A few suggestions for shaving off a few extra minutes per grind: 1) Catch Pokemon as close to their evolution level as possible. The Poco Path encounters can be caught guaranteed, yeah, but the examples you can find later on in the game are higher level and don't need as much EXP. On the flipside, a high levelled Pokemon who's well past evolution level will take more EXP than one a little closer, despite needing less *levels*. EXP scales nastily. 2) Evolve three-stage evolutions as late as possible. This applies most for the psuedos like Dreepy and Larvitar, but when a Pokemon *can* evolve but hasn't, they get an ~1.2x EXP boost from battle (this was a mechanic introduced Gen 6 to little fanfare). 3) Use EXP Candies to finish an evolution. SV uses EXP scaling, and low level Pokemon get more EXP than high level. Especially since a 24 hour challenge won't get Candies from Raid Dens, you may need to find yourself counting on these smaller optimisations to secure the extra edge.
Hey John just to let you know you can catch about 70% of the poke Dex before going to the academy with the cliff skip. And completing the full Dex took me 91 hours over the course of 2 weeks because of work. So if you do a poc you can probably get this done in half that time. Huge warning you can do this but it will cost you goodra because there is no rain and all night time encounters also no miradon or koriadon for fast movement around paldea. The hardest encounters are probably going to be kingambit, slakoth, applin, and the 3 let's go pokemon.
Dude, a professor oak challenge in this game is gonna be painful, because basically the entire dex is available before literally everything- yes, you dint even need Koraidon/Miraidon upgrades to get places
@Quashing Tub At least you realized man. I caught all 400 pokemon and talked to the professor for the shiny charm until he told me about the Pokedex reward thing. Had to sit there for like 5 minutes spamming A because I didn't claim anything the ENTIRE game.
Yeah, I realized that mid game with 200+ pokemon already registered. While the Dex is a bit clunky to navigate and doesn't have a search engine, being rewarded for filling it out feels pretty great.
Yea I can confirm, I chose sprigatito and after getting my Meowscarada to lvl 100 I started breeding her with a ditto that I shiny hunted in order to surprise trade until I got the other starters, I got six Froakies, four Rowlets, Three Fuecoco, and filled half my empty dex before getting one single quaxly, Luckily though I got Japanese Fuecoco and Quaxly and managed to get shinies using a reverse masuda method with the same ditto
Taunt, healing pulse, false swipe, hypnosis Gallade is actually the best shiny hunter in pokemon too. Has been for a few gens now. Taunt stops stuff like memento and perish song, heal pulse stops self damaging moves and weather, and false swipe and hypnosis are self explanatory. Only thing he doesn't stop is explosion/self-destruct, so make sure to have a mon with damp. Also raise Kirlia to at least lvl 43 before evolving. Gallade doesn't learn heal pulse by level up and it isn't a tm. Kirlia learns it at 43 tho, so if you wait until then to evolve you can have it on your Gallade. And if you find a mon that has an ability that neutralizes other abilities like neutralizing gas and also explodes, like Galarian Weezing, buddy just use your master ball that boy's gonna blow
@Umi Breloom has accuracy on its sleep move over Gallade, yes, but comes with some drawbacks. Can't put grass types to sleep for one, and misses out on almost all other utility catching moves. No taunt and no heal pulse. So, if a mon with, say, memento wakes up on you, it can kill itself without you being able to do anything about it. It does get rain dance/sunny day, so it can get rid of sandstorm chip damage, which is nice. But gallade also gets those moves, so it's not a leg up on gallade. Personally I don't really get how Breloom is a strictly better catching mon. I'd much rather take the lower accuracy on hypnosis to have no immunities to my sleep move and way more catching utility for shinies. In fact as far as spore users go, I'd say Parasect is explicitly better in generations he's in just because of Damp. So yeah, I highly disagree that Breloom is better for the purposes of shiny hunting, but if you like him more go ahead and use him instead of gallade. It's your game and your pokemon, use the ones you like
Hidden Ability Parasect is the best damp mon btw. Only one that can learn false swipe. Also he gets spore which is great. I still prefer Gallade for my general hunting tho due to heal pulse and taunt helping my crippling anxiety. No mons currently in Scarlet/Violet can have damp and learn False Swipe
I’m convinced that Applin is the reason encounter powers from food exist. I searched for one for just about as long as you before giving up and buying an “Encounter Power: Dragon” boosting food. Then suddenly it was if it was autumn and I was thrust into an apple orchard with all the Applin I started finding.
The memory leak stuff causes issues with spawning. If you see applin on your map but can’t see him in trees then close the game then open it up. Finally loads.
It’s still crazy that with all the new Pokémon introduced into Scarlet and Violet, we have officially past 1000 Pokémon in the National Dex going from #001 to #1010!
He got exreamly lucky at 14:51 when he is sliding down the mountain. His miraidon is actually shiny! This is very rare and only has a 1/4096 chance of happening when doing this gym test.
It almost certainly took you more than 32 hours. Small Ant discovered that the in game time is calculated through frames, not real world time. He had been playing for 16 hours and the game only logged 14.5 hours due to the drops in framerate. Will be very interesting to see if this can be done in less than 24 hours though!
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Finally got around to finishing my pokedex in about 80 in-game hours, and this is the first game I've done that so I think that's a pretty good time. Despite the performance and design flaws, this is surprisingly one of the most fun games in the series in years.
*Everyone at the beginning of the game:* wow hating Arven is gonna be super easy, barely an inconvenience *Everyone at the end of the game:* wow hating the writers for putting Arven through SO much pain is super easy, barely an inconvenience.
You can actually find Applin in an area west of Levincia up on a hill that you need a few Miraidon/Koraidon upgrades to get to. It's in a little ditch in the ground full of flowers. Too late for John, but I hope this helps someone else.
I actually guessed the menu in the normal gym on my first try without talking to anyone in the restaurant. I thought I had to talk to the guy to activate the gym trial, and ended up choosing the correct alternatives. That is a pro gamer moment I probably will never top.
The classroom performance scene is so weird because immediately after you're in the same class and their animations are fine. I really think the devs accidentally programmed the scene to think you're far away, thus reducing the framerate of their anims for optimization...even though you're right there.
23:57 I did ! I never spoil myself how to evolve new Pokémon, I love to spend hours trying to find how, and up until now the only Pokémon I've never found how to evolve and had to spoil myself was Runerigus. But to be fair, Kingambit's evolution was really easy to find, you just had to read the Leader's Crest description and Bisharp's Pokédex description, those were HUGE clues.
@Fai ღ Oooh, I did not know the specifics ! What I did was I gave him the Crest, and defeated a bunch of other Bisharp, and at some point after an hour or so, he evolved after leveling up ! To be fair it happens a lot of the times, I get the evolution but I don't exactly know how I did it, a good example is Overqwil/Wyrdeer from PLA, I thought completing their dex pages was what is required, because they evolved soonish after I completed Hisuian Qwilfish and Stantler pages, but when I checked weeks after I realized you did not need to do all that lol
If true, congrats on the figuring out! Fun fact, you can use any Bisharp, it doesn't need the held item. You just gotta use your Bisharp to defeat the others and level to 53+ :D
At first I hated pawmi’s evolutions because they just stand up and not much changed but now I kinda like them and pawmot changes enough for me to be satisfied even though pawmo is literally pawmi standing up with a lighter colour fur. The whole line is cute and they have a move that revives your Pokémon.
You are able to catch the Titan Pokémon in their Normal Form after defeating them, btw, it is also the earliest way to catch Iron Tread before Area Zero.
At this point, I only have one Pokemon left, and that's Slowking. This is going to be the first game where I actually complete the Pokedex since the original Red and Blue!
Don’t actually know if this has been said, but Applin isn’t exclusive to trees. I spent forever looking for one, and if you go to East Province One, I think, the same area where Mela is, North of The Team Fire Base has a little gully up in the mountains with a few trees, you can find Applin just chilling on the ground, caught two in under a minute.
I decided that I would finish my dex before watching this video; and now it’s complete! So I not only get the shiny charm, but also the enjoyment of a Johnstone video! Thank you for your service, good sir :D
For anyone having trouble with rarer spawns, using the sandwiches to increase the encounter chance for specific types helps a ton, I found a few applins in less than 3 minutes with dragon encounter level 1
Funny enough you can catch Pawmot and Finizen in Tera Raids so you dont even need their special mechanics (also Brambleghast can spawn in the higher level areas, which also saves you the 1000 steps to evolve)
@Connor Vide what an asinine argument lmfao. A patch is a set of changes to a computer program or its supporting data designed to update, fix, or improve it. A patch is just a synonym for update lol.
I didn't know that Pokemon would still listen to you if you caught them earlier, I ended up having to fight the last 3 or so gyms one right after another because I was worried they would get too far ahead of me 🤣
I just finished my first Pokédex ever. After playing the series since silver. This video amazes me even though it’s the easiest game to complete arguably. Great job
I haven’t watched this yet, as I’m playing slowly, but thanks in advance for being one of the few poketubers to not put spoilers in their thumbnail!! I’ve seen so many Pokémon early, I’m glad you just put the box legendary :)
Glad to see I'm not the only person who realized that Ralts is the key to catching mons. Gallade 100% carried me and made it fast enough to stay focused.
The open world-ness was definitely an aid. I was 15 levels above everything almost constantly no matter where I went. I only lost once to the desert titan, and never lost again hahaha. Arceus was much more difficult imo.
I was mostly done before i beat the main story. After it and before the post game, i only missed 2 evolutions and Violet Paradox pokemon. I got those pretty quickly and am now shiny breeding with my shiny charm before i finish the post game.
Okay, so after taking 55 hours on my Violet save, plus a full playthrough and catching all version exclusives on Scarlet, of about 23 hours, let's see how fast you were. This was sure a journey on my end...
I have never been super into completing the Pokédex, but with Violet, I got the game for Christmas and I've already got almost 250 Pokémon, more than half the 'dex, it's been less than 2 weeks lol
*14:55** Man, thank you very much for your content overall, and sorry if I sound silly, but I'm glad I finally found the charm on Quaxly's last form's design. Happy New Year.*
I know this doesn't help John because he's already done it, but for anyone having problems finding Applin eat a meal with Encounter Power Dragon and search just outside of Medali. AFAIK Applin is the only dragon that can spawn in that area and the trees aren't all tagged up so you can see it pretty easily if it's in one
Surprised no one mentioned this on stream, but there's a location for a static Applin spawn in East Province 2. At least I believe it's static. I've gone there 4 times and it's been there every time lol. Easiest way to describe how to get there is to go south from Zapapico and get on top of the mountain range. Jump over the river and keep going south, you'll run into a grove that has a static Terra Salandit. And in that grove is Applin. 😄
I had an easy time while doing a Living Dex. I found a lot of Pokemon easily and barely needed to evolve. I just FOUND a Lucario running around. The first time I went into Tagtree I found 4 Applin just sitting there on the ground.
So the mouse one not having a evolution screen is actually incorrect. If it participates in the battle that evolves the pokemon then it does have a evolution screen. Theres also a trade in the electric gym town that gives you a gengar in case you dont have someone to trade with
That first gate he tried to get past was a real boulder from PLA moment 'cuz uh... You can just walk around the base. The walled off sections are just more direct paths.
Mousehold actually does have an animation. You just have to be using it at the moment it evolves. It’s kinda weird but I actually really like that Pokémon.
actually you can also get False Swipe given to you by talking to the biology teacher at the academy, which is the one that checks up on your pokedex progress. i think its the very first reward for having seen 20 or 40 pokemon. which is literally at your reach in within 4 hours of gameplay or so depending on how much time you spend with the tutorials
I jumped the river heading to Levincia my first time as well... realized later if you go down to the beach you can just walk across the river mouth and you don't even need the mount :) I only realized that on the game where I walked around the map and unlocked all the pokestops before doing the first terastal battle with Nemona... which I have still neglected to do in that game heh.
I good method for getting any rare pokemon to appear is to use an Encounter Sandwich. It's less helpful if there are same type pokemon to get in the way, but it still helps a bit and in the case of Applin, a dragon encounter boost would help immensely.
Just looked at each starter line's exclusive move, and it looks to me like they have a favorite. Sound based fire type move that raises special attack afterwards but gets screwed over by sound proof, flash fire, and throat chop, a regular water move that raises your speed which is often the least useful stat, and a grass type move that never misses and always crits
@Étourdie Having never miss is a trait that doesn't really matter ever in competitive though, the most common thing from the top of my head would be defog-ing a contrary pokemon giving it +1 evasion (commonly Serp in previous generations), for everything else 100% accuracy is good enough. Ignoring stats drops / boosts is nice on the flower trick too but it only really matters against bulk up atm as intimidate isn't really around much, flower trick is a good move don't get me wrong but the other two moves give completely unique things and flower trick is 'just' a slightly better EQ. Quaquaval is also has really strong STABs and SD so it's not super hard for him to 'get the ball rolling'.
@TheMirksta "Effectively being 'only' a base 105 grass move" that ignores all attack/accuracy drops and all defense/evasion raises. Looking at the moves themselves, we've got sweep potential because you'll always do more damage next turn, sweep potential because it does lots of damage that can't be avoided even, and weaker surf. Besides, moxie only activates when you knock a Pokemon out, so I sure hope that you've got something else to use in order to actually get the ball rolling I wrote the first comment sheet looking at all of the exclusive moves just after evolving meowscarada, and I do now disagree with what I wrote. They have a clear least favorite move
@Étourdie Nobody is claiming maxing out your speed is good, but being able to reliably boost speed while doing quite a lot of damage is very good for a sweeper with moxie.
Who is the favourite then? All of the signature moves are extremely good, Meowscarada probably has the worst one, effectively being ''only'' a 105 Base damage grass move but even that one is very good.
Applin is only supposed to spawn in trees. Its also bloody hard to find. So someone explain me to why i found one rolling around on the ground while exploring the southwest. Near a tree, but definitely not in it. I didnt even touch the tree, i had just arrived to it. xD Great video like always!
Small tip if you wanna defeat all titans fast, nacli gets a move something something with salt, a base power of 40 and doing damage every turn and doing EXTRA damage to steel and water types, all 5 titans but klawf and bombirdier, but theyre weak, are either steel or water
I wanted to play through the story with a friend, but he didn’t had time so I just filled my Pokédex and about two days ago we agreed to each play the story on our own, and I had about 300 Pokémon registered before doing the first gym.
I'm sure someone mentioned this, but you can get as many as 777 coins per chest Gimmighoul, and I think as many as 200 from a regular Gimmighoul. Austin John did a video on it and I've definitely gotten some of those higher drops myself. 😁
We had a similar time but I only used 3 on my team and kept other 3 spots for evolving pokemon. Veluza, Ceruledge, and Meowscarada and Mewscarada carried me on almost everything, basically could body any grass/water/rock/ground/ice/steal/ghost/psychic/dark/normal pokemon I came accross and other 2 kinda just cleaned up the few the starter couldn't.
My catchmon was the T-Normal Scyther with a static spawn early on. No status move, but able to grab 150% damage on False Swipe and switch defensive type when it counts e.g against rock, and with Eviolite it could tank a lot of hits. And with Twave on so many mons, status was always an option if I needed it.
I loved how the pokemon league made you try to guess its initial pokemon type by having multi type teams really cool but they werent that tough, but extreamly cool
Funny story about how you found a shiny gogoat, my first shiny was when I was running on koraidon, I saw a trainer off the cliff, so I jumped off, but a group of skidoo, and I landed on the shiny and was just thrown into a shiny fight, I caught it luckily but it was actually hilarious
14:51 Fun fact: during the Ice type gym challenge, it seems that the devs forgot to implement the shiny lock onto the ride pokemon, meaning you could get its shiny during the challenge, but it doesn't stay shiny (if it gets rolled) after the gym. And I think you got the shiny.
Guys I swear to god I was watching this video and saw his shiny Gogoat encounter, thought "Hm, that'd be so weird if I ran into one" as I was in an area with them, AND I DID. FULL ODDS. I CAN'T.
The easiest way to get false swipe imo is to get your pokemon to level 15, get the first badge, go back to the start area, and capture a scyther. Every single one I caught had false swipe learned and it's not nearly as frail as a ralts
For anyone looking for a super easy way to evolve the three 'walking' Pokémon. Fly to the front of the school and just run on Miraidon in a continuous circle (I followed the school logo on the floor by the gate) for around a minute with your Pokémon out of their balls. Then use a rare candy and BOOM all 3 can be evolved within 5 mins. Hope this helps someone :)
I'm so close to finishing my first living dex. I'm stuck on a good chunk of Scarlet exclusives and Palafin. Not because I'm having trouble finding people to trade with, but because all the people I keep running into also have Violet.
Scarlet and violet is my first ever pokemon game where I completed the Dex in under a year. I did sword and shield's Dex + dlc, but it took a while since I never worked in that Dex much. Scarlet and violet? I successfully got every single entry in two weeks after getting the games on Christmas Day. The only Dex help I got was for version exclusives, or if I'd get something from a friend since I was giving them some pokemon.
I didn't know you could get the version exclusives when you play together with other people. Thank you for showing it to me, this might make it easier for me to complete the dex without doing suprise trades.
Awesome video :) I was wondering, I don't know how many people actually still use it, but I've found your Google Sheet that shows the best way to get the living dex in Pokemon Home extremely useful. I've found it a couple weeks back and its helped me get to around 50% so far. I was wondering if you're thinking about updating it with Scarlet/Violet? :) Since it obviously contains quite some Pokemon again, which could maybe help eliminate some older games possibly?
Its by default not the most difficult to complete pokedex simply because it *is* possible to complete it without trading across 7 different generations and 3 different hardware systems. Also because you can complete it without time limited event exclusives being an issue. With all of those things in mind its literally the most easy to complete pokedex in any mainline pokemon game, including gen 1 - gen 1 had mew. Also because while things can have low spawn rates, none of them are as insane as munchlax in honey trees in diamond/pearl or so on.
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Like this if I should do a Professor Oak’s Challenge for Scarlet and Violet 😅
A few suggestions for shaving off a few extra minutes per grind:
1) Catch Pokemon as close to their evolution level as possible. The Poco Path encounters can be caught guaranteed, yeah, but the examples you can find later on in the game are higher level and don't need as much EXP.
On the flipside, a high levelled Pokemon who's well past evolution level will take more EXP than one a little closer, despite needing less *levels*. EXP scales nastily.
2) Evolve three-stage evolutions as late as possible. This applies most for the psuedos like Dreepy and Larvitar, but when a Pokemon *can* evolve but hasn't, they get an ~1.2x EXP boost from battle (this was a mechanic introduced Gen 6 to little fanfare).
3) Use EXP Candies to finish an evolution. SV uses EXP scaling, and low level Pokemon get more EXP than high level.
Especially since a 24 hour challenge won't get Candies from Raid Dens, you may need to find yourself counting on these smaller optimisations to secure the extra edge.
Hey John just to let you know you can catch about 70% of the poke Dex before going to the academy with the cliff skip. And completing the full Dex took me 91 hours over the course of 2 weeks because of work. So if you do a poc you can probably get this done in half that time. Huge warning you can do this but it will cost you goodra because there is no rain and all night time encounters also no miradon or koriadon for fast movement around paldea. The hardest encounters are probably going to be kingambit, slakoth, applin, and the 3 let's go pokemon.
I know single people not joining the team Ahmanson, no one join me know
Is it even possible with the fact you need literally everything and a control capture level of like 30
So every pokemon before the first gym/base/titan? I'd be down to watch that /hj
Dude, a professor oak challenge in this game is gonna be painful, because basically the entire dex is available before literally everything- yes, you dint even need Koraidon/Miraidon upgrades to get places
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@Charlotte Through the Web I'm also doing that on a fresh save, blew my mind when I teleported over the ledge
Remember for your next attempt:
Check your Pokédex for registry rewards - you get stones, balls and candies every ten entries
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@Quashing Tub At least you realized man. I caught all 400 pokemon and talked to the professor for the shiny charm until he told me about the Pokedex reward thing. Had to sit there for like 5 minutes spamming A because I didn't claim anything the ENTIRE game.
Yeah, I realized that mid game with 200+ pokemon already registered. While the Dex is a bit clunky to navigate and doesn't have a search engine, being rewarded for filling it out feels pretty great.
Picking Quaxly actually gave you a massive advantage as it’s near impossible to find people who picked quaxly when trying to trade the other 2.
Yea I can confirm, I chose sprigatito and after getting my Meowscarada to lvl 100 I started breeding her with a ditto that I shiny hunted in order to surprise trade until I got the other starters, I got six Froakies, four Rowlets, Three Fuecoco, and filled half my empty dex before getting one single quaxly, Luckily though I got Japanese Fuecoco and Quaxly and managed to get shinies using a reverse masuda method with the same ditto
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yeah, i chose Fuecoco and it took me like 15mins via link trade to get Quaxly
It’s actually a very fast thing to find in wonder trades, it was my first wonder trade
Maushold actually has an evolution animation, yet it can randomly evolve in your party and box. weirdest evolution method to date
@Strawberxy cant gain lvls when its in the box smart one
@NightGraveHunting yeah it can
@yourlilemogirl no
It's so funny lol. Where did the other two Maus come from? Even the pokedex claims to not know.
Taunt, healing pulse, false swipe, hypnosis Gallade is actually the best shiny hunter in pokemon too. Has been for a few gens now. Taunt stops stuff like memento and perish song, heal pulse stops self damaging moves and weather, and false swipe and hypnosis are self explanatory. Only thing he doesn't stop is explosion/self-destruct, so make sure to have a mon with damp. Also raise Kirlia to at least lvl 43 before evolving. Gallade doesn't learn heal pulse by level up and it isn't a tm. Kirlia learns it at 43 tho, so if you wait until then to evolve you can have it on your Gallade. And if you find a mon that has an ability that neutralizes other abilities like neutralizing gas and also explodes, like Galarian Weezing, buddy just use your master ball that boy's gonna blow
Umm I use Iron Valiant with False Swipe and Hypnosis though
@Umi Breloom has accuracy on its sleep move over Gallade, yes, but comes with some drawbacks. Can't put grass types to sleep for one, and misses out on almost all other utility catching moves. No taunt and no heal pulse. So, if a mon with, say, memento wakes up on you, it can kill itself without you being able to do anything about it. It does get rain dance/sunny day, so it can get rid of sandstorm chip damage, which is nice. But gallade also gets those moves, so it's not a leg up on gallade.
Personally I don't really get how Breloom is a strictly better catching mon. I'd much rather take the lower accuracy on hypnosis to have no immunities to my sleep move and way more catching utility for shinies. In fact as far as spore users go, I'd say Parasect is explicitly better in generations he's in just because of Damp.
So yeah, I highly disagree that Breloom is better for the purposes of shiny hunting, but if you like him more go ahead and use him instead of gallade. It's your game and your pokemon, use the ones you like
Breloom does it better with 100% accuracy spore and can learn false swipe.
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Hidden Ability Parasect is the best damp mon btw. Only one that can learn false swipe. Also he gets spore which is great. I still prefer Gallade for my general hunting tho due to heal pulse and taunt helping my crippling anxiety. No mons currently in Scarlet/Violet can have damp and learn False Swipe
I’m convinced that Applin is the reason encounter powers from food exist. I searched for one for just about as long as you before giving up and buying an “Encounter Power: Dragon” boosting food. Then suddenly it was if it was autumn and I was thrust into an apple orchard with all the Applin I started finding.
I had to resort to sandwiches to catch Charcadet, even though it CAN be found everywhere I just did not find it at all
The memory leak stuff causes issues with spawning. If you see applin on your map but can’t see him in trees then close the game then open it up. Finally loads.
Pokemon MMO 3D is free to play :)
It’s still crazy that with all the new Pokémon introduced into Scarlet and Violet, we have officially past 1000 Pokémon in the National Dex going from #001 to #1010!
Meanwhile i'm over here completing the dex in Home.
Yet here you are crying about it.
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He got exreamly lucky at 14:51 when he is sliding down the mountain. His miraidon is actually shiny! This is very rare and only has a 1/4096 chance of happening when doing this gym test.
It almost certainly took you more than 32 hours. Small Ant discovered that the in game time is calculated through frames, not real world time. He had been playing for 16 hours and the game only logged 14.5 hours due to the drops in framerate. Will be very interesting to see if this can be done in less than 24 hours though!
This game lags way too much for them to count time that way lol
Yes. The dex can be done in less than 24 hours. You can speedrun the games story in like 5 hours if you know what you're doing.
@Blunts LT It is true :D
Dang, they’re really gonna count frames in one of the laggiest games to date. That’s just crazy lol
Hmm I wonder if that's true
For anyone else watching, there are 2 guaranteed spawns of Applin on the ground so you don't have to bother with trees. Go to Serebii then "map"
Thankfully that’s how I got my applin
I just bred for another to save time
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Finally got around to finishing my pokedex in about 80 in-game hours, and this is the first game I've done that so I think that's a pretty good time. Despite the performance and design flaws, this is surprisingly one of the most fun games in the series in years.
*Everyone at the beginning of the game:* wow hating Arven is gonna be super easy, barely an inconvenience
*Everyone at the end of the game:* wow hating the writers for putting Arven through SO much pain is super easy, barely an inconvenience.
Nah I loved him from the start and said frick you Nemona, i’m going after Titans
@Ribotto Studios i wonder what roids arven fed that dog slong the herba mystica
i didn't hate arven, I was just glad he handed over his legendary to me
@Aniebodie I’m glad someone else noticed that lol
You can actually find Applin in an area west of Levincia up on a hill that you need a few Miraidon/Koraidon upgrades to get to. It's in a little ditch in the ground full of flowers. Too late for John, but I hope this helps someone else.
This is where I found mine! It was just on the ground by a tree. I didn’t realize they were hard to get
You can also find them in Tera raids as well
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I dont understand why people dont like Quaquval's design, it looks really cute to me, especially the peacock tails.
@Jason Marotta based opinion lmfao
I don’t like the gay duck
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I agree
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I actually guessed the menu in the normal gym on my first try without talking to anyone in the restaurant. I thought I had to talk to the guy to activate the gym trial, and ended up choosing the correct alternatives. That is a pro gamer moment I probably will never top.
Haha same it was big brain time
I guessed, got every single part wrong, and spent like an hour finding out the correct order. I wish I had your luck
I managed to do the same thing!
That's actually amazing, nice! I got it on my 2nd try, I just missed the crispiness haha
11:10 Johnstone's reaction to the "true potential" is golden & absolutely on point
“Is golden”
Golden… goldengo!
No potential 😅
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The classroom performance scene is so weird because immediately after you're in the same class and their animations are fine. I really think the devs accidentally programmed the scene to think you're far away, thus reducing the framerate of their anims for optimization...even though you're right there.
It's a scam don't do it.
23:57 I did ! I never spoil myself how to evolve new Pokémon, I love to spend hours trying to find how, and up until now the only Pokémon I've never found how to evolve and had to spoil myself was Runerigus.
But to be fair, Kingambit's evolution was really easy to find, you just had to read the Leader's Crest description and Bisharp's Pokédex description, those were HUGE clues.
@Fai ღ Oooh, I did not know the specifics ! What I did was I gave him the Crest, and defeated a bunch of other Bisharp, and at some point after an hour or so, he evolved after leveling up !
To be fair it happens a lot of the times, I get the evolution but I don't exactly know how I did it, a good example is Overqwil/Wyrdeer from PLA, I thought completing their dex pages was what is required, because they evolved soonish after I completed Hisuian Qwilfish and Stantler pages, but when I checked weeks after I realized you did not need to do all that lol
If true, congrats on the figuring out!
Fun fact, you can use any Bisharp, it doesn't need the held item. You just gotta use your Bisharp to defeat the others and level to 53+ :D
Oh and I forgot Finizen too. But that one is bull**** lol.
At first I hated pawmi’s evolutions because they just stand up and not much changed but now I kinda like them and pawmot changes enough for me to be satisfied even though pawmo is literally pawmi standing up with a lighter colour fur.
The whole line is cute and they have a move that revives your Pokémon.
You are able to catch the Titan Pokémon in their Normal Form after defeating them, btw, it is also the earliest way to catch Iron Tread before Area Zero.
At this point, I only have one Pokemon left, and that's Slowking. This is going to be the first game where I actually complete the Pokedex since the original Red and Blue!
Don’t actually know if this has been said, but Applin isn’t exclusive to trees. I spent forever looking for one, and if you go to East Province One, I think, the same area where Mela is, North of The Team Fire Base has a little gully up in the mountains with a few trees, you can find Applin just chilling on the ground, caught two in under a minute.
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I decided that I would finish my dex before watching this video; and now it’s complete! So I not only get the shiny charm, but also the enjoyment of a Johnstone video! Thank you for your service, good sir :D
For anyone having trouble with rarer spawns, using the sandwiches to increase the encounter chance for specific types helps a ton, I found a few applins in less than 3 minutes with dragon encounter level 1
Funny enough you can catch Pawmot and Finizen in Tera Raids so you dont even need their special mechanics (also Brambleghast can spawn in the higher level areas, which also saves you the 1000 steps to evolve)
Not sure if this was already said, but you could've used a dragon-type encounter boost (lvl 1 or lvl 2) to increase the applin spawns during Day 2.
Main change I want in a patch is the ability to use quick balls outside of battle like PLA. Would make sense
@Connor Vide I think the term you are looking for is hotfix
@Nathan Cotrill no an update is an update. A patch is a patch
@Connor Vide what an asinine argument lmfao.
A patch is a set of changes to a computer program or its supporting data designed to update, fix, or improve it.
A patch is just a synonym for update lol.
That’s not possible in a patch. A patch fixes bugs, they don’t add entirety new gameplay features
I think that would be an amazing change! Especially since mass outbreaks are still in the game.
Btw, you don't need a Bisbarp that has a Leaders Crown then evolve it. Just need a Bisbarp to defeat the ones holding it.
You need to defeat bisharp that are surrounded by pawniard, and if I remember correctly you unfortunately do need the leaders crest on your bisharp
I didn't know that Pokemon would still listen to you if you caught them earlier, I ended up having to fight the last 3 or so gyms one right after another because I was worried they would get too far ahead of me 🤣
I can't wait to see how long it takes for you to get all of them shiny 😂
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I just finished my first Pokédex ever. After playing the series since silver.
This video amazes me even though it’s the easiest game to complete arguably. Great job
Can just appreciate how much the effort and time he put into these videos
Easiest way to experience the entire game as a viewer. Thanks! ❤
i completed the entire game and pokedex in a 30 hour binge. hardest challenge of my life. Had the best sleep of my life afterwards.
I haven’t watched this yet, as I’m playing slowly, but thanks in advance for being one of the few poketubers to not put spoilers in their thumbnail!! I’ve seen so many Pokémon early, I’m glad you just put the box legendary :)
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Glad to see I'm not the only person who realized that Ralts is the key to catching mons. Gallade 100% carried me and made it fast enough to stay focused.
I don’t understand how people don’t like quaxly, he’s perfect
The open world-ness was definitely an aid. I was 15 levels above everything almost constantly no matter where I went. I only lost once to the desert titan, and never lost again hahaha. Arceus was much more difficult imo.
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Much respect for you and your time you put in these videos John
This game was really easy to complete the dex. I'm loving the open world and hoping they continue pushing the games in this direction 😃
I love that everyone I've seen do it have had the same reaction to the normal gym battle field thing I had
I was mostly done before i beat the main story. After it and before the post game, i only missed 2 evolutions and Violet Paradox pokemon. I got those pretty quickly and am now shiny breeding with my shiny charm before i finish the post game.
Okay, so after taking 55 hours on my Violet save, plus a full playthrough and catching all version exclusives on Scarlet, of about 23 hours, let's see how fast you were. This was sure a journey on my end...
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I have never been super into completing the Pokédex, but with Violet, I got the game for Christmas and I've already got almost 250 Pokémon, more than half the 'dex, it's been less than 2 weeks lol
Dude, how did you do this in 5 days? You’re a madman and I love to see it.
No life and not touching grass
@targetpro5 that's nice dear
@targetpro5 Sure they did.
Tons of quickballs and taking advantage of the link trade codes
@targetpro5 dam
*14:55** Man, thank you very much for your content overall, and sorry if I sound silly, but I'm glad I finally found the charm on Quaxly's last form's design. Happy New Year.*
I know this doesn't help John because he's already done it, but for anyone having problems finding Applin eat a meal with Encounter Power Dragon and search just outside of Medali. AFAIK Applin is the only dragon that can spawn in that area and the trees aren't all tagged up so you can see it pretty easily if it's in one
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Surprised no one mentioned this on stream, but there's a location for a static Applin spawn in East Province 2. At least I believe it's static. I've gone there 4 times and it's been there every time lol.
Easiest way to describe how to get there is to go south from Zapapico and get on top of the mountain range. Jump over the river and keep going south, you'll run into a grove that has a static Terra Salandit. And in that grove is Applin. 😄
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I prefer using a Breloom for catching as it learns many different status effect moves such as spore which has 100% accuracy and false swipe.
I had an easy time while doing a Living Dex. I found a lot of Pokemon easily and barely needed to evolve. I just FOUND a Lucario running around. The first time I went into Tagtree I found 4 Applin just sitting there on the ground.
So the mouse one not having a evolution screen is actually incorrect. If it participates in the battle that evolves the pokemon then it does have a evolution screen. Theres also a trade in the electric gym town that gives you a gengar in case you dont have someone to trade with
@Glitch Gaming no but you can catch it in 5 and 6 star tera raids. Also Slowking and Palafin are available the same way.
Is there a trade for scizzor aswell or?
just replying to keep note of the gengar thing dont mind me
That first gate he tried to get past was a real boulder from PLA moment 'cuz uh...
You can just walk around the base. The walled off sections are just more direct paths.
Mousehold actually does have an animation. You just have to be using it at the moment it evolves. It’s kinda weird but I actually really like that Pokémon.
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I accidentally found Applin and didn't know how rare of a spawn it was til I started watching videos like this about the game
actually you can also get False Swipe given to you by talking to the biology teacher at the academy, which is the one that checks up on your pokedex progress. i think its the very first reward for having seen 20 or 40 pokemon. which is literally at your reach in within 4 hours of gameplay or so depending on how much time you spend with the tutorials
Not sure if you ended up doing it, but sandwiches made finding those specific Pokémon like Applin a lot easier since it’s dragon type
Ive actually found applin twice on the ground but they were in pretty random areas. Never actually seen one in a tree.
I jumped the river heading to Levincia my first time as well... realized later if you go down to the beach you can just walk across the river mouth and you don't even need the mount :)
I only realized that on the game where I walked around the map and unlocked all the pokestops before doing the first terastal battle with Nemona... which I have still neglected to do in that game heh.
Whoa. Johnstone already made it past 200k. This is insane.
Love the content man, keep up the good work 👍
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Hearing you talk about applin made me relate so much. I had to use a flapple I caught from a raid and breed it for applin and appletun
Applin is not exclusive to trees though, I don't know why he said that.
I good method for getting any rare pokemon to appear is to use an Encounter Sandwich. It's less helpful if there are same type pokemon to get in the way, but it still helps a bit and in the case of Applin, a dragon encounter boost would help immensely.
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Just looked at each starter line's exclusive move, and it looks to me like they have a favorite. Sound based fire type move that raises special attack afterwards but gets screwed over by sound proof, flash fire, and throat chop, a regular water move that raises your speed which is often the least useful stat, and a grass type move that never misses and always crits
@Étourdie Having never miss is a trait that doesn't really matter ever in competitive though, the most common thing from the top of my head would be defog-ing a contrary pokemon giving it +1 evasion (commonly Serp in previous generations), for everything else 100% accuracy is good enough. Ignoring stats drops / boosts is nice on the flower trick too but it only really matters against bulk up atm as intimidate isn't really around much, flower trick is a good move don't get me wrong but the other two moves give completely unique things and flower trick is 'just' a slightly better EQ. Quaquaval is also has really strong STABs and SD so it's not super hard for him to 'get the ball rolling'.
@TheMirksta "Effectively being 'only' a base 105 grass move" that ignores all attack/accuracy drops and all defense/evasion raises. Looking at the moves themselves, we've got sweep potential because you'll always do more damage next turn, sweep potential because it does lots of damage that can't be avoided even, and weaker surf. Besides, moxie only activates when you knock a Pokemon out, so I sure hope that you've got something else to use in order to actually get the ball rolling
I wrote the first comment sheet looking at all of the exclusive moves just after evolving meowscarada, and I do now disagree with what I wrote. They have a clear least favorite move
@Étourdie Nobody is claiming maxing out your speed is good, but being able to reliably boost speed while doing quite a lot of damage is very good for a sweeper with moxie.
Who is the favourite then? All of the signature moves are extremely good, Meowscarada probably has the worst one, effectively being ''only'' a 105 Base damage grass move but even that one is very good.
@Spamton G. Spamton I forgot about Moxie. With evs and a good nature, it should outspeed the 'slower' fast pokemon after one use. That's so good.
Applin is only supposed to spawn in trees. Its also bloody hard to find.
So someone explain me to why i found one rolling around on the ground while exploring the southwest. Near a tree, but definitely not in it. I didnt even touch the tree, i had just arrived to it. xD
Great video like always!
Small tip if you wanna defeat all titans fast, nacli gets a move something something with salt, a base power of 40 and doing damage every turn and doing EXTRA damage to steel and water types, all 5 titans but klawf and bombirdier, but theyre weak, are either steel or water
I wanted to play through the story with a friend, but he didn’t had time so I just filled my Pokédex and about two days ago we agreed to each play the story on our own, and I had about 300 Pokémon registered before doing the first gym.
The Psychic Gym is technically Gym #7 while the Ice Gym is the 8th by levels.
I'm sure someone mentioned this, but you can get as many as 777 coins per chest Gimmighoul, and I think as many as 200 from a regular Gimmighoul. Austin John did a video on it and I've definitely gotten some of those higher drops myself. 😁
Wow that was fast
Because this game is easy
I finished mine a day and a half ago. Granted I played 15 hours a day for 4 days straight.
Fast af
@Porky Minch it was 3 days
True
We had a similar time but I only used 3 on my team and kept other 3 spots for evolving pokemon. Veluza, Ceruledge, and Meowscarada and Mewscarada carried me on almost everything, basically could body any grass/water/rock/ground/ice/steal/ghost/psychic/dark/normal pokemon I came accross and other 2 kinda just cleaned up the few the starter couldn't.
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Good video! Breloom has been my catcher for the whole game. There are quite a few high-level shroomish kicking around that know spore.
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This is a bit late, but Primeape's rage fist doesn't have to connect you can use it 20 times on a normal type and it'll still evolve
My catchmon was the T-Normal Scyther with a static spawn early on. No status move, but able to grab 150% damage on False Swipe and switch defensive type when it counts e.g against rock, and with Eviolite it could tank a lot of hits. And with Twave on so many mons, status was always an option if I needed it.
I was waiting to watch a play through of this game for when you put up a video! Can’t wait to watch this after I’m done with work 😊
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It would be so interesting too see if it’s possible to catch every pokemon according to their pokedex number. So from #001-#XXX in a row :D
@blazeinhotwings unless you did the run across multiple games, as you'd have to for the different gens anyway
@FluffySiera then you couldn’t catch charmander which is #4 and that would happen in every game
@blazeinhotwings you could use a game where Bulbasaur is an available starter. To my knowledge it has the number 001
You’d fail right away due to the starters
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I loved how the pokemon league made you try to guess its initial pokemon type by having multi type teams really cool but they werent that tough, but extreamly cool
Funny story about how you found a shiny gogoat, my first shiny was when I was running on koraidon, I saw a trainer off the cliff, so I jumped off, but a group of skidoo, and I landed on the shiny and was just thrown into a shiny fight, I caught it luckily but it was actually hilarious
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14:51 Fun fact: during the Ice type gym challenge, it seems that the devs forgot to implement the shiny lock onto the ride pokemon, meaning you could get its shiny during the challenge, but it doesn't stay shiny (if it gets rolled) after the gym. And I think you got the shiny.
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I don't know if its been patched out yet, and I've only seen it happen with Miraidon
Guys I swear to god I was watching this video and saw his shiny Gogoat encounter, thought "Hm, that'd be so weird if I ran into one" as I was in an area with them, AND I DID. FULL ODDS. I CAN'T.
you know its a good day when johnstone uploads a video
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The easiest way to get false swipe imo is to get your pokemon to level 15, get the first badge, go back to the start area, and capture a scyther. Every single one I caught had false swipe learned and it's not nearly as frail as a ralts
For anyone looking for a super easy way to evolve the three 'walking' Pokémon. Fly to the front of the school and just run on Miraidon in a continuous circle (I followed the school logo on the floor by the gate) for around a minute with your Pokémon out of their balls. Then use a rare candy and BOOM all 3 can be evolved within 5 mins. Hope this helps someone :)
I'm so close to finishing my first living dex. I'm stuck on a good chunk of Scarlet exclusives and Palafin.
Not because I'm having trouble finding people to trade with, but because all the people I keep running into also have Violet.
That shiny buizel brought up horrible memories for me… I stumbled across one too but she killed herself with wave crash after I false swiped her 😭
You can trade for a Hunter in one of the towns, it automatically evolves into Gengar.
Cant wait to see you do the same with the Shiny Pokedex 🤪
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I ended up breeding Slakoth, Bounsweet, and Applin (got Flapple in a raid)
Scarlet and violet is my first ever pokemon game where I completed the Dex in under a year. I did sword and shield's Dex + dlc, but it took a while since I never worked in that Dex much. Scarlet and violet? I successfully got every single entry in two weeks after getting the games on Christmas Day. The only Dex help I got was for version exclusives, or if I'd get something from a friend since I was giving them some pokemon.
I didn't know you could get the version exclusives when you play together with other people.
Thank you for showing it to me, this might make it easier for me to complete the dex without doing suprise trades.
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Just found a shiny Skiddo right after you found your shiny Gogoat! Thanks for the second hand luck!
Awesome video :)
I was wondering, I don't know how many people actually still use it, but I've found your Google Sheet that shows the best way to get the living dex in Pokemon Home extremely useful.
I've found it a couple weeks back and its helped me get to around 50% so far.
I was wondering if you're thinking about updating it with Scarlet/Violet? :)
Since it obviously contains quite some Pokemon again, which could maybe help eliminate some older games possibly?
“Ok so now that I’m playing… with myself- wait I didn’t mean it that way” got me. It got me.
This seems more like a quick play through than gotta catchem all video
I had like 3 mass outbreaks with that teacup so ended up with way more then I ever need
Idea for the truly most masochistic: full shiny living Paldea Dex speedrun. Shouldn’t be *too* bad once you reach end game 🤪
Its by default not the most difficult to complete pokedex simply because it *is* possible to complete it without trading across 7 different generations and 3 different hardware systems. Also because you can complete it without time limited event exclusives being an issue. With all of those things in mind its literally the most easy to complete pokedex in any mainline pokemon game, including gen 1 - gen 1 had mew. Also because while things can have low spawn rates, none of them are as insane as munchlax in honey trees in diamond/pearl or so on.