How I Beat Shining Pearl Using Only Weak Pokemon 

I enjoyed our super fair trade buddy!

I chose the team off of base stat totals and the goal was to show off the Pokemon, not say they were bad! Only respect for my king da doof

"There are no weak pokemon, only weak trainers" Sun tzu- The Art of War

i can’t even beat this game with good pokémon 😭

Still can't believe he beat Cynthia on his first try. That's incredible. I will never disrespect Bibarel again

Pachirisu is a VGC world champ, clearly not weak ;)

I love that the second "B" from the Unown spelling "Subscribe" was actually a V, so John actually gave Unown the wrong name lol

John doesn't know that Saturn's a boy. Nobody tell him.

“Strong Pokémon. Weak Pokémon. That is only the selfish perception of people. Truly skilled trainers should try to win with their favorites” -some blue haired woman from johto

Back when the original Diamond&Pearl came out I used a Pachirusu and leveled it to 100...then I found a shiny one and got it too lvl100 too

Even as a joke it genuinely hurts to see you release a Mew, my favorite Pokémon.

That was far better than my cynthia fight, 30 revives later and what killed garchomp was a leech seed that would only activate when my houndoom loved me enough to dodge or survive on 1

Dude, finally a shining pearl run, everyone does brilliant diamond I swear

Allow me to say something: I've always found it hilarious how Flint is the one making all the puns about his type. "Let Flint see how hot your spirit burns!" "Agh.. Burnt right down to cinders.." And it makessense that Mr. Ronald McDonald would be the funny one.

For a purely introduced-in-Gen-4 team, the weakest six fully evolved Pokémon (according to stats) would be Kricketune (384), Pachirisu (405), Bibarel (410), Wormadam/Mothim (424), Purugly (452), and Carnivine (454). However, with unevolved pokemon, we have Kricketot (194), Burmy (224), Combee (244), Starly (245), Bidoof (250 - the same stat total as Smeargle), and Shinx (263). It’s interesting how baby Pokémon with such low stats can (sometimes) become such powerful team members later on. Also, I didn’t realize Smeargle’s stats were that awful until I did my research, yikes.

I think my absolute favorite moment from this video is: PokeMEN7: Leading off with the souls of the damned...? Also PokeMEN7: I have a bug with a mustache.

this honestly made me smile so much :D your enthusiasm and sheer joy for your beloved teammates is !!! so great !!!! i still think lightyear deserved better but wormy boi was good too! hats off to bruce too!!! love the little guy

I just love the Chatot song edits. It is so funny! Great job John and Tyler! Keep it up!

I played a nuzlocke of this game as my first play through and had pachirisu on my team and named it "slayer" It really lived up to its name surprisingly (it survived until the end and was one of my most reliable team members ^^)

"just smile and wave boys" killed me

Okay ngl, catching enough Unown to spell "Subscribe" and then naming a team member that is the best self sellout I've seen

This was your best video yet! Great editing, hype sound design, cracking humor… I’m usually never into casual but this kind of playthrough I can get behind!

Title : how I beat shining pearl using only weak Pokemons John : *uses a bibarel*

"There's no such thing as weak pokemon, only weak trainers"- That one water chef in Kalos maybe

I've used kricketune. It was a good pokemon, give it sticky web, sword dance, fury cutter and a metronome. Boom everything dies.

I cant wait for challenges you'll be doing with Mikey

I actually really like pachirisu and they aren't as bad as they seem

I love how chararp fainted half of the teams that you fought 😂😂

In Shield I used the gift Eevee for my play through. She was the weakest ‘Mon, but dang, could she Retaliate and Gigantimax! I kept her around as the team mascot

I used Pachirisu on my main BDSP team and it's actually pretty good.

"honey tree Pokemon are the worst" Feebas - Are you sure about that?

This is definitely the most savage John has been

the disappointed face PokeMEN made when he saw the burmy's name (which he can't change even if he wanted to) followed by Mikey's smug face is just the best

I used a different team that wasn’t super strong or weak. Empoleon, Froslass, Machamp, Roserade, Houndoom and Gastrodon. I had like 2 pokemon that a lot of people used, gastrodon and Empoleon. This team was the best one I’ve used. Fun game, and actually challenging.

This has to be the best and most hilarious Pokémon playthrough video I’ve ever seen 😂😂😂😂😂😂

John: Heracross, that's like the rarest thing in the trees! Munchlax: Am I a joke to you?

To quote an *actually* cool Karen: "Strong Pokémon. Weak Pokémon. That is only the selfish perception of people."

Excuse me sir, where are the baby pokemon only run Also if you guys did the honey trees what was your first pokemon? I got an aipom and she helped me get a dawn stone for my gallade

2:37 "CONGRATULATIONS!!!!1 YOUR [[big tot]] EVOLVED INTO A [[BIG SHOT!]]"

Pokemen7: honey tree Pokemon are the worst. Shiny honey tree Pokemon: are you sure about that?

Excuse me, this is clickbait. You used the best team I've ever seen.

Saturn (the person you fight at Lake Valour) is actually a man

John: Calls Saturn Planet Lady Gen 4: Fans He is a dude.

When Saturn is a man but John be like "Planet lady"

Ayo, nice job beating Cynthia on your first try! It still took me 5 tries to beat her ;-; In case you’re curious, my team was Torterra, Staraptor, Luxray, Gastrodon, Crobat, and Houndoom

This made me try a challenge like this in Crystal (and I started appreciating Furret)

Damn, some mad respect there! Well done! Also, I'm jealous of the trade Mikey got... What I wouldn't give for that XD

I have never never laughed as hard as when Mikey sent over “Sub2MandJTV”

4:41 my favorite moment and I haven't even finished the video

I love the intonation behind "Curl! Curl into a ball!" Actually, I just love your intonation in general. This is the quality content I sign up for!

Bro I laughed so hard at the fact that all of the honey trees were ready but only after he gave Palkia away for burmy 🤣🤣🤣

4:41 This is so funny I choked on my own tongue and I'm not even kidding

The fact that he used pachirisu fully dimisses this run, he got the championship cause of being a good tanky support

Playthrough challenges like this, where you're able to really show off your VGC skills, are just so impressive. Well done!

Been loving your vids for years. Samuel otero was tweeting about potentially bringing back Pokemon Tower Defense. If he does you should do a throwback series on it. I loved your ptd videos way back in the day.

The rollout edit was SO HILARIOUS! Great Job editor and John on this video!

I’ve recently reset my og pearl and I just beat the 8th gym and IM SUPER SCARED of the elite four in sinnoh.. especially Cynthia she’s very scary. When I see that he beat the game with the “weakest” Pokémon makes me feel bad for not being able to complete the game with normal mons lol.

So,the candice gym puzzle was optional 😤

I was excited to play through these games since I didn’t get to when they came out, so over the last few years I have wanted to use my favorites when I can...this is one of those games that makes me realize that most of my favorite Pokémon aren’t very good. But I’m still having a blast and kicking ass (Chimecho, Pachirisu, Mothim, Gligar, Infernape and Togepi)

I burst out laughing when da doof said you can't kill me

That "B" is actualy a "V" so it spells "Subscrive"

I ended up using a Beautifly on my team and he hits surprisingly hard

this is the funniest video ive seen in a long time. thank you

I did my first run with a cherubi and pachirisu for bdsp and I'm surprised how well I somehow managed ... tho of course I did have some rather strong pkmn within my team as well

Sir change the title to “semi-weak” becuse bibarel is a god

I can’t even beat the game with a good team

I have never been more proud of a Bibarel in my life. 💪👊

its funny that da doof lived out of sheer will and decided to absolutely carry the team

Wormadam is basically a weaker Scizor, and since there's only a couple fire types in this game even with the Grand Underground, Wormadam is incredibly OP in Sinnoh.

if John beats the league, doesn't that make the team the best pokemon in the region?

hilarious to watch and very impressive, congrats john

I love how the very first sentence of the video acknowledges one of the biggest flaws of Sinnoh. Virtually EVERYONE has been using the same Sinnoh team for 15 years, yet no one seems to care. Watching Sinnoh playthroughs gets boring when you constantly see the same team over and over again.

Wait Heracross is rare? I found it in literally my first honey tree

YOOO I RECOMMENDED THIS! I've been planning on using Grotle, Lumineon, Wormadam, Pachirisu, Sudowoodo, and Chatot. A good way to appreciate the bad Sinnoh mons.

John says keep your dog on a leash.. I went to full metal and pictured the the dr.s daughter changed to a dog.. 😂

da Doof is the master of clutch plays haha

He called Saturn the planet lady ... Who's gonna tell him?

WORMADAM IS NOT WEAK 😡😡😡

This is the best Switch Sinnoh play-through on all of RU-vid!

Bibarrel learns swords dance John: reality can be whatever I want

"Using only bad pokemon" Bidoof is not a weak pokemon

this editing is literally six stars...

Everytime you Said Doof, I kept thinking Dr. D from Phineas and Ferb

just the overall pacing of this video and just the lack of normal volume speaking makes this video my favorite video on this channel

saturn sad cause everything thinks hes a girl :( also he lost to extremely weak pokemon

Great vid! Keep it up, John!

12:12 NOT THE TUBBO REFERENCE XDDDDDD

John: *reks Cynthia with two bug types on his team* Me, who does a buglocke every gen and an enjoyer of Guzma: finally, justice for the buggy boys

The whole lead up with mikey memes were just perfect with the burmy

John, you hit me with the 'I am Iron Man.' I'm emotionally damaged.

I'm 9 and a half minutes in and I'm fucking CRYING. This is your magnum opus of just memery, and I'm glad I could be here for it.

This has to be in Guinness book of record. John just beat cynthia's garchomp with da doof

The rapping chatot and kricketot were so funny

I want “a Bidoof never loses twice” to be an actually quote

Bibarrel killing Cynthia's garchomp proves that the bidoof line is the most powerful evolution line ever

I’ve never seen someone release a new so quickly. There might be a speed-run record for that!

Was waiting for this

PokeMEN having weak pokemon: Me: tom its your chance to say it Tom: boy what the hell boi

After this video, I will never disrespect Bibarel ever again. Man's survived Cynthia

4:43 okay, who fell down the Vtuber rabbit hole before editing in this joke? I recognize the voice of that little shark anywhere.