While doing many Dialga Raids (got myself a shiny for HOME, Sword, Shield, as well as GO), I levelled up to 43. After collecting enough rare candy for evolutions that are needed for the Pokédex, I find myself now with lots of spare rare candy and not enough Stardust to level up the Pokémon I put the candy in. My Friends list is getting very full also, at nearly 360, from seeking lots of remote raids.

Prior to the Pokémon GO 5th Anniversary, nearly a month ago, I achieved Level 42. I have currently over 2/3 of the total XP needed to get from Level 42 to Level 43.

Yesterday I achieved Level 41 after finally getting enough XP. I gained lots of XP previously while doing lots and lots of raids to level up my hundo Landorus to Level 50. It was a rather dies mirabilis since I got 2 hundo and 4 Shiny Marill from the Limited Research Day also.

Today, I finally got all Kanto Pokémon species to 3 stars or 4 stars—except Mew, which is 2 stars and can’t be helped. I will slowly work on the other regions of the national dex. I have about 10 Pokémon I can evolve to get register new species caught on my Pokédex, but I will instead use my rare candy for a 100% IV Landorus-T I recently caught, and focus on getting a competitive Master League team. With my competitive teams, I then hope to farm rare candy easier to not only evolve those 10 or so Pokémon for entries, but also to evolve in order to collect more gender differences and regional forms.

Since July 2020, I’ve been regularly playing Pokémon GO. Today I reached Level 40. My main goal is to complete a living dex, but no doubt I will reach Level 50 along the way—while waiting for all Pokémon to be released. Not only do I collect one of each Dex Number, but also every gender difference, form, purified/shadow/lucky variant, and shiny Pokémon. I will probably never complete the latter collections, but I try to fill them nevertheless.