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Paratroopa1 posted...

Stunfisk 1

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Hell yeah, I get to claim full credit for this one. There's an interaction (not that well known?) where you can get the 2 Stunfisk from the middle section with Machamp and Octillery to go to the end section. You have to startle them by basically running them over, and what they do is go under a little gap in the rocks to the other side and make their way towards the other Stunfisk right before the end of the level. This was already used by high scorers for the 2 star pic, where we get them to start moving on their path and then lure them towards the shovel, which is a background element. The quirk comes from the way they move. Since Stunfisk doesn't have legs, it slides across the sand. Some people have voiced opinion that this looks glitchy, but I think that that's how some flatfish actually move (although I've never looked).

So one time I happened to notice a Stunfisk doing its idle animation while it was moving. Apparently since they didn't need to animate Stunfisk for this (no limbs), it counts as being in a neutral state and they literally just made the model move without flagging it as "walking" or whatever. I started theorizing about getting the idle animation in front of the shovel while it was moving. I didn't feel like actually trying it since it seemed tedious, so I just posted about it and tried to get other people to try it instead, which no one did. Some number of months later I finally decided that I was gonna prove it possible myself. It ended up not being as hard as I thought. Once Stunfisk gets to the other side of the rocks, you have to lure it closer to the beach. Stunfisk always takes a perfectly straight line from its current position to its preset ending spot. So you just have to bring it to a spot where its line passes the shovel. There's still luck involved with getting it to idle but thankfully it seems to be excessively common with this Pokemon. I actually had a few attempts where Stunfisk completely ran over the shovel and blocked some of the background points, but after a few tries I managed to set a new record of 4931 with my personal strat (an improvement of nearly 100). A few people managed to improve it since then (pic above is not mine), but this will always be one of "my shots".