@@SimulationEvolve Well I read all of the comments as I answered this one and counted everyone who said that the person was impressed. I counted 7 so far, myself included :D
i recall using platinum without any restrictions, nordic european edition tho i think it was just the same as the uk one if there even is a difference between any of the western copies thats also in english (dont remember if u could change language on these, might just be 1 copy for them all)
it's not like he has lots of spare time and literally earns money to do such type of content. Also not like he has 130k subs and 60k views on a video posted just today, just saying.
Next time on star collecting: Is it A. Catch a Pikachu B. Use a Potion C. Get a 100 win streak in the Battle Tower "Please be B, please be B, please be B-" "Oh, it IS B."
He also has to look for a Feebas again. Not to mention how Diamond and Pearl have insane level requirements in each section when you’re probably not intended to be even half that level. It’ll be a while.
I would die before the first gym. You have your starter, bidoof, starly, shinx, kriketot, budew, magicarp, zubat, geodude, machop, the abra you get in trade, onix and I believe meditite. All of which need to be leveled up. The longest probably being machop to machoke or meditite to medicham.(yes, you get the old rod before the first gym. And if you thought that was tough, you need to find and evolve all possible pokemon found on trees, from the rare munchlax and aipom to the female combee and the Male and female burmy. That in itself will take an Eterna-ty.
I think I only got to 3 stars when I played Diamond as a kid, I ended up logging just under 900 hours in it. I tried to complete the national dex through Dawn just randomly giving you info on pokemons locations everyday
Thorium, palladium (which is actually slightly more expensive per gram then gold), tungsten(carbide) which is the strongest metal on earth. And what you could probabaly think of for the black card.
Remember, if you find a (!!!), that's a guarantee that the one you find is the rarest one, if the (!!!) appears, but Spiritomb doesn't show up, send your Pokémon back and try again.
The amount of effort you put into each video is so admirable. I love how much detail you go into and you pretty much never miss a trick in terms of precision. Shame we didn’t see Forretress in your battle tower run through tho haha ;) Please keep up the great work!!
Awesome to see you upload another video to one of the best Pokémon channels ever as you always go into detail about a lot of the more forgotten mechanics and always explain everything in a way that both hardcore and veteran players can understand in a very respectable way without insulting anyone’s intelligence so props to you for that keep up the great work with the awesome videos
Its debatibily the most useful Pokemon in the the dex... if you RNG abuse, since Chatter advances RNG consistently... to the average player, yep easily the worst in the dex.
Hey I just wanted to clarify something in this video: In order to complete the national pokedex, you need BOTH Diamond AND Pearl regardless of if you are trading over pokemon from gen 3 as the stunky and glameow line are exclusive to those games and platinum has neither so in order to complete the dex you need both games as you would be 4 short with neither and 2 short with only one.
Omg! I love the transision to the battle tower!😂 I lost it after this🤣🤣🤣! Also Awesome that you put SOOOO much time in this stuff just to make these awesome vids! Love your channel!
I'll always remember seeing that trainer card level guide in the back of my Platinum guide... And never managing to complete it. Got three levels, at least- Pokemon contest, Elite Four, and Underground base. I was pretty bad at the Frontier, with only some silvers, and I was nine Pokemon away from completing the National Dex before I lost my card. Treecko line, Chikorita line, Regice and two others I've since forgotten.
8:51 *that moment when SoulSilver was your first Pokémon game and just thought that’s how much a normal Pokémon game costed, and that the other games were just kinda on sale when you got them*
Keep doing what your doing man, these videos are awesome. The amount of time and effort put into this is astounding and it’s fun to see these challenges that I wouldn’t have thought of doing before hand. Been subscribed for a while and it’s totally worth the time to watch your content! Thanks for the videos!
Love your videos! Was just wondering, can you please tell us what moves/EVs/natures/held items each of your Swampert, Garchomp and Infernape had when you used them to complete the battle tower? Would love to give it a shot myself using your team! Many thanks
"And now I can show this off to the 12 people in the world who will be impressed by this." Hey now, as a kid, I quickly discovered those trainer card upgrades and did get a lot of them in many games! And I believe that also includes the 100 battle tower streak you just suffered through. :D
you forgot to mention that nurse joy at poke center will have dialogue changes in gold and black phase (in gold, she will admire us and in black she became buddy-buddy lol)
I got my 5-star trainer card on Platinum last year, and I also got all the golden prints of the Battle Frontier. There's almost 200 hours on my save file, it was worth every minute.
*Fun fact* Once you have 4 Stars Nurse Joy's dialoge will change First she'll notice your trainercard then she'll say smth like "the same as usual?" When you want to heal your pokemon
I remember doing this when the games were new(ish) with 3 friends, we met up for a week and basically only grinded pokemon stars for way too many hours, summer break in school was fun :D nice memories
A humble challenge request: Beat the Elite 4 with a team composed of only victory road pokemon, with no training or changed moves. This can be done in any version, but I love Gen 3 stuff, personally.
Something you would be unlikely to notice is that when John brings up the Pokédex, the Hoenn Dex is in an unusual order. The Ralts line and Chimecho are actually in their “Added” order rather than their “Pokédex” positions. Small trivia that I know.
What moves did you run on Infernape, Garchomp and Swampert? I’d love to tackle the Battle Tower thing but have never researched it or a good team before.
You are insane... I love your channel, I don't love Pokémon enough to commit myself to the torture you must go through but to see it done is very satisfying
It’s probably somewhere in the comments but I couldn’t read 850+ comments to double check. you can win the battle tower star in double battles. I found it easier than singles. Also turn animation off to make it go slightly faster.
Oh how DARE you tease me with the Score function, I have not known a THING about it since the damn game came out and I REALLY WANT TO KNOW WHAT IT'S FOR/DOES Love your videos btw ♥
I'm impressed you did this in 60 hours. I was well over 999:99 when I completed this but I also hard grinded battle tower without knowing what evs were, did the master ranks for fun and loved the pick a partner 2v2s in battle tower. Had a ton of fun in diamond as a kid. I'll never understand why people like pearl more than diamond though.
Please be a potion, please be a potion, please be a po-Well, here we are once again! Oh, you got me good with that one! Enjoying your vids, thanks for the time put in so I don't have to!
Regarding Version Exclusives: Tropius is in Emerald, Tangela is in Fire Red / Leaf Green so if you have a full suite of GBA games (or possibly even just Emerald). Emerald lacks seven Pokemon, three of which can be evolved: Surskit/Masquerain, Meditite/Medicham, and Roselia. You can evolve Budew into Roselia, Surskit is available in D/P as a swarm, Meditite normally, leaving two: Zangoose is available if you have a Ruby cartridge, Lunatone if you have a Sapphire cartridge. Of course, if you have Pokemon XD on the GameCube and the necessary equipment... you can snag a whole lot of version exclusives. And you know why GameFreak does this. They really want to entice people to pick up every game if they want a complete 'Dex, even if the invention of the Global Trade systems have made it much . . . much . . . easier. (I do think you still need to have seen the Pokemon you want though, so it's registered in your 'Dex . . . which can make it troublesome. Also I'm pretty sure the system is gone for Gen 4...)
5:18 “Gamfreak thinks they’ll make me go outside and make friends. *hearty chuckle* Not today!” Not even finished with the video and that about sums up everything I’ve watched from you and my life with video games. Going to finish this video of your madman experiment that I would absolutely try now. Thank you John and keep up the good work! Even if I am just a random person on the internet cheering you on. :)
I put hundreds of hours into Pearl (mostly for filling the Pokedex with minimal trading) and I wish I could say I have the maxed out trainer card, but I never did the Battle Tower. Never even really tried it, actually. I have patience for a lot of things, but raising up Pokemon specifically to be good for the ingame battle facilities (or battling other players, for that matter) is something I've just never wanted to do, and the few times I ever did try it, it never ended well.
I remember a few Contests from my copy of Pearl where, during the dance section, I managed to set an instruction (or whatever) the instant I was given freedom to do so. The others always failed. Good times.
I'm definitely among those 12 people impressed by a 5 Star trainer card
Hey wanna start a gang?
I am one of them as well :)
Me too!
The likes on this comment suggest there are more than 12 people impressed by the 5 star card
@@SimulationEvolve
Well I read all of the comments as I answered this one and counted everyone who said that the person was impressed. I counted 7 so far, myself included :D
Antivaluvian make that 8!
I actually did this in Soul Silver. I finished literally the night before Black and White released.
that reminds me, the colors are different in HGSS, aren't they?
English release. I don't remember if the other colors are different, but the 5-star card is still black.
I remember I saved my money and bought an action replay, and, using that, unlocked the five star trainer card in pearl.
Nice 👍🏻
@@skelly1555 Based and redpilled.
Platinum could still only transfer six a day to Pal Park. They didn't remove that restriction until HGSS.
thats why i did all my transfers in HGSS then just traded
although i really only transferred for starters because it takes so long to get the kanto and hoenn starters in hgss
Really? I thought it was lifted in platinum
Can confirm its is only once a day on platinum as well,
Source? I have platinum, fire red and a ds lite I just experimented with
i recall using platinum without any restrictions, nordic european edition tho i think it was just the same as the uk one if there even is a difference between any of the western copies thats also in english (dont remember if u could change language on these, might just be 1 copy for them all)
Everybody gangsta till Johnstone complete the Unova regional dex in 24 hours
*Jahstone
In diamond, I finally finished the national dex, but then I bricked my game accidentally with the void glitch
Unova's is easy as piss tbh
Does Keldeo or Victini Count?
Hunter Hughes it took me 8 years but now i can leave this world knowing the mission was accomplished
You are an absolute madman I would no way have the patience to do any of the challenges you do
Its ok Chery boy you have to run an big company
he does have a lot of time lol
Ay yo squirtle squad
it's not like he has lots of spare time and literally earns money to do such type of content. Also not like he has 130k subs and 60k views on a video posted just today, just saying.
Not even the first one....
There are RUclipsrs where I just click their video automatically.
You are one of them
I have many of them. I had to pick.
I chose this one because I wanted to see this.
I think I'll give this video 5 stars
Aah, the good old days. Way better than this stupid facebook shit "like/don't like". So narrow and simple minded.
The good old days
Ahh, a man of culture
The fact that you got a 100 win streak without EV training and IV breeding is facinating
im dumbfounded the amount of hours i spent preparing a team for this challenge god i suck
@@Vary180 honestly i feel the same way now
@@Vary180 facts
How do you know he didn't EV train? Also do you know what moves each of his pokemon had or their held items?
Bro he had to train. There's no way
This man is going through all his blood sweat and tears for us
Next time on star collecting:
Is it
A. Catch a Pikachu
B. Use a Potion
C. Get a 100 win streak in the Battle Tower
"Please be B, please be B, please be B-"
"Oh, it IS B."
John: I will never do a contest again
Different challenges : yes but actually no😂
Clearly John meant never do a contest again... On that particular game!
There's many more games with their contests to do before he's allowed to rest!
You're everywhere
@@rebeccaansong7131 if you mean me yes I am because I love pokemon 😂
Been attempting this challenge myself for the past couple months, so this video was very helpful!
"Game Freak thinks I'm gonna go outside and make friends hehehe not today." OMG I died laughing
I wanna go outside make friends ;-;
@@SabbathDiego Quarantine: *Uno reverse card*
Excited for the possibility of Professor oaks challenge in diamond/pearl!!!!:):):):)
Can’t wait to see John have to find his old buddy munchlax, eh?
He also has to look for a Feebas again. Not to mention how Diamond and Pearl have insane level requirements in each section when you’re probably not intended to be even half that level. It’ll be a while.
I would die before the first gym. You have your starter, bidoof, starly, shinx, kriketot, budew, magicarp, zubat, geodude, machop, the abra you get in trade, onix and I believe meditite. All of which need to be leveled up. The longest probably being machop to machoke or meditite to medicham.(yes, you get the old rod before the first gym.
And if you thought that was tough, you need to find and evolve all possible pokemon found on trees, from the rare munchlax and aipom to the female combee and the Male and female burmy. That in itself will take an Eterna-ty.
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Is it that? He caught all 150 pokemon in Sinnoh.
"Trading is one of the game's main features"
Sword and Shield: "I'm about to end this man's whole National Dex"
What starter will you pick I'm team Scourbunny
@@charadreamer6818 #GROOKEYGANG
Legends Arceus: "I'm about to end this man's whole trading career"
The stickers, John
Ignoring us won't work. We *will never give up. We are many, we are endless, we are Sadists.*
I think I only got to 3 stars when I played Diamond as a kid, I ended up logging just under 900 hours in it. I tried to complete the national dex through Dawn just randomly giving you info on pokemons locations everyday
Every video you make just makes my day, they are so intuitive and creative and interesting, your honestly the best on RUclips right now!
"What's better than gold?"
Well, typically platinum
Ace Trainer Jose i thought exactly the same
Thorium, palladium (which is actually slightly more expensive per gram then gold), tungsten(carbide) which is the strongest metal on earth. And what you could probabaly think of for the black card.
How easily can you get all of the Pokémon from the Pokéwalker?
In my experience, prepare to walk.
Igorowan It takes forever. I am 1year in and still haven’t ggt them all.
Spiritomb is my goal
Remember, if you find a (!!!), that's a guarantee that the one you find is the rarest one, if the (!!!) appears, but Spiritomb doesn't show up, send your Pokémon back and try again.
Igorowan Thanks, that’s good advice :3
I first need to unlock the cave tho
Or clip it on a bicycle wheel
The amount of effort you put into each video is so admirable. I love how much detail you go into and you pretty much never miss a trick in terms of precision. Shame we didn’t see Forretress in your battle tower run through tho haha ;) Please keep up the great work!!
Awesome to see you upload another video to one of the best Pokémon channels ever as you always go into detail about a lot of the more forgotten mechanics and always explain everything in a way that both hardcore and veteran players can understand in a very respectable way without insulting anyone’s intelligence so props to you for that keep up the great work with the awesome videos
Everybody gangsta until Johnstone appears at Area 51 on 20/9
Hes gonna catch all the aliens 😔
HOW EASILY CAN YOU COMPLETE PROFESSOR OAK'S CHALLENGE IN AREA 51?
He's five star trainer card is like a free pass into the area
When you realize you gave away your nationality by accident
My old Pal Action Replay always helped me out with completing the national dex. What a nice guy.
>Final and least useful in the dex
>Chatot
I take extreme offense to this don't insult the singy boi
I remember I made mine say Corndog
Its debatibily the most useful Pokemon in the the dex... if you RNG abuse, since Chatter advances RNG consistently... to the average player, yep easily the worst in the dex.
Hey I just wanted to clarify something in this video:
In order to complete the national pokedex, you need BOTH Diamond AND Pearl regardless of if you are trading over pokemon from gen 3 as the stunky and glameow line are exclusive to those games and platinum has neither so in order to complete the dex you need both games as you would be 4 short with neither and 2 short with only one.
You, you can probably get them in HGSS too...
I didn’t care about the star thing until I saw the final card u get. I NEED ITTT
Omg! I love the transision to the battle tower!😂 I lost it after this🤣🤣🤣! Also Awesome that you put SOOOO much time in this stuff just to make these awesome vids! Love your channel!
I'll always remember seeing that trainer card level guide in the back of my Platinum guide... And never managing to complete it. Got three levels, at least- Pokemon contest, Elite Four, and Underground base. I was pretty bad at the Frontier, with only some silvers, and I was nine Pokemon away from completing the National Dex before I lost my card. Treecko line, Chikorita line, Regice and two others I've since forgotten.
This channel has reignited my love of older Pokémon games because it's given me so many new ways to replay them.
I did this in platinum and I have 481 out of 491. Very close
8:51 *that moment when SoulSilver was your first Pokémon game and just thought that’s how much a normal Pokémon game costed, and that the other games were just kinda on sale when you got them*
How about a “HOW EASILY CAN YOU CATCH EVERY SHADOW POKÉMON IN POKÉMON COLOSSEUM AND XD”?
yes please
Trainer card stars: *exist*
Jhonstone: *_I’m about to end this man’s whole career_*
You can hear his suffering having to do the battle tower AGAIN 😂
Your occasional videos make my day
Edit: OMG thanks for the likes!
These challenges would be insanely boring to do alone, but you somehow make them really fun to watch! Great job :)
John doing gen 4 completion videos makes my day
Love the content and region
I love these videos because they highlight such obscure mechanics and are very entertaining, incredible job John
Keep doing what your doing man, these videos are awesome. The amount of time and effort put into this is astounding and it’s fun to see these challenges that I wouldn’t have thought of doing before hand. Been subscribed for a while and it’s totally worth the time to watch your content! Thanks for the videos!
Seeing infernape with grass knot and calm mind made my competitive soul cry a lot xD
This video was A W E S O M E
Pokemon Contest movesets are a wild, wild place.
StarkMaximum never been a fan of those, coming from gen 3 I hated them
Love your videos! Was just wondering, can you please tell us what moves/EVs/natures/held items each of your Swampert, Garchomp and Infernape had when you used them to complete the battle tower? Would love to give it a shot myself using your team! Many thanks
"And now I can show this off to the 12 people in the world who will be impressed by this."
Hey now, as a kid, I quickly discovered those trainer card upgrades and did get a lot of them in many games! And I believe that also includes the 100 battle tower streak you just suffered through. :D
The true and only way to beat pokemon games: getting all the trainer card stars. Thank you for this.
you forgot to mention that nurse joy at poke center will have dialogue changes in gold and black phase (in gold, she will admire us and in black she became buddy-buddy lol)
I got all the stars in most of the games so im not too impressed by that but that u actually managed to do it in 60h is AMAZING
I got my 5-star trainer card on Platinum last year, and I also got all the golden prints of the Battle Frontier. There's almost 200 hours on my save file, it was worth every minute.
John: What could be better than gold?
Me: It... it's black... it's on the video thumbnail...
*Fun fact*
Once you have 4 Stars Nurse Joy's dialoge will change
First she'll notice your trainercard then she'll say smth like "the same as usual?" When you want to heal your pokemon
whaaat
I remember doing this when the games were new(ish) with 3 friends, we met up for a week and basically only grinded pokemon stars for way too many hours, summer break in school was fun :D nice memories
I don't even play Pokemon anymore outside of just sometimes using an emulator on my phone yet somehow I just enjoy these videos so much.
I'm glad to be one of the twelve who are impressed, John.
Huh. I remember getting 5 stars when I played Diamond in middle school and just thinking it looked cool. I didn’t realise it was a FEAT
A humble challenge request:
Beat the Elite 4 with a team composed of only victory road pokemon, with no training or changed moves. This can be done in any version, but I love Gen 3 stuff, personally.
I have 4 of the 5 stars still stuck on the battle tower
DUUUUUDE this guy DESERVES way more attention than what he gets, theres just so much time put into this a and every single one of his videos, cool vid
I am still trying to follow the POC in Sapphire. I don’t need another video of Pokéflexing.
Something you would be unlikely to notice is that when John brings up the Pokédex, the Hoenn Dex is in an unusual order.
The Ralts line and Chimecho are actually in their “Added” order rather than their “Pokédex” positions.
Small trivia that I know.
What moves did you run on Infernape, Garchomp and Swampert? I’d love to tackle the Battle Tower thing but have never researched it or a good team before.
GET THE POPCORN
My bro: why?
Me: JOHNSON MADE A VID
So. Now do the same for HG/SS and after finishing it, go to a Pokémon-Center of your choice and talk to Nurse Joy ;)
You are insane... I love your channel, I don't love Pokémon enough to commit myself to the torture you must go through but to see it done is very satisfying
Im stuck with 4 stars :( I hate the 100 win streak
The master of specific Pokemon challenges Johnstone has uploaded! *drops everything immediately to watch*
This video inspired me to get the 5 star card in platinum and, finally, I got it for myself today!
Give this man the „most patient person“ - trophy
It’s probably somewhere in the comments but I couldn’t read 850+ comments to double check. you can win the battle tower star in double battles. I found it easier than singles. Also turn animation off to make it go slightly faster.
Obtaining a 5 Star trainer card is one of the key items in my resume
I recocnize that reference to another vid, the forretres with all he ribbons!
Do a video on getting all the medals from the battle frontier!
Yesterday I've came upon your channel because I was so bored. Thank you for the entertaining videos, you earned my sub!!
Oh how DARE you tease me with the Score function, I have not known a THING about it since the damn game came out and I REALLY WANT TO KNOW WHAT IT'S FOR/DOES
Love your videos btw ♥
I'm impressed you did this in 60 hours. I was well over 999:99 when I completed this but I also hard grinded battle tower without knowing what evs were, did the master ranks for fun and loved the pick a partner 2v2s in battle tower. Had a ton of fun in diamond as a kid. I'll never understand why people like pearl more than diamond though.
9/15/21 I've just obtained the black card in pokemon diamond! This was one of my life's biggest goals, and it took me more than 13 years to complete.
Dude, you are an absolute madman. Absolute props. I tried and failed many times to do this challenge.
A small detail I like is that once you get the 4th star, the nurses will have a changed dialog.
I never even realized trainer cards have a score on them...
How easily can you get all of the Medals in Black 2 and White 2???
When you get to the Elite 4 with level 50’s after like 20 hours of gameplay, then this dude shows up level 60’s after 9
Your viewer interaction bit gave me a great chuckle
Please be a potion, please be a potion, please be a po-Well, here we are once again!
Oh, you got me good with that one! Enjoying your vids, thanks for the time put in so I don't have to!
11:42 Hey it’s my name! Still Using the same save file from the dex completion series, I see.
Regarding Version Exclusives:
Tropius is in Emerald, Tangela is in Fire Red / Leaf Green so if you have a full suite of GBA games (or possibly even just Emerald). Emerald lacks seven Pokemon, three of which can be evolved: Surskit/Masquerain, Meditite/Medicham, and Roselia. You can evolve Budew into Roselia, Surskit is available in D/P as a swarm, Meditite normally, leaving two: Zangoose is available if you have a Ruby cartridge, Lunatone if you have a Sapphire cartridge. Of course, if you have Pokemon XD on the GameCube and the necessary equipment... you can snag a whole lot of version exclusives.
And you know why GameFreak does this. They really want to entice people to pick up every game if they want a complete 'Dex, even if the invention of the Global Trade systems have made it much . . . much . . . easier. (I do think you still need to have seen the Pokemon you want though, so it's registered in your 'Dex . . . which can make it troublesome. Also I'm pretty sure the system is gone for Gen 4...)
You absolute madman! I found your channel this week and I've already binged half your videos. New fave pokemon channel for sure!
johnstone and pikasprey crossover when? You absolute madlad
Jacah Smith “How many times can you get yourself in and out of a soft lock in 24 hours, while also catching all Pokémon.”
Maybe also include JRose11?
@@beta511ee4 yessssssssss, I'd love jrose too, its just that he hasn't uploaded in the last 6 months :(
@@tanglelover How long does it take to get out of a soft lock and catch every Pokémon, while only using a Caterpie and Magikarp in every battle?
5:18 “Gamfreak thinks they’ll make me go outside and make friends. *hearty chuckle* Not today!”
Not even finished with the video and that about sums up everything I’ve watched from you and my life with video games. Going to finish this video of your madman experiment that I would absolutely try now. Thank you John and keep up the good work! Even if I am just a random person on the internet cheering you on. :)
"Now it's time for the actual challenge."
*gets ad for Nintendo Switch Online*
8:41
(Laughs in $12 eBay Pearl cartridge)
I put hundreds of hours into Pearl (mostly for filling the Pokedex with minimal trading) and I wish I could say I have the maxed out trainer card, but I never did the Battle Tower. Never even really tried it, actually. I have patience for a lot of things, but raising up Pokemon specifically to be good for the ingame battle facilities (or battling other players, for that matter) is something I've just never wanted to do, and the few times I ever did try it, it never ended well.
What is the best trainer ID to have if you're hunting shiny starters?
Thanks for reminding me that HG is so expensive
That made my day MUCH better
I didn't even know DPP _had_ trainer stars all these years XD Well done John!
You never beat the champ?
You are a madman to even think of attempting this let alone actually doing it
I actually tried this back in my childhood, well i was young and dumb.
That 4 second pause at the beginning cracked me up.
Next video... “How easily can i catch all the area 51 aliens”
I remember a few Contests from my copy of Pearl where, during the dance section, I managed to set an instruction (or whatever) the instant I was given freedom to do so. The others always failed. Good times.
Young me would literally clean my badges in Pokémon Diamond every single day.. I have no idea why.
Huh, you must have just wasted 2 weeks doing this for us...
**LAUGHS IN RESORT VILLA**
I never try this stuff because of the migration. It’s very tedious. You’re a god for doing this.