I Completed Pokemon Emerald's RIDICULOUS Pokedex

Shoutout to John's sister supporting him destroying his save file

That Shiny Horsea holding Dragon Scale was absolutely mental. You should've gone and bought some Powerball lottery tickets after that.

For the record I did this over like 2 years, idk how you managed over 2 weeks. Great stuff!

3:58 "Why would you ever want a Horsea?" 27:18 "Kingdra is probably my second favorite Pokémon ever" bruh

There was something incredibly foreboding about seeing that he had finished the story of the game six minutes in

Note ✍🏻to ✍🏻self: ✍🏻Never ✍🏻do ✍🏻a ✍🏻living ✍🏻Dex ✍🏻in ✍🏻any ✍🏻game ✍🏻ever ✍🏻 ESPECIALLY✍🏻 GEN ✍🏻3 ✍🏻

i'm consistently SO glad that big youtubers like you talk about how much of a money and time sink pokemon can be. this is absurd, oh my god.

It only cost 150+ hours, $1450, and Interviewer Gabby's will to live.

i am still yet to complete a single pokédex and this guy is lapping me like ten times over

"My boyfriend is this Mightyena." Good Job John.

the biggest challenge is this is getting all of these LEGALLY

The three legendary beasts being captured by the villains is mirrored in Pokémon Ranger, and that game was even more insane. Your run as a Ranger ended if your styler broke (or just set you back to the last save if you're WEAK), and the beasts LOOOOVE to attack your styler on sight. Manipulating them to attack and trying to do loops before they start sprinting again is a necessity. Not only that, but there's THREE FIGHTS IN A ROW. you basically need to grind Poké Assist gauge until your Plusle/Minun can paralyse them, and hope you can complete 20+ loops to catch ONE OF THEM. It is the single hardest battle of attrition in the game, yet somehow feels balanced(?) anyway. Shadows of Almia would actually redo the capture system, replacing X number of loops with a dedicated friendship gauge that filled up per loop, and progress decayed instead of wiping out entirely when you stopped. The difference in quality of life is night and day, and nothing will compare to OG Ranger Charizard or the beast trio. All this to say, legendary beasts captured by evil team, something about nickels, weird happening something.

The fact you didn’t use the infinite master ball glitch for late game colosseum is crazy, I’m so sorry for your loss

This was SO much fun to watch live, and the video turned out so great!!!!! This is my favorite generation of Pokemon, and it's absolutely insane to see where the prices have gone on it all!! You did such a good job walking through everything. Absolutely honored to have my Emerald VIP card featured at 21:14 Thankfully, the Master Ball in the JP Colo bonus disc does not lock the master ball behind story completion/purification, so it's actually extremely useful for people shiny hunting stuff like Shadow Entei since you can use it that early in the story! I had NO IDEA about the 255 times oversight with Gabby & Ty - that is SO cool and something I gotta work towards on my games!!

This is a super big accomplishment, doing a Gen 3 full living dex without any glitches (besides having to ACE inject the event items as that's unavoidable now) like Emerald's Battle Tower dupe for infinite master balls / rare candies or Colo's infinite ball trick is quite a task! It was nice getting to catch quite a lot of this live while out with sickness, congrats on getting the video out! <3

I’ve completed the National Dex for every generation 4-8, but I’m NEVER completing a Gen 3 National Dex or my bank account will never recover 😂

6:13 The way I see it, Kyogre is the one who's surrounded. What's under the ocean? That's right! More land.

With Baabu and Boingo Jumpluff stock has risen over the last few years

I actually have that English event Mew they gave out on September 30, 2006. It took a ton of begging to convince my parents to drive me down, since the Toys R Us was on the other side of town, but I got to battle other kids and pick some cool merch they were giving out too. As a result I've got all 151 on my Leaf Green. I am SO GLAD I never bothered with a national dex. Dear god. I had most of the stuff you needed, but damn. Little tidbit, I remember I traded a Trapinch to the event staff for the Mew. I wass like, "I'm okay with giving this one away, it sucks!" And the guy who was working it was like, "You should try training one!" And that was how I was introduced to the greatness that is Flygon. Good video, dude,

The absolute state of retro gaming