Official Pokemon Colors Are Not What You Think 

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As a colorblind, this is really funny to watch Also, 22:25 at first I was wondering "Why none of them are catching Tinkatink? This is the pinkest thing I've ever seen in my entire life".... but after that Tatsugiri incident, I understand

They really should have made orange a category. It would clear up a good amount of confusion.

For Gligar being classified as purple, in the original gen 2 games (GSC) it was purple and then changed to a more pinkish color in later gens. The older Pokemon's color classification will always be the same as they originally were, regardless if their colors have changed over time.

That Tatsugiri moment may be one of the best things in JMC history.

The huge restraint of John not picking Drowzee during the Yellow round is astounding.

I'd love to see them do this again, but with pokemon shapes, since Mikey also proved that those were fairly wild and not right either

Love that Mikey caught Gligar, my go-to Pokémon for the colour Purple, as Pink. Absolute genius move, right there.

Underrated moment is John's reaction to the Grimer transforming into ditto while searching for purple

I love how Mikey got several shinies throughout the course of this video. Especially the Shiny Male Pyroar.

The fact that both Sewaddle and Leavanny are yellow makes it more upsetting that John lost.

One thing I'd like to point out about Espeon is that it actually used to be purple. If you look at earlier sprites of it, it actually is purple. Aside from a brief period in Crystal, it first started appearing as pink in HGSS. Even spin-offs during this era depicted it as purple. Source: Bulbapedia

10:40 I love how the purple blob turned into a slightly smaller purple blob

I’m so glad to see Mikey get some shines this time 😅

The turns have properly tabled this time with Mikey's shiny luck

3:48 Probably the most chill reaction of a shiny.

Mikey’s shiny news getting interrupted by John’s sponsor is always going to be funny to me😂

We learned nothing - pm7 2023

Geez Mikey getting a shiny before John, never woould have guessed 😅😅

On a hunch, looked up Gligar's early sprites, and it's... confusing. In gen 2, it was pink. In gens 3 and 4, it looks purple. Only from gen 5 onwards does it become pink again and stay that way. I checked when the sorting by colour mechanic was introduced and lo and behold, it was in gen 3, when it still looked purple. Gliscor is also classified as purple btw (despite clearly being gray) so at least Mikey's theory of giving the same colour to evolutionary lines is holding up. By that logic, I guessed that Lotad would be green because Lombre and Ludicolo are primarily green, and I was right! It is classified as green. So you guys really did learn something from this challenge and helped us make more sense of this nonsensical classification.

The second Mikey was going for Gligar, I was immediately scared since it was purple in the earlier gens, and I didn't think they changed that.

Every one talking about mikey getting shiny But that CLEARLY ORANGE Tatsugiri classified as pink is OUTRAGEOUS

I'm having sushi tonight after having to relive this!

Also they fixed Roaring Moon at some point, since Home classifies it as blue now. The real weird outliers in gen 9 are Rabsca (green) and Orthworm (pink), imo. Also Okidogi counts as black (all the Loyal Three do), making 15:54 extra amusing.

As someone who has done a couple of different colorlocke playthroughs, I was SO STRESSED for John and Mikey during this video lol the Pokedex determined colors really make no sense for a lot of these Pokemon

At this point its become a running gag of John starting his Sponsor read when Mikey finds his first shiny of the video lol

Mikey's outbursts are always a delight to spectate.

the despair in john’s voice saying “it’s purple” is killing me

If John and Michael did battles in Unite competing for who gets the higher contribution score with a roulette deciding their pokemon, that could be fun.

Four minutes in and Michael has 3 shinies, two before the video, and John has none. Is it opposite day or something?

Gligar's color is so inconsistent that depending on the game it can even look blue to the point i wonder if i ran from a shiny at some point

I love it when Mikey says “ the color of blood” 😂😂😂

Okay, we need another one of these like ASAP. This was hilarious

Definitely need another one of these videos as part of the JMC Season 3.

Not only did Michael catch a Shiny. He caught a shiny Male Pyroar.

Ai, so many pokemon, but so limited colours that keep on getting repeated colours, Laughed so much at John's encountering a Grimer, but instead it was a Ditto!!! Congrats on the shinies. Mikey screaming at 22:28 scared me too and then seeing the Tatsugiri situation is a bit unfair that lead to the draw for the round. However, hilarious ending as always.

25:02 John’s reaction to Leavanny being yellow is priceless😭😭

Michael WILL catch a shiny this episode, I’m calling it. I wish you luck Michael. Edit: MICKEY CAUGHT NUMEROUS SHINIES!

The way John goes into the sponsor when Mikey gets a shiny is the best thing of these videos honestly.

Jon can't keep getting away with interrupting Mikey's shinies with ads lmao

Can we just laugh at the fact that it had to end the John Michael cup for Mikey to finally use the power he stole from the shiny gods?

Alternate title: 25 minutes of emotional damage

Oh wow, an almost 2 hour Grunty Boi playthrough AND a JMC exhibition match? We eating good today!

Wooo, good job Mikey getting a bunch of shinies! Love that every success is a flat 'yay' and every failure is an incredulous 'HOW?'

This video was so fun! It did give me an idea for a future video that I think could be good. You each do rounds catching a Pokemon, and then tell the other what colour group that Pokemon is in, with the opponent having to work out if it’s true or false. Possibly even catch several do it in a 2 truths and a lie format. Would be fun getting into each other’s heads and learning even more about how ridiculous the colour system is.

I like how in each of these challenges, John always finds a way to be clueless while Mickey just smiles

5:16 This is Mikey being “silent but deadly”.

One thing I love these videos is the reactions they give when the game surprises them. It just shows that if they find it funny while looking back on it, they know they are doing a good job.

10:18 John booing Mikey because they both know it's purple Also John: catching the varoom line for grey

Well that was a crazy video. If these practice run videos are any indication of what’s to come, season 3 of the JMC is going to be INSANITY!

I like how Mikey is the Donatello and John is the Michelangelo in these videos.

It seems that the shiny gods have finally forgiven Mickey.

I love how they commuincate with eachother but at the same time such good friends its so funny and just so fun to watch. Countinue to make these videos PM7!

Best poketuber pair nobody can change my mind ❤

I do love how insane Pokemon are with assigning the colour categories with lack of consistency. Like there are ones where its the main colour of the whole line, there are ones where its the main colour of the base form for the whole line regardless of how it changes, there are ones where the colour switches aroundmid-line even though the proportion of colours is consistent. Not to mention ones that are clearly contradictory to the actuall design (trash cloak burmy being red always comes to mind when it is clearly pink the based on the typically pink fibre glass insulation) And it's not even like they followed logic X in gen 4 but then in gen 5 they used logic Y the logic is a complete hodge podge.

Pm7 is a certified baddoe.

If i had a nickel for every time Mikey gets a shiny and john completely ignoring that and goes right into his sponsorship, i would have 2 nickels

If John caught a Drowzee he could have edged

Mikey gets his first shiny before John in one of these and he just says "In other news, that's a shiny Pyroar" with the most monotone voice I've heard him use

this was an absolutely hilarious and amazing episode. gotta love the chaos

It’s funny that Mikey beat John with shiny Pokémon. I shall also send a temple of bacon to Mikey ASAP😂

I looked it up out of curiosity, Lotad is green, so good thing he didn't take that advice.

7:16 Me, whenever I have to pay my taxes.

Love how we just see Okidoki in the background of john catching gastly at 15:55

This is definitely one of the funnier episodes of the JMC

Cliffe, PMZ and Mikey (twice) uploading in 2 hours is A-Mazing

The battle between finding shiny pokemon for these two is fantastic.

You guys are my favourite poketubers! I'm always so excited to see an upload. You're both hilarious, and your friendship is so pure. Thank you!

I love seeing these guys fret over grey, and me just sitting yelling out Geodude!

Can't wait for PM7 to yet again find a shiny in a video.

I love when John starts the sponsor when Mikey gets a shiny

Fun fact: The Tatsugiri color fiasco was actually fixed possibly because of this video. It was officially listed as Pink for Curly and Red for Droopy on the Mobile version of Pokemon HOME but the accidentally mixed labelling was corrected so now they're actually their correct color. Also 3 pokemon I noticed while looking at the colors that were really silly were Qwilfish, a tossup between blue and green so not one people would probably use as a first choice, is actually neither and is gray, and Volcanion and Wo Chien, two legendary pokemon that are pretty heavily red and black respectively(though I could see green for a weird Wo Chien color) are both brown. For some reason.

Its a great day when you guys post! This video was so chaotic! Made my day! ❤

Congrats to Mikey on the early shiny!✨

I wonder if this Red/Pink and Blue/Green thing is because of the japanese coloring system. There isn't technically a "pink" or "green" color. "Pink" is in Japanese directly translates to "color of peach" and green is "color of greenery". Green and blue used to be the same thing like how Aojiru(a vegetable drink that literally has blue in its name) is green or how the green traffic light is considered Ao(blue). Edit: Black/Gray may be the same thing. Gray is "color of ash"

22:49 messaging from the future here, but what's funny about this now is that they've updated the Bulbapedia site and the orange form is in red while the pink form is in pink.

Hehe this might be the second time that John launched into his sponsorship segment just as soon as Mikey spots a shiny, just stealing his thunder

10:45 @PM7 Ditto is purple.

It seems that the dex colors on the older pokemon are based on the sprites they had when they first came out, and it just wasn't changed as the sprites were updated. Weepinbell came out in gen 1 when the games didn't have full color, but when full color was added in gen 2, it was VERY green. Gligar in early sprites was also more blue-hued, definitely a purple vs pink. Spoink was also a lot darker, so it being black isn't so crazy.

I loved this video, hope to see a round 2 of the color hunting

This is before I watch the video, John has a 9/10 chance to fond a shiny while Mikey has a 1/10 chance *Edit: I was proven wrong in the first 3 minutes of the video

@4:32 - John that's not a P-51. That looks like some kind of hybrid of a Messerschmitt Bf-109 and a Supermariner Spitfire.

I can’t believe Mikey got better shiny luck than John for once

Never before did I expect to see a debatable detail in how different forms can have *different colour classifications* determine the outcome of a whole video

Had John not been such a nice guy and given a pass to the Pink round in celebration of a shiny, the entire game could have gone differently! RIP Pink Slugma that does not exist! XD

yes, my favorite green Pokemon, Roaring Moon

Wow PM7, Ad bombing on Mikey's shinnies almost all the time when you get most shinnies from each episode of the JMC tournaments, I see your cheeky tactics. 🤣🤣

This is the video where John and Mike learn that color nuance is a thing. I love these 'dex creature shapes.

Mikey's strenght in logic fails him when pokemon itself out logics itself

fun language fact! what shade classifies as a separate colour is highly subjective and very influenced by your native language! Orange isn't its own colour in many languages, and wasn't a colour in English and most European languages until roughly 500 years ago (and it's actually named after the fruit, not the fruit after the colour!). Japanese doesn't even have a name for it other than "orenjii" which is just the English word pronounced badly (which in turn is just the French word pronounced badly), so it makes sense it's not a colour in a Japanese game. Blue and green are also often treated as one colour in many languages, and in Japanese "aoi" more commonly means blue, but can also mean green! Though they do have a separate word, "midori", for green. Still it makes sense for those colours to get mixed up sometimes. Unrelated but there's also languages which have more distinctions than we do, so what we perceive as light blue and dark blue are totally separate colours in some languages, and people who grew up with those are probably appalled and mystified we just treat them as the same thing. In the history of languages, most start out just having light and dark to separate colours, with red usually being the first to be distinct. Orange tends to be the last, or one of the last, if there's a word for it at all. So don't take your perception of the world for granted, even if we all see the same thing, your brain is making up the lines based on your culture and language! Light is a spectrum that has no clear end of one colour to the next!

That Shiny dratini round should have taken away one of John's strikes. If you can find a random Shiny that is the color you are looking for in the round, that's worth some kinda of bonus

I wonder what shiny John will find today

16:20 John and Michy: arguing about colors Okidogi: vibes in background whith chein

need more of these videos they are just so chaotic!

Was that a Shiny Toxtricity?

coral pink looks to be the closest shade of pink to the colour orange (especially since coral can also be classed as an orange shade) thats probably why Curly Tatsugiri is in pink, even though half of it is definitely orange whilst Droopy Tatsugiri looks to be crimson, which mostly consists of red

This is by far my favorite JMC style video ever!

Pokemon is cool Edi: I SENT THIS 42 MINS AGO AND GOT THIS MUCH LIKES BRO I LOVE U ALL

Ditto is pink