u/mewlax84

First game played on RetroAchievements and thought I should just go ahead and do the POC subset as well as the standard achievements set!

I think I definitely spent too much time in Mt Moon on this section! The Clefairy that I captured for the run coincidentally had a Moon Stone attached to it but the second Moon Stone from wild Clefairy took such a long time. I trained the pokemon I had at the time whilst hunting for Clefairy and had everything except Magikarp and Paras evolved by the time I finally found the last Moon Stone.

The rest of the section went smoothly since I always had a full party of pokemon to train after making my catches in Route 24 (the second Abra gave me a lot of trouble which equals more training while I try and find it) and so after some wild pokemon grinding, the new pokemon were able to handle themselves in trainer battles thus gaining boosted exp. I battled every trainer available and just had Drowzee, Diglett and Meowth left so I pulled out the Vs Seeker and tried different trainers, finding some great trainers to battle for each of the pokemon. Route 11 had a trainer with a Nidorino which Drowzee could overpower, a trainer with two Magnemite and a Magneton was great for Diglett, and I challenged the dense clusters of trainers on Route 25 to help with Meowth's training. There was a great trainer on Route 6 who had a Lv 20 Butterfree with no attacking moves but thanks to the Compound Eyes accuracy boost, the Supersonic confusion and sleep/paralysis/poison powder moves was just too annoying to deal with.

Time for the big section!

After taking a break earlier this year, I'm back! Since the FRLG Switch versions were released while I was away, I thought it would be fun to re-POC these games since they were the first POCs I ever did a whopping 7 years ago. Since I was playing it properly and not writing the guide at the same time, I was a lot more efficient with my training and was honestly surprised at my in game time. I wish the leaderboards were still around, it would be great to see how well I did since I'm usually taking my time with these! I'm also pleased to announce that I am recording this footage to make my YouTube debut...albeit very late...

To think we’ve come this far, with a thriving community on the sub reddit, a very active discord and so many content creators helping to attract new people with their amazing videos and posts. Props to everyone for their contributions and involvement and good luck on your future challenges!