I Completed Pokemon Emerald's RIDICULOUS Pokedex

Pokemon Emerald is known to have the most difficult Pokedex to complete in the history of the Pokemon franchise... but how hard is it actually? I challenged myself to complete it as fast as possible, all while doing a 'Living Dex', where I need to have a complete catalogue of every individual Pokemon - and this is how it went. 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
0:53 - Day 1
5:58 - Day 2
9:42 - Day 3
14:45 - Days 4 & 5
17:02 - Day 6
25:29 - Day 7
29:27 - Day 8
31:18 - Day 9 & 10
38:47 - Day 11 & 12
40:20 - Day 13
43:31 - The Final Days

[squishy.mp]

Crazy how the slogan of pokemon is “gotta catch em all” but then don’t give you the resources to do such that with a single copy of a game.

[Masterofxtreme]

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

[ShouAlias-ioud]

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,

[christianj]

As a young child at the time of Gen 3s release, it was crazy to me that "gotta catch em all" was a thing in Pokemon and that some people had achieved it. Only at a much later date did I learn this was MUCH easier to accomplish before Gen 3 (and after, thanks to the introduction of WiFi), and Gen 3 is just ridiculously impossible for any normal child.

[Hey_Vas]

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

[Jrose]

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

[joshmireles]

✍🏽 how to beat one game: Beat a completely different game ✍🏽

[DJCosmicLatte]

Silently whupping Gabby & Ty hundreds of times then finally humoring them with an interview just to tell them to buzz off is such a chad move. Bravo 👏

[nbkarkat]

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.

[hollispeterson]

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

[nhmyggb]

I was really not expecting how insane this is. I remember as a kid wanting to complete the dex. I thought it would be a cool nostalgic challenge, but after watching this, the fact that you have to solder a battery, use toothpaste on your disk, buy all the games and play them through multiple times, and spend over a thousand dollars to actually do this without cheat codes is legit insane.

[Mimikyu_Lovr]

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

[adrian_hook]

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

[pax.]

This was the best YouTube video I have watched in years. I never wanted this video to be over. I love how you kept track of how much it cost and all the tricks about switching between games and special codes. Masterclass video.

[IIInvokeII]

Your dedication was INSANE! I could not ever hope to do this myself and it was a joy watching you complete it. Congrats!

[roddorfj]

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

[OFunnyshii]

the biggest challenge is this is getting all of these LEGALLY

[Zai_Nomi]

Huge shoutout to the editing! The video is really well made and just genuinely fun to watch! I had an amazing time :)

[dabberdad]

Took me through my childhood multiple times throughout this, thanks for going through this for us to enjoy it I truly appreciated watching this today!

[AbsolBlogsPokemon]

This was SO much fun to watch live, and the video turned out so 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!!