HOW EASILY CAN YOU COMPLETE A LIVING NATIONAL DEX IN POKEMON BRILLIANT DIAMOND/SHINING PEARL? 

John: Please, honey trees, can I have a Heracross? Honey trees: Best we can do is 30 mangos.

Its my dream to see a full living shiny dex in all generations. That would be amazing but near impossible.

It's surprisingly easier to do now because of the fact the national dex is cut down to just these two games

I found not one but TWO munchlaxes on TWO DIFFERENT honey trees before I found a SINGLE heracross two days after the second one. Needless to say the trees don't like me.

When I was Feebas hunting on original Ruby back in the day, I found a Shiny Carvanha before I found a Feebas.

FYI, the effect of the luxury ball works even if the pokemon inherited the luxury ball through breeding. So, you can get the luxury ball effect while also starting at 120 friendship from hatching. Not as nice as the friend ball effect, but paired with a soothe bell, stat reducing berries and the 100 steps thing, you can get it high very quickly.

I still remember going on Route 225 and using my Action Replay to collect each and every Pokemon in Pokemon Pearl in order to complete the National Dex. Those were good times.

i love that theyre making the national dex not necessarily easier, but more cost efficient, if you buy sword+shield and the dlcs you have a massive chunk done right there, a lot of what youre missing is in this game as well, so the grind is still there but theyre all very focused into a couple games now.

So you’re telling me someone can in fact complete a living National dex solo ? (Except for trade evolutions). Unprecedented. Wonderful. I want all future games to enable that, even if it’s only small scale.

I was recently inspired by you to attempt the Alola regional dex… I forgot my how useful/horrible Pokémon calling allies was! I’ve got more than half before the end of the story, so it’s going strong!

That moment when John has a living national dex before you have your starter cause your shiny hunting

19:16 “I feel like I’m in a MATH PROBLEM!” -Johnstone 2021

Love that you keep the "but how'd I do?" Even though we just saw u catch them all 😄

He caught 'em all, including all the mangoes! Also, Budew in Platinum was my first shiny, so I love seeing your shiny Budew here.

Thanks for the stroll down memory lane, I still have my living dex in Pokémon home, all of which I been collecting sense Platinum (I been playing sense red, never transferred until it was gen 4 to 5), man Heart Gold and Soul Silver where amazing.

Really cool! I didn’t know it was called a living dex, but I have been doing this for every game since Yellow! I’m only missing Heracross and Feebas (for obvious reason) in BD (and a few Trophy garden/Swarms exclusives). Waiting for my friend with SP for the trade Pokémon.

That thing with finding Munchlax on the tree before finding Heracross also happened to me when I was hunting for Heracross in Platinum. Makes me wonder if Heracross is actually the super rare one

Johnstone falling for the Haunter trade gave me way too much joy

I stumbled on this video a couple of months back and started working on a living dex as well. I revisited my old games and imported them to home, which was a mess since I did not sort my boxes at all. Right now, I'm about 30 Pokémon left to complete the living Dex in BD and it has been a fulfilling and fun experience!

Mathematically, when trying to get a Feebas, fishing each square once is a better strategy than fishing it two or three times. The probability of catching a Feebas on your first tile is 4/528 * 1/2. That is, 4/528 chance of being on the correct tile, and 1/2 chance of seeing the Feebas there. This equates to about a 0.3% chance. However, if we fish on that tile and see a different pokemon, we have new information about that tile, which means the probability of finding a feebas there updates. Using a formula for conditional probability (i.e. the probability of seeing a Feebas given that you've already seen another Pokemon on that square), the new probability of finding a Feebas on that square turns out to be about 0.19%. Because the probability of finding Feebas on that one tile decreases after seeing another Pokemon, the probability of finding Feebas on some other tile must increase, which means investigating a new tile is always better than investigating the same tile again.

Brilliant checklist I'm about to reset on my diamond copy to attempt this so I applaud the effort you to man.

Whenever I do a Living Dex, I always fully evolve everything then breed it to get the previous forms. I hate catching duplicates of the same Pokemon. It's also easier to just spend a day hatching eggs and leveling them up in a few battles.

As always, I respect the determination. You crazy, crazy s.o.b. Can't wait to see you hit 300k brother!

I summoned heracross, I told him I found mine and the next tree he checked he found his. It’s thanks to me John was able to find it. You’re all welcome. Seriously tho even tho I watched like 90% of all the streams this video was absolutely fantastic. The content you put out is always fantastic and I can’t wait for more. Keep it up John :)

this spreadsheet will be so helpful, love the content bro!

YES! YES! YEEEEEES! I was hoping so much you would do this video! I plan on completing the national Dex for the first time ever in these games. I'll try on my own, but if i ever get stuck i might just get here again and look for advice. Thank you!

congrats john!! great video as always :))

My Feebas hunt only took like an hour and a half. Great content. Wonderful vid

Love how during the intro you played like, the best route music

I was watching this video as I was going around in Legends and just as you showed the Shiny Budew you got, I found one myself at an outbreak. Almost missed it too because it was under a tree's shadow, making the colors more difficult to spot, and I didn't hear the sound either, lol.

I caught munchlax as my first honey tree encounter and thought of you. I felt like you did when you found the feebas :)

your videos are genuinely so good

I’ve almost completed my living dex for this game. I was following the platinum dex though and now the only Pokemon I need are nosepass and probopass, swarms are a pain haha.

Saw some of the stream as well! Video turned out fantastic

About the Feebas tile change, I’m fairly sure it doesn’t work quite the way he said. I entered the room to start fishing at 11:58pm and finally found it the next day at around 4pm without closing the game. After catching a bunch of feebas to trade my friends (I’m all out of feebas please don’t ask me for any) AND taking a screenshot of my location so I could continue to fish after trading in the same day, I went back to catch more feebas. To my surprise, even though it was still the same day and I went to the same tile, there was no feebas. I’m confident that the feebas tiles are locked upon entry to the room and if the time rolls to the next day, the tiles are only reset when you exit the room. Because I entered the room 2 minutes before the switch, the tiles were already primed to switch as soon as i left, but didn’t actually switch because i stayed in the room. If this is the case, it means you could fish in the same spot for weeks and still get feebas because the tiles don’t change. TLDR; Feebas tiles don’t spontaneously switch when the next day rolls over. They switch when the next day rolls over AND you leave the room.

So I started the game on the 27th of november and got Heracross on the 4th of december with 7 badges. It's so hard to find. Really nice video.

Yo awesome for the shiny Roserade, one of my favorites ever. Great vid as always!

This video is gold. Hilarious and informative

Can’t wait for the professor oak’s challenge in this game. It’s gonna be insane with the underground.

I can’t remember how but I used some weird site to figure out the spots where feebas was in on the particular day I was on. I think it had something to do with the lotto ticket day number and you would put the number on the site and it would tell you the spots it was in, thats too bad you didn’t know about that it would have helped a ton lol. And heracross was a huge pain for me

I really hope he does another excel tutorial, the first part of the video was really helpful

The madlad has done it again!

The Professor Oak challenge in this game is going to be wild!

This is what I’m gonna do next in BDSP! Thank you for the advice John, love your content.

I like that fixing your pen broke your Switch. Blowing on it just passed the broken-ness on to the next available object

I havent seen your videos in like.. a year so its kool to see your face and that you stream now! Ill be looking forward when Arceus is out and what videos you make for that

Watching the Feebas part and I am so glad there's the poke lotto method... saved me so much time

Thank you for the video, I had a great time=)

THE LEGEND IS BACK!

I completed basically everything besides daily pokemon a week ago, since then I've been searching for leaf stones and kabuto fossils in the underground with no luck. But hey, atleast I have 50 thunder- and fire stones.

So you can catch everything with regular poke balls wow respect

Watching the video: sure John 😃 Watching THE STREAM: LET'S GO

This dude takes gotta catch ‘em all to a whole other level

Bomb videos 🔥💪🏻

You're looking really good btw, dude. I'll have to watch the vid to know whether that part is good. :P

That Heracross grind was just evil lol! Took me a lot longer than it should've because I kept forgetting to check the trees hahaha!

This was the first stream of yours i popped into and i clicked on this video so fast

Good stuff John

re: feebas, i learned that suction cups is bugged to do nothing, but no guard or arena trap will make you land a fish every time. also there's a calculator where if you input your lottery numbers from the jubilife lottery, you can narrow down your feebas tiles

Fun fact, you can get a Spiritomb as soon as you get to the broken tower thing. It takes way way longer since you have to rely A LOT more on rng, but it’s doable.

1:26 you're the 4th person I've seen have a shiny during this encounter that's absolutely wild to me

Wouldn't have pegged John as a Claire fan, but that's pretty darn cool.

I see you made the same mistake I did and had an Octillery in front for Feebas, suction cups no longer helps with fishing; no guard, however, does

Great video john

Hey man wanna say thanks for the google doc it has been very helpful however I do want to let you know about a mistake in there, it says to get a wynaut you need to breed a wobbuffet holding an odd incense but it actually needs to hold a lax incense

greatest video out on this platform

thanks for the great content :)

you already finished?! LEGEND

I lost my mind with the oras national dex and watching you do the sinnoh national dex dang you were out of your mind. I salute you my man. I salute you.

Finally, its out. I was never able to make it to the streams

You did amazing!!!

Finally made it into a video pretty pog

Watching this video is making me want to make my own living dex.

Love the thumbnail John

great video brah

16:20 tips for great marsh 21:45 chain exclusive pokemon

Yay! I love these

Looking forward to see you do professor oak challenge in this game

35:15 Oh man I wondered who traded that Spinda with the funny name (which you all should do on Twitch by the way)

Yay! Johntent!

Currently watching you stream at the moment this went up

I have been playing since Pokemon Ruby version. I played through D/P many times, and only had the one file on Platinum where I had completed nearly everything, even buying all the furniture in the VIlla. I never saw a Honey Tree Munchlax until BDSP... And I wanted Heracross for my Shining Pearl team. On both games, I was slathering the trees. It took 2 weeks to find a Heracross.

"I feel like a math problem!" Accurate 🤣

great video !

Im working a living dex for this now, ive always done a living dex for each gen

I come back to this video once so often just to watch the mango part. Lmao funny everytime 😂

I find it hilarious to see you do a contest with Regigigas. Regigigas: "I do not deserve this humiliation!!!" X(

My Pokémon red & blue both have a living dex ..... On my way to doing the yellow version .. and about 45 Pokémon are also level 100 (glitchless) .. with this video I will be now be doing this in bd and sp too

I loved those streams

Nobody is safe from Mindy and her Haunter holding an Everstone.

Best videos to fall asleep to

I’m at a similar point you were at near the end. I only need Slakoth, Dunsparce, Makuhita, and Nosepass.

So, I found a Munchlax on my tenth Honey Tree encounter without actually trying to find it. I was looking for Heracross for my team…but I think Snorlax will do :p

Lets go john!!

I got so lucky with Feebas. I had set aside an entire day to get it, then found it on the second tile I tried

21:11 great transition :)

what a gamer grind

Kricketune with a master ball killed me. LMFAO

Man, I got exhausted just listening to everything you’ve gotta do to complete it lol

“How many times can I speedrun these games while eating 30 mangoes?”