HOW EASILY CAN YOU COMPLETE PROFESSOR OAK'S CHALLENGE IN POKEMON RUBY/SAPPHIRE? 

John: Encounters 1000 Whismurs Also John: Finds 2 shinies that aren't Whismurs

Can you imagine walking into that cave? Seeing nothing but hundreds of fainted whismurs lmao

Zigzagoon only evolves once... Sword and Shield: I tHiNk NoT

"money isn't going to be a problem in this challenge" (Sells 99 nuggets)

18:28 "Spin..., no wait I already have that pattern. Spinda". I was laughing my guts out, nice callback.

Battling and Gyms: 0.1% Grinding: 99.9%

At least you could always keep that shiny in your party because of pickup ability!

18:28 "I already have that pattern" *switches to another Spinda*

Feebas: I am the most annoying Pokemon to catch! [phone rings] Feebas: Yes? Munchlax: h i

19:41 “We can break the rocks to reunite the couple who can’t step over boulders half their size.” Dude, you are savage.

This challenge must be a nightmare in Unova what with everything evolving so late. I’m looking at you Mr. Lv64 Hydreigon

Roxanne: I see you have no gym badges. I will go easy on you and use my weaker Pokemon. **Sends out a level 14 Geodude** John: **Sends out his fully evolved Pokemon that is 8 levels higher** Roxanne: Wait...What?

*Finds a shiny Psyduck* John: "Search for a weird looking Psyduck"

I don’t think John knows how many people have been waiting for this video.

I love the idea of this trainer just wandering the region with five ferrets racing around their feet grabbing anything they can get their cute little paws on; even in the midst of a serious trainer battle.

Everyone talks about shiny psyduck Shiny zigzagoon: Am i a joke to you?

*Sees notification: " HOW EASILY CAN YOU COMPLETE THE POKEDEX IN POKEMON RSE?" My brain: *FEEBAS*

30:12 I rewatch this video alot while I clean my house just for a bit of background noise, and I just now realised this Psyduck is shiny.

John:Zigzagoon only evolves once. Zigzagoon: hold my held item.

You already know what you have to do next, John. Keep putting out quality content like always!

When John had more Pokemon in under one badge than Ash in his entire lifetime.

30:11 That's the most casual reaction to finding a shiny I've ever heard lol

20:36 Fun fact, Flame Body only had the effect of halving the steps need for hatching from Emerald onward

*"Where we watch Archie steal the wrong orb because he forgot what color Kyogre is."* 💀 OK John, that hit me in the giggles 😂

Ash: I'm gonna catch em all John: Hold my potion

I saw the title and cried for him when I thought of Feebas and Milotic 😂

“a little over leveled for the gym” *John walks in with his team of Full Evolution Pokemon*

Bro, with the amount of effort you put into these videos, you deserve WAY more subs. Keep it up! :)

A badge counter would be awesome for these, maybe right above the pokedex total.

"Wait no I already have that one..." I swear if one day I see a "HOW EASILY CAN YOU CATCH EVERY PATTERN OF SPINDA?" Video...

"Kyogre who watched the whole entire thing and was so blown away by our sick skills that he literally rocketed to the sky" Wow so Kyogre thinks we are cool Haaa take that Archie we were more impressive than you could ever be!

Random person: I don’t have enough money to buy pokéballs! John with his nugget farm: is this some peasant joke I’m too rich to understand?

Of all the things that amazed me, the "Each Pokemon underwater has a 5% chance to hold a shard of each respective colour" was something I never knew as a kid. Super nice re-living these games. It feels like I'm re-playing the game in each of these videos, but instead of having to see a playthrough of 20 hours, I see and learn a lot more within a fraction of the time. Your vids are truly something special and I thank you for all the effort.

1:56 'Gives out a pretty solid amount of exp' N O I C E

80+ Hours for a video that didnt get 2M+ views.. *sadness noises*

"He forgot what colour Kyogre is." It never crossed my mind how stupid it was when I was young, lmao. xD

8:20 only about 24 hours of grinding for first 28 mons.... “And now for the hard part” These challenges are brutal and beautiful at the same time.

Can we appreciate how much of a savage John is with his little bits of amazing comments about little things?

"Lets take on the longest part of this challenge" *notices video is only halfway through* Me: ...oh boi ._.

Pikasprey already torn apart his mind, don't fall into insanity like him.

30:11 laughed so hard for your weird looking psyduck :D how lucky can you be to get a shiny one??

"We're going to catch Sandshrew, Skarmory, and Spi- no wait I already have that pattern" Hang on what

Using Zigzagoons to get nuggets and other special items. *_STONKS!_*

should have left 2 minutes of silence after the zapdos joke

Professor Oak’s challenge in Platinum. May the Lord have mercy on your soul because friendship Budew, Golbat, seven Eeveelutions, Gible, Tree Munchlax, etc...

“After showing dad who the real trainer is” love the content, thanks

John: catch a carvanah at a high level to save time grinding *catches sharpedo*

Getting the Makuhita in the first trade is actually a popular speedrunning strat since it get the boosted EXP

I can’t wait for Gen 4’s Professor Oak Challenge.

How is it that you find and catch 2 shinies in one playthrough and it took me 6 years to even come across one?

True story; when I first played Sapphire back in 2003, not only did I do the trade for the Makuhita, but I kept it on my team, where it became one of my core members. It's been so long since I played, but I think I also had a Swampert and Swellow on my team as well.

You should put the number of badges you have in that empty space above the Pokedex Total. I'm not sure about everyone else but I lose track of how many you have.

I appreciate this RU-vidr because of the effort that every video has, I think it's a pretty underrated RU-vidr

I had no clue that you could play around with the order of gyms like this..

4:13 I love how happy he sounds when he says "Skitty!"

Another great challenge!! This looks like the most fun one to me imo thanks to the rare candies, but that might also just be my Hoenn bias leading me to believe that! Not being able to Fly that long must have been fairly frustrating! Also, I'm sure these things have been mentioned by people in the comments before, but I figured I might as well note them here in case they haven't: -Slugma's ability actually doesn't reduce the hatch time until Emerald, much like the Compoundeyes ability, so your Wynaut hatch was still the full time -Magneton and Electrode present an interesting dilemma in New Mauville, since they're both available in the wild there at 1% - I wonder if it would be quicker to chance finding them and catching them or if it would pay off more in the long run to grind for more candies with Voltorb and Magnemite like you did -I had NO IDEA you could fish at Ever Grande before using Waterfall - I always thought that Luvdisc was the most pointless post-badge 8 Pokemon (still doesn't make it any more useful though lol) -Was happy to see "WHY" take up residence in the party as a pickup-er after a while LOL Great and inspiring video as always, man!!

22:59 The last two Pokémon we're going to evolve are *Grimer and Muk*

Finds Shiny Zigzagoon, notices it. "In the northwest section we can surf for a weird-looking Psyduck..." Shiny Psyduck: "Am i a joke to you?"

You inspired me to begin doing my own professor oak’s challenge runs and today I completed my sapphire run with a time of 89:43. It was surprisingly fun (except hunting feebas, that was tedious af). Thank you for getting me into these challenges and keep up the good work.

"Spi- Wait no I already have that pattern" Mathmatically unlikely - I learned that from you Nice easter egg

Magma armor and flame body didn’t speed up hatching eggs until Pokémon Emerald

omg this is my first time watching videos like these. I didn't even know this was a challenge, but I loved your video. Your humor is on point. Loved the "weird looking psyduck", the timing when you cut off your zapdos-intolerance joke, archie's inability to remember kyogre's color, etc. lol

I want to thank you John. I’ve been binge watching your videos through my recent depressive spell. It’s been to nice to have you along, keeping me company.

there's a water stone in the capsized ship (whatever it's called) between slateport and dewford, so you could have evolved lombre a lot earlier

“Scolded by one of Like, two people with facial hair in this region.” Scot’s right, we need more beards in Pokémon.

I know that you probably aren't going to see this, but you might not have actually finished this challenge. It's an extremely rare occurrence, but there is a small chance that you can see the TV flashing in either the player's house or a random building on any day. It's possible to find a Swarm of Pokémon that you can't normally find in your game, such as Seedot in Sapphire. I remember reading a forum online years ago about this, and I was just reminded when going through my original Sapphire's save that I backed up and was checking, with the TV telling me about the Swarm of Seedot on Route 102. So while Swarms supposedly only occur after beating the game... you're still needing to catch those Seedot as well as any other Pokemon that are Swarm exclusive.

3:22 “It only took about fifteen minutes to find both of them” Boi I just started replaying Emerald and it took me two and a half hours to find a Ralts share your RNG luck

Me : sees a Johnstone notification Also me : the fastest click in the west !

I can't wait to see if you do pokemon x or y Also, congrats on getting two shiny pokemon and catching the psyduck in the safari zone

It’s videos like yours and other channels like this that have rekindled my love for these games! Thank you for that!

I love this game a lot but my most memorable moment was when I was going through New Mauville in my Pokemon Emerald copy I found a Shiny Magnemite 😄

that zapdos joke gave me second-hand shame. keep up the good work lol

can't wait 'til you reach XY I started my own Professor Oak Challenge there and now I'm married to the Battle Chateau

I have not skipped all the ads as a way to appreciate your effort! Such a good series bro, takes a lot of patience and dedication to complete this one.

Good luck on DPP, incredible sloooowwww games. Anyway, loving the series

22:58 "The last two Pokémon for this section are Grimer and Muk."

"Why couldn't the electric type Pokémon eat any ice cream?" "Because he was overcharged."

John: imma use treeco--- True green 7: **happiness noise**

I really like watching your professor oak challenges. I'm even attempting my own Ruby Prof oak challenge right now. Working on first section and I am already questioning my sanity lol. I am amazed you keep doing it. But I know for sure that I love it so hope to see more soon

Dude, you are amazing. The amount of work and time you put into this shows how much you love Pokemon. Keep at it ^_^

You're so committed in ensuring the challenge is complete while at the same time providing quality content. Keep up the good work!

level 15 carvanha "3 times their level" level 23 breloom .....?

BY FAR my favorite challenge series! really love these!

I can't imagine how hard Diamond and Pearl will be, great work on this series

"Weird looking psyduck" yes. Keep up the good work, these are amazing.

Gotta be honest, the reminder at the end to like a vid is so worth it. This isn’t as small of a “byte” as an Instagram reel or something so I often forget to like the videos of my favorite creators. But I did make sure to like this one!

18:27 'I already have that pattern.' 😂😂😂 That change is so low, you should definitely get it. :P

Ash: My goal is to be a POKEMON MASTER POKEMON MASTER: catch them all and beat the league Johnstone:hold my beer

I can't get enough of these videos. They're so well presented, it's just easy to spend almost an hour watching the entire thing. Bravo, Johnstone.

Amazing. You took the time and effort into completing the Pokedex. Well done!

I just subbed, this channel is awesome and really deserves more subs

It's incredible how much effort you put into your videos. You could've just listed what was possible but no, You actually did it all. Insane, but I respect you so much

Do a professor Oaks challenge for Pokémon platinum!

22:57 “The last 2 Pokemon for this section are Grimer and Muk” 😂

"We can talk to this fisherman and receive that GOOD ROD"

I was actually horde hunting for a shiny ralts in my pokemon omega ruby game while watching this video, I found a shiny zigzagoon literally 2 minutes before he said he found one.

30:12 "in the north we can find a weird looking pysduck" cant believe you got two shinies this playthrough

I love these videos so much. You're also unbelievably hilarious. THANK YOU FOR THE AMAZING CONTENT

28:05 "We then meet up with Steven again, who doesn't really have anything to say..." -- I'm glad I'm not the only one who found that scene weird.

A team with Sceptile and having +400.000 pokequarters before the first gym Im- 30:11 shINY PSYDUC-