u/Lee-1_2

only took like 20 hours of playtimes since 18 was for the main story and 13 was just getting legendaries

I was fighting the elite 4 again for the third time and got to cynthias lucario. i had kyogre on and used origin pulse and it missed. worst timing ever and she killed me. Im not resetting to fight her again because its just not worth the effort i cant beat her full level 86 team with level 77 pokemon. If i killed her lucario it wouldve been free from there because i believe the pokemon after him cant one shot me like every single other one which wouldve helped me win

This was my first difficult pokemon game ive played (beat scarlet before but it was easy) and so I went in underestimating the elite 4. by my first try I realized it would be difficult so trained for 6 hours before defeating them. I used over 30 revives, final gambit and perish song to cling onto my win with just tentacruel left with 80 hp. It was very fun and Id love to hear others stories about their battles with the elite 4 and cynthia.

I went into elite 4 with everyone at level 50 and got destroyed. Now I have a solid method and I even learned many of the 4's teams. I got to cynthia after finally running out of revives. I made a lot from the elite four through that run and was able to buy tons of revives and heals so i will be trying again tomorrow. if I lose again atleast I gain level, money and methods so its not too bad. just worried i wont be able to beat the fourth member, that one was kinda lucky

Finished my living dex the other day so now im working on forms and legendarys and just now finished my legendary. took much GTS trading in home and often transferred zamazenta from pokemon go to trade up for the more expensive ones

Feel free to ask questions

It started with me not wanting to even complete the pokedex, to doing paldea for shiny charm, to just doing the rest, to wanting shiny meloetta, to saying why not to doing a living dex since I had everyone. This was a crazy journey and I loved it all. Feel free to ask questions or discuss.

Hardest pokemon was probably misdreavus (trading for it for 5 hours before I found out about GTS on home) and golem (took 4 hours to hunt it down in a raid and took 5 tries to beat it) technical hardest mightve also been raging bolt and gouging fire from needing to complete the entire game + most of both dlc pokedexs

Caught a few wild shinies hunting for the pokedex such as veluza, x3 gible, blissey, oinkologne and dratini.

I am now working to own every transferrable legendaries, just need 2 of the galarian birds, genie trio, lake guardians, cosmog, cosmoem, enamorous, kubfu, and heatran

Now to sort my living dex. I did not plan on doing this until i realized how boring it might be to play without a long lasting mission. now I believe i will shiny hunt roaring moon and try out ranked battles.

i dont feel like getting iron boulder or iron crown right now because theyre kinda ugly and i want to keep my original legendaries, and I will trade the pokemon I get on my 2nd playthrough for them. feel free to ask questions and discuss. I can also help anyone with some version exclusives.