Pokémon Diamond | Any% FAQ

Pokémon Diamond | Any% FAQ

Why are you running this again?
- New seed and my PB sucks

How do you plan on saving more time?
- In general, just not getting as unlucky. But I also do plan on taking the same level of risks I did in the back half of the run as I do in the first half now. In previous runs I very often healed before fighting Mars, in some situations I probably didn't need to, so for now I'm definitely playing Mars a lot more risky, which in general will allow me to get better Pachi fights, at the cost of more risk.

Why did you reset?
- Likely one of 6 reasons.
(1) I didn't hit the seed (I check the NPC movement for this)
(2) If I don't kill the tutorial Starly.
(3) I messed up manip (This likely happened because I did incorrect movement)
(4) I missed extended. This makes WR impossible.
(5) I died. Speaks for itself.
(6) The run became too bad to be worth continuing (losing a bunch of time to bad RNG)

Is this run good?
- Probably? I don't know, feel free to ask me.

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

Why Chimchar?
- It's faster than the others.

What are the fights like given the category is so short?
- The fight I'm most likely to lose to is the 1st Starly after the Catching Tutorial. With the route I'm using, Roark is a lot worse in a lot of situations. In the back half, Mars can kill you easily, and because of he added risk I'm taking now, the Pachirisu double is worse now. Gardenia is normally fine, and Jupiter is good in almost all situations, it's really rare that Jupiter will go badly wrong!

Why are you moving so unoptimally?
- I'm doing RNG Manipulation for no encounters + spinner passes.

What is your goal time?
- WR

What is WR?
- 56:31 by Yakso

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.