Hey guys, so I'm fairly new to this community and haven't really seen this discussed before. With perfect movement, menuing and rng, would it be theoretically possible to get sub 3 hour? I mean, if you look at all these speedrun game history videos then whatever people don't think is possible eventually gets beaten, but i wanna hear the communitys opinion on it. Sorry if this has been asked many times before.

Swaph_ made a Silver hack-rom with spinners stuck looking away, little to no early game encounters, and no dangerous moves on annoying fights (Red's Pikachu only knows Charm, Rival 2's Bayleef doesn't know Razor Leaf, a bunch of Supersonic were removed, etc.), and he "only" got a 3:13:48 with it, despite being one of the top runners of this game (he has a 3:22:00 as you can see on the leaderboards, and currently has about 2.8k attempts). So I think sub 3:10 would only be barely reachable for human strats, with perfect crit luck and frame-perfect mashing... And therefore sub 3 is not even questionable, unless a magical 10-minute timesave is found, which most likely won't happen since we're talking about a Glitchless category ^^

Here's the 3:13:48 video on Swaph's channel if you want to watch it :)

And other routes ? Maybe the runners have overlooked some strategies that would definitely save a lot of time and/or be more reliable. I'm new here so maybe this is a very naive idea but still not impossible imo. Though I think that after all these years the routes are probably very optimal already.