I Used the Pokeradar for 100 Hours in Pokemon Platinum 

Thanks for watching the video! For the entirety of next month I'll be streaming to get all the medals in Pokemon Black 2, so if you're interested in that, follow me on Twitch!

Johnstone is the only person to be given a challenge that no normal person would take upon themselves to challenge and says *_"but it would be funny tho"_*

The fact that John knew I'd laugh at the phrase "Dongle Pokémon" means he laughed as well, or atleast chuckled.

breaking a super long pokeradar chain was the worst possible thing that could happen to a pokemon player in 2008

For resetting the trophy garden pokemon you don't actually have to change your system clock, all you have to do is just save before you talk to mr. Backlot, then soft reset until you get the pokemon you want. I've done it several times. Hope this helps for future videos.

Hour 100 The pinacle of power for a RU-vid video. Few poketubers ever reach this time creating content. This is a video where John reaches hour 100 by creating said unconventional content, because to a certain extent; he's crazy.

There is something so funny about Marill happily bouncing in its animation and then stopping on the ugliest frame possible. XD the whiplash is insane. (Marill in Diamond was my first shiny EVER so I love to see some love for it!)

4:05 88% vs 98% might seem a small difference But hitting a 98% chance 39 times in a row (to get to a chain of 40) is about 45% odds, vs only 0.7% for hitting an 88% chance 39 times in a row

Confuse ray has 100% accuracy, which is why it was landing so often at Fantina’s Gym. If you were using double team on Staravia and it kept landing, that’s just unlucky.

Fun Fact, every single route has a decent sized chunk of grass specifically for radar hunting. They designed the routes for this mechanic. There is only one section I can think of that isn't like this and has a radar exclusive Pokemon being Sunkern. That is on Route 204 North which has no good patch of grass to hunt in making it near impossible to actually get a chain up. Hell, when I radar hunted Sunkern, I got lucky and got a shiny patch on an 18 chain

John casually spending 500 hours on a video game respect bro Edit: mom I’m famous 😂

Nice job Guinness, such a hardworker

15:46 if anyone's wondering who the person in the video is... that's Abenzio499 (Or AbenzioSH as he renamed his channel before utlimately deleting it). He's a former shiny hunter, and has been out of the community for almost a decade now. His Ponyta took a little over 25,000 REs.

1:14 Can't believe that Johnstone never found Twoterra. Smh.

21:05 craziest thing about this moment: I was shiny hunting while watching your video, looked up to see you find a full odds shiny Roselia, looked down to see a shiny Litleo in front of me 😮 thanks for the shiny luck! ✨

John and Matt together was such a wholesome moment 🥰

just a minor correction about BDSP time travel, you actually can time skip for trophy garden (and swarms) in BDSP. it requires changing your time zone (with time set to automatically sync) as changing the clock in this way does not trigger the time travel protection, and you can just set it to the next day before reopening the game, changing it back to the previous day while the game is running, saving, and repeating. it's essential for BDSP CEA.

The MOMENT you said you’d chain Eevee my heart dropped into my stomach. That hunt nearly killed me with how many times my chain broke.

God the OG “There it is!” video is legendary.

My problem with chaining is always that I can't absorb all the patches at once. Like, I'm very bad at looking at things and processing what I'm seeing

NICE JOB GUINNESS :) John's videos get better every time :D I love that he streams the making of them :)

39:54 the amount to happy and wholesome vibes i got from this, only for them to be completely snatched away will forever scar me

So it definitely seems like he’s going for a shiny living dex since he was catching multiples to evolve into full lines, can’t wait for that video to come out it’s gonna be a banger as all JohnStone videos are! Glad to see my favorite Pokémon in this video! Hoping to catch some streams for the black 2 medals 😁

I love your videos so much, this must have taken a lot of time and effort, well done! Well narrated and edited, super enjoyable to watch!

Actually want to clarify something, the 2% chance of the chain breaking only counts for the patches of grass that shake immediately after the encounter. When the Pokeradar item is used by the press of a button, the chances will always peak at 88%.

Nice job Guiness, and great job John! Loved this challenge and watching the uniqueness of it!

Maril was actually my first shiny in the safari zone in the original Pokémon diamond so it holds a special place in my heart

Thanks for the amazing video! The shiny sound is just so good in gen 4 and you’re so right, some sprites are so perfect in 2D, especially shiny ones

seeing my two favorite Pokémon RU-vidrs sitting next to each other is *chefs kiss*

So here's a nice tip that probably might have a bit a massive difference. Cute charm has an odd quirk related to pokeradar shiny chaining. In platinum _specifically,_ if your secret ID matches a certain set of numbers of a pokemon's ivs with cute charm, the pokeradar's chance of spawning a shiny is cut in half. This is because the pokemon instead of focusing on the male gender, the game forces the gender to be female, or vice versa, similar to how the love ball was broken in gen 2 to the same species and _gender_

Wow Bro! I am really feeling inspired and motivated watching your videos and all the effort you put into them! Congrats in all the challenges you've completed and the ones to come! 🔥🤩

All the videos and guides i've seen on the Pokéradar with no clarity on how to make it work reasonably consistently, and this dude just says "Go to the shaking patch 4 steps away" and it instantly made clear how to do it

Nice job Guinness!! Also on a side note I really enjoyed this video! ❤ it is really well made and fun to watch! When you said that the wurmple had no thoughts it made me laugh a lot :) thank you for making my day a better one ❤

18:20 Confuse ray has 100% accuracy, which is why it landed every time

Wormy is the littlest little guy there ever was and must be protected.

You honestly make the best pokemon/ shiny vids. Been subscribed for years and I don’t really comment but wanted to let you know now haha. Keep it up

This was great. Really cool to see how many you can get by getting used to the radar. My first shiny was a wobuffett with the radar and I love these sprites.

i was just checking your channel yesterday, thought it had been about enough time for one video. Keep it up!

it means so much to me to see u guys collab thank you

Another incredible video from John, love how much effort this guy puts into his vids

18:20 should we tell him confuse ray has 100% accuracy?

I swear John is the most consistently funny and entertaining content creator there is out there

You have my respect. Put A LOT of work in this video, as always

I'm so ready for this video! I was always awful at using the radar >.

He's actually insane, thank you for another banger of a video

Been watching you for a while but holy wow dude you are one of the greats. Unique challenge, great narration and *chefs kiss* gen 4 shinies. Kudos to you JOHN, KUDOS TO YOU!

Bro that reference to that legendary shiny ponyta reaction was awesome. Glad to know other people remember that.

Nice job Guinness!! Sucks that I'm banned from Georgia now, but grats on the shinies I guess

THUMBNAIL ART?! That's how you know you've evolved as a RU-vidr this is awesome to see. ^_^

Love John's vocalizing. I too, have gone mad listening to the game audio whilst shiny hunting

I like how in some areas, part of the challenge is the color of the tiles or how the scenery affects the colors of the grass patches. That's something I did not expect from this challenge and a cool thing for you to highlight

Yooo, he’s here! I’ve been thinking about playing Platinum again and this video is giving me the nostalgia to actually do so.

Guinness did great, MatthewBlogsPokermanz did great, Marill did great, Johnstone did great! This was an amazing level 100 gauntlet dude! GGz on finding the rarest shinies in any game with those Spinda. Truly buildt different, like and subscribe! Another big video in the books!

i'm 90% sure there's at least one day out of the year where instead of a blizzard that one route is just normal snow

Johnstone always has a challenge I would never think about. Thank you for the video=)

Congrats for all the shiny critters 😁✨ I believe, for the snow route, there are a few specific days where the weather actually clears up ! ;)

18:24 That's because because confuse ray is still 100% accurate and 50% to smack yourself in this gen. this is changed in generation 7 due to gengar's war crimes in vgc (half the time I float! half the time I shadow tag you and perish trap you!)

Awesome video. It motivated me to start some pokeradar chaining myself. I am in the same boat, as a kid I always thought it was fascinating but I was certainly too dumb to properly execute it. Slight correction/clarification though for anyone who is interested: Edge and corner patches don't have a higher chance to break the chain per se, just that AFTER the encounter you can become unlucky and all 4 grass patches would theoretically fall outside of the grass area breaking the chain as a consequence, because there is no visible shaking grass around. Since the 4 patches summon in a grid around you, if you are fully surrounded by grass the immediate 8 patches directly around you will always spawn another shaking grass patch and give you the chance to reset the pokeradar withouth breaking the chain. I found that sometimes the risk is worth it to go for an edge piece in order to not lose the additional 10 percent you get from catching a pokemon since you revert back to the 88 % when resetting the radar.

Honestly I gotta try this out! I know radar chaining is such a pain but you got really lucky and so many good shinies!

This to me is still the best pokemon game made. The pokedex was complete with every evolution finished perfectly cant see them without that last stage. The game was perfect still hard to get shinies so they are actually bragg able. Finishing the dex on this game is a mad grind but so satisfying.

I tried figuring out this crap a few years back in X and Y and just couldn't get it down, even with guides. The first 10 minutes of this video explained it better than anything else I ever found and now I've gotten 4 shinies in 3 hours through Poké Radar. I now suddenly hate that this video didn't come out in 2019 because it would've saved me a lot of time, and an immense amount of patience.

It's my favorite time of year when John uploads

Loved this! More Platinum content please!

So glad you showing off the dual-slot gba dongle Pokémon. Such an under appreciated feature!

I have a story about the one shiny on the wheel you didn't catch, and one of the hardest pokemon to radar hunt due to the miniscule grass patch: sunkern. Back in 2020 my brother bought a copy of Pokemon Diamond right as covid hit, and spent a ton of time playing that game. When he finished it, I asked if I could try to complete the Pokedex in that game and as he had no patience for catching a ton of Pokemon or grinding to evolve them he said I could. I spent so much time catching as many Pokemon as I could in that game, eventually getting up to around 300 or so, without being able to trade at all. Anyway, I had gone to the route to catch sunkern. I used the radar, walked to the first shaking patch, and boom. Shiny. Full odds, first sunkern I'd encountered in the game, and my first shiny pokemon ever that wasn't the Gyarados in GSC. Let me tell you no one has ever loved a sunkern like I loved that little guy. I fed him poffins, took him to contests, did so much grinding. I was going to fight the league with him but like 2 weeks after I encountered it the game crashed, file got corrupted, and it reset.

for future reference, you could have used the poké radar at lake verity. if you surf to the south-western part of the lake there's a big square patch of grass for it the only radar-able route in sinnoh that lacks a big patch to chain in is the northern half of 204, which for some reason is a separate area from the southern half

This video felt like such a big cozy adventure

The legend! You’re the best creator dude!

the radar streams were so fun to watch. Ty for another banger video john :)

Awesome video I love the poke radar, ever since I learned it to get my first few shinies ever a few years ago. Fantina’s Mismagius landed every confuse ray… isn’t it 100% accurate though? Lol

POG! Another Johnstone video!!

As Swellow's #1 fan, I respect you a whole bunch for hunting it and including it on your team :)

He is definitely a madman... Huge respect, bro!!

man, the marill ending i was like "nah this isnt johnstone, why is he ending it all sappy" then the release

YESSS IVE BEEN BUSY DURING THE STREAMS AND COULDNT WAIT FOR THIS

Love to see you back :)

i remember my first three times i used the Pokeradar. First time a shiny patch appeared, i forgot the repel went down and hit a normal RNG grass poke before i got to the shiny patch. Second time, there was a shiny patch, but the patch in each cardinal direction adjacent around me were "dud" patches, and the third time the Pokeradar grass effect decided to just "stop" just before i got to the shiny pokemon shaking grass.

John, confuse ray has 100% accuracy, of course mismagius always hit

I didn’t know that there’s Pokémon you can catch depending on what gba game you got inserted. That’s pretty cool

Matt joining in the video is just like Tobey Maguire getting a cast in No Way Home

"Landed every single confuse ray" Mr. Stone, you know that move is 100% accurate, right?

Nice to see you back ❤

I'm glad someone else appreciates Luxury Ball superiority - my Shiny Living Dex is at about 75% completion, and those babies all deserve the best!

Amazing Journey haha! Gotta try myself this challenge anytime soon :)

The way the video goes from Matt wearing no headphones to randomly having cat ear headphones is hilarious 😂

Love those concept of shiny hunting 🔥

Oh, I had no clue you lived in Georgia! Same here! Cool to know one of my Poké-role models lives at least relatively close by!

I love the perfectly cut 'e' at the end of the video. That's a lot of shinies ngl

I stop everything I'm doing when a new Johnstone video is uploaded

that ending tho. Pure gold.

The one time I pick up my Pokémon platinum cartridge to relive my childhood and I start getting into pokeradaring immediately my man’s gotta one up me. He can’t keep getting away with this

Nice job Guinness! What an adorable lil guy 😊

Nice job Guinness, truly inspirational!

Nice job Guinness, proud of you!!

Man I gotta give this a shot, I remember fiddling around with it when I was younger but I'm sure it'll be more manageable now.

Nice job Guinness! Carried the video!!

LETS GOOO JOHN IS BACK!!

Oh, did John shiny hunt all the Eevelutions? Neat. I did the same in Route 10 of Kalos in Pokémon X ;)

RADAR MY BELOVED Let it be known that I do intend to get Sunkern myself one of these days! I SWEAR IT!

I've never really understood the rules for the PokeRadar, but I definitely wanna give this a try!