Name: I played Magikarp Jump for 3 months
Uploaded: 2023-04-25T15:18:16.000Z
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There’s so much exciting stuff for Pokemon coming  out soon. Pokemon Unite, Diamond and Pearl Remakes  

and Legends Arceus… but instead of being smart and  talking about those on my Pokemon youtube channel,  

I wanna talk about some obscure  game that came out years ago.

Magikarp Jump is a mobile game that came out  in May of 2017 and I was pretty hooked on it  

for a while. I played as far into the game as  I could. It had updates fairly often but by the  

time the final update came out, I had a different  phone. I tried to transfer over my file but alas,  

no matter how many times I tried it wouldn’t  let me, so I bid this game farewell.

But I thought it’d be a nice idea for  a video to take a look at it again.  

Just a casual game for a comfy video I WAS WRONG.

This game is so much more  intense than I remembered.

So Magikarp Jump is free to play,  but it does have microtransactions.  

Nothing exclusive, but still. I have  spent very small amounts on Pokemon  

GO for community days in the past but I  refuse to spend money if I don’t have to.

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So the premise of the game is quite simple:  Magikarp Jump. You raise a bunch of different  

Magikarp, go through the different leagues and try  to become the greatest Magikarp trainer the world  

has ever seen. You level up your Magikarp  more powerful by feeding and training it,  

and you pay money to make it go  faster but I’m not doing that.

The main goal is to complete all of the different  leagues, but there are other objectives on the  

side. After training and league battles you  can activate random events which there’s an  

event dex for. Or the pattern dex to complete.  Oh, did I not mention that? There are tons of  

different patterns to collect, with  some being a lot rarer than others.

I really like the concept, it’s kind of like  regional variants. You’ve got your standard karp,  

some cool two tone patterns, some koi  karp inspired patterns, just pink,  

zebra, purple with diamonds, this blue one…  they go a bit out of control. Oh and shiny.

Speaking of shinies, there actually is another  way to shiny hunt in this game. So occasionally,  

a Manaphy will swim across the pond. Tapping  it will activate an event called food fever  

which just gives you a bunch of food  with this swarm of Corsola and Luvdisc.  

But the Corsola and Luvdisc can actually  be shiny. I remembered finding a shiny  

Luvdisc when I first played the game,  and I was determined to find one again.

I have no clue what the shiny odds are but  put it this way. I played pretty till pretty  

late on in this game my first time and I  only ever saw that one shiny Luvdisc. And  

I got even further this time without seeing  a single shiny. And then something incredible  

happened. Another food fever begins  and right away I see a beautiful sight,  

a blue Corsola. I try to zoom in on it but there’s  food everywhere and before I know it it’s gone.

Excuse me. EXCUSE ME. I play this far  without a single shiny only to get  

two in the same food fever? What are the odds of  that happening? Like literally, what the odds,  

I wanna know! I counted and you see about  25 different Pokemon every food fever. Yes,  

I’m really analysing it that much. At this point,  I’d seen around 130 different food fevers. I can’t  

remember the exact number because I forgot to  record that part. But even if we just do a crude  

calculation and say it’s 25 by 130, that’s still  over 3,000 different Pokemon seen. I feel like it  

could just be regular shiny odds and I somehow  got two in the same batch. Maybe that’s why it  

took me seven years to find a sentret, all my  luck gets used up in stupid stuff like this.

Each Magikarp is unique and special. They  all have individual bonuses. One might have  

a training boost, or a food boost, or coins. But  some are definitely more special than others.  

You might get stuck with a karp that has a not so  great bonus and desperately be trying to get rid.

Speaking of, your Magikarp can full on die in this  game. There are some events that have a chance of  

sending your new friend to the pond in the sky.  An item ball with something special in it? Nope,  

it’s a Voltorb and you’re dead. The game doesn’t  even try to hide it, you walk home alone,  

your karp is dead and it’s your fault. You’re  gonna have to live with this burden for the rest  

of your days. Or what about this? A tree  with a tasty berry for your fishy friend?  

Nope, a Pidgeotto snatches it  up, never to be seen again.

A one time event you can activate is if you  repeatedly make magikarp jump out of the water,  

the Pidgeotto will come to the pond  and just take it away. I’m sorry buddy,  

One of the funnier ways you can lose a  karp is if it evolves into a Gyarados.  

In this game, Gyarados: useless, we want karp.

This game is no joke. The progression gets  slower as you get further in so it does start to  

drag quite a bit. It’s not even particularly  challenging, it just takes so long because  

everything is timer based. Training points take  half an hour to regenerate, League Points take  

an hour and a half, all of the different support  Pokemon take anywhere from 50 minutes to 12 hours.

What was meant to be a fun little  side project became very distracting.

Oh, my Piplup’s gonna regenerate and give me more  training points in five minutes, that’s not really  

enough time to really get much else done, maybe  I’ll go on TikTok for a few minutes while I wait.

It’s a trap!! No one goes on TikTok for just a  few minutes. Put the phone down it’s not worth it!

If you’re someone like me that gets very easily  distracted then don’t play this game. Don’t do it.

So there are 10 different Leagues to complete  in this game. I only ever got up to the Ultra  

League when I first played, but this time I  was going all the way. Along with my karps,  

we jumped our way to victory and  after what seemed like a lifetime  

I managed to defeat the Elite Four and the  champion. But the journey still wasn’t over.  

I still needed to collect all of the  patterns, and complete the event dex.

Beating the league gave me access to the blue  and violet karps, with the rarer raindrop  

patterns being a 2% chance every time I fish up  a karp, or around 1 in 50. Or 1 in 25 combined.  

It took me 89 generations to get one of them.  I had one of these rare karps in my possession,  

but my willpower had been torn  to shreds and I could not go on.

A few weeks went by and I felt liberated but I  could feel the game pulling me back. I didn’t  

want to put myself through that torment again, but  I still had much to do, so I cast out my fishing  

line once more. And with another 45 generations,  I finally got the last karp in the Pattern Dex.

But my work is still not done yet. I still have  to complete the event dex. I had most of them  

already but some of them are pretty obscure — find  a hidden switch, fish up a ditto, make your karp  

into a sacrifice… but there was one that I had not  managed to do yet. Fish up a Dratini. I remembered  

that if you recast your line five times, then  you’ll be able to activate this mysterious  

event. Recasting costs 10 diamonds so I’ll have  to pay 50 in total which isn’t that bad, right?

Okay, the first one is 10, then they charge you  50. This event costs over 200 diamonds. But you  

underestimate me. I saved up. I could spend these  on a new support Pokemon… maybe the Eevee, but no,  

I gotta spend it on a Dratini  I don’t even get to keep.

But even now I’m still not done. My  Magikarp reached level 100 a while ago,  

but it doesn’t stop there. Even after its level  maxes out, it keeps gaining JP. There has to be  

a limit. And I’m going to find it. The next Karp I  fish is gonna go down in legend. Let’s go Neville.

I knew Neville would be powerful but he’s my  finest student yet. His JP passed 1 trillion,  