Hey there! I'm starting to use my Twitter account a lot more now, so follow me @JohnstoneYT to possibly see parts of my videos before I upload them. I also have a Discord server, so if you haven't joined already, it's in the description. Have a great day! :)
What about the ribbon for cleansing shadow pokemon? Shouldn't your pokemon have that or did you not purify that specific one. I remember the shadow version of him in that game.
Hey Johnstone, I made the "hall of fame" spreadsheet for the ribbonmaster subreddit and it'd be very cool if you'd add your forretress to it! docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vRZ9E6e28DnCOTiZdRcaa7xLsEe6vcWrEWmQlc_mYtOzmZ1jt-sGtILDC7nWRooZm115Xs6ohHw7i8C/pubhtml# Let me know if this is something that would interest you and I can send the form to get it added.
Honestly, this is weirdly wholesome. Like, this Pokemon used to be a Shadow Pokemon, and now it’s a champion in every region, a master of contests, a master of battling, and it’s an extremely accomplished pokemon in every way. Which is super awesome.
Yep, which is why I’m doing the same thing with a Ralts I caught in XD. It’s also a male, so I plan on evolving it into Gallade once I’m ready to transfer it to Gen. 4.
@@Laserbeak316 Same! 😁 And funny thing about mine, it has a Jolly nature even though I wasn’t trying for it. (TBF, this was before I understood natures, but still.) All of that happened a long time ago, shortly after the release of XD. What a long way we’ve come.
I like to imagine Red from Pokemon Ultra Moon screamed and shouted "IT'S YOU! THE FORTRESS WHO TOOK ME OUT YEARS AGO! HOW DID YOU GET HERE?" Even though he doesn't talk.
Now I'm disappointed the game doesn't detect if a Pokemon has the old ribbon and make Red react in some way. Obviously not by saying something, but just having him react differently would be an amazing detail.
@@Abdega Here's mockturne's whole post! imgur.com/a/Cc20H It's a good read if you guys are interested. I've known Ribbon Masters to take as short as a month, and as long as multiple years. It just depends on how long you have to spend on it and how much of the setup you have to do. Once you do one Ribbon Master, it's much easier to go through it with other Pokemon.
Fortress at the end be like: "I've seen things...you people would not belive. Charizards on fire of the shoulder of Red. I watched shiny pokémon glitter in the dark near the Contest Halls. All those moments will be lost in time, like full restores on a battle againts Cynthia. Time to Self-Destruct."
What an interesting idea, always wondered about what it would be like to actually collect all the ribbons. Thank goodness I didn't have to be the one to do it!
Hey! I'm the head of PokemonRibbons. Thank you so much for doing a video on this topic. If there is anything we can do to help you or one of your viewers with the journey of getting ribbons, feel free to ask us.
@@thomasc9248 The Wifi ribbon does not require others to be online. All you have to do is go there and fight the AI that has teams based on the last seven people to beat the Wifi tower. For every seven win streak you get a rank up, and if you lose, you just go down one rank. It's worth noting that you will not have to start over, unlike all the other Tower ventures. You repeat that until you reach rank five and you get the ribbon.
@@thomasc9248 thanks to the fan servers, you can actually do the ribbons again! The way that the Wifi Tower works, you play singles 3v3 matches against other people's teams that they have uploaded to the servers. As long as you have access to public wifi or a WEP protected router, you can now access the Wifi Tower in its entirety. Here's a link explaining how to connect the fanmade wifi connection: www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/a1xc5q/complete_guide_for_setting_up_wifi_in_gens_4_and_5/ Here's the link to our subreddit's discord if you were interested in building the best teams/explaining how it works: discordapp.com/invite/ryMnmpW
@@saltmine_snake1487 considering there is an in-game term for Pokemon that are Legendary, which separates them from other Pokemon (not including the subset of Mythical), and there's 0 sign of your comment not being a straight forward remark in light of Gamefreak's ridiculousness, you might need to explain the joke I indeed missed. Unless r/whoosh is the default response to any response now.
John: "I'm going to use a pokemon that doesn't receive a lot of love" *shows Forretress* Me: *looks at the pitiful creature squirming at my feet* "Don't worry dear Dunsparce, I'll always be here for you..."
these days i feel like i'm one of the very few people who genuinely enjoyed contests. i guess i just liked the break from the utter monotony that is constant battles. seriously though, i spent hours making the perfect pokeblocks and poffins for my pokemon
Any tips for getting Pokeblock in gen 3 without the clock running to be good enough to win all gen 4 contests as well as 3? Right now fighting a losing battle with all gen 4 master ranks so may need to start over.
Same, I was so excited to get Omega Ruby so that I could do contests again because they are so fun. Beautifly actually made it into my top Pokémon because of how good it is in the Smart category
They really should've done something for that, even if it's extremely minor. Some acknowledgement that you brought a Pokemon all the way around like that.
I feel bad for you for doing this. When you finished XY I breathed a sigh of relief that there was just 1 game left, but when you said ORAS I felt real dread because I forgot it existed.
When I looked at your comment it's a Yu-Gi-Oh joke about the DRAw Monsta cardo scene, however when I look at the reply it turns into a proper Pokemon comment
This thing went from a Shadow Pineco experimented on by Cipher, with the door to its heart closed, to some rock with 85 ribbons stuck on it I can’t tell which is a worse fate
Man, I always loved Forretress. I also really appreciate you helping smaller, underrated communities get the attention they definitely deserve. Much love, keep it up m8
"it's a rock with eyes, so I can already tell you we're going to have trouble in the competitions where you have to be cool, beautiful, cute, smart, tough, yeah not too sure it's really good at anything here" ... come on dude ; _ ; this is her chance to show everyone she's not just a useless rock with eyes and you shit on her. you should be showing everyone that it was a MISTAKE to UNDERESTIMATE her ♥
Could someone please figure out how many Pokémon can have a specific amount of ribbons for example how many Pokémon can only get 1 ribbon up to this point and how many Pokémon can get 85 Ribbons at this point
I absolutely love the idea of collecting all the ribbon. This has to be one of my favorite Pokémon videos. Great job, I hope one day I could possibly do this with one Pokémon of mine as well.
Okay! Now get every single varietion of spinda with EVERY single ribbons, natures,shinies, OT,names, balls, genders,IVs, Evs,levels,items, IDs,and moves? How bout that? Also, for every single Pokemon(if you REALLY wish to lose your mind.No though seriously can someone please do the math for this?)
@@halfway7690 there is 4,294,967,295 patterns,divided by 30(number of mons in a box pretty sure) is 143,165,577 ,so ain't gonna fit only 32 boxes atm,unless you put each pattern in each box in each game (RSE and above) which I think is possible
Hey man, I completely know what you went through, I got a shiny modest Ghastly recently in Emerald and I decided to make it literally perfect, it has been IV and EV trained, has every ribbon you can get from Emerald onwards and has max stats in every contest
Years after this video dropped, every time I hear discussion about Pokemon Contests I still think about your Forretress prancing around on stage and using Explosion and the judges being like "Wow, that was beautiful!" after watching a rock bug knock itself out. It's cool to let Pokemon do something in the games besides battling, but the mental image is hilarious.
I love Pokémon Contests! They have more depth than a lot of people give them credit for. They can be difficult, and fun. Gen 4 did well with contests, expanding on what was already established. I will say that the contests that ORAS has are much worse and too easy compared to gen 3 and gen 4. I hope that the gen 4 remakes do justice to how fun contests can be.
I loved gen 4 contests as a kid. I loved playing dress up games, so dressing up my pokémon was so fun. While gen 4 is probably my least favourite gen, if they implement contests with the dressing up portion again, that’ll probably be my incentive to buy it. PS: it was annoying to see people complain about no gen 4 remakes when Pokémon was on the 3ds. Now that it’s on the Switch it’s a sure thing, but you could have just played the originals on the same system they’d have been remade on!
Oras made me love contests even to go as far as to legit collect the master ribbon on 81 competitive pokemon. So I appreciate it for that atleast even though you are right and they are by far the easiest.
Me: **Loves Achievements,** **Loves Pokemon,** *_*Literally NEVER put two and two together and tried to get ribbons for my favorite pokemon, before.*_* ........well, damn. I guess I have a new pursuit, now! :D
My boy Forretress finally getting some appreciation, I'm so happy to see this. I really liked this video, it was a unique idea! I don't own all the stuff to pull this off which sucks but, this was a really fun video to watch!
FORRETRESS IS IN SCARLET/VIOLET, and there are 3 new ribbons to collect (one being inaccessible due to needing to surprise trade for it). I really hope you make a video continuing this through the new additions, the twinkling star ribbon from bdsp, the hisuian ribbon from taking a picture with the pokemon and the championship ribbon in scarlet/violet (excluding the rare surprise trade ribbon).
@@rizekcajk3410 Sadly the surprise trade ribbon is only accesible through online surprise trade, don't think you can do it locally, from what i've understood
ngl wonder trading with yourself only feels possible in the gen 6 games with how few ppl are playing rn, ive wonder traded on 2 3ds's multiple times and if i start the wonder trade at the same time i just trade myself lol
I love how these ribbons are being the display case of your Pokemon's achievements. I hope that in Sword and Shield we can achieve all the older ribbons as well, since there is no back and forth trading; once that ribbon Pokemon is in Ultra Sun, there's no going back to Red or what not.
John-Stone you have earned the subscriber ribbon from me, Goddamn ! So much hard work for a video, It's happy to know SwSh awards you by the huge amount of titles you get through the Ribbons Great video and I'm off going to go follow all your accounts :D
Outstanding. I didn't think that anyone would have any interests in attaining ribbons. But you definitely done it, so glad you made this video to showcase it.
"Because you have to face Red" I love how Red is the ONE opponent everyone dreads facing in these games. Like, he's the one NPC trainer that always wrecks the player on the first attempt. XD
Am I the only one who loves the concept of a Shadow Pokemon slowly having its heart opened again, and then going around the world collecting incredible achievements to thank the trainer who saved it from Team Cipher? This is a true zero to hero story if ever I saw one.
Hey just wanted to say I've become a huge fan of your videos! Love the production quality, and you've definitely inspired me to chase down and beat all the challenges from the old games I never beat. Thanks for the inspiration!
Love this video. Not only do I concur that ribbons are super underrated, but I also was curious about this myself. Obviously with victini being my favorite I wanted to get as many ribbons on my first ever OT victini. Unfortunately I cannot get anywhere near this many with it, for multiple reasons.
I'd like to try this with the Heal Bell Articuno you can get in XD some day. Gonna be a bit of a nightmare though, since it has a very poor typing and can't be leveled up at all before getting the level 50 battle tower ribbon without getting locked out of it.
Thank you for this video. I was researching ribbons in past games and I found this video, very helpful. Now I can get my favorite pokemon Absol with all these ribbons
I'm currently the process of making my own Ribbon Masters. It's a Shiny Togetic from Colosseum (now Togekiss) Edit: I'm done, took me 3 years. Though I noticed a few things wrong in the video -The challenge is actually called the Ribbon Master challenge -It's easier to go after the Battle Tower right after purifying -Wrong. Platinum doesn't have exclusive Ribbons. All Ribbon found in Platinum can be found in Diamond and Pearl. -The World Ability Ribbon doesn't require more than one player. -Technically if you are collecting the Leaf Crown you can also consider collecting the Pokeathlon Medals. -Collecting Ribbons in Gen 6 is a lot easier to do in ORAS. (excluding the Champion Ribbon found in X and Y) -You didn't recommend Bottle Caps as they are pretty useful.
The shiny leaf thing is interesting because bulbapedia says it doesn’t transfer to future generations, making its acquisition irrelevant. I guess the idea is to be able to say that - you got it - on your pokémon, along with all the ribbons, even though you can’t physically show it after transferring to gen V.
Hey there! I'm starting to use my Twitter account a lot more now, so follow me @JohnstoneYT to possibly see parts of my videos before I upload them. I also have a Discord server, so if you haven't joined already, it's in the description. Have a great day! :)
Johnstone gen 5 catch em all 24hours!!!
Just followed 👌🏾👍🏽
Haha fancy trading me that fortress?
What about the ribbon for cleansing shadow pokemon? Shouldn't your pokemon have that or did you not purify that specific one. I remember the shadow version of him in that game.
Hey Johnstone, I made the "hall of fame" spreadsheet for the ribbonmaster subreddit and it'd be very cool if you'd add your forretress to it!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vRZ9E6e28DnCOTiZdRcaa7xLsEe6vcWrEWmQlc_mYtOzmZ1jt-sGtILDC7nWRooZm115Xs6ohHw7i8C/pubhtml#
Let me know if this is something that would interest you and I can send the form to get it added.
Honestly, this is weirdly wholesome. Like, this Pokemon used to be a Shadow Pokemon, and now it’s a champion in every region, a master of contests, a master of battling, and it’s an extremely accomplished pokemon in every way. Which is super awesome.
shes also in literally every region’s hall of fame which is crazy
edit: nvm you said that already, i misread
Damn, that Pokémon has completely turned it’s life around for the better. I feel proud for him.
Best glow up ever
Yep, which is why I’m doing the same thing with a Ralts I caught in XD. It’s also a male, so I plan on evolving it into Gallade once I’m ready to transfer it to Gen. 4.
@@Laserbeak316 Same! 😁 And funny thing about mine, it has a Jolly nature even though I wasn’t trying for it. (TBF, this was before I understood natures, but still.) All of that happened a long time ago, shortly after the release of XD. What a long way we’ve come.
"Come on, Forretress! Let's go!"
*You hear a small grumble along with a jingling sound as Forretress slowly rolls towards you.*
He knows he is about to be covered
Too. Many. Ribbons
Lol
Wait, did you ever play on the channel "UA-camPlays"
I like to imagine Red from Pokemon Ultra Moon screamed and shouted "IT'S YOU! THE FORTRESS WHO TOOK ME OUT YEARS AGO! HOW DID YOU GET HERE?" Even though he doesn't talk.
Well there was a ribbon, so the game could of detected it
Now I'm disappointed the game doesn't detect if a Pokemon has the old ribbon and make Red react in some way.
Obviously not by saying something, but just having him react differently would be an amazing detail.
@@mr.kittysavestheworld695 we can dream
I just did that, I laughed so hard I almost fell over
That “…?” tells everything that needs to be said
"Local man turns rock bug into most accomplished Pokemon of all time."
"We are yet unsure of he is from Florida."
"Object class: Keter"
Steel
Hes not rock type
would like but 699
that is the most beautiful, smartest, cutest and toughest Fortress i have ever seen
Is it the coolest? If not, he ain't winning the contest.
Corn
Beans
@@duckxy9012 carrots
AND coolest, don't forget that ;(
Someone actually did this in 2016 with Delibird and posted a guide. They continuously talked about hating themselves
I actually feel pain just thinking about it
How long did it take them?
@@Abdega Here's mockturne's whole post!
imgur.com/a/Cc20H
It's a good read if you guys are interested. I've known Ribbon Masters to take as short as a month, and as long as multiple years. It just depends on how long you have to spend on it and how much of the setup you have to do. Once you do one Ribbon Master, it's much easier to go through it with other Pokemon.
It's very funny if you think about it or i have dark humor
That's the only thing I thought about this whole video, hahaha
Ah yes, I too love BONE DENSITY
A man of culture, I see.
C A L C I U M I N T E S I F I E S
You realize bone is another work for penis right?
@@nathancruz15of Course, anyone does, hell even i do and im denser than a bone
Nvm
I can just imagine a Foretress with 86 ribbons all over his body.... *MENACING*
If you trade it does it evolve because of it's... Metal Coat?
Except that Pokémon was FEMALE
@@farixguardian whoops.. my bad
It's the equivalent of seeing a 7-star general.
Forretress is a girl. We're so proud of her.
“I may continue this trend in the future if Sword and Shield has them”
Sword and Shield: doesn’t have forretress
oof
Forretress: **silently cries in 3DS**
This is why Dexit kinda blows. Pretty much any Pokémon can be important to someone out there.
Yup… it doesn’t have Primeape either, which I wanted to do this for
You do it with glalie
What I've always liked about the ribbons is that you're not just bringing the Pokemon along, you're bringing with them their history.
Facts
Imagine all the things this Forretress has seen! What an interesting life for a little bug ^^
Dradix This comment made me happy
Dradix *Big bug rock with big muscles 17:41
Rock with guns
*bagworm
Wholesome
Can we get fan art of a fortress covered in 85 ribbons
I need to see this
I can try? But I do not know how to share it with you guys
@@plebulus imgur
@@旭球 don't use it
@@plebulus discord + Gyazo?
She goes on about her problems and wants you to give her the best answer possible.
Johnstone: BONE DENSITY
Got a love a man who loves him a good bone
The girl needed a dense bone to resolve her emotional issues.
“I’m George. George McFly. I’m your bone density.”
10:22
“What makes you happy?”
“Bone Density.”
“Ah, another orthopedic doctor of culture I see.”
what can you say, girl like em big
Fortress at the end be like:
"I've seen things...you people would not belive. Charizards on fire of the shoulder of Red. I watched shiny pokémon glitter in the dark near the Contest Halls. All those moments will be lost in time, like full restores on a battle againts Cynthia. Time to Self-Destruct."
Self - Descrut
@@heathc148 you could have warned me sooner y'know.
>Blade Runner reference in a Pokemon video
Based
"Heart Gold and Soul Silver are probably the most underwhelming games..."
*gun cocking*
"...that we have to collect ribbons for."
*leaves gun slowly*
Lol
Same
"ah so it was a joke" she said, tossing aside a large rock
Yeah same
heartgold and soulsilver suck
all the pokemon games suck digimon is where it's at my nigga
What an interesting idea, always wondered about what it would be like to actually collect all the ribbons. Thank goodness I didn't have to be the one to do it!
Jrose11 This challenge is right up your alley hahah. You trying to get every ribbon on a Magikarp?
Jrose11 make a new video lol
Ok
Jrose we are still waiting for you to continue your adventures in sun and moon
@@Desh282 yes
Hey! I'm the head of PokemonRibbons. Thank you so much for doing a video on this topic. If there is anything we can do to help you or one of your viewers with the journey of getting ribbons, feel free to ask us.
Couldnt John used his second ds with completed platinum to complete the WiFi ribbon? Connecting to the same DNS server?
@@thomasc9248 The Wifi ribbon does not require others to be online. All you have to do is go there and fight the AI that has teams based on the last seven people to beat the Wifi tower. For every seven win streak you get a rank up, and if you lose, you just go down one rank. It's worth noting that you will not have to start over, unlike all the other Tower ventures.
You repeat that until you reach rank five and you get the ribbon.
@@thomasc9248 thanks to the fan servers, you can actually do the ribbons again! The way that the Wifi Tower works, you play singles 3v3 matches against other people's teams that they have uploaded to the servers. As long as you have access to public wifi or a WEP protected router, you can now access the Wifi Tower in its entirety.
Here's a link explaining how to connect the fanmade wifi connection:
www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/a1xc5q/complete_guide_for_setting_up_wifi_in_gens_4_and_5/
Here's the link to our subreddit's discord if you were interested in building the best teams/explaining how it works:
discordapp.com/invite/ryMnmpW
Collector Togami Thank you, I appreciate it! I just want to see your subreddit grow, so I’ll send anyone interested your way :)
I had a feeling it was you.
John: “I’m going to show Fortress some love! :)”
Also John: “It’s literally just a rock with eyes it ain’t winning anything”
This dude spent 100 hours with a single pokemon and didnt develop any attachment
John as well: Face it, Forretress. You're just an ugly rock.
He said "some", not lots
"if sword and shield have ribbons"
Implying that Forretress will actually be able to go to sword and shield. Big oof
It's a legendary Pokemon, so hopefully. Either that, or game freak actually allows Pokemon from other dexes.
@@primemeow Forrtress isn't a Legendary. It's an evolution of a Gen 2 Uncommon.
@@DaDMonDCB r/whoosh
DaDMonDCB fortress is basically scizor
@@saltmine_snake1487 considering there is an in-game term for Pokemon that are Legendary, which separates them from other Pokemon (not including the subset of Mythical), and there's 0 sign of your comment not being a straight forward remark in light of Gamefreak's ridiculousness, you might need to explain the joke I indeed missed. Unless r/whoosh is the default response to any response now.
John deserves a trophy for all this content he’s pumping out lately
Devin Burris no he doesn’t
He dissevers a ribbon
Logan Kemp
I was about to say that
more like he deserves a ribbon for it ;D
87 trophies for The Cheat!
John: "I'm going to use a pokemon that doesn't receive a lot of love"
*shows Forretress*
Me: *looks at the pitiful creature squirming at my feet* "Don't worry dear Dunsparce, I'll always be here for you..."
Dunsparce literally has an entire village that is crazy for it, i think that also had a dedicated anime episode.
Not to mention people at least "unironically ironically" love it. They love it cause it's unloved. Where as Fortress....is no where near that loved.
i mean, dunsparce is a shadow pokemon in colosseum, so you could totally get all currently obtainable ribbons on one.
dunsparce is overrated my guy forretress deserves this
Dunsparce is 4’11 not trying ruin the joke, just trivia I guess
these days i feel like i'm one of the very few people who genuinely enjoyed contests. i guess i just liked the break from the utter monotony that is constant battles.
seriously though, i spent hours making the perfect pokeblocks and poffins for my pokemon
Same though I love contests ever since I was a kid so seeing him struggle is hilarious
Any tips for getting Pokeblock in gen 3 without the clock running to be good enough to win all gen 4 contests as well as 3? Right now fighting a losing battle with all gen 4 master ranks so may need to start over.
Same, I was so excited to get Omega Ruby so that I could do contests again because they are so fun. Beautifly actually made it into my top Pokémon because of how good it is in the Smart category
Hhhhaaaaaa my gardeavoir was for beauty cleverness and cuteness
All hail the Rainbow Pokeblock
On Pokemon platinum I used the footstep person and found out my houndoom hated me.
I left it in the pc
OOF 100
Razor Leafy :(
I wouldve took that houndoom with me since I only had diamond ;-;
Nintendo I want a new character with a forretress in the anime that focuses on becoming a contest champion. I'll gladly give you my time and money
Call them John.
@@sirlezard670 John Stone, and he's a relative of Steven Stone because they're both from hoenn.
Going from hoenn to hoenn? Talk about coming full circle
Could've swore that got a ribbon.
But nope, just a diploma.
Yeah, a ribbon would had been a lot better but nope.
Well it's a forretress so he's more of a sphere..
*trumpets intensify*
They really should've done something for that, even if it's extremely minor. Some acknowledgement that you brought a Pokemon all the way around like that.
I feel bad for you for doing this. When you finished XY I breathed a sigh of relief that there was just 1 game left, but when you said ORAS I felt real dread because I forgot it existed.
SAME!!!!
When I looked at your comment it's a Yu-Gi-Oh joke about the DRAw Monsta cardo scene, however when I look at the reply it turns into a proper Pokemon comment
i forgot it existed too
@@hoaujudaiyubel it's a youtube bug
@@Rockden thanx
Not all heroes wear capes... Johnstone wears Ribbons.
This thing went from a Shadow Pineco experimented on by Cipher, with the door to its heart closed, to some rock with 85 ribbons stuck on it
I can’t tell which is a worse fate
don't forget his little crown of leaves
Someone should draw that.
"Are you sure you want to release "FORTRESS" into the wild?"
................
A. LYW no
Yes. And save after
Dude I love Forretress. Good to see my boi getting some attention
He's my favorite spiked rock
@@JohnstoneYT wtf man what about cloyster
He’s my favourite pokémon and the first I got to level 100
@@andre_af or gigalith,a literal rock
Forretress is also one of my favorite Pokemon. Wish more people would use him. :)
Am I the only one that loved the GEN 3 contests? I grinded so much to get all the ribbons on my elite squad ^^'
As I, too.
I love them too!! They're oddly addictive. A lot of my gen 4 experience was also contests
Don't worry, I enjoyed them as well back then
I suck at getting them so I never bother with them.
I was horrible at them, but I still played them often and loved them.
Man, I always loved Forretress. I also really appreciate you helping smaller, underrated communities get the attention they definitely deserve. Much love, keep it up m8
“When was the last time somebody talked about Forretress?”
Foretress, explosion!
"So black and white are the easiest to collect any; because there aren't any!"
Me:(only owns Pokémon black)
Me: :,)
It's quite sad that one of the issues Unova had were no ribbons.
Do you wanna trade tornadus for thunderus and back? ro3ges@gmail.com
I managed to get 71 ribbons on my shiny Milotic I got in Sapphire. I have no regrets.
#teamMilotic I have one of my own , it a beautiful pokemon! tho i like the regular color more.
Dam congrats that was a lot of work
How?
You absolute madman did you just shiny hunt for a feebas?
I want to try this on a shiny metagross
No stab move?
You had Pin Missle.
Fair enough if there wasn't much use.
"it's a rock with eyes, so I can already tell you we're going to have trouble in the competitions where you have to be cool, beautiful, cute, smart, tough, yeah not too sure it's really good at anything here"
... come on dude ; _ ; this is her chance to show everyone she's not just a useless rock with eyes and you shit on her. you should be showing everyone that it was a MISTAKE to UNDERESTIMATE her ♥
forretress has been my favorite Pokémon since I evolved my Pineco in Gold circa 2001, it’s so great to see finally getting some recognition:’)
I'm giving myself a pat on the back for knowing you start with the Gamecube.
*now do it with every single pokemon in the pokédex*
Could someone please figure out how many Pokémon can have a specific amount of ribbons for example how many Pokémon can only get 1 ribbon up to this point and how many Pokémon can get 85 Ribbons at this point
All perfect IV and nature shinies
Woah there
How easily can you get the most specific living Dex possible?
Forretress would have won all the contest if megumin was the judge.
Most underrated comment. Lmao!!! :')
EXPLOSION
I absolutely love the idea of collecting all the ribbon. This has to be one of my favorite Pokémon videos. Great job, I hope one day I could possibly do this with one Pokémon of mine as well.
Johnstone: I might try this challenge later in sword and shield.
Sword and Shield: I’m about to end this man’s whole career!
"You love BONE DESTINY?"
...
"Ufufu... That says something about you. It puts a smile on my face!"
Oh dear lord
Next video: how easy is it to lose your mind
Okay! Now get every single varietion of spinda with EVERY single ribbons, natures,shinies, OT,names, balls, genders,IVs, Evs,levels,items, IDs,and moves? How bout that? Also, for every single Pokemon(if you REALLY wish to lose your mind.No though seriously can someone please do the math for this?)
@@halfway7690 there is 4,294,967,295 patterns,divided by 30(number of mons in a box pretty sure) is 143,165,577 ,so ain't gonna fit only 32 boxes atm,unless you put each pattern in each box in each game (RSE and above) which I think is possible
@@halfway7690 and some balls are impossible,I don't think spinda got an event(event pokemon come with cherish balls)
@@halfway7690 OT is impossible, anyone can make a name anytime
@@halfway7690 same for ID
I actually love the absolutely random stuff you decide to do.
You sir deserve so many more subs.
Hey man, I completely know what you went through, I got a shiny modest Ghastly recently in Emerald and I decided to make it literally perfect, it has been IV and EV trained, has every ribbon you can get from Emerald onwards and has max stats in every contest
Years after this video dropped, every time I hear discussion about Pokemon Contests I still think about your Forretress prancing around on stage and using Explosion and the judges being like "Wow, that was beautiful!" after watching a rock bug knock itself out. It's cool to let Pokemon do something in the games besides battling, but the mental image is hilarious.
I love Pokémon Contests! They have more depth than a lot of people give them credit for. They can be difficult, and fun. Gen 4 did well with contests, expanding on what was already established. I will say that the contests that ORAS has are much worse and too easy compared to gen 3 and gen 4. I hope that the gen 4 remakes do justice to how fun contests can be.
I loved gen 4 contests as a kid. I loved playing dress up games, so dressing up my pokémon was so fun. While gen 4 is probably my least favourite gen, if they implement contests with the dressing up portion again, that’ll probably be my incentive to buy it.
PS: it was annoying to see people complain about no gen 4 remakes when Pokémon was on the 3ds. Now that it’s on the Switch it’s a sure thing, but you could have just played the originals on the same system they’d have been remade on!
@@ood9700 But...Gen 4 was on the normal DS Lite...not the 3ds.
FINALLY a person of culture.
Yeah! I think gen 4 is the best contest experience
Oras made me love contests even to go as far as to legit collect the master ribbon on 81 competitive pokemon. So I appreciate it for that atleast even though you are right and they are by far the easiest.
"When was the last time you heard anyone talk about forretress?"
wasn't forretress like the king of defensive spike setting spinners until like gen 6?
Me: **Loves Achievements,** **Loves Pokemon,** *_*Literally NEVER put two and two together and tried to get ribbons for my favorite pokemon, before.*_*
........well, damn. I guess I have a new pursuit, now! :D
You should check to see if there are any other weird Pokemon challenges you can do to add them to your roster of achievements
You might need someone to ASSIST you. (I was making a joke on how pursuit is a pokemon move, fyi)
"I might continue this challenge if sword and shield have them"
*The ribbons or the Pokemon?*
the ribbons, but sword and shield probably won’t have a national dex, so ...
@@indieWellie Isn't there pokemon home?
@@sirlezard670 yeah, but since the national pokedex was cut, you can' get Forretress into the game.
Answer being, not easily at all
As a huge fan of Pokemon XD, I actually was expecting you to start with that game, lol.
My boy Forretress finally getting some appreciation, I'm so happy to see this. I really liked this video, it was a unique idea! I don't own all the stuff to pull this off which sucks but, this was a really fun video to watch!
FORRETRESS IS IN SCARLET/VIOLET, and there are 3 new ribbons to collect (one being inaccessible due to needing to surprise trade for it). I really hope you make a video continuing this through the new additions, the twinkling star ribbon from bdsp, the hisuian ribbon from taking a picture with the pokemon and the championship ribbon in scarlet/violet (excluding the rare surprise trade ribbon).
If you had two copies of the game, could you repeatedly surprise trade with yourself on local wifi?
@@rizekcajk3410 Sadly the surprise trade ribbon is only accesible through online surprise trade, don't think you can do it locally, from what i've understood
ngl wonder trading with yourself only feels possible in the gen 6 games with how few ppl are playing rn, ive wonder traded on 2 3ds's multiple times and if i start the wonder trade at the same time i just trade myself lol
Me: I should go to sleep
The video : How Easily Can You Get Every Ribbon?
Me: well well well let's find out
" _I don't have time to pet rocks_ "
-JohnStone
This is the first video of yours I've watched, and you're giving Forretress recognition. +10 points off the bat
NO WAY! I’m in the middle of my SS run in which I was trying to get every ribbon I can on a single Pokémon. Perfect timing lol
You deserve a ribbon for getting all these ribbons!
Oh wait...
10:25 “you love BONE DENSITY?” Oh my god that killed me on contact
Now let's just hope that Forretress will be in the DLC to Sword and Shield
>When was the last time you heard someone talking about Forretress
I'm using one on my Crystal team lmao
You're quickly transforming into my favorite Poketuber.
Keep it up
I have been waiting for someone to make this video. Thank you good sir.
“If sword and shield have them”. If sword and shield have foretress
I'm so proud of that Foretress, what a gud girl!
I love how these ribbons are being the display case of your Pokemon's achievements. I hope that in Sword and Shield we can achieve all the older ribbons as well, since there is no back and forth trading; once that ribbon Pokemon is in Ultra Sun, there's no going back to Red or what not.
I've been waiting for a video like this since forever. Honestly didn't think it'd be that many ribbons either! I've got my work cut out for me D:
John back at it again with the great content
John-Stone you have earned the subscriber ribbon from me, Goddamn ! So much hard work for a video, It's happy to know SwSh awards you by the huge amount of titles you get through the Ribbons
Great video and I'm off going to go follow all your accounts :D
It's a shame Fortress never got a real name. She worked hard to make you happy :'c
Interesting video idea, never thought about all the different ribbons and had no idea the shiny crown existed
kind of only live for john's uploads hbu
I appreciate the amount of time you sink into the creation of these videos, thank you
Outstanding. I didn't think that anyone would have any interests in attaining ribbons. But you definitely done it, so glad you made this video to showcase it.
I am LOVING THIS I actually adore Forretres, as I'm a huge Steel type fan. Ur so great for giving him the spotlight! !
This was one of the best Pokémon videos i watched bro thanks
"Because you have to face Red"
I love how Red is the ONE opponent everyone dreads facing in these games. Like, he's the one NPC trainer that always wrecks the player on the first attempt. XD
Him:If Sword and Shield have Ribbons I might continue this.
SwSh. We allow ribbons,but not pet rocks
Am I the only one who loves the concept of a Shadow Pokemon slowly having its heart opened again, and then going around the world collecting incredible achievements to thank the trainer who saved it from Team Cipher? This is a true zero to hero story if ever I saw one.
Hey just wanted to say I've become a huge fan of your videos! Love the production quality, and you've definitely inspired me to chase down and beat all the challenges from the old games I never beat. Thanks for the inspiration!
Love this video. Not only do I concur that ribbons are super underrated, but I also was curious about this myself. Obviously with victini being my favorite I wanted to get as many ribbons on my first ever OT victini. Unfortunately I cannot get anywhere near this many with it, for multiple reasons.
"Why? Because there aren't any!"
I immediately clapped
I'd like to try this with the Heal Bell Articuno you can get in XD some day. Gonna be a bit of a nightmare though, since it has a very poor typing and can't be leveled up at all before getting the level 50 battle tower ribbon without getting locked out of it.
It's not as difficult as you imagine, join the ribbon master discord via the reddit and you can get loads of help.
Johnstone: "When was the last time you heard anyone talk about Forretress?"
False Swipe Gaming: "Am I a joke to you?"
2:11
When someone fused him with Dragonite, creating an abomination who was named "fortnite", and I can't forget him since then
10:27 "Oh."
RandomFluff I love, LOVE, B O N E D E N S I T Y .
Sans in a nutshell
Imagine sword and shield comes out with all new ribbons, and it turns out that Forretress is one of the Pokemon that can't be transferred over... 😂
Correct, Forretress is not in the new game
美丹瑠衣 Depends on the dlc now
Ali-AquaGamer I sincerely hope that one day this man and his Forretress can be reunited
@@loulou3676 Me too man, me too
That bug definitely had an epic journey.
Thank you for this video. I was researching ribbons in past games and I found this video, very helpful. Now I can get my favorite pokemon Absol with all these ribbons
Wow, I'm really touched that Gen 7 kept the Colosseum/XD Ribbons
I'm currently the process of making my own Ribbon Masters. It's a Shiny Togetic from Colosseum (now Togekiss)
Edit: I'm done, took me 3 years.
Though I noticed a few things wrong in the video
-The challenge is actually called the Ribbon Master challenge
-It's easier to go after the Battle Tower right after purifying
-Wrong. Platinum doesn't have exclusive Ribbons. All Ribbon found in Platinum can be found in Diamond and Pearl.
-The World Ability Ribbon doesn't require more than one player.
-Technically if you are collecting the Leaf Crown you can also consider collecting the Pokeathlon Medals.
-Collecting Ribbons in Gen 6 is a lot easier to do in ORAS. (excluding the Champion Ribbon found in X and Y)
-You didn't recommend Bottle Caps as they are pretty useful.
Damn you have waaaaay too much time in your hands
Well I think he's making UA-cam his job...
@@BrutusBongo Nah he's right lol
@@JohnstoneYT You're the best poketuber I've found!
Hes getting paid for all this time so it's no sweat for him.
Lmao
10:27
"You love BONE DENSITY?"
The shiny leaf thing is interesting because bulbapedia says it doesn’t transfer to future generations, making its acquisition irrelevant. I guess the idea is to be able to say that - you got it - on your pokémon, along with all the ribbons, even though you can’t physically show it after transferring to gen V.
This is my favorite johnstone video, I just love seeing that little guy get all those ribbons