HeroLinik

To this day, he still can't beat Air Man...

Age 25
Male
UK, happy now?
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Posted April 13th, 2023
920 posts
6.1 Years
When I usually play any game, I tend to scour the routes for Pokemon, and make an attempt to catch as many of them as possible, or all of them, even if I don't plan to use them in the future. That way, I ensure it's less strenuous when completing the Pokedex after the main game is done.

Do any of you feel the need to catch them all when just playing through the ingame?

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ShyRayq

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Posted March 2nd, 2023
1,855 posts
15.8 Years
I prefer to start catching pokemon once I've beaten the Elite 4 when I have: a surplus of money for balls, all the hms+items needed to access every area, and maybe access to Smeargle or some other useful catching 'mon.

I do want to try doing this eventually, but not yet.
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Seen January 27th, 2019
Posted January 27th, 2019
2,823 posts
5.9 Years
past me yes. I had a habit of catching every new pokemon in sight but not going out of my way to catch them all. Most games i'd catch at least 1/3 of that regional dex. Now I'm lazy and don't care about catching things just to stuff them in a box for the rest of eternity. I only catch teammates and hm slaves mostly. I hate how in kanto they require you to catch a certain amount of pokemon to have access to things.

ZeoStar

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11,418 posts
5.6 Years
I catch things if I feel like reading the dex entries.

If I'm rotating my team, I'm more likely to catch stuff.

Palamon

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Age 26
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Snezhnaya, Teyvat.
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7,789 posts
14.3 Years
Quality > quantity. There are playthroughs of Pokemon where I don't even catch a full team of six.

But there was one time I came SUPER close to completing the Pokedex. I was one Pokemon away in Pokemon White from SEEING all 649 Pokemon...all that was missing was Genesect. Wifi helped making completing the Pokedex that much easier! But for some reason, I was never able to obtain Genesect. I'm still kind mad about that.

I only have 571 obtained, but 648 SEEN. I might go back and evolve some of the Pokemon I'm missing if possible since I'm only missing evolutions and some Pokemon I couldn't pick like fossils. I could easily "catch" them all in my White verison since I have the means to do so....

tokyodrift

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Age 29
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4,525 posts
11.9 Years
No, not at all. I usually only catch what I plan on using. I do want to do a playthrough where I attempt to capture them all at some point though.

BH

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Age 38
Non-binary
Poland
Seen August 31st, 2020
Posted August 31st, 2020
1,041 posts
18.1 Years
No. I only catch what I want.
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Age 20
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Posted 14 Minutes Ago
5,185 posts
11.6 Years
Sometimes I do. Alpha Sapphire and Gen VII are some examples.

OK, it's become a habit.
Age 21
Male
Brazil
Seen June 28th, 2019
Posted February 28th, 2019
495 posts
5.1 Years
Nope, i've never been the type of player that catches 'em all, of course i was really doing it when i first beat red/blue, but i think is not something REAAAAAAALLY important to do, only on ocasions when i am bored of battling and want to complete the pokedex.
But still, i think doing that makes the game too easy for me.
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Age 32
Female
Australia
Seen March 23rd, 2023
Posted January 17th, 2019
246 posts
6.4 Years
Yes, but only recently. As a kid I just caught what I wanted and didn't give a toss about the dex.

In fact, the only reason I caught pokemon as a kid outside the grouping I wanted was because the Professor's Aides gave me goodies.


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Brendino

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Posted April 6th, 2023
8,567 posts
13.5 Years
For the longest time, I never really felt the need to try and catch as many different Pokemon as possible- I usually knew the Pokemon that I wanted to use, and if something wasn't on my shortlist of things I wanted, I didn't bother with it. Ultra Moon was probably the first time I actually starting catching Pokemon just for the sake of filling up my Pokedex, but I didn't go out of my way to try and fill it up; if I just happened to come across a Pokemon I didn't have, I'd try to catch it, but not worry too much if I KOed it or something.

The only time I actually tried completing the Pokedex was in FireRed, and that was because I had already put so many hours into the game and didn't have much left to do, so I figured the least I could do would be to fill up the Kanto Dex.

Janp

Age 26
They/Them
Czech Republic
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5,344 posts
10.1 Years
Never. It felt like boring chore especially with some Pokémon blocked in the other game. I completed Pokédex only in Alpha Sapphire and Sun and getting some of the Pokémon was really boring. And I traded some of them only to get Pokédex entry and then traded them back. So it really didn't felt like I caught them.
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Fritz

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Age 23
Any
Cyrodiil
Seen 2 Weeks Ago
Posted March 10th, 2023
2,152 posts
6.7 Years
Yes, I usually try to catch any Pokémon that I haven't caught on a specific file yet, even if I know I'm probably never going to use it for anything afterwards.

Megan

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17,824 posts
10.3 Years
I've completed the Pokedex enough times to not care catching them all, anymore. In fact, most of the times I play a Pokemon game I just barely manage get a full team of six before the last badge/Pokemon league.
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atmmachine11

Jumping portals since 1997.

Age 26
Male
Canada
Seen January 11th, 2023
Posted July 9th, 2018
136 posts
10.8 Years
It depends for me really. I ended up doing it in a few of my games, Fire Red when I was a kid (which ended up paying off since I got to explore all of the cool post game) and I also completed it in X and Y in order to properly shiny hunt. For the most part however, I don't care as much now and mainly capture Pokemon I want.

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Seen December 30th, 2022
Posted December 29th, 2022
8,974 posts
18.1 Years
I feel that with every Pokemon game, I become increasingly less motivated to complete the Pokedex. The overall sheer number of Pokemon for me makes it an uphill climb especially if you've never really completed a Pokedex before. x.x

So I just... really don't bother.