This week I finished off improving my Pre-DLC times.

First was vs Rogue Mega Banette, where I reused Sharpedo with no new moves. I did reorder things and anticipate which way they would move in order to optimise my run though.

Second was vs Rogue Mega Altaria, where I realized a critical hit with Steel Beam could finish it off faster than with Gengar. Luckily when the critical hit finally came, I was on a pretty good run.

I had previously done a sub 80 second recorded run with Simulated Zygarde, one of the eleven new simulations. I improved that to sub 70s.

And I also recorded a sub 35 second run for Mega Absol Z, using Magearna’s Fleur Cannon.

I’m working on a few others of the remaining 9, so hopefully I can add most of them in the next upcoming week.

Also, I found out there was a discovered glitch that uses forfeit to cancel move cooldowns. I used it with Rayquaza vs Rogue Mega Victreebel to lower that time by about 2 seconds. I will record the runs where a time save is possible with this glitch probably after I’ve finished uploading good times for the remaining 9 new simulations.

This week, I did lots of Infinite Z-A Royale as planned, although it wasn’t the most fun to do. After reaching 115 reward match wins, I finally finished buying all outfits from the shops.

I also newly improved a time for Rogue Mega Slowbro, bringing it down by a second. I still have yet to bring down the times for Rogue Mega Banette and Rogue Mega Altaria since the DLC.

I’m not sure what to focus on next. It might be back to the Rogue Megas, Ranked Battle, Investigating Hyper Space Pockets to finish the leftover tasks for Mable’s Research or continuing to hoard more items with the money earned from Infinite Z-A Royale and accumulating more reward match wins.

This week I focused on getting lots of Link Play titles. I have all maxed out apart from:

• First Attacker (Need to get from Silver to Gold)
• Consummate Gamer (Need to get from Nothing to Gold)
• Comeback Kid (Need to get from Bronze to Gold)
• Z-A Battle Club Top-Ranked (I think I’ll receive Gold at the end of the season)
• Season Regular (I think I’ll receive Gold at the end of the season)
• Season Veteran (I’ll have to wait and do another 5 seasons for Gold)
• Mega Rush Master (Just need to beat Mega Rush at some point).

For this next week, I am focusing on playing lots of Infinite Z-A Royale, to earn a lot of in-game money, so I can buy all fashion items available in the game and have 999 of every Poké Ball etc. too.

Today, I finally caught the last form I needed: Hisuian Avalugg!
Earlier in the week I evolved all my trade evolutions with the help of a friend.

And for a 2025 target, I managed to beat all original Rogue Megas in under 20 seconds. As of now, I’ve uploaded 13/16 DLC improvements. Slowbro seems to be improvable but I can’t figure out a solution for Altaria or Banette (yet). I also uploaded my first new simulated boss battle: Zygarde.

So I’ve got 10 new rogue megas to make times for, and also online to get the last mega stones and titles. I’ll also grind more in the Infinite Z-A royale.

Today, I am only 10 forms from completing my in-game living form dex excluding the use of HOME (which is not available yet) and another save file. The following Pokèmon/items/touch trades I need are:

• A touch trade to evolve Male Feebas into Milotic.
• A touch trade to evolve Porygon into Porygon 2.
• Another Prism Scale and a touch trade to evolve Female Feebas into Milotic.
• Another Upgrade, another Porygon, and a touch trade to evolve Porygon into Porygon2 and then Porygon-Z.
• Alolan Raichu in my own nickname.
• Hisuian Avalugg
• Malicious Armor to evolve Charcadet into Ceruledge.
• Virizion
• Cobalion
• Keldeo
  
  If I had another save file, I would be able to get Zygarde 10%, Keldeo Resolute, another Genesect form (would need 5 to get all), and Hoopa confined. HOME compatibility (or a future update) would allow the other 17 remaining Vivillon, Roaming Gimmighoul, Magearna in own name and Original color Magearna. If we count the mons (Scatterbug and Spewpa) that evolve into the different Vivillon forms, that’s another 38 I would need. Eternal Floette would presumably be locked to AZ for the foreseeable future.

This evening, I finally completed all missions and side missions up to date with the DLC, including the Zeraora one. I also bought every last TM.

As for my other progress, I’m 22 forms away from completing the living form dex possible before the HOME update and I have 18 gold titles out of 45 I believe.

I’ve updated a few Rogue Mega new times, one time being 11.36 seconds! But I intend to do more in the next three weeks or so.

Last night, I beat the Mega Dimensions DLC. I’m still working on completing all the side missions, earning all the TMs and completing the Pokédex (and Living Dex as much as possible). I gave Theo’s Gholdengo back lol.

Then I’ll get back to doing Rogue Mega simulated battles, trying to get sub 20 with new Pokémon and set sub 25 versus the new rogue megas.

And then back onto Infinite Royale and Link Play stuff.

The last two weeks I’ve been focusing on lowering the Rogue Mega times. Today I managed a new low of 25.26s for the slowest time and yesterday managed to beat Absol in just over 15 seconds!

In this playlist, I’ve uploaded 14 times. The 2 Rogue Megas missing are: Dragonite, which I’m trying to get under 25 seconds still; and Altaria, which I recorded 30 seconds of by using the Switch 2 record feature but I haven’t done a full minute capture of—to include all the cutscenes and menus.

Edit: Rogue Mega Dragonite was added (beat in under 20s), which brings all to under 25 seconds.

Edit 2: I matched my altaria best with a full upload. This chapter is now complete.