5th Gen Catching 'em all?

Started by solarowl March 15th, 2011 11:11 AM
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solarowl

I'll always be an Outsider.

Age 27
Female
Hoenn
Seen September 25th, 2012
Posted October 7th, 2011
910 posts
12.8 Years
So, for those who are still going through the story of Black and White, are you catching as many Pokemon as you can on your journey, or are you just catching Pokemon for your team?
I've been catching Pokemon only for my team, I don't really find it necessary to catch every single Pokemon possible as soon as you start your adventure. But the main reason I'm not catching Pokemon is that this is one of the first times, I've played it three times and am still having fun playing through it. Maybe a fter 20 playthroughs, I'll catch every Pokemon from the start. After I beat Ghetsis, I will go through my Pokedex and catch all the Pokemon IN ORDER. Yes, in the order of the Pokedex. It's just something I've always done.

So, what about you?
Female
Canada, ON
Seen July 3rd, 2011
Posted April 20th, 2011
11 posts
12.2 Years
Through the gameplay, I mostly just carried around the 6 pokemon and my boxes were empty (aside from Victini and Fire monkey)

Since beating the League and plot, I've been collecting pokemon and stuffing my boxes. So, I don't necessarily want to reset this game, but I would like to get Pokemon White and re run that game over and over. (Birthday is coming up :D)
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iRoyBoy

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Age 31
Female
North Dakota
Seen March 23rd, 2012
Posted March 23rd, 2011
14 posts
12.2 Years
I guess I never really thought of it but yah I am. Or at least i've been trying to. I think it just came as second nature to try and catch them all. But the sad thing is we need more than 8 PC boxes to keep one of every pokemon. Why Nintendo WHY D;
I think my friend has caught every pokemon he's seen and he's already almost out of room. Then again he has compleated the game and transfered a lot of pokemon from his heart gold.
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Oryx

CoquettishCat

Age 30
Female
Seen January 30th, 2015
Posted December 27th, 2014
13,184 posts
12.2 Years
I guess I never really thought of it but yah I am. Or at least i've been trying to. I think it just came as second nature to try and catch them all. But the sad thing is we need more than 8 PC boxes to keep one of every pokemon. Why Nintendo WHY D;
I think my friend has caught every pokemon he's seen and he's already almost out of room. Then again he has compleated the game and transfered a lot of pokemon from his heart gold.
It expands though. o_o IIRC, you get enough after you get the National Pokedex for every Pokemon, and you have more than enough to catch every Pokemon in Unova before getting the National Dex, right?

I'm trying to get them all just because I never have before. Not sure what I'm gonna do about starters and legendaries yet, maybe trade for a few min with friends at school, but I would like to get all the ones excepting those caught. I'm grinding for the Elite 4 now, and leveling Pokemon that I need their evolutions for the Pokedex with an exp share as I do so.

chaos11011

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Age 26
Male
MA
Seen May 4th, 2021
Posted January 23rd, 2019
1,398 posts
15.1 Years
See this team in my sig? Yeah, I'm only using this team completely in the Elite Four. Every pokemon I see I will catch and train it equally, as an example have all my Pokemon Level 17 before the 2nd Gym. I mean, Pokemon's motto is "Gotta Catch'em All!" this will put me at a disadvantage because it will take away from needed EXP (Though Audino fixes this) but puts me at an advantage because I will virtually have a counter for every gym (Multiple counters even!)

If you were wondering, I don't have Pokemon Black yet.

ShinyMeowth

Gone forever

Age 26
Male
Greece
Seen March 23rd, 2012
Posted May 14th, 2011
397 posts
12.4 Years
This is my playing pattern at every Pokemon game:
-Play through the game once using your starter+HM slaves
-Play through the game some more times using different Pokemon
-After some months, start working on the Pokedex.
So, I'm not working on the Pokedex yet, but I will eventually.

Shiny ★ Meowth

Male
So Cal
Seen April 9th, 2017
Posted November 29th, 2014
150 posts
13.9 Years
I go though the game with just my team and then I catch all the pokemon in the dex as something to do after I have completed the main story.
I pretty much do this as well especially since now we can catch Wild Tyranitar's, Milotic, Poliwhirl, Dragonite, Gliscor's, etc...
Male
London
Seen February 21st, 2020
Posted December 8th, 2019
182 posts
13.7 Years
I guess I never really thought of it but yah I am. Or at least i've been trying to. I think it just came as second nature to try and catch them all. But the sad thing is we need more than 8 PC boxes to keep one of every pokemon. Why Nintendo WHY D;
I think my friend has caught every pokemon he's seen and he's already almost out of room. Then again he has compleated the game and transfered a lot of pokemon from his heart gold.

Once you get to a certain part of the story you get 16, maybe 18 boxes.
.

olih

Who says you can't go home?

Female
everywhere
Seen April 19th, 2012
Posted April 2nd, 2012
417 posts
12.4 Years
I'm catching all the Pokemon I find, so it will be easier to fill up my Pokedex. About the not enough space in the box thing, it expands. Once you put one Pokemon in each box, you get more boxes. Eventually you'll have space for 720 Pokemon. More than enough for all the Pokemon in the National Dex.
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Age 32
Female
On Earth~
Seen April 13th, 2011
Posted April 13th, 2011
44 posts
12.2 Years
I tend to catch only the Pokemon I like, then after wards I'll go catch more if I feel like it. XD
I'm not insane, just a loveable fangirl~ <3

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Meganium

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she/her
Houston, TX
Seen February 1st, 2023
Posted February 1st, 2023
I'll attempt to catch all of the Pokemon right after the main storyline. Before that, I'll just stick to what I'm looking for to add on my team.
Male
Seen March 22nd, 2011
Posted March 22nd, 2011
3 posts
12.2 Years
Every single new pokemon I see I catch. I use a AR code for 100% catch rate though, because I get annoyed not catching something and it popping out, or accidently KOing them.

Only cheat I use however. But apart from a couple (Like in one of the caves they are like a 1% chance of appearing) ive gotten all I could. I use a gamefaqs.com faq to make sure I grab all the items etc possible, and to know what pokemon appear.

Saryka

Seen July 16th, 2013
Posted July 16th, 2013
3,499 posts
16.2 Years
I started catching as many Pokémon as I could at the beginning of the game, but... I got reeeeally lazy after about the fourth badge and now I'm only catching Pokémon for my party. The second playthrough, I'm definitely gonna put more effort into catching as many Pokémon as I can, but I ain't catching 'em all because EFFORT. :| and I'm too lazy to trade for the ones I can't get in my game haha.

Ho-Oh

used Sacred Fire!

Age 31
Female
QLD, Australia
Seen June 5th, 2022
Posted April 23rd, 2022
35,988 posts
17.5 Years
Seen: 116, Obtained: 84.

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...and not even versing the Elite Four yet, yeah I'm planning to catch all Unova Pokemon. Not going to catch the Pokemon from other generations though, only if I get them in trades.

And yeah trading will help me complete the pokedex. Sooo, for the first time I'm aiming to complete the pokdex...XD;

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Male
New Orleans
Seen March 12th, 2012
Posted August 2nd, 2011
31 posts
12.2 Years
no, since of course there will be a third version of the series b and w, spending the time cathing all the pokemans and finishing the pokedex in these versions are pointless. Ill wait till "grey"
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Age 28
Male
Somewhere over the rainbow
Seen February 24th, 2016
Posted February 24th, 2016
3,252 posts
16.3 Years
I tend to catch Pokemon which I deemed 'rare' and hard to fight. In B/W, I don't know what's rare and whatnot so if I see a cool-looking Pokemon, I just catch it. But usually, I don't waste my time catching Pokemon.

It's worse for my SS though, in which my Pokemon box never had more than 10 Pokemon in them.
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Age 27
Female
USA.
Seen March 18th, 2011
Posted March 17th, 2011
36 posts
13.1 Years
My first box is already full of Pokemon.

My team has 6 pokemon.

Yeah, I'm going to catch them all.
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Games I own:
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