what's going on everyone Austin John please here and today I'm going to be going over some early
game tips to help you and your experience for a new playthrough of Pokemon scarlet and violet
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I have three playthroughs so far of Pokemon scarlet and violet I know it released today
or yesterday or tomorrow whenever I decide to release this video I'm not too sure because I'm
recording it Thursday morning at 7 45 a.m I've played through the game three times I have over
100 hours in this experience and there's a lot of things that the game doesn't explain to you
or that very likely you skipped over so I'd like to go over a few of those things right now and
in regard to spoilers I am going to be showing Pokemon that have not been officially revealed
but only of the very first route any Pokemon that have not been revealed that are not on the first
route I'm not going to be including in this video also for those reasons I took my starter out of my
party because he already evolved to the second form and I don't want to show you that in this
video let's continue I'm now recording this as a later clip and putting in here very first thing
you should do go to the options screen text fast obviously skip move relearning you should not turn
this on this makes it so that the game functions more like Pokemon Legends RCS in which you then
get to choose when your Pokemon learn moves it doesn't function exactly the same so my first
time playing I turned that on I'm like yeah I definitely want that feature on but then I didn't
realize that you know I wasn't being prompted to learn moves so then I wanted to check the summary
of a Pokemon I went to change moves remember moves and here's like a whole bunch of things
that I was never prompted for I'm running around the game with the level 29 starter that still has
Ember so I definitely recommend keeping this off the only time I think you would want to turn it
on is if you're doing a big grind session for Pokedex entries and you're leveling up Pokemon
you're catching a whole bunch of wild stuff that you don't plan on using but during the main part
of your adventure probably really want to keep this off uh skip cutscenes is regarding movies
not in-game cinematic camera angles there's not a lot of cut scenes just like for Pokemon sword
and shield there's only like I don't know three in the entire game so you're not going to save
a lot of time but if you're trading with a second switch and a second copy of the game for the three
starters turning this on can save you a couple minutes by the way it's about 29 minutes in total
from beginning of the game until you get to the point that you can trade and you could trade at
any Pokemon Center or you just hit the x button go to the menu and go to the Poke portal the Poke
portal is going to open before some other features in the game like picnics raids mass outbreaks and
then from here you can do Union Circle link trade and things like that can I do a terror rate battle
before I get a Terra orb nope and by the way should probably go to the mystery gift for playing
the game early we get a Terra flying Pikachu oh yep there it is as soon as you start off the game
you get fast travel and any Pokemon centers that you've already visited you're gonna be able to
just click it and choose fly here that also goes for landmarks such as lighthouses your own house
and a few others here and there that you're gonna come across on your journey the first route has
such a diverse amount of Pokemon how many Pokemon can you get on the very first route
before you even go to school for the first time well here's the thing you could go anywhere
I have 57 different species of Pokemon caught on the first round well kind of kind of on the first
route because the first round isn't just the first route you don't get access to your ride
Pokemon yet you have to go to school for that but you can also go down this Creek here get
Pokemon from the ocean go down this field here get access to a whole bunch of Pokemon here because
the way Pokemon spawner based off of areas and then oven area every area has like a number to
it like area one area two area six this is the poko path which is like the starter route and
then once we get here this is can I zoom out more there we go South Providence area one aerial one
has this distinct amount of Pokemon that are found throughout Fields now Fields also change slightly
by day and night but next to these pawns near ponds is its own biome in ponds is his own biome
near rivers is its own biome in rivers is its own biome near Ocean is its own biome in Ocean is its
own biome and then you're also going to notice on the path I have these these little markers
here these are ruins so in Ruins is its own biome as well in the air in trees next to trees
so many different types of Pokemon in so many different ways are generated in this area and that
makes it feel more alive and more vibrant and less specifically placed like it was in Pokemon Legends
Arceus because that worked on just Giant Circles based off of one point and then inside of that
Circle it could spawn some Pokemon what are the new bug Pokemons on the first route dangles from
tree branches you may see it hanging in trees pop it says it gets blown around in strong winds that
means if it's a windy condition if the Pokemon are going to be forced to despawn you'll actually see
them get blown away and despawn this Hound hour it tells you that it becomes more active at night
oh also there's a Cave System here and you can explore the cave system it's part of a forced
thing at the beginning but you can go back and explore it which is pretty cool young goose often
seen in caves oh by the way there's huge cave systems everywhere so there's even more things
to explore and also one of my favorite things is when you're pulling up the Pokedex or in a menu
Pokemon may just kind of gather around you like this lechunk decided to do he was not near me
when I pulled up my Pokedex instead he just kind of waited around and waited to see what was going
on here the vast variety of Pokemon that you can get on this first route alone is pretty crazy
your biggest limitation throughout the early to early mid game is going to be your badges so your
badges determine if wild Pokemon obey you if you go to your profile and you hit change view you're
gonna see on here gym badge effects Pokemon card at level 20 or below will listen to your commands
that means that if I catch a Pokemon at level 19 and I raise it to level 100 he will obey me if I
catch a Pokemon at level 20 and raise it to 21 it will obey me if I catch a Pokemon at level 21 it
will not obey me until it supersedes it caught at level number so if I get enough badges that say
level 25 then that level 21 Pokemon will obey me which is a little bit of a problem because
if you're good at catching Pokemon then you then you do stuff like this level 33 salazzle that I
caught at the beginning of the game should you take that much time and explore the hop-up joint
take that much time and explore just this first route before getting the ride Pokemon probably
not I wouldn't recommend it but you could oh also trainers are just kind of everywhere and
you could choose to battle them or not in my first playthrough that I already completed the
Pokedex I didn't do any trainer battles I did literally zero trainer battles and every route
has like seven to ten trainers or four trainers some random numbers but if you do the trainer
battles at some of the Pokemon centers you may see a person with big yellow bubble above their head
the Pokemon League rep have you been having some nice battles have you defeat five trainers here in
area 2 of South Province there's a lovely prize I've defeated zero trainers so far yeah I know
I haven't done that so I don't actually know what the rewards are I should probably do one of those
those it's a huge world it's a massive world and you just go to like 90 of it from the very start
and when I say 90 from the start I mean when you get your ride Pokemon actually I kind of want to
know how far I can go on foot but uh I'll I'll figure that out off camera just an FYI when you
get your ride Pokemon they don't have a lot of abilities like they can't fly or surf or jump
really high and things like that that we saw in demos and stuff so that's related to the main
story and you have to unlock those abilities kind of like it was and one way or another every other
Pokemon game there's this neat thing that when you encounter a Pokemon you automatically join in in
the battle so you see that toxil there over this Gap that you clearly don't supposed to go over if
you focus on the toxol come a little closer to the low Topsail if you hold down ZL that's how you aim
around and if a Pokemon is in range you're gonna see it's level it's species and if you've already
caught that species there we go just like that and if I throw my Pokeball out and it initiates
a battle you have to be a certain distance to do that battle so it may just bring me over to this
piece of land did it do it sure did great and for some reason I'm falling and that was considered
out of bounds if you fall out of bounds or in water you will be zoned back oh toxl fell
okay have fun down there little guy well anyways I did that properly and then I was able to climb
up here and go all the way around and then I remember where did this Pokemon Center and now I
can fly here there's there's nothing stopping you from doing that other than talks will falling so
now I'm already here and I get access to a whole bunch of other Pokemon that I still haven't gone
to school yet which you should probably go to school anytime you see these towers you should
climb them because they activate a fast travel point also there's usually TMS and a gimme ghoul
chest form on there and the Gimme gold chest forms if you defeat them you get give me a ghoul coin
electro ball neat oh also you probably saw that at the Pokemon centers you can craft TMS you get
recipes for TMS through various means you're gonna get them all the time but just picking a TM up off
of the ground will also give you the recipe for that TM so there are some very powerful moves like
earthquake and thunder fire blast that are still scattered in different parts of the world that
you just have to walk over and grab it also that TM that I just picked up it's going to respawn
all of the items on the map they respawn because the TMS are single use you just grab it later the
Gimme ghouls respond to so it's not like Clorox and breath of the wild where you have to just
go and collect all of them infinitively they do respawn so you could just go and get the ones
you've already gotten before also neat little thing about the Pokedex so typically whenever
you don't know what Pokemon is in a certain spot you would just need to figure it out but that's
changed so I have this guy being number 12 he has one for one Evolution so that's number 13. I don't
know what 14 and 15 are but if I go down one from hop hip and I click it it shows me a silhouette
the number and the location of that Pokemon so thusly I can just go and figure out what I'm
missing from the decks and okay 23 24 25 I have Paul me it's Evolution I don't know if it has
a third form I click this that kind of looks like a palmy it has a third form great good to go that
has been extremely useful all right so here we go I had a scatter bug I evolved it I don't know
what number 38 is I click it it's a Combi done so I know kombi is 38 and 39 I don't know what
40 41 and 42 are if I click 42 that's a corvus choir done I know that's the rookie d-line it
it's it's a huge huge helpful thing I really like that and anytime they do see a cliff like this and
if you try to walk off of it it doesn't let you but if you do a slide into it you do fall off and
there's no fall damage in this game instead your Rotom phone floats you to the ground I'm sorry I
know you wanted to test that on your own but there you go there's no fall damage I also haven't found
any campfires so I can't test campfire damage I think me going to this town kind of breaks
that hole I'm just gonna be on the first route you can do it oh and during your travels you may come
across something called a terror Shard these are going to be used in order to change your Pokemon's
Terror type that you're going to experience about the mid to Mid Elite game so if you come across
them just kind of stockpiled you're gonna need a lot to change your Terror type so just a heads up
about that before I go get my ride Pokemon I just want to see how far I could walk hi there it's me
and even though it seems like it was only a second ago you saw me it's now many hours later
and after I crossed over that little jump there I was like well how far can I actually go in the
game and picking up random items off of the ground and selling them for Pokeballs and then using the
higher level Pokemon that I can't control is just sort of you know taking hit fodder for me to uh
catch a whole bunch of Pokemon I actually made it all the way around the world to the highest town
in the world uh yeah the the glacido gym the ice gym and the ghost town I made my way to both of
those I still haven't got in my ride Pokemon yet and while I don't recommend trying to do this you
can I've learned something pretty important that when you're on a path there's gonna be a higher
level Pokemon on the path and I think the whole point of that is to deter you from going down that
path and it's sort of like a hey while you can go this way you should definitely wait until you
can take on this level 55 hiriyama in the middle of the road before you go down that way the fact
that I have been playing for almost seven hours I've caught 77 of 400 Pokemon now I'm gonna go
ahead and go into town and I'm gonna do all those Story related things and I'll talk to you when I
can control my character again I forgot that you can actually walk around Mesa goza before going
into the school this lady right here is the person that you could speak to who is going to read this
save data on your system for previous games I sense great depths in your past you must have
seen much in lives gone by I could study a rod on phone appear into the lives you've lived I
call it rotometry the ball guy case the Poke Edge case the Pika V case these are the ones that you
get for free by the way I just want to say I'm like a huge fan of How to Train Your Dragon and
Toothless and everything and the way that karate on and my ride on have like those same mannerisms
that toothless did which is like kind of the mix between like a cat and a dog I absolutely love
it okay great I finally finished the getting of the quests of the treasure hunt a few more things
one in Miss hogosa there are a lot of stores that can be a little overwhelming I know for a fact it
was overwhelming the first time I was there so every store inside of one town carries the same
things like this sure cans is gonna carry the same thing as this shirt hurricanes this rough
and tough carries different items from Fashion Street carries different items from Baggins this
Lee bird presence may have different items than another Town's Deli bird presence there's
a delivery presence here pretend there was for for better understanding of that two more things
I want to talk about before I leave you guys definitely head to the school there are classes
that you can take now I know the last thing you want to do when you're playing a video game is
sit in classes but there are Side Stories That kind of seem almost Persona uh game in a way
there are very important things that you learn from your classes it's not BS okay this is not
the trainer School of other games they're telling you specific mechanics they're teaching you how
to properly calculate Critical Hits quad super effectives resistances Terra type so much stuff
they teach you about the secrets of the game they teach you about how to get shiny Pokemon
they give you gift Pokemon that you can't get any other way it's fantastic okay the classes
are worth it take my word for it maybe not do it right away because I know you're really anxious
to get out there and you know go explore and do stuff and the last thing I want to talk about
involves those so those are ominous Stakes there are going to be eight located in the four corners
of the map and they're all centralized around a big ominous door let's head over to that big
ominous door by the time you hit Level 8 in your history class you're gonna learn all about these
you'll to get fast travel points for them which is nice this involves sub legendary Pokemon of
the game they're all level 60 they all have high base stats you can in theory try to get most of
the stakes now in fact I believe it is possible to actually unlock this door before you get any
power-ups for your ride Pokemon so if you're down for a challenge go for it I'm gonna be covering
the the locations of all 32 of these but that's that's not I'm covering early game stuff right
now this is the early tips and tricks but just to let you know that's what those are for guys
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