Pokemon Black Any% Speedrun FAQ v1

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Q: What pokemon do you use for this speedrun?
A:
Tepig is the main pokemon used for this speedrun, due to having favourable matchups against almost all the pokemon in the game.
Pansage is used against Cress, as without it, we'd be unable to quickly get past the start of the game.
Woobat is caught in Wellspring Cave, with a Dusk Ball from the guy behind Fennel's house.
Reshiram is used against Zekrom, as it can 2 hit it with DragonBreath.

Q: Why do you reset often?
A: I reset because the stats of my Tepig were wrong. It needs 23 HP at Level 5 instead of 22. 22 indicates I am on the wrong Timer0; more about that below.

Q: What kind of stats does Tepig have?
A: Tepig has 31 IVs in all stats (6 31 IV) and an Adamant nature. The IVs help outspeed pokemon and defeat them in one hit, and the Adamant nature helps because of its higher Attack stat and the fact mostly physical moves are used in the speedrun.

Q: How do you get perfect stats?
A: RNG manipulation is used. This is different for every console; my particular RNG occurs on April 5th 2021 @ 11:53:26.
This means I start the game up at this time + date, and then get to Tepig. The stats are easy to manipulate but the nature is random; you basically brute force seeds with perfect stats until the PIDRNG (that determines the nature) is the correct one.

Also, there is another factor at play; Timer0. This is something that can be one of two values; unfortunately, I cannot manipulate the Timer0 and there is around a 50% chance I just get the wrong Timer0 value. Also sadly, the currect seed I used has the same clock face for the wrong Timer0 value and the correct one. What do I mean by "clock face"? Well, when you create your character, there is a "creating a save data" screen if you go fast enough; the clock hand that appears whilst saving points in a certain direction depending on the seed you have, and with a different Timer0 value you can expect different facing clock hands. Mine on the other hand has both Timer0 values pointing the same way, making resets take roughly 1 minute longer than usual. Fortunately, due to the high rate of success on acheiving the correct Timer0 value, it isn't too much of an issue and it's much easier to get into a speedrun in this game in comparison to others with RNG manipulation.

For even more information check this Smogon article: http://www.smogon.com/ingame/rng/bw_rng_intro

Q: Why do you play in Winter?
A: Winter is used bypass Twist Mountain almost entirely, and obtain a Rare Candy in Icirrus City that otherwise isn't able to be obtained.
However, this has a risk because you introduce hail. Fortunately, there are days in winter where there is no hail; if there was, Cheren and the Hiker on Route 7 and Bianca on Route 8 would be a lot slower.

You can read more about the weather here: http://wiki.pokemonspeedruns.com/index.php/Pok%C3%A9mon_Black/White/Winter_weather

Q: Is it faster to pick the girl or the boy in this game?
A: It doesn't matter much which you pick, since the intro in this game is tied to the save timer. I will pick...whichever gender I feel like at the time ;)

Q: Whoa you cheater! You walked through the rocks in Brycen's gym!
A: Nah man, Gamefreak just derped and forgot to put collision on the 3 rocks to the right there. You can slip through them and skip a trainer fight!

Poke me in my chat if you have any further questions!