APokemon Scarlet and Violetplayer with a lot of time, patience, and help from other trainers, completed a personal challenge of filling up the regional Pokedex before challenging a single Gym Leader in the games. The player then posted their accomplishment on social media with proof of their feat and received both praise and questions about how they were able to complete their challenge inPokemon Scarlet and Violet.
Unlike their predecessors from generations past,Pokemon Scarlet and Violethave a pseudo-linear way of going about clearing the game’s main story arcs. This, in turn, allowsPokemon Scarlet and Violetplayers to make their own challenge runs. From using or banning specific Pokemon on their teams, or using specific Pokemon types, the challenges that players can take to mix up their gameplay are nearly endless.
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In this case, a Redditor by the name of Kvesh posted a screenshot from theirPokemon Scarletsave file that showed they had caught all 400 of the Paldea region’s Pokemon before challenging a single Gym Leader or Team Star Base. The post received nearly 300 votes within the first few hours of posting, and the comments asked Kvesh about what they did to complete their challenge. However, Kvesh’s post was removed by a moderator at the time of writing, citing Rule 3 of the subreddit’s rules concerning discussions.
Before the post was removed, Kvesh admitted that they clearedthe Path of Legends story arcby defeating the Titan Pokemon and unlocking Koraidon’s travel capabilities to make their task a bit easier. This allowed them to catch the different kinds of Pokemon that were out of their level range under normal circumstances. Kvesh said that they had a lot of help from the r/pokemontrades subreddit when it came to obtaining the version-exclusive Pokemon fromPokemon Violetthat they were missing, and acquiring some Legendary and Paradox Pokemon that they did not have access to without any progress beyond what they had.
Kvesh added that they caught whatever they could on their own, even though they had a limited selection of Poke Balls to start, andcertain Pokemon took longer to catch, such as Skuntank. But, Kvesh said that they were able to use what they could buy from Poke Marts and made extensive use of what they could find out in the wild, though it was no easy task. Plus, Kvesh said that only the Pokemon they caught without trading were obedient in battle, so that made specific team members such as Ampharos very valuable in their Pokedex completion quest.
Though the Paldean Pokedex lists 400 Pokemon at this point, the list does not include Pokemon exclusive to seven-star Tera Raid battles, such as the Unrivaled Charizard andthe upcoming Unrivaled Cinderace. It remains to be seen if and when that criterion will change oncePokemon Scarlet and Violetrelease any DLC, and whenPokemon HOMEcompatibility is added to the games in 2023.
Pokemon Scarlet and Violetare available now for Nintendo Switch.
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