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- EQless is a strategy in Pokemon Red speedruns that involves skipping the Earthquake TM typically obtained in Silph. Getting the TM (along with a rare candy) normally takes around a 41 second detour to do. This strategy has been known to be a possibility for many years, but it is extremely risky on top of an already risky run, due to having to setup more X Accuracies on things that can kill you to make up for not having Earthquake. With the Red WR being as good as it now is, I decided to look into it once again. Combining it with another old but risky strat (Celadon Center skip to keep red bar for longer), ended up leading to a route that I am very happy with and felt was worth running at this moment. This strategy adds an additional 80+% chance of dying, but saves over 40 seconds, and even over a minute in the best case.
- Buy 8 Potions, 3 Repels, 2 Para Heals
- Skip Max Ether
- Buy 7 Super Repel, 3 Super Potion, 14 X Acc, 2 X Special, 4 X Speed
- Fly Menu: Slot 2 SS Ticket with TM07, Use Super Repel, Teach Fly, Teach TM48 over Mega Punch
- Do Heal Pad Skip (Fight Haunter: RS (+TB))
- Ghost Menu: Slot 4 HM01 with Super Repel, use Poke Doll
- Rocket 2+3: TB + Thrash
- Skip the Center, bike left
- Snorlax Menu: Teach Drill, Slot 2 Full Restore with X Accuracy, Use Poke Flute
- Skip cycling road candy, get PP Up
- Get Max Elixer
- Go to Safari Zone
- Safari Menu: Use Super Repel, Slot 4 Potion with Rare Candy, use PP Up
- Dig out and fly to Fuschia
- Juggler 1: X Acc, Drill x4
- Juggler 2: X Acc, Drill x2
- Elixer
- Koga: X Acc, Drill x4
- Get Strength and fly to Pallet
- Pallet Menu: Use Super Repel, Use Rare Candy, Slot 4 Parlyz Heal with X Special (Or Speed), Teach Surf
- Blizzard Menu: Teach Strength, Teach Blizzard, Use Super Repel
- Get Mansion Candies
- Candy Menu: Slot 5 Helix Fossil with X Speed (Or X Special), use Rare Candies
- Get Secret Key, dig out and fly to Celadon
- Erika Gym: Blizz x4 (Flute on Vileplume if 26+ HP)
- Blaine: X Acc, RS, RS, Drill, Drill
- Dig out, fly to Celadon, Go to Silph, Elixer in Bike menu
- Arbok: TB x2
- Silph Rival: (X Acc) + Blizz, TB, (X Acc) + RS (Blizz if badge boost), Drill, Drill
- Rocket: X Acc + Blizz, Drill, Blizz or (X Spec) + Blizz, RS, Blizz (52% RS on Drowzee with no badge boost)
- Gio: X Acc, Drill, Drill, Blizz, Drill
- Dig out and fly to Saffron, Elixer in Bike menu
- Sabrina: RS, X Acc + Drill, Drill (RS if no x acc Cubone Rocket), Drill
- Cooltrainer: Blizz
- Blackbelt: X Spec, Blizz, TB, Blizz (X Acc + Drill, Blizz, Drill if no x acc Cubone Rocket)
- Giovanni: X Acc + Blizz, Blizz, Blizz/Drill, Drill, Elixer + Drill
- Rival: X Acc, X Speed, Blizz x1-2, Blizz, TB, RS, Drill, Drill
- In Victory Road: Use Super Repel, SS Ticket with Max Elixer, Teach Fissure over Rock Slide
- Lorelei: X Acc, Fissure x5
- Bruno: X Acc, Blizz, Drill, Drill, Blizz, Drill
- Super Potion + Max Elixer
- Agatha: X Acc, X Speed, Fissure, Drill, Fissure, Fissure, Fissure
- Lance: Normal
- Champ: X Acc, X Speed, Drill, Drill, Fissure, Drill, Drill, Drill
- X acc + drill and eq animations should be around a wash (honestly x acc drilling might save time overall)
- Skip Max Ether -5
- EQ Detour -41
- Celadon Center / Heal Pad skip -16
- Cycling road Candy skip -7
- Max Elixer +8
- Kill Weezing -2
- Mansion Candies +11
- Encounters +11
- Arbok -2
- Silph Rival -6
- Get Fissure +4
- Blackbelt +1
- NET -44 (at least, I think its more than this tbh)
- Top end ~-65
- Other minor timesaves as well (less menus, less scrolling, less repels etc)
- Big risks
- Sabrina (40% to die)
- Juggler 1 (19-30% depending on HP)
- Juggler 2 (38% to 56% depending on HP)
- Heal Pad Skip (~28%)
- Giovanni 2 (Depends on HP)
- Around 80% to die (worth 55.7 seconds with 50/24 risk threshold)
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