Speedrun

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Speedrunning is the practice of completing a game, or an objective within a game, as quickly as possible. Speedruns are often recorded or played live on the Internet, both for the purposes of verification and as entertainment for viewers.

Red and Blue are consistently popular, but many Pokémon games, including both core series and spin-off are speed games. Pokémon games are played at many speedrunning marathons and events, such as GDQ, as well as Pokémon game-specific events.

Types/rulesets

In addition to choosing a game to play, speedrunners will choose a specific category or categories for their speedrun as defined by the speedrunning community. Categories may limit the strategies available to a speedrunner, which results in different strategies employed during speedruns in different categories. There may be many different categories of speedrun for a single game.

  • Any% - speedruns that attempt to finish the game without achieving optional objectives
  • Glitchless - speedruns that do not use glitches. Some speedruns that are not specified as glitchless may still disallow the use of certain glitches
  • Manipless - speedruns that do not use RNG manipulation
  • RTA/TA - Real Time Attack, played without stopping, vs Time Attack, played in segments
  • TAS - Tool Assisted Speedrun, uses software emulation and external tools to achieve a speedrun beyond human capabilities
  • Alt main - used in Pokémon for speedruns that play through the game with a less optimal Pokémon species or evolution line than those used typically used in the speedrun
  • Category extensions - speedruns that attempt to achieve specific optional objectives

Common strategies

Speedrunners will meticulously plan their progression throughout the game, including both overworld movement and in-battle strategies, in a practice known as "routing."

  • Navigate overworld precisely, avoid talking to most NPCs and picking up most items except when necessary.
  • Use one Pokémon found early in the game and concentrate Exp. on that Pokémon, sometimes pivot to legendary.
  • Because optional Trainers are avoided, rely on battle items for boss fights.
  • Avoid Pokémon Centers, use HP restoratives and carefully plan PP usage wrt PP restoratives.
  • Defeat Pokémon with neutral effective moves where feasible to avoid SE/NVE text.
  • Name commonly Pokémon one character nicknames to display less text
  • Starter Pokémon rely on pinch abilities. Usually Water type so Torrent

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