u/SilverShamrock92

Decided to start another POC while I wait for the stones in my Soulsilver POC (at this rate I'm just going to backlog the stones evos, already been over 100 hours). Pretty standard fare with all the usual start of game grinding but having fun, can barely remember the dppl games.

Hardest to raise was probably the Luxio, with my best xp being rock types and fighting types with high Def and it not learning spark till pretty late on (not that this helped with the rock types). The Roselia and crobat took their sweet time, but really liked having the step counter in this game, really useful for happiness training.

Had some insane shiny luck, first one I found within the first hour of the game, with a shiny Bidoof, but heartbreakingly killed it with an ill timed critical hit. Thankfully more than made up for it finding a shiny Geodude and a shiny Machop. The Geodude has a rubbish nature but the Machop is something I can work with. Not putting it into a team till I can properly ev train it.

Have started work on the second gym now, making good progress, but as we all know, this can all grind to a halt with the munchlax plus 4 happiness evos 😬 thinking if this one goes on a while I'll do a fr professor oaks living Dex challenge to fill the time.

This one took a while with a few breaks during but finally completed gym 2. I actually finished this a couple weeks ago but forgot to post and am deep into gym 3 now. I did slightly change the challenge from a standard proffesor oak to a living Dex during this gym now balls had become readily available as I could now get some money which has changed the rules slightly but hey ho. My overall goal is to complete a gen 4 living Dex so thought I'd add that into this challenge.

I levelled up 3 ambipoms to level 41 to take advantage of the rare candy farming to make the rest of the run a bit easier, particularly with the level 55 dragonite coming next. I got so many sun stones and end game potions which I sold for a silly amount of money.

1 shiny found during this gym which I was happy to get a hoot hoot (one of my favourite Pokémon from this era is a noctowl). I'm starting to think I may add in another rule that I need to acquire a shiny in between each gym because I hate myself that much. Then make my elite 4 run shiny only. Not really going for a quick time obviously but am still really enjoying this grind.

Not too worried about the dragonite next run, in fact spoiler I've actually already ground out a shiny Dratini after getting super addicted to voltorb blast and resetting a bunch. Slightly worried about the stones though, not looking forward to waiting for all the phone calls.