Today’s game is Pokemon Emerald. It is done. My living dex has been completed (at least to the extent Emerald can cover) and i moved them all over to box on the 3DS (along with backing them up on my PC).
Completing a Living dex has been hard. Like, really hard. I think the only way this could be more difficult is if i was doing a shiny dex. You know how many Shinies i found while filling out the Living Hoenn dex? 1. And it was a shiny Nincada. The game estimates i spent 150 hours in total, so doing some napkin math that’s nearly ~30000 hours too fill it out. No way i can do that.
The regi-trio weren’t too bad. I just spammed ultraballs and put them to sleep until i caught the. The only bad part were the puzzles, which even then weren’t too bad.
You know what was bad though? Milotic. Only 6 spots on that entire route is bullshit. I was just sailing up and down with the old rod hoping for it too bite. It took ages. To be honest it’s making me rethink doing the rest of the achievements purely because of how burnt out i was. Thank god for ditto so i could just breed another.
After i pulled my Ditto out of that daycare though for one last time, i breathed a sigh of relief, but also felt immensely proud. I may have to do it multiple other times but this was a good challenge i think and a really good stepping stone.
Nicely done.
I remember doing nothing but resetting for months to get my shiny Rayquaza. Funny thing, on Sapphire, I accidentally got a shiny after ~10 resets while nature farming.
For Feebas, if you’re not into ditto breeding, once you find one, you just keep fishing the same spot. Finding it is bullshit, though. Especially since you can still get magikarp or whatever trash is still found in the area.
I reset for shiny Rayquaza too. I remember after a month or two reading it was shiny locked. Is that not the case?
I’m pretty sure none of the ruby/saph/em Pokémon were locked. It sure felt like it, though. Never got a groudon.
Just googled it, it’s not shiny locked but there a bug with the rng for emerald where if you don’t leave the room your rng doesn’t reset. Meaning soft reloading in front of Rayquaza will either always give you a shiny or never
Milotic is a really unfun pokemon to get, the evolving part was actually cool but the fishing is truly stupid. I ended up cheating only for that pokemon.
I almost ended up cheating it in too. I ended up going “well. I’ll put some music on and just sail down the river once with the fishing rod. If I find something then great. Otherwise? I don’t have the time for this”
Oh so you got lucky? Nice haha
that’s fun. whats that in the bottom right? what icons?
They’re achievements! I keep forgetting the screenshot function captures them but they’re icons telling me what achievements I can grab at that point in time. Super handy but annoying sometimes when it gets cluttered
I hope Juan and Greg are happy knowing that they aided you in finishing the Dex. And yeah Milotic is a bitch to catch and is generally only for Dex completion. Abilities kinda suck and stats aren’t worth all the effort
The only thing I like Milotic for is that it’s pretty. But god. From now on I might just cheat it in because holy fuck that’s a nightmare to do
Huh? It is actually viable in multiple competitive formats on Pokemon Showdown. It’s pretty tanky, learns Recover, hits decently with Surf and Ice Beam and can learn Toxic. It might not be the best Pokemon ever, but it’s definitely a good option even for a regular playthrough if you have the time to catch it and need a Water type because you did not pick Mudkip as a starter.
Oh shit I actually forgot how little water types there are in this specific gen, I was thinking more national Dex.
You’re absolutely right about it being very useful in this generation and region
Hell yeah, that’s a fuckin achievement for sure. Good job, man!
NOW you gotta boot up Pokemon Infinite Fusion and complete THAT living dex lmao (fully joking…unless? 👀)
I’ve played Infinite Fusion. I don’t think I could handle a Living Dex. The math alone would be some advanced level radicals I’m too tired to calculate. I do have some funny Pokemon from it though, like a Shits.
A shiny dex sounds like it’s own layer of hell. In my mudkip-only game, I decided I may as well get a shiny mudkip if I’m stuck with it for the entire game, and that took me way, way too long even with fast forward. Admittedly a shiny starter is quite a bit different than a random shiny, but still!
I have trouble keeping patient enough to get a female starter to breed and trade to friends who pick other ones. Getting a shiny one I don’t think I could do
Mine's actually a shiny female!
For Emerald specifically, I learned shiny starter hunting is actually especially difficult. For other pokemon games, your seed is randomly generated when reloading the game, so you have a random 1/8192 chance to get a shiny starter every time you select it. But for whatever reason in Emerald, your seed stays the same from the moment you start a new game. So the RNG is completely fixed. What this means is you can’t really soft-reset for the shiny right in front of the bag as easily as you can in other games, because if you pick the pokemon at, say, the 100th frame, then you’ll always see that exact version of the pokemon at the 100th frame. So in between each soft-reset you need to wait longer and longer each time so you don’t risk grabbing it on the same frame as before.
Eventually you’ll be waiting 20+ seconds between each reset, and rather than continue to soft-reset, it will be faster to just start a new save entirely, which properly resets the seed. Which you’ll then need to do again and again until you eventually get the shiny. Now I was perfectly ready for a regular shiny starter hunt, but this? No, this was some crap I wasn’t willing to put up with. So I instead went down a whole rabbit hole of learning how to RNG manipulate using a hex reader. Still took me multiple days on and off, but it was an interesting learning experience. I could technically use this to guarantee any pokemon is shiny by waiting for the correct frame (the one upside to static RNG) since I now know my secret ID (the hard part), but that wont do me much good in a mudkip-only run lol.
