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THE POKéATHLON - The Best Game to Ever Try Your Patience!

Linneus

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The much-anticipated juice and its wonderful side mode are finally revealed! Taking cues from Pokéblocks and Poffins, it's Aprijuice, with a bevy of unique caveats all on its own.

But also, it's the Pokéathlon, where we'll break down every little aspect of it we can!

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The Lake of Oblivion (jam-jam Remix) - MapleStory x DJMAX RESPECT V
The Gates of Hell - Bayonetta
Super Sonic - Sonic Superstars
Heaven's Devils - Starcraft II
The Valix Belt - Power Up! - Ratchet Deadlocked
King - Tekken 3
The World Adventure - Sonic Unleashed
Mermaid Falls/Counterfeit Mermaids - Shantae: ½ Genie Hero
Untamed Heart - Klonoa: Door to Phantomile
Pirate Island - Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes
mY dEAR - Splatoon 3
Blast of Wind - Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure
Darkest Night (Village of Lost Souls) - Shantae and the Pirate's Curse
Menu - Wii Sports Resort
It's A Monokuma World - Danganronpa Ultra Despair Girls
Tough Enemy - Mario Party 9
Now You've Done It! - Mario Party 9
Extras & Options Menu - Sonic Mega Collection
Cold Spring - Mystery Jayne

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20 Comments

@CopperPretzel 2 years ago

Pokéathlon hasn’t been the same since Michael Skrelps retired…

@TheLeafcuter 2 years ago

I'm genuinely surprised there's people out there that HADN'T tried out the pokeathalon before. I spent so much time in that mode without even touching the juice mechanics (because little kid me was always terrified of stat changing mechanics because I thought they would be permanent)

@romanbeard4834 2 years ago

Here is the necessary "But the Azure Flute was too difficult" comment for this video

@drakesdrum1 2 years ago

32:49 "is there something significant about red blue green yellow and pink?"
Super Sentai team member colours

@superwailordfan12 2 years ago (edited)

Ok so hear me out, a video on the gamemode that gets hated way more than it should solely because the tutorial is mandatory: Pokéstar Studios

I have sunk so many hours into it. I've managed to max out the sales on every movie, get every unique interaction and ending, and by this point i basically always have one of the 6 mons i use for it on my team, being Ledian, Bronzong, Smeargle, Shedinja, Kyurem and Luvdisc

@infernovulpix1539 2 years ago

One extra tidbit: Jump has different stat minimums than the other four stats! The lowest an ordinary Pokemon can go, even with as many negative modifiers stacked together as possible, is two Jump stars. Having one Jump star is exclusive to Diglett and Dugtrio, who can never jump ever and are also capped to never having more than one Jump star.

@electricnezumi 2 years ago

i actually said "WHAT" out loud when you said day of the month modifier

@coachzed4311 2 years ago

My headcannon on why Pokemon get less potential stars as they evolve is that at an earlier point in their lives they are more malleable and willing to change while as they evolve they become more set in their ways

@Rot8erConeX 2 years ago

That plot twist of the bike footage NOT just being there to Subway Surfer us was so good.

@cipocreep1050 2 years ago

I'm glad they made the aprijuice not as crucial to winning in the pokéathlon as pokéblocks were for contests, it's not ideal of course, but if you're committed to making your mechanics impenetrable, letting people straight up ignore them is probably preferable...

@Tudmoke 2 years ago

To answer your final question: yes, I played a ton of the Pokéathlon! Never engaged much with the Aprijuice system, but I liked the gameplay enough that it didn’t matter (I was a HUGE fan of Block Smash, so satisfying when your Pokémon has a high strength stat). They totally could’ve gotten away with releasing those minigames standalone on DSiWare or something.

@Hearingtoe 2 years ago

56:00 I genuinely had no idea that there was an actual method for performing well in Block Smash. I would always just mash the bottom screen.

@Marsaw 2 years ago

Since medals are per-species and not specific to any particular Pokémon, you can catch multiple different members of a species with different natures to better suit each course. That’s how I got Unown to be a medalist species with minimal juicing. Since I had caught all 28 formes already, I had a wide variety of strengths and weaknesses to choose from. I’d bet this is probably a common strategy due to an overlap in the people who care about getting Pokeathalon achievements and people who care about getting all the Unown formes.

@fntthesmth423 2 years ago

There's this amazing fanfic called Legendary Athlete where a guy catches Mewtwo... specifically because he wants to make mewtwo swol for the Pokéathlon

That fic is so good it's a shame it's never gonna be finished

@alexhirsch5738 2 years ago

I think this is one of the areas of the game that GameFreak really didn't mean for us to optimize. They probably didn't originally intend for us to optimize things like EVs and IVs either, but in recent years they've adapted to account for this. The Pokéathalon has mechanics that you technically can optimize, but it's a ridiculous amount of work for incredibly diminishing returns on performance in minigame that aren't all that difficult to play.

@wolflesbian 2 years ago (edited)

A personal theory for the reason of Sunkern's stats: in a handful of things a seed is used as a symbol of compressed, raw potential. Sunkern, being a seed, was given a full 25 stars worth of potential.

@GAALsbrr 8 months ago

3:31 i flinched like a abused dog

@SmugLookingBarrel 2 years ago

Also, one thing I feel like you should have mentioned with regards to how much waiting there is in the Pokeathlon, is that when you say you can buy Apricorns, what you actually mean is that you can buy one apricorn. Each of the Pokeathlon shop items can only be bought once before the shop inventory restocks the next day, so if you want to buy 5 red apricorns for a drink you'll need to wait until the daily prizes show a red apricorn five times.

@Xanthophyll1337 2 years ago

The noise of sheer malicious delight I made when I heard the words "day of the month modifier".

I also played this mode so much, and was really good at it. Which is why I was really confused when you started talking about aprijuice, because I had just completely forgotten it existed. Don't need it if you have a ton of random Pokemon you don't use except for in Pokethalons! Just choose the best ones for available for whatever events you're gonna do, and you can completely ignore the juice aspect

@FluxLuin 2 years ago

Every single time I play through Heartgold since my 1st playthrough, I make a stop at the Pokeathlon. Well, before it, I stop by National Park to pick up a Scyther. The Pokeathlon is the ONLY place (on Fridays) you can obtain metal coats before defeating the Elite 4. Competing there is almost a ritual I do every time I play the game.