Pokemon: Still Trying To Catch Them All

[rax]

Sorry, readership; if you don't care about pokemon and don't care about gender theory, I'm probably gonna be pretty boring until December. :)

I only get 0-1 hours a day to spend on Pokemon --- if I get most of my work done I'll play a bit before bed --- but I've been slowly increasing my pokedex and am starting to hit a wall. Some of these I know how to get and it mostly involves "go catch an X and then level it a bit," but some of them... I mean I guess I do technically own Hoenn and Sinnoh carts but uggggggh. Anyway if you want to trade I'm totally down, or if there's something obvious I'm not thinking of that'd be awesome too. Annoyingly I am running out of things I have seen but not caught, which makes using GTS harder. Anyway, here's what I don't have; I prefer not-hacked and not-cloned except for event giveaways that I couldn't possibly get otherwise:

008. Wartortle  
110. Weezing
112. Rhydon  116. Horsea 
138. Omanyte (breed down my Omastar)
139. Omastar  141. Kabutops  151. Mew but the one I found is almost certainly hacked so I'd still like one
159. Croconaw
160. Feraligatr
168. Ariados
174. Igglybuff (will need to breed down a Jigglypuff)
186. Politoed (tradebacks on Poliwhirl with King's Rock)
189. Jumpluff 196. Espeon
204. Pineco
210. Granbull
221. Piloswine  224. Octillery
240. Magby (get and breed down a Magmar)
252. Treecko (get a treecko after beating Red)
253. Grovyle (level said Treecko)
256. Combusken (level torchic)
260. Swampert (level marshtomp)
270. Lotad
271. Lombre
272. Ludicolo
273. Seedot
274. Nuzleaf
275. Shiftry
283. Surskit
284. Masquerain
285. Shroomish
286. Breloom
288. Vigoroth (level up the sloth thing)
289. Slaking (level up the sloth thing more)
294. Loudred
295. Exploud
299. Nosepass
302. Sableye (I think Diane has one?)
308. Medicham (level pokewalker Meditite)
321. Wailord (level Wailmer)
326. Grumpig  329. Vibrava
330. Flygon
331. Cacnea
332. Cacturne
336. Seviper 
338. Solrock
341. Corphish
342. Crawdaunt
344. Claydol
345. Lileep
346. Cradily
348. Armaldo
349. Feebas (breed down a Milotic)
351. Castform
353. Shuppet
354. Banette
356. Dusclops
357. Tropius
358. Chimecho (get a chingling and happiness evolve it)
362. Glalie
363. Spheal
364. Sealeo
365. Walrein
367. Huntail
373. Salamence (finish leveling Baldasarre)
375. Metang
377. Regirock
378. Regice
379. Registeel
383. Groudon
386. Deoxys
387. Turtwig
389. Torterra (tradeback from Pearl)
392. Infernape (I thought I had one of these already, check)
395. Empoleon (level current penguin)
398. Staraptor
409. Rampardos
410. Shieldon
411. Bastiodon
413. Wormadam
414. Mothim
419. Floatzel
423. Gastrodon
431. Glameow
432. Purugly
435. Skuntank 438. Bonsly
442. Spiritomb 444. Gabite
445. Garchomp
449. Hippopotas
450. Hippowdon
451. Skorupi
452. Drapion
453. Croagunk
454. Toxicroak
456. Finneon
458. Mantyke
460. Abomasnow
462. Magnezone
463. Lickilicky
464. Rhyperior
469. Yanmega 
472. Gliscor
473. Mamoswine
476. Probopass
477. Dusknoir
480. Uxie
482. Azelf
486. Regigigas
490. Manaphy
492. Shaymin

If there's something you want or want bred, let me know, if it's not on this list I can probably do it. (Although I've traded away some things in order to get things on GTS.)
 

Comments

Re: Let me show you my pokemans

[rax]

Well, it's very hard to get pokemon from the Gen1 and Gen2 games up to Gen4, so I wouldn't bother unless you're really bored. (I'm not 100% sure there's a way to trade from Silver up into Sapphire, say, and even then it would be tricky to get them from Sapphire into my game.)

But I appreciate the thought. :)

Re: Let me show you my pokemans

[chagrined]

Ahhhh. That stinks! They should all be backwards compatible somehow, heh. How else would you complete your Pokedex! ;)

Re: Let me show you my pokemans

[rax]

Well, since you asked... ;)

The generation II games (gold and silver) were able to trade with the red/blue/yellow gen I games --- it was Game Boy color to regular Game Boy and that worked fine. You needed to do this in order to get some small number of Pokemon, although the Johto and Kanto regions are both represented in Gold/Silver, so you didn't need it for that many.

When they went to the GBA, the new games (generation III) weren't backward compatible. So the Hoenn games (Emerald/Sapphire) couldn't complete a pokedex until the re-releases of the Gen 1 games, FireRed and LeafGreen; I think there was some mechanism in place that let you get the Johto region pokemon, maybe a Safari Zone or something. Because backward compatibility went away, pokemon data structures got new features that made pokemon breeding and battling more complex.

The Gen IV games for the DS let you move pokemon permanently from the gen III games to the gen IV games, but you can't trade bidirectionally. Using the Safari Zone in HeartGold and SoulSilver, you theoretically only need the five DS games to complete your pokedex although there might be a could of legendaries missing. (Well, you can get Mew without trading up from FR/LG if you play My Pokemon Ranch on the Wii.)

Nintendo also periodically holds giveaways at movies and such for special pokemon you can't get otherwise. Most of these unfortunately never hit the US, so getting those pokemon --- some of which unlock special events in the game --- is hard, and those are the situations where I don't care if they're cloned, because I am not going to time travel to Japan in 2008 to get a pokemon. ...mostly since I don't have a time machine.

Re: Let me show you my pokemans

[chagrined]

So complicated! But that was cool to learn, so thanks for sharing. :D After my comment I remembered the Game Boy Advance thing (the last one I had was a Color) and was kind of like, "Oh yeah, right." Ugh, and those giveaways! I remember some of them from back when I still played, but I think they were mostly giving away Mew back then and it was still pretty big in the US at the time (though I never went to one; I did go to a trading card game thing once though, heh).