Last One to Post Wins! v4

[Cosmega]

I've never even played PLA.

 

[ReKoil]

It's a pretty refreshing experience imo. Plays quite differently form other Pokemon games.
Main reason I never finished it is because I went for a perfect Dex which is grindy beyond grindy. @_@

 

[꧁༺Yuzu༻꧂]

Hi

 

[Weasel D. Garp]

G'day!

I've never finished Pokémon Legends: Arceus and probably never will. Filling up the Pokédex has never been an enjoyable feature in the games for me. I do like however that you can evolve Pokémon in the game that usually require being traded- sometimes whilst holding a particular item- without trading. Likewise that it is possible (although difficult) to complete a Pokédex in one game and not have to rely on trading with another game(s). They got that right, at least.

 

[ReKoil]

I would have long finished PLA had I settled for pokedex rank 10 on every Pokemon... or even just registering them lol
So much quicker to do, but no I just had to decide I wanted to perfect every PokeDex entry @_@

The no trading trade evos were nice though, along with not having IV and a much easier to use EV system.
I also love just being able to send out my mon to fight some wild Pokemon and then running away while the battle is ongoing hehe

 

[Megan]

I stopped playing PLA because I could never beat noble Avalugg. ^^"

Hi

Hello! How are you? :D

 

[Lavemu☆]

I'm blank rn so here's kaito spinning

 

[Weasel D. Garp]

It was also nice getting to sneak up on Pokémon and try to catch them without having to battle them- especially the Alpha Pokémon who can be quite overpowered sometimes. *Bonks the next poster with a Poké Ball*

 

[ReKoil]

Spoiler:

Best thing about PLA imo is easily the shiny sound =P
You don't have to constantly look at stuff to see if it's shiny or not like in SV, and can just wait till you hear it and then save and look around. It's so good for those annoyingly identical shinies. I would've passed by multiple of those if not for the sound.

Though sometimes it still doesn't help much, like with Petilil... I heard the sound.... stared at everything there and could not find a shiny,...
*throws balls at everything in the area and sees a shiny Petilil in his box afterward* @_@

 

[ThePKMNSyndicate]

I looked through that Bulbapedia link, and it says the 50% shiny chance is only on Japanese versions. It's 14% for international versions of the game.

Which makes sense. I've played through Crystal a bunch and I've only gotten a shiny from the odd egg once. (Elekid).

This felt pretty accurate thinking back. Why did they neuter anyone outside of their home country? Because that's what Japanese companies do. They shell out for home country with their racial stereotypes and reduce for everyone else. I don't actually necessarily believe this, just wanted to show you guys a reddit thread I really enjoyed esterday.

I've never even played PLA.

Same, liked what I saw from a full walkthrough though earlier this year. Can't wait for Z.

I'll probably just wait for the next mainline Pokemon game to come out. I assume it'll be for Nintendo's next console, though. I still have a bunch of older Switch games I haven't played much. ^^"

Haven't purchased a PKMN game since OmegaRuby when I was disappointed by the lack of Frontier post game AND the reason why they didn't give it to us after giving us a Frontier via Emerald and HeartGold/SoulSilver. Shoot, Black/White 2 gave us the PWT, which was a cherry on top for a battle fanatic.

 

[꧁༺Yuzu༻꧂]

I stopped playing PLA because I could never beat noble Avalugg. ^^"

Hello! How are you? :D

Great, how about you? 😊

And no shame, that was a hard boss fight, it's the only one that took me a couple tries, and then I found a glitch somehow. I think people talked about but I can't remember. It pretty much made it so I cheesed it lol, so I rolled with it.

But the rest of the game afterward is really good so if you ever decide to give it another go, it's worth it, and I believe in you! But if not, that's fine too lol

 

[StCooler]

I've never finished Pokémon Legends: Arceus and probably never will. Filling up the Pokédex has never been an enjoyable feature in the games for me. I do like however that you can evolve Pokémon in the game that usually require being traded- sometimes whilst holding a particular item- without trading. Likewise that it is possible (although difficult) to complete a Pokédex in one game and not have to rely on trading with another game(s). They got that right, at least.

I have never even had the idea of starting to fill the Pokédex. I would like to know the ratio of players who fill their Pokédexes...

 

[Megan]

I have never even had the idea of starting to fill the Pokédex. I would like to know the ratio of players who fill their Pokédexes...

I've had my fair share of Pokedex filling over the generations. Almost finished gen 1, completely filled it in gen 2, caught everything catchable in Sapphire (didn't have anybody to trade with), almost filled the X Pokedex, but then ended up moving everything to OR.

In Moon I actually tried an interesting challenge: fill the Pokedex with mostly using the GTS. I mostly just caught a ton of Haunter, threw them in there and got way more Pokemon than I expected. I had to improvise at the end, though. I farmed a bunch of Metal Coats and then bred some Scyther and threw those together into the GTS. That still didn't solve the whole problem, though, so at the end I did some manual trading with another game I had lying around.

I will never try filling the Pokedex ever again; at least not with a newer generation! ^^"

 

[ReKoil]

PokeDex completion has gotten really easy in the newer games tbh. A lot of the trade evos can be caught in dens and they even do version exclusive events from time to time.
I never bothered with it prior to SwSh due to not having anyone to trade with, but have completed every dex since pretty easily.

 

[StCooler]

In my fangame, the Pokédex is complete at the start of the game so you don't have to suffer, because I love my players
Not including the legendary Pokémons, though.

 

[Lavemu☆]

sounds cool!!!

 

[ReKoil]

I spent several hours grinding an Artisan Poltchageist outbreak today... and snagged me 2 of the hard to spot shiny little buggers +_+

 

[PoryKid575]

I've had my fair share of Pokedex filling over the generations. Almost finished gen 1, completely filled it in gen 2, caught everything catchable in Sapphire (didn't have anybody to trade with), almost filled the X Pokedex, but then ended up moving everything to OR.

In Moon I actually tried an interesting challenge: fill the Pokedex with mostly using the GTS. I mostly just caught a ton of Haunter, threw them in there and got way more Pokemon than I expected. I had to improvise at the end, though. I farmed a bunch of Metal Coats and then bred some Scyther and threw those together into the GTS. That still didn't solve the whole problem, though, so at the end I did some manual trading with another game I had lying around.

I will never try filling the Pokedex ever again; at least not with a newer generation! ^^"

I tried completing a living dex in Gen 4 a few years ago with the games I had / GTS through Wiimmfi; but I ended up quitting about 75% of the way through since I was sick of how much grinding and other annoying stuff was required.

 

[Weasel D. Garp]

It's extremely annoying when the game requires you to complete the Pokédex to a certain point to advance the story and/or access an area, like Scarlet and Violet did with the Blood-Moon Ursaluna and Primal Entei and Raikou paradox Pokémon. I liked in Brilliant Diamond that you just needed to have seen every Pokémon in the Pokédex (or a picture of them) to access the rest of the Battle Zone- if you'd battled all the trainers that had shown up in the game up to that point, you'd likely have completed that.

*Wins*

 

[ReKoil]

Luckily you can just complete it once and then use Home to just import them onto other/new saves for quick rewards :fufu:

Though unfortunately if you want to send items over to your main game you basically need a second switch or someone reliable to send your stuff back, as Home doesn't allow item transfer.