How fast do you play?

[FakeNate0]

How fast do you get to the e4 or finish post game content? My choice will be, I'm in the slow category.

 

[Explorer of Time]

It usually takes me around forty hours to beat most Pokemon games, so a little on the slow side compared to the average player but not significantly so. I like to take my time with exploring everything, but I generally know what I'm doing well enough to not need to spend a lot of time on grinding or team reworks, and I rarely if ever focus on Pokedex completion.

 

[Devalue]

In a first playthrough? Probably average. Checks out some encounters for new Pokemon. Will try out whatever new mechanic briefly. Remains pretty objective-oriented, though.

In a repeat playthrough? Varies. Aims for speed in a multiplayer-ish setting and for Archipelago randomizers (solo or multiplayer).

Stands a higher chance of EV training, outside of that. (Requires a fast and/or low effort means of doing so, however.) Wants whatever weak/underrated Pokemon currently being used to perform well. Rarely fights a battle without hitting the level cap. Spent 6 hours, 50 minutes to beat the first gym leader in the recent Diamond challenge, for example (with some time inefficiencies). Likely only picks a fight sooner with decent victory odds and no good leveling methods available.

Went with average.

 

[Rock_Salazar]

I got out of my way to talk to every NPC, read every sign, and battle every trainer. Also takes me like 30 minutes just to come up with names for the protag and pokemon. Though, I usually play with the speedup function for gens 1 to 3.

 

[icycatelf]

I try to knock out the story within the first few days of playing so as to avoid spoilers.

 

[Nah]

Usually on the slower side of things for a first playthrough. Not quite "I literally have to comb every square millimeter of the game" levels of slow, but there's little reason for me not to interact with the world a good bit.
Subsequent playthroughs though, those go a lot faster since I'm usually just aiming to beat the game and am already familiar with things about it, which cuts down on time a lot.

 

[Jbsundown]

This seems like a great MRTR question 👀
For me I'm between fast and average I think. On a replay definitely in the fast. Initially I start out reading things and exploring but eventually, I find, I become less interested in the world so instead head towards objectives!

 

[Zeostar]

I usually land at 25 hours on any subsequent playthrough.

I'd say 20 hours for reaching the elite four and 5 hours for any elite four preparation/grinding.

 

[Megan]

Average, I suppose? I'm not trying to get through the games as fast as possible. But I definitely feel like talking to most NPCs doesn't really add anything to the games. Especially in the first couple generations NPCs mostly just break the 4th wall by explaining game mechanics. Or they have some meaningless one-liners. :(

 

[Lysander]

How quickly I finish the game from the day I started a new file depends on whether or not I'm switching between other games at the same time. My play time doesn't usually get particularly high as I mainly focus on just getting through the game and don't really interact with a lot of the NPCs besides the ones that I know give you items like TMs for talking to them.

 

[jibbajabbawocky]

I'm normally a very slow player. Wandering around, catching random pokemon, etc... Sw/Sh and SV adding random stuff to pick up that constantly respawns just has me running around picking up every sparkle. :) 40+ hours into Scarlet and I beat the gyms, did Arven's quest and now and just wandering around again

 

[ReKoil]

I voted slow. I will go everywhere I possibly can, fight every trainer I can find for money and exp and pick up every dang item I can find.
My most recent 2 playthroughs are type based and I shiny hunted quite a lot in them as well, because apparently I was still going too fast or something @_@

 

[PoryKid575]

I selected "slow", since I generally spend a good amount of time exploring every nook and cranny, as well as often taking breaks to engage with side-modes like contests. On average I'd say it takes me 25 hours to get to the credits and 40 before I'm done with the playthrough.

 

[dogparty]

Very slow. Like 40 hours in gen II to beat the champion, and I think for gen 7 it took 30.

I'll admit, until the time of writing this I had no clue as to what could possibly be slowing me down so much, but besides the fact that I DO check every corner and talk to every NPC, I like to keep all my party around the same level, so whenever I catch a new pokemon I want to use, I focus on grinding levels for it by fighting NPCs while using that mon, which makes fights take a lot longer than they would if I just used my starter to blast through. since it's usually wayyy low leveled by comparison.
Basically I play most fights with a ~10 level difference, and do a lot of backtracking.

Still, those were some fun 40 hours! I guess that's what matters :DDD

 

[TsukiTsukino]

Regardless of if the game I always take my time talking with every NPC and looking for hidden items or every Pokémon in an area. Even if I've played the game countless times which honestly that's most of them I still do that because it's enjoyable. I also like to take my time grinding levels or EV training my Pokémon, sometimes even stopping to hunt/hatch a shiny I want to use, might as well play the game with some ✨sparkles✨right?

 

[RadEmpoleon]

Definitely slow. I'm sure when I was younger I could blow through a game pretty fast, but I don't have the time or energy to play as frequently anymore. Even when I do, I can only play for an hour or two at most. All my recent playthroughs have been dragging out for these reasons. I bought Ultra Moon when the eShop shut down almost 2 years ago and I haven't even beaten the champion yet.

 

[Elite Overlord LeSabre™]

I definitely take my time, usually in the 50's as far as play time hours. Most of that is admittedly level grinding, which I am notorious for. I also try to talk with the NPCs to take in the full experience.

 

[eevulpes]

How fast do you get to the e4 or finish post game content? My choice will be, I'm in the slow category.

Slow, slow, slow. I have to pick up every item, battle every trainer, overtrain my Pokemon, check every house that I can enter, speak with every villager...no stone unturned in that first play-through.

 

[Fact Checking Gardevoir]

As fast a a yawning Slugma! ^^

 

[Yippee!]

I checked my times for the pokemon games I played last year (Sword, Emerald, Colosseum & XD) in comparison to HowLongtoBeat and I'm surprisingly average according to them.

For the mainline titles I feel l like I usually take my time with the game, fight whatever I find, catch whatever I can. I think that feeling is because I spend a lot of time with side activities like berry farming in emerald and dynamax raids in sword. This rings especially true since my times with and without post game are massively different. I guess I just like to get caught up in the daily upkeep and low stakes grinding that they offer, especially since they don't over level me in the process (Not like I had to worry in since I was 10 levels below the champion in emerald and exactly leveled for sword LOL).

The Gamecube games I definitely rushed for completion, I still liked to poke my head into whatever there was but I did feel noticeably more rushed about it. Probably because I was intending to link my progress on both games back to my emerald file. It was worth it though, it was super satisfying to get all those mons into one save file.