I haven’t done too much, only adding 7: Male Charmander; Female and Male Psyduck and Golduck; and Male Kabuto and Kabutops to the collection. Breeding does take a while though. I’ve reached Cinnabar Island in FireRed.

I haven’t played too much since last time, but I evolved the two Tyranitar, and played FireRed until I could trade—and did the 15 available trade evolutions. Next is breeding for the Charmander line. I also may start the other FireRed save file to get the Squirtle line. Then it’ll be a case of going through either save files to get the Kabuto line and all the version exclusives and both to get Suicune and Raikou.

After counting more accurately, it seems 342 is the maximum to collect in one LeafGreen save file alone. I’ve prepared all the trade evolutions except the 2 more King’s Rock I need from another save file. I just have to evolve male and female Larvitar into Tyranitar and then it’s time to start FireRed!

I went over 100 hours played this week. Hatching the 1:7 female Pokémon took ages, particularly for the last Eevee in particular, which probably took some 30+ egg hatches. Evolving for Dragonair and Dragonite is my next task and then onto filling in the LeafGreen Johto gaps.

Evolving two Rhydon was a pain! Not many Kanto Pokémon left now to get on this LeafGreen save file: both Mr. Mime and Magmar; Male Pinsir and Lapras; Female Eevee, Vaporeon, Jolteon, Flareon, Omanyte, Omastar, and Aerodactyl; Male Dratini; and both Dragonair and Dragonite.

Edit: Bulbasaur line to get female too.

I’ve filled storage slots up until Exeggcute now that don’t require trades. I’ve also prepared Kadabra, Machoke, Graveler, and Haunter to evolve. I think I should be done with what I can collect from a single LeafGreen save file in a couple of weeks. I believe there is a maximum of 350.

This is my 100th blog post!

While I’ve only just got over a box worth more of Pokémon since last week, I have done 3 of the annoying happiness-based evolutions. I’ve still got to do Chansey and the other Togetic.

The other upcoming challenges are Safari Zone Pokémon and breeding the female starter and fossil Pokèmon. My Venusaur is level 95 now, so I’m sure it’ll reach level 100 by next week.

After around ~240 throws, I finally caught Entei in a Poké Ball. I used Ariados with Quick Claw, which had a 20% of not letting Entei flee, followed by Spider Web that prevented it from fleeing directly, followed by BPing to Electrode which also prevented it from fleeing via Roar. I was able to use about 60 Poké Balls a time. So it took me around 20 encounters to finally succeed.

I’ve counted 172 Pokémon / 421 Pokémon in my Poké Ball Genderful Living Pokédex after some more breeding/evolving following that. So it’s now just a case of breeding/evolving wherever possible, including doing the in-game trades before I start my journey on FireRed. Maybe I can do a level 5 living dex on there.

So this week I basically beat the Post-Game and caught every non-Shiny Unown. I’m currently repeatedly encountering a low health asleep Entei to try to catch it. I’m using a Wobbuffet to trap it for 2+ turns.

I calculated that you can pretty much fit a full gender in-game living dex into the boxes (420 spaces). Although you don’t quite have space for Deoxys (421st), which can be in your party I suppose.

Last night I did Victory Road and then beat the Elite Four with my starter, the legendary birds, Snorlax and my Spearow that’s there just to use Fly. Agatha was the hardest because I had bad coverage for her. Oddly, Champion Blue was very straightforward, as was Lance since I used Thunder and Ice Beam. I’ll probably be done with the post-game by next week. Then it will be a case of completing my living both genders dex, remembering to get both starters from the other version.