HOW EASILY CAN YOU COMPLETE PROFESSOR OAK'S CHALLENGE IN POKEMON RED/BLUE?

Today we're taking a look at a very not well-known type of Pokemon catch 'em all: The Professor Oak Challenge. In this challenge you have to collect every Pokemon that is available before each gym badge is acquired. Today we're going to take on the challenge. This video took a lot of time and effort to put together, so I'd really appreciate it if you shared this with a friend. If you have any suggestions for the next video, leave it in the comments below! Have a great day :)
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[@tabbender1232]

>You can get the Master Ball with only 2 badges I think gen 1 Pokemon games tie with Mother 1 for the title of "best example of unintentionally open world retro game"

[@cdub1010]

Preach

[@professoroak93]

I have a no badges challenge for everyone.. Here's a hint, Brock through walls + Trainer Fly glitch. I have 0 badges, I'm in Pallet Town, got items, money, ALL Starters, I'm the OT as well (see the extended TF glitch using Ditto to get the Pokémon I want though Special Stat index..)

[@tabbender1232]

Save abuse glitch : hold my beer

[@professoroak93]

Tabbender I should create an "Imposter Professor Oak" Challenge..

[@midnalight6419]

Umm... OoT

[@cameronphares2482]

*11 year old child leaves home to become pokemon trainer. *professor oak tells him to train and catch new pokemon if he wants to become champion. *6 months later he arrives at the first gym and annihilates brock with a fully evolved vine demon. *10 years later the same boy appears again at the second gym having captured and tamed every species of pokemon known to man. “ I AM pokemon.”

[@zulohthecrew2824]

Ok so in 6 months he got 1 year younger

[@zulohthecrew2824]

@Yu Xiang Yao oh yeah

[@festivepotato3611]

@@zulohthecrew2824 10 years later not 10 years old

[@zulohthecrew2824]

@@festivepotato3611 Oh yes true

[@metroidhunter965]

Gym leaders: “I ain’t scared of much,” (Flashback to fully evolved vine demon) “but that thing, that thing scares the hell out of me.”

[@randyrandalman8234]

20% of this run went into leveling up Pidgey

[@malign3158]

20.066%

[@kefkapalazzo1]

Lmaooooo

[@lorwnbr3774]

30 more on dratini

[@metroidhunter965]

And 13 hours on Bulbasaur -> Ivysaur.

[@ilovecairns5181]

No

[@tooprime9938]

You said self destruction was useless for this kind of challenge. It's actually great when leveling up a pokemon with no moves, because you can put out your Abra or whatever on a Dugtrio and then self destruct your graveler so Abra gets 100% of the 600 experience.

[@JustinKoenigSilica]

But then you have to revive that sucker...

[@filindoyt6594]

@@JustinKoenigSilica but then you can go to the pokemon center...

[@Alienldr]

But was it useless? No. He was only thinking of how self destruct doesn't give the user experience, and not how self destruct was designed to help your teammates, by getting rid of a large threat at a weaker level AND the teammate gets all the experience. You're going to the Pokémon center a lot anyway because you'll be stuck taking 2 turns off Dugtrio damage during normal switch training, which could equal a Pokemon center visit if you aren't at end game levels, compared to 1 Dugtrio battle with self destruct. Would 1 self destruct fight + PC visit be faster than 2 switch training fights + PC visit?

[@valletas]

@@filindoyt6594 but them you will waste time

[@jackbuggeln4870]

What is faster tho? Getting 600 experience and then walking back to the pokemon center to do it again or switch training it normally and getting 300xp twice?

[@KamiThulak]

Urgh... I had the resolve to evolve my starter to Evolution 2 in Sinnoh before the Prof said i could keep it. He just said somethink like: Oh it already evolved, good for you. It was so worth it.

[@BakaTaco]

Professor Rowan: What, you want a medal or something? Get the hell out of my lab.

[@martianmadwoman]

XBakaTacoX that made me laugh so fucking hard

[@Xerophlume]

uh...bullshit? lol

[@FuturamaFan2010]

@@Xerophlume it actually does happen. When I was younger and messed with action replay he mentions an alternate text if the game doesn't recognise the base stage of the starter Pokémon prior evolution since it should be impossible to have more than that one Pokémon in the party.

[@Michael-ws6ng]

I did this in my pokemon platinum randomizer, and he does say that.

[@Cr4nched]

Wow, been playing pokemon for 20 YEARS and never knew about the hidden moon stone in mt moon

[@marcelgolsteijn6047]

Out of this entire video that also was the one thing that kept bothering me, haha.

[@12thofjulythemissilesband18]

Please time stamp for me I am skipping I can't sit thru Dx

[@Cr4nched]

@@12thofjulythemissilesband18 its at the end of mt moon where you get the fossil off to the right in one of the walls

[@bossboy191919]

We knew this as kids XD

[@elilos2043]

Lmao I found out when I was 8 I just liked exploring plus I was kinda stuck down there for a few days just killing everything by the electric gym I was level 60 I think but i didn't know what to do cus the electric thing confused me lmak

[@DS-fz1fl]

17 hours leveling up a pidgey. I hope you make good money making these videos 😪

[@NoArtisticLimitation]

As I’m currently attempting a livedex with Let’s Go, that was legitimately my first thought, because my danged Pidgey still isn’t fully evolved, and I’m 3 badges in (I only just got a switch as a gift - yes I had to wait an insane amount of months because my sister thought getting the game first was hilarious, and I couldn’t afford to buy a switch - so I haven’t been playing too long yet)

[@AVerySexuallyDeviantOrange]

NoArtisticLimitation She does what I did with double-last-gen and current gen games. Just got a PS4 for a preorder game I had for 3 months. :)

[@thememelord6510]

He put in 6 fuckin mid roll ads so yea

[@madokakaname471]

The Meme Lord use adblocker useless dont complain about ads you look stupid af lol

[@kimbaldun]

@@madokakaname471 that's if he even know what an adblocker is

[@wilkobadberg5272]

And your Rival on S.S. Anne says, he catched over 40 Pokemon at this point... Looks like he did the same thing... Holy shit...

[@thatboi9505]

He didnt say it was all diffrent Maybe he has 30 caterpie

[@superlombax1561]

@@thatboi9505 I think he said he found 40 Pokemon for the Pokedex, which considering that the Pokedex only registers Pokemon you've caught... yeah.

[@thatboi9505]

@@superlombax1561 maybe, idk

[@superlombax1561]

@@thatboi9505 Yeah. I was just saying cause I don't remember the line that well either.

[@jcplays3842]

And still gets wrecked during a normal play through

[@NeoArashi]

“It’s Crazy how you can get more than two third of the dex with only 2 badges” *catches 289 pokemon before the first badge in Shield*

[@bigmike8152]

Just wait until Gen 9

[@teddyhaines6613]

I'm mildly triggered that you passed up a golden opportunity to confront Blue on the SS Anne with more than 40 Pokemon to your name.

[@charadreamer6818]

He would be like so what I have 151 mons

[@LrnecBuma]

I actually did this in yellow as a kid nothing changes expect personal pleasure of being better than gary

[@osc-omb47896]

It would be ridiculous if blue really had 40 pokemon, iirc at that point there's only 42 obtainable pokemon Edit: Thinking about it he already has cut and may have gone through rock tunnel

[@TheQuashingoftheTub]

@@osc-omb47896 I always thought that, but I eventually realized It _is_ true to both Gary's and Blue's characters. I'd say Blue's a bit more stoic, but both are researchers at heart, even if Blue eventually becomes a gym leader instead of a researcher. It also depends on your view of -assface- Blue. Because he's constantly giving you tips and shit at the same time, I always assumed Red and Blue were vitriolic friends. I'm also weird tho

[@formeme2290]

@@TheQuashingoftheTub They got that Goku and Vegeta type friendship where one is obviously stronger but constantly gets shit from the other but deep down they care

[@natnew32]

>Complains about psyduck using scratch and only scratch >has surf Dude...

[@smellymewi]

Guess he want to scratch his way up

[@LuMnOsITi]

And dratini!

[@LuMnOsITi]

AND he has HM04 for Rhyhorn to get a stronger move than stomp.

[@noythanyelgnaattee4474]

He didn’t have surf he had to beat the gym leader first and the challenge is to get all the Pokémon before gyms

[@natnew32]

No, he had surf. Surf is in the Safari Zone, and he didn't catck Psyduck until AFTER. Psyduck was caught around 21:00 and he got HM03 surf around 19:30

[@regorllerref]

Wait. I'm only like 5 minutes in, don't tell me he is going to level bulbasaur all the way to venasaur before fighting Brock!? Edit: He is/did what a mad man.

[@rosieshaw2810]

Init lmao

[@banana4715]

What about pidgy

[@ianelrod5286]

r/madlads

[@natchara2762]

@@ianelrod5286 he is a man of focus dedication and Shree f*** will

[@CD-Gaming]

Mine gained EXACTLY enough Exp to grow to Lv 16 and Evolve into Ivysaur what I didn't to make the rest of the game too easy!?

[@PokeTips]

I remember reading about this on reddit, very cool to see it completed on KZbin! But 82 hours man... you must really like to torture yourself LOL

[@JohnstoneYT]

Despite all the tediousness I actually had a lot fun with this challenge haha. Thanks dude!

[@brandonkern3478]

HOLY CARROTS WAT TA FOOGE

[@youtubenicoplayz2876]

Hi poketips

[@obi-wankenobi8999]

Yeah poketips cant wait for your next randomizer episode of let’s go eevee

[@elrichzann]

I'm up to 60 hours in ultra sun and I only just completed the volcano trial. I've caught almost every pokemon possible, just because I want a full pokedex.

[@jimmywu5954]

"I chose the dome fossil because I like kabutops" *lord helix will smite you*

[@GIGAXISBASS]

I called Arceus in and he has already met with the guy. Last I heard was Lord Helix's screams after Hakai was said...

[@TobeyFairre7861]

Praise him

[@NimhLabs]

Praised be his mighty Anarchy!

[@visionaeon]

PRAISE HELIX! PROTECT THE ANARCHY!

[@impopularmano3394]

that's why i always choose the dome fossil,because this meme is annoying,really overused and stupid

[@gengarzilla1685]

Professor Oak actually does give you some Poké Balls, but only if you talk to him after winning that optional rival battle on Route 22 without adding any new Pokédex entries. You kinda missed out on some freebies there.

[@MK004200]

Damn, I'm playing those games since I was a kid, but I never knew that was even a thing until now. It's already easy to miss that rival fight, let alone going back another time.

[@sanic7164]

I’m gonna try this real quick

[@sanic7164]

Can confirm, this is true, which is pretty nice. Always thought you had to buy it yourself in the original Red and Blue games.

[@TheForeverRanger]

Wait what?

[@r3dbl]

so basically u choose whether u eant pokeballs or exp. huh?

[@quakton]

“I used keywords like ‘Pokémon’” *r/rule34* yeah, ok

[@whynotdean8966]

Drowzee thicc af tho, whats a man to do

[@pyromasteralex]

@@whynotdean8966 Cmon man jinx is where its at, dem lips doe

[@skepbeans]

Also r/pantsu

[@dustin202]

r/Gaymers Really 🗡 Stab me

[@lorwnbr3774]

Only on gen 1 tho, snorlax the THICCEST boi

[@wildwest8069]

120-129 Pokémon: "Excellent! Trade with friends to get some more!"

[@skyeturner5003]

0:13 *r/rule34 at the bottom of screen* okay then, you did mean *all* subreddits with pokemon content

[@Ro-gp8lj]

Oof

[@qwop1231]

Also r/pantsu. Cant forget that wonderful land

[@iTouch4444]

r/gaymers 🤨

[@symphonyaelfscyne]

r/circlejerk

[@Abdega]

*DID HE STUTTER?!*

[@ExtremeAce]

Ok, so here is what you did You caught a Caterpie and Weedle and also a Metapod and Kakuna, just so that you don't need to evolve caterpie and weedle. And then you train Caterpie and Weedle, because THEY ARE EASIER TO TRAIN. Yeah, I see.

[@mushroomz3310]

ExtremeAce249 because Kalyan and metapod can't use anything except for harden and string shot

[@ExtremeAce]

@@mushroomz3310 Yeah I know, then why did he waste his 2 PokeBalls on catching Kakuna and Metapod, after just saying that he needs to save PokeBalls. XD

[@privatekitty6621]

@@ExtremeAce I dont think he realized at that moment that he was limited on money and poke balls so he was like what the heck

[@seizalez8096]

damn a new pokemon called Kaylan?

[@idontseeyoureplys]

Professor Oak "Awe yes I need you to go catch all the Pokemon in the world and fill my Pokedex" Trainer "Hold my beer" Professor Oak "Your not old enough to drink"

[@alolanexeggutor1010]

You need more likes.

[@charadreamer6818]

Hold my Potion

[@hotdogfingerz9674]

OAKS words echoe in your head: RED, now isn't the time to drink that!

[@FluffyFractalshard]

this is exactly the content i want to waste my life on watching

[@bossboy191919]

Same

[@ixperium.]

Ikr It's a Sunday so I have time to waste🤣

[@someguyyouknwo7351]

Anant Tiwari u don’t get it

[@Kitty-hx2pr]

This man has a Parabola pfp, so I trust him

[@Alienldr]

If you use Pokemon red in the N64 with Pokemon stadium, you can use a stored fresh water/soda/lemonade from a previous run and put it in your game. This allows you to bypass the Saffron guards, and gives you access to the Celadon moon stone. But, this also let's you bypass Misty's gym altogether, and only needs you to get Brock's and Koga's badge to get everyone besides Moltres, Articuno, and Mewtwo. This doesn't conform to your "no using other games" rule however, but there's no other way I can think of

[@Earthboundmike]

I'd assume that doesn't get past the no glitches either...

[@Alienldr]

@@Earthboundmike There's no glitches in that scenario. Just using a second game. You can store items in Pokemon Stadium and Pokemon stadium 2 as a second PC storage system, and withdraw it from any compatible game (It doesn't need to be the original game it came from, like how the item from one file from Pokemon Blue has to be withdrawn from that save file specifically. It can be withdrawn from a pokemon Red or Yellow after deposited from Blue). The only glitch you'd possibly use would be the ditto glitch to get version exclusives and trade evolutions if you wanted

[@AaronWGaming]

@@Alienldr again this is against the no second game rule

[@prokeikas7284]

But that's against the rules.

[@mauer1]

@@AaronWGaming which was clerified earlier.

[@ElementZephyr]

Professor Oak Challenge with Pokemon Gold/Silver. I must have it!

[@umbreon2110]

ElementZephyr same!We need it!

[@dfreaper9426]

Professor Oak:"you must travel far and wide and complete the pokedex for me" Jhonstone:"hold my beer" OAK:"there's s time and place for everything"

[@poisondamage2182]

you should have definitely put an "hours" counter next to the pokedex counter xD

[@oissela9894]

Not technically same thing but at 33:42 the save timer does show how long he played (and he talks about it)

[@sheerrossyness6487]

"Something crazy like 10,000 likes" 22,000+ likes later...

[@paulgoogol2652]

he must be like: "oh no, I don't want to do more of this."

[@assordante2205]

49k as of Feb 2020

[@ryanmcgrath8857]

54k in July 6 2021

[@elmehdi8332]

Shiny hunters : we are the most patient pokemon players Johnstone : hold my exp share

[@TheRacingMonkey]

What an awesome channel! Subbed :)

[@economysquid1815]

I thought that he was good until he chose dome

[@Keryusupercoologuy]

"I'll do Gen 2 if I get something crazy like 10k likes" *checks like counter, it's at 10k* Oh you poor man.

[@AJKiesel]

Press 'F' to pay respect to this poor soul.

[@GildorSurion]

@@AJKiesel 'F'

[@matthiasseeger5545]

@@AJKiesel F

[@samadhanjain9271]

F

[@TrancePadde]

@@foxomexra and he kept his word: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rIXbkIysmtl_i7s

[@Canwegettosubscribers-nk8nn]

The moment I saw the title of this video, I immediately thought: _"Dragonite"_

[@CooingSlinky11]

i thought mewtwo

[@noncanadian]

you thought

[@littlelustsans8491]

*lance reference*

[@psychedashell]

Getting Dragonite will finally be the boss task it was meant to be.

[@c0wqu3u31at3r]

Teach Dragonair surf and just smash rock Pokémon in Victory Road... Also do it on an emulator at 32x speed lol

[@juanmarailgun7783]

Early game: I'm struggling with the amount of pokeballs... I captured kakkuna and Metapod separatedly from Caterpie and Weedle because whynot

[@1337-Nathaniel]

I'm wondering if he battled Blue west of Veridian City for some extra dough.

[@ianelrod5286]

Because Wynaut?

[@alolanexeggutor1010]

Because it's less leveling, ya magikarps.

[@LEO_M1]

Alolan Exeggutor Barely.

[@sirprize8572]

@@alolanexeggutor1010 He explicitly said he didn't level the Kakuna and Metapod though. He leveled the Weedle and Caterpie so they could retain their starting attack moves. Otherwise you have to level Kakuna and Metapod by switch training like a Magikarp.

[@TheGuyWhoIsSitting]

So... uh... why didn't you teach more TMs? I know there aren't a lot of reusable ones, but TMs and especially HMs may have saved you a little trouble with some Pokemon.

[@MrCroisen]

I couldn't agree more, surf would have saved a tons of times with all the water pokemon with limited movepool. (Not at all looking at you psyduck)

[@fangoram29]

I was wondering this too. Surprised this comment doesn't have more likes

[@mrorcadood]

and voltorb

[@kylecampbell565]

Sometimes you have a brain fart and don’t think of that

[@TheGuyWhoIsSitting]

@@Dysll I know that, but there were Pokemon he had that could have been made a lot easier if he used HMs or TMs. I even said it in my post "I know there aren't a lot of reusable ones" because you can buy some in Celadon.

[@absolutexzerox1]

I actually never knew about the 2nd moon stone by fossil guy in mt moon. What a pleasant and informative video.

[@Mr.Tw1sty]

Lord Helix has blessed u

[@dmansuperich2800]

Weird, I thought Professor Oak's challenge was getting the 16 digits and date on the front and the 3 wacky digits on the back of some plastic card your mom owns.

[@bryanl6828]

5540-3271-9294-3719 9/21 453

[@oofxd9619]

4444-1337-4200-6969 4/20 420

[@therealone3536]

4206-9420-6942-0420 4/20 696

[@jasonh8409]

5118-7462-0275-7374 04/22 553

[@trinuwu7971]

11037-11037-11037 1/199X 11037

[@thecornmaker849]

8:37 Now that's what I call *SIN*

[@joncokejones9318]

John: Enters lavender town Me: Ends life

[@masapeeta4140]

I think you should have put unobtainable pokemon on the right side as you mentioned them to be easier to follow the totals

[@Dokabob]

Hey that’s me near the end of the video! I just beat my run of red like this about a month ago. Congrats dude I know how tedious it can be but I also found it a lot of fun. I was really excited to see this video pop up in my feed because the subreddit doesn’t have a lot of activity.

[@JohnstoneYT]

Hey dude! I was going to post this in the subreddit, but I didn't know if it was against the rules. I really want /r/professorOak to be really popular, so I'm glad that people are subbing to it!

[@Dokabob]

Johnstone I’d say go for it. The subreddit needs more posts and it is about your run through of the challenge so I think it should be fine.

[@juniordossantos6025]

@@Dokabob 34:14 the middle post is the one you posted

[@kierancampire]

So KZbin recommended me this as i have been watching a lot of stuff like this lately, and jesus am i glad it did, i got mental health issues and am overwhelmed insanely easily, and your intro, jesus it was like a cosy blanket enveloped me, your voice is SOOO soft and soothing, instant love!

[@jamesperrou6936]

I swear tfg that the minute he said "yeah im just gonna use the masterball" during the mewtwo fight, i got the sprint that that says "isnt it nice to keep thing simple?" Im dead

[@kahlialwashburn4919]

I forgot that gen 1 Golbat sprite is absolutely nightmare fuel

[@Xentillus]

It's horrific and goofy at the same time, I really don't know what to make of it

[@midekunedano9026]

Yellow has the best sprites

[@KhanMann66]

Which is why I avoid playing red and blue. Awful sprites.

[@chocolixo]

Only red and blue, red and green has a normal golbat

[@pedroaveline9562]

That's actually very close to what I'd do when I was a kid. I'd catch every available pokemon before each gym and level all of them up to a certain level cap (20 for brock, 25 for misty and so on), the grind was real.

[@Jghost11]

I did something similar but for brock it was 15 because I didn't have patience. (I also do 25 for Misty 30 for Surge and so on lol.) The grind requires patience but basically by doing this your team could be nearly as weak as you want and still be able to over power Leaders through Levels alone lol

[@DrawciaGleam02]

I did that in Pearl....without evolving my Pokemon.

[@rokr0001]

Actually, FireRed & LeafGreen do allow access to Vermilion City after completing Bill's event, even without the Cascade Badge…

[@boca3565]

This isnt firered and leafgreen though

[@NiggazHomie]

@@boca3565 Rewatch the video and then edit your comment.

[@choatixtherobot]

Mistake: You mentioned getting Mr. Mime after Misty - but you could have caught another Abra before Misty and traded for Mime.

[@jp92hellraiser]

Alex Watson he couldn’t get to the house without Cut

[@jstraight1667]

@@jp92hellraiser Yes he could. It's right at the exit of Diglett's Cave. You only need cut if you want to get there from Pewter City

[@jp92hellraiser]

j straight Yeah right you are bro my mistake!

[@90kalos1]

He did say he forgot

[@KingComanche]

I can't believe you poisoned that Abra banking on teleport failing. What a ballsy move. "Just when I thought you couldn't get any dumber, you go and do something like this... and totally redeem yourself!"

[@emperortgp2424]

Teleport fails in battle in gen 1

[@KingComanche]

@@emperortgp2424 I know. That was stated in my comment. It's not exactly a guaranteed fail though meaning that risking a failure to make it easier to catch was gutsy.

[@emperortgp2424]

Sorry, i thought it always failed

[@ByteSizedGamer]

Emperor TGP nah, in battle, teleport allows Abra to run from battle, which makes catching it painful

[@corby789]

​@@emperortgp2424 In case you wanted to know more. Teleport in Gen 1 has a chance to fail based on the user's and opponent's levels. He hat a level 33 Venusaur against a level 8 Abra. That translates to roughly a 19% fail chance in that specific case. The range is generally between 12.5% and 25% with a higher chance to fail, if the opponent is of a higher level.

[@HexOfTheRitual]

I LOVED THIS VIDEO, watched the whole thing. The editing on this video was AMAZING. Dude, the effort you put into this is impressive. Beyond the challenge I was mad impressed with how well this video was edited and narrated. Everything/10.

[@maxs713]

Lol! The OG Golbat sprite though! 14:27

[@cyber9Z]

I didnt know how fun it is to watch Pokemon videos. Please keep em coming, I love it!

[@JessieEchidna]

I facepalmed really hard when you wasted precious early Pokéballs on Metapod and Kakuna when literally your next action has to be evolving them and you're using their base forms anyway so you don't have to switch.

[@vyor8837]

Also not using Pokemon yellow.

[@basillah7650]

@@vyor8837 Yellow is not the first games pokemon games that came out blue,red and green (japanese only) are. Yellow came out 2 years later after gameboy color came out which is why yellow has better game color as well as letting you get the three starter pokemon. that is why they are in black and white. It's a second stand-alone game and you could catch pikachu in the original 3 games before the first gym anyways.

[@vyor8837]

@@basillah7650 it's a gen1 game and allows catching all 3 gen 1 starters

[@sachigame924]

Man, I always forget lickitung and Electebuzz were even in the first gen games, lol

[@Reinreith]

That's how I am with slugma, always thought he was a gen 3 Pokemon for years till I went back and replayed gen 2

[@Tobitube93]

@@Reinreith yes, like Corsola and Skarmory

[@Chaos0f7ife]

Fun fact, if you beat your rival on route 22 and immediately visit professor before going to viridian Forest, he will give you 5 pokeballs

[@PoggusAmogus]

For real?

[@Chaos0f7ife]

For real, give it a shot

[@basillah7650]

Yeah, pretty stupid how he did not know it since you can go back to starter town for healing up as well.

[@osc-omb47896]

@@basillah7650 viridian has a pokecenter

[@gengarzilla1685]

That's only if you have less than 2 Pokémon in your dex. Evolve the starter or catch something before talking to him and you'll miss them.

[@valerianheart6396]

Great video! Really interesting watching the challenge but I couldn't punish myself to do it, respect to you!

[@mrb692]

> picks dome fossil I should’ve known someone as masochistic as yourself would be an agent of the Dome! It’s alright, Lord Helix has love for all trainers, even heathens like you. Memes aside, great video, I love seeing GenWun busted apart like this!

[@thesuperbowser2]

remember when the tpp helix fossil meme was funny yeah me neither

[@visionaeon]

Death to the Dome and his false prophet! Praise Helix!

[@visionaeon]

@@thesuperbowser2 Poor you.

[@Zeturic]

You only have to beat Misty to go South from Cerulean in Let's Go. FRLG are just as open as the originals.

[@Alienldr]

I'm only guessing that most people just never paid attention to when officer Jenny moves, and just assumed it was the badge that triggered the event, backed up by how the other guy doesn't let you leave until you beat Brock

[@williambrown5934]

I would almost be tempted to try BUT I work so much and I like to be able to enjoy my free time, and this challenge would not be fun but stressful lol. Great video as ALWAYS (really goes without saying, so I don’t always say so lol).

[@MitchellNabkey]

First video in this series, great to watch!

[@KrishDamany]

I remember attempting this a while back and gave up. I’m glad you were able to do this haha

[@renaxakai3]

Imagine doing this in BW/B2W2, or *shuders* SM/USUM. That exp loss for higher levels..

[@JohnstoneYT]

Rena Ami Akai I’m confident if you did USUM you’d max out the game time. There are something like 70 Pokemon before the first trial 😳

[@cylasbreakdown6140]

999:59...that’s hard to comprehend

[@renaxakai3]

@@cylasbreakdown6140 With how the exp works in gens 5 and 7, it can take a long time to level up, and having so many to level also adds to it.

[@renaxakai3]

@@AncientED5 Gen 6 removed the exp change that gen 5 added. For some stupid reason, they brought it back in gen 7. I hope it goes away again, and never returns. Yes it is great when you are underleveled, but when trying to get to level 100 when you can't fight anything higher than level 60, it becomes a huge pain. The only way to really level at that point is to use as many buffs as you can, and fight the highest level of highest exp givers that you can. Not really good. You can end up only getting 1 or 2 exp from a battle.

[@samwilson4870]

I suppose at least EXP share and exp from catching wild pokemon helps in Gen 6 and 7

[@Lastclerk3]

I would love to see someone do this in yellow where you can get a slightly fuller Pokédex due to the fact that you can get the 3 other starters. It would also have the advantage of not having to evolve your starter at all because it rejects the thunderstone

[@haggis53]

You truly have god-level patience. You deserve so much more attention than you get. AWESOME work!

[@aykut04]

subbed to see u do this for every generation game. also a suggestion, i think it would be nice if you added images of the badges you've collected so far, maybe illuminating them once acquired. you could place it between the counter and game cover artwork, and it doesn't need to be big, just enough to keep in mind how many are completed so far. keep up the good work.

[@Igorcastrochucre]

I have a challenge inspired by that feature in newer games that remind you the party you challenge every Gym Leader with: 1. You MUST catch the first Pokémon you find in every Route, if you defeat it, you have to catch one of the same species before doing anything else. 2. When your party is full, your newest catch must replace your oldest. Which means if I reach the place where I can get my 7th Pokémon, it replaces my starter, the next one must replace the 2nd Pokémon I got and so on and so forth. You get to try Pokémon at every place and each Gym Leader feels challenging, since you can't get attached to them too much, since some Pokémon might leave your party as soon as they arrive you'll tackle Gyms and battles head-on with minimal grinding. Stuff like Selfdestruct that I never used, suddenly became viable since that Pokémon will leave the party eventually.

[@JohnstoneYT]

The crazy thing is that I pretty much did something this in a video about a year back. I did a nuzlocke where I had to swap out Pokemon once I got to a full party, so every encounter was added to my party. It was actually really fun!

[@Igorcastrochucre]

@@JohnstoneYT It's definitely Nuzlocke-inspired, but without perma-death. So that major battles become a game of "How little do I have to grind in order to win with my current team? ", almost like a puzzle.

[@raditzace]

Probably a lot harder of a challenge is one I called "the ace challenge". Rule 1) only allowed to have 6 Pokemon total (none in box unless fainted) Rule 2) if it faints, it's dead. Throw away. Rule 3) the first Pokemon on the route is what you have to catch if you decide to bypass the route and catch a 6th Pokemon if one faints (so instance, passing on kakuna in veridian forest means if you decide to go back, you HAVE to catch kakuna). And rule 4) special nickname for them so the fear of losing the Pokemon becomes even greater. (Also they are your family in the game, and all family members deserve a name) So basically, nuzlocke but only have a total of 6 at a time (no back ups in pc).

[@azurechan]

This is a really interesting challenge that I had never heard of until now. I really enjoyed this video!

[@PlayerTwoYT]

Recently got back into pokemon and mainly only gen 1 because I was raised in that generation haha! This is epic and an immensely detailed video! Excellent work!

[@KokuroSame]

You absolutely earned my like. This was INSANE!!!

[@matthewdodd1262]

Hey Johnstone I wanted to bring to your attention that you failed by making a slight error. By passing theough digletts cave, you can get to the Mr. Mime trade before gaining access to cut

[@xanimosityxgaming2664]

He also missed mankey iirc it's on route 5

[@Aunini]

@@xanimosityxgaming2664 he evolved mankey literally right before beating misty though Mr mime was obtained out of order however, meaning this video is a lie :P

[@Valientlink]

oof

[@aghostwiener]

I absolutely loved this video i always shy away for videos more than 15 minutes but you just did 82 hrs on my easy 200 plus back in 98 without no game sharks or guides. Awesome vid man.

[@kaznosa]

Really enjoying your content!! Keep it up :)

[@malotic]

Love the dedication John ❤️

[@mag1cally569]

"that's worth one jiggle..." is my favorite quote for this vid

[@blakehibner5746]

I respect your grind plus you make it fun to watch.

[@DoctorPepper445]

dude, you're literally so insane. love your vids. you've definitely earned my like

[@Goldfly2005]

This is impressive! I’ll note, though, that you could have used the Surf HM to speed up a LOT of levelling, especially for the water types.

[@AsiJirka]

I have to say, I'm genuinely impressed. I would have given up in about an hour. :)

[@jacques1098]

Oh my god man you have a crazy amount of patience or insanity either way bravo!

[@JustSaiyan69]

Mad respect takes guts of steel to do such a challenge congrats man love the content keep it up!!!

[@ejmrulz]

"60p = 1 jiggle" made me lmao. Great vid.

[@intigim5861]

He has betrayed our Lord and Savior Helix, and joined forces with the Dome

[@elrichzann]

why would you pick omastar over kabutops?

[@intigim5861]

elrichzann You don't know about Lord Helix?

[@jordanmartinez2573]

i knew somebody will put this

[@miker5445]

@@intigim5861 id like to learn of lord helix

[@mrorcadood]

I still pick helix every Kanto playthrough for the memes

[@Fabitzo]

I admire your patience and hard work. Top notch content!

[@MikeRolls17]

Love these vids! Keep up the great work

[@napoleon2564]

Dear God... I hope the 500k views was worth it...

[@thomasmurphy8331]

130,000 likes later in only 3 days

[@Att441_]

well it's 10k now... so guess you doing gen 2!!!

[@RatusMax]

you talking about the view count? it seems to have blew up...and it was recommended to me because I watched the nintendo sword and shield trailer.

[@b.clarenc9517]

It's already 20k now!

[@MidnightFallz]

B. Clarenc 428K

[@b.clarenc9517]

@@MidnightFallz We are considering upvotes, not views

[@neobro234]

B. Clarenc “upvotes”

[@adriangutierrez7686]

This is the first time I've heard of this type of challenge. I find it entertaining to see and its great you are giving a shoutout to the reddit. I dont use reddit but this will bring more attention to it. I would personally not attempt this, but I would want to try a "catchable" version of this (basically skipping the grinding to evolve parts) and still make it interesting for myself.

[@Shaljroan30750]

Thank you for uploading this. You're a great youtuber, i appreciate you.

[@diealex4241]

Caught a random shiny Abra in Gen 2 on my GameBoy today. 😍😍😍 (Just dropping this here because I‘m soooo happy lol) Now I’m pumped for this video, your videos are always so great. 🥰💖

[@otis9427]

I got a Shiny Igglybuff! Congrats to you good sir

[@otis9427]

Yesterday^

[@tokki03]

Who's Alex and what did they do?

[@diealex4241]

somewhere nice I‘m Alex, and because I usually get mistaken for a dude with that name, I put the female article „die“ in front of it (it’s german). 😂 Doesn’t translate too well I suppose.. 😅

[@tokki03]

@@diealex4241 Ohh thanks for the clarification xD

[@2Pro4Name]

Surely you can use the trainers before brock/gym masters to level up pokemon faster and get some early cash? (doesn't get you the badge which is what the challenge states)

[@beta511ee4]

Gabe Well, only his Diglett (much like what JRose11 did in his non-glitched Magikarp run).

[@Jappeli026]

Yo, hats off to you brotha. This is just stupid insane what you did for us. You didn’t have to do this, but you did it for us. Massive props, thank you for the effort and it was an honour to beat witness to this feat!

[@tofudaddyy]

I learned about a hidden Moon Stone 21 years after I started playing Pokemon. Great work.

[@llililillilliilli905]

your channel is a must sub for every pokemon fan

[@RasenRendanX]

This man deserves a medal just for the Pidgy grinding alone

[@adhSwede]

If you do a similar style video in the future, a nice thing could be adding a time estimate counter on the right side of your layout. Great vid, subbed!

[@Irmavep666]

Get that Dome! The pidgey grind should make you a saint btw

[@minerrem7188]

*picks dome fossil* Me: you are a disgrace, all hail lord helix

[@Pancakes_Master]

Minerrem no

[@LokiScarletWasHere]

Yay, I found another dome guy. I'm not alone ^_^

[@Kroopsio]

Congrats! This is wicked impressive

[@grandprix3183]

These videos are awesome... I don't have the patience to sit there for 17 hours grinding one Pokemon, so yeah you definitely get a thumbs up

[@shadislam868]

21 years old and I spent 30 minutes watching this whole video instead of going out clubbing with my friends lol priorities, learned so much from this thanks Johnstone!

[@retr0_amp]

My only real comment is that you should have evolved Nidorino and Nidorina before Jigglypuff and Clefairy as you caught them first... but I could just be grasping at straws here.

[@krystlspoonz]

As a 9-10 year old I used to do this. But if also trade over from another game to get everything. I love that it's a challenge these days.

[@spikelee5716]

This brings me full of nostalgia, back on 1999 when i started playing the American version, i could not understand a word of English so i tried to do all these crazy things you can imagine to try and progress in the game, this was one of them. Good times, good video.