#AAAAFF">This means only after switching back to Dratini, Weezing will detonate.</font>

325
01:29:39,733 --> 01:29:47,266
<font color="#AAAAFF">This also shows that, unlike in later generations, the AI cheats and chooses a move only after you have switched.</font>

327
01:29:53,333 --> 01:30:00,800
<font color="#AAFFAA">Koga has conspired with Surge to spread misinformation about what their badges do. It raises speed, not defense.</font>

329
01:30:06,666 --> 01:30:13,266
<font color="#AAAAFF">During the Weezing fight, Bulbasaur leveled up to exactly 13 in order to learn Vine Whip for later.</font>

331
01:30:13,600 --> 01:30:21,333
<font color="#AAAAFF">Since skipped level are left out entirely, skipping level 13 would prevent Bulbasaur from learning Vine Whip at all.</font>

333
01:31:13,333 --> 01:31:17,800
The main purpose for this set of trades is to give Squirtle to Red.

335
01:31:18,133 --> 01:31:25,400
Squirtle still needs to be leveled up, and Red is running out of Pokemon that actually need XP to fight with.

337
01:31:25,733 --> 01:31:33,133
Gaining XP is the main bottleneck of the run, and fighting with Pokemon that don't actually need XP is a waste.

339
01:31:33,466 --> 01:31:37,600
As soon as a Pokemon is fully evolved, it is not used anymore.

341
01:34:58,333 --> 01:35:02,466
<font color="#FFAAAA">Red actually does the Rocket Hideout and gets the Silph Scope.</font>

343
01:35:02,800 --> 01:35:09,400
<font color="#FFAAAA">This lets Red catch the Tower's otherwise unobtainable wild Pokemon and trade them with Blue later.</font>

345
01:35:09,733 --> 01:35:14,733
<font color="#FFAAAA">It also gives Red access to an extra Moon Stone, which Red will need later.</font>

347
01:35:55,000 --> 01:36:02,466
<font color="#AAAAFF">Catching Pokemon in the Safari Zone is generally faster than catching them outside, since no fight is initiated.</font>

349
01:36:02,800 --> 01:36:08,066
<font color="#AAAAFF">Therefore, Blue aims to catch as many Pokemon during the traversal as possible.</font>

351
01:42:50,000 --> 01:42:57,800
<font color="#AAAAFF">Pokemon are always caught at the highest possible level they appear in the wild, again to save XP and therefore time.</font>

353
01:44:18,333 --> 01:44:25,000
<font color="#AAAAFF">Tentacool is the only exception to this. It evolves at level 30, but can be found at up to level 40.</font>

355
01:44:25,333 --> 01:44:31,866
<font color="#AAAAFF">Catching the lowest level version that still evolves within one level therefore minimizes XP cost.</font>

357
01:46:23,333 --> 01:46:30,600
<font color="#FFAAAA">Since Red skipped a large part of the early game, Red is short on money and needs to collect an extra Nugget.</font>

359
01:47:50,000 --> 01:47:53,733
<font color="#FFAAAA">Marowak can't be caught, so it is killed instead for XP.</font>

360
01:51:40,000 --> 01:51:43,866
This is the last set of trades before the end of the game.

361
01:51:44,200 --> 01:51:51,000
Like with the one before, the main purpose of this trade is to give Red something to dump the XP into.

363
01:51:51,333 --> 01:51:55,933
This will be Omanyte, which needs to be raised to level 40 to evolve.

365
01:53:30,000 --> 01:53:37,200
Red has some more more beneficial trades to offer for Blue by now, allowing more trades in the same session.

367
01:53:37,533 --> 01:53:44,866
Starting another trading session costs time, so ideally you want to trade as many Pokemon at once as possible.

369
01:58:53,333 --> 01:58:59,733
<font color="#AAAAFF">Besides their AI traits, some trainers have special AI actions they can do instead of attacking.</font>

371
01:59:00,066 --> 01:59:06,800
<font color="#AAAAFF">Blaine's action is special in that he will use Super Potions even when his Pokemon is at full health.</font>

373
01:59:07,133 --> 01:59:13,600
<font color="#AAAAFF">This turns out to be faster than having it attack, so it is used multiple times during the fight.</font>

375
02:00:50,000 --> 02:00:56,866
<font color="#AAAAFF">To avoid the otherwise mandatory trainers on this route, Blue surfs past them to collect the Super Rod.</font>

377
02:00:57,200 --> 02:01:03,600
<font color="#AAAAFF">The Super Rod is strictly better than the other fishing rods and the only one needed in the run.</font>

379
02:01:40,000 --> 02:01:46,000
<font color="#AAAAFF">With more money collected, Blue will buy all items needed throughout the rest of the game.</font>

381
02:02:58,333 --> 02:03:02,266
<font color="#AAAAFF">Fishing encounters work differently than regular encounters.</font>

382
02:03:02,600 --> 02:03:10,466
<font color="#AAAAFF">There are 4 slots per area for the Super Rod encounters, all equally likely, so you can get any encounter at any time.</font>

384
02:05:20,000 --> 02:05:26,800
<font color="#AAAAFF">Having a full inventory prevents gym leaders from giving you their TMs and save a few lines of dialog.</font>

386
02:05:27,133 --> 02:05:34,533
<font color="#AAAAFF">It is not worth going out of your way to set this up though, picking up items costs more than the dialog saves.</font>

388
02:06:00,000 --> 02:06:06,733
<font color="#FFAAAA">Red catches two Poliwhirls. One is needed to trade for Jynx, while the other is evolved to Poliwrath.</font>

390
02:08:45,000 --> 02:08:50,400
<font color="#AAAAFF">Taking the stairs is faster than taking the elevator in almost all circumstances.</font>

392
02:10:16,666 --> 02:10:21,933
<font color="#AAAAFF">This is another instance where your position can save time in non-obvious ways.</font>

394
02:10:22,266 --> 02:10:29,400
<font color="#AAAAFF">By taking a step upwards before triggering the rival, he does not need to walk around you in the cutscenes.</font>

396
02:13:00,000 --> 02:13:06,000
<font color="#AAAAFF">Wartortle has all the experience it needs, and all further XP on it is effectively wasted.</font>

398
02:13:06,333 --> 02:13:13,866
<font color="#AAAAFF">However, the XP ends up not being necessary on Dragonair, so Wartortle keeps fighting to save time on the switch.</font>

400
02:14:06,666 --> 02:14:13,266
<font color="#AAAAFF">Besides Blaine, Giovanni is the only other trainer whose AI move is actually useful over attacking.</font>

402
02:14:13,600 --> 02:14:19,266
<font color="#AAAAFF">Guard Spec has shorter texts than most other items trainer use, most notably X-items.</font>

404
02:14:19,600 --> 02:14:24,733
<font color="#AAAAFF">The number of times a trainer will use its AI move on any Pokemon is limited.</font>

406
02:14:25,066 --> 02:14:32,266
<font color="#AAAAFF">Giovanni will only ever use Guard Spec once per Pokemon, whereas Blaine can use Super Potions at most twice.</font>

408
02:14:51,666 --> 02:14:56,733
<font color="#AAAAFF">Against Rhyhorn, Bulbasaur is able to fight on its own, saving two switches.</font>

410
02:16:01,666 --> 02:16:08,866
<font color="#AAAAFF">Blue is not bothering picking up the Master Ball, since Poke Balls have proven to be cheap and as effective.</font>

412
02:16:30,000 --> 02:16:36,800
<font color="#AAAAFF">The trainers in the Dojo are nicely lined up for you, but only two of the five are actually mandatory.</font>

414
02:17:35,000 --> 02:17:42,933
<font color="#FFAAAA">Since you can scroll downwards to select the amount, buying more is faster, so Red buys as many Poke Balls as possible.</font>

416
02:17:43,266 --> 02:17:50,866
<font color="#FFAAAA">This is also why Red bought only 7 in Vermilion. The less you buy there, the more you buy here, saving time twice.</font>

418
02:21:05,000 --> 02:21:12,400
<font color="#AAAAFF">Using a teleporter before Escape Roping out changes the Escape Rope animation to the way faster teleporter one.</font>

420
02:23:53,333 --> 02:23:59,533
<font color="#AAAAFF">Leaving and re-entering resets the NPC positions and is ways faster than using the spin pads.</font>

422
02:25:28,333 --> 02:25:32,600
<font color="#FFAAAA">Red's Ponyta is the single most difficult encounter in this run.</font>

424
02:25:32,933 --> 02:25:39,933
<font color="#FFAAAA">It is the second rarest slot in the area, and needs both 15 speed DV and high attack DV for later fights.</font>

426
02:28:15,016 --> 02:28:22,150
<font color="#AAAAFF">One-Hit-KO moves in this game are based only on your actual speed. As long as you are faster, you can OHKO.</font>

428
02:28:22,483 --> 02:28:27,750
<font color="#AAAAFF">That means you can use X-Speed to boost your speed in order to OHKO everything.</font>

430
02:31:38,333 --> 02:31:42,066
<font color="#AAAAFF">Blue picks up a Max Ether as an addition to the Elixers.</font>

431
02:31:42,400 --> 02:31:47,133
<font color="#AAAAFF">Horn Drill only has 5 PP, so it needs to be refreshed after each fight.</font>

433
02:33:16,666 --> 02:33:24,133
<font color="#AAAAFF">Blue needs to catch a lot of Pokemon in Victory Road. Again, the visualization shows how the order is important.</font>

435
02:35:38,333 --> 02:35:45,600
<font color="#FFAAAA">Red is collecting an extra Rare Candy in Silph Co. at the top floor, the only use of an elevator in this run.</font>

437
02:35:45,933 --> 02:35:51,400
<font color="#FFAAAA">This Rare Candy requires an additional trainer battle, which makes it slow to get.</font>

439
02:35:51,733 --> 02:35:57,133
<font color="#FFAAAA">In the end, Red will be done faster than Blue, so Red has the time to collect it.</font>

441
02:43:11,666 --> 02:43:14,933
<font color="#AAAAFF">Mankey will do the whole Agatha fight on its own.</font>

442
02:43:15,266 --> 02:43:22,333
<font color="#AAAAFF">Mankey has a high base attack, and all enemy Pokemon are weak to a physical attack type that Mankey knows.</font>

444
02:43:22,666 --> 02:43:28,933
<font color="#AAAAFF">By buffing up the attack, it allows Mankey to take down Agatha's Pokemon in a reasonable time.</font>

446
02:43:29,266 --> 02:43:36,666
<font color="#AAAAFF">Due to the way crits work in this game, non-crits actually do more damage than crits after using the X-Attacks.</font>

448
02:43:37,000 --> 02:43:42,133
<font color="#AAAAFF">The fights happen to give the right amount of XP to level up to 28 to evolve.</font>

450
02:43:42,466 --> 02:43:49,666
<font color="#AAAAFF">As a bonus, it skips exactly level 21 and level 27, which are the levels that Mankey would learn a new move.</font>

452
02:48:20,000 --> 02:48:25,066
<font color="#AAAAFF">For the final Elite Four fight, the animations are re-enabled automatically.</font>

454
02:48:25,400 --> 02:48:31,533
<font color="#AAAAFF">Since this will be the last overall fight for Blue, there's no need to change it back later.</font>

456
02:51:56,666 --> 02:52:03,200
<font color="#AAAAFF">The game is only saved at the end of the credits, so they can't be skipped by saving and quitting.</font>

458
02:55:08,333 --> 02:55:15,733
<font color="#FFAAAA">In-game trades are usually slower than trades between the two versions, since you need to get to the NPC first.</font>

460
02:55:16,066 --> 02:55:22,333
<font color="#FFAAAA">Therefore all in-game trades are only done by either Red or Blue and then traded between them.</font>

462
02:56:06,666 --> 02:56:10,733
<font color="#FFAAAA">This Krabby is the only real difference between Red and Blue.</font>

464
02:56:11,066 --> 02:56:18,933
<font color="#FFAAAA">Usually, encounters in both versions are the same, with some Pokemon substituted for others to change up their rarity.</font>

466
02:56:19,266 --> 02:56:25,933
<font color="#FFAAAA">These substitutions are only done for the regular encounters though, but not for fishing encounters.</font>

468
02:56:26,266 --> 02:56:30,866
<font color="#FFAAAA">In Seafoam Islands, Red can catch Horsea where Blue can catch Krabby.</font>

470
02:56:31,200 --> 02:56:38,133
<font color="#FFAAAA">However, Horsea can still be caught by fishing in Seafoam Islands for both versions, while Krabby can't.</font>

472
02:56:38,466 --> 02:56:41,933
<font color="#FFAAAA">This forces Red to catch Krabby on Route 18 instead.</font>

473
02:57:30,000 --> 02:57:33,200
<font color="#FFAAAA">Only Red will visit the Power Plant in this run.</font>

474
02:57:33,533 --> 02:57:40,533
<font color="#FFAAAA">It is too far out of the way so trading the caught Pokemon is faster than having Blue catch them as well.</font>

476
03:02:06,666 --> 03:02:13,133
<font color="#FFAAAA">Each step increases Magikarp's XP by one, so walking extra steps increases Magikarp's overall XP.</font>

478
03:02:13,466 --> 03:02:19,733
<font color="#FFAAAA">This extra XP will turn out to not be required in this run, it won't cost any time in the end.</font>

480
03:02:20,066 --> 03:02:26,600
<font color="#FFAAAA">It appears like raising Magikarp in the Daycare did nothing, since you can catch them at level 15.</font>

482
03:02:26,933 --> 03:02:33,800
<font color="#FFAAAA">However, it is actually already half-way to level 16, which will be important when leveling it further.</font>

484
03:03:18,333 --> 03:03:25,666
<font color="#AAAAFF">Only Blue will visit Cerulean Cave. It is only accessible after beating the Elite Four, which Red will not do.</font>

486
03:10:10,000 --> 03:10:17,000
<font color="#AAAAFF">The last Pokemon Blue needs to collect is Porygon, which requires 6500 coins and therefore more gambling.</font>

488
03:11:30,000 --> 03:11:34,533
<font color="#AAAAFF">There is actually a strategy in choosing which way to align the 7's.</font>

490
03:11:34,866 --> 03:11:40,200
<font color="#AAAAFF">The relative alignment of the spinning wheels change depending on the last game.</font>

492
03:11:40,533 --> 03:11:46,333
<font color="#AAAAFF">That means different alignments allow you to get the next jackpot more or less quickly.</font>

494
03:18:40,000 --> 03:18:44,666
<font color="#FFAAAA">Red has already collected everything that is necessary to end the run.</font>

496
03:18:45,000 --> 03:18:48,266
<font color="#FFAAAA">Until Blue is ready, Red will do some evolutions.</font>

497
03:20:21,666 --> 03:20:26,400
For the remaining sets of trades, Red will always be ready before Blue.

499
03:20:26,733 --> 03:20:33,000
The overall run will end up being bottlenecked by Blue, so Red waiting for Blue costs nothing.

501
03:25:25,000 --> 03:25:32,600
<font color="#AAAAFF">Dragonair, even though it fought throughout the game, still needs most of the collected Rare Candies, 12 in total.</font>

503
03:25:32,933 --> 03:25:40,466
<font color="#AAAAFF">4 go to Kabuto and 3 to Ivysaur, which together with the 2 already used on Charmander and 1 on Magikarp total 22.</font>

505
03:27:33,333 --> 03:27:35,933
Some Pokemon evolve after being traded.</font>

506
03:27:36,266 --> 03:27:43,866
By trading two of these at once, both Red and Blue sit though the evolution and don't need to wait for each other.

508
03:27:44,200 --> 03:27:49,000
There are exactly 4 of these Pokemon, which will be traded as two pairs.

510
03:31:35,000 --> 03:31:41,066
After being evolved, the evolutions can also be traded back right away in the same session.</font>

512
03:35:28,333 --> 03:35:35,000
There are 22 total trades necessary at the end of this run, which can be done in 4 trading sessions.

514
03:35:35,333 --> 03:35:42,933
This leaves 4 spare trades in these 4 sessions, which are used to balance out the setup times before each session.

516
03:35:43,266 --> 03:35:46,133
This session will only consist of 4 trades.

517
03:40:13,333 --> 03:40:18,400
<font color="#AAFFAA">Red has about 40 seconds before Blue is ready to do the final set of trades.</font>

519
03:40:18,733 --> 03:40:22,466
<font color="#AAFFAA">Red will use this time to perform a magic trick for you!</font>

520
03:40:29,166 --> 03:40:32,033
<font color="#AAFFAA">See this guy at the top? Watch him closely.</font>

521
03:40:35,333 --> 03:40:36,666
<font color="#AAFFAA">Aaaaaaand he's gone.</font>

522
03:40:39,166 --> 03:40:39,566
<font color="#AAFFAA">MAGIC!</font>

523
03:40:41,666 --> 03:40:43,600
<font color="#AAFFAA">Time to get back to Blue now.</font>

524
03:48:05,000 --> 03:48:10,000
Both Blue and Red having completed their Pokedex, time to get the diplomas.