- We'll each be catching
one Pokemon for every letter of the alphabet, and whoever's
Pokemon, for each letter, has the highest base
stat total gets a point. - And the most points at the
end of the alphabet wins. - Starting with "A" and off we go. - Oh God. A, apple. No, not apple.
- That would be an unwise Pokemon to pick.
- Right. But, like, an apple a day
keeps the doctor away. And I'm engaged to one. I can't do that.
- Yeah, no. It would be unfortunate for
you to keep the doctor away. One thing I should say upfront
is that we are not allowed to look up anything while
hunting for Pokemon, no base stat totals,
no locations, nothing. - We just gotta use our big old noggins to get the best darn
"A" Pokemon out there. - Come to papa, good sir.
- Come on! My happiness, it's broken. Whoo!
- Got it. John, what was your Pokemon?
- The winning one, the table, Avalugg.
- Avalugg's base stat total is 514.
- Easy dub! - My Pokemon was Aerodactyl
whose base stat total is 515! Oh, no way!
- You had that queued up too quickly. I didn't even have, I didn't even have a second to process it. It was just immediate failure. What the heck? - All right, John, do you
believe in life after love? I believe that I can get
the stronger "B" Pokemon. - I really hope I don't lose after that, but I will write you a love song, Mikey. - Raichu starts with "R"!
- I'm not catching it! I'm writing a song, man! And you know what? That's fine. I have my Pokemon, and I have a fun Pokemon fact for you that I'm sure you've never heard of. - Okay, I'm listening.
- Did you know that Dragonite's name is a combination of "dragon" and "night"?
- Did you know the Pokemon, Diz-nutts' name is a
combination of "deez" and- You don't have to finish that joke. There we go and instantly
broke out of a quick ball. That was incredibly rude.
- Every time we play you get every critical capture. What's going on?
- There's the crit capture. Why can't that happen on the quick ball? It would save me time. There we go. All right, my Pokemon is Barraskewda. - Barracuda! (humming) I got Beartic.
- Barraskewda has a base stat total of 490.
- Ooh, come on! Give me the good news!
- And Beartic has 505! No!
- Whoo! On the board! Didn't get shut out.
- Hey, John, do you know what a pirate's
favorite letter is? - W?
- What? What do you mean W?
- The Bucks won the Superbowl. They stay taking Ws, man.
- Oh, my God. No, John, John, follow the joke. What is a pirate's favorite letter? - Arr!
- One would think that! But a pirate's first love
has always been the "C"! Off we go!
- Actually makes sense. I'm leaving this area. I need to rid myself of that. I can't be near the sea anymore. - I thought of one!
- This one's staring at me. - Gotta be around here
somewhere, right, buddy? - I might be back, little friend. - Aha! Yes, yes, yes!
- That doesn't sound promising.
- All right, quick ball, will you actually work for me? Yes, it will! Crit capture, finally! And it broke out! Oh, come on!
- That's my sign. No, don't go with the first
thing I see and think of. No, damn it! Why are you everywhere I go? Yes, the bigger one is here, yes! It is my shooting star.
- I just used Thunder Wave even though
I've already paralyzed it. What am I doing?
- Oh, no. Down catastrophically bad.
- Eventually. - Oh, my God. Finally, I caught it. John and I had a whole sports conversation while I was trying to catch this thing. - My Pokemon has a star on its head. There's no way Crawdaunt loses this. - Ooh, okay. Crawdaunt's base stat total is 468. Oh, I'm feeling pretty good, John. I got--
- Yeah, not the, not the news I wanted, buddy.
- I got Cryogonal- whose base stat total--
- My snowflake? - Its base stat total is 515. That's a point for me.
- I was gonna tell you that Cryogonal
was based on a snowflake. That was one of my fun facts I had ready. What the hell?
- What? No way!
- That is brand new information!
- Hey, John, the letter after "C", what would you say the
plural of it would be? - D's.
- Deez nuts! Let's go catch some "D" Pokemon. - Friendship is give and take. Yep. I threw you a bone with the
easiest setup joke of your life. Guaranteed win right now! I'm putting the Pokemon 7 guarantee down. - Aha! It is I, Grunty Boy! Sorry, Grunty Boy, I'm in
the middle of something. Well, you could pause for a moment and give me just a bit of attention. Well, what about John?
- No, I stream and have countless
people try to get me with "deez nuts" jokes. I gave you a freebie.
- He's fine. I'm here to gush to you about the new game I've
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download the game using the link in the description below or by scanning the QR code onscreen. Tata! - Hi, Mikey. Wanna know what you're gonna lose to? Yeah, you do. Dragapult, boom! The win.
- John, I got Dragonite. - What?
- They're pseudo-legends with 600 base stat total. We tied.
- Is it because I said the really stupid
thing about "dragon" and also "night"?
- Yeah. - Double or nothing! Double or nothing.
- Okay, I accept. From now on, any ties for the next round
is worth double points. - Easy! Double or nothing, Pokemon 7 guarantee. You've never seen me mess that up. - You're totally right, oh my God. So, John, are you thinking
this next round is going to be easy? Just "E", not "Z". Just "E". Off we go, and I should get mine quickly
'cause I saw a good one on my way.
- I'm already losing. I put the Pokemon 7 guarantee twice. I gotta win this.
- I mean, you didn't fail. You just didn't win.
- I failed, Mikey. If you're not first, you're last. - All right, John, mine was Electivire. - Oh, I got Excadrill which
beats it in a one-on-one battle. - Electivire has 540,
and Excadrill has 508. Let's go! Two points for Mikey.
- Triple or nothing. - Nope! Well, I'm having trouble
thinking of a "F" joke that isn't at least
somewhat inappropriate. So you know what? Let's just go.
- I'm fine with that. Hey, Mikey, could you
tell me a good "F" Pokemon that would beat you?
- No. - You never know if you don't ask, right? - There are certain things
you just shouldn't ask. - Can I have a million dollars? - That's one of them. Aha! That's where I thought it would be. - You already, oh my God! Why is your brain going at mach 10 speed? - Entirely too much percentage of my brain bandwidth is
devoted to this franchise and game and...
- No, I must conquer what I
fear most in this world. You won't defeat me again!
- I feel like I will. There's a lot of letters left. - Not you! I'm not talking to you. I got a bone to pick with someone else. Oh, no! Mikey?
- Yeah? - If I kill one of those wandering
Pokemon, do they respawn? - No, not till tomorrow. And I got stuff to do tomorrow. - Wait a minute, dead! I know what to go for! Hey, hey, you, where is she? I did it!
- You found something? - I did.
- Well, don't kill it. (stammering) - Would I do that?
- All right, I caught Frosmoth.
- Oh, my God. For a second, I thought you were gonna say
something else with a fros 'cause I got Froslass.
- Frosmoth is 475. It's only 475? I thought it was higher. Froslass is 480? Oh, come on!
- Yeah! Whoo!
- All right, John, it's time for us to take to the skies, not like Team Sky but like a G6. - I'm not moving until
you apologize for that. - I'm sorry. - I feel like a one-trick pony, but this one area I went to has all of the friends I could ever need. - Oh, I immediately knew
what I was gonna go for too. - There he is, my friend!
- Oh, she's not there. - Looks like I'm the one who has a friend. - There's another one. I don't know if it's strong enough, but I do know where it is. All right, I got mine with
a quick ball, thankfully. - Me too.
- I don't believe you. - Have you ever gotten
a critical hit before? - Oh my God, did you kill it, John? My God, John.
- More, my friend! Friendship! Wait, is that a Shiny? There's no way. Oh my God, it's a Shiny!
- What? - Yes! That's why I killed the Golurk! - There is no way! - Yes, it was meant to be! - How about you reveal first? - Galvantula.
- Oh my God, I also caught Galvantula.
- I get the point! I got a Shiny, damn it!
- You know what? Honestly, I can, I can give
you the point this round. I know we'd normally do double or nothing, but the fact that we got the same thing but yours is Shining, I
think you get the point. So let's go for the next
letter which is "H". - We're happy.
- Anyways, let's go. - Okay, "H", "H", "H", "H".
- Dang it. This is two rounds in a row
where a Pokemon I was confident in is just not here.
- You gotta be more head empty, no
thoughts, just Shinies. - Wait!
- Mikey, you're sus. - Excuse me. Then you're cringe.
- Damn it! Mikey, my plan of wandering with an empty head is not
going the way I hoped it would. - My plan of having a specific
Pokemon that I wanted, it's failed once and now has failed twice. Wait! (mumbles) Aha, aha! Okay, finally!
- Wait a second. John, if your name isn't
John Michael Pokemon 7. - There's the crit capture. Yes, give it to me.
- You done messed up, Mr. Mikey, 'cause I found
the winning Pokemon. Yeah, it might've taken me 20 minutes. But you know what? I put my thinking cap on,
and I found the right 'mon for the job. - You caught it?
- Yeah. On the count of three, we say it together. - Three, two, one... - Hatterene.
- Hatterene. Yeah.
- All right. Double or nothing, whoo!
- All right, John, I fully intend to win
this double points round. - He can't keep getting away with this. - I have no idea what I'm gonna get. (crickets chirping) - Usually, we're not this quiet. It's very clear that we
have no idea where to go. - Yeah, I've yet to think of
a single "I" Pokemon available on the (indistinct). I'm sure several of you are screaming at your screens right now. How about, instead of
screaming, you subscribe? - I like the way you think, Mikey. I like the way you think.
- Oh my God, I finally thought of something. I would like to think of something else. Found what I was looking for.
- Okay, you sound very excited. - So excited.
- Found some "I" Pokemon. - You did?
- Yeah. Hey, little buddy.
- Something tells me we're gonna tie this round. Well, John, I'm 99% sure
we caught the same Pokemon. So do you wanna do the countdown again? - Sure.
- All right. One, two, three... Impidimp.
- Inkay. Wait.
- Wait. - Huh. - Wait, one of us, actually, is gonna win. I don't know which one though. Impidimp is 265, and Inkay is 288. - Yeah! There we go! The--
- Aw, you just... - My strategy!
- You just took the lead. - Let's go!
- All right, John, I'm about to put on a
clinic 'cause I'ma be Dr. J, the famous basketball player. Don't ask me anymore
information about him. I don't know anymore
information about him. - Well, I know a doctor. And my first name starts with J, so I feel like I got this guarantee. - I also know a doctor,
and my first name is J. - I feel like you're copying me. - Aha.
- I was the John guy first. You don't have any proof.
- I'm months older than you. - Yeah, you're old and out of touch. What's that have to do with anything? - Oh, man.
- Move aside, old man. A new generation of John
Michaels are here to take over. - John Michaels? I thought it was just you.
- No, there's an army of us. - Did you know John Green,
world-renowned author, is also a John Michael?
- Let's start a club! - Oh, oh, no.
- I caught the Pokemon, and I'm about to start a book club with the John Michael squad. Woohoo!
- All right, John, I'm feeling pretty good about mine. - Oh, you actually caught it?
- Yeah, I just caught it, thankfully 'cause it Perish Songed. But I got Jynx.
- I got Pringle man. - Jellicent?
- Yes. - Jellicent has 480.
- Okay. - And Jynx has 455?
- Yeah! Easy!
- Let's do "K". - Okay. Jk.
- I thought of two "K" Pokemon.
- Kleavor. - Okay, that's not in this game, John. - What if I abbreviate the Pokemon's name and it just says King?
- No, certainly not. Oh, my gosh! I just found a Pokemon that I thought, I tried to find earlier. And I couldn't find it,
and it just showed up. - You got more excited
than if you found a Shiny. - Have you caught yours?
- No. We could revisit the Nidoking idea. - No.
- Why don't you wear more big hats?
- Big hats? - Yeah, you live in Texas. Like, I thought that was protocol. - No, John. Quit stereotyping me.
- Wait a second! - What?
- Dumb luck prevails again! - I mean, I can't judge you for that. Dumb luck is what got me
my Pokemon this round. - The kids call me Mr. Winner Pants. - I feel like the kids
just call you cringe. - Damn it. Stop getting crits! I used False Swipe this time, Mikey. I used False Swipe.
- Yeah, so a crit doesn't matter.
- It's in the hay-hole. - Ohh. - I'm not happy about the
Pokemon I just ran into, but I accidentally ran into a "K" Pokemon. And I've already killed the one that would have guaranteed me the win, so I feel like this is a fair punishment. - Oh my God, you killed a Kommo-o? - Just tell me what you found
so I can tell you I lost. - All right, I got a Kingler.
- I got a Koffing. Whoo, he won, whoo.
- You got a Koffing? Just to make sure we cover all our bases. Kingler has a base stat total of 475. - Yep.
- Koffing has 340. All right, John, the next round,
you're about to take the L. - That's absolutely
biting you in the butt. This is a guaranteed win for me. I appreciate it. Wait, hmm.
- The only "L" Pokemon I've thought of, I did confirm is a shield exclusive. - All right, all right. You're not gonna get left off
the dodgeball team this time. - Oh, I thought of one. I really hope it spawns in this weather. If not, that's gonna suck. - Loyster!
- Oh, no! It's not in this weather!
- Li-gran-i-tar. - All right, I found an "L" Pokemon. I've been doing this long enough. I'm not gonna win, but
I can't keep doing this. - Luh-champ!
- John, if you don't shut the hell up. - What good times we have.
- All right, John, I'm, like, 99% certain I did not win. So I'll just go ahead and say it. I got Loudred.
- Liepard! - Oh, Liepard. I don't remember that either. I, like, it took me too long
to remember Lucario and Luxray. - You should've gotten Lexploud. You messed up.
- All right, Liepard is 446. Loudred is 360. Yeah, all right, point to John. All right, John, this one is
my letter because I am "M"! JTV.
- Checks out. M, M, M. Quit that noise. It's scary. You know how easily I'm frightened. Would you be upset if I fell
backwards into a victory? - Yes.
- Wait a second. - Yes!
- Bribing the editor. I'm sending out a Pokemon name to Katie. This is a guaranteed victory,
and a guaranteed good edit. I'm breaking the fourth wall.
- She's gonna give you a good edit regardless, John. She's a professional.
- And a wonderful friend. - Agreed.
- Need you to say something out of character and cruel so I could win this. - Your pits are stinky.
- Why would you say that? - 'Cause they are.
- What the hell? - I like it. No, sorry. - Keep it in! Keep it in!
- A little longer than a few minutes later.
- It died. - It did? It did?
- I'm waving the white flag. - You were trying to catch the Metagross? - Yeah.
- And I caught the Metagross! Okay, yes, I, you can wave the white flag. Obviously, any other "M"
Pokemon would not work. All right, John, it's time to make like the
Pokemon Black and White protagonist and find "N".
- No, "N" like Nintendo. "N" like Nintendo.
- My line was so good, and you interrupted me. John, if you accidentally run
into a Pokemon that starts with the letter you're looking
for, do you have to catch it? - I mean, if you're not a coward. - I'm a coward.
- Damn it! - I found one that I
think is pretty strong, but I feel like there
could be a stronger one. No, I should just go for it.
- Yeah, you should, coward. - All right, John, I'm pretty sure you got
the same thing as me 'cause it's a Pokemon
we mentioned earlier. Did you also get Nidoking?
- I mentioned Nidoking for me! You said I couldn't get it
for "K", so I got it for "N"! What's wrong with you?
- It was the first one I saw that was fully evolved.
- You're a coward. - All right, John, double
points for this round. Oh, no! - Oh, oh, oh! - I've thought of a strong "O" Pokemon, but I don't think it's in the wild. - Have you ever thought
about getting good? - I will kill you.
- There you are. - Oh, I thought of another one. But I also don't know if
it's gonna be strong enough. - Well, I caught my Pokemon. So if you get the same thing I got, you are a copycat coward. - All right, I found my "O" Pokemon. - There is, in my mind, a 95% chance you caught
the same thing I caught. And I, for one, don't like it. - I'm, like, genuinely nervous 'cause this is worth double points. But it is Orbeetle.
- Yeah, it's the same one I got, Mikey. - Oh, man!
- So I think we go triple or nothing.
- Triple or nothing? Jesus.
- Yeah. - All right, triple or nothing, "P". - This is absurdly important.
- This is insanely important. This is so many points for one Pokemon. I do know exactly what I'm going for. - Yeah, I have a Pokemon
in my brain-cicle. But I don't know exactly where it is, so I'm on the prowl for
anything possibly stronger. - All right, caught it with a quick ball. - I'm not apologizing if
I take too long this time. This one is for possibly
all of the marbles. Wait, what if I get a Shiny again? - I would be so mad, first off. But also, the Shiny would only win if we got the same Pokemon.
- I don't like that rule. It makes sense, but I don't like it. Okay, Mikey, I just caught the Pokemon. - All right, we say it on three, okay? - Okay.
- One, two, three... Poliwrath.
- Pangoro. Ohh!
- Ooh. - Wait, you took the frog? That's my thing.
- Pangoro is 495. - Ohh, I'm gonna probably lose to a frog. No one's gonna let me live this down. - Poliwrath is 510, yes! I beat John with a frog!
- I'm only known for so many things, man. You beat me with a frog, so I think I have to relinquish my frogs of the world poster.
- Wall art! All right, time for the next letter. John, you're gonna have to
wait in line for your victory 'cause we're about to stand in the queue. I'm, and I'm further up
in the line than you. - Mikey, what do you, what do you do on the days
where you let everyone down? - I caught my "Q" Pokemon.
- Do you think the high counsel of frogs
will ever forgive me? - Maybe after many
centuries of hard labor. - I caught my stupid "Q" Pokemon. Are you happy, Mikey? You happy?
- I feel like we're probably getting the
same thing considering how few "Q" Pokemon there are. - Oh, no. Is it a 'Sire?
- It is indeed. Hey, John, before we start the "S" round, can we just go ahead and
agree to ban Salamence? - Yes.
- It's time to be some slithery snakes.
- Now you just have me thinking of snakes. You should get Seviper!
- I don't know if Seviper's in this game. And even if it was, I wouldn't go for it 'cause
it's not very strong. - But it's a slithery snake. (hissing) - Serious.
- Yes, yes! Redemption! Redemption today is named,
I'll tell you later. - Later.
- Okay, Mikey, you can't beat me.
- I feel like I can, man. I'll just go ahead and say it. I'm feeling pretty confident. I got Scizor.
- Well, well, well, how the turn tables.
- What did you get? - Something out.
- What? - That guy. Or maybe, I don't know
if it's on the poster. I got Seismitoad.
- Oh my God, I don't actually know which is stronger. Scizor's 500.
- Okay. - And then Seismitoad is 509. Oh, my God.
- Yes! I'm back in the club!
- So we're all tied up with only "T", "U", "V",
"W", "X", "Y", "Z" left. - That felt like a lot of letters. - But I guess we're gonna
follow the order to a "T". I would ban Tyranitar, but
that's a shield exclusive so... - That gave me an idea.
- I'm doing something exciting.
- I genuinely have no idea what that could possibly mean,
so I am now very worried. So I've definitely found what
I wanted to find or the area, but I cannot find the Pokemon. And if I lose because of this, it's gonna be very, never mind! I'm a genius!
- Are you? I'm feeling pretty smart myself. - This is the most
curious I've been to know what you caught.
- Well, why don't you tell me yours first? - I feel like you definitely won, so I'm just gonna let you glow. And it's gonna hurt my
feelings but Tyrantrum. - I did a raid for Togekiss.
- You can do that? - Tyrantrum has 521, and Togekiss has 545. - I'm hiring a referee for this next one. I don't think that's legal. This is chaos.
- Well, John, I don't know about you. But I'm feeling 22 even though I'm 27 now. - You're so old.
- I know. Kind of wishing this
was a randomized game. And I could go catch, like, an Urshifu. - That would be pretty cool.
- There is one that I can think of.
- Okay. - I can see it actually, but I feel like there's
a better one out there. - Critical capture. If you break out, I'm
quitting this competition. Thank you.
- I just need to catch the one that I
found 'cause I don't know if there's any others.
- What if we got Unown, and we got the same letter?
- Can you even find a, I don't think Unown's in this game. - Nah, good riddance.
- Anyways, John, I feel like there's a
pretty high chance we got the same thing. So three, two, one... - Unfezant.
- You're not pleasant. - Aw.
- Yeah, I got Unfezant. Oh my God, this actually could be the
biggest one of the entire match. - Yeah, two points for "V". All right, John, let's
take each other's v-cards. Sorry.
- Yeah, I need to get the taste of
whatever you just said out of my mouth. That's just it!
- Well, the Pokemon I wanted is not
where I thought it would be. If it's not back here,
then I'm pretty sure, no. - Well, good luck to you. There's a lot riding on this.
- I'm interested to see what you ended up with. - What is your heart telling you? - My heart's telling me
that I'm not in a good spot. - Vanilluxe, whoo!
- Oh, no. Vanilluxe is really strong, isn't it? I got Vileplume which is
490, and Vanilluxe is 535. Oh, that is two points for you.
- Finally! Whoo!
- You retook the lead. - All right, what comes after "V"? - John, do you not know the alphabet? All right, John, it's time for me
specifically to get this "W". - I actually have an idea
for what I'm gonna get, and it just makes sense. Now I don't know if I'm
gonna win because of it, but I feel like I should still win off of a technicality regardless.
- I don't fully understand what you're talking about.
- You'll understand. - Hello!
- Yep, there it is.
- Good to see you. - Top of the morning.
- Okay, well, I caught the big old Wailord.
- Well, I caught Whiscash. And it has a "W" on its head, so I win. - Its name also starts with "W". - It has a "W" on its head, so I win. It is the most "W"-
- No. - of all the "W" Pokemon.
- Wailord is 500. Whiscash is 468.
- Yeah. - Points for me!
- Plus "W" on its head is another 100.
- Stop it. No. All right, John, we're onto "X". - Marks the spot.
- Yeah. I'm also pretty sure there's
only one option for "X", almost certainly we're
getting the same thing. - Are you sure?
- I don't think either one of us really wanna go
through max raid dens so... - No.
- Yeah, I found it. - Fly down already! Just let this round end, you stupid bird. You're never gonna guess what I got. - Did you catch a Xatu?
- Wait a second. It's not popped up on my screen yet, yeah. - Which means "Y" round is double. - Ooh!
- That means "Y" decides it. Well, John, let's see if it ends here. We catch the same thing, it goes to "Z". We catch different things, it's over. - Where are you, Pokemon? I am so lonely.
- All right, I'm crit capturing mine.
- Someone just made my decision for me. You caught your Pokemon, right? - Yeah.
- Well, my puppy barked. So there's only one Pokemon to go catch. You've met my adorable puppy. You wouldn't do anything
to make her sad, right? - Never! She would make me sad. She stepped on my balls
a lot when I was there. - Yeah, maybe she'll do it
again if you beat me, huh? - No!
- It all comes down to this unless you also caught what I caught. - That's true. I caught Yamask.
- Ooh, wait! Okay, I can beat a Yamask. I got a Yamper.
- All right, John, it all comes down to this. Yamask has 303.
- That's nothing. - And Yamper has 270! - No!
- That's a win! That's two points for me!
- Why? The dog is way better
than that hunk of junk. It's a rock!
- Let's go! I caught my "Z" Pokemon. Doesn't even matter though.
- I caught mine. - Zigzagoon has 240 while Zubat has 245, so you won this round. But it doesn't matter. I end up winning by one!
- Still got a Shiny! - Okay, yeah, I guess you
might be the real winner for this video.
