grimdarksparkles
Odd Egg Hatchling
sometimes you really do just gotta catch em all
Posts: 15
Pronouns: she/her
Nature Guess: zesty
Favorite Pokémon: zubat!!!
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Post by grimdarksparkles on Apr 8, 2024 6:03:34 GMT
hi!! my name's grim!!! I've been a shiny hunter since 2019. I dabbled in methods before then, but 2019 is when I got fulloddspilled. I stayed a purist for a long time, but then I fell in love with legends: arceus, and that game pretty much forced me out of my full odds bubble. since then, I've decided to lean into the game design and go all-in on methods in gens 6+, while doing strictly full odds in gens 1-5. I tend to switch between them a few months at a time, depending on my mental health :P
in addition to shiny hunting, I love building living dexes!! I built (most of) a gen 1 living dex on my physical copy of blue when I was a teenager, and I finally started over and finished it on virtual console a few years ago.
I also have a completed gen 6 living dex (which I've also done twice in my life, long story) and I once had a nearly-all-alpha living dex in legends, though I ended up deleting it so I could have room for separate shiny and shalpha living dexes (still very much works in progress!!)
and of course, I can't forget my shiny living dex in pokemon quest, the only shiny living dex I've ever 100% completed :)
I'm currently working on my gen 3 living dex. it's very nearly complete, which means that at this point, "working on it" entails starting an entirely fresh playthrough of emerald and completing the hoenn dex, just for one johto starter! wish me luck!!
outside of pokemon, I love dropout, video essays, and watching horror movies with my pals :)
one of these days I'd like to write a more in-depth explanations of my standards and practices for living dexes, so keep an eye out if you're interested!!
PS it's been a loooooong time since I was on a site that allowed this much formatting and creativity, so bear with me, and hopefully I'll have my project threads lookin real slick in the future :3
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dungeonmereshi
Fresh Fisher
my signature is gonna be full if i keep adding guys, help
Posts: 89
Pronouns: they/them
Nature Guess: Often lost in thought
Favorite Pokémon: impossible question *obliterates you*
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Post by dungeonmereshi on Apr 11, 2024 11:34:19 GMT
man, people's histories with full odds vs methods are so interesting to learn about from a community outsider standpoint. while i was sporadically doing like maybe five hunts ever y'all were having character arcs and shit LMAO living dexes... the only time i've actually striven for one was in PLA, but it was really because the game design just called so much for it. when you're chucking balls at everything that moves, having such a straightforward objective as "keep one of each" makes sorting through your collection and deciding who you'll keep much easier lol i'd be happy if you wrote more about them, though, because a while ago i was looking at the games i vaguely plan to complete the dex in (still have to finish PLA, kinda doing it in scarlet cause i like the dex registering animation, nostalgia normal playthrough of alpha sapphire i wanna do with how satisfying it is to complete the dexnav screen) and looking at the HOME magearna form like hrrrng..... even if so far i'm mostly just curious how far a complete dex in those three games + the buncha HOME wonder trades i've done would get me x') good luck on your fresh johto playthrough!! also FUCK YEAHHH SOMEONE ELSE WHO LIKES FORMATTING!! HANDSHAKE EMOJI!!! i am totally normal about this topic |
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grimdarksparkles
Odd Egg Hatchling
sometimes you really do just gotta catch em all
Posts: 15
Pronouns: she/her
Nature Guess: zesty
Favorite Pokémon: zubat!!!
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Post by grimdarksparkles on Apr 14, 2024 6:24:45 GMT
ooooo, I’m also curious how much you’d be able to fill the home dex!! I’ve never had home, I pretty much decided long ago that I don’t really care about transferring between gens outside of trading between gen 1 and 2, so my living dexes always stay in their generation of origin.
if you ever decide to hack your 3ds and use the fan-made pokemon servers (now that the official ones are down) I could totally help you with gen 6 version exclusives!! at least for omega ruby. you can actually complete a full gens 1-6 living dex in just gen 6 alone, but having to trade you all the XY exclusives would take aaaaaages lol. if you ever get X or Y for yourself tho I could still totally help out :3
tho I’m sure you’d already have a lot of stuff since you’re starting off with legends and gen 9. iirc gen 9 has like, 400 something mons? and that’s before the dlc (which I haven’t played). so that alone would get you about halfway. I don’t have a living dex in gen 9 bc I just. didn’t care enough about those games to build one lol. but I do have violet, so lemme know if you ever want version exclusives in (base game) violet, I’ll totally go catch some stuff for you.
one thing in gen 9 that I am really proud of is my catching breloom. I got a shiny shroomish, then did all the grinding I needed to give it good IVs/nature, hidden ability, false swipe, and tera normal to get STAB on false swipe. so catching stuff is always a breeze in that game.
fun fact: I did a bunch of raid grinding to get 50 normal tera shards for breloom before actually going to the NPC that changes tera types, only for that NPC to immediately hand me 50 normal tera shards that I had no idea I’d get 😭😭😭
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dungeonmereshi
Fresh Fisher
my signature is gonna be full if i keep adding guys, help
Posts: 89
Pronouns: they/them
Nature Guess: Often lost in thought
Favorite Pokémon: impossible question *obliterates you*
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Post by dungeonmereshi on Apr 22, 2024 13:41:07 GMT
sorry for taking so damn long to respond lmao, apparently my brain's decided we don't have any forum juice left and any motivation i'd have has been getting thrown out of the window the instant i take a look at the reply box x') but this post was very funny to read because. well .
> "if you ever decide to hack your 3ds" it's been hacked since march of last year because i needed the ability to keep multiple pokémon saves and i've even helped hack a few more since then lel
> "if you ever get X or Y for yourself" X was the second game i ever got after alpha sapphire back in 2015 gkhagdajgh you are SO SO nice for offering to help but dw i am a gen 6 warrior > "I could totally help you with gen 6 version exclusives!! at least for omega ruby." my sister has a 3DS too with an omega ruby that a friend gifted us and i have Y as well that i got for a nuzlocke playthrough x') AND about gen 9, i don't have the dlc either and don't really plan to get it..
> "but I do have violet, so lemme know if you ever want version exclusives in (base game) violet, I’ll totally go catch some stuff for you." ...and my sis also has violet. :'D granted she doesn't play much anymore (me neither lmao) and i welcome any and all new switch friends but the way i had a counter to like every thing you said just had like "well um. uhhhhhhh," lmfao
THAT ASIDE,
🤝 i really don't transfer anything ever either lol. i like keeping mons i get where i got them, the way transferring up can't be undone feels like barring them from ever returning to where they come from, it's too permanent i don't like it :[ only reason i've been using home has been for the wonder box thingy, was fun just passively doing wondertrades from your phone (with watt mons i'd gotten in shield for the watts since i didn't know knocking them out also works). and also i tried getting as many "trade x pokémon for x pokémon or vice versa" stickers as possible at some point, cause those are fun too, even if they've added more since then with gen 9 x) & oooooh, awesome breloom!! i had a zangoose in scarlet i tried to use as the catching mon but i don't think i managed to get her high-leveled enough to make it really efficient in the time i played lol. only mint i ever used was an adamant(?) one i had that seemed to fit my starter, because i already had it so i figured i might as well lel. i really don't do "extreme optimizing" much (and i even try to stay away from it, because i fear minmaxing potentially taking over my gameplay — it definitely has made games less enjoyable before!) and dqfjkg help i didn't even know they give you free shards the first time x') i'd say good to know but zangoose's already double normal type lol and i really don't feel like bothering with trying to change tera types much
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grimdarksparkles
Odd Egg Hatchling
sometimes you really do just gotta catch em all
Posts: 15
Pronouns: she/her
Nature Guess: zesty
Favorite Pokémon: zubat!!!
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Post by grimdarksparkles on Apr 24, 2024 23:46:38 GMT
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dungeonmereshi
Fresh Fisher
my signature is gonna be full if i keep adding guys, help
Posts: 89
Pronouns: they/them
Nature Guess: Often lost in thought
Favorite Pokémon: impossible question *obliterates you*
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Post by dungeonmereshi on Apr 25, 2024 11:06:37 GMT
💖💖💖💖💖💖 gen 6 was PEAK overworld style and you can't change my mind
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grimdarksparkles
Odd Egg Hatchling
sometimes you really do just gotta catch em all
Posts: 15
Pronouns: she/her
Nature Guess: zesty
Favorite Pokémon: zubat!!!
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Post by grimdarksparkles on Apr 26, 2024 11:51:17 GMT
💖💖💖💖💖💖 gen 6 was PEAK overworld style and you can't change my mind I like the design and art direction of let’s go more, but only because it’s the only game that actually expanded and improved upon gen 6 rather than going for the more realistic-ish proportions of the rest of the gen 7+ games. |
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dungeonmereshi
Fresh Fisher
my signature is gonna be full if i keep adding guys, help
Posts: 89
Pronouns: they/them
Nature Guess: Often lost in thought
Favorite Pokémon: impossible question *obliterates you*
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Post by dungeonmereshi on Apr 26, 2024 14:59:38 GMT
true, no matter what you think of the gameplay, let's go is the most polished-looking pokémon game on the switch art direction/graphics-wise, like, objectively lmfao
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dungeonmereshi
Fresh Fisher
my signature is gonna be full if i keep adding guys, help
Posts: 89
Pronouns: they/them
Nature Guess: Often lost in thought
Favorite Pokémon: impossible question *obliterates you*
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Post by dungeonmereshi on May 9, 2024 11:04:14 GMT
ooooo, I’m also curious how much you’d be able to fill the home dex!! HEY SO. ABOUT THAT. well sorry to keep replying to an intro thread i guess lol but since this is where the conversation started
anyway guess what <3 ((this is a link to a wiki userpage i just spent like two weeks on it go look at it)) |
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