PokéTuber Reacts to Scientifically Ranking Every Trainer 

Glad you enjoyed the video so much! I wanted to try to respond to some of the questions/comments: - You're right, the VFX were done with Blender (and a combination of DaVinci Resolve + more PowerPoint than I'm willing to admit) - The Blaine quote is from Pokémon Puzzle League. - Yep, in Gen I enemy trainers can heal (or switch out) after you attack. - I would like to emphasize that I didn't actually sit there for all 4,000 hours worth of battles--it was all orchestrated by a script. Some people seemed concerned for my health and safety 😅 - The "75 turns without taking damage" is more accurately something like, "75 turns without reaching a new minimum total HP" but that doesn't quite roll off the tongue. - I actually got contacted by a recruiter from a data science company from this video. I don't quite understand how "I like to pretend to be a data scientist" inspired much confidence. - Why did some of the Professor Oaks underperform? Honestly, the high ranked trainers are so close in strength that it's mostly noise in the Elo ranking at that point. I'm hoping to come up with a better ranking system for the next tournament... - ....Speaking of which, I'm currently working on the follow-up to this video, where I run the tournament again with all the Pokémon balanced to level 50. Be sure to subscribe if you want to see that! It might be a while, though... Edit: The follow-up video is (almost) out now! Check it out: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-247qD1qulSQ.html

Cant wait for Emerald... That one Kid that full restores a Zigzagoon

The whole thing with Loreli is interesting, but I wasn't really surprised at it, because of the soft lock you can do with her due to the Red AI's quirks. If you take a fighting type pokemon into the Elite Four (the example I saw used was Primeape) with the move Rage, and use it on Loreli, you can trigger a literally endless battle. Because Primeape is a fighting type, the Red AI that dictates that Loreli use a move that is super effective against it means that she will spam Rest at every chance. If you use the move Rage on it, the Rage will continue indefinitely, without giving you a chance to change Pokemon or use another move. And since PP is endless on the side of the AI, Loreli can use Rest indefinitely. Pikasprey does videos on this kind of thing that are super interesting!

"When you're hot, you're hot" comes from Pokémon Puzzle League on N64.

Everyone knows that youngster joey will prevail

Anyone else gonna congratulate CoolTrainerM2? Highest ranked no name NPC. With a recorded win against Sabrina. He even uses the solid foundation of a Fire, Water, and Grass trio. *Salute*

28:05 Oak's greatest victory is against himself. This says something about society.

The “when you’re hot, you’re hot” line from Blaine was one of his sayings after getting multiple matches in Pokémon Puzzle League for N64. Just a quick throwback lol

Grunty boi: appears Everyone:a surprise to be sure,but a welcome one

"Venomoth is capable of beating Lance's Lance's Dragonite" Weedle: "Am I a joke to you?"

I counted 3 new possible meme templates from this encounter with grunty boi : Dancing Mikey, leering grunty boi and mcscuse

We can’t ignore that Agatha literally lost to her self

I'm waiting for the day that grunty boy will become self-aware enough to realize that HE'S the one promoting the products.

Random person: What is your IQ? Lorelei from gen 1: I have a question first! Random person: Yes? Lorelei from gen 1: What's IQ?

Now that I think about it, there actually is a reason that the Oak fight was cut. In the beginning of the game, Oak says something along the lines of "back in the day, I was a skilled Pokemon trainer. Now, I have only these three left." Meaning that there's no way that he had the other 4 pokemon in his battle team unless he went out and started training again.

I am no psychic type but I can predict that Vibing Michael is going to be one hell of a meme.

Petition for Mikey to make: pyschic type then Vs now Edit: Thanks for this much likes appreciate it😀

Mikey: Sponsored by Raycon and talking about how great they are. Also Mikey: Goes right back to using wired earbuds after the advertisment is over. Me: *Wut*

When you see this and think "But... did I really defeat all these hundreds of trainers? MULTIPLE TIMES?"

As an actual data scientist, building models sometimes is just a matter of “fudging it”. Knowing the subject matter you’re studying about helps model building a lot. Also, Kernel distributions work here, but another way to do it would be K-Means, or maybe even Nearest Neighbor if you want to make “tiers”. In fact, you can chose how many “tiers” that you want to cluster by.

I found the coding bit to be quite cool. When I first played through Red Version (not my first game), I had a Lvl. 6 Oddish on my team as a HM "mule". When I fought Lance, all of my pokemon fainted except for Oddish. I gave up at that point, only to find that it just spammed barrier. I just poison stalled it, and to this day it is known as "Oddish the Dragon Slayer"

I think I've learned more about the trainer AI in 30 minutes of watching these videos than I have in the past 25 years playing the games. Wow.

"Why did you come here?" "Just to annoy you" #relatable

I like how the rival is coded as Sony at 4:27 its funny because Nintendo and Sony are obviously rivals and originally red's name was Nintendo and blue's name was Sony.

mikey: let's dive in does everyone have a voice in their head that goes "ha ha, it is I grunty boi" at this line

Incredible data planning, structure, simulation and degree-level mechanics and digital engineering. Mikey: "I love the visuals!" 😂😂

Please react to “Can You Beat A Level 100 Hoppip With A Level 5 Totodile” It’s a great video that no one has reacted to yet

That first trainer: i was made to lose

Loved that piman used the Pokémon puzzle league Blaine “when you’re hot youre hot” quote. Played that game so much as a kid

Mikey is the only youtuber i know that actually ask peoples permission to react to a video.

Grunty Boi’s only purpose is to annoy Mikey so when he’s unable to do that he gets bothered.

This is really going to become a science channel, isnt it

Auto subtitles:Greetings boogie fans! 🕺 🕺 🕺

I'm happy you covered Pimanrules' video, it REALLY deserves more views.

I like the consistency behind the highest ranked Champion rival having Charizard while the highest ranked Oak fight has Blastoise. You would have been able to fight both of them if you choose Bulbasaur.

*pauses video* “Why is this happening?!” *plays the video* “Oh I guess that’s why”

Everyone: This video's sponsored by Raycon! My Doctor: You cannot wear earbuds as your eardrums are sensitive and on the brink of being punctured.

Hey Mikey, super excited to see you react to this video. I found it myself and thought you might enjoy it. I was inspired by your Metronome league to do a metronome-only randomizer of Platinum. I named my character after you (your rival is Chance, lol) and I chose psyduck for my starter. Wish me luck!

Loreili makes sense when you think about it. The code prioritizes healing and super effective, regardless of damage or not. Rest is a healing Psychic move (in a game/region with an abundance of Poison types), so the AI would set Rest as a priority almost always.

9:25 i love how mikey just listens to miror b battle music

Is anyone else's brain just exploding right now?

Finally! I have long awaited for Mike to watch the big brain analysis video on the AI teams! Also, nice surprise for Grunty Boi to NOT appear at the start of the video, BUT IN THE MIDDLE. And he as an Alter-Ego GETS IGNORED for a while by Mike. It was to catch our guard off, but I actually was expecting this might happen when there is "Includes Paid Promotion"

The way Mikey promotes his sponsors is always so creative

At least we've got confirmation that Mikey was not, in fact, hacked

Commenting on every Mandjtv Video until he brings back Raccoon Man day:77 #wewantraccoonmanback

"When you're hot you're hot" is a like Blane uses in Pokémon puzzle league

Omg this is phenomenal! I want more of these! Holy crap

Michael: *Reacts to a video you have already seen* Me: *hapiness noise*

Low-key grunty boi just showing up outta nowhere 8 minutes in kinda startled me

I want him to set up AI runs of Red, basically have an AI with its team run the battles as the player would xD Imagine a Bug Catcher starting with level 5 Weedle and level 5 Caterpie, seeing how far it gets through the storyline.

I just subbed to you, Eryizo and Mystic Umbreon! You're all really great Pokémon youtubers! Great content Michael, keep it up!

It's criminal that there is no Grunty Boi in this video!

Raycon: *sponsors video* Mikey: *uses wired ear buds* Raycon: -_-

When I watched this video for the first time, I was amazed by the visuals as well!! The production quality of that vid is amazing 🤩

Michael: Greetings Pokefans, Michael here! the subtitles: greetings boogie fans michael here

Can you make a video called "What if trial captains are island kahunas." Give them 6 pokemon .

I’m not sure if Blaine ever said the “if you’re hot you’re hot” in the anime but I’m 95% certain he said it in the Pokemon Puzzle League N64 game.

I just want to say that I appreciate your usage of the Miror B. theme music.

Yeah this video is actually insane the editing is crazy and the massive amount of info is just incredible to watch one of my favorite videos of all time period so I'm glad you got to see it thanks for sharing!!!!!!! 😊😊😊😊😊

Thank you so much for covering this! You giving it attention means it might be duplicated, and I really want that

POV: Your not first, but your right on time.

As far as I can tell, the "effect" you mention is essentially pulling the 2D sprites into 3D software and applying them to various objects and moving it around.

13:59 Definitely was a surprise to see @Drew Durnil here, but a welcome one to be sure.

Me: "Chilling and paying attention to the video's technical talk." Grunty Boi: "I'm gonna stop you right there"

I like how Grunty Boi appears midway through the video and not the usual just before the event begins in the video.

This whole thing blew my mind. Nice work, pimanrules!

After the second turn, no matter what, Lorelei's Dewgong will always use Rest. This is even if the Dewgong is at full health.

POV: you see like 3000 POV comments and the video just came out

This is such a good idea for a series

The fact that Michael drowned out Grunty Boi with Miror B’s Gale of Darkness theme is really amusing to me. That theme just resonates with me.

I remember watching this on his channel...I want another one he did a beautiful job

Dang it looks like Brock was ONIX - spected

"When your hot your hot." That is from the puzzle league on the n64, and had me rolling

The 0 dmg thing finally makes sense. That's why the poison sting from weedle never could poison brocks rock types. It always said they missed and I knew they couldn't miss. And was upset I didn't get a chance to poison him. I tried so often to get poison on his geodude at the start of a battle, if he used defense curl, to sneak some easy XP on my weedle after switching him out, but it NEVER hit the thing. I assumed that it was a bug, or a special ability of Brock to stop you from "cheesing" him with his 2 pokemon. I did not know you could deal less than 1 dmg.

You are a king Mikey you warm up my days when I have been beaten to my core and you inspire me to better my RU-vid channel. I hope your days are happy and bright forever.

I think a cool follow up would be the same trainers, teams, and ai but with everyone have the same level of pokémon. This would show who's truly the best trainer when you remove certain trainers stomping others just because of level differences.

Grunty boy: Doesn't apear in the beginning but in the middle of the video Everyone: surprised Pikachu face

Trainers can heal after you attack in Gen 1. I don't remember if that's how it worked in GSC, but in Gen 3 onwards, items always had priority over attacks.

Lorelei is really funny, when you realize that her worst loss was to someone stronger than her.

What if you make a video about “What if The Evil Team Admins becomes the leader of the evil team and what will their team look like if they are the evil team leader”??

ladies and gentleman, i-i think my brain just comitted suicide, i can feel it bleeding

For your sequel idea, I think the trainer classes with a switching routine (especially the jugglers) would have a huge advantage

@MandJTV 5:49 That voice clip of Blaine is from Pokémon Puzzle League.

4:42 "If it's not 100% accurate, it's 50% accurate." Also does anyone find it ironic that he wasn't using his Raycon earbuds

Grunty Boi: It is I, grunty b.... *Mikey vibing* Grunty Boi: YOU'RE NOT HOT! *Loads gun*

In a long time, a reaction video that really got my interest, cause this time a) i like the content to get reacted on and b) i like the person who react

Did no one else notice the 34 electrodes that self destructed on the magicarp of fisher nine (29:38)? Speaking of which that fisherman drew with a trainer who had one such electrode XD

Mikey: I love Raycon Also Mikey: *Doesnt even wear raycon in the video*

Alright! Another MandJtv Video! My favourite!

So glad someone else remembers that old Pokémon animated video, my favorite as a kid

This video, is really helpful. I noticed something was weird, when playing the original red edition of Pokemon. Later versions of red, had really weird twitch like movements, when moving around in the open, around the grass. It was strange, because later versions of red, for the game boy pocket, advance, super pocket, dual screen and 3d dual screen, had this twitch. The twitch movements, were around the lake area and short grass. My question, if no Pokemon are found in short grass, what is moving it?

Interesting vid, i am happy you saw it

Imagine if michael said "no I'm not dealing with this today" and grabbed an ultra ball

Tday is my bday,and im enjoying it even more bcoz of my fav youtuber MandJtv!

I think it makes sense in a game standpoint as to why Lorelei got so many draws. As the first elite four member, it would be a benefit if she made the rest of them even more of a challenge by stalling and using up the player's PP, but since in these battles, both Trainers have infinite PP, Lorelei would keep stalling until she's defeated or end the match in a draw.

Last time I was this early i wasn’t sleep deprived

i think blastoise oak out-performed the other oaks because of withdraw. could deal more and take more damage.

And there is a new video with corrections, a new way to match all trainers, and a final matchup among the best.

Thanks Micheal for introducing us to this amazing video

If I had to guess why Oak falls short in every case apart from Blastoise, I would say it's because Blue has very little to counter it with. Blue in all three cases will have a Rhydon, an Alakazam, and an Executor. Oak in all three cases will have an Arcanine, and Executor, a Gyarados, and a Tauros. Meaning that Oak will always have either 2 Fire, 2 Water, or 2 grass types. The most important factor in this (I think) is that all of Oak's Pokémon (no matter what) have terrible movesets, consisting of low accuracy moves, weak recoil moves, Pokémon with only three moves, "Route 1 Moves" like Leer and Tailwhip... BUT... Oak does have a slight level advantage. _i say slight because the gap between levels becomes smaller, the higher you go. lvl 10 vs lvl 15 is equivalent to lvl 75 vs lvl 100._ Oak however, manages to come out on top in the end (probably) because unlike the other instances... Blastoise and Gyarados only share one weakness... Electric... Something Blue doesn't have. Charizard and Arcanine are weak to Water, Venusaur and Executor are both weak to Flying and Fire (thus is comes in last). Blastoise and Gyarados share no such weakness though (that Blue can exploit). And so Blastoise Oak wins solely because it has a better team structure with less shared weaknesses.