Yearly Speedrun Review | 2018

In January of this year, I made a Pastebin stating all of my goals for Speedrunning in 2018.

For some reason that Pastebin has disappeared, but I’ll write the goals I remember and go through them 1 by 1.

Emerald Any% WR
Black Any% WR
Diamond Any% WR
Branch out into different games.

Emerald Any% WR:
I have no clue why I thought this would happen, I don’t even have an English Emerald cartridge. I still want to do this though, just now isn’t the time.

Black Any% WR:
I actually accomplished this twice!
I started smooth with a 3:25, which I kicked down to a 3:23 a few days later, then a 3:19 on the same day.

I looked at my 3:19 after a couple months when Crafted got a 3:16:54 and wondered how I’m gonna take 3 minutes off. This part of my speedrunning “career” taught me a valuable lesson; Practice and Learning is critical.
The more I practice and the more I know about what I’m doing, the better I’m likely to perform.

With this in mind I practiced for a bit and eventually did it, I got a 3:16:44. For a while I was happy with this, then looking back I saw many places to improve (also Crafted was close to getting it back so I was scared ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°))

I then started on a journey to get a 3:15:xx (This would be the first ever 3:15) I thought out manips and worked my ass of but I eventually got it, 3:15:49. A time I’m happy with for the time-being, but one I want to improve eventually nonetheless. (3:14 in 2019?!)

Diamond Any% WR:
This one I’m very very annoyed I didn’t get, and almost feel cheated that I didn’t get it.

My current PB (57:57) has an amazing start (20:01 Rival 1 split), but all went downhill at Mars. My Mars fight was fairly bad but still okay I guess, but Chansey decided to be a great Pokémon and miss a bunch of Egg Bombs which could’ve saved me lots of time.

Additionally Gardenia hit me with Stun Spore (25% to choose, 75% to hit), and that basically put the nail in the coffin.

I’ll come back to get this record eventually, I believe I can do it, especially given the timesaves available.

Branch Out into Other Games:
I did this one! I ran White 2, SoulSilver, Platinum (Glitchless and Glitched) and Sapphire!

PB Summary (As of 20th November 2018) (Graded)

Diamond Any%: 57:57 (4th Place) [B]
God Start, bad end, will return.

Black Any%: 3:15:49 (1st Place) [A]
Amazing overall, still want better though.

White 2 Any% 3:19:01 (5th Place) [E]
This run sucks, I can do so much better.

Platinum Any% Glitchless 3:51:36 (4th Place) [D]
It’s okay, I want to do a lot better though.

Platinum Any% 3:09:11 (5th Place) [U]
Lost 10 minutes to the First Tenta tweak, this run sucks!

SoulSilver Any% Glitchless 3:54:23 (9th Place) [D]
23 Minute PB, but I can do so much better than what this run shows, Summer 2019 will showcase how much better I can do in this game.

Sapphire Any% Glitchless 2:05:11 (7th Place) [C]
This run was good until Tate and Liza, had a costly 2 Minute death. Can do a lot better and hope to prove it!