This week, I focused away from most of the Pokédex-related stuff, and onto the other collection/high-score related tasks. The first half of the week I spent hours without a guide searching for the remaining TMs and Colored screws.

Once that was done, I wanted to get over 50+ wins in a single Infinite Z-A Royale night and also get the maximum prize money for a night. The second task was harder than I thought it would be and it took several times of about 45 minutes each to finally achieve it. It’s possible to get 99 wins in a single night if you lure the pokemon in a battle to be near the next trainer and then lock on immediately with them once you finish the previous battle. I might try to get this record too at some point.

The last thing I challenged myself was beating every Rogue Mega Evolution in under a minute, which I did so by finding optimal nature alphas (and Eternal Floette) and maxing their Ivs and Evs (and avoiding nature mints) and then working out a good moveset strategy to optimize things in order to set a good time against a fellow competitor online.

So I’m happy with my progress so far. I’ll probably get 5 more reward match wins so I can get the Infinite Trainer title in Gold and maybe I’ll improve some more boss times. Ranked Season 3 won’t be far away to get Mega Chesnaught.

I’ve been doing a lot in Z-A. First, I started by completing all the missions and side missions, then the wild zone collection challenges / mini-Pokédexes, then an almost living form dex before the DLC at the same time as the Pokédex, and then finally finished the type catching tasks and battles to complete the research.

The living form dex currently excludes Galarian Slowbro and Slowpoke, because you only get one via a trade—so it effectively needs 3 save files. Additionally, another Zygarde is needed for the 10% form / 50% form choice and also the Marine pattern Spewpa if you want to collect internal forms. Hisuian Avalugg, Sliggoo and Goodra, as well as the rest of the Vivillon lines, are also unavailable due to needing a HOME transfer (or possibly the DLC). The other possibilities could be Zygarde that doesn’t go Complete and Battle Bond and Ash- Greninja.

I am considering a second file to also store my alphas in. If I were to do that, I’d only need one more “Spicy” Galarian Slowpoke.

I managed to beat the game within just over a week and get rank A in the first season. Next, I’ll work on completing the Pokédex, research, and missions, which I’ve got a long way to go in.