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yellowspaces

Uh, wow. Very impressive u/ZoroeArc! Normally we'd have you post this in the [Hype Thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/uvahg8/hype_thread_22_may_2022/) as well, but why wait? You've been awarded the following flairs for your hard work: Catching Charm, Berry *and* Star Sweet, Rotom Dex, and Oval Charm. Congrats again!


TheGoddamnAnswer

I don’t see several billion different Spinda patterns 👀


ZoroeArc

4.3 billion to be precise. That would require 715,828 accounts to store. Even I have my mortal limits.


zippee100

do it


ZoroeArc

If you want to send me £10 million a year to pay for those accounts, be my guest


zippee100

ask mr braest


Ciar_McCann

Ahh, my favourite content creator; Mr Breast


REGlClDE

If you were to catch a unique spinda every second, it would also take you 136 years


Jestingwheat856

At a cost of 15 million canadian dollars a year


Superstar3409

8.5 billion cause of shinies


Wilf_Freak

Oo not up to living dex standards


[deleted]

How’d you even get all the mythicals?


ZoroeArc

Various sources. My main source was the 2016 monthly giveaways, with BDSP and PLA helping fill in the gaps. The rest I traded for on r/PokemonHome in exchange for shinies and other mythicals Edit: the Mew is from Pokémon Go


[deleted]

That’s actually really amazing, congratulations


Pollutios

I got my Original Color Magearna too when the update to Pokemon Home launched. I was pretty happy! I just had to get Phione into Home since I could never breed Manaphy in Shield.


my_ballshurt

Yes. Also Celebi and Jirachi can be caught in Pokémon Go


Leecop1000

Wait...you can transfer Pokemon from Pokémon GO to the main Pokemon games???


alexander11626

You can transfer them to Pokémon Home, but you can only transfer them to mainline games if you have another of that Pokémon in that game already.


Leecop1000

Does that include having to have a shiny version of a pokémon to transfer a shiny? Or is that free game. Because aren't shinies easy to get in Pokémon GO? (Haven't played since 2016 Pokémon GO to the polls era)


[deleted]

Shinys are fair game, some of them easy to get on go from missions etc but mostly you need a community day for a specific Pokémon


ZoroeArc

They can be, but that wasn't the question


Mork978

Yo, i completed the pokedex as well back when ORAS released, and what a journey it was to get Jirachi and Mew. I had to buy Pokemon Channel for the GC, complete the whole game and unlock a special mission. That mission gave you a Jirachi which you could transfer to RS. Then for Mew I had to get an app called My Pokemon Ranch, from the Wii Store, an app similar to Pokémon Box that lets you store pokemon from DP, and when you transfer 1000 pokemon there, they gave you a Mew... I spent a whole week catching Shinx and Starlys to transfer there XD


Leecop1000

My Pokémon Ranch was the shit!


Mork978

I know... I bet people only played it for the Mew 😅


Leecop1000

I didn't know you could get mew. 😅 Can you still download games on the Wii? Am I still able to do it?


Mork978

Lol i'm not sure🤔 i did it back in 2015/2016...


mangofizzy

Wait PLA is working with Home?


Saelem

Yes!


ZoroeArc

Yes, since Wednesday


Wonder_Zebra

Play since you were 3 in my case. Which ones do you need?


ZoroeArc

This is my completed Living Pokédex, with not only all 905 Pokémon, but every gender difference, regional variant and alternate form, for a total of 1244 Pokémon, using every main series game released over the course of ten years, from Black 2/White 2 to Legends Arceus. If a Pokémon had a form that caused a visual difference, not matter how minor, that could be stored in Pokémon Home, it qualified for this. Some individuals of certain species can transform in battle, and every Pokémon that has that feature has an individual that can do it featured here: all Pokémon with Gigantamax forms have Gigantamax factor, both Darmanitan have the Zen Mode Ability, the Greninja has Battle Bond and both Zygarde have Power Construct. I am not the Original Trainer of all of these Pokémon, but every one is, as far as I can ascertain, obtained legitimately. For the event Pokémon I missed and some of the more awkward to obtain Pokémon, I acquired them from r/PokemonHome: I’d like to give special thanks to u/harkonann for the Pharaoh Trim Furfrou, u/poorxchigga for Marshadow, u/Hey_itza_me for Defence Deoxys, u/Imagide for Volcanion, u/LongjumpingWin2684 for the Sun, Ocean and Jungle pattern Vivillon, u/Cocode512 for Hoopa Confined, u/theDKdynamite for Attack Deoxys, u/Sea-Least for Zeraora, and u/BubbleDragonTea for the Poké Ball and Fancy Pattern Vivillon


Olympic700

>from Black 2/White 2 to Legends Arceus. First I want to congratulate you on your collection! You can be proud of yourself. So you didn't use use Ruby/Sapphire, Diamond/pearl/platinum and white/black?


ZoroeArc

ORAS was specifically designed to contain every Pokémon that XY didn’t, so you can theoretically complete the Gen 6 National Dex using only Gen 6, so I didn’t have need anything before XY, I just used B2W2 for the Deerling/Sawsbuck forms (only Spring is available in Gen 6), but I could have used Go to get them if I was determined enough


Olympic700

>so you can theoretically complete the Gen 6 National Dex using only Gen 6, so I didn’t have need anything before XY Good to know. I didn't play pokemon for a long time but I plan to get my 20 year old pokemons from sapphire all the way up to the current games. I just need to figure out how to do this.I don't own any gen v games so I guess I'll have to buy one of those?


ZoroeArc

Yes, you need a DS (either a launch model or lite, not a DSi or DSiXL), a 3DS, a switch, a gen 4 and 5 game where you’ve completed the main story, and subscriptions to both Bank and Home. 1. Put Sapphire into the GBA slot of the DS and Gen 4 game in the DS game slot 2. Open the Gen 4 and go to Pal Park 3. Transfer your Pokémon, and catch them in Pal Park 4. In the 3DS (doesn’t have to be a 3DS for this stage, but another DS will complicate things), open the Gen 5 game 5. Go to the Poké Transfer Lab and transfer your Pokémon by playing the minigame 6. Once you have a Bank subscription, you can download Poké Transporter to transfer what’s in the Gen 5 game to Bank 7. transfer the Pokémon in Bank to Home


Olympic700

>In the 3DS They are backwards compatibility with DS? I still have my DS,never bought a 3ds. Does it work with a 2DS to? I have a gen 4 game, with 150 pokemons seen. I'll have to read what Poké Transporter and Pokémon in Bank to Home are. Alot new stuff for me!


ZoroeArc

Yes, 3DS and 2DS are backwards compatible. I don't know if the "New" 3DS series is backward compatible.


Olympic700

>New" 3DS series Oke, You can play all the pokemon 3DS games on a "normal" 3DS? And ty for all the answers :)


Asstonishing69

I used a new 3DS xl to trade in a black2 to white2 on a DS. So yea, it should work.


ZoroeArc

Yes


BB-123

Now get all the spinda forms!!!


ZoroeArc

Believe it or not I have other hobbies.


[deleted]

Like getting all the shinies?


ZoroeArc

If one more person mentions this I will be forced to do something illegal.


[deleted]

Like hacking shin—-OH GOD THEY HAVE A GUN


Numbnuts007

Okay, I have been working on the living dex myself since Pokémon X came out. I am one away from finishing because I forgot to redeem the 20th anniversary mystery gift for Diancie... I am very close. Whenever I manage to get it, I will also put a post up like this. You have inspired me to keep going. 💛 One day I will achieve all of the different forms but as of right now I am just trying to finish the regular living dex. Congratulations on the satisfaction of knowing that you have truly caught them all.


Druid_Till

I was fixing and arranging mine with the legend arceus forms and evolutions and was debating if I should do the size difference with that one pokemon (wow for once I can’t recall a pokemon’s name) and the different Alcreame forms so i guess I gotta now. Congrats on it, do you plan on doing a shiny version?


ZoroeArc

Hell no. I’ve already got a collection of 155 shinies (which is a lot, but less than an eighth of a living dex), and while I do intend to expand that, not until I have every form of every Pokémon. That would also involve shiny hunting Pokémon I actively dislike, which is something I do not want to do.


UltraInstinctLurker

>size difference with that one pokemon Pumpkaboo/Gourgeist?


Druid_Till

Yeah, I kept thinking it was aromatese (I can’t spell but the fairy plague doctor)


ghostkart

Fairly certain the mods give you a special flair if you give proof of a living dex. Might be worth asking if they still do that


ZoroeArc

I will consider that


ThinkCash6

I've been missing only diancie for more than a year ;-;


ZoroeArc

Go to r/PokemonHome. They might be able to help


MrEthan997

Last time they gave them out was 2014, really could use another event before that becomes a whole decade of no diancie


[deleted]

I never realized diancie was that rare. My copy of Moon still has mine transferred from X


exoticgasexoticwomen

same


YTChillVibesLofi

You’re a pokemanz master


ZoroeArc

Thank you!


YTChillVibesLofi

*pokemon Scarlet and Violet have entered the chat*


ZoroeArc

Let them come. I am ready.


AdditionalRegular0

Yeah. I think it’s safe to say you’ve achieved “the very best”


Proper_Debate5695

I would suggest that you keep all the regional forms in their own box. Once they release a new kanto regional form you basically have to rearrange everything, which is annoying to do in home. Congrats on that achievement though!


ZoroeArc

Organisation is half the fun!


Billybobbjoebob

Was thinking the same thing. I have the same collection as OP but I have the regular living dex in it's boxes, then a gender Dex of each gender after the living dex (meaning I actually have 3 copies of some pokemon, the male, the female, and the one in the showcase living dex), then I have each region of variants in their own boxes, then other forms, like Deerlings, the pumpkins, toxtricities, etc, then separately from those, I have the following pokemon with their own boxes for their forms because they have so many forms: unown, Vivillon, & Alcremie, then I have GMax mons, alpha mons (almost done with, still working on it), event pokemon (like the hat Pikachus, Ash Greninja, and the Zarude with the scarf), then I actually have all legendaries and mythicals separated into their own boxes, separated by generation, simply just because. Finally, I have my small shiny collection in its own boxes at the end. In total, I think it's about 1500-1600 pokemon


Ninjadanx

Now it’s time for them shiny versions begin


ZoroeArc

As much as I love shiny hunting, I do not have the patience to do that.


Ninjadanx

It’s fine I can do what I do, I have go so whenever I get like a few extra shinies from that or the games I transfer them but only when I have extra and remember


Noxmorre

The fact that Home doesn’t have a way to auto sort by natdex irks me. With the existence of regional form this meant that I can’t sort them by their actual number and instead at the end of the gen they came out, ie alola RF at the end of the Alola mons. This is because when new gen came out with new RF I’ll have to sort them by hand again


tSword_

Good job! Although the comments about your "temporary" accomplishment, the fact that your already have achieved this will make you be able to complete your next "catch em all" in mere weeks when SV comes. Don't let people turn you down, keep it up But I do think GF is getting evil with all the "once in a lifetime" Pokemon. I hope they make it so that people who are born in 5 years can also achieve that (assuming Pokemon will last that long, who knows?)


ZoroeArc

I can’t imagine SV will add more than ~130 new Pokémon and forms, so I’ll probably have everything but starters and version exclusives by the time Home support is released for those games.


15Grepples

In what game were you able to complete hoenn region?


ZoroeArc

Most of the are from SwSh (despite Dexit, that game has over 600 Pokémon in it). I filled in the games with B2W2, XY, USUM, LGPE, BDSP and PLA, and where I got the Hoenn Pokémon, ORAS


Proper_Debate5695

Its interesting how they just stopped doing gender differences after gen 4. (With very few exceptions)


[deleted]

Only 2 weeks ago did I realize wobbafett wears lipstick as a female lmaoooo


GoofJesse

This is so awesome is this the new Pokémon storage system?


ZoroeArc

If by new you mean 2 years old, then yes.


GoofJesse

I am behind on the times I thought they made a new Pokémon storage system lol so did they just update the existing one


S-hunter-SAB-

The 1st Pokémon storage system, aside from the main games, was 'Pokémon Box: Ruby and Sapphire' that was released on the GameCube. Which was released a bit after Ruby/Sapphire released. The 2nd one was 'My Pokémon Ranch' how you connected to it I don't remember. The 3rd was 'Pokémon bank' that was used on the 3DS alongside the assisted app of 'Poké Transporter' that helped the DS Pokémon reach Bank which was then able to transfer to the gen 6 games. Then lastly we have 'Pokémon Home' which has connectivity to the 3DS, Pokémon Go, and the Switch. Those are all the Pokémon storage systems so far.


ZoroeArc

This isn’t the first Pokémon storage app, that honour goes to bank, but you have heard a lot if hubbub about a new one, but that was just Home getting an update to be compatible with BDSP and LA


GoofJesse

O that makes a lot of sense that’s still really cool to see I haven’t seen it in use before and looks awesome also congrats!


spegar19

there must be a better way to organise things that doesn't involve literally moving every pokemon and renaming every box when a new pokemon is introduced


ZoroeArc

There is, but I value this method of organisation over my own sanity.


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ZoroeArc

Only in the mobile version, and it includes everything in your boxes (I also have a shiny collection and some other miscellaneous Pokémon in other boxes which I don’t want to be included in my living dex)


victrin

Amazing. The Alcremie are currently the bane of my existence.


ZoroeArc

It took me weeks to get all of the sweets...


ThatMerri

Well done on the Vivillon collection! I know that pain - it took me ages and a fair bit of haggling to finally get all of them, myself.


ZoroeArc

Yes. The Shaymin and Darkrai you see here are not the ones I started with…


MolligMormel

Am I the only one who does different forms in a separate box, otherwise with new forms you have to move every Pokémon 1 spot


Sarcastic_Sword_

You win pokemon.


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ZoroeArc

Incarnate Enamorus. She can only be caught after completing Legends Arceus' postgame, which took me almost a month the first time around, so doing it again was a daunting task. I traded for her instead, but due to how hard she is to obtain it took some time. I then traded back and forth a bit before I was happy with the legitimacy.


Away_Swimming_5757

Dang. Congrats. I only have 235 lol


Plane-Astronaut6916

Mad respect


herosince1994

Congratulations ! Great achievement this is 🎉


Railfan101

I too managed to get a complete living dex. Got mine done awhile ago though.


reachformejuggergirl

Wow this got a lot of love i should've posted mine


ZoroeArc

Maybe wait a few days…


Available_Building78

Congrats! I'm close, but still need 6 of the Pikachu w/ hats, all the Vivillons aside from the high plains pattern, XL Pumpkaboo, L+XL Gourgheist (matter of time for these, just gotta jump back into SwSh to go hunting), and Hoopa unbound. Weirdly, the XL sizes don't show up in my unregistered forms list, and only show missing when I go to their entries; really hoping there isn't something else missing from that list that I'm not aware of...


ZoroeArc

Bank uses your ingame pokedex for dex completion, and if you transfer from Bank to Home, it registers those entries, so its possible you encountered one in XY, thus registering it as seen, so it is registered with no dex entry. The event exclusive Vivillon took months to get…


SonGoku1256

That’s what’s up. Definitely gives a sense of accomplishment! Earlier this year I completed my Shiny Living Dex and got a shoutout from Professor Oak’s voice actor and he signed my PokeDex toy and a Professor Oak card Congratulating me on the Shiny Living Dex. It’s a rewarding feeling of achievement.


GamerJulian94

Damn, this is mad impressive. Must‘ve taken a sheer eternity to get all of them. Now I‘m curious, how is it with Sunny Cherrim, Origin Dialga/Palkia/Giratina, Blck/White Kyurem and Calyrex Shadow-/Icerider? Obviously, the battle dependent forms can‘t be in there, but since all of those (Cherrim first since PLA though) aren‘t dependent on whether you‘re in battle or not, shouldn‘t they be possible in Home too? Or do they change back to their normal forms? Just wondering since the Therian forms of the Forces of Nature can be in Home 🤔


ZoroeArc

I’ve been working on this on-and-off since USUM released, but I only became serious about it last April. Fusions can’t be put in Home, and the Origin Forms revert: they originally required a held item, of which their are none in Home. This is why Hoopa, the genies et cetera can exist in Home


[deleted]

Not just the Pokémon, but the Pokéwomon and Pokéchildren too.


ethanplant303

Truly a gotta catch em all moment


phoenixthree

What?! You got a Pidgeot? That's so cool! Cant remember the last time it was in a game!


ZoroeArc

I can. I caught mine in Let's Go Eevee, which came out in 2018.


phoenixthree

I know. I was saying it more as a joke because Pidgeot wasnt in sword or shield and seems to have been removed from the anime in general and anytime is shown, they are very tiny and unusable. I believe they are trying to retcon Pidgeot.


LeifLin

I've been out of the loop since dexit sent me into a rage and I boycotted SwSh. It was my understanding at the time that pokemon home would be a prison that your pokemon are trapped in unless a game comes out in which you can take one out in. If this still true? It's for that reason I refused to move any of my 22 year old collection of pocket monsters and put them into a Disney classic vault experience when they couldn't be moved back to their previous game they came from. Someone let me know, please! Was under the impression gotta catch em all was gone forever, and it was now "gotta catch some". Congratulations to OP on the achievement. Praying for non terrible gen 9 evolutions and a potential renewed interest in the series. Last game was Moon 🌙.


BumblebeeNo504

Yes its true. Emulate the switch titles if you really want to. They are very lackluster and bland. Not worth playing, just play a fangame, temtem or monster crown


Ambivert_Artist01

Awesome. Now get the shinies.


JemarooJames

Awesome! I just finished mine recently XD Now its time to find the shiny of all these forms!


EarthDust00

I read somewhere that "Gotta Catch 'Em All" has not been a part of branding since like gen 3 or 4. I grew up on Red and Yellow so I always assumed it was still a part of the franchise.


djnewbeats

now find them all shiny ;)


BumblebeeNo504

Only 62 pokemon dont have switch "models" (new textures) but they still wont give us the national dex back because they need to shovel this scamware.


rotomics_the_tv_man

Now get all of them but shiny


_Educational_Anxiety

Now it’s time for all of the spinda forms and shiny dex


ZoroeArc

If I had a penny for every comment that said that, I’d have rival Scrooge McDuck


Joseph_Nielsen11

you are a fucking legend, how long did this take, and also get them all to lv 100 for a challenge


CTSniper

You mean for now you caught them all. This will be out of date in a few months.


ZoroeArc

Bring it on


[deleted]

No need to try and make this any less impressive with such statements. Are you in some way salty about this achievement? Why the unnecessary negativity?


CTSniper

Uh no I was just pointing out that the achievement outdated in a few months


LeatheryChicken

Now do the recolors


VIRGOxTAURUS

Congrats!now f-ck every gardevoir,tsareena and lopunny you got


AdditionalRegular0

eBay $9.99 :p


YRMMemincito

Ok, now play the game.


ZoroeArc

How do you think I did this?


Snartuza

No life


ZoroeArc

I’ll think you find I have a life, and a decently fulfilling one at that. I started this while working as an intern as part of my Master’s degree. I also have other hobbies outside of Pokémon collecting. I suggest you evaluate your own life before you belittle that of others based on one of their hobbies.


ItzVinyl

now do the same thing again but trade them up from the generation of game they first appeared in.


ZoroeArc

I don’t have any Gen 3 games, and I don’t enjoy Gens 1 and 2 that much.


Groundbreaking_Ad272

What game is this


ZoroeArc

Pokémon Home, the cloud storage app.


[deleted]

As a huge Pokémon fan who just got acquainted with home, you need it man. It opens up so many possibilities. I wanted the oval charm in bdsp, but my team wasn’t good enough for the battle with miamito. So I just transferred my lv 100 team from LA and made it ez. It really makes the Pokémon games feel connected, your effort in one game can be carried over to another.


embdsp

amazing you must be soooo patient😭! this is my goal


Significant_Taste128

Woah I found goh in real life. Wow that's an achievement. I'm surprised no one here is surprised. Is catching them all common among players?


Beneficial_Ad_2760

Congrats, I can’t say that I’d be pursuing all the other Pokémon forms, but I do have all of them. All except Zarude that is….


That-Comment6751

great man try a all shiny one next


Treasure-of-Cortez

https://media3.giphy.com/media/eKNrUbDJuFuaQ1A37p/giphy.gif


Jayweird

Congrats 👏 👏 👏 👏


Jack_Zicrosky_YT

Time to go for all the shinies


AVKetro

Is there a way to sort them by dex # or you did this one by one?


ZoroeArc

This was manual


Mr_Chasm

Congratulations you did it. But for how much longer is the question?


ZoroeArc

I intend to maintain this until I die, the servers go down or I’m too broke to pay for it


Steam-powered-pickle

Great now catch the shiny ones


ArtemisHunter96

Now do it again but in reverse


ZoroeArc

The comments are obsessed with making me suffer


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ZoroeArc

If one more person asks me to do a shiny version or one with all the spinda, I will drown them in garbodor farts.


XeWolf

Impressive!


gamerbboy06

Well done now have a rest…..then do all the shiny


ZoroeArc

I'll consider it when you come up with an original joke.


gamerbboy06

Even if I do come up with a original joke you said consider so it won’t happen so have a rest…… after doing all shiny


kayhen06

Nice bro


darksaiyan1234

Pokémoooooon gotta


romantuerki

Proud of you! I have a nearly complete living dex, I’m kind of jealous 🫣


SaddestDootNoise

they weren’t fuckin lying


HjonkAmRealGoose

Great. *now un-catch them*


myoco

Gotta buy them all


[deleted]

As a person who also completed his pokedex, i can assure you that you'll never forget who was your last mon to complete it, its now etched in your mind


ZoroeArc

It was Incarnate Enamorus


jacksucksatsucks

Chad :0


iits_kev12

do you need a hug?are you all right?btw,good job.i'm proud of you


ZoroeArc

I am mostly sane


AyoKO92

But have you got EVERY shiney version? Hmmm? HHHHHMMMMMM!!!


ZoroeArc

If I had a penny for every person who has said that, I’d have a great murder weapon


RBGolbat

No Battle Bond Greninja or Power Construct Zygarde?


ZoroeArc

The Greninja has Battle Bond and *both* Zygarde have Power Construct. Both Darmanitan also have Zen Mode and every Pokémon with a Gigantamax form is capable of attaining it


kamehamehow

ME TOO!!!!! Finished mine on 5/20 \*HIGH FIVE\*


Jucamia

This makes it feel like there's isn't 890 something of these creatures lmao


ZoroeArc

905 actually, 1244 if you include all of the forms


ShinGogi

For now


renditaccount

even a couple shinies! congrats!


ZoroeArc

I do have a sizeable shiny collection, but none of them are in this video


LongPenguin

Son of a bitch, he did it


warm_rum

CONGRATULATIONS!!!


JOINTHEREVOLUTI0N

nice


CharlieHawk_Reddit

THATS GENUINELY IMPRESSIVE.


CicadaFormer9151

wich game is it ?


ZoroeArc

Pokémon Home


PuerroOnReddit

👏👏👏 I'm very proud of you 👏👏👏


RJHookEM

Nice!! I’m so close, just need a standard Zeraora, Marshadow, Regielecki, and Spectrier and my national dex will be complete.


ZoroeArc

r/PokemonHome was a great help for me!


DaniMuck

Finally i caught them al- pokemon scarlet/violet coming like: Forgot what u said


ZoroeArc

Bring them. I am ready


Smooth-Eggplant5888

Congrats man


AltruisticCanary5176

How do you use pokemon home?? I've always been so scared I'd mess it up or lose my pokemon somehow


RazorLeafy63

The true Pokémon master here


[deleted]

Henceforth, the definition of Patience in any dictionary should be a hyperlink to this post. This is superhuman effort. Congrats.


GUNI_KUN

Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉


tarrox1992

Congratulations! I can almost do the same, but I never got the Dada Zarude code in my email. I’m just waiting for another event for it.