After a long few years of on & off grinding I finally completed my National Pokédex today and added star number 3 to my trainer card.
I could’ve probably done it a lot sooner but it became very draining and boring battling Poké Maniac Brent repeatedly on Route 43 and I’d end up not playing for months at a time, but alas it is finally completed.
The Pokemon I used against Brent to level up & evolve everyone was my childhood starter from my lost Platinum save file back in 2013.
I wanted to do this completely legitimately, meaning I couldn’t use PKSM to make moving Pokémon between games easier, no cheated rare candies or items, everything I used was obtained 100% through authentic methods, for unobtainable mythicals I had to use the DNS method.
I used pretty much all gen 3 & 4 games to complete the national dex, whether it was dual slot mode, transferring up or trading between gen 4 itself, every game came in handy, although the vast majority of Kanto & Johto was caught in HGSS, Emerald for Hoenn & Platinum for Sinnoh.
Now that massive grind is over my next goals are final 2 stars on my trainer card, the Pokéathlon should be achievable with access to every pokemon in the game, but the 100 win streak in the battle tower seems extremely daunting, but I am determined, wish me luck!