Pokémon Platinum | Any% Glitchless FAQ

Pokémon Platinum | Any% Glitchless FAQ

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 before the Jubilife Galactic Double (which is where I get Pokérus)
3) I died. Speaks for itself.
4) Run was too bad to warrant continuing. For example, tons of slow fights, hitting spinners etc.

What has changed since you last played?
- Only a couple things, but they're all in terms of menuing and execution. When going to Lake Valor/Sunnyshore, I'm flying to Veilstone instead of Pastoria (no Encounter or Spinner risk). Furthermore, the rare candy route has changed slightly. Instead of taking a completely new menu before the Mars + Jupiter double to Rare Candy twice, I'm now using 1 each in 2 already existing menus. One after Saturn 2 (When using a Max Repel in Mt.Coronet), and one after Cyrus 3 (When Max Repelling to fly to Veilstone to go to Sunnyshore).
This means Empoleon reaches L52 outside of battle, and therefore tries to learn Drill Peck out of battle (which is faster!). In turn, it does mean that Golbat is a 87.5% range on the Mars + Jupiter double, but just get the range!
- As of December 2022, I'm now going to be going to extended to Hearthome. I've never attempted this before, but it'll help speed up the run a decent chunk if I get it!

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

Why Piplup?
- At the top end, Piplup is the fastest option. Chimchar comes in second, and provides more consistency overall (especially in the earlygame).

Here's the info for the 2021 Piplup route change:
- For those who don't know: we now use a new Piplup with new IVs (The old Piplup was 24/27/28/29/23/29, the new one is 23/30/31/30/31/31.) This new seed also spends less time with extra movement to get Piplup etc, which saves around 10 seconds.
- We now also skip 2 extra trainer fights which used to be used to get Bubblebeam before the Pachirisu double. We now skip those, and get Bubblebeam during that fight by killing the bugs first (This gives Pachi a few extra turns to deal damage to you, so is riskier!).

What is the hardest fight?
- The fights I'm most likely to die to are: Roark, Pachirisu Double, Gardenia and Fantina. Mars 1, Jupiter, Rival 3, Maylene, Electabuzz and Cyrus 3 can also give some issues too (1 mistimed crit ends the run).

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.)

Kricketot, Starly, Bidoof?
- Kricketot has a metronome, which boosts the power of consecutively used moves (not broken by healing!). Starly is caught for Fly, and Bidoof is caught for Cut (Strength and Rock Climb are taught to Empoleon).

What is your goal time?
- Just WR, but I'd be chuffed with 3:35!

What is WR?
- 3:36:51 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.