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Let's Go Any% Blizzard Route (Take 2)

Sep 10th, 2022 (edited)
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  1. 3.5 years ago I made a pastebin about an idea I had for a very risky late game strat involving picking up the Blizzard TM in Victory Road and using that for Lance's Dragonite (https://pastebin.com/x4WWwtG8). This idea was quickly dismissed at the time because it made Naomi (the Kangaskhan fight) terrible. However, with the recent find of consistent mount skips (which skip Naomi), I wanted to go and take another look at this.
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  3. Main idea of the reroute: Only pick up 2 candies for Starmie instead of the 5 needed for the current Any% route, pick up the Blizzard TM in Victory Road and use it for Lance. All the routing and timings below are for Eevee version, at the very bottom I'll talk about the differences for Pika version.
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  5. Route changes from current any% route:
  6. Skip route 6, Mansion, and Silph candies
  7. Use 2 candies on the initial Starmie menu
  8. Don't use any candies after Sabrina
  9. Koga gym Scald ranges:
  10. L47 +2 Beedrill: 100% at 125 SpA
  11. L47 Weezing: 100% at 137 SpA
  12. L47 Venomoth: 100% at 134 SpA
  13. L47 Golbat: 100% at 118 SpA
  14. Rival 5:
  15. Pidgeot: Outspeed at 14IV 0AV (12-13IV speedties)
  16. Raichu: Scald still 100% at 0IV SpA
  17. Pick up Blizzard TM in Victory Road
  18. Teach Blizzard on menu before Lance
  19. Lance (Assumes you don't have turn arounds here cause of skipped candies):
  20. Seadra: X Sp Atk + Psychic/Thunderbolt
  21. Aerodactyl: X Speed + Scald
  22. Gyarados: Thunderbolt
  23. Charizard: Scald
  24. Dragonite: Blizzard
  25. (If Hyper Beam turn 1, X Speed on Seadra)
  26. (If no Hyper Beam turn 1 and 142+ Speed, skip X Speed)
  27. (Can die to Seadra + Aerodactyl, but have to have bad defense + get unlucky rolls)
  28. Champion:
  29. Pidgeot +4 Psychic: 100% at 145 SpA
  30. Raichu +4 Psychic: 100% at 131 SpA (12+ IV, 0 AV)
  31. Marowak: +4 Psychic: 100% at 139 SpA (26+ IV, 0 AV)
  32. Rapidash: +4 Psychic: 100% at 131 SpA (12+ IV, 0 AV)
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  34. Time saves (approximately I didn't do timings):
  35. Skip route 6 candy (10s)
  36. Skip using 3rd candy on initial Starmie menu + level up (4s)
  37. Skip Mansion candy (6s)
  38. Skip Silph candy (5s)
  39. Skip using candy after Sabrina (5s)
  40. Skip using candy after Agatha (5s)
  41. Skip 3 turns on Lance (18s)
  42. Total: 53s
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  44. Time losses (approximately I didn't do timings):
  45. Pick up Blizzard (5s)
  46. Teach Blizzard (12s)
  47. Extra super effective text and cursor movement on Lance and Champion (3s)
  48. 3 turn arounds [or extra X Sp Atk] on Champion (6s)
  49. Total: 26s
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  51. 53s - 26s = 27s of total timesave
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  53. PIKACHU VERSION DIFFERENCES:
  54. Skip tower candy [since Mansion candy is already skipped] (5s timesave instead of 6s)
  55. Skipping using the candies doesn't save as much time since normal route uses 4 candies on initial menu and none after Sabrina
  56. Rival 5 Jolteon: 100% at 125 SpA (17IV, 1AV)
  57. Always go to +6 on Champion (not explicitly a time loss since you often would have to do this anyways)
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  59. Overall, the timesave in Pika version is similar to Eevee version, but it's riskier because of Rival 5's Jolteon
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