Can You Complete the Pokedex Only Using Surprise Trade? 

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

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

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

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

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

Poor Peter

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

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

Oh no

Imagine if they forgot their everstone

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

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

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

@@smudged4090 Interesting. Thanks for the info m8.

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

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

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

Mikeyplier

Yes! The more yelling the better!

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

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

@@budthatisblue6941 no it’s still Just katie

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

I used the GTS in USUM

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

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

@@rique3849 absol blogs

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

...Omega Ruby has surprise trades?

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

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

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

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

Melodramatic Mikey gives me life.

Dont you mean "surprise" us 😉😉😉

Your right

literally

*Managing

@@Julia.Taunton-Clark99 🤓

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

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

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

@@agentomecha634 thank you for helping me :)

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

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

@@SomeAwesomeNameHere Yes it is I. Hello brother!

Came here to comment this lol

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is that? And are there other groups?

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

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

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

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

Agreed. It's realy fun to watch

"Spring Break! I believe in you!"

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

Came here to say this!

Dimension 20 is sooooo good

@@timtamtube3683 I know

@@timtamtube3683 it really is

D20 is Jedi approved

Congrats on the shinies!

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

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

Probably

😂

Yea

it's hacked though

No, it's a genesect!

Ikr

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

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

Yeah, I do that too.

I love this! I'm gonna start doing that too.

Also agreed

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

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

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

Sorry I meant Fluttermanr lol

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

Honest question: how can you tell?

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

@@TlocRevelc ahhh ok I getcha :)

Mikey is going to absolutely despise this

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

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

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

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

Bidoof dod has blessed you. Hail yeah.

I 100% agree!

He would spend eternity, because Koraidon can't be surprise traded. Same with Miraidon.

Uh, no, that's definitely hacked.

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

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

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

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

Also when you got that hacked shiny Frigibax, I got one too randomly, nicknamed HappyNewYear. Weird how these things happen.

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

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

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

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