Preposterous! Ice Beam used to cost a fresh beverage...

I remember using a Golduck on a playthrough of FRLG and being SO MAD that it doesn't get Psychic. This poor guy really got the short end of the stick.

@tobiasgund8048

15 күн бұрын

It learns it only from gen 4 on? What the heck?

@irish_owl21

15 күн бұрын

TIL that a Pokémon named Psychic Duck is not a psychic type…. Just… why?

@ostint912

15 күн бұрын

It’s an egg move so it does get it if you breed it with a male slowpoke/bro with psychic

@tobiasgund8048

15 күн бұрын

@@ostint912 ah yeah, but that makes it even worse IMO

@ostint912

15 күн бұрын

@@tobiasgund8048 water types are always easy to train so if you wanted it for the elite 4 you could have it plus there’s also the option of giving it cross chop from primape

29:20 while sandstorm is NOT going to chip away at you :) cloud 9 OP

@paulmann8570

15 күн бұрын

*Sweats in Primal Groudon*

@findout2655

15 күн бұрын

@@paulmann8570 unironically golduck was a decent counter to primal groudon, but if you missed hydro pump it was kinda useless

i remember psyduck being my moms favorite mon. she said "it reminds me of dad, because it only got 3 hairs on its head". the funny thing is: i talked with an online friend, and i casually mentioned "ye, psyduck was my moms favorite", and she responded - that was my moms favorite too!" kinda hilarious psyduck seems to be the "moms favorite" pokemon XD

@dvillines26

15 күн бұрын

just like mom it has a perpetual migraine

@silver_was_found

14 күн бұрын

my mom was looking up random pokemon once, and she said Psyduck was “super cute”. She also thought Psyduck’s beak was a tongue

@pkmn1260

14 күн бұрын

wow...it was my Mom's favorite as well when i was a kid.

I blame the anime having psyducks psychic abilities such a focus of the character really made us believe it was a psychic type

a Scott's Thoughts notification hitting me JUST when i took a break from work and thought "damn i need something to watch" you have come in clutch so many times 🙏 SHOW ME MEGA-GOLDUCK IN L:ZA PLEEEAAASE

@Chronoflation

15 күн бұрын

I'd be happy with a full evolution like Stantler got

@Chronoflation

15 күн бұрын

If it gets an evolution, it'll be a great anti-weather support Pokemon with the Cloud Nine ability and holding Eviolite, so long as it has the right support moves

@asinussum

14 күн бұрын

A wild glidus encounter. Looking forward to HotD takes with AltSchwift

Bro said vileplume brought GolBAT to red haha. But fr great videos

@DarthBupsbricks

15 күн бұрын

Oops just got to the part where you called yourself out on it LOL

Y'know you're right Scott. The typing of Golduck is odd. It clearly is a psychic pokemon, and being a bird I think the only correct typing would be Psychic/Flying.

@stevenpetrillo9527

15 күн бұрын

Yeah, like Venemoth!

@MattWarb

14 күн бұрын

Nah it’s definitely a water type. You sound like them people who say Charizard should be a dragon type.

@silver_was_found

14 күн бұрын

@@MattWarbit’s a channel joke

@MattWarb

14 күн бұрын

@@silver_was_found okay now tell me about Armaldo too 🤣

@silver_was_found

14 күн бұрын

@@MattWarb it’s CLEARLY a Ground/Dark type (jk)

The reason the names are weird has to do with the names origin. Golduck as a name comes from Japanese, where the name is ゴルダック (gorudakku, AKA "golduck"). Gorudakku was seemingly chosen since Pokemon seems to like associating "Gold" with psychic types. For example, Sabrina's badge name in Japanese is ゴールドバッジ (goorudo bajji, AKA "gold badge" rather than the English "marsh badge"), and how in Mystery Dungeon gold gummies boost psychic types. I wonder if there is a Japanese cultural reason for it. Then the localizers had to do something with the first form, which is コダック (kodakku, literally "kid duck"), so they just went with "psyduck" as a decent name. Goldduck is probably also a play on コールダック (kooru dakku) or "call duck" which is a kind of duck. Specially when you consider it goes form "ko" to "goru" it is more obvious they are playing around it.

@rooislangwtf

15 күн бұрын

Gold just has a general association with "Psychics"

@bp3366

14 күн бұрын

Hit the gym

Golduck in Pokémon Radical Red is one of the best mons to use. Cloud nine completely blocks weather effects from working and it's access to encore is so useful. Great Pokémon

@tsawy6

14 күн бұрын

Also really important in Garbage Green as an early psychic move learner

Golduck currently also shines as the best Team member for Any% Speedrun for Platinum, looking forward to the solo video of how it works in normal playthrough in these games too

@alexzander2211

15 күн бұрын

😂 you watched wersters new video too 🎉

I remember when I was a kid being confused because Golduck wasn't a psychic type lol

@marbehq8469

14 күн бұрын

Thats why Psyduck is confused all the time

I like that, even on the run were you beat the chamion A, the archanine still tried to use extreamspeed. Like it remembered how it won on the other two runs.

Big fan of the gym battle animations. Spinning Staryu was awesome! 😁

I really liked the little animations all of the gym leaders’ Pokémon had during the gym battle intros.

Golduck needs a 3rd evolution or Mega where it gets the Psychic type.

@seanotoole9840

15 күн бұрын

Yes, it does.

This is my first time seeing the battle intro animations for FRLG and I’m really loving how much personality they have, especially Misty’s and Koga’s!

When you learn that Golduck can’t learn Psychic in Gen 1: *Confusion intensifies*

That Level 16 thing is brutal. Absolutely destroys the game after though. Awesome run.

Fun run! Keep up the good work

Lots of people mistake that. Golduck is in fact a monotype! Pure psychic! So many think it's a water type just because it looks like a duck!

the ''gem'' on golduck's forehead is actually a pimple XD

A really cool adjustment to the overlay for runs where you evolve could be showing the +/- figure for how much stats have changed over evolution. Can’t hold the maths in my head to see how much difference has just happened. Just a thought 🥰 love your content

i will NEVER underestimate a golduck. when i did a nuzlocke of platinum a few years ago, one survived as a team mainstay from a level 6 psyduck in oreburgh gate all the way up to being my last 'mon standing and soloing cynthia's garchomp and roserade. best girl fr

Golduck came in clutch for me many times during various nuzlockes, and has therefore become one of my favorite mons. Hoping to see a good result here for my boy 👀

I really expected this run to go worse than it did. What a pleasant surprise!

Loving the animations

1:37 - In addition to this, some of the Pokemon cards for Golduck feature moves using psychic energies!!!

The best part of the video is churro 😂 also Psyduck is a strong pokemon

Nintendo needs to create an evolution of golduck and call it bluduck and have it be gold in color. It’s the only logical evolution.

Small addition to what you said about natures in competitive here, Timid and Jolly natures are also really valuable but mostly because a lot of mons can be expected to have max speed investment (even moreso in modern gens where speed creep is reaching concerning levels).

Koga's battle intro animation is hilarious! And yeah, it is strange that Gold/Psy ducks' names work better reversed

In the anime, Misty's Psyduck was my favorite. The poor guy was always in pain, but when it finally snapped it was both hilarious and terrifying. Was secretly hoping to witness a snapped Psyduck during battles. Perhaps in the future, if this gets noticed.

I'll be honest I'm totally fine with pokemon having serious move diversity that isn't in line with their typing and wish Gamefreak did it more. I LIKE that Psyduck and Golduck are momo water types that still have some strong psychic influences without being psychic type. I don't think a pokemon should need to have a typing to have access to those moves. I think that it would be really cool if the regional birds could just stop needing to be part normal. It's okay to have pure flying types. The Golduck line is a great showing of how pokemon can be more than just their type combination and I really would love to see that taken further.

There’s a niche VGC strategy called Double Ducks with swift swim golduck and drizzle peliper. If you’re thinking hey, peliper isn’t a duck, you’re right, we just name things silly for fun.

I was playing a totally authentic pokemon crystal run today and happened across a shiny venonat! Can’t wait for the ice/ground type to be the frontrunner on my team ❤

I absolutely LOVE Golduck. Probably my favorite water-type from gen 1 (I say probably, because Starmie and Kingler are also favorites).

Looking at the TMs list: "Wait... that can't be right. Why is there no psychic on there? Golduck always uses psychic moves. I should look this up." But it's not a mistake! Apparently Golduck can't learn psychic via TM in gen 3, but it can learn this move via egg move in gens 2 and 3! That's ridiculous! They fixed this in gen 4, but wow Golduck was screwed over by the devs here!

A Golduck line solo challenge video aye? We're getting one step closer to that legendary Psyduck vs Stadium Psyduck run. It's **gonna** happen. Please.

Golduck not getting psychic is criminal. Completely destroyed one of my runs and made me rethink things. I believe I went with Lapras instead, the low-hanging fruit. Golduck has always been one of my favorites.

Fun Fact: Golduck has been in every mainline pokemon game and is the favourite pokemon of one kf the head developers. Even then it still can't get a buff. Reminds me of how bad Kirby was nerfed in Smash after Smash64. Kirby wss specifically nerfed for Melee because the lead dev didn't want to show bias to his own franchise mascot.

There's always a sense of 'aw no' whenever you play a Water type without a Water STAB move early on, particularly in these early gens with early rock leaders. That sense of 'bro you should be cleaning *UP* not grinding on bugs!!' At least Psyduck has Seel to keep him company.

I love the addition of the "field" condition box! I'm not sure if this is the first video with it or if I have just never noticed it until now. Are you trying to have it centered with the pokemon's sprite? Any thoughts on potentially placing it to the right of the repel counter box?

Golduck has always been one of my favorites. I was so mad when the anime made us think that Misty's Psyduck had finally evolved.

I love Golduck design! Till today I thought it was psych also lol

Churro is loud because he knows we love him.

Psyduck is my favorite Pokemon!!! I hope you do a run with the special amnesia Psyduck in Yellow one day!

Scott, I love your channel my man. May I ask how you got those overlay with automatic stat counter? Please and thank you so much

Never knew Golduck never learned psychic, that's frustrating. Love Churro

TOMBSTONY? That's TOMBSANTHONY to you, bub.

Golduck was my favorite water type to pick up for firered runs. It worked great with surf and had good speed compared to the Lapras everyone used and hit harder with surf than gyrados.

I really want to see how well Stantler will do in this gen, having access to calm mind, return, eq, psychic and thunderbolt theres so many ways you can use it

The psychic type would not really help Golduck in terms of usage. Who would pick Golduck over Slowpoke or Staryu?

@blue_boo3171

14 күн бұрын

Fun fact: the Psyduck line is exclusive to Firered, while both the Slowpoke and Staryu lines are exclusive to Leafgreen.

Psyduck is my daughter's favourite thanks to Pokemon Concierge

The Dark Golduck TCG Card made Golduck look cool af

It’s Gen 3. Accessing the pc is a lot less time consuming. It might be worth it to deposit hm users if your strategy requires you to set up on the pidgeot and risk whirlwind

Golduck _can_ learn Psychic... as an _egg move._ As far as I know, it's the only Pokémon that gets a TM move exclusively as an egg move, though it's admittedly been a long time since I last checked.

I don't know if it would actually be faster, but another option worth mentioning for Lorelei is Brick Break: between Golduck's relatively even offensive stats and Lapras's inferior physical Defense, Brick Break might allow you to set up less against her and therefore have faster battles that are less close; of course, that would require another Ice Beam TM to re-teach it after the Lorelei fight, so it's, again, likely not worth it and I'm not even sure if it's possible with the money you have by the end, but still.

You beat blastoise's time and Mew's that's my Boy Golduck.

the Churro pic looks like he’s using Calm Mind :D

For a long time I've thought (even as far back as Gen 1) Psyduck should have been a flying type that primarily learned water moves. That then evolved into a Flying/Psychic type. I think that would have worked with the design, without adding yet ANOTHER water/psychic type. It also would have done a lot to diversify the gen 1 types, considering the FOUR normal/flying types they have! (Eight with evolutions) Dodrio was already a flightless flying-type (that probably should have been a ground/flying type) so it's not that crazy to make Psyduck one. And Farfetch'd similarly feels land bound.

MORE OF GOLDUUUUUUUUCK ❤

The HP, DEF and S EVs early on make your pokemon bulkier for the whole game. It also makes Brock easier.

I guess this is an outlier, but I like the idea of some Pokemon having affinity for another Type via levelup moveset but not enough to be dual-Type, at least in theory. (Because of that, I do think the ducks should have had a wider array of Psychic moves, though.)

I really love Golduck's design and have always been sad how medicore he is. It's also such a shame he wasn't a psychic type in gen 1, which would have only been an upside at that point

love how romhacks fix type issues i think inclement emerald makes golduck a psychic water type

Omg! Is this cuz I asked if you could do a Psyduck and Snorlax playthough? You should also do a Psyduck only instead of Psyduck line.

Hey Scott have you thought about using egg moves before? That’s the only way that golduck gets psychic and cross chop this gen

Psyduck's name in Japanese is "Koduck" which translates to "Child Duck" or "Little duck". We got Psyduck which is a bit of a misnomer as it's essentially just supposed to be a duck

I used to think psyduck gained psychic type when it evolved due to the anime. In episode 91 (I looked it up) Misty battles another water trainer who exclusively uses dual types believing the second type gives them an edge. She has a psyduck and says golduck is one of her favorites.

Cloud Nine means no Sandstorm damage!

For round 1 elite 4, I felt that you are over prioritizing mystic water benefits, especially if u have a setup move like calm mind, do consider sitrus berry for cases like this where u can have some recovery which may help with like the final portion. Sitrus berry can be found in FRLG outside of the gate at route 6 and right outside of the victory road entrance

70k by the end of summer. I'm calling it. We're almost there!!!

I just sant to note the Psyduck line is available in every mainline Pokémon game, one of a very few and the only one to never get any forms or variants.

I think brick break might have been useful, delete surf before the elite four and use brick break which can be bought at celadon then after Lorelei teach surf over brick break.

What is your opinions on how good Water types are going to be in FRLG? I feel like the very early access to Water Pulse does a lot for them, especially for the Pokemon with better movepools.

Actually golduck does not take hail and sandstorm damage because your golduck have the ability cloud nine shown in 29:19. Cloud nine is an pokemon ability that negates weather effects, only in generation 3. Nice video and I watched your videos.

Psyduck and golduck not learning psychic via tm in gen 3 is even weirder then you think because they can get it as an egg move.

Fun fact, psyduck and golduck have been in the most main line pokemon games of any pokemon.

@ScottsThoughtsPokemon

12 күн бұрын

No way?

@dxjxc91

12 күн бұрын

@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon yep. The Psyduck line has been catchable in the wild of every pokemon game except leaf green (version exclusive) and the game cube games. For comparison, pikachu was in both kanto remakes, but not in any of the 4 gen 5 games or catchable the GC games, so psyduck is in 3 more games than pikachu at present.

7:42 With Secret Power on your set, Mega Punch no longer has any clear use case, but Mega Kick still does. I can give you a lot of numbers on that, but the most telling is that Secret Power and Mega Punch have overlapping damage rolls, meaning that unless you’re doing the damage calculations, you can’t even reliably tell if Mega Punch will speed up a KO. The second most telling is that the difference in accuracy is so low that even if you need to connect twice, going with double Mega Kick will only fail 16% more of the time than double Mega Punch (roughly 7 in 12 compared to roughly 9 in 12). Ironically, a 16% failure rate is roughly the same as a single Mega Punch, which may suggest that our risk tolerance is already high enough to retain Mega Kick instead as our Hail Mary of choice. I just won’t stand for spurning Mega Kick like that.

8 haven't seen the video yet but i think the battle against Koga will be hard since he has a grass type Venomoth

25:51 "Really nice finish" - I saw what you did there

I'm kinda glad Psyduck and Golduck are just Water-type. Gen 1 already had Starmie and Slowpoke/Slowbro

It is amazing that Golduck can't learn Psychic, yet a Ghost/Water type like Venomoth can.

They went “ augh we already have 2 water/psychic . Efff it “

29:21 Golduck has Cloud Nine, so it negates all weather effects, so you still heal in Sandstorm with Lefties :)

0.15 Golduck is actually in Green's team (red's rival) in the manga!

He’s just an ambitious little baby duckling

15:31 nice koga edits

Venomoth Fact #30: The reason many people think that Psyduck and Golduck have psychic powers is because as a Psyduck, the little guy always wished they had those powers. So Venomoth would always be in the background, subtly using super moth psychic powers to let the little duck live their dream in front of the amazed masses.

16:46 well there's spell tag and blackglasses. I think poison barb and silver powder are also easy but I might be confused

Sandstorm is ineffective vs Golduck's Cloud Nine ability!

Speaking of finishing the Yellow tierlist, since you already really like the game, you may want to consider doing another for Yellow Legacy since you've already started it. Gives you more opportunity to play it, right?

I really like Golduck but I never wanted to use Psyduck(was too annoying in the anime) so I never used Golduck either

Not sure what you mean about Game Freak forgetting about Golduck; Psyduck is in practically every Pokemon game including Scarlet/Violet & Legends Arceus; meaning you can evolve him and use Golduck. I know this because he’s my favorite Pokemon and use him in every game. And yes, he’s always beenjust Water type lol

@ScottsThoughtsPokemon

4 күн бұрын

Maybe I’m the one forgetting Golduck

@josefnocera4414

4 күн бұрын

@@ScottsThoughtsPokemonhaha! Don’t do that! Love your videos bro; looking forward to when you do Golduck in Yellow 🤙🏽

1:10 Its only called psyduck in english even in japanese its called Koduck wich basically just means Small duck or child duck

Golduck can learn psychic in Gen 3. But only as an egg move. For some reason, if its dad didn't pass down the move, it doesn't want to learn it. :/

Psyduck not being psychic type is even more offensive when half of its name matches half of the word "PSYchic" 😅

Hi Churro!

Funfact : some CPU Golducks in Pokemon Stadium 2 have Psychic as one of their move! Movesets aren't a thing in Pokemon Stadium games