How QUICKLY Can You Complete Professor Oak's Challenge in Pokemon Heartgold/Soulsilver?

how's it going everybody chaotic meatball here and welcome to probably the most requested video that i have ever had literally ever this is the pokemon heart golden soul silver professor oaks challenge and yeah i'm sure you've heard the legend of how hard this one is nearly 400 pokemon poke gear phone calls for evolution stones the safari zone having to use the pokey gear for certain pokemon it's all true however i've spent over a year working on and off on this challenge and i think it's about time that it's unleashed to the internet this is the professor oaks challenge in pokemon heart gold and soul silver i'll be using heartgold version and i won't be using the pokewalker since it's technically another game quote unquote and i'd rather not anything be construed as optional anyway let's get right into it so if you're not familiar with the professor oaks challenge let me describe it very simply which is basically capture and evolve every single pokemon possible before every single gem so with that in mind i named myself chaotic and the first pokemon we get is our starter either totodile chikurita or cyndaquil cyndaquil evolves into its final form at level 36 chicorita at 32 or total dial at 30. so it's smartest to get to dial to reduce the time grinding we also get the pokey gear a super important item that we'll need in order to get certain evolution items so the game is pretty standard since we don't get pokeballs until we retrace the egg from mr pokemon fight our rival and name him after getting taught how to catch pokemon i'm able to grab a hoot hoot and ratata on route 29 since it's night time currently so i can't get pidgey and centre it until the morning route 46 is also right up north of here where i'm able to capture geodude during the night this led me to route 30 allowing me to capture spinarak and route 31 where i captured two bell sprouts one of which i'll be using for a trade the last area i can go to for the time being is dark cave where i'm able to get a zubat which i'll be keeping in my party until it evolves at high friendship as well as a one percent done sparse so i used the area as a training ground until i found one taking about a half hour before moving into violet city however this is where this challenge deviates from the normal gold and silver challenge there's a guy here named primo in the pokemon center if you give him the right passwords he'll reward you with some eggs there's three of them so i calculated the password using this website that i'll be leaving in the description for those of you who want to try out this challenge for yourself i will admit that two of them are catchable in this section but i'd rather not have to search for them if i don't have to luckily it's still night time so i was able to get my last nighttime encounter for the section that being gastly in sprout tower from there i figured why not grind for a bit waiting until the morning so i started with totodile which was pretty high level already allowing me to evolve it at level 18 into crocodile only a few minutes after grabbing gastly the egg started to hatch while i was running around getting slugma whooper and mareep before finishing off the crocodile getting it to level 30 and evolving into for alligator i used the last few levels of it to switch train the three hatchlings since they were all at level 1 and not able to fend for themselves but after it evolved they were able to the first of them i grinded was marine which i was able to grind up into flaffy at level 15 fairly easily thanks to the fact that i had thunder shock making taking down the gas lease in the tower a piece of cake from there i figured it was enough progress for a day so i took a bit of sleep waking up in the morning for the rest of the encounters and yep that's basically how the challenge goes making sure you strategize when you play and grind so that you can do as much as possible i won't be specifying the extreme details for the rest of the challenge since there's so much in this video would be two hours because of it but i'll still tell you about exclusive pokemon for time of day to make it easier for you as well as the guide that's going to be left in the description shout outs to mulax for writing it getting back to the game i went to the ruins of alf to solve a kabuto puzzle so that i could capture a single unknown oh the game gave me an f i guess it respects me for doing this challenge if you're watching this in the premiere make sure to leave an f in the chat for respect and also hit that like and subscribe button with that shameless plug out of the way i went back over to route 32 grabbing a hop hip since it's the only encounter left for me though soul silver players will need to get atkins here and with that i figured i'd do some more grinding since grinding in the sprout tower is only good at night since ghastlies give the most exp out of the whole available group of wild pokemon for the section it's a little worse in soul silver since ekons is a bit of a pain to take down and pulls down the average amount of exp you'll get on route 32 so you're better off just grinding at night and taking the days off after a few more hours of grinding at my whole party whooper finally got to level 20 and evolved into quagsire though i just kept plugging away making it so that geodude was the next to evolve getting the graveler at level 25 after another round of grinding flaffy followed up very quickly evolving into ampharos at level 30 after a few more minutes after finishing that grinding session when i returned to the pokemon center i got my second bell sprout and traded it for an onyx here in violet city returning back and switching it for the other bell sprout that i need to train i figured while i was at it that i should grab the remaining counters on other routes so i grabbed pidgey and caterpie on route 30 century on route 29 and spiro on route 46 before going back to grinding i will say that hop up is a pain in the butt to grind since it's not strong and only has splash to start off with though admittedly it did get better once it evolved into skip loom at level 18. everything in this session is pretty high in terms of level evolutions outside of caterpie everything's over level 20 with some of them getting really high such as slugma 38 and pidgey at 36. it can get quite crazy and takes a long time longer than most of the other games i don't think i've ever taken more than 30 hours on the first section of a poc even the crazy ones like alpha sapphire and xd but this one was insane in short i evolved the rest of the pokemon in those rounds of grinding those being bellsprout and a weep and bell at level 21 hoot hoot in the noctowa level 20 seligman and mccargo at level 38 pidgey into pidgeotto at level 18. gasly and a haunter at level 25 skip bloom into jump luff at level 28 pidgeotto into pidgeot at level 36 zubat into golbat at level 22 and into crowbat one level later spin iraq into ariados at level spiro into firo at level 20 ratata and eradicate at level 20. caterpie into metapod at level 7 and into butterfree at level 10 and center it in deferred at level 15. i wanted to leave the low level stuff until the end since i figured that it would feel like that i was progressing faster near the end though i don't know exactly what would have been faster and with a total of 41 pokemon or 43 in soul silver and a time of 65 hours and 34 minutes yeah it's time to fight faulkner and yes looking at the leaderboard i admit it's pretty bad but we again we have to consider that this was my second poc ever at the time of recording this which was in may of 2019 so it's kind of cringy to see my old strategies if we're being honest after destroying faulkner i'm able to get the mystery egg from a guy at the pokemart allowing me to progress south of route 32. keeping macargo in the party for this is actually pretty smart since i need to get high friendship to evolve so we wanted to get it hatched asap there's also a few things we can do now that we're on route 32 such as grab the old rod right before the union cave so we'll want to revisit a few locations those being the ruins of alf from magikarp and poliwag tentacle on route 32 and to crabby over in cherry grove city since we'll need one for a trade much later right after the a catched into togepi so there's nothing else left to do other than going to union cave there's not much here other than sandshrew which is only here in heartgold as well as a few trainers so afterwards i emerged in azalea town opening up the first team rocket confrontation the slow poke well has just that sloppo after grabbing it and destroying everyone in the cave i made sure to go back to the union cave to grab myself a gold bean with the old rod leaving only one area we can really go to for the time being the alex forest there's only two available pokemon here for now those being paris and two oddish but there's also something else normally you'd need cut to progress which you can't use until you beat bugsy so i'm sure you're thinking oh perfect i'll just grind and continue nope not at all the only thing i can do now is grind slowpoke because it can learn headbutt before we can access the guy that teaches it yep the thing you normally get after cutting cut so now we've got more pokemon to capture with the headbutt trees so after getting it to level 25 i started hunting getting pineco here in the ilex forest and a party of apom in azalea town since it has pickup which we will need to make this challenge a lot easier i decided to forego the other three encounters for the time being since none of them can evolve in this section so we need to get our apom to level 21 first so that we can get a pickup squad going since we need rare candies in order to make the rest of this run a little bit more trivial however i actually raised all four of them to level 41 one of which i allowed to evolve an ambipom for the decks total but this will really help with getting a ton of rare candies and giving me a higher chance of getting sun stones that i need as well as moonstones for the future shortly after i evolved slowpoke into slowbro at level 37 and then decided to go after the remaining encounters i found execute on route 32 and heracross on route 46 so now i'm relieved of encounters leaving just grinding mind you though i've already done a ton of grinding getting 5 things to an average of level 40 so i've already been driven crazy but what's a little bit more grinding gonna do everything literally everything well i just evolved everything else tentacle and attenual at level 30 polywag into poliwhirl at level 25 magikarp into gyarados at level 20 pinecone to fortress at level 31 harris into parasect at level 24 golden into seeking at level 33 crabby into kingler at level 28 togepi into toga tick at level 10 with max happiness sand shrew into sand slash at level 22 oddish into gloom at level 21 and into blossom with a sunstone that i managed to get with pickup somehow i only got two sunstones while going through that grinding so i'm glad i got all four of them to level 40 well or else i probably wasn't even gonna get even one of them and with a time of 135 hours and 53 minutes yeah that's how long it took but you know what i think you'll notice how much it really improves the time throughout after we're making bugsies bum i ran through the ilex forest and arrived at the other side on route 34 where i'm able to capture an abra two drowsy and a very important pokemon for this section ditto since we have a lot of breeding to do but not quite yet there's one person on this route we need to get the number from and that's picnicker gina since she's able to give me a leaf stone something i will need several of for this section of the game goldenrod city's next on the agenda since there's two pokemon we need to get immediately through the game corner after getting a bit ahead of myself since i enjoy voltorb flip though i managed to grab gertini for 2100 coins yeah we have to evolve that on very very low level wild pokemon now are you understanding why i got those level 41a palms i also grabbed an atkins since this is the earliest we can get in in heartgold but soulsilver will get sandshrew to make up for the version exclusives of the last section i grabbed the bike fought the trainers in the underground area finally getting to the in-game trade inside of the department store trading my spare drowzee from a chop and with that i finally got to route 35 which has three important encounters but i'm skipping those for now since i want to take out the trainers here and in the national park where i made sure to grab a sunkern evolving it into sunflora with the other sunstone i got in the last section i was super close to evolving dratini during this part so i went ahead and did some grinding in the national park to evolve before doing the bug catching contest you see this is held every tuesday thursday and saturday and there's a ton of exclusive bug pokemon that aren't found here normally and since i'm playing gold i need venonat the weedle line scyther and pincer sadly though i can only keep one pokemon that i catch and that's the one i enter into the competition so i opted to just catch everything and toss them away keeping only venonat since venomoth isn't catchable here whereas weedle kikuna and beedrill all are but i can't keep them but they're registered in the pokedex so it's all good this is the same in seoul silver except with the caterpie line my first encounter was beedrill which i managed to catch so i was pretty happy already then i proceeded to get weedle and venonat which i made sure not to toss away for other pokemon and lastly i managed to get kokuna scyther and pincer getting me all the entries i need for this area i'm actually surprised i managed to do this in one try since i really didn't want to wait until the next date of the contest i didn't get the prize which would have been a sunstone but i don't need it thanks to my overpowered pickup squad i took out the remaining trainers on the other side of the route including this one schoolkid allen he can give you a firestone which we'll need for this section that's two trainers that we have to get phone calls from for stones in the section three from gina and one from alan before leaving though i grabbed a ground with or full picks if you're playing soul silver as well as a standler leaving only about 35s encounters after grabbing both ninarans i attempted to find yanma which is a one percent encounter and this one took me over an hour to find but i managed to get it while also grinding up dragonair quite a bit this just leaves grinding in getting the two trainers to call me to give me the stones this actually wasn't too painful since all i had to do was grind up everything and wait for those two to call me while i'm grinding i occasionally got calls in between battles but i literally grinded up everything including getting the two moonstones i needed to be a pickup and i still didn't have all the stones though through the grinding i managed to evolve nidoran into ninorito at level 16. nina ran into nid arena also at level 16 dragon air into dragonite at level 55. drowsy into hypno at level 26 then annette into venomoth at level 31 abra and dicadabra at level 16. machop into machoke at level 28 atkins into arbok at level 22 janma and diane mega at level 33 while knowing ancient power nidorino indonesia king with a moon stone and nidorina into nidoqueen with a moonstone so the calls literally you just leave the game on until they call and give you the items you can save scum so you can save the game wait an hour if you don't get the calls soft reset and wait another hour it works that's what i did but it is still stupid because you have to pay attention to the game while just waiting there so after dealing with that i managed to get myself ralith into arcanine with a firestone gloom into vileplume with a leaf stone since i had grinded the second oddish during the grind of this section weapon bell into victory bell with a leaf stone and execute and exeggutor also with a leaf stone and with a total of 103 pokemon in a time of something i don't know because apparently i forgot to record the bottom screen at the time allowing me to fight whitney she does the whole crying thing but gives me the badge allowing me to move onward after getting the badge though the poke athlon dome opens up which fortunately means i don't have to rely on stupid phone calls for evolution stones and that makes me so happy you don't realize how actually frustrating it is to wait for these things to happen when you're trying to go fast in the first place and fortunately i love the pokeathlondo minigames so i grinded out enough points to get a few stones since we need one firestone four waterstones and a thunderstone sadly though each item can be only purchased once a day and since the stones only come around once per week there's a little bit of a wait of like a month to get everything it's kind of frustrating but it's not the first time that this happens luckily i did enough grinding to grab both a water stone on wednesday and a thunderstone on thursday so i just grabbed the squirt bottle and moved on to the tree that happens to be a pseudoludo fortunately pickup has been really nice to me so i have quite a few ultra balls for capturing though i will be saving the rest for some very difficult pokemon in this section once i got to ecruteak city i made sure to send bill back to goldenrod so that i could get a gift pokemon later on as well as evolving poliwhirl into polywrath with a waterstone that i got from my first pokethon grind i'll be grabbing that gift later for now i want to go into the burn tower since there's two pokemon i need one of which needs to be bred those being coughing and magmar oh yeah there's entai sweeping and raiku yeah we have to go get both entei and raiku in this section without a master ball yikes anyway after dealing with that i made sure to go back to goldenrod and grab the gift evie so that i could breed for four more of them evolving one of them into jolteon with the thunderstone that i grabbed earlier i then threw it in with my ditto getting four eggs before switching it out from magmar getting an egg before putting everything away and hatching the eevees and a single magby i kept two of the evs in my party since i needed to make sure that they got max happiness especially since i needed to grind my hauntzer to level 39 in order to use it for hunting for entei and raiku i made sure to use some rare candies after getting it to a high enough level to warrant usage of them then started biking back and forth and using the rappel trick not gonna lie it only took about 10 minutes to find raiku after that grind and since i made sure my moveset was hypnosis mean look dream eater and nightshade made it quite easy to damage it after weakening it and making sure it was put to sleep on the third encounter of it i managed to get it in an ultra ball one down one to go entei took a little bit longer to get taking four encounters before i managed to snag it glad i put the time investment into getting haunter to level up or else that would have been a nightmare i took a break from the challenge for about a week getting enough points to get myself a firestone and a second waterstone to evolve eevee into flareon and another into vaporeon using them respectively i figured now was a good time to go west towards route 38 to grab mill tank magnemite far-fetched tauros and a one percent snubble which actually only took about 15 minutes thank the lord i didn't have to deal with another situation of yama if you're playing soul silver you'll also grab meowth but we'll be grabbing our version exclusive soon after arriving in olivine city i grabbed the good rod from a fisherman allowing me to do some backtracking grabbing quill fish on route 32 which wasn't too bad even though it was a two percent encounter and shelder and shinshu from new bark town luckily we can take a shortcut from violet city back over to ecritik but instead of moving west i made sure to move east in order to go to mount mortar home of oh my god that's a shiny machop that wasn't what i was looking for but that is certainly a nice addition to the collection instead i was actually looking for merrell though i don't have to worry about the gender this time since i can't get the incense for it not gonna lie i'm not surprised i got a shiny in this run due to how many one percent and two percent encounters that i've had to capture so far in the run emerging on the other side route 42 is the home of manky only in heart gold leaving me to skip over mahogany town and into route 43 where i can get the last grass encounter for this section giraffe rig at this point i tried rare candying my eevee and espeon which managed to work so i reset and evolved it with exp as to not waste one putting it away and trading my extra crabby for a voltorb after going back to olivine city olivine does actually have the last few fishing encounters of the section one of which being corsola during the day so i decided to grind until nighttime occurred involving merrell into a zoom rail at level 18 snubble in the grand ball at level 23 chinchu and a lantern at level 27 manky into primape at level 28 and magnemite into magneton level 30 before catching star u in olivine city at night and evolving the other eevee into umbreon right after i do admit that pickup has been op during this time since i haven't had to train anything past level 25 before being able to use them so after evolving voltorp into electrode at level 30 and evolving coughing into wheezing at level 35 it's time to wait two weeks for the rest of the water stones and with that i'm able to get cloister and starmie getting us to 139 pokemon and a time of 170 hours and 20 minutes so yeah thanks pick up in higher level wild pokemon fun fact both pre-badge 4 in both pokemon platinum and heart gold soul silver is 139 pokemon for some reason i'm sure that's not intentional but that's really consistent game design which is great so this is where some screwy stuff happens i actually transferred all of my data over to a new pc since my old one was relatively prone to crashing hence why most of my older videos had some sections of missing footage sadly though this resulted me in losing my save file somehow i don't know how it just happened so i had to re-two the entirety of the challenge up to this point frustrating to be sure but i used speed up to catch back up to where i was since there's no way i was going to deal with it again and since i had the experience of a few other pocs by that point i was able to reduce my time dramatically using a couple of new strats first of all i only did grinding at night for ghastly reducing my time from 65 hours in the first section all the way down to 42 using some better switch training strategies for those pokemon that didn't have anything but normal type moves prebadge 2 was pretty similar however i only trained one ambi palm to level 41 and the other three went to 31 and i made sure to grind exclusively using headbutt pokemon making my average exp yield more than double thanks to the wild butterfree and knock towel in the ilex forest as opposed to grinding in the union cave like i did originally lastly i grabbed gina's number but didn't continue until i got all the stones i needed for this action since on the same route you can get lyra's number therefore clogging up who can call you making it much slower than if you just backtracked to azalea town and save scum for calls to save in game time allen only had to call me once so that wasn't a problem and my rare candy distribution was better being able to candy up dragon air from the early 30s all the way up to 55 and saving the rest of them for later on overall i'm much happier with this redone portion of the run though i wish i didn't have to waste the time to do it i ended up landing at morty with a time of 119 hours and 34 minutes saving a ton of time thanks to new strategies and more knowledge of how pocs could be handled anyway back to your regularly scheduled poc now that i have the fog badge from morty i can use surf outside of battle so i went back to olivine city and over to route 41 where i'm able to capture mantine but only in heartgold soulsilver gets nothing here other than that there's nothing to do aside from getting to cnwood city where we can get a gift shuckle and chase off suicune to the next location we'll be getting him much later on trust me and now it's time for another large divergence from the original gold and silver and that's the cave leading to route 47 a completely new area for heart golden soul silver there's a few new areas here along with some pokemon you wouldn't catch in the originals such as steelix and mistreavus in the cliff cave and if you go down the ladder and outside you can find seal by surfing in the water last one before the safari zone on route 48 i found diglett leaving just the safari zone and one other pokemon fortunately this area isn't dreadful yet until the post game due to not having the national decks but i don't have the area changer unlocked yet so i'm only able to capture from the original six areas laid out so larvitar and licottan were in the mountain area grimer while surfing in the marshland area smurgle in the plains area kangaskhan in the wasteland area during the day and rye horn in the savannah area during the day from here i just did a bit of grinding starting off with larvitar and seal getting them to a high enough level to challenge all the trainers in this section moving sweeken to the next location again and even taking out the team rocket event in mahogany town just to burn time evolving larvitar into pupitar at level 30 before bauba called me to get the area changer this gave me access to the rest of the safari zone area so i swapped them out capturing cubone in the desert during the day doduo in the grass and lapras while surfing on the rocky beach jigglypuff and murkrow in the swamp mr mime during the day in the forest golduck and psyduck in the wetlands grass at night the ferry in the meadow at night and wobba fett in the peak area at night and with that we only have one more pokemon to capture with this section but we have to backtrack all the way back to the ruins of alf taking the path through union cave to access the grass capturing a not to to finish up the captures for the section by this point though i've already ran out of trainers to battle since i ran through all of them with pupitar and seal however the grass right outside of safari zone on route 48 has some great things to train against such as tauros which can yield around 600 exp per fight along with other evolved pokemon like firo and higher than normal exp yields from the likes of diglett this made grinding a breeze and matched with my leftover rare candies that i made sure to save for pupitar and ryhorn to make this section shorter and went relatively well especially when i made sure to backtrack to mr pokemon's house to get the exp share in exchange of the red scale making grinding those that didn't have very good attacks or no attacks at all aka not to really easy overall i evolved seal into dugong at level 34 the fairy into clefable with a moonstone jigglypuff into wigglytuff also with a moonstone not too and desatu at level 25. pipitar and tyranitar at level 55 diglett into doug trio at level 26 rhyhorn into rydon at level 42 grimer in the muck at level 38 lick a tongue into licky licky at level 30 while knowing rollout doduo into dodrio at level 31 and cubone into marowak at level 28. lastly we have to make sure to breed clefable and wigglytuff in order to get klepha and iglebuff respectively and this gives us a total of 176 pokemon and the most i can have with four badges so from here we can either fight chuck jasmine or price at this point but we're going to want to fight price to get access to whirlpool outside of battle so i saved in front of him with a time of 133 hours and 52 minutes not a bad section at all only a bit over 14 hours after crushing price's team and putting them in my glass of water to get a nice refreshing beverage that's nice i made sure to head over to the whirl islands since there's only two pokemon available in the section those being horsey and after grinding it up a few levels over in the cliff cave next to cnwood city since there's a ton of onyx and steelix to take on amongst other things getting me a seizure at level 32 giving me a total of 178 pokemon and the most i can have with only 5 batches with this section done though i have to fight both chuck and jasmine since i can't move past mahogany town unless i beat them and take out the rocket event in the radio tower unfortunately having to waste the experience from them rather than to be able to fight them all with the pokemon that i'll be catching from this section good thing this section is pretty short though once i'm able to move past mahogany i moved on over to route 44 where i made sure to capture reverade by fishing and using the trainers on the round to level it up to level 25 evolving it into artillery right before catching tangela there's nothing left on this route so the next place on the agenda is the ice path where i'm able to capture jinx swine up grabbing the hm for waterfall and if you're playing soul silver you'll grab a deli bird i hate that thing moving on there's no trainers in here so i just moseyed my way on out to blackthorne city getting straight into the gym since i want that precious gym trainer exp to level up tangela unfortunately nothing evolves in here due to a lack of trainers but there is one more place for me to catch pokemon and to grind it that being route 45. here i'm able to capture a gligar and fan p though soul silver players will be getting teddy ursa and skarmory instead and lucky you you don't have to deal with getting a razor fang for gligar later on in this game the torture that i put myself through for you guys anyway i made sure to have a flying pokemon at my party and i just kept going through route 45 fighting all of the trainers i could barely missing tangela's evolution by about a level so i brought it up to level 32 giving it a rare candy to evolve into tang growth at level 33 while knowing ancient power the last two pokemon to grind are phan p and swina so i put both of my party and just used the exp share for the less competent one which tended to be swine-up most of the time due to getting ko'd by the gravelers on the route since it really wasn't strong enough to hit for massive damage either way after about an hour and 40 minutes fan p evolved into don fan at level 25 swine up in a pile of swine at level 33 and with a heart scale that i got from pickup i went to the move relearner to teach pilot's wine ancient power evolving it in one level into mammo swine that's all the grinding however there's still one more pokemon in this section putting jinx in the daycare with ditto will result in an egg and once hatched i'm able to add smoochum to the total giving me a time of 138 hours and 31 minutes with a total of 190 pokemon the most you can have with seven batches now technically you could have given me slack and allowed me to fight claire for exp due to her not actually giving you the badge until you complete the quiz in the dragon's den but i'd figure i'd keep it simple since this is a special case only a few more pokemon until i can challenge the elite four so let's take care of them professor ellen called me and decided to give me a master ball which i'm sure will be handy in the future though it doesn't seem like anyone's looking good in here is everybody alright you look disfigured however now that we have access to waterfall i'm able to travel into mount mortar and into the back of the cave to find a black belt who gives me a tie rod fortunately i got a neutral nature on my first try so it'll be easy to evolve so i just grinded it up into hitmontop at level 20 since i can't breed it until it's evolved two more eggs later and we've got the rest of the tie rogues we need for its evolutions however it's gonna be a little bit of a pain to get these in the current state so i went to the goldenrod department store and grabbed myself a few proteins and irons so that after grinding i could evolve my tie rogues into hitmonlee with higher attack at level 20 and into hitmonchan with higher defense also at level 20. i use the kimono girls as well as route 45 again for those since being only evolving at level 20 it really wasn't that big of a deal all right one more thing in jodo before i'm able to take my first steps into kanto in this challenge now that i have both the rainbow wing and the clear bell it's time to go up into the bell tower and challenge hello ho's actually quite a powerful pokemon hence why i brought along raikou in an attempt to paralyze the first thing which i managed to do on the first go-around but of course i got a critical hit on the second attack whoopsie second round went much better though getting plenty of damage off though my attempt to put it to sleep with haunter didn't work so i just started chucking balls somehow getting it in within five balls dang i didn't expect it to go that well hopefully that luck stays throughout the rest of the run after stuffing the big bird in my pc i'm able to head back to new bark town and surf to the right to arrive in kanto or i am able to capture the last pokemon of this section ponyta and guess what there's just enough trainers between here and victory road for ponyta to get very close to evolving so i went in and got it to level 38 using my last two rare candies to get it to level 40 and evolve it into rapidash one rival battle later and it's time to fight the elite four with a total of 197 pokemon and the most you can have before the post game i also got to this point in 141 hours flat so i'm quite happy with that the elite four fell like flies finally allowing me to clean the rightful title of champion and now it's time for the post game oh lord the post game so in short this section has over 150 new pokemon for me to capture ranging from the safari zone hohen and cinno sound swarms and just new pokemon that are around kanto i'm gonna try to be brief as to not keep you for over an hour but it's still gonna be a lot so strap in after getting the ss ticket to allow me to get to vermilion city i boarded the ship getting a call from bauba about object placement in the safari zone i'm gonna attempt to explain this the best that i can but it's quite an ordeal when you rearrange the areas of the safari zone for every 10 days that an area is active as one of the six areas place it will get leveled up by one of its attributes those being peak forest waterside and plains once an object's placed it'll give one point to that attribute but when an area levels up it'll multiply said effect such as if i left an area here for 10 days the plane's attribute would hit level 2 then 20 days would do the same for forest then peak with 30 40 with waterside and so on until everything hits level 4 at 130 days fortunately we don't need 130 days to get everything unfortunately we still need 100 days to get a certain pokemon in the rocky beach this is why i wanted to start this as early as possible since i can do literally everything else in the game including swarms owen and cino sound battlefrontier bp for glygar and in the future sneezel anything aside from this so i started off making sure that the rocky beach wetland and meadow were set up since they'll need to be here for the longest amount of time 100 days and 70 for the wetland and meadows the other three areas are what i'm going to be switching out so that i can get everything else within that 100 day period so i placed the peak savannah and wasteland to start off since we can get some stuff on the first day with objects another thing though is that we can't get every object instantly and with my luck i only started off with the forest objects allowing me to only capture nuzleaf in the meadows with 28 forest objects manectric in the rocky beach with 10 forest objects badou in the rocky beach with 18 forest objects and pajarisu in the wetland with eight forest objects after withdrawing nuzleaf and monectric from the pc i evolved nuzleaf into shiftery with a leaf stone that i managed to get from a call from gina about earlier during an earlier section bypassing the need for grinding points in the poke athlon as well as breeding both it and monetric so that i could hatch cdot and electric respectively with that out of the way i grabbed badoo since it evolves by happiness and flew back over to kanto seeing that one of the swarms activated this changes every day but if you tune into pokemon talk on the poke gear you'll be able to learn what pokemon is swarming in a specific area and this time it just so happens to be located in the viridian forest i can't quite get over there yet thanks to the blockage of snorlax in front of the diglett's cave so i went over to cerulean city to head east towards route 9 eventually landing in front of the power plant where i made sure to catch electabuzz before getting the machine part back which completes the side quests and allows me to get the expansion card in lavender town so that i can get the pokey flute channel and wake up and capture snorlax opening up diglett's cave and pushing me over to route 2 where i can easily access the viridian forest in order to capture pikachu and krikatot thanks to the swarm i'm going to compile the swarms at the end of the section for ease just know that i'm looking out for them during each day that i'm waiting on the safari zone and completing other tasks i went north to pewter to grab the silver wing from a random old man who has it for some reason opening up a legendary for us to catch but i'm gonna hold off for a bit instead i opted to go to celadon city since it's time for some more voltorb flip i need 9 999 coins for porygon which only took a few rounds since i love this game and i wish they'd bring it back and i'm good at it i grabbed the porygon and moved out going back to pewter and opening up both pallet and cinnabar for flying but most importantly heading to the seafoan islands to capture one thing on the way though i made sure to grab the water stone here since i don't want to have to grind for it in the pokeathlon also i guess red canonically skipped out on catching the legendary birds allowing me to snag articuno in about 10 minutes i figure with one legendary down we may as well grab the other for the section so i headed over to the whirl islands and into the deepest chamber to encounter lugia after a few resets since it's quite a high level for what i have i managed to catch it in about 20 ultra balls since i'm in jodo right now i figured i could go to the ruins of valve and use rock smash since here i can get an old amber and in heart gold a helix fossil you'd get the dome fossil in soul silver and then over in cliff cave i can get the claw fossil or root fossil and soul silver bringing them back to pewter city allows me to revive them into aerodactyl ammonite and anarith respectively there's also a few random wild pokemon that are here in kanto that i can't get anywhere else so i made sure to go around the region and get them those being houndour on route 7 and chansey on route 15. jancy can be a pain to encounter so i recommend grabbing graveler from your pc and using it to repel trick it out during that search i got another call from bauba letting me know that i have more objects available this time giving me more useless objects but i also got the peak objects giving me more pokemon to capture including aron on the rocky beach with 24 peak objects and skorupi in the wasteland with 28 peak objects i actually had a few rare candies lying around thanks to pickup managing to use three of them to evolve around the delayron and into agron as well as skirupy into drapion i figure now would be a good time to do a bit of breeding as well since i need two more types of objects from balba so i made sure to breed pikachu and electabuzz so i could get pichu and elekid respectively there's also quite a few stones that we need to get for this section aside from the extra leaf stone i got i need a dawn stone thunderstone two dusk stones and two shiny stones for the rest of the challenge and with everything aside from the thunderstone costing three thousand points rather than just 2500 i needed to get to work i'm just going to recommend now going through the power course using nitto king nidoqueen and entei to get quick and easy points is the best option since it's pretty easy to rack up between 500 and 600 points every round making it go by quite quickly i got the dawn and dusk stones on the first go-around using the dusk stone to evolve mischievous into miss maggias but i still need another one for mercro sadly though again pokeathon only allows you to get one item per day so i can't get it right now however once i came back to the game the thunder dusk and shiny stones were all there so i did another chunk of grinding got all of them evolving together into togekiss with the shiny stone murkrow and honcho at the dusk stone and pikachu into raichu with the thunderstone perfect time to move on for the time being since i can't get the last shiny stone until later i figured balba's going to call again soon so i grabbed a few pokemon to grind and flew back to the safari zone grinding krikatot in the grass on route 48 for a few minutes to evolve into sure enough i came back and got the water side objects which allowed me to capture core fish while fishing in the rocky beach with 15 water objects and a zero in the savannah with five water objects only one more to wait for so i decided since it was sunday i'd go do the bug catching contest since there's a lot of new pokemon that i can get now that i have the national decks they're split up over the course of sunday and thursday so on sunday i could only capture wormpole cascoon beauty fly and ninkata i kept ninkata since it was the only one where its evolutions aren't catchable before i leveled it up though i made sure that i had a singular pokeball in my inventory since i know in this generation you can only get shidinja if it's specifically a pokeball nothing else so after leveling it up once ninkata evolved into ninjask and split off into shitnja i have enough stuff to grind up to a pretty high level right now so i made sure i grabbed a few pokemon and just started running around kanto hanging out every trainer in sight including the gym trainers from several gyms allowing me to get hound hour into hound doom at level 24 and ammonite and almost are at level 40. at this point i got the last call i needed from baba getting the last few objects for the safari zone those being the plane's objects so it's time to catch the last few pokemon of the safari zone for the time being lambre can be found in the wetland with 14 planes objects as can surskit with only six fly noon in the peak with five planes objects xangoose also in the peak with 12 planes objects zigzagoon in the savannah with 10 planes objects and luxio also in the savannah with 24 planes objects not bad now to wait 20 days to get an extra single pokemon actually it's breeding time after evolving lambre into looty colo with the water stone i got from the seafoam islands i bred it as well as luxio so that i could hatch both a low tad and shinks i also realized that i completely forgot to go around the region to find rare candies that are either hidden or unobtainable without certain hms so i grabbed one in violet city in order to evolve luxio into luxray and the one on route 34 to evolve cersket into masquerade there's not really much left for me to do that isn't reliant on time but one of those things is headbutt trees the first of which is on route 2 south of pewter city where i'm able to grab starley you can also grab wormpole here if you want to try to evolve it but i'd much rather leave it for the budge catching contest i decided to just run over to route 25 rather than flying taking out the trainers on route 3 evolving starly into star avia at level 14 and fighting my rival in mount moon for the final time taking out his gengar with my star avia barely missing the evolution so i just fought one more person on route 4 to evolve it into star after at level 34. route 25 is next where i'm able to get myself a slack off as well as a female combi i also got misty to go back to her gym so i took down her gem trainers and continued running around with anoreth and slackoff evolving anarath on the cycling road into armaldo at level 40 and slack off into videroth at level 18. lastly over in viridian forest i am able to get a shroomish finishing off the headbutt trees for this action i continued south evolving vigoroth into slacking at level 36 on route 21 as well as combi into vespiquen at level 21. i also tried my friendship evolutions here managing to evolve chansey and dublissie though badou won't evolve unless this day time so i held out on it i continued on to route 20 leveling up shroomish to evolve into bray loom at level 23. with all those out of the way i flew to vermilion city to grab the luck incense since we needed to breed blissy eventually hatching a happiness to finish off the evolution chain all right i guess we need to get this one out of the way it's time for the battle frontier i need 96 bp to get both a razor claw and a razer fang for the challenge since we'll be getting sneezel in the last section of the challenge so he may as well just get everything now i decided that the battle hall was going to be the fastest place to get bp every battle is a one-on-one battle and 10 battles gets you one bp to start out going up slowly as you pass through though it starts going up quite a bit once you get the silver print from the frontier brain with a streak of 50 wins i brought dragonite along since i figured even though it's quad weak to ice types i'm able to take them out since they're pretty frail and dragon types just went down immediately anyway due to without speeding and that it didn't matter i also had surf for round rock and fire types as well as return for anything else that i needed to hit for neutral damage admittedly i should have put something like fly on it so that in case i ran into a shed ninja i wouldn't just die immediately which did happen once to me i failed a few times on the silver print battle but the first time i got past it i managed to get all the way to the gold print and win giving me more than enough bp to get both items into progress i'll admit i never won a gold print from a battlefront tier in this game so it was kind of stressful to me so i'm glad i finally managed to do it there's also yet another legendary for me to get during this section so i grabbed gligar and finished the copycat side quest giving me access to steven who tells me that ladios is roaming around i used routes 24 and 25 to go back and forth managing to find lanias within about 10 minutes using the repel trick using the master ball on it since it's the last roaming legendary of the challenge tired of this section yet well let's speed it up then i booted the game back up on thursday giving me access to another bug catching contest so i went there and captured dustox silcoon and volbeat and since it's thursday i can also access the cino sound on the poke gear if you tune into pokemon music on thursdays they'll be playing cino sound therefore attracting new wild pokemon in certain areas the downside is is that you have to turn it on after every battle but you'll usually get them to encounter you pretty quickly so it's not that big of a deal with this i'm able to get meta type and chat out from the burn tower weasel and beethoof on route 25 bronzor and chingling in the victory road and carnivine in the ilex forest they're all available in a wide variety of areas i just chose the most accessible places that had the highest levels for stuff that needed to evolve alright time to start grouping things together for my sake or else this is going to go on forever the first of which i'll be going over are the swarms over the 100 days of waiting for the safari zone i managed to capture pucciana on route 1 sable eye on route 9 you get maw while in seoul silver wing goal in vermilion city venery on route 25 swablu on route 45 2 ralts on route 34 one of which being male whiscash while fishing with the super rod in violet city love disc on route 27 relicanth on route 12 planned pearl on route 19 and baltoy on route 3 or goal pin if you were playing soul silver next up are the hoen sound encounters which can only be found on wednesday through using the same radio station as the cinno sound allowing me to capture spenda and the burn tower wismer on route 45 makahita and apps all on the victory road plussel and mindin on route 46 and numel and spoink in the ilex forest last catches on the docket for the section are the remaining safari zone encounters after 20 days i can get cacturned in the savannah with 18 forest objects in 30 i can get tork hole in the savannah with 18 peak objects and swap it for the forest area as well as getting soul rock in the wasteland area with 21 peak objects swapping that for the marshland and 18 peak objects in the meadow gets me nose pass at 40 days i can get spiel at the peak with 18 water objects swapping it for the desert where i can capture hippopotas with 28 peak objects there and some viper in the marshland with 18 planes objects at 60 days i can get vibravo with 25 forest objects in the desert and krogunk with 21 forest objects in the marshland at 70 days i can get bayonet with 25 peak objects in the marshland shell gone with 21 peak objects in the wetland riolu with 10 forest and 14 peak objects in the meadow beldon with 21 peak objects in the forest swapping it for the swamp where i can find dust coal with 28 peak objects switching it out again for the mountain to find lunatone with 15 peak objects last but certainly not least at 100 days at the rocky beach with 13 planes and 17 peak objects i can finally get gibble finishing off the safari zone and the hardest part of the run breeding everything that i've caught so far that i need to resulted in me hatching barboach cacnia and trap inch leaving just the grinding i just ran everything through the elite four over and over again having dragonite and lugia take hits as i switch train them with the exp share so that they get 75 exp rather than just 50 percent evolving badu into roselia with happiness during the daytime and into rosarite with the shiny stone that i grinded for during the waiting of the safari zone corefish in a crawdad at level 30. feel into celio at level 32 and into wall rain at level 44. by bravo into flygon at level 45. crow gunk into toxic croak at level 37 shell gone into salamance at level 50. riolu in the delucario with happiness during the day time beldum into metang at level 20 and into metagross at level 45. dusk all into dust collapse at level 37 gibble into gabbite at level 24 and into guard chomp at level 48 pucciana into my diana at level 18. wingle and de peliper at level 25 ralts into curlia at level 20 and into gallate with a dawn stone and the other curlia into gardevoir level 30 swablu into arteria at level 35 baltoy into clay doll at level 36 veneri into low punny with max happiness at any time wismer into loud rate at level 20 and in the explode at level 40 new mill into camera up to level 33 spoink into grumpy at level 32 meditate into meta jam at level 37 b doof into b barrel at level 15 weasel into floats at level 26 bronzor into bronzong at level 33 hippopotamus into hip hour on at level 34 makahita into hariyama at level 24. and at night tingling into chimecho with max happiness and gligar in a glass score while holding the razer fang and leveling up with a total of 348 pokemon or 347 in full silver and a time of 181 hours and 43 minutes which by the way the duration of this section was shorter than section one there was just a lot more to talk about it's time to fight misty the only reason we fight misty first is because once we beat her we gain access to catching suicune the only pokemon left before we get the rest of the kanto badges it only took around 15 ultra balls before i managed to snack it leaving the decimation of all the kanto gym leaders and leaving only two more sections for me to complete before we can take on red though there's a few things i have to do first first of which i have to grab the hm for rock climb from professor oak which opens up a few more head butt encounters legendaries and incenses for breeding the first pokemon i went after was zapdos appearing outside of the power plant now that i have all 16 badges after a reset and around 10 ultra balls i managed to catch it i'm now able to access cerulean cave as well and you know what that means mewtwo's here and this thing really doesn't like to stay in a ball taking a reset and 25 ultra balls to capture it leaving just moltres it's housed in mount silver so i traveled over making the area available to fly to as well as going in and catching moltres within literally a single ultra ball well that's a good way to end the legends off for this section so with that it's time to hunt for the headbutt pokemon the first of which is in cherry grove city where i can surf off at the beach and use rock climb to get taylo the national park has another rock climb spot where i'm able to get to ruby lastly route 39 has a rock climb spot leading to route 38 and allowing me to catch a female and male burme since they evolve into different pokemon afterwards i made sure to go around the regions to grab the incenses required for all of the breeding for this section since all of them require rock climb to get after giving everything the appropriate incenses and biking around like crazy i hatched why not bonsley munchlax man's hike and mime junior leaving just the grinding again i did the same thing as the last section running through the elite four with the same exp share strategy in order to evolve taylor into swellow at level 22 female burme into moth him at level 20 male burme into wormadam at level 20 and cherubi into cherub at level 25. with that i waited until night time so i could capture a sneezel on the outside of mount silver using a single rare candy to evolve into wii vile while holding the razor claw and with a time of 184 hours and 48 minutes i am able to battle red basically sweeping him with dragonite and mewtwo leaving just one more section of the challenge after beating red i'm able to travel back to oak's lab to get a kanto starter and if you're familiar with the levels of evolution for them you'll know that bulbasaur is the correct choice in a poc environment the second starter we can get is over in saffron city in the silf company building i can talk to steven and get a hoens starter they all evolve at the same level and since i chose totodile and bulbasaur i figured i'd take torchic in order to create balances all things should be oh yeah and for some reason mr pokemon is the blue orb in his little cabinet which i brought over to route 47 surfing and rock climbing over into the embedded tower where i'm able to catch kyogre groudon's here in seoul silver but i remember when i played this for the first time that i thought this was insanely sick it only took 15 ultra balls leaving just the starters to grind and then two run-throughs of the elite four i evolved bulbasaur into ivysaur at level 16 and into venusaur at level 32 and torchic into combustion at level 16 and into blaze again at level 36. finally with a time of 186 hours and 40 minutes and a total of 373 pokemon this is the most you can catch in a single copy of pokemon heart gold or 371 in soul silver due to the lack of mantine and man tike we could technically get 21 more pokemon through the pokewalker but again i consider it a separate game good lord it's finally done i'm sure if you've been watching this channel within the past year you've at least heard the hgss poc1 meme at least once and you know what the meme dies here it dies here with a great run a great video and a first ever completion of the heartgold professor oaks challenge according to the leaderboard that's pinned in the professor oak challenge discord server link in the description however i definitely think this could have been done better first of all the organization of it all especially in pre-badge nine with all of the safari zone hoen and cino sound and everything else it could have been done a few hours faster if i just made sure to do everything in groups rather than jumping back and forth because of boredom since i'll admit this challenge did get boring at times most of those times were during the line grinds in the pokeathlon wild encounters in section 1 and the battlefrontier but it's worth it since this finally completes the trifecta of remake so far and you guys know once the dominant pearl remakes come out that i'll be doing an oak challenge of those as well but next week i'm going to leave it a mystery since i don't even know what challenge i'm doing just yet but i'll make sure you guys enjoy it see you guys then thank you guys so much for watching the video seriously this one geez was over a year since i started working on it admittedly i could have probably finished it a bit earlier but i'm quite happy i waited and made 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Length: 57min 59sec (3479 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 15 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/ChaoticMeatball]

I am SO happy I don't have to play this game anymore, but I hope this video guide will help other people navigate through the semi-charted waters of HGSS. I'm just not looking forward to USUM or B2W2 lol

[u/daethstrok3]

I’m so happy you hung with it. I’ve been looking forward to this video. Thanks!

[u/DukeSR8]

What's next? You staying in Johto for Crystal or hopping off to another region?

[u/Falcorsucks]

I've been waiting for this video, it's something to take my mind off of my horrible fucking life