Top 5 WORST "In-Game" Pokémon Trades 

NOTE: I’m still not back, I’m technically on break until me and the gang finish the next project (details in the description) Also, sorry if this is out of left field! I’ve been wanting to try more scripted stuff. It’s been a while and I’m still pretty inexperienced, so I apologize if bits are awkward. Trial and error!

balls, just like, 5 maybe 6 times. Balls.

funfact: consent is the japanese term for an electric outlet and thats why elekid was named that

Fun Fact: In the new Pokemon game, Scarlet and Violet, there is a kind gentleman that trades you a Haunter, that doesn't hold an Everstone! And that is the only way to get Gengar in the game without trading with other people, so he is everything Mindy could've been.

#2 is amazing. 'Caveat' is a modern English word for a warning or condition, but in conjunction with his Magikarp being named Carpe Diem (both a 'carp' pun and Latin for 'seize the day') it's clear that Caveat's name is actually a reference to another Latin phrase-- caveat emptor, or 'buyer beware'.

The worst part about the number 1 spot is that you can catch a Gastly at the Old Chateau, a place you can access after you get the second badge, meaning that if you wanted a Gengar, you would at the very least already have a Haunter by the time you have access to that trade. The trade literally serves no purpose other than to troll the player.

Can I just say that I feel so sorry for gaspar the haunter. His trainer actively sabotaged him for a prank. His life is a joke to mindy.

when i was a kid and i played platinum i literally didnt realize that haunter was supposed to evolve, i was just like "oh yeah free haunter!" and never realized until someone pointed it out years later

Shout out to the hiker in BW2 who gives you a Gigalith for an Emolga. In a world of Mindy's, you taught me how to trust again.

Player: “Oooh! A free Gengar! Gimme!” Mindy: *imma about to end this man’s whole career*

caveats name is also probably a reference to the latin phrase "caveat emptor" which means "let the buyer beware". the guy is literally just a scammer lmao

Apparently Mindy is being excluded from the Gen 4 remakes, so I'm proud of the Pokemon community for finally managing to speak their truth, get it heard, and obtain justice, lol

Mindy literally stopped a pokemon’s growth period for a joke. She literally stopped it from growing That’s like you forced an arthropod to stay in it’s original skin even when it’s suppose to come off

Other RU-vidrs that cover Pokemon: *don't really talk about the Gamecube pokemon games that much* Saltyd: *talks about Gale of Darkness/Colosseum AT LENGTH* Me: *sniffs* I love you... QwQ

I got caught by the Everstone haunter as 10 year old, and I have actively avoided in game trades from that day on.

Meanwhile, in Scarlet and Violet, there's an NPC who trades you a Haunter without the everstone. Black and White 2 have the Boldore/Gigalith trade too

Yeah, that Haunter one stung. I remember the first time I played and I came across that, I specifically ran back to grab a Medicham and evolve it. I was so excited at the prospect of getting a Gengar. Which I think was part of the point. If it had been Machoke or Graveler, I would have likely just waited to the end of the game to get them for my Pokedex. I'm not even sure I would have bothered if it was a Medicham for an Alakazam. I wouldn't have trusted that any other trade evolution like Rhydon or Magmar would have had the item required. I really do want to know who at Game Freak was responsible for this one. Was it a hatred of fans? A hatred of Haunter fans? What inspired them to actually put this in a game?

"BAAALLS" -Walter, Fable 3 "This is a Balls moment." -Random Twitch chat member in RT's last Fable 3 stream.

The worst pokemon trade ever was when my mom traded her freedom to take care of me

For the magikarp trade it's even funnier, to me at least, when you realize the definition of caveat is: a warning or proviso of specific stipulations, conditions, or limitations

I didn't know Haunter evolved via trade as a kid, so when I did the trade with Mindy, I was just like "sweet, free everstone" and never knew how I'd been trolled.

Imagine trading a Haunter that's holding an Everstone...

The horse joke is actually really funny because Spectrier is a ghost type. A literal dead horse.

Came back to this video post scarlet and Violet they actually brought this trade back without the everstone in the town of iono and you can get a proper gengar

the word balls just like 5, maybe 6 times, just balls. thanks.

"balls" -saltyDKdan, wiping out Tomato Town

The best part of that horse joke is that Salty somehow perfectly chose the ghost type horse Pokémon

Super high quality video! Loved it ^^

My 14-years old self just wanted that Gengar, man...

Never thought I’d see the day where the father of Jimmy did a top 5

As a kid, I tried this trade and spent so much time trying to get gengar, I remember being literally extremely upset over that lol

That everstone is still the biggest "fuck you" to any kid who didn't have friends or couldn't find anyone still played Pokemon. Especially if Gangar was a Pokemon you always wanted.

I did the Caveats trade. I can confirm that you must find and talk to him three times before doing the trade, although the days you encounter him must not be consecutive. You just need to find him in his random hotel of the day 3 times in total. The reason I did the trade was because I wanted better odds at the lottery. That's it. At least there's a place where you can fish and capture wild Gyarados, so you don't have to go through the pain of levelling up a Magikarp.

Great video! That said, for the Magikarp, there is one more reason you might want to trade for it: It will always have perfect IVs in Attack and Speed, which is excellent for a Gyarados! So you could raise up a Gyarados that's less than stellar and get a better one in return essentially :D The nature is random though, so you'd still have to do a little resetting if you want to use it out of the gate (though passing on IVs in Gen VI isn't hard!!) On the topic of IVs, Mindy's Haunter. Now you'd expect to make up for trolling the player that they'd give it perfect IVs in its best stats (Sp. Atk and Speed) right? NOPE! They're actually 15 and 25 respectively! Just... couldn't even give us that, huh Game Freak? (That said, its nature is Hasty which boosts Speed BUT that's probably just further trolling on you, mocking the player for being "Hasty")

Loving the video essays

Would love to have more lists like this

“But I’m not a Poké-tuber. I’m a jackass.” -SaltydkDan, 2021

You’ve reminded me of how bad the gts is I’m not gonna trade my level 100 shiny arceus for a fucking rattata

3:49 that was the most aggressive shoutout ive ever heard

What's really nice with Pokémon Scarlet/Violet is there is a person that trades a haunter that does not hold a ever stone (thank god). its in the electric gym's town near the middle of town!

The fact no one is talking about chocolate chips on the chucky cheese plate is giving me anxiety

"Consent" is Japanese for "Power plug". It's short for "Concentric", because early plugs were round like headphone jacks

Funny thing about number four is that I earlier today watched a video where someone played Pokemon Shield using only in-game traded Pokemon and Mr. Mime is literally the only available Pokemon that was useless to them.

ok, i think i know whats going on with the heartgold/soulsilver trade. in gen 2, rhydon's local dex number was 207, but in gen 4, that changed to 212. dodrio's pokedex number is 205 in gen 4, so this might be a case of a messed up dex ask in the game's code when the game was remade.

Carpe Diem means Seize the day, so that hiker saw the chance to rip you off with a Magikarp named Carpe Diem while getting a Gyrados in return and took it. He seized the day.

Even if Mindy's Haunter didn't have an Everstone......You can actually catch a Gengar in the Old Chateau if you have a Pokemon Gameboy cartridge in the bottom of your DS.

I was watching the mindy rant while in the town. Thank you salty

It's funny though, in Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum you can actually catch a wild Gengar in the Old Chateau. If you're playing on an original DS with a Gen III game inserted into the GBA slot, Gengar can be found in the wild. The only other way to catch a Gengar us through one of the SOS battles in Gen VII or in the Wild Area after beating the game in SwSh

On god if the Medicham for “Gengar” isn’t on this list I’m gonna track you down and unvirgin your olive oil.

Mindy is the bane of all Sinnoh players existence

I never did the Haunter trade when I played Platinum all those years back. When I did it in Brilliant Diamond, I was so excited to get a Gengar. ... I would like to recommend Mindy be a guest character in Mortal Kombat.

theres a guy in Sun & Moon that tells you that "Some pokemon only evolve through trade" then asks to trade his Alolan graveler for yours. BUT! he pulls a Mindy and gives you a graveler with an ever stone! AND he also teases you for it!

Salty be like, "Oops, I'm a PokeTuber now!"

Wake up babe, new Saltydkdan video

We all knew what #1 would be and we're all still equally pissed about being betrayed like that.

Bruh that Elekid is so good though in XD the coverage alone carried me through the game

I like the overleveled spearow you can trade for in Silver that your supposed to deliver to someone else but you can just fucking keep it

Isn't it weird that npcs only nickname mons they're giving away?

What makes the Dragonair and dodrio trade in blackthorn City even worse is the fact that Claire is your final obstacle before the Pokemon League and you don't have too many opportunities to get a dragon type Pokemon in order to cope with her team, especially that kingdra. So why on earth would anyone trade a Dragonair (One they probably worked hard to earn from the Game Corner) for a common bird Pokemon when you very likely already have a solid Flying type on your team by that point??

I’ve just started up a new save of Crystal and the trade of bellsprout for Rocky the onix really annoys me because of a couple minor issues: While at first it seems good trading a grass type for a rock type when the first two gyms are flying then bug it’s actually terrible because in gen 2, onix doesn’t learn a rock type move until level 14 but it won’t obey you over level 10 without any badges and even with the Zephyr badge it still won’t obey since in gen 2 it doesn’t increase the max level traded pokemon will obey you so even when you get to Bugsy this onix won’t be reliable since it either has no super effective moves or will spend half its actions screeching and binding while scyther rips it to shreds and only after beating Bugsy can traded pokemon up to level 30 obey you just in time for it to be a target for Whitney’s attract. At least all of Marty’s pokemon are poison type and abilities don’t exist so you can hit them with a god damned mud slap or two then it’s back to the box for good old Chuck and his fighting types, especially considering poliwrath and if you’ve for some reason kept onix up to Jasmine well good news those first 2 magnemite will be a breeze before it swiftly gets fucked sideways by a single iron tail by steelix because you don’t have friends to trade Rocky to or else you wouldn’t have accepted the trade in the first place but good news, the next gym is ice type, except rock doesn’t resist ice and onix is a slow bastard so enjoy getting outsped by 15 aurora beams and a blizzard and then of course comes Clair with 2 of her dragonair having a super effective move and need I mention Kingdra. So basically what I’m saying is that Rocky the onix in gen 2 is useless until Koga in the elite 4. Really you’re better off just catching a wild geodude in Dark Cave it learns rock throw 3 levels earlier too At least Rocky can be useful in gen 4 since it learns rock throw at level 9 so it can wipe Falkner’s shit birds off the face of the earth and the Zephyr Badge will make it respect you enough to get it above level 10

I love the scripted material! Honestly I'm one of the "three people." I think this was really fun, and I like the style. Looking forward to your future ventures!

"Consent" means "electrical outlet" in Japanese.

Shout out to that one trainer in Scarlet/Violet in Levincia city that trades you her Haunter *WITHOUT AN EVERSTONE!* So you can get a traded Gengar.

i remember being super excited to get a gengar as a kid. i grinded for a medicham and ran straight there. i was still new to pokemon so i didnt know about everstones. so when it didn't evolve i got confused. to talk to her again and be laughed at sparked a memory of sadness ill never forget

When I have a kid im naming him Hordel. I took that as a challenge Dan.

Petition for Salty to make a 10+ minute rant about Gale of Darkness's protagonist

I feel like the sword and shield trade is very much so meant to be a bad trade! The guy offering it wants to fit in with the rest of team yell but only has mr. Mime, so he's trying to get someone to take it off of his hands so he can fit in :^( love the vid btw!

0:30 didn't expect Todoroki to be like that as an adult but go off king

Raycon to Salty is like NordVPN to Internet Historian

When Pokemon Sword first released PokeBank wasnt out yet so the Obstagoon for Mr.Mime trade was the only way to get a Kantonian Mr.Mime. Also Obstagoon is able to be found pretty easily in the wild since it is a guaranteed overworld encounter in certain parts of the Wild Area so you're not sacrificing much.

I friggin loved this. I may be one of the "3 people who will watch this video," but I can genuinely say that I enjoyed this. Btw, I like the Colosseum trade, but I couldnt figure out if the Shadow Electabuzz was in the OG Colosseum or in GoDXD. I know the Elekid is in Colosseum, but was the Electabuzz there too or no? Thats all I was confused about. Also, I'd be willing to go through and do the magikarp trade and record it for you, just so you can have a clearer visual and more stuff to go with it.

It's nice to see all the balls when you sort by new

Saltydkdan: “well what if you don’t have friends??” Dam, I didn’t wake up today to be attacked like that

Id love to see a video of Salty talking about Pokemon Colosseum and Gale of Darkness for an hour straight

thanks for the shout out salty

4 Balls

Fun fact 1: I'm pretty sure the "super secret magicarp" thing is a reference to that guy that sold you a "super secret magicarp" for 500 bucks in the gen 1 games. Fun fact 2: Balls balls balls balls balls balls.

I hope that they change Mindy's trade in the remakes, if they're going to change one thing, make Mindy kind

>low lows >best selling games since Gold and Silver (and likely to pass them to become the second best selling set of games in the series) There are no lows in Pokemon

For the Mr. Mime trade, some gym towns just have a trade for a type with advantage against the leader, Kantonian Mr. Mime as a Psychic/Fairy type fits that description, but it's really weird because those trades usually happen during the earlier parts of the game (and when they're later game the pokemon is usually pretty highly ranked competitively like Bisharp in the Snowbelle trade or at the very least are more powerful than the original pokemon like the Tangrowth in the Humilau trade) rather than at the penultimate gym leader which makes them more sensible because, for example, the bellsprout-->onix trade in Johto, the only other viable options for use against falkner (for super effective damage) are mareep, geodude, and maybe onix (also overlevelling to get croconaw ice fang but at that point you'd probably at most 2-shot his team anyways so redundant).

When I was younger, I also genuinely thought in-game trades were for people who didn't have the ability to trade (esp back when you needed cables and friends, lol). Then as I got older, I thought maybe the game designers just threw darts at a Pokedex poster to determine what Pokemon they traded in-game because it just seemed so random and arbitrary. Now I believe the people in charge of in-game trades are just actively attempting to troll kids, and I just can't decide whether that's funny or just sad. The Carpe Diem trade is pretty funny to me though, not gonna lie.

"I don't know about you guys, but this is going to be the only time I _don't_ ask for consent." -saltydkdan

Also imagine if the game’s only everstone wasnt acquired until the 7th gym, that would have been the worst

Gonna have to do a google on that dragonair trade because i seem to remember using a dodrio in Crystal. Rhydon might be G/S only thing. Edit: yup, Crystal did change the trade to Dodrio and that was retained in HGSS. I agree that Rhydon would be way better in the context of the remakes, however. Also, what could have been if I used Dragonite instead of Dodrio at the time...

That Yosho Cookie guy must be psyched as hell right now.

I love how you did more than the main series games for trades! Amazing content!!

Its almost 5 am and im trying to sleep with this as noise in the back round and you just start calling my name

Back when Sword and Shield came out (before you could connect to Pokémon home) that trade was the only way you could get Kantonian Mr. Mime in the game

Love how you upload whatever you want, keep it up.

The Pokemon Colosseum music you use in parts of this video make me really happy

I opened this video specifically expecting the haunter bs somewhere here, and your rant did not dissapoint.

I like the idea that this girl was taking petty revenge on you for running into her house

Okay #4 actually has a purpose in filling out the PokeDex in Sword and Shield, and that is breeding for a Mime Jr. You cannot use a galarian Mr. Mime to breed for a Mime Jr.

Oh wait MILK in the chunky cheese CUP

The obstagoon didn't bother me purely because the gigantimax wild battle things left me with so many pointless pokemon because everytime I babysat this one daycare kid he would cry if I knocked out something instead of catching it

About that Pokewalker, I still have my own, but I lost my copy of SoulSilver that came with it. And what sucks even more, that game card still has one of my first shinies on there; a shiny Parasect that I evolved!

I am truly disappointed on salty because he did not say number 15 burger King foot lettuce. This is not a epic gamer moment

sometimes i forget how thoughtful and smart salty can be

The game devs fucked up with mindy so bad, that they remedied this in scarlet and violet. You can how trade a pincurchin for a haunter, that ISN’T HOLDING AN EVERSTONE

When you said number one was in the sinnoh games I was hoping you'd talk about anouther bad magikarp trade. On route 226 there is a guy who will trade you a magikarp for your finneon. That alone is a bad trade but it gets worse. He's on a little island so if you do the trade and you don't have any pokwmon with fly/teleport and the finneonnyou trade was the pokemon you used to surf to.him, you can legitimately get stuck on the island, soft locking the game.