I Completed the National Pokedex in Pokemon Black 2 

I’ll never get tired of the contrast between professional voice over John and himbo streamer Jon

Love to see more of this crazy B2/W2 quest documented!!!! On the Lucky Power topic, I believe it does work with surfing encounters. According to the Encounter Calculator program by AngefloSH, Lapras goes from 5% to 10% with Lucky Power 1 and 2 & 40% with Lucky Power 3 and above

BABE WAKE UP JOHNSTONE UPLOADED

I love how this was posted after the all medals in a month video. Also I'm curious as to what I should've done differently when I completed my B2 National Dex

I’m glad I decided to do this last year because I always knew it would be a pain in the butt back when the games came out having to transfer a ton of Pokémon, but it did feel rewarding finally doing it all. It definitely helped I already did it for Gen 4 and had a bunch of Gen 1-4 pokemon (especially legendaries 😅) just sitting around in SoulSilver and was the only reason I did it at all in Gen 5

The face turn to the game on the exact music cue of the giant chasm when the bike clipped through the trees was GOLDEN.

I legit just got my Gen 5 living dex done just a little over a month again and this video captured how I felt about certain mons exactly lol

DO THIS BUT SHINY

Ah, yes, the ghost trees of the Giant Chasm. 😂 As I understand it, it seems Game Freak originally intended to put a Hidden Grotto there, between those specific trees, but decided against it and forgot to remove the programming that allowed the player to walk through them, lol.

When they announced that pokemon bank wouldn't be around forever (very vague shutdown announcement) it reminded me that I never completed the national dex in the pre-3DS games, I'm working on gen 3's and then imma work from there, I'd argue gen 3's is hardest cuz there was no GTS and the amount of hoops you had to go through to get most of the Johto fellas. Either way nice work completing B2W2 dexes, John!

This is almost like a behind the scenes of the medal video, so cool! I love seeing the way you approach problems, and your reactions to finally achieving a single task after hours of trying is always rewarding 😄

I have never completed a national pokedex since I haven't been able to play the games for so long due to money limitations, so this is a fun thing to see!

Was wondering when we would see this video since you mentioned you were doing the national pokedex in your medal rally video. Good to see you finished this John 😊

Absolutely insanely timely thumbnail for the Pokémon Masters players. Nate nation rise up

I’m glad this was posted today! Congrats on doing this and the medal challenge! I’m going to try to make this journey as well! Luckily, I have some past games, but not all of them. I’ll figure it out-

Back with the series again! Glad to see Black & White 2 games again, It was the first game I actually played and beat (Gold was my first), but was my least favourite game and region until recently, as I didn't really understand Pokemon too much

the hard cut ending literally made me wheeze lmao. good job! you're decication and attention span is out of this world!!

The "Nate catching shiny Haxorus" thumbnail when Nate and shiny Haxorus just became a pair in Pokémon Masters EX... Now that's a lesson in great timing!

I've been slowly chipping away at this for well over a year now in my spare time and I'm glad someone else was crazy enough to try it!!

here's a fun challenge: try to complete all of the pokemon home mobile app challenges. i've been trying it recently and it's pretty fun. they range in difficulty from "withdraw a butterfree", "deposit 30 pikachu" or "trade two version exclusives" to "deposit a venusaur from fire red and leaf green", "deposit a shiny genesect", "get 18 vivillon patterns", and "beat a 7 star raid". you could also complete the ability/move dex which is just to put in at least one pokemon that has each of the abilities/moves in the series.

Funny how the thumbnail is Nate catching the Nature Preserve Haxorus, considering an event in Pokémon Masters EX featuring Nate with said Haxorus literally JUST came out.

Now do it shiny

Been waiting glad you’re team finished editing it can’t wait to start

Man, I really needed this today. Things have been rough but your videos are like comfort food. Thank you

Loving these throwback vids. 🙏🏽

I've been taking on this challenge for the last few months for the shiny charm and at this point all I need are some starters (bulbasaur, squirtle, all 3 gen 2 starters, and mudkip) and some legendaries (legendary bird trio, legendary beast trio, lugia and ho-oh, the weather trio, latias, and the 3 genies) can't wait to see how john tackles all of the transfer pokemon!

Been waiting for some more content. Love your videos

He's back! The myth, the legend, the rock, the stone, the John, the man himself!

Whenever I see Johnstone on my feed, i know im in for an incredible video that is so time consuming for him

i really love all the effort you put into these videos!!!

I have been working on this dex off and on for soooo long. I've been waiting for you to do something like this so I can get some ideas lol

YES! Just started my black 2 play through last night and I kept searching if big poppa John had a black 2 video this HITS

I wait for the day John does the truly daunting task. Completing the pokemon home pokedex from scratch. That would be an awesome journey

Finally something I’ve managed to complete before you!! Though you did it way way faster than I ever could (I started mine in 2020 and went for a living dex)

This video fills me with mostalgia for when I did it in White 2 back in 2020, love it 👍

I was not expecting this challenge to span across that many different games

John always has me running for my day to play Pokémon each upload!

Did you know they used to call Johnstone the Catching King back in college?

Yo congrats! I actually did this myself about a year or so ago now. Wanted to get the shiny charm and while I’m glad I did it my gosh was it an absolute slog. So many trades and transferring of nines games and restarting HeartGold and SoulSilver to get the starters was a special kind of torture. Congrats again though on the achievement. It’s NOT easy.

Watching Johnstone makes me feel like I’m playing Pokémon with my friends as a kid again 🥹

Thank you for a great video=) It is nice to see BW2 games once again, they are awesome=)

John kicking off December right. Lets go

Wow Johnstone os something that I am doing roght now but faster, applaud to you man for these achievements.

Have been waiting so long for this video

I like this. I’m a warmish kinda Pokémon fan. Like, I’m warmed up to enjoying Pokémon content, but outside of Snap and Stadium, I have no memories of playing Pokémon as a kid. I know I did on a GameBoy Color, but… 🤷‍♀️ I’m also unfamiliar with this channel and typically only calm down significantly by rewatching something. This is a great video I decided to click on before bed

The very best pokemon master is back with another video. Let's go!!!

watching you walk through the trees in the giant chasm made me chuckle. sometimes i forget that people haven’t seen that 😭

I’ve been binge watching all your nuzlocke videos and then bam you up load lucky me

Omg, this video just answered a decade old mystery in my household. A long time back my brother found a luvdisc on one of the water routes between Johto and Kanto I believe in Heart Gold, and we saw their area was unknown. So then us kids thought that “area unknown” just meant you had to find out yourself. But then later I realized that wasn’t the case, and thought his game just glitched. I’m just now realizing that he probably had turned on Hoen sounds or something without realizing it did anything. Crazy.

Yessss you crazy but we love your dedication! Can you do Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Sky gummy IQ ranks and exploration team ranks?? Top notch stuff in an amazing game :)

When the world needed him most, he returned...with another banger video

Every single John video is a sight for sore eyes, great video as always! But tbh, cannot stop looking at how cute he is 💀

I did this! It was quite a fun experience and I really enjoyed the reward for it

Love watching these to fall asleep to

Its so funny u post this today because i picked up a copy of black2 to try the medal challenge

22:30 Johnstone you absolute genius!

Its a good day when johnstone drops a new vid :)

It’s a good day when a Johnstone video comes out

Congrats on the achievement! Black 2 / White 2 are amazing. I’m 6 Pokémon away from completing the National Pokédex in Pearl, after countless years of wanting to and one year of dedicated effort

Great video, as always! Speaking of the Johto Remake safari zone, would you ever consider doing a catch-em-all video for the safari zone in particular?

Little did john know the only medals he needed all along were for his content ❤

the footage of you playin dream radar is brilliant.

my day has been made knowing johnstone uploaded 🙏

I used my B2 to help finish my Home living dex and I discovered so many trainers I had never challenged and I thought I had thoroughly played it as a kid so I’m not surprised that you encountered the same thing in your W2 idk what we were doing

Yippee Johnstone video!! ♥️♥️♥️

Just found your channel, you just seem so wholesome! definitely sticking around :)

This is my favorite challenge in my favorite Pokémon generation. Me happy; very happy.

I did this earlier this year. It was quite the process but so worth it for the shiny charm 😂

i just did a white playthrough and, not even shiny hunting, found a shiny scraggy and a shiny zebstrika in my playthrough. that's never happened to me before. immediately made me love gen 5 even more

John's finally back

Literally have been trying to do this for months and you do it before I can

Johnstone is handsome

That thing in the giant chasm is actually a development error that wasn’t fixed, so it’s kinda useful in that regard

B/W2 were actually the first games I finished the national dex in! I made it a goal to complete it before X and Y came out in 2013 and I was able to finish it a few days ahead of their release. It was a challenge but I had an old DNS spoofing site to help me get especially difficult pokemon to catch for me like Glameow which is exclusive to Pearl in gens 4 and 5

I love your videos so much

This has reignited my want to play Black 2 again

Another banger dropped

Alternative title: Doing the Shiny Axorous speedrun

Between this and the shiny emerald stream, seedot's a menace

Omg was just rewatching your videos! Please do an ORAS video

GYATDAYUM! GG dude

if you're going for full unova dexes (mostly regional but also national), here's some fun tips: - if you knock out the legendary sword trio before the e4, when they respawn in postgame, their only attacking move is sacred sword. you can wall them with ghost types easy. also, contrary to what johnstone says in the video, they don't actually have adjusted catch rates - they have the standard catch rate of 3 (out of 255) that most legendaries have. - however, reshiram and zekrom have a catch rate of 45 in gen 5, which is the same as uncommon finds like eevee and pseudolegendaries like deino! - speaking of the sword trio, cobalion also learns thunder wave via TM (buyable in i think nimbasa city?) and has a ton of resistances on top of being level 65 on respawn (higher than most pokemon in the game) - dark colored grass has higher leveled pokemon and a chance of doubles, so if you're hunting something, you can slot a fodder pokemon to level up in the second slot while you put your main catching pokemon in the front of your party to clean house. - n's pokemon are at max friendship when you catch them, so you don't need to catch and friendship grind for a woobat if you're going for n's pokemon as well. (but that's still a 1% encounter so whether it's worth it is up to you) - if you're going to be transferring pokemon from gen 4 anyway, you may as well just catch a lapras in hgss (union cave fixed encounter) or dppt (the postgame section of victory road) instead of hunting via rippling water. i did just give up

Omg it’s very time consuming to complete it but thanks to online servers it’s doable and I’m very close 200 plus pokemon thanks for your insight and hope to be able to complete it

Hi! I was wondering where you got that Glaceon neon sign on your wall. It's my favourite Pokémon, so if it's available to purchase somewhere, I might be interested. I'm also planning on completing the national dex in Black 2, so when you released this video I was like "Oh, sweet! A free guide!"

Wooooooh oh yeah let’s go

I remember when I grinded out the national dex in omega ruby. Although mystery trading existed and the new passerby system were there to help get version exclusives and stuff, it was still ~719 pokemon I had to get

I had to play 7 games to complete the national dex back then, but man, I'll never forget the satisfaction of receiving the shiny charm.

the madman gets it done again!

Man I feel your pain with that mewtwo! I have been playing both scarlet and violet to basically 100 percent them and because I don't want to risk fainting a legendary, I just chuck pokeballs till I either catch them or they struggle to death, which has happened twice between the two games 😅

First! Edit: Love your channel dude! Any day where we get a new Johnstone video is a good day!

Yay another video

I love the smirk at "Some of them slipped through the cracks"

I caught a shinny Cranidos during watching your video!❤

It’s cool seeing this, because White 2 was the first (and probably only) game where I completed the national dex. I remember glameow being the most troublesome to get, because I didn’t own Pearl.

Great video

So like this is what nickelodeon actors do after their shows are over. Loved you in the thundermens

This is giving me flashbacks

I’m in the middle of completing the National Dex for Gen 3, and it’s a nightmare, especially if you’re trying to not use the GameCube games. Doing this requires a minimum of three full playthroughs of Emerald, three full playthroughs of FireRed/LeafGreen, one full playthrough of the other Kanto remake, and partial playthroughs of Ruby and Sapphire. And even after all that, you’d still be missing Mew, Lugia, Ho-Oh, Celebi, Jirachi, and Deoxys. Add in the GameCube games and you can cut down the replays of Emerald and FireRed/LeafGreen, but you still have to complete Colosseum and XD playthroughs to get Lugia and Ho-Oh. That might be a fun video idea: complete the Gen III National Dex without using the GameCube games. Edit: I guess I either inspired John or I predicted the future…

Okay now it's time for you to finally professor oaks challenge this game my guy

Our savior has returned