This morning I finally completed the Main Missions 100%. The last week was just a week’s worth of playing a single online match to trigger the daily monkey lottery. In the previous 6 weeks or so, I had beat all 200 levels and then did another playthrough to clear all the stage missions—which always revolve around beating a time, collecting a number of bananas and collecting the gold banana in the levels.
120 in hours in total. If I were to come back to this, I’d probably try to set times for the world speed-runs and then try to improve some times or banana totals where they look easily improvable.
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!
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.
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.
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’ve been playing Super Mario Bros. Wonder since it’s release and I think I’m done with the game now. I have all six medals, an online rating of 99,999 (the maximum), and I’ve even left the save file with 99 lives, 999 flower coins and 99 (normal) coins.
Super Mario Bros. Wonder: Personal Bests
I’ve also had a decent go at trying to get good times (and score for credits) on the levels which save them. I can definitely improve them still, but they are hard to optimize and there’s many people better than me.
I may come back some day, but for now, I should be getting back to Pokemon and Zelda!
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.
