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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Following on from my 999 for Shadow Claw, I gradually 999ed the other move-related research tasks for Giratina.
Maximising Number caught was an interesting challenge though. The only way I believe it can be incremented past 1 is to receive a Giratina from a trade. Luckily, I already had another switch and an alt account, that’s in French/Metric to show off maximum and minimum sizes.
I had to buy another copy of PLA though, so I could trade Giratina back and forth. A trade takes roughly 50 seconds, so it’s over 13 hours in total to do 1000 of them. I split them into 20 periods of 40 minutes each so I didn’t get too fed up, and watched anime at the same time I was pressing the buttons.
I finally achieved the final 999 today!
As for other progress, I’ve got 211 (13 to go) alpha species and 300 (23 to go) alpha forms; 103 shiny species and 120 shiny forms; 3 of my shinies are exclusively alpha, while I have 6 others in alpha and non-alpha.
I have 64 perfect entries and have still only completed 35 paths of solitude. I now have 19 species, 27 forms (I believe the last post counted a shiny by mistake) and 33 variants (including shinies) maxed out in total.
My next post will either be completed alpha or perfect Dex.
Today I got my first 999 in a research task: Shadow Claw usage for Giratina.
I’ve now got 200 (24 to go) alpha species and 287 (36 to go) alpha forms; 78 shiny species and 89 shiny forms; 3 of my shinies are exclusively alpha, another I have in alpha and non-alpha.
62 of my entries are now perfected. I’m still on 35 paths of solitude completed. 19 of my species and 28 of my forms have a specimen maxed out.
If the lost and found record stats cap out easily, that will be my next post, else Giratina all 999ed, all alphas or perfect dex will be my next post.
Today, after 314:16 hours (pi hundred hours), I finally reached 99,999 research points. I have completed 100K’s worth of research tasks now out of 125.2K research points available, so I’m about 80% of the way through getting a perfect pokédex.
I have 190 species and 275 forms alpha; and 67 species and 75 forms shiny (legendary shinies are imported). 2 of my shinies are exclusively alpha, while another is caught both non-alpha and alpha.
54 out of 242 of my entries are perfect: all legendary/mythical. I’ve completed 35 of the paths of solitude and have 16 species and 24 forms with a specimen maxed out (level 100 and 10/10/10/10/10/10 effort levels).
The next post for this game will probably be either getting a perfect dex or collecting every alpha. See you then.
After raiding lots for the legendaries birds, I’ve finally reached Level 47. As predicted, I have 100+ candy for every Pokémon line that I’ve obtained. I have a total of 40 hundos now, including Shundo Kyogre.
My missing 3* counts are: Kanto: 6; Johto: 29; Hoenn: 11; Sinnoh: 42; Unova: 28; Kalos: 67. Still haven’t worked out Alola or Galar yet.
I guess I’ll use some of my spare candy for XL candy now, as well as going for 1000+ candy next in each Pokémon.
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