Pokémon White 2 | Any% JPN FAQ

Pokémon White 2 | Any% JPN FAQ

Do you know Japanese?
- Please see here: https://pastebin.com/fzpLvJ3L

What's changed?
- The changes I'm listing below are for the differences from my previous JPN seed/runs, not overall differences as I applied all of these in ENG runs!
- I'm now using a Rash Tepig (instead of Naughty). Optimally Rash can save a decent amount of time over Naughty, and gives a lot more consistency on the Roxie split, but with the trade-off of being less consistent on the Cheren split.
- I'm now integrating Lass talk into my Tepig manip path, which is just a 3s timesave. (Lass talk is talking to the Lass trainer before Pidove instead of just running into her vision).
- I have finally stopped using a Cloud Nine Psyduck, so it's an automatic 6s timesave.
- My Drilbur has changed, I'm now using a Drilbur with a shorter run path and fewer turn frames.

Why do you keep resetting?
- One of 3 reasons most likely.
1) Incorrect movement at the beginning, so my RNG Manipulation gets messed up.
2) I died. Speaks for itself.
3) Run was too bad to warrant continuing. For example, failing Drilbur capture, spinners etc.

Why do you name everything "。"?
- Having a 1 character name saves time, and my name begins with S.
- It's faster to rename the rival as well because the intro sequence starts creating save data at the start, and so always takes a fixed amount of time.
- I use 。because it's the closest character to the enter button. Using letters wastes time on JPN for Drilbur too so I don't keep my Z commitment from ENG.

Why White 2 and not Black 2?
- White 2 and Black 2 have different Reversal Mountain layouts. B2 Reversal Mountain has an extra trainer in it (which is a Double battle). Additionally in B2, Charles is a rotation battle instead of a triple battle which is much worse.

Why do you pick the girl?
- Personal preference. There are only minor text differences between the two for these games.

Why do you pick Tepig?
- Tepig is the fastest to complete the early game with, as well as Burghs gym.

Why don't you nickname Tepig?
- Not used long enough to warrant nicknaming him.

What's with the weird movement?
- RNG Manipulation for the correct Tepig. Additionally this allows me to get 0 encounters other than the Pidove and Psyduck.

Pidove and Psyduck?
- Pidove for fly, and Psyduck for Strength and Surf.

When do you get Drilbur?
- About 47 minutes in.

Why Drilbur?
- Drilbur itself is meh, the real star is when it evolves into Excadrill. It's fast, hits insanely hard and gets moves like Earthquake very early on. It can also learn Iron Head which is immensely useful for flinches. Additionally you have Hone Claws and later on, Swords Dance at your disposal, so you never need X Items.

What is your goal time?
- 3:16.

What is WR?
- 3:17:38 by decsy.

What are the grades? (A+/A/B/C)
- These are actually more for the benefit of the viewer, to see how good the segments were in my PB, with A+ being the best, and C being the worst. Shows easily that losing time to an A+ segment isn't that bad, but losing time against a C segment is really bad. It also allows viewers to see where I'm expected to be able to save large amounts of time.