Category Archives: Pokémon

Pokémon GO Progress #13: Over 250 Million XP!

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I now have over 250 million XP!

As of writing, I also have 491 in a shiny species living dex. I have more than 50 additional unique forms shiny as well, not counting Costumes, Shadow, Purified etc.

My missing 3* Counts are:

Kanto: 3 forms (galarian birds). I hyper trained my Mew so it was finally at least 3*

Johto: 9 forms (Unown forms)

Hoenn: 5 forms including 1 Species (Kecleon)

Sinnoh: 28 forms including 4 species

Unova: 3 forms (both Keldeo and the unimplemented Meloetta-P)

Kalos: 18 forms (including Hawlucha and all Zygarde formes)

Alola: 28 forms (including 11 species)

Galar&Hisui: 107+ forms (including 36 species)

Paldea: 81+ forms (incuding 70 species)

I have over 900 species in the game now.

Pokémon TCG Pocket Progress #1: Level 50 and Three Master League Emblems

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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.

Pokémon Legends Arceus: Progress #9—Alpha Living Pokédex & 999:59 game time.

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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!

Pokémon GO Progress #12: Level 50!

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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.

Pokémon GO Progress #11: Level 49

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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!

Pokémon Legends Arceus: Progress #8—Perfect Pokédex

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All 242 entries perfect and 3 maxed.

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.

Pokémon GO Progress #10: Level 48

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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.

Pokémon Legends Arceus: Progress #6—Boss Rematches All Under 2 Minutes!

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3 days ago I finished beating every boss rematch in under 2 minutes, and I’ve finished uploading videos for them all today.

For Kleavor, Lilligant, Dialga and Palkia, they are also no damage runs (mainly because less damage means quicker time).

I’ve also mastered all the moves for my pseudo-alpha Giratina now.

Regarding my other progress: I have 212 (12 to go) species and 304 (19 to go) forms alpha. I also have the 10 home-exclusive alpha forms, such as regular Typhlosion. For shinies, I have 118 species and 139 forms shiny; and 4 of my shinies are exclusively alpha, while another 6 I have in alpha and non-alpha.

I’ve jumped up to 105 perfect entries, and 41 paths of solitude completed. For my maxed out count, it’s now at 26 species, 34 forms and 47 variants.

Pokémon Legends Arceus: Progress #5—First 999 Max Perfect Pokédex Entry

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A brief progress update. I realized that the shiny Giratina I had transferred from GO a while ago was in fact the maximum size possible for Giratina in PLA, a pseudo-alpha. Once I realized that, I began thinking about how I could get a minimum size one, an omega.

I had seen information about Pokémon from previous generations being the minimum size when transferred to PLA, and once I began holding that thought, the Sinjoh Ruins event popped up in my mind. Not only did I have a chance of getting a minimum sized Giratina, but it could also be level 1!

I quickly began looking on the GTS, to see if I could get one. At first, the Pokémon they requested in exchange for a level 1 Giratina were impossible for me to get. I didn’t stop looking though, and after several hours, Zacian was requested, something I could easily obtain back. I rushed to trade and finally I had a Sinjoh Ruins Giratina in my hands. Next, I transferred into Pokémon Legends Arceus, and checked its dimensions. It was indeed a minimum sized Giratina. Remarkably, it also had only 1 move, and 0 effort levels all around. It was minimal in every respect.

Not only did I have living minimum and maximum specimens, but the other part of the Pokédex entry for Giratina was complete: perfect height and weight ranges! I also decided to buy every move for my level 100 Giratinas (one of them being the maximum one). The only thing I haven’t done yet now, is mastered the moves for all of them.

I guess the next update might be mastering all the moves for my maximum Giratina (and the other maxed out ones) now.