u/Clearly_Zoe

I REALLY DID IT!!

This section was truly a test of patience. I didn't use a single rare candy, just pure grinding, and i can't believe the last pokemon in this section was NINETALES!

I evolved Dragonair into Dragonite and Venonat into Venomoth when i still had 216 in-game hours.

And Alan? After 45 hours+ he finally gave me a fire stone.

And you know what? I'm not counting the 60 hours when i already had his number registered. So it's 105 hours in total just for a single fire stone.

Last thing i'm gonna say is... Ethan... you are the most annoying friend in the entire main games.

And yes, i know Tierno and Trevor exist.

So, this in-game time is kinda tricky, i was afk many hours while still having the game open, so you could easily have a better mark than mine.

Some important notes:

+ Level up Slowpoke AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. You really like to have access to headbutt as early as you can, since the pokemon you can find there are the most useful while grinding.

+ Level up Aipom with pickup AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. If you want a good source for rare candies, this will be your best bet! Leveling up 4 of them could make things a lot easier later :)

+ Lvl 41 Ambipom has a 10% chance to give you a rare candy. But don't forget you still need to grind at least one in order to get moon stones for later.

(!!!) Heracross trees were the best to level up Magikarp, Goldeen, Tentacool, Paras, Aipom and Pineco at early levels.

(!!!) Noctowl and Beedril/Butterfree trees are the best to level up some high level pokemon.

Pickup rewards:

6 sun stones, 5 moon stones and 11 rare candies (not gonna use them).

Extra note:
I really hate Pineco. Protect is such a pp consuming move *sigh*