my pokemon quest shiny living dex showcase!!

that's right, I got all 151 pokemon in quest, at level 100 so they appear in pokedex order, all shiny!! there's no immediately practical way to show off the whole dex, but here's the beginning and end of the storage boxes, plus the random assortments that show up in camp every time it refreshes.

but wait, who's that extra guy in the corner? every 23 hours (yes, 23) the game gives you a random mon for free, which shows up in the corner of your camp, and if you don't collect it, it'll stay there indefinitely. towards the end of completing the dex, I realized I didn't actually need any more of the mons that can show up as the daily freebie, so I decided that whatever shiny showed up next would get to occupy that spot forever!! I had long since made my peace with releasing dupe shinies in this game, so if I did collect the geodude, I'd just release it anyway, so this way he gets to stick around!!

and for anyone curious about my team, here are their stat pages:

in case you're not familiar with quest, the reason they're all base forms is because those bingo bonuses actually get worse as pokemon evolve, and for many lines, the superior bingos are worth the tradeoff of the higher stats! pretty backwards, huh? but as someone who first started properly learning the main series game mechanics as a teen by getting into competitive, including lots of gen 6 little cup, I was super excited to be able to use these little guys :3

the bulbasaur was a pretty rough hunt. the only soup recipe with a decent bulbasaur encounter rate required the second rarest ingredient in the game, and cooking it in gold pots meant it got eaten up fast. I'd have to switch to another hunt in between batches of bulbasaur soup just to wait for the ingredients to refill. I probably got over a dozen shiny bulbasaur from that grind before finally getting one that had good bingos and stone slots.

machop was thankfully much easier. it's got a 97% encounter rate in a soup recipe with very common ingredients, so it was no sweat to grind out a ton of shinies til I finally got one that was suited for battle.

poliwag was a case of absurd luck. completely without meaning to, it just so happened that the shiny poliwag that I had already leveled to 100 for the living dex was one that came from a gold pot and had near-perfect stats. poliwag maxes out at a 12.5% encounter rate, so if I had needed to hunt it from scratch, it would've been a nightmare!!

if you're not familiar with quest and some of that sounded like nonsense, but you like the silly cube guys, I'll gladly explain further :3 I spent $48 to buy all the DLC that makes the game run at a decent pace, and judging by the 1500+ hours I spent with it, I'd definitely say I got my money's worth. once you've bought the DLC, it's a classic gacha engagement loop, with literally no possible way to spend any more money on it. highly recommend for the cube-shaped dopamine :3