7:22 The fact that Mikey is holding Mjolnir, implies he is A, worthy of wielding it and B, Implies base Mikey might be one of the strongest versions of his many "persona's".

When Mikey said “get out” to Grunty Boi, I like how Grunty Boi doesn’t use the door but he instead phases through the floor.

14:27 I like how he went from reading chat calmly to scream at the top of his lungs

Love that we can now add Drowzee to this list

I love how he has so many bad encounters with miltank that he couldn’t even describe them in one video, since he didn’t mention the metronome battle against the aura guardian

"What are you doing in my shower?!" "Oh you know me, Just practicing for the international hula dancing contest, I WAS SHOWERING YOU BUFFOON"

The fact that double teams accuracy affects work while Kingdra is LITERALLY ASLEEP AND NOT MOVING is something that I forced down into the deepest parts of my memories

I love how shinies can either make people love or hate a certain Pokémon. The Totodile line is one of my favorite lines because my Totodile in the Gen 2 VC was shiny, but Fearow is my least favorite Pokémon because a shiny Fearow ran away from me in Let’s Go.

As much as I love Mikey’s joke about wanting to put Juan’s Kingdra into the Earths core, I couldn’t help but think about it’s 4x resistance to fire and how it wouldn’t do anything

Mikey: "OOOOOH" James: "I feel a disturbance in the force"

7:28 This entire interaction is still one of the funniest Grunty Boi moments ever! (Especially with the “No, obviously I’m showering you buffoon!”)

I'm not supposed to laugh when he got the shiny Kabuto since he went through months of agony just to do it and then was physically injured. But dude, his reaction is so priceless that I cannot help it. 😂😂

Chansey in RBY & FRLG: Extremely rare, found in only 1 area, 1% encounter, with a high chance to run, and being unable to be weakend Chanset in LGPE: "Bonjour"

Michael: “how do I incorporate looking good with my shirt off into my video?” Grunty Boy: “I got you fam.”

For me it is Koffing. I have been wronged by it many times, but most memorable is a Fire Red playthrough. I was in the old mansion and I kid you not, found a full odds shiny Koffing. I threw several ultra balls, but it escaped and exploded. Did I mention that I haven't found a shiny since?

He’s getting more and more creative with his sponsors

Team Sky’s Hate List 1. All Miltank 2. Kingdra 3. Maxie 4. Archie

In the emerald victory road one trainer has a muk with acid amour and minimize, playing on set my 1st turn I switched to my aggron to earthquake (I did not have a psychic type to attack poison) so it gets a free minimize. I missed earthquake, it then uses acid amour to buff its defense. Switching between minimize and acid amour I either couldn’t hit the thing or did barely any damage. I eventually had to struggle kill it as muk had only sludge(which doesn’t touch aggron) and screech as it’s other moves. That’s 35 mins I’m never getting back and now muk is one of my most hated Pokémon for that reason

15:24 yeah, shiny hunting injures me when i punch myself in the stomach for accidentally killing a shiny

My first ever shiny was shiny nosepass in black 2. Because I hadn’t encountered many before I assumed nosepass had different colours, like different colours of stone. When I discovered what a shiny was I noticed this nosepass must have been shiny.

"Do him dirty in front of the Squirtle Squad." -Rock Lee, The Art of War

I Iove how Mikey and grunty boi are just having a casual conversation while grunty boi is naked, as if that's normal

The fact he went thorough all that pain for a shiny is pretty relatable

I have a similar story with your Helioptile. I was playing original Ruby with my Gloom and I was at level 45 and I started to get irritated when it wasn't evolving. Then I looked it up and felt stupid when it just needed a leaf stone!

I love how Mikey and Grunty Boi’s relationship has evolved from hating each other to being besties

Going back to Miltank I am currently doing a Professor Oaks Challenge and I had the Undying Pleasure of defeating said Miltank with a Dragonite

Really relate to the Kingdra part of the vid, one time I did a playthrough of Emerald on an emulator on my laptop and finally stepped into the Sootopolis Gym, Juan's Kingdra demolished three of my Pokemon and then I was forced to use my Altaria to whittle its HP down to red and paralyze it with Dragonbreath. As soon as I saw "Kingdra Used Rest!", I was so mad I shut my laptop down and didn't touch it for a week. :)

I feel you on Kabuto.... 13k eggs in alpha sapphire with the shiny charm. I was in so much misery

Mikey: talks about Whitney's Miltank and the battle Maison Miltank wronging him Cow: am I a joke to you?

I remember my first Nuzlocke was in the original Gold version. I ended up catching Sandshrew just before my battle with Miltank. I had no idea at the time that Sandshrew was about to obliterate Miltank and save my entire team with a single move, Dig. Yep I was terrified of Miltank only to discover that Sandshrew with Dig was about to throw sand in her face as it dug holes all over her stupid Gym. Sandshrew went on to being an MVP my entire run and I made it a regular on all my teams when I had the chance.

That sponsorship part was by far the funniest I've seen just back and forth "ooo"

I relate to the wrist problems. I've been diagnosed with hyper mobility, which means my joints are a little looser. This is a bit different than what you have, but pretty similar. I've had many times where my wrists and hands would be hurting after decent game sessions. Cramps, joints locking up, etc. It absolutely sucks, especially if all you're doing is mashing 1-3 buttons. Also, I failed my first shiny too. It was a blue ponyta in diamond/pearl/platinum. I don't remember what caused me to fail it, but I distinctly remember encountering it and not ending up capturing it. To this day, I try to get a shiny ponyta in each pokemon game I play. It looked better in gen 4 tho 😅

Mikey forgot to mention the Miltank that swept almost his entire team in the metronome league and beat him single handedly.

Miltank: "I see this as an absolute win"

Mikey’s reaction to shiny kabuto is legendary -14:32-

Battling Whitney in Pokémon Silver wasn’t that big of a challenge when I first played it. I lost the first try but then I had a easy strategy to use Croconaw and the move rage which helped a lot.

Mikey: "Sees include paid promotion" Also Mikey: Oh no.

Many years have passed since this day, but alas is still ingrained in my memory. Ultra Sun. I had just completed the ghost trial and beat the totem. While walking out, apparently there were wild pokemon, and after going through the mazenof the grocery store, I was literally three steps away when a golbat came up and bothered me. I must've been distracted because I never saw star sparkles at all, but saw the green and purple golbatnin front of me. I'll never forget what I said; "I'll try to catch it, but won't be upset if I don't catch it." Worst mistake of my life. Threw a quick ball, and as you'd expect, it broke out and I gave up and ran. I don't know when I learned about shinies, but I definitely remember trying to scan all of the shiny qr codes for that game. It hurts my soul to this day knowing that I found a shiny and didn't catch it, and adding that it was full odds. I've failed four more Pokémon afterwards, all of which were from Pokémon Go, and three of the four from comm days, excluding a sableye, which was during a Go Fest. Luckily, I found a shiny zubat in PoGo and transferred it into Pokemon Home and evolved it and whatnot, but losing my first ever shiny gets to you.

I knew immediately when Mikey got the "security alert" that Grunty Boi had broken into Mikey's shower for the sponsor of today's video, Dr.Squatch.

Shiny Abra. Back when shinies first started being a thing, before quick balls existed, the only way to catch an Abra was by outspeeding with Mean Look or getting stupidly lucky with a pokeball throw. My first ever shiny was Abra. Pokeball throw failed. It, of course, teleported away. Child me was _devastated_

Stomp: 30% chance of Flinch. Attract: 50% chance of Infatuation. Me: Uh, that's not right. It's 100%.

Mickyael: Gets sponsored Everyone: "Oh no he's hot!"

Smeargle and Kygore have made me resent them due to nuzlocke defeats. Smeargle in a regular nuzlocke and Kygore in a randomised

when the ad started and mikey’s phone rang i immediately said “what’s the situation” lmao

I love how he nearly tried to kill Grunty boy with a plastic Mjolnir

That story about the Helioptile reminded me of how when I played Sun I decided not to look everything up ahead of time and I had a male Salandit on my team. I was like "OK how does this thing evolve? Cuz Ive been leveling it up a bunch and I guess its not a level up evo?" Lol you can imagine how I felt when I looked it up.

8:17-“Or the leaning tower of get out of my shower and put some damn clothes on!!”

Honestly man, I love your vids. They make me laugh and inform me. I think the care and effort you put into your work is admirable.

Mikey: I spent months on a Kabuto shiny hunt and I'll never do one that long again! CandyEvie's 12 Year Sentret Hunt: oWo

Regarding the Helioptile, I made a similar mistake in Sun with a Salandit. I spent hours grinding one only to find out that only FEMALE Salandit can evolve.

I remember shiny hunting in legends arceus and while a mass outbreak of chansey was happening, two shiny chansey popped up before the shiny noise even went off I thought it was shiny good luck, but after that, chansey outbreaks would not stop popping up and it got very annoying very fast

me when my mom gets mcdonald's: 14:34

That cut off "yes" when the Shiny Kabuto popped up was hilarious. Sorry Mikey.

I got a Miltank story for ya, Michael. I'm doing a SoulSilver Nuzlocke, and after some work, I eventually get to Whitney's Gym. I don't have a Fighting type, so I come up with a strategy to specifically deal with her Miltank. I would start with my starter, Mango the Bayleaf, and have him use Reflect to reduce physical damage. I would then switch to Falcon the Pidgeotto and begin lowering its Accuracy with Sand Attack, switching between the two to refresh Reflect and to clear Attract, healing when necessary. I'm doing this strategy, and it's working wonders, and soon I get the Miltank to -6 accuracy. Then... the stupid thing outspeeds me and lands a crit Stomp, killing Falcon. At -6 accuracy and its attack lowered from Reflect! It then crits Mango, dropping him down to 1 hp. All the sand in its eyes must have pissed it off, because that stupid cow kept landing crits on me, and Whitney healed it up four times before Mango finally landed a crit Magical Leaf and killed it. I hate that dumb cow so much... P.S. I had switched to Burrow the Onix at some point in the battle, hoping to tank a couple hits with her high defense while I healed Mango, and the Miltank almost one-shot Burrow. This slab of hamburger killed my bird, and almost killed two more of my team. The rage is real.

I haven’t watched this video of yours in a year or so so coming back and re-watching it it made me laugh as I recognized the security alert as the Kim possible communicator beep

My two shiny fails were a weedle I killed in frlg shiny quest (where you catch a shiny for every gym, for those who could be wondering), and a chimecho in arceus that spawned during the icelands balloon popping race, that second one hurt

10:35 I'm more impressed that a level 13 Pansage of all things survived a STAB Retaliate from a Pokemon 7 levels higher than it.

Meditite (and Torterra kind of). Years ago, when Platinum was the hot new game, I remember going through Mt. Coronet when I encountered my first ever shiny -- a Meditite. I didn't know what shinies were at the time so you could imagine that it caught me off guard when I saw a red-orange Meditite. I wanted to catch this thing so bad, but when I opened my bag, I did not have a single poké ball. Very upset, I ran away. Later on, I check my party to see that, for some reason, I had put a heal ball on my Torterra at some point that could've been used to catch that Meditite. Ever since then, Meditite, Torterra, and my 7 year-old ape brain were all pokemon that wronged me.

Two things: One, this is why I hold on to my master ball. Still haven’t found my first shiny and I’ll be damned if I miss it. Two, I also started X blind and my floette was a similar level before I realized I needed a shiny stone.

THE SPONSER SCENE 😂😂😂 WAS ON POINTE 😂😂😂

I did beat Juan's Kingdra by using a Slaking that has Aerial Ace to get around Double Team Edit: Wow! 130 likes! I've never had this much likes before!

Everytime I hear this man talk about how he was troubled by Whitney's Miltank, I feel so guilty for no reason, because I have never had any trouble with taking out her team. My issue was always with Morty

I have a story. I was just running to Petalburg to do the Wally thing, and on the way I encountered a Ralts. I just thought, "Oh, I've never seen this before." not knowing about the four percent encounter rate. I caught it, thought it was kind of cool, and added it to my team. I later taught it Shock Wave. Then on the route with the ashes on the way to Fallarbor, I wanted some of the flutes. So I bought a bunch of Super Repels and went to run through the grass. I already had a Spinda and Slugma, but then I found a Skarmory, and as you probably know, Skarmory has Swift. I actually to this day don't know what the encounter rate for Skarmory is, but when I saw Juan's Kingdra use double team later in the game, I used Shock Wave until Calamity (the Gardevoir) went down. Then I swapped in Knight and used Swift until the Kingdra went down. It actually never used Rest and I don't know why. Also I liked how Mikey just casually picks up Mjolnir.

Let's not forget about Claire's kingdra. That battle was a nightmare for me because it kept using ice beam and surf

Jirachi, I kept getting flinched and when I do get to attack, it doesn't KO it. Showdown ptsd at work

The very first Pokémon version I played was Yellow when I was 7. I’m 28 now, and not only did a particular line of Pokémon wrong me but a certain character that haunts me to this very day: Sabrina! Even Abra was a pain when it decided to spam flash and by the time I reached Kadabra, my Pokémon’s accuracy was worse than a Storm trooper.

Little does Mikey know drowzee will begin to haunt him forever

During my Emerald playthrough I actually got to the point where Kingdra only died because it STARTED STRUGGLING. Literally the only time I ever encountered Struggle during a casual playthrough.

One of the few sponsorships I don’t skip. He’s actually creative with them instead of just reading off a script card. And there is a running gag for entertainment. He’s taking some really good notes from successful advertising through the years and doing it HIMSELF. Which is pretty cool! Love the effort! I’m a girl, so I’m not purchasing men’s soap, but if I wanted to smell like aftershave, I’d get some.

It took me four resets catching Regirock in Emerald because it wouldn't stay in the Ball despite being on red HP and ended up killing itself repeatedly with Struggle. I named it Buttface as revenge, despite the fact it doesn't even really have a face.

14:31 the reaction is priceless 😂

I remember Kingdra reducing me to tears as a kid because I could not hit it, I had Shock Wave on Manectric but that was neutral and as you said it can rest which it kept doing, I was stuck but then my brother told me you know you can go and catch a level 70 Rayquaza right now right, so I had to go get Rayquaza to win, but as an adult now I can beat Wuan without needing a legendary

lets be honest, Mikey is the only youtuber who can make his audience look forward to the videos where he is sponsored

My friend had a similar situation to you with the Helioptile. He was trying to evolve machoke, and he thought it evolved somewhere in the 80's, and when it got to level 90 he finally looked it up. You can image how pissed he was

14:31 That was pretty much my reaction when I was villiager hunting in Animal Crossing and I FINALLY found Audie after two years of searching.

“ Oh grunty boy get out my shower” had me dead 💀

Speaking of Shiny Pokémon that bring you pain in some way, I randomly found a full-odds (so no Shiny Charm, and I wasn't hunting for a Shiny) Shiny Yellow Flower Flabébé in my Pokémon X copy, but unfortunately, I noticed that Bubbles (my Frogadier) was way too high level to get the Flabébé to low health without her fainting. I went to my Bag to use some Poké Balls to try and catch her, but I didn't have any Poké Balls except one, which she broke out of. I was forced to either run away or have Bubbles faint Flabébé. Either way, I would lose the only random Shiny Pokémon that I've ever found. I ordered Bubbles to faint the Flabébé, and he did so. I never found another random Shiny on that save file, my current save file, or in any other game since, and that Flabébé encounter has stuck with me since, practically burned into my mind at this point.

Fun story: In my platinum playthrough I was about to beat fantina but then that mismagius destroyed me. Next time I barely won. So far this is my only loss

@15:30 And this is why we don't shiny hunt, kids :) Because you might end up mashing so many As that you will injure thineself.

The Perfectly Cut Screams videos will never have a scream as perfect as his shiny reaction.

7:03 "A security alert at home?!" C'mon Mikey, we all know that you are Kim Possible

U should make a vid about if gym leaders got new ace's in different regions, like Roxie got a Toxtricity as her ace

“Pokemon that have gone out of their way to ruin my day” Best quote/rhyme of MandJTV’s.

7:03 I immediately went “Oh Yeaaaah” out loud becore thinking, i wasnt alone in the room but then right after my sister said “Kim Possible” 😂

Now that you mention Helioptile I do think it's actually ridiculous that they never explain in game how Pokemon evolve. It was probably to drive sales for the guides back in the day, but the devs should really put that kind of info in the Pokedex

My first shiny was a metapod in heartgold, immediately after I caught it, my game froze. Also suprised Mikey didn't mention the metronome battle he did with Pokemen7, with John's MIltank dodging the explosion.

for the milktank, i used a geodude with smack-rock as an attack. with MANY potions and patience, i manage to kill it that way, anytime i play the game x')

4:30 wrong sand atack or mud slap are ingrained in my memory

The moment he said Juan's kingdra I started getting double team and rest flashbacks

That “You know me just practicing for the international hula dancing competition.. no obviously showering you buffoon!” Just made my day 😂

I believe the only two shinies I have failed was 1. Shiny Metagross in Crown Tundra. The hail took it from me as I did not have a weather changing move. 2. Shiny Skuntank. It used Explosion.

I remember Claire’s kingdra. I cried because when I was a kid I never understood why my typhlosion kept fainting to it😂

When you got that shiny Kabuto, your reaction was literally exactly what it’s like to get a pet in Old School RuneScape 😂😂😂😂😂

Me: "Sees includes paid promotion" Also me: Grunty boi, MY BOI!

I have an experience like these, where crispin's exeggutor had the ability harvest, and the move gigs drain, which are both so annoying, it also had tons of hp, and had really effective moves against most types. It was very annoying.

I feel the same too. I was playing pokemon emulator but that emulator game that wronged me too. Also my few years of watching Pokemon anime, there have been several specific episode that seemed to have mistake all over their life to hurting me badly.

Alternative take regarding Watchhog: it’s an excellent and easily available team member for catching wild Pokémon.

This reminds me of the time where Chuggaaconroy shared the story of his friend finding a shiny graveler and it using self destruct turn 1, only for another to appearance immediately afterward and do the same.

The memory that I still mad to this day was during the time when Pokemon Diamond and Pearl was out and I was trying to catch Uxie. Me, being a naive child, thinking the ultra balls were the second highest catchrate below master balls, I used all of my 28 ultra balls and Uxie wasn't caught until I used a regular pokeball and finally Uxie decides it own home with a normal, regular......pokeball........ I couldn't be more mad of wasting my ultra balls and I didn't think of resetting back to my save file out of sheer pride and childs' naviety to catch Uxie with less balls.

I just found 2 back to back full odds shinies while watching this! Thanks a lot Mikey