Pokémon Platinum | Any% FAQ [Golduck Teleport Route]

Pokémon Platinum | Any% FAQ [2024 Route]

Why do you keep resetting?
- One of 4 reasons most likely.
1) Missed the starting manipulation. This gives me the wrong seed, so I can't do anything with it.
2) I messed up my manip movement path too early in the run. (I need to get it at least to Golduck)
3) I died. Speaks for itself.
4) Run was too bad to warrant continuing. For example, tons of slow fights, hitting spinners etc.

What's changed?
- Pretty much...everything! I haven't played this category since April 2021, and since then it has gone through about 4 new iterations. I played this when Double Tentacruel was the route. This then swapped to Golduck + Tenta with Fly, then Golduck Solo with Fly and now Golduck Solo with Teleport. On top of that, we now skip all the optionals in the Chimchar segment and do battle manip against Roark to win that fight at a low level without Hidden Power (like in DP). There's lots more smaller changes with order of completion and tweaks too, but I'm not gonna list everything. I'm very glad to be playing this again as it's my favourite category in PSR.

Golduck vs Tentacruel?
- werster has made a video detailing one of the major reasons Golduck is better, despite actually doing the fights worse than Tentacruel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qt_44-x4M4

If it's your favourite category, how come you didn't play it for 3 years?
- The deviation from Teleport to Fly was the main reason in truth! Fly killed so much of what I enjoyed about this category (that being the execution and the fact teleport is just way cooler!) The route for this game was also in a very...odd state for a number of years, in that everyone knew what routes we wanted, but there was so much debate about which seeds to use that nobody wanted to zone in on any specific ones. The dust has settled and enough has changed that I thought it was time to give this another go.

Why girl?
- It's faster, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9pD4oLiFyo

Why Chimchar?
- I swap off of Chimchar pretty much immediately after getting the bike, and Chimchar is the best and fastest to get to that point, so that's who I'm using!

Abra?
- Yep! Teleport is really useful in this run. We essentially set our base in Oreburgh after catching Golduck and do lots of biking around the region. This lets us skip doing Maylene's gym in the run, and it also ends up beating out Fly at the top end despite Fly cutting out so much movement.

What is the hardest fight?
- The Pachirisu double is really rough now, with the Chimchar we use, Beautifly can 2 hit with Gust if it goes for it. One of the biggest walls is actually catching Golduck. As we don't S+Q for this anymore, we can't battle manip, and are left with a 33.695% catchrate with a Net Ball. It's pretty rare you actually lose any fights once you get to Golduck, but there's plenty that can go wrong!

Why are you moving so unoptimally?
- I'm doing RNG Manipulation for no encounters (If your question for this occurs past Eterna, the answer is nearly always that I'm shit.)

What is your goal time?
- For now, not quite sure. I eventually want to get WR back again, but I have a lot of catching up to do for now.

What is WR?
- 2:35:00 by werster.

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.