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''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemon'' (''TPP''), ''[[https://www.twitch.tv/twitchplaysspeedruns Twitch Plays Speedruns]]'' (''TPS'') and ''[[https://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspapermario Twitch Plays Paper Mario]]'' (''TPPM'') are a series of social experiments in which commands representing buttons on an original Nintendo or non-Nintendo console (up, down, left, right, A, B, start, select, etc.) are entered into a chat on Website/{{Twitch}}, and then translated into a game of ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'', ''[[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]]'', or any other franchise via an IRC bot. In short, [[HilarityEnsues hundreds of people are fighting over a controller]]. Throughout their life, ''Twitch Plays Pokémon'', ''Twitch Plays Speedruns'' and ''Twitch Plays Paper Mario'' have spawned hilarious characters, memorable moments, and even a few religions.
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''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemon'' (''TPP''), ''[[https://www.twitch.tv/twitchplaysspeedruns Twitch Plays Speedruns]]'' (''TPS'') and ''[[https://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspapermario Twitch Plays Paper Mario]]'' (''TPPM'') are a series of social experiments in which commands representing buttons on an original Nintendo or non-Nintendo console (up, down, left, right, A, B, start, select, etc.) are entered into a chat on Website/{{Twitch}}, Platform/{{Twitch}}, and then translated into a game of ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'', ''[[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]]'', or any other franchise via an IRC bot. In short, [[HilarityEnsues hundreds of people are fighting over a controller]]. Throughout their life, ''Twitch Plays Pokémon'', ''Twitch Plays Speedruns'' and ''Twitch Plays Paper Mario'' have spawned hilarious characters, memorable moments, and even a few religions.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Choose your side.]]
-> ''"From the dawn of time, it's been our nature to question the world around us. To strive for a better understanding, to order, to categorize, to separate the mundane from the truly exceptional. And it was through hardship and force of will that we honed our skills. It was through competition that we became more proficient, more precise, and ever more determined. It's been our nature to reach out and discover who among us is truly superior."''
-->-- '''Official trailer''' for ''The War of the [=TwitchPlays=]''
''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemon'' (''TPP''), ''[[https://www.twitch.tv/twitchplaysspeedruns Twitch Plays Speedruns]]'' (''TPS'') and ''[[https://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspapermario Twitch Plays Paper Mario]]'' (''TPPM'') are a series of social experiments in which commands representing buttons on an original Nintendo or non-Nintendo console (up, down, left, right, A, B, start, select, etc.) are entered into a chat on Website/{{Twitch}}, and then translated into a game of ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'', ''[[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]]'', or any other franchise via an IRC bot. In short, [[HilarityEnsues hundreds of people are fighting over a controller]]. Throughout their life, ''Twitch Plays Pokémon'', ''Twitch Plays Speedruns'' and ''Twitch Plays Paper Mario'' have spawned hilarious characters, memorable moments, and even a few religions.
''The War of the [=TwitchPlays=]'', alternatively titled as ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Red/Green/Blue Race'', is a {{crossover}} event between ''Twitch Plays Pokémon'', ''Twitch Plays Speedruns'', and ''Twitch Plays Paper Mario'', in which all three streams competed to complete a specific version of ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Pokémon Red, Green and Blue]]'', which were modified in order to eliminate all known cases of [[{{Unwinnable}} softlocking]] and {{sequence breaking}}. ''Twitch Plays Speedruns'' played on ''Pokémon Red'', ''Twitch Plays Paper Mario'' was attributed ''Pokémon Blue'', and ''Twitch Plays Pokémon'' ran ''Pokémon Green'', a "localized" version of the Japanese ''Pokémon Blue''[[note]]The international versions of ''Pokémon Red'' and ''Pokémon Blue'' are both based on the engine of the Japanese ''Pokémon Blue'' and feature the same sprites and maps, but use the Pokémon locations and trades from the Japanese ''Pokémon Red'' and ''Pokémon Green'' respectively, whereas the Japanese ''Pokémon Blue'' has its own unique trades and locations.[[/note]]. ''Red/Green/Blue Race'' is also the third main run of the eighth season of ''TPP'', and its fifty-second main run overall.
The event started on May 8th, 2021. ''TPS'' named their Trainer "AAAAAAA" and picked a Squirtle named "NN" as their starter, and as a result eventually dropped their initial plan of getting a Nidoking in favour of focusing on [[MightyGlacier Blastoise]]. ''TPP'' played as a Host named "B" and chose a Bulbasaur that they named "ABAAABBBBK" as their first Pokémon, and went for a strategy that centered around a Gengar obtained from an in-game trade. ''TPPM'' took control of a Trainer named "AAAA" and began their journey with an unnamed Bulbasaur, and used their Moon Stone to obtain a Nidoking with an [[OneHitKill instant K.O. move]] that could be boosted through the use of X Accuracy.
The race concluded on May 10th, 2021. ''Twitch Plays Pokémon'' came in first, clocking in at 1 day, 3 hours, 34 minutes and 15 seconds, making ''RGB Race'' the fastest run beaten in the history of the channel so far. ''Twitch Plays Paper Mario'' came second, with a time of 1 day, 7 hours, 22 minutes and 42 seconds, and went on to capture Mewtwo, naming it "[[UrbanLegendOfZelda MEWTHREE]]". Finally, ''Twitch Plays Speedruns'' arrived in third place, at 1 day, 11 hours, 3 minutes and 13 seconds, beating their previous ''Pokémon Red'' time[[note]]2 days, 1 hour, 19 minutes and 53 seconds[[/note]] by over 14 hours.
The teaser trailer for the event can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brIMUjWUyG0 here]]. The second trailer is available [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWHPQz-grAA here]].
See also [[http://thatswhatyouget.github.io/tpp-progress/run-status.html?run=RGB%20Race%20Green here]] for the archived status of ''Pokémon Green'', or the archived screenshots for ''[[https://chatterbird.fart.website/run/tps-rgb-race Pokémon Red]]'', ''[[https://chatterbird.fart.website/run/tpp-rgb-race Pokémon Green]]'', and ''[[https://chatterbird.fart.website/run/tppm-rgb-race Pokémon Blue]]''. The modified [=ROMs=] used for the race have been made available [[https://github.com/TwitchPlaysPokemon/pokerbg/releases/tag/v0.9.2 here]] in the form of IPS and BPS patches.
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!!''The War of the [=TwitchPlays=]'' features examples of:
* AerithAndBob:
** The Hall of Fame team of ''Green'' featured ABAAABBBBK, AAAAII, BB, B!♂, [=UaabB=], and HECTOR, the latter owing its non-gibberish name to having been obtained through an in-game trade.
** The Hall of Fame team of ''Red'' was made up of NN, A and JK on the "Aerith" side of the trope, and of VILEPLUME, JOLTEON and Birb on the "Bob" side of it.
** The ''Blue'' team mostly averted this trope, but was this in comparison to the other two, with a Hall of Fame team composed of VENUSAUR, SPARK, FEESH, FIST!, HA, and CAPONE.
** The games' respective Rivals were named AAAAAA in ''Red'', AAAAAAA in ''Blue'', and Blue in ''Green''.
* AIBreaker: {{Invoked}} in all three teams, with each one including at least one Poison-type in order to trick Lance into using the non-damaging Psychic-type move Agility, as the AI always favors super-effective attacks even if they deal no damage whatsoever. The ''Green'' team had HECTOR the Gengar, the ''Blue'' team had HA the Nidoking, and the ''Red'' team had [[ADogNamedDog VILEPLUME the Vileplume]].
* {{Crossover}}: The race was a three-way crossover between ''Twitch Plays Pokémon'', ''Twitch Plays Speedruns'', and ''Twitch Plays Paper Mario'', as each one tried to beat their respective version of ''Pokémon'' first. During the event, each stream broadcasted the other two on the side of their respective overlays.
* {{Fauxshadowing}}: ''TPPM'' stocked up on X Accuracy items in order to bypass the accuracy check of Nidoking's Horn Drill attack, thus making it go from a 30% chance of a OneHitKill to a ''guaranteed'' OneHitKill, but said items ultimately ended up unused as the stream's player feared the resulting constant menu navigation would leave them too open to malicious inputs.
* LeakedExperience: Most of the time, the ''Blue'' team kept a weaker Pokémon at the front of the party, in order to [[IAmNotLeftHanded switch it out for a stronger one]] and benefit from the shared experience both Pokémon obtained, thus allowing for a more balanced level distribution across their party. {{Averted}} however after taking a loss or before fighting certain bosses, in which case HA the Nidoking, the strongest member of the party by far, was temporarily moved to the front of the party in order to deny the opponent a free hit.
* TheMole: Expectedly, there were multiple instances in which players from one stream would jump onto another in order to purposefully hinder them; most of the time, it was ''TPP'' players trying to stall ''TPS'' or ''TPPM'', due to their much larger playerbase. The rules of the race explicitly stated that while all three channels were to moderate their playerbase as they saw fit, they had also agreed to not punish such behaviour aside from extreme cases.
** One particularly notable and infamous example was the whole Route 22 fiasco in ''Red''. "Mole" players led ''Red'' all the way through Victory Road despite not having earned the Earth Badge yet[[note]]Said malicious players claimed that it not appearing in the Trainer menu was a rare glitch that let you beat Giovanni twice at the risk of softlocking the game[[/note]], forcing them to walk all the way back to Viridian City. They then got ''Red'' stuck on Route 22 for an ''absurdly'' long time by constantly jumping off the ledge, and once they finally made it through, [[HopeSpot flew them all the way back to Pallet Town]]. It's far from unreasonable to argue that this event alone has greatly contributed to ''Red'' coming in third place.
** One the ''Blue'' side of things, one of the most noteworthy examples was a regular player from ''TPP'' who purposefully fled in front of Zapdos, rendering its capture [[PermanentlyMissableContent permanently impossible]].
** This was also {{ZigZagged}} on a few occasions, such as when malicious players led ''Blue'' to a PC with the intent of releasing part of their team, only for another flock of players to rush to the chat in order prevent it.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: The second trailer features epic orchestral music, intense narration that hypes up the race as "one of the single greatest events ever held" and "our generation's most important question", and fast-paced editing that mixes in gameplay clips with panoramic landscape shots, footage of actual sports competitions and athletic feats... and people typing on their computer, which you'd almost forget is ultimately all the event itself consists of.
* {{Nerf}}: ''TPS'' and ''TPPM'' both use long held inputs and macros for lists of inputs, the maximum duration of which was reduced to only one second for the duration of the race in order to make it more fair, as ''TPP'' does not have access to any kind of similar system.
* OneHitKill: The Nidoking from ''Blue'' knew the move Horn Drill, which has a 30% chance of killing the opponent's Pokémon in a single hit. ''TPPM'' players thus stocked up on X Accuracy items, which cause the Pokémon they're used on to completely bypass accuracy checks, turning it into a ''literally infallible'' instant kill attack; however, they ultimately didn't go through with that plan due to fear of it being too easily exploited by malicious inputters.
* OneLetterName:
** The Host of ''Pokémon Green'' was named "B".
** The ''Pokémon Red'' team featured a Dugtrio named "A".
* OneSteveLimit: Averted with the Host from ''Red'' and the Rival from ''Blue'', which were both named AAAAAAA.
* SelfDeprecation:
** The second trailer includes the line "In world that doesn't care... and didn't ask", poking fun at how much it is over-hyping the event given its actual relative unimportance. It also builds up with footage of fast-paced parkour tricks, intense athletic competitions and impressive agility feats all set to epic music... [[AntiClimax to a silent shot of a single person typing on their computer]].
** One of the shots used to illustrate ''Twitch Plays Pokémon'' in the trailer is a clip of [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRenegadePlatinum a Shiny Graveler being released]].
* SequenceBreaking: {{Defied|Trope}}. The games were modified specifically to avoid this, patching out several of the most well known programming oversights that would allow players to skip certain events. One of the most notable exemples is that Poké Dolls can no longer be used to run from the Ghost Marowak inside the Pokémon Tower, a trick that's commonly used to skip the Rocket Hidout section entirely. Similarly, a glitch that would allow players to enter the Cycling Road without a Bicycle by holding the left button during the guard's dialogue was also patched out.
* SuddenNameChange: After beating the game, several of the party members from ''Blue'' were taken to the Name Rater for a name change. HA the Nidoking became "RACCATTACK", VENUSAUR became "DOM", and SPARK the Jolteon became " dog ?!".
* {{Unwinnable}}: {{Discussed|Trope}} and {{defied|Trope}}. The [=ROMs=] used for the race patched out the majority of known softlock situations, such as limiting the duration of the frozen status and of the move Rage to 25 turns, making it so that Struggle affects Ghost-types, letting players afford the Safari Zone entrance fee or the Vending Machine drinks even if they have no money left, and fixing the glitched tiles of Cinnabar Island entirely. With that said, the rules mentioned two cases in which streamers would be allowed to load the last useable savestate: getting stuck on Cinnabar with no Pokémon that knows Surf and no way to obtain one, or getting stuck with a team of Pokémon without any damage-dealing moves.
* UtilityPartyMember: On the ''Green'' team, Lapras and Spearow served the sole purpose of using Surf, Strength and Fly respectively, and were virtually useless in battle due to their low level.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Choose your side.]]
-> ''"From the dawn of time, it's been our nature to question the world around us. To strive for a better understanding, to order, to categorize, to separate the mundane from the truly exceptional. And it was through hardship and force of will that we honed our skills. It was through competition that we became more proficient, more precise, and ever more determined. It's been our nature to reach out and discover who among us is truly superior."''
-->-- '''Official trailer''' for ''The War of the [=TwitchPlays=]''
''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemon'' (''TPP''), ''[[https://www.twitch.tv/twitchplaysspeedruns Twitch Plays Speedruns]]'' (''TPS'') and ''[[https://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspapermario Twitch Plays Paper Mario]]'' (''TPPM'') are a series of social experiments in which commands representing buttons on an original Nintendo or non-Nintendo console (up, down, left, right, A, B, start, select, etc.) are entered into a chat on Website/{{Twitch}}, and then translated into a game of ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'', ''[[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]]'', or any other franchise via an IRC bot. In short, [[HilarityEnsues hundreds of people are fighting over a controller]]. Throughout their life, ''Twitch Plays Pokémon'', ''Twitch Plays Speedruns'' and ''Twitch Plays Paper Mario'' have spawned hilarious characters, memorable moments, and even a few religions.
''The War of the [=TwitchPlays=]'', alternatively titled as ''Twitch Plays Pokémon Red/Green/Blue Race'', is a {{crossover}} event between ''Twitch Plays Pokémon'', ''Twitch Plays Speedruns'', and ''Twitch Plays Paper Mario'', in which all three streams competed to complete a specific version of ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Pokémon Red, Green and Blue]]'', which were modified in order to eliminate all known cases of [[{{Unwinnable}} softlocking]] and {{sequence breaking}}. ''Twitch Plays Speedruns'' played on ''Pokémon Red'', ''Twitch Plays Paper Mario'' was attributed ''Pokémon Blue'', and ''Twitch Plays Pokémon'' ran ''Pokémon Green'', a "localized" version of the Japanese ''Pokémon Blue''[[note]]The international versions of ''Pokémon Red'' and ''Pokémon Blue'' are both based on the engine of the Japanese ''Pokémon Blue'' and feature the same sprites and maps, but use the Pokémon locations and trades from the Japanese ''Pokémon Red'' and ''Pokémon Green'' respectively, whereas the Japanese ''Pokémon Blue'' has its own unique trades and locations.[[/note]]. ''Red/Green/Blue Race'' is also the third main run of the eighth season of ''TPP'', and its fifty-second main run overall.
The event started on May 8th, 2021. ''TPS'' named their Trainer "AAAAAAA" and picked a Squirtle named "NN" as their starter, and as a result eventually dropped their initial plan of getting a Nidoking in favour of focusing on [[MightyGlacier Blastoise]]. ''TPP'' played as a Host named "B" and chose a Bulbasaur that they named "ABAAABBBBK" as their first Pokémon, and went for a strategy that centered around a Gengar obtained from an in-game trade. ''TPPM'' took control of a Trainer named "AAAA" and began their journey with an unnamed Bulbasaur, and used their Moon Stone to obtain a Nidoking with an [[OneHitKill instant K.O. move]] that could be boosted through the use of X Accuracy.
The race concluded on May 10th, 2021. ''Twitch Plays Pokémon'' came in first, clocking in at 1 day, 3 hours, 34 minutes and 15 seconds, making ''RGB Race'' the fastest run beaten in the history of the channel so far. ''Twitch Plays Paper Mario'' came second, with a time of 1 day, 7 hours, 22 minutes and 42 seconds, and went on to capture Mewtwo, naming it "[[UrbanLegendOfZelda MEWTHREE]]". Finally, ''Twitch Plays Speedruns'' arrived in third place, at 1 day, 11 hours, 3 minutes and 13 seconds, beating their previous ''Pokémon Red'' time[[note]]2 days, 1 hour, 19 minutes and 53 seconds[[/note]] by over 14 hours.
The teaser trailer for the event can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brIMUjWUyG0 here]]. The second trailer is available [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWHPQz-grAA here]].
See also [[http://thatswhatyouget.github.io/tpp-progress/run-status.html?run=RGB%20Race%20Green here]] for the archived status of ''Pokémon Green'', or the archived screenshots for ''[[https://chatterbird.fart.website/run/tps-rgb-race Pokémon Red]]'', ''[[https://chatterbird.fart.website/run/tpp-rgb-race Pokémon Green]]'', and ''[[https://chatterbird.fart.website/run/tppm-rgb-race Pokémon Blue]]''. The modified [=ROMs=] used for the race have been made available [[https://github.com/TwitchPlaysPokemon/pokerbg/releases/tag/v0.9.2 here]] in the form of IPS and BPS patches.
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!!''The War of the [=TwitchPlays=]'' features examples of:
* AerithAndBob:
** The Hall of Fame team of ''Green'' featured ABAAABBBBK, AAAAII, BB, B!♂, [=UaabB=], and HECTOR, the latter owing its non-gibberish name to having been obtained through an in-game trade.
** The Hall of Fame team of ''Red'' was made up of NN, A and JK on the "Aerith" side of the trope, and of VILEPLUME, JOLTEON and Birb on the "Bob" side of it.
** The ''Blue'' team mostly averted this trope, but was this in comparison to the other two, with a Hall of Fame team composed of VENUSAUR, SPARK, FEESH, FIST!, HA, and CAPONE.
** The games' respective Rivals were named AAAAAA in ''Red'', AAAAAAA in ''Blue'', and Blue in ''Green''.
* AIBreaker: {{Invoked}} in all three teams, with each one including at least one Poison-type in order to trick Lance into using the non-damaging Psychic-type move Agility, as the AI always favors super-effective attacks even if they deal no damage whatsoever. The ''Green'' team had HECTOR the Gengar, the ''Blue'' team had HA the Nidoking, and the ''Red'' team had [[ADogNamedDog VILEPLUME the Vileplume]].
* {{Crossover}}: The race was a three-way crossover between ''Twitch Plays Pokémon'', ''Twitch Plays Speedruns'', and ''Twitch Plays Paper Mario'', as each one tried to beat their respective version of ''Pokémon'' first. During the event, each stream broadcasted the other two on the side of their respective overlays.
* {{Fauxshadowing}}: ''TPPM'' stocked up on X Accuracy items in order to bypass the accuracy check of Nidoking's Horn Drill attack, thus making it go from a 30% chance of a OneHitKill to a ''guaranteed'' OneHitKill, but said items ultimately ended up unused as the stream's player feared the resulting constant menu navigation would leave them too open to malicious inputs.
* LeakedExperience: Most of the time, the ''Blue'' team kept a weaker Pokémon at the front of the party, in order to [[IAmNotLeftHanded switch it out for a stronger one]] and benefit from the shared experience both Pokémon obtained, thus allowing for a more balanced level distribution across their party. {{Averted}} however after taking a loss or before fighting certain bosses, in which case HA the Nidoking, the strongest member of the party by far, was temporarily moved to the front of the party in order to deny the opponent a free hit.
* TheMole: Expectedly, there were multiple instances in which players from one stream would jump onto another in order to purposefully hinder them; most of the time, it was ''TPP'' players trying to stall ''TPS'' or ''TPPM'', due to their much larger playerbase. The rules of the race explicitly stated that while all three channels were to moderate their playerbase as they saw fit, they had also agreed to not punish such behaviour aside from extreme cases.
** One particularly notable and infamous example was the whole Route 22 fiasco in ''Red''. "Mole" players led ''Red'' all the way through Victory Road despite not having earned the Earth Badge yet[[note]]Said malicious players claimed that it not appearing in the Trainer menu was a rare glitch that let you beat Giovanni twice at the risk of softlocking the game[[/note]], forcing them to walk all the way back to Viridian City. They then got ''Red'' stuck on Route 22 for an ''absurdly'' long time by constantly jumping off the ledge, and once they finally made it through, [[HopeSpot flew them all the way back to Pallet Town]]. It's far from unreasonable to argue that this event alone has greatly contributed to ''Red'' coming in third place.
** One the ''Blue'' side of things, one of the most noteworthy examples was a regular player from ''TPP'' who purposefully fled in front of Zapdos, rendering its capture [[PermanentlyMissableContent permanently impossible]].
** This was also {{ZigZagged}} on a few occasions, such as when malicious players led ''Blue'' to a PC with the intent of releasing part of their team, only for another flock of players to rush to the chat in order prevent it.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: The second trailer features epic orchestral music, intense narration that hypes up the race as "one of the single greatest events ever held" and "our generation's most important question", and fast-paced editing that mixes in gameplay clips with panoramic landscape shots, footage of actual sports competitions and athletic feats... and people typing on their computer, which you'd almost forget is ultimately all the event itself consists of.
* {{Nerf}}: ''TPS'' and ''TPPM'' both use long held inputs and macros for lists of inputs, the maximum duration of which was reduced to only one second for the duration of the race in order to make it more fair, as ''TPP'' does not have access to any kind of similar system.
* OneHitKill: The Nidoking from ''Blue'' knew the move Horn Drill, which has a 30% chance of killing the opponent's Pokémon in a single hit. ''TPPM'' players thus stocked up on X Accuracy items, which cause the Pokémon they're used on to completely bypass accuracy checks, turning it into a ''literally infallible'' instant kill attack; however, they ultimately didn't go through with that plan due to fear of it being too easily exploited by malicious inputters.
* OneLetterName:
** The Host of ''Pokémon Green'' was named "B".
** The ''Pokémon Red'' team featured a Dugtrio named "A".
* OneSteveLimit: Averted with the Host from ''Red'' and the Rival from ''Blue'', which were both named AAAAAAA.
* SelfDeprecation:
** The second trailer includes the line "In world that doesn't care... and didn't ask", poking fun at how much it is over-hyping the event given its actual relative unimportance. It also builds up with footage of fast-paced parkour tricks, intense athletic competitions and impressive agility feats all set to epic music... [[AntiClimax to a silent shot of a single person typing on their computer]].
** One of the shots used to illustrate ''Twitch Plays Pokémon'' in the trailer is a clip of [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRenegadePlatinum a Shiny Graveler being released]].
* SequenceBreaking: {{Defied|Trope}}. The games were modified specifically to avoid this, patching out several of the most well known programming oversights that would allow players to skip certain events. One of the most notable exemples is that Poké Dolls can no longer be used to run from the Ghost Marowak inside the Pokémon Tower, a trick that's commonly used to skip the Rocket Hidout section entirely. Similarly, a glitch that would allow players to enter the Cycling Road without a Bicycle by holding the left button during the guard's dialogue was also patched out.
* SuddenNameChange: After beating the game, several of the party members from ''Blue'' were taken to the Name Rater for a name change. HA the Nidoking became "RACCATTACK", VENUSAUR became "DOM", and SPARK the Jolteon became " dog ?!".
* {{Unwinnable}}: {{Discussed|Trope}} and {{defied|Trope}}. The [=ROMs=] used for the race patched out the majority of known softlock situations, such as limiting the duration of the frozen status and of the move Rage to 25 turns, making it so that Struggle affects Ghost-types, letting players afford the Safari Zone entrance fee or the Vending Machine drinks even if they have no money left, and fixing the glitched tiles of Cinnabar Island entirely. With that said, the rules mentioned two cases in which streamers would be allowed to load the last useable savestate: getting stuck on Cinnabar with no Pokémon that knows Surf and no way to obtain one, or getting stuck with a team of Pokémon without any damage-dealing moves.
* UtilityPartyMember: On the ''Green'' team, Lapras and Spearow served the sole purpose of using Surf, Strength and Fly respectively, and were virtually useless in battle due to their low level.
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