Why Speedrunners Avoid Master Balls in Pokemon Emerald

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[wavewarrior]

Great video! Emerald is my favorite game in the entire series to run due to how fast paced it is with the mach bike and the speedy battles, and the rng manipulations are extremely rewarding once you nail them down. Can’t wait to run this game again.

[eleviathan]

Little extra thing: a quick ball actually takes more time than the master ball. This is because quick balls weren't introduced until gen 4, a whole 2 years later. So if you wanted to use a quick ball, you'd be waiting for a while

[IDMSunlights]

9:42 I'm pretty sure the actual reason Speedrunners don't use Quick balls in a Gen 3 game is because it appeared first in Gen 4 xD

[chrry]

If you're wondering about the time loss of picking the Master Ball in Emerald, it's about 36 seconds

[SJrad]

Fitting that for kyogre they use a great ball which matches the color scheme

[BlazeStorm]

If you're interested in watching a full run of Sapphire, I recommend watching the AGDQ run from 2020 by Gunnermaniac. It's one of my favourite videos, they explain everything while going through it at an insane pace, and there's a ton of fun banter too!

[Firescizor]

I am really liking this channel nowadays for 95% sweet speedrunning content, and 5% the absolutely amazing butcherings of Pokémon pronunciations. I was starting to feel disappointed that everything was so well pronounced, until my ears caught that "KyogrEE" and everything in my world made sense again ❤️ it's like a Russian roulette wheel of mispronunciations! I can't wait to find out what's gonna be next!!

On all seriousness though, amazing video. Keep up the good job!

[pentagonyx]

You did *not* just pronounce Kyogre “Kai-oh-gree”

[Mijzelffan]

At this point wouldn't it be better to try to hit the 1 frame for Rayquaza to shave off that many seconds if you want the WR? Similarly to how the current Red wr uses a super risky strategy

[TheAngriestReptileAlive]

I have used one master ball in the last couple of generations. I can remember, and it was just to match Miriadon to it’s color scheme and because it’s name letter is on the ball.

Yes, I am very ball Bougie and I have been for years.

[mariahs]

This was a really fun video with a solid explanation! I knew before that Brendan’s team is easier to tackle than May’s, but I never knew about not using the Master Ball! This is really cool!

[brodibeal]

Great video as usual... would love to see one on the early gens of the games... specifically the crystal manips

[RandomChallengeGuy]

This is an amazing video, and really nice that you give creds to Amoeba as well for developping the manip strats. Really happy that it showed up on my recommended!

[silver]

"The human eye can barely perceive 60FPS"
BenQ: Am I a joke to you?

[NorrisJonesYT]

Gotta love these newer channels hitting the algorithm. You and ackotac are killing it lately.

[xavierjohnson]

PulseEffects: Catching Rayquaza in a normal pokeball is a 0.4% chance to happen.

Me: But still a not impossible.

[flyingninjafish]

9:38 Why don’t they use ultra or quick balls? Simple, quick balls don’t exist in gen 3. If you’re playing a gen 3 GBA game and you find a Quick Ball, you’re in a rom hack and that run would be DQ’d 😂

[rpzamer]

did not expect to hear trails in the sky music in this video. now thats something i like

[caolanochearnaigh]

I love May's facial expression in the thumbnail for this video.
She's like, "Pshh, keep your Master Balls, I don't need that shit!"

[Cygis]

3:22 The human eye is very capable of seeing higher frame rates which is why high refresh rate monitors exist. Also there is not an easy way to show this off on a 60fps video unless you were to halve the game’s speed (not framerate) and interpolate or frame blend which would give you more frames to work with but will not be a true comparison. Good video regardless