Can You Complete the Pokedex Only Using Surprise Trade?

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  • @TyrannostarusRex
    @TyrannostarusRex Год назад +1652

    It honestly feels like people now are being a lot more generous in surprise trades. It might be because it’s becoming easier to get shinies, which is in no way a bad thing, but I’ve noticed more non hacked shiny Pokémon, and just really good late game Pokémon being traded in this generation than in previous generations. It’s really nice to see people helping strangers out with filling out the Pokédex, even if it’s just because they have extras. I remember when people would just release the extra Pokémon and it always made younger me feel a little sad.

    • @youtube-kit9450
      @youtube-kit9450 Год назад +72

      Definitely. I remember back in USUM, me taking time to get version exclusives, hidden ability pokémon, hard to get pokémon with low encounter chancr and whatnot to try out wondertrading and seeing what I'd get - and in 30ish trades, I got about a dozen wingulls, another half a dozen-dozen youngoos/rattata and whatever else you get on the first route, and the only 2 trades that weren't just early route garbage were a Mimikyu (not rare, but hey) and an Oranguru. I literally haven't touched the feature since then since it seemed like everyone is just trying to give as little as possible in hopes of getting something great. I definitely think the greater ease of shinies and especially max raids giving you ok-ish things you might not need while you're gathering shards or herba mystica definitely helps tilt the pool of pokémon towards "fun to get" instead of "complete garbage". Might even get tempted to try out surprise trade again.

    • @epiccarrot88
      @epiccarrot88 Год назад +29

      I was shiny hunting for a Komala near release using Normal sandwiches, and ended up with three shiny male Oinkalogne. I only needed one so I Surprise Traded the other two away.

    • @curnies
      @curnies Год назад +17

      I traded away a shiny Falinks for a charizard named Kevin the other day. I just really wanted a charizard and was never gonna use the falinks. Lol

    • @autismandgaming4532
      @autismandgaming4532 Год назад +14

      Where as in swsh you only ever got dreepys from the suprise trades

    • @iPetable
      @iPetable Год назад +18

      I go and catch a bunch of version exclusives in luxury balls and trade them out when I'm bored tbh

  • @travisangerman7172
    @travisangerman7172 Год назад +1146

    Have to say, as an older viewer, I am absolutely here for Mikey’s slow descent into a Markiplier-style madness. 10/10, keep it up dude.

    • @pkmntrainermark8881
      @pkmntrainermark8881 Год назад +75

      Mikeyplier

    • @Luvcatz88
      @Luvcatz88 Год назад +18

      Yes! The more yelling the better!

    • @budthatisblue6941
      @budthatisblue6941 Год назад +14

      yea im 2 minutes in and this vid is top notch MandJTV content. Did my guy hire some new writers/editors????

    • @chrisdurand1441
      @chrisdurand1441 Год назад +6

      Man's channeling some Dennis Reynolds energy and I'm here for it lol

    • @GaymezFrangler
      @GaymezFrangler Год назад +6

      @@budthatisblue6941 no it’s still Just katie

  • @calook1334
    @calook1334 Год назад +404

    I like how people are being nice in surprise trades now. Especially after the greninja raid, legit non-hacked 6 IV hidden ability Froakies are flying all over the place.

    • @smudged4090
      @smudged4090 Год назад +8

      All I've seen are the hacked ones. I've just been trading 5IV protean ones from all the breeding I've done but I'd like to be that nice when I get the chance

    • @KlTRA
      @KlTRA Год назад +1

      @@smudged4090 how do you tell if a Pokémon is hacked? And if you breed with them does it make ur Pokémon "invalid"?

    • @smudged4090
      @smudged4090 Год назад +23

      @@KlTRA Usually hacks are pretty obvious. 6IV shiny hidden ability rare pokemon with a website name are commonplace with hacked pokemon. There are some more subtle ones, but generally hacked pokemon look too good to be true. As for "invalid" I've actually been capitalizing off of a hacked Ditto that was surprise traded to me. All of the offspring have been legitimate with my name and ID on it, so you should be fine.

    • @fiusionmaster3241
      @fiusionmaster3241 Год назад

      @@smudged4090 Interesting. Thanks for the info m8.

    • @henrydrozda6882
      @henrydrozda6882 Год назад +3

      @@smudged4090 Can you get banned for having hacked pokemon because I got surprised traded a 6IV shiny greninja, hisuian zoroark, and charizard all with website names

  • @WhoamI-kt9yv
    @WhoamI-kt9yv Год назад +61

    This has propably been said before, but Traumato is actually just german for Drowzee. "Traum" is german for "dream", so thats probably why it is namend that way.

    • @supreme_king_obama1158
      @supreme_king_obama1158 Год назад +1

      The word for dream is part of the English word for trauma. There seems like there’s a connection there but maybe I’m tripping.

    • @billwumsen4108
      @billwumsen4108 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@supreme_king_obama1158 English is just another Germanic based language and the word Trauma exists in both languages and means the same thing

  • @Fyrix363
    @Fyrix363 Год назад +590

    Why do I feel like that haunter was from a person who thought they would get it back as a gengar but didn’t realise they were on surprise trade not a link trade.

    • @CountLilac
      @CountLilac Год назад +88

      Poor Peter

    • @jmurray1110
      @jmurray1110 Год назад +63

      From my experience even regular trade Pokémon don’t get traded back

    • @rubychan2288
      @rubychan2288 Год назад +93

      That or they selected it by accident due to the box sprites not being shiny.

    • @DuckLord12
      @DuckLord12 Год назад +7

      Oh no

    • @alfynubzx745
      @alfynubzx745 Год назад +15

      Imagine if they forgot their everstone

  • @artag5737
    @artag5737 Год назад +467

    I feel like only using Wonder/Surprise Trade would take an eternity in pretty much any game. I tried this in ORAS and I still haven't completed it to this day.

    • @rique3849
      @rique3849 Год назад +30

      There's someone who did it with Two games already (XY and BDSP)

    • @IronValiant2641
      @IronValiant2641 Год назад +6

      I used the GTS in USUM

    • @BaconNuke
      @BaconNuke Год назад +23

      Well I mean.. legendaries are probably never gonna just be randomly given away unless someone is doing a wonderlocke or, what I do, trading away all my mons before restarting a cartridge for some reason

    • @Baldgo
      @Baldgo Год назад +3

      i tried in omega saphrire and it took me 2 years.

    • @Averageavianenjoyer
      @Averageavianenjoyer Год назад +6

      @@rique3849 absol blogs

  • @TheRazor124
    @TheRazor124 Год назад +80

    You can't get auspicious armor in Violet, true. But you CAN get armarouge in Tera Raids so... you could still get one.

    • @HybridGamer72
      @HybridGamer72 8 месяцев назад +7

      While yes that's true, he never said anything about catching other pokemon, only evolving and breeding

  • @yukikitsune7366
    @yukikitsune7366 Год назад +119

    I enjoyed this video. I saw the title and was like "Well Obviously the answer is yes." And then Mikey said that he didn't want to waste hours upon hours of his life randomly trading and I just laughed because yeah, that is EXACTLY how I wasted a summer when I got OmegaRuby to complete the dex. I can imagine completing the paldean dex is going to be time consuming this way.

    • @damienearl8302
      @damienearl8302 Год назад +1

      ...Omega Ruby has surprise trades?

    • @yukikitsune7366
      @yukikitsune7366 Год назад +6

      @@damienearl8302 yes. Although I think it was called wonder trade

    • @damienearl8302
      @damienearl8302 Год назад +1

      @@yukikitsune7366 Welp, if it has the same mechanics, I know what I'm doing next summer!

    • @yukikitsune7366
      @yukikitsune7366 Год назад +1

      @@damienearl8302 some minor differences. like you can't do anything while waiting for your trade which is why it took me a whole summer to complete the dex. However because I do not care about whether or not the pokemon I get are hacked or not, I just found a twitch account that trades out hacks and you can try and match up with them to get what you want.

    • @damienearl8302
      @damienearl8302 Год назад

      @@yukikitsune7366 For some reason, I can't connect to the internet with my DS, so...sad, but that's pretty cool to know!

  • @blu_ranger71
    @blu_ranger71 Год назад +121

    The melodrama on this channel is what I keep coming back for.

  • @_Amb3R_
    @_Amb3R_ Год назад +310

    this is a prime example of mikey's creativity and managiing to suprise us

  • @lethe.archive
    @lethe.archive Год назад +21

    that hacked ditto is actually incredibly valuable for masuda. if it’s the one i think it is it’s 6iv and italian.

  • @ajaxskingdom
    @ajaxskingdom Год назад +40

    during holidays, i've noticed a lot of legitimate shinies that people are giving away and it's honestly so sweet. people are a lot nicer with shinies these days. (i've also got accidentally sent shinies and it makes me feel bad)

  • @eaglefan2569
    @eaglefan2569 Год назад +156

    One cannot describe the excitement I felt at learning you're getting into Dimension 20 as someone who's been watching it for years. I hope you enjoy it!

    • @benpalmer1583
      @benpalmer1583 Год назад +4

      Yes! Dimension 20 is great! I saw a lot of it this last summer- I did not expect to hear about it here but that's cool

    • @NT-ys3oh
      @NT-ys3oh Год назад +2

      Literally the best show on the internet. Newest season is so good.

    • @owensthebomb9273
      @owensthebomb9273 Год назад +1

      Never more has been so entertaining, happy everyone else is liking it.

    • @kanevivi
      @kanevivi Год назад

      What is that? And are there other groups?

    • @eaglefan2569
      @eaglefan2569 Год назад

      @@kanevivi Dimension 20 is a Dungeons and Dragons show with 14 different campaigns that've been filmed over the years, with changing casts, settings, etc. It's peak content; pretty much all of em are comedians and even some celebrities that just have fun playing out a story. I think their Dimension 20 channel has at least the first episode of each season out, and some have even full seasons watchable for free here on RUclips. Super worth it!

  • @maeveburgess4553
    @maeveburgess4553 Год назад +53

    It's like the CandyEvie videos where she surprise trades a thousand Magnemites! Now that you've had a taste, I'd love to see you react to one of those videos of hers

  • @mamazeta906
    @mamazeta906 Год назад +49

    This was actually really fun and fascinating as I had a similar experience. I wanted to start my playthrough with a shiny Sprigatito and bred with a Lechonk, surprise trading the breedjects. I got so many new 'mons, including a foreign Ditto, and got ~100 dex entries in 162 trades. Also, with the special raid pokemon, if you're like me and suck at doing raids, just wait a few hours after the raid starts and do some trades. I got 5 Froakie the day the Greninja raid started!

  • @jessietheant1513
    @jessietheant1513 Год назад +30

    Dimension 20 is a definite win, Mikey seems like he’d definitely be a Brennan fan

  • @woopie8945
    @woopie8945 Год назад +78

    If I had a nickel for every shiny tarountula mandjtv found, I'd have two nickels wich isn't alot but it's weird that it happened twice.

    • @DukeDarkshadow
      @DukeDarkshadow Год назад +3

      The first three full odds shinies I found during my playthrough all happened to be Maschiffs. The next two after that were back to back Litleos within barely ten minutes of each other.

    • @woopie8945
      @woopie8945 Год назад +1

      @@DukeDarkshadow Omg you got 3 of them! Atleast they have a good shiny.

    • @woopie8945
      @woopie8945 Год назад +1

      @@SomeAwesomeNameHere Yes it is I. Hello brother!

    • @freyaheart
      @freyaheart Год назад +2

      Came here to comment this lol

  • @agentomecha634
    @agentomecha634 Год назад +84

    I’m actually surprised that the website trades have already been started. I didn’t think it would happen for a while. At least the Haunter/Gengar seems legit. Also congrats on the two shiny full odds tarountula.

    • @mirage8476
      @mirage8476 Год назад +2

      You seem knowledgeable on the subject. What is so bad about a "website" shiny. And what is a "hacked shiny"?

    • @agentomecha634
      @agentomecha634 Год назад +11

      @@mirage8476 I don’t know much about them myself, but I’ll do my best to explain. “Website or hacked shinies” to my understanding are Pokémon that come from websites that place them into the games through outside means such as modded consoles or computers. They often have perfect IV’s and natures and tend to be named a specific nickname after the website. Although they may not always be nicknamed that. Sometimes they’re easy to spot. Other times, they’re a lot better hidden. The reason these are bad are they were put into the game illegitimately and can sometimes be considered illegal. (Not like breaking the law illegal, but illegal in terms of competitive battling.) They are also considered illegal if they are shinies that cannot be normally obtained like the GEN 9 legends since those are shiny-locked in-game.

    • @nataliecoronado4206
      @nataliecoronado4206 Год назад

      @@mirage8476 the main purpose of these website shinies is basically to scam young children. If anyone wanted to hack in Pokemon of their own, they easily could through PKHex. But kids that don't know how to hack will see these website shinies and think they could get more and end up getting scammed.

    • @mirage8476
      @mirage8476 Год назад +1

      @@agentomecha634 thank you for helping me :)

  • @michaeljob3139
    @michaeljob3139 Год назад +23

    When referring to the "johtoian" Wooper or any Pokemon form that isn't the regional variant, we should be saying the "National Form"
    Cause if you catch one in SInnoh, its not exactly Johtonian - it has nothing to do with Johto, but it is in that form nationally except for specific regions, which have the other form

    • @chonflis3834
      @chonflis3834 Год назад +2

      Noted
      If I hear "kantonian tauros" one more time Imma be mad

    • @gengarzilla1685
      @gengarzilla1685 Год назад +2

      Nobody says that. The idea of "National" lost all weight when this series moved beyond Japanese regions. That's the whole reason why it was called the National Pokédex, you know.

    • @chonflis3834
      @chonflis3834 Год назад

      @@gengarzilla1685 look i just want an official thing to call these og forms

  • @TheUltima_Werewolf
    @TheUltima_Werewolf Год назад +56

    Man I really wish Shiny Gengar and the rest of its evo line looked like it's mega. The white looks great on it

    • @gengarzilla1685
      @gengarzilla1685 Год назад

      White, on a shadow? That's literally backwards. It should be black...

  • @norashields4892
    @norashields4892 Год назад +49

    The speech about shiny gods in the 50 days video really made me think “woah this really has Brennan lee mulligan vibes” and thought nothing more of it, now I know you’ve started watching dimension 20 made it make sense!! It’s so cool knowing two of my fav creators/shows somehow intersect!!

    • @MandJTVPlays
      @MandJTVPlays  Год назад +33

      Brennan Lee Mulligan is a genius and I aspire to have his skills

    • @DoubleL11862
      @DoubleL11862 Год назад +1

      @@MandJTVPlays Yes he is. He changed the way I DM forever. Which campaign are you watching?

    • @tbarrick
      @tbarrick Год назад +1

      Some of Michael's epic rants make me think of Dave Mathew (from the Paper Mario Boss Music argument incident)

    • @fiusionmaster3241
      @fiusionmaster3241 Год назад

      Agreed. It's realy fun to watch

  • @emeralddestroyer5718
    @emeralddestroyer5718 Год назад +104

    The “if you think you do, you don’t” is hilarious

  • @cheeto_quartz8009
    @cheeto_quartz8009 Год назад +8

    For levelling up, use a high pevel mon (if someone sends a paradox, it'll be around 60) for 3 and 4 star raids for candies.

  • @XhalaSavage
    @XhalaSavage Год назад +14

    Dimension 20 is one of my favorite things to watch in general but especially when grinding in games so I'm so glad to hear you also enjoy it!

  • @roderickragel6399
    @roderickragel6399 Год назад +284

    I feel like jack is gonna get so jealous bc you got the shiny ditto

  • @jjbraswell5826
    @jjbraswell5826 Год назад +33

    The fact that I was watching dimension 20 right before this video and I’m pretty sure the exact campaign to being fantasy high is hilarious

    • @eaglefan2569
      @eaglefan2569 Год назад +3

      "Spring Break! I believe in you!"

    • @firebrandr
      @firebrandr Год назад +5

      It’s Gorgug! Keep going!
      It would be sick to see Mikey do a video about Dimension 20.

  • @alsinakiria
    @alsinakiria Год назад +5

    I catch exclusives (usually paradoxes but not always) and surprise trade them away. I have an insane amount of money in this game from the amulet coin and catching gives exp so I figured why not. Hopefully they make someone happy.

  • @midcatwmn
    @midcatwmn Год назад +2

    Great video! This brought back a lot of memories. I did something similar to this back in Pokemon X, where I traded away my breeding leftovers to try and get a living dex of unique trainer numbers (minus legendaries of course). I forget how far I got, maybe a little over halfway, before I got bored with it (and frustrated from getting a bajillion Zubats and Bunnebys).

  • @codygurnick6405
    @codygurnick6405 Год назад +42

    My first 2 shinies were Lechonk. My third was me breeding charmanders with the Masuda method and it was like the 6th charmander I hatched and haven't had one since.

    • @timotheninja
      @timotheninja Год назад

      Congrats on the shinies!

    • @Twinklethefox9022
      @Twinklethefox9022 Год назад

      Unfortunately that was my 2nd shiny and my only new shiny. My other 3 are ones I already have

    • @Weavileiscool
      @Weavileiscool Год назад +2

      I got Rotom and then skorupi 30 minutes later then 6 months later alpha chatot, all in PLA

  • @obi-wankenobi7041
    @obi-wankenobi7041 Год назад +83

    Dimension 20 is incredible, glad to see more people talking about it!

  • @Dragonfyre91
    @Dragonfyre91 Год назад +5

    Funnily enough I was debating on trying to make as much of a living dex through Wonder Trade as possible. Makes sense that it would take a LONG time and a LOT of trades, especially as you complete more of it

  • @Emerald16028
    @Emerald16028 Год назад +3

    6:47 didn’t expect mikey to go full kratos there

  • @gabsdanb1732
    @gabsdanb1732 Год назад +20

    The second you mentioned Dimension 20 I got like so excited! Always have that on in the background, it's a great show.

  • @Umbreon1112
    @Umbreon1112 Год назад +98

    I love how he caught a lechonk and turned that into a tinkaton

  • @asol7130
    @asol7130 Год назад +3

    I went up into 276 Pokémon in the dex with your method
    So useful, I hope people can find this so interesting to fill up the dex

  • @SweetlyDarkArt
    @SweetlyDarkArt Год назад +7

    I've been able to fill most of my Violet Pokedex by trades including the few that are Scarlet exclusives. There's still a bit more I need for completion but I'll continue to trade including a bunch of late stage pokemon to help others out.

  • @hannahkosek_
    @hannahkosek_ Год назад +63

    i love how mikey can make up something ridiculous and still succeed

    • @raptor088
      @raptor088 Год назад

      Ikr

    • @Axriox
      @Axriox Год назад +1

      Correction it’s usually random like how many charmanders he got

  • @enzoforgets9456
    @enzoforgets9456 Год назад +11

    Technically every non friend trade that gives you a good thing can be defined as a "surprise"
    So yes regardless

    • @scottbecker4367
      @scottbecker4367 Год назад

      Yep. Took far too long to complete the entries for the other game. Took a lot of Eiscue to get the Scarlet exclusives.

  • @LordEpos
    @LordEpos Год назад +8

    Flutter mane is bugged, and you can find shinies of it technically legitimately extremely easily. That one is probably legit.
    (ghost pokemon despawn during the day, but shinies do not. Flutter mane still spawns during the day, unlike other ghost Pokemon. This means simply standing in that cave with a ghost encounter & shiny sandwich functionally automatically shiny hunts them.)

  • @allymoo1100
    @allymoo1100 Год назад +6

    Sometimes I actually mass breed starters/trade evos/exclusives and surprise trade them to people in case they don’t have people to play with and/or don’t use Reddit or something to find them (also things like scorbunny and charmander in case people missed those events) just because I’ve been in their shoes just hoping and praying lol.

  • @dennisw100
    @dennisw100 Год назад +5

    14:11 Traumato is the german name for Drowzee so I don't think it got renamed to that

  • @benshope2163
    @benshope2163 Год назад +10

    As soon as I saw the title I was like "oh God, he is doing a wonder trade gauntlet" then I heard the limit and was like "oh thank god he won't have to go through that torture"

  • @paullover1974
    @paullover1974 Год назад +1

    Thank you Mikey I’m learning a lot more of Pokémon just watching your video’s it makes me even more excited to continue playing Pokémon

  • @1Gameaddict11
    @1Gameaddict11 Год назад +1

    My first playthrough starting from launch day was a surprise trade nuzlocke that i further limited to just gen 9 pokemon, re-trading each catch till i got something new. By the end of the first box it took like 45 min of repeat re-trading for each catch, so lessened the limit to any non-repeat at that point. Still ended up in the repeat loop like a box and a half later, but by that point i had caught something in just about every location and about finished the story so nuzlocke was basically over anyway. Following that stricter ruleset, though factoring in the varied catches along the way for trade fodder, i also ended up with about 70-ish percent dex completion after evolution/breeding, it just took longer lol.

  • @movienutt
    @movienutt Год назад +14

    Psst Mikey! You can absolutely breed a shiny Charmander; I caught the Charizard and Masuda method it with a Spanish Ditto ☺️
    I've also caught a shiny Screaming Tail as well, so... As long as the Screaming tail is caught higher than level 40 something... It's legit, dude!

    • @movienutt
      @movienutt Год назад

      Sorry I meant Fluttermanr lol

    • @TlocRevelc
      @TlocRevelc Год назад +5

      He's well aware that charmander is in the game. He was referring to the fact the they are from a hacking website rather than from someone breeding it

    • @animalia5554
      @animalia5554 Год назад

      Honest question: how can you tell?

    • @TlocRevelc
      @TlocRevelc Год назад

      @@animalia5554 the nickname will be that of the website rather than it's standard name or it's a shiny of a Pokemon that currently does not have it's shiny released like keldeo

    • @movienutt
      @movienutt Год назад

      @@TlocRevelc ahhh ok I getcha :)

  • @Darkfyyre
    @Darkfyyre Год назад +6

    been doing a bit of surprise trading myself to help with my dex, and i do feel like people are a lot more generous with their trades than in previous gens. i know i've been trying to trade out version exclusives from my game, including paradox pokemon, the fire tauros, armarouge, and of course some starters! and i've only received one hacked shiny so far, which i promptly released lol

  • @fuzzboy478
    @fuzzboy478 Год назад +4

    Thank you for your patronage. Now I am going to go surprise trade for a bit to get some of the Scarlett Pokemon that I cannot get. Plus the starters!

  • @Pablo360able
    @Pablo360able Год назад +5

    Maybe the reason Peter traded away that shiny Haunter was because he didn’t know it was shiny.

    • @youtube-kit9450
      @youtube-kit9450 Год назад

      Peter is just on a quest to right the wrongs Mindy committed.

    • @gengarzilla1685
      @gengarzilla1685 Год назад

      Doubtful. It shows their shinyness on the status screen, not just the sprite.

    • @Pablo360able
      @Pablo360able Год назад +1

      @@gengarzilla1685 Yeah but if you already don’t think it’s shiny and are just trading it away, you could either not notice or just not think to look in the first place, especially if you’re new to the game and don’t know that’s a thing

  • @m200h2
    @m200h2 Год назад +5

    surprise trading is a great feature

  • @jezraelernas8602
    @jezraelernas8602 Год назад +1

    Honestly, I love it when you present stats on your video. 😊

  • @goldegreen
    @goldegreen Год назад +5

    Did you ever get a galarian Meowth from OT Phoenix? I got a Lechonk with OT Mikey a few days ago, but it's a very common name so I didn't consider the possibility until this video came up.

  • @Pablo360able
    @Pablo360able Год назад +6

    For some reason I’ve got several Paradox Pokémon through Surprise Trade, but they’ve all been Brute Bonnet, except for a hacked shiny Iron Bundle whose OT name was a link to a website.

  • @noraunhappy
    @noraunhappy Год назад +11

    My first full odds shiny in Violet was a LeChonk, which I found approximately 10 minutes into playing in the tutorial area. I was very excited lmao

    • @charadreemurr4839
      @charadreemurr4839 Год назад

      Mikey is going to absolutely despise this

    • @TheHopperUK
      @TheHopperUK Год назад

      I got Lechonk as my second full odds shiny, just ambling around near Levincia! I love her dearly. Also had fletchling, fletchinder (!) and I bred an azumarill within five eggs which will never happen to me again haha

    • @Charbified
      @Charbified Год назад +1

      Same here, but in Scarlet! My first wild shiny ever in a main series pokemon game (not counting PLA)

    • @dominicvega1678
      @dominicvega1678 Год назад

      @@charadreemurr4839 What because the color of Shiny Lechonk looks like Miltank how could you?!

    • @charadreemurr4839
      @charadreemurr4839 Год назад

      @@dominicvega1678 I did not know about that more reason for the hatred then thanks

  • @seeker5169
    @seeker5169 Год назад +2

    My first somewhat full odds shiny was a Fidough. I did kinda look for it, some would say hunt, but without any shiny charm or outbreak or sandwich to raise the odds. Just... intensely checking a zone where it spawned.

  • @xxfellowjellyxx3425
    @xxfellowjellyxx3425 Год назад +3

    Man feeling kinda cool that I got my full odds shiny before him
    It was a mareep- I was trying to find a female eevee for breeding- ampharos’s shiny is so cool

  • @Ufo3208_
    @Ufo3208_ Год назад +4

    So I recently decided to try and beat scarlet only using surprise trade and as soon as I do, pm7 makes a video on that. Now Im half way through and Im wondering "I wonder how long it would take me to complete the pokedex this way" and then heres this video😂

  • @thesupertoffeebros
    @thesupertoffeebros Год назад +3

    I'm glad to see you get a full odds shiny, since I also got one, a Venonat that I found after getting demolished by the Grass gym leader.

  • @asnailitsapple6460
    @asnailitsapple6460 6 месяцев назад +1

    This kind of inspires me to just start going into Pokémon, getting Pokémon, & surprise trading good Pokémon so I can be like Santa.

  • @Mrs.Silversmith
    @Mrs.Silversmith 8 месяцев назад

    If you want to extrapolate how long this process would take you need to track the percentage of new entries for every 25 trades or so and graph it, then calculate a line of best fit, since obtaining new entries should take increasingly more trades as you go along.

  • @johnnypollack3243
    @johnnypollack3243 Год назад +3

    Love the video and keep up the great work mikey

  • @adamchojecki8762
    @adamchojecki8762 Год назад +8

    I think the completionist completed this exact challenge on his channel and it is coming out today

  • @kirstenforbes8159
    @kirstenforbes8159 Год назад

    I have really been enjoy doing surprise trades and had decided to do this myself but I think that I will have to include trades in the end to get it done.
    I have done round 200 trades and have completed round 160. I'm trading out doubles and will have to do evolutions.

  • @bogbutter
    @bogbutter Год назад +1

    dude.. i, too, have been grinding up pokemon levels while watching dimension 20 recently! the unsleeping city is very good

  • @KalosChampionThunder
    @KalosChampionThunder Год назад +8

    The shiny chArmander wasn’t hacked cause they could’ve bred the Charizard from the seven star raid a while ago and got some shinies with the Mesaad method

    • @gengarzilla1685
      @gengarzilla1685 Год назад +1

      Uh, no, that's definitely hacked.

    • @mattschladebeck1776
      @mattschladebeck1776 Год назад

      @@gengarzilla1685 it's definitely possible to breed down the six iv mighty Charizard for a shiny Charmander with at least five perfect ivs dude

    • @MandJTVPlays
      @MandJTVPlays  Год назад +5

      It was hacked. While theoretically possible to be legit, its OT was a name that, when googled, brought up a website/bot specifically trading out shinies (which means they're generated)

    • @KalosChampionThunder
      @KalosChampionThunder Год назад

      @@MandJTVPlays is this the real Mandjtv plays cause YOUR SO UNLUCKY CHILD

    • @KalosChampionThunder
      @KalosChampionThunder Год назад

      @@MandJTVPlays Also castform should have a thunder form I mean like THUNDER IS WAY TOO COMMON yet castform doesn’t have a thunder form

  • @Jet-plane
    @Jet-plane Год назад +4

    13:54 ahh yes drugs

  • @emceechupitheundying5692
    @emceechupitheundying5692 Год назад +1

    1:25 Well at least the camera didn't inexplicably cut out this time and we actually saw what's underneath Diglett. A chunk of earth with a dimensional portal inside.

  • @4ainik4aevarov50
    @4ainik4aevarov50 10 месяцев назад +1

    It is surprisingly easy to complete pokedex without trading that much. Scarlet was my first pokemon game, where I completed the dex (technicaly second, but Legends Arceus can be done without interacting with other people, so I don't really consider it).
    Firstly, version exclusives. Two ways to obtain them. Terra raid with people from another version. Also, there exist special trading rooms for version exclusive pokemon. Codes for them are the same as the dex number of first pokemon in evolutionary line. For example there is 0370-0305 for Deino's and Dreepes's evolutionary line.
    Second category is trade evolutions + Palafin. The same situation as version exclusives. Terra raid can help you with then.
    Also surprise trade can be helpful to. I've got some rare pokemon thanks to them.
    So in the end I repeat, that it's not so hard to finish dex without friends

  • @JDLong006
    @JDLong006 Год назад +15

    This makes me want to do a wonderlocke

  • @ShadowStorm_The_TrailBlazer
    @ShadowStorm_The_TrailBlazer Год назад +4

    I see this title and I think oh that's cool then I think again and I'm like hail no I can't do this. Props to you Mikey

  • @turtleduck2085
    @turtleduck2085 Год назад +1

    I like catching good Pokemon and surprise trading them away on the off chance that they go to someone who needs them for their dex, or just wants one. Fully embracing the "surprise" part of the trade. XD

  • @averyhughes2478
    @averyhughes2478 Месяц назад

    Getting legit shinies in random trades makes me so happy, so I’m glad you got the novel experience of Peter’s kindness. I’ve received (and released) a zillion illegitimate ones, but the two legit ones have my heart 💕

  • @seekingpeace5017
    @seekingpeace5017 Год назад +21

    If Mikey got a penny for every shiny tarontulas he got... he'd only have 2 pennies but it's kind of weird that it happened twice

  • @LeoTheTurtle
    @LeoTheTurtle Год назад +6

    2 uploads 1 weekend!
    keep it up mikey 🥳

  • @Zeppathy
    @Zeppathy Год назад +2

    I give away my whole team and any interesting extras I've found before i reset my file for a new playthrough. My first shiny was a Garados I named Blue. He's out there floating around in surprise trade now. 😂

  • @moonlapsenightwind6859
    @moonlapsenightwind6859 Год назад +1

    I'm going to try this in my copy of Scarlet that I haven't started yet. Will update this with the results.

  • @KnoblinReboot
    @KnoblinReboot Год назад +10

    I did a ton of surprise trades recently trying to get the starters, it was easier to get almost all the scarlet version exclusives than to use the link codes.

  • @pablotwigman21
    @pablotwigman21 Год назад +3

    Keep up the good work Mikey

  • @tegang6452
    @tegang6452 Год назад +2

    Dimension 20 while surprise trading has literally been my entire vibe these past few weeks

  • @spencernemergut3473
    @spencernemergut3473 Год назад

    Great video concept, I love demension 20, I've been watching them for years! I just finished re-watching mice and murder.

  • @CinnaBox
    @CinnaBox Год назад +3

    9:52 did Mikey just do a trade with Shiny Catherine?

  • @oscarferrer1395
    @oscarferrer1395 Год назад +10

    This guy's not only a poketuber but a pokescientist, a realistic one

  • @a1chemi
    @a1chemi Год назад +1

    Suprise trading is a lot of fun. However, I spent days in Shield trying to surprise trade my way to the starters, performed hundreds of trades, and never got a Grookey. This was before I knew about the standard trade codes. On the plus side, I have many boxes full of a variety of pokemon of different languages. I also chucked the hacked shinies and legendaries.

  • @cottoncandiez8872
    @cottoncandiez8872 Год назад +1

    I also love dimension 20! I haven't watched the new season because it's not for me but I adored the Harry Potter riff and the one in space

  • @Unovakid24
    @Unovakid24 Год назад +3

    Whoever surprise traded that shiny Haunter without an everstone is an absolute Chad of a person

  • @kaylemackenzie9147
    @kaylemackenzie9147 Год назад +4

    Getting a shiny haunter that evolves into gengar is ultimate luck. I'd actually cry.

  • @wombat4191
    @wombat4191 Год назад +1

    17:12 no Mikey, you ain't got 3 more Chanseys, you've got 3 more Lechonks.

  • @tikimillie
    @tikimillie Год назад +2

    6:37 i got like, 2 full odds shinies the first day of playing. A skiddo and uhh… mareep i think?

  • @emyra1345
    @emyra1345 Год назад +9

    I'm glad people are trading more diverse and dificult to get pokemon. I usually catch a bunch of area zero mons to both train my mons and surprise trade the duplicate version exclusives. Hopefully it makes someone's day

    • @PhoenyxRysing
      @PhoenyxRysing Год назад

      I actually did a wonder trade bingo with a friend today, and to both our surprise neither of us ended up with a Paradox Mon, since they seem to be fairly common based on similar vids I've seen here. I did end up picking up a Website Shiny, though... And my friend and I ended up matching for a trade, which was hilarious given the odds of that happening.

    • @Windxchild
      @Windxchild Год назад

      I once caught a box full of Iron Hands, picked out the best one to train, and sent out the rest to people. I hope it helped someone complete their dex. The only paradox I ever got, that I couldn't catch myself was Sandy Shocks. The rest, I all had to ask for, to complete my dex...

  • @peterjones6810
    @peterjones6810 Год назад +4

    I am so happy you like Dimension 20

  • @incognitomode178
    @incognitomode178 Год назад +1

    nothin like a good mandjtv video to chill and watch

  • @brofessorbon
    @brofessorbon 10 месяцев назад

    I have roughly done about 2k+ surprise trades and a majority have been lechonk (usually named UrMoM), Eevee, sprigatito, fuecoco, diglet, yungoose, charmander(primarily German) and Froakie I was able to fill up all 32 boxes several times over with just those I sent them to home to be able to mass release most and oddly enough only 3 boxes of hacked mons in which items were taken off and deleted.

  • @Paccyd33
    @Paccyd33 Год назад +3

    Surprised you didn’t get tarontula earlier, I get tons of route 1 Pokémon when I surprise trade

  • @Xaychedelic
    @Xaychedelic Год назад +3

    Mikey saying he got into Dimension 20 made me ridiculously happy, not gonna lie 😂

  • @JyonaSenpai
    @JyonaSenpai Год назад

    I was thinking about this the other day. I might give it a go when Pokemon Home can connect to Scarlet/Violet in case I get something good

  • @2nd_Place7
    @2nd_Place7 Год назад +1

    6:48 my first full odds shiny was shiny skiddo which I evolved into gogoat. This happened exactly a week ago.

  • @notachannel12345
    @notachannel12345 Год назад +6

    Good idea, love your content mikey!

  • @Heartzzz.andlove
    @Heartzzz.andlove Год назад +7

    Peter might’ve traded you the haunter purposefully trying to get it to evolve. He thought might’ve thought you would trade it back.

    • @gengarzilla1685
      @gengarzilla1685 Год назад

      He should have been using link trades for that. Must be a mistake.

  • @philippebourque5862
    @philippebourque5862 Год назад

    I have been waiting for a youtuber to do this and it's my favorite yay

  • @themaskedaristocrat
    @themaskedaristocrat Год назад +1

    When I was masuda methoding deerling (my friend asked me to out of the options I had) I decided to trade a full box of them. The only interesting thing to happen was when I traded a deerling for a deerling and found I had somehow traded for my own deerling as the ot was me. Freaked me out because I don't know the chances of it happening or if it had ever happened to me before. Also take a shot everytime you read deerling.

  • @trombonesectionbestsection9935
    @trombonesectionbestsection9935 Год назад +10

    There was a duplication glitch for shiny flutter mane so that is actually the most likely to be legit