Where Does it End?

[KetsuekiR]

What do you consider to be the end of a Pokemon game?

Spoiler:

To me, the end has always been catching all the legendaries. I've never bothered with completing the Pokedex or back tracking to collect items and battles skipped trainers. Once I've aught all the legendaries, I either set the game down and plan on restarting it someday or I start building competitive teams xD

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[Evening]

When I have no goals left, or when I get really bored of it.

 

[DraconianWing]

In my opinion, finishing an entire Pokemon game would mean being an absolute completionist; National Dex complete, League completed, a full in-game team of level 100s, and every trainer battled at least once. In games where there is a Battle Frontier (Emerald and the 4th Gen games) I think the player should get all Gold Symbols for the game to be considered "complete".

 

[Lunalie]

I'm gonna be lame and say whenever I beat the Champion. A lot of times unless there is story to go along with it, I don't bother catching the Legendary Pokemon, I play competitively so I like the feeling of knowing that If I want to go back and try to catch them at decent IVs I can do so without restarting the game.

 

[Hyzenthlay]

Personally I agree with what Lunalie said. I don't often go for completing a game 100% as I easily get bored of them once I've finished the main story. The only game I remember ever doing that with was A Link Between Worlds, actually.

If I were a completionist, however, I'd say that the end of a Pokemon game would be fulfilling the National Pokedex! That's a challenge in itself, definitely. Of course that means defeating the League and catching all the legendaries, but that goes without saying.

 

[Laguna]

I tend to stop once I beat the E4 rematches/superboss (Red, Steven in Emerald, etc.), but I only ever do that once I've explored every area and caught every legendary anyway so I'll have completed everything at that point.

 

[Hikamaru]

I usually consider the main story the end of the game. Likely due to me not being a true perfectionist when it comes to games as far as I'm concerned.