hi everyone i'm austin john of the youtube channel austin john plays and today i want
to talk to you about mythical pokemon and they suck this is actually a video that i worked on
two and a half years ago and i wrote up this whole script and i had eric who is now in charge
of my merch austinjohnplays.com merch poke now available he was animating this entire video for
me and it was scripted out when red and blue were out there was a lot of rumors and a lot of hearsay
and no official way to get mew in america it was fun and it drove people crazy and there
was speculation and the beginning stages of what trolling was about how they use hm
strength on a truck but at last they were all not true in order for you to get this rumored
pokemon you'd have to do one of two things one is by chance to be a part of the world champion
and be well informed enough to have a subscription to a magazine that listed a specific place in the
world you have to go to specific time to do an in-person trade in order to get your first
mythical pokemon this pokemon was a secret to everyone on the development team except for
shigeru miyamoto mostly because a way to get it was never programmed into the game that's why they
did the direct trades for the actual giveaways or the second way which 99.99 of people who were not
in japan did to get mew was to use the cheating device and just looking back it just seemed a very
negative video and i'm a very positive person and uh just watching it back i didn't like the feel
of it but this is something that i want to talk about because it affects lots of pokemon players
now the vast majority of people who play pokemon i wouldn't call them like die hard pokemon fans to
the percentage of pokemon players which may even be one percent which is still what 15 000 people
this is a serious issue and it's about mythical pokemon and mostly about how to obtain
mythical pokemon first things first is the difference between legendary pokemon and mythical
pokemon if you see a pokemon on the box that's a legendary kirum sogalia lunala exernius volto all
of them those are all legendary pokemon including like the ones that you can catch randomly in the
game like zygarde and cobalian and mole trays those are all legendaries these right here are
some of the mythical pokemon mu genesect meloetta jirachi celebi keldeo everything on screen here
and there's a few more like uh dioxis who's not pictured here but those are mythical pokemon and
they're usually released when they're having movie releases or special promotional events things like
that going on and they're very difficult to get and that's kind of like their whole
thing but if you were to go to a gamestop or a vintage video game store and ev games or kb toys
whatever you have and if you were to go and hang on just over there boom look if you were to go
to whatever game store you have available and buy every single one of the pokemon games
you except for like a few exceptions you cannot get all of these mythical pokemon a few exceptions
to that would be in pokemon omega ruby office sapphire you could catch deoxys and now in sword
and shields dlc you can get keldeo but other than that you can't get the rest of them that's what
sucks if you go and buy every single game there are a plethora of pokemon that you cannot obtain
no matter what and four and a half ish years ago pokemon company did an event called uh the pokemon
20 mythical pokemon event and they had a whole bunch of these mythical pokemon and you went and
here in the states you went to uh gamestop in australia and canada you went to eb games and
in europe you went to game and at those places you were able to get these these postcards could
get some b-roll on screen of what those look like and there would be a little scratch code you would
scratch it off and you could redeem it in pokemon xy omega ruby alpha sapphire sun moon ultrasound
ultra moon and you can get these mythical pokemon you could put them in a pokemon bank
and now in pokemon home and what i thought sucked is that like there are so many people
who first of all live in countries that don't have any of these physical stores to represent but then
like if you wanted to go and in pokemon home slash bank make yourself a full living dex you
kind of can't because you would have these spots that are missing and there's only a few options
and those options are not good options the first and foremost being find someone to trade with and
if you do have one of these mythical pokemon the chance that you want to actually part with it
is not great i mean there are subreddits dedicated to these exact sort of things and you may find
people who are you know just very generous and then your other option is hacking it in and i'm
not even going to talk about that because that's a hack pokemon it doesn't count and then your other
option which is a weird one is this this is a power saves 3ds it's essentially like a game shark
you go and you put in your cartridge for xy omega ruby office sapphire sun moon ultrasound ultra
moon and you plug it into the computer and what it does is it triggers the event that activates the
mystery gift as if you were to actually scratch off and put in the code to get that mythical
pokemon so that pokemon is generated organically i mean you hacked the event that made it organic so
the lines are blurred on whether that's authentic or not and this is everyone knows about this item
every single poketuber you watch and youtuber who covers nintendo and pokemon games they know
what this is they may act like you know but everyone knows what the power saves is they
sell it at gamestop come on we all know what that is i mean it can do a lot more very hacky
things but at the very minimum it can do that and that's actually why i first bought it because
i missed one of those months and i was not able to get i think it was melowetta
i couldn't get meloetta i tried to trade with people could not get a hold of it no matter
what so then i resorted to going to a physical gamestop location buying the power saves 3ds
triggering this event and having mellowetta in my game now that's difficult because you would
have to if you just started on sword and shield well you can't have a full living dex on sword
and shield because we don't have all the pokemon yet and between that and pokemon go integration
you still can't have it yet oh that brings me to the pokemon go problem now you can transfer these
pokemon from pokemon go if you did you know the the mythical events and you got yourself a mew and
victini and whomever else and you put them into pokemon home yes you can do your your living decks
in pokemon home but those pokemon go pokemon have weird restrictions that you can't transfer them
into sword and shield without already having them my buddy reversal on you know as soon as the go
home integration went live he was like oh i can't wait to bring my jarachi over and he's like i
can't so i called him and i was like hey listen i can trade you one of my jirachi's in pokemon
home on the phone and you could put it into sword and shield and then you could bring your jirachi
over or um victini over and that worked but like what if he didn't have me as a resource
you know he could never have that pokemon in his game he can't battle with him he can't
see him in 3d well yes you can do a living dex and get these mythical pokemon this way which
is not all of them is it all of them i think there's still some that haven't been released
or they're very difficult to get a hold of like i know right after go fest there was a
genesect everywhere and dark rod came back out and i think that's it i know mew and victini are
special events that everyone gets access to it's on the the right most tab the one thing that i'm
hopeful for and hearing me out is that next year is going to be the 25th anniversary of pokemon
we had the 20th anniversary let me just double check my numbers here yes the entire year of 2016
was celebrated as pokemon's 20th anniversary event as february 27 2016 marked the 20th anniversary
that means that february 27th of 2021 which is coming up in what three four months is going to
be the 25th anniversary and and there might be an event like this of mythical pokemon there's
a few ways they could go about it and i don't think that you know having stores with physical
cards that you need to get and then scalpers on ebay or selling these cards it's a whole mess
i don't think that's going to happen again they've come up with much more creative and much
more effective ways of distributing these pokemon let's think back to magirna and pokemon sun and
moon you got to scan the qr code you can still do that you can go buy a 3ds a copy of sun and moon
scan that same qr code that exists in the world on my old videos what's going on boys and girls
what's up world austin john plays here with some great news it's time for us to get our first
mythical pokemon you're goddamn right there we are number 301 mcgearna registered and you
still get a brand new mcgearna so mcgearnet is like the one super available mythical pokemon
that's it actually i'm reading up a little bit more and there's like a few other ones that you
can get via really weird ways uh like with pokemon ranch you could get a manife egg also you have to
have diamond and pearl in order to do that and a nintendo wii to run pokemon ranch or of course you
go buy a pokeball plus to get mew that's a paywall yeah it's weird because like cause a lot of these
older events like gen 3 4 5 they required you to have like item distribution that no longer exists
for like oak's letter a member card the azure flute the aurora ticket the egg ticket although
hang on you could also get celebi super easy if you uh download pokemon crystal on the 3ds you get
a gs ball and a celebi which is neat and don't you get something for pokemon bank or home or
was that a limited event oh yeah there was a free celebi uh that needed to be redeemed before march
2014. okay never mind volcanion hoopa marsh shadow nope but great example zera aura that
was a that was a fun event that everyone had to battle it and you weren't allowed to catch it
and only after a certain amount of battles we all got one that was good that was really good
this uh g-max male metal event everyone can do it it's fair no matter where in the world you are you
could start pokemon go you could level one get a free pokemon home account transfer it over you
can get it i mean in theory you could just keep making more pokemon home accounts and more pokemon
go accounts and farm these mel metal this way this won't be fast probably like between all the email
addresses you have to set up and everything maybe an hour or two for each one but you can should you
no but you can especially since mel metal is a pokemon that you can readily get because if you
have a copy of uh let's go pikachu and eevee you can activate the mystery box and then just
every day for a half hour catch them so i'm not too worried about that so i guess what i'm trying
to say is if you're someone who is trying to complete their living decks and you're missing
out on these mythical pokemon next year we have a sliver of hope of possibly getting ourselves
this event coming back that they're going to be giving away mythical pokemon
and hopefully a much more fun and creative ways i mean we could just keep doing these raids the raid
system worked say for example you know they could literally copy over like all the pokemon and every
month we have to do it or since there's now more mythical pokemon i don't know every three weeks
or every two weeks have like a seven day period that you can go and battle the pokemon and then
a seven day period to redeem it i think that would work people would need to be on top of things but
you know what if they're not it's their own fault but everyone in the world no matter where you are
would have access to it and that's that's the number one thing i'm talking about here someone
from columbia reached out to me and he's like hey you know i'm trying to get all these pokemon but
there's some that i can't and i was like you gotta hack them in or wait and if there's one thing i
know about people and human beings they don't like waiting well guys i want to know if this
dilemma has affected you and your ability to get mythical pokemon if you are doing a living dex
or just filling up your pokedex in your pokemon home whatever it is let's keep the conversation
going in the comments below and if you have a really good story in regard to this or you
feel with my statements here please hit me up on twitter i'd like to read that and interact with
that but yeah guys thank you so much for checking out this video until next time austin john out