r/ProfessorOak

So I started a POC on Alpha Sapphire but I forgot that I had a mod that changed up the horde encounters and I don't want to delete it and then reinstall it. But most if not all of the pokemon I have access to are normally locked in poat game but thanks to the mod I have access to them early. So should I play as if they are locked in post game or should I evolve them even though I won't get credit for it on the pokedex? And here's the picture of all of the changes

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.

I don’t even know what to say right now, no way this happened. Shiny Riolu from the Riley egg!

Only 5 months since the last post! Hurray!!

I started the section by immediately tackling the worst part - the 3 Alpha Chimecho. My strategy was that with a smaller pool of Pokemon for the game to choose in an outbreak, Chimecho would pop up more frequently. IT WORKS AND THANK GOD (I think at least, I haven't scientifically tested that). Honestly, these weren't terrible and only took 15 or so hours. I even got a lucky 4th Alpha Chingling that I chose not to evolve!

My least favorite part of the section was probably just how easy it is to accidentally jump from a tall height and die, with no way to reliably get your stuff back (Thanks for shoehorning internet connectivity into the game, Nintendo). I also seemed to have pretty bad luck getting Nosepass to pop out of rocks, but nothing insanely terrible happened overall.

As for shinies, there are much fewer than normal, simply because of how little time I spent in the section. I'm okay with less shinies if it means I'm almost done with this challenge. The shiny Starly was actually a random Alpha spawn too, so that one was extra lucky. Golden Goomy is awesome too.

Only the Alabaster Icelands left! It's supposed to be the easiest section yet, which I am greatly looking forward to. My initial prediction of the challenge taking 350 hours might still be possible, but I'm thinking more like 400 now. Either way, surprised with how close I might be to hitting that estimate. Onward to the last section.

it fled 4th turn 🙏

Yes I caught it before it used selfdestruct

For reference these are all the spheres I have, but I also have 2 sun stones, 4 moon stones, 2 fire stones, 1 water stone, and 7 leaf stones. Still no thunderstone though, my poor pikachu. I just want to move on😭

so, pretty much, Slowpoke ain’t getting its evolution, Slowking despite giving it a kings rock, so yeah help maybe I’m on Section one and this is my first poc, so pls help with a cherry on top

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

Fair to say its off to a pretty good start, the grind is worth it already!

I swear this in not an image dump this just has a lot of Pokémon I'm missing 3 Pokémon all eeveelutions untill I get ditto or figure out rng manip to get a female I can't get the rest while they are in raid dens I'm out of wish peices also missing 2 more the dlc apples as I'm playing 4.0 not 4. 1 so that only makes 3 Pokémon unavailable pulse the 2 not available in 4.1 anyway (arceus and eternatus ) also there a 3rd shiny Audini somewhere in the boxes o

Oh my god this grind is awful

I started with grinding Samurott with the hopes of getting a shiny but I didnt end up seeing any

On the bright side, I did end up getting:

x4 King’s Rocks
x57 Escape Ropes
x66 Repels
x30 Pokeballs
x64 Great Balls
x66 Ultra Balls
x5 Full Restores
x144 Super Potions
x67 Hyper Potions
x29 Revives
x58 Full Heals