How to Make Pokemon MORE Fun

In this video I categorize all the various ways that fans enhance their Pokemon experience, like Nuzlockes, shiny hunting, listening to Pokemon music, etc.

Please don't tell me to play Pokemon Roblox. Pokemon GO is fine though. Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, the sequels to Pokemon Sun and Moon, have just been announced and I'd love to focus on main series games like Pokemon Diamond and Pearl (maybe remakes?), Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, Pokemon X and Y and older games like Pokemon Black and White (and B2W2), Heartgold and Soulsilver, Emerald, Firered and Leafgreen, Pokemon Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold, Silver, Crystal and basically every Pokemon game that isn't Roblox. (cause it ain't a Pokemon game)

[DestructX]

This may sound weird, but I appreciate your appreciation.

[beeba]

A suggestion I have is when your going through your game and have a team. Come up with their personalities. Like if they were in the anime. For example in my Sun playthrough I caught a Wishiwashi that was outside of the totem school. I imagined that Wishiwashi was ostracized by the others inside the school for its low level, it wanted to win but wasn’t tough enough. That gave me the drive to train Wishiwashi into the level 95 champion of Alola it is today

[Eugene-bpyy]

Me: Talks to pokemon while holding my 3ds in public
Mom: Son, I think you're addicted

[TheKingMarkell]

I think that not obsessing over natures, Ivs, and Evs would make it more fun. I know that it's an important part of competitive play, but sometimes playing as your favorite is more fun than playing as a Pokemon with good stats. At least imo lol

[chocoberryvanillacake]

You are one of the most sweetest and positive Poketubers I subscribed too your so honest about Pokemon and I adore the franchise as well the part where making your friend or family member your actual Pokemon rival warmed my heart me and my sister always battle each other in X and Y this video was fun dude😊

[Fackinfine]

One of my many reasons i love Pokemon is the music, when people complain about the newest pokemon games i just think to myself, "yeah! more workout music!".

[zodayn]

I loved the pacing in this video, Truegreen7 must have a jolly nature because he just gives a good suggestion explains it and moves on to the next one. No unnecessary countdowns or long anekdotes. A sweet stream of suggestions.

[greatwhitesharkwriter]

"Go shiny hunting"

That's not fun. That's torture.

[that_kid_nobody_notices]

I once subconsciously went through a game with a full fire team. I didn't even realize they were all fire.

[Lampent]

Another aspect of Pokémon creativity I like doing is creating original characters and giving them their own story/goals. I know you can't always customize your character, but even just giving them the name of your character helps a lot, and it can lead to creating a "themed" team composed of Pokémon that are important to your character in the Pokémon world.

[birthday]

One thing some friends & I have been doing in X/Y is a Avatarlocke where we each are a nation, sadly our Earth Nation ended up not being able to partake for personal reasons, & we can only use Pokemon in our nation. For example, I am Air so I can only use flying, psychic, ghost, & fairy type Pokemon but every nation can use normal types as long as they don't have a secondary typing that doesn't go with our nation like I couldn't use Pyroar since it has the fire typing as well. Every nation can use bug, no matter what secondary typing it has, I actually have a Heracross on my team. To keep it interesting, a rule we made for our group & borrowing from Nuzlocke rules is that we can only catch & use the first encounter Pokemon that works on our team per route, the thing that goes into Wonderlocke territory is that if we know what's on the route & don't want anything there, we can attempt to capture & trade out our first encounter overall & wonder trade until we get a Pokemon we can use. I actually ended up with a shiny Galvantula by doing this, she's from Germany I think it was & Galvantula's German name is Voltula so I call her Tuli for short. After every gym battle, we battle each other & we have seen how each other's teams have grown & we only progress in game while in a call on Facebook so we know of the happenings on each other's adventures. It's a lot of fun & if you can do something like this, I highly recommend it.

So I did want to try a shinylocke & started my journey in Omega Ruby for that, actually not that long ago funny enough. I picked up both Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire at the midnight release of the games but only played Alpha Sapphire. Having this other game sitting there doing nothing was stupid so I figured I'd do a shinylocke on it since I never done one before. Yeah, I sorta turned that more into a shiny badge quest because I was under the impression it was first shiny encounter per route of which if that was the case, I probably still wouldn't of beaten the first gym & I figured I could keep the rules plain & simple if I did a badge quest, really only rules I have are to catch a shiny before each gym & no repeats. I caught a second shiny Magikarp when hunting Carvhana actually so I still have to hunt for that shiny to do the 6th gym. Oh yeah, also it has to be the first shiny encounter, unless it's a repeat which is why I got stuck with stuff like a Linoone & Minun on my team but now I'm thankful to have them. A little personal touch I threw in was all caught shinies for the quest need to have music inspired names like my starter, a shiny Treecko is named Karma for Karma Chameleon, my current Gyarados but was a Magikarp when I caught her is named Styx, like the band, same with my Minun being named ELO, short for Electric Light Orchestra, so far he hasn't brought me down. It's obvious I listen to music from before my time, I don't think any of my Pokemon have names inspired by music from this decade, actually none of them do. My most recent addition is a shiny Numel I named Presley because he's my hunk of burning love.

So those are two things I'm currently doing in Pokemon that keep it interesting, for something in the current generation I'm doing a shiny only run in Ultra Sun where I can only use shiny Pokemon on my team. I actually ended up picking Litten but boxed him as soon as possible & replaced him with a shiny Slowpoke I caught in Ultra Moon, I traded him over holding a king's rock because I wanted to start out with a shiny Slowking, I thought that would be fun & it is a ton of fun, Hau actually has the type advantage with his starter against mine, in both ways given Decidueye is part ghost & Slowking is part psychic so it gives a little extra challenge in the game without anything being at stake since this isn't a nuzlocke, just a playthrough where I can only use shinies & I got to say, I ended up with an interesting team. Try something like that & if you don't want to SR for a shiny starter, don't. Just pick something else to be your starter & trade it to yourself like I did. I love having a Slowking as my starter so very much, Slowpoke being one of my top favorite Pokemon, I had to jump on doing that when I actually successfully SOS chained in a shiny Slowpoke in Ultra Moon.

Thanks for the tips, I'll so use these to keep Pokemon more interesting while I eagerly await the announcement of the next game in the franchise.

[peruinmaheart]

I have been a recent subscriber and I'm glad I found you. Not only are your videos entertainment and information; but they bring join to a Pokemon lover like myself. Thank you for your hard work! Keep up the good work!

[n.l.g.]

Bro, I did a monotype grass run in Omega Ruby. Everything was fine until Primal Groudon showed up. Fire type addition + Desolate Land = you'regonnahaveabadtime.jpeg.

Team was Sceptile, Breloom, Shiftry, Tropius, Cradily, and Roserade. Probably my fave team of all time, despite the hardship. I'm considering doing a Kanto mono-poison run next. Mostly because Nidoking and Venusaur are Good, Wholesome Boys.

[LeahLovesNature]

These are all great suggestions. There's one I'd like to add: writing fan fiction. Ever since I was little, I would make up stories about living in the Pokemon world, catching all kinds of Pokemon and traveling with them, becoming a Champion or contest star, and sometimes meeting up with Ash and battling him or helping take down an evil team. Pokemon GO has inspired me to make up Pokemon stories again, and I even create teams on Showdown using only the mons I catch in GO. If you like to write, give it a try.

[bent]

My idea: You can only catch 5 Pokémon (Not including the starter, gift Pokémon, or the Box Legendary (If you are forced to capture a Pokémon and you already caught your five (like the Ultra Beasts), just put it in the box). I call this the Ash Challenge!

[Dollightful]

Hehe, I'm like you! I just can't get enough of the classic style. I'm still playing Pokemon Sun since I got it for Christmas last year! I probably should try your first suggestion, though-- I tend to WAY over level because it makes me feel strong. xD;;

[erikquam]

Here's a suggestion for a video: top ten Pokémon spinoffs or fan made games. Someone please tell me if it's already done.

[RayBlaze-lpzj]

Personally I find my enjoyment in the Pokemon franchise by writing a story about something completely new and thinking about how battling would be in the real world. Almost to the point of acting like a trainer and pretending to walk with my Pokemon team when I go for walks.

[lifeinthemoonlight]

I already talk to my Pokemon, they're my only friends.

[michaelmurphy]

Playing the tcg has given me some love of Pokemon I normally wouldn't look twice at