This an experimental compilation video! I thought it might be a nice way to both bring past hits back to the forefront, but also to give those of you who like background videos some really long vids to put on. 😂 These will always be in addition to my regular new content, and I should have a new one for you this upcoming weekend.
Hey I for one, think you should do another challenge like this and maybe like I don’t know fire red or leaf green your choice. I had a fun time watching these videos.
Holy crap! Seeing Mikey without a beard just took me back! I've been watching since around junior year in highschool. Dude, I'm a mom, I went to college. Im gonna be 29 next month! But, here I am having flashbacks to being in my room at my dad's house watching pokemon talk. Time has flown by incredibly fast. Very odd that it was an MandJtv video that made me realize that.
This is so relatable. I wasn’t married when I started watching and now I am like in the final weeks before I have my second kid and it’s like when did this happen
You should do this in X or Y for your April's Fools video. You get two starters, you get a Tyrantrum, you can get a Old Amber by smashing rocks in the cave with the fossils, you get Mega Lucario AND a Lapras! That's a bust team right there. And then you end in a failiure because you NEED to catch the Box Art Legenday to finish the game :p
@@ChiknTV True (even though in all my runs, I've never seen her because I suck at Pokerogue) but I don't consider fan games like that as canon lore. So while she does have them, and Revaroom works due to her team star connections, I'm only considering her final battle at the end of Starfall Street's story.
@@horizonbumpy2828 I was being sarcastic? The way you phrased it implies that a small minority of men are born with beards which is really funny imagery.
Beardless, high-pitched-voice Mikey was certainly a throwback. Got some whiplash from that blast from the past but I really loved seeing the older videos again. And two hours of Mikey playing Pokemon? Can't complain!
I genuinely love it when Mikey does challenges like this. It's so interesting to see how Mikey builds a team out of what limited Pokémon are available and I do enjoy when he rages lol. I love them, I hope Mikey enjoys making them too!
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched all the “No Catching in Pokémon _____” challenges, it’s so interesting seeing all the possible gift Pokémon you can get in the game, some of which I didn’t know existed until watching the videos. I’d love seeing a new one, Mikey!
i've seen smallant's "no catching/no evolving" in firered and, in the casino, he literally picked up 200 credits from the ground, exchanged them for an abra and TRADED THE ABRA FOR A MR MIME. IT WAS THE FIRST RUN I'VE EVER SEEN A MR MIME IN
I really like that you tend to do these playthroughs in a more casual way than a lot of other challenge run channels. There's still clearly a lot of effort and research, but not to the hyper-optimized "everything but doing damage range calcs" and planning to turbo-grind levels way a lot of other channels seem to do, which is kinda nice, even though I like those other more intense styles too! It helps the challenges feel more approachable as something to try for someone who doesn't literally do this as their job while still providing info that said more casual player might need or want to keep in mind for their attempts at the idea! ^v^ Also this particular challenge for a playthrough is just a lot of fun in general. Working with limited but diverse resources is a good puzzle.
Honestly, I've never defeated Reshiram or Zekrom because of the fact that they're mandatory to catch. What happens if you knock them out? Does it give you a Game Over? It's kind of embarrassing that I don't know this, lmao. Gen 5 is both my favorite Generation and the Generation I started with, so the fact that I still don't know what happens is probably odd.
@@brendansage6876 If you KO it, the battle ends but you have to battle him again until you do catch him. I've heard that it was technically possible to avoid this by making your PC full of pokemon, which would prevent you from catching it and you could catch it later (after beating the game). You might think this one would require catching a lot of pokemons but you could also breed pokemons until you have no more room, I don't think you'd need to even hatch the eggs...
@@s0lsticefr4 I knew the bit about the full PC, since it was mentioned on Bulbapedia, but never what happened if you actually KO'd it. Interesting, although I think just forcing the player to retry the fight is kind of a lame solution. I guess it might've needed to happen that way, though. Thank you for a fast answer!
Here’s an obscure Fact: in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, there’s a hidden item called the “Gracidea” flower, which is used to change Shaymin from its Land Form to its Sky Form. However, if you take the Gracidea to a certain spot in the game, it won't trigger a transformation if Shaymin is holding a specific item called the “Shed Shell.”
Man, I've been here since Pokemon Talk was still coming out regularly, bearded mikey was a jumpscare i got used to but beardLESS mikey feels like falling back into the swing of things. You're great, dude. Truly.
Was i the only one who wasn't jumpscared lol? I've been watching for years and frequently rewatch my favourite videos from the beardless era - i remember being jumpscared when he first grew the beard 😭
I think I'm the only one that thinks he looks better without a beard. Not that there's anything wrong with a bearded Mikey though, that's not up for me to decide.
If you want a game where that is very easy, X/Y has so many gift Pokémon that it gets kinda ridiculous (though technically you are forced to catch the boxart legendary before the final fight with Lysandre)
I remember watching all 3 of these challenges and I'm like 'Now these are the types of experiments I want to see' and 'I hope he does more in the future'. But also like everyone's saying: Mikey without his beard is almost foreign now 😂😂
Hearing Mikey say that he might change his mind about Typhlosion being the best HGSS starter makes me so happy🥹 Totodile has ALWAYS been my favorite starter and Mikey has always been my favorite poketuber. Hearing him have the same opinion as me on one of my favorite pokemon makes me super happy
These are my favourite of mikeys series of videos. I always watch these when I have a bad day or if i have a bit of free time. Especially the USUM playthrough
Nostalgic memories here. Pokemon Platinum and HG/SS are my favorite mainline games ever. Even if I played every generation since 1999 to this day and also love Crystal and Emerald I think Gen 4 has the best games I have all my files (Diamond, Platinum, HeartGold and SoulSilver) from the time I bought them together with my DSi and 3DS and love to sometimes do a new run, trade breeded Pokemon between them to try new teams in a Sinnoh/Johto run
Oh... I thought this was another playthrough, not just a compilation Still, this is pretty nostalgic. Been awhile since we've seen ya without the beard 😅
For the first challenge in Pokémon Platinum where he named his team members after people from the Bible makes me very pleased. As a devout Christian of 10 years, and as a Pokémon fan, this really does make me happy!! 😊 My favorite team member has to be Levi. Because, not only is Levi named after the Leviathon mentioned in Isaiah 27:1, but I also think he could be named after one of the brothers of Joseph that was sold into slavery in Egypt. Either way Mikey, thank you so much for doing this!! May God bless you forevermore!! ❤
I don’t think Mikey reads comments this late but I would like to say I’ve been watching since like 2016 and I’d LOVE to see an old playthrough compilation of like his ultra sun or anything like that, just some good nostalgia
Its how i beat my first playthrough of X. Delphox & Charizard as my two starters, Blaziken was a pre-order DLC, Tyrantrum was a fossil, and both Lapras and Lucario were gift pokemon.
Some construction criticism, but it’d be interesting to hear your thoughts on each Playthrough after that playthrough, then in the end, thoughts on the gimmick
I really like it in these types of videos Mikey uses knowledge he figured out in his less gameplay heavy videos. Like the several references to the best starter video feels a lot like citing his sources.
I don't think another is possible, In X&Y it's impossible you HAVE to catch the legendary to move on, same with BW. BW2 has less then 6 Pokémon for gifts, you could try but you'd need to start with Oshawott. Sword and Shield are also out since you need to catch Eternatus. Let's go cannot be done, you need 50 caught Pokémon to enter Koga's gym. Scarlet and Violet have very few gifts also. FRLG would be the only legitimate ones left to do.
@@DryBones271 True...and Gen 1 and 2 aren't as good compared to their remakes. But yeah, FRLG is the only choice...options consisting of a Starter, Magikarp (to evolve to Gyarados), an Eevee you can evolve, Lapras, and one of the Hitmons....oh yeah and one of the fossils. (A type overlap is pretty much inevitable though, you're gonna be stuck with at least two water types) That said, if you want a flyer, you're gonna have to use Aerodactyl. As for other possible options? RSE is doable...but again you're not gonna be able to get a team of 6, no not even 5 pokemon actually. Only your starter, one of the fossils, a Wynaut if you want to have Wobuffet (Which can only deal damage if taken damage using Mirror Coat or Counter), and Castform...just four and you're gonna have to use the water starter since it can learn the HMs. That SAID...the biggest pile of frustration with this no catching run is severe moveset constraints and no Pokemon you can teach Fly to. It's doable, but there's severe limitations. You're also right about BW2 having less than 6 pokemon as gifts...less than even four actually. Only your starter (which has to be Oshawott), a Zorua, and Deerling. It might be doable but like with RSE, it will be extremely frustrating, if not more so with one less team member. tldr: FRLG really is the only legitimate one left to do where you can get a full team and you can have a team that allows you to better navigate around.
@@DryBones271 You can actually fill your PC boxes to avoid having to catch the Legendary in BW, it would require you to breed many eggs but it is doable, as soon as you have one badge actually.
00:15 i had to pause and check whether YT recommend me old video or actually new one 😂 you're right I'm that person who need something to play on background 😂😂
I love this! Can you beat Pokémon platinum without catching any Pokémon was my very first video I saw of Mikey’s so this is nice to watch for nostalgia reasons. Ever since then I’ve been watching every video since then
@@rach5204i did this as well, just in BD instead. i tried not to use either most of the time, and i barely used Mew at all actually, making them more of a support mon. Pretty funny actually
Jesus, seeing baby-faced Mikey just brought me back to before the start of the pandemic, before all this adulting and job stuff. Happy to say I'm still watching to this day (5+ years later) at 21, going on 22! Keep up the good work and amazing videos!
Yeahi noticed this back when ORAS came out, and almost every Poketuber gets the effect backwards (granted the Platinum No Catching is several years old so Michael might know now). Pretty decent for double battles, but pretty underwhelming for singles unless you want to run a confusion strat or depend on entry hazards
Huzzah! A new MandJTV video! *can’t wait to see if he finally admits he loves Drowzee and then smashes one with hammer claw* (is that the moves name I forgot the name I just know the animation)
This an experimental compilation video! I thought it might be a nice way to both bring past hits back to the forefront, but also to give those of you who like background videos some really long vids to put on. 😂 These will always be in addition to my regular new content, and I should have a new one for you this upcoming weekend.
Hey I for one, think you should do another challenge like this and maybe like I don’t know fire red or leaf green your choice. I had a fun time watching these videos.
Thanks now I have something to listen while doing my Drowzee nuzlocke
Ohh i was wondering why there was a 2 hour long video on your main channel
@@JKxLFC what the dream? I’m not gonna lie. I’ve always hated Drowzee even before it became a meme with MANDJTV
Oooh, makes sense. Would be neat to see the Team Sky Movie!
Holy crap! Seeing Mikey without a beard just took me back!
I've been watching since around junior year in highschool. Dude, I'm a mom, I went to college. Im gonna be 29 next month!
But, here I am having flashbacks to being in my room at my dad's house watching pokemon talk. Time has flown by incredibly fast. Very odd that it was an MandJtv video that made me realize that.
This is so relatable. I wasn’t married when I started watching and now I am like in the final weeks before I have my second kid and it’s like when did this happen
Fellow moms and OG fans! Its fun to see others out here enjoying this type of content 😊
so Mikey;s audience is very wide :D
It's kinda odd. The first fifteen years of my life felt like 30 years but the last five years have felt like a year.
I relate to this in the exact same way. I'm 28, married, have 2 kids, and own my own board game and TCG store... a lot has changed lol.
michael without a beard is a jumpscare that belongs in a fnaf game
As a fellow baby face I wish I could grow a beard without looking like I belong on the sex offender registry.
This is wild to read lol since I've only had the beard for 3 years, a minority of the time I've been a youtuber
He even has a higher pitch, which I'm not used to at all anymore due to used to him having a bit lower pitch in his voice
@@MandJTV Yeah but hasn't your growth (heh) the last couple years been more accelerated? More people should know bearded mikey
@@MandJTVsomehow its still a jumpscare even to me, who watched you for years without the beard
You should do this in X or Y for your April's Fools video. You get two starters, you get a Tyrantrum, you can get a Old Amber by smashing rocks in the cave with the fossils, you get Mega Lucario AND a Lapras! That's a bust team right there.
And then you end in a failiure because you NEED to catch the Box Art Legenday to finish the game :p
Good idea
That's hilarious!
My sister’s first game was X and when she showed me her team I realized she never actually caught anything and just used all the gifts
Platinum: 2:09
HeartGold: 38:29
Ultra Moon: 1:22:43
Thank you, very helpful.
thanks
36:37
Thanks dude
you don't even use HM-bearers in gen 7. Huh.
10:26 "Having a team of just Eeveelutions would be boring" Penny took that personally.
Michael is the reason she turned out the way she did
@@KraylebStudios absolutely.
@@KraylebStudios New head canon accepted
Friendly reminder that she owns a revavroom and rotom in pokerogue (I sound like a nerd, don’t I?)
@@ChiknTV True (even though in all my runs, I've never seen her because I suck at Pokerogue) but I don't consider fan games like that as canon lore. So while she does have them, and Revaroom works due to her team star connections, I'm only considering her final battle at the end of Starfall Street's story.
42:55
"Grand Theft Spearow" is still one of the best jokes ever.
Agreed!
"Uhh... Nah"
That part made me laugh hard before he even made the pun
When he suddenly cut from his current self to his past self I experienced some weird whiplash...
Hearing Mikey's old voice feels so weird.
Spheal detected
3 spheals now
@@logancross9557 the Spheal army grows
It was pretty nostalgic hahaha
Exactly also nice spheal dude my fav is ariados
0:15 Terrifying Jumpscare
Blud doesn’t have his beard😭
Gah! Babyface!
Back before he evolved.
sure dude, never seen a guy without a beard before? guess what, most man don't have beards before turning a certain age...
@@horizonbumpy2828 I was being sarcastic? The way you phrased it implies that a small minority of men are born with beards which is really funny imagery.
0:15 My eyes got blinded by that shiny face!!! 😲😲
Exactly it reflected all over me
I got whiplash from seeing younger Mikey
Immediate reaction: BALD! BALD! BALD! BAL-
@@gluttonousgoddess MY EYES!!!
Wow.
Beardless, high-pitched-voice Mikey was certainly a throwback. Got some whiplash from that blast from the past but I really loved seeing the older videos again. And two hours of Mikey playing Pokemon? Can't complain!
Seeing Michael without the beard doing the MandJTV intro takes me back. I'm still upset he stopped doing the intro and outro.
I genuinely love it when Mikey does challenges like this. It's so interesting to see how Mikey builds a team out of what limited Pokémon are available and I do enjoy when he rages lol. I love them, I hope Mikey enjoys making them too!
Nostalgic for some reason
He did make two other videos like this he did it in soul, silver, and platinum
Heart Gold actually
This is actually a compilation guys
@@SuperScizor6 my bad
@@NathanEatsTheWorldand ultra moon
Bro it's so weird seeing Mikey without a beard and with the old voice . Your videos are GOATED . Thank you so much for everything!
My mans had the same trees for YEARS😂😂
They are fake lol so they can't die!
@@MandJTVbut can they kill 🧐
Very observant 🤭 i didn't notice
@@Lando_Calzonian_MK8say what now?
@@Lando_Calzonian_MK8yes they can
I would know, they killed me :/
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched all the “No Catching in Pokémon _____” challenges, it’s so interesting seeing all the possible gift Pokémon you can get in the game, some of which I didn’t know existed until watching the videos. I’d love seeing a new one, Mikey!
@@horizonbumpy2828 The videos existed long before this compilation released
@@horizonbumpy2828 these are videos he already made he just put them together
@@horizonbumpy2828 this is a fucking compilation video
@@horizonbumpy2828 I was taking about the original separate videos, dude
i've seen smallant's "no catching/no evolving" in firered and, in the casino, he literally picked up 200 credits from the ground, exchanged them for an abra and TRADED THE ABRA FOR A MR MIME. IT WAS THE FIRST RUN I'VE EVER SEEN A MR MIME IN
1:47:58 "Chipmuk my god why do I think I names it Chompers" is such a funny line because of the mistake he made while doing this after the recording.
I really like that you tend to do these playthroughs in a more casual way than a lot of other challenge run channels. There's still clearly a lot of effort and research, but not to the hyper-optimized "everything but doing damage range calcs" and planning to turbo-grind levels way a lot of other channels seem to do, which is kinda nice, even though I like those other more intense styles too! It helps the challenges feel more approachable as something to try for someone who doesn't literally do this as their job while still providing info that said more casual player might need or want to keep in mind for their attempts at the idea! ^v^
Also this particular challenge for a playthrough is just a lot of fun in general. Working with limited but diverse resources is a good puzzle.
Platinum 0:14
HeartGold 36:30
Ultra Moon 1:22:06
Black and White, where you must catch Reshiram or Zekrom to progress: "My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined."
Honestly, I've never defeated Reshiram or Zekrom because of the fact that they're mandatory to catch. What happens if you knock them out? Does it give you a Game Over?
It's kind of embarrassing that I don't know this, lmao. Gen 5 is both my favorite Generation and the Generation I started with, so the fact that I still don't know what happens is probably odd.
Iirc it just starts over again, you walk up to it and start the battle again, nothing too crazy @@brendansage6876
@@brendansage6876 If you KO it, the battle ends but you have to battle him again until you do catch him.
I've heard that it was technically possible to avoid this by making your PC full of pokemon, which would prevent you from catching it and you could catch it later (after beating the game).
You might think this one would require catching a lot of pokemons but you could also breed pokemons until you have no more room, I don't think you'd need to even hatch the eggs...
@@s0lsticefr4 I knew the bit about the full PC, since it was mentioned on Bulbapedia, but never what happened if you actually KO'd it.
Interesting, although I think just forcing the player to retry the fight is kind of a lame solution. I guess it might've needed to happen that way, though. Thank you for a fast answer!
Here’s an obscure Fact: in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, there’s a hidden item called the “Gracidea” flower, which is used to change Shaymin from its Land Form to its Sky Form. However, if you take the Gracidea to a certain spot in the game, it won't trigger a transformation if Shaymin is holding a specific item called the “Shed Shell.”
My therapist: “Michael without facial hair is not real, he can’t hurt you.”
Michael without facial hair: 👁️👄👁️
You must have not watched mikey before 2021
Man, I was around 13 to 14 when these came out. I'm 17 now and graduated 1 month ago. Talk about nostalgia
Man, I've been here since Pokemon Talk was still coming out regularly, bearded mikey was a jumpscare i got used to but beardLESS mikey feels like falling back into the swing of things. You're great, dude. Truly.
Comment section:
90% Mikey's beard
7% Pokemon
3% Other
The fact that Mikey’s first play-through on here was the platinum nuzlocke makes me feel so old! So proud of how far you’ve come over the years 💜
New content idea for you! : what if Hisui started a pokemon league? who will be champion and elite 4?
that's just sinnoh...
@@coyolord8031 so dont make it sinnoh? Whats your point?
@TheGodIvy it already exists. It's literally just the sinnoh league.
@@coyolord8031 ....whats your problem? Its hisui, no-one from the current sinnoh league is alive, obviously
Or maybe what if Alola abolished the Trial system and replaced it with the Gym Leader system
Was i the only one who wasn't jumpscared lol? I've been watching for years and frequently rewatch my favourite videos from the beardless era - i remember being jumpscared when he first grew the beard 😭
I think I'm the only one that thinks he looks better without a beard. Not that there's anything wrong with a bearded Mikey though, that's not up for me to decide.
Yeah I wasn’t jump scared, some of my fav videos are ones where he doesn’t have a beard
The man is handsome with or without tbh
i lowkey stopped watching him for like a month because I couldn't get used to his new voice lol
I remember all of these videos from when i was like 7 or 8 years old! Nice to see them be put into a compilation!
If you want a game where that is very easy, X/Y has so many gift Pokémon that it gets kinda ridiculous (though technically you are forced to catch the boxart legendary before the final fight with Lysandre)
I remember watching all 3 of these challenges and I'm like 'Now these are the types of experiments I want to see' and 'I hope he does more in the future'. But also like everyone's saying: Mikey without his beard is almost foreign now 😂😂
I LOVE THIS CONCEPT, the throwback, the very long compilation, i LOVE it
Michael is probably the best worst Pokémon player I've ever seen, and I love it.
I never noticed how much less in battle items Mikey uses nowadays. Goes to show how much his knowledge in battling has grown since then
43:52 What Mikey meant to say was “I can’t bear to trade away my lovely Drowzee.”
Beardless Mikey is so jarring to see after he’s had the beard for so long 😂
Ahhh yes. Background noise of mikey nostalgia. I have mountains of homework so this is amazing
46:36 calling Whitney "the worst person in pokemon"
Mindy: hold my everstone
Old mickey is so weird to see again 😂
You mean young mickey ?
I think it’s Mikey but please correct me if I’m wrong
It's a meme@@BlaineSwanson-l6b
@@BlaineSwanson-l6bits a joke in the community
@@onlyho33 ok thanks
Hearing Mikey say that he might change his mind about Typhlosion being the best HGSS starter makes me so happy🥹 Totodile has ALWAYS been my favorite starter and Mikey has always been my favorite poketuber. Hearing him have the same opinion as me on one of my favorite pokemon makes me super happy
I was so hyped when I saw this I loved the original
this is a massive throwback. as someone who's been watching for over 7 years, this was a nice reflection
Oh my god seeing the non bearded , higher voiced Mikey was a jump scare I wasn’t expecting
These are my favourite of mikeys series of videos. I always watch these when I have a bad day or if i have a bit of free time. Especially the USUM playthrough
Nostalgic memories here. Pokemon Platinum and HG/SS are my favorite mainline games ever. Even if I played every generation since 1999 to this day and also love Crystal and Emerald I think Gen 4 has the best games
I have all my files (Diamond, Platinum, HeartGold and SoulSilver) from the time I bought them together with my DSi and 3DS and love to sometimes do a new run, trade breeded Pokemon between them to try new teams in a Sinnoh/Johto run
I’m gonna be honest man, when you started growing the beard I was not a fan but seeing it side by side now, you made the correct choice
Love all of these videos and making them a compilation is a great idea! Thanks for bringing all of us joy
So many TH-camrs are diving into making compilations of their own videos lately, and I honestly dig it.
Nostalgia hits hard
What a fun complication! I'd love to see this series make a return!
Oh... I thought this was another playthrough, not just a compilation
Still, this is pretty nostalgic. Been awhile since we've seen ya without the beard 😅
Same here
Seeing this, is clear the input of KT's editing, and also, that I'm getting old, leve the content please keep up with it❤
Thank you Mikey you truly are my childhood and i hope i can become a poketuber like you some day
For the first challenge in Pokémon Platinum where he named his team members after people from the Bible makes me very pleased. As a devout Christian of 10 years, and as a Pokémon fan, this really does make me happy!! 😊
My favorite team member has to be Levi. Because, not only is Levi named after the Leviathon mentioned in Isaiah 27:1, but I also think he could be named after one of the brothers of Joseph that was sold into slavery in Egypt.
Either way Mikey, thank you so much for doing this!! May God bless you forevermore!! ❤
It honestly felt a little weird seeing him go from full beard to what he looked like a few years back
We get the old intro back x3, lets go!
0:15 time travel jumpscare
These videos were so good man, brings back great memories. Also I would love to see one of either gen 5 or gen 6 if you ever do another one.
hearing your old intros felt nostalgic. Been watching you for years
I feel like this would be great content for Extras! It was nice to rewatch videos I hadn’t seen in ages!
You never realise how long it’s been until you get the jumpscare from new Michael to young Michael.
Holy young Mikey nostalgia whiplash! I didnt truly realize how long I'd been following this channel until now 😅
An almost 2 hour Mandjtv video??? Time to binge watch :DDDD
I love going back to these videos, so thank you for compiling them all ^^
I'm glad we all experienced the same jumpscare. Excellent Halloween video Mikey.
This is great, I have problems sleeping and I usually have one of your videos on super low and won't have to change videos as much.
michael has blessed us with a compilation. praise arkoos!
I only just realised how much better he looks with the beard, it's been so long since I last seen him without it.
I remember every single one of these videos since when you posted them that was a damn nostalgia trip 😢❤
A video thats a combination of 3 videos is simply genius content creation.
0:15
BAAAALD! BAAAALD! BAAAALD! BAAAALD! MY EEEEYYYYEEEEESSSS!!!!!!
I don’t think Mikey reads comments this late but I would like to say I’ve been watching since like 2016 and I’d LOVE to see an old playthrough compilation of like his ultra sun or anything like that, just some good nostalgia
These no catch playthroughs are some of my favorites on the channel. I’ve done a couple of my own in FireRed and X.
Its how i beat my first playthrough of X. Delphox & Charizard as my two starters, Blaziken was a pre-order DLC, Tyrantrum was a fossil, and both Lapras and Lucario were gift pokemon.
@@cjvs1604damn you love fire types don't you 😂
@@niyada-nerd2431 More of a "Lets see if I can actually do this." situation
I did this in BDSP, which were rules part of a bigger challenge, but considering 2 of them are Mew and Jirachi, its easier then most
Omg I forgo about the baby face Mikey. He had the beard so long I thought that was his default.
Used to watch your HeartGold video on repeat in the background doing my own playthrough of it. Good times
TLDR for those without time: he just levels up his starter to 100 and beats everything pretty easily
Wow the backtrack to the old mandjtv
Nostalgia
I must say that it is nice to see the old intro and outro again. I wish you'd bring them back.
Some construction criticism, but it’d be interesting to hear your thoughts on each Playthrough after that playthrough, then in the end, thoughts on the gimmick
I really like it in these types of videos Mikey uses knowledge he figured out in his less gameplay heavy videos. Like the several references to the best starter video feels a lot like citing his sources.
if michael makes another no catch playthrough, i'd be so down
I don't think another is possible, In X&Y it's impossible you HAVE to catch the legendary to move on, same with BW. BW2 has less then 6 Pokémon for gifts, you could try but you'd need to start with Oshawott. Sword and Shield are also out since you need to catch Eternatus. Let's go cannot be done, you need 50 caught Pokémon to enter Koga's gym. Scarlet and Violet have very few gifts also. FRLG would be the only legitimate ones left to do.
@@DryBones271 True...and Gen 1 and 2 aren't as good compared to their remakes. But yeah, FRLG is the only choice...options consisting of a Starter, Magikarp (to evolve to Gyarados), an Eevee you can evolve, Lapras, and one of the Hitmons....oh yeah and one of the fossils. (A type overlap is pretty much inevitable though, you're gonna be stuck with at least two water types) That said, if you want a flyer, you're gonna have to use Aerodactyl.
As for other possible options? RSE is doable...but again you're not gonna be able to get a team of 6, no not even 5 pokemon actually. Only your starter, one of the fossils, a Wynaut if you want to have Wobuffet (Which can only deal damage if taken damage using Mirror Coat or Counter), and Castform...just four and you're gonna have to use the water starter since it can learn the HMs. That SAID...the biggest pile of frustration with this no catching run is severe moveset constraints and no Pokemon you can teach Fly to. It's doable, but there's severe limitations.
You're also right about BW2 having less than 6 pokemon as gifts...less than even four actually. Only your starter (which has to be Oshawott), a Zorua, and Deerling. It might be doable but like with RSE, it will be extremely frustrating, if not more so with one less team member.
tldr: FRLG really is the only legitimate one left to do where you can get a full team and you can have a team that allows you to better navigate around.
@@DryBones271 You can actually fill your PC boxes to avoid having to catch the Legendary in BW, it would require you to breed many eggs but it is doable, as soon as you have one badge actually.
2h of nostalgia, i love it, but also bring the not catching challanges back in the future, i loved them
Hell yeah loved these videos
00:15 i had to pause and check whether YT recommend me old video or actually new one 😂 you're right I'm that person who need something to play on background 😂😂
Please bring this back, I missed this series, it was what first brought me to this channel
I love this! Can you beat Pokémon platinum without catching any Pokémon was my very first video I saw of Mikey’s so this is nice to watch for nostalgia reasons. Ever since then I’ve been watching every video since then
0:15 nostalgic jumpscare
My god I literally had a whiplash when you without a beard popped up with the classic “Greetings PokeFans!”
The platinum run made me do the same challenge for shining pearl one of the best times I had playing Pokemon
Did you use the free mew/jirachi?
@@rach5204 yes I did
Well no wonder it was one of the best times you've ever had playing pokemon, you had mythicals with pseudo legendary stats.
@@rach5204i did this as well, just in BD instead. i tried not to use either most of the time, and i barely used Mew at all actually, making them more of a support mon. Pretty funny actually
@@TheGodIvy i find that very interesting the way you made them support mons, i respect you
i love compilation videos! thanks for putting this together!
1:49:05 GOATed moment ngl
Jesus, seeing baby-faced Mikey just brought me back to before the start of the pandemic, before all this adulting and job stuff. Happy to say I'm still watching to this day (5+ years later) at 21, going on 22! Keep up the good work and amazing videos!
Eventually, anything is possible. Lots of people play with only their starter.
Real, in my first playthrough of Ruby i used only my starter Blaziken
Ok but it's objectively impossible to beat any game with only a starter pre Gen 7 (except swampert I think)
@@HylianSpheal423there’s a fair few that can solo their games, Mikey did a video on it a few years back
@@HylianSpheal423 I soloed pokemon gold with Meganium and firered with charizard. Anything is possible
@@facoulac objectively no. Neither can learn the TMS necessary.
This is so nostalgic, especially after rewatching your old videos like the USUM playthrough
53:52 still makes me laugh
10:55 just a little correction! Assurance only doubles in power if the _target_ already took damage that turn, not the user
Yeahi noticed this back when ORAS came out, and almost every Poketuber gets the effect backwards (granted the Platinum No Catching is several years old so Michael might know now). Pretty decent for double battles, but pretty underwhelming for singles unless you want to run a confusion strat or depend on entry hazards
2:01 pause screen challenge
Spoiler (it’s just a worried looking Mikey on the wrong side of the screen) lol
It a blast from the past. I love watching your videos.
Huzzah! A new MandJTV video!
*can’t wait to see if he finally admits he loves Drowzee and then smashes one with hammer claw* (is that the moves name I forgot the name I just know the animation)