Dorm Room

A Pokemon Update 1

2025-04-01

No not an April Fool's Post

I've spent the last 2 months working my way through the missing Pokemon gender differences and forms from generations 2, 3, and 4. I'm excited to say that I have finally collected these Pokemon and can now continue my journey in Pokemon Black. Moving forward, I will be ensuring I finish the gender and alt forms during the same game and not leave them to the future.

While not related to the Pokemon Origin Living Dex, I've found myself having a lot of fun hunting for shinies. Particularly in later gen games like Scarlet & Violet, which is part of the reason my completion of old gen alt forms has taken so long. Pokemon Day happened, and with it an event for Scarlet & Violet boosting shiny odds for a bunch of pokemon. While it's not time-limited once you connect to the servers to get the event, I have been hunting those instead.

Some of the pokemon I had to catch and/or evolve were:

  • Gen 2:
    • Meganium
    • Politoed
    • Scizor (metal coat)
    • Steelix (metal coat)
  • Gen 3:
    • The Blaziken line females (required breeding)
    • Medicham (required playing Ruby)
    • Milotic (had to look up my Feebas tile again)
    • Relicanth (~5% encounter I phased 3 times on)
  • Gen 4:
    • Roserade(needed another Shiny Stone)
    • Weavile (razor claw)
    • Garchomp (level 48 to evolve, yikes)
    • Ambipom
    • Tangrowth
    • Mamoswine
    • Rhyperior
    • All Rotom forms besides normal

I also had not caught all 4 forms of Deoxys, so I opened up FireRed, LeafGreen, and Emerald to go catch Deoxys in those. That gives me Attack, Defense, and Speed forms, but I'll need one more playthrough of one of those games to acquire Normal form Deoxys.

I think besides that, the last Pokemon I'm missing is an OT-named Celebi from the 3DS Virtual Console Crystal

Here's an update of that list from the last blog post:

  • Gen 1: COMPLETE + ALL FORMS
  • Gen 2: COMPLETE + ALL FORMS
  • Gen 3: COMPLETE + Missing one Deoxys
  • Gen 4: COMPLETE + ALL FORMS
  • Gen 5: One game almost through Elite 4, incomplete
  • Gen 6: Not yet started
  • Gen 7: Played Sun, need to replay with Ultra Sun and catch forms
  • Gen 8: Game completed, missing some forms
  • Gen 9: Game completed, missing some forms