I started TCG Pocket a couple of weeks late but otherwise kept up-to-date with it—with the condition of not spending any money on the game. I targeted and achieved the lowest master league status three times, which luckily happened to correspond with reaching level 50 too.
My next major achievement might be completing lots of achievements to the rainbow threshold. We’ll see.
Previously I didn’t categorize Duolingo as a gaming achievement, but now I do! After 3 years, and topping leagues a long while ago, I’ve finally completed a whole ‘language’ on Duolingo (until they add more anyway). I completed using the Super subscription, which adds some more challenges I believe, but gives you unlimited tries and no ads. Where possible I got a score of a 1000 or 3 stars, without trying to take advantage of exploits.
This morning I finally completed the Main Missions 100%. The last week was just a week’s worth of playing a single online match to trigger the daily monkey lottery. In the previous 6 weeks or so, I had beat all 200 levels and then did another playthrough to clear all the stage missions—which always revolve around beating a time, collecting a number of bananas and collecting the gold banana in the levels.
120 in hours in total. If I were to come back to this, I’d probably try to set times for the world speed-runs and then try to improve some times or banana totals where they look easily improvable.
Finally, after hours of waiting in distortions, and also revisiting Obsidian Fieldlands for Female Eevee, I have one of every unique alpha form.
During that time, I reached 999:59 hours.
And I also completed my living form dex via Discord trades for Arceus.
I am now very close to having all 5 larger than alphas in Legends: Arceus from Pokémon GO. I am only missing Rhyperior, which I don’t want to transfer from Pokémon GO since the only valid one is powered up.
So either I will complete this goal or Path of Solitude next. And while I level up my mons for Path of Solitude, I can hopefully expand my living Shiny dex further and max out more items in my boxes. I actually managed to max out one of the colored shards in my box going through so many distortions.
I’m really pleased I’ve achieved the Perfect Dex and Alpha Living Dex double now and am excited to conquer the remaining significant challenges!
Finally, I made it to 999 excellent throws! I now share the same trainer level as the most elite of the Pokémon GO player-base. I’ve now got 8 special research on the GO, so I want to focus on completing some of them, including the Level 50 challenge. I’m generally keeping up with collecting in the overall Pokédex.
Other than that, I’m focusing on best buddying Level 50 Gyarados and Tapu Koko Hundos, and also a second lot of Groudon and Yveltal Hundos that are on their way to Level 50. I’m also getting a female mega venusaur to mega level 3.
So there probably won’t be too many GO landmarks from now on, but I’ll try to remember to share some dex-related ones as they gradually happen.
Trainer Level 49!
Today, I finally leveled up to level 49. Just a couple of days ago I had 30 lucky trades to go, but miraculously I managed to climb all the way up to 50 lucky trades during this boosted event.
It looks like level 50 won’t take too long. Only about 5 million XP and many excellent throws to go.
My missing 3* species counts are:
Kanto – 1 | Johto – 0 | Hoenn – 1 | Sinnoh – 5 | Unova – 4 | Kalos – 9 | Alola – 22
For forms, it’s:
Kanto – 7 | Johto – 13 | Hoenn – 20 | Sinnoh – 30 | Unova – 13 | Kalos & Alola – TBD
I have nearly 100 lucky Pokémon now.
Next goal: Level 50!
Finally, after over a year and a half after I started playing, I managed to get the motivation to finish perfecting the Pokédex!
With all that grinding, I also managed to master all the moves for all 4 maxed out Giratina.
I’ve got several options as to where I go next: complete the alpha living dex; complete path of solitude; max the research for another Pokémon; focus on my Shiny Dex; or collect minimum and other maximum sized Pokémon.
Path of Solitude is a tempting choice, and it would mean I increase my max living dex at the same time, which is on 32 species the last time I checked.
I’ve also made progress with alphas, with only 8 species and 11 forms left to catch; however, most of them are still in space-time distortions, so it could take a while. Perhaps I could grind moves with Palkia or Dialga while I wait for the distortions to appear.
I have over 60% of the Shiny species and over 50% of the Shiny forms now. With the perfect dex, it will now be easier to shiny hunt across the board.
I could try to hunt the larger than alpha Pokémon or investigate getting minimum sized Pokémon via HOME trading. I could also just spam catches in-game and hope I make progress that way. It would help with grit farming and hoarding more items. I currently have 35/60 items in my satchel maxed and 96/165 in boxes.
So there’s exciting routes to go down, but time will tell if I follow them.
I’ve been playing Super Mario Bros. Wonder since it’s release and I think I’m done with the game now. I have all six medals, an online rating of 99,999 (the maximum), and I’ve even left the save file with 99 lives, 999 flower coins and 99 (normal) coins.
I’ve also had a decent go at trying to get good times (and score for credits) on the levels which save them. I can definitely improve them still, but they are hard to optimize and there’s many people better than me.
I may come back some day, but for now, I should be getting back to Pokemon and Zelda!
After over a year, I finally got around to completing the walking tasks required for level 48!
My missing 3* species counts are:
Kanto – 1 | Johto – 0 | Hoenn – 1 | Sinnoh – 7 | Unova – 6 | Kalos – 10 | Alola – 24
For forms, with Paldea (and Spinda forms) added its:
Kanto – 7 | Johto – 19 | Hoenn – 20 | Sinnoh – 32 | Unova – 16 | Kalos & Alola – TBD
I recently reached the milestone of 300 shiny pokemon in my living dex.
Quick update to say I finally got over 1 million in a mini-game. The highest scores tend to require fluke combos, and I happened to get an over 990k one, allowing me to reach the incredible milestone. I do want to get 9,999,999 one day, but I have no idea if it’s actually feasible.
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