Have you ever caught them all?

Started by Sirfetch’d February 22nd, 2016 6:10 AM
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Age 32
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8.2 Years
I'm currently on 718/721 on Pokemon X, seen and owned.

Only ones missing are Meloetta, Genesect and of course Volcanion.

I've currently got one of every single Pokemon (apart from the aforementioned three) in National Dex order in my Pokemon Bank, plus hundreds more that I've caught, raised and traded over the years.

VisualJae

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7.6 Years
Have a pseudo-living Dex (only boxed final stages) in my ORAS file. Everything but Volcanion, of course. Either way, National Dex reads 720/720.

Shiny Charm does make the occasional shiny hunts significantly easier, I'll have to say.
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Yep got all released Pokemon in nat dex order in my OR and a cloned set in my Pokebank and Pokemon Y for safety sake.
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LilyGardy

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As far as the game is concerned yes.

I got the Diploma in (IGN - Stephanie). The first addition was Fennekin (My starter) with the last addition being Mismagius (Which I evolved right in front of Sycamore). :)

This was the first time I have completed the Pokedex. It was a big undertaking with lots of GTS trading particularly for the tricky to get ones like Porygon 2 and Magmortar.
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I caught all of them in X/Y! It took quite a while but I managed to do it before PokéBank had even come out worldwide. The GTS helped me a lot with my quest, as did my friends. :]

I also did it in Alpha Sapphire too! The Shiny Charm is worth it.
Lucky! I've been telling myself that I am going to complete the dex on Omega Ruby but it's going to take me a while to get all of those event legendaries haha. Oh well, the 20th Anni events are going to be a huge step forward in completing the Pokdex!

Sydian

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Yes! I did that in my copy of X. :) I'm only missing Volcanion, for obvious reasons. And that new thingie. lol But I had a lot of fun with it! I was trying to do it again in AlphaSapphire, but for some reason, it just wasn't as fun. idk why.
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I never get to catch 'em all... but in Black I did come close by owning nearly all non-legendary members at the time.
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Thanks to Wonder Trade and breeding, yep!
I started by catching all Pokemon I could in my Y and AS and then breeding and evolving them to fill in the gaps. Then I made a few trades for the rest, but Wonder Trade helped me get the missing evolution lines, as well as some of the Legendaries.
The only ones missing were the mythical legendaries, but I obtained those through that QR hack last year. I'm not too proud of that, but I have a huge thing against the way those Pokemon are released. Although, now with the 20th anniversary codes, it may have been unnecessary.
Oh well, I have all 721 and even extras of the Legendaries so I'm happy for now~
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I believe I first caught them all on my blue version. Well, except for Mew. Then on crystal I managed to get 251/251. Not being able to transfer them up to Ruby and Sapphire was one of several factors that caused me to go on hiatus from Pokemon for several generations (along with not owning a DS...) but last year I broke my wrist and figured I had nothing better to do than catch 'em all. I now have a living dex of 720/720. Just waiting on more pokemon to be released in the meantime, and I've started new collection quests of getting breedable HA pokemon and rare ball pokemon. I swear that once you complete one goal it's time to start another. At least it's easy to keep my dex completed now.
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Fannie

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I'm jealous of everyone with a shiny charm. I wonder what else they might add in future as a reward for dex completion.
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I completed the dex in Black 2 and X. Doing it in Black 2 was pretty tedious and boring. Doing it in X was pretty exciting because I had a goal to complete it before PokeBank came out in NA, and I ended up completing it on the day it came out in Japan. I was spamming trades on the GTS with Japanese players, and trading the new Pokemon to people in #tradecorner so they could start breeding them for everyone. Everyone was like "GET MUDKIP NEXT !!!!!!!!!!!!!" Oh, that was a fun day for trading and dex filling!

Once I had it I started breeding for shinies a lot. This was during a period of time that Shiny Value abuse didn't work.
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I was very close to getting it done once in Emerald, but there were still a few Pokémon out there that I just wasn't able to capture. If it weren't for that, it likely wouldn't have been a problem, haha. With the amount of Pokémon we have now, capturing them all seems to be nearly impossible.

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15.4 Years
In short no. Every time a new generation comes round I say I'll do it, but I never do. With each generation adding 50-100 new Pokemon, it just becomes more difficult to keep up!

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Pretty sure the closest I ever got to that was back in blue...and even then, I'm sure I was missing a bunch, since I would have needed all the ones from red version. ._. meh.

And by now....ah ha ha. It's daunting just thinking about it, I'm not even going to attempt to catch all of them. I mean, if I end up with them all, good for me. I'm just not going to make it my goal. :P

Fannie

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Posted May 14th, 2016
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Honestly the shiny charm hasn't done all that much for me since I completed my Dex. I felt like I was finding more shinies before I even got the charm and once I did get the charm it felt like went down drastically.
That's strange. Maybe you got the 'Made in China' shiny charm.
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Megan

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Afaik in gen 1 I was only one mon short, or maybe I got the diploma and I don't remember anymore...

In gen 2 I got up to 250 Pokemon, the only one missing being Celebi.

In gen 3 I didn't complete it, but I caught everything that was catchable in Sapphire.

In gen 6 I was only 4 mons short in X, but I restarted that version after trading the important ones to my OR. At the same time I managed to get everything in OR, though most of the event mons where hacked, so they're not legit. At the same time, however, whenever I get access to a legit event mon, I like to release the hacked one, because why not.

Also, no matter what happens, I'm never going to complete a Pokedex ever again. It's just way too much work and the price you get for completing it, isn't even worth it, imo.
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