23 Obscure Pokémon Catches in Gen 2!

[johnadams]

The hard part about getting Scizor and Steelix is not finding a metal coat, but finding someone to trade with

[janolav]

I always disliked how they made so many evolutions require trading. As a kid I could never find anyone to trade with. Low key ruined the games for me.

[enclavehere.]

I miss how darn cool the battle sprites looked in Gen 2, especially the moving ones in Crystal. Some pokemon, like skarmory, don't translate over to 3D well.

[Filsantos]

There's actually an even better way to found the beasts. You can go in that little building that connects Ecruteak to Route 38. Stay in front of the door to Route 38, use a Super Repel, put on your bike and save the game. Then go to the Route 38 and wander around the grass until the repel wears off. If the beast didn't appear, just reset the game (A+B+Start+Select) and repeat. You can even turn on the Pokémon March on the radio if it's Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday or Sunday to increase your odds. That's actually one of the methods shiny hunters use to found both Raikou and Entei shiny, and that's the one I used to found them.

Also, it is technically possible to get an evolutionary stone in Gold and Silver before Kanto. It's VERY unlikely, but it is possible to obtain one through the Mystery Gift function. Even if you don't have two GBCs around, you can still use it once a day with the Pokémon Stadium 2 if you have it. The thing is that each cart can only give you ONE of the stones (and they can give you no stone at all, it is a 50% chance that depends on the trainer's ID), and even then the odds of getting it is about 0, 75%, so good luck with that. If the cart gives you a Max Ether, Max Elixer, Max Revive of Scope Lens, then you will know you can't get an evolutionary through this one though.

[sneezumsensei]

i just watched this man throw a madter ball at a level 20 pupitar

[Paws]

This is only relevant in the remakes, but if you want to more easily get the Metal Coat or King's Rock, have a Pokémon with the ability Compound Eyes in the front of your party which doubles the chances of a wild Pokémon holding an item

Again, this only applies to the remakes

[danielamaro]

This takes me back. No one believed me when it happened (as the game has just been released), but the first magnemite I caught had a metal coat on it. Everyone thought I was messing with them and when I showed them I told them I hadn't gotten from anyone yet, I literally had just caught it. None of us knew that they could be caught with hold items, as this was a brand new mechanic at the time.

[Jelly_shy_guy_man]

Bro I feel sorry for all the 1% of people who didn’t know lapras was in the cave

[MichaelCravith]

Somehow I never knew about the Metal Coat on the traded Magneton. Huh.

[reillywalker]

2:47 Pupitar can only be caught in Crystal. In Gold and Silver, you can only get it by evolving Larvitar.

[SleepyOmel]

2:30 "Kingsrock holding a slowpoke" I thought I was having a stroke for a second there

[TheYankeesUnited]

The problem I had was I could never trade so the metal coat didn't matter. Truly sad lol

[Unleash_HP]

As a kid I got lucky and got the metal coat randomly from magnemite. However I didn't had anyone to trade it with me :)

[themanwithsauce]

I've been doing some play testing on the most "powerful" teams you can get by/right after the second gym badge in pokemon games. Sort of a "What are the disc 1 nukes of pokemon" series, if you will. So I have a bonus catch/acquisition for you - if you let your mom keep your money, she will occasionally buy things from a predetermined list. Once she hits a specified amount, around 12k saved up, she will buy a moonstone. Now that's easy enough, BUT! Most people forget that mom can hold any money you have on you, not just the littler she can take after battles. So if you bum rush trainers and keep expenses down, you can have a moonstone by the time you're in....Ilex forest? I think bugsy gives you the final push needed to get the stone. This is important because you can get a jigglypuff on the little patch of a route above the first route you can catch mons on, and Wigglytuff in gen 2 can learn the elemental punches from goldenrod while having a 75 special attack stat. She's not exactly a legendary but having full elemental coverage on a mon before the third badge helps out a lot for the middle section of the game, especially with a massive HP score to help switch in and just not need to take so many breaks for healing.

[eeveestar]

Crystal added a way to get a Fire Stone while also removing Vulpix entirely. I was so mad when I found out. Sidenote, Mareep was removed from Crystal too for no reason.

[qc]

2:35 lolol come across a kings rock, holding a slowpoke 😂

[Dexter.BoyGenius]

Ok but a Magneton named Maggie is actually pretty adorable. I love how much thought the game devs put into naming some of these NPC trade pokemon 😄

[DennisTheZZZ]

5:36 This one is interesting.
I occasionally speedrun Crystal with Eevee/Espeon only, my current run involves fishing a Magikarp just like this, giving my Eevee enough X-Items.
Didn't know that the friendship kept raising even if the stats have the +6 boost.

[Dz-gogu]

i assumed i knew most everything about my old crystal & silver gen 2 games.. what a plethora of information! great vid

[SirToastyToes]

Elemental Stones are also available as Mystery Gift rare items, but you need to roll a ~1.6% chance and most save files have other rares