Four screens, one controller: Johnstone's Emerald shiny-hunting setup

His badge quest has passed 860,000 views, with traded Pokémon adding disobedience to the usual challenge.

Channel: Johnstone Story of November 5, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

I Caught a Shiny Before Each Badge (Pokemon Emerald)

Johnstone has a fairly elaborate way of waiting for a differently colored Pokémon: four handheld setups, a multiviewer and a single GameCube WaveBird controller. His Emerald badge quest turns shiny hunting into a small hardware operation before the adventure properly gets going.

There were no new uploads this week, but "I Caught a Shiny Before Each Badge (Pokemon Emerald)" remains the channel's busiest video. Released just before this week began, it pairs a celebration of his two decades playing Pokémon with some wonderfully inconvenient logistics. Emerald's random-number generation sends him to Ruby and Sapphire for the starter hunt. Then the trade cables haven't arrived, leaving him hunting while he waits for the mail.

Getting a shiny into Emerald doesn't settle everything, either. Mudkip, nicknamed Mort, has the boosted experience gains of a traded Pokémon and a tendency to ignore orders. Roxanne and Brawly become tests of persuasion as well as battling.

The older adventures have work to do, too. His Legends Z-A shiny quest is approaching two million views, while the Platinum living-Pokédex project remains among his most active uploads. That challenge requires the catches to come from the DS games, a collecting restriction rather than another hunt for rare colors.

The channel added subscribers over the week, and daily viewing is moderately above its usual level. Nearby in size, iSorrowproductions has had a busier viewing week, while Squirrel has been quieter. For Johnstone, the upload-free stretch has left room for Emerald's cables, encounters and disobedient teammates.

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The videos drawing views on Johnstone right now

I Caught Every Shiny Pokemon Before Each Rank (Legends ZA)1,939,317 views I Completed Pokemon Platinum's BRUTAL Pokedex4,158,663 views

The numbers

Here is Johnstone's week in views and subscribers.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

iSorrowproductions

1,464,773

PragMagik

997,251

KG Gaming

990,992

DruuuWu

826,381

Johnstone

759,218

shadypenguinn

497,733

Squirrel

239,574

United Plays

89,400

PythonGB

21,908

subscribers

767,000

▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days

total views

152,876,992

views per day

126,082

typical day: 99,523

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Squirrel

882,000

iSorrowproductions

857,000

shadypenguinn

769,000

Johnstone

767,000

KG Gaming

750,000

United Plays

645,000

PragMagik

637,000

PythonGB

611,000

DruuuWu

597,000

As of November 5, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.