That intro is CLEAN! It's insane what all is possible before getting a badge in this game - definitely one of the wildest but also most accessible Oak challenges out there.
If you do a skip during the beginning the entire map opens up to you before the tutorial so it's possible to fill more than half the Pokedex before even going to the academy ( if you're fine with walking everywhere since the Koraidon/ Miraidon bike is not available)
@@TheTitaniumSamurottthere is another exploit where if you have 2 minus joycons off of the switch you can move using both of them to go twice as fast while walking
So, the weird thing to me is, as you were heading to Alfornada, you referred to the path as the "secret" path and I was like "...did everyone not go that way?"
He was like "...that secret path that everyone ignored" and meanwhile I'm over here being the one who went right through there as soon as I saw it with my level 20-25 squad ready to fuck shit up
Quick note: you actually unlock Pokémon Centers as fast-travel spots just by visiting them, you don't actually have to heal there first. This is the same with all fast-travel spots. You just have to walk up to them and you can fast-travel there whenever you want. The only reason I think he made this mistake is because you can't visually see that you can fast-travel there until you open the map and update the icon, and healing also updates your map.
The exception to this rule is the 4 Shrines (yes they are fly spots, I learnt this by accident). You need to start that sidequest to unlock those warps.
I was curious how the professor Oak challenge was going to be for this game! It's insane that you can catch almost every pokemon even BEFORE finishing the tutorial by using a glitch.
It is possible to catch 350 Pokemon before going to the lighthouse at the beginning of the game with no mods or hacks. This means no mount, or trading.
That strange little "floating sprite" bug is baffling. I've had it happen to me *multiple* times. First time was a dreepy outbreak... I think it's map assets glitching out since it seems to move with the map
You might have got some useful rewards from the pokedex rewards thing too - i think som include better pokeballs and evolution stones. I completly missed this feature until i almost had them all
It also notably gives a decent amount of xp candy. Not even close to the amount he needed, but enough to ease the pain on a pokemon like hydreigon at least. Also not sure if he did it or not but sharing progress with Jacq gives you a false swipe TM, 20 ultra balls, and 20 quick balls at 30, 100, and 200 entries respectively.
So I ended up starting a run like this and once I did the thing where you ZR into combat to jump the gap by Los Platos I decided to see how far I could take things without even doing the Nemona fight before entering Mesagoza. So far I've learned a few things: - obviously this means no Miraidon/Koraidon ever - raids and outbreaks don't exist - the team star roadblocks aren't placed yet so it is possible to walk between Levincia and Artazon - you can enter Mesagoza from the side gates but can't exit them on foot without progressing the story - you can't reach the pokemon league by any means as far as I can tell - you can't picnic which means no breeding - there doesn't seem to be any way to get False Swipe TMs other than from Mr Jacq, which means Breloom w/ Spore and False Swipe isn't an option - and maybe most surprisingly it seems like the game is permanently stuck in midday, meaning no time based spawns or evolutions (although I did see the cluster of ghastly spawn by the ruins in South Area 1 so maybe night still technically happens in some way without any visible change??)
You can climb up (by foot) the mountain west of the league to access that Pokemon Center. Many seemingly impossible spots are reachable without a mount, either by dropping from a higher place or walking up slopes, or using battle teleport (which is how you get the Highest Peak fly point).
hey! this is the exact info i’ve been looking all over for! i started a play through on scarlet and did the gap jump just to see if i could and started exploring and catching. i wasn’t sure how far you could go without the ride/picnics and have spent the last day reading through posts looking for this EXACT INFO SO THANK YOU! the no time change thing is very bizarre! hope you have a beautiful day!
Stellar video! I love the number of small details behind the scenes of these games that we only get to discover because of these challenges. Very well done!
love your vids man! have been waiting for soooo long for this when i saw you were grinding it on stream. Thank you for the entertainment you have been putting up for the pokemon comunity!
TIL professor oak’s challenge is a thing… catching all pokemon that are available before beating any given gym is just how I’ve always approached playing Pokémon games haha (though I guess the challenge might include getting Pokédex entries for all evolutions of available Pokémon too, in which case I guess I haven’t entirely been playing this way)
10:43 Applin actually has a guaranteed spawn on the western coast near a small tree. You could have just gone there to find one. He's on the ground near a tree in a little indent in the ground.
You know, this video inadvertently serves as a nice guide for how to get each Pokemon as early or as quickly as possible. Obviously some of these are things you'd be better off just... you know... earning the badges and movement options for, but if you don't want to do that, this is a good video!
Not that it matters for this challenge, but Orthworm and Klawf are actually not locked behind their Titan battles, but they are locked behind the number of badges you have. I know this because I was doing a nuzlocke and beat the first 3 gyms without beating Klawf, went back to beat Klawf, and was seeing tons of wild Klawf
Idk if you mention it as I’m only 13 min in, but you get rewards from your Pokédex every 10 Pokémon registered. It’s a great source of eco stones and late game balls, like dusk and timer
I haven't watched this yet but I'm damn excited to do so. Your videos are always incredibly entertaining. Your video of hunting every shiny in Let's Go inspired me to not only complete the Pokedex in Violet but also attempt to breed my first shiny once I got the charm. And I did, I got an Eevee in EIGHT EGGS, I couldn't believe it! So now I have a shiny Umbreon for the first time ever. Keep up the great work, John!
Gold and Silver: noo you can’t get those stones until post game, we only want you to use ampharos, Crobat and the red gyarados, everything else kinda sucks! Scarlet and violet: T A K E. W H A T. Y O U. W A N T.
Well, this is amazing. I don't think I'd have the patience for any of the newer games because there is just so much to catch before doing virtually anything else, so I have never been more glad for a video like this. Also, I haven't even yet managed to get all obtainable pokemon in my regular playthrough of Scarlet, so there's that too.
Cool challenge, I did something similar but before ever reaching Mezagoza. There are I think 11 pokemon that you can only get specifically after going to mezagoza and getting koraidon- Drifloon, Drifblim, Goodra, Umbreon, Murkrow, Honchkrow, Shuppet, Banette, Finneon, Lumineon and Bruxish. Most are locked behind the fact that weather and day/night cycle dont move before doing the school stuff
How on earth did you get to edit this entire MASSIVE montage of endless hours of grinding? Do you use stuff like timestamps while you stream to make finding clips easier? I'm very inspired by your channel
I don’t really know the answer, but I would assume he actually goes through the entirety of his streams and just takes specific clips from there, since some of the clips he uses aren’t even while on stream, like his let’s go all shinies video
"Now just like any other game Pokemon have obedience levels based on how many badges you have." Yeah this was a huge problem for me when I was doing the Titan badges quest. As SOON as I learned WHY Arven needed those Herba Mysti....ca...huh....Herba Mystica....H...M-OH MY GOD. Anyways as soon as I found out why he needed those, I was like "SCREW EVERYTHING ELSE, PROTECC THE DOG. HEAL. THE DOG. HELP. THE BOY." But it became hard to do when your Pokemon just dgaf about you lol. So I alternated between Gym Challenge and Titan Quest. I did Team Star last.
For me I started with exclusively titans, so I could easily just move with absolute ease everywhere, then I did gym challenge afterwards for xp and letting some of my Pokémon finally start obeying me (like, half of my Pokémon wouldn’t obey me, 2 of them being super overleveled at the time) and then just did the team star battles last cause they don’t give anything outside of xp
This video is wild dude. I really didn't think you would do this, but apparently I was wrong! Also, this game is so buggy, but great. Was that Arrokuda sprite really there, or was it edited?
On Deino/Zweilous/Hydreigon and other three-stage evolutions, Pokémon who are past the level where they could evolve gain bonus experience. The quickest way to get to Hydreigon at level 64 is to prevent your Deino from evolving into Zweilous until it hits level 63.
I'm curious, will catching version exclusives via tera raids not count as being one copy? Since you can technically catch them with just one copy of the game. Still this was a blast to watch and one of the most fun Prof. Oak challenges to tackle
Would enjoy seeing a video of you getting a shiny living dex for paldea. If you started after you got access to high level raids and used shining sandwiches, i don't think it would be the hardest challenge out there! It, in theory, is quite possible! (I just got 3 shinies in 15 minutes so i have been thinking of doing the same thing...)
@@mohbius2 The first was also boosted by 60 kos in an outbreak and then i just jumped around the map with the rest of my sandwich where i knew lots of flying types spawned. Got a rufflet, rookidee, and noibat. On the other end, I have spent countless sandwiches on goomy and drifloom and have had no luck. One day...
@@Whiteythereaper Maybe I should try breeding more this gen. I am impatient with breeding so when i didnt get any from making my raid mons I just never went back lol. First and only shiny via breeding was back in gen 7. My italian Ditto will give it another shot lol
Before even watching, I just thought the other day while I was playing Scarlet, "Man. Johnstone is probably going to have a ball with the Professor Oak challenge in this game." Not word for word, but it was something like that.
Currently doing something similar with my copy of Violet, except I escaped from the first area before going to Mesagoza, so I don’t have raids, sandwiches, a Tera orb or a ride Pokémon. It has been… Slow going, but deeply rewarding to find out how free we really are in this game.
In my second playthrough in Violet, i made a challenge for myself and i have to finish it before entering the school segment (by using the tele glitch at the west of Los Platos). First, i needed to have a full team of six pokemons, but only one pokemon per Area (Kinda like in nuzlocke), and they all have to be the kind of pokemons that i like. Second, i needed all of them to be usable right away, meaning that all of those six pkmn has to be lv 20 or below. Third, that six pkmn will have to be in the team for the rest of the game, permanently. And fourth, no using starter pkmn after the school segment, so i had to catch 6 pkmn, not just 5. Remember, i had to catch 'em all before entering the school segment (when Nemona is still staying in Los Platos), so i had to run around the map without my Miraidon like an idiot, while planning my steps on how to get the pkmn that i want and picking up free balls along the way. I know the challenge wasn't that unique or anything, but it was pretty fun.
@@AutisticGastrodon I keep hearing people complain about it crashing and my game has never crashed a single time, nor have I seen a single glitch, and I play it for hours at a time 💀
If you look at your footage when you were using ghastly to farm Chansey, you were getting 2499xp. Xp gain isn't dependent on badges but the level of the pokemon you're using. So when you were level 20 you got max xp, but when you're level 65 you get 700xp
Yeah, Scarlet and Violet really made the Pokedex easy to complete early due to how open world it is. Past games didn't let you get more than 50 Pokemon before each gym, but this... HOOO BOY!! O_O
I went to throw a Quick Ball when catching Chien Pao. Instead I threw a Premier Ball. It crit-caught Chien Pao. I promptly dropped my controller and screamed into my hands. I mean, it’s great. The pokeball matches my #1 favorite pokemon. But I seriously didn’t expect that accidental throw to work.
In my second version play though I started by seeing if I really could make it to Alfornada before any gyms or movement tech (like it seemed like should be possible from exploration in my first playthrough), and then once that worked, I decided to see just how many poke centers & fast travel points I could unlock before my first badge. Turned out I could get everywhere that wasn’t an island. I even got the fast travel point for the peak of the mountain using some back jumps.
something he didn't bring up that I learned doing this challenge before even getting Koraidon (skipping over the ledge before Mesagoza) is Auto-Battling becomes the best way to level grind via exp share. Anyone doing this challenge, use obedient ground types like Clodsire to AB (Auto-Battle) Toxtricity until level 35, then start to AB the Luxray that spawn in the bamboo forest. An even faster way would be to level a Smoliv to an Arboliva and at level 32 they can AB any Golduck, which given the great numbers they spawn in at the northern Dratini lake, becomes more consistent. Also don't use Scyther, he honestly would've saved time by just leveling another Shroomish to 40, they can be found at an obedient level around the southern marsh. You can't access False Swipe on it pre-Mesagoza, but when you pick up all the treasures on the map, you get rich fast. Grind them up to level 55 and it'll be able to carry you easily. Also get used to throwing Pokémon to cross gaps or water, makes traversing a lot easier. You can get 347 total Pokémon pre-Mesagoza since all weather and night-time only Pokémon are inaccessible bc the game is locked in a Morning only state until you begin the Treasure Hunt. Also I recommend doing it pre-Mesagoza bc how weird the whole game feels when it doesn't expect you to be in it, you really feel like you're breaking the rules.
That arrokuda thing. It happened to me, only it was one of my waypoint markers- right after teleporting somewhere else! The entire map was greyed out or something, and i could move my cam to see the waypoint marker itself on the legit screen! Even got a screenshot of it. Quite the catch!! Also- loved this challenge :O
I actually did something similar to this on release date and had so much fun exploring I ended up not going to the school and yet completing most the Pokédex that I could get other than the legendaries and the deep sea fish 😂😅
Heads-up: Pokémon who are past the level where they could evolve gain bonus experience. If you keep your Deino from evolving into Zweilous until level 63, it will go a lot more quickly.
This seems awesome to do. Curious if you could list out the 45 pokemon that you weren't able to catch before the first badge? I know there's 23 version exclusives, 7 paradox pokemon, 4 Ruinous Legendaries, Koraidon, Orthworm. I counted 36, but I'm definitely sure I missed something.
Why not just use Vivillon for sleep? It has Compound Eyes so you'll hit Sleep Powder much more often than not, and it can put Pokemon to sleep sooner than Shroomish Edit: Nevermind, Breloom can easily take out Chansey and gets False Swipe
Was gonna wind down for the evening with some chill shiny hunting, but my cat decided that actually, it was snuggle time, so I am once again back to watch John's suffering
Hahahahahahha I thought I was the only crazy one to do this. I still havent gotten any badge 😂 Im currently looking for the gimmyghoul coins. That will take me time xD
There's a bug in this game where, if you have a Pokemon registered, all successful captures register with the critical catch animation. That or the devs hate our guts. X(
Oh what a coinsidence, i just thought "huh, i wonder how you would do a.proffesor oak challenge for this game" earlier today and you apperently just posted it.
Thanks for checking out the video! Tell me what your favorite Pokemon game is :)
Pokemon black and white! It was my first ever pokemom game that started a life long passion. Now to play its Scarlet but i hold b/w dear to my heart
Diamond and Pearl was really what got me into Pokémon but honestly scarlet and violet is my favorite
Emerald, it’s so good. The story is great, the encounter quality is amazing, all of my favorite Pokémon are from gen 3
Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire is pretty Awesome.
black and white and heart gold sou silver
That intro is CLEAN! It's insane what all is possible before getting a badge in this game - definitely one of the wildest but also most accessible Oak challenges out there.
POG! SOMEONE I WATCH FOLLOWS JOHN
If you do a skip during the beginning the entire map opens up to you before the tutorial so it's possible to fill more than half the Pokedex before even going to the academy ( if you're fine with walking everywhere since the Koraidon/ Miraidon bike is not available)
I came right from one of your vids, love your content!
you two are like my favorite youtubers for quality content
@@TheTitaniumSamurottthere is another exploit where if you have 2 minus joycons off of the switch you can move using both of them to go twice as fast while walking
It’s crazy how many things were scaled to the number of badges you have except the actual levels of enemy teams lol
So, the weird thing to me is, as you were heading to Alfornada, you referred to the path as the "secret" path and I was like "...did everyone not go that way?"
Same I thought that was the intended path
I didn't even know it existed.
I didn't even see it 💀
@@cheerkub8110 how did u get there then
He was like "...that secret path that everyone ignored" and meanwhile I'm over here being the one who went right through there as soon as I saw it with my level 20-25 squad ready to fuck shit up
Quick note: you actually unlock Pokémon Centers as fast-travel spots just by visiting them, you don't actually have to heal there first.
This is the same with all fast-travel spots. You just have to walk up to them and you can fast-travel there whenever you want.
The only reason I think he made this mistake is because you can't visually see that you can fast-travel there until you open the map and update the icon, and healing also updates your map.
The exception to this rule is the 4 Shrines (yes they are fly spots, I learnt this by accident). You need to start that sidequest to unlock those warps.
@@FrostGlader Those actually work? I never got them to work when I did it.
@@phineas81707 yea just do the entire History class
I was curious how the professor Oak challenge was going to be for this game! It's insane that you can catch almost every pokemon even BEFORE finishing the tutorial by using a glitch.
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@@TheTitaniumSamurott niceee
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It is possible to catch 350 Pokemon before going to the lighthouse at the beginning of the game with no mods or hacks. This means no mount, or trading.
i'd rather eat my own eyeballs than play this game without koraidon movement upgrades
Das to much
reasonable
But what about Miraidon movement upgrades?
@@Green24152I'll eat my nose
but your down for playing at 15 frames? nintendo is a joke of a company
How has John managed to make the original professor oak challenge look like a casual run
Professor Oak is going to go into retirement at this rate just because of the monstrous amount of Pokémon you can catch before getting a single badge
Just like how Professor Oak should be retiring almost 20 years ago.
In my day we got 10% of the Pokedex PB1 and that's how we liked it!
(My day being 2017 with USUM.)
@@RGC_animationwhy do you think he chased Ash off?
John no longer yelling in his video titles is character development at its finest.
I WAS JUST REALLY EXCITED TO UPLOAD
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Character development
"THATS IT?! IT'S JUST... LARGER?!"
nature is healing
'LET'S GO! DEDENNE! WOOO! That's a Pokémon I needed.' - Famous last words
Ditto: Sike brother! You thought!
That strange little "floating sprite" bug is baffling. I've had it happen to me *multiple* times. First time was a dreepy outbreak... I think it's map assets glitching out since it seems to move with the map
It seems to happen MORE often after the 1.2 patch. Incredible.
It’s a shame the gyms don’t scale with the order you challenge them in. Even the anime did that.
Yeah, I was pretty confused when I saw the level of Katy’s Pokemon seeing as a beat Brassius before her. I wondered why they were of a lower level
I know right. I hope they fix that in the next game
They could just patch this game and make them scale but they havent even bothered to patch how horrible the optimization is so ofc they wont.
@@dojo45789that actually have patched the optimization it’s just not much
Even GSC did that.
You might have got some useful rewards from the pokedex rewards thing too - i think som include better pokeballs and evolution stones. I completly missed this feature until i almost had them all
yep lol the whole time i was waiting for him to claim the rewards because they’re so useful.
Wot where do u claim them
It also notably gives a decent amount of xp candy. Not even close to the amount he needed, but enough to ease the pain on a pokemon like hydreigon at least. Also not sure if he did it or not but sharing progress with Jacq gives you a false swipe TM, 20 ultra balls, and 20 quick balls at 30, 100, and 200 entries respectively.
He used a heavy ball in the video, so he definitely claimed the rewards.
the pokemon battlepass
So I ended up starting a run like this and once I did the thing where you ZR into combat to jump the gap by Los Platos I decided to see how far I could take things without even doing the Nemona fight before entering Mesagoza. So far I've learned a few things:
- obviously this means no Miraidon/Koraidon ever
- raids and outbreaks don't exist
- the team star roadblocks aren't placed yet so it is possible to walk between Levincia and Artazon
- you can enter Mesagoza from the side gates but can't exit them on foot without progressing the story
- you can't reach the pokemon league by any means as far as I can tell
- you can't picnic which means no breeding
- there doesn't seem to be any way to get False Swipe TMs other than from Mr Jacq, which means Breloom w/ Spore and False Swipe isn't an option
- and maybe most surprisingly it seems like the game is permanently stuck in midday, meaning no time based spawns or evolutions (although I did see the cluster of ghastly spawn by the ruins in South Area 1 so maybe night still technically happens in some way without any visible change??)
It could be like Area Zero, where the day/night cycle is active but not on display.
You can climb up (by foot) the mountain west of the league to access that Pokemon Center. Many seemingly impossible spots are reachable without a mount, either by dropping from a higher place or walking up slopes, or using battle teleport (which is how you get the Highest Peak fly point).
hey! this is the exact info i’ve been looking all over for! i started a play through on scarlet and did the gap jump just to see if i could and started exploring and catching. i wasn’t sure how far you could go without the ride/picnics and have spent the last day reading through posts looking for this EXACT INFO SO THANK YOU! the no time change thing is very bizarre! hope you have a beautiful day!
I knew this Professor Oak challenge would be nuts, but so didn’t know it’d be THIS nuts!
Stellar video! I love the number of small details behind the scenes of these games that we only get to discover because of these challenges. Very well done!
love your vids man! have been waiting for soooo long for this when i saw you were grinding it on stream. Thank you for the entertainment you have been putting up for the pokemon comunity!
TIL professor oak’s challenge is a thing… catching all pokemon that are available before beating any given gym is just how I’ve always approached playing Pokémon games haha (though I guess the challenge might include getting Pokédex entries for all evolutions of available Pokémon too, in which case I guess I haven’t entirely been playing this way)
10:43 Applin actually has a guaranteed spawn on the western coast near a small tree. You could have just gone there to find one. He's on the ground near a tree in a little indent in the ground.
You know, this video inadvertently serves as a nice guide for how to get each Pokemon as early or as quickly as possible. Obviously some of these are things you'd be better off just... you know... earning the badges and movement options for, but if you don't want to do that, this is a good video!
Not that it matters for this challenge, but Orthworm and Klawf are actually not locked behind their Titan battles, but they are locked behind the number of badges you have. I know this because I was doing a nuzlocke and beat the first 3 gyms without beating Klawf, went back to beat Klawf, and was seeing tons of wild Klawf
It might be either/or.
I swear I remember running into several klawf on my way to fight titan klawf
Idk if you mention it as I’m only 13 min in, but you get rewards from your Pokédex every 10 Pokémon registered. It’s a great source of eco stones and late game balls, like dusk and timer
This is a cool video, I had so much fun gong into new areas catching all the Pokémon & ended up with 300+ before I finished the three story lines
I haven't watched this yet but I'm damn excited to do so. Your videos are always incredibly entertaining.
Your video of hunting every shiny in Let's Go inspired me to not only complete the Pokedex in Violet but also attempt to breed my first shiny once I got the charm. And I did, I got an Eevee in EIGHT EGGS, I couldn't believe it! So now I have a shiny Umbreon for the first time ever. Keep up the great work, John!
I was very tempted to do this challenge when I got violet but then I realized I didn’t have the patience
15:55 Keeping it Family Friendly😂
I love hearing him talk about applin while knowing about a guarenteed spawn
I think it would be interesting to see how many Pokémon you can catch during the tutorial (before getting Koraidon).
24:26 bro did not just say Armarogue and Pinchurchin 💀
Gold and Silver: noo you can’t get those stones until post game, we only want you to use ampharos, Crobat and the red gyarados, everything else kinda sucks!
Scarlet and violet: T A K E. W H A T.
Y O U. W A N T.
Hop off donphan
You not being able to dash and feeling slow reminds me of how I completed like 95% of BotW without a horse lmao
Like I said on his shiny proffesor oak challenge, THIS MAN HAS DEDICATION!
Hi I've been watching you for years! and you always make me happy and never seem to fail thank you for all the years of fun!
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Well, this is amazing. I don't think I'd have the patience for any of the newer games because there is just so much to catch before doing virtually anything else, so I have never been more glad for a video like this.
Also, I haven't even yet managed to get all obtainable pokemon in my regular playthrough of Scarlet, so there's that too.
The Shiny Lurantis part was really funny, it gets me every time lmao!!
Cool challenge, I did something similar but before ever reaching Mezagoza. There are I think 11 pokemon that you can only get specifically after going to mezagoza and getting koraidon- Drifloon, Drifblim, Goodra, Umbreon, Murkrow, Honchkrow, Shuppet, Banette, Finneon, Lumineon and Bruxish. Most are locked behind the fact that weather and day/night cycle dont move before doing the school stuff
Ive been binging all your videos as i do my college work, deffinetly makes work more enjoyable
Fantastic video John. I missed most of these streams so I'm glad to finally get to see what I missed.
watching the gholdengo coin collection was wild. this video is another banger as always john ❤
How on earth did you get to edit this entire MASSIVE montage of endless hours of grinding? Do you use stuff like timestamps while you stream to make finding clips easier? I'm very inspired by your channel
I don’t really know the answer, but I would assume he actually goes through the entirety of his streams and just takes specific clips from there, since some of the clips he uses aren’t even while on stream, like his let’s go all shinies video
Love the content man please keep making it!
"Now just like any other game Pokemon have obedience levels based on how many badges you have."
Yeah this was a huge problem for me when I was doing the Titan badges quest. As SOON as I learned WHY Arven needed those Herba Mysti....ca...huh....Herba Mystica....H...M-OH MY GOD. Anyways as soon as I found out why he needed those, I was like "SCREW EVERYTHING ELSE, PROTECC THE DOG. HEAL. THE DOG. HELP. THE BOY." But it became hard to do when your Pokemon just dgaf about you lol. So I alternated between Gym Challenge and Titan Quest. I did Team Star last.
For me I started with exclusively titans, so I could easily just move with absolute ease everywhere, then I did gym challenge afterwards for xp and letting some of my Pokémon finally start obeying me (like, half of my Pokémon wouldn’t obey me, 2 of them being super overleveled at the time) and then just did the team star battles last cause they don’t give anything outside of xp
I have been bingewatching content on Johnstone Live, so hearing the 'sane' Johnstone is jarring
This video is wild dude. I really didn't think you would do this, but apparently I was wrong!
Also, this game is so buggy, but great. Was that Arrokuda sprite really there, or was it edited?
It was there, I was on stream when it happened
24:35 the Gengar that tried to dream eater the woman for snack LOL!!!!!😂😂😂😂
On Deino/Zweilous/Hydreigon and other three-stage evolutions, Pokémon who are past the level where they could evolve gain bonus experience. The quickest way to get to Hydreigon at level 64 is to prevent your Deino from evolving into Zweilous until it hits level 63.
Rival:Would you like me to show you how to catch a Pokémon?
Johnstone: Nah, I’ve caught a few already
I'm curious, will catching version exclusives via tera raids not count as being one copy? Since you can technically catch them with just one copy of the game.
Still this was a blast to watch and one of the most fun Prof. Oak challenges to tackle
You can also do union circle and have the other version player run ahead
Good job you didn't spend time grinding Breloom after evolving it - only Shroomish learns Spore!
Would enjoy seeing a video of you getting a shiny living dex for paldea. If you started after you got access to high level raids and used shining sandwiches, i don't think it would be the hardest challenge out there! It, in theory, is quite possible! (I just got 3 shinies in 15 minutes so i have been thinking of doing the same thing...)
i took 5 hours for a lokix, easily 800 eggs for meowscarada, and you’re getting 3 shinies in… 15 minutes?
@Morgan O’Sullivan it's all about hunting location got a lowkix when I was bisharp hunt. Nimble took a couple of hours even with outbreak
@Morgan O’Sullivan sandwiches are disgustingly broken lmao, masuda method is in shambles (laughs in 14 eggs for my Fuecoco though)
@@mohbius2 The first was also boosted by 60 kos in an outbreak and then i just jumped around the map with the rest of my sandwich where i knew lots of flying types spawned. Got a rufflet, rookidee, and noibat. On the other end, I have spent countless sandwiches on goomy and drifloom and have had no luck. One day...
@@Whiteythereaper Maybe I should try breeding more this gen. I am impatient with breeding so when i didnt get any from making my raid mons I just never went back lol. First and only shiny via breeding was back in gen 7. My italian Ditto will give it another shot lol
Before even watching, I just thought the other day while I was playing Scarlet, "Man. Johnstone is probably going to have a ball with the Professor Oak challenge in this game."
Not word for word, but it was something like that.
Currently doing something similar with my copy of Violet, except I escaped from the first area before going to Mesagoza, so I don’t have raids, sandwiches, a Tera orb or a ride Pokémon. It has been… Slow going, but deeply rewarding to find out how free we really are in this game.
Good to see you back after almost month
In my second playthrough in Violet, i made a challenge for myself and i have to finish it before entering the school segment (by using the tele glitch at the west of Los Platos). First, i needed to have a full team of six pokemons, but only one pokemon per Area (Kinda like in nuzlocke), and they all have to be the kind of pokemons that i like. Second, i needed all of them to be usable right away, meaning that all of those six pkmn has to be lv 20 or below. Third, that six pkmn will have to be in the team for the rest of the game, permanently. And fourth, no using starter pkmn after the school segment, so i had to catch 6 pkmn, not just 5.
Remember, i had to catch 'em all before entering the school segment (when Nemona is still staying in Los Platos), so i had to run around the map without my Miraidon like an idiot, while planning my steps on how to get the pkmn that i want and picking up free balls along the way. I know the challenge wasn't that unique or anything, but it was pretty fun.
22:47 You thought it was dedenne but it was me ditto.
This game is definitely one of the most fun games
Agreed. But now imagine how much more fun it would have been if game freak is actually competent at developing games
It would be fun if the darn games performance wasnt horrible....its a shame because i love this game
Imagine how good this game would be with good performance and a bit better graphics
At this point I'm convinced yall have bad switches. Or maybe I'm just used to low frame rates idk
@@AutisticGastrodon I keep hearing people complain about it crashing and my game has never crashed a single time, nor have I seen a single glitch, and I play it for hours at a time 💀
If you look at your footage when you were using ghastly to farm Chansey, you were getting 2499xp. Xp gain isn't dependent on badges but the level of the pokemon you're using. So when you were level 20 you got max xp, but when you're level 65 you get 700xp
Yeah, Scarlet and Violet really made the Pokedex easy to complete early due to how open world it is. Past games didn't let you get more than 50 Pokemon before each gym, but this... HOOO BOY!! O_O
Sick run!
Great job really!
I actually didn't know that the haunter trade isn't as scummy as the one in previous game 😅
So I'm gonna get my gengar:D
Note: you don't actually need to heal ur pokemon at a pokemon center, you can just stand in it and it will register if you open up your map
I went to throw a Quick Ball when catching Chien Pao. Instead I threw a Premier Ball. It crit-caught Chien Pao.
I promptly dropped my controller and screamed into my hands. I mean, it’s great. The pokeball matches my #1 favorite pokemon. But I seriously didn’t expect that accidental throw to work.
His sheer happiness with the arrokuda floating around made me so happy
Edit: AND it’s upside down!
I like your pfp
Johnstone 3 years later: “i caught 355 shiny pokemon before the first badge!”
In my second version play though I started by seeing if I really could make it to Alfornada before any gyms or movement tech (like it seemed like should be possible from exploration in my first playthrough), and then once that worked, I decided to see just how many poke centers & fast travel points I could unlock before my first badge. Turned out I could get everywhere that wasn’t an island. I even got the fast travel point for the peak of the mountain using some back jumps.
this video is so good!! also I got the same arrokuda glitch as you only with avalugg
You missed Perrserker and Quagsire 😬. They’re not in the Pokédex but Professor Oak would be pleased still 😆
You can't get galar meowth with out taking classes new classes unlock from gym badges. You can do the johto wooper trade though
@@GhostrareStardust yeah the Galar Meowth can still be done later in the run before the end game
@@GhostrareStardust You can also get a Haunter that immediately evolves into Gengar by trading a Pincurchin for it.
Bro I LOVE mudbray and it was my first shiny in this game too. Love the channel keep up the good work
something he didn't bring up that I learned doing this challenge before even getting Koraidon (skipping over the ledge before Mesagoza) is Auto-Battling becomes the best way to level grind via exp share. Anyone doing this challenge, use obedient ground types like Clodsire to AB (Auto-Battle) Toxtricity until level 35, then start to AB the Luxray that spawn in the bamboo forest. An even faster way would be to level a Smoliv to an Arboliva and at level 32 they can AB any Golduck, which given the great numbers they spawn in at the northern Dratini lake, becomes more consistent. Also don't use Scyther, he honestly would've saved time by just leveling another Shroomish to 40, they can be found at an obedient level around the southern marsh. You can't access False Swipe on it pre-Mesagoza, but when you pick up all the treasures on the map, you get rich fast. Grind them up to level 55 and it'll be able to carry you easily. Also get used to throwing Pokémon to cross gaps or water, makes traversing a lot easier.
You can get 347 total Pokémon pre-Mesagoza since all weather and night-time only Pokémon are inaccessible bc the game is locked in a Morning only state until you begin the Treasure Hunt. Also I recommend doing it pre-Mesagoza bc how weird the whole game feels when it doesn't expect you to be in it, you really feel like you're breaking the rules.
10:40 was that a shiny Tadbulb infront of the bridge?👀
POSITIVE COMMENT FROM SOMEONE WITH A CHECKMARK!
RATIO'D BY A SILLY GUY
oMg hI cHEckMaRk!!!
That arrokuda thing.
It happened to me, only it was one of my waypoint markers- right after teleporting somewhere else!
The entire map was greyed out or something, and i could move my cam to see the waypoint marker itself on the legit screen! Even got a screenshot of it.
Quite the catch!! Also- loved this challenge :O
I actually did something similar to this on release date and had so much fun exploring I ended up not going to the school and yet completing most the Pokédex that I could get other than the legendaries and the deep sea fish 😂😅
30:58You can get Great Tusk/Iron treads by going back to where you found them as titans. I don’t blame you, it’s an obscure fact.
As someone who has a shiny deino (a sheino if you will) my god you’re so right i hate grinding it BUT IM NOT FINISHING THIS GAME WITHOUT MY HYDREIGON
Farther in now, and I’ll say this is a pretty good bday present for me
Heads-up: Pokémon who are past the level where they could evolve gain bonus experience. If you keep your Deino from evolving into Zweilous until level 63, it will go a lot more quickly.
@@gizoginjr that’s such good advice i WISH i knew it before i evolved it yesterday :(
9:12, your laugh is contagious
This seems awesome to do. Curious if you could list out the 45 pokemon that you weren't able to catch before the first badge? I know there's 23 version exclusives, 7 paradox pokemon, 4 Ruinous Legendaries, Koraidon, Orthworm.
I counted 36, but I'm definitely sure I missed something.
You counting Fuecoco and Quaxly?
The last three seem to be the trade evos.
I hope this guys knows Applin has a garunteed spawn on the map just east of area zero. It is in an oval shaped area there.
This is going to be Awesome.
You were first
please do a shiny version and upload it in 2030, we can wait
Violet gang
👇
Havent seen the video yet, I already know its a really good video since its John
Why not just use Vivillon for sleep? It has Compound Eyes so you'll hit Sleep Powder much more often than not, and it can put Pokemon to sleep sooner than Shroomish
Edit: Nevermind, Breloom can easily take out Chansey and gets False Swipe
Was gonna wind down for the evening with some chill shiny hunting, but my cat decided that actually, it was snuggle time, so I am once again back to watch John's suffering
how in the world did this game come out in 2022, game cube games look better graphically
Yea that's a lie you can talk shit about the game all you want but you gotta use your brain better next time
10:40 shiny? Or just the lighting, making one of them look brighter
John! I went bonkers when I found that cracked pot! It was like my last Pokémon I caught before version exclusives to get my dex complete
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Is that the Disney Encanto house? 😂
15:56 Ohno 😂
I love that you apparently didn't consider just breeding Pokémon you catch above the obedience cap so that you can still USE it after obtaining it.
Hahahahahahha I thought I was the only crazy one to do this. I still havent gotten any badge 😂 Im currently looking for the gimmyghoul coins. That will take me time xD
13:00 The same thing happened to me but with a Honchkrow and it just looked like it zoomed past the land at first cause I was overlooking a cliff 💀
3:40 - doesn't obedience only apply to traded Pokémon? I thought as long as you are the original trainer it is fine?
There's a bug in this game where, if you have a Pokemon registered, all successful captures register with the critical catch animation. That or the devs hate our guts. X(
I was looking forward to seeing this when I saw your Tweets. Hoo boy this game makes for quite the Oak Challenge
13:11
Johnstone became a Squeegee
basically just rtgame’s playthrough of scarlet but even more tomfoolery
Johnstone here with yet another banger video.
Hell yeah, love to see it. I decided to complete the entire pokedex, even the other version exclusives. Gotta love that BLJ glitch
Oh what a coinsidence, i just thought "huh, i wonder how you would do a.proffesor oak challenge for this game" earlier today and you apperently just posted it.