In Pokemon Platinum, the Pokeradar is by far the most confusing shiny hunting method in the franchise... but if you know how to use it, you can catch an absurd amount of shinies. I spent 100 hours using the Pokeradar in Pokemon Platinum to see how easy you can master it. This video took a lot of time and effort to put together, so I'd really appreciate it if you shared this with a friend. If you have any suggestions for the next video, leave it in the comments below! Have a great day :)
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0:00 - Intro
1:05 - 10 Hours
10:08 - 20 Hours
14:58 - 30 Hours
18:43 - 40 Hours
23:09 - 50 Hours
27:08 - 60 Hours
31:25 - 70 Hours
34:26 - 80 Hours
37:42 - 90 and 100 Hours
Thanks for watching the video! For the entirety of next month I'll be streaming to get all the medals in Pokemon Black 2, so if you're interested in that, follow me on Twitch!
"For the entirety of next month" means you'll stream for 3 days and dip for another month because you hurt your pinky toe, john content stone.
Kiss me
THIS IS WHAT IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR!!! LETS GOOOOOOOOOO
Confuse Ray is actually 100% accurate
Nice job, Guinness
Johnstone is the only person to be given a challenge that no normal person would take upon themselves to challenge and says *_"but it would be funny tho"_*
John is truly the meme pokemon game playthrough creator and I'm here for it
AbsolBlogsPokemon
while i don't disagree, i would like to introduce you to someone called SmallAnt
Does absolblogspokemon mean nothing to you?
Jrose
The fact that John knew I'd laugh at the phrase "Dongle Pokémon" means he laughed as well, or atleast chuckled.
I let out a smile reading
I was just confused lol
so funny
breaking a super long pokeradar chain was the worst possible thing that could happen to a pokemon player in 2008
Platinum came out in 2009.
@dawnsbuneary8185 and dp came out earlier, which had radar lol your point?
hewllo pat man
@samiisam128 got a point
For resetting the trophy garden pokemon you don't actually have to change your system clock, all you have to do is just save before you talk to mr. Backlot, then soft reset until you get the pokemon you want. I've done it several times. Hope this helps for future videos.
That certainly will help me when I get around to my Platinum Living Dex. Thanks for the info!
Oh thanks ! 😄
Dude I was so mad when he said he was changing the days by modifying the hour and taking so long to do so, because even soft resets take a lot of time
If only I knew that like a year and a half ago...
Wow im glad I saw this before I started, cheers 🍻
Hour 100 The pinacle of power for a KZhead video. Few poketubers ever reach this time creating content. This is a video where John reaches hour 100 by creating said unconventional content, because to a certain extent; he's crazy.
Wasn't expecting an AbsolBlogs reference in the comments lol
No, he's pointlessly prattling on about shinies with a divice that doesn't work.
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There is something so funny about Marill happily bouncing in its animation and then stopping on the ugliest frame possible. XD the whiplash is insane. (Marill in Diamond was my first shiny EVER so I love to see some love for it!)
Marril looks like me when I stop and think about the fact that I am going to die someday.
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Dude how do I get shiny Mareep with the Poke Radar technique in OG Pearl bc the furthest chain I've gotten with Mareep is 16 and just when I think its in the same shaking grass I end up encoutering Buizel or Pachirisu ruining my chain
Confuse ray has 100% accuracy, which is why it was landing so often at Fantina’s Gym. If you were using double team on Staravia and it kept landing, that’s just unlucky.
Fun Fact, every single route has a decent sized chunk of grass specifically for radar hunting. They designed the routes for this mechanic. There is only one section I can think of that isn't like this and has a radar exclusive Pokemon being Sunkern. That is on Route 204 North which has no good patch of grass to hunt in making it near impossible to actually get a chain up. Hell, when I radar hunted Sunkern, I got lucky and got a shiny patch on an 18 chain
4:05 88% vs 98% might seem a small difference But hitting a 98% chance 39 times in a row (to get to a chain of 40) is about 45% odds, vs only 0.7% for hitting an 88% chance 39 times in a row
also if im not mistaken he said it backwards, or switched them. is it suppoused to be 88% chance for killing, 98% for catching? bc killing is faster, and he said it was the better odds. so that part maade no sense to me.
@@ooSyzygycatching has the better odds. Obviously much slower, but like the OG comment said, hitting 88% 39 times has way more chances of breaking.
@@ooSyzygycatching has higher odds, from personal experience ive felt chains breaking way less often using catching then battlinh
Yeah i think the info graphic he showed was messed up lol, cause it says catching has 88% success when it should be 98%
Still, anything even just slightly below 100% might as well be 50%, like with move's accuracy
Nice job Guinness, such a hardworker
Who?
@@dragogaming5164 the cat!
Nice job Guinness
John casually spending 500 hours on a video game respect bro Edit: mom I’m famous 😂
Sounds like your average hardcore gamer winch I too respect.
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Me with Splatoon 3
Lol I have 2500 hours on minecraft
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1:14 Can't believe that Johnstone never found Twoterra. Smh.
21:05 craziest thing about this moment: I was shiny hunting while watching your video, looked up to see you find a full odds shiny Roselia, looked down to see a shiny Litleo in front of me 😮 thanks for the shiny luck! ✨
omg i had a similar thing with a litleo too!! i was watching a shiny hunting stream while i found mine. im surprised i even saw it
Shape of you love
Ed Sheeran be blessing people left and right
God the OG “There it is!” video is legendary.
John and Matt together was such a wholesome moment 🥰
The MOMENT you said you’d chain Eevee my heart dropped into my stomach. That hunt nearly killed me with how many times my chain broke.
15:46 if anyone's wondering who the person in the video is... that's Abenzio499 (Or AbenzioSH as he renamed his channel before utlimately deleting it). He's a former shiny hunter, and has been out of the community for almost a decade now. His Ponyta took a little over 25,000 REs.
So it definitely seems like he’s going for a shiny living dex since he was catching multiples to evolve into full lines, can’t wait for that video to come out it’s gonna be a banger as all JohnStone videos are! Glad to see my favorite Pokémon in this video! Hoping to catch some streams for the black 2 medals 😁
NICE JOB GUINNESS :) John's videos get better every time :D I love that he streams the making of them :)
39:54 the amount to happy and wholesome vibes i got from this, only for them to be completely snatched away will forever scar me
My problem with chaining is always that I can't absorb all the patches at once. Like, I'm very bad at looking at things and processing what I'm seeing
Got better at looking at images and processing them 💪😁🔥🔥💥💥💥💥💥 AUGH IT'S EXPLODING
@@thoopsy NICE!!!!!! 💪 😎 👍
just a minor correction about BDSP time travel, you actually can time skip for trophy garden (and swarms) in BDSP. it requires changing your time zone (with time set to automatically sync) as changing the clock in this way does not trigger the time travel protection, and you can just set it to the next day before reopening the game, changing it back to the previous day while the game is running, saving, and repeating. it's essential for BDSP CEA.
Alternatively, in the DS versions you could just save in front of Backlot, talk to him, and soft-reset until he says the Pokemon you want.
Nice job Guinness!! Sucks that I'm banned from Georgia now, but grats on the shinies I guess
Wormy is the littlest little guy there ever was and must be protected.
Maril was actually my first shiny in the safari zone in the original Pokémon diamond so it holds a special place in my heart
Nice job Guiness, and great job John! Loved this challenge and watching the uniqueness of it!
I swear John is the most consistently funny and entertaining content creator there is out there
the radar streams were so fun to watch. Ty for another banger video john :)
I love your videos so much, this must have taken a lot of time and effort, well done! Well narrated and edited, super enjoyable to watch!
So here's a nice tip that probably might have a bit a massive difference. Cute charm has an odd quirk related to pokeradar shiny chaining. In platinum _specifically,_ if your secret ID matches a certain set of numbers of a pokemon's ivs with cute charm, the pokeradar's chance of spawning a shiny is cut in half. This is because the pokemon instead of focusing on the male gender, the game forces the gender to be female, or vice versa, similar to how the love ball was broken in gen 2 to the same species and _gender_
seeing my two favorite Pokémon KZheadrs sitting next to each other is *chefs kiss*
Actually want to clarify something, the 2% chance of the chain breaking only counts for the patches of grass that shake immediately after the encounter. When the Pokeradar item is used by the press of a button, the chances will always peak at 88%.
And the 2% chance ONLY applies when you capture a Pokemon. If you knock it out, the same 12% chance to break applies, regardless if you reset the Pokeradar or not.
That would probably explain the insane amount of times his chain broke
All the videos and guides i've seen on the Pokéradar with no clarity on how to make it work reasonably consistently, and this dude just says "Go to the shaking patch 4 steps away" and it instantly made clear how to do it
Fun fact: Confuse ray is actually 100% accurate
You honestly make the best pokemon/ shiny vids. Been subscribed for years and I don’t really comment but wanted to let you know now haha. Keep it up
Nice job Guinness!! Also on a side note I really enjoyed this video! ❤ it is really well made and fun to watch! When you said that the wurmple had no thoughts it made me laugh a lot :) thank you for making my day a better one ❤
18:20 Confuse ray has 100% accuracy, which is why it landed every time
Thanks for the amazing video! The shiny sound is just so good in gen 4 and you’re so right, some sprites are so perfect in 2D, especially shiny ones
i was just checking your channel yesterday, thought it had been about enough time for one video. Keep it up!
Bro that reference to that legendary shiny ponyta reaction was awesome. Glad to know other people remember that.
A classic hehe
i'm 90% sure there's at least one day out of the year where instead of a blizzard that one route is just normal snow
Wow Bro! I am really feeling inspired and motivated watching your videos and all the effort you put into them! Congrats in all the challenges you've completed and the ones to come! 🔥🤩
I'm so ready for this video! I was always awful at using the radar >.
Matt joining in the video is just like Tobey Maguire getting a cast in No Way Home
You have my respect. Put A LOT of work in this video, as always
I tried figuring out this crap a few years back in X and Y and just couldn't get it down, even with guides. The first 10 minutes of this video explained it better than anything else I ever found and now I've gotten 4 shinies in 3 hours through Poké Radar. I now suddenly hate that this video didn't come out in 2019 because it would've saved me a lot of time, and an immense amount of patience.
18:20 should we tell him confuse ray has 100% accuracy?
Another incredible video from John, love how much effort this guy puts into his vids
He's actually insane, thank you for another banger of a video
It's my favorite time of year when John uploads
This was great. Really cool to see how many you can get by getting used to the radar. My first shiny was a wobuffett with the radar and I love these sprites.
THUMBNAIL ART?! That's how you know you've evolved as a KZheadr this is awesome to see. ^_^
As Swellow's #1 fan, I respect you a whole bunch for hunting it and including it on your team :)
I didn’t know that there’s Pokémon you can catch depending on what gba game you got inserted. That’s pretty cool
Guinness did great, MatthewBlogsPokermanz did great, Marill did great, Johnstone did great! This was an amazing level 100 gauntlet dude! GGz on finding the rarest shinies in any game with those Spinda. Truly buildt different, like and subscribe! Another big video in the books!
Nice job Guinness, truly inspirational!
it means so much to me to see u guys collab thank you
When he said "now its time for the ultamite test I immidiately got an ad for the U.S. military XD
Loved this! More Platinum content please!
Congrats for all the shiny critters 😁✨ I believe, for the snow route, there are a few specific days where the weather actually clears up ! ;)
Been watching you for a while but holy wow dude you are one of the greats. Unique challenge, great narration and *chefs kiss* gen 4 shinies. Kudos to you JOHN, KUDOS TO YOU!
man, the marill ending i was like "nah this isnt johnstone, why is he ending it all sappy" then the release
John, confuse ray has 100% accuracy, of course mismagius always hit
Confuse Ray is 100% accurate my guy.
Pokeradar underrated
Ur first
Honestly I gotta try this out! I know radar chaining is such a pain but you got really lucky and so many good shinies!
Johnstone always has a challenge I would never think about. Thank you for the video=)
John has just suddenly gotten into shinies and im here for it!
"Babe wake up, Johnstone just posted"
Your gags have gotten so good over the years, the machoke drawing really took me out
Platinum Marill looks like all his apes are gone
Thank you Ed Sheeran for blessing that 1/8192 shiny Roselia
I'm glad someone else appreciates Luxury Ball superiority - my Shiny Living Dex is at about 75% completion, and those babies all deserve the best!
18:24 That's because because confuse ray is still 100% accurate and 50% to smack yourself in this gen. this is changed in generation 7 due to gengar's war crimes in vgc (half the time I float! half the time I shadow tag you and perish trap you!)
"Landed every single confuse ray" Mr. Stone, you know that move is 100% accurate, right?
Amazing Journey haha! Gotta try myself this challenge anytime soon :)
Love John's vocalizing. I too, have gone mad listening to the game audio whilst shiny hunting
POG! Another Johnstone video!!
RADAR MY BELOVED Let it be known that I do intend to get Sunkern myself one of these days! I SWEAR IT!
go live
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@@ludicolo15 eventually
@@cyberworldcatgirl4188 i believe in you
"Somebody should call the cops" is not a line I expected from a Johnstone video but here we are.
The way the video goes from Matt wearing no headphones to randomly having cat ear headphones is hilarious 😂
video idea: make a video outside with the Pokewalker and in preparation, make your own brand of sunscreen called "John's Tone" to market throughout the video. when you're a multi-quadrillionaire I expect nothing less than a 1% kickback for the intellectual property
Love to see you back :)
I like how in some areas, part of the challenge is the color of the tiles or how the scenery affects the colors of the grass patches. That's something I did not expect from this challenge and a cool thing for you to highlight
YESSS IVE BEEN BUSY DURING THE STREAMS AND COULDNT WAIT FOR THIS
The legend! You’re the best creator dude!
i remember my first three times i used the Pokeradar. First time a shiny patch appeared, i forgot the repel went down and hit a normal RNG grass poke before i got to the shiny patch. Second time, there was a shiny patch, but the patch in each cardinal direction adjacent around me were "dud" patches, and the third time the Pokeradar grass effect decided to just "stop" just before i got to the shiny pokemon shaking grass.
Nice to see you back ❤
I have a story about the one shiny on the wheel you didn't catch, and one of the hardest pokemon to radar hunt due to the miniscule grass patch: sunkern. Back in 2020 my brother bought a copy of Pokemon Diamond right as covid hit, and spent a ton of time playing that game. When he finished it, I asked if I could try to complete the Pokedex in that game and as he had no patience for catching a ton of Pokemon or grinding to evolve them he said I could. I spent so much time catching as many Pokemon as I could in that game, eventually getting up to around 300 or so, without being able to trade at all. Anyway, I had gone to the route to catch sunkern. I used the radar, walked to the first shaking patch, and boom. Shiny. Full odds, first sunkern I'd encountered in the game, and my first shiny pokemon ever that wasn't the Gyarados in GSC. Let me tell you no one has ever loved a sunkern like I loved that little guy. I fed him poffins, took him to contests, did so much grinding. I was going to fight the league with him but like 2 weeks after I encountered it the game crashed, file got corrupted, and it reset.
I think the game makes a backup file to prevent that, like it will keep both the current save and the last one and I think there must be a way to access the last one since that is the whole point of that mechanic. Now I do know its used for exploiting glitches at least, but it sucks to have lost the file
This video felt like such a big cozy adventure
Nice job Guinness! What an adorable lil guy 😊
"Nothing good" On Mount Coronet he says. While Absol exists and can be chained. Wow.
Guinness didn't do a nice job, he did a great job.
Love those concept of shiny hunting 🔥
This to me is still the best pokemon game made. The pokedex was complete with every evolution finished perfectly cant see them without that last stage. The game was perfect still hard to get shinies so they are actually bragg able. Finishing the dex on this game is a mad grind but so satisfying.
So glad you showing off the dual-slot gba dongle Pokémon. Such an under appreciated feature!
He is definitely a madman... Huge respect, bro!!
The one time I pick up my Pokémon platinum cartridge to relive my childhood and I start getting into pokeradaring immediately my man’s gotta one up me. He can’t keep getting away with this
"Mad my way to the Gym Leader whose name I can't say" Candice really be the truth?