"Zen mode is so bad." Mikey, 2024. For Unovan Darmanitan, yes. It goes from a fairly fast physical attacker to a slow, bulky special attacker. For Galarian Darmanitan, it's not as bad. The 60 point boost to its BST go to its speed and physical attack. It goes from 140 attack to 160 and 95 speed to 135.
@bigjalapeno7061 Unovan Darmanitan is bad because it basically does a 180 for what kind of battler it is. Galarian Darmanitan just increases its 2 main stats, which makes it so much better, but the ability is still a bit of a pain because you can't really control it.
@@Ninja_Geek To add on to this, the big issue with Unovan Darmanitan is that you have to either build for half of its HP bar (and therefore have it be a bit rubbish for the other half) or have it have two half movesets, which is... less than optimal.
@@macaronipizzaman8249 i saw the wrong paragraph lol, hes the god of rebirth in greek mythology, my bad. But i did see somewhere that he is also the god of blood; im not 100% sure either way
Mikey, getting Circle Thrown into oblivion: There's only one thing I can do! Me: Time travel until you get the correct trade? Mikey: Nope! I'm just gonna sorta shuffle awkwardly around Schoolgirl Hannah and hope for the best.
Oh that's a fun idea! Here's another fun one you might enjoy, beating HGSS with only Johto Pokemon. It sounds weird until you try it and realise almost all HGSS teams have several Kanto Pokemon since Johto's roster is weird. But you get to do cool stuff like brutalise Miltank with Heracross and find out that Lanturn is actually really good in Johto playthroughs.
"Find out" my brother in christ I'm 95% sure he's already used Lanturn in at least a personal playthrough, considering it's one of his favorite pokemon
@@ZekromAndYugiAndDrago123He’s admitted before that, while he loves lanturn, he hasnt used it much in a playthrough since it comes entirely too late for it to be useful
"what's a giant flat thing" - rug, carpet, blanket! (my personal favorite of this list), field, barge, tent ("welcome barge" and "welcome tent" both kind of roll off the tongue), or just call 'em a a welcome flat, like an apartment.
2:10 Me:*Gets an ad for Kung Fu Panda 4* Mikey immediately after I skipped it:"Alright, time to fight the Dragon Warrior." You could not have timed that any better. XD
Schoolgirl hannah is honestly one of the biggest non-gym leader threats in the entire game. Especially because the majority of the pokemon you find on your way to route 3 are either normal or dark type
And when you do have multiple pokemon, she keeps shuffling all your pokemon around until you cant do anything! I had to get a ghost type so i couldnt be shuffled around.
My headcannon is that Regina is some sort of ancient god that existed before Arceus and just trades Pokémon for the thrill of it, as explanation for her clones.
@@bigjalapeno7061 - because they're trying to save every second, and frame they can, and skipping a whole battle usually takes less time than the battle itself in many cases. Some skips can be tougher than others for various reasons, so the dread may come from the difficulty of the skip OR the difficulty of the trainer since the runner teams are often under-leveled, or both. Not to mention (as gleaned from other comments) Hannah seems to be a surprisingly strong battle early on, even in a normal playthrough.
20:07 Actually Michael, for a region based off the UK it's fairly accurate, they find weird artifacts in strange places all the time, like once they found the remains of one of the earliest Kings of England buried under a parking lot
31:08 yup Mikey, there's a reason zen mode G-Darmanitan was set up so differently, and likely why Minior works differently. It's stupid to turn from a high-speed high-attack monster into a super slow special attacker at low HP - the additional bulk is useless if you're at half HP and the low speed means you'll be pretty much guaranteed to take another hit. Hence why G-Darmanitan's stats change differently and why Minior is immune to status and slow first (to set up) and then fast and hits hard at lower health. U-Darmanitan with zen mode blows *hard*
23:46 There is a wandering Obstagoon in a hidden area on the lake by the Professor's house on Route 2. That one is not locked behind becoming champion. You can also find wild ones at the Lake of Outrage just in the grass.
Love how we went from: “so we skip over the first 45 minutes of the game until, BUNNELBY” to “Time to fight the dragon warrior” to Mikey dying while trading😂
the tapestry being found in a pizza place is actually pretty common in real life, a bunch of old relics and art gets lost and goes to random places there's a famous unicorn tapestry extremely unique on its own and got lost. it was found being a mantle for sheeps in a barn
Classic Nuzlockers, managing to somehow consistently fumble it on the most random and unremarkable of opposing Pokémon. It's like watching lemmings follow each other off of clifftops.
The idea of a long lost art piece with historical relevance found in a pizza place isn't that strange, chezch art historians were looking for a lost painting for decades only to be found in the background of the film "Stuard Little"
23:47 The single most unfair unrealistic and atrocious trade in all Pokemon history. The sheer fact you have to trade one of the most badass Pokemon ever conceived for Delia's maid? I hate it more than Mindy from Gen 4. If you know you're an OG
For the record: there's another Obstagoon you COULD have caught, after obtaining Surf you can go to Sonya's grandma's house, there's a patch of water there and if you surf to the far left and then up there's one blocking your path.
Fun Fact! Regina means "Queen" in Latin. That's where the "gina" comes from in Mandibuzz's Japanese name (it's Japanese name is unfortunately Vulgina, but it's Vul from Vulture, and gina from Regina.) The "gina" is pronounced gee-na.
I have a challenge, playing pokemon with Fannee Doolee rules. Fannee Doolee was a word game from a 90s show called Zoom who loves all things double lettered. So like Fannee Doolee loves Litten doesn't likes Incineroar. (If you wanna try it as a boy character, you can do it as Mannee) Rule 1: So you can only use pokemon with double letters in their names like Electibuzz or Eevee. Rule 2: You can't use pokemon that don't have double letters like Electire or Sylveon. So if a fouble letter pokemon evolves and loses the double letters, you can use it. Rule 3: You have to nickname your pokemon with double letters, like Buzzworthy for example.
Wild that Regina offers trades you can already get in the base game 😂 and it really sucks they are all level 15 instead of being whatever level the mon you traded to her is :/ A fun playthrough!
Fun fact: When I was first playing through Sword, I had already learned about the 5% Darumaka spawn in Route 8, since I was really excited to use G-Darmanitan. It took me so DAMN long to find that Darumaka that I ended up finding a shiny Sneasel before I found the Darumaka, my first ever shiny. I ended up running out of balls for the Sneasel, killed it, and then spent another HOUR AND A HALF until I found the Darumaka
I did a nuzlocke in sword where I counted trades as encounter and when I got the togepi and evolved it I swept the entire region (serene grace air slash and ancient power)
Kinda ironic that an full grown man with a very prestige beard could not defeat a GOD DAMN SCHOOL GIRL WITH AN SMOL PANDA (I’m sorry I mean the dragon warrior)
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“Time to fight the dragon warrior” is my favourite thing Michael has ever said
Thats up there with
@@DoreikuFruit Hail Yeah
"You and your opulent dress must fall"
Kung Fu Panda is GOATed, ignoring #4.
Facts
Mikey: "It''s a cow. You're a cow. What are you gonna do, big girl? Stomp flinch me?"
Miltank: "Don't tempt me."
Lol
Ha-HA!!! It is I, GRUN! TY! BOI~! And, *WHAT IS THAT DOING HERE?!* (points to Miltank)
The Kung-Fu Panda reference was perfect.
what the context for the miltank memes and the mikey loves drowzee memes
Pokémon needs to give all in-game trade Pokémon really stupid/silly names to incentivize people to actually get them. Cheekers is peak content
True
or just remove nickname locks from trade pokemon
I dunno. Hauntikins keeps trying to faint out of shame, and watching a Gengar T-pose to wait for death is... surreal.
@@weluvduskYES.
More like PEAKers
"Zen mode is so bad." Mikey, 2024.
For Unovan Darmanitan, yes. It goes from a fairly fast physical attacker to a slow, bulky special attacker. For Galarian Darmanitan, it's not as bad. The 60 point boost to its BST go to its speed and physical attack. It goes from 140 attack to 160 and 95 speed to 135.
That doesn't sound so bad
@bigjalapeno7061 Unovan Darmanitan is bad because it basically does a 180 for what kind of battler it is. Galarian Darmanitan just increases its 2 main stats, which makes it so much better, but the ability is still a bit of a pain because you can't really control it.
@@Ninja_Geek To add on to this, the big issue with Unovan Darmanitan is that you have to either build for half of its HP bar (and therefore have it be a bit rubbish for the other half) or have it have two half movesets, which is... less than optimal.
Zen Mode is good on the Galarian forme, it's just massively outclassed by Gorilla Tactics; weren't for that, Zen Mode would be solid tbh.
Yeah but even if it was galarian gorilla tactics so incredibly broken
Cloning in Pokemon: Started with Mewtwo, perfected with Regina.
The Clone Wars
Or Regina's secretly the flash
# 0001 Nurse Joys: wE HoPe tO SeE YoU aGaIN........ . . . . . . .
@@bulbasaur15ditto for Officer Jenny
@@bulbasaur15they are sisters
"I want to give it a nickname that's in line with the other in game trade names."
Names it the greek god of blood and main character of Hades
Yea that's totally a silly name that fits the theme-
I was about to comment this 💀
I haven’t played hades so I found the mc and I can’t find anything that says he’s the god of blood where did you see this I’m confused😭😭😭
@@macaronipizzaman8249 i saw the wrong paragraph lol, hes the god of rebirth in greek mythology, my bad. But i did see somewhere that he is also the god of blood; im not 100% sure either way
@@fbglol8692 I know my Greek mythology, and you are correct
Mikey, getting Circle Thrown into oblivion: There's only one thing I can do!
Me: Time travel until you get the correct trade?
Mikey: Nope! I'm just gonna sorta shuffle awkwardly around Schoolgirl Hannah and hope for the best.
when I saw the Pancham I was like Wait she's skippable
And it worked!
I like to believe that he returned to get his revenge on her after he ended the run
"My name is Regina... and I am a massive deal. I only care what pokemon you have, I don't care how you feel"
lol
Oh no the Plastics!
The Reginas aren’t clones, they’re just a bunch of identical twin sisters. Just like the Officer Jennys and Nurse Joys in the anime.😂
No . . . IT CANNOT BE TRUE!!!!!
20:11 honestly the best part of the scene in the restaurant is that you can talk about the poster and you will distract Sonia for a bit
Lol yea
Oh that's a fun idea! Here's another fun one you might enjoy, beating HGSS with only Johto Pokemon.
It sounds weird until you try it and realise almost all HGSS teams have several Kanto Pokemon since Johto's roster is weird.
But you get to do cool stuff like brutalise Miltank with Heracross and find out that Lanturn is actually really good in Johto playthroughs.
"Find out" my brother in christ I'm 95% sure he's already used Lanturn in at least a personal playthrough, considering it's one of his favorite pokemon
Has he done HG/SS with only Pokewalker Pokemon before? That would be a fun playthrough, and quite a workout plan too.
@@ZekromAndYugiAndDrago123He’s admitted before that, while he loves lanturn, he hasnt used it much in a playthrough since it comes entirely too late for it to be useful
"what's a giant flat thing" - rug, carpet, blanket! (my personal favorite of this list), field, barge, tent ("welcome barge" and "welcome tent" both kind of roll off the tongue), or just call 'em a a welcome flat, like an apartment.
Alternate title: Bearded man wields bloodthirsty animals he scammed off children to beat up a big hand.
He didn't scam them off children. Most of the times, the children scammed him.
i disliked this comment
That's ok, if you don't like it you can do what you like
Lol yea
💀😭🙏🧌🪑
2:10
Me:*Gets an ad for Kung Fu Panda 4*
Mikey immediately after I skipped it:"Alright, time to fight the Dragon Warrior."
You could not have timed that any better. XD
jack black: EVERYBODY WAS KUNG FU FIGHTING-
I doubt that was a coincidence TH-cam usually puts ads that have some relation to the video so him mentioning dragon warrior might have triggerednthat
Schoolgirl hannah is honestly one of the biggest non-gym leader threats in the entire game. Especially because the majority of the pokemon you find on your way to route 3 are either normal or dark type
You're basically needed to use the starter or a Rookiedee, and of course they aren't options here.
@@gengarzilla1685 yeah, I once did a nuzlocke where I got 5 normal types and a Nickit
You can imagine how that went :/
And when you do have multiple pokemon, she keeps shuffling all your pokemon around until you cant do anything! I had to get a ghost type so i couldnt be shuffled around.
But can she beat Youngster Joey?
@@jeffreygao3956 no she can't
“Way to go exeggutor. I forgot the nickname it, Stick, it’s name is Stick.”
My favorite line he said in this video
It's especially funny because it's a dumb name
@@bigjalapeno7061It should have been Sticks from Sonic Boom
My headcannon is that Regina is some sort of ancient god that existed before Arceus and just trades Pokémon for the thrill of it, as explanation for her clones.
Yeah, that checks out
Yea that explains everything
Yeah, that makes sense
Yeah, that works
Makes perfect sense
"Oh finally no more egg now egg shaped bird" is the funniest and my favorite line Mickey ever said in this video😂
5:20 This is why Mikey isn't a shiny hunter
Bro was going to die just from a zigzagon
anymore*
He did take a sip before the shiny reshiram and still hasn't learned
@@SirPanikalot778 true
@@SirPanikalot778what a callback
“COUGH COUGH COUGHCOUH *literally dying* COUGH hOly CrAp yEaH iD wAnT tO tRaDe” had me dying as well 5:21
"You wanna trade?" "*Dying Mikey noises*"
R.I.P Mikey
He wanted to trade.
Regina:hey do you want to trad- are you ok?
Mikey: *choking on spit*
GGs to Michael for hitting Anita Skip. Speedrunners dread doing that Skip and to see Mikey do it was fantastic
A Pokémon game has skips?!
@thelanktheist2626 Why wouldn't it...?
Time
Why do speedrunners dread it
@@bigjalapeno7061 - because they're trying to save every second, and frame they can, and skipping a whole battle usually takes less time than the battle itself in many cases. Some skips can be tougher than others for various reasons, so the dread may come from the difficulty of the skip OR the difficulty of the trainer since the runner teams are often under-leveled, or both. Not to mention (as gleaned from other comments) Hannah seems to be a surprisingly strong battle early on, even in a normal playthrough.
20:07
Actually Michael, for a region based off the UK it's fairly accurate, they find weird artifacts in strange places all the time, like once they found the remains of one of the earliest Kings of England buried under a parking lot
He wasn't one of our "earliest" kings, but yeah, it was quite a huge deal to just find his remains like that.
31:08 yup Mikey, there's a reason zen mode G-Darmanitan was set up so differently, and likely why Minior works differently.
It's stupid to turn from a high-speed high-attack monster into a super slow special attacker at low HP - the additional bulk is useless if you're at half HP and the low speed means you'll be pretty much guaranteed to take another hit.
Hence why G-Darmanitan's stats change differently and why Minior is immune to status and slow first (to set up) and then fast and hits hard at lower health.
U-Darmanitan with zen mode blows *hard*
Damn
23:46 There is a wandering Obstagoon in a hidden area on the lake by the Professor's house on Route 2. That one is not locked behind becoming champion.
You can also find wild ones at the Lake of Outrage just in the grass.
“My spit went right down my windpipe” SO IT DOES HAPPEN TO OTHER PEOPLE!!!
THAT'S WHAT I WAS THINKING!
I heard that right as i read this comment
I'm not the only one
I saw a meme about that and I didn't know that was something that happened but it happened to me recently
I frequently hear other people surprised that other people do this. Is it not a normal thing?
"Just grinding on wild pokemon." Shows a Lopunny.
😂
I love how he says he wants a nickname that fits the theme and immediately doesn’t
Yea that part was funny
37:41 "...and just *grinding* on wild pokemon."
*Lopunny is on screen*
What are you *doing* to that Lopunny, Michael?
"There are no laws against the pokemon, batman!"
💀
aint no ones gonna stop him i mean if it was me in that situation u bet i would be " grinding " fr
Michael is clearly the Joker
Go touch grass, PLEASE
You named Farfetch'd "Madame", nice. Love the reference to its scrapped Gen 2 evolution.
36:28 Zen Mode Darmanitan was waiting for the perfect moment, reaching full potential and when it finally was ready, it hit, hit hard.
0:55 this is the first person I see suffering by a growl
Yeah closest thing to this I've seen anyone complain about is gen 1 sand attack. That was annyoing.
Lol yea
Love how we went from: “so we skip over the first 45 minutes of the game until, BUNNELBY” to “Time to fight the dragon warrior” to Mikey dying while trading😂
Lol yea that was funny
"Alright, time to fight THE DRAGON WARRIOR" I'm DEAD
The Tai Lung impression was the best part of the entire video.
Lol
Mikey avoiding the school girl Hannah caught me so off guard😂😂😂😂
Same 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yea that was funny
the tapestry being found in a pizza place is actually pretty common in real life, a bunch of old relics and art gets lost and goes to random places
there's a famous unicorn tapestry extremely unique on its own and got lost. it was found being a mantle for sheeps in a barn
Stunfisk: Hello everybody! My name is welcome.
Random Person: Let me see your Persian
Mikey: Cash Or credit?
12:51 this is why I love MandJTV plays 😂. All this random stuff that has no purpose but its just there for fun.
5:25 Glad to see you survived your brush with death Mikey ☠️🫣
I find Greedent very funny. People say it sucks, but in SV I heard that Arven's Greedent is a tank that has ended multiple Nuzlockes.
And that is why Nuzlockes are always a bad idea.
@@miikaroos3809🤓
That is the only one of his Pokemon that I didn’t struggle with
Classic Nuzlockers, managing to somehow consistently fumble it on the most random and unremarkable of opposing Pokémon. It's like watching lemmings follow each other off of clifftops.
Cash and Credit are incredible nicknames for a Meowth duo 😂
6:02 zagreus is on theme, because this run is hell
Hades II hype 🤝
The idea of a long lost art piece with historical relevance found in a pizza place isn't that strange, chezch art historians were looking for a lost painting for decades only to be found in the background of the film "Stuard Little"
23:47 The single most unfair unrealistic and atrocious trade in all Pokemon history. The sheer fact you have to trade one of the most badass Pokemon ever conceived for Delia's maid? I hate it more than Mindy from Gen 4. If you know you're an OG
*Delia's maid, but yes, you're right.
@@miikaroos3809 Thanks for the correction. Can't believe I did that 😂
5:20
Dude literally choked on his own excitement😂
I actually did this challenge myself last year, surprisingly fun! Not over-leveling actually adds a nice challenge
I like how Team Sky Mikey's "SIT DOWN!" Taunt has bled through into Michael's normal playthroughs.
Love your unique style, never change!
Him and PM7 both
Keeping in Mikey choking was unnecessarily hilarious 😅
When Mah Dry Bread attempted this In Game Trade only challenge in the first five generations, you decided to make it up for Gen 6-9
Mikey: (Catches Darumaka)
Tyler: *WOOOOOOO!!!*
For the record: there's another Obstagoon you COULD have caught, after obtaining Surf you can go to Sonya's grandma's house, there's a patch of water there and if you surf to the far left and then up there's one blocking your path.
Snips the Togepi trade was my first ever level 100 pokemon! Glad to see it put to some use!
Frosmoth: I love you Mikey our friendship is special
Mikey: buh-bye
😂
Lol. He didn't feel the same way
…Considering that this video was posted on my birthday, his comments during the fight against Opal’s Alcremie make me smile, just a bit.
Fun Fact! Regina means "Queen" in Latin. That's where the "gina" comes from in Mandibuzz's Japanese name (it's Japanese name is unfortunately Vulgina, but it's Vul from Vulture, and gina from Regina.) The "gina" is pronounced gee-na.
Lol I remember some people talking about Mandibuzz's name years ago
I think we can comfortably start making creepypastas on the spirit of Regina wandering this world and offering trades to worthy trainers
Never has anyone ever been so excited for a Zigzagoon😅
Liiiies, Zigzagoon is my favorite first route pokemon and it's an underrated species! I love seeing my Pickpocket show up
In the wise words of an entire subreddit: "Good heavens, would you look at the time"
Pokémon Sword Nostalgia!! It's time to trade slaves- I mean pets (wait that still sounds bad)
Damn bro 😂
Calm down, hm's aren't in gen 8
30:39 Zen Mode only activates at the end of a turn if Darmanitan's HP is half or below; it doesn't activate when Darmanitan isn't in battle
Was hoping Team Sky would visit Galar but this is gold too!
Maybe they still will. That would be nice
I have a Team Sky themed team in Sword.
You should do more playthrough challenges on this channel that are actually really difficult like this one
Bro thought he was slick trying to blur the stunfisk in the box
26:56 *Me screaming and crying at my screen* "A welcome banner Mikey! A welcome banner!" 😭
5:20 Th spluttering💀
37:36 you CANNOT just say "then i started grinding on wild pokemon" and have a lopunny as the wild pokemon on display 💀💀💀💀
Even though I'm more of a Persona fan nowadays, I still love Pokémon thanks to watching content from people like you.
I wanna get into Persona
8:51 “We’ve achieved mitosis, Mikey”
Russian badger?
I watch him, but I don’t know if it’s a bit he did or not, I just made a joke
It feels like failboat
This man almost died for a Zigzagoon. That’s dedication to your craft.
Sword and shield is quickly becoming my favorite pokemon game
Michal is so happy to avoid the trainer,he didn’t want to spend all of mortal life trying to kill the dragon warrior?
YOU CAN ACTUALLY FIND AN OBSTAGOON BEFORE THE POST GAME PAST THE LAKE NEAR PROF.MANGOLIA’S HOUSE
37:40, lol i caught that little joke you snuck in there
5:24 Mikey causally dying 😂
23:45 now that’s a true obstagoon
Alternate name: Kung fu Panda: Clone of all Trades
You've heard of Mewtwo. Now get ready for Potwo
Regina having the perfectly timed zigzagoon trade is even funnier than first try shiny reshiram. This is the new lore
he's going through torture💀💀
Zagreus, I was thinking that it was a heck of deep-cut Doctor Who reference, then looked and found out it's from Greek mythology.
1:17
I remember this…this is where I first lost in my first run.
I have a challenge, playing pokemon with Fannee Doolee rules. Fannee Doolee was a word game from a 90s show called Zoom who loves all things double lettered. So like Fannee Doolee loves Litten doesn't likes Incineroar. (If you wanna try it as a boy character, you can do it as Mannee)
Rule 1: So you can only use pokemon with double letters in their names like Electibuzz or Eevee.
Rule 2: You can't use pokemon that don't have double letters like Electire or Sylveon. So if a fouble letter pokemon evolves and loses the double letters, you can use it.
Rule 3: You have to nickname your pokemon with double letters, like Buzzworthy for example.
Sword is such a fun game glad to see you playing it again
Wild that Regina offers trades you can already get in the base game 😂 and it really sucks they are all level 15 instead of being whatever level the mon you traded to her is :/
A fun playthrough!
24:35
Me who’s beaten Five Star Raids with a Pikachu: May I repeat the phrase from the only Karen we let speak to our managers?
It's not impossible but you need to have an actual functioning brain unlike the npc trainers
Yeah, it’s mostly the NPC’s fault, not the Pokémon’s fault.
3:20 Ah yes. The famous Joestar technique.
26:22 it’s a ‘Whale’come mat
Fun fact: When I was first playing through Sword, I had already learned about the 5% Darumaka spawn in Route 8, since I was really excited to use G-Darmanitan. It took me so DAMN long to find that Darumaka that I ended up finding a shiny Sneasel before I found the Darumaka, my first ever shiny. I ended up running out of balls for the Sneasel, killed it, and then spent another HOUR AND A HALF until I found the Darumaka
That’s ridiculous
It’s 2024, Mikey is playing Sword.
Nostalgia moment.
Finally someone who actually plays Sword and shield in 2024, I can’t believe I’m not the only one.
I did a nuzlocke in sword where I counted trades as encounter and when I got the togepi and evolved it I swept the entire region (serene grace air slash and ancient power)
WELCOME MATTRESS CMON MIKEY!!
Kinda ironic that an full grown man with a very prestige beard could not defeat a GOD DAMN SCHOOL GIRL WITH AN SMOL PANDA
(I’m sorry I mean the dragon warrior)
05.30 michael funking dies after seeing the word zigzagon 😂
This is an interesting challenge.
5:21 this was amazing 😂.
35:07 "Sir, a Max Whirlwind has hit the other tower"
Nooo, not Schoolgirl Hannah!!
it's this early in the video but it's gold already: 1:05
I also wanted to say how much I liked this mixture of live reactions and post commentary.